Re: rsync to NAS for backup

2021-02-19 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:39:29PM +, mick crane wrote: > Appears that to retain permissions need root at both ends of rsync. Not necessarily. If the server filesystem supports xattrs, you can use the --fake-super option with the rsync server, running as a non-root user that can write to the s

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-05 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 11:03:17PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > My kids have been complaining recently about the quality of the WiFi I suggest to investigate whether the problem lies with WiFi or elsewhere. There are multiple tools available for measuring throughput and latency. I use flent with

Re: Encountered a bug with a dependency of wondershaper, but I'm unsure which dependency, and how to proceed with submitting a bug report

2020-11-18 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 09:15:15PM +0100, Graham Bull wrote: > I've noticed when I set the same rules within wondershaper on Stable and > Testing, I get different behavior. > Stable acts as expected, low latency and able to hit the limits set. > Testing suffers a lot of latency and I'm only able to

Re: slow wireless connection

2019-08-12 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 01:11:43PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > The internet download speed as measured by (speedtest.net) is ~15 Mbps > when I try to connect from my desktop. From a different machine (my > laptop), I get around ~30-40 Mbps. Could you please tell me how to fix > this? > > Ne

Re: Apache HTP-Server won't fork more than 3000 processes.

2018-09-18 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:37:48PM +0200, Martin wrote: > > # cd /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/... > > # cat pids.max > > There is no pids.max > But I have a /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max = 32768 > I guess like systemd is limiting here? > > > How many tasks are assigned to the cgroup? > > # wc -l tasks > > 103

Re: Apache HTP-Server won't fork more than 3000 processes.

2018-09-18 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:14:11AM +0200, Martin wrote: > I have an issue with Apache's HTTP-Server 2.4. It says 'Resource temporarily > unavailable: AH00159: fork: Unable to fork new process'. I know, there are > some hits with Google, but there is no solution to me. > Systemd knows about a task

Re: Local system program analytics

2018-07-12 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:09:10AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > So the programs which burn most CPU will get most sponsoring ;-) Maybe wall-clock time spent is a suitable measure? sa --sort-real-time | head > I just wanted to illustrate how difficult a "good" answer to the > OP's seemingly si

Re: Local system program analytics

2018-07-11 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 07:18:55AM -0400, David Maulik wrote: > Is there any program that can show me the programs on my system I use the > most? > I'm looking for something that can help me trim unneeded/unused packages as > well as show me which programs I use the most to help inform support/don

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-11 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > and 3: to treat the grub install as if there are no other drives hooked > up. I don't need grub to fill half the boot screen with data from the > other drives. Once your Debian installation is finished, put this in /etc/default/gru

Re: Any Sound Card Recommendations?

2017-11-21 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 09:42:01AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > I bought an Asus Xonar DSX expecting it to work with my Debian Stretch > system, there was a recommendation on the Internet from someone using Mint > who said it worked right out of the box. Mine didn't. > > I would like a really goo

Re: GPG-Error with debmirror and wheezy-proposed-updates

2017-07-29 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 05:14:20PM +0200, Christoph Pleger wrote: > [GNUPG:] NEWSIG > [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED A1BD8E9D78F7FE5C3E65D8AF8B48AD6246925553 0 > [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED A1BD8E9D78F7FE5C3E65D8AF8B48AD6246925553 0 > [GNUPG:] BADSIG 8B48AD6246925553 Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key > (7

Re: debmirror, GPG, Stretch

2017-05-11 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 03:21:17PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > This is where a list of key IDs used for ftp.debian.org would > come in handy. But if it exists, it's not easy to find. > > No doubt keys can be found by looking into the latest release of > debian-archive-keyring or poking strings i

Re: Failing disk advice

2017-03-06 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 08:38:27PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/05/2017 01:02 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > >I have a disk that is reporting SMART errors. It is an active disk in a > >(kernel, not hardware) RAID1 configuration. I also have a hot spare in the > >RAID1, and md hasn't decide

