On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:41:10PM +0100, Eric Persson wrote:
I have a server that repeatedly remounts its / harddisk readonly,
probably caused by the errors=remount-ro in fstab.
If that's the cause (and I agree that it almost certainly is), then
in means your drive is encountering errors.
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:46:38AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
Michael Marsh wrote:
Because not every user who has a question wants to agree to receive
hundreds of email messages a day as the price.
Vacation. Pof, no emails. Imagine that.
I run a few mailing lists for local organizations
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 07:03:03PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
However, I am still doing the destination sorting via kmail, so I could
pick d-u off before it checks the headers SA adds, but I see little or
nothing to be gained by that in the real world.
But that is one way I suppose. I
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:09:08PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
You also know
that to change that policy you need to convince either the lists-masters or
the project as a whole. Abusing the lists-masters on -user won't help.
Yes, it does. As I told Anand a person who approaches them in
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 12:35:02PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Jacob S wrote:
Since anybody can post to this list without being subscribed (witness
the spam we get), where is the problem? You simply subscribe under one
I proposed a change in order to prevent such posts. I propose that
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:13:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
The best I get disabling dpms is 20 minutes with either:
Option BlankTime 3600
in ServerLayout
or -s 3600 in the start options for the server.
Have you considered simply turning dpms off? `xset -dpms` should
prevent
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:23:17PM -0500, gnrfan wrote:
Ubuntu uses sudo. I also use it in my Debian box. Basically most
unices have a wheel group. You can add your account to that group
and then run the visudo to leave /etc/sudoers with a line like
this one:
%wheel ALL=(ALL)
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:35:13PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
if [ $(date -d tomorrow '+%m') -ne $(date '+%m') ]
then
echo 'today is the last day of the month'
fi
[ $(date -d tomorrow '+%d') -eq 1 ] echo 'last of the month'
This can also be done directly in your crontab:
[ $(date -d
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 05:36:20PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
I've been away, but just before I went I guessed a solution. In
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation there is a series of files with names
of programs containing not very informative contents. I guessed these
might be expressions
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:34:06AM +0800, Isaac Claymore wrote:
WEEK_DAY=`date +\%A`
30 23 * * * mount /backup mysqldump --password=FOOBAR --all-databases
/backup/alldb-${WEEK_DAY}.sql; umount /backup
It's been working on RH system, but the Debian cron keeps refusing to do command
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 07:11:39PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote:
I don't think it's coming directly from the *output* of the script. It
seems to me that the script is doing something that now gets logged that
used not to be logged. I think it must have to do with the
configuration of
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:14:50PM +0200, Marco Kruijswijk wrote:
All users of this server will
be taken out of a MySQL Database through PAM, so I thought that it would be
the most safe and easy-to-understand situation, when I remove all default
users from passwd and only keep the most
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:03:25PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Although I am using Debian for a long time now, I have some problems on a new
installation:
1. mutt opens the mail folders of a user in read-only mode. How can I change it?
Are the mail folders in an NFS-mounted directory?
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:23:49PM +0100, dave selby wrote:
I neet an ftp transport program to get my masterpeices from my drive to the
ftp site. Mozilla will do this one page at a time, I need to move directories
to ftp.
If you have shell access on the other end, tar everything up into a
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
Irish, Jon D BAE SYSTEMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Here is a newbie question: Which default run level do I change
inittab to so that the PC boots to a VGA console instead of X?
On a clean install, level 2.
Bzzt! Wrong
On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 10:28:07AM -0500, David Krider wrote:
Please note that I'm NOT trolling or looking to start a flamewar. It's
just that it took me three tries to get Woody installed. I've heard that
Sarge will have a new installer and a new manual.
In that case, don't worry about it.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:21:49PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote:
First of all, you get the wrong meaning for copyrighted. Free software is
copyrighted. Linux, and all GNU softwares are copyrighted. Copyright software
is not the opposite of free software, we use terms like non-free software,
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:37:02AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:43:42PM -0700, Glenn English ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:54, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
Sorry this won't help you but I've always wondered why debian does
this. You install
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote:
Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
Mar 24 17:14:51 orion kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=3994439, sector=63232
Mar 24 17:14:51 orion
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:33:12PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
fun stuff... :-)
Oh, yeah!
