Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

Oliver Lupton wrote: > ... > I would vote for "Reply to list", it's not a big thing but it *is* more > convenient. > At least for me, 99% of the time I want to reply to the list, not to the > person. Precisely. I'm an old Linux bod (relatively speaking - using Linux since kernel 0.97) and i've ne

Re: Strange LVM on RAID Behaviour with Sarge

Lucas Barbuto wrote: on 29/12/04 00:58, Leni Mayo wrote: Lucas Barbuto wrote: > ... > I get this error at the top of dmesg (repeated many times): > >> devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to parent for /disc I saw the same error message on a sarge installation with a 2

Re: Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

Kevin B. McCarty wrote: ... A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image package installed as well? ... If you are asking whether you can install (for instance) kernel 2.6.8, kernel 2.6.9, and kernel 2.

Multiple installed kernel-image packages?

Hi folks, A quick question: is there a way to get apt to install new kernel-image packages rather than upgrade them, and keep the existing kernel-image package installed as well? Back on Red Hat, i could 'rpm -iv' (install) a new kernel package rather than 'rpm -Uv' (upgrade), and it would upda

Re: How Best to Email Documents?

Thomas H. George wrote: > ... > The problem of attachments is compounded in the case of homework. My > grandson writes his papers using Open Office. The printouts are fine > but occasionally he must transmit the file to school. The school uses > only Mac's but can convert files from the .doc for

Re: postfix vs. exim, mailscanner vs. amavis, clamav, IMAP server thoughts?

John Summerfield wrote: > Paul Gear wrote: > >>> At this time I'd be installing Sarge. I would not be seeking to do an >>> upgrade any time soon. >>> >> >> >> Except that until sarge is released, it doesn't get priority security >

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

Richard Lyons wrote: > On Monday 06 September 2004 21:43, Paul Gear wrote: > [...] > >>I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it >>cross-platform. This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be >>able to recommend the tool to the end u

Re: postfix vs. exim, mailscanner vs. amavis, clamav, IMAP server thoughts?

John Summerfield wrote: > ... >> - procmail's configuration is almost as hideous as sendmail's, and i'd >> rather not use it if i don't have to. The only local delivery feature i >> really need is server-side filters, and i'd like them to be maintainable >> from a web page or mail client if possib

Re: postfix vs. exim, mailscanner vs. amavis, clamav, IMAP server thoughts?

Craig Jackson wrote: > ... > Check out this link for email server info: > > http://www.badmagicnumber.com/linotes/cimap.php I haven't been able to get to that web page for the last 2 days - it just says the DNS name could not be found. Anyone got any specific comments about my mail server though

Re: gnumeric or oocalc

Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Hi all >My intention is not to start a flamewar but to get opinions on > which spreadsheet software is better? While having choice is better, I > would prefer to start with one and stick to it if possible. In > particular I am looking for > > 1) things which ca

Re: Problem with ethernet card ?

Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All, > > I am facing a problem with my cache server as it > automatically down/bzy its one interaface and then > aftersome time again up it. > > when i have checked logs it give me following msg. > ... > Sep 6 17:07:54 debian kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit

postfix vs. exim, mailscanner vs. amavis, clamav, IMAP server thoughts?

Hi folks, (I'm trying this with a different subject in the hope that it makes it clearer than the previous one...) I have a server i'm planning to bring online ASAP. My priorities in order are security, features, and performance. My service requirements are fairly standard: - SMTP server - IMAP

Product choice recommendations for mail server, please...

Hi folks, I'm interested in your thoughts on my mail server. Please forgive me for the long message... I have a server i'm planning to bring online ASAP. My priorities in order are security, features, and performance. My service requirements are fairly standard: - SMTP server - IMAP & POP serv

Re: hotplug PS2 keyboard

Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Li Daobing (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > >>I have a linux server, the system is Debian sarge, kernel version is >>2.6.7. I want to know how to make the PS2 keyboard hotplug. > > > As far as I know the PS/2 hardware normally is not hotpluggable, and the > m

Re: REALTEK driver?

