Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 07:04:35PM +0100, Tixy wrote: On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 09:50 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I need a way to test in Bash whether, or not, there actually is a disk mounted at /media/wdp8. A bit hacky, but what I do in my backup scripts is... if mount | grep -q

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 12:22:27PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is complicated because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a similar situation with the

Re: Debian desktop news

2012-08-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:33:04AM -0400, Guy Gold wrote: On Fri,Aug 10 02:26:PM, Darac Marjal wrote: However, I don't know whether you can really say Debian+GNONE3. Debian is nothing without the packages. Gnome 3 is part of Debian. When was GNOME3 the default desktop for Debain ?

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:16:23AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:23:47 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) So, my query is this; is the inability of 64 bit Debian 6, to swap properly, instead using increasing amounts of RAM until it runs

Re: Query about failure of Debian 6 64 bit to swap properly

2012-08-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 01:01:28PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: To the list... Does anyone have any nice 'ps' recipies for doing the same thing? ps STUFF --sort vsize -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: e2fsck errror: Error reading block (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read)

2012-08-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:28:20AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 1) Does this mean there are badblocks on my hard drive? Yes. 2) Am I correct in choosing yes to both these questions or is there a better way? Yes. 3) Is the drive going bad and need to be replaced? Yes. 4) What

Re: e2fsck errror: Error reading block (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read)

2012-09-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:40:55PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:28:20AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 4) What might have caused this problem and how to prevent it in the future? I don't know, but in my experience, USB

Re: Storage server

2012-09-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 06:29:35PM +0200, Veljko wrote: Hi! I'm in the process of making new backup server, so I'm thinking of best way of doing it. I have 4 3TB disks and I'm thinking of puting them in software RAID10. I created 2 500MB partitions for /boot (RAID1) and the rest it

Re: Persistent MySQL Process

2012-10-06 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:27:07AM -0700, Daniel Latter wrote: Hi All, System: cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 I have a long running MySQL process that runs for days and eventually crashes the server. I googled about and discovered that Debian has it's own MySQL start up script

Re: How to update

2012-10-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:41:54PM +0100, Edwin Zarthrusz wrote: Can you send me a straight-forward list of commands for updating and applying any necessary security patches and such on my install? And is there a way of getting it to update automatically? 1. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: W: best way to clone server data using rsync

2012-05-01 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 01:08:14PM +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: Here's what I got so far from google research: rsync --sockopts=SO_SNDBUF=128000,SO_RCVBUF=128000 -e rsh --archive \ --recursive --partial --partial-dir=rsync-part --progress --append \ --files-from=/root/LISTOFFILES.txt

Re: W: best way to clone server data using rsync

2012-05-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 10:19:42PM +0200, Tuxoholic wrote: I noticed rsh is not installed, it's linked to /etc/alternatives/rsh, which is linked to /usr/bin/ssh. Calling rsh instead of ssh should avoid file encryption during transfer, at least that was the intention. That isn't what will

Re: Panning the screen to get an usable GNOME desktop in netbooks

2012-05-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:22:14PM +, Camaleón wrote: Yup, I also tried with xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate right -which works- but from there is very hard to direct the mouse to the right place, i.e., it's unmanageable. Do you have an xorg.conf? If so, does it set a virtual screen

Re: Panning the screen to get an usable GNOME desktop in netbooks

2012-05-08 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 01:47:47PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 07 May 2012 14:33:49 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 01:22:14PM +, Camaleón wrote: Yup, I also tried with xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate right -which works- but from there is very hard to direct

Re: destination port changes every time

2012-05-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:03:48PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: *Hi, I wrote a client/server programs, the server listen on port 5000 and of course the client connected on that port , I check the communication via the sniffex.c program from pcap (adapting something) , I noticed

Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-05-21 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 05:41:51PM +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: P.S. How does one order an OLPC? I am interested in one for my niece, but it seems impossible to find in a shop. Revolution hardware indeed. :-) They aren't generally available to the retail public. There was a program

Re: Mythtv problem with versions

2012-05-21 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:42:46AM -0400, Marty wrote: My testing mythtv-frontend is at version 0.25. I get the same error message as the original poster. Reportedly, the 0.24/0.25 combination does not work: http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-April/332832.html If you got

Re: 83 key IBM model m XT keyboard with Debian?

