Gnome Logout/Shutdown

Hi, I installed the desktop task with tasksel and added the logout applet to the Gnome Desktop. My problem now is that I don't habe the option to shutdown. Any hints which button to press so that I can shutdown from the applet? Thanks Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

Hi, On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Samuel Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the marketplace people could ask: "Who can set up a mythTV > media center for me?" Questions like this aren't asked on lists > (e.g. debian-users) which brought myself to the idea that maybe > there is a market for

Re: [OT] sqlite-amalgamation

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I am currently evaluating the use of sqlite3 to store application data from > a python application that I am writing. > > I am using Debian Etch so some of the packages are out of date and thus I >

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

Hello, On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard comments from respected frequent posters on this list both > that they use postfix and that debian's decision to have Exim as default > was controversial. > I also lurk on OpenBSD's misc list. OB

[OT] SQL Inline Documentation

Hi, I'm looking for the doxygen equivalent (enhancement) whatever. What it should be able to do is to document: * DDL Statements * Functions * Triggers absolutely cool would be something that generates a graph of dependencies between the tables. Ubercool(TM) if it did an analysis of the trig

Re: Silent Cron Jobs

Hi, afaik cron (by default) mails all output from a script. If i create a cronjob I usually dump all stdout (just redirect it to /dev/null) But I want to be informed of any errors so I keep stderr. example: # this will get mailed echo "My cool cron script" # this will not mail stdout, but std

SOLVED: LVM operations block

Hi, a quick note so that it will get indexed :) I'm on a plain debian/etch (no backports or other "unofficial" packages not originally included in etch) Whenever I do operations on lvm (pvdisplay, vgdisplay, lvdisplay) it just sits there and blocks. It does look like it's waiting for some I/O.

Re: Debian is losing its users

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the > recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most > famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users,

exim/postfix comparisons

Hello, I've been a happy user of postfix for a long time but I generally consider it a knowledge lag not to know at least one competing product (which I don't). So it's time to change that and since I use debian I figured it can't be too bad to learn exim, a bit of googling around just brought up

[OT] searching for crm

Hi, I'm looking for a CRM software, looking around it seems that SugarCRM is the package of choice in this field but it's written in php and I don't do that normally so I'd rather choose a steep learning curve with python than with php. I also know of xrms.sf.net (php again) as an alternative but

[OT maybe]Email Archiving

Hello, I'm looking for a solution for email archiving the priorities I have for it are the following: # reliability # offline backups (that'll probably be scripted) # availability # speed as the least important I guess every decent box that is out there does that, but I'm a bit unsure on the so

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

Rick Thomas wrote: > I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary > thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release.  Does anybody > know what's the problem? The problem is that xen is quite behind with kernels, afaik it's a HUGE patch to apply and the most recent

Re: How to send mails with attachments for each file in a directory ?

On 2008-01-30 09:26:12, Dan H. wrote: > My favorite way is to use find's -printf directive to construct the complete > commands and pipe the result to a shell. Has the advantage that you first > hack away at your complete find commend and give it a dry run, and if you're > happy with what it spits

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

Ted Hilts wrote: > Also, I was talking about kernel versions higher than yours (up in the > twenties where yours was 18) and 32 bit. But whether the CPU is 32 bit debian stable highest version number is 2.6.18 so there is no way to get a stable distro with a higher version number (stable as in: on

Re: apache/subversion with ldap

hhding wrote: > Thanks for your advice :) > Here is the config file, I take your advice and change Require group to > Require ldap-group, but it does not work. > > :: > /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf > :: > > > DAV svn > > SVNPath /var/lib/svn > AuthType b

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

On Thursday 24 January 2008 17:13 Ted Hilts wrote: > Martin > > What is the exact kernel version you are running on both machines and > what are their CPU designations? The problems in the past have not been > with the distribution but with various kernels. Did you compile your > systems from sou

Re: apache/subversion with ldap

On Thursday 24 January 2008 21:31 Martin Marcher wrote: > On Thursday 24 January 2008 11:26 hhding wrote: >> and attachements are complete config files > > please don't do attachements. They aren't visible everywhere, for me they > just vanished as my primary inte

