kerbros or not

2008-04-29 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have a small network 10 server over 3 locations. Currently I have ldap libnss libpam as my distributed security. I have just read this article on kerbros http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/570. This is all cool, but what am I missing with my setup that I have (presuming I use

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 09:55:16AM -0700, Brad Brock wrote: Have you tried using UUID? I have similar problem sometime ago, and UUID solved mine. Every file system can have an UUID, normally it's generated when your filesystem created. Try blkid to view your filesystem's UUID. I've tried

Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems

2008-04-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:17:56PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:16:12PM -0500, Hose wrote: On Apr 15, 2008, at 8:49 PM, Chris Walters wrote: I have to agree - I've been using a combo of reiser and jfs for the past 5 years as different parts of production

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:53:22AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/08 01:33, Marc Shapiro wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] I don't think so. FF3 should severely diminish this problem, though. Still waiting for it to get out of

Re: Debian crash randomly

2008-04-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 06:50:09PM -0700, mond wrote: I am almost new to Debian. It is a great system. I get my work done in Debian very well. However, recently my Debian(sid) crash randomly and frequently. The problem is that the screen just get dark. And ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't work.

Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

2008-04-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:30:48AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: On 21-Apr-08, at 7:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad: so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text

Re: [OT] openWRT (was: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box)

2008-04-24 Thread Alex Samad
it should have a look here for a list http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:37:53PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 biaAlex Samad wrote: [snip] I would also suggest make the adsl modem (routers?) in bridged mode and

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:16:56PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Patrick Ouellette wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 04:45:05PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough

Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

2008-04-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:04:20AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 21.04.2008 um 23:45 schrieb Alex Samad: so whilst viewing an email, I press shift-l, this starts vim with the emails, I then use up and down arrows and v to highlight some text, I would then like to press some key combo

Re: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box

2008-04-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:55:40AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: * From: John Marvin L. Magsino [EMAIL PROTECTED] would there be a way for me to serve my debian box application using the 2 public IPs search the net for lartc (for example, you could use two different ip on

Re: pdf plugin

2008-04-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:03:31PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:31:46PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: when I click download it is meant to open a new tab and display in there. it opens the new tab but then starts a new window for xpdf this is the relevant line

xscreensaver

2008-04-22 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I use xscreensaver 5.05-1, and I am using ldap users (nss-ldapd pam-ldap). Just recently I have noticed that when I unlock xscreensaver I get permissions on the password database maybe too restrictive not sure where to look for this, xscreensaver seems to be the only app having problems

Re: xscreensaver

2008-04-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:36:02AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I use xscreensaver 5.05-1, and I am using ldap users (nss-ldapd pam-ldap). Just recently I have noticed that when I unlock xscreensaver I get permissions on the password database maybe too restrictive not sure where

pdf plugin

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Samad
Hi what package do I need to install to get the firefox pdf plugin so I can view pdf inline ? -- As you know, these are open forums, you're able to come and listen to what I have to say. - George W. Bush 10/28/2003 Washington, DC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: pdf plugin

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:18:00PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:10:37AM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote: On 21/04/2008, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi what package do I need to install to get the firefox pdf plugin so I can view pdf inline ? [snip] I

Re: pdf plugin

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 03:32:51AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/21/08 03:14, Alex Samad wrote: Hi what package do I need to install to get the firefox pdf plugin so I can view pdf inline ? If you don't mind www.debian-multimedia.org

Re: pdf plugin

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:10:37AM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote: On 21/04/2008, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi what package do I need to install to get the firefox pdf plugin so I can view pdf inline ? mozplugger, from the main debian archive: Description: Plugin allowing

Re: pdf plugin

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:15:53PM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: Alex Samad wrote: Hi what package do I need to install to get the firefox pdf plugin so I can view pdf inline ? adobe plugin couldn't find it (on amd64 - as a debian package) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: LDAP admin password configuring libnss-ldap and libpam-ldap

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:30:41PM +0200, Juan Asensio Sánchez wrote: Hi I have setup a server with LDAP and Samba. Now i want to LDAP hosts authenticate with the LDAP server too, so i have installed in each host libnss-ldap, libpam-ldap and nscd. Everything works fine, but I don't know why

mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Samad
Hi 2 questions for the list 1) I keep all my mailing lists in different folders, is it possible to setup mutt to automatically place the list address in the TO field when I am in that folder and then to go back to normal when I leave that folder 2) I use vim to edit me emails, how do I write a

Re: pdf plugin

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 04:23:49PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:10:37AM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote: [snip] in order to force iceweasel to create a new profile for you. (Cleaner still you

Re: mutt + mailings list ( + vim)

2008-04-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:47:16PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:42:39AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Hi 2 questions for the list 1) I keep all my mailing lists in different folders, is it possible to setup mutt to automatically place the list address

Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:31:27AM -0400, Celejar wrote: Hi, [snip] What would you do in this situation (besides getting a different router or using a general purpose computer as one)? does gwen do proxy dns ? if so just point edith to gwen and gewn will update automatically I would also

Re: Firewall froth..

