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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2307

Today's Topics: 

  can't play Flash anymore              [ Steve Kleene  ]
  Re: crontab -e                        [ Raquel  ]
  Re: crontab -e                        [ Raquel  ]
  Re: Grub boot of new install.         [ "Douglas A. Tutty"  ]
  Help                                  [ Mostafijur Rahman  ]
  Re: can't play Flash anymore          [ Steve Kleene  ]
  Re: can't play Flash anymore          [ "Andrew J. Barr"  ]
  Thinking about devoting a serious pa  [ blues  ]
  Re: Thinking about devoting a seriou  [ Amit Uttamchandani  ]
  s.m.a.r.t problem                     [ michael@estone.ca ]
  Re: Thinking about devoting a seriou  [ Ron Johnson  ]
  IndoeBooks.Com Koleksi eBooks Murah   [ IndoeBooks Admin  ]

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:19:28 -0400
From: Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: can't play Flash anymore 

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Do you need help?X

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On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:13:11 -0400, I wrote:

> I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash
> recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month.

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:50:22 -0400, sfreilly@roadrunner.com replied:

Do you need more help?X

> what usually works for me is to unistall and reinstall

I did the following:
  apt-get remove flashplayer-mozilla libflash-mozplugin libflash0c2   apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla libflash-mozplugin libflash0c2

but still have the problem. Thanks for the suggestion. Did you mean for me to reinstall more than just flash?

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:22:28 -0700
From: Raquel <raquel@thericehouse.net>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: crontab -e 

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I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command   #crontab -e
I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor. How do I change what gets used? 

-- 
Raquel
============================================================
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at
least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
  --Rene Descartes

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:38:03 -0700 From: Raquel <raquel@thericehouse.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: crontab -e Message-Id: <20070903173803.46e91354.raquel@thericehouse.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:24:16 +0200 Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> wrote:
> Hi Raquel.
>
> Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22:
> > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command
> > #crontab -e
> > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim
> > editor. How do I change what gets used?
>
> Set the EDITOR environment variable in the config file of your
> preferred shell. (~/.bashrc for Bash)
>
>
> Regards, Mathias
>
> --
> debian/rules
>
>
Hmmm, I thought it was configured using the update-alternatives system. However, when I run (as root): #update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim I get an error: #update-alternatives: Cannot find alternative `/usr/bin/vim'. -- Raquel ============================================================ Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. --Alexander Hamilton

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:43:44 -0700 From: Raquel <raquel@thericehouse.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: crontab -e Message-Id: <20070903174344.1cb4d8be.raquel@thericehouse.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 02:32:39 +0200 "Jan C. Nordholz" <jckn@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Raquel, 04.09.2007 02:22:
> > > I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command
> > > #crontab -e
> > > I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim
> > > editor. How do I change what gets used?
> >
> > Set the EDITOR environment variable in the config file of your
> > preferred shell. (~/.bashrc for Bash)
>
> Or, if you want to change the system-wide default, run (as root)
>
> ] update-alternatives --config editor
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jan
>
Thank you! This worked like a charm. -- Raquel ============================================================ Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. --Alexander Hamilton

Can we help you?X

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:44:31 -0400 From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Grub boot of new install. Message-ID: <20070904004431.GA13225@titan.hooton> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:27:56PM -0700, john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
> On Sep 3, 4:00 pm, "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtu...@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 11:29:08AM -0700, j...@wexfordpress.com wrote:
> > > Both Debian and Ubuntu show this peculiar trait. When I boot and
> > > select the first choice from the grub menu the OS goes into a loop. I
> > > sign on and then it does another hard boot ultimaely preenting me the
> > > rub menu again. . But the single user boot seems to work. However it
> > > is as advertised, just single user.
> >

> Ah a wierd solution. I found that the usb plug for my scanner was half
> in and half out. (I just replaced some hardware.) When I seated it
> properly the boot process righted itself. Onward and upward!
>
I'm curious, were there no error messages to the screen or to a log, or does this cause an error at the BIOS level? Good catch in any case. Doug.

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:46:30 -0400 From: "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: crontab -e Message-ID: <20070904004630.GB13225@titan.hooton> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:22:28PM -0700, Raquel wrote:
> I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command
> #crontab -e
> I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor.
> How do I change what gets used?
Do you have an EDITOR environment variable set? The man page says that it follows EDITOR or VISUAL if set. If not, it likely follows sensible-editor which is part of the debian alternatives system. Doug.

Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:40:49 -0400 From: steve <sfreilly@roadrunner.com> To: List Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: can't play Flash anymore Message-ID: <46DCB7A1.1050409@roadrunner.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve Kleene wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:13:11 -0400, I wrote:
>
>
>> I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash >> recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month. >> >
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:50:22 -0400, sfreilly@roadrunner.com replied:
>
>
>> what usually works for me is to unistall and reinstall >> >
> I did the following:
> apt-get remove flashplayer-mozilla libflash-mozplugin libflash0c2
> apt-get install flashplayer-mozilla libflash-mozplugin libflash0c2
>
> but still have the problem. Thanks for the suggestion. Did you mean for me
> to reinstall more than just flash?
> >
>
does it work in firefox? and have you tried the below or using automatix? sorry, dont have a direct answer, dont use x alot on etch. debian:/# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:43:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Mostafijur Rahman <mostafijur_embedded@yahoo.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Help Message-ID: <100205.53213.qm@web63708.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1767509975-1188870222=:53213" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --0-1767509975-1188870222=:53213 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Im new in Debian.I install Debian from my ISO CD.But I got only Text m= ode.How I can get GUI mode? Please feedback me step by step.It will be = better for me.=20 =20 Thanks from mostafij =20 --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games.=20 --0-1767509975-1188870222=:53213 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello<br> Im new in Debian.I install Debian from my ISO CD.But I got&nbsp= ; only&nbsp; Text mode.How I can get&nbsp; GUI&nbsp; mode? Please feedbac= k me step by step.It will be better for me. <br> <br> Thanks from mostafi= j<br><p>&#32; <hr size=3D1>Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their = life, your story.<br> <a href=3D"http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=3D48224/*http= ://sims.yahoo.com/">Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. </a> --0-1767509975-1188870222=:53213--

Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:53:19 -0400 From: "Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem Message-id: <46DCBA8F.5020607@tomgeorge.info> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Benjamin A'Lee wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:52:12AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
>
>> Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >>> >>> >>>> In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root >>>> with 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with 731 permissions. >>>> I changed the permissions to 777 but this did not correct the problem. I >>>> still got exim: permission denied when I executed mailq as user tom. >>>> mailq works for root. >>>> >>>> >>> OK, I meant su;mailq or sudo mailq. >>> >>> You should be able to run mailq as root. Otherwise, you have a >>> problem. For me, it's just a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/exim4. >>> >>> Kumar >>> In man update-exim4.conf an example reads "You want to be able to check exim's queue as a normal user: Generate a new file, e.g. /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/40_local_mailq, containing only the line queue_list_requires_admin = false. I did this and still the command mailq as a normal user results in exim:permission denied. Tom >>> >>> >> strace -e trace=open,write mailq run from user tom exits after >> >> open ("/etc/passwd >> write(2, "exim: permission denied >> >> If I run /etc/init.d/exim4 restart I get a warning that the exim4 paniclog >> is not empty. tail/var/exim4/paniclog ends with "failed to read delivery >> status for tom@dragon.zoo from the delivery subprocess. >> >> I have tried editing exim4.conf.template and uncommenting the Login lines >> in the Authentication section and entering my user name and password after >> the colons in the server_promts line. This does not solve the problem. >> >
> Firstly, IIRC, Exim4 has its own ideas about who can run it as
> /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/sbin/exim; you'd need to run it as root or
> find the setting to permit other users to run the commands. This isn't a
> problem for Fetchmail, though, as Fetchmail is trying to connect to a
> mailserver running on the local machine, port 25. Fetchmail's problem is
> that Exim isn't configured to run as a server, so it has no idea what to
> do with the mail it's fetching. You need to either configure Exim to
> listen on port 25, or configure Fetchmail to deliver to a program such
> as procmail; the second option is probably better all round, unless
> fetchmail is downloading mail for more than one local user.
>
> Ben
>

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 03:09:10 +0100 From: Graham <doubleyou@loftmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: crontab -e Message-ID: <20070904030910.6b5bd80c@pluto.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:38:03 -0700 Raquel <raquel@thericehouse.net> wrote:
> Hmmm, I thought it was configured using the update-alternatives
> system. However, when I run (as root):
> #update-alternatives --set editor /usr/bin/vim
> I get an error:
> #update-alternatives: Cannot find alternative `/usr/bin/vim'.
Use "#update-alternatives --set editor /usr/vim/vim.basic". Alternatively, use "#update-alternatives --config editor" to get the interactive configuration. Graham

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 22:13:45 -0400 From: Steve Kleene <skdeb@syrano.acb.uc.edu> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: can't play Flash anymore Message-ID: <1054_31632_1188872025_1@syrano.acb.uc.edu> Content-ID: <1054_31632_1188872025_2@syrano.acb.uc.edu> Content-type: text/plaintext On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 17:13:11 -0400, I wrote:
> I'm quite perplexed. I have two Etch machines, and on each of them, Flash
> recently stopped working. It worked on both within the past month.
On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:40:49 -0400, sfreilly@roadrunner.com replied:
> does it work in firefox?
>
> and have you tried the below or using automatix? sorry, dont have a
> direct answer, dont use x alot on etch.
>
> debian:/# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
This is all in iceweasel. I have not tried the install you suggested. It appears that flashplugin-nonfree is version 9.0.31.0.1, which is older than flashplayer-mozilla (9.0.48.0-0.2). I did try the latest version at the Adobe download site (9.0.48.0), but that didn't help. I just noticed something interesting. If I go to http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download under Windows, I see that they are offering version 10.2.0.023. If I go from Linux, they have 9.0.48.0. I think v10 has been around for a few months, but the problem is less than a month old. But it may be that the sites I can't bring up have moved to a format that v9 can't play. On the other hand, I'm not hearing that other Etch users are having problems (at youtube, for example).

