Re: Recommended Linux Backup

On 09-10-31 09:11:29, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [nothing here -- I'm late to this thread] > lrhorer wrote: > > Other than tar and rsync, I have never used any Linux backup > > utilities, and I am looking for recommendations. I would like an > > open source olution which will do the following:

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

Tim Tebbit wrote: > Reading this thread made me realize I haven't seen an update for Sid in > 2 full days. Perhaps something else is going on. Spoke too soon, or awakened the mouse running in that wheel. Current status: 25 updates [+18]. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

Kevin Ross put forth on 10/31/2009 4:36 PM: > If there's any uncertainty on your part, maybe you could tell us what ISP > you're using, and in what geographic region. DHCP = username and password _not_ required DHCP has no concept of security credentials PPPoE = username and password _required_

Re: git: pushing a branch to a remote git repository

Hi, Micha writes: > I'm using a clone of a local git repository to backup the > repository. The problem is that it seems that when pushing changes, > only master is pushed to the remote repository instead of all the > branches. > > Is it possible to push/pull branches into an existing repository

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

Jaime Di Cristina wrote: > I think that there is something wrong with security.debian.org. A > couple of days ago I did "aptitude update" and the updates did not come > in until the third time i did "aptitude update", I then installed the > update as normal (never got an error). Then I checked t

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

Andrew Reid wrote: Hi all -- I'm having trouble with what seems like it should be a routine security update on "lenny" -- I did "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" as per usual, and got this: mec:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state inf

Security.debian.org confused?

Hi all -- I'm having trouble with what seems like it should be a routine security update on "lenny" -- I did "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" as per usual, and got this: > mec:~# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done

git: pushing a branch to a remote git repository

I'm using a clone of a local git repository to backup the repository. The problem is that it seems that when pushing changes, only master is pushed to the remote repository instead of all the branches. Is it possible to push/pull branches into an existing repository and make sure that a push u

Re: Recent sid problems - proompting for removal of lvm/dmsetup/cryptsetup

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:07:42 -0400 Tim Tebbit wrote: > Steve Kemp wrote: > > So .. am I missing something obvious? Is there a bogus conflict > > here which is messing me about? Or horror of horror - Am I crazy > > and is removing LVM the correct thing to do these days? > > > > Please bear

Re: compaq 2510p modem in Lenny

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:57:30 -0300 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > as weird as it seems, I really need to put to work the modem in my > notebook compaq 2510p. It is a HDA modem. I am searching the archives > and the net, without success. Any help will be very very welcome. Some more inf

Re: OT: Standards was Re: Does everything depend on everything?

Lee Winter writes: > Astute observers will note that the Imperial/American system of units > has already been converted to an ISO basis. And that the metric system has been an official standard and legal for trade in the USA since 1866. The USA was one of the original signatories to the Metre C

RE: Re: A laptop installation challenge

> From: jamesb [mailto:jaggin...@videotron.ca] > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 3:18 PM > > i'm assuming you would be able to use at least iexplorer 3 or > something > with win 3.1.. it sure is a challenge but definitely possible ;) > (it's likely you might have to copy win32s and iexplorer o

Re: Re: A laptop installation challenge

Tim Tebbit wrote: AG wrote: Cheers for the suggestions. I may well be up the proverbial creek with this one. Thanks for the tips re removing the screws - I'll give that a shot. Coincidentally - and a long shot - I found an old set of Win3.1 installation floppies whilst looking around for som

RE: Changing from ADSL Modem to Router (repost)

> From: David Baron [mailto:d_ba...@012.net.il] > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:36 AM > > I connect now through pptp. The computer sends the login and > a cron job > attempts to keep the connection. Various files in > /etc/ppp/peers have login > info and some options. > > How do I chan

Re: OT: Standards was Re: Does everything depend on everything?

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dennis Wicks wrote: >> Sadly, only three nations have the good sense not to spend 10's of >> millions of their GNP converting to Yet Another Arbitrary System Of >> Measurement. Burma,

RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

> From: stephen...@yahoo.com [mailto:stephen...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 5:16 AM > > My current ISP uses DHCP - does that change anything you've written? > Are you absolutely sure of that? ISP's mainly use two different methods of assigning IP addresses to their customers.

