RE: building 2.6.35

2010-08-12 Thread Alex Samad
Okay I have a working solution and set of steps Unfortunately I didn't keep the url where I got this. But it works, I have to change the changelog to 2.6.35 instead of 2.6.34 == How to build linux-kbuild-2.6 yourself Fetch the sources from SVN: svn co svn://svn.debian.org/kernel/dists/trun

RE: Trouble mounting an NFS share

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Samad
Maybe try -o tcp,vers=3 as well. -Original Message- From: Berni Elbourn [mailto:be...@elbournb.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2010 8:45 PM To: Robert Latest Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: Trouble mounting an NFS share Robert Latest wrote: > client:/# showmount -e 192.168.1.2 > Exp

Re: Resizing Raid 1 partitions

2010-05-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 13:32 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 05/19/2010 12:47 PM, Erwan David wrote: > > Hi, [snip] > I would personally recommend backing up your data, and reinstalling, > with LVM on top of your software RAID. You still have the redundancy, > and you have the awesome flexibi

Re: Programming question

2010-05-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 20:32 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 18:34, Alexander Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I was wondering if it is possible to decode this javascript from the > > command line > > > > > > var serializer = new Serializer() > > serializer.deserialize('B64ENCe30=

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-05-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 18:11 +0200, Bernard wrote: > Chris Davies wrote: > > Bernard wrote: [snip] > > > >> So, what should I do so as to backup my system ? I once tried 'dd', but > >> I think I remember it took forever [...] > >> > > > > Without the bs argument you would have been read

Re: network setup question

2010-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:05 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > On 5/6/2010 12:05 AM, Alex Samad wrote: > > [snip] > > What am I missing? nothing in your case it work, but they are supposed to be hosts in different networks. Which was the point I was trying to get at. And to be careful

Re: network setup question

2010-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 22:25 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > On 5/5/2010 9:11 PM, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:55 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > > > >> On 5/5/2010 6:06 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> > > [snip] > > > > >

Re: network setup question

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:55 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: > On 5/5/2010 6:06 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] > > - I have two network /27 network blocks that are NOT contiguous - I > > use one for each box > > > > I'm not a networking expert, but this part seems wrong to me. I don't > think you'r

Re: network setup question

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 21:06 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Not sure if this is the right list, sort of a general linux networking > question (pointers to a more appropriate list welcomed) > > Setup: > > - I have two servers in a datacenter, currently used for different things > > - I have

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: 64-bit netbooks with Debian linux

2010-05-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/03/2010 06:20 PM, deloptes wrote: > > Mark Allums wrote: > > > [snip] > > Do you know if there are some with larger cache? > > > > Just as a Mini Cooper isn't a dragster or a lorry, netbooks are not > *designed* for heavy computation

Re: 64-bit netbooks with Debian linux

2010-05-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 21:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/02/2010 09:12 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > On 5/2/2010 6:47 PM, Celejar wrote: > >> On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:36:57 -0500 > >> Mark Allums wrote: > >> > >> ... > >> > >>> Netbooks are underpowered. Get a *real* notebook/laptop. You can get a

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-05-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 19:19 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sun May 2 2010 13:24:30 Alexander Samad wrote: > > My system used to become close to unusable on the 1st sunday of the month > > when mdadm did it resync, I had to write my own script so it did not do > > mulitple at the > > same time, turn

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

2010-05-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 16:00 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/02/2010 03:24 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: > [snip] > > > > My system used to become close to unusable on the 1st sunday of the month > > when > > mdadm did it resync, > > That sounds... wrong, on a jillion levels. depends a...@max:~$

Re: iptables..WTF???

