Re: Sendmail greeting delay

2015-01-13 Thread Chris Davies
David Parker wrote: > We have an SMTP server running Sendmail 8.14.4-4 on Debian 7 64-bit. > Kaccess hash -T /etc/mail/access > # FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T /etc/mail/access', `skip')dnl > For some reason, I just can't get it to not pause when greeting external > (non-localhost) connections.

Re: VPN IPSec (Cisco vpnc)

2015-01-12 Thread Chris Davies
Hajder Rabiee wrote: > Trying to connect to VPN at work but keep getting: "vpnc: no response from > target". This is a typical response when the group name/password are incorrect. IPSec ID IPSec secret Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-23 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > Ah... I had not ever seen ntpdate or rdate used for clock comparison > before. It really is a very useful tool for clock comparisons. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Davies
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 09 iun 14, 19:01:51, Chris Davies wrote: >> I have yet to find a useful alternative to the very convenient >> "ntpdate -qu {server}". Is there one? > Just by looking at manpages maybe 'sntp ' is what you're looking >

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Davies
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > ntpdate is obsolete, please remove (purge) it and install ntp. For day-to-day usage I would agree with your recommendation of ntp to ntpdate. However, I have yet to find a useful alternative to the very convenient "ntpdate -qu {server}". Is there one? Chris -- To UNSUB

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-28 Thread Chris Davies
Richard Hector wrote: > I'm not currently using heirloom mailx, or exim, so testing it is a bit > hard - but are you getting the prompt _before_ the debug output? This is how I've seen the mail / mailx tools work since, I think, at least the last twenty years. (Ouch!) So I would suggest it's real

Re: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-26 Thread Chris Davies
Harry Putnam wrote: > I've tried adding this line: > smtp_accept_queue_per_connection=300 > to /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template which causes a failure when I run > /etc/init.d/exim4 reload > (It generates a new conf that exim4 does not accept. That line looks plausible to me. Where did you add

Re: problems with ntp syncronization in wheezy

2014-05-22 Thread Chris Davies
Leonardo Cuyar Morales wrote: > I just installed debian wheezy amd64. After having set ntp > configurations in /etc/default/ntpdate file, like: > - set the ntp server > - do not read /etc/ntp.conf file > the same configuration I did in squeeze, my result was wheezy does > not get sincronized eith

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread Chris Davies
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > What I meant is to have a group of commands in a script that, in > addition to being executed, I want these commands are stored in a log. LOG=/var/log/...logfile... ExecAndLog() { # Season with date, PID, user, etc., to taste echo "$*" >>"$LOG"

Re: Time Zone Questions

2014-04-01 Thread Chris Davies
Ron Leach wrote: > And London is going to shift from UTC to its local daylight saving time, > British summer Time, BST, sometime in the next week or so. Pendantically speaking, not really. We were on GMT and are now on BST. UTC is invariant, and although it just so happens that GMT is the same as

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-04-01 Thread Chris Davies
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as > blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? > CHARMAP="UTF-8" > CODESET="Lat15" > FONTFACE="TerminusBold" > FONTSIZE="8x16" I've got FONTFACE="Fixed" for wheezy, and that shows UTF-8 characters f

Re: IP Blocked in forum.debian.net

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Davies
Muntasim Ul Haque wrote: > While registering in forum.debian.net, I got error message saying my IP > has been blocked for spamming. Are you using a proxy such as squid? I see this message often on various forums, but all it really means in my case is that the forum code is reading the X-Forwarde

Re: DHCP quickie

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Davies
Danny wrote: > Is it possible to only give leases at a certain time of day for a > certain IP or MAC? > Say from 06:00 till 10:00 and then from 18:00 till 22:00? - What should happen when that device requests an IP address outside those times? - If it's to be refused, can another device request t

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Davies
lina wrote: > On Thursday 13,February,2014 11:55 PM, Reco wrote: >>> ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname >> That means that you've tried to connect to a non-resolvable hostname >> (i.e. no hostname → IP association). No more, no less. >> Quick-and-dirty solution for that is usi

Re: How to `echo' the core # a bash script is running on?

