Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, shawn wilson wrote: > On Feb 22, 2011 6:10 PM, "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" > wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Paul Fraser wrote: > > > Oh, how I wish that were true... The IPv6 spec includes NAT. > > > > Which RFC? > > >

Re: selecting old machines for firewall/router use

On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Paul Fraser wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > Not only that but as we move to IPv6 there is no such thing as NAT. > > Oh, how I wish that were true... The IPv6 spec includes NAT. Which RFC? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find th

Re: Squeeze vulnerable to CVE-2010-2943 (xfs+NFS unlinked inode access)

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, dann frazier wrote: > > http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2943 > > It is supposed to be vulnerable. > > I've backported a fix for this, but it was too late to make the > initial release of squeeze. The fix is queued for the first update to > squeeze, see: >

Squeeze vulnerable to CVE-2010-2943 (xfs+NFS unlinked inode access)

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Johan Grönqvist a écrit : > > 2011-02-15 22:46, Kelly Dean skrev: > >> http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2943 was > >> published Sept 30, 2010, and says that Linux 2.6.32.5 is vulnerable. > >> Squeeze uses 2.6.32-5, built on Jan 1

Re: 3ware 9650SE-8LPML degrading every day

On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:35:27 +0100, Michael Kress wrote: > > Hi, my 3ware 9650SE-8LPML is degrading exactly ONE drive every day at > > exactly 2:08:49 AM in the morning (at exactly THAT second even) > > (...) > > I also get, from time to time, a degraded ar

Re: Fwd: Re: Buffers VS Page Cache

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Chris Jones wrote: > Well http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+meminfo gives 137,000 results. > > Are you suggesting I do your research for you? This is not an easy question to answer, a search won't help if the person has no clue about the Linux VM. This is a question for t

Re: sysvinit: Regarding ipAddr printed by utmpdump

On Wed, 09 Feb 2011, Navdeep Bhatia wrote: > This code should be updated to call inet_ntop and should be checked whether > the ut_addr field contains IPV4 or IPV6 address. The check can be made > either by checking ut_addr_v6[1:3] for zero (this is based on the assumption > that login program zeroe

Re: Firware drivers?

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Mark a écrit : > > I have read the Squeeze Release Notes, here is what it says about > > non-free firmware. So the RTFM responses can stop now... > > > > 2.1.2. Firmware moved to the non-free section > > > > Some drivers include

Re: Firware drivers?

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > No, this is what those of you who do not care to read the release notes > should expect when upgrading to the new stable release. I initially thought so as well, but I went and checked. The release notes _fail_ to warn users to install _BOTH_ firmware

Re: Unusable Squeeze: Can't switch off from X to consoles, neither between

On Sun, 06 Feb 2011, Pier Paolo wrote: > >> Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 > >> > >> Yea! Squeeze is stuck with 2.6.32..."patched" sup., as per standard > >> distribution's kernel? As in "what Debian is shipping", so yes, standard distro kernel. You can build a custom kernel using the distro kernel

Re: lost ability to remote run sudo apps

On Sat, 05 Feb 2011, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > In the process, I lost ability to remotely ssh into the machine and get > "sudo " to run, instead I am getting this error; You need xauth installed. Is it? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in

Re: Unusable Squeeze: Can't switch off from X to consoles, neither between

On Sat, 05 Feb 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:30:10 +0100, Pier Paolo wrote: > > Fresh installation of squeeze here, machine AMD Athlon II x2, board Asus > > M4A78LT-M LE with integrated Radeon 3000. I sure hope the discrete Radeon 3000 is supported by KMS (should be, it is suppose

Re: why is the RIGHT ALT key ignored?

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:52:09PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > > Why in emacs, iceweasel, etc. is RIGHT ALT ignored? LEFT ALT is > > processed as ALT, but RIGHT ALT is treated like I didn't press it. > > Set as a compose key? > > Does 'RightAlt o

Re: Oh no, not partitioning again!

