RE: Cannot connect to network now...
I think it is known as biting off more than you can chew. try running modconf at the command prompt and installing the needed NIC module. regards Thing --- Brian Coiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is the story so far: > > 1.Installed Woody dual-boot on my W2K box > 2.Couldn't get Nvidia card to work > 3.On the advice of this NG, upgraded to Sarge > 4.Tried to install a 2.4 kernel. Need to change > LILO config, but I'm > not using LILO, I'm using NTLDR... > 5.Figured out how to change from using NTLDR to > LILO, and tried again to > install the 2.4 kernel. > 6.2.4 kernel would not boot (interrupt failures > on hard drive) > 7.So, installed a 2.6 kernel. > 8.Still can't get Nvidia card to work with nv > driver. > 9.After much fiddling around with configuration, > managed to get startx > to do something using VESA, but just shows a grey > screen with a black cross > in the middle, and entire system is locked up. > 10. Hit the big power button and booted again. > Result... > > Linux is now completely unable to see my network. > Fails to get an IP > address from the DHCP server, doesn't work, nix, > nothing! This is NOT a > hardware problem: it works fine if I boot to > Windoze. And it was working > fine for 2 days, up to an hour ago. > > I have not got the foggiest idea how to begin > diagnosing this latest > problem. Something has clearly gone wrong with the > NIC/driver setup in > Sarge, but I don't know where to begin. > > Please help! Windoze is beginning to look like > considerably better value > than the £3 I paid for the Debian CD's, which will > shortly become a set of > nice shiny coasters! Explanation: The problem starts because you install a kernel that does not have the correct drivers for your ethernet card(s), so since you do not have the driver your ethernet card(s) can not connect. Which method of installation are you using? I think set of cd's but how you upgrade to sarge!!? Let's test if you get this working with this commands: #ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.28 netmask 255.255.255.0 up after this type: #ifconfig and post what it displays. also run and post: #route -n #lsmod run and post. #lspci run and post. #lsdev run and post. additional information: You will need to know which ethernet card(s) you have, model and maker (Post this too). Regards. = -- Sergio Basurto J. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton) -- __ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Linux on an old machine
Debian used to do a minimum spec install at 6meg of ram, this used to need "special floppies" I do not know if it is still available as it was 4 or 5 years ago. With this spec machine you are planning to run in command line mode only? if you expect a gui, forget this hardware IMHO. If it is for a firewall (assuming you can fit 2 NICS) then cli will be OK and the CPU would be big enough for a soho setup. regards Thing -Original Message- From: Curtis Vaughan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 November 2004 8:20 a.m. To: debian-user Subject: Linux on an old machine Ok, I want to put a linux distro on an old handheld pc. Here are it specs. Most distros, however, don't seem to like the lack of RAM. TOSHIBA LIBRETTO 50CT PROCESSOR Intel Pentiumï 75 Mhz 16Mbit EDO DRAM I wanted to put Knoppix on it, but Knoppix won't like the low ram at all. I would put Debian on it, if I thought I wouldn't have problems with devices. Any ideas about how to do this? Curtis
RE: Linux on an old machine
A useful X ie gnome or kde with say a web browser like mozilla, this URL is redhat 6.0 which is not even supported any more! To run say a rh 9 or fedora desktop, ie something reasonably useful, a semi-powerful cpu like a p2-233 with 128+ of ram is the realistic minimum IMHO. This is what I have, a toshiba tecra 8000 with 160Meg of Ram, its OK as long as I dont run the desktop too hard. If anyone is looking for a cheap laptop to run Debian/Redhat/fedora I would recommend one of these as I have run such a setup on them (though I have added a 30gig hd) all the hardware works, though the gui mode is 800x600. regards Thing -Original Message- From: Andrea Vettorello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 November 2004 9:35 a.m. To: debian-user Subject: Re: Linux on an old machine On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:30:33 +1300, Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian used to do a minimum spec install at 6meg of ram, this used to need > "special floppies" I do not know if it is still available as it was 4 or 5 > years ago. > > With this spec machine you are planning to run in command line mode only? if > you expect a gui, forget this hardware IMHO. If it is for a firewall > (assuming you can fit 2 NICS) then cli will be OK and the CPU would be big > enough for a soho setup. > According to this page (http://www.anarchysoftware.com/system/libretto/redhat6.html), if isn't a joke, people can run X on it... Andrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Motherboard Problem
I think you are being somewhat un-realistic at 10 years The biggest weakness seems to be capacitor breakdown, therefore research boards that use the highest quality capacitors from mainstream manufacturers. I have run a range of "good" makers and I have found them all to be stable for yearsFIC, Gigabyte, Asus, Tyan. To be honest just pick a board that does what you want in terms of features, buy 2 and store one carefully if you are that paranoid. Get a good online UPS that will isolate your power supply ie one that reconstructs the sine wave, and get good quality PSU's, these will effect the running of your server far more than the board quality. Motherboard reliability is probably the least of your worries. regards Thing -Original Message-From: Afrouz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, 25 November 2004 8:58 a.m.To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Motherboard Problem Hi I want to build server based on Debian. I need very good reliable motherboard for this server. Really good one which can stay for me about 10 years. I do not know what motherboard is really good and reliable with Debian Please help me on that Thanks Afrouz
sendmail on debian
I have just built a sendmail box with the sarge verion of Debian, I find it is refusing connections inward but send mail out correctly. How can I get the server to accept incoming mail? I have put lines into access with, Connect:localhost RELAY Connect:130.195 RELAY Connect:vuw.ac.xx RELAY run the hash, but I get Connection refused, where else & what else is there to edit to get sendmail to accept incoming mail? Any useable docs for this new sarge version? the std access file has lots of fancy stuff that I might just rip out as I lack docos to try and figure out what they domight be neat but to complex thanks Steven aka thing
RE: cdrom upgrade
You can mount the iso's as file systems regards Steven aka thing -Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 November 2004 10:45 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cdrom upgrade On Sunday 28 November 2004 11:51 pm, rogerwphx wrote: > I installed debian and it boots up in bash ok, but the cdrom images > are .iso images. How do you upgrade the installation from bash with > iso's. What's wrong with using apt-get over the network? -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/
RE: debian on a sun enterprise 250
Title: debian on a sun enterprise 250 Looks like a fault, Im 99% sure the yellow light is a m/board thing and not OS dependant. Its not likely to be a hd failure, so check the back, see if the psu(s) have a yellow as well (I think they do from memory, I only have 450s here in my new job), if so replace the psu. Otherwise it could be fan failureetc etc. You maybe able to boot off a solaris cdrom and run prtdiag to show faults. Consider getting in a Sun engineerif not on support be prepared for a huge bill. Meanwhile make sure you have a good backup... regards Thing -Original Message-From: james derry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, 3 December 2004 9:48 a.m.To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: debian on a sun enterprise 250 i've recently taken over sysadmin duties for a sun enterprise 250 running debian. the 250's has frontpanels LEDs, and one on this machine, the general fault LED, burns constant yellow. online documentation for the hardware at http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/General/LEDs/E250_LEDs.html says:This yellow LED blinks slowly while the system runs its power-on self-test (POST) diagnostics and blinks rapidly during OpenBoot diagnostic (OBDiag) tests. It lights steadily when any fault is detected (including a fault also reported by any other LED).Q: could this be a normal state for enterprise 250s running debian? or is the LED truly reporting that a fault has been detected?thanks,james
RE: Can't eject CD
do a fuser on the cdrive look for the process that "holds" it and stop/kill it. man fuser for details regards Steven aka thing -Original Message- From: John Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 7 December 2004 11:28 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't eject CD Pse help newbie - My CD/RW lite is on, and I can't eject the CD. I really don't want to reboot just for this. My device is ATAPI:0,0,0. I've tried cdrecord -eject to no avail. Any help please? Debian Sarge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: webmin sendmail not working Debian Woody
piffle...sendmail works fine, real easy to add in clamav/clamav-milter as well, far easier than postfix. MS's NT stands for "new technology" are you suggesting because its "newer" than unix we should swap to it? ;] Also the webmin sendmail (o) options in Sarge 3.1 edits the sendmail.cf directly and not the .mc, so when you run sendmailconfig or if the sendmail.cf package is updated via apt-get etc the options get lost Also the updates are wiping the LOCAL_CONFIG addons to sendmail.mc, so all in all I would suggest avoiding 3.1 at present. So its too buggy to trust, IMHO. regards Steven aka thing -Original Message- From: Jaldhar H. Vyas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 13 December 2004 3:03 p.m. To: Paul Hailey Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: webmin sendmail not working Debian Woody On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Paul Hailey wrote: > Hi > I've installed various webmin packages on Debian Woody successfully but > both webmin-sendmail and webmin-fetchmail do not yet appear on the webmin > page used remotely from a client browser sourced from the server. > > Has anyone come across this non-appearance of webmin-sendmail? > webmin-sendmail was my hope for setting > up sendmail after installing it using apt-get from the cd set. The webmin packages in woody are quite buggy. Use the ones from sarge instead. And try a more modern MTA than sendmail. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows
lol. Sorry win2k/XP cannot find any diskspress f3 to exit and reboot Sorry your hardware is not supported by win2k/win2k3. This product is obsolete we will not be releasing drivers for win2k win2k3, buy a new controller for just $999. The updated Certified Microsoft driver you just installed has just fried your raid5 array ;] regards Thing -Original Message- From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2004 6:51 a.m. To: debian-user Subject: Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows Christian Convey wrote: > But to be fair, that hasn't been my experience with Windows XP at all. > So I'm doubtful that the users' simplicity offered by Windows has > crashiness as a necessary consequence. Of course with WinXP you have DRM and the dreaded 3-strikes problem. They might have licked that crashing problem (har, rght) and just traded it in for their own set of shackles. I have no experience with XP becuase of it. Now, 2k don't get me started on 2k. Anyone who says Debian is hard to install obviously has never attempted a 2k install. *shudder* -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
RE: Newbie ?'s, Start and stop SSHd?
I would suggest, /etc/init.d/ssh restart or /etc/init.d/ssh stop ; /etc/init.d/ssh start regards Thing -Original Message- From: Hanspeter Kunz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2004 11:21 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie ?'s, Start and stop SSHd? On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 17:12 -0500, Charles Read wrote: > Hey everybody! > > I just installed Debian and I can't figure out how to start and stop > sshd. I have tried all the 'usual' stuff to no avail. Any help? /etc/init.d/ssh start /etc/init.d/ssh stop By the way, what is the "usual" stuff??? -- Hanspeter Kunz Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Ph.D. Student Department of Information Technology Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Zurich Tel: +41.(0)44.63-54306 Andreasstrasse 15, Office 2.12 http://ailab.ch/people/hkunzCH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland Spamtraps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- There's no heavier burden than a great potential. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: *****SPAM***** howto know if raid is really working?
mdstat shows quite well that all the disks are on line, or not, it is simple and effective IMHO. When you mount one side of the mirror you may actually be corrupting it.possibly preventing it being written to. If you are going to do that, go to single user mode, unmount the mirror device, mount one/both sides in read only mode and look at the files. I must admit this is novel, I have never come across someone not trusting a mirror before regards Thing -Original Message- From: Harland Christofferson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2004 2:20 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: *SPAM* howto know if raid is really working? mdadm -D /dev/md0 diplays information dating back to when the raid array was created. cat /proc/mdstat doesn't give much detail in my opinion. how can i find out the current health of the array and whether or not files on the mirror are being correctly updated, i.e., if i mount the mirror partition, i do not see that particular files have been updated. -- Zero Crossings, Inc. -- Embedded and Digital Signal Processing Systems http://www.zerocrossings.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Low Power Servers
Transmedia, or the via CPU units. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Cole S. Ashcraft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 20 December 2004 1:39 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Low Power Servers Does anyone know of any low power usage servers (110W and below)? Cole -- Cole S. Ashcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Umask 002 policy
I have noticed some funnies when seting a restrictive umask, mozilla seems to freak out and the ssl stuff no longer works. one to watch for... regards Steven -Original Message- From: David Mandelberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:37 a.m. To: Clive Menzies Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Umask 002 policy Clive Menzies wrote: > For existing directories: $ chmod -R 775 should do the trick That will work for the directories themselves, but all files in them will be executable. I wrote a (very basic) bash script that will recursively make normal files one permission and directories another.[1] Just download it, look at the code to make sure it doesn't screw anything up, chmod +x it (make sure one of the EXCLUDE regexes matches the file you download so it doesn't change it's own permissions), and run it like this: ./perm_set /home/`id -un` Another way to do it is chmod -R u+rw,g+rw,o-w [1] http://code.eth0.is-a-geek.org/perm_set/perm_set -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/CM$/CS>$/CC/IT$/M/S/O/U dpu s+:++ !a C++$>C+++$ UB+++>$L$*-- P+>++$ L+++()$ E-(---) W+++>$ N(+) o? K- w--(---) O? M V? PS++@ PE-@ Y+@ PGP++(+++)>$ t? 5? X? R tv--(-) b++(+++)@ DI? D? G e-> h* r? z* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- David Mandelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Virii on linux
While several anti-virus companies have "shown" Linux virii in their labs there has not been one seen in the wild. They have tried really hard to FUD users into buying their products but generally have failed. What is annoying is being forced to incl a anti-virus package on a Linux server to protect Windows clients and then have the same a-holes claim anti-virus software is a neutral thing in TCO calcs as it is always needed. Most virii operate with only windows and only Outlook, so it usually takes both for a successful virus spread. On linux we have neither. Worms etc are another matter, you can do a lot to harden a box, then add a firewall and then run some services on non-standard ports, eg ssh on say 49 (or something). While this is not going to stop a live hacker who scans, it will defeat lots of automated bots searching for a vulnerable sshd implementation. Regards Thing -Original Message- From: Mauro Parra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2005 1:14 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Virii on linux Hello, On 5/18/05, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard people say that virii have come in to linux too, nowadays. > What kind of virii are these and where can I get info about how to > secure system against them? You can get more info at this links: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/ http://librenix.com/?inode=21 Regards, Mauro
webmin on debian testing.