Re: Dell BIOS

2017-01-16 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:52:48AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > change the boot sequence order from floppy-C:-CDROM to > CDROM-floppy-C: or CDROM-C:-floppy which prevents the hard drive > from grabbing the boot sequence each time. There may be a function key that brings up a BIOS boot menu. Fo

Re: Low Level Format of 1.4 Mb Floppy Isn't Happening

2017-01-14 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:32:08PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > What happened after I zapped the floppy is that fdformat will not > run because it sees no pre-existing format information. > > What am I forgetting or what has changed? According to the fdformat man page, you should first

Re: debian on lenovo carbon thinkpad 4th generation confirmation report

2016-11-29 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:59:35PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I didn't know that kernels > 4.1 are available as jessie-backports. Thanks. > > Regards, Karol > > Only 4.7. The others appear not to be available any more. Older backports are available at http://snapshot.debian.org/. Mirko

Re: Does hdparm not run at startup anymore?

2016-11-13 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:11:24PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I configure sdb in /etc/hdparm.conf to apm=64, but when I start the system, > apm > does not change. Interesting enough a /etc/init.d/hdparm restart fixes the > problem: There are two config options available: "apm" and "apm_battery

Re: Reuniting disks in a raid1 array

2016-08-30 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:33:02AM +0200, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > I had two disks in a mdadm software raid1 on an old computer. > > I moved sda to a new computer. It ran there in a degraded raid1 for months. > > The second disk, sdb, kept running as the lone survivor of the original raid1 > on

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-05 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:49:59PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > This is good advice, and these steps can be automated with the schroot > package. > > For any non-trivial operations inside your guest systems, such as > installing packages or running daemons, I can recommend Li

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

2016-02-05 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 06:05:50PM -0600, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > I'm not sure debootstrap is what you are looking for here. If you just > want to chroot into your Ubuntu,on the same disk, these are the steps: > > 1. Make a mount point, say /mnt/ubuntu; > > 2. Mount the partition Ubuntu is on,

Re: Do I need to do fstrim on Jessie?

2015-11-27 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 10:29:26AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > > > Either you add "discard" as a mount option to your fstab or you crate a > > > cronjob to run "fstrim -a -v". > > > > fstab created by the installer (normal SATA HDs) only has "defaults." Is this > implicit here? You don't need "

Re: missing directory /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64/build

2015-11-02 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 12:18:33AM +0600, EVGeny Dedov wrote: > After reinstall debian I tried to put wireless drivers in OS by usual way > (like > i did it before), and faced with problem when I use "make compile" and "make > install": > > make[2]: *** /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-amd64/build: Нет тако

Re: impending disk failure?

2015-10-20 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 02:15:52PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > T'm occasionally getting this message in syslog on my jessie box: > > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx kernel: [ 8838.600489] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 > SAct 0x10 SErr 0x40 action 0x6 frozen > Oct 17 12:00:19 tony-lx ker

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-22 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 09:18:01PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > For historical reasons, my x86-64 architecture computers have a large > number of i386 packages on them that I'd just as soon be rid of. is > there a good way to simply tell a package manager that I want everything > involving that ar

Re: PAE

2015-08-25 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:44:44PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > PAE may be a necessary condition for NX, but it is not a sufficient condition. > I am presently using three 32-bit computers: one is a Pentium M (2G), one is > a Pentium 4 (2G), and one is a Xeon (4G). All three are PAE-capable, and

PAE (was: Debian Gnome Or XFCE ?)

2015-08-24 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 06:45:10AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > Furtherfore, a non-PAE kernel is > useful even on PAE-capable hardware. The main purpose of PAE is to > address memory above 4G. But if the machine has less than 4G of > memory, what does a PAE-capable kernel buy you? PAE-capable

Re: creating a simple private repository with reprepro

2015-03-01 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 03:18:16PM +0200, Asaf Dalet wrote: > Mirko, > As for your first suggestion - do you imply that I change the changelog before > each run of debuild/pbuilder? Yes, at least every time the upstream version changes, or every time you build for a different distribution. You can

Re: creating a simple private repository with reprepro

2015-03-01 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 11:03:30AM +0200, Asaf Dalet wrote: > I have a private debian package which I want publish in binary format. > I want to supply 2 binary versions: > 1. precise/amd64 > 2. trusty/amd64 > > [...] > > I read somewhere that reprepro does not support having 2 files with the sam

