Re: 64-Bit Land

2010-01-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 18:21 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-01-06 18:13 +0100, Freeman wrote: > > > But is somebody still building 32-bit cpu's? > > Yes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture, for instance. > It will be fun when all those embedded devices break. > > Sven > An

Re: CPU fan working more than it should

2010-01-08 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 07. 01. 2010 16:08:40 je George napisal(a): On 1/7/10, Arthur Machlas wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, George wrote: > >> I just installed Debian on my laptop and I notice that the CPU fan is >> working much more than it used to work on windows. It must be that >> Debian chan

Re: Capturing keypresses during screensaver.

2010-01-08 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 07. 01. 2010 21:58:51 je Timothy Legg napisal(a): When using Gnome on Lenny, If the user starts typing while a screensaver is operating, the character representing the first keypress is lost. Is there a way that the screensaver can send this character to the focused application? You

Re: New testing install; no /boot/grub/menu.lst exists.

2010-01-08 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 08. 01. 2010 01:32:32 je s. keeling napisal(a): Thanks. That's looking very tempting at the moment. So far, I've not solved it. It would not be unwise to switch to Grub 2 (the new Grub that's slowly becoming the default in many distros). It stores its configuration in /boot/grub/gr

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?

2010-01-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:15:28 -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In <4b44b28b.10...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> To make OpenGL >> really scream on single user 3D chips, they had to eliminate over the >> network OpenGL completely, as keeping that capability would have totally >

latest sid of Dec. 25 can't see partition

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Scott
Hi All, Late on Dec. 25 I rebooted my sid system and my home directory is no longer visible to my system even to Grub. It contains my home directory. An Ubuntu 8.10 live CD sees it just fine. I normally keep everything updated unless apt-listbugs shows. FWIW it's /dev/hda10 on a 40GB driv

Re: Handle paths with spaces

2010-01-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:35:56AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > Doesn't work - bash and the 'for' loop work on newline > terminated strings and don't know how to handle the null > terminator from -print0: That's why I said > > Look at the -print0 arg for find and the -0 argument for > > xargs. Yo

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:24:27PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Once could just give execute perm to ~ and maybe additionally > read as well to ~/public_html? Exactly right. The read to ~/public_html is not necessary if you have +x and a suitable index file underneath which is readable, but it does

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '>' in emails.

2010-01-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,03.Jan.10, 13:18:59, Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 03:50:32PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > Hmm.. what exactly is your 'smartlist'? > > "Was" my smartlist. It was an attempt at a social list among fiends back in > the day, when I fell in love with email and the usenet and th

LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Sjors van der Pluijm
Hi all, I have been using Debian for a few years now. For my new workstation I want to try something new. What I want to do: 1. Make a RAID1 using two SATA discs 2. Create one partition on the RAID 3. Encrypt that partition 4. Use LVM on the partition I can't find very much info on this setup an

LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Sjors van der Pluijm
Hi all, I have been using Debian for a few years now. For my new workstation I want to try something new. What I want to do: 1. Make a RAID1 using two SATA discs 2. Create one partition on the RAID 3. Encrypt that partition 4. Use LVM on the partition I can't find very much info on this setup an

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: > 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I doubt even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions on workstations. I've never tried to boot from an encrypted /boot,

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Sjors van der Pluijm
Op vrijdag 8 januari 2010 12:26:37 schreef Stan Hoeppner: > Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: > > 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? > > Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I > doubt even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 1/8/2010 5:26 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I doubt even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions on workstations. I've

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread randall
Sjors van der Pluijm wrote: Op vrijdag 8 januari 2010 12:26:37 schreef Stan Hoeppner: Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I doubt even NS

is there a tool which can make a index for my pdf file?

2010-01-08 Thread renjun wang
hi all, Is there a tool which can make a index for my exist pdf files? I find it is too boring for reading a pdf file without a index.Or a highly efficient method for reading the pdf file? thanks very much. best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Grub 2

2010-01-08 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian Lenny on a new computer. I've only one IDE port so I've put an old 120GB drive as master and a cd rom as slave. The IDE is only really going to be used to store virtual oses on, and may disappear at some point. The main drives are 2x1Tb SATA drives, which has 300mb

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I doubt even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions on workstations. I've never tried t

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Sjors van der Pluijm
Op vrijdag 8 januari 2010 13:40:00 schreef Γιώργος Πάλλας: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: > >> 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? > > > > Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I > > doubt even NSA, C

Re: Grub 2

2010-01-08 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 12:33 +, James Allsopp wrote: > Problem is, I want to use grub2 as the first thing I'm going to do > is upgrade to debian testing, which uses this. Is there a reason for not just installing Debian Testing rather than trying to get Lenny on there first? The testing insta

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, ??monitor, and keyboard?

