On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 22:18 +0700, Ali Milis wrote:
> > Not sure what you mean by 'using' it, as in determining the default
> > editor or some other program? Or changing them?
>
> E.g. what if I would like to build my own java .deb package.
> I need an example on how to inform that my package is
>
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 19:11 +0700, Ali Milis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> May I know where to find information about how to use
> /etc/alternatives/ when developing a debian package?
>
> regards,
>
man 8 update-alternatives is a good start .. Just remember people also
use aliases in profiles for certain th
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 21:00 -0600, Anthony M Simonelli wrote:
> I'm beginning to implement Linux at work and have a small HP Proliant
> ML110 G3 server with two 80GB drives to work with. I plan on using the
> LTSP.org project to create 'sessions' for the new linux users since
> there are only two
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 08:51 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 21:03 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > IIRC someone related to the debian project 'holds' the debian.net domain
> > and it is used as a sort of 'staging' site before it joins debian.org.
> > The wiki at wiki.debian.org was
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 01:45 -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
> I've often seen this touted as a good security measure and I've
> always wondered why. I can think of a few possibilities, but I
> really don't know. Could someone please explain it to me?
>
> Thanks,
> - GM
Think of a username and passw
Hello to all,
Is there some way of finding a list of packages in each repo listed in
aptitude's sources that suggest or install zeroconf?
Its not just zeroconf that I'm interested in finding out about, but
that's my primary concern.
Thanks in advance,
-Tim
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Hello to all,
I'm going to do some playing (and heavy testing) with LVM over MD raid.
I want to try abusing several types of arrays with several types of file
systems so I have data handy should I ever need to use it.
I want to see which types of FS's are likely to fail in this setting
under hea
Hello to all on the list :)
I'm looking for a high availability e-mail solution that would suit a
single (or several) domains easily deployed across a farm of 5 or 6
identical servers.
I've tried the following things :
1 - exim/qmail on a single system image (Open SSI with CVIP/LVS using
weight
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 08:08 -0800, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>
> How did you do that? I mean, how did you squeeze sarge on 128MB?
> I have a 'minimal' sarge install: 190 MB and it's barely usable!
>
> Ottavio
>
I've gotten it that small on a similar board. Very small monolithic
kernel (no modules)
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 00:24 -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Anyone know how I can get konqueror to start up with google.ca, instead
> of this irritating "Konqueror: Conquer your desktop!" page that keeps
> popping up?
Settings >> Configure Konqueror
Change it and hit apply
> I changed the hom
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:55 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote:
> I made the mistake of selecting 'workstation' when installing etch. It
> managed to do the X installation correctly, without needing to be
> rescued manually, which is way better than I've seen from earlier
> debians. That's the good news.
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 12:16 +0100, Jarek wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Does anyone know what happend to debian.org ?
>
> Most of package lists and package info pages are broken.
>
> Like this:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/
>
> Jarek
>
>
www.gnu.org also seems to be down from Asia
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 11:03 +, David Hart wrote:
> On Sat 2006-11-25 23:58:42 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:51:49PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> > >
> > > I've had stand-alone (aka secure) boxes called localhost, with only the
> > > standard 127.0.0.1 /etc/hosts
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 17:31 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
>
> The question is how does the file system know that a write has made it
> to disk. E.g. if the file system is atomic transaction oriented, how
> can the file system know that a commit has been committed if the drive
> lies?
>
Its hard
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 21:17 -0800, David E. Fox wrote:
>
> I've also tried installing the fuzzy OCR plugin, to hopefully combat
> the tide of spammers sending phony pump & dump stock spam as attached
> gifs/jpgs. But that doesn't seem to work.
>
>
Did it even make a dent? I've been thinking ab
Hello to all,
Just curious if anyone has experiences with clvm they would like to
share? From an administrative and performance perspective, how does clvm
compare to just using ocfs2 / AoE with lvm2?
Thanks in advance!
-Tim
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Good day list -
I'm looking for a web based (perl/php) manager for pxe driven networks.
I'll explain some of my setup, and hopefully someone can point me to a
good project.
I've got a bunch of (nearly) identical nodes that will need to access
various installs and kernels via pxe. Sometimes this w
Hello,
I'd like to use discover / discover-modprobe on an initrd that will be
booting a bunch of things via pxe that have various kinds of custom
hardware installed, most of it pretty new, and all of it pretty new.
Is it better to just insmod/modprobe iterating through every custom
module in linu
The OFR router project by Vyatta seems to be based on Debian. I'm
wondering if anyone has any experience with it that they would like to
share.
Comments I've seen on /. put it neck and neck with some lower to mid
Cisco counterparts, I'm thinking of giving it a try on an upcoming
deployment.
Thank
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 08:09 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > ChadDavis wrote:
> >> But what's with all the attitude people flash around here.
> >
> > We're people; people are imperfect.
> >
>
> Correction: most people seem to be imperfect.
