Re: use preseeding for one package

2010-03-04 Thread Chantal Rosmuller
> On Thu,04.Mar.10, 15:48:09, chan...@antenna.nl wrote: > > Thank you Eric, > > > > I am already using cfengine2 and puppet :). But when I want to > > install postfix or phpmyadmin with cfengine a dialog screen flashes > > by which looks a bit weird. That's why I want to use preseeding (or > > som

backing up with rsnapshot and LVM snapshots

2010-03-04 Thread Celejar
Hi, I've been backing up using rsnapshot directly on my running system. I recently decided to begin doing this properly, and to use LVM's snapshot facility, so I wrote a basic, simple script to encapsulate the rsnapshot call with LVM snapshot creation, mounting, umounting, and removal: #! /bin/s

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread consul tores
2010/3/4 Mike Dresser : > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: > >> hda: Host Protected Area detected. >> ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) >> ^Inative  capacity is 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) > > Is this a PATA drive, and from there, has a jumper on the back for LBA48? >

Re: logrotate for multiple websites

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 01/03/10 17:13, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I understand that I can setup a logrotate entry with sharedscripts, so it will only reload apache once for all the logs in that stanza. That's fine, until you want to have multiple stanzas. Well, it true you can't reload apache per virtualhos

Re: Disabling Swap Activation Message

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 23:04, Andrew Reid wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 22:12:59 Tech Geek wrote: I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap partition. I recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. After doing a find it seems that these messages are spitted out by sc

Re: Lenny suspend to RAM Dell Inspiron 8600

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 24/02/10 19:35, Mark wrote: I've been hunting and hunting trying to find a solution for s2ram not working when closing the Dell Inspiron 8600 lid using Lenny, standard kernel, with or without the nv drivers. Came across this today on the Suse forums, was curious if anyone on this list has

Re: Disk performance problem

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 25/02/10 05:18, Veli Cakmak wrote: Dear Friends; I have servers which contain SATA disks and SAS disks. I was testing the speed of writing on these servers and I recognized that SAS 10.000 disks much more slowly than the SATA 7200. What do you think about this slowness? What are the rea

Re: Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-04 Thread postid
Pairing /home with either / or data files offers the greatest flexibility, but it doesn't accomplish what I'm trying to do. On the other hand, maybe I'm just trying to do it the hard way. I looked at a handful of machines here and observed that a single user's home contained at least 640 MB of

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing and some other strange things

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 25/02/10 06:49, godo wrote: Hi folks, a few days ago I helped a friend find drivers for XP box (detecting with lspci and connecting on net with Live CD). When I came home and put that USB memory in my up to date Squeeze box I could not delete the directory with the drivers. Even as root.

Re: Disabling Swap Activation Message

2010-03-04 Thread Andrew Reid
On Thursday 04 March 2010 22:12:59 Tech Geek wrote: > I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap partition. I > recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. > > Now when I boot to my base system, I still see following messages from the > init scripts on my console: > >

Re: convert a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png.

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 26/02/10 12:37, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: What is recommended for converting a bitmap in pdf, into jpg or png? I use gscan2pdf package (and command) Gnome GUI. Thanks, You're welcome. ... Peter E. --

Re: Anyone playing Supertux in Debian Lenny?

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 03/03/10 17:49, Mark wrote: Anyone on this list playing Supertux in Debian Lenny? It's in the official packages http://packages.debian.org/stable/supertux, was just curious of the success rate before trying to install and run it on a freshly installed Lenny system. Googling around found s

Re: logrotate

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 05:12, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, is there a way to scp or rsync the files to a remote host older than 15 days in the logrotate config and than delete it on localhost older than 15 days, so that at a time only 15 days of logs are available on localhost. Increment logrotate for

Re (Cont.): grsecurity patch

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 13:11, surreal wrote: how to patch grsecurity patch on kernel?? debian dosent have the grsecurity package for kernel 2.6.31.. is there any other tool available for hardening linux kernel?? Oh, I forgot harden-* tools: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch-a

Re: OT: wireless draft-n router?

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 11:30, I Rattan wrote: Any recommendations for such a router? TPLINK, http://www.tp-link.com/products/productList.asp?class=router -ishwar -- - "You don't know where your shadow will fall", Somebody.

