On 09.12.2011 19:10, Brian wrote:
On Fri 09 Dec 2011 at 17:30:18 -0500, vr wrote:
As the title says; can a bootable ISO be created easily somehow off
a
working bootable USB stick that is formatted FAT?
I would have thought so. dd gives you an exact copy of everything on
the
stick.
I
As the title says; can a bootable ISO be created easily somehow off a
working bootable USB stick that is formatted FAT?
I tried dd if=/dev/sdb of=/tmp/myboot.iso
but probably that won't ever work since they're a different media
structure.
Any suggestions?
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On 30.11.2011 12:49, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:03:26 -0500, vr wrote:
(...)
SENDING SERVER (99.30.25.3, Squeeze, up to date)
/etc/rsyslog.conf
$ModLoad imudp
$UDPServerRun 514
main.info @99.30.25.3
^^^
(...)
Just thinking out loud
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:59:17 -0400, vr wrote:
OK, I went ahead and installed amavisd-new and netstat shows
listeners even though I haven't changed anything yet.
[...]
tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:10025 0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN 5467/perl
Thanks Andreas, I had installed the s
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:08:06 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote:
Good. Now you can follow with this:
/usr/share/doc/amavisd-new/README.postfix.html
Had found that and been reading.
Looks to be similar saying master.cf changes need to be done even
though services are already on those ports.
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:29:25 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote:
Amavisd-new is used as the "glue" when you run postfix+SA (or any
other
anti-spam service)+clamAV (or any other antivirus service). For
something
a bit more serious I would recommend running amavisd-new -it allows
to
escalate to a mo
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:50:08 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote:
SpamAssassin configuration varies a lot depending on the partner
application in will run with (meaning the smtp server, antimalware
and
any kind of proxy in between, like Amavisd-new).
In addition to this, you also need to deploy a st
As the subject says. Findings in Google are dated, talk about creating
lots of the config manually and seem wrong based on what I'm seeing on a
new installed system.
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Are there any reasons why you'd need postfix 2.8? Are there any
features
you require that are not available in 2.7?
Would like to utilize Zombie blocker which became available in 2.8.
http://backports.debian.org
Thank you for this. Unfortunately no results returned so it must not be
av
Hello,
In Squeeze I'm seeing Postfix 2.7.1-1 is the latest stable version.
On the Postfix website 2.8.2 is listed as stable so it seems like a big
gap.
I've heard about the concept of "backport" but searching returns
results for Ubuntu.
Can anyone recommend one for Debian, assuming it exists?
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:38:32 -0500, Celejar wrote:
>
> Using hostapd (I think):
>
> http://blog.dmaggot.org/2010/05/setting-up-an-atheros-based-ap-using-ath5k-and-hostapd/
Excellent link. A few minor tweaks and I can see the AP from a wireless
device now.
thank you!
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I'm playing with a laptop that has an Atheros AR2413 based (badged as
Dynex DG-WGNBC) pcmcia card and a wired NIC using Debian Unstable,
current as of a few hours ago. I'd like to make an access point.
lspci | grep -i atheros
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413
80
Using Debian unstable and did an update last night, hit a snag.
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 2483
package 'gstreamer0.10-nice':
`Depends' field, reference to `libc6': version contains ` '
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
Line 2483 of /var
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:57:25 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Wed January 5 2011 10:24:25 vr wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
>> > On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote:
>> >> nslookup X.X.X.X
>> >> ;; Got recursion not
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:42:07 +0100, (François TOURDE) wrote:
> Le 14979ième jour après Epoch,
> vr écrivait:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
>>> On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote:
>>>> nslookup X.X.X.X
>>>> ;; Got r
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote:
>> nslookup X.X.X.X
>> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server
>> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server
>
> Please "ca
I'm using a Lenny system to host Postfix and Windows 2003 for name
resolution. More frequently than I probably should, I will see NOQUEUE
in /var/log/mail.log related to DNS lookups. I've not yet narrowed it
down to forward lookups, reverse lookups or both.
