kvm - mount usb device in windows guest
hi all, for a certain web application i need an IE browser with an usb device containing a security key (the USB is formatted as a isofs) my idea was to simply run a windows copy on a server with KVM, logon with RDP and use that to connect to that dreaded website, it all works except that i can't see a way to mount a USB, i thought it would be simple to: create an image (+- 1GB) have it attached as usb within the guest have the contents of the original usb copied to the image can't get it done using virt-manager and can find little info to edit the xml file as such. again, i'm not looking to mount the original USB via passthrough, just to have a virtual/fake usb drive mimicking the behavior as originally intended. anybody has a clue? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fe9b152.9040...@songshu.org
resize pictures received by mailserver
hi all, have a question, not really debian specific, but looking for the tools available in debian to do the job. as follows: i'm trying to set up a private synchronised mailinglist/forum. (thinking of a combination of mailman and tiki forum) and i want to avoid having huge pictures showing up on the mailinglist/forum, since most receivers have slow connections with huge latency etc... one option would be to set a restriction on received sizes and do some training of the users sending the mails and the harmonizing the mail clients used etc but nowadys everybody uses different mobile devices etc.. to take and send the pictures. taking this approach will turn me into a hated drill sergeant... not my favorite job.. so i figured there should be a way of less social resistance and more user comfort. is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA scanned for pictures and have these automatically scaled to a default size before its being redistributed to the receivers on the mailinglist and subsequently the forum. my idea was that it could basically follow the same route as spam/virus scanners, but i can't seem to find any available tools for this, never came across it by accident or my googling skills are lacking. anybody a hint? much obliged -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd86f39.40...@songshu.org
Re: resize pictures received by mailserver
On 06/13/2012 01:12 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: thanks for the input: Half OT: Modern MUAs usually support options how to handle pictures. Evolution for example provides - Never load images from the Internet - Load images only in messages from contacts - Always load images from the Internet in my case the pictures are important and should always be shown, blocking them renders the message itself useless If your mailing list/forum should be for photograph or something similar, people might prefer original pics, instead of formated pics. If pics are unimportant or less important, than I would add restrictions to the allowed formats and sizes and ban anything else. the pictures are important, but not the quality of the pictures itself. (its about pictures of waste paper and plastic's, not family holiday snapshots) I don't see the need that it's your task to take care about the bandwidth of the Internet connections the users have got, this is the task of their MUAs. IMO you only should care about the traffic for your servers, especially if people upload pics to your forum, just to link from their own homepages to those pics, to avoid traffic for their websides. it is my task, as i said its not a public service but a private service, have more then enough bandwidth and cpu cycles to spare on my side, i know the end users who don't (my colleagues on different continents) and a good and usable result matters to me - Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd884b9.90...@songshu.org
Re: resize pictures received by mailserver
On 06/13/2012 01:15 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: I'm not sure it would be a good idea to try to use mail as a surrogate for a file system, especially not a mailing list. You could use MIME Defang to strip the attachments, but it has other capabilities, too: http://www.mimedefang.org/faq /Lars thanks, this seems to be heading in the direction i'm looking for, or at least 95% of what i need. p.s. using mail does have its benefits, its a well tested and build in option in most devices that is platform independent and fairly secure, easy to use and integrate. its not a file system, just the transfer and filing method but that's just my 2 cents -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd88932.3090...@songshu.org
Re: resize pictures received by mailserver
On 06/13/2012 02:36 PM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 13/06/12 12:45, Randall wrote: hi all, have a question, not really debian specific, but looking for the tools available in debian to do the job. as follows: i'm trying to set up a private synchronised mailinglist/forum. (thinking of a combination of mailman and tiki forum) and i want to avoid having huge pictures showing up on the mailinglist/forum, since most receivers have slow connections with huge latency etc... one option would be to set a restriction on received sizes and do some training of the users sending the mails and the harmonizing the mail clients used etc but nowadys everybody uses different mobile devices etc.. to take and send the pictures. taking this approach will turn me into a hated drill sergeant... not my favorite job.. so i figured there should be a way of less social resistance and more user comfort. is it possible to have all messages received by the mailinglists MTA scanned for pictures and have these automatically scaled to a default size before its being redistributed to the receivers on the mailinglist and subsequently the forum. my idea was that it could basically follow the same route as spam/virus scanners, but i can't seem to find any available tools for this, never came across it by accident or my googling skills are lacking. anybody a hint? much obliged I use a combination of cjpeg, djpeg, and pnmscale to handle this. Here is a snippet of PHP. Excuse the wrapping. if ( !move_uploaded_file( $file['tmp_name'], $filename..jpg ) ) trigger_error( Possible file upload attack. File .$file['name'] ); if ( system( /usr/local/bin/djpeg .$filename..jpg .$filename..pnm 2 ../errlog.txt ) == FALSE ) trigger_error( failed to decompress .$filename..jpg ); if ( system( /usr/local/bin/pnmscale -xysize 110 140 .$filename..pnm .$filename.1.pnm 2 ../errlog.txt ) == FALSE ) trigger_error( failed to scale .$filename..pnm ); if ( system( /usr/local/bin/cjpeg -smooth 10 -qual 50 .$filename.1.pnm ./images/users/.$userid..jpg 2 ../errlog.txt ) == FALSE ) trigger_error( failed to compress .$filename.1.pnm ); thanks, could be a very usable piece of code. this would be called when uploading pictures to a website i assume? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd88cc9.9070...@songshu.org
Re: Debian Testing Xfce4.8 startx problems
On 09/22/2011 01:54 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: The xfce4 doc states to simple put exec startxfce4 in ~/.xsession so that consolekit and policykit will be called upon, however they do not seem to be. i thought that for 4.8 it was changed to startxfce instead of startxfce4 but i could be misstaking, been a while since i read the release notes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e7b2b8c.6050...@songshu.org
HK2B voip on debian
hi all, anybody familiar with this hongkong based voip provider? http://www.2b.com.hk they seem to have a windows only client program but i was hoping to use a package available in debian to use my account. anybody tried that? thanks Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c5fe565.9020...@songshu.org
Re: Which disk is failing?
On 07/22/2010 02:54 PM, Michal wrote:
On 22/07/10 12:38, Gregory Seidman wrote:
I have a RAID1 (using md) running on two USB disks. (I'm working on
moving
to eSATA, but it's USB for now.) That means I don't have any insight
using
SMART. Meanwhile, I've been getting occasional fail events.
Unfortunately,
I don't get any information on which disk is failing.
When the system comes up, it seems to be entirely random which disk
comes
up as /dev/sda and which comes up as /dev/sdb. In fact, since my root
disk
is on SATA, at least one time it came up as /dev/sda and the USB drives
came up as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, though I think that was under a
different
kernel version. When I get a failure email, it tells me that it might be
due to /dev/sda1 failing -- except when it tells me that it might be
due to
/dev/sdb1 failing. When things are working, mdadm -D /dev/md0 looks like
this:
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90
Creation Time : Wed Feb 22 20:50:29 2006
Raid Level : raid1
Array Size : 312496256 (298.02 GiB 320.00 GB)
Used Dev Size : 312496256 (298.02 GiB 320.00 GB)
Raid Devices : 2
Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Thu Jul 22 07:30:46 2010
State : clean
Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 0
UUID : e4feee4a:6b6be6d2:013f88ab:1b80cac5
Events : 0.17961786
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 170 active sync /dev/sdb1
1 811 active sync /dev/sda1
When it fails, however, the device names disappear and it just tells me
it's clean, degraded and shows an active disk, a removed disk, and a
faulty
spare without any device names.
I even tried doing dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null to see if I could get the
light flickering on one and not the other, but I just get I/O errors.
Once
a disk fails, the RAID seems to go into a nasty state where it reads
properly through the crypto loop and LVM I have on top of it, but the
filesystems become read-only and the block devices just give errors.
Worse,
the first indication (even before the mdadm email) that something is
wrong
is a message to console that an ext3 journal write failed.
What I've been doing (which makes me tremendously uncomfortable since I
know a disk is failing) is to reboot and bring everything back up.
This has
been working, but I know it's just a matter of time before the
failing disk
becomes a failed disk. I could wait until then, since presumably I'll
then
know which is which, but who knows what data corruption is possible
between
now and then?
So, um, help?
--Greg
cat /proc/mdstat can help but you need to get the serial numbers. Do
this;
~# hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Model=ST31000340AS, FwRev=SD15,
SerialNo=
9QJ1TRWK
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs RotSpdTol.5% }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1953523055
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7
* signifies the current active mode
You see it says SerialNo = On each HDD you will see the serial number
on their somewhere, often it's hard to ready, so get a lable machine
out and clearly lable each HDD with it's serial number. When one
dies. do a cat /proc/mdstat to see which drive has failed, so say
/dev/sda has failed, run that command to get the serial number of
/dev/sda, open the case, rip it out, stick a new HDD in making sure
you label this one with it's serial number, boot up and rebuild etc etc
you could also try smartctl -a /dev/sda to get the disks serial numbers
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Re: debian based network appliance
On 07/22/2010 11:29 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour, I know untangle to be a network apliance based on Debian. What else do you know to be? I need a debian based system (the closest to debian is the best) that will be optilized for tc, iptbles/l7,... Misaotra, Thanks, Merci. hoi, sometimes i feel entangled as an appliance as well. you could use any old hardware, but if you want something new you could have a look at these http://www.mini-itx.com/ http://www.soekris.com/ if you want a debian based system i would recommend debian otherwise, depending on your needs http://www.ebox-platform.com/ http://www.vyatta.com/ or if you want some thing else from debian http://www.fsckin.com/2007/11/14/7-different-linuxbsd-firewalls-reviewed/ i tried monowall (BSD based) several years ago and was very happy with it (think its still running after 4 years) so thats the only one i can recommend from experience. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c484cee.6070...@songshu.org
Re: Which remote help solution?
On 04/29/2010 11:44 AM, Benedict Verheyen wrote: On 28/04/2010 16:56, Anand Sivaram wrote: You could do the following. 1. install ssh server on your friends machine. Create port forwarding in their router Login to their machine as usual using ssh. To reduce ssh brute force attack, change the ssh port from 22 to some larger number and use the corresponding port for router port forwarding. 2. Install openvpn server on your machine, client on your friends machine. access your friends machine just a like a local machine. First option is the simplest to setup, it gives only ssh access to you. Second option takes a bit more configuration, but gives you better security and ease of use after that. ssh + tightvncserver is also a good possibility. It's easy to setup and tightvnc will be run over the ssh tunnel so it should be safe. They will be able to see what you do. Regards, Benedict if you want graphical basically the same kind of solution would be to use FreeNX (free speech) or the Free NX server (free beer) i've setup FreeNX 2 years ago for a friend and its still up and running, its faster then any other remote desktop kind of connection, never had any stability issues and it works over SSH port 22 with the option to use certificates for security. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bd95949.7080...@songshu.org
China Netcom SIP
hi all, i'm setting up some SIP phones in China and we have a broadband connection with China Netcom. i can't seem to be able to register the voip phones to the PBX in another location but i do see the connection going out. there seems to be some filtering going on by the ISP, does anybody have experience with China Netcom and knows if there are any restrictions concerning the connection type? thanks Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1268125066.3538.36.ca...@randall-desktop
Re: Custom debian installeur on DVD
if you have the .iso already that is what i would understand as well cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom nameofyourimage.iso or you could use the build in tools to burn iso's in nautilus or K3B brasero On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 18:41 +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, my understand is that you need to know how to burn a bootable DVD. My 2 cents, Jerome marion.de...@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote: Hi, Actually, I try to make a debian installeur DVD but customized. I explain : In my company, we used to install debian cusomized with other packages. We made an ISO and put it on an USB key bootable. We add preseed.seed and syslinux.cfg. It work really fine. But we want to do the same thing with a DVD installeur, if it's possible. I looked for a very long time on the different forum but I didn't found how to create my own DVD installeur with my own ISO. Would you please help me ? Thanks for your answers. DELEY Marion -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit-at+rezozer*dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1268144617.3538.70.ca...@randall-desktop
Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
On 01/28/2010 01:14 PM, Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't find any other menu option than file / acquire / xsane / device dialog which gives me the error failed to open device v4l:/dev/video0: invalid argument I can understand that since gimp is probably looking for a scanner but I see other documentation on the net showing gimp with a dialog box showing a mix of scanners and webcams. In skype, the config shows the webcam under devices as UVC camera (046d:09a4) (/dev/video0) so I'm at a loss now. I tried v4l-conf but that just seems to be for settings on the camera itself, not the OS config. Any inspirational advice thankfully accepted Adam you cloud try cheese, i tried that ones on my laptop and it worked right away for both pictures and video recording -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: webcam in skype ok but not in gimp
Adam Hardy wrote: godo on 28/01/10 13:14, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: I got myself a webcam to skype, and plugged it in the usb port and it works fine with skype, but i want to grab an image from it in gimp or with w3cam or vidcat and it doesn't work. in gimp, i don't even think i'm in the right menu but i can't find any other menu option than file / acquire / xsane / device dialog which gives me the error failed to open device v4l:/dev/video0: invalid argument I can understand that since gimp is probably looking for a scanner but I see other documentation on the net showing gimp with a dialog box showing a mix of scanners and webcams. In skype, the config shows the webcam under devices as UVC camera (046d:09a4) (/dev/video0) so I'm at a loss now. I tried v4l-conf but that just seems to be for settings on the camera itself, not the OS config. did you try Cheese? I my opinion it is very good app. You can record movie with sound or take a photo from your web camera. It would be quite amusing to set the Warp effect while skyping with people. Yes, so OK, cheese is good - but I can't see how it's configured - presumably though it's not using v4l. I would of course (being anal) like to sort out the issue with gimp though. Adam there's nothing wrong with anal, but besides that, which kernel are you running and which driver? spca5 or gspca?? believe there could be some issue with the driver with the 2.26 kernel, either a driver or kernel ugrade could do the trick i suppose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: desktop mobo in a 19 inch
On 01/14/2010 01:40 PM, 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 case since i know it can get cramped in the height. Thanks, Randall to all the many many replies, many many thanks to all. i don' t have any pci cards that would have to fit in, so that would leave the RAM which fits and i have to buy some new CPU coolers since the boxed ones i have do not fit. actually i was more worried about the power supply that comes included with several 19 inch cases, but since nobody even mentioned it i guess that would be OK. Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: desktop mobo in a 19 inch
On 01/15/2010 12:13 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: randall put forth on 1/15/2010 4:18 AM: i don' t have any pci cards that would have to fit in, so that would leave the RAM which fits and i have to buy some new CPU coolers since the boxed ones i have do not fit. Expansion slot - named that because you may need something tomorrow or a year from now that you don't currently have. Always plan a little ahead. these are storage only machines and that is what they will be, at least that is my plan ahead. actually i was more worried about the power supply that comes included with several 19 inch cases, but since nobody even mentioned it i guess that would be OK. We didn't comment because you gave us zero details on the PSU. How could we? If only you knew before _right now_ that there are well over 5,000 different PSUs manufactured by 100+ companies around the wold, mostly in Taiwan, China, and S. Korea. The PSU in your bare bones 2U case could be one of 500+ units manufactured by 50+ different companies. i'm not having a particular PSU in mind, just wondered if they said ATX if that applies to the PSU as well Read the label on the side, read you mobo manual, and the online TDP specs for your CPUs. Make sure the PSU has enough amps available on the 3.3, 5, and 12 volt rails to power the mobo+CPUs and all your hard drives and optical drives. i will check this to be sure, thanks for the tip If you're wondering about the *quality* of the PSU, we can't answer that. There are maybe 5 reputable PSU brands in the white box space, and if you bought one of the cheap 2U chassis, chances are you didn't get one of the reputable PSUs. That doesn't mean it sucks. I've got plenty of no-name PSUs in many of my machines and they work fine. the quality aspect was not on my mind yet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?
Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. As I have heard that vserver package does not work well in Debian, I would like to hear Your opinion (if any) on what is working more stable (well for use in production systems): 1. vserver 2. openvz 3. something else Thanks for Your time. PS Please, reply to the list. as mentioned by the others, every cool feature usually has a disadvantage so its what you use it for. besides that i have been running VServer for about 5 years now without any big problems. its light, stable and fast thanks to the fact it shares the same kernel with the host and all the guests, but this could be a disadvantage if you need a seperate kernel per guest. Openvz basically is somewhere in the same league as VServer, i started with VServer and it did what i wanted + a active and extremely helpfull mailinglist so i never looked back -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?
Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, randall: thanks to the fact it shares the same kernel with the host and all the guests, but this could be a disadvantage if you need a seperate kernel per guest. One of the reasons I would like to use virtualization is security... so, how does using of a single kernel affect total security/separation - at my view - it does not help in this view. Though I do not know how openvz or xen work... i'm not an expert but i will explain a little what i think i know. xen and vmware can give you the best seperation/security because each guest will run its own kernel, this will affect the performance however since you are simply running several complete operating systems ( you could run linux in 1 guest, windows in another and FreeBSd in yet another etc... ) VServer and i guess also openvz are simply a very smart way of using chroot to isolate several services just like the jails utility in FreeBSD, this off course has the advantage that there is no performance overhead , VServer is set up by default not to allow the guest direct access to the kernel but for some programs, like bind, you have to loosen up the privileges to the kernel a little so this brings a little risk although most programs will run without any modification needed. also, with xen and vmware you can run a firewall inside each guest itself as well which you can not do with VServer since this needs kernel access, with VServer i have the firewall on the host system allowing/blocking traffic to the guests. Openvz basically is somewhere in the same league as VServer, i started with VServer and it did what i wanted + a active and extremely helpfull mailinglist so i never looked back Did You compile Your own kernels for Debian? - And then ever after - on update? some do, but i always use the vserver patched kernel from the repos, it never gave me any problems and i'm always assured of the security updates, did not have any issue when upgrading from etch to lenny. The thing you heard was broken is the vserver-debiantools package which apparently is in a bad state for years already ( have used these in the past and still do, but i never experienced a problem myself ). But you simply do not need this package, just follow the directions on the VServer wiki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
desktop mobo in a 19 inch
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Re: Failover of gateways
On 01/14/2010 05:06 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! I'm trying to configure Debian GNU/Linux with two alternative gateways. That is to say, that initially the traffic is by GW1 and if it is down then it goes by GW2. If GW2 is again up, then it becomes to use GW1. Somebody was able to implement some configuration of this type and could help me with it or indicate some reference to me? Thanks in advance for your replies. Regards, Daniel i believe heartbeat is what you are looking for http://www.linux-ha.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Failover of gateways
On 01/14/2010 05:40 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi, Randal. On Thursday, 14 January 2010 17:11:53 +0100, randall wrote: I'm trying to configure Debian GNU/Linux with two alternative gateways. That is to say, that initially the traffic is by GW1 and if it is down then it goes by GW2. If GW2 is again up, then it becomes to use GW1. Somebody was able to implement some configuration of this type and could help me with it or indicate some reference to me? i believe heartbeat is what you are looking for http://www.linux-ha.org/ Mmm... but, according to I know, Heartbeat is for implementing HA between two physical servers. To which I talked about with GW1 and GW2 is to two Internet providers. Thanks for your replies. Regards, Daniel excuse me, in that case i completely misunderstood you. but it might still apply ;) so if i understand correct you have 1 machine and GW1 and GW2 are both reachable via the same network interface? or are both gateways on a separate network interface? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT
Sjors van der Pluijm wrote: Op vrijdag 8 januari 2010 12:26:37 schreef Stan Hoeppner: Sjors van der Pluijm put forth on 1/8/2010 5:13 AM: 3. Is it ok to have swap and /boot on an encrypted LVM? Never run encryption on swap. Doing so merely burdens performance. I doubt even NSA, CIA, MI6 encrypt swap partitions on workstations. Well, I might heave read wrong, but I thought the Debian installer warned me not to leave swap unencrypted while other partitions are encrypted. It makes sense too: sensitive content could easily be written to swap. i maintain a few laptops with encryption and i developed the following habit. / 10GB /home the rest + encryption these are fairly new laptops with or more then 1GB RAM, simply not having any /swap solves the problem and with enough RAM available i never had any problem. not having the / root partition encrypted leaves some room for trouble shooting is the thought here since the sensitive information is in the /home anyway. not sure if this is the best way to do this but its simple and works nicely in my experience. Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: jabber cliente
Jesus arteche wrote: hey¡ Someone knows if there are some jabber client which support voice and video? thanks i thought the latest pidgin had this finaly implemented, think i also heard that it was to be included in telepathy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Two computers in one: two users each with their own accounts, monitor, and keyboard?
On 01/06/2010 09:58 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I have a desktop computer with onboard VGA and option to add a discrete video card. It has plenty of spare USB ports for mice and keyboards. Does Debian support using this computer for _two_ workstations, each with their own user accounts, monitor, and keyboard? The goal is to save space, electricity, and maintenance in a cramped desk in which now two people must each have their own computer (home environment). I prefer to stick with Lenny but am willing to experiment with Squeeze or even a Debian derivative if need be. Thanks in advance. seems pretty straight forward https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiseatX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
secured limited access to webaplication
hi all, i have a home made webapplication running for about 80 users in 8 different offices worldwide and this application holds vital information on our operation and is of course strictly confidential. to keep it secure it is running on https:// and the access is limited by firewall to the IP addresses of the offices. This works but is not extremely flexible if you want to grant permissions to homeworkers (VPN can solve this though), also 2 of the offices can not get a static IP so they need a manual update of the firewall now and then. my question in this is, are there better ways to shield a web application from prying eyes except from fire-walling it? would love to hear some thoughts and experiences, Thanks, Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: secured limited access to webaplication
Matthew Smith wrote: Quoth randall at 20/10/09 17:42... my question in this is, are there better ways to shield a web application from prying eyes except from fire-walling it? Some thoughts: In your situation, I don't think controlling access by allowing certain IP addresses through your firewall is going to work. Or, it will work, but it is impractical. hence the question I would suggest that you use VPN (or SSH tunnels) and provide access based on keys from any IP address. If you do this, access to the intranet is always screened by your VPS or ssh software. Only people with the correct keys will be able to gain access. have done this for a few laptops but besides the bit of extra key management, which is doable, it does involve setting up the VPN client which is a bit more challenging. have used OpenVPN so far on some ubuntu laptops but also setting it up on remote XP and Vista laptops is where it soon starts to become messy was my thought. my hopes were on a more centralised management without too many configs on the local clients, one of the reasons we made it a web application reachable by browser. NOTE: this can help prevent unauthorised access (keys can always fall into the wrong hands - stolen laptops) but won't stop a DDoS attack against your server. As an alternative, you could just allow direct Internet access to your server, run the https server on a non-standard port and implement a strict password policy. (This is assuming that your web application has a login system.) mmm, this feels like playing hide and seek and gamble on the odds, it does have password protection but i'm not willing to rely on this alone. Personally, I'd be inclined to go for the VPS solution. That way, your people can get access to other network services - problem would only be that with VPN ALL their traffic would pass my server (correct???), this would lead to serious speed/performance decrease for all other traffic for most of the clients. they just have to have the right key. Don't know if it's possible to set up a VPS where both a key AND a password are required - this would help get around the stolen laptop scenario. VPN i guess you ment? it can work with a key AND a password (have not implemented this tough since the laptops already have encrypted partitions and strong passwords) Hope this helps. its surely appreciated, Thanks Cheers M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: install package from source
Sokvantha YOUK wrote: Dear All, I would like to know what are packages requires to be able compile and install package from source in Debian5 (Lenny) ? If in CentOS5 I would only need to install these tools #yum groupinstall Development Tolls Development Libraries. Thank you for your kindly help and advices. apt-get install build-essential have fun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: custom Installer
Tanco . wrote: Hello guys, I am working on developing a system that will be a custom distro that I will need to compile as a Installable DVD / Iso Image.. I was thinking of installing on a system and using mondo system backup to make the iso images, but I don't like it since it will remember my partitions backup, so it will require a full HDD, so I need to make a custom installer and I don't intend on typing the code for it.. any ideas? ehmm,, debian already has an installer, why not use that one? all you need to do is to change the defaults into what you need it to be, i did it a while ago with Ubuntu but the same principle applies. sure you can find more info on this but i have some old notes here that you could use as a start. http://www.songshu.org/index.php/customise-the-ubuntu-installer#hacking-the-installer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: custom Installer
Tanco wrote: This is actually a good Idea, but I need to add custom software inside, and configurations, I don't need package selectors, and such, just partition selector/editor, timezone, language, and boot selector.. can I do this with the ubuntu installer? can i add custom software and configs? well, first of all, ubuntu uses the debian installer. but yes, partitioning can be done via the preseed file, in my example i used d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select All files in one partition (recommended for new users) its basically the answer to one of the questions you might recognize when installing debian and can be set to anything you want. same with timezone d-i time/zone string Europe/Amsterdam etc... its all in the preseed file don't know what kind of custom software you need included but you can also have any script you want to be run in the beginning or at the end of the installation. i'm sure there are more ways then the one suggested by me that you can choose from like for example FAI or even puppet to also control the machines after installation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?
Matthew Moore wrote: On Friday October 16 2009 9:11:05 am Lee Winter wrote: leandro.magnabo...@fcdl-sc.org.br wrote: This thread *has* to stop! And you are adding to it in order to shorten it? This thread is much like any infinite set. Adding a finite number of elements to it does not change it's size. Every time someone replys to this thread, God kills a kitty. Who told you that? It's true. How would you know? 2 observations: (1) I kill a kitty every time this thread is posted to. (2) you cannot prove that I am not god. MM i'm not a god and can even prove that. nevertheless i do kill kitties -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: custom Installer
Tanco wrote: Also a great idea, but the problem is that the base system is a slackware (i am not allowed to change the base distro) also I need to make a installer of a already running system , so the idea basically is I need to somehow make an installer of the system in questions.. because i.e. it needs specific software : it uses postgres 7.4 apache 1.3 etc.. and the DB needs to have some preinstalled tables with data, the htdocs on the apache need to be on a specific location and need to have a web app running directly after install it will be a huge problem to make everything in the install process that is why I came up with the idea for using mondo backup, because it tars everything,.. best regards Tanco if i remember correctly good old slack uses tag files so you can preset the software selection, for the rest it might give you better results to ask this question on a Slackware specific mailing list, i know there are some pretty knowledgeable slackers there who probably can get you better advise on the distro specifics. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?
Mihira Fernando wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:33:01 +0900 J.Hwan.Kim j.hwan.ki...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, everyone Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program except gnomebaker ? K3b Brasero is another good one -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Transfer email files?
Thomas H. George wrote: I have two computers with uptodate Squeeze systems, gdm, icewm and iceape internet suite. On one the iceape browser and email client can play videos on the other they can't. I have been unable to find the reason for this difference. I want to move the email file and address book from the system that can't play videos to the one that can without losing anything. This is important to me as I receive emails with video clips attached, upload the video clips to a web site and use the browser to view the videos on the web site. Perhaps such a move is a trivial operation but I want to be certain that it suceeds. I would appreciate any descriptions of successful moves. Tom i'm not familair with the iceape suite but i do use Thunderbird+Firefox on 20 desktops and have moved the mail on numerous occasions without problems. (I GUESS, that iceape uses the same principle as the other mozilla products!) on my system there is a .mozilla-thunderbird (yours might be .iceape or something) folder in the users /home dir holds all user mails , address books and settings, just copy these over to the other computer. p.s. check your browser to show the hidden files that start with a . if you can't see any files that start with a . p.p.s. you might need to change the owner permissions if you run it as a another user p.p.s. in case the other computer already has a folder like this and you would like to keep these configs you need to back that up first, in case you would like to merge these 2 its a slightly different story but i'm not sure if you want that. p.p.p.s. as long as you do not delete and backup before you overwrite any folders you can't go wrong) have fun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?
John Hasler wrote: Mark Goldshtein writes: Looks like I am really sorry what Debian Mailing List works this way. The mailing list merely sends each subscriber one copy of each message it receives. That's all. It has nothing to do with cc's and it never sends more than one copy to each subscriber. You are sending your messages to JoeHill and cc'ing the list. Here is the relevant part of the header: Message-ID: 3eb61c3d0910100935j1cfa415dhbf93a8492effd...@mail.gmail.com Subject: Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program? From: Mark Goldshtein mark.goldsht...@gmail.com To: JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Why are you doing this? i have the same problem, this list sets the reply to to the original sender of the message instead of the list itself. this is the only list i know that acts this way, i think i saw a thread on this or another debian list on this as well recently. i always need to remove the TO and change the CC into TO, not sure if it works the same on all mail clients but i use Thunderbird. it might be more productive to send a polite request to change this default behavior to the list maintainer instead of some other remarks made in this thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: local linux (debian) support
Patrick Holthuizen wrote: Hello, Since a few weeks I am thinking about the idea to provide support for Linux in my local neighborhood for people who do not have much experience with mailing lists, only speak their native language (non-english) and/or prefer the physical appearance of a person for some other reason. Besides participating in a local Linux user group I thought of the idea to fill a google map with my contact details and information about which physical area I am willing to provide support for, for example: http://maps.google.nl/maps/ms?hl=nlie=UTF8msa=0msid=101371347574559367262.0004733f5a52cceeb5c90z=12 Now I wonder, does something like this already exist? What do you think about this idea? I for a person think this could be a good idea for providing something like a physical support network for Linux. Thanks for your critique in advance! Sincerely, Patrick Holthuizen Great Idea, Now and then i shop for custom made computers and loose components and i usually go to the small pc shops (rotterdam) that build there own systems and i have discussed with them why they don't sell any Linux pre-installed computers, besides the couple of euro's they can spare on the Linux license for a home desktop, i figured the money could be worth it for them in the office suite's and something like ebox for small company networks. The main reason they don't do it is because of support, not that they can provide any software support themselves for MS, but at least they have somebody to blame (MS) if things go wrong and there are plenty of people who provide support for it. I think your idea could work out well if you can come up with a standard desktop/server combination and a network of small retail stores that are willing to join once they know that they are backed up by reliable local support. The main problem will be that you will need a organized network of admins that do things the same standardized way, i think i don't have to point out to you what an endless discussion that will be ;) Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system
Lisi Reisz wrote: My husband's box is currently running PCLinuxOS 2009. A dying HDD necessitates a fresh istallation. ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** i hate to say this on a debian list ;) but i was pretty impressed about the increased boot speed of (x)ubuntu 9.04 and especially using the new ext4 file system. i use this both for beefy desktops and my tiny small netbook and boottime is about 20 secs till the login screen. He finds the PCLOS very slow to boot up after the Libranet that he had installed previously. This seems like a good opportunity to install something better and faster. I am thinking of Lenny. Stability is important, and there is no call for anything up-to-date - at least until his processor or motherboard dies. ;-) Lenny is stable for sure and can provide for a great desktop, although i guess it does require some more fiddling under the hood before you have it as you want it probably when compared to PCLOS (never used PCLOS myself) It is reasonably important, tho' not a deal breaker, that the visible layer should look and feel the same as his present one. What is under the hood will not bother him at all, because he will never raise said hood. The details of the desktop are unimportant, but it is important that there be icons over which I have control. He is used to being able to do one click on an icon to open the few things that he actually uses, i.e. four or so applications, a shortcut to a specific document, the lock/shutdown icon and a clock. Currently the document icon is on the desktop and the rest on the panel, which is at the bottom of the screen. It would be nice if these details were the same, tho' it is not essential. /usr/share/applications is where you find the program icons ( .desktop files) XFCE is currently looking like the front runner, but I fear that it may be en route to getting bloated. Opinions, please. Because of Knoppix, I have had a good look at LXDE, but so far it does not appear to be very malleable, and support seems a bit thin on the ground.He currently has KDE, which was part of a fast boot process in Libranet, but is an obvious candidate to go if I am trying to speed things up. I use XFCE myself mainly because i find it a more stable and sane environment compared to Gnome or KDE, they say its a bit lighter on the resources and thus faster, but my personal experience is that the speed is much more influenced by the programs you have running in the background like cups, HAL, bluetooth and your choice of applications you run on top of it. ***I would be very grateful for help in speeding up the boot process, and suggestions for a suitable DE or WM.*** if its real speed you want you might want to take a look at the likes of fluxbox or icewm it all depends on your comfort level when it comes to tweaking the system and requirements. Randall TIA Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
ssh hardly usable after login
hi all, have a peculiar problem for a few months already and i can't really understand whats the problem here. i have a debian machine in China and i connect coming from Europe, it used to work perfectly after some driver issues that forced me to change the network cards. At the moment: i can still login via SSH and issue commands, but when opening a file with nano or issuing top it just hangs and displaying a black screen until it times out. i can copy to the machine via SCP but i can not copy files from it, it just stalls till it times out. a website served on the site can not be reached from the outside, it connects but keeps waiting for response. at the moment the machine functions as a router with 2 interfaces eth1 connected the LAN and eth0 facing the internet, there are no problems occurring for the ones using it on the LAN side. till so far my first hunch is that it is a firewall/routing problem, i use shorewall. although i'm not really sure what it is. so before i start to try disabling shorewall and or others and risk loosing the LAN connectivity that actually is functioning i wondered if somebody here has some clue on what this could be. anyways, thanks all Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
connection issues
hi all, having a problem since a few months and i cant really figure it out. i have a debian machine standing in China and i connect from Europe, so going over there just for this is slightly cumbersome. i did have some driver issues in the past but after replacing the network cards it worked fine. At the moment: i can login using SSH and issue commands. but when opening a file or starting top the screen goes black until the connection times out, reset by peer. i can copy files to the machine using SCP but i can not copy them back, it stalls until the time out. a website is hosted on the machine and you can connect to it but it keeps on waiting for the server till the morning comes. the machines acts as a router for a local LAN, eth1 faces the LAN and eth0 faces the net, no problems for the people on the LAN not sure what it is but my first suspect would be the firewall/routing, i use shorewall. so, before i try disabling the firewall etc... to see if it has any results and risk losing the working LAN part of the story i wonder if somebody here has a clue on what it could be. Thanks anyways, Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: connection issues
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:55:29PM +0200, randall wrote: At the moment: i can login using SSH and issue commands. but when opening a file or starting top the screen goes black until the connection times out, reset by peer. 1. Check remaining disk size not a problem host:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 9.2G 1.7G 7.1G 20% / tmpfs 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 84K 10M 1% /dev tmpfs 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/md3 459G 255G 181G 59% /BACKUP /dev/mapper/vg-VSERVERS 433G 5.5G 406G 2% /VSERVERS 2. Run screen so your session is alive even when connection dies. tried screen last week for the first time, not sure where its usefulness lies but thats probably due to my bad 3. Run ssh with -v to see all the debug info no problem detected there 4. Do more investigation mmm, its been a few months till it appeared for the first time, i did look everywhere i could, but not being able to read log files and most configs complicates a thing or two. screen -r is your friend worth looking into i guess http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch09.en.html#_the_screen_program Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: connection issues
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: randall wrote: so, before i try disabling the firewall etc... to see if it has any results and risk losing the working LAN part of the story i wonder if somebody here has a clue on what it could be. Factors external to the machine? Like limits on upstream / downstream data rates, imposed by your ISP, firewall settings imposed by your ISP, etc. ... Just guesswork, Johannes its on a shared 10mbits connection but usually it had a pretty good connection accept for a high latency. whatever the ISP is doing? no idea, but this is China so anything goes ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian on non-linux kernels...
Rick Thomas wrote: What requirements does Debian put on a non-Linux kernel? Where would I look for documentation on that? There's some interest in making Minix 3 run with the non-kernel parts of Debian. Thanks for any help! Rick i seriously could not give you any sensible answer on that question, however i do remember reading that there is a debian port with a freebsd kernel. http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: to build a vserver guest: t ospecify a dvd source.
Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Tzafrir: Huh? why would you do that? Just use the debootstrap method. Yes, it uses remote server. How I can do all the stuff being out of Internet? It can be a remote source. And it works well. Great, how I can do it being out of Internet? I usually do it as follows. newvserver --hostname www --domain mydomain.com --ip 192.168.0.5/24 --dist lenny --mirror http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ --interface dummy0 but THIS IS NOT the recommended way but i still do it because i'm still stuck in old habbits. THE RECOMENDED way is decribed in the Vserver wiki http://linux-vserver.org/Building_Guest_Systems with the --mirror or -m you can specify the source where youre packages should come, i always use the network but using an install CD or DVD or local archive for this works perfectly fine as well. Can't remember from the top of my head wath the exact ---mirror /dev/cdrom/debian or something should be but i guess thats easy to find out after a few tries. p.s. Vserver has a great, active and positive mailing list that i can recommend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Acrobat Reader in debian
Frank Lanitz wrote: Not in main, since its non free software. Maybe you can find some acrobat package on non-free section of debian distribution but I recommend to don't use it due the issue with properiarian software and a number of security issues known against acrobat reader itself. Thanks, Frank there are extra fonts available, i always need to add them when i want to read Chinese http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrasianfontpack.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
max sata connections
hi all, i'm fairly unexperienced when it comes to rackmountable hardware but i was looking at the cheapest way too get as much terrabytes as possible in a single system. my eye fell on the Chenbro RM23212 which is a 2u enclosure that fits 12x 3.5 disks and i obviously want to squeeze 12x 1 or 2 terrabyte disks in there. i figured that would be the most space/gigabyte solution at an affordable rate, however, when looking for a matching mobo i can not any with more then 10x sataII connections. i think this could be solved using sata multipliers but i do not have any experience with these and there seem to be mixed feelings about there reliability as far as i can tell from a quick google. anybody has any experience/recommendation on this? much obliged, Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: can't install etch on new machine
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/6/9 shadesofg...@midmaine.com mailto:shadesofg...@midmaine.com I have the CD set. It was installed fine on my old machine. I'm trying to install on a new pc. It is a Dell with a dvd/cd drive (TSST corp). On the first cd it asks for the cd, but it is already reading the cd! And I can't get past this, even when it asks for a list of cd's and I select none. mean it can read the cd - who cares if its not one on its list? How do I do the install? Thanks, Bob Bob, is your CD/DVD drive cable is SATA? Last year I tried to install Etch, it didn't recognize my SATA DVD drive. Use Lenny installer CD instead like Andrei suggested. i had the same issue with a Asus P5K WS mobo 2 years ago, it should be working with Lenny as i was told, but since lenny was still not stable then i worked around it using a USB stick to do the install if you insist on installing Etch you could follow the notes below i made at that time but better to try Lenny first anyway i guess To download the installer we do as follows $ wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz and we will also need the same iso file as when making an installation cd $ wget http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-40r2-amd64-netinst.iso The exact mountpoint of the usb can be found with $ fdisk -l Assuming your usb is mounted as /dev/sda we can extract the boot.img.gz to the usb stick. $ zcat boot.img.gz /dev/sda Then mount the usb. # mount /dev/sda /mnt when this is done simply copy the .iso to the same usb disk # cp debian-40r2-amd64-netinst.iso /mnt and then unmount the usb stick # umount /mnt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: rsync and Windows backups on a Debian box and permissions
H.S. wrote:
Hello,
I have a Debian box (running Testing) which rsyncs some directories from
a Windows laptop (running XP on an ntfs partition) to a partition on a
local disk on the Debian box.
The Debian box uses rsync via ssh connection made with the XP box which
has cygwin and ssh server installed. The user used to do the ssh
connection is an administrator on the XP box ('root'). The script is
running from the root account on the Debian box.
The command is something like this:
rsync --delete --modify-window=10 --force -Rvaue ssh
--exclude-from=$EXCLUDESFILE --progress \
xp-box:/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user1
/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user2 /mnt/backups/xp-daily-00;
where $EXCLUDESFILE is a variable defined with the path to the excludes
files on the Debian box.
Now, this all works very well for making the backups.
However, the permissions of the files pulled from the XP box to the
Debian box are the same as on the XP box. The same two users, user1 and
user2, also exist on the Debian box. However, the gids and uids of these
users are different on the XP box and on the Debian box. So the users
cannot browse their own directories (backups) from within the Debian box
(permissions denied).
This is a problem if a user wants to browse, or recover files from, his
backups by connecting from the XP box to the Debian box using ssh
(because then the user's gid and uid are Debian numbers, not the XP, or
cygwin on XP, numbers).
Any ideas how I get around this problem?
Thanks.
Couldn't you add at the end of the script to chown the directories to
the proper owners?
--
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#! Uh oh!
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Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:03:32PM -0400, George Randall wrote: /blockquote font size=-1font face=VerdanaWell for one if you used one big partition you would loose the versatility of having a seperate /home partition or other partitions that could stay intact during a reinstall./font/fontbr This is a good point. Thanks George, Zhengquan I wanted to apologize for sending my last message in html. I switched the list email over to a different account and setup the reply after quote but forgot to turn off html. -- George # rm -r * enter #! Uh oh! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: lvm on a single big partition or just a single big partition?
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hello debian users, Though I have used lvm for some time, I have one question that I don't understand. For one harddrive I often create a /boot parition that is not lvm and create a huge partition on the rest of the harddrive for PV of lvm. Now I am thinking what is the difference between doing partition like this and just a single big partition without lvm? Thanks in advance, Well for one if you used one big partition you would loose the versatility of having a seperate /home partition or other partitions that could stay intact during a reinstall. -- George # rm -r * enter #! Uh oh! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: best practice for lvm?
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi debian users, Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certain LV? Thanks for enlightenment and I am thinking of how to best utilize lvm for a long time. You will need the separate /boot partition and then your lvm partition. For an example my 500gb hard drive. I created a /boot partition 500MB, and the lvm partiton which is 200GB. Inside the lvm I have a 20gb /root, 60gb /home, and a 40gb /data(used with winblows). That's only 120gb of the 200gb I allotted. You can always resize them, going larger is easier and going smaller takes a little more work. It is all in what you need or want. -- George # rm -r * enter #! Uh oh! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: best practice for lvm?
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:02:05PM -0400, George Randall wrote: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Hi debian users, Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certain LV? Thanks for enlightenment and I am thinking of how to best utilize lvm for a long time. You will need the separate /boot partition and then your lvm partition. For an example my 500gb hard drive. I created a /boot partition 500MB, and the lvm partiton which is 200GB. Inside the lvm I have a 20gb /root, 60gb /home, and a 40gb /data(used with winblows). That's only 120gb of the 200gb I allotted. You can always resize them, going larger is easier and going smaller takes a little more work. It is all in what you need or want. so the 300G space not in lvm is not touched by anything? If I would like to use the 300G space, how can I do it? I am facing a situation like this recently. Thanks for the reply, it helped me alot. You could still use it either as one big partition, two primary partitions, one primary and one logical, one primary and another lvm. You can only have 4 primary partitions on a disk. Your /boot and lvm partitions both need to be primary partitions. I dual boot debian and windows 7, which windows 7 uses two separate partitions. -- George # rm -r * enter #! Uh oh! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: best practice for lvm?
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 4a26ba9d.9060...@rctoolz.com, George Randall wrote: Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Can I say the best practice for lvm is to create a single partition for the harddrive and single PV on it and separate LVs for /tmp /var /home etc? and leave enough unassigned PE for later enlargement of certain LV? Thanks for enlightenment and I am thinking of how to best utilize lvm for a long time. You will need the separate /boot partition and then your lvm partition. Not if you are willing to use grub2 (aka grub-pc). Version 1.96 or above of GRUB can boot from Linux LVM. That's great news, I haven't been able to stay as up to date as I would like. Thanks for the info. -- George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Linux
- Original Message - From: Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:28:24 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: Debian Linux Harry Rickards wrote: Someone definitely needs to make a rtfm.com version, that redirects you to the appropriate manual page. :D Try that for a start http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+rtfml=1 love that one, but there seems to be another program already for this http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man1/rtfm.1fun.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Linux
- Original Message - From: Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:02:54 AM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: Debian Linux rand...@songshu.org wrote: http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+rtfml=1 love that one, but there seems to be another program already for this http://manpages.songshu.org/manpages/lenny/en/man1/rtfm.1fun.html In fact both are the same 'program'. You could install that man page with 'aptitude install funny-manpages', since it is included in debian. didn't notice until now, guess i did not bother to see the end result of the google outcome ;) It seems that there are many new users who prefer to read their man pages with their web browser. That's why they are online (and can be found with google). most new users don't now the existence of the automatically installed man pages. admittedly i also find it more readable in a browser. I guess after a while they will find out that they can get more accurate information for their system in an easy fashion if they just do 'man' or 'man -k' from the CLI. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian Linux
And easier to navigate when they have been converted to html, e.g. http://manpages.courier-mta.org/mansection1.html You should keep in mind that these are likely not current or in sync' with your system. http://manpages.debian.net/ is pretty much in sync i guess. the only problem with that site is that it cgi generates the pages, so its not indexed by google, one of the reasons that they did it differently for the ubuntu version. in my turn i made the http://manpages.songshu.org basically copying ubuntu's site and applied it to debian, nothing special further but it was a nice practice material. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: lvm on raid1 for a backup server or not?
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Dear debian community, I will build up a backup server which has 2x1T + 1x250G drives. the size of the one full backup will be about 400G. My initial plan was to install debian lenny on the 250G drive. leave 2x1T drive untouched and then make software raid1 on them after the installation. sounds good I have a few questions that I have not figured out the answer after googling. 1. Is it advised to install the system on the 250G drive as well as the 2x1T drive? Installing the system on 3 drives will enable the machine to boot if the 250G drive fails. But in that case, will the machine boot correctly using system installed on the 1T drive? and How can I directly install the OS on 3 drives simultaneously? you could use raid 1 with the 3 drives for the / system partition of +- 5GB and create a raid 1 /backup partition on the remaining space of the 2 TB disks. although you then might as well not use the 250GB disk at all since it only adds some complexity and most space on it is wasted anyway, if you make it a system disk only, and the 250GB would fail you could always still reach the data on the disks by mounting them in another machine or using a live-cd or something. it would be my idea to forget about the 250GB and just use the 2x 1TB in a raid 1 setup 2. I have used lvm on other systems but not on raid. I wonder if it is advisable to use lvm over raid on a backup server. The rationale of LVM is to make resizing easier but in this situation is it advisded to use LVM on the raid1 array and the 250G boot drive? LVM itself works fine on top of RAID, no worries. just make sure your raid setup is sound. personally i always prefer to have just a small root partition and single large partition for the data if possible and forget about adding the extra layer. you could use the lvm to stripe the 250 GB and the 1TB raid 1 together, but that looses the point of data security i guess Thanks for any pointers, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [OT] loosing data
Adrian Chapela wrote: Imagine the next situation: one PC with windows, linux and a FAT32 data partition. Someone tried to install a new linux distribution but he didn't take care about the partitioning process and selected the automatic creation. Now he has two partitions one ext3 for the system and swap partition. We need to recover data from the deleted FAT32 partition, how could I do that ? I am thinking on use photorec but How could I recover the partitions ? We haven't any backup, data or mbr are totally lost now. What is your idea ? last time i used my boss his computer to format a usb stick and accidentally formatted the entire drive (yes, this makes a man sweat) photorec and testdisk for the partition saved the day (and my job), i installed it after booting from a livecd and copied everything over to the file server. i guess you want to get the files save first and then recover the partition in that order -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: IE in lenny?
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello, I need to run M$ Internet Explorer in lenny. Can be a old version, like 5.5. Is it possible? I tried with wine 1.0.1 from lenny and with wine 1.1.19 from wine site. In both cases without success. The html rendering was disabled... best Marcelo http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Advice on raid/lvm
Tapani Tarvainen wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 08:50:34PM -0500, Mark Allums (m...@allums.com) wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Is there an advantage of software raid10 over multiple raid1 arrays joined with LVM? Capacity can be dynamically added with pairs of disks. Only one: simplicity. It would make it easier for someone to understand, in the beginning. Curiously, I would've thought the opposite, that is, bunch of separate raid1 arrays would be easier to understand than raid10. Raid1 is conceptually simple compared to any other raid level, and if you're using lvm anyway, it doesn't make much difference whether physical volumes are disks or disk pairs. Anybody want to claim being a newbie and having an opinion here? ehhmm,, not a complete newbie anymore but the memory is still fresh ;) one might argue that at least with etch raid1 + LVM would be easier since raid10 was not covered by the installer. also you might generally say that people often become familiar with raid1 first since it is the most simple affordable solution at first for the most simple scenario's raid1 vs raid 10 i think i would say that raid1 is easier to understand since it is 50% less complex. but then again, 3 points above for raid1 being easier, assuming one already knows and understands LVM, if not it becomes a different story. i still remember that when being fresh on checking the difference between raid levels on the wiki doing things like this http://www.songshu.org/index.php/setup-raid-10 seemed complex to me at first, but so did LVM with its groups and volumes, so i think it depends on your previous experience and comfort level what really is easier. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: pdf - jpg
Rick Pasotto wrote: What would be a good way to create a jpg image of a pdf page? if its a single one then the gimp could do it for you -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny + Dell PE 2970
M. Lewis wrote: I'm trying to install Lenny on a Dell Power Edge 2970 with little success. The problem I'm running into is installing grub. My .iso images check with md5sum correctly. With three different DVDs, I get the error: Unable to install grub in (hd0) Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed This is a fatal error. maybe a long shot, but his problem reminds me a little when trying to install from USB, the installer defaulted to install to the USB stick, thus not giving an error but evidently GRUB was not in the right place when trying to boot from the hard disks. IF the installer would see your install DVD as (hd0) then the error would make sense. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: specific network traffic
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top, but for the network; I tried ntop, but it does not seem to present these information as top do for CPU and memory usage... netstat only shows the opened connections... any suggestion please? thanks in advance Lorenzo did you try iotop ? -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: specific network traffic
randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top, but for the network; I tried ntop, but it does not seem to present these information as top do for CPU and memory usage... netstat only shows the opened connections... any suggestion please? thanks in advance Lorenzo did you try iotop ? sorry, i ment iftop -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: specific network traffic
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: randall wrote: randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top, but for the network; I tried ntop, but it does not seem to present these information as top do for CPU and memory usage... netstat only shows the opened connections... any suggestion please? thanks in advance Lorenzo did you try iotop ? sorry, i ment iftop Thanks this looks nice and also dns lookups the addresses; it does not show process information though... but surely looks pretty useful :-) iftop -p will show you the port numbers, so basically the process involved -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: specific network traffic
randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: randall wrote: randall wrote: Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'd like to see the network traffic in a detailed way, e.g., which process is accessing a specific address, the protocol, and the current network usage. something similar to top, but for the network; I tried ntop, but it does not seem to present these information as top do for CPU and memory usage... netstat only shows the opened connections... any suggestion please? thanks in advance Lorenzo did you try iotop ? sorry, i ment iftop Thanks this looks nice and also dns lookups the addresses; it does not show process information though... but surely looks pretty useful :-) iftop -p will show you the port numbers, so basically the process involved damn, sorry all, its friday that would be iftop -P , with a capital P. proves ones and for all that drinking and mailing lists do not work, see you all on Monday ;) -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Rescue Linux partition
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mirco Piccin wrote: HI, Is there a bootable utility that can be installed on a CD and rescue or back up the data in the Linux ext2 partitions on my HDD and write them to a CD using the CD writer on my system. you can run any live-cd and install something like ddrescue / photorec its one of the spare times i actually found the ubuntu live-desktop cd useful since it provides firefox with google while doing the rescue -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Rescue Linux partition
randall wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mirco Piccin wrote: HI, Is there a bootable utility that can be installed on a CD and rescue or back up the data in the Linux ext2 partitions on my HDD and write them to a CD using the CD writer on my system. you can run any live-cd and install something like ddrescue / photorec its one of the spare times i actually found the ubuntu live-desktop cd useful since it provides firefox with google while doing the rescue reply to ME, please note i probably misread the e-mail, i assumed that the partition that needed to be rescued was broken, if the partition itself is OK please ignore my recomendation. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Moving to LVM
André Berger wrote: * André Berger (2009-03-16): (Replying to myself and trying to sum up your AQs) Thank you all for the helpful discussion and detailed instructions, _much appreciated_. I'm aware of the significance of backups, and keep redundant backups of 'important' data. The files in question are 'just movies' I would miss but could live without. Not that I wanted to avoid lose them though. That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would have to access just one directory, and deleting files from that directory would result in deleting the original file (not just a symbolic link). I could create a more... symlink on disk1 pointing to disk2, but I really want everything in one directory, alphabetically. Could mount --bind come to the rescue? But if I mounted one directory 'over' another, it would 'cover' the original one, which wouldn't be accessible any more, would it? -André maybe a bit far fetched, but what about AFS instead of the NFS you mentioned? not 100% sure it would be feasible in this case, but still. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Install debian 5.0 without press ENTER key?
my mail wrote: --- On Mon, 3/16/09, Daryl Styrk darylst...@gmail.com wrote: From: Daryl Styrk darylst...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Install debian 5.0 without press ENTER key? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 5:11 AM my mail wrote: can i install leny without install key, like another distro linux, will automatically run installer if you don't anything in 30 seconds. I have boot using debian dvd but after 30 s without i press the enter key, the installer not running. it's possible to install leny without press the enter? thx Have a look at this. http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/howto/linux/automatic.htm or http://tinyurl.com/czxgk8 and http://tinyurl.com/d5ztzn I've never tried one, but I see where it could be handy. thanks for the link. but i just want automate the press ENTER for the first time i boot using dvd installer. I mean when i boot using DVD installer to install debian leny, i do not to press the ENTER key to start the installation, how to do it? you need to set the timeout option in isolinux.cfg, this requires you to change the cd or dvd you are using. i once made some notes on how to do is once, its ubuntu based but should largely also apply to debian http://www.songshu.org/index.php/customise-the-ubuntu-installer -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: reconfig network interface
linux china wrote: after I replace a new network card in Debian, the network interface eth0 is not up anymore. Before the replacement, the network is fine, if I try to ifup eth0, I got error like eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETASK: no such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: no such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Failed to bring up eth0, Any suggestions? is the old card still mentioned in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules you can remove this file and it will create a new one on reboot, my guess is that your new card shows up as eth3, you can simply change this in above mentioned file. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: reconfig network interface
linux china wrote: There is one file named 70-persistent-net.rules, I guess this is my old one, I didn't find any filename beginning with z in that directory, it doesn't matter I guess. So could I remove this file and reboot system? i just checked and it apparently changed into 70-persistent-net.rules in Lenny instead of the 25 on Etch. but yes, this file is regenerated on start up if its not there, you can also manually change it and then it will be read on start up. if the new card is listed as eth3 you can just change it into eth0 if you like i once made some notes on the link below if you'd like to double check. http://www.songshu.org/index.php/replacing-disfuctioning-marvel-ethernet-controller On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:18 PM, randall rand...@songshu.org wrote: linux china wrote: after I replace a new network card in Debian, the network interface eth0 is not up anymore. Before the replacement, the network is fine, if I try to ifup eth0, I got error like eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device SIOCSIFNETASK: no such device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: no such device eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Failed to bring up eth0, Any suggestions? is the old card still mentioned in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules you can remove this file and it will create a new one on reboot, my guess is that your new card shows up as eth3, you can simply change this in above mentioned file. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ACPI init
linux china wrote: While booting Debian lenny, I saw there are errors during ACPI initiation process on console, like error inserting fan, error inserting processor and thermap, how to get rid of these error messages? the messages are pretty harmless, but there is a way to disable it. OR you disable it in the BIOS OR you disable it in the kernel in case you want to dual boot with windows then the last option would be the best because windows will probably not start if its turned of in the bios. to disable it in the kernel: there is a file called /boot/grub/menu.lst where the boot options are listed if you see a line similair like this, it is what you see when you start up and can select which kernel to boot kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64 root=/dev/md1 ro what you can do is to add the following parameters noapic nolapic acpi=off so the complete line would look like this: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64 root=/dev/md1 ro noapic nolapic acpi=off www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Moving to LVM
André Berger wrote: Hi there! I'm on Etch and have got two external USB disks, one GB each in size. Disk1 contains one ext3 partition and my media files, and is full. Disk2 is empty and should take future media files. I don't have a third disk I could use for backups. My plan is to create a Logical Volume Group to span two partitions located on different disks, and export that LV group via NFS. If I got it right (please correct me), I need partitions of type 8e on both disks. So I thought I 1 partition disk2 8e 2 create a LV group and add disk2/p1 to it 3 create an ext3 filesystem on the LV 3 copy the data from disk1/p1 to the LV 4 partition disk1/p1 8e 5 add disk1/p1 to the LV group 6 resize the LV ext3 filesystem to 2 TB, so it spans both disks resp. partitions you're basically on the right track, but there are 3 things to understand about LVM 1 Physical Volume 2 Volume Group 3 Logical Volume 1 in this case is disk1 and (eventually) disk2 2 is (eventually) disk1 + disk2 together so they appear as one 3 is a partition you can place on 2 What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is available? to make a long story short, if you combine the 2 disks as one, you are going to wish you had a third disk for backups. -André -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Print to PDF with lpr
Matthew Smith wrote: It would certainly be possible to write a command-line application to convert ODF to PostScript, PDF etcetera. The document format is open so there is nothing stopping anyone from cobbling something together with, say Perl and XSLT. If nobody has done this and you don't fancy writing it yourself, I'm afraid that you will still need to use OOo to render to a printable format. i've never done it myself and can provide very little useful tips but i know that you can run openoffice headless to do exactly that and several folks do. i think you can google for several examples for the needed scripts. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: man pages
randall wrote: hi all, lately i've been practicing my skills a little on building basic websites and yesterday i had little to day so decided to re-build the ubuntu manpages web site and adjust it a little so it a can be used with debian. we all know manpages.debian.net but that site, although useful is not browseable by google since it cgi generates its pages when asked for, manpages.ubuntu.com on the other hand has a lot of indexable .html files. so, one lazy afternoon and http://manpages.songshu.org was born (it still needs a little love though) here's the question, the whole thing relies heavily on google which is not necessarily a bad thing but the build in google custom search engine often displays ads when showing the results. anybody know how to disable that? or is it just a thing that comes when using a google app for such a thing, any advises on a alternate search function? p.s. not sure if this site could prove useful to debian as a whole but i'll take it down after a month or two unless it receives a lot of hits, so let me know if anybody would want all the releases included or would like to see some added cool functionality and sent some incoming links if you think this site is useful sorry for bumping my own post, anybody knows a good search engine without any adds you can install locally your site that indexes the content of your html pages ? p.s. how long does it take for google to index 76.000 pages ;) ? -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP
Joe wrote: Kilian wrote: Under etch, I just changed helo_data in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template manually - not very nice, but it did what I needed. Now my mailconfig is broken because some hosts won't accept my mails as the HELO does not match the IP of the firewall, of course. Is there really no way to change the outgoing HELO value in exim 4.69-9? I am using the internet config of exim4. i am not familiar with Exim, but with postfix i use in my config myhostname = mail.songshu.org there should be something similar with Exim i guess. another option would be to ask your isp to change the PTR record on that IP to the HELO exim uses. My exim4 installation has: - a HELO which can be resolved by public DNS i.e. has an A record - a PTR record and an A record in public DNS which are complementary i.e. each points to the other These are also the conditions which my exim4 looks for in incoming SMTP connections (in addition to a lot of country code and other filtering). I agree with the other poster, that I'm using a single configuration file where HELO is set by primary_hostname in the first few lines of the main configuration section. This is exim4 4.63-17 on etch. As it happens, the PTR-A pair for my IP address correspond to my subdomain at my ISP, and neither bear any relationship to any of the domains I actually use for email. I'm not aware of any email domain which refuses my email, though the only 'difficult' one I send to regularly is AOL. It is alleged that there are some mail admins who require HELO and PTR to match, but to me that seems silly. While the specification for PTR records allows for multiple PTRs for one IP address, the specification allows but specifically does not recommend I think in practice there's little software which can deal with this. So anyone sending mail for multiple domains from one IP address will have unmatched PTR and HELO strings most of the time. HELO is for identifying the mailserver, not the domain it sends for. there is no reason why the hostname of the mailserver should match the domain names of the mails it sends out if both HELO and the PTR record say mail.server.com there is no problem, whatever the domain of the send mail might be. The difficult hurdle for the spammer in control of a home computer to jump is the PTR-A pair setup, as one must be set by the domain host and the other by the ISP. Neither are under user control. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP
Kilian wrote: another option would be to ask your isp to change the PTR record on that IP to the HELO exim uses. I have a firewall with a public IP and a PTR record for that IP. There are several hosts behind the firewall with private IP addresses. i have the same, but i have setup one of them to relay the mails for all of them, not sure about your setup but this would simplify your problem a lot. Some of them send mails to the internet, so I cannot change the PTR of the firewall to one of those hostnames. I need exim to identify itself in the HELO sequence as the PTR record for the firewall; RFC 822 states: HELLO (HELO) This command is used to identify the sender-SMTP to the receiver-SMTP. The argument field contains the host name of the sender-SMTP. Now to the receiver SMTP, my host appears as the firewall, so IMHO, it must identify itself with the hostname set in the DNS for the firewall. correct, but note that that it has to identify with the hostname of your reverse DNS, it took me a while before i understood this concept myself. [...] HELO is for identifying the mailserver, not the domain it sends for. there is no reason why the hostname of the mailserver should match the domain names of the mails it sends out I agree. if both HELO and the PTR record say mail.server.com there is no problem, whatever the domain of the send mail might be. Exactly, and herein lies my problem... maybe i mist something, but what does is it precisely use as its hostname at this very moment? -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
man pages
hi all, lately i've been practicing my skills a little on building basic websites and yesterday i had little to day so decided to re-build the ubuntu manpages web site and adjust it a little so it a can be used with debian. we all know manpages.debian.net but that site, although useful is not browseable by google since it cgi generates its pages when asked for, manpages.ubuntu.com on the other hand has a lot of indexable .html files. so, one lazy afternoon and http://manpages.songshu.org was born (it still needs a little love though) here's the question, the whole thing relies heavily on google which is not necessarily a bad thing but the build in google custom search engine often displays ads when showing the results. anybody know how to disable that? or is it just a thing that comes when using a google app for such a thing, any advises on a alternate search function? p.s. not sure if this site could prove useful to debian as a whole but i'll take it down after a month or two unless it receives a lot of hits, so let me know if anybody would want all the releases included or would like to see some added cool functionality and sent some incoming links if you think this site is useful -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: How do I Install your Linux operating system.
caleb rodgers wrote: Hey how do I Install your Linux operating system on my computer I can only access my database drive and I want to dual boot with Windows Vista. I have like 80 GB of Hard disk space. I installed the battlefield 2 game on my laptop. I have a AMD turion64 x2 processor and a built in broadcom wireless network. What can I do please help me I want to protest against MICROSOFT because the truth is I was hit by the downadup worm C version and I am trying to remove the administrator rights from system and trustedInstaller.exe person or something. Please help me in owning my computer again if you don't here from me for awhile then they literally own my computer. These guys who wrote this worm can take down air planes, own banks and take out government computers and maybe lauch missiles un suspectedly. Please Help me be able to solve this problem and prevent a cyber terrorist attack that might be launched from my computer or used by my computer. Thank You guys You Devian can be a hero this time in the cyber world. Thank you please email me back as soon as possible. thank you and I hope you are blessed if you do help me if not then I would have to ask Gentoo, Ubuntu and other Linux distrubutors. basically what I am saying is you have a mission to do right now. mmm, what makes you so sure we are not the cyber terrorists who own you and your computer? we would have you right where we'd want to. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Plaxo
David Baron wrote: I just got a notification that debian-user just joined plaxo. (Since debian- user is in my address book, we can now connect, share photos, etc .:-) ) Plaxo is an addressbook service that works well with ms-outlook, worse with outlook-express, NO interface to Linux. wouldn't it be better to sign up with another option that does support normal standards instead of the one that never actually cared about you? although i admittedly have no idea what plaxo really does. I have been bugging them for years to provide a standard LDAP interface instead of or in addition to their proprietary windows stuff. To no avail. If debian-user has indeed joined plaxo, maybe we can all push for LDAP! personally i recent those kind of e-mails that invite you to yet another see all your friends locked up behind a compulsory registration so we can sell all your data site. So i see little sense in start shopping at the butcher shop hoping they would start selling vegetarian products after me being a regular customer. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ssh connection takes long time
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: Thanks for answer, but firstly , I am use on my machine a client ssh, the sshd is running on remote server, secondly, i connect to server with IP address and not with a name, so no dns needed. thanks not sure what the answer was, but do keep in mind that the server will check the domain name for your IP that you connect with, unless you are sure that your reverse DNS (PTR records) are OK, it might be a dns issue overall, you can disable this check by the server in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and add ReverseMappingCheck no just see if it makes a difference -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ssh connection takes long time
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 13 March 2009 08:41:52 Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: If you are using the OpenSSH daemon on the remote server and that daemon is using the default configuration, it does a reverse DNS lookup on the connecting IP before accepting the login. IIRC, It is possible to disable this reverse DNS lookup in the OpenSSH daemon configuration. It is not possible to disable this lookup by adjusting the client configuration or version. In general, you should make sure reverse DNS works for all your IPs. i doubt that this is a sensible default, if i'm wrong please let me know ;) as far as i know the only other time a reverse DNS is needed would be if you are running a mail server, and even then i notice that the number of mail servers actually checking for PTR records is very very small. besides how would you do this with a dynamic IP, we are talking clients here and you never know what ISP you might use when traveling around. also i see very little function to this, besides some extra unneeded info in the log i don't see any added security in this feature. but then again, i might be wrong. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ssh connection takes long time
Chris Davies wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: All systems should have an rDNS record to map the number back to a name. Ideally, that canonical name should also have a mapping back to the number. In the case of dynamic IP ranges, the rDNS record might map back to an entry that mimicks the IP address itself, but tagged on to the end of that is the organisation responsible for that IP address. For example, 10.11.12.13 might map to 13-12-11-10.dynamic.someisp.net, and it's easy to see that someisp.net is in some way responsible for that IP address. (I know you can determine IP address ranges via ARIN/RIPE/APNIC, etc. but that is /much/ more heavyweight.) If you don't have any rDNS entry at all, OpenSSH (amongst other subsystems and applications) will hang until the resolver times out. IMO the solution is not to tweak those subsystems and applications, but to get a valid rDNS record added to the DNS. agreed in principle, but since ssh is the only one (in my experience) that i ever encountered this inconvenience with, i wonder if the correct thing to do holds up in everyday usage. besides how would you do this with a dynamic IP, we are talking clients here and you never know what ISP you might use when traveling around. Your client is irrelevant in this scenario. The ISP should provide rDNS entries that map its own address space. agree again, providing that the ISP should and does, it once took me 2 weeks to teach my provider of my 10 Mbit fiber connection how it should be configured after digging in to the manuals myself, assuming you would be a road warrior running in such an ISP the experience can turn in to a female K9. once i was unable to connect at all due to the time out, admittedly this was an extreme scenario in inland China trying to connect to Europe, if it was the fault of the local ISP or simply my lack of knowledge of the local dialect I'm still not sure ;) also i see very little function to this, besides some extra unneeded info in the log i don't see any added security in this feature. Added secuity? Probably not a lot in this case. Convenience when trying to work out who's thumping your box again? Possibly. http://www.db.ripe.net/whois?form_type=simplefull_query_string=searchtext=212.123.252.242do_search=Search this shows the owner/responsible of my IP and it took me about 10 seconds to find. The theoretical principle does sound feasible to me, but its the practical implementation and the problems/inconvenience that can occur now and then that makes me wonder if a reconsideration would be useful. my mail server myself does remote dns look up, but i wonder if its the only mail server that actually does. my opinion in this case is of course biased by my specific usage and experience, therefore the question if there are scenario's where it does make a lot more sense. Chris Randall -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: ssh connection takes long time
Richard A Nelson wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, randall wrote: IMO the solution is not to tweak those subsystems and applications, but to get a valid rDNS record added to the DNS. Indeed, always best to have fully functional DNS, and no - for Linux at least, /etc/hosts is not functional DNS. depends on the usage, it functions very well on my LAN where all the users can type fax in the firefox address bar to reach the fax server. agreed in principle, but since ssh is the only one (in my experience) that i ever encountered this inconvenience with, i wonder if the correct thing to do holds up in everyday usage. From `man sshd_config`: UseDNS Specifies whether sshd(8) should look up the remote host name and check that the resolved host name for the remote IP address maps back to the very same IP address. The default is “yes”. And there are indeed other servers that are unhappy with poor DNS ftp comes to mind, its always the first thing i turn off when i install it for anything other then personal usage. The only use to correct reverse DNS i can see is in case of a mail server, if you want to filter dynamic and static IP's (but even this is theoretical since it is hardly used in practice) other then that i regard it as a feature that brings more problems then it solves. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Local mirroring How-To?
Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I remember there was a discussion sometime back about this but I can't locate it. Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that I have to update/upgrade at various times, and some of these runs take hours for each system over my 768Kbs connection. I have the space to install a local mirror of one or two releases of Debian so I can do updates over my local net at 100 Mbs and speed things up considerably. But ... I can't find anything current about how to do that. Does anybody have any pointers to a good, and current, set of directions on how to do this? Or have a cookbook that works for you? Many TIA! Dennis its pretty simple to set up your own mirror i kept some notes on the link below on how to set up a full mirror http://www.songshu.org/index.php/setup-a-debian-apt-mirror alternatively this is actually what i use on my LAN, it caches a .deb file when you download it once so it saves a lot of disk space compared to the full mirror. http://www.songshu.org/index.php/apt-cacher -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: LVM and install over existing installation
Tim Anstey wrote: Hi, I've recently acquired a cheap dedicated server for testing purposes which was shipped was CentOS, not my preferred distro. To resolve this I intend to install Debian from within the existing install as documented in the Debian installation guide. Now, this has always worked well in the past and this is aided by the fact that normally servers are provisioned with normal, boring filesystems like / being ext3. In this instance they've used LVM and frankly I've never used LVM before and I don't know how it will effect what I plan to do. So what I'm asking is, can I turn the LVM partition back into ext3 or alternatively can I just treat the LVM partition as a normal one? it probably has ext3 already (or another filesystem) but this would be on top of a volume group makes sense? probably not, you might want to consider reading in to LVM, it could be very useful to you depending on your needs. in this case /dev/hda2 is configured as physical volume in LVMspeak (you could also make a single partition or 2 disks 1 physical colume) now, what does that do? on top of a physical volume you can put several volume groups a volume group is like a partition but you can resize them later on, this could be very useful. on top of such a resizable volume group you can put a file system like ext3 and mount it as any other partition. the command pvdisplay will show you some more details about you physical volumes. (below is mine as an example) --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md3 VG Name vg PV Size 921.27 GB / not usable 3.00 MB Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 4096 Total PE 235844 Free PE 10696 Allocated PE 225148 PV UUID l0Jf1O-QD9C-8Ee4-6KG8-Nnv1-5ZL5-DzQeEo as we said earlier, within each physical volume you can have several volume groups vgdisplay will show you if you have any. (below is mine as an example, you see i only have 1 large volume group here, i could resize this one and add others but i personally only use it form LVMsnapshots, another nice feature of LVM ) --- Volume group --- VG Name vg System ID Formatlvm2 Metadata Areas1 Metadata Sequence No 34 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV0 Cur LV2 Open LV 1 Max PV0 Cur PV1 Act PV1 VG Size 921.27 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 235844 Alloc PE / Size 225148 / 879.48 GB Free PE / Size 10696 / 41.78 GB VG UUID 0RCDf5-hk05-TIVR-ALxj-efUU-yMc3-tzixJS [r...@server ~]# fdisk -l; Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20416757760 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2482 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14248219832242+ 8e Linux LVM The biggest problem I foresee with the LVM configuration (apart from not understanding it) is that there is no proper swap partition, it's a logical volume and the only way I know of to do the remote change is to boot into the swap partition. since i'm not familiar with the routine you describe i can not give you any useful advice, but you could put the swap on top of the lvm as a volume group i guess (would this work?) or you completely remove the LVM, but then i would advise to properly remove it with the LVM commands, i had disks remembering that they were LVM in the past even if they were overwritten. Anyone got any useful thoughts? Thanks, Tim -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting
Steven Demetrius wrote: For all you posters discussing Top posting vs Bottom posting and taking other threads off topic here is a thread for you. First my opinion, Since this mailing list historically has been Bottom posting then we stick with it. good point. personally the most e-mails i receive and sent are in a corporate environment and everybody uses top posting there, i clearly see it has benefits since it is used more as a notification to have the latest one (and probably most relevant) on top and thus it works fine. also noticed that you can easily read the chain of command of an organization by seeing who starts the mails and who has the final reply. on mailing lists however mails are used as a discussion between peers with many inns and outs instead of a notification, and then the latest reply is not always the most relevant. Using both top and bottom posting in the mailing list will lead to inconsistency and confusion especially to for new users. agreed, just choose one and get over it, but as far as i know this choice has been made long time ago. I've also seen posts about not being able to bottom post because of MS Outlook. Last time I checked MS Outlook was not available in Debian, not even any other Linux distribution. By the way MS Outlook does and cut and paste features. :) then don't use MS Outlook, any other mailer can do this. Now the fun begins. Steven. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: LVM and install over existing installation
Tim Anstey wrote: Ah, so if I see this right, I can configure LVM and treat it as I would any other partition. So say I had this: --- Logical volume --- LV Name/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 I could treat that exactly the same as /dev/hdax? yes, you can mount LogVol01just as you would mount /dev/hdax assuming that LogVol01 is formatted as ext3 you could use the follwing in your fstab /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01/mountpoint ext3 defaults00 If so that's awfully helpful, I assumed LVM relied on the currently installed OS to function so by booting into another OS install I wouldn't be able to access it. as long as the OS understands LVM there should be no issue, you would need to install LVM2 before you can use it. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
smart
hi all, my first mail to this list so apologies if this has been discussed recently. i have a raid 10 array and 1 of the disks is acting up according to SMART and i'm not sure how to interpret the logs and if i should ignore, repair or replace. smartd has been sending me several mails like this, they always come in pairs. (the dates mentioned in the mails are sometimes match the date of sending and sometimes are a week or month off, but this might be another problem, not sure. i think however it started after a power failure) The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/sde, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors AND The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/sde, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors smartctl --all /dev/sde gives me the following, i've been trying to google this but some sources say replace the disk at once or don't wory, its harmless. Anybody can shed some light? smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Device Model: ST3500320AS Serial Number:5QM056TH Firmware Version: SD04 User Capacity:500,107,862,016 bytes Device is:In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is:Sun Mar 8 11:00:53 2009 CET SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82)Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 113)The previous self-test completed having the read element of the test failed. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 634) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities:(0x0003)Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability:(0x01)Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 106) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. SCT capabilities:(0x003b)SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 114 099 006Pre-fail Always - 132023209 3 Spin_Up_Time0x0003 093 092 000Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count0x0032 100 100 020Old_age Always - 159 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036Pre-fail Always - 35 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 074 060 030Pre-fail Always - 21613621419 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 089 089 000Old_age Always - 9858 10 Spin_Retry_Count0x0013 100 100 097Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 037 020Old_age Always - 159 184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 099Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 082 082 000Old_age Always - 18 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 098 000Old_age Always - 4295032838 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 001 001 000Old_age Always - 344 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 071 048 045Old_age Always - 29 (Lifetime Min/Max 27/31) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 029 052 000Old_age Always - 29 (0 21 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 028 021 000Old_age Always - 132023209 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000Old_age Always - 1 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000Old_age
Re: smart
Adrian Levi wrote: Your disc has been steadily failing for the last ~1800 hours. Buy a replacement and swap it out asap. Adrian Already had a spare lying around so i took the advice, the new disk is actually syncing with the array at this moment. http://www.songshu.org/index.php/replacing-a-failing-disk thanks. -- www.songshu.org Just another collection of nuts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
aptitude segfault on UML
I installed a UML Etch dist as described here: http://www.punknix.com/?q=virtualization_uml aptitude segfaults on everything I've tried except update. Here is example output. ws-uml:~# aptitude install python Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done Segmentation fault Any idea what might cause aptitude to segfault. BTW, apt-get works fine. Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP support for Etch
Anyone know how HP's certification for Etch has gone and when it will be official? Also, if someone has experience ordering servers from them, do they actually ship it with Debian installed and will they do any customization like disk partitioning? Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup strategy using rsync
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:08:31PM -0600, Randall Smith wrote: I've been looking at various backup strategies in the case I need to quickly (within an hour or so) move to different hardware. I like Linux-VServer because it makes the system mostly hardware agnostic, but I only need a single instance. I got to thinking, how hard would it be to isolate the hardware dependent portions of a system, and simply backup and restore the hardware independent portions onto a new system using rsync? Can someone shed some light on the subject? A thinks I'm not clear on. I'm just trying to avoid a several day restore if someone walks out the door with the primary server or it blows up or whatever. I'm not using X, so that's not a problem. Thanks for the advice. -Randall I think you have a couple of ways to go: 1. You need hot-redundancy so if one blows up the second will take over immediatly with no downtime. This is a high-availability solution and you should focus on this. However, unless these two servers are separate, the person who walks out with one may walk out with both. Ditto explosions. Remember 9/11. Data centers in one tower backed up to mirrored centers _in_the_other_tower. 2. You need cold-redundancy. A production server, and a spare server locked up ready to go. You can have debian stable re-installed on it and when its needed, hook it to the net, do an update/upgrade and tweak it. 3. You need prepared media to be able to restore from bare-metal to a new box that you won't acquire until disaster strikes. You can look at mondo. There's also a package that makes custom debian CDs that contain only the packages that you have installed. Use your current box to make these CDs, and also keep a set of debian-testing CDs in case the new hardware doesn't boot with stable or the CDs made on the old hardware. The package CDs will still contain the packages to save on download time when you need to install on new hardware. Keep this bare-metal-recovery media in protected storage, with a copy with your off-site backup. I would suggest that whatever else you do, you implement number 3. Hardware specific stuff is primarily in /etc although who knows what each package puts in /var when it gets installed. Personlly, I back up /etc but if/when I have to install to new hardware I do a real install. If you have the packages locally (e.g. on CD), then it really doesn't take very long at all (e.g. 30 minutes or so). If you want to be able to recover from a stolen server within 1 hr, then you need a spare server locked up somewhere, so that's option 2. You could also set up a third box to do nothing but store backups. It can also run one of the apt repositories like apt-proxy so you have locally everything you need to restore already on-line. It can also have all the documentation installed ready to go. YMMV. Doug. Thanks Doug. Great advice! Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backup strategy using rsync
I've been looking at various backup strategies in the case I need to quickly (within an hour or so) move to different hardware. I like Linux-VServer because it makes the system mostly hardware agnostic, but I only need a single instance. I got to thinking, how hard would it be to isolate the hardware dependent portions of a system, and simply backup and restore the hardware independent portions onto a new system using rsync? Can someone shed some light on the subject? A thinks I'm not clear on. 1. What directories (or scattered files) are dependent on the hardware (minus the cpu architecture). 2. If I were to backup all hardware agnostic files, what would be the most efficient way to restore the system to new hardware? 3. Is it feasible to keep a second system synchronized (with some lag time) so that it could come online very quickly. I have an idea for this. Keep two operating systems on the secondary machine. One is bare-bones while the other is the production mirror. When production is OK, the bare-bones system is running and synchronizes the filesystem(s) for the mirror OS. In the event of production failure, simply reboot into the mirror instance. I'm sure there is more than one good way to do this. I'd love to hear your ideas. Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup strategy using rsync
Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:20:37PM -0600, Randall Smith wrote: I've been looking at various backup strategies in the case I need to quickly (within an hour or so) move to different hardware. I like Linux-VServer because it makes the system mostly hardware agnostic, but I only need a single instance. I got to thinking, how hard would it be to isolate the hardware dependent portions of a system, and simply backup and restore the hardware independent portions onto a new system using rsync? Can someone shed some light on the subject? A thinks I'm not clear on. Yes, doing this with rsync is fine, but that is a bad idea. The main reason it's a bad idea is the following use case: 1) You're backing up SourceMachine to DestMachine. 2) You back up a good copy of SourceMachine to DestMachine. 3) You mess up a file on SourceMachine. 4) You back up that file to DestMachine. 5) Only later do you notice that the file is messed up. Consequently, the file is now messed up on both SourceMachine and DestMachine, and you're hosed. This is why rdiff-backup exists. rdiff-backup is the right tool for the job you're looking to do. This is not my main backup strategy, which consists of an rsync/hardlink method that keeps several weeks worth of backups. http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Since you mentioned rdiff-backup, I plan to compare the two. I'm just trying to avoid a several day restore if someone walks out the door with the primary server or it blows up or whatever. As for which files are system-dependent: there will be lots of scattered files all over the place that are, including lots in /etc/X11 . However, isolating these one by one and excluding them is probably not the best idea. My approach would be to exclude wide swaths of directories -- e.g., don't back up /sys, /proc, and /dev . I'm not using X, so that's not a problem. Thanks for the advice. -Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I completely reconfigure my network connection?
Hi, If you don't want to read the whole story, I'm curious about how I can re-set all of the settings for the network (for instance if everythign was broken that you debug going through the list from the HOWTO - Basic Network Troubleshooting / Understanding): - Is the interface configured correctly ? (lspci, lsmod, dmesg, ifconfig /etc/network/interfaces) - Is/Are DNS / hostnames configured correctly ? (Bind, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf) - Are the ARP tables correct ? ( arp -a ) - Can you ping the localhost ? (ping localhost / 127.0.0.1 *try both*) - Can you ping other local hosts (hosts on the local network) by IP Address? How about hostname? (ping) - Can you ping hosts on another network (ala internet) ? (ping) - Do applications like ssh, firefox, sftp, etc, work ? (chosen application) If there's no good way to do that or if it's a huge task, then here are the symptoms for my problem(s): I have an HP Pavilion with what seems to be all nVidia cards inside it, which has been giving me trouble since last week when I decided to install Debian. I struggled for hours with the net install and finally remembered that I had a spare network card in my garage. After plugging that in, the network install worked fine, but eth0 has been inactive. Last night I decided to get the nVidia nForce card (nVidia Corporation nForce Ethernet Controller (rev c2)) up and running. I don't even remember what I did, but I stumbled across enough information advising me to upgrade the kernel to 2.6 (from 2.4.27-2-386) that I gave up on whatever I was trying. Now my short term goal is to get the 3com ethernet card working again (3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)). Then I can apt-get to upgrade the kernel. The merits of Debian quickly disappear when I'm stupid enough to hose my network connection, disabling apt-get. I would be content to run the network configuration that I ran when I first installed Debian. I searched for a while on the internet to figure out how to do this, but then gave up. Otherwise, it would be fine to fix the actual problem if that can be done easily. I'm nearly ready to format and re-install, but I have actually done some useful things on the computer, including backing up my Mac (which is concurrently on the fritz). I have run dpkg-reconfigure etherconf multiple times, both setting up the 3com card with DHCP and statically. Currently, under DHCP my system is capable of getting an IP address from my router -- or at least it leads me to believe it is: Listening on LPF/eth1/00:01:02:36:6b:ef Sending on LPF/eth1/00:01:02:36:6b:ef Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.2552.55 prot 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.1.10 bound to 192.168.1.102 -- renewal in 43200 seconds. Note that 192.168.1.10 is the host -- I changed it from .1 after reading something that seems not to have applied. I am able to ping all of localhost, 127.0.0.1 (which is localhost), and 192.168.1.102 (which is also the same machine). I am able to broadcast ping 127.0.0.0, but not 192.168.1.0 (the same is true with .255 instead of .0). When I try to broadcast ping I get: ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted ... Not only can I not broadcast ping, but I cannot ping the host by number -- with the exception of testing localhost, I have been attempting to ping using ip addresses and not names (the same is true with the setup through dpkg-reconfigure etherconf). Here's what I get when I try to ping the host: /home/rls# ping 192.168.1.10 PING 192.168.1.10 (192.168.1.10) 56(84) bytes of data From 192.168.1.102 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.102 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.102 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.102 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.102 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable From 192.168.1.102 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted From 192.168.1.102 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted ctrl-c I read somewhere that this may be caused by iptables or other restrictions imposed on the network, but I did not intentionally set anything since it was working yesterday. Again, I'd be content to blow away much of the settings. With static configuration, after bringing the card up I get the message SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable and when I try to ping the host I get connect: Network is unreachable just once this time. I have this computer with a floppy drive or if I need to download serious packages, my fiancee has a dvd/cd burner on her laptop -- in fact maybe I should just download the packages. Your help is much appreciated! Randall
Re: Cannot start CUPS
Florian Kulzer wrote: Hi Gabriel, Gabriel wrote: I made an apt-get upgrade today, and now I cannot run the cups daemon. This is the output when I try to start it: localhost:~# /etc/init.d/cupsys start Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsdcupsd: Child exited with status 98! localhost:~# Or executing the daemon directly: localhost:~#cupsd cupsd: Child exited with status 98! localhost:~# The problem is caused by a redundancy in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. The daemon tries to bind to port 631 twice, finds it already occupied the second time and exits with an error. You can fix the problem by downgrading the package cupsys to version 1.1.23-12 (the rest of the system can be left as is) or by manually editing /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to comment out one line, i.e. Include /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf has to be changed to #Include /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf More details can be found here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343279 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343251 (It seems to have been fixed already anyway in version 1.1.23-14, so you could also simply wait a bit and upgrade again.) Regards, Florian Thanks Florian. I had the same problem this morning, which, thanks to you, turned out to be trivially fixed. R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2.6.14-1 ok but since 2.6.14-2 hardware not detected and thus modules not loaded
I have a sid based system which runs fine with kernel 2.6.14-1 but which will not find/initialize the network card with any 2.6.14-2 and above kernel. I have updated the 2.6.14-2 kernel through version -2, -3, -4 and now -5 with similar results. I think the problem may be with the hardware detection. The boot.log for 2.6.14-1 shows e1000 NIC (and other hardware) detected and modules loaded. The boot.log for 2.6.14-2 does not seem to detect most of the hardware. Does anyone know what changed between 2.6.14-1 and 1.6.14-2 which may be causing this? When booting from 2.6.14-1 the same segment from /var/log/boot looks like this: = Wed Dec 14 16:48:18 2005: Detecting hardware...Discovered hardware for these modules: agpgart parport_pc e1000 via82cxxx aic7xxx emu10k1 usb_uhci Wed Dec 14 16:48:19 2005: Loading agpgart module... Wed Dec 14 16:48:20 2005: Loading parport_pc module... Wed Dec 14 16:48:20 2005: Loading e1000 module... Wed Dec 14 16:48:21 2005: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m Skipping already loaded module via82cxxx. Wed Dec 14 16:48:21 2005: Loading aic7xxx module... Wed Dec 14 16:48:40 2005: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m emu10k1 disabled in configuration. Wed Dec 14 16:48:40 2005: Loading uhci_hcd module... Wed Dec 14 16:48:41 2005: Setting sensors limits: done. Wed Dec 14 16:48:41 2005: Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Wed Dec 14 16:48:41 2005: Setting up networking...done. Wed Dec 14 16:48:41 2005: Setting hostname 'n3'...done. Wed Dec 14 16:48:41 2005: Configuring network interfaces...done. = When booting from 2.6.14-1 it appears hardware is detected and modules loaded ok When booting from 2.6.14-5 the segment of /var/log/boot related to hardware detection/module-loading looks like this: = Wed Dec 14 16:43:21 2005: Detecting hardware...Discovered hardware for these modules: ide_scsi Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m Skipping unavailable/built-in ide_scsi module. Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: Setting sensors limits: done. Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: Setting up networking...done. Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: Setting hostname 'n3'...done. Wed Dec 14 16:43:22 2005: Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:33 2005: Failed to bring up eth0. Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: eth0:1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: eth0:1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: Failed to bring up eth0:1. Wed Dec 14 16:43:34 2005: done. === I can load the module manually but still get similar eth0 / SIO... messages when tryting to reinitialize the network. Any help greatly appreciated. R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.14 kernel woes
mikepolniak wrote: On 12:21 Sun 27 Nov , Randall J. Parr wrote: David Baron wrote: I now get /var/log/boot messages like - Sun Nov 27 08:01:27 2005: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m /etc/network/options is deprecated. Just remove /etc/network/options This made the deprecated message go away but did NOT fix the problem. I still get the following messages and no initialization of the e1000 eth0 I can load e1000 manaully without error messages and confirm loaded with lsmod but restarting networking still gives the messages below (even with e1000 loaded). Sun Nov 27 08:01:27 2005: Setting up IP spoofing protection...done (rp_filter). Sun Nov 27 08:01:27 2005: Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: Failed to bring up eth0. Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: eth0:1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:39 2005: eth0:1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:39 2005: Failed to bring up eth0:1. Sun Nov 27 08:01:39 2005: done. -- and my Intel e1000 will no longer initialize. and restart networking, should bring your eth0 up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.14 kernel woes
David Baron wrote: Here is a snipet from a logcheck booting this goody: Nov 27 17:18:38 d_baron kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.14-2-686-smp Nov 27 17:18:38 d_baron kernel: Loaded 21450 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.14-2-686-smp. Nov 27 17:18:38 d_baron kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.14. Nov 27 17:18:38 d_baron kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. Something strange going on here. So stuff like alsa, direct rendering, etc., do not work. Here is another--trying to load realtime-lsm, compiled against this kernel's source: Nov 27 17:18:43 d_baron kernel: Failure registering capabilities with primary security module. Nov 27 17:18:43 d_baron kernel: Realtime: is kernel configured with CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=m? OK. This is a stock kernel off Sid. All this stuff used to work. Bug? Fix? Wait for 2.6.15? I have been running 2.6.14-1 for a bit with no major problems. BUT the latest kernel updates to 2.6.14-2+ all have major problems for me too. I now get /var/log/boot messages like - Sun Nov 27 08:01:27 2005: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m /etc/network/options is deprecated. Sun Nov 27 08:01:27 2005: Setting up IP spoofing protection...done (rp_filter). Sun Nov 27 08:01:27 2005: Configuring network interfaces...SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: Failed to bring up eth0. Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: eth0:1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:38 2005: SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:39 2005: eth0:1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Sun Nov 27 08:01:39 2005: Failed to bring up eth0:1. Sun Nov 27 08:01:39 2005: done. -- and my Intel e1000 will no longer initialize. Previously, I got /var/log/boot messages like: -- Sun Nov 27 08:07:17 2005: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m /etc/network/options is deprecated. Sun Nov 27 08:07:17 2005: Setting up IP spoofing protection...done (rp_filter). Sun Nov 27 08:07:17 2005: Configuring network interfaces...done. - and messages in /var/log/messsage showing the e1000 successful startup. This began with the first update to 2.6.14-2. I waited for updates but the problem continues with the most recent updates. This is with the stock unstable kernels; IE I am not (re)building my own kernels or anything. Any insight/help appreciated. R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Virtual Drives for Testing
I'd like to test different drive configurations virtually without having to resort to something like vmware or qemu. I know how to create a virtual filesystem using dd and wonder can I create a virtual drive that I can partition with fdisk, etc. For example, I'd like to set up a virtual raid 5 array. Can this be easily done? Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
