Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Joerg Rossdeutscher: Censorship? Nonsense. Blah, blah, blah. *plonk* -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:04:23 -0800, Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 14 Dec 2003 at 11:28, Deryk Barker wrote: Thus spake Scarletdown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): You need to run vncserver as that user. 2: The VNC session always gives me the KDE

ldap based /etc/passwd with md5 vs crypt

2003-12-14 Thread hanasaki
The sarge setup supports selecting crypt for passwds in ldap. How can MD5 be used?mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Orphaning of Firebird RDBMS

2003-12-14 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W licie z nie, 14-12-2003, godz. 07:21, John L. Fjellstad pisze: Hi Grzegorz, I read that you might not have time to work on the maintance of the firebird package. I was wondering what kind of work is involved in maintaining a debian package? There's nothing particularry unachievable.

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nunya wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: True, but there is no preservation of the session. The original developers of VNC (Olivetti UK) wanted this feature so that people could disconnect their viewer at work, go home, reconnect and be exactly where they had

Re: aic7xxx kernel freeze...

2003-12-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:44:18 +0100, Ignacio Más Ivars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all! I have a problem that is driving me crazy. I am trying install a custom version of the 2.4.22 kernel ..why not your custom 2.4.23? It _may_ have been fixed in there. --

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:41:34AM +0100, Philipp Schulte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior GNU/Linux ^ ' experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their accounts. By profile I mean things like desktop-icons,

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 15 Dec 2003 at 1:28, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:04:23 -0800, Scarletdown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I am making some headway on this project. Now, here is what I am ultimately shooting for. 1: Have vncserver load automatically at

Re: ICMP redirect

2003-12-14 Thread David Z Maze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to ask about the icmp messasages sending in linux 2.4.x. I have two subnets: 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.1.0/24 on the same ethernet segment. There is a gateway in each subnet (192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1). Clients use netmask 255.255.255.0. Routers have

Re: OT:Message to all computer vendors

2003-12-14 Thread Paul Morgan
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 17:26:49 -0500, alex wrote: [snip] we tell which ones? My guess is that there just hasn't been any incentive for manufacturers to 'bother' with even trying them on Linux. Could it be that they don't have any Linux knowledgeable people working for them?. If

Re: yet another NVIDIA problem (4496)

2003-12-14 Thread Stewart Jenkins
On Saturday 13 December 2003 02:05, Paul Johnson wrote: That is the crap driver I'm talking about. BTW, you can get it easier with apt...the nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx packages are it. snip Interesting. I had lots of problems with the two debian packages, but have had rock solid

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Johann Koenig
On Sunday December 14 at 07:33pm Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nunya wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote: True, but there is no preservation of the session. The original developers of VNC (Olivetti UK) wanted this feature so that people could

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Sunday 14 December 2003 2:37 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Am So, den 14.12.2003 schrieb Al Davis um 17:21: On Thursday 11 December 2003 03:56 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Yes, many ISPs do that, and it's a good thing. We all would drown in spam if they accepted mail from

gethostbyname() always does DNS lookup when DISPLAY is set

2003-12-14 Thread Frank Dekervel
hello, i'm facing a really weird problem on my machine. when doing telnet localhost my machine always does a DNS lookup even if - host.conf: order hosts, bind - nsswitch.conf: hosts: files dns - localhost is defined in /etc/hosts now, if i do 'unset DISPLAY' this behaviour goes magically away

Re: How to know correct hardware options for compiling 2.4.23 kernel

2003-12-14 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:49:29AM -0600, J N wrote: ... I'm noticing that I appear to need to know more specific technical information than I currently have access to for my laptop: Dell Latitude CPI-A 366XT. Can anyone point me to a FAQ that would tell me what kind of chipsets were in

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 at 15:54 GMT, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) penned: On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 14:08:21 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Hrm, I could have sworn that PDF was a spec published by Adobe and freely usable, but google seems to disagree. Google isn't quite the all-seeing eye yet.

Re: Applications are too big

2003-12-14 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 at 08:02 GMT, Mark Healey penned: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 00:31:03 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Are you running X directly from x/k/gdm? gdm, for some reason the install procedure didn't have a console login option. I'd like to hace a console login screen. There have

Re: Kernel options - how to determine which are needed?

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..shorewall is neat. Using the webmin gui module? Nope, editing the configuration file by hand. ..if you're a iptables newbie fresh from the ipchains bronze age world, just make sure you understand the subtle new meanings to a few things in iptables. ;-) Heh, I never

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Kevin Mark wrote: more viruses, more cpu time, more MONEY. Its always money in the end. snip Well, not always money. Money is the final factor, to be sure, but I can say with a resonable level of assurance that there are other factors. Factors such as space and power. Granted one can get

Re: software raid

2003-12-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:43:31PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya lucas On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Lucas Albers wrote: I've been trying to get debian stable working with software raid using various documentation. collection of um http://www.1U-Raid5.net If you can think of any

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:59:58PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: Okay, I just installed the VNC package and successfully accessed a KDE desktop from my Windows-98 system. And I must say, I became instantly enamored with VNC. However, I now have a bunch of questions. snip I suggest you peruse

can't logout on consoles

2003-12-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
Hello - Recently I have experienced that when logging out on a console the message logout appears and the session hangs there. The screen accepts keypresses and I can CTRL+ALT+F7 back to an XSession. The logout just seems to hang indefinitely. Happens on exit or logout for all users, including

Re: PDF spec (Was: Re: ooh! debian jewelry)

2003-12-14 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Monique posts: I could have sworn that PDF was a spec published by Adobe and freely usable, but google seems to disagree Should the PDF format be used and recommended by governments? The Govt. of India is calling for opinions and this link is interesting

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread ben_foley
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:36:05AM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:35:58 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [huge snippage] very disappointed to see anyone receive those as a response to a genuine query on this list. while independent inititiative is well recommended, the

Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet

2003-12-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Paul, Thanks for your advice. On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 04:13, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:54:22PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: # cat /etc/resolv.conf search domain.com\000 nameserver 192.168.2.1 Ah ha! You might try adding a nameserver on the outside or make sure

Re: scott wiseman is pissing me off

2003-12-14 Thread ben_foley
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 09:10:54AM -0800, Scott M. Wiseman wrote: To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RESUME - Client Development Specialist for Technology firms IF this resume reaches you in Error. Please forward to your Human Resources Department Resume Scott Wiseman

Re: can't logout on consoles

2003-12-14 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, December 14 at 10:44 PM EST Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello - Recently I have experienced that when logging out on a console the message logout appears and the session hangs there. The screen accepts keypresses and I can CTRL+ALT+F7 back to an XSession. The logout just

hard drive recognition for 2.4.16 kernels

2003-12-14 Thread TJ Sellari
I've been trying without success to run 2.4.22, 2.4.23, or 2.6.0 kernels on Sarge. The problem seems to be that they see my hard drive as hda rather than as hde. 2.4.16 (and Windows XP) sees the drive as hde, as do several versions of tomsrtbt and Knoppix, and they all boot with no problems.

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread ben_foley
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 06:41:59PM +0100, Magnus von Koeller wrote: Content-Description: signed data On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:21, Al Davis wrote: It is worth putting up with some spam to get a free, uncensored, fast email system. Free, uncensored and worthless would be a better

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread jerry garcia
On Thursday 11 December 2003 12:26 pm, David Baron wrote: Problems persist and have gotten nowhere! 1. Connecting ADSL -- edited everything including ppp_on_boot, dsl_provider, pap_secrets, all that stuff. No go. Running pon ppp_on_boot gives me a bad tdb and quits. The only tdb reference is

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:56 pm, Scarletdown wrote: Oh, and after looking at everything I posted above here, I am now wondering... Since the lines added to /etc/inetd.conf call Xvnc, is it possible that I am calling up the wrong server when I test this stuff manually? I've been using

Re: can't logout on consoles

2003-12-14 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Shawn posts: experienced that when logging out on a console the message logout appears and the session hangs Have had a similar experience after upgrading `util-linux'. The package util-linux supplies getty, getty is the culprit here as it does not immediately free the tty after

kernel expolit. is 2.4.18-bf2.4 affected?

2003-12-14 Thread Paul William
Hi all, Is the stock woody 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel affected by the kernel exploit that was used to attack the debian.org servers? If it is affected then what kernel is safe? Thanks Paul -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things

Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I have run the debian installer, installed a base system, chose the default LILO install choice. The installer did NOT wright (I watched the drive light to verify this, it SHOULD have written) to the disk, system re-booted. I have mounted the Debian partitions to examine them. Debian root =

Re: Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread panda
Damon L. Chesser wrote: I have run the debian installer, installed a base system, chose the default LILO install choice. The installer did NOT wright (I watched the drive light to verify this, it SHOULD have written) to the disk, system re-booted. I have mounted the Debian partitions to

Re: Trying to boot after Debian installer ran

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 16:16, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Snip This got it going: (grub menu.lst of Libranet) title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.22-1-386 root(hd1,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1-386 root=/dev/hdb6 ro hdc=scsi hdd=scsi

Re: Next On The Checklist - VNC

2003-12-14 Thread Scarletdown
On 14 Dec 2003 at 23:14, Nate Duehr wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 10:56 pm, Scarletdown wrote: Oh, and after looking at everything I posted above here, I am now wondering... Since the lines added to /etc/inetd.conf call Xvnc, is it possible that I am calling up the wrong server when

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