mounting an smbfs as non superuser

permissions. If I try and mount it as the backup user I get a message stating only root can do that. mount: only root can do that Anyone know how I can mount this so that the backup user can write to it Thank you Tony Heal

How can I find if a DHCP server is available

I need to determine if a DHCP server is available on a remote system. Without changing my static network config or adding any non standard packages not already installed by the sarge / etch ISO. Any ideas? Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 x9317

RE: Send stderr to variable, but send stdout to screen?

Works great. Thanks Tony -Original Message- From: Raj Kiran Grandhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 6:27 AM To: Tony Heal Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Send stderr to variable, but send stdout to screen? Tony Heal wrote: > I have an er

Send stderr to variable, but send stdout to screen?

I have an error handling function that traps, reports and exits on an error. My problem is that I want to do all of that and I want to still see stdout. Can anyone help with this? Here is the function. If I change sources.list to have an invalid source it reports, but I do not see the progress whe

Apache redirects

I am using apache 1.3 on a debian etch system with a 2.6 kernel. I have www root redirected from a file in conf.d. I am currently using a symlink in the redirected root to direct a php file to a different directory in /var/www/ and I would rather use httpd.conf to do this. Although I am pretty

file system check

? Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: system logs and localtime

BTW, this is causing all my logs to report in Eastern time Tony Heal _ From: Tony Heal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:17 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: system logs and localtime I have a remote server at a client site that had /etc

system logs and localtime

I have a remote server at a client site that had /etc/localtime pointing to Eastern instead of Central. I have fixed this. Is there a way for this to take affect without rebooting the server? Tony Heal

RE: syslog help - SOLVED

Works great. thanks Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Douglas Allan Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:07 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: syslog help >

syslog help

redirect entries out of the syslog into another file, or does this facility only copy the entries to another file, while maintaining them in the syslog. Tony Heal

syncing logs

Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Why this crontab does not work?

. 2. Add a PATH and MAILTO statement at the beginning. The PATH will ensure that the environment is set up correctly to run the command and the MAILTO will send STDOUT and STDERR to you in an email so you know what is going on. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: SSH

Simply google sshpass and you will find several alternatives Tony Heal > -Original Message- > From: arulkumarr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:16 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: SSH > > > Hi, I am new to SSH. C

RE: help with "apt-get purge"

If you want to see what is being removed then use apt-get remove --purge somepackage -s The '-s' will simulate the operation and if everything is the way you like simply press the up arrow and backspace over the '-s' to get the live command, press enter and enjoy. Tony Hea

RE: infinite loop in postgresql

the system is working as expected I will kill the loop. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Octavio Alvarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re

infinite loop in postgresql

I am attempting to test something and I need to loop inside of postgresql v 7.4 so that it will consume cpu time, I will then read the cpu time for my testing. Anyone have some ideas on how to create this loop? Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: postgresql upgrade from sarge to etch

Yes the file was there. This was in fact a complete running systems with no problems. Postgresql was running with 2 small databases and 2 users. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Roberto C. Sánchez [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

postgresql upgrade from sarge to etch

status 1 Setting up ppp (2.4.4rel-8) ... I can find the conf file in /var/lib/ucf/cache/:etc:postgresql:postgresql.conf And if I move that back into place postgresql-7.4 still will not start and still provides not errors. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Tony Heal Pace Systems

RE: upgrading to etch -ANSWERED

Thank you Daniel!! You sent me the (REALLY BIG) hint and this is the 'how to' cat > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/etch-upgrade < -Original Message- > From: Daniel Burrows [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:34 AM > To: Tony Heal > Cc: debian-use

upgrading to etch

ing for a way to automate the answers. Tony Heal

debconf for exim4

orms of help are appreciated. Tony Heal

test email

This is a test as I am not getting these emails any more.

twiki on etch

anyone using the new twiki package? I need help with the auth I have a very old install of twiki (circa 2001 I think) and I needed to update it finally. When I saw that debian etch now has a package I about freaked. I thought this is great! I set up a new server, installed etch with the latest

RE: Large ICMP packets tracing/troubleshooting

s.debian.org > Subject: Re: Large ICMP packets tracing/troubleshooting > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 09:45:12AM -0400, Tony Heal wrote: > > I keep getting these entries in my firewall log. I am getting this > > same entry every 10 seconds. I can not determine what is sending or &