2010-04-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:44 +0200, Raven wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:01 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: > > you haven't been affected by the bind to ipv6 setting ? [snip] > I am not using IPv6. All my firewall rules are for v4 only. > i know there was a recent change to sysctl (something), t

Re: how to control tty to external monitor or local lcd

2010-04-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 05:23:02PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:41:53 -0400 (EDT), Alexander Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> > >> I'm not familiar with your laptop, but most laptops have a way to switch [snip] > > I'm talking ab

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:39:47PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:15:40 +0100 > pch0317 wrote: > > > Celejar wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:03:51 +0100 > > > pch0317 wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Hi > > >> I have problem with my wireless embedded device. > > >> > > >> I use D

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 07:01:36AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:59:23PM -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: [snip] > > > > apt-get remove --purge exim4 > > [snip] > > could this be because you have removed and not purged the package ? I seemed

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:59:23PM -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: > I am trying to install Debian (Testing) via 'netinst' disk and for > some reason am completely unable to install Debian w/o Exim. It > appears that Cron is a default package and depends on Exim. Does > anyone know how I can complete

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 07:34:03PM +0100, thib wrote: > Clive McBarton wrote: > >I find the concept very interesting in principle, although I am not sure > >I can recommend it. In some respects single file systems are more > >acceptable nowadays. In others they are not. Here are my $.02: > my 2c,

Re: Need a howto on virtualbox module compilation

2010-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:38:48AM +0500, surreal wrote: > I have compiled a virtualbox ose 3.1.4 binary deb and I want to make a > binary deb having vboxdrv and related drivers. I believe there is already a package that does that > > Any places where I can find the links? > > I have placed th

Re: debian squeeze tmp directory no space left

2010-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 02:01:00AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Johan Grönqvist put forth on 2/27/2010 1:05 AM: > [snip] > > No offense intended, but it sounds like some basic sysadmin skills are > lacking. Unneeded old log files should be deleted, as well as any junk left > in /tmp. User ho

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:42:12AM -0500, Tom H wrote: > > I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does > > anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently > > using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start > > X I would prefer

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. > However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made > it recently stopped when I switched to Debian and xfce's term: > > defscrollback 5000 > termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|r

Re: netstat ?

2010-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:48:32PM +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: > 2010/2/24 Hadi Motamedi : > > > > > >> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:14:33 + > >> From: j...@debian.org > >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >> Subject: Re: netstat ? > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:12:57AM +, Hadi Motame

Re: eth0 or eth1

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:47:55AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2010-01-29 12:04:29 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] > is said to be deprecated in favour of iproute (which now seems to > be called "ip"), which is in /bin. iproute is the package ip is the bin > -- "The fact that he r

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:31:57PM -0400, Germana Oliveira wrote: > i just forgot something. > > AD manage the (user) permissions and groups stuff: Like - this user can > access to this printer or that user can not use pen drive - and i haven`t > found yet something like that in free Software, or

Re: tcpdump?

2010-02-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 04:55:11AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > Why not explain what you are trying to do, you main goal > > > > > > Thank you for your reply . My mail goal is to find what is the exact command > syntax and its arguments that the attached network eleme

Re: problem with saslauthd

2010-02-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:57:21PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:32:36PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > I have setup pam with this file /etc/pam.d/imap-test > > auth sufficient pam_unix2.so > > authrequired pam_winbind.so

problem getting source for package

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am trying to get the source package for rdiff-backup apt-cache policy rdiff-backup rdiff-backup: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.2.8-5+b2 Version table: 1.2.8-5+b2 0 500 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main Packages 100 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main Packag

Re: Tips for compiling VirtualBox OSE on lenny

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:34:09PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 07:05:33PM +0500, surreal wrote: > > I compiled VirtualBox OSE from source on my machine. > > curious to know why you don't use virtualbox, precompile debs ? [snip] -- "Well, that's going to be up t

Re: tcpdump?

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 07:22:29AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: [snip] > > try wireshark [snip] > > I have Wireshark on my MS Windows platform . I captured the tcpdump output in > a file and opened it in Wireshark , but I cannot find how to decode the udp > payload data in ascii format . Can

Re: tcpdump?

