RE: building 2.6.35

2010-08-12 Thread Alex Samad
Okay I have a working solution and set of steps Unfortunately I didn't keep the url where I got this. But it works, I have to change the changelog to 2.6.35 instead of 2.6.34 == How to build linux-kbuild-2.6 yourself Fetch the sources from SVN: svn co

RE: Trouble mounting an NFS share

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Samad
Maybe try -o tcp,vers=3 as well. -Original Message- From: Berni Elbourn [mailto:be...@elbournb.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2010 8:45 PM To: Robert Latest Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: Trouble mounting an NFS share Robert Latest wrote: client:/# showmount -e 192.168.1.2

Re: Resizing Raid 1 partitions

2010-05-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 13:32 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: On 05/19/2010 12:47 PM, Erwan David wrote: Hi, [snip] I would personally recommend backing up your data, and reinstalling, with LVM on top of your software RAID. You still have the redundancy, and you have the awesome flexibility

Re: Programming question

2010-05-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 20:32 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 18:34, Alexander Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: Hi I was wondering if it is possible to decode this javascript from the command line var serializer = new Serializer()

Re: backing up LVM volumes

2010-05-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 18:11 +0200, Bernard wrote: Chris Davies wrote: Bernard bdebr...@teaser.fr wrote: [snip] So, what should I do so as to backup my system ? I once tried 'dd', but I think I remember it took forever [...] Without the bs argument you would have been

Re: network setup question

2010-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 22:25 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: On 5/5/2010 9:11 PM, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:55 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: On 5/5/2010 6:06 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] - I have two network /27 network blocks that are NOT contiguous - I

Re: network setup question

2010-05-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:05 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: On 5/6/2010 12:05 AM, Alex Samad wrote: [snip] What am I missing? nothing in your case it work, but they are supposed to be hosts in different networks. Which was the point I was trying to get at. And to be carefully - especially

Re: network setup question

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 21:06 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Not sure if this is the right list, sort of a general linux networking question (pointers to a more appropriate list welcomed) Setup: - I have two servers in a datacenter, currently used for different things - I have one

Re: network setup question

2010-05-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:55 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: On 5/5/2010 6:06 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: [snip] - I have two network /27 network blocks that are NOT contiguous - I use one for each box I'm not a networking expert, but this part seems wrong to me. I don't think you're

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 14:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/04/2010 11:08 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] I forget your specifics, but you do RAID *and* backup regularly to an external lvm2? No, no RAID for me *at home*. But at work I manage databases on all sorts of (to use a

Re: 64-bit netbooks with Debian linux

2010-05-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 00:43 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 5/3/2010 11:41 PM: On 5/3/2010 11:01 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Mark Allums put forth on 5/3/2010 5:01 PM: [snip] Correct in that one should get 4GB on a netbook due to 64bit binary size? Or correct that

Re: 64-bit netbooks with Debian linux

2010-05-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/03/2010 06:20 PM, deloptes wrote: Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Do you know if there are some with larger cache? Just as a Mini Cooper isn't a dragster or a lorry, netbooks are not *designed* for heavy computational

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-05-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 16:00 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/02/2010 03:24 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: [snip] My system used to become close to unusable on the 1st sunday of the month when mdadm did it resync, That sounds... wrong, on a jillion levels. depends a...@max:~$ dpkg -S

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-05-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 19:19 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Sun May 2 2010 13:24:30 Alexander Samad wrote: My system used to become close to unusable on the 1st sunday of the month when mdadm did it resync, I had to write my own script so it did not do mulitple at the same time, turn off the

Re: 64-bit netbooks with Debian linux

2010-05-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 21:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/02/2010 09:12 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 5/2/2010 6:47 PM, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:36:57 -0500 Mark Allumsm...@allums.com wrote: ... Netbooks are underpowered. Get a *real* notebook/laptop. You can get a

Re: iptables..WTF???

