Re: Cron - any advanced options?

2009-04-23 Thread Dave Ewart
touch $MARKER [...] [... real script here ...] [...] rm $MARKER Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox

Re: Versioning control

2009-04-15 Thread Dave Ewart
into the following: - Email notification of commits; - Pre-commit tests which can be configured to perform arbitrary operations (e.g. a clean compile, for example) before allowing the commit to take place. The first is a good option, I'm less sure about the second. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Dave Ewart
the correct settings should be, because the settings you give above will not work on *any* OS (assuming the information you've provided is accurate and complete). Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70

Re: gateway doesn't locate at the same subnet of the IP Address.

2009-04-02 Thread Dave Ewart
ms 159.226.135.129 ... OK, so it finds the gateway from Windows XP. Perhaps there's a route specified somewhere. What does route print give you from Win XP? Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70

Re: install daemon without starting it

2009-04-02 Thread Dave Ewart
: a daemon won't be started automatically before you have a chance to configure it, for example. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-25 Thread Dave Ewart
if you like, by running the job on every Monday and then using the wrapper script to determine if its between the 1st and 7th of the month etc.) Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-25 Thread Dave Ewart
through 7th inclusive and also on 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac

Re: pam_ldap, nss_ldap and rfc2307bis (using member instead of memberUid)

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Ewart
probably do some ldapsearch/sed pipeline to just return what you need. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee

Re: OpenLDAP stuff ??

2009-03-10 Thread Dave Ewart
explain exactly why they aren't suitable or some more details of what you're trying to do? Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http

Re: pam_ldap, nss_ldap and rfc2307bis (using member instead of memberUid)

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Ewart
/pam_ldap.conf Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac-uk.asc N 51.7516, W 1.2152 signature.asc

Re: No more logins after upgrade to deb 5.0

2009-03-04 Thread Dave Ewart
considered safe. Making a new certificate using SHA1 instead of MD5 fixed the problem. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http

Re: Is there no way to RELIABLY disable mouse acceleration in Linux?

2009-02-24 Thread Dave Ewart
times every minute... I would be astonished if running xset in a cronjob did anything. Or that cron can do anything on a time resolution of less than one minute... Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK

Re: USB Wireless Adapter for Linux?

2009-02-19 Thread Dave Ewart
802.11 b/g. The model was sold at http://lugradio.org/live/UK2008/ specifically as Just Works With Linux, which in my experience it did: that would have been with Ubuntu/Hardy, though, not Debian. More details later... Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology

Re: USB Wireless Adapter for Linux?

2009-02-19 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 19.02.2009 at 10:38 +, Dave Ewart wrote: On Wednesday, 18.02.2009 at 22:36 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I've used two Edimax adapters without issue: they just work. Really? The last time I tried, the fact that the Edimax adaptors did not work was the second most duped

Re: USB Wireless Adapter for Linux?

2009-02-18 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 18.02.2009 at 08:49 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: Are there usb wireless adapters known to work well with Linux? I've used two Edimax adapters without issue: they just work. Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford

Re: security (malware) issues in Linux bases OSes

2009-02-16 Thread Dave Ewart
in the foot, it should let me. It's a bug that it doesn't :-) Dave. -- Dave Ewart da...@ceu.ox.ac.uk Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Ewart
is not the way forward. I think the standard output for jobs run out of cron.daily will typically go to root's mailbox. I suggest writing/rewriting backup.sh so that it writes its output to well-defined files, rather than relying on the behaviour of standard output/error. Dave. -- Dave Ewart

Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Ewart
at the package 'logger'. It works like this: logger -i -p syslog.info -t processname Message goes here Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Dave Ewart
compiled one. ... I've sometimes found that for ad-hoc devices which you attach during use (such as USB-stuff), using a kernel module seems to behave better. Not sure why. Why are you compiling your own kernel, if the Debian kernel works? Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager

Re: How about MySQL in 64bit Debian?

2008-10-09 Thread Dave Ewart
: there are no restrictions on actual use, of course); - etc. Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70 1883 BD92 E665 B840 118B 6E94 2CFD 694D E370 Get key from http://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/~davee/davee-ceu-ox-ac

Re: How about MySQL in 64bit Debian?

2008-10-09 Thread Dave Ewart
-scale research data, which means that some of the database are very large. No problems at all. We also use PostgreSQL, which I happen to prefer, also no problems. Dave. -- Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing Manager, Cancer Epidemiology Unit University of Oxford / Cancer Research UK PGP: CC70

Anyone using Dell Poweredge R905?

