Dell SC1435

2007-03-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, does anyone have experience wether Edgy will work with the amd64 option of this Server? I have never had any Dell Servers until now so for me there's a large sign 'Beware here be dragons' right in front of the server. I found various links that suggest to use these[1] images but th

Re: Dell SC1435

2007-03-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Am 12.03.2007 um 15:39 schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:25:00PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, does anyone have experience wether Edgy will work with the amd64 option of this Server? Why not ask on an Ubuntu list? If you meant Etch (I'm hoping you did),

Re: Dell SC1435

2007-03-12 Thread Martin Marcher
just tried to load all modules on the installer cd so I wouldn't miss anything. No go, disks aren't recognized /martin Am 12.03.2007 um 16:10 schrieb Martin Marcher: Am 12.03.2007 um 15:39 schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:25:00PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote:

Re: Dell SC1435 [PEBCAK SOLVED]

2007-03-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, apart from being to dumb to download the right iso image in the first place I wanted to confirm that this Box works just fine with etch (as the initial answer indicated, just in case someone finds this and worries) /martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Martin Marcher
Am 13.03.2007 um 19:11 schrieb Mike McCarty: Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-03-08 16:22:20, schrieb Mitja Podreka: Also everybody in the US would be speaking German in that case. But I guess this could not happen. The WW2 would for sure last longer if there were no US help, but the end res

Re: Repartitioning, difficult and easy.

2007-03-14 Thread Martin Marcher
Sorry, still not used to that my can't handle mailinglists accordingly Am 13.03.2007 um 20:33 schrieb David Baron: LVM comes to mind. Unfortunately, there is no clean way to switch over to it. Unionfs seems like a very eligant way of simply overlaying directories on multiple partitions. How

Re: Repartitioning, difficult and easy.

2007-03-14 Thread Martin Marcher
Am 14.03.2007 um 15:36 schrieb Celejar: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:05:52 +0100 Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ## if you wan't to transfer root (/boot can't be on lvm so you later have to move it somewhere else if it's on the same FS) Doesn't GRUB understand

Re: howto extract all the tar.bz2 files in the same directory?

2007-03-23 Thread Martin Marcher
ed files to be of the original names with out the tar.bz2 extension. Is there a way to extract them all at once? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: Nameserver update

2007-06-28 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, out of interest why are you using nslookup, i though dig is the tool recommended these days... On 6/28/07, Till Wimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I) TTL of SOA is much to short! My SOA looks like this: origin = dns.substring.ch mail addr = noc.substring.ch serial = 2

nss + pam + samba + ldap + rfc2307bis

2007-07-07 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm planning on restructuring our authentication services. Currently they're a simple LDAP setup with posixgroups which afaik makes dynamic groups impossible (correct me if i'm wrong, _please_ tell me how to do that). Googling around I found rfc2307biz, which makes in contrast to rfc2307

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

2007-07-07 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi Martin Thanks for this info - I wasn't aware of a native Debian install. However, now that I have installed sun-java6-jre & bin the plug-in still doesn't appear to work. Has this been your experience, and if so do you have a suggestion on how to work this or ... ? forgetting everytime that

Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion

2007-07-11 Thread Martin Marcher
ridge this problem with Debian email. Thanks -- Ted Hilts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mycorners.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher htt

[OT] ip vs. ifconfig

2007-07-11 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, recent digging around in several network setups and the corresponding google searches lead me to several sites suggesting that "ifconfig" is deprecated in favor of "ip" (package iproute). Now personally I found several advantages using ip over ifconfig * with ip you don't need aliases to

Re: Security newbie?

2007-07-18 Thread Martin Marcher
On 7/18/07, Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. Are there repositories of offending IP addresses to block? Can/should one contribute to these? denyhosts does that for you also have a look at fail2ban which can drop IPs for a certain amount of time after a certain amount of certain logmess

Re: [debian-user] Subject Confusion

2007-07-24 Thread Martin Marcher
hi, On 7/11/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What mailing list software doesn't include those headers? there are a couple of lists out there most of those a are social lists but a couple of newsletters also do not provide those headers (imho newsletters are nothing but mailing

[OT] Source Based Routing

2007-07-24 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, i have a setup where i have a borderline box that has 5 public IP Addresses (this is for the sake of example: 192.0.2.8/29), all is NATed to 10.200.10.0/24. Now the IP the provider uses as gateway is 192.0.2.9 which makes me have 192.0.2.10-14 as a usable range. The default gateway on my

