Re: tar backup ok but restore errors w/ scsi dat dds2

2005-09-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, michael wrote: I think this might be a hardware compatibility problem, but you be the judge. Using tar, I can write a tape archive to the scsi dat drive (tar cvf /dev/st0 /usr/kbmosas) without any errors but when I try to read the tape back (tar tvf /dev/st0 or

Re: WiFi on Toshiba Sattelite A70 Atheros 5004X

2005-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, David R. Litwin wrote: Which is better: MADWiFi or ndiswrapper; and why? madwifi is better because... ( in one pc ) - it supports 3 flavors of WEP key sizes - it supports wpa - it can be your AP - it can be firewalled - it can be a

Re: Odd install from floppy problem

2005-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Carlos Correia wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Rewrite the root.img disk and be sure to format the disk properly before | writing it. | I've done that several times before I wrote the previous e-mail and didn't

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Daniel Garcia wrote: Hello, I would like to know wich is the best filesystem to use: the ReiseFS or XFS. what do you need it to do ?? ( it does make some difference ) - given reierfs or xfs ... i'd use the lastest xfs-2.6.36 - always use the lastest fs .. not older

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS - test

2005-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Daniel Garcia wrote: I would like to know wich is the best filesystem to use: the ReiseFS or XFS. and you will be tested on the differences between each FS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: WiFi on Toshiba Sattelite A70 Atheros 5004X

2005-09-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, David Koski wrote: On Saturday 24 September 2005 07:52 pm, David R. Litwin wrote: As a bit of a follow-up, I read the marlow.dk http://marlow.dk site: I do need to compile my own kernel with that. no.. you compile the madwifi drivers for your kernel or find ones

Re: new hard drive

2005-09-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Kudret Güler wrote: Today this hard drive is hdb with the same structure. On hda there is grub installed pointing to debian installation A as well as other entries. When I try to load debian installation A, currently I am having kernel panic after an error:

Re: RAID failed and machine freeze. Help me please! (Poor story about my RAID)

2005-09-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andrea On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: Sep 21 17:43:55 backup kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sdc1 from array! bad thing and :~# cat /proc/mdstat yes sir ri bob... Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] md1 : active raid5 sda3[0] sdd3[3] sdc3[2] sdb3[1]

manufacturer Re: recover data from a hd

2005-09-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Borislav Petkov wrote: my hd died this morning and I know it is too late and I don't have a backup but is there a way to do a raw read and gather all the information that can be read? that'd depnd on the problem of what *-you-* mean by died vs what's on the

Re: [kde/qt] Unicode/special char problem

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
1;2c On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, belbo wrote: This is probably a unicode-related problem on KDE, but I didn't find any solution. I've already googled the problem, with no results... what is the environment variables defined as: set | egrep -i LANG|LC_ locale -a - should list your

Re: files not in sync on nfs mounted directories

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Karsten Bolding wrote: I've a problem with files not being in sync on a nfs exported home. On a cluster the nodes mounts /home from the master. Sometimes it happens that a file is changed on the master but the changes are NOT visible on the nodes - even after quite some

Re: files not in sync on nfs mounted directories

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya karsten On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Karsten Bolding wrote: how long is quite some time ( seconds, minutes, hours ) 1-2 minutes of delay before data new show up on a bz network is possible Some minutes is not un-common. :-) If the file is copied the problem seems to be

Re: [kde/qt] Unicode/special char problem

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andrea On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Andrea Ballatore wrote: what is the environment variables defined as: set | egrep -i LANG|LC_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] you have a broken internalization environment you should also have LC_ variables defined locale -a - should list your

Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mitja On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 10:40:38AM +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote: simple solution .. use knoppix cd in each PC and you're done - do not put/keep any data on any PC, as users will erase it or copy it or break in or ?? and you have to figure out what they did

