Re: firewall -- best practices

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Please don't top post, it's difficult to read, and breaks readily quoting a conversation for other people. Your editor places the cursor at the top expecting you to edit from the top down, not just leave the full text of the original message at the end. On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:54:01PM +0100, W

Re: Package Depedency Problems/Conficts

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:54:09AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Actually, unstable updates at 19:52 UTC (or 20:52 UTC if auric is on > daylight savings time). UTC does not observe DST, hence Pacific Time being -0700 or -0800 depending what time of year it is. In a perfect world, the US would pull

Re: [SOLVED] procmail dilemma ?!?!

2003-02-20 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I stared at this and stared at this for hours on end. Voila! Also sprach Michael D. Schleif (Thu 20 Feb 02003 at 09:49:17PM -0600): > > OK > == > Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Brian Tracy International" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > NOT > === > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Feb 20 15:45

Re: xchat & python?

2003-02-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:44:37 -0600 "Scott C. Linnenbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't, most likely due to incompatability between 1.8.x and 2.0.x. I do > know that the Python interface in x-chat has been radically changed in the > new version architecture, so that could be your probl

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:59:02PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > IMO, this is a real shame... I always used host for 1-shot lookups > and nslookup for deeper troubleshooting or when I wanted an > interactive interface for some other reason. host(1) does everything that nslookup(1) did, but doe

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:25:02AM -0600, DvB wrote: > According to the "search contents of packages" utility at > packages.debian.org it's in the dnsutils package in testing (and also > zsh, apparently). You can achieve the same results using apt-file search -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-20 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:37:06AM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: > which device should I use in /dev (sda? or sdb? ... ) whichever one mounts :) if you want to take a sneak peak, do file -s /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1, and if it says something about a vfat parition or an x86 boot sector, that's the one.

exim trouble with DB file...

2003-02-20 Thread Will Trillich
since late december, exim has had trouble with "retry" and "wait-remote_smtp" files in /var/spool/exim/db. i get this daily in my cron reports--and i'm not sure where to fix it (or if it needs fixing): /etc/cron.daily/exim: failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: Invalid

Re: tunnelling -- best practices

2003-02-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:44:37AM -0500, jereme wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system > > I always thought this was an *excellent* footer. "...like spending five years learning to configure it." sure, it does

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: >-- Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >(on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 09:27 PM -0600): >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:43:29AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> >> If only that were true. Every page I produce is 100% W3C compliant. >> >> Th

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:44:19AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > I have been unable to locate this utility. The more I look, the sillier > I feel. Wasn't this in some util pkg? The closest I've come is > ptknslookup in the ptknettools pkg. I'd prefer non X. bind9-host. I think it's in sarge...

Re: OT: Eudora/Mac 5.x users needed

2003-02-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:50:18PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.20.0921 +0100]: > > have you been able to get the ssl running with exim? i'm still > > trying to tackle getting the tls/ssl feature going... > > I am using postfix and it was a

Re: sniffing SSL (was OT: mod_ssl (apache) log entries -- wtf?)

2003-02-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:45:59PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Is there an easy way to decode a snarfed SSL session given > that he has the server's private key? Theoretically it's > possible, but I wonder if any of the popular sniffing/IDS > tools facilitate it. but the odd part is, they didn't

Re: /var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Thread Nick Hastings
* Dana J. Laude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030221 14:47]: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:39:11PM -0500 or thereabouts, Richard Beri wrote: > > My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages > > alone is almost 500 meg. Is is safe to delete these files (I don't] > > need to read any b

Re: Free fonts

2003-02-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 07:11:26AM -0900, Christopher Swingley wrote: > * Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-Feb-19 23:30 AKST]: > > xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont > > > > ...and i thought all would be lovely. sadly, my font menu > > didn't change, even after restarting (and the sto

Re: procmail dilemma ?!?!

