Re: Lenny on HP DL 380 G5 with P400 (SAS HBA) / CCISS vs. HPSA

2010-08-30 Thread Laurent CARON
On 29/08/2010 12:28, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hm, seems that it entered mainline post 2.6.32 (early December 2009 ...) so unfortunately it's not in the bpo Kernel and currently won't be part of Squeeze. I don't know how much work it is to backport the driver to 2.6.32 but you might want to try to open

Lenny on HP DL 380 G5 with P400 (SAS HBA) / CCISS vs. HPSA

2010-08-29 Thread Laurent CARON
Hi, I'm currently using HP DL 380G5 for various tasks: - Mail server - Database server - File server I sometimes find the performance of the disks to just be average. A new driver (HPSA) is making its way into the kernel for more than a year now (intended to replace the CCISS driver). Do you

Re: libc6 upgrade problem

2009-09-05 Thread Laurent CARON
On 05/09/2009 13:16, Sven Joachim wrote: You can set LD_LIBRARY_PATH so that the dynamic linker searches in /lib before /usr/local/lib: # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib:/lib rm -f /usr/local/lib/tls/libc.so.6 Thanks This made it.which is a really good news since this machine is located about

libc6 upgrade problem

2009-09-05 Thread Laurent CARON
Hi, I did just upgrade some packages (one of them is libc6) on a server running etch. It seems (from what I can see in the backups of this server) that an old version of libc6 is lying in /usr/local/lib/tls (maybe a leftover from some previous install). As a matter of fact, i'm unable to r

Re: Relay Not Permitted

2007-05-01 Thread Laurent Caron
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:20:21PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Most all email I send out is now rejected with such a message. Even sent to > myself! > > Is this an exim4 bug? Workaround? > Hi, Seems your mail server is badly misconfigured. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Having both dhcp3 server and dhcp3 relay on the same host

2007-03-21 Thread Laurent CARON
Hi, I'm considering installing dhcp3 relay on my linux boxes. I already have dhcp3 server running. Wouldn't those packages conflict ? I mean: Is it a correct behavior to run dhcp3 relay as a fallback if the dhcp3 server is unavailable (misconfigured, crashed...)? Thanks Laurent -- To UNSUB

Hardware dependant Static DHCP

2006-09-04 Thread Laurent CARON
Hi, I'm basically trying to set-up the following thing. A DHCP server serving my computers on one range (say: 192.168.0.10 - 192.168.0.100), and i'd like to give IP addresses in the range (192.168.0.110 - 192.168.0.200) to my IP phones (Polycom IP600). I already tried to get the vendor strin

Re: Could not create server lock file: /tmp/.X1-lock

2006-08-22 Thread Laurent CARON
marc wrote: Hi, I have installed xserver-xgl and can run it and compiz from a KDE root session -- wobbly bits and all. However, when I try to login -- using the same scripts -- I receive the following: Xsession: X session started for marc at Mon Aug 21 18:48:57 BST 2006 Fatal server er

Re: raid 1

2006-05-29 Thread Laurent CARON
jacek wrote: i rebuilded , /boot has: initrd.img-2.6.16 ( created by mkinitrd) , vmlinuz-2.6.16 and everything is set fine in grub (menu.lst file ) , it detects the drives during boot but then somehow want to create raid using old names... did you try rebuilding a new kernel with raid & dis

Re: raid 1

2006-05-29 Thread Laurent CARON
jacek wrote: Hi all, I set up raid 1 during installing system with kernel 2.4.27-2, then i used mdadm to create mdadm.conf file . my hard drives was detected as /dev/hdc[1-9] /dev/hde[1-9] because the kernel was missing proper drivers , so then i compiled new kernel 2.6.16 and drives changed

Re: setup distribution (default) file permissions back for /

2006-05-29 Thread Laurent CARON
Varga Pavol wrote: Hi, a few minutes ago I by mistake changed all file permissions in /var directory recursively as a root. Is there any quick solution how to take it back? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/www/dir] # chown -R www-data:www-data /* The "/" was typed by a mistake - "/" is next to Shift butt

