Gnome Logout/Shutdown

2008-09-16 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, I installed the desktop task with tasksel and added the logout applet to the Gnome Desktop. My problem now is that I don't habe the option to shutdown. Any hints which button to press so that I can shutdown from the applet? Thanks Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

2008-05-19 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Samuel Bächler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the marketplace people could ask: Who can set up a mythTV media center for me? Questions like this aren't asked on lists (e.g. debian-users) which brought myself to the idea that maybe there is a market for such

Re: [OT] sqlite-amalgamation

2008-04-03 Thread Martin Marcher
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, I am currently evaluating the use of sqlite3 to store application data from a python application that I am writing. I am using Debian Etch so some of the packages are out of date and thus I decided

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Wei Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users, e.g.

SOLVED: LVM operations block

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, a quick note so that it will get indexed :) I'm on a plain debian/etch (no backports or other unofficial packages not originally included in etch) Whenever I do operations on lvm (pvdisplay, vgdisplay, lvdisplay) it just sits there and blocks. It does look like it's waiting for some I/O.

Re: Silent Cron Jobs

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, afaik cron (by default) mails all output from a script. If i create a cronjob I usually dump all stdout (just redirect it to /dev/null) But I want to be informed of any errors so I keep stderr. example: # this will get mailed echo My cool cron script # this will not mail stdout, but

[OT] SQL Inline Documentation

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, I'm looking for the doxygen equivalent (enhancement) whatever. What it should be able to do is to document: * DDL Statements * Functions * Triggers absolutely cool would be something that generates a graph of dependencies between the tables. Ubercool(TM) if it did an analysis of the

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard comments from respected frequent posters on this list both that they use postfix and that debian's decision to have Exim as default was controversial. I also lurk on OpenBSD's misc list. OBSD

exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-24 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I've been a happy user of postfix for a long time but I generally consider it a knowledge lag not to know at least one competing product (which I don't). So it's time to change that and since I use debian I figured it can't be too bad to learn exim, a bit of googling around just brought

[OT] searching for crm

2008-03-22 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, I'm looking for a CRM software, looking around it seems that SugarCRM is the package of choice in this field but it's written in php and I don't do that normally so I'd rather choose a steep learning curve with python than with php. I also know of xrms.sf.net (php again) as an alternative

[OT maybe]Email Archiving

2008-02-18 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm looking for a solution for email archiving the priorities I have for it are the following: # reliability # offline backups (that'll probably be scripted) # availability # speed as the least important I guess every decent box that is out there does that, but I'm a bit unsure on the

Re: How to send mails with attachments for each file in a directory ?

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Marcher
On 2008-01-30 09:26:12, Dan H. wrote: My favorite way is to use find's -printf directive to construct the complete commands and pipe the result to a shell. Has the advantage that you first hack away at your complete find commend and give it a dry run, and if you're happy with what it spits out

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Marcher
Rick Thomas wrote: I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release.  Does anybody know what's the problem? The problem is that xen is quite behind with kernels, afaik it's a HUGE patch to apply and the most recent

Re: apache/subversion with ldap

2008-01-25 Thread Martin Marcher
hhding wrote: Thanks for your advice :) Here is the config file, I take your advice and change Require group to Require ldap-group, but it does not work. :: /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf :: Location /svn DAV svn SVNPath /var/lib/svn AuthType

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-25 Thread Martin Marcher
Ted Hilts wrote: Also, I was talking about kernel versions higher than yours (up in the twenties where yours was 18) and 32 bit. But whether the CPU is 32 bit debian stable highest version number is 2.6.18 so there is no way to get a stable distro with a higher version number (stable as in:

pxelinux.0 and bsd.rd

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, I'm trying to add the option for installing openBSD to our pxe boot server (debian/etch), I got bsd.rd from a mirror and placed LABEL openbsd_i386_42 KERNEL openbsd/i386/42/bsd.rd in the pxelinux.cfg/default for that all I get is: Invalid or corrupt kernel image ok, next try

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Marcher
Jozef Peterka wrote: Hi all, I might be rushing in to conversation, but I will try to install Debian Etch and make it Dom0 this very weekend. I really look forward to it - although with a little hope to success :) Nevermind, I wanted wish you good luck with xen, and the important is let

