Re: Re (2): message threading in debian lists; was Re (6): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-18 Thread Mike Bird
f route propagation than OSPF. For example sysadmin laptops can communicate with customer office networks for maintenance purposes but customer office networks cannot see each other. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-18 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue January 18 2011 05:06:52 Camaleón wrote: > Finally, he decided to give it another role → "gnome-core" as metapackage > for a GNOME DE that fits into a CD. > > Good or bad decision? Dunno, it's "just" a decision and as such can be > enhanced, revoked, confirmed... as anything in this life :-)

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-17 Thread Mike Bird
stead of making the same changes to the CD's package list, and then was too lazy to fix his mistake. And thus one lazy DD creates headaches for thousands of sysadmins. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-17 Thread Mike Bird
isions of this minority are public, which makes them available for consideration by their potential future employers. Hopefully this mechanism will correct the problem. --Mike Bird [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=7;bug=610185 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: transition from Ubuntu -> Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

2011-01-17 Thread Mike Bird
the commercial driver. Non-free nVidia works great in Debian, both Lenny and Squeeze, both regular kernel module and DKMS (recommended). --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: The 'route' output

2011-01-16 Thread Mike Bird
oblem by looking at "route -n". --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101162128.15524.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: tun device creation on boot

2011-01-16 Thread Mike Bird
In your various OpenVpn config files just specify "dev tun5" or whatever. "tun5" and friends will appear by magic when needed in /sys/class/net (but not in /dev where they are not needed). --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Re (6): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 12 2011 10:14:32 PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > From: Mike Bird > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 08:52:41 -0800 > > > When I try your config on one of my test boxes I find > > the following in syslog: > > > > Jan 12 08:50:18 bul-lb ovpn-myvpn[9850]: Options error:

Re: Re (5): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 12 2011 10:22:23 Bob Proulx wrote: > It is definitely "dev tun" not tun0. Not when you've got six OpenVPN tunnels on one system. We use tun0 on single-tunnel systems for consistency and in case we need to add a second tunnel. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Re (5): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Bird
What do you see in your syslog? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101120852.41064.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Re (4): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-11 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue January 11 2011 19:23:50 PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > r...@dalton:/etc/openvpn# ip addr show I don't see the OpenVPN tunnel. What happens on "/etc/init.d/openvpn start"? FWIW, I use "dev tun0" (or "dev tunN" for some N) instead of "dev tun&qu

Re: Re (3): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-11 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue January 11 2011 14:09:09 PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > OK. Seems that somehow I've managed to disable port > 1194 or tcpdump. Anything interesting in the /etc/openvpn/*, or in the output of "iptables-save" or of "route -n" or of "ifconfig"? (Post them

Re: ktorrent in sid

2011-01-11 Thread Mike Bird
ow because we're focused on Trinity+Squeeze but but I'm 99% certain that Lenny's ktorrent2.2 was one of the few bright spots in our most recent KDE 4 evaluation a few weeks ago. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Re (2): OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Bird
d Lenny/Squeeze OpenVPN network. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101102126.28574.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: lenny -> squeeze with trinity

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Bird
improving far faster than KDE 4 (which as of our our last test a couple of weeks ago STILL can't install a working KMail). KDE 3.5: 9/10 Trinity: 8/10 KDE 4.4: 2/10 Please contact me on list or off if I can be of any further assistance. --Mike Bird amarok-engine-xine-trinity amarok-trinit

Re: being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
work (mostly testing), not years. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101052158.38113.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
e LSB header ordering is weaker and causes many server failures, although it may be adequate for simple laptop configurations. The stable ordering is in fact in the postinst scripts. Undoing the damage done by insserv is possible but non-trivial. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: being up to date (Was: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain)

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
s? > > compiz, upstart, lxc,... are "modern" tools for modern use :-) Change can be good or bad. Hardware and software improvements are generally beneficial. Throwing away years of DD work and thereby causing innumerable previously rock-solid Debian servers to fail to boot is not.

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
u going to show us the named configuration of the Linux server which is saying that recursion is not available, and tell us the IP addresses of the client and the server? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 5 2011 10:24:25 vr wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:03:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote: > >> nslookup X.X.X.X > >> ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server > >> ;; Got recursion not

Re: Got recursion not available from...

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 5 2011 09:11:50 vr wrote: > nslookup X.X.X.X > ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server > ;; Got recursion not available from x.x.x.x, trying next server Please "cat /etc/resolv.conf" and post the result here. --Mike Bird -- To UN

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2011-01-02 Thread Mike Bird
if it's safe. For our first three test upgrades we assumed insserv would not destroy the boot order as there is no warning in the debconf question or the release notes. Our third test upgrade was the first server test upgrade, and that was when we realized that insserv is a disaster. --Mike Bir

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-02 Thread Mike Bird
> Basically because gnome-desktop-environment is too big to fit on CD 1. > See bug #608098 for more information, especially > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608098#31. Creating a new package to depend upon evolution and ephiphany and gnome-core would be a less harmful so

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2011-01-01 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat January 1 2011 06:00:54 Andrei Popescu wrote: > I'm sure you are aware that insserv is doing the (re)ordering based on > the LSB headers in each initscript. Don't you think your rant is > exaggerated? Please read the thread. I don't think there is merit in repeati

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-31 Thread Mike Bird
n values over many years that needs to be protected from randomization by the script kiddies. The script kiddies are those who abused the Debian packaging system to make sysv-rc REQUIRE the harmful and unnecessary insserv. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-31 Thread Mike Bird
least be removed or blocked. When unnecessary and harmful packages are REQUIRED in order to satisfy some script kiddy's ego that's abuse of the packaging system. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-31 Thread Mike Bird
only question is whether it's a clean on-off switch or whether we have to hack the source. Here's to freedom and a great insserv-or-not-insserv new year! --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-31 Thread Mike Bird
N.d format is an excellent design if we can just keep insserv from mangling it. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012310330.

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-31 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu December 30 2010 22:27:33 Arthur Machlas wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608437 Wow, that was fast! Thank you all! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Bird
x27;m mostly working on some other projects now but I hope to be able to work on this full-time in a few days. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012301656.59318.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

[SOLVED] How to upgrade chain-booted grub-pc?

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Bird
he response "y" will result in an upgraded grub-pc without breaking the automatic chain-load configuration. Messing with bootloaders is never 100% safe. YMMV. --Mike Bird P.S. We'll be reverting to grub-legacy ASAP and in future will blacklist grub-pc when upgrading systems to Squ

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu December 30 2010 12:13:03 Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Mike Bird wrote: > > Your solution is to edit /etc/init.d/apache2.  Your solution requires > > manual intervention on every apache2 upgrade. > > Apparently not: > http://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-30 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu December 30 2010 03:42:45 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:08:10 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > I have not lied about your postings. I started this thread > > by posting a solution[1] and by asking if there is a better solution. > > And I told you another way to

Re: How to upgrade chain-booted grub-pc?

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
on but at least I'm a step closer. Much appreciated. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012292021.18088.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Recommendations for massive dhcp settings

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
text file of MAC/IP pairs? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012292007.35739.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
s but you might want to try a fsck. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012291940.37451.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed December 29 2010 17:56:16 Martin Lorenz wrote: > when copying a file (no matter which) the copy gets zero permissions. What's the result of running the "umask" command? Normally it's something like "0022". You may have "0777". --Mike Bird --

Re: Recommendations for massive dhcp settings

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
orized workstation, and configures it with an unused IP from the DHCP pool, are they blocked from accessing the network? On the very rare occasions when I've done MAC filtering it's been in a switch, not a DHCP server. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Recommendations for massive dhcp settings

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
've got a client's DHCP config here - three VLANS, seven static IP's for printers and such like, several hundred workstations on dynamic IP's, ... and it's well under 2KB. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: etch mirror

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed December 29 2010 13:00:53 Vuki wrote: > does anyone know a working etch(4.0) apt mirror? Please see: http://archive.debian.org/README --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

How to upgrade chain-booted grub-pc?