Re: disk (and other resource) management of virtual machines

2014-12-20 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 02:19:18PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > Is there a way to expose host file systems to the guests? NFS is a > possibility, but the VM's will be running various services that warn > not to use NFS. libvirt doesn't seem to provide the ability to expose > host file systems dire

Re: Using PuTTY with Debian GNU/Linux Systems

2014-10-11 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 07:34:06AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > In response to encouragement from several people on this list, > I have published a new web page titled "Using PuTTY with Debian > GNU/Linux Systems". It is available here: > >http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/putty.htm >

Re: ISDN call logging

2014-01-09 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 01:49:30AM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote: > My ISP provides VoIP and the DSL modem/router provides an internal > ISDN S0 bus where my ISDN telephones are attached. I have also hooked > an old Linux server with an ISDN card to the S0 bus. This server runs > a Linux 2.4.37.8 ke

Re: mirror from archive.debian.org

2012-07-14 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:00:40PM +0400, Anton Gorlov wrote: > How I get full mirror of repository for some distr. example lenny amd 64? > All distributions are linked to the content in the pool/ directory, > but we need to mirror only one distribution/architecture. > > How? One option would be

Re: [Feedback needed] Support for ISDN passive fax cards

2012-05-13 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 05:56:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: > I am considering in adding a couple of PCI based Eicon Diva 2.02 > "passive" cards on a system running hylafax server. The fax server is now > using a couple of external RS-232 modems that work like a charm but as I > have a pair of unu

Re: audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

2010-07-06 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:43:44PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > For each CD I run > > cdrdao read-cd --datafile data.cdr --device /dev/sg0 toc > and > cdparanoia -d /dev/sg0 -B > > where /dev/sg0 refers to an Plextor Ultraplex 40max SCSI CDROM drive. > > [...] > > I can run cdrd

Re: [LONG] Trouble using debmirror on Lenny (certain public keys not found)

2010-06-24 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:45:31AM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote: > gpgv: keyblock resource /root/.gnupg/trustedkeys.gpg': > general error > gpgv: Signature made Sa 30 Jan 2010 00:18:35 CET using RSA key ID 55BE302B > [GNUPG:] ERRSIG 9AA38DCD55BE302B 1 2 00 1264807115 9 > [GNUPG:] NO_PUBKE

Re: bandwidth measurement by process

2010-05-10 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 02:08:15AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > I'm looking for a tool that will measure bandwidth used by a specific > process. I'd like some sort of utility or wrapper that will answer > questions like "How much data did my network backup job push over the > wire?" Check out network n

Re: Debian 5 server - auto-reconnect to wireless networks?

2010-02-22 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 04:46:51PM +, chombee wrote: > I'm wondering how to get my Debian server to automatically reconnect to > my wireless network. The server is an OLPC XO-1 running Debian 5 Stable > via the DebXO distribution. It does not have a wired ethernet port, it > connects to the int

Re: sshd

2009-10-31 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 02:43:09PM +0100, Roy Stuivenberg wrote: > I have a question concerning sshd. > I'm unable to connect from outside to my Debian box. > ... > (Connection failed Service sshd > > Date:Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:51:03 +0100 > Action: restart > Ho

Re: Libata in Debian GNU/Linux Lenny

2009-10-12 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:55:28PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Lenny with linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 > > > stock kernel installed from a binary image from Debian repositories. > > > > > > In this case the disks are seen like hdX but using kernel 2.6.31.2 > > > comp

Re: color management?

2009-08-11 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 09:23:57PM -0700, jeremy jozwik wrote: > heya list. ive been working with linux on adjusting my photos for the > last 3 weeks or so. since ive started ive noticed that the way the > photos look on my linux laptop are CONSIDERABLY different then the > color that is shown on a

Re: Cross-compiler tool chain

2009-05-29 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:33:26PM +0200, Oliver Schneider wrote: > Hi, > > Debian is available for a whole lot of different architectures. Is there > a cross compiler tool chain What are you planning to do? You may find Emdebian useful: http://www.emdebian.org/ > which is used to do the builds

Re: Does anyone understand terminal job control?

