Re: Segfaulting WindowMaker

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
to restart, then it crashes when switching to workspace #1. Best I can tell, there are too many tiles for it to deal with gracefully. If I close some apps, I can generally get things squared away. This also appears to be resolution dependent -- the more screenspace you have, the more apps you can run. R

Re: Theoretical APT question

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
root install or jail. Or a "system2" installation with a base set of security/recovery utilities (I've posted about same in recent past on list, with a pointer to my own packages list). Much of your objective could be attained via a reasonable partitioning scheme. The existing Debi

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:48 +0800 > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:54:17 -0800, > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
ocity, he's elected to drag the battle to both the #debian IRC support channel, and now this mailing list. on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:03:03AM -0500, Greg Folkert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:50, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM

Re: sftp file creation mask

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
file for the username of the uploader, but it has no effect. Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. Hrm. Not positive, but try to set the sticky bit on the parent directory. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[

Re: Workspace/desktop switching

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
Sun CDE => fvwm => WindowMaker. I've tried pretty much all the currently available GNU/Linux desktops, like to see what's available / what they offer, am happy with what I use. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Pa

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
; , but how can I stop the bug in the first place? > However, I can't get it to do it now for an example. :r ! cat ^D Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? M

Re: Question about Sarge GUI

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
g I > do affects the appearance of the fonts in the various windows. What am > I doing wrong? What should I look at to give more info? ~.gtkrc, or equivalent for Gtk2. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt"

Re: migration from RedHat to Debian, general question about Debian (dpkg, kernel, config)

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
els 2, 3, 4, and 5. If you *want* to set these differently, you can do so with the 'udate-rc.d' command. It's one of a set of admin tools matching update-*, take a look at this and the others. update-rc.d roughly corresponds to RH's chkconfig. If you want to start/stop an ins

Re: What is mmenu?

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
it. See above. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 Cabal: http://www.kuro5hin.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
ld uninstall all stuff > downloaded and installed in the past 2 days. Please do not apt-get > anything right now! Please wait till an `official' release happens! Hoax. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestal

OK, may be not a hoax... (was Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?)

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:30:36AM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:07:20PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Jerome posts: > > > > >> What happens to www.debian.org ? > > > > Someone has

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:24:16AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:50:09 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > yeah, i was one

Re: gv and filenames with spaces

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
> > I guess there's a configuration file somewhere in the debian package > that is missing some quotes. Does anybody happen to know what the fix is? > > I run Woody > $ gv -v > gv 3.5.8 (debian) If this is reproducible, mishandling filenames with spaces is

RUS-CERT: Several Debian hosts compromised, archive not affected

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
dF6LY= =If2b -END PGP SIGNATURE- ------------ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed downtime: http://www.wired.com/news/polit

Re: Diald Implementation.

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
dark ages (1997/98) and never got it working satisfactorially. I largely use manually triggered pppd (pon/poff) now. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? What doesn't kil

(unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
ial, though I've had some dd's look over the bullet points above. Thought it would be useful to subscribers. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? GNU/Linux

Re: xterm title bars

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on of xemacs. > > ANyone know a way to handle this automatically? I've come across > various scripts (usually in csh!) that cna be executed from the > command line, but no solutions that change the window title > automatically. > > Is there any hope? Bash

Re: cdrom

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
the "->" pointing to hdc. /dev/hdc, in my case, is a character block device, major number 22, minor 0: brw-rw 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2002-03-14 13:51 /dev/hdc If you don't have an equivalent device file: $ sudo bash -l # cd /dev/ # ./MAKEDEV hdc # Or

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
27;t remmember one > that did work. Any idea? Is the CDROM mounted noexec? 'mount' and look at the options for your CDROM device. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you underst

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
t; How do I see what is using that mount point? $ fuser -vm /mount/point Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? GNU/Linux web browsing mini review: Galeon. Kicks ass. http:

Solution & mystery: gpg "unusable public key"