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Wardle
On Friday, February 21, 2003 16:12, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach Michael Wardle (Fri 21 Feb 02003 at 03:16:51PM +1100): > > On Friday, February 21, 2003 14:49, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > I have a problem with procmail processing one source of my > > > emails. [...] > > * ^From:.*b

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Actually, no. The regular whiptail and slang1 are installed. However, I removed whiptail and modconf and then reinstalled them and now the proper behavior is present. I am not sure what might have happened here except that in the installation using a current woody CD, the user who initially set

Re: /var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Richard Beri wrote: > > My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages alone is almost >500 meg. Is is safe to delete these files (I don't need to read any back error >messages). My syslog is also reaching 500 meg ais that safe to be deleted. Will they >be auto-created

Re: /var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Thread Dana J. Laude
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:39:11PM -0500 or thereabouts, Richard Beri wrote: > My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages > alone is almost 500 meg. Is is safe to delete these files (I don't] > need to read any back error messages). My syslog is also reaching 500 > meg

Re: procmail dilemma ?!?!

2003-02-20 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Michael Wardle (Fri 21 Feb 02003 at 03:16:51PM +1100): > On Friday, February 21, 2003 14:49, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > I have a problem with procmail processing one source of my emails. > > [...] > > > :0 > > * ^From:.+\ *[<]Brian_Tracy_Newsletters@braintracy\.com[>] > > companies

Re: /var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Thread Richard Hector
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:23:05PM -0700, Andreas J Guelzow wrote: > Richard Beri wrote: > > >My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages alone > > you may want to install logrotate, that will rotate those log files for you. Um - doesn't hte existence of messages.0 indi

Re: Burning cd's makes the computer really really slow

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Waters
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:43 +, cirrus wrote: > Ok I know the answer is somewhere out there but can't seem to find it. > I've got a 48x speed cd-recorder and whenever I start writing a cd, cpu usage > goes up to 100%(well almost 100%, can't even play an ogg file properly). > Grabbing a copy o

Re: Burning cd's makes the computer really really slow

2003-02-20 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 06:45 PM -0800): > > hi ya cirrus > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, cirrus wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Ok I know the answer is somewhere out there but can't seem to find it. > > I've got a 4

Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

2003-02-20 Thread John Schmidt
On Thursday 20 February 2003 8:58 pm, J.F.Gratton wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:27, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > /etc/modules is used by Debian to manually add modules the > > user/sysadmin wishes to load at boot time. After adding them, you > > then run 'update-modules' as root, which re

Re: How to duplicate a CD?

2003-02-20 Thread Robert Storey
On 20 Feb 2003 16:16:27 + Shri Shrikumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 03:41, stan wrote: > > I posted this a few months agoa, and got an answer involving cdparnoia, and > > cdrecord. But I sem to have lost the emails, and I can't seem to get the > > mailing list archive s

Re: /var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Wardle
On Friday, February 21, 2003 13:39, Richard Beri wrote: > My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages > alone is almost 500 meg. Is is safe to delete these files (I don't > need to read any back error messages). My syslog is also reaching > 500 meg ais that safe to be del

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Robert Storey
>On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: > >I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use I know this is cheating, but what happens when you boot the machine with a Knoppix CD? - Robert Storey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: /var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Thread Jacob S .
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:39:11 -0500 Richard Beri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages > alone is almost 500 meg. Is is safe to delete these files (I don't > need to read any back error messages). My syslog is also reaching 500 > meg ais

offtopic (need your advice)

2003-02-20 Thread Tim locke
hi, Hoping someone can lend advice.I am looking for an application that would restrict/allow access to a single website for dialup users. (i.e. they will be able to "visit" the site on their office but not at "home", however, their office uses dialup so that makes it harder to base it on their ip

Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

2003-02-20 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Russell Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, 22 February 2003, 01:59 AM +1100): > Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > >-- J.F.Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >(on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 09:53 PM -0500): > > > >>I might be using workarounds or not using my system effeciently but ...

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 09:27 PM -0600): > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:43:29AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > >> If only that were true. Every page I produce is 100% W3C compliant. > >> That's not enough. In the area of CSS al

Re: /var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Thread Andreas J Guelzow
Richard Beri wrote: My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages alone is almost 500 meg. Is is safe to delete these files (I don't need to read any back error messages). My syslog is also reaching 500 meg ais that safe to be deleted. Will they be auto-created again?

