Bind9 local DNS not forwarding query to public DNS

2024-03-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, Need your experience advice, We have a BIND9 DNS server that operates both privately and publicly for the domain example xyz.com. I use the private DNS for certain secure nodes on our local network. I want all VPN users to be able to resolve these secure nodes using our local DNS, which

Re: preseed ansible problem

2020-10-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Adding List. On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 7:44 PM Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Oct 4 08:01:44 in-target: Ign:1 cdrom://[Official Debian GNU/Linux Live >> > 10.6.0 xfce 2020-09-26T13:15] buster InRelease >> > Oct 4 08:01:44 in-target: Err:2 cdrom://[Official Debian GNU/Lin

preseed ansible problem

2020-10-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Hi all, I am trying to run a ansible playbook through preseed file. everything is going good. but when i try to run ansible-playbook via in-target command via preseed it ends with an error here is the syslog output of preseed installation preseed: running preseed command preseed/late_command: i

Re: having issue installing any package. i get 403 forbidden messsage.

2018-10-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
are not working through my internet. Actually i have two different internet. one in USA and one in my home country. both servers from both datacenters are doing exactly same could it be virus ? or something else. On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:04 PM bw wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2018, Muhamm

Re: apt installing package 403 forbidden

2018-10-09 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Latest update is. When i even wget on the same linux server i get forbidden message 403. [image: image.png] however on same network on windows platform i can easily open the same path and download the file on windows. Thanks, On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 5:14 PM Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > D

apt installing package 403 forbidden

2018-10-09 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, I have been using debian for around 10 years i havent seen such issue in my entire life. i have placed my servers in two different countries. means both have different internet connection so it is not related to internet issue. My first datacenter (USA) is using verizon and second (south

having issue installing any package. i get 403 forbidden messsage.

2018-10-03 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, When i try to install any package. in this case nfs-kernel-server i get this error. i am using Proxmox on top of Debian 9.x. kindly advice. *root@king:/zok/k-backup# apt install nfs-kernel-server* *Reading package lists... Done* *Building dependency tree * *Reading state informat

Question on HA configuration.

2018-05-30 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear Sir, As you have mentioned earlier below. wtprd0X (search for ‘wtprd0’) - these are front end web server nodes for an HA cluster (uses HAProxy in pfSense) wtsqlprd01-3 (search for wtsql) - these are 3 MySQL servers for the backend of a site in HA I can understand the purpose of 3 frontends

Re: confusion in /etc/network/interfaces

2017-03-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
sorry what i meant is eth1:1 sorry my mistake. but thanks for the clarification. On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > sorry what i meant is eth1:1 sorry my mistake. > but thanks for the clarification. > > > On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 11:40 PM, Pascal Ha

confusion in /etc/network/interfaces

2017-03-04 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Hi All, I need to know that what is the difference b/w eth1.0101 and eth:1. actually i need to know what is the main difference in "." and ":". any suggestion will be highly appreciated. Thanks, Yousuf

Re: Sub interface not working in Debian 8

2016-12-30 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Yes the assumption was correct, Thanks mate. thank you all for your advices. i really appreciate On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Yes the assumption was correct, Thanks mate. thank you all for your > advices. i really appreciate > > On Wed, Dec 28, 201

Re: Sub interface not working in Debian 8

2016-12-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
41 PM, Xen wrote: > Muhammad Yousuf Khan schreef op 27-12-2016 15:15: > >> Thanks this is what i already did and i was about to send you guys the >> details and fortunately your msg comes in. >> tcpdump is telling me very interesting story. >> when i 'tcpdump -i

Re: Sub interface not working in Debian 8

2016-12-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
means ISP gateway is not sending packets to virtual IPs. so this issue pointing to ISP or MAC related issue. but confusion is the system before current system it has the Virtual IPs and it was working fine it has debian 5 (old version) Thanks, On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Xen wrote: > Mu

Re: Sub interface not working in Debian 8

2016-12-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
len=46 ip=50.x.x.174 ttl=64 id=56573 icmp_seq=2 rtt=3.3 ms On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > btw i never use ip command due to its complexity. i user route command > instead. which is way more easier. however i tried your commands and it > didn't work for

Re: Sub interface not working in Debian 8

2016-12-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
btw i never use ip command due to its complexity. i user route command instead. which is way more easier. however i tried your commands and it didn't work for me any help or idea guys? On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > I didnt route anything as default gat

