Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/26 s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Trying to think coherently, ... [How's the weather/shrapnel? :-P] > Hehe, they're both getting hotter. > Think scenarios. What's the screen door on a house good for? It'll > keep out a not too determined paperboy. They also piss off burglars > beca

Re: A newbie question about competing libs

2008-06-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/25/2008 08:38 PM, buyoppy wrote: > When I tried to build some application which requires the > latest version of some other lib, first I installed that > required lib from source into /usr/local/lib and > ldconfiged. That wasn't a good idea. > Older version of that lib which was installed

Re: Strange directory in home

2008-06-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 08:49:22PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 13:48:59 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Lately,I've been noticing a strange directory popping up in my home > > directory. It's called "file:" and has subdirectories of home , > > home/frank , and Desktop

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/08 02:18, Dotan Cohen wrote: [snip] > > I do not think that they can crack root without my 8 character > upper/lower/number password. Can they? How would having my own account > help? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/16/nuclear.pakis

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:09:09PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Thanks, all. xmessage seems to work fine for popping up simple > one-liners, which is exactly what I had wanted to do. talk and write > may be of use in the future, however. Thanks. I am partial to computer-generated speech. I use espea

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/26 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I do not think that they can crack root without my 8 character >> upper/lower/number password. Can they? How would having my own account >> help? > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/16/nuclear.pakistan > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/world/

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-26 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/26 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am partial to computer-generated speech. I use espeak/festival > to announce things(time, battery %). Dont know about non-english speech > support. I also stated to use teamspeak(client & server voice chat) for > long-distance communication. Have it 'on

Re: Which 64 bit cpu assembler to use ?

2008-06-26 Thread Star Liu
Which mail list should I post this topic? I mean debian mail list, I don't want someone throw me a solution, but saying, for Redhad. :) I really hope I can program in machine code, then I don't need any assembler nor compiler, is there any good tool to help me with that? I guess I need a table abo

Re: mounting external hard drive at boot up

2008-06-26 Thread Star Liu
about How do I mount it then at boot up, I myself have an example, I mount a windows patition to debian automatically, /etc/X11/Xsession.d/95StarHabits is a file created by myself, you can name it anyway starting with "95" 1. use Windows NTFS patitions (for lenny only) 1. exe "i ntfs-3g"

Is there anyone working on UEFI development on debian?

2008-06-26 Thread Star Liu
I want to be a developer on free UEFI on debian, but I don't know what's the best way to get started, I hope I can know someone who is doing this work on debian. thanks! -- - Buddha Debian GNU/Linux MSN/aMSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Strange NFS behaviour

2008-06-26 Thread Alex Samad
I have just finished putting together a nfs server. and I am getting some strange results whilst testing it. I have a partition with a directory video with permissions set to chown video.movies user alesx is a member of movies. on the nas box I can cd to the directory and create files. on a re

Diskless Mythbuntu to Debian

2008-06-26 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Is it possible to install diskless Mythbuntu to Debian? Tero Mäntyvaara -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-26 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:18:19AM +0300, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > 2008/6/26 s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Alternatively, one day you may find that your nephew/neice, who you've > > invited in and told about Linux, has cracked root and blown away your > > wife's do

Setting up an IMAP server

2008-06-26 Thread David Baron
I would like to set up an IMAP server. Dovecot looks easiest by Courier is also possible. Presnet setup: fetchmail -->exim4 -->procmail---> var/mail/user --> kmail, filters ---> /home/user/Mail folders. This would probably be OK if I stay logged into KDE. I might prefer not to always keep KDE

Re: Setting up an IMAP server

2008-06-26 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
David Baron wrote: > I would like to set up an IMAP server. Dovecot looks easiest by Courier is > also possible. > > Presnet setup: > > fetchmail -->exim4 -->procmail---> var/mail/user --> kmail, filters > ---> /home/user/Mail folders. > > This would probably be OK if I stay logged into KDE. I mi

Re: Mailbox conversion

2008-06-26 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:50:29 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After all this smalltalk, my real question: I still have lots of > old e-mail in Microsoft format (with names like in-2005.dbx, > out-2006.dbx, etc; some filenames are in Japanese, and the > messages inside the .dbx files are most

debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Vwaju
I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to be about the right size (163,392KB), but it fails to boot on any of the follwoing computers: Gateway Solo 1100 laptop Dell Dimension 4100 Dell Inspiron 8500 (I set the boot order t

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Adrian Chapela
Vwaju escribió: I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to be about the right size (163,392KB), but it fails to boot on any of the follwoing computers: Have you calculated the md5sum ? was it the right md5sum ? Gatewa

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 26 June 2008 18:59:12 Adrian Chapela wrote: > Vwaju escribió: > > I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from > > http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to be > > about the right size > > (163,392KB), but it fails to boot on any of the follwoing computers:

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Wackojacko
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Thursday 26 June 2008 18:59:12 Adrian Chapela wrote: Vwaju escribió: I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to be about the right size (163,392KB), but it fails to boot on any of the follwoing

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Jeff Goodman
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from > http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to > be about the right size (163,392KB), but it fails to boot on any of > the follwoing computers: > > G

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread James Kerr
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Vwaju wrote: > I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from > http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to be > about the right size > (163,392KB), but it fails to boot If you copied the iso, then that's not surprising. You need to burn the iso

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Pol Hallen
> (163,392KB), but it fails to boot on any of the follwoing computers: dd if=debian.iso of=/dev/hdX (where hdX is cd-burn device ;-) Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Vwaju
On Jun 26, 1:10 pm, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 June 2008 18:59:12 Adrian Chapela wrote: > > > Vwaju escribió: > > > I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from > > >http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to be > > > about the right si

Re: An inquiry

2008-06-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 16:37:15 -0700, Stephen Mazurek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > The HTML part is gone (thanks!), but now I have to pester you about the > > top-posting: http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html > > (point 5 on that pag

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Thursday 26 June 2008 11:50:49 am Vwaju wrote: > On Jun 26, 1:10 pm, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 26 June 2008 18:59:12 Adrian Chapela wrote: > > > Vwaju escribió: > > > > I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from > > > >http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and cop

Re: Mailbox conversion

2008-06-26 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mark Grieveson wrote: [..] > If the idea of running a dos program on Linux nauseates you, > then I also read that Kmail, with the kmailcvt (kmail > converter) package installed also works. Actuallly I am quite a fan of dosemu (and even of DOS), but DOS can't handle filenames longer than 8+3, let

Re: Setting up an IMAP server

2008-06-26 Thread David Baron
I installed dovecot and gave it a more or less default mail location # 1.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ log_path: /var/dovecot.log log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap listen: [::] login_dir: /var/run/dovecot//login login_executable: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-lo

Re: Setting up an IMAP server

2008-06-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/08 14:35, David Baron wrote: > I installed dovecot and gave it a more or less default mail location > # 1.0.14: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > base_dir: /var/run/dovecot/ > log_path: /var/dovecot.log > log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S > protocols

mocp broken for anyone else?

2008-06-26 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
new upgrade of moc is a major fail. it won't even start: $ mocp Plugin uses different API version FATAL_ERROR: Layout1 is malformed nice. & when i downgrade back to /stable, it'll play songs & i can navigate okay, but if i start any new song, it kicks me out with: FATAL_ERROR:

Re: mocp broken for anyone else?

2008-06-26 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:31:01PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: From: "i'll teach you to turn away." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: mocp broken for anyone else? new upgrade of moc is a major fail. it won't even start: $ mocp Plugin uses different A

Fwd: [security] Incorrect file permissions due to (now fixed) perl 5.10 issue

2008-06-26 Thread Frans Pop
For your information a copy of a message just also sent to the debian-devel-announce mailing list. -- Forwarded Message -- Likely affected: any unstable/testing system that has 'debsums' installed Possibly affected: any unstable/testing system Today a Debian Testing Security An

Re: Strange NFS behaviour

2008-06-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:10:34PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > I have just finished putting together a nfs server. and I am getting > some strange results whilst testing it. > > I have a partition with a directory video with permissions set to > > chown video.movies > user alesx is a member of mo

Re: Strange NFS behaviour

2008-06-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
Does your /etc/exports file on the server say the client can write? eg. /home/daniel 192.168.1.14(rw) -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mounting external hard drive at boot up

2008-06-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:41:13PM +0800, Star Liu wrote: >about How do I mount it then at boot up, I myself have an example, I mount >a windows patition to debian automatically, >/etc/X11/Xsession.d/95StarHabits is a file created by myself, you can name I don't use x11 since I am blin

Re: mounting external hard drive at boot up

2008-06-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:53:30AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > mount by LABEL= or UUID= How do I do that? Thanks for the reply, -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-26 Thread Robert Jerrard
I am trying to use openntpd on a debian testing system, AMD64. My ntpd.conf file is: # $OpenBSD: ntpd.conf,v 1.7 2004/07/20 17:38:35 henning Exp $ # sample ntpd configuration file, see ntpd.conf(5) # Addresses to listen on (ntpd does not listen by default) #listen on * listen on 127.0.0.1 #listen

slow network

2008-06-26 Thread Vikki Roemer
I'm running Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.22-3-686 with a mixed wired/wireless network. The debian box is wired, the windows laptops are wireless. My network card is 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10). The modem/router connects to the wireless

Re: slow network

2008-06-26 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu June 26 2008 16:07:11 Vikki Roemer wrote: > I'm running Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.22-3-686 with a mixed > wired/wireless network. The debian box is wired, the windows laptops > are wireless. My network card is > 02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL-8139/8139C/8

Re: Strange NFS behaviour

2008-06-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 08:13:09AM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Does your /etc/exports file on the server say the client can write? > eg. > /home/daniel 192.168.1.14(rw) yep /exports/video 192.168.8.0/22(no_root_squash,secure,sync,rw,subtree_check,mp=/exports/video,crossmnt) > > -- > Daniel Da

Re: mounting external hard drive at boot up

2008-06-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/08 17:17, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:53:30AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > >> mount by LABEL= or UUID= > > How do I do that? Read this page, including comments. http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/522 Also, ch

Re: OT: MP3 Player for Ogg?