Re: apache/subversion with ldap

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Marcher
On Thursday 24 January 2008 11:26 hhding wrote: hi, my friends I try to verify access of svn user from apache by openldap. I create userA and userB with schema posixAccount and create groupA with schema posixGroups in openldap and add userA to it. then I add line *Require group

Re: apache/subversion with ldap

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Marcher
On Thursday 24 January 2008 21:31 Martin Marcher wrote: On Thursday 24 January 2008 11:26 hhding wrote: and attachements are complete config files please don't do attachements. They aren't visible everywhere, for me they just vanished as my primary interface to the ML is gmane.org now

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-24 Thread Martin Marcher
On Thursday 24 January 2008 17:13 Ted Hilts wrote: Martin What is the exact kernel version you are running on both machines and what are their CPU designations? The problems in the past have not been with the distribution but with various kernels. Did you compile your systems from source

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

2008-01-17 Thread Martin Marcher
SpamHog wrote: Does anybody keep such a pure Debian CLI tools metapackage or package list or CDD with such a selction of apps? I guess it really depends on your environment, we have this on every host: # more or less standard packages # this is the tasksel standard selection ~pstandard

Re: find the blocksize of a FS

2008-01-14 Thread Martin Marcher
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/13/08 06:37, Martin Marcher wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008 23:38 Jan C. Nordholz wrote: hmm looks like a starting point, I'm trying to get to that info with python, if all else fails I think the python ctypes module should be able to get that info thru the C

Re: find the blocksize of a FS

2008-01-13 Thread Martin Marcher
On Saturday 12 January 2008 23:38 Jan C. Nordholz wrote: Hi, is there a way to get the blocksize of an FS thru /proc or something else that doesn't rely on the utils (dumpe2fs, xfs_info) to be installed? Not that I can see. You can query the disk geometry, but proc is too low level

Re: Trusted computing [WAS new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-12 Thread Martin Marcher
On Saturday 12 January 2008 08:45 David wrote: I'm a member of Al Quaida OMG, everybody RUN! Yes that missquote was on purpose, please read the references before arresting this person...(whoever it may concern...) -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name

find the blocksize of a FS

2008-01-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, is there a way to get the blocksize of an FS thru /proc or something else that doesn't rely on the utils (dumpe2fs, xfs_info) to be installed? thanks martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours You are not free to read this message, by doing so, you

Re: .bash_profile and .bashrc not executing

2008-01-12 Thread Martin Marcher
On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:50 John Salmon wrote: I'm a new user to Debian Linux. I have the latest version loaded on a dedicated PC with all the default settings. I have added a ~/bin directory to my system. My .bash_profile and .bashrc files were the default files loaded during the

Re: ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2008-01-10 Thread Martin Marcher
Bob wrote: Sorry to resurrect such an old thread but this is really irritating me, after reading through the Bug Reports it seems this has been fixed in version 4.2.4 which is fine for Lenny but I don't want to run Lenny on my firewall, it's very simple dedicated etch box with nothing other

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Raquel wrote: I think that this is what bothers me. I'm on at least a dozen lists other than debian-user and debian-isp. However, the 2 Debian lists are the ONLY ones from which come SPAM and viruses. Go figure, debian is supported by volunteers. If you can handle the spam problem better, go

[OT] Areca 1210 Capacity Expansion

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, we own an areca 1210 and currently have a RAID5 with 4x250GB. As disk space is low we'd like to replace it with 4x1000GB. We already found a supported disk, hotpluggable, etc. Now after subsequently replacing the drives how can we expand the RAID set to a net of 3TB (the controller does

Re: [OT] Areca 1210 Capacity Expansion

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Rick Thomas wrote: Whatever you decide to do... Do a full backup first! Been there done that. Since that (not so amusing) memory I do have cyclic backups with the option to trigger it whenever needed (like now) :) martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name

Re: [OT] [SOLVED] Areca 1210 Capacity Expansion

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Martin Marcher wrote: we own an areca 1210 and currently have a RAID5 with 4x250GB. As disk space is low we'd like to replace it with 4x1000GB. We already found a supported disk, hotpluggable, etc. Now after subsequently replacing the drives how can we expand the RAID set to a net of 3TB

