Cisco switch issue -- after Debian updates had me stumped...

2012-08-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
had finished rebooting. Hopefully my little story might help someone else. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9012 2102 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National No: 1300 85 3804 Affinity Vision Australia Pty

Re: Backup all GPG secret keys

2013-01-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
your keys. Perhaps this link will help: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/~lockhart/gpg/gpg-cs.html Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9012 2102 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National No: 1300 85 3804 Affinity

checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
/lib/dovecot/imap No updates since these processes were started. How do I find out which is the offending component? Thanks -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9012 2102 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 15/11/2011 7:31 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: # checkrestart Found 2 processes using old versions of upgraded files (1 distinct program) (1 distinct packages) These processes do not seem to have an associated init script to restart them: dovecot-imapd: 18981

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
. I couldn't see any evidence of any worker processes. The problem has persisted. So ... I've done a full reboot now. I still expect to see the problem later today, let's see ;-) Thanks -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, They are back, after the reboot, but not right away... looks like I'll have to report a bug. Now, how to tell which old files are the problem On 18/11/2011 1:44 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: I couldn't see any evidence of any worker processes. The problem has persisted. So ... I've

Re: checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 18/11/2011 1:41 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: They are back, after the reboot, but not right away... looks like I'll have to report a bug. Now, how to tell which old files are the problem How is your python scripting? The checkrestart script is simply a python

Bonding of two or more DSL connections, possibly multiple ISPs with a data center grade endpoint

2011-08-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
cards and if helpful other non-prohibitive cost hardware. Any ideas, advice would be appreciated. [1] http://www.pipenetworks.com/pipeethernet.php -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
don't envy being that consultant in this situation. ;-) -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
enjoyed the laugh ;-) -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e50e5db.4020

Re: LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e53c13c.3020

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

2011-08-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item2a12e13146 [2] http://www.seagate.com/www/en-au/products/laptops/laptop-hdd/ -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Heddle Weaver wrote: Failing that, I'll do a new install on the laptop, but I think it'll be alright. Regards and thanks, Weaver. I cannot believe this thread is still going -- it is way beyond funny now it's ludicrous to say the least Your Ethernet device is broken and if it is not

Re: About the `-u' option of `cp' command

2011-09-03 Thread Andrew McGlashan
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Re: Drive failure rates (was Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital Green Drives (also present in WD Elements external USB cases))

2011-09-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
past, replacing a faulty drive was more expensive and the RMA process was worth it, but today it is quite often not work the trouble on the cheaper range of drives -- hence failure rates would surely go heavily under reported. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now

Re: Hard drive bad sector warning

2011-09-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
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Re: Moving to Debian server. (Re)Visiting the Postfix or Exim decision. Asking for Debian-ites' opinions.

2011-09-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
/trip_search [2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=exim4 -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: mdadm and fsck

2011-09-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
from blkid if you need more help. And also output from the following: mdadm --detail /dev/md0 mdadm --detail /dev/md1 That [mdadm --detail ] will give more details than /proc/mdstat -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: mdadm and fsck

2011-09-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, You might also find the attached script useful, I place it in /etc/profile.d/ and it runs when I login. When I am doing a rebuild, I do the following to monitor the progress: watch -n .5 $CMDADM2_CMD That will repeat the command set each half a second. Cheers AndrewM if [ -d

Re: mdadm and fsck

2011-09-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Andrew McGlashan wrote: You might also find the attached script useful, I place it in /etc/profile.d/ and it runs when I login. You might want this other file too, it defines the system binary locations (and more) as used in the other script... ;-) A. # Global Variables EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim

Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
/iso-cd/ http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/6.0.2.1/i386/iso-cd/ -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: mdadm and fsck

2011-09-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-- perhaps then, make a backup of the good drive, just in case. mkdir /mnt/sdc1 /mnt/sdd1 mount -o ro -type ext4 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 mount -o ro -type ext4 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/sdd1 Hope that gets you enough to work out what is going on. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions

Re: Support of Ethernet card Broadcom

2011-09-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Bruno, Bruno Costacurta wrote: thanks for infos about Broadcom being in non-free. I think I didn't give the best specific advice -- that seems to be to use 6.0.3 when it comes out as the kernel will have the right driver. That or use a backports version. In the past with some servers

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
that helps. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan http://adsl2choice.net.au -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e78ad4b.9010...@affinityvision.com.au

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Lina, lina wrote: Sorry I have a quasi-problem with her, so hope won't mind I following my questions here, My / partition is also on the edge of saturation. Do the find with -xdev option (keeps it within the same filesystem). But how do I know which files are in / partition? the /tmp

Re: a quick Q: how did you handle files from windows

2011-09-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Lina, lina wrote: Please see the attachment. In windows those formula are shown, Can you also provide a PDF of what is it supposed to look like, exactly? oo can export to PDF, do that in Windows [and perhaps the same again in Linux to see if it still different.] Don't send it to

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Milos, Milos Negovanovic wrote: root@micro ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb3 as 2: Invalid argument Try like this instead: mdadm /dev/md2 --add /dev/sdb3 -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Milos Negovanovic wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 07:09:57PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi Milos, Milos Negovanovic wrote: root@micro ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 mdadm: add new device failed for /dev/sdb3 as 2: Invalid argument Try like this instead: mdadm /dev/md2 --add /dev

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7db12e.2030...@affinityvision.com.au

Re: command to mv files folders to dir

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
AndrewM Andrew McGlashan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7dba5e.4020...@affinityvision.com.au

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
that simply using RAID is not a substitute for having suitable backups. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
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Re: how stable is lenny

2011-09-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Lisi wrote: On Saturday 24 September 2011 17:22:09 Andrew McGlashan wrote: Then you use debian foreports. How and where? Is it simply using a lenny stub [in apt source files] in place of squeeze or stable? I'm not quite sure which you are asking a question about, foreports or repositories

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
, but it wouldn't mount due to the file system not being properly supported :confused: So, I simply reverted back to ext3. But Squeeze is no problem. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] advice re Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1 TB 7200 RPM Internal Hard Disk Drive

2011-09-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
: The warranty is longer for a good reason and you're likely to have larger cache on the drive as well. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was -- Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
with a hot backup of the effected database file for recovery. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
homely, serviettes are more take away. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: What is missing for encfs to work?

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
it be present already? Is it as simple as adding yourself to the fuse group? the user name that is running the [in your case encfs] must be a member of the fuse group Give that a try, ie add yourself to the fuse group. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP

Re: chrooted SFTP and FTP with writable root?

2011-10-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
also add the user to the ssh group and require them to belong in the group to get access at all. Furthermore, I limit access with /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow to restrict which machines are allowed in (knowing the static IP [required] of the end user). -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
. ;-) I've never used postfix, but I have used exim4 for a long time now and I am most happy with the default. Thank you. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: using at to restart dhcp server

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
EOF /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart EOF warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh job 13 at Thu Oct 20 19:00:00 2011 -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9012 2102 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National

Re: using at to restart dhcp server

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 20/10/2011 12:07 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, On 19/10/2011 11:45 PM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Using Debian Lenny I want to restart my dhcp server tonight at 7pm using the at command so I enter: at 7pm /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server restart and get syntax error. last token seen: / The same

Re: using at to restart dhcp server

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Obviously, if you create a cron job to run, then you can forget about having the at scheduler in any script that might be called, just have the script do what needs to be done /at/ the crontab scheduled time. ;-) cheers AndrewM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
for $35. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f3d39d9.8000

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 17/02/2012 4:31 AM, green wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote at 2012-02-16 11:16 -0600: I don't think you can ever rely on a machine having full main line kernel support one day, still having it 3 or 4 years down the track. In another message, I just mentioned the desktop to be replaced, which

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2012 9:24 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 06 mar 12, 19:18:49, Rob Owens wrote: I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures and home movies. I am the admin for several of my family members' computers. The idea would be to back up my files onto their

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
to go. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4dd5472c.5040

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
and simple echo test was a failure at the time. I know Ekiga has been around for a good while and has quite a history, but I expected better. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 19:37, Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: Then there is the whole security risk of using Skype, it pokes it's own holes through firewalls and takes advantage of super user rights whenever it can, silently! Poking

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
at the mutt website to learn some more: http://www.mutt.org/ Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: So much for Skype.

