ould be that the info
in the .list file would be wrong -- itself a symptom of a
bad install, etc.
Does this make sense? It seems to make quite a lot of sense
to me -- and IMO would make a lot of sense to a lot of
confused, frustrated people as well.
- -- grok.
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:43:50PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:
I have a question about the "wa" fields in vmstat, top, and the
like. I and someone else I know have both read a great deal
about its meaning, and have come to two different conclusions.
He
I have a question about the "wa" fields in vmstat, top, and the
like. I and someone else I know have both read a great deal
about its meaning, and have come to two different conclusions.
Here are our interpretations. Could someone please tell me
which interpretation is right? Thanks!
Int
Bernard wrote:
Hello Grok,
I finally managed to start my DomU. The main problem I had was the
concept that the kernel running in the DomU is the same has the on
found in /boot of Dom0. Here "found" means not only the version but
also the physical location. I tried many times
Bernard wrote:
On 4/23/07, Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bernard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need a kernel to install in guest systems in Xen. This kernel
> should NOT have the PAE option enable while the kernel was compiled.
> Does someone can tell me if all the kernels
Bernard wrote:
Hi,
I need a kernel to install in guest systems in Xen. This kernel
should NOT have the PAE option enable while the kernel was compiled.
Does someone can tell me if all the kernels in Etch are compiled with
this option enabled? Should I recompile a kernel for my guest systems
or
Hey,
I am currently running the 32-bit non-PAE version of Xen on
Debian Etch. I installed all this with the Xen packages via
aptitude. I want to upgrade to the 32-bit PAE enabled version
of Xen.
I think this *should* be as easy as "aptitude install
xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae" foll
I just felt like "closing" this thread.
I had a Netgear WPN311 Wireless G PCI Card. (It actually said
"WPN311NA" in one place on the box, but whatever) The chipset
was identified via lspci as an Atheros 5212.
I tried using the Madwifi drivers (0.9.3 stable release) which
should supposedly
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 19:41:22 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[ short summary: The card is recognized as ath0 with wireless extensions,
but it does not associate with any access point, lists "Signal level:
0/94". This is on U
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 00:36:58 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:37:03 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:
[...]
Hey everyone, thanks a lot for the advice! I ended up getting a Netgear
WPN311 Wireless G PCI card. Now I'm just t
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:37:03 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:
[...]
Hey everyone, thanks a lot for the advice! I ended up getting a Netgear
WPN311 Wireless G PCI card. Now I'm just trying to get the darn thing
working. Right now, I'm actually using t
Hey,
I cannot get my wifi working at all. I have a Netgear
WPN311. This is my first wifi experience on Linux, and between
Madwifi, wpa_supplicant, network-manager, network-manager-gnome,
wlanconfig, iwconfig, iwlist, /etc/network/interfaces/,
/etc/default/wpa_supplicant, and god-knows-w
charles norwood wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 02:11 -0400, Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:10:05 -0400
Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to get a Wireless PCI Card for my Linux system.
I'd like it to support WPA2 and also be Wireless G.
Hello,
I'd like to get a Wireless PCI Card for my Linux system. I'd
like it to support WPA2 and also be Wireless G. I am currently
using Debian, but this is a new system, so I'm perfectly willing
to switch to another distribution if necessary. I'm willing to
try new things if it'll make
Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 15:53, Grok Mogger wrote:
I have read the cron manpage. I understand what cron mails and
under what conditions it mails it, what I don't understand is
HOW it mails it. I know that cron just sends the output of
whatever script it run
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Grok Mogger wrote:
I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron magically
sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to send real
Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my unix accounts on
my linux box (which I read via the '
Hello,
I was hoping someone could help me understand how cron
magically sends email. My ultimate goal is to configure cron to
send real Internet email so instead of just getting mail on my
unix accounts on my linux box (which I read via the 'mail'
command) I can get email at my gmail accoun
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:15:25AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
Wait, so stable only gets security updates? What if there's a
bug in a package, will it get a fix? And I guess just to finish
off my questionnaire, do packages in stable ever get upgrades
for addit
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
So, if you leave your sources.list with "testing" then after the
release, you will continue to see package upgrades as things move from
unstable to testing. If you use "etch" then when Etch becomes stable,
you will only see security updates.
