Re: Dicota PC-Link Z14438Z

2007-01-10 Thread Gerard H. Pille
Douglas Tutty schreef: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:10:59AM -0800, Gerard H. Pille wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've just gotten this USB host-to-host device for my new-year, and I > > wonder if it can be used with Linux. > > > > When connected, the device is recognised as a cdrom: > > > scsi 1:0:0:

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:57:25PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: .. forgot to mention that elinks not only supports frames but also tabbed browsing...! uploaded a screenshot featuring the dillo home page for your review: http://www.geocities.com/cga/pic00/dillo1.png It features two tabs -- see

Re: Вопрос по установ ке

2007-01-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Bud Rogers wrote: Very kind of you both to try to help the OP, and to explain to those of us who do not read Russian. Not so nice to request a return receipt when posting to a mail list, though :-) Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made fr

Re: Eudora -> Evolution how?

2007-01-10 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El mié, 10-01-2007 a las 21:39 +, Andrew M.A. Cater escribió: > I've a colleague on the phone now: he wants to transfer Eudora mail > archives from a Windows partition -> Evolution under Debian - Testing. > I think that eudora uses mbox files for the mail folders. All that you have to

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Mike McCarty
Justin Gallardo wrote: Hey All, I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list netiquette(as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that http://www.albion.com/netiquette http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html http://writersw

Re: Вопрос по установ ке

2007-01-10 Thread Vladimir Kozlov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just to keep you informed: He tries to install debian 31r4-i386 on single-core AMD64 with Asus motherboard and Samsung 400 Gb SATA-II harddrive. I've suggested him to try Etch due to better SATA support (as it is very close to be "stable" now) and as

Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

2007-01-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
-Original Message- From: Justin Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2007 19:32 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ? I currently have a server with an 80GB hdd which is running out of space very quickly. I want to now a

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:57:25PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > I haven't looked at mplayer. Do you mean that I can watch a DVD on a > serial console? I use lynx when I don't need frames or images and dillo > when I do. I only use firefox when I need java or images + https. I've > tried some ot

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-10 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:59:24 -0800 "Bryce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, my critique was in a pathetic attempt to pass off > oneself as speaking English natively, which that spammer seemed > to be trying. > > However, I am impressed by your summary judgment of my > intelligence level b

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-01-10 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:13:38 -0500 Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Does anyone know of a debian-based rescue CD or USB image that's lighter > then Knoppix? Knoppix seems to be overkill. I just need a shell, raid, > lvm, and fs tools (so far, just like the installer rescue mode

[OT] multi-boot many small ISO from the same CD

2007-01-10 Thread ][
Hi, I recently found that there are these kind of collection CDs that contains multi small Live CDs on one CD, and bootable floppy disk images as well. I've found one utility to create such CDs, but that's Windoze based. I'm wonder if anyone knows if there is any way to create such collection C

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:44:59 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Another one: Avoid going AOL! on the list. If you must AOL! the list, at > least trim it down to just what you're AOLing. What is "going AOL!"? Celejar -- ssuds.sourceforge.net - Home of Ssuds and Ssudg, a S

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-10 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:26:56 -0500 Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Before you assume this, you should check the netfilter docs. If by > default I block all outgoing and incomming connections then there's no > way to establish an 'existing' connection in the first place. If I >

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-01-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed January 10 2007 20:45, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:28:38PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:13:38PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > Of course this won't work with my new box: SATA drives, LVM on raid1, > > > etc. Knoppix is a huge iso a

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:57:25PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I haven't looked at mplayer. Do you mean that I can watch a DVD on a > serial console? I use lynx when I don't need frames or images and dillo I'm not sure about a serial console, but definitely a VT on the machine. It uses the

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:25:51PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > Hi Roberto > > > > I can buy that. Hard to watch a DVD or use a full-featured web-browser, > > or read a pdf with diagrams without X. > > > Except that wa

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:45:53PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I'm looking for debian-based since I know how it works e.g. setting up > networking, raid and lvm stuff, etc. It'll only take 9 nights to get > Knoppix so I'll do that and perhaps later make a USB-based rescue set up > like I had

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:28:38PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:13:38PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > Of course this won't work with my new box: SATA drives, LVM on raid1, > > etc. Knoppix is a huge iso and I'm on dial-up in the country (2K/s) and > > will t

Re: gforge problems

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:51:40PM +0300, Vladimir Kozlov wrote: > Hello, > > I've just installed etch from scratch, and installed gforge, but during > the installation I've got following problems: > > 1. In /etc/postgresql/7.4/main/postgresql.conf it is necessary to change > > #tcpip_socket = f

Re: light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:13:38PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > Of course this won't work with my new box: SATA drives, LVM on raid1, > etc. Knoppix is a huge iso and I'm on dial-up in the country (2K/s) and > will take 72 hrs via ftp. > There are some small (~100 MB) rescue CD distros out th

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:00:48PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > Hi Roberto > > I can buy that. Hard to watch a DVD or use a full-featured web-browser, > or read a pdf with diagrams without X. > Except that watching a DVD with 'mplayer -vo aa dvd://1' is quite the console-based experience. A

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 23:37:30 PM -0800, Justin Gallardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hey All, > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > netiquette > ... > Also, if you can think of any other good points to bring up during > this talk, I would love to hear them. 0)

light-weight rescue live CD?

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
I'm running Etch amd64 and this is my first box without a floppy drive. On previous boxes I've used Woody's boot floppies and some extra utilities disks I've made to cobble together a text-mode rescue setup on a ram disk. Of course this won't work with my new box: SATA drives, LVM on raid1, etc.

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-10 Thread Bryce
Also, any decent Bayesian filter, or indeed any filter will not be thwarted or totally thrown off by one reply to spam, or (in the long run) a whole bunch of them. Anyone who disagrees with this doesn't understand the concept of Bayes' Theorem and how it is practically applied. - Origina

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 17:08:16 PM +0100, Per Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Here is my 0.02$: > > - Never start a new topic by replying to an existing email and just > change the subject. This will mess things up for people (like me) who > uses threads. Fortunately proper mail clients (r

contact me for more details

2007-01-10 Thread rose kabila
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Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:57:54PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:10:25PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:52:11PM +, Wulfy wrote: > > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > >Of course, some things simply cannot be done without a GUI.

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-10 Thread Bryce
Actually, my critique was in a pathetic attempt to pass off oneself as speaking English natively, which that spammer seemed to be trying. However, I am impressed by your summary judgment of my intelligence level based on an irrelevant conclusion inferred from a single-sentence e-mail. You are

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-10 Thread David Shultz
it looks like fb_nvidia_i2c came in 2.6.12 per: http://www.mailarchives.org/list/debian-kernel/msg/2005/04040 so it should be in etch I'll try etch then. If still have the problem then will try sid. Thanks to all forum members for their help. I really appreciate it.

df nor FSView reporting correct free space

2007-01-10 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi all, I am running Reiserfs as the file system on my Sid desktop install. Recently I downloaded and burnt a couple of dvd iso images of Etch, and then promptly forgot about them. When I went to run apt-get upgrade tonight I found that I had run out of disk space on a partition of approxim

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-10 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:04:02 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:44:54PM -0800, Bryce wrote: > > Lord Jesus, you're obnoxious. You need to get out more, my > > friend. > > > Well, some people do put significant effort into training spam > filters. P

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:10:25PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:52:11PM +, Wulfy wrote: > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >Of course, some things simply cannot be done without a GUI. Or at least > > >they cannot be done efficiently. > > > I've seen people

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:44:54PM -0800, Bryce wrote: > Lord Jesus, you're obnoxious. You need to get out more, my friend. > Well, some people do put significant effort into training spam filters. Personally, I don't like things confusing my spamassassin either. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto

Re: Re: bash_completion puts 3500 lines of code in environment

2007-01-10 Thread rjnoe
> >> over 3000 more lines of code. > >Just out of curiousity, Why is that bad? How does it matter anyway? Sorry if >it is obvious. > >raju > >-- >Kamaraju S Kusumanchi >http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ >http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ > Well, I am writing a bash-script that calls it