Re: Getting System Stats

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
top free vmstat? you might want to google about monitoring linux in general On 1/9/08, Shane D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, What would one type in to the shell to get some of the statistics of a machine? I am running asterisk on an old laptop, and I want to try to see if the studder I am

Re: galeon and mutt

2007-12-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On 12/12/07, Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, with xterm installed in my box, when I clicked on an address e-mail galeon opened mutt in an xterm. Now I have removed xterm and I installed roxterm instead, but when I click on an address e-mail nothing happens. How can I set

Re: permissions in general (WAS: Re: permissions in /sbin)

2007-12-05 Thread Martin Marcher
On 12/5/07, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Marcher wrote: So the user needs to get a precompiled gcc somewhere. Then she would need to get all the header files necessary Then she needs to get the source. Then the quota is full... :) Most systems come with perl. Perl can do

Re: permissions in general (WAS: Re: permissions in /sbin)

2007-12-05 Thread Martin Marcher
On 12/5/07, Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it's more a historical reason that others can r+x most of the system but I can see a lot of benefits in denying others by default (of course there's a lot of work involved to migrate from the current permission schema that's at least a

permissions in general (WAS: Re: permissions in /sbin)

2007-12-05 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, jumping in. On 12/4/07, andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ls -l /sbin is all -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root ... I understand this issue. What I don't get is why it seems to be the overall default that others may read and execute files in most cases. To me it would make sense to have something

Re: permissions in general (WAS: Re: permissions in /sbin)

2007-12-05 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On 12/5/07, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:58:59 +0100 Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /bin root:users rwxr-x--- /sbin root:adm rwxr-x--- /usr/bin root:users rwxr-x--- /usr/sbin root:adm rwxr-x--- I do get your idea, but have a look at /bin

Re: SUDO

2007-12-04 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/12/3, Henning Follmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Add erik to the sudores file? visudo is a wrapper around vi to edit the /etc/sudoers file. well not exactly vi. It uses $EDITOR if that can't be found /usr/bin/editor (iirc) which on debian uses the update alternatives system. So there's no need

Re: How to mount ext3 so the files belong to a specific user?

2007-11-14 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/11/14, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a partition that I'm mounting in a specific user's home directory, and want that user to be able to read/write to that partition. However, I've been unable to find (google, man, etc) any way to accomplish this; the few hints I have found

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-14 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/11/7, John Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the same stuff is rehashed as it was a few months ago. Does this totally unscientific poll have any real use? Apart that is from reigniting the antediluvian arguments like mutt v emacs,

Re: Help with Algorythm to test if a progrem is secure,

2007-11-12 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/11/12, Jabka Atu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- 1.Google / IRC for the program name || Security || Trojan || hacks etc .. if found the don't use that program. 2.If possible read source code or give it to some body for finding stuff. 3.Install it on a Virtual

Re: mutt and IMAP accounts

2007-10-29 Thread Martin Marcher
and now for the rest of the world :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 29.10.2007 08:47 Subject: Re: mutt and IMAP accounts To: Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org 2007/10/29, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Oct 28

Re: mutt and IMAP accounts

2007-10-29 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/29, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:34:14PM -0700, Richard Otte wrote: I am trying to set up mutt to access IMAP accounts. I can access them, but I want to be able to move to the available mailboxes when I type c (and it says to type '?' to see the

Re: Etch and Audio CDs

2007-10-28 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/23, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am 2007-10-23 16:41:27, schrieb Martin Marcher: Maybe you can bug your vendor to get the money back? No, since in Germany and in France they must write ON THE CD cover that the CD is copy protected. I found that a lot of people either don't

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/25, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can successfully connect to my home wireless using: in /etc/network/interfaces my eth0 looks like this: iface eth0 inet dhcp wpa-driver wext wpa-conf

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Martin Marcher
} --EOF please note that I have commented out most of the TKIP, AES stuff as wpa_supplicant usually is capable of finding it by itself, also in /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples there's a catch-all file IIRC that just tries everything (radius as well as non radius) 2007/10/25, Martin Marcher

