On 7/31/19 12:52 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Removing /etc/resolvconf sounds like terrible> advice.
> If you want to remove resolvconf, remove the> package with dpkg or apt.
> Don't just start removing random
configuration> files and directories
Good point, well taken.
I've always just
On 7/31/19 12:17 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Sure enough, there it was, for eth0. I commented it out and added a line
> for the nameserver I wanted, and bingo, we have lift off.
That works, but if you want to specify the DNS server, delete those 2
DNS lines in /etc...interfaces, and edit
On 7/29/19 1:57 PM, David Wright wrote:
> Irrelevant in a domestic setting: it's illegal to have more than one
> phase in an ordinary house.
FYI, and significantly OT:
I don't think that's true in the US. Not in Austin, Texas anyway.
Several years ago I knew a woman down there who said she had
Buster, Supermicro 5036T (aka sbox), Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 according
to lspci, RME Hammerfall sound card
I asked for help with this a few days ago and attached a screenshot to
show what my problem is. There've been no replies -- I guess graphics
are caught by a spam filter somewhere.
The
On 6/4/19 2:03 PM, ghe wrote:
Sorry Mr Doe. Pressed the wrong button and sent to you instead of the
list...
> On 6/4/19 11:32 AM, john doe wrote:
>
>> Do you mind sharing how you get it sorted out?
> Not at all. This 'trivial' software wasn't at all trivial for me to set
> u
On 6/3/19 11:39 PM, john doe wrote:
> 'Bind' means use this adress only.
Thanks. It means different things in different contexts. Wasn't sure
about this one.
> 's.*d'?
That was intended to be a joke -- a regex for systemd. I thought this
list would recognize it. Sorry. (atftpd's working now,
On 6/3/19 11:48 AM, deloptes wrote:
>> Response, run as root:
>> atftpd: can't bind port :69/udp
>>
>
> why do you have /udp after the port? Check the config
1) I don't; atftpd put it there. TFTP is UDP on port 69, isn't it?
2) What config? The closest thing to a config I could find was
sco router.
Juniper a few minutes ago (small file; just beginning to get it going):
> Save configurations (5213 bytes) to SSG140Config.txt on TFTP server
192.168.2.3 from ethernet0/7.
>
> tftp transferred records = 11
> tftp success!
>
> TFTP Succeede
On 6/2/19 11:46 PM, john doe wrote:
> I assume that you have restarted the service?
Yup. Several times on multiple computers. No joy.
I haven't, though, tried starting with the options added by hand...
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buster, atftp, atftpd
atftpd writes to /srv/tftp, even when I change to /tftpboot in the
/etc/default config. Or, as is suggested in the man page, just leave
that part of the config empty. Restart doesn't impress it.
Nice piece of software, but I have to put a link in /srv to /tftpboot to
make
On 2/21/19 11:12 AM, ghe wrote:
> Another Busterism, BTW: ping now requires root privileges. It does on my
> computer, anyway. Maybe I made a mistake when I installed -- somebody
> sure did.
Fix: 'alias ping="sudo ping"' in .bashrc. I'm on Buster too :-)
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On 5/24/19 3:19 PM, Christian Groessler wrote:
> I dislike python on the other hand...
I did too, when I looked at it a few years ago. But Python3 looks
reasonably civilized.
And so the interpreter replaces 4 spaces with a semicolon. I think I can
live with that...
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On 5/24/19 11:45 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> 1,122 lines of code in Buster.
Oh. So that's what's wrong with Buster :-)
> (Astounding how few languages are mentioned there.
> No Piet ? http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html
I forgot about LISP too. LISP was the first high level
On 5/24/19 11:21 AM, mick crane wrote:
>> On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
> What goes on with Perl ?
Can you say "Python"?
Perl was great a while back, but it leaves something to be desired today.
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On 5/24/19 11:42 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> That's plain wrong: Debian has perl at its core, and Python not.
Please note the word "creeping." Perl is used a lot -- it's a very
powerful language, but its syntax and data structures are less than optimal.
I've written a lot of Perl, but I've
On 5/24/19 9:08 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
> As I am trying to promote contributing to Debian, what programming
> languages are mostly used?
