hi ya "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ( sorry couldnt resist )
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, [UTF-8] ÃâÃ¤Ä vÃÑÅ©Å wrote:
> hello, i have a small problem, i am trying to add a splash image to my
> bootup, grub and the initial loading before xserver starts, everything
> i have read that refers to this sort of t
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jules Dubois wrote:
...
> > But I think I need
> > a mentor to introduce me to how things work and what my first reading
> > list or RTFM should be.
good that you're willing to RTFM...
- for specific issues, i bet yahoo/google will have some pointers
and howt
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Haines Brown wrote:
> It happened that I could no longer mount my ide cdrom or my scsi cdrom
> drives
that is a simple kernel option problem
- fix lilo/grub config files
- manually installt he modules manuall
> I can boot all three disks from a grub boot flo
On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I wish HDD LEDs were multicolored so you could tell if it's writing,
> reading or whatever. Even if it changes too fast to be practical, it
> would still be nifty. Sort of like the load average speedometer on
> the BeBox.
ez enuff too... hd activity
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
> True, but in combination with the other evidence, it's pretty clear that
> LILO wrote to the SCSI disk. I have no alternate explanation.
lots of possible explanations, but
> Thanks for your input but there may be no point in tying up more list
> bandwi
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
> In addition to the SCSI disk becoming unbootable -- the SCSI drive LED
> flashed when LILO wrote to it; and pulling the SCSI cable (not recommended)
just because the light flashed doesnt mean it was written
> As I mentioned before, the target partition /dev/h
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
> > - how do you "know" that it is doing the right thing or not??
>
> I verified the LILO update to the wrong (SCSI) disk, beyond just
> observing that it had been rendered unbootable, if that's what you mean.
how did you "verify" that lilo wrote to the wrong d
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
> Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> > lilo puts the MBR where you told it ...
> > vi /etc/lilo.conf
> > boot=/dev/
> >
> > that is where it isntalls it
>
> Again, it does not on my systems, under the c
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda bs=448 count=1
>
> This doesn't address the problem. Again, the only workaround I know about
> is removing the SCSI (or "first disk") to make LILO work correctly. That
> requires the steps I outlined. Even if there is a bett
hi ya marty
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
> Alvin Oga wrote:
...
> >> Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk
> >
> > if yoou can boot from /dev/hda ... lilo is working
> > - pull out the scsi disk to make sure you are booting off /dev/hda
>
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Marty wrote:
> Whenever I try to install lilo to an IDE drive other than the one
> one which I booted, and the later drive is SCSI, I get the following
> warning message from LILO:
>
> Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk
if yoou can boot from /dev/hda ... lilo is wo
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, roberto wrote:
> hello
> i have to get my entire /home/myself from machine B (debian sarge, k 2.6.8)
> to my actual machine A to make a backup copy,
>
> could you please address me where i can find the correct procedure to do
> this using rsync or scp?
machineB# ssh -l
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, roberto wrote:
> > # source ~/.il8n.en
> > #
> > #
> > export LANG=en_us
> > #
> > unset LANGUAGE
> > unset LC_ALL
> > unset LC_CTYPE
> > unset ENC
> > unset XIM
> > unset XMODIFIERS
> but it is commented out so probably it is not to be sourced so i only need to
> run you
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, roberto wrote:
> hello
>
> someone has upgraded the distro in a pc i currently use but unfortunately he
> chose the wrong
> languages for some applications like aptitude or mc,
> i want to switch back to english, how can i do this?
