Programming-Question

2003-09-25 Thread dmw256
Hallo, I´ve an programming-question and would be very happy, if you can help me or tell me, where I can find information relating to this or who I could ask. Thanks a lot! I´d like to know, if Debian (or Linux in general) uses BIOS-functions for hard drive-acces on 386+ system or if it has it´s o

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for my OS > has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the partition. > I don't really want to allocate any more space to the OS as I'm sure there > must

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-25 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 03:44, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I favor this approach over simple applications of violence, such as > using an axe on any computer infected by a virus. Why punish the hardware for what is clearly a wetware problem? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed messa

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: [snip] > a little to liberally in the past!). How can I find out the sizes of the > packages and try to establish what I can remove without disaster. I tried > using deborphan to do this but it didn't even put a dent in my 100% full > v

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Jonathan Oxer
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 07:34, Andrew Lyon wrote: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for my OS > has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the partition. > I don't really want to allocate any more space to the OS as I'm sure there > must be stuff ther

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi! (This question actually belongs to debian-user, but the heck with it) Am 2003-09-23 22:34 +0100 schrieb Andrew Lyon: > How can I find out the sizes of the packages apt-cache show will print a field 'Size: xxx' which shows the installed size in bytes (IIRC). For your purpose it may be mor

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Bruce Stephens
Andrew Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for > my OS has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the > partition. I don't really want to allocate any more space to the OS > as I'm sure there must be stuff there that I

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-25 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:53:16PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > The list of hardware required to stop this spam unfortunately seems to > include a time machine. Just because you can't afford one... Another (cheaper) solution though would be to pull the plug ;-). There! No more spam problems!

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:34:31PM +0100, Andrew Lyon wrote: > Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for my OS > has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the partition. Try to start with "du -sk /var/* | sort -n" and "du -sk /usr/{lib,share}/* | sort -n"

The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Andrew Lyon
Hello, Since installing Debian in May the amount of disk space required for my OS has risen from 1.5GB to 3GB and has reached the limit of the partition. I don't really want to allocate any more space to the OS as I'm sure there must be stuff there that I do not need or use (I admit to running d

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-25 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 01:48, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Mike Hommey dijo [Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:28:44AM +0200]: > > Maybe I'm wrong, but I think an MTA rejecting a mail because of oversized > > body doesn't have to get the whole body before rejectin

Re: Re: Building kernel modules for stock kernels is a hell of a job!

2003-09-25 Thread Manuel Bilderbeek
Hello, Kernel 2.4.22 got into testing, so I have to go to the procedure again. #include * Manuel Bilderbeek [Sun, Aug 24 2003, 04:32:45PM]: The procedure I'm going through is as follows (being root all the time) 1) install the kernel source for the kernel, e.g. kernel-source-2.4.21 2) go to /usr/s

Limit on the number of users in a group?

2003-09-25 Thread Ondrej Hrebicek
Hi, when a group in /etc/group contains over a 100 members, chgrp stops functioning properly when a numeric group ID is passed as an argument. Providing a group name as an argument works correctly in all cases. However, when the 100+ member group exists in /etc/group, providing a

Re: Debian RC System/Init Scripts

2003-09-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Jerry Haltom wrote: > My goal in monkeying with the init system is to clean it up a bit, and > perhaps develop my own parallel service startup method. Albiet, a bit > less than other distros like Gentoo, as no Debian init script declares > dependencies. Read the init scripts p

The Good Year

2003-09-25 Thread 2190134961
Tel Aviv, 27 in Septembre 2,003 1 Rajab 1,423, Rosh HaShana 5,764. Exit to Freedom Madam, Sir, This document tackles the problems of economic and security risks you are confronted with everyday. Previous versions of that document have been released before today. I have to apologise for one mist

Re: killing virus e-mails with file types

2003-09-25 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
> I do it in an even simpler way (keep in mind I don't really have bandwidth > limitations). I have my mail filter (kmail) set up so it trashes any mail > message with the string ".exe", ".pif", ".bat", or ".scr". That's good method I think, unless someone sends you .exe which you want to receive

Re: Debian should not modify the kernels!

