On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:18 AM, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote:
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 04:29:23PM -0500, Scott Gifford
wrote:
I'm a bit surprised there isn't a solution that's less
messy, though.
There is: the automounter.
Maybe. The files on the server are accessed very
2010/2/22 Γιώργος Πάλλας gp...@ccf.auth.gr
(it is, isn't it? :-) )
So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo, and are
searching for our new environment. From my personal experience I would say
debian stable - any hard evidence to support the claim? Server OS
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Brian Ryans brian.l.ry...@gmail.comwrote:
Quoting Scott Gifford on 2010-02-16 14:41:14:
Is there a way to get similar behavior from a CIFS server, where a
rebooted
fileserver will automatically be remounted when it comes back?
Hi Scott. If my mental model
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.comwrote:
Scott Gifford put forth on 2/16/2010 2:41 PM:
[ ... ]
Is there a way to get similar behavior from a CIFS server, where a
rebooted
fileserver will automatically be remounted when it comes back?
Stop rebooting
Hello,
We have a Debian Linux server which has a persistent mount of a CIFS share
provided by a Buffalo fileserver (NAS) device.
The mount is started automatically (from fstab) when our Debian machine
boots, and works properly and consistently, unless the fileserver is
rebooted. Once that
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Laurent Guignard
lguignard.deb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:45:09 +0100, Peter Jordan wrote:
Hi,
under debian lenny during the boot process all created run files are
0644, but I want 0640.
Does anyone know how to configure that?
I'm
Reiner Buehl rei...@buehl.net writes:
I have a Debian Etch system that runs on a RAID 1 software raid
system. now I would like to upgrade it to Lenny by splitting the
mirror off and keep one mirror as a backup.
Hello Reiner,
I do exactly this when I upgrade a system. I simply disconnect
Rob Gom rgom.deb...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
Are there any mail programs which allow seamless integration with
fetchmail/getmail?
If by that you mean allow you to get your mail via POP or IMAP without
editing any configuration files, sure, all of the GUI mail clients do
this: Thunderbird,
I just got Debian installed on a new system that has IPMI monitoring
support. I haven't used it before, and it's quite cool! I can ask
for the status of various fans and disks remotely, and also send the
display to a remote computer.
The server is in a colo, so generally nobody is near the
Soren Orel soren.o...@gmail.com writes:
u...@debian:~$ $[ ($RANDOM % 30 ) -30 ]
bash: -26: command not found
[...]
it still doesn't work, and it gives only negative numbers when using e.g.:
30-30
First, it's giving an error because it's generating a random number,
then trying to run a
Todd A. Jacobs nos...@codegnome.org writes:
[...]
Dell purportedly sells a netbook with Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried
it myself.
I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed, and
it works quite well. The only thing that has never worked right is
the modem.
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes:
In lyk51l57jw@gfn.org, Scott Gifford wrote:
Todd A. Jacobs nos...@codegnome.org writes:
Dell purportedly sells a netbook with Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried
it myself.
I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed
Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes:
On 2009-07-27_17:55:18, Eric Gerlach wrote:
[...]
Oh, and S3 storage is cheap. $0.15/GB/mo, plus $0.10/GB upload/download.
[...]
Renting is easier, but I wonder how long the web based services will
be in business.
S3 is run by Amazon, and
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
On 2009-07-28 09:18, Eric Gerlach wrote:
[snip]
Sure. Let's go with 1TB for $90. Now I have to make sure the
client brings
the drive in, backs up, and takes it home every day. Try explaining to them
why that isn't worth the $3/mo that that Amazon
Berthold Cogel co...@uni-koeln.de writes:
[...]
We're doing somthing like this in /etc/sudoers:
Cmnd_AliasSHELLS =/bin/sh, \
/bin/bash, \
/bin/bash2, \
[...]
TRUSTED_USR ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL ,!SHELLS, NOROOT
This
Kelly Jones kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com writes:
I have a blackbox program that reads/writes to a named pipe.
I want to see what's being written w/o interfering w/ the program.
What's the easiest way to do this?
Maybe interceptty would help:
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com writes:
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:43:18 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
The manpage mentions that timestamp files are stored in /var/run/sudo,
Hmm... I didn't find it...
