Re: Classic Gnubie accident

Ron Johnson: > On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Ron Johnson: > > >> And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek. > > > > Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :) > > startx is your friend. It's not that I d

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

anthony: > > I don't have a problem getting at the files, booting single user or into a > failsafe terminal as myself (username=anthony) the problem is exactly how to > correctly 'check/fix owner/permissions until you are happy.' You only need chown, chmod and ls. # chown -R anthony:anthony /hom

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

Marc Shapiro: > > What is the likelihood that this will actually make it into Etch before > the December release? What is the likelyhood of etch being released in December? :-> Seriously, I hate to say it, but http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ doesn't look very convincing that the schedu

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

Ron Johnson: > On 10/30/06 03:04, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > > It's not that I don't know how to start X from a console. But I (almost) > > always need X anyway. And apart from that, I have a non-geek > > girlfriend[1] using my computer from time to time. >

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

Ron Johnson: > On 10/31/06 05:08, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Ron Johnson: > >> > >> Certainly your GF can be similarly trained. > > > > Well, at least not by me. I still have a hard time teaching her about > > the concept of files and folders. :) And wh

Re: Window managers-which one?

B. Hoffmann: > > Must confess I'm still a bit confused as to what exactly a WM does as > some seem to have themes available for them which I thought was down to > the DE. Yes and No. A WM is supposed to, well, manage windows (or give the user the chance to do it). Typically this includes: * plac

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

[Disclaimer: writing this mail took some time and I frequently jumped from topic to topic. Please excuse me if it doesn't appear to be very coherent.] anthony: > > So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your > respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

Marc Shapiro: > Marc Shapiro wrote: >> Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> But, once it does get into Sid, or whatever testing will be, then it >> is almost certain to get backported so that those of us that prefer a >> 'stable' machine can get to all the sites

Re: What is this in my syslog????????

M-L: > > My system is secure and in full stealth mode according to http://www.grc.com I cannot comment on your very strange log messages, but just as a side note: there is no such thing as "stealth mode" on the internet. Either your system behaves standards compliant and rejects connections on ev

Re: Installation of further packages

Hi Stephan, debian-user-german kennst Du auch? Nur nebenbei, Du bist hier natürlich genauso willkommen. stephan.sens: > > I successfully downloaded Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r3 "Sarge" - Official i386 > Binary-1 and burned it on a bootable CD-R. > > My computer (i386) was able to boot from this CD a

Re: etc partially deleted

Carlos Ojea: > > I recently deleted part of my /etc by mistake. Whoops! > I wish to hear your advice about how to proceed to recover the system. It depends on what exactly you are trying to achieve. Best thing would probably be to restore from a recent backup. ;-) Next best thing: try to resto

Re: Is a kernel upgrade necessary ?

Nicolas Pillot: > > But i just noticed the kernel was still the same (2.2.20), although > there are newer 2.4.X and 2.6.X kernels out there. So my questions are > : > > - is it worth an upgrade ? If you don't have a problem: no. You *may* have problems with udev or something like that (ever rebo

Re: Failing to use Linux PC as router

Hans Vogelsberger: > Some weeks ago I bought an AMD64 X2 which now I must connect to > the internet, using my old Pentium 4 as router to the dynamic > address I receive from my cable provider whenever I boot. Having > used Testing since it came up in Potato times, I never needed and > never acquire

Re: X11 without HAL: "DontZap" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't work anymore

Alex Samad: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 06:38:06PM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> >> I don't understand what you mean about mono. I don't think that I have >> any mono stuff on my system, and IIUC, Debian won't install it unless > > isn't the new gnome package going to bring in mono as a default Only

Re: X11 without HAL: "DontZap" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't work anymore

Dirk: > > Ok, let us assume I wouldn't be able to remove HAL from a installed > Debian without breaking X11 permanently and I have a random problem > (pick one from this list: > http://www.google.com/search?q=HAL+problem+linux). Previously, you said not only HAL itself is the problem, but th

Re: how to increase sound volume of a mp3 file

Long Wind: > > I have a mp3 file > When I play it, the sound volume is too low even if I set highest > volume in sound mixer > Is there any utility that change mp3 file? mp3gain can be used to make several files have the same peak volume. J. -- Fashion is more important to me than war, famine,

Re: remount removeable drive in Lenny - how?