Hi, I have an issue with webmin, I can login as root to 127.0.0.1:1 with the unix root password, but I cannot login to its external IP, 130.195.20.24:1 I have set allow=130.195.0.0/255.255.0.0 127.0.0.1 in miniserv.conf But still no joy. I tried to enable ssl and generate new keys...no joy but 127.0.0.1 still works (mozilla on 127.0.0.1 gives me warnings about new keys but connects OK) What do I have to do to get webmin working on the external Debian box that differs to every other Unix/Linux? Regards Thing
RE: jfs or reiser
I have used reiser for squid servers for over a year and they are heavily loaded, no issues. Don't use software raid its flaky, so use reiser on hw raid. Regards thing -Original Message- From: John Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 June 2005 11:29 a.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: jfs or reiser I need to choose a filesystem for many small files. I read that reiser is good, but I also see reports of problems with reiser, so I wonder if I should use jfs instead. -- A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting. Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$50,000 for the Linux kernel!
gee what a bargin, pay $50,000 for a $600 million kernel... says a lot for the dodgy canopy group does it not? why work when you can exploit regards Steven
RE: "Dynamic MMap ran out of room"
Did you just try updating a woody box to sarge sources.list? If so take the lines out and update again. regards Thing -Original Message- From: Mr. Jan Hearthstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 2004 4:23 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "Dynamic MMap ran out of room" I am geting a mesage from "apt-get" that: ... "Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Read error - read (14 Bad address) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened." I don't get any xwindows, so whatever I am going to do to at least salvage some of my files will have to happen from the consoles. What should I do? Thanks, Hearthstone. = Modelling the Future: http://gief.pair.com/hearth/modelearth.html A penny more: Should we, the people, be sincere about wanting a real peace on Earth, we would spend at least a penny more on active promotion of peace, than what we spend on the military. ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Switching between two network cards
I dont quite understand why you need to switch, you could just run everything off eth1, but anyway, I would suggest looking in your bios and either disabling the onboard NIC, or changing the PCI probe order eg if its says first-last change it to last-first or what ever syntax your bios uses. However Its most likely that the onboard can simply be disabled in the bios. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Andrei Badea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 8 October 2004 9:55 a.m. To: Debian User List Subject: Switching between two network cards Hello all, this is not quite a Debian related problem (except that I'm running sid), but anyway... I've got two network cards: one integrated on my motherboard (uses the sk98lin driver) and a PCI card (fealnx driver). Both drivers are compiled as modules and upon startup I'm loading only fealnx via /etc/modules (I'm not loading sk98lin at all). The network runs fine. After my system starts, I want to switch to the other network card (the sk98lin one), but I only want its module loaded, so I do: ifdown eth0 rmmod fealnx modprobe sk98lin ifup eth0 Messages in dmesg say the network is up and running. But it isn't, it seems I can't ping nor make net connections. However, when I (for example) run a ping and look at the LEDs on the card, I see them bliking in the "ping" way. I can also see the echo request and reply packets in tcpdump. But ping doesn't get them and reports 100% loss. If I unload sk98lin and reload fealnx, the net works fine. Now comes the interesting part: if I put sk98lin in /etc/modules instead of fealnx and restart, the net comes up. Only this time I can't switch to fealnx. This shows both the cards are working. I thought this was caused by iptables settings, so after loading the other module I rerun the script which setups my firewall rules. Didn't help. I'm running Debian sid with self-compiled kernel 2.6.7. Any ideas why this is happening? Not that is it important, as my net is running with any of the cards if I restart, I'm just curious. However, I'd like to point out that I don't want both modules to be loaded. I want to be able to unload the running one and load another without having to restart. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Andrei -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] # http://movzx.net # ICQ: 52641547
clustering outgoing SMTP servers
I would like to cluster 2 servers to share the load of outgoing email. They would need to be active / active as one box is buckling under the load, anybody have overall suggestions on how please i woud do this please? Not detail so much as the principles to give me something robust. regards Steven
RE: Formatting an unused partition
Do a df -h and look for hdb10 to make sure it is not mounted/used. The next stage depends on how paranoid you are, at this point if you are confident its unused you can make a file system on it. If not mount it and go see if amything is in it. regards Steven -Original Message- From: [KS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:24 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Formatting an unused partition Bonjour tous, I have two HDDs (40+80G). The smaller one (/dev/hda) has WinXP on it(hardly used), and bigger one (/dev/hdb) has Debian Sid installed. I was checking free space on /dev/hdb and by chance summed up all the partition sizes. I was surprised to see that the sum was considerably less than 80GB(I didn't even remember that it was there). I did a cat /proc/partitions and it showed that there was an ~18GB partition (/dev/hdb10). Then I checked with cfdisk and it showed the partion as FS=Linux but no type. What are the various options that I use to format that partion and use it? I did read about cfdisk but I just want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing as it is being done as root. Thanks, /KS PS: The output of cfdisk is copied below: Disk Drive: /dev/hdb Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9729 NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- hdb1BootPrimary Linux ext3 197.41 hdb2Primary Linux ext3 6999.72 hdb3Primary Linux ext3 1998.75 hdb5Logical Linux ext3 1998.75 hdb6Logical Linux swap 1003.49 hdb7Logical Linux ext3 501.75 hdb8Logical Linux ext3 20003.89 hdb9Logical Linux ext3 27003.60 hdb10 Logical Linux 20316.45 ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Formatting an unused partition
I am assuming you have no software raid devices like md0 etc as this would hide hdb10 regards Steven -Original Message- From: Steven Jones Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:12 a.m. To: [KS]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Formatting an unused partition Do a df -h and look for hdb10 to make sure it is not mounted/used. The next stage depends on how paranoid you are, at this point if you are confident its unused you can make a file system on it. If not mount it and go see if amything is in it. regards Steven -Original Message- From: [KS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:24 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Formatting an unused partition Bonjour tous, I have two HDDs (40+80G). The smaller one (/dev/hda) has WinXP on it(hardly used), and bigger one (/dev/hdb) has Debian Sid installed. I was checking free space on /dev/hdb and by chance summed up all the partition sizes. I was surprised to see that the sum was considerably less than 80GB(I didn't even remember that it was there). I did a cat /proc/partitions and it showed that there was an ~18GB partition (/dev/hdb10). Then I checked with cfdisk and it showed the partion as FS=Linux but no type. What are the various options that I use to format that partion and use it? I did read about cfdisk but I just want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing as it is being done as root. Thanks, /KS PS: The output of cfdisk is copied below: Disk Drive: /dev/hdb Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9729 NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label]Size (MB) -- hdb1BootPrimary Linux ext3 197.41 hdb2Primary Linux ext3 6999.72 hdb3Primary Linux ext3 1998.75 hdb5Logical Linux ext3 1998.75 hdb6Logical Linux swap 1003.49 hdb7Logical Linux ext3 501.75 hdb8Logical Linux ext3 20003.89 hdb9Logical Linux ext3 27003.60 hdb10 Logical Linux 20316.45 ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Formatting an unused partition
Then if you are confident its unused make a new filesystem, mount it and use it. regards Steven -Original Message- From: [KS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:49 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Formatting an unused partition I'm top posting(to keep in line with the response), but if that is not recommended do inform me. No, the partition is not alread mounted. And as seen in the copy of cfdisk partition list in my first message, it does not show a partition type. Trying -t auto for mounting gives: mount: you must specify the filesystem type And there are no software raid devices on my system. Regards, /KS --- Steven Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do a df -h and look for hdb10 to make sure it is not > mounted/used. > > The next stage depends on how paranoid you are, at > this point if you are confident its unused you can > make a file system on it. If not mount it and go see > if amything is in it. > > regards > > Steven > > -Original Message- > From: [KS] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:24 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Formatting an unused partition > > > Bonjour tous, > > I have two HDDs (40+80G). The smaller one (/dev/hda) > has WinXP on it(hardly used), and bigger one > (/dev/hdb) has Debian Sid installed. I was checking > free space on /dev/hdb and by chance summed up all > the > partition sizes. I was surprised to see that the sum > was considerably less than 80GB(I didn't even > remember > that it was there). I did a cat /proc/partitions and > it showed that there was an ~18GB partition > (/dev/hdb10). Then I checked with cfdisk and it > showed > the partion as FS=Linux but no type. > > What are the various options that I use to format > that > partion and use it? I did read about cfdisk but I > just > want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing as > it > is being done as root. > > Thanks, > /KS > > PS: The output of cfdisk is copied below: > > Disk Drive: /dev/hdb > Size: 80026361856 bytes, > 80.0 > GB > Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 > Cylinders: 9729 > > NameFlags Part Type FS Type > > [Label]Size (MB) > > -- > hdb1BootPrimary Linux ext3 > > 197.41 > hdb2Primary Linux ext3 > > 6999.72 > hdb3Primary Linux ext3 > > 1998.75 > hdb5Logical Linux ext3 > > 1998.75 > hdb6Logical Linux swap > > 1003.49 > hdb7Logical Linux ext3 > > 501.75 > hdb8Logical Linux ext3 > > 20003.89 > hdb9Logical Linux ext3 > > 27003.60 > hdb10 Logical Linux > > 20316.45 > > > > > > > ___ > Do you Yahoo!? > Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! > http://vote.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Where is the key for the password files stored?
Old Red Hat and new Red Hat / Debian use a different system to create the encrypted passwords if I recall correctly. So you cannot simply copy the users line in shadow over, it wont work, hence the need to de-crypt and re-crypt (I assume). regards Thing -Original Message- From: Miquel van Smoorenburg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 25 October 2004 11:36 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Where is the key for the password files stored? In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Where is the key used to decrypt the passwords (shadow) files stored? >I want to reinstall an old redhat system with debian, but I wish to >preserve old users and passwords to ease the transition process. You can't decrypt passwords - because they are not crypted at all. The algorithm is just a one-way hash. When you login, the password you enter is simply encrypted (one-way- hashed, really) again and compared with the one in the shadow file. The password in the shadow file is never decrypted as such. Why not simply copy the relevant parts of the password and shadow files over, why do you want to decrypt first ? Mike. -- "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: security question (sshd log)
Is your sshd setup to protocol 2 only? I would suggest seting it up so it is. regards thing -Original Message- From: Tarapia Tapioco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 3 November 2004 11:29 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: security question (sshd log) I found the following entries in my auth.log file: sshd[22774]: scanned from 68.147.18.131 with SSH-1.0-SSH_Version_Mapper. Don't panic. sshd[22773]: Did not receive identification string from 68.147.18.131 What do they mean, and should I panic or not? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
experiences with Debian Alpha
Has anybody set up Debian on an Alpha? Specifically a DS10? If so, can you point me at some docs / hints / tips / pit falls to avoid to start such a install? I want to build a hi-speed sendmail/postfix gateway with clamav if I can. Easy on intel, but this is my first alpha box and the only hardware I have available for now. regards Thing
RE: exim4-daemon-heavy, fetctmail and infected emails
How about adding clamav? regards Thing -Original Message- From: Jerome BENOIT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 November 2004 8:26 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: exim4-daemon-heavy, fetctmail and infected emails Hello List, I decided to delete infected emails fetched with fetchmail. Currently the infected emails are just marked "INFECTED" by exim4 throught a "warn message ..." instruction: ho can I order to exim4 to delete infected emails ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: why debian
ken keanon wrote: > Hi, > > There are so many distros out there its confusing. Any reason(s) why > Debian should be the preferred choice? > Use the one (Linux) you are most comfortable with. Debian has some advantages, 1) IMHO, the quality of the distribution is amongst the highest, if not the highest, this gives server stability but at the expense of not bleeding edge for hardware/software. So if your into desktops, Debian is probably not the distro for you, aim for Mandrake, Suse, Fedora. If you want a server that you are going to run for years at high load, is minimalised, stable and well supported, I would suggest Debian is at the head of your list. 2) If you have a variety of hardware, Debian works across many CPU types, making life a bit easier for you in maintenance terms. 3) It is almost rabidly OSS, this means no vendor lockin, no cost of support and no pay for upgrades. 4) Help chammels where you can often end up taking to the maintainers of a package or very experienced sys admins, for free... You could be nice and send some money to the debian fund though as a thankyou. regards Thing
RE: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?
