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I got past the login but now it shows my username@debian20:$ what I do now
apparently, the feature that lets you choose meaningful subject
lines is also broken. i'd look into that.
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that that's the only line
that will be in that file, since it's module-specific. (of course, if
you're creating a new file, then either way will work just fine.)
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Camaleón wrote:
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:12:55 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
just a cleanup-related question but on a debian lenny server that
i've inherited, i'm curious to know which packages have no value
whatever and that i can delete. i recall there's a utility
Quoting Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com:
Is there a way to redirect stdout to a file without clobbering its
possibly-existing contents? Rather, the output should be appended to
the end of the file. Thanks.
use instead of .
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No joke! I honestly wondered why there is an Esperanto mailing list.
For the love of Mutt, will someone please kick this idiot off the list
and be done with this?
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the operating system.
people who are drawn to an *advanced* administration book are
typically past the point where they need to be sold on the OS.
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On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote:
ola...@gmail.com wrote:
Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the
latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Windows run...
Be careful though. Not all of Intel's latest stuff
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On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Sun December 27 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
make sure you select /proc/config.gz support so that you can recover
your .config file for your running kernel from that file.
I don't remember seeing an option for that..
if you're doing
always easier after that
make sure you select /proc/config.gz support so that you can recover
your .config file for your running kernel from that file.
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apache *much* sooner than i
did. do that ASAP.
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settings are no longer
correct, i just need to know how to figure out what they *should* be
on this system.
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directory, i might as well stay consistent.
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if i might summarize what i was droning on about below:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
if i might impose on the list one more time, this has to do with
still tweaking the migration i did once upon a time, and is
webalizer-specific, but i'm betting someone here is going
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
Robert P. J. Day 写道:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
Robert P. J. Day 写道:
as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the
current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the
earlier one, so rather than
sure it stays there over upgrades?
thanks, i've been awake for a day and a half and i'm just too tired to
go looking for the answer. sorry.
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
Robert P. J. Day 写道:
as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the
current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the
earlier one, so rather than fight with the new one, i'm happy to
use the older version. how exactly
http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/2009/09/next-adventure-in-ecm-begins.html
DISCLAIMER: i know the lady in question, but don't let that scare
you off. :-) remember, it's all about the open source.
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p.s. i've got sources.list configured to use only lenny, so it's
possible that there's a fixed version in testing.
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out where that would have been configured so i can add it to
the new system. i've checked things related to autofs but i don't see
it. hint? i'm sure it's obvious, i just haven't found it yet.
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
more specifically, on an old lenny system, when an external maxtor
(1-touch) HD was plugged in via USB, it was *apparently* mounted
automatically under /mnt/maxtor, for the purposes of backups later
in the evening.
i have a full backup
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote:
I would check with mount how the filesystem was mounted, then
add it to /etc/fstab. Is that the case?
nope, found it: an entry in /etc/auto.usb. i *figured* it was an
automount/autofs issue
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, gham...@sv-phoenix.com wrote:
Quoting Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca:
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote:
I would check with mount how the filesystem was mounted, then
add it to /etc/fstab
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:08:46AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
no, i don't think i should need to do that. the *old* system
didn't have an entry in /etc fstab for this. what i'm puzzled by is
that, if the automounter isn't running, there's
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:12:03PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i know udev is a better solution *today*, but i'm trying to
strictly reproduce what the old system was using, and it wasn't
mounting that HD via udev, it was doing it via autofs
will have the same IP address and hostname,
but i can't imagine that will make any difference. can i just grab
the entire previous /etc/ssl and use it unchanged?
and a followup question on this a bit later.
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
tidying up some issues from my upgrade/migration, and there was a
1-touch maxtor external HD on the old (sarge) system that,
apparently, did a backup when you did that one-touch thing. the
question is: what software would have been sitting
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
having finally made the switch from an old server running lenny to
a new one (running at the same IP address), most functions seem to
be working, but samba shares are failing -- people who used to be
able to access shares from their windows
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Ali Jawad wrote:
Just a quick Question, why does apache have a shell in passwd file
on debian ?
not sure this answers your question, but you can't use that as a
login account since its entry in /etc/shadow has no legal password.
so, unless i'm missing something, i guess
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:14:40AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
a question about mysql. i want to reproduce all the mysql
databases
.
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p.s. once all this is done, i really do plan on summarizing what i
had to go through so others can take advantage of it.
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samba but, since it's not on the old server, i just figure
i'll delete it so everything matches exactly.
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
/etc/samba/*
Samba has some important stuff in /var/
/var/lib/samba
/var/run/samba
/var/spool/samba
/var/cache/samba
/var/log/samba
quite right, i'd forgotten about that, but as i read it, pretty much
all
things like expiration dates,
that would let me poke at some of those .pem files and go, aha,
that's the one with that expiration date.
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any pain.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:21:52AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want
to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an
old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to
advice
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
Robert P. J. Day schreef:
i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want
to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an
old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to
advice on the easiest
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2009-09-16 13:46 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
Robert P. J. Day schreef:
i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to
move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old
32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
a question about mysql. i want to reproduce all the mysql
databases on the new system. is it sufficient to copy all of
/var/lib/mysql? is that where the databases are physically stored
account has a UID of
114. on new system, 105. numerous other daemon UID differences as
well. so a straight copy isn't going to work here. this just gets
trickier and trickier.
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*exactly* what you want for migrations.
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to
move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old
32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:16:32PM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i
want to move my entire current
on
the server might have been tweaked. thanks.
