Re: copying a 12GB file

2006-03-01 Thread Peter McAlpine
Yes, blowfish would be a good choice if doing this. -Peter On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:43:45PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > >FTP would probably be the fastest, but scp (file transfer over SSH) is > >probably already on both machines if they're both Linux. PuTTY is an > >excellent SSH/SCP client

Re: Determine order of network interfaces

2006-02-23 Thread Peter McAlpine
Debian's /etc/network/interfaces configuration file supports checking for charactaristics of an interface before bringing it up. /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/network-interfaces.gz has the skinny on this. -Peter On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:01:14PM +0100, Ketil Froyn wrote: >Hi, > >I ha

Re: howto check open ports ?

2006-02-23 Thread Peter McAlpine
nmap is all you need. The manpage will tell you everything about it you need to know. If you can't find an open port then you may want to consider running an ssh tunnel (man ssh and look for -R and -L options). Even worse running TCP/IP over your ssh connection with a pppd and Magosányi Árpád's pt

Re: GNU Hurd

2006-02-20 Thread Peter McAlpine
As far as advantages, most of them should be called 'potential' advantages and are outlined quite well in some of the documents referred to by some other replies. It's a remarkably interesting project, but (besides the odd story I've heard to run a web server just to show it can be done) it's not

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-21 Thread Peter McAlpine
It would be an interesting (and probably not too difficult) task to implement this with procmail and a couple scripts to hardlink emails into different Maildir directories. Then pick your client of choice. In my case I'd pick mutt, which has limitless options for shortcuts. -Peter On Fri, Jan 20

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-21 Thread Peter McAlpine
VMware should work fine for you. I have used GSX to run production servers and it has been very stable. I don't use the workstation version very extensively but I have friends that have had some serious file corruption when running XP with it. It works fine usually, just be sure to backup your dat

Re: IMAP Server Requirement

2006-01-19 Thread Peter McAlpine
This is the document I've used multiple times when setting this type of environment up. http://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim_maildir_imap.shtml -Peter On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:06:03PM -0500, Ropetin wrote: > I hope I'm asking this question in the right place. If not please let > me

Re: su/sudo cannot X

2006-01-18 Thread Peter McAlpine
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:37:25PM +, Noah Dain wrote: > On 1/18/06, Peter McAlpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Security feature or not... when I'm troubleshooting I sometimes want > > this disabled. If 'xhost +' no longer disables all access control,

Re: su/sudo cannot X

2006-01-18 Thread Peter McAlpine
Security feature or not... when I'm troubleshooting I sometimes want this disabled. If 'xhost +' no longer disables all access control, I'd be interested in hearing the new way to it. Thanks, -Peter On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:17:27AM +, Martin OConnor wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 17:29 -050

Re: empty boot log

2004-01-06 Thread Peter McAlpine
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 19:01, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I no longer have a /var/log/boot although I remember having one, what > does its presence depend on? > > Hugo. > [19:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /var/log/boot dpkg: /var/log/boot not found. oh. Maybe when I dist-upgraded to unstable it ch

empty boot log

2004-01-06 Thread Peter McAlpine
Hello, I recently deleted "/var/log/boot", and then did a "touch /var/log/boot". However, I have rebooted multiple times and the log remains empty. Does anyone have ideas where I could start looking for solutions to this problem? ls excerpt: -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jan 5 16:11

Re: forced check

2002-10-18 Thread Peter McAlpine
Maybe you should consider switching to ext3 or some other journaling fs. -peter > "Sandip" == Sandip P Deshmukh writes: > > Sandip> hello all! i use debian 3.0, filesystem is ext3. > > Sandip> i realize that it checks the partitition after mounting it > Sandip> for 20 times,