Re: Converting to Maildir

2016-03-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 5/03/2016 6:12 AM, Joel Roth wrote: > What is interesting, is that mb2md prepends a '.' to all of > the existing mbox folder names it converts. Also, dots in > existing folder names are converted to underscore. > > Is there something magical about the dot in the Maildir format? Yes, it is

exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I want to use this feature of dovecot [1]. But it requires that each Maildir filename include ",S=$message_size" in the file names. How can I get exim4 to create all new emails using the maildir_tag format? I believe that I need to add this in to my config, but I've tried to do so and am no

Re: exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2016 4:31 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:48:56AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Probably the easiest way is to get dovecot to create the files. Look at > either http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Exim or > http://wiki.dovecot.org/LMTP/Exim for how to tell Exi

Re: exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2016 4:31 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 02:48:56AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to use this feature of dovecot [1]. >> >> But it requires that each Maildir filename include ",S=$message_size" in >

Re: Is it possible to conduct a Debian install over wifi (iwlwifi)?

2016-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/03/2016 6:30 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 18 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Brian a écrit : >>> dpkg --fsys-tarfile /path/to/file.deb | tar x >> >> You've tried using dpkg from a console in the installer at the install >> stage we are considering? Feel free to report back on your experience. >

Re: exim4 maildir_tag

2016-03-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 8/03/2016 8:32 PM, Christian Schmidt wrote: > On 07.03.2016 19:34, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> So, mail queue handling will then be done by dovecot-lda instead of exim4. > > No, dovecot "only" does delivery to your local users' mailboxes/maildirs. Tha

Re: iceweasel now firefox-esr?

2016-03-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 12/03/2016 4:37 PM, Dale Harris wrote: > Huh, why is iceweasel installing firefox-esr now and not even putting > in a sym. link from iceweasel to firefox? http://www.pcworld.com/article/3036509/linux/iceweasel-will-be-renamed-firefox-as-relations-between-debian-and-mozilla-thaw.html

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 12/03/2016 11:32 PM, deloptes wrote: > IMO it is not likely that one adds a spy software on such low cost device - > what for? If you want to print confidentail information - there are other > types of printers and setups you could do so. Well, it doesn't need to have it's own /spyware/

Tails -- wheezy based good, jessie based bad

2016-03-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Just reporting that I have a couple of older machines that both work well with Tails 1.8.2 -- an old Thinkpad that used to run XP and an old Macbook Pro 4,1 (early 2008). Tails 1.8.2 is based on Wheezy. Both machines fail on Tails 2.x -- the Thinkpad gets further than the Macbook Pro. 2.x i

Re: Tails -- wheezy based good, jessie based bad

2016-03-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 13/03/2016 9:12 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:02:54 +1100 Andrew McGlashan > wrote: > >> Just reporting that I have a couple of older machines that both work >> well with Tails 1.8.2 -- an old Thinkpad that used to run XP and an >> old

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 15/03/2016 5:13 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 14 March 2016 14:06:27 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> IMHO its worth to try the web without flash. >> HTML5 can do a lot nowadays. >> And visiting sites without using flash helps to get rid of it. The sooner, the better Flash needs to di

Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster

2016-03-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 14/03/2016 7:38 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: > @Russ, @Pascal: thanks for your comments and suggestions. They are > very helpful. A couple of things. ext2 is virtually the same as ext3 and ext4, but the latter two have journal logs. Earlier today I was working on a script and I accidentally delete

Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster

2016-03-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 15/03/2016 6:46 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I wonder if you could re-align your original partition and then try to > do recovery of that? There won't be any journal to help though, so the > tool I used isn't going to help; but there might be other options to > recon

Re: Need help salvaging what I can from major disaster

2016-03-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
This might help, using one of the super blocks that hasn't been overwritten: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-find-alternative-superblocks/ Cheers AndrewM signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: flash? [OT]

2016-03-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 15/03/2016 1:47 PM, David Wright wrote: >> Nothing would ever happen if everyone adopted the logic of "oh well, I'm >> alone so I can't change anything". The journey of a thousand miles >> starts with a single step. >> >>> Does it even notice you didn't even visit its site? "By God", they >>>

