Re: domain wide spam email address

2008-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:08:16PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > > On 10-feb-2008, at 3:08, Alex Samad wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can >> send spam >> emails to and they will be added to the spa

domain wide spam email address

2008-02-09 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I want to set up an email address where for my domain, were users can send spam emails to and they will be added to the spam DB. I use exim and spamassassin. All my spam processing gets done as user spamassassin, so I thought I could just process all mails sent to spamassassin as spam with a p

Re: How can I find if a DHCP server is available

2008-02-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:25:07PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/07/08 14:15, Tony Heal wrote: > > I need to determine if a DHCP server is available on a remote system. > > Without changing my static network config or adding any non standard

Re: truecrypt 5

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Samad
Oh did not know about the licensing thing. As for compiling, well I have run into the wxWidgets 2.8 issue Alex On 2008-02-07 01:43, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > > so does any one have a deb for amd64 > > and does this now mean that it can be incorporated

truecrypt 5

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Samad
Hi seems like the new version of truecrypt doesn't need any kernel modes, it uses fuse. The site only has a i386 version and the source doesn't have the file to make a deb. so does any one have a deb for amd64 and does this now mean that it can be incorporated into the normal repo's ? alex

Re: too many mutts

2008-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:36:15PM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > Hello, > > I am on Etch and using fluxbox mainly to manage windows. I use mutt > for email. I start it with a key command. > > When I get many x-sessions and programs running at once, often mutt is > running somewhere and I don'

Re: How can to set debian to write as less as possible (to use it on Flash drive)

2008-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:53:38PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Good day,... > > Since my main pc is laptop i need something that will be as faill proof as > posible. > so i thought maybe to use flash drive as main drive and forget the swap or > what ever the problem rises how ? > > I'm not sure but

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:27:23PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > Quoth Dotan Cohen: > > As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? Teach me, > > if it's a better client than I'd love to learn it. I'm not afraid of > > the CLI, and I'm not afraid of VI[M]. > > What you're

Re: vuescan won't start

2008-02-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:48:09PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 16:52:16 -0500, Richard Carter wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > I'm running debian 4.0 (etch) on a PC with an amd64 processor. > > > > I downloaded vuesca84.tgz and expanded it to /home/robin/vuesca84 which now

Re: debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:02:29PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:00:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta > > package. > > > > > > I

Re: debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:00:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta > package. > > > I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with > > debconf-get-selections | grep -i locale > >

debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta package. I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with debconf-get-selections | grep -i locale I get back locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect en_AU ISO-8859-1, en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB ISO-

Re: 2 Network Cards

2008-02-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:59:38PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:45:30 -0500 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sure. It would make sense if the hardware could keep up with two > > NICs going full-out, so it depends on the network speed > > (10/100/1000), the spe

Re: Debian Testing, LDAP Directory, Kernel general protection errors

2008-01-31 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:57:01AM +0200, Krasimir Ganchev wrote: > I am using the current Debian Testing as a distribution tree and have > recently updated the system. Since that last update I continue regularly > receiving the following errors: > > Jan 31 10:18:19 lila kernel: [ 44.844774] exim4

Re: Postgresql very slow to start on with LDAP

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:01:27AM -0500, Oren Laadan wrote: > Hi, > > After switching to LDAP authentication on our system, I noticed that > PostgreSQL start-up (and shut-down) time because ridiculously high. > (The PostgreSQL server isn't used as the back-end for LDAP; the LDAP > servers sits els

Re: Open WebMail Project

2008-01-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:44:31AM -0800, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > > Hello, > > Has anyone tried the Open WebMail Project located at: > http://openwebmail.org/ ? > > I'm looking for a new open webmail program to replace the old webmail I'm > using now on my mail servers. This lo

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:27:24PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri January 25 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > > vim + gpg > > > > vim can be configured to automatically use gpg to decrypt *.gpg files [snip] > E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: autocmd > BufWritePost,Fil

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:25:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and > > powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > > > I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote log

Keeping uid (<500) in sync

2008-01-24 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering how (in debian land) do people keep gid's and uid for <500 (ie the system, daemon in sync on multiple machines. I just spent 10 min trying to work out why my bind9 would not start, why because I just installed my ldap package which works great for uid& gid > 500. system uid&

Re: iptables & firefox

2008-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:50:44AM -0800, johnny wrote: > Ok, sorry for the post, udp in input only from (router, 53) is enough > for the tools but firefox wants other udp... > I gotta study more... > suggest you use --jump LOG before you drop/reject that way you can see what is being dropped/re

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? > > > > no to either > > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > > it is part of /bin, /lib

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:43:23PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > Well, now you're just contradicting. > > > >

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] > > > > Well, now you're just contradicting. > > I'd tell you why that's not true but there's a bunch of mean looking > guys at my door. I figure it's either the Spanish Inquisition or the > Business Software Alliance. (Is the

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:55:15AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > ... > > > >

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > ... > > > It's been quite a while, and we can't quote the whole movie. > > > > and apparently, one can recover from being turned into a newt. ;) > > Only if 'es not dead yet.

