Re: Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

I've been working with both Kerberos and Samba for 20 years. Writing "Yet Another Authentication Management Tool(tm)" sounds unappealing, since there are so many well established and tested ones. I'm actually curious what you found inadequate about Samba, especially if you used the 4.0.x releases w

Re: Debian-LAN: installing a complete network environment

Wait, I know? L:et's have it do dynamic DNS, host authentication, and LDAP based account management, too! And in 20 years, maybe it'll have 1/1000th the number of users that the Samba suite has right now, for all of that, especially including robust and tested Kerberos management with already teste

Re: 2TB file system

2011/8/17 Pete Orrall : >> BTW: >> Didn't Hitachi used to be IBM? > > I believe IBM sold Hitachi their hard drive business. > >> I am just asking because I didn't have >> the best experience with IBM drives, had two of them and they both broke >> within 18 months(lucky for me I had quaranty for the

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 17/08/11 12:15, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> and you need to use the "-x" setting to avoid descending to other >> partitions. > > What do you mean?? > > That sounds very bad - how come I've n

Re: Looking for a package management GUI in KDE

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:56:57 -0400 > Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > Hello Nico, > >> Synaptic is my friend. The only issue I've had with it is that, due to >> locking, I cannot run "apt-get" command

Re: Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

[ I accidentally sent this only to Hal, I meant to send it to the list. It seems to be my day for rsync comments. ] On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm using rsync on "normal" Debian (6.x), on two embedded systems that run > what look like Debian variations (DNS-321 by D-L

Re: Transplanting old System to New Drive

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > 4. use rsync to copy the files. eg.:- > # rsync -azr /media/source0/ /media/dest0 [rinse and repeat until all > partitions copied] Rsync does not replicate SELinux settings. And the way you are using it does not replicate hard links: you

Re: Looking for a package management GUI in KDE

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi, > >> I am a untity / gnome3 refugee, have installed KDE 4.4.5 on Debian 6 >> but am totally stumped looking for a package management GUI, something >> equivalent to synaptic for QT ? >> >> I am struggling with aptitude and would like somethin

Re: 2TB file system

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in > formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system? > > Any other considerations?

Re: setting up a static IP address

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: > (...) > > NM calls -by default- "dhclient", so... is NM running? > > If so, stop NM ("/etc/init.d/network-manager stop") or kill "dhclient" > process and then restart the network service (also run ifdown/ifup, just to > be sure). After that run

Re: Setting up Email on A Linux Box Using Alpine

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 16 August 2011 16:40:26 RiverWind wrote: >> I would sincerely appreciate all the input I can get regarding >> setting up email on my debian system using alpine. At present, >> alpine is behaving very strangely, and it would require quite a

Re: how to change root passwd (if forgotten)

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:25 AM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I ve forgotten my root passwd on centos 6 (red hat based), > > I tried to change it as I used in debian (in debian it works perfectly) , > that is: > > use a cd live (or installation cd1), to access the hd, > I mount  my root pa

Re: Setting up dhcp-server on my desktop machine

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> I have sofar following setup on my desktop system: >> >>  * /etc/network/interfaces >> >> auto lo >> iface lo inet loopback >> >> allow-hotplug eth1 # to my ISP > > Normally you would not mention eth1 at all if you want network-manager > to man

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Anirudh Parui wrote: > Hi Friends, > > The comparison between Linux Distros is a big matter of discussion. > And when it comes to finding out what is the best everyone has his own > point of view. > Well i found this link which does a good comparison in all domains

Re: pls respond asap

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > From: [wonder idiot with stupid address]> >> >> guys i want to delete this mail i had sent >> can u help me how to do dat? > > Is this a trick to get more attention to the spam you previously sent? Of course it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian6 netinstall CD cannot find Ethernet card on ThinkPad T420s.

2011/8/3 Johan Grönqvist : > 2011-08-03 04:31, Sam Bell skrev: >> >> *Debian 6 amd64 netinstall CD cannot find ethernet card on my ThinkPad >> T420s, my ethernet card is Intel® 82579LM Gigabit Ethernet card. > > > Yes, see and >

Re: New Debian user help

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 23:48:29 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: > >> I am a long time CentOS user, and have decided, after several months of >> consideration, to move my hosting from CentOS to Debian. > > Not wishing to raise the hackles of any zealo

Re: tomld: fully automatic MAC configuration solution

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Horvath Andras wrote: > Dear Members, > > I'd like to announce the availability of the first beta release of my > tomld project. > > This is a deamon managing fully automatic MAC configuration without any > user interaction. > > (supported platforms are: Debian 6 a

Re: bind does not want to die (squeeze)

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:13:07 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:14:52 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >>> > I have two 32 bit squeeze machines running bind. Then I try to

Re: rsync backup question

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:11 AM, wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:39:33 -0400 > "Thomas H. George" wrote: > >> I partitioned a 1 TG usbdrive as ext3, mounted it as /usbmem and entered >> the command rsync -r / /usbmem.  The tranfer proceeded with many >> messages "skipping non-regular file 'foo'

Re: How do you save passwords for Git/GitHub?

