is installed with parted [1] - thanks for your help :-)
[1]
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/re-read-the-partition-table-without-rebooting-linux-system.html
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:-) Also means 1 less charger to carry when travelling, less
space usage in my bag.
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Is there a way of creating partitions using fdisk, and not having to
reboot before creating filesystems on the new partitions? ie getting the
kernel to be aware of the new partions.
(Apart from using LVM :-) )
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a decent mail client that allows you to quickly get
rid of any spam that got thru... Did someone say mutt?
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I missed the talk on Friday about LDAP. Just wondering if any gui tools
for editing an LDAP database were mentioned, or any links posted.
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* On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 01:21:37PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
* On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:23:39AM +1000, Penedo wrote:
On 24/10/06, Dave Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
easier. A decent setup with postfix/amavis/postgrey gets most people
most of the way with filtering. Maia
a Testbench.
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* On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:46:19PM +1000, Penedo wrote:
On 16/10/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When setting up the log files for FuzzyOcr, what ownership/permissions
should I use for the log and hashdb files? I used 666 just to get it
going, but would like to tighten it up
* On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:01:41AM +1000, Penedo wrote:
On 16/10/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But wouldn't I then have to wait around to the exact moment SA opens the
file for fuser to work? Or is there some way to make fuser wait in the
background?
I don't see a way
, $mydays is the # of days I want to
keep email. Is there any better way of writing the for loop to go thru
the 2 sets of values?
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the log files for FuzzyOcr, what ownership/permissions
should I use for the log and hashdb files? I used 666 just to get it
going, but would like to tighten it up.
I presume the account that SpamAssassin runs under - how do I work out
which a/c that is?
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One OS
as it is mainly Sydney jobs :)
An rss feed of this would be rather useful...
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March).
Presuming that decisions at ISPs aren't totally random (I know, a very
strong assumption) Debian mirrors are being removed because volume of
traffic vs space can't be justified. Perhaps Ubuntu usage is really
encroaching on Debian?
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only say sorry. :-)
Nothing to be sorry about - one sets rather high expectations after using
Linux for a while :)
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In the bright land of Linux, Where
layouts - no luck. I've also installed the Spanish language pack
(Administration, Language Support).
Should I try to fix this via xmodmap, or is there an easier way?
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to remove that and go back to the old system, where logout gave
you the option to save a session?
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pursuing a more realistic and appropriate, albeit slightly more complex
and esoteric, path.
/flamebait
I've actually been thinking this for a while, hence I don't see this as
flamebait - I've been thinking about going back to Debian, and trying
Gentoo.
Howard, what distro do you prefer?
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NAME{ignore_remove}=pilot, MODE=666
My question is: what is this supposed to be doing, and why would I want
to do it? (man udev didn't help...).
Thanks,
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a look thru scripts in /etc/network, nothing...
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, /etc, and so on. Has a bit of
intelligence eg doesn't modify /etc on machines I shouldn't.
This is all documented in O'Reilly's 'Linux Server Hacks', hack 72, Get
Settled in Quickly.
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Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh,
say
be found by apt-get)
I use shorewall [1], basically a perl wrapper on iptables. Easy to
config with a collection of files in /etc/shorewall, and very flexible -
from a single laptop to a large network.
[1] http://www.shorewall.net
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://quozl.linux.org.au/mm-5100/
I think you'll find some of the providers specify Windows, even though
basically all you need is a DHCP client...
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* On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:38:19PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:23:38PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
I'm rsyncing some files from a linux server down to a FAT partition on
my laptop (FAT because I want to access the files from both Linux and
Windoze
Jeff,
I installed network manager, but I couldn't seem to find a way of
configuring or running it. I had a look around with dpkg -L
network-manager, couldn't see anything obvious. Is it just Friday
afternoon my brain has gone to sleep?
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Complaining
be on the website by now.
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case, with and without spaces
and special characters - a possible cause of problems?
I mount the target partition like this:
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 vfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
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line-by-line. (You can manually copy
and paste lines, but not easily move one line of diffs from one file to
another).
Anyone know of a gui tool that allows you to do this? I usually use
vimdiff, but I'm looking for an easier to use tool for my (linux)
students.
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ok, but a bit clumsy in the way you have to
'switch directions' to take diffs from each file. I'll try with the
later versions...
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(and answers).
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? Or is this an unrelated fix?
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to know about.o
Interestingly both servers (mine and SLUGS's) seem to be running
postgrey.