Regards,
-Roberto
Wait
michael wrote:
Hi.
I was wondering what is a suitable way to handle non-native language
spam? My native language is English and I'm using Evolution to get my
email off IMAP and then it uses SpamAssassin to filter for junk. Are
there S.A. plugins to test for non-native language spam? Would just
cl
Nick Boyce wrote:
Grok Mogger wrote:
Also, I have to say this whole problem I've stumbled on to seems kind of
silly to me in a way. I love Debian's approach to stability and
security, but why not at least keep adding hardware support to the
kernel as it becomes available? Seems lik
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:35:23AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
Hey everyone,
I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the
motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'.
Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain
Bruno Buys wrote:
Grok Mogger wrote:
Hey everyone,
I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the motherboard, I'm
interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'. Unfortunately, in Googling I've
seen people complain about problems with the board's southbridge.
It&
Don Hayward wrote:
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Grok Mogger wrote:
Wackojacko wrote:
Grok Mogger wrote:
Hey everyone,
I'm hoping to get a new AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm a little
concerned that I can't identify the proper linux-image package
(planning on using etch).
I
Hey everyone,
I'm looking into building a new machine. As for the
motherboard, I'm interested in an ASUS 'A8V-VM SE'.
Unfortunately, in Googling I've seen people complain about
problems with the board's southbridge. It's a 'VIA VT8237A'.
I went to kernel.org and started looking through the
Wackojacko wrote:
Grok Mogger wrote:
Hey everyone,
I'm hoping to get a new AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm a little
concerned that I can't identify the proper linux-image package
(planning on using etch).
I do an "aptitude search linux-image" and look through wh
Hey everyone,
I'm hoping to get a new AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm a
little concerned that I can't identify the proper linux-image
package (planning on using etch).
I do an "aptitude search linux-image" and look through what
comes up, but none of them look like the right one. I did a
s
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:56:11AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
So forget SASL and just send everything through an SSL tunnel?
So you'd do something like this on the client... "ssh -L
:LDAPServer:$LDAPServerPORT -N [EMAIL PROTECTED]", and then
setup
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:22:40AM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
The LDAP client usually just sends all data (passwords
included!) in the clear to the LDAP server. This is bad. SASL
encrypts all the communication between the client and server.
Right, but your
Jonas Meurer wrote:
On 06/02/2007 Grok Mogger wrote:
I didn't find any documentation about that topic. All howtos/tutorials/...
that talk about building a xen kernel, use the original xen kernel
sources, not the debian kernel source with patches.
You may have some need to compile you
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:04:48PM +, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
Hi,
I am using Testing, and I want to setup the debian way an LDAP + pam
authentication system for system users.
Would you know a recent howto talking about that?
I dont need generic howto, I am
Jonas Meurer wrote:
Hello,
I just tried to build a debian xen kernel, based on linux-source-2.6.18,
linux-patch-debian-2.6.18 and kernel-package.
According to the docs i found, i can apply the debian kernel sources in
the following way:
resivo:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18$ ../kernel-patches/al
Mihira Fernando wrote:
On 1/17/07, Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hope no one minds if I hijack this thread. =)
I just read through all the responses and was surprised to see
three people using postfix, one using exim4, and none using
sendmail.
I've heard so much about se
Hope no one minds if I hijack this thread. =)
I just read through all the responses and was surprised to see
three people using postfix, one using exim4, and none using
sendmail.
I've heard so much about sendmail that I thought it was the de
facto standard. I considered exim4 "that other M
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:50:19 -0500
Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is it safe to say that drivers are really for a chipset, not a
device? And so therefore, support for a device really boils
down to "is the chipset supported?" not "is the dev
Kevin Ross wrote:
Here's a code snippet from ne2k-pci.c, the NE2000-clone NIC driver:
static struct {
char *name;
int flags;
} pci_clone_list[] __devinitdata = {
{"RealTek RTL-8029", REALTEK_FDX},
{"Winbond 89C940", 0},
{"Compex RL2000", 0},
{"KTI ET32P2", 0},
{"NetVin NV5000SC", 0},
{
Kevin Mark writes:
>>
wizbang 1000 (chipset A) uses kernel module P
wizbang 1000 (rev. 2, chipset B) uses kernel Q.