2012-06-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:40:18PM -0400, Doug wrote: On 06/17/2012 10:40 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: A keyboard that holds a reasonable second place was called a 2000--I don't know who made it, bet we had them at work, back in the 90s. They didn't make as much noise as the model M, but the

Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB

2012-06-21 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 06:32:11PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Your 200 to 300 Mbps correspond to your disk throughput in my opinion. Try to use iperf to test your network throughput, and be well aware that your disk io will be the real bottleneck here. sorry i got your question

Re: tar - unresponsive machine

2013-02-28 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 05:27:19PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Is it normal that when using the tar command to create a big archive, the whole machine becomes unresponsive, e.g. several dozens of seconds to do some operation (e.g. starting an xterm, or making Firefox react)? htop shows

Re: Raid 5

2013-03-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 12:05:02AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: The issue is the probability of failure of a second drive when the array is vulnerable after the failure of one drive. Given that all modern drives have SMART capability, you can normally detect a faulty drive long before it fails. The

Re: Squeeze: Create LVM from 2x raid5 + 12x 2TB disks

2011-11-01 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 12:45:33PM +0100, Denny Schierz wrote: With raid5 22TB, which seems to be better ... But, what is the best? To create only one big MD is something bad, I think. On FreeBSD I have with ZFS and 2 x raidz round about 21TB. any suggestions? Yes. If you don't

Re: How to install broadcom BCM4312 on debian

2011-11-03 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:50:50PM +0200, John Caveman wrote: Hello there, I tried to install Debian on my own a while ago and failed. I hope I can find some help here to finally install it. The problem is, I don't know how to install my network driver. Output of lscpi from UBUNTU is:

Re: nfs howto - are debian docs dated?

2011-11-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 01:34:47PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: On one site (the one cited above) I noticed said something about having to change kernels. I'm currently running wheezy with 3.0.0-686-pae. Will that need to be changed? No. aptitude install nfs-kernel-server Now you have the

Re: setting up WiFi adapter (Broadcom BCM4321 14e4:4328 chipset) in latest version of Debian

2011-12-01 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 12:07:24PM -0800, Colin Reinhardt wrote: Im new to Debian/Linux... I have tried following the Debian Wireless-HowTo and other related Linux WiFi HowTos. I downloaded and installed the firmware-b43-installer and b43-fwcutter, (synaptic shows them as installed packages

Re: In Need of Advice

2011-09-06 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 12:54:16PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: How would you good gentles go about putting such a plan as mine into action? In other words, how would you go about accessing a Linux machine with a DOS system? Is there any special software? Would I have to use a USB port? If I am

Re: In Need of Advice

2011-09-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:39:46PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Dan Ritter wrote: ... And on your DOS box, you want to set up the Crynwr packet driver appropriate for your ethernet card -- see http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm for packet drivers. DOS

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:33:10PM +0200, jacques wrote: Hi, by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( The server is still up. Most of the services are restarted either by copying (rsync) the binaries from another squeeze server (both are running Squeeze) or

Re: Rolling my own

2011-09-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:40:16AM -0600, Dave Higgins wrote: I appreciate the help here. But the question at hand is how do I add a file to a CD and get the file to install at install time? It shouldn't be as mysterious as it seems to be, i.e. I should be able to edit a file and say add

Re: Small local caching proxy

2011-09-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 01:17:18AM +0600, Gary Golden wrote: Hello, list. I'm looking for a small caching proxy which I would run for my own use on localhost. I don't require ACL or other multiuser features, I just want to save some bandwidth. I installed squid, but it's there is too

