Re: Disk /dev/md6 doesn't contain valid partition table

2008-10-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:24:55AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:44:31AM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: [snip] > > "cat /proc/mdstat: > Personalities : [raid1] > md6 : active raid1 sda8

Re: vim Tip (was ... Re: Changes to vim, how to undo)

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:23:13AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:34:34AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > my problem is after a recent upgrade of vim I had to add in > > source /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/mail.vim > > > > when i used to be a

Re: apcupsd and hal

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:08:55PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 07:35:10 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:27:35PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:20:24 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > On S

Re: apcupsd and hal

2008-10-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:27:35PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 07:20:24 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:02:07PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 16:21:50 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > Hi

Re: Sound broken in recent Lenny update

2008-10-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:02:26AM +, Anton Piatek wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > My sound has stopped working in a recent update to Lenny - I think the > problem is related to the loading of the snd-pcsp module taking the > wrong index as sound tries to play acro

Re: how to setup a local website for storing some debian packages?

2008-10-26 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:16:14AM +0800, Star Liu wrote: > sometimes we have some standalone packages to install, it's not in the > offical mirrors. I'm a web developer so I hope I can make a local > website to store these packages, then I add a line "deb > http://localhost/debian unstable main co

Re: Changes to vim, how to undo

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:21:48AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:51:38PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun,26.Oct.08, 07:34:34, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > > my problem is after a recent upgrade of vim I had to add in > > > sou

Re: Changes to vim, how to undo

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:51:38PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,26.Oct.08, 07:34:34, Alex Samad wrote: > > > my problem is after a recent upgrade of vim I had to add in > > source /usr/share/vim/vim71/ftplugin/mail.vim > > I didn't have to add anything,

Changes to vim, how to undo

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have spent a bit of time setting up mutt and vim, from some help on the mailing list. I had mutt use a user config file for vim == mutt.vim == " source everything as usual " setting filtype to mail should have all the right values ! source /etc/vim/vimrc source ~/.vimrc " set filetype=ma

Re: apcupsd and hal

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:02:07PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 16:21:50 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > it seems like my apcupsd deamon get stuck when hal is probing > > /dev/usb/hidinput0 (the ups). > > > > when I kil

Re: digital out with alsa

2008-10-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:13:05PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I have recently purchased a new motherboard gigabyte ga-m750sli-ds4 > > it has a nvidia / intel sound chip set > NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC882 Analog [ALC882 Analog] > > 00:07.0 Audio device: n

apcupsd and hal

2008-10-24 Thread Alex Samad
Hi it seems like my apcupsd deamon get stuck when hal is probing /dev/usb/hidinput0 (the ups). when I kill hal apcupsd is okay, otherwise it get stuck can't kill it with -9 :( how can i tell hal to not watch for the ups ? or is there some other work around for this ? Alex -- "I was proud th

digital out with alsa

2008-10-24 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have recently purchased a new motherboard gigabyte ga-m750sli-ds4 it has a nvidia / intel sound chip set NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC882 Analog [ALC882 Analog] 00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0774 (rev a1) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device a002 Fla

Re: cannot access www via a proxy while in a VPN

2008-10-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:17:39AM +0200, Steve S wrote: > On Oct 22 08:42 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > [snip] > > So that's the same as with the browsers. > > Any further tips on what I could do? Thanks! might be time to talk to the helpdesk ? looks like you add

Re: cannot access www via a proxy while in a VPN

2008-10-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:37:50PM +0200, Steve S wrote: > Hi > > I'm starting a VPN with the network of my university via vpnc. The VPN itself > seems OK. I can ssh directly into machines at the university and ifconfig > says > > [...] > tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr > 00-00-00-00-00-00-0

managing a adaptec 1430sa

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was wondering if any one out there uses one of these to do hardware raid. I thought I might set it up in raid10 with 4 1Tb drives. My questions on this is what software do I use to alert me if there any problems and will it show up as 1 scsi device (or is it a silly software raid solution a

Re: Any suggest on NFS server in product environment?