Re: procmail dilemma ?!?!

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Wardle
On Friday, February 21, 2003 14:49, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > I have a problem with procmail processing one source of my emails. [...] > :0 > * ^From:.+\ *[<]Brian_Tracy_Newsletters@braintracy\.com[>] > companies/t/brian_tracy/current/ > > :0 > * ^Return-path:\ [<]Brian_Tracy_Newsletters@briant

Re: Burning cd's makes the computer really really slow

2003-02-20 Thread cirrus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. On Friday 21 Feb 2003 2:45 am, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya cirrus > i'd bet that you need to have your cdrw on one ide cable and your > system disk on a different cable .. The cdrw is on a different ide cable from my system drive. > > and you wou

Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

2003-02-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- J.F.Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 09:53 PM -0500): I might be using workarounds or not using my system effeciently but I've never had to tamper with /etc/modules.conf. All I did so far to get modules to load and to work

Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

2003-02-20 Thread J.F.Gratton
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:27, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > /etc/modules is used by Debian to manually add modules the user/sysadmin > wishes to load at boot time. After adding them, you then run > 'update-modules' as root, which reads this, as well as some files in > /etc/modutils/, to *create*

/var/log/messages

2003-02-20 Thread Richard Beri
My /var/log/messages and messages.0 are getting very large. messages alone is almost 500 meg. Is is safe to delete these files (I don't need to read any back error messages). My syslog is also reaching 500 meg ais that safe to be deleted. Will they be auto-created again? Thanks -- To UNSUB

procmail dilemma ?!?!

2003-02-20 Thread Michael D. Schleif
I have a problem with procmail processing one source of my emails. Following recipes work as expected with header of the OK-variety; but, neither work with the NOT-variety. What do you think? :0 * ^From:.+\ *[<]Brian_Tracy_Newsletters@braintracy\.com[>] companies/t/brian_tracy/current/ :0 * ^R

Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

2003-02-20 Thread Russell Shaw
J.F.Gratton wrote: Good evening, I might have missed that one, concerning /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and modutils.. What does what in there ? I might be using workarounds or not using my system effeciently but I've never had to tamper with /etc/modules.conf. All I did so far to get m

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-20 Thread Dai Yuwen
sean finney wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:00:20PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: Conclusion: To use this USB flash disk, just install these 3 modules: sg usb-storage usb-uhci excellent :) question: if you plug yours in and unplug it, and then plug it in again, is it still /dev/sda? every time

Re: cache for packages

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Please turn your line wraps on to something around 72 columns. Your paragraphs came in on one line each. On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:43:02PM +1000, Alan E.Davis wrote: > I have four or five machines running linux on our local network. > Can someone point me to the easy instructions for setting up

Re: /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

2003-02-20 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- J.F.Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 09:53 PM -0500): > I might be using workarounds or not using my system effeciently but > I've never had to tamper with /etc/modules.conf. > > All I did so far to get modules to load and to work was to put them into > /et

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:43:29AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> If only that were true. Every page I produce is 100% W3C compliant. >> That's not enough. In the area of CSS alone, IE for Windows is not >> compliant, while IE for Mac is. > >So slap the appropriate W3C compl

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Carlo U. Segre wrote: > whiptail: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.1-UTF8: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Perhaps a dependency is wrong but I don't understand the "-UTF8" on my > other working machines there is no such library. Seems to me you may

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-20 Thread Rodrigo Sobrinho
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 14:19:50 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To search for package names hit '/' followed by characters. It > interactively searches for a match anywhere in the package name > string. If it hasn't found what you want hit return to save the > search string and the

/etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and others

2003-02-20 Thread J.F.Gratton
Good evening, I might have missed that one, concerning /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf and modutils.. What does what in there ? I might be using workarounds or not using my system effeciently but I've never had to tamper with /etc/modules.conf. All I did so far to get modules to load and t

Re: Burning cd's makes the computer really really slow

2003-02-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya cirrus On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, cirrus wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ok I know the answer is somewhere out there but can't seem to find it. > I've got a 48x speed cd-recorder and whenever I start writing a cd, cpu usage > goes up to 100%(well almost 100%, can't

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Gary Turner wrote: >I have been unable to locate this utility. The more I look, the sillier >I feel. Wasn't this in some util pkg? The closest I've come is >ptknslookup in the ptknettools pkg. I'd prefer non X. Many thanks to all who answered. I installed dnsutils (which means I wasn't total

Re: xchat & python?

