Re: [OT] LTO-1 tape drives

2008-10-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:40:05AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hi all, I'll be setting up my Tyan P-133 box as the secure /home data repository for our home use. I need a backup solution that allows me to take it with me (not just copy it to another computer). Backup set size,

Re: apcupsd and hal

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:27:35PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:20:24 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:02:07PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 16:21:50 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi [snip] If removing the handler leads

Re: apcupsd and hal

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:08:55PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:35:10 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:27:35PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:20:24 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:02:07PM +0200

Re: vim Tip (was ... Re: Changes to vim, how to undo)

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:23:13AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:34:34AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: my problem is after a recent upgrade of vim I had to add in source /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/mail.vim when i used to be able to do just set filetype=mail

Re: how to setup a local website for storing some debian packages?

2008-10-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:16:14AM +0800, Star Liu wrote: sometimes we have some standalone packages to install, it's not in the offical mirrors. I'm a web developer so I hope I can make a local website to store these packages, then I add a line deb http://localhost/debian unstable main

Re: Sound broken in recent Lenny update

2008-10-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:02:26AM +, Anton Piatek wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My sound has stopped working in a recent update to Lenny - I think the problem is related to the loading of the snd-pcsp module taking the wrong index as sound tries to play across

Re: digital out with alsa

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:13:05PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I have recently purchased a new motherboard gigabyte ga-m750sli-ds4 it has a nvidia / intel sound chip set NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC882 Analog [ALC882 Analog] 00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0774

Re: apcupsd and hal

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:02:07PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 16:21:50 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi it seems like my apcupsd deamon get stuck when hal is probing /dev/usb/hidinput0 (the ups). when I kill hal apcupsd is okay, otherwise it get stuck can't kill

Changes to vim, how to undo

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have spent a bit of time setting up mutt and vim, from some help on the mailing list. I had mutt use a user config file for vim == mutt.vim == source everything as usual setting filtype to mail should have all the right values ! source /etc/vim/vimrc source ~/.vimrc set filetype=mail

Re: Changes to vim, how to undo

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:51:38PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,26.Oct.08, 07:34:34, Alex Samad wrote: my problem is after a recent upgrade of vim I had to add in source /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/mail.vim I didn't have to add anything, vim automatically recognizes

Re: Changes to vim, how to undo

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:21:48AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:51:38PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,26.Oct.08, 07:34:34, Alex Samad wrote: my problem is after a recent upgrade of vim I had to add in source /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/mail.vim I

digital out with alsa

2008-10-24 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have recently purchased a new motherboard gigabyte ga-m750sli-ds4 it has a nvidia / intel sound chip set NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC882 Analog [ALC882 Analog] 00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0774 (rev a1) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002

apcupsd and hal

2008-10-24 Thread Alex Samad
Hi it seems like my apcupsd deamon get stuck when hal is probing /dev/usb/hidinput0 (the ups). when I kill hal apcupsd is okay, otherwise it get stuck can't kill it with -9 :( how can i tell hal to not watch for the ups ? or is there some other work around for this ? Alex -- I was proud

Re: cannot access www via a proxy while in a VPN

2008-10-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:17:39AM +0200, Steve S wrote: On Oct 22 08:42 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: [snip] So that's the same as with the browsers. Any further tips on what I could do? Thanks! might be time to talk to the helpdesk ? looks like you address isn't allow to access the proxy

Re: cannot access www via a proxy while in a VPN

2008-10-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:37:50PM +0200, Steve S wrote: Hi I'm starting a VPN with the network of my university via vpnc. The VPN itself seems OK. I can ssh directly into machines at the university and ifconfig says [...] tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr

Re: Any suggest on NFS server in product environment?

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:33:55PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2008 10:01, Ding Honghui wrote: hi list, Any suggest on NFS server in product environment? nfs-user-server or nfs-kernel-server? We need stable nfs server. I use nfs-kernel-server, I use it to run

managing a adaptec 1430sa

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering if any one out there uses one of these to do hardware raid. I thought I might set it up in raid10 with 4 1Tb drives. My questions on this is what software do I use to alert me if there any problems and will it show up as 1 scsi device (or is it a silly software raid solution

Re: House wireless/wired router: choices? Plus wireless neophyte questions.

2008-10-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:46:48AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: Hi folks. Been a long time since I've posted to this list. I have exactly zero experience with wireless -- I've never owned a laptop, and have just never needed it. My gf, as part of her job, needs to bring home a laptop

Re: how to sniff marked packets by iptables

2008-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:33:38AM -0300, Lucas Mocellin wrote: Ok, I understood, but create a dummy device to sniff it in a operation server I think it is not the best solution. But, I have never thought about -j LOG, kkk if I do a filter by the mark, and -j LOG, I think it's

Re: Howto sign e-mail using PGP (Debian Lennyy Evolution2.22.3.1)?