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:32:39PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: When attempting to extract rar files in either Linux or Unix, the file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux utilities will not work, because it seems

Re: HA Load Balancer

2011-10-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:17:10PM -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote: I have two smtp servers on two separate boxes, behind NAT. Depending on what connection url is supplied, I would like to forwarding it to appropriate local server. I understand, load balancer does this. If this is the ideal way,

Re: New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 06:06:38PM +1000, yudi v wrote: Hi all, Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am building a new desktop and wondering what the best configuration to get redundancy and speed. Some thing like ZFS RAID1 or RAIDz. I am not going with SSDs as they

Re: Debian dial in server -web access under squeeze

2011-10-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:45:50PM -0700, Peter oliver wrote: trying to create a dial in box from modem to Ethernet (LAN DSL) using IBM netvista P4 (2.26c 512mb) with external us robotics 56k modem on com2 System is using new Squeeze install (nuked the XP install on the system)- command

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-22 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:58:03PM +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: The computer consultant has actually printed out on a piece of A5-sized paper just what he's offering. I'm going to ignore the Intel Core i3-2100 with 4GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM and get the higher spec. machine. It will have Intel

Re: Setup SSH to login from Internet to system behind firewal and sudo for few commands

2012-03-21 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 07:15:38PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: Hi, I have a desktop machine: Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system that is behind a Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze firewall/gateway. I want to setup firewall/gateway for an user to can login with SSH into my desktop from the Internet.

Re: ethernet card problem

2012-03-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 07:45:02PM +1000, Alan Kerns wrote: The hours wasted, and the mounting frustration, lead me to ask again: what ethernet card(s) will definitely work with the standard installer? Starting with the +firmware installer CD --

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:43:06AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:13:34 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: Again, Brother support is horrible. I wouldn't expect them to be engineers, but to at least have heard of Linux and know that is a kernel not an OS :) After I

Re: OT: Linux or Cisco

2007-04-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:05:57AM +0530, CCNAStuff wrote: I already get about 4 - 5 mails everyday for sysadmin/Linux/Solaris jobs. But most of these want a Solaris admin or want me to know C/C++ or MySQL/PHP or Perl Scripting or Oracle which I do not know. Plain Linux Sysadmin jobs seem

Re: Wiki page automation (POST method with urlencode)

2007-11-28 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 08:49:58PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi folks, I am looking for tool to create application/x-www-form-urlencoded data. Here is the background. As I use wiki.debian.org sometime but I was tired of slow response. So I now use local wiki to edit text fist and

Re: cssh alternative

2010-01-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:29:47PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya Anyone know of a gnome alternative to cssh, or something similar. Have you considered editing your .cssh file to open gnome-terminals? -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You

Re: desktop mobo in a 19 inch

2010-01-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:40:33PM +0100, randall wrote: simple question here, if i buy a ATX 19 rack case with included power supply, i can simply put any ATX desktop mobo it it right? i've always used simple desktop towers but its getting a little crowded nowadays. this would a 2U

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 04:44:32PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 26 April 2010 09:29:28 Tim Clewlow wrote: I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements increase. Since you seem fine with

Re: Linux Raid Partitions

2009-10-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 01:05:03PM +1100, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi All, I have a drive out of a Western Digital Mybookworld World edition drive. cfdisk -Ps /dev/sdb tells me that there are four partitions and this drive and that the file system is Linux raid on all four

Re: Linux Raid Partitions

2009-10-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:11:40PM +1100, Stephen Grant Brown wrote: Hi Dan, Thank you for your reply. /proc/mdstat - no such file or dir /dev/md0 - no such file or dir mdadm -Q /dev/sdb2: - device 0 in 2 undetected raid1 mdadm -Q /dev/sdb4 - device 0 in 2 undetected raid1 mdadm

