Re: how to mount a zip drive

2003-11-29 Thread Jiele
Paul Valley wrote: Hi All: how in praytell do you mount a zip drive is there a way to do it without recompiling linux? Paul You can just compile those necessary modules, and modprobe. no new kernel, no reboot. -- Yours sincerely,\|||/

Any news about python errors in unstable?

2003-11-29 Thread J.S.Sahambi
Any news about python errors/dependency/conflicts in updating unstable dist ? Regards JSS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Downside to Aptitude?

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get > for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the > features, like the ability to do a "--with-suggests", quite useful. It > seems like Aptitude does a better j

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-29 Thread Scarletdown
Situation Update... I went ahead and started from scratch. And _this time_ I remembered to enter bf24 at the boot prompt in order to install Kernel 2.4. Anyway, This time around, I was given the option to format the partitions as either ext2 or ext3 (last time, ext2 was the only option, meanin

dcopserver errror

2003-11-29 Thread jason pearl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having issues logging in to users other then root... it says cant start and to make sure dcopserver is running.. i have looked all over the net for ideas on how to fix this and i have run out of sources.. thanks - -- Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZ

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-29 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 08:04, Scarletdown wrote: > So, unable to do any configuration from within the > graphical interface, I hit CTRL-Alt-F12 then > logged into a text-based terminal as root (is there > any way at all to get back to the desktop > after doing that?) and ran dpkg-reconfigure Ctr

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Alvin Oga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 04:53 Subject: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner? > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: > > > I have a friend who is 1000 time

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-29 Thread Scarletdown
Yet another update... This time when gdm failed to run, I went ahead and said no when asked if I would like to try configuring X again. After that, I logged in as root and again ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver- xfree86 This time, instead of entering PCI:00:11:00 (which is what lspci showed the vid

Re: how to mount a zip drive

2003-11-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 11:05, Paul Valley wrote: > Hi All: > > how in praytell do you mount a zip drive is there a way to do it > without recompiling linux? Well, you need to give us more info first. What type of zip drive is it? Internal IDE, Parallel, SCSI, or USB? If you're using a stock D

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
[snip everybody] Hey, the Debian folks themselves say there is the possibility of an unknown root exploit in the wild. I have this belief that for any arbitrary large block of code, the # of undiscovered root exploits to be very large (I actually beleve the # to be limitless -- humans are infi

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-29 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:04:18 -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Situation Update... > > Now, after the install was done, and without rebooting; I logged in and > ran gdm. I was rather disappointed that there is no way to log in via gdm > as root (I really do prefer to do that at this time rather than

Apt-get upgrade problems

2003-11-29 Thread . .
Hi, I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does not upgrade anything. It gives: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed

X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Mark Healey
Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that fails there is an error message stating Fatal server error: no screens found. I tried xf86config and had to aban

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:43AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [snip everybody] > > Hey, the Debian folks themselves say there is the possibility of an > unknown root exploit in the wild. Yes. Which is very likely fully independent of the OS on which the code lives. In other words,

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Mihalis I. Tsoukalos
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. > > When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that > fails there is an error message stating >

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Mark Healey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. > > When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that > fails there is an error message stating > > Fatal serv

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
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] > > > > Hey, the Debian folks themselves say there is the possibility of an > > unknown root exploit in the wild. > > Yes. Which is v

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" machine is 433mhz, 128 megs RAM, an

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:08:37AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > Again: you're displaying gross ignorance of this topic. Inform > > yourself before you seek to inform others. The basis for my credulity is The Undedcidability Theorem. Read "The Illusion of Technique" by Barrett. European mathematicians

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

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:08:18PM -0700, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Where is the use of GnuPG within Mutt documented? > I want to set up checking of signatures on emails > to this list, but I don't find info. Where is it? Install gnupg. Generate a key: $ gpg --generate-key

Re: Any news about python errors in unstable?

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'J.S.'! On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:07:31PM +, J.S.Sahambi wrote: Any news about python errors/dependency/conflicts in updating unstable dist ? Could you please be more specific, what do want to know what hasn't been answered in the last thread you started? Cheers, Flo pgp0.pgp Des

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: ... > > > I have this belief that for any arbitrary large block of code, the # of > > > undiscovered root exploits to be very large (I actually beleve the # to > > > be limitless -- humans are infinitely clever). > > > > I have this belief that the moon is mad

Re: Apt-get upgrade problems

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello '. .'! On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:18:30AM +0100, . . wrote: I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does not upgrade anything. It gives: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree...