2008-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 07:08:12PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 18:57 +0200, Winfried Tilanus wrote: I can confirm that your key is uploaded correctly and that the signature verification fails. Thanks for the confirmation. Can anyone give me a clue how to get

Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:28:43AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 09/27/2008 10:42 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: I have used Debian for many years and I have always used the kernel-package program that is included with Debian to compile new kernels. I have an older Athlon PC that has the Reiserfs

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 06:25:36PM -, Michael Perry wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:40:05 +0200, David Sanders wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: @dam-main:~$ uname -r 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware ii vmware-workstation

Re: LVM2, Debian, and changing the hostname

2008-09-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 03:08:11PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: I am about to migrate a small server to a new box. Some weeks ago I installed Lenny (amd64) on the new box and used a temporary hostname for it, planning on changing the hostname after the system had been tested and was ready to

Re: RAID questions/advise

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:59:57PM -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: Hi guys, I've had a couple of RAID boxes ticking away in the corner for years now without a problem. But now our needs have expanded, and I'm looking to build replacements. Big replacements. And I consider myself to be

Re: iptables logs?

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:47:30PM -0400, Zach Uram wrote: I am running Debian testing with 2.6.18 kernel and iptables. Does anyone know how I can have iptables log to a seperate file such as /var/log/iptables and I want them saved with logrotate. I want to try have a look at ulog out some

Re: procmail rule to filter debian-user

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:44:00AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you aren't wedded to procmail for some other reason, then maybe maildrop would be more to your liking, since it has a much simpler syntax. Here's my maildrop rule for filtering d-u mails:

Re: nss_ldap issue

2008-09-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:54:52AM +0530, Harpreet wrote: Hi I am facing a problem of nss_ldap i.e. when a user tries to connect to courier services, they get the following error. user.info: Sep 18 11:24:35 nscd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server... user.err: Sep 18 11:24:35 nscd:

Re: sed

2008-09-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:53:18PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:29:29PM +0100, michael wrote: I've been struggling to get this to work but I think 'sed' should be able to do it if I could just get some help with the correct incantation... given a file with

nvidia and xrandr and multiple screens

2008-09-16 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am trying to setup xrandr + nvidia on xorg. I am currently using twinview, which works well on boot up, but if I undock my laptop I can't readjust my screen's xrandr only shows 1 mode. if I undo twinview and try and setup multiple devices I can't get my second screen to show up, xrandr

Re: mdadm raid5 giving me heartburn.....

2008-09-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:39:47PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: the current state of my system -- it is up and running but i do not belive for long: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : active raid5 sda5[3](F) sdb5[4](F) sdd5[2]

Re: Bash-SU Question

2008-09-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 04:13:27PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: Hi, Here's my script: #!/bin/sh su -m -c echo User: $(whoami) user1 isn't this $(whoami) being executed in the original /bin/sh to executre it under the su wouldn't you need something like \$(whoami) sleep1

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:41:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 18:57, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 17:10, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 16:04, Alex Samad wrote

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:50:05PM +0200, François Cerbelle wrote: Le Mar 9 septembre 2008 13:39, Alex Samad a écrit : [...] don't see the difference between connectivity via the internet or via an openvpn network, if your rule states only allow ssh (+ related traffic + only

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:42:31PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,09.Sep.08, 13:50:05, François Cerbelle wrote: [...] Now, you have to protect the admin box from an attack initiated from the NATted box (mother's). Because this box is unsure. So, you set iptables rules on the

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: My Internet access has been getting slower and slower and my ISP is a joke: $ ping google.com PING google.com (64.233.167.99) 56(84) bytes of

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: My Internet access has been getting slower

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 17:10, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:12:28AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,09.Sep.08, 07:51:30, Alex Samad wrote: Or do you have any other ideas? openvpn + iptables. Use openvpn with cert's to create a tunnel and then use iptables on your end to block any traffic, until you want

Re: USB devices not detected unless plugged in at boot

2008-09-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:24:13PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:51:49PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,08.Sep.08, 14:14:44, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:28:10PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,08.Sep.08, 07:52:25, Carl Fink wrote: On my

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:48:21AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: Hi, Recently my mother (running Lenny) switched ISPs and is now behind a NAT, which makes direct ssh access impossible. A reverse ssh tunnel can solve this, but having her type a passphrase every time is hmm... unrealistic.

