On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:17:33PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
Few such as we are would lay out good money for something he/she could get
for free!
Debian does take donations:
http://www.debian.org/donations/
(though I seem to be having trouble reaching www.spi-inc.org at the
moment.)
When I
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem
that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to
have one of my roommates do something to the network at home when I'm
not there. As such,
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:19:00AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
Why not? They already have physical access to the machine, what more
would you give up to them by telling them the root password? For a home
computer, I don't see much reason
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:45:32AM -0800, Mike Egglestone wrote:
Hi,
My server was trojaned recently, not sure how.
It looks like /bin/ps was modified or replaced with
a trojan.
Out of curiosity--how can you tell?
The /root/.bash_history file is set to this:
chsslx1:~# ls -la
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:39:55PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
Here is my question. Once the camera is mounted (in my case, I put it at
/mnt/camera), I can see the pictures here: /mnt/camera/dcim/100nikon/*.jpg
If I want to delete them, can I just do rm -f /mnt/camera/dcim/100nikon/*.jpg
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:41:12AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Please don't reply to something on-topic in private. Sending back to
the list...
I thought it was getting a little off-topic, but OK.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:37:50AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:06
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:30:32PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a
password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file
is
root::0:0:root
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:24:54PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote:
J. Bruce Fields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a
password; what do I need
I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a
password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file
is
root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
I thought the empty password field would do the job, but apparently not.
There is no /etc/shadow file.
--Bruce Fields
--
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote:
J. Bruce Fields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a
password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file
is
root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
I thought
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:20:07AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not clear how to use apt-listchanges. Can it be integrated into
apt-get?
Yes. In fact I thought by default it would make apt-get display a list
of the relevant bits of the changelogs before apt-get asks you if you
want to
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 12:13:28PM -0400, Jon Earle wrote:
This open list policy that so many lists have, while it _may_, and I'm
placing a lot of faith and emphasis on the 'may', offer the occasional
newbie or (individual who couldn't be bothered to subscribe multiple
addresses) the ability
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:25:16PM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote:
5) Make anybody e-mailing to your address who is not on your whitelist
(besides listservs!) respond to an automatic reply to be added to your
whitelist. Most spammers won't respond (although people on the listserv
may get angry and
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:00:52PM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote:
It isn't just people on listserv's that will be annoyed: please never
send automatic replies; the from address is a lie anyway.
This is one of the reasons I put a caveat about listservs not following
rules.
The problem I
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 02:21:20PM -0400, Dan Anderson wrote:
So, again, please don't send automatic replies.
Although you may not personally approve of the method it is an accepted
method of blocking spam. YMMV and such.
There certainly is software out there (virus software at
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:06:45PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
I've been using kdm for a long time and was very comfortable with the
way a user can select the window manager to use at start up. I virtually
never choose KDE, but rather window maker or ion. Nevertheless, it
worked flawlessly.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:07:38PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone has gotten 2.6.0-test2 compiled and runnign at
all
Of course; tons of people are running it. It's what I use for most of
my daily work. My laptop, alas, is a little unstable under 2.6, but two
other
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:38:33PM +0200, Pim Bliek wrote:
Hi,
I've set the following in my kernel-config (2.4.21):
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe rev 2.0 motherboard.
When I run hdparm -d1 /dev/hda I get the
On 31 Jan 2002, Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 18:50, Paul E Condon wrote:
it brings up the home page, not the page pointed to by the highlighted URL.
What is the correct way to select a new default browser?
Hmm, I don't know about the version of gnome in potato, but in sid
On 31 Jan 2002, Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 20:18, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
No, at least on my system, this still leaves the same problem--it brings
up the correct browser, but opens the default home page, not the
highlighted URL.---b.
Which gnome version?
Beats me. I'm
On 31 Jan 2002, Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 21:17, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
Why don't you use mozilla-0.9.7 from sid?
Over the last year or so, there have been dramatic improvements to mozilla
with each new version, so I haven't wanted to wait for a debian package to
show up
Everything is fine with /dev/hdc (/home), but /dev/hda will
always wake up after a few seconds of sleep !
Try just leaving a tail -f of some of the files in /var/log running in a
window on your desktop while you work. This will may be enlightening.
