Re: NFS max file size??

2003-09-22 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:47:20PM +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > I need to copy files over 2GB over a NFS share, but it seems to be limited to > 2GB 8-? Correct. Use NFS-V3. Roger. -- ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** *-- BitWizard writes Lin

Re: Computer won't boot without video cable

2003-09-19 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:09:42PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 16:22, John Hasler wrote: > > Why not just pull out the video card? > > Most systems will not boot if no video card is present. I imagine there > is some guide on line on how to fool the video card into thinking a

Re: burning a lot of coasters

2003-09-19 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:45:00PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > discipline). Realtime scheduling allows the burning process to get all > the CPU it needs, regardless of what other processes are doing. I have > never made any coasters, ever, burning as root. Right. But in practise, lack of CP

Re: burning a lot of coasters

2003-09-17 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 06:10:58PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > I recently acquired a dvd+rw drive for archival of a few hundred gigs of > document images and have been fairly disappointed with the performance > of the device. I have gotten a total of 7 good, 4 bad dvds from the > drive. It's a firew

Re: Dual Parallel Ports and a PLX 9052 chip

2003-09-06 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:24:51AM -0400, Jody Grafals wrote: > I just bought cheepy PCI dual Parallel Port card with a PLX 9052 chip > for my home linux server so I can add a second printer and a Old school > Connectix Web Cam but I can not get it working. I already have a Zip > drive and a pri

Re: an unfortunate dummy apologies

2003-09-01 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:13:22PM +, zoe wrote: > apologies for my post yesterday Accepted. > red hat, suse, mandrake, caldera, and half a dozen > other distributions all crashed or became unworkable) Sounds like a hardware problem in your computer. > But then the desk bar/task bar stated

Re: killing xsane

2003-08-31 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:25:07PM -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > And it won't go away. ps ax sees it - kill 'pid' doesn't get rid of > it. 'killall xsane' won't get rid of it. You COULD as a last resort send it the "unconditional kill" signal. However, if you kill "xsane" it will try to

Re: cloning Debian hard drive

2003-08-28 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:49:40PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 11:49:44 +1000 > Corey Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 01:27 AM, Victory wrote: > | > 1, Is there way to clone this hard drive ? > | > | If you are cloning it to an identical

Re: spamassassin

2003-08-27 Thread Rogier Wolff
The suggestion to use -L to perform only local tests will indeed prevent the Osirussoft blacklist from influencing your scores. But it might also prevent other useful checks from running. I added: score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0.0 to my ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file.

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:32:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Right. A properly designed CR requires the recipient of the CR to hit Reply > and paste a string on the subject line. ONCE. Only one time EVER. Wrong. I want to communicate with lots of people. I have to do that for every CR system use

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:14:32PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > > Note that I'm recommending you run lilo while you're concerned about > > the MBR. It might work, but running LILO again gives you a bigger > > chance to get it to work > > Yes, I would think I'd need to do that. The RAID card i

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:53:27PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: > I need to clone a disk. The source is a 3ware hardware RAID 1 array. > >From Linux it looks like /dev/sda > > $ mount > /dev/sda2 on / type xfs (rw) > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620

Re: 120 GB hard drive on old P75

2003-07-17 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:50:13AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote: > Jul 11 14:31:46 gondolin kernel: hdc: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive Oh! Before I forget. Even if that IBM drive is labelled "Hitachi" or "HP", it's still an IBM drive. Oh, ignore the comments from others about 80 pin cable

Re: 120 GB hard drive on old P75

2003-07-17 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:50:13AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote: > Jul 11 14:31:46 gondolin kernel: hdc: IC35L060AVVA07-0, ATA DISK drive > Jul 11 14:31:46 gondolin kernel: hdd: , ATA DISK drive Your kernel is having trouble "contacting" hdd with the question: "Hi, what's your name?". This could im

Re: NP-complete whatever, solve the knapsack problem!

2003-07-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 06:35:31AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 05:10, martin f krafft wrote: > > Scenario: 100 Files between 100-200Mb. > > Desired Result: These burned to CD in any order, so that to minimise > > the number of CDRs > > > > Question: is there a tool to autom

Re: keystroke ctrl+s freezes terminal/console

2003-07-15 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 07:33:47AM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Hey all - > I have noticed that pressing ctrl+s in console or xterm suspends > input... I have not figured out how to successfully get out of that > situation. Is there a graceful way? What is the purpose of ctrl+s > ( i believe I

Re: Is my hard drive dying?

2003-03-25 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:32:13AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:16:28PM -, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > Does this mean my drive is dying? I've not had any problems with the machine > > till now. > > If you don't hav

Re: Mysterious disk activity

2003-01-27 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:58:04AM +, Pigeon wrote: > Hi, > > I get these occasional very long bursts of disk activity, usually but > not always within an hour or so of booting up, during which the HD LED is > on continuously and the machine is very slow to respond. There were > cron jobs runn

Re: Hard Disk Partition Recovery

2003-01-27 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:59:07PM -0500, Barry Pollock wrote: > Keep in mind that dos 6.22 is only a 16 bit system and linux is 32 bit so > if a 32 bit system writes to the partition table a 16 bit system may not > be able to access the boot secter. keep in mind that dos can only read 2 > parti

Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:17:04AM -0600, Michael Kahle wrote: > Disk: 6x 36MB Ultra SCSI disks > I also need some advise how to partition the drives. I figure most of it > will be one large partition (~80-100GB RAID 5), and a few other partitions > for things like swap, root, boot, homes, etc.