2008-10-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:33:55PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2008 10:01, Ding Honghui wrote: > > hi list, > > > > Any suggest on NFS server in product environment? > > nfs-user-server or nfs-kernel-server? > > We need stable nfs server. > > I use nfs-kernel-server, I us

Re: House wireless/wired router: choices? Plus wireless neophyte questions.

2008-10-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:46:48AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > > Hi folks. Been a long time since I've posted to this list. > > I have exactly zero experience with wireless -- I've never owned a laptop, > and have just never needed it. My gf, as part of her job, needs to bring > home a la

Re: Howto sign e-mail using PGP (Debian Lennyy Evolution2.22.3.1)?

2008-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 07:08:12PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 18:57 +0200, Winfried Tilanus wrote: > > I can confirm that your key is uploaded correctly and that the signature > > verification fails. > Thanks for the confirmation. > > > > > > Can anyone give me a clue

Re: how to sniff marked packets by iptables

2008-09-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:33:38AM -0300, Lucas Mocellin wrote: > Ok, I understood, but create a dummy device to sniff it in a operation > server I think it is not the best solution. > > But, I have never thought about -j LOG, kkk if I do a filter by the > mark, and -j LOG, I think it's su

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 06:25:36PM -, Michael Perry wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:40:05 +0200, David Sanders wrote: > > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >> @dam-main:~$ uname -r > >> 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 > >> > >> @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware > >> ii vmware-work

Re: Problem compiling 2.6.26 kernel

2008-09-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:28:43AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/27/2008 10:42 PM, Arthur Barlow wrote: >> I have used Debian for many years and I have always used the >> kernel-package program that is included with Debian to compile new >> kernels. I have an older Athlon PC that has the Rei

Re: LVM2, Debian, and changing the hostname

2008-09-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 03:08:11PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I am about to migrate a small server to a new box. Some weeks ago I > installed Lenny (amd64) on the new box and used a temporary hostname > for it, planning on changing the hostname after the system had been > tested and was ready

Re: procmail rule to filter debian-user

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:44:00AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > If you aren't wedded to procmail for some other reason, then maybe > > maildrop would be more to your liking, since it has a much simpler > > syntax. Here's my maildrop rule for filtering d

Re: iptables logs?

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:47:30PM -0400, Zach Uram wrote: > I am running Debian testing with 2.6.18 kernel and iptables. Does > anyone know how I can have iptables log to a seperate file such as > /var/log/iptables and I want them saved with logrotate. I want to try have a look at ulog > out so

Re: RAID questions/advise

2008-09-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:59:57PM -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've had a couple of RAID boxes ticking away in the corner for years now > without a problem. But now our needs have expanded, and I'm looking to > build replacements. Big replacements. And I consider myself to b

Re: nss_ldap issue

2008-09-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:54:52AM +0530, Harpreet wrote: > > Hi > > I am facing a problem of nss_ldap > i.e. when a user tries to connect to courier services, they get the > following error. > > user.info: Sep 18 11:24:35 nscd: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP > server... > user.err: Sep 18 11:24

Re: sed

2008-09-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:53:18PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:29:29PM +0100, michael wrote: > > I've been struggling to get this to work but I think 'sed' should be > > able to do it if I could just get some help with the correct > > incantation... > > > > > > given

nvidia and xrandr and multiple screens

2008-09-16 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am trying to setup xrandr + nvidia on xorg. I am currently using twinview, which works well on boot up, but if I undock my laptop I can't readjust my screen's xrandr only shows 1 mode. if I undo twinview and try and setup multiple devices I can't get my second screen to show up, xrandr onl

Re: mdadm raid5 giving me heartburn.....