Re: apache/subversion with ldap

On Thursday 24 January 2008 11:26 hhding wrote: > hi, my friends > > I try to verify access of svn user from apache by openldap. > I create userA and userB with schema posixAccount > and create groupA with schema posixGroups in openldap and add userA to it. > then I add line *Require group cn=gro

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

Jozef Peterka wrote: > Hi all, > I might be rushing in to conversation, but I will try to install Debian > Etch and make it Dom0 this very weekend. I really look forward to it - > although with a little hope to success :) > Nevermind, I wanted wish you good luck with xen, and the important is > le

pxelinux.0 and bsd.rd

Hi, I'm trying to add the option for installing openBSD to our pxe boot server (debian/etch), I got bsd.rd from a mirror and placed LABEL openbsd_i386_42 KERNEL openbsd/i386/42/bsd.rd in the pxelinux.cfg/default for that all I get is: Invalid or corrupt kernel image ok, next try (foun

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

SpamHog wrote: > Does anybody keep such a "pure Debian CLI tools" > metapackage or package list or CDD > with such a selction of apps? I guess it really depends on your environment, we have this on every host: # more or less standard packages # this is the tasksel "standard" selection ~pstandard

Re: find the blocksize of a FS

Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/13/08 06:37, Martin Marcher wrote: >> On Saturday 12 January 2008 23:38 Jan C. Nordholz wrote: >> hmm looks like a starting point, I'm trying to get to that info with >> python, if all else fails I think the python ctypes module should be abl

Re: find the blocksize of a FS

On Saturday 12 January 2008 23:38 Jan C. Nordholz wrote: > Hi, > >> > is there a way to get the blocksize of an FS thru /proc or something >> > else that doesn't rely on the utils (dumpe2fs, xfs_info) to be >> > installed? >> >> Not that I can see. You can query the disk geometry, but proc is to

Re: .bash_profile and .bashrc not executing

On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:50 John Salmon wrote: > I'm a new user to Debian Linux. I have the latest version loaded on a > dedicated PC with all the default settings. I have added a ~/bin directory > to my system. My .bash_profile and .bashrc files were the default files > loaded during the in

find the blocksize of a FS

Hi, is there a way to get the blocksize of an FS thru /proc or something else that doesn't rely on the utils (dumpe2fs, xfs_info) to be installed? thanks martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours You are not free to read this message, by doing so, you ha

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

On Saturday 12 January 2008 08:45 David wrote: > I'm a member of Al Quaida OMG, everybody RUN! Yes that "missquote" was on purpose, please read the references before arresting this person...(whoever it may concern...) -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedbur

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

Bob wrote: > Sorry to resurrect such an old thread but this is really irritating me, > after reading through the Bug Reports it seems this has been fixed in > version 4.2.4 which is fine for Lenny but I don't want to run Lenny on > my firewall, it's very simple dedicated etch box with nothing other

Re: Getting System Stats

top free vmstat? you might want to google about monitoring linux in general On 1/9/08, Shane D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > What would one type in to the shell to get some of the statistics of a > machine? I am running asterisk on an old laptop, and I want to try to > see if the studder

Re: [OT] [SOLVED] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

Martin Marcher wrote: > we own an areca 1210 and currently have a RAID5 with 4x250GB. As disk > space is low we'd like to replace it with 4x1000GB. > > We already found a supported disk, hotpluggable, etc. > > Now after subsequently replacing the drives how can we expand

Re: [OT] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

Rick Thomas wrote: > Whatever you decide to do... > > Do a full backup first! Been there done that. Since that (not so amusing) memory I do have cyclic backups with the option to trigger it whenever needed (like now) :) martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/None

[OT] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

Hello, we own an areca 1210 and currently have a RAID5 with 4x250GB. As disk space is low we'd like to replace it with 4x1000GB. We already found a supported disk, hotpluggable, etc. Now after subsequently replacing the drives how can we expand the RAID set to a net of 3TB (the controller does s