2003-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
sn't self-signed. It was. Didn't work. - I needed an RSA encyrption subkey. I added one. Didn't work. Something of a curiosity. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you u

Re: RUS-CERT: Several Debian hosts compromised, archive not affected

2003-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
the item to Slashdot. www.debian.org wasn't updated for a time after the compromise because it was among the affected servers. There's been a bit of talk about a disaster recovery plan, including fallback communications channels. Things were rather ad hoc this time around. Peace

Swen, again (was Re: spam microsoft)

2003-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
d/reportSwen http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/fqdn2domain Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Lies and videotape but no sex! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
own, need to stop and think > very seriously about what can be done to preemptively mitigate the > inevitable embarrassments which are sure to come (soon). I think that many do. I think your fears are somewhat misplaced. The advice is still valid. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL

Re: Theoretical APT question

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:36:26PM +, Ken Gilmour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Replying to the message sent by Karsten M. Self ?on Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:51:35 -0800, > received at 15:32:59 on 21/11/2003. Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > >Much of your objective could be attaine

Re: OK, may be not a hoax... (was Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?)

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
tty good idea of what was going on (though I wasn't sure what if anything I should do). Others were markedly less informed. I helped get word out where I could. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? NPR: Radio for between the ears: http://www.npr.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Xresources & Xdefaults documentation

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
t (fewer these days, though a lot of stuff outside GNOME and KDE does), the app's own manpage should list resources. The manpages for xterm, twm, xclock, and xload should provide some decent clues. There may be sample resource files in /etc/X11/Xresources/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EM

Re: Joe-Jobbed, was [unsubscribe]

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
uncommon around here. I think it's just Swen. I'm still seeing ~65 of these a day. ...confusing to the naive user though. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 07:06:27AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: <...> > >You might want to check that you're subscribed to debian-announce and/or > >debian-security-announce. Some notifications were posted to these lists

Re: mutt and forwarded mail

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
-AutoForward-By header instead of From: >ignore * >unignore Date: X-FC-AutoForward-By: To: Cc: Subject: > > Or use procmail+formail to shift the value of X-FC-AutoForward-By -> From: >:0 hfw >* ^X-FC-AutoForward-By: >| formail -i From -R X-FC-AutoForwa

Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
> > This won't work if you have a message containing a line starting > with "From ". No problem with Mutt. Show me an mbox file with a message line starting with "From". After you've looked for a while, do some research on Googl

Re: hmm debian.org..?

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
that this only tells you that the message hasn't been changed, but you can look for other messages signed by the same key. You don't need to trim the message or extract just the signed parts, gpg will work that out for you automatically. Peace. - -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:08:07AM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > > Great to see you back. Was an interesting experience: PC's are nothing > > without Debian... > > Karsten M. Self writes: > > ...and vice-versa > >

more details on the recent compromise of debian.org machines (was Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status)

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on murphy and installed Suckit there too. The next day they used a password sniffed on master to login into gluck, got root there and installed suckit. <...> ...for those wanting more information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.hom

Linux security vs. foo (was Re: recommended Virus Scanner?)

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:57:18AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:39:05AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Thanks for the excellent answers. > > > ...you don't need to worry about viruses for GNU/Linux. > > >GNU/Lin

Re: Integrated Broadcom nic on Dell times out with dhcp

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
mewhat poor about providing specs and/or support, and is among the NIC vendors who've had comprehension difficulties regarding obligations attending use of GPL'd software (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/35103). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
default to > that). And you can in practice symlink the two in some way, if you want to keep all your local installation(s) under a single tree: # mkdir /usr/local/opt # ln -s /usr/local/opt /opt ...which gives a subdirectory under /usr/local for opt. Or: # ln /usr/local /opt

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
to /usr and symlink /var to /usr/var (which doesn't exist otherwise). Or you could just give yourself One Big Partition and deal with the attendant problems. There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux system partitioning you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
state, your queue backs up, and filehandles and memory are exhausted. Properly throttled, SA seems to be highly useful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? SBC PacBel

False-positive virus detection (was Re: antivirus recomendation?)

