Re: Sendmail greeting delay

2015-01-13 Thread Chris Davies
David Parker dpar...@utica.edu wrote: We have an SMTP server running Sendmail 8.14.4-4 on Debian 7 64-bit. Kaccess hash -TTMPF /etc/mail/access # FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -TTMPF /etc/mail/access', `skip')dnl For some reason, I just can't get it to not pause when greeting external

Re: VPN IPSec (Cisco vpnc)

2015-01-12 Thread Chris Davies
Hajder Rabiee hajd...@gmail.com wrote: Trying to connect to VPN at work but keep getting: vpnc: no response from target. This is a typical response when the group name/password are incorrect. IPSec ID group-id IPSec secret group-psk Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-23 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Ah... I had not ever seen ntpdate or rdate used for clock comparison before. It really is a very useful tool for clock comparisons. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-10 Thread Chris Davies
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 09 iun 14, 19:01:51, Chris Davies wrote: I have yet to find a useful alternative to the very convenient ntpdate -qu {server}. Is there one? Just by looking at manpages maybe 'sntp server' is what you're looking for? Thank you. They're

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Davies
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: ntpdate is obsolete, please remove (purge) it and install ntp. For day-to-day usage I would agree with your recommendation of ntp to ntpdate. However, I have yet to find a useful alternative to the very convenient ntpdate -qu {server}. Is there one?

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-28 Thread Chris Davies
Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: I'm not currently using heirloom mailx, or exim, so testing it is a bit hard - but are you getting the prompt _before_ the debug output? This is how I've seen the mail / mailx tools work since, I think, at least the last twenty years. (Ouch!) So I

Re: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-26 Thread Chris Davies
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've tried adding this line: smtp_accept_queue_per_connection=300 to /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template which causes a failure when I run /etc/init.d/exim4 reload (It generates a new conf that exim4 does not accept. That line looks plausible to me.

Re: problems with ntp syncronization in wheezy

2014-05-22 Thread Chris Davies
Leonardo Cuyar Morales leona...@softel.cu wrote: I just installed debian wheezy amd64. After having set ntp configurations in /etc/default/ntpdate file, like: - set the ntp server - do not read /etc/ntp.conf file the same configuration I did in squeeze, my result was wheezy does not get

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-23 Thread Chris Davies
Daniel Bareiro daniel-lis...@gmx.net wrote: What I meant is to have a group of commands in a script that, in addition to being executed, I want these commands are stored in a log. LOG=/var/log/...logfile... ExecAndLog() { # Season with date, PID, user, etc., to taste

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-04-01 Thread Chris Davies
Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? CHARMAP=UTF-8 CODESET=Lat15 FONTFACE=TerminusBold FONTSIZE=8x16 I've got FONTFACE=Fixed for wheezy, and that shows UTF-8

Re: Time Zone Questions

2014-04-01 Thread Chris Davies
Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote: And London is going to shift from UTC to its local daylight saving time, British summer Time, BST, sometime in the next week or so. Pendantically speaking, not really. We were on GMT and are now on BST. UTC is invariant, and although it just so happens that

Re: IP Blocked in forum.debian.net

2014-03-10 Thread Chris Davies
Muntasim Ul Haque tranjees...@inventati.org wrote: While registering in forum.debian.net, I got error message saying my IP has been blocked for spamming. Are you using a proxy such as squid? I see this message often on various forums, but all it really means in my case is that the forum code

Re: DHCP quickie

2014-03-04 Thread Chris Davies
Danny dannydeb...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to only give leases at a certain time of day for a certain IP or MAC? Say from 06:00 till 10:00 and then from 18:00 till 22:00? - What should happen when that device requests an IP address outside those times? - If it's to be refused, can

Re: rdesktop

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Davies
lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 13,February,2014 11:55 PM, Reco wrote: ERROR: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname That means that you've tried to connect to a non-resolvable hostname (i.e. no hostname → IP association). No more, no less. Quick-and-dirty solution

Re: How to `echo' the core # a bash script is running on?