Re: lilo not "accepting" a new kernel

2006-04-08 Thread Laurent CARON
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 10:12 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 12:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: When I run lilo to integrate a new kernel, it is rejected. Anyone have a clue why? # lilo -v LILO version 22.6.1, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Deve

Re: Debian 3.1 with more 1gb of ram

2006-04-05 Thread Laurent CARON
Richard Bortolucci wrote: How to make Debian 3.1 recognize more than 1gb of memory? I tried to add: mem=1500M [EMAIL PROTECTED]@256M to the menu.lst, but it didn't work. -- Richard Bortolucci use a kernel that is able to deal with more than 1Gb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How to config x server?

2006-04-05 Thread Laurent CARON
Paul de Baat wrote: How can I config the x server? with your fingers ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "free" shows only 4GB out of the 8GB of memory on the system

2006-03-27 Thread Laurent CARON
Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: Hi, Our Debian 3.1 (2.4.27-2-686-smp kernel) server contains (among other things) 4x2GB sticks of RAM giving us a grand total of 8GB, however, free and cat /proc/meminfo sees roughly only 4GB: output of free: total used free sharedbuff

Re: Something strange with ip configuration

2006-03-24 Thread Laurent CARON
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: Hi, I have a Debian testing. I am experiencing sme problmes with ethernet cards ip configurations. My /etc/network/interfaces file is: ### etherconf DEBCONF AREA. DO NOT EDIT THIS AREA OR INSERT TEXT BEFORE IT. auto lo iface lo inet loopback ### END OF DEBCONF AREA. PLA

Re: Exclude Postfix from upgrade

2006-03-15 Thread Laurent CARON
Cem Kamil Külekçi a écrit : Hi, I've patched postfix with quota and installed. But whenever I try to upgrade other programs apt-get wants to upgrade postfix too. I want to exclude postfix from upgrade, I've tried apt pin preferences but couldn't make it. Anyone have a sample config? thanks Cem

Re: "make install" > debian package

2006-03-14 Thread Laurent CARON
Magnus Therning a écrit : I know there's a tool that will let me run "make install" and then creates a .deb (or .rpm, or .tgz, or ..) of it so that I can remove the package cleanly later and take a nice .deb to install on other machines. I know this exists, I just can't remember the name of the t

Re: RAID1 with only ONE member?

2006-03-14 Thread Laurent CARON
Andy a écrit : Hello List, I am building a new backup box and would like to use linux software RAID-1. But I can only afford to buy one disk right now. Can I configure a RAID-1 array with only a single member for the time being, and then add additional member disks at a future date? Is is simp

Re: gnome ~/Desktop directory setting

2006-03-11 Thread Laurent CARON
Michael Gilbert a écrit : Hello all, Does anyone know how to change the gnome desktop directory location? I would rather use something like ~/.desktop rather than ~/Desktop. I've searched the keys in gconf and can't find one for this setting. Thanks in advance for any help. Mike Hi, wo

Re: Debian not recognizing 1 of my 2 CPUs and sees only 16k cache =(

2006-03-08 Thread Laurent CARON
Yu,Glen [Ontario] a écrit : Hi, I've recently installed Debian 3.1 (2.4.27 kernel) on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 server w/dual Xeon 3.6GHz Processors and 2MB L2 cache per processor core, however when I do "cat /proc/cpuinfo", it gives shows that I only have 1 processor and 16k cache:

Re: problem with dhcp, might be firestarter related

2006-03-08 Thread Laurent CARON
Juha Pahkala a écrit : Hello, I have strange problem with dhcp, that might be somehow related to firestarter. But not necessarily directly. I did so many different things with my network setup simultaneously that I'm not sure, what's causing my current problem. So what I did was try to conv

Re: setgid error

2006-03-03 Thread Laurent CARON
mohamed el prince a écrit : hi all I'm using kubuntu and while i was in the konsol as a root using (SU),an was opening (vi) editor it get hang and i closed the konsol, the problem is when i try to re use (SU)and enter the password an error (setgid: Operation not permitted) results no

Re: static route in /etc/network/interfaces won't take

2006-03-02 Thread Laurent CARON
Henry Hollenberg a écrit : Hey gang, I added some routes in /etc/network/interfaces: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.x.y.z netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.x.y.255 gateway 10.x.y.1 up /sbin/route add -net 10.a.b.0/16 gw 10.x.y.250 down /sbin/route del -net 10.a.b.0/16 gw 10.x.y.

