Re: New to list

2012-02-23 Thread Alison Chaiken
video from Debconf a couple of weeks ago, which is how I found out about this mailing list. Best wishes, Alison -- Alison Chaiken (650) 279-5600  (cell)              http://www.exerciseforthereader.org/ "Laws only declare rights; they do not deliver them." Happy Birthday, Dr. Kin

Re: Thank you for the welcome

2012-02-24 Thread Alison Chaiken
> Alison, I would love to know where you found the Debconf video. See http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2011/debconf11/high/ and talks 722 and 723. Packaging talks were useful too! -- Alison Chaiken (650) 279-5600  (cell)              http://www.exerciseforthereader.

Re: Thank you for the welcome

2012-02-27 Thread Alison Chaiken
eing a dork. People who want to bring balance to committees and panel discussions may select you as long as you stand where they can see you. And so forth. So don't despair: give it a shot.You can always choose later to compromise and pursue a path that you will enjoy less. -- Ali

two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread Alison Chaiken
ave changed all invocations of sendmail to postfix in /etc/*.conf that I can find.Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to look?logrotate.conf needs to be changed? Thanks, Alison -- Alison Chaiken (650) 279-5600  (cell)              http://www.exerciseforthereader.org/ "Laws only

Re: two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread Alison Chaiken
m not sure which process is trying to use sendmail (which is not running) and failing.I guess I could replace the sendmail executable with a shell script that output the identity of its invoker . . . -- Alison Chaiken (650) 279-5600  (cell)              http://www.exerciseforthereader.org/

Re: two sysadmin problems I can't solve three months after switching to Debian-KDE

2012-03-07 Thread Alison Chaiken
, just my personal development machines. Thanks for your assistance so far! -- Alison Chaiken (650) 279-5600  (cell)        http://www.exerciseforthereader.org/ "Laws only declare rights; they do not deliver them." Happy Birthday, Dr. King. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-re

logwatch/SMTP problem resolved, plus one more question about cron tasks

2012-03-08 Thread Alison Chaiken
can tell, root should always use /etc/cron. and users are forced to use "crontab -e" since they can't edit /etc.Is this correct? Or is using root's crontab sometimes indicated? Thanks again, Alison -- Alison Chaiken (650) 279-5600  (cell)              http://www.e

Re: logwatch/SMTP problem resolved, plus one more question about cron tasks

2012-03-09 Thread Alison Chaiken
eyland Paris is the rather odd location where an industrial consortium that wants to make nice with open source is choosing to meet.) -- Alison Chaiken (650) 279-5600  (cell)              http://www.exerciseforthereader.org/ "Laws only declare rights; they do not deliver them." Happy Birthd

Re: Fighting Impostor Syndrome

2013-08-16 Thread Alison Chaiken
tries to answer at least one mailing list technical question a week -- Alison Chaiken (650) 279-5600 (cell) {she-devel.com, exerciseforthereader.org} Your body is governed by ancillary concerns like “stopping the intolerable pain” and “not dying”. Those types of concerns have