Hi guys,
Can anyone recommend a good multi-port gigabit ethernet card that works
with a stock 2.6.24 kernel?
Thanks gurus,
Michael
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Hi guys,
I've had a couple of RAID boxes ticking away in the corner for years now
without a problem. But now our needs have expanded, and I'm looking to
build replacements. Big replacements. And I consider myself to be
anything but an expert in the field, especially where mdadm is
concerne
Hello gurus,
I'm considering doing some dangerous tinkering with my laptop. I have
regular backups of /root /boot /etc and /home, but would like to make a
complete image of the drive as well. Ideally, what I want to do is boot
from a cd, dd the drive to a file on my workstation via ssh in su
Hello gurus,
I'm playing around with the SSH throttling examples from
debian-administration.org. I'm still a bit new to iptables, and I'm
trying to understand how this works.
I have the following two commands:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent \
--s
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Alas! I just don't know about SATA controllers. Given your
situation, it would appear that your plan is the best one. I would
stick with what you know and what you know works. Time is short and
your rep is on the line. Beyond that, I would have to let some one
more
Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Having done support for a tier1 OEM, I found
many of our customers (running Linux) ignored the raid controllers and
used them as disk controllers and then used software raid.
This would be fine, I don't really care if it's a hardware or software
RAID, although it seems
Hello gurus,
I have built a couple of large storage servers using 16-24 HDDs
connected to 3ware controllers, and so far it's worked pretty well. I
chose 3ware because it was supported by the linux kernel out of the box.
Although I'm not terribly satisfied with the managing software, the
RAI
Hi guys,
One of the motherboards I'm considering is an ASUS DSEB-DG
(http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=1988&l1=9&l2=39&l3=299&l4=0).
One of the things that gives me hope is that it comes with drivers for
RedHat for the RAID controller. For my purposes I don't care about the
Jochen Schulz wrote:
I am running Debian AMD64 on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P.
Thanks, I'll check into that. I don't really care about the sound, as
it'll be a headless machine running in a server room. CPU power and
gigabit ethernet is what I really care about.
Michael
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Neil Watson wrote:
Tyan
Any Tyan motherboard?
Are there any gotcha's that I would need to know about getting debian
installed (special driver needs, kernel command line options, that sort
of thing)?
I've found both duel- and quad-CPU boards by Tyan that look very nice...
Michael
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Hello gurus,
Can anyone suggest a motherboard w/ support for quad-core CPUs and
gigabit ethernet? Video and sound don't matter (they'll be headless).
Multiple CPUs and multiple ethernet welcome.
Thanks for your help,
Michael
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Hi gurus,
I thought I would experiment with creating an encrypted loopback
filesystem. I've generated a file of random numbers, but I can't attack
it to /dev/loop0:
# losetup -e serpent /dev/loop0 $(pwd)/file.bin
Password:
ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid argument
I did a quick google search
Steve Kemp wrote:
The simple way would be to use PAM, as described here:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/308
Frickin' awsome!
That, my friend, was /exactly/ what I needed.
Thanks!
Michael
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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
You may end up with a conflict if you assign a regular user to a UID below 1000.
Yeah, that's what I've run into. The first time my boss sat down at a
Linux box to log in he had problems. A little detective work and I
discovered that his (Solaris) UID conflicte
Hi all,
I'm in the process of remaping UIDs/GIDs from our old Solaris-based
system (where [UG]IDs started at 100) to Linux (where [UG]IDs start at
1000), and a thought occurred to me. I have to add each user to the
cdrom, video, audio, etc. group in order for them to be able to be able
to us
Hi guys,
Does anyone know what the maximum UID/GID allowable for NIS is? We're
migrating from Solaris to Linux, and I want to make sure that all of our
user and group accounts translate properly.
Thanks all,
Michael Peek
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Greg Folkert wrote:
If the logout and login happens quickly, perhaps esound for the other
person is not ending soon enough.
You might look and see if things are hanging around for the other user.
Oh, this might be important too if you are using fast user switching in
GNOME, which just opens a n
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 16:47:11 -0400, Michael S Peek wrote:
Hello all,
I have a machine. One user logs in (using gnome) and has sound. The
second user logs in (also using gnome) and does not. When the second user
double-clicks on the volume applet he gets the
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:47 -0400, Michael S Peek wrote:
Hello all,
I have a machine. One user logs in (using gnome) and has sound. The
second user logs in (also using gnome) and does not. When the second
user double-clicks on the volume applet he gets the following
Michael S Peek wrote:
Hello all,
I have a machine. One user logs in (using gnome) and has sound. The
second user logs in (also using gnome) and does not. When the second
user double-clicks on the volume applet he gets the following error:
The volume control did not find any elements and
Hello all,
I have a machine. One user logs in (using gnome) and has sound. The
second user logs in (also using gnome) and does not. When the second
user double-clicks on the volume applet he gets the following error:
The volume control did not find any elements and/or devices to control.
