Re: check a file within a certain time

2012-05-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi Ron: En fecha Sábado, 5 de Mayo de 2012, ron ramos escribió: Hi All, This is more of a general linux question. I would like to test if a file if exists, and if the test does not respond in 5 seconds it' considered failed. reason for this is that i have web servers that has mounted nfs

Re: Backup System

2012-02-03 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Gary: En fecha Viernes, 3 de Febrero de 2012, Gary Roach escribió: I have 3 computer running on Debian Squeeze. One has an unused hard drive that I wish to use as a backup disk for all 3 computers. Is there a simple way to do this that can be completely automated. Making use of my crystal

Re: Routing vs. bridging; was Re (4): Linux hub

2011-05-15 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Peter: En fecha Domingo, 15 de Mayo de 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca escribió: * From: Jes#xFA;s M. Navarro jesus.nava...@undominio.net * Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:47:48 +0200 There's neither carnot nor Allied Telesis 3612TR in your provided diagram so it's a bit difficult to follow

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-28 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, shawn: En fecha Sábado, 26 de Febrero de 2011, shawn wilson escribió: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:30 PM, John Hasler jhas...@debian.org wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: But there is no 100% way to tell the machine is clean, so you will have to wipe and reinstall anyway. But if the

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Stephen: On Friday 18 February 2011 02:54:03 Stephen Powell wrote: On 17:37 Thu 17 Feb, Lisi (lisi.re...@gmail.com) wrote: Is this statement correct? It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing. quote Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project.

Re: MySQL (phpmyadmin, Wordpress) hosed after upgrade to Squeeze!

2011-02-10 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Erin: On Thursday 10 February 2011 16:57:59 Erin Brinkley wrote: Remco Rijnders re...@webconquest.com wrote: Can you check to see if mysql-server is installed? After my upgrade on one machine from lenny to squeeze it went missing. The MySQL client was installed, but the server part was

Re: hide url in apache2

2011-01-29 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Jesus: On Saturday 29 January 2011 13:38:05 Jesus arteche wrote: Hi guys, I have a web application running in apache2, www.example.com. When I put this on the navigator it goes to www.example.com/users/login. I want the client just see www.example.com in the url of the navigator. And the

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-12 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hugo: On Monday 10 January 2011 21:10:51 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Hal: On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-10 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hal: On Sunday 09 January 2011 20:21:22 Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an

Re: Keeping Lenny via /etc/apt/sources.list when Squeeze becomes stable

2010-12-21 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Monday 20 December 2010 15:17:06 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In aanlktin5-x9wz731nxncmgunzjsyvqycfspxmmraa...@mail.gmail.com, Mark wrote: I am giving my parents a laptop for Christmas this year that I put Lenny on and as I'm on the other side of the country, want to make sure they

Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list

2010-12-14 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, David: On Monday 13 December 2010 02:54:05 David Jardine wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:31:03AM +0100, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Tom: On Friday 10 December 2010 12:04:33 Tom Furie wrote: [...] Why? What's the difference between having stable in the source list

Re: routing

2010-12-14 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi again, Sthu: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 10:37:09 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Jesús: Sorry for the long delay. Excuse me for long respond, please. Regarding the questions, you *can* answer most of them, if not all. Here they come again: 0) Just so we

Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list

2010-12-12 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Tom: On Friday 10 December 2010 12:04:33 Tom Furie wrote: On 10/12/2010 10:04, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:05:00 Tom Furie wrote: As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies if you weren't CC'd on them, you could change from 'testing

Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list

2010-12-10 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Tom: On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:05:00 Tom Furie wrote: On 09/12/2010 18:46, shirish शिरीष wrote: I know it probably is still a long road but want to know when should one change from testing to stable so that one is living in squeeze and not go into wheezy. As others have

Re: dhclient3 fetching NIC IP for gateway machine from DSL modem

2010-11-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Adam: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 11:36:02 Adam Hardy wrote: I've got a weird problem that I always thought must be my hardware but I replaced the hardware and it's continuing. My gateway lenny box hooks up my LAN to the broadband using dhclient3 to fetch the external IP address from

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-11-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Steve: On Monday 15 November 2010 21:34:03 Steve Kemp wrote: [...] Debian policy wouldn't arbitrarily try to mandate how the software we include is written because we simply have no control over that. Not to state a position but I think what you say's basically irrelevant: Debian has

Re: Why is troubleshooting Linux so hard?