Re: Wondering about doing something strange with networking

2009-10-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:58:18AM +, Alan Chandler wrote: The remainder of the devices - although ideally should use dhcp, could be configured with static addresses (and therefore also routes) to regard eth0:0 on the plug computer as a gateway (the plug computer would use 192.168.0.1

Re: NTP Server

2009-10-27 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:27:21AM -0400, Roman Gelfand wrote: I have started time server, ran ntpdate command. The time matched. Several weeks later the time is off by a little more than a minute. What is controlling how often time server updated by the ntpdate command? ntpdate is a one-time

Re: Knowledge Base Server

2009-11-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 11:29:24AM -0500, Roman Gelfand wrote: Can somebody recommend a knowledge base tracking web server software. I'm not sure if you're asking for a specialized wiki or a ticketing system, or maybe a bug tracker. A wiki is a good way of keeping loose bits of information

Re: Inquiry:Where to download Debian 3.1 kernel 2.6.15.7.ki-2 iso image for x86 platform?

2009-11-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 05:41:32AM +, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Please be informed that I needed to install Debian 3.1 kernel 2.6.15.7.ki-2 for x86 platform but my current kernel is as 2.4.27-2-386 . Can you please do me favor and let me have the link to download its iso image for x86

Re: Inquiry:How to enable NAT on Debian 3.1 ?

2009-11-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:44:06PM +0300, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: 11/23/2009 08:35 PM, Tzafrir Cohen: /me senses a mixing of repositories. /me senses he wants to make things the wrong way. /me senses he refuses to take any advice which might involve learning before typing away at the

Re: Centralized Managed Cron Daemon

2009-12-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:37:02PM -0500, Israel Garcia wrote: On 12/14/09, Glenn English g...@slsware.com wrote: On Dec 14, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Israel Garcia wrote: Is there any centralized managed cron daemon for debian where I can manage crontabs from other nodes? I hesitate to

Re: Centralized Managed Cron Daemon

2009-12-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 01:29:23PM -0500, Israel Garcia wrote: The problem is I don't use webmin at all.. so I'm looking for something easier than installing webmin in more than 200 nodes...:-) That doesn't sound like you want a cron manager so much as a systems administration automation

Re: no xorg

2013-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:18:15AM +0200, sp113438 wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 20:36:37 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, sp113438 wrote: Hello, I did a fresh minimal install of wheezy I could not add xorg afterwards. I am not going to install

Re: Hardware support

2013-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 08:31:52PM +0400, sean Griffiths wrote: Hello and Good Day, Please can you tell me if Debian squeeze 64 bit accepts more than 4GB ram, ie 8GB? I have a Dell Latitude D6200 and am in the process of upgrading to a D6300 which will accept 8GB maximum RAM and Dell

Re: fsck on boot...revisited

2013-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:09:00AM -0500, Tim Nelson wrote: - Original Message - On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:28:56AM -0500, Tim Nelson wrote: I have an interesting use case where a Debian Lenny server runs headless, and is at the mercy of poor power conditions (environmental

Re: RAID broken after kernel upgrade.

2013-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:01:40AM -0400, d...@ubutton.com wrote: After upgrading to kernel 3.9-1 from 3.2, my system will no longer boot. My OS is located on a RAID array, but when the system boots it says something along the lines of mdadm: no arrays in the configuration file were found and

Re: 10.1 clipped windows

2013-07-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 09:14:32PM +0200, MIMUNA wrote: Dear Debian Support, I like very much using Debian on my 10.1 inches netbook. However, I have experienced some problems with clipped windows (e.g. some settings windows) due to my screen size: I can't see the lower buttons of the window

Re: iscsitarget in Jessie

2013-08-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:31:52PM -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: I am hoping someone can help with this, I am trying to get iscsitarget working in my Jessie install. When I try to do the install of iscsitarget and iscsitarget-dkms it complains about missing linux-headers-3.2-0-xxx when 3.9

Re: Re: RAID broken after kernel upgrade.