$ man sudoers | grep /var/run
$ man sudo | grep /var/run
Where did you find it?
On my
T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com writes:
How can I disable the sudo warning?
[...]
Sudo must have stored the weather-first-time value under one of the
following places:
$ grep ram /etc/fstab
/dev/ram1 /var/runramfs defaults,rw,auto,dev0 0
The manpage mentions
Peter Jordan usernetw...@gmx.info writes:
Suno Ano, Wed Jun 17 2009 19:07:31 GMT+0200 (CEST):
Peter Metadata = data stored in .svn/ ?
yes, problem is, Subversion does not have one directory i.e. one
.svn/
at the root of the project where is stores metadata but it scatters them
all over the
Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il writes:
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:08:05AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
[...]
For the file contents, if there are no subdirectories you can use:
cat `ls` |sha1sum
Which is basically:
cat * | sha1sum
The purpose of the ls was to sort
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
On 2009-07-06 20:29, Adrian Levi wrote:
2009/7/7 Mark Neidorff m...@neidorff.com:
On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a
complete directory tree?
This is what I was thinking,
Todd A. Jacobs nos...@codegnome.org writes:
[...]
echo shell: $SHELL
echo
echo Testing /dev/stderr:
echo foo /dev/stderr
echo
echo Testing 2:
echo bar 2
[...]
The two should be equivalent, so why am I getting permission errors on
the first but not the
Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes:
[...]
How can I rename all of the files ina directory with the new name
being the old name stripped of its leftmost three characters.
My favorite way to do this is with sed and xargs. First have sed
print the current name, then use an regexp to
Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in writes:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 08:30:01PM +0100, AG wrote:
I'm running Squeeze on a desktop and so far have an uptime of some
11d. I am just curious whether or not there is any guidance/ advice
on how long uptimes should be allowed to be run, or
Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:05:20PM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:17:44PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
While you may think its terribly inefficient, it isn't really. A fancy
Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes:
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 08:17:44PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Currently I have a shell script that works as below.
1) launch proga, progb in the background using nohup.
2) Ask proga, progb to write a file when they finish.
3) Every five
Zachary Uram net...@gmail.com writes:
It seems my /dev/null is messed up, if i try to echo to it i get error:
bash: /dev/null: No such device or address
Here is ls on it:
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 3, 2 2009-06-24 12:31 /dev/null
Can someone plz tell me the correct mknod command to run to fix
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
progc should to be launched only after both proga, progb are finished. progc
takes another couple of hours to finish.
What is good way to automate this problem (that is no manual
interaction)?
In a shell script, run proga and
Bhasker C V bhas...@unixindia.com writes:
Is there a method to prevent accidental powerdown of a linux box ?
or atleast alert ?
If you get in the habit of running shutdown -r +1 instead of
reboot, it will warn users for 1 minute before shutting down the
server. That should give you
Hello,
I have a Debian Etch installation that's beoming increasingly
unstable. It periodically freezes up, with nothing in the logs until
it is rebooted. I suspect a hardware problem, and would like to
identify it or rule it out before doing an upgrade to Lenny.
Can anybody recommend a good
Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes:
I'll intersperse comments on what I have sitting on my desk in front of
me:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:42:57AM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote:
[...]
Beyond that not much matters; any fairly modern server will be fast
enough.
Perhaps you need
Hello,
I'm considering purchasing a server to run Debian in a collocation
facility. In the past I've either leased collocated servers, or just
used whatever hardware was handy, but I haven't always been happy with
that approach. I'm sure others have done this, and was hoping to get
their advice
I had an interesting problem today. A friend called me up to say that
after an update, his Etch box wouldn't boot amymore, and could I come
by and take a look at it.
It was hanging waiting for udev to settle, and udev was starting tons
of modprobe processes that were just hanging.
Indeed,
Christopher Zimmermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
On my debian box using linux kernel its not possible to give away files:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% touch foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% chown otheruser foo
chown: changing ownership of `foo': Operation not permitted
only root can change file
Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 2008-12-09 22:56 +0100, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:53:47 -0800 (PST)
Arc Roca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That would be a terrible thing to happen, that any one could appropriate
your files to themselves.