2010-01-08 Thread Chris Davies
Dotan Cohen wrote: > Thanks, Chris. Once I had discovered the keyword "multiseat" I have > been able to google what I need on the topic. I do appreciate the > gentle hint, though. I do try to be independent. No problem. Glad it was useful Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

jabber cliente

2010-01-08 Thread Jesus arteche
hey¡ Someone knows if there are some jabber client which support voice and video? thanks

Re: Grub 2

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 1/8/2010 7:15 AM, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 12:33 +, James Allsopp wrote: Problem is, I want to use grub2 as the first thing I'm going to do is upgrade to debian testing, which uses this. Is there a reason for not just installing Debian Testing rather than trying to get Lenny

Re: Grub 2

2010-01-08 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 13:24 +, James Allsopp wrote: > I looked for that install but it seemed to take me back to the penny > install site, i'll look again, Jim Look for the 'netinst' iso at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ I've used that method several times to install Testing

Re: jabber cliente

2010-01-08 Thread randall
Jesus arteche wrote: hey¡ Someone knows if there are some jabber client which support voice and video? thanks i thought the latest pidgin had this finaly implemented, think i also heard that it was to be included in telepathy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Cassiano Leal
2010/1/8 Γιώργος Πάλλας : > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: >> >> >>> >>> 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? >>> >> >> Never run encryption on swap.  Doing so merely burdens performance.  I >> doubt >> even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt sw

Re: KVM networking

2010-01-08 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:13:20 +, Jon Dowland wrote: >> I want all users in the kvm group can start kvm and have network >> access. >> Does this require different setting than your previous answer? > > I believe so, see below. . . Thanks a lot! -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http

Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

2010-01-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
It would be easier to answer the question if you provided specific examples of packages that apt-get didn't install and aptitude did. A full copy/paste of the upgrade preview from both programs would be particularly helpful. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: pvmove "Couldn't find device with uuid"

2010-01-08 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:13:12PM -0430, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote: > > Well I use LVM but in Redhat maybe you need to reaload extends on nodes:| > > clvmd -R > | > Look at this: > > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-3786 Thanks, this is the most promising lead yet. Alas, etch's clvmd i

Re: Comparing two debian boxes (find which package is different)

2010-01-08 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > There's also "apt-show-versions".  It'll tell you the version and if > it's from lenny, squeeze, etc. Worked out perfectly ! Thanks. -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:13:14PM +0100, Sjors van der Pluijm wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using Debian for a few years now. For my new workstation I want > to > try something new. What I want to do: > 1. Make a RAID1 using two SATA discs > 2. Create one partition on the RAID > 3. Encrypt t

Re: Problems with the install kernel on serverworks chipset.

2010-01-08 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:01:53 +0100, Mathias wrote: (...) > The machine is a HP NetServer E800 with ASUS CUR-DLS mobo, dual P-III. > > Any tips? It's listed here: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ASUS/CUR-DLS It seems that was tested with kernel 2.6.25. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: How to temporary set dvorak keymap in terminal

2010-01-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:32:52 +, Sebastian wrote: > I'm just getting started learning the dvorak layout using the package > dvorak7min. So far I have only been able to practice under X using > 'setxkbdmap dvorak' which works great. What I'm interested in if there's > an easy way to (temporarily

Re: Problems with the install kernel on serverworks chipset.

2010-01-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:38:41 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:01:53 +0100, Mathias wrote: > > (...) > >> The machine is a HP NetServer E800 with ASUS CUR-DLS mobo, dual P-III. >> >> Any tips? > > It's listed here: > > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ASUS/CUR-DLS > > It seems

Re: Problems with the install kernel on serverworks chipset.

2010-01-08 Thread Mathias
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:38:41 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:01:53 +0100, Mathias wrote: (...) The machine is a HP NetServer E800 with ASUS CUR-DLS mobo, dual P-III. Any tips? It's listed here: http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ASUS/C

Re: CPU fan working more than it should

2010-01-08 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 07. 01. 2010 16:08:40 je George napisal(a): > > On 1/7/10, Arthur Machlas wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:50 AM, George wrote: >> > >> >> I just installed Debian on my laptop and I notice that the CPU fan is >> >> working much more tha

an appreciation

2010-01-08 Thread Ross Boylan
Perhaps I'm in a peculiar mood, but I so appreciate the candor that characterizes Debian, in contrast to the marketing talk so common in the industry. I'm referring to the quotes around "fixed" in the message below. Keep up the good work! Ross Boylan On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 00:36 +, Testing S

Re: Problems with the install kernel on serverworks chipset.