2009-02-08 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 04:58:13PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > directly under my controller process. It's not even that they're > starting as foreground processes: I can start them without access to > the controlling terminal, and they never see a SIGTTIN. What do you mean by: "without access

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-21 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:45:44AM +, Glenn Becker wrote: > I am running a testing box. Recently, it seems, my X settings > changed (w/o my intentionally changing them, at least as far as I can > recall) so that the screen resolution on Gnome, for example, it was > defaulting to 1400x1050. I

Re: Default X resolution

2008-05-19 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:58:24AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >Is it possible to get x to use 1024x768 by default that way xfree86 used > >to do? I would still like other resolutions available so I can use them > >when I need them but most of the time 1024x768 does what I want. > > Yes. >

Re: prevent dpkg from (re-)starting services

2008-05-12 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:21:35PM +0200, Olaf Leidinger wrote: > On a file server I installed several debian(-based) distributions into > an exported directory using debootstrap. These are used as root > filesystems for diskless clients. To install new packages/updates I > chroot into the director

email without From: header (was: disassembling machine code)

2008-03-27 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 08:33:52PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Mutt may be a lesser piece of crap than most mailers, but it is still a > > piece of crap. It screws up when "From:" is missing, and acts as if you > > had send it. > > I think it may be worse than that: I set my MTA up to add

Re: disassembling machine code

2008-03-21 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:26:19PM -0700, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > > I have these 5 bytes of machine code to > > disassemble. > > > > b8 12 00 cd 10 > > > > I've looked at gdb and objdump. Appears they > > need a complete

Re: Modem in Debian

2008-02-04 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:16:57PM +, Pantor wrote: > there is a modem plugged to PCI slot and no idea what to do with it. > Any suggestions, advices, please. > > Regards. > Andrius Check out http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/ and run the scanmodem tool provided there - it should produce useful

Re: DVD drive misbehaves after a while, kernel problem?

2007-12-23 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:14:50PM -0700, Matthew Dale Moore wrote: > > Dec 18 10:28:00 guitar2 kernel: hda: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears > > confused (ireason = 0x01). Trying to recover by ending request. Dec 18 > > 10:28:00 guitar2 kernel: hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady > > S

DVD drive misbehaves after a while, kernel problem?

2007-12-18 Thread Mirko Parthey
After between 10 and 60 minutes of uptime, my DVD drive begins to show strange behaviour: - an icon appears on the KDE desktop showing either a data CD-ROM or an audio CD (although the tray is empty and closed) - in /var/log/kern.log, these messages appear in large numbers: Dec 18 10:28:00

Re: Connect to DOS box

2007-06-25 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 08:58:33PM +0100, John K Masters wrote: > At work I use a networked box that runs from Novell Netware on DOS v5.0 > This runs very old accounting software. The box itself is a P120 with > 16 MB RAM and a small HD (about 128MB). No OS on the HD. > > I have managed to persuad

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-20 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:37:54AM -, Peter Valdemar Morch wrote: > We have 100s of almost identical machines that need to be kept > up-to-date with apt-get dist-upgrade . > > Having to run apt-get dist-upgrade manually on all of them is just not > working (taking too much man-power) due to ha

Re: secure-testing.debian.net down?

2006-06-12 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:28:40AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > On May 12th, the testing security archive moved: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg6.html > > Thanks. I wish there were a better way of distributing notice of > these sorts of changes. debian-dev

Re: what happened to /dev/fd0?

2006-02-27 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:05:08PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a floppy drive on my srge system. I used to access it as > /dev/fd0. But there's no /dev/fd0 in my sarge system any more. > There is a /dev/fd/0, /dev/fd/1, /dev/fd/2, and /dev/fd/3. > > Could /dev/fd/0 be the new name

Re: Continuing chant "hde:hde1"

2006-02-22 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:24:32PM -0500, John wrote: > My problem continues: an endlessly repeated chant of "hde:hde1" > interspersed with an occasional "hdb:hdb4." I can't figure out the > cause, and would be grateful for insight or a lead. If this disk is attached via cardbus, it counts as remo

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-19 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:53:09PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Ntpdate is what I am using. Maybe the setup needs be changed. Which timeservers are you getting the time from? (see /etc/default/ntpdate) Do they provide the correct time? Try "/etc/init.d/ntpdate start", and look in /var/log/syslog f

Re: Clock jumps forward.