C, perl, java, ruby, python, bash, that I know of. And probably several
others. I don't recall seeing any COBOL, though :-)
> I am asking as it helps to
On 5/23/19 9:17 AM, Erik Josefsson wrote:
> I'd anyway like to ask if anyone would know a
> reasonably powerful second hand stationary office computer that can run
> a Debian Buster Pure Blend from a net install? No need for wireless, I
> will just connect with ethernet cable.
I don't know if
Yet another suggestion for laser.
I read on the screen most of the time. I used to have an HP inkjet, and
the ink kept drying out and clogging the jets, resulting in many wasted
ink cartridges.
When it was cooking, it made much prettier pictures than the B HP
laser printer that replaced it does.
On 5/20/19 5:15 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
> What'd the problem end up being? Password database went sideways?
I'm not sure. Replacing the directory of config files with the dist
config dir (and some mild futzing) fixed it.
I'm guessing, like you suggest, that something or other in a secret
FWIW, IMAP is back. I copied the dovecot dist config folder to
/etc/dovecot and turned plainText passwords back on, and everything came
back to life.
I have a big collection of email clients now: mutt, clawsMail,
Thunderbird, Sylpheed, Geary...
And dovecot has been declared a mixed blessing.
On 5/8/19 7:33 AM, Gard Spreemann wrote:
> I find that cowbuilder [1] does this job fine for my needs. If I need to
> test a more involved graphical user experience for a different release
> than the one I run, I just spin up a VM.
Or you could just buy an additional computer and dban the MS
On 5/6/19 12:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 05 May 2019 09:04:18 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> Down
>> about 20 db from what I'm used to hearing.
A 20 db loss on a beep can be a problem for us of the elderly
persuasion. Several years ago, an audiologist told me that my ears are
40 db
On 4/20/19 12:00 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Yes, there is no problem, everything is as it should be.
Thanks very much -- and pi is indeed user num 1000.
Very peculiar data around that dir, though. But what do I know...
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A Raspberry Pi 3B+ I'm working on, running last week's raspian stretch,
kept saying there was something it couldn't do (don't remember just
what, but there was a permissions problem).
A little looking around showed a directory called /run/user/1000/gvfs
with permissions == d?, owner == ?,
On 3/28/19 9:17 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> No. Because the least Google track is your IP address. It is true that
> Tor is meant to obscure your IP address, but "trackers", in your use
> of the word, are mostly Javascript code snippets (sometimes invisible
> images and things like that) made
On 3/28/19 1:18 AM, André Rodier wrote:
> Is there any advantage, in terms of privacy, to download Debian packages
> over the Tor network?
Tor's job is to keep the trackers away by bouncing your packets around
so Google starts tracking the wrong IP address. But the last hop is in
the clear, so
On 3/22/19 1:56 PM, Joe wrote:
> The 'p' is for PCI, and they are numbered for their PCI bus position.
That makes some sense.
But when I'm looking to connect a cable, the location of the port on the
outside of the box is much more useful to me than the address number on
the bus.
When writing
On 3/22/19 9:06 AM, Hans wrote:
> since some time the names for network devices have changed. So its is no more
> "ethX" , but "enp1s10" or similar or "wlan0" and now "wlp5s0". You know, what
> I mean.
Interesting that this came up this morning. I'm on Buster.alpha5. I
tried to relabel my
On 3/19/19 8:37 AM, Miguel A. Vallejo wrote:
> It's only a temporary solution until the progem gets fixed, but at
> least it allows you to continue doing your work.
I installed Buster alpha5 the other day, and the LTO5 tape drive quit
working, intermittently.
Troubleshooting a tape drive is
On 2/21/19 11:50 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> It's possible that somehow you removed your /bin/ping and restored it from
> a backup, but you didn't re-run the thing that gives it the special
> capabilities it needs.
Don't think so. Just a vanilla netinstall. Like always. I think.
> Or, who
On 2/21/19 11:18 AM, Reco wrote:
> Ping *always* required root,
Maybe, but I didn't know that. I've been on Debian since the days of the
major Toy Story characters, and I've always just typed 'ping' and it punged.
