Debugging suspend/resume?

2011-04-13 Thread Eric Persson
I upgraded to latest stable when it came out, and after that my suspend/resume functionality just started working(very nice), but now it stopped working again. And I cant find anything that I've changed that I think could have affected it. I've seen onscreen errors some times that it cant freeze

Re: Can I sudo rsync to remote

2010-09-01 Thread Eric Persson
T o n g skrev 2010-09-01 06:45: Hi, My ssh environment is so set up that I can do rsync files m...@remote_host:/path just fine without password whereas rsync files r...@remote_host:/path would fail. Under such setting what's the easiest approach to rsync files that I can't read

Automatically moving panels with xte from xautomation package?

2010-08-31 Thread Eric Persson
I just found the xautomation(http://linux.die.net/man/7/xautomation) package where the xte binary is, seems really handy, but what I'm trying to do doesnt work for some reason. I wanted to drag a panel to another monitor after turning it on with xrandr. I tried to slow it down with the sleep

Scripting gnome-panels

2010-05-19 Thread Eric Persson
I have a small bashscript which prepares a dual-monitor setup for my laptop, since i'm moving in and out of the office and meetings, I tend to attach and disconnect the monitor a few times a day. That works fine with xrandr, but the issue is that I would like some gnome panels to move, and

Re: annoying 4gb seg fixup

2010-02-23 Thread Eric Persson
Tomasz Pajor wrote: Even updating to libc6-xen 2.11-0exp4 didn't help. apt-get install libc6=2.11-0exp4 libc-bin=2.11-0exp4 \ libc6-xen=2.11-0exp4 libc-dev-bin=2.11-0exp4 \ libc6-dev=2.11-0exp4 libc6-i686=2.11-0exp4 locales=2.11-0exp4 (none):~# ldd /usr/sbin/apache2 linux-gate.so.1 =

samsung 4g/lte gt-b3710 - idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6876

2010-01-15 Thread Eric Persson
I just got hold of a samsung 4g/lte modem, a usbstick which just came out here in sweden. Putting it into my debian box, kernel 2.6.30, udev recognizes it as a cd(with the driver) as expected. I blocked the cd-recognition with a udev-rule and manually tried to load usbserial for it, but no

Best fs for imapserver?

2008-08-11 Thread Eric Persson
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 them. The imapserver is courier imap(using maildir format), and I'll hope to keep that as of now. However, I read that reiserfs was more efficient than ext3

djmount and upnp write?

2007-08-18 Thread Eric Persson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Just got djmount working and able to access my phone over upnp and wlan, however, it seems to be limited to reading. Is that a thing by definition in upnp sharing, or is it possible to enable writing as well? Best regards, Eric

limit certain ports to be forwarded through ssh account..

2006-10-15 Thread Eric Persson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm interested in allowing a few selected users forward their imap/smtp traffic over ssh. But I also want to prevent them from doing anything but that, they shouldnt be able to forward any ports, or get a shell at all, just some certain

Re: Debian Old Toshiba Laptop

2006-10-12 Thread Eric Persson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evgeny M. Zubok wrote: Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With such a tiny amount of RAM, I think you need DSL (D*mn Small Linux). The main problem is the Linux kernel's swapping. It is slow regardless the distribution and kernel (2.4 or

Re: manage multiple debian machines

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Persson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Miles Fidelman wrote: Steve Kemp wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:27:48PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: www.webmin.com That doesn't scale much more than ssh'ing into multiple machines and running repetivite tasks. For 10 machines

manage multiple debian machines

2006-10-03 Thread Eric Persson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a bunch of debian installations och a few servers, is there some good tool to manage them all effectivly, they dont necessarily contain the same configs. Any hints or links in a good direction would be appreciated. /Eric -BEGIN PGP

mknod /dev/fuse

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Persson
What can I do to prevent that I need to type sudo mknod /dev/fuse -m 0666 c 10 229 upon every boot when I like to use for example sshfs? /eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

www.frwd.fi sports computer and linux

2006-09-03 Thread Eric Persson
Have anyone attempted to use the frwd sportscomputer(any model) with linux? Have looked around but without luck so far. Will contact their support as well, but I assume they just play well with windows. :( Anyone tried or have any thoughts? Best, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

automagic update and package maintainment

2006-06-12 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I have a few servers running debian, and I like to automate the update and maintainence of the packages for them. I usually try to run aptitude update and aptitude upgrade on a regular basis, but I would like to do this automatically, but in a safe way. I'm not sure I can just put the

gnome terminal with tabs confuses emacs

2006-05-14 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I'm using debian testing on my laptop, and recently after upgrading the system I have found that the gnome terminal(v.2.14.1) window confuses emacs(text variant) when I use tabs in gnome terminal. It works well if not using tabs, but if used it borks emacs. The strange thing is that it

exim4 is needed by a lot, but I want to use qmail...

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I'm having trouble on a new server where I'm trying to remove exim4 and instead use qmail(which I install from source). How should I do to make the dependencies of exim4 work but still be able to use qmail? /eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: exim4 is needed by a lot, but I want to use qmail...

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Persson
Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote: Eric Persson, I'm having trouble on a new server where I'm trying to remove exim4 and instead use qmail(which I install from source). How should I do to make the dependencies of exim4 work but still be able to use qmail? You could create a dummy package

Re: diskload install?

2006-04-08 Thread Eric Persson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:13:02AM +0200, Eric Persson wrote: Hi, I have an old laptop which i've been trying to install debian onto, but since it neither has cd or floppy or the ability to boot from usbdevices, i figured i could take out the harddrive and put

diskload install?

