Re: python/python2.3 circularity in unstable?

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Scott
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:54:19PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: | In a recent apt-get update/upgrade cycle on a machine running | unstable, I seem to have stumbled over an inconsistency. [...] | Errors were encountered while processing: | /var/cache/apt/archives/python_

Broken Galeon in Sarge

2003-11-25 Thread Thanasis Kinias
Greetings all, I don't know if this has to do with the Debian security situation, but the three Sarge boxes I apt-get updated yesterday all now have broken Galeons. Galeon refuses to execute, claiming that it can't find a gconf schema. I followed the instructions in the Galeon FAQ, but there are

Re: aspell with mutt

2003-11-25 Thread Jacob S.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:39:28 -0500 Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well that's too bad, why now, has the license changed from before? > > I happen to like Aspell much better, so hopefully you can clarify > what's the issue with the Aspell license. I'm afraid I'm not a wealth of knowledge he

Re: python/python2.3 circularity in unstable?

2003-11-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:54:19PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: | In a recent apt-get update/upgrade cycle on a machine running | unstable, I seem to have stumbled over an inconsistency. [...] | Errors were encountered while processing: | /var/cache/apt/archives/python_2.3.2-6_all.deb | /var/cache/

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:53:10PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | >Actually, yes. I did a straight copy-n-paste from my postfix | >configuration. Since both my postfix installation and exim use the | >same pcre implementation, the pattern is the same. Putting the | >pa

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-25 Thread Kent West
Wilko Fokken wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:00:32PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If you want to temporarily disable booting to xdm on your VT100 and revert to xdm once you get back the monitor, just disable the xdm startup from all levels. # u

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-25 Thread Terry Hancock
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 03:36 pm, Andreas von Heydwolff wrote: > There once was a free Linux port of PhotoPaint 9 from Corel running on > Corel Wine. It was buggy but I had it running quite nicely on my potato > system two years ago. I think it had import filters for CDR. > [...] > Why not g

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 11:06, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Replying to the message sent by Micha Feigin on Fri, 21 Nov 2003 > 15:43:49 +0200, received at 16:06:15 on 21/11/2003. Micha Feigin wrote: > >I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to > unload > >it I get a message: > >umo

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Morgan
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? Do a pwd on any open terminal sessions.

Re: usb mouse

2003-11-25 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, November 25 at 11:10 PM EST Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm having no luck in getting a USB Mouse to work... > >/etc/fstab reports: > >none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 > >On boot up into a Knoppix 2.4.20-xfs kernel I always >get... > >usb.c: registered new driver usbdev

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? Try with 'lsof | grep \/home\/micha\/tmp' a

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:37:58PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > Yeah sure, so YOU say. I use a Debian box to serve mail to windoze users. > > Thanks for your wisdom. Oh, in that case, if you had read the list archives, you would have found... http://ursin

Re: signed package information

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was just reading slashdot about the Debian distro and there was > some discussion about the md5 signature of packages. > > Is there some way that this (is already or can be) implimented by > default on package installations? It's largely a matter of the

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:27:46PM -0800 or thereabouts, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya stephen Howdy > more importantly... > - which antivirus sw works and how much for it and how much effort > to admin it ... and does it work .. and what slips by > > - list of antivirus apps >

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-25 Thread Lazar M Fleysher
If you do not like sudo switch to text consol with leftAlt+leftCntrl+F1 and do Alt+Cntrl+Del. Depending on your configuration it will do either shutdown or reboot. Change the configuration if you do not like the effect. Lazar On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at

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

2003-11-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:48:37AM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: > ... Why has there been no announcement on debian.org? There has. It's in the "News" section. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-25 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:00:32PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > "Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you want to temporarily disable booting to xdm on your VT100 and > > revert to xdm once you get back the monitor, just disable the xdm > > startup from all levels. > > > ># updat

