Re: How do I get cups to monitor on port 721?

2006-06-06 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/06/2006 08:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I get cups to monitor on port 721? > > I am trying to get a remote connection from IBM/VM that says it needs port > 721 to print to connect to my Debian Linu$ > > I have added the following lines (in various combinations) to my > /etc/cu

Re: More Details about OOo install from backports (WAS:Re: switching OOo2 from upstream to backports)

2006-06-06 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/05/2006 06:50 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> Is the backport for OOo broken? >> Is there a problem with openoffice.org-base? >> >> I just did: >> >>apt-get -u -t sarge-backports install openoffice.org >> >> and got the following results: >> >> Reading Package Lists...

Re: How to test a hard drive

2006-05-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 05/30/2006 01:30 PM, thierry wrote: > Stephen Cormier wrote: >> On Saturday 27 May 2006 19:36, thierry wrote: >> >>> Is there any way to test an HD before installing an new system on it? >>> I haave a strong suspiion about the reability of this HD, but money is >>> still a problem in disregardin

Re: duplicity, backup to ftp and specifying a user name

2006-05-29 Thread Ralph Katz
On 05/29/2006 05:30 PM, Darin Strait wrote: > I am attempting to use duplicity to store backups at a remote site > (host.com). > > The ftp user name is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do not have control over this > name. Simply using someuser will not work. > > If I tell duplicity to use: > > ftp://[EMAIL

Re: Installing Flash Player

2006-05-20 Thread Ralph Katz
On 05/20/2006 04:40 PM, Raquel Rice wrote: > I would like to install Flash Player for Mozilla and Firefox. > Searching the archives is useless. How might I proceed? > > Thanks for your help! Raquel, The non-free and free players Conflict; choose one. I'm using flashplayer-mozilla from Marilla

Re: xmms and the vorbis plugin

2006-05-07 Thread Ralph Katz
On 05/07/2006 04:10 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: > And I do not have those files installed either: > ~$ ls libogg0 libvorbis0a libvorbisfile3 > ls: libogg0: No such file or directory > ls: libvorbis0a: No such file or directory > ls: libvorbisfile3: No such file or directory NO, I was w

Re: xmms and the vorbis plugin

2006-05-07 Thread Ralph Katz
On 05/07/2006 12:30 PM, LeVA wrote: > 2006. május 7. 17:21, > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -> debian-user@lists.debian.org,: >> On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 13:24 +0200, LeVA wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> I can not make this plugin work. I've installed the xmms package, which >>> comes with an ogg input

Re: Debian SSH server configuration

2006-04-26 Thread Ralph Katz
You wrote: > A quick check of my system log shows 1514 failed ssh attempts in the > last four days. That almost goes away with fail2ban. Works with sarge, too, (though I haven't yet upgraded from fail2ban 0.6.0-3.) Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/26/2006 02:20 PM, Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 01:16:16PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > >>> Bill Thompson on 25/04/06 23:43, wrote: >> >I have also been playing with running openbox with Gnome and KDE >components (for example, openbox using gnome-panel with kdes

Submit bug report to which package for security upgrade?

2006-04-05 Thread Ralph Katz
The recent kernel 2.6 security upgrade for sarge revealed a packaging problem and/or documentation issue I attempted to report on debian-security (1). Basically, on a new sarge install, kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 was installed by the installer. kernel-image-2.6-686 was not installed, but it was *re

Re: Printing under Sarge is messed up.