2008-09-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:39:47PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: > the current state of my system -- it is up and running but i do not > belive for long: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] > md1 : active raid5 sda5[3](F) sdb5[4](F) sdd5[2] s

Re: Bash-SU Question

2008-09-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 04:13:27PM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > Hi, > > Here's my script: > > #!/bin/sh > > su -m -c "echo User: $(whoami)" user1 isn't this $(whoami) being executed in the original /bin/sh to executre it under the su wouldn't you need something like \$(whoami) > sle

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:41:13AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/10/08 18:57, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 09/10/08 17:10, Alex Samad wrote: >>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 05:36:44PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/10/08 17:10, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 09/10/08 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: >>>> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/10/08 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>>> On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: >

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:12:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/09/08 20:47, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Wed,10.Sep.08, 04:26:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> My Internet access has been getting slower and slower and my ISP is a joke: >>> >>> $ ping google.com >>> PING google.com (64.233.167.99) 56(

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:42:31PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,09.Sep.08, 13:50:05, François Cerbelle wrote: > > [...] > > > Now, you have to protect the admin box from an attack initiated from the > > NATted box (mother's). Because this box is unsure. So, you set iptables > > rules on

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:50:05PM +0200, François Cerbelle wrote: > > Le Mar 9 septembre 2008 13:39, Alex Samad a écrit : > [...] > > don't see the difference between connectivity via the internet or via an > > openvpn network, if your rule states only allow ssh (+ rel

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:12:28AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,09.Sep.08, 07:51:30, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > Or do you have any other ideas? > > > > openvpn + iptables. > > > > Use openvpn with cert's to create a tunnel and then use i

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 12:48:21AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Hi, > > Recently my mother (running Lenny) switched ISPs and is now behind a > NAT, which makes direct ssh access impossible. A reverse ssh tunnel can > solve this, but having her type a passphrase every time is hmm... > unreali

Re: USB devices not detected unless plugged in at boot

2008-09-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:24:13PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:51:49PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon,08.Sep.08, 14:14:44, Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 08:28:10PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > On Mon,08.Sep.08, 07:52:25, Carl Fink wrote: >

Re: corrupted software raid

2008-09-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:41:36PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > Hello, > > I upgraded one of my servers to debian/lenny recently, and unfortunately > I forgot to remove the apt pinning for mdadm from /etc/apt/preferences, > so an old mdadm from backports.org was kept installed, while the rest of >

networking question

2008-09-06 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I was having problems with my nfs this morning, I had recently set it to use udp. Seems like my router isn't forwarding frag udp packet. I have check sysctl for forwarding its on, i looked for soemthing under frag or udp and nothing relevant turned up. checked iptables it doesn't seem to be

Re: For Lenny: LVM, LVM+MD or just MD for mirroring?

2008-09-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:59:01PM -0700, Jens wrote: > On 5 Sep., 21:20, "Brian Schrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We use LVM and software raid via md on every server. We use md to run raid > > 10 arrays and then we use LVM on top of that. We use snapshots to backup our > > Hello Brian, >

Re: encrypted partition question

2008-09-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 08:03:48PM +0200, Maciej Korzeń wrote: > Alexander Golovin wrote: >> [...] >> 2. Created the cryptographic device mapper: cryptsetup -y create crypt >> /dev/hda6 (entered passphrase twice) >> [...] > > cryptoloop is not the best choice: > http://mareichelt.de/pub/texts.cryp

Re: ssh X11 forwarding problem

2008-09-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 04:26:45AM -0400, Zach Uram wrote: > Ok from my local host I can ssh into a host on network A with 'ssh -X [snip] > The X11 forwarding worked fine on host A (a school host) yet fails on > host B (my VPX box). > > Any clue how I can fix this and why it works on network A's

Re: Transplanting A Fresh Debian Etch to another Router

2008-09-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 07:35:22AM +, Boer Kees wrote: > > I am fairly new to linux. I managed to install Debian (etch) on my computer, > and when it all worked fine, installed one, for a friend of mine, from behind > my router. > > All works fine, when he puts his machine behind my router.