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
more complete > ones I've seen on the web. To be truly accurate, you need an actual > MIME parser, not a regex here. Ayup to all of that. Several of the domains messing this one up have found their way to the RFC Ignorant list (http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/). The irony that an email i

Re: compromised servers

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
ld > have heard about it before they took murphy down. Check the archives. Not necessarially. With a subscribership of over 27k, not all messages got out of queue before murphy was downed. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wh

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:59:50PM -0800, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >I think that many do. I think your fears are somewhat misplaced. > > >The advice is still valid. > > I think why some of us have taken such exception to Paul'

Re: installation to >137GB disk

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? user-agent considered harmful. Encourage W3M standards: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/UserContentString pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: http://lists.debian.org/

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
age > lists.debian.org; and I am unsure if this is the correct place, > although I suspect it is. > > Could you look into this or advise me of the correct place to report it. lists.debian.org is among the hosts involved in a compromise of several Debian project servers: http://w

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
nd do not > use a symlink. There are options to clean out some or all of the deb > files (the 'clean' option) but I dont use it. Why not? 'apt-get autoclean' will remove just _older_ versions of archives. Not sure if there's a way to explicitly keep, say, no mo

KDE guillotines? (was Re: GNOME hangs.)

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
.gnome2 which has: > > -rw---1 barikbarik 2 2003-11-26 21:30 > .gnome-smproxy-1VDQeN > -rw---1 barikbarik 2 2003-11-26 21:53 > .gnome-smproxy-8aQJdd NFC. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The revolution will not be televised. You can apt-get it from the usual mirrors, however. http://www.debian.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
ntually bite them, but their $50 billion cash reserves will buy a hell of a lot of re engineering. Again: you're displaying gross ignorance of this topic. Inform yourself before you seek to inform others. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmse

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:33:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:13:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote > > > The one thing you *don't* say is how much space you've got on the disk. > > Sorry, approx 40 gigs. My "A

Re: OK, I want to join the PGP World, but need help.

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
--generate-key Take a look at it: $ gpg --listkeys pecondon *SELF SIGN YOUR KEY*. Key ID is the 8 character block, e.g.: pub 1024D/8DE4D38E 2003-06-11 Karsten M. Self (Primary permanent ... ...my key ID is 8DE4D83E. It's a substring from your full key fingerprint. $

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:08:37AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:54:38AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:43AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > [snip everybody] > > > I have this belie

Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications (was Re: communication structures crumbled)

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
date schedule -- say, posts every 2-3 days for a prolonged outage. Enough to keep people informed, but not swamp developers or the fall back emergency list infrastructure, or at least a "expect updates within ". Including this information in a document distributed with De

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:07:47AM -0500, Walter Dnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:17:08AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote > > > You clearly haven't grasped the philosophy of Debian. The above > > paragraph betrays a gross misunderstanding on

Re: icewm and windowmaker

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
art X. > > Can this command be used with any other desktop manager or does > this depend on wich it is ? $ man startx Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? What doesn't kill you makes you stranger. -- Karsten M. Self, misreading as usual, San Marcos Pass Rd., 1988 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: shopping

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
>>>Peregrino Water > >>>>1 box tonic > >>> > >>>Grab a pack of 12 guiness whilst there :) > >>> > >>>Rus > >> > >>You cant have guinness without salty peanuts either > >> > > > > > >Sorr

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:16:56PM -0500, Malcolm Ferguson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > >On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:13:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote > > > >>Or you could just give yourself One Big Partition and deal with the > >>atten

Slasdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
rticle submitter, and (generally) not Slashdot's editors. The submitter may be wrong, misinformed, biased, or have an axe to grind. Or not. The "mainstream" media have gross factual errors in about 30-50% of stories. Without, as noted here, the instant feedback offer