2003-09-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Sep-03, 14:14 (CDT), Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a well accepted fact among kernel developers that vanilla > kernel.org kernels should not be used by end users. Debian has to patch > the kernel, too. There isn't much choice. Agreed, but there's a significant differenc

killing virus e-mails with file types

2003-09-25 Thread Craig P. Steffen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Martin Pitt mentioned here, you can filter on the file types of attachments to e-mails to eliminate the "Microsoft Upgrade" e-mail attachments. I do it in an even simpler way (keep in mind I don't really have bandwidth limitations). I have my

Bug#212740: ITP: irate -- Collaborative filtering mp3 downloader & player

2003-09-25 Thread Andrew Lau
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name: irate Version : 0.2-8 Upstream Author : Anthony Jones * URL : http://irate.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : Collaborative filtering mp3 downloader & pl

Demande de STAGE

2003-09-25 Thread to0ks
Bonjour. Je suis acctuellement en BTS informatique IRIS, dans le quel en fin d'année j'aurait un stage de 4 semaine a effectuer dans une entreprise dans le domaine de l'informatique. Utilisant debian en cour pour l'apprentissage du systeme linux et commencant a apprendre le language C, j'aura

Bug#212729: ITP: gtkatlantic -- game like monopoly

2003-09-25 Thread Julien Delange
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-25 Severity: wishlist * Package name: gtkatlantic Version : 0.2.13 Upstream Author : Rochet Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gtkatlantic.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : game like

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing offerret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-25 Thread Brian White
> The queue daemon can no longer handle PGP 2.x keys; I don't know why > and since a) the number of developers still using these kind of keys > for uploads can be counted on the fingers of a mutilated hand, b) > there are alternative methods of uploads available to the few who do, > c) queued is in

Re: How to include symlinks to conffiles in a package?

2003-09-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:42:54 +0200 (CEST), Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:27:26 +0200 >Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is example code available to imitate conffile handling? > >man dh_link ;-) No. That doesn't solve the problem when the target is a co

Re: How to include symlinks to conffiles in a package?

2003-09-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:27:26PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:32:35 +1000, Anthony Towns > wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:50:04AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> Is there a recommended way to handle this? > >Yeah: don't ship symlinks in the package; generate them later.

Bug#211014: initscripts: Do not remove /var/un/brltty.pid

2003-09-25 Thread Mario Lang
Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:17:37, Mario Lang wrote: >> Package: initscripts >> Version: 2.85-7 >> Severity: minor >> Tags: patch >> >> Package brltty needs to use a pid-file mechanism for >> start-stop-daemon, since automatic restarting on upgrade

Re: Rotation of /var/log/mail.log

2003-09-25 Thread Stefan Hornburg
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:26:22 -0400 (EDT) Richard A Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:45:11 +0100 > > Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:18:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:14:47PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-20 07:37]: > > > Neither SCP nor anonymous-FTP methods work and I want to get that > > > fixed. > > > > > > SSH works. SCP doesn't. > > > > Well, it works for ever

Re: How to include symlinks to conffiles in a package?

2003-09-25 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:27:26 +0200 Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is example code available to imitate conffile handling? man dh_link ;-) -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** : :' : Arnaud Vandyck `. `' http://alioth.debian.org/users/arnaud-guest/ `-http://alioth.debian.

x48

2003-09-25 Thread Hans Fugal
Does anyone remember x48? It's an HP48 CPU emulator. It used to be packaged for debian, but was orphaned. In order to do any emulation it needs a ROM, which you can download from your HP48 over the serial line. You can also get ROMs from [1]. "HP graciously began allowing this to be downloaded in

Bug#212704: ITP: inti-gl -- GtkGLExt bindings for Inti

2003-09-25 Thread Goedson Teixeira Paixao
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-25 Severity: wishlist * Package name: inti-gl Version : 0.9.0 Upstream Author : Jeff Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://inti.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Description : GtkGLExt bindings for I

Re: Resolvconf -- a package to manage /etc/resolv.conf

2003-09-25 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 07:29, Jerry Haltom wrote: > Are there plans to run "up" commands in interfaces after > dns-nameservers? That would be desirable. It would require a change to the ifupdown package. > Also, this may seem a LITTLE bit silly, but can dns-domainnames be > provided with a name,

Re: How to include symlinks to conffiles in a package?