Re: quickly partition disk, copy an image, install grub

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Gregory Seidman wrote: } fdisk /dev/hdb, and set up / and swap partitions faster way to copy partitions from one disk to another is with sdisk or cat file | fdisk } mkswap /dev/hdb5# do I need to do this? no .. swap partition is optional, and if you have enuff

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-20 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, charlie wrote: | Battery boxes should be plastic. | |I have never seen a metal battery box. that's why battery holds in a car is metal, so you have to buy a new car every few years :-) WE have four of them for our 700 amp 24 volt solar system. Being very

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Jared Hall wrote: Maybe let me know what you all are using. Please help me navigate the sea of UPS. car battery ( $50 ) plus those $50 12v dc-dc atx adaptors would do nicely car battery lasts abut 14 hrs with an idle P3-1G .. last time i checked using standard p3-1g

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Angelo Bertolli wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: car battery ( $50 ) plus those $50 12v dc-dc atx adaptors would do nicely .. Sounds good to me. But I'm kind of new to this. Could you provide a link or two to the atx adaptors that one might consider? google: dc-dc atx

Re: Suggestions for Debian Harware Vendors

2005-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jason On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Jason Martens wrote: I'm not talking about official support from Dell, i'm not either we provide unofficial support on just about any hw I think this is a valuable resource if one is forced to run Debian on a Dell. There are very helpful people out

Re: Debian Compatable UPS?

2005-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, John Hasler wrote: Alvin Oga writes: and keep your car battery outdoors, not indoors ... Not necessary (though you may want to keep it in a plastic container.) the other kinds of batteries is the gel-cell ( same type as the commerical ups ) but cheaper and more amp

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rodney On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Rodney Richison wrote: Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. backup plan ... i always run 3-5 duplicate servers at the same time .. just change the ip# and the backup machine would be live Tar? find | tar | grep -iv

Re: Software RAID 5 SATA array crashed

2005-09-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya the only major piece of info that is missing: a) cat /proc/mdstat b) what exactly was the commands you type vs the english explainations On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Adar Dembo wrote: Sep 11 23:46:57 localhost kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sdc1 from array! Sep 11

Re: Software RAID 5 SATA array crashed

2005-09-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Adar Dembo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [multipath] [raid6] [raid10] [faulty] md0 : active raid5 sdb[0] sde[4] sdf[3] sdd[2] sdc[1] 1172229120 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [U]

Re: mdadm not properly starting RAID 1 device

2005-09-18 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya matt On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Matt Adams wrote: I have a RAID 1+LVM configuration on one of my 2.6 desktop machines. you like to be on the bleeding edge eh :-) marvin:~# mdadm --detail /dev/md1 State : clean, degraded bad 0 820 active sync

Re: app to add subtitles videoclips for DVD?

2005-09-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, [iso-8859-1] Søren Christensen wrote: Iv'e been looking for an application to add subtitles to video-movies, that is I have some DVDs in english that I need to add danish subtitles. What app should I be looknig for? if you're using mplayer to play the movie, mplayer

Re: Suggestions for Debian Harware Vendors

2005-09-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jason On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Jason Martens wrote: Hey all, We are currently a Dell shop my condolences :-) but are getting frustrated with the lack of debian support available for our Dell servers. and where is the debian support supposed to come from ?? if it's dell hardware,

Re: deleting selected/filtered mails in sendmail queue

2005-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, [iso-8859-1] Erik Dörnbach wrote: Is there anything available either in sendmail itself (something like sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED], just for deleting and not queuerun) which I haven't found yet or some additional tools/scripts whatever. i clean out the sendmail queue

RE: deleting selected/filtered mails in sendmail queue

2005-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, [iso-8859-1] Erik Dörnbach wrote: From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:25 PM i clean out the sendmail queue with http://www.linux-sec.net/Mail/etc.mail/mqueue.clean.pl - it shows who sent it and where it's

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 15 Sep 2005, Thomas Adam wrote: --- Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've struggled with this one for months! Much perusing of HOWTOs and googling hasn't helped. tooo much effort :-) ... but good .. thanx for trying so