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Haven't used amanda, have you? Just set yourself up with a
decent-sized holding disk and it's not a problem. (Your backups will
yes... if one has
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:57:19PM +0100, Torquil Macdonald wrote:
Does anybody know how I can, without having root privileges, selectively
disable mozilla plugins that are installed system-wide. It would be very nice
to disable the Flash plug-in.
And, on a related note, once Flash is
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 01:04:08PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
On 20 Mar 2003, Glenn English wrote:
1) tape - can easily back up the entire system (and a small network)
2) DDS - others are faster, but they cost more
3) amanda, amanda, and amanda - command line, cron-able, free, and very
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:27:16AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
It's not totally unreasonable in a Mac environment, but it's entirely
proposterous in Unix. Why? Very rarely do you find a window manager
that isn't capable of focus-follows-mouse and auto-raise.
...and then there are the
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:57:02AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
Regarding people's replies of how does GIMP know which image you want to
save ?, ask the same question to gedit or any other
multiple-document-interface gtk/gnome app.
And there is your answer: GIMP is not an MDI app. It
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:00:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:16:20AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
...and then there are the fruitcakes like me who use sloppy focus
without auto-raise and frequently choose to work in windows that
aren't on top.
Who said
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:04:09AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's faily easy. The list managet (software or person) has to munge everything
that looks like an email address so it becomes unusable.
Oooohhh... Even better! Now, if I find someone on the list that
wants to work on a
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:26:55PM +, Gabriel Granger wrote:
If you give me an example of what your seeing that you dont want
logcheck to pick up on, i can give you the information needed to supress
it from logcheck reports.
I suspect what he's complaining about is the hundreds upon
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:12:13AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
and telnet localhost pop3s or https fails simply because the other end
wont speak to ya.. :-) .. woulda been nice to see which pop3s server but
oh well
Have you tried it with telnet-ssl?
--
The freedoms that we enjoy presently
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:57:11PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
I'm looking for a calendar program (not a full groupware suite) that I
can use from home and at work.
What do you intend to use it for?
At home I use a mac, so I would need
either something that makes the calendar web-accessible
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:04:35PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
I have a cron script and a line:
... wget ... -O ~/Base$(data +%H%M).gif
^ ^
and I get the error
/bin/sh: -c: line1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
/bin/sh: -c: line2: syntax
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:58:39PM +, Rus Foster wrote:
I'm sure this is an easy one. I've got a .ps file and want to print it to
cups. Is there a nice command to do that? something like lpq filename?
Close... lpq tells you what's in the printer's queue, it doesn't
actually print anything.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:31:17PM +, Rus Foster wrote:
Is there anyway that I can disable suexec for a certain user or replace
it? I would rather try to avoid a recompile if poss
AFAIK, suexec is all or nothing - either it applies to every user or
to no users. If you want to disable it
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:52:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Specifically, this regards window blanking in full screen curses
apps (like man(1), less(1) vi(1), but not more(1)).
When I was running GNOME 1.4 from sarge, the screen would not blank
when I exited these type of apps; i.e., the
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
Another variable, just in case it will shed any light: I'm using a USB
ethernet adapter (Linksys USB100M; very small). I've heard in the past
of problems with USB ethernet adapters disconnecting and causing
problems, but even when I
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:33:18AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
Another possibility I've considered would be to not use XDMCP but
instead NFS mount everything and invoke it from the client.
Yeah, that works pretty well, provided the client's RAM and CPU are
up to the task.
I'm not
concerned
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
Nathan E Norman wrote:
One day this fellow discovered MY servers. The console screen didn't
dissuade him; he just hit ctrl-alt-del to get a login screen. Sigh.
Unscheduled downtime.
Isn't this a good example of why _not_ to have
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:40:04AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
Actually, miguel is the name of my machine, and it's already set as the
'qualify_domain'. Qualify_recipient is not set, so it should default to
'qualify_domain', according to the comments in /etc/exim.conf .
Is miguel in
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote:
What you can do (as root or with sudo) is edit the file /etc/aliases and add
an entry 'root: username', after which you issue the command 'newaliases.'
This is a sendmailism. exim will recognize changes to alias files
immediately
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:52:44PM -0500, Bob Paige wrote:
What about running X locally and starting the window manager remotely?
Doable, though I can't tell you offhand how to get the window manager
to run remotely, since I don't recall where it's started from.
1. less sensitive to NIC
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:58:37AM -0500, stan wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:04:49PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Desktops are mostly RedHat
6 or so, with some potato, a very little woody, or X terminals
connected to a potato server. I have yet to receive a single
complaint from any
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:53:16AM -0500, stan wrote:
Is it possible that some mechanisim could be set up such that a package
which has recieved a security related update in stable, could become the
latest package for testing?