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011, PMA wrote: > But two items puzzle me: > /srv I gather this is important to have, but I have yet > to find anything *in* it. Will Squeeze put stuff in > there if I haven't expressly told it too? No, it won't put stuff in there. > /tmp As a rule of thumb --

Re: X freeze the system after upgrade

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-03 16:41 +0100, T o n g wrote: > KMS is indeed not required yet, but I bet it will be sooner or later. Hmm? IME Squeeze is absolutely UNUSABLE without KMS on a Radeon X300 (ThinkPad T43p). Besides, Mesa/DRI in Squeeze is incompatible with non

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

On Tue, 01 Feb 2011, Krzysztof Bieniasz wrote: > You mean my messages or Cameleón's? The ones you quoted aren't mine. But Yes. > mine are related to the hub (i guess) and they are showing up all the time > repeatedly. Should I file a bug report to the Debian maintainer or to the > linux kernel te

Re: USB3.0 problem: xhci_hcd not found

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote: > You mean the message about a connected device when there is none attached > to any of the USB ports? Yep, that seems to be common: > > sm01@stt008:~$ dmesg | grep -i new | tail -5 > [ 10.588574] usb usb7: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:01:09 -0500, Celejar wrote: > >> I've given up on s2ram, the kernel method (echo mem > /sys/power/state) > >> works fine for me, at least with Kernel Mode Setting. > > > > I just tried that method. At first, it seemed to work wonderfull

Re: 7zr compress include subdirs?

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Anand Sivaram wrote: > If you are using tar, then try "xz" instead of 7-zip. Both xz and 7-zip use > lzma2 compression. But xz command line utility is very similar to > gzip/bzip2, so most of the gzip options could be used. In fact tar has a > filter also for xz which is 'J'.

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Alfonso Ruiz wrote: > > >> The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with > &

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Alfonso Ruiz wrote: > >> The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with > >> squeeze? > > > > Squeeze tries to align everything t

Re: Recommendation for buy Hardware

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Alfonso Ruiz wrote: > The ST2000DL003 is 4096 bytes per sector, can this have problems with > squeeze? Squeeze tries to align everything to 1MB boundaries, so it shouldn't cause problems. OTOH, I doubt anyone tested it with 4096/4096 disks, so make sure the HD is just 512/409

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, elbbit wrote: > On 27/01/11 16:21, will trillich wrote: > > That's quite an assertion. How can I confirm it HAS been compromised, as > > opposed to thinking it's a possibility? > > There is no way to know for sure unless you dissect the code running the > machine. Depending on

Re: Weird server mystery: self-reset, mostly

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, will trillich wrote: > In kern.log there's only > Jan 23 23:04:59 darth kernel: [64084756.601774] exploit[25161]: segfault at > 10c00b ip sp deadc01d error 6 > Jan 23 23:05:08 darth kernel: [64084765.528734] NET: Registered protocol > family 5 There is no mistery. Yo

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:02:31 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> Yes, they do... and so I asked :-) > > > > So, something is trying to be too smart in your desktop environment > > (KDE/gnome most likely). Find it,

Re: putting "/tmp" to memory help

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, kellyremo wrote: > "to memory" means: mounting a ~2 GByte filesystem [ tmpfs?, or ramfs? ], > and put the "/tmp" on it. [ e.g.: 4 GByte ram in the pc ]. what to write > in the "/etc/fstab"? tmpfs /tmptmpfs defaults,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777,size=1G In squ

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote: > > At least in my experience, xrandr modes are *not* remembered. I have to The X server certainly isn't supposed to store it anywhere. > Yes, they do... and so I asked :-) So, something is trying to be too smart in your desktop environment (KDE/gnome most li

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > On 1/19/11 10:23 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I'm somewhat inclined to go with option 'C': an HP Proliant > Microserver N36L - comes without OS (certified for RHEL5), 1GB ECC > memory + 160gb SATA drive. Move t

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > 4-bay enclosure w/ eSATA card + cable:$130 > Hitachi 2TB SATA HDD ($120x4):$480 > > Grand total: $610 > > vs... > 4-bay enclosure: $279 > Areca 1300x4 card + cable:$197 >

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > And "most expensive enterprise-grade equipment" doesn't describe a small > SAS jbod enclosure and a SAS HBA. You can probably get both for well > below US$ 1k, and you can populate it with SATA disks just fine. It

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > On 1/17/11 5:57 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > >>My big question is... most of these external drive boxes seem to > >>claim support for JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, etc. - s

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: > Both /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab show entries for /dev/md126.. > > What the ... ? After you modified thei files in the real filesystem, did you update the initramfs? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all an

Re: external drive enclosures / esata / port multipliers?