2010-11-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Borden: On Tuesday 16 November 2010 22:43:38 Borden Rhodes wrote: [...] Why are there so many duplicate and incomplete bug reports and fora which ask the same questions over and over? I've been guilty of submitting duplicate bug reports even after I spent an hour searching Google to make

Re: Downgrading packages (with dependencies)

2010-11-16 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Boyd: On Monday 15 November 2010 20:55:58 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 201011151334.06503.lukas.linh...@centrumholdings.com, Lukas Linhart [...] Downgrades aren't supported and can't reasonably be supported in general. Specifically, it is impossible to modify the lower-versioned

Re: Newbie alert: Single package from unstable

2010-11-12 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Matt: On Friday 12 November 2010 21:32:05 Matt Simmons wrote: Hi, how can I install a package from unstable? (currently running testing) For example, I know it should be something like: # apt-get install uswsusp/unstable You need: 1) To add sources for unstable to your sources list.

Re: fax server

2010-11-10 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Stan: On Wednesday 10 November 2010 10:34:01 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Roman Khomasuridze put forth on 11/10/2010 2:51 AM: Nope, Enterprise Edition only supports rpm distributions (eh). Why not use alien? This is precisely why it was written. On one hand, you can bet it won't be nothing as

Re: cgi-bin works with IP but not domain name

2010-11-08 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Zachary: On Monday 08 November 2010 11:54:17 Zachary Uram wrote: I have various name based virtual hosts setup. They all work fine. However if I try to run a script in /usr/lib/cgi-bin it fails when I specify the domain name, but works if I specify my IP name (this is a VPS)! As a

Re: My LANs and WAN; was Re (4): routing

2010-11-08 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Sthu: On Sunday 07 November 2010 21:11:52 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: [...] As mentioned previously, the bridge to Carnot suggested by Jesus Navarro worked, although a problem appeared for Cantor. I'll try it again when there is time to spare and will pay attention to virtual interfaces.

Re: How do I keep tripwire db in sync with apt-get updates?

2010-11-08 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Boyd: On Tuesday 09 November 2010 03:39:58 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In aanlkti=aniqfz-1e_lw3oztw9d6p5eey1bxu3becn...@mail.gmail.com, Josh Narins wrote: Installing packages, updating packages, removing packages. These basic operations result in lots of tripwire noise. Was the

Re: routing

2010-11-04 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Sthu: On Thursday 04 November 2010 08:11:04 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Jesús, again: Let's try again: 1) What are the exact iptables rules you are trying? I'd suggest trying this and only this (just for testing; once it's working you can tie up them as

Re: routing

2010-11-04 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi again, Sthu: On Thursday 04 November 2010 18:25:24 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer again, Jesús: you have *two* hops on your local side; you Internet connection knows about the nearest to it (from its perspective), which is 20.20.20.20, but it doesn't know about

Re: minimum number of days between password change

2010-11-02 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, lee: On Tuesday 02 November 2010 21:26:54 lee wrote: On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 06:29:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/01/2010 04:45 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Ron: On Monday 01 November 2010 18:49:01 Ron Johnson wrote: [...] If someone learns my password on day 2

Re: minimum number of days between password change

2010-11-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Ron: On Monday 01 November 2010 18:49:01 Ron Johnson wrote: [...] If someone learns my password on day 2, they have full access to my account for 74 days, or I must beg for SysAdmin help? Minimum number of days isn't a very bright idea. It is, for a low minimum number. The rationale is

Re: minimum number of days between password change

2010-11-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Ron: On Tuesday 02 November 2010 00:29:03 Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/01/2010 04:45 PM, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, Ron: On Monday 01 November 2010 18:49:01 Ron Johnson wrote: [...] If someone learns my password on day 2, they have full access to my account for 74 days, or I must