#
# source ~/.il8n.en
#
# Reset to Engli
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Mr Mike wrote:
> note: I asked in chat and all I got was BS about using mail and
> filtering msgs on X headers (which I'm already doing) and it's not
> working out for me ... so please, lets not go there. All I need is a
> free nntp server with the debian-* lists.
partia
hi ya joe
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joe McCool wrote:
> My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc.
i assume you mean: /vmlinuz
and there is no such thing in linux as \vmlinuz
as far as the kernel file itself though you can name it anything
you like
it c
hi ay
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT wrote:
> I wanted to reconfigure a server so that it used a raid 1 array instead of
> just one disk.
bad idea .. waste of time as oyu're finding out ...
and whats the poit, you already have 1 disk of the 2-disk raid
> Created a raid 1 arr
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote:
> All this backup talk got me thinking: what do you guys recommend for
> backing up workstations with CDs/DVDs for a luser, especially when backing
> up large amounts of data (say, movie and music files) that may not fit into
> one CD/DVD?
hi ya
as ya'll can tell there is no one real answer for "good backup"
and everybody has their favorites methodology and assumptions
and willingness to accept the restriction that any particular app has
-- a good backup app ..
- you must decide on which backup media
- flo
> --- Stephane Durieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
>
> > hello
> >
> > I am trying to make my own floppy root image
fun project .. but not for the beginners, at least in
order to be successful at it
> > But I don t know how to do
> > I should probably make an ext2 floppy and include
> > m
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> I have been getting a huge number of attempts to log into my box via ssh
> which fail with invalid username entrys in the logs. Is there already a
> package which will let me look through the logs and dynamically add
> iptables rules to drop anything f
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Diesis wrote:
> I'm stuck with this...
> I have a Debian Woody system with root on raid, and I wish to upgrade it.
> First of all, I wish to build a set of boot floppies that could be used
> for booting and restart the complete system without troubles.
if it is truly a work
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Siju George wrote:
> # cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1]
> md2 : active raid1 hdd3[1]
> 4883648 blocks [2/1] [_U]
you have a bad raid system ...
you lose one partition and your entire raid disks can be toast
-
if /dev/md2 is /boot ...
- why do
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Siju George wrote:
> Yes its partition 2 . what would be an appropriate location???
> I just followed the BSD way where swap (b) comes immediately after / (a).
> What is appropriate for linux??
swap can be anywhere on the disks
swap is supposedly never used ...
why would
hi ya
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Siju George wrote:
> I want to have the following partitions in both the hard disk
>
> / - 500 MB - Primary
good
> swap - 2 GB - Primary
bad location ?? if it is partition#2
> /usr - 5 GB - Primary
ok
> /home - 500 MB - Logical
extreme bad idea if you have use
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Thomas Adam wrote:
> --- Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > hey folks,
> >
> > what tools to people use to do quick drawing or modelling of
> > molecules/chemical reactions/etc? I have tried ghemical and find it
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] FvwmEvent]$ apt-cache search
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, mess-mate wrote:
> Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> |
> | save it as
> |
> | /backup/mon
> | /backup/tue
> | /backup/wed
...
> But can't save as /backup/mon, etc.. There is nochoice about the
> backup name except the pr
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, mess-mate wrote:
> Hi,
> i backup my maildir directory every 3 days with 'konserve' ( kde
> backup utility)
> I've to delete manually older backups of these.
> The backup file look like this: Maildir-20050605182810.tar.gz
if your saving every 3 days.. why are you using time i
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Winston Smith wrote:
> My suggestion above assumes you use tar cv -X /tmp/excludes -p
> --atime-preserve ./* -- | ...
> ^^^ instead of tar cv -X
> /tmp/excludes -p --atime-preserve * -- | ...
its supposed to be
tar cf menas you
On Fri, 27 May 2005, David Witbrodt wrote:
> I just installed Debian for the first time. I have two hard drives, one on
> the motherboard IDE controller and a bigger, better one on a PCI controller
> card.
>
> I wanted to install Debian to the drive attached to the PCI controller, but
> th
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> Oh well. I will just have to live on the edge and keep an eye out for
> problems. (okay, an ear!)