2008-06-26 Thread Brian McKee
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:58 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Question: Is there an MP3 player that plays Ogg files right out of the box? I recently bought a Cowan D2 to replace my dead iPod mini - Ogg right out of the box as well as a pretty good selection of other formats too. Mounts as a standar

Re: A newbie question about competing libs

2008-06-26 Thread buyoppy
> On 06/25/08 20:38, buyoppy wrote: > > When I tried to build some application which > requires the > > latest version of some other lib, first I > installed that > > required lib from source into /usr/local/lib and > > ldconfiged. Older version of that lib which was > installed > > from package r

Re: A newbie question about competing libs

2008-06-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/08 21:14, buyoppy wrote: >> On 06/25/08 20:38, buyoppy wrote: >>> When I tried to build some application which >> requires the >>> latest version of some other lib, first I >> installed that >>> required lib from source into /usr/local/lib an

Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The time adjustment keeps going up and up but the clock is never reset, > it just continues to fall further behind. Anyone know how to fix this? > I realize that it's not exactly an answer to your question, but after day

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I can tell, there is no pre-computed md5 checksum provided > with the download (http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#smallcd). > Am I missing something? Yes. http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/i386/iso-cd/MD5SU

[OT] quick question about function declarations in C++

2008-06-26 Thread H.S.
Hello, I don't seem to recall at the moment so I thought of trying you all guys. In C++, do the names of arguments in a function declaration (or prototype) need to match the names of the arguments in function definition? For example, consider a function declaration: void foo(int i); And the

Re: cd burning not going well

2008-06-26 Thread j t
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > md5sum -b /dev/scd0 > The output should match the md5sum of the ISO image. Not _strictly_ true (due to blank/null padding which is sometimes added to the end of iso disk images, and issues with the infamous read-ahead bug

Re: [OT] quick question about function declarations in C++

2008-06-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/26/08 22:16, H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I don't seem to recall at the moment so I thought of trying you all > guys. In C++, do the names of arguments in a function declaration (or > prototype) need to match the names of the arguments in function d

Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-26 Thread David Bruce
Hello, I have installed both nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source(using module-assistant for the latter to build and install the driver). In the past, at this point I would just use "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" to select "nvidia" instead of "nv". Now, it appears that the driver is supposed to

Re: slow network [solved]

2008-06-26 Thread Vikki Roemer
On 6/26/08, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So let's start with a wild guess. Run the following command as > root: > >echo 'blacklist ipv6' >/etc/modprobe.d/no-ipv6 Thanks, that made a significant difference. :) I just realized my wireless router has a bunch of ethernet ports on th

Re: mocp broken for anyone else?

2008-06-26 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GR> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:31:01PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >>From: "i'll teach you to turn away." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: mocp broken for anyone else? GR> $ apt-cache policy moc GR> moc: GR>Install??: 1:2.5.0~alpha3-3 GR>

Re: [OT] quick question about function declarations in C++

2008-06-26 Thread H.S.
Never mind ... it is late at night so took a little while to eventually find the answer ... it was a long day. Cheers. ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openntpd not adjusting the clock

2008-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 26, 2008, at 10:44 PM, j t wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The time adjustment keeps going up and up but the clock is never reset, it just continues to fall further behind. Anyone know how to fix this? I realize that it's not exa

Re: [OT] quick question about function declarations in C++

2008-06-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/26/2008 10:16 PM, H.S. wrote: Hello, I don't seem to recall at the moment so I thought of trying you all guys. In C++, do the names of arguments in a function declaration (or prototype) need to match the names of the arguments in function definition? [...] Hi H.S. The newsgroup comp.

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-26 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 27 June 2008 05:26:53 David Bruce wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed both nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source(using > module-assistant for the latter to build and install the driver). In > the past, at this point I would just use "dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg" to select "nvidia" ins

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Man Xorg > Thierry If you're gonna waste time with a pointless reply maybe man xorg.conf will be better. Here's my section: Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nv" # Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" EndSection Tailor yours to suit yo

Re: Getting Xorg to use nvidia driver now that "devices" section gone in Sid

2008-06-26 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 27 June 2008 08:38:02 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > Man Xorg > > Thierry > > If you're gonna waste time with a pointless reply maybe man xorg.conf > will be better. > > Here's my section: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Device0" > Driver "nv" > # Driver "nvidia"