Re: how to silence speaker during reboot/halt

... On Sun,09.Aug.09, 05:32:55, Long Wind wrote: > I use sarge > When I reboot/halt, the speaker beeps > Is there any way to config speaker not to beep? Could it be that the sound card beeps when booting (at the BIOS level of booting)? (My motherboard's sound chip generates a low

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

Suno Ano wrote: > Hi folks, > > Chris> Actually I took a peek with Seamonkey as well and apart from > Chris> white rabbits that I could live without - and other prettifying > Chris> that I definitely will live without :-) everything renders OK. > > http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/faq.html#

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

Suno Ano wrote: > Hi folks, > > I wrote an article about etckeeper... that nifty thing that allows to > keep /etc under version control and thus "rollback" in case something > bad happens during an upgrade or so. > > http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/scm.html#etckeeper Could you fix your web p

Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 06/08/2009 03:45:08 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> > >> > On 06/08/2009 03:30:21 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> >> >> >> On 06/08/2009 03:19:37 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> >>> Does

Re: network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > On 06/08/2009 03:30:21 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote: >> >> On 06/08/2009 03:19:37 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >>> Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video cameras >>> with in-camera motion-detection-triggered e-mail notifi

network-connected camera with motion-detection e-mail configurable in Linux?

Does anyone know if there any wireless network-connected video cameras with in-camera motion-detection-triggered e-mail notification that are configurable via Linux? The cameras I've seen need to have the wireless network configuration set up while connected via a cable, and come with a Windows-o

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:02:03AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... > >> Yes, C-h in Emacs should perform some kind of backspace operation >> (back-deletion or at least movement), since C-h in ASCII is the >> Backspace character. > > I believe

Re: mailining list deactivate

Neal Hogan wrote: > > > 2009/6/4 mr...@prokon.cz > > > Hi, > please, how can I deactivate this mailing list.. > thanks > > > I suspect you mean "unsubscribe." That is, you no longer want to be part > of this list. > > Scroll down

info on network-connected web cameras, esp. config. and access protocols?

Does anyone here know of good articles/site about network-connected web cameras, in particular, what protocols they use (what interface they provide) for configuation and for access? In particular: For configuration, do they typically use an operating-system-independent interface such as a built-

Re: Can I preserve the case of folder name after a vfat partition is mounted?

ronggui wong wrote: > Thanks for your hints, and I find "shortname=mixed" is more close to > what I want. I think there's also shortname=winnt. (I forget exactly what it does differently, but it's what I use to preserve case.) Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Micr

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Daniel Burrows wrote: > ...: one of my colleagues bought a keyboard with pedals a > few years ago. As I understand it, the pedals are used for shift > states and control characters -- I haven't used it myself, but it seems > like an interesting idea, and it continues the pianistic angle here. :-)

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Chris Jones wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:49:34AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Chris Jones wrote: >>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:04:44PM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >>>> Chris Jones wrote: >>> [..] >>> >>> ... homo sapiens ...

Re: Debian Linux

Muzer wrote: > KDE can convert manpages to HTML on-the-fly (just browse to > man:/[()] > (where the <> denotes a required argument, [] an optional argument) Which part of KDE is that? (What is KDE's file/etc. browser?) Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft

Re: Is gnome built on top of twm?

Paul E Condon wrote: > ... [gdm] needs a window manager before the user has even logged in. What features of a window manager does it need or use? (I don't use gdm. Does it have multiple windows that the user might need to move around or that the user might want to see decorated?) Daniel --

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:04:44PM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Chris Jones wrote: > > [..] > >>> Where the above no longer works for me is when the two action keys >>> do not belong to the same half of the keyboard - such as Ctrl-X >

Re: Using terminal output as input

Chris Bannister wrote: ... > > apt-cache show gpm > Description: General Purpose Mouse interface > [..] > By default, the daemon provides a 'selection' mode, so that > cut-and-paste with the mouse works on the console just as it does > under X. Speaking of gpm _and_ X: Can gpm be connected X'

Re: apticron: Why ignore held package?

