Re: Debian 7.4 -- Intel e1000e module too old ...

2014-04-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 21/04/2014 3:01 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-04-20 18:47 +0200, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> Debian 7.4 -- Intel e1000e module too old ... >> >> [SOLVED]Ethernet card intel I217-LM not recognized by Wheezy >> >> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic

Re: Directly connecting two computers

2014-04-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Most Ethernet network cards these days can do auto detection ... you can use a standard network cable instead of needing a cross over cable. I could be wrong, it might be just switches that auto detect. Once connected, you just need to make sure that each end is on the same network (ifconfig

Re: sshd alert!

2014-05-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 7/05/2014 5:05 AM, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > Have you seen that: > > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=gjkivAf3 Release date: 04/30/2014 Product: OpenSSH Vendor: http://www.openssh.com/ CVE candidate number: CVE-2018- (maybe 2020+...) With "CVE-2018." that's not valid already. CVE's sta

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-05-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 1/06/2014 12:35 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 30 mai 14, 21:51:05, Horatio Leragon wrote: >> I would like to back up system-connections (full path is >> /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections) on to a USB stick. >> >> The folder in question contains the imported profiles of several >> Ope

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-05-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 1/06/2014 12:08 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote: > *From:* Andrew McGlashan >> Tails has a neat method to keep this sort of stuff persistent. > > Tails? "Tails - Privacy for anyone anywhere" - [T]he [A]mnesic [I]ncognito [L]ive [S]ystem (based on Debian) - this i

Re: How can I benchmark my brand new usb 3.0 WD My Passport hdd

2014-05-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 30/05/2014 12:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 29 mai 14, 16:06:26, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > It's not exactly obvious what you're trying to achieve. You already > bought the drive. Do you intend to return it if the tested speeds are > not to your liking? Well, drives are cheap, but if it i

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-05-31 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 1/06/2014 3:46 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote: >> "Tails - Privacy for anyone anywhere" >> - [T]he [A]mnesic [I]ncognito [L]ive [S]ystem (based on Debian) >> - this is a TOR project. > > How is Tails relevant to answering my question? Just how they handle this kind of data in a persistent manner an

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-06-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 31/05/2014 2:51 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote: > I would like to back up system-connections (full path is > /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections) on to a USB stick. > > The folder in question contains the imported profiles of several OpenVPN > config files. > > I tried to drag the said folder to

Re: no plugins under Chrome

2014-06-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 1/06/2014 9:43 PM, Mike McGinn wrote: > What a mess! I have been forcing the version in Synaptic on chromium-browser > to 34.0.187 ... and it says that is what is installed after doing a complete > removal. But "about" on the browser still reports 35. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending o

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-06-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 1/06/2014 9:40 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote: > Why would I want to download almost 900 MB of Tails ISO just to learn > how to create a backup of system-connections? On reflection, it was clearly the wrong advice for you. How about you start with something like this first [1] ? > Are you crazy?

Re: best way to backup USB stick (2)

2014-06-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 15/04/2014 12:34 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > PaulNM wrote: >> On 04/13/2014 10:16 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> >> Specifically: usbDrive=/dev/sde1 >> >> You're not backing up and restoring usb drives, you're backing up and >> restoring a partition on usb drives. The partition table and bootlo

cryptsetup problem

2014-06-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I am trying to write /dev/zero across an entire RAID1 encrypted volume. The RAID1 partition is new, I opened it fine with " luksOpen ..." and the next step is to write the /dev/zero across the whole partition. Right now I am working in a crafted [with extra tools] dropbear environment,

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 2/06/2014 5:12 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > md0 is all good: No that is on a different machine not the right /dev/md0 Whoops. I also get no response back with "/sbin/madm -D /dev/md0" on the problem machine. A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-06-01 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 2/06/2014 10:08 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: > If you have nothing relevant to contribute to my original question, stop > trolling. You have no idea what a troll is. Calling me a troll is very inappropriate and very offensive. Do not answer any further emails from me and I won't send any to you

