Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread HdV
/usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/man/man1/dig.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/nslookup.1.gz /usr/share/man/man8 /usr/share/man/man8/nsupdate.8.gz So apt-get install dnsutils is what you need. Mind you, nslookup is deprecated and you probably should start using host or dig. HTH Grx HdV -- J.A.

Re: WindowMaker Attributes

2003-11-05 Thread HdV
ttributes for your application and change them the way you want. Save your changes and restart the application. HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-07 Thread HdV
re to be used one must make sure that option is disabled." Maybe you should check that file to see if that's the case in on your system. Sincerely, -- Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing C

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-20 Thread HdV
different > environment at boot time other than ifconfig from root-shell? > > Osamu > PS: I have not read above link location either :( > I am quite happy with whereami. Here's what apt-cache has to tell about it: hdv@thor:~$ apt-cache show whereami Package: whereami P

Re: xhost +localhost has no effect [SUMMARY]

2003-09-12 Thread HdV
that. Please adhere to "the principle of least privilege" if you want to keep your system secure. Stick to the xauth method. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh-agent not the mother of all my processes?

2003-09-13 Thread HdV
ed with. As you can see both methods are quite different. Both work just fine, but your system sees ssh-agent in a different manner depending on how it was started. For a full writeup on using SSH Agent see http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/security/ssh2_pubkey_auth_config.html HTH Grx

Re: change $PATH system-wide?

2003-09-13 Thread HdV
u verify this by logging in from the console? Or do you login through [xkgw]dm? If you do you might use the initialization file of your display-manager. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian stalatie

2003-09-21 Thread HdV
ux for you. It requires a fair level of knowledge, but if you are willing to invest some of your time, you'll be awarded with a rock-solid and incredibly flexible OS. Not to mention piece-of-mind and freedom... Gook luck! Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: dealing with testing and security

2003-09-21 Thread HdV
nother bug [1] In this case a lot of kde-packages will be listed as candidates for removal (at least that's what happened here), you need to decide for yourself where your priorities are. [2] You might need to install fakeroot to make this work. HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: procmail "solution" against swen

2003-09-22 Thread HdV
dy_checks. It does do a very good job stopping these mails indeed. Grx hdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procmail "solution" against swen

2003-09-22 Thread HdV
mum. > but I can still comfortably take credit for the particular procmail > formulation posted in this thread. Indeed. Grx HdV P.S. I am on the list. You don't have to send your messages to both the list and me. Hint, hint }:-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procmail "solution" against swen

2003-09-22 Thread HdV
'Latest Security Update' ); foreach (@subjects) { $_ = 'Subject: ' . $_; if (/^Subject:(\s+(Current|New(est)?|Last|Latest))?(\s+(Net(work)?|Microsoft|Internet|Critical|Security))+((\s+(Update|Upgrade))?(\s+(Patch|Pack))?)\s*$/i) { #DISCARD

Question about bash read function and matching ESC

2003-10-01 Thread HdV
rk around it. Anyone have a suggestion? if read -n 1 -s -t 3 KEY ; then if [ "$KEY" == '\x1B' ]; then echo BAILOUT: nothing done exit 0 fi #Do something useful here... else echo TIMEOUT: nothing done exit 0 fi Thanks for your time. Grx HdV -- To UN

Re: PDA/GSM Phones

2003-10-08 Thread HdV
still a Palm, but I am waiting for a Zaurus C-760 to delivered). It has proven to be quite useful to me. I am sorry, but I can't remember the exact URL. Google might be your friend... HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about bash read function and matching ESC

2003-10-10 Thread HdV
cho Some prompt (press ESC to exit) if read -n 1 -s -t $TIMEOUT KEY ; then KEY=$( echo $KEY | od -t x1 | awk '{ print $2}' ) if [ "$KEY" == '1b' ]; then echo BAILOUT: nothing changed exit 0 fi echo Do something useful here... else echo TIMEOUT: not

Re: DNS Firewall Rules

2003-10-12 Thread HdV
u to fill them in yourself. If not please take a look at my iptables page at http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/security/iptables_example.html HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux odd firewall setup help.