> (Need to be accurate here ;-) )
>
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 00:32 -0800, David A. wrote:
> Oh - attitude... I read aptitude! :P
> I've been a debian-user 1.5 year now and my impression is that the
> comunity is big and lot's of competent and experienced people - mostly
> friendly too.
Remember that you have thousands and thousands of
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 21:21 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> the missing comma after the bridge specification in the vif declaration of
> the domU cfg's
> seemed to have caused the problems I encountered.
>
Excellent.
> Now I'm using the xen network-dummy script
> and have succesf
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 08:58 -0500, Aaron M. Stromas wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On several occasions I had this problem when an application fails to
> start with "error while loading shared libraries: libxxx.so: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory", yet the library is
>
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 13:32 +0800, meisam sarabadani wrote:
> dear Debian People
>
> its been long time im using ubuntu, breezy, dapper, and edgy the last
> one, im ganna change it to debian for a while, would u please tell me
> which distribution is better? i need to know it and i need to make up
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 10:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto eth0.94
> iface eth0.94 inet static
> address 172.17.94.48
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 172.17.94.254
> broadcast 172.17.94.25
Bruno,
Try using brctl to manually create the bridge, then pin the nic to the
bridge manually (quick fix), if that works just toss something in init.d
to do so.
Better fix :
I usually find its easier to rename network-script to network-dummy, and
make the bridges in /etc/network/interfaces mysel
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 07:13 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> FATAL: Module suspend2ui_fbsplash not found.
> FATAL: Module suspend2ui_text not found.
> FATAL: Module suspend2ui_usplash not found.
>
> Question:
>
> These are "user built" modules and not kernel built modules, they don't
>
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 07:36 -0800, Enrique Morfin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We need a super-secure blog server. This is for
> sharing info in a LAN, just for some users.
>
> How can do this?
>
I really like lighttpd (www.lighttpd.net) , I use pound
( www.apsis.ch/pound/ ) to help sanitize requests and d
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:02 +1100, M-L wrote:
>
> I just want to be able to get from one of my machines into the other, to
> transfer a few files and that's it.
>
> Can someone please give me a hint where I can find a simple howto to do this.
>
Charlie,
AoE (ATA over Ethernet) would be the
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 07:43 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> PID USER VIRT RES SHR %MEM COMMAND
>
> 19383 me249m 101m 26m 10.0 firefox-bin
>
> 19068 me197m 73m 22m 7.3 icedove-bin
>
> 23727 me172m 58m 40m 5.8 soffice.bin
>
> Does this mean th
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 23:07 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 23:12 +0200, Ali Jawad wrote:
> > I wish I could do that..but honestly the server are remotely located
> > with modest internet connections and i do not want to use the limited
> > bandwidth Ive got with monitoring..a
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
> I am not 100% certain, but I believe Usenet predates FidoNet, if you want
> to talk about message boards and their equivalents. Blogging, however, is a
> different animal.
>
Not quite, but close. FidoNET pre-dates BitNET (which became U
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:20 -0500, Ed Curtis wrote:
> I just had a conversation over the weekend about blogging with my mom.
> She asked me what it was. I told her people had been doing it for years
> before it ever became "blogging" on BBS's through fidonet, etc.
>
I had a similar conversation
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 18:54 +0200, Yura wrote:
>
>
Are you being abducted and e-mailing the Debian lists via SMS for help?
Very, very *bad* idea. Fedora lists handle Kidnappings.
Best,
-Tim
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ang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On 10/28/06, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 15:09 +0200, Bruno wrote:
> >
> > > However my conclusion is this week-end I'll move back to Fedora (even if
> > > yum
> > > is so far behind dpkg).
&
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
> > Anyone remember FidoNET?
>
> Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while.
>
> As for the original topic, in a community this large and diverse there
> is bound to be disharmony. The key question is whether
> GRML is great, but the point is that the link you provide is a plain
> sarge debootstrap install, which is not what Douglas is looking for
> because:
> 1) A debootstrap installation is meant to be on a single partition;
> 2) It would take about 110 MB (tested!).
>
> Unfortunately, with Sarge, t
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 15:09 +0200, Bruno wrote:
> However my conclusion is this week-end I'll move back to Fedora (even if yum
> is so far behind dpkg).
>
> Bye,
> Bruno
>
Fedora is an *experimental* operating system, etch is a *beta*. Neither
one should be used in any kind of production setti
Is slocate installed? Did you notice a process named updatedb running
when this happens?
Best,
-Tim
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 16:12 -0700, Anthony Tippett wrote:
>
> When my cron.daily scripts run there is a huge spike in my open inodes
> and inode table size. This also causes my system to start sl
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 00:47 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Tim Post wrote:
>
> A: Because it reverses the normal order of conversation.
> Q: Why is top-posting considered undesirable by many?
>
Apologies. My desktop machines are being consumed with things apparently
more importan
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:45 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
>
> Nothing on these lists is a personal attack, and it gets so tiresome to
> see all this hostility all the time. Honestly, that's one of the
> greatest problems with Debian or any other list. You make a comment,
> and the next thing you g
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 16:04 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> Try testdisk, and the tool that comes with it, photorec.