Re: Iceweasel update error on Wheezy

2016-03-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 16/03/2016 3:05 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > What is the difference between firefox-esr and firefox-release? I have > been downloading the tar file from mozilla since this whole thing > started. How different is what Debian now has from the Mozilla tar > file? Will Debian keep up with the Mozi

Re: Iceweasel update error on Wheezy

2016-03-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 16/03/2016 11:40 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Marc writes: >> I am perfectly happy to continue downloading from Mozilla if that will >> keep me current, and Debian's repo will not. > > Why do you need to keep current? Just curious. Well, security is a good reason to remain current; but those ES

Re: Iceweasel update error on Wheezy

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 17/03/2016 2:52 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Latest case in point, Firefox 44.x would allow nice and easy copy of a > section of a webpage (links, pictures, everything) -- ready to be pasted > in to an email or a document of some type (fully formatted with relative > link adjus

Re: computer cann't shut down

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 19/03/2016 11:40 PM, lina wrote: > Every time since I installed the system, > > every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again. I had a weird situation with an ordinary desktop running Winblows; it was fixed by removing the fancy Logitech keyboard and plugging in a more simple one. The

Re: ssd firmware and power cycles etc

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 18/03/2016 7:59 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I will stick with hard drives. Any kind of flash drive can die with little or no notice. However, that article was way back in 2013 ... there have been loads of improvements since then. Current Samsung 850 Pro units in AU have a 10 year warran

Re: Sudo

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 20/03/2016 3:15 AM, Frank Jones wrote: > I have only been using Linux for a short time why cant I use SUDO on the > terminal with Debian I use it with Linu Mint. There is, or was at the very least, an installation choice of whether or not to setup sudo. It is not foreign to /normal/ Debia

Re: Firefox vis a vis source of Chrome

2016-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 17/03/2016 4:04 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Andrew McGlashan composed on 2016-03-17 02:52 (UTC+1100): > >> ...Let Firefox stand on >> it's own, it doesn't need to be a Chrome clone; heck Chrome was born out >> of Firefox in the first place. > > Chro

Re: Throughput riddle

2016-03-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi On 21/03/2016 2:22 AM, arian wrote: > another simple bandwidth check: > # host1: nc -l 8090 > /dev/zero > # host2: dd if=/dev/zero | nc host1 8090 Okay, I'm trying the following. On host 1 # ssh -f name-in-config -L 18090:localhost:8090 'nc -l 8090 > /dev/zero' The "name-in-config" is setup

Re: can you boot a dvd iso file from a tv dvd player?

2016-03-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 23/03/2016 12:18 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > I own a Samsung BD-C5900 Blu ray/DVD player. I think you will find that the USB port on a DVD player is only for playing content and/or updating the firmware of the player itself. There would be very little chance that it will act as a DVD

Re: New Deb 8 and no sshd access from other hosts [SOLVED]

2016-03-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 27/03/2016 4:08 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Tom Browder wrote: >> I have installed Deb on my laptop and reused my old Deb 7 .ssh directory. >> >> I can now ssh into the existing remote servers but cannot ssh into my >> laptop from them (as a normal user)--I alwa

Re: New Deb 8 and no sshd access from other hosts [SOLVED]

2016-03-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 27/03/2016 10:04 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Andrew McGlashan > I usually restrict with known IP addresses (static ones) and sometimes > with users having to be in a specific group that allows ssh. Also, > authorized keys enforced instead

Re: restarting network

2016-03-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 29/03/2016 12:34 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 28 Mar 2016 at 10:49:14 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> What is the recommended way of restarting network services after, say, >> changing the parameters in /etc/network/interfaces? > > Guessing game number 1: No /e/n/i before; no /e/n/i after;

old /dev/mapper entries -- sort of fixed with "vgscan --mknodes"

2016-04-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I removed a bunch of no longer required logical volumes from lvm, using lvremove (mostly with -f option to save answering every time when I was already sure it was right). The symlinks remain in /dev/mapper /and /dev/vgname/ for them. Having since created a new logical volume, there is "co

Re: page up down keys fail to work in gmail

2016-04-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Just quickly, I think you will find that gmail intercepts keystrokes and gives them their own "function", rather nasty I think, to break standard UI interface of a browser tab. A.