2006-03-22 Thread Ralph Katz
On 03/22/2006 07:50 AM, Georges de Sablet wrote: > I have very recently the same problem on fedora FC4 with cups. I just > had a crash on my hard disk, I changed it, reinstalled Fedora on the new > one, and now I can lpr a file but can't use a pipe to lpr and have the > same diagnostic. Mozilla or

flashplayer-mozilla: Major security fixes, March 15

2006-03-16 Thread Ralph Katz
FYI -- Fixed in normal update with (marillat in /etc/apt/sources.list), but no security notice I've seen anywhere in debian. So... be sure to upgrade flashplayer-mozilla 7.0.61.0-0.2 -> 7.0.63.0-0.0 http://freshmeat.net/projects/flashplugin/?branch_id=2730&release_id=222491 Flash Plugin for Brow

Re: Page crashes mozilla: BadAlloc

2006-03-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 03/09/2006 02:50 PM, Winston Smith wrote: > Could someone check if this link crashes mozilla and firefox as it does > for me? Thanks. Win > > $ mozilla > 'http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=charlottesville+va' > >>The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-02 Thread Ralph Katz
On 03/02/2006, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > >>> Andrew Cady wrote: >> > >>> I am very certain that Dell does sell servers that optionally >>> have Linux, and even says this on their website. > > > Nothing but lip service. I

Re: file transfer between two debian sarge machines in a lan

2006-02-23 Thread Ralph Katz
I transfer files and maintain systems on the lan all the time with scp and ssh which are configured to avoid re-typing passwords. There's a good discussion here: Password-less logins with OpenSSH http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/152 I prefer to use passwords but only need to enter o

Re: How to determine the VT of a running X session?

2006-02-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 02/15/2006 02:00 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there any way to determine the virtual terminal that an X session is > running on? > > Using 'who' only tells me who is logged onto a VT, which would be fine, > except that it does not show VTs with X sessions. > > I have two X sessions running at

Re: Re: Struggling with Xf86config

2006-02-11 Thread Ralph Katz
On 02/11/2006, pinecone wrote: > I'm running Sarge 3.1 downloaded in the summer. My XF86Config says: > Core Pointer's Input Section Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > > Now, the /dev/psaux is what Knoppix does for the same machne, so I >

Re: Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-038A on Mozilla products

2006-02-09 Thread Ralph Katz
On 02/08/2006 07:40 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > The following appeared yesterday on vulnerabilities in Mozilla products: > > > > > National Cyber Alert System > > Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-038A > > > Multiple Vulnerabilities in Moz

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

2006-02-09 Thread Ralph Katz
On 02/08/2006, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > My help file was removed. nothing is available for 2 in backports. Install the help file for 2.0 from unstable; it has no dependency problems in sarge. Use dpkg -i or, as I do, keep a mixed sarge/sid system and manage with apt preferences (man apt_preferences).

Re: Missing "File Types and Programs" capplet from capplets package in Sarge?

2006-02-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 02/02/2006 03:11 PM, John W. M. Stevens wrote: > In the help for gnome, under: > > 10.2 Where to Find Preference Tools > > It says that to find the File types and programs preference > tool, look under: > > Applications → Desktop Preferences → Advanced → File types and programs > > But on S

Re: rpc.statd paranoia

2006-01-18 Thread Ralph Katz
> And during this whole process I am still trying to learn as much as > possible about administration and security.. Not overwhelmed yet? :) I've found these useful: Securing Debian Manual http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#securing System Administration Tips and Resources http://www.debian

Re: Gaim problems

2006-01-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/14/2006 11:10 PM, Peter Bayliss wrote: > I have just installed Debian 3.1 and everythign seems > to be working > great. however, Gaim was not installed and when i try > to do in using the Synaptic Package Manager, it fails > and tells me that "libao2 >=0.8.6" and "libgtkspell0 > >>=2.0.2 are

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

2005-12-31 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/31/2005 03:40 AM, Chris Howie wrote: > Ah, I should have mentioned this. I am specifically looking for something > that > is *not* Skype, because (a) Skype has no ALSA support and very bad OSS > support, > making it a chore to use, and (b) it cannot be installed alongside KDE 3.4, > which

