Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:31:38PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote: Besides the config and security hassles of it, the machine's a P2-300 with 64 meg ram. The GUI bogs it down enough, I can't imagine running an MTA on it as well. An MTA is nothing. Really. I ran 5 domains (including mail, DNS,

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Ewart
publically-accessible services, then SSL bugs are much more important! (I'm not saying my example above is true in every single case, but I think it's true on the whole.) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me

ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Bellows
Hello all, I just got a new ViewSonic VG2230 widescreen LCD monitor for my Debian Testing box. After I installed it I ran dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg. It seemingly correctly configured xorg.conf for a resolution of 1680x1050 as recommended by the booklet that came with the monitor.

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Bellows
to be as much distortion. Still, I would like to get this working better. On 11/16/06, Dave Bellows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I just got a new ViewSonic VG2230 widescreen LCD monitor for my Debian Testing box. After I installed it I ran dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

2006-11-17 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 16.11.2006 at 21:50 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:25:00PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: to which the machine is put. Kernel bugs are normally only exploitable by local users; SSL bugs are most likely to be exploitable remotely. If Only partly true, I

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

2006-11-17 Thread Dave Bellows
On 11/17/06, Anton Piatek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Bellows wrote: Update. Of course I can't run 1600x1000 instead the monitor went to the next resolution on the list which was 1600x1200. I was then able to shrink the horizontal size and reposition the screen to make it fit

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

2006-11-17 Thread Dave Bellows
/17/06, Dave Bellows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/17/06, Anton Piatek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Bellows wrote: Update. Of course I can't run 1600x1000 instead the monitor went to the next resolution on the list which was 1600x1200. I was then able to shrink the horizontal size

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings

2006-11-17 Thread Dave Bellows
is the virtual screen being set to a size larger than the actual resolution? On 11/17/06, Dave Bellows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another update. I am now running Kubuntu off a live CD and it is displaying everything correctly. A quick perusal of the xorg.conf file didn't reveal any different settings

Re: ViewSonic Widescreen and resolution settings:SOLVED!

2006-11-18 Thread Dave Bellows
and the only 1200 I could find was in this spot. Anyway, all is good now though there appears to be a bug somewhere in xorg. David Bellows On 11/17/06, Dave Bellows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet another update. I manually set the display size (according to the xorg wiki multiplying the resolution

Re: httpS on debian web server

2006-11-22 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 22.11.2006 at 16:07 +0100, debian wrote: I have debian installed on a new server together with apache (installed via apt-get). Now i would like to connect to it via HTTPS:// instead of HTTP:// How can i do that ? Install apache-ssl Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

2006-11-22 Thread Dave Ewart
. This is either a bug or a feature of the mailing list software. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10

Re: Try again: Is cdimage.debian.org having trouble?

2006-11-27 Thread Dave Ewart
. I'm in New Jersey, USA. If that makes any difference. Is anybody else having similar problems? Is anybody else *not* having these problems? Noticed the symptoms you describe: from the UK just now. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber

Re: Running postgresql-7.4 and postgresql-8.1 simultaneously

2006-11-28 Thread Dave Ewart
that the services were configured to listen on different ports, although that would be fairly trivial to achieve. Perhaps we can help further if you explain exactly what you're trying to achieve by installing both simultaneously? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL

Re: Running postgresql-7.4 and postgresql-8.1 simultaneously

2006-11-28 Thread Dave Ewart
7.4 in the main system and PostgreSQL 8.1 in the chroot... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769

Apache2 Mysql Auth problem

2006-11-29 Thread Dave Whiteley
) --\ The following actions will resolve this dependancy: - Install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql [4.3.9-2.1+b1 (now)] - Cancell the installation of libapache2-mod-auth-mysql - Install apache2-common [2.0.54-5sarge1 (stable, stable)] I get this problem while trying to take the first suggested action. Dave

Re: SQL question about performance...

