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Debian virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique.
Good day. I have 3 questions on virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique. 1. Which software (may that is even packaged for Debian) is the best at Your opinion and why for virus/spy-ware (the software that scans for interesting data and sends it to some host) detection? 2. What's the technique of scan... 29 Jul 2010 15:11

Please help me test aufs
Hi, The aufs is supposed to be able to unify several directories and provide a merged single directory. but I found it doesn't work for me any more. If you have aufs enabled in your system, please help me test the following command and post back your result: mkdir /tmp/rw /tmp/aufs mount -t aufs -o br=... 17 Jul 2010 02:20

Synaptic / Could not download all repository indexes
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello, when i try to check for updates with synaptic or the update manager, i get that error above. further information in the error message: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/updates/main/source/Sources: 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80] i did ... 19 Jul 2010 02:42

New packages isc-dhcp-client and common break network
I don't know where to look or what to do about this newly arrived problem. I have it on good authority that isc-dhcp-client and isc-dhcp-common have not created problems for others and indeed I've not seen any post related to these packages. It would appear they are part of the dhcp4 upgrade but twice now I've inst... 17 Jul 2010 01:16

replacement for webcalendar
Webcalendar has been removed from squeeze and above. Can anyone suggest a similar replacement? I used it on a small local network for family type appointments, at home. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lis... 17 Jul 2010 10:52

Loop device is read only
I can't seem to write to an image I downloaded and mounted as a loop device? # ls -l /opt | grep floppy drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 18 10:08 floppy # mount -o loop fdbasecd.iso /opt/floppy/ # # grep loop /etc/mtab /dev/loop0 /opt/floppy iso9660 rw 0 0 # mount | grep loop /dev/loop0 on /opt/floppy t... 17 Jul 2010 00:12

slapd stopped working...
I'm running sid; there was a couple of recent updates to slapd, from 2.4.21-1 to 2.4.23-1 (and then 2.4.23-2) The config itself wasn't changed; the backup file made is the same as the current one. However, slapd doesn't start anymore. All I have to go on is the following: (/var/log/auth.log): Jul 16 12:26:53... 16 Jul 2010 16:34

Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)
On 16/07/10 02:03 PM, Mark wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, H.S.<hs.samix(a)gmail.com> wrote: On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Aren't you askig the wrong list? The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using Linux tools and the partition ju... 16 Jul 2010 15:27

Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:10 AM, H.S. <hs.samix(a)gmail.com> wrote: On 10-07-16 12:00 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Aren't you askig the wrong list? The filesystem is vfat, files are being deleted from within Linux using Linux tools and the partition just happens to be a Windows installation* but ... 17 Jul 2010 13:02

Securely deleting *Windows* files (was Re: simple way to securely destroy deleted files in a file system)
On 07/15/2010 11:05 AM, H.S. wrote: I have a couple of hard disks in a computer which is to be recycled. I want the windows OS in it to remain functional, but I want to be sure that I have deleted all my personal files securely (never used the OS that much anyway and there is hardly any important info in... 16 Jul 2010 15:27