Re: Trouble getting posted

2016-04-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 10/04/2016 2:04 AM, Gary Roach wrote: > I have tried to post a couple of things in the last few days with no > results. My posts never show up. So this is another test. Is it simply a mailman setting, don't send emails from me to me? A.

Re: Trouble getting posted

2016-04-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 10/04/2016 2:14 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Gary Roach > wrote: > > I have tried to post a couple of things in the last few days with no > results. My posts never show up. So this is another test. > > Is it possible

Re: Changing Window Title in Putty

2016-04-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 10/04/2016 6:12 AM, Aero Maxx wrote: > I only have ssh access to the server, no gui. Umm, the instruction looks very good for putty as you asked for. Which version of putty are you using and what type of machine are you running it from? A.

Re: Changing Window Title in Putty

2016-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
The first thing I do with Putty is adjust the "default settings" to my liking, save it and then use that as a base for new entries for each server that I need to connect to; I save each server's settings. That lends itself well to giving each saved session it's own window title in the manner that

Re: New Weather Protocol?

2016-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 10/04/2016 5:51 PM, David Baron wrote: > Non of my weather widgets work any longer. OK, Yahoo changed their API, but > the updated widget still does not work. Neither does open weathermap? > > So ... is there something new I must enable in the firewall?? Does this help? http://wttr.in/tlv

Re: New Weather Protocol?

2016-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 10/04/2016 7:59 PM, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 10 April 2016 19:06:46 Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> On 10/04/2016 5:51 PM, David Baron wrote: >>> Non of my weather widgets work any longer. OK, Yahoo changed their API, >>> but >>> the updated widget st

Re: Changing Window Title in Putty

2016-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
> You see I had to change the /etc/screenrc file and turn the hardstatus > line to show that I was in a screen. Well, you did ask specifically about putty and the solution would do what is needed for putty. In which case, it wouldn't matter what the /etc/screen settings are. > I think your getti

Re: Changing Window Title in Putty

2016-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 10/04/2016 11:25 PM, Aero Maxx wrote: > I've played about with the PS1 line, I wasn't aware of a PS2 line, http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/09/bash-shell-take-control-of-ps1-ps2-ps3-ps4-and-prompt_command/ > I've done as much as I am able to on my own through trial and error. > > This is wh

Re: Changing Window Title in Putty

2016-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 11/04/2016 2:04 AM, Aero Maxx wrote: > So what is $PROMPT_COMMAND actually for ? is this the command prompt or > the windows title. This from the prior reference page: PROMPT_COMMAND Bash shell executes the content of the PROMPT_COMMAND just before displaying the PS1 variable. And that

Re: [ A little off topic] Best e-mail client for Android

2016-04-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 11/04/2016 10:02 PM, German wrote: > I wonder what Debian users use on their phone/tablet. I like K9, just wish it has one more feature when I delete messages, I would prefer them to be shown with a strike through and then I could either /really/ delete them or I could simply undelete the

mjg59 | Skylake's power management under Linux is dreadful and you shouldn't buy one until it's fixed

2016-04-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
This looks like a very big OUCH for latest generation of Intel based laptops! -- desktops might be okay though. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41713.html Kind Regards AndrewM signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

2016-04-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 17/04/2016 3:11 AM, Aero Maxx wrote: >> bin/mailwatcher > /dev/null 2>&1 & Perhaps better still... bin/mailwatcher >& /dev/null & Without specifying STDOUT or STDERR you get both. ;-) AndrewM signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Posts don't show on list

2016-04-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 22/04/2016 11:02 PM, Mimiko wrote: > On 22.04.2016 11:59, Gene Heskett wrote: >> What you Mimiko, should be doing is using your own ISP's mail server, >> which on this mailing list I am, by setting up your own email agent. >> There are quite a few available for linux. > > I don't want to use m

Re: Posts don't show on list

2016-04-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 23/04/2016 3:39 AM, John Hasler wrote: > David writes: >> I only use my ISP sending from home, and never for receiving mail. > > I pay my ISP to connect me to the Net. They do a pretty good job of > that. I pay Newsguy to handle email for me. They do an excellent job. > I pay Gandi to host

