On (22/09/06 09:12), Raquel wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:08:23 -0500
> Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It seems that morale is a bit low among the developers right now,
> > so I thought it might be nice for all of us users to remind them
> > why Debian is such an awesome project.
On (24/09/06 21:21), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Kernel 2.6.17 and Etch are installed here
> and startx invokes xfce, all OK.
>
> But how does startx find xfce rather than
> xpdf or another X client? man startx
> remarks that it looks for ".xinitrc in the
> user's home directory. If that
On (25/09/06 16:31), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:14:49PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > Over tha past few weeks, I have started receiving spam email that
> > contains text the is all well formed words, but doesn't make sense as
> > a spam message, or as any other sort of
On (26/09/06 09:11), Chris Lale wrote:
> rocky wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >Is there a way I can set up my Debian machine or Windows server to
> >enalbe me exchage data betwen Windows server and my PC using Debian
> >system?
> >
> >[...]
> http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Samba_Linux/Windows_n
On (26/09/06 11:46), Wackojacko wrote:
> I run nvidia graphics drivers on my AMD64 3200+, in both 64 bit and 32
> bit sid, so they definitely work.
>
> Here's what I do.
>
> ~apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-source
> ~m-a prepare (sudo or root)
> ~m-a a-i nvidia (sudo or root)
> ~d
On (27/09/06 21:01), rocky wrote:
> In my office, we have a Windows XP machine serves as file server and
> there's a SHARP AR158S printer connect to it. All of my co-workers use
> printer through the net work. I'm the only person usign Debian. I set
> up the samba and did the configuration and be a
On (28/09/06 03:45), Chuck Payne wrote:
> How can I go back a version, I did an apt-get update and now i have a
> version of a software package that doesn't work and like to go back to
> the one before.
Try http://snapshot.debian.net/
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On (27/09/06 21:55), Bruno Buys wrote:
> Wackojacko wrote:
> > No problem, glad it works for you as well. Now if we could only work
> > out what was wrong with the OP's setup :)
> >
> Hi again wackojacko, thanks for the interest. I am as much lost as you,
> in this.
> I kinda gave a bad name to my
On (28/09/06 00:10), rocky wrote:
> Do any of you know some Windows Dreamweaver like applications in
> Debian? I found NVU but it does not supply auto hint for CSS.
Have you looked at screem? Unfortunately, there are no direct
relacements for dreamweaver; my partner's been on a similar quest. Sh
On (28/09/06 09:21), Stephen Allen wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> Yesterday for a 20 hr period, my Bell Canada telephone service was down,
> hence my DSL connection followed.
>
> Since I have come back online, I've noticed that the e-mail I was
> assuming had gone out to my SMARTHOST, (before I noticed
On (28/09/06 10:59), Stephen Allen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:34:14AM -0400 or thereabouts, celejar wrote:
> > On 9/28/06, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >Right. May have to.
> > >
> > >Thanks Clive.
> >
> > Have you tried 'exim -qff' ?
>
> Hello Celejar:
>
> Yes, actual
On (28/09/06 17:10), Wackojacko wrote:
> Ok in search of clarity (or maybe sanity) I booted my 32 bit sid and
> installed a 2.6.8 -k8 kernel (from sarge) to have a look at the
> /boot/config file to see if there were any differences with my Kernel
> config. Unfortunately, my config, whilst spec
On (29/09/06 14:43), Ron Johnson wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 09/29/06 13:10, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 19:54 +0200, David C. Weichert wrote:
> >> Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 23:02 +0600 schrieb S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu):
> >> > i cann't
On (30/09/06 20:39), Jason Rigby wrote:
> Hi,
> After a recent apt-get update, my Xorg X server has gone strange.
> Itfrequently has periods where text output goes strange. A screenshot
> to
> illustrate this occurance can be found here:
> http://sirjasonr.googlepages.com/snapshot1.png
>
> Any ide
On (05/10/06 03:33), George Adamides wrote:
> hi
> how do i delete directories in linux? i used rmdir but when a
> directory has other subdirectories its a mess. is there an easy way
> around?
$ rm -R /
see man rm
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On (05/10/06 03:34), George Adamides wrote:
> hi how do i uninstall a package? for example i have mysql4 and i want
> to remove it from my system. how do go about doing that?
