Re: Re: Re: Missing "kernel-package" in stretch

Hi Darac, thanks again. I wasn't aware of the new target "make deb-pkg". Best regards, Karsten

Re: Re: Missing "kernel-package" in stretch

me for the release, so the package was dropped (it's still in  > unstable, though, so it may return for buster). thanks for Your answer. If I understand You correctly, the package would not be available in "stretch". How should I build a custom kernel in stretch without this package? Thanks, Karsten

Missing "kernel-package" in stretch

ilding in stretch different to jessie? Thanks, Karsten

ltsp - /home

quot; in the device section. Is there a way to avoid this manual step? Karsten -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

my dual monitor setup broke

(==) NVIDIA(1): Backing store disabled (==) NVIDIA(1): Silken mouse enabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) NVIDIA(1): DPMS enabled Anybody knows what can be the problem? Karsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot move file /var/log/XFree86.1.log.old

-only. It's also possible that you've got disk errors, you might want to review the output of 'dmesg' or /var/log/messages for any errors or messages related to the disk in question. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt

Re: Sarge GPG Release signature

10908312D230C5F | sudo apt-key add -; > I use apt-check-sigs, and it barks (with reason, since the 2005 key the > current file is signed has expired - see below). > http://people.debian.org/~ajt/apt-check-sigs Note you need *both* the 2006 *and* 2005 keys. Peace. -- Karsten M. Sel

Re: Looking for a comment editor

so: http://www.literateprogramming.com/ http://vasc.ri.cmu.edu/old_help/Programming/Literate/literate.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? gconf-editor: reimplementation of the MS Windows

Re: How do I check if Spamassassin bayes' learning works?

27;s something in these files. Note too that SA's bayesian filter may be a tad funky in multiuser systems, another area I haven't entirely kept up with. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Play it once, Sam, for old time's sake. - Casablanca signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: how to change number of saved lines on console

r to localhost (sufficient for most purposes) or to a second system (possibly a dedicated logging server). This should capture *everything* that crosses the console, including BIOS, POST, bootloader, kernel, and init messages. It can even be used for debugging. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: Spam reporting tools (was: Re: UNRESOLVED: Re: Mutt: how to mark multiple spams?)

on Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:18:37PM +, Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On (06/02/06 04:07), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On (06/02/06 01:05), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Do you have a suitable script

Spam reporting tools (was: Re: UNRESOLVED: Re: Mutt: how to mark multiple spams?)

on Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:47:47AM +, Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On (06/02/06 01:05), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > I'd tag the messages and move them to a folder. > > > > That folder would automatically get a spam run against it periodical

Re: ssh keys

route by which an attacker gained access to your system and take appropriate countermeasures. Suddenly finding out that "root isn't trusted" and having nothing to go on is a markedly worse situation. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &q

Re: vi trying to connect to X

variant of vim installed, and it may be doing stupid things presuming it's got an X display active. Try: unset DISPLAY vi foo ... and see if that resolves the issue. If it doesn't, post the output of 'dpkg --get-selections | grep ^vi' ... which should show what ver

Re: UNRESOLVED: Re: Mutt: how to mark multiple spams?

v/null (e.g.: delete) when done Have that happen periodically (every few minutes to every few hours) and you've got a pretty painless system. It's also going to give you less latency in your mutt session as most of the processing is asyncronous to your mail reading. Peace. -- Kar

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

on Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:29:54AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Karsten M. Self wrote: > >>>on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom > >>>([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

on Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 06:00:27AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >Karsten M. Self wrote: > >>on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom > >>([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>How would I popup an

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:28:03AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>How would I popup an inf

Re: display popup message on X with crontab

age "My message" ... should work, if not in your crontab entry itself then in a script called by same. ":0.0" should work for most circumstances. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Re

Re: / suddenly Read-only

on Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:59:41PM -0700, jonathan ferguson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > on Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:06:46 -0800 Karsten M. Self" > (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > >> For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901 > >>

Re: Tripwire and /proc

Rick Moen & used by Debian on its project servers: http://linuxgazette.net/issue98/moen.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a lit

Re: How to get new Debian gpg keys?