2014-02-10 Thread Chris Davies
Marco Ippolito wrote: > How can I `echo', in `bash', the core # the current script is running on? This will probably do it for you awk '{print $39}' /proc/$$/stat See proc(5) for details, including the 39. Please also note that unless you've set the task affinity (see taskset(1) for details)

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-02-01 Thread Chris Davies
Craig L. wrote: > When I tried to reconnect, it took almost 60 seconds for the password > prompt to show up. It's probably trying to lookup rDNS for your IP address. Reverse lookups are controlled by a parameter in the sshd_config file. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Determine XTerm Geometry

2014-01-21 Thread Chris Davies
Mathias Bauer wrote: > * Patrick Bartek wrote on 2014-01-20 at 13:18 (-0800): >> Need to get geometry of running xterms > take a look at > $ xwininfo -id WINDOW_ID Also wmctrl -lG Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Minimizing shell access on my VPS

2014-01-18 Thread Chris Davies
Reco wrote: > Set up another user with /bin/rbash (not straight /bin/bash) as a shell. > Set PATH in .bashrc of said user to that program. Unfortunately rbash has a race condition built in to its execution of .profile by definition (it doesn't disable the interrupt signal until after the .profile

Re: [Solved] Re: Debian gateway problem

2014-01-08 Thread Chris Davies
mett wrote: > I end up with the script below working perfectly, > except if I use both following rules at the beginning of the script. > iptables -t nat -F > iptables -t mangle -F I would imagine it's because something else (your PPP connection, perhaps) has already placed necessary r

Re: Best SFTP (w/chroot): vsftpd vs mysecureshell vs other ??

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Goldberg wrote: > trying to determine best solution for an SFTP server. > vsftpd appears to be my current best choice vsftpd is "Very Secure FTP Daemon". It does FTP well (cleartext passwords notwithstanding). It doesn't do SFTP (file transfer over ssh). > users must be chroot'ed to /hom

Re: Possible to add an LVM to existing Wheezy box

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Davies
Ron Leach wrote: > Actually, the disk we are rescuing is the surviving member of a RAID1 > pair[1]. I realised, today, that I cannot simply install that in our > Wheezy box because (I think) it needs a software RAID layer in order > to read it (fstab refers to md1, md2 etc). It depends on the RA

Re: Possible to add an LVM to existing Wheezy box

2014-01-01 Thread Chris Davies
Howard wrote: > [...] one partition of 1.7TB purely for filesystem backup data [...] > The data partition contains several years' worth of incremental backups > [...] It also provides the historical context of what data was available > to us during our projects, which can be important. If the ba

Re: Using the spare space on a bootable USB

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Davies
Brian wrote: > This technique should not be required to be used ; the stick with the > dd'ed image should boot directly. Does it not? According to the OP it does, but it's irrelevant to the question that they asked. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Remove root access from folder/directory

2013-12-06 Thread Chris Davies
Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > I've unzipped a folder and it became root protected. Next time don't unzip it as root. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.o

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-28 Thread Chris Davies
Chris Davies writes: > Last time I looked, the wordpress package was a point or two behind > the current version. Many of these point releases seem to be to fix > security issues, so I have to question the wisdom of using an "older" > version for a potentially Internet-facin

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Davies
Rick Thomas wrote: > Would you be willing to help me get a wordpress installation up and running? > I've done "aptitude install wordpress" which dragged in all the > necessary other packages, like apache2, mysql, php… etc. So I *think* > I've got all the tools I'll need. Last time I looked, the

Re: Google & other web mail (was Re: top posting)

2013-11-21 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner wrote: > GMail & Yahoo Mail both support encrypted POP3 & IMAP [...] I don't > have to look at their ads since I'm not using their web interface [...] How long do you think it's going to be before they start inserting ads into the message body then? (And/or offering a "premium" serv