Re: absurdly simple LAN problem

2005-09-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya anthony On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: desktop: /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback 192.168.0.20arcadia.acampbell.org.uk arcadia arcadia.acupuncturecourse.org.uk accampbell.uklinux.net 192.168.0.22 thinkpad ibm for testing, change all that .. delete

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Aurélien Campéas wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device 301 or unknown block (3,1) Please append a correct root= boot option kernel panic: not syncing : VFS cannot open root device i am wondering what to add as a boot option (i am running LILO) i tried

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Aurélien Campéas wrote: a mkinitrd for the dummies, riddled with examples, would be neat but for a costom kernel without initrd, also don't forget to disable initrd support (in the kernel) (it sits near the RAM fs section) do you man disable or enable

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Jon Roed wrote: I can't find a driver for my chipset in the kernel options. the chipset you care about is the output of lspci - you'd want to make sure you can find all the drivers for each of the hardware controllers listed in the output of

Re: Making a live cd (initrd / kernel panic)

2005-09-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Patterson, Richard A wrote: On our target system, I boot to the cd, grub loads, and the kernel appears to load, but then panics... Cannot mount root fs on unknown-block(3,1) (3,1) is /dev/hda1 - you need to install the /boot/grub/dxxx_stage_1.5 for that

Re: usb-thumb memorex? ???

2005-09-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Chris Parker wrote: is the memorex usb thumbdrive workable, able to mount? yes .. most any usb will work under *nix you just need to have the usb drivers for the usb controller on your mb lspci | grep usb - check the kernel options against the lspci

Re: usb-thumb memorex? ???

2005-09-14 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Chris Parker wrote: media value (0xb9) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1. vfat 13920 0 that's fat32 fat53756 1 vfat that's fat16 msdos 10400 0 that's definitely fat16 but ... vfat

boot - RE: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Ken Walker wrote: I really missed the security of a boot floppy though :o( dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 and if its bigger than a floppy, i'm not sure, but it should work: dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/usb-stick and them 120MB zip thingies will work too -

Re: How to lock user in his home

2005-09-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Leonardo Marques wrote: ?? i want the user can do everything they can do by default minus browse accross the file system. when the kiddies login, instead of using /bin/bash, you can: - use a modified shell ( simplest solution ) - you can use chroot

Re: Custom Kernel Won't Boot

2005-09-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Jon Roed wrote: Did you compile your kernel using make-kpkg? Using --initrd or without? Does the /etc/lilo.conf file match your initrd? That is, if you build an initrd did you specify it in yoiur /etc/lilo.conf file? I am guessing not as that would match the

Re: fhs: where to mount other PCs ?

2005-09-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, acctually you can mount them anywhere you want. i bet /mnt or /home . just dont mount them to /etc or /sbin or something, that would be too weird... the right place to mount media and other PCs over nfs is a pissing contest

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR) to wipe out the mbr dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=448 count=1 aka: fdisk /mbr aka: reformat/reinstalling :-) to install the mbr dd if=working-mbr of=/dev/hda

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: vi lilo.conf boot = /dev/fd0 root = /dev/hda1 Won't that make it boot from /dev/hda1? no... it boots from floppy ( the MBR ) it's told that /, /dev, /etc, /bin etc ( rootfs ) is on /dev/hda1 How will it know to look on /dev/hdc1

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hendrik On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: boot = /dev/fd0 root = /dev/hda1 Poor choice of language. Yes. It boots the MBR on the floppy, then tries to read the kernel, the initrd, and such from /dev/hda1. yup.. But if the drive has been physically moved to

Re: bonding failure in Debian 3.1 Kernel 2.6.8-2-smp

2005-09-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Holger Harling wrote: The Bond0 startparameters are in the networking script under case $1 in .. behind ifup -a modprobe bonding mode=1 miimon=100 ifup bond0 ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1 what is the contents of your bonding files manually.. modprobe bonding