Large ICMP packets tracing/troubleshooting

I keep getting these entries in my firewall log. I am getting this same entry every 10 seconds. I can not determine what is sending or why. [1] 2007-04-22 08:06:24 [Root]system-critical-00436: Large ICMP packet! From 192.168.2.7 to 212.110.79.74, proto 1 (zone Trust, int trust). Occurred 1 t

upgrading to 2.6 kernel

What is the best way to auto upgrade several hundred servers from a 2.5 kernel to a 2.6 kernel? With all of our servers in remote locations and since there are so many of them, I am looking for the best/easiest way to upgrade the kernel in preparation for the move to etch. Thanks Tony

looking for a new computer burn in util

I am looking for a an all in one solution to performing a burn in of new servers. I know there are many stand-alone programs useful for that sort of thing, like Memtest86, CPUburn, Bonnie++, and just plain old repeatedly compiling the Linux kernel. But, is there a boot-able Live CD. Something I c

root level access for normal users

I am working on a project to allow a normal system user access to a very limited subset of programs and scripts. The idea is to allow the user to perform certain maintenance and troubleshooting without actually being able to change anything, such as config file, logs etc. I am convinced that sudo

upgrading remote servers

I have 300+ remote servers running sarge / 2.4 kernel and I would like to upgrade these servers to etch / 2.6 kernel. All servers have relatively the same hardware, older systems have 40 or 250gb IDE hard drives and older 3ware RAID card, newer systems have 250GB SATA hard drives and a more r

rcs file

I am trying to initialize and update an rcs file manually. Here is what I am trying to do. Debian woody rcs v 5.7-13 TWiki - 24 Nov 2001 I am using the xconf plugin to parse an xconf file. This works fine. I want to create an access page that will show each object in our object dict

PATH question

I have a problem on one of my servers. The 'ls' command does not have the -h switch available. So as a workaround until I can determine what caused this and why I wanted to use the 'ls' file from another server. I copied /bin/ls from server # 2 onto server # 1 and tested it and it works fine, inc

DST and woody

Does anyone know if there is a libc6 package available somewhere, for woody, that has the new DST fix? I am trying to update the server to sarge, but I am getting resistance from the boss, so I need to patch this server until then. Thanks Tony

RE: about dns

I am not sure about v9.x but in v8.x you add the new domain to named.conf _ From: Mesut Şahin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:24 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: about dns Hello Friends in my server 9.3.4 version of bind dns and one

RE: package dependencies

rg > Subject: Re: package dependencies > > Tony Heal wrote: > > > > I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is > > installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If > > you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd2-xpm a

package dependencies

I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd2-xpm are installed. Apt-get -f install shows no packages in error. How can this be? Tony Package: webali

RE: locales failure

Thanks for the suggestion, I have already reconfigured locale and it did not fix the issue. Also if you were to check the output of locale LANG is set, my issue is with LC_ALL. I can not find out how this is set. I guess I could export it, but not understanding how this is supposed to work, mean

locales failure

When upgrading from sarge to etch I get this error several times. The upgrade continues (apparently normally) but I would like to know why I get this and if I can fix it. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en

RE: screen width of dpkg -l|grep package name

No, I did not know about that. Neat trick. Thanks Tony -Original Message- From: celejar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:35 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: screen width of dpkg -l|grep package name On 1/25/07, Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTEC

screen width of dpkg -l|grep package name

I am trying to determine how to get a complete list of installed packages using 'dpkg -l'. Here is my issue. If I use dpkg -l | grep cupsys I get this. Note that the package name is incomplete. I believe this is caused by the screen width getting set to 80 columns. ii cupsys 1.1.

RE: undelete

That does not work to well in an automated script, but thanks Tony _ From: andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:00 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: undelete Tony Heal wrote: OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not

RE: undelete

around their system somewhere? Tony -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:34 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: undelete -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/07 10:37, Tony Heal wrote: > Is there a

undelete

Is there a way to recover deleted files? Tony

Etch release

Anyone heard anymore about the release of etch? All I can find is an old note on the site stating Dec 2006. Tony

RE: export question

] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 3:02 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: export question Tony Heal wrote: > Here is the problem. What you suggest will place the variable in the > environment, but that is what export is supposed to do. > >>From the man for bash > export