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-25 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:33, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Clive Menzies (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote: > >> I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is > >> it possible? > >> > >> Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that does

sarge install availability

2003-11-25 Thread Tom Allison
Any suggestions as to when the next sarge installer might be available? I was happily testing it for about 4 hours before all heck broke loose in debian-ville. I'm looking forward to kicking the tires again. What I saw was pretty cool. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

dselect recommends removing 1258 packages, base-files, libc6

2003-11-25 Thread Jameson C. Burt
I am upgrading from potato to woody (in anticipation of sarge), having just upgraded my potato packages with the Debian potato archives, and with the potato security archives. I run dselect with the "apt" access method, I update the list of packages, and now I am in dselect's "2. [S]elect" I m

Re: aspell with mutt

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:39:39PM -0800 or thereabouts, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:57:22PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > What's the syntax to use to invoke aspell rather than ispell in ones > > muttrc? I've perused the fine manual, but I can't find an example of the > > syntax fo

Re: aspell with mutt

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:52:49PM -0600 or thereabouts, Jacob S. wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:57:22 -0500 > Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What's the syntax to use to invoke aspell rather than ispell in ones > > muttrc? I've perused the fine manual, but I can't find an example of > >

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 05:16:12PM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, > > and rather than download and install several, I would like to have > > actual user

Re: How to install BitTorrent on Woody?

2003-11-25 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael D. Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031125 11:10]: > I'd like to install BitTorrent on Woody, but it's not available in stable. > I think it's available in testing. Or does someone have a package built > for Woody? I need it for PowerPC. I think BitTorrent is written in > python, but

Re: building a tivo?

2003-11-25 Thread Tom
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:21:04PM -0600, Rob Benton wrote: > Last time I looked into Tivo it somehow downloaded a list of available > programs from the satellite/cable feed and kind of "grep-ed" on that for > things you were interested in. That would probably be the hardest part. > > On Fri, 200

Re: Importing Corel Draw

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Terry Hancock wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2003 01:07 am, Thanasis Kinias wrote: scripsit Luis Fernando Llana Díaz: I have some pictures made with Corel Draw. Is there any possibility of use them under Linux? There once was a free Linux port of PhotoPaint 9 from Corel running on Corel Wine.

Re: xemacs colorless in xterm

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 12:02, Matt Price wrote: > hey folks, > > some questios for emacs'ers > just recently switched to xemacs from emacs (see recent thread I > started, thanks to all for help). For the most part working well, but > when run in a terminal (through xemacs-nw or gnuclient -nw) xema

Re: compromised servers

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 10:00:26AM -0600, red wrote: > Does anyone know anything else about the Compromise of the security > servers? Again...subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you would have heard about it before they took murphy down. Check the arc

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, > and rather than download and install several, I would like to have > actual user feedback, on the pros/cons of any/eit

Re: easynet dnsbl

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 01:10:24AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/34841 > > They are shutting own 12/1/2003. > Recofigure your rbl list settings. Good. They've been considered harmful for mu

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-25 Thread Tom
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:33:57PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > In my experience, /opt and /usr/local have slightly different functions. > /opt would be used for vendor applications, etc., whereas /usr/local > would be used for locally built tools, etc. Adobe Acrobat and VMWare both install to /u

gconf2 - sid gnome won't start

2003-11-25 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi My kids use gnome which won't start. After entering appropriate details on the gdm screen and pressing enter the following message pops up: The files that contain your preference settings are currently in use. ... Do you want to continue They hit Continu

Re: how do I subscribe to debian-announce?

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:50:32AM -0500, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: > > I had previously used the web interface at lists.debian.org to get on > this debian mailing > list, but now that redirects me here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist > Should

Re: New Debian release

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:51:44PM +, Massimiliano Zagaglia wrote: > I'm reading that an update for Woody is online... will be new iso or I > have to download all the packages to upgrade my Debian machine at home? As always, you can just apt it.

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Rupa Schomaker
Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello: > > What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, > and rather than download and install several, I would like to have > actual user feedback, on the pros/cons of any/either. > > Thank-you. This was recently asked in the list

gconf2 - sid gnome won't start

2003-11-25 Thread Jonathan Wheelhouse
Hi My kids use gnome which won't start. After entering appropriate details on the gdm screen and pressing enter the following message pops up: The files that contain your preference settings are currently in use. ... Do you want to continue They hit Continu

Xterm and recognition of urls, html, php, etc

2003-11-25 Thread Michael W. Cole
I am using mutt with vim as the editor. I have seen where xterm was set up at one time where http://, html, php, asp, etc where recognized as to the type of information and the application that could use it. How do I go about setting this up for mutt, vim, xterm, etc? What do I need to read? Is

Re: building a tivo?

