Re: Memory footprint of a mail server

2010-05-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Thomas Goirand put forth on 5/4/2010 11:51 PM: > Hi, > > Back when we were running Sarge, we were able to run clamav, > spamassassin and amavis, together with apache, mysql and an ftp server, > in just 200MB RAM and same as swap. > > Today, running Lenny, top shows us some crazy results: > > cla

Memory footprint of a mail server

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Back when we were running Sarge, we were able to run clamav, spamassassin and amavis, together with apache, mysql and an ftp server, in just 200MB RAM and same as swap. Today, running Lenny, top shows us some crazy results: clamav: 156 MB amavisd-new: 80 MB per process (running 3 processes i

How to schedule for a repeated task?

2010-05-04 Thread hadi motamedi
>>telnet, as in the original responses. Google gives several example scripts With many thanks for your reply, I found very simple expect telnet examples (like the case that I am dealing with) so I wrote for the same but it doesn't work my case. Do you think it may come from the fact that the remot

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Re: Video Streaming Software

2010-05-04 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 05:06:24PM -0500, Austin Brkich wrote: > I have been searching and searching for a specific type of software, > however I can't find anything that is 100% free and doesn't have any > hitches to it. > > What I am looking for is some software that will allow me to take a > li

Re: 64-bit netbooks with Debian linux

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 00:43 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Mark Allums put forth on 5/3/2010 11:41 PM: > > On 5/3/2010 11:01 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Mark Allums put forth on 5/3/2010 5:01 PM: > >> [snip] > Correct in that one should get 4GB on a netbook due to 64bit binary size? > Or correct

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 14:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/04/2010 11:08 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [snip] > > > > I forget your specifics, but you do RAID *and* backup regularly to an > > external lvm2? > > > > No, no RAID for me *at home*. But at work I manage databases on all > sorts of

Re: who initiates mounting in debian?

2010-05-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 14:46:56 Jonas Stein wrote: > Should i use /media to mount the USB device, or is /media reserved for > the system? You should use /media/$persistent_device_name, if it is a device you will likely use in the future. For one-off mounts, just use /mnt. -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: Video Streaming Software

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/04/2010 05:06 PM, Austin Brkich wrote: I have been searching and searching for a specific type of software, however I can't find anything that is 100% free and doesn't have any hitches to it. What I am looking for is some software that will allow me to take a live video stream from my comp

Video Streaming Software

2010-05-04 Thread Austin Brkich
I have been searching and searching for a specific type of software, however I can't find anything that is 100% free and doesn't have any hitches to it. What I am looking for is some software that will allow me to take a live video stream from my computer and stream it to multiple clients. Kind of

Re: gnome panel tray icons transparancy

2010-05-04 Thread Steven
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 13:13 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 03 May 2010 21:30:53 +0200, Steven wrote: > > O.k. then let's assume the patch is already applied :-( > > > Still leaves me with this issue, unfortunatly. > > Yep. But that should not discourage you :-) Your right, it shouldn't :) I'l

who initiates mounting in debian?

2010-05-04 Thread Jonas Stein
Hi, it looks if some devices are mounted automatic (after plugging into USB slot) and some wait until i click on the device name in dolphin/thunar or similar. I dont understand who mounts when... I suppose some of the "magic" is done by udev, automounter and KDE and so on. I am looking for a s

RE: How to schedule for a repeated task?