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 06:26:07AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > > [snip] > Sorry . I mean inside the payload data (as I have obtained the output by > tracing with tcpdump) . I need to decode the exchanged data . try wireshark > > > > > __

problem with saslauthd

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am using horde to access my mail and I am trying to get it to authenticate against a windows ADS server I have bblx01 - my linux box with saslauthd, winbind, samba, horde and horde installed. I have bbw2k my Windows 2003 server with ADS installed horde uses sasl which I have MECHANISMS="p

Re: bridge + ip-forwarding

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:06:43AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > > I am a bit confused, I have a bridged interface with 2 active interfaces > eth0 and eth1. and ip forwarding off > > I have turned off ip forwarding. I though brctl created a ethernet > bridge

Re: bridge + ip-forwarding

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Samad
> permissions.): > > iptables -t mangle -L > Route > cat /etc/network/interface > > Also, it might help if you explained what you are trying to do. > > James > > > -Original Message- > From: Alex Samad [mailto:a...@samad.com.au] > Sent: February 18

bridge + ip-forwarding

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am a bit confused, I have a bridged interface with 2 active interfaces eth0 and eth1. and ip forwarding off I have turned off ip forwarding. I though brctl created a ethernet bridge - same broadcast domain between the interface. but I noticed a lot of firewall blocks in my iptables forwar

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:15:47AM -0800, Mark wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > [snip] > > >Apart from HP's apparent new hostility toward Linux, I had approached two > > local computer shops regarding desktops that have quad core CPU's and 8GB > > RAM, that they h

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:27:41PM +, Glyn Astill wrote: > --- On Wed, 17/2/10, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi [snip] > > > > We're using Adaptec 5805's here, not sure on the situation now, but I had to > run the storman client through alien to get it instal

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-16 Thread Alex Samad
't work inside Debian. > > Cheers, > James > > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Camaleón > Sent: February 15, 2010 5:25 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: HW Raid > > On Mon, 15 Feb 2010

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2010-02-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:48:03PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:34:09 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > [snip] > There are still reasons to install a 64 bits kernel if the micro supports > it. In fact, I have an Intel Celeron with just 1 GiB of RAM (max. allowed > is 2 GiB) and

Re: name -> address resolution

2010-02-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:17:50PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > This is another problem which appeared after an > update of Squeeze on February 7 or 8. > > Joule is a router. dnsmasq and resolvconf > have worked for months with no problem. > Now the machine doesn't recognize its local

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

2010-02-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:56:41AM +0100, Emmanuel Chantry wrote: > Le 14/02/2010 07:26, Alex Samad a écrit : > >On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:42:42PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:39 AM: [snip] > >> > I'm not surprise

HW Raid

2010-02-14 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking at buying a hardware raid controller, I have been an advocate of software raid for quite a while, but having run into some problems running a 10 disk home server, I figure its time to bit the bullet and buy a good/nice card. What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the array

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

2010-02-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:42:42PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:39 AM: > > > I've already tried this one. That works on virtual machine in amd64 but > > not on the HP Server. It's the first thing I've done ;) smart arrays don't turn up as /dev/sda from m

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:42:41PM -0500, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:42:12PM -0200, Michel wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:35 PM, George wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >>> So at the moment I

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:42:12PM -0200, Michel wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:35 PM, George wrote: [snip] > > > > So at the moment I'm stuck with Skype, and I really don't like it. Any > > suggestions would be welcome. > > > > > > I use Twinkle without problems. me to with my asterisk s

Re: PAM LDAP queries attempt to bind with empty binddn

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:23:22PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 07:50 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > no nslcd is not a typo, like I said there are 2 streams/groups of > > packages for pam integration you have th

Re: PAM LDAP queries attempt to bind with empty binddn

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 05:22:50PM -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: > On 10-02-10 15:50:40, Alex Samad wrote: > ... > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:07:05AM -0500, John A. Sullivan III > > > > wrote: > > > > > Hello, all. We have just started to

Re: PAM LDAP queries attempt to bind with empty binddn

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 03:27:25PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Thanks for the quick response. I'll answer in the text below - John > > On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 06:42 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:07:05AM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: &

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:20:46PM -0400, Germana Oliveira wrote: > Hi!! > > I want to know if someone have done this before: > > I have a external disk, and i install Debian in it from my PC, but when i > try to run it from my laptop i just can' t... but i just want to know if what is the error