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Barclay, Daniel schreef: >> Why does apticron ignore held packages? Wouldn't one want to know about >> security updates even for packages that are in the held state? > Well, because they're in held state. That's what it is supposed to do

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:47:46AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >> >> You can go: Control-down, x-down, f-down, Control-up, x-up, f-up; and >> that can be done in one rolling motion in about 1/3 of a second. > > More like one tenth of a s

apticron: Why ignore held package?

Why does apticron ignore held packages? Wouldn't one want to know about security updates even for packages that are in the held state? In my case in particular I certainly do. I have been keeping all installed packages on hold in order to cause more confirmation prompting from non-interactive ap

Re: Samba performance

Yuriy Padlyak wrote: > Subject: Samba performance Dancing? :-) Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]

Re: Using terminal output as input

Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:13:16PM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Dotan Cohen wrote: > ... > >> Are you asking about manually selecting part of the output of a >> command(s) and using it to assemble another command (as opposed to >> piping

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

Michael M. Moore wrote: ... > mcu...@drifter:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf > APT::Default-Release "stable"; > APT::Cache-Limit 33554432; At some time in the past, APT::Default-Release worked only with the status-based release names (stable, testing, etc.) but didn't work (and didn't report any error me

Re: Using terminal output as input

Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Like you said, it does require foreknowledge of the output. So there is >> no way to make a one-size-fits-all solution, be it a command-line trick >> or a program. >> >> If you told us exactly what you want to achieve, we might be able to >> help you better. >> > > I just wan

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

I wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <4a01ac7b.4010...@fgm.com>, Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >>> I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The >>> scripts generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing. >>&

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:07:18PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> In <4a01ac7b.4010...@fgm.com>, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >>>> Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? >>> Not

Re: X server mishap

Ben Badgley wrote: ... > One disadvantage of rural life is lacking options for high speed > connections. We make do on dial up but it can be frustrating at times. > ... If that frustration relates to waiting for Debian packages to download after you've selected to install them: Consider maintain

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4a01ac7b.4010...@fgm.com>, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? > > Not that I know of. > >> I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The >> s

Re: filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:27:55AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? >> >> I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The scripts >> generate stdout/stderr ou

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:42:34AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >> Have you tried mapping the Control key back to where it was when Emacs >> was designed (and where it belongs--just to the left of the A key (on >> QWERTY keyboards))? > > Used

filter utility to send cron e-mail only if unexpected output

Does Debian have any utility to address the following situation? I have some scripts that I run both manually and as cron jobs. The scripts generate stdout/stderr output reporting what they're doing. I want to see the output when I run the scripts manually. However, when the scripts are run by

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 07:30:25AM EDT, Harry Rickards wrote: >> >>> Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can >>> emacs d

[OT] Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Harry Rickards wrote: >> >>> Have you tried configuring Outlook to send in plain text by default, >>> using the instructions at http://www.expita.com

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >> >> Have you tried mapping the Control key back to where it was when Emacs >> was designed >> (and where it belongs--just to the left of the A key (on QWERT

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Harry Rickards wrote: > Have you tried configuring Outlook to send in plain text by default, > using the instructions at http://www.expita.com/nomime.html#out2002? Read my signature more carefully. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Chris Jones wrote: > [...] > ergonomically sound keyboard mappings, I should give it another shot. Hvae you fingers trying to use Emacs with the Control key where IBM moved it to on PCs? Have you tried mapping the Control key back to where it was when Emacs was designed (and where it belongs--j

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 07:30:25AM EDT, Harry Rickards wrote: > Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can > emacs do that a separate tool can't do? It can integrate those separate tools. The biggest non-editing things for which I use Emacs are its shell mode (CLI com