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Monte Milanuk wrote: > My big question is... most of these external drive boxes seem to > claim support for JBOD, RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, etc. - should I presume > that is simply fake RAID like many commodity mobos have, and not Either that, or worse: data-eating crap like many low-

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I have no axe to grind with the translation taking place at the drive level. > There's nothing technically wrong with it. My axe grinding regards the Linux > partitioning utilities and their current inability to properly handle proper > sector alignment

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: > >> > >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's > >> > >> instea

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: > > >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's > > >> instead of /dev/mdX.  That removes the possibility that the kernel > > >> will change the mdX designations. > > >> > > >> Use blkid to find out the UUID's of your partitions. Wha

Re: squeeze us-intl w/ dead keys on i386/pc/qwerty keyboard

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011, Doug wrote: > There's a better way. It uses a subset of Unicode and the "compose" > key. On a normal PC keyboard, you have to make a compose key out You must be joking. That will work well only if you're writing english text, which will require the use of the compose key rare

Re: Ability to write to CD-R went away?

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010, lbml...@hethcote.com wrote: > of the backup routine I've used for several years.) I have logs of > the test runs, and there is a difference in the wodim output between > the 2.6.26 and 2.6.35 runs. Report a bug against the kernel. > The difference in Version of 0 versus 5 is

Re: [OT] Making CPU fans spin [was: Re: Seeking advice...]

On Wed, 01 Dec 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > This is the first thing to do as soon as I have "my" Debian running on > the "other" machine ;) Is WD40 suitable for such fans? No. WD40 is never suitable for bearing lubrication. > (In case someone is wondering, I'm talking about FRU 42W2780 for > T

Re: Atomic operations

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, T. Alex Chen wrote: > I want to do atomic operation and find there is already such implementation > in > Linux, e.g. atomic_add, atomic_set, atomic_cmpset, etc, after I google on the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1158374/portable-compare-and-swap-atomic-operations-c-c-l

Re: Atomic operations

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add.9.gz > linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_negative.9.gz > linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_return.9.gz > linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_u

Re: Load_Cycle_Count to stop growing.

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Sthu Deus wrote: > I have some trouble with growing number of > > Load_Cycle_Count > > parameter of my HDD. And the Tell the HD to stop unloading its heads, and to stop spinning down (it *has* to unload heads when it will spin down). It will increase power consumption, and

Re: Fwd: b43, pump, && *2*

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, steef wrote: > when i do on the evo n115: $lynx www.knmi.nl it ens up bij telling > me something like: > i cannot get into *file://localhost/home/steef/www.knmi.nl*: > something seems to be not exactly how i should want it. The "http://"; part of the URL is likely not option

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

On Thu, 14 Oct 2010, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Anytime and subscribed :). That may even be an RC as full ipv6 was a > release goal of squeeze. Also, if it really was corrupting your It is clearly something that requires testing on UP, probably on a i486 to reproduce (otherwise, our kernels would b

Re: KDE Question

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Celejar wrote: > Interesting, thanks. The look I don't really care about, and switching > users isn't relevant for me, since I'm the only user of the system. > The xscreensaver author has a low opinion of gnome-screensaver: > > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#gnome-s

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: > On 12 October 2010 10:36, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: > >> CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I > >> could be wrong > > > > Yikes.

Re: Installing avahi-daemon crashes kernel, corrupts filesystem

On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Jason Heeris wrote: > My system is a Helios single-board computer, with specs: > > CPU: Vortex86 SoC (800MHz) - I *think* this is pretty much a 486, I > could be wrong Yikes. You really need to track this one down, and find out whether it is any different from a regular 486.

Re: usefulness of kernel option: RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, lee wrote: > how useful is enabling > >RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing > > in the kernel configuration? It does get faster. But is it the bottleneck in your system? Do you have a slow CPU, or extremely fast backing storage for it to matter? > Has anyone enab

Re: CVE 2010-3081 changes internal API

Of course, it helps if I actually use the correct address for the debian-kernel ML... On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Dan Serban wrote: > > On 09/22/10 07:54, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > >On Wed, 22 Sep 2010

CVE 2010-3081 changes internal API

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Dan Serban wrote: > On 09/22/10 07:54, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Dan Serban wrote: > >>[1012115.235704] ipmi_devintf: Unknown symbol compat_alloc_user_space > >This module and the running kernel are not compatible with e

Re: OpenIPMI in Lenny is mysterious to me.