Re: Exim4 SMTP direct send, blocked incoming port 25

2008-09-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:06:26PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Is it possible to use exim4 to send mail if port 25 is blocked by the > ISP (incoming)? I can receive mail by using easyDNS and getting them > to forward my mail to another port, but I'm not sure outgoing > will work. > > I trie

Re: udev and partitioning

2008-08-31 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 07:16:54AM -0700, - Xian wrote: > Hi all, > > I just setup a machine with an ide disk for / and two sata disks I intend to > mirror for storage. There were two partitions on the sata disks I wiped out > to turn into one big linux raid autodetect partition. With /dev/sda,

Re: problem with openssh-server

2008-08-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 04:57:24PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 2008-08-29 16:26, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Alex Samad wrote: > >> Before I file a bug report, has any one else been having any problem > >> with openssh-server 1:5.1p1-2 > >> > >>

problem with openssh-server

2008-08-28 Thread Alex Samad
Before I file a bug report, has any one else been having any problem with openssh-server 1:5.1p1-2 seems like where ever I have installed it I haven't been able to login afterwards. I just tracked down that it is not accepting any ipv4 connections only ipv6. ssh 127.0.0.1 -l alex => work before

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:24:46AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > On Aug 23, 10:10 pm, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:59:43AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > > > Within D

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 01:08:33PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-08-24 12:00:52 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:59:43AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > > > Within Debian

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:59:43AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Within Debian you should not put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. > > There can be problems with that. I don't remember exactly. Something > like it is annoying not to be able to g

Re: IP Forward on Testing

2008-08-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 08:51:08AM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > Hello > > I am using Debian as a router, so that I need to enable the ipv4 > forward feature. My question is how I enable it automatically, even > when the machine is reboot? So that the value in > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > >

Re: Problems with pppoe - sendPacket: send: Network is down

2008-08-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:15:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > For the 1rst time, I've installed a Debian box that must connect directly to > the > net via DSL. I've an Alcatel Speedtouch modem connected to eth0, my local > private network is on eth1 (this works without problems)

Re: WebMail Interface

2008-08-20 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:44:24PM +0800, Rod James Bio wrote: > Weve been using Horde for 2 years now and we are now looking for an > alternative for Horde. Any suggestions? any reason for moving away from horde, I am making the slow move towards horde, especially now that dimp has made it int

Re: Best fs for imapserver?

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:34:58PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:10:42PM +0200, Eric Persson wrote: > > > I'm looking to improve the performance on one of our imap-servers > > since its getting slow on large folders with 100k or more files in > > I'm not sure this is a

Re: debian-user] Re: AMD vs Intel and the Debian kernel

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:13:29PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > «(Java, Flash, etc. are not yet released in 64-bit compatible > versions)» browser plugins > > Huh? I'm using Java (Eclipse) and flash (mozilla) on 2.6.18-6-amd64... > > -- > Nuno Magalhães -- "A dictatorship would be a heck of

Re: messed-up File Permissions

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:46:53PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I accidentally made all the files on my system owned by > me and am trying to get them back to where they should be. I did this about 2-3 weeks ago, although all to root (damned cold). it was only a test machine, just going

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > kj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > If I'm hearing folks correctly, is 32-bit flash running out of the box > on 64-bit lenny now? If it's not running out of the box, could someone > please post a link to a HOWTO? Thanks! apt

Re: CUPS problem

2008-08-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 06:54:27PM +0300, Alexander Petrov wrote: > > I started hplip (version 2.4.1 and it made some installations (gcc, g++, > python-dev, libcupsys2-dev, libjpeg-dev, libusb-dev, libsnmp-dev ) and then > hung. The staus of the process was 'sleeping' > What should I do next? >

Re: Upgrading Hard Drives

2008-08-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 12:15:41AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,16.Aug.08, 07:07:39, Alex Samad wrote: > > > man rsync > > > > -x, --one-file-system don’t cross filesystem boundaries > > > > which means not to traverse any filesystem mounts,

Re: Upgrading Hard Drives

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:42:58PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2008 23:15, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri,15.Aug.08, 23:05:32, Shachar Or wrote: > > > > I like rsync. If you do it from a live CD it will copy only files > > > > actually on disk, not the ones created dynamically

Re: CUPS problem

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:16:24PM +0300, Alexander Petrov wrote: > Hi everyone,I have Debian Etch 2.6.18-i686 on AMDSempron 3000+. I want to > install my HP DeskJet 920C on it. I downloaded the recomended driver > HP_deskjet_920C_hpijs.ppd from linuxprinting.org and installed it through > CUP