2003-11-25 Thread Rob Benton
Last time I looked into Tivo it somehow downloaded a list of available programs from the satellite/cable feed and kind of "grep-ed" on that for things you were interested in. That would probably be the hardest part. On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 15:57, Matt Price wrote: > Anyone out there built a tivo-li

Re: python/python2.3 circularity in unstable?

2003-11-25 Thread Roy Pluschke
On November 25, 2003 12:54 pm, Norman Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > In a recent apt-get update/upgrade cycle on a machine running > unstable, I seem to have stumbled over an inconsistency. > > # apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependen

w3m-ssl - howto?

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, my favorite browser is w3m but unfortunately I'm not able to get ssl certificates to work correctly under w3m. I have installed w3m-ssl (from woody) and set: ssl_ca_file /home/myhome/.w3m/ssl-ca.pem ssl_ca_path /home/myhome/.w3m/ ssl_key_file ssl_cert_file ssl_verify_server 1 ssl_forbid_meth

Re: ATA Controller

2003-11-25 Thread Linux
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:10:09 + John Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > Linux wrote: > > >Greetings all. I have a second IDE controller card installed in my > >system and am trying to get it to work under debian. > > > >Things that may be relevant: > > > >hda - 15g HD > >hdb - 20g H

Re: ATA Controller

2003-11-25 Thread Linux
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 00:10:09 + John Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: > Linux wrote: > > >Greetings all. I have a second IDE controller card installed in my > >system and am trying to get it to work under debian. > > > >Things that may be relevant: > > > >hda - 15g HD > >hdb - 20g H

Re: apt-getting source for my kernel

2003-11-25 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:53:49PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > I need to compile the nic driver for my Broadcom bcm4401. I have the > source but it needs the kernel source. I installed from disk 5 which > means I have kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I tried apt-getting > kernel-source-2.4.18-bf2.4 and was

Re: aspell with mutt

2003-11-25 Thread Bill Moseley
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:57:22PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > What's the syntax to use to invoke aspell rather than ispell in ones > muttrc? I've perused the fine manual, but I can't find an example of the > syntax for this function, as mutt assumes ispell by default. > set ispell="aspell -e -c" --

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Morgan
Edward Murrell wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:23, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I haven't come across packages that install into /opt. For source packages, I use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename and have "stow" handle the symlinking to /usr/local/bin, etc. The OpenOffice.org bi

Re: shutdown fails

2003-11-25 Thread Aaron D. Ball
Robin Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Potato on an ASUS A7N8X-DX motherboard locks up after...] > Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled I just built a machine with this same board this weekend and had the same problem with a fresh install of Sid. I was able to work aroun

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Edward Murrell said on Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 09:31:42AM +1300: > I've never understood the need for /opt/. Or more precisely, I've never > understood the need for /opt/ when you have /usr/local/, and in my > travels have yet to find any solid reasoning beyond what seems to be > that the first person

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-25 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 19:13, Dan Jacobson wrote: [...] > Let's pretend my monitor is being borrowed for a few days and being > replaced by a VT100, and I want to properly end all X processes and > revert to plain tty mode, without rebooting or editing any files. Well, if you _really_ mean you're g

usb mouse

2003-11-25 Thread Simon Tod
I'm having no luck in getting a USB Mouse to work... /etc/fstab reports: none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 On boot up into a Knoppix 2.4.20-xfs kernel I always get... usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:50:40 Nov

Re: Bad fonts after upgrade to X4.3

2003-11-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
- Original Message - From: "Bill Moseley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 6:55 PM Subject: Bad fonts after upgrade to X4.3 > I upgraded to X4.3 and now larger fonts are blocky. Look at the "Not > Found" at http://hank.org/images/blocky.png > >