2006-02-17 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:27:50PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Every few days, I find my clock two hours fast. Easy enough to reset but ... > why? > > I am running 2.6.15 kernel, Sid, and time is updated using ntp. Since my time > zone is universal + two hours, maybe the two hours means somethin

Re: Install from usb-stick

2005-12-09 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:49:39PM +0100, thierry wrote: > Installing from a usb-stick using either of the 2 way on this link: > http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch04s04.html > I have the following problem: > Boots is OK, I can choose language, keyboard, but then the netinst.iso > which i

Re: [Q] partman, big disk and old BIOS : the whole capacity is not seen

2005-11-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 08:22:38AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Using a utility executable provided by the manufacturer of the disk, I trick > the BIOS which now believe that the disk capacity is around 32 GO. > > The problem is that partman in the net-install CD of Sarge is also tricked, >

Re: kernel upgrade questions

2005-11-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 05:35:49PM -0500, David Zelinsky wrote: > I'm trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.4 to 2.6 on my Thinkpad. I'm > using custom built kernel rather than the stock debian kernel, since > the stock kernel doesn't have some features that I want. > > My question is how to deal w

Re: newer kernel for non-bootable sarge

2005-11-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 08:42:48PM -0700, David Emerson wrote: > I ran into a nasty problem while trying to install sarge: The 2.6.8 > kernel has a bug that won't allow my computer to boot. > > (( I have a compaq armada 1750 laptop. It has issues... )) > (( In the past, I've never been able to g

Re: Want to move from root LVM/LILO to LVM/Grub

2005-10-03 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:06:16PM -0500, Jason Martens wrote: > >>>I believe your /boot partition needs to be on a non LVM partition. > >>Well, I can boot just fine with a root partition on the LVM volume using > >>LILO. I believe this is because my initrd has the LVM drivers included, > >>so it

Re: disable ethernet auto-negotiation?

2005-08-28 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 10:01:15PM -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > Is there a /etc/network/interfaces option to set ethernet speed/duplex and > disable auto-negotiation? You can use the "post-up" interface option to run a tool for setting the speed/duplex. Which tool? That depends. ;-) Which type

Re: How to automatic restore alsamixer settings with alsa-utils?

2005-08-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:30:11PM +0200, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > There is some documentation at the top of /etc/init.d/alsa, and also in > > /usr/share/doc/alsa*/ . > > Due to the docs in /etc/init.d/alsa-utils, /etc/rcS.d/S50alsa-utils should be > the right choice to restore alsa settings. What

Re: How to automatic restore alsamixer settings with alsa-utils?

2005-08-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:54:45AM +0200, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > on my SID system, I experience that alsamixer settings are not restored after > booting. It looks like /etc/rcS.d/S50alsa-utils is called at the wrong time > (too early?). Because after rebooting I can restore alsamixer settings just

Re: Printer & localhost:631

2005-08-18 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:53:01AM +1000, Marie-Louise wrote: > This is the message that is in /var/log/cups/error_log > > I [18/Aug/2005:08:37:47 +1000] Listening to 0:631 > [...] > E [18/Aug/2005:08:37:49 +1000] StartListening: Unable to find IP address > for server name "ariestao" - Host name l

Re: Can't browse certain websites

2005-08-10 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:30:50PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I have a complex home LAN setup that is gatewayed to the internet by a > Sarge IP Masquerading box. Most of my machines see the web just fine, > but an OS X Mac that is connected via IP over FireWire routed through > another

Re: Sarge & ISA NE2000

2005-08-10 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 03:42:53PM +1000, Chris Phillips wrote: > Its worth giving a go, but I still don't understand > why the options I have set in modules.conf are not > being picked up. Are you using Kernel 2.6? If so, the configuration should be located in /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.