Re: Sub interface not working in Debian 8

2016-12-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
I didnt route anything as default gateway was already there. can you please explain your routes more. i didnt get the context of that routes you define. On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Xen wrote: > Muhammad Yousuf Khan schreef op 27-12-2016 12:22: > > can you guys please guide what is

Re: Sub interface not working in Debian 8

2016-12-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
adding further i can ping the virtual interfaces from local network and through vpn users but can not ping public IPs . On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Dear All, > > I want to reach sub interface ip from internet but i can not ping no > matt

Sub interface not working in Debian 8

2016-12-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, I want to reach sub interface ip from internet but i can not ping no matter what i do. inet 50.x.x.161/28 brd 50.255.203.175 scope global eth3 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet 50.x.x.162/28 brd 50.255.203.175 scope global secondary eth3:1 ce public ip which is set up like

having issue on been in new 8.6 installation

2016-11-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear all i am seeing this issue. erst: can not request [mem 0xd7e6e000-0xd7e6] for erst Loading, please wait... mdadm: No device listed in conf file were found. Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enou

need help on Debian machine monitoring.

2016-06-09 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have been using different monitoring tools for different time period. like cacti and nagios. now this time for few different level of requirement i have selected VNSTATI. to create bandwidth usage graphs. The problem with vnstati is when i use -d it shows the result of last 30 days and now i nee

Re: user History File.

2016-02-28 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Alot for your input Tomas. I don't know exactly what your problem is, but take into account that bash > only appends its (in-memory) history to .bash_history at exit (so while > the shell is active you won't see any changes) Actually i never worked on multi user environment. this is the f

user History File.

2016-02-26 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
I have been trying one user to monitor his history. however every time i "cat /home/username/.bash_history" i see always the same history as old one. I want to monitor his history. no matter how many sessions but every command should go to same history file. Any advice or guidance will be highly a

root login in Jessie

2016-02-03 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, I have two machines for testing some services on jessie. however i can not allow access to root remote ssh. i have read this on saveral places that /etc/ssh/ssh_config has a line PermitRootLogin without-password which has to be change to yes first of all i can not find this line in who

Re: root login in Jessie

2016-02-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Tobias, it was a mistake of just a single "d" :) Thanks Alot. Yousuf On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Tobias Weiß wrote: > You were looking into the wrong fiie for the PermitRootLogin directive. I > have overseen this when I first replied to you. I am sorry :) > > It is /etc/sshd_config

Re: L7 filter and iptables Problem

2015-12-01 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
7;t been any real >> development since 2013, which was a patch against the 2.6 kernel line. >> That kernel line is out of support since mid-2015. >> >> I'm afraid the string matching module would be your best bet for now. >> >> Regards, >> /peter

L7 filter and iptables Problem

2015-11-30 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Hello, i am using Debian jessie and I have been trying to work with L7 filter to block p2p but its not working iptables -I FORWARD -m layer7 --l7proto bittorrent -j DROP iptables v1.4.21: Couldn't load match `layer7':No such file or directory Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more info

How to install Debian on 3TB drive.

2015-11-11 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, I have 3TBx2 drives and want to install debian on them as RAID1. i know rest of the thing. i have been creating software raid on less then 2TB drives for years but now since HD size is growing as per the market trend i need to go with it. Both drives are detected in the manual partition

Re: Gray screen vnc viewer (Debian 8.3)

2015-09-19 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Just sharing: i am no longer using default vino server. i am using vnc4server and also tightvncserver both shows the same result. On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > All, > > I am having gray screen issue no matter what setting i put in my xstartup > fi

Gray screen vnc viewer (Debian 8.3)

2015-09-19 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
All, I am having gray screen issue no matter what setting i put in my xstartup file. when ever i connect the client it shows me something gray screen i can not see anything in the log i dont know what is going on. it never happend to me before. no xstartup config is working in this. any suggesti

Re: Problem VNC (Vino) access from windows or other clients

2015-09-19 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks for help :) On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Seeker wrote: > > > On 9/18/2015 10:59 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> >> >> can you please also advice any client for windows. right now the only >> platform i have is Windows to access the machi

Re: Mdadm grub install problem

2015-09-18 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks for the detail Pascal. On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : > > command "grub-install --modules=part_gpt /dev/sdc" resolved the issue for > > me. > > Glad to hear it. > > > however i also w

Re: Problem VNC (Vino) access from windows or other clients

2015-09-18 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
n Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:44:38 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > I am using Debian 8.2. i enable screen sharing but when i try to > connect > > client side shows me this message > > > > unable to connect VNC server using your chosen security setting. Either