But thanks, somebodyAtDebian, for correcting my decades old expectation.
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On 2/21/19 10:15 AM, Reco wrote:
> It's not the first time Debian project chose to do exactly the same
> others did for decades.
Can you say Ptolemy? He (and his followers) did exactly the same he did
for centuries.
Another Busterism, BTW: ping now requires root privileges. It does on my
On 2/19/19 3:15 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> On 2/18/19, Laurent Dumont wrote:
Thanks much. Reinstalled, answered peculiar questions, and loaded an old
DVD.
Made the expected pictures...
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Buster
I just did one of the regular updates, and it looked pretty reasonable.
But at the bottom, it said:
libdvd-pkg: Package libdvdcss2-1.4.2-1 was removed, stop processing
Does anyone what piece of software said that or why or what it means? Is
it cause for concern?
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On 2/17/19 12:45 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> By default "traceroute" command uses 0ms delay between requests. For the
> majority of ISPs this behavior is considered as flood and will be
> rate-limited (dropped).
> You have to use "sendwait" parameter set to at least 1 (second), to
>
Buster, Firefox 60.5.0esr, T1 connection
It seems...
...that the SSL/TLS handshake is taking too long -- at most sites.
Google, Debian, Cisco, Amazon and some others work fine. DuckDuckGo does
not. The Python docs at New Mexico Tech doesn't.
SMTP and SSH bidirectional and FTP from my server are
On 2/12/19 9:15 AM, deb wrote:
> Glenn, thanks for this!
More than welcome.
For your amazement, here's the comcastRoutes.sh from my laptop, running
Buster. This is run just after the WiFi interface has been brought up
and Comcast has scribbled all over my IP files. It looks like maybe I'm
On 2/12/19 7:10 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> What I want now, are the "steps" that Network Manager takes, to bring up
> WiFi, so I can create an "in-demand" Root-level Script that I can run,
> for the WiFi part. (The rest works fine, using /etc/network/interfaces).
How about (a non-auto entry
On 2/5/19 2:05 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> I still think that that massive effort might have been better spent
>> fixing init. Handling threads, tightening some methods and regulations,
>> tidying up init.d and its buds, [...]
>
> Start here: https://jdebp.eu/FGA/system-5-rc-problems.html
Yup.
On 2/5/19 12:01 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>From man systemctl:
>
>mask NAME...
>Mask one or more units, as specified on the command line. This will
>link these unit files to /dev/null, making it impossible to start
>them. This is a stronger version of
On 2/5/19 9:12 AM, john doe wrote:
> What message
Never mind. It quit complaining. No changes to the scripts. Maybe a
systemd update -- there are several updates to lots of code with testing.
Thanks for the responses.
> In general, ignoring error messages is a recipe for disaster.
You'd think
On 2/5/19 9:19 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Have you tried replacing "-" with \45 yet? That's the ascii equivalent
> for "-'.
Excellent idea. But:
root@sbox:~# systemctl unmask \45.mount
Unit 45.mount does not exist, proceeding anyway.
(Same with quotes.)
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Buster
A shell script has begun to throw errors I can't seem to get rid of.
Didn't used to -- it started in the past few days.
I have access to a couple Internet connections: a slow but extremely
reliable T1 I've been with for years, and a Comcast residential cable
WiFi that's odd, but very
On 1/25/19 1:47 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> My apologies, on rereading I realize it is unclear that both
> assertions (modifying Grub entries or creating a systemd link)
> are two separate distinct solutions.
Very little prob. Doing vi /etc/default/grub, vi
/etc/network/interfaces, update-grub,
Buster, computer with MAC identified Ethernet ports
Is there a way to relabel Ethernet ports? Without changing things in a
number of config files?
I see on the web that changing udev used to do that, but now there are
at least 2 files to modify.
I'm gently moving to a new ISP, and I'm trying to
For several days, I've been getting email from myself, with no date,
title:
Problem: /dev/sdd is UNKNOWN at 2017-05-18 11:56:30 from sbox
()
The body:
/dev/sdd () is Unavailable
The Received: header:
Received: from localhost (sbox.slsware.net [])
by srv.slsware.net (srv.slsware.net)
I found it, and it was all my doing.