OT: Standards was Re: Does everything depend on everything?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis Wicks wrote: > Sadly, only three nations have the good sense not to spend 10's of > millions of their GNP converting to Yet Another Arbitrary System Of > Measurement. Burma, Liberia, and the United States. FWIW, I don't think that it makes sens

Re: sshd

31.10.2009 15:43, Roy Stuivenberg kirjoitti: > (Connection failed Service sshd > > Date:Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:51:03 +0100 > Action: restart > Host:rs-debian > Description: 'sshd' failed, cannot open a connection to > INET[localhost:50022] via

Re: A laptop installation challenge

AG wrote: > Cheers for the suggestions. I may well be up the proverbial creek with > this one. Thanks for the tips re removing the screws - I'll give that a > shot. > > Coincidentally - and a long shot - I found an old set of Win3.1 > installation floppies whilst looking around for something I

Re: A laptop installation challenge

Tim Tebbit wrote: AG wrote: Only the three options noted - CD, floppy and HD. The BIOS does not (appear to) support PXE ... at least that is not given as an option anyway. Sounds like you are left with physically removing the hdd. Of course you could try to /wish/ the OS to appear.

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:46:34AM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 10/31/2009 09:06 AM: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Micha wrote: >> >> [snip some talk about testing and unstable] >> >>> For a desktop you want one of these but the

compaq 2510p modem in Lenny

Hello, as weird as it seems, I really need to put to work the modem in my notebook compaq 2510p. It is a HDA modem. I am searching the archives and the net, without success. Any help will be very very welcome. Thank in advance Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini http://sites.google.com/site/marcelo

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

On 31/10/2009 19:55, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: On 31/10/2009 16:06, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which. Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some t

Re: A laptop installation challenge

AG wrote: > Only the three options noted - CD, floppy and HD. The BIOS does not > (appear to) support PXE ... at least that is not given as an option anyway. Sounds like you are left with physically removing the hdd. Of course you could try to /wish/ the OS to appear. :) You had mentioned the

RE: sshd

Roy Stuivenberg wrote: > I'm unable to connect from outside to my Debian box. Have you installed sshd on your Debian machine? apt-get install openssh-server What happens when you log in at the console of your Debian machine and then ssh to the same machine? ssh localhost Wha

Re: A laptop installation challenge

Jesús M. Navarro wrote: Hi, AG: On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote: Tim Tebbit wrote: [...] (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it can mount additional files such a USB

RE: Recommended Linux Backup

lrhorer wrote: > Since in this case the mounted target will never contain more than > 2TB or at most 3TB of files, rsync will inevitably try to copy the > other 20 or 30 TB of files every time. It has no way to look up the > contents of the 10 or 15 offline hard drives. I found "Backup & Recovery

Re: A laptop installation challenge

Grub allows editing on-the-fly (when the Grub menu appears, you can press e and edit Grub stanzas directly). Is there such functionality in Lilo? I've never used Lilo, unfortunately. Seems to me that sneakernet (taking your floppy to some other machine with a floppy drive) will be your only opt

Re: OpenVPN

On Wednesday, 28 October 2009 07:39:18 -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Daniel, Hi, Peter. > > Until this instance, starting a OpenVPN client in the office I could > > verify that the tunnel is established, but I can only reach the > > OpenVPN server. The rest of hosts of my LAN is unareachable

Re: A laptop installation challenge

Hi, AG: On Saturday 31 October 2009 18:49:14 AG wrote: > Tim Tebbit wrote: [...] > (3) The laptop's BIOS is too old to allow booting from a USB (only > allows HD, CD or floppy). It requires something to boot first before it > can mount additional files such a USB stick. Does it support booting

Changing from ADSL Modem to Router (repost)

I connect now through pptp. The computer sends the login and a cron job attempts to keep the connection. Various files in /etc/ppp/peers have login info and some options. How do I change to a router (the router logs in and tries to keep the connection)? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: A laptop installation challenge

