Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread David Christensen
On 5/9/19 1:49 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: Hi everybody, for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But the going is really very very

Re: Testing netinstall, but use stable release?

2019-05-09 Thread David Christensen
On 5/8/19 11:39 PM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Hi David Hi Rory. :-) On 08/05/19, David Christensen (dpchr...@holgerdanske.com) wrote: On 5/8/19 10:32 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I'm setting up some servers with A2SDi-8C-HLN4F motherboards with Intel x553 cards that require the ixgbe k

Re: update to new kernel

2019-05-09 Thread Default User
On Thu, May 9, 2019, 03:47 songbird wrote: > Tixy wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 11:49 -0400, Default User wrote: > > [...] > >> And, BTW, when will Unstable ever get into the 5.x.x kernel series? > > > > Not until after Buster is released I assume. > > i've been running newer kernels from th

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, May 09, 2019 03:54:33 PM Dan Purgert wrote: >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:00:56 pm john doe wrote: >> >> I would say the 'profile' that you want to move. >> > >> > That does not exist

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:46:34 (+0200), Jan Claeys wrote: > On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 09:56 +, Curt wrote: > > In the event there is no functional motherboard speaker, I guess it > > cannot be a BIOS alarm of any kind. > > Some on-board audio chips are wired up so that they can emulate old > schoo

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 07:53:44 pm David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 May 2019 at 16:26:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > > > On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 16:26:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > > > On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a > > > wheezy install to a stretch install, separat

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:51:24 pm Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a > > wheezy install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously > > the stretch firefox is about 20 versions newe

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, May 09, 2019 03:54:33 PM Dan Purgert wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:00:56 pm john doe wrote: > >> I would say the 'profile' that you want to move. > > > > That does not exist in my $home dir on the src drive. Any idea where it > > may be? > > Should be s

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 20:31:33 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 13:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Well, I've uprooted pulse and pulled in the rest of alsa. No sound > > before or after a reboot now. But I just ran alsamixergui, and found > > the front speakers tunred off. So I

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:00:56 pm john doe wrote: > >> On 5/9/2019 5:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Greetings all; >> > >> > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a >> > wheezy install to a stretch inst

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 12:00:56 pm john doe wrote: > On 5/9/2019 5:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a > > wheezy install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously > > the stretch firefox is about 20 vers

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 16:51:24 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a wheezy > > install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously the > > stretch firefox is about 20 versions

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Jan Claeys
On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 09:56 +, Curt wrote: > In the event there is no functional motherboard speaker, I guess it > cannot be a BIOS alarm of any kind. Some on-board audio chips are wired up so that they can emulate old school IBM PC compatible motherboard speakers/buzzers. -- Jan Claeys (p

Re: next amd64 stretch problem

2019-05-09 Thread Jan Claeys
On Mon, 2019-05-06 at 13:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Well, I've uprooted pulse and pulled in the rest of alsa. No sound > before or after a reboot now. But I just ran alsamixergui, and found > the front speakers tunred off. So I have audio again, about 4x > louder than before. So take that Leo

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, May 09, 2019 10:08:41 AM Martin wrote: > I had this looong time ago. Caused by a noisy/broken keyboard cable. My be > there could be a situation similar on modern USB base keyboards? Thanks for the reply! I'll watch for hints that could be the problem -- I use one keyboard / mouse /

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a wheezy > install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously the > stretch firefox is about 20 versions newer. What file do I copy from the > wheezy drive to the stre

Crime (murder)

2019-05-09 Thread Tomas Ukkonen
Hi I'm murdered. (remote control of CNS after 2012-2014..) Do you want to help me? I have born in 1980 in Finland and worked as Senior Analyst and Scientist for many companies. I'm in San Francisco and trying to travel to Europe asap as people here quite crazy and hotels and taxis dont work an

Re: config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread john doe
On 5/9/2019 5:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a wheezy > install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously the > stretch firefox is about 20 versions newer. What file do I copy from the > wheezy drive to the st