> John Hasler wrote:
They also sometimes have the chips labeled with their own labels so that
somebody has to do some reverse engineering to find out what is really in
there.
Thanks to everyone who's taken the time to respond. It's helped
a lot. I'd still like some more help though if you can spare
it. =)
My goal is ultimately the following. I want to be able to say
"I'm interested in getting a Super Device 4000" and then go
through whatever steps I need to ve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:47:05PM -0500 Grok Mogger mumbled:
Hey everyone,
If I want to buy a new piece of hardware, and I want to figure
out if it's supported or not (BEFORE I buy it),
One good way is to take a knoppix disk to the 'puter store and boot
Hey everyone,
If the default kernel that comes with Debian has all these built
in drivers and modules, then shouldn't there be some way to just
get a list of every supported device?
If I want to buy a new piece of hardware, and I want to figure
out if it's supported or not (BEFORE I buy it),
John C wrote:
celejar wrote:
On 1/9/07, John C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm in the process of changing my home network from wired to
wireless and am trying to find a card for a desktop that will
work effortlessly with etch/sid.
Preferably one whose drivers are already available
Hey,
I was recently connecting from one host to another via ssh, and
the remote host's host key had changed. I was expecting this
change (I made it myself in fact), so naturally I just wanted to
connect anyway, despite the warning that SSH gave me, and update
my known_hosts file.
I could n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:59:34PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
Hmm interesting, I tried doing what you suggested, and
didn't get a list of upgradeable packages. Which is what I
expected, because I upgrade often and if I do an "aptitude
upgrade"
Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:26:44PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
Hey everyone,
I am running a 2.4.27 kernel that came with my sarge system, no
fancy custom stuff. I recently got a Debian Security update
telling me about these vulnerabilities in the 2.4 kernel, and so
Hey everyone,
I am running a 2.4.27 kernel that came with my sarge system, no
fancy custom stuff. I recently got a Debian Security update
telling me about these vulnerabilities in the 2.4 kernel, and so
naturally I'd like to upgrade to the 2.4.27-10 kernel.
I'm imagining that since I'm just
I've often seen this touted as a good security measure and I've
always wondered why. I can think of a few possibilities, but I
really don't know. Could someone please explain it to me?
Thanks,
- GM
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Russell L. Harris wrote:
* Grok Mogger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061207 21:39]:
I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab
(/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed to find that it didn't
work. It seems like the job just never ran at all. Can anyone
tell me what might ha
I tried doing something like this in the system wide crontab
(/etc/crontab) and I was disappointed to find that it didn't
work. It seems like the job just never ran at all. Can anyone
tell me what might have happened?
(This is of course supposed to be on one line)
00 22 * * * root nice /som
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
I need to upgrade my BIOS.
Generally it seems to involve getting freedos and putting it on a floppy
with the updates.
Googling isn't clear on recent reports.
Has anyone done this lately and specifically how?
Thanks!
Hugo
Usually when I've upgraded a BIOS, th
Colin wrote:
>
> No video card? Besides the Wireless Device, the graphics
card is the
> other "touchy" component Debian might have problems with.
>
>
I was just going to use the onboard video. I have no plans to
do any serious gaming or anything on this any time soon. =) But
thanks for th
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 01:36:19PM -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
I'm planning on buying components individually and piecing
together a computer. I'd like to install Debian Linux on it.
I'm not buying any of the latest and greatest stuff, and the
hardwar
I'm planning on buying components individually and piecing
together a computer. I'd like to install Debian Linux on it.
I'm not buying any of the latest and greatest stuff, and the
hardware I have picked out is pretty standard fare, nothing too
fancy. So I'm pretty sure everything will "just
I've seen some writing on the internet that suggests that it's
possible to do networking over USB. Like I could send TCP/IP
packets over a USB cable instead of an ethernet cable. Is this
actually possible?
