Re: A Debian Lenny machine declined to work

2009-11-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 23.11.2009 5:50, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 22.11.2009 23:34, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jari Fredriksson put forth on 11/22/2009 3:27 PM: I believe it is a hardware problem. But still disk works, it loads scripts from /etc/init.d. At least /etc/init.d/arno-firewall as it printes

Re: No dvd device

2009-11-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 19.11.2009 20:18, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi you all, I am running a 2.6.31.6 vanilla kernel built with the debian way, but my dvd rom seems dead with release 2.6.3* releases. I only did a `make oldconfig` and then a `make menuconfig` in order to disable some modules I will never

Re: Inquiry:How to set the Debian server to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times ?

2009-11-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 12.11.2009 10:48, Javier Barroso wrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:00 AM, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry . I do not send any message to you Gentlemen before searching in Google . But my specific question is why my crontab settings vanish when my Debian server gets rebooted

Re: Domain server on linux

2009-11-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 13.11.2009 6:16, Cahaya Lilin wrote: Hallo there.. Need some help, i just want to know, is linux can be a domain server ?? in my office, we already have 2 server, it is DHCP server and domain server. both of it using windows. i want to change the domain server with linux, but don't

Re: Domain server on linux

2009-11-12 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 13.11.2009 6:16, Cahaya Lilin wrote: Hallo there.. Need some help, i just want to know, is linux can be a domain server ?? in my office, we already have 2 server, it is DHCP server and domain server. both of it using windows. i want to change the domain server with linux, but don't

Re: which package can help me bypass Internet censorship

2009-11-10 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 11.11.2009 1:37, Long Wind wrote: I am in China The government block many sites I used to use tor to bypass censorship but it no longer works Are there other packages? I have never used tor, but it seems similar to JAP. JAP is not available as a Debian pakjage, but downloadable

Re: sshd

2009-10-31 Thread Jari Fredriksson
31.10.2009 15:43, Roy Stuivenberg kirjoitti: (Connection failed Service sshd Date:Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:51:03 +0100 Action: restart Host:rs-debian Description: 'sshd' failed, cannot open a connection to INET[localhost:50022] via TCP

Re: System logs are being logged to wrong files

2009-10-30 Thread Jari Fredriksson
30.10.2009 22:56, P K kirjoitti: Hi, Kindly CC me when replying, I am not subscribed. Thanks. Now: I am using Debian/Sid (sidux actually) on a i686 machine. Over the past few months, I have seen various logs being logged to the wrong files, ie, they are being logged to the xyzlog.1 file

Re: spamassassin best practices

2009-10-29 Thread Jari Fredriksson
29.10.2009 4:43, Umarzuki Mochlis kirjoitti: I got 2 debian 5 on vmware, both running postfix and dovecot-imap on server a, i already installed spamassassin and spamc (nothing else configured) and add .procmailrc in a user (user1) home directory with configuration as below: ## start

Re: dependences report as missing though installed

2009-10-25 Thread Jari Fredriksson
25.10.2009 19:32, jeremy jozwik kirjoitti: On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk wrote: Since you're building from source, it's the -dev packages that are missing, I suspect. yes sir. you are correct. not it configures but builds errors on make

Re: How to uninstall a kernel and *all* of its dependencies?

2009-10-23 Thread Jari Fredriksson
23.10.2009 14:23, Klistvud kirjoitti: Dne, 23. 10. 2009 12:49:12 je Johannes Wiedersich napisal(a): Why don't you just give it a try and follow up with any questions or problems you face? -- Johannes Because I'm not yet familiar enough with Debian (or GNU/Linux, for that matter) to

Re: How to uninstall a kernel and *all* of its dependencies?

2009-10-23 Thread Jari Fredriksson
23.10.2009 15:08, Alexey Salmin kirjoitti: AFAIK aptitude will not allow you to leave youtself without any kernel easily :) You can see which kernel packages are installed on your machine using dpkg -l 'linux-image*' Thanks! I'll use that for now. -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ You will

Re: How to uninstall a kernel and *all* of its dependencies?

2009-10-23 Thread Jari Fredriksson
23.10.2009 17:03, Pedro Insua kirjoitti: dpkg -L debian-reference-en I have not this package installed, so says that command. What good does it bring? Documents? I never read documents from my disk, I read them from internet. I have used linuces from 1994, but Debian only maybe 2 years.

Re: How to uninstall a kernel and *all* of its dependencies?

2009-10-23 Thread Jari Fredriksson
23.10.2009 18:03, Paul E Condon kirjoitti: On 20091023_171514, Jari Fredriksson wrote: 23.10.2009 17:03, Pedro Insua kirjoitti: dpkg -L debian-reference-en I have not this package installed, so says that command. What good does it bring? Documents? I never read documents from my disk, I

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-10-23 Thread Jari Fredriksson
24.10.2009 0:00, Rob Owens kirjoitti: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 06:31:40PM +0200, Peter Jordan wrote: Hello, I plan to migrate from thunderbird to mutt. In thunderbird it is possible to define custom tags (e.g. debian with color red), so that the mails labeled with debian are highlighted

Re: BonziBuddy

2009-10-20 Thread Jari Fredriksson
20.10.2009 18:59, Mark kirjoitti: k thx bai lolz! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Huge syslog, daemon.log

2009-10-20 Thread Jari Fredriksson
20.10.2009 22:39, David Baron kirjoitti: Last couple of days! Filled up /var causing numerous problems. These files are over 1 gig. I deleted the day-old ones to free up space. The older ones are tiny. What's happening? Fix? Ok, lets analyse! What is in the log files? What sends

Re: Samba Problem

2009-10-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
16.10.2009 7:22, Tom H kirjoitti: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Jeff Grossmanj...@stikman.com wrote: I just upgraded by Testing system from Samba 3.3.4-1 to 3.4.2-1 yesterday and now I am not able to connect my Windows Vista machine to my Debian machine. I have tried to Google for an

Re: Best method for stopping/starting MySQL?

2009-10-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
19.10.2009 20:49, Tim Legg kirjoitti: Hello again! I would like to shutdown mysql periodically to make backups of the databases. I would like to know what is the official Debian way of stopping and restarting MySQL. When I follow the intuitive steps for shutting it down, it doesn't

Re: Best method for stopping/starting MySQL?

2009-10-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
19.10.2009 22:32, Joe kirjoitti: 19.10.2009 20:49, Tim Legg kirjoitti: Hello again! I would like to shutdown mysql periodically to make backups of the databases. I would like to know what is the official Debian way of stopping and restarting MySQL. You might also consider a backup

Re: debian whitelist, posts that never show up and long delays

2009-10-18 Thread Jari Fredriksson
18.10.2009 19:42, Paul E Condon kirjoitti: I have a question about Debian whitelist that was prompted by this thread. Am I on the whitelist? I googled to find out how to find the answer. The hits that I got all seemed to be rather old and likely out of date. Is Debian whitelist an active part

Re: debian whitelist, posts that never show up and long delays

2009-10-18 Thread Jari Fredriksson
18.10.2009 20:16, Jari Fredriksson kirjoitti: 18.10.2009 19:42, Paul E Condon kirjoitti: I have a question about Debian whitelist that was prompted by this thread. Am I on the whitelist? I googled to find out how to find the answer. The hits that I got all seemed to be rather old

Re: debian whitelist, posts that never show up and long delays

2009-10-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
17.10.2009 19:24, Nick Lidakis kirjoitti: Ok, that took just under a half hour to come through. To those who have been here a while, what's the average time from hitting the send button to having the post show up? This post is a test for it. -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ An honest tale

Re: debian whitelist, posts that never show up and long delays

2009-10-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
17.10.2009 19:43, Jari Fredriksson kirjoitti: 17.10.2009 19:24, Nick Lidakis kirjoitti: Ok, that took just under a half hour to come through. To those who have been here a while, what's the average time from hitting the send button to having the post show up? This post is a test

Re: debian whitelist, posts that never show up and long delays

2009-10-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
17.10.2009 19:58, Nick Lidakis kirjoitti: And that was the result of a bran' spankin' new vim user. My apolgies. Now how do I save and quit this file again... vim basics question? Press shift-: Press xenter -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.

Re: debian whitelist, posts that never show up and long delays

2009-10-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
17.10.2009 20:10, Jari Fredriksson kirjoitti: 17.10.2009 19:58, Nick Lidakis kirjoitti: And that was the result of a bran' spankin' new vim user. My apolgies. Now how do I save and quit this file again... vim basics question? Press shift-: Press xenter Or if you are in insert

Re: usb-key files locked by unknown user

2009-10-15 Thread Jari Fredriksson
15.10.2009 17:32, Mark Grieveson kirjoitti: Hello. Files on my usb-key (or flash drive, or whatever the correct terminology is for these things) are locked for editing by an unknown user (they're read only). I'm not sure what's causing this, but it seems to have happened after I used it to

Re: How to find out how much memory your system using dd command...

2009-10-13 Thread Jari Fredriksson
13.10.2009 17:41, Frank Charles Gallacher kirjoitti: Greetings, When I was a system administrator, there was a command to find out how much real memory was on your system, logged in as root (making sure you didn't confuse the input and output!): dd if=/dev/mem of=/dev/null bs=1024

Re: Gmail again

2009-10-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: Yeah, That's what I'd call normal list behavoir (reply goes to list). All fedora and ubuntu lists, K12ltsp lists, RH lists, Linguas OS list, lists for projects in which I participate (OmegaT, Anaphraseus), etc., and even professional e-mail lists outside of

Re: Gmail again

2009-10-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:38:03 +0100 Terence terence.j...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Two things piss me off: top posters, and those who do not truncate their posts, because all they can see is their own words. Add to that Gmail users who send list mail as Cc: and send the mail to the

Re: Gmail again

2009-10-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
If someone sends a message to your email address, and a carbon copy to list, just ignore the direct email, and answer the the list message. List-Id filters the list copy to the correct folder. The another copy is junk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

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