Re: firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system

2007-09-11 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:50:40PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: On Tuesday 11 September 2007 10:55, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:00:09AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: firefox keeps grabbing huge chunks of my system: 97% cpu, 20% memory. the cpu is 2.3GH and mem is 512M.

Re: how to force the NIC to 1000M full duplex

2007-06-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:42:12PM -0400, chloe K wrote: Hi all How do I force the NIC to 1000M full duplex it seems that it can't do it in mii-tool? Have you tried ethtool yet? In some respects, it seems to be more flexible than mii-tool. Good luck, ~Juergen signature.asc

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:17:33PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:45:08AM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:55:53PM +0300, David Baron wrote: [...] did you test TED? Just did. Brings in the right overall format but font sizes are not necessarily correct. Main problem is that it not handle the character codepages (for a Windows Hebrew document). Probably decent for

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Do you do other formats for other than your boss? I don't really generate any documents except for him. Does you boss want RTF of is it just page breaks, centered text, and different fonts? What file formats will your boss

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:01:04PM +0300, David Baron wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you test TED? Just did. Brings in the right overall format but font sizes are not necessarily correct. Main problem is that it not handle the character codepages (for

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:37:45PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:51:59PM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Does you boss want RTF of is it just page breaks, centered text, and different

Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I have tried Ted, but I can't even get it to open a document. Are there

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:51:56PM +0300, David Baron wrote: Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries are somewhat unpleasant (I'm using FluxBox as my WM). I

Trouble running Ted (Was: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?)

2007-05-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:07:16PM -0300, Mat?as Palomec wrote: On 5/30/07, Juergen Fiedler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have been looking for a lightweight RTF text editor for Lenny for quite a while now. Currently, I am using AbiWord, but all the dependencies on Gnome libraries

Re: [Fwd: Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick]

2007-04-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:23:07AM -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote: I thought I'd try this list as well. From: Arthur Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Trying to figure out a USB wireless stick I'm using an older Dell Latitude which has always worked great with Debian.

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-14 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:12:39 -0400 Juergen Fiedler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] For documents on the web I have this inelegant and heinous trick: I google for them. If a doc is in PDF format, Google will give you the option

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:39:09PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: Joe Hart wrote: [snip] context Noone is forcing you to use pdf files /context I disagree about it being forced on us. Many documents on the web are

Re: sendemail with gmail?

2007-03-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:21:00PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: Anyone succeeded using sendemail (its not sendmail) with gmail? I installed the tls related packages, enabled -tls=yes in the command line, but no go. And I already did what this guy at

Re: sendemail with gmail?

2007-03-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:59:33PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: [...] Hi Juergen, thanks for replying. I tried your line, and here's the output: Mar 09 14:58:26 cestudos sendEmail[3111]: WARNING = Name/Value pair [tls=yes] will be ignored: unknown key [tls] Mar 09 14:58:27

Re: Woody not supported?

2007-03-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:46:56AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: I get this error when I apt-get update: Err http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://ftp.debian.org woody/main Release Apparently, the repository no longer exists? That appears to be so. From

aptitude and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d

2007-03-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, Does aptitude read /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*? I have seen a few scripts that seem to rely on that, yet it doesn't seem to be the case for me. If I, for example, echo 'Aptitude::Recommends-Important false;'\ /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/recommends.conf and try to install minicom, aptitude will

Re: static IP

2007-03-01 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 02:10:22AM +0100, pobox wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:54:36AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Try it from outside your LAN -- use a friends machine or a library machine or get yourself a free shell account somewhere and use links from that. Where can I get

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

2007-03-01 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:41:10AM -0800, Jordi wrote: Hello I saw two good firewalls: - Firestarter wich is easy - Shorewall wich seems versatile Wich is best for a single server pc? Does the complexity of shorewall worth the effort or is firestarter as good as shorewall? The fact that

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-27 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:14:10PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: which distro goes in to a USB stick? A quick Google came up with: This open source project puts Live Linux distributions in packages ready to load onto and boot from USB flash drives. This includes DSL

OT: Odd traffic on my firewall

2007-02-19 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am seeing an inordinate amount of packages dropped on my firewall - all coming from the same source and hitting a very limited range of ports (as reported by psad): =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mon Feb 19 10:34:03 2007 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to