Man pages in unstable don't display right--third try

2003-11-29 Thread Curt Daugaard
The majority of the man pages I bring up display raw escape characters. Some exceptions are calendar, finger, and hd. The pager is most. This happens at the console and in xterms. Can anyone point me to a possible cause? Thanks. Curt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Installing Smarty through apt-get

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Francisco! On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:17:09PM -0700, Francisco Castellon wrote: I wanting to install the smarty on my system, however I ran a "apt-cache search smarty" and I found nothing. However, I googled and found some sites that have the package including: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/p

Re: bind9 in stable won't run chroot or setuid

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Micha! On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:23:09AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: I tried running bind9 in stable as chroot and setuid. setuid nobody it won't run at all. chroot if runs but doesn't actually listen on any port. It will only run as root for some reason. Is this a known bug or am I doing so

alsa & 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller

2003-11-29 Thread Egor Tur
Hi folk. I have MB on 865PE chipset. I cannot use audio with alsa driver. What I have: Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) CMI9739 chipset with 6channel CODEC AC97 alsa 0.9.8-1 I compiled alsa-modules from source, installed driver snd-intel8x0, unmuted

Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-29 Thread James Hosken
Quoting Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:03:57PM +, James Hosken wrote: > > > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/old-disk/ > > > > and I get the error > > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb5, > >or too many mounted file systems > >

python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread J.S.Sahambi
When I upgrade my system (Debian/unstable) with dselect or "apt-get upgrade" I get the following errors about python dependency/conflict. A Few days back there was some mails in the list about the problem and some people said that the python was broken in unstable distribution. Has this problem

Re: installing a backup drive

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 22:18:01 -0800, richard wrote: > I have a email/web server running on one drive and I want to install a > backup for obvious reasons. Essentially I'll remove the optical drive > and have the new HD take the slave spot. I can't set up a RAID witout > nuking the information al

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

2003-11-29 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:27:41AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > $ gpg --listkeys pecondon > Only --list-keys works here. The gpg version is 1.2.3. > *SELF SIGN YOUR KEY*. What is the importance of this? Why it is not done automatically? -- "If you have an apple and I ha

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 23:39:17 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:48:57PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote > >> I use LVM myself, as I'm often changing stuff and moving things around. >> >> I love LVM. No symlink workarounds, able to keep within the FHS >> and use disk space efficien

Re: python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread charlie derr
It seems the correct course of action is right there. "dpkg: considering removing python in favour of python2.3 ..." For me, something like this worked: # apt-get remove python (or maybe it was "apt-get remove python2.3") Which will remove a lot of packages (paste the list to a file before you

Re: iptables and adsl modem at boot time

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'H. S.'! On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:41:47PM -0500, H. S. wrote: Yup, that helped a bit. So I should put my script (my-firewall.sh) in /etc/init.d and then do: $> update-rc.d my-firewall.sh defaults N Where N should a number indicating that run this script before any interface is brought u

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 belief that for any arbitrary large

Re: Cups Problem - Restated

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Thomas! On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:11:42AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Any ideas? No, not from me, sorry. Cheers, Flo pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:34:43AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > 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: > > >

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 04:41:47AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > Bernstein pays $500 for each verifiable security hole in qmail. > > Following the same premise as for Knuth, you should find this a > > similarly lucrative opportunity. You might find the page detailing this > > offer of interest: > > Touc

Re: python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 29 November 2003 7:27 am, charlie derr wrote: ># apt-get remove python >(or maybe it was "apt-get remove python2.3") >Which will remove a lot of packages (paste the list to a file before you >answer "Y" if you want to reinstall them after). A lot of packages is a bit of an understateme

Re: icewm and windowmaker

2003-11-29 Thread John Peter
Marc Wilson wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:59:20PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: I don't really care, as it works, then again I don't think that editing this file is advisable for the integrity of my system. Did I miss the Debian Way here, or is it a bug / one of those things? No, you m

Diskless client can't use apt-get

2003-11-29 Thread Pernilla Uhlin
Hi, I have created two diskless client with debians diskless package (I've followed every step and created diskless-createbasetgz and diskless-newimage as well). The clients boot perfectly, every seems to be ok. The only thing that doesn't seem to work is installing new packages with apt-get. I've

Re: python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread Alf Werder
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 14:21, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Saturday 29 November 2003 7:27 am, charlie derr wrote: > ># apt-get remove python > >(or maybe it was "apt-get remove python2.3") > >Which will remove a lot of packages (paste the list to a file before you > >answer "Y" if you want to reinstall t

Re: Mounting disks

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:46:13 +, James Hosken wrote: > Quoting Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:03:57PM +, James Hosken wrote: >> >> > mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/old-disk/ >> > >> > and I get the error >> > >> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad super