2006-11-29 Thread Dave Ewart
after putting an INDEX on it? VARCHAR(8) or INT(10)? ...I use mySQL.. This is the previous thread when you asked before: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/11/msg02253.html I think the answer is probably it depends. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-11-30 Thread Dave Ewart
. Different RAID setups are best suited for different usage patterns, e.g. RAID-5 is often a good general-purpose storage server option, RAID-10 is usually recommended for database servers, etc. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-12-01 Thread Dave Ewart
. it highly depends on the hardware raid. The true hardware RAID with XOR counting and mirroring support will be much faster. On 30.11.06 16:01, Dave Ewart wrote: Although it's worth pointing out that software RAID-*1* (one of the options under consideration) has almost no CPU overhead

Re: dedicated debian hosting

2006-12-03 Thread Dave Ewart
://www.bytemark.co.uk/ - UK-based: they do both virtual machines and also proper dedicated servers. By default, you'll get Debian. Disclaimer: I am a (very happy) Bytemark customer, so this may be considered as pimpage :-) (Tell them who sent you, though, if you decide to go with them...) Dave. -- Please don't CC

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:00:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/10/06 12:41, Nate Duehr wrote: Roll through any stop signs without coming to a full and complete stop in your car lately? You broke the law. Anyone see it (or care)? Just like everything in life, the stakes may be high

Re: spamassassin

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 05:45:06PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: I tried starting spamassassin, but get this message: debian:/home/mark# /etc/init.d/spamassassin start SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: disabled, see /etc/default/spamassassin debian:/home/mark# locate /etc/default/spamassassin

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:50:07AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: I found in the Debian archive a package named libmail-bulkmail-perl. The lib at the start means it's a library. You haven't installed a program, you've installed a collection of predefined functions which can be used to write

Re: How to Play Two Audio streams to two different outputs?

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Thayer
seperately for the audio sources? You might be able to get by with some mixer software trickery to run L R independently. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:58:36AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: Please note that my SOLE interest in Mailman is one-way transmission -- implementation of an announce only newsletter, rather than a traditional mailing list. My largest Mailman list is an announcement-only list. It's pretty

Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

2006-12-15 Thread Dave Ewart
into sshd_config. This stops any direct password attacks. It is less secure than disabling access to the root account completely, but offers a great deal of convenience that can sometimes be useful. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL

Re: Etch vs. Sarge/bpo on FW/Router

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Ewart
-by-2.6.8 ones, use one of those to get the installation done, install the backported kernel, then put the nice NICs in :-) Alternatively, Etch is almost 'stable' anyway ... if you're in no hurry, or paranoid, wait until it's officially released and do a normal Etch installation. Dave. -- Please don't

Re: ldap server restart

2006-12-19 Thread Dave Ewart
: if data corruption is taking place, this should be sorted. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10

Re: mutt

2006-12-24 Thread Dave Ewart
want to remove postfix. (sudo apt-get -f install is ok) Just wondering if this is because Debian is switching from using Exim as the default MTA across to Postfix instead? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email

Re: Beautyfuls OpenGL ScreenSavers

2007-07-19 Thread Dave Thayer
about using OpenGL drivers, electricsheep is a gorgeous screensaver. It doesn't need OpenGL because it uses frames rendered by machines all over the internet. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room

Re: how to set up a wireless network?

2007-08-03 Thread Dave Walker
that a directional antenna at the remote end (on the wireless card) dramatically helped. I built my own antenna (Google tin can antenna). I still get some lost packets on receive, but not many. Dave W.

Public PC

2007-08-05 Thread Dave Walker
? Thanks, all Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB question

2007-08-26 Thread Dave Thayer
scanner I'm running sid with kernel 2.6.18-2-k7. FWIW, I've found the 6200c's USB performance to be somewhat flaky; sometimes I have to power-cycle the scanner to avoid getting error messages from scanimage. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver

Re: Where, Doom3 For Linux Download

2007-09-10 Thread Dave Thayer
appreciated, Have a look at the official DOOM III GNU/Linux FAQ http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/ It contains the link you're looking for as well as a bittorrent tracker link. Of course, you'll want to read the other information there too... dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-27 Thread Dave Thayer
-- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack Handey Deep Thoughts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:58:19PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete *immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:24:45AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: How about, you have N bags of coins. Each bag has some number of coins in it, each one has at least N coins. You know that one of the bags has counterfeit coins in it, and you know that the counterfeit coins each weigh one gram less

