Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:11:36AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Len, Patrick: > Thanks. Actually, I didn't see the original by Len. > > Well, security comes first. Also, the idea of setting > in a cheap HD was a faulty idea anyway because I am at > WD Raptor just because cheap HDs didn't work

Re: Fwd: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:03:00AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:10:11AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > Below I mean adding a single HD not to the raid, just > > as additional space where to point the swap file > > thanks > > Running a raid1 system with non raid s

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:42:56PM -0500, dorn hetzel wrote: > > Of course, the keypunch was the true first object oriented > programming tool :) I had tons of reusable code objects, > wrapped in rubberbands, filed in cabinets :) Fortran made it > nice and easy to re-tool the subroutine stateme

Re: Fresh Sarge Install - 2.6.8 Kernel Panic

2004-12-20 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:36:44PM -0800, technoMyst wrote: > There is no initrd.img file for my current kernel in /boot. I tried > making a new one with "mkinitrd -k -o /boot/initrd.img -r /dev/hda2" but > booting with it caused the following error to repeat and eventially give > a kernel panic

Re: xml viewer?

2004-12-17 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:47:42PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > anyone have suggestions for an xml viewer? I get losti n xml very > fast and would love a gui tool that displays a tree-like structure of > xml documents... > hnb works in console -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-01 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 11:55:39PM -0600, Steve Block wrote: > Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > >You have encrypted your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Also, what version > >of Debian are you i

Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work

2004-12-01 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:38:19PM -0600, Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > are not syntax issues. I have attached the sources.list if someone wants to > look. Pleasee note that any thing above the ftp: listings were done by the > system. I put every thing else in with nano. I hope someone can help me

Re: Debian Commands

2004-10-29 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 01:56:34PM +0100, mark wrote: > Is there a document or list anywhere of all the Debian specific > commands, their parameters and what they do? I'm thinking of things like > dpkg, update-modules, dpkg-reconfigure and all the rest. I am trying to > learn the "Debian system" an

Re: MMap problem with "apt" -v 0.5.4

2004-10-25 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:45:21PM -0700, Eric Dickner wrote: > I am able to download the Packages file from > "http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib > non-free" but it is large, about 3.1 Meg I think. > When my version of apt tries to process this list it > gives this error: > > "Out of

Re: Bugs in g++ on Sarge?

2004-10-22 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:45:17AM -0400, James Wiggs wrote: >I'm trying to determine if I've found bugs in the C++ compiler > on Sarge or not. I'm trying to compile quickfix-1.9.2 and some of I tried compile, just for kicks. No problems. One question - what does the software do? Sarge,

Re: SSH Cracking Attempts

2004-10-02 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:08:35AM +0200, Francois Cerbelle wrote: > Le Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:55:59PM +0200, Matthijs ecrit : > > Some applications were named in the article - if you want, I can look > > them up and post the names. > > I am interested too by theses apps. Event if secret based pr

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 05:14:36PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > > When it is full my system deosn't w

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: Help: Embedded Debian

2004-09-23 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 07:04:23AM +0200, Stefan Drees wrote: > Hi, > i´m using debian for now two years and i created lots of servers for our > customers. > I also tried to create an very small debian install with postfix, bind, > dhcp, webmin, > squid etc. I was able to cut it down to 100 MB bu

Re: Parallel port at install

2004-09-22 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:35:28PM +0100, g00se wrote: > >> > Are you installing Debian or a Debian kernel or are you rolling your > own? What are you doing? > >> > > I'm installing > No, you don't have to have a parallel device plugged into the port for it to be recognized, it should be found as

Re: Re. Bootloader for Sarge ("L 99 99 99 99 99...")