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

Raquel wrote: > I think that this is what bothers me. I'm on at least a dozen lists > other than debian-user and debian-isp. However, the 2 Debian lists > are the ONLY ones from which come SPAM and viruses. Go figure, debian is supported by volunteers. If you can handle the spam problem better,

Re: galeon and mutt

Hi, On 12/12/07, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > with xterm installed in my box, when I clicked on an address e-mail > galeon opened mutt in an xterm. > Now I have removed xterm and I installed roxterm instead, but when I > click on an address e-mail nothing happens. > How can I

Re: permissions in general (WAS: Re: permissions in /sbin)

On 12/5/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Marcher wrote: > > So the user needs to get a precompiled gcc somewhere. > > Then she would need to get all the header files necessary > > Then she needs to get the source. > > Then the quota is full... :

Re: permissions in general (WAS: Re: permissions in /sbin)

On 12/5/07, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess it's more a historical reason that others can r+x most of the > > system but I can see a lot of benefits in denying others by default > > (of course there's a lot of work involved to migrate from the current > > permission schema that's a

Re: permissions in general (WAS: Re: permissions in /sbin)

Hi, On 12/5/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:58:59 +0100 > "Martin Marcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /bin root:users rwxr-x--- > > /sbin root:adm rwxr-x--- > > /usr/bin root:users rwxr-x--- > > /usr

permissions in general (WAS: Re: permissions in /sbin)

Hi, jumping in. On 12/4/07, andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ls -l /sbin is all > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ... I understand this issue. What I don't get is why it seems to be the overall default that others may read and execute files in most cases. To me it would make sense to have something

Re: SUDO

2007/12/3, Henning Follmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Add erik to the sudores file? > > visudo is a wrapper around vi to edit the /etc/sudoers file. well not exactly vi. It uses $EDITOR if that can't be found /usr/bin/editor (iirc) which on debian uses the update alternatives system. So there's no n

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007/11/7, John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the > same stuff is rehashed as it was a few months ago. Does this totally > unscientific poll have any real use? Apart that is from reigniting the > antediluvian arguments like mutt v e

Re: How to mount ext3 so the files belong to a specific user?

2007/11/14, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a partition that I'm mounting in a specific user's home > directory, and want that user to be able to read/write to that partition. > However, I've been unable to find (google, man, etc) any way to > accomplish this; the few hints I have found i

Re: Help with Algorythm to test if a progrem is secure,

2007/11/12, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > 1.Google / IRC for the program name || Security || Trojan || > hacks etc .. if found the don't use that program. > 2.If possible read source code or give it to some body for finding stuff. > 3.Install it on a Virt

Re: mutt and IMAP accounts

and now for the rest of the world :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29.10.2007 08:47 Subject: Re: mutt and IMAP accounts To: Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org 2007/10/29, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: mutt and IMAP accounts

2007/10/29, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:34:14PM -0700, Richard Otte wrote: > > I am trying to set up mutt to access IMAP accounts. I can access them, but > > I > > want to be able to move to the available mailboxes when I type c (and it > > says > > to type '?' t

Re: Etch and Audio CDs

2007/10/23, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am 2007-10-23 16:41:27, schrieb Martin Marcher: > > Maybe you can bug your vendor to get the money back? > > No, since in Germany and in France they must write > ON THE CD cover that the CD is copy protected. I found tha

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

sk="geheim" } --EOF please note that I have commented out most of the TKIP, AES stuff as wpa_supplicant usually is capable of finding it by itself, also in /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples there's a "catch-all" file IIRC that just tries everything (radius as well as

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007/10/25, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can > successfully connect to my home wireless using: in /etc/network/interfaces my eth0 looks like this: iface eth0 inet dhcp wpa-driver wext wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant

Re: Sharing CD-RW from Linux to Win2k

2007/10/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a CD-RW drive attached to my Linux server and I was wondering if it > was at all possible to be able to access this drive (for both reading and > writing, though writing is what's important) from my Win2k box. If it is > possible, how w

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007/10/24, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/23/07 22:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > I'll bite: why do you need COBOL? You've go C, Fortran, and Ada in > > Because apps written in COBOL are highly portable across platforms. > Are there any sarcasm tags missing? So it is highly port

