Re: domain wide spam email address

2008-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: On 10-feb-2008, at 3:08, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can send spam emails to and they will be added to the spam DB. I use exim and spamassassin. All my spam

domain wide spam email address

2008-02-09 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can send spam emails to and they will be added to the spam DB. I use exim and spamassassin. All my spam processing gets done as user spamassassin, so I thought I could just process all mails sent to spamassassin as spam with a

Re: How can I find if a DHCP server is available

2008-02-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:25:07PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/08 14:15, Tony Heal wrote: I need to determine if a DHCP server is available on a remote system. Without changing my static network config or adding any non standard

truecrypt 5

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Samad
Hi seems like the new version of truecrypt doesn't need any kernel modes, it uses fuse. The site only has a i386 version and the source doesn't have the file to make a deb. so does any one have a deb for amd64 and does this now mean that it can be incorporated into the normal repo's ? alex

Re: truecrypt 5

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Samad
Oh did not know about the licensing thing. As for compiling, well I have run into the wxWidgets 2.8 issue Alex On 2008-02-07 01:43, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Alex Samad wrote: so does any one have a deb for amd64 and does this now mean that it can be incorporated into the normal repo's

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

2008-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: Good day,... Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as posible. so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or what ever the problem rises how ? I'm not sure but most

Re: too many mutts

2008-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:36:15PM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote: Hello, I am on Etch and using fluxbox mainly to manage windows. I use mutt for email. I start it with a key command. When I get many x-sessions and programs running at once, often mutt is running somewhere and I don't know

Re: vuescan won't start

2008-02-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:48:09PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 16:52:16 -0500, Richard Carter wrote: Hi Folks, I'm running debian 4.0 (etch) on a PC with an amd64 processor. I downloaded vuesca84.tgz and expanded it to /home/robin/vuesca84 which now includes

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:27:23PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Quoth Dotan Cohen: As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? Teach me, if it's a better client than I'd love to learn it. I'm not afraid of the CLI, and I'm not afraid of VI[M]. What you're missing?

debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta package. I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with debconf-get-selections | grep -i locale I get back locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect en_AU ISO-8859-1, en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB

Re: debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:00:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta package. I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with debconf-get-selections | grep -i locale I get back locales locales

Re: debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:02:29PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:00:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta package. I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with debconf-get

Re: 2 Network Cards

2008-02-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:59:38PM -0800, Raquel wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:45:30 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. It would make sense if the hardware could keep up with two NICs going full-out, so it depends on the network speed (10/100/1000), the speed and

Re: Debian Testing, LDAP Directory, Kernel general protection errors

2008-01-31 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:57:01AM +0200, Krasimir Ganchev wrote: I am using the current Debian Testing as a distribution tree and have recently updated the system. Since that last update I continue regularly receiving the following errors: Jan 31 10:18:19 lila kernel: [ 44.844774]

Re: Open WebMail Project

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:44:31AM -0800, Account for Debian group mail wrote: Hello, Has anyone tried the Open WebMail Project located at: http://openwebmail.org/ ? I'm looking for a new open webmail program to replace the old webmail I'm using now on my mail servers. This looks OK

Re: Postgresql very slow to start on with LDAP

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:01:27AM -0500, Oren Laadan wrote: Hi, After switching to LDAP authentication on our system, I noticed that PostgreSQL start-up (and shut-down) time because ridiculously high. (The PostgreSQL server isn't used as the back-end for LDAP; the LDAP servers sits

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:27:24PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri January 25 2008, Joey Hess wrote: vim + gpg vim can be configured to automatically use gpg to decrypt *.gpg files [snip] E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: autocmd

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:25:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful FLOSS password manager similar to Keychain on Mac OS X. I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using

Keeping uid (500) in sync

2008-01-24 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering how (in debian land) do people keep gid's and uid for 500 (ie the system, daemon in sync on multiple machines. I just spent 10 min trying to work out why my bind9 would not start, why because I just installed my ldap package which works great for uid gid 500. system uid

Re: iptables firefox

2008-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:50:44AM -0800, johnny wrote: Ok, sorry for the post, udp in input only from (router, 53) is enough for the tools but firefox wants other udp... I gotta study more... suggest you use --jump LOG before you drop/reject that way you can see what is being

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? no to either /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:55:15AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... It's been quite a while, and we can't quote

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Well, now you're just contradicting. I'd tell you why that's not true but there's a bunch of mean looking guys at my door. I figure it's either the Spanish Inquisition or the Business Software Alliance. (Is there much

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Well, now you're just contradicting. I'd tell you why that's not true but there's a bunch of mean

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:43:23PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip

Re: Transparent proxy - forwarding does not work

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:11:34AM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:26:17PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I'm trying to setup a transparent caching proxy with Squid. I've installed Squid, configured it, in particular using the line

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:28:15AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/15/08 06:36, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] I always start at the last page and write upwards so my diary becomes illegible to all, including me, in

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Transparent proxy - forwarding does not work

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:08:55PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:11:34AM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Alex Samad wrote: [snip] Well, this solution is far more complicated than what I wanted, so I took a look at iptables

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:14:26PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman gsslist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anything that kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating,

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... It's been quite a while, and we can't quote the whole movie. and apparently, one can recover from being turned into a newt. ;) Only if 'es not dead yet. Or

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:32:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/08 10:21, Ebanutiy Ebanatik Ebanatovich wrote: Sorry for offtopic but I'm wondering if the cause of avoiding of top posting is in something technical (e.g. to help forum

Re: Transparent proxy - forwarding does not work

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:26:17PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I'm trying to setup a transparent caching proxy with Squid. I've installed Squid, configured it, in particular using the line http_port 3128 transparent The proxy is working fine. If I specify the proxy manually, I

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:28:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/08 16:07, David wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:32:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/08 10:21

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:13:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/08 15:57, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:32:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/14/08 10:21, Ebanutiy Ebanatik Ebanatovich wrote: Sorry for offtopic but I'm

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:10:00AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 15/01/2008, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my mail reader sort my mail in date order and links together all the threaded emails. I read them in date/time order, if I follow a thread from begging to end, then all i

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:25:14PM -0800, Raquel wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:52:04 +1100 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my mail reader sort my mail in date order and links together all the threaded emails. I read them in date/time order, if I follow a thread from begging to end

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:49:52PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:52:59AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:13:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/14/08 15:57, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:32:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:18AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 15/01/2008, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using mutt, but I believe most mail readers thread emails for you. [snip] No, you haven't offended. But you should have dug through the archive I didn't believe i commented

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:17:42PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:00:28PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:49:52PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: In fact, it's a social convention, a matter of etiquette. The practice varies, and some lists work the other

Re: [OT] Stop Ahead (was top posting)

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:34:28PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:06:33PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: snip Only if the lines are also reversed, kind of like how STOP AHEAD is painted on pavement with the word STOP first, then AHEAD after so you pass

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:43:37AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All I am trying to point out is for a normal user ( ie somebody who is subscribed to the list), when a thread starts, you read them in date/time order as them come in, why seems illogical to have

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:36:09PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: Ken Irving wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: Hi! I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that contains brace expansion, but I want the expansion to be evaluated in the

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:11:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: Hi, I did a /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for approx 18 hours

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:35:42AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sometimes I have the impression that the people who complain the most about spam from Debian lists are the ones who don't even know how *bad* the spam problem actually is. Even on my own mail

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Alex Samad
was wondering if somebody could help with a procmail rule to select email which is in a different language (ie allow through english, but not anything else) On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:53:17PM -0500, Shane D wrote: True, but withouth them having helped us, there would be more of it. It's not

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:16:12AM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Monday 07 January 2008 06:55:30 Alex Samad, vous avez écrit : On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:05:29PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: 2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: Hi, Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in production at an enterprise level? I'm considering using multipath for a new fileserver and a new mailserver, running etch, using qlogic 2432 hbas. This would

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:05:29PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: 2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in production at an enterprise level? I'm

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:40:17PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little arrows in mutt's

Re: chown all files on a data drive

2008-01-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:18:16AM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: dave N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to run Fedora and now all the files on my data drives are uid 500 and gid 500. Now under Debian the same user name and password I'd previously had are uid 1000 and gid 1000. Though I

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little arrows in mutt's index. Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed on to mutt

Re: IPv6 routing issue

2007-12-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:35:16AM +0100, strawks wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 11:14 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: could you do a ip -6 r; ip -6 a on both boxes please On kaname : $ ip -6 r 2001:6f8:306::11 dev eth0 metric 256 expires 17141571sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 4294967295

Re: IPv6 routing issue

2007-12-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 02:18:51PM +0100, strawks wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 22:26 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: you could set the netmask to /48 for both of them, that should get it working I finally managed to get things working, but I still don't understand why it works now and so I

Re: IPv6 routing issue

2007-12-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:24:22PM +0100, strawks wrote: Hi all, I'm currently trying to set up an IPv6 network at home by using services provided by SixXS. For the moment I'm trying to give IPv6 access to 2 PCs. The first which will act as a router create the tunnel with a SixXS POP,

Re: IPv6 routing issue

2007-12-28 Thread Alex Samad
could you do a ip -6 r; ip -6 a on both boxes please On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:12:50AM +0100, strawks wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 10:24 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: can you ping 2001:6f8:306::1 from 2001:6f8:306::11, then can you ping 2001:6f8:202:202::2. if not look at ip -6 r g 2001

Re: Tunnel between two IPv6 islands in an IPv4 ocean?

2007-12-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:32:19PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: What would be the Debian way to set up a tunnel between two routers running Debian to connect two IPv6 islands in an otherwise IPv4 ocean? To be a bit more specific: There are two groups of us in my University who are

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:28:27PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: Hey, kiss = keep it simple, stupid It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned upon. I believe it actually means: Keep it

Re: Preventing IP conflict

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 06:38:11PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:44:03AM +, T o n g wrote: Ops, yeah, I meant DHCP. I'm using DHCP instead of static ip. both under windows and under linux. [snip] Can I do that myself from my Linux box? I don't know what command

Re: Preventing IP conflict

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:16:40PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: snip The network administrator should have tools to detect the problem but you can try this method (i never use it when i have an ip conflict) First : launch ifconfig and see your ip address/netmask. I assume that is

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:08:20AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Friday December 21 2007 08:56:46 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:29 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thursday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:51:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Friday December 21 2007 14:38:22 Alex Samad wrote: [snip] My only unfortunate situation is that I have only 10G for /, and I am starting to feel the pinch. It has lasted me for 8 years Impressive. Have you run /# apt

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:41:00PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: If some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running as root, it can fill up a filesystem. Better that this be /home, /var, or even /usr than /. On this

Re: Preventing IP conflict

2007-12-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:17:55PM +0530, OmPs wrote: After reading the suggestions from people around i was not able to understand what it has to do with DHCP. in case if your machine runs as DHCP client you will get another IP address as soon as you reboot the machine or any other IP which

what to take off the root partition

2007-12-20 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss the system. So I have farmed of /home and /var/log and I am about to do /usr/local nothing really in here that i really need on the root partition My question is around /usr/share should/could I move this of to another

Re: Preventing IP conflict

2007-12-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:32:34AM +, T o n g wrote: Hi, It's now the third time that I bumped into such situation. All of sudden I suffer from network delay and package lost, can't ping DNS server but can ping some IPs that is connecting to my box. I have suspected my cable, kernel

Re: ftell, fgetpos, etc.

2007-12-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:39:58PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:09:54PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I need to write code that creates, reads, and writes a random-access binary file, said binary file to be readable and writable on several machines, which may have

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 error in name resolution for AAAA type queries

2007-12-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:40:01PM +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote: Thank you for response. But it did not help. I commented out all the ip6 lines in /etc/hosts and then even rebooted the box. Now see a sample output for aptitude update:- # aptitude update 0% [Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org

openssl x509 management

2007-12-04 Thread Alex Samad
Hi My ca is about to expire and I used to manually manage my certificates, just a bunch of scripts. How are other people managing their certificates, I don't have that many, something web based would be nice. I have used the rsa scripts inside openvpn Alex signature.asc Description:

Re: openssl x509 management

2007-12-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:57:19AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi My ca is about to expire and I used to manually manage my certificates, just a bunch of scripts. How are other people managing their certificates, I don't have that many, something web based would be nice. I have used

Re: making .deb in equivs fails

2007-11-27 Thread Alex Samad
format for them, something like custom-apt (0.2) unstable; urgency=low * Release -- Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:42:40 +1100 I would guess the script that is making the change log for you is screwing up the date field (find the line and replace it with date -R alex

online resizing

2007-11-24 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have been able to do online resizing, ie partition mounted and being used, some times and not other times. What are the requirements for a partition to be online resized ? Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Configuring server with a virtual package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:14:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:29:46PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need

Re: Configuring server with a virtual package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:32:03AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:14:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:29:46PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not build

ipv6 routing question

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have ipv6 setup on my network and I use static and dynamic addresses I use a 6to4 setup. On my server I have 2002:::11::10 as my static 2002:::11:230:834f:beaf:1cd0 as my dynamic (setup with radvd) routing info is 2002:::11::11 dev eth0 metric 1024 expires

