PPP default route

2001-06-19 Thread Alex Suzuki
echo "1" >/home/user/blafile but blafile was never created. Can somebody help? Thanks a lot Alex -- Alex Suzuki ..::.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..::.. http://www.cynox.ch GEEK code: GCS d+(-) s a--->-- C+++ UL P+>++ L+++> E- W+++$ N++ o? K? w-- !O !M V- PS+ !PE Y+ PGP-

Re: Java and flash plugin for Mozilla

2001-06-27 Thread Alex Suzuki
prompts me again for installation when I visit a Java site, despite some java stuff lying in /usr/lib/mozilla-0.9.1. It also doesn't show up when I type about:plugins as URL. Frustrated, I then delete /usr/lib/mozilla-0.9.1, and copy back an old one. Can somebody help? Alex -- Alex Suzuki ..:

C routine that compares debian package versions

2001-07-11 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hello debian users, I'm currently writing a small program in C that is supposed to show me which packages I have from woody and which ones from sid (my system is actually a mix of both of them). Now, a problem I am likely to encounter soon are the version numbers. Do the follow some kind of scheme

deblist - a small program that may or may not be useful

2001-07-18 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hello fellow debian users, I wrote a little C-Program that may or may not be ;-) useful for people like me, that use a system that is a mix of woody and sid packages. It downloads a list of all available packages from the official woody and sid archives at http://http.us.debian.org, then it compa

Re: serious trouble with exim and procmail

2001-12-01 Thread Alex Suzuki
fter toying around (calling eximconfig a thousand times), deleting and recreating ~/.forward and ~/.procmailrc files it worked again. I guess some stupid character in a config file messed it all up. Thanks anyway, Alex -- ¦ Alex Suzuki | Personal page: | ¦ Email: [E

install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-05 Thread Alex Suzuki
etuid root". here's what it's manpage says: "In order to use the ping sensor, this program must be installed as setuid root, so that it can create an ICMP socket." How do I do that? Thanks for any help. Regards, -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.c

Re: timeout waiting for DMA

2001-05-05 Thread Alex Suzuki
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html Maybe you're missing a parameter somewhere. -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-05 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:28:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Don't. X programs should not be setuid root. Why? Is this a security issue (like remotely connecting to my X-Server? -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-05 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:42:36PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Even if the application itself is free of buffer overflows and such you > would be granting root access to wads of unaudited and buggy library code. yeah, I guess you're right... too bad I love that screensaver :) --

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
a seperate setuid program. The problem is that the ping sensor is actually a special feature, you can use the screensaver if it's not setuid root, you just can't access that feature. -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Filtering mail w/ procmail

2001-05-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] nedit-discuss :0: * ^X-Mailing-List:[EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-user -- As you can see, I only use hte X-Mailing-List header for the debian list. -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

2001-05-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
ou might want to www.markybob.com first for more info... -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Strong encryption for mozilla (woody)

2001-05-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
and is very quick in displaying sites. If the webpage doesn't have exotic javascripts and stuff, opera will not crashe. Beta 8 just came out a week ago and I tried it, after having used Beta 7, and I must say it has improved only little, it is still one of the best browsers around! -- Alex

Re: install screensaver with setuid root

2001-05-08 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 12:54:52PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > This is the purpose of "wishlist" bugs. See bug#96677. > Severity: wishlist; Package: xscreensaver; ;Reported by: Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>; dated Mon, 7 May 2001 Hey, thanks for sending that &

Opera 5 is out!

2001-05-14 Thread Alex Suzuki
Hey everybody, Just wanted to say that Opera 5 (final) has been released. It replaces Beta 8, and should be very stable. ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/500/ Have fun... -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Linux compatible IDE CDRW

2001-05-16 Thread Alex Suzuki
rsions of cdrecord. > Even though I can't find anywhere that says anything about any of these > being MMC-complient, are they? I read somewhere that all CDRW IDE the plextor is mmc-compliant. Regards, Alex Suzuki -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an

Re: Console keyboard mapping

2001-05-17 Thread Alex Suzuki
.gz to /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz That did it for me. -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: announce galeon-0.10.6 unofficial package

2001-05-23 Thread Alex Suzuki
stat (2 No such file or directory) -- i can access your site via a webbrowser, and it works fine then. Regards, Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Need a file - /etc/network/interfaces

2001-05-23 Thread Alex Suzuki
dcast and gateway are optional) # automatically added when upgrading auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.

Re: announce galeon-0.10.6 unofficial package

2001-05-24 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 12:49:15AM +0200, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > http://christophe.barbe.online.fr/debian/ > > > What apt says: > > I use wget, and the installed galeon works! Well, it wouldn't have worked anyway, since the dependecies are for sid, and

Re: Disk performance and SWAP file location

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:45:38PM -0500, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: > I wouild like to optimize my partitioning scheme Hello Walter, Have you read Karsten Koehntopps Partitioning HowTo? http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/index.html Regards, Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: installing galeon from rpms

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Suzuki
ristophe.barbe.online.fr/debian/ > >Christophe note that it is __not__ yet apt-gettable, because the author is looking for an ftp-host to support it (read the thread on galeon-user). You have to download them manually and dpkg -i & apt-get -f install them. Regards Alex :) -- Alex Suz

Re: galeon 0.10.6 Packages anywhere ?

