Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:21:41 -0700 Joseph Loo wrote: > I think you are missing the problem associated with SSd. The wear > problem is associated with the amount of free space. If the drive > is 99.99% full, you could probably wear the drive out in no time > at all. The wear problem is prevented

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Joseph Loo
On 06/23/2014 12:27 PM, B wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:34:00 +1000 Andrew McGlashan wrote: I believe that would be true of quite /old/ SSD drives, but definitely not for newer ones. I wouldn't be so positive… until a real independent lab, conducting real tests (especially with a high nu

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:05:08 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > Linux-Fan wrote: > > > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > > Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some > > > > help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? > > > > > > > > I can find plen

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:59:04 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > 3 years later I bought an IBM Deskstar drive with 6 times the > capacity for $300.00 :-) These aren't even SATA but IDE; but they're on old machines that give satisfaction for what they're used: storing CAD drawings updated very often and a

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:05:07 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Mon 23 Jun 2014 at 12:43:19 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Anyway, things are going well. My other observation is that Debian > > is less like Ubuntu than it initially looks. > > Debian looks less like Ubuntu than you originally thought? What

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 21:27:59 +0200 B wrote: > May be, but most of my disks have a ≥ 10 years life (24/7) with > a very few errors (only 2 of 45 have 1 & 3 unrecoverable sectors), > so, if you can prove me SSD is as good as these, why not… My question is this: Would a ten year old disk be wor

Re: asciidoc and emacs

2014-06-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:50:31 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The package emacs-goodies-el contains markdown-mode, which is for > editing markdown files. > > Has anything analogous been packaged foe asciidoc instead? > > If not, there seems to be an asciidoc.el file at > http://www.emacswiki.org/ >

asciidoc and emacs

2014-06-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
The package emacs-goodies-el contains markdown-mode, which is for editing markdown files. Has anything analogous been packaged foe asciidoc instead? If not, there seems to be an asciidoc.el file at http://www.emacswiki.org/ emacs/asciidoc.el Is there someplace I should put it in my Debian tes

Re: Chromium cannot access pages.

2014-06-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 08:15:06 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 06/18/2014 04:45 AM, Florian Ernst wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:30:44PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> On 2014-06-17 14:39 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > https://

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:34:00 +1000 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I believe that would be true of quite /old/ SSD drives, but > definitely not for newer ones. I wouldn't be so positive… until a real independent lab, conducting real tests (especially with a high number of small files, test curiously

Re: apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Joel Rees wrote: > Last week, when the kernel update came down the pipe, most of the > packages had decent speed, but the kernel and some others were cut > down to about a fifth normal speed. What archive name are you using? I am in the US and use ftp.us.debian.org and when I do I am actually usi

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jun 2014 at 12:43:19 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Anyway, things are going well. My other observation is that Debian is > less like Ubuntu than it initially looks. Debian looks less like Ubuntu than you originally thought? What did you expect and why should it matter? - they are two diffe

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Linux-Fan wrote: > > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some > > > help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? > > > > > > I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not doing > > > the exact thing

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:34:00 +1000 > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> There have been very heavy torture tests on thew newer range of SSDs >> and they are performing exceptionally well with mega data being >> written [1], up to fairly heavy data usage levels. >> [1] >> http://www.

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
François Patte a écrit : > > # blkid /dev/md0 > > /dev/md0: UUID="41Js9Q-0WaZ-JGYR-r88a-FiqA-XS5F-0XWNOy" (of course the > uuid will be different for you) > > 2- add this in /etc/fstab: > > UUID=41Js9Q-0WaZ-JGYR-r88a-FiqA-XS5F-0XWNOy /storage-raid ext4 rw 0 0 Unlike disks and their partitions,

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
btw It looks like exim4 first entered into Debian with Sarge (Debian 3.1, released 2005), here's a link with more info: http://www.debian-administration.org/article/98/Upgrading_from_Woody_to_Sarge_Part_4_-_Apache2 Cheers A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Steve, This page was last modified in 2006 and it too talks about "latest Debian" curl -I http://blog.edseek.com/~jasonb/articles/exim4_courier/exim4.html HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:54:55 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Last-Modified: Fri, 19 May 2006 19:30:55 GMT ETag: "11c128-