Re: Debian 7 installation

2013-11-18 Thread Chris Davies
Kailash Kalyani wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:32:04PM -0800, Atari McBits wrote: >>> I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So, >>> I press "Install" and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black >>> and I have no idea what is going on. > I've had

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-10 Thread Chris Davies
Itay wrote: > I am struggling to configure exim4 on my home desktop to send system > notifications to my public email address [...] > [I replaced smtp's port with NNN. Also, assume 'machine' is output of > command 'hostname', while 'machine.homenetwork' is output of 'hostname > -f'] > IP address

Re: Bash Scripting Question

2013-11-07 Thread Chris Davies
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:58:58PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: >> Maybe you'll need something like expect to handle this. > I'd second expect, it's probably the best tool for the job in all > non-trivial cases. The "empty-expect" package, perhaps? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Thank you, Tom and Sven. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/23hojax9ln@news.roaima.co.uk

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Chris Davies wrote: >> I assume the 1MB space at the beginning is for grub_boot? I found I >> needed that for my big (3TB) GPT disks. What's the space required at >> the end of the disk? > A gpt disk needs 34 sectors

Re: logwatch question

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
François Patte wrote: > I installed /tmp as tmpfs, is there a config file for logwatch where I > can modify this and tell logwatch to use /var/tmp instead of /tmp? The default value in the program can be (and is) overridden by the system installed default configuration file logwatch.conf, which m

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Stephen Powell wrote: > I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past > several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become > very sluggish. Until a couple of weeks ago I had a really strange speed problem with FF/Iceweasel. It would run really happily e

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Debian 7.2 runs fine on UEFI, GPT partitioning works fine. You might > want to try auto partitioning - there needs to be a 1M space at > beginning and end of he disk and a 510M partition marked for EFIboot. I assume the 1MB space at the beginning is for grub_boot? I fou

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > I routinely add or remove ip addresses from an interface without having > to bring the physical interface up or down. Me too. (Well, not routinely, but quite comfortably. It's very convenient when needing to talk to a new device that's got a default initial address on a com

Re: no .bash_hostory file was found in user home folder

2013-10-21 Thread Chris Davies
Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > :~$ echo $HISTFILE > /home/ykhan/.bash_history > any idea where these history files are. > actually i need to do some accounting for my users , what they are doing > actually with time tag set to ON. These files are of limited value for accounting since the users ca

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-21 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> I'm pretty sure that the last time (six months ago?) Bob linked to a >> Debian wiki page [...] that used multiple iface declarations for the >> same nic (I've also used multiple declarations). > > https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Multiple_IP_addre

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Chris Davies
Tom H wrote: > iface eth3.77 inet static > address 10.0.5.15 > iface eth3.77 inet static > address 10.0.5.16 The Debian documentation at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html states categorically, « Do not define duplicates of the "iface" stanza for a network interface

Re: Bash variable escaping

2013-09-10 Thread Chris Davies
Denis Witt wrote: > I've a problem with a script. It's a wrapper for a program which uses > for example '*' as a parameter. It could also be 'foobar*' [...] Do you expect the program to see the asterisk character itself, or an expansion into the corresponding list of files in the current folder?

Re: Wheezy: exim4 + mailman it is not sending messages.

2013-09-02 Thread Chris Davies
lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > exim4 mainlog says: > R=system_aliases defer (-30): pipe_transport unset in system_aliases router > README.debian mentions 2 different methods, but it is absolutely confuse. The choice you have to balance is security vs complexity. On an internal-only system I've simply

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Davies
Adam J. Gamble wrote: > Fixed! Was same bug as in > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720442#10 Ah! Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Davies
Adam J. Gamble wrote: > Appologies not 'built-in' so to speak, just no additional drives. > Actually as luck would have it, my 2TB Western Digital just arrived :) > Assume its an issue with Debian install /finding/ disks to partition > then? BIOS can see both, so no problem there. What can I do