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
mmendations (no wild guesses please) as to how to determine the best response? Thanks, --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012291228.07815.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed December 29 2010 11:29:38 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 10:12:45 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Wed December 29 2010 01:43:09 Camaleón wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:37:48 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > >> > The question is not whether the problem can

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed December 29 2010 01:43:09 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:37:48 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > The question is not whether the problem can be solved. > > Then what do you want? Just complain? I STARTED this thread by posting a solution[1]. And I asked if there is a

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed December 29 2010 02:03:10 Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:51:34 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > Please let people who understand insserv answer the questions. > > Nothing impedes people from replying. Unfortunately that is true. You can put out a lot of bad infor

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
(Sigh) So you don't know anything about insserv? Why guess? That only makes things worse. People may find your bogus suggestions in the archive and mistakenly act on them. Please let people who understand insserv answer the questions. Thanks, --Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-29 Thread Mike Bird
ly throws away all the hard work by Debian Developers over many many years that went into tuning the default rc2.d/Snn priorities. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012290137.48863.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-28 Thread Mike Bird
peration: How do we run the old reliable Snn/Knn style startup mechanism in Squeeze? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201012281207.30589.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-28 Thread Mike Bird
On Tue December 28 2010 01:31:50 Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:10:23 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > Is it possible to go back to the old system? > > If you mean "how to disable dependency booting" yes, you can disable it > to get the old behaviour, but you wil

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-28 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon December 27 2010 23:55:00 Arthur Machlas wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Mike Bird wrote: > > If the Apache configuration needs DNS to start, Apache silently > > and without logging anything fails to start in Squeeze.  This > > used to work correctly

insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2010-12-27 Thread Mike Bird
: 0 1 6 # X-Interactive: true # Short-Description: Start/stop apache2 web server ### END INIT INFO ... and then ran "insserv" and rebooted. Is there a simpler solution? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: KMail - forwarding issues

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Bird
. Does pressing "T" ("Edit Message") and changing the "To" address at the top come anywhere close to the functionality you need? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-13 Thread Mike Bird
the semantic web and the semantic desktop will become useful. Maybe not. For now, the internet and KDE 3 are what works. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Bird
d to stay with official Debian KDE 3.5.5 as long as it was supported. Is 3.5.12 worth evaluating at this stage or are most people planning to wait until Lenny and Debian KDE 3.5 are no more? TIA, --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Samba versus NIS - rpc.ypxfrd port binding

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Bird
nters] section in smb.conf? This is in Lenny, but the conf files have been inherited through many dist-upgrades. TIA --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: df: where is the root fs?

2010-09-01 Thread Mike Bird
=5,mode=620 0 0 > /dev/sdc7 /sda7 ext2 rw,relatime,errors=continue 0 0 /dev/sda6 / ext2 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0 The /dev/hda6 appears to be a problem in your /etc/mtab. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &qu

Re: df: where is the root fs?

2010-09-01 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed September 1 2010 11:45:14 hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > What other way is there other than df to find where the root fs is mounted? "cat /proc/mounts" is authoritative even when /etc/mtab is messed up. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: Fascinating problem with bash

2010-08-24 Thread Mike Bird
$? X 2 In many cases this can be simplified to a simple "&&" or "||". --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201008240850.29437.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Monitoring tools to use on an account

2010-07-30 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri July 30 2010 09:47:15 hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > > On Fri July 30 2010 09:13:08 hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > >> This person knows nothing of commands or VT's so it was just internet > >> browsing activity. I would sure like to know what happen

Re: Monitoring tools to use on an account

2010-07-30 Thread Mike Bird
rarily rebooting on a CD to gain root privileges? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007300930.28957.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Monitoring tools to use on an account

2010-07-27 Thread Mike Bird
hem. Speaking for myself, not Debian, ... --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007271024.58836.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: expect does not expect anything

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat July 24 2010 18:57:57 Dirk wrote: > does not work Ah yes. I should have noticed that you're probably using ssh. Try installing sshpass instead of using expect. When rsync sees expect's sockets it mistakenly thinks it's a daemon. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: expect does not expect anything

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Bird
n some systems environment variables are visible to all users. On those systems using --password-file is recommended. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007241852.56456.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: usernames that start with capital letter?

2010-07-19 Thread Mike Bird
w if any such software remains in Debian. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007191150.16769.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Mike Bird
Now I guess the question is, does LVM understand the performance implications of 10 RAID-1E PV's, or would the OP be better off assigning his 30 devices as 15 RAID-1 PV's. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Very slow LVM performance

2010-07-12 Thread Mike Bird
sdZ RAID 10 with three devices? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007121400.42233.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-12 Thread Mike Bird
in Squeeze or Sid or something else? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005121212.33363.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: only output the nth line

2010-05-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed May 12 2010 09:58:57 Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > sed -n '1,2p;4p' file.txt > > doesn't work. Works for me in Lenny. What output do you see? What version of sed do you have? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
oking for opportunities > to attack me, but please don't do that at Steef's expense. I sent you the help text you asked for. That is not interfering. And for the n+1'th time please stop CC'ing me when replying to list. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-10 Thread Mike Bird
"Edit->Copy Files (F7) Copy the selected item(s) to another folder." --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005100608.18500.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Mike Bird
ected to the more focused forum of debian-kde, to which I have cross-posted this message. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2010

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-09 Thread Mike Bird
he comments here I believe he annoys others similarly. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201005090906.14455.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Fwd: Re: Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-08 Thread Mike Bird
etooth or lsb-desktop. If you upgrade your RAM from 1GB to 2GB, KDE 4 feels about as fast as KDE 3.5, except KDE 4 startup and KMail startup are still slower. One reason for needing additional RAM seems to be memory leaks, although whether in QT4 or KDE itself I don't know. --Mike

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-05-02 Thread Mike Bird
formance. A long time ago there were problems like that. Nowadays s/w RAID handles rebuild so well that we don't even have to set "/proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max". --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-28 Thread Mike Bird
o be used for something such as fulfillment and analysis. Both are mostly reads. Backup from the live DB is all reads. I typically saw about 90% reads in OLTP databases. I think this is getting off-topic for debian-user. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-28 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed April 28 2010 15:10:32 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Mike Bird put forth on 4/28/2010 1:48 PM: > > I've designed commercial database managers and OLTP systems. > > Are you saying you've put production OLTP databases on N-way software RAID > 1 sets? No. I've used

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-28 Thread Mike Bird
CPU usage had ever become a factor in anything I had designed I would have been fired. If they're not I/O bound they're useless. With a few exceptions such as physical backups, any I/O bound application is going to be seek bound, not bandwidth bound. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Mike Bird
e period of most intense activity so figure on failures being much more likely during a rebuild. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Mike Bird
w more than 2 drives in a > RAID 1. RAID 10 yields excellent fault tolerance and a substantial boost > to read and write performance. Anyone considering a 4 disk mirror set > should do RAID 10 instead. Some of my RAIDs are N-way RAID-1 because of the superior read performance. --Mike

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Mike Bird
on? Thanks, --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004261137.35915.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: creating tables...html

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Bird
table.tabletemplate { width: 100%; border-width: 1px; border-style: outset; border-color: #00; } test text here1 test text here2 test text here1 test text here2test text here1 test text here2 --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Bird
a "folder" (directory). Or as many more as the filesystem has space for. The 31998 subdirectories limit is rarely encountered because using a multi-level directory heirarchy is so much more efficient. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Bird
tered in practice because it is so much more efficient to use multiple directory levels, e.g.: parent- a- able alf b- beta bravo --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-23 Thread Mike Bird
e as many files per folder as you've got space for. $ mkdir /tmp/foo $ cd /tmp/foo $ perl -e 'for ($i=0; $i<5; ++$i) { open(F, ">$i"); close(F); }' $ ls | wc -l 5 $ mount | grep md1 /dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) $ mount | grep /tmp $ cd $ rm