2010-01-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:24:52 +0100 (CET), Mathias wrote: >> What SCSI RAID card is in the machine, if any? >> > > It's equpiped with 2-chan LSI SYM53C896 U160 and an Adaptec 1200A > ATA-100/ATA-133 controller to replace the crappy Broadcom IDE controller > this board has. > > Anyway, I manage

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Matthew Moore
On Friday January 8 2010 4:41:54 am Sjors van der Pluijm wrote: > Just found out that /boot should not be in LVM because bootloaders might > not understand it. /boot unencrypted does not seem to be the end of the > world. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/benefitsoflvmsmall.html Since we are being

Sound problem

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hello list, (I am not to experienced with debian - I hope I didn' overlook some FAQ.) I just installed debian-5.0 with kde-5.3 on an old Laptop (Medion MD 5222). Everything works fine so far, but I have problems with the sound device. This is the output of # cat /dev/sndstat

Re: Problems with the install kernel on serverworks chipset.

2010-01-08 Thread Mathias
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:24:52 +0100 (CET), Mathias wrote: What SCSI RAID card is in the machine, if any? It's equpiped with 2-chan LSI SYM53C896 U160 and an Adaptec 1200A ATA-100/ATA-133 controller to replace the crappy Broadcom IDE controller this bo

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?

2010-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Stan Hoeppner wrote: >On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:15:28 -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > wrote: >> In <4b44b28b.10...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> To make OpenGL >>> really scream on single user 3D chips, they had to eliminate over the >>> network OpenGL completely, as keeping that

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Matthew Moore put forth on 1/8/2010 12:49 PM: > Since we are being paranoid, what happens if the NSA breaks into your home > when you are asleep and installs a hypervisor on your /boot that records your > password/keyfile next time you derypt? Until now I had no reason for an IMAP folder labele

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4b47166d.8070...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: >> 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? Swap is okay. Boot depends on your boot loader. I don't know if grub2 can handle this or not. >Never run encryption on s

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?

2010-01-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 1/8/2010 1:35 PM: > Yet again, you make no points about OpenGL that have not been make about X in > the past. Yet, X (and I'm pretty sure OpenGL) still *work* over the network. > Cite an example of a current working Linux remote OpenGL implementation. I'd

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-08 Thread KS
Jochen Schulz wrote: > KS: >> >> I have already started testdisk and it is analysing the disk since the >> last hour or so. Should be finished soon. > > Good luck! > >> It might give me an hint as to what is the status of the disk. No, it coudn't find any partition table after 2 passes. I start

Re: jabber cliente

2010-01-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 06:07, randall wrote: > Jesus arteche wrote: >> >> heyĄ >> >> Someone knows if there are some jabber client which support voice and >> video? >> >> thanks > > i thought the latest pidgin had this finaly implemented, think i also heard > that it was to be included in telepath

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 05:26 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I > doubt > even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions on workstations. This is completely contrary to the advice of the encryption folks. You MUST encrypt swap in orde

Re: Sound problem

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-08 at 13:57:07 -0500, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hello list, > > (I am not to experienced with debian - I hope I didn' overlook > some FAQ.) > > I just installed debian-5.0 with kde-5.3 on an old Laptop (Medion > MD 5222). Everything works fine so far, but I have problems with > t

Re: Sound problem

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2010-01-08 at 13:57:07 -0500, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hello list, (I am not to experienced with debian - I hope I didn' overlook some FAQ.) I just installed debian-5.0 with kde-5.3 on an old Laptop (Medion MD 5222). Everything works fine so far,

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:50:42AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:24:27PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Once could just give execute perm to ~ and maybe additionally > > read as well to ~/public_html? > > Exactly right. The read to ~/public_html is not necessary if > you ha

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:23:13PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:13:14PM +0100, Sjors van der Pluijm wrote: > > Hi all, Hi I have a few laptops which I encrypt for work > > > > I have been using Debian for a few years now. For my new workstation I want > > to > > try

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ross Boylan put forth on 1/8/2010 1:53 PM: > On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 05:26 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I >> doubt >> even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions on workstations. > This is completely contrary to the advice of t

Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread Julien Vehent
Hello Debian people, I'm looking for a good hosting service in the US. I need full root shell access and basic debian net installation. Do you know a good and reliable provider ? In France, I'm usually very satisfed with Gandi.net, they have a clear offer and they don't bullshit you when they scr

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> In addition to using chmod as suggested by others, for securing > your files, why not try using encfs on directories that you *really* want > to protect from prying eyes? The added bonus is even root cannot see > those files and booting off a cd also will not let others look at > your files. > T

Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

2010-01-08 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 19 December 2009 18:07:11 Thomas McCullough wrote: Hi all, It's working for about 10 days now!! Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: an appreciation

2010-01-08 Thread green
Ross Boylan wrote at 2010-01-08 11:57 -0600: > Perhaps I'm in a peculiar mood, but I so appreciate the candor that > characterizes Debian, in contrast to the marketing talk so common in the > industry. I'm referring to the quotes around "fixed" in the message > below. Indeed; the simple honesty s