Re: NIC PnP

2005-12-19 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/18/2005 08:00 PM, Dave Whelan wrote: > I can't get my 3c509 working for aliant dsl, does anyone know how I can check > whether PnP is enabled on this NIC? > Regards, > Dave Whelan. Dave, I have that card working fine on a sarge box with kernel 2.4.27. From the syslog: > Dec 19 10:05:57 lo

Re: apt-get upgrade - kernel-image

2005-12-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/17/2005 10:50 AM, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > Hi, > not sure this is a problem but I'll like to check anyway. > > When doing apt-get upgrade the only package listed for upgrade is the > kernel image. this is working fine and I'm not sure what the upgrade will > do. > > The sources list say

Re: openoffice hangs with 2.6 kernel

2005-12-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/14/2005 11:50 PM, David Zelinsky wrote: > I'm running sarge, so I tried installing it from backports.org, but it > wouldn't install. It depended on some other package that didn't exist > anywhere (don't remember which). > > As for my original problem, I've discovered that when I try to ope

Re: Changing thunderbird default printer

2005-12-13 Thread Ralph Katz
Hi Hugo, Something in your configuration is amiss. If I print to file from the thunderbird print menu, gv displays the default mozilla.ps just fine. Also, no printer choice is necessary if you just check print-to-file. Or, as I've posted earlier, you could use cups and also have the cups-pdf "pr

Re: shell tool OpenOffice2PS?

2005-12-08 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/08/2005 10:20 AM, Robert Michel wrote: > Salve! > > Does anybody knows a tool to convert OOo documents to PS without GUI? > On my laptop is not much space and such a converter could be handy to > have on a server. > > And btw, does somebody knows a good overview about converters to make >

Re: New messages in thunderbird

2005-12-07 Thread Ralph Katz
You wrote: > That really helps. That really should be an option for INBOX and/or any > other parent folders. Something like "check folder and all subfolders > for new mail." Hello Roberto, Doesn't that already exist? Perhaps I misunderstand, but the Get Mail button has a down arrow, which lets

Re: Changing thunderbird default printer

2005-12-07 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/07/2005 08:30 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > When I print in TBird, the default printer shows up as printer1@:64. > When I print to file on that GV can't handle the resulting ps. > > When I change that printer to Postscript/printer1 allOK. > > I would like the latter to be the default l

Re: thunderbird as mailto in mozilla

2005-12-07 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/06/2005 03:40 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > We have the other side of the coin now. > > I managed to open mozilla tabs from thunderbird. > > But how to use thunderbird for the mailto links in *mozilla*, not > firefox. The two seem to do it differently. > > Googling found holgermetz

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-06 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/06/2005 04:40 AM, Peter Nuttall wrote: > It appears that thunderbird doesn't handle local mail (mboxes and > maildirs) very well. > You will have to find out how to get thunderbird to > talk to a local mailbox to make such a idea work. Thunderbird uses mbox formats. In thunderbird: Edi

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/04/2005 11:10 AM, Kaj Wiik wrote: > Hi! > > I installed fail2ban, works well with sarge. > > Cheers, > > Kaj I'm another happy fail2ban sarge user. Easy, fast, thorough solution to the problem of ssh brute force attacks. Search for ssh, and you'll see hundreds (?) of posts to this list

Re: cups driver question

2005-12-02 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/02/2005 10:20 AM, Paras pradhan wrote: > hi all: > > Do i need cupsys-driver-gimpprint and cupsys-driver-gutenprint in > order to use cups? > > I think it is optional. corrcet me if i am wrong. > > Paras, No, you do not need them. If you did need them, as dependencies they'd be automati

Re: PC Slowdowns and Lock-ups

2005-12-02 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/01/2005 12:13 PM, James Caldow wrote: > Hi All, > > I am running Debian Sarge on my work PC and over the past couple of weeks I > have > noticed it getting slower and slower. The PC had been running very well for > months previously using both Sarge and Sid. > It is by no means a high spec

Re: grokking exim4 and slowing spammers with iptables -m recent

2005-11-23 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/23/2005 12:30 AM, Tony Godshall wrote: > > Hi folks. > > I've been using Exim since I started doing e-mail on my Debian box > many years ago. But I never was able to really get into its configs- > the docs are kind of hard to grok for me. And the exim4 configs > really make my brain hurt.