Re: PAM LDAP queries attempt to bind with empty binddn

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:07:05AM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Hello, all. We have just started to explore Debian Lenny as a platform > and have been delightfully impressed however we're hitting a problem > using LDAP authentication that we have not experienced in RedHat or > Ubuntu. We

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:46:08AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,09.Feb.10, 23:06:08, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > Andrei Popescu put forth on 2/9/2010 3:37 AM: > > > On Mon,08.Feb.10, 16:33:39, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] > > I don't know anything about these scripts. When do they run? And

Re: unionfs

2010-02-08 Thread Alex Samad
thanks On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:08:50AM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2010 17:32:45 Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am looking at trying out unionfs, I notice there is onlythe > > unionfs-fuse package - is this the way debian is going with un

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:36:39AM -0500, Michael Yang wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 03:35:37PM -0500, Michael Yang wrote: > > ... > > > ls: cannot access .xsession-errors: Stale NFS file handle > > > ls: cannot access .Xauthority: Stale

unionfs

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking at trying out unionfs, I notice there is onlythe unionfs-fuse package - is this the way debian is going with unionfs or how do you use the kernel version - can't seem to find any comparisons between the 2 thanks Alex -- "It's going to require numerous IRA agents." - Geor

Re: What does "Stale NFS file handle" mean?

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:07:41AM -0500, Michael Yang wrote: > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Michael Yang wrote: > [snip] > > > > > Anybody can help with this? you mounting with tcp or udp. if tcp try moving to udp > > Thanks. -- "The Iraqis need to be very much involved. They were the

Re: raid on mixed ide/sata drives (/dev/hda /dev/sda) not assembled at boot with initramfs

2010-02-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 07:59:05PM +0100, Dr. KER?KGY?RT? Istv?n wrote: > [sorry if I post multiple times, but my message did not seem to get across, > and moderation isn't supposed to last half a day] > > Dear All, > > I have a system with a raid1 array. I installed it first with a > degraded ra

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:09:28AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks > like this: > > tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | > dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz > > Because of the "v" flag tar writ

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:49:39PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Anyway, it's > > working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia > > installer) and the 2.6.26 kernel, so I'm happy for now! > > Since an xorg update a few

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64?

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 05:52:49PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I find I now have vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 in my boot directory. > Added, I guess, as part of a recent dist-upgrade though I didn't notice it > (careless) in the list of new items to be installed. > > grub has added this kernel

Problem with Qualcomm + 2.6.32

2010-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
hi I have a hp mini, with the HP un2400 mobile broadband card, (3g). This has been working for me with 2.6.31. I have recently installed 2.6.32 (trunk and -2) and it fails to load. the usb id 03f0 (hp) 0x1f1d Any one else seen this, know of any workarounds ? All i get back is error usb probe

Re: Multiple RAID support in Debian?

2010-01-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 07:37:39PM -0600, Victor Padro wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if someone could help me, I'm putting together a > Server for personal use, I want to virtualize a few servers(mail, web, > ssh) and use it as a NAS, but I have a question if I can use Multiple > RAID Arrays

Re: File system for linux and windows

2010-01-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:22:06AM +0100, Klaus Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > you may try fat32 for using on both systems. I made three partitions: > > ntfsuse with windows > ext3use with lenny > fat32 for data storage use for lenny and windows I have reliable used ntfs-3g (f

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:09:42AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I've been following the threads of people frustrated with getting > nvidia drivers to work, and have experienced much of that frustration > myself over the last few days. I've tried everything to get my nvidia > working with the 2.

Re: wlan0 disappeared in Squeeze on Dell Mini 10v

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:00:30PM -0800, Mark wrote: > Hello, any help is much appreciated. Wireless card has worked fine for > months on a Dell Mini 10v. After updates last night, Squeeze doesn't > recognize the card. I removed/purged b43-fwcutter and wicd, and reinstalled > both. Nothing. I

Re: [solved] Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:35:22PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > [snip] > >From Acer to Hyundai, I do: > > $ rsync -vr test 192.168.0.1:/home/rodolfo > > , and, from Hyundai to Acer: > > $ rsync -vr test 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo what happens if you have modified t

Re: console resolution

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:11:38PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > > > I don't know if my video card takes care of that, but I find that > > > moving the cursor, scrolling, etc. is noticeably faster on a > > > framebuffer console than on the vga console. Mind you, since the > > > vesa dr

Re: cloning a hard drive issue/problem

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:16:07PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:53:44 +0100, Robert Cates wrote: > > (...) > > > So, my question is - am I on the right path, will this work? Or do any > > of you have a better method to upgrade hard drives, under these > > circumstances? can

Re: how to set permanent ulimit

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:15:19AM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > sorry:D > > i wanted to write: it's not working. :\ what happens when you type ulimit -a plus you need # Sets up user limits according to /etc/security/limits.conf # (Replaces the use of /etc/limits in old login) sessionreq

Re: Access Problem with pppd

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:24:14PM +0300, lego_12...@rambler.ru wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:34:33PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a l?ttle understanding problem. Maybe someone can advice > > me. > > > > On my EEEPC I am running an application called "

Re: how to set permanent ulimit

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:47:31PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2010-01-26 at 12:54:49 -0500, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > > How can I set ulimit? > > when I give: > > > > ulimit -n 10240 > > > > ok, > > > > ulimit -n > > > > gives 10240. But. after a few minutes, it 1024 again! > > How can I s

Re: problem installing nvidia-glx on a debian testing with 2.6.32 kernel

2010-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have just recently built nvidia for 6.32 using m-a I would recommend always using m-a and not the nvidia installer - easier to maintain. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:20:15PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >Hi, > > [snip] > Setting up nvidia-kernel-source (173.14.

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:17:32PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:56:11PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > > Alex Samad wrote: > > > Hi > > > [snip] > > > > > > Alex > > > > No not at all. Treat it as any other volu

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:56:11PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > subject says it all I have a lv, which i have used luks to encrypt and > > now I would like to extend it. > > > > I am guessing the process is going to invol

expanding a luks volume

2010-01-23 Thread Alex Samad
Hi subject says it all I have a lv, which i have used luks to encrypt and now I would like to extend it. I am guessing the process is going to involve coping the files over to another partition and then back again ? Alex -- "It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife R

Re: x.509 gpgsm and kmail

2010-01-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:35:23PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 23 January 2010, Curt Howland was heard to say: > > Hi, Debian Users. > > > > A friend of mine asked if I could send him encrypted mail using > > X.509, rather than OpenP

Re: File system for linux and windows

2010-01-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:30:59PM +, Bhasker C V wrote: > Nick Douma wrote: [snip] > >>Using NTFS on linux and windows is cool. I have consistently seen that > >>when there are large number of files, undoubtably, > >>ntfs volume goes corrupt and chkdsk simply removes files and creates > >>da

Re: console resolution

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:11:38PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:47:29PM EST, Stephen Powell wrote: > [snip] > I don't know if my video card takes care of that, but I find that moving > the cursor, scrolling, etc. is noticeably faster on a framebuffer > console than on t

Re: Bonding virtual wireless interfaces?

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:39:57PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I have a network that caps each MAC address at 384K at the wireless > access point, and was wondering if it's technically feasible to increase > throughput by adding additional virtual interfaces. > > My thought is that if I have wl

Re: Chroot+ldap problem

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:30:29PM -0300, Patricio Rojo wrote: > Hi, I have this bizarre problem and I would really appreciate if > someone can point me in the right direction to solve it. > > I have a set of two amd64 machines with Debian Lenny. Machine 2 > reads all the users' information from t

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:13:41AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Alex Samad on 21/01/10 02:10, wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:56:16AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] > > > >? did not thing so, I have used null mailer on system I want to recieve > >emails from, jus

Re: Synchronize two computers

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:04:07PM +, Michal wrote: > On 21/01/2010 11:50, Kousik Maiti wrote: > > You need cross connected cable to connect 2 pc via lan card . > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable > > > > After connecting 2 pc via that cable you just put ip address of sam