I'm trying to think of a way to leverage the fact the security
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:37:29PM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
CTRL+ALT+DEL is more equivalent to shutdown -r now than holding the
power button..
To be precise, under a default debian config, C-A-D is equivalent to
`/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now`, per /etc/inittab.
--
The freedoms that we
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:06:21AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
However, if you trust people enough to enable
XDMCP for them, then you can probably trust them enough to shutdown/reboot
the machine.
Uh... No.
X terminals? Thin clients? Diskless workstations? Any of these may
rely on an
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:11:02PM -0500, stan wrote:
Well, then shouldn't it allow stable to be released often enough that it
acn be used in production For instance how old are the prel modules, and
devlopment environment in it? Ancinet by modern standards.
Heh... I never can quite figure
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:36:12AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:45:27PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Questionable on the any user part (if it was clear-cut 'should not
be world-readable', why does debian default to 755 for non-root
users?)
I'm fairly sure you're asked
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 05:42:43PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
and if i was admining your box... i'd chmod 750 /sbin /usr/sbin
and hide/remove root passwds so that i can sleep late or wont be
paged because something broke
...which, even if it doesn't break things (like another poster's
mention of
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 04:42:07PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
find /home -type l -exec chmod 777 {} \;
Now, one bash question I've been meaning to ask for a long time...
I keep seeing this...
{} \;
...on the end of lines in bash scripts. I don't have a good bash book,
and I
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:27:39AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
little detail that, in order to get them to do anything harmful, you
need root privileges. And once an attacker is root, the 750
permissions won't stop him anyhow. It only protects against people
who can't do any harm in the
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 01:45:14PM -0600, Michael Heironimus wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:07:38PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
Can anyone explain to me why /root has
default permissions of 700 on a clean
install?
Because that's root's home directory and you normally don't want any
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:05:37PM -0500, Walter Tautz wrote:
ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=258690, block=524360 Feb 24
04:02:51 consort kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete
DataRequest Error }
Feb 24 04:02:51 consort kernel: hda: read_intr:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:56:19PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:59:02PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote:
IMO, this is a real shame... I always used host for 1-shot lookups
and nslookup for deeper troubleshooting or when I wanted an
interactive interface for some other
it again
Maybe not necessary, but, unless your mailserver is horribly slow,
it'll be done so quick that it's not going to hurt anything anyhow.
whitelist_from *@lists.debian.org
That was my first thought, but, if you look at the headers of this
message, you will see
From: Dave Sherohman [EMAIL
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:16:37PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote:
On February 21, 2003 11:24 am, Dave Sherohman wrote:
Maybe not necessary, but, unless your mailserver is horribly slow,
it'll be done so quick that it's not going to hurt anything anyhow.
I actually find spamassassin runs pretty
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:25:19AM -0600, Will Trillich wrote:
i seem to recall seeing that nslookup is deprecated. we're
supposed to use dig or zone or dnsquery now. (probably there's a
good reason, or maybe my other personality just made this all
up.)
It is deprecated, or at least that's
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 04:56:11PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
can someone explain this to me:
the /var/log/mailman/error logfile has permissions
-rw-rw-r-- root list
^
mailman's cron jobs run as list, mailman's web interface as www-data.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:37:05PM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Quoting Fer'had Erdogan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list for a few days now.
Always start by looking in the headers.
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:32:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes
through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or
its Dialog-based menus) twice.
Is this normal, or do I have debconf set up wrong?
Glad to
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:24:16PM +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
I've got several ftp users at my server and i'm running out of disk space. I
want to limit my users to a maximum of 50 megabytes. What's the way to set
this?
Look up information on setting disk quotas.
--
The freedoms that we
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:47:52PM +, Tim wrote:
Quick question, I've been asked to post the header of a file. Fair
confession, I'm an end-user not a developer, so don't know what is being
referred to. How do I find this? Its not binary so I can post the
entire file. And ls -l. Am
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:06:33PM +, Tim wrote:
Dave Sherohman wrote:
What kind of file is it?
A file used in compilation of audacity, for multi-language support. By
the name of es.po. I'm going to post the whole thing and see what the
dev says-hope I'm right!
