Re: [Hampshire] debian unstable vs ubuntu server

2011-12-30 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:40:26PM +, john lewis wrote: I have been running Debian unstable on my main system with no serious problems for more than 5 years. It isn't any problem to maintain Eep! Please don't run Debian unstable unless like John you know what you're doing and you're

Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian

2011-11-06 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:14:43PM +, Robin Wilson wrote: I have been trying to upgrade packages on my Debian installation using apt-get upgrade. When I ran that the first time it downloaded all of the packages and installed a number of them, before crashing saying that dpkg returned an

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-23 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:22:17PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: Is there a way to have ls -l update in real time? You could just run: watch ls -l (as long as the output isn't bigger than your terminal that would probably do what you want) -- Simon [ hug...@earth.li ] *\ Engage

Re: [Hampshire] SPF Best Practice

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 09:28:28PM -, Martin A. Brooks wrote: On Wed, February 3, 2010 11:43 am, Daniel Pope wrote: Do any mailserver admins have any advice about SPF? It's not totally useless. [..] antibodyMX does not use SPF records _at all_ as part of the filtering process. You don't

Re: [Hampshire] Any Debian developers at Febs meeting?

2010-02-03 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:46:16PM +, Anton Piatek wrote: On 2 February 2010 10:26, Adrian Bridgett adr...@smop.co.uk wrote: On Tue, Feb  2, 2010 at 10:02:20 + (+), Simon Huggins wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:40:17AM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: If there are any Debian

Re: [Hampshire] Any Debian developers at Febs meeting?

2010-02-02 Thread Simon Huggins
Hi, On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:40:17AM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: If there are any Debian developers who wouldn't mind signing my GPG key I'd really appreciate it. It's a tad frustrating not being able to contribute (long story). Sure, where are you based? I live in Reading. --

Re: [Hampshire] Packaging help needed

2010-01-14 Thread Simon Huggins
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:20:17PM -, Stephen Pelc wrote: rant Linux is getting more like Windows. More users? Surely a good thing. A development box was upgraded from Kubuntu 9.04 to 9.10, and now our rpm packaging scripts are broken. Oops. Next time, you might want to stage the

Re: [Hampshire] Email return-to-sender - who has dropped what where?

2009-11-03 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:12:30AM +, Victor Churchill wrote: The script wants to send the message to b...@hughes-energy.com (Names left of the '@' changed. I have left the domain name unsanitized) The failure msg looks like this: bo...@h-ems.com: Host or domain name not found. Name

Re: [Hampshire] Debian to Ubuntu, without complete reinstall?

2009-08-09 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:52:19AM +0100, Anton Piatek wrote: 2009/8/7 David Ramsden da...@0wned.it: But I didn't have a bootable system afterwards :( Not sure why. It just can't find the HDD drives and hangs on waiting for root system (can't remember the exact message now). Seems like the

Re: [Hampshire] Is anybody here using puppet?

2009-08-09 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +0100, Simon Strange wrote: Does anybody use puppet? Have any tips/recipes they'd care to share? We use it at work. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I see the benefits but never quite have enough time to make our config pretty and easy to use. The

Re: [Hampshire] Mailing List Bahaviour

2009-04-28 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:43:14PM +0100, Hants LUG Chairman wrote: I think the recent mailing list behaviour has got out of hand and we need to stop and think for a few seconds. Indeed. 1) Most people are happy if a few jobs are posted now and then to the list, as long as they are real

Re: [Hampshire] JOB: Permanent or Contract Linux Ops Engineer (MySQL Database Specialist) | LOCATION: Reading, Berkshire

2009-04-03 Thread Simon Huggins
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:52:57PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: On Fri Apr 03, 2009 at 12:54:04 +0100, j...@camalyn.org wrote: hi, as I have not yet managed to find someone for the job also shown below I'm consequently re-posting. I think there comes a point when you either admit defeat, or

Re: [Hampshire] Which Perl Modules

2009-02-24 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:46:58AM -0800, Tim Henley wrote: I need to install DataBase interface Perl Modules DBI and DBD::mysql on my Debian Lenny based system but there are several packages with those terms in them and I can't work out which ones are the ones I need. I can download them from

Re: [Hampshire] Bad GPG signatures

2009-01-08 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 08:38:41PM +, Dr Adam Trickett wrote: On Wednesday 07 Jan 2009, Simon Huggins wrote: I have the same results as Chris Smith but with gpg 1.4.6. It's very odd that different people see the good/bad results inverted. Simon's email cam up as Not enough information

Re: [Hampshire] Bad GPG signatures

2009-01-07 Thread Simon Huggins
) This is good on gpg 1.4.9 (my desktop), but bad on gpg 1.4.6 (my server). Adam, Andy -- what versions of gpg are you using? I have the same results as Chris Smith but with gpg 1.4.6. It's very odd that different people see the good/bad results inverted. -- Simon Huggins \ will-h the seat on my

[Hampshire] MS Bashing Re: Don't tell Bill

2008-12-06 Thread Simon Huggins
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 10:04:27AM +, Alan Bell wrote: Anyone who wants to do some promotional activity of Free/Open Source software can join in. Design and make your own Don't tell Bill thing - it could be anything, Sorry is this just a Microsoft-bashing list these days? I didn't think

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN] November Meeting and beyond

2008-11-05 Thread Simon Huggins
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:18:23PM -, Damian Brasher wrote: Andy Smith wrote: If possible I would be interested in Stephen's Puppet talk; What is Puppet? I'd guess they mean http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet -- --( Cardinal Fang! Fetch... the comfy chair! - )--

Re: [Hampshire] Swap versus RAM size (was: I just have to tell someone...)

2008-10-28 Thread Simon Huggins
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:57:43PM +, Alan Pope wrote: 2008/10/27 Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Paging in 20GB of swap means your system performance is already going to be pants. Or dead. I'm all for nor falling over since you are a _little_ tight on memory, but really if you