I originally suspected the Windows
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:25:29 +, Chris Davies wrote:
>
> Have you checked http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html ?
>
> In terms of recommendations, my Epson 2480 is good but it's been
> superceded long since. I get good results from current HP multifunction
> devices at work (network conn
Can anyone recommend a current shipping quality scanner they've bought
and used with Squeeze? My Google searches return articles from 2000 and
2003. I'd like to scan 35mm negatives, slides, some photos and regular
paper documents.
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On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:13:18 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Camaleón put forth on 11/24/2010 8:29 AM:
>
>> If you know a better tool for this then just tell and take our "poor
>> minds" from our big ignorance but let me to complain about something I
>> consider it should be warned or better yet, c
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:20:30 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> vr put forth on 11/22/2010 5:32 PM:
>
>> mii-tool is showing:
>> eth0: negotiated 1000baseT-HD flow-control, link ok
>> eth1: negotiated 1000baseT-HD flow-control, link ok
>>
>> but "mii-tool bo
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:30:28 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote:
> I followed these instructions for setting up bonding (active backup) in
> lenny:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/Bonding
>
> They worked like a charm :-)
>
> Greetings,
>
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Thanks for that URL. I see "auto bond0" in that
I have a lenny system. My goal is to have two interfaces, 1 NIC active
and 1 NIC in standby on a second switch, so this host will have switch
& port fault tolerance.
I found and followed this guide:
http://www.howtoforge.com/nic-bonding-on-debian-lenny
and all seemed to be working correctly a
I was using wmaker on Debian unstable. During my netinst installation
I did not use tasksel to pick "desktop" or "base system". I've
manually installed xserver-xorg, etc., to get my desktop going.
Eventually I installed emelfm and its fonts appeared small and tight.
After a few days I did
Setting the S/PDIF Loopback in alsamixer [Off] seems to do the trick.
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:24:51 -0400, vr wrote:
> I'm using Debian unstable amd64 with an Intel DP55WB motherboard with
> on-board audio.
>
> I bought a replacement HT Omega Claro+ sound card with a CMI8788
I'm using Debian unstable amd64 with an Intel DP55WB motherboard with
on-board audio.
I bought a replacement HT Omega Claro+ sound card with a CMI8788 chipset
because I'm after optical output to hook to a surround receiver.
I powered off my Debian system, inserted the new card, powered on and wen
I have a few systems spread out geographically and would like to know what
might be the best way, in real time, to fire off email alerts or text
messages when a particular logon happens or some text is written to syslog
at the local system?
I've read about swatch and logwatch so far but the docume
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:09:44 -0400, "H.S." wrote:
>
> I am not familiar with ATT. Is your service ADSL or cable?
>
They call it VDSL.
>
> If your router does not have the features you desire, than you probably
> need to replace it. It may be replaced with a Debian machine working as
> a rout
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:26:29 -0400, "H.S." wrote:
> On 26/07/10 07:38 PM, vr wrote:
>> What is a good utility to block outbound traffic on the home network?
>> Ideally it will not need to be set in a browsers proxy setting to be
>> effective.
>>
>>
>
What is a good utility to block outbound traffic on the home network?
Ideally it will not need to be set in a browsers proxy setting to be
effective.
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I can't seem to write to an image I downloaded and mounted as a loop
device?
# ls -l /opt | grep floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 10:08 floppy
# mount -o loop fdbasecd.iso /opt/floppy/
#
# grep loop /etc/mtab
/dev/loop0 /opt/floppy iso9660 rw 0 0
# mount | grep loop
/dev/loop0 on /opt/
On 6/25/2010 3:53 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
vr wrote:
On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a company.
Sure, but are you sure that they can know the router's MAC address?
Yes, your device is physically attached to
On 6/25/2010 3:29 PM, Celejar wrote:
I'm not sure what exactly we mean here by "special alignment", but if
all that's required is partitions that start at the beginning of the
disk, end at the end, and each begin where the previous one leaves off,
then the GUI is fine, and no math is required, II
On 6/25/2010 3:27 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Might be that, but how could my ISP guess that I'm using a router?