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 21/04/2016 5:44 AM, John L. Ries wrote: >> Thanks! I think we need to share more examples on how to use systemd >> properly. A lot of the criticism stems from the simple fact that people >> just need to learn what the new tools can do for them. > > That would be an indication that systemd is

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 21/04/2016 7:19 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Here is a quick example in an interactive shell: > > +--- > | # umount /boot; ls /boot > | [empty] > | # unshare -m Wheezy seems to need: # unshare -m /bin/bash Jessie gives you the shell by default (perhaps your default). Cheers AndrewM s

Re: TCP/IP over Bluetooth

2016-04-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 23/04/2016 10:33 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 23 April 2016 07:52:06 Curt wrote: >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10915 >> >> works fine here. Yes, other pages worked fine too. > I finally did get to the article, but had to clear it with privacy badger > and ghostery and no-scr

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 24/04/2016 8:10 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Could you please keep your cancer to lists where people are not expected > to follow a minimal code of conduct[1]? I call jelly fish on your entire post. systemd continues to cause much more trouble than it is worth for so many people -- I really

Re: Viber 6

2016-04-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 27/04/2016 12:23 AM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Once again, problem with the Viber. > > Debian Jessie, 64 bit. LXDE desktop > > Viber version 6 downloaded from their site. Why? Use something else, a tox client maybe, but not Viber and definitely not Skype either. Viber's terms and conditi

Re: jessie systemd shutdown sequence

2016-04-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 27/04/2016 1:21 AM, Vladislav Kurz wrote: > reason ignores the ACPI button, and does not shut down. Yeah systemd will > kill > it eventually (5 minutes or so), but I would prefer to log into such machine > and issue correct shutdown. Unfortunately the neworking was gone at that > moment

Re: all at a sudden Firefox

2016-04-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 29/04/2016 9:43 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > All at a sudden Firefox started opening all websites with tiny fonts. I > have to hit Ctl++ several times on each new page to be able to reed it. > > The only thing changed before the problem showed up - Google Chrome was > updated to the latest

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
;lite and heavy' versions. ;-) 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...@

Re: using at to restart dhcp server

2011-10-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
t; # at 7pm < /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 2

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 for at

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 debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

checkrestart and dovecot

2011-11-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
/usr/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 Nation

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 --

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 pe

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

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
x27;t think so. Looks like a nice toy, but far too low in the memory stakes today at 256MB 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"

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,

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 machin

exim4 vacation message issues

2009-12-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
rvacation_transport unseen no_verify How can I fix this? -- Kind Regards Andrew McGlashan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: exim4 vacation message issues

2009-12-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Chris, Chris Davies wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: VACATION_CONDTION = ${if $h_Subject: contains "do not send vacation message" {no}{yes}} condition = VACATION_CONDITION These are not the same variable. Okay, thanks, it was late when I made that error -- but I've

Re: Important question.

2010-12-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
T/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, emai

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
3.0 / 3.1 and so 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 UNS

Re: recursively count the words occurrence in the text files

2010-12-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
|xargs cat | \ tr -s ' .,' '\n\n\n'|sort -u | \ while read x;do find . ! -name output.txt -type f| \ xargs cat|echo $x: `grep -c $x `;done | \ tee output.txt That was fun... of course, it was a one liner, but I added the formatting above for the email ;-) Cheers

Re: variable in loop

2011-01-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
What am i missing? Don't know, 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 McGlash

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
ount I know it's only sort of once off, 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&

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
xargs -0 zip myfile -@ -- 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://

Squeeze install on HP DL380G4 with broadcom network.

2011-01-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
h/add-firmware-to.html Again, many thanks to Dann Frazier for his script! -- 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

Re: piping find to zip -- with spaces in path

2011-01-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Rob Owens wrote: I tried this and it successfully creates myfile.zip: find ./ -iname "*.jpg" -print | zip myfile -@ But it fails if there are spaces in the path or filename. How can I make it work with spaces? Does this work: find ./ -iname "

Re: networking

2011-01-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
twork interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Just tried the rc1 last night ;-) -- 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: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

2011-01-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
d are all those changes "non-free" -- so to be included in "supported" versions of Debian? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