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:56:16AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Alex Samad on 21/01/10 00:30, wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:01:01AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > >>Camaleón on 20/01/10 21:30, wrote: > >>>>>inet_interfaces = 10.20.30.40, localhost ***

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:01:01AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Camaleón on 20/01/10 21:30, wrote: > >>>inet_interfaces = 10.20.30.40, localhost *** > >>> > >> > >>master_service_disable=smtp.inet > > > >And what is that parameter for? :-? > > > >Ah, you wanted to disable "smtp" connections at all? M

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:01:16PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: > I'm installing stuff onto a vserver which I have just got, and > according to the sysadmin at the hosting provider, due to their > set-up, I can't configure exim to listen on 127.0.0.1, I have to use > the given IP address. > > In case

Re: Problems with minus and plus signs in OO Calc

2010-01-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:35:25PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > My sister is experimenting problems when inserting numbers with a `minus' and > a > comma, e.g.: `-9,13', within a Calc file. Minus without comma or comma > without > minus work fine. Comma is necessary for the Itali

Re: Strange work of eth0.

2010-01-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:41:08AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > > Why I have such situation: > > $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 > SIOCDELRT: No such process > > $ /sbin/ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18 > inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.168.0.2

Re: Virtualbox and usb-SOLVED

2010-01-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:08:22AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Wednesday 13 January 2010 06:35 am, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 January 2010 02:03:10 Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25:10AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > As the title says, I

Re: Decode unixtime

2010-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:09:33AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100115_051059, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Which tool can help me decode the Unix time? E.g., strings like > > 1257624539, 1258162046, 1257623988, 1257709563, etc. they are about 68 > > days ago. > > > > Thanks > > > > d

Re: Failover of gateways

2010-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:06:29PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm trying to configure Debian GNU/Linux with two alternative gateways. > That is to say, that initially the traffic is by GW1 and if it is down > then it goes by GW2. If GW2 is again up, then it becomes to use GW1. > >

Re: Virtualbox and usb

2010-01-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25:10AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > As the title says, I am looking for a virtualbox, under lenny, that sees the > usb devices. So virtualbox-ose does not fit my requirement. Any idea what I > can use instead? Go to virtualbox.org and look for the debian rep

Re: nsswitch.conf/LDAP

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 04:40:23AM +0100, Tom H wrote: > > I have a problem with my NSS/LDAP setup. When I set > > > passwd:    files [SUCCESS=return] ldap > > group:       files [SUCCESS=return] ldap > > shadow:    files my 2c, mine is setup the same way and seems to work > [snip] > -- "I

Re: Java plugins in 64bit Debian

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:26:35PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2010-01-11 at 16:04:26 -0500, Alex Samad wrote: > > I am not arguing that, and I agree with what you have said about them > > making it free. > > > > The issue is the icedtea plugin is touted a

Re: Java plugins in 64bit Debian

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:56:13PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > On 2010-01-11 at 15:32:54 -0500, Alex Samad wrote: > > for some reason we (the user of debian) are being pushed to use icedtea > > and its java plugin, I don't have a problem with this except for the > > fa

Re: Java plugins in 64bit Debian

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:00:14AM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > I installed a Debian Lenny (amd64), and sun-jdk in addition to the > default gcj based default Java. > > When I access Java content with Firefox (or is IceWeasel) the browsed > prompts me to install JDK... Clicking the prompt s

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:23:13PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:13:14PM +0100, Sjors van der Pluijm wrote: > > Hi all, Hi I have a few laptops which I encrypt for work > > > > I have been using Debian for a few years now. For my new workstation I want > > to > > try

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:50:42AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:24:27PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Once could just give execute perm to ~ and maybe additionally > > read as well to ~/public_html? > > Exactly right. The read to ~/public_html is not necessary if > you ha

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 06:54:12PM +, Tom Furie wrote: > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:09:49AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: > > Ken Teague wrote: > > > [snip] > The way I have it set up is $HOME has rwxr-x--x, public_html has > rwxr-s--- chgrp'd to www-data. Most of my files are rw---, except

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