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:14:26PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > anything that > > > kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating,

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Transparent proxy - forwarding does not work

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:08:55PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:11:34AM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> >>> Alex Samad wrote: >>> [snip] > > Well, this solution is far more complicated tha

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:28:15AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/15/08 06:36, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [snip] > >> > >> I always start at the last page and write upwards so my diary becomes > >> illegible to all, in

Re: Transparent proxy - forwarding does not work

2008-01-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:11:34AM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:26:17PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> >>>I'm trying to setup a transparent caching proxy with Squid. I've >>> installe

Re: [OT] Stop Ahead (was top posting)

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:34:28PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:06:33PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > > > > > >> Only if the lines are also reversed, kind of like how STOP AHEAD is > >> painted on pavement with the word STOP first, then AHEAD after so you > >

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:43:37AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > All I am trying to point out is for a normal user ( ie somebody who > > is subscribed to the list), when a thread starts, you read them in > > date/time

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:18AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 15/01/2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using mutt, but I believe most mail readers thread emails for you. [snip] > > No, you haven't offended. But you should have dug through the a

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:17:42PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:00:28PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:49:52PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > > In fact, it's a social convention, a matter of etiquette. The practice > >

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:49:52PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:52:59AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:13:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 01/14/08 15:57, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:32

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:25:14PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:52:04 +1100 > Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > my mail reader sort my mail in date order and links together all > > the threaded emails. I read them in date/time order, if

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:10:00AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 15/01/2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > my mail reader sort my mail in date order and links together all the > > threaded > > emails. I read them in date/time order, if I follow a thread f

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:13:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/14/08 15:57, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:32:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 01/14/08 10:21, Ebanutiy Ebanatik Ebanatovic

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:28:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/14/08 16:07, David wrote: > > Alex Samad wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:32:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> -BEGIN P

Re: Transparent proxy - forwarding does not work

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:26:17PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >I'm trying to setup a transparent caching proxy with Squid. I've > installed Squid, configured it, in particular using the line > http_port 3128 transparent > >The proxy is working fine. If I specify the proxy manuall

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:32:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/14/08 10:21, Ebanutiy Ebanatik Ebanatovich wrote: > > Sorry for offtopic but I'm wondering if the cause of avoiding of top > > posting is in something technical (e.g. to help fo

Re: passing argument with brace expansion to script

2008-01-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:36:09PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: > Ken Irving wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Andreas Berglund wrote: >>> Hi! >>> I have a script to which I would like to pass an argument that contains >>> brace expansion, but I want the expansion to be evalua

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

2008-01-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 03:11:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I did a >> >> /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 > > Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? > >> where sda2 is a 320 gb partition. The process has been running for >>

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:35:42AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Sometimes I have the impression that the people who complain the most > > about spam from Debian lists are the ones who don't even know how *bad* > > the spam problem actually is. Even on my

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:16:12AM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Monday 07 January 2008 06:55:30 Alex Samad, vous avez écrit : > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:05:29PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > > 2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Alex Samad
was wondering if somebody could help with a procmail rule to select email which is in a different language (ie allow through english, but not anything else) On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:53:17PM -0500, Shane D wrote: > True, but withouth them having helped us, there would be more of it. > > It's no

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:05:29PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > 2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > > > > Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in > &

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in > production at an enterprise level? I'm considering using multipath for > a new fileserver and a new mailserver, running etch, using qlogic 2432 > hbas. This

Re: chown all files on a data drive

2008-01-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:18:16AM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > dave N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I used to run Fedora and now all the files on my data drives are uid > >500 and gid 500. > > > >Now under Debian the same user name and password I'd previously had > >are uid 1000 and gid 10

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:40:17PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > I've found that if I generat

Re: mutt and utf-8 (was: character encoding)

2008-01-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:02:39PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 13:50:59 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [...] > > > I've found that if I generate an utf-8 locale it messes up the little > > arrows in mutt's index. > > Sometimes the locale settings do not get passed o

Re: IPv6 routing issue

2007-12-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 02:18:51PM +0100, strawks wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 22:26 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > you could set the netmask to /48 for both of them, that should get it > > working > > I finally managed to get things working, but I still don't underst

Re: IPv6 routing issue

2007-12-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:35:16AM +0100, strawks wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 11:14 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > could you do a ip -6 r; ip -6 a on both boxes please > > On kaname : > $ ip -6 r > 2001:6f8:306::11 dev eth0 metric 256 expires 17141571sec mtu 1500 &