2003-02-20 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Thursday 20 February 2003 06:07 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > Has anyone been able to get any python script working with xchat? I haven't, most likely due to incompatability between 1.8.x and 2.0.x. I do know that the Python interface in x-chat has been radically changed in the new version arc

Re: Replicating a system... sort of

2003-02-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Paul M Foster wrote: I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one on my desk. (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious when I have to pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a Woody, but the system I'm setting up is testing. I have a list of packages th

Re: DHCP/DNS assistance

2003-02-20 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:02:17PM -0800, Russell Zauner wrote: > Hi, > Apologies in advance for long post [snip, snip - a lot of it lost in this reply I'm afraid... - slight reformatting done too] ... > Some says that DHCP can handle DNS forwarding and requests, routing, > WINS and netBIOS, and a

Re: module configuration

2003-02-20 Thread Russell Shaw
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi I've just installed the alsa drivers for my emu10k1 SBLive card and I have 2 problems: 1. when I reboot, the system first loads the "emu10k1" kernel module before everything else so the alsa modules doesn't load. as a workaround I've renamed

Re: Burning cd's makes the computer really really slow

2003-02-20 Thread Hall Stevenson
* cirrus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030220 21:08]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ok I know the answer is somewhere out there but can't seem to find it. > I've got a 48x speed cd-recorder and whenever I start writing a cd, cpu usage > goes up to 100%(well almost 100%, can't even

Re: *tex: personal ls-R being owned by root

2003-02-20 Thread Andreas J Guelzow
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.20.0028 +0100]: Something's clearly setuid root. Figure out what it is and file a bug for not dropping privileges appropriately. I searched all over / (find / -perm +4000) but could not find anything TeX related. I

Re: HELP_NEWBIE! Dns under kde

2003-02-20 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Paolo Albanesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030221 10:22]: > Hi all! > I'm a very new linux user, and i have a single problem: > I'm trying to configure my network, but in kde is impossible. > In the official user-manual there is a command line to do it : > /usr/bin/ network-configlet-capplet > b

Re: thumbnail+web page tool in woody?

2003-02-20 Thread Nick Hastings
* Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030221 09:03]: > Hi all. > > Some users are asking for tools that will take a batch of image files, > thumbnail them, and write out the HTML suitable for posting the whole > thing as a set of links to the original images. > > I'm sure there are probably half a

Burning cd's makes the computer really really slow

2003-02-20 Thread cirrus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok I know the answer is somewhere out there but can't seem to find it. I've got a 48x speed cd-recorder and whenever I start writing a cd, cpu usage goes up to 100%(well almost 100%, can't even play an ogg file properly). Grabbing a copy of cdrtools-2

Re: thumbnail+web page tool in woody?

2003-02-20 Thread Peter Hicks
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:21:56PM -0600, Michael Jinks wrote: >Hi all. > >Some users are asking for tools that will take a batch of image files, >thumbnail them, and write out the HTML suitable for posting the whole >thing as a set of links to the original images. > >I'm sure there are probably ha

Re: bogomips ?

2003-02-20 Thread Anand Kumria
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:05:24AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi. > A little question: programme `linux_logo' show 1264.84 Bogomips Total on my system, > but `bogomips' - 634.00 BogoMips. Why do these values be different? Possibly you have a dual-CPU machine since 634*2 ~= 1264. Cat /proc/cpuinfo f

Re: ipchains -> iptables converter?