Problem VNC (Vino) access from windows or other clients

2015-09-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
I am using Debian 8.2. i enable screen sharing but when i try to connect client side shows me this message unable to connect VNC server using your chosen security setting. Either upgrade the VNC server to more recent version from realVNC or select weaker level of encryption and i see this on s

Re: Mdadm grub install problem

2015-09-14 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
hat is the difference b/w grub-install /dev/sdc and grub-install --modules=part_gpt /dev/sdc On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Gary Dale a écrit : > > On 13/09/15 04:28 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> > >> GRUB loading. > >> Welco

Mdadm grub install problem

2015-09-13 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
I am trying to replacing 1 TB drives with 2TB i am using RAID 1 mdadm i successfully replaced the first drive and it is synced and working normally. i also installed grub by this commad "grub-install /dev/sdc" /dev/sdc is my new drive. Please note that i am using gdisk to create GPT partition on n

issue with Taskbar in Kde on debian 8.1

2015-07-31 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am using multiple chat clients in office. i am using spark and skype for official use. however the problem is when ever some one send a message it does not show the indication color. so when ever i leave my desk and comeback i leave most of the messages unread due to this problem. can please some

Re: mdadm increasing the partition size.

2015-07-29 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
:46 Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > I have 4 partitions in my /dev/sdb total size of a whole drive is 2 TB > > in where main partition is of 1TB in size. > > > > however i want to increase this 1TB partition. therefore i added new > > 3TB /

mdadm increasing the partition size.

2015-07-29 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, I have 4 partitions in my /dev/sdb total size of a whole drive is 2 TB in where main partition is of 1TB in size. however i want to increase this 1TB partition. therefore i added new 3TB /dev/sda and replicated the partition tables with with gdisk. which worked great. now the partitio

Re: installation issue package krb5-users (unmet dependencies)

2015-07-29 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Ok i found out the issue. worked with aptitude command. Thanks, On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > when i am installing the package it is throwing this issue. and i want to > install krb5-user for samba. > any help will be highly appreciated. > > &

installation issue package krb5-users (unmet dependencies)

2015-07-28 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
when i am installing the package it is throwing this issue. and i want to install krb5-user for samba. any help will be highly appreciated. oot@nas:~# apt-get install krb5-user Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be inst

Samba issue after RAID1 recovery

2015-07-28 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
I had a RAID 1 array for our (fileserver)samba setup which is integrated with AD . last week one drive died along with motherboard.i attached the drive to another one everything seems working fine till today. now i am seeing error on windows client end. "\\MySambaServer is not accessible you might

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-07-01 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Gary and Pascal and all for your very informative inputs and support. now it works and my drive is bootable now. however one thing i have notice which is also off the topic is that i can not boot my new GPT hard drive with supergrub CD. when i reaches where kernel loads it restart immediate

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Partition is created and grub is installed as instructed in the thread. Also Grub is installed now. should i make any config changes ( or not )in the /boot/grub/ directory? Number Start (sector)End (sector) Size Code Name 12048 7813119 3.7 GiB FD00 Linux

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
> > >> Ramadan Kareem Yousuf. > > What I would do is shrink partition 5 by 100M then create a new ef02 > partition in the freed space. This should be completely safe since it is > just a swap partition and contains no permanent data. > > Do this on both drives after stopping swap (swapoff) then

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Sorry Arno my last message was mistakenly sent to you only and not the list. Thanks all for you comments. Pascal thanks for the tip about extending one of the partition and using the free space i will do so but for now my primary problem is to create a boot partition so that i can boot and repla

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Arno, Pascal and Gary with your input i manage to copy the partition to new drive in GPT format and my all drives (mdadm devices) are synced now. I have 4 RAID1 Partitions for all for different purpose. md1 : active raid1 sdb5[2] sda5[0] 9763768 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md3 : ac

RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-29 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, i have 2 drives installed way back in 2013 /dev/sda and /dev/sdb I have been using RAID1 b/w two 1.5 TB drives which worked great with fdisk. now one of the drive is failed and there is no more 1.5 TB available in the market. the least available drive is 2TB. Which means "fdisk 2TB is

SNMP v2c and v3 on debian wheezy

2015-02-19 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, i am very new to snmp and trying to learn it therefore if you guys find this a stupid question kindly guide me to correct route. i have a snmp base monitoring server and it supports v2c for now. not v3. i found out (by using snmpwalk) some difference in v2c and v3 on debian wheezy sys

Re: Jumbo frame Debian Wheezy.