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:21:24PM +0100, Miernik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 2003-11-30, Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I recommend making it far larger than in the Debian security doc > >> though. On my servers I have /boot and /usr read-only, an

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
't have to duplicate it. I keep both a standard system, and a maintenance/recover "system2" installed. /boot seperated makes for slightly easier management of this. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestal

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
ay around. Then change it. If you're not allowing world write to /usr/local/(s)bin, you should be OK. The usual justification is that your locally defined commands superscede system commands. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wha

Re: Problems accessing

2003-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
updates. The first five quoted words of your post answer your question. http://www.debian.org/News/2003/20031121 Some Debian Project machines compromised November 21st, 2003 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of

/usr/local Debian Policy (was Re: Rationale)

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
take precedence over the equivalents in `/usr'. ...but existence of /usr/local files and subdirs cannot be assumed. Ownership is root.staff 2775 per policy. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
81359 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [

2.4.23 kernel build problems

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
pful, and I doubt I'm the only one I've heard rumors of same, but nothing's turned up publicly that I'm aware. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Back

Spam loads (was Re: How to post to linux.debian.user)

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
addresses and subject tokens. While more ISPs are offering mail filtering, most have pretty broken tools. SMTP-time rejection + teergrubing is highly preferred. Newcomers to the 'Net have some very serious issues to deal with. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http:

Re: No updates to unstable since the security breach?

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
entified, I suspect we'll start seeing activity within the week. klecker's still being rebuilt, though. Wichert Akkerman's site http://www.wiggy.net/debian/ ...for updates. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

Re: My machine compromised?

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
cs'... not found > Checking `sniffer'... > eth0: PROMISC > > Is my machine compromised? How to fix this? 12 hidden processes is more than I've typically seen (4). # chkrootkit -v lkm ...for more verbose diagnostics. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTE

wl/bl/sl maintenance scripts (was: Re: Newsreader-like killfiling in email?)

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
adds the user to my whitelist. "sl-add" and "bl-add" are the equivalent spam/blacklist commands. "wl-ck" tests whether an address is already on the whitelist. Etc. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

LILO and bootloaders (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
and is best described as a minimal OS which has the basic function of falling on its own sword for the good of the Emperor Penguin (or other sundry OSs as you may have on your system). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part o

FHS and other things Mark should have read with comprehension (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
gt; /tmp, which makes me wonder why they are seperate. Well, for starters, /tmp *is* cleared between system boots, and is appropriate for data which *must* not be preserved between boots. The definitions are not identical, the directories are not equivalent. You're strongly counseled to read stan

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
t;electronic measures" to > communicate to the printer... Geez, is it *so* hard to understand this > perverseness things can come to? Lexmark lost that one, fortunately. Not without a lot of trouble. http://www.arstechnica.com/archive/news/1067455401.html > Again, if more info is

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
ystems on safe kernels, even if this means I don't have full use. NICs on one box aren't supported by 2.4.18, and building 2.4.23 is turning into a bitch. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don&

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
hands Paul a clue. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? GNU/Linux web browsing mini review: Galeon. Kicks ass. http://galeon.sourceforge.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FHS and other things Mark should have read with comprehension (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:17:52PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self said on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:15:29AM -0800: > > See, variously, the FHS, and my own partitioning guidelines: > > > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning >

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/346175/2003-12-01/2003-12-07/2 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: No updates to unstable since the security breach?

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:11:28AM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > s/servers being down/developer access being restricted/ > > The access restrictions are irrelevant. Developers can do anonymous > uploads. I did one last night. .