2010-04-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:44 +0200, Raven wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 13:01 +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: you haven't been affected by the bind to ipv6 setting ? [snip] I am not using IPv6. All my firewall rules are for v4 only. i know there was a recent change to sysctl (something), that

Re: how to control tty to external monitor or local lcd

2010-04-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 05:23:02PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 16:41:53 -0400 (EDT), Alexander Samad wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: I'm not familiar with your laptop, but most laptops have a way to switch [snip] I'm talking about an

Re: WLAN and Bluetooth

2010-03-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:39:47PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:15:40 +0100 pch0317 pch0...@gmail.com wrote: Celejar wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:03:51 +0100 pch0317 pch0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have problem with my wireless embedded device. I use

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:59:23PM -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: I am trying to install Debian (Testing) via 'netinst' disk and for some reason am completely unable to install Debian w/o Exim. It appears that Cron is a default package and depends on Exim. Does anyone know how I can completely

Re: Fresh Debian Install w/o Exim?

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 07:01:36AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 02:59:23PM -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: [snip] apt-get remove --purge exim4 [snip] could this be because you have removed and not purged the package ? I seemed to have missed the --purge above

Re: Single root filesystem evilness decreasing in 2010? (on workstations)

2010-02-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 07:34:03PM +0100, thib wrote: Clive McBarton wrote: I find the concept very interesting in principle, although I am not sure I can recommend it. In some respects single file systems are more acceptable nowadays. In others they are not. Here are my $.02: my 2c, with

Re: debian squeeze tmp directory no space left

2010-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 02:01:00AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Johan Grönqvist put forth on 2/27/2010 1:05 AM: [snip] No offense intended, but it sounds like some basic sysadmin skills are lacking. Unneeded old log files should be deleted, as well as any junk left in /tmp. User home

Re: Need a howto on virtualbox module compilation

2010-02-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 09:38:48AM +0500, surreal wrote: I have compiled a virtualbox ose 3.1.4 binary deb and I want to make a binary deb having vboxdrv and related drivers. I believe there is already a package that does that Any places where I can find the links? I have placed the

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: Hi! I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made it recently stopped when I switched to Debian and xfce's term: defscrollback 5000 termcapinfo xterm|xterms|xs|rxvt

Re: wireless from the command line

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:42:12AM -0500, Tom H wrote: I've had a good look around and still can't work this one out. Does anyone know how to configure wifi from the command line? I'm currently using wicd, so all my hardware is supported, however, as I rarely start X I would prefer to

Re: netstat ?

2010-02-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:48:32PM +0100, Javier Barroso wrote: 2010/2/24 Hadi Motamedi motamed...@hotmail.com: Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:14:33 + From: j...@debian.org To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: netstat ? On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:12:57AM +, Hadi

Re: LDAP: possible problems with user authentication

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 05:31:57PM -0400, Germana Oliveira wrote: i just forgot something. AD manage the (user) permissions and groups stuff: Like - this user can access to this printer or that user can not use pen drive - and i haven`t found yet something like that in free Software, or

Re: eth0 or eth1

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:47:55AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2010-01-29 12:04:29 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] is said to be deprecated in favour of iproute (which now seems to be called ip), which is in /bin. iproute is the package ip is the bin -- The fact that he relies

Re: problem with saslauthd

2010-02-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:57:21PM +0530, Jeffrin Jose wrote: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:32:36PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: I have setup pam with this file /etc/pam.d/imap-test auth sufficient pam_unix2.so authrequired pam_winbind.so debug_state debug authrequired

Re: tcpdump?

2010-02-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 04:55:11AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: [snip] Why not explain what you are trying to do, you main goal Thank you for your reply . My mail goal is to find what is the exact command syntax and its arguments that the attached network element is sending

Re: tcpdump?

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 07:22:29AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: [snip] try wireshark [snip] I have Wireshark on my MS Windows platform . I captured the tcpdump output in a file and opened it in Wireshark , but I cannot find how to decode the udp payload data in ascii format . Can you

Re: Tips for compiling VirtualBox OSE on lenny

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:34:09PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 07:05:33PM +0500, surreal wrote: I compiled VirtualBox OSE from source on my machine. curious to know why you don't use virtualbox, precompile debs ? [snip] -- Well, that's going to be up to the

problem getting source for package

2010-02-20 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am trying to get the source package for rdiff-backup apt-cache policy rdiff-backup rdiff-backup: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.2.8-5+b2 Version table: 1.2.8-5+b2 0 500 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main Packages 100 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main

Re: tcpdump?