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >> In the event there is no functional motherboard speaker, I guess it >> cannot be a BIOS alarm of any kind. > > Interesting -- I'm not used to / familiar with a speaker on the MB -- in the > old days there was typically a speaker in the case that (if y

config question re ff history etc

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have a need to transfer all the prefs -"saved logins" from a wheezy install to a stretch install, separate drives. And obviously the stretch firefox is about 20 versions newer. What file do I copy from the wheezy drive to the stretch drive so my bank knows its me? Cheers, Gen

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lothar Schilling wrote: > Fast enough... > dd if=/daten/testfile bs=1G oflag=direct of=/daten/testfile2 > 10737418240 Bytes (11 GB, 10 GiB) kopiert, 72,7297 s, 148 MB/s So this is sufficiently fast, but cp /daten/testfile /daten/testfile2 lasts 2000 seconds ? > dd if=/daten/testfile of=/

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 10:28:10 am Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019, at 15:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... and its one of the reasons > > an SSD seems so much faster because they seek in a microsecond > > In what sense does an SSD have "seek time"? Seek time is > a tightly defined th

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2019, at 15:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > > ... and its one of the reasons > > an SSD seems so much faster because they seek in a microsecond > > In what sense does an SSD have "seek time"? Seek time is > a tightly defined thing. > > There must be delays in

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 9 May 2019, at 15:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > ... and its one of the reasons > an SSD seems so much faster because they seek in a microsecond In what sense does an SSD have "seek time"? Seek time is a tightly defined thing. There must be delays in SSD firmware's processing, I suppose,

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 09:57:38 am Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2019 05:56:58 am Curt wrote: > > On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > I had something similar that sounded like a little 6" Elf sneezing > > > in my little ASUS laptop/netbook. Same deal where it was very > > > s

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 04:49:32 am Lothar Schilling wrote: > Hi everybody, > > for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided > to give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to > become our main backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But > the

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Martin
Am 09.05.19 um 02:32 schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: > On my Debian Jessie system, for several hours today I've been hearing a beep > (through my audio system / speakers / headphones) something like the beep > that > used to come out of the PC speaker (on older computers -- I don't think I > even

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Martin
Am 09.05.19 um 14:43 schrieb Lothar Schilling: > Am 09.05.2019 um 13:27 schrieb Martin: >> [..] >>> hdparm -tT /dev/sda >>> /dev/sda: >>>  Timing cached reads:   13348 MB in  2.00 seconds = 6683.42 MB/sec >>>  Timing buffered disk reads: 1014 MB in  3.00 seconds = 337.72 MB/sec >>> >>> iotop -o (fo

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 May 2019 05:56:58 am Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > I had something similar that sounded like a little 6" Elf sneezing > > in my little ASUS laptop/netbook. Same deal where it was very > > sporadic. It turned out to most likely be a warning that it was > >

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread rhkramer
Thanks to all who replied -- see below: On Thursday, May 09, 2019 02:10:16 AM Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 5/8/19, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > > Possibly an open website? Some of those become very annoying. I'll look into that -- thankfully that is the computer that probably has only 30 to 40 tabs

Re: Remote server access via KVM?

2019-05-09 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 07:35 Dan Ritter wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: > > My remote server hosted with Dedispec has serious problems and they have > > offered me access via KVM. > > > > What do I need on my end to use that access to fix my remote host from my > > home network? > > > > All the refer

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 13:23 schrieb Keith Christian: > What is the rsync command line, could there be a —bwlimit option in it? No, there isn't. Anyway, cp has the same problem.

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 13:27 schrieb Martin: > [..] >> hdparm -tT /dev/sda >> /dev/sda: >>  Timing cached reads:   13348 MB in  2.00 seconds = 6683.42 MB/sec >>  Timing buffered disk reads: 1014 MB in  3.00 seconds = 337.72 MB/sec >> >> iotop -o (for rsync and cp) >> Total DISK READ :   0.00 B/s | To

Re: Remote server access via KVM?

2019-05-09 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > My remote server hosted with Dedispec has serious problems and they have > offered me access via KVM. > > What do I need on my end to use that access to fix my remote host from my > home network? > > All the references I see are access to VMs running on a local network. KVM

Re: Remote server access via KVM?