Paul E Condon: > > I have several USB hard drives (ones with rotating machinery inside, > not solid state 'disks'). From time to time I need to perform format > maintenance on one of them. In order to do this, I look in /dev to see > what device name has been assigned to the drive, umount it, and

Re: ikiwiki + Apache 1.3 =?= > NFG/SNAFU

Eric d'Alibut: > > I notice the ikiwiki docs provide httpd server config hints only for > Apache 2 and lighttpd. Should I take this as an implicit hint that my > attempt to run ikiwiki (that *is* hard to type!) on the older Apache > vintage are foolhardy, extremely ill-advised, a recipe for disaste

Re: ikiwiki + Apache 1.3 =?= > NFG/SNAFU

Eric d'Alibut: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Do you have any concrete problems or are you asking in advance? > > I should have posted the I was having, which concerns > running ikiwiki.cgi. I am getting "Premature end of script

Re: How to create an image file system that grows

Kevin Ross: > > ke...@htpc:~$ dd bs=1 count=1 if=/dev/zero of=sparse seek=5GB -- snip > ke...@htpc:~$ /sbin/mke2fs sparse -- snip > The filesystem has 4.4 GB available to it, but it's currently only taking up > 77 MB of disk space. Neat! Thanks for sharing that. J. -- After the millenium I woul

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

AG: > > With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of > the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the > Update Notification? I usually install all available upgrades daily (or even twice a day) using 'sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitufe safe-

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

AG: > > As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the > scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with > these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are > superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user? I can only spea

Re: Installing with no swap partition

Mark: > > Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but > recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swap and had > success? Is my installation a ticking time bomb if I don't have a swap > partition? I ran my previous laptop with 768MB of RAM for seve

Re: Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

Mark: > > Has anyone had success using the method described here > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en (Section 4.3.2) > using a DVD .iso image? I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The DVD image is a regular ISO 9660, just as the CD images.

Re: Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

Ron Johnson: > On 2009-07-30 14:08, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The >> DVD image is a regular ISO 9660, just as the CD images. > > > Linux uses the udf fs for DVD & BlueRay disks

Re: Building Arora deb

Patrick Wiseman: > > I just downloaded the source for Arora (a webkit-based browser) > because the version available to me through aptitude doesn't like my > ELF64 system. The source comes with a 'builddeb.sh' script, but it > fails with './builddeb.sh: line 4: debuild: command not found'. > Obvi

Re: Some questions about seting up wireless network between linux and vista ;

a dehqan: > > In The Name Of God Which one? :) > ifconfig wlan0 down > /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager stop > iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc > iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 > iwconfig wlan0 essid allah > iwconfig wlan0 key 12346 The latter enables WEP encryption. WEP is better than nothing, but offe

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

Siggy Brentrup: > > Where's my freedom, I'm stuck with ancient X if I don't want to > run otherwise unused SW? I really don't want to upset you even more, but allow me the question: where's the problem in running ancient software on even more ancient hardware? Is there anything you really need fr

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

Siggy Brentrup: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 13:59 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I really don't want to upset you even more, but allow me the question: >> where's the problem in running ancient software on even more ancient >> hardware? Is there anything

Re: Does Debian for PowerPC supports MPC5554 powerpc target?

K. Kiranbabu: > >    Greetings of the Day from SAMEER. We want to know that the Debian > for PowerPC development of yours supports the MPC5554 PowerPC architecture. PowerPC belongs to the architectures supported by Debian, yes. > If so I request you to send the details downloading the

Re: Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

Mark: > > - used "shred" command to blank memory stick > - used GParted to create 2 partitions: (1) a 1 GB FAT16 partition that I > made bootable via Manage Flags; (2) the remainder (~6.6 GB) I formatted to > ext3 > - followed the instructions here > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04

Re: about a feature which I found in Gnome

Paul E Condon: > > What are the packages that actually implement this feature? Can I > simply install those packages and have the feature without having the > rest of Gnome? Does it come automatically if I attempt to transition > to Xfce, for example? Xfce has a checkbox somewhere in the settings

Re: Formating disk

hce: > > I am going to create ext3 file system to an external USB HDD for being > used as an backup storage. I am not clear if it is necessary to > reserve super user blocks (5% by default), could you please advise? I do that only for filesystems which make the system (partly) unusable when they

Re: Debian 5.0.2 missing KDE

Hans Gatu: > > I downloaded the > isoand > burned a CD. > After installation was completed and the computer (ASUS Eee-701) had the TWM > window manager. > I am NOT interrested in using TWM. > I expect the KDE to sh