2014-02-10 Thread Chris Davies
Marco Ippolito maroloc...@gmail.com wrote: How can I `echo', in `bash', the core # the current script is running on? This will probably do it for you awk '{print $39}' /proc/$$/stat See proc(5) for details, including the 39. Please also note that unless you've set the task affinity (see

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-02-01 Thread Chris Davies
Craig L. cr...@gtek.biz wrote: When I tried to reconnect, it took almost 60 seconds for the password prompt to show up. It's probably trying to lookup rDNS for your IP address. Reverse lookups are controlled by a parameter in the sshd_config file. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Determine XTerm Geometry

2014-01-21 Thread Chris Davies
Mathias Bauer mba...@gmx.org wrote: * Patrick Bartek wrote on 2014-01-20 at 13:18 (-0800): Need to get geometry of running xterms take a look at $ xwininfo -id WINDOW_ID Also wmctrl -lG Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Minimizing shell access on my VPS

2014-01-18 Thread Chris Davies
Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Set up another user with /bin/rbash (not straight /bin/bash) as a shell. Set PATH in .bashrc of said user to that program. Unfortunately rbash has a race condition built in to its execution of .profile by definition (it doesn't disable the interrupt signal

Re: [Solved] Re: Debian gateway problem

2014-01-08 Thread Chris Davies
mett m...@pmars.jp wrote: I end up with the script below working perfectly, except if I use both following rules at the beginning of the script. iptables -t nat -F iptables -t mangle -F I would imagine it's because something else (your PPP connection, perhaps) has already placed

Re: Best SFTP (w/chroot): vsftpd vs mysecureshell vs other ??

2014-01-04 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Goldberg bobg.h...@gmail.com wrote: trying to determine best solution for an SFTP server. vsftpd appears to be my current best choice vsftpd is Very Secure FTP Daemon. It does FTP well (cleartext passwords notwithstanding). It doesn't do SFTP (file transfer over ssh). users must be

Re: Possible to add an LVM to existing Wheezy box

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Davies
Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net wrote: Actually, the disk we are rescuing is the surviving member of a RAID1 pair[1]. I realised, today, that I cannot simply install that in our Wheezy box because (I think) it needs a software RAID layer in order to read it (fstab refers to md1, md2 etc). It

Re: Possible to add an LVM to existing Wheezy box

2014-01-01 Thread Chris Davies
Howard hc...@tesco.net wrote: [...] one partition of 1.7TB purely for filesystem backup data [...] The data partition contains several years' worth of incremental backups [...] It also provides the historical context of what data was available to us during our projects, which can be

Re: Using the spare space on a bootable USB

2013-12-21 Thread Chris Davies
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: This technique should not be required to be used ; the stick with the dd'ed image should boot directly. Does it not? According to the OP it does, but it's irrelevant to the question that they asked. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Remove root access from folder/directory

2013-12-06 Thread Chris Davies
Muntasim-Ul-Haque tranjees...@inventati.org wrote: I've unzipped a folder and it became root protected. Next time don't unzip it as root. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-28 Thread Chris Davies
Chris Davies writes: Last time I looked, the wordpress package was a point or two behind the current version. Many of these point releases seem to be to fix security issues, so I have to question the wisdom of using an older version for a potentially Internet-facing server. John Hasler jhas

Re: wordpress, again

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Davies
Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Would you be willing to help me get a wordpress installation up and running? I've done aptitude install wordpress which dragged in all the necessary other packages, like apache2, mysql, php… etc. So I *think* I've got all the tools I'll need. Last time

Re: Google other web mail (was Re: top posting)

2013-11-21 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner da...@guntner.com wrote: GMail Yahoo Mail both support encrypted POP3 IMAP [...] I don't have to look at their ads since I'm not using their web interface [...] How long do you think it's going to be before they start inserting ads into the message body then? (And/or offering a

Re: Debian 7 installation

2013-11-18 Thread Chris Davies
Kailash Kalyani listskail...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:32:04PM -0800, Atari McBits wrote: I am having some problems installing Debian 7 on a old laptop of mine. So, I press Install and then after a few minutes, the screen just goes black and I have no idea what is going on.