I am running clamav attached to sendmail, seems to pick up viruses and some phishes...very easy to set up. Adding clamav Firstly download and install the clamav packages with apt-get. clamav - Antivirus scanner for Unix clamav-base - Base package for clamav, an anti-virus utility for Unix clamav-daemon - Powerful Antivirus scanner daemon clamav-freshclam - Downloads clamav virus databases from the Internet clamav-milter - Fast antivirus scanner for sendmail clamav-testfiles - Use these files to test that your Antivirus program works libclamav1 - Virus scanner library libclamav1-dev - Clam Antivirus library development files Next insert the line below into /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and run sendmailconfig. In sendmailconfig say yes to rebuild sendmail using existing sendmail.conf and sendmail.mc, then restart sendmail. Clamav should now be active. INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`clmilter',`S=local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.ctl, F=, T=S:4m;R:4m')dnl define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `clmilter')dnl >From now on your mail.log should show lines similar to below, Nov 9 10:09:11 katrina sm-mta[11215]: iA8L96C3011215: from=, size=3829, class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=stin.rdsans.org [65.173.218.117] Nov 9 10:09:12 katrina sm-mta[11215]: iA8L96C3011215: Milter add: header: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/564/Sat Oct 30 03:58:02 2004\n\tclamav-milter version 0.80j\n\ton katrina.thing.dyndns.org Nov 9 10:09:12 katrina sm-mta[11215]: iA8L96C3011215: Milter add: header: X-Virus-Status: Clean Nov 9 10:09:12 katrina sm-mta[11218]: iA8L96C3011215: to=, delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=142187, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent clamav setup should now be complete. regards thing -Original Message- From: Rick Friedman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 November 2004 10:41 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux? Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Will Ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>F-Prot is a good linux anti-virus for linux. Spyware, you got me, but >>as earlier posters said, be smart about how you use your browser and >>you will be generally ok. > > > But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav > instead. http://www.clamav.net/ Hmmm... except F-Prot for Linux for the workstation is free for personal use. Rick -- "Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?
8>< > > But F-Prot sucks by default because it is nonfree. Check out clamav > instead. http://www.clamav.net/ Well and to close the circle clamav sucks by default cause the virus database is not maintained by an commercial entity working 24/7 on it. Nearly all commercial AV Vendors offer Linux versions these days so you can choose one fitting your needs. Sven 8>< Most anti-virus vendors have a delay of on average 10 hours between the release of a new virus and the defination coming out. I have my system updating every 2 hours automatically, so is there really a significant, documentable difference between the average update time with clamav and a commercial entity? regards Thing
smtp performance
I am looking to run 2 outgoing smtp servers in parallel to increase performance and give redundancy. Is there anyway to run them in parallel such that they load share + if one falls over the mail is channeled into the remaining server? I guess I am looking for an active/active 2 node cluster, but somehow I need to direct the mail flow upstream of them to load share any ideas how to do this please? regards Steven
RE: recommendation for digital camera
-Original Message- From: Chris Metzler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 2:31 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: recommendation for digital camera On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 18:00:42 -0400 (EDT) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, I'm looking for a digital camera with the following (tentative) > requirements. I'm happy to have these requirements questioned. [ snip ] > 2) Needs to work well with Debian (obviously). I think the best support > is obtained by cameras that are seen as USB mass storage devices, right? I don't own a digital camera, unfortunately; so take any advice I may give with a block-o-salt. But I've seen several people here who *do* own digital cameras suggest the purchase of a USB memory card reader. The idea is that regardless of whether a particular camera is or is not compatible with the OS, its memory plopped into a reader will be. This enables you to forget the "compatible with Linux" restriction, and make your purchase choice entirely on whether a camera will take good pictures. -c -- Chris Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear This is what I did, the USB multi-readers are dirt cheap and allow you to download to your PC while still continuing to use the camera (assuming you have 2 memory units). A slight problem is that some cameras have some inbuilt RAM, say 16 or 32, this is not removable. Regards thing
squid advice pls
Hi all, I have a Dell 1650 with 2 gig of ram, 2 x 36 gig scsi drives Can anyone point me at or suggest good staring points for the squid configuration pls? Worthwhile tweaks to Debian to get the most out of it? I need to build this box on Monday so I am starting from a clean slate, For Disk configuration I was thinking of something like this, Mirrored disks, so 1 x 33.6 gig as sda, Sda1 100 /boot Sda2 2 /cache Sda3 1000 swap Sda5 1 /var (I need to log) Sda63000 / Squid mem cache_mem = 256M Last time I built a squid server with 1 gig or ram it got upset on a cache_mem of over 192M, it basically started to swap heavily and game over. Now I have 2 gig so I am pondering a decent starting point, too much and I am dead ;] I also have noticed that memory use seems to creep up over time, after say 1 ~ 2 weeks of hard use, Squid just seems to gradually take more and more RAM until its exhausted and a restart is needed... Something I need to configure or a bug? Suggestions and comments appreciated! regards Thing
sata ~ linux compatibility
quick questions. Has anybody used serial ata? if so what chipsets worked well? I want to softraid 2 x 160 gig drives for my small home server and I have to fit a eide pci card of some sort (its all scsi otherwise) so I am thinking a combo usb/firewire/sata card looks a good bet...lots of services on one card (booting not needed). Anybody experienced a performance improvement? or degradation? what cards to avoid? regards Thing
RE: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)
I would agree, Sony are not a nice company to deal with IMHO, and given so much choice of product out there easy to avoid. ;] Steven 8><= > > Avoid them if you care about customer support. Theirs is even worse > then not having any. Additionally I would suggest avoiding *any* product made by that company. They actively try to reduce compatibility and are great supporters of Digital-Restrictions-Management junk (e.g. Notebooks only work with their own expensive RAM modules; pushing yet another completely superfluous and otherwise hardly supported flash memory type in the market (of course with DRM built-in) etc. etc.). Regards Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Is Linux Unix?
hehand at the rate Linux is taking over Unix space he like RISC based Unix will be going the way of the dodo. ;] Considering how many "Unixes" run Open source applications and utilities I find it laughable that ppl can look down on Linux. Simple answer is Linux is not Unix because its better (or going to be). From an operational point of view I have found that there is little Unix can do that Linux cannot, and certainly plenty Linux can do that Unix cannot, kernel compatibility and cost effective hardware see to that. regards Thing -Original Message- From: Ryo Furue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 July 2004 7:42 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is Linux Unix? John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I was wondering if Linux can be considered Unix? This question makes me laugh (no offense to you) because it reminds me (and would remind many people who frequent(ed) comp.unix.admin) of a certain person, who would never fail to be offended, saying "Linux is not Unix" as if it were an mantra, whenever an innocent poster asks a question about Linux in comp.unix.admin. If you are intrested, seach the google groups with "Rev Don McDonald Unix Linux". He was very derisive toward Linux and fierce enough in repeating the mantra to scare novices off and to be quite notorious to the frequenters. Cheers, Ryo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Is Linux Unix?
Working in a MS, Solaris, Linux, Tru64 shop, I find that for the vast majority of our servers the usability of Linux is as good as Unix if not better. While Unix might have high end bits Linux lacks for 95% of the world's servers that small missing % I suspect is not an issue. regards thing -Original Message- From: Simon Kitching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 21 July 2004 1:31 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is Linux Unix? On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:16, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 08:35:11AM +1200, Steven Jones wrote: > > hehand at the rate Linux is taking over Unix space he like RISC based Unix > > will be going the way of the dodo. > > > > ;] > > > > Considering how many "Unixes" run Open source applications and utilities I find it > laughable that ppl can look down on Linux. Simple answer is Linux is not Unix > because its better > (or going to be). From an operational point of view I have found that there is > little Unix can do > that Linux cannot, and certainly plenty Linux can do that Unix cannot, kernel > compatibility and > cost effective hardware see to that. The LWN report on the first day of the Linux Kernel Summit gives a very interesting perspective on what Unix can do that Linux still can't. If you're an LWN subscriber, the article is available now. For non-subscribers, it will be available for free next week. See http://lwn.net. The projects at www.osdl.org (Linus Torvald's current employer) also give an interesting perspective on the features Linux still needs in order to catch up with commercial unix in some areas. Of course in many areas it kicks commercial linux. I have to work on AIX as well as linux, and there's many times a day I wish this was a pure linux shop. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?
cat /proc/cpuinfo should show all 4 cpus? regards Thing -Original Message- From: Jacob Friis Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 10:56 a.m. To: Greg Folkert Cc: DebianUser List Subject: Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs? Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:19, Jacob Friis Larsen wrote: > >>I still only see 1 CPU. >>On Redhat I can see all 4 CPUs. >>Would that be possible? > > Please do a: > > uname -a > > Copy and paste the result please. react1:~# uname -a Linux react1 2.4.26-2-686 #1 Mon May 17 22:19:48 EST 2004 i686 unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs?
Then I believe you do not have a smp kernel, because that command should show all 4. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Jacob Friis Larsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 11:07 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: Greg Folkert; DebianUser List Subject: Re: How can I make sure that Linux have initialized all CPUs? Steven Jones wrote: > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > should show all 4 cpus? I see only one. The kernel is "Linux react1 2.4.26-2-686 #1 Mon May 17 22:19:48 EST 2004 i686 unknown". # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 2 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz stepping: 9 cpu MHz : 2399.398 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid bogomips: 4784.12
RE: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop)
suits never learnthey only think in one term...dollarsand how to make more. Betamax was actually good, pity VHS won regards Thing -Original Message- From: Silvan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 1:39 p.m. To: Debian-user Subject: Re: Don't buy Sony (was: Re: sony vaio desktop) > I can hardly believe that this was by accident since everything they > do just shows so obviously what they aim at - ripping you off very > thoroughly. You'd think they'd have learned something from betamax by now. :) -- Michael McIntyre Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: USB disk drive
Try fdisk /dev/sda and see if it has partition data, ie do a "p" look and then "q" to quit. ? Otherwise leave the "drive" in and reboot, see if its seeable then(crude I know) regards Steven -Original Message- From: Bill Moseley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2004 2:33 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USB disk drive I'm trying out a FireLite USB drive. It's been used on Windows (from what the owner tells me and has data on it). I'm running kernel 2.6.6. When I plug it in I see this in syslog: Jul 21 17:18:50 bumby kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 Jul 21 17:18:51 bumby kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized Jul 21 17:18:51 bumby kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Jul 21 17:18:51 bumby kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jul 21 17:18:52 bumby scsi.agent[1675]: disk at /devices/pci:00/:00:11.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:2.0/host0/0:0:0:0 Jul 21 17:18:52 bumby kernel: Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: MK6021GAS Rev: GA02 Jul 21 17:18:52 bumby kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jul 21 17:18:52 bumby usb.agent[1642]: usb-storage: loaded successfully Jul 21 17:18:52 bumby kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 2 Jul 21 17:18:52 bumby kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Jul 21 17:18:52 bumby kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. And modules seem to load correctly: bumby:~# lsmod Module Size Used by usb_storage29696 0 scsi_mod 81152 1 usb_storage lp 10564 0 uhci_hcd 30672 0 ohci1394 34756 0 ieee1394 108340 1 ohci1394 i2c_sensor 2944 0 And it shows up as expected: bumby:~# cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage/0 Host scsi0: usb-storage Vendor: SmartDisk Corp. Product: FireLite (USB 2.0) Serial Number: 00010f6f Protocol: Transparent SCSI Transport: Bulk Quirks: bumby:~# cat /proc/bus/usb/devices | grep FireLite S: Product=FireLite (USB 2.0) And I've got my device files: bumby:~# ls -l /dev/scd0 /dev/scd1 brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 2002-03-14 13:54 /dev/scd0 brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 1 2002-03-14 13:54 /dev/scd1 How do I tell what /dev/scd* the device connects to? I tried installing the sg3-utils: bumby:~# sg_scan -i bumby:~# And I can't mount: bumby:~# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device I tried both of my USB ports. At this point I'm swinging in the dark. Any ideas? -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba and OSx
Hi all, I have a debian 3.0 box running samba, it has been running for 2 odd years and is fully patched. Win2k, NT4, Win98 clients can talk to it and read and write to the common "share" directory without issue. I have just added an iMac running OSx (which is fully patched etc) It finds the workgroup "Thing" fine and the server apollo, the user connects OK but can only read the share, write is not possible. The same user can log in and read and write fine from a win2k client, so I am stumped a wee bit as my books only cover MS clients... It seems to write zero length files on occasion at least if not each time. So far Im thinking of some possibilities, The user name on the OSx box is "Phoebe Gray" and not phoebe, but log into the share as phoebe works fine (but read only), so user name might need mangling? Something missing on the OSx box like a samba authentication key of some sort? any suggestions please? Otherwise the same share is nfs exported, so I might consider figuring out how to get OSx to do a NFS mount, as that is how the linux clients work, but I want to have a win2k test server as well so Id rather solve the smbclient issue. regards Thing
RE: Samba and OSx
thanks. Will experiment tonight. regards S -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 1:18 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba and OSx Steven Jones wrote: >Hi all, > >I have a debian 3.0 box running samba, it has been running for 2 odd years and is >fully patched. Win2k, NT4, Win98 clients can talk to it and read and write to the >common "share" directory without issue. > >I have just added an iMac running OSx (which is fully patched etc) It finds the >workgroup "Thing" fine and the server apollo, the user connects OK but can only read >the share, write is not possible. The same user can log in and read and write fine >from a win2k client, so I am stumped a wee bit as my books only cover MS clients... > >It seems to write zero length files on occasion at least if not each time. > >So far Im thinking of some possibilities, > >The user name on the OSx box is "Phoebe Gray" and not phoebe, but log into the share >as phoebe works fine (but read only), so user name might need mangling? > >Something missing on the OSx box like a samba authentication key of some sort? > >any suggestions please? > >Otherwise the same share is nfs exported, so I might consider figuring out how to get >OSx to do a NFS mount, as that is how the linux clients work, but I want to have a >win2k test server as well so Id rather solve the smbclient issue. > > Probably you should be asking this on an OSX forum. What does smbclient have to say about this? Have you tried accessing the shares with Linux from another box? NFS is a better bet. Finder, go, connect to server. Or K -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?