2013-08-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:46:54PM -0400, Doug wrote: I have already done this multiple times and nothing seems to have changed. Here is a copy of mdadm.conf for your inspection. Does this look right? Any other ideas? Thanks for the help! I can't tell whether the copy of mdadm.conf you

Re: ldirectord troubleshooting

2013-09-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 03:59:07PM +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote: Hi list, I'm running a couple of ldirectord/ipvsadm software loadbalancers in front of web servers running Debian. Since upgrading to debian 7, on one server the connections just don't seem to get through . Each time I do a

Re: Identifying CPU

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:53:03AM -0300, Beco wrote: Hi Guys, Please, can I get something like the 'Extended brand string' from cpuid to identify a cpu using C language? Of course, not using system(cpuid) :) Something more cross-platform. Is x86 enough for you? If so,

Re: a question concerning rxvt-unicode and update-alternatives

2013-09-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 02:34:13AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: The rxvt-unicode program is now already installed, but when it does not seemed to be offered in: update-alternatives --list x-terminal-emulator None of the existing options: /usr/bin/aterm-xterm

Re: Mailing list organization

2013-09-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:08:55AM -0700, Josef Bailey wrote: Hello all I'm new to mutt / Debian mailing list What im trying to do is in gmail.com i have many sub folders .. Every Folder / label is whatever mailing list i have subscribed to debian (eg. Debian_User =

Re: Mailing list organization

2013-09-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:19:05AM -0700, Josef Bailey wrote: Thanks for the reply So yes .. im using gmail and its an imap account You can use mutt as an IMAP client, in which case you need a constant connection to gmail, but gmail does the filtering. If that's the case, you just need to

Re: Re (2): Multiplicity of accounts.

2013-10-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:05:33PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have three machines. I am the *ONLY* person with access to any of them. One machine has my projects and associated data. There is an image of its hard drive on a 1TB USB drive which is currently not connected. This machine is

Re: Re (2): Multiplicity of accounts.

2013-10-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 02:59:45PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 01:05:33PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: So why shouldn't I want the same privileges in the GUI as I have after issuing su in the command line mode? It's easy to screw up with root

Re: loop back iptables

2013-10-08 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 03:04:14PM -0700, james gray wrote: working with Debian 7.0 working with the examples at https://wiki.debian.org/iptables when i write a example for a lo0 table as shown -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT and follow procedure of iptables-restore file-name

Re: Logitech unified wireless

2013-10-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 02:05:17PM -0500, Catherine Gramze wrote: I ran into a snag getting this set up on my new computer. I found a gem of info online, telling me I had to use a USB 2 port and not a USB 3 port, but it still wouldn't work. I finally figured out it was a pairing problem, due

Re: Logitech unified wireless

2013-10-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:18:38PM +0200, Gareth de Vaux wrote: On Mon 2013-10-14 (07:18), Dan Ritter wrote: There's a utility called solaar which can reprogram Logitech mice and keyboards to use a plugged-in receiver; it's at http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/index.html Ran into this today

Re: How to format the command output like MySQL output

2013-10-21 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:17:44PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/19/2013 9:17 PM, 陶治江 wrote: 于 2013-10-20 0:53, Lars Noodén 写道: On 19.10.2013 19:35, 陶治江 wrote: [snip] I think it seems good like this, but I do not know how to make out it.(someone says awk, sed may help, but the

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:18:42AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20131104_105718, Itay wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:16:02 +0200 (IST) Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: [...] Is there anything suspicious in the

Re: Questions about new hardware Debian (or Linux in general)

2013-11-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:15:03PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/12/2013 7:11 PM, Doug wrote: On 11/12/2013 07:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 11/12/2013 5:37 PM, Jon N wrote: ... There is one an area that I'm pretty unsure of. I am planning on purchasing a Nvidia video card and

Re: Installation of Wheezy on a Fujitsu Primergy Raid1

2013-11-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:03:32PM +0100, Joerg wrote: Hi, I have a Fujitsu primergy TX100 S1 and installed a bios-raid1 (LSI raid from Fujitsu - 2 disks prepartitioned into 1 primary and 5 extension disks each - done by ctrl-M). Is this an LSI RAID card, or a fakeraid? If it's a fakeraid,

Re: Second display as dedicated desktop workspace?