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 07:57:34 +0530 From: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help Message-ID: <20070904022734.GA9029@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:43:42PM -0700, Mostafijur Rahman wrote:
> Hello
> Im new in Debian.I install Debian from my ISO CD.But I got only Text mode.How I can get GUI mode? Please feedback me step by step.It will be better for me.
You can just type "installgui" at the boot prompt, and it will boot into the GUI mode. Please read the Debian Installer manual fully to know the full steps to set Debian up. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

Can't find what you're looking for?X

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 22:57:38 -0400 From: "Andrew J. Barr" <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com> To: steve <sfreilly@roadrunner.com> Cc: "List Debian User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: can't play Flash anymore Message-ID: <903e17bb0709031957n99e606egcec641b2743db8c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/3/07, steve <sfreilly@roadrunner.com> wrote:
> does it work in firefox?
>
> and have you tried the below or using automatix?
Automatix has a bad reputation among distribution developers. I don't know the full story but I suspect it's a lot like the way the Wine developers despised WineTools. Users, particularly newbies, loved it because it provided an easy way to install common Windows applications like Internet Explorer and have them Just Work. The developers hated it because, among other things, it installed a ton of native DLLs and was otherwise very invasive. Wine's builtin DLLs have vastly improved in recent years, and WineTools was masking these improvements and in some cases causing bugs fixed in the builtin DLLs to persist because people were using native DLLs.
> sorry, dont have a
> direct answer, dont use x alot on etch.
>
> debian:/# apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
I was having a similar problem and I switched to flashplayer-mozilla from debian-multimedia.org. I don't know if it was the reinstall or the package switch that did it.

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 22:42:57 -0400 From: Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Aptitude behaving strangely Message-Id: <20070903224257.88716ff2.celejar@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:46:15 -0400 Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com> wrote:
> Celejar(celejar@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My aptitude (uptodate Sid) has been behaving rather strangely lately. When doing updates, it seems to always hang for long periods of time while displaying the line:
> >
> > 99% [5 Packages 4308]
> >
> > or similar. No processor, network or HDD usage seems to be occurring.
> > It subsequently generally finishes okay, although I'm not sure it is
> > always completing the update successfully (all packages I have manually
> > checked against p.d.o seem to be at the latest version, but I haven't
> > been very systematic about it). It also seems to be overall more
> > sluggish and erratic. I know this is very vague and unhelpful, but I
> > was just wondering if anyone has been seeing anything like this. I've
> > tried playing with sources.list, but I get similar results no matter
> > which mirror I use (I've only tried a few), and even with apt-get.
> >
> Yes. Started yesterday, here. I tried again then morning and it was
> still hanging at 12 PM EST when I finally was able to finish the upgrade.
>
> Wayne
I don't seem to have it quite as bad as you; my updates often do finish (I sometimes kill them and just try again) after mysteriously hanging for a couple of minutes. Today I did a (possibly) successful one and pulled in about 64MB of upgrades. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator

Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:13:03 -0000 From: blues <bluesbravo@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux... Message-ID: <1188875583.860538.93130@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I would really love to become a good sys admin; linux is very interesting to me as a popular alternative to the crap business model of MS.....i like the idea of using free software to monitor and protect a network, and I hope to make a career out of it...does anyone have any tips as to what i should concentrate on? Is debian a good distro to learn if I want to one day run a corporate network?

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 04:27:57 +0000 (UTC) From: Amit Uttamchandani <amit.uttam@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux... Message-ID: <loom.20070904T062137-721@post.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Linux and Open Source in general are definitely the future. First step will be to use Linux full time as your main system. I recently started using Debian Etch full time and I have definitely learned so much more. There is always something new that you will learn everyday. Next step would be to read up on how linux works. Great place to start would be the /usr/shar/doc/FAQ and HOWTO directories. I guarantee you if you read every single document there, you will a linux guru in no time. Then finally of course, would be to play around and build your own linux system. The best place to start would be http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/. Of course, intermediate step would involve building your own kernel and compiling programs from source. And Debian is definitely the right choice. Amit