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Jason Hsu wrote: > I have a script that uses "git clone" multiple times to download all of the > repositories I need for my project Swift Linux. (Each major task has its own > repository.)  The code is at > https://github.com/swiftlinux/1-build/blob/master/get_r

Re: Backup Software

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:20:26AM +0200, lee wrote: >> Ethan Rosenberg writes: >> >> > What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a >> > stand-alone computer? >> >> That depends on what you want to back up and what the ba

Debian package building for single files or virtual packages?

I'm facing some locally used tools that consist of only single files, such as "mkrdns". I'd love to wrap it up in a .deb, but the dh-make and related tools seem oriented around software that comes in tarballs and has Makefile or autoconf or Makefile.PL already built into them. And while amazingly e

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: >> >> May I recommend sidestepping this entirely? Mounted floppy drives have >> *HORRIBL

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Tomas Kral wrote: > > Yes, this one did the trick... > > tcat@lynx:~$ udisks --mount /dev/fd0 > Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/fd0 at /media/floppy0 > > Thanks a lot. > > Is it possible to make mount aware of UDisks/devices/fd0 and the like? > > On my sys

Re: Dual Monitor How To?

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Alan Chandler wrote: > I've recently upgraded by desktop computer so it now has Intel H67 > Integrated Graphics built into the motherboard and I have an additional > Geforce 8400GS graphics card in the PCI-express slot.  I have two monitors, > the primary an 24in

Re: Hello Debian developers

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dardan Shatri wrote: > Hello everybody > I use debian since 4 years > My mother asked me yesturday why i use debian > and i explained to her, she told me the only reason i can use is the > damn (Microsoft Windows live Messenger) and she told maby i acn ask > somebo

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/07/11 12:22, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> Oh, my. You can load the IP addresses *directly*, by IP address, and >> access them if you have a route to them. > > *If you have a route* in the examples given the

Re: Does IPv6 preclude use of a NAT gateway?

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 12/07/11 07:58, Paul E Condon wrote: >> On 20110710_225108, Erwan David wrote: >>> On 10/07/11 20:34, Randy Kramer wrote: > Also, ipv6 firewalling is very annoying on the gateway (due to >  the icmpv6 filtering which must be

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:38:40 -0400 (EDT), Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Alex PADOLY wrote: >>> ... >>> For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, >>> I used LIL

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Alex PADOLY wrote: > Hi, > > For a server that works permanently with DEBIAN SQUEEZE, I used LILO in > kernel compilation and with and scsi isa card. > Why many of LINUX distribution choose GRUB? > I don't know that I must choose. > > Thank you. > Alex > There are

Re: Squeeze and root in graphical mode

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > On 03/07/2011 10:25, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I would like to know if the root have a graphical environnement ? >> I don't connect with login root with the password of root but in >> terminal window I can connect me as

Re: join 2 contiguous ext3 partitions

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: > Hello, > > can I somehow join 2 ext3 partitions ? > > /dev/sda6      28G   15G   12G  56% /media/armazem > /dev/sda7      19G  8.2G  9.3G  47% /media/despensa > > they both contain data. > > thx > Joao Use lsof to make sure nothing live

Re: Stranded between lenny and squeeze

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:47:38 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > (...) > >> Or is there some devious trick I'm missing?  Will an ssh connection from >> another machine survive the upgrade process, for example? > > Yes, I would try that way. > > Given yo

Re: Copying a bootable CD

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Martin McCormick > wrote: >> >> William Hopkins writes: >> > $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=2048 conv=notrunc >> > >> > then burn the ISO using your tool of choice (wodim, etc.) >> >>        This wo

Re: C compiler cannot create executables no good google answers

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm trying to compile emacs-24 on a newly installed squeeze system. > > I get the error  C compiler cannot create executables > > Googling on that, gets several different answers. > > apt-get install build-essentials  (didn't didn't help) > >

Re: X on a virtual server

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:41 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/26/11 at 11:29pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM, William Hopkins >> wrote: >> > On 06/26/11 at 09:54pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote: >> >> On 6/26/11, Gregory Sei

Re: X on a virtual server

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:25 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/26/11 at 09:54pm, Eric d'Halibut wrote: >> On 6/26/11, Gregory Seidman wrote: >> >> >> I am going to try x11vnc. Thank you all! >> >> > Not a bad choice, but not necessarily the best either. It depends on your >> > purpose. >> >> My

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Greg Madden wrote: >> >> >> On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:38:14 pm Greg Madden wrote: >>> On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote: >>> > I've tr

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > > On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:38:14 pm Greg Madden wrote: >> On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote: >> > I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new >> > document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on

Re: Translate user names with NFS

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > On 15/06/2011 21:17, Dan wrote: >> >> Therefore I am just >> going to sync the names between the two machines. To do that I guess >> that I just need to change the file /etc/passwd and /etc/group Should >> I update the names somewhere else

Re: /etc/hosts in debian resets itself on reboot

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Tapas Mishra wrote: > I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to > restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to > remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that > is used for the webapps on the server w

