Re: Installing Debian Stable with Software RAID

2004-05-12 Thread Tobias Reckhard
Hi Jeremy Brown wrote: Jeremy Brown wrote: I'm relatively new to Debian, but am considering installing it on several new servers I'm setting up. At least one of the servers will need its root partition stored on a software RAID volume though, and a casual glance at both the Debian stable and

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

2004-02-01 Thread Tobias Reckhard
Nano Nano wrote: My first test message to the outside world bounced with: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host smtp.comcast.net[216.148.227.125] said: 550 [PERMFAIL] comcast.net requires valid sender (in reply to RCPT TO command) exim always added my Sender header for me. I presume comcast is rejecting

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

2004-02-01 Thread Tobias Reckhard
Nano Nano wrote: # postconf myorigin myorigin = $myhostname # postconf myhostname myhostname = desk OK. Some hosts will reject your host's HELO/EHLO, but the comcast thing was probably due to your MAIL FROM: address' domain not being in the Internet DNS. Should I just change mail name during

Re: different hard drive size showing

2004-01-29 Thread Tobias Reckhard
SEAN KIM wrote: Greetings, Someone asked me a really challenging question regarding a hard drive size. Why there are 2 different sizes showing on a same hard drive when someone looks for its hard drive size through its BIOS and through its Window Operating System? I was seeing the phenomenon

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Tobias Reckhard
Ian Perry wrote: I know this question is subjective to personal preferences Is there an advantage to exim over sendmail or vice versa for ease of setup/maintenance etc ? I would be interested in comments from those who have used both. sendmail is probably more difficult. Is there something

Future transit from testing to stable with sarge possible?

2003-11-27 Thread Tobias Reckhard
Hi I've got a couple of systems running on Debian sarge/testing and would prefer to have them on stable, but with the upcoming transition of sarge to stable, it's not worth the effort to reinstall the machines using woody, since I hope to be able to stick with sarge and thereby transit from

Re: Future transit from testing to stable with sarge possible?

2003-11-27 Thread Tobias Reckhard
Nick Welch wrote: Er... I think I misunderstood you. Yep. You want to just stay with sarge while it's testing and keep it when it becomes stable too? Exactly. Yeah, you can just use 'sarge' in sources.list. The code names (woody, sarge, etc) work as well as stable / testing / unstable. Good.

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-30 Thread Tobias Reckhard
R Ransbottom wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:23:13AM +0200, Tobias Reckhard wrote: Hugo appears to be working heavily on DVD support at the moment. I'd prefer for LVM support to become complete first, personally, but that's due to the fact that I don't have a DVD burner (but use LVM). You may

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-29 Thread Tobias Reckhard
Paul E Condon wrote: I'm running debian stock kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 . I get error abort when mondoarchive attempts to create the .iso. Its error message says mkisofs is broken, which I sincerely doubt, but maybe some feature that I have never needed before, and is required by mondo, is broken.

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-29 Thread Tobias Reckhard
R Ransbottom wrote: I tried mondoarchive. I ran into a snag were root could not be found. I bailed out because it seems that intermediate iso images are required. Given that I plan to use dvd+rw's for backup this did not appeal. Hugo appears to be working heavily on DVD support at the moment.

Re: Any users of mondoarchive on debian boxes?

2003-09-26 Thread Tobias Reckhard
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:07:40PM -0600 or thereabouts, Paul E Condon wrote: An article in Oct issue of Linux journal got me interested in Mondo Archive, which is software that builds self-booting restore CDs for Linux systems. So, I started to try to use it. I found a debian package in Woody,

Re: rsyncing via cron

2003-09-17 Thread Tobias Reckhard
I would like to backup my computer with rsync regulary with cron to a linux server. Both computer are running with debian. [snip] The sshkey requires a password but I use ssh-add to activate the key. The key is also at the server. I don't think ssh-add will do, you really do need to make the key