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 12:41:14 +0800 From: "Wang Xu" <gnawux@gmail.com> To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Wired fontconfig behavior Message-ID: <da8464b10709032141l3a84fc32mc1a2bcfaf85b39c1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi list, I set alias of monospace in my ${HOME}/.fonts.conf like this: | <alias> | <family>monospace</family> | <prefer> | <family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family> | <family>FZXiYuan-M01S</family> | </prefer> | </alias> but with fc-match, I found the latter have a higher position: | gnawux@stream:~$ fc-match -s "monospace"|head | fzyljw.ttf: "FZXiYuan-M01S" "Regular" | VeraMono.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" "Roman" | ... where the FZXiYuan is a Chinese font. Even if I substitute FZXiYuan with another Chinese fonts and substitute bitstream with another Lattin fonts, it behaviors like above. The same thing occured on serif and sans-serif also, however, for bitstream fonts, it works well, for instance | <alias> | <family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family> | <prefer> | <family>Bitstream Vera Sans Mono</family> | <family>FZXiYuan-M01S</family> | </prefer> | </alias> and with fc-match: | gnawux@stream:~$ fc-match -s "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono"|head | VeraMono.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono" "Roman" | fzyljw.ttf: "FZXiYuan-M01S" "Regular" |..... What's wrong with monospace, sans-serif, and serif? any ideas? Thank you! -- Wang Xu

Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:31:56 -0700 From: michael@estone.ca To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: s.m.a.r.t problem Message-ID: <20070903223156.g8wl3bkxwgoc0ock@estone.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I have an sda (seagate ST3320620NS) drive that is split into a few =20 paritions, of which, all are configured into corresponding raid 0 arrays via mdadm. Below is the output of: # smartctl -A -d ata /dev/sda smartctl version 5.36 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 =20 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ =3D=3D=3D START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION =3D=3D=3D SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE =20 UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 087 006 Pre-fail =20 Always - 104941331 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 095 000 Pre-fail =20 Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age =20 Always - 28 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail =20 Always - 35 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 070 060 030 Pre-fail =20 Always - 11329220 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age =20 Always - 975 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail =20 Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age =20 Always - 36 187 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age =20 Always - 0 189 Unknown_Attribute 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age =20 Always - 0 190 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 064 049 045 Old_age =20 Always - 606142500 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 036 051 000 Old_age =20 Always - 36 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/26) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 086 062 000 Old_age =20 Always - 235476142 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age =20 Always - 1 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age =20 Offline - 1 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age =20 Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age =20 Offline - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age =20 Always - 0 Everytime the server reboots, the smart daemon emails me that there =20 are problems, mainly, on ID 197 and 198. I've tried to overwrite the paritions with data to the max and fill it =20 so that the drive would re-map the bad sectors, but I still get these =20 errors. I haven't completely zero'd the drive as I have these partitions in =20 raid 0 arrays and don't wont' to have to destroy the raid array, and =20 thus end up restoring from backup. But I guess this would be my last =20 resort, which I could do at some time during off hours. Is there anything else I could try to remove these settings from the =20 smart data? Is my drive toast? A smartctl long, or short test shows no bad blocks and no errors ever =20 in its history. Thanks for any tips! Cheers, Mike

Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:07:51 -0500 From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux... Message-ID: <46DCF637.3050700@cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/07 22:13, blues wrote:
> I would really love to become a good sys admin; linux is very
> interesting to me as a popular alternative to the crap business model
> of MS.....i like the idea of using free software to monitor and
> protect a network, and I hope to make a career out of it...does anyone
> have any tips as to what i should concentrate on?
Install Linux on your computer and use it as your one and only OS. Live it, breathe it, love it, learn it. Install fetchmail and postfix. Use it as a relay host to send email from your box to your ISP. Do other "SA" stuff on your PC.
> Is debian a good
> distro to learn if I want to one day run a corporate network?
No. Most corporations use Red Hat or SuSE. You'll also need a network to practice on. That means 3 or 4 really cheap used computers all networked together. One should run Windows XP. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3PY3S9HxQb37XmcRAiQnAKCERTYovTFnsSICsYtlcZWCNsv8SgCdHzCS KxEZC064fyoGzUvfkVaYfvA= =3GSg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:58:42 +0530 From: Bhasker C V <bhasker@unixindia.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: browser confusions Message-Id: <1188887322.6073.2.camel@h1.unixindia.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All, There are multiple browsers in my system (Etch). Icescape firefox mozilla but what is the difference between these ? I can see that these are sharing the information between each other (bookmarks etc.,) I am using opera for all my normal browsing but using icescape for my banking related browsing. Among the once if there is a differnece, which one is the most secure ? please advice, -- Bhasker C V Registered Linux user: #306349 (counter.li.org) The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux. End of debian-user-digest Digest V2007 Issue #2307 ************************************************** Received on Tue Sep 4 03:09:24 2007

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