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 24/06/2014 3:16 AM, B wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 >> Steve Litt wrote: >>> I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, >>> 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run, >>> and swap partition, >> >> As a

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:34:00 +1000 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 24/06/2014 3:16 AM, B wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > >> I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, > >> 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Sven Hartge
B wrote:> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: >> I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, 240GB >> SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run, and swap >> partition, > As a SSD has limited write capacities, people usually avoid

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
What are you talking about Steve? On 24/06/2014 2:43 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > The biggest problem I'm having right now is email. I set up a > preliminary Dovecot on the Debian machine. For some reason, the only > way to get the dovecot executable on Wheezy is to follow these > instructions on addin

Re: Getting rights right

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hi Bob, Hi! > First thank you for the detailed answer, you kind of preventively > answered to all my doubts or interrogations. :) Yay! Then I was successful! :-) \o/ > I try to set up a new line of security (files and network) as I just > changed country and instead o

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:33:27 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2014-06-23, Tom Furie wrote: > > > > Try again. The "often (re)written" directories are on a WD spinning > > disk. His data (not sure if that includes homes, but if not I would > > strongly advise it) is on yet another spinning disk. > >

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Curt
On 2014-06-23, Tom Furie wrote: > > Try again. The "often (re)written" directories are on a WD spinning > disk. His data (not sure if that includes homes, but if not I would > strongly advise it) is on yet another spinning disk. > Right, but as his data appears to be on a WD "Green" maybe Steve s

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
On 24/06/2014 3:16 AM, B wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > >> I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, >> 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run, >> and swap partition, > > As a SSD has limited write capacities

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jun 2014 at 19:56:15 +0400, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:03:30AM +0200, François Patte wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Bonjour, > > > > I get this alert message (concerning lightdm) from chkrootkit > > > > ! RUID PID TTYCMD

Re: apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 23 Jun 2014 at 12:04:55 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > I don't know if any conclusions can be drawn from my anecdotes, but if > you collect enough anecdotes perhaps it can help you figure out what's > going wrong. Lots of conclusions can be drawn from anecdotal evidence but a proven aspect of

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:26:48 +0100 Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:16:27PM +0200, B wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, > > > 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:26:48 +0100 Tom Furie wrote: > Try again. The "often (re)written" directories are on a WD spinning > disk. His data (not sure if that includes homes, but if not I would > strongly advise it) is on yet another spinning disk. Oops, I missed the comma :( Manufacturers (or re

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:16:27PM +0200, B wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, > > 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run, > > and swap partition, > > As a SSD has li

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, > 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run, > and swap partition, As a SSD has limited write capacities, people usually avoid using it for things that

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 23 June 2014 17:43:19 Steve Litt wrote: > My other observation is that Debian is > less like Ubuntu than it initially looks. :-)) Quite!! But I don't actually even think that it initially looks like it Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run, and swap partition, and a 3GB Western Digital Green for all my data. I installed Debian Wheezy 7.5 network install with "nonfree yes", and xxxterm (soon to be

Re: Samba4 is missing

2014-06-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:13:08PM +0200, Jordi Clariana wrote: >Hello, >Today I realized that package samba4 is missing from repositories. Is this >normal? >I had installed samba4 packages from one or two month ago, and now it is >unavailable. ># apt-cache search samba4 >

Samba4 is missing

2014-06-23 Thread Jordi Clariana
Hello, Today I realized that package samba4 is missing from repositories. Is this normal? I had installed samba4 packages from one or two month ago, and now it is unavailable. # apt-cache search samba4 libsamba-hostconfig-dev - Samba host configuration library - development files libsamba-hostcon

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 23/06/2014 17:22, Rodney D. Myers a écrit : which should be still similar in Debian 7. If you are new to RAID, So what HTH you says is the good way: create one partitions on each of your storages devices (say sdX1 and sdY1) then use the given com

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:52:37 +0900 Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 08:31:50PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I installed LXDE on a no-X, no-desktop virgin network Wheezy 64bit > > install with non-free software allowed, and on the next boot it went > > into lig