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Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh,
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place to hitch up a horse. (Daniel
address: Address verification in
progress (in reply to RCPT TO command)
This 'unverified address' problem - how do I resolve it? What's causing
it to be unverified?
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Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh,
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*). Of course, this might
just postphone the hang till when you try to access smbfs :-)
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Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh,
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place to hitch up a horse. (Daniel Dvorkin
. If you've got different partions (eg /home, /var) it can be
easier to reinstall and keep your existing data on these separate
partions.
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Complaining that Linux doesn't work well with Windows is like ... oh,
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Robert Collins wrote:
Hiyall...
sorry for the late notice, I'm still finding my feet again after UBZ.
Thanks Robert. Location, time?
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A Debian/Ubuntu question:
On Redhat boxes, network drivers are aliased using /etc/modprobe.conf eg
there will be lines like:
alias eth0 tulip
Where's the equivalent on Debian/Ubuntu? It's not in /etc/modules or
/etc/modprobe.d/*
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to do that.
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IÂve installed squidguard/chastity on a firewall, to block p0rn.
Does anyone know of a website that provides a dynamically updated list I
could regularyl grab using cron.
IÂve googled, but nothing came up.
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could try?
Try ssh -vvv ... to get more information from SSH about what's happening
try running the script with sh -x to see if this gives any useful info
Great, thanks for that.
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fine; copies all the stuff thru to all machines (I'm using
an ssh key for root). But when I uncomment the ssh line, only the first
machine is done, suggesting that ssh is dying somehow.
Any ideas on what I could try?
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The information revolution will be fought
*
cd ..
rmdir $name
done studentlist
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Type cat vmlinuz /dev/audio to hear the voice of $DEITY.
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* On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 07:26:15AM +0930, David Fitch wrote:
has anyone got this combination working? (postfix with TLS/SASL
on debian woody)
No, haven't got it going, but it's on my todo list...
The tutorial at [1] may help.
[1] http://workaround.org/articles/ispmail-sarge/
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to use on Palm.
Of course, other Palm apps may be a problem.
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* On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 06:11:35PM +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote:
On Sun, 2005-24-04 at 19:31 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
I've noticed that as I get more signatures on my key, gpg is getting
slower and slower decrypting or authenticating emails.
A partial improvement can be had
at the bottom, so you can fill it with almost a whole ream of paper.
I bought it after researching in Linux magazine reviews (it was reviewed
in a German magazine - can't remember which one).
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Despite its refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty, the Australian
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echo -e \n--send-key to pgpkeys.mit.edu
gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --send-key A8B77238
echo -e \n--refresh-keys
gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --refresh-keys
Environment:
$ mutt -v
Mutt 1.5.6+20040907i (CVS)
..snip
$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.5
..snip
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$(dir) $(patsubst
%-sub-dirs,%,$@) ) echo done.
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). I've trawled thru the Configuration Editor
(Applications, System Tools), couldn't find anything.
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agent string. I'm running Ubuntu Warty, I've got SunJava 1.5
installed.
I've written to STG, I get the usual response... blah, blah supported
browsers, blah IE blah :-)
[1] http://puzzling.org/computing/help/banking
[2] http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
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Environment Minister Ian Campbell
.
I'll email the maintainer of [1] so she can add it to her page (is this
the same Mary?).
Thanks again for all your help.
[1] http://puzzling.org/computing/help/banking
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], a few lobbying
emails to StGeorge wouldn't go astray :-)
(yes, I read SlashDot [2] too...).
[1] http://secunia.com/advisories/12889/
[2] http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/01/09/0737248.shtml?tid=172tid=113tid=218
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Everything has been globalized except our consent
George Monbiot
it returns uid=1002. But after sudo'ing to
root, the id command returns uid=0(root). How would I find the user's
original id before they sudo'd to root?
Thanks for any help,
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* On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:32:34AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
I think this sets your entire system's language to Spanish. You might
want en_AU.ISO-8859-1 instead (both will display all the ISO-8859-1
characters, which include the Spanish accented characters) or possibly
en_AU.UTF-8.
* On
Anyone got any pointers on how to make foreign characters display in
mutt? For example when someone sends me email in Spanish, the accented
characters appear as question marks:
El CMI Valpara?so discutir?
I've noticed from the mail agent string that the sender is using
Outhouse (don't know if
I'm interested in buying old 'Linux Journal' magazines, for dates
between Jan/2000 and April/2004. I'm not collecting them, and I know I
can read the articles online - I just enjoy reading the magazines ;-)
If you've got some to sell, please email me directly with prices and
dates, rather than
I use a2ps for printing out my man pages (thusly: 'man foo | a2ps'), and
this is great, except that my pages print too far to the right ie about
an inch of white space to the left, and the right hand edge chopped off.