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Thank you Darac for your input. Here's an update on what I'm doing now. I caused the RAID1 mirrors to complete the sync in a dropbear boot environment. Now I'm writing /dev/zero to the crypt mounted volumes. No changes yet to the form of the command, but if I see troubles, then I'll consider dr

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 3/06/2014 5:25 AM, ken wrote: > Are you aware of FOSS 'wipe'? Yes, thanks Ken. I watched wipe go through clearing an SSH drive when setting up a quick test of Kali Linux on a new laptop. It was slow, but it worked -- when it finished, Kali had trouble allocating /itself/ enough root file syst

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 3/06/2014 5:38 AM, ken wrote: > It would be better to write /dev/random or /dev/urandom than > /dev/zero... if you want to stay with whatever it is you're using. Okay, well /dev/urandom is pseudo random, /dev/random is real random and will block if there isn't enough entropy. All the randomnes

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 3/06/2014 5:24 AM, Bzzz wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 05:16:21 +1000 > Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> Now I'm writing /dev/zero to the crypt mounted volumes. No > > Just one silly question: why don't you first zero the > raw partition, then create whatever

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 3/06/2014 6:13 AM, Bzzz wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 06:07:31 +1000 > Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> The problem with that is that you will only have crypted data >> where you write data in the volume. The rest will still be >> zeroed ... better to have a fully c

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 3/06/2014 6:32 AM, Bzzz wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 06:22:46 +1000 > Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> Okay, but my understanding is that once you have a LUKS crypt >> volume (with the right setup), it doesn't matter what data you >> write across the whole volume

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 3/06/2014 6:58 AM, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew McGlashan writes: >> Yes, maybe so, but these are brand new 4TB drives that haven't had any >> other data on them before (factory fresh). I've done badblock testing >> on them as a first step after removing them fro

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/06/2014 6:17 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> [ 3839.679711] INFO: task kworker/3:3:392 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > > This message and the ones that follow seem the most concerning to me. > > First, I don't know. If I were having thos

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-04 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/06/2014 11:35 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Bob Proulx: >> Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>> [ 3839.679711] INFO: task kworker/3:3:392 blocked for more than 120 seconds. >> >> This message and the ones that follow seem the most concerning to me. >> >> Fi

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 5/06/2014 11:06 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I'm not sure that pv isn't part of the problem, so I've adjusted to stop > using it. Another failure, this time in /normal/ run, not dropbear environment. It's not pv. > Here's a simple bash script that will

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 6/06/2014 12:08 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > The above script worked fine for around 45 minutes. Okay, another update. Hope I'm not speaking too soon, but a kernel update (Wheezy 7.5) and it seems to be okay... # uname -a Linux n4800eco-a 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 4/06/2014 11:15 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Yes, it is in my nature to call a spade a spade. And you have already > shown you have little background in Linux, as this post once again > shows. Yet you refuse to even attempt to learn the basic knowledge you > need to even understand how to use Li

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 6/06/2014 8:39 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: >> >> dpkg --list 'linux-image-*' \ >> | perl -ane 'BEGIN { $r = `uname -r` or die; chomp $r } print $F[1], >> "\n" if $F[0] eq "ii" && $F[1] !~ /\Q$r\E\b/' \ >> | xargs -r aptitude purge -y > > Th

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 7/06/2014 4:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > I doubt it, Andrew. Trolls like him don't go away easily. Unfortunately I am pretty sure you are right Jerry, but I am amazed that people are still /trying/ to help him even after he has shown horrible form and he has pissed off so many of us. But eno

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 7/06/2014 4:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 03:09 -0700, Horatio Leragon wrote: >> Did you know that I'm dyslexic? And there are many categories of >> dyslexia? > > I suffer from dyslexia too, but I'm highly gifted and I guess your IQ is > also higher than 45. Learning by doi

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 6/06/2014 10:11 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 6/06/2014 12:08 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> The above script worked fine for around 45 minutes. > > Okay, another update. Sadly I've got a non-responsive server once again :( It almost completed the task on th