The first few characters of a MAC address are registered to a company.
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On 6/25/2010 5:57 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Hi,
For one week now, I sometimes `loose' any access to the LAN and the WAN.
Here is the way I am connected to the Internet:
ISP (house's wall) -> ISP modem (RJ-45) -> D-Link DIR-635 router (RJ-45)
-> Switch (RJ-45) -> 192.168.0.101 (this computer
On 6/25/2010 12:08 PM, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 25. 06. 2010 17:37:39 je vr napisal(a):
Is the GUI for gparted effective enough for "dummies" to get properly
aligned partitions via mindless clicking? Or do you still have to do
some math to get things just right?
It's as dummy-p
Is the GUI for gparted effective enough for "dummies" to get properly
aligned partitions via mindless clicking? Or do you still have to do
some math to get things just right?
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Hi,
Assuming there is even such a server software available today... Is
anyone running Debian as an SSL VPN gateway for Windows 7 64-bit clients
and if so, can you discuss your configuration or pitfalls to beware of
when just getting started?
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On Sat, 29 May 2010 08:57:28 + (UTC), Camaleón
wrote:
> Do you have avahi daemon running in that host?
>
Evidently I do. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction!
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On my host I'm not sure why I'm able to ping "hostname.local" and get a
reply from my local IP. For example, the hosts name in question is
sager.mydomain.tld.
nslookup sager.mydomain.tld works as I'd expect.
nslookup sager.local returns NXDOMAIN.
I have my own DNS server and I don't have a .loca
Due to message volume, I'm considering rotating my mail logs daily at my
local time "midnight" and retaining about 30 days worth of files on
disk. 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)
Shou
Does anyone know where debian keeps the boot.img.gz files
necessary for creating the stick?
By going to www.debian.org, clicking getting debian, scrolling down to
"Tiny CDs, floppy disks, USB sticks, etc" then selecting your
architecture, then clicking hd-media.
E.g.
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:30:14 -0500, Ron Johnson
wrote:
> On 2010-04-11 18:49, thib wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> Yes, "wire" is slang for network cables, but SATA cables are actual
>>> wires too and orders of magnitude slower than CPU/RAM transfer.
>>
>> This is true, but isn't relevant to wh
What's the best mechanism to migrate a working bootable system from one
drive to a smaller capacity drive?
e.g. take this 226G filesystem
df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 226G 4.1G 210G 2% /
tmpfs 3.0G 0 3.0G 0% /lib/ini
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:37:55 -0400, Dave Witbrodt
wrote:
> On 04/10/2010 10:37 AM, vr wrote:
>> I just picked up a laptop that has that display adapter.
>> lspci:
>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon
>> HD
>> 5600 Series]
>
I just picked up a laptop that has that display adapter.
lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Redwood [Radeon HD
5600 Series]
The highest resolution I've been able to get so far is 1400x1040 but using
the VESA driver.
xrandr:
Screen 0: minimum 800 x 600, current 1400 x 1
On 3/26/2010 12:09 PM, VR wrote:
Hello,
I'm poking at a Wyse 3150SE and have the 180 MB netinst booting from USB
but would ideally want the operating system inside this unit instead of
attaching a permanent USB flash for storage.
I'm wondering if anyone lurking here has successfu
Hello,
I'm poking at a Wyse 3150SE and have the 180 MB netinst booting from USB
but would ideally want the operating system inside this unit instead of
attaching a permanent USB flash for storage.
I'm wondering if anyone lurking here has successfully gotten Debian to
install into less than 3
Hello,
I apt-get dist-upgrade 'ed a system to Lenny and selected to not use the
package maintainers .conf file for "syslog" during that install.
After documenting the changes from the old syslog.conf I'm now trying to
reinstall sysklogd to acquire the package maintainers /etc/sysklogd.conf.
Hello,
I'm trying to get SSL enabled between apache2 and ldap communication to a
Microsoft active directory so passwords are not sent in clear text in their
next hop during authentication.