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:52:05AM -0500, gary turner wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:39AM -0500, gary turner wrote: >>> Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot > &g

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:39AM -0500, gary turner wrote: > Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot > config-2.6.18-5-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486 > config-2.6.21-2-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486.bak > config-2.6.22-2-486

Re: Home partition shared between Debian & MS WinXP

2008-08-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:55:20PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/13/08 20:39, Alex Samad wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59:46AM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: >>> I have Debian Lenny & MS Windows XP SP2 installed on different >>> partitions of my hd

Re: Home partition shared between Debian & MS WinXP

2008-08-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:59:46AM +0300, Anton Liaukevich wrote: > I have Debian Lenny & MS Windows XP SP2 installed on different > partitions of my hdd. > [snip] > What solution is better or are there any other good solutions? use nfs (microsoft provide a free nfs client for XP, 2000 - haven

Re: Two computers thrash soon after boot -- how to stop it?

2008-08-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:28:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > One of these computers is a desktop. From a cold boot it appears to > load the operating system without incident -- as far as I can tell -- > right to the kdm login manager. Once a user name and password are > entered it loads KDE

Re: Using Logitech Quickcam on Debian 4.0

2008-08-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:05:11PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:21:13AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > >> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:58:15 -0700 > >> From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: deb

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:43:14AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 11:15 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:32:04AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Tue,12.Aug.08, 01:04:00, Aniruddha wrote: > > > > Regularly my hard disk d

Re: What is the best way to deal with changing device names in Debian?

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:32:04AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,12.Aug.08, 01:04:00, Aniruddha wrote: > > Regularly my hard disk device names change ( e.g. from sdc to sdh to sdb > > etc). When this happens it becomes impossible to boot. > > > > To prevent this from happening I 've added

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:47:41PM +0100, kj wrote: > Hi guys, > > At work I'm starting to push the limits of my RAM with MySQL/InnoDB on > my workstation (I do dev/testing on my workstation). I have 64bit > hardware, capable of taking 8gb memory. best place to ask is the amd64 mailing list

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:58:01AM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > On Aug 10, 5:10 pm, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:48:48PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: > > > Hi, Alex -- > > For some reason, I can't get linux.debian.user to post my repl

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:48:48PM -0700, Vwaju wrote: [snip] > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > - > I edited /etc/network/interfaces to look like this: > > # The loopback network interface > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > > # The primary network inter

Re: Router IPv6

2008-08-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:16:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:08:56AM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > modprobe ipv6 > > > > I can'

Re: Router IPv6

2008-08-08 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:27:07PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > Dear all, > > I have Debian operating as an router. I am curious with IPv6. How do I > implement it on my Debian router? modprobe ipv6 > > -- > Zaki Akhmad > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject

Re: How do I enable UUID in Debian?

2008-08-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:21:31PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Aniruddha (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Since my harddrive names keep changing after each reboot I have to set > > UUID in grub to make sure I can boot. I've done this before in Gentoo > > and I wonder how this works in Debian

Re: simple router

2008-08-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:18:21AM +0300, Alexander wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:45 -0300, Ezequiel Larrarte wrote: > [snip] > is good enough for me. > DSL modem is working good, I have an internet connection on my eth0 > iface, but haven't nothing in my eth1 and eth2 ifaces, how to confi

Re: Replacing hda - Easiest Way?

2008-08-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:01:25AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 2008-08-05 00:39, Scarletdown wrote: > > So that being the case, I am guessing that the SATA drive will show up sata's normally turn up as scsi devices so sda > > in /dev as something other than hdd (hda is the current pri

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:43:06PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:41:04 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:27:01AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:25 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > >> &

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:27:01AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:15:25 -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > [snip] > /usr 172.25.1.4(rw,sync,no_root_squash,map_identity) what about map_identity ? you using nis/ldap ? > > Funny. When I cut and pasted it into this page if but

Re: packet forwarding.