2011-05-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
heavy data usage by stealth... http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_105428/article.html -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Max Upload File Size 1Gig

2011-05-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
mark wrote: On Wednesday 25 May 2011 03:49:24 pm Abraham wrote: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/AttachmentSize You **SHOULD** be able to get an attachment of between 1 and 2 gig. And that would be a ludicrous thing to do with email! -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband

Re: Synaptic options will not tick

2011-06-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
but cannot update. Perhaps the problem is 6.0.0 -- are you sure you don't really want 6.0.1a ??? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: separate user per website?

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
(their own document root) as needed. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9912 0504 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National No: 1300 85 3804 Affinity Vision Australia Pty Ltd http://www.affinityvision.com.au http

Re: psi instead of Skype [OT]

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
://apcmag.com/virgin_mobile_home_broadband_and_near_unlimited_calls_for_60.htm -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9912 0504 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National No: 1300 85 3804 Affinity Vision Australia Pty Ltd http

Re: Re: posting (was: Threading)

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-5ae4-4e07-aac5-c41967b5e...@queernet.orggt;amp;Subject=Re:%20Re: posting (was: Threading)debian-user@lists.debian.org/a -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: posting

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
emails that I receive and the one I am replying to. [1] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg01787.html -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
* # find . -type f -name \ -print0|xargs -0 rm;ls * # find . -type f -name \* -print0|xargs -0 rm;ls Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
that I *like* these types of problems?LOL Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: posting Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2011 #1198

2011-06-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
under _any_ circumstance, well almost -- there are always swings and roundabouts ;-) -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Scott Ferguson wrote: There, we'll have to disagree. Perhaps your shell handles ls differently. Also you are running as root, I'm not Yes, well as root, I admit -- quick tests in a special and safe working directory. /bin/bash shell Whatever you do use * do so with extreme caution,

Re: Accented chars in filenames issue

2011-06-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
William Hopkins wrote: You should be able to trust rm, at least. Just add -i if you're paranoid. And if you are more paranoid, fully path rm to ensure no alias is changing anything. # which rm /bin/rm -- Kind Regards AndrewM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e07335a.4010...@affinityvision.com.au

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e074a21.6000...@affinityvision.com.au

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: well. that was nice. the scenario you describe is precisely what i sort-of had planned, but didn't have the expertise to do so was going to recommend just two drives and then rsync to the other two. _however_, given that you've solved exactly what is

Re: mdadm and UUIDs for its component drives

2011-06-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Tom H wrote: You have / set up as a RAID 1 array md0 with sda1 and sdb1 as its components. No / would be on an internal drive, right now that is not the concern as it has nothing to do with the external drive array(s) in question for this issue. -- Kind Regards AndrewM -- To

spamassassin -- cron.daily warning

2011-07-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
the changes might be due to a data file that has updated for the package. Perhaps I should re-enable 127/8 in trusted networks and wait for the data to fix itself advice? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: spamassassin -- cron.daily warning

2011-07-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
sure that I had not done something which should not have been done. ;) You have confirmed my solution as being good, thank you very much! -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: what program is running find that is taking up so much of my cpu time this morning?

2011-07-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e170924.3010...@affinityvision.com.au

Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
things to consider? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e1785b3.6080

Re: Debian 5.0.5 Binaries 1 throuh 5

2011-07-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
the latest Debian 5 release, choose from the archives [1] or better still upgrade to the latest stable release [2] if you can. [1]http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ [2] http://www.debian.org/CD/ -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP

Re: Debian 5.0.5 Binaries 1 throuh 5

2011-07-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, This might be useful too if you are going with Lenny: http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/debian-installer/ -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, CamaleĆ³n wrote: On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:33:23 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: (...) What I am thinking of doing is making the two MX records both at the same level number, 10, and having that do round robin as well (again, just the one mail server, accessible via both connections). Does

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
and I use SSL as much as I can to reduce the risks of plain old POP mail systems that sent everything in clear text -- not many ISPs will go to that level to protect user security and VALIDNESS of mail services. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP

Re: Networking -- use of two Internet connections for one server with round robin DNS -- web okay, but should I do mail this way too?