Some time ago, I built a script that replaced "ping" with "ping.dist -c
3 $1" (and forgot that I had) so I wouldn't have to type -c 3 all the
time. That broke ping for everybody else.
When I looked at the log of one of the static IP fails, I saw wicd
On 07/29/2016 07:22 AM, Brian wrote:
It obviously wasn't a reasonable routing table. :) The control socket in
/run probably disappeared too.
Yes it was. Same as I've been using on that net forever.
When I set up a static IP, wicd fills in the net mask and the default
router automatically. I
On 06/13/2016 12:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
But you manage it. You take the trouble.
I do because I've seen such whinage from people who get email to them.
All that goes into the archives. I don't like iMail's stupidity but
there's not a lot I can do if I want a light laptop on the bedside
On 06/13/2016 10:48 AM, Martin Read wrote:
Solution 3: A makes the probably-smaller-per-incident effort to set up
filters dropping on the floor any mail sent by the people whose MUAs
have bad default behaviour on Debian mailing lists.
E-mail sent to the Debian mailing list contains sufficient
On 01/02/2016 10:06 AM, Glenn English wrote:
Beats me, but it's working.
I modified the line in /etc/exports (all on one line) to:
/home/ghe/Finances
192.168.3.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
That isn't exactly as suggested, but there were mild complaints about
the nobody name to myself (ghe) in /etc/idmapd.conf, and
created a new user (gheqw). Now ls says the directory on the client is
owned by gheqw:nogroup. That doesn't make any sense to me at all.
When I turn off the NFS mount at the server, the directory on the client
goes back to being owned by me
On 04/30/2015 06:25 AM, Celejar wrote:
Hey, that's Steve Litt's site. He used to be pretty active here, until
he broke up with the list / Debian over systemd related acrimony ...
It certainly is. And after a bit of googling, I found what might be an
addy for him. I thanked him for his work
,
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On 1/13/11 2:45 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Jo, 13 ian 11, 14:38:44, Stephen Powell wrote:
The bottom line: NEVER respond to an e-mail from ANYBODY which solicits
your userid and password, no matter how legitimate the e-mail seems to be.
I didn't -- that's why I asked here.
And it's also
On 12/9/10 9:33 AM, Bernard Fay wrote:
I think awk might be the tool to use but I not too good at it yet.
How's your Perl?
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I actually need netatalk (as opposed to the recent poster) in an office
full of Macs.
I've been trying for quite a while, so some stuff is already there. When
asked to install, Aptitude says:
Selecting previously deselected package netatalk.
(Reading database ... 63846 files and directories
On 4/26/10 8:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Used LISP for years at IBM Research
No, no, no. Lisp is a perfectly fine language. There are just others
more suited for systems work.
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On 4/25/10 7:10 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote:
http://losak.sourceforge.net/
A Lisp OS!!???
Could be, I guess. I once worked at a place where they claimed to have
written an accounting package in BASIC. I think I'd stick with VirtualBox...
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On Oct 17, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,16.Oct.09, 13:50:04, Paul E Condon wrote:
electronics store. I have never seen balanced output of stereo audio
in a single jack on a computer. (An example of RC time constant
I definitely recall reading about sound cards with
On Oct 16, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Paul E Condon wrote:
Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly
the high freq. part of the signal.
Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway.
Use the hardware Deutsche Grammophone, etc. use -- your recordings
aren't going
On Oct 16, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:
Analog signals degrade on long cable runs, particularly
the high freq. part of the signal.
Not if it's low impedance balanced, it doesn't. Not at 100' anyway.
Impedance and balance are two different things. Impedance only becomes
an issue
On Oct 13, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
The crux of this issue is that as usual the M$ MUA does not do things
right and as a result a slew of mailing list providers started messing
up their headers to accomadate _them_
And a host of so-called GNU/linux MUA's followed suit.
