dyndnsd

2013-07-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Anyone know of a HOWTO or tutorial for running my own dynDNS server using debian and libre software? TIA zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caosgn

Installing Mate - Sources List

2013-07-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - You will probably need my sources list to help with my previous question. Here it is: root@meow:/etc/apt# cat sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20110322-15:11]/ squeeze contrib main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a _Sque

stuttering and snow in xfce4-terminal

2013-07-11 Thread Joel Rees
Ever since the update to wheezy, xfce4-terminal has been slow to respond to a carriage return, and sometimes it leaves graphical update trash in the screen. Hidden windows will look like the old static-filled analog TV screen, and the line where you are typing input will get similar trash , maybe i

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/12/13, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 7/12/13, Intense Red wrote: >>Okay, here's a different backup software question. > ... > audio files etc > ... >>Does anyone have a suggestion for a "smart copy" program that will >> logically copy portions of a subdirectory tree in 4.4GB "chunks"?

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread David Guntner
Jude DaShiell grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > add -z to that rsync command and you get your data compression. Also, > it's the source and destination that count here. If your source is backed > up and compressed then all you have to do to effect a restore operation is > use the original destin

Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - Thanks for your suggestions. I followed them, and it solved some errors, but some remain... root@meow:/etc/apt# apt-get update Get:4 http://repo.mate-desktop.org wheezy Release.gpg [836 B] Hit http://repo.mate-desktop.org wheezy Release Ign http://repo.mate-desktop.org wheezy Rel

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread David Christensen
On 07/10/13 23:12, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 07/11/13 09:25, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Thank you both for your insights. :-) Stan - I assume you mean the Adaptec 6405E: https://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/series/6e/ That looks like a nice card, and Adaptec is a name I respect.

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-11 Thread David Guntner
Intense Red grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >Okay, here's a different backup software question. > >The scenario: Call me weird, but I buy plastic CDs and refuse to buy > "electronic" music. I tediously rip my CDs to Ogg files and store them on my > file server. (The CDs go into the basemen

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/12/13, Intense Red wrote: >Okay, here's a different backup software question. ... audio files etc ... >Does anyone have a suggestion for a "smart copy" program that will > logically copy portions of a subdirectory tree in 4.4GB "chunks"? TIA. jigdo And see also JTE, at http://www.ei

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
add -z to that rsync command and you get your data compression. Also, it's the source and destination that count here. If your source is backed up and compressed then all you have to do to effect a restore operation is use the original destination as the next source and the original source as

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread David Guntner
Glenn English grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > AMANDA. It does incremental backups (not just mirrors -- so it backs > up only what's necessary, and you can deal with "oh why did I edit > *that*?" too) in such a way that, in case of a major disaster, you > can recover using tools like tar and dump

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread David Guntner
Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Bacula. It backs up whatever you want it to however you want it to. > > It's not as simple as some, but if you want a comprehensive backup > solution, it's hard to beat. Bacula has some pretty good job definitions > set up by default to do, for example,

*Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-11 Thread Intense Red
Okay, here's a different backup software question. The scenario: Call me weird, but I buy plastic CDs and refuse to buy "electronic" music. I tediously rip my CDs to Ogg files and store them on my file server. (The CDs go into the basement.) Great, I'm happy. I have 12-15 GB of Ogg files.

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/13 11:29 PM, Glenn English wrote: On Jul 11, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote: I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my system to a second hard

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Glenn English
On Jul 11, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote: >> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a >> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my >> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do

fglrx driver and dkms with unsupported kernel

2013-07-11 Thread Wxcafé
Hey, I've been getting a new mouse recently, and it uses a hid driver that is only available in linux 3.10.x. Obviously, this kernel is not supported under debian as of now, but i thought that, as i was using the debian config file for 3.9.8, it would be okay because i'd have all the correct driver

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote: I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full backup and daily incremental backups, clean

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > 1. If you're buying enterprise RAID arrays, you should have matching disks > > and firmware, and they must be in the vendor approved list. Best to get > > them all from the same vendor. > > This is also true of quality PCIe RAID HBAs. LSI and Adaptec

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/11/2013 06:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all seem to be working fine. If I install a pair they show 2GB no matter which pair I pick. Per the motherboard manual I should be getting abou

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread David Guntner
Ralf Mardorf grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > A Linux even can be backuped by simply coping the files. What you want > are tools like rsync, tar, clonezilla etc. ... > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+linux > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+debian Thanks, will look into those. --Dave smime

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread David Guntner
Jerome BENOIT grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On 12/07/13 02:42, David Guntner wrote: >> I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a >> program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my >> system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a we

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread David Guntner
Go Linux grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > I use a combination of rsync for home and specific directories and > refractasnapshot - > http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/files/refractasnapshot/ - for > complete system recovery (as well as portable live iso of my system). > If you poke around the ref

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread David Guntner
Jeff Bauer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On 07/11/2013 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote: >> Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I >> described above? > > I know of no such package, though there very well may be one available. > On the other hand, a simple back up script us