Re: corrupted software raid

2008-09-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:41:36PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: Hello, I upgraded one of my servers to debian/lenny recently, and unfortunately I forgot to remove the apt pinning for mdadm from /etc/apt/preferences, so an old mdadm from backports.org was kept installed, while the rest of the

networking question

2008-09-06 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was having problems with my nfs this morning, I had recently set it to use udp. Seems like my router isn't forwarding frag udp packet. I have check sysctl for forwarding its on, i looked for soemthing under frag or udp and nothing relevant turned up. checked iptables it doesn't seem to be

Re: For Lenny: LVM, LVM+MD or just MD for mirroring?

2008-09-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:59:01PM -0700, Jens wrote: On 5 Sep., 21:20, Brian Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use LVM and software raid via md on every server. We use md to run raid 10 arrays and then we use LVM on top of that. We use snapshots to backup our Hello Brian, sounds

Re: ssh X11 forwarding problem

2008-09-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 04:26:45AM -0400, Zach Uram wrote: Ok from my local host I can ssh into a host on network A with 'ssh -X [snip] The X11 forwarding worked fine on host A (a school host) yet fails on host B (my VPX box). Any clue how I can fix this and why it works on network A's

Re: encrypted partition question

2008-09-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:03:48PM +0200, Maciej Korzeń wrote: Alexander Golovin wrote: [...] 2. Created the cryptographic device mapper: cryptsetup -y create crypt /dev/hda6 (entered passphrase twice) [...] cryptoloop is not the best choice: http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.cryptoloop.php.

Re: Exim4 SMTP direct send, blocked incoming port 25

2008-09-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:06:26PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: Is it possible to use exim4 to send mail if port 25 is blocked by the ISP (incoming)? I can receive mail by using easyDNS and getting them to forward my mail to another port, but I'm not sure outgoing will work. I tried

Re: Transplanting A Fresh Debian Etch to another Router

2008-09-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 07:35:22AM +, Boer Kees wrote: I am fairly new to linux. I managed to install Debian (etch) on my computer, and when it all worked fine, installed one, for a friend of mine, from behind my router. All works fine, when he puts his machine behind my router.

Re: udev and partitioning

2008-08-31 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 07:16:54AM -0700, - Xian wrote: Hi all, I just setup a machine with an ide disk for / and two sata disks I intend to mirror for storage. There were two partitions on the sata disks I wiped out to turn into one big linux raid autodetect partition. With /dev/sda, the

problem with openssh-server

2008-08-29 Thread Alex Samad
Before I file a bug report, has any one else been having any problem with openssh-server 1:5.1p1-2 seems like where ever I have installed it I haven't been able to login afterwards. I just tracked down that it is not accepting any ipv4 connections only ipv6. ssh 127.0.0.1 -l alex = work before

Re: problem with openssh-server

2008-08-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 04:57:24PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-08-29 16:26, Wayne Topa wrote: Alex Samad wrote: Before I file a bug report, has any one else been having any problem with openssh-server 1:5.1p1-2 seems like where ever I have installed it I haven't been able

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:24:46AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: On Aug 23, 10:10 pm, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:59:43AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Within Debian you should not put the FQDN in /etc/hostname

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 01:08:33PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-08-24 12:00:52 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:59:43AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Within Debian you should not put the FQDN in /etc

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:59:43AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Within Debian you should not put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. There can be problems with that. I don't remember exactly. Something like it is annoying not to be able to get

Re: IP Forward on Testing

2008-08-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 08:51:08AM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Hello I am using Debian as a router, so that I need to enable the ipv4 forward feature. My question is how I enable it automatically, even when the machine is reboot? So that the value in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward still

Re: WebMail Interface

2008-08-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:44:24PM +0800, Rod James Bio wrote: Weve been using Horde for 2 years now and we are now looking for an alternative for Horde. Any suggestions? any reason for moving away from horde, I am making the slow move towards horde, especially now that dimp has made it into

Re: Problems with pppoe - sendPacket: send: Network is down

2008-08-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:15:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, For the 1rst time, I've installed a Debian box that must connect directly to the net via DSL. I've an Alcatel Speedtouch modem connected to eth0, my local private network is on eth1 (this works without problems).

