Re: Am I getting USB 2.0 speed?

2005-08-25 Thread Jon Dowland
VT82x uhci 1.1 controllers, and 1 VIA USB 2.0 (this one seems to never be used). Why is that? Maybe the USB ports are all wired up to the UHCI controllers. Seems weird, but possible. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238

Re: upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

2005-08-25 Thread Jon Dowland
? apt-get install kernel-2.6, for stable in unstable (and poss.testing) renamed to sometihng else, do dpkg -l '*kernel*' -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-25 Thread Jon Dowland
- 5 years is a long time, but if the code is written and there we can only hope it won't take much longer for the mozilla guys to make a decision. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Apache Groups

2005-08-25 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:16:08PM -0400, Gallagher Timothy-TIMOTHYG wrote: When you install apache using apt on Debian Sarg 3.1 what groups are created?? www-data, afaik. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238

Re: hacked: can't delete files

2005-08-27 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:08:22PM -0700, Jason Edson wrote: Didnt you post this like a week ago and get answers? Just curious if my mail reader is acting up. Indeed I see the message and quite a few replies on Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:06:24 +1200. -- Jon Dowland http

wordpress (was Re: FW: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?)

2005-08-28 Thread Jon Dowland
/275814 2) http://blog.php-security.org/archives/7-WordPress-update.html, specifically update 2. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

blog front-end (was Re: FW: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?)

2005-08-28 Thread Jon Dowland
to actually use modern computer technology to aid people who are eager to use and promote Debian software? Using it for the sake of it - no. There'd have to be a demonstratably good reason to do so, above and beyond trying to be fashionable and keeping up with the current craze. -- Jon Dowland

Re: FW: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-29 Thread Jon Dowland
of the time), then having a very large terminal makes a big difference too. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ FD35 0B0A C6DD 5D91 DB7A 83D1 168B 4E71 7032 F238 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gmane (Was: Wordpress)

2005-08-31 Thread Jon Dowland
to suggest should rather than can - if you can find the time to rant on this list, you should spare at least the same amount of time ranting productively :) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian Laptop problem and guide repository.

2005-08-31 Thread Jon Dowland
be a good idea. [1] http://jon.dowland.name/unix/linux/evo_n1015v/ -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: non-determinate program execution in perl

2005-08-31 Thread Jon Dowland
a scalar, hence '$'. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RH - Debian migration breaks CGI script under Apache

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
, -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
:) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:43:32PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: besides the publication of that link was a bit fast, that site doesn't work at all... or maybe its my flash implementation that is no new/old I don't think that's the site.. I think it's a parking page. -- Jon Dowland http

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Jon Dowland
a google I'm Feeling Lucky or similar. There is no IP address associated with the host 'www.debain-laptop.org' -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Prelinking

2005-09-02 Thread Jon Dowland
a negative impact with prelink. If you did, you would need to re-install the packages which own all the binaries that it modified, to completely reverse it's effects. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Prelinking

2005-09-02 Thread Jon Dowland
have had other things run through them. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: changing window managers

2005-09-05 Thread Jon Dowland
, respectively. If you have a ~/.xsession file, you may have specified a window manager in it. Otherwise, odds are the symlink from /usr/bin/x-window-manager is being used. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Help!

2005-09-06 Thread Jon Dowland
of these queries recently. Does that suggest the installation process needs to be adjusted slightly, to combat the assumption a GUI environment is installed by default? Or should we be pushing for people to read the installation docs before going ahead with it? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-20 Thread Jon Dowland
Have you tried searching the list archives? There is already a lot of coverage for this set of questions. Also, your subject-line is very likely to provoke a flamewar. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: i810 and vesa drivers..

2006-04-24 Thread Jon Dowland
When starting a new thread on debian-user, please do not reply to an existing message. If you do this, your message will be hidden within the threaded discussion for the old message, and may be passed over or missed by a large number of subscribers. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org

Re: port forwarding problem. Probably easy if you know how.

2006-04-24 Thread Jon Dowland
and can't be probed automatically, the command you utter will fail to the terminal as you type it, not just silently not work. Or perhaps it has done, and you just haven't provided us with the messages. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-25 Thread Jon Dowland
, but I wouldn't mind if it is going to the abuse address of an arbitrary isp. After all, they're only responsible for their own infrastructure. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-25 Thread Jon Dowland
than buying a new one. However I expect you will find one cheap enough to save you the effort. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: thunderbird

2006-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1165531196 past the epoch, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote: Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 22:39:56 +0330 Please fix the time on your computer: It is not December '06 :) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: ssh via inetd the Debian way

2006-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
, an imapd and mysql in that space however. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
in this kind of detail: http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/startup.php. KDM calls startkde which calls kdeinit which is the magic X process and spawns most of everything else. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: GNOME login fails

2006-04-26 Thread Jon Dowland
or ~/.gnome2). -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)

2006-04-27 Thread Jon Dowland
be an equivalent to gdm's Default system session that executes $HOME/.xsession . -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-28 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1146138645 past the epoch, Mike McCarty wrote: Jon Dowland wrote: If you have an ethernet patch cable already and want to save some money, you could get the schematic for a crossover and rewire it rather than buying a new one. However I expect you will find one cheap enough to save you

Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1146225401 past the epoch, Mike McCarty wrote: Err, I'd rather report it to the ISP of the originator, if it's really truly patently and deliberately offensive. Fair enough, but why copy the list in? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: escape a string literal for use with regex?