Re: [OT] Source Based Routing

2007-07-25 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On 7/25/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin Marcher wrote: > i have a setup where i have a borderline box that has 5 public IP > Addresses (this is for the sake of example: 192.0.2.8/29), all is > NATed to 10.200.10.0/24. Now the IP the provider uses as gateway

Re: [OT] Source Based Routing

2007-07-25 Thread Martin Marcher
hi, On 7/25/07, Erik Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have not read all you have written, but will not: iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -s 10.200.10.50 ! -d 192.0.2.8/29 -j SNAT --to-source 192.0.2.11 do the trick? i guess that's one of the reasons why I prefer debian-user over other lists

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

2007-07-25 Thread Martin Marcher
hi, On 7/25/07, Nick Demou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for the worse how can I ssh to my debian server? I suppose that a PC in most internet cafes will be willing to

to netatalk+samba+nfs or not

2007-07-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, in our company we have mac/linux/windows clients and I think about adding the native service for each of those. the clients aren't under my control but can be considered as trusted. I know that samba+mac does work (to some extent) but I'm thinking about adding netatalk so that mac users ha

Re: to netatalk+samba+nfs or not

2007-07-30 Thread Martin Marcher
hi, On 7/27/07, Gilles Mocellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Friday 27 July 2007 18:45:13 Andrew Sackville-West, vous avez écrit: > > > > can't answer your question directly, but doesn't apple support nfs? yes > > And SMB... and yes (somewhat) the reason why i'd like to use netatalk too is

Re: IM on a home debian network

2007-07-30 Thread Martin Marcher
hi, On 7/29/07, Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a > combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there > a program available that will provide instant messaging within the network?# as pointe

PAM + LDAP and SSH

2007-07-31 Thread Martin Marcher
and now for everyone else too :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 1, 2007 1:33 AM Subject: Re: PAM + LDAP and SSH To: Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hello, On 7/31/07, Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 200

Re: Swap configuration for 16GB of RAM, 8 cores

2007-07-31 Thread Martin Marcher
hello, On 7/31/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/31/07 15:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What are the current best practices with regards to swap partitions? > > Is it > > better to create one big, or several smaller swap partitions? Is the > > rule > > of thumb still RAM*2 for

Re: PAM + LDAP and SSH

2007-08-07 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, On 8/1/07, Bhasker C V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you do not want LDAP based authentication then you can > edit the nsswitch.conf file (passwd and shadow) to > point to appropriate values ? like files, yp > for local and NIS auth only. the problem with that is that you then don't

Re: Help with mod_jk build

2007-08-14 Thread Martin Marcher
d_jk for sid? I downloaded the source from jakarta > but i keep getting stuck. Does anyone know what $APACHE2_HOME is? > Thanks. > Chris > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-14 Thread Martin Marcher
the delimiter?). > > -- > Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> > 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> > Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) > > > -- > To

Re: LVM problems: pvmove "errors"

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Marcher
e parsing mirror status fraction: 1 core >ABORTING: Mirror percentage check failed. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Multiple MTAs?

2007-08-21 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On 8/21/07, Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Debian server, and was about to install an MTA, when I was stricken > by indecision as to which MTA actually to install. I realized that it would > probably be best to use Postfix to send/receive mail to/from the Internet > (beca

Re: make menuconfig problem

2007-09-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, 2007/9/12, Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I know there is another package which must be installed before make > menuconfig will work but I have forgotten what it is. i think that were build-essential and libcurses-dev (something with curses essentially) hth martin -- To UNSU

Re: Why doin't I have StringDefs.h in X11 include? (etch)

2007-09-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/12, Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A find cannot locate it anywhere on my system - have I missed some > important X!! dev package or something? Other includes appear to be > present in /usr/include/X11... apt-file search StringDefs.h after aptitude install apt-file -s has hel

Re: two protocols on one port.

2007-09-12 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/12, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 09/12/2007 10:51 AM, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > 12.140.16.4 is June. Now you would reconfigure openvpn on May to listen > on port 4122. Connections to port 22 on May would be redirected to port > 4122 on May only if they come from 12.140.16.4. Otherw

Re: mondoarchive

2007-09-13 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/13, debian user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am running Sarge. > > I apt-get(ted) the stable mondo tools and am trying to > use mondoarchive. etch is stable i suggest you get the oldstable (which is sarge) hth martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

[OT] File Storage Server

2007-09-14 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I've been looking around at the dell site (dell preferred since it's our standard vendor) for server with a lot of disks. I'm thinking of some box with 2U - 4U (maybe even 5) that will be a simple fileserver so that I can put debian on it make a SoftRAID (which is what I prefer since we do

Re: [OT] File Storage Server

2007-09-14 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, 2007/9/14, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Martin Marcher wrote: > > In essence all I would like would be a standard server where I can > > hotplug a lot of disks and be done with it (RAID resizing etc could be > > done from debian then). Something like 2G

Re: amd64 vs i386

2007-09-15 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, 2007/9/15, pietia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi > > Do you have any experiences in that competition: Debian amd64 vs Debian > i386 ? yes :) > Is i386 still faster than amd64 ? the question isn't wether it's faster or not it's more like the need of 64bit. You can easily go beyond 4GB of RAM (

Re: amd64 vs i386

2007-09-15 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/15, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/15/07 03:57, pietia wrote: > > hi > > > > Do you have any experiences in that competition: Debian amd64 vs Debian > > i386 ? > > > > Is i386 still faster than amd64 ? > > Since when was i386 *eve

Re: postgresql help

2007-09-15 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/15, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:36:59PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > But somewhere I screwed up my postgresql-8.2 database installation. > > I meant to set up the data directory on the RAID disk array > > Unfortunately I deleted the /var/lib/postgr

Re: Making use of the default printer

2007-09-16 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/16, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi > > What's the "Default Printer" actually means? > > I've setup one of my printers to be "Default Printer", > http://localhost:631/printers/ seems you refer to CUPS... > and I unset the LPDEST environment variable, in hoping the consequent > lpr

Re: Making use of the default printer

2007-09-16 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/16, - Tong - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:37:43 +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > hmm, same error: > > lp test.ps > lp: Error - LPDEST environment variable names non-existent destination ""! > > Anything wrong with my system? there

Re: Best way to install second version of Debian?

2007-09-16 Thread Martin Marcher
Sorry for top posting (to short to care about), you might be interested in this: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apds03.html.en 2007/9/16, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 15 Sep 2007, Joe wrote: > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > >> I want to install a second version of Debian o

Re: is my raid1 array really working??

2007-09-18 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/18, harland christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To me, it looks like HDA and HDC are in good health > and configured properly ... but what do I really know. > > Can someone tell me how I can really know if my > configuration is working? Is it REALLY this simple? Disclaimer - read the

Re: what's problem with router configuration

2007-09-19 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/9/19, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I used to connect Internet thru cable modem. > > Now I buy a wireless router and connect thru router. Actually I use wired > part of the wireless > router. > IP is auto configed as 192.168.1.100, and I can visit admin page of router, > but can'

[OT?] etch + java 1.5.12 + jboss 4.2

2007-09-19 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, just debootstrapped etch (like so often, about 25 servers in xen running here so something wrong here is unlikely, still open to hints). Got * jdk1.5.0_12 * jboss-4.2.0.GA from their original download websites. extracted to /opt/jboss-4.2.0.GA and /opt/jdk1.5.0_12 I'm open to any hints,

Re: [OT?] etch + java 1.5.12 + jboss 4.2

2007-09-19 Thread Martin Marcher
Found it, and it probably will hit others you _need_ to have the identity jboss wants to create in /etc/hosts - it doesn't seem to be enough that the FQDN is resolveable in dns hope it helps someone at least 2007/9/19, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, &

Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?

2007-09-20 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/20, Gabriel Parrondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > El jue, 20-09-2007 a las 08:56 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum escribió: > > I see that Gnome 2.20 was just released. Im running Debian Etch, which > > still seems to be stuck on Gnome 2.14, even though 2.16 was released > > about a year ago and 2.18

Re: can't access localhost

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/21, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:32:21 +0100 > "John O Laoi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # cat /etc/hosts > > 127.0.0.1 localhost mc > > 127.0.1.1 mc.home.m mc > > I see that you solved the CUPS problem, but I should point out > that the hosts file above is

Re: can't access localhost

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/21, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The issue is that 'mc' resolves to 127.0.0.1 (the first match), whereas > mc.home.m resolves to 127.0.1.1 (the only match). Thus the canonical > host name and its alias resolve to different IP addresses. uh oh, right, reading in context actually helps

Fwd: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Marcher
tion tools... -- Forwarded message ------ From: Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21.09.2007 19:13 Subject: Re: Basic Tomcatt5.5 Admin question To: Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007/9/21, Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:42:59 -0700 >

Re: Password file with over 3000 users.