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >> Why must emacs depend on sound packages? Is emacs >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000 and will talk to us? >> Isn't that an independent package, emacspeak? >> >> Shouldn't there be a way

Re: aptitude: not grouping by installed/non-installed

I wrote: > How does one turn off grouping by installation state ... in aptitude Never mind. > (Yes, I've tried Google, but didn't think of the right search string.) Later I did. (Here's one hit: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2008-12/msg00576.html ) Daniel -- (Plain te

aptitude: not grouping by installed/non-installed

How does one turn off grouping by installation state (installed, not installed, etc.) in aptitude, so that similarly-named package show up next to each other regardless of that installation state? (What I'm trying to do it see where there are newer major versions of software I have installed, e.g.

Re: Microsoft Virtual Earth-based apps not working

Eric Gerlach wrote: ... > The User Agent String strikes again. > > I just had to change my UA string from "Iceweasel" to "Firefox" and all was > well. Wait a minute. Why does the Debian-rebranded Firefox go beyond just changing the software name (the name used to identify the software to humans,

where are Etch CD images?

Where are Debian Etch CD images? All the Debian CD mirrors I've seen have only Lenny images. (Yes, I'm in the process of upgrading to Lenny.) Thanks, Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]

Re: how to find out all the domain names that etch looks up

Jeffrey Cao wrote: > On 2009-04-07, Long Wind wrote: >> Thanks! >> >> > > /etc/hosts That doesn't address names looked up via DNS. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]

Re: install daemon without starting it

Ken Irving wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:34:57PM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> John Hasler wrote: >>> Daniel writes: >>>> Debian packages should have some standard place to go to to see those >>>> latter kinds of information. >>> /

Re: install daemon without starting it

Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06 2009, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > >> Debian packages should probably have some kind of post-installation >> read-me file to tell you essential things about an installed package >> (e.g, the commands now available; the manual/info/e

Re: install daemon without starting it

John Hasler wrote: > Daniel writes: >> Debian packages should have some standard place to go to to see those >> latter kinds of information. If it did, that place could also hold an >> indication of any daemons started (or installed but pending further >> configuration) by installing a package. >

Re: install daemon without starting it

Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,06.Apr.09, 13:21:49, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Mon,06.Apr.09, 12:52:02, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >>> >>>> Debian packages should have some standard place to go to to see those >>>> latter

Re: install daemon without starting it

Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,06.Apr.09, 12:52:02, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > >> Debian packages should have some standard place to go to to see those >> latter kinds of information. If it did, that place could also hold >> an indication of any daemons started (or insta

Re: install daemon without starting it

Nuno Magalhães wrote: >>> is it possible to install a daemon from a Debian package without having >>> it automatically started afterwards? > > At the risk of starting a holy war, and kind of highjaking, shouldn't > Debian *not* start just-installed daemons by default? Or at least ask > while insta

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

Carl Johnson wrote: > ow...@netptc.net writes: > >> ... The >> timeout or "lockup" can indicate that the packets cannot be >> reassembled at the destination (your computer) and the TCP protocol >> times out waiting for one or more missing packets. > > That makes sense to me, but why is it only a

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Barclay, Daniel <mailto:dan...@fgm.com>> wrote: > > Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > > Mail 1: Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > Mail 2: A: Top-posting. > > M

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

Chris Jones wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:51:31PM EDT, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [..] > >> I need to see the relevant context quoted (properly trimmed as the >> discussion progresses, of course), especially if a thread has run for >> a while. > > Most "business" mail runs something like t

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ron Johnson > wrote: > > On 2009-03-22 11:45, Chris Bannister wrote: ... > > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: [OT, embarrassing] trouble understanding ping output

ghe wrote: ... Here's a line from the same program (changed to show a > little more data) on the same host, but with appletalk, squid, and mysql > killed -- seems to be more in line with what the router sees so far: > >> 94 Thu Feb 26 11:57:00 2009 -- 5 packets, time 45ms == rtt >> min/av

Re: Packets go to the wrong interface (no source address checking?)

Sjors Gielen wrote: ... > So I wanted two IP's in the machine; I have Hamachi running two times > and I have two interfaces now, ham0 and ham1. There are also two routes: > > Destination Gateway GenmaskFlags Metric Ref Use Iface > 5.0.0.0 *255.0.0.0 U 0 0

Re: [OT, embarrassing] trouble understanding ping output

ghe wrote: ...> I have a script pinging my ISP (details below) and I don't understand > the results. Some output: > >> 2391 Thu Feb 26 01:14:39 2009 -- 5 packets, time 45ms == max rtt: >> 351.654 ms >> 2392 Thu Feb 26 01:14:45 2009 -- 5 packets, time 46ms == max rtt: >> 344.855 ms ...

Re: Linux desktop without mouse acceleration. Is it possible?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Dirk wrote: >> If you have a problem with trolling... well... let me welcome you to the >> internet. > > Well, then please go to the internet. We are not the internet, we are > debian-user, a mailing list that just happens to be mirrored to the > internet. You're mixi

Re: Update Manager

John Lindsay wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: >>> John >>> >> >> >> Hi John, >> Dont use reply to and change the subject of the thread, this does not >> start a new thread, but goes into the one you are therefore >> "highjacking". To start a new thread, you have to create a new message. >> T

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: ... > I had a box with ... > > I tested booting by unplugging (power and data) each drive in turn, > booting with grub was never a problem. Thanks. Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

Jack Schneider wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:14:54 -0500 > "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: > >> Jack Schneider wrote: >>> ... I have run without incident for over a year. >> But if you haven't had any disk-failure incidents, do you know whether >>

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

Jack Schneider wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:21:23 -0500 > "Barclay, Daniel" wrote: > >> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >>> Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >>>> ... is GRUB taking advantage of the fact that the RAID metadata is >>>> written at

Re: how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >> Since GRUB hasn't loaded the kernel file yet, GRUB can't be using the kernel >> and its md driver, and therefore can't be reading the partition _as_a_RAID_ >> _volume_ (/dev/mdX), right? >> &

how does GRUB read from /boot on software-RAID partition?

Some articles about GRUB and md-based RAID1 (mirroring) seem to imply that GRUB can read files (including the kernel and the initrd file) from /boot on the filesystem on a mirrored partition. Since GRUB hasn't loaded the kernel file yet, GRUB can't be using the kernel and its md driver, and there

GRUB: where does stage 1.5 if installting to partition boot record?

Where does GRUB install its stage 1.5 loader if you install GRUB into the boot record of a partition (e.g., "setup (hd0,0)") rather than the master boot record of the disk? Thanks, Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML "courtesy" of Microsoft Exchange.) [F]

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

Jeff Soules wrote: ... > >> The most intrusive attacks, where an attacker has complete control of >> the user's machine (and can therefor modify EncFS, or FUSE, or the >> kernel itself) are not guarded against. Do not assume that encrypted >> files will protect your sensitive data if you enter you

Re: exim4: auth. to smarthost - what to set AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS to?

I wrote: > In exim4, what value should AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS be set to > to enable > authentication associated feature? ... > I tried simply setting to true like this: > > AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS = true > > but that yields the error: > > # /etc/init.d/exim4 restart >

exim4: auth. to smarthost - what to set AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS to?

In exim4, what value should AUTH_CLIENT_ALLOW_NOTLS_PASSWORDS be set to to enable authentication associated feature? My exim4 (on Sarge) is set up in smarthost mode, and I'm trying to set up authentication to my smarthost, my ISP's SMTP server. I found some documentation saying to set AUTH_CLI

Re: digital camera recomendations

Mike McClain wrote: > > AA batteries are cheap, readily available and I can get NiCad and NiMH. > Custom rechargable battery packs are like printer ink cartridges. I wonder whether any camera use AAA batteries. That would let the camera be smaller and you'd still be able to install non-recharg

Re: digital camera recomendations

kj wrote: > ... I can imagine there's some benefit to designing a battery > that delivers the cameras exact energy requirements rather than trying > to make the most of the fixed output of AAs. Given how small compact > digital cameras have become, AA batteries really just add unnecessary bul

Re: device UUID versus /dev

Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:51:12PM +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What are the advantages by using >> drives are now identified by UUID >> over than /dev/xxx; > > you don't have to worry about ordering. I prefer to LABEL. that way it > doesn't matter what orde

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:09:13PM EST, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Dave Thayer wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> One nice bonus about having a powered hub is that it can be used to >>> recharge gadgets such as cellphones and mp3 players

Re: OT: Bush quotes

Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I don't know, why the US's founding fathers did not pick a more > appropriate name. How was it not appropriate if they were the only states in America that were united? Were any others united into a federation or country back then? Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes c

Re: OT: Bush quotes

Ignacio Mondino wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: >> [snip] >>> Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El Salvador and (Probably) yes, except we don't have that equivalent of "estadounidenses" in English. Yes, maybe we should (and I've ev

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

Dave Thayer wrote: >... > > One nice bonus about having a powered hub is that it can be used to > recharge gadgets such as cellphones and mp3 players without having to > leave your computer on. Wouldn't that work for unpowered hubs too? An unpowered hub can still supply 100mA to each port. Pres

Re: Release Cycle

Aneurin Price wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> David Jardine wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:28:44PM -0800, Ken Teague wrote: >>>> Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> ... >>> Well, maybe I'll prove to be understan

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

Daniel Cliff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > ...I've always been reluctant to mv the > pictures from the camera to a local folder, because I thought that > might mess things up with the camera. I know I may sound naive, but > perhaps there are caveats to take into a

Re: Release Cycle

Ken Teague wrote: > Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Ken Teague wrote: ... > >> If Debian set a shorter target release interval, each individual package >> maintainer would implement (and test and debug) a smaller set of features >> and changes (for that package) for ea

Re: Release Cycle

David Jardine wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:28:44PM -0800, Ken Teague wrote: >> Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... > > Well, maybe I'll prove to be understanding neither of you, but the > point seems to be that you can't 'force' the maturity of a package.

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 2009 January 09 21:09:30 Chris Jones wrote: ... >> 3. With only one USB port .. I'll need a hub.. will that work? > > For flash drives, yes. For external magnetic drives, only if it is powered. Of course, if your USB external disk has a separate power i

Re: problem with syslog

Guillaume wrote: > Hi, > I use personalized ipfilters and I want to log dropped packet to a > dedicated file in /var/log by using syslog. ...> > #for iptables > #in a user define chain called for each packet i want to filter > iptables -A LOG_AND_DROP -m limit --limit 10/minute -j LOG --log-level

Re: Release Cycle

Raquel wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:38:41 -0800 > Ken Teague wrote: > >>> Is Debian's stable release cycle relative long because Debian >>> releases typically involve big changes that set the minimum time >>> between releases, or is it because Debian not really attempt to >>> design and make s

Re: Release Cycle

Ken Teague wrote: > Barclay, Daniel wrote: >> Why do so many defenses of Debian's release cycle length seem to ignore or >> skirt the issue of _how_ _much_ is planned to be in each release? (Saying >> "when it's right" still depends on what "it"

Re: Release Cycle

s. keeling wrote: > Koh Choon Lin : >> Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I >> understand six months is the standard for Ubuntu. > > Why? What's wrong with Etch and Lenny? They're both well usable now, > yes? Are you looking for Lenny features in a "stable" release? > De

Re: udev causing data loss?

ghe wrote: ... > lee wrote: > >> Well, that means there is no way of telling which disk is which other >> than uuid maybe. But who says which uuid is to be which partition? > > The UUID is written on the disk when the partition is created. That's not right, is it? Isn't the UUID always of part

Re: sed

michael wrote: > I've been struggling to get this to work but I think 'sed' should be > able to do it if I could just get some help with the correct > incantation... > > > given a file with many strings, include many of the form > www > > I wish each to be transformed to > some url or other

Re: dpkg/apt-get/etc. option to verify installed files again checksums?