>
as root or sudo:
# aptitude purge mysql4
see man aptitude
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On (05/10/06 13:24), Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> Clive Menzies wrote:
> >On (05/10/06 03:34), George Adamides wrote:
> >
> >>hi how do i uninstall a package? for example i have mysql4 and i want
> >>to remove it from my system. how do go about doing that?
On (04/10/06 20:08), rocky wrote:
> I installed cups and ln -s `which smbspool` /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb
>
> After that I use http://localhost:631/admin to add your printer
> add printer
> Windows printer via SAMBA (as device)
> smb://server/SHARPAR-
> Raw
>
I suspect you need to install a drive
On (05/10/06 06:26), Ibrahim Mubarak wrote:
> I am having some trouble with my fonts since a recent update (aptitude
> upgrade) of my debian sid system. It's all in bug # 390681.
>
> I am trying to get my hands on xserver-xorg-core version 2:1.1.1-8
> (latest is 2:1.1.1-9) as I don't keep old pack
On (06/10/06 10:33), Enrique Morfin wrote:
> Hi!
>
> if i hold some packages, how can i unhold them?
>
> Thanks.
HIghlight the package and press '+'
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ibilities that
> I lose track. Seems that the only practical way to
> understand, is to make each suspect script report it's
> own invocation to a console or log. By adding a line
> such as this for example.
>
> echo "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc invoked" >> ?.l
On (08/10/06 20:59), pete wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:19:24PM +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > I'm not certain but I think you can use this command:
> >
> > rm -R [folder name]
> >
> > check the man page...you can also remove files that begin/end with specific
> > strings.
>
> I someti
On (09/10/06 00:33), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working with a Debian testing distribution, and i have no sound
> anymore for 1 week. My problem grew in 2 steps, each time probably
> after a "apt-get upgrade" :
>
> 1/ Several weeks ago, the sound stopped working after each reboot.
On (10/10/06 11:58), Andrew Critchlow wrote:
> Can you add more then one group to a file in linux?
Not normally, no. What are you trying to achieve? Linux is very
flexible and knowing what you're trying to do may prompt someone to come
up with an elegant suggestion.
You might want to install Ru
On (10/10/06 13:28), Andrew Critchlow wrote:
> So how do you add multiple users to a group, and also how do you view who is
> in what group?
For a given user:
user $ groups
gives all the groups that user is a member of.
$ cat /etc/group
shows all groups and users within them.
see man group
On (10/10/06 13:32), Andrew Critchlow wrote:
> Thats brilliant! thanks for that, do you know of any view cmds to show
> the group membership?
Answered in another email. When I started using Linux I got the Linux
Desk Reference by Scott Hawkins; it's a great reference for commands
and syntax.
Ano
On (11/10/06 02:19), Scarletdown wrote:
> I just recently bought a 250GB network hard drive, and have it connected
> to my home network's switch, with four shared directories created on it.
>
> However, when I mount the shares (I'm wanting to do this so they auto
> mount at boot time), they are ow
On (12/10/06 11:14), Andrew Critchlow wrote:
> Does anyone have any information on the package "sudoers", such as
> what it is and why and what?
$ apropos sudoers
sudoers (5) - list of which users may execute what
visudo (8) - edit the sudoers file
then use man
$ man sudoers
On (12/10/06 12:29), Andrew Critchlow wrote:
> How would I know if sudoers is already installed on my system? Is
> sudoers the same as when you type >su - to get root access?
> I can't seem to find sudoers in apt?
The package is called sudo
dpkg -l | grep sudo
ii sudo
On (12/10/06 16:31), Jabka Atu wrote:
> Hello..
> this is Off topic but :
> I'd like to install Debian 64 on my acer 5102wlmi(notebook).
> by that i will change the parttion structure and i don't know if i could
> restore the system after crash.
>
> did anyone tried this ? .
I've got a 1524WLMi w
On (12/10/06 21:01), rocky wrote:
> Hey clve,
>
> Thanks very much for your reply!
