Re: Installation

2012-09-21 Thread Avi Greenbury
lee wrote: > > Besides that, it appears to me that people for reasons that escape me > are willing to put up with whatever crap and problems their windoze > throws at them while they *never* would put up with them if Linux threw > them at them. They even pay a lot of money for it! Any idea why

Re: PHP5 scripts not served by apache2 on Squeeze

2012-01-04 Thread Avi Greenbury
Kristian Lampen wrote: > Hello, > > I have a fresh install of apache2 and php on my server and I can not > get php to work, php-scripts are not executed by apache, just the > plain script is served to the browser. > By default, in /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.conf the required directives to

Re: web server migration

2011-12-11 Thread Avi Greenbury
steve reilly wrote: > question. how would YOU do it with minimal hassle, ie. having to > edit config files, databases and such. this thing has been running > since etch and been a learning process along the way i doubt my > idea of cloning would work, but? If they're relatively small and s

Debugging Dovecot and Sieves

2011-01-17 Thread Avi Greenbury
Hi all, In short, I'm trying to use sieve to filter my mail in a dpkg-supplied dovecot/postfix virtual mailbox setup on a lenny machine. I can't find anything to suggest that sieve's being used (or even loaded) at all, and I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. I've got this in my /etc/dovecot/dove

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Avi Greenbury
David Sastre wrote: > You could also mount that PATA drive externally and chroot into it to > request that (or any other) info: You can also use dpkg's --admindir option so: dpkg --admindir=/mnt/backup/var/lib/apt --get-selections > packagelist.txt I'd imagine you could just pipe that into an

Fail2Ban and custom rules - regex inconsistency?

2010-12-20 Thread Avi Greenbury
Hi all, I have a log file to parse with Fail2Ban. It contains lines of the form: 2010/12/14 15:12:31 - 80.87.131.48 I've concocted a simple regexp for Fail2Ban: # fail2ban-regex '2010/12/14 15:12:31 - 80.87.131.48' ' - $' Success, the following data were found: [] So I've created

Re: Flash is open?

2010-05-14 Thread Avi Greenbury
CamaleĆ³n wrote: Can we (we=people) make our own Flash implementation by using Adobe Flash specs? Yes. -- Avi Greenbury -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-22 Thread Avi Greenbury
nuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/2009-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-award-winners-788028/ I must say, though, that that awards page looks a little sparse and outdated. I'm not certain that that page would necessarily leave a positive impression - two awards in the last

Re: No flamewar please!

2010-01-12 Thread Avi Greenbury
bmono-system2.0-cil* libndesk-dbus-glib1.0-cil* > libndesk-dbus1.0-cil* mono-2.0-gac* mono-gac* mono-runtime* tomboy* 0 > upgraded, 0 newly installed, 25 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After > this operation, 31.6MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to > continue [Y/n]? n Abort

Re: No flamewar please!

2010-01-12 Thread Avi Greenbury
DE, though (except those that do require Mono, of which ISTR there are non-mono alternatives). This is all based on heresay, though, I don't use Gnome and have never uninstalled Mono. -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Back to Debian after 10 years

2010-01-10 Thread Avi Greenbury
re time to set up than Ubuntu does generally, but that's probably because Ubuntu's actually pretty close to where my Debian desktop installs end up. Or maybe I have a higher than average use of hardware that's not supported by dfsg software? -- Avi Greenbury -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?

2010-01-06 Thread Avi Greenbury
y physically thin sizes - I've seen several that are about the size of a domestic router. The only manufacturer who supports Linux that I can think of at the minute is Wyse, but I know there are several more. Though this would be decidedly less fun than making X do what you want ;) -- A

Re: hostname question

2010-01-03 Thread Avi Greenbury
rect or not depends on the configuration of your network. Who runs the network (and more pertinently the DNS server)? They should have told you what your local hostname and domain are. -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebite.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: virus on linux?

2009-12-01 Thread Avi Greenbury
e x permission. > This is what I believe up now, am I right?? Mostly. It's quite possible to run a non-executable file through an interpreter (where the interpreter [perl, bash, php, etc.] accepts the non-executable file as an argument). [0] http://clamav.net [1] http://en.wikipedia

Re: Squeeze Release ?

2009-11-27 Thread Avi Greenbury
ot according to the last debconf: http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: running "apt-get update" locally

2009-11-26 Thread Avi Greenbury
chives, > > what about the case in which you want to stash the downloaded files > somewhere else? > man apt implies that apt-get -d -o Dir::Cache::Archives=/path/to/dir upgrade would work. -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-que

Re: willing to learn php basics

2009-11-26 Thread Avi Greenbury
x27;ll want to know how their php/mysql environment is configured, though, and configure yours likewise. Also check database names. You can transfer database data by 'exporting' it through mysqldump, uploading the resulting file, and then 'importing' it - the dump is just a list o

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-20 Thread Avi Greenbury
S. Fishpaste wrote: > Me neither. I didn't participate because there wasn't a web based > app. It's not like there isn't any FOSS web based poll software > available ... Out of interest, why? This seems to me like odd grounds on which to not participate. -- Avi Green