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 7/06/2014 9:14 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote: > You dirty old man, where are the expletives? I miss them you know. > > You have been working behind the scenes, haven't you? No, you reap your own /rewards/ I'm just glad that others can see through you as well. It will only be natural with yo

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 3/06/2014 5:38 AM, ken wrote: > On 06/02/2014 03:34 PM Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> On 3/06/2014 5:25 AM, ken wrote: >>> Are you aware of FOSS 'wipe'? >> >> Yes, thanks Ken. I watched wipe go through clearing an SSH >> drive when setting up a quick

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/06/2014 4:06 AM, Bzzz wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 03:34:04 +1000 > Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> Doing a GPG backup of the closed crypt volume would not >> compress well. Obviously the more /real/ data there is on the >> open crypt volume, the larger a GPG backu

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/06/2014 6:18 AM, Bzzz wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 06:03:07 +1000 > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> rsnapshot doesn't compress [the backups], that might be the >> biggest plus -- it does use symlinks though. > > I just had a look to the link I sent you (there'

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/06/2014 6:44 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 8/06/2014 6:18 AM, Bzzz wrote: >> FTR, haveged gives you a reservoir of entropy based upon >> /dev/random. Installed now looks very good! Thanks again A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/06/2014 8:02 AM, Bzzz wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 07:03:32 +1000 > Andrew McGlashan wrote: > >> Installed now looks very good! >> >> Thanks again > > Well, not so fast :( > > I didn't followed the RNGs analysis closely (I pick my > rand

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/06/2014 8:53 AM, Bzzz wrote: > I'd say before these changes (it doesn't mention them), > thus, at least /dev/random might be cleared from these > flaws, which makes it quite a good candidate for crypto > (on the condition that random sources often run on the > machine, ie: web radio & DVB dong

Re: cryptsetup problem

2014-06-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/06/2014 9:48 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Anyway, make sure you monkey around a lot with the keyboard and mouse before > you let the Debian installer generate any encrypted filesystems on a system > without a kernel-supported TRNG/HRNG/DRNG. Or get a large file of random > numbers

Re: Killfiling: was Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/06/2014 4:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > As we can see now, killfiling Horatio or banning him from the list is > impossible, he simply will use another email address. > > Jerry, did you notice that there also was sent a mail to the Debian > off-topic list, most likely from Horatio, using the >

Re: Auto-emptying of trash.

2014-06-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 8/06/2014 6:03 PM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Revisiting a question that I asked in March last year about how to > auto-empty a trash bin. > > This has worked very well until today, when on one of my drives it > also deleted the trash bin as well, so my follow-on script to give > me the size of my

Re: Abusive, Insulting and Off Topic e-mails do not belong on debian-user or any other Debian Mailing list.

2014-06-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
is my intention to digitally sign each message using my public GPG key, which has these details: pub 2048D/B7EFE2FB 2012-04-12 Key fingerprint = C902 8307 B42E 98C9 D2DF 8D43 A816 6BCB B7EF E2FB uid Andrew McGlashan uid Andrew McGlashan uid [jpeg image of siz

GPG Keys..... was Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
http://www.debian.org/CD/verify It is my intention to digitally sign each message to Debian list using my public GPG key, which has these details: pub 2048D/B7EFE2FB 2012-04-12 Key fingerprint = C902 8307 B42E 98C9 D2DF 8D43 A816 6BCB B7EF E2FB uid Andrew McGlashan uid

Re: GPG Keys..... was Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 9/06/2014 1:56 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 09 iun 14, 01:43:28, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> >> And the fingerprint? > > $ gpg --fingerprint EF22341C > pub 4096R/EF22341C 2013-07-28 > Key fingerprint = E44E B88C E21B 858E 3639 7AA