Re: fetchmail socket error

Paul Cartwright: > > this morning I noticed there was no new email, but when I went to webmail ( > squirrelmail) on my hosts servers, there was email . This is the error > message I am getting in /var/log/syslog: > > Aug 10 16:31:47 paulandcilla fetchmail[16965]: timeout after 300 seconds > wa

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

Girish Kulkarni: > > Could someone help with playing encrypted DVDs on Lenny? Do you have libdvdcss installed? > Regionset smoothly changed the drive's region code to 5. Are you aware that you usually cannot change the drive's region code an arbitrary amount of times? At least from what I know,

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

Girish Kulkarni: > > According to its authors, libdvdcss is "designed for accessing DVDs > like a block device without having to bother about the decryption." I > don't want to do that; I just want to decrypt what I should be able to > decrypt. > > Or am I getting things wrong here? Yes. Almost

Re: encrypted DVDs on Lenny

Johannes: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> That means if you want to play a legally bought DVD on your computer, >> you either have to run proprietary software (which contains a licensed >> descrambler) or you have to crack the CSS key using something like >> libdvd

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

Nuno Magalhães: > > This is the second apt-get dist-upgrade that i've done recently and > the second time i get this issue. After the upgrade, many important > commands lose permissions (i.e. chmod 000), which has caused me weird > boots and sometimes nagging the lists with incorrect problems - li

Re: OpenVPN and Juniper

Jerome BENOIT: > > can OpenVPN connect to a Juniper network ? I don't think so. OpenVPN uses its own approach to establishing a VPN. I would be very surprised if Juniper had copied it (or vice versa). You need to find out whether Juniper invented something on their own or uses standard protocols

Re: OpenVPN and Juniper

Jerome BENOIT: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Jerome BENOIT: >> >>> can OpenVPN connect to a Juniper network ? >> >> I don't think so. OpenVPN uses its own approach to establishing a VPN. I >> would be very surprised if Juniper had copied it (or vice

Re: login manager problem for root

Mohammed Rashad: > I am using Debian Lenny 5.0 > when i open login manager select properties of root account home directory > for root changes from /root to /home/root What do you want to achieve? How do you try to reach that goal? What do you expect to happen? What happens instead? J. -- I t

Re: file system errors

Daniel Dalton: > > However, midway through the sync process, the fs is set to read only as > there seem to be errors with certain files. > If I remount, I can't remove these effected files, What error message do you get? What's in dmesg output? > the only way to fix > things is to make use of fs

Re: Forming drives together into a cache hierarchy

Ron Johnson: > On 2009-09-02 05:30, Paul Richards wrote: >> >> Is there a way to combine a large slow drive with a fast small drive >> in such a way that the faster drive simply becomes a cache for the >> larger drive? -- snip > I'd think about selling the SSD and either buy more RAM or a SCSI >

Re: Forming drives together into a cache hierarchy

Paul Richards: > 2009/9/2 Jochen Schulz : >> >> My recommendation: buy more RAM, install the OS to an SSD and copy the >> data most often used there as well. Put the rest on a regular disk and >> write a boot script to force the data you are interested in into the >

Re: Forming drives together into a cache hierarchy

Ron Johnson: > On 2009-09-02 11:38, Paul Richards wrote: > [snip] >> >> An SSD cache has a number of benefits over a filesystem cache in RAM. >> Price per GB will be much lower, and also it will persist over a > > An SSD drive cheaper than RAM sticks?? Sure. An 80GB ntel X25m still costs at leas

Re: Forming drives together into a cache hierarchy

Kevin Ross: > > Using an SSD as a cache for a hard drive isn't a good idea, since > SSD's are orders of magnitude slower in writing than hard drives are. That strongly depends on the model. Intel SSDs are significantly faster than traditional hard disks when doing random writes. Other SSDs are be

Re: How to save live video (mms) ?

a dehqan: > > How is it possible to save mms live videos with good quality ?yes mimms is a > software that perform this but no good quality. As far as I can see, mimms just downloads what the server sends without reencoding it. In other words: you cannot do anything about the quality except compl

Re: Mail server recommendation

Jesus arteche: > > I have to build a mail server in my enterprise, what the solutions do you > recomend zimbra, Qmail, Postfix... What exactly do you need? If all you need is an MTA, I propose Postfix or Exim. But since you brought Zimbra into play I suspect you need more than plain mail delivery

Re: file system errors

Daniel Dalton: > > The hard drive in the mp3 just spins up and back down when I plug the > usb in. Now it's not even showing up under /dev. Do you guys think it's > a bad hdd and it's time to get a new mp3? Yes and no. The hd is probably dying, but if I were you, I would search for a replacement o