Re: routing

2010-10-29 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Sthu: On Friday 29 October 2010 10:05:52 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answers, Jesús - I really appreciate it: Two things: 1) Try without a firewall (iptables default rules to accept, /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to 1 and anything else). Still the same: [...] For

Re: routing

2010-10-28 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Sthu: On Thursday 28 October 2010 07:58:29 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Jesús: host1 - eth - host2 - ppp Why do you think it's wrong? It seems OK to me: you reach 192.168.0.0/24 through eth0 and both 10.10.10.10 and everything else through ppp0. It sounds

Re: routing

2010-10-27 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Sthu: On Wednesday 27 October 2010 15:43:17 Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Could You please help me w/ routing? I want to make working the following scheme: host1 - eth - host2 - ppp On host2 it seems that the route table is wrong somehow: Destination Gateway Genmask

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-22 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, postid: On Thursday 21 October 2010 23:49:03 post id wrote: I've set up a minimal system on one of my machines and used no login manager Of course you do. If you weren't using one, you wouldn't be able to log into the system. -- I login at the prompt See? What you don't use is a

Re: text-only login is root?

2010-10-22 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, postid: On Friday 22 October 2010 02:26:38 post id wrote: [...] So how do I shut down X properly? On this laptop I usually do shutdown -h now from a console when I'm ready to quit. That certainly will stop the X environment since what you are doing is completly halting the machine. In

Re: Central configuration storage

2010-10-06 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Nick: On Wednesday 06 October 2010 11:56:48 Nick Douma wrote: Hi, I tested puppet coupled with a version management system (git for me). Seems pretty good for linux servers only. I don't know for windows servers. I seem to notice that about puppet now too, after reading part of the

Re: Central configuration storage

2010-10-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Nick: On Tuesday 05 October 2010 16:38:28 Nick Douma wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a solution to store configuration files in a central location. My first guess was to look at LDAP, and see if you can use that for keeping track of configuration. The intended setup is a farm of webservers,

Re: question/answer website for user support: shapado.debian.net

2010-10-04 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, green: On Monday 04 October 2010 05:09:43 green wrote: Klistvud wrote at 2010-10-03 14:35 -0500: By setting up a web application that simply mirrored the mailing lists (translated them into forum form), we could have the best of both worlds. People comfortable with mailing lists would

Re: question/answer website for user support: shapado.debian.net

2010-10-03 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi Stefano: On Sunday 03 October 2010 11:24:35 Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Dear followers of the -user mailing list, you might be interesting in knowing that since yesterday there's a new Debian experiment ongoing in the area of user support: http://shapado.debian.net/ which is a

Re: question/answer website for user support: shapado.debian.net

2010-10-03 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Camaleón: On Sunday 03 October 2010 20:10:28 Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:53:55 +0200, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: http://shapado.debian.net/ which is a multi-language question/answer website where participants can ask questions, answer questions, and rank answers given

Re: Distributed filesystem between 2 file servers

2010-10-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Friday 01 October 2010 20:50:32 Linux Expert wrote: I manage 2 offices which are connected via a VPN link, and both sets of users need access to a large filesystem (550GB). Currently we have a single fileserver (Samba domain member) on one side, but users on the other side of the VPN

Re: creating a logical volume with a disk with existing data

2010-09-29 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mark: On Wednesday 29 September 2010 18:11:50 Mark Allums wrote: [...] I would have to give that some thought. I think that using LVM has to be done on a whole drive before anything else (don't do this---don't use it on an unpartitioned drive, you are just asking for trouble) or on a

Re: Change to 2 interfaces on 1 NIC?

