Re: 33 MB used on a empty partition?

2005-01-07 Thread Joao Clemente
Rabin Vincent wrote: On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:18:47 +, Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What tool can I use to find out the filesystem details? The partition sizes we can find out with fdisk, cfdisk, or whatever... but how do we check the "what filesystem, what blocksize, w

33 MB used on a empty partition?

2005-01-07 Thread Joao Clemente
tition sizes we can find out with fdisk, cfdisk, or whatever... but how do we check the "what filesystem, what blocksize, what journal size", ...? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

incremental backups howto?

2004-12-24 Thread Joao Clemente
from a backup to find the "delta", this means we need a "2xN" disk, where "N" is the info we have in disk.. so you could only do incremental backups in a disk with less than 50% occupation.. rigth or wrong? What do you say? Pointer to right commands/howto's? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-23 Thread Joao Clemente
t left alone and (possibly) confusing someone) Now, I must wonder: Is there a way to "shift" this by a wanted value? (for instance, when x MOD y = 1, something like putting into cron the instance (*/5)+1 ? It would run at 1,6,11,16,21, ... Is it possible? Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: cron.daily, howto control mailed reports

2004-12-23 Thread Joao Clemente
Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 02:22:10AM + or thereabouts, Joao Clemente wrote: Why do I receive daily reports (in my mail system) from this particular script being runned, but not from other also existant in /etc/cron.daily? If you want it to run silently, you can put M

cron.daily, howto control mailed reports

2004-12-23 Thread Joao Clemente
otherwise it will run silently? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Joao Clemente
Maybe you should start asking questions that may help you (change the topic if needed) and stop insulting people that could help you but will not do it when faced with your attitude. Ending my posts in this thread, Joao Clemente JerryN wrote: Amazing how many incorrect assumptions have been made

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Joao Clemente
you solve YOUR problems! They're not mine! And, for your new-year, I hope you learn how to ask things, or comment on answers, so that people feel good by helping you! . Joao Clemente On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 16:02 +, Joao Clemente wrote: Björn Abt wrote: Hello List, I have a HP DL360 G4 wi

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Joao Clemente
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y and it IS a stock debian kernel I would suggest you to check wich kernl is running in that 1GB non-ECC-RAM machine... I (am not sure but) believe the 686 or 686-smp kernels have high-mem enabled. Good luck Joao Clemente -- To

traffic stats wan<->lan - ntop or better?

2004-12-18 Thread Joao Clemente
analises everything that gets to the machine interface (promiscuous mode) Any other suggestions? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Marvell 88E8053 (Asus P5GD1) not detected by sarge installer...

2004-12-16 Thread Joao Clemente
Joao Clemente wrote: Maybe I should put another (temporary) NIC in the machine to do the installation, then get the module for the Marvell compiled and remove the temporary NIC? Would it be easier? Just to finish this thread (maybe someone gets a P5GD1 also) I already got the NIC of this board

Re: Marvell 88E8053 (Asus P5GD1) not detected by sarge installer...

2004-12-16 Thread Joao Clemente
could use another machine to get a module from their sources... But how can I get that module into the installer? Maybe I should put another (temporary) NIC in the machine to do the installation, then get the module for the Marvell compiled and remove the temporary NIC? Would it be easier? Jo

Marvell 88E8053 (Asus P5GD1) not detected by sarge installer...

2004-12-16 Thread Joao Clemente
network card. It showed a big list of network cards with no Marvell card on it. Anyone has a clue on how to get this baby working? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Joao Clemente
Harland Christofferson wrote: [snip] but, what if i write a file to /dev/hda6 (/home), then i mount /dev/hdc6 to /mnt/hdc6 ... should i see the newly written file in the same place on /mnt/hdc6 as was written on /dev/hda6 ? Yo Harland, you're getting all messed up For what I've understood,

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Joao Clemente
Thanks for the reply, but I still haven't cleared my doubt. I'll cut the relevant part of the reply (relevant for what I'm trying to understand) and comment at the end: Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: Image you're using software raid and 1 disk fa

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-15 Thread Joao Clemente
ion layout as the removed one and only after this step the array can re-construct .. What's your experience on this? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Router

2004-12-13 Thread Joao Clemente
Croy, Nathan wrote: From: Michael Madden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 5:31 PM Thanks for all the advice. I guess something like LRP appealed to me more since it was floppy based and didn't require setting up a distro with many unneeded utilities. Does anyone know of an

mirror a debian mirror...