2007-02-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Good point. Turns out grml already comes with localepurge - but being that the modified CD would be just for me, I think I can tighten up the locale.nopurge file a bit more. Thanks, --j On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:02:20AM +0100, anticapitalista wrote: You could remove some of the locales,

Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out

2007-02-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +, ][ wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to make the whole thing a bit smaller? From my personal archive: A 'clean-up' script called 'remaster-clean

Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out

2007-02-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:30:59AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +, ][ wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to make the whole thing a bit smaller? From

Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out

2007-02-08 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I would like to remaster a Debian based live CD (grml - www.grml.org, in this case) by copying the system from the squashfs image, chrooting to it, making the necessary modifications and squashing the resulting system back up. It works nicely enough, BUT: All manners of cache files, .deb

Switching to amd64 - is it worth it?

2007-01-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, This is not really a problem as such, merely a request for input and interesting anecdotes: I am currently running an x86 sid on a Sempron based machine. On one hand, I am happy with it because just about everything I could ever need installs without a problem; on the other hand, it feels

Re: software for making a web site......

2007-01-16 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:31:01PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, [...] If I would try to make the web site what software would you guys recommend using under Debian to make the web pages and road test them? All other aspects having been discussed already, I thought I'd

Re: webbased SSH server/client

2007-01-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 11:39:58PM +0100, Mark wrote: Hi List, I'm looking for a ssh client that runs on a webserver. Something I can connect to using a regular web browser and then connect to a ssh server from that server (Instead of the connection originating from the client) [...]

Re: Really stupid mutt question

2006-08-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:40:08PM +0800, JerryKwok wrote: [...] This has been a question to me for a long time.Why do we use mutt when many other better manager(evolution) especially when mutt's so complex and difficult to remeber the binds. For me, the answers are: - Running Evolution over

Re: Really stupid mutt question

2006-08-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:59:34AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:40:08PM +0800, JerryKwok wrote.. 2006/7/31, Heimdall Midgard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been banging my head for the past six hours trying to figure out how to write a message in Mutt. (So I've

Re: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 - a beginner's query/request

2006-07-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:13:30AM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: Please note that you are advised to *not do this*, but to *always* read the release notes for the relevant you certainly noticed that I had there aptitude upgrade (not dist-upgrade), right? It should be noted

Re: command question

2006-07-27 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:44:48PM +0300, Michael F wrote: apt-get install for installing a package and apt-cache search for searching package. man apt-get for many information:) Btw, witch is the diference berween apt and aptitude? I think the main difference is that apt has super cow powers

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:04:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] Them: Can I run my games? Me: Let me see 'em. No. Them: I guess I'll have to stick with Windows. You can't imagine how frustrating that can be. Point them in the direction of Cedega and ask them why they're

Re: problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:21:50AM -0500, kenn wrote: [...] servertwo:/etc# apt-get install tdsodbc [...] The following packages have unmet dependencies: tdsodbc: Depends: odbcinst1debian1 (= 2.2.11-3) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages In my opinion, the next step

Re: problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:02:55AM -0500, kenn wrote: Juergen Fiedler wrote: [...] When I try to install odbcinst1debian1 I get [...] W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems E: Couldn't find package odbcinst1debian1 Does 'apt-get update' report any errors

Re: problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:43:34AM -0500, kenn wrote: Leinier C. Salfran wrote: Hi. The first you must to do after change '/etc/apt/sources.list' is execute 'apt-get update' .. After, 'apt-get instal xxx' Yes, I did that, and the update was performed without error. Weirdness.

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:10:20AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Get coding then. They let you contribute to their CVS. I don't see the point. There are very few (if any) games I would be interested in playing for either Windows or Linux that I can't get for my PS2. Is Katamari Damacy available on

Re: Text File Prints at Physical Page Boundary

2006-04-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Gil Citro wrote: [...] My problem is I want to print a plain text file from the command line, but when I give the command lpr file or lp file the output starts at the physical page boundary, and since the printer can't print to the physical page

squirrelmail-configure changed mysteriously

2006-04-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am running Squirrelmail 1.4.6-1 on a system that is mostly sarge with some etch packages. This morning, tripwire reported that /usr/sbin/squirrelmail-configure has changed and indeed, in line 388, 'Organization Title' was changed to 'Organization Ditle'. I am not aware of upgrading

Re: Sxxxxs and Kxxxxs in /etc/rc(*).d/

2006-02-28 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 10:00:00PM +0800, Deephay wrote: Greetings all, I read the debian references and there are some sentences like this: scripts whose names begin with K are run with the argument stop. Scripts beginning with S are run with the argument start. So,

Re: Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:36:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 16:46, Sergio Cu?llar Vald?s wrote: There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. Remote network security auditor != Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System Agreed.