2008-10-06 Thread Dave Ewart
the word of someone who has already tried this with Debian... I'm planning on getting a four quad-core Opteron version with 128GB RAM for some statistical analysis applications. Success stories (and horror stories) welcome! Thanks, Dave. (Cross-posted to debian-amd64 and debian-user) -- Dave

Re: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Ewart
. It's unclear what you did when you said I have setup a User on the Debian side... If you can't figure it out, post your /etc/samba/smb.conf and we may be able to help. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me

Re: Newbie Samba help

2007-04-25 Thread Dave Ewart
/smb.conf if you want more help. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc

Re: Sarge - Etch: A Painful Upgrade

2007-04-13 Thread Dave Ewart
not be as easy as you think.' I hope to save others some aggravation and help the developers see how a user can flub it. Yeah, I realise that was your purpose ... :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now

Re: upgrade from 3.1 to 4.0

2007-04-13 Thread Dave Ewart
' At the moment, I can't download from ftp.debian.org either, so that's probably the problem. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35

Re: upgrade from 3.1 to 4.0

2007-04-13 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: Sarge linux26 Install Corrupt?

2007-04-12 Thread Dave Ewart
' on the repositories? (Not sure, just thinking out loud) Anyway, if you're installing *afresh*, why don't you just use Etch, since it's now Stable? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed

Re: Sarge linux26 Install Corrupt?

2007-04-12 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 12.04.2007 at 21:31 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Thursday, 12.04.2007 at 13:02 -0500, Robert J Rae wrote: when I try to to install sarge as I have done many times via http, I now get warnings about kernel image removal and packages that have failed to install, web and mail

Re: Sarge - Etch: A Painful Upgrade

2007-04-12 Thread Dave Ewart
your system appeared to be operating fine. Any subsequent problems may well be as a result of that first problem. Are you *certain* your /etc/apt/sources.list were correct? What were the *actual* warnings (where you state lots of warnings)? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave

Re: What uses port/service 81?

2007-04-11 Thread Dave Ewart
it. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: What uses port/service 81?

2007-04-11 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 11.04.2007 at 09:21 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:03:06PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: *unsure* I vaguely remember that Smoothwall used this port for remote access, I think. (i.e. you could connect to your own Smoothwall installation on that port

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Dave Ewart
believe the recommended approach is to run the upgrade/dist-upgrade in 'screen', so that any network or X-related problem will not kill the upgrade process. Haven't upgraded my Sarge systems yet, but that's the way *I'm* planning to do it. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-07 Thread Dave Ewart
=whatever Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-07 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 12:08 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:06 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Friday, 06.04.2007 at 15:39 -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: 1) How to set shmmax in debian? For the running kernel, echo a value to /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax - to make

Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-07 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 14:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 18:53 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Saturday, 07.04.2007 at 12:08 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 16:06 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Friday, 06.04.2007 at 15:39 -0700, Francesco Pietra

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Ewart
(and with which I am *NOT* disagreeing): however, my point was that many, many, many people call is post-gress, which is an widely-used accepted abbreviation. Should we call you Ronald? Should I insist people call me David? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

2007-04-02 Thread Dave Ewart
better (in which case you've completely misunderstood the purpose of this thread) then you should refrain from following-up on this thread any more. Thanks, Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 31.03.2007 at 16:18 -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: PostgreSQL = post-gress-cue-ell or ? Most people I know pronounce this post-gress (dropping/ignoring the 'SQL' part at the end). Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL

Re: Pronunciation of common Linux-related words

2007-04-01 Thread Dave Ewart
On Sunday, 01.04.2007 at 11:19 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/07 05:37, Dave Ewart wrote: On Saturday, 31.03.2007 at 16:18 -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: PostgreSQL = post-gress-cue-ell or ? Most people I know pronounce this post-gress (dropping/ignoring the 'SQL' part at the end

Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

2007-03-28 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: Anyway to change the password for debian-sys-maint

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

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

Re: Where is debian-non-US

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

Re: Where to put scripts

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

Re: Day light saving patch

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

Re: dell poweredge 2400

2007-02-24 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: smbldap tools

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

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Ewart
. Note that the first of those two options is preferred, especially if you have large folders, otherwise you will get performance hits every time you move/delete messages from a folder. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Ewart
on exit'. The OP was complaining about the fact that Icedove didn't purge deleted items from the local storage. Oh, yes, of course: I'd forgotten that local folders behaved differently in this regard than IMAP. Apologies. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: SSH accounts - basic restriction

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Ewart
advise against trying to restrict access to /etc - this will break lots of things! What are you actually trying to achieve? Or, to take another view, what exactly are you trying to prevent and why? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL

Re: SSH accounts - basic restriction

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Ewart
give them access in the first place :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92

Re: SSH accounts - basic restriction

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Ewart
under /etc if you insist, but don't be surprised to find stuff suddenly failing to work! Cheers, Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint

Re: Getting started with Postgres or MySQL

2007-02-01 Thread Dave Ewart
to me. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: New Etch install - IP address question