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Davies
Adam J. Gamble wrote: > Just require some clarification with my Debian install on HP Proliant > Microserver (N40L). > Installation going fine until I hit 'Partition disks', I had assumed it > would find the 250gb HD built-in ..currently don't have any HDs in the > slots. The built-in 250GB di

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/11/2013 3:43 AM, Chris Davies wrote: >> Can you help clarify, please? > Se my detailed response to Henrique. Thank you Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > It's best to use identical drives with identical firmware, which means > buying all your drives up front from the same lot. I had always understood that best practice was the opposite of this recommendation, so as to help protect against a single point of failure such as ba

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
Gary Roach wrote: > Now I am really confused. I have two systems; one with an Intel P4, > 3GHz, multi-thread and one with an Intel i5-750. Both are running Wheezy > with a KDE desktop. The i5-750 system recognizes the 4GB of memory but > the P4 system does not. They are both running "pae" kerne

Re: Dotfiles

2013-07-04 Thread Chris Davies
Slavko wrote: > Dňa 02.07.2013 23:32 John Hasler wrote / napísal(a): >> Look at the access times. Dotfiles that have not been accessed in years >> can probably be safely removed. > Sure, but do not forget, that the "relatime" (default one) and "noatime" > mount options are going into play, then t

Re: Squid with https in transparent mode

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Davies
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > I just realised: there is a 4th (or is that 5th?) option: policy based > routing. Ah yes. Clever. Thank you for the extra item on the list. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Squid with https in transparent mode

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Davies
Frank Lanitz wrote: > Thanks for the input. I think really should give up the transparent > approach and try to make usage of autoconfig with hope clients are able > to understand. Supported by at least IE, FF, and Chrome on Windows since XP, if not earlier, and on Linux-based systems for much t

Re: pdf applciation that ACTUALL deletes pages

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Davies
Jeff Shearer wrote: > Can someone direct me to an application that will let me delete pages > and then save the resulting file fo Debian 7? pdftk can do this indirectly: you specify the set of pages you want to keep. So to delete page 7 from a ten page document, pdftk input.pdf cat 1-6 8-end

Re: Squid with https in transparent mode

2013-06-28 Thread Chris Davies
Frank Lanitz wrote: > Is there a way of using a squid proxy in transparent way [...] for SSL. > If I'm entering the proxy directly into > e.g. Firefox it's working -- but don't got it running via transparent mode. As you'll know, it's pretty straightforward to set up a transparent proxy for (unen

Re: /etc/shadow password hash format (migration from SuSE 9.3 to Debian Wheezy)

2013-05-27 Thread Chris Davies
Andreas Meile asked about /etc/shadow: > Is there a good overview WWW link about all these > $$[$] formats? man shadow says of the encrypted password field, "Refer to crypt(3) for details on how this string is interpreted." man 3 crypt contains a NOTES section that identifies the ID and describe

Re: how forward email

2013-05-18 Thread Chris Davies
Pol Hallen wrote: > putting an email to .forward (into a dir account) its email goes to that > address. > I need keep a copy of that email. > Can I do it with /etc/aliases? or there's another way? Put yourself into the .forward too, prefixed with "\". For example, for someone with username "joh

Re: ssh login fails, access denied

2013-05-08 Thread Chris Davies
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Just did my first Wheezy install on a VMware virtual machine. I accepted > the default SSH server option. > Server is running, I can log in via the VMware console both as the root > user and as the regular user and use "su -" to switch to the root user. > When I use PuTTY t

Re: "jerks" in net connections

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Davies
andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: > no. it does not help. the problem is not for sshd itself. Same phenomena > i see with browser on this computer. this problem is not specific for > ssh but for network connection generally. Take a read on TCP Slow Start [1] and Nagle's algorithm [2]. Chris [1]

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Davies
Brian wrote: > On Fri 03 May 2013 at 13:27:14 +0100, Chris Davies wrote: >> Brian wrote: >> > However, sip...@sipgate.co.uk works for phones registered with the >> > network (just like Skype). There is no connection established when the >> > call is from ano

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Davies
Brian wrote: > However, sip...@sipgate.co.uk works for phones registered with the > network (just like Skype). There is no connection established when the > call is from another network (again, just like Skype). This restriction was put in place by Sipgate to stop VoIP SPAM. There's no reason wh

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Davies
Andr? Nunes Batista wrote: > There are many voip softwares available and ekiga may be the most > prominent. Although not the ideal from a free software perspective, you > can also use a plugin to access skype network through pidgin. The Pidgin plugin uses the Skype application to do this, though.