and keep a free finger floating around too :-)
always best to be on the leading edge with "new" problems than to
be on the trailing edge with known
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 06:41:18PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> >
> > > > CAN-2005-1263 [Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege escalation]
> > > > - kernel-source-2.6.11 2.6.11 2.6.11-4
> > >
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Selva Nair wrote:
> On 5/26/05, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Selva Nair wrote:
>
> > > I have taken the system off the net and am in the process of
> > > re-installing but the existence
> > > of such an easy to use and effective privilege escalation kit is
> > >
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Sebastian Noack wrote:
you might need BUSID - check if you are pci or agp based for your busid
you are missing horiSync and VertRefresh in "extern display"
i think you need to change your ServerLayout screen definition
i think the 2nd fild is missing
example
On Sun, 15 May 2005, Deboo ^ wrote:
> Well, I just wanted to do a trial run of what I was to do on the drive
> in question so I installed knoppix on this smaller drive, booted it to
> test it is working, then booting off the knoppix CD again, I deleted
> the partitions (the same thing that accid
On Fri, 13 May 2005, Angelina Carlton wrote:
> Just for those of us just following along, can I use fdisk to record
> the EXACT information on my currently working systems to a file, and
fdisk -l /dev/hda > /tmp/hda.fdisk.lst
> be sure that file contained enough information to rebuild the
> pa
> Deboo ^ (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
>
> > I accideantally fdisked my linux hard disk and deleted all
> > partitions, created one single solaris partition. I wanted to do this
> > on my second hard disk and thought I had connected the second one and
> > disconnected the first, but hadn't dis
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Glenn English wrote:
> The system clock on one of my machines is running way slow. If I
> repeatedly run 'date' the second changes once every 3 or 4 seconds.
> ntpdate will bring it into line, but ntpd can't keep it there.
are you using the same ntp server for ntpdate and n
On Wed, 11 May 2005, Amira Youssef wrote:
> I'm looking for tg3 driver source or bin (kernel 2.4.18-1-686-smp)
>
> can any one advise where I can find them?
its in the 2.4.30 and probably prior kernels
c tya
alvin
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On Mon, 9 May 2005, R. Armiento wrote:
> Good point. But if you have put everything else that requires write
> access in separate partitions (eg., /var, /tmp) perhaps one can mount
> the whole '/' filesystem read-only? I have never tried that, but if you
> mount /usr read-only to protect your bin
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > one script ... change-me-from-slave-to-master.sh and symlinked to "N"
>
> But that system turns out to be harder to keep in sync.
nope ... actually trivial
> No, I'm not asking that. I was thinking I could use lilo to boot a
> different configur
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Bill Moseley wrote:
> What I currently have is one machine that is basically a mirror of
> another, but has different public and internal IPs. So to replace the
> main machine I'd have to go through the various configs and change IPs
> (and change bind from a slave to a maste
On Mon, 2 May 2005, Robert S wrote:
> There seem to be bursts of this sort of activity every day or two, from
> different addresses.
good .. consider it a free server audit by script kiddies
> What concerns me is that the attackers seem to be able to retrieve the names
> of users on my system
On Sun, 1 May 2005, Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Tuesday April 26 2005 07:51, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > i log into any machine around the world and vice versa ...
> > but only with "known and trusted boxes" ...
> >
> > you can always convert dynamic ip# into static
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 10:10:03AM +, Chris Evans wrote:
> > In relation to debugging my DNS lookup woes (see other posts!) I'm
> > going to buy a spare PCI ethernet card. Since my firewall machine is
> > tiny and quiet, it only has one PCI slot so I'
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Charles Read wrote:
> Hey everybody!
>
> Im trying to install Gentoo on my functional Debian system, I have 2
> HD's, /dev/hdab and hdb. I have / on hda1 (set bootable), swap on
> hda2, and /home on hdb1 /usr on hdb2 and am trying to put Gentoo on
> hdb3. I have my menu
hi ya rich
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, rich wrote:
> How do I prevent a module loading at startup? I have a prism-based
> wireless card, but have configured it using ndiswrapper so that I can
> use WPA. Although ndiswrapper seems to run before prism (ndiswrapper is
> listed in /etc/modules) & therefor
hi ya alban
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Alban Browaeys wrote:
i assume the comment below is the "rm" command
> > > That s right. But only if it was delete
> > > in a proper way, for example with rm .
..
> When you rm a file, ext3 take extra steps that prevents those tools from
> finding
> deleted
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Alban Browaeys wrote:
> I just wanted this to be somewhere , seems it s not worst a place than any
> other.
