Re: Cron - any advanced options?

e $MARKER ]; then echo Script already running exit touch $MARKER [...] [... real script here ...] [...] rm $MARKER Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D

Re: Versioning control

the following: - Email notification of commits; - Pre-commit tests which can be configured to perform arbitrary operations (e.g. a clean compile, for example) before allowing the commit to take place. The first is a good option, I'm less sure about the second. Dave. -- Dave

Re: install daemon without starting it

n fi This may be a less convenient approach, but it does meet the criterion of Least Surprise: a daemon won't be started automatically before you have a chance to configure it, for example. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University o

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

hops: > > 1<1 ms<1 ms<1 ms 159.226.135.129 > ... OK, so it finds the gateway from Windows XP. Perhaps there's a route specified somewhere. What does "route print" give you from Win XP? Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manage

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

n a corporate or academic network, I'd speak to your local network admin to figure out what the correct settings should be, because the settings you give above will not work on *any* OS (assuming the information you've provided is accurate and complete). Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

f the month; and - each Monday (for the whole month). i.e. for March 2009, it will run on 1st through 7th inclusive and also on 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

(You can also reverse the logic of the cron calls if you like, by running the job on every Monday and then using the wrapper script to determine if its between the 1st and 7th of the month etc.) Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Ox

Re: pam_ldap, nss_ldap and rfc2307bis (using member instead of memberUid)

ed. Depending on what you're trying to do, you could probably do some ldapsearch/sed pipeline to just return what you need. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94

Re: OpenLDAP stuff ??

you should explain exactly why they aren't suitable or some more details of what you're trying to do? Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E

Re: No more logins after upgrade to deb 5.0

- was no longer considered safe. Making a new certificate using SHA1 instead of MD5 fixed the problem. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key

Re: pam_ldap, nss_ldap and rfc2307bis (using member instead of memberUid)

oth pam_groupdn and pam_member_attribute in /etc/pam_ldap.conf Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-

Re: Is there no way to RELIABLY disable mouse acceleration in Linux?

o a cronjob now that runs the command 30 > > times every minute... > > I would be astonished if running "xset" in a cronjob did anything. Or that cron can do anything on a time resolution of less than one minute... Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Canc

Re: USB Wireless Adapter for Linux?

On Thursday, 19.02.2009 at 10:38 +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Wednesday, 18.02.2009 at 22:36 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > I've used two Edimax adapters without issue: they just work. > > > > Really? The last time I tried, the fact that the Edimax adaptors

Re: USB Wireless Adapter for Linux?

receipt says the adapter I got was "Edimax EW-7318USg 54G 802.11 b/g". The model was sold at http://lugradio.org/live/UK2008/ specifically as "Just Works With Linux", which in my experience it did: that would have been with Ubuntu/Hardy, though, not Debian. More details later...

Re: USB Wireless Adapter for Linux?

On Wednesday, 18.02.2009 at 08:49 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Are there usb wireless adapters known to work well with Linux? I've used two Edimax adapters without issue: they just work. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit Unive

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2:/# That's rather annoying. If I want to shoot myself in the foot, it should let me. It's a bug that it doesn't :-) Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

o make the script use syslog, then? Take a look at the package 'logger'. It works like this: logger -i -p syslog.info -t processname "Message goes here" Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Researc

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

rather than relying on the behaviour of standard output/error. Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-

Re: kernel config q

external USB > ATA drive. Which works OK with the debian kernel but not in my own > compiled one. ... I've sometimes found that for ad-hoc devices which you attach during use (such as USB-stuff), using a kernel module seems to behave better. Not sure why. Why are you compiling y

Re: How about MySQL in 64bit Debian?

uting an application you have written (This issue is complicated and a gross simplication: there are no restrictions on actual use, of course); - etc. Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E

Re: How about MySQL in 64bit Debian?

n for large-scale research data, which means that some of the database are very large. No problems at all. We also use PostgreSQL, which I happen to prefer, also no problems. Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Rese

Anyone using Dell Poweredge R905?

ut I'll happily take the word of someone who has already tried this with Debian... I'm planning on getting a four quad-core Opteron version with 128GB RAM for some statistical analysis applications. Success stories (and horror stories) welcome! Thanks, Dave. (Cross-posted to debian-am

Re: Newbie Samba help

/etc/samba/smb.conf if you want more help. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92

Re: Newbie Samba help

in on the Debian server using User Jan. Note that Samba typically requires you to create a dedicated Samba user on the server, not a 'normal' user account. It's unclear what you did when you said "I have setup a User on the Debian side..." If you can't figure i

Re: upgrade from 3.1 to 4.0

irety of /etc/apt/sources.list for us to look at. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: upgrade from 3.1 to 4.0

r, or using HTTP rather than FTP, then re-run 'apt-get update' At the moment, I can't download from ftp.debian.org either, so that's probably the problem. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email

Re: Sarge -> Etch: A Painful Upgrade

out what: it *could* have been bad sources, it *could* have been lack of disk space, it *could* have been ... etc. etc. Without inspecting those first errors it's impossible to say. > My post was more of a warning, 'heads-up, this may not be as easy as > you think.' I hope to

Re: Sarge -> Etch: A Painful Upgrade

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Re: Sarge linux26 Install Corrupt?

On Thursday, 12.04.2007 at 21:31 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Thursday, 12.04.2007 at 13:02 -0500, Robert J Rae wrote: > > > when I try to to install sarge as I have done many times via http, I > > now get warnings about kernel image removal and packages that have > > fa

Re: Sarge linux26 Install Corrupt?

stall from a Sarge CD might look for 'stable' on the repositories? (Not sure, just thinking out loud) Anyway, if you're installing *afresh*, why don't you just use Etch, since it's now Stable? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: What uses port/service 81?

On Wednesday, 11.04.2007 at 09:21 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:03:06PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > > > *unsure* I vaguely remember that Smoothwall used this port for remote > > access, I think. (i.e. you could connect to your own Smoothwal

Re: What uses port/service 81?

to configure it. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc De

Re: etch upgrade problem

from the command line. I believe the recommended approach is to run the upgrade/dist-upgrade in 'screen', so that any network or X-related problem will not kill the upgrade process. Haven't upgraded my Sarge systems yet, but that's the way *I'm* planning to do it. Dave. --

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 14:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 18:53 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 12:08 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:06 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > > >

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 12:08 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:06 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Friday, 06.04.2007 at 15:39 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > > > > 1) How to set shmmax in debian? > > > > For the running kernel, ech

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

onf: kernel.shmmax=whatever Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description:

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

irst time you've come across in this manner (to me, at least), which was unexpected. Back on thread... "... and is also sometimes referred to as just Postgres" was exactly what I'm getting at. Ron: can I politely suggest that unless you're prepared to make a contribution

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

d to know the way most people said common Unix/Linux words. PostgreSQL *is* pronounced "post-gress-ceu-ell" as you keep insisting (and with which I am *NOT* disagreeing): however, my point was that many, many, many people call is "post-gress", which is an widely-used accepted abb

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

On Sunday, 01.04.2007 at 11:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/01/07 05:37, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Saturday, 31.03.2007 at 16:18 -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: > > > >> PostgreSQL = post-gress-cue-ell or ? > > > > Most people I know pronounce this "po

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

On Saturday, 31.03.2007 at 16:18 -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: > PostgreSQL = post-gress-cue-ell or ? Most people I know pronounce this "post-gress" (dropping/ignoring the 'SQL' part at the end). Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL

Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

a *large* number of quirks and not-quite-bugs when attempting to communicate from a psql client on an old system to PG server on a newer one. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally

Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 23:17 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > On 3/21/07, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There is a password stored in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf for the > >debian-sys-maint user. > > Dave you are a genius Thanks a million! One aims to p

Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

nt user. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

t's just assuming I do (I don't, but I run DHCP for portable devices > and other temporary situations). I believe that if you select 'Expert' mode for the installation, you will be asked this question. "Expert" for when you know better than the installer ;-) Dave.

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

On Thursday, 08.03.2007 at 13:14 +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: > who needs >2TB for /boot ? Well, I don't like throwing away all those old kernels ... ;-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All emai

Re: Where to put scripts

ocal/myscripts/bin and putting a symlink to the binaries in /usr/local/bin ? You can then "versionize" (not entirely clear what you mean by that, but anyway...) /usr/local/myscripts Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PR

Re: Where is debian-non-US

27; forces. They all had really strong German accents, though :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66

Re: Day light saving patch

se tell us which version of Debian you are running, and show us the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Finge

Re: smbldap tools

ly elaborate) script which specifies all the extra groups (the '-G' option to smbldap-useradd). Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sunga

Re: dell poweredge 2400

failover you believe is important etc. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

t this thread is > about. For IMAP you can also enable 'Expunge on exit'. The OP was > complaining about the fact that Icedove didn't purge deleted items > from the local storage. Oh, yes, of course: I'd forgotten that local folders behaved differently in this regard th

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

be "Remove it immediately". No need for an extra extension. Note that the first of those two options is preferred, especially if you have large folders, otherwise you will get performance hits every time you move/delete messages from a folder. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on li

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

ht not be doing quite what you want, but they're slightly 'safer' than immediately deleting everything straight away. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SSH accounts - basic restriction

strict permissions under /etc if you insist, but don't be surprised to find stuff suddenly failing to work! Cheers, Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://ww

Re: SSH accounts - basic restriction

I think it's good > practice, probably :) There shouldn't be anything readable under /etc which constitutes a security risk. If you really don't trust your users, don't give them access in the first place :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart

Re: SSH accounts - basic restriction

h. However, I'd strongly advise against trying to restrict access to /etc - this will break lots of things! What are you actually trying to achieve? Or, to take another view, what exactly are you trying to prevent and why? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart -

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

>> Table "public.foo" >> Column | Type | Modifiers >> +--+--- >> a | date | >> >> pg=# insert into foo values('2007-02-31'); >> ERROR: date/time field value out of range: "2007-02-31" >> pg

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

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Re: Doing administrative work

On Monday, 22.01.2007 at 10:39 -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is actually what is done, yes. > > > > And, in addition, the safe is only accessible to restricted > > individuals. Having said that, none of the restr

Re: Doing administrative work

ls. Having said that, none of the restricted individuals (apart from me) would know what to do with the root password anyway ... All a matter of risk assessment, really. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All ema

Re: Doing administrative work

On Monday, 22.01.2007 at 09:11 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:07:19AM +0000, Dave Ewart wrote: > > as root. The system is never used in a non-root context. > > Therefore, to manage this system I set up no further users other > > than root, and

Re: Doing administrative work

On Monday, 22.01.2007 at 07:51 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/22/07 04:07, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Sunday, 21.01.2007 at 22:03 -0500, Jim Hyslop wrote: > > > [snip] > > The above example flies in the face of the usual advice, but that's > > because

Re: Doing administrative work

7;m opening myself to some criticism by mentioning the above; please *read* what I've written before replying with "You shouldn't ever use root directly", because I don't believe that's an appropriate criticism in this case. ;-) As always, so long as one properly considers

Re: Debian Sarge install onto raid 5

n which the individual disks are readable direcly, like RAID-1; or, just a non-RAIDed partition. If you have three disks (or more), which you presumably do for RAID-5, make a small three-disk RAID-1 partition at the start for your boot partition. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! .

Re: Debian Sarge install onto raid 5

ve. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Encrypted email question

> "mutt can be hacked to make anything happen." My favourite quote so far this year :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/

Re: mutt

emove postfix. Why ? I don't want to remove postfix. > (sudo apt-get -f install is ok) Just wondering if this is because Debian is switching from using Exim as the default MTA across to Postfix instead? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ldap server restart

y if my > solution is good or not. I'd suggest raising a full Debian bug report on this one: if data corruption is taking place, this should be sorted. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is n

Re: Etch vs. Sarge/bpo on FW/Router

cially released and do a normal Etch installation. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

t-password into sshd_config. This stops any direct password attacks. It is less secure than disabling access to the root account completely, but offers a great deal of convenience that can sometimes be useful. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: dedicated debian hosting

.) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

> > > > > On the other hand, performance will probably be better with a dedicated > > > > hardware raid controller. > > > > > > it highly depends on the hardware raid. The true hardware RAID with XOR > > > counting and mirroring support will be much fas

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

lmost no CPU overhead, and is often a good low-cost option. Part of your decision must rest on what exactly the machine will be doing. Different RAID setups are best suited for different usage patterns, e.g. RAID-5 is often a good general-purpose storage server option, RAID-10 is usually re

Re: SQL question about performance...

hich one would result in more speed after putting an INDEX on it? > VARCHAR(8) or INT(10)? > > ...I use mySQL.. This is the previous thread when you asked before: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/11/msg02253.html I think the answer is probably "it depends". Dave. -- Ple

Re: Running postgresql-7.4 and postgresql-8.1 simultaneously

ting PostgreSQL 8.1? The alternative as suggested by another poster in this thread is to use a chroot, putting PostgreSQL 7.4 in the main system and PostgreSQL 8.1 in the chroot... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All e

Re: Running postgresql-7.4 and postgresql-8.1 simultaneously

n you'd need to ensure that the services were configured to listen on different ports, although that would be fairly trivial to achieve. Perhaps we can help further if you explain exactly what you're trying to achieve by installing both simultaneously? Dave. -- Please don't C

Re: Try again: Is cdimage.debian.org having trouble?

th is highly erratic and overall very slow. > > > >I'm in New Jersey, USA. If that makes any difference. > > Is anybody else having similar problems? > > Is anybody else *not* having these problems? Noticed the symptoms you describe: from the UK just now. Dave. --

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

he end. This is either a bug or a feature of the mailing list software. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F6

Re: httpS on debian web server

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Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

On Thursday, 16.11.2006 at 21:50 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:25:00PM +0000, Dave Ewart wrote: > >to which the machine is put. Kernel bugs are normally only > >exploitable by local users; SSL bugs are most likely to be > >exploitable remotely.

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

. If you have no local users other than yourself, but run many publically-accessible services, then SSL bugs are much more important! (I'm not saying my example above is true in every single case, but I think it's true on the whole.) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ..

Re: Etch kernel

, there was certainly never any implication that by choosing 2.6 you were opening yourself to an 'unstable' environment... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from h

Re: mutt still sees expired apache certificate

looked" was, then: Mutt has had POP and IMAP support (in some form at least) since version 1.0 and probably before that: which was released in late 1999 :-) Not sure when SSL support was introduced, but, still ;-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PRO

Re: mutt still sees expired apache certificate

ficate via the webmail > interface, so I *think* it is fine. I suspect the problem is that Mutt doesn't *use* the web interface! Mutt must be using either POP3/SSL or IMAP/SSL if it has been configured to use SSL: you need to fix the POP3 or IMAP certificate, in that case, not just Apache.

Re: Package installation history.

to do certain updates after hours, just in case. > > > > Yes, you should switch to aptitude. Explaining *why* you suggest using aptitude rather than apt-get might be helpful... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [E

Re: Bugzilla on Debian testing (VirtualHost)

rrect - you might be better off simply setting the appropriate DocumentRoot. It's unclear whether the 'extra' /cgi-bin/bugzilla is the result of an Apache redirect or as a result of Bugzilla being misconfigured: can you show us the Apache logs for your attempted login, please? Dave.

Re: Bugzilla on Debian testing (VirtualHost)

#x27;s files actually live - I've reconfigure my setup slightly so can't tell you the exact packaged setup!) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://

Re: Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 13:18 -0700, edwardsa wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > >On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 11:06 -0700, edwardsa wrote: > > > > > >>I have some ubuntu machines living inside of a debian firewall machine > >>that point to an apt-cacher archive o

Re: Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

't do this! (If that's not what you meant, then ignore this remark, of course) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint

Re: System/Bios Time

up) and all should be well. If not, then something is stopping your clock synchronising. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Name for Etch+1?

On Friday, 13.10.2006 at 20:12 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 18:46 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > Once Etch is released, the next Testing branch needs a new name. Anyone > > know what it's going to be called? If no decision has yet been made, > >

Re: Name for Etch+1?

On Friday, 13.10.2006 at 13:50 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 06:46:24PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > > Current Testing is Etch, which will be the next stable release: > > Debian 4.0 > > > > Once Etch is released, the next Testing branch n

Name for Etch+1?

s from the first Toy Story film ;-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92

Re: Etch and NSS with LDAP

ges/sarge-ldap-auth-howto - take a look there. Basically, the NSS package allows the local system to tie up local UID and GID with the right 'real' users in LDAP; the PAM package handles the authentication side of things. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewa

Re: Etch and NSS with LDAP

hat I mean by that...? I'm referring to the accounts > stored in your /etc/passwd file. Except they're probably *not* stored in /etc/passwd if you've got them in LDAP, no? People know what you mean by "normal Linux logons", I guess: although you are probably referri

Re: forcedeth: too many iterations [...] in nv_nic_irq

On Wednesday, 23.08.2006 at 10:13 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > I've been seeing the error: > > Aug 18 21:24:59 titan kernel: eth-gig1: too many iterations (6) in > nv_nic_irq. > > in the logs when there is heavy network traffic on my Sarge/amd64 > system. The error

forcedeth: too many iterations [...] in nv_nic_irq

tions (16) in nv_nic_irq. There's no obvious misbehaviour going on, apart from seeing this message, but I'm concerned. Any thoughts/comments on this? Thanks, Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from m

Re: SW RAID read performance

156071360 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sda1[1] 19534912 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: Not entirely sure how to interpret the results, but there is some suggestion that it is reading from both disks... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messa

Re: SW RAID read performance

bably have a bottleneck somewhere else. Are these disks on the same controller channel? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint

Re: Going back to stable

this should be relatively > trivial to accomplish without losing many settings. I'd second this advice. Re-install, don't even *try* to downgrade... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me i

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