>
> Could you tell me where can I find 'samba/windowsprinting howto'
> please? I suspect I did not go through this documentation.
http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html
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On (13/10/06 06:57), Michael Ott wrote:
> I got the following error during upgrade:
> Fetched 7301kB in 54s (134kB/s)
> Reading package fields... Done
> Reading package status... Done
> Retrieving bug reports... 0% W: unsupported proxy `false'
> Error retrieving bug reports
> Retry downloading bug
On (12/10/06 22:51), rocky wrote:
> LIJIANG:/home/lover# tail -f /var/log/cups/error_log gives me the
> following message.
>
> D [13/Oct/2006:13:41:52 +0800] SendCommand: 5 file=8
> D [13/Oct/2006:13:41:52 +0800] AcceptClient: 7 from localhost:631.
> D [13/Oct/2006:13:41:52 +0800] ReadClient: 7 PO
On (14/10/06 13:16), Marcello Di Marino Azevedo wrote:
> Anybody knows if we have something like "what" command under Debian as
> under HP-UX?
>
> It is a little bit hard to google some info because "what" is a common
> word. ;-)
Don't think so... there's which and whatis but no what. What does
On (20/10/06 10:57), Andrew Small wrote:
> I use the command apt-get to keep my system up to date. The list of
> repositories I use to get updated
>
> packages is kept in /etc/apt/sources.list. I already have a particular
> package installed which I do not want
> to update.
>
> How do I get ap
On (20/10/06 11:25), Andrew Small wrote:
> Thanks for the response clive
>
> Is there an option you can place in the sources.list file so that you
> don't have to remember to supply this parameter everytime you use
> apt-get?
Once you've 'held' a package, it stays held until such time as you
over
On (20/10/06 10:45), Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> Þann 2006-10-20, 11:21:19 (+0100) skrifaði Clive Menzies:
> > On (20/10/06 10:57), Andrew Small wrote:
> > > I use the command apt-get to keep my system up to date. The list of
> > > repositories I use to get update
On (20/10/06 13:54), Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:03:04 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (20/10/06 10:45), Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote:
> > > Þann 2006-10-20, 11:21:19 (+0100) skrifaði Clive Menzies:
> > > > On (20/10/06 10:57), Andrew Sm
On (20/10/06 16:23), Andrew Small wrote:
> Ok so if I was to use pinning, I have to create the file /etc/apt/preferences
>
> With the content looking something like below:
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 700
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 650
>
>
On (21/10/06 14:01), Chris wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How can I list all hidden files or directories with ls?
>
> ls .*
>
> does not give the desired result. Id like to archive all the hidden files in
> my home folder.
ls -al
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On (21/10/06 07:23), Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 10/21/06 07:14, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (21/10/06 14:01), Chris wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> How can I list all hidden files or directories with ls?
> >>
> >> ls .*
> >>
> >&
On (23/10/06 07:24), Ed Curtis wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on this for me. Our system's
> time has been off by about 30 minutes for the last month or so. When I run
> ntpdate and set the time we would get some wierd things happening on the
> system (i.e. Service unavailab
On (23/10/06 08:08), Ed Curtis wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > On (23/10/06 07:24), Ed Curtis wrote:
> > > Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on this for me. Our system's
> > > time has been off by about 30 minutes for
On (26/10/06 09:50), Narendhran Vijayakumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install Debian 3.1 on a Dell Dimension E510. I am facing two
> problems
>
> 1.) It is not detecting the ethernet card
>
> 2.) It is not detecting the SATA hard-drive
>
> Can anyone tell me, how to over come this problem
On (26/10/06 20:12), Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big
> winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and
> Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those
> who are get bored by this to please pardon m
Hi
I've done something rather silly.
I've been experimenting with LVM on my laptop to be able to install
several systems with the flexibility to adjust sizes. I named the VG
'alpha' and the LVs a, b, c and d. /boot is a real partition, a = /,
b = /usr, c = /var and d = /tmp and all has been wor
On (29/10/06 20:11), Douglas Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:41:12PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > using lvm lvrename, I renamed all the LVs and changed the entries in
> > /etc/fstab to reflect the new names, rebooted and it hangs because it
> > can't find t
On (31/10/06 14:51), B. Hoffmann wrote:
> I' ve been installing purely a base sytem this time as opposed to before
> always going with the default install with Gnome.
>
> Then proceeded to install xfce and synaptic and that's it so far. Don't
> want any unnecessary fluff this time.