If you're talking
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:22:05AM +, p wrote:
1) i hit v (for view);
2) then i hit, s (for save);
3) then i give the email a file-
name.
i just get the body of the email,
which is cool, of course, but i'd
like to capture the headers with
it.
If you also want to save the
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:12:14AM +, Scalar wrote:
Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few
letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the
list from other email?
Personally, I don't care one way or the other, but it's something
I've seen (heatedly) discussed here
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:38:25PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote:
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:50, Paul Johnson wrote:
This isn't standard, nor is it a good idea. (Yahoo Groups is the only
place I know of that still uses it).
mailman and ezmlm both do this. i'm not sure if it is the default, or
I have, for quite some time, had trouble with my BIND installation
falsely claiming that certain domains don't exist. It tends to be
pretty consistent about them - anything under yahoo.com can be counted
on to display this, for instance.
The symptom, which is primarily noticable for outgoing
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:43:51PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Should I be concerned, or is this maybe part of portsentry or something
similar?
That's exactly what it is. portsentry listens on every
commonly-recognized port that doesn't already have something running
there and reports any
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:58:21AM -0500, alex wrote:
Has the Linux security bubble burst?
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030124S0013/1
I would say no, for five reasons:
1) Langa suggests that part of the reason behind the current rise in
Linux security flaws being found is
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:26:24AM -0800, Robert Estes wrote:
I'm having a printing related problem and am new to Debian so I'm not sure
how to handle the bug reporting. I've spent quite a bit of time debugging
this, but there are about 10 packages used by and related to cups ...
Do I have
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent
show which process that eats all the memory.
Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or
something?
It's normal. You didn't say where
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:20:22PM +0100, Charlie Imbusch wrote:
As far as I know Linux in general tries to use a lot of your ram to
achieve best performance. It buffers data which have already been read
from your hdd, for the case that these data are requested again.
I hope it's not non-sense
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:50:23PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
The Subject about says it all. For the life of me I can't track this
down. For some crazy reason, all apache processes cease to exist just
after (approx) 6:25am. This is the section of the error.logs:
[Sun Jan 5 06:25:28
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:42:44PM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote:
apt-get stores downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. you can
clean these out using apt-get clean. I don't know whether apt-get
will automatically clean out its cached packages when it need the space;
It will not. It
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 12:11:00AM -0500, nick lidakis wrote:
Yes, I usually clean once a while, but a recent upgrade neds 50+ MB and
I;m short on space. I'll try the aforementioned recommendations.
Although moving your apt cache is probably the better solution, you
can also try this:
-
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:34:27AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
Active System Attack Alerts
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-2] Nested Loop (cost=1.77..13992.25 rows=1
width=101)
Jan 15 08:32:17 server postgres[6712]: [2-3] - Nested Loop
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:38:04PM -0800, S Yuval wrote:
My ViewSonic P810 monitor is unable to transfer from the X Windows to the
Debian console, using Alt-F1, and displays an invalid refresh rate
message. I am currently using a 60 Hz refresh rate and a 1280x960 pixel
resolution. In Red Hat
I'm having some trouble with display of non-US characters in some
areas in mutt, specifically the 'from' field in the message list
display and in the message info bar at the bottom of the viewer. In
both places, I'll get =?iso-8859-1?q?B=F6 Within the headers
and body of the message in the
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:24:05PM +, Alan Chandler wrote:
Trouble is block-major-114 is not in the kernel/Documentation/devices.txt
file.
Any clues where this is coming from? There is nothing in /etc/modutils that
refers to this device.
You might get some information from:
ls -l
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:29:42PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: could not lock [dev 08:01], zero-size? Marking faulty.
What is this? If I determine I don't need it how do I
remove it in the kernel?
Multiple-disk device driver. I
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:41:07PM -0500, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
Is there a way to disable CVS using the Attic?
None that I know of, short of hacking the source.
When files are
removed, I wish they would be deleted instead of moved.
The problem with this approach is that it prevents you
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 10:44:02AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
Running a few dhcp clients ends up generating a lot of DHCPREQUEST
messages. I'm not clear how to set the interval that the client sends
those requests. I looked at man dhclient.conf but didn't see the
setting. I tried setting
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:58:59AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
these are questions that surface for me every time I do an installation
and i'm still confused about them
1. qualify-domain and local_domains;a
If I put my isp's domain, it works but if I send to somebody else at the
same domain
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:16:25PM +0100, Calber Chainy wrote:
I thought making the user and give him/her a special shell, but can't
find it.