Re: python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'J.S.'! On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:05:22PM +, J.S.Sahambi wrote: When I upgrade my system (Debian/unstable) with dselect or "apt-get upgrade" I get the following errors about python dependency/conflict. A Few days back there was some mails in the list about the problem and some people

Re: python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread Albert Dengg
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:33:09 +0100 Alf Werder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 14:21, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 7:27 am, charlie derr wrote: > > ># apt-get remove python > > >(or maybe it was "apt-get remove python2.3") > > >Which will remove a lot of pa

Re: python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Saturday 29 November 2003 8:33 am, Alf Werder wrote: >It was told on this list, that this problem is already fixed in version >2.3.2-7. Unfortunately this version is still in incoming. No big deal (for me). That's part of life in unstableville :) Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Healey wrote: Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that fails there is an error message stating Fatal server error: no screens found. I tried xf86config

Re: Setting text mode in the console

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Cruncher wrote: Anybody know whether and how I can set text modes in the console? I'm running woody, on a Pentium 200 with ATI Mach 64 chipset. I've installed svgalib, svgatextmode and fbset but I can't see how to change my text mode from 80x25. I've put vga=ask in the boot script (or whatev

Re: Re: Setting text mode in the console

2003-11-29 Thread Joe Bosak
Thanks - how do I that?  Do I need to recompile the kernel, is this something that goes into a configuration file?  Or do I enter it at the command prompt?   I'm booting using lilo and running in command-line mode (ie. not using X).   - C  

Re: Diskless client can't use apt-get

2003-11-29 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 29 November 2003 14:17, Pernilla Uhlin wrote: > Hi, > > I have created two diskless client with debians diskless package (I've > followed every step and created diskless-createbasetgz and > diskless-newimage as well). The clients boot perfectly, every seems to > be ok. The only thing th

Help w/Spamassassin via apt-get

2003-11-29 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a Debian woody system at home installed via http. I apt-get'd exim, spamassassin, and uw-imap, but am having a heck of a time trying to get spamassassin integrated with exim for proper spam filtering/tagging. The man pages haven't been helpful for me, nor has any web site. I can't exactly

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 07:01:20AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote > Incidentally, I don't know why you'd "blow away" your system just > to do an upgrade. Obviously, if you do that, you're going to be > reinstalling everything anyway. I use separate partitions for the OS and my data. That way, I can

Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-29 Thread HdV
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > There is no problem with the Content-Length header unless you use > broken software. If the value is incorrect (which isn't really > important before the message is stored to the mbox mailbox), the > MDA can still fix it. Tell that to SUN. They have s

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

2003-11-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Martin Schulze wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: It had to be re-installed. You probably know that since you've read the announcement we were able to send out before the machine was taken down for reinstallation. That announcement wasn't delivered for all users until _after_ murphy was resurrected.

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
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 your part. > > You *don't* "wipe and reinstall" to do a Debian upgrade. You run: > > # apt-get update; apt-get -

Re: No NIC and No X - WTF Does It Take?

2003-11-29 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 08:36:30 +0100 John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 08:04, Scarletdown wrote: > > So, unable to do any configuration from within the > > graphical interface, I hit CTRL-Alt-F12 then > > logged into a text-based terminal as root (is there > > any way at

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 04:34:43 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Bernstein pays $500 for each verifiable security hole in qmail. > Following the same premise as for Knuth, you should find this a > similarly lucrative opportunity. You might find the page detailing this > offer of interest: > >

Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Thomas H. George
chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. Before reformating the hard drive and reinstalling Debian, started a dvd backup using growisofs. The backup of /usr was successful, backup of /var failed with duplicate names in /rr_moved. Obviously I would like to del

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 your part. > > > > You *don't

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:49:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=217278 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=219730 > Before reformating the hard drive and

Re: Help w/Spamassassin via apt-get

2003-11-29 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:51:18AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I have a Debian woody system at home installed via http. > > I apt-get'd exim, spamassassin, and uw-imap, but am having a heck of a > time trying to get spamassassin integrated with exim for proper spam > filtering/tagging. > > The

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Brian McGroarty
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:49:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. Do you have any other evidence of the LKM Trojan, beyond chkrootkit's output? I think you may just be looking at a bug that's not yet been worked out. N

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:54:55 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 07:01:20AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote > >> Incidentally, I don't know why you'd "blow away" your system just >> to do an upgrade. Obviously, if you do that, you're going to be >> reinstalling everything anyway. > >

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 05:49:31 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. > > Before reformating the hard drive and reinstalling Debian, started a dvd > backup using growisofs. > The backup of /usr was successful, backup of /var fa