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Monday, April 29, 2013 5:30:03 PM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote: >> Thomas Dickey wrote: >> > What I recall of the PuTTY FAQ (a specific pointer would help) is that >> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html > that's no

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas Dickey wrote: > What I recall of the PuTTY FAQ (a specific pointer would help) is that > it's roughly comparable to rxvt http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Davies
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I know that most terminal emulators support most VT100 escape > sequences, which are based on ecma-48 I'd extend that to suggest that most terminal emulators support the majority of VT220 sequences, not just the VT100 subset. > but as far as I know, they ar

Re: Highlighting CLI output: what are these terms called?

2013-04-18 Thread Chris Davies
"Morel Bérenger" wrote: > Le Mer 17 avril 2013 10:22, Dotan Cohen a écrit : >> tail -f file.log | perl -pe 's/keyword/\e[1;31;43m$&\e[0m/g' > Those are escape sequences from VT100 IIRC. These escape sequences do not need to be embedded into your programs; they can be derived in a terminal-indepe

Re: vnc server

2013-04-18 Thread Chris Davies
ChadDavis wrote: > Clarification. Are you saying that some vnc servers serve up a remote > login to a new session, while others simply share an existing gnome > session? Yes. vino shares the existing Gnome session (see System > Preferences > Remote Desktop). I'm sure there's an equivalent for KD

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Davies
Rick Thomas wrote: > Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS > (Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are > capable of running Debian and NFS? Roll your own with an HP Proliant microserver (the N40L series that are just being replaced). I bought min

Re: permissions/sudo/sudoers

2013-04-02 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > In the case of the recent sudo there is the /etc/sudoers.d/* files and > I always create a new uniquely named local file there for my > configuration and I no longer edit the /etc/sudoers file. This is > also a pain because it means I can't use the default 'visudo' to edit > t

Re: restricting login times

2013-03-25 Thread Chris Davies
Joel Rees wrote: > I found this ancient post on using PAM and /etc/security/time.conf to > accomplish this kind of thing on techrepublic (Complete with typos: A1 > for Al? What bot edited that?): > Here are some of the rules I've tried, one at a time: > login; tty*; user1; !Al-2400 * ; * ; u

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I tried so many things, the terminal is tired! > tput... does the same as ESC[4m... OK. The tput looked up your declared terminal type ($TERM) in the terminfo database and returned you the appropriate code assigned to "start underline". So if it doesn't work then either

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas D. Dean wrote: > The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline > > export TERM=ansi80x25 > > printf "\033[4masdfasdfasdf" > produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. Please can you try this (before you do an "export TERM"): tput smul; echo

Re: DRAC support in the Debian package of Cyrus POP3/IMAP 2.4.16

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Davies
Steffen Moser wrote: > Some mobile devices are not capable of doing SMTP AUTH. Could you elaborate, please? I'd like to know, so that I can (try to) avoid them. Thanks, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Client "daemon" for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Davies
Alois Mahdal wrote: > I have several mailboxes in various places that I access using > several clients (e.g. other from my laptop, other from my Android > and other from a public place). > Since I'm using various clients, filtering using rules in MUA is not > practical. I would prefer to have al