John Fleming wrote: > I have an eMachines computer that my kids use that I'm trying to get going > with Sarge. If I use Knoppix/Debian Unstable, it finds eth0, gets IP from > DHCP on my LAN, and we're on the Net fine. However, the Sarge installer > does NOT get IP and therefore doesn't find the I

Re: PowerEdge 700 SATA anyone?

Richard Weil wrote: > I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC which is SATA. I got it at the beginning > of the year. I run Sarge on it no problems w/ the 2.6.7 kernel. > ... > Sarge is a good choice, too, since it should become stable relatively > soon. > > So, I don't know about stable, but if you want to

Re: cdrecord issues since 2.6 move

Paul E Condon wrote: > ... >>And further: i've just burned a 643 Mb image to a 24x CD-RW, and it used >>almost zero CPU. In the past (under kernel 2.4.19 on RHL9), it took a >>lot more CPU, and caused the foreground application to run a somewhat >>jumpily. Now, it's smooth sailing - i didn't even

Re: Getting better screen refresh rate in X?

John Summerfield wrote: > Paul Gear wrote: > >> CW Harris wrote: >> >> >>> ... >>> Typo... Thomas meant 'xvidtune' I'm sure. >>> ... >> I have to reboot into my RH drives tonight to copy the last of my data, >> so i&

Re: Getting better screen refresh rate in X?

CW Harris wrote: > ... > Typo... Thomas meant 'xvidtune' I'm sure. Yes - it's been a long time since i've had to use that! ;-) > One other thought I had, is there any difference in the xserver > you are using? Same one? Same version? I'm pretty sure they're the same major & minor versions (X

Getting better screen refresh rate in X?

Hi folks, I've recently got sarge properly working on my system, and one issue that remains is the screen refresh rate. Under Red Hat Linux 9, i was able to get 1400 x 1050 @ 85 Hz out of my screen. Under sarge, i only get 75 Hz. Here is the definition from my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on both syst

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > >>Just off the top of my head I see no reason why these files [created by >>maintainer scripts] could not be included in the package empty and filled >>in by the scripts. This would identify the files as belonging to the >>package and also allow dpkg to remove them

Re: Mount Netware crazyness

Michael wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to mount a netware file system on my woody box. > I have the ncpfs package installed. > > Here's the catch: > I actually want to pull the drive out of the netware box, and > slap into my woody box. Then just mount it directly somewhere on > the system. >

Re: Motherboard recommendation?

Paul Gear wrote: > ... > I have a Gigabyte GA-7N400Pro, and i can personally vouch for it's solid > performance under Linux s/it's/its/ I can't believe i just did that - *it's* one of my pet peeves. :-| -- Paul <http://paulgear.webhop.net> -- Every gun t

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

John Summerfield wrote: >... >> Sorry - i gave slightly misleading info in my post. I actually ended up >> with additional packages to upgrade, and i successfully upgraded them. >> Perhaps it was just coincidental timing. >> >> >> > If your mirror is synchronising four times a day, the chances a

Re: Motherboard recommendation?

Stephen Tait wrote: > ... >> > I don't have a recommendation, but i can disrecommend the NVIDIA >> > nForce2 chipset from a free software perspective. The NIC has a >> > closed source driver. When i emailed them about it, the response was, >> > "Our networking performance is too important to allo

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

Jason Rennie wrote: > ... > Geez. Try answering the question, not insulting the guy. Don't worry - i'm used to it on this list by now... :-) -- Paul -- Did you know? Email addresses can be forged easily. This message is signed with GNU Privacy Guard

Re: Well documented [was Re: nvidia drivers]

Guest, Simon wrote: > ... > It's all well documented what you have to do. Once you realise that the best > documentation for knowing how to use packages in Debian is often to be found > in /usr/share/doc/, everything becomes straightforward. > (Thanks to those fine chaps, the Debian developers

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

Andreas Janssen wrote: > ... > >>I am now running unstable. I just tried an update using "unstable" >>and there was nothing new available. Then I changed sources.list to >>"sid" and it retrieved 3217 kB. However, when I ran upgrade, nothing >>was upgraded. Can anyone explain this behavior? T

Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

Thomas Adam wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:44:33PM +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > >>Hi folks, >> >>What is the canonical method for determining to which package an >>installed file belongs? dpkg -S seems to be the right *sort* of thing, >>but doesn'

Re: apt-get and distro aliases

John Fleming wrote: > Reading recent threads, I plan to install Sarge and change apt sources to > name-based, i.e. to "Sarge" rather than "testing". My understanding is that > when Sarge becomes "stable", I will stay with Sarge and be able to get > security updates. > > I am now running unstable.

dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?

Hi folks, What is the canonical method for determining to which package an installed file belongs? dpkg -S seems to be the right *sort* of thing, but doesn't always work: enoch:/share/download # dpkg -S /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf debconf: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf enoch:/share/download #

Re: Software RAID using Sarge Installer

John Fleming wrote: > Would someone help me, preferably off-list if the question's too simple, > know exactly what choices to make using the new Sarge installer and RAID 1 > for mirroring? During the partitioning, there is a chance to set up RAID 1, > but I don't fully understand exactly what part

Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?i

Wendell Cochran wrote: > ... > Then I ran across Stan Kelly-Bootle's _Understanding UNIX_ (2e 1994 > Sybex) & instantly felt right at home with his way of putting > things. His book pried the first brick out of the Unix sidewalk; > then Unix seemed easy, or at least logical. What a great writer

Re: Motherboard recommendation?

Michael Rumpf wrote: > Hi, > > I'm about to buy a new motherboard. Can anyone recommend a board that is > known to work well with free software drivers. I just don't want to buy > another board and find myself disabling most of the features as they > don't work under Linux. I don't have a recomme

Re: Mouse works with X but breaks as a left-handed... [SOLVED]

Kent West wrote: > ... > gpm is the console mouse driver (for using your mouse outside of X). I > _think_ kernel 2.6 may have moved the mouse input device to > /dev/input/mice, which is smart enough to share the device between > multiple mice/mice-driven apps. But before that, if you had gpm and X

Re: Kernel updates with apt-get?

Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > ... >>>you should update your kernel manually, i mean apt-get install >>>kernel-2.4.x, because atp-get doesn't update kernel automaticaly. >> >>How do you know when a new kernel has been released (say for security >>reasons)? What is the approved method for finding this

Re: Debian installer RC1 on RAID (BladeCenter IBM)

Bag wrote: > Installing Debian on an IBM Blade, I had a big problem with the RAID. > Where may I post it? Is this the right place? It might be, or debian-boot might be a better place. Is it hardware or software RAID? Software RAID on / and /boot is not enabled by the installer. See this list's

Re: Mouse works with X but breaks as a left-handed...

Kent West wrote: > ... I have exactly the same problem. The left-handed configuration works with Red Hat 9, SuSE 9.1, and Morphix 0.4.1, but not Debian sarge. Any ideas gratefully accepted. ... >>> >>> Still, the first thing that came into my mind is that if you are

Re: Kernel updates with apt-get?

Mariano Wahlmann wrote: > ... > you should update your kernel manually, i mean apt-get install > kernel-2.4.x, because atp-get doesn't update kernel automaticaly. How do you know when a new kernel has been released (say for security reasons)? What is the approved method for finding this out? --

Re: OT: Questions or Doubts?

Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 14:46, William Ballard wrote: > >>My pet peeve is "take a decision" vs. "make a decision". Great >>Britains, Old Europe, New Europe, Asia and the Third World all say "take >>a decision" when they speak english. We never use that in America. > > >

Re: Mozilla Firefox: Forbidden page

robin wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > >> Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: >> >>> I failed to mention in my original posting that I can access those pages >>> if I go to a Microsoft windows machine and access them via IE. >>> >>> So, I don't think it is a proxy/firewall issue. >>> >>> I down

Re: Mouse works with X but breaks as a left-handed...