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:51:40AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Actually, I'm serious about the utility of big line printers. The large print and *wide*, lined paper made it easy

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one desktop on a single system. And by more than one desktop, I mean full KVM, audio, and USB (preferably with the ability to tell which

Re: dell poweredge 2400

2007-02-24 Thread Dave Ewart
. Mixture of RAID-1 and RAID-5, for 'system' and 'home' areas (i.e. two-disk RAID-1 and a four-disk RAID-5); and so on. Of course, your choice totally depends on what you actually plan, how much disk IO there will be, how much storage you need, how much failover you believe is important etc. Dave

Re: smbldap tools

2007-02-24 Thread Dave Ewart
' option to smbldap-useradd). Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc

No Mouse in X

2007-02-27 Thread Dave Walker
this on Thanks, much Dave Walker

No Mouse in X

2007-02-28 Thread Dave Walker
If it is a PS/2 mouse you should not have that /dev/input/mouse section. For PS/2 you should be fine with just /dev/psaux. Use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 to reconfigure X again and just choose PS/2 when selecting mouse. let us know if the problem still exists. Couple of other things: 1.

How to best use the list?

2007-03-01 Thread Dave Walker
-mail. If I use the reply button in Gmail, the reply goes to the sender, and not to the list. It would be infinitely better for me to keep similar posts in a thread together, and to reply to the list. Anybody know how to do that in Gmail? Thanks Dave Walker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to best use the list?

2007-03-01 Thread Dave Walker
I gave it a try...how's this? On 3/1/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:55:45AM -0600, Kent West wrote: On 3/1/07, Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I don't know is how to reply to the list so that I don't create a separate thread

Re: How to best use the list?

2007-03-01 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/1/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 18:08, Dave Walker wrote: I gave it a try...how's this? Well, you're top-posting, and that's non-optimum, but it's threading, and you only sent it to d-u. I think I can, I think I can

Configurable files and functions

2007-03-02 Thread Dave Walker
for etch? Thanks all Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Day light saving patch

2007-03-05 Thread Dave Ewart
are running, and show us the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769

No Mouse in X

2007-03-05 Thread Dave Walker
see any problems with this approach? Thanks all Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-06 Thread Dave Walker
desktop. This was only possible due to the help offered by the debian community. Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-06 Thread Dave Ewart
:-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Where to put scripts

2007-03-06 Thread Dave Ewart
to the binaries in /usr/local/bin ? You can then versionize (not entirely clear what you mean by that, but anyway...) /usr/local/myscripts Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-08 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 08.03.2007 at 13:14 +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: who needs 2TB for /boot ? Well, I don't like throwing away all those old kernels ... ;-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally

Setting up X on Netvista

2007-03-08 Thread Dave Walker
dual boots WinXP Home and worked perfectly well at high resolutions using the original BIOS settings Don't know how or why. Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Groups, Permissions and /Share

2007-03-10 Thread Dave Walker
. Amazing (to me) progress! Thanks, all Dave W. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-11 Thread Dave Walker
On 3/6/07, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Walker wrote: In summary, my problem was that X would load but the mouse would be frozen on the screen. Bingo, Andrew - your suggestion that there might be interference by another utility (maybe gpm) causing the problem proved

Re: Readable Bash Primer

2007-03-14 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:15:29PM +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: David Baron writes: Anything on line. The man is unreadable. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ This is also packaged in Debian for your disconnected convenience: apt-get install abs-guide dt -- Dave Thayer

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Ewart
(I don't, but I run DHCP for portable devices and other temporary situations). I believe that if you select 'Expert' mode for the installation, you will be asked this question. Expert for when you know better than the installer ;-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart

Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Ewart
it but it seems there is a password stored somewhere on the machine. Anyway I can sync these passwords so that debian-sys-maint once again has access rights? There is a password stored in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf for the debian-sys-maint user. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave

Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 21.03.2007 at 23:17 +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a password stored in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf for the debian-sys-maint user. Dave you are a genius Thanks a million! One aims to please :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me

Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch

2007-03-23 Thread Dave Stephenson
be helpful. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:41:07PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Daniel writes: I'm sure some guy at Google is wondering why they just got a spike in searches for Overly Fond of Goats... So how many hits did you get? I found six... and debian-user had the #1 spot. -- News aggregation meets

Re: ttyUSB0 not appearing - SOLVED

2008-02-11 Thread Dave Smith
: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=mct_u232 E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=2ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 64 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 16 Ivl=0ms ...it's clearly now an RS232 converter, and is no longer using the usbhid driver. --Dave

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:21:01PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy the WMV file to the

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian or Microsoft going open source

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:22:58PM +0100, Misko wrote: Now that MS is going open source (it was on evening national TV news in my country) things are surely going to be better :) As mentioned news was not very clear can somebody explain what did MS actually made available? Is it source code or

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:10:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 21:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE HELP, when I tried printing debian told me that my printer is on fire. Upon inspection I found no signs of fire but I fear that

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:22:31AM -0600, Chuck Rhode wrote: By my count that six arguments anti to two pro. IT wins! ...in the context of duplicating processes which are mission-critical and/or changing the location of sensitive data. Most of those anti arguments don't really apply to such

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:04:53PM +, michael wrote: I just noticed a amanda dir in /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head total 1831672 drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ {} drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ which I didn't

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Thayer
a firewall that requires authentication). Portableapps http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable has OOo which, although intended to be run from a USB stick, works just fine when unpacked to a local directory. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/2/08, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The potential hole I see in mutt is not actually a hole in mutt but in various helpers used by mutt users. For example, many of us use w3m or links or some other text browser

Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:13:20PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: If the export would be r/o, what would be the risk of such a setup? I don't know their current status off the top of my head, but I seem to recall nfs/portmapper having a somewhat questionable early security history. They may be

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Thayer
a theoretical possibility that someone could come up with a exploit which would work for mutt. I'm not losing any sleep worrying... dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you

Re: vertical scroll on my touchpad not working

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Thayer
InputDevice USB Mouse CorePointer EndSection HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you, which is why I don't like to read | good books. - Jack

Re: DCHP

2008-03-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:01:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: The dhcpd daemon(s) is not on your box, so the behavior you're seeing is due to whatever your admins are doing. The DHCP client on your box broadcasts a request for an IP address to the network, identifying itself by the MAC address

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:33:35AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: It is convenient to use scp for transferring files between the desktop machine in the LAN and the server, and to use ssh for remote maintenance of the server, again from the desktop machine in the LAN. And to

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:31:28PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: Frankly, I don't know what I saw in it when I was younger. It was just weird. Yes, it was. Wasn't that the point? -- News aggregation meets world domination. Can you see the fnews? http://seethefnews.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:43:58AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3-Apr-08, at 1:23 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: Unless they take the time to successfully factor the public key, Can you expand on that sentence? I'm not sure what you meant by it. I

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:57:30AM -0400, steve wrote: can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list?? Ive been getting this junk no less than ten times a day for lord knows how long. Debian-user is an open list which can be posted to by anyone, whether a list member or not. The

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:43:56PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: IIUC, you propose that there is a special way for non-subscribers to post, that locks out spammers at the same time? How should that work? The only thing I could imagine, is one of those silly 'type the letters that you

Re: Flash

2008-04-07 Thread Dave Bellows
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:35 PM, PETER EASTHOPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folk, flashplugin-nonfree, libflash-swfplayer, libflash0c2 and libflash-mozplugin are all installed. You-tube movies are work. Yet if this page is opened there is a notice suggesting that an additional plugin is

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:49:29AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:46:25AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: My (admittedly limited) understanding of public key crypto is that the public and private key are connected by the relationship of two extremly large prime

Re: Fwd: trans

2008-04-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:56:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Actually you ARE allowed to pump diesel in Oregon; just not normal petrol--go figure. So if you drive a Mercedes 300D, you can pump your own fuel, but if you drive a MB 300 you can't. The filling station lobbyists in Oregon

Re: Why Installing php and pecl so difficult in Debian?