Re: Resize raid? RAID Reconfig Tool?

2006-02-27 Thread Laurent CARON
Jan Johansson a écrit : Raid5 on n-1 disks is more like raid0 Are you sure there? It seem to have come up as one 200GB device? because you forgot the missing drive cookiemonster:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid5] md0 : active raid5 hdd1[1] hdc1[0] 195358336 blocks level

Re: Resize raid? RAID Reconfig Tool?

2006-02-27 Thread Laurent CARON
Jan Johansson a écrit : We use mdadm to administer our software raid. For (certain) hardware raid there other tools available. Just "apt-cache search raid"... Wait... does mdadm have that built in? Let's rephrase that. Lets say I just did cookiemonster:/mnt/hde1# mdadm --create /dev/md0 -

Re: How to reclaim space on hard drive not partitioned fully initially?

2006-02-23 Thread Laurent CARON
Mitchell Laks a écrit : Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I partitioned my 120GB hard drive. I think that I did not allocate all the space to used partitions. i mounted /boot at /dev/hda1 / at /dev/hda2 what is the output of fdisk -l ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: NFS Not Mounting at Boot

2006-02-23 Thread Laurent CARON
Thomas F. O'Connell a écrit : I've tried to set up NFS on two different networks, recently, and have had a hard time getting nfs shares to mount automatically at boot. In a recent example, both client and server are Debian systems that use official packages for NFS. For the client, I've go

Re: Firewalling: best approach?

2006-02-09 Thread Laurent CARON
Bradley Alexander a écrit : I am trying to configure a firewall, but nailing down the configuration is eluding me. The box is running Debian stable. I have tried with iproute2 (I'm including a description below), but not gotten the intended effect. I have tried the lartc list, to no avail. A frie

Re: High availability interner connection

2006-02-06 Thread Laurent CARON
Angel L. Mateo a écrit : Hello, For the linux boxes maybe you could try the metric parameter for the route add command. In this way you could define two default servers with different metrics. If the first doesn't work I guess it should try with the second. I haven't tried this, but it's

Re: High availability interner connection

2006-02-06 Thread Laurent CARON
Star King of the Grape Trees a écrit : I have no experience in this, but my suspicion is that you could setup the dhcpd in such a way to advertise the new route - surely most networks can handle a 2-minute downtime? We would have to wait for lease renewal, or set up a very slow renewal time w

High availability interner connection

2006-02-06 Thread Laurent CARON
Hi, I'm trying to get high availability internet connection for the LAN of my company. I basically have two servers connected to the internet. Each server has 2 dedicated internet connections hooked to 2 different providers. So far, I managed to get the servers to route the packets properly

Re: squid related question

2006-01-23 Thread Laurent CARON
askar k a écrit : I'm looking for tutorials of the squid about how to restrict users from LAN from accessing porno sites and downloading the files. Can anybody send me some links? Google -> squidguard / chastity-list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: NFS rooting current root

2006-01-13 Thread Laurent CARON
Lukas Ruf a écrit : Dear all, are there any opinions on risks and benefits of exporting my server root (/boot, /etc, /usr, /dev, /sys) read-only to the client that provides just /var and does an nfsroot mount of the read-only exported one?? Thanks for any hands-on experience hints. wbr, Lukas

Re: How should this procmail-rule be to work?