If so, I don't know where to even begin. I'm not finding much
googling. Could someo
Matt Price wrote:
hi,
my dad is bringing me an old toshiba tablet (don't have the model
number) that seems to be having serious trouble, possibly a disk
failure. I will probably install a linux distro on it eventually, but
will have to figure out what makes the most sense for this kind of
machi
Grok Mogger wrote:
I have about 36 GB of files on a hard disk that I've transfered to
another disk. I'd like to cksum or md5sum the files just to make sure
that they were all copied well. I can't seem to find a way to recurse
through the directories and do this to a lot
Allan Wind wrote:
On 2006-10-20T07:33:46-0700, Dave Carrigan wrote:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > /tmp/source.sums
cd /dest/dir
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > /tmp/dest.sums
diff -u /tmp/source.sums /tmp/dest.sums
Might need a sort in there before redirecting to files.
Dave Carrigan wrote:
On Oct 20, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Grok Mogger wrote:
I have about 36 GB of files on a hard disk that I've transfered to
another disk. I'd like to cksum or md5sum the files just to make sure
that they were all copied well. I can't seem to find a way to recur
I have about 36 GB of files on a hard disk that I've transfered
to another disk. I'd like to cksum or md5sum the files just to
make sure that they were all copied well. I can't seem to find
a way to recurse through the directories and do this to a lot of
files. I've looked around a lot, and
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:01:29AM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:09:32PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Greetings fellow Debian users and developers,
The Debian Cyrus SASL Team is working at a breakneck pace to try
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:09:32PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Greetings fellow Debian users and developers,
The Debian Cyrus SASL Team is working at a breakneck pace to try and get
the new upstream version ready in time for Etch. For that to happen, we
[*snip
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:21:15AM +0200, steef wrote:
hi list,
AVG (www.grisoft.com) has a in their opinion 'free' anti-virusprogram
AVG. does debian (i.c. sarge and or etch) really need such a program?
and, what is free? i cannot find their source-code on their
> * Roberto C. Sanchez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > I like it because you can configure it to update the package list
and do
> > nothing, to update the package list and download any pending
updates but
> > not install them, or to update, download and install all without
> > intervention.
If the server is more or less just doing NFS, then even with a 10Gbps
network card, would a dual-core CPU really help...?
This is really just guess work... but the software you're running for NFS
would need to be smart enough to take advantage of a dual core for it to
even matter, wouldn't it? A
Thanks for the replies everyone, it really helped out.
I appreciate it,
- GM
-Original Message-
From: Roberto C. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:44 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Linux and Newest Hardware
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 03:
I am under the
impression that generally Linux is not guaranteed to run on the newest
hardware. For example, if I buy a brand new model of computer from
Dell, one that's only recently started being sold, can I really be sure that
Linux is going to detect all of my hardware properly? Or for
Does this mean that there is no driver for his CD-ROM drive in the linux
kernel he's using? I've never been very clear on how this sort of thing
works in Linux.
Thanks,
- GM
-Original Message-
From: michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:33 PM
To: debian-us
Just what the title
says. What is the relation between NSS and PAM?
I understand that NSS basically tells C
libraries where to get information. What's confusing is that two of the
entries in the nsswitch.conf file are "passwd" and "shadow". Are these
entries for programs that don't use
Cool, thanks. Guide looks pretty good! =)
Appreciate it,
- GM
-Original Message-
From: Dave Ewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:33 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Etch and NSS with LDAP
On Wednesday, 04.10.2006 at 10:23 -0400, Grok
ch and NSS with LDAP
On Tuesday, 03.10.2006 at 16:25 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:
> Could someone knowledgeable please confirm or refute this for me?
>
> Since the libnss-ldap package has been removed from etch (as of Oct 1st),
I
> absolutely cannot by any means manage all the normal lin
Nuno:
"Don't! Nothing should be installed on a flash drive. A traditional
install was meant for hard drives, not flash drives. Browser cache,
/tmp, syslog and so on will damage the device."
Andrew:
" I assume you
are trying to avoid the damage caused by longterm heavy writing which
"wears out" fla
Could someone
knowledgeable please confirm or refute this for me?
Since the
libnss-ldap package has been removed from etch (as of Oct 1st), I absolutely
cannot by any means manage all the normal linux logons for an etch
box using LDAP. Right?
The only way I'll be
able to do that, is ei
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