2008-08-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 10:18:17PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat August 2 2008 18:31:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My network is illustrated here now. > > http://carnot.pathology.ubc.ca/Network.jpg [snip] > > "no connection". > > That routing table shows that dalton knows the route to joule

Re: NFS problem

2008-07-29 Thread Alex Samad
some thoughts inline On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:13:28PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > In response to my message of 2008-07-28 on this subject M. Preud'homme > rightly intimated that I should have provided more information so that > he (and others?)

Re: NFS problems with Mac client

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:47:08AM +0200, André Berger wrote: > * Alex Samad (2008-07-29): > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:05:58PM +0200, André Berger wrote: > > > * Alex Samad (2008-07-28): > > > > > > > on the nas box > > > > >

Re: NFS problems with Mac client

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:05:58PM +0200, André Berger wrote: > * Alex Samad (2008-07-28): > > > on the nas box > > > > /exports/shared > > -async,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,insecure,mp=/exports/shared > > 192.168.8.0/22(rw) > > Try >

Re: to cluster or not? what's best solution for 2-node HA?

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:18:03AM -0700, Bob wrote: > On Jul 26, 1:50 am, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:09:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > On 0

Re: trouble HP SmartArray 6400

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:50:34AM -0300, Lucas Mocellin wrote: > Hi Damon, > > before all, thanks for your complete answer. HP have a set of forums (forums.itrc.hp.com/) I believe they have HP people on there - its free from memory, I would suggest they would have the best answer for you. also

NFS problems with Mac client

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am having some problems with my new mini mac connecting to my debian amd64 nfs server. I have other linux clients that are working well with nfs. I have raised this on the apple forums, but the suggestion (see the tcpdump) is that the server is not responding. on the nas box /exports/sh

Re: packet forwarding.

2008-07-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 06:10:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alex and others, > > as> for a machine at local lan a (say 192.168.0.100) > to talk to a machine at local lab b ( say 192.168.2.200). > I would need a route on the gateway box in > local lan A something like > ip r a 192.168.

Re: How do I recover LVM at boot -- SOLVED --

2008-07-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 06:22:37PM -0700, ss11223 wrote: > And there it was > > The Grub menu.lst file was corrupted in the line specifying the /dev/ > mapper command. > > > :-) maybe a good time to change to using LABEL's and not /dev/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How do I recover LVM at boot

2008-07-27 Thread Alex Samad
try putting back your old mdadm.conf this is how mine looks = # mdadm.conf # # Please refer to mdadm.conf(5) for information about this file. # # by default, scan all partitions (/proc/partitions) for MD superblocks. # alternatively, specify devices to scan, using

Re: packet forwarding.

2008-07-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:03:50AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alex, > > > net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 > as> This is allow the kernel to do packet forwarding > > No problem there. My LAN machines have > no problems accessing the 'net for http, > pop3, ftp. > > as> turn which on ? > > TUN pack

Re: to cluster or not? what's best solution for 2-node HA?

2008-07-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:09:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/25/08 16:32, Bob wrote: > > Here's what I want: > > I have a vmware server running on etch, hosting 4 VM's. > > I want these 4 VM's to be hosted in such a way, that should anyth

Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:34:14AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with > > browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper

Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 04:35:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > When connecting to internet with a certain provider, I have problems with > browsing. Then I want to fill the file /etc/resolv.conf with the proper dns > servers but the file changes automatically during the connection being filled

Re: usb2 port gets very slow on 2-gig Flash Drive.

2008-07-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 08:27:01AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I needed to reload the flash drive on a Zenstone 2-gig mp3 > player. I have noticed that when the drive is full, operations > all still work, but take much longer than one might expect which > probably has something to do with the

Re: networking crash suddenly in my home LAN

2008-07-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 09:52:22AM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: > >> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > This is working from

unionfs or ausfs

2008-07-23 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Was reading through an article talking about unionfs and ausfs, thought I could find a use for this at home. So I thought I would come to the list first to see what people experiences have been with these. Seems like unionfs has been added to teh 2.6 -mm kernel, but it seems like there are mo

Re: Multiple static ips and dhcp mixed

2008-07-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 01:38:43PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Hi Armin, > > Use dummy0 for the static ip's, e.g.: > any erason for dummy instead of loopback ? [snip] > > --Mike Bird > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

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