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/21, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But the reference for Debian is sh, not bash... (at least when writing > packages). why is it then that /bin/sh is /bin/bash after a plain install of about every stable version i had by now? ok that makes only 3 but still (potato sarge etch iirc fo

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2427

2007-09-21 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/21, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > please take me off of your email list. List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list do these hints hel

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2427

2007-09-22 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/21, David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From: Martin Marcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 2007/9/21, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > please take me off of your email list. > > > > List-Id: > > List-Post: <mailto:debian-user@lists.debia

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm interested in the job offer you posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have several years of experience in Desktop and Server systems with debian and other linux distributions. I charge by the hour, every started hour is normally EUR 50. Contact me privately if you are interested. I also do ha

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-25 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/25, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thank you for the suggestion. This is definitely the tool that I was looking > for! > > I am still curious, however, if this actually shows all my hardware? I guess > the best comparison would be to Windows Device Manager where it shows you all

soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

2007-09-28 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm looking for a router, VPN server box. The soekris hardware[] seems to be exactly what I want. Seems it would work fine even withoug the vpn card. Initial googling showed me a vast amount of working *bsd installations but no clear answer on the linux part. I'd rather have debian on this

Re: soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/29, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stock debian kernel, > > and (this is something in found in several openbsd mailing l

Re: syslog recommendations?

2007-09-29 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/29, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael Shuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 09/28/2007 11:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > > > I'm looking for a few F/OSS syslog programs -- one easy to use (sort of > > > like Kiwi syslog) and another that's much more scalable and would let > > > me, s

Re: soekris net5501 and vpn14[01]1

2007-09-30 Thread Martin Marcher
ation etc) 2007/9/29, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007/9/29, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:31:06AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Is the mentioned vpn card[1] ready to use in the stoc

Re: Installing Debian from a Lan

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am hoping to install Debian over a lan. I know this is possible but I > haven't found much information on it. Suggestions? > > Could I set up the server to be 64bit but provide the packages for the 386 > install? That shouldn't be much o

Re: How to set iceweasel as the application to open http hyper links in icedove?

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/6, Michael Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When I click a hyper link in icedove, I'd like one browser, for example, > iceweasel, to open this link. > I didn't find any where within icedove to set this option. Could anyone > point it out? That is not an option in iceweasel it is related to

PXE booting over VPN

2007-10-06 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm going to deploy several soekris boxes on different locations. Now those nifty things can PXE boot and I was thinking about how to update them. I think the easiest would be to PXE boot them from some server located remotely and trigger something that let's the box reboot when I need to

Re: mdadm, partitioned array

2007-10-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adding some more info: > Interesting results. > I wonder if anyone else has a partitioned raid 5 array and have normal > speed results? I do. Well sort of. I don't partition RAIDs but I put LVM on top of it. I couldn't tell any difference b

Re: SSH Question

2007-10-11 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/11, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I see some of you talking about SSHing into your computer from > another. What if the computer you're > using isn't Linux/Unix? if you talk about the target computer being a windows host then cygwin has an ssh

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-17 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/17, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 4 partitions to make up 4 md's > > > md0 /boot ( ~ 500M - I like have space here) sda1 + sdb1 > md1 / (~10G) sda2 + sdb2 > md2 swap sda3 + sdb3 > md3 LVM PV sda4 + sdb4 > > from the PV I make a VG and then lots of LV's > > I have used this sort of

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, 2007/10/18, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Alex, > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:09PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > Interesting, I have a habit though of keeping root out of LVM, > > very easy to get access to root in emergency when its a raid1 > > parition > > Agree. Only partly, wit

Re: raid1 mdadm v's lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/18, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:39:21PM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > > IMHO lvm mirroring is useless. if I do LVM (on servers) I have > > multiple drives and i tend to trust mdadm more in this field than LVM > > (don't a

Re: Etch and Audio CDs

2007-10-23 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/23, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Am 2007-10-19 10:36:02, schrieb Todd A. Jacobs: > > I'm having a problem under Etch reading the last track on some CDs. I've > > googled around enough to know I'm not the only one having the problem, > > but can't find a solution. > > > This is