2005-12-01 Thread Laurent CARON
Søren Christensen a écrit : Hi, I have a problem with filtering with procmail. Every morning I recieve this newsletter from a newspaper, but it always ends up in my inbox, not in the folder i want to. I have this rule in my procmail-resource: :0: * ^FROM_netavis nyheder :0 * ^From: [EMA

Re: software RAID1 SATA

2005-11-05 Thread Laurent CARON
Bob Hutchinson wrote: Hello list I originally posted this on debian-testing, but was advised to post here instead. Can anyone confirm/deny that Debian 3.1 can support software RAID1 on SATA discs? Any pointers appreciated. Thanks in advance, Hi, I'm currently using RAID1 and RAID5 o

Re: exim 3.x

2005-11-01 Thread Laurent CARON
theal wrote: I need to remove/disable the mailbox of a user without removing/disabling their local account. Anyone have any ideas on the proper way to do this? woody 3.0 exim 3.35-1woody3 Thanks Tony Hi, putting $USERNAME: :fail: no such user in /etc/aliases should do it Mails w

Re: authinticating email with a windows domain

2005-10-04 Thread Laurent CARON
theal a écrit : I forgot to add that this is already set up on the LAN and working. I need to move the server to a co-location facility and get the authentication working over the wan. Tony - Original Message - *From:* theal *To:* debian-user@l

Re: Please help me read /proc/mdstat

2005-09-09 Thread Laurent CARON
Siju George a écrit : On 9/9/05, antgel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Siju George wrote: Hi, Could someone help me read the /proc/mdstat file on my Sarge. I am doing disk mirroring with 2 disks. at the end of md7 and md5 I have [_U] written all others have [UU] at their ends. What doe

Re: kill someone logged on

2005-09-08 Thread Laurent CARON
debian a écrit : please, finger reports Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone alice Miss Alice Mc Cool *:0 Sep 6 17:25 joe Joe Mc Cool *tty1 1:17 Sep 6 20:24 joe Joe Mc Cool *pts/2 Sep 7

Re: Exim4 + port forwarding

2005-09-07 Thread Laurent CARON
Kumar Appaiah a écrit : On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 06:33:28AM -0700, James Vahn wrote: Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear list, I have been using fetchmail + procmail + exim4 to handle my mail. I have a setup by which certain messages are received by procmail, and a copy of some is forwarded to an

Re: NIC question

2005-07-12 Thread Laurent CARON
Andrej Perdih a écrit : Hello again, does anyone know if NIC Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controlle is supporded for Debian. If it is than how should i install the system, must I get additional drivers or enything else Thank you. Andrej http://www.

Re: what to do if package can not be removed?

2005-07-07 Thread Laurent CARON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi list! I have a strange behaviour with openvpn. I wanted to upgrade from 1.6.0 to 2.0 by typing apt-get install openvpn after inserting the sarge entries in my sources.list. But it stopped with some strange error-codes like 143 So I tried to remove it by typing

Re: Am I hacked?

2005-06-15 Thread Laurent CARON
Michal Sedlak a écrit : Hi all, I am nearly sure that my server was hacked, but I want to be sure. Can anybody say me if it is true. Here is tiger script output. Do you have any ideas how to repair it {no mkfs funny stuff please} There are some line interesting. I have one for every critical

Re: Testing fails on Asus A7N8X, Sil3112 and SATA

2005-06-04 Thread Laurent CARON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi -- I am experiencing problems when trying to install Debian on my system. The installation fails at the point at which it tries to load up the scsi modules and read the disc, as far as I can see it is failing to read the superblock properly. The disc is a WD120

Re: Software Raid Partition'd?

2005-06-02 Thread Laurent CARON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello, ... Is it best to just create 1 Raid 5 mounted on / or Create several Raid 5 arrays and split them into / /home /var /usr Note: Will use a Raid 0 mounted on /boot raid 0 on /boot ?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: HOWTO reverse proxy through an internal-server-initiated ssh tunnel?

2005-05-23 Thread Laurent CARON
Josh Rehman a écrit : On 5/22/05, *André Carezia* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: ssh -R 8080:localhost:80 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My apologies, I should have mentioned that that was what I tried. Here is the result: external>$ telnet localhost 8080 Trying 127.0.0.1...