2004-09-19 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 07:42:53PM -0700, Matthew Jackson wrote: > Ok. I posted earlier about not being able to boot GRUB or LILO on my second > HD from the XP NTLDR. It gave me the error "Unable to load from hard drive. > Please insert System disk and hit enter" I though that was bootpart giving

Re: Error mkswap

2004-09-18 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:46:01PM +0200, Fernando wrote: > Hi all. I want to install debian in a old pc. Its a > PII 333, 64Ram,3Gb HD. I want to install sarge using > knoppix and debootstrap. Ok, i make all partitions > with fdisk and there isnt problems. > But when i do mkswap /dev/hda2, i get

Re: Problem re Installing Debian with Sarge

2004-09-17 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 12:24:17PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi folks, > > I ran sarge-i386-netinst to install Debian. Because > only dynamic IP allocated on broadband connection, I > left the IP address empty resulting in uable to > connect broadband finally. Now I have the base Debian > inst

Re: Bootloader for Sarge

2004-09-17 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
> Matthew Jackson wrote: On it I have partitioned it into these: >/boot 250mb >/tmp 750mb >/var 1gb >/ 10gb >/usr 20gb >swap 1gb >/home remainder ~40gb I think you might find that /boot is about 10 times larger than necessary, and / is about 50 to 100 times what you need for a workstation. hth

Re: Bootloader for Sarge

2004-09-17 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 04:24:17PM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Do you have 2 hard disks? The 1st must be hda and the second hdb. Why > hdc? Also it ought to be possible by this release of the installer to > use LILO. I always use LILO. FYI, under Linux, for IDE drives, hda = master

Re: right handheld computer for a Debian user?

2004-09-16 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 07:16:06AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > What is the right handheld computer for a Debian user? > My Zaurus SLC-760 is a jewel. I just got a 1G SD card and am installing a full Debian, courtesy of Klaus Weidner at http://pocketworkstation.org/ hth, Patrick. -- -- To U

Re: WiFi 802.11g Which One?

2004-08-31 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 05:23:06PM -0700, Roger Creasy wrote: > > OK. I have the output from lspci, but I have to run it then write down the output > and type it in, so there could be typos. > > :00:00.0 Host Bridge:VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3] (rev 04) > > :00:01.0 PCI

Re: Adding Debian menu to windows managers

2004-08-09 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:40:59AM -0500, Scott Thompson wrote: > Both KDE and GNOME have menus full of links to all of the software installed > on the system, including the Debian menu. When I use any other installed > windows manager, i.e. fluxbox, blackbox, enlightenment or xfce4, the menus > a

Re: help

2004-07-29 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:32:40PM +0200, Lukovszki Csaba wrote: > help > "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different." (sorry) -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS

2004-07-26 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 03:54:28PM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > > Just to clarify, I don't want to set up a DNS Server (which is what the > DNS howto talks about). I just want to translate names to IPs. > You can do this in /etc/hosts IP hostname Patrick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: USB disk drive

2004-07-21 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:45:21PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:39:36PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > > Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" > > to quit. > > I tried that: fdisk /dev/sda didn't return anything - just back to

Re: DVD Writing HOW TO

2004-07-19 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
> Hi ppl, got to put a dvd rw and cd-rw working in the same > computer, i have > allready a cd-rw working but have no clue where to start with the > dvd rw, > i have install the dvdplusrw package, by the way im runing woody, > but the > docs are not as clear as I need them. In some places it t

Re: Bash equivalent to DOS /p

2004-07-16 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:08:07AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 15:31:24 +0100 (BST) > Thomas Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Making up commands is not a good practise to get into. There is no > > command"ll". If you mean "ll" to be an alias for "ls -l" then you > > should have

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
From: Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:05:43PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:49 > > am Subject: vi globally append question > > > > > hi all, > > >

Re: vi globally append question

2004-07-15 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:49 am Subject: vi globally append question > hi all, > > i have a file like; > > # > one > 123 > > and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of > each line which is not started with a # . how can i do > it with vi or ed, so fa

Re: Copy Paste into vi??

