Re: Accessing USB storage attached to network router

[Glyn Astill]

>From: Darac Marjal 
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
>Sent: Tuesday, 6 June 2017, 10:25
>Subject: Re: Accessing USB storage attached to network router

>On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 07:41:14AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>Rodolfo Medina  writes:
>
>> Darac Marjal  writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 01:38:04PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Here:

 https://askubuntu.com/questions/109505/how-do-i-access-an-external-hard-drive-plugged-into-my-router

the problem seems to be solved, but not for me...  I plugged a USB storage
pendrive into my ADSL internet router but don't know how to access it.  I
tried putting in /etc/fstab something like:

 //192.168.1.1/USB_storage /mnt/public cifs guest 0 0
>>>
>>> Is this the correct share to mount? Try "smbclient -L 192.168.1.1" to see
>>> what shares are available.
>>
>> $ smbclient -L 192.168.0.1
>> WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated
>> Enter rodolfo's password:
>> Connection to 192.168.0.1 failed (Error NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT)
>
>If I put 192.168.1.2, instead, I get something more:
>
>$ smbclient -L 192.168.1.2
>WARNING: The "syslog" option is deprecated
>Enter rodolfo's password:
>Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.12]
>Server requested LANMAN password (share-level security) but 'client lanman 
>auth = no' or 'client ntlmv2 auth = yes'
>tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
>
>>> Try running smbmount directly and see if it gives more information:
>>>
>>>  # mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/USB_Storage /mnt/public --verbose -o guest
>>
>>
>> # mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/USB_Storage /mnt/public --verbose -o guest
>> mount.cifs kernel mount options:
>> ip=192.168.1.1,unc=\\192.168.1.1\USB_Storage,user=,pass=
>> mount error(115): Operation now in progress
>> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
>
>And also:
>
># mount -t cifs //192.168.1.2/USB_Storage /mnt/public --verbose -o guest
>mount.cifs kernel mount options: 
>ip=192.168.1.2,unc=\\192.168.1.2\USB_Storage,user=,pass=
>Retrying with upper case share name
>mount.cifs kernel mount options: 
>ip=192.168.1.2,unc=\\192.168.1.2\USB_STORAGE,user=,pass=
>mount error(6): No such device or address
>Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs)
>
>Besides, pointing the web browser at 192.168.1.1, the usb storage is seen in
>the Admin menu.  Does all this suggest us anything useful...?

>Yes, this confirms that 192.168.1.1 is the address of your router. An IP
>address typically identifies a single device. If you are looking to talk
>to the USB device attached to the router, there's no point talking to
>192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.2 - that's like saying "I couldn't find my
>laptop, but I walked into my neighbour's house and they had a laptop so
>it must be the right one"


That's not strictly true.  Years ago I had an (awful) Netgear router that would 
provide a samba share for an attached USB device and by defaualt it did so on a 
separate IP.

Re: logrotate does not work on my log (Debian Jessie)

[Glyn Astill]

> From: ikuzar RABE 
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
>Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2016, 16:32
>Subject: logrotate does not work on my log (Debian Jessie)
> 
>
>
>Hi all, 
>
>I upgraded my system from Debian 6 to Debian 8 Jessie. logrotate worked on my 
>log on Debian 6 (I 
got my_app.log.gz when I put /etc/logrotate.d/my_app). But it no longer 
works on Debian 8. However, I see /var/log/syslog.2.gz syslog.3.gz ...etc.
>Is that because of systemd ? people who use 
Arch linux creates logrotate.service and logrotate.timer to solve this 
problem but what about debian users ? Did anyone meet this issue ?
>


It could be due to changes in later versions of logrotate.  What's the 
ownership of your my_app.log.gz files?


As I recall later versions require a "su  " line to rotate files 
that are not owned by root.



Glyn

Re: logrotate does not work on my log (Debian Jessie)

[Glyn Astill]

> From: ikuzar RABE <ikuzar9...@gmail.com>
>To: Glyn Astill <glynast...@yahoo.co.uk> 
>Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2016, 16:56
>Subject: Re: logrotate does not work on my log (Debian Jessie)
> 
>
>
>the ownership of my_app.log.gz is not root (just a simple user, and a simple 
>group)
>
>


Right, so add a line like this to the body of your logrotate file:

su  

Re: Light web browser for old PC

[Glyn Astill]

 From: Andrew M.A. Cater amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 19:15
Subject: Re: Light web browser for old PC
 

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 09:52:03AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
 On 07/01/2015 09:21 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 Hi ... As web browser, Midori was
 claimed to be light, but I see almost no difference with Firefox.  Please 
 any
 advice for a *really* light one, suitable for that old machine?
 

Netsurf? Midori?

I have been very impressed by netsurf and the good people behind it :)



+1 for netsurf here.


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Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?

[Glyn Astill]

- Original Message -

 From: Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Cc: 
 Sent: Monday, 9 February 2015, 15:55
 Subject: Re: [OT?]Squeeze: update Flashplugin?
 
 Hello,
 
 on Wheezy, the flash plugin can be updated as root with
 
 update-flashplugin-nonfree
 
 
 I do not know if this update tool exist on Squeeze.
 
 hth,
 Jerome



I think the issue is that the flash plugin version stops at 
11.2 and there's been no further version.

Not sure if anyone else has a solution, but that last time I looked I came to a 
dead end.


We have some appliances with pages that require at least 11.5+ and to view them 
I've resorted to installing google chrome (not chromium) which has it's own 
embedded version of flash.


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Re: Have I been hacked?

[Glyn Astill]

 From: Simon Brandmair sbrandm...@gmx.net
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 16:53
Subject: Re: Have I been hacked?
 

On 01/06/2015 09:10 AM, Danny wrote:
[...]
 However, prior to this breakin, in early December 2014, I noticed my network
 behaving strangely especially through wireless connections.
[...]

I can't give you any input on your specific problem. But here is a
pointer from the Securing Debian Manual (if you don't already know it):
After the compromise (incident response) [1]

Cheers,
Simon



A stab in the dark, but is it possible this machine has services exposed to the 
internet, and you'd not applied fixes against the recent shellshock bug?


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Re: postgresql doesn't start at boot

[Glyn Astill]

 From: B lazyvi...@gmx.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 6 August 2014, 15:58
Subject: postgresql doesn't start at boot
 

sid
amd64


Hi mailing-listers,

since the upgrade from 9.3 to 9.4, postgresql doesn't automatically start
at boot anymore.
I added a symlink to /lib/systemd/system/postgresql.service
into /etc/systemd/system but I'm not sure this will be enough; is it?
(3.5 pages of looong mans listed, options in every corner, systemd seems
to have the art of transforming something formerly trivial to an
indigestible gas plant). 



Indeed; but is that really the issue?  Check your postgresql server logs for 
something along the lines of database files are incompatible with server.


Since 9.3 - 9.4 is a major version upgrade, you need to make sure your data 
directory is migrated to the new internal storage format. You most likely want 
to upgrade with pg_upgrade or a dump restore.


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Re: how to remove ? directory

[Glyn Astill]

 From: Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com

 To: Debian Lists debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Cc: 
 Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 12:52
 Subject: Re: how to remove ? directory
 
 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:16 PM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote:
  ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
 
  d?   ? ?    ?          ?            ? .gvfs
 
  a# rm -rf .gvfs
  rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory
 
 
  any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I
  tried to mount the iphone.
 
  Thanks ahead for your advice,
 
  Best regards,
 
 I suppose you tried rmdir and was told the directory was not empty.
 
 But why all the '?' where things like permissions and access dates and
 such should be? I don't think it's either a directory or a file. Where
 is it and how did it get there?
 

Do you have execute permissions on the parent directory?  If not try granting 
them and trying again.


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Re: Only 3.6gb of 64gb RAM recognized by 64bit squeeze

[Glyn Astill]

If you're wanting to run 64 bit with all that ram, have you checked you've not 
got some sort of 32 bit compatibility mode enabled in the bios?

3.6Gb sounds like the bios has limited it and saved the window above 3.6Gb for 
device mapping.





 From: Seyyed Mohtadin Hashemi haa...@gmail.com
To: g...@dalefamily.org 
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 14:28
Subject: Re: Only 3.6gb of 64gb RAM recognized by 64bit squeeze
 

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote:

On 09/05/12 08:09 AM, Johann Spies wrote:

Hallo Seyyed,



Before anybody starts arguing that I don't have 64-bit, this is uname -r and
uname -m:
root@n03:~# uname -r
2.6.32-3-amd64
root@n03:~# uname -m
x86_64

I have a similar problem on a computer I bought a few years ago and only
recently found that the cause might be a buggy bios.

I don't have 48Gb ram but only 4Gb and can use about 3.3Gb of it.

Regards
Johann

Both of you: Have you tried booting from a live disk for a different distro. 
I'd suggest something really different, like Fedora or OpenSUSE, and not one 
based on Debian.



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I did try Ubuntu 12.04 rescue remix, and it behaved exactly the same. I used 
to use Fedora but switched to Debian some time ago - I will try CentOS later. 




An update on the RAM, I did test each dimm and all passed a quick memtest.

Squeeze + aacraid + Adaptec 2610SA bug?

[Glyn Astill]

Hi Guys,

I've recently installed squeeze amd64 on an old machine to do some tests and 
I'm having problems with the aacraid driver and a 2610SA controller. 
It seems the contorller has issues whilst I'm formatting a partition on it, 
then shuts down completely. I've pasted relevent dmesg and syslog bits below.

This controller has been used in the past with no issues, that's not to say 
it's not a hardware error, just that I don't think so.

I was thinking of trying an alternative driver, perhaps the ones form the 
adaptec site. Are there any other options?

dmesg:

[0.688358] Adaptec aacraid driver 1.1-5[2461]-ms
[0.752149] aacraid :04:01.0: PCI INT A - GSI 21 (level, low) - IRQ 21
[0.768500] IRQ 21/aacraid: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQ

syslog:

Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804065] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804071] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804076] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804081] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804086] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804092] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804097] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804102] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804107] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804112] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804117] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804122] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804128] aacraid: Host adapter abort 
request (8,0,0,0)
Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804203] aacraid: Host adapter reset 
request. SCSI hang ?
Mar  4 15:27:29 debian kernel: [ 5099.020030] AAC: Host adapter BLINK LED 0xc9
Mar  4 15:27:30 debian kernel: [ 5100.016028] AAC0: adapter kernel panic'd c9.
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024042] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024045] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024047] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024049] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024051] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024052] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024055] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024056] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024058] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024060] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024062] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024064] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024066] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024068] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024070] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024072] sd 8:0:0:0: Device offlined - not 
ready after error recovery
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024083] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Unhandled error 
code
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024085] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Result: 
hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_TIMEOUT
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024089] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] CDB: Write(10): 
2a 00 00 00 40 f0 00 00 88 00
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024096] end_request: I/O error, dev sdd, 
sector 16624
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024105] Buffer I/O error on device sdd1, 
logical block 1822
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024115] lost page write due to I/O error 
on sdd1
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024122] Buffer I/O error on device sdd1, 
logical block 1823
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024132] lost page write due to I/O error 
on sdd1
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024135] Buffer I/O error on device sdd1, 
logical block 1824
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024144] lost page write due to I/O error 
on sdd1
Mar  4 15:27:31 debian kernel: [ 5101.024147] 

Re: Squeeze + aacraid + Adaptec 2610SA bug?

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Mon, 7/3/11, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote:

  I've recently installed squeeze amd64 on an old
 machine to do some tests
  and I'm having problems with the aacraid driver and a
 2610SA controller.
  It seems the contorller has issues whilst I'm
 formatting a partition on
  it, then shuts down completely. I've pasted relevent
 dmesg and syslog
  bits below.
  
  This controller has been used in the past with no
 issues, that's not to
  say it's not a hardware error, just that I don't think
 so.
  
  I was thinking of trying an alternative driver,
 perhaps the ones form
  the adaptec site. Are there any other options?
 
 (...)
 
  syslog:
 
  Mar  4 15:27:28 debian kernel: [ 5098.804203]
 aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang ? 
  Mar  4 15:27:29 debian kernel: [ 5099.020030]
 AAC: Host adapter BLINK LED 0xc9 
  Mar  4 15:27:30 debian kernel: [ 5100.016028]
 AAC0: adapter kernel panic'd c9.
 
 Seems to go completely offline :-?
 

Yeah entirely offline.

 Does the card start beeping indicating a broken raid
 (rebuild) or the 
 array status is ok?
 

Nothing reported by the card, all the VDs are in the optimal state.

 Have you checked for any BIOS update (for your motherboard
 and also for 
 the controller itself?)
 

The controller is on the latest bios, and the motherboard is on the latest I 
can find.

 Another thing you could try is to perfom the formatting
 from a LiveCD 
 (i.e., SystemRescueCD, GParted...) to discard a problem
 with the 
  kernel version used in Squeeze.
 

Ah I may have a bash at that then just to see if I can format it.

I've another controller in the machine, an LSI SAS controller that's working 
fine.  I'll double check the firmware and have a test with a live cd too.

I definately had this machine up and running with lenny not too long ago, so 
I'm still leaning towards a driver issue.





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lvm: error whilst loading shared libraries

[Glyn Astill]

Hi Guys,

I've just had an attempt at upgrading a machine from lenny to squeeze, however 
this machine as an lvm root volume.

Upon booting I now see the message:

lvm: error whilst loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared 
object file: no such file or directory

I'm guessing I'm missing some dependancy here, so far I can only boot to the 
initramfs userspace. Any ideas how I can move forward here?


I followed a guide at the url below on this machine that isn't vital, however 
I'm beginnig to wish I'd not bothered following that advice now.

http://www.howtoforge.com/upgrade-debian-lenny-to-squeeze-in-a-few-simple-steps








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Re: monitor IBM serveraid

[Glyn Astill]

 From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: monitor IBM serveraid
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Wednesday, 24 November, 2010, 12:13
 On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:44:19 +0100,
 mourik jan c heupink wrote:
 
  Is there an easy way on debian to monitor IBM
 ServeRAID hardware for
  failed disks? Specifically: the xSeries 3650,
 ServeRAID 8k RAID10.
  
  Configuring software raid to send an notification
 email is easy enough,
  but that's not why we bought the nice IBM hardware
 raid...
 
 If this information is true:
 
 http://serverfault.com/questions/58480/serveraid-8-k-linux-kernel-support-preferred-distribution
 
 And your raid controller is using aacraid module, I think
 you are stuck :-
 ( 
 
 http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins
 
 (side note, I'm also using aacraid module and no
 monitoring possible 
 for my raid1 and raid5 inside OS, just BIOS, at least while
 using aacraid 
 module which included in kernel).
 
 I would contact IBM and tell them about your options. They
 provide 
 drivers for RedHat and SLES linux distributions, so they
 can give you 
 updated and accurate advice on this.
 

We use adaptec 5805 controllers in our servers with the debian aacraid kernel 
module, and adaptec provide a storage manager tool as an rpm package (perhaps 
IBM provide something similar, or perhaps the adaptec tool would be fine for 
you if it's a rebranded card).  I just converted the rpm with alien and 
installed the storage manager.  

With that I can fire up storeman and use the adaptec storace manager remotely, 
or use the embedded chkconfig tool to check the status of my raid arrays.

I use a nagios script to call the chkconfig tool for monitoring - this has 
been working well for the past couple of years.

Glyn





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Re: monitor IBM serveraid

[Glyn Astill]

 From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: monitor IBM serveraid
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Wednesday, 24 November, 2010, 13:19
 On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:55:15 +,
 Glyn Astill wrote:
 
  http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxRaidForAdmins
  
  (side note, I'm also using aacraid module and no
 monitoring possible
  for my raid1 and raid5 inside OS, just BIOS, at
 least while using
  aacraid
  module which included in kernel).
  
  I would contact IBM and tell them about your
 options. They provide
  drivers for RedHat and SLES linux distributions,
 so they can give you
  updated and accurate advice on this.
  
  
  We use adaptec 5805 controllers in our servers with
 the debian aacraid
  kernel module, and adaptec provide a storage manager
 tool as an rpm
  package (perhaps IBM provide something similar, or
 perhaps the adaptec
  tool would be fine for you if it's a rebranded
 card).  I just converted
  the rpm with alien and installed the storage manager.
 
 Last time I installed ASM it required the use of aacraid
 driver from 
 Adaptec and so to be compiled on every kernel update.
 
 I finally ditched and got the stock aacraid module
 provided by the 
 kernel. This was for my 2020SA sata raid controllers.
 
  With that I can fire up storeman and use the adaptec
 storace manager
  remotely, or use the embedded chkconfig tool to
 check the status of my
  raid arrays.
  
  I use a nagios script to call the chkconfig tool for
 monitoring - this
  has been working well for the past couple of years.
 
 IIRC, ASM also allowed web monitoring. 
 
 But it's a pity these raid controllers do not have CLI
 based tools 
 integrated in the OS for manaing raid status without the
 needing of 
 having to drop the kernel module.
 
 

Here we're still using the stock kernel module, I just pulled out the CLI tools 
and the storman agent and they work fine with it.  So no need to drop the 
kernel module.





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Re: monitor IBM serveraid

[Glyn Astill]

 From: mourik jan c heupink heup...@merit.unu.edu
 Subject: Re: monitor IBM serveraid
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Wednesday, 24 November, 2010, 13:26
  But it's a pity these raid
 controllers do not have CLI based tools
  integrated in the OS for manaing raid status without
 the needing of
  having to drop the kernel module.
 
 So, suppose I would be able to buy different brand
 hardware, would I be better of with HP, for example? Or
 dell? Or...?
 
 I would simply be like to monitor my raid sets, and get a
 notification when a drive goes down. So easy with software
 raid... :-)
 
 It's stupid: I always bought IBM because they have
 supported linux for a long time, but now we're moving from
 suse enterprise to debian, and things suddenly become
 complicated...
 

I can't speak for the other manufacturers, but dell have an awful track record 
when it comes to raid controllers. Steer well clear, or just get a system sans 
raid controller and by an aftermarket one from a well known manufacturer.

Lets put it this way; personally I won't be trusting raid controllers from any 
large server vendor that ships with their own bastardised firmware again.






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Re: monitor IBM serveraid

[Glyn Astill]

 From: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: monitor IBM serveraid
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Wednesday, 24 November, 2010, 15:19
 On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:01:08 +,
 Glyn Astill wrote:
 
 (...)
 
  But it's a pity these raid controllers do not have
 CLI based tools
  integrated in the OS for manaing raid status
 without the needing of
  having to drop the kernel module.
  
  
  
  Here we're still using the stock kernel module, I just
 pulled out the
  CLI tools and the storman agent and they work fine
 with it.  So no need
  to drop the kernel module.
 
 Latest ASM version available for my card was (is) 4.30.
 After I 
 installed the program and launched the application the card
 was not 
 detected (this happened under openSUSE 10.3, so I installed
 the RPM 
 package) :-(
 
 Maybe newer products does not require Adaptec's own driver
 and are just 
 happy with ASM+stock aacraid module :-?

Possibly, I'm using v6.0 with adaptec 5805 and 5805x cards.





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Re: Upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze

[Glyn Astill]

Which version of postgresql were you running prior to the upgrade?

I presume 8.4 failed to configure as in order to use data from previous 
versions you need to upgrade the data via a dump/ restore or pgmigrator etc.  
Not sure what debians packages for postgres do/ attempt to do but I'm pretty 
sure the issue would be something to do with this.

--- On Tue, 16/11/10, Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote:

 From: Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net
 Subject: Upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze
 To: Debian user mail list debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Tuesday, 16 November, 2010, 19:37
 I have a dual boot Windows XP / Lenny
 Toshiba Qosmio G25 laptop. I have it setup for dual boot
 with XP on one hard drive and Linux on the other. I wanted
 to upgrade to Squeeze. I ran an Aptitude upgrade by changing
 Lenny to Squeeze in the /etc/apt/source.list file and then
 running the usual update sequence. Everything worked except
 Postgresql 8.4 refused to configure. After reading the bug
 reports I concluded that this is a serious bug that isn't
 going away soon. So I burned a Squeeze Network Installation
 Disk (6.1 beta) and attempted to install the new system that
 way. The Squeeze disk didn't recognize the windows system
 and trashed my boot files. I finally did a fresh
 installation using my old Lenny Network Installation Disk.
 This corrected all of the problems but leaves me back where
 I started.
 
 Can anyone tell me how I can do this upgrade safely and
 effectively.
 
 Gary R.
 
 
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Re: Esperanto

[Glyn Astill]

It's not that we can't take a joke, in moderation, but this is a serious list 
for debian users.

I'm sure there's plenty of IT joke mailing lists you could join if that's your 
thing, put please think of the other users before filling the list with these 
posts.

--- On Tue, 27/4/10, Thomas Pomber tompom...@yahoo.com wrote:

 From: Thomas Pomber tompom...@yahoo.com
 Subject: Re: Esperanto
 To: Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk
 Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Tuesday, 27 April, 2010, 10:11
 Now, that's not fair, Mr. Rogers. I
 also asked about setting up a TV card. 
 
 You have to admit, it's a good question about Esperanto.
 
 --- On Tue, 4/27/10, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk
 wrote:
 
  From: Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk
  Subject: Re: Esperanto
  To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
  Received: Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 3:04 AM
  On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:49:28 -0700
  (PDT)
  Thomas Pomber tompom...@yahoo.com
  wrote:
  
  Hello Thomas,
  
   It was an honest question!
  
  But everything else you've sent to this list would
 indicate
  otherwise.
  
  -- 
   Regards  _
           / )   
         The blindingly obvious is
          / _)rad     
    never immediately apparent
  
  I don't believe you have to be an idiot to get
 somewhere
  these days
  Bombsite Boy - The Adverts
  
 
 
 
 
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Re: HW Raid

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Wed, 17/2/10, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote:
 Hi
 
 Thanks for all the input. I did some more research on the
 high point and
 even though it talks about smartctl it doesn't actually get
 you through
 to each device.
 
 I have now started to look at the adaptec 51245, 3 x sas
 connectors with
 fan outs to sata. and 1 x sas external connector.
 
 Seems like adaptec have done some work on linux and making
 more
 information more accessible to linux
 
 I always though of adaptec as being on the pricey side but
 this isn't
 too bad a price.
 

We're using Adaptec 5805's here, not sure on the situation now, but I had to 
run the storman client through alien to get it installed on debian - but it all 
runs as expected. With the adaptec tools it's easy to monitor via command line 
or via the adaptec storage manager software.






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Re: dell perc 5 i sas pci-e 8x issues and POST beep codes

[Glyn Astill]

If you are trying to stick a perc5i in a standard pcie slot (I.e you've removed 
it from a poweredge server that's aquired a better card) theres 2 pins that 
interfere with the smbus on intel chipsets that need dissconnecting. Cover pins 
56 on the topside of the board with a bit of tape and it should work.


--- On Wed, 17/2/10, Scott Edwards supad...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Scott Edwards supad...@gmail.com
 Subject: dell perc 5 i sas pci-e 8x issues and POST beep codes
 To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Wednesday, 17 February, 2010, 12:50
 I have tried the two different dell perc 5i
 cards in three different machines now. One HP with a core 2
 duo, an HP with a socket am2 amd, and another HP with a p4
 ht 3ghz machine.  I do have a ht 3ghz p4 dell, but I'd
 rather not use it with that pc.  I prefer to use one of
 these in the socket am2 amd machine, as that's already
 purposed as my surver running LVM across 4 physical disks,
 eventually to migrate the majority of this to hardware
 raid5.  I don't recall the beep codes I was getting,
 but the server was too important to fiddle around with it
 for more than an hour or so.  That's why I started
 trying other machines.
 
 
 I've tried it with the battery installed, and without.
 I've tried it with the memory installed, and without.
 I've tried it with the sas to 4x sata cables plugged
 into drives, and without.
 I tried a pci video card just to see if the 16x pci-e slot
 was claimed by the onboard video, and can't use both at
 the same time etc.
 
 I've messed around with various bios settings, using
 defaults and setting as few properties as neccessary etc...
 
 Any thoughts? I'm open to your suggestions.  Thanks!
 
 
 Scott.
 
 





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Re: Dell Hardware Raid

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Tue, 10/11/09, Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Would anyone know of tools or a means of monitoring Dells
 Hardware raid controller.
 
 I was looking at the following site, but im not sure if
 this applies / or the right route / solution.
 http://tools.rapidsoft.de/perc/perc-cheat-sheet.html
 
 If anyone could assist, it would be appreciated.

On our 2950's I pulled the status from the BMC via IPMI. That's before I ripped 
the perc5i cards out and replaced them with cards that weren't utterly 
shamefull





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Intermittent high load average after upgrade to lenny / 2.6.26-2 ?

[Glyn Astill]

Hi Chaps,

I've upgraded a server running our database connection pool software from etch 
on 2.6.18 to lenny on 2.6.26 and I'm now seeing intermittant high load averages.

I don't see anything CPU or IO bound on the machine using top and vmstat, and 
I'm absoloutely baffled by it.  Normal load average is below 1, but every so 
often totally out of the blue I'll see it jump up to 20!

Didn't happen on 2.6.18, what else should I look at before suspecting it's a 
bug somewhere in CFS?

Ta
Glyn





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Re: compiled C function for postgresql fails (64-bit only)

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Tue, 3/11/09, Frank Miles f...@u.washington.edu wrote:

 I have a function that I've used
 since early postgres-7.x days.  Now migrating to a
 64-bit
 (i7) machine - running 2.6.30/'squeeze' with
 postgresql-8.4.1-1.  This function is a simple
 one that takes a string representation of a number as its
 sole argument (engineering
 notation), and returns the number.  The floating point
 value that it returns is the same
 value {6.9484692498e-310} with every call, even when
 the string changes.
     The same function works perfectly on a
 separate 2.6.30/'squeeze' system, PG-8.4.1-1,
 that is a 32-bit system - just like it has on previous
 postgres versions.
     If I enable a diagnostic mid-functon
 dump-to-a-file, I can see that the function
 is receiving its input and computing the output properly -
 it's just a matter of
 getting the output translated into sql-land.  This is
 with the Version 0 calling
 conventions, with a return type of float8* . 
 Attempting Version 1 calling conventions
 on the 64-bit system has not yet been successful - I
 haven't yet been able to avoid a client
 segfault, whether I use a stack variable for the float8
 result, or use palloc().

From the 8.4 release notes:

Pass float8, int8, and related datatypes by value inside the server on 64-bit 
platforms (Zoltan Boszormenyi)

Add configure option --disable-float8-byval to use the old behavior. As above, 
this change might break old-style external C functions.

So it could be a bug, send it to pgsql-general and you'll get a prompt response.





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Re: my monitor wont start

[Glyn Astill]

Try hitting Ctrl Alt - to switch to a lower resoloution?

--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Salman Bashir salman.bas...@hotmail.com wrote:

 From: Salman Bashir salman.bas...@hotmail.com
 Subject: my monitor wont start
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009, 2:14 PM
 
 
  
  
 
 
  
 Hi
  
 I installed Debian through
 network option. However 
 after installation, I booted my computer for the first time
 and waited for my 
 moment of truth. However I got a blank screen
 on my LCD monitor which said, 
 Video mode not supported. And debian I guess
 was working fine but there was no 
 output on screen.
  
 What do I do?
  
 regards
 Sal 
 





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Re: Help with postgresql upgrade

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Mon, 3/8/09, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:

 From: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net
 Subject: Re: Help with postgresql upgrade
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Monday, 3 August, 2009, 4:14 PM
 On 2009-08-03 09:31, Andrew Perrin
 wrote:
  Greetings all-
  
  Running postgresql under debian, my standard apt-get
 upgrade upgraded me
  from 8.3 to 8.4. As a result, I no longer have access
 to the databases
  that were created under 8.3. Typically I would use
 pg_upgradecluster to
  fix this problem; however, the upgrade also removed
 8.3, and so I have no
  access to these databases! Reinstalling 8.3 does not
 restore the
  access, although it does appear that the raw files are
 still there.
  
  I do have regular tape backups of the databases, but
 am having trouble
  getting them to read. So I would love advice on one
 (or both) of the
  following questions:
  
  1.) Is there a way to reconnect the 8.3 server,
 after reinstalling it,

Hmm what's in the log - is PGDATA pointing to the rith place?

  to the raw files, so that the databases are there? I
 will then do a
  pg_upgradecluster and be happy; or, alternatively,
  

First step, I'd back up that data directory before trying anything. I'm not 
entirely sure what pg_upgradecluster does - a quick google seems to reveal it's 
some sort of cludge to copy and update the config files and then do a dump 
restore?

As far as I know the only current upgrade paths from 8.3 to 8.4 are a dump 
restore, pg_migrator (which requires both 8.3 and 8.4 running concurrently) or 
use slony to replicate the upgrade into place for you (again you'd need both 
8.3 and 8.4 running).

  2.) Can someone help with the restore process from
 tape? The command my
  script uses to write the backups to tape is:
          pg_dump -F t
 databasename | bzip2 -c | dd of=/dev/nst0 obs=512
 conv=sync
  

A guess, correct me if I'm wrong;

dd if=/dev/nst0 | bzip2 -d -c | pg_restore -U username -C -F t -d database 
name


  Thanks for advice on either or both.
 
 You'll probably have to use a custom port number for v8.3.

Yeah, but only if he's running 8.4 and 8.3 side by side.

 
 -- Scooty Puff, Sr
 The Doom-Bringer
 
 
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Re: Help with postgresql upgrade

[Glyn Astill]

 From: Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com

2.) Can someone help with the restore
 process from
   tape? The command my
script uses to write the backups to tape
 is:
            pg_dump -F t
   databasename | bzip2 -c | dd of=/dev/nst0
 obs=512
   conv=sync

  
  A guess, correct me if I'm wrong;
  
  dd if=/dev/nst0 | bzip2 -d -c | pg_restore -U
 username -C -F t -d database name
  
 
 just to be annoying and point out the obvious, a backup is
 not a
 backup if you don't know how to restore from it...
 
 A
 

Aye, and you should be restoring it periodically to validate it - all my 
systems restore daily and validate the data,





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Filesystem UncorrectableError for IDE disk on 2.6.26?

[Glyn Astill]

Hi chaps,

Just upgraded an etch machine to lenny, and with it I've gone from the 2.6.18-6 
kernel up to 2.6.26-1 kernel.

I'm seeing the following errors under heavy disk activity:

Jun 18 18:08:05 xglyn2 kernel: [14214.048193] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
Jun 18 18:08:11 xglyn2 kernel: [14220.846157] hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { 
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Jun 18 18:08:11 xglyn2 kernel: [14220.846157] hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { 
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=26482377, sector=26482370


Previous to using 2.6.26-1 I did try 2.6.26-2 (both 686) and that gave me tons 
of these errors upon boot up. I thought going back to the 2.6.26-1 version had 
resolved the issue but it's obviously just less severe.

Anyone seen similar or got any ideas?

btw, the heavy disk activity is loading 80GB postgres database - I've switched 
back to 2.6.18 to try this again but I suspect it'll be fine.

Glyn





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Re: getprocid C call

[Glyn Astill]

I think you're after getpid() 

Last time I checked it was in unistd.h

--- On Wed, 27/5/09, Christian Jutras christian.jut...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Christian Jutras christian.jut...@gmail.com
 Subject: getprocid C call
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Wednesday, 27 May, 2009, 7:36 PM
  
 I have tried to find the getprocid()
 in Debian and could not find it, nor any equivalent. The
 getproid()  function call is a standard
 ANSI C, is there any reason for Debian (and all other Linux
 I looked in) not to implement this function. The Debian
 I'm using is based on Linux 2.6.22.18.
 





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Re: sudo vs. su (was Re: new to list, new to debian, new to linux)

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Fri, 22/5/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:

 From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net
 Subject: Re: sudo vs. su (was Re: new to list, new to debian, new to linux)
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Friday, 22 May, 2009, 8:14 PM
 In 20090522183807.ga16...@markshroyer.com,
 Mark Shroyer wrote:
 On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 06:56:18AM -0700, Thorny
 wrote:
  You've just advised an obvious newbie (stated in
 post) on how to make
  his system insecure. Giving ALL=(All) ALL rights
 to a normal user is
  pretty much the same as running as root and is not
 recommended on a
  Debian system.
 
 It's not equivalent to running as root, since (a) you have
 to prefix 
 privileged operations with sudo, (b) you have to re-auth
 such actions by 
 entering your password and (c) your sudo credentials will
 timeout 
 automatically after they are not used.


Errr, yeah whatever Until they just do sudo su and they're in. ALL=(All) 
ALL is a bad idea.
 





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Re: sudo vs. su (was Re: new to list, new to debian, new to linux)

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Fri, 22/5/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:

 From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net
 Subject: Re: sudo vs. su (was Re: new to list, new to debian, new to linux)
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Friday, 22 May, 2009, 9:20 PM
 In 857394.80354...@web23608.mail.ird.yahoo.com,
 Glyn Astill wrote:
 --- On Fri, 22/5/09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net
 wrote:
  It's not equivalent to running as root, since (a)
 you have
  to prefix
  privileged operations with sudo, (b) you have to
 re-auth
  such actions by
  entering your password and (c) your sudo
 credentials will
  timeout
  automatically after they are not used.
 
 Errr, yeah whatever Until they just do sudo su
 and they're in.
  ALL=(All) ALL is a bad idea.
 
 Um, no.  With 'ALL=(ALL) ALL' they would still have to
 type in their 
 password unless they had recently given their
 credentials.  If you want to 
 you can turn off the caching of credentials, so that sudo
 always asks for a 
 password.  You can also have it ask for the target
 user's password instead 
 of the source user's password, if you like.
 
 'ALL=(ALL) ALL' is no more dangerous than having the 'su'
 binary available.
 
 The NOPASSWD option is not the default.

No. For su they'd have to enter the root password, for sudo su they'd just have 
to enter the password of the current user and they are root.





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Re: SAS Card Suggestions

[Glyn Astill]

I've heard good things about areca and 3ware cards. Personally using Adaptec 
5808's here and quite happy with them.

Stay away from anything dell branded! Had used lots of cercs and percs, dell 
basically take Adaptec and LSI cards and braindamage the firmware. Specifically 
seen this on SATA cerc 2160sa, SCSI perc3 and perc4, and SAS perc5i cards. I 
have one machine with a perc6i that has average performance, but still shit 
compared to the others.

--- On Thu, 21/5/09, Mike Dresser mdresse...@router.windsormachine.com wrote:

 From: Mike Dresser mdresse...@router.windsormachine.com
 Subject: Re: SAS Card Suggestions
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Thursday, 21 May, 2009, 8:31 PM
 On Thu, 21 May 2009, Boyd Stephen
 Smith Jr. wrote:
 
  2. PCI-X
 
 PCI-X, or PCI-E?
 
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Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Mon, 11/5/09, Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com wrote:

 From: Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com
 Subject: Re: Unexplained changes in Gnome functionality
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Monday, 11 May, 2009, 2:17 PM
 On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:04:47 +0100, Andrew G
 (computing.acco...@googlemail.com) wrote: 
 
  Hi list
 
 [Snip tale of woe]
 
  I've asked this list for help before on a couple
 of these issues and the
  response has been - with the exception of one kind
 soul who did respond -
  crap.  I don't know if there is a secret code or
 something that I am
  supposed to be using to get some response?  I am using
 a Debian system, the
  Debian community is supposed to be helpful, I am
 asking questions politely
  and giving as much info as possible.  I have tried to
 help myself through
  using Google, but in many instances if one doesn't
 know what one is looking
  for, it becomes very hard to find an answer.
 
 The crap response is possibly because no one
 else on this list has
 experience of your problem or fully understands what you
 are getting at.
 Maybe those who do are too busy.  Who knows?
 
 Personally, despite using Debian for several years, I had
 never even
 heard of Conky until I saw your original posting.  Also, as
 I do not use
 Gnome, I cannot help you at all, but also hope someone else
 can.
 
 Just thinking aloud really, have you tried googling: 
 
 http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=gnome+conky+problem
  or
 http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=gnome+conky+startup
 
 Also, perhaps
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513440 is
 relevant.

In addition to Bobs comments, perhaps you could have a bash at contacting the 
package maintainer. I don't use squeeze but apt-cache show on etch says :

Maintainer: Bartosz Fenski fe...@debian.org





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Re: Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key

[Glyn Astill]

 From: User Debian newuser.deb...@gmail.com
 Subject: Retrieving the signal while plugging a USB key
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Tuesday, 5 May, 2009, 3:55 PM
 Hello,
 
 I would like to know if there is a command I can type with
 Debian to detect if a USB key has physically connected to
 the computer.
 
 My main concern is to get a signal, trace, alarm, etc
 related to the physical connection between the PC and the
 USB key. This command can be pooled or else.
 

Theres probably a better way, but lsusb should show the device...


 


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Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Wed, 15/4/09, Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de 
wrote:

 From: Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
 Subject: Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?
 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Wednesday, 15 April, 2009, 3:32 PM
 Andrei Popescu wrote:
  On Sat,11.Apr.09, 13:47:08, James Youngman wrote:
   
  (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup
 capability too (e.g.
  the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last
 week, last month and a
  year ago), at least for filesystems like /home.
  
  etckeeper. Admittedly, it was created for /etc (it
 hooks into dpkg and 
  records all changes), but it should be usable also for
 /home. You could 
  also use git directly if you don't care about file
 permissions.
 
 Probably overkill. It should work fine for text data,
 however, I don't
 think it would scale well for binary data. I'm not sure
 it would handle
 things like a changed exif comment gracefully. In my
 experience git
 becomes sluggish for large repositories of GBs worth of
 data and I have
 hundreds of GB of data.
 
 I use a custom rsync-script that keeps hard links of all
 unchanged
 files. Occasionally, I delete old backups and I think
 it's not
 straightforward to achieve that with git.

How about rsnapshot?





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Re: massive copy

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote:

 From: Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr
 Subject: massive copy
 To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Tuesday, 14 April, 2009, 9:14 AM
 Hello
 
 I have to copy around 250 Gb from a server to a Netapp NFS
 server
 and I wonder what would be faster ?
 
 first solution
 
 cp -pr * /mnt/nfs/dir/
 
 second solution ( 26 cp processes running in // )
 
 
 for i in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y
 z
 do
 cp -pr $i* /mnt/nfs/dir/ 
 done
 

Perhpas you could try some sort of tar pipe if you've got a nice cpu?

tar cf - * | (cd /mnt/nfs/dir/ ; tar xf - )







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Re: massive copy

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote:

 From: Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr
 Subject: Re: massive copy
 To: glynast...@yahoo.co.uk
 Cc: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Tuesday, 14 April, 2009, 10:02 AM
 Glyn Astill wrote:
  --- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet
 f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote:
  
  From: Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr
  Subject: massive copy
  To: Debian User List
 debian-user@lists.debian.org
  Date: Tuesday, 14 April, 2009, 9:14 AM
  Hello
 
  I have to copy around 250 Gb from a server to a
 Netapp NFS
  server
  and I wonder what would be faster ?
 
  first solution
 
  cp -pr * /mnt/nfs/dir/
 
  second solution ( 26 cp processes running in // )
 
 
  for i in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u
 v w x y
  z
  do
  cp -pr $i* /mnt/nfs/dir/ 
  done
 
  
  Perhpas you could try some sort of tar pipe if
 you've got a nice cpu?
  
  tar cf - * | (cd /mnt/nfs/dir/ ; tar xf - )
  
 
 Yes the machine has nice CPUs and a lot of RAM
 do you think it will be faster using tar rather than cp ?
 

I'd like to think it would help, if the files are quite compressable perhaps 
you could add a 'z' in there too...





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Re: new wireless card

[Glyn Astill]

On a side note does anyone have any good links for getting an etch machine onto 
a WPA network? I tried everything I could find on the net and got nowhere last 
night, tried tons of stuff in interfaces and tried using wpa_supplicant.conf 
too.

The network manager gui looks like it only supports wep ...

I'm using an asus 167g usb witha ralink rt2570 driver from module-assistant.


--- On Fri, 10/4/09, Onur Aslan onuras...@gmail.com wrote:

 From: Onur Aslan onuras...@gmail.com
 Subject: Re: new wireless card
 To: Paul Richards paul.richa...@gmail.com
 Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
 Date: Friday, 10 April, 2009, 10:57 AM
 If you want to run as AP mode with your wireless card, I
 dont recommend rt61
 chipset cards too. They don't support ap mode with
 current rt2x00 drivers.
 
 But, FreeBSD is working fine AP mode with this cards.
 Unfortunately if you want
 to make AP your Debian, you shouldn't buy a rt2x00
 based wireless card.
 
 On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:14:59AM +0100, Paul Richards
 wrote:
  I can recommend that you don't get a Ralink
 RT2561.  I have one, and
  while it works fine it needs binary drivers[1]. :( 
 Unfortunately I
  didn't realise this at the time I bought.
  
  
  1: http://wiki.debian.org/rt61pci
  
  
  
  2009/4/10 steef debian.li...@home.nl:
  
  
  
   hello to  you all out there,
  
   my asus_wireless ethernetcard, chip rt2500
 (ralink), is of no use any more.
  
   please can somebody tell me which is the best
 lenny_compatible wireles
   ethernet card nowadays?
  
   thank you very much,
  
   regards,
  
   steef
  
  
  
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Re: Big Database Server General Question

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Sun, 5/4/09, kj koffiejunkielistlur...@koffiejunkie.za.net wrote:

  Of course, this requires competent designers
 Absolutely.  Sadly, I spend a great deal of my time trying
 to work miracles with the db to compensate for developers
 who don't know what they're doing and doesn't
 want to learn.

I feel ya there. Same here





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Re: Advice about ext3, please

[Glyn Astill]

--- On Tue, 10/3/09, Lydgate deb...@tenebrific.ath.cx wrote:

 
 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130477
 
 On ebuyer it's called a Plexus V 500VA.  I've read
 elsewhere that this 
 is marketed under different brands/names.  In the states I
 think it 
 might be branded and sold by Fry's Electronics.
 

With the risk of going even further off topic... I have one of these too, it's 
attached to a small via box running windows and will run for 30 minutes or so, 
all my other machines are on an APC.

How do you find the power button on the front? Mine appears to be v' poor 
quality, it's fine it I don't touch it - but when I do it gets confused about 
turning off or switching to battery, then gets stuck in the pressed state 
soemtimes too. 





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