Re: Change from ms sql server to some database in debian

Please don't top-post. Umarzuki Mochlis: > > I also want to know if there's any to tool to convert ms sql db to > postgres or mysql. Didn't you look at the existing documentation? http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Converting_from_other_Databases_to_PostgreSQL J. -- I worry about people thinking

Re: Kernel 31

Mark Allums: > > Anyone with experience with 2.6.31 yet? Anything we need to know? I am running 2.6.31 since at least -rc4 and have no problems. I just don't like the changes regarding the rfkill framework. On my Thinkpad X200, Fn-F5 switched on/off bluetooth only and the switch on the side swi

Re: Kernel 31

Dave Witbrodt: > > In short, it looks very good. I am using a very carefully customized > .config file, however, and no experimental/unstable features such as KMS > (kernel mode setting). KMS works very fine here (recent Intel graphics) since I learned that you have to disable the framebuffe

Re: Kernel 31

Alex Samad: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 07:08:15PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I am running 2.6.31 since at least -rc4 and have no problems. I just >> don't like the changes regarding the rfkill framework. On my Thinkpad >> X200, Fn-F5 switched on/off bluetooth

Re: debian in 64 bit

Guillaume CHARDIN: > > So on intel plateform (the one i have is P4) I have to use amd64 images :) > Nice :) This is because AMD developed the 64 Bit extensions that Intel uses (as a licensee) as well. From a user's perspective, the naming is a bit unfortunate, but it is giving credit where credit

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Sjoerd Hardeman: > > Why not just copy /etc, /home, /root and /var, and make sure you do not > follw symlinks in copying. That should do. Not quite. This might lead to problems when UIDs have changed. Some packages (say, Apache) create new users and files which belong to these users. Even if you

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Sjoerd Hardeman: > Jochen Schulz schreef: >> >> Not quite. This might lead to problems when UIDs have changed. Some >> packages (say, Apache) create new users and files which belong to these >> users. Even if you install the same set of packages on a new system, yo

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Robert P. J. Day: > > anyway, that's what i'm thinking -- one subsystem or component at a > time, so i can appreciate the distinctions between all the parts. ftp > server. mail server. web server and configuration. > > good idea? too much work? thoughts? As I already said: it clearly is

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Emanoil Kotsev: > > > Hi, this is a question I was going to ask in few weeks as I planned to learn > how I can migrate from 32 to 64 bit debian distro. > > It looks like it's not possible to just upgrade i.e. replacing the sources > in apt/source.list? You can try finding all occurences of i386

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Alex Samad: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:11:17PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> This is only true for users with a UID < 100, as these are defined and >> maintained by the base-passwd package. System users with a higher UID >> get their UID and GID allocated at package installation time and use

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Emanoil Kotsev: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> Yes, groups created by a package are not removed, not even on purge (I >> still have the 'Debian-exim' user and group, though I purged it and >> replaced it with postfix). If that same package is reinstalled it will >> reuse the user:group, this is why

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Emanoil Kotsev: > > You are right, that I'm not targeting the same approach. Migration of data > and services involves too much manual work. However I was thinking that > after replacing the package sources in source.list you could force > reinstall if every single package that has the status inst

Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?

Emanoil Kotsev: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> Don't you read the replies to your mails? There is no way to tell apt >> which architecture to fetch packages for. Not in sources.list nor >> anywhere else. > > You mean that if I say > > debootstrap

Re: Starting MTA:

Dale: > 2009/9/17 K. Jantzen : >> >> in the booting sequence of Debian lenny I see a line  saying >> >> Starting MTA: >> >> It  "takes ages" until  Debian comes up with "exim4". Thus booting takes >> quite some time. >> >> What does that mean? >> Do I have to have that? Exim4 is Debian's defau

Re: Starting MTA:

Michal: > > MTA is mail transfer agent, exim is one of those, like sendmail, > postfix et al, and you can remove this. Check the guide under > install/remove some software > > update-rc.d -f exim remove This is bad advice for various reasons. - It doesn't solve the problem, it's just a workarou

Re: How do you put a debian iso image onto a usb flash drive?

