Re: Nagios For Debian

2007-10-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, Firstly please do not hijack other threads. If you want to start a new thread, do it as a new email. On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:17:02AM -0600, Joel Roberts wrote: Is anyone else using Nagios on Debian Etch? I am. I've got it set up for monitoring Linux and Windows servers, but the

Re: SNMP Issues on Debian Etch

2007-10-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:22:35AM -0600, Joel Roberts wrote: When I try to run the snmpwalk command, I'm told it doesn't exist. Has this been taken out of Debian Etch or is it in some other package? $ apt-file search bin/snmpwalk snmp: usr/bin/snmpwalk Cheers, Andy --

Re: can ping only with sudo

2007-10-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hi David, On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:46:58PM -0700, David Fox wrote: On 10/6/07, tom arnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lately i inadvertently did 'chmod 777 -R /dev' on my system (as root, of course!). now i find that to ping anyone i have to do it as sudo, else i get: ping:

Re: unable to install mysql (lamp) (post-installation script returned error exit status 1)

2007-09-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jabka, On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:38:14PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: Sep 29 18:34:30 acerium mysqld[16628]: 070929 18:34:30 [ERROR] Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Cannot assign requested address Sep 29 18:34:30 acerium mysqld[16628]: 070929 18:34:30 [ERROR] Do you already have

Re: how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

2007-09-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jonas, On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 04:33:43AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: hello, i would like to give xen a try, but i didn't manage to compile a dom0 host kernel yet. Do you need to? What is wrong with Debian's xen kernels? that's because i would like to use a recent linux kernel

Re: how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

2007-09-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jonas, On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 03:03:09PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: On 09/09/2007 Andy Smith wrote: Hi Jonas, Hey Andi, i would like to give xen a try, but i didn't manage to compile a dom0 host kernel yet. Do you need to? What is wrong with Debian's xen kernels? I

Re: A sane way to merge config file differences during package installation?

2007-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: Configuration file `/etc/sysctl.conf' == Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. == Package distributor has shipped an updated version. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I

Re: xen kernel security

2007-09-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Frank, On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:33:38PM +0200, Frank wrote: I'm wondering about the old xen kernel. What's about the security patches which are implemented in the standard kernel? Do the debian xen packages contains this patches or is it only the old kernel 2.6.18.5? Debian's Xen

Re: xen-pae and headerfiles

2007-09-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Frank, On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:43:13PM +0200, Frank wrote: By default the xen-pae version is installed but I don't need it because the maschine has only 512MB. All x86 Debian kernels are PAE. Should I still use pae and how could I get rid of pae packages? If you're using x86 (and

Re: domU fan and thermal error - blacklist creation for domU need?

2007-09-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Frank, On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:50:39PM +0200, Frank wrote: How can I get rid off this messages during a domU boot? I'm using etch FATAL: Error inserting fan (/lib/modules/2.6.18-5-xen-686/kernel/drivers/acpi/fan.ko): No such device FATAL: Error inserting thermal

Re: how to show all loop devices? losetup -a doesn't work

2007-09-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Frank, On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:04:13PM +0200, Frank wrote: I've seen that my domU is only booting if I set loop max_loop=64 in /etc/modules. The default is max=8 right? I don't use more than 8 loop devices. So I want to know where they are. It's not possible to see it with losetup

Re: less, exit but left content on screen

2007-08-04 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 09:06:19PM -0400, Tong Sun wrote: I remember that I used to be able to exit 'less' by command key 'x' or something so that the content just viewed is left on screen, instead of being cleared and restored to the screen before invoking 'less'. But I found there is no such

Re: Lost /home partition

2007-07-29 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:34:55AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Maybe something additional was corrupted, bu I only remember seeing references to sda4, which is /home. Any idea how to get the data back? It may have been placed in /home/lost+found named after its inode number, i.e. filenames that

Re: Mysql clustering

2007-07-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 02:51:01PM +1000, Will Parkinson wrote: Cluster Configuration - [ndbd(NDB)] 2 node(s) id=2@202.***.**.01 (Version: 5.0.32, starting, Nodegroup: 0) id=3@202.***.**.02 (Version: 5.0.38, starting, Nodegroup: 0) The above

Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

2007-06-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Eric, On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:07:29AM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: Andy Smith wrote: Bear in mind that by default, Debian's mysql server packages only listen on localhost so are not available across the network until you change that. I thought I read somewhere that tcp/ip was set

Re: Can you connect to a MySQL database on a server from a workstation?

