Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-19 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:53:54 +0200, schreef Pascal Hambourg: Linux4Bene a écrit : Could it be that grub is confused by the mdadm 0.9 metadata at the end of the disk? Maybe. This is typically the kind of problem which can happen with the 0.9 superblocks. Why are you using this obsolete

Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-16 Thread Linux4Bene
Hi, I'm installing a server with raid, 2 disks of 2 TB. There was a previous similar raid config on it. I clear parts of the disks with dd. Then I create the partitions, make the raids (no errors), debootstrap. /boot on /dev/md0, / on /dev/md1 and lvm on /dev/md2. However, by the time I'm

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-16 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:58:15 +, schreef Linux4Bene: snip Could it be that grub is confused by the mdadm 0.9 metadata at the end of the disk? When I dd'ed, it was only the 40 GB at the start of the disk, not at the end. Any way I can remove this error and not having my LVM data destroyed

Re: Dedicated server doesn't boot, can't seem to figure out why

2015-07-07 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:18:04 +0200, schreef claude juif: Hi, Why don't you use the OVH installer ? Because the partitioner from the OVH installer doesn't allow me to partition the disks how I want. It imposes certain restrictions such as putting root in a lv partition, even if you keep the

Re: Dedicated server doesn't boot, can't seem to figure out why

2015-07-07 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Tue, 07 Jul 2015 01:17:04 +0200, schreef Pascal Hambourg: I have installed grub, In a chroot ? Did you properly install the GRUB bootloader on both disks ? grub-install /dev/sda grub-install /dev/sdb The installation is with debootstrap from the rescue prompt. Then I chroot into the

Re: / 100% used

2015-07-07 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Mon, 06 Jul 2015 14:44:41 -0300, schreef Beco: Current usage: $ du -hc var = 1.1 GB (ext4) usr = 8.5 GB (ext4) tmp = 200 KB (ext4) I'm thinking of: var = 10 GB usr = 20 GB tmp = 10 GB Or maybe: var = 15 GB usr = 20 GB tmp = 5 GB And keep all ext4 (to simplify my life, if that is

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-07 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Mon, 06 Jul 2015 20:12:10 -0400, schreef Marc D Ronell: I am working toward teaching a free introductory class to teens on GNU/Linux and the philosophy of free software at the Newton Free Library in MA this coming September. For the class, the participants will need access to

Dedicated server doesn't boot, can't seem to figure out why

2015-07-06 Thread Linux4Bene
Hi, I've done several attempts to install Wheezy (can't use Jessie as I want to eventually copy a working config over from another server) on an OVH dedicated server. It contains 2 x 2TB disks. I boot into the rescue mode, partition the disks, set-up raid and lvm, and then use debootstrap to

Re: / 100% used

2015-07-06 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Sun, 05 Jul 2015 17:32:56 -0300, schreef Beco: # apt-get remove wpasupplicant I could break the while loop deleting syslog. It stoped spamming. Looks like all messages was linked to it. I don't know very much wpasupplicant. Ill this software be needed in the near future? Only if you

Re: Dedicated server doesn't boot, can't seem to figure out why

2015-07-06 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:50:09 +0100, schreef Darac Marjal: Hi Darac, thank you for your response. This sounds like a failure in your boot loader. I notice that you say you use debootstrap to install the base system, rather than using the installer. Indeed. It's a dedicated server from OVH

Move root to lvm after initial install (VPS)

2015-06-23 Thread Linux4Bene
Hi, I'm currently moving my VPS to another provider. My current VPS is limited to 1024 MB ram, and 50 GB of space. First I was leaning towards just using a tar of the old system to install the new VPS. I actually want this new system to be ready for high availability with drdb in the future

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-09 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:06:41 -0600, schreef Bob Proulx: Linux4Bene wrote: snip Since /dev is dynamic anything done to it will evaporate after a reboot. After a reboot it will all be as if nothing had been overwritten there. If you get to the point of a reboot then there is nothing lingering

Re: Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-08 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Sat, 06 Jun 2015 13:59:16 -0600, schreef Bob Proulx: This is one of those hard topics. It seems easy enough. But the reality is that there are many subtle problems. It comes up for discussion every so often over the years. I don't think there has ever been a completely satisfactory

Moving server to new server with tar

2015-06-04 Thread Linux4Bene
Hi, I am in the process of moving my server to another VPS. The goal is to keep the old VPS around and convert it to backup MX DNS amongst other things. I will purchase the new VPS from another company so I can't just copy the vm file/container. As a start, I would do a full tar archive of

Re: iptables rules disappear

2015-03-25 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:46:21 +0100, schreef Diogene Laerce: Hi, I have a strange behavior of iptables lately : all rules are cleaned up after a few minutes. iptables-persistent is installed and if I reboot just after restoring all rules, all rules are still loaded. But a few minutes

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-18 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:58:02 +, schreef Dan Purgert: snip I read it as you were /planning/ on using a Debian box for routing and firewall (and then switched gears to what's a good appliance? midway through the writing), which is why I asked. Honestly, unless you already have said box

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-18 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:50:39 -0700, schreef David Christensen: On 03/17/2015 04:22 AM, Linux4Bene wrote: Thanks for any advice, thoughts, links or info and for your patience if you got this far :) I run a SOHO LAN with ADSL, 4 static IP's, and a few Internet services. I avoid running

Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-17 Thread Linux4Bene
Hi, sorry in advance for the lengthy post. I have some questions on organizing and designing a small office environment. Clients and server parts Debian. I have always introduced Debian in every job I had in the last 14 years, and it would be great to finally use them as the default OS on

Re: Advise on setup of small office locally or via VPS

2015-03-17 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:38:26 +, schreef Dan Purgert: snip Didn't you just say that you were using a Debian box as your firewall/ router? Not yet. I'm still employed but have everything up and running in a VPS, and I have all the legal stuff in order like VAT and so on. Legally this means

dpkg error installing ncurses deb made with checkinstall

2015-01-18 Thread Linux4Bene
Hi, I have previously compiled ncurses 5.9 without a problem. The config command: ./configure --with-shared --enable-termcap --prefix=/usr/local make install also works on my Debian Wheezy. I want to use this same package on my server, so I decided to build a deb using checkinstall. Building