Thilo Six wrote:
peek wrote the following on 08.04.2007 15:01:
Of the two flavors of Debian I have used (Debian proper and it's
spin-off Ubuntu), this symptom has popped up on both. Sometimes when I
insert removable media, either disk or USB, the icon that Gnome places
on the desktop winds
Ari Torhamo wrote:
su, 2007-04-08 kello 09:01 -0400, peek kirjoitti:
Of the two flavors of Debian I have used (Debian proper and it's
spin-off Ubuntu), this symptom has popped up on both. Sometimes when
I insert removable media, either disk or USB, the icon that Gnome
places on the desktop w
Patrick Cummings wrote:
I made a complete capture of the console output,
I would love to know how you did that! Maybe I'm just a Debian n00b...
Michael
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Michael S. Peek wrote:
Michael S. Peek wrote:
Hi Debian gurus.
I'm running an up-to-date testing version. Recently an upgrade of
firefox went out, which I installed. Now I get the above error when
trying to print: "No Xprint server(s) found".
The thing is, I am running X
Michael S. Peek wrote:
Hi Debian gurus.
I'm running an up-to-date testing version. Recently an upgrade of
firefox went out, which I installed. Now I get the above error when
trying to print: "No Xprint server(s) found".
The thing is, I am running Xprt:
% ps -ef | grep prt
Hi Debian gurus.
I'm running an up-to-date testing version. Recently an upgrade of
firefox went out, which I installed. Now I get the above error when
trying to print: "No Xprint server(s) found".
The thing is, I am running Xprt:
% ps -ef | grep prt
root 4658 1 0 13:03 ?
Hello gurus,
I'm hoping someone can give me a hand.
I have been running my own repository for a while now, and with the
release of etch as the new stable just around the corner, I would like
to add my own authentication to my repository. So I set up an install
host running etch, put a reposi
Greg Folkert wrote:
Please why not read a bit *AT* the site.
I found it in about 2 seconds:
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/faq.html
HTH.
Friggin-A, a FAQ! Exactly what I needed. Don't know how I missed that
earlier.
Thanks,
Michael
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Hi gurus,
I tried adding debian-multimedia.org to /etc/apt/sources.list and got
the following warning:
W: GPG error: http://debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
available: NO_PUBKEY 07DC563D1F41B907
W: You may want t
Hi Debian gurus,
I've just taken the plunge and compiled my own kernel -- 2.6.20.1 -- to
reconcile a problem with buggy sound drivers. (Now granted that the
last time I compiled a linux kernel, it was for version 1.2.13, but I
followed the instructions and got a pair of *.deb packages. Kudos to
Joe Hart wrote:
According to the documentation, when Etch is made stable, a new testing
will be made (in this case called Lenny), which is a direct clone of
Etch. Packages will migrate from Sid to Lenny at the same pace as usual
for the testing distro.
However, since Etch has been frozen, there
Andy Hawkins wrote:
That would be just fine. As I understand it, stuff doesn't make it from
unstable to testing until it's been working in unstable for a while, so the
chances of testing breaking horribly are reduced.
It can still happen though, so there's a possibility that in the early
stages
Hi Debian gurus,
I jumped aboard the Debian bandwagon mid-Sarge, and so that's the
version of Debian that our machines are currently running. As Etch
nears it's completion I've been preparing for the upgrade from Sarge to
Etch. Since I'm still pretty new to Debian, I'm a little iffy when it
Greg Folkert wrote:
Make sure you have cupsys-bsd installed. Setup a local CUPS printer that
prints the BSD/LPRNG queue properly.
Also, the Solaris queue might be set to only print 1 copy, no matter the
requested number.
I have cupsys-bsd installed, so maybe I don't have the queue set up
proper
Michael S. Peek wrote:
Hey guys, I think I may have found a bug. I wasn't able to find
anything like it in the bug report list, and I wasn't sure how to file
it as I don't know what package it would be associated with.
Here's my bug:
I have a remote printer connected
Hey guys, I think I may have found a bug. I wasn't able to find
anything like it in the bug report list, and I wasn't sure how to file
it as I don't know what package it would be associated with.
Here's my bug:
I have a remote printer connected to a remote machine that I am printing
to via L
Thierry Chatelet wrote:
I got the same behavior on a Nec DVD drive. Solved he problem, partly, by
flashing it to a new firmware I found googling. (Sorry I did not kept trace
of where). I said partly because it still does not recognize double layer
dvd, as it is suppose to.
Oh, his was a brand
Hello gurus.
I have an up-to-date etch install and I'm using gnome.
I burned a DVD iso image to a DVD-RW disk.
I then eject and re-insert the disk, and I get this message in a pop-up
window:
You have inserted a blank disc.
What would you like to do?
The problem is that the disk is *not
So the consensus seems to be that LVM is the way to go.
So what's the cutoff between building arrays of varying size versus
grouping them under LVM?