Re: IPv6 routing issue

2007-12-28 Thread Alex Samad
could you do a ip -6 r; ip -6 a on both boxes please On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:12:50AM +0100, strawks wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 10:24 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > can you ping 2001:6f8:306::1 from 2001:6f8:306::11, then can you ping > > 2001:6f8:202:202::2. > > >

Re: IPv6 routing issue

2007-12-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 11:24:22PM +0100, strawks wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently trying to set up an IPv6 network at home by using services > provided by SixXS. > > For the moment I'm trying to give IPv6 access to 2 PCs. > The first which will act as a router create the tunnel with a SixXS PO

Re: Tunnel between two IPv6 islands in an IPv4 ocean?

2007-12-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:32:19PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > What would be the "Debian way" to set up a tunnel between two routers > running Debian to connect two IPv6 islands in an otherwise IPv4 ocean? > > To be a bit more specific: > > There are two groups of us in my University who are exp

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:28:27PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > Hey, > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned > > upon. > > I believe it actually means

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:41:00PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> If >> some run-away process starts writing to disk, and it is running as root, >> it can fill up a filesystem. Better that this be /home, /var, or even >> /usr than /. > > >

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:51:03PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Friday December 21 2007 14:38:22 Alex Samad wrote: > [snip] > > > > My only unfortunate situation is that I have only 10G for /, > > and I am starting to feel the pinch. It has lasted me for 8 > > ye

Re: Preventing IP conflict

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:16:40PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > > >> The network administrator should have tools to detect the problem but you >> can try this method (i never use it when i have an ip conflict) >> >> First : launch "ifconfig" and see your ip address/netmask. I assume that >>

Re: Preventing IP conflict

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 06:38:11PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:44:03AM +, T o n g wrote: > > Ops, yeah, I meant DHCP. I'm using DHCP instead of static ip. both under > > windows and under linux. [snip] > > Can I do that myself from my Linux box? > > I don't know what

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-21 Thread Alex Samad
sday December 20 2007 15:48:19 Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to > > > > > kiss the system. > > > > > > > > Kiss the system? > > > > > > > > >

what to take off the root partition

2007-12-20 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have allocated 10G to my root partition in an effort to kiss the system. So I have farmed of /home and /var/log and I am about to do /usr/local nothing really in here that i really need on the root partition My question is around /usr/share should/could I move this of to another partiti

Re: Preventing IP conflict

2007-12-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:17:55PM +0530, OmPs wrote: > After reading the suggestions from people around i was not able to > understand what it has to do with DHCP. in case if your machine runs > as DHCP client you will get another IP address as soon as you reboot > the machine or any other IP whic

Re: ftell, fgetpos, etc.

2007-12-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:39:58PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:09:54PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I need to write code that creates, reads, and writes a random-access binary > > file, said binary file to be readable and writable on several machines, > > which may

Re: Preventing IP conflict

2007-12-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:32:34AM +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > It's now the third time that I bumped into such situation. All of sudden I > suffer from network delay and package lost, can't ping DNS server but can > ping some IPs that is connecting to my box. > > I have suspected my cable,

Re: How to disable ipv6 in Lenny to avoid 1.0.0.0 error in name resolution for AAAA type queries

2007-12-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 06:40:01PM +0530, Amogh Hooshdar wrote: > Thank you for response. But it did not help. I commented out all the > ip6 lines in /etc/hosts and then even rebooted the box. > > Now see a sample output for aptitude update:- > > # aptitude update > 0% [Connecting to ftp.us.debia

Re: openssl x509 management

2007-12-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:57:19AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > My ca is about to expire and I used to manually manage my certificates, just > a > bunch of scripts. > > How are other people managing their certificates, I don't have that many, > something we

openssl x509 management

2007-12-04 Thread Alex Samad
Hi My ca is about to expire and I used to manually manage my certificates, just a bunch of scripts. How are other people managing their certificates, I don't have that many, something web based would be nice. I have used the rsa scripts inside openvpn Alex signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: making .deb in equivs fails

2007-11-27 Thread Alex Samad
o fix? I am not an expert on this, but have dabbled here recently. seems like there is a problem in debian/changelog, there is a specific format for them, something like custom-apt (0.2) unstable; urgency=low * Release -- Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:42:40 +11

online resizing

2007-11-24 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have been able to do online resizing, ie partition mounted and being used, some times and not other times. What are the requirements for a partition to be online resized ? Alex signature.asc Description: Digital signature

how to cross architecture build a package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
Hi trying to build a i386 package on a amd64 machine and i keep getting dpkg-gencontrol: error: current host architecture 'amd64' does not appear in package's architecture list (i386) I am using debhelper to build the packages and I have tried dh_gencontrol -- -VArch=i386 but doesn't seem t

ipv6 routing question

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have ipv6 setup on my network and I use static and dynamic addresses I use a 6to4 setup. On my server I have 2002:::11::10 as my static 2002:::11:230:834f:beaf:1cd0 as my dynamic (setup with radvd) routing info is 2002:::11::11 dev eth0 metric 1024 expires 182