2004-12-13 Thread Joao Clemente
and rsync). Is this script only usefull for FAI or will I suceed to get the mirror as I want (not for use with FAI)? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sarge KDE weird icon colors on selecting/highliting?

2004-12-08 Thread Joao Clemente
ced the same results. Then I notisted that gnome does not show this behaviour. It's ok. KDE bug? Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cloning a workstation

2004-12-08 Thread Joao Clemente
Eric Gaumer wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:14 -0500, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: Hello, I need to clone a workstation (which has some custom configuration and scripts added to otherwise basic Sarge/KDE) into another set of absolutely identical hardware (Intel Pentium 4, IDE HD). Just one clone, not

Re: Directory Permissions

2004-12-06 Thread Joao Clemente
ere is already a "backup" group in the system, but I dunno exctly if it's already there for some specific purpose or not... Good luck! Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hda=stroke for installer?

2004-12-05 Thread Joao Clemente
Richard Hector wrote: From what I've read, I should be able to use the jumper on my seagate st380011a to limit it to 33.8G, then use hda=stroke on the kernel command line (for kernels later than 2.6.7), and linux should see the whole lot. [snip] Any suggestions? Well, I've actually been able to use

Re: Fw: gdm and reboot

2004-12-05 Thread Joao Clemente
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:55:56PM -0500, Michael Spang wrote: I have often wondered why exactly it defaults to requiring a password. Requiring a user who has physical access to a computer root privileges to shut it down seems fundamentally flawed to me--they could easily

Re: stopping xserver from loading

2004-12-02 Thread Joao Clemente
Ronald van den Blink / 106075 wrote: Why don't you change the runlevel? Just boot into single mode, change the runlevel in inittab and u're ready to boot to the cli Now that you mentioned it... How does one adds boot parameters to grub? With lilo I would jus get to lilo command line and type "mylin

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-30 Thread Joao Clemente
Joao Clemente wrote: [snip] 3) install into the boot sector of the partition (/dev/hda1 ) instead MBR of the disk ( /dev/hda ) - but the mbr must be empty too I am not certain of you're refering to grub, lilo, or both. I see no reason why grub (or lilo) would fail when installed i

Re: "Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-30 Thread Joao Clemente
Hi Alvin. Once again, thanks for your ultra-fast reply. I have not been able to understand completly what you've said so I'll comment along your mail, ok? Alvin Oga wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: ...but when one is suposed to get the GRUB menu, I get simply a "

"Grub Hard Disk Error", after installing from sarge floppies

2004-11-29 Thread Joao Clemente
Hi. Just wondering if someone has a clue on how to solve this: I installed an old machine (p200 classic, 32Mb RAM, 3.5Gb HD + realtek 8193 NIC) using sarge installer from floppies (boot+root+net drivers) After partitioning, installing the base system and grub loader, the installer says it will r

Re: runlevel 2 vs 3 vs 5 deprecated in sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Joao Clemente
Martin Fluch wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, newbin shang wrote: On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:55:15 +, Joao Clemente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was testing some stuff that needed rebooting my sarge installation an I tought to myself that it was a waste of time to startup X at every boot...

Re: Enable acpi in 2.4.x? It seems to be on the kernel!

2004-11-26 Thread Joao Clemente
Joao Clemente wrote: I just installed my Asus L3C laptop from sarge rc2 business-cd installer. I was going to check for apm/acpi support and by looking at /boot/config-2.4.27-1-686 file it seems to be already compiled in the kernel so... do I need to use "acpi=on" on something li

runlevel 2 vs 3 vs 5 deprecated in sarge?

2004-11-26 Thread Joao Clemente
= multiuser + X, 3 = multiuser - X, ... stoped being used in sarge? Why? I'm using sarge intalled with rc2 business-card installer Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Enable acpi in 2.4.x? It seems to be on the kernel!

2004-11-25 Thread Joao Clemente
or acpi to work? I have no /proc/acpi, so the kernel seems not to be loading the acpi stuff. Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox, Thunderbird etc.

2004-11-22 Thread Joao Clemente
e you could provide your example? I actually would like to have firefox pinned to unstable... Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where are config questions in install of latest sarge, and other questions...