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Actually, yes. I did a straight copy-n-paste from my postfix configuration. Since both my postfix installation and exim use the same pcre implementation, the pattern is the same. Putting the pattern into the exim configuration is an exercise left for the reader. (re

Re: aspell with mutt

2003-11-25 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:57:22 -0500 Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the syntax to use to invoke aspell rather than ispell in ones > muttrc? I've perused the fine manual, but I can't find an example of > the syntax for this function, as mutt assumes ispell by default. Why not stick with

Changing the default Gnome to KDE

2003-11-25 Thread James Hosken
Please could some some one tell me how I change the default graphics enviroment to be KDE rather than Gnome. Cheers James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Tyler Morgan
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload > it I get a message: > umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy > I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. > How do I see what is using that moun

ssh error "Authentication response too long: 1433299822"

2003-11-25 Thread Jameson C. Burt
SOLVED: I show below both the "ssh" problem that arose and its solution. I upgraded ssh to version 3.4p1-0.0potato1 from within Debian's potato distribution to get the final potato versions and security updates (before I upgrade to woody, and then to sarge, neither of which enters into this probl

Re: New Debian release

2003-11-25 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Massimiliano! On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:51:44PM +, Massimiliano Zagaglia wrote: I'm reading that an update for Woody is online... will be new iso or I have to download all the packages to upgrade my Debian machine at home? Well, yes, you will have to get /download the packages, one way

Re: Apt error in Debian/Sid with Python

2003-11-25 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello 'C Stefan'! On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 02:24:28PM +0200, C Stefan wrote: I have a Debian/Sid distrib and after an apt-update/apt-upgrade i`ve encounterred this error : [...] trying to overwrite /usr/share/doc/python2.3/python-policy.html', which is also in package python2.3 [...] Someone knows

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread mody
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:41:23AM -0600, red wrote: > All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen > > any ideas? Yes! Search themailling list archive! http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt Mody signature.asc Description: Digital signature

easynet dnsbl

2003-11-25 Thread Tom Allison
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/34841 They are shutting own 12/1/2003. Recofigure your rbl list settings. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installing CUPS

2003-11-25 Thread peted
Hello, How do I know if I have CUPS installed? Also, is there some type of configuration program for CUPS? I get an error message when I try to run the KDE Printer manager stating that it could not connect to the CUPS Server on localhost:631 Thank you in advance for the help. -- To UNSUBSC

python/python2.3 circularity in unstable?

2003-11-25 Thread Norman Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In a recent apt-get update/upgrade cycle on a machine running unstable, I seem to have stumbled over an inconsistency. # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded python py

Re: Debian and Ultra Ata 133 Controller

2003-11-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:06:53PM +, Stefan Lemsitzer wrote: > I want to install Debian on a Harddisc, which is plugged into an Ata 133 > Controller. Unfortunately the installation program doesn't recognize the > disc and asks for a floppy with additional drivers in directory "boot"... > Any

Re: root ext3 filesystem being mounted as ext2

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, Thanks for this. I am familiar with initrd images but never understood their purpose. Now I do :) This indeed was the problem: apparently the kernel did not have ext3 compiled into it nor did this particular system have an initrd to load the ext3 module before mounting the root file system.

RE: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread Preston Boyington
Title: RE: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop > >>In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 MHz > >>with 32 MB of RAM. I read of another choice called (if i remember correctly) XPed.  I am going to look this up myself over our holiday and see how well i

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread Bob Proulx
red wrote: > All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen > any ideas? > [...] > Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages > Could not connect to security.debian.org:80 (194.109.137.218). - > connect (111 Connection refused) > [...] > I would think that box would be redu

Re: dual-monitor window manager

2003-11-25 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday November 20 at 01:20pm David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Second, my WM of choice, enlightenment, seems to handle the monitors > > well. I have two identical desktop systems, and I can move through > > them independently. Example:

Re: memory not pro-actively marked free?

2003-11-25 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday November 20 at 04:25pm Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instead of doing shutdown, I did init 1, doing away with X windows, > etc. and in maintenance mode, I did top(1). However it reported > total memory usage still as high as ever. How might that be? Linux uses excess RA

issues when connecting to ISP with "pon" command.

