Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Philipp Weis
complete disk (e.g. /dev/hdb) > using /dev/zero or /dev/urandom as input woule be better. I was not talking about wiping individual files, but about wiping a whole disk or partition. Wipe handles block devices quite well. -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-18 Thread Philipp Weis
esigned for this. It repeatedly writes certain patterns and random data to your disk, so that a recovery of the original data is almost (?) impossible. Versions prior to 0.20 have problems with disks larger than 4GB, so be sure to use a recent version. -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Autocomplete

2004-07-09 Thread Philipp Weis
I believe it was a feature in Knoppix but I am not sure. Just type "source /etc/bash_completion" into your shell oder add this line to your ~/.bashrc startup file to enables auto completion. -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/ -- To

Re: audio on DELL latitude d400 screwed up

2004-07-05 Thread Philipp Weis
eate now. I see the following in my syslog: | kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49477 usecs | kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 48000 You could try to specify the clocking manually as a module option, maybe that will correct your problem. -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/

Re: audio on DELL latitude d400 screwed up

2004-07-04 Thread Philipp Weis
t bothered to take a closer look at the ALSA driver. By the way, my chip is reported by lspci as "Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller". -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: root system type unknown in /etc/mtab

2004-07-01 Thread Philipp Weis
;mount", > while my other partitions are indicated as ext3, my root partition is > listed as "unknown" for type. What would the reason for this be and is > there a problem? I have the same problem here with my system. A bugreport has been filed a few days ago under #255849.

Re: Undoing the 'l' command in mutt

2004-04-13 Thread Philipp Weis
; filter besides > reopening the mailbox? The simpler way would be 'l'+Enter, but it does > not work. I had a look in the '?' list of all keybindings, but found > nothing. You should have a look at the patterns section of the mutt manual. "~A" matches a

Re: Debian-installer hangs at ide-floppy detect on Dell laptop

2004-02-23 Thread Philipp Weis
s there no web-based Bugzilla-like interface to > submit a bug? I have a Dell D400 and had exactly the same problem. One of the daily builds back in January solved it for me, though. Have you already tried the latest build? -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: fetchmail with multiple accounts

2004-02-10 Thread Philipp Weis
lling %s account %sâ to the Received line it generâ ates, where the %s parts are replaced by the userâs remote name and the poll label (the Received header also normally includes the serverâs truename). This can be used to facilate mail filâ tering based on the a

Re: exiscan-acl and clamav configuration question

2004-02-09 Thread Philipp Weis
/modifier"? From /usr/share/doc/exim4-daemon-heavy/exiscan-acl-spec.txt.gz: To use this facility, you MUST set the "av_scanner" option in section 1 of the exim config file. This option can not be set in the acl configuration itself. -- Philipp Weis [E

Re: list installed packages

2004-02-08 Thread Philipp Weis
On 08 Feb 2004, Sam Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i would like to get a listing of all the packages i have installed, with > the branch tag beside it. apt-show-versions should do the trick -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.c

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-08 Thread Philipp Weis
ht now that does this? Preferably one > that interacts well with gnome. Sawfish can maximize vertically, horizontally and in both directions. It was the default window manager with gnome 1 and will probably work well together with gnome 2. -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germ

Exim4 synchronization error over ssh tunnel

2004-02-07 Thread Philipp Weis
that either the synchronization check is somewhat broken or something is going wrong over the tunnel. Any ideas? Regards, Philipp -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: prioritizing deb locations

2004-02-05 Thread Philipp Weis
age: * Pin: origin y Pin-Priority: -1 Regards, Philipp -

Re: OT: procmail recipe/bash scripting issue

2004-01-26 Thread Philipp Weis
> > s... am I using the $@ wrong somehow? should I substitute > somethng else? Procmail sends the message via STDIN, so you would have to read it from there. As you have to read the message more than once for the different formail calls, it would probably be best to save

Re: apt/sources.list error

2004-01-22 Thread Philipp Weis
x". To install the backported version, you have to specify either the complete version or an regexp. So both "postfix=2.0.16-4.woody.1" and "postfix=2.0.16*" should work. -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany http://pweis.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: apt/sources.list error

2004-01-22 Thread Philipp Weis
On 22 Jan 2004, Philipp Weis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22 Jan 2004, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > W: Couldn't stat source package list > > http://people.debian.org hmh/postfix/ Packages > > (/var/lib/apt/lists/people.debian

Re: apt/sources.list error

2004-01-22 Thread Philipp Weis
bug with aptitude, as "apt-get update" works on my machine and "aptitude update" should do exactly the same thing. If "apt-get update" solves the problem for you, you should probably file a bug report against aptitude (after checking this has not been reported already)

Re: Mplayer?

2004-01-11 Thread Philipp Weis
On 11 Jan 2004, Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://marillat.free.fr seems to be gone. Anyone have any info? Well, the packages have found another home recently. Take a look at the bottom of http://marillat.free.fr/ for the new locations. -- Philipp Weis [EMAIL

Re: Howto not reject mail to Postmaster etc. in Exim4

2003-10-09 Thread Philipp Weis
could then block the mail if both variables are set. -- ===== Philipp Weis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany

Re: Howto not reject mail to Postmaster etc. in Exim4

2003-10-08 Thread Philipp Weis
rk exactly the same way as with postmaster. Philipp -- ========= Philipp Weis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany web: http://pweis.com/ =

Re: Howto not reject mail to Postmaster etc. in Exim4

2003-10-08 Thread Philipp Weis
details on multiple recipients. Greetings, Philipp -- ========= Philipp Weis email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freiburg, Germany web: http://pweis.com/ = GnuPG public key

Re: Subversion apache module will not load in unstable

2003-09-29 Thread Philipp Weis
a symlink to /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav.load in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/. Hope I could help. -- = Philipp Weis