>
> With ext3 you cannot undelete a file .
out of curiousity, which undelete tools did you use ??
underneath ext3 is an ext2 fs ... so i dumb/unexperienced commenta
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 13:11, David T-G wrote:
> > Hi, all --
> >
> > I would like to create my own mirror for the purpose of installing
> > (perhaps with an upgrade along the way) Sarge via debootstrap and
> > apt-get since my DSL conne
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Robert wrote:
> Mainstream marketing professionals are unashamedly racist in their
> appeals to the public. For example, we (in UK at least) are led to
> believe that Danes are racially superior when it comes to making lager,
> Italians at ice cream, Germans at car making,
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Mike wrote:
> Yeah, pretty much no question there. Get nvidia if you want 'high
> performance 3d' on linux. While ATI cards are nice, they really havn't
> shown much improvement of supporting linux over the past year.
yup ...
> (and the
> support that 'is' there, you mi
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Seeker5528 wrote:
> In what western language is there a word that sounds like ubuntu that has a
> negative meaning?
"you [p/b]unt too", meaning you can't do it, so you pawn it off to someone
else to get it done, or in baseball, bunting is a good thing, to sacrifice
oneself
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi, I am running debian sarge.
>
> I use a hard drive for back up, and I have to remove the hard drive
> intermittently. Each time I pull out one of the the hard drives from the
> machine to store as a backup,
> it seems that I must always set the
hi ya steve
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Alvin Oga wrote:
> > given /home has the correct home data and is say 2GB on say /dev/hdaxxx
> > given /usr has the correct usr data and is say 10GB on say /dev/hdayyy
>
> > if as in the original reply, to simply
hi ya ridge
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Ridge Chittenden wrote:
> machine1:~# df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available
> Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 57677500 45016936 9730712
> 83% /
> /dev/hda3 56720252618292 53220704
> 2% /usr
looks normal
"/" is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I mount an NFS share I can't seem to write to it as any user...
> > Both the systems authenticate against the same ldap server so uid's and
> > gid's are all the same. My /etc/exports file looks like :
> > /mnt/sda1/home/ (rw,no_root_squash)
t
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Alvin Oga wrote:
> > if i understood correctly, the original question was dealing with
> > partitions ...
>
> This is true. But if he's already installed (which he has) those
> partitions are populated. Now, I&#
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Olav wrote:
> > Right, but do not forget to move the data.
>
> Might also want to use a shell like sash. Moving /usr is dicey since it
> is where lots of programs live. ;) Best to have the essentials compiled in
> in case something goes wonky.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Syed Huq wrote:
> I realized that I made a mistake in the partition size between the two
> and I would like to "swap"them. The disk space I originally intended
> for /usr and /home needs to be swapped.
just edit /etc/fstab and swap it in there ( 2nd column )
(as root)
umou
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:
> The thing is that, unlike SCSI, only one device can be using an
> IDE bus at any one time.
a common misconception ...
electrically ...
only one ide disk can drive the signals on the ide cable at any
time
similarly, even scsi
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> I agree that in general this is a bad idea, but some tests seemed to show
> me that pluging the optical drives as slaves to the hd's as masters does
> *not* slow them down with my specific hardware.
simple speed test ... ( must write and read at the
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Eric N. Valor wrote:
> I don't know because I'm not using the Debian image (I like to compile
> my own kernels, and have only started running into these problems using
> 2.6.x kernels). Does the Debian 2.6.8 binary image contain support for
> the Sym53C8XXX SCSI controller?