Re: .bash_history

2005-11-20 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/20/2005 05:20 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: > I rely on .bash_history alot to remind me what command syntax to use - I > don't scroll back thro the history with the up button, I just grep the > .bash_history file for the command I want to run. > > This used to work until recently when I found that t

Re: Thunderbird isn't honoring message body text style

2005-11-20 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/19/2005 07:40 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I'm using Thunderbird for another email account and I would like to > discourage TB from displaying the message text in its fancy quoting > style. So, I go to View|Message Body As|Plain Text and HTML messages > do indeed change to plain text. Yet,

Re: A page that causes Firefox (Sarge) to close

2005-11-18 Thread Ralph Katz
This looks like: Crashes when displaying image https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310917 http://www.movieweb.com crashes ff 1.5 RC3 from mozilla.org as well as an older debian ff on my sarge box. Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: popPort:NOKIA 3120

2005-11-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/17/2005 09:20 AM, H S Rai wrote: > Can we make Nokia 3120 mobile to communicate with Debian based PC. I > installed GAMMU/WAMMU, but I could not make it functional using its > popPort > > Anyone who has used it or knows how to make it through. > > This is the only thing, which is compellin

Re: fail2ban on sarge.

2005-11-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/10/2005 02:30 PM, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > Hi all, > I've installed fail2ban from unstable on my sarge box. Is any one using it > on sarge? If so I could yse your help. It seems as though it's not working. > I'm still getting alot of failed login attempts over SSH and never get > emailed abou

Re: thunderbird and mail from the system

2005-11-05 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/05/2005 11:10 AM, Adam Hardy wrote: > Michael Marsh on 17/05/05 13:18, wrote: > >> On 5/17/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Is it possible to set up Thunderbird to pull up the mail from my mailbox >>> on my debian box? >> >> >> >> Thunderbird calls this a "Unix movemail" acco

Re: What to do with attackers?

2005-11-04 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/04/2005 06:30 AM, Thomas wrote: > Hello there, > > recently, i can see ofthen brute force attacks in my ssh logfile. > A friend of mine, who has the same ISP gets the same bruteforce attacks. > > What would be an adequate reaction to repeated ssh bruteforce attacks? > > Should i contact th

Re: RealPlayer causing ~/.xsession-errors flood

2005-10-31 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/31/2005 04:00 PM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running GNOME 2.10.2 in Debian Etch on an i686 platform. Just > noticed that before long my ~/.xsession-errors file looks like this > every time I launch RealPlayer. > > (I don't want to use RealPlayer but as far as I know it's t

Re: Firefox crashes [was Re: Desktop Crashes]

2005-10-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/29/2005 10:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My firefox crashes are not random. They happen consistently at the same > places when I do the same things. > > e.g. > I can visit the ebay home page but as soon as I do a search it crashes > In my webmail when I try to upload an attachment with t

Firefox crashes [was Re: Desktop Crashes]

2005-10-29 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/29/2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Definitely hardware. Do you have another motherboard? That would be > great so you can crosscheck. Mobos are not expensive BTW, I note you > can get a refurbished Abit for $37. > > None of those packages you mention crash in Sarge. Not so fast... :) Firefo

Re: set from: address in standard command-line mailer (/usr/bin/mail)

2005-10-20 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/18/2005 04:20 PM, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:04:17AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: >> When I send mail using /usr/bin/mail, the From: address is wrong; it's >> apparently just prepending my user-id to my domainname. >> >> How can I tell mail to use a different

Re: User shutdown from xfce4 or gdm

2005-10-15 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/15/2005 02:00 AM, Donald Perkovich wrote: > I am using gdm and xfce 4.0 and would like to be able to shutdown > as my normal user without giving a password. It seems like this > is possible. Xfce4 gives a message when I try to shutdown when I > log out that I must install sudo or put the us

Re: Re: Strange crontab-problem

2005-10-10 Thread Ralph Katz
> Sometimes about 2500 times an hour. It's just > very annoying. > > So sshd is constantly busy rejecting illegal users. > When I don't need access to that server, I shut down > sshd. Perhaps take a look at the recent thread: Re: SSH attack And my reply about a new package, fail2ban: http://l

Re: Re: Command line reference

2005-10-10 Thread Ralph Katz
> What I'm looking for is a site that simply lists the Debian commands > that are available. Rather like those old hideous DOS cheatsheets > that used to be around in the early '90s. As others have suggested, the commands depend on the packages installed. Perhaps you'd like this: Debian GNU/Linu

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-05 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/04/2005 11:00 PM, David E. Fox wrote: > I've logged thousands of attempts from chinanet > and kornet within the last few days. I've reported (as if that would do > any good) with "Free Tibet" and of course copies of the log - 500K in > one instance(!) but am more interested in just blocking t

Re: Looking for a way to check for status of DHCP connection

2005-10-02 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/01/2005 07:00 PM, Arjen Verweij wrote: > Hi, > > I have an annoying problem lately. Sometimes my cable internet (DHCP) > breaks down. It is usually fixable by: > > sudo ifdown eth1 > sudo ifup eth1 > > For now I have written a small perl script that runs as root, to do this > for me in cas

Re: Howto start X in a default resolution?

2005-09-29 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/28/2005 10:31 AM, Pep Serrano wrote: > Hi lists. I am trying to setup an X server with KDM on a laptop which has > wide screen format (1280x768) and normal screen (1280x1024) when connected > to an external monitor. > But I don't get to configure the wide screen format as the default one. >

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-27 Thread Ralph Katz
Debian has the Linux HowTo's: > ~$ apt-cache show doc-linux-text > Package: doc-linux-text > Priority: standard > Section: doc > Installed-Size: 9136 > Maintainer: Debian LDP Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: all > Source: doc-linux > Version: 2005.04-1 > Replaces: doc-linux, doc-lin

Re: Shutdown missing from GNOME "Actions" menu....

2005-09-24 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/23/2005 05:00 PM, Redefined Horizons wrote: > Debian Users, > > I recently completed my first install of a dual-boot box with Debian > Sarge and Windows XP. > Any time now you'll find yourself 100% debian. :) > However, on my first solo Debian Sarge box I had "Reboot" and "Shutdown" > o

Re: Freshness of packages

2005-09-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/14/2005 02:10 PM, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any way to know how fresh are the packages? > > Ie, say I'm running Debian Testing, and notice that a bunch of packages > need to be upgraded, is there any way for me to know how long have those > packages been in Debian Testing repository?

Re: Re: screen resolution

2005-09-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/14/2005 03:10 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > only thing I can think of is that your monitor settings aren't right. > I had similar problems for a while with my envision en-710e. my horiz > sync and vert refresh ranges weren't right and consequently it > couldn't get a good set-up for the

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-09-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/14/2005 02:56 AM, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On 9/14/05, *Ralph Katz* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > On 09/13/2005 08:20 AM, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > Though I get print header and footer, in header I don't get title and >

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-09-13 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/13/2005 08:20 AM, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Though I get print header and footer, in header I don't get title and > for date/time in footer I get only time which is not matching local > time. Where it needs configuration? For title, date/time in firefox: Print -> Page Setup -> Margins & Header/Foo

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-09-11 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/06/2005 11:52 AM, Simo Kauppi wrote: [...] > I printed a test page with CUPS (from the CUPS admin page in > localhost:631) which gave me a nice border showing the printable area. > From that I got the values to use in firefox Print->Properties... > dialog. > > I think the values in the Pag