I've been wondering about this;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
The motherboard I'm using is an intel d945gnt. It has an intel Martix
driver that will let me do RAID 5 in the bios. Then, linux should see
one big whopping device. That sounds like the easiest solution to me.
Option two is to use linux software RAID.
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jimmy Wu wrote:
[...]
(2) Does Debian support TPM chips? What is the community's take on the issue?
My take is that TPM does have some security merits, but it also has a
lot of potential for abuse.
Google turned up these results of the beginnings of TPM
Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:45:15PM -0800, Sam wrote:
if i read you correctly, you can read the file into an array and use pop,
which will return the last element read.Or you could use @array[-1]
That's rather wasteful of memory, which becomes a
Michael Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
when I want to investigate some issues on regular expression, in
Perl, I can use perldoc -q reg, in Java, I can search the class name with
the
keyword, in Qt, I can check the classes related to regular expression within
assistant doc.
With
joseph lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ok, checked my computer today and found strange output
on ttys1 which i only use for boot messages,
[A[Dj[2~[G[Cp;vy[Co[D+ut [Dc +[Ci[Dx+ryi[D+
ri[D+ri[D+rc[C6[D[1~i+ 6[D[1~9[2+i 6[1~[yejsw
[password:
It's possible some other process opened the
Mitchell Laks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
1) I don't know what this means.
It means you can't hit CTRL-Z to suspend a process, move processes to
the foreground and background, or use the jobs command. See the JOB
CONTROL section of bash(1) for more details.
Not sure what causes it, but I
Andrew Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have connected a laptop hdd to another laptop using a usb to ata
converter cable. The laptop has an sata drive and the internal drive i
have hanging off the usb cable is ata, and fdisk -l does not recognise
the device at all, but WinXP does see it OK
phillinux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project???
You can get images of XO to run in a virtual machine to check it out
and hack on yourself. I don't remember where I got mine, but I found
it easily from their Web site.
Good luck,
-Scott.
--
To
T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
$ stat /mnt/camera/dcim/100canon/img_0135.jpg img_0135.jpg
File: `/mnt/camera/dcim/100canon/img_0135.jpg'
Size: 892127 Blocks: 1792 IO Block: 32768 regular file
[...]
File: `img_0135.jpg'
Size: 885981
alexandrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I just figured that our complany's server was running on JBOD with 2 HDs,
one of them entirely unused (d'oh!). Of course I would like to have it as
RAID 1.
Now, I built an Array from the HD in use and know how to make it bootable,
but I suppose I
Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
What I don't know is how to seek around the file in a machine-independent
manner, and avoid future headaches.
[...]
(a) use fgetpos and fsetpos
This will presumably do random access to anything the machine's file
system will handle, but the
T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks everyone for the reply.
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:58:55 +0100, Bonnel Christophe wrote:
[...]
At this time, it can search on the network where the ip address is
used from another machine.
Can I do that myself from my Linux box?
A good tool for
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
So how big is the sandbox? What is the worst that a mal JS could do?
I don't know the exact details, but in general JavaScript is limited
to accessing its own browser window, the window that created it, any
windows it creates, and a few small
Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I noticed that on her machine, QEMU does not eat lots of CPU, while
on my machine, it eats the machine. I've copied the exact raw image
disc from her machine to mine, but QEMU eats my CPU.
Perhaps it's a difference in processor features. Newer
Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:05:08PM +0200, Arnau wrote:
In fact what I really want to do is
monitor how much memory PostgreSQL is using.
What about top? If you need to, you can limit top to a list of PIDs
top has the same issues as ps: you
Mitja Podreka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I've read a lot about backup software and already decided about which
one to use. I would like you to ask about advice about hardware.
Is external USB disc suitable for this? Should I put an extra disc to
my workstation?
To add to this
Arnau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I have a server with 4GB of RAM and I wanted to know how much
memory is being used by a PostgreSQL. To do so I have executed the
following:
ps -A -o rss,vsz,command|grep postgres | awk '{rss += $1; vsz += $2
} END { print Real: ,rss/1024MB
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 11:32:00AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
[...]
Figuring out exactly how much memory a set of processes are using is a
difficult problem. Looking in /proc/$pid/maps is a good place to
start.
probably the easiest thing
Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 12:50:51AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:07:23AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
Postgres completely fell apart, and it took many hours to piece things
Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 12:07:23AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:23:46AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Our upgrade from
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:23:46AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
BTW, is upgrade to Etch from Sarge not an option in your case?