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Go Linux
- Original Message - > From: David Guntner > To: Linux Debian Mailing List > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 7:42 PM > Subject: Backup/Restore software? > > I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a > program called Acronis True Image.  It works well, let

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2013 8:17 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Anyway, I will make a summary that actually separates the apples from the > oranges, because we were clearly talking about different things: No, we are talking about the exact same things. > 1. If you're buying enterprise RAID arrays, yo

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2013 4:44 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: ... > So please, do [NOT] tell people that they should use drives from different > vendors with mismatched firmware on a real RAID controller ... Correction inserted in brackets above. The statement should be in the negative, not the affirmative. -- St

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/11/2013 11:25 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> At some point in the future, I may buy one or two additional HDD and use > >>> hardware RAID. > >> > >> It's best to use identical drives with id

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 20:58 -0400, Jeff Bauer wrote: > Using that for /home and other directories You need to make a snapshot of some directories, if you want to backup a running Linux. I'm not aware about a command doing it for Linux, for FreeBSD there is a command doing this. I backup a Linux wi

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2013 6:10 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > Sorry, I've already done this with all possible permutations. They all > seem to be working fine. If I install a pair they show 2GB no matter > which pair I pick. Per the motherboard manual I should be getting about > 3.5 GB of useable ram showing. I get 2

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: If you use wildecards to backup your Linux, than read about globbing first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1373591051.768.9.camel@archlinux

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
A Linux even can be backuped by simply coping the files. What you want are tools like rsync, tar, clonezilla etc. ... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+linux http://lmgtfy.com/?q=backup+debian Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 07/11/2013 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote: Is there a Linux backup package that will do pretty much what I described above? I know of no such package, though there very well may be one available. On the other hand, a simple back up script using rsync can do the trick for you. And example to

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Dave, On 12/07/13 02:42, David Guntner wrote: > I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a > program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my > system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full > backup and daily incremen

Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread David Guntner
I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full backup and daily incremental backups, cleaning up older backup chains and so on. My Lin

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
"Ethan Rosenberg, PhD" writes: > Dear List - > > With the new Gnome desktop, I am up against a brick wall. For some > reason I cannot get apt-get to work. I have also tried the irc > channel, with no results. > > I have read the Wiki, followed it with no luck. > > This is the output from apt-get

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/11/2013 3:43 AM, Chris Davies wrote: >> Can you help clarify, please? > Se my detailed response to Henrique. Thank you Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/11/2013 11:03 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 7/11/2013 12:05 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Well I rebooted the system and went to Bios setup. The Bios shows 4, 1GB memory modules. When boot starts the bios memory test ratchets up to 2.5 GB and stops. The problem seems to be with the bios and not the

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/13 06:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - With the new Gnome desktop, I am up against a brick wall. For some reason I cannot get apt-get to work. I have also tried the irc channel, with no results. I have read the Wiki, followed it with no luck. This is the output from apt-

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Wayne Topa
On 07/11/2013 06:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > Dear List - > > With the new Gnome desktop, I am up against a brick wall. For some > reason I cannot get apt-get to work. I have also tried the irc channel, > with no results. > > I have read the Wiki, followed it with no luck. The below are

Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg, PhD
Dear List - With the new Gnome desktop, I am up against a brick wall. For some reason I cannot get apt-get to work. I have also tried the irc channel, with no results. I have read the Wiki, followed it with no luck. This is the output from apt-get: root@meow:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# dpkg -

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-11 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:05:51PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 09:55:20 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > > append command:"cd"to .profile > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 3. Modify /etc/passwd: login_dir ==> /home//.rc > >

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2013 3:43 AM, Chris Davies wrote: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> It's best to use identical drives with identical firmware, which means >> buying all your drives up front from the same lot. > > I had always understood that best practice was the opposite of this > recommendation, so as to help

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-11 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:05:51PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 09:55:20 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > > append command:"cd"to .profile > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 3. Modify /etc/passwd: login_dir ==> /home//.rc > >

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2013 11:25 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> At some point in the future, I may buy one or two additional HDD and use >>> hardware RAID. >> >> It's best to use identical drives with identical firmware, which means >> buying all your drive

Re: iptables

2013-07-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Jul 2013 at 09:56:52 +0200, ha wrote: > Sometimes I experiment with firewall configuration be

Re: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

2013-07-11 Thread nick marshall
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Daniel M. Drucker wrote: | When I run apt-get update, I get: | | root@up:/home/dmd# apt-get update | Hit http://opensource.wandisco.com squeeze Release.gpg | Ign http://opensource.wandisco.com/debian/ squeeze/svn17 Translation-en | | Ign http://opensource.wandisco.com/deb

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 11. Juli 2013, 09:55:20 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > > append command:"cd"to .profile > > > > > > > > > > 3. Modify /etc/passwd: login_dir ==> /home//.rc > > == > > > > exam

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 7/11/2013 12:05 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Well I rebooted the system and went to Bios setup. The Bios shows 4, 1GB memory modules. When boot starts the bios memory test ratchets up to 2.5 GB and stops. The problem seems to be with the bios and not the OS. The motherboard is an Intel D865PERL. The

Re: W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

2013-07-11 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
Huh. I wonder how it got that way in the first place, then. Thanks, that fixed it. Daniel On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:44:24PM -0400, Daniel M. Drucker wrote: > > When I run apt-get update, I get: > > > > W: Failed to fetch > > http://ftp.us

W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release Unable to find expected entry unstable/source/Sources in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?)