I wrote: > (I have been having trouble with file corruption when copying files. It > seems > be on the write side rather than the read side, but now a file I've only > been > reading (/usr/bin/tail) seems be corrupt.) Never mind. It seems to be a memory failure. (Before rebooting, running ta

dpkg/apt-get/etc. option to verify installed files again checksums?

What is the command or command option in dpkg/apt-get/etc. to verify the current checksums of installed files again the checksums in the corresponding package (.deb) file? (I have been having trouble with file corruption when copying files. It seems be on the write side rather than the read side,

Re: Samba and filenames problem

Ron Johnson wrote: > > The question still is why the file names are different: > CH3CN+2.5%Fer.doc > CH3CN+2.5%25Fer.doc Because they're not both file names. The first was the file name. The second was the _encoding_ in the filename in a URI (the smb:... URI). See RFC 3986. Daniel -- (Plain

Test2 (was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.)

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Test (was: Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.)

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Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > I once purchased a pack of cookies and found the date of packing to be a > couple of weeks in the future! Huh? Why do you think that that was the date of packing? Food packages normally have _expiration_ dates (not packing or manufacturing dates), which naturally wou

Re: Bash: pipe once more

Allan Wind wrote: > cd does not seem to do its thing when stdout is redirected to a pipe, > however it does work with a (temporary) file: Actually, cd does do its thing--it's just that its thing applies to the subprocess shell in the pipe instead of the shell it would normally apply to (when no

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

I wrote, slightly too quickly: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > ... >>> P.S. How do I change my debian-user subscription to have the mailing >>> list >>> server send me a copy of my own posts? The MajorDomo/SmartList help >>> response >>> message doesn't says anything about changing that setting.

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: ... >> P.S. How do I change my debian-user subscription to have the mailing list >> server send me a copy of my own posts? The MajorDomo/SmartList help response >> message doesn't says anything about changing that setting. >> >> (Not getting such copies is part of why I

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:33:39AM -0400, Barclay, Daniel wrote: ... >> >> P.S. How do I change my debian-user subscription to have the mailing list >> server send me a copy of my own posts? The MajorDomo/SmartList help response >> me

Re: getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/09/08 10:33, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > [snip] >> Now if I can figure out how to get the mail server configuration fixed .. > > Replacing Lookout with Postfix would do the trick. Did you mean Exchange? (I thought "Lookout" referred to

getting copies of own posted messages; was: Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude.

Chris Davies wrote: > Barclay, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why don't you just copy the text and paste it into a message? > > Follows. Notice that even the text/plain part is base64 encoded. Thanks. (And thanks to others who sent me copies.) Now if I can figu

Re: xx: Stunned by aptitude. - almost done - test 3 of 3

Does this message come across: - with an HTML part? - base64-encoded? Thanks. Daniel [Test 3 of 3: w/o chars]

Re: ??: Stunned by aptitude. - almost done - test 2 of 3

Does this message come across: - with an HTML part? - base64-encoded? Thanks. Daniel [Test 2 of 3: w/ chars; ISO-8859-1 (?)]

Re: 答复: Stunned by aptitude. - a lmost done - test 1 of 3

Does this message come across: - with an HTML part? - base64-encoded? Thanks. Daniel [Test 1 of 3: w/ chars; UTF-8]

Re: Stunned by aptitude.

I wrote: ... > > Somebody please send me a copy of one of these messages that you see > with HTML > and/or base64 encoding. ... Okay, I got a few. Thanks. Note that not all of them are the same regarding the transfer encoding: Most have been base64, but one was something else (I forgot now,

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