You could run a squid proxy on the box and redirect http requests, this will log. Assuming you only want http of course. I just looked at my squid logs, for 1 squid server (we run 2 in parallel with DNS round-robin) the log is 350meg to 1.3gig per day per serverthats just http regards S -Original Message- From: James Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 1:54 p.m. To: debian helping Subject: Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged? > The log will be _enormous_ and I mean __enormous__ It seems to me that the log won't necessarily be very large. It really depends on how the connection is being used, doesn't it? An hours worth of log from a dialup connection couldn't be very large, for example. Of course, on a broadband connection with lots of websites being visited or files being downloaded, the log would become quite large fairly quickly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install
If you lose the first disk the machine's bios wont pick the second disk, so the machine will not be bootable anyway. It will probably stay up provided the disks are on sepearate channels, if they are on the same one there is a good chance when one disk dies it will lock out the ide channel it is on and hence take out the second disk. My advise, go to hardware raid pci plugin card for the OS. regards S -Original Message- From: Jason Bleazard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 2:45 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install Sorry for asking this when I know there's a lot of documentation out there already, but I'm getting in to information overload and I'd appreciate any suggestions or opinions on the "best" or "easiest" or "most efficient" or "most reliable" way to do what I want. I write these things in quotes because I'm expecting opinions to vary, which is fine. Short and to the point: the goal is to get software RAID-1 going on a new installation to be used as a home server for files and e-mail. I need to decide how I'm going to go about doing this. Should I install the system first, then get the RAID going? Or would it be easier to do RAID from the start? I want *everything* mirrored (including /boot and the root). The idea is that if the primary drive crashes, I can take it out, smash it with a hammer, re-plug the cable and boot from the mirror drive as if nothing ever happened (yeah, I know the RAID will be degraded until I can replace the smashed drive, this is fine). Also, should I look at LVM or EVMS, or are they overkill? More info: My wife and I had a server (running Sarge) with a 60G and a 40G drive in it that we were using for file storage and e-mail. The drives were getting a bit full, and I had been planning on adding another drive to the mix. However, last week the 60G drive crashed. Our most recent backup is about 5 weeks old (yes, a better backup plan is also definitely on my to-do list... I'll figure that out as soon as the system is working again). My wife used to work in the mainframe world, and her comment was "I told you we should have had a tandem system." D'oh! I tend to agree, so I've scrapped my idea about adding more drives, and now I'm planning on just getting two 200G drives and hooking them up in a RAID-1 array to provide mirroring. The 40 will be coming out once I copy the files off of it. The drives will be parallel ATA, as I'm on a budget and don't need the performance of S-ATA or SCSI. There is a bit of a drawback in that the motherboard I'm using is a bit old. It works and it's free, but the on-board controller won't support any drive larger than 80G. I'm going to get a Promise controller for the new drives. I figure I'll have one drive on each bus of the add-on controller, and leave the CD burner on the motherboard controller. Even though we only have two users (both trusted), I like to have things like /boot, /var, /tmp, /home, /usr and so forth split off in their own partitions. I always figured that if I needed to re-size any partitions, I would use Partition Magic. It works great for me, and downtime is not a huge problem. However, I'm guessing that PM isn't really a good idea on a RAID (anyone know for sure?). For this reason, I've been looking at either LVM on RAID, or just using EVMS for everything. EVMS in particular sounds pretty cool from what I've read, but it might be overkill for me. There's also the question of / and /boot... but I have seen documentation that talks about options for dealing with those on either RAID or EVMS, so I know it can be done. I do have an old 8G drive that I could put in there temporarily if needed. I was thinking about installing to that, then creating a RAID on the 200G drives, then copying everything over to them. I thought it might be easier to set up the RAID on clean drives than it would be if the drives were in use. I've also noticed that the beta debian-installer for Sarge supports RAID and LVM at install time. I've seen lots of bug reports on it though, so I'm a little hesitant to try it. I suppose I don't really have anything to lose if it doesn't work, as I can always switch to a different plan. Also, I'd kind of prefer EVMS to LVM, and I don't see anything about EVMS in the installer. At this point I think EVMS has some nice features that make it look like the better choice, but as long as things work it's not a huge issue. Alternatively, I've read http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html and noticed that a number of those support RAID and/or LVM installations. Perhaps someone can recommend a good installer for what I need? I have a couple of workstations still up and running with CD or DVD burners, and a nice fast DSL connection, so I'm fine with net installs, downloading ISO images, or whatever. About the bootloader, I've always used LILO in the past, as it worked for me and I never had any good
RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install
? Please explain how grub/lilo/mbr gets accessed when the first disk is not there? >From experience most intel based bioses are not bright enough to go searching for >another disk if 0x80 is not present. regards S -Original Message- From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 3:38 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Steven Jones wrote: > If you lose the first disk the machine's bios wont pick the second disk, > so the machine will not be bootable anyway. when the raid disks and kernel and grub/lilo are configured properly, than it will boot of either/any number of disks in raid1 when the other one is dead > My advise, go to hardware raid pci plugin card for the OS. not worth the extra $$$ ... cheaper to buy 3-5 new spare disks in lieu of one $300 hw raid card c ya alvin > Sorry for asking this better to ask than to dive in blindly > already, but I'm getting in to information overload yup > Short and to the point: the goal is to get software RAID-1 going on a new > installation to be used as a home server for files and e-mail. I need to > decide how I'm going to go about doing this. dont bother with your disk and wife's disk keep both disks separate, and backup the other's data to each others disks on 2 different PCs > Should I install the system > first, then get the RAID going? Or would it be easier to do RAID from the > start? it is 10x easier to install the first time into raid .. - you will need to configure /dev/md0 for / manually along with /dev/md1 for /tmp, /dev/md2 for /var, /dev/md3 for /usr, etc, etc before installing the distro > I want *everything* mirrored (including /boot and the root). The > idea is that if the primary drive crashes, I can take it out, smash it with > a hammer, re-plug the cable and boot from the mirror drive as if nothing > ever happened if its properly configured, you do NOT need to touch anything other than pull the dead disk and smash it the hammer and hopefully install the replacement disk before the 2nd disk dies - usually, if disks dies, identical disks will all die within 30-60 days of each other under the same conditions > (yeah, I know the RAID will be degraded until I can replace > the smashed drive, this is fine). Also, should I look at LVM or EVMS, or > are they overkill? lvm just allows you to [dynamically] grow /home if you run out of space and grow it onto your new pair of [raid'd] disk drives > My wife and I had a server (running Sarge) with a 60G and a 40G drive in it > that we were using for file storage and e-mail. The drives were getting a > bit full, and I had been planning on adding another drive to the mix. - delete the spam ... - compress last years emails > However, last week the 60G drive crashed. :-) > Our most recent backup is about 5 > weeks old (yes, a better backup plan is also definitely on my to-do list... find /home -mtime -7 -type f | tar zcf /mnt/backup/todays.date.tgz -T - - run it from cron raid will NOT solve your backup probelms.. - you're assuming raid is working properly too when you haven;t check that its raiding all your data > I'll figure that out as soon as the system is working again). My wife used > to work in the mainframe world, and her comment was "I told you we should > have had a tandem system." D'oh! tandem was bought by ??? than bought by cray and bought by sgi than compaq than hp ... ( it's back in palo alto where it all started ) > I tend to agree, so I've scrapped my idea about adding more drives, and now > I'm planning on just getting two 200G drives and hooking them up in a RAID-1 > array to provide mirroring. more data to mirror and mroe data to be lost :-) > The 40 will be coming out once I copy the files > off of it. The drives will be parallel ATA, as I'm on a budget and don't > need the performance of S-ATA or SCSI. leave the 40GB in there for backups - lots of jpgs/mpegs wont be compressed much, but text files easily compresses 10x > There is a bit of a drawback in that the motherboard I'm using is a bit old. > It works and it's free, but the on-board controller won't support any drive > larger than 80G. I'm going to get a Promise controller for the new drives. promise is good for sw raid ... but if oyu use 200GB raid disks... you will NOT be able to boot from it .. bios just too old > I figure I'll have one drive on each bus of the add-on controller, and leave > the CD burner on the motherboard controller. good idea ... or better still ... get a free (new) motherboard when you buy 2x 200GB disks > Even though we only have
RE: mbr RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install
This must depend on the bios, all the ones I have seen did not allow this. regards S -Original Message- From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 28 July 2004 3:52 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mbr RE: Requesting advice on s/w RAID-1 install On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Steven Jones wrote: > Please explain how grub/lilo/mbr gets accessed when the first disk is not there? > From experience most intel based bioses are not bright enough to go searching for another disk if 0x80 is not present. your bios already have the otion built in .. boot form hdc, boot from hda, boot from cd, boot from floppy... boot from network ... you pick ... for raid if you have configured it correctly ... all the boot info is in the mbr of each disk hda and hdc if those are the ones used for /dev/md0 for how all that works ... not many documents on that .. ( the boot process going down to asm instruction sequence ) grub would be a bad choice for booting raid boxes since it likes to read the disks before it decides what to do, and cant read the disk go get its info since it cant talk to it yet c ya alvin
RE: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged?
I am pretty sure freshmeat.net has a tool that uses iptables and puts it into a mysql database...try looking under "monitor" or "uptime" its there somewhere. regards S -Original Message- From: Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 10:17 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How can I get all IP transactions (in/out) logged? Yes iptables can do this. I know iptables can log to syslog, and believe there are ways to make it log to SQL, but I am unfamiliar with those. With syslog logging, you will also probably want to look into a syslog replacement such as syslog-ng where you can separate log data to multiple files much easier than the usual channels plain syslog provides. To do this you use the target -j LOG with one or two additional options: iptables -A input -i ppp0 -j LOG --log-level debug --log-prefix "PACKETLOG-IN" iptables -A output -o ppp0 -j LOG --log-level debug --log-prefix "PACKETLOG-OUT" iptables -A forward -i ppp0 -j LOG --log-level debug --log-prefix "PACKETLOG-IN" iptables -A forward -o ppp0 -j LOG --log-level debug --log-prefix "PACKETLOG-OUT" You can use whichever combination of the above four rules depending on what you want to log. #1 logs packets in ppp0 destined to the router/host machine #2 logs packets out ppp0 sourced from the router/host machine #3 logs packets in ppp0 destined to something else on your network #4 logs packets out ppp0 sourced from something else on your network --log-level has to be a valid syslog type (man syslog.conf) --log-prefix is a 14 char string prepended to the log message. This can be changed to suit your needs, and I would suggest configuring syslog-ng to pattern match for this string so you can store each iptables rule's output in a separate file as needed. You can have two files, in and out, each mixed no matter what its to/from (as in my examples above) or have the forward and 'to router host' separated, or any combinations you need. These logs will get large the more data you pass. If you store them for say 24 hours and rotate them as you pass them off to some other accounting/processing software (one that just stores summary info for example) and bzip2's the logs, deleting after a couple days, this shouldn't be bad on a dialup. -- Jon On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:27:56 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just want a basic log file containing the source and > destination addresses for all traffic in and out of > via PPP, so that I can keep track of what connections to > outside IP addresses are made, and from where (externally, > or from something running on my system) they originated. > > I've turned on the debug mode in PPP but it doesn't seem to > provide what I want. For instance, it logs transactions from my > system to my ISP, but doesn't log what's happening with > any greater resolution (for instance, if I ping a system > on the Internet, there's no record of the ping attempt > in any of the system log files). The firewall as set up by > "firestarter" logs blocked firewall penetration attempts, but > not "legitimate" transactions in and out (perhaps there's a > method, which I haven't found, to change that?) > > Is there any "built-in" facility that will accomplish > this, or is it necessary/possible to construct something > using "iptables", or is there a contributed app that will > do it? > > I realize that there are log files for the various > servers and utilities (FTP, etc.) that contain this information > on a piecemeal basis, but it seems to me that it would make > more sense to collect it at the connection point(s) in and out > of the system, at least on an interface-by-interface basis. > > Once again, I'm surprised that a Web search and various site > searches haven't turned up a solution to this. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Couple Questions Before I install for first time.
I run a very similar machine, a BX chipset with dual p3-500's, that adaptec aicXXX chipset, it just works, since 2.0.34 when the kernel first supported it. ditto e100 Ive been using the onboard set, should be fine. :) My motherboard in question is a Tyan DULAN 1836L, stating your board might be of help. You may have to pick a smp debian kernel package, but its so long since I built the box I dont recall exactly. Once the box is up run modconf from the command line to load any modules you need, but the NIC and adaptec card should be there during the install. I actually use a pci perc2 Dell hardware raid card in it now regards S -Original Message-From: Jason G Skala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 1:16 p.m.To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Couple Questions Before I install for first time. This weekend I am getting ready to switch my server over to Debian Woody from Red Hat 9.0. And have a few questions before I go and do this about SMP Kernels.I have a Intell LX440GX+ Motherboard with Dual PIII 500's running software raid currently, I have found some great articles on getting the Software Raid portion to work with debian so I think I am ok on that. My real concern is getting the SMP Kernel working with it, and I have yet to really find any good examples or docs on this. I am not new to linux but new to debian, I am used to Red Hat were I have a GUI install and select SMP kernel and that is it. Now is there an easy way to get a SMP kernel for debian or should I just plan on creating my own from source?The motherboard has a built in Adaptec aic7896/97 Ultra2 SCSI adapter, is this supported by default without any trouble?Also I have an intel Nic card 82559 that uses the e100 module/driver and have read that this can be trouble some to get to working any info that some one can provide to me on that as well.Thanks for any help anyone can offer
RE: repeated entries in /var/log/messages...