2002-10-18 Thread HdV
lities available in iptables (on a multiple-homed system running as a firewall). I learned about it when reading a nice tutorial on iptables I found at http://iptables-tutorial.haringstad.com/iptables-tutorial.html It has some examples on how to achieve this. HTH, -- HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-07 Thread HdV
en used to in the past. So there are a couple of catch 'em lines just in case the connection tracking module isn't loaded on that particular host. You might not need those extra lines. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-10 Thread HdV
ould give ip_conntrack in it's listing. Please refer to the URLs given above for the full code. It is well-commented so you shouldn't have any trouble to use that as an example. Grx HdV P.S. I am on the list so you can reply to the list only and I'll see you messages. If I can I&#

Re: Thanks all! - Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNSlookups?

2003-08-14 Thread HdV
to English, so here it is: http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/security/iptables_example.html I hope it still is of some use to you (or others). Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups? (Oops)

2003-08-14 Thread HdV
Oops, sorry for the double. My bad. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Howto: configuring SSH with pubkey auth and using SSH Agent

2003-08-14 Thread HdV
eded. The howto is available at http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/security/ssh2_pubkey_auth_config.html My apologies if this is out of place. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lost in a sea of iptables docs

2003-08-18 Thread HdV
p where to put things, how to start/stop/restart the firewall and provides an example ruleset to get you started. I hope it helps you, comments are welcome. [1] http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/security/iptables_example.html Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: [OT] translation from Dutch, please

2003-08-24 Thread HdV
loop when I hit the wrong key in the index. It's probably due to a configuration error on my part, but I haven't had the time to solve it yet. As soon as I can find the time I will convert to mutt (I intended to do so for some time anyway...). Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how to adapt this iptables setup?

2003-08-26 Thread HdV
t strictly defined as in RedHat. > To those who want to tell me why I shouldn't use his approach, I welcome > the comments, I'll learn from them. But please also tell me the answers > to the questions above, so I can get a context to put it all in. I hope that's what I did `;-) Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-27 Thread HdV
ust checked it and found that zless /usr/share/doc/iptables/README.Debian.gz will give you some useful examples. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamassassin

2003-08-28 Thread HdV
drop. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to get ssh-agent to work again?

2003-08-29 Thread HdV
you. The good part is that it will show you how to connect to one Agent from multiple sessions, to me that's better than just adding ssh-agent and ssh-add to ~/.xsession. Anyway, the scripts and the tutorial can be found here: http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/security/ssh2_pubkey_auth_con

Re: how to get ssh-agent to work again?

2003-08-29 Thread HdV
ever have one active session running at a time that is perfectly OK... Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to get ssh-agent to work again?

2003-08-30 Thread HdV
nect to X. Indeed a bad thing if you ask me. Here's what I use (learned it from this list a long time ago): xauth merge ~user/.Xauthority It allows you to use the magic cookie of "user" to connect to X. Much saver in my book. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: NTFS mounting

2002-12-31 Thread HdV
0 Adjust the x'es to your situation and you will be able to use your NTFS partition as a normal user. HTH Grx HdV -- J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Problem: 'bad interpreter: Permission denied'

2003-01-08 Thread HdV
n I tried to run some perl-scripts I had originally written on a Windows box at work. The solution was to run something like dos2unix or another utility that converts line-endings from the Windows convention to the Unix convention. Maybe you're getting bitten by the same bug... HTH Grx Hd

Re: Adding a ide drive to an all scsi computer

2003-01-09 Thread HdV
r. On the other hand I have been using NTFS in read-only mode for years now ('til recently on a daily basis) and have NEVER had any trouble with it. So, don't let those warnings scare you off. Do heed them however when it comes to using write-mode: I won't dare to without a current and v

LPRng connects every second to remote printer

2002-09-02 Thread HdV
5:10 status.pr -rw---1 daemon lp 6 Aug 15 15:10 unspooler.pr I hope someone can tell me what I need to do, so I can keep the daemon running without hammering the remote printer with seemingly needless connections. Thanks for your time. Sincerely, -- J.A. de Vries aka HdV

Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2003-11-18 Thread HdV
n in English. That shouldn't be too much of a problem as everyone in our country old enough to use a computer has had at least a couple of years of English in school. Well, it could be a problem if he is older than say 60 or 70. But judging from his choice of words that seems to be unlikely.