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-24 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/24, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/23/07 22:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I'll bite: why do you need COBOL? You've go C, Fortran, and Ada in Because apps written in COBOL are highly portable across platforms. Are there any sarcasm tags missing? So it is highly portable, yet

Re: Sharing CD-RW from Linux to Win2k

2007-10-24 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a CD-RW drive attached to my Linux server and I was wondering if it was at all possible to be able to access this drive (for both reading and writing, though writing is what's important) from my Win2k box. If it is possible, how would

Re: Etch and Audio CDs

2007-10-23 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/23, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am 2007-10-19 10:36:02, schrieb Todd A. Jacobs: I'm having a problem under Etch reading the last track on some CDs. I've googled around enough to know I'm not the only one having the problem, but can't find a solution. This is NOT AN ERROR

Re: XEN: xen-create-image with more than one disk

2007-10-23 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/23, Klaus Rödel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, i'm a xen newby and want to create a xen image with more than one disk but i found nothing about this? is it actually possible? Here's an example config from a multi disk xen image with the partitions coming from LVM: --snip-- kernel =

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Martin Marcher
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 in emergency when its a raid1 parition Agree. Only partly, with a somewhat

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Martin Marcher
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 in this field than LVM (don't ask me why - I couldn't logically say why

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-17 Thread Martin Marcher
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 the PV I make a VG and then lots of LV's I have used this sort of set for a

Re: SSH Question

2007-10-11 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/11, Telly Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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? if you talk about the target computer being a windows host then cygwin has an ssh

Re: mdadm, partitioned array

2007-10-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Adding some more info: Interesting results. I wonder if anyone else has a partitioned raid 5 array and have normal speed results? I do. Well sort of. I don't partition RAIDs but I put LVM on top of it. I couldn't tell any difference

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/6, Michael Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example, iceweasel, to open this link. I didn't find any where within icedove to set this option. Could anyone point it out? That is not an option in iceweasel it is related to the

PXE booting over VPN

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm going to deploy several soekris boxes on different locations. Now those nifty things can PXE boot and I was thinking about how to update them. I think the easiest would be to PXE boot them from some server located remotely and trigger something that let's the box reboot when I need to

Re: Installing Debian from a Lan

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am hoping to install Debian over a lan. I know this is possible but I haven't found much information on it. Suggestions? Could I set up the server to be 64bit but provide the packages for the 386 install? That shouldn't be much of a

Re: soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Marcher
, Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2007/9/29, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stock debian kernel, and (this is something in found in several openbsd mailing lists

Re: soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/29, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stock debian kernel, and (this is something in found in several openbsd mailing lists) will openssl/gnutls use it's

Re: syslog recommendations?

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/29, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Shuler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 09/28/2007 11:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let me, say, aggregate

soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

2007-09-28 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm looking for a router, VPN server box. The soekris hardware[] seems to be exactly what I want. Seems it would work fine even withoug the vpn card. Initial googling showed me a vast amount of working *bsd installations but no clear answer on the linux part. I'd rather have debian on

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm interested in the job offer you posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have several years of experience in Desktop and Server systems with debian and other linux distributions. I charge by the hour, every started hour is normally EUR 50. Contact me privately if you are interested. I also do

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-25 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/25, Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you for the suggestion. This is definitely the tool that I was looking for! I am still curious, however, if this actually shows all my hardware? I guess the best comparison would be to Windows Device Manager where it shows you all

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2427

2007-09-22 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/21, David Balazic [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Martin Marcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007/9/21, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: please take me off of your email list. List-Id: debian-user.lists.debian.org List-Post: mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: can't access localhost

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/21, Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:32:21 +0100 John O Laoi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost mc 127.0.1.1 mc.home.m mc I see that you solved the CUPS problem, but I should point out that the hosts file above is likely to cause

Re: can't access localhost

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/21, Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The issue is that 'mc' resolves to 127.0.0.1 (the first match), whereas mc.home.m resolves to 127.0.1.1 (the only match). Thus the canonical host name and its alias resolve to different IP addresses. uh oh, right, reading in context actually helps :)

Fwd: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Marcher
... -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21.09.2007 19:13 Subject: Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question To: Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007/9/21, Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -0700 Dancing Fingers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Password file with over 3000 users.