Re: logrotate cannot rotate some log files

2014-06-14 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 15/06/2014 10:49 AM, André Nunes Batista wrote: > # logrotate -f -v /etc/logrotate.d/ 2> logrotate.txt > > # cat logrotate.txt | grep syslog > reading config file rsyslog > rotating pattern: /var/log/syslog > considering log /var/log/syslog > rotating log /var/log/syslog, log->rotateCount is 7

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 24/06/2014 3:16 AM, B wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > >> I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, >> 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run, >> and swap partition, > > As a SSD has limited write capacities

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
secure IMAP server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes ii dovecot-pop3d1:1.2.15-7 secure POP3 server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan IT Support & Broadband Solutions Current

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Steve, This page was last modified in 2006 and it too talks about "latest Debian" curl -I http://blog.edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/exim4_courier/exim4.html HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:54:55 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Last-Modified: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:30:55 GMT ETag: "11c128-

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
btw It looks like exim4 first entered into Debian with Sarge (Debian 3.1, released 2005), here's a link with more info: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/98/Upgrading_from_Woody_to_Sarge_Part_4_-_Apache2 Cheers A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Backup all GPG secret keys

2013-01-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
can also export your keys. Perhaps this link will help: http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/~lockhart/gpg/gpg-cs.html Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9012 2102 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National No: 130

Re: Xen Domain0 keep rebooting on IBMx346

2013-04-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
2:43 30_os-prober -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 214 Jan 18 22:43 40_custom -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95 Jan 18 22:43 41_custom -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4284 Jan 18 22:43 50_linux -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 483 Jan 18 22:43 README 2.2 ### Add entries to /etc/defalult/grub # cat >> /etc/default/grub <

wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

2013-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, I'm working on a server replacement, the old (current) server is running latest stable release and the new server is running from this downloaded installer ISO: debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-amd64-netinst.iso Now, php5-suhosin provides some real protection against programming problems that could

Re: wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

2013-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Bob, On 11/04/2013 3:26 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Now, php5-suhosin provides some real protection against programming >> problems that could very easily exist and it is not uncommon to see >> messages from Debian stable installs reporting b

Re: wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

2013-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 11/04/2013 5:40 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > What I have read (caution unverified) is that the PHP interpreter > isn't intrinsically insecure. It only becomes that way when used with > insecure php code. Which makes sense. Any upstream interpreter > vulnerability would have a CVE number associated

Re: wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

2013-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 11/04/2013 3:21 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Yes, but insecure code is so easy to make and even the so called experts >> are making them. There is even an O'Reilly book that has wrong >> information that is leading programmers astray. The

Re: wheezy still missing php5-suhosin

2013-04-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 11/04/2013 6:11 PM, Joe wrote: > A working commercial PHP programmer probably could, but I'm not sure it > would help. PHP is a programming language, running on a web server, > which needs to access the server's databases, drives, memory etc. > There's no way it can be made secure, any more than

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 4/04/2013 8:37 PM, Chris Davies wrote: > Roll your own with an HP Proliant microserver (the N40L series that are > just being replaced). I bought mine for about £120 a couple of months > ago. Add a pair of 3TB disks also at £100 each. Add more memory (it comes > with 2GB; I replaced that wi

Re: NAS raid with Debian?

2013-06-24 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, On 5/04/2013 6:49 AM, Celejar wrote: > FWIW, I've been running Debian Wheezy on a Seagate Go Flex Net > (STAK100 - http://projects.doozan.com/debian/) for a while, with pretty > good results. It's a Kirkwood system with 128MB RAM, 256MB NAND, 2 SATA > connectors, 1 USB port and Gigabit etherne

Re: exim4 vacation message issues [solved]

2013-07-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, After a very long time I've looked at this again and fixed it. This is my /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/260_vacation router file: VACATION_CONDITION = "\ ${if match{$h_Subject:}{^.*do not send vacation message.*}\ {no}{yes}\ }" user

Exim issue with virtual user setup -- non routeable address for non system "group" [solved]

2013-07-05 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, This email is to possibly help someone wanting to setup virtual users with Exim4 on Debian using split config. Here is my virtual user router file # cat /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/250_virtual virtual: debug_print = "R: virtual for $local_part@$domain" driver = redirect allow_f

Cisco switch issue -- after Debian updates had me stumped...