Re: hostap and intersil prism

2005-09-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Hans du Plooy wrote: Hi guys, I am trying to set up an Intersil Prism PCI card as a wireless accesspoint with the hostap driver. I have found several HOWTOs on the net, and they all follow about the same procedure (most of them Red Hat based though). than, i'd

docs + exp Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Steve Lamb wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus very rare cases). Why make the new user go searching? most folks, form whom you buy a pc will take care of the headache for you, just like when you

Re: Software RAID problem - disks names change in case one fails

2005-09-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm testing a server before I put it in production, and I've got a problem with mdraid. The config: - Dell PowerEdge 800 - 4 x 250 Go SATA attached to the mobo - /boot 4 x 1 GB (1 GB available)in RAID1, 3 active + 1 spare - / 4 x 250 GB

Re: Multihead

2005-09-09 Thread Alvin Oga
On 9 Sep 2005, Jeffrey Alsip wrote: I have succeeded in getting my Colorgraphic four-port video card (S3 Savage4 chipset) to function under Debian! All four monitors now show a clear crisp display. However, my efforts have failed to get me mouse and keyboard access to the three displays

Re: offline ?? Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya james On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, James Vahn wrote: i don't know if this was meant to be offline .. Whoops. :-) too late now .. but you can repost back to the list .. FEATURE(`access_db')dnl FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl FEATURE(`greet_pause', `1')dnl .. It will also

Re: my first raid disaster on reboot :o( update

2005-09-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya ken On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Ken Walker wrote: == which is it .. - raid1 or raid0 .. big difference betweenthe two /dev/md7 using /dev/hda,/dev/hdc /dev/md8 using /dev/hab,/dev/hdd the whole disk or /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1 ?? - its a good choice for /dev/hdcxx and

offline ?? Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya james i don't know if this was meant to be offline .. On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, James Vahn wrote: yup.. but in 1 minutes.. you're completely done w/ antispam I've found that these help a lot too. If the headers don't pass the tests, the data never comes across the wire. They are

Re: sendmail trouble

2005-09-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, James Vahn wrote: Sendmail/Exim/Postfix/Smail have all had security vulnerabilities reported as recent as this year. yup ... xxx is not usually better than yyy for certain metrics .. - being better at one thing doesn't mean its better in general - a working system

Re: using the 'find' program

2005-09-05 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 09:12:41AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: cd /tmp touch testfile find . -iname testfile -print and I get nothing. find --version GNU find version 4.2.24 ls -la /tmp/ls.txt find /tmp -name

Re: Compiling Kernel for Bootsplash: The Whole Seven Metres.

2005-09-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, David R. Litwin wrote: My appologies: I really, really want Bootsplash. than you be able to make it work yourself, as it is tons of work As I wrote (and so alluded to), my computer IS re-booted quite a bit. bad boy ... i asume you do know, that your system is

Re: automate printing of html-formatted pages?

2005-09-03 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: images makes simple cat $html not work either, otherwise, cat $html | lpr -Ppostscriptprinter - wouldn't this just print the text that is contained in an html file (as opposed to a rendered/formatted html page? good point, probably ...

Re: IDE mondorestore DVD to Perc4 Raid machine

2005-09-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, John Fleming wrote: Now I want to use the 600SC's mondo backup DVD to restore (clone to) a Dell PowerEdge 1850 with a perc 4eid raid 1 controller. Note that I can install Sarge from scratch (not the mondo backup) on the 1850 with a 2.4 kernel just fine. However, the

Re: automate printing of html-formatted pages?

2005-09-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Matt Price wrote: ... wget -m -k http://some.website.com/ and then: #! /bin/bash find /path/to/top/level -type f -iname *.html | while read file; do html2ps -gn $file $file.ps ; done find /path/to/top/level -type f -iname *.html | while read psfile; do lpr

Re: Multiple monitors?