Re: proftpd and sshd delays

2005-08-05 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:13:01PM +0800, James Duff wrote: > Both sshd, and proftpd are very slow to respond. I've noticed this in > sshd under debian on previous versions and machines also. Sshd asks > for a username almost immediately when I connect, but there is a > substantial time before it a

Re: problem with a device >2TB

2005-07-29 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:52:18PM +0200, christian gattermair wrote: > problem solved, with parted > thx for help :-) Now you've made me curious - what did you change since your last email so that parted now suddenly works? Also, if you can spare the time, could you please file bug reports with

Re: Optimize iso images, find duplicates

2005-07-28 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:57:02AM +0200, Josep M. wrote: > I would like ask what package can I use for optimize an iso image, I > explain, when you have a CD with several files with identical content but > different name the program detect this and only copy one file in the iso > image and the res

Re: problem with a device >2TB

2005-07-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:52:09AM +0200, christian gattermair wrote: > i use debian sarge with 2.6.8-2-686-smp and like to use an raid device (sda) > with 3 TB. > > i have read in the internet and found that there is an kernel feature called > LBD. it is activated > > but with cfdisk: > > cfd

Re: use knoppix to rerun lilo

2005-07-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:28:19PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > Anyway, usually I can easily fix this by booting Knoppix (3.1 in my case), > mounting the root filesystem /dev/hda2 (it's all on one partition), > and running /sbin/lilo from a chroot-shell (chroot /mnt/hda2 /bin/bash). > But when I do

Re: audigy 2 value

2005-07-21 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:36:54AM +0100, Keir Lawson wrote: > I have been trying to set up my newly aquired audigy 2 value on debian > unstable... but to no avail. alsaconf does not detect it, and i have > tried to follow all ideas presented by google. here is the relevant > line from lspci: > 00

Re: Looking for software Debian Sarge

2005-06-29 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 06:52:28PM -0500, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > Yes, that is a good idea. I have made a couple of debian packages for > myself. But, how do I look for a sponsor ? The packages that I 've > made are very simple, this one, zoneminder, needs a previous > configuration before

Re: Software Raid Partition'd?

2005-06-03 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 08:04:30AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm configuring a new Sarge box with Sofware Raid 5 using > 4 Hard disks. > I'm wondering what is the best way to partition the array? > For example: > > Is it best to just create 1 Raid 5 mounted on / > or > Create several Raid

how to use the LANGUAGE environment variable

2005-05-26 Thread Mirko Parthey
According to the glibc reference manual, LANGUAGE can contain a colon-separated list of locales to indicate their order of preference. However, the behaviour I observed is different from what I expected. (tested with "cat -h", which produces a short error message) LANGUAGE seems to have no effect

Re: lvm2 (sid) and pvmove - device-mapper targets

2005-05-24 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:50:17PM +0200, Chris Searle wrote: > But - pvmove gives: > > # pvmove /dev/hda7 /dev/hda5 > mirror: Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel please try: modprobe dm-mirror Mirko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Freeswan and kernel 2.4.27

2005-05-20 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 07:13:47AM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > > The Debian kernel is already patched to include a backport of the > > IPsec implementation from Linux 2.6. Although I havent't tried this > > myself, I would expect this to be the reason why you were not able to > > apply the freeswan pat

Re: Freeswan and kernel 2.4.27

2005-05-20 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:21:22PM -0500, Jacob S wrote: > Is anyone using Freeswan with a 2.4.27 kernel? If not, what 2.4 kernel > are people using? > > I've been trying to patch kernel-source-2.4.27 using > kernel-patch-freeswan and freeswan-modules-source, but keep failing > while applying the

Re: folder display order in mutt

2005-05-08 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 05:54:27PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > locale setting? (LC_COLLATE) > > That's it! The "good" box has everything set to POSIX, while the "bad" > box is set to en_US. So, "export LC_ALL=POSIX" solves the problem. > > However, I'm trying to figure out why the boxes are

Re: debootstrapping via knoppix, and what next?