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 12:16, Marc Auslander wrote: having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the regular kernel package? No. my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace vmlinuz with the regular kernel. False, the active kernel is update instead of sec

Re: grsecurity patch

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 13:11, surreal wrote: how to patch grsecurity patch on kernel?? http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1539 debian dosent have the grsecurity package for kernel 2.6.31.. No is there any other tool available for hardening linux kernel?? Many, but visit www.openwall.org -- Harshad

Re: Print Watch

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 16:12, Germana Oliveira wrote: Is there, somewhere, a print watch for free software? or free software print watch? Yes, go further. Can i do it with cups? Yes, with lpadmin and /etc/cups/printer.conf (AllowUser directive) I need User and Department print control? Ok, if CUPS opti

Re: useradd: Problem joining into a Samba domain

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 17:02, Jari Fredriksson wrote: I have an ancient domain, originally started with Red Hat 7.x. It is running on latest Lenny now, and works fine, except.. Now I try to add a new server into the domain. I found out that somehow I do not have "add machine script" in smb.cfg So, I goo

Re: Disabling Swap Activation Message

2010-03-04 Thread Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta
On 04/03/10 22:42, Tech Geek wrote: I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap partition. I recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. Wow, hard work. Now when I boot to my base system, I still see following messages from the init scripts on my console: Activat

Re: Disabling Swap Activation Message

2010-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-04 21:12, Tech Geek wrote: I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap partition. I recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. Now when I boot to my base system, I still see following messages from the init scripts on my console: Activating swap...Don

Disabling Swap Activation Message

2010-03-04 Thread Tech Geek
I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap partition. I recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. Now when I boot to my base system, I still see following messages from the init scripts on my console: Activating swap...Done

Re: qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-04 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/4/2010 4:49 PM, Martin Kraus wrote: Hi. I have been wondering what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm packages for kvm virtualization. Manual page in qemu packages shows, that it should be able to work with kvm. Uncle google is silent about this. thanks for clarification mk qe

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-04 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:54:51 -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: > /usr/share/vim/vim72/syntax/exim.vim That's not an exim file - it's part of vim-runtime package. > /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-base_4.71-3_amd64.deb > /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-config_4.71-3_all.deb > /var/cache/apt/archives/e

qemu or qemu-kvm for kvm in squeeze

2010-03-04 Thread Martin Kraus
Hi. I have been wondering what is the difference between qemu and qemu-kvm packages for kvm virtualization. Manual page in qemu packages shows, that it should be able to work with kvm. Uncle google is silent about this. thanks for clarification mk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

2010-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-04 08:15, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:59:59 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-03 01:09, Ron Johnson wrote: Perhaps you need the line: allow_user_rules 1 in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf Thanks. I'll see how that worked. No luck. Added "allow_user_rules 1" to /etc/

Re: Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-04 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 22:36:02 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,04.Mar.10, 13:54:30, postid wrote: > > > On the other hand, I could just let /home be a part of / for each > > distro (as below) and back up the dot files regularly. > > > > hda1 WinXP > > hda2 / for first distr

Re: Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-04 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:54:30 -0600 postid wrote: > I'm setting up a laptop for triple boot: WinXP; Debian Lenny with KDE > and lots of bells and whistles; Debian Lenny with Fluxbox and just the > essentials. I may swap one of those three for a different distro later. > Here's the planned layout:

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-04 15:48, Bernard wrote: Camaleón wrote: Check out the Mozillazine article about this: *** Disappearing mail http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disappearing_mail *** Maybe your mbox is corrupted... have you ever perfomed a "compact" operation? No, I never have. I read the interrestin

Re: w32codecs

2010-03-04 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:20:56 + Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 09:17:04AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > Anyone know what happened to w32codecs in debian-multimedia.org? It's > > gone from Unstable and Stable, and I only see it in Oldstable. > > Searching both the site and the gener

Re: Installing TTF Unicode fonts in Debian

2010-03-04 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Thu, 4 Mar 2010 18:37:56 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:24:24 -0600, Timothy Legg wrote: > > (...) > > > Would it suffice to just copy the TTF file into any directory that > > already has a TTF file stored in it (there's about 20 of them on my > > machine) or are there ad

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: hda: Host Protected Area detected. ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) ^Inative capacity is 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) Is this a PATA drive, and from there, has a jumper on the back for LBA48? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-04 Thread Bernard
Camaleón wrote: Check out the Mozillazine article about this: *** Disappearing mail http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disappearing_mail *** Maybe your mbox is corrupted... have you ever perfomed a "compact" operation? No, I never have. I read the interresting article on Mozillazine.org, and I

