Re: HTTP proxy over ssh recommendation?

Hi! * Bob Proulx wrote: > Philipp Tölke wrote: > > Did you look at the -D option for ssh? > > But I don't know how to make it operate as an http proxy. Perhaps > there is a way but unknown to me. I don't want to run my local > firefox under socksify. I am sure that would work but then I could

Re: Put date on log file names?

Hi! * vr wrote: > I'd like to have the date in the file names so visually I'll know > what span is in each file. > > Can this be done? (put dates into the file name) Depends. See the other posts about logrotate > Should this be done? (put the date into the file name) No clue > If you're doing so

Installing Debian into an existing encrypted volume with lvm

Hi! Is it possible to install Debian (lenny or squeeze) into an existing encrypted volume (partition or raid with lukscrypt) which contains a lvm with an existing installation of debian which shouldn't be deleted? The testing-installer in expert-mode has only two options to configure encrypte

Re: Any Linux CAD tools?

Hi! * Ogya Chief wrote: > I am looking for a CAD tool to draw among other things contours. [...] > What other options are available on the Linux platform? There is a list on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Engineering Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

I am in the finishing steps of building something similar myself. * Nick Lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are several flavors, one of which caught my attention immediately: > The ALIX 3c2 (http://www.pcengines.ch/index.htm). A 500Mhz AMD Geode CPU > (fanless), 256MB RAM, 2 USB ports,

Re: Read-only root (/) except /etc

* Daniel Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to have /etc on a separate partition from / (root) so > that root can be read-only while /etc is read-write? Making a read-only root-fs is quite complex. You didn't write why you do want to do this. If you have a medium that may break b