2006-04-07 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I have an old laptop which i've been trying to install debian onto, but since it neither has cd or floppy or the ability to boot from usbdevices, i figured i could take out the harddrive and put it onto a usb-ide adapter and load it through my other computer. It worked well until I get

development dropin for /usr/sbin/sendmail

2006-03-16 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I develop quite a lot of webapplications and i also try to make the debugging as easy as possible, but when it comes to sending mail, its a bit cumbersome, especially when not on a real network. I would like to have something like a drop in for the sendmail binary that either just

Re: Best Linux Laptop

2006-03-14 Thread Eric Persson
I've heard of lots of people running Linux on IBM Thinkpads, but I can't seem to purchase one from Lenovo without Windows. I like my dell inspiron 9300, although its very good technically, it could benefit for some better physical quality, but I guess it depends on how much you carry it

remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I have a server that repeatedly remounts its / harddisk readonly, probably caused by the errors=remount-ro in fstab. I read the following about it on the web: Specifies that if errors are found when the filesystem is checked, the filesystem will be remounted in read-only mode so that

Re: remounted read-only

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Persson
Dave Sherohman wrote: If that's the cause (and I agree that it almost certainly is), then in means your drive is encountering errors. What kind of errors, any errors? Overfiend Thunder-: when you get { MessagesLikeThisFromYourHardDrive } Overfiend Thunder-: it either means {

Re: chattr maildir

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Persson
Adam Porter wrote: This doesn't answer your question, but I mount my partitions with noatime. You might consider that. Yeah, I noticed that, I just hadnt the oppurtunity to reboot or remount the drives currently. What are your experience of it performancewise? /Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

chattr maildir

2006-03-08 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I just found some info about it beeing a good idea to chattr +A on Maildirfolders to prevent that disk i/o is wasted on writing the last accessed time, which is irrelevant in the case. As I'm just trying it out, I figured, if I chattr -R +A on a folder, will it apply to new files as

xorg hangs on my kernel 2.6.15 with ati/radeon

2006-02-27 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, Just downloaded and tried to configure/compile/install kernel 2.6.15 from kernel.org. That worked good so far, but when trying to start gdm the computer hangs, and stops responding on anything, even tried ssh into it without result. :( however, gdm works when I'm using the vesa driver

Re: xorg hangs on my kernel 2.6.15 with ati/radeon

2006-02-27 Thread Eric Persson
cody chamberlain wrote: did you upgrade your xserver around the same time as well? i had a very similiar issue that was due to the xserver-xorg 6.9. are you able to start gdm normally with your older kernel? Yes, works like before on my old kernel, a 2.6.12. I ran aptitude upgrade last week,

mdadm and raid confused

2005-12-28 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I've been trying to play around with mdadm and software raid, but got some problems, I have two sata disks(80gb) which Im trying to mirror, i did it during the installation of debian testing. And it seems like it worked well, but then I started testing to unplug one disk at the time(with

barcode reader through usb

2005-12-02 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I just plugged in a usbbarcode reader and doesnt really work, i got the following in dmesg usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbhid: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -5 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid

hp dl360 and smart array 6i

2005-09-03 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, Have anyone successfully installed debian on a hp dl360 with the smart array 6i controller. It seems like the smart array 5 is supported but not the 6 and I havent found any success stories either. And I would really like debian on it and not the damn redhatstuff. Can anyone give me any

i cant print from firefox?

2005-08-26 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I'm using a debian testing environment on my laptop, and most of the stuff works good now, but printing is still a bit strange. I can print pdfs with gpdf, and documents from openoffice, but I cant print anything from firefox, even though I select the same printers in the menus. I

serial ata hd and ide dvd?

2005-07-30 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I have installed debian testing on a dell inspiron 9300 laptop and most of the hardware now works, however, the dvdburner does not work yet. It isnt even recognized in the dmesg output. It seems that the dvdburner is on the ide interface while the harddrive is connected to the new

apmd with module-assistant

2005-06-17 Thread Eric Persson
Is is possible to install apm support in the kernel through module-assistant? I havent found any packages that seems to do this, I really like to keep the stock kernel, but just add apmd support. Or do I need to do the whole compile new kernel stuff? Btw, thanks to everyone that makes debian

Re: OT: deliver text as email (UK)

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Persson
Joe Mc Cool wrote: how can I use my woody box to send free text messages to a mobile phone (in the UK) ? You can always install gnokii, you'll need a phone and it wont be free, but it will probably work better. :) www.gnokii.org //Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

creating .debs?

2005-01-05 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I've been looking around after a package tool like deb or rpm, but havent yet decided which one to use. I have a range of servers with redhat/fedora and a bunch with debian. The plan is to migrate over to debian within 2 years, so .deb would probably be best. But where can I read about how

Re: kernel panic on recompiled kernel

2004-12-31 Thread Eric Persson
Jeff Hurst wrote: # CONFIG_CRAMFS is not set You need cramfs in the kernel to read the initrd Wow, that did the trick, booted nicely with cramfs and a initrd. Is there no place to read stuff like this? kernel.org is not very informative, it would be nice with a kernel-config-validator that told

kernel panic on recompiled kernel

2004-12-29 Thread Eric Persson
Hi, I've been trying to recompile my kernel to a 2.6.8 one on debian sarge. But no matter what I do it seems to get kernel panic when I try to boot. See the message at http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/debian_boot_2.6.8.gif hda3 is the debianpartition mounted / with ext3 on it. I found a

Re: kernel panic on recompiled kernel

2004-12-29 Thread Eric Persson
Bob Alexander wrote: Eric, what bootloader are you using ? Please post what is in your lilo.conf or grub/menu.lst I'm using grup and the contents of my menu.lst is at http://www.persson.tm/debian_install/menu.lst Aslo, what version of sarge are you using ? cat /etc/debian_version gives me 3.1