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 06:26:07AM +, Hadi Motamedi wrote: [snip] Sorry . I mean inside the payload data (as I have obtained the output by tracing with tcpdump) . I need to decode the exchanged data . try wireshark

bridge + ip-forwarding

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am a bit confused, I have a bridged interface with 2 active interfaces eth0 and eth1. and ip forwarding off I have turned off ip forwarding. I though brctl created a ethernet bridge - same broadcast domain between the interface. but I noticed a lot of firewall blocks in my iptables

Re: bridge + ip-forwarding

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Samad
-t mangle -L Route cat /etc/network/interface Also, it might help if you explained what you are trying to do. James -Original Message- From: Alex Samad [mailto:a...@samad.com.au] Sent: February 18, 2010 4:07 PM To: Debian Users Subject: bridge + ip-forwarding Hi I

Re: bridge + ip-forwarding

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:06:43AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am a bit confused, I have a bridged interface with 2 active interfaces eth0 and eth1. and ip forwarding off I have turned off ip forwarding. I though brctl created a ethernet bridge - same broadcast domain between

problem with saslauthd

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am using horde to access my mail and I am trying to get it to authenticate against a windows ADS server I have bblx01 - my linux box with saslauthd, winbind, samba, horde and horde installed. I have bbw2k my Windows 2003 server with ADS installed horde uses sasl which I have

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:27:41PM +, Glyn Astill wrote: --- On Wed, 17/2/10, Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au wrote: Hi [snip] We're using Adaptec 5805's here, not sure on the situation now, but I had to run the storman client through alien to get it installed on debian

Re: what laptop to buy - suggestion for Debian project developers

2010-02-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:15:47AM -0800, Mark wrote: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Bret Busby b...@busby.net wrote: [snip] Apart from HP's apparent new hostility toward Linux, I had approached two local computer shops regarding desktops that have quad core CPU's and 8GB RAM, that

Re: Intel Atom Processor

2010-02-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:48:03PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:34:09 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: [snip] There are still reasons to install a 64 bits kernel if the micro supports it. In fact, I have an Intel Celeron with just 1 GiB of RAM (max. allowed is 2 GiB) and

Re: HW Raid

2010-02-16 Thread Alex Samad
...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Camaleón Sent: February 15, 2010 5:25 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: HW Raid On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:15:43 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: (...) What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the array from within linux, sort of like mdadm does

Re: name - address resolution

2010-02-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:17:50PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: This is another problem which appeared after an update of Squeeze on February 7 or 8. Joule is a router. dnsmasq and resolvconf have worked for months with no problem. Now the machine doesn't recognize its local

HW Raid

2010-02-14 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking at buying a hardware raid controller, I have been an advocate of software raid for quite a while, but having run into some problems running a 10 disk home server, I figure its time to bit the bullet and buy a good/nice card. What I am looking at is the ability to monitor the

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

2010-02-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:56:41AM +0100, Emmanuel Chantry wrote: Le 14/02/2010 07:26, Alex Samad a écrit : On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:42:42PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:39 AM: [snip] I'm not surprised that is a difference beetween VMs and real

Re: Installation problem on HP DL360 G6 server

2010-02-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 08:42:42PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Emmanuel Chantry put forth on 2/13/2010 6:39 AM: I've already tried this one. That works on virtual machine in amd64 but not on the HP Server. It's the first thing I've done ;) smart arrays don't turn up as /dev/sda from memory

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:42:41PM -0500, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:42:12PM -0200, Michel wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:35 PM, George pinkisntw...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] So at the moment I'm stuck with Skype, and I really don't like

Re: Suggestions for VoIP software on lenny please

2010-02-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:42:12PM -0200, Michel wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:35 PM, George pinkisntw...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] So at the moment I'm stuck with Skype, and I really don't like it. Any suggestions would be welcome. I use Twinkle without problems. me to with my

Re: eth0 - eth1 confusion vs. local network

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:46:08AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,09.Feb.10, 23:06:08, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Andrei Popescu put forth on 2/9/2010 3:37 AM: On Mon,08.Feb.10, 16:33:39, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [snip] I don't know anything about these scripts. When do they run? And are

Re: PAM LDAP queries attempt to bind with empty binddn

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:07:05AM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Hello, all. We have just started to explore Debian Lenny as a platform and have been delightfully impressed however we're hitting a problem using LDAP authentication that we have not experienced in RedHat or Ubuntu. We do

Re: portable Debian

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:20:46PM -0400, Germana Oliveira wrote: Hi!! I want to know if someone have done this before: I have a external disk, and i install Debian in it from my PC, but when i try to run it from my laptop i just can' t... but i just want to know if what is the error ?

Re: PAM LDAP queries attempt to bind with empty binddn

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 03:27:25PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I'll answer in the text below - John On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 06:42 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:07:05AM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Hello, all. We have just

Re: PAM LDAP queries attempt to bind with empty binddn

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 05:22:50PM -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-02-10 15:50:40, Alex Samad wrote: ... On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:07:05AM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: Hello, all. We have just started to explore Debian Lenny as a platform ... no nslcd

Re: PAM LDAP queries attempt to bind with empty binddn

2010-02-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 04:23:22PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 07:50 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: snip [snip] no nslcd is not a typo, like I said there are 2 streams/groups of packages for pam integration you have the !older! ones. have a look at nslcd

Re: unionfs

2010-02-08 Thread Alex Samad
thanks On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:08:50AM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: On Sunday 07 February 2010 17:32:45 Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am looking at trying out unionfs, I notice there is onlythe unionfs-fuse package - is this the way debian is going with unionfs or how do you use the kernel

Re: What does Stale NFS file handle mean?

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 10:07:41AM -0500, Michael Yang wrote: On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Michael Yang michael@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Anybody can help with this? you mounting with tcp or udp. if tcp try moving to udp Thanks. -- The Iraqis need to be very much involved.

unionfs

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am looking at trying out unionfs, I notice there is onlythe unionfs-fuse package - is this the way debian is going with unionfs or how do you use the kernel version - can't seem to find any comparisons between the 2 thanks Alex -- It's going to require numerous IRA agents. -

Re: What does Stale NFS file handle mean?

2010-02-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:36:39AM -0500, Michael Yang wrote: On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 03:35:37PM -0500, Michael Yang wrote: ... ls: cannot access .xsession-errors: Stale NFS file handle ls: cannot access .Xauthority:

Re: raid on mixed ide/sata drives (/dev/hda /dev/sda) not assembled at boot with initramfs

2010-02-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 07:59:05PM +0100, Dr. KER?KGY?RT? Istv?n wrote: [sorry if I post multiple times, but my message did not seem to get across, and moderation isn't supposed to last half a day] Dear All, I have a system with a raid1 array. I installed it first with a degraded raid

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64?

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 05:52:49PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I find I now have vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-amd64 in my boot directory. Added, I guess, as part of a recent dist-upgrade though I didn't notice it (careless) in the list of new items to be installed. grub has added this kernel

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:49:39PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, it's working now with the 190.53 driver (installed using the nvidia installer) and the 2.6.26 kernel, so I'm happy for now! Since an xorg

Re: Bash question: get output as a variable?

2010-02-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:09:28AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm scripting a backup solution, the line that does the business looks like this: tar -zcvf - * --exclude-from $EXCLUDES | openssl des3 -salt -k $1 | dd of=$(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz Because of the v flag tar writes to

Problem with Qualcomm + 2.6.32

2010-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
hi I have a hp mini, with the HP un2400 mobile broadband card, (3g). This has been working for me with 2.6.31. I have recently installed 2.6.32 (trunk and -2) and it fails to load. the usb id 03f0 (hp) 0x1f1d Any one else seen this, know of any workarounds ? All i get back is error usb

Re: Multiple RAID support in Debian?

2010-01-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 07:37:39PM -0600, Victor Padro wrote: Hello, I was wondering if someone could help me, I'm putting together a Server for personal use, I want to virtualize a few servers(mail, web, ssh) and use it as a NAS, but I have a question if I can use Multiple RAID Arrays

Re: Can only get Nvidia driver to work with 2.6.26

2010-01-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:09:42AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I've been following the threads of people frustrated with getting nvidia drivers to work, and have experienced much of that frustration myself over the last few days. I've tried everything to get my nvidia working with the

Re: File system for linux and windows

2010-01-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:22:06AM +0100, Klaus Wolf wrote: Hi, you may try fat32 for using on both systems. I made three partitions: ntfsuse with windows ext3use with lenny fat32 for data storage use for lenny and windows I have reliable used ntfs-3g (fuse

Re: [solved] Re: rsync with crossover cable connection

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:35:22PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: [snip] From Acer to Hyundai, I do: $ rsync -vr test 192.168.0.1:/home/rodolfo , and, from Hyundai to Acer: $ rsync -vr test 192.168.0.2:/home/rodolfo what happens if you have