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-17 Thread Avi Greenbury
me, but making it work on > anything isn't exactly a walk in the park since the only distro I > have that actually includes it is Slackware. There was an announcement to the effect of a new Seamonkey release a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, from what I gather (through very l

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-11-17 Thread Avi Greenbury
ebian. What > >> do you say? > > > > magnificent! when u going to start it? I'm going to re-subscribe > > right now just for the poll! > > > > Go subscribe, I'll post in about ten minutes. > Ah, handy! I managed to miss this on here, so I'll await

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

2009-10-30 Thread Avi Greenbury
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:32:16 -0400 Tony Baldwin wrote: > green wrote: > > Please reply to the list! > > doh...I hate this list sometimes. > Why can't it function normally, like every other list > on the gods' green earth? I think the common answer is "

Re: normal firefox for debian lenny 64bit?

2009-07-21 Thread Avi Greenbury
stable (sid) branch are suggested for desktop usage, unless you need the stability (in the sense of non-changing) of stable. Personally, I use Sid on my desktop workstations. -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: X11 without HAL: "DontZap" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf doesn't work anymore

2009-07-16 Thread Avi Greenbury
ould you please do so without reference to Windows or Ubuntu? -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

2009-07-10 Thread Avi Greenbury
rs. Zip is probably the most widely-supported, but not always installed by default on Linux distros. I've never found a [b|g]zipped tarball to be particularly lacking. -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-30 Thread Avi Greenbury
using `su` and others suggesting just using `sudo -i` instead. -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: New Dell netbook,Ubuntu,Debian and factory su password.

2009-06-29 Thread Avi Greenbury
to set a usable root password and carry on suing to your heart's content. The ubuntu-users list frequently features discussion of sudo vs su. -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: IRC - A beginners tutorial can be fun too :-)

2009-06-15 Thread Avi Greenbury
Tony Baldwin wrote: > (shame we don't have seamonkey in our repos. We have IceApe. -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Dell Precision Workstation T7400 - 32bit

2009-04-07 Thread Avi Greenbury
Avi Greenbury wrote: Dell's boot menu is trigged by pressing F12 on POST, so give that a go. Sorry, this should read F2, not F12. -- Avi Greenbury :) http://aviswebsite.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Dell Precision Workstation T7400 - 32bit

2009-04-07 Thread Avi Greenbury
ters, it is generally also not appropriate to just substitute three of them with asterisks. -- Avi Greenbury :) http://aviswebsite.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-31 Thread Avi Greenbury
that it has been repeated so many times that you have forgotten that it is a lie. Surely once you've enslaved yourself to the reading of the clock which you've set once, it's hardly a major step to keep enslaving yourself to it when you set it to something else? -- Avi Gr

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-25 Thread Avi Greenbury
command would schedule command to run at midnight on any Monday that is between the first and seventh day of the month inclusive, which should always be the first Monday of that month. -- Avi Greenbury :) http://aviswebsite.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Help! Grub is broken

2009-03-20 Thread Avi Greenbury
basis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Virus#Threats -- Avi Greenbury :) http://aviswebsite.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Avi Greenbury
Ron Johnson wrote: I don't believe it. Show us! In the interests of satisfying my curiosity: vm-linux2:/# rm -rf / rm: cannot remove root directory `/' vm-linux2:/# -- -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Avi Greenbury
to nitpick, but I could resist. What's the name of that law that states that any post pointing out someone's mistake will always include a typo of its own? Or, perhaps rather, if you could resist, why didn't you? ;) -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.u

Re: Use of Swap Space

2009-02-03 Thread Avi Greenbury
which I've >3Gb of ram and a 32bit OS is my Windows laptop, and that reports 3.5Gb of the ~4Gb that's in there. I've no idea how to get a less-rounded number for it out of Windows. -- Avi Greenbury http://aviswebsite.co.uk ;) http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions -- To

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Avi Greenbury
Brian Marshall wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:35:58 + Avi Greenbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kent West wrote: > Whereas there are some "cleaning" functions you can do, for the most part, it's not something you'll need to worry about like you do in Windows.

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-25 Thread Avi Greenbury
Kent West wrote: > Whereas there are some "cleaning" functions you can do, for the most part, it's not something you'll need to worry about like you do in Windows. I think you might've meant "...for the most part, it's _not_ something you'll

Re: Xorg not starting fully on Thinkpad T21

2008-11-25 Thread Avi Greenbury
ki.org/wiki/S3_Savage_IX8) on this adaptor. Not entirely sure why I didn't before, though it doesn't seem to cover my problem, or mention how much memory it wants. -- Avi Greenbury :) http://aviswebsite.co.uk http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Xorg not starting fully on Thinkpad T21

2008-11-21 Thread Avi Greenbury
7;t seem to contain any errors, but I don't really know what to look for beyond EE and WW. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! -- Avi Greenbury :) http://aviswebsite.co.uk http://aviswebsite.co.uk/asking-questions/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]