2004-07-07 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
> xserver. I then run mozilla to surf. What I would like to do is copy > some text from the browser and paste it into the vi editor. How can this be done? > > Thanks, > > Carlos... Ctrl-C to copy from browser "*p to paste in vim. Patrick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grub, deleted menu.1st by mistake

2004-05-11 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
> I got the machine to boot and I restored the menu.1st. > Remaining question, though -- how can I make grub boot > from a cdrom? > Unless I'm misunderstanding your situation, boot from CDRom is an option you set in your BIOS Patrick. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: raid question

2003-08-19 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 12:54:47PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:18:39PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > > A side-effect of using RAID-1 (mirroring) is that the partitions > > can be accessed individually. This can be useful in case of emer

Re: INVESTMENT

2003-08-18 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:50:41AM -0400, Mike Mueller wrote: > Perversely, I've been collecting these things since Feb. 2003. The frequency Then you'll appreciate http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html DEAR SIR/MADAM: I AM MR. DARL MCBRIDE CURRENTLY SERVIN

Re: raid question

2003-08-18 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:33:08AM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > I had already made 3 partions (not in use) on both disk EXT3, and made > a raid one system with it. Now I have changed the type to FD (Linux > raid autodetec). I could mount it also when being ext3. > > Can't I use ext3 on the rai

Re: [OT: m r ducks] Re: pdf readers

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 02:20:28PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:50, Greg Folkert wrote: > > MR DUCKS! > > MRNOT DUCKS! > > CM EDBD WINGS? > > LIB MR! DUCKS! > > I always heard it as: > > M R ducks > M R not ducks > O S A R > C D E D B D wings? > Y I B! M R ducks! > >

Re: Need GNU-based live CD [WAS - Re: Important!]

2003-07-24 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
Sunil wrote up a step by step account of modifying Knoppix at: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue87/sunil.html HTH, Patrick. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with apt-move

2003-07-20 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:31:32PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:22:03 -0500 > Patrick Albuquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I try to maintain a partial mirror of unstable but I have a problem > > with ap

Re: Problem with apt-move

2003-07-20 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 04:24:57PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 20 July 2003 02:22 pm, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I try to maintain a partial mirror of unstable but I have a problem > &

Problem with apt-move

2003-07-20 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
Hi, I try to maintain a partial mirror of unstable but I have a problem with apt-move, mainly it's a bit too efficient. apt-move update (as root) will build a repository in /mnt/data/mirrors/debian but then delete _all_ the debs it copied over. Also, it won't build Packages.gz or Release files

Re: Confessions of a reluctant port scanner

2003-07-14 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 07:42:29PM -0700, Bruce Banner wrote: > It doesn't look like anything to worry about they are > false positives leaving your network. Your network is > a private network 192.168.1.x and the false attacks > are you hitting a dns probably your dns and your > network hitting a

Confessions of a reluctant port scanner

2003-07-13 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
Hello, Anyone have an idea why I'm a portscanner? I'm running unstable, dsl thru a router. Some sample snort output: [**] [117:1:1] (spp_portscan2) Portscan detected from 192.168.1.1: 6 targets 6 ports in 19 seconds [**] 07/13-15:11:32.418841 192.168.1.1:32769 -> 198.32.64.12:53 UDP TTL:64 TOS:0

Re: networking with a DSL router

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 07:50:05PM -0400, Robert Webb wrote: > > Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I bought an Ovislink SR-500 router/switch, but can't configure it. > > > >It has a default address of 192.168.1.254, and I'm supposed

networking with a DSL router

2002-06-02 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
Hi all, I bought an Ovislink SR-500 router/switch, but can't configure it. It has a default address of 192.168.1.254, and I'm supposed to be able to configure it via telnet at port 333. Unfortunately I can't even ping it. My internet connection is up on ppp0/eth0 as I write this and I'm tryi

booting RAID-1

2002-05-26 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
Hi, I've been struggling to boot into a RAID-1 (mirroring) o root is hda3, hdc3 as /dev/md0 o hda3 & hdc3 have partition type 'fd' o root is Ext3 o RAID enabled 2.4.18 kernel o initrd has raid modules (added 'raid1' to /etc/mkinitrd/modules

Re: Good mail management techniques?

2001-09-11 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
An interesting approach might be remembrance agents, from http://www.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/RA/ Remembrance Agents are a set of applications that watch over a user's shoulder and suggest information relevant to the current situation. While query-based memory aids help with

Re: changing date's output

2001-09-02 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:45:47PM +0200, andrej hocevar wrote: > hello > i'd like to change the names of the months into slovenian ones, that is > the old-style names (like vinotok for october). Of course, there are the > locale files sl_SI, among them the LC_TIME, which states only those > 'inter