Re: Etch and Audio CDs

2007/10/23, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Am 2007-10-19 10:36:02, schrieb Todd A. Jacobs: > > I'm having a problem under Etch reading the last track on some CDs. I've > > googled around enough to know I'm not the only one having the problem, > > but can't find a solution. > > > This is

Re: XEN: xen-create-image with more than one disk

2007/10/23, Klaus Rödel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > i'm a xen newby and want to create a xen image with more than one disk > but i found nothing about this? is it actually possible? Here's an example config from a multi disk xen image with the "partitions" coming from LVM: --snip-- kernel =

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007/10/18, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > IMHO lvm mirroring is useless. if I do LVM (on servers) I have > > multiple drives and i tend to trust mdadm more in this field than LVM > > (don't a

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

Hi, 2007/10/18, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Alex, > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root out of LVM, > > very easy to get access to root in emergency when its a raid1 > > parition > > Agree. Only partly, wit

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

Hi, 2007/10/17, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 4 partitions to make up 4 md's > > > md0 /boot ( ~ 500M - I like have space here) sda1 + sdb1 > md1 / (~10G) sda2 + sdb2 > md2 swap sda3 + sdb3 > md3 LVM PV sda4 + sdb4 > > from the PV I make a VG and then lots of LV's > > I have used this sort of

Re: SSH Question

Hi, 2007/10/11, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I see some of you talking about SSHing into your computer from > another. What if the computer you're > using isn't Linux/Unix? if you talk about the target computer being a windows host then cygwin has an ssh

Re: mdadm, partitioned array

Hi, 2007/10/9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adding some more info: > Interesting results. > I wonder if anyone else has a partitioned raid 5 array and have normal > speed results? I do. Well sort of. I don't partition RAIDs but I put LVM on top of it. I couldn't tell any difference b

PXE booting over VPN

Hello, I'm going to deploy several soekris boxes on different locations. Now those nifty things can PXE boot and I was thinking about how to update them. I think the easiest would be to PXE boot them from some server located remotely and trigger something that let's the box reboot when I need to

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

Hi, 2007/10/6, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example, > iceweasel, to open this link. > I didn't find any where within icedove to set this option. Could anyone > point it out? That is not an option in iceweasel it is related to

Re: Installing Debian from a Lan

Hi, 2007/10/3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am hoping to install Debian over a lan. I know this is possible but I > haven't found much information on it. Suggestions? > > Could I set up the server to be 64bit but provide the packages for the 386 > install? That shouldn't be much o

Re: soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

ation etc) 2007/9/29, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007/9/29, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stoc

Re: syslog recommendations?

2007/9/29, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 09/28/2007 11:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > > > I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of > > > like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let > > > me, s

Re: soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

2007/9/29, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stock debian kernel, > > and (this is something in found in several openbsd mailing l

soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

Hello, I'm looking for a router, VPN server box. The soekris hardware[] seems to be exactly what I want. Seems it would work fine even withoug the vpn card. Initial googling showed me a vast amount of working *bsd installations but no clear answer on the linux part. I'd rather have debian on this

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007/9/25, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thank you for the suggestion. This is definitely the tool that I was looking > for! > > I am still curious, however, if this actually shows all my hardware? I guess > the best comparison would be to Windows Device Manager where it shows you all

Re: Debian may lose a user

Hello, I'm interested in the job offer you posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have several years of experience in Desktop and Server systems with debian and other linux distributions. I charge by the hour, every started hour is normally EUR 50. Contact me privately if you are interested. I also do ha

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2427

2007/9/21, David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From: Martin Marcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2007/9/21, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > please take me off of your email list. > > > > List-Id: > > List-Post: <mailto:debian-user@lists.debia

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2427

2007/9/21, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > please take me off of your email list. List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list do these hints hel

Re: Password file with over 3000 users.