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> >> > /dev/hda hd
> >> > /dev/hdb dvd writer
> >> > /dev/hdc hd
> >> > /dev/hdd dvd rom
bad idea .. esp if the drives are NOT the same ata-33, ata-66 or ata-100
or ata-133 speeds
==
== you cannot mix devices with different ata
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Roger Creasy wrote:
> I just installed sarge on an older machine. I do not
> know the video
> card specs.
what is the output of:
lspci
> In kde the screen is pixelated. How can I
> change the
> settings to try a different resolution or whatever I
> may need to ch
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, dorn hetzel wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 06:33:10PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> >
> What the heck, I ordered a couple different cards to play with,
> just in case :)
hopefully, you didnt get the manufacturer's that decided to
honour the broadcast
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041228 13:39]:
> > most cards after Dec 31, 2004 will no longer be legally able to
> > record hdtv signals ( silly broadcast flag by the broadcast industry )
>
> According to the EFF, the cutoff
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 23:45 +0100, Mauro Darida wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 at 13:57:44 +, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:02:41AM +0100, Mauro Darida wrote:
> > > checkout my picture:
> > > http://kmark.home.pipeline.com/debian
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 14:30 -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> --snip--
> > You'll find in really large cities, they run out of loop numbers 2, 4,
> > 6, 8 and have to change the last two digits. Chicago is an example of
> > this, if I remember correctly.
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Rainer Bendig aka Ny wrote:
> is there any documentation how to run a minimal Debian on a Nokia
> 6600? And yes i know that this is a silly idea :-) And I know it that
> i'll maybe loose the possibility to make calls with the cell phone ^^.
i think everybody has a few cell p
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, jeff elkins wrote:
> I recently acquired a 60 inch LCD HDTV system, which has vga input - great
> for
> games and such, but living where I live OTA HDTV is not happening! It's HDTV
> via DISH-TV or DirecTV or none at all. My understanding is that MythTV and
> other linux
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote:
> what i did try was Alan's suggestion of the Debian rescue disk. I
> have never used it in a capacity such as this. I used the 2.2.20-
> compact rescue, root, driver-1 and driver-2 binaries. I am able to
> boot from the hard drive (woohoo) but
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote:
> while getting ready to build a raid 1 array, i accidentally deleted
> the /boot files. the partition is still there however and is still
> flagged as boot partition.
>
> although i have a boot floppy for this machine, i could not retrieve
>
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> [testing/sarge; 2.4.26-1-686-smp]
>
> Suddenly, I'm seeing the following error messages in /var/log/syslog:
>
>Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \
>status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>Dec 27 11:59:34
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Frederik Dannemare wrote:
> > Now, can anyone recommend a card that will work in Linux?
...
> > Furthermore, the link only shows WEP encryption. I want to be able to
> > do WPA. Is this possible using a Debian machine?
see the list of supported hardware for each driver
h
hi ya joao
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Joao Clemente wrote:
> I have the notion of what an incremental backup is... it would be
> keeping the "delta" from the last state, but how is this done in
> practice?
in real life ... very few people check that backup does in fact work
by trying to restore ALL
hiya
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Carl Fink wrote:
>
> What I'm looking to do, in more detail, is keep two Woody-based servers
> functionally identical by having the backup server periodically grab web,
> mailing list, and mail files from the primary server. I want the backup
> system to be in full rea
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Marcel Weber wrote:
> I for my part would recommend a decent access point WITHOUT any routing
> functions and a seperate router (best would be a linux box).
> Alternatively, for the adventerious building a dedicated Linux WLAN box.
> You could take a mini-ITX-system like
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> > most everything under /var/log /var/spool /var/run /var/tmp
>
> My bad. I should have said "what other files in /etc
think you did say /etc ... but i added the other junk about /var
and gazillion other places
> need to be writeable."
not man
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Eric wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I was in need of some more hard disk space and so I figured I'd reclaim some
> of the unused space in my rarely used XP partition. XP is located on hda1.
> I resized hda1 from 35GB to 15GB using ntfsresize leaving ~20GB of free
> space, but I c
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> However, the liveCD had errors during boot, because some files
> apparently have to be writeable during boot.
what error messages ?? it tells you what it can't write to
> For example, I guess, /etc/mtab.
yup
and your hostname, ip# and gateway in
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Cole S. Ashcraft wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any low power usage servers (110W and below)?
and if you want to to 1W or less (headless) servers
233Mhz cpu w/ 3 nics and wifi card
for about 12V at 0.5A --> 6Watt
( a
On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Cole S. Ashcraft wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any low power usage servers (110W and below)?
what are you gonna use it for???