It means your log gets time stamped, personally I like it. Makes it a bit more difficult for someone to chop out parts of the log to hide things and shows the daemon is running, its not unknown for syslog to stop working. regards S -Original Message- From: Mario Flores [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 2:12 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: repeated entries in /var/log/messages... Hi: Since day 1 I installed debian, I see the following in the /var/log/messages: Jul 28 21:01:08 woody -- MARK -- Jul 28 21:21:08 woody -- MARK -- Jul 28 21:41:08 woody -- MARK -- and they repeat every single hour at the exact same intervals. Does anyone know what they mean and how can I stop them? I am running the stable release (woody). Thanks, Mario. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Ever solve eject problem?
try fuser, it should show if someone or something is in the directory in question. so man fuser eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# fuser /mnt/ (gives no return) [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cd /mnt/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# fuser /mnt/ /mnt/: 16337c [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# ps aux |grep 16337 root 16337 0.0 0.0 4268 1372 pts/0S08:19 0:00 -bash root 16408 0.0 0.0 3676 676 pts/0S08:25 0:00 grep 16337 So this shows "me" as root in a bash shell in /mnt so /mnt cannot be ejected/unmounted while "I" am in there. This should work for where ever the cd is mounted. regards S -Original Message- From: Eric M. Monsler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 5:34 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ever solve eject problem? Jerry, you reported: > I get the same problem even as root: > debian:/home/jerry# mount /dev/hdc > debian:/home/jerry# umount /dev/hdc > debian:/home/jerry# eject /dev/hdc > eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument ...two weeks ago in a thread on ejecting a CD problem. Did you ever find a solution? I've got the exact same problem on my recently Debianed box. I didn't see any solution on the list, although other threads discussed when only root can eject. I can't eject, even as root: habanero:/etc# eject /dev/hdc eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument habanero:/etc# eject /media/cdrom eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument habanero:/etc# My fstab is: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda6 noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda5 /home ext3defaults0 2 /dev/hdc/media/cdromiso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0/media/floppy autorw,user,noauto 0 0 endor:/export/home6/emonsler /home/emonsler/nethome nfs defaults,_netdev Finally, uname -s reports: Linux habanero 2.4.26-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Jul 9 22:32:32 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Thanks, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown
keep an eye on it but this looks bad.
Check something like advanced power manager in the bios is not active that could be
shutting down the hd, but biggest likelyhood IMHO is the drive looks to be failing.
regards
S
-Original Message-
From: David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 3:39 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [OT] Hard Drive shutdown
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:14:51PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> David wrote:
> >I know this is not Debian specific, but I'm curious..
> >Yesterday, my HD shut down briefly rather unexplainably to me.
> >I have the following entry in my kern.log (as well as corresponding
> >entries in other logs):
> >-- cut -
> >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 {
> >Busy }
> >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel:
> >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: DMA disabled
> >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
> >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0x80 {
> >Busy }
> >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel:
> >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
> >Jul 28 15:25:41 localhost kernel: ide0: reset: success
> >
> >- cut --
> Install, configure and use smartmontools.
> If it doesn't recognise your drive, follow the reporting procedure. In a
> day or two there wil be a new package for you to try.
Thanks for the reply.
What does this package do? Would it give a more detailed report on what
is going on? This is what I gather from "apt-cache show". Actually, I
am not sure if I would have SMART support on this computer or not. I
don't recall any mention of SMART in regard to my HD (repeating,
WD-400BB), and if the computer is supposed to provide anything of it,
mine probably won't - it's a very old P-166 about 10 yrs old or more.
This is something that has never happened before (AFAIK), and the logs
for the boot don't show any problems in detection of hda.
> He service really is very good.
If you think it might help I will give it a try.
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RE: Ethernet card not working after a clean kernel 2.4installation of Debian 3.0
did you try modconf to load it? I use these cards and have had no issue. Once inserted with modconf it should be there on reboots. regards S -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 3:30 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Ethernet card not working after a clean kernel 2.4installation of Debian 3.0 Ok, thanks to Kent and Matt's response. It turns out that the module is not there and I have to what, compile the module or recompile the kernel. What would be the steps in both the cases? Any documents that I can read if this is a long process? Also, the Ethernet card that I have is 3c905B from 3Com. Where can I get the driver for this? Best Regards, Nabil. -Original Message- From: matt zagrabelny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ethernet card not working after a clean kernel 2.4installation of Debian 3.0 On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 08:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Fellows, > > > > When I install Debian with kernel 2.2, the Ethernet card works fine. > But when I install Debian with kernel 2.4, I donÿt see any sign of lo > or eth0 any where. I am new to Linux, and Debian in particular. Please > advice. From the top of my head, I think that the kernel module for my > Ethernet card is not loaded. If so, do I need to recompile the kernel > with the appropriate modules or can I have a loadable module. If so, > how do I know what is the right module? And how can I install a > loadable module? Thanks. > commands you'll use: lsmod (list loaded modules) modprobe (load module) to find out information about your cards (at least for a pci bus) do: lspci -vv | less -S and look for your ethernet controller. then go to the directory /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers (the "uname -r" part is the name of the running kernel) and poke around until you find the corresponding module. it will be something like tulip.o so to load run "modprobe tulip" if it is not there, you'll have to compile the driver as a module or into the kernel which we can help you with if you get to that point. -matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: Bu elektronik posta ve ekleri, sadece yukarida ismi yazili alicinin dikkatine gonderilmistir. Mesajin muhatabi degilseniz, icerigini ve varsa ekindeki dosyalari kimseye aktarmayiniz ya da kopyalamayiniz. Boyle bir durumda gondereni uyarip, mesaji imha ediniz. KUVEYT TURK E.F.K. A.S bu e-postanin ve eklerinin icerdigi bilgilerin size degisiklige ugrayarak ulasmasindan veya gec ulasmasindan, butunlugunun ve gizliliginin korunamamasindan veya icerigine güvenilerek yapilacak islemlerden dolayi sorumlu tutulamaz. This e-mail & its content have been sent to the attention of the receiver named above. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error), Please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Kuwait Turkish Evkaf Finance House shall not be held liable for the arrival of this e-mail & its content as modified or late, the protection of integrity and secrecy and shall not be liable to any person who acts or omits to do anything in reliance upon it.
RE: I/O Errors
see if the manufacturer has a disk diagnostic program available, but I would suggest the disk is stuffed. regards S -Original Message- From: Michael G. Morey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 8:50 a.m. To: Debian User List Subject: I/O Errors All, I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1. I've recently had to restart GNOME 2.2, and found the following errors on the console (tty01) prior to rebooting: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64 I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 0 I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64 Are these disk I/O errors? What further diagnostics can I run, to help troubleshoot the problem? Thanks. Michael -- Michael Morey Consultant Optivel Phone: 317.275.2306 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.optivel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: install reboots, optiplex gx1
I have used these quite a bit on Redhat and Debian, with hundred's of days uptime. You will probably find, if it has a 3com network card "its odd" and wont work with Linux, something in the Dell bios. I ended up installing a 8139c. Otherwise I have found them rock steady, the PSU's do go dodgy, it might be yours is Donald Ducked. Usually the first symptoms are failure to boot when warm, but boots fine when cold... 1) Make a new boot floppy 2) It wont install via CDROM? 3) Try a redhat or other distro install. regards S -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 2004 11:27 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: install reboots, optiplex gx1 Alvin Oga wrote: >hi ya > >On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Tim Larson wrote: > > > >>Having trouble installing debian (woody). Root floppy reboots >>immediately, no text printed. Dell OptiPlex GX1 Bios A10 >>Anybody have a similar experience, ideas how to debug this, >>or solutions? >> >> > >whenever the silly pc reboots by itself during bootups ... > - it means the kernel is not quite the one for the cpu you're > trying to boot > > ( c3 vs p4 vs amd vs celeron vs ... or just plain bad hw > ( or bad power supply or .. googleplex other reasons > > > That's the first think I thought of, but The CPU's a Pentium II and should cope with pretty much any installer its sees. Bootfloppies are,I believe, built fot 386. Certainly hardware is a possibility: bad RAM for example. You can check that out with memtest86. Rather than boot from floppy, if you can, install off the network. These machines can PXE-boot and PXE-booting is a fine way of installing anything. Some of these need a BIOS upgrade, and you can easily find it on the Dell website. You might needs freedos to do the flash. My experience with these machines has been goof. Incomparison with, say, Gateway and Gigabyte. The boxes are very easy to work on. Two buttons to remove the cover. RAM immediately accessible. One screw to remove HDD. Floppy. CD drive just loft out. PCI bus lifts out (there's a locking arm to lift). Vendor BIOS upgrades easy to locate. Tech support actually responds to email helpfully, even on these old boxes. Mostly, they're quiet. Every version of Linux I've tried just installs. What does confuse me is the model numbers, gxa, gx110, gx100, gx1 and I think I've seen a gx1a. These all look the same. Oh, you could also try the new debian-installer. It has an option to install Woody, and I think that branch needs testing. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: install reboots, optiplex gx1
Ive found the 8139's almost as fast (like 5~10% less speed) as the 3com's and Intel e100's and 1/10th the price, for a workstation they seem fine. The failure to start is not a heat sink problem but a PSU problem, we had hundreads of these as desktops and this was a common symptom, swap in new PSU and its fine. These cases wont take a "standard" AT or ATX motherboard, its a Dell special. These cases wont take a "standard" AT or ATX PSU, its a Dell special. regards S -Original Message- From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 3 August 2004 12:33 p.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: install reboots, optiplex gx1 On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Steven Jones wrote: > I have used these quite a bit on Redhat and Debian, with hundred's of days uptime. start uptimes in x,000's and than rattle the cages :-) > You will probably find, if it has a 3com network card "its odd" and wont work with > Linux, something in the Dell bios. I ended up installing a 8139c. 3com's 3c5xx and 3c9xx are okay ... rt8139's are whacky ... and slow > Otherwise I have found them rock steady, the PSU's do go dodgy, always have spare fans and spare ps > it might be yours is Donald Ducked. or goofy'd ... or just plain garfield'd or just plain ole lemon > Usually the first symptoms are failure to boot when warm, but boots fine when cold... means the airflow aint flowing right and/or the contact between the heatsink and fan aint working anymore - remove the heatsink, very carefully scrap off the junk and reapply a brand new batch of heatsink grease my choice of mb... intel, tyan, asus, - other mb are last option, no choice and inherited my choice of ps... sparkle or emacs - no other options ... pull the other ps before they die on you after it went to the far away colo good thing for "dell" ... it's job security that somebody keeps calling to come fix their boxes now .. c ya alvin
dealing with spam ~ advice needed
Our site is being constantly "hit" by spammers using bruteforce tactics looking for valid users. At present our servers bounce with "no valid user" is this the best tactic? or is it simply better to stop such bounce msgs? while polite, spammers are taking the p*ss We are running postfix and spam assassin to tag spam, it is effective in taggingI am just considering my options in configuring postfix to reject selected connections like my favourite optonline.net. I cannot see that an IPTABLES block is effective, if only because of the shear number of IPs optonline is using (as an example)and this is just one example, so a DNS name lookup is out suggestions please? regards S
RE: smp install
If you have a smp kernel it will automatically detect the extra kernel after reboot, this is not NT land... ;] regards Thing -Original Message- From: Patrick Donker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2004 8:44 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: smp install If I install deb with a dual proc kernel, while only having one cpu on the board, can I slam in a second one after the installation is done, and at the same time have the 2nd proc working as it would have been during installation? In other words, if I smack in a 2nd processor, will it be recognised by linux and will it work properly, or do I have to reinstall everything from scratch? -Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Making a route change persistent in Debian
open, /etc/network/interfaces add something like, up route add -net 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.1.2 down route del -net 172.16.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 gw 192.168.1.2 see this page for an example, http://www.thing.dyndns.org/debian/setup2b.htm regards thing -Original Message- From: John Summerfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 August 2004 10:05 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: Re: Making a route change persistent in Debian Tony Uceda Velez wrote: >How do you make a route change persistent in Debian? Is there a comparable >tool like yast or a route.conf file? > > man interfaces -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
usb flash sticks, good as swap partitions? or logging partitions?
just a thought I have a 64Meg stick sitting here...was thinking a cascade type scenarioswap to flash first off then connventional disk later... Or possibly use it as a logging "disk" for /var/log as mine are getting hammered ? regards thing
RE: I have broken apt-get Panic!
what commands are you using to upgrade with? regards thing -Original Message- From: Dave Whiteley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 16 August 2004 12:14 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I have broken apt-get Panic! Hello, I have an old system that has been running "stable" for ages. I am now truing to upgrade it to "testing" but somehow I have got myself into a deadlock position. debconf is dying because:- debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (IO object version 1.21 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.20 at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/DynaLoader.pm line 245. and so I cannot upgrade anything now. The tail end of the error messages looks like :- Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (IO object version 1.21 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.20 at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/DynaLoader.pm line 245. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/IO/Handle.pm line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/IO/Handle.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Seekable.pm line 51. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Seekable.pm line 51. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/IO/File.pm line 112. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/IO/File.pm line 112. Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl/5.8/FileHandle.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 3. ) -- aborting E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true Any ideas how I can rescue the situation? Dave -- Dave Whiteley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +44 (0)113 343 2059 School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering The University of Leeds. Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
icecast
I am looking to stream some of my own music, looks like icecast is a good candidate. can anyone offer/suggest?, 1) Good URLs for documentation? 2) Alternative applications for a Debian based box, if they are easier to do? regards Thing
RE: icecast
Thanks,
It has to be Open Source and it has to be on Debian
;]
The test box I am using is also my file server so I dont want to move to unstable, but
I will consider icecast2 if there are advantages in it, like far easier to setup.
Part of my problem is also putting together the "music system", so thanks for the tips
on the other stuff I will need to look at.
regards
Steven
-Original Message-
From: Martin Theiß [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2004 8:41 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: icecast
Hi Steven Jones, *,
Steven Jones wrote:
> I am looking to stream some of my own music, looks like icecast is a
> good candidate.