2003-11-25 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Hello dear Debian fans. First, sorry if my english is not very correct. Here is my problem: Normally, I connect to my ISP trough kppp and a modem at /dev/ttyS0 perfectly without any problem. But recently I have also configured my ppp connection with the pppconfig configuration program. The pr

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread Nick Welch
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:41:23AM -0600, red wrote: > All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen > > any ideas? > > > Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Release > Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:80 (194.109.137.218). - connect > (111 Connection refused) > > I

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP & Debian Woody

2003-11-25 Thread Edward Murrell
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:23, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > I haven't come across packages that install into /opt. For source > > packages, I use ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/packagename > > and have "stow" handle the symlinking to /usr/local/bin, etc. > > > > > > The OpenOffice.org binary t

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread Thanasis Kinias
scripsit Kent West: > I, too, like icewm. It's got the Windows-like taskbar at the bottom > (or top, or hidden in either place) that shows the different apps you > have running, so switching between them is easy. (You'll want the > icepref package if you want to configure icewm, unless you want t

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 05:58:25 -0600, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very > little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the > moment has me at a bit of a loss as to

Re: NIC problem

2003-11-25 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:29:35PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:24:34AM +0100, Peter Samek wrote: > > > > If you grep /var/log/dmesg (or any logfile with boot messages) for eth0 > > or eth1, you should be able to find out. > > > > Example from my machine: > > > > $ g

Re: VERY IMPORTANT!

2003-11-25 Thread Ken
Your email has been forwarded to interpol and you have been tracked to your location. On Fri 14 Nov 2003 23:36, Clifford Sanusi wrote: > Hello, > I am Mr.Clifford sanusi, an Aide of Ex President > Charles Taylor. > As you may know he has recently stepped down > from power and is presently in assy

Re: Debian and Ultra Ata 133 Controller

2003-11-25 Thread Albert Dengg
Hi well, for starting: which kernel are you using 2.2 or bf2.4, and which ata133 controller are you talking about? yours Albert Dengg On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:06:53 GMT Stefan Lemsitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to install Debian on a Harddisc, which is plugged into an Ata > 133 Controll

Re: Which GCC version for kernels?

2003-11-25 Thread Paul Morgan
Davor Balder wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 12:54:21AM -0500, Kevin Krumwiede wrote: Should I be using GCC 3.x for building kernels on Woody? I'm using 2.95 and I keep getting errors like undefined symbols and modules not being built or installed. I've tried both 'make-kpkg kernel-image' and

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:06, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Replying to the message sent by Micha Feigin on Fri, 21 Nov 2003 > 15:43:49 +0200, received at 16:06:15 on 21/11/2003. Micha Feigin wrote: > >I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to > unload > >it I get a message: > >umo

Re: xterm ignores Xresources when run as x-terminal-emulator

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I set up some setting for xterm in .Xresources as > xterm.foreground=white > ... > when running xterm this works fine, when running x-terminal-emulater > when it is pointing to xterm this doesn't work and the same lines for > x-terminal-emulator doesn't s

recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
Hello: What virus scanner is the choice for most Debian users? I'm using Woody, and rather than download and install several, I would like to have actual user feedback, on the pros/cons of any/either. Thank-you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

aspell with mutt

2003-11-25 Thread Stephen
What's the syntax to use to invoke aspell rather than ispell in ones muttrc? I've perused the fine manual, but I can't find an example of the syntax for this function, as mutt assumes ispell by default. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Running SCO RM-COBOL under Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1

2003-11-25 Thread tallison
> > Hi all, I have received the task of doing a migration from a SCO Unix > server to a Debian GNU/Linux one, the only problem its a COBOL app that > is running on the SCO system, I have found information about > using SCO binaries under Linux, but it's quite old, does anyone have > recent informa

Re: Best Current Pratice Postgres upgrade 6.5-->7.2

2003-11-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 16:23, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 at 02:50 GMT, Henry Hollenberg penned: > > Hello, > > > > I have a database running on potato using postgres 6.5 that I'd like > > to upgrade to Woody running postgres 7.2. ... > I believe the install notes say, somewhere,