2015-01-05 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
wrote: > > Muhammad Yousuf Khan writes: > > > i am trying to enable jumbo frame on Debian wheezy however nothing > > works. > > > > i ran a command "ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000" > > > > and receive "invalid argument" > > > > t

Re: Jumbo frame Debian Wheezy.

2014-12-31 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
argument i have same system working on proxmox. deployed on debian squeeze and i can go up to 9000 with no problem. this problem is in non proxmox system having debian wheezy with libvirt. Please guide. Thanks, Yousuf On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i

Jumbo frame Debian Wheezy.

2014-12-30 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am trying to enable jumbo frame on Debian wheezy however nothing works. i ran a command "ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000" and receive "invalid argument" then i edit /etc/network/interfaces and added "mtu 9000" when i ifdown and ifup eth0 it shows the same error "invalid argument" Please help. Thanks,

freenas bootable USB in debian.

2014-12-03 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
I am using Debian as my desktop and GUI. i want to install/write freenas usb boot image *.img file to Empty USB. for windows we have windows32diskimager but i am looking for an alternative of this software in debian. can you guyz please help. Thanks alot in advance. Thanks, MYK.

Re: Block size confusion.

2014-11-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thank for you detail update. can you please also share with your experience that. when i "dstat" i some time see wait time between 10-17 and at that time my system works slow. and my processor shows normal. what i have read about that wait values this is due to IO issues. now my question is how wou

Block size confusion.

2014-11-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear experts, i know its frustrating because i always ask theoretical question. i hope and believe you guyz will not mind and i really learn alot from this list. So, coming to the point, I want to clear my confusion on block size. theoretically i know what block size is but practically i dont k

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"

2014-11-14 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> >> >> >> NOTE: These help, but if you end up on the attacking end of a >> distributed bot attack, it's likely that your Apache server will >>

how to find the cause of restart of my debian 7 machine.

2014-11-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
my machine was ON for several weeks but today it restarted for unknown reason. now it is working find. since the server is restarted there are too many log entries in var/log/messager and syslog as startup events. is there any easy way to reach the specific entry related to the event. i have search

Re: Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"

2014-11-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
> NOTE: These help, but if you end up on the attacking end of a distributed > bot attack, it's likely that your Apache server will get hosed -- at times, > I've had to tune Apache (number of concurrent processes, number of > concurrent queries), to keep our server from getting so overloaded that it

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"

2014-11-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
> > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:24:55PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Thanks for sharing your input. what would be the rights of /var/www and > its > > sub-directories. > > currently it is root : root and 775 > > I would havw www-data.www-data

Re: need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"

2014-11-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 07:20:46PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > for some testing we first want to install our Wordpress website inhouse. > > and for that i have designed a Debian 7. and installed all the necessary > &g

need help in rights delegation to a freelance "web developer"

2014-11-10 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
for some testing we first want to install our Wordpress website inhouse. and for that i have designed a Debian 7. and installed all the necessary packages that are needed for the deployment. now i want to grant rights to our freelance web developer so he can deploye the website. i never did this i

systemd vs init

2014-10-27 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
this email is intended for my learning purpose only. i am a debian user for many years and have been working on different services.i am not a high level linux kernel hacker just working like a normal system admin as they suppose to work. however now a days i am hearing too much about systemd vs i

Re: KVM libvirt issue on Debian Wheezy specifically Windows 7 64bit

2014-10-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
of libvirt and KVM. only thing which is not working is higher version of windows such as windows 7 and server 2008. i never tried vista though. Any information or help will be highly appreciated. Thanks, Yousuf On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i am trying

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
email trail. Qemu-kvm problem, no guest is starting on windows 7 64 bit :( On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Devrin Talen wrote: > Muhammad Yousuf Khan writes: > > > So my KVM host is not a production server so i thought it is a best time > to > > play with the kernal patching be

KVM libvirt issue on Debian Wheezy specifically Windows 7 64bit

2014-10-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am trying to install a 64bit Windows 7 and i fail to start the guest i tried my best. i upgraded the kernel to 3.16 i upgraded the Qemu-kvm package from backports. where ever i start the machine shows this error. 2014-10-23 13:55:45.281+: starting up LC_ALL=C PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
u have any other suggestion please share. Thanks, On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Raffaele Morelli < raffaele.more...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23/10/14 at 03:37pm, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Thanks for your guidence, > > can you please share that i do not see ke

Re: understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks for your guidence, can you please share that i do not see kernel architecture on the website. does that kernel file contain both x86 and amd64? On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 2:51 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com < tv.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 23/10/2014 10:20, Muhammad Yousuf K

understanding kernel compilation and

2014-10-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
actually i never compile or patch any kernel before for some reasons and learning i am installing kernel 3.16 stable with patch. now the question is when i visit kernel.org website i see 3.16 kernel and patch and inc.patch. i can understand what is patch it could be a fix to some bugs but what is

Re: Debian wheezy libvirt+virt-manager very slow performence.