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Thomas! On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:49:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. Wow, hold on, first check chkrootkit -x lkm and see whether the report only contains PID 3-6. If so then it's only a bug, see http://bugs.deb

Apache and PHP

2003-11-29 Thread James Hosken
I've just got apache running under testing and I want to know how I get PHP working, it doesn't seam to be enabled by default. Thanks in advance, regards James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Thomas H. George wrote: chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. Bug in chrootkit. Check Debian Bugs. Has been discussed here before. Before reformating the hard drive and reinstalling Debian, started a dvd backup using growisofs. The backup of /usr was succ

Re: X won't start

2003-11-29 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:36AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > Now that I have the networking fixed and sort of figured out the mouse > problem I'm ready to tackle X not starting. > > When I boot I get a couple of attempts for gdm to start. After that > fails there is an error message stating >

Re: Downside to Aptitude?

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
M. Kirchhoff wrote: I've recently started using aptitude from the console instead of apt-get for package management on my Woody systems. I find some of the features, like the ability to do a "--with-suggests", quite useful. It seems like Aptitude does a better job of handling dependencies as well

Re: shopping

2003-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Richard Kimber wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:05:45 + Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri 28 Nov 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: All I can think of:- 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies Radio Times 1 tin Crapso Olives Peregrino Water 1 box tonic Grab

Re: Setting text mode in the console

2003-11-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:31:10PM -, Cruncher wrote > Anybody know whether and how I can set text modes in the console? > I'm running woody, on a Pentium 200 with ATI Mach 64 chipset. > I've installed svgalib, svgatextmode and fbset but I can't see how > to change my text mode from 80x25. > >

Re: Apache and PHP

2003-11-29 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:23:32 + James Hosken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just got apache running under testing and I want to know how I > get PHP working, it doesn't seam to be enabled by default. > Thanks in advance, regards > James I don't see mention of it in your post, so I'll go ahe

Re: dcopserver errror

2003-11-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 02:15, jason pearl wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am having issues logging in to users other then root... it says cant start > and to make sure dcopserver is running.. i have looked all over the net for > ideas on how to fix this and i have r

Re: Apache and PHP

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello James! On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:42:41AM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:23:32 + James Hosken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just got apache running under testing and I want to know how I get PHP working, it doesn't seam to be enabled by default. Thanks in advance, regard

Re: python problem in unstable

2003-11-29 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 08:33, Alf Werder wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 14:21, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > On Saturday 29 November 2003 7:27 am, charlie derr wrote: > > ># apt-get remove python > > >(or maybe it was "apt-get remove python2.3") > > >Which will remove a lot of packages (paste the list to a

Re: icewm and windowmaker

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:26:59PM +, John Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > >On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:59:20PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > >>I don't really care, as it works, then again I don't think that editing > >>this file is advisable for the integrity of

Re: shopping

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:19:24AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Richard Kimber wrote: > >On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:05:45 + > >Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> > >>On Fri 28 Nov 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: > >> > >>>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: > >>

Re: Apt-get upgrade problems

2003-11-29 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:18:30 +0100, . . wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually > with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does > not upgrade anything. It gives: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree...

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help

2003-11-29 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 05:49:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. > Are you aware to, for example, the section titled `Running chkrootkit' of http://www.wiggy.net/debian/developer-securing? I don't know the answe

Re: Setting text mode in the console

2003-11-29 Thread Kevin Krumwiede
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:25:04 - "Joe Bosak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks - how do I that? Do I need to recompile the kernel, is this > something that goes into a configuration file? Or do I enter it at > the command prompt? > > I'm booting using lilo and running in command-line mode (

problem loading ide-scsi module

2003-11-29 Thread dooble M
hi everybody, I'm new on this list ! I'm runing with woody and i'm trying to use my ide cd-burner. Since I read that I need scsi emulation to make it work, I just recompiled my kernel (2.4.22 with make-kpkg) with sg, sr, ide-scsi, and without ide-cd, all as modules. My burner is hdd, so I added

Re: Downside to Aptitude?