>
> My questio
On (31/10/06 13:19), Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from
> > KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox. I'm very happy now but guess I
On (01/11/06 11:06), Stephen Yorke wrote:
> All,
>
> I just installed Enlightenment on my system...now my Fluxbox will not launch.
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
>
> My setup is:
> Debian Etch
> GDM
> Fluxbox
> Enlightenment
>
> When I install 'E' I was running in my Fluxbox environment..
On (01/11/06 13:10), Stephen Yorke wrote:
> I do not have either of these files in my home folder...hmm...
Caveat - I don't use a display manager (gdm) but I have an .Xsession
file:
gkrellm &
/usr/local/bin/firefox &
x-terminal-emulator -T "Mutt" -e /usr/bin/mutt &
/usr/bin/icedove &
exec ope
On (02/11/06 05:09), schmity wrote:
> Newbie Here. The name of my linux machine is "linuxbox". I am unable
> to ping this machine from that very machine. I tried the following:
>
> ping linuxbox
> and
> ping localhost
>
> neither of which worked.
What is the output of
$ cat /etc/hosts
it sh
On (02/11/06 09:42), cothrige wrote:
> Nope, I was wrong. I replaced dhcpcd with dhcp-client but nothing
> actually changed. I still have about half of my boots coming up with
> no internet connection. And with nothing at all coming up during boot
> or in dmesg I cannot begin to guess what exact
On (03/11/06 09:56), Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> Hello!
>
> i am battling with an architect and a construction engeneer, and both
> are most of the time unable to give me the informations i want, and
> both don't give me some sort of digital version of the plans of my
> house...
>
>
> neverthe
On (02/11/06 13:31), ChadDavis wrote:
> Hey. This may be a dumb question, but . . .
No :)
> I'm doing my first install on a laptop. I have found that I need to track
> down drivers for both my ethernet and wireless cards. I already found them,
> I think, but I am curious as to how I make them
On (31/10/06 13:19), Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
> > Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from
> > KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox. I'm very happy now but guess I
On (03/11/06 07:48), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Google news reports that M$ is going to collaborate with Novell on Suse
> Linux.
> I wonder what that means... ;-)
Interesting but when you sup with the devil, you need a very long
spoon.
MS has a history of signing agreements with poten
On (03/11/06 08:56), ChadDavis wrote:
> On 11/3/06, Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >If you have a wired ethernet connection, I wouldn't worry about the
> >wireless card until you've completed the install. You can then have the
> >advantage of an
On (03/11/06 10:14), cothrige wrote:
> In doing this, and reading various documentation, I found references
> to 'U' marking packages upgradeable. I also saw the listing for
> "Upgradable Packages" and so I started nosing around in there,
> thinking that perhaps I would use 'U' to select this en
On (03/11/06 17:24), Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and
> corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of removing
> these, once I have established stability with later versions, or is my
> first thought of 'rm'ing the relevan
On (03/11/06 10:06), Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > You'd be well advised to use the package management system to remove the
> > kernels. Personally, I use aptitude. Having checked which is your
> > running kernel, go into aptitude, and mark for removal those you want
> > rid of. If you mark t
On (03/11/06 13:12), michael wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 17:24:23 +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote
> > Following updates I find I have several redundant kernels and
> > corresponding entries in GRUB. Is there a preferred method of
> > removing these, once I have established stability with later
On (03/11/06 12:47), cothrige wrote:
dd> * Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hmmm. Sounds like perhaps 'aptitude upgrade' is a little safer for
> the newbie. Would you agree? I think I will stick with that for now,
> and perhaps start using the UI for installing
On (03/11/06 17:06), cothrige wrote:
> Unfortunately I have not gotten listbugs working yet. It exits with
> an error and some complaint about a proxy. I will have to look into
> its configuration, I use no proxy and so can't imagine what the
> trouble is. I should have copied the error and so I
On (04/11/06 05:51), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> I am running a fresh install (two weeks ago) of Etch, and I have been
> using synaptic to install and update packages.
>
> As a result of discussions on this thread, I just ran aptitude.