Two wrongs
On Sep 6, 2009, at 9:31 AM, paragasu wrote:
i am using openbox, a very lightweight WM.
#apt-get install openbox
Or xfce or ...
After you do that, there's a button (called Sessions IIRC) in the
login window (still from Gnome, probably) that will let you switch
around between the window
On Aug 30, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-30 19:07, John Hasler wrote:
Ron Johnson writes:
...and vi *is* the 1TE.
I wrote
Which is why those of us who want something more than a mere
editor use
Emacs.
Ron Johnson writes:
That's what Linux is for...
Linux is just a
If this is official Debian policy, then why don't they set the
Reply-To
header to be the list?
Hey, Man. It's Policy. Put something like this in /etc/procmailrc on
your mail server:
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
:0Hfhw
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On Aug 27, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Mark wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:16:19PM +0100, Gav wrote:
Does anybody know of a program that will convert Flac files to MP3.
sox:
http://www.google.com/search?q=sox+flac+to+mp3
You may need to install lame.
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I've partitioned a server disk fairly heavily, and I want to RAID1 it.
I see on the 'Net that there's such a thing as partitionable RAID
arrays. But I also read that this isn't such a good idea. Seems
pretty good to me: build an array of unpartitioned drives, and slice
it up. Is there
On 7/28/09 5:30 AM, Neal Hogan wrote:
Should I be nice, in the sense that I make
sure to be polite
Yes.
when I suggest that someone read the docs (that have
been painstakingly (sp?) put together)?
There are some, myself included, who haven't yet come across or have
been unable to find
On 7/26/09 11:48 AM, AG wrote:
Generally I have relied on the separate partitioning of my /home
directory as some measure of protection against hosing my system through
pebkac-type activities, but this is not necessarily the most reliable of
options and certainly won't help in the case of a
On 6/29/09 9:28 AM, thveillon.debian wrote:
Hi, Ubuntu works with sudo only (and your user password), the root
password isn't configured. You can use the passwd command to set it I
believe.
Yes. 'sudo passwd' works fine to enable root.
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On 6/24/09 1:34 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
I wonder if the differential (?!
apologize for my english :-/
difference :-)
between pci and usb/firewire ones would
be noticeable. After all we are talking about dear old vinyls.
Well, *if* there's a noise pickup problem inside the computer,
On 6/23/09 10:34 AM, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
Result are strictly related to AD converters inside the sound card,
ie, bytes are bytes whether they are coming from usb or pci or
firewire.
BTW, what do you mean with poor results?
Signal to noise, I'd guess. The inside of a computer box is not
On 6/22/09 6:32 PM, me wrote:
2009/6/23 Kamaraju S Kusumanchiraju.mailingli...@gmail.com
I have three programs - say proga, progb, progc.
proga, progb are completely independent. They take couple of hours to
finish. The time to complete proga, progb are not same.
progc should to be launched
On 6/11/09 1:45 PM, David Baron wrote:
The Google Chromium Browser is working on my Debian box. Very quick, works
certainly better the kde4 konqueror. Flash not yet implemented.
That's OK. It won't run Flashblock anyway :-)
There is a .deb package.
Linkie?? I tried to get it, and the
On 6/11/09 5:53 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
Ah, the irony. Had you but Googled, you would probably have found
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel, from which you
can download i386 or amd64 .debs for Google Chrome. I did that a few
days ago, and got an update this morning!
I
Thomas H. George wrote:
My first try at web page design. Installed Apache2, tried
http://dragon.zoo/index.html and it worked. Created an html file:
snip
the right direction I would really
appreciate it.
I see where somebody already corrected the scr/src oopsie. An editor
that knows a
Mag Gam wrote:
We are planning to run an email server at my university. We would like
to use something that has a nice Web based gui for its configuration.
Does anyone have any good ideas? We have tried courier and exim, but
their web-based GUIs were not that good. Any other email packages
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Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,29.May.09, 18:28:08, ghe wrote:
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
auto eth0
You don't need both 'allow-hotplug' and 'auto'. If 'allow-hotplug' works
use that, it will enable your interface
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Donald Raikes wrote:
Hello,
I installed lenny yesterday on my desktop system. I would like to change
it so it has a static ip address rather than a dhcp assigned one.
