Re: Plonking

2005-06-11 Thread Phil Dyer
Hal Vaughan said: On Friday 10 June 2005 10:17 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday June 10 2005 8:08 am, Phil Dyer wrote: plonk! Oh, please. Can we possibly get any more childish? Please don't advertise your filters, it tends to cause headers to evolve. Even the emotionally disturbed

Re: KDE 3.4

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piero Piutti said: deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.0/ ./ There's a kde-3.4.1 there now too. - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCqW9zGbd/rBLcaFwRAl42AKDVMYWA3xe8KqmYFfP2WBG2q1FyRQCdHelG

Re: Dns resolving from linux pc in windows network

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 debian said: We use windows 2003 servers and various linux application servers, DNS is on windows and we have a suffix say; test.tralala So when i perform the command Host 192.168.0.10 i must get a reply that this host is pipo.test.tralala

Re: SPAM:Re: Dns resolving from linux pc in windows network

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 debian said: Thnx for the reply. My windows has reverse zone. Can you see the rev entry in windows dns for a specific box? - From the windows box, can you nslookup the ipaddress with correct results? This is an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
I agree with that point exactly. PS: 2 points for anybody that can figure out which point, or even which poster I'm agreeing with. (I really did try to stay out of this...) phil Mark said: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday June 9 2005 5:10 pm, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I completely agree.

Re: Top posting

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 :0 * ^Subject: .*Top Posting /dev/null plonk! - -- /phil -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key: http://www.dyermaker.org/gpgkey iD8DBQFCqazoGbd/rBLcaFwRApEUAKCBS0dHR+PtjqAOovs4jZKOCq8o1wCgkhpr

Re: IP Address assigned by ISP, dns set as static?

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Nicholls said: I've been having a few problems with dns lookups and have been given a new set up dns servers and not the same ones placed into resolv.conf by dhcp. Obviously if I make a change to resolv.conf, it will be soon-after be

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
John Hasler said: Marty writes: This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an apt.conf file. toncho/~ 1 ls /etc/apt apt-file.conf apt.conf.d listchanges.conf sources.list [EMAIL PROTECTED] pad]$ ls /etc/apt apt.conf.d sources.list -- /phil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez said: Pretty much. And since most now do S/MIME and PGP/MIME instead of the old ASCII inline, if they don't it shows up as some random attachment, instead of a bunch of crap at the top and bottom of a message. The thing with

Re: apt-get problems

2005-06-08 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason G Skala said: I am running woody still and if I do any apt-get command from update to upgrade I get the following apt-get update gives apt-get update Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org stable/main Packages Since sarge is now stable, I'm sure

Re: Confused-New Stable Sarge Dist-Upgrade

2005-06-07 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leonard Chatagnier said: tar: ./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/modules.symbols: Cannot write: No space left on device tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I chacked partition space with df and seem to have ample room as shown

Re: Only root access the internet

2005-06-03 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 xxx xxx said: Hi all, I'm trying for the last 6 months to connect to the Internet as an ordinary user but only root can! I gave full permissions to pppd, all /etc/ppp files, kppp, wvdial. I can connect but when I open Mozilla I can't connect

Re: Only root access the internet

2005-06-03 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phil Dyer said: xxx xxx said: Hi all, I'm trying for the last 6 months to connect to the Internet as an ordinary user but only root can! I gave full permissions to pppd, all /etc/ppp files, kppp, wvdial. I can connect but when I open

Re: root compromise on debian woody

2005-05-27 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess said: Well to choose one security hole at random out of dozens to hundreds that remain unfixed in woody's kernels, this one allows anyone to go from a normal user account to root: CAN-2005-1263 [Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege

Re: OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Dickopp said: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin writes: Apparently, command line programs exist for Microsoft Windows which can only be run successfully if at least one command line option is provided to them. That's true of

Re: Custom kernel building and mkinitrd

2005-05-25 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ibrahim Mubarak said: OK. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest kernel off of kernel.org, compiled it and installed it. Still mkinitrd doesn't output the image. So I tried to mkinitrd of the running kernel. Still nothing. I am guessing it is

Re: html to pdf conversion

2005-05-23 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deboo ^ said: Is there a html to pdf converter utility/script or any such thing available for debian? I could not find using apt search. you can use a combination of html2ps and ps2pdf. They are both available as deb packages. - -- /phil

