Re: diary with encryption

Jeronimo Pellegrini writes: > > You can use cfs to make a small encrypted filesystem out of a normal > > directory; then you can store your diary in the encrypted > > filesystem. > > That's what I would suggest, except that I'd use encfs instead of cfs. > I had several problems with cfs, and encf

Re: Serial comm program

Gregory Seidman writes: > Actually, I'm pretty happy with minicom. Are you unhappy merely > because it was written in the 90s? Or because it is text-based (as is > its purpose, after all)? As Unix-like-system afficionados, we can't afford to get uppity about what decade our software was designed

Re: disk usage of an umounted partition?

Roberto C. Sanchez writes: > That doesn't seem to make sense. If you want to know how much is used > up you need to at least be able to tell how many blocks are allocated > or occupied by files. That implies that the filesystem must be known > and readable. True, but sometimes wrecked filesyste

Re: script copy files based upon content

Ryan King writes: > The other weirdish piece is the ">/dev/null", which is just so that it > doesn't output anything even if it does match (which you expect to > happen. It's better to use -q. That way grep can terminate right away when it finds the first match. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

debian modules and networking Q's - just upgraded to woody and 2.4.x kernel

Hi, all... I'm another "normal" Debian user (non-newbie/non-guru ) and I have some questions on iptables and using modules under 2.4.x. I've been running an older Debian system for a while and started out with ipfwadm on a 2.0.x kernel. Sometime later I upgraded and a wrapper for ipchains was

new 2.1 install freezes during hardware detection

Hi, all... I've done 3 fresh Debian 2.1 installs from the GNU/Debian 2.1 CD (2.2.12 kernel) I have over the last few weeks and they all went fine, until my 4th machine, which freezes up during hardware detection of the install kernel. So far, I've tried disabling all the on-board stuff, includ

thanks! (was re: monitor power saving mode?)

Thanks guys... :) Between the 3 of you... - Karsten M. Self - Eduard Bloch - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've got all the specifics I'll need. Woo! I'm mostly using console right now, but I'll be setting up 2 machines using X, too, so it's cool that you guys hit both fronts. :) -Chris [EMAIL PR

monitor power saving mode?

Hi... Is it possible to setup the display in linux to shut off after some time of inactivity, just like (gasp) Windows? I've been converting my machines to linux-only and I'd like to have the monitor auto-shutoff after some time. Does such a thing exist for linux? I've seen packages for managing

how to copy package choices from one machine to another

e being downloaded now, and once things are installed and configured, I'll post any problem I ran into with this setup. Since I have no data on this new machine, yet, I'm willing to do a little potentially risky stuff like this... :) -Chris Chris Palmer wrote > > Thanks a

Re: how can i copy my pkg choices to another machine?

will remove the packages I don't want on the other host. Thanks again, Sebastiaan for the pointer in the right direction. :) -Chris Chris Palmer wrote > Yes, from checking out the man page, that looks like it > might do exactly what I want. > > Many thanks :) > > -Chris &

Re: how can i copy my pkg choices to another machine?

Yes, from checking out the man page, that looks like it might do exactly what I want. Many thanks :) -Chris Sebastiaan wrote > I do not know if will work, but this is the idea: > On the source computer: > dpkg --get-selections > source > > On the destination computer (after you copied the file

how can i copy my pkg choices to another machine?

Hi, guys... I've been running debian for years, but only on a couple machines until recently. Now, I'm setting up a new machine to replace one of my other machines and wanted to clone the choices for packages to have installed and then have apt-get get everything downloaded and installed for me

install ok?; 60Gig ATA100 HD

Hi, all... Getting good feedback from you all; THANKS! I've got another question on my issue. Brief recap: I've got a 60Gig drive that doesn't look to be the right size to cfdisk, but I understand that newer versions of the kernel (2.2.14, for example) calculate the size of large drives over 3

largefiles in linux? (>2Gig)

Hi... As far as I know, "large" files (greater than 2Gig) are not supported in linux. Has this changed, or is anyone aware of any work on this? Thanks for the info... -Chris

Re: install/partition weirdness; 60Gig ATA100 HD

Thanks, Erdmut... This 34Gig limit might be my problem. As everything, but cfdisk seems to read a usable geometry of some kind. cfdisk sees the total size as something like 27 billion bytes, so is reducing my total number of cylinders. Anyone know where I can get a bootable installation CD wit

install/partition weirdness; 60Gig ATA100 HD

Hi, all... I'm trying to install a new system from a Debian 2.1 CD I have (VA Linux Debian 2.1 Install from the store shelf that has the 2.2.12 kernel on it) and I'm just running into some really weird stuff. Well, after partitioning (about 59Gig for / and 2 x 128MB for swap partitions) and the

SOLUTION: sblive

Hi, all... It was a while since I asked for some help with my SB Live under Debian. I was having trouble with the pre-compiled modules (kernel version mis-match). So, some kind person pointed me to source for the emu10k1 driver (how was I supposed to know this had anything to do with SBLive? n

Re: sblive; kernel 2.2.12?

Jiri Klouda wrote > > by Creative Labs for kernel 2.2.5 to install under 2.2.12. > > > > I enabled MODULE VERSION support for my kernel and recompiled > > If I understand it right, you should DISABLE this feature :) > And what is wrong with the es1371 module in kernel or what was > the name of it

sblive; kernel 2.2.12?

Hi, all... I'm trying to install an SBLive into my linux machine and I'm having trouble getting the sblive module (v0.2) provided by Creative Labs for kernel 2.2.5 to install under 2.2.12. I enabled MODULE VERSION support for my kernel and recompiled everything, which I assumed would allow this

Voodoo 3 on debian?

Hi, all... Anyone running a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 on Debian? Just curious if it works well or not. -Chris

Re: debian upgrade mess

Joey Hess wrote > Chris Palmer wrote: > > Should I now abandon the settings in dselect and no longer run > > it? I had attempted to flag things that I wanted to add to my > > system in there (and I have no idea what they were now). > > There's absolutely nothin

debian upgrade mess; glibc/samba

Hi, all... I've been scrounging around for info on some of the troubles I've run into with my "upgrade" from Debian 2.1 to 2.2 in August (see my email with similar subject as this one for details). ok, so I'm been looking into the trouble I have with Samba, and I found in the Samba message arch

Re: debian upgrade mess

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote > on Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 04:07:50PM -0800, Chris Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Wow, was I surprised when a number of packages were removed from my > > system at the end. I had a fun time getting perl back on my system, > > and a r

debian upgrade mess

Hi, all... I just joined the list, in hopes of finding a solution to a problem I had some time back with upgrading my Debian system via APT/dselect. I had installed 2.1 from CD, and then used dselect to install nearly all of the packages I was using. Within a week after 2.2 was released (week of