- because its fanless ??
- because its quiet ??
in either case, a via cpu based ( mini-itx motherboard) w
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Bob Alexander wrote:
> Maybe what you say is the right approach also for me and I could just
> use the diff command to compare any restored file and the current version.
things oyu should worry about:
a) how to prove your backups works
- restore "just the backups"
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Bob Alexander wrote:
> In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup
> cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or
> directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions
> of the files in a versioni
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:32 -0600, Eric van der Paardt wrote:
> > May 12th... its my bday!
>
> My birthday: 19-November.
Feb 29, 2005
c ya
alvin
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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Bruce Park wrote:
> Is there anyway to use Debian as an access point?
- pick a wifi card that supports "Master" mode
if you have to use ndiswrapper, it will NOT work as an AP
- than worry about 64bit or 128bit WEP
- than worry about wpa .. and which variations of WPA
- b
hi ya william
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> I looked at apt-move but I didn't want a http based mirror.
the local mirror can be anywhere but okay on not using httpd/ftp
> /a "this is all related to apt"
okay on the directory subtreee ... make it according to the scripts
> I c
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, jack kinnon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a 'cd-rw howto' for Debian? Or one that is
> applicable to Debian too?
generic cdrw and collection of other cdrw howto
Linux-1U.net/CDRW
c ya
alvin
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> I've posted these a bunch:
>
> /a/l/*.deb - The set of .debs which is the "current" plus "new"
>dpkg-scanpackages is run on this
> /a/o/YYMMDD_HHNNSS/*.deb - the debs which were replaced at
>HH:NN:SS on MM/DD/20YY
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Nathanael Hasbrouck wrote:
> > - knoppix-live cd, suse-live cd, slackware-live cd...
> > ( i'm not sure if there is a debian-live cd )
>
> Something like MEPIS?
we always build our own distro or install what the paying customer wants
those that want "free" or out
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Gerard Ceraso wrote:
> I have broadcom wireless built into my laptop and I am using NdisWrapper
> with the drivers from windows, everything has been working fine. You can
> get some more information here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/.
as long as you have specific req
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote:
> >> development:/etc# cat raidtab
> >> raiddev /dev/md0
> >> raid-level 1
> >> nr-raid-disks 2
notice ... level 1 and number of devices
> mdadm --stop /dev/md0; mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/hda /dev/hdc
not good ..
hi ya harland
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote:
> development:/etc# cat raidtab
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
> chunk-size 4
> persistent-superblock 1
> device /dev/hd
hi ya joao
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Joao Clemente wrote:
> Image you're using software raid and 1 disk fails. You somehow get
> alerted and , AFAIK, you
> 1 - shutdown the machine (ok, this if you don't have a hot-swap system)
> 2 - remove the failed disk
> 3 - insert a new, "fresh-from-the-store"
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote:
> but, what if i write a file to /dev/hda6 (/home), then i mount /dev/hdc6
> to /mnt/hdc6 ... should i see the newly written file in the same
> place on /mnt/hdc6 as was written on /dev/hda6 ?
given that raid is confusing ...
do NOT, do NO
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Joao Clemente wrote:
> Ok, Alvin, as far as I understand when you said at the top "for sanity
> ... i always fdisk the new disk to be the same as the remaining disk"
> you mean limiting it's size, as you say here at last few lines, right?
i manually partition the new disk
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote:
> I am curious about how to know if it is working. If cat-ting /proc/mdstat
> is knowing all about the raid array, then so-be-it.
when you think its working ..
power down .. pull one disk out ...
power up .. write a 2GB or 4GB file on
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Sam Watkins wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:55:55PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > being GPL is "dangerous" ... the big boyz with $$$ can do and will
> > do what they want with all the (free) r/d work for the past few decades
>
> Huh? I
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I am looking for a 2-D drawing program which includes the ability to
> select an object, display its dimensions and anchor point and edit these
> values from the keyboard. I have tried several and tgif comes the
> closest with an option to peek
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