How would I go about fixing this?
I've tried using a2ps with the A4 paper
* Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use a2ps for printing out my man pages (thusly: 'man foo | a2ps'), and
this is great, except that my pages print too far to the right ie about
an inch of white space to the left, and the right hand edge chopped off.
How would I go about fixing
I've migrated my Windows users to Mozilla Thunderbird running off a
Linux imap server (with procmail/spamassassin filtering). Everything's
working well, except for one thing - attachments aren't being displayed
for some messages, and of course the culprits are messages sent from ms
outhouse. The
* David Uzzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are going to run Terminal Services you could use rdesktop which
* Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try rdesktop - assuming you have Terminal Services. The negative of
* Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We use Citrix Metaframe at
know I can use VNC, but it's a bit clunky, especially since the 1
Windows app that the users need to access is their main app (which they
use all day).
Anyone had experience with the Citrix ICA Client running on Linux? It
looks promising.
Any other hints as to what I could use?
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Maildir/INBOX separation is required - on
Courier the top Maildir is just treated as INBOX directly on the
client side.
* David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sonia Hamilton wrote:
I'm using Maildir style folders with an IMAP server (bincimap), and I
..
I wouldn't touch the server side at all
I'm using Maildir style folders with an IMAP server (bincimap), and I
wondering how I should setup the Maildirs so that on the mail client the
inbox emails appear at the top of the tree, rather than as a subfolder
of '/'. IMAP mail retrieval is working, but the users on my network
don't like the
the address
without any additional queries. Whereas for the glueless case, .net. would
need to be queried to find out information about bar.net. or qux.net; when
you get glueless built on glueless built on glueless etc things start to
slow down and/or fail.
Is this correct?
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I've been looking at DJ Bernstein's djbdns server at
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html.
I'm thinking of using it instead of bind9; just wondering if anyone has
any experiences with using it, and opinions (positive or negative).
As a background, I help (or maybe hinder :) ) the administration of a
bind
Michael Tokar said:
Hey there people, this is my first post to slug! I am in need of some help
and I was wondering if you guys could lend a hand/brain. Thanks for taking
the time to read!
Ok, here's the situation:
2 HDDs currently on my PC
Harddisk0
60gb drive
Partitioned into 2 drives
* Oscar Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It may be configured to record 'connect time', duration,
incoming traffic in bytes, outgoing traffic in bytes, and
other things that get recorded into a log file. A script
could then be written to
I've looking for a package that allows me to do per-user accounting (ie
bandwidth used for each user in /etc/passwd for different time
periods/protocals/etc). Any pointers to a package I could use?
I'm currently using ipac-ng, but as far as I can see, this only does
accounting per protocol/ip.
I'm starting to write my documention in DocBook SGML. Are there any
tools that format/layout my SGML?
I don't mean tools that convert SGML to HTML etc (for that I obviously
use Jade). I'm looking for something similar to the C code pretty
printers that layout my messy SGML so it's easier to work
Is it possible to setup a linux box as a transparent bridge?
The reason is that I'm routing an ip range, and I want to stick a Linux
box in the middle, just for ip accounting purposses.
I know I can use proxy-arp to do this; seems a bit messy.
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My work is going through a painful multi-site MS Exchange migration at
the moment, and me being the Linux person, I said 'why don't you use
Linux - less $$ on hardware, more reliable, easier to manage, etc'. But
then I realised I wouldn't know how to do the stuff on Linux that can be
done on
:
also,
this might be useful
HOWTO upgrade to debian unstable
http://knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2251
dave
* Chris D. wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
I like having all the latest debian
features in Knoppix, but being able to install *anything* at all
* Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone seen a command summary for mySQL on the web? (ie just a categorised
list of all the commands - not a tutorial, etc.)
I've had a look on mysql.com googled, haven't found anything apart from the
commercial ssc reference card http
Has anyone seen a command summary for mySQL on the web? (ie just a categorised
list of all the commands - not a tutorial, etc.)
I've had a look on mysql.com googled, haven't found anything apart from the
commercial ssc reference card http://www.ssc.com/ssc/productlist.html
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I'm running a postfix mail server, which is set up to prevent spam relaying
using some of the hints on the spews and various rbl websites.
However, I still get some spammers who have a go at my server to attempt
relaying - is there some easy way in postfix to block an ip as soon as someone
tries
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