squirrelmail and uw-imapd revisited

2003-11-05 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Yo! With libc-client2002ddebian 2002ddebian1-4, the debconf question whether to allow unencrypted plaintex logins is apparently ignored (not even c-client.cf is created, and when I create that manually and put in the directive documented in the README.Debian, it has no effect). So, the

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-24 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Fre, 2003-01-24 at 14:59, Adrian Bunk wrote: Since some people seem to thing apt pinning can solve all problems with outdated packages in stable I want to explain why this is wrong: apt pinning is good if you are running testing but need a package (e.g. a security update) from unstable.

fonts (defoma) and abiword

2002-06-11 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Yo! I get this problem for ages: when upgrading abi packages, I get lots of warnings like: W: In abiword_common::truetype('unregister', '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/xfree86-nonfree/luxisri.ttf', ...): Undefined subroutine abiword_common::tt_unregister called at

Re: Palm Pilot

2002-06-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 00:02, Stephen A. Witt wrote: [palm] nobody mentioned kpilot so far. I'm currently using gnome-pilot and evolution, but am not quite happy with the latter (palm integration is good. Other issues), so I'm considering changing to kmail (1.4 with kde3, coming to sid soon, I

Re: Palm Pilot

2002-06-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 10:20, Jørgen Hermanrud Fjeld wrote: [test results] Thanks a lot - this is more detailed than what I had hoped for. This is only preliminary testing, and I'd suggest you do a backup with pilot-xfer then test. Of course cheers -- vbi -- secure email with gpg

Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

2002-06-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:32, Q. Gong wrote: Hi, A general question: what's the maximum number of files located in one directory? Depends on the filesystem. And depends on how you interpret your question (how many files can you put in a directory and still have reasonable performance vs. how

Re: How many files can be put in one directory?

2002-06-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 12:56, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Jun 20, 2002, Mark Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 10:32, Q. Gong wrote: A general question: what's the maximum number of files located in one directory? As many as you want... but accessing them

Re: SSH and compression

2002-06-27 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 04:23, Paul Johnson wrote: Just curious, but does enabling compression make it easier, harder or about the same difficulty to crack data from an SSH connection? Classical crypto analysis uses the fact that the cleartext message has predictable patterns (as natural

Re: NTP Server

2002-06-28 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 23:58, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi Is there a simple way to set up a NTP Server on Debian? I tried the ntp (and the ntp-simple | ntp-reclock) package but it seemed that this was only a client ntp daemon. ntp does not know a difference between 'server' and 'client'

Re: Which Spam Block List to use for a network?

2004-06-18 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 18 June 2004 16.29, Francisco Borges wrote: [...] a Block List [...] that blocks not only blocks huge IP blocks /permanently/ but also whole countries (some 25 by default). ouch. We need to use some form of Block List at the connection level, For a minimal false positive rate

Re: Controlling swap usage, is it possible?

2002-09-04 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 17:33, Jamin W.Collins wrote: I have a few large applications that tend to lay dormant from time to time, and as a result Linux memory management shuffles them off to swap. For these applications this can mean very sluggish performance when I come back to them (after a

Re: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

2002-09-10 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 06:35, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: I have been on this list for about 5 years, and I don't think I have ever seen one instance of Fuck Off. I have heard many people advise others to go away, but never actually as blunt or blatant as that. Wlll, there's certainly

Re: downgrading from unstable to testing

2002-09-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 02:51, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: --Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Wednesday, 11 September 2002, 03:53 PM +0200): [...] As downgrades are often not properly supported, you'll probably want to do the same (or remove unstable

Set a Realtek 8019AS network card to half duplex - HOW?

2002-09-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Hi! I have a cheapo ISA Realtek8019AS card (worst Ethernet card ever built etc.). Also, I have a cheap 10Mbit hub. The 8019AS sadly thinks that it should operate at 10Mb Full-Duplex, featuring transfer rates around 100kB per second... (with collision rates going over the top, of course).

Re: connect 2 computers with USB

2002-09-12 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 01:38, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: Go get a couple cheap network cards and a four-port ethernet hub. It's easier and cheaper. No need for a hub, when it's only 2 computers for the foreseeable future. Get a crossover ethernet cable instead. Leaves off 1 cable and the

Re: Set a Realtek 8019AS network card to half duplex - HOW?

2002-09-13 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 06:05, Gene Wheelbarger wrote: (hopefully I don't get flamed too hard for this!) Or you could just download ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/nic/rtl8019as/rset-8019(330).zip That's what I found eventually, thanks. Of course, when I google for 'Linux Realtek 8019' this does not

Re: Partition Scheme

2002-09-17 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 03:49, David Sanders wrote: I am installing Debian 3.0 Woody on a new machine with a 80GB hard drive and 512MB of RAM. It will be used as a workstation. I have read the installation manual, but still have questions about partitioning the disk. Minimum values are

Re: imap

2002-09-17 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:58, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: --Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote [postfix == open relay??] There's one setting that's standard in the main.cf file that supposedly turns off the open relay: relay_domains = *.yourdomain.tld As I usually don't relay

Re: procmail and uw-imapd (locking!)