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread Julien Vehent
Unmanaged hosting. But I want to be sure the company takes care of the machines properly. I don't have big resources requirements, so dedicated or virtual doesn't matter as long as some minimum bandwidth is garantied. I'll take a look at liquidweb, thanks David. On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:04:25 -05

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread mark
Try linode.com. Inexpensive and great support. Mark --Original Message-- From: Julien Vehent To: David Crampton Cc: Debian Users Subject: Re: Hosting in the US Sent: Jan 8, 2010 3:37 PM Unmanaged hosting. But I want to be sure the company takes care of the machines properly. I don't have b

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-08 Thread green
Dotan Cohen wrote at 2010-01-08 15:52 -0600: > > In addition to using chmod as suggested by others, for securing > > your files, why not try using encfs on directories that you *really* want > > to protect from prying eyes? The added bonus is even root cannot see > > those files and booting off a c

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Have you considered Samba?  I think you can set up a password-protected or > public share without adding a user to the system. > Does that work over wifi? I figured that I would just give him the password to the already-existing "guest" user on this system and let him SSH in. He can figure out w

Re: Sound problem

2010-01-08 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 21:32:09 +0100 (CET), Peter Ulrich Kruppa in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Have you checked the volume levels in the mixer application >> (e.g. alsamixer)? That's the first thing I would check. >> I use GNOME, not KDE, and have n

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Julien Vehent put forth on 1/8/2010 4:37 PM: > Unmanaged hosting. But I want to be sure the company takes care of the > machines properly. > I don't have big resources requirements, so dedicated or virtual doesn't > matter as long as some minimum bandwidth is garantied. > > I'll take a look at liq

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread Julien Vehent
So far, linode looks ok. Very close to what Gandi offer.. a little bit more expensive though. Do they have any limitation on the Linux distribution you can install ? On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:12:29 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Julien Vehent put forth on 1/8/2010 4:37 PM: >> Unmanaged hosting. But I

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I'll go along with mentioning Linode.com, I'm not currently using them but have a project I'm currently starting and have picked them to go with for hosting. I've also previously used GrokThis and had a good experience. m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: > Try linode.com. Inexpensive and gr

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread freeman
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:35:17PM +0100, Julien Vehent wrote: > Hello Debian people, > > I'm looking for a good hosting service in the US. I need full root shell > access and basic debian net installation. Do you know a good and reliable > provider ? > > In France, I'm usually very satisfed with

Daemon impotent after dropping priviledges with setuid()

2010-01-08 Thread Frank Miles
I have a peculiar problem with a daemon. Some of the tasks that the daemon needs to accomplish should be done with reduced priviledges, particularly if they are complex or depend on user input. So the daemon forks a child process, which setuid's to some lesser user. Unfortunately, as soon as th

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread Julien Vehent
amost ! just replace bsd by debian and I'm in :p On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 16:30:46 -0800, freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:35:17PM +0100, Julien Vehent wrote: >> Hello Debian people, >> >> I'm looking for a good hosting service in the US. I need full root shell >> access and basic debia

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '>' in emails.

2010-01-08 Thread freeman
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 01:01:42PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Do you mean the SmartList mentioned here[1]? ;) > > [1] http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-c

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Julien Vehent put forth on 1/8/2010 6:53 PM: > amost ! just replace bsd by debian and I'm in :p Maybe this will help you out a bit: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianHosting -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-08 at 19:53:38 -0500, Julien Vehent wrote: > amost ! just replace bsd by debian and I'm in :p The following is my own personal opinion and does not necessarily represent the opinion or the official position of the Debian organization itself. I am not a Debian developer and I do not

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 1/8/2010 3:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ross Boylan put forth on 1/8/2010 1:53 PM: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 05:26 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I doubt even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions on workstations. I bet every t

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-08 Thread green
Dotan Cohen wrote at 2010-01-08 16:58 -0600: > > Have you considered Samba?  I think you can set up a password-protected or > > public share without adding a user to the system. > > Does that work over wifi? Certainly. If your computer is on the same network as his (both connected to the same a

Re: Inquiry:How to install Debian from Internet?

2010-01-08 Thread hadi motamedi
2010/1/7 Osamu Aoki > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:09:18AM +, hadi motamedi wrote: > > Dear All > > I have my Debian server installed from Debian-31 netinst & businesscard > CDs > > , but when trying to install Asterisk 1.4 it failed . I thought that my > > Debian installation was inco

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 08 January 2010 15:35:17 Julien Vehent wrote: > I'm looking for a good hosting service in the US. I need full root shell > access and basic debian net installation. Do you know a good and reliable > provider ? So far, I am enjoying Slicehost.com. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Hosting in the US

2010-01-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 14:39, wrote: > Try linode.com. Inexpensive and great support. I second that. My needs are very minimal, but so far everything with Linode has been great. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs