Re: ext2 for /boot ???

because/ it has no journaling. Just out of curiosity - why would journaling be undesirable on a partition that is almost never written to? Thanks Lee

Re: Debian installation

while ago. Have you seen this? https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList It sounds like you might want to add 'contrib' and/or 'non-free' to the repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list Regards, Lee > On Sun, Sep 2, 2018, at 22:30, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 02,

Re: Network issue

arly Discard (RED) approach to flow control. Implementing link-layer flow control on switches can actually interfere with the end-to-end flow control. - Regards, Lee

Re: connecting to two networks simultaneously on buster

t by using IPv6 over the cable: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/02/msg01214.html > but what's being discussed in this thread should be able to do > what was demanded by the anti-IPv6linklocals. If I couldn't get an ipv6 assignment @work then yes, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5375#section-2.2 is the way to go. But @home?? unless there's some other motivation for using a globally unique address, it's totally not worth the effort. get out the popcorn time: Want to watch the anti-IPv6linklocals explode? Have them read rfc 7404 Using Only Link-Local Addressing inside an IPv6 Network Regards, Lee

Re: Wow, I’d never expect to say to a guy I like him from the 1st sight. Rebecca

Who are u ? On 17 Jul 2017 21:34, "Rebecca Ayasaha" wrote: > You have changed this assurance in me. > http://bitly.com/2u2FKnu >

Installing Debian from one CD and one DVD and loading Gnome with TASKSEL

boot to Gnome, currently, and not to a command prompt? Thank you for your help. -- William Lee Valentine --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: Lee_find__your_perfect____ dentist

I use to be a mechanic mo need for denist On Monday, May 2, 2016, wrote: > > > > > *Dear_Lee, Find the perfect dentist in your area click here * > *no_more

Installing newer kernels

Drupal. Thank you for helping me to understand how to maintai8n these systems. -- William Lee Valentine --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Fwd: Re: Reporting a Bug

It's a Debian volunteer support list, I'm in no way claiming to be a Debian "official". If you can share your fstab it will help massively in diagnosing the issue or potential bug before filling any potentially pointless bug reports Sorry for any misunderstanding Mike -- -

Re: Reporting a Bug

Could you share your fstab with us here? It'll help lots. -- -- Lee Fuller (mobile) On 27 January 2016 16:03:53 GMT+00:00, michael bailey wrote: >HI. > >I wish to report what I believe is a bug in Debian Jessie but am not >sure >which package is involved. > >In an /e

Raspbian vnc server autostart

x27;m from Hong Kong. Yours, Lee Tsz Wo Bernard

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

the data downloaded on the basis that the bits involved were recycled rather than fresh. Prohibit images composed of stale bits! Not. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America

Re: Recommendations for a GUI video editing program?

On 2015-12-30 19:19, David Christensen wrote: On 12/30/2015 03:22 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a GUI video editor for simple tasks (basically for cutting a video, and perhaps for fixing the audio track lag which sometimes creeps in). I have very little experi

Re: no response from listmaster

Yay. Cheers for the info. Sorry I missed the original resolution. On 23/12/15 20:45, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 18:55:54 +0000, Lee Fuller wrote: > >> Sorry to drag up this old relic, Steve - did your investigation yield >> anything useful? >> >> Ma

Re: no response from listmaster

Sorry to drag up this old relic, Steve - did your investigation yield anything useful? Mail is a complicated subject so I'm keen to hear about the conclusion of issues like this. On 15 December 2015 at 23:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 15 December 2015 19:29:50 Brian wrote: > > Pestering us

Re: no response from listmaster

For reference, the default timeout in the current release of mailman is 30 seconds. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA I believe DSA are responsible for the list server. - - Lee Fuller On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 01:41:46PM +, Lee Fuller wrote: > ​Hey there, > > I checked your emai

Re: no response from listmaster

. I doubt a list server of this size is configured to wait anywhere near 10 seconds before considering an address unreachable. That's probably the cause of your issues as you describe them. ​ - - Lee Fuller On 14 Dec 2015 9:25 a.m., wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

Re: apt-get error messages

ony wasn't overwhelmed by mutual consensus, if you want something, surely nobody owes it to anyone except themselves to write it? With sincerety, MHO. - - Lee Fuller On 11 Dec 2015 4:27 p.m., "kamaraju kusumanchi" wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Tony van der Hoff > wrot

Various problems after upgrade to Jessie

2 [qemu-system-i38] If I try restarting the script anyway, it fails with the following error (even though said pidfile does not exist)... * Could not acquire pidfile: No such file or directory Suggestions for solving any of the problems? -- David Lee Lambert * KD8WQF * (cell) +1 586-873-8

nano needs curses.h?