Re: Re: Desktop System Requierments

2005-08-31 Thread Ralph Katz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You may want to see if she likes Abiword. It now supports the OASIS > file format (same as OOo) and is much lighter than OOo. This is a great > alternative if all she needs is a word processor. Yes, absolutely agree! But you know how it is... sometimes familiarity wi

Re: Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-08-31 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/30/2005 05:40 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I installed cups-pdf, set up the virtual printer and printing to it > the pdf docs in $HOME/cups-pdf cannot be printed because they contain > no pages. > > H Hugo, What do you mean, "they contain no pages?" You printed to the cups-pdf printer.

Re: Desktop System Requierments

2005-08-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/30/2005 01:20 AM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:48:16PM -0600, Ð???ä?? vÎ?? wrote: > >>Hello, can someone tell me the basic system requirements for some Linux >>Desktops? i just need the processor speed and amount of ram required for >>Gnome, KDE, XFCE4, and Fl

Re: Not able to print page footer or header.

2005-08-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/28/2005 08:10 PM, George App wrote: > I am currently running debian testing (etch) > > I am unable to get the page footer to print when for example printing > a webpage using firefox. When I do a page preview both the header > and footer show up. Any ideas? > > Thanks, George > > This

Re: Newest Firefox - Problems

2005-08-23 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/21/2005 07:30 PM, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [sarge; mozilla-firefox-1.0.4-2sarge2] > > I've encounter some problems after the recent 'firefox' update ... > > For example, entering C-b (or selecting View/Sidebar/Bookmarks via the > menus) causes 'firefox' to immediately exit. Same with C-h (

Re: Re: Sunbird?

2005-08-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/17/2005 08:20 PM, Rick Macdonald wrote: > If there is a deb package someday, I don't have a mess to clean up. But there is one from the Thunderbird maintainer, Alexander Sack: [Preview Release] Sunbird 0.2+ snapshot for Debian update http://asoftsite.org/s9y/archives/83-Preview-Release

Re: Firefox and Debian Testing: Getting Security Updates?

2005-08-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/17/2005 02:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a happy user of Testing, but I'm a bit concerned about getting > updates to Firefox in a timely manner. The current version in Testing > is 1.0.4-2, which has recently-announced vulnerabilities in it. The > vulns (I don't like typing that wor

Re: diary with encryption

2005-08-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/17/2005 01:00 AM, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for an application which can store my notes in an > _encrypted_ way. Preferably it is GTK+ or console based, and > has some development to keep up with the current GTK+ version > at least. > > Thanks, > Laszlo/GCS apt-cache

Re: Re: Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox,thunderbird...

2005-08-12 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/12/2005 03:10 PM, Alexander Sack wrote: >> firefox (318061) it's resolved, Done, Will be archived: in 20 days. >> > I just looked at the bug and it is not closed. It's a visualization > bug in our BTS IMO. I guess it has something to do with the new > versioned bug tracking feature recently

Re: From what point on does Logger work? Can I start it earlier?

2005-08-11 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/11/2005 01:00 PM, Brian wrote: > Hi, > subject says it all. I would like to know what exactly "Logger" depends > on, and from what point in the boot process it is usable? > > I assume it needs klogd to be running, which is started by RC on my > system 2.6.10 Kernel Sarge. > > Any way I can

Re: how to login automatically into Bash after booting?

2005-08-11 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/11/2005 05:20 AM, phyrster wrote: > Hi debianers, > > Is there a way to let bash automatically login a user after booting up? > > The sarge box is just for home use and there is no remote login or other > remote control sort of things. For the convenience of a local user (non > root), how

Re: Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox,thunderbird...