2010-11-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:37:13PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:11:11 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: (...) What I would really like to do is have the second display tied to the login session of the first display but as a separate workspace. In other words, when logged

Re: OT: servers vs. lightning and power outages

2011-03-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:40:34PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jerome BENOIT put forth on 3/14/2011 7:58 PM: Just curious: why the UPS must be at the bottom ? Your attempt at being a smart ass aside, I'll answer your question. The answer, however, isn't the simple one you're expecting.

Re: Replacing hard disk used in existing filesystem

2011-04-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:52:34PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: Anyway the disk concerned is a 1TB disk on which is mounted /opt, so I feel I should be able to replace it without major hassle. I have already backed it up fully to NAS. The only issue is that I don't have enough spare power

Re: I saem to have lost maildrop's xfilter command

2013-03-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 03:59:36PM -0400, Eric d'Halibut wrote: Sorry I don't have much more hard data, but my maildrop scripts, after years of good service, seem all of a sudden broken. I have no xfilter command, which is required by my scripts. xfilter is an internal command to maildrop. Is

Re: Installing Firebird database server on Debian

2013-03-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:50:07PM +, Steve Faleiro wrote: Using: Debian Squeeze AMD64 Please describe the procedure to install Firebird database server either using apt-get or another way. Thanks in advance. apt-cache search firebird ... pick a version of firebird from the list

Re: 4 port LAN card for Debian Squeeze or higher

2013-04-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 11:06:44AM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: and yes 1 more thing i need we need All GIGA ports. 100BaseT will not work for us as we are looking for storing our VM backups from different directly connected server where we definite need performance and high bandwidth.

Re: Scheduling btrfs scrub on desktop systems

2013-04-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 12:12:10PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 05:25:48PM +0200, Steven Post wrote: But what if the system is powered down during a scrub? Will it continue when it boots up again? All assuming the scrub is started with 'btrfs scrub start -B path'.

Re: multi-core system and the file system

2013-04-03 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 03:26:31PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote: Hello, I would like to ask, whether there is some intelligent way how to synchronize processes over the file-system state. E.g., if one process creates|modifies|deletes some file, how can I learn *when* that effect hits all

Re: Squeeze X86 with 4GByte RAM?

2013-04-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 03:54:15PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 04 April 2013 12:21:47 Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: I installed 4GByte RAM in my motherboard succesfully. In BIOS I see all the 4096MByte, but after booting Squeeze it show me 3,5GByte. I know I should install the kernel with

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-10 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:01:33AM +0800, lina wrote: Hi, Right now, I have three or four terminals open, with 1 to 5 tabs in each terminal, most are ssh out. In one terminal, I typed more just one blink, all those terminal-emulators gone. It's my first time meet this issue. So I

Re: which operation leads to the close all opening terminals

2013-04-11 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:42:12PM +0800, lina wrote: Without data, we can only speculate. Here's my wild speculation: You thought you had multiple terminals open, but what you had was a single master process with multiple sub-processes. A I did have multiple terminals open. It

Re: Continued problems with Canon 110 scanner

2013-04-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 06:21:40PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: This scanner worked on my old computer with Squeeze and Xsane. I have installed Squeeze on my new computer. Now the scanner doesn't work. It lies inert and dead and neither xsane nor sane-find-scanner can find it.

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-18 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I don't think uptime challenges are useful. It makes people want to do something that they shouldn't want to do. When kernel security upgrades come along just install them and reboot. Human made machines of all types have been

Re: Introductory reading on firewall/iptables/etc for new Debian user?