Re: exim4 misconfigured

2005-05-07 Thread Laurent CARON
David Roguin a écrit : Hello, when i was installing debian i choose to configure exim4 later; but now when i do dpkg-reconfigure exim4; it doesn't prompt for all the option it showed me in the installation dialog. how can i configure exim4? regards. dpkg-reconfigure -plow exim4-config -- Let oth

Re: getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

2005-05-03 Thread Laurent CARON
Bruno Boettcher a écrit : On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:27:10PM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: try knoppix in expert mode loading linux... loading minirt something... nothing (means empty screen..) still seeing nothing. try switching to another vt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: getting booted a sim 2010 laptop?

2005-05-03 Thread Laurent CARON
Bruno Boettcher a écrit : Hello! haviong trouble getting my latest bought laptop running its a medion si 2010, and neither debian testing install dvd nor knoppix 3.8 are able to boot it after the message uncompressing Linux ... Ok, booting the kernel. nothing happens i supsect it has so

Re: kernel2.6 I cannot login

2005-01-04 Thread Laurent CARON
Massa Takeuti wrote: Hello I'm in despair. since 3 weeks, I'm waiting some good advice in some Debian forums but unfortunately I've got nothing helpful yet... I already depenced more than a hundred hours for this problem. In vain. I compiled 2.6.9 (from source made by Debian). I get "installatio

Re: Script to temporarily "open" port

2004-12-28 Thread Laurent CARON
Alex Malinovich wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 16:39 +0100, Laurent CARON wrote: David Baron wrote: A home system with an email server, i.e. exim, need not lay "exposed" 24/7. Is there a way to write script to open a port such as SMTP/25 periodically for a certain amount of time,

Re: Script to temporarily "open" port

2004-12-28 Thread Laurent CARON
David Baron wrote: A home system with an email server, i.e. exim, need not lay "exposed" 24/7. Is there a way to write script to open a port such as SMTP/25 periodically for a certain amount of time, check for activity, wait till free and then close it. This would be a cron'ed equivalent of brin

Re: Hard Disk Errors

2004-12-27 Thread Laurent CARON
Kenneth Jacker wrote: [testing/sarge; 2.4.26-1-686-smp] Suddenly, I'm seeing the following error messages in /var/log/syslog: Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \ status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Laurent CARON
Harland Christofferson wrote: an update to my saga is that i was able to run lilo. however, when trying to boot, i see: request_module{block-major-3]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 Please append correct "root=" boot option Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount roo

Re: How obtain an old kernel source

2004-12-23 Thread Laurent CARON
Norberto Altalef wrote: Hi. I need the kernel-source-2.6.8, but no the last release. Is there any site to download old versions or is there any way to obtain from the present release ? Present package: kernel-source-2.6.8 (2.6.8-10) I need: kernel-source-2.6.8 (2.6.8-3) I appreciate very much any a

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Laurent CARON
Sam Watkins wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:22:45AM -0500, JerryN wrote: Which kernels for a 386 would be 4GB enabled? I don't think any of the default debian kernels are 4GB enabled, are they? Their package names don't mention it, anyway. You may have to build your own. Is there somep

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Laurent CARON
JerryN wrote: How exactly do you do that? CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G CONFIG_HIGHMEM Jerr Either download a highmem enabled kernel or build one (with make-kpkg) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Laurent CARON
Björn Abt wrote: Hello List, I have a HP DL360 G4 with 2GB ECC RAM and a P4-Xeon with 3 GHz. I installed Debian Sarge netinst on this machine and after examining the system i found out that top only shows 906MB RAM, even /proc/meminfo shows only 906MB. I tried this with both the 2.4 (kernel-imag

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Laurent CARON
James LeClair wrote: Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in case of disaster/emergency? I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-( Good learning experience, but at my

Re: Multiple NICs + GW's

2004-11-30 Thread Laurent CARON
Michael Bellears wrote: Is there anyway I can force traffic to go back out via the NIC it came in on? LARTC: http://www.docum.org/docum.org/faq/cache/44.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mdadm raid1

2004-11-30 Thread Laurent CARON
Harland Christofferson wrote: I think I figured it out but am still looking for suggestions: mdadm --stop /dev/md0 mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/hda /dev/hdc and it looks like the kern.log reflects that the array is being resynchronized. Is this correct? I would have done mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev

Re: whre i can download LiNUX Kernel 2.4.20-13.7

2004-11-30 Thread Laurent CARON
Umar Draz wrote: hi dear members i have broad logic DVB card now i want install it on linux but DVB card only support kernel 2.4.20-13.7. but on kernel.org there is no kernel by that name so plz help me where i can find this kernel. thanks and regards Umar Draz --

Re: proxy

2004-11-29 Thread Laurent CARON
Giorgio Raccanelli wrote: hello everyone, I need to connect my PC to the Internet for making an upgrade. I have already configured the net-card (I'm sure because I'm able to send ping commands and receive answers), but my PC is on a network, so if I want to be able to receive the packages from t

Re: debian mirror on other dist

2004-11-26 Thread Laurent CARON
Rui Silva wrote: On Thursday 25 November 2004 10:20, Laurent CARON wrote: Rui Silva wrote: hi there!!! I'm trying to make a debian mirror on my university, because theres a lot of people that uses debian here, but i have a problem... the computer in witch the mirror is to be locat

Re: debian mirror on other dist

2004-11-25 Thread Laurent CARON
Rui Silva wrote: hi there!!! I'm trying to make a debian mirror on my university, because theres a lot of people that uses debian here, but i have a problem... the computer in witch the mirror is to be located is built using REDHAT7.3 (i know that sucks). there is no way for me to change the dis

Re: Root on RAID 5 + LVM will only boot in degraded mode

2004-11-19 Thread Laurent CARON
Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: Partition check: Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 Nov 18 19:15:49 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb

Re: Root on RAID 5 + LVM will only boot in degraded mode

2004-11-18 Thread Laurent CARON
Dag Sverre Seljebotn a écrit : On reboot the last disk to be added to the array is kicked out of it and the array starts in deprecated mode. (If this is not the right place to ask, could someone please forward me to more suited place?) Long story: My setup is with six disks on a Promise TX4 serial

Re: Changing date format in /usr/bin/last

2004-11-15 Thread Laurent CARON
Ralph Aichinger wrote: Hello! I had the problem today that I wanted to get some information out of my wtmp file about system usage, and I needed logins categorized by year. In Debian, "last" gives output like ralphpts/1monk Mon Nov 15 14:32 still logged in ralphpts/0

Re: Dell Latitude D800 w/ NVIDIA driver on Sarge, trouble setting resolution to 1920x1200

2004-11-12 Thread Laurent CARON
Ralph Seichter wrote: I've successfully installed the latest NVIDIA driver on a Dell Latitude D800 running Debian Sarge, but now I'm struggling with the screen resolution. The D800 LCD monitor has a unusual resolution of 1920x1200, and manually adding this mode to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 did not seem

Re: raid

2004-11-02 Thread Laurent CARON
Huston a écrit : so set them all to "fd" (raid auto detect) type "mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -n3 -l5 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1" then type "type "mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -n3 -l5 /dev/md1 /dev/md2 /dev/md3 that should sync my hard drives and start the process? would the "/boot" partition be the same as the "w

Re: raid

2004-11-02 Thread Laurent CARON
Huston wrote: okay here is my problem...I installed a software Raid-5 on mybox last night. Here is what I did. I downloaded and installed raidtools2 and mdadm. Do I need both? Next I wrote my raidtab file. Here is what it looked like: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr

Re: kernel-source-2.4.18 freezes debian woody

2004-10-29 Thread Laurent CARON
Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, at the moment I am trying to update (change would the the better word) my kernel from version 2.2.20 to 2.4.18. I am using the debian packages kernel-source-2.4.18 and have compiled and installed it - using the configuration file from the kernel-image-2.4.18 package - I only

Re: user creation ??

2004-10-26 Thread Laurent CARON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi, thnx for the hint ... but when i try #adduser --force-badname 88jed then it says: adduser: To avoid problems, the username should consist of a letter or underscore followed by letters, digits, underscores, and dashes. For compatibility with Samba machine accounts a

Re: user creation ??