Re: [OT?] What's wrong with my exim4 configuration?

2013-11-10 Thread Chris Davies
Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: I am struggling to configure exim4 on my home desktop to send system notifications to my public email address [...] [I replaced smtp's port with NNN. Also, assume 'machine' is output of command 'hostname', while 'machine.homenetwork' is output of 'hostname

Re: Bash Scripting Question

2013-11-07 Thread Chris Davies
Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 09:58:58PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: Maybe you'll need something like expect to handle this. I'd second expect, it's probably the best tool for the job in all non-trivial cases. The empty-expect package, perhaps? Chris -- To

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl wrote: I routinely add or remove ip addresses from an interface without having to bring the physical interface up or down. Me too. (Well, not routinely, but quite comfortably. It's very convenient when needing to talk to a new device that's got a default initial

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk wrote: Debian 7.2 runs fine on UEFI, GPT partitioning works fine. You might want to try auto partitioning - there needs to be a 1M space at beginning and end of he disk and a 510M partition marked for EFIboot. I assume the 1MB space at the

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: I have been using the iceweasel web browser for years; but in the past several weeks using an up-to-date jessie system, iceweasel has become very sluggish. Until a couple of weeks ago I had a really strange speed problem with FF/Iceweasel. It would

Re: logwatch question

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: I installed /tmp as tmpfs, is there a config file for logwatch where I can modify this and tell logwatch to use /var/tmp instead of /tmp? The default value in the program can be (and is) overridden by the system installed default

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Chris Davies ch...@roaima.co.uk wrote: I assume the 1MB space at the beginning is for grub_boot? I found I needed that for my big (3TB) GPT disks. What's the space required at the end of the disk? A gpt disk needs 34 sectors

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Davies
Thank you, Tom and Sven. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/23hojax9ln@news.roaima.co.uk

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-21 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Tom H wrote: I'm pretty sure that the last time (six months ago?) Bob linked to a Debian wiki page [...] that used multiple iface declarations for the same nic (I've also used multiple declarations).

Re: no .bash_hostory file was found in user home folder

2013-10-21 Thread Chris Davies
Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: :~$ echo $HISTFILE /home/ykhan/.bash_history any idea where these history files are. actually i need to do some accounting for my users , what they are doing actually with time tag set to ON. These files are of limited value for accounting since

Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

2013-10-18 Thread Chris Davies
Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: iface eth3.77 inet static address 10.0.5.15 iface eth3.77 inet static address 10.0.5.16 The Debian documentation at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html states categorically, « Do not define duplicates of the iface stanza for a

Re: Bash variable escaping

2013-09-10 Thread Chris Davies
Denis Witt denis.w...@concepts-and-training.de wrote: I've a problem with a script. It's a wrapper for a program which uses for example '*' as a parameter. It could also be 'foobar*' [...] Do you expect the program to see the asterisk character itself, or an expansion into the corresponding

Re: Wheezy: exim4 + mailman it is not sending messages.

2013-09-02 Thread Chris Davies
lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: exim4 mainlog says: R=system_aliases defer (-30): pipe_transport unset in system_aliases router README.debian mentions 2 different methods, but it is absolutely confuse. The choice you have to balance is security vs complexity. On an internal-only system I've simply

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Davies
Adam J. Gamble a...@sleep.cx wrote: Just require some clarification with my Debian install on HP Proliant Microserver (N40L). Installation going fine until I hit 'Partition disks', I had assumed it would find the 250gb HD built-in ..currently don't have any HDs in the slots. The built-in

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Davies
Adam J. Gamble a...@sleep.cx wrote: Appologies not 'built-in' so to speak, just no additional drives. Actually as luck would have it, my 2TB Western Digital just arrived :) Assume its an issue with Debian install /finding/ disks to partition then? BIOS can see both, so no problem there.