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] If I'm hearing folks correctly, is 32-bit flash running out of the box on 64-bit lenny now? If it's not running out of the box, could someone please post a link to a HOWTO? Thanks! apt-get

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:46:53PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I accidentally made all the files on my system owned by me and am trying to get them back to where they should be. I did this about 2-3 weeks ago, although all to root (damned cold). it was only a test machine, just going

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:13:29PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: «(Java, Flash, etc. are not yet released in 64-bit compatible versions)» browser plugins Huh? I'm using Java (Eclipse) and flash (mozilla) on 2.6.18-6-amd64... -- Nuno Magalhães -- A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot

Re: Best fs for imapserver?

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:34:58PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:10:42PM +0200, Eric Persson wrote: I'm looking to improve the performance on one of our imap-servers since its getting slow on large folders with 100k or more files in I'm not sure this is as true

Re: Upgrading Hard Drives

2008-08-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:15:41AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,16.Aug.08, 07:07:39, Alex Samad wrote: man rsync -x, --one-file-system don’t cross filesystem boundaries which means not to traverse any filesystem mounts, which is why it doesn't do /prox /sys /dev

Re: CUPS problem

2008-08-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 06:54:27PM +0300, Alexander Petrov wrote: I started hplip (version 2.4.1 and it made some installations (gcc, g++, python-dev, libcupsys2-dev, libjpeg-dev, libusb-dev, libsnmp-dev ) and then hung. The staus of the process was 'sleeping' What should I do next?

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:39AM -0500, gary turner wrote: Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot config-2.6.18-5-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486 config-2.6.21-2-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486.bak config-2.6.22-2-486

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:52:05AM -0500, gary turner wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:39AM -0500, gary turner wrote: Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot snip Can I safely rm those I don't want to keep

Re: CUPS problem

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:16:24PM +0300, Alexander Petrov wrote: Hi everyone,I have Debian Etch 2.6.18-i686 on AMDSempron 3000+. I want to install my HP DeskJet 920C on it. I downloaded the recomended driver HP_deskjet_920C_hpijs.ppd from linuxprinting.org and installed it through CUPS

Re: Upgrading Hard Drives

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:42:58PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: On Friday 15 August 2008 23:15, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:05:32, Shachar Or wrote: I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically by e.g.

Re: Home partition shared between Debian MS WinXP

2008-08-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:55:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/13/08 20:39, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59:46AM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: I have Debian Lenny MS Windows XP SP2 installed on different partitions of my hdd. [snip] What solution is better

Re: Two computers thrash soon after boot -- how to stop it?

2008-08-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:28:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: One of these computers is a desktop. From a cold boot it appears to load the operating system without incident -- as far as I can tell -- right to the kdm login manager. Once a user name and password are entered it loads KDE in

Re: Home partition shared between Debian MS WinXP

2008-08-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59:46AM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: I have Debian Lenny MS Windows XP SP2 installed on different partitions of my hdd. [snip] What solution is better or are there any other good solutions? use nfs (microsoft provide a free nfs client for XP, 2000 - haven't

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:43:14AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:15 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:32:04AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,12.Aug.08, 01:04:00, Aniruddha wrote: Regularly my hard disk device names change ( e.g. from sdc to sdh

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:05:11PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:21:13AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:58:15 -0700 From: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:58:01AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: On Aug 10, 5:10 pm, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:48:48PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: Hi, Alex -- For some reason, I can't get linux.debian.user to post my reply. I tried Reply twice, and my comments

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:47:41PM +0100, kj wrote: Hi guys, At work I'm starting to push the limits of my RAM with MySQL/InnoDB on my workstation (I do dev/testing on my workstation). I have 64bit hardware, capable of taking 8gb memory. best place to ask is the amd64 mailing list

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:32:04AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,12.Aug.08, 01:04:00, Aniruddha wrote: Regularly my hard disk device names change ( e.g. from sdc to sdh to sdb etc). When this happens it becomes impossible to boot. To prevent this from happening I 've added

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:48:48PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: [snip] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I edited /etc/network/interfaces to look like this: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface

Re: Router IPv6

2008-08-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:16:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:08:56AM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: modprobe ipv6 I can't see anything happens here # modprobe ipv6 I suspect

Re: Router IPv6

2008-08-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:27:07PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Dear all, I have Debian operating as an router. I am curious with IPv6. How do I implement it on my Debian router? modprobe ipv6 -- Zaki Akhmad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: How do I enable UUID in Debian?