27;s been > done so far has not worked due to a bug in apt. Glad to see it's finally happening, nonetheless, and appreciate your hints as always. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? America Trans

Re: / suddenly Read-only

t on the error: "Read-only file system." Triple-check your autofs config. If that's the change, try disabling it and seeing if the problem disappears. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understan

Re: Re: recover ext3 deletion

x27;t have an undeletion feature and by its design breaks several characteristics which allow this at times under ext2. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? I thought about it all night. Since I ca

Re: how to design a protocol to help 1000 PCs know whether online or not

econds here: $ nmap -sP 10.0.1-5.0-255 A clearer description of what your systems are running (OS and software), what your detection latency requirements are, network topology, and bandwidth constraints, would be helpful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.

Re: sane access for non-root user

it with the "ssh localhost" trick, but you > have to log out to have it set for your session. There's the 'newgrp' command if you want to avoid losing your X session and can stand winning just one shell at a time. 'sg' is somewhat analagous to 'su', t

Re: LVM on loopback FS, mounting, access

on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:14:34PM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > I'm playing with partitioned filesystem image files (result of, say, > doing a fresh OS install using qemu), and need to be able to mount and > access such images which contain LVM grou

Re: Un-bootable kernel due to bad initrd

neath it. You're now effectively in your installed system. Install / remove / configure packages as necessary, rebuild your initrd, etc. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Any time a business operat

Re: Xorg leaking

on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:26:25AM +0200, Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:48:38 -0800 > Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:22:39PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at

Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable

at 01:44:57PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >For the past week or more, testing/unstable, I've had unusable print > >output from Galeon and Firefox browsers. > > > >Sample output at > > > >h

Re: Xorg leaking

rind. It helps if you're also an absolute performance masochist. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? gconf-editor: reimplementation of the MS Windows Registry for GNU/Linux, with the concommi

LVM on loopback FS, mounting, access

104391 83 Linux fc4.img2 20884512273659 6032407+ 8e Linux LVM I *can* mount ordinary filesystem partition (using mount's 'offset' argument). LVM's a bit of a stumper. Any hints greatly appreciated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http

Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable

For the past week or more, testing/unstable, I've had unusable print output from Galeon and Firefox browsers. Sample output at http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/galeon-print-bug/hello.html http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/galeon-print-bug/galeon.ps ... very simple source HTML fil

Re: Any recomendations on C/R spam tools for Debian

aler) Thu, 07 Apr 2005 12:31:03 -0600 http://mla.libertine.org/tmda-workers/2005-04/msg0.html Considered harmful is now "considered dead". Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: [OT] Good book about GNU/Linux structure

ead mail) > > servers do thing that need to be done without interventions like > > printing, apache, disk io, swapping <...> -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Ahh the price of entropy! Too bad

Re: problems with initialising LVM

solution found - but original problem still exists. I partitioned hdb and hdc with a single partition for the entire disk and then did: pvcreate /dev/hdb1 pvcreate /dev/hdc1 and then vgcreate VG /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 mythtv has started to fill up the new space. Karsten On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at

problems with initialising LVM

more I can actually do: gate:~# fdisk /dev/hdc and partition the disk. Any help appreciated. Karsten -- ------ Karsten BoldingBolding & Burchard Hydrodynamics Strandgyden 25 Phone: +45 64

Re: files not in sync on nfs mounted directories

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:17:42AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Karsten Bolding wrote: > > > I've a problem with files not being in sync on a nfs exported home. On a > > cluster the nodes mounts /home from the master. Sometimes it happens > &g

files not in sync on nfs mounted directories

this problem? Karsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cups: canon backend hanging

on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 06:22:02PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:22:19AM -0500, John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sunday 17 July 2005 04:41 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I've got a problem with the ca

Re: The art of turboing (was: Re: OT: Windoze spyware?)

on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 06:19:41PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:47:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 02:32 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:34:53PM

Re: Cups: canon backend hanging

on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:22:19AM -0500, John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 17 July 2005 04:41 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've got a problem with the canon backend (which I don't use) hanging in > > CUPs. My load average is currently 13+, and there&#x