2008-04-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:10:33PM +1000, hce wrote: I thought PHP is very common now days, but I found so difficult to install it in debian. The apt-get install can't find any php, pecl, php-xml packages. So, I have to downloaded php5_5.2.0-8+etch10_all.deb,

Re: Flash

2008-04-13 Thread Dave Thayer
. Carefully follow the setup directions on that page so that you won't get bugged with a lot of authentification warnings. HTH dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good book, it's like the Denver, Colorado USA | author is right there, in the room talking to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-16 Thread Dave Thayer
similar to Borland's Turbo C and Pascal family. It has many features including the ability to start many compilers, linkers and debuggers from a menu-based interface or using keystrokes. [...] Debian has a package for damn near anything! dt -- Dave Thayer | Whenever you read a good

Re: /dev/null /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:45:11PM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:31 +0800 paragasu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed or my hard disk is really dying? It could be either. The command you

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: When replying to an email, is it proper to leave the original poster in the To: line of the email, and the CC the list? Or is it better to just send your reply to the list, not specifically mentioning the original poster.

Re: Encrypted email question

2007-01-11 Thread Dave Ewart
mutt can be hacked to make anything happen. My favourite quote so far this year :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360

Re: Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:29:02AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 1/12/07, David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:45:44PM +0530, vikrant vig wrote: Nohup.out got larga enough and I don't want to redirect nohup output neither to nohup.out nor to any other file.

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Patterson
for directions that developers are taking. When buying hardware, it's a good idea to leave hardware alone that the developers aren't interested in. Patience will win the day, here. Don't run out and buy snake oil. Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Patterson
portion of the drive first to get it accounted for, then mounting the data portion in another location. I bought two of the damn things without realizing, and played hell for awhile until I found this out. But they were mine, so I zero'd 'em and slapped ext2 on. Great ever since. Cheers, Dave

Re: Debian Sarge install onto raid 5

2007-01-16 Thread Dave Ewart
On Tuesday, 16.01.2007 at 16:49 +0200, Craig Schneider wrote: Is it a good idea to install debian sarge onto soaftware raid 5? Maybe. It's certainly not a *bad* idea, per se. It totally depends on what you're planning to use it for and what you're hardware's like. Dave. -- Please don't CC

Re: SMTP server

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Patterson
flexibility, though it's been a learning curve. Ciao, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian Sarge install onto raid 5

2007-01-18 Thread Dave Ewart
a non-RAIDed partition. If you have three disks (or more), which you presumably do for RAID-5, make a small three-disk RAID-1 partition at the start for your boot partition. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

2007-01-19 Thread Dave Patterson
- but the default was main. Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:56:23AM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: It's not in the event. You almost always need to trim your quotes. Although response-before-reply quoting is itself often a pain to decipher, my biggest beef with top-posting is that top-posters almost always just throw some text in

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Ewart
believe that's an appropriate criticism in this case. ;-) As always, so long as one properly considers the implications and carefully assesses the risks versus conveniences of any particular setup, you should do fine. Cheers, Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 22.01.2007 at 07:51 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/22/07 04:07, Dave Ewart wrote: On Sunday, 21.01.2007 at 22:03 -0500, Jim Hyslop wrote: [snip] The above example flies in the face of the usual advice, but that's because the circumstances are different and possibly rather

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 22.01.2007 at 09:11 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:07:19AM +, Dave Ewart wrote: as root. The system is never used in a non-root context. Therefore, to manage this system I set up no further users other than root, and install my SSH key in root's

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:25:23AM -0600, John C wrote: I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty than those attending too small degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson If you really believe this quote, why do you insist that bottom posting is the only *correct*

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:31:39PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: * If the need arises use a method to allow limited privileges in a granular way. I use sudo it allows one to give user creation without giving the keys to the machine to the person or helpdesk person.

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