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Dan Serban wrote: > [1012115.235704] ipmi_devintf: Unknown symbol compat_alloc_user_space This module and the running kernel are not compatible with each other. The CVE-2010-3081 fixes added to every distro kernel (and also to the latest stable kernels) changed the internal A

Re: syslog stopped loggin to messages?

On Sun, 05 Sep 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 05 sep 10, 11:01:13, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Sep 2010, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > > On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 10:17 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > On Sun, 05 Sep 2010, Joost

Re: syslog stopped loggin to messages?

On Sun, 05 Sep 2010, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 10:17 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Sep 2010, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > > > I have found the reason: > > > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug

Re: syslog stopped loggin to messages?

On Sun, 05 Sep 2010, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: > I have found the reason: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585395 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586156 > > The first also has a workaround/patch that works for me. Do yourself a huge favour, and switch to rsy

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

On Fri, 03 Sep 2010, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 14:32:03 -0300 > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > ... > > > That said, I don't trust hybernation. Your data is much safer in the > > long run if you restrain yourself to suspend-to-RAM and shutdowns

Re: What's the Debian way of disabling suspend to disk?

On Thu, 02 Sep 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 02 sep 10, 07:39:09, Camaleón wrote: > > Amount of ram should not be a relevant key value for benefiting of > > hibernation. > > Unless there's something I'm missing, copying the contents of the RAM to > HDD and back heavily depends on the tota

Re: Corrupted FS every 50 checks

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: > always on the same: /dev/sdc5. Well, this is where I have all my docs, > my university stuff, and this is even more annoying. I could do backups, I sure hope you *DID* extensive backups. Often. And stored some of them for permanent archival. > but I

Re: why rsync wants to delete destination files

On Sat, 07 Aug 2010, T o n g wrote: > I.e., "--delete-before" is the default action. It only affect the files > to be copied over. Nothing else. rsync --delete a b c d 192.168.1.99:/tmp/ could remove a b c or d from /tmp in 192.168.1.99, if they don't exist in the source location. If a, b, c or

Re: failing to mount usb flash drives

On Mon, 02 Aug 2010, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Still, when I put a couple of my flash drives into a usb slot, very little > happens. > > [1183228.208121] hub 4-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4 Bad cable, bad/crappy USB hub, bad device, or fried USB port. Note that if it is not a

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 31 iul 10, 14:46:55, Thomas H. George wrote: > > It is grub2. I checked and the # kopt is in the new format and the > > UUID is that of the root partition. I ran update-grub just to be sure > > and now the system will boot from a MBR written by

Re: RAID Questions

On Tue, 06 Jul 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 06 July 2010 13:04:27 Alan Chandler wrote: > > On 06/07/10 18:15, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > part2 primary Linux RAID 3G for swap > > > > Personally. I can't see the point in using RAID for swap. > > If your system is actively

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

On Fri, 02 Jul 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > software... What is NCQ? (in this context, of course) What is A way to have various requests "in flight" and let the disk itself order them to get "better" performance. Whether it helps performance or not depends on the IO workload, the kind of devic

Re: Fw: Does anyone have experience on installing Debian(5.0) on laptop Lenovo x1004?

On Wed, 09 Jun 2010, Jon Dowland wrote: > On 09/06/2010 16:25, kzsyz wrote: > > it should be *Lenovo ThinkPad x100e, *sorry... > There are a few blog posts reporting varying degrees of success: > > http://www.1ts.org/~kcr/story/6064 > - all but 3D acceleratio

Re: Fw: Does anyone have experience on installing Debian(5.0) on laptop Lenovo x1004?

On Wed, 09 Jun 2010, kzsyz wrote: > it should be Lenovo ThinkPad x100e, sorry... Make sure you have upgraded to the latest firmware before you attempt it. > Does anyone have experience on installing Debian(5.0) on laptop Lenovo x1004? > Thanks. You'll probably have better luck if you use Squeez

Re: Questions about RAID 6

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

Re: Cyrus 2.2 imapd in AMD64

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Carlos Bergero wrote: > ./tls_sessions.db: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 8, native byte-order) > ./deliver.db: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 8, native byte-order) > and there a a couple of cyrus DB files which readme upgrade ask to > migrate with a cyrus tool which is not working a

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Nick Douma wrote: > > Have you ever heard of any Windows AV that filters *outgoing* email? > > Actually, most that I know do. At work, NOD32 integrates with Outlook > and Thunderbird, and scans everything, even already delivered mail. I'm > not sure if that last feature is rea

NOTICE: Debian is moving sieve to its IANA allocated port (4190)

This is a general warning to those using Debian Squeeze, and Debian Sid. Debian Etch and Debian Lenny users are NOT affected. The IANA port allocated for ManageSieve is 4190/tcp, and the old port used by timsieved and other managesieve software in many distros (2000/tcp) is allocated for Cisco SC

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Sthu Deus wrote: > > I think ClamAV should run as "clamav" user, not "root" and the same > > remains for many other services that use their own user. > > I think the same. But! In Debian all/most the mail-related services are > run under the root user... I was asking here how

Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

On Sat, 05 Dec 2009, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Dec 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >> > Now when I try to boot, I get the message "... update kernel or > >> > disable CONFIG_S

Re: CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Now when I try to boot, I get the message "... update kernel or > > disable CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPECATED...". > > This should be negligible. It is not. It will likely hang the box during boot as stuff wait for udev to create nodes that never show up. I d

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Sthu Deus wrote: > Personally, I do not trust the local network I have the deal with - much > more than the Internet... So, for me it is much better to protect the > server - to let it working as it should providing its services rather than > try to explain the people the primi

Re: Does email server OS needs clamav?

On Wed, 02 Dec 2009, Sthu Deus wrote: > Do I need clamav mail check on mail server - if I would leave it to Clamav is fast (if you configure it right), and will let you reject a truckload of dangerous artifacts before they hit the content filters, saving on resources AND adding an extra layer of p

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 05 October 2009 13:20:14 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or > > > fixed-point), stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC. > > > > What's the differenc

Re: Hello! Please, I need your help! An advice of what I need to download to

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009, guido mezzalana wrote: > The only problem I am getting is I have not sound! clickin on volume > control is telling me: no volume control GS streamer plugins and/or > devices found > > My lap is an IBM Thinkpad T21, so far Debian and Mepis is giving me the > same issue, I lik

Re: dhclient DHCPREQUEST loop

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Michael Pobega wrote: > I get this problem on some networks; it seems to me that some routers just > don't play nicely with dhclient. I've tried multiple times to find the source, > but I've yet to have any luck. Well, we'd need packet dumps (*full* packet dumps) from tcpdump

Re: checking for multicast traffic

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Mag Gam wrote: > How do I send multicast traffic? How do I receive it? I higly suggest you learn about what multicast traffic is in the first place, you came across as very confused about the whole thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_multicast How to send/receive multicast

Re: HDD,SSD,diagnostic,integrity verify tools.Free,Opensource.

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:07:35PM -0700, Luis Maceira wrote: > > What is the best tool available in the free,OpenSource world to verify > > the integrity of HDD but,specially SSD drives(the fading capacity problem > > with too many writes to the same blocks

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > 3. Even if binary blobs *were* the original form of the work and their > author modifies them by twiddling bytes, they still might not be appropriate > for inclusion in Debian main because of the inherent security issues. Most > notably, out

Re: XOrg Config Problem on Thinkpad T60

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I really wonder why this package is not a dependency of the > > xserver-xorg-radeon{,hd} packages. If the installation of that package > > solved > > that problem for you I will file a bug against the xserver-xorg-video-* > > packages that "depend"

Re: Upgrading mdadm-based RAID arrays

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Alex Samad wrote: > I wouldn't make up raid devices with other raid device (I think its > possible), but I seem to remember thats its not advisable. You're correct. Don't stack md devices if you want to be on the safe side. Nobody tests that regularly, and it has caused probl

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2009.04.30.1615 > +0200]: > > 1.0 superblocks are widely used. Please don't do that. Either > > implement support for both, or use mdadm (which knows both). > > > > This

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > He who codes, decides. Either put forth the effort to > design/write/review/test/apply the patch or don't be surprised if your > preferences are not highly weighted in the resulting code. Will lvm upstream take something that makes lvm align

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090429192819.gb1...@khazad-dum.debian.net>, Henrique de Moraes > Holschuh wrote: > >On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > >> also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2009.04.29.1522 > +0200]: >

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2009.04.29.1522 > +0200]: > > As always, you MUST forbid lvm of ever touching md component > > devices even if md is offline, and that includes whatever crap is > > inside initrds...

Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Alex Samad wrote: > > Learned my lesson though - no real reason to have root on lvm - it's now > > on 3-disk RAID 1. > > all ways thought this, KISS Exactly. I have servers with 4, sometimes 6-disk RAID1 root partitions, because of KISS: all disks in the raid set should be

Re: KDE4 dual monitor window maximizing behaviour

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , Lancelot du Lac wrote: > >I can only join my voice to those who say this behavior is a pain. > >Since this bug appears in 3.5.10, I'm currently pinning 3.5.9 for kwin. > >(and I have to say it works well) > > > >However this much probably wo

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Mark Allums wrote: > I also think that RAID 10 is pretty simple to understand. Take four > disks. Make two pairs. Mirror each pair (RAID 1), then stripe across > the pairs (RAID 0). It's just a combination. That's just the most basic layout for raid-10... It can get a

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

On Thu, 09 Apr 2009, Mark Allums wrote: >> Is there an advantage of software raid10 over multiple raid1 arrays >> joined with LVM? Capacity can be dynamically added with pairs of disks. > > > Only one: simplicity. It would make it easier for someone to > understand, in the beginning. Well, md-

Re: Advice on raid/lvm

On Wed, 08 Apr 2009, Miles Fidelman wrote: > One suggestion: think very carefully about whether you really want to do > this. I second that. It is really not smart to have / (or /boot) in LVM if you can help it. I suggest that a small (1GB-4GB) partition for simple md-raid1 be used for / inste

Re: ECC RAM failure data - jre

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, ow...@netptc.net wrote: > Most of the errors ECC is designed to correct are single bit errors > that, upon refresh, are no longer there ("soft" errors). The usual Nowadays, server memory does a LOT better than single-bit error correction. As an example, see this: http://www.

Re: Is there no way to RELIABLY disable mouse acceleration in Linux?

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Tuesday, 24.02.2009 at 06:09 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:55:23AM +0100, Dirk was > > heard to say: > > > Everytime I start a game the mouse input is accelerated or just > > > messed up... > > > > > > I turned "xset m 0 0"

Re: "On battery power, so skipping file system check" when in AC power

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2009 09:15:46 Virgo Pärna wrote: > > Does anyone else also receives "On battery power, so skipping file > > system check" warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? > > Especially in Lenny. > > > > -- > >

Re: reinserting USB plug via software

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > > What commands would be the equivalent to pulling the USB connector out > > of the computer, waiting a second, and then putting it back in? rmmod uhci-hcd; rmmod ehci-hcd; sleep 1; modprobe ehci-hcd; \ modprobe uhci-hcd (you may also need ohci-hcd,

Re: "D3 the chip in the firmware restart code"?

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Memnon Anon wrote: > Maybe I should just wait till this is fixed, but nevertheless I'd > still like to know what D3 the chip means. > > Can anyone shed light on this one? Sure. It refers to PCI device power states. D0 is active, D3 is "almost powered off" (it is not complet

Re: rkhunter --propupd option-SOLVED

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, Paul Cartwright wrote: > # which rkhunter > /usr/local/bin/rkhunter You have a local installation of rkhunter that has nothing to do with Debian, or the Debian package... If you also have the Debian package installed, it might be the reason for your porblems. -- "One dis

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2009/1/4 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh : > >> Why not the SL line, something special about them? > > > > They're IdeaPads. > > IdeaPad SL? That sounds like a joint venture between Dell and Tampax > if I ever heard on

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009, Koh Choon Lin wrote: > I would be looking at a ThinkPad for my next laptop and hopefully, > comes with full support from a free GNU/Linux distro. Full support? ThinkPad T or ThinkPad X are the best bets. After that, ThinkPad W or ThinkPad R. You are likely to meet an ALPS

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

On Sat, 03 Jan 2009, Koh Choon Lin wrote: > > Yes. And don't ever make the horrible mistake of getting any non-ThinkPad > > Lenovo laptop, nor the ThinkPad SL. The Linux support is non-existant, and > > it is nowhere near the quality of a true bloodline ThinkPad (models X, T, > > R, W). > > Why

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

On Sat, 03 Jan 2009, Koh Choon Lin wrote: > > If it's any indication then most companies I know work with thinkpads and > > Dells. > > Dell have Inspiron and Latitude while Lenovo has Thinkpad and Lenovo > models. Would there be a difference in support? Yes. And don't ever make the horrible mist

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