Re: CLI Addressbook

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 04:42:24PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:14:51PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:24:22 -0500 > > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:14:13AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:

Re: Configuring server with a virtual package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 09:39:52PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Fri Nov 23, 2007 at 08:32:03 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > > > This sounds more like a meta-package. > > > > > > sounds interesting, did a quick google and found debian-med ? is

Re: Configuring server with a virtual package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:32:03AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:14:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:29:46PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I am in the process of rebuilding one of my serv

Re: Configuring server with a virtual package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 11:14:03PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:29:46PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why > > not > > build a package, that links all t

Re: Configuring server with a virtual package

2007-11-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 03:29:46PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not > build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the > corresponding configuration files. > > I am having a

Configuring server with a virtual package

2007-11-21 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the corresponding configuration files. I am having a look at debhelper and maint-guide. for example for server test.acme.com I was going to create a

winbind + nsswitch issues

2007-10-29 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have just installed a

Re: About bluez-pin package

2007-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:36:02PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > With Sarge there was a package named bluez-pin, not available in Etch. Does > anyone know what will the correspondent Etch package be? I wish to pair my > phone with the PC without any desktop applets. i think they have removed the

Re: Adding hard drive to a laptop

2007-10-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 09:51:43PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > > I have decided it is ample time to add disk space to my old laptop and > > came up with the following plan: > > > > 1. Buy a large HD with caddy and stick it in the "mega bay" where a > >useless 100

Re: Iptables Dynamic IP

2007-10-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 06:07:03PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I have a dynamic IP address. Reading others scripts, I found > that whether or not I do have a dynamic IP, I can just cut that > info out of ifconfig and use it in, say, my Iptables scripts, > puttin

Re: raid 5 : partitioned array VS lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:07:45PM +, Fab wrote: > Hello, > > Lately I tried some different configurations (lvm & partition) to divide my > raid > 5 array. you might want to check out http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html talks about why you might not want to use raid5 in this config

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 03:19:50PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > 2007/10/18, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > > > IMHO lvm mirroring is useless. if I do LVM (on servers) I have > > > multi

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:34:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > 2007/10/18, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > I

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > Hi, > > 2007/10/18, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Alex, > > > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:21:30PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > Hi, > > 2007/10/17, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 4 partitions to make up 4 md's > > > > > > md0 /boot ( ~ 500M - I like have space here) sda1 + sdb1 > > md1 / (~10G) sda2 +

raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am in t

samba v's MS server

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Question

Re: Migrating raid5 to raid 1

2007-10-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 09:43:52AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:43:42PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > I have a system with 3 x 200G setup as a raid 5 config, I have just > > purchased > > to 750g drives with the thought of using ra

Migrating raid5 to raid 1

2007-10-14 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have a system with 3 x 200G setup as a raid 5 config, I have just purchased to 750g drives with the thought of using raid1. I could remove one of the 200G drive - run the raid5 in degraded mode and create a raid1 in degraded mode. I also use lvm2, so moving most of it should be easy ? I

Re: SSH Question

2007-10-11 Thread Alex Samad
try putty for windows On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 01:20:52AM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I see some of you talking about SSHing into your computer from > another. What if the computer you're > using isn't Linux/Unix? I was thinking that you could reboot > that com

Re: Untrusted Source

2007-10-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 07:47:22PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:11:13 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:38:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:31:16PM -0700, Raquel wrote: > > > > I'm wanting

Re: Selinux

2007-10-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:01:17PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:10:26AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: >

Re: On defense of the sshd crackers

2007-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:18:28PM +, T o n g wrote: > [The is a security configuration question. Let me try it here to see if I > can some valuable inputs before heading to newsgroup] > > Hi, > > I used to turn on my sshd just in case that I need to ssh back into my > box. But recently, I no

Re: Selinux

2007-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 11:10:26AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: >

Selinux

2007-10-08 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Just thou

Re: capping the apt-getting of packages from ftp.xy.debian.org to < 50KBps?

2007-10-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:07:17AM +0100, Frank Wilson wrote: > I seem to find it hard to get a decent speed for any of the ftp > archive mirrors. I've tried using net-select but I rarely get over > 50KBps and often get less than 30KBps (big B stands for bytes here!). > I have considered using axel

Re: Spamassassin and Exim4

2007-09-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 04:03:47PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:36:45PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > > > SA should l

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