Re: XEN: xen-create-image with more than one disk

2007-10-23 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/23, Klaus Rödel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > i'm a xen newby and want to create a xen image with more than one disk > but i found nothing about this? is it actually possible? Here's an example config from a multi disk xen image with the "partitions" coming from LVM: --snip-- kernel =

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-24 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/24, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/23/07 22:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > I'll bite: why do you need COBOL? You've go C, Fortran, and Ada in > > Because apps written in COBOL are highly portable across platforms. > Are there any sarcasm tags missing? So it is highly port

Re: Sharing CD-RW from Linux to Win2k

2007-10-24 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a CD-RW drive attached to my Linux server and I was wondering if it > was at all possible to be able to access this drive (for both reading and > writing, though writing is what's important) from my Win2k box. If it is > possible, how w

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/25, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set myself up on my University's wireless network. I can > successfully connect to my home wireless using: in /etc/network/interfaces my eth0 looks like this: iface eth0 inet dhcp wpa-driver wext wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant

Re: wireles /wpa_supplicant - where to start?

2007-10-25 Thread Martin Marcher
sk="geheim" } --EOF please note that I have commented out most of the TKIP, AES stuff as wpa_supplicant usually is capable of finding it by itself, also in /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/examples there's a "catch-all" file IIRC that just tries everything (radius as well as

Re: Etch and Audio CDs

2007-10-28 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/23, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am 2007-10-23 16:41:27, schrieb Martin Marcher: > > Maybe you can bug your vendor to get the money back? > > No, since in Germany and in France they must write > ON THE CD cover that the CD is copy protected. I found tha

Re: mutt and IMAP accounts

2007-10-28 Thread Martin Marcher
and now for the rest of the world :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29.10.2007 08:47 Subject: Re: mutt and IMAP accounts To: Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user@lists.debian.org 2007/10/29, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: mutt and IMAP accounts

2007-10-28 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/29, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:34:14PM -0700, Richard Otte wrote: > > I am trying to set up mutt to access IMAP accounts. I can access them, but > > I > > want to be able to move to the available mailboxes when I type c (and it > > says > > to type '?' t

Re: How to send mails with attachments for each file in a directory ?

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Marcher
On 2008-01-30 09:26:12, Dan H. wrote: > My favorite way is to use find's -printf directive to construct the complete > commands and pipe the result to a shell. Has the advantage that you first > hack away at your complete find commend and give it a dry run, and if you're > happy with what it spits

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Marcher
Rick Thomas wrote: > I sincerely hope that the lack of Xen support in Lenny is a temporary > thing that will be fixed before the first Beta release.  Does anybody > know what's the problem? The problem is that xen is quite behind with kernels, afaik it's a HUGE patch to apply and the most recent

[OT maybe]Email Archiving

2008-02-18 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I'm looking for a solution for email archiving the priorities I have for it are the following: # reliability # offline backups (that'll probably be scripted) # availability # speed as the least important I guess every decent box that is out there does that, but I'm a bit unsure on the so

[OT] searching for crm

2008-03-22 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, I'm looking for a CRM software, looking around it seems that SugarCRM is the package of choice in this field but it's written in php and I don't do that normally so I'd rather choose a steep learning curve with python than with php. I also know of xrms.sf.net (php again) as an alternative but

exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-24 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, I've been a happy user of postfix for a long time but I generally consider it a knowledge lag not to know at least one competing product (which I don't). So it's time to change that and since I use debian I figured it can't be too bad to learn exim, a bit of googling around just brought up

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the > recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most > famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users,

SOLVED: LVM operations block

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, a quick note so that it will get indexed :) I'm on a plain debian/etch (no backports or other "unofficial" packages not originally included in etch) Whenever I do operations on lvm (pvdisplay, vgdisplay, lvdisplay) it just sits there and blocks. It does look like it's waiting for some I/O.