Kent West wrote: > ... >> >> I have exactly the same problem. The left-handed configuration works >> with Red Hat 9, SuSE 9.1, and Morphix 0.4.1, but not Debian sarge. Any >> ideas gratefully accepted. >> ... > > Still, the first thing that came into my mind is that if you are using > gpm (the

Re: Mouse works with X but breaks as a left-handed...

Carlos Duque wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a newbie with Debian, but not so much with Linux.. My problem is > that my wheelmouse works fine with X but it goes crazy when I change > it to left-handed (kde or gnome). The middle button stops working > and the other two show me the menu. > > I checked the XC

Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Paul Gear said... > >>P.S. I can't believe Debian doesn't have /etc/profile.d. :-) Time to >>submit the above as a patch? > > > Section 9.9 of the Debian policy has this to say about environment > variables

Re: Firewall packages (was: All these open ports)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > Thus far, I haven't been able to find anything that provides > canned-up functionality of the nature of the Windows "Zone Alarm", > although I can probably overcome that by iptables scripting, > whereas with the Windows firewalls you get whatever is there > and have

Re: Chosing Debian firewall packages

Anthony Campbell wrote: > ... > I agree firestarter is good, but I'm using shorewall which is also easy > to set up and works out of the box for me (desktop). The author, Tom > Eastep, has a very active mailing list and answers questions promptly. > There is a lot of information available on Wikipe

Re: raid 5 on boot? root?

Richard Weil wrote: > I don't know if my configuration is (a) setup badly, or (b) impossible. > Before I spend too much more time on it, I wonder if anyone has > relevant experience. > > Is it possible to have both boot and root on RAID 5? I'm getting a > kernel panic mid-way through boot. Assumin

Re: Parallel Console?

Frank Brodbeck wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm having here some problems with an ebay'ed switch. The switch > is an ovislink fsh2400 and is manageable. The problem is, that > there is only a db25 port on the backside which should be > connected to the host's parallel port. Are you sure it's parallel?

Re: Parallel Console?

Frank Brodbeck wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm having here some problems with an ebay'ed switch. The switch > is an ovislink fsh2400 and is manageable. The problem is, that > there is only a db25 port on the backside which should be > connected to the host's parallel port. > > So far so good. The probl

Re: Debian equivalent of /etc/profile.d

Jeremy Brown wrote: > ... > What is the equivalent of "/etc/profile.d" in Debian? Is there a > package I can install to make this directory appear? Or does all > initialization I want to do need to go directly into the file > "/etc/profile"? Just make your own /etc/profile.d and add the followin

Re: Sarge RAID install

Miquel van Smoorenburg 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! - >> >>It's not supported on / or /boot

Re: Sarge RAID install

Alexei Chetroi wrote: > ... >> in /etc/fstab >> /dev/md0/ ... regular stuff .. >> /dev/md1/swap ... regular swap stuff .. > > What are benefits of having swap on raid? If one swap disk dies and you've been using it for swap, your system will crash. If yo

Re: Sarge RAID install

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! - It's not supported on / or /boot - see the thread "Ran

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

Greg Folkert wrote: > ... >>>Too bad. MD Raid is tough for a bootable setup with automated tools. >> >>This is part of what i don't understand. As Alvin Oga and i were >>discussing a while back (see archives), it is a supported configuration >>by the kernel, and Red Hat have supported it since 7.3

Re: newbie package question

Kevin Mark wrote: > ... >>>dpkg -l|grep libc >> >>This is a solution, but not perfect, 'cause sometimes the package name >>gets truncated, e.g.: > > Hi Tong, > here is the answer to the 'truncation'. > doing: > COLUMNS=139 dpkg -l > this sets the env var COLUMNS temporarity to 139 for this command

Re: Posting to Debian lists without getting mail

Kevin Mark wrote: > ... > Hi Andy, > IIRC most debian lists do not require you to 'join' the list to post. (a > mixed blessing). And some folks use a newsreader thingy like gmame > (sp?). to follow their reply or just read the list. Point your news reader to news.gmane.org - fantastic for reading

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

Joey Hess wrote: > ... > FWIW, repeatedly whining and harping on features that you want is really > not a very efficient motivator for volenteers. I suppose we'll get NTFS > resize and software raid on root support when someone feels the need to > ad them, and has the guts to go code something. I

Re: Mozilla Firefox: Forbidden page

Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > OK. w3m is installed on my computer, but I cannot find a way to specify > the proxy. The pauth command-line option only takes user:password. Where > can I tell it the proxy's IP address? Pre-P.S. Top-posting is considered harmful.