Re: proxy for APT

2006-02-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:24:53PM +0800, Deephay wrote: Greetings all, I want to know that if I can set a proxy for the APT utilities such as apt-get? thx! Deephay You could try apt-cacher, which is basically a caching proxy. HTH, --j signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I used to run Nessus on a semi-regular basis to make sure that my firewall is still doing what it is supposed to do. With the latest version of Nessus not actually being all that free anymore, I find myself looking for alternatives: Something that looks for open ports on my system and also

Re: Replacement for Nessus

2006-02-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:30:18PM +, Chris Lale wrote: Juergen Fiedler wrote: [looking for alternatives to nessus] There is Snort, but I don't know whether it will do all you ask. Chris. This far, I have only used Snort as an IDS. I hear that it can be used for other purposes, too

Re: How to say package yet provided

2006-02-10 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:49:40PM +0100, Romnea Kolap Pin wrote: Hello: I have the next problem, is there any way to say to Debian this package is yet provided?. I mean, if I compile mplayer and I want to install the mozilla-mplayer package, which depends on mplayer, how

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-02-10 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:54:09AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 12:58:22AM -0600, Matthew Lenz wrote: www.emusic.com no drm. not going to have every last song you'll want but they ahve a decent selection. or did last time I looked -Matt Thanks for the tip. I

Re: bash scripts: how to determine directory of 'source'd file

2006-01-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:26:27PM +, michael wrote: Presuming I have a file setEnvVars.sh that I wish to source, . path/setEnvVars.sh How do I, within the script, determine the actual directory within which the setEnvVars.sh file sits? The sourcing seems to disallow me access to $0

Re: Automating Dial-up

2006-01-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:17:21AM -0800, Tyson Varosyan wrote: [...] This is what happens on bootup: /etc/init.d/rc: line 30: /etc/rc2.d/S20startwvdial: Permission Denied Did you remember to make the startup script executable (chmod a+x /etc/init.d/startwvdial)? signature.asc Description:

Re: Urgent problem with ext3 filesystem!!!

2006-01-20 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:38:19PM +0100, G-Point wrote: hello, when i boot my pc, it stops on root filesystem check, because it says that a file has 6 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 0 file(s) so i can't boot linux. i don't want to delete that file, how can i solve my

Re: New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: Thanks for the reply. It's a standard PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel. The mouse works fine under Windows XP(dual boot system) and when I cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, I get the random characters. The system is a cheapo

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

2006-01-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:40:19AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: John Hasler wrote: richard writes: Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make more difference. Armies and police forces consist of individuals who individually choose to take

Re: New install-Broken X-modprobe mousedev-now X Works, but no mouse

2006-01-11 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Ed Young wrote: I did a new install of Debian 3.1r1 and X failed out with a /dev/input/mice no device found error. I issued modprobe mousedev and then startx got x running, but the mouse still doesn't work. I added mousedev to /etc/modules and

Corrupted ulogd pcap files

2006-01-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am running ulogd 1.02-2 with the pcap plugin on a 2.6.12 kernel. The problem is that on a rather regular basis, the pcap files seem to become corrupted: # tcpdump -r /var/log/ulog/ulogd.pcap gives me only tcpdump: bad dump file format If I stop ulogd, remove the offending file and

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

2005-12-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:49:11PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: [...] I've been searching for a while, with no luck, for some combination of software that will let me have a VoIP conversation with someone while I am on Debian and they are on Windows. Someone in #debian said Linphone. It

Re: Re: USB flash drive problem

2005-12-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:55:06AM +, Tatsuya Kobayashi wrote: [...] Did you try /dev/sdc ? I tried to mount /dev/sdc but I couldn't mount it. It's still saying No medium found or special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist. Have you tried using just /dev/sdc, not /dev/sdc1?