2008-04-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:06:01PM +, Digby Tarvin wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:23:59PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: On 15-Apr-08, at 11:42 AM, Digby Tarvin wrote: The problem I am having is that the messages from the firewall really flood /var/log/messages to the point where I am

JFS

2008-04-15 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I remember reading in the list that JFS was a dying FS, because IBM wasn't maintaining it full time. And that it might disappear from the kernel soon. Any one still using it. I was actually thinking of using it for my /tmp directory Alex -- First of all, I'm not going to let Congress

Re: JFS

2008-04-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:39:05PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:26:15AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: I remember reading in the list that JFS was a dying FS, because IBM wasn't maintaining it full time. And that it might disappear from the kernel soon. Any one

Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems

2008-04-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:49:44PM -0400, Chris Walters wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alex Samad wrote: | Hi [snip] Hi Alex, I use JFS, and have been quite satisfied with its performance, and reliability. ~ On the subject of dead file systems, if they're going

Re: Problems with vmware-server-console

2008-04-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:02:54PM -0300, Miguel Gaiowski wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Chris Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config13/vmmon-only/common/task.o gcc-4.1: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory you are missing

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:22:13AM +1000, Owen Townend wrote: On 13/04/2008, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this started out as a grep quetion trying to look at a file with out the comments in it i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment delimiter. but this left me with lots

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:26:26PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: this started out as a grep quetion trying to look at a file with out the comments in it i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:21:51AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/13/2008 07:00 AM, Alex Samad wrote: Yes I did (thanks twice), but my question which arose from this was why this did not work perl -nle 'next if ( /^\s*;/); print' sip.conf why do I need the length statement[?] perl -nle

Re: regex question

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:00:00AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:00:42PM +1000, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 06:26:26PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Hidden processes....or not....using unhide package

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 05:31:53PM +0100, Robin wrote: On 13/04/2008, NN_il_Confusionario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 02:41:55PM +0100, Robin wrote: unhide proc :- Which gives intermittent hidden processes unhide sys :- [*]Searching for Hidden processes through

regex question

2008-04-12 Thread Alex Samad
this started out as a grep quetion trying to look at a file with out the comments in it i tried grep -v '^\s*;' ; is the comment delimiter. but this left me with lots of blank lines. so i tried changing it to perl perl -e 'while(){chomp ; next if ( /^\s*;/); print [$_]\n}' sip.conf which

Re: libsqlclient15off

2008-04-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:44:16PM -0400, Marc Auslander wrote: The slim project recently ran afoul of something in the debian packages. They had been requirement libsqlclient15-dev (or 14-dev) and a user pointed out that they should only depend on the client - so they changed to

Re: Problems with vmware-server-console

2008-04-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:39:17PM -0300, Miguel Gaiowski wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get vmware to work here and I got this issue while compiling the kernel module. I'm using Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.24-686 and here's the output I get: [snip] sounds like you need the vmware any any

Re: Problems with vmware-server-console

2008-04-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:06:32PM -0300, Miguel Gaiowski wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:39:17PM -0300, Miguel Gaiowski wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get vmware to work here and I got this issue while compiling

Re: swapper fault (kernel problems with 2.6.24)

2008-04-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:32:19AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:35:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/01/08 08:45, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I have been running 2.6.22 for quite a while, I

Re: using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

2008-04-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:35:03AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: Thank you all for this very informative thread. So it seems that running blkid is the answer insofar as it tells me the information I need. I wonder: does this also work for lvm managed partitions? ?? this is an excerpt

Re: using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

2008-04-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:08:11PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, Someone recently talked about using ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid to figure out the correct UUID to put into /etc/fstab for hard drives. I have /home on a raid1 /dev/md0 which is composed of two drive partitions /dev/sda1

Re: ip route weight stupid question

2008-04-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 05:34:50AM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:59:10PM +0300, Stuart Gall wrote: Does a higher weight mean that the route will be used more or used less ? [snip] Furthermore, if you really want to do this, you probably also want to look at