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

Greg Folkert wrote: > ... >>>Just for laughs, how does FC go on that box? >> >>Nothing to laugh about - it just works. Perfectly, straight out of the >>box. No mucking about, just create the partitions i want (RAID 1 on >>everything: /, /boot, and swap) and install. So does SuSE Personal 9.1. >

Re: TCO - Windows vs Linux

John Summerfield wrote: > "Microsoft has long asked third party analysts for accurate assessments > of the total cost of ownership of Microsoft Windows deployments, > especially against the Linux deployments commonly going into all > segments of the market. However, Immunity, Inc. as a third party

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

Tom Allison wrote: > ... > I'm late on this, but I have to say that the debian installer was > actually the best installer I've ever seen. It was very true to the > ideas that makes Debian better than Fedora or Suse (This is just my > opinion so don't argue about it) > > I can install a non-GUI s

Re: Mozilla Firefox: Forbidden page

Jason D. Berg wrote: > ... >> > Try this page with something besides Firefox. I'm betting that it's not > firefox's problem. It's probably something your ISP is doing. Contact > them to see what's up. Sounds like a filtering proxy server. -- Paul -- Did you know? If

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

Loki wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > >>>I cheated on my mirror: I installed a Squid server and pointed apt at that >>>proxy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than >>>needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages already downloaded >>>by ea

Re: Obsessed with a clean system

William Ballard wrote: > ... >>I used to be obsessed with clean drives before I upgraded the 120MB Connor >>in my Amiga. Since then, I haven't spent much time worrying about it. > > > But keeping it clean primarily saves time. Nobody cares about disk > space. Why download upgrades to all tho

Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

John Summerfield wrote: > Paul Gear wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>> Is anyone here using Progeny? >>> ... >> >> I tried it as an easy way of getting Sarge installed. It looks pretty >> good, but it didn't detect

Re: Progeny

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is anyone here using Progeny? > > If yes how does it compare to Sarge. I know the installer is easy. > How's the usability out of the box? Sarge is pretty nice and fast but it > takes a while to set it up (for me at least). Will it be free (money-wise)? > What kernel(s)

Re: raid Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya john > > On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > > >>Paul wants / and /boot on mdo and/or md0. I can do it, but the installer >>can't. Paul wants to be able to take either one drive out and boot. Always. > > > if one can't boot off of either disk, its NOT raid .

Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

Joey Hess wrote: > ... > Anyway, no, hardware autodetection is not the only new feature compared > to the boot floppies. Off the top of my head a few other user-visible > features: > ... > - software RAID support But not on /boot or /. I find this just unfathomable. What do i do if the disk co

Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

John Summerfield wrote: > ... >> Its also much easier to use then the woody one, by default uses simple >> options so it can be used by linux newbies without holding a book in >> the other hand a >> > > I'm not so sure about that. I find the partitionaer far too confusing. Agreed - Progeny's port

Re: I hate it when that happens...

John L Fjellstad wrote: > Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>And *always* use 'set -u' in shell scripts. :-) > > > What does that do? I looked in bash manual, and couldn't find > anything... (always ready to learn something new:-) )

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

Brian Nelson wrote: > ... >>mutt does that for me. I think gnus can also do, I mean to test it more >>heavily some time, but the startup time is too big. > > > Must... resist... urge... to... KILL!!! http://palpatine.chez.tiscali.fr/Dilbert/CowDskArt040896.gif -- Paul

Re: I hate it when that happens...