RE: export question

To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: export question Tony Heal wrote: > Maybe I am looking for something I should not see, but if 'export' places a > variable in the environment shouldn't I be able to see it when using the > 'set' command. I wrote this small scr

export question

Maybe I am looking for something I should not see, but if 'export' places a variable in the environment shouldn't I be able to see it when using the 'set' command. I wrote this small script to test this and nothing shows in set. I know I am missing something. If I had the same lines into /etc/profi

network inventory

I am looking for a network inventory program that will list hardware and software components of each computer on hand. I would prefer to have it integrated with postgresql also. Any suggestions would be helpful Thanks in advance Tony

IRC server level recording

I am looking for a way to record specific channels on my IRC server. I would like to have a searchable, postgresql based database. Anyone have any suggestions? I tried using drone but it does not support logging into a passworded server, only passworded channels. Thanks in advance Tony

installing drone IRC bot

I am trying to get Drone IRC bot from http://drone.codehaus.org/ and I am getting this error when trying to run the stand alone script drone.sh method java.io.File.toURI was not found I have a debian sarge, 2.4.27-2-386 kernel Any help is appreciated Thanks Tony

RE: How to reverse a package upgrade?

Try this updatedb located subversion It should find the package in question in /var/spool/apt/archives cd to the directory and use dpkg -i {suversion...} to install Tony -Original Message- From: rds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:59 PM To: debian-user@lis

RE: postgresql database file names

For those who care. Here is how you determine the disk space used for each postgresql db. #!/bin/bash # scan the list of databases and provide the disk space used in human readable form dbs=`psql template1 -tc "select datname from pg_database"|sed s/" "/""/g` for i in $dbs do oid=`psql template

RE: postgresql database file names

nchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:14 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: postgresql database file names On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 09:49:34AM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > I am trying to determine how to correlate the file system file names to a > database

postgresql database file names

I am trying to determine how to correlate the file system file names to a database in /var/lib/postgres/data/base with the database names used in postgresql   The file system names are:   drwx--  2 postgres postgres  4096 Oct 29 08:41 1 drwx--  2 postgres postgres  4096 Oct 24 

viewcvs

I have viewcvs v 1.11.1p1debian running on a woody installation and it  uses color to differentiate between lines and between different revisions of a file in the system. However I have installed  0.9.2+cvs.1.0.dev.2004.07.28-1.5 on a new sarge box for testing and it does not have the color

RE: Debian LIVE CD

I tried to get LiveCD working, but ran into too many problems, so I tried bootcd. Bootcd is very simple. You simply create the server you want on an actual computer and run bootcdwrite. It will create an iso file and place it in /var/spool/bootcd. This iso can be used to burn a cd or used directly

RE: Daylight Savings Time Extended

in fact the change log at debian.org for he stable branch states: - debian/patches/90_glibc232-timezones.dpatch: Update to tzdata2006b But that is still no help. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tony Heal [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Daylight Savings Time Extended

Yes I did check the change log and it states: - debian/patches/90_glibc232-timezones.dpatch: Update to tzdata2005h But I can not find out what the 'Update to tzdata2005h' consisted of Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-

RE: Daylight Savings Time Extended

This sure has caused a lot of BS jabber. But none of said jabber has answered the original question. Does libc6 already have these updates and if not when will it get them? Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Magnus Therning

RE: Daylight Savings Time Extended

Stable branch. The data is in libc6 Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:03 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

RE: Installing on a small root partition

Try using a smart UPS and having it shut down the system cleanly when power goes off and restart the system when power returns. This will also fix your voltage flux problems. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: David Goodenough

RE: autofs only mounting one fs at a time.

Did you try duplicating the line in auto.removable with a second mount point? Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: wehn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:41 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject

Autofs help

-v -t nfs 192.168.2.131:/opt/epace /opt/epace-storage/192.168.2.131:/opt/epace on /opt/epace-storage type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.2.131) 14-series:~# ls /opt/epace-storage/vaulttest-file.txt     Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]    

RE: BASH help

Thanks, that did the trick. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Henry Luciano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Debian' Subject: Re: BASH help Tony Heal wrote

BASH help

I know that I run a script and direct it's output to a file   /path/script > /path/file   is there a way to direct the output to both the screen and a file at the same time?     Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]    

RE: iptables wrong version?