2011-07-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2011 2:22 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: They're not properly setup if they have a dynamic IP address, and most xDSL customers get a dynamic IP. Given that 95% of all email is spam, and 90% of that is from bot infected PCs on consumer xDSL/cable lines, would you

Re: OT - stitching together 2 pdf files

2011-07-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
to a .ps file (postscript), then joining the .ps files in the order required and lastly doing a ps2pdf. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
for those on ANY network that has open slather via IPv6 addressing. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
of your known UUIDs -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e1da81b.3090

Re: mounting USB disk

2011-07-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
is Hungarian. Hungarians put the surname first, as do the Japanese; and probably many other nationalities. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Multiple Network Gateways

2011-07-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Perhaps this will help: http://kindlund.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/configuring-multiple-default-routes-in-linux/ -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

2011-07-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
in theory, with the in practice real situation being pretty unlikely unless an attack was directly targeted. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
as an attachment requires the attachment to be encoded back to printable characters -- this can increase the payload of an email by 50%. Do you get the idea that I think sending large attachments are a bad idea(tm) ?? It sure is a bad idea! Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, lee wrote: Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au writes: What's the point of having good internet connections when you can't use them? Making your files publicly available by uploading them somewhere or by setting up your own web server may not be what you want. What

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
again, find a better solution. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
have to download them via a 3G data service some day. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
behind a big proxy and have only access to a very limited Intranet. That's the real world and we have to cope with that :-/ It's certainly the exception, I don't have to live with it ;-) and I won't. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Ivan Shmakov wrote: Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%? Won't that vary by file? It's never going to be the same for every file. It's still alot of extra overhead, not just the extra data. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, lee wrote: Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au writes: lee wrote: That you don't want the problem to exist doesn't help. Look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=+635184 and tell me if you know a better solution. 100M logfiles via email is way too

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
a website, then you get a better idea of whom and how many people were interested enough to look at the file in question -- throw it blindly at an email end user and you are more likely to see it discarded than looked over properly. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions

Re: linux-image-3.0.0-1-arch

2011-07-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: linux-image-3.0.0-1-amd64 just made its appearance on Sid. That's a milestone... No, it's just a name change -- 3.0.0 is not significantly different to the 2.6 branch in any way. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-lart /dev/disk/by-id/|$GREP -e \/sd[a-f]$ -e \/hd[a-f]$|$AWK -F \/ '{print $NF}'|$SORT -u) do save_mbr save_fdisk done ) 21 |$TEE /var/log/$($BASENAME $0).out -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: sudden wireless problem

2011-07-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-boot available, try to re-enable the device in the other OS. It seems that some flag gets set in the hardware and it needs to be reset to function normally. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: restoring MBR

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
, what about the other 2 bytes? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: restoring MBR

2011-08-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Okay, 446 + 64 adds to 510, what about the other 2 bytes? Okay this explains all the byte usage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record Address Description Size in bytes 0 code area440 (max. 446) 440

Re: how to examine ssh problem

2011-08-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
in as. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e382523.9070...@affinityvision.com.au

Re: Important question.

2010-12-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
NT/2000 Terminal Server, capable of natively speaking its Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT/2000 desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
on. It's just that we have lived with 2.2, 2.4 and now 2.6 kernels for so long it doesn't seem to change often ... but it will in time, I'm sure. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files

2010-12-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
That was fun... of course, it was a one liner, but I added the formatting above for the email ;-) Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: variable in loop

2011-01-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
, but the following works: ASDF=hello; a=0; a=$(( 70 - $(echo $ASDF | awk '{print length}') )) echo -n $a $ASDF;for i in {`seq 1 1 $a`}; do printf '.'; done;echo Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
, but this was a little fun and I might actually use it again. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

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