2007/9/21, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But the reference for Debian is sh, not bash... (at least when writing > packages). why is it then that /bin/sh is /bin/bash after a plain install of about every stable version i had by now? ok that makes only 3 but still (potato sarge etch iirc fo

Fwd: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

tion tools... -- Forwarded message ------ From: Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21.09.2007 19:13 Subject: Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question To: Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007/9/21, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -0700 >

Re: can't access localhost

2007/9/21, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The issue is that 'mc' resolves to 127.0.0.1 (the first match), whereas > mc.home.m resolves to 127.0.1.1 (the only match). Thus the canonical > host name and its alias resolve to different IP addresses. uh oh, right, reading in context actually helps

Re: can't access localhost

2007/9/21, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:32:21 +0100 > "John O Laoi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # cat /etc/hosts > > 127.0.0.1 localhost mc > > 127.0.1.1 mc.home.m mc > > I see that you solved the CUPS problem, but I should point out > that the hosts file above is

Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?

2007/9/20, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 08:56 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escribió: > > I see that Gnome 2.20 was just released. Im running Debian Etch, which > > still seems to be stuck on Gnome 2.14, even though 2.16 was released > > about a year ago and 2.18

Re: [OT?] etch + java 1.5.12 + jboss 4.2

Found it, and it probably will hit others you _need_ to have the identity jboss wants to create in /etc/hosts - it doesn't seem to be enough that the FQDN is resolveable in dns hope it helps someone at least 2007/9/19, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, &

[OT?] etch + java 1.5.12 + jboss 4.2

Hello, just debootstrapped etch (like so often, about 25 servers in xen running here so something wrong here is unlikely, still open to hints). Got * jdk1.5.0_12 * jboss-4.2.0.GA from their original download websites. extracted to /opt/jboss-4.2.0.GA and /opt/jdk1.5.0_12 I'm open to any hints,

Re: what's problem with router configuration

Hi, 2007/9/19, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I used to connect Internet thru cable modem. > > Now I buy a wireless router and connect thru router. Actually I use wired > part of the wireless > router. > IP is auto configed as 192.168.1.100, and I can visit admin page of router, > but can'

Re: is my raid1 array really working??

Hi, 2007/9/18, harland christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To me, it looks like HDA and HDC are in good health > and configured properly ... but what do I really know. > > Can someone tell me how I can really know if my > configuration is working? Is it REALLY this simple? Disclaimer - read the

Re: Best way to install second version of Debian?

Sorry for top posting (to short to care about), you might be interested in this: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apds03.html.en 2007/9/16, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 15 Sep 2007, Joe wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> I want to install a second version of Debian o

Re: Making use of the default printer

Hi, 2007/9/16, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:37:43 +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > hmm, same error: > > lp test.ps > lp: Error - LPDEST environment variable names non-existent destination ""! > > Anything wrong with my system? there

Re: Making use of the default printer

Hi, 2007/9/16, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > > What's the "Default Printer" actually means? > > I've setup one of my printers to be "Default Printer", > http://localhost:631/printers/ seems you refer to CUPS... > and I unset the LPDEST environment variable, in hoping the consequent > lpr

Re: postgresql help

Hi, 2007/9/15, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:36:59PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > But somewhere I screwed up my postgresql-8.2 database installation. > > I meant to set up the data directory on the RAID disk array > > Unfortunately I deleted the /var/lib/postgr

Re: amd64 vs i386

2007/9/15, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/15/07 03:57, pietia wrote: > > hi > > > > Do you have any experiences in that competition: Debian amd64 vs Debian > > i386 ? > > > > Is i386 still faster than amd64 ? > > Since when was i386 *eve

Re: amd64 vs i386

Hello, 2007/9/15, pietia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi > > Do you have any experiences in that competition: Debian amd64 vs Debian > i386 ? yes :) > Is i386 still faster than amd64 ? the question isn't wether it's faster or not it's more like the need of 64bit. You can easily go beyond 4GB of RAM (

Re: [OT] File Storage Server

Hello, 2007/9/14, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Martin Marcher wrote: > > In essence all I would like would be a standard server where I can > > hotplug a lot of disks and be done with it (RAID resizing etc could be > > done from debian then). Something like 2G

[OT] File Storage Server

Hello, I've been looking around at the dell site (dell preferred since it's our standard vendor) for server with a lot of disks. I'm thinking of some box with 2U - 4U (maybe even 5) that will be a simple fileserver so that I can put debian on it make a SoftRAID (which is what I prefer since we do

Re: mondoarchive

2007/9/13, debian user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am running Sarge. > > I apt-get(ted) the stable mondo tools and am trying to > use mondoarchive. etch is stable i suggest you get the oldstable (which is sarge) hth martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: two protocols on one port.