>
> Aptitude tells me that there is a broken package, and sug
On (10/11/06 09:53), Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> could anybody please show me how to setup schroot so, that it
> automatically bindmounts the /dev, /tmp and /home directories inside the
> chroot when it is entered? until now i was using permanent bind mount in
> my fstab. however, having the directorie
On (10/11/06 10:35), Roelof Wobben wrote:
> I have installed Debian Sarge on the second hard disk of my computer.
> Because lilo couldn't see windows , which is installed on the first disk, I
> couldn't start Windows.
> So i did a mbr repair of the mbr.
>
> But now i don't know how to het into Deb
On (10/11/06 12:14), Roelof Wobben wrote:
> Oke,
>
> I understand how to fix it.
>
> But can't i be done with the boot-only cd from Sarge.
> I have used this one to download and install Sarge.
>
> I want to use lilo instead of grub.
I'm not sure if you can get to grub from the sarge disk but if
On (10/11/06 08:31), Raquel wrote:
> If that machine is connected to the Internet and you have been doing
> "aptitude update" and "aptitude dist-upgrade" then you're altready
> there.
Question, is "aptitude dist-upgrade" necessary for a point release?
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On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi
We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4 machines
since upgrading jessie on Monday:
apt/log:
Start-Date: 2016-09-05 12:17:10
Commandline: apt-get upgrade
Upgrade: libgcrypt20:i386 (1.6.3-2+deb8u1, 1.6.3-2+deb8u2), gnupg
istent for the last few
years - other priorities. So thank you.
Regards
Clive
PS If anyone has any ideas to help, they'd be much appreciated.
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On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote:
This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three
days, since Monday afternoon. Never before have I questioned the
decision to base our business (and our lives) on Debian and I remain
a firm
Please ignore this last message about dovecot - my brain was scrambled.
I hadn't installed it yet.
On 09/09/16 09:16, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote:
This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three
On 08/09/16 23:50, Clive Menzies wrote:
On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi
We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4
machines since upgrading jessie on Monday:
apt/log:
Start-Date: 2016-09-05 12:17:10
Commandline: apt-get upgrade
Upgrade: libgcrypt20
On 12/09/16 19:57, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:32:52PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
Most of the common server-oriented packages in jessie have systemd
units written for them. E.g. openssh-server:
~$ dpkg -L openssh-server | grep systemd
/lib/systemd
/lib/systemd/system
/lib
backup/home/ > /var/rsync/FileServer.$NOW.log
The incremental backups have worked seamlessly for over 10 years but
recently, possibly related to the upgrade of Debian Jessie, the exclude
options have ceased to have effect.
I've dug around the docs but haven't found anything rel
On 17/09/16 13:32, Mike Bird wrote
$rsync $rsync_opts $password FileServer::rsync \
/home/backup/home/ > /var/rsync/FileServer.$NOW.log
I don't see where the $excludes you built is actually used.
On 17/09/16 13:44, Clive Menzies wrote:
The script wasn't changed an
On 17/09/16 17:12, Clive Menzies wrote:
WORKING version:
# Good rsync options for uhuru_backups.
rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete
--delete-excluded"
The exclude_list is a file with one excluded directory per line with
an asterisk at the end dire
No such file or
directory (2)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at exclude.c(1179) [client=3.1.1]
Regards
Clive
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On 19/09/16 22:10, Clive Menzies wrote:
It didn't find the exclude_list I created. I modified the script to
point to it but clearly the syntax is not right
# Good rsync options for uhuru_backups.
rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete
--delete-excluded"
Hi Thomas
The absolute path was the answer.
Your explanation has added to my limited knowledge :-)
Thanks
Clive
On 19/09/16 23:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
Clive Menzies wrote:
rsync_opts="-av --exclude-from=exclude_list --delete --delete-excluded"
exclude_
On 08/09/16 23:07, Clive Menzies wrote:
Hi
We've suffered a series of seemingly disconnect problems on 4 machines
since upgrading jessie on Monday:
This nightmare of expanding problems has been going on for three days,
since Monday afternoon. Never before have I questioned the decisi
the fingerprint
method instead but any options we add seem to break fetchmail. It
appears to be a syntax error.
Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks
Clive
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pretty nice logging format i think ;)
Hi Mo
I tried to send this with a .pdf yesterday d'oh! Anyway, we've just
reinstalled our servers with mail and automated backup and updated our
notes. They're not finalised and hence not on the web yet but you can
access them here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63603283/InstallationNotes2016.9.24.pdf
Bit's of it may help.