2010-05-04 Thread Kevin Ross
From: hadi motamedi [mailto:motamed...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 9:26 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to schedule for a repeated task? password.  Then just execute "ssh usern...@remote.server somecommand" and it will run "somecommand" and the output will be sent b

Re: Just finished Squeeze XFCE install, no "Debian" menu

2010-05-04 Thread Dave Witbrodt
On 05/04/2010 03:27 PM, Curt Howland wrote: Hi. Just finished a fresh Squeeze install, xfce as the main manager. Well, I've used xfce before, along with lots of others in Debian because it's so bloody easy to have more than one. There has always been a "Debian" entry in the main xfce menu, that

Re: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-04 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 04 May 2010 14:53:25 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/04/2010 10:59 AM, Joe wrote: > > On 04/05/10 16:17, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > >> > >> Or just, within /etc/network/interfaces, give yourself the static > >> address 192.168.1.2. > >> > > > > Indeed so, in this case. In the general

Re: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/04/2010 10:59 AM, Joe wrote: On 04/05/10 16:17, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Or just, within /etc/network/interfaces, give yourself the static address 192.168.1.2. Indeed so, in this case. In the general case, it might be quicker to enable DHCP than to find out what network the router re

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/04/2010 11:08 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] I forget your specifics, but you do RAID *and* backup regularly to an external lvm2? No, no RAID for me *at home*. But at work I manage databases on all sorts of (to use a quaint old phrase) super-minicomputers, and if they ever needed

Just finished Squeeze XFCE install, no "Debian" menu

2010-05-04 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Just finished a fresh Squeeze install, xfce as the main manager. Well, I've used xfce before, along with lots of others in Debian because it's so bloody easy to have more than one. There has always been a "Debian" entry in the main xfce menu, th

Re: exim listen on one ip to two ports?

2010-05-04 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/3/10, Camaleón wrote: > As per "/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz" (lenny): > If you need to support these, set SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS='-oX 465:25 -oP > var/run/exim4/exim.pid' in /etc/default/exim4 That was it; I needed the -oP option. Thanks. -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, E

Re: using samba with unix acls

2010-05-04 Thread Perttu Muurimäki
andy baxter writes: > hi all, > > I am setting up a file server for a small company. The people who will > be using it want to be able to control who accesses particular > directories on a user/group basis. I originally thought that it would > be enough to set up a standard samba system with unix

Re: apt-get dist-update failure - can't boot

2010-05-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert Brockway wrote: On Mon, 3 May 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: If a full-upgrade (previously known as dist-upgrade) throws errors, the last thing you should do is reboot. You should *fix the errors*; your system may not reboot cleanly until they are resolved. Well said. Rebootin

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-05-04 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 04 Mai 2010, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: martin f krafft wrote: RAID is not a backup solution, it's an availability measure. But as data availability goes up by using RAID doesn't the need for backing up that same data go down? Or is this just semantics? RAID does not prevent against y

Configuring mga-vid

2010-05-04 Thread David Baron
I have the mga card and also compiled the mga-vid driver. I can only get mplayer to play dvds using the (slowest) x11 back-end. Mga-vid is supposed to be better. How do I use it on a Debian Sid box? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-05-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Hugo Vanwoerkom [2010.05.04.1808 +0200]: I forget your specifics, but you do RAID *and* backup regularly to an external lvm2? RAID is not a backup solution, it's an availability measure. But as data availability goes up by using RAID doesn't the need for

Automated Installation - Copy files from CD?

2010-05-04 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings all- I need to modify a product based on Debian. It installs from a CD and uses the Debian installer system. Since this product does not contain the proper driver for some of my hardware, I need a way to have the installer copy some files from the CD (which I'll add to the master ISO)

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-05-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hugo Vanwoerkom [2010.05.04.1808 +0200]: > I forget your specifics, but you do RAID *and* backup regularly to an > external lvm2? RAID is not a backup solution, it's an availability measure. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-04 Thread John
On 04/05/10, Zoran Kolic (zko...@sbb.rs) wrote: | > ... | > IBM High Rate Wireless LAN PC Card | > Chipset: Hermes I | > Drivers: orinoco_cs | Woops! | Cannot say I had an experience with orinoco. It was | old kind of chip. I think that support for orinoco | was abandoned for bsd year or so ago.

Re: Daemons

2010-05-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 04:40:13 exp...@hope.cz wrote: > I have several running daemons that write some data to files > What happens with these open files when INIT 6 command is issued? Depends on the daemon. Prior to a clean reboot, a process is sent the TERM signal, which it may handle howeve

Re: [SOLVED] Re: NVidia MCP61, no sound...