The following sequence of commands leads to an error: mkdir nano cd nano apt-get source nano ./configure make [... snip ...] make[2]: Entering directory `/var/home/lee/Work/demos/nano/nano-2.2.6/src' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/share/locale\" -DSYSCONFD

Help filing bug report. Segfault in network-manager importing .ovpn files

eeded it to work with OpenVPN through a GUI). Thanks. :) Lee Yates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5526777b.1080...@rainmakerkennels.co.uk

Re: Important and Confidential

No. If you ask again me answer will be _HELL_NO_. Please go eat something poinsonous and die in agony. Have a bad day. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:20 PM, VACCATION TOUR < jamesmithvaccati...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sharing some private and important documents with you, kindly click >

Re: Chromium fatal error

Updating kernel to 3.16.0-4 fixes the problem. Thanks! On 25 February 2015 at 18:26, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 05:35:51PM +0800, lee json wrote: >> Chromium on my debian system throws following error and couldn't be >> launched at a

Chromium fatal error

Chromium on my debian system throws following error and couldn't be launched at all. [1:1:0225/173352:FATAL:sandbox_bpf.cc(266)] [3:3:0225/173352:FATAL:sandbox_bpf.cc(351)] Check failed: -1 == rv (-1 vs. 354) Not very sure why and how to fix it. In addition, I do not find similar bug report at ht

Re: cups clients?

Erwan David writes: > Le 25/12/2014 17:18, Reco a écrit : >> Hi. >> >> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:05:05PM +0100, lee wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> do you need to install the whole cups server on all machines that want >>> to print, or

cups clients?

Hi, do you need to install the whole cups server on all machines that want to print, or is there some sort of client setup to access the printers available on a central server (which runs a fully featured cups)? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swall

Re: Why focus on systemd?

Scott Ferguson writes: > On 29 November 2014 at 07:05, lee wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> > >>> >>> >>> On 22/11/14 20:50, lee wrote: >>>> >>>> Didier, >>>> >>>> you have *totally* missed the

Re: Help understanding error: skb rides the rocket

SL writes: > On one of our quite busy (virtual) Debian 6 servers we are seeing a lot of > messages in the syslog like this: > > kernel: xen_netfront: xennet: skb rides the rocket: 19 slots I've had some of these messages with the backports kernels. Since the backports kernels don't boot when th

Re: Why focus on systemd?

Scott Ferguson writes: > Please don't top post. > > > On 22/11/14 20:50, lee wrote: >> >> Didier, >> >> you have *totally* missed the OPs point. >> >> BTW, since you assume that no "systemd takeover" > > Hyperbole much?

Re: latest backports kernel not booting when LVM is involved

Gary Dale writes: > On 25/11/14 02:14 PM, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> what could be the problem with the backport kernels? They never finish >> booting when the root fs is on an LVM volume. >> >> Do I need to take special precautions with the backports

solved: nfs mounting

lee writes: > Hi, > > any idea why an NFS volume is being unmounted when a VM runs out of > memory and kills some processes? These processes use files on the NFS > volume, but that's no reason to unmount it. > > Also annoying: The volume doesn't get mounted when

latest backports kernel not booting when LVM is involved

Hi, what could be the problem with the backport kernels? They never finish booting when the root fs is on an LVM volume. Do I need to take special precautions with the backports kernel to get it to boot? I have a separate /boot partition not on LVM and a biosgrub partition with the root fs on a

Re: Why focus on systemd?

Didier, you have *totally* missed the OPs point. BTW, since you assume that no "systemd takeover" will happen (despite it already has), what has been the outcome of the GR to support multiple init systems? Other than that, the OP has a good point. I found that every time something is related

Re: Q: wheezy: how to increase X resolution?