2005-08-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/04/2005 11:20 AM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I backported the newest versions of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird and > enigmail to Sarge. (Sorry, no galeon or epiphany since I don't use > them.) Anyone who wants them and is willing to trust me (shouldn't be > too scary since I'm in the NM queu

Re: setting up the graphics

2005-08-05 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/05/2005 08:10 AM, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > Hi > > I want to go through the setup for the graphics side of things as I > think my graphics card is not set up right. I have an nvidia TNT2 PCI > with 32mb of ram. But the best resolution I can get is only 800x600 > which means I can't see a l

Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird...

2005-08-02 Thread Ralph Katz
Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox, and thunderbird is unfolding on debian-security: > From: Martin Schulze > it seems that less than two months after the release of sarge it is > not possible to support Mozilla, Thunderbird, Firefox (and probably > Galeon) packages anym

Re: authetication

2005-07-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/01/2005 01:30 PM, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > when i try to install software using apt i get the message " Not > Authenticated " what is this... what happened ? > This article may help: Using the GPG signature checking with apt 0.6 http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/174 -- To UNSUB

Re: easy vimdiff like program

2005-07-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/30/2005 11:40 AM, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I need to compare two files, in a quite accurate way, i tried vimdiff, > but it is quite hard to learn. > Does someone know about a program that makes the same of vimdiff, but > is easier, and possibly for gnome/kde? > > Thnx > PAolo tkdiff and xfd

Re: sarge security

2005-06-22 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/21/2005 02:50 PM, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello *, > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 12:09:38PM -0600, yo mero wrote: > >>So can I ignore this : >>http://www.infodrom.org/~joey/log/?200506142140 >> >>as it its from the same guy who sends the security advisories >>worried me a LOT > > > Ac

Re: CNN video with Sarge & Firefox???

2005-06-22 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/21/2005 04:00 PM, Martin D. Weinberg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running sarge and have: > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main > > with mplayer and plugger installed. When I launch the cnn video window, > mplayer doesn't run. plugger does launch the process, e.g. from ps: > > pl

Re: Firefox / Profile

2005-06-20 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/20/2005 08:00 PM, x wrote: > I have been using Firefox on my laptop fine ever since I installed Sarge > on it about 3 weeks ago. But now, for some reason, when I launch it, it > asks me to pick a profile. There is only one profile there... > "default". When I click on default, I get the me

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

2005-06-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/10/2005 04:20 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced > messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and > sending out bogus messages. I normally get a few of these and mark them > as spam, but this is ridiculous. Is

Re: iptables firestarter bug

2005-01-06 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/06/2005 03:00 PM, John Smith wrote: Hi All, running a sarge box with 2.4.27, updated firestarter today, reconfigured as mandated, got the following error message when starting: iptables v1.2.11: Couldn't load target `LS':/lib/iptables/libipt_LS.so: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: gpg-agent packaged...?

2005-01-05 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/05/2005 01:20 PM, Tom wrote: Hey ho, I'm once again trying to force myself to consistently sign my e-mail traffic. I remember KMail offered an option to keep the passphrase in memory during the current session, but that option seems to have vanished in the most recent version in sid. Which

Re: debian-user and mail tools

2005-01-05 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/05/2005 10:50 AM, Bob Alexander wrote: Up to now I have been reading this lists mail with Thunderbird, fetching it via IMAP from my ISP. Thunderbird does a decent (but not wonderful) job of filtering spam. Of course it threads topics and I can label individual emails in different colours.

Re: mozilla-thunderbird and filtering to nested sub-folders

2005-01-04 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/04/2005 06:00 AM, James Cummings wrote: Has anyone else had a problem filtering to nested sub-folders in thunderbird? I'll describe in more detail: I create a new filter rule, and select when address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] to put it in AccountName/Folder/Subfolder. To do this using the f

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/03/2005 03:00 PM, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 02:26:15PM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: You missed this in searching for your answer. :) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html $ gnome-keybinding-properties Is there an equivalent answer for folks not