Re: using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

2008-04-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 10:27:43AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:08:11PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, [snip] I looked at tune2fs -l /dev/md0: Filesystem UUID: d3bb5b79-2d5f-438d-a60e-5437e80e2edf from ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

Re: using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

2008-04-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 05:09:05PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: SNIP I am on amd64 lenny (with some sid), 2.6.24 I don't normally use UUID's i have been using labels mdadm --detail /dev/md1 | grep UUID UUID : ba8c4627:6e74a6c4:1a2e6c15:22feafcf tune2fs -l /dev/md1 | grep UUID

Re: ip route weight stupid question

2008-04-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:59:10PM +0300, Stuart Gall wrote: Hello, SO I have scoured the internet, the man pages, groups. I just cant find a definitive answer. weight NUMBER - is a weight for this element of a multi- path route reflecting its relative bandwidth or quality. So

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

2008-04-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:05:56AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: 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. [snip] (And, in an attempt

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

2008-04-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:10:38AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Monday 07 April 2008 00:04:34 Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:05:56AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:57:30AM -0400, steve wrote: can the moderator please remove this idiot from

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote: Back in February, I asked a question about problems I was having with the hard disks sequence flip-flopping when I would boot: disk #1 would be hda and disk #2 would be hdc; or disk #1 would be hde and disk #2 would be hda. I

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote: [snip] # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 becomes # kopt=root=LABEL=/ I think Alex is right, that you should rebuild the initrd. But the

Alsa question

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
Hi On my machine I run squeezeslave (part of squeezebox/squeezecenter ), it is basically a deamon that is control from one location. I have to run it under aoss to get alsa access. when it is running I can run other applications that want to use the sound card. My problem is when I setup

Re: Need to reboot Debian frequently

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:13:23PM -0700, Pete Kay wrote: Hi I am running debian on PC with 1G of memory. Mostly it is running as Asterisk server. The problem is everyone once in a while ( after 2 -3 days ) , the Linux server's network become so slow that I need to reboot it. After reboot,

Re: Need to reboot Debian frequently

2008-04-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 12:00:44PM +0800, Pete Kay wrote: Hi, Here is my w,free, top results when my linux server's network become too slow again ( it just happened). w output: 19:41:19 up 1 day, 20:07, 6 users, load average: 1.46, 1.85, 1.86 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@

swapper fault (kernel problems with 2.6.24)

2008-04-01 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have been running 2.6.22 for quite a while, I recently upgraded to 2.6.24-4 I have started to see this turn up in my dmesg swapper: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: PF 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 Call Trace: IRQ [80276d3b]

Re: swapper fault (kernel problems with 2.6.24)

2008-04-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:35:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/01/08 08:45, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I have been running 2.6.22 for quite a while, I recently upgraded to 2.6.24-4 I have started to see this turn up

problem with pgadmin3 and postgres 8.3

2008-03-31 Thread Alex Samad
Hi It seems like the older version of pgadmin3 don't play well with postgres 8.3. The postgres people suggest (recommend) using version 1.8. But it seems like we can't have version 1.8 or anything greater than version 1.4 because wxwidgets isn't being maintained (well that is to say that the

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

2008-03-30 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Just thought I would update this, I just tried to build some more deb's from the vmware downloads. What I found (with the new vmware-packages 0.22) is I can easily build the server and the blobs and the console I had to use any-any-115a, with make-vmware -u 115a -s -p any-any tgz The

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

2008-03-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:24:20PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi Just thought I would update this, I just tried to build some more deb's from the vmware downloads. What I found (with the new vmware-packages 0.22) is I can easily build the server and the blobs and the console I had

Re: TrueCrypt install on Debian v4.3 or v5?

2008-03-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:52:25PM +, Russell Gadd wrote: I would like to install Truecrypt on Debian Etch. According to recent posts I have read (see below) there are problems with the new version 5 which means I would like to install version 4.3a. which I am sure will do all I

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:09:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 10:18, Luke S Crawford wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or... don't buy sucky h/w in the first place. If you *really* care about your data, you spend the

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 05:41:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 17:21, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:33:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/18/08 16:03, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/18/08

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:37:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 15:44, Mike Bird wrote: On Tue March 18 2008 12:56:00 Michael S. Peek wrote: But now I'm looking to build replacement servers and I thought I would ask what the