Charlie Dorff: > > Could someone please explain how to put a debian iso image onto a usb flash > drive? Thank you in advance. The Debian Installation Guide contains a section explaining this. The basic idea is that you just need to install a bootloader and a kernel and then can copy any ISO to th

Re: bi-directional file-synchronization tool

T o n g: > > Anyone knows a good bi-directional file-synchronization tool that can > synchronize changes to files and directories in both directions on > different hosts, propagating the changes between them? > > This is mainly use to synchronize files and directories between my > notebook and

Re: undelete files

Danesh Daroui: > > I have deleted my "/tmp" directory by mistake. Generally, that shouldn't be a problem, since no application should expect to find data stored in there after a reboot anyway. Just recreate it and do 'chmod 1777 /tmp' afterwards. > I would like to ask if there is anyway to retri

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

Merciadri Luca: > > However, when booting Debian, it is put at 75%, and keeps using this > value until I change it (by clicking on the applet, and choosing > "Performance" or "2.66Ghz", or "100%"). What does # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor say after bootup? > I thou

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

Merciadri Luca: > Jochen Schulz writes: > >> What does >> >> # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor >> >> say after bootup? >> > Ondemand, the same as what appears in the applet, after boot. However, > despite "Ondema

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

Tixy: > On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 10:45 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> However, the whole problem is that it does *not* automatically adjust >> the CPU freq, according to its load. > > When doing some video transcoding a while ago, on a Lenny install, I > noticed that it was using 100% CPU time wi

Re: Latest SID update has removed the close buttons

Alan Chandler: > > In the latest SID update, it appears that all the close buttons from my > windows have disappeared (along with the minimize and maximize button). > I am using standard Gnome, so I assume its the metacity window manager > doing this Is metacity running at all? J. -- I'm b

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

Nuno Magalhães: > Jochen Schulz: >> The first thing I would do in your situation is to make sure my disk >> isn't dying. Run a forced fsck on all filesystems (including /) and use >> smartctl (packege: smartmontools) to check your disk for errors. > > Erhm... th

Re: Important commands lose permissions after upgrades.

Nuno Magalhães: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:52, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Jochen Schulz put forth on 10/9/2009 1:57 AM: >>> >>> I hate hard disks. Never trust them, irrespective of their age. >> >> I second that. > > Thanks for the input but i c

Re: Installing Lenny using usb stick

Siju George: > > Where do I get usb install images for lenny and how do I write it to > the USB drive? In the installation manual. :) Wait, lmgtfy: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en J. -- I no longer believe in father christmas but have no trouble comprehending a nucle

Re: -- SPAM -- rc.local is not executed

Mike McClain: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Everything in my rc.local works like a champ. > > I'm curious how this works for you but not for Mr. Belahcene and not for me. > > I've a Debian 4.0 (Etch mostly) system with sysv-rc installed > and /etc/rc.local is not called by defa

Re: Some documents on 3 PCs

Allan Dreyer Andersen: > > Right now I'm copying my personal documents and pictures between these 3 > PC and it's a hell. And from time to time I miss copying specific files > with updates ... so there must be a better way to handle all this. During my studies, I had the same problem. First I

Re: lenny on x86

Kelly Clowers: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:55, Attilio Cucchieri wrote: >> >> Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines >> using floppy is (or will be) available? > > I don't think there is such a thing, and I doubt there will be. > The manual makes no mention of floppies: > http:

Re: setting up vhost for external DNS?

Zach Uram: > > I wish to take over a wiki so I am setting it up on my machine however > it will use the DNS hosted by someone else so they will setup a CNAME > record pointing "wiki.foo.org" to my machine's ip. I have no control > over foo.org. > > So how exactly should I set up the name based vho

Re: Problems with python on etch

Michael Schwartzkopff: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free These entries don't point to etch anymore. Lenny is stable now. If you already have installed packages from these source

Re: Update Manager

Hi, first: please don't reply to mails to this list if you don't answer to them. This is annyoing for a lot of people and your mail might go unnoticed by people who are able to give good answers to your questions. John Lindsay: > Is there a problem with the update manager or the sites from which

Re: finding similar files

Hendrik Boom: > > There wouldn't happen to be any handy tools for searching a directory > tree with a few hundred ASCII files and telling me which ones have > similar content? I don't know about any tools ready for use, but if your files aren't too large you could build something out of my (or a

Re: I look for a tool to archive mail older than 1 year or other value from imap accout

KLEIN Stéphane: > > I wounder if someone know one tool to archive mail older than some date > value from imap account ? apt-cache search archive mail imap J. -- Watching television is more hip than actually speaking to anyone. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: No soft-links for scp?