2003-09-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:32:35 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: >On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:50:04AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Is there a recommended way to handle this? > >Yeah: don't ship symlinks in the package; generate them later. Is example code available to imitate conffile handling? Greetings

Re: How to include symlinks to conffiles in a package?

2003-09-25 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:50:04AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Is there a recommended way to handle this? Yeah: don't ship symlinks in the package; generate them later. > I'd like to avoid shipping > a symlink list file and to generate the links in postinst. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL

Re: Resolvconf -- a package to manage /etc/resolv.conf

2003-09-25 Thread Jerry Haltom
Are there plans to run "up" commands in interfaces after dns-nameservers? Some of my up commands, and probably others, consist of setting up static routes to other boxes. It is nice to be able to specify these other boxes by name, and have it resolved using the name servers set up by the resolvconf

How to include symlinks to conffiles in a package?

2003-09-25 Thread Marc Haber
[repost from -mentors, where nobody answered] Hi, I am currently working on a package that needs to mimic sysvinit's symlink farm. I have a bunch of scripts put into /etc/network/if.d which are in turn symlinked to /etc/network/if-$NAME.d for different values of $NAME. I'd like to have the symli

Re: libdtdparser-java_1.21-4_i386.changes REJECTED

2003-09-25 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:52:38 -0400 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > You need to bump the version number of the .orig.tar.gz, e.g > libdtdparser-java_1.21a.orig.tar.gz or something (just make sure it's > lower than your next real upstream version number). Good idea

Bug#212676: ITP: ulex -- OCaml lexer generator with Unicode support

2003-09-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-25 Severity: wishlist * Package name: ulex Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Alain Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cduce.org/download/ulex-0.2.tar.gz * License : LGPL Description : OCaml lexe

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Steve Lamb wrote: > What would help is to be able to block an IP once it's been hit. That won't work for people who have a secondary MX record. I've set up a second mailer which simply rejects everything (one that speaks correct SMTP... :-/ ), and the source addresses which flood me wit

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 04:53:16PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > A pure MTA solution would still need to scan the body and thus would > > still eat your bandwidth. > > i have postfix's body_checks setup to reject lines that match the > following regular expression (

Bug#212049: AntiVirus Alert!

2003-09-25 Thread AntiVirus Xnet
Fisierul (part0004:Install53.exe) atasat email-ului trimis de catre [EMAIL PROTECTED] pentru [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROT

Bug#212028: AntiVirus Alert!

2003-09-25 Thread AntiVirus Xnet
Fisierul (part:)->(IFRAME) atasat email-ului trimis de catre [EMAIL PROTECTED] pentru [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PRO

Re: killing virus e-mails with file types

2003-09-25 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:20:22PM -0500, Craig P. Steffen wrote: > I assume .scr is an extension for windows scripts? Nah, it is an extension meant for SCReen-savers. Technically, they are just renamed .exe's, but many people that do know that executable attachments are dangerous don't know that

Re: What does 3 mean? 2.4.20-3-k7

2003-09-25 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Please use debian-user@lists.debian.org for that kind of questions. On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:22:00PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > 2.4.20 is the Linux kernel version. k7 means optimise for > Athlon. What does 3 mean? It is the fourth binary-incompatible (as far as modules are concerned, not us

killing virus e-mails with file types

2003-09-25 Thread Craig P. Steffen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Martin Pitt mentioned here, you can filter on the file types of attachments to e-mails to eliminate the "Microsoft Upgrade" e-mail attachments. I do it in an even simpler way (keep in mind I don't really have bandwidth limitations). I have my