2013-07-11 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
When I run apt-get update, I get: root@up:/home/dmd# apt-get update Hit http://opensource.wandisco.com squeeze Release.gpg Ign http://opensource.wandisco.com/debian/ squeeze/svn17 Translation-en Ign http://opensource.wandisco.com/debian/ squeeze/svn17 Translation-en_US Hit http://opensource.wand

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > At some point in the future, I may buy one or two additional HDD and use > > hardware RAID. > > It's best to use identical drives with identical firmware, which means > buying all your drives up front from the same lot. You also need to That is a fas

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 07/11/2013 01:47 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Gary Roach wrote: Now I am really confused. I have two systems; one with an Intel P4, 3GHz, multi-thread and one with an Intel i5-750. Both are running Wheezy with a KDE desktop. The i5-750 system recognizes the 4GB of memory but the P4 system does no

Re: New Gnome in Wheezy - irc

2013-07-11 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 10 Jul 2013 17:20:47 -0700 (PDT) Michael Ayers wrote: > >Dear List - > > > > >I would like to try another modality to try to solve this mystery. > > > >How do I get to and use irc #debian-mate channel  on FreeNode? > > > >I have never used irc befpre. > > > >TIA > > Ethan > > > I'm no

Re: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts

2013-07-11 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:55:20AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 11 iul 13, 07:12:35, Wilko Fokken wrote: > > > > The following lines explain, what should be done in order to get the dot > > files out of the way into a subdirectory. > > You included lots of unrelated customizations, see b

Re: how to contribute package to repository

2013-07-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:28:36AM +0400, Ovcharov Dmitry wrote: > Dear sirs, Actually, we're "sirs, madams and so on". > > Our company is software developer. > Our software is proprietary RDF database. > We would like to include our software package in the official Linux > distribution reposit

Re: Cron issues - apticron

2013-07-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:47:39AM -0700, Daniel Jochims wrote: > I've uninstalled apticron but checking my syslog im still getting: > > CRON[16705]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/apticron && /usr/sbin/apticron > --cron) Sounds like you've removed but not purged apticron ("dpkg -l apticron" show

Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > It's best to use identical drives with identical firmware, which means > buying all your drives up front from the same lot. I had always understood that best practice was the opposite of this recommendation, so as to help protect against a single point of failure such as ba

Re: Over 2.5 GB ram problem

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Davies
Gary Roach wrote: > Now I am really confused. I have two systems; one with an Intel P4, > 3GHz, multi-thread and one with an Intel i5-750. Both are running Wheezy > with a KDE desktop. The i5-750 system recognizes the 4GB of memory but > the P4 system does not. They are both running "pae" kerne

Re: xmit_hash_policy (bonding) not working

2013-07-11 Thread ML mail
Found the issue, the correct option for the bond iface definition is:     bond_xmit_hash_policy layer3+4 From: ML mail To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:54 AM Subject: xmit_hash_policy (bonding) not working Hi, I a

xmit_hash_policy (bonding) not working

2013-07-11 Thread ML mail
Hi, I am running Debian 7 with two NICs bonded using 802.3ad and would like to change the xmit_hash_policy from the default layer2 to layer3+4. For this purpose I have added to my bond0 iface definition in /etc/network/interfaces the following parameter:     xmit_hash_policy layer3+4 Unf

Re: how to contribute package to repository

2013-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:28:36 +0200, Ovcharov Dmitry wrote: Our company is software developer. Our software is proprietary RDF database. We would like to include our software package in the official Linux distribution repository. What do we need for this? A special license? Should we open sou

UDP proxy

2013-07-11 Thread Arnoud Tijssen
Does anybody know any good UDP proxy/loadbalancer for high availability? Thnx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e7e899956e6065488dbc6623f76f36a2fcc8d35...

Re: iptables

2013-07-11 Thread ha
On 07/10/2013 07:08 PM, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 Jul 2013 at 16:51:47 +0200, ha wrote: none of them are checked. But, anyway, it overrides if-pre.up.d settings. perhaps this GUI doesn't like me. No, it isn't that. If the packet filtering rules in if-pre.up.d are overwritten it is because your s

how to contribute package to repository

2013-07-11 Thread Ovcharov Dmitry
Dear sirs, Our company is software developer. Our software is proprietary RDF database. We would like to include our software package in the official Linux distribution repository. What do we need for this? A special license? Should we open source codes? Best regards, Dmitry Head of Department s