Re: how to rename multiple files

2003-01-07 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:51:21PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote: > On January 4, 2003 09:20 pm, the fabulous Gerald V. Livingston II wrote: > > > Thank you. Took a couple of tries to get the syntax correct but I > > ended up with this: > > > > if [ `ls *.jpg 2>/dev/null|wc -l` -gt 0 ] > > > > then

Re: debian on openbrick

2003-01-03 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:36:32PM -0500, Bao C. Ha wrote: > Personally, I don't think it is safe to mount the compactflash as > the "live" root filesystem. It is not designed to have that many > write-cycles as a regular hard disk. So, even with a larger size > compactflash, what we are doing w

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2002-12-29 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 04:26:21AM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > Any thoughts on overall performance if the following systems? The key > factors are: > 1. Support by Woody out of the box > 2. Will the single processor systems be faster because the memory is > slower on the duals? > 3. Is onboard

Re: How stupid can i get :( - please help pls pls pls

2002-12-29 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 12:25:37AM -0800, Jatin Golani wrote: > Now if I try to boot into Debian I get a kernel panic. > When booted into Mandrake, fdisk still shows the > partition as a Linux partition with id 83...if I > try to mount this partition i get a bad fs, bad > superblock or too many

Re: Webcam

2002-12-28 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 09:46:33PM +0100, Jens Gecius wrote: > bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages2.pl?keywords=webcam > > > > I did that and I installed the package called webcam, it is a package for > > ftp loading a stream of webcam

Re: computer hypothermia -- help!

2002-12-26 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 01:35:24AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:24:18AM -0600, Kent West insinuated: > > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > > >right ... i forgot to mention (important, i realize) that not only > > >was [the computer] in the car for 4 days, it was also in the car

Re: SMTP standards : needs outgoing SMTP server be MX for my domain?

2002-12-20 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:08:59PM +0100, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: > An organization refuses emails from my domain, under this reason : > My domain's mailer that connects to their SMTP server is not MX of my > domain. Well, if they want to refuse mail from you they can do so for any reason they

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-11 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:19:23AM -0800, nate wrote: > Rogier Wolff said: > > > No. > > > > Think RAID. > > think CPU fan fails, CPU overheats, CPU fails, system crashes. You misunderstand my "think Raid" remark. In a RAID configuration you can handle a

Re: faster boot sequence

2002-12-11 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:41:44PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > > Jason Majors wrote: > > > I've started a project http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/oggcastd/ to play > > > Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files in my car. The box I use boots automatically when > > > it gets power, but it still takes almost 30

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-11 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:46:43PM -0800, nate wrote: > the places that I have worked at probably aim for 95% uptime to be > minimum. not sure how many hours or days a year of downtime that > calculates to .. I realistically aim for 99.9% on my webserver. Last year we got around 99.99, this year w

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-11 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:25:54PM -0800, nate wrote: > Hanasaki JiJi said: > 5 9s on any hardware..You need redundant motherboards, power supplies, Yes. > cpus, ram, disks, network, and of course it all needs to be hot swappable. No. Think RAID. In RAID it is acceptable that any one harddriv

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-07 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:57:27PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > You might want to reconsider the project, frankly - why not make different > root passwords for different machines? That would seem to be a more secure > alternative. You can make them systematically different to save yourself > memor

Re: tiger always reports 'no password' with NIS

2002-11-24 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 04:09:38PM -0800, nate wrote: > Sebastian Haase said: > >> That is: I use NIS and have specific users maked with a '+' - sign in > >> /etc/passwd > >> like this: > >> +alexis::0:0::: > >> > >> Isn't this a correct way of 'nis-sifying' certain users !? > > yes that is correc

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-19 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:29:24AM +1000, mdevin wrote: > Actually, some more digging shows some new support in the 2.5 kernel for > the VIA VT8235 chipset which is on my mobo. It seems that udma6 can > then be enabled by passing 'ide0=ata66' to the kernel at boot time. > (Note that I do have the

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-19 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:16:57PM +0100, Emil Pedersen wrote: > > /dev/hda: > > Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.46 seconds =278.26 MB/sec > > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 16.12 seconds = 3.97 MB/sec > > THIS is ok, without dma performance is lousy, but I really don't > under

Re: hdparm and DMA

2002-11-19 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:40:38AM +1000, mdevin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:47:09 -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, mdevin wrote: > > > > > # hdparm -i /dev/hdc > > > /dev/hdc: > > > Model=WDC WD400BB-32AUA1, FwRev=18.20D18, SerialNo=WD-WMA6R3707054 > > > DMA modes: md

Re: Cannot access box after hdparm experimenting

2002-11-18 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:14:53PM +0200, Ulla Russell wrote: > When I reboot now the booting progresses better but then stops > with the message: > >"kernel panic: No init found. try passsing init= option to kernel" > > I rebooted and tried typing the following at the lilo prompt: Hi, It

Re: from GIF to PS

2002-11-18 Thread Rogier Wolff
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:57:45AM +0200, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi All. > How can I convet gif file to postscript file? I use: cat file.gif | giftopnm | pnmtops > file.ps You need netpbm. I just checked: It's available. Roger. -- ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-1