Re: Which package has Perl:XML::Simple?

2003-11-27 Thread HdV
and manipulating DNS Zone Files. libxml-simple-perl - Perl module for reading and writing XML This is on a box running "testing". Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-27 Thread HdV
o. }:-( Too bad, you can't trust on the Content-Length header either... Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-29 Thread HdV
to SUN. They have some weird ideas about this. Although I have to admit that I haven't had a problem with it in a while now. Maybe it's fixed. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: base64 translation

2003-12-02 Thread HdV
contents of that file aren't too big you could do something like this: perl -MMIME::Base64 -le 'print decode_base64("")' Otherwise you might want to write a 5-line perl script for it. HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: base64 translation

2003-12-02 Thread HdV
s is straight from the documentation (see perldoc MIME::Base64): perl -MMIME::Base64 -ne 'print decode_base64($_)' < With this you shouldn't have any problem decoding the file. HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] port 2896

2003-12-02 Thread HdV
%22+tcp+udp > suggesting someone is trying to crack your wintendo. ;-) The neoport database returns this: 2896 tcp ecovisiong6-1 ECOVISIONG6-1 2896 udp ecovisiong6-1 ECOVISIONG6-1 No idea what ECOVISIONG is though... Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: base64 translation

2003-12-02 Thread HdV
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Bill Goudie wrote: > Which is included in libmime-base64-perl. Visit > /usr/share/doc/libmime-base64-perl/examples. Right. Forgot all about the examples. Silly me... Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: shell script question

2003-12-05 Thread HdV
your question, but I'd suggest you take a look at the eval built-in function of the shell. I think it is what you need. The bash advanced scripting guide might be of help to you: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: ipchains HowTo

2003-12-09 Thread HdV
other reference worth reading? Well, its not a reference but it is a good tutorial: http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/ HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Enigmail

2003-12-16 Thread HdV
rs, only hosts, which could be a security problem on a multi-user system. Fill in the propper username and display and your good to go. HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing Enigmail

2003-12-17 Thread HdV
lem. Is the user part of a group that has access to the necessary files? Another thing I seem to remember is that enigmail is quite picky when it comes to using the correct version with mozilla or thunderbird. Did you check you are using the version that is meant for your mozilla? See mozdev.org for

Re: saslauthd? I can't seem to get it installed for postfix..

2004-12-22 Thread hdv
> QUIT > EOM $ stunnel -c -f -n smtp -r mailhost.organization.org:25 -D0 < /tmp/smtp_sasl_session 220 mailhost.organization.org ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU) 250-mailhost.organization.org 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 26214400 250-ETRN 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN

Re: Ultra 5 Keyboard Layout help

2002-02-21 Thread HdV
del "sun" XkbKeycodes "sun(type5)" EndSection Section "Pointer" Protocol "sun" Device "/dev/sunmouse" EndSection HTH Grx HdV -- Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Motherboard/Mainboard+Athlon chip

2002-02-23 Thread HdV
that was due to an extended power outage. Grx HdV

Installing swatch

2001-10-11 Thread HdV
AN and install it by hand. In the meantime any suggestions are welcome! Grx HdV -- Last night as I lay in bed looking at the stars I thought 'Where the hell is the ceiling?' J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kde2.2 open 1 port

2001-09-04 Thread HdV
owner .= "$owner[0] (PID = $owner[1], USER = $owner[2])\n$padding"; } $owner =~ s/\n$padding$//m; print "$owner\n"; } } exit 0; - HTH Grx HdV -- Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Trying to figure out where the kernel sources went.

2001-10-05 Thread HdV
e questions. I tried finding the answers on the net and in the doc directories, but was unsucessful. Grx HdV P.S. I have found the kernel how-to, but that didn't answer my questions. -- Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft Univ

Re: IPTables questions

2001-10-06 Thread HdV
just starting to get into this wonderful world of iptables. I bought the book by Ziegler and from what I've read up to now I can recommend it to you. It has a hands-on approach I like a lot and these are the type of questions he tries to answer in a practical way. HTH Grx HdV -- Support bacte

Re: IPTables questions

2001-10-07 Thread HdV
I picked that up from Oskar Andreasson's iptables tutorial (I have version 1.0.7 here in front of me). It has some specifics on ftp and also on outgoing DCCs in IRC. I am sorry, but I don't have the URL for that at the moment. No doubt google will help you there. Grx HdV -- Support bacteria

Re: firewall log message question

2001-05-31 Thread HdV
0 I=30167 F=0x T=248 (#5) > > > > Don't know ICMP well enough to tell you the significance of 3 and 13. If I'm not mistaken and memory serves me well it was something like this: 3 = ICMP Destination Unreachable 13 = ICMP Timestamp HTH Grx HdV -- Support bacteria -

Re: Can I execute keys on the keyboard from .xsession?

2004-07-08 Thread HdV
page the homepage for the browser and use JavaScript to put the focus at the line you want? That is asuming this page is under your control. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can I execute keys on the keyboard from .xsession?

2004-07-09 Thread HdV
e and that might prove difficult if it is not under your control... Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to sweep hard disk of confidential data

2004-07-19 Thread HdV
g a Windows programs to do this. But I am familiar with those. If you are interested in the subject you should read the current thread on the full-disclosure list about this topic. It is quite informative! Here's the archived version for you perusal. I highly recommend you read it. http://

Re: Advice on usb pendrive purchase

2003-12-27 Thread HdV
First thing I did when I got it was putting an ext2 filesystem on it (as I don't have to use Windows at work and I certainly don't own it at home), so I can't tell if a FAT filesystem would give more trouble, although I can't imagine why it would. I guess I have been qu

Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-28 Thread HdV
ption being all the Qt stuff. I tend to use C as I like it better, but for the few large projects I did I chose C++ because I feel that OOP lends itself better for that (reusablilty and so on). However there have been fought mighty flame-wars over that so don't just take my word for it...

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread HdV
through sid first, so there is a not insignificant delay before they are apt-getable for testing... Most of the time that isn't too much of a problem as "apt-get source" from unstable usually works if you add deb-src lines for unstable in your source.list . HTH Grx HdV -- To UNS

Re: problem with awstats

2004-01-05 Thread HdV
since when, but I had it happening to me too. So, then I started using -dir and/or -date and everything was fine again. This is with a pure awstats install from Sarge. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Documentation of logcheck

2003-07-02 Thread HdV
s some useful hints in it too (/etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf). If you're thinking of tuning it (very much recommended!) then an occasional "man egrep" might come in handy... HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[RFC] Initialisation of ssh-agent

2003-07-16 Thread HdV
Hi, Currently I am writing a piece on the why and how of setting up SSH2 for public key authentication. For now it is in Dutch, but an English version will follow later on. In this document I want to show a couple of examples of starting ssh-agent from ~/.xsession, ~/.profile or ~/.login. This is

Re: [RFC] Initialisation of ssh-agent

2003-07-16 Thread HdV
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > Take a look at keychain. It's the best way to start ssh-agent. Thanks for the suggestion, but 'apt-cache show' tells me it is for OpenSSH. Do you know if it will work with SSH.com and on other *nix platforms besides Gnu/Linux?

Re: Portable MP3/Ogg player supported by Debian?

2003-07-19 Thread HdV
reason why I haven't bought it myself yet is that they told me they would have it in Europe by August. Otherwise I would already have ordered it from their site. Some places you might want to visit: www.neurosaudio.com open.neurosaudio.com www.xiph.org/positron HTH Grx HdV -- To UN

Re: [RFC] Initialisation of ssh-agent

2003-07-19 Thread HdV
oo. Finally there is the output of "ps ux". I use it to verify the PID of the ssh-agent process. For that I take the value found in the second column, but I am not sure if "ps ux" will give me that on all/most unices. Does anyone on the list know? Thanks for you help. Grx HdV P.

Re: xterm colour codes

2003-07-23 Thread HdV
edit mode you go to the subject line and erase whatever you just typed in and replace it with your ansi text. The escape prefix must be typed in using vi. You can create it using vi and put in a file and then paste it using whatever editor you want. HTH -- Support bacteria - they

Re: [RFC] Initialisation of ssh-agent

2003-07-23 Thread HdV
s that will work everywhere. Yeah, I was getting afraid of that after some testing. Would pgrep -U $USER ssh-agent be more portable? I know it works for GNU/Linux and Solaris, but I can't test it on any of the other *nixes. Thanks. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Website creating software

2004-06-07 Thread HdV
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Nick Smith wrote: > forget frontpage, what about a dreamweaver alternative? You might want to check out N-View, see http://www.nvu.com/ for more info. Haven't use it myself though, I am just too fond of vim and more recently the Template Toolkit. Grx HdV -- To UNS

Anyone else suddenly got debian-user-digest messages?

2004-06-19 Thread HdV
Hi all, Starting yesterday I suddenly started to receive debian-user-digest messages from murphy. I most surely didn't subscribe myself to the digests, so something else must have happened. Anyone else experienced the same? Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Anyone else suddenly got debian-user-digest messages?

2004-06-21 Thread HdV
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Aaron Maxwell wrote: > I haven't. Based on the lack of response, probably not many others have > either. Smile, you're special. Ah, I must be the chosen one then... }:-) Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Anyone else suddenly got debian-user-digest messages?

2004-06-21 Thread HdV
eral dozens of them but less than 100), that made me wonder as well. So it wasn't just me after all. Oh well, I'll just delete them and see if it happens again. Maybe it was just a fluke... Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wput? automatic ftp login/upload?

2004-06-21 Thread HdV
pload only done if the file meets certain criteria (timestamp, size, etc.), then maybe my xfer script could be of use to you. Haven't written an webpage for it yet, but the code is available from this URL: http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/files/xfer HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Moving to a dedicated host...

2004-06-23 Thread HdV
same My next choice is NetSonic (see http://www.netsonic.net/debian-linux-pkgs.php for their offer). Does anyone on the list know them? Any comments on their service? Any experiences with other providers of decent non-managed Debian boxes with a monthly datalimit of about 100GB? Grx HdV -

Re: PKI and SSH

2004-02-26 Thread HdV
er. You mentioned Google, so I hesitate to point you http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/security/ssh2_pubkey_auth_config.html as it could very well be that this is not the information you're looking for. HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPD files

2004-03-16 Thread HdV
re just plain text files, so if you want to know what's in them just fire up vim and take a look. One of the packages using ppd files is cups, might that be the one you're thinking about? Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: QT not found problem

2004-03-22 Thread HdV
3.2.3-2Qt development files (Threaded) > ii libqt3c102 3.2.3-2Qt Library > ii libqt3c102-mt 3.2.3-2Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime > version) Debian stores Qt in another location than the author of the program anticipated. Try using /usr/share/qt3 as a prefi

Re: HP Glance 4.00

2004-04-16 Thread HdV
PACKAGE lib/libncurses.so.4 oldlibs/libncurses4 The other library is found in stable, but not in testing: FILE PACKAGE usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 oldlibs/libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 HTH Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Monitoring debian server

2004-05-09 Thread HdV
monitors the services. Together they make a good team. Combined with nagios I have them satisfying all my monitoring craves... [1] http://www.orcaware.com/orca/ [2] http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/ Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cropping a large collection of .PNG screenshots

2014-04-09 Thread HdV
ns. One of them can do this in batch-mode, if I am not mistaken. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5399901.fbWuAp8zDb@odin

Re: pdf file editieren mit dicken Pinsel

2017-04-20 Thread hdv
für Ihnen. I am quite satisfied with PDF Studio from Qoppa, but it is a proprietary progam, so I don't know if that is acceptable to you. Mit freundliche Gruß, HdV

Re: gathering system information

2016-06-02 Thread hdv
cism are greatly appreciated (no matter how > small you think they are). Part of what you want was already done by Karsten M. Self. I remember using a shell script by him in around 2002. You might try Google if you can find a copy of that script. I think it was called systeminfo. Grx HdV

Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How?