Re: useradd: Problem joining into a Samba domain

2010-03-04 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 4.3.2010 23:32, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > I have an ancient domain, originally started with Red Hat 7.x. It is > running on latest Lenny now, and works fine, except.. > > Now I try to add a new server into the domain. Never mind, I got it. /usr/sbin/useradd -c "Machine" -d /var/lib/nobody

Re: Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100304_135430, postid wrote: > I'm setting up a laptop for triple boot: WinXP; Debian Lenny with KDE > and lots of bells and whistles; Debian Lenny with Fluxbox and just the > essentials. I may swap one of those three for a different distro later. > Here's the planned layout: > > hda1 ---

useradd: Problem joining into a Samba domain

2010-03-04 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I have an ancient domain, originally started with Red Hat 7.x. It is running on latest Lenny now, and works fine, except.. Now I try to add a new server into the domain. I found out that somehow I do not have "add machine script" in smb.cfg So, I googled and found this: /usr/sbin/useradd -

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 04 March 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:58:02 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote: > > I found Host Protected Area on Google, and it said I could turn it off > > using hdparm, but when I try it says:- > > > > hdparm -N /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: > > The running kern

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:58:02 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote: > I found Host Protected Area on Google, and it said I could turn it off > using hdparm, but when I try it says:- > > hdparm -N /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > The running kernel lacks CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL support for this device. > READ

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 04 March 2010, David Goodenough wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2010, David Goodenough wrote: > > I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. > > QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is > > what one would expect, but when I boot the

Re: Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-04 Thread Joe
postid wrote: I'm setting up a laptop for triple boot: WinXP; Debian Lenny with KDE and lots of bells and whistles; Debian Lenny with Fluxbox and just the essentials. I may swap one of those three for a different distro later. Here's the planned layout: hda1 WinXP hda2 / for fi

Print Watch

2010-03-04 Thread Germana Oliveira
Is there, somewhere, a print watch for free software? or free software print watch? Can i do it with cups? I need User and Department print control? i have an idea doing myself with some tricks the print machine does, but i want to know if there is somebody already made for that. Thanks -- Germ

Re: Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,04.Mar.10, 13:54:30, postid wrote: > On the other hand, I could just let /home be a part of / for each > distro (as below) and back up the dot files regularly. > > hda1 WinXP > hda2 / for first distro > hda3 / for second distro > hda4 extended > hda5

Re: Installing TTF Unicode fonts in Debian

2010-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,04.Mar.10, 18:37:56, Camaleón wrote: > I have putted (copy/paste) all *.ttf fonts under "/usr/share/local/fonts" > so they get not mixed with the system ones. It should also work to put them under ~/.fonts if you can't or don't want to install them system-wide. Regards, Andrei -- Offt

Re: use preseeding for one package

2010-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,04.Mar.10, 15:48:09, chan...@antenna.nl wrote: > Thank you Eric, > > I am already using cfengine2 and puppet :). But when I want to > install postfix or phpmyadmin with cfengine a dialog screen flashes > by which looks a bit weird. That's why I want to use preseeding (or > something else) s

Minimum size for /home?

2010-03-04 Thread postid
I'm setting up a laptop for triple boot: WinXP; Debian Lenny with KDE and lots of bells and whistles; Debian Lenny with Fluxbox and just the essentials. I may swap one of those three for a different distro later. Here's the planned layout: hda1 WinXP hda2 / for first distro hda3

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 04 March 2010, David Goodenough wrote: > I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. > QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is > what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports > that there are only the /dev/hda

Re: Installing TTF Unicode fonts in Debian

2010-03-04 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, I have used this guide before to install fonts: http://www.wikihow.com/Install-True-Type-Fonts-on-Ubuntu It says Ubuntu but it works fine for debian (done it on lenny and squeeze) Regards, Angus. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Ca

Re: OT: wireless draft-n router?

2010-03-04 Thread Stuckey
Quoting green : I Rattan wrote at 2010-03-04 09:00 -0700: Any recommendations for such a router? It does NOT support 802.11n, but I recommend: Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162134&cm_re=whr-hp-g54-_-33-162-134-_-Product Based on my (limited) know

Re: Installing TTF Unicode fonts in Debian

2010-03-04 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:24:24 -0600, Timothy Legg wrote: (...) > Would it suffice to just copy the TTF file into any directory that > already has a TTF file stored in it (there's about 20 of them on my > machine) or are there additional steps that need to be taken? I'd say yes. I have putted (co

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-04 Thread Bernard
Edward Shornock wrote: 03.03.2010 00:21, Bernard kirjoitti: Hi to Everyone ! What a surprise ! I have been using Thunderbird and Icedove for so long, that it had never crossed my mind that I could suddenly lose mail. A few things to possibly try: -create a new profile (icedove -P) and with

Re: grsecurity patch

2010-03-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> surreal : >how to patch grsecurity patch on kernel?? >debian dosent have the grsecurity package for kernel 2.6.31.. >is there any other tool available for hardening linux kernel?? Google with "debian kernel grsec" give tons of result. Which one dont you understand? -- Architecte Inform

Installing TTF Unicode fonts in Debian

2010-03-04 Thread Timothy Legg
I am embarrased to admit I spend way too much time at the console so it is these stupid X windows problems that really trip me up. I need to add a font and noticed that my gnome menu is acutally missing a tool for managing fonts. On my system in particular, it seems that fonts are stored wherever

Re: OT: wireless draft-n router?

2010-03-04 Thread green
I Rattan wrote at 2010-03-04 09:00 -0700: > Any recommendations for such a router? It does NOT support 802.11n, but I recommend: Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833162134&cm_re=whr-hp-g54-_-33-162-134-_-Product Based on my (limited) knowledge and experienc

grsecurity patch

2010-03-04 Thread surreal
how to patch grsecurity patch on kernel?? debian dosent have the grsecurity package for kernel 2.6.31.. is there any other tool available for hardening linux kernel?? -- Harshad Joshi

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:57:58 -0500 (EST), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:44:10 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote: >>> I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. >>> QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/h

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:46:06 -0500 (EST), Marc Auslander wrote: > > having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the > regular kernel package? > > my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace vmlinuz > with the regular kernel. > > or are the installers s

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> "Marc Auslander" : > having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the > regular kernel package? > > my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace > vmlinuz with the regular kernel. - How did you install your bigmem kernel? - What is your bootloader confi

bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Marc Auslander
having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the regular kernel package? my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace vmlinuz with the regular kernel. or are the installers smart enough to avoid that?

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread Tom H
>> I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. >> QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is >> what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports >> that there are only the /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 partitons, no /dev/hda5. > Wha

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <134597558.16750431267720927300.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>, Stephen Powell wrote: >On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:44:10 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote: >> I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. >> QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:44:10 -0500 (EST), David Goodenough wrote: > > I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. > QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is > what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports > that there are o

Re: Two Lenny problems

2010-03-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 01:12:40 -0500 (EST), Cecil Knutson wrote: > I put the HD back into the Dimension 8400 with a different sound > card; booted it on the installation done for the Fujitsu because I couldn't > get the DVD in soon enough; opened a terminal window and issued > alsamixer; and this is w

OT: wireless draft-n router?

2010-03-04 Thread I Rattan
Any recommendations for such a router? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.gso.4.64.1003041059360.11...@cps155.cps.cmich.edu

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-04 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:16:33 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Mike Dresser wrote: >> Icedove has a 4gb folder size limit.. could you have hit that? >> >> >> > I don't have a single folder that big. However, my directory : > > .mozilla-thunderbird/j1ay1d2c.default/Mail > > is 4458 MB large, that is about

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 04 March 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:44 AM, David Goodenough > > wrote: > > I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. > > QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is > > what one would expect, but whe

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:44 AM, David Goodenough wrote: > I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. > QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is > what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports > that there are only the /

qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread David Goodenough
I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports that there are only the /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 partitons, no /dev/hda5. The really odd th

Re: w32codecs

2010-03-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 09:17:04AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > Anyone know what happened to w32codecs in debian-multimedia.org? It's > gone from Unstable and Stable, and I only see it in Oldstable. > Searching both the site and the general 'net doesn't turn up anything > here. Any specific reason to

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-04 Thread Bernard
Mike Dresser wrote: On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Bernard wrote: Again I re-installed the old .mozilla-thunderbird directory, waiting for more advices Icedove has a 4gb folder size limit.. could you have hit that? Mike I don't have a single folder that big. However, my directory : .mozilla-thunder

Re: use preseeding for one package

2010-03-04 Thread chantal
Thank you Eric, I am already using cfengine2 and puppet :). But when I want to install postfix or phpmyadmin with cfengine a dialog screen flashes by which looks a bit weird. That's why I want to use preseeding (or something else) so the installer doesn't ask questions when a package is i

Re: truncate until delimiter

2010-03-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 03:13:36PM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > e.g.: > > $ ls -tr `find -type f` | grep ".txt$" | rev > txt.nimdaymphp/. > txt.ccuc/aborp/. > txt.og/. > txt.osle/. > txt.kidosam/. Why ls? find -type f | grep ".txt$" | rev (Others already noted that you can probably get what yo