2005-09-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jeffrey Alsip wrote: Is it possible to run multiple monitors under Debian? If so, what steps are necessary? http://www.Linux-1U.net/X11/Dual/ look for the MultiUser section c ya alvin Better yet: get 3 more keyboards, 3 more mice and you can

Re: subscribe - unsubscribe

2005-08-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya david On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, David Jardine wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:52:07PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: - oddd ... somebody needs to feed the leprichons(sp?) Leprechauns, I think, but gremlins, gnomes, elves... are easier to spell :) ah .. you saw the post ... i got my own

subscribe - unsubscribe

2005-08-30 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya debianites - is it just me or did the same happen to some of you too?? - i had to resubscribe to get some debian-user emails - bunch of debian-user up until about Aug 27 22:56:58 and last one and only one at Aug 28 05:21:40 and cold-turkey till now for deb-user and no error

Re: Sendmail woes

2005-08-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: It used to be that when I went into the /etc/mail directory and made changes to the access file then typed make, the access.db file would be updated and I could then reload sendmail. It seems now with Sarge that it does not do this

Re: Debian Wiki Down: Permanantly?

2005-08-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, C Shore wrote: I've confirmed that that debian wiki is down for others as well as myself, so I am wondering if anyone knows whether it has disappeared permanently or if it will be back soon. (http://wiki.debian.net) how was it verified ?? the site comes up for me ...

Re: Debian Wiki Down: Permanantly?

2005-08-25 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: C Shore wrote: (http://wiki.debian.net) Does not work for me and has been like that for the past 2 days. Nothing loads and the request just times out. I currently live in Ithaca, NY, USA. and what does traceroute show ?? as where the

Re: hacked: can't delete files

2005-08-23 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Arne [utf-8] Götje ([utf-8] 高盛華) wrote: On Tuesday 23 August 2005 12:57, Alvin Oga wrote: personally... i think any hacked machine should be looked over carefully to be able to answer the following: - who broke in - how did they get in - why

Re: portmap and rpc.statd

2005-08-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Matthew Lenz wrote: Are these services needed if I don't intend to use NFS on any of my machines? Also, I do have a couple servers that need portmap (i guess some licensing service needs it for one software package we run) but does that also mean that I need statd?

Re: Boot Instal thru Loadlin and initrd image

2005-08-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 06:12, Avid LinuxHacker wrote: A reply to my installation question in the users forum has raised a concern that I am hoping someone here can resolve quickly. The respondant to the loadlin initrd boot/install question

Re: hacked: can't delete files

2005-08-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Dalibor Straka wrote: ... ns:/usr/lib/libsh# rm -rf * rm: cannot unlink `hide': Permission denied rm: cannot remove directory `utilz': Permission denied fun stuff ... This could be caused by modified rm or some kernel module. The easiest way is to boot to

Re: Securing NFS

2005-08-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Laurent wrote: Exporting the whole /home directory would put data security at risk since creating an account with the 'right' uid on a workstation would grant access to user files. i assume you're looking for: - only users can see the files they own/create, and

Re: replacing failing system disk

2005-08-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Shea Martin wrote: My hda is going south. I have a good (crosses fingers) disk as /dev/hdb right now. My plan for migration is this: 1. fdisk /dev/hdb, and create similar partion scheme on hdb. 2. newfs all new partititions, mkswap on swap partition. 2. from knoppix,

Re: replacing failing system disk

2005-08-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Bryan Donlan wrote: On 8/19/05, Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or as you say ( to do stuff and pray ): dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=448 power off .. than move hdb to where hda used to be and it should work

cheap -- Re: weird characters

2005-08-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: Heh, yeah, *should*. But it's a cheap, sorry MB with a cheap, sorry bios, so it doesn't. you can also do what the bios should have been doing by using lmsensors and check the cpu temp and dead fans with lmsensors you can check the disk temp with

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: Hi, My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), what overheated ?? the power supply ?? - your fans should be working on the ps - if its blowing too much hot air... throw your ps away the cpu ??? over heated and

Re: weird characters

2005-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Vikki Roemer wrote: Ok, the problem is, I have a processor that runs hot, and I have as many fans as possible in the system (including putting an 80mm case fan on the CPU with an adapter), and it still tends to overheat. It will not shut form the rest of the stuff below

Re: System backup/snapshot

2005-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On 16 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want for example perform some updates on the system that may be upgrading/changing of debian packages, some files or firebird database. If one of the update tasks failed i want be able to restore complete previous system before all updates occurs.

Re: Briefly Making a Botable Floppy with GRUB

2005-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:11:42AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: I found this from the Archives: ... but I do not know what the cp stages one and two means, and the text in parenthesis. Those instructions seem to omit putting the stage1

Re: Reading an autocad dwg file

2005-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Marco Scholten wrote: What tool could I use to read a dwg autocad file? You could try LX-viewer (http://lx-viewer.sourceforge.net/). There is also BricsCad, a propietary autocad clone wich runs under linux. ( semi complete list of ) autocad readers and editors

Re: Backup/Restore debian package

2005-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On 16 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there is a way to save/backup debian installed package ? if you do your own stuff... you should create your own *.deb pkg if you create pkg.lst BEFORE you apply apt-get update/apt-get upgrade, than you will always have the state before any pkg that

Re: System backup/snapshot

2005-08-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On 16 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to save several versions of the backup on the local disk and be able to restore it when system is running. it is practically impossible to (randomly) restore a running system and if you can do that, you'd be a multi-billionaire it will restore

Re: Network card recommendation - testing

2005-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Anders Breindahl wrote: Please educate me: What exactly determines a NIC's reliability? What defines its effectiveness? use 2 machines for all tests, but use the same nic card in both machines scp machine1:/opt/test/10MB.tgz machine2:/opt/junk try the same

Re: sendmail

2005-08-10 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Steven Jones wrote: Anybody got some recommendation on tuning sendmail to reject spam? Things like mis-behaving remote smtp server or servers not in dns ie domain does not existlow cpu overhead stuff in your sendmail.mc, just add a couple of lines and re-generate

RE: sendmail

2005-08-10 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Steven Jones wrote: But Im not allowed to reject based on rbl's, we tried that and in NZ lots of companies use adsl and cable modems so we had huge issues and political flak. Such business broadband is being heavily sold by our major telco as a solution and trying to

Re: OT: Wireless questions

2005-08-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, David Purton wrote: I know, way OT, but I thought I'd pick people's brains on here anyway. I'm thinking about adding wireless connectivity to my home LAN. At present it looks like this: ++ | switch |-- wired private network ++

Re: OT: Wireless questions

2005-08-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, David Purton wrote: ++ | switch |-- wired private network ++ | eth0 | +-+ | debian linux| ++ | server/firewall |-- eth1 --| adsl modem

Re: grub and swapping out drive

2005-08-02 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, R Ransbottom wrote: I want to install grub to (hd1) so that it is ready to be used as (hd0). I have Debian 3.1r0a up. On /dev/hda2 (hd0,1) is my root. On /dev/sda2 (hd1,1) is a cloned root. I want to remove the IDE disk at /dev/hda and boot from /dev/sda2 which will

Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error

2005-07-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, persall wrote: DriveReady SeekComplete Error that is usually: a) mixture of ide devices on the same ide cable - keep cdrom and dvd on its own cable - keep ata133 devices on a different cable than ata100 drives - bad ide driver ( aka motherboard )

Re: rbldnsd setup

2005-07-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Richard Cunningham wrote: Okay, I did the apt-get install rbldnsd. The documentation on setting it up is sparse. I want to run it stand-alone, without a dns server. Is there a step-by-step tutorial on how to do this? you do NOT need to worry about dns to run rbldns

Re: rbldnsd setup

2005-07-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Richard Cunningham wrote: Alvin Oga wrote: some other docs on rbldns # middle of the page http://www.UCEAS.net/RBL.Server/ ... Thanks, but that refers to rbldns which is not the same as rbldnsd. you didn't seem to read the docs referenced .. whcih does

Re: 2 monitors on Nvidia GeForce 5700LE using x.org

2005-07-22 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, [KS] wrote: Hello, I was trying out x.org to use 2 monitors with my Nvidia GeForce 5700LE. After tinkering with the xorg.conf, I finally got the two monitors running using the AGP and the DVI ports(with DVI-AGP converter). and does it work right ??? - am guessing not

Re: Debian and wireless network cards

2005-07-21 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). all wireless cards

Re: ModeLine - again - smoke test

2005-07-19 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, [iso-8859-1] Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Tuesday 19 July 2005 18:46, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: [I hope it is not too off topic] I found a nice HOWTO here http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/index.html and i wonder how many people smoke'd their crt ... i

Re: Replace /lib and /usr/lib on a server

2005-07-15 Thread Alvin Oga
On 15 Jul 2005, Felix Natter wrote: it is my task to create a complete backup+restore method of our woody-based web- and mailserver. The problem is: how can I restore /lib and /usr/lib/*.so* in a running system? Whenever I tried it (tar --overwrite) the system halted (IIRC a statically

Re: Wireless PCI Cards - Which Work?

2005-07-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya thomas On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Thomas H. George wrote: Actually I know my Netgear MA311 works but we just moved to a new house and the little antenna for the card was lost. I purchased a Netgear WG31l ($50) and Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel didn't recognize it. The wg311 works great...

Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer - fun

2005-07-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya vegard On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Vegard|drageV wrote: Commonly this problem is if you haven't glx enabled with direct rendering enabled: direct rendering is enabled, wonder why it won't work automaticly? mybox# glxinfo |grep direct rendering xx direct rendering: No doesnt seem to be

Re: epson R300 w/ cups - gimp-print

2005-07-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Greg Madden wrote: On Monday 11 July 2005 12:19 am, Alvin Oga wrote: - next step .. to print fancy graphics directly onto the CDs ( guess what kind of CDs and it aint cd's w/ pics ) .. I bought an Epson 300 some months ago to print labels on Debian cd/dvd's. I

Re: Grub problem

2005-07-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Eugen Wintersberger wrote: (I'm not sure if this was the exact error message). If I do the same installation procedure but install LILO the machine reboots as expected (means that the bootloader works). if lilo works ( boots properly ), than there is nothing wrong with

Re: RealPlayer 10 for Debian?

2005-07-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Personally, I prefer to install .deb packages. However, there is no telling what sorts of post-install configuration RealPlayer needs. That may or may not translate well into a .deb package. their *.bin worked fine for me ... ( even on

epson R300 w/ cups

2005-07-11 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya fyi... contrary to some (cups) howto's epson stylus photo R300 w/ cups-1.1.23 seems to work fine :-) - it'd be my first printer to ever work w/ cups after fiddling with its config files for 8hrs or so - next step .. to print fancy graphics directly onto the CDs

Re: Browsers get stuck on some websites. - kill it

2005-07-11 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, [KS] wrote: I have been noticing some problems with web browsers last night. On a few websites the browser hangs while loading the page. Most of the time when Mozilla hangs, it shows in the status bar that it is waiting for some advertisement website. Konqureror tells

Re: grub splash image

2005-07-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( sorry couldnt resist ) On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, [UTF-8] Ð∂äđ vÎяũŞ wrote: hello, i have a small problem, i am trying to add a splash image to my bootup, grub and the initial loading before xserver starts, everything i have read that refers to this sort of thing

Re: Call for Mentor

2005-07-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jules Dubois wrote: ... But I think I need a mentor to introduce me to how things work and what my first reading list or RTFM should be. good that you're willing to RTFM... - for specific issues, i bet yahoo/google will have some pointers and howto

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