Re: Network scan

2005-05-15 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexandar Angelov said: Mark Roach wrote: Do you know any command(script) to scan range from 192.168.35.1 to 92.168.35.255 and return if port :80 , :21 and MAC Addr. nmap MAC? Sure. nmap will return the mac...if the scanned machine is on

Re: something unclear with sed for me

2005-05-11 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andras Lorincz wrote: I want to replaces all multiple spaces with one space. My first attempt was this: sed -e 's/\ */\ /g' This replaced all multiple spaces with one but as a side effect, sed inserted a space between all characters. You

Re: bash command substitution problem

2005-05-08 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pollywog said: I have a function defined in my .bashrc as: function lf { /bin/ls -l | grep ^- ; } It prints the files in the CWD without listing other directories. Suppose I want to 'chmod 600' all the files in the CWD without affecting

logrotate

2005-05-08 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Been getting these emails from cron lately... running sarge. /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: /tmp/logrotate.qRrfw3: line 4: kill: (880) - No such process /tmp/logrotate.nnWbEs: line 4: kill: (880) - No such process any clues? - -- /phil -BEGIN

Re: Auto Disconnecting...

2005-05-06 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerzy Wolowik said: telnet daemon: in.telnetd in /usr/sbin/ it's 0.17-18woody2 according to dpkg managed by inted and indirectly by tcpd daemon as stated in inetd.conf: [snip...] Watch out! Please, think at first of all that obvious things

Re: Auto disconnecting time

2005-05-06 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerzy Wolowik said: Yeah, I've been doing so. But problem persists. OK, so if I've got this straight - you're having problems with not only telnet disconnecting, but also ssh? Do you have autolog installed? Anything in /var/log concerning the

Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?

2005-05-05 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A.Melon said: I searched for information on this and found only solutions by parsing the output of websites that display the HTTP REMOTE_ADDR. But I don't want to rely on an external website. I know there must be a way to do this because

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miquel van Smoorenburg said: OK, although both solutions work, (I guess - I haven't tried the second solution) it still seems kludgy to me. If I use the debian supplied tool to remove a service from startup _totally_, and I use a debian supplied tool

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler said: It won't restart the service if you have left at least one K link in place. Debian provides several tools for turning services on and off. My favorite is sysvconfig (since I wrote it). thanks, John. I'm checking out sysvconfig

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-02 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miquel van Smoorenburg said: If you want to keep updates from starting the daemon, just chmod 644 it. That sounds reasonable...and simple. :) thanks. Reasonable, simple, and wrong :) As long as one start or stop link is still present,

Re: Potential Virus or System Message?

2005-05-01 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Faithful John: I got this weird message, when I left my email through Telnet/Pine running when I left my house. I'd say someone got in, and they got in far enough to shutdown the machine, which generally means

Re: Potential Virus or System Message?

2005-05-01 Thread Phil Dyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Faithful John said: So this gives me a second question. I'm pretty sure that I disabled the remote access ability stuff (though I'm not 100% on that at this moment). Is there a chance someone could still get into my system in any way and do

unable to start X after upgrade to potato

2000-06-06 Thread Phil Dyer
Peter Mickle wrote: I have recently upgraded to potato, and after doing so, I can no longer open an X session, either from xdm or from startx. The version is 3.3.6-6. At boot time, the last two lines of the messages generated by the boot process are: Checking for valid XFree86 Server

Re: Woody: missing parse-xf86config? /etc/init.d.xdm wants it!

2000-03-29 Thread Phil Dyer
Brian Boonstra wrote: Hi Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this weekend. I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because /etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it. Any clues as to how I can get it back?

Re: help with linux

2000-01-05 Thread Phil Dyer
jd wrote: hello im hoping you can help me im trying to down load linux and i dont no where to start i know you probly have better things to do than to help linux dummies but if you can give me any help i would be thankfull james ward email [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think the easiest way to

Re: Getting mail and browsing the web

1999-08-22 Thread Phil Dyer
Walter Logeman wrote: Web I have Lynx running but hitting the red urls does not work unless the file is local. Is it just a matter of configuring a file somewhere? Walter Walter, It sounds like you don't have dns servers set up. Find out your ISP's DNS servers address(es). As

Re: GNOME packages for slink

1999-08-21 Thread Phil Dyer
Marcin Owsiany wrote: Hi, Does anybody remember the URL to those unofficial GNOME packages for slink? they were released some two months ago, i believe... Marcin http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink/ or if you're using apt: deb

Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)

1999-08-01 Thread Phil Dyer
Salman Ahmed wrote: (5) Initially, I tried to get the .debs for XFree86-3.3.3.1-2 from the following site : ftp.netgod.net. Upon instructions from another Debian user, who has been kind enough to offer email support during my installation nightmare (Hi Kris!), I added the following line to

Re: Corel Wordperfect nightmare

1999-07-31 Thread Phil Dyer
Paul wrote: First I was told that I didn`t have libm.so.5 so the graphical Installer wouldn`t work, then a load of error messages saying wp.No such file or directory Finally it askes me for an installation directory so I type in /usr or /home and it says invalid directory and quits.

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-07-25 Thread Phil Dyer
Carl Fink wrote: Is there a way to try KDE/GNOME on stable that I'm missing? I did some fairly extensive searches via www.debian.org's package search engine. I should specify that I want a reasonably new release of either, not the alpha GNOME in stable. Doing a search on the archives of:

Re: hamm dist sites

1999-06-23 Thread Phil Dyer
Robert Rati wrote: Are there any ftp sites with the hamm dist still on them? All ther ones I've found only have slink and potato. Thanks. Rob http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/dists/

wmaker-gnome crashes with netscape mail

1999-06-08 Thread Phil Dyer
Can anybody else confirm? WindowMaker .53 will crash if you have the messenger window open (not minimized) in Netscape 4.6 and get a new email -- dyer

Re: HELP please !

1999-05-25 Thread Phil Dyer
Wolfgang Fink wrote: Hi everybody, so please, can anybody help me to unsubscribe from this mailing-list ? I have tryed almost everything with my Netscape 4.5 - Browser und Mailtool. Thanks a lot, Wolfgang read here. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe --

Re: configuring modem, installing netscape communicator

1999-02-21 Thread Phil Dyer
Daniel Kahraman wrote: Hello All: How do I install my modem? I think it is already installed. So the question becomes how do I set up the dial-up configuration (manually) for my local ISP? Dan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Dan, run pppconfig. ( I

Re: magic cookie error

1999-02-20 Thread Phil Dyer
Pollywog wrote: I am getting this MAGIC COOKIE error when I try to run some X stuff as root. Is there something I can add to my profile in order to avoid it? Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key ktail: cannot connect to X server :0.0 thanks --

Re: libsvga

1998-11-22 Thread Phil Dyer
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 12:01:06AM -0500, Phil Dyer wrote: Hi all, Trying to upgrade to svgalibg1.0.3 or dummy but dpkg won't let me replace the current svgalib. Just trying to install gs, ghostview. How do I get around this? thanks, dyer more info needed - what's the error message and how

libsvga

1998-11-18 Thread Phil Dyer
Hi all, Trying to upgrade to svgalibg1.0.3 or dummy but dpkg won't let me replace the current svgalib. Just trying to install gs, ghostview. How do I get around this? thanks, dyer

RE: chatscript permissions (fixed)

1998-09-05 Thread Phil Dyer
also have execute permission on /etc/chatscript. This a known bug in the ppp package. -- That's it, just had to give execute to /etc/chatscripts. Thanks. -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ We should be careful to get out of an experience

chatscript permissions

1998-09-04 Thread Phil Dyer
Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon. /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it back? thanx, Phil Dyer

hamm and login question

1998-07-01 Thread Phil Dyer
Just upgraded to hamm, and now when I login I get:Unknown item 'ISSUE_FILE_ENAB'this comes after login prompt and before passwd prompt. /etc/login.defs is set to ISSUE_FILE_ENAB no What's the deeeal with that? thanks, -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED

hamm upgrade/c++ libraries

1998-06-29 Thread Phil Dyer
. Is there a package that I missed? I'm using kernel 2.0.33. Thanks, -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove

default color depth

1998-03-21 Thread Phil Dyer
How do I append XF86Config to get a startx default of 16? I know it's gotta be in the display section, but where and how? thanks, -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom

Re: printcap for bjc4000

1998-03-18 Thread Phil Dyer
magicfilterconfig and chose the bj200. Then edited as you said, everything is hunky-dory now. thanks all, Phil Dyer On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, dyer wrote: Rich Sahlender wrote: Could someone tell me how to setup my printcap for a bjc4000 printer. I'm a newbie, so please be gentle. I need to be able