2010-09-27 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mark: On Monday 27 September 2010 16:54:39 Mark Neidorff wrote: Hi all, I currently have my 6+ year old server (web, e-mail, firewall, local lan) running with 2 NICs, one coming from the DSL router (on the 192.168.2.x lan) and the other connected to the local lan (192.168.1.x). (all

Re: Debian not running in Windoof 7 Virtual PC (in VirtualBox)

2010-09-21 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 15:34:41 Scott Ferguson wrote: On 21/09/10 22:59, John Hasler wrote: Scott Ferguson writes: 3. It would require reverse-engineering - which is bad No it isn't. I noted that Microsoft claims that it is illegal, but that is not the same thing at all. Bad is

Re: [solved] Re: rsync issue

2010-09-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Rodolfo: On Friday 17 September 2010 15:07:10 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: In rsync manual I coudn't find a solution to what I want. I wish to copy all my home directory into another machine with the --delete option, but: 1) I dont't want

Re: configuration of subordinate interface in a bridge; was Linux hub

2010-09-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Friday 17 September 2010 19:08:20 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: * From: Jes#xFA;s M. Navarro jesus.nava...@undominio.net * Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:47:48 +0200 There's neither carnot nor Allied Telesis 3612TR in your provided diagram ... For now I can't find the original to

Re: FW: SILO

2010-09-16 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Jennie: On Thursday 16 September 2010 16:09:09 Jennie Kingsland wrote: Hi, I have copied the Debian 5.0.6 ISO and began installing this to a SPARC V240 server. However almost at the end of the install and an error occurs 'The Silo package failed to install into /target, installing SILO

Re: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-13 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hal: On Saturday 11 September 2010 23:15:50 Hal Vaughan wrote: I will be working with a server on the Internet that uses rsync and is running Debian. I will be setting up initial /etc/rsyncd.conf and /etc/rsyncd.secrets files on it. But along the way, whenever a new user is added,

Re: new squeeze

2010-09-13 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Friday 10 September 2010 21:17:24 Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Miles Fidelman [...] Now if you consider it user error to give the default answers, when you actually want to save the current install, then your anwer is accurate. I do. It's a PEBKAC. With d-i and

Re: Help on porting packages between Debian 5 lenny and Debian 4.0 etch

2010-09-12 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Ravy: On Sunday 12 September 2010 11:12:54 Ravi Roy wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: Hi, On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:58:15PM +0530, Ravi Roy wrote: Hi Could somebody help me as how to port pacakges between distributions [...] Thanks

Re: Re (2): Linux hub

2010-09-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, owens: On Tuesday 07 September 2010 01:08:40 ow...@netptc.net wrote: [...] Boyd I'm not disagreeing with you in practice but many years ago these WERE the definitions the ITU and ISO dealt with. IIRC it was the vendors who screwed things up by introducing such products as swithcing hub

Re: stable Debian+php4

2010-09-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, David: On Tuesday 07 September 2010 15:08:22 David Oros wrote: Hello, I would like to ask, how to deal with this problem: I cannot stop using php4 because of some apps from about 100 customers, so I need stable Debian with php4 in it. No, you don't need it; you just want it. PHP4 is

Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?

2010-09-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Alexander: On Tuesday 07 September 2010 15:16:26 B. Alexander wrote: I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. It's not unusable for me. I'm using Stable and my browser of preference is Konqueror with Iceweasel when the site doesn't work properly with

Re: Re (2): Linux hub

2010-09-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Sunday 05 September 2010 17:14:34 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:08:04 +0300 AFAICT, what you ask for is a gateway/router. Here is a very short tutorial: ... Thanks. http://carnot.yi.org/NetworksPage.html shows

Re: RAID Questions

2010-09-04 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Miles: On Friday 09 July 2010 22:10:46 Miles Fidelman wrote: Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: shell grub-install hd0 shell grub-install hd1 With these grub-install invocations, you will not be able to boot in

Re: [debian-user] Evolution no longer providing calendar notification unless uder desktop environment (unstable)

2010-09-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Javier: On Wednesday 01 September 2010 16:52:54 Javier Vasquez wrote: OK, I just didn't want to use any startup script such the same fluxbox one, or ~/.xsession, or ~/.xinitrc. The reason being is that I'd prefer anything Evolution depends upon to be called when invoking Evolution. I