2006-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
= $dict{$key}; print :0\n*^TO\Q$reexp\E\n\$MAILDIR/$key/\n\n; You could try something like TMPSUBJECT=`formail -zxSubject:` SUBJECT=`perl -e 'print \Q$TMPSUBJECT\E;'` -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Problems installing Debian on old laptop

2006-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
about the first? If this list doesn't help, there is a debian list specifically for laptop issues called debian-laptop that may be of use. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: thinkpad suspend/resume woes

2006-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
-and-error you could use this to unload it before suspending. I'd then urge you to report it to the kernel bugzilla if it isn't already :) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-09 Thread Jon Dowland
rather than sarge - etch. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian menu not updating and a few games issues

2006-05-10 Thread Jon Dowland
-carrying application are you using (e.g. gnome-panel)? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: testing upgrade = dog's breakfast

2006-05-11 Thread Jon Dowland
informative. If you don't like the wording or attitude of a poster, just don't reply to them. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [desktop][netinst]How can i choose a kde as a default?

2006-05-18 Thread Jon Dowland
task that are not depended on by the kde package (e.g. xserver-xfree86). -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel modules stupid question

2006-05-22 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148251289 past the epoch, Leon wrote: Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: with lsmod I see the modules loaded, but what should I type in order to see what options they were loaded with? Take a look through /proc/modules. Is the information you want present there? -- Jon Dowland http

Re: switching games between fullscreen and window

2006-05-22 Thread Jon Dowland
subsystem with the new video mode, so it isn't something that can be easily shoehorned onto an existing game. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Parallelizing fetchmail

2006-05-22 Thread Jon Dowland
whilst fetchmail waits. If anyone hacks this out I'd be interested in the patch. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache and ASP pages

2006-05-22 Thread Jon Dowland
. Asp.net can be run on Apache. Asp not .net, I do not know. There is a mono package in etch (1.1.13.6-4); specifically you would want libapache2-mod-mono (1.1.13-1): http://packages.debian.org/testing/web/libapache2-mod-mono -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Kernel modules stupid question (solved)

2006-05-22 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148299046 past the epoch, Marco wrote: klatt-st ha scritto: have a look at /sys/module/*/parameters. Thanks for that, very informative... -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel: make gconfig gtk problem

2006-05-22 Thread Jon Dowland
: libglade2-0, version: 1:2.5.1-2 libgtk2.0-dev, version: 2.6.8-1 libglib2.0-dev, version: 2.6.5-1 So what can be the problem ??? Do you have libglade2-dev ? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Ipw2200 on Debian Etch

2006-05-22 Thread Jon Dowland
latest from ipw2200.sf.net. I use a kernel = 2.6.14 and ipw2200 is part of the mainline kernel from then on, so installation/modules version irrelevant for me. It looks like linux-image-2.6.686 is version 2.6.16-8 right now, and should have ipw2200 built in. Have you tried that kernel? -- Jon

Re: eterm / gnome window position

2006-05-23 Thread Jon Dowland
on the upper left corner, second on upper right, etc. Any ideas how one can do that? That would be the responsibility of your window manager. If your current window manager doesn't offer that functionality, there almost certainly is one that does, somewhere :-) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org

Re: utf problem with mutt

2006-05-23 Thread Jon Dowland
of the vim alternative for editor to something very low. see man 8 update-alternatives. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: switching games between fullscreen and window

2006-05-23 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148347889 past the epoch, lee wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 11:19:33AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: Off the top of my head, the program must call SDL_Quit and re-initialise the SDL subsystem with the new video mode, so it isn't something that can be easily shoehorned onto an existing

Re: Figuring out Why Standards are there.

2006-05-23 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148332367 past the epoch, Clive Menzies wrote: On (22/05/06 11:38), Greg Folkert wrote: snip 121 lines Great answer! !grep '^'|wc -l 120 !wc -l 194 62% :( Please trim your quotes. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: eterm / gnome window position

2006-05-24 Thread Jon Dowland
/devilspie Some combination of this (which is available as a debian package) and the geometry strings someone else listed might do what you want. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: utf problem with mutt

2006-05-24 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1148378437 past the epoch, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: edit the link in /etc/alternatives so that editor points to vim instead of nano. That'll still get zapped on upgrade if nano carries a lower priority (which it seems to). -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: utf problem with mutt

2006-05-24 Thread Jon Dowland
[pushing the discussion back on-list] At 1148408048 past the epoch, Bruno Boettcher wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 04:06:57PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: I do have some issues, however, using this underneath a screen session. ehm i am exactly under a screen session since i migrate quite

Re: [desktop][netinst]How can i choose a kde as a default?