I.e. Right now I've got two large arrays. Should I maybe break that
down unto just a bunch of disks and then use LVM to group them together
(n
Andrei Popescu wrote:
I thought Dexter's Laboratory would be more popular with members of
this list. From the recent stuff it's my favorite.
Regards,
Andrei
I was only recently introduced to Invader Zim by my sister-in-law.
"Ingeneous!"
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L.V.Gandhi wrote:
KDE automounting of usbstick was not allowing me to copy files to
usbstick. Surprising it allows one file to be copied. next file it
says stick is readonly file system. To avoid that, I stopped kde from
mounting it. I did
pmount -w -s -u022 /dev/sda1 pendrive
It allowed me to
Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Hello everybody,
I currently have several NFS mounts to share my media between my
PVR, my workstation, and my neighbour's workstation downstairs.
The problem is, a lot of the time the mounts are not loaded on boot
for some reason or another (eg; in the cas
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
I think this is the precise reason that IBM invented JFS. Its all I
use for everything.I'm curious why you don't use LVM on top of the hardware
raid.
Simplification mostly. Why do it if I don't have to?
This box is a redundant backup for another (with older hardwa
I've solved my problem -- sort of.
Michael S. Peek wrote:
Hello fellow Debian aficionados,
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to partition and
format a large disk.
I have a 3ware card and an array defined thusly:
# tw_cli /c4/u0 show
Unit UnitType Status
Ron Johnson wrote:
Maybe fdisk can't handle huge disks? Have you tried cfdisk or sfdisk?
Or, maybe, 3ware has it's own partitioning tool?
cfdisk says:
FATAL ERROR: Cannot get disk size
Press any key to exit cfdisk
sfdisk says:
# sfdisk /de
Hello fellow Debian aficionados,
I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to partition and format
a large disk.
I have a 3ware card and an array defined thusly:
# tw_cli /c4/u0 show
Unit UnitType Status %Cmpl Port Stripe Size(GB) Blocks
-
Hi guys,
Is it possible to recover a deleted vfat file under linux?
Is it possible when you know the directory it was in, but not the exact
filename?
Thanks to all,
Michael Peek
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T wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr),
then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it
conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command li
Michael S. Peek wrote:
T wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr),
then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed
because it
conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the l
T wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr),
then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it
conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command li
T wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:57:10 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
... If I specify: lpr- and cupsys-bsd+ (which conflicts w/ lpr),
then apt-get chokes on cupsys-bsd, saying that it can't proceed because it
conflicts w/ lpr (duh, that's what the lpr- on the command li
T wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:11:58 -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote:
Which begs the question: Why doesn't 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' install
the package?
Does your package have any unsatisfied dependencies? They need to be
scheduled for install via "dselect --set-selections", too. If you
Michael S. Peek wrote:
Kevin Buhr wrote:
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections'
command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg
that sets up NIS for generic
Kevin Buhr wrote:
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections'
command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg
that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand co
Hello gurus,
I thought I would be slick and write a package that contains a script
that will figure out what should be installed/removed/upgraded/etc. on
each of the machines where I work. (Using sarge, btw.) I had planned
to do this by listing each of the packages and it's install status in
Hi all,
From the Debian FAQ 8.5:
If you'd like to log all your dpkg invokations (even those done using
frontends like aptitude), you could add
log /var/log/dpkg.log
to your /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.
But, like, this doesn't work and stuff:
# cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
log /var/log/dpkg.log
#
Hello again gurus,
I'm working on an automated installation and thought I would give the
ssh access method a whirl with apt-get for installing my custom
packages. My problem is that I can't seem to get the options that I
need passed to ssh's command line by apt.
The man page for apt-get hin
Hello gurus,
I've got a linux-2.6 i686 sarge machine running udev, dbus-1, and hal. A
(l)user has just pulled a usb drive out before waiting for it to finish
transfering data.
*Is* it possible to recover without rebooting the machine?
Here's what I've tried so far, which may have only made
Hello gurus,
I've been searching for information on how the linux kernel handles tape
drives. I have /dev/st0[lma] in my device directory, and the devices.txt file
from the kernel source tree says:
9 char SCSI tape devices
0 = /dev/st0 First SCSI tape, mode 0
Sanjay Debian wrote:
I'm a n00b who's trying to figure out how to mount USB stuff. I
hear hal will
do just that, but when I run "lshal", I get the following error:
I had no idea you have to do so much just to mount usb. On my unstable
debian install I can install my usb flash dri
Hello users,
I'm a n00b who's trying to figure out how to mount USB stuff. I hear hal will
do just that, but when I run "lshal", I get the following error:
# lshal
lshal version 0.4.7
libhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: Failed to connect to socket
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_so
Hello all,
I've got a Gateway E4100 running a fresh Sarge installation, with X configured
to use the vesa driver. I'm running KDE 3.3, the KDE screensaver is turned
off, and I'm not running xscreensaver.
I'm trying to figoure out how to make the screen go blank with xset:
xset s on
xset s blank
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