2002-09-28 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 17:18, Michael Heironimus wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:08:44AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: I'm using uw-imapd, and have some procmail filters set up. While accessing my mailbox (from evolution, btw, but I don't think it matters), it occurs relatively often

Re: Talk on Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 06.20, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi folks, With less than a day to go, I have put my talk up on the net at http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/talk.html. Comments welcome. I would like to thank all the people who helped me put this together. Now,

Re: Modules for sata controler

2004-03-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 05.13, Chris Lowe wrote: Hi I have been attempting to install Debian for the first time on my pc. But I am having a problem getting the installer to recognise my Via VT8237 sata raid controller. To install woody with a

Re: Linux clients in network - experiences?

2004-03-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Paul, thanks for your answers! On Saturday 20 March 2004 10.00, Paul Johnson wrote: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you're lucky enough to have nothing but matching units on the production floor, you are truly lucky. In which you get to do the easy job

Re: Linux clients in network - experiences?

2004-03-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Saturday 20 March 2004 11.01, Paul Johnson wrote: You might want to submit your public key to x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu/ so others may fetch it. It is there. Key id is 0x92082481, but pgp.mit.edu is b0rked and - carries only a corrupted version of my key and - can't search by subkey (which is

Re: Linux clients in network - experiences?

2004-03-20 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Yo! On Saturday 20 March 2004 14.45, Cedric Ware wrote: [debian-security CC:ed since people there certainly have experience in the 'Server/network set up' section below. Please don't crosspost when you reply. Well, what about people subscribed to only one list but interested in both

Re: WIRELESS supported NIC's? was Re: supported nics

2004-03-23 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Monday 22 March 2004 23.20, Carl Fink wrote: Anyone care to recommend a PCI 802.11 NIC? G is ideal, but since I'm basically sharing a 4 megabit cable modem connection, B is also fine. Speaking of wireless: I'm looking for 54Mbps adaptors that work with hostap - I have a dedicated router,

Re: Promise or 3Ware?

2004-03-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 18.58, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I now need to buy some hardware to set up a 2-disk RAID-1 array for a server. The server will run debian with kernel 2.6. The cost (money-wise) is not really an issue. The disks are ATA/133 (already purchased). Which would you

Re: email signatures

2004-03-25 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 25 March 2004 02.08, Brad Sims wrote: Signatures are delimited by dash dash space newline ie -- and should be, properly speaking, no more than four lines of not more than eighty characters per line nit Something around 76 character is considered the polite maximal line length to

Re: email signatures

2004-03-26 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Friday 26 March 2004 04.04, Brad Sims wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 2:45 am, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: nit Something around 76 character is considered the polite maximal line length to use in email. Some even argue 72 so that it stays below 80 chars even with 2

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 25 March 2004 19.52, s. keeling wrote: I think (eg.) Networking For Women workshops are demeaning and insulting to women. What, you don't think I could handle a real networking course?!? Pig! The women I hang with agree. When I say something about it on-line, I'm roundly

Re: few debian questions!!

2004-03-30 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Monday 29 March 2004 21.53, mehdi wrote: Hi I am new to debian but not to UNIX. I `ve been using HPUX unix (only as a user) for few years. There are some question for me and I be glade If anyone can help me on that. 1- Where does the third party software (such as GNU softwares) are

Re: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-30 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 07.04, Michael Bellears wrote: Would appreciate anyone's experiences/recommendations on the following points: 1. What is the recommended method to synch config files on all real servers (Eg. Httpd.conf, horde/imp config files etc?) - Have only one server that admins

Re: from Announce: 3.0r3 i386 kernels cannot be exchanged - why?

2004-03-30 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 10.55, SpamHog wrote: [...] - Is one stuck with vulns for now? If so, till when? Your best bet is to compile your own kernel. I'm not clear what you refer to (and you didn't give a link, and I won't go hunting for it), but I guess what it meant that Debian won't

Re: Debian in Server Farm

2004-03-31 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
[Michael, can you please leave in attribution lines, and perhaps fix your mailer so that it supports References: or In-Reply-To: headers to support other threading-aware mailers?] On Wednesday 31 March 2004 01.14, Michael Bellears wrote: Steve: I don't have a lot of experience with this but

Re: Moving from unstable to testing

2004-03-31 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 20.43, Jason Slaughter wrote: I have been running a debian unstable machine for a while but I'd like to move it to a testing machine (with a few unstable packages pinned). I know downgrades like this aren't really encouraged, but I don't want to downgrade so much as

Re: from Announce: 3.0r3 i386 kernels cannot be exchanged - why?

2004-03-31 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 13.00, SpamHog wrote: So I still wonder if ALL i386 kernels contain such vendor-provided modules. No, not at all. But if Debian would change the binary API of the kernel, vendor-provided modules would stop working for the people who use them. This is not supposed

Re: Advice for setting up a file server

2004-03-31 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 15.40, Kent West wrote: Which Debian version? stable (woody, currently) - probably no need for the latest and greatest packages like you'd likely want on a workstation You may want to use samba 3, though, as there are quite noticeable improvements over 2.2

Re: Advice for setting up a file server

2004-03-31 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 01 April 2004 01.39, Clive Menzies wrote: There are two reasons I use NFS: There is one reason I'll never use NFS: authentication. NFS 'authenticates' clients by numerical userid *only*, and restricts access by IP address. So, if you manage to take over the IP address of a

Re: ISO images

2004-03-31 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Thursday 01 April 2004 02.49, mister linux wrote: How many of the CD images must one download from the Debian mirror sites Are all of these required? debian-30r1-i386-binary-1.iso As other said, use this. If you have network connection on the machine you install Debian on, you'll want