>
> can anyone offer/suggest?,
>
> 1) Good URLs for documentation?
/usr/share/doc/icecast{,2}/ ;)
> 2) Alternative applications for a Debian based box, if they are easier
> to do?
try icecast2, available in sarge and sid; you could also try a shoutcast
server, but it is closed source.
to stream the music to the server you may also need a source client like
darkice or ices
Kind regards
Martin
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The box said 'Requires Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux - TKK 5
RE: All these open ports
>From what I recall of a discussion over SP2 for XP with a MS rep, thier firewall >should have a lots of fun trying to figure out what is legit outgoing and what is >not ;0 regards Thing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2004 9:07 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: All these open ports > So what are exactly are you worried about? A program uploading > sensitive data to a random server? Well the easiest way for a program > to do that is to invoke sendmail to e-mail the information to the > server. In which case the program never attempts to open a port, your > m-t-a does. Your m-t-a opening a port is the most normal thing in the > world. Or if for some reason you don't have your m-t-a properly > configured, it could invoke ssh or lynx or ... You're right; there are as many opportunities for paranoia WRT what on my system could "phone home" in which manner. I think for Linux to be secured against that sort of thing, there would have to be a kernel hook that logged PIDs of processes that got spawned, and then watched to see if that PID attempted an outgoing access of some sort. (I'm not volunteering to write *that*...). I've similarly wondered if the Gatesware equivalents (the "personal firewalls") are capable of detecting outgoing accesses by things that aren't invoked by the user... probably not, and the corresponding vulnerability is probably there for Windoze systems as well, as I mentioned earlier... The thing is, that sort of malicious code could be embedded in anything you install. The only thing protecting you is the traceability of the code and concomitant liability of the perpetrator to prosecution. Otherwise half the frustrated geeks in the world would be embedding their little "projects" in their employer's products. I don't know about you, but that sort of "protection" doesn't make me feel "secure" in general - I want some sort of process monitoring that can detect outgoing communication attempts. The fact that it hasn't happened yet, doesn't reduce my paranoia one bit. Moreover, the attitude of Linux people that they're somehow immune because of the limited distribution of Linux compared to the Gatesware installed base, is just whistling in the dark, cum laude. From the responses I get in general, the general attitude seems to be to shrug it off because no one can do anything about it. Again, you're right, though, that I'm too narrowly focused WRT the real issue. Maybe this discussion really belongs on a linux security list... Thanks for your input - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: icecast
neat. Steven -Original Message- From: Marco van Putten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 27 August 2004 8:51 a.m. To: Steven Jones Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: icecast Hey Steven, Steven Jones schreef: >I am looking to stream some of my own music, looks like icecast is a >good candidate. > >can anyone offer/suggest?, > >1) Good URLs for documentation? >2) Alternative applications for a Debian based box, if they are easier >to do? > > You could also use mod_mp3. In debian it's called libapache-mod-mp3 If you point it to a dir where your music is at, it will play everything in it inclusive subdirs. You can let it either play from a to b , randomly or using a playlist. http://tangent.org/ http://cvs.tangent.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/mod_mp3/faq.html?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/html >regards > >Thing > > > Good luck, Marco.
RE: PE 1600SC ???
Does it run OK with 2.4.x ? Im running Dells with RHAS3 on 2.4.x without issues. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Sergio Basurto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 31 August 2004 9:42 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PE 1600SC ??? I had problems with installation of woody in a PowerEdge 1600SC server, I replace the kernel that comes as default with the rescue disk with my own kernel 2.6.7, the rescue disk is working, but I have problems with the root disk. At boot time I receive the following error: ramdisk: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 41944304 ext2-fs warning: check time reached running e2fsk is recommended. I compile the kernel with ext2 support, I can figure out what is going on. Any Idea or source of information. I alredy read the installation manuals. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dell 2850
Anybody got Debian to install on one fo these? if so what disk module did you use? regards Steven
RE: HP DeskJet 895C
Is USB enabled in the bios? regards Thing -Original Message- From: Freddy Freeloader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2004 8:46 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HP DeskJet 895C Hi All, I'm having problems with getting my HP DeskJet 895C printer to work. It is connected with a usb cable. I have, I think anyway, all the appropriate usb modules (ehci, uhci, usblp, and usbcore) loaded in the 2.6.8 kernel I'm using, and I'm running sarge(upgrade from woody). I also have CUPS and the HP drivers "hpijs" and "hpoj" installed. I can log onto the CUPS admin page and work with it so CUPS seems to be installed correctly. However, I cannot get the computer to find the printer. I know the printer works as I just unplugged it from another computer and used the same usb cable for both hookups. Anyone have any good ideas for troubleshooting this? Being a newbie to Linux I'm at the end of my own ideas as to where to go from here. I have run the "/etc/init.d/hpoj setup" command and it scans for, but does not find the printer. I have the .ppd file for the printer installed in the /usr/share/cups/model/ directory. The /proc/bus/usb/ directory is empty. When I tell CUPS to look to usb interfaces for the printer, no matter what usb interface # I have used, the error log tells me the device can't be found. When I run "gs -h" the "ijs" device is listed in the output. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Confused about modules
try typing modconf and pic the module to install it. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Robert Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 2004 12:17 p.m. To: Debian User Subject: Confused about modules As root On a Woody system 2.4 series kernel. modprobe apm the module installs and is in the lsmod list but does not persist through a boot. insmod apm same story. So what command should I use to have apm installed on boot? I guess a second question is why have 2 commands doing the same thing? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nfs
I am trying to mount a nfs share between laptop and server. exports has /home/share/ 130.195.0.0/255.255.0.0(ro) exportfs shows it as being exported, iptables is disabled, no firewalling. all the directories are 0777 permissions, yet even doing a local mount server to itself fails with reason given by server: Permission denied in the logs. Anybody got an idea where to start looking for such an issue? thanks Steven
RE: nfs
I have got a bit further If I specify /home/share/ tecra:(ro) and tecra is in hosts then it mounts fine, what I cannot do is specify a 130.195/24 or 130.195/16 network... any ideas please? regards Steven -Original Message- From: Steven Jones Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 2004 1:43 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: nfs I am trying to mount a nfs share between laptop and server. exports has /home/share/ 130.195.0.0/255.255.0.0(ro) exportfs shows it as being exported, iptables is disabled, no firewalling. all the directories are 0777 permissions, yet even doing a local mount server to itself fails with reason given by server: Permission denied in the logs. Anybody got an idea where to start looking for such an issue? thanks Steven
RE: DHCP Question
from memory, cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/orig-interfaces Pretty easy, install dhcpcd with apt-get update ; apt-get install dhcpcd Then /etc/network/interfaces needs the interface thats going to run dhcp to be setup have these 2 lines, auto eth0iface etho inet dhcp regards Steven -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, 16 September 2004 9:58 a.m.To: Debian UserSubject: DHCP Question I am a novice in Linux. The computer running Debian connects to the router (Linksys 4 port. Model #: NR041). [The router connects to the DSL Modem.] It connects to the Ethernet Port. I have enabled DHCP in the Router. How do I install DHCP Client? What should be the content of this file? I have 2 NIC cards in my computericonfig -ashould list the all the eth - however it doesnt. Is there a way I can have it to identify both the NICs? What happens after the DHCP Client is installed? What do I have to do for it to connect to the Internet? Thanks & Regards, AARON ROYAustin, TX
RE: How to start NTPD?
If you are a client then you can run ntpdate via a cronjob. eg crontab -e 00 1 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate You should be able to install ntp with apt-get and start it with /etc/init.d/ntp start after you have edited /etc/ntp.conf running ntpq to test it, then at the > prompt type ep then as, these should give you outputs. eg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ntpq ntpq> as ind assID status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt === 1 15004 9124 yes yes none falsetick reachable 2 2 15005 9424 yes yes none candidat reachable 2 3 15006 9624 yes yes none sys.peer reachable 2 4 15007 9424 yes yes none candidat reachable 2 ntpq> pe remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter == xmu-relay2.masse tick.usno.navy. 2 u 860 1024 377 44.740 75.290 8.830 +orthanc.otago.a buzzybee.its.wa 2 u 817 1024 377 61.7530.696 3.386 *amp-gw.compass. bigben.clix.net 2 u 831 1024 377 36.7930.581 0.556 +gen2.ihug.co.nz bigben.clix.net 2 u 922 1024 377 43.803 -2.286 3.600 regards Thing -Original Message- From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:18 a.m. To: Debian Users Subject: How to start NTPD? In installed the NTP, as well as the ntp-docs, and for the life of me I can't figure out how to start ntpd. There does not even appear to be an 'ntpd' anywhere (tried 'which'), and from going over the docs I cannot find a section on how to start/stop/restart the service, and there is no seperate 'ntpd' package. I already have an NTP service running on this box, I just want my little Debian box to be in sync with it. On a related note, to start/stop/restart a service on my Mandrake machine, I use the 'service' command. I somehow ended up with the impression that the analagous command on Debian was 'dpkg-reconfigure'. I'm way off, I suspect. Clarification on that also appreciated. Thanks. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 19:10:29 up 48 days, 18:57, 5 users, load average: 0.32, 0.17, 0.07 +++ "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes, to blind you from the truth..." -- Morpheus, in The Matrix, describing Fox News -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to start NTPD?
run this, apt-get update ; apt-get -y dist-upgrade and hold on to your hat while the box patches itself (assuming you have a WAN connection in place and sources.list is correct) ;] afterwards, apt-get install ntp Should either install ntp or say the latest is installed. For a client you run crontab -e to add a similar line that I supplied, you then do a :wq to exit and the cron job will run at the time specified. If ntpq says "connection refused" then it doesnt look like ntp is running. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:26 p.m. To: Debian Users Subject: RE: How to start NTPD? Hi Steven, I just took out this Debian box for testing. It has not been used for more than a year. I believe I have ntp installed and running on this box, IIRC. > If you are a client then you can run ntpdate via a > cronjob. > > eg > > crontab -e # crontab -e only displaying an empty table. > running ntpq to test it, > > then at the > prompt type ep then as, these should > give you outputs. # ntpq ntpq> as ntpq: read: Connection refused ntpq> Kindly advise how to fix it. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ntpq > ntpq> as > ind assID status conf reach auth condition > last_event cnt > === > 1 15004 9124 yes yes none falsetick > reachable 2 > 2 15005 9424 yes yes none candidat > reachable 2 > 3 15006 9624 yes yes none sys.peer > reachable 2 > 4 15007 9424 yes yes none candidat > reachable 2 > ntpq> pe > remote refid st t when poll > reach delay offset jitter > == > xmu-relay2.masse tick.usno.navy. 2 u 860 1024 377 > 44.740 75.290 8.830 > +orthanc.otago.a buzzybee.its.wa 2 u 817 1024 377 > 61.7530.696 3.386 > *amp-gw.compass. bigben.clix.net 2 u 831 1024 377 > 36.7930.581 0.556 > +gen2.ihug.co.nz bigben.clix.net 2 u 922 1024 377 > 43.803 -2.286 3.600 > > regards > > Thing > > -Original Message- > From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:18 a.m. > To: Debian Users > Subject: How to start NTPD? > > > > In installed the NTP, as well as the ntp-docs, and > for the life of me I can't > figure out how to start ntpd. There does not even > appear to be an 'ntpd' > anywhere (tried 'which'), and from going over the > docs I cannot find a section > on how to start/stop/restart the service, and there > is no seperate 'ntpd' > package. > > I already have an NTP service running on this box, I > just want my little Debian > box to be in sync with it. > > On a related note, to start/stop/restart a service > on my Mandrake machine, I use > the 'service' command. I somehow ended up with the > impression that the > analagous command on Debian was 'dpkg-reconfigure'. > I'm way off, I suspect. > Clarification on that also appreciated. > > Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Moving existing setup to a competely new server
-Original Message- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:35 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Moving existing setup to a competely new server Hi Andrea, > If you have the option to move the HD (and the HW on > the two servers > are similar), you can copy your system in different > ways (cp, cpio, > afio), If the HW config is different. Can I do it and how? Tks. I'm going to upgrade a workstation changing new motherboard, new RAM, new CPU, etc. Can I retain the HD? On the first booting will the PC configure itself automatically? TIA B.R. Stephen Depends on your kernel, usually the kernel detects new hardware on boot and re-configues as it boots, however its quite possible that NICs wont work. Otherwise unless modules have been stripped out it should boot OK. If it does not look for the point at which it locks, transfer the drive back and use modconf to install the module manually and try again. If you know there are some diffeences, use modconf to put the module in place now before transferring the drive. The biggest risk is the disk module, but since it looks like a workstation upgrade you should be fine. I have swapped hd's into new boxes a few times and its worked each time without issue beyond installing a new NIC module. regards Steven
RE: How to start NTPD?