Re: Proliant Microserver installation

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Davies
Adam J. Gamble a...@sleep.cx wrote: Fixed! Was same bug as in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720442#10 Ah! Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Now I am really confused. I have two systems; one with an Intel P4, 3GHz, multi-thread and one with an Intel i5-750. Both are running Wheezy with a KDE desktop. The i5-750 system recognizes the 4GB of memory but the P4 system does not. They are

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: It's best to use identical drives with identical firmware, which means buying all your drives up front from the same lot. I had always understood that best practice was the opposite of this recommendation, so as to help protect against a single point

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 7/11/2013 3:43 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Can you help clarify, please? Se my detailed response to Henrique. Thank you Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Dotfiles

2013-07-04 Thread Chris Davies
Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: Dňa 02.07.2013 23:32 John Hasler wrote / napísal(a): Look at the access times. Dotfiles that have not been accessed in years can probably be safely removed. Sure, but do not forget, that the relatime (default one) and noatime mount options are going into play,

Re: pdf applciation that ACTUALL deletes pages

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Davies
Jeff Shearer j...@shearer-family.org wrote: Can someone direct me to an application that will let me delete pages and then save the resulting file fo Debian 7? pdftk can do this indirectly: you specify the set of pages you want to keep. So to delete page 7 from a ten page document, pdftk

Re: Squid with https in transparent mode

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Davies
Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: Thanks for the input. I think really should give up the transparent approach and try to make usage of autoconfig with hope clients are able to understand. Supported by at least IE, FF, and Chrome on Windows since XP, if not earlier, and on Linux-based

Re: Squid with https in transparent mode

2013-07-01 Thread Chris Davies
Karl E. Jorgensen karl.jorgen...@nice.com wrote: I just realised: there is a 4th (or is that 5th?) option: policy based routing. Ah yes. Clever. Thank you for the extra item on the list. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Squid with https in transparent mode

2013-06-28 Thread Chris Davies
Frank Lanitz fr...@frank.uvena.de wrote: Is there a way of using a squid proxy in transparent way [...] for SSL. If I'm entering the proxy directly into e.g. Firefox it's working -- but don't got it running via transparent mode. As you'll know, it's pretty straightforward to set up a

Re: /etc/shadow password hash format (migration from SuSE 9.3 to Debian Wheezy)

2013-05-27 Thread Chris Davies
Andreas Meile mailingli...@andreas-meile.ch asked about /etc/shadow: Is there a good overview WWW link about all these $Version$[Subversion?$] formats? man shadow says of the encrypted password field, Refer to crypt(3) for details on how this string is interpreted. man 3 crypt contains a NOTES

Re: how forward email

2013-05-18 Thread Chris Davies
Pol Hallen de...@fuckaround.org wrote: putting an email to .forward (into a dir account) its email goes to that address. I need keep a copy of that email. Can I do it with /etc/aliases? or there's another way? Put yourself into the .forward too, prefixed with \. For example, for someone

Re: ssh login fails, access denied

2013-05-08 Thread Chris Davies
Bonno Bloksma b.blok...@tio.nl wrote: Just did my first Wheezy install on a VMware virtual machine. I accepted the default SSH server option. Server is running, I can log in via the VMware console both as the root user and as the regular user and use su - to switch to the root user. When I

Re: jerks in net connections

2013-05-05 Thread Chris Davies
andrey.ry...@bilkent.edu.tr wrote: no. it does not help. the problem is not for sshd itself. Same phenomena i see with browser on this computer. this problem is not specific for ssh but for network connection generally. Take a read on TCP Slow Start [1] and Nagle's algorithm [2]. Chris [1]

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Davies
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: However, sip...@sipgate.co.uk works for phones registered with the network (just like Skype). There is no connection established when the call is from another network (again, just like Skype). This restriction was put in place by Sipgate to stop VoIP SPAM.

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-03 Thread Chris Davies
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Fri 03 May 2013 at 13:27:14 +0100, Chris Davies wrote: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: However, sip...@sipgate.co.uk works for phones registered with the network (just like Skype). There is no connection established when the call is from another

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Davies
Andr? Nunes Batista andrenbati...@gmail.com wrote: There are many voip softwares available and ekiga may be the most prominent. Although not the ideal from a free software perspective, you can also use a plugin to access skype network through pidgin. The Pidgin plugin uses the Skype

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-30 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: On Monday, April 29, 2013 5:30:03 PM UTC-4, Chris Davies wrote: Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: What I recall of the PuTTY FAQ (a specific pointer would help) is that http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html that's not what I meant

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-29 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas Dickey dic...@his.com wrote: What I recall of the PuTTY FAQ (a specific pointer would help) is that it's roughly comparable to rxvt http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: terminal emulator compatible with Ecma-48

2013-04-28 Thread Chris Davies
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I know that most terminal emulators support most VT100 escape sequences, which are based on ecma-48 I'd extend that to suggest that most terminal emulators support the majority of VT220 sequences, not just the VT100 subset. but as far as I know, they are

Re: vnc server

2013-04-18 Thread Chris Davies
ChadDavis chadmichaelda...@gmail.com wrote: Clarification. Are you saying that some vnc servers serve up a remote login to a new session, while others simply share an existing gnome session? Yes. vino shares the existing Gnome session (see System Preferences Remote Desktop). I'm sure

Re: Highlighting CLI output: what are these terms called?

2013-04-18 Thread Chris Davies
Morel Bérenger berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le Mer 17 avril 2013 10:22, Dotan Cohen a écrit : tail -f file.log | perl -pe 's/keyword/\e[1;31;43m$\e[0m/g' Those are escape sequences from VT100 IIRC. These escape sequences do not need to be embedded into your programs; they can be

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-04-04 Thread Chris Davies
Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Are there any readily available, inexpensive (US$200-500), NAS (Network Attached Storage) boxes in the 1-3TB capacity that are capable of running Debian and NFS? Roll your own with an HP Proliant microserver (the N40L series that are just being

Re: restricting login times

2013-03-25 Thread Chris Davies
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: I found this ancient post on using PAM and /etc/security/time.conf to accomplish this kind of thing on techrepublic (Complete with typos: A1 for Al? What bot edited that?): Here are some of the rules I've tried, one at a time: login; tty*; user1;

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: The ANSI standard lists ESC[4m as the code to produce an underline export TERM=ansi80x25 printf \033[4masdfasdfasdf produces green text, not underline text as stated in the standard. Please can you try this (before you do an export TERM):

Re: ESC[4m does not produce underline

2013-03-04 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: I tried so many things, the terminal is tired! tput... does the same as ESC[4m... OK. The tput looked up your declared terminal type ($TERM) in the terminfo database and returned you the appropriate code assigned to start underline. So if it doesn't

Re: DRAC support in the Debian package of Cyrus POP3/IMAP 2.4.16

2013-02-04 Thread Chris Davies
Steffen Moser li...@steffen-moser.de wrote: Some mobile devices are not capable of doing SMTP AUTH. Could you elaborate, please? I'd like to know, so that I can (try to) avoid them. Thanks, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Client daemon for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Davies
Alois Mahdal alois.mahdal.1-ndm...@zxcvb.cz wrote: I have several mailboxes in various places that I access using several clients (e.g. other from my laptop, other from my Android and other from a public place). Since I'm using various clients, filtering using rules in MUA is not practical.