2017-01-03 Thread hdv
ou can easily build the input file with find -type d Sometimes I need to add a new directory structure to systems. In those cases I just write the wanted dirs to a file and run this script. Maybe you can adjust it to your needs. HTH Grx HdV

Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How?

2017-01-03 Thread hdv
is will be an educational experience as I expect the answer will be > elegant in its simplicity and point me towards chasms in my understanding of > Linux. > > Thank you. Oops! I just noticed a solution was already given and accepted. Sorry for the noise. Grx HdV

Re: self-encrypting drives (SED)

2015-11-21 Thread hdv
ough and are very easy to set up. I'd think it might even be a cheaper solution too (if you don't have to put in too much time for configuration and maintenance). Just my $0.02 Grx HdV

Re: apttude program list

2016-02-24 Thread hdv
start out all the same? > > Many TIA! > Dennis > dpkg --get-selections might be what you're looking for. Grx HdV

Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

2017-08-31 Thread hdv
gt;> reason to learn some perl. > > I'm interested as well, if you could send a copy to me. > > @Ray: And even more so, Ray, after you modify it. > Hi rhkramer, I sent it to this list yesterday. If you missed it I can send it again. Just let me know. Grx HdV

Re: version 4 of X installation

2002-04-28 Thread HdV
gt; > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > whenever I startx. Well, I had this problem a while ago. Turned out it was because X was trying to use the framebuffer. As soon as I turned that off everything worked just fine. Maybe this information will be helpful. Good luck! Grx HdV -

How to secure access to SD cards a la USBGuard?

2021-11-11 Thread hdv@gmail
t to limit access to specific memory cards. For built-in readers I figure that is because the communication is not USB-based. But that would not be the case for USB-based card readers. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can achieve this? Many thanks in advance! Grx HdV

Re: How to secure access to SD cards a la USBGuard?

2021-11-12 Thread hdv@gmail
s memory cards, without blocking the card reader altogether. Thanks! Grx HdV

Re: How to secure access to SD cards a la USBGuard?

2021-12-05 Thread hdv@gmail
y purposes. Thanks for the hint! Grx HdV

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-09 Thread hdv@gmail
heavy user of system resources (much 3D CAD editing, photo editing, video editing and rendering, and often multiple VM's in use). My laptop has 32GB of RAM and 2 GB of swap and on that system I haven't seen much swapping either. Grx HdV

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-09 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-12-09 15:46, Dan Ritter wrote: hdv@gmail wrote: On 2021-12-08 15:27, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a Regarding the swap space: I wouldn&#

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-15 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-12-15 15:51, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: Hello, Em [2021-12-09 qui 15:00:43+0100], hdv@gmail escreveu: Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't make it so big. That really isn't necessary. I have a 64GB RAM system here, on which I have 2GB of swap. I doubt I have ever

Re: How to secure access to SD cards a la USBGuard?

2022-01-11 Thread hdv@gmail
etted up front. Thanks for taking the time to help me with this! Grx HdV

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

2022-01-15 Thread hdv@gmail
ith effort, some not. I do not include the well-known problems with fingerprint readers in this. Those I knew about up front, so that was my own choice. Grx HdV

Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars

2021-05-18 Thread hdv@gmail
ll locales you need AND set the default one in this file. There is NO reason to use anything except UTF-8 in 2021 Please, be aware that not all Desktop Environments (like KDE's Plasma) honour this setting. Often, they have their own mechanisms for setting the locale within the DE itself. Grx HdV

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread hdv@gmail
ponse loop querying a daemon both locally and over a wired network. Grx HdV

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread hdv@gmail
e courseware, which involves running virtual machines with libvirt, coding in several languages, video editing, graphics editing, sound editing, editing all kinds of documents, and the standard internet stuff. I haven't seen this happening more often with any of these uses. Grx HdV

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