One particularly likely culprit: syslogd is
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Mike Pfleger wrote:
* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
SNIP
Adjust it in the Gnome Control Panel or 'gnomecc' application.
Errr.. I thought the original post was clear that _only_ sawfish/
sawmill was being used. Or did I misunderstand that? I am pretty
On 8 Jun 2001, Gary Hennigan wrote:
Has anyone got a setup with a dual-head G450 card with two monitors
and, obviously, running Debian (potato or testing?). I'm planning on
getting a new system and now that I've had dual-head on my SGI for a
couple of years, don't think I could live without
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
I get them too... probably some mailing list problem...
No, we've all just decided to switch to German just to add some interest
to a list that was otherwise getting a bit dull. Really, it'll be
fun.---Bruce Fields
I dl the 0.8 build, untarred and zipped it to /usr/local/share/mozilla
than ran /usr/local/share/mozilla/mozilla to get it started. I get lot's
of error message and changing themes crahses it cold. They couldn't have
released this as is, so it's me.
Not necessarily; last I heard, I don't
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, David B.Harris wrote:
To quote Omar Shuja Siddiqui [EMAIL PROTECTED],
# i have recently installed a network of to Linux boxes.
# one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to
# share the internet connection with the other Linux box
# also. please tell me what is the
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, ktb wrote:
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 07:07:36PM +0100, Olivier Billet wrote:
Hi all,
I've the folowing issue : when I loggin under gdm I blinks like it's
going to launch a window manager, but it dont do anything and then
goes back to the login prompt.
I tried
I had the identical systems. Logging in on a text console (alt-ctl-F1,
then log in), and examining the file .gnome-errors in my home directory, I
found that gnome was complaining about not being able to find a certain
shared library file. (Can't remember the name--something with pixbuf in
it
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
I had the identical systems. Logging in on a text console (alt-ctl-F1,
^^^err, meant to write symptoms there.
Sorry, I'll proofread more carefully next time)
then log in), and examining the file .gnome-errors in my home
On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
I would say
Avoid toshiba
This isn't quite fair to Mr. Amsden, who it seems has a lot of experience
with linux on laptops, but--please be careful with statements that lump
together all laptops of a certain brand. Experiences with a few
representatives of
On 3 Dec 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:
Gr. Navigator 4.75 hangs on some pages, eating all the CPU, and making
all open netscape windows unuseable. This is on an i686, mostly
potato. Any patches/workarounds for this sort of problem? -chris
Hm, I have problems with netscape misbehaving,
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Jeff Davis wrote:
J. Bruce Fields wrote:
I'm using the newest tulip driver with a netgear (a FA310TX--the model
number matters a lot, which is yours?), and it works fine. See
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html, and note that you actually have
to download 3
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Cliff Rice wrote:
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 07:43:34AM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
I have a Netgear 10/100 card. I am sure it works, and I have used the
same type of card with other distros. In it's linux.txt it describes
an object file called tulip.o, which I assume to be
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
I am running a fresh debian machine as a single user. When I try to
connect to my ISP through wvdial or pon from my personal account I get a
message complaining that I have no privilege to do the operation, I should
be root to do it. I don't
On 16 Nov 2000, John Hasler wrote:
Bruce F. writes:
However, I've found that pppd, for some reason, occasionally changes the
permissions of the modem device to crw-r,...
It always does that, for security. If it exits normally it changes the
permissions back.
It seems to forget to
Bruce F. writes:
It seems to forget to set the permissions back maybe about a third of the
time.
Just with wvdial or with pon as well?
I believe it happens with both. pon/poff continue to work, regardless.
What version of ppp? There was a
bug that did this, but I don't remember what
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Pap Tibor wrote:
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Kristian Rink wrote:
In this case I recommend downloading the standard Mozilla build directly
from
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/
where You will find several packages for Linux-x86 as generic
I recently got myself a used Matrox Millenium (there are several---I got
the one with the 220MHz RAMDAC and 4Megs WRAM), and am very happy with it.
The online manual is available at
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/user_manuals/older/home.cfm if you want
to check out the specs. It's an old
Every time I run xpdf, I get messages of the form
Error (21103): Couldn't open temporary file ''
on stderr, and xpdf just shows me a blank page. It does allow me to
change pages (using the right-arrow/left-arrow buttons at the bottom), but
I get a new error and another blank page each time I
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