Re: CLI Addressbook

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:42:24PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:14:51PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:24:22 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:14:13AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I

Re: Configuring server with a virtual package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 09:39:52PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: On Fri Nov 23, 2007 at 08:32:03 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: nitpick This sounds more like a meta-package. /nitpick sounds interesting, did a quick google and found debian-med ? is this the stuff you are talking about

how to cross architecture build a package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
Hi trying to build a i386 package on a amd64 machine and i keep getting dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'amd64' does not appear in package's architecture list (i386) I am using debhelper to build the packages and I have tried dh_gencontrol -- -VArch=i386 but doesn't seem

Configuring server with a virtual package

2007-11-21 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the corresponding configuration files. I am having a look at debhelper and maint-guide. for example for server test.acme.com I was going to create a

Re: Configuring server with a virtual package

2007-11-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:29:46PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the corresponding configuration files. I am having a look at debhelper and maint

winbind + nsswitch issues

2007-10-29 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have just installed

Re: About bluez-pin package

2007-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:36:02PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: With Sarge there was a package named bluez-pin, not available in Etch. Does anyone know what will the correspondent Etch package be? I wish to pair my phone with the PC without any desktop applets. i think they have removed the

Re: Iptables Dynamic IP

2007-10-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 06:07:03PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: Hi, I have a dynamic IP address. Reading others scripts, I found that whether or not I do have a dynamic IP, I can just cut that info out of ifconfig and use it in, say, my Iptables scripts, putting

Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop

2007-10-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:51:43PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: cga2000 wrote: I have decided it is ample time to add disk space to my old laptop and came up with the following plan: 1. Buy a large HD with caddy and stick it in the mega bay where a useless 100M Omega zip

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: Hi, 2007/10/18, Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Alex, On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root out of LVM, very easy to get access to root

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:34:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: 2007/10/18, Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root out

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:19:50PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: 2007/10/18, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: IMHO lvm mirroring is useless. if I do LVM (on servers) I have multiple drives and i tend to trust mdadm more

Re: raid 5 : partitioned array VS lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:07:45PM +, Fab wrote: Hello, Lately I tried some different configurations (lvm partition) to divide my raid 5 array. you might want to check out http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html talks about why you might not want to use raid5 in this config and

samba v's MS server

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Question

raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am in

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:21:30PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: Hi, 2007/10/17, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 4 partitions to make up 4 md's md0 /boot ( ~ 500M - I like have space here) sda1 + sdb1 md1 / (~10G) sda2 + sdb2 md2 swap sda3 + sdb3 md3 LVM PV sda4 + sdb4 from

Re: Migrating raid5 to raid 1

2007-10-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 09:43:52AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:43:42PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: I have a system with 3 x 200G setup as a raid 5 config, I have just purchased to 750g drives with the thought of using raid1. ^^ do you mean two? yep I

Migrating raid5 to raid 1

2007-10-14 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have a system with 3 x 200G setup as a raid 5 config, I have just purchased to 750g drives with the thought of using raid1. I could remove one of the 200G drive - run the raid5 in degraded mode and create a raid1 in degraded mode. I also use lvm2, so moving most of it should be easy ? I

Re: SSH Question

2007-10-11 Thread Alex Samad
try putty for windows On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:20:52AM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: Hi, I see some of you talking about SSHing into your computer from another. What if the computer you're using isn't Linux/Unix? I was thinking that you could reboot that computer

Re: Selinux

2007-10-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:01:17PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:10:26AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Hi

Re: Untrusted Source

2007-10-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:47:22PM -0700, Raquel wrote: On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:11:13 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:38:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:31:16PM -0700, Raquel wrote: I'm wanting to install a

Re: Selinux

2007-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:10:26AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Hi

Re: On defense of the sshd crackers

2007-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:18:28PM +, T o n g wrote: [The is a security configuration question. Let me try it here to see if I can some valuable inputs before heading to newsgroup] Hi, I used to turn on my sshd just in case that I need to ssh back into my box. But recently, I noticed

Selinux

2007-10-08 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Just

Re: capping the apt-getting of packages from ftp.xy.debian.org to 50KBps?

2007-10-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:07:17AM +0100, Frank Wilson wrote: I seem to find it hard to get a decent speed for any of the ftp archive mirrors. I've tried using net-select but I rarely get over 50KBps and often get less than 30KBps (big B stands for bytes here!). I have considered using axel

Re: Spamassassin and Exim4

2007-09-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 04:03:47PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:36:45PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: SA should log to

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