Re: Outlook and Qmail

2004-07-27 Thread David Zejda
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 06:05:33PM +0200, David Zejda wrote: dunno. large messages obviously aren't the ONLY factor, it's a combination of factors - one of which is that the message is large. I have a similar (sometimes, large messages, dialup) problem with OE + Postfix. postfix doesn't do POP,

Re: q re transferring mysql db from redhat to debian

2004-07-27 Thread Henrik Heil
Shannon R. wrote: the reason why i don't want to do the database transfer using data generated by mysqldump is because i want all the auto-generated record_ids to stay the same in the new system. The record_ids will stay the same with mysqldump. What makes you think they will not? If you cannot

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-27 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi, dig @a.root-servers.net domain ns You'll get back the response or you'll get a referral to the next level down... maybe i can throw in the reference to the dnstracer tool aswell. That's usually pretty handy to check where your bad dns data does come from. (in case you don't see the

Re: Question about drac-add tool and courier

2004-07-27 Thread Tomàs Núñez
Hi again! :) I wrote the attached email about a month ago. Since then, I've googled a lot, I've written to courier list, I've written to drac patch author, and some other lists, but I get no answer anywhere... And I don't know what to do :P I have two separate mail servers (one for incoming and

Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

2004-07-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:13:22 +0200, Volker Tanger writes: What happens if you do the partitioning manually and image the partitions (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, ...) one-by-one instead of the complete disc? Well, doing the partitioning manually, you could RSYNC the server instead of DD+NETCATing, which

Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

2004-07-27 Thread Volker Tanger
Greetings! Well, doing the partitioning manually, you could RSYNC the server instead of DD+NETCATing, which probably is faster and fails more gracefully. But would mean mucking around with the bootloader, which usually is the point for doing _complete_ disc-images. True - but DDing a

Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

2004-07-27 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:05:14 +0200, Volker Tanger writes: True - but DDing a 200GB system disc disc takes quite some time, while manually handling partition+mkfs+lilo plus RSYNCing 1.2GB usually is LOTS faster... Upgrading to servers with newer/bigger discs is also less painful than with

RE: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

2004-07-27 Thread David Ross
Thanks for the replys so far guys. Yeah I suppose I could RSYNC it across like Volker said but yeah, I'm trying to do this in the simplest way, ie no messing around with the bootloader or installing a base system first. I'm trying again now with a new image...etc Thanks again, I'll let you guys

Re: backup DNS question

2004-07-27 Thread Marek Isalski
Kilian Krause writes: maybe i can throw in the reference to the dnstracer tool aswell. That's usually pretty handy to check where your bad dns data does come from. (in case you don't see the results you expected to have).. Another tool I find incredibly useful is DNS Bajaj:

Re: q re transferring mysql db from redhat to debian

2004-07-27 Thread Fraser Campbell
On July 27, 2004 03:58 am, Henrik Heil wrote: the reason why i don't want to do the database transfer using data generated by mysqldump is because i want all the auto-generated record_ids to stay the same in the new system. The record_ids will stay the same with mysqldump. What makes you

Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

2004-07-27 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, 2004-07-27 13:13:22 +0200, Volker Tanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:12:33 +0200 David Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Obviously the first thing I did was swap the harddrive just in case the one in the new pc is faulty, but I get

Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

2004-07-27 Thread Volker Tanger
Greetings! Do you have any kind of BIOS-configurable write/virus protection for that harddisc switched off? BIOS is ignored nicely once the kernel switched on VM and went into protected more... Yes, I know - but I've encountered hardware where the 100% IDE controller could be switched

Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

2004-07-27 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 04:09:04PM +0200, Volker Tanger wrote: Boot in text mode (knoppix 2) or Ctrl-Alt-1 from X11 into console. Try again then. yes knoppix 2 will save time, you can su - from x as well. your problem though is with the fstab knoppix creates, wait you're not mounting the

Re: q re transferring mysql db from redhat to debian

2004-07-27 Thread Henrik Heil
the reason why i don't want to do the database transfer using data generated by mysqldump is because i want all the auto-generated record_ids to stay the same in the new system. The record_ids will stay the same with mysqldump. What makes you think they will not? I have seen problems with this.

Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

2004-07-27 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, 2004-07-27 17:52:25 +0200, Leonardo Boselli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Il 27 Jul 2004 alle 17:42 Jan-Benedict Glaw immise in rete I use knoppix to make a cpio image of the 'root filesystem' I'll be imaging. (eg mounted / /usr /home and /var). Then with

Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

2004-07-27 Thread Leonardo Boselli
Il 27 Jul 2004 alle 18:18 Jan-Benedict Glaw immise in rete Try that with a formerly booting NT system on a NTFS filesystem:) just copy the root... by root i say /dev/hda , the raw partition. I worked fine for me many times. Aren't MS-DOS' io.sys and msdos.sys expected to be in specific

Re: Cloning disks with dd and netcat

2004-07-27 Thread Giles Nunn
Hi all, I tried the dd route to do exactly the same thing. I wanted to recreate a server or a variation of it quickly and easily. Eventually I gave up and used systemimager instead. It is quick and simple. It is based on rsync and it is in woody. I have it working using network boot and it takes

Re: q re transferring mysql db from redhat to debian

2004-07-27 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:00:58AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: On July 27, 2004 03:58 am, Henrik Heil wrote: The record_ids will stay the same with mysqldump. What makes you think they will not? I have seen problems with this. The existing auto-incremented fields were just fine but

Re: q re transferring mysql db from redhat to debian

2004-07-27 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
Craig Sanders wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:00:58AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: On July 27, 2004 03:58 am, Henrik Heil wrote: The record_ids will stay the same with mysqldump. What makes you think they will not? I have seen problems with this. The existing auto-incremented fields were just

Re: q re transferring mysql db from redhat to debian

2004-07-27 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:39:40AM +1000, Kevin Littlejohn wrote: that's bizarreand could easily lead to a hopelessly corrupted database when other tables refer to that id field. how are you supposed to restore a mysql db from backup then? Two answers: 1) Why are you relying on the

Re: Network Analyzer

2004-07-27 Thread Vijaya S
Martin, You could try with iptraf or ipfm Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi @ all, i am looking for network analyzing software which can * log connections (Host-Host, Src-Port-Dest-Port), do some statistics on that as well as * traffic analyzis like tcpdump or ethereal. I