2010-05-04 Thread Andrea Giuliano
Dear Anand, I simply compiled the current alsa-driver, without changing the default kernel for Lenny, and everything went fine. This new PC with Athlon X4 is still driving me crazy because of many little problems. The last one is with DV grabbing, but that another story, I'm going to tell that to

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 May 2010 10:55:31 -0500, Don AE5K wrote: > Thanks Camaleón for the ideas. Here are my results: > > 1. The "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep Layout" yields... > > (==) ServerLayout "Layout0" > > and a few lines below that I see "Keyboard0" Mmmm, I guess we have to interpret that as Xo

Re: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-04 Thread Carl Johnson
Zachary Uram writes: > I have a static IP setup, I wish to add a router and it has a web > interface, I can get to it if I start a DHCP server and then > 192.168.1.1 is setup, but I'd really prefer to not do this. > Is there a way I can setup devices such as this without needing to run > DHCP? Al

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Don AE5K
How about "cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep Layout"? Anyway, unless otherwise specified, Xorg defaults to "us" keyboard. An easy way to check if the problem relies in your keyboard layout (or the problem comes from another side), is by creating a new user with password "123456" (an easy one t

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-05-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/03/2010 03:45 AM, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Ron Johnson [2010.05.03.1039 +0200]: Is that Q21? http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/FAQ;hb=HEAD Yes. 2. You were asked upon mdadm installation whether you wanted it, and yo

Re: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-04 Thread Joe
On 04/05/10 16:17, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/04/2010 09:11 AM, Joe wrote: [snip] Is there a way I can setup devices such as this without needing to run DHCP? Not initially. What you do is to set a workstation to accept DHCP, connect it to the router, then use the web interface to disable DHCP

Re: Unable to connect to my home wireless

2010-05-04 Thread Zoran Kolic
> My card is listed at > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Wireless_Network_Adapters#IBM_High_Rate_Wireless_LAN_PC_Card, > at the very bottom of the page: > IBM High Rate Wireless LAN PC Card > Chipset: Hermes I > Drivers: orinoco_cs > Supported wireless modes: 802.11b > I pulled the thing out of the

Re: Daemons

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Johnson
Since SIGTERM is catchable, your code should nicely clean itself up. On 05/04/2010 06:06 AM, Anand Sivaram wrote: normally as a part during reboot/shutdown procedure, sigterm is sent to all processes. This causes processes to terminate during which file descriptors are closed down flushing the

Re: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/04/2010 09:11 AM, Joe wrote: [snip] Is there a way I can setup devices such as this without needing to run DHCP? Not initially. What you do is to set a workstation to accept DHCP, connect it to the router, then use the web interface to disable DHCP and set the fixed IP address you want

More brtfs reporting (was: Re: Filesystem recommendations)

2010-05-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 03 May 2010 12:10:24 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 26 April 2010 16:34:38 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > It doesn't appear to be a file system issue, but rather a problem with > > the initramfs scripts. It could also be rooted in my configuration. I > > know that my "root

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-05-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 01:55:08 Scarletdown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: > > It's an aggressive migration plan, but reiser3 is just barely maintained > > in the kernel > > Would that be due to the system's creator having current living > conditions un

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 May 2010 07:50:41 -0500, Don AE5K wrote: >> First idea would be keyboard country in X, but I bet you thought about >> that? Thierry > > Thanks for the idea Thierry! As I'm in the U.S., I plead ignorance on > what other countries must go through to make changes -- could you give > me d

Re: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-04 Thread Joe
On 04/05/10 03:11, Zachary Uram wrote: I have a static IP setup, I wish to add a router and it has a web interface, I can get to it if I start a DHCP server and then 192.168.1.1 is setup, but I'd really prefer to not do this. There's no way around this with a new router, and sometimes you will

Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Curt
On 2010-05-04, Don wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem (actually more than one, but let's tackle this one > first) with my password on KDE log in screen no being accepted. The > password does work OK when logging in using command line / terminal. A similar thing happened to me in Gnome after a s

Re: aptitude stuck

2010-05-04 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 01:24:23PM -0400, Rick Pasotto was heard to say: > I did send this to you but have not heard back. Just checking if I need > to resend it. No, I just haven't had time to analyze it. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Creating a debian local mirror from 5 debian DVDs

2010-05-04 Thread Guruprasad
> Actually, approx comes with a tool to import debs into its cache: approx > import.  You just point it at some deb files and voila!  No downloading > needed. No other go but to use apt-proxy/apt-cacher/approx. Will use them and get back with the experience. >> Btw, how do I turn off the digest m

Re: gnome panel tray icons transparancy

2010-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 May 2010 21:30:53 +0200, Steven wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:07 +, Camaleón wrote: >> AKAIK, Rhythmbox plugins got splitted from main package and now fall >> into "rhythmbox-plugins". So if the upstream version with the patch on >> "GtkStatusIcon" was included into Debian pack

Re: Re: Password messed up

2010-05-04 Thread Don AE5K
First idea would be keyboard country in X, but I bet you thought about that? Thierry Thanks for the idea Thierry! As I'm in the U.S., I plead ignorance on what other countries must go through to make changes -- could you give me direction on how to check the "keyboard country" in X? I see i

Re: syslog-ng log output corrupted

2010-05-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 04 May 2010 11:08:12 +0200, Imre Vida wrote: > a few days ago syslog-ng stopped working properly on my laptop. > > Its output consists only of error report lines such as the following: (...) I maybe wrong, but that looks like the common output. They're just the syslog-ng own stats, out

Re: 64-bit netbooks with Debian linux

2010-05-04 Thread deloptes
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > I listed the machine closest to your requirements in my last email. It > meets all your requirements but for the 2MB L2 cache. TTBOMK, there are > no > netbooks with 2MB L2 cpu cache. Neither AMD nor Intel make a CPU with 2MB > L2 cache for this class of machines. > y

Re: Daemons

2010-05-04 Thread Anand Sivaram
normally as a part during reboot/shutdown procedure, sigterm is sent to all processes. This causes processes to terminate during which file descriptors are closed down flushing their cache. This is written to disk during filesytem sync. So these files are preserved. But when the system goes down

syslog-ng log output corrupted

2010-05-04 Thread Imre Vida
a few days ago syslog-ng stopped working properly on my laptop. Its output consists only of error report lines such as the following: May 3 06:35:16 sharp syslog-ng[4361]: Log statistics; processed='destination(d_error)=249', processed='cent er(received)=0', processed='src.internal(s_src#1)=2

Daemons

2010-05-04 Thread export
I have several running daemons that write some data to files What happens with these open files when INIT 6 command is issued? Are these files that are used by daemons deleted? Or are they closed regularly and saved ? And what happens, if the Linux box is shut down in a dirty way( out of elect

Re: syslog-ng log output corrupted

2010-05-04 Thread i . vida
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:08:12AM +0200, Imre Vida wrote: > > a few days ago syslog-ng stopped working properly on my > laptop. > > Its output consists only of error report lines such as the following: > May 3 06:35:16 sharp syslog-ng[4361]: Log statistics; > processed='destination(d_error)=2

Re: To switch usb-modem to modem-mode.

2010-05-04 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, deloptes: >in worst case compile the code, but it will also probably need to upgrade >the kernel. Finally, it was given the decision to me: to exchange using apt-get w/ aptitude: it has given a lot of options so that I was able to install the desired usb_mode

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-05-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/04/2010 01:55 AM, Scarletdown wrote: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: It's an aggressive migration plan, but reiser3 is just barely maintained in the kernel Would that be due to the system's creator having current living conditions unconducive to helping