Re: use preseeding for one package

2010-03-04 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 03:57:34PM +0100, Chantal Rosmuller wrote: > Hi list, > > can I use preseeding for installing one package unattended (not a whole > debian > installation)? Hi Chantal, What are you trying to accomplish? Preseeding is used for installation. Are you trying to install o

Re: SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands

2010-03-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:59:59 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-03 01:09, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Perhaps you need the line: >>> allow_user_rules 1 >>> in /etc/spamassassin/local.cf >> >> Thanks. I'll see how that worked. >> >> > No luck. > > Added "allow_user_rules 1" to /etc/spamassassi

[OT] Users posting to the wrong list (was: DNS (BIND)primario y secundario)

2010-03-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:21:48 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 3/3/2010 8:50 AM: >> Stan, please, let's calm down. >> >> I'll try again to contact Cosme and explain him the situation. I don't >> think he is fully aware of his fault, in fact, rarely replies to other >> people's

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations) [LONG]

2010-03-04 Thread thib
Robert Brockway wrote: [...] Possibly. I didn't mean to suggest that dd was a good way to backup. I think it is a terrible way to backup[1]. I was talking about dump utilities. I started using dump on Solaris in the mid 90s and really like the approach to backing up that dump utilities off

Re: OSSIM

2010-03-04 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 17:07 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: > Try to google it :) > I googled and find this. > > http://www.alienvault.com/community.php?section=Docs You might also want to ask in #ossim at irc.freenode.org. The channel is not that active, but they might be able to help. -- .''`.

Re: OSSIM

2010-03-04 Thread Kousik Maiti
Try to google it :) I googled and find this. http://www.alienvault.com/community.php?section=Docs On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi, > > is there a step by step guide for OSSIM ? > > Thanks, > > Kaushal > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

OSSIM

2010-03-04 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, is there a step by step guide for OSSIM ? Thanks, Kaushal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6b16fb4c1003040332g7d594337gd9b29833c72b8...@mail.gma

Re: Sony voice recorder on Lenny

2010-03-04 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:13:57 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > Not exactly what you want to read, but here are various results from > the Google search "linux sony voice recorder": > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=405895 > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1336054 > http://zgp.org/pip

Re: postfix prerm and postinst

2010-03-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Mihamina Rakotomandimby : >I read this: >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382804#25 and this is >my /etc/postfix/postfix-script: http://pastebin.org/101040 According to the above, having the wrong "/etc/postfix/postfix-script" drive to the error. My "/etc/postfix/postfix-script

Re: postfix prerm and postinst

2010-03-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Andrei Popescu : > I think I can guess what you are asking, but it would be better to > provide the full output that you are referring to. http://pastebin.org/101038 This is interpreted (by me) as the postinst script using "invoke-rc.d postfix start" or "/etc/init.d/postfix start"

Re: postfix prerm and postinst

2010-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,04.Mar.10, 13:02:03, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, > > Using Lenny, the current postfix package uses /etc/init.d/postfix to > start/stop postfix. > > But when using /etc/init.d/postfix, postfix spits and tells to use > "postfix stop", "postfix start", and s

postfix prerm and postinst

2010-03-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, Using Lenny, the current postfix package uses /etc/init.d/postfix to start/stop postfix. But when using /etc/init.d/postfix, postfix spits and tells to use "postfix stop", "postfix start", and so on to do the trick. That causes the package installation to fail. wou

Re: debian postfix and 3rd party repo

2010-03-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,04.Mar.10, 11:58:53, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > > r...@second-camel:~# apt-cache policy postfix > postfix: > Installed: 2.5.5-1.1 > Candidate: 2.5.5-1.2-vda0 > Version table: > 2.5.5-1.2-vda0 0 > 500 http://mirror.malagasy.com binary/ Packages <== my repo > *** 2.5.5-

logrotate

2010-03-04 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, is there a way to scp or rsync the files to a remote host older than 15 days in the logrotate config and than delete it on localhost older than 15 days, so that at a time only 15 days of logs are available on localhost. Thanks, Kaushal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: debian postfix and 3rd party repo

2010-03-04 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Andrei Popescu : >On Wed,03.Mar.10, 20:03:01, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >> I have to use the "postfix" package from this repository: >> deb http://debian.home-dn.net/lenny postfix-vda/ I changed the repository to my local one (I mirrored the above) Now it's: deb http://mirror.malagasy