Re: wlan0 disappeared in Squeeze on Dell Mini 10v

2010-01-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 02:00:30PM -0800, Mark wrote: Hello, any help is much appreciated. Wireless card has worked fine for months on a Dell Mini 10v. After updates last night, Squeeze doesn't recognize the card. I removed/purged b43-fwcutter and wicd, and reinstalled both. Nothing. I

Re: how to set permanent ulimit

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:15:19AM +0100, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: sorry:D i wanted to write: it's not working. :\ what happens when you type ulimit -a plus you need # Sets up user limits according to /etc/security/limits.conf # (Replaces the use of /etc/limits in old login) session

Re: cloning a hard drive issue/problem

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:16:07PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:53:44 +0100, Robert Cates wrote: (...) So, my question is - am I on the right path, will this work? Or do any of you have a better method to upgrade hard drives, under these circumstances? can I

Re: console resolution

2010-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
e5ylm-7ry...@gated-at.bofh.it e5zy9-cm...@gated-at.bofh.it e5axg-2q7...@gated-at.bofh.it e5eet-7l...@gated-at.bofh.it On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:11:38PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: [..] I don't know if my video card takes care of that, but I find that moving the cursor, scrolling, etc. is

Re: how to set permanent ulimit

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:47:31PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2010-01-26 at 12:54:49 -0500, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: How can I set ulimit? when I give: ulimit -n 10240 ok, ulimit -n gives 10240. But. after a few minutes, it 1024 again! How can I set the ulimit to be

Re: Access Problem with pppd

2010-01-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:24:14PM +0300, lego_12...@rambler.ru wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:34:33PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a l?ttle understanding problem. Maybe someone can advice me. On my EEEPC I am running an application called umtsmon (this

Re: problem installing nvidia-glx on a debian testing with 2.6.32 kernel

2010-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have just recently built nvidia for 6.32 using m-a I would recommend always using m-a and not the nvidia installer - easier to maintain. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:20:15PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hi, [snip] Setting up nvidia-kernel-source (173.14.09-5)

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:56:11PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: Alex Samad wrote: Hi subject says it all I have a lv, which i have used luks to encrypt and now I would like to extend it. I am guessing the process is going to involve coping the files over to another partition

Re: expanding a luks volume

2010-01-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:17:32PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:56:11PM -0500, Tim Tebbit wrote: Alex Samad wrote: Hi [snip] Alex No not at all. Treat it as any other volume and simply extend it. I think you might have miss uderstood me, I don't

Re: File system for linux and windows

2010-01-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:30:59PM +, Bhasker C V wrote: Nick Douma wrote: [snip] Using NTFS on linux and windows is cool. I have consistently seen that when there are large number of files, undoubtably, ntfs volume goes corrupt and chkdsk simply removes files and creates data loss. I

Re: x.509 gpgsm and kmail

2010-01-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:35:23PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 January 2010, Curt Howland was heard to say: Hi, Debian Users. A friend of mine asked if I could send him encrypted mail using X.509, rather than OpenPGP which I

expanding a luks volume

2010-01-23 Thread Alex Samad
Hi subject says it all I have a lv, which i have used luks to encrypt and now I would like to extend it. I am guessing the process is going to involve coping the files over to another partition and then back again ? Alex -- It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife

Re: Bonding virtual wireless interfaces?

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:39:57PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I have a network that caps each MAC address at 384K at the wireless access point, and was wondering if it's technically feasible to increase throughput by adding additional virtual interfaces. My thought is that if I have wlan0,

Re: console resolution

2010-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:11:38PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:47:29PM EST, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] I don't know if my video card takes care of that, but I find that moving the cursor, scrolling, etc. is noticeably faster on a framebuffer console than on the

Re: Synchronize two computers

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:04:07PM +, Michal wrote: On 21/01/2010 11:50, Kousik Maiti wrote: You need cross connected cable to connect 2 pc via lan card . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable After connecting 2 pc via that cable you just put ip address of same

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:13:41AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: Alex Samad on 21/01/10 02:10, wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:56:16AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: [snip] ? did not thing so, I have used null mailer on system I want to recieve emails from, just point it to a smtp server and thats