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2013-01-11 Thread Chris Davies
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:29:23PM -0500, Neil T. Dantam wrote: At Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:15:54 +, Chris Davies wrote: Reboot the box after installing LVM. Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. This is good to know. However

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-10 Thread Chris Davies
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: My specification explicitly says NO connection whatsoever to the internet. The one you posted at the beginning of this thread didn't say that. However, I'm happy to think about other alternatives. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Davies
Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm beginning to believe--I have no definitive proof, as yet--that the gaps are a simplistic partition alignment solution to maintain optimum hard drive performance for all hard drive(s) configurations, all RAIDs, all filesystems, etc. I wouldn't mind

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-09 Thread Chris Davies
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: To clarify my motivation: 1. divorce myself {as much as possible} from the web - I'm on dial-up. 2. access all man pages {whether or not package installed} using the man command. Would it be reasonable to utilise a manpage cache with

Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Davies
Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: If you are using LVM, you need to leave 1MB before and after the partition for metadata. Some of the tools do this automatically for you. If you don't like it, you can manually adjust the start and end yourself. I use LVM and I'm pretty sure there are no

Re: fail2ban problem

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Davies
Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: I decided to try a fail2ban rule, but I can't get it to work. failregex = HOST .*GET|POST|HEAD /.*phpMy.* HTTPS?/.* 404 [0-9]{1,6} This should match something like: 10.0.0.1 - - [31/Dec/2012:11:40:02 -0500] GET /phpBB2/ HTTP/1.1 404 3308 However,

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-06 Thread Chris Davies
Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Chris Davies wrote: ar -p $PACKAGE data.tar.gz | tar xzvCf / - ./usr/share/man I'll have to sit down with man pages a figure out why that does what you say. ar : archiver. It works on the $PACKAGE archive. The -p flag writes the named member(s

Re: Local copy of ALL man pages

2013-01-05 Thread Chris Davies
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: 'ar -x' will get data.tar.gz from the .deb file. 'tar zvxf data.tar.gz' will do the unpacking. The man pages are in /usr/share/man. Something like 'cp' should be able to get at them. For any given $PACKAGE deb this will extract the manpages into /usr/share/man

Re: Running vlc from another machine.

2013-01-02 Thread Chris Davies
Chris Davies wrote: Ssh is usually (almost always, by default) configured to carry the display across the connection transparently, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Never by default. Yes. My mistake, sorry. It's one of the things I change so early on - along with setting up certificate

Re: Running vlc from another machine.

2012-12-31 Thread Chris Davies
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: At the console, peter@dalton:~$ vlc *.WAV starts a vlc instance and produces audio. I'm going to assume (dangerously) that since you're running vlc rather than cvlc you don't really mean console but local X Windows screen. The same command via a telnet connection is

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Davies
Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote: $(basename $file wav)ogg If you've got bash or some other suitable shell you can do this same thing without resorting to a subprocess: W=/some/path/to/wavmusic.wav echo $(basename $W wav)ogg wavmusic.ogg echo ${W/%wav/ogg}

Re: bash script to convert, compress

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Davies
tsit...@linuxmail.org wrote: what about the compression and deletion of the converted files? # Compression : # Deletion rm -f Have you not listened to any of the discussion? Compression is pointless, and others have suggested you may want to consider storing the music in a non-lossy format so

Re: apt vs. SSD computers

2012-12-17 Thread Chris Davies
jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Even though I only have a 1 Mb ADSL, I find Acquire::PDiffs false; will finally stop the torture my computer is put through. [...] Also there is no way like nice(1) to lessen its grip on resources. If you're concerned about bandwidth try trickle(1). nice(1) on the

Re: Problem With exim4 smtp authenication

2012-12-14 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: I have edited passwd and entered server:user:password exactly as described in exim4_passwd_client and run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. When I try to send mail using exim4 and then tail /var/log/exim4/mainlog I find authenication has failed.

