preseed.cfg surprise

For one thing the preseed.cfg file is so large (128k) in my case and has lots of error messages in it I never encountered during installation. Can the preseed.cfg file safely be cleaned up to reflect actual installation choices made? The instructions I followed are in the debian installation m

Re: wakeonlan

NN_il_Confusionario: > > I suspect that when the power supply is "completely off" (first case), > then the harware (the nic) loses the status that makes it able to wake > on lan (a manual boot, with the re-initialization of the nic by the bios > would be necessary to re-enter the "wake on lan" sta

Re: Sound Problems

Why do I have to run alsaconf each time I boot? After booting the system I have no sound, I the run alsaconf and everything works. //Ger On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 21:57 +, Jasper wrote: > Gerard Hooton ucc.ie> writes: > > > > > To get the sound to work I have to run alsaconf > > every time I

Re: Which backup package?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/08 04:24, George Borisov wrote: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any >> suggestions, recommendations? > > I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it > out

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/08 03:54, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:48:04 Ron Johnson wrote: >> There's a package in the repository that well scan your Apache logs >> and generate appropriate IPtables rules. Sadly, I don't remember >> the name. >

Re: badblock can not be detected

On 22/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh dear, that's quite a bad news. > that's what I have encountered. when I heard the noise of hard drive reset, > and checked the dmesg to make sure about it, I reformatted the hard drive, > then copy my data in again, it worked. but

Re: Which backup package?

George Borisov wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ HTH, George. bacula. regar

[SOLVED]Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 11:26:23 Peter Werner wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:48:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > There's a package in the repository that well scan your Apache logs > > and generate appropriate IPtables rules. Sadly, I don't remember > > the name. > > it is calle

Re: website front-end

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:30:16PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I thought of writing a really minimal web-site front end, that would only > look at incoming http requests and forward them to other processes, > possibly on other machines, depending on the site name or pther parts of > the URL. B

Re: pdf plugin

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:31:46PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > when I click download it is meant to open a new tab and display in > there. it opens the new tab but then starts a new window for xpdf > > this is the relevant line > > repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file" Can

Re: debian utility question

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk > permissions? On a mac under applications and utilities and under disk > repair utility there's a function for repair disk permissions which can > check permissions aga

Re: Qt4-config Qt4-designer

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:42:17AM -0500, lostson wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008 09:33, Robin wrote: > > Try update-menus as root > > That brought in qt4-designer in the debian menu but nothing anywhere else I > have qt4-config as well but that one is not showing up weird, thanks though > nev

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

Hello, On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:48:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > There's a package in the repository that well scan your Apache logs > and generate appropriate IPtables rules. Sadly, I don't remember > the name. it is called fail2ban. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: CPU frequency scaling

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:50:30AM +0100, Peter Tynan wrote: > Is it an Athlon XP have a look at http://www.daniel.nofftz.net/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:54:51 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:48:04 Ron Johnson wrote: > > There's a package in the repository that well scan your Apache logs > > and generate appropriate IPtables rules. Sadly, I don't remember > > the name. > > > > -- > > Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: Which backup package?

Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ HTH, George. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Getting debian to ignore hdb on bootup

NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:55:30PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro hdb=noprobe > > the syntax is correct; you might also want to try other options such as > hdb=none (if needed) > Thanks NN. Sadly, I tried b

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:48:04 Ron Johnson wrote: > > There's a package in the repository that well scan your Apache logs > and generate appropriate IPtables rules. Sadly, I don't remember > the name. > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. Old age, Ron? Well I guess I too am better to get use to it. Thierr

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/22/08 01:09, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 07:27:39 Lee Glidewell wrote: >> On Monday 21 April 2008 10:08:22 pm Thierry Chatelet wrote: >>> Hello >>> I know it's not really debian related, but: >>> A site call ripe.net is try

Re: CPU frequency scaling

On 22/04/2008, Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Athlon XP processors don't support frequency scaling on desktop > motherboards. > > Sam Is it an Athlon XP $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 6 model : 4 model name : AMD At

Re: CPU frequency scaling

Peter Tynan wrote: On 22/04/2008, Peter Tynan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 22/04/2008, Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably a dumb question, but what processor do you have? > -- > Vikki Roemer "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name" gives "model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Process

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 08:46:40 Bob Cox wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:35:17 +0200, Thierry Chatelet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host 88.131.106.6 >> 6.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa is an alias for

Re: website front-end

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:59:50PM +1000, Owen Townend wrote: > On 22/04/2008, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:38:00 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > > I was under the impression that apache did a lot more than just relay > > http requests; that in fac

Re: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:55:40AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > * From: "John Marvin L. Magsino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > would there be a way for me to serve my debian box application using the > > 2 public IPs > > search the net for lartc > > (for example, you could use two diffe

Re: CPU frequency scaling

On 22/04/2008, Peter Tynan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22/04/2008, Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably a dumb question, but what processor do you have? > > -- > > Vikki Roemer > > > > "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name" > gives > "model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor"

Re: HS: How to ban some IP's to connect to apache server

On Tuesday 22 April 2008 08:46:40 Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:35:17 +0200, Thierry Chatelet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host 88.131.106.6 > 6.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa is an alias for > 6.0-26.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa. > 6.0-26.106.131.88.in-addr.arpa domain na

Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:04:20AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad: >> so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the >> emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text, I >> would then like to press and have the

Re: CPU frequency scaling

On 22/04/2008, Vikki Roemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably a dumb question, but what processor do you have? > -- > Vikki Roemer "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name" gives "model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor" Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

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