Dotan Cohen: > > I need to softlink to files on a remote machine on my home network. It > appears that scp does not support softlinks. Is there another way to > do this? Not directly. Softlinks always point to filesystems in your local hierarchy. A workaround is to use sshfs (or NFS or any other n

Re: No soft-links for scp?

Dotan Cohen: > 2009/2/26 Jochen Schulz : >> Dotan Cohen: >>> >>> I need to softlink to files on a remote machine on my home network. It >>> appears that scp does not support softlinks. Is there another way to >>> do this? >> >> Not dire

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

Chris Jones: > > I have a naive question. > > While your brute force decryption is running, how do you determine you > have found the "one key" and decide it's time to stop? This is a valid question! Depending on the encryption system in use, it cannot be answered satisfactorily. If a one-time

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

Chris Jones: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 08:34:25AM EST, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> This is a valid question! Depending on the encryption system in use, >> it cannot be answered satisfactorily. > > I'm not sure it's related to the encryption/decryption proces

Re: Advice about ext3, please

Paul E Condon: > > I had pretty much decided the other way, but this, plus ... The drive is > already ext3, and wikipedia article mentions problems with reverting back > to ext2, which I would have to do. So, I've decided to not change, > --- for now --- I didn't read the article, but ex

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

Masatran / Deepak, R.: > > Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and > one Ext3 partition. Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At least cheap flash drives probably don't have smart wear levelling. > The problem is that when I transfer files from my lapto

Re: vim

hr mahan: > > I would like to use vim as editor for my Fortran programs.  In Fedora > vim colorizes the program's text.  I would like to have this option > enabled on my Debian box as well.  What is the solution? Look into /etc/vim/vimrc to configure system-wide defaults or make the appropriate c

Re: scripts for batch treatment

Bernard: > > I intend to copy a number of files chosen from a given directory. At > first, I've made a mistake : instead of deleting unwanted files from a > copy of said directory, I worked on deleting lines on a filelist that I > had extracted > using 'ls -l > filename.txt'. I am not sure

Re: openvpn restart - bridge loses tap0 interface

Bernd Aufrecht: > >> Can i ask why you are bridging a openvpn interface ? why not route ? > > For security reasons. My wireless access point has only WEP and so i > have it connected to my second LAN Port on my home server. I then use > openvpn to connect from from my notebook and bridge int

Re: Lenovo laptop - Type Control D to Continue

Jimmy Johnson: > > Hey Guy's I have Lenovo laptop, new "Lenny install" and I'm having to > type control+d to continue boot, This is usually the case when the system tries to mount a filesystem from a partition which is not available. Posting your /etc/fstab and the partition that cannot be found

Re: Help! Grub is broken

明覺: > > It all happened suddenly. I was editing a file in gedit 3 minutes ago, and > when I was saving it, it said "readonly filesystem". What's in /var/log/syslog? > then i restarted my > machine, it ccould not shutdown for it said it's a readonly file system. > then i pressed reset to force it

Re: setuid script

cesarino vinh: > > why doesn't setuid work? The kernel ignores the SUID bit on all script files (anything which is run by a she-bang line). http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part4/section-7.html J. -- I will not admit to failure even when I know I am terribly mistaken and have offended othe

Re: Best slim laptop on debian

gusti: > > I want to by a slim laptop, but the last time that was buy a laptop was > a Toshiba Portege R100 and still I have not 3D support. > I don't want to make a wrong decision, so can you please recommend the > best slim laptop today supported fully support on linux? I own a Thinkpad X

Re: libmetacity0

Dan-Simon Myrland: > > I'm trying to install compiz-fusion-all on my debian sid, but for some > reason libmetacity0 will not install. If you had told us how you tried to do that and what exactly happened instead, we might have been able to help you. But hey, it's never too late! :) > When i try t

Re: hostname, dyndns and home network

T o n g: > > Anyone who has a home network and a dyndns account can share you > arrangement with your box's hostnames? E.g., > > - Do you use FQDN for all hosts? -- I found using a single name as > hostname will cause problem for many application, sendmail, squid, etc. > > - Only one host can

Re: Suspending and resuming compile process

Amit Uttamchandani: > > Now, I am thinking of applying this to kernel compilation, etc. Is this > common practice? Do others do this as well? I suspended while compiling kernels a few times already. I didn't even bother to suspend the process. No problems so far. But I agree it takes a while to g

Re: hostname, dyndns and home network

T o n g: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:04:06 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >>> - Only one host can have a dyndns.org domain name, how do you set >>> domain name for the rest of the boxes? >> >> I have wasteland.homelinux.net as a publicly visible hostname and all m

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