The art of turboing (was: Re: OT: Windoze spyware?)

on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:47:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 02:32 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:34:53PM -0400, Marty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > >On Fri, Jul 08, 2

Cups: canon backend hanging

he backend from running in the first place? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? You're not a user, nitwit. - Jeff Waugh, describing GNOME users. http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/20

Re: OT: Windoze spyware?

it was inordinately popular among 419 spammers, with a handful of go.com MXs becoming my second leading spam source (following KORnet). I managed to bring this to Disney's attention, the situation's improved markedly. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/

Re: Neighbour table overflow (No buffer space available)

518761 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:778152216 (742.1 MiB) TX bytes:778152216 (742.1 MiB) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? D00D PL33Z 1 N33D CH347 C0D35 FOR GC0NF !!! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Wmaker Nautilus (in only one window)?

Yes, there is a command-line option to override the behavior, but the user cannot (and should not) be expected to know of this and supply it themselves. Particularly as nautilus is invoked by default from several applications (Mozilla / Firefox IIRC), and conflicts with WindowMaker functionalit

Re: Remote administration of a server

gent are lifesavers. Add to them rsync (a fast, efficient, flexible file transfer protocol), screen (a detachable terminal multiplexer), and mc (a curses-based file manager on steroids, including the ability to transfer files back and forth) and you've got the makings of highly doable remote

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

there for decoration. - Tracking who's saying what in response to whom gets very difficult. Generally there's a total mash of text. My own response is to not participate in lists / groups in which this mode of communications is commonplace. It's too much work, s/n is way low

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

quot;complete" desktop environments, I've found XFCE4 to be pretty sweet. My _recommendation_ is that you install and try a few WMs. It's trivial to install a WM via aptitude. And you can either run these on their own X session or via Xnest: Xnest :1 1024x768 -displa

Re: what is using my swap

l Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Manners maketh man. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

on Sat, May 28, 2005 at 04:33:53PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:03:21PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying out Firefox again, and am dogged by slow performance, > > particularly on startup and window/tab operation

Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

to an initially unresponsive window which tends to show an image of other desktop elements. Screenshot: http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Images/ffx-dead-window.png The terminal window (showing this email in progress) is duplicated over the browser window. Note that the titlebar shows both blue and

Re: html to pdf conversion

zz. Oooh Unless you RTFM. Neat, I just learned some stuff :-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Free Software Primer -- concepts you need to understand http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/

Re: Network scan

you've only got IP. I don't know offhand of tools that will query for MAC, though these may exist. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Obviously it's not going to be trivial to run G

Re: group web software

her forum-oriented CMS. Drupal is both very nice and (for web-based forum/group software) very easy to set up. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? You can quote me if you want. - simonrvn signature.

Re: Please help: Accidentally wiped off the whole hard disk!!!

. Bindered hardcopy is also tres helpful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Marti wrote: News flash: / Matt Pavlovich does not live / in California. - Haiku Pavlovich signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: wget times out - but ftp works OK

Hi On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:12:22AM +0800, Robert Vangel wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 14:30 +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:27:51 +0100, Karsten Bolding > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>

Re: wget times out - but ftp works OK

the problem persists :-( > > /icebiker > > Karsten -- ------ Karsten BoldingBolding & Burchard Hydrodynamics Strandgyden 25 Phone: +45 64422058 DK-5466 Asperup

Re: wget times out - but ftp works OK

I604). I've set up 'virtual servers' to allow ftp and ssh to a box behind the router. I've opened for ftp on port 21 - is the port number changed when entering passive mode? Karsten -- ------ Karsten Bolding

wget times out - but ftp works OK

ng in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done.==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/hans.burchard ... done. ==> PASV ... and then hangs. If I do a normal anonymous ftp I can download the file OK. Any suggestions? Yours Karsten Bolding -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: cd burning oddities

, no Problem, i can burn Data CDs via k3b or the command > Line. But, have i discovered a new debian bug or are there some > workarounds? Check against the BTS (bugtracking system: http://bugs.debian.org/). If you don't see a bug filed, file one. No clue WRT your groisofs bug. FWIW:

Re: can't the shell do a better job

prior match. Very useful that. I'd actually used bash for a few years before having it pointed out to me. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? My nation is silent right now. - Sri

Re: Displayed Image Quality

f appears to be the best solution for viewing > multiple page TIFF files? Possibly. Online vs. printed appearance can vary greatly. Have you compared printed output? I realize this may not be fully sufficient for your needs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.c

Re: Backup-software FTP

lftp", it can do recursive upload / download (mirror, mirror -R). Can you run that noninteractively? I use lftp but haven't found a good way to script it. Would be useful for a few websites I manage. Otherwise, of course, rsync rocks, but a lot of ISPs haven't caught up with the 20th C

Re: Package to block random SSH login attempts?

machines. > > Maybe there's some good reason NOT to contact people, I can't think > why. Might not want to use your canonical email address though! If you're really interested in doing that sort of reporting, you're welcome to crib from my SpamTools package (GPL):

Re: Why Grub? Must I Switch?

; in the same way that it's necessary to re-run 'lilo' after editing /etc/lilo.conf. Rather, update-grub is editing /boot/grub/menu.lst. GRUB itself does *not* need to be updated, it finds and respects the modifications to its config file. [Deletia of correct and significant GR

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

How do I > > obtain such value ? How do I create the required backticks on my laptop > > keyboard (no separate numpad) > > 3) If I use cron to run this everyday, being this a laptop client, will > > the due command be executed if it's natural time has expired ? >

Re: Console Password Manager?

on Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:04:42AM -0500, Ben Bettin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:10:38 -0800, Karsten M. Self > wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 10:56:25AM -0600, Jacob S ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > The only problem I have with it is I can'

Re: Console Password Manager?

ably better for > security anyway. For that, I use a Palm. Note that there's no handy way to coordinate the lists, though. In JPilot, you can access Keyring as a plugin. Not console, but It Works[tm]. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &q

Re: Console Password Manager?

edited in vim (with some hacks) and accessed via a shell script or bash function. http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/IwtNix#Use_vim_to_edit_an_encrypted_fil Crude, but effective. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gest

Re: swap space size

on Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:33:45AM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:21:20AM +, Alexis Huxley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On 2004-10-21, Gilbert, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Think about it, if you want

Re: OT: Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

r Ballard's use here. Alas, it was > on a totally different subject, some sort of Python-based mailer. # aptitude install mencal ...now if we can just get Bill and Steve's start days Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Linux: Good, fast, _and_ cheap. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

on Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:00:17PM -0500, William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:32:25PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > advances. Pretty much all the "Live CD" distros (Knoppix, Mepis, > > Gnoppix, LNX-BBC, Damn Small Linux, etc.) auto

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

the basis of multiple other distributions (Storm, Progeny (_also_ a meta-distro), Linspire, Knoppix, Mepis, Ubuntu, LibraNet, Xandros...), largely in the strength and richness of its packaging system. Several of these distros are themselves very much geared to the newbie. Among them, the bootable

Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

rors.. where I could > download the packages one at a time for instance? > NB. Due to the volume on this list and my limited quotas.. I had to > unsubscribe. Is there any place I can view your replies - if any..?? Or > would you be so kind as to cc: me on this..?? The GMANE Us

Re: Window sizing on Windowmaker

e to the "maximize window vertically" function. In my case, does this (set this through the WPrefs utility). So if I get a small window a quick tap fills my monitor vertically. Very useful. I've also got set to maximize fully, though that's something used less often. Peace

Re: pdftohtml

file is available, converting *it* to HTML directly should provide far superior results. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Cloning a workstation

Hello Sarunas, a minor correction: Karsten Heymann wrote: > A very low-level way to [clone a workstation] it is using netcat. boot > both systems from cd (knoppix or similiar) and let them have access to > each other over the net (a cross-cable and manual chosen 192.168.0.x IP&#x

Re: Cloning a workstation

ontent of the master system's harddisk bytewise onto the new systems harddisk. I suggest using a cross-cable and connect both computers directly for additional speed. I've copied systems this way using only tomsrtbt (although today I'd prefer Knoppix :) ). Yours, Karsten -- To U

Re: Check if laptop in use?

