I'm reviewing/planning for new offsite backup media and am wondering
what people are using now. Previous discussions I found on
lists.debian.org are a few years old. Remote offsite (e.g. on another
computer at another site) is not an option for me.
I've been happy using 100 MB Zip disks; I can s
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:15:58PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> But while researching on google about wireless access points in linux,
> we discovered another option is to make a bridge. We are thinking this
> could be done by bridging the eth0 and ath0 and giving the bridge
> device, br0, an ip address
Personally, I always use aptitude so I can see what it wants to do
before it does it.
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:49:23AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 04:19:16AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:29:43PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> Unfortulately, aptitude doesn't know if you explicitly requested a
> package using apt-get, so you will
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:09:46PM +0200, cristian zapelli wrote:
> Dear staff of Debian,
> I'm trying to upload the debian o.s.;
> I've read the faq but I' ve some problems anyway;
>
> First of all I think I should download the i386 architecturewhen I
> get to this page http://cdimage.debia
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:05:39PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:39, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > > So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being
> > > upgradeable?
> >
> > Becaus
Just a reminder,
reply to the list. I'm not sure which list you read it on, so I sent it
to both.
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:06:22AM -0600, Cedar Cox wrote:
> >It seems that USB sticks/flash-drives are far more rugged than anything
> >other than paper. What have you found?
>
> Flash memory doe
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:57:55PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:50:15PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Different types of flash memory have different cycle counts.
>
> > I don't know how a memory chip gets translated into a 'drive'. Is it
> > like a HDD with
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 05:21:19PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I have two machines which are running NTP. They both synchronize to
> these servers in /etc/ntp.conf:
>
> server ntp2.usno.navy.mil
> server ntp-1.vt.edu
> server ntp-2.vt.edu
>
> Now, here is where the weidrness comes in. Th
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:39:42PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:34:25PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > Scarletdown wrote:
> > >On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 01:07 -0400, Kai wrote:
> > >
> > >>I have a very old Toshiba laptop and I am looking to put Debian or
> > >>some other form
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:57:56PM +0200, Christian Christmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a Debian machine with a sound card. I can play
> mp3 with libOSS.so. When I connect to this machine with
> ssh from another machine (it's a Sun terminal) with X
> forwarding, I can start xmms and it also starts p
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:45:34PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> I was wondering about the best way to start iptables with each boot in
> Debian and so I did some googling. I found a Debian Wiki and it gave
> instructions concerning update-rc.d, but this requires a script for
> iptables in init.d and t
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 12:32:59PM -0300, Javier Viegas wrote:
> Hi, im a happy debian user, but im trying to install stable version 3.1 on a
> new pc that has the Asus PWD5 deluxe mother on it wich has 2 onboard Marvel
> Gigabit Ethernet adapters and it have mainly support for sata drives, if i
>
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 02:21:19PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 October 2006 11:15, michael wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:07:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote
> >
> >
> > > Does anyone have experience rebuilding a mdadm RAID when the config
> > > info has been wiped out? (I wouldn't th
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:42:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:14:32PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > >
> > > If you want a little more control over the details, with a usable
> > > text-based user interface, use 'apt
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 09:06:10AM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> * Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > >
> > Hi Patrick,
> > most folks just run 'shorewall'! And you can add more rules if you need
> > to.
> > =Kev
>
> This does seem to be the consensus here. However, as I have never
> used this
Hello,
I currently have exim4 set up and working fine. Outgoing mail is
rewritten from dtutty to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I get it to rewrite it to
Doug Tutty and Jane Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
?
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On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:09:35PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:15:53 -0700
> "michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 20:04:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote
> > > On 10/14/06 19:53, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:29PM -0700, michael
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 01:32:52PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> Interesting what you say about ipmasq. How automatic is it? I would
> have assumed that it had more to do with making your machine a
> gateway, which mine isn't, than firewalling it
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:02PM +, David Dawson wrote:
> but if you are using dialup, you could run a crontab every day to execute
> ntpdate instead
Better still is chrony. It polls ntp sources when you're online,
skewing the system time instead of jumping it like ntpdate, and
automatical
I'm building a new computer (Etch is installing over dial up now),
but all my modems are internal ISA. So unless I want to have to fire up
my 486 just to dial out, I need a new modem.
The MB has a serial port and I have 3 PCI slots, a PCI-E x 16 and 2
PCI-E x1 free. (Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe AMD AM2,
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:51:16PM +, Tyler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I really want to try Mutt. However, I'm more than a little overwhelmed
> by the documentation. I understand that Mutt requires a properly
> configured MTA, and that Exim4 is the recommended, default MTA for
> Debian. However, Exim
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:21:31PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:18:28PM -0400, Jos? Alburquerque wrote:
> > I'm sorry to say, but the spam on the list is getting dirty. Is there
> > anything we can do about this? Thanks.
> >
>
> Install spamassasin and train it
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:22:24PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > If you look at the number of lines of rules you make, and compare it
> > to the number of lines (pages!) of iptables rules it makes, you see
> > that shorewall is easier. Also the syntax is easier.
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 08:22:55PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:07:29PM +, Chris Moore wrote:
> > I'd like to cksum or md5sum the files just to
> > make sure that they were all copied well. I can't seem to find
> > a way to recurse through the directories and do this to a lot of
> > files.
>
Couldn't you use cat and shasum:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:27:23PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Grok Mogger wrote:
> >I have about 36 GB of files on a hard disk that I've transfered to
> >another disk. I'd like to cksum or md5sum the files just to make sure
> >that they were all copied well. I can't seem to find a way to recu
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