Re: thoughts on RHCE

2010-09-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Julien: On Wednesday 01 September 2010 17:04:37 Julien Vehent wrote: Hey guys, I know this is kind of off-topic on a Debian mailing list, but since there's no Debian certification, I was considering taking RHCE. The thing is, RHCE fast track course is $3000, and so far, everything I've

Re: When is best time to upgrade lenny to squeeze

2010-07-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Johnny: On Wednesday 14 July 2010 17:52:57 Johnny wrote: Hi I am sorry if someone has already has asked this ? on the list When is best time to upgrade from lenny to squeeze. I use my computer daily What do you mean by best? Maybe what is best for you is not best for others. That's the

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mark: On Thursday 24 June 2010 16:06:17 Mark Allums wrote: Thank you all for info. Will upgrade tonight.. Just to be sure.. right way to do this is just to replace 'lenny' with 'squeeze' in sources.list apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade ? Or there is something else I have to pay

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-23 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Amar: On Thursday 24 June 2010 00:26:28 Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list I was thinking about upgrade to squeeze and just want to check if everything is OK there? No 'critical' bugs etc.. ? I know a lot of you use squeeze so its probably best place to ask The very people that works day

Re: Samba share not accessible from a VPN client

2010-06-08 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hello, Márcio: On Monday 07 June 2010 19:04:52 Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: Em 7/6/2010 13:54, H.S. escreveu: Consider a LAN with a Debian machine as a router. The Debian machine has three interfaces, eth0, eth1 and wlan0. The interface for VPN is tun0. ,--. ppp0 --eth1

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-06-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hugo: On Tuesday 04 May 2010 20:25:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com [2010.05.04.1808 +0200]: I forget your specifics, but you do RAID *and* backup regularly to an external lvm2? RAID is not a backup solution, it's an

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-24 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Celejar: On Sunday 23 May 2010 21:42:44 Celejar wrote: On Sat, 22 May 2010 03:03:42 +0200 Jesús M. Navarro jesus.nava...@undominio.net wrote: ... My simple rule about Debian has always been: * Stable, if you just want to use Debian. * Testing, if you want a peek over what Debian

Re: How to keep debian current??

2010-05-21 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Osamu: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 03:45:36 Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, There are 2 different topics. * Which is better shape testing or unstable for security issues? (original question) The answer is it depends. As already stated, there are no security updates on Sid 'per se', but they

Re: dist-upgrade wants to install linux-image-2.6.32-5-686

2010-05-21 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Hugo: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 20:00:24 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Another apt question. I have my own kernel installed: h...@debian:~/.fvwm$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image ii linux-image-2.6.33.3-hvw 1 Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.33.3-hvw ii

Re: network setup question

2010-05-19 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Miles: On Thursday 06 May 2010 14:12:56 Miles Fidelman wrote: Thanks to all who replied. I'm starting to zero in on this now. A few more details: To follow up with a few more details: server1 -- hub (switch) --- server 2 datacenter's router The hub is a

Re: OT:Script idea/problem

2010-05-16 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Thierry: On Thursday 08 April 2010 01:59:26 Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, Here is my idea: First, in my village, I 'convert' quiet a few people (about 15 boxes) to use Debian. They are rather happy about it, but I have a problem with update/ upgrade: they never know when they should do

Re: Increasing number of conflicts

2010-05-16 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Alexander: On Monday 19 April 2010 15:16:02 B. Alexander wrote: I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe-upgrade for

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-23 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Tuesday 23 February 2010 12:41:43 Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: [...] The drop that filled the bucket (or whatever the expression is), was that we can't have the latest PHP with the latest SNMP module because of a certain PHP bug that is refused to be dealt

Re: spam+virus filtering

2009-12-14 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
On Monday 14 December 2009 08:16:44 Tudod Ki wrote: I think that these howtos filter only incoming emails [antispamantivirus] is it true? :O What does incoming mean? From the point of view of the MTA (postfix) every external mail is incoming (either incoming from the Internet or incoming

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

2009-12-03 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
On Thursday 03 December 2009 20:07:14 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Jesús: By removing your server's MTA and let the end users to deal with mail transfer you'll certainly close another one so your point is, again? Not that. I just suppose that removing clamav will