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/21, Thomas Goirand [EMAIL PROTECTED]: But the reference for Debian is sh, not bash... (at least when writing packages). why is it then that /bin/sh is /bin/bash after a plain install of about every stable version i had by now? ok that makes only 3 but still (potato sarge etch iirc for

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2427

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/21, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: please take me off of your email list. List-Id: debian-user.lists.debian.org List-Post: mailto:debian-user@lists.debian.org List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list

Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?

2007-09-20 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/20, Gabriel Parrondo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 08:56 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escribió: I see that Gnome 2.20 was just released. Im running Debian Etch, which still seems to be stuck on Gnome 2.14, even though 2.16 was released about a year ago and 2.18 since

Re: what's problem with router configuration

2007-09-19 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/19, Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I used to connect Internet thru cable modem. Now I buy a wireless router and connect thru router. Actually I use wired part of the wireless router. IP is auto configed as 192.168.1.100, and I can visit admin page of router, but can't visit

[OT?] etch + java 1.5.12 + jboss 4.2

2007-09-19 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, just debootstrapped etch (like so often, about 25 servers in xen running here so something wrong here is unlikely, still open to hints). Got * jdk1.5.0_12 * jboss-4.2.0.GA from their original download websites. extracted to /opt/jboss-4.2.0.GA and /opt/jdk1.5.0_12 I'm open to any

Re: [OT?] etch + java 1.5.12 + jboss 4.2

2007-09-19 Thread Martin Marcher
Found it, and it probably will hit others you _need_ to have the identity jboss wants to create in /etc/hosts - it doesn't seem to be enough that the FQDN is resolveable in dns hope it helps someone at least 2007/9/19, Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, [lengthy info about

Re: is my raid1 array really working??

2007-09-18 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/18, harland christofferson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To me, it looks like HDA and HDC are in good health and configured properly ... but what do I really know. Can someone tell me how I can really know if my configuration is working? Is it REALLY this simple? Disclaimer - read the

Re: Making use of the default printer

2007-09-16 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/16, - Tong - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi What's the Default Printer actually means? I've setup one of my printers to be Default Printer, http://localhost:631/printers/ seems you refer to CUPS... and I unset the LPDEST environment variable, in hoping the consequent lpr will be using

Re: Making use of the default printer

2007-09-16 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/16, - Tong - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:37:43 +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: hmm, same error: lp test.ps lp: Error - LPDEST environment variable names non-existent destination ! Anything wrong with my system? there could be something that set's the LP environment

Re: Best way to install second version of Debian?

2007-09-16 Thread Martin Marcher
Sorry for top posting (to short to care about), you might be interested in this: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apds03.html.en 2007/9/16, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 15 Sep 2007, Joe wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I want to install a second version of Debian on a

Re: amd64 vs i386

2007-09-15 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, 2007/9/15, pietia [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hi Do you have any experiences in that competition: Debian amd64 vs Debian i386 ? yes :) Is i386 still faster than amd64 ? the question isn't wether it's faster or not it's more like the need of 64bit. You can easily go beyond 4GB of RAM (also

Re: amd64 vs i386

2007-09-15 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/15, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/15/07 03:57, pietia wrote: hi Do you have any experiences in that competition: Debian amd64 vs Debian i386 ? Is i386 still faster than amd64 ? Since when was i386 *ever* faster than

Re: postgresql help

2007-09-15 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/15, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:36:59PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: But somewhere I screwed up my postgresql-8.2 database installation. I meant to set up the data directory on the RAID disk array Unfortunately I deleted the /var/lib/postgresql/

[OT] File Storage Server

2007-09-14 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I've been looking around at the dell site (dell preferred since it's our standard vendor) for server with a lot of disks. I'm thinking of some box with 2U - 4U (maybe even 5) that will be a simple fileserver so that I can put debian on it make a SoftRAID (which is what I prefer since we

Re: [OT] File Storage Server

2007-09-14 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, 2007/9/14, Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin Marcher wrote: In essence all I would like would be a standard server where I can hotplug a lot of disks and be done with it (RAID resizing etc could be done from debian then). Something like 2GB RAM a decent CPU (not too much