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:12:28 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > So I installed aptitude. > It appears that > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > and > > aptitude dist-upgrade > > do exactly the same thing. Even look exactly alike... > No, they don't do exactly the same thing, or at least they didn't

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

2003-11-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 at 14:56 GMT, Roberto Sanchez penned: > > I don't see how this is an issue. I found out the same way I get all > my other news: from slashdot :-) > > -Roberto > I read slashdot, too, and I read it enough to realize that their stories are as often misinformation as news. --

Re: problem loading ide-scsi module

2003-11-29 Thread Alf Werder
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 22:02, dooble M wrote: > hi everybody, I'm new on this list ! > > I'm runing with woody and i'm trying to use my ide cd-burner. > Since I read that I need scsi emulation to make it work, I just > recompiled my kernel (2.4.22 with make-kpkg) with sg, sr, ide-scsi, and > with

Re: shopping

2003-11-29 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:19:41 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > My theory is it was the olives. Either way it sounds like its going to be a pretty big shopping bill, when you buy for one you have to buy for all -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

gconf gconf2 problem with Sarge

2003-11-29 Thread Glen Snyder
I've had a few hiccups lately with Sarge (on a linux box named tracer), that seem to be related to gconf and gconf2 which I first noticed when trying to start Galeon. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Glen Both gconf processes seem to be running: tracer:/home/glen# ps jaxwww

tuning the machine after a knoppix install... keyboard in X, sources.list and using

2003-11-29 Thread Joris Huizer
Because I wanted to upgrade the machine , to the latest woody , at first, I had to downgrade because I was using bunk packages . So I did, and it told me it needed to remove a lot of packages , which seemed fine ; Unfortunately, aptget also took away coreutils (which is not in woody) and nothin

Re: linux 2.6 & apt-get

2003-11-29 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 the mental interface of Martin Büchler told: > i'm sure that i'm not the first to experience this but i can't > find any info about this on the net. > > here's my problem: i'm running debian sid (up2date, did a > dist-upgrade from kernel 2.4) with kernel 2.6. everything works

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

2003-11-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:00:46PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:27:41AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > $ gpg --listkeys pecondon > > > > > Only --list-keys works here. The gpg version is 1.2.3. > > > > *SELF SIGN YOUR KEY*. > > > What is the impor

Re: linux 2.6 & apt-get

2003-11-29 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 the mental interface of Martin Büchler told: > i'm sure that i'm not the first to experience this but i can't > find any info about this on the net. > > here's my problem: i'm running debian sid (up2date, did a > dist-upgrade from kernel 2.4) with kernel 2.6. everything works

Re: Any news about python errors in unstable?

2003-11-29 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 the mental interface of J.S.Sahambi told: > Any news about python errors/dependency/conflicts in updating > unstable dist ? I catched python2.3_2.3.2-7 from http://incoming.debian.org and compiled it as a backport. Everything works fine but unfortunally I am not sure weth

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

2003-11-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:27:41AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 10:08:18PM -0700, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Where is the use of GnuPG within Mutt documented? > > I want to set up checking of signatures on emails > > to this list, but I don't find info.

Pacific Digital Mach52 CD-RW

2003-11-29 Thread alex
Could someone describe how to use the Pacific Digital Mach 53 CD-RW to copy or burn data cds in Debian? Pacific Digital support says this machine hasn't been tested in Linux.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tuning the machine after a knoppix install... keyboard in X, sources.list and using

2003-11-29 Thread Jacob S.
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 19:40:29 +0100 Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, its STILL a mess! in X, the keyboard seems to have some kind of > german setup I ve never seen before (and which wasnt there at all when > > booting with knoppix), the sources.list is one big mess of illegal > lin

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:55:59AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 04:34:43 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > Bernstein pays $500 for each verifiable security hole in qmail. > > Following the same premise as for Knuth, you should find this a > > similarly lucrative opportuni

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

2003-11-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I look at this email in mutt, I see some lines about PGP output that do > not come thru in the message copy above. These lines are: > > [-- PGP output follows (current time: Sat Nov 29 11:54:23 2003) --] > gpg: Signature made Sat Nov 29 03:27:41 200

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

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Paul! On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:00:49PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: When I look at this email in mutt, I see some lines about PGP output that do not come thru in the message copy above. These lines are: [-- PGP output follows (current time: Sat Nov 29 11:54:23 2003) --] gpg: Signature made

Re: gconf gconf2 problem with Sarge

2003-11-29 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:22:36 -0600, Glen Snyder wrote: > I've had a few hiccups lately with Sarge (on a linux box named tracer), > that seem to be related to gconf and gconf2 which I first noticed when > trying to start Galeon. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > Glen >

Re: Any news about python errors in unstable?

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Elimar! On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 07:54:10PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: I catched python2.3_2.3.2-7 from http://incoming.debian.org and compiled it as a backport. Everything works fine but unfortunally I am not sure wether these packages are faked from the Suckit's at the deb mirrors? Pl

Re: Possible LKM Trojan , Need Help - Thank You

2003-11-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:58:31AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 05:49:31 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > chkrootkit reported possible LKM Trojan. 4 processes hidden for ps command. > > > > Before reformating the hard drive and reinstalling Debian, started a dvd > > backu

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