2012-08-11 Thread Andrew McGlashan
the switch had finished rebooting. Hopefully my little story might help someone else. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP Current Land Line No: 03 9012 2102 Mobile: 04 2574 1827 Fax: 03 9012 2178 National No: 1300 85 3804 Affinity Vision Aus

Re: Help with command - cp

2014-01-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 27/01/2014 3:05 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> * The --dry-run option will show you what the command will do > As I said to Zenaan, it is obviously time for me to bite the bullet of > rsync. It seems a significantly better tool for the purpose than cp. Don't be scared of rsync, it works a great dea

Re: question about storage

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
RAM much cheaper than the above RAM link? Did you get fans with the 2419EE CPUs or did you re-use the fans from the 2214 units? Thanks. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
an of UNIX and UNIX-like systems since I first used one. Out of interest, how old are you now then? I agree it is hard to judge how "Joe Sixpack" or "Jane Boxwine" consider to be "as easy as M$". ;-) -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-03-03 Thread Andrew McGlashan
sources available to him than I ever had which I was that young. Oh well, surely that's to be expected now though. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Xen questions

2011-03-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
mU machine is 1 hour slower than my Dom0 machine, how should I properly synchronize the times? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Xen questions

2011-03-06 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Abhishek Dixit wrote: On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Hi, I'm on a crash course with Xen got some quick questions. Which course :) Well, my own, self-learning. ;-) Hardware is Dual 3GHz EM64T CPUs on an IBM x346 machine. Using Squeeze

Re: Bridge mode vs. router mode in DSL modems

2011-03-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
net access? Bridge mode doesn't handle the ISP login, you still need to login somewhere. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Not spam (was Re: SPAM SPAM SPAM !!! Re: Sip?)

2011-03-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
/4syb4j9 It works fine for tinyurl, don't know if other URL shorteners have this feature. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
r own mail server for both sending and receiving directly. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Xen support

2011-03-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
onds to 10 seconds. I can't let it start at 5 seconds or less, it will reboot every time. Haven't tried b/w 5 and 10 seconds though. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
th that due to many users having a very simple and guessable username/password, so they dis-allow it too. For me, well, I like to run my own server as best I can and then not have to rely too much on any third parties which can add another failure point as well. Thanks again. -- Kind Regards

Re: A question about DNS.

2011-03-17 Thread Andrew McGlashan
alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. dropbox.com mail is handled by 30 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: [help-a-newb] setting grub

2011-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
t in a fle in /usr/share/grub, followed by doing an update-grub, but that doesn't change the default boot, Are you working in /etc/grub.d now? Perhaps that is your problem. See the README in there. Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now includi

Re: Debian mini CDs

2011-03-19 Thread Andrew McGlashan
I do like what you offer. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Debian mini CDs

2011-03-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Gabor Kum wrote: For multi-arch you need bigger size of CD, I think. Okay, perhaps mini DVDs then? How much data fits on your mini CDs ? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: External hard drive with mounting problems

2011-03-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
etected consistently. So, first make sure that the drive is visible -- if it isn't visible, then it won't ever mount. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Debian 6.0.1 ia64 DVD release looks strange

2011-03-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
effected by an [same|different?] issue. Anybody whom downloaded 6.0.1 netinst and business card versions (perhaps others), need to download 6.0.1a as per this page: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1/ -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- T

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
"updated" versions are completely different -- change for change sake? Don't fix what is NOT broken. :( Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: broken shell script with dash

2011-03-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
p://packages.debian.org/squeeze/devscripts -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Issues with scponlyc on amd64 squeeze final release. [solved with patch]

2011-04-02 Thread Andrew McGlashan
# check that the configure options are correct for chrooted operation: -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: CD burning programs with verification

2011-04-09 Thread Andrew McGlashan
ds AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4da14dde.9010...@affinityvision.com.au

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
de from that, it is an excellent program for burning ISO files in Windows. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
ike smoke.exe animates whilst burning a disk. I have no disk to write at this time, but I'll try it out one day. iso-burner.exe is much simpler, a single portable file. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: obtaining copy of debian

2011-04-10 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Andrew McGlashan (me) wrote: > iso-burner.exe is much simpler, a single portable file. It is actually NOT a single file, but it is not many files and it is quite compact. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Exim4 -- MANY "temporarily rejected RCPT" WITHOUT any reason?