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:41:23AM -0600, red wrote: > All, Im getting this from many of my my deb boxen > > any ideas? > > Err http://non-us.debian.org unstable/non-US/contrib Release > Could not connect to non-us.debian.org:80 (194.109.137.218). - connect > (111 Connection refused) I suspe

Re: Any tool for access NTFS partition of damaged hard drive

2003-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 06:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > I have a hard drive that is damaged and the BIOS can't recognize it. Could I > access using some tool of Linux? I'm only interested in one file. Is the > .pst file where Outlook saves the mail, it's a very large file but I would > be

signed package information

2003-11-25 Thread Tom Allison
I was just reading slashdot about the Debian distro and there was some discussion about the md5 signature of packages. Is there some way that this (is already or can be) implimented by default on package installations? I didn't know about this and would like to know more if I could. Thanks. -

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:02:49 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: us-ascii, 15 lines --] > > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 10:59:00 -0500, Stephen wrote: >>>What antivirus agent have given good results with Stable & Exim3? >

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? # lsof /home/micha/tmp -- AvH -- To UNSU

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas von Heydwolff
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? # lsof /home/micha/tmp -- AvH -- To UNSU

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Micha Feigin wrote: When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one that did work. Any idea? Check if the shell scripts are in dos form

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? Try with 'lsof | grep \/home\/micha\/tmp' a

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:43:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload > it I get a message: > umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy > I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. > How do I see wha

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Micha Feigin wrote: I mounted an image through a loop interface and now when I try to unload it I get a message: umount: /home/micha/tmp: device is busy I made sure no file is open from there but nothing helps. How do I see what is using that mount point? lsof /home/micha/tmp pgp0.pgp Descr

Re: hmm debian.org..?

2003-11-25 Thread Christian Schnobrich
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 14:49, smurfd wrote: > Have a little faith in the debian folks! > I sure do! > What i dont trust, is some one claiming such things, and not having a > @debian.org mailadress :) Me too. On top of that, I won't trust any email in this matter (as I don't know how to check the

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Xavier Andrade
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Micha Feigin wrote: > When I try to run shell scripts from cdrom I get the following message: > bash: ./INSTALLDOCS.SH: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied > I got this with several bash scripts and in fact, I don't remmember one > that did work. Any idea? > The cdrom

Re: antivirus recomendation?

2003-11-25 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:10:16 +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:14:41 -0700, > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 at 21:12 GMT, Arnt Karlsen penned: >> > >> > ..other wintendo compiler and virus signatures, a

Re: apt-get update not working properly 11/21/03

2003-11-25 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 17:41, red wrote: > any ideas? http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CTRL+ALT+Backspace will kill the X-server

2003-11-25 Thread David Z Maze
"Sridhar M.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want to temporarily disable booting to xdm on your VT100 and > revert to xdm once you get back the monitor, just disable the xdm > startup from all levels. > ># update-rc.d -f xdm remove > > After you get back the monitor, > ># update-rc.

Re: X Won't Start

2003-11-25 Thread Kent West
Mark Healey wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 07:44:14 -0600, Kent West wrote: Mark Healey wrote: Appearantly I have no gpm. I was surprised when I had no text mode mouse but figured that it was something I could use. Is this somethihg I might be able to install? Yes. "apt-get install gpm". Did that,

Bad fonts after upgrade to X4.3

2003-11-25 Thread Bill Moseley
I upgraded to X4.3 and now larger fonts are blocky. Look at the "Not Found" at http://hank.org/images/blocky.png I've listed below my files section. I used dpkg-reconfigure to create a new XF86Config-4 file from the 4.3 package (assuming that the configure script would best know how to configure

Re: scsi emulation for CD burner

2003-11-25 Thread marcos
Gregory K. Johnson a écrit : I got an error much like this a few days ago while updating my kernel. I stayed up late looking into and found: * It's a known bug, #213663.[1] * The changelog for the upstream 2.4.23-rc2 kernel release says: "Fix ide-scsi initialization lockup (kudos to Alan)

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