"D. R. Evans" writes: > lee wrote on 11/20/2014 04:36 PM: >> "D. R. Evans" writes: >> >>> I just installed wheezy on a new system, and no matter what I have tried, I >>> am >>> unable to get the attached monitor to display at 1920x

Re: Q: wheezy: how to increase X resolution?

"D. R. Evans" writes: > I just installed wheezy on a new system, and no matter what I have tried, I am > unable to get the attached monitor to display at 1920x1200. All my other > systems display at that resolution when attached to the same monitor. > > I won't bore you with all the things I've t

Re: LVM: shrinking a logical volume (moving LVM logical volumes to new disks)

"Karl E. Jorgensen" writes: > Hi > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:24:27AM +0100, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> so far, I managed to pvmove a LV to my USB stick and from there to a >> backup disk in another machine. Doing so, I found that I can split o

Re: moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

Patrick Ouellette writes: >> How do I make the VMs bootable after copying them back? >> > > Maybe try a SuperGrub Boot Disk (or USB drive) if you are using GRUB. > > I would probably install on a minimal system on the new disks so they are > bootable, create the new volumes, rsync, move to the de

LVM: shrinking a logical volume (moving LVM logical volumes to new disks)

Hi, so far, I managed to pvmove a LV to my USB stick and from there to a backup disk in another machine. Doing so, I found that I can split off LVs from a volume group and that this inevitably creates a new VG. That leaves you stuck because it's impossible to move a LV from one VG to another, an

Re: moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

Patrick Ouellette writes: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 08:52:58PM +0100, lee wrote: >> >> Fortunately, downtime isn't an issue. I also have a 32GB USB stick, and >> all the LVs are smaller than 32GB. >> >> Since there seems to be some agreement that it wou

Re: moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

Don Armstrong writes: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, lee wrote: >> what's the best way to move existing logical volumes or a whole volume >> group to new disks? >> >> The target disks cannot be installed at the same time as the source >> disks. I will have to make

Re: moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

Igor Cicimov writes: > On 13/11/2014 8:27 AM, "lee" wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> what's the best way to move existing logical volumes or a whole volume >> group to new disks? >> >> The target disks cannot be installed at the same time as

Re: moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

"Karl E. Jorgensen" writes: > Hi > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 10:09:43PM +0100, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> what's the best way to move existing logical volumes or a whole volume >> group to new disks? >> >> The target disks cannot be ins

moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

Hi, what's the best way to move existing logical volumes or a whole volume group to new disks? The target disks cannot be installed at the same time as the source disks. I will have to make some sort of copy over the network to another machine, remove the old disks, install the new disks and put

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

uld for diversity of choice. There is an option of where > to install grub after all even though most put it on the MBR. But I > agree the init options should be in expert-install. Will make everyone > happy. Freedom of choice is the greatest freedom. > Freedom to make such a consequential choice should not be limited to experts. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

John Hasler writes: > do so and quit whining about how the DDs choose to expend their own time > and resources. They *are* interested in what users want and need. Where does this interest show? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally

Re: /bin/perl vs. /usr/bin/perl

Martin Read writes: > On 01/11/14 14:52, lee wrote: >> what's the proposed Debian way to deal with a different location of the >> 'perl' executable? > > #! /usr/bin/env perl > >> Fedora has /bin/perl, Debian has /usr/bin/perl. Since I still have >

Re: Debian and upstream choices

> better here." >> > >> > There's not much debian-user can do about facilitating change whether >> > upstream is receptive or not. >> >> I dunno. That sounds a little cynical to me. > > Come on Lee, unless you are going to write patches

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

The Wanderer writes: > On 11/01/2014 at 10:20 PM, lee wrote: > >> Steve McIntyre writes: >> >>> Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>>> Right. This sounds more and more like "we're going to rewrite >>>> the rules, and if you don't

Re: What to do with dead raid 1 partitions under mdadm

mett writes: > Hi, > > I'm running Squeeze under raid 1 with mdadm. > One of the raid failed and I replace it with space I had available on > that same disk. > > Today, when rebooting I got an error cause the boot flag was still on > both partitions(sdb1 and sdb3 below). I used the rescue part o

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

Steve McIntyre writes: > Miles Fidelman wrote: >>Martin Read wrote: >> >>Right. This sounds more and more like "we're going to rewrite the >>rules, and if you don't like it, we're taking our ball and going home." > > Various people have tried to explain how a binary distribution like > Debian w

/bin/perl vs. /usr/bin/perl

Hi, what's the proposed Debian way to deal with a different location of the 'perl' executable? Fedora has /bin/perl, Debian has /usr/bin/perl. Since I still have Fedora on the desktop and Debian on the VMs, I need compatibility. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

Don Armstrong writes: > On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, lee wrote: >> Don Armstrong writes: >> > Except that it the software does depend on the shared library being >> > installed. Binaries which link against

Re: Understanding DNS, Create an "Failover"

basti writes: > Hello, > last weekend my primary DNS-Server goes down, and some of my server > can't find each other. > > [...] > > How can I fix this? Set up a second name server which operates as slave of your primary one and use the slave as fallback? -- Again we must be afraid of speaking

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

Mario Castelán Castro writes: > Hello. > > I can set up a script for backup with cron or anacron, but how can I > prevent the computer from shutting down while the backup is being > performed so as to not to leave it incomplete?. I'd try to fix the bug that makes it shut down. Do you have broke

Re: Need help setting up printing in Jessie

Paul E Condon writes: > information? What happens is basically nothing. I select the B+W > print buffer from the file menu in the Emacs23-lucid window, and... > nothing comes out of my printer, and nothing is added to the jobs > list in CUPS. You might need to set a default printer, or use somet

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

Don Armstrong writes: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, lee wrote: >> As to package management: When you don't have a software installed, >> other software you have installed shouldn't depend on the software you >> don't have installed when the installed software does

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

Christian Seiler writes: > Am 26.10.2014 23:38, schrieb lee: >>> libsystemd0 is just 140 KiB and contains utility functions that might be >>> useful for programs interfacing with systemd. It is absolutely harmless >>> on systems with another init system, it wi

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

Don Armstrong writes: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, lee wrote: >> That's an abuse of dependencies, and I consider it a bug. The package >> management needs to take care of this itself. >> >> That shouldn't need to be installed when systemd isn't used. >>

Re: Debian and upstream choices

Martin Steigerwald writes: > Please do not Cc me personally. > > Hello Lee, > > Am Montag, 27. Oktober 2014, 00:05:03 schrieb lee: >> Martin Steigerwald writes: >> > Maybe I failed at avoiding personal attacks, but I still think I didn´t. >> > On >

Re: Good news on claws-mail

berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: >> Do you use tmux? > > No, I do not really see the interest of using it, I must admit it. One advantage is that you can detach from the session and even log out and come back later, and it also survives the X server going down. -- Again we must be afraid

Re: Debian and upstream choices

Martin Steigerwald writes: > Maybe I failed at avoiding personal attacks, but I still think I didn´t. On > any account, my attempt to bring this upstream did not produce the outcome I > wanted to produce, so I stopped it. Well, remember what I told you? -- Again we must be afraid of speakin

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

Christian Seiler writes: > But it also includes the utility 'logger'. In recent util-linux > versions, 'logger' has gained a --journald flag that allows one to log > to systemd's journal from the command line. This is the reason for the > dependency on libsystemd0, so that 'logger' may write to t

Re: Censorship confirmed

goli...@riseup.net writes: > On Mon, 10/20/14, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Subject: Re: Remember when men were men and wrote their own init > scripts? =) > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: listmas...@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, October 20, 2014, 1:59 PM > > Further responses to this t

Re: alternative file systems

Reco writes: >> One of the disadvantages with mdadm is that it can severely impact >> performance. > > Agreed. Still, I view RAID as a disaster prevention tool first, and any > performance increases come only second if they do at all. Yes --- disk failures are so frequent that there's no way to

Re: redo

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard < j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Lee Winter: > >> One key component of an effective startup process is dependency >> > > handling. So why not look for one of the best as a model? I >

Re: terminology: how do you change the foreground colour?

Darac Marjal writes: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 01:49:17PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the subject already says it: How do you change the foreground colour in >> terminology? I can only set the background. > > $ tput setaf 2 && echo This text is gre

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Brian writes: > On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 22:54:19 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> >> On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 01:19:51 +0200, lee wrote: >> >> >> >> At least they are supporting others in breaking RFCs, and I wonder how >> >&g

Re: Good news on claws-mail

berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > The only problem is bash, here: it is unable to handle > multi-instances, so the histories are lost more or less randomly when > I close/spawn terminals and sessions. # append history rather than overwriting it shopt -s histappend Do you use tmux? --

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Brian writes: >> On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 01:19:51 +0200, lee wrote: >> >> At least they are supporting others in breaking RFCs, and I wonder how >> that could not be against their own interests. In any case, it >> classifies them as (at least potentially very) unre

Re: Good news on claws-mail

Steve Litt writes: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:20:25 +0200 > lee wrote: > > >> Since you're re-inventing the wheel: >> >> // sxnotify.c > [...] >> >> # aptitude install libsx-dev > > Very, very nice! I'm glad you like it :) Ther

Re: Good news on claws-mail

berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > But my opinion is that, it's the accumulation of tools using different > slow languages, which will kill the computer's resources (shell, > python2, python3, php, perl, basic, whatever). Perl isn't exactly slow, considering what it does. In any case, pick

Re: Problem with quotatool

Peter Buzanits writes: > Am 2014-10-19 um 13:47 schrieb lee: > >>> I have a problem on 2 Wheezy installations in Vmware, if I want to set >>> quota for a user: >>> >>> bastelecke:~# quotatool -u tutor -bq 2000M -l 2500M / >>> quotatool: Error wh

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Brian writes: > [I may be misunderstanding how your mail system works but your Date: > header doesn't look right] > > > On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 00:53:44 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Fri 17 Oct 2014 at 03:15:49 +0200, lee wrot

Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

the boot sector of an ISO or img file. But the booted image has to be able to find itself in order to continue the process. Can debian install images find themselves? Thanks for any hints about this topic or where I might look for more information. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

. And it is the opposite of monolithic. But the real answer to this question will be found in the specs for the better system. So someone needs to go through the specs for both sysv-init and its competitors marking features to keep and features to kill. Then the real discussion will begin. Lee Winter Nashua, New Hampshire United States of America

Re: Moderated posts?

Tanstaafl writes: > On 10/17/2014 9:24 PM, lee wrote: >> You do not accept messages you can not deliver unless you are relaying >> them. > > Absolutely wrong, this rule fully applies to relays just as it does > final destination servers. I'm not sure what you mea

Re: Good news on claws-mail

Steve Litt writes: > Those visual and audio hints are one of the few things that most > programs might need to write to. They need a predefined standard to > write to, and I guess dbus is the standard being used. If I were in > charge of standards, I might have used something simpler (like a fifo

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Brian writes: >> > An address literal is not the same as an IP address. An MTA should not >> > be rejecting mail on the basis that the HELO is an address literal. >> >> Oh, then what is it? > > Using an example from RFC5321, an address literal is [123.255.37.2]. An > IP address would presumably

terminology: how do you change the foreground colour?

Hi, the subject already says it: How do you change the foreground colour in terminology? I can only set the background. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Moderated posts?

Chris Bannister writes: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 03:24:32AM +0200, lee wrote: >> >> Klensin Standards Track[Page 71] >> >> >> RFC 5321 SMTP October 2008 >> >&g

Re: Good news on claws-mail

Mark Carroll writes: > Peter Nieman writes: > >> As mentioned already in another posting, I think the best, if not the >> only solution for Debian would be to split the whole thing in two, one >> for desktop environment users and one for users who do not want a >> desktop environment. Package

Re: Problem with quotatool

Peter Buzanits writes: > Hello, > > I have a problem on 2 Wheezy installations in Vmware, if I want to set > quota for a user: > > bastelecke:~# quotatool -u tutor -bq 2000M -l 2500M / > quotatool: Error while detecting kernel quota version: No such file or > directory Which version of VMWare an

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Joe writes: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:13:54 +0100 > Brian wrote: > >> On Fri 17 Oct 2014 at 03:20:44 +0200, lee wrote: >> >> > Brian writes: >> > >> > > Not that I'm suggesting setting up exim to offer an invalid HELO; >> > &g

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Brian writes: > On Fri 17 Oct 2014 at 03:15:49 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 04:12:04 +0200, lee wrote: >> > >> >> Jonathan Dowland writes: >> >> >> >> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014

Re: Moderated posts?

Joel Rees writes: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:18 AM, lee wrote: >> Jerry Stuckle writes: >> >>> And, in fact, more and more ISPs are just accepting and discarding >>> emails to non-existent users because rejecting such email helps spammers >>> (a

Re: Moderated posts?

Joe writes: > Yes, although there should still be an audit trail. As I said to Harry > the other day, if you have a message ID from the receiving server you > (probably) can chase it up, and no reputable anti-spam software will > drop a message without keeping a log stating that it has done so. I

Re: alternative file systems

Steve Litt writes: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:00:26 +0200 > lee wrote: > > >> But when it eats files and is 10 years behind, why are people buying >> it? >> >> So how can we safely store large amounts of data? > > I thought Postgres was supposed to be p

Re: OT_Enlightenment Terminology-0.7 released

maderios writes: > Hi > Excellent terminal (oddly not available in Debian) named Terminology > 0.7 just released Kinda cool, though rather slow compared to xterm. Can it substitute tmux? Do you know how to change the foreground colour through the settings? -- Again we must be afraid of spe

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Brian writes: > On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 04:06:27 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Harry Putnam writes: >> >> > lee writes: >> > >> > [...] >> > >> > Thanks for the tips. >> > >> >>> SMTP>> EHLO 2xd >

Re: alternative file systems

John Holland writes: > I don't see zfs as super fast, lvm based raid would be faster. But > the snapshots and other features are awesome. I love cloning a vm > instantly. And not to forget the checksumming :) The checksumming is the nicer the more data you store. But seriously store large amo

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Brian writes: > On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 04:12:04 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Jonathan Dowland writes: >> >> > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:45:44PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> > And if so, is that not acquired from /etc/hosts? >> > snip >&

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

Jerry Stuckle writes: > On 10/12/2014 10:24 PM, lee wrote: >> Jerry Stuckle writes: >> >>> Among other things, legitimate MTAs have MX records. Anti-spam routines >> >> Who prevents a MUA from having an MX record and sending a HELO that >> matches

Re: alternative file systems

John Holland writes: > http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatKernelVersionsAreSupported "Debian 7.0 (Wheezy) - x86_64" Unfortunately, that isn't sufficiently recent. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonab

Re: alternative file systems

Reco writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 03:33:15AM +0200, lee wrote: >> > A correct guess. A recommended minimum is kernel 3.14 - [2]. >> >> So this is a rather new feature. How reliable and how well does it >> work? > > I wouldn't trust my data to

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

Brian writes: > Not that I'm suggesting setting up exim to offer an invalid HELO; it > will lead to trouble sooner or later. However, as a reason for mail > being rejected or not arriving it doesn't come top of the list. Not accepting invalid HELOs is pretty high on the list because it's a very

Re: MTAs denying messages

Joel Rees writes: > If the isp responds with a code that says my user-id is valid, the > junk mailer knows he has a live address. They have no way of knowing whether the address is still in use or not. > If the isp responds to the bad ones with an invalid user-id code, any > user-id that doesn'

Re: Moderated posts?

Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Du, 12 oct 14, 18:47:09, lee wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU writes: >> >> > On Mi, 08 oct 14, 16:01:37, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> >> >> >> The tech-ctte exploration was extremely thorough, entirely transparent >&

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

Olav Vitters writes: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 06:18:01PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Considering that the users are Debians' priority, couldn't this issue be >> a case in which significant concerns from/of the users about an issue >> might initiate a GR? Wouldn'

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

The Wanderer writes: > In my case, I don't install popcon because it pollutes the > tab-completion namespace for 'popd' in a root shell. That interferes > with my workflow Are you actually using this completion stuff? It always gets into my way and I keep it disabled or removed. -- Again we

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

Jerry Stuckle writes: > On 10/13/2014 7:57 PM, lee wrote: >> Martin Read writes: >> >>> On 12/10/14 23:04, lee wrote: >>>> Bas Wijnen writes: >>>>> Because for a GR, a member of Debian has to request it and it needs to >>>>>

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