2004-11-19 Thread Joao Clemente
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: 1. It never asked me the hardware config questions I was used to with both woody and sarge. What happened to them, how do I find out what device support is installed, and get support for devices that might not be installed (i.e., download drivers for stuff- although now tha

Help reporting bugs

2004-11-19 Thread Joao Clemente
Hi. Can you clear me what is the procedure to follow to report/reopen bugs? I looked at all bug reporting docs I could bind at debian.org and I got a number of different ways to do things, like: - submitting to debian-bugs-dist mailing list - mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the installation repo

Re: Kernel 2.4

2004-11-19 Thread Joao Clemente
Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Michael Spang (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: Although this questionis not specific to Debian, it is relevant and I figure someone here has the answer. Why is the Linux community so opposed to moving to Kernel 2.6? Is 2.4 really that much more stable? Familiar? Upgrading

Re: Partitioning hard drives

2004-11-18 Thread Joao Clemente
y dhcp Now that I'm thinking, / could be "ro"... as long as it exists /home, /tmp and /var being mounted as "rw" it should work... h... i gotta double-check this for my servers... hmmm Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge gdm language entry, howto add language?

2004-11-18 Thread Joao Clemente
Francois Cerbelle wrote: Le Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:52:22PM +, Joao Clemente ecrit : Is there any workaround known, so that I can have a "interface language" chooser in gdm/kdm/whatever that changes the language displayed by kde? It might be possible to set and export the LANG en

Re: sarge gdm language entry, howto add language?

2004-11-18 Thread Joao Clemente
oser in gdm/kdm/whatever that changes the language displayed by kde? Thanks Joao clemente Joao Clemente wrote: Hi. Can someone please tell me how to add a language entry to gdm Language option? I have googled and saw a dscussion where it seemed that this was hardcoded in gdm, what does not makes

sarge gdm language entry, howto add language?

2004-11-18 Thread Joao Clemente
that enables "pt" to show up in gdm language listing.. I've tried "apt-cache search pt | grep gdm" and "apt-cache search pt | grep gnome" but none of these show any interesting results... (using sarge) Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Cups in sarge stops a lot.. maybe lprng better?

2004-11-17 Thread Joao Clemente
ould reduce the support call I receive in 80% .. but in the first place CUPS shouldn't be stopping that many times.. Anyone facing this problem decided to go back to lprng or something? Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

vim + putty = "" instead of "/" using keypad

2004-11-17 Thread Joao Clemente
e vim, I get a "" displayed every time I press that key... Any workaround known? I have no ideia if this is a putty misconfiguration or vimrc missing something... It is stange that only happens inside vim (and if I use vim directly on that box keyboard it works fine) Joao Clemente --

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-12 Thread Joao Clemente
William Ballard wrote: Including "nospam" in your email name helps a lot. And how do you subscribe to the list with "nospam" in the e-mail address?!? You'll never receive an e-mail to that address! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

VPN from win to Linux server: PPTP or OpenVPN or..?

2004-11-11 Thread Joao Clemente
oadcasts) only works with XP or above... So, anyone advicing PPTP over OpenVPN? If so, wich server? Poptop? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2004 #1571

2004-11-10 Thread Joao Clemente
Clive Menzies wrote: I've got the netinst image for the new debian-installer (sarge) which I can burn for you, if you mail me off list (I'm in N. London). However, it will leave you with the problem of downloading the current packages. There is also a businesscard CD image which I could also burn

Re: Can BIND resolve "nodomain" machine names? "myserver", not "myserver.mydomain"...?

2004-11-03 Thread Joao Clemente
Thanks for the reply Andrea, but no... nowadays /etc/host.conf is not even relevant as it's (old) behaviour is now (since libc6?) defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf It would configure the way the dns client lookups up names, looking at local files and then to name server... But it's a "client behavio

Can BIND resolve "nodomain" machine names? "myserver", not "myserver.mydomain"...?