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2013-01-11 Thread Chris Davies
Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:29:23PM -0500, Neil T. Dantam wrote: >> At Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:15:54 +, >> Chris Davies wrote: >> > >> > Reboot the box after installing LVM. >> >> Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Davies
Richard Owlett wrote: > My specification explicitly says NO connection whatsoever to > the internet. The one you posted at the beginning of this thread didn't say that. However, I'm happy to think about other alternatives. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Davies
Richard Owlett wrote: > To clarify my motivation: > 1. divorce myself {as much as possible} from the web - > I'm on dial-up. > 2. access all man pages {whether or not package > installed} using the man command. Would it be reasonable to utilise a manpage cache with dial-on-demand, so that p

Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Davies
Patrick Bartek wrote: > I'm beginning to believe--I have no definitive proof, as yet--that > the gaps are a simplistic partition alignment solution to maintain > optimum hard drive performance for all hard drive(s) configurations, > all RAIDs, all filesystems, etc. I wouldn't mind hearing the ans

Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Davies
Mark Allums wrote: > If you are using LVM, you need to leave 1MB before and after the partition > for metadata. Some of the tools do this automatically for you. If you > don't like it, you can manually adjust the start and end yourself. I use LVM and I'm pretty sure there are no such gaps on my

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Davies
Richard Owlett wrote: > Chris Davies wrote: >> ar -p "$PACKAGE" data.tar.gz | tar xzvCf / - ./usr/share/man > I'll have to sit down with man pages a figure out why that > does what you say. ar : archiver. It works on the "$PACKAGE" archive. The -

Re: fail2ban problem

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Davies
Jerry Stuckle wrote: > I decided to try a fail2ban rule, but I can't get it to work. > failregex = .*"GET|POST|HEAD /.*phpMy.* HTTPS?/.*" 404 [0-9]{1,6} > This should match something like: > 10.0.0.1 - - [31/Dec/2012:11:40:02 -0500] "GET /phpBB2/ HTTP/1.1" 404 3308 > However, it also seems to

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-05 Thread Chris Davies
Brian wrote: > 'ar -x' will get data.tar.gz from the .deb file. 'tar zvxf data.tar.gz' > will do the unpacking. The man pages are in /usr/share/man. Something > like 'cp' should be able to get at them. For any given $PACKAGE deb this will extract the manpages into /usr/share/man (you might prefer

Re: Running vlc from another machine.

2013-01-02 Thread Chris Davies
> Chris Davies wrote: >> Ssh is usually (almost always, by default) configured to carry the >> display across the connection transparently, Bob Proulx wrote: > Never by default. Yes. My mistake, sorry. It's one of the things I change so early on - along with setting up c

Re: Running vlc from another machine.

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Davies
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > At the console, > peter@dalton:~$ vlc *.WAV > starts a vlc instance and produces audio. I'm going to assume (dangerously) that since you're running vlc rather than cvlc you don't really mean "console" but "local X Windows screen". > The same command via a telnet connec

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Davies
tsit...@linuxmail.org wrote: > what about the compression and deletion of the converted files? # Compression : # Deletion rm -f Have you not listened to any of the discussion? Compression is pointless, and others have suggested you may want to consider storing the music in a non-lossy format so

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Davies
Rob Owens wrote: > $(basename $file wav)ogg If you've got bash or some other suitable shell you can do this same thing without resorting to a subprocess: W=/some/path/to/wavmusic.wav echo $(basename "$W" wav)ogg wavmusic.ogg echo "${W/%wav/ogg}" /some/path/to/wavmusic.ogg C

Re: apt vs. SSD computers

2012-12-17 Thread Chris Davies
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Even though I only have a 1 Mb ADSL, I find Acquire::PDiffs "false"; > will finally stop the torture my computer is put through. [...] > Also there is no way like nice(1) to lessen its grip on resources. If you're concerned about bandwidth try trickle(1). nice(1) on t

Re: Problem With exim4 smtp authenication

2012-12-14 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George wrote: > I have edited passwd and entered server:user:password exactly as > described in exim4_passwd_client and run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. > When I try to send mail using exim4 and then tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog > I find authenication has failed. > 2012-12-03 11:09