2011-04-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
mails are getting through. Server doesn't appear to be heavily loaded either. I can't make sense of this change and therefore don't know what to do to fix it. Any ideas? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [solved] Exim4 -- MANY "temporarily rejected RCPT" WITHOUT any reason?

2011-04-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Andrew McGlashan wrote: I've started to have a problem yesterday with exim4 on an old stable box (lenny). The issue was related to greylisting. I have a white lists host file and one or more domains stopped resolving and caused the problem. I resolved via testing as follows: # exim -

Re: rlocate [was find on another list]

2011-04-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Sam Watkins wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:28:47PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Why is "find" such a disgustingly inefficient program? Something like 'rlocate' might be suitable for finding files with certain names. I haven't tried it: http://www.linux.c

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
ink your idea to use a switch has any worth in this case. And if you can't get your ISP to provide an extra IP (or second distinct cable login to get it's own IP), then you'll have these huge NAT table issues with low memory consumer routers possibly requiring restarts to cl

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed [question]

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew McGlashan
e fine. Whatever you have time to write will be interesting to me and might be really useful to OP. Thanks. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
leads-cops-to-corpse.ars -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

Re: Fwd: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
le is somewhat dated, but illustrates one such instance:* **http://tinyurl.com/3qjtj82 That's pretty old too but to me seems much less worthwhile reading. In any case, I would say that both of those references are too old to be of much real use to any argument today. -- Kind Regards Andre

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
roup of options. Perhaps that can help you? -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

2011-04-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
s odd that you can't use: \\server\share\file or //server/share/file [although the second option seemed more likely] -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

2011-04-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
t;non-free"~i!~M' i gawk-doc- Documentation for GNU awk -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: Command history

2011-04-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
26c6 - # echo fr3d sm17h w@s @ h3r0 0nc3 Up0n @ 71m3|sha512sum 1bc9a23b486bba1a259ca9162d87c0a8ae415c91e05fedcbb5e8da47a9fd741418389ebd8e2fad2a1d89f630c003067c7424dc3389de29399c77e18674548331 - With the EOF exampls, "history" only stores the first line. This is different to using line cont

Re: bash prompt \W (working dir) garbled

2011-04-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
1;32m\]\h\[\033[1;37m\]:\[\033[1;31m\]\w\[\033[1;36m\]\[\033[1;37m\] ]\n\$ \[\033[0m\] \[\033];$1\u@\h:\w\007\]' else export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' fi -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: FullHD notebook support under Debian (sid)

2011-04-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
e might be good for you or not and it's customization options are important to consider as much as the make / model to start with. [1] http://communitylinux.org/node/235 -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: uninstall Debian 6

2011-04-30 Thread Andrew McGlashan
back to Windows 7 only, then you can consider reclaiming the disk partitions with "windows run box --> diskmgmt.msc" and reformat them as NTFS drive(s). Cheers -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Knoppix and debian

2011-05-03 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Alex Mestiashvili wrote: run from time to time update-pciids Is that something to do in old stable as well? I just checked cron jobs and nothing is there to do this. -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including VoIP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: /etc/resolv.conf file is empty

2011-05-08 Thread Andrew McGlashan
er you configure it properly or you remove it. Choose your poison :-) Unless I am mistaken, rc means . "removed, but still has config files". These I remove "properly" with: aptitude purge ... -- Kind Regards AndrewM Andrew McGlashan Broadband Solutions now including Vo

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