John L Fjellstad wrote: > ... > I wrote a script to delete my old email from ~/Mail directory, basically > this: find $FOLDERS -type f -mtime $AGE -print0 | xargs -0r rm > > Unfortunately, I forgot to add $FOLDERS variable, so it picked ~/, and > deleted a bunch of old scripts and documents I hadn

Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > ... > Hmm. So, the general consensus is that it's not a problem; and it > certainly doesn't seem to affect interactivity or performance at all. It's > my home box, not a server or anything, and it normally has very low loads, > 10-15% maybe when I'm using it and essentiall

Re: `who` output keeps showing logins that have really logged out.

Tom wrote: > * [Friday 30 July 2004 15:34] Adam Funk: > > >>For a few weeks now I've been finding logins listed in the `who` >>output that are not really logged in. I've found out how to clear >>them (`cat /dev/null>/var/run/utmp`) but I'd like to cure the >>problem. The false entries all seem

Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

Brian Nelson wrote: > It's 2004. Email has been around for what, 30+ years? Is there an > email client out there that, after 30 years, still doesn't suck? > ... > thunderbird? Never tried it, doesn't support mailing lists from what > I've heard. Most likely also suffers from the horrible editor

Re: you may be even more embarassed if you can't deliver

Chris Metzler wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:28:53 +1000 > Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Is this list not spamassassined? > > > Of course it is. The listmasters have posted here before, telling > us that something like 95% of all email incoming to t

Re: signature separator

Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote: > ... >>-- >>Did you know? If you use two dashes followed by a space as your >>signature separator, good email programs will chop them off >>automatically, reducing noise in email replies. > > > Interesting! Can mutt do this? How do I configure it? Don't know, sorry

Re: Installing Sarge

Ricky Clarkson wrote: > I would guess that either both CDROMs are faulty (unlikely) or that > the machine's RAM or hard drive are faulty (more likely). You can > test both, but I don't know how. I would have thought that the most likely issue would be the CD-ROM drive itself, since they are notor

Test via gmane - please ignore

Test -- Paul -- Did you know? Using accepted quoting conventions makes your email easier to understand. Learn how at . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: how to manage services ?

Paul Johnson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >>I am new to debina. I have certain services running like lpd rpc etc. In >>RedHat there is a command chkconfig with which i can start/ top services >>for certain run levels or completely stop it from running. > > > Well, first off, you only

Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

Nate Duehr wrote: > ... > emacs!! Hey there's your problem right there! Teach those undergrads to code > in vi and they'd have had lots more CPU and the box wouldn't have been > swapping so much! > > (LOL! Sorry, it just *had* to be said just for tradition's sake!) Hallelujah! Preach on,

Re: you may be even more embarassed if you can't deliver

Is this list not spamassassined? -- Paul -- Did you know? If you use two dashes followed by a space as your signature separator, good email programs will chop them off automatically, reducing noise in email replies. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatu

Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

Greg Folkert wrote: > ... > Or how about a multi-threaded App server running hundreds(thousands in > some cases) of servlets a minute... I admin'd a 32 Processor, 32GB of > Memory machine that was capable of running a couple of thousand servlets > a minute. > > The load average on this machine usu

Re: /proc/loadavg disagrees with top and ps

Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Hello everyone, > > /proc/loadavg currently reports the following: > > 0.96 0.98 0.78 1/116 23994 > > xload also reports roughly the same. > > But top and ps both report a nearly idle system (98% idle). What is going > on? How can I find out what is causing my system

Re: Security camera management software

Paul Johnson wrote: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>A friend of mine recently asked me if any decent software exists for >>Linux for managing security cameras. He intends to setup up 6 or 7 >>cameras, and wants to be able to manage them from a MacOS X box. > > > Seriously? Or

Re: Installation plea: install with / and /boot on RAID 1

John wrote: > ... > Numbat:~# df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/md0 1.3G 232M 1016M 19% / > tmpfs 31M 0 31M 0% /dev/shm > ... > Didn't do it with the Sarge installed: I installed into a small patition > and worked from the

Re: How to Move from 1 drive to another?