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

2008-03-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:18:57PM +0200, Micha wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 06:41:53 +1100 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:05:44AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Alex Samad wrote: SNIP well for 2.6.22 you couls also just do a m-a a-i vmware-server

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 08:15:09AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/08 07:03, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 05:41:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/18/08 17:21, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:33:19PM -0500

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:46:17AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:37:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/18/08 15:44, Mike Bird wrote: On Tue March 18 2008 12:56:00 Michael S. Peek wrote

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

2008-03-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:05:44AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Alex Samad wrote: SNIP well for 2.6.22 you couls also just do a m-a a-i vmware-server-kernel and a apt-get install vmware-XXX my problem was with 2.6.24. I try and do it with apt if possible If you make a .deb from

vmware-server with 2.6.24

2008-03-17 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering if any one has got this combo to work with the vmware-package package. I have it working on 2.6.22 I have done a google, and seen people have got it working with the vmware installer (and patches) alex -- I think the American people -- I hope the American -- I don't think,

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

2008-03-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Alex Samad wrote: Hi I was wondering if any one has got this combo to work with the vmware-package package. I have it working on 2.6.22 I have done a google, and seen people have got it working with the vmware installer

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 08:09:07AM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Kevin Monceaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would the idea be to change that to 3:20071206-0.2? If so, how/where is that changed? The only file in

Re: How to use ``nice'' on a pipe?

2008-03-09 Thread Alex Samad
what about nice bash -e 'script' On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:34:48PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I usually use ``nice'' and ``ionice'' to run a program in a low priority. But with the following script, I only get command1 running in a low

Re: How can spamassassin headers be filtered so that all or most of the spam messages go to a separate email file that can be checked for any false positives?

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 07:26:02AM -0500, Don Saklad wrote: For nonprogrammers maybe dyslexic, or maybe ADD, how can spamassassin headers be filtered so that all or most of the spam messages, rather than mixed in with email, all or most go to a separate email file that can be checked for any

Re: ogg quality problem with ffmpeg

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:57:14AM -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/8/08, asm4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the nominal bit rate shown by xmms or mplayer on out.ogg is 0k and average bit rate is 41.7kbps I don't think you can compare bit rates, ogg has better compression than mp3 so 128kb ogg is

Re: ip forwarding woes

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:37:54PM -0500, David Zelinsky wrote: I'm trying to set up a firewall/gateway, and I can't seem to get ip forwarding to work. I'm using linux kernel 2.6.23 with iptables enabled. Here's what happens. The firewall machine has two interfaces (both on private

Re: good network

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 12:41:27PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:01:38AM +0100, stephane lepain wrote: Hi Guys, I read a couple of post on ipv6 and most mentioned a point about IPv6 being the main factor for sluggish connection. So my question is that would it

Re: Suggestions for improving ffmpeg performance?

2008-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:12:03AM -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/8/08, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ffmpeg version in the debian-multimedia repository is build without MMX, I don't know exactly why. And this makes the program quite slow (something like 3 times slower).

Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:02:44AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:16:11AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia driver. I have it connected to a plasma screen

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:48:49PM +0100, Brian wrote: Hi, I tried using bash to split a string. This works OK: echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; echo Data received = $E Bytes; } The following does not (the value is empty): echo $teststring | { read A B C D E F; } echo Data

Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:16:11AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia driver. I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option for 4:3 or 16:9 I would like to keep it in 16:9

xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-01 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia driver. I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option for 4:3 or 16:9 I would like to keep it in 16:9 mode for watching video's, but when i do this. my aspect ration seems to go askew. I have

Re: [OT] how to detect a dying hard drive

2008-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38:04PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008 23:28, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/08 16:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Is there any tool available in Debian which can tell the remaining life of a hard drive? Is it coughing blood?

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:56:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/08 19:08, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: hhding wrote: why debian? why centos? It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. But managers want run centos

Re: Trouble trying to find Kernel source...

2008-02-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:56:16PM -0800, tony mollica wrote: I hate to stick my neck out here only because my solution to this problem was just to keep banging away at the keyboard until all the errors went away, and I don't keep notes. There has also been quite a bit on the list about this

Re: exim4 configuration errors

2008-02-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:38:23PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I have following errors when sending email to en external email address. Note: pc34ghz.org is the local domain, [EMAIL PROTECTED] the address to test echo my test | mail -s test exim4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...