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-13 Thread Chris Davies
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:29:23PM -0500, Neil T. Dantam wrote: At Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:15:54 +, Chris Davies wrote: Reboot the box after installing LVM. Ah, a reboot has lvcreate working properly, thank you. This is good to know. However

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
P. J. McDermott p...@nac.net wrote: I'd like to set up virtualization on a home server So now you have recommendations both ways :-) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
Peter Viskup skupko...@gmail.com wrote: Consider LXC [2] in case you have some concerns of CPU/memory overhead and you plan to run only Linux virtual servers. LXC looks really nice but you need very up-to-date packages, and possibly may even need to consider compiling from source. Issues I've

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Davies
Wolfgang Karall lists+debian-u...@karall-edv.at wrote: On 12/11/2012 11:08 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: The dhcpd will ping the address after the lease has expired and before assigning it again and will notice that it is still in use and will avoid assigning

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Davies
Neil T. Dantam n...@gatech.edu wrote: New (broken) Behavior Performing an `lvcreate -L10G -nLVNAME VGNAME` creates: 1. New device file /dev/mapper/VGNAME-LVNAME (and apparently nothing else) Then, lvcreate tries to open /dev/VGNAME-LVNAME, which fails because of no symlink with:

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Davies
P. J. McDermott p...@nac.net wrote: I'd like to set up virtualization on a home server with a Debian GNU/Linux squeeze amd64 host and squeeze and wheezy amd64 guests. I'd recommend KVM and libvirt/VMM. The server has two 3.0-GHz CPU cores (an AMD CPU with the AMD-V/SVM virtualization

Re: NFS automount not happening

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: The dhcpd will ping the address after the lease has expired and before assigning it again and will notice that it is still in use and will avoid assigning that address to another client. ICMP ping? Are you sure? According to the documents I've read (RFC2131

Re: Awk, filtering match through external command

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Davies
Neal Murphy neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: I don't see a way to pipe both ends of an external command. I'm not sure even *perl* could do that. It can [*], see IPC::Open2 and IPC::Open3. But you can end up with all sorts of buffer related race conditions. Chris -- [*] are you really

Re: Dovecot configuration issues for IMAP/POP3 (squeeze)

2012-11-18 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Fail2ban works by setting up filtering rules through iptables, and will route traffic on a given port from a badly-behaving IP address to a DROP instruction in the firewall. it needs to care about which service is being abused. I'm pretty sure my

Re: apt / aptitude question

2012-11-13 Thread Chris Davies
David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Thanks to both you and Neal for the replies. Interesting to see the multiple ways of getting the same information. :-) They do different things and (for me anyway) give different results. Consider the package cltl that I do not have installed: $

Re: OT: A question about bash scripting

2012-10-30 Thread Chris Davies
Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: month=$(date +%B) mon=$(date +%b) d_y_t=$(date '+/%d/%Y %T') done=$(date +%s) You've got a horrible race condition in there just waiting to bite you. Try this instead: done=$(date +%s) month=$(date --date @$done +%B) mon=$(date

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Davies
Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: The domain in question is virginiaparkinson.com [..] The one you're trying to deliver to (i.e. mynewdomain.com in the original posting)? The virtual machine is a standard squeeze setup with my update-exim4.conf.conf dc_other_hostnames=''

Re: Exim4 behaviour when long term failure of outgoing address

2012-10-07 Thread Chris Davies
Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I am using Debian Squeeze on a virtual machine that I lease. It has exim4 (light) version as its mail server. - its name is avalon.hartley-consultants.com However, it looks to me like its trying to send a failure e-mail to me locally

Re: problems with remote install using ipmi serial-over-ip

2012-10-02 Thread Chris Davies
Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Well, I've been trying to do a remote install onto a server (Supermicro X8SIE-LN4F motherboard) - booting via PXE, and using a serial-over-IP terminal provided by the IPMI board. The serial-over-ip terminal, sort of works - I can get the

Re: Configure Virtual IP interfaces

2012-09-19 Thread Chris Davies
Pietro Paolini p.paol...@ext.adbglobal.com wrote: My goal is to simulate more than one IP interface using just a physical interface, for do that I tried using this alias - ifconfing ethX:1 IP ethX is your real interface, yes? But when I try to send a packet over that interface I see the IP

Re: networking with virtual machine

2012-09-18 Thread Chris Davies
lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de wrote: Yes and when I replace the interface I have now (eth1) with a bridge device (br1), then how do I tell shorewall that the guest is in the dmz (for example)? You need bridge and routeback set in your shorewall interfaces file. Take a look at

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