2004-11-03 Thread Joao Clemente
I would like to be sure there is no way to do what dnsmasq did... Anyone knows? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please

2004-11-02 Thread Joao Clemente
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 07:10:53AM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote: On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:01:43AM +0100, Joao Clemente wrote: Which are the tradeoffs of hard vs software raid1? What happens/How do we proceed if 1 disk fails (how do we know it, how do we replace/resync them

Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please

2004-10-31 Thread Joao Clemente
is no SCA controllers. The controllers have 68 pins wich connect to the hot-swap rack (wich will also receive power from a regular power cable) and the hot-swap rack will have the sca connector to connect to a sca disk. Is that it? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please - fun

2004-10-29 Thread Joao Clemente
Hi Alvin, thanks for the quick reply. Some comments and questions, tough: Alvin Oga wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Joao Clemente wrote: I'm getting a completly new server (P4 3Ghz, Dual-Channel DDR 400, MB with intel chipset) and, while I have a good ideia on these components, I would like to

SCSI Disk/Controller advice please

2004-10-29 Thread Joao Clemente
the bus speed, is that it? So, what's SCA? None of these controllers says SCA... Any help? Ps: I supose getting a SCSI crontroller built-in on the motherboard is stupid? Those are low-value/performance controllers? Thanks Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Courier-imap setup problem: Maildir not found?

2003-06-02 Thread Joao Clemente
I'm not mistaken)... but ok :-) Just to end the thread: I kept having problems after changing what seemed obvious in /etc/exim/exim.conf (This file comments say to uncomment "maildir_format"). I found the solution at http://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim_maildir_imap.shtm

Re: Courier-imap setup problem: Maildir not found?

2003-06-02 Thread Joao Clemente
- Original Message - From: "Igor Stroh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 12:24 AM Subject: Re: Courier-imap setup problem: Maildir not found? > Courier-IMAP requires that user's $HOME/Maildir/ exists and the > permissions are set so the user can chd

Courier-imap setup problem: Maildir not found?

2003-06-02 Thread Joao Clemente
, courier handling imap, and a ldap directory somewhere in the middle... but I will be happy just by having courier doing imap... Thanks Joao Clemente Inesc-ID - Portugal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

wwwoffle or squid?

2003-03-31 Thread Joao Clemente
I just took a look at wwwoffle's homepage, and I found no reason why not to use it instead of squid... But there must be some "guidelines" that one can follow to choose one or the other.. Is squid worth it in terms of extra performace or better reliability, when compared to wwwoffle? I'll use the

Re: Mutt e-mail charset. Read is bad, write is ok.

2003-03-31 Thread Joao Clemente
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 02:35:45PM +0100, Joao Clemente wrote: > I think I'm missing something here but I can't figure out what that > option is: > My language (Portuguese) has those vocals with signs on top (the > acute, grave, tilde, ...). > > My editor is set t

Re: gaim & other protocols like msn..

2003-03-31 Thread Joao Clemente
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:45:14PM +0300, Subredu Manuel wrote: > > Have you tryied to apt-get install gaim, gaim, Tools->Plugins->Load ? Shame on me :( ... Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mutt select language for ispell

2003-03-31 Thread Joao Clemente
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 08:17:56AM -0600, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Joao Clemente: > > Is there a way to select the language ispell uses for spell checking? > > I have both English and Portuguese dictionaries installed, but I don't > > see a way to tell mutt to

gaim & other protocols like msn..

2003-03-31 Thread Joao Clemente
Is there a way to apt-get gaim and get the other protocols enabled? Im particular I was looking for msn support. I've once had gaim installed from sources and i had msn, irc and other, and in this one (debian package) I don't have any of those... Joao Clemente -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Mutt select language for ispell

2003-03-31 Thread Joao Clemente
Is there a way to select the language ispell uses for spell checking? I have both English and Portuguese dictionaries installed, but I don't see a way to tell mutt to choose "Portuguese" when I want to.. It always uses English, that is the default one... Thanks Joao Clemente --

Mutt e-mail charset. Read is bad, write is ok.

2003-03-31 Thread Joao Clemente
I think I'm missing something here but I can't figure out what that option is: My language (Portuguese) has those vocals with signs on top (the acute, grave, tilde, ...). My editor is set to "vi" and I can write those letters fine ( á, ò ). However, I can't read them, either in index or pager mode

Re: mutt and aliases

2003-03-20 Thread Joao Clemente
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > I have this line > > source ~/.mutt.aliases > > in my .muttrc file, but when I *add* an alias, it wants to add it to > .muttrc and not .mutt_aliases. I'm guessing that that line only tells > mutt where to LOOK when it needs to look

Re: Where to put environment variables?

2003-02-27 Thread Joao Clemente
nvironment set up. If I had the problem you talk about, I would face it either way, right? Thank you for your reply Joao Clemente -- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying to produce bigger and