Re: Iceape

2008-02-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:01:12PM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: In the last week, Debian etch (4.0) advised me that updates were available, the updates on a particular occasion, being Iceape. So, being a good linux user, I did the upgrade, to keep my system up to date, and as stable and

Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:39:18PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Where can I set the uid used by exim4, I can't seem to find the a location to do this. The UID is set by the install script when it makes the exim4 username

Re: Contact and calendar synchronization with mobile phone (bluetooth)

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 02:56:28PM +0200, Micha wrote: I am looking for a way to synchronize my mobile phone (sony ericson k610i) with my linux machine over bluetooth. so that I can avoid keeping outlook around for that reason only. That requires two things: A synchronization method

Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:27:40PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:37:53AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 03:39:18PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Where can I set the uid used

Re: exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:33:36PM +, Jamin Davis wrote: Alex Samad wrote: for some reason when i do a ps -ef | grep exim I always get back that exim is running as uid = 102, not a name but a numerical. Whilst trying to investigate this I noticed there was no location to set the uid. I

exim4 uid=debian-exmi

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Where can I set the uid used by exim4, I can't seem to find the a location to do this. Alex -- Arbolist ... Look up the word. I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees. - George W. Bush 08/21/2001 as quoted in USA Today

Re: bash crashes on tab completion of usernames (with nss-ldap)

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:57:45AM -0800, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Alex Samad wrote: Ah, that is what I missed before... tab completion of user names not directory entries yeah only on username expansion Please also check for group entries malloc: unknown:0: assertion

Re: bash crashes on tab completion of usernames (with nss-ldap)

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 02:17:45AM +, Jamin Davis wrote: Richard A Nelson wrote: Does the libnss_ldap version swap that caused this also correspond to when libnss_ldap also switched to the newer libldap libraries ? Yep - on my stable box: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ldd

Re: DSL in Linux - direct setup?

2008-02-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:38:25PM -0500, Zach wrote: I have the DSL modem, plugged the ethernet cable between ETHERNET port on modem and my NIC, I attached the phone line into the DSL port on the modem but I still don't see any network connection. My ISP said they use PPPoE but they never

Re: pasting into vim [Was: Re: question about vim]

2008-02-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:07:51AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:02:14AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:36:51PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: yeah I like the filetype stuff as well, I just hate when I do cut and paste and with comments

Re: Why can't I scp inside my own router??

2008-02-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:14:47PM +, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: I have a new install of 4.0 on my laptop and want to scp the configuration for Alpine from my main machine to it. I tried an scp -r from the laptop; failed on a refusal by the laptop. Tried it from the main

Re: question about vim

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:29:59AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am a user of vim (learner). I have been getting caught out with the file type setting of vim, sometimes it is good an other times it is a pain in the but. I have done some reading about setting vim options in files

question about vim

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am a user of vim (learner). I have been getting caught out with the file type setting of vim, sometimes it is good an other times it is a pain in the but. I have done some reading about setting vim options in files. for example I am editing a makefile and I have placed this line

Re: question about vim

2008-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:50:37AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:46:03AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:29:59AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am a user of vim (learner). I have been getting caught out with the file type

bash crashes on tab completion of usernames (with nss-ldap)

2008-02-19 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Well the subject says it all I have recently update libnss-ldap (there is a whole new set of ldap stuff as all the packages are linked against gnutls). I have file a bug report Bug#466610 against bash. zsh and getent passwd don't seem to suffer from the problem When i try this

Re: bash crashes on tab completion of usernames (with nss-ldap)

2008-02-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:42:07PM -0800, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Alex Samad wrote: When i try this ls ~altab Ah, that is what I missed before... tab completion of user names not directory entries yeah only on username expansion malloc: unknown:0: assertion botched

Re: bash crashes on tab completion of usernames (with nss-ldap)

2008-02-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:56:14AM +, Jamin Davis wrote: Alex Samad wrote: ls ~altab Ah, that is what I missed before... tab completion of user names not directory entries yeah only on username expansion I got exactly the same problem - been hunting round for a couple of days

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

2008-02-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 12:12:03PM +, Mitch Crawford wrote: OK I've reinstalled Debian 4.0r2, removed network-manager, dhcdbd, and the libnm-glib0 and libnm-util0 stuff. I have a static IP 10.0.0.6 255.255.255.0 There are NO proxies running anywhere that i'm aware of. I have 3 other

Re: ipchains - iptables?

2008-02-13 Thread Alex Samad
I have attached a diagram which was posted a while back on the path of packets through the kernel might help On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 07:50:12PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: On 13/02/2008, Zach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 12, 2008 7:20 PM, Adrian Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

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