2004-10-26 Thread Laurent CARON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to create users like 8devis. i.e. user starting with a digit. But the system rejects it any hints will be appreciated. Regards Debi man adduser => --force-badname By default, user and group names are required to consist of a

Re: Debian evaluation copy

2004-10-25 Thread Laurent CARON
Rani Khalil wrote: Hi, My name is Rani Khalil and I am currently doing my Master Thesis project in Uppsala, Sweden at CC Systems AB. The thesis is that a linux distribution has to be set in operation on a Country Cross Pilot with an Intel XScale processor. At the time being I am analyzing some

Re: Lilo question

2004-10-06 Thread Laurent CARON
Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote: Hi. I am having a little problem with LILO. I have a machine with Win2000 on the first IDE drive and I want install Debian on the other drive, which happens to be SCSI. If in /etc/lilo.conf I specify boot=/dev/hda -asking LILO to install itself into the MBR, how

Re: Debian sarge - raid

2004-09-22 Thread Laurent CARON
victor wrote: The problem is like this: One hdd has ext3 "partitions," the other hdd has "linux raid autodetect". Could this be the rason for what is hapening? But how can I sincronize these 2 hdd's(I don't want to format the hdd with ext3)? Alvin Oga wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, victor wrote:

Re: Oracle 8.1.7 on Debian Sarge?

2004-09-21 Thread Laurent CARON
Paradise wrote: sorry, sarge is glibc 2.3.2 On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:14:19 +0800, Paradise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all Can someone tell me can I install Oracle8i on Debian Sarge? Since Oracle8i needs glibc 2.1.3and Sarge is glibc2.4 -- Regards, Paradise why not installing or

Re: Unable to ping gateway

2004-09-20 Thread Laurent CARON
Jacob Larsen wrote: I can ping my server, and the gateway from my home pc, but can not ping the gateway nor another server on the same subnet from the server. I use bond0 for eth0 and eth1. When I clear iptables there is no change. Any ideas? Best regards Jacob Larsen ifconfig? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Install to USB HD

2004-09-15 Thread Laurent CARON
Matthew Jackson wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to install debian to an external USB 2.0 Hard disc? Thanks You can install it on a "standard" internal HDD and then copy it to the external one. -- You learn to write as if to someone else because NEXT YEAR YOU WILL BE "SOMEONE ELSE." -

Re: Debian on A Cobalt RaQ4

2004-09-15 Thread Laurent CARON
Cole S. Ashcraft wrote: I'd like to run Debian on my Cobalt RaQ4, but I can't exactly figure out what branch to use and how to do it. The RaQ4 is not a MIPS box. It has a K6 AMD processor. It doesn't have a CD or floppy drive, making the install process difficult. How should I do this? Cole via

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Laurent CARON
John Harrold wrote: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I would expect. Now If I run 'df' it says the partition

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-15 Thread Laurent CARON
WA9ALS - John wrote: Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1? Thanks! - John I've done some Googling and only find more complex cases

Re: Compile kernel on sid -> dependency problem on woody

2004-06-11 Thread Laurent CARON
Pablo Santiago Blum de Aguiar wrote: Hi all, I compiled a new kernel (2.4.18) for a woody box (a 233MHz pc) on my sid box (an Athlon 800MHz pc). On sid, I did an 'apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.26', configured the kernel for my needs, ran 'make-kpkg clean' and used the following command do compi

Re: Random loss of domain name resolution!

2004-06-11 Thread Laurent CARON
Raiz-mpx wrote: Dear: Fellow Gnu/Linux Debian users. I am at a loss as to solve this problem, other than to reinstall Debian Sarge. I am using a cable connection, with DHCP enabled getting a permannet IP address from my hardware Zyxel ZyWall router, which allows me to set IPs according to MAC

Re: Strange apt-get problem

2004-06-08 Thread Laurent CARON
Johann Spies wrote: I am building the a third new mail server at the moment. They are similar machines with one network connection on the same segment as the ftp-servers (archive and archive2). W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://archive.sun.ac.za stable-proposed-updates/main Packages (/