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Suzuki
equires a patched version of mozilla 0.9. >I've rebuild the kitame packages with this patch and you can apt-get it at >the same url. > >Feedback is welcome. > >http://christophe.barbe.online.fr/debian/ > >Christophe -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Strange problem with Plextor IDE-Drive W121032A

2001-05-26 Thread Alex Suzuki
was asked, and nobody had an answer. Does anybody know what's going on here? BTW: some lines are more than 80 characters. I apologize for that. -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Strange problem with Plextor IDE-Drive W121032A

2001-05-28 Thread Alex Suzuki
do that? The SCSI emulation is started early, as I pass hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi to the kernel. Afterwars its not possible to adjust DMA for the drive via hdparm. I even think the drive can't handle DMA, it can only do PIO? How did you do it? What mechanism did you use? Regards, Alex -- Ale

Re: Strange problem with Plextor IDE-Drive W121032A

2001-05-28 Thread Alex Suzuki
will further investigate and see if this works out. duron:~# hdparm -d0 /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: setting using_dma to 0 (off) using_dma= 0 (off) -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: root via ssh / why su - ?

2001-05-29 Thread Alex Suzuki
(either DES or IDEA, > depending on which version you download) database. Is there such a utility for a Linux system? I'm in need of one. I currently save some of my passwords (no root passwords, sorry) in a -rwx-- file :) Regards, Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch

Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
iserfs and then copy it back? Thanks for any help/suggestions/flames :) -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Strange problem with Plextor IDE-Drive W121032A

2001-06-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:19:39AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On (26/05/01 20:31), Alex Suzuki wrote: > > I have 2 IDE-Drives, one of them is a Plextor CD-Writer. > .. > > I cannot mount it as a user nor as root. > > I'm shortly going to be buying one of th

Re: information request

2001-06-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
gathered some knowledge about Linux, that I probably wouldn't have gathered if'd used Suse Linux. but again, just my 2 cents... -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
change. Not sure about > that so much. > > Just some thought, take with generous portions of salt. Maybe I will just buy a new harddrive (I wanted to buy one anyway), partition it, format it, then copy the stuff, run lilo... bang :) I guess that's the safest way to upgrade to reiserfs o

package libcommonc++-dev kept back

2001-06-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
his? It's quite annoying to see that message every time I upgrade my beloved woody box. Thanks for help Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Moving to reiserfs with kernel 2.4.3

2001-06-07 Thread Alex Suzuki
will definitely use this as a resource. Thanks again, Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: package libcommonc++-dev kept back

2001-06-08 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 01:15:16AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > It turns out that the bug is a build problem with autoconf 2.50, so I > think you can safely ignore that and install the package from unstable. Thanks : ) Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send

Strange drive issue when using Win98 and Debian

2001-06-09 Thread Alex Suzuki
nd directories which ARE not there. My question: How do I tell Windows that it is no longer allowed to access or even see those drives? Thanks Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: Strange drive issue when using Win98 and Debian

2001-06-09 Thread Alex Suzuki
xt2. I used cfdisk to write the table down. It worked. -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-09 Thread Alex Suzuki
s of performance & compatbility to M$-Word format? I have StarOffice installed here, and hey, I mean I've got a 750 MhZ Duron processor, a quick harddrive and 512 Megs of RAM, and I still wouldn't recommend it! Thanks Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send m

the .xinitrc and .xsession puzzle

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Suzuki
xec /usr/bin/gnome-session Could anybody solve this puzzle for me? Can anyone with a similar configuration (GNOME/sawfish) post his/her .xinitrc and .xsession? Regards, Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: program response sluggish compared to Win98

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Suzuki
still abit sluggish. But you would expect more on such a machine. StarOffice is just bloated if you ask me. The only components I will ever use is the word and the spreadsheet application. Not to mention the ugly windows-like look with a "Start" button at the bottom left (that beats me).

Re: the .xinitrc and .xsession puzzle

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:14:33AM -0500, ktb wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 12:42:47PM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote: > back-grounded with "&". Usually back-grounding everything but you're > window manager is the way to go. > hth, > kent Thanks kent. I'm no

Slow and ugly X startup with NVidia drivers

2001-06-10 Thread Alex Suzuki
ybody seen this on his/her machine? I'm using nvidias AGP implementation, not the kernel one (agpgart). Thanks for any info Alex -- Alex Suzuki | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cynox.ch To send me an email, remove NOSPAM from the above address

Re: the .xinitrc and .xsession puzzle

2001-06-11 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:53:45PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > E? > If you want to drag in gnome you put 'gnome-session' at the end of .xinitrc I don't really need GNOME's session capability. The only thing I use of GNOME is the panel. Alex -- Alex Suz

Re: Slow and ugly X startup with NVidia drivers

2001-06-12 Thread Alex Suzuki
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:10:30PM -0600, ray p wrote: > The newest drivers work fine here and fix the problem you are having. thanks. I will then have to try those new drivers anyway :) -- Alex Suzuki ..:.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..:.. http://www.cynox.ch GEEK code: GCS d+(-) s a--- C+++

fetchmail question

2001-06-15 Thread Alex Suzuki
amp;delete it for the second one. When I used a single-user setup of fetchmail, I just typed fetchmail -k but I don't know how to tell the fetchmail daemon to do so. Can anybody help? Alex -- Alex Suzuki ..:.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..:.. http://www.cynox.ch GEEK code: GCS d+(-) s a---

Re: sawfish, testing, unstable

2001-06-16 Thread Alex Suzuki
hat did the trick for me aswell. -- Alex Suzuki ..:.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..:.. http://www.cynox.ch GEEK code: GCS d+(-) s a--- C+++ UL P+ L+++ !E W++ N++ o? K? w-- !O !M V- PS+ !PE Y+ PGP- t+++ 5+ X@ R- tv--@ b+ DI D++ G-- e* h-- r++ y+