Re: mondoarchive

2007-09-13 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/13, debian user [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am running Sarge. I apt-get(ted) the stable mondo tools and am trying to use mondoarchive. etch is stable i suggest you get the oldstable (which is sarge) hth martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: make menuconfig problem

2007-09-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, 2007/9/12, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know there is another package which must be installed before make menuconfig will work but I have forgotten what it is. i think that were build-essential and libcurses-dev (something with curses essentially) hth martin -- To

Re: Why doin't I have StringDefs.h in X11 include? (etch)

2007-09-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/12, Martin Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A find cannot locate it anywhere on my system - have I missed some important X!! dev package or something? Other includes appear to be present in /usr/include/X11... apt-file search StringDefs.h after aptitude install apt-file -s has helped

Re: two protocols on one port.

2007-09-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/12, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 09/12/2007 10:51 AM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: 12.140.16.4 is June. Now you would reconfigure openvpn on May to listen on port 4122. Connections to port 22 on May would be redirected to port 4122 on May only if they come from 12.140.16.4. Otherwise,

Re: Multiple MTAs?

2007-08-21 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On 8/21/07, Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a Debian server, and was about to install an MTA, when I was stricken by indecision as to which MTA actually to install. I realized that it would probably be best to use Postfix to send/receive mail to/from the Internet (because of

Re: LVM problems: pvmove errors

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Marcher
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Re: Help with mod_jk build

2007-08-14 Thread Martin Marcher
downloaded the source from jakarta but i keep getting stuck. Does anyone know what $APACHE2_HOME is? Thanks. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-14 Thread Martin Marcher
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Re: PAM + LDAP and SSH

2007-08-07 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, On 8/1/07, Bhasker C V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you do not want LDAP based authentication then you can edit the nsswitch.conf file (passwd and shadow) to point to appropriate values ? like files, yp for local and NIS auth only. the problem with that is that you then don't have

PAM + LDAP and SSH

2007-07-31 Thread Martin Marcher
and now for everyone else too :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Aug 1, 2007 1:33 AM Subject: Re: PAM + LDAP and SSH To: Ron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] hello, On 7/31/07, Ron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007-07-31_12:51:35-0400 Allan

Re: Swap configuration for 16GB of RAM, 8 cores

2007-07-31 Thread Martin Marcher
hello, On 7/31/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/31/07 15:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are the current best practices with regards to swap partitions? Is it better to create one big, or several smaller swap partitions? Is the rule of thumb still RAM*2 for the total

Re: to netatalk+samba+nfs or not

2007-07-30 Thread Martin Marcher
hi, On 7/27/07, Gilles Mocellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Friday 27 July 2007 18:45:13 Andrew Sackville-West, vous avez écrit: can't answer your question directly, but doesn't apple support nfs? yes And SMB... and yes (somewhat) the reason why i'd like to use netatalk too is that it

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-07-30 Thread Martin Marcher
hi, On 7/29/07, Jesus Arocho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there a program available that will provide instant messaging within the network?# as pointed

to netatalk+samba+nfs or not

2007-07-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, in our company we have mac/linux/windows clients and I think about adding the native service for each of those. the clients aren't under my control but can be considered as trusted. I know that samba+mac does work (to some extent) but I'm thinking about adding netatalk so that mac users

Re: [OT] Source Based Routing

2007-07-25 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On 7/25/07, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Marcher wrote: i have a setup where i have a borderline box that has 5 public IP Addresses (this is for the sake of example: 192.0.2.8/29), all is NATed to 10.200.10.0/24. Now the IP the provider uses as gateway is 192.0.2.9 which

Re: [OT] Source Based Routing

2007-07-25 Thread Martin Marcher
hi, On 7/25/07, Erik Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not read all you have written, but will not: iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -s 10.200.10.50 ! -d 192.0.2.8/29 -j SNAT --to-source 192.0.2.11 do the trick? i guess that's one of the reasons why I prefer debian-user over other lists.

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

2007-07-25 Thread Martin Marcher
hi, On 7/25/07, Nick Demou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? I suppose that a PC in most internet cafes will be willing to

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