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
Schauen Sie gerne kurz rein. > > http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?q=&url=www.lists.debian.org > > > Vielen Dank. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "Cha

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
7;Jun 17, 1996 1.2 ``rex'' Dec 12, 1996 1.3 ``bo'' Jun 5, 1997 2.0 ``hamm''Jul 24, 1998 2.1 ``slink'' Mar 9, 1999 2.2 ``potato'' Aug 15, 2000 3.0 ``woody'' Jul 19, 2002 ---

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:08:40AM -0800, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:00:28AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Thomas: Fragen Sie bitte auf englisch an diese Liste, oder frage an den > > debian-user-de Liste > > Karsten, you realis

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:49:51PM -0800, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:48:48PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I do about 50% comprehension of written German when I try reading it. > > That looked _vaguely_ technical when I read it i

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
27;t help > > Whats wrong here, and what should I do to fix it? What's wrong? Info Sucks And Must Die. Old but good: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/InfoVsManpage Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &qu

xscreensaver error: usage: xscreensaver-getimage [ -display host:dpy.screen ] [ -v ] window-id

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
ts an image of the desktop on the given window. It is used by those xscreensaver demos that operate on images. (e.g.: in ~/.xsession-errors or stdout when run from terminal). No Google hits, strace doesn't help much. Sounds like someone got their args wrong. Suggestions? Peace. --

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What's wrong? Info Sucks And Must Die. > > > > Old but good: > > > > http://twiki.iwethey.org

Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
In which case: set your reply-to appropriately. More generally, requesting a CC rather than a personal response is considered preferable. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Over a billion Whoppers served. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: (was: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
inions? Last time I looked there weren't so many, and I plumped for > xchat. Which I'm more or less happy with, BTW. See above. Sane. Useful. Less inane than alternatives. From a former BitchX / XChat user. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://km

Re: unable to generate core file

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
at could cause the core files > to not get generated ? Filesystem permissions in the directory you're running the application from. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: forwarding mail with exim

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
may i do this w/ the .forward or exim.conf files? You'll find a "Shift" key at left an right of your keyboard. Instruct yourself on their use. /etc/alaises Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "

Re: How do I temporally disable gdm? (or is it gpm)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
is the login screen and > which is the console mouse driver. > > Anyway, I'm hoping that there is a line in a file I can comment out. There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager disabling you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
y From field said : [EMAIL PROTECTED]@spnetctg.com (Satyajit Das) >but I want to show it like this: Satyajit Das No you don't. You need a valid email address in your from line. Possibly: my_hdr From: "Satyajit Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@spnetctg.com>" ...in your .

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:00:10PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > RTFL. > > &g

Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:28:29PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Es geschah am Freitag, 5. Dezember 2003 17:51 als Karsten M. Self schrieb: > > on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:59:55PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >

Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:49:40PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:51:37AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any problems, > > > but now mail retrieval fail

Re: xscreensaver error: usage: xscreensaver-getimage [ -display host:dpy.screen ] [ -v ] window-id

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:12:25PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:29:33AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > No Google hits, strace doesn't help much. Sounds like someone got their > > args wrong. > > So LOO

Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html > In this particular example, I don't get the network up, so it is > pretty much pointless to use the old installer. Btw. The old installer > was not even able to cope with a 160GB hd. Google "large disk HOWTO". bf2.4 install

Opposed: (was Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
to the motion) for the request of these changes. Move to table. I see this proposal as groundless, misguided, redundant, and harmful. I oppose it. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understan

Re: error

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
f a few of us did that... ...OTOH, mind the Joe-jobs. Tell us what you get, David, thanks. BTW, that's a Dallas/Plano, TX number. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backg

Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
is that you can then turn _off_ loadable module support. For highly sensitive servers in hostile-facing environments, this can eliminate an entire class of potential attacks right there. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Ge

Re: Exim default interface

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
for sending mail out? Also, > why is it defaulting to eth0:2? Check your routing rules. What's your default gateway? Are you sure? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Vote Bu

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:23:26AM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:05:25AM +0600, Satyajit Das ("[EMAIL > PROTECTED]"@spnetctg.com) wrote: > > 2) I'm using mutt and postfix. > >My From field said : [EMAIL PROT

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
s. 250+ if not reported). I've created a few scripts for this (some assembly required): http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/reportSwen http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/fqdn2domain Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Reject EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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