Re: Managing hundreds of debian servers

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:21:35PM -0800, grover mitchell wrote: > Greetings list, > > I am curious what other sysadmins use to manage hundreds of debian > servers, more specifically, how do you control the > upgrade/installation of packages. I am familiar with cfengine, but we > currently use de

Re: Managing hundreds of debian servers

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:21:35PM -0800, grover mitchell wrote: > Greetings list, > > I am curious what other sysadmins use to manage hundreds of debian > servers, more specifically, how do you control the > upgrade/installation of packages. I am fa

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: >> When replying >> to an email, is it proper to leave the original poster in the To: line of >> the email, and the CC the list? Or is it better to just send your reply >> to the list, not specifically mention

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> So on your question in general post to the list, don't CC unless >> requested, send private messages when the contents are not beneficial for >> public consumption. >> > > Second that! Another one: Avoid going AOL! on the list. If you must AOL! the list, at

Re: bash_completion puts 3500 lines of code in environment

2007-01-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:15, Jasper wrote: > over 3000 more lines of code. Just out of curiousity, Why is that bad? How does it matter anyway? Sorry if it is obvious. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Re: resources to resolve dependency problems

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:34:40PM -0900, Tim Jordan wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone point me to documentation that could help resolve a > dependency problem? > > The following packages have unmet dependencies. > libapache2-mod-php4: Depends: apache2.2-common but it is not installed > libxine1

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-10 Thread Bryce
Lord Jesus, you're obnoxious. You need to get out more, my friend. - Original Message - From: "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:21 AM Subject: Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS Bryce wrote: I can only imagine what language this fella s

Win key to K menu??

2007-01-10 Thread Bruno Buys
I was used to open the k menu just by hitting the win key, in kde 3.2.2. Now, after upgrading to kde 3.5.0 from sarge-backports, it won't let me. When I go to control center and try to enable it, control center only accepts the win key together with some other, otherwise no deal. Someone knows? Tha

resources to resolve dependency problems

2007-01-10 Thread Tim Jordan
Hi, Can someone point me to documentation that could help resolve a dependency problem? The following packages have unmet dependencies. libapache2-mod-php4: Depends: apache2.2-common but it is not installed libxine1: Depends: libavcodec0d (>= 0.cvs20060823) but it is not installed

Re: bandwidth used by a single application

2007-01-10 Thread H.S.
Celejar wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:35:06 -0500 "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I find out how much bandwidth is being used by a particular application? I want to see what skype does if it is left signed on on my Debian Testing box. ->HS Try nethogs [0]. This is exactly wh

Re: resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:34:46PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > jdaues writes: > > > So I installed resolvconf, and then reentered the values for the > > network. I rebooted and now resolv.conf is this: > > > # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by > > resolvco

Re: resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:48:47PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > If you have the zeroconf package installed, remove it. Remove resolvconf > as well. You don't need it. to clarify... if youhave the zeroconf package that is probably what is over-riding your resolv.conf. if you also remove resolvconf

Re: About apt-get messages

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:43:00PM -0800, rangalo wrote: > Hi, > > I am a newbie at using apt-get. Although, I have used debian before, I > was using apt-get only with cds, as I didnt have internet. > > I copied the sources.ist posted in this list from internet somewhere, i > changed all the mirr

bash_completion puts 3500 lines of code in environment

2007-01-10 Thread Jasper
Output of set: snip--- USER=rj _=set bash205='3.1.17(1)-release' bash205b='3.1.17(1)-release' bash3='3.1.17(1)-release' _alias () { local cur; COMPREPLY=(); cur=${COMP_WORDS[$COMP_CWORD]}; case "$COMP_LINE" in

Re: Вопрос по установке

2007-01-10 Thread Bud Rogers
Very kind of you both to try to help the OP, and to explain to those of us who do not read Russian. On Wednesday 10 January 2007 08:22, Vladimir Kozlov wrote: > Hello Alexey, > > You'd better ask questions in russian to the > debian-russian@lists.debian.org, while this list is for > English-spea