2014-10-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks it worked. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:58:45PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a debian wheezy machine with 12GB RAM and 500GB 7200 RPM > harddrive WD black 32MB cache. >

Debian wheezy libvirt+virt-manager very slow performence.

2014-10-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Hi, I have a debian wheezy machine with 12GB RAM and 500GB 7200 RPM harddrive WD black 32MB cache. copying host node (local or remote) working fine. however when i create a KVM guest on the top and try to install XP it take almost half day to install the XP/other operating systems. my processor a

24/7 servers and FSCK

2014-09-26 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
hello all, i have several debian server and they are up 24/7. even i have a server which is up for 1.5 years. without restart. now i know when ever i restart this for the maintenance it will run the fsck to check the disk. which is fine and i have heard that it is very important to run on boot bu

Re: /etc/network/interface file auto reset.

2014-09-20 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
I also apologies for my wrong posting style. actually i am not aware of what top posting is. can any of you please tell me what top posting means so that i can avoid this in future. Thanks, MYK

Re: /etc/network/interface file auto reset.

2014-09-20 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Reco, Cindy and all for useful comments. i will try all suggestion next working day and will update you accordingly. Thanks, MYK On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 9/19/14, Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > Put this into /etc/network/interfaces.d/br0 > > > >>all

Re: /etc/network/interface file auto reset.

2014-09-19 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
@softwatt Thanks for the info but there are many workaournd like these. what i wanted is to investigate the cause. @Reco thinks for your input. but i want to investigate which process is doing this? On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:39 PM, softwatt wrote: > Thanks for explaining. Debian guys teach me

/etc/network/interface file auto reset.

2014-09-18 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Hi guys, i am using wheezy with libvirt virtualization i have configured a bridge interface for that purpose. i have statically set the bridge interface in interfaces file. like this # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more informa

ufw on KVM host server for KVM guest

2014-09-17 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i don't know if this is related to Debian or not however as bridging of the interface is involve in this question i hope you guys will not mind. i have a KVM visualization server and i want the inside hosts to control via UFW. i some i add a below line in before.rule file -I FORWARD -m physdev --p

Re: need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
that software can do that i can not. please throw some light on this issue. Thanks, MYK On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 7:08 PM, B wrote: > On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 18:58:48 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > I would use backuppc through ssh with the rsync method; > this way, y

need suggestion on Virtualization backup/DR site.

2014-09-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, we are planning to rent a new server with RAID1 in the cloud and the purpose of this server will be Qemu KVM virtualization. everything is fine but the show stopper is Disaster recovery Site. i think of 4 options and all of them are not upto my requirement and limits. 1st, Option was D

need Partition utility and Mdadm gui.

2014-09-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i need a utility that looks like the one which we normally see during the debian installation. or can i call that utility after the installation from CLI. Secondly, i also need to perform remote RAID related tasks with GUI utility. like replacing the disk, and attaching the new one and all admin r

Re: Network speed drop down to 10MBPS for unknown reason.

2014-09-03 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
: > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > i am using wheezy 7.x and for some unknown reason my network speed drop > > down to 10MBPS. > > i can see anything in /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog related to > the > > issue. when i restart the server it back to normal an

Debian 7.X : 2TB HD installation successful but not booting

2014-09-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have a 2TB hard disk and installation went fine no errors. however i can not manage to boot it from hard disk. my partitions are like this. 1. /boot : Boot Flag ON. 1. Swap : Boot Flag Off. 1. / : Boot Flag off. but the weird part is when i press "F10" and select harddrive to boot it amaz

Network speed drop down to 10MBPS for unknown reason.