2013-04-23 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 09:28:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I will be using email, Usenet, browser and occasionally file downloading. Nothing on my system should look/act like a server. I want all programs to access the internet after explicitly asking for permission. The response to the

Re: Fwd: Question

2013-04-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 03:03:00PM -0300, german carutti wrote: Hello. I am a teacher of hardware and software Argentina high school and yesterday I was going to buy a cell phone, my main option was android, but I have found that this system is corporate because you are not allowed to modify,

Re: Re (2): psaux

2013-05-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:56:13AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: According to Wikipedia, the PS/2 connection was designed in 1987 and the first release of the Linux kernel was in 1991. Therefore /dev/psaux could have appeared in Unix before it appeared in Linux. Whether the first

Re: sudoers vs admin group

2013-05-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 04:10:41PM -0500, Michael wrote: Is there any (significant) difference between editing (adding a user to) the _/etc/sudoers_ file and adding a person to the _admin group?_ Am I comparing apples and oranges? Yes, it's different. The admin group is a normal UNIX group.

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 03:44:35PM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: It's very easy to install XFCE. Drill down in the graphical installer to other desktops and make your selection Or: sudo apt-get install xfce4 xfce4-goodies -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian in the sunshine?

2013-05-06 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 04:07:04PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I'm a long-time user of Debian, and also have an e-paper ebook reader. It occurs to me that something like a Debian laptop with an e-ink screen would be extremely useful, for, say, sitting on a sunny back porch in the summer and

Re: Debian 7 with two displays.

2013-05-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 05:06:14PM +0200, Antonio Fernández Pérez wrote: Hi everybody, I'm having problems configuring Debian 7 with two displays. I can't to get to have the system configured with a big desktop (Not as clone). I have installed privative driver of Ati (Radeon HD 4650), I have

Re: amd64 debian wheezy installation: software raid: partition misaligned by 512 bytes

2013-05-24 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:12:10AM -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: Ok, so any way to fix that now? Without reinstalling everything? Any way to move the partitiions? Also, I don't remember creating these md partitions. The installer does that by default? I should do that part manually

Re: Post removal.

2013-06-02 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:26:32AM -0700, Harry Kniznik wrote: Is it possible to get a post from a newsgroup removed from Debian? Of so, how?  No. (I can explain at length for both mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, but the answer still boils down to no.) -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian 7 ext4 problem

2013-06-03 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 09:34:37PM +0300, Andrei Hristow wrote: hello, after installing debian 7 have a lot of problems On debian 6.0.7 everything works perfectly and quickly but on debian 7.0.0. amd64 I have a serious problem with overloading the hard drive. I have a website and use MySQL,

Re: Trouble reinstalling everything.

2013-06-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:24:06AM +1000, John Tate wrote: Noted, unhide has not noticed anything nor unhide.rb or rkhunter but I get considerable lag sometimes as if screenshots are being taken of the desktop. It might just be the latest nvidia drivers but it scares the willies out of me.

Re: Unknown option: -a to fsck.btrfs

2013-06-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 03:29:36PM +0100, Dan Dart wrote: Recently after an upgrade to my Debian system (and after a certain number of mounts) whose rootfs is on btrfs, my system now goes to maintenance shell mode because it can't run fack against the root fs. Whilst attempting to fsck all

Re: Unknown option: -a to fsck.btrfs

2013-06-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 09:06:01PM +0100, Dan Dart wrote: Okay then, thanks, I'll do that. Out of curiosity, which is the script to do the fsck'ing on boot up? Start reading here: http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Nvidia and 4 monitors in 7.1

2013-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 04:52:06PM -0700, Dan Serban wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:18:45 -0700 Dan Serban dser...@lodgingcompany.com wrote: [snip] [1] http://paste.debian.net/10492/ [2] http://paste.debian.net/10491/ So, nothing huh? Is what I want to do impossible in Wheezy?

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