You've got the right idea. Set the user's shell to /bin/false -
technically, he can still log in, but his shell will then immediately
exit without
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:01:51AM +, Pigeon wrote:
How does that one work then?
Observe:
$ echo '#!/bin/bash' foo.sh
$ echo 'echo It runs' foo.sh
$ cat foo.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo It runs
$ ./foo.sh
bash: ./foo.sh: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied
$ bash foo.sh
It runs
You
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 01:02:10PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
foreach my $name (param()) {
my @value = param($name);
Are you sure you don't mean $value here?
Not necessarily. param() returns the first value associated with the
name whan called in scalar context or a list of all values
The situation:
- Debian server feeding out X sessions to various thin clients
- Database application with 6-user license
- 25-30 users who will be using this application (but not at the same
time - the 6-user license should be sufficient)
WINE seems to be very security-conscious and keeps its
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 02:50:18PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote:
Is there a nice simple way to have a single, solitary gnome applet
standalone? Or perhaps some other mail notification thing that has
support for IMAP and runs standalone?
Sounds like you want imapbiff
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:58:09PM -0700, nate wrote:
tripped dozens of rules in my IDS and came back to me pissing their
pants saying my SSH was vulnerable because it wasn't the absolute newest,
took some time to convince them(had to talk to one of their engineers
who understood what
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 06:53:06PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote:
Before anyone brings it up, I know there should have been backups of the
CVS repository. That said, I am in the following situation:
1) Machine alpha, which had the CVS repository, is temporarily
unavailable (in a policy,
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 04:34:38PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
%% Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ds Quick and easy way to convince them: Really? How's about I stand
ds here and watch you exploit it. Shouldn't take more than 5-10
ds minutes of banging their head against your
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:07:27PM -0400, Abdul Latip wrote:
I pronounce Debian GNU/Linux as:
The One True Linux
So, what?
Thuh or thee? Lin-nix or lie-nucks or lee-nooks?
--
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists
have already won. - reverius
Innocence
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:51:58PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
I think this is an isc.org decision. use /usr/bin/host, it provides
the same functionality with a better interface, IMHO.
Better command-line interface, anyhow. AFAICT, it doesn't have an
interactive interface on par with
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:13:30PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote:
$ ls -l /dev | grep 6,
crw-rw1 root lp 6, 0 Nov 30 2000 lp0
...
Where is it defined in the kernel that character major device number 6 is
parallel port support?
It isn't.
- Is that definition
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 05:34:38PM -0700, Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:
Debian considered harmful?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/06/28/2219224.shtml?tid=23
Note that the title is merely intended to grab attantion (and the
author admits to this in the comments on it). Nothing harmful is
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 05:45:31AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
Is it possible to get exim to not add that header by default?
As seen in /etc/exim.conf:
# If this option is set, then any process that is running as one of the
# listed users may pass a message to Exim and specify the sender's
#
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:58:29PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
No, potato's ssh packages are vunlerable and updates have been made
available; DSA-134 contains all the necessary information:
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-134.
That advisory predates the release of full information on
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 01:07:11PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Also what is the importance of noauto in fstab? Doesn't that just
cause the user to have to issue a mount command if he hasn't since
last reboot, and ha wants to use the cdrom?
Not exactly. It prevents the system from attempting
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 04:51:33PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
There's no need to make the symlink in order to get things to work.
There's also no need for a new directory, unless you want to mount both
cdroms at the same time. You can also do without the fstab entry.
Try: 'mount -t iso9660
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:21:33PM -0400, Loren Jordan wrote:
At 10:38 AM 6/13/2002 -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
When I was in the (US) Navy, a hard drive that contained classified data
wasn't considered clean until after 7 swipes.
There are places that only consider a smoldering pile of
On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:44:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is Debian a 'changing' distribution? Don't get me wrong: I got used to
it, it's
alright for me, but: why?
It isn't. Debian unstable and testing distributions change
constantly because that's how you develop and test
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:46:45AM -0400, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
So then, the primary advantages of RAID are access speed and data
redundancy
The primary advantages of RAID are highly dependent on what flavor of
RAID you're using. RAID0 and RAID1, e.g., are practically the opposite
of each
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
The problem with JBODs (just big ole disks, i.e. single disks)
JBOD = Just a Bunch Of Disks, i.e., several drives operating
independently. A JBOD can be organized into a RAID, but doesn't have
to be.
With RAID solutions, the
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