2011-01-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 16 ian 11, 18:48:17, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Now, when will stable release have a 2.6.37 kernel? Squeeze will release with 2.6.32. However, 2.6.37 is already available in experimental and it (or a higher version) will eventually reach testing and from there

Re: GRUB Update - Squeeze Installation

2011-01-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
a and installed grub. However, the mbr doesn't see grub now, I get "no bootable device found". BTW.. the ext3 partition is bootable. Is there a way to use usb netinst to fix this? Could it be that the boot partition isn't set bootable (flag)? -- Kind Regards AndrewM A

Re: GRUB Update - Squeeze Installation

2011-01-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
ds 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/4d35c4af.5080...@affinityvision.com.au

Re: Where is the boot/config-`uname -r` file?

2011-01-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
e partition for it. You probably have the latter, just mount it. -- 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.

Re: Where is the boot/config-`uname -r` file?

2011-01-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
is to lessen the risk of damaging anything by accident. Cheers, oh and send to the list too please, others might benefit. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

2011-01-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
at I don't understand, why is it only 5.0.4 ? That's neglect and asking for trouble, you need to do updates more often, even with stable release. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

usage of debian keyring rsync service

2011-01-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
p;1 |tee /tmp/$(basename $0).out Thanks. -- 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: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
e asker know what is really thought by the responder. Inevitably, many forum polls have the same problem. Limit the available choices and you can't get appropriate or meaningful results. There are always other options that aren't seen in the poll. This might give you an idea:

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-28 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/4d42f1db.4050...@affinityvision.com.au

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Jochen Schulz wrote: Andrew McGlashan: If sun-java5 continues to be important, then why not have a port in squeeze too? Probably because it isn't supported upstream anymore: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5/ | Java SE 5.0 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition | period

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
answers. -- 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://adsl2choice.ne

Re: tool for internet connection test

2011-02-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Lubos, Lubos Rendek wrote: I'm on ADSL2. I had constant speed for years and it was always around 6 - 8 Mbps. Suddenly it dropped to 0.3 - 4 Mbps but on average I have 0.9. As you also mentioned I too believe that the weather is to be blamed. Okay. My Telstra land line had such a nose that

Re: [OT] Magic numbers

2011-02-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
;magic" numbers might be similar in way of use as to the IANA ports or services -- that is, the magic numbers are arbitrary. Content is king to evaluate the so called "magic". Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Installing Squeeze with only wireless network available

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
vices, but handy for what you need -- directly to a single computer. -- 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.debi

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
7;ve got a great way to "document" the task. Having a script of a normal install process would be fantastic; I'm sure it could be added easily enough too! Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
s, I added initrd.img, that's all. -- 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

Re: How to make a VM accessible to all users

2011-02-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
google for it. In a nutshell, MS had a release candidate (or beta) that included the ability to run multiple RDPs off the one machine, but they didn't release it in the final SP. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Issues with scponlyc on amd64 squeeze final release.

2011-02-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
any command line access to the new server (as he didn't have on the old server). I need scponlyc (chroot version) to work as I also do not want Peter to be able to snoop in other directories that don't concern him. Does anybody have any ideas as to what is required to fix this pro

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Daniel Andersson wrote: How do I view the log file? /var/log/faillog # faillog -h 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". Troubl

Re: Failed logins isn't logged?

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
40:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux # cat /etc/debian_version 6.0 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...@l

Re: Is this statement correct?

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
r starters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LILO_%28boot_loader%29 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

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
I need help with this problem: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01187.html No responses from any debian-user subscriber, nor anything from the maintainer of scponl This is one issue that is stopping me from moving forward with a new installation of Squeeze. Technically this isn't

Re: How long has your Lenny -> Squeeze upgrade taken?

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On Sat, February 19, 2011 3:45 am, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I need help with this problem: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01187.html That's weird, the link pointed to the post before :confused: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg01188.html

Re: Strange problem with chroot and scponlyc

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
every time. -- 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.or

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
ver reason], behind NAT has a fighting chance, but one which is directly addressable from the Internet is much more vulnerable to attack. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

2011-02-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Andrew McGlashan a écrit : Well NAT does have it's advantages, one being that it can act as a reasonably good barrier as a NATural firewall. This is a common misconception. I cannot tell about other NAT's, but Netfilter NAT is not a barrier at all

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