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/03/2005 08:30 AM, Christian Hammers wrote: Hello Cut & paste from xterm via mouse-middle-click does not work with mozilla-firefox on a Debian Sarge desktop. It used to work with Mozilla 1.7 and it does work on my Debian Sid desktop at home. When I paste it via middle-click into a gnome-termin

Re: Problems with kernel-image-2.4.27-1-k7 (2.4.27-6) (Testing)

2005-01-01 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/01/2005 02:30 PM, Jedi Knight wrote: Hello, I'm running woody here with some packages from sid and sarge. I was using the 2.4.27-1-k7 kernel (version 2.4.27-2) and everything was working perfectly. Some time ago an update was released (version 2.4.2-6), so I installed it through apt-get. Ho

Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-19 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/19/2004 09:10 AM, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > >> for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when >> you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears >> which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to >> firefox which enabl

Re: Re: Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-18 Thread Ralph Katz
perhaps you might see the same as i do if you temporarily move your .mozilla-thunderbird folder out of the way, and set up a new account. Ouch! You're right. Fresh install ain't working for enigmail. You should file a bug report. Alex is very good with the fixes. (I've filed several reports on

Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/18/2004 12:00 AM, Sam Halliday wrote: thanks, unfortunately that is not an optimal solution as on my laptop keyboard it is quite tricky to send Delete. Tricky to hit the delete key?! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/17/2004 11:40 PM, Travis Crump wrote: If it makes you feel any better, I can't for the life of me figure out where in the gnome-keyboard-properties dialog you are supposed to set this. From terminal: $ gnome-keybinding-properties Note that that is different from gnome-keyboard-properties. --

Re: Re: Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/17/2004 06:50 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: Sam Halliday wrote: by the way, i installed the enigmail plugin, but i am having real hassles trying to get it to work with GPG signing/encryption. has anyone got a HOWTO or some advice on how to set this up? Make sure to turn on hushmail support. It pass

Re: Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/17/2004 08:30 PM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it. I learned the answer earlier from this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html Some additional notes are

Re: Thunderbird 1.0

2004-12-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/17/2004 12:00 PM, Sam Halliday wrote: hi there, does anyone know if thunderbird 1.0 is going to make it into unstable anytime soon? cheers Alexander Sack, the debian maintainer, has what you want on his website: http://www.jwsdot.com/debian/index.html Debian Thunderbird HOME Regards. -- To

Re: Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ralph Katz
Ben, This is getting more interesting While I am using firestarter obtained from a periodic update from testing, you are again correct that firestarter does not appear in the testing archives *today*! I don't know why. ~$ apt-cache policy firestarter firestarter: Installed: 0.9.3-6 Cand

Re: Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ralph Katz
Oops! I looked at my sources.list and made a wrong accusation about a typo in yours. Yours looks correct. Sorry about that. But do switch to a mirror, I'll stick with that suggestion. :) Ralph (using firestarter in sarge) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Firestarter for Testing (Sarge)?

2004-12-16 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/16/2004 02:20 PM, Ben Bettin wrote: I think I answered my own question. Poking around at the documentation project's site I found the following: Ben, You have a typo in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Firestarter has been in testing all along. I would still like to get Firestarter if it's p

Re: Converting from KMail

2004-12-14 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/14/2004 12:10 PM, Michael Satterwhite wrote: KMail is so bad about locking things while retrieving mail that I'd like to try some of the alternatives such as Thunderbird. Unfortunately, mdir isn't that well supported in other packages. Does anyone know of a tool to convert from mdir to mbo

Re: Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/09/2004 10:20 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: [snipping liberally] Looking to convert customers to Linux. Our main business is hardware. Repair and hardware is where the money's at, not this software stuff. Our customers trust us OK, now we've got some focus. I'd argue that what probably makes

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-09 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/08/2004 08:00 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on what people would expect in a retail kit for Debian, as I've been put in charge of pushing Debian in the shop I work at. Right now, since we're concerned only with i386, I'm thinking a Sarge CD set and a printed copy of

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