Re: Shutdown w/o root password.

2005-12-21 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 11:19:45AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [...] if I log in CLI as non-root user, run startx, then what does gdm run as? root again? just curious. Running startx should not start gdm at all - unless you have a very odd .xinitrc indeed. signature.asc Description:

Corrupted ulogd pcap files - a logrotate issue?

2005-12-20 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am running ulogd 1.02-2 with the pcap plugin on a 2.6.12 kernel. The problem is that on a rather regular basis, the pcap files seem to become corrupted: A # tcpdump -r /var/log/ulog/ulogd.pcap gives me only tcpdump: bad dump file format If I stop ulogd, remove the offending file and

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:30:34PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 01:09 PM 12/12/2005, Hodgins Family wrote: I was wondering why you plunked the file into /root/deb. Why not just move it to /home and retry the dpkg command (as root obviously!) UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i

Re: install samba from binary

2005-12-12 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 02:33:43PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: At 01:48 PM 12/12/2005, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] UNCLELEO:~# ping -c 1 google.com ping: unknown host google.com What do you get if you do (for example) 'ping -c 1 64.233.187.99'? UNCLELEO:~# route add default 192.168.0.1

LogWatch + Postfix = TMI

2005-12-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am running an almost pure sarge system with logwatch 5.2.2-5 and postfix 2.2.4-1.0.1. All is well, except for the fact that logwatch produces a bit too much output for my taste in the postfix section. Specifically, all the statistics that Anvil prints are added to the report as unmatched

Whence cometh grove.log

2005-01-01 Thread Juergen Fiedler
to make me a bit nervous. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. Thanks --j -- Juergen Fiedler JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key ID B06D4779 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

bittorrent troubles was: Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.

2004-12-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:36:01PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: Alright... bittorrent is running, wondershaper has (hopefully) done its magic - I should be good. Could you or someone just like you please hit http://www.fiedlerfamily.net/juergen/files/dfs.jf-12202004.iso.torrent and see what

Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.

2004-12-21 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Watkins wrote: | On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:58:41AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: | |A bittorrent would certainly be a start. I wonder how much trouble I |could get into if I tried hosting that on my machine (upstream ~ 96 |KB/s). The file

Re: Sharing dfsbuild experiences.

2004-12-18 Thread Juergen Fiedler
is the ISO? A bittorrent would certainly be a start. I wonder how much trouble I could get into if I tried hosting that on my machine (upstream ~ 96 KB/s). The file is pretty close to 200MB, being that I am trying to optimally fill a mini CD. Thanks ~ --j - -- Juergen Fiedler JID [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG

building linux-wlan-ng modules for 2.6.9

2004-12-02 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am trying to compile the linux-wlan-ng modules for kernel 2.6.9. The kernel itself was built with kernel-package; the sources for the modules (installed with 'apt-get source linux-wlan-ng') are in /usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.0+0.2.1pre21. From rom /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.9, I

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: | Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | |On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:52:03 -0500 |Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | |Jacob S([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: | |On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:17:29 -0500 |Wayne

Re: eclipse install

2004-11-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do you get the same error if you run the startup script from the directory where the jar file is located? If not, it might help to add a 'cd /location/of/jar/file' near the top of the startup script. I have had that happen before. - --j Eduard Pauna

Re: Sarge questions on aptitude and GRUB

2004-11-19 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have been running Sarge (rc2) for quite a while and have little or no problems with make-kpkg created kernels. IIRC, they are inserted after the older kernels in menu.lst, thus retaining the old one as default when rebooting, but that is easily

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-13 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: | William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | |Including nospam in your email name helps a lot. | | | http://www.interhack.net/pubs/munging-harmful/ While I agree that address munging is Not A Good Thing, I find the attempt to

Re: Need help playing mp3 files and /or configuring sound

2004-10-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean wrote: | I've attached two files which may shed some light when I try to play an | amp3 file with mpg321. No I don't know if my sound system even works. | Discover detects the es1370 as my sound card and I've installed the os | modules into the

Re: Playing a wav

2004-10-26 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Around here, the play command s contained in the sox package. HTH - --j Michael Satterwhite wrote: | I didn't see this message come through, so I think I had a glitch on my mail | server. If someone does see it twice, I apologize. | | Back on SuSE, I

Problems with mkinitrd-cd / mkbootimg

2002-09-30 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am trying to create a bootable CD with mkinitrd-cd 0.22, but this far, I've had no luck. The procedure looks like this: mkinitrd-cd /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/ initrd.img full mkbootimg 2880 /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 initrd.img boot.img mkisofs -b boot.img -c boot.cat -o ../test.iso .