cd /etc/apt/sources.list regards Steven -Original Message- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:59 p.m. To: Debian Users Subject: RE: How to start NTPD? Hi Steven, Tks for your advice. > run this, apt-get update ; apt-get -y dist-upgrade > > and hold on to your hat while the box patches itself > (assuming you have a WAN connection in place and > sources.list is correct) This workstation is connected to a 3MB broadband. Could you please advise where to lookup the sourc.list? I have been away from Debian for sometimes. # find / -name source.list No printout # ls /etc/init.d/ .. nfs-common ntp-simple # cat /etc/ntp.conf .. driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable server ntp.cuhk.edu.hk server ntp.debian.org server pool.ntp.org server stdtime.gov.hk > afterwards, > > apt-get install ntp > > Should either install ntp or say the latest is > installed. > > For a client you run crontab -e to add a similar > line that I supplied, Which line in your previous posting? Tks > you then do a :wq to exit and > the cron job will run at the time specified. > > If ntpq says "connection refused" then it doesnt > look like ntp is running. Noted with tks. B.R. Stephen > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:26 p.m. > To: Debian Users > Subject: RE: How to start NTPD? > > > Hi Steven, > > I just took out this Debian box for testing. It has > not been used for more than a year. I believe I > have > ntp installed and running on this box, IIRC. > > > If you are a client then you can run ntpdate via a > > cronjob. > > > > eg > > > > crontab -e > > # crontab -e > > only displaying an empty table. > > > running ntpq to test it, > > > > then at the > prompt type ep then as, these should > > give you outputs. > > # ntpq > ntpq> as > ntpq: read: Connection refused > ntpq> > > Kindly advise how to fix it. TIA > > B.R. > Stephen Liu > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ntpq > > ntpq> as > > ind assID status conf reach auth condition > > last_event cnt > > > === > > 1 15004 9124 yes yes none falsetick > > reachable 2 > > 2 15005 9424 yes yes none candidat > > reachable 2 > > 3 15006 9624 yes yes none sys.peer > > reachable 2 > > 4 15007 9424 yes yes none candidat > > reachable 2 > > ntpq> pe > > remote refid st t when poll > > reach delay offset jitter > > > == > > xmu-relay2.masse tick.usno.navy. 2 u 860 1024 > 377 > > 44.740 75.290 8.830 > > +orthanc.otago.a buzzybee.its.wa 2 u 817 1024 > 377 > > 61.7530.696 3.386 > > *amp-gw.compass. bigben.clix.net 2 u 831 1024 > 377 > > 36.7930.581 0.556 > > +gen2.ihug.co.nz bigben.clix.net 2 u 922 1024 > 377 > > 43.803 -2.286 3.600 > > > > regards > > > > Thing > > > > -Original Message- > > From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:18 a.m. > > To: Debian Users > > Subject: How to start NTPD? > > > > > > > > In installed the NTP, as well as the ntp-docs, and > > for the life of me I can't > > figure out how to start ntpd. There does not even > > appear to be an 'ntpd' > > anywhere (tried 'which'), and from going over the > > docs I cannot find a section > > on how to start/stop/restart the service, and > there > > is no seperate 'ntpd' > > package. > > > > I already have an NTP service running on this box, > I > > just want my little Debian > > box to be in sync with it. > > > > On a related note, to start/stop/restart a service > > on my Mandrake machine, I use > > the 'service' command. I somehow ended up with the > > impression that the > > analagous command on Debian was > 'dpkg-reconfigure'. > > I'm way off, I suspect. > > Clarification on that also appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How to start NTPD?
oops cd /etc/apt/ vi sources.list -Original Message- From: Steven Jones Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 1:00 p.m. To: Debian Users Subject: RE: How to start NTPD? cd /etc/apt/sources.list regards Steven -Original Message- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:59 p.m. To: Debian Users Subject: RE: How to start NTPD? Hi Steven, Tks for your advice. > run this, apt-get update ; apt-get -y dist-upgrade > > and hold on to your hat while the box patches itself > (assuming you have a WAN connection in place and > sources.list is correct) This workstation is connected to a 3MB broadband. Could you please advise where to lookup the sourc.list? I have been away from Debian for sometimes. # find / -name source.list No printout # ls /etc/init.d/ .. nfs-common ntp-simple # cat /etc/ntp.conf .. driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable server ntp.cuhk.edu.hk server ntp.debian.org server pool.ntp.org server stdtime.gov.hk > afterwards, > > apt-get install ntp > > Should either install ntp or say the latest is > installed. > > For a client you run crontab -e to add a similar > line that I supplied, Which line in your previous posting? Tks > you then do a :wq to exit and > the cron job will run at the time specified. > > If ntpq says "connection refused" then it doesnt > look like ntp is running. Noted with tks. B.R. Stephen > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 12:26 p.m. > To: Debian Users > Subject: RE: How to start NTPD? > > > Hi Steven, > > I just took out this Debian box for testing. It has > not been used for more than a year. I believe I > have > ntp installed and running on this box, IIRC. > > > If you are a client then you can run ntpdate via a > > cronjob. > > > > eg > > > > crontab -e > > # crontab -e > > only displaying an empty table. > > > running ntpq to test it, > > > > then at the > prompt type ep then as, these should > > give you outputs. > > # ntpq > ntpq> as > ntpq: read: Connection refused > ntpq> > > Kindly advise how to fix it. TIA > > B.R. > Stephen Liu > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ntpq > > ntpq> as > > ind assID status conf reach auth condition > > last_event cnt > > > === > > 1 15004 9124 yes yes none falsetick > > reachable 2 > > 2 15005 9424 yes yes none candidat > > reachable 2 > > 3 15006 9624 yes yes none sys.peer > > reachable 2 > > 4 15007 9424 yes yes none candidat > > reachable 2 > > ntpq> pe > > remote refid st t when poll > > reach delay offset jitter > > > == > > xmu-relay2.masse tick.usno.navy. 2 u 860 1024 > 377 > > 44.740 75.290 8.830 > > +orthanc.otago.a buzzybee.its.wa 2 u 817 1024 > 377 > > 61.7530.696 3.386 > > *amp-gw.compass. bigben.clix.net 2 u 831 1024 > 377 > > 36.7930.581 0.556 > > +gen2.ihug.co.nz bigben.clix.net 2 u 922 1024 > 377 > > 43.803 -2.286 3.600 > > > > regards > > > > Thing > > > > -Original Message- > > From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 11:18 a.m. > > To: Debian Users > > Subject: How to start NTPD? > > > > > > > > In installed the NTP, as well as the ntp-docs, and > > for the life of me I can't > > figure out how to start ntpd. There does not even > > appear to be an 'ntpd' > > anywhere (tried 'which'), and from going over the > > docs I cannot find a section > > on how to start/stop/restart the service, and > there > > is no seperate 'ntpd' > > package. > > > > I already have an NTP service running on this box, > I > > just want my little Debian > > box to be in sync with it. > > > > On a related note, to start/stop/restart a service > > on my Mandrake machine, I use > > the 'service' command. I somehow ended up with the > > impression that the > > analagous command on Debian was > 'dpkg-reconfigure'. > > I'm way off, I suspect. > > Clarification on that also appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Moving existing setup to a competely new server
modconf is debian's kernel module installer, it gives you a semi-graphical view and lets you scroll through module groups, you can install multiple modules in one session this way. just type modconf as root from the cli, Im sure you will be able to see what to do from the menu presented. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 1:30 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Moving existing setup to a competely new server Hi Steven, - snip - > Depends on your kernel, usually the kernel detects > new hardware on boot and re-configues as it boots, > however its quite possible that NICs wont work. > Otherwise unless modules have been stripped out it > should boot OK. Noted with thanks. > If it does not look for the point at which it locks, > transfer the drive back and use modconf to install > the module manually and try again. Sorry, I'm not quite clear on this point re "...use modconf to install the module" Could you please provide more detail with example. Tks. I think I have no place to transfer the HD back. I must reinstall the old motherboard, RAM, CPU, etc. (I retain the box, graphic card, CDRom and CD writer) > If you know there > are some diffeences, use modconf to put the module > in place now before transferring the drive. How can I find it out in advance. Tks. > The > biggest risk is the disk module, but since it looks > like a workstation upgrade you should be fine. > > I have swapped hd's into new boxes a few times and > its worked each time without issue beyond installing > a new NIC module. Noted with thanks B.R. Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
compiling a 2.4 kernel
I know this is old hat, but due to a bug in the 2.6 kernel and the megaraid driver I can boot a 2.6 kernel2.4 works fine, but I have to add NIC modules for me Asus board, Realtek 8110 and a Marvel sk98lin. The std one (sk89lin) in debian 2.4.27-4 does not work and there isnt one I can find for the 8110. Anyway, I think I have downloaded all the things I need to compile a debianised kernel the kernel packager way. I have applied the modules/patch for the asus motherboard's on-board NIC, but what I cant find so far is how to get a 2.4.27 kernel source to 2.4.27-4ie there would seem to be a need to apply some debianised kernel patches applied to the 2.4 deb source package I downloaded? or is it already patched? I am having difficulty finding how to do this...I ran this command, = debian:/usr/src# cd linux debian:/usr/src/linux# ../kernel-patches/all/2.4.27/apply/debian Nothing to do, exiting. = and as you can see it seems to say its Ok, so have im missed something? how to check the 2.4.27 has indeed been upgraded to 2.4.27-4? before I compile? The second Q is, anybody got an idea how to remove the std megaraid_mbox driver from 2.6 and install a 3rd party one (where from?) that works? I think this raid card is/was a Dell one, but I got it second hand at an auction, so Im not sure regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel
Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/19/2008 05:58 AM, Steven Jones wrote: I know this is old hat, but due to a bug in the 2.6 kernel and the megaraid driver I can boot a 2.6 kernel2.4 works fine, but I have to add NIC modules for me Asus board, Realtek 8110 and a Marvel sk98lin. The std one (sk89lin) in debian 2.4.27-4 does not work and there isnt one I can find for the 8110. Anyway, I think I have downloaded all the things I need to compile a debianised kernel the kernel packager way. I have applied the modules/patch for the asus motherboard's on-board NIC, but what I cant find so far is how to get a 2.4.27 kernel source to 2.4.27-4ie there would seem to be a need to apply some debianised kernel patches applied to the 2.4 deb source package I downloaded? or is it already patched? [...] You shouldn't need the Debian patches. A Debian system will run with a vanilla kernel. I know but I wanted a "patched" kernel, I am assuming any bugs etc will then have been fixed. However, I think you'll be better off getting an updated 2.4 kernel from http://www.kernel.org/ . As far as the revision number in 2.4.27-4 is concerned, you will determine what number(s) go after the dash. Read "man make-kpkg" to find out how to specify the version and revision numbers. Yep, I have read make-kpkg. If you're still attached to the idea of using a Debianized kernel, you can place a Debian Sarge repository in your sources.list and download the 2.4 kernel source from Sarge. I have done so, still wont work, ie compile the 3rd party sources. Note, the binary kernels for Sarge will probably not work for Etch because the initrd creator has been changed. I boot off a 2.4 kernel now...seems fine, I even went from 2.4.27-3 to -4 and it still boots OK. Except all the NICs dont workI just installed an Intel PT1000 pci-e and the stock e1000 module wont detect it...the stock sk98lin wont work eitherso Im pretty buggered for networking... I suggest you ignore Sarge and get 2.4.36 from kernel.org. BTW, after you've applied all these patches, you won't have a "Debianized" kernel. You'll have a Jonianized kernel ;-) I might have to as I cant compile either of the supplied sources for the NICs to the 2.4.27 I have. One r1000 is a seperate module but it fails, the other sk98lin is a patch to the kernel but menuconfig drops out when I try and go into the 1000 sub-category and (M) it. regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel
Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/19/2008 05:17 PM, Steven Jones wrote: Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/19/2008 05:58 AM, Steven Jones wrote: I know this is old hat, but due to a bug in the 2.6 kernel and the megaraid driver I can boot a 2.6 kernel2.4 works fine, but I have to add NIC modules for me Asus board, Realtek 8110 and a Marvel sk98lin. The std one (sk89lin) in debian 2.4.27-4 does not work and there isnt one I can find for the 8110. Anyway, I think I have downloaded all the things I need to compile a debianised kernel the kernel packager way. I have applied the modules/patch for the asus motherboard's on-board NIC, but what I cant find so far is how to get a 2.4.27 kernel source to 2.4.27-4ie there would seem to be a need to apply some debianised kernel patches applied to the 2.4 deb source package I downloaded? or is it already patched? [...] You shouldn't need the Debian patches. A Debian system will run with a vanilla kernel. I know but I wanted a "patched" kernel, I am assuming any bugs etc will then have been fixed. But the kernel developers are fixing bugs too. As they add features and fix bugs, they increment the kernel version numbers, e.g. 2.4.28, 2.4.29, ... 