Tim Tebbit wrote: AG wrote: Then I copied a netinst *.iso image onto a USB stick and booted. Thanks for any ideas. Does this mean you can boot from USB? If that's the case a simple debootstrap install from knoppix would be fairly quick and easy. http://www.debian.org/relea

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: > On 31/10/2009 16:06, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which. >> >> Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some >> time and it works great. > > I also k

Re: xpdf printing with pdftops

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 00:11:44 +0100, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Hi! > > pdftops allows to expand a smaller page to fill the paper. xpdf > doesn't have such an option. > > I was wondering whether it would be possible to use pdftops in a > clever printing command in the xpdf printing dialog ("Prin

Re: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

Well, another, quite intuitive way of achieving what you want would be to write a script to launch Iceweasel, and use that script instead of the Iceweasel icon. In the script, you could type in all the commands you currently type by hand, then type iceweasel on the next line, and finally, type

Re: Recent sid problems - proompting for removal of lvm/dmsetup/cryptsetup

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 16:33:15 +, Steve Kemp wrote: > > For the past few days my sid system (AMD64) has been trying > to remove LVM, cryptsetup, and dmsetup. > > Given that my system is based upon LVM and I have several > encrypted volumes I've not yet accepted these decisions. [...]

Re: problems setting up screen blanking in X

Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-29 19:15 -0500: > green on 29/10/09 13:57, wrote: >> Adam Hardy wrote at 2009-10-29 04:00 -0500: >>> I have checked that this is the only xorg.conf being read. The output >>> from "xset q" for the screen saver (disabled in the xfce config menu) >>> is what I think stil

Re: A laptop installation challenge

AG wrote: > Then I copied a netinst *.iso image onto a USB stick and > booted. > Thanks for any ideas. Does this mean you can boot from USB? If that's the case a simple debootstrap install from knoppix would be fairly quick and easy. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en -

Re: Recent sid problems - proompting for removal of lvm/dmsetup/cryptsetup

On Sat Oct 31, 2009 at 13:07:42 -0400, Tim Tebbit wrote: > > Please bear in mind my root filesystem, amongst others, are LVM-mounts: > > > > /dev/mapper/gold--vol-root on / type ext3 > > (rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro) > This is being discussed lately. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-

Re: A laptop installation challenge

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:41:44 +, AG in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On a previous thread, I had polled some advice on the best way to > install Debian on an old laptop that lacked a CD drive. A number of > suggestions were made and I eventually went with the idea of changing > the pre-ex

Re: Recent sid problems - proompting for removal of lvm/dmsetup/cryptsetup

Steve Kemp wrote: > So .. am I missing something obvious? Is there a bogus conflict here which > is > messing me about? Or horror of horror - Am I crazy and is removing LVM the > correct thing to do these days? > > Please bear in mind my root filesystem, amongst others, are LVM-mounts: >

Re: A laptop installation challenge

Taking the laptop's hard disk and using it as a secondary hard disk on another computer with mini ide to ide converter would do the trick. If you have another computer and said converter. 2009/10/31 AG > On a previous thread, I had polled some advice on the best way to install > Debian on an old

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

On Thursday October 29 2009 5:14:44 pm lrhorer wrote: > 1. Back up to removable hard drives > 2. Span multiple target volumes > 3. Maintain a virtual fileysystem so all snapshots look like a single > backup to the user. > 4. Maintain an easily monitored index so the user can see which drive > will

Recent sid problems - proompting for removal of lvm/dmsetup/cryptsetup

For the past few days my sid system (AMD64) has been trying to remove LVM, cryptsetup, and dmsetup. Given that my system is based upon LVM and I have several encrypted volumes I've not yet accepted these decisions. This is current output: # apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... D

A laptop installation challenge

On a previous thread, I had polled some advice on the best way to install Debian on an old laptop that lacked a CD drive. A number of suggestions were made and I eventually went with the idea of changing the pre-existing /boot/lilo.conf and adding a newly downloaded vmlinuz and init.gz Then I