>From the man page Protocol all will match with all protocols and is taken as default when this option is omitted. So try removing the -p tcp and see if that fixes it. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Philip Mak [mailto:[EM

MAILTO=/dev/null

/usr/local/bin/permissions_test.pl   My problem is that now I am getting an email every minute stating /dev/[EMAIL PROTECTED] is an unbootable address.   The server is Debian sarge with exim4.   How can I stop from getting any emails at all from cron on this file?   Tony Heal Pace Systems Group

permissions group sticky

perms set at 755 the cgi file work fine. once the g+s is set the cgi files stop working. This method works on woody, but I can not see any reason that would make a diff. Apache version is 1.3.33.   Anyone got any ideas/suggestions/comments that can help?   Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Disk checks on restart

have 2 questions.   1. Is it actually running fsck 2. is there an online way to perform these checks so that it takes less time to restart when required.   Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

RE: File system overhead

Mike The explanation for Debian is the file system reserves some space (5% by default) for root's use in case the partition gets filled. If your partitions were formatted using mkfs then you can man mkfs and look at the -m option. It will give a very brief explanation of what is happening

RE: File system overhead

208G 1% /opt epace-storage:~# tune2fs -m2 /dev/sda9 tune2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) Setting reserved blocks percentage to 2 (1163948 blocks) epace-storage:~# df -h|grep opt /dev/sda9 219G 168M 214G 1% /opt Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

RE: File system overhead

Yes I was logged in as root. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Lubos Vrbka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: File system overhead

RE: File system overhead

218.8GB left, so if not the rest must be filesystem overhead. 5 percent seems to be a bit much, but as long as I can explain it I may be able to live with this. That is why I want a link to a site that could explain the overhead of the ext3 filesystem. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624

File system overhead

anyone have a good link that explains why/what the ext3 overhead is. I have a partition that looks like it has 8GB taken up by the OS and I need to explain this. Filesystem    Size  Used   Avail   Use% Mounted on/dev/sda9 219G  168M  208G   1% /opt   Tony Heal

RE: Email login options

True, but then traveling users would have to connect to the vpn before they could get their email. 2 many steps for them. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Matt Zagrabelny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 12

Email login options

king. "remove dependency of domain controller to email, What are our options?  Surely there are best practices for this that don't involve having users ssh in to maintain their pw's."   Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

RE: mac address

Duhhh. OK I feel like an idiot. Guess this cold is worse than I thought. Thanks Kent Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:38 PM To: Debian Users Subject: Re

mac address

how do I obtain the mac address of eth0 and eth1 on a remote server?   Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

find/replace in place

$syelledb/'   I am not using all perl as I can only do a very limited amount in that. (just started learning)     Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

NFS mount

be greatly appreciated   Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

mounting a remote directory

most secure?   Thanks   Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Bind TTL changes

. (    2005110200   ; serial number    3600 ; refresh    300  ; retry    86400    ; expire    900    ) ; minimum TTL   Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

forwarding DNS

I have a DNS server that I want to move to a co-location facility. The co-lo facility has a different ip address and I need to reduce the downtime of my DNS server to a minimum. I am going to look into using iptables on another server we have here that will not be moving to forward all traffic for

postgresql encoding

I have just upgraded my distro from woody to sarge and postgresql's encoding got messed up. Is there a way to change the encoding of a database without dumping and recreating it? I also need to change the default decoding of postgresql. It is set to SQL_ASCII and I want to change it to UNICODE Ton

DNS error

I am getting the following in my logs and I would like to get rid of it. Anyone know where I should start? named[352]: late CNAME in answer section for skios.es MX from [195.219.190.135].53 the IP MX and domain in the error are not mine. Thanks in advance Tony Heal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

downgrading debconf

I have a remote woody server that accidentally got upgraded with sarge packages. I need to downgrade debconf 1.4.30.13 to 1.0.32 to get things back to normal. The problem is that when I try to run downgrade using apt-get install I get an error (see below). I ran a simulated remove of debconf and it

RE: Migrating from Windows to Debian - keeping email messages from Outlook Express

There is a workaround for this. create an imap account on your server. create the folders that you have set up in Outlook. set up the imap and pop accounts in Outlook. Drag and drop the emails you want from outlook into the imap account. This will put the into mbox format. I had to use this method

RE: System swap partition

: System swap partition Tony Heal wrote: > Does anyone know a way to tell what data is being used by the swap > partition. i.e. what is being swapped in/out from memory to disk? > > Tony > > > open a console. type this word free close the console when you get tired of

System swap partition

Does anyone know a way to tell what data is being used by the swap partition. i.e. what is being swapped in/out from memory to disk? Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]