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed,16.Sep.09, 13:24:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
if i read this correctly, you're suggesting that if the server
packages already have entries (100-999) in the passwd/group/shadow
files (carried over from the old system), they'll keep
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 06:58:17PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day
wrote:
does anyone know the debian installer well enough to know *what*
circumstances will cause said installer to refuse to offer grub as
a bootloader, and only present lilo
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
j...@jretrading.com wrote:
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how big is your boot partition?
tiny -- 512M.
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Andrew Reid wrote:
On Sunday 13 September 2009 03:33:50 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
possibly related to an earlier post that discussed grub but, when
installing lenny, if i choose to create a separate, primary partition
for /boot (a long-time habit), if i select ext3
dumb question but how do i identify the package that contributed a
specific file to my installation? on my fedora system, i'd ask:
$ rpm -qf filename
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configuration information to
preserve, what's the simplest recipe to save my pkg info, then restore
it after a really basic fresh install? thanks.
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the install over again? any attempt i make to
modify the LV layout tells me that the lenny503 (my chosen VG name)
volume group is already in use. so ... restart install?
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
almost assuredly a dumb question but i'm testing a 5.0.3 AMD install
and, early in the process, i selected the pre-configured multi-LV
partitioning (home, tmp, usr, var). at this point, it doesn't seem
like i can back
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
since i saved the output from dpkg --get-selections from the
previous install before reformatting the hard drive, i understood
that i could do a bare-bones install, then use dpkg
--set-selections to reproduce the package selection and install
to activate
that wireless interface? i've tried:
# ifconfig wlan0 up
which simply returns but doesn't give me wireless. any hints on the
magic incantation? thanks.
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On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i'm sitting in front of a lenny system which does not have either
network-manager or network-manager-gnome installed on it, but i
would dearly love to activate the broadcom wireless.
the installed broadcom firmware worked fine a while back when
as a followup to a post from a few days back, i still can't get
imapproxy installed and configured on this (fully-upgraded) lenny
system. every attempt to aptitude safe-upgrade produces:
... snip ...
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
imapproxy
0 packages
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
as a followup to a post from a few days back, i still can't get imapproxy
installed and configured on this (fully-upgraded) lenny system. every attempt
to aptitude safe-upgrade produces:
... snip ...
The following partially installed packages
as in, is it entirely optional? it's causing me grief on my new
lenny system so i'd just like to take it right out as long as that
won't cause problems. thanks.
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Mark Allums wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
theoretically, i can see that it shouldn't cause any breakage.
but i was curious when i noticed that libhal1 on this etch
system is listed as an orphan.
coming from a fedora universe, i always thought of the HAL layer
of
them, i'm in good shape.
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
Robert P. J. Day 写道:
i finally pulled the trigger on this, almost 300 packages upgraded,
rebooted and here are some of the (apparently non-fatal) issues i ran
across:
... snip ...
3) in fact, running aptitude upgrade tells me that slapd is still
upgrade generates that same diagnostic.
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p.s. should i have done something differently during the upgrade to
have avoided this issue?
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
Robert P. J. Day 写道:
this might actually be the final issue for me to resolve after this
upgrade (one can only hope). there is one package that is still only
partially configured: imapproxy. an attempt to complete its
configuration generates
not being started.)
thoughts?
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i was hoping to continue running apache 1.3 on my new lenny
system, just until i could make sure i had a clean upgrade path,
then make the switch to apache2
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Robert P. J. Day wrote:
is there a way to just add php5 support to apache 1.3 so i can
get horde up and running again, or should i just bite the bullet
and do what it takes to switch
debian
system from an aging, old system to a newer one. thoughts?
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a couple of hours. Parallel
running was very attractive.
i'll bet it was. thanks for the advice.
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currently a 32-bit system and i'm moving it to a 64-bit
server. duh. (yes, i know i could install a 32-bit OS but that would
be a waste of all that 64-bit processing power.)
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On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Chris Burkhardt wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
currently perusing the FAQ, section 5.10 asks, where is pine?
since alpine is apparently available for debian, shouldn't that
section at least mention that alternative? i've used alpine as a
drop-in replacement
plan is to, for all of those older lib packages, use
apt-cache rdepends to see who cares about it and, if no one, purge
it. i see no reason to hang onto useless packages, if they are in
fact useless.
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On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny
system right now, and i see not a single example of a lib package
for which multiple versions are installed, which is what i would
expect.
argh, i take it back -- i just noticed
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Kevin Ross wrote:
From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca]
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:00 AM
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny
system right now, and i see not a single
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are
a number of packages that have more than one version installed. for
example (and from memory), there are at least three versions of gcc
installed
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are
a number of packages that have more than one version installed. for
example (and from memory
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packages were lib packages, so it should be
easy(?) to ask whether there's anything installed that needs an older
version. if not, i should be ok to get rid of it, no?
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On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
Robert P. J. Day 写道:
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'.
it does, but how does that solve my problem? should i try to
purge a package, then see what the result would be before saying
yes
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
Robert P. J. Day 写道:
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'.
it does, but how does that solve my problem? should i try to
purge a package, then see
that suggestion?
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upgrading, there are a number of packages that
are installed with more than one version. i'd just like to clean that
system by purging anything that has no value.
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
Robert P. J. Day 写道:
(NOTE: please ignore my earlier and utterly misinformed plea
for help. turns out that, in attempting to mount /dev/sda1 as the
alleged root filesystem, the new 2.6 kernel was finding the
external backup hard drive at /dev/sda1
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
that is the *ultimate* goal, but i'm doing this in steps. on the
chance that it's the default 2.6.18 etch kernel, i just upgraded that
to the 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel. we'll see if that fixes things.
upgrading to the 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel
2.6.18
???
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