Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Tuesday 19 of October 2010, Siju George wrote: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Tuesday 19 of October 2010, Siju George wrote: > > > Recently Saving/Copying files from Windows Clients to the Samba > > >

Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Iatrou
e Windows clients. So, you should perform a few tests with Linux clients for the Samba server. -- Michael Iatrou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Friday 30 of July 2010, Mark wrote: > I am curious how others on this list manage their laptop batteries while > using Debian. From doing some research, there doesn't appear to be many > (if any) software solutions for draining a laptop battery completely, > before recharging.

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Friday 16 of July 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On 07/15/2010 08:46 PM, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > I am skeptical whether there is any good reason for tools like wipe2fs, > > zerofree and friends (if there are any...), when a dd && sync && rm >

Re: Converting *.mp4 to *.mp3 or *.ogg

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Iatrou
ot;${DEST}/${N}" "${DEST}/${F/$EXT/mp3}" done The catch with this over-engineered and occasionally inefficient script was that I would use it for both random audio formats and video files to extract the audio track (think presentation-to-podcast-like conversion). -- Mich

Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Iatrou
s very similar. I am skeptical whether there is any good reason for tools like wipe2fs, zerofree and friends (if there are any...), when a dd && sync && rm have the same result. -- Michael Iatrou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Search engine for documentation indexing?

2010-02-09 Thread Michael Iatrou
coll and dwww but rely on recoll more and more. One more vote for recoll. Supports custom filters and you can index most common documentation formats. -- Michael Iatrou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: mount.crypt, LUKS volumes and keyfiles

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Friday 15 May 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Wednesday 13 May 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > >> Has anybody managed to mount a LUKS volume using a key-file, with > >> 'mount.crypt'? (or 'just

Re: mount.crypt, LUKS volumes and keyfiles

2009-05-14 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Wednesday 13 May 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Has anybody managed to mount a LUKS volume using a key-file, with > 'mount.crypt'? (or 'just mount') Have you tried pmount? -- Michael Iatrou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

2009-05-14 Thread Michael Iatrou
t; > > > +1 > > Just for the records, +1. > nm keeps freezing my system. Indeed wicd is so much better than NetworkManager in terms of stability. -- Michael Iatrou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Sam Kuper wrote: > Michael, > > 2009/4/20 Michael Iatrou > > > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > > There is

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:29:00PM +0300, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Monday 20 April 2009, BAGI Akos wrote: > > > Hi List! > > > > > > I installed a software raid, level1 with 3

Re: Software raid OK?

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Iatrou
no particularly good reason to have the swap on RAID. You should define three independed swap partitions; if disk fails, kernel will use the other available. -- Michael Iatrou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: ssh connection takes long time

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Iatrou
r help Running ssh with -vvv option will give you a hint at which "step" you get the delay. -- Michael Iatrou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: netcat in listen mode don't exit

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Paulo Brito wrote: > 2009/2/11 Michael Iatrou > > > When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Paulo Brito wrote: > > > I"m trying to setup netcat so it serves logs to other systems. When > > > a client conne

Re: netcat in listen mode don't exit

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Paulo Brito wrote: > I"m trying to setup netcat so it serves logs to other systems. When a > client connects, the server starts to send some logs. > > I run netcat in listem mode like this: > > # nc -l -p 5558 -c "tail -f /var/log/syslog" while :; do

Re: Grep for colums?

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Nagy Daniel wrote: > the "text" is here: > > http://pastebin.com/f37214a30 > > and I only want this string: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/nvu_portable_1.0_rev_5_en-u >s.paf.exe?download It seems to me that you only want to grab url

Re: crontab command and permissions problem

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Iatrou
; > > the procedure is... > > 1. i create a cron file for a particular user in > /var/spool/cron/crontabs/username > 2. i run "crontab -u username /var/spool/cron/crontabs/username" You are not running the script as root. You may want to consider setuiding your script

Re: apache2 vhost error

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Wednesday 11 February 2009, Zach Uram wrote: > I'm trying to add a name-based virtual host in apache2 on my debian > etch system. > > Here is my vhost config: > > /etc/apache2/sites-available/darcs > > - + -- Michael Iatrou -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: boot-time script

2009-01-27 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Tuesday 27 January 2009, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I tried making boot-time script for deluge like below Isn't this a GUI app? If yes, you need to take into account that X must be running. -- Michael Iatrou (thgu) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: expand /var, decrease /home space

2008-12-11 Thread Michael Iatrou
. You could create a symbolic link from /var/web/server/files to /home/htdocs/ Resizing your partitions is error prone and depends on file system, it's a process you really want to avoid. -- Michael Iatrou (gxkx) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: centralized authentication

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Iatrou
ill have to > break into the system in the first place in order to snoop. Well, in that case, you can just name one of them as "master authentication server" and rsync(1) /etc/{passwd,shadow} to the rest. :P -- Michael Iatrou (iyyo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Customizable web based GUI for Debian server and daemon administration?

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Iatrou
hat manipulate config files could be enough for a minimal, lightweight web-based configuration tool. -- Michael Iatrou (xyqn) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to stop an active network connection

2008-12-02 Thread Michael Iatrou
nnections): iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent \ --update --seconds 3600 --hitcount 4 -j DROP -- Michael Iatrou (fnpk) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: crash recovery

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Iatrou
ceweasel. I > had also just plugged in to the wall socket after running on battery > power for several hours. > > I have checked /var/log/Xorg0.log.old, and the only EE messages are: You should also check the other important log files (/var/log/{messages,syslog} etc) -- Michael

Re: cups-pdf

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Monday 03 November 2008, Chris wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > > On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > > > When the date was Sunday

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Iatrou
;t have any good reason for using ext3 (and I actually can can't think any) go with ReiserFS. Still, bare in mind that both reiserfs and ext3 are kind of obsolete: we are all waiting brtfs and ext4 to become production-ready :> -- Michael Iatrou (hluf) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: cups-pdf

2008-11-03 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Chris wrote: > > > I am getting very poor results printing to pdf from Firefox, it seems > > > to have worked be

Re: Processes comminicating with "outside" sites

2008-11-02 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: > So I'm wondering, is there a list that itemizes all outside > communications and associates them with the relevant package/file? You need something like the output of: # netstat -ntuap -- Michael I

Re: cups-pdf

2008-11-02 Thread Michael Iatrou
it to pdf using ps2pdfwr? -- Michael Iatrou (gtgz) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Adobe Reader install fails - out of space

2008-11-01 Thread Michael Iatrou
a reinstall? You can try to free some space using: # apt-get clean To resize your partitions, parted(8) is the tool you are looking for. -- Michael Iatrou (fdiu) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]