Problems adding extra packages to a PGI installer

2002-06-28 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I am trying to create a Debain installer with pgi 0.9.6.3. If I use the base-conf configuration, everything works OK, but if I try a configlets install, I get error messages about conflicts when pgi is trying to figure out package dependencies: --- python /usr/share/pgi/tools/pgi-calc-deps.py

Re: Snort on Debian - no alerts? no reports?

2002-06-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 07:53, T. wrote: Hi, Debian Unstable snort: Installed: 1.8.6-3 Candidate: 1.8.6-3 I have installed snort and I'm getting no email alerts, and the daily reports are blank. The version of snort-stat that is packaged with that one is somewhat messed up: The

Re: can't acces https with mozilla

2002-06-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 13:27, Ben Thompson wrote: Hello, I am unable to connect to secure websites using mozilla on my debian system. Try installing mozilla-psm. PSM stands for Personal Security Manager and is the part of Mozilla that handles, encryption 'n' stuff. HTH --j signature.asc

Re: multiple servers in gdm

2002-06-24 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Given the described behaviour (you can log in, the server resets, GDM comes back up), it would seem that whatever session is being spawned is exiting. Stands to reason. I wonder whether there is a good way to figure out wheter _what_ is called is wrong or whether what is called is

multiple servers in gdm

2002-06-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am trying to run multiple X servers simultaneously from gdm. I changed the [servers] section in gdm.conf to look like this: [servers] 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt8 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 Now, the server on vt7 works OK, but although there is a login screen on vt8, I can't really log in: After

Re: multiple servers in gdm

2002-06-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10:52:56AM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: Hi, I am trying to run multiple X servers simultaneously from gdm. I changed the [servers] section in gdm.conf to look like this: [servers] 1=/usr/bin/X11/X vt8 0=/usr/bin/X11/X vt7 Ack! That's me being stupid again. I

Re: multiple servers in gdm

2002-06-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 13:21, Hubert Chan wrote: Juergen Now, the server on vt7 works OK, but although there is a login Juergen screen on vt8, I can't really log in: After entering the Juergen password, the screen flashes a couple of times and then returns Juergen to the login screen. So the

Re: cfingerd always hangs

2002-05-19 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:20:34PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote: Also, I wonder whether someone could try to finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see whether the problem is specific to this particular host. I would appreciate it. Works fine for me. I got your name and public key back. That's

cfingerd always hangs

2002-05-17 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I installed cfingerd 1.4.3-1.1 on a Woody system and opened port 79 in my firewall. I'm trying to finger myself from another host that's also behind a firewall. The messages I get in daemon.log look like this: May 17 12:41:20 fiedlerfamily cfingerd[5616]: connect from somewhereelse May

SNMP problems

2002-05-16 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I am using an up-to-date snmp/snmpd on Woody (i.e. both are version 4.2.3-2). If I do an 'snmpwalk localhost public system', it diplays everything up to system.sysORTable.sysOREntry.sysORUpTime.9 and then gives me a timeout. After that, snmpd stays unresponsive for a long time. Even with

Re: SNMP problems

2002-05-16 Thread Juergen Fiedler
RTFFAQ? Turns out that the problem doesn't occur if I specify a really long timeout for smtpwalk. After the 'system.sysORTable.sysOREntry.sysORUpTime.9' line, it just gives me an 'End of MIB' and does not stay busy after that. So I know a workaround, but I'd still like to know why it takes so long

snort-mysql and xml output

2002-05-14 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I have a Woody system with snort-mysql 1.8.4beta1-2 installed. My snort.conf contains (among others) the following lines: === output alert_fast: alert output xml: alert, file=/perl/snort.pl protocol=http host=localhost port=80 === I can call http://localhost/perl/snort.pl and OK,

Re: can't get .shosts authentication to run

2002-05-08 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Just figured it out: I need to set HostbasedAuthentication _and_ UsePrivilegedPort to yes. This way, I can get it to at least try host based auth. Now, I get an error that may actually originate on the server side: --- [...] debug1: authentications that can continue:

Re: screen messes up ncurses

2002-05-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:54:49PM -0500, dman wrote: gnome-terminal doesn't draw the line-drawing characters correctly. It's why I (sometimes) have 'ascii_chars' set in mutt. gnome-terminal draws the line characters correctly when I'm not using screen - that's the weird part. Anyways, $TERM

Re: screen messes up ncurses

2002-05-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:05:51PM -0500, dman wrote: | gnome-terminal draws the line characters correctly Odd. I wonder how your setup is different from mine. Just for demonstration, here's two screen shots of my gnome-terminal :

Re: screen messes up ncurses

2002-05-07 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 10:22:25AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: Try this in your .screenrc defbce on term screen-bce Nope, didn't do a thing :( --j pgpEQHE3QLeWb.pgp Description: PGP signature

screen messes up ncurses

2002-05-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am running screen 3.9.5-9 on a sid box. The problem is this: When I use curses based applications like mc or mutt, all line drawing characters are displayed as regular letters. Looks like the 8th bit is stripped off the char or something. Does anybody know what to do about that? Thanks,

Re: screen messes up ncurses

2002-05-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Update: This only seems to occur under X, using the Gnome terminals (gnome-terminal 1.4.0.8-2, multi-gnome-terminal 1.4.1-1 or powershell 0.9-6). Regular xterm works OK. Sorry for not investigating that upfront. --j pgpID6oAxkwne.pgp Description: PGP signature

can't get shosts auth working

2002-05-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hello, I am trying to connect to a machine on our LAN with the .shosts method, but it seems that my ssh client is not even willing to try that. My $HOME/.ssh/config looks like this: --- Host myserver HostName myserver.mydomain.net Protocol 2 RhostsRSAAuthentication

Re: Reverse Depends on packages

2002-05-03 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:31:03PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: [...] Is there a tool, or series of commands that'll help me find packages that are not depended on anymore in the debian packaging system? [...] Check out deborphan. --j pgpI4jriUC0QZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Cupsys doesn't play nice(ly)

2001-04-10 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am running an up-to-date version of unstable with cupsys 1.1.4-3. My problem is that if I try to print from external programs (i.e. Konqueror , enscript), the print margins come out all wrong. I have set up an HP LJ4000 as an lpd printer

Re: Lunar lander game?

2001-04-06 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 06 April 2001 10:18, Stan Brown wrote: Can anyone sugest a good lunar lander game for use on a Debian system? I found Lunar Lander 200, and it looks just perfect, but I can't seem to get it to compile on my Debian stable machine.

Re: Java install problems

2001-03-29 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Actually, sun doesn't make a jvm for linux. Instead they signed an NDA with the blackdown people, and the blackdown people make it instead. If there is a link on sun's site (wasn't last time I checked, but it's been a while) it is to the

Re: need help with ncurses...

2001-03-29 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 29 March 2001 13:06, Jake R. Johnson wrote: how do i install ncurses? Do an 'apt-cache search ncurses', pick out the latest version and 'apt-get install latest-version'. In unstable latest-version == libncurses5, in stable it might

Re: Upgrade advantage in Debian vrs. RedHat

2001-03-27 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 March 2001 11:17, Alan Shutko wrote: CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let me give you today's example: Nit: your example wasn't comparing apples and apples. You were running an up-to-date Debian system and an old RedHat system, which

Re: staroffice..

2001-03-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 March 2001 03:22, Roberto Diaz wrote: [...] Yes but for kpresenter to work I have to install kde 2.x I even havent installed kde 1.x and since I am using windowMaker I am a little bit afraid of KDE mostly due to last Nick Croft

Re: printer setup

2001-03-23 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 March 2001 16:13, Chris Howells wrote: From: jens [EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed 1.1.6 the same way you are suggesting and all went fine. I then tried installing kups which is a nicer interface as part of snip Did you

mod_ssl won't load

2001-03-22 Thread Juergen Fiedler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I installed libapache-mod-ssl on an up-to-date unstable system this morning. I followed the instructions in libapache-mod-ssl-doc (I think), but mod-ssl won't load. I get this error message: - --- Syntax error on line 242 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:

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