2003-02-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Narins, Josh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030220 11:51]: > > I spent a good amount of time with my old 2.2.x ipchains firewall. > > Because it was a laptop, it included different start scripts based on 10.x > or 192.x or static IPs (I seem to recall) > > I liked it. It was very nicely formatted (no t

Re: File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-20 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:51:36AM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > ...(see this page, > > http://www.zip.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html, for full info), etc, > > ... > > Is anyone else having trouble accessing that page (unknown host)? .au operates a three-level domain he

Re: apt sources

2003-02-20 Thread alex
Thanks all. I finally got things straightened out...there were a few typos in the original document and I made a few trial and error runs on them and now have them working. alex wrote: I'm having a problem understanding the architecture of apt sources and have difficulty in getting packages with

Re: mutt: read-thread vs. delete-thread ???

2003-02-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030220 09:02]: > > I want delete-thread and read-thread to behave identically; but, they do > not. > > When I am in the pager, \cd marks the current thread deleted and > positions the indicator on the next message after that thread. > > When I am in the

HELP_NEWBIE! Dns under kde

2003-02-20 Thread Paolo Albanesi
Hi all! I'm a very new linux user, and i have a single problem: I'm trying to configure my network, but in kde is impossible. In the official user-manual there is a command line to do it : /usr/bin/ network-configlet-capplet but doesn't work. Maybe i miss something, i don't know. There's anothere

Re: vim macro|bind

2003-02-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:14:28AM +, Hugh Saunders wrote: | how would one bind a key to | :.,$d | [or a named function to delete from current position to eof] ? The command dG will do that. "G" is a cursor movement command that moves the cursor to the end of the buffer. | basically jus

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:43:29AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > If only that were true. Every page I produce is 100% W3C compliant. > That's not enough. In the area of CSS alone, IE for Windows is not > compliant, while IE for Mac is. So slap the appropriate W3C compliant buttons on there so if

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Kent West
Phil Newcombe wrote: I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use -bpp on the command line or change the color depth line in XF86Config-4 manually - nothing changes. And when I click on xsetroot in the window menu it changes to a kind of coarse gray (from the lime-

Re: Status of GCC 3.2 and java?

2003-02-20 Thread Kent West
Rupa Schomaker wrote: Will there be a version of the JDK that is built with GCC 3.2? Now that the transition is on-going in unstable, it would be nice to be able to get the JDK in sync with the rest. eg: You can't use the java plugin with Mozilla anymore because Mozilla is being built with 3.2.

[SOLVED]: Where'd appletviewer come from?

2003-02-20 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: On my Sid box, I have the program /usr/bin/appletviewer that is a Java run-time thing that allows me to run web-based Java apps outside of a web browser. I can't tell if it's something that I installed with Blackdown's java, or Sun's java, or some Debian package, or what ("ap

Re: adding real-world address to server ...

2003-02-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* linux stuff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030220 11:46]: > I've created a debian server with apache, php, mysql, etc. with a local > address of 192.168.100.43, and after testing it, i'm now ready to show it to > the world. i have a gateway on the 192.168.100. network ... i want to add a > second interfac

Re: thumbnail+web page tool in woody?

2003-02-20 Thread nate
Michael Jinks said: > Hi all. > > Some users are asking for tools that will take a batch of image files, > thumbnail them, and write out the HTML suitable for posting the whole > thing as a set of links to the original images. > > I'm sure there are probably half a dozen different tools for doing t

vim macro|bind

2003-02-20 Thread Hugh Saunders
how would one bind a key to :.,$d [or a named function to delete from current position to eof] ? basically just want to start simple! have gasped in amazement at the vim maze solving macro and looked at /usr/share/doc/vim/html but cant see anything simple for binding stuff. thanks hugh -- To

Re: Status of GCC 3.2 and java?

2003-02-20 Thread Daniel Santamaria
I am using j2sdk1.4.1Beta for Sid (unstable) and mozilla supports the plugin just fine. Where are your sources pointing too? My source is as follows: deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian unstable non-free main cheers, Daniel Rupa Schomaker wrote: Will there be a version of

xchat & python?

2003-02-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Has anyone been able to get any python script working with xchat? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. |-- Lenny Nero - Strange Days -

Where'd appletviewer come from?

2003-02-20 Thread Kent West
On my Sid box, I have the program /usr/bin/appletviewer that is a Java run-time thing that allows me to run web-based Java apps outside of a web browser. I can't tell if it's something that I installed with Blackdown's java, or Sun's java, or some Debian package, or what ("apt-cache search appl

Re: SSH and Restart problems

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:02:50PM -0600, Mailing List wrote: > We seem to have an issue with one of our Debian servers. > > When we go to reboot or such, SSH will not start, even though it's set to do > so. We can't get it to manually start either. We have had to go in and do > the following > >

thumbnail+web page tool in woody?

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Jinks
Hi all. Some users are asking for tools that will take a batch of image files, thumbnail them, and write out the HTML suitable for posting the whole thing as a set of links to the original images. I'm sure there are probably half a dozen different tools for doing this; but the two they've suggest

Blackdown java install problem

2003-02-20 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I'm using woody/stable and I'm having some problems with java utilities such as jar, rmic etc. I try removing and reinstalling but the problem persists. It seems that the symbolic links such as the following are broken: /usr/bin/jar -> /etc/alternatives/jar -> /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/bin/jar It

Re: Free fonts

2003-02-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:49:56PM +, Steve Webster wrote: > Will Trillich wrote: > > xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/fonts/freefont > > > >...and i thought all would be lovely. sadly, my font menu > >didn't change, even after restarting (and the stopping, cold, > >and re-starting from scratch) the x

Re: recompiling php4

2003-02-20 Thread nate
Paula Jakobs said: > I did apt-get source -b php4 to build the package. However, it fails > because it > gives me a long list of dependencies that are missing. I thought apt > downloads dependencies for a package automatically? Why didn't it do that > here? apt-get build-dep php4 and watch the m

Re: Free fonts

2003-02-20 Thread Will Trillich
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:23:24AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Will Trillich sez: > > ...and i thought all would be lovely. sadly, my font menu > > didn't change, even after restarting (and the stopping, > > cold, and re-starting from scratch) the x window server. > > > > so to answer your que

Re: Open Office 1.0.2 formats differently on different OSes

2003-02-20 Thread Jens Grivolla
Dragan Cvetkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gianfranco Berardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Basic problem: The formatting of the page is different in Open Office for >> Windows than from Open Office for Linux. > > It's probably the same behaviour as it is in MS Word: your formating > depends

Re: DHCP/DNS assistance

2003-02-20 Thread nate
Russell Zauner said: > I set up DHCP and faked it out so that it doesn't gripe > about eth0 not having a subnet config (hours of study and > trial...there's supposed to be a simple config setting for > this, but it didn't work for me and I couldn't find any of > the files or directories that were

SSH and Restart problems

2003-02-20 Thread Mailing List
We seem to have an issue with one of our Debian servers. When we go to reboot or such, SSH will not start, even though it's set to do so. We can't get it to manually start either. We have had to go in and do the following rm -f /dev/null mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 Then we restart SSH and a

recompiling php4

2003-02-20 Thread Paula Jakobs
I've got php4 (4.2.3) installed with apt-get, however I need to use the pspell functions, and therefore need to add the --with-pspell option to the configuration. That means I need to recompile php4. I'm a bit unclear on the steps to do that since we're dealing with a package and I can't just downl

Re: sniffing SSL (was OT: mod_ssl (apache) log entries -- wtf?)

2003-02-20 Thread nate
Vineet Kumar said: > > Is there an easy way to decode a snarfed SSL session given that he has the > server's private key? Theoretically it's possible, but I wonder if any of > the popular sniffing/IDS tools facilitate it. I believe dsniff can do this ... ?? nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Sound in Kernel-Config

2003-02-20 Thread Seneca
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 05:24:04PM +0100, Dieter Schoppitsch wrote: > I try to compile a Kernel which supports my soundcard. > I have a Yamaha OPL3 SA3 sound system (which I was told is a pcm). > > In my Kernel-.configure I have the following options: > > # Sound > # > CONFIG_SOUND=y [...] > # CO

problem with apt-get update- E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

2003-02-20 Thread Adam Robson
While trying to run apt-get update or dselect I get the error E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room I've created the file /etc/apt/apt.conf with contents APT::Cache-Limit 25165824, and I've reduced my sources.list to only one entry, deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main, and this hasn't sol

DHCP/DNS assistance

2003-02-20 Thread Russell Zauner
Hi, Apologies in advance for long post, but I want to be thorough so I can get a direct answer. I know someone out there can help me. My problem is probably pretty simple to someone who's done it before. But I am getting confused wading through all the documentation piles on the net, most of whi

Re: [OT]Yahoo mail

2003-02-20 Thread DvB
David Pastern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well that's cos Yahoo is *ucked - I won't use or recommend their services > ever again. I just had my ex g/f crack my yahoo account, because of a > weakness in their setup. When you forget a p/w, you can do the secret > question routine, and if someone

Re: SSL Encrypiton

2003-02-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:17:00PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote: > I'm thinking you want, as Rob suggested, scp. > > You can think of it as the old rcp program, but it uses ssh. > > It can even be used in ways ftp can not(?) Well scp not realy but the ssh sftp subsystem can. Quite usefull in conjunc

sniffing SSL (was OT: mod_ssl (apache) log entries -- wtf?)

2003-02-20 Thread Vineet Kumar
* sean finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030220 07:00]: > you could find out for sure by running the packet sniffer of your > choice and dumping the whole conversation to a log, and then look > at what kind of data the client was sending. oh wait... https... > nevermind. there's probably a way to turn

Securing system (was gibraltar, apache and samba at the same machine)

2003-02-20 Thread Willem-Jan Meijer
--> Install the "ipmasq" package. <-- I already installed that one... I'll put the firewall below echo -n "IPTables Firewall." IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables" #FLUSH echo -n " Flush all tables." $IPTABLES --flush# Flush all the rules in filter an

Re: gtk fonts too big

2003-02-20 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 07:35, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:52:44AM -0500, Xavier Barnabe-Theriault wrote: > > I don't have one yet ! > > Any example of gtkrc I could use ? > > You have the same examples I do. > > > The system wide exemples I usualy use in /etc/, namely /etc/g

RE: SSL Encrypiton

2003-02-20 Thread Narins, Josh
I'm thinking you want, as Rob suggested, scp. You can think of it as the old rcp program, but it uses ssh. It can even be used in ways ftp can not(?) example: > hostname host1 > whoami user1 > scp user2@host2:/tmp/file1 user2@host3:/tmp (copies a file from one remote machine to another, secure

RE: [OT]Yahoo mail

2003-02-20 Thread David Pastern
Well that's cos Yahoo is *ucked - I won't use or recommend their services ever again. I just had my ex g/f crack my yahoo account, because of a weakness in their setup. When you forget a p/w, you can do the secret question routine, and if someone knows you well enough there's a chance that they'l

Re: Perfered idle kicker?

2003-02-20 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I'm being tasked to come up with a way to kick idle users off off > systems. I've seen different ways of doing this in the past but haven't > used them. What's your "prefered" methods? This will be for a large > environment with a couple hundred us

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:17:46AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney spake thus: > -- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Wednesday, 19 February 2003, 10:15 PM -0800): > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:07:59PM -0600, DvB wrote: > > > I've never done

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:25:19AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote: > i seem to recall seeing that nslookup is deprecated. we're > supposed to use dig or zone or dnsquery now. (probably there's a > good reason, or maybe my other personality just made this all > up.) It is deprecated, or at least that's

Re: X Windows has strange color scheme

2003-02-20 Thread Phil Newcombe
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:17:22AM -0800, Phil Newcombe wrote: I can't seem to change color depths either. No matter what I do - use -bpp on the command line or change the color depth line in XF86Config-4 manually - nothing changes. And when I click on xsetroot in

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