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2005-11-02 Thread Chema
Hi there. Just came back from vacation to find 500 (and counting) debian-user messages on my mailbox. No big deal, I'll just wipe out everything with debian-user as destination. :-P But in shake of netecology and lazyness, I would like to find out how to put my subscription on vacation, whi

Problems setting up Samba+LDAP PDC in Debian Sarge

2005-10-26 Thread Chema
t is now possible for admin users to join computersto the domain without using the "root" account."...In fact, the 'root' account is needed in the first place so that the SeXXX privileges can be set.>>The smbldap-tools didn't setup any root/uid=0 account in LDAP:dellj8

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-03 Thread Chema
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:49:43 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PJ> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- PJ> Hash: SHA1 PJ> PJ> Please turn your line wraps on to 72 columns. PJ> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:02:35AM +, Chema wrote: PJ> > Now that packages

Re: Debian Package Finder, where? SUCCESS !!

2003-12-03 Thread Chema
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:30:07 -0600 Bill Goudie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BG> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:26:22AM +0000, Chema wrote: BG> > Anyway, apt-file works nice, but "zgrep file Contents-i386.gz" BG> > works better! (note to apt-* developers: I'm st

Re: When will packages.debian.org be available again?

2003-12-03 Thread Chema
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:55:49 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HV> Greg Folkert wrote: HV> > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:51, Neodym123 wrote: HV> > HV> >>Hi! HV> >> HV> >>Does anyone know, when the packages list and search on HV> >www.debian.org>will be available again? HV> > HV> >

Re: Debian Package Finder, where? SUCCESS !!

2003-12-03 Thread Chema
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 05:33:44 +0100 Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AK> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 19:01:24 -0700, AK> "Dr. MacQuigg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message AK> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: AK> AK> > For the future: AK> > AK> > Wouldn't it be nice if debian.org just listed the contents of

Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-02 Thread Chema
Heya there. Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking for "which deb provides such file/library" a pair of times. Having resolved the situation in unusual froms, I'm starting to miss packages.deb. Is there a mirror or equivalent search engine? Google shows that at leas

Re: dselect makes me feel like an idiot

2003-11-26 Thread Chema
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 01:36:11 -0600 tripolar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: T> I open dselect and search / for nvidia T> 3 choices come up. i enter return a few times, get to "install" enter T> then this comes up T> Why are all these kde programs being removed? Am I not doing T> something right? Thanks

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Chema
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:32:56 -0500 Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PSG> After years of running E (without gnome), I might be tempted to use PSG> something else. Any suggestions appreciated. Try blackbox or one of its derivates. It has most of what you want; at first it can feel a

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Chema
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:07:49 + Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P> There's This Tribe (TM) who subsist by gathering vegetables and P> spearing fish. They're not into agriculture for food... but they do P> cultivate pot so they can get stoned while waiting for a worthwhile P> fish to come by.

Re: not in sid yet? - CERT Advisory CA-2003-24 Buffer Management Vulnerability in OpenSSH

2003-11-14 Thread Chema
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:40:08 -0500 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GF> On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:40, bruce edge wrote: GF> > Looks like this is only available in woody: GF> > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2003-24.html GF> > http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-382 GF> > http://www.de

Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

2003-11-10 Thread Chema
I often would find useful to stole the process from a tty wich is in a remote box, or to be able to see the output of a nohup'ed command, or to recuperate the process of a ssh session that got an abruptly end. Is there a way to relocate a process in a new terminal? Like "screen -d -r", but wit

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-06 Thread Chema
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:30:37 +0100 Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AJ> Hello AJ> AJ> Chema (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: AJ> AJ> > But there is also another view that I have not seen mentioned: in AJ> > serious servers, you can also "freeze&qu

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-04 Thread Chema
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 21:01:49 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RW> > When I got to the boot loader options, I was surprised to find RW> > only lilo. RW> RW> You need a default bootloader during the install. lilo works. If RW> you don't like it, change it after the install. RW> RW> > I

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-04 Thread Chema
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 10:59:16 + (UTC) Marco Cecconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: MC> Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what MC> is the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and in MC> particular under Linux? At work I try to separate different MC> func

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-04 Thread Chema
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 01:33:13 + Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P> ...speaking of such things - if the remote machine gets a different P> IP, through DHCP, every time it boots, is there a more elegant way I P> can discover this IP than having the remote machine email me when it P> boots? Well,

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread Chema
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:49:52 + John Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JP> Did you know you could instal it by only downloading less then 50Mb JP> of files and using your installed Grub to start it ? JP> After that you can download and install whatever you need or desire. Yes, I did. Thats was

Re: dhcp

2003-11-03 Thread Chema
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:15:12 +0800 Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RS> I've had my LAN working well for a long time using static IP RS> addresses(specified in /etc/hosts). RS> RS> Now I would like to play with dhcp, but I found the info in the DHCP is neat. Just that. Until the day you

Re: esd defies XMMS on sid

2003-11-03 Thread Chema
On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 13:51:17 +0800 Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: UD> XMMS runs perfectly well; so does esd. UD> Only, when running esd, XMMS freezes until it is being killed. Looks like you need to configure XMMS to use ESD: If ESD is running, nothing else is able to directly access the

Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread Chema
Hi there. I recently decided to give Debian a try, expecting that it would be the best distro for me if it where the half good technically than it is 'spiritually' =) I eated the FAQ (yep, *ALL* of it) and other install docs, jigsaw'd the first disc of the stable release (Woody 30r1 - i386), as