Hi, 2007/9/12, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/12/2007 10:51 AM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > 12.140.16.4 is June. Now you would reconfigure openvpn on May to listen > on port 4122. Connections to port 22 on May would be redirected to port > 4122 on May only if they come from 12.140.16.4. Otherw

Re: Why doin't I have StringDefs.h in X11 include? (etch)

Hi, 2007/9/12, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A find cannot locate it anywhere on my system - have I missed some > important X!! dev package or something? Other includes appear to be > present in /usr/include/X11... apt-file search StringDefs.h after aptitude install apt-file -s has hel

Re: make menuconfig problem

Hello, 2007/9/12, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I know there is another package which must be installed before make > menuconfig will work but I have forgotten what it is. i think that were build-essential and libcurses-dev (something with curses essentially) hth martin -- To UNSU

Re: Multiple MTAs?

Hi, On 8/21/07, Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Debian server, and was about to install an MTA, when I was stricken > by indecision as to which MTA actually to install. I realized that it would > probably be best to use Postfix to send/receive mail to/from the Internet > (beca

Re: LVM problems: pvmove "errors"

e parsing mirror status fraction: 1 core >ABORTING: Mirror percentage check failed. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

the delimiter?). > > -- > Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> > 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> > Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) > > > -- > To

Re: Help with mod_jk build

d_jk for sid? I downloaded the source from jakarta > but i keep getting stuck. Does anyone know what $APACHE2_HOME is? > Thanks. > Chris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: PAM + LDAP and SSH

Hello, On 8/1/07, Bhasker C V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you do not want LDAP based authentication then you can > edit the nsswitch.conf file (passwd and shadow) to > point to appropriate values ? like files, yp > for local and NIS auth only. the problem with that is that you then don't

Re: Swap configuration for 16GB of RAM, 8 cores

hello, On 7/31/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/31/07 15:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What are the current best practices with regards to swap partitions? > > Is it > > better to create one big, or several smaller swap partitions? Is the > > rule > > of thumb still RAM*2 for

PAM + LDAP and SSH

and now for everyone else too :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 1, 2007 1:33 AM Subject: Re: PAM + LDAP and SSH To: Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hello, On 7/31/07, Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 200

Re: IM on a home debian network

hi, On 7/29/07, Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a > combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there > a program available that will provide instant messaging within the network?# as pointe

Re: to netatalk+samba+nfs or not

hi, On 7/27/07, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Friday 27 July 2007 18:45:13 Andrew Sackville-West, vous avez écrit: > > > > can't answer your question directly, but doesn't apple support nfs? yes > > And SMB... and yes (somewhat) the reason why i'd like to use netatalk too is

to netatalk+samba+nfs or not

Hello, in our company we have mac/linux/windows clients and I think about adding the native service for each of those. the clients aren't under my control but can be considered as trusted. I know that samba+mac does work (to some extent) but I'm thinking about adding netatalk so that mac users ha

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

hi, On 7/25/07, Nick Demou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? I suppose that a PC in most internet cafes will be willing to

Re: [OT] Source Based Routing

hi, On 7/25/07, Erik Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have not read all you have written, but will not: iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -s 10.200.10.50 ! -d 192.0.2.8/29 -j SNAT --to-source 192.0.2.11 do the trick? i guess that's one of the reasons why I prefer debian-user over other lists

Re: [OT] Source Based Routing

Hi, On 7/25/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin Marcher wrote: > i have a setup where i have a borderline box that has 5 public IP > Addresses (this is for the sake of example: 192.0.2.8/29), all is > NATed to 10.200.10.0/24. Now the IP the provider uses as gateway

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