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-13 Thread Chris Davies
Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:29:23PM -0500, Neil T. Dantam wrote: >> At Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:15:54 +, >> Chris Davies wrote: >> > >> > Reboot the box after installing LVM. >> >> Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
Wolfgang Karall wrote: > On 12/11/2012 11:08 AM, Chris Davies wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> The dhcpd will ping the address after the lease has expired and before >>> assigning it again and will notice that it is still in use and will >>> avoid assi

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
Peter Viskup wrote: > Consider LXC [2] in case you have some concerns of CPU/memory overhead > and you plan to run only Linux virtual servers. LXC looks really nice but you need very up-to-date packages, and possibly may even need to consider compiling from source. Issues I've hit so far (none

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
P. J. McDermott wrote: > I'd like to set up virtualization on a home server So now you have recommendations both ways :-) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > The dhcpd will ping the address after the lease has expired and before > assigning it again and will notice that it is still in use and will > avoid assigning that address to another client. ICMP ping? Are you sure? According to the documents I've read (RFC2131 amongst others

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Davies
P. J. McDermott wrote: > I'd like to set up virtualization on a home server with a Debian > GNU/Linux squeeze amd64 host and squeeze and wheezy amd64 guests. I'd recommend KVM and libvirt/VMM. > The server has two 3.0-GHz CPU cores (an AMD CPU with the AMD-V/SVM > virtualization extensions) and

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Davies
Neil T. Dantam wrote: > New (broken) Behavior > Performing an `lvcreate -L10G -nLVNAME VGNAME` creates: > 1. New device file /dev/mapper/VGNAME-LVNAME > (and apparently nothing else) > Then, lvcreate tries to open /dev/VGNAME-LVNAME, which fails because > of no symlink with: >/dev/VGNAME/LVN

Re: Awk, filtering match through external command

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Davies
Neal Murphy wrote: > I don't see a way to pipe both ends of an external command. I'm not sure > even *perl* could do that. It can [*], see IPC::Open2 and IPC::Open3. But you can end up with all sorts of buffer related race conditions. Chris -- [*] are you really surprised? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner wrote: > Fail2ban works by setting up filtering rules through iptables, and will > route traffic on a given port from a badly-behaving IP address to a DROP > instruction in the firewall. > it needs to "care" about which service is being abused. I'm pretty sure my version (or maybe

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner wrote: > Thanks to both you and Neal for the replies. Interesting to see the > multiple ways of getting the same information. :-) They do different things and (for me anyway) give different results. Consider the package "cltl" that I do not have installed: $ apt-file search cl

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Davies
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > month=$(date +%B) > mon=$(date +%b) > d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T') > done=$(date +%s) You've got a horrible race condition in there just waiting to bite you. Try this instead: done=$(date +%s) month=$(date --date @$done +%B) mon=$(date --date @$done +%b) d_y_t

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Davies
Alan Chandler wrote: > The domain in question is virginiaparkinson.com [..] The one you're trying to deliver to (i.e. mynewdomain.com in the original posting)? > The virtual machine is a standard squeeze setup with my > update-exim4.conf.conf > dc_other_hostnames='' > (77.96.120.60 is my hom

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-07 Thread Chris Davies
Alan Chandler wrote: > I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has > exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is > avalon.hartley-consultants.com > However, it looks to me like its trying to send a failure e-mail to me > locally somehow. > 2012-10-05 07:4

Re: problems with remote install using ipmi serial-over-ip

2012-10-02 Thread Chris Davies
Miles Fidelman wrote: > Well, I've been trying to do a remote install onto a server (Supermicro > X8SIE-LN4F motherboard) - booting via PXE, and using a serial-over-IP > terminal provided by the IPMI board. > The serial-over-ip terminal, sort of works - I can get the installer > to load, a

Re: Configure Virtual IP interfaces

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Davies
Pietro Paolini wrote: > My goal is to simulate more than one IP interface using just a physical > interface, for do that I tried using this alias - ifconfing ethX:1 "ethX" is your real interface, yes? > But when I try to send a packet over that interface I see the IP source > the same as the o

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