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

2009-12-02 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Sthu: On Wednesday 02 December 2009 16:38:43 Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Do I need clamav mail check on mail server No. - if I would leave it to end-client antiviruses. Unrelated. In other words, will it hurt the server some way and therefore the clamav should be on every mail

Re: preseed with two hard disks

2009-11-29 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Richard: On Saturday 28 November 2009 23:13:02 Richard Pijnenburg wrote: Hi Josep, According to the documentation ( can't remember where exactly ) it's stated that the preseed system can't handle 2 disks. I'm trying to find a decent work around for it but no luck yet. All we can do is

Re: backports security

2009-11-21 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Paul: On Saturday 21 November 2009 00:36:12 Paul E Condon wrote: On 20091120_212056, Jes?s M. Navarro wrote: [...] Unfortunately? I'd better say by design. Unstable/Testing is not there to provide a product to final users but to provide a testbed for software integration. If

Re: Is Squeeze right for me?

2009-11-21 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
On Saturday 21 November 2009 18:44:47 John Jason Jordan wrote: I have several years of experience with Ubuntu, but I have never looked inside. I'm just a pointy-clicky desktop user. I don't need to read anymore. You should know that Squeeze is currently not only Squeeze, but Testing too. By

Re: backports security

2009-11-20 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi Gerfried: On Thursday 19 November 2009 13:55:25 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Hi! Thanks to Sven for bringing the thread to my attention. * Sven Hoexter s...@timegate.de [2009-11-19 08:42:49 CET]: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:16:15PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: I have searched backport,

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi again, AG: On Saturday 31 October 2009 19:41:16 AG wrote: Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, AG: On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote: Tim Tebbit wrote: [...] (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires

Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-10-31 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, AG: On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote: Tim Tebbit wrote: [...] (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it can mount additional files such a USB stick. Does it support booting

Re: OpenSSHD Server

2009-10-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Roman: On Thursday 01 October 2009 05:29:29 Roman Gelfand wrote: Everytime I am connecting to my server via ssh, memory utilizaiton appears to be increasing. Is there memory leak issues with sshd or, perhaps, there is a maintenance that needs to be performed? or just configuraiton

Re: Firewall solution.

2009-09-18 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Leandro: On Friday 18 September 2009 14:05:40 Leandro Quibem Magnabosco wrote: David Christensen escreveu: I'm not sure I understand install in a production server. Normally, a server is one computer and a firewall/ router is another computer. I use IPCop to turn older PC's into

Re: Apache Tomcat WebServer on Lenny

2009-09-18 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Roger: On Friday 18 September 2009 14:48:32 RogerV wrote: Is there anything different needed to configure Tomcat to work behind Apache webserver under Debian Not that I'm aware off. as opposed to say OpenSuse or Windows. I've been fighting this all day and Apache flatly refuses to

Re: binary grep

2009-09-18 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Rob: On Friday 18 September 2009 16:55:37 Rob Gom wrote: Hello, are you aware of a tool, which would allow me to search for given pattern in a binary file, then at least output file position (so that I could pass the number to dd) or output next few bytes? For text files I use e.g .grep

Re: Firewall solution.

2009-09-18 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi again, Leandro: On Friday 18 September 2009 21:42:23 Leandro Quibem Magnabosco wrote: Hello Jesús, Jesús M. Navarro escreveu: Hi, Leandro: Maybe you will be luckier if you explain a bit of the why instead of only the what. The why is this: http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option

Re: Security support for Squeeze delayed

2009-09-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Matus: On Thursday 17 September 2009 17:46:56 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Monday 20 July 2009 17:09:57 Soren Orel wrote: So is Debian Squeeze not up-to-date by security fixes? wow. :S:S On 21.07.09 03:39, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Why should it? It's testing, after all: too much

Re: [Half OOT] The Cons of Using Self-Signed Certificate

2009-09-12 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Michelle: On Friday 11 September 2009 11:03:05 Michelle Konzack wrote: [...] For one of my enterprises I have installed my OWN CA and on the 160 servers (apache, courier, and postgresql) I installed only certs signed by my own CA. So, I have now certs which I 100% can trust.