2019-05-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 06:52:57AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: >My remote server hosted with Dedispec has serious problems and they have >offered me access via KVM. >What do I need on my end to use that access to fix my remote host from my >home network? >All the references I see

Re: Testing netinstall, but use stable release?

2019-05-09 Thread Brian
On Thu 09 May 2019 at 07:29:49 +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Thanks for your advice, Brian. > > Are you referring to "It is not possible to install sid from a netinst > or full CD. Please use the netboot installation method". I certainly > missed that. My apologies. No need to apologise; I

Remote server access via KVM?

2019-05-09 Thread Tom Browder
My remote server hosted with Dedispec has serious problems and they have offered me access via KVM. What do I need on my end to use that access to fix my remote host from my home network? All the references I see are access to VMs running on a local network. Thanks. -Tom

Re: apache2 missing a file, won't run.

2019-05-09 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Brian wrote: > On Wed 08 May 2019 at 18:00:01 -, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Brian wrote: >> > >> > You have a PPD in /etc/cups/ppd for the printer. What do the >> >> hm, nope. >> >> $ ls /etc/cups/ppd >> ls: cannot access '/etc/cups/ppd': No s

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Martin
[..] > hdparm -tT /dev/sda > /dev/sda: >  Timing cached reads:   13348 MB in  2.00 seconds = 6683.42 MB/sec >  Timing buffered disk reads: 1014 MB in  3.00 seconds = 337.72 MB/sec > > iotop -o (for rsync and cp) > Total DISK READ :   0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE : 476.15 K/s > Actual DISK R

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Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Keith Christian
What is the rsync command line, could there be a —bwlimit option in it?

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 12:50 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > [ replying to list, not discretely ] > > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 12:36:55) >> Am 09.05.2019 um 12:26 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >>> Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 11:46:00) Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >>>

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[ replying to list, not discretely ] Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 12:36:55) > Am 09.05.2019 um 12:26 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 11:46:00) > >> Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > >>> Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) > >>>

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 11:46:00) > Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) > >> I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main > >> backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But the going is > >> re

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 11:51 schrieb Kevin DAGNEAUX: > Le 09/05/2019 à 11:46, Lothar Schilling a écrit : >> Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >>> Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a t

Re: Help tracking down a random beep

2019-05-09 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-09, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > > I had something similar that sounded like a little 6" Elf sneezing in > my little ASUS laptop/netbook. Same deal where it was very sporadic. > It turned out to most likely be a warning that it was about to *CLICK* > off due to overheating.. > > $ sensor

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 09/05/2019 à 11:46, Lothar Schilling a écrit : Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a try. Welcome to Debian! I sincerely hope you will appreciate

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Am 09.05.2019 um 11:14 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: > Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) >> for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided >> to give Debian a try. > Welcome to Debian! > > I sincerely hope you will appreciate Debian. > > >> I just set up a Stretch 9.

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Lothar Schilling (2019-05-09 10:49:32) > for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided > to give Debian a try. Welcome to Debian! I sincerely hope you will appreciate Debian. > I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main backup > server. So I

Re: Configure your PC to contribute to Debian community

2019-05-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Vipul writes: > I've been using Debian from couples of years but haven't contributed > yet back to community. I want to contribute to Debian by maintaining > packages and fixing bugs. Since I'm using Debian for work purpose also > so, I don't want to mess-up with my system by installing unstable >

Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Lothar Schilling
Hi everybody, for years I have used CentOS for our server landscape. Now I decided to give Debian a try. I just set up a Stretch 9.8 system supposed to become our main backup server. So I set up a backup job wih rsync. But the going is really very very slow. Trying to figure out what's happeni

Re: update to new kernel

2019-05-09 Thread songbird
Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 11:49 -0400, Default User wrote: > [...] >> And, BTW, when will Unstable ever get into the 5.x.x kernel series? > > Not until after Buster is released I assume. i've been running newer kernels from the experimental suite. working ok for me. songbird