Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread john doe
On 10/20/22 15:39, Philipp Ewald wrote: Hi folks, is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? Ansible is not easy to master but worth the time if you have lots of nodes! If you need to copy a file to multiple servers and have a custom config per node the 'template' module is your fr

Re: How to reset one ethernet port?

2022-10-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:02:52 -0500 Ram Ramesh wrote: > This is the lspci output on the two ethernet port. > > 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) > 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semic

Re: Cheap NAS

2022-10-20 Thread David Wright
On Thu 20 Oct 2022 at 15:32:20 (+0100), Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 17:41 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 17/10/2022 22:50, Tixy wrote: > > > # Set spindown time for disk > > > if NAS1=`findmnt -n -o SOURCE /nas1/main`; then /sbin/hdparm -S120 > > > $NAS1; fi > > > > > > Rather t

Re: permanently adding driver to Debian live USB stick

2022-10-20 Thread David Christensen
On 10/20/22 04:54, Adam Weremczuk wrote: Hi all, Hi. :-) My Deb 11.5 live bootable USB stick is missing a driver for Intel Wireless-AC 9560 adapter. Intel provides a link to the missing firmware: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/05511/wireless.html The sa

Re: How to reset one ethernet port?

2022-10-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Ram Ramesh wrote: > Hi, > >   I have a linux based firewall that seem to hang because one of its > ethernet port stops working. I suspect bad hardware, but could be a driver > issue also. So far, I have only been able to reboot to get it working. > However, I prefer to reset the port to get it wo

How to reset one ethernet port?

2022-10-20 Thread Ram Ramesh
Hi,   I have a linux based firewall that seem to hang because one of its ethernet port stops working. I suspect bad hardware, but could be a driver issue also. So far, I have only been able to reboot to get it working. However, I prefer to reset the port to get it working without a reboot. Is

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-20 Thread Curt
On 2022-10-20, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> As you have only 8GB RAM (which, I believe, is not enough RAM, nowadays, > > FWIW, Apple seems to think it's still perfectly sufficient since their > laptops, iMac, and Mac mini all come with 8GB by default (and many > can't go further up than 16GB). > > >

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-20 Thread David Wright
On Thu 20 Oct 2022 at 23:20:11 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/10/22 22:58, David Wright wrote: > > > Perhaps Bret will be back to explain. > > > > "Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle" > > No, I am not french. > > Due to the hostile response to what I have posted in this thread, I > have aba

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread paulf
On Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:39:23 +0200 Philipp Ewald wrote: > Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. > > Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to > create the playbook then creating this file by hand (

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/10/22 22:58, David Wright wrote: Perhaps Bret will be back to explain. "Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle" No, I am not french. Due to the hostile response to what I have posted in this thread, I have abandoned the discussion. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Vic Simeone
I know it's not the intended use case but I primarily utilize Ansible for individual, customized hosts. It absolutely rocks when you have dozens of systems to manage though. For individual hosts I use it as a way of documenting how a system came to be in its state almost for disaster recovery (i.e.

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Thierry Leurent
Hi Philipp, I don't have a very long and intense experience with Ansible. It doesn't seem complex to me, you have to use the same logic as if you were doing it manually. The biggest problem I have encountered is modifying a configuration file whose different cases are complex. Even with another

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Dan Ritter
Philipp Ewald wrote: > Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. > > Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to create > the playbook then creating this file by hand (this damn syntax acomplicates > ev

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-20 Thread David Wright
On Thu 20 Oct 2022 at 01:18:10 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2022-10-19 23:51 (UTC-0500): > > > I wouldn't be able to keep track of what was where with a > > scheme like that. > > I bet you could, if you utilized a tool that facilitates it. > > DFSee Linux 16.9 : Execut

Re: is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Philipp Ewald writes: > Hi folks, > > is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? > First try, its super complicated for me. For me it has been. ssh loops work too though. Sometimes I've felt Ansible whines needlessly, something like "please don't do what you need to do, do it our backw

Re: Cheap NAS

2022-10-20 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 17:41 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 17/10/2022 22:50, Tixy wrote: > > # Set spindown time for disk > > if NAS1=`findmnt -n -o SOURCE /nas1/main`; then /sbin/hdparm -S120 > > $NAS1; fi > > > > > > > > > > Rather than hard code the disk as /dev/sdc I use 'findm

is Ansible easy to use?

2022-10-20 Thread Philipp Ewald
Hi folks, is ansible a easy way to configure customized hosts? First try, its super complicated for me. Trying to create multiple files with content. It takes more time to create the playbook then creating this file by hand (this damn syntax acomplicates everything more) Then formatting is des

Re: permanently adding driver to Debian live USB stick

2022-10-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Adam Weremczuk writes: > Is there a way of permanently including the firmware file so that the > WiFi automatically becomes operational every time I boot Debian live? Debian Live supports persistence which means you can have persistent changes to the live setup. Like adding that firmware file or

Re: permanently adding driver to Debian live USB stick

2022-10-20 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Ypu could prpbably find a way to include the relevant firmware into a Debian Live ISO image by reading the Debian Wiki Debian Live page: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive and then studying the docs linked there But as the file you mention is included in the firmware-iwlwifi Debian B

Re: permanently adding driver to Debian live USB stick

2022-10-20 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2022, 13:54:26 CEST schrieb Adam Weremczuk: You can build your own debian live-cd. Doing so, you can add all packages you need and (if available as package) all firmware you need. Another solution: I have checked, but I think, debian live is also using squashfs. If so,

permanently adding driver to Debian live USB stick

2022-10-20 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi all, My Deb 11.5 live bootable USB stick is missing a driver for Intel Wireless-AC 9560 adapter. Intel provides a link to the missing firmware: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/05511/wireless.html and instruct to copy files (iwlwifi-9000-pu-b0-jf-b0-34.ucode i

Re: Cheap NAS

2022-10-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 17/10/2022 22:50, Tixy wrote: # Set spindown time for disk if NAS1=`findmnt -n -o SOURCE /nas1/main`; then /sbin/hdparm -S120 $NAS1; fi Rather than hard code the disk as /dev/sdc I use 'findmnt' to get the disk name from the point it's mounted at (/nas1/main in this case). Are

Re: Cheap NAS

2022-10-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 18/10/2022 08:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: - In my experience, whether `hdparm -S..` works on a USB drive depends on the USB<->SATA adapter in use. If it doesn't, `hdparm` will tell you, tho. I did go further but my impression was that in the case of USB disk enclosures sdparm may work

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

2022-10-20 Thread Anssi Saari
William Torrez Corea writes: > The Booting is very dawdled, when I start firefox the page stays loading too > much time and when > I try to open LibreOffice or Gimp it loads the program very slow. In the > browser I have > different tabs open. Since it has been established by you that you hav

Re: Whom to send bugreport?

2022-10-20 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 08:55 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 09:15 +0200, Hans wrote: > > After upgrading to a newer version of the kernel and of course newer kernel- > > headers, the build is failing now with a crash. > > Usually 'crashing' is caused by bugs in the programs doing the >

Re: Whom to send bugreport?

2022-10-20 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2022-10-20 at 09:15 +0200, Hans wrote: > After upgrading to a newer version of the kernel and of course newer kernel- > headers, the build is failing now with a crash. Usually 'crashing' is caused by bugs in the programs doing the crashing, so which program is crashing when building the mo

Re: Whom to send bugreport?

2022-10-20 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 20.10.2022 12:15, Hans wrote: Dear ladies and gentlemen, guess there is the following problem: There is a third-party module for a kernel, which has to be compiled for the kernel. This build is working fine! After upgrading to a newer version of the kernel and of course newer kernel- heade

Whom to send bugreport?

2022-10-20 Thread Hans
Dear ladies and gentlemen, guess there is the following problem: There is a third-party module for a kernel, which has to be compiled for the kernel. This build is working fine! After upgrading to a newer version of the kernel and of course newer kernel- headers, the build is failing now with