Re: apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:21:48 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > (Seems like I remember seeing a thread on this recently, but I don't > see it in the last week's posts.) > > Last week, when the kernel update came down the pipe, most of the > packages had decent speed, but the kernel and some others were cu

Re: chkrootkit message

2014-06-23 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:03:30AM +0200, François Patte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bonjour, > > I get this alert message (concerning lightdm) from chkrootkit > > ! RUID PID TTYCMD > ! root 3153 tty7 /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth >

[SOLVED] Re: Getting rights right

2014-06-23 Thread Diogene Laerce
Thanks to stop by. :) >> I have a strange behavior lately on my Deby. After a run of : >> >> chown user:user -R /home/user/Documents >> >> and : >> >> chmod 700 -R /home/user/Documents [...] > Which commands did you run as root, or su/sudo root? > > I have sometimes, especially when mo

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

2014-06-23 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > Ah... I had not ever seen ntpdate or rdate used for clock comparison > before. It really is a very useful tool for clock comparisons. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:08:15 +0200 Linux-Fan wrote: > On 06/23/2014 03:40 PM, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some > > help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? > > > > I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not d

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 08:31:50PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed LXDE on a no-X, no-desktop virgin network Wheezy 64bit > install with non-free software allowed, and on the next boot it went > into lightdm. The only thing I could find that installed and required > lightdm

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-23 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 23:52:46 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > $ man fsck.ext4 Ok, my bad 'cos I didn't re-read this for a long time, time where -a was different from -p. So, as fixes are those that won't need user's touch, I agree to your argument :) -- BOFH excuse #345: Having to manually track t

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-23 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 23:24:32 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > What do you mean when you say "these blocks won't be free ..." > without defragmenting? Please explain. If you have references to > share that explained the details that would be great. Just think about this: * HD original = 1000 * HD -5%.

Re: Getting rights right

2014-06-23 Thread Joel Rees
Just a shot in the dark -- On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange behavior lately on my Deby. After a run of : > > chown user:user -R /home/user/Documents > > and : > > chmod 700 -R /home/user/Documents > > I run : > > find /home/user/Docume

apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-23 Thread Joel Rees
(Seems like I remember seeing a thread on this recently, but I don't see it in the last week's posts.) Last week, when the kernel update came down the pipe, most of the packages had decent speed, but the kernel and some others were cut down to about a fifth normal speed. Yesterday or Saturday, wh

Re: raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Linux-Fan
On 06/23/2014 03:40 PM, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some help > for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? > > I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not doing the > exact thing(s) the online guides are showing. > > th

raid/mdadm help

2014-06-23 Thread Rodney D. Myers
Is there a debian specific mail list or online forum to get some help for a newbie setting up a raid storage device? I can find plenty of tips to get started, but things are not doing the exact thing(s) the online guides are showing. thank you -- Rodney D. Myers They that can give up essentia

Re: Getting rights right

2014-06-23 Thread Diogene Laerce
Hi Bob, First thank you for the detailed answer, you kind of preventively answered to all my doubts or interrogations. :) I try to set up a new line of security (files and network) as I just changed country and instead of being in one mostly targeting others, I am now in one mostly targeted by ot

Re: experimenting with dpkg: installing on a different system

2014-06-23 Thread berenger . morel
Le 20.06.2014 18:43, Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2014-06-20 17:42 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: First, a warning: I am basically trying to reinvent a wheel, only for my pleasure and knowledge. Good luck. As you had already noticed, this wheel is going to have some rough corn

chkrootkit message

2014-06-23 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonjour, I get this alert message (concerning lightdm) from chkrootkit ! RUID PID TTYCMD ! root 3153 tty7 /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch What does it mean? - -- Françoi

Re: dhclient changes IP address

2014-06-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > my fritz.box is a DSL router from AVM, which unfortunately does not give me > access to syslog. Oh. I didn't realize that. The way you talked about it I thought it was another Debian system. > What I noticed is that 192.168.178.87 shows up without MAC address > in the li