Our upgrade from Woody to Sarge was so disastrous, I
Hello,
The managers of a facility where we house some Debian servers recently
ran a vunlerability scan against our up-to-date Sarge servers, and
reported vulnerabilities in the version of OpenSSH we were running. I
assume that these issues have been fixed or do not apply to Debian's
OpenSSH, but
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scott Gifford wrote:
CVE-2006-0225OpenSSH Local SCP Shell Command Execution
From /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/changelog.Debian.gz on Debian Etch
machine running openessh-server 4.3p2-9, this was fixed in 1:4.3p2-1
Thanks, from the bug
Sorry to jump in on an old discussion, but...
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
OK, I think its the latest kernel and some interaction with my
motherboard. I just booted a hand compiled 2.6.19 (originally done
when Debian was on 2.6.18 - because was needed to load the AGPGART
Anton Piatek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a amd64 install of debian with a 32bit chroot for a couple of
apps. This works great, but I have a question.
Is it possible to have an application inside the 32bit chroot launch
an application on my main 64 bit system? (e.g. a photo browsing
Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:32:30PM -0500, Scott Gifford
wrote:
Hello,
We're trying to set up MRTG on a Debian box, just upgraded
from Woody to Sarge. It's showing zero usage on a very
busy server. Some investigation reveals that the byte
counters
Hello,
We're trying to set up MRTG on a Debian box, just upgraded from Woody
to Sarge. It's showing zero usage on a very busy server. Some
investigation reveals that the byte counters are maxed out:
# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:B0:D0:F0:82:85
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Baz wrote:
They're discussing Linux on NPR's Talk of the Nation now. FYI...
I wonder if someone has a link to the podcast...
The segment I suspect Baz is talking about is here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6711038
Linux
L.W. van Braam van Vloten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello group,
Is there any objection against adding /bin/false to the file
/etc/shells? Most notably, are there any security considerations?
It's common to use /bin/false for users who can't log in, and that
usually includes blocking access
Tyler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have noticed that my laptop is starting to slow down quite
noticeably, although irregularly so. Basic tasks like opening xterm in
fluxbox sometimes take a few seconds or more, and there's even a
noticeable delay with command line stuff like ls. Not always,
Hello,
I have several Debian Woody systems that, for various reasons, are
inconvenient to update. I somehow misread Debian's support policy,
and though I had another year before support ended, but now I'm
finding that these systems are getting out-of-date and security
updates are no longer
José Alburquerque [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I might be able to execute
the same command just before the execution of a command issued at the
prompt of a bash shell.
If you're using bash, try something like this:
PS1='@$SECONDS $ '
Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:07:05PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:48:24PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
Are there any good Spanish Lesson Programs that run on linux? I can
shutdown and reboot to Windows but I hate to
enediel gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
My main concern is for example, if somebody has access to turn off the
box, create one image disk, and go home with all the information
available, at this moment, I want to have all the information
encrypted as much as possible to make this
Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul Johnson wrote:
Sorry, no. On anything bigger than your personal mail
server, Qmail is going to require replacing with a modern MTA.
There's a reason to not like it other than just djb-damage?
Aside from DJB (which is big reason enough for me),
Lorenzo Bettini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
However, there are cases where this is not enough, since the script,
although it has #!/bin/sh is actually written (and interpreted) in
another language, e.g., Tcl.
So my question is, is there another way of detecting the actual
language? I
James Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I was advised this was a problem with my initrd because it didn't
contain a mdadm.conf file and presumably that I should
Unfortunately, some friends of mine do not agree that my initrd is the
problem because they point out that I can still boot
Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I want to properly duplicate what the crontab -e
application does and not introduce some problem that bites later.
You can install a crontab file by running:
crontab [filename]
This will do exactly what crontab -e does, only without
Hello,
I'm running a Debian Woody system. I recently updated the kernel to
the latest Debian-packaged kernel-source-2.4.19. This morning, the
server crashed with a kernel oops. The function it crashed in is
may_ptrace_attach, one of the functions affected by the recent
upgrade. I've included
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