Re: static ip address is being reset constantly

2009-09-05 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, John: On Friday 04 September 2009 14:21:25 John O Laoi wrote: Verify that no dhcp process is running in the background. If there is none remove the network manager. Thanks Frank. Indeed there was DHCP processes running: # ps aux | grep dhc root 3650 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?

Re: avoid debian net installerto fetch security and volatile

2009-08-30 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Rakotomandimby_ On Saturday 29 August 2009 17:06:46 Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: 08/29/2009 05:04 PM, Jesús M. Navarro: Netinstall coupled to a d-i preseeding file can do the trick. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apb.html.en [...] Where to force to use my mirrors

Re: avoid debian net installerto fetch security and volatile

2009-08-29 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Rakotomandimby: On Saturday 29 August 2009 09:55:23 Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi all, I have mirrored security and volatile on may LAN. I want to netinstall debian, and it fetches security and volatile. Have you tried netinstall's expert mode? I've been told that last Lenny

Re: how to migrate request-tracker database from sqlite3 to mysql

2009-08-19 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 02:37:37 Martin Kraus wrote: hi. I'm trying to migrate request-tracker3.6 database from sqlite to mysql on lenny. Is there a way to export data from sqlite so they can be imported into mysql for request-tracker3.6? rt-dump-database doesn't export sqlite database

Re: Switching from Arch to Debian Sid.

2009-08-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Ananda: On Saturday 15 August 2009 04:37:53 Ananda Samaddar wrote: Hello all, I'm an ex-Debian user who has been using Arch for the past 6 months or so. Some annoyances with it have prompted to give Sid a shot. I used testing for years but got fed up of waiting for updates. I have a

Re: NIS woes.. Ubuntu nis client doesn't ping Debian nis Server

2009-08-17 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, raman: On Friday 14 August 2009 06:15:03 raman narasimhan wrote: We have a networks lab at our college that has a fully configured windows network. Now we are completely changing to linux. All systems in the lab have been installed with Debian/Ubuntu. We have configured NIS server in one

Re: Security support for Squeeze delayed

2009-07-20 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi: On Monday 20 July 2009 17:09:57 Soren Orel wrote: So is Debian Squeeze not up-to-date by security fixes? wow. :S:S Why should it? It's testing, after all: too much work for too short a benefit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Scribus versions-CROSSPOSTED

2009-06-19 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, John: On Saturday 20 June 2009 01:01:04 John Culleton wrote: One more time: The only stable version of Scribus today is 1.3.3.13. 1.3.5 is unstable and always will be. 1.3.4 is both unstable and abandoned. The next stable version (after 1.3.3.x) will be 1.40. [...] And please make the

Re: lenny install through apt-proxy

2009-06-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Mike: On Friday 05 June 2009 02:40:09 mike wrote: Has anyone installed lenny, with a netinst cd, going to a server running apt-proxy to get packages? Yes, but I think to remember that you can't completly do it as is since even on the expert mode you are not allowed to choose repos for

Re: Best way of restoring /etc from backups after fresh install?

2009-06-07 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Laurentiu: On Friday 05 June 2009 19:57:26 Laurentiu Pancescu wrote: Hello everyone, After a fresh (re)install of Lenny, I installed all cca. 800 previously installed packages (from a list file, via xargs aptitude install) and then restored /etc from my rdiff-backup archive (containing

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-16 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Adrian: On Wednesday 15 April 2009 10:22:00 Adrian Chapela wrote: Hello, I am preparing a versioning control. In my environment some of the clients are Windows PC. I have implemented the next Subversion + TortoiseSVN (for windows clients) + Eventum (for bug control, etc.). All work very

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Alok: On Thursday 16 April 2009 10:56:21 Alok G. Singh wrote: What I want to do is to deploy a dhcp+tftp server in the network that people can boot into debian-installer via PXE. The idea is to have an easy way to install Debian/Ubuntu without having to cart DVDs around. The DHCP server