2006-05-25 Thread Jon Dowland
mix of stuff that they want, while those in the first camp could potentially be confused by a multitude of different desktop options. [1] this is my interpretation, however. I'm not putting words in their mouths :) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: compile firefox.

2006-05-25 Thread Jon Dowland
. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install jdk1.5?

2006-05-25 Thread Jon Dowland
, libraries, alternatives, etc. And most importantly, satisfy the jre dependency for other java packages in Debian, which using the .bin file yourself into /usr/local will not. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?

2006-05-25 Thread Jon Dowland
://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-runlevels But perhaps it is not explicit enough. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: running backup

2006-05-31 Thread Jon Dowland
not work. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debina Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-05-31 Thread Jon Dowland
images directly in this manner, as it is prone to failure (as we can see here). A far better means is to use jigdo as described at http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/. This is more reliable and often faster. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-01 Thread Jon Dowland
with stable, keep an eye on the debian-security list and backport anything that you really need (which should be very little). -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: simple web blog software in sid

2006-06-01 Thread Jon Dowland
, security, etc. are rather at odds with Debian's. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LAN

2006-06-02 Thread Jon Dowland
and file transfer out-of-the-box and a rough-and-ready remote filesystem with sshfs. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-02 Thread Jon Dowland
it is significantly better than it has been in the past, thanks to the testing security team (who, iirc, also cover sid). ~ vim: set ft=mail tw=70 sw=2 sts=2 et: ^^ interesting idea, I think I shall borrow it :) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mangled $PATH

2006-06-05 Thread Jon Dowland
export) that might shed some light. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DSA 1073-1

2006-06-06 Thread Jon Dowland
/20060527T210821Z.html Further investigation required. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DSA 1073-1

2006-06-06 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1149609251 past the epoch, Jon Dowland wrote: Good question. I don't know, but investigating suggests that it has been removed from testing anyway, due to not being present in unstable: http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mysql-dfsg-4.1/news/20060527T210821Z.html Further investigation

Re: DSA 1073-1

2006-06-06 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1149609423 past the epoch, Jon Dowland wrote: Dropped on request of maintainer as it has been superseded by 5.*. And here's the bug number I forgot to quote: http://bugs.debian.org/356752 -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: apache2 - restrict download with password

2006-06-07 Thread Jon Dowland
. [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#location [2] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#directory -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is Debian 64-bit iso image?

2006-06-07 Thread Jon Dowland
to list the locations and provide sums (sha1 or md5) for the files you did download. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

2006-06-08 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1149759444 past the epoch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only reason I used a swap partition on at least one of my machines is that the installer refused to proceed unless I created a swap partition. The debian-installer? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Target filesystem

2006-06-09 Thread Jon Dowland
to knoppix and mount said filesystem, are sbin/init and /bin/sh present? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: procmail postprocess directory in Maildir format howto?

2006-06-09 Thread Jon Dowland
this: for dir in cur new; do find $INPUTMAILDIR/$dir -type f | while read file; do procmail $file mv $file $PROCESSED/$dir # or: rm $file done done For suitable values of $INPUTMAILDIR, $PROCESSED. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: thunderbird

2006-06-10 Thread Jon Dowland
if it says it's from the dark ages. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Protecting against spoofing with IPTABLES

2005-06-30 Thread Jon Dowland
.. that's an infinite loop. However in that fragment you don't specify any way of getting into the SPOOF table so nothing will happen. Default policy for INPUT,FORWARD and OUTPUT are ACCEPT, so the four rules above result in nothing. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/

Re: Need help securing mail server: already got hacked.

2005-07-01 Thread Jon Dowland
in your quest to reverse 10 years of media misappropriation of the term 'hacker', and I hope that the confusion of using the term hacker with people not in the know (i.e. everyone else) does not result in too much stigma for yourself. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/

Re: what programe like chconfig as in redhat

2005-07-01 Thread Jon Dowland
does not differentiate between runlevels 2-5. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-system.en.html#s-runlevels -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/

Re: Changing debian/rules == failure

2005-07-01 Thread Jon Dowland
with this specific patch, but I would suggest that if it appears non-critical, you could remove it from the patches dir and just do without. I think you are on the right track wrt to your approach to customisation. Maybe it's worth filing a bug? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/

Re: torrents

2005-07-01 Thread Jon Dowland
posts to techie lists, automatically generated for god knows what nefarious purposes. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/