Regards
Clive
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back up with nightly backups
totaling 11 to 14 Gb per night.
Hi Gene
Quick question. Are your backups incremental or complete every night?
Regards
Clive
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On 01/10/16 18:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Saturday 01 October 2016 12:39:58 Clive Menzies wrote:
Quick question. Are your backups incremental or complete every night?
This is probably better explained in the manpages. Amanda has the concept
of doing a full backup of everything in its disklist
On (12/12/05 16:32), Tony wrote:
> they could it are to us problems
> of kernel (debian 3.1) compatibility
> whit a notebook acer 9104wlmi?
> To the Acer they do not know to say nothing...
I'm not sure what you're asking but if it helps we've got two Aspires
running Debian (2003WLMi and 1524WLMi);
On (12/12/05 17:36), Tony wrote:
> ehm..
> I would want to be made excuses for my English bad one...
> Well..
> I would want to only know if the pentium m760
> can have problems with the kernel of debian the 3.1
> as far as the management of the energetic saving..
> particular for the technologies
On (13/12/05 12:21), Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:50 +0100, Martijn Marsman wrote:
> > >I want to add more FTPs to my sources.list.
> > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> Yes but how to find official FTPs list to add?
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.
On (15/12/05 12:42), Graham Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is perhaps one of the stranger questions to be asked but I'm looking for
> a utility that will copy a file slowly.
>
> Part of my ad hoc backup system is to copy the nightly backup tar file from
> our production machine onto another machin
On (16/12/05 08:35), Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi there, people.
>
> I'm currently one of the maintainers of the "virtual Richard
> M. Stallman" package (vrms), whose purpose is to indicate to the user
> which packages installed in his system are not Free Software.
>
> The package had active develop
On (19/12/05 10:17), Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> moving slightly OT, but I was thinking the other day about my critical
> backups. they arent very big, a few MB. I currently backup to another
> machine on my network, which I know is not really secure. (why would the
> fire only burn half the
On (19/12/05 19:57), Daniel Webb wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:17:31AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > moving slightly OT, but I was thinking the other day about my critical
> > backups. they arent very big, a few MB. I currently backup to another
> > machine on my network, which
On (20/12/05 14:15), arden wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Im want to set an old box (300Mhz 32meg RAM) up as a print server
>
> Ive loaded debian x is been a pig to setup on the 2meg s3 card but
> since its going to be headless see that as a side issue
>
> I know the printer connection is good date > /d
On (21/12/05 15:47), Jonathan Opperman wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can someone please point me in the right direction with this? I've
> looked on
> google etc but can not find a solution to it, I will really appreciate
> it if I can get
> this working as before I did a kernel upgrade...
>
> Before ke
On (21/12/05 10:53), Dirk Johann wrote:
> Hi list,
> have a problem installing a printer with parallel port connected via USB
> hub. No idea, where to search for information.
> Kernel 2.6.12
> USB Hub FTDI with parallel / serial port, USB 1.1
> Any help / recommendations recommended.
> Regards, Dir
On (26/12/05 21:16), Ed Paris wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I have an internal Linux network. I want to add a Windows XP Professional
> laptop to this network so that I can share files. I am using SAMBA on the
> Unix side and think I have the global and share sections of smb.conf set up
> correctly, th
On (28/12/05 07:27), Bill Moseley wrote:
> I added a splashscreen to grub, but had a typo in the device: (hd1,0)
> instead of (hd0,0).
>
> This caused grub to continue to cycle upon boot (I guess trying to
> read the non-existent drive) before the boot menu is shown. I
> couldn't see how to get g
On (21/12/05 16:43), Clive Menzies wrote:
> This isn't very helpful but I'm having the same problem. I had a
> similar problem when setting up two identical servers about a year ago
> and found the 2.6.8-1-686 worked but 2.6.8-1-386 didn't. FWIW the 2.4
> series kern
On (29/12/05 15:33), Clive Menzies wrote:
> Update:
>
> Both machines have the same modules loaded, however on the second
> machine (Venus), the SATA modules don't seem to get loaded until mdadm
> fails to find the array.
> I'm not sure where to go from here; I
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