2014-09-02 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i am using wheezy 7.x and for some unknown reason my network speed drop down to 10MBPS. i can see anything in /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog related to the issue. when i restart the server it back to normal and shows above 50MBPS while transferring file. any idea what is happening . Thanks,

Re: copy new backup file from different locations

2014-07-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks i found the book too. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:31 AM, B wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:00:30 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > i have five server creating different format files for backup on > > daily basis. i keep 1 month archive in the folder and d

Re: copy new backup file from different locations

2014-07-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Steve, I will take care. On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 16:00:30 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > > i have five server creating different format files for backup on daily > > basis. i keep 1 month archive in the fold

copy new backup file from different locations

2014-07-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have five server creating different format files for backup on daily basis. i keep 1 month archive in the folder and delete all the old files prior to 1 month. and i have to do it manually. i want this to be automated. i have created a script which is working fine but i need backup softwares like

Re: Debian Wheezy additional IP through Gnome-network-manager

2014-07-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks for you help Tom On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan > wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Tom H wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan > >> wrote: > &g

Re: Debian Wheezy additional IP through Gnome-network-manager

2014-07-07 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
r pros and cons so i do wana use both options. Thanks MYK On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan > wrote: > > > > for some reason i need to assign an additional IP to My LAN. which i did > > from Gnome-network-

Debian Wheezy additional IP through Gnome-network-manager

2014-07-07 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
for some reason i need to assign an additional IP to My LAN. which i did from Gnome-network-manager but ipconfig doesn't show the new IP, i even "server networking restart" which didnt help. i dont want to restart my computer for this small task. i want this to be done with out restart. Please help

Gnome classic wheezy "applications" menu

2014-06-12 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear All, i am using wheezy and my "Applications" menu shows me top bottom arrow keys. to scroll down and up however, whole desktop space remains to display the full list. it only shows 8 items. and if i add further menu it shows me scroll buttons up and down. i want a full list view with out an

Spark chat client no message indication for new message.

2014-05-29 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
I am using Debian 7 with Classic desktop,I have installed spark chat client for destkop support but when any user send me a message it does not indicate the new message arrival,eventually message remain unread, can i do something to resolve this issue Thanks, MYK

QOS htb and DSCP

2014-05-24 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
when i google QOS for linux i always find HTB in most of my searches, i have been working on a linux base DD-WRT router and HTB is the part of it. my question is not related to DDWRT my question is does HTB works on DSCP base classes from AF21 to AF40 or HTB is some thing else. i am asking this

Re: Rar for debian wheezy

2014-05-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
OK please tell me how can i install rar (only). Thanks, On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > On Vi, 23 mai 14, 13:10:36, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> i some how installed a rar binary w

Rar for debian wheezy

2014-05-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i some how installed a rar binary which is working in my old system now i can not back track how i installed it.i want that to install in my Debian wheezy desktop as i am receving many rar files. and unrar is not good enough for me. by the way just sharing that old version having rar is Squeeze an

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Yes, it is always is gnome 3 shell. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:55 PM, David Dušanić wrote: > >> If I remember correctly LXDE is going through a transition to Qt. > Maybe > >> the reason why? > > > > There were some intermittent issues with those menu options in xfce a > > little while ago bu

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Joe, David , Chirs and all . actually login screen step worked for me. even i am also trying xfce4. can i make gnome classic default loging environment? Thanks On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2014 13:00:47 +0500 > Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan > wrote: > > thanks alot guyz, i am actually a server side guy using mostly terminal > > window. i am new to gnome and xfce. > > so my question is, are all the applica

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-20 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
monitor etc. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 5/21/14, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > i have just installed debian 7 and i am feeling a bit uncomfortable with > > the new look ("unity" type) i want the all time old menu "gnome class

want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-20 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have just installed debian 7 and i am feeling a bit uncomfortable with the new look ("unity" type) i want the all time old menu "gnome classic". how can i enable that. Thanks, Myk

Re: confusion on KVM virtualization (debian admin handbook)

2014-03-24 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
45:26AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Book teaches us to create volume first then assign it to vm with > > Virt-install command however, we can also create image on runtime with > > virt-install command. we do not need volume to be set before creating a > VM. > > so

confusion on KVM virtualization (debian admin handbook)

2014-03-23 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i have been going through Administration handbook and got confused in KVM virtualization section. Book teaches us to create volume first then assign it to vm with Virt-install command however, we can also create image on runtime with virt-install command. we do not need volume to be set before cre

Re: moving buffers/caching from RAM to SSD

2013-12-31 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 12/31/2013 7:54 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > i dont know why i am saying is even practical or not. > > > > here is my free command > > > > @thor:# free -g > > total used free

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