2005-01-05 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:08:32AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > PS -- Does anyone have subscription info for a knoppix-installer list? I haven't heard of a knoppix-installer list yet. You might want to try the general Knoppix mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The subscription front end used to be at

removing the CD while running Knoppix

2004-12-21 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:36:04PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > just look at knoppix as what is symlink to memory > or turn off that feature or any other cdrom based distro that works > properly .. ( most don't .. ie.. i want a cd distro that allows > the cd to be popped out so that other apps can be

Knoppix Mailing List (was: knoppix HD-install problem)

2004-12-14 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:48:50AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > btw.. knoppix does NOT have a mailing list on their site(s) > - just a silly "forum" ( aka messy/unreadable/searchable forums ) > [...] > since debian's kids ( knppix ) does not have an active mailing list, > it'd be good to provide

Re: Debian's Linux Kernels: Which patches are applied?

2004-11-18 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:57:24PM +0100, Lukas Ruf wrote: > > >how can I find out which patches were applied to kernels as > > >distributed with Debian? > > > > > Quick answer: > > you can get the information you whant in the distributed tarball > > /usr/src/kernel-source-2.x.x.tar.bz2 > > > > For

Re: Broken Galeon in Sarge

2003-12-01 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:30:25PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote: > Galeons. Galeon refuses to execute, claiming that it can't find a gconf > schema. I followed the instructions in the Galeon FAQ, but there are no > gconfd processes running, nor any lockfiles to delete. It seems that > the gconf2

Re: wget asp pages recursively?

2002-09-01 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 08:36:11AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there some way I can limit the URL's wget will follow? Suppose all of my > pages have a URL like: > > http://someplace.com/some.asp&ThisIsFixed=1&page=1 > > I would like to only download URLs that have "ThisIsFixed=1" in

Re: mutt: how to change new mail checking frequency (solved)

2001-03-11 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 10:54:38PM +0100, Mirko Parthey wrote: > mail_check doesn't have the effect I would expect: > When a message has been delivered to /var/mail/mpa, mutt takes about > 10 minutes to notice the new mail, despite mail_check being set to small > values such a

Re: Where are clear-text passwords stored?

2001-03-10 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 01:23:41PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Is this list an exhaustive list of places where my dial-up password is > > stored? I'm about to return a laptop after installing Debian for a > > friend, and want to make sure all my passwords are deleted. > > -- > > htt

mutt: how to change new mail checking frequency

2001-03-10 Thread Mirko Parthey
Hi, mail_check doesn't have the effect I would expect: When a message has been delivered to /var/mail/mpa, mutt takes about 10 minutes to notice the new mail, despite mail_check being set to small values such as 5 or 1 (seconds). Pressing ^L makes mutt notice new mail immediately, but I'd rather li

Re: mutt's pager and 8 bit chars (solved)

2000-11-01 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:07:54AM -0500, Chris Gray wrote: > > > I can't figure out how to make mutt's builtin pager > > display characters >= chr(128), e.g. German Umlauts (ÄÖÜßäöü), > > they are shown as question marks. > > I have my LANG environment variable set to en_US and umlauts show up >

mutt's pager and 8 bit chars

2000-11-01 Thread Mirko Parthey
Hi, I can't figure out how to make mutt's builtin pager display characters >= chr(128), e.g. German Umlauts (ÄÖÜßäöü), they are shown as question marks. Mutt's "charset" option is set to "iso-8859-1". For the headers, you can take this message as reference. After setting the "pager" option to "le

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-17 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > It's Ok -- I'm not permanently conncted to the net... But however, > how do you disable all X connections to my box (from outside, not > another local user)? Block tcp connections to port 6000 (for Display :0), and to subsequent ports (only if y

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > Well, in the meantime I restarted the X server -- needed to do some > real work[tm]! I send nonetheless the info -- if you can spot > something wrong... > > $ xauth list > aiglenoir/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 17afba42b84d5952fce82446e7c3698e >

Re: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

2000-08-16 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Christophe TROESTLER wrote: > I've got a "funny" thing with Potato. When it has been running for a > while (now 11 days but that happened before as well) and I try to > launch an X client, I got the error message: > > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno =