Debian

tcp/ip traffic shaping in Debian
Hello. I have several PC:s in my LAN, and a Debian Lenny as a router/firewall on the edge of it. Does Lenny has tools for traffic shaping. I have one machine here downloading lots of binaries from Giganews, and I might be tempted to limit that traffic somehow. I installed tcng after googling something, bu... 4 Mar 2010 02:20

use preseeding for one package
Hi list, can I use preseeding for installing one package unattended (not a whole debian installation)? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003031557.34... 17 Mar 2010 12:29

kismet & gpsd
Hi all, I have a problem when using kismet 2008-05-R1-4.1 and gpsd 2.90.1~svn6819-1+b1 under Debian squeeze (testing) When having gpsd enabled in kismet it causes gpsd to run at high cpu usage ie 70 - 100% Has anyone else come across this problem, and how do I stop kismet from running gpsd at such high cpu ... 2 Mar 2010 23:42

SpamAssassin not following private whitelist commands
Hi, (Up-to-date Sid system.) SA, which is "attached" to Postfix, isn't doing what I think it should do. According to instructions I found on the Intarweb, per-user whitelist addresses go in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs with the format: whitelist_from foo(a)bar.com (Yes, I restarted SA after adding the ent... 5 Mar 2010 13:56

Pénz az Interneten - Akár napi 40.000 Ft
Hello, Steve Terence vagyok. Azért írok, mert kidolgoztam egy jó pénzkeresési lehetőséget. Az Interneten, napi néhány órával, akár mellékesként is megkereshet, akár napi 200 - 400 Eurót, ami most olyan 50 - 100.000.- HUF. http://www.penzeso.com/?utm_source=mail01 Ez egy hatékony és teljesen ingyenes móds... 2 Mar 2010 20:21

unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !
Wow. If you haven't already, you should immediately backup the box before trying some magic on it. It's probably located at ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/$profile/Mail/Local Folders/Inbox. What's the size of the box? If it looks too small, open it with a text editor or another mail agent and check if your older ma... 6 Mar 2010 09:38

IMAP timing issue-SOLVED
On Tue March 2 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Those are both the same protocol has far as what's "on the wire".  As a KMail user, I'd never use "IMAP" it has minimal caching so a server round-trip is required for most operations, including reading mail.  It would only be appropriate for a computer on t... 2 Mar 2010 19:13

host trying to connect using IPv6 without having IPv6 global address
Hello to all! I am having the following strange problem on a fully updated squeeze. It sits behind an ordinary adsl router, with no IPv6 capabilities, it gets its private 192.168.x.x address etc. Now the problem is that it tries to connect to hosts returning quad-A records using IPv6, but it has no IPv6 glob... 2 Mar 2010 18:05

Clearing Screen on Logout?
I noticed that with Debian when I logout of my system, it doesn't clear the screen to the login screen via bash only (non GUI). Normally in RHEL, Arch, Ubuntu, and most other distributions when a user logs out or exits from a shell, their history is not visible on the screen but in Debian, it is. Is there any way t... 3 Mar 2010 08:26

Skype stopped working on three different computers with Debian Lenny
Hi All! We have 3 computers with Debian Lenny and the newest Skype. Two are usually upgraded, one absolutely not. Some months ago, when we tried, Skype was working perfectly, but now on all computers microphones are silent. Settings were not changed, and tried with the default settings too. (Sound recording i... 2 Mar 2010 13:32