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

Johannes Wiedersich wrote the following on 10/31/2009 09:06 AM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: [snip some talk about testing and unstable] For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which. Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstatio

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

On 31/10/2009 16:06, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: [snip some talk about testing and unstable] For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which. Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some time

Re: sshd

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

Re: Problem installing Raid + LVM system on new Dell T5500

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 S Scharf wrote: > Stable uses 2.6.26 (which is before the reported problem) but that installer > only wants to allow lilo and not grub2, which is needed > for the configuration I desire. Have you tried with a small /boot partition outside of the raid/

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: [snip some talk about testing and unstable] > For a desktop you want one of these but there is a debate which. Not necessarily. I've been running 'lenny' on my workstations for some time and it works great. YMMV, of course. - -- Johan

Re: sshd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roy Stuivenberg wrote: > I have a question concerning sshd. > I'm unable to connect from outside to my Debian box. Have you tried ssh's -v option? /---from 'man ssh'--- - -vVerbose mode. Causes ssh to print debugging messages about its progress.

Re: Compiz fails to start after an upgrade (software rasterizer in use)

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:00:24 +0100, Král Gergely wrote: [...] > Yesterday morning I did the usual ``testing'' upgrade to my computer I > normally do after a couple of months. Before the upgrade I had compiz > running correctly, after that I can't get it running and I just can't > figure it ou

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lrhorer wrote: > Other than tar and rsync, I have never used any Linux backup utilities, > and I am looking for recommendations. I would like an open source > solution which will do the following: > > 1. Back up to removable hard drives > 2. Span mul

Re: sshd

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 13:43, Roy Stuivenberg wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question concerning sshd. > I'm unable to connect from outside to my Debian box. What do you use to connect? Modem? Router? Gateway? Any one of those blocking traffic? Do you have ip tables configured? Etc. -- () asci

sshd

Hello, I have a question concerning sshd. I'm unable to connect from outside to my Debian box. Because I can't find the answer on the internet, I'm asking this to the Debian mailinglist. I have been using Debian before few years ago, for not too long period, and the last years I was using FreeBSD

RE: PPP / ADSL / demand / GUI prompt question

H.S.: > 3. Make a shortcut on everyone's desktop to call the pon command ("sudo > pon dsl-provider"). Thanks for that suggestion H.S., yes I think my 'guests' could manage that. I have added my guest accounts to the 'dip' group so the shortcut wouldn't need to use 'sudo'. However, in light of

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

On 31/10/2009 11:57, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:49:08AM -0400, Celejar wrote: Why does anything have to be wrong? It just means that you'll have to wait to upgrade the core packages until newer versions of the optional packages, compatible with the new core packages, becom

Re: moving lv from local VG to a remote VG

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:57:33AM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 07:12:10AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > [...] > > > > 3) move the data to the external disk with pvmove (2 solutions) > > > - pvmove -n LV1 /dev/sdXY for each LV or > > > - pvmove /dev/sdAB /dev/sdX

Re: Does everything depend on everything?

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 09:49:08AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > Why does anything have to be wrong? It just means that you'll have to > wait to upgrade the core packages until newer versions of the optional > packages, compatible with the new core packages, become available. > > I assume that you're r

Re: moving lv from local VG to a remote VG

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 07:12:10AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: [...] > > 3) move the data to the external disk with pvmove (2 solutions) > > - pvmove -n LV1 /dev/sdXY for each LV or > > - pvmove /dev/sdAB /dev/sdXY for each PV in VG1 (if there is only one, > > it's just one command comparin

Re: Recommended Linux Backup

Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20091030_010001, lrhorer wrote: >> Alex Samad wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:37:51AM +, Paulo A.B. wrote: >> >> It's based on Rsync, but has a different flavor. >> >> >> >> Try ribs . >> > >> > Or have a look at rdiff-

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:47:55PM -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote: > Vacuuming brought the idle temperature down by 5C. sauerbraten now runs > great at about 80C, but glchess/gnuchess still gets up to 95C or more! You might look to see where the vents are located. I have my notebook up on spacers so