> Short tutorial: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/420
>
I've used that a few times with great success. My Palm Treo loves to
mangle data on CF cards for some reason,
What I can't seem to stop is the huge influx of these "penny stock"
spams. They're getting smarter than bayes filtering and keyword
'snatches' have become almost impossible.
Since on the topic, if someone is winning the battle to keep them out of
their inbox, sharing of spam-a rules would be much
Hotplug setup right? May help to post your /etc/network/interfaces file.
Best,
-Tim
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 09:17 +0200, Bernd Kloss wrote:
> Etch
> 2.6.17-2-k7
> different realtek, 3COM, onboards
>
> Hello,
>
> I am having problems with clients on boot.
> Client is booting, but not finding yp-s
HP printer should work fine.. can you give us an idea of what GUI (if
any) you are using? Someone can easily walk you through cups or possibly
even link to a tutorial with screen shots on how to set it up.
Version / Model info of the HP printer may also help. There's a bunch of
driver inconsistenc
does 'modprobe ppa' help?
Best,
-Tim
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 07:05 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> I got this wierd usb storage device today with I'm trying to access under
> linux. The initialization message from dmesg:
>
> usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9
> usb 1-2: c
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 12:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> RAMDISK: Conplressed image found at block 0
> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /calss/input/input0
> invalid argument format (err=1)
> VFS: Cannot open root device "304" or unknown-block(3, 4)
> Pleas append a correct "root=" boot
Egads! too many open windows replying to too many things. Sorry about
that :) Still useful for [part of] your problem lol, but won't exactly
solve it.
Whoops :)
Best,
-Tim
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 14:38 +0800, Tim Post wrote:
> Use the following (small) c program which will generate an x
Use the following (small) c program which will generate an xml feeed
with pretty much everything you need to know about each machine.. very
easy to parse to see which is "fastest" / etc.
The output looks like this :
http://dev1.netkinetics.net/xmlpulse/xmlpulse.xml
The source itself is here
htt
Advanced Policy Firewall is good for the home user,
http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php
Its a very simple one file configuration with some optional perks.
Define the untrusted IF, its egreess, ingress, tweaks (default values
are already sane) and such stick it in init.d - done. I believe it now
has
nel building tutorials are
easily found via Google .. this should be enough to get you going with a
degree of confidence however :)
HTH
Best,
-Tim
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 09:43 -0500, cothrige wrote:
> * Tim Post ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Hello Tim,
>
> [snip]
> > Then mak
Dash is coded quite well, and makes it semi-easy to "plug in" more
functionality as it isolated built ins like printf, test, etc .. so a
collection of patches that let you pick what functionality you wanted
would be the goal.
Its widely used...but not many enhancements have been made since Herbert
Oh, yeah?
open "$" ,8
:P
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 05:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 10/22/06 05:21, Tim Post wrote:
> > A really bad joke is brewing if this thread keeps up. Ah heck, why not.
> >
> >
Hello list,
I'm trying to build some more functionality into dash, and take out some
stuff that isn't needed to have it act pretty much just as a very
lightweight script interpreter.
I'd also like to play around with fcgi and dash, so it doesn't have to
fork each time and can more or less be us
A really bad joke is brewing if this thread keeps up. Ah heck, why not.
How many sysadmins does it take to list the files in one directory?
... [ ducking ]
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 12:16 +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 10:19:20AM +0200, Bj??rn Lindstr??m wrote:
> > Ron Johnson
Patrick,
Its relatively easy .. and you can make it a bit easier on yourself.
Untar from kernel.org in /usr/src
be sure ncurses-dev and ncurses are present
make menuconfig and configure your kernel
now make (or make -j xx, where xx = # of cpu's if > 1) [ fancy gcc hacks
go here if your brave
MySQL looks in a "default" place for its data directory prior to
processing my.cnf , so if my.cnf is not present the default values are
kept (and tried) and there's no need to re-malloc() new configuration
paramaters.
I think this is just a bug (debug bug) that wasn't squelched, which lets
you kn
Since MD5 can be rather resource intense, you may find the following
utility of some use in determining which files should be processed.
http://dev1.netkinetics.net/filetime/filetime.c
download, then gcc -o /usr/bin/filetime && strip /usr/bin/filetime
It returns a simple unix stamp of the last t
ls -A | grep ^[.] doesn't give you . and .. :)
tar -czvf foo.tar.gz `ls -A | grep ^[.]` should produce the results you
want wrt archiving the resulting files.
Best,
-Tim
>
> ls -a | grep ^[.]
>
> This will, however, still give you the . and .. directories.
>
> --Ben
>
>
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Hello list,
I'm doing some initdrd tinkering and I'd like to keep dash in place. I
also want to keep as much bloat out of the initrd as possible, so
installing externals such as tr / awk / sed / grep is undesirable.
With bash, I can do simple regex substitution in strings, e.g.
string="123abc"
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