2007-01-26 Thread Dave Ewart
) That's very strange: the 169.254.x.x addresses I've seen in Windows: a Windows PC will give itself an address in that range if it has no hardcoded IP address and can't find the DHCP server. Never seen it appear on *nix before, though... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart

Re: Doing administrative work

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

Re: Doing administrative work

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

Re: Doing administrative work

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

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Ewart
(apart from me) would know what to do with the root password anyway ... All a matter of risk assessment, really. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 22.01.2007 at 10:39 -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Dave Ewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is actually what is done, yes. And, in addition, the safe is only accessible to restricted individuals. Having said that, none of the restricted individuals (apart from me) would

Re: Debian Sarge install onto raid 5

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

Re: Debian Sarge install onto raid 5

2007-01-16 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: Encrypted email question

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

Re: mutt

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

Re: ldap server restart

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

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

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: Why Disable Root ssh login?

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

Re: dedicated debian hosting

2006-12-03 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

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

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

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

Re: SQL question about performance...

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

Re: Running postgresql-7.4 and postgresql-8.1 simultaneously

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

Re: Running postgresql-7.4 and postgresql-8.1 simultaneously

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

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

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

Re: httpS on debian web server

2006-11-22 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: UNSUSCRIBE

2006-11-22 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

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

Re: OpenSSL version 0.9.7e ?!

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

Re: mutt still sees expired apache certificate

2006-11-12 Thread Dave Ewart
1999 :-) Not sure when SSL support was introduced, but, still ;-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4

Re: Etch kernel

2006-11-12 Thread Dave Ewart
never any implication that by choosing 2.6 you were opening yourself to an 'unstable' environment... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint

Re: mutt still sees expired apache certificate

2006-11-11 Thread Dave Ewart
the problem is that Mutt doesn't *use* the web interface! Mutt must be using either POP3/SSL or IMAP/SSL if it has been configured to use SSL: you need to fix the POP3 or IMAP certificate, in that case, not just Apache. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Package installation history.

2006-11-10 Thread Dave Ewart
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Re: Bugzilla on Debian testing (VirtualHost)

2006-11-09 Thread Dave Ewart
slightly so can't tell you the exact packaged setup!) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28

Re: Bugzilla on Debian testing (VirtualHost)

2006-11-09 Thread Dave Ewart
is the result of an Apache redirect or as a result of Bugzilla being misconfigured: can you show us the Apache logs for your attempted login, please? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key

Re: Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Ewart
, then ignore this remark, of course) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92

Re: Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 13:18 -0700, edwardsa wrote: Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 11:06 -0700, edwardsa wrote: I have some ubuntu machines living inside of a debian firewall machine that point to an apt-cacher archive on that machine. It looks to me that I could have

Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-23 Thread Dave Ewart
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Name for Etch+1?

2006-10-13 Thread Dave Ewart
the first Toy Story film ;-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc

Re: Name for Etch+1?

2006-10-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 13.10.2006 at 13:50 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 06:46:24PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: Current Testing is Etch, which will be the next stable release: Debian 4.0 Once Etch is released, the next Testing branch needs a new name. Anyone know what it's

Re: Name for Etch+1?

2006-10-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Friday, 13.10.2006 at 20:12 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 18:46 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: Once Etch is released, the next Testing branch needs a new name. Anyone know what it's going to be called? If no decision has yet been made, anyone care to speculate? I think

Re: Etch and NSS with LDAP

2006-10-04 Thread Dave Ewart
/passwd file. Except they're probably *not* stored in /etc/passwd if you've got them in LDAP, no? People know what you mean by normal Linux logons, I guess: although you are probably referring to 'ssh', is that right? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Etch and NSS with LDAP

2006-10-04 Thread Dave Ewart
there. Basically, the NSS package allows the local system to tie up local UID and GID with the right 'real' users in LDAP; the PAM package handles the authentication side of things. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email

forcedeth: too many iterations [...] in nv_nic_irq

2006-08-23 Thread Dave Ewart
. There's no obvious misbehaviour going on, apart from seeing this message, but I'm concerned. Any thoughts/comments on this? Thanks, Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http

Re: forcedeth: too many iterations [...] in nv_nic_irq

2006-08-23 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 23.08.2006 at 10:13 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: I've been seeing the error: Aug 18 21:24:59 titan kernel: eth-gig1: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq. in the logs when there is heavy network traffic on my Sarge/amd64 system. The error is produced by the kernel module

Re: SW RAID read performance

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Ewart
channel? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92 signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: SW RAID read performance

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Ewart
blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sda1[1] 19534912 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: none Not entirely sure how to interpret the results, but there is some suggestion that it is reading from both disks... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart

Re: Going back to stable

2006-07-15 Thread Dave Ewart
losing many settings. I'd second this advice. Re-install, don't even *try* to downgrade... Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5

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