2007-06-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Eric, On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 05:19:14PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: I want to use mysql for my storage in Amarok. I have created a db down on my server (in the basement), but now I can't figure out how to get my other workstations to connect to the server. Bear in mind that by

Re: Shared apt archives

2007-05-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chaim, On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:24:02AM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: I have several debian installations and use a lot of bandwidth when doing apt-get updates etc. Would it break anything if I share the /var/cache/apt/archives/ directory between the machines? I have ~50 debian and

Re: Creating a local repos

2007-05-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Alex, On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:19:16PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 04:51:35PM +, Andy Smith wrote: After having some unexplained problems with apt-proxy I switched to apt-cacher. I did the same thing, but I have been noticing some strange behaviour where I

Re: limiting monthly network traffic

2007-05-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Cameron, On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:10:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new bandwidth allocation is about 8x what I've been using. But if I get slashdotted and have a 10x month, it will cost too much. What's the Debian way to monitor total network traffic and throttle down if I

Re: Creating a local repos

2007-05-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Douglas, On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 05:34:02PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Just curious, why not use apt-proxy? After having some unexplained problems with apt-proxy I switched to apt-cacher. I'm pretty happy with that although I did only realise recently that it stores files based on

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:41:49PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of offtopic posts there. I've in

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

2007-05-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:43:50PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: I have a question about the wa fields in vmstat, top, and the like. I and someone else I know have both read a great deal about its meaning, and have come to two different conclusions. Here are our interpretations. Could someone

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:09:51PM +0200, Michael Dominok wrote: Am Montag, den 07.05.2007, 02:53 -0700 schrieb Francesco Pietra: Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for swap file) to a raid1 system? I guess an non-mirrored drive will have a better performance than a raid1-ed

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-27 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Default User wrote: Gee, I hate to ask another question, but - During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not, no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin access is done by sudo. Now I normally

Re: OT: Linux or Cisco

2007-04-05 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:05:57AM +0530, CCNAStuff wrote: Hello all, I have started studying for CCNA using CBTNuggets. They're pretty good. I crammed my CCNA with that. No substitute to real world experience of course. Meanwhile I looked for options in the Linux world and there are

Re: Reconnect to a specific TTY session?

2007-03-25 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 08:50:59PM -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: but you might want to look at the screen program (see package screen) for the next time you need terminals you want to reattach to. Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't work, unfortunately.

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-23 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:12:00AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: There is work in progress for a third option to merge the new stuff with the customized config. An option to drop into vimdiff would be nice, as that is generally what I do anyway. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ --

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-23 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:07:01PM -0400, H.S. wrote: I am playing round with the blocklist file obtained from peerguardian (level1.gz). I have written a bash function which I call in my iptables script to load these rules. Have you tried inserting them as null routes into your routing table

Re: How to write such sudoers?

2007-03-18 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:36:50PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote: I want the user can execute commands through sudo with PASSWD and NOPASSWD for some exceptional commands, like nmap. I write the entity is lists bellow, but it seems not work. test ALL = PASSWD: ALL, NOPASSWD:

Re: Debian's progress inspite of events (was Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike)

2007-03-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 05:45:21PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: Hosting companies disallowing Debian as an available distro I don't remember this happening either. I *do* recall a lot of users switching to and installing sarge before it was

Re: XEN: monitor domU cpu, ram and disk activity under cacti

2007-03-09 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:25:31AM +0100, Philippe Lang wrote: I'd like to monitor the cpu, ram and disk activity of xen domU servers, under cacti. Since I do not manage the domU servers myself, I'd like to be able to do that from the dom0 exclusively. You are not going to be able to

Re: pdsmi+ linux

2007-03-05 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:10:52AM +0100, impek wrote: i finally success to install debian with the test/etch version. But the networks card cause problem : e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang The network card keep disconnecting. I see a lot of people have that problem :

Re: debian in combination with

2007-03-03 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:56:24AM +0100, impek wrote: I have the same problem with debian and pdsmi This is very annoying. Etch appears to makes problems during installion too. Such as? I am as I type completing an install of Etch on a PDSMi-based Supermicro server 8 time zones away from me.

Re: debian in combination with

2007-03-03 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:21:44AM +, Andy Smith wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 10:56:24AM +0100, impek wrote: I have the same problem with debian and pdsmi This is very annoying. Etch appears to makes problems during installion too. Such as? [...] The ahci drver in Etch's

Re: mysql server won't start,

2007-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:32:25PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007 21:57, Andy Smith wrote: How did it go with the changing ownership of files that I recommended? still no luck. to wit: debian:/var/log# chown -Rc mysql:adm /var/log/mysql debian:/var/log# /etc

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: Sorry, for the Off-Topic ness of this post. I guess we are being admonished for far too much of this. It's interesting that in the relatively few wildly off-topic threads that constitute a large proportion of the mails to this list,

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:36:59 -0500 John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (24 and 25/02/07) mainly the same four or five folks wrote: Quite a lot of off-topic opinionated political nonsense. Agreed; far too much of it, by the same

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:58:35PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:57:00PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Some folks around here consider myself, Ron, Paul, Andrew and some of the others to be experts. I don't think any of us is in any

Re: passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

2007-02-24 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:36:16PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 2/23/07, Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:35:18PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: CHROOT passwd userx passwd: You may not view or modify password information for userx. Er, you ARE doing

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-23 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:18:47AM -0500, Stephen wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:26:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Paul Johnson wrote: So...the question BEGS. Why exactly do you have an e-mail address of baloo at something? @ursine.ca (ursine being latin for bear). I'm a furry.

Re: debian in combination with Supermicro PDSMi+

2007-02-23 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:14:52PM +0100, Max Waaijers wrote: We are a small company and are currently using debian on all of our servers. We ordered two new servers at some hosting company, but they claim Debian does not support the motherboard of the new servers. It is a

Re: passwd in chroot / You may not view or modify password information for USER

2007-02-23 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:35:18PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: CHROOT passwd userx passwd: You may not view or modify password information for userx. Er, you ARE doing that as root, right? Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Encrypted mail welcome - keyid

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and LVM

2007-02-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:28:52PM -0700, Archive wrote: So I am not arguing aginst LVM. Those that use it and recommend it keep telling me I should plan on using it. I will do that if these same people start explaining the features in way that makes sense to the kinds of things I have

Re: Xen-enabled kernel sources for etch

2007-02-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:10:42PM +0300, Иванов Михаил wrote: Where can I find debian etch kernel sources patched for xen? This bug report contains a fix and instructions for using make-kpkg to rebuild your own kernel with the xen patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=382699

Re: [Debian-User] Nice Job Andrew

2007-02-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:57:36PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: ps. could you use something other than 'Admin' in the From line, I'd prefer 'Ted' or even a nickname. But that's just me. I associate people by their From line and Admin is not something I'd associate with a person. Also replying to

Re: [Debian-User] Xen

2007-02-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:07:47AM -0700, Admin wrote: The Debian distribution is installed in a large partition so it can be added to in the future. Other distributions and/or specific Debian applications (derived from the primary distribution in the large partition) can be installed in

Re: Smells like Debian spirit

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:12:32PM +0100, ciol wrote: You seem right and I would really like to trust you, but why there are some developers demotivated ? Why there is this weird atmosphere ? Some people like drama. It's a lot more attractive to them than actual useful work, paid or not. --

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:27:22PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: maybe you should read about LVM [1]. It is not about file systems, but it can help you :) I'd rather deal with a case of the Clap. LVM is worse than useless for most installations. It makes the

Re: Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:44:45PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: Now that I am using Debian Etch, I want to install the latest dosemu version. After downloading the tarball and unpacking it, I ran ./configure. The result was the error message quoted in the subject line above. (I have several

Re: Runaway BIND

2007-02-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:17:49AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: What is surprising is that such an event brought down _another_ machine. Would it be fair to say that excessive loggers are ill-behaved? It sounds like your bind was misconfigured and didn't know what the IPs of the root servers

Re: mysql server won't start,

2007-02-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:51:35AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007 02:12, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, quoting from your my.cnf # WARNING: Using expire_logs_days without bin_log crashes the server! See README.Debian! expire_logs_days= 10 max_binlog_size

Re: howto build debian xen kernel?

2007-02-10 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:58:45PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: I've installed xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd64, which includes /boot/xen-3.0.3-1-amd64.gz. Do i still need a xen-enabled host kernel, or may i use the current self compiled kernel? You need a kernel with xen patches and configured

Re: SATA Raid Difficulty

2007-02-10 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:14:03PM +0100, Albert Dengg wrote: Rob Wright wrote: ... Specifics: 3 74.5GB SATA drives Serial ATA AHCI BIOS version iSirc 1.08.sm0 Intel Matrix Storage Manager Rom v5.6.2.1002 ESB2 Is there support for this in Debian, and if so what do I need to do to get it

Re: mysql server won't start,

2007-02-10 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:29:54PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: thanks for idea, but didn't work. here is session after change: debian:/var/log/mysql# ls my*dex mysql-bin.index debian:/var/log/mysql# mysqld mysqld: File '/var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.index' not found

Re: mysql server won't start,

2007-02-10 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 04:45:02PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Saturday 10 February 2007 16:36, Andy Smith wrote: Please post your /etc/mysql/my.cnf and the output of: # ls -la /var/log/mysql [...] total 849 drwxr-s--- 2 kloro adm1104 2007-02-09 14:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x 18 kloro root

Re: local network with twisted rj45

2007-02-03 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:38:09AM -0800, christop wrote: On 18 jan, 05:20, Evan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would first change the IP address so that one workstation does not have a broadcast address(.0) Try a simple scheme like .1 and .2. Sorry not having answered before. What you said

Re: New server: Sarge or Etch?

2007-02-03 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:33:03AM +, Marco De Vitis wrote: in the next few days I'll have to replace an old server running Debian Sarge with a new machine, and I was wondering: maybe I should directly install Etch on it, now that it almost reached its stable status? Yes, am using etch

Re: boot + lvm ?

2007-02-02 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:26:55PM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: I had to repartition an create a separate /boot. I do that systematically since, 100Mo as the first partition. So that I can use grub again, which is less dangerous. I also like having a small RAID-1 /boot and keep it mounted

Re: undelete

2007-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:44:17PM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: OK, how about some preventative stuff. If there is not real way to 'undelete' files. How about adding a script named 'rm' that passes the same switches to from the script to /bin/rm but moves the files to tmp before deleting them. I

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:43:05AM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: Why is it that most mail clients default to a top post? When you hit reply, There is a blank space where your cursor it, followed by . wrote: and then the message you are replying to. Yes, quoted. What else should

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:13:53PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: Thanks to all those emacs folks that pointed out this function! If I can only translate the gnus function to a mutt function... Now if only I would switch from mutt to gnus :-) Could you not just use emacs as the editor for mutt? --

Re: about host registration

2007-01-21 Thread Andy Smith
(Please don't top post or use HTML, thanks) On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:25:07AM -0800, Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: There is an error evidently. but how can people fid the site when they write www.cabukmarket.com in their web browser. even the name server does not repond. You'll need

Re: Xen DomU won't boot

2007-01-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:24:41AM -0700, Bjorn Meyer wrote: I am having a problem with my guest sessions booting. I am running etch, and the etch flavor of Xen and utilities. I get the following when I start the guest. How did you build the etch filesystem? --snip-- XENBUS: Timeout

Re: applications, users, groups, permissions

2007-01-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:15:38PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: In my apache2.conf file I have the user and group directives which are fairly self explanatory. User www-data Group www-data When apache tries to serve a file it must have permission to access that file. Apache will have

Re: applications, users, groups, permissions

2007-01-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 08:43:16AM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: On 1/21/07, Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:15:38PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: When apache tries to serve a file it must have permission to access that file. Apache will have permission because

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:56:23AM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: If top posting is realy the bane of everyone's existance that certian voceriferous individuals claim it is, what is wrong with the mail client putting the cursor at the at the botttom of the reply and letting you move

Re: Server recommendations?

2007-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:05:04PM +0100, Stefan Bellon wrote: I'm looking for server hardware with the following contraints: dual or quad core 64-bit CPU at 2.5 GHz and more than 16 GB of RAM. And of course it should run Debian GNU/Linux without problems. Everything else is not that

Re: Adding a new HDD - how do I move /var/lib/mysql ?

2007-01-14 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:34:02AM +0600, Abu Zaher wrote: My question is slightly related to this post, so I'm posting it here. I'm currently running my Sid on a 40GB hdd which is running out of life, In a few days I'll buy a new 80GB. Now what is the best way 2 dump my whole / to

Re: windows in xen on intel core-duo?

2006-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:56:37PM +0300, Linas Žvirblis wrote: 1.4. Does Xen support Microsoft Windows? The paravirtualized approach we use to get such high performance has not been usable directly for Windows to date. However Xen 3.0 added Intel VT-x support to enable the running of

Re: What does this mean (A SMART error of hard disk)?

2006-06-12 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 08:13:21PM +0800, Wang Xu wrote: The following message was reported by smartd daemon several times, it seems to be a hard disk error, but does this mean I should purchase a new disk as soon as possible? It means that a sector of your disk was unreadable, probably due to

Hyper-threading (was Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop)

2006-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:14:41PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Nate Bargmann wrote: I have been considering an HT based machine and would like to learn of any potential pitfalls. The h/w emulates 2 CPUs. Thus, even more than a single CPU switching contexts, the HT-enabled CPU adds the

Re: rbldnsd setup

2005-07-28 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:13:17PM -0700, 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? I run rbldnsd, although not on

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 04:21:48PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: and when I hit R (macro index R !/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync) my poor laptop (133Mhz 49M -- don't laugh I got it as a 'brick' for $12.00 NZD) almost died, killed postgres, a vim session I didn't realise I had open and 2 bash shells.

Re: mrtg to monitor cpu usage.

2005-07-19 Thread Andy Smith
Please don't send mails in HTML. On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:50:11PM +0300, Meni Shapiro wrote: I'm tying to monitor cpu usage on my debian box (PII -350) with mrtg. I'm using ssCpuRawIdle and i get the graph fine!! Problem is i get a full graph since the cpu is mostly in idle time and

Re: Testing unplugged network connection: bug?

2005-07-18 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:15:33AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:43:41 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Don't worry, eventually they'll grow up and start working with Debian Ubuntu developers are quietly improving their distribution, making all their changes available on their

Re: raid performance, your opinion?

2005-07-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:24:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 4 disks for a software raid configuration. I'm pondering about using either a 4 disk raid5 array, or a 4 disk raid10 array. I'm interested in speed mostly, but data integrity is important too. I'm running a web,

Re: Multiple MySQL Instances (running as slaves for multiple masters)

2005-07-12 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:09:04PM +1200, Simon wrote: Would someone be able to give me an example of running two or more instances of mysql nicly on debian? I've never done it so I can't give examples but it should be as easy as making two different my.cnf files and a new sysv init script and

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:16:22AM -0700, h2t-nl wrote: The main interested part of my question is whether somebody on the list already using or tested with somekind of sata controller! Almost none of the SATA controllers that advertise RAID are real hardware RAID; the RAID features of them are

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a In this experiment I configured as follows: 1st Hard Drive /boot 400mb swap 2GB partition for Raid volume 37 GB 2nd - 4th HD partition for Raid volume 37

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:57:01AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a In this experiment I configured as follows

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:34:15PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: If the first hard drive crashes how do you recover? You restore from backups or do a new install. There has got to be a better solution than that. I never want

Re: isp service

2005-07-06 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:41:31AM +0200, roach wrote: On Monday 04 July 2005 10:17, Joseph Haig wrote: And that would be? ?;-) http://www.uklinux.net/ Also http://www.ukfsn.org/ is non-profit And http://www.bytemark.co.uk/connectivity/adsl.html profit-making (we assume) but

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-04 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 06:17:12PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: Anyway, the point is that you really *shouldn't* trust the root user if you don't have to. And if you can encrypt your filesystem, you should. You do have to trust the entity that provides your service, and its agents, at least

Re: isp service

2005-07-03 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 10:04:30AM -0400, TedNick wrote: How and where can I find a Linux friendly ISP. In what country/locality? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

read only root and udev

2005-07-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi there, I have a 2.6.12 debian sarge system running from compactflash which I am trying to convert to read-only root. Following the information at these sites: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-root-README.txt

Re: read only root and udev

2005-07-01 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:17:15PM +, Andy Smith wrote: So I apt-get install udev and reboot. Things did not go smoothly; it seems my /dev/shm is mounted by /etc/rcS.d/S02mountvirtfs but then sometime later it is umounted again by something (I can't work out what), leaving me

Re: debian hosting service

2005-06-28 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:59:22AM -0400, Mariusz wrote: On Tuesday 28 June 2005 09.17, Mark D. Hansen wrote: can anyone recommend a good hosting company that provides debian sarge (either dedicated or virtual private server)? See www.gplhost.com Then you too can enjoy redondant Mail

Re: Setting MAILTO to various address in the same crontab?

2005-06-22 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:58:42AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: If I want the output of various cron jobs sent to more than one e-mail address, is there anything wrong with doing the following? # beginning of crontab */10 * * * * /path/to/job0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02 03 * * */path/to/job1

Re: A direct way to find hard links?

2005-06-22 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:57:26AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: is there any direct way to find the other /path/to/files that point to the same inodes? Googling turned this up http://lists.svlug.org/pipermail/svlug/1999-November/021967.html $ ls -li $ find /try/this/path -inum 1234 but the

Re: Enabling apache2 and ssl - is there an easy way?

2005-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 07:18:06PM +1000, Robert S wrote: Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Please explain exactly what you are having problems with. The first problem is that apache2 - ssl does not work out of the box like it does in apache1. Maybe

Re: [OT] splitting files based on keyword

2005-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:57:07PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I can do it with c or fortran but that does not appear to be elegant. I looked at split, csplit. But they dont seem to do this. Googling did not help much. Any other ideas? Time to learn a scripting language? :) This is

Re: How to configure less to read *.gz files?

2005-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:47:39AM +0100, Adam Funk wrote: On my home computer `less foo.gz` automatically pages through the gunzipped text (assuming foo is a text file of course). I'd like to get this behaviour on another machine but I can't remember how I configured it to do this (instead

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 05:46:09PM +0530, Siju George wrote: ome of the folders I want to backup regularly is /var/lib/mysql but [...] Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) cannot be backed up while live. and Likewise, if there is a high file creation or modification turnover rate,

Re: Enabling apache2 and ssl - is there an easy way?

2005-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:10:19PM +1000, Robert S wrote: I've just been spending a lot of time trying to enable apache2 and ssl in sarge. I finally found a method in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267477, but am still having problems - like using a different DocumentRoot

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:15:53AM -0400, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Such will be the case when backing up RDBMS dumps and log files. I like LVM snapshots for this purpose. For MySQL in particular you can also run replication to a slave for backup

Re: SATA and RAID5 software

2005-06-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:10:13AM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:44:32PM +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: build RAID5 software onto 4 SATA HD (mother board ASUS P5GD1) but I raid 5 often isn't the best choice. checkout this link: http://www.baarf.com/ I would certainly

Re: How useful is apt-spy?

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:45:02PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: Wanting to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and having a slow modem (not one of those ultra-modern 56K things), I thought apt-spy might be a useful thing to use to find the fastest mirror. I have no complaints about the result

Re: iptables init.d script: where is it?

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:01:46PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: The debian README in /usr/share/doc/iptables describes a better method involving actions to take when interface are up'd and down'd. Indeed, I use: interface eth0 inet static # ... post-up /etc/iptables.sh (I don't use

Re: apache virtualhost ?

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:31:10PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: I have an entry as: LoadModule suexec_module modules/mod_suexec.so But I keep getting this: User cannot occur within VirtualHost section If anyone has any tips or advice it would be most appreciated. suExec doesn't work like

Re: Custom minimalist build

2005-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:48:17AM -0500, Matthew J. Harmon wrote: I'm building a series of Xen (xensource.com) virtualized servers to compartmentalize applications such as Apache, PostgreSQL, etc. and I would like to provide each a custom build with only the necessary libraries. So far I

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