Re: md5sum lots of files

2006-10-20 Thread dtutty
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:27:23PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Grok Mogger wrote: > >I have about 36 GB of files on a hard disk that I've transfered to > >another disk. I'd like to cksum or md5sum the files just to make sure > >that they were all copied well. I can't seem to find a way to recu

Re: md5sum lots of files

2006-10-20 Thread dtutty
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:07:29PM +, Chris Moore wrote: > > I'd like to cksum or md5sum the files just to > > make sure that they were all copied well. I can't seem to find > > a way to recurse through the directories and do this to a lot of > > files. > Couldn't you use cat and shasum:

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-20 Thread dtutty
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:22:55PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Administrative Contact [423178]: > President President [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2170 Bromsgrove Road > Suite 46 > Mississauga > ON > L5J 4J2 > CA > Phone: +1.905823914

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-19 Thread dtutty
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:22:24PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > If you look at the number of lines of rules you make, and compare it > > to the number of lines (pages!) of iptables rules it makes, you see > > that shorewall is easier. Also the syntax is easier.

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-19 Thread dtutty
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:21:31PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:18:28PM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote: > > I'm sorry to say, but the spam on the list is getting dirty. Is there > > anything we can do about this? Thanks. > > > > Install spamassasin and train it

Re: Exim4 and Mutt for beginners?

2006-10-19 Thread dtutty
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:51:16PM +, Tyler wrote: > Hi, > > I really want to try Mutt. However, I'm more than a little overwhelmed > by the documentation. I understand that Mutt requires a properly > configured MTA, and that Exim4 is the recommended, default MTA for > Debian. However, Exim

modem: internal or external?

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now), but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem. The MB has a serial port and I have 3 PCI slots, a PCI-E x 16 and 2 PCI-E x1 free. (Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe AMD AM2,

Re: how does ntpdate work ?

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:02PM +, David Dawson wrote: > but if you are using dialup, you could run a crontab every day to execute > ntpdate instead Better still is chrony. It polls ntp sources when you're online, skewing the system time instead of jumping it like ntpdate, and automatical

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:32:52PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Interesting what you say about ipmasq. How automatic is it? I would > have assumed that it had more to do with making your machine a > gateway, which mine isn't, than firewalling it

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:09:35PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:15:53 -0700 > "michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote > > > On 10/14/06 19:53, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:29PM -0700, michael

exim4 outgoing address translation

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
Hello, I currently have exim4 set up and working fine. Outgoing mail is rewritten from dtutty to [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I get it to rewrite it to Doug Tutty and Jane Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-18 Thread dtutty
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:06:10AM -0500, cothrige wrote: > * Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Hi Patrick, > > most folks just run 'shorewall'! And you can add more rules if you need > > to. > > =Kev > > This does seem to be the consensus here. However, as I have never > used this

Re: System maintenance

2006-10-17 Thread dtutty
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:42:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:14:32PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > If you want a little more control over the details, with a usable > > > text-based user interface, use 'apt

Re: Mdadm -- Restoring an array

2006-10-17 Thread dtutty
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:21:19PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Tuesday 17 October 2006 11:15, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote > > > > > > > Does anyone have experience rebuilding a mdadm RAID when the config > > > info has been wiped out? (I wouldn't th

Re: Debian installer that support Asus Marvel Gigabit ethernet and sata HD

2006-10-17 Thread dtutty
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:32:59PM -0300, Javier Viegas wrote: > Hi, im a happy debian user, but im trying to install stable version 3.1 on a > new pc that has the Asus PWD5 deluxe mother on it wich has 2 onboard Marvel > Gigabit Ethernet adapters and it have mainly support for sata drives, if i >

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-17 Thread dtutty
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:45:34PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > I was wondering about the best way to start iptables with each boot in > Debian and so I did some googling. I found a Debian Wiki and it gave > instructions concerning update-rc.d, but this requires a script for > iptables in init.d and t

Re: Sound via ssh

2006-10-17 Thread dtutty
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote: > Hi, > > I've a Debian machine with a sound card. I can play > mp3 with libOSS.so. When I connect to this machine with > ssh from another machine (it's a Sun terminal) with X > forwarding, I can start xmms and it also starts p

Re: Debian & Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-17 Thread dtutty
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:39:42PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:34:25PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Scarletdown wrote: > > >On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 01:07 -0400, Kai wrote: > > > > > >>I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or > > >>some other form

Re: NTP weirdness

2006-10-16 Thread dtutty
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:21:19PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I have two machines which are running NTP. They both synchronize to > these servers in /etc/ntp.conf: > > server ntp2.usno.navy.mil > server ntp-1.vt.edu > server ntp-2.vt.edu > > Now, here is where the weidrness comes in. Th

Re: off-site backup

2006-10-16 Thread dtutty
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:57:55PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:50:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Different types of flash memory have different cycle counts. > > > I don't know how a memory chip gets translated into a 'drive'. Is it > > like a HDD with

Re: off-site backup

2006-10-16 Thread dtutty
Just a reminder, reply to the list. I'm not sure which list you read it on, so I sent it to both. On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:06:22AM -0600, Cedar Cox wrote: > >It seems that USB sticks/flash-drives are far more rugged than anything > >other than paper. What have you found? > > Flash memory doe

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-16 Thread dtutty
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:05:39PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:39, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being > > > upgradeable? > > > > Becaus

Re: Which file am I supposed to download?

2006-10-16 Thread dtutty
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:09:46PM +0200, cristian zapelli wrote: > Dear staff of Debian, > I'm trying to upload the debian o.s.; > I've read the faq but I' ve some problems anyway; > > First of all I think I should download the i386 architecturewhen I > get to this page http://cdimage.debia

Re: System maintenance

2006-10-16 Thread dtutty
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:49:23AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:19:16AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:29:43PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > Unfortulately, aptitude doesn't know if you explicitly requested a > package using apt-get, so you will

Re: System maintenance

2006-10-15 Thread dtutty
Personally, I always use aptitude so I can see what it wants to do before it does it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bridge or nat for multiple lan interfaces?

2006-10-15 Thread dtutty
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:15:58PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > But while researching on google about wireless access points in linux, > we discovered another option is to make a bridge. We are thinking this > could be done by bridging the eth0 and ath0 and giving the bridge > device, br0, an ip address

off-site backup

2006-10-14 Thread dtutty
I'm reviewing/planning for new offsite backup media and am wondering what people are using now. Previous discussions I found on lists.debian.org are a few years old. Remote offsite (e.g. on another computer at another site) is not an option for me. I've been happy using 100 MB Zip disks; I can s