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Bird
> > > dpkg --dry-run --purge $(join -v2 <(awk '{if ($2=="install") print $1}' > > > $1}' | sort)) > > > > Remove "--dry-run" at your own peril once you're happy with the proposed > > actions. > > > > You

Re: How to reduce a debian system to a base system

2010-03-19 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri March 19 2010 12:55:47 Mike Viau wrote: > I was looking for a way to purge or remove all the packages that were > installed on a Debian system after the initial (bare bone) minimal system > installation. I have searched on Google for "How to reduce a Debian system > to a base system" but it

Re: Apache2 chroot /dev/null permission denied

2010-03-18 Thread Mike Bird
che config that might be trying to chroot? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003181252.37677.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed March 17 2010 17:34:50 Mike Bird wrote: > (1) You don't have an inode shortage. You have 99%/89%/99% inodes free. > (2) You can confirm this with "df -i". > (3) Hardlinks do not consume any inodes, only directory space. > (4) You're short of blocks (not inod

Re: Increasing or Freeing inodes

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Bird
ur 6GB root drive. (5) "du -x --max-depth=1 /" may help to show what is using those 6GB. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003171734.50354.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net

Re: /boot partition changes when it should not

2010-03-08 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon March 8 2010 16:28:40 Clive McBarton wrote: > I do NO write operation whatsoever on it. It is not allowed to change in > ANY way. It's probably not that large. Save a few copies with dd and see where they differ. Might turn up a clue. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Decompiler?

2010-02-22 Thread Mike Bird
Otherwise see if you can find an open source program that does the same thing, and read its source. Otherwise you're the decompiler (unless you can persuade somebody else to decompile it for you). --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Installing squirrelmail cause apache2 to segfault

2009-12-19 Thread Mike Bird
enny4 ii php-gettext 1.0.7-6 ii squirrelmail 2:1.4.15-4+lenny2 (You may not need all those PHP packages.) --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Local vs. relayed mail

2009-11-10 Thread Mike Bird
at do you have in your main.cf? This works for me: myorigin = yosemite.net inet_interfaces = loopback-only mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 relayhost = mx1.yosemite.net inet_protocols = ipv4 --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: /etc/network/interfaces: network option

2009-09-01 Thread Mike Bird
. 192.168.1.31 However, in most cases you can safely omit both network and broadcast from /etc/network/interfaces as they are automatically calculated from the address and netmask. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: trouble with smbclient

2009-08-19 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed August 19 2009 18:46:52 Steve Kleene wrote: > I'm trying to use smbclient to connect from the console of an Etch host to > a Windows server at work. As root, I can mount my directory on the server > by entering this: > > mount -t cifs //site.uc.edu/kleene /mnt -o username=place/steve > >

Re: rsync problem

2009-07-27 Thread Mike Bird
oc' --exclude '/sys' -- exclude '*.iso' > --exclude '/media' / /media/disk/laptop Does the space between the -- and the exclude exist in the script? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

tmpreaper clobbers initramfs under construction?

2009-05-16 Thread Mike Bird
ile or directory > error: Failed to unlink `uhci-hcd.ko': No such file or directory Is this a bug, or did I miss some warning about not installing kernels while tmpreaper is running? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: date - if - bash

2009-04-17 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri April 17 2009 07:59:39 Erik Xavior wrote: > > why isn't working? :S > > if [ $(date +%H) > 10 ]; then echo "later then 10h"; else echo "before > 10h"; fi; "> 10" created a file called "10". You probably want &quo

[OT] To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Mike Bird
> anyway. In which case, you wouldn't mind randomly sleeping sixteen hours or zero hours with equal probability because in the long run it all balances anyway? --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-29 Thread Mike Bird
re restricted (i.e., aren’t *), the command will be run when either field matches the cur‐ rent time. For example, ‘‘30 4 1,15 * 5’’ would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on the 1st and 15th of each month, plus every Friday. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-18 Thread Mike Bird
ow, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \; > but this is going at about 700,000 per day. Would simply doing an rm > -rf on the Maildir be quicker? Or is there a better way? Might be best to make sure the directory is indexed, if on a filesystem which supports indexing

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