John Summerfield wrote: > ... I've checked the jumper settings - I will probably use Cable Select. >>> >>> You need a special cable for that. I've never seen one. >>> >> >> >> Haven't looked very hard then... I think you'd find it close to >> impossible >> to put your hands on a 8

Re: Installation plea: install with / and /boot on RAID 1

Alvin Oga wrote: > ... >>I know - that is why i was very disappointed to find that it wasn't >>supported even in the latest Sarge snapshot (i honestly expected it to >>be supported in Woody as well). > > > yup ... people's ( developer's ) preferences and requirements are > different or "just plai

Re: Installation plea: install with / and /boot on RAID 1

Alvin Oga wrote: > ... >>A quick question: are there *any* Debian derivatives that support RAID 1 >>/ and /boot? > > > normally ... raid1 supports / and /boot raid off the shelf > ( built in the default kernel.org kernel ) I know - that is why i was very disappointed to find that it wasn't supp

Re: Debianised Firewall

Sam Halliday wrote: > ... >>/me does `apt-get install shorewall` and to hell with figuring out the >>proper way :-) > > > hmm, its actually more effort to learn this shorewall thing than just make my own > initscript... If you say so. From my experience, the time spent learning shorewall pays

Re: Debianised Firewall

Sam Halliday wrote: > Paul Gear wrote: > >>Sam Halliday wrote: >> >>>... >>> >>>>Debian supports shorewall, a great iptables preprocessor - get a recent >>>>version from backports.org, and you're laughin'! >>> >>

Re: Networking Problem

Jonathan Barnes wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > >> I _thought_ you might be Australian. > > > Yes I am :) We're everywhere! (It's Sunday arvo - time to break my Linux box for this week.) -- Paul -- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fi

Re: Debianised Firewall

Sam Halliday wrote: > ... >>Debian supports shorewall, a great iptables preprocessor - get a recent >>version from backports.org, and you're laughin'! > > > cheers... but i do not need a way to generate rules; i already know > how to do that. i just want to know if there is a standardised debian

Re: Debianised Firewall

Sam Halliday wrote: >hi there, > >i am quite familiar with setting up iptables rules in an initscript, or via >iptables-{restore,save}. i could easily set up my own initscript to do >this, but i was wondering what the correct "debian way" of setting up an >iptables firewall is. is there a file whe

Installation plea: install with / and /boot on RAID 1

Hi folks, A quick question: are there *any* Debian derivatives that support RAID 1 / and /boot? I just tried the latest debian-installer snapshot, and was told when i tried to put them on RAID 1 that this was not supported. I've logged a bug report, but since it explicitly states it's not support

Re: Ethernet not working in sarge. Have I done enough?

Hendrik Boom wrote: > I've been trying to net-install sarge using the new installer. > The install worked, in the sense that I now have useless but otherwise > working sarge system. > > The trouble is that is seems to be unable to communicate with my ethernet > card, a Realtek RTL-8139, for which

Re: Trying to install to SATA drives on RAID 1

Paul Gear wrote: > ... >>>How do i do that? I've never run a serial console on a Linux box. >> >>Try reading the installation documents:-) > > > You mean the ones that only apply to Woody and kernel 2.4? :-) Sorry - spoke too soon. I found them

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

Steve Witt wrote: > ... > Yeah, me too. I had to install one of the first real servers (from a > hardware point of view) I've ever done. It has 6 IDE disks all on > separate PCI IDE Controllers (none on the motherboard IDE channels), > some SCSI, gigabit Ethernet and other fairly new hardware thing

Re: Trying to install to SATA drives on RAID 1

John Summerfield wrote: > ... Can anyone shed any light on this issue? I'm a Red Hat refugee trying to install Sarge, without much success so far. I posted the message below on debian-boot without any response. I've also searched the debian-user archives without result.

Re: Trying to install to SATA drives on RAID 1

John Summerfield wrote: > Paul Gear wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> Can anyone shed any light on this issue? I'm a Red Hat refugee trying >> to install Sarge, without much success so far. I posted the message >> below on debian-boot without any respons

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