2.4.36. However, I think you'll be better off getting an updated 2.4 kernel from http://www.kernel.org/ . As far as the revision number in 2.4.27-4 is concerned, you will determine what number(s) go after the dash. Read "man make-kpkg" to find out how to specify the version and revision numbers. Yep, I have read make-kpkg. If you're still attached to the idea of using a Debianized kernel, you can place a Debian Sarge repository in your sources.list and download the 2.4 kernel source from Sarge. I have done so, still wont work, ie compile the 3rd party sources. Each patch is designed to be used against a particular version of the Linux kernel. You might have an incompatible group of patches. For example, if Asus board patch is for 2.4.27, but the sk98lin patch is for 2.4.32, you have a problem because you won't be able to get both patches into a single kernel. yes...I have found I can compile 2.4.36 but not .27 or .30I seem to be in a messor 2.6.8, anything new like 36 has the buggy megaraid driver so I can boot... :( The patches say 2.4.20+ Another possible problem is that the patches are designed for patching vanilla kernels, but you're trying to patch a Debian kernel. Even slight changes can throw a patch off, so try to be sure that your patches are designed for Debian's 2.4.27 kernel. Ive gone to kernel org for kernels, once I get a patched and working kernel I will try patching thesehowever something called main.o fails when ever I try and compile. Note, the binary kernels for Sarge will probably not work for Etch because the initrd creator has been changed. I boot off a 2.4 kernel now...seems fine, I even went from 2.4.27-3 to -4 and it still boots OK. Except all the NICs dont workI just installed an Intel PT1000 pci-e and the stock e1000 module wont detect it...the stock sk98lin wont work eitherso Im pretty buggered for networking... Is another module grabbing control of the network interfaces? I suggest you ignore Sarge and get 2.4.36 from kernel.org. BTW, after you've applied all these patches, you won't have a "Debianized" kernel. You'll have a Jonianized kernel ;-) didnt work as the megraid driver is fsked... I might have to as I cant compile either of the supplied sources for the NICs to the 2.4.27 I have. One r1000 is a seperate module but it fails, the other sk98lin is a patch to the kernel but menuconfig drops out when I try and go into the 1000 sub-category and (M) it. regards Steven It looks like fixing these problems will be more difficult that just getting megaraid_mbox to work properly. What bug in megaraid_mbox are you referring to above? dunno, lack of booting... "This email has been sent to you as someone requested for this address to be subscribed to Bug#438337. This bug is currently filed against linux-2.6." ie me Anyway, now I suggest you check out the 2.6.24.5 kernel from kernel.org and see if the bug has been fixed. First look at the ChangeLogs. If a later kernel is available, get that one instead. Might get there yetso far Ive not been able to build a bootable kernel...locks up at the megaraid load, or fails to compile regards Thing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8><-- I just compiled a 2.4.36-3 kernel using the 2.4.27's config file, locks up at the megaraid module, so somewhere between .27 and .36 there was a change that broke the megaraid module. I am compiling a 2.4.30 but I think that's broken as well as it didnt work last time. So I will then try a .28 and a .29. Hopefully then I will know which kernel and be able to spot it in the changlog? regards Steven How do you know that megaraid_mbox is failing? How does it fail (lockup, reboot, panic)? lockup...for rhas5.1 it got to loading the megraid_mbox module and no further, if I set the raid controller to I2O and not mass storage it goes until the install, but cant see any disk to partition, if it was a conflict I'd expect either way to lock up, but I could be wrong. Ditto debian 4.0r3 netinst cdit gets to detecting hardware and no longer responds. No issue with a netinst or 3.1r3. For a 2.6 kernel off a running install it boots to the raid controller and either no longer responds, or goes into a loop saying its resetting and waiting 300secsjust does this over and overyet images 2.4.27-3 and -4 boot fine... Perhaps a single kernel command line parameter is all you need to boot. The megaraid driver might be using the wrong I/O ports or IRQ's or memory ranges. It is possible...however I have no idea how to address thissince 2.4 kernels work the iomem/interrupts would seem to be Ok...I'd suspect it is a bug. If I can/could I'd like to search against the changelogs? of 2.4 and 2.6 sources looking for a change in the megaraid module. Then compile a kernel before and after that change(s). If the one before works but the later does not it would strongly suggest an introduced bug. There maybe a better way? but my skills around compiling kernels are very limited regards Steven regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf plugin
Alex Samad wrote: Hi what package do I need to install to get the firefox pdf plugin so I can view pdf inline ? adobe plugin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel
David Baron wrote: One word of severe warning: Current libc packages are incompatable with 2.4 and any hint of a 2.4 kernel (such as an env variable ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 or such) will render the system mostly unusable. I had just this problem and bash would not run. I was able to play with other shells a bit but it was a real mess until I realized that the env variable was at fault! Ok, so I am "stuck" with sarge? no huge biggee...later when I can afford a pair of 500gb sata's it means a rebuildno huge issue right now. regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel
David Baron wrote: One word of severe warning: Current libc packages are incompatable with 2.4 and any hint of a 2.4 kernel (such as an env variable ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 or such) will render the system mostly unusable. I had just this problem and bash would not run. I was able to play with other shells a bit but it was a real mess until I realized that the env variable was at fault! So far Ive set up bind, sendmail and have no issues...while running 2.4.27-3 on etchall std etch packages I must add. regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel
Steven Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8><-- I just compiled a 2.4.36-3 kernel using the 2.4.27's config file, locks up at the megaraid module, so somewhere between .27 and .36 there was a change that broke the megaraid module. I am compiling a 2.4.30 but I think that's broken as well as it didnt work last time. So I will then try a .28 and a .29. Hopefully then I will know which kernel and be able to spot it in the changlog? 2.4.30 died at the megaraid module, found this in the chnagelog, Summary of changes from v2.4.30-pre1 to v2.4.30-pre2 : o [SPARC32]: Need to clear PSR_EF in psr of childregs on fork() on SMP : o Changed VERSION to v2.4.30-pre2 : o megaraid2 reorder inline functions : o megaraid2 update 2.10.8.2 nothing in 2.4.29 so that's next. regards Steven How do you know that megaraid_mbox is failing? How does it fail (lockup, reboot, panic)? lockup...for rhas5.1 it got to loading the megraid_mbox module and no further, if I set the raid controller to I2O and not mass storage it goes until the install, but cant see any disk to partition, if it was a conflict I'd expect either way to lock up, but I could be wrong. Ditto debian 4.0r3 netinst cdit gets to detecting hardware and no longer responds. No issue with a netinst or 3.1r3. For a 2.6 kernel off a running install it boots to the raid controller and either no longer responds, or goes into a loop saying its resetting and waiting 300secsjust does this over and overyet images 2.4.27-3 and -4 boot fine... Perhaps a single kernel command line parameter is all you need to boot. The megaraid driver might be using the wrong I/O ports or IRQ's or memory ranges. It is possible...however I have no idea how to address thissince 2.4 kernels work the iomem/interrupts would seem to be Ok...I'd suspect it is a bug. If I can/could I'd like to search against the changelogs? of 2.4 and 2.6 sources looking for a change in the megaraid module. Then compile a kernel before and after that change(s). If the one before works but the later does not it would strongly suggest an introduced bug. There maybe a better way? but my skills around compiling kernels are very limited regards Steven regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-04-21 10:21 +0200, Steven Jones wrote: David Baron wrote: One word of severe warning: Current libc packages are incompatable with 2.4 and any hint of a 2.4 kernel (such as an env variable ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 or such) will render the system mostly unusable. I had just this problem and bash would not run. I was able to play with other shells a bit but it was a real mess until I realized that the env variable was at fault! Ok, so I am "stuck" with sarge? no huge biggee...later when I can afford a pair of 500gb sata's it means a rebuildno huge issue right now. No, Etch is supposed to work with a 2.4 kernel. Beware that you will have to install and boot a 2.6 kernel _before_ you can upgrade to Lenny. Sven Well so far 2.4.27-4 as a debian source compiles and boots, stock 2.4.29+ fails...now trying stock 2.4.28. regards Thing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which backup package?
George Borisov wrote: Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I know of amanda and bacula. Are there others I should look at? Any suggestions, recommendations? I've seen BackupPC mentioned, although I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ HTH, George. bacula. regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
disabling the debian gui screensaver globally
Hi, I am running Debian machines under VMware ESX. I need to permanently disable the screensaver for all users as it chews CPUbut I still want the screen to lock after 10minsand go blank... How please? regards Steven
2.6 kernel issues
Hi, Is there any alternative apt-get sources that allow me not to upgrade my kernel in stable? The new 2.6 kernel I am forced to use wont boot on my scsi raid card, it panics regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: 2.6 kernel issues
Hi, No, no 2.6 kernels work and no 2.4 kernel past 2.4.27 works as a bug was introduced into the megaraid driver about thenits never been solved. The reply I have is no developer has the hardware and they say its too old to bother with. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:b...@iguanasuicide.net] Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009 2:17 p.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.6 kernel issues In <61df826607311a4ebe75a77ed59e4cde114023a...@stawincoexmail1.staff.vuw.ac.nz>, Steven Jones wrote: >Is there any alternative apt-get sources that allow me not to upgrade >my kernel in stable? The new 2.6 kernel I am forced to use wont boot >on my scsi raid card, it panics Does any 2.6 kernel work for you? If so, simply continue using the Etch kernel package until you can get one that works for you into a Lenny update (by filing a bug and helping the maintainers and developers). The 2.6 Etch kernel will run any software allowed into Lenny (to allow Etch -> Lenny upgrades during Etch's continued security support.) If no 2.6 kernel works for you, you will not be able to use Lenny. (But, you should still take it up with the kernel developers.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: update to Lenny - eth not found
Hi, By going to Lenny the kernel changed I would assume then, you need to re-run /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl and restart networking, or reboot, did you do that? Which version is the esxi? 3.5update3? update4 is now out, its supposed to have better support for vmware tools. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Mario Batz [mailto:batzma...@gmx.net] Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 3:54 p.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: update to Lenny - eth not found Hallo, i have an ESXi with debian as guest with vmwaretools. i update debian etch to lenny, and the update shows no errors. But the kernel 2.6.26 dont find eth0. If i boot with 2.6.18, the system find eth0 and all works fine. Bootmessage Configurating network interfaces ... SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Bla bla bla Failed to bring up eth0 I checked this - "/etc/modules" have loop, fuse, vmxnet and e1000 - "lsmod" list the driver "e1000", but "used by" 0 - "ifconfig -a" shows only "lo" - "dmesg | grep eth0" shows "Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods" - "lspci -v" with the old kernel: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08) 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 01) 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01) 00:12.0 Memory controller: VMware Inc Unknown device 0801 (rev 01) - "lspci -v" with the new kernel (empty rows are dropped): 00:00.0 Class 0600: Unknown device 8086:7190 (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 15ad:1976 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:01.0 Class 0604: Unknown device 8086:7191 (rev 01) Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 00:07.0 Class 0601: Unknown device 8086:7110 (rev 08) Subsystem: Unknown device 15ad:1976 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:07.1 Class 0101: Unknown device 8086:7111 (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Unknown device 15ad:1976 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64 [virtual] Memory at 01f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 03f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1] [virtual] Memory at 0170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8] [virtual] Memory at 0370 (type 3, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1] I/O ports at 1050 [size=16] 00:07.3 Class 0680: Unknown device 8086:7113 (rev 08) Subsystem: Unknown device 15ad:1976 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9 00:0f.0 Class 0300: Unknown device 15ad:0405 Subsystem: Unknown device 15ad:0405 Flags: medium devsel I/O ports at 1060 [size=16] Memory at f800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at f400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] [virtual] Expansion ROM at f101 [disabled] [size=32K] 00:10.0 Class 0100: Unknown device 1000:0030 (rev 01) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17 I/O ports at 1080 [size=128] Memory at f480 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at f1018000 [disabled] [size=16K] 00:11.0 Class 0200: Unknown device 15ad:0720 (rev 10) Subsystem: Unknown device 15ad:0720 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1400 [size=64] [virtual] Expansion ROM at f100 [disabled] [size=64K] I moved "70-persistent-net.rules", but the system dont recreate the file Anyone have an idea? Thx a lot. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Mario Batz -- Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an debian-user-german-requ...@lists.debian.org mit dem Subject "unsubscribe". Probleme? Mail an listmas...@lists.debian.org (engl) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: update to Lenny - eth not found
Hi, The guest should be seeing a vmware vmxnet module and not the e1000, the e1000 is esxi compatibleits one of the better ones. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:b...@iguanasuicide.net] Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 4:18 p.m. To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: update to Lenny - eth not found In <20090429035421.b67ee13a5...@liszt.debian.org>, Mario Batz wrote: >i have an ESXi with debian as guest with vmwaretools. >i update debian etch to lenny, and the update shows no errors. But the >kernel 2.6.26 dont find eth0. If i boot with 2.6.18, the system find >eth0 and all works fine. I'm not sure if it was removed from Debian's 2.6.26, but the non-free firmware for the e1000 may have been. If so, you'll need to firmware-linux package from non-free. (I'm pretty sure the e1000 firmware was in Debian's 2.6.18 kernel.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RE: ubuntu debian question
www.freshmeat.net would be a starting point. > Is there any web site I can go to to search for Greeting Card Software > which run on Ubuntu - Debian? > > A handfull of people have advised me to go to this platform and operating > system but it is for my wife and the only thing she does is search the web, > manage her email and make greeting cards. regards Thing
RE: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?
Hi, I would assume at some point you freeze changes to the distro so you can test against a known setup, ie a case of manageability. regards Steven -Original Message- From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 4:04 p.m. To: Debian User Lists Subject: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current? According to the Linux Kernel Archives: The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.29.3. So why is the latest kernel in testing 2.6.26? Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
promise sx6000
Hi, Anybody know if this ATA raid controller is supported on Debian 5.0? regards Steven
Java JDK install hangs.
Im new to Debian but have several years Fedora experience. I have a fresh Debian installation (Debian 40r4 net install) to which I am trying to add sun-java5-jdk_1.5.0-10-3_i386.deb using dpkg -i.The problem starts when I'm asked to agree to the license. At the bottom of the license text is an "OK" button. Presumably I'm to select it but it isn't active. No matter what I've tried I am unable to get past this screen. Having no other alternatives I aborted the install. Running dpkg --audit shows Java as half installed and suggest the package be either removed or reinstalled. Trying to remove it producese an error that it must be installed first.So I can neither install it properly or remove it, any suggestions? Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing squirrelmail cause apache2 to segfault
Hi, I have a clean install of apache2 on Lenny, and once I have apache and dovecot running I attempt to install squirrelmail and the "it works" page packs up and I get this in messages and syslog. Dec 19 16:37:30 warlock kernel: [ 62.058108] apache2[2230]: segfault at 0 ip b6d6281f sp bf80fd0d error 6 in pdo.so[b6d5d000+14000] So if I do an apt-get purge apache2.2-common and then re-install apache2 its OK again...until I install squirrelmail again :/ any ideas please? regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Installing squirrelmail cause apache2 to segfault
Hi, Can anyone recommend a webmail package as an alternative to squirrelmail? regards Steven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