(it's existence disabled non-root logins), wait until the user logs out and perform the update then, afterwards delete it. At least that would be the way I would do it on a server. Yours, Karsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and spam

to mention false hits. That said, I do it, and have written tools to do same: http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Downloads/SpamTools.tar.gz Scripts are defanged by default, some of the configurations are specific to my own needs, you *will* shoot yourself in the foot, but if you want to repor

Re: Who maintains orphaned packages?

ackages to a distribution mirror. Patches can be filed through the BTS however. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The black hat community is drooling over the possibility of

Re: swap space size

% of > the time then that is acceptable." In an enterprise setting, you may be able to quantify costs if you can assess how much time is spent waiting for swap, how much production waits for swap, etc. Balance the lost productivity with the cost of increasing available RAM. > Maybe run

Re: Chroot Debian

on Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:22:12PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 07:44:02PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > While I find chroot _installs_ of Debian, as a way of getting the distro > > onto a computer, useful, I wouldn't run a producti

Re: How to shut down all X apps?

to init level 1 (maintenance a/k/a single-user mode). Either run your update there, or exit immediately ensure you're not running any X display managers, and update. Then you're golden. ...and you keep your uptime ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://

Re: Chroot Debian

top-specific updates can be done. There are tools to assist in this though I'm not personally familiar with them. FAI is the grand-daddy, not sure of the others. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush: All we have to sell is fear itself. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: partition /var is full

1,9G 530M 1,2G 31% /home Looks like you've only got ~6 GiB on this disk. If you can at all afford it, buy more disk. It's ~US$1/GiB, you can almost certainly afford it. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: CPU and Other Information ?

27;, to compile this data: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript There's a Debian package as well that does something similar, though I can never remember its name. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &quo

Re: debian on floppy disks

but you _can_ get some standard NICs, as well as SLIP and PLIP (good for about 40 Kbps) running. Slow, but serviceable point-to-point connections over null serial or parallel cables. Alternatively, many laptops will accept an external CD drive. You might look into buying or borrowing one for your

Re: Configuration DB

rking on my installation disk and keep updating it, but I hadn't had > much chances to enjoy it. Ah, you now know that I'm also stupid. :-) > 'cause the payoff is just minimum. :-) Yet I have a dream that I can > do this in Debian, and am still attempting... I'd sug

Re: OT: Winblowz antivirus management on Linux

treat > come up or the damage is done ), web-based management tool. I think > it would be great if there's any You need to do your research before posting. There are many products providing these capabilities. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://li

Re: Howto make root commands available to any user

selves. And for n00bs, the concept of switching to a console first will be foreign. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I/O Errors

but accurately finds 95% of defective drives. The manufaturer utilities are very likely based on the same S.M.A.R.T. drive features. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Judicial election/appointment

preferred jurisprudential policies. > > You might want to read the US Constitution some time. It's packaged for Debian: apt-get install miscfiles; zless /usr/share/state/us-constitution.gz Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://linuxmafia.com/~kars

Re: Desktop

"on the desktop", including xrootconsole and xload monitors for my networked systems. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: Judicial election/appointment (was Re: Is Linux Unix?)

s an elected judiciary, although California has recalled Supreme Court justices through plebiscite. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Linux Unix?

on't > they...', the answer is always, 'money.'" s/always/frequently/ I'd toss "power" or "control" in there as well. Intel likely feels it has more sway over RH than it does over a community-oriented distro. OTOH, HP's involvment appea

Re: Is Linux Unix?

on Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 07:08:46AM -0700, Ryo Furue ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > [...] > > I'm not sure whether I understand every point you make (I read your > messag

Re: Is Linux Unix?

e > things when A) the software isn't even needed on most of the boxes, > and B) the county already uses Linux, and employs people who know how > to admin it? It just doesn't make sense. Largely: they're not. Wouldn't hurt to ask some pointed questions at a board meet

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