Re: mutt sucks

2005-09-07 Thread Jon Dowland
with the situation where a message sent is to multiple recipients, some of whom you have keys for and some of whom you do not, though. In that situation, it'd be pointless to encrypt the message for anyone, since it would be going out on-the-clear at some point. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name

Re: Apache, php, xml

2005-09-08 Thread Jon Dowland
the package with XML support. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Jon Dowland
-laptop archives for discussion of problems etc. on various laptop models. You may also find http://www.linux-laptop.net/ useful. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:55:14AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: A fairly good ML is available f?r Thinkpads: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad Yes, and a good wiki too: http://thinkwiki.org/ -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Jon Dowland
to do was manually setup my wifi card and the scroll button for the trackpoint device. Ubuntu Is Not Debian. Well, it's close enough for this chap's reply to be useful. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Precompiled kernels - batteries included.

2005-09-11 Thread Jon Dowland
looking for, why not harness the debian kernel infrastructure, so that these modules are handled by make-kpkg? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get security updates, but not other packages?

2005-09-11 Thread Jon Dowland
a non-sarge entry in your sources.list, then non-desirable stuff might creep into upgradable packages. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: device file permissions the debian way

2005-09-17 Thread Jon Dowland
of the `groups' command to be sure. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to use mailing lists

2005-09-19 Thread Jon Dowland
the mailing list, using a threaded mail reader (such as mutt or thunderbird) and filtering mail from the list into it's own folder, are two ways you can improve your experience. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-20 Thread Jon Dowland
all this on their own without all that fancy reprogramming Debian did. Perhaps these changes to httpd configuration actually make httpd run more efficiently (less information being included at certain times)? code consolidation = efficiency. I very much doubt it. -- Jon Dowland http

Re: Apache2: httpd.conf or apache2.conf?

2005-09-20 Thread Jon Dowland
you need only remember /etc/apache2 as the location for the debian packages. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: configuring muttrc

2005-09-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:50:28PM +, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: Precisely what information do I need to get a working mutt for Debian 3.1? Once I get it working I think I can tailor it for my needs. It should work out-of-the-box. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Deskop performance

2005-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
-in modules for hardware you don't have (although it seems most stock kernels are very modular these days - you could shed some ATA/SCSI lld fat I expect). If you are confident enough, patch in inotify and use gamin instead of famd (assuming you are going to have famd on your desktop - most likely). -- Jon

Re: Repackaging with different compile options.

2005-09-23 Thread Jon Dowland
to the ./configure call, probably under the configure: rule somewhere $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us install the resulting .deb that appears in .. with dpkg: # dpkg -i ../squid*deb or similar mark it as 'hold' in aptitude HTH -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Deskop performance

2005-09-23 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:57:14AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Jon Dowland schrieb: could shed some ATA/SCSI lld fat I expect). If you are confident enough, patch in inotify and use gamin instead of famd (assuming you are going to have famd on your desktop - most likely). This won't help

Re: How can I install Opera?

2005-09-27 Thread Jon Dowland
(0x4140e000) I shall look into filing a bug on opera. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can I install Opera?

2005-09-27 Thread Jon Dowland
: No such file or directory libstdc++5 is a dependency of libqt so you almost certainly had that installed. ldd seems to suggest for me that opera will work with libstdc++5. I have not experienced problems although I have both 5 and 6 installed. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name

Re: Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 3049)

2005-09-29 Thread Jon Dowland
interface. Bug in the chkrootkit or in the cfs ? Killing cfsd makes report clear,but i suppose it is not a solution . chkrootkit, but I'm not sure a false positive qualifies as a bug. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: login, path and ~/.profile

2005-09-30 Thread Jon Dowland
whether it's interactive or a login shell or whatever, I create ~/.bash_both and source it from whichever other dot files are appropriate. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to start php

2005-10-02 Thread Jon Dowland
using apache2, libapache2-mod-php5 should be all he needs. Check /usr/share/doc/apache2 to find out how the apache2 package handles modules. It will need to be enabled using this method (I believe there's a script in the package to do this). Maybe a dpkg-reconfigure would trigger it. -- Jon Dowland

Re: SSH attack

2005-10-03 Thread Jon Dowland
in and learn how to prevent it in future. If it's too much work to create one, you'll just have to write it off. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME other menu

2005-10-03 Thread Jon Dowland
menu heirarchy, that is relegated to 'Debian Menu', in the GNOME shipped with sarge, at least. I'm hoping that the GNOME menu will be better integrated into debian for Etch (not just hoping, but hoping to have time to work on making it so :) ) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name

Re: apache2 mod_perl sarge not working

2005-10-03 Thread Jon Dowland
. That is, you either want mod_perl to handle your perl scripts, or CGI, but not both. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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