2008-08-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:21:31PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: Aniruddha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Since my harddrive names keep changing after each reboot I have to set UUID in grub to make sure I can boot. I've done this before in Gentoo and I wonder how this works in Debian. Do

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:01:25AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-08-05 00:39, Scarletdown wrote: So that being the case, I am guessing that the SATA drive will show up sata's normally turn up as scsi devices so sda in /dev as something other than hdd (hda is the current primary

Re: simple router

2008-08-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:18:21AM +0300, Alexander wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:45 -0300, Ezequiel Larrarte wrote: [snip] is good enough for me. DSL modem is working good, I have an internet connection on my eth0 iface, but haven't nothing in my eth1 and eth2 ifaces, how to configure

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:43:06PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:41:04 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:27:01AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:25 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: [snip] /usr 172.25.1.4(rw,sync

Re: packet forwarding.

2008-08-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 10:18:17PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Sat August 2 2008 18:31:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My network is illustrated here now. http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/Network.jpg [snip] no connection. That routing table shows that dalton knows the route to joule. From

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:27:01AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:25 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: [snip] /usr 172.25.1.4(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) what about map_identity ? you using nis/ldap ? Funny. When I cut and pasted it into this page if but a

Re: NFS problems with Mac client

2008-07-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:47:08AM +0200, André Berger wrote: * Alex Samad (2008-07-29): On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:05:58PM +0200, André Berger wrote: * Alex Samad (2008-07-28): on the nas box /exports/shared -async,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,mp=/exports

Re: NFS problem

2008-07-29 Thread Alex Samad
some thoughts inline On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:13:28PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In response to my message of 2008-07-28 on this subject M. Preud'homme rightly intimated that I should have provided more information so that he (and others?)

NFS problems with Mac client

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am having some problems with my new mini mac connecting to my debian amd64 nfs server. I have other linux clients that are working well with nfs. I have raised this on the apple forums, but the suggestion (see the tcpdump) is that the server is not responding. on the nas box

Re: trouble HP SmartArray 6400

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:50:34AM -0300, Lucas Mocellin wrote: Hi Damon, before all, thanks for your complete answer. HP have a set of forums (forums.itrc.hp.com/) I believe they have HP people on there - its free from memory, I would suggest they would have the best answer for you. also

Re: to cluster or not? what's best solution for 2-node HA?

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:18:03AM -0700, Bob wrote: On Jul 26, 1:50 am, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:09:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/08 16:32, Bob wrote: [snip] Alex - TX for your reply

Re: NFS problems with Mac client

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:05:58PM +0200, André Berger wrote: * Alex Samad (2008-07-28): on the nas box /exports/shared -async,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,mp=/exports/shared 192.168.8.0/22(rw) Try /exports/shared 192.168.8.0/22(rw,async,no_subtree_check

Re: packet forwarding.

2008-07-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:03:50AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex, net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 as This is allow the kernel to do packet forwarding No problem there. My LAN machines have no problems accessing the 'net for http, pop3, ftp. as turn which on ? TUN packet forwarding

Re: How do I recover LVM at boot

2008-07-27 Thread Alex Samad
try putting back your old mdadm.conf this is how mine looks = # mdadm.conf # # Please refer to mdadm.conf(5) for information about this file. # # by default, scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) for MD superblocks. # alternatively, specify devices to scan, using

Re: How do I recover LVM at boot -- SOLVED --

2008-07-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 06:22:37PM -0700, ss11223 wrote: And there it was The Grub menu.lst file was corrupted in the line specifying the /dev/ mapper command. :-) maybe a good time to change to using LABEL's and not /dev/some path -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: packet forwarding.

2008-07-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 06:10:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex and others, as for a machine at local lan a (say 192.168.0.100) to talk to a machine at local lab b ( say 192.168.2.200). I would need a route on the gateway box in local lan A something like ip r a 192.168.2.0/24

Re: to cluster or not? what's best solution for 2-node HA?

2008-07-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:09:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/08 16:32, Bob wrote: Here's what I want: I have a vmware server running on etch, hosting 4 VM's. I want these 4 VM's to be hosted in such a way, that should anything

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] This is working from gateway. I'm trying it from LAN behind the gateway

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:27:01AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I needed to reload the flash drive on a Zenstone 2-gig mp3 player. I have noticed that when the drive is full, operations all still work, but take much longer than one might expect which probably has something to do with the

Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled

Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:34:14AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns servers

Re: ping

2008-07-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:13:53AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,23.Jul.08, 01:04:30, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/23/08 00:21, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,22.Jul.08, 20:30:04, Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/22/08 20:11, Ignacio Mondino wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 08:05:11PM -0500, Ron

Re: Multiple static ips and dhcp mixed

2008-07-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Armin Häberling wrote: Hi all, I'm currently setting up a development machine of ours. For testing our application it need two static ips. it does not need to be accessible under these ips from outside. Another interface should be configured via

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