Re: generating graphs

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Maros Zilka wrote: > Hi, > > I want to generate a graphs of CPU usage, temperatures etc ... and then > put them on the web page. Can you recommend me some good program for > this ? I know i can use Google or search packages but i want to know > your opinion what is

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:43:43AM +0100, Lisi wrote: >> On Saturday 11 June 2011 00:41:10 Rob Owens wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:21:41AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> > > packages. I'm actual

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 08:21 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: >> >> I have worked with

Re: Debian Questions on apt-get

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:03:36AM -0500, Matt wrote: >> I have worked with Centos quite a bit in past though no expert. >> Giving Debian a whirl now. >> > [cut] >> >> yum update > > This becomes "apt-get update" in debian. No. It's not. This

Re: [OT] Mice

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:16 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:28:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/07/2011 01:40 PM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] >>> >>> I still see some disadvantages for laser or BlueTrack based mice: >>> >>> 1/ They do not work on crystal or clear surfaces >>> >>> >>

Re: Bug#611380: openssh-client: sftp's put -r fails with "Unable to canonicalise path"

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Steven Sciame wrote: > > > > > > >> >>From: Selim T. Erdogan >>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 8:54 PM >>Subject: Re: Re: Bug#611380: openssh-client: sftp's put -r fails with "Unable >>to canonicalise p

Re: is this hard disk failure?

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> For me a hard disc never gets broken without click-click-click noise >> before it failed, but it's very common that cables and connections fail. >> >> > > By the time a disk gets to the click-click-click phase, there

Re: laptop restart eth0 automatically on plugin or on awake like a desktop

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 11:39 Tue 07 Jun     , Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:10:48 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: >> >> > The following is a problem I have on all laptops, I dont know how to >> > configure to connect when the ethernet cable is attached. >

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:02 AM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/05/11 at 03:59pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Sb, 04 iun 11, 22:56:19, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > >> > (I'd suggest that you give static IP addresses to your desktop >> > machines and use the /etc/hosts file -- yes, even Windows has one -

Re: Samba or NFS

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Simon Brandmair wrote: > Hi, > > On 3/6/2011 19:50 Axel Freyn wrote: > [...] >> For NFSv4 this has changed. You can use NFSv4 in different modes. The >> easy one has the same problem. NFSv4 is a giant pain in the keister, not worth the headaches. The NFSv4 access p

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/05/2011 07:59 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> On Sb, 04 iun 11, 22:56:19, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> (I'd suggest that you give static IP addresses to your desktop >>> machines and use the /etc/hosts file -- yes, even Windows has one -- >

Re: Avoid POP3

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/03/2011 07:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: > [snip] >> >> And admittely, in such programs (like Getmail or Fetchmail) it is very >> useful to have the "keep" option while configuring the application so you >> don't delete e-mails unless you are sur

Re: Samba or NFS

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:33 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 23:08 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Dan wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running &

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:27 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/02/11 at 08:15pm, tadziu wrote: >> i'm just curious, is there any chance to bring iceweasel 4.0 to >> stable before google ends support for 3,5? i got 4.0 on my >> second computer with squeeze, but i had to mess a bit to get >> it work

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Doug wrote: > On 06/03/2011 11:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote: >> >> On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >>> [snip] NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for

Re: Samba or NFS

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Dan wrote: > Hi, > > I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running > samba and one application server (redhat). I would like to mount the > shares of the file server in the application server. The problem is > that the usernames are very differ

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer > versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX and R.  And > since the kernel included with Squeeze crashes when I unplug the USB > headset, I need to run a newer

Re: Backup script

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi :) > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs on my > machine. > > Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux by running one of those installs? > > With a lack of knowledge I would backup the 3 Linux that aren't running, >

Re: [SOLVED] Lost network after lenny-to-squeeze upgrade

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:54 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> NetworkManager has been one of the biggest disasters in GUI and >> configuration history known to open source. It has absolutely *no* use >> in normal desk

Re: [SOLVED] Lost network after lenny-to-squeeze upgrade

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Itay wrote: > > On Sat, 14 May 2011, Itay wrote: > >> I am experiencing major network problems after the upgrade. >> Rebooting solves the problem for a short while - after 5 >> minutes, or so, network will be lost. >> >> Based on searches in the internet I pasted b

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Brian Ryans wrote: > Quoting Juan R. de Silva on 2011-04-21 16:36: >> I preserved the user names for both of users in a new squeeze >> installation but UID and GID are different. So, by simply using 'cp - >> a' (or rsync) I would run into problem of their mismatch.

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Brian Ryans wrote: > Quoting Camaleón on 2011-04-23 05:44: >> Nowadays it should handle smb:// or other network protocol just the same > > Quoting Erwan David on 2011-04-23 08:48: (re: Camaleón) >> Prgrams that I know which do this (eg emacs with tramp editing) use

Re: Samba and NFS

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Will Ryder wrote: > Hi, > > I have NFS mount of netapp filer on debian 6 and on a rhel 5 machines. > > I have samba server  running on both machines that windows pc can connect to > and access the nfs mount. > > Is this advisable ? As I cannot have strict file loc