Re: Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt

2013-03-18 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2013-03-18 03:03, green wrote: J.A. de Vries wrote at 2013-03-17 13:46 -0500: I have been messing around with fstab, crypttab, blkid.tab, grub and initramfs and every time a new dependency rears its ugly head. The system still keeps asking for the original name of the partition

Re: Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt

2013-03-18 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2013-03-18 17:44, Mr G wrote: I just remembered that most filesystems allow you to set the UUID. So you could just change the UUID to match the one it is expecting. Normally that should work. Problem here is that the system now tries to mount the same UUID twice. Anyway. I have given up and

Re: Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt

2013-03-18 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2013-03-18 19:15, Philip Ashmore wrote: I had a similar problem with Where does the update-initramfs hook get the kernel name from? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/01/msg00796.html I just realised that I posted the solution - to myself. Here it is. According to the docs

Re: Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt

2013-03-17 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2013-02-20 07:14, Rick Thomas wrote: Recently I've added a couple of disks to a system. All these disks are encrypted using dm-crypt with the Luks extensions. The result is working just fine, but now I have the old target names the installer defined and the new ones I added. Normally no

Re: Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt

2013-02-19 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2013-02-19 20:36, green wrote: I use LUKS and cryptsetup encryption, but not for the root filesystem. Probably fstab and crypttab are all that you need to change. Grub configuration is another possibility, but I am guessing that you have a dedicated /boot partition and so no grub change

Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt

2013-02-18 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi list, Recently I've added a couple of disks to a system. All these disks are encrypted using dm-crypt with the Luks extensions. The result is working just fine, but now I have the old target names the installer defined and the new ones I added. Normally no biggie, but the names the installer

Re: Partition Control During Debian Installation

2012-11-02 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2012-11-02 13:05, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: Hi, Several weeks ago I installed Debian on my older Intel-based 32-bit machine. In anticipation of this, I had installed a 1TB hard disk, which I expected to be able to install three distros on for experimenting. Debian was the first distro

Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program

2012-05-25 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2012-05-25 17:39, Thomas H. George wrote: I am planning to put a vast array of handwritten notes into some kind of order. Notes include names and associated information - addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, spouse's name, childrens' names, boat names, birthdays, misc information.

Re: Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-05 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Jon, Far worse: I have a 1TB external drive with a DOS partition table, one partition formatted for LVM, with an LVM logical volume on top which is part of an md RAID set, inside the RAID device is another LVM PV for a different volume group. Your point is correct: it is far from

Re: Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Jon, The system on which you might want to read the disk will need to know how to decrypt it. Do you anticipate hot-plugging it to a running machine, or trying to boot from it? In this situation I will have a disk which is used to boot one machine, but does contain data that will be

Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-01 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi all, I plan on installing testing on a brand new disk later this week. Last time I did this I just followed the options the installer offered and ended up with a perfectly fine system on a fully encrypted disk using LVM. This time I need my disk to be easily portable, so I prefer to have a

Re: rsync exclusions

2012-01-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
I'm just fine tuning my rsync exclusion file which is called perfectly okay and works well, but now \i want to add these lines to it;- -/icedove/nipl* -/gnash/* -/mozilla/firefox/* -/opera/* Will they work with wildcards like that please to exclude the whole of the program and cache?

Re: Excluding folders in rsync command?

2012-01-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
is it possible to exclude directories/folders from a rsync command please? i know you can do files using a wildcard like *.avi, but is it possible to exclude e.g. /home/boztu/videos ? You can use the --exclude option if you want to specifiy the directory from the commandline. If you want to

Re: To detect proccess sending netpackets.

2011-12-13 Thread J.A. de vries
On 2011-12-12 15:43:51 Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day. On a desktop system I have noticed a bit of network traffic whereas users do not run any network software... How do I find out which process on the system does send/receive network packets? Thanks for Your time. Hi Sthu,

Re: best lenovo laptop for debian(i need opinion)

2011-11-22 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Hamed, I've been using a Lenovo Thinkpad T500 for almost two years now. During that time it has never let me down. Even though it has been put to work under relatively hard conditions for a laptop. As far as build quality goes, it isn't the old Thinkpad anymore, but it is still a lot better

Re: GMail backup on debian

2011-01-17 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Mathieu, I use Disconnected IMAP (DIMAP) in KMail for this. Works like a charm. Syncs both ways and without any errors (as far as I can see). Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Is squeeze compatible woth WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2010-12-13 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Klistvud, I have been using this exact disk for a couple of months now, without any trouble whatsoever. Mind you, first thing I do with new disks is format them, so maybe that has prevented some problems from arising. I use 2 of these disks in a LVM setup with full disk encryption (manually

Re: Is squeeze compatible woth WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2010-12-13 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I've been on testing for years now, so that'll be squeeze at the moment. To be honest: I don't remember extacly what command I used for formatting, but I do remember that I didn't have to do anything special. I presume that means I just used mkfs.ext3. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

2010-08-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, Due to a hardware failure I have bought a new external harddisk. I gave this disk the same volume name as the one it replaces. This is convenient for me, because I use the automatically generated mountpoint in some scripts [1]. However when I mount the new disk it gets a suffix appended to

Re: Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

2010-08-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Andrei, I use the KDE device notifier to mount the disk. I am not really sure if that has its own automount mechanism though. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

2010-08-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Camaleon, Enforce the use of the label in /etc/fstab and mount the disk out of / media which is handle automatically by udev. Static mount point should be defined in /etc/fstab. Yes, I know that is an option, but as I wrote I don't want to have to edit fstab on all the systems involved.

[Solved] Mounting new external storage device with same volume label as old one (want to lose the -1)

2010-08-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi all, The problem is solved. While digging around I noticed there was an empty mydisk directory under /media even when none of the disks with that volume label were attached to the system. It must have been an artefact left over from some previous failure of the old disk. After removing that

Re: offlineimap

2007-12-25 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-12-07 @ 20:11:15 (week 49) Joe Masters wrote: Is anyone using offlineimap? I am trying to sync 2 accounts from the same server. One account works fine but 2 causes problems. I've posted my config info to the offlineimap list but no response. If anyone has an example rc file that works

Re: Suggestions for diagramming software

2007-08-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-08-15 @ 01:39:48 (week 33) Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey Guys, I am Engineering student and I currently use latex and such to create my reports. I just recently switched to Debian from Mac OS X. However, I was looking for a good diagramming software for Linux. I heard of Xcircuit

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-05-08 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-04-29 @ 00:04:49 (week 17) Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:10 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2007-04-28 @ 15:36:10 (week 17) Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:22 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: [snip description of vicf] That rocks. Anyway

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
this. In those cases where this happens the atime given to utime() seems to be correct. PREREQUISITES - Perl 5.005 or later BUGS There are bound to be some. Let me know if you find one (or more...). AUTHOR J.A. de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current contact information

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-04-28 @ 15:36:10 (week 17) Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:22 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: [snip description of vicf] That rocks. Anyway to get into Debian as a package? Since you are the upstream author. Hi Greg, Sure, no problem. I'd be glad to do so if it proves

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-02-28 @ 12:49:05 (week 09) Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Sorry to get back only now. Haven't been keeping up with my mail due to an overly full agenda and todo list. did you try vga=normal? that should at least get you a readable screen. won't be the best res. I did, but still no

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-05 @ 01:48:40 (week 10) Chris Bannister wrote: Sorry to get back only now. Haven't been keeping up with my mail due to an overly full agenda and todo list. Is there any particular reason you need a later kernel? Other than wanting to try out a couple of new features no, not really.

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-04 @ 19:43:57 (week 09) Florian Kulzer wrote: I think this might be related to the framebuffer driver. Agreed. You can try to modprobe vesafb (or whatever fb module is suitable for your graphics card) from an X root console and see if this helps. I am sorry to say it didn't. It

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-21 @ 19:12:39 (week 12) Florian Kulzer wrote: Let me just quickly correct my earlier statement: I think the Debian Linux source packages have the modular vesafb option removed anyway because it caused trouble in the past. I half remembered this and then I mixed things up a bit when

No text mode display after grub

2007-02-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, My boss gave me a Dell Latitude D810 to use for work so I didn't have to use my privately owned Acer Ferrari 4000 anymore. First thing I did was install testing on it, which was no problem at all. Next I built a 2.6.20.1 kernel (vanilla from kernel.org) and now I have a bit of a strange

Re: Revive dark photos -- Debian gimp packaging question

2007-02-06 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-01-22 @ 00:26:12 (week 04) ][ wrote: Hi, I remember that I revived some dark photos to normal look by simply choosing certain gimp menus. Now I want to do it again, but couldn't find the menu entry any more. I often use Tools - Color Tools - Curves in these situations. It works

Re: Rsync, how to include ~/.files but not ~/.dirs

2007-02-06 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-01-25 @ 04:05:25 (week 04) ][ wrote: Hi, Is there any way to tell rsync to backup all the . files under my home but no any . directories? E.g., .profile in, but .gconf/ .gnome/ etc out? FYI, I tried with the following exclude rules but it didn't work, . directories are still

What UPS to buy: a MGE Evolution 850 or an APC Smart-UPS 750?

2007-02-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, Due to power outages at my home I want to buy an UPS for my SOHO server. For my needs something between 700 and 1000VA should be enough. I'd like to have auto shutdown and powerup and some monitoring facilities too. After some Googling I am thinking of buying either an APC Smart-UPS 750 or a

Re: What UPS to buy

2007-02-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-02-04 @ 08:45:38 (week 05) Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But how is their Linux support? I would buy Tripp-Lite because it is readily available here in Mexico, but, again, how is the Linux support? Hi all, Thanks for all the input. I agree with the advice not to skimp on the UPS. However

Pinning X.org

2007-01-10 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I need to upgrade my laptop without upgrading X.org. The laptop is a reasonably up-to-date etch install with X.org 7.0.22 and proprietary drivers from ATI. (As soon as I have time and can risk a non-working X server I'll upgrade those too.) I want to pin X.org, but am not clear on the

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-12 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-12-11 @ 07:50:07 (week 50) Russell L. Harris wrote: I need a method to email a weekly Bible study to a list of a hundred or so recipients. I found in the Debian archive a package named libmail-bulkmail-perl. I installed the package and looked at the example files in

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-28 @ 18:08:42 (week 48) Lubos Vrbka wrote: we tested this. whatever we choose, printer still prints duplex, long-edge flip. as a default, this is fine, but when you need something special (like short edge, 2 pages per paper), it is not possible. it seems that the settings on

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-17 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-16 @ 19:28:40 (week 46) Douglas Tutty wrote: I see from later posts that reiserfsck worked. I used to have this problem. I tracked it down to a problem within reiserfs where it stores small files within the directory structure itself (as a speed-up measure). I got tired of it

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 17:47:40 (week 46) Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 15:02 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: [...snip...] #--- # cd ~/Maildir/.Applications.\[vim\]/cur # ls 1141914051.* ls: 1141914051

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 19:16:00 (week 46) Wayne Topa wrote: Been there, done that. Now when I come across a file the is there but isn't, I run mc. If it's really there, mc will remove it. Hi Wayne, Well then, that convinced me the problem is to be found at a lower level. mc listed the file with a

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 22:27:03 (week 46) Mike McCarty wrote: OTOH, something is there. Try using # lsof Ah, hadn't thought of lsof or fuser yet. Good reminder, thanks! I tried both but lsof didn't list the file as being used and fuser couldn't find the file at all (No such file or directory).

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist [SOLVED]

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-16 @ 08:56:14 (week 46) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rumours I have heard about reiserfsck suggest to me that taking a backup is *highly* recommended before doing reiserfsck. Right you are! I did, excluding the directory containing the troublesome file. Some copying/backup programs

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-16 @ 10:42:25 (week 46) Bob McGowan wrote: First, HdV has discovered his problem is directory structure corruption. This is the correct answer, based on all the failed attempts to remove, in one way or another, this file. Indeed. What most of the proposed methods had in common

Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I have a problem with a file which seems to not exist, but that makes applications like rsync, offlineimap and tar crash, because they try to read it anyway (not their fault as far as I can tell). When I try to sync my mail using offlineimap it crashes after a while with the following

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 11:20:46 (week 46) Ralph Katz wrote: How about: # rm -f 1141914051.* No promises... but something like that worked once for me in a similar mysterious situation. Ah, hadn't tried that yet. Too bad it didn't work. $ rm -i 1141914051.* rm: cannot lstat

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 16:35:28 (week 46) Matthew Krauss wrote: I'm thinking you have a file with a name that the shell doesn't want to handle correctly. As far as I can tell, there's nothing irregular about the name itself. The only somewhat special characters in it are a comma, an equal sign and a

Re: Need to remove a ghost file, but can't because it doesn't exist

2006-11-15 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-15 @ 12:25:25 (week 46) Ken Irving wrote: See if find sees the file, e.g., find -name 11419\* and if it does, then something like find -name 11419\* -exec rm {} \; or find -name 11419\* -exec mv {} somename \; if you'd like to have a look at it. Tried to

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-13 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-10-12 @ 19:10:33 (week 41) José Alburquerque wrote: Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the prompt of a bash shell. Currently, I have my bash prompt set up so that it displays the

Re: external hard-disk enclosure advice?

2006-09-11 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-08-26 @ 13:44:29 (week 34) Miles Bader wrote: Hi, thanks for the review. Sorry to take this long to respond. Been away for a short holiday. How's the I/O speed / CPU usage (I heard USB can eat a lot of CPU at high speeds)? I haven't really measured it, but to me it was quite

Re: saving digital photographs

2006-09-11 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-09-10 @ 17:02:48 (week 36) Russell L. Harris wrote: While I did mention the oxide, the remarks which you cite had to do primarily with obsolescence of the technology. I have 8-inch floppies (SSSD and DSDD) with data which I would like to retrieve, but unless I find someone who still

Re: saving digital photographs

2006-09-10 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Russell, While I do agree with most of what you wrote I'd not be so quick in dismissing floppies, nor tape for that matter. (An Example: Does anyone remember the 8-inch floppy, which came in both single- and double-side versions, and in both single- and double-density variations? And does

Re: external hard-disk enclosure advice?

2006-08-14 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-08-06 @ 09:27:48 (week 31) Miles Bader wrote: Hi, I'm looking for advice on buying a new hard-drive / external hard-drive enclosure: [snip] Hi Miles, I recently bought such a beast for backup purposes. I choose an Icy Box IB-360-BL. This is an external closure for 3.5 IDE/SATA disks

Re: Iptables and kernel 2.6.17 phelp needed -- SOLVED

2006-07-20 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-07-20 @ 12:36:06 (week 29) chavdar wrote: What I did was actually go back to kernel 2.6.15 where my oldconfig worked. Hi Chavdar, I hadn't noticed this thread earlier, so I am a bit late in the thread. However did you notice that all netfilter related settings have moved to another

Re: Free SWF to AVI converter for Sarge

2006-05-31 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-31 @ 14:03:32 (week 22) Siju George wrote: On 5/30/06, J.A. de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-05-30 @ 11:34:37 (week 22) Siju George wrote: Hi, Is there any Free SWF to AVI converter for Debian Sarge Linux? Take a look at ffmpeg. I regularly use it to convert clips

Re: Free SWF to AVI converter for Sarge

2006-05-30 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-30 @ 11:34:37 (week 22) Siju George wrote: Hi, Is there any Free SWF to AVI converter for Debian Sarge Linux? Take a look at ffmpeg. I regularly use it to convert clips to a format that suits me better. Works like a charm. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building case for Debian in server room at a University

2006-05-27 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-24 @ 22:15:00 (week 21) Donald Teed wrote: If you have the time, I'd also appreciate any comments you can share on pros and cons of Debian. I think I'm aware of the basic features from my experience running Debian, but I'm thinking of things that might not come up until in a real

Re: photo management and camera download by date

2006-05-24 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-22 @ 19:09:53 (week 21) Richard Otte wrote: Hi, I would like to download photos off of my digital camera in such a way that they are sorted into directories by date. So a photo taken on Feb 23,2006 would be put in a directory 2006/02/23/filename. The camera will often have

Re: search and replace code in php or html files

2006-05-06 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-05-05 @ 18:48:36 (week 18) H.S. wrote: Casey T. Deccio wrote: find . -name *.html | xargs sed -i.bak -e 's/string_to_replace/replacement/g' Does something like this work? If your match pattern spans more than one line than you'll need a more complex script. Might I

Re: sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-18 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-02-17 @ 21:50:33 (week 07) martin f krafft wrote: also sprach J.A. de Vries [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.02.17.2125 +0100]: I am not sure of where you are located, but considering you wrote your book German too (and a good read it was!) you might want to take a look What, it's out

Re: sought: silent PC suitable as a gateway

2006-02-17 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-02-17 @ 12:44:25 (week 07) martin f krafft wrote: Hi, We are in need of a bunch of gateways with the following requirements: - must be absolutely silent - must be capable of running Debian Hi Martin, I am not sure of where you are located, but considering you wrote your

Re: ALSA keeps going away

2005-12-23 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-12-21 @ 23:25:19 (week 51) John and Holly Klug wrote: Every time I run alsaconf, ALSA comes back. When I reboot, it goes away. Sounds from the gnome desktop always work fine. Some time ago I had a similar problem. It was caused by the order in which the sound devices in my system

Re: Programmieren mit Delphi

2005-10-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-10-15 @ 10:48:55 (week 41) Luk Claes wrote: ich habe linux möchte aber wie mit Delphi Programmieren welche Programmier sprache ist genau so wie Delphi und kann sie bei Linux benutzen währe nett wenn ich eine antwort bekommen würde und wo bekomme ich das programm her und es

Re: simple console menu

2005-10-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-10-16 @ 10:19:05 (week 41) Rodney Richison wrote: I would like to make a simple console menu for a script I'm writing. While I see things like pdmenu, I'd like this menu to show up on a plain vanila new debian base install with now gui. Do you guy's know of some simple examples I

Re: problems with fbsebg

2005-09-30 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-09-22 @ 17:55:41 (week 38) Christian Christmann wrote: after running dist-upgrade couple of days ago I get the error message when trying to set a new background picture with fbsetbg: fbsetbg: Something went wrong while setting the wallpaper. Run 'display -geometry 1280x1024+0+0

Re: Thomson SpeedTouch ADSL Modem

2005-09-08 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-09-08 @ 00:28:33 (week 36) Américo Rocha wrote: Anyone knows of good tutorial to configure the above modem so it can work in a fresh installed debian sarge system ? You can access the modem via telnet. For a good reference of all commands understood by the modem you can visit their

Re: ANSI color code chart

2005-08-22 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-08-21 @ 19:36:44 (week 33) Tong wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a ANSI color code chart that can show me the code and effect of ansi color codes. I remember that once I had one, but now I can't find it on my HD or on Inet any more. The description was: ANSI terminal color

Re: Marvel 10/200/1000 on board LAN?

2005-08-09 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-08-08 @ 15:46:43 (week 32) Ishwar Rattan wrote: Hello I am trying to make an Intel D925XECV2 with motherboard with 'Marvel 10/100/1000 LAN' on board. Knoppix-3.9 (kernel 2.6.11, May/2005) also does not detect the inteface? Any one out there using this motherboard? What version

Need some help setting up Icybox Cardreader IB-801

2005-07-29 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I have some trouble setting up a cardreader. More accurately I think I am bumbing up against some USB limit. The thing is I have a system with 4 USB ports on the backplane and 2 USB ports on the side on the case. The Icybox I am trying to install has 2 USB ports and a 8-in-1 cardreader that's

Re: last -t lists all entries in wtmp

2005-07-22 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-07-22 @ 00:13:38 (week 29) michael wrote: I think it's a question of interpretation of the man pages. To me it seems that '-x' *also* gives the runlevel info; and that '-t' gives all entries *up to* a date (as opposed to since or on that date) Here's the two relevant excerpts from

Re: Problem with mounting sda zip drive

2005-07-14 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi, I see you're trying to mount /dev/sda, please try /dev/sda4. I know it sounds daft, but somehow the people at Iomega decided to format their disks that way. Grx HdV P.S. This is from my experience with Zip drives a couple of years ago, so things might have changed between then and now...

Re: iptables related query

2005-07-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-07-03 @ 21:40:06 (week 26) Mal Beaton wrote: I prefer to use sub chains to identify from the internet or from internal etc I do too, but as the corresponding webpage states: quote Note that this ruleset is written with readability and clearness in mind so anyone can fathom it. Thus it

Re: iptables related query

2005-07-03 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-07-03 @ 10:04:20 (week 26) Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi, I'm new to iptables therefor I need your help with some basic operation. I have installed Debian with 2.6 kernel and now trying to set some iptables rules. From what I have found in some nice examples in google I understood

Re: iptables related query

2005-07-03 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Yuriy, I'll follow up on my own answer to clarify things a bit more. In my previous message I showed you one way to initialize your iptables ruleset. That ruleset itself is nothing more than a simple shell script containing instructions for iptables on what to do with specific types of

Re: configure postfix

2005-07-02 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-07-02 @ 09:01:33 (week 26) Khanh Cao Van wrote: I've installed postfix and then go to the /etc/postfix change some option on it . But the main.cf did not contain all information as usual . I could not find out the : home_mailbox = relayhost = relay_domains = mynetworks_style=

Re: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2005-01-01 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2004-12-31 @ 10:54:44 (week 53) Kent West wrote: Except that neither of these extensions is available from the Get More Extensions feature in Firefox. However, after your post, I googled for these two extensions and found them at the Extension Room at MozDev

Re: SOLVED: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2005-01-01 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2005-01-01 @ 09:19:13 (week 53) Kent West wrote: So I right-clicked on the install link and selected Save Link As to save the tabx.xpi file to my home directory. I then went into Firefox's File/Open File menu, opened tabx.xpi, which seemed to install the extension, then restarted FF,

Re: OT: How to add tab-closing X in Firefox, like Galeon?

2004-12-31 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2004-12-31 @ 10:16:43 (week 53) Kent West wrote: Galeon has an X on each tab; clicking on the X closes that tab. I really like this feature, but can't seem to figure out how to add it to Firefox. I had it added a few (pre-0.9) versions ago via an extension, but that extension no longer

Re: Script to build system information. Guru needed :)

2004-12-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2004-12-21 @ 18:30:35 (week 52) Bob Alexander wrote: Slowly building my disaster assurance strategy on top of the file backups. Amongst other things I want to periodically run a shell script that would build a file with useful information. Here it is: lsmod lspci dpkg

Re: traffic stats wan-lan - ntop or better?

2004-12-19 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2004-12-19 @ 07:42:32 (week 51) Joao Clemente wrote: I decided to get some tool to analize network traffic so that I can understand what am I paying for... I have the feeling that ntop is the tool to use, but has someone a better suggestion? We use ntop in our network and even though I

Re: ilohamail

2004-12-19 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2004-12-19 @ 15:29:39 (week 51) Tom Allison wrote: Iloha sounds very promising. Thank you. I have some very large folders myself and in my experience IlohaMail handles those just fine. I do recommend this package over SquirrelMail, but to be honest I have to admit I have used SM only for two

Re: Trackball Problems

2004-12-16 Thread J.A. de Vries
bill wrote: I have just installed Debian testing. I have a Logitech Trackman Wheel Trackball. As a trackball it works fine. But I can't seem to get the wheel to work. Any help would be appretiated. Hi Bill, This is what I have in XF86Config-4 for my Trackman Marble+. It should work just fine

Re: iptables and snort

2004-03-18 Thread J.A. de Vries
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Col @ Home wrote: Am trying to set up a firewall on a Debian linux machine using iptables. New to linux, can anybody point me in the direction of a good guide to configuring a firewall using iptables? If you want to know how to build your own ruleset and how to install it

Re: problem with awstats

2004-01-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Andy Firman wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:52:23AM +0800, Jiele wrote: Hi, guys, Installed Awstats (Version: 5.6-1), works fine. However, I just noticed that it only generates monthly report. So when a new month starts, all the past statistics are gone, and

Re: spamassassin

2003-08-27 Thread J.A. de Vries
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Tom Allison wrote: Does spamassassin use relays.osirusoft.com? Yes. It will be removed in the next version. I have a lot of DNS traffic running with this query and I noticed that my mail log was full of messages to stop using relays.osirusoft.com. You'll have to stop

Re: [OT] translation from Dutch, please

2003-08-24 Thread J.A. de Vries
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: An artist friend of mine was admiring some work by Marjolein Bastin. She would like to find out more about Marjolein's technique and also what she studied in school because Marjolein's work is similar to the sort of thing my friend wants to

Re: Getting a Zip Drive to Work

2003-08-14 Thread J.A. de Vries
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having just installed Debian (as a new Linux user) I am having problems getting my internal zip-drive to work. Mainly as I cannot figure out which device it is and becuase I need to have the edits to the fstab I need to make explained.

Re: upgrading xfree86

2002-01-02 Thread J.A. de Vries
thought 'Where the hell is the ceiling?' J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ogg Vorbis (was Re: mp3 encoding)

2001-11-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
by upgrading it's firmware. Now someone has to write the support for it (if it's not there yet). On all other counts this is a great portable. Grx HdV -- Last night as I lay in bed looking at the stars I thought 'Where the hell is the ceiling?' J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology

Re: Installing swatch [solved]

2001-10-12 Thread J.A. de Vries
the hell is the ceiling?' J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trying to figure out where the kernel sources went.

2001-10-10 Thread J.A. de Vries
some people have. J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apologies to those offended by my signature.

2001-10-10 Thread J.A. de Vries
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Problem with hda1 ('/) at boottime, what now?

2001-10-05 Thread J.A. de Vries
this problem? I'd appreciate it very much. In the meanwhile I'll have to work with the mountpoints mounted by hand... Sincerely, HdV -- Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University of Technology Computing Centre Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email

Re: Port 1002

2000-10-12 Thread J.A. de Vries
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Re: 3com problem

2000-10-09 Thread J.A. de Vries
and at home with debian, both with the same .pinerc). HTH Grx HdV P.S. Can anyone tell me if mutt handles stationaries? And if so, can it use them with forwarding in a way similar to Eudora? -- Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. J.A. de Vries aka HdV Delft University