Re: Silent Cron Jobs

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, afaik cron (by default) mails all output from a script. If i create a cronjob I usually dump all stdout (just redirect it to /dev/null) But I want to be informed of any errors so I keep stderr. example: # this will get mailed echo "My cool cron script" # this will not mail stdout, but std

[OT] SQL Inline Documentation

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, I'm looking for the doxygen equivalent (enhancement) whatever. What it should be able to do is to document: * DDL Statements * Functions * Triggers absolutely cool would be something that generates a graph of dependencies between the tables. Ubercool(TM) if it did an analysis of the trig

Re: exim/postfix comparisons

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard comments from respected frequent posters on this list both > that they use postfix and that debian's decision to have Exim as default > was controversial. > I also lurk on OpenBSD's misc list. OB

Re: [OT] sqlite-amalgamation

2008-04-03 Thread Martin Marcher
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I am currently evaluating the use of sqlite3 to store application data from > a python application that I am writing. > > I am using Debian Etch so some of the packages are out of date and thus I >

Re: [OT] FOSS Marketplace

2008-05-19 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Samuel Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the marketplace people could ask: "Who can set up a mythTV > media center for me?" Questions like this aren't asked on lists > (e.g. debian-users) which brought myself to the idea that maybe > there is a market for

replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-02 Thread Martin Marcher
mount again and telinit 3 back to normal? thanks for the help -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mycorners.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmarcher http://www.studivz.net/profile.php?ids=9f83ea8c5996b8ec http://www.amazon.de/gp/re

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-03 Thread Martin Marcher
ou correctly. And of course ensure that you have good backups before you start. naahh, backups are for wimps :) -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mycorners.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmarcher http://www.studivz.net/profile.php?ids

Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

2007-05-03 Thread Martin Marcher
martin -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mycorners.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmarcher http://www.studivz.net/profile.php?ids=9f83ea8c5996b8ec http://www.amazon.de/gp/registry/wishlist/3KDAGCL2NKOIM/ref=reg_hu-wl_goto-registry/302-4

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

2007-05-03 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, On 5/3/07, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: also sprach Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.03.1217 +0200]: > So what are the hints wether to use stable the actual name or not? From my book: Exactly my opinion too, i was more interested in hearing wh

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

2007-05-03 Thread Martin Marcher
On 5/3/07, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.03.1434 +0200]: > > Exactly my opinion too, i was more interested in hearing why I would > > wan't stable instead of the hardcoded

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-04 Thread Martin Marcher
ck to work. I'll report how it went. maybe someone can use it. -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mycorners.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmarcher http://www.studivz.net/profile.php?ids=9f83ea8c5996b8ec http://www.amazon.de/gp/registry

Re: Remote HOME with SSHfs

2007-05-05 Thread Martin Marcher
chine at work, then the above file will point to the instance of KDE that is local to that machine. If you start another session from another machine, the could cause a conflict. Would it not be better to use vnc or something similar? A -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Lin

Re: OT: Religion, Good and Evil (was Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?)

2007-05-05 Thread Martin Marcher
live it is generally a "bad" thing to do so, even prohibited by law, even self murder is forbidden, but I've always wondered how they punish self murderers) -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mycorners.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher http://www.linkedin.com

Migrating a Server to debian

2007-05-07 Thread Martin Marcher
e: Intel Corporation 80332 [Dobson] I/O processor (B-Segment Bridge) (rev 07) 06:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1210 4-Port PCI-Express to SATA RAID Controller -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mycorners.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher htt

passwd and ldap

2007-05-09 Thread Martin Marcher
rohibit_message Please visit http://internal to change your password. -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mycorners.com https://www.xing.com/profile/Martin_Marcher http://www.linkedin.com/in/martinmarcher http://www.studivz.net/profile.php?ids=9f83ea8c5996b8ec http://www.amazon.de/gp/re

Re: passwd and ldap [SOLVED]

2007-05-10 Thread Martin Marcher
On 5/10/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had a similar problem, the way i tracked it down was to turn on logging on slapd it worked out the permissions were not correct. If memory serves me correctly I used a binddn as well a a rootdn. I'm using apacheds (directory.apache.org - reall

Re: passwd and ldap [SOLVED]

2007-05-10 Thread Martin Marcher
On 5/10/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:34:41AM +0200, Martin Marcher wrote: > The solution is in the options pam stack uses: > > /etc/pam.d/common-password: > password sufficient pam_ldap.so ignore_unknown_user > password r

autofs+ldap (without /etc/auto.master)

2007-05-10 Thread Martin Marcher
2,wsize=8192 shares:/sr v/nfs/management cn: management dn: cn=example,ou=data,ou=autofs,dc=example,dc=com objectClass: automount objectClass: top automountinformation: -fstype=nfs,hard,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 shares:/sr v/nfs/example cn: example -- Martin Marcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

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