How do I go about setting the ip address?
If there is a console-based
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Victor Padro wrote:
You need to have permissions whether you edit the /etc/network/interface or
the network manager applet.
Very true. So:
sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
I suspect he already knew that, though...
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Can someone tell me how to just boot and land on the command line,
bypassing X?
If you're just doing this temporarily, put a line exit up near the top
of the /etc/init.d/?dm startup file. Then if you want X, type startx.
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Tim Beauregard wrote:
Oh!! How is it that we are to use amd when the CPU is intel?!!
2 ways:
'ia' stands for Itanium (IIRC), Intel's try at a 64 bit chip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64
Debian built a distro for both the Intel and AMD 64
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On Tuesday 14 April 2009 10:48:17 am Stefan Monnier wrote:
Why would somebody need an MTA for a (normal) desktop?
Why should every user specify an outgoing SMTP server?
Why should every MUA implement the functionality of an MTA?
Why fight it? A
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Harry Rickards wrote:
Can You please tell me if there are the tools through which a bunch of
servers - meaning: postfix, vsftpd, squid, apache/nginx, may,
iptables, etc
- can be easily set up and then easily maintained (may through a web
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On one of my servers, bind9 has started running as root; it won't start
from init.d (permission denied when it tries to open its pid file --
Webmin or the CL start it, but it runs as root); and it can't update
slave zones because it can't write to the
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ghe wrote:
On one of my servers, bind9 has started running as root; it won't start
from init.d (permission denied when it tries to open its pid file --
Webmin or the CL start it, but it runs as root); and it can't update
slave zones because
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Why don't you just tell your OS that you live in Arizona? That's
Mountain Time, and they don't do DST, IIRC.
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I've been using Debian on my servers, desktops, and laptops for several
years. This morning, there was an update for my main server (lenny
amd64); I ran it and rebooted, like I have hundreds of times before, and
I got to spend 3 hours finding a way
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ghe wrote:
The nagios3 package won't uninstall because the prerm shell script has a
trivial syntax error (missing 'then' after an 'if') that would have been
detected instantly if it had ever been run. There've been bugs filed
against
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Dave Patterson wrote:
Oops! While I was trying to get my mail server back online, the Debian
MTA was trying to send me mail saying this bug had been closed...
Long day?
All morning :-(
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Dave Patterson wrote:
Was it the recent kernel upgrade, or something else, you think?
Well, this morning's kernel upgrade is what triggered it, but I think
the real cause was something updated earlier, and this was the first
reboot. There are 2
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Didn't the installer offer to create user accounts right after it did root?
I use netinst exclusively, and it always does for me.
OTOH, it also always installs only the CL interface. So I log in as
root, run aptitude, and install xserver-xorg and
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Paul E Condon wrote:
Top posting in response to a top post is etiquette. Gloating over the
fact that fellow human being is put-off by your behavior is not. Top
posting because your email software is incapable of doing otherwise is
somewhat like
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Raleigh Guevarra wrote:
Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites?
Apt over RPM -- works more reliably.
I like Debian's (almost always) putting configs in /etc -- easier to
find and keep backed up.
The array of distro sets
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I have a script pinging my ISP (details below) and I don't understand
the results. Some output:
2391 Thu Feb 26 01:14:39 2009 -- 5 packets, time 45ms == max rtt:
351.654 ms
2392 Thu Feb 26 01:14:45 2009 -- 5 packets, time 46ms == max
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Barclay, Daniel wrote:
ghe wrote:
... I have a script pinging my ISP (details below) and I don't understand
the results. Some output:
2391 Thu Feb 26 01:14:39 2009 -- 5 packets, time 45ms == max rtt:
351.654 ms
2392 Thu Feb 26 01:14
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Barclay, Daniel wrote:
What are you using to do the pinging?
- From the script:
my $pingCount = 5;
my $pingSize = 100;
@logData = `ping -f -c $pingCount -s $pingSize 209.97.228.121`;
This happens 10,000 times, so I tried to get all the
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