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:23:29AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:23:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >> Douglas Tutty wrote: > >> > >> > I use shorewall with default block everything all directions then open > >> > things up as needed. > >>

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:52:11PM +, Wulfy wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:31:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >Of course, some things simply cannot be done without a GUI. Or at least > >they cannot be done efficiently. > I've seen people before say t

About apt-get messages

2007-01-10 Thread rangalo
Hi, I am a newbie at using apt-get. Although, I have used debian before, I was using apt-get only with cds, as I didnt have internet. I copied the sources.ist posted in this list from internet somewhere, i changed all the mirrors fro us to de (germany) and it worked well for me, except the debian

Re: resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

2007-01-10 Thread John Hasler
If you have the zeroconf package installed, remove it. Remove resolvconf as well. You don't need it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

2007-01-10 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
jdaues writes: > I read the man page. it gives no hint as to the syntax. I see nothing > on the internets about this either. I can only guess maybe this: > domain 123.45.67.8 91.23.456.78 > or > dns 123.45.67.8 91.23.456.78 > Are either of these correct? The syntax is the same as the one desc

Re: resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

2007-01-10 Thread jdaues
I read the man page. it gives no hint as to the syntax. I see nothing on the internets about this either. I can only guess maybe this: domain 123.45.67.8 91.23.456.78 or dns 123.45.67.8 91.23.456.78 Are either of these correct? Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: jdaues writes: So I installed

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:26:43PM -0500, Marty wrote: > David Shultz wrote: > >>modprobe fb_nvidia_i2c > > > >I did exactly that it gives an error message: > > > >FATAL: Module fb_nvidia_i2c not found. > > > >>I may have missed it. What kernel are you running? > > > >I'm using kernel 2.6.8-3-386 >

Re: smooth upgrades

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:28:55PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 23:08, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:19:51PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > > > i replaced 'testing' with 'etch' today and haven't used apt-get > > > > > since. > > > > > > > > > >

Managing hundreds of debian servers

2007-01-10 Thread grover mitchell
Greetings list, I am curious what other sysadmins use to manage hundreds of debian servers, more specifically, how do you control the upgrade/installation of packages. I am familiar with cfengine, but we currently use debian packages to deploy all our current conf files. Some considerations woul

Re: PPRacer and video card problem

2007-01-10 Thread Marty
David Shultz wrote: modprobe fb_nvidia_i2c I did exactly that it gives an error message: FATAL: Module fb_nvidia_i2c not found. I may have missed it. What kernel are you running? I'm using kernel 2.6.8-3-386 I don't see it for 2.6.8 although there is an fb_riva_i2c, which is probably no

Re: smooth upgrades

2007-01-10 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 23:08, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 05:19:51PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > > i replaced 'testing' with 'etch' today and haven't used apt-get > > > > since. > > > > > > > > how do i tell which version (testing/stable) i'm running? > > > > > > y

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: > > >I just pulled in epiphany and it gives the same truncated text > >behavior as iceweasel. the truncation with gnucash is somewhat > >different, but may be related. So that's three apps printing h

Re: resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

2007-01-10 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
jdaues writes: > So I installed resolvconf, and then reentered the values for the > network. I rebooted and now resolv.conf is this: > # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by > resolvconf(8) > #DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN > Ther

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:10 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails No I was just asking. I'm just trying to figure out why I can send email from my server and manual

Re: bandwidth used by a single application

2007-01-10 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:35:06 -0500 "H.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I find out how much bandwidth is being used by a particular > application? I want to see what skype does if it is left signed on on my > Debian Testing box. > > > ->HS Try nethogs [0]. It claims to monitor bandwidth

RE: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-10 Thread James Stevenson
> >> > > useful in this environment? > >> > Many folks like that one. I use shorewall. You can always block > >> > outgoing ports that you dont use. If you dont run an ftp server, > block > >> > port 20 and 21, etc. > >> > > >> That is why I really like the "default deny" mentality. Start by > >>

RE: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

2007-01-10 Thread James Stevenson
Install new hard driver. Create a partition Fdisk /dev/hdx Add to fstab As /dev/hdx /mnt/hdx Format it Mkfs /dev/hdx Mount /dev/hdx Stop mysql Mv /var/lib/mysql /mnt/hdx Link it over Ln -s /var/lib/mysql /mnt/hdx/mysql Start mysql Means you can move other things into it if you run out of space a

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Wulfy
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:31:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Yes, this is the right word. GUIs frequently sacrifice security, flexibility and functionality in favor of being relatively drool-proof. Sacrificing security at the root level is never the brightest idea

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:31:32PM EST, Paul Johnson wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:37:01PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > >> > > > >> > > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps .. >

Re: i386 packages on amd64 arch

2007-01-10 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le mercredi 10 janvier 2007 01:51, Kevin Mark a écrit : > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:52:34AM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to install 32bits packages on my amd64 arch Debian. > > > > I know that some people use a 32bits chroot for this, but I don't think > > it's the

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:31:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Yes, this is the right word. GUIs frequently sacrifice security, > flexibility and functionality in favor of being relatively drool-proof. > Sacrificing security at the root level is never the brightest idea around. > Of course,

Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

2007-01-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:46:29PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > probably the simplest way is to just make a new /var on the new drive > and move all of it there. > -add new HD to computer > -partition HD > -format HD > -mount new HD as /mnt/newvar > -stop all processes (like single user mode) > -copy

Fwd: Bug: funny network problem.

2007-01-10 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Waqar Malik wrote: On 1/10/07, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Waqar Malik schrieb: > After update today, I've had a funny network problem: > The network works for kde apps (konqueror, kopete, etc) but fails when > using apps like iceweasel, aptitude, apt-get, synaptic (gtk apps?). D

Re: resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

2007-01-10 Thread jdaues
So I installed resolvconf, and then reentered the values for the network. I rebooted and now resolv.conf is this: # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) #DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN There is no mention of glibc

two version numbers on a kernel package?

2007-01-10 Thread hendrik
What does it mean when there are two version numbers on a package. For example, one kernel package in the etch installer RC1 is linux-image-2.6.17-2-486_2.6.17-9_i386.deb Now clearly the 2.6.17-2-486 is part of the package name, making it possible to install more than one kernel package, shou

Re: Eudora -> Evolution how?

2007-01-10 Thread jdaues
Its been my experience that importing into Evolution is difficult. It is the reason why I don't use it anymore, but rather Thunderbird. Perhaps your colleague would consider Thunderbird? Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 21:39 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: I've a colleague on the pho

Re: Eudora -> Evolution how?

2007-01-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 21:39 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I've a colleague on the phone now: he wants to transfer Eudora mail > archives from a Windows partition -> Evolution under Debian - Testing. A quick Google search seems to indicate that Eudora uses mbox format, so it should be a simple

Re: Eudora -> Evolution how?

2007-01-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/01/07 21:39), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I've a colleague on the phone now: he wants to transfer Eudora mail > archives from a Windows partition -> Evolution under Debian - Testing. > > This will make his wife and his world Windows free for the most part :) I can't recall exactly how I di

Re: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-10 Thread Kent West
Mathias Brodala wrote: > Kent West, 10.01.2007 17:44: > >> I thought it was a problem in iceweasel, but I can not now recreate the >> problem there. But I can recreate it in icedove, version 1.5.0.9 (20061220). >> >> Steps: >> * Receive an email with an attachment. >> * Double-click on the atta

Eudora -> Evolution how?

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
I've a colleague on the phone now: he wants to transfer Eudora mail archives from a Windows partition -> Evolution under Debian - Testing. This will make his wife and his world Windows free for the most part :) TIA Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:37:30 -0800 "Justin Gallardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey All, > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > netiquette(as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that > maybe I could use the busiest mailing list I followed as a good

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:02:02AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: > > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > > netiquette > > (as you may have guessed by the subject), and thought that maybe I could use >

Re: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:08:02PM -0500, Stephen Yorke wrote: > Thanks a lot Andrew. > > I think you have cleared up a few things for me now and think I have to > go and research the .xinitrc file and see if that is going to work > properly with fluxbox so I can get rid of GDM and just launch a s

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:21:09AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 > >"Duncan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> so you can get to the machine, i.e. the po

RE: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Stephen Yorke
Thanks a lot Andrew. I think you have cleared up a few things for me now and think I have to go and research the .xinitrc file and see if that is going to work properly with fluxbox so I can get rid of GDM and just launch a single app on boot up...sort of a Kiosk type setup for a LiveCD project wh

Re: resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

2007-01-10 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
jdaues writes: > The etc/resolv.conf file is being written over when i reboot. > I have setup for static ip address, NOT dhcp. The outside word sees > the static ip address, and inside on the NAT, each machine is > 192.168.0.x. In KDE, System -> Networking, I set up the ip address, > subnet mask

Re: Launch App without X-Windows

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:26:07PM -0500, Stephen Yorke wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. > > So it seems like I would ALWAYS need an X-Server but I can do without a > Window Manager. no you don't ALWAYS need an X-server. However, to run X applications, you do. You are correct in that you

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 06:00:10AM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > >so you can get to the

resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

2007-01-10 Thread jdaues
The etc/resolv.conf file is being written over when i reboot. I have setup for static ip address, NOT dhcp. The outside word sees the static ip address, and inside on the NAT, each machine is 192.168.0.x. In KDE, System -> Networking, I set up the ip address, subnet mask, gateway address, DNS

bandwidth used by a single application

2007-01-10 Thread H.S.
How do I find out how much bandwidth is being used by a particular application? I want to see what skype does if it is left signed on on my Debian Testing box. ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Justin Hartman wrote: > On 1/10/07, Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2: If someone posts a problem, and gives all the relevant information >> (hardware configuration, log files, errors, etc), and the only thing you >> can respond with is "Works for me", then please do everyone a favor an

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
cga2000 wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:37:01PM EST, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:28:05PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: >> > > >> > > Pardon my ignorance .. I do my best to stay away from gui apps .. >> > > >> Unfortunately, some things flat out require a GUI. > > Unfortu

Re: static linking?

2007-01-10 Thread Drake Mobius
OH. Well, thanks! I am used to seeing 'statically linked'. I guess the issues I'm having getting dialog to run from init stem from somewhere else.. On 1/10/07, Jhair Tocancipa Triana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Drake Mobius writes: > The question is, how do I do that? I apt-get source dialog, f

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Duncan McDonald
- Original Message - From: "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:16 AM Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 "Duncan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message -

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Along that same theoretical thread how does one unsubscribe from a CC > list? It is completely and utterly unacceptable to CC the OP unless it is > requested. Then, and only then, should one CC the OP and noone else in > the the thread. Even then, I would go the extra mile t

Re: static linking?

2007-01-10 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Drake Mobius writes: > The question is, how do I do that? I apt-get source dialog, for example, and > then ./configure and edit the resultant makefile to include -static on the > LDFLAGS line...but it doesn't seem to be working. ldd /usr/bin/local/dialog > returns 'not a dynamic executable' instea

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Bryce wrote: > I can only imagine what language this fella speaks natively. Please avoid replying to spam as it screws up people's baysian filters and on mail2news gateways, causes spam to make it past cleanfeed sites. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails

2007-01-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:00:10 +1100 "Duncan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sackville-West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 5:31 AM > Subject: Re: Newbie question: Exim - trouble receiving incoming emails > > > so y

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:23:56AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Douglas Tutty wrote: >> >> > I use shorewall with default block everything all directions then open >> > things up as needed. >> >> I bet you have a rule someplace that allows outgoing traffic that's part >>

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Justin Gallardo wrote: > Hey All, > I am preparing a presentation to a group of students on mailing list > netiquette(as you may have guessed by the subject), [...] I have thought > of numerous things to bring up in the presentation including rules about > top-posting(not doing it), tips to help

static linking?

2007-01-10 Thread Drake Mobius
Hi all I'm trying to build a cd with a few utils, without loading a full-blown distribution. So I'm loading everything into the initrd. I knew I'd need the associated libraries, but I have been running into some troubles. I thought it might help to just use as many statically linked executables a

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