I've got my Debian i386 system up and apache2, ldap, ssl-cert all
installed and also:
* enabled apache2 mo
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:55:09 -0600, Stan Hoeppner
wrote:
> This is total crap, and should be beneath a company of Google's stature.
>
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It's said a portion of Googloidians are former Microsoft employees so this
wouldn't seem outlandish to me.
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On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:19:53 -0500, Pobega wrote:
> Is there any reason why you can't do this with the standard installer?
> Seems like it would be pretty simple to do in partman.
That's what I've been trying but after I reboot the installed system I
get:
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, pa
Is there an installer mechanism to push Debian's boot info to a USB flash
drive and then the rest of the system to a different USB hard drive,
easily?
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On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:26:58 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis
wrote:
> http://gameornot.net/umarzuki/?p=157
>
> use google translate if you're not familiar with malay language
>
Excellent! This got me a working config and I am on my way.
Thank you everyone who replied!
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Hello list,
I tried to get a lenny based box to respond to snmp queries a few months
ago but failed. This time around I am using a VirtualBox with netinst-x86
lenny installed as my "client". The system that I will have poll lenny is
using Cacti (but does not have too).
Upon issuing "aptitude sear
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:14:38 -0500, vr wrote:
> I understand that .htpasswd should reside someplace else and even moved
it
> to rule this out but is the above not enough on a default installation
of
> apache2 under lenny to protect a directory?
I managed to find my answer:
The /va
I am having trouble getting apache2 recognizing directory protection.
I've created a directory /var/www/mydir and created .htaccess & .htpasswd
files in there but am never prompted for login.
.htaccess
AuthUserFile /var/www/mydir/.htpasswd
AuthType Basic
AuthName "test"
require valid-user
.htpas
Is using volumes created in chipset RAID utilities supported?
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:48:21 +0800, Jerome BENOIT
wrote:
> Hello VR,
>
> actually it is configured in `/etc/crontab' , see crontab(1) crontab(5)
> cron(8) with man for further details:
Thanks for this. Based on an earlier list reply I was able to set it
before midnight my time
It looks like the stock logs rotate at 6:24 AM my time? This seems like a
strange "time" to do it to me, is this typical? Or is something not set
local correctly my system?
Is doing it at the stroke of midnight an unwise practice?
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I have a fresh install of Debian Lenny 503 amd64 via a netinst CDROM. I've
only installed a couple of packages like openbox because I want to run as
lean a desktop I can to try out virtualbox-3.0.
I figured openbox would be enough to handle the "GUI" needed for
virtualbox-3.0 but after adding the
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:24:14 -0600, green
wrote:
> vr wrote at 2009-10-22 23:23 -0600:
>> Before the upgrade I was able to associate file types, jpg, , etc.,
with
>> default applications like qiv and then double click on a JPG to view
the
>> file. Same with pdf, mpg, etc. No
I'm currently using openbox and I've been using an app called PCMan File
Manager which was working well up until a recent aptitude dist-upgrade.
Before the upgrade I was able to associate file types, jpg, , etc., with
default applications like qiv and then double click on a JPG to view the
file.
VR wrote:
This (Intel DP55WB) onboard network card is not being detected during
installation.
Intel's Windows driver download page lists this NIC in the same download
as the DX38BT. I've been using a DX38BT without issue for about a year.
Is it likely the DP55WB NIC is different
This onboard network card is not being detected during installation.
Intel's Windows driver download page lists this NIC in the same download
as the DX38BT. I've been using a DX38BT without issue for about a year.
Is it likely the DP55WB NIC is different?
Or does anyone have a suggestion to h
I have a desktop system I want to clone.
It is currently 4 physical 500 GB disks striped RAID0.
/dev/md0 = /boot
/dev/md1 = /
and of course swap.
I want to get md0, md1 and swap on to /dev/sde (disk 5 @ 2 TB).
What would be the best way to get there while retaining boot records?
The goal is to
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