Re: Chroot+ldap problem

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:30:29PM -0300, Patricio Rojo wrote: Hi, I have this bizarre problem and I would really appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction to solve it. I have a set of two amd64 machines with Debian Lenny. Machine 2 reads all the users' information from the

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:01:16PM +, Adam Hardy wrote: I'm installing stuff onto a vserver which I have just got, and according to the sysadmin at the hosting provider, due to their set-up, I can't configure exim to listen on 127.0.0.1, I have to use the given IP address. In case that

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:01:01AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 20/01/10 21:30, wrote: inet_interfaces = 10.20.30.40, localhost *** master_service_disable=smtp.inet And what is that parameter for? :-? Ah, you wanted to disable smtp connections at all? Mmm, I'm still a bit

Re: trying to restrict exim smtp to specific IP

2010-01-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:56:16AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: Alex Samad on 21/01/10 00:30, wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:01:01AM +, Adam Hardy wrote: Camaleón on 20/01/10 21:30, wrote: inet_interfaces = 10.20.30.40, localhost *** master_service_disable=smtp.inet And what

Re: Problems with minus and plus signs in OO Calc

2010-01-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:35:25PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all. My sister is experimenting problems when inserting numbers with a `minus' and a comma, e.g.: `-9,13', within a Calc file. Minus without comma or comma without minus work fine. Comma is necessary for the Italian

Re: Virtualbox and usb-SOLVED

2010-01-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:08:22AM -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: On Wednesday 13 January 2010 06:35 am, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Wednesday 13 January 2010 02:03:10 Rob Owens wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25:10AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, As the title says, I am looking

Re: Strange work of eth0.

2010-01-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:41:08AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Why I have such situation: $ sudo /sbin/ifdown eth0 SIOCDELRT: No such process $ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:53:34:18 inet addr:192.168.0.125 Bcast:192.168.0.255

Re: Failover of gateways

2010-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:06:29PM -0300, 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.

Re: Decode unixtime

2010-01-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:09:33AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100115_051059, T o n g wrote: Hi, Which tool can help me decode the Unix time? E.g., strings like 1257624539, 1258162046, 1257623988, 1257709563, etc. they are about 68 days ago. Thanks date contains the

Re: Virtualbox and usb

2010-01-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:25:10AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, As the title says, I am looking for a virtualbox, under lenny, that sees the usb devices. So virtualbox-ose does not fit my requirement. Any idea what I can use instead? Go to virtualbox.org and look for the debian repo

Re: Java plugins in 64bit Debian

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:00:14AM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote: I installed a Debian Lenny (amd64), and sun-jdk in addition to the default gcj based default Java. When I access Java content with Firefox (or is IceWeasel) the browsed prompts me to install JDK... Clicking the prompt shows

Re: Java plugins in 64bit Debian

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 03:56:13PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2010-01-11 at 15:32:54 -0500, Alex Samad wrote: for some reason we (the user of debian) are being pushed to use icedtea and its java plugin, I don't have a problem with this except for the fact that the plugin isn't a drop

Re: Java plugins in 64bit Debian

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 04:26:35PM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2010-01-11 at 16:04:26 -0500, Alex Samad wrote: I am not arguing that, and I agree with what you have said about them making it free. The issue is the icedtea plugin is touted as a replacement for the sun plugin

Re: nsswitch.conf/LDAP

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 04:40:23AM +0100, Tom H wrote: I have a problem with my NSS/LDAP setup. When I set passwd:    files [SUCCESS=return] ldap group:       files [SUCCESS=return] ldap shadow:    files my 2c, mine is setup the same way and seems to work [snip] -- It's my

Re: Disallow other users from reading my $HOME

2010-01-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:50:42AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 10:24:27PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Once could just give execute perm to ~ and maybe additionally read as well to ~/public_html? Exactly right. The read to ~/public_html is not necessary if you have +x

Re: LVM+RAID+CRYPT

2010-01-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:23:13PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:13:14PM +0100, Sjors van der Pluijm wrote: Hi all, Hi I have a few laptops which I encrypt for work I have been using Debian for a few years now. For my new workstation I want to try something

Re: Handle paths with spaces

2010-01-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:38:23PM +0530, Foss User wrote: This is my directory structure: . | a.sh | a.txt | +---foo bar | b.txt | +---santa | | c.txt | | | \---humpty dumpty | e.txt | \---test d.txt I want to do some operation on each file

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