grub not seeing sata drive

2005-01-07 Thread Lucas Albers
Here's a question for you. I Debian earlier on a machine at home that has SATA drives. The SATA drives are configured as IDE-3 and IDE-4 Master's. It installs fine, but when it boots, GRUB apparently can't find the config file. It defaults to a text mode prompt GRUB>. It I enter root (hd2,

Re: sarge dist-upgrade today, no more keyboard

2005-01-05 Thread Lucas Albers
John A Chaves said: > I had the same problem. Don't know which Xserver options > cause the problem, but restoring /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers > from /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers.dpkg-old solved it for me. ...file as bug... -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

compile module without compiling it for current kernel

2005-01-05 Thread Lucas Albers
make-kpkg clean; make modules_clean; make-kpkg --subarch=i686 --initrd --revision=6 --append-to-version=.6 --added_modules qla2x00 modules When I compile this this will always compile the /usr/src/modules/* packages with for the currently running kernel, not for the revision I am passing via make

installing sarge via debootstrap

2004-11-22 Thread Lucas Albers
I'm updating a mdk box to debian via debootstrap. when installing files via debootstrap, I get the following error: "Couldn't download console-tools-libs" see debootstrap log below. " ootstrap --verbose --arch i386 sarge /mnt/hdc6 http://htt I: Validating /mnt/hdc6/var/lib/apt/lists/debootstrap

Re: Diagnosing faulty hardware

2004-09-15 Thread Lucas Albers
Kent West said: > James Foster wrote: > >>I believe this is most likely a hardware problem. >>Generally, the system is capable of staying up, although it has locked >>completely once or twice. You can also install the ltp kernel test program. This is an extensive test of hte kernel, and will crash

Re: Software RAID using Sarge Installer

2004-08-26 Thread Lucas Albers
Paul Gear said: > The last time i tried, the installer didn't support installing to RAID / > or /boot, and this was a topic of some discussion on this list, since > some people think that the new installer is perfect and to think that > other people want it to support more features is just shocki

install java plugins in firefox

2004-08-24 Thread Lucas Albers
Has anyone had any luck installing Java sun JAI and JMF java plugins in firefox on linux? I'm having a heck of a time trying to get those plugins to work on firefox on linux. Please cc me on any replies to this particular question, thanks. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman

undefined symbol: SSL_library_init

2004-07-29 Thread Lucas Albers
These errors appear in my logs: ipop3d: relocation error: /usr/lib/libc-client.so.2001: undefined symbol: SSL_library_init Are they relevant? I am running as my pop server: rc uw-imapd 2001adebian-6 ii uw-imapd-ssl 2001adebian-6 -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State

Re: Upgrading Perl

2004-07-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Mike Ward said: > Is doing this really going to be as simple as "apt-get upgrade perl", > or will this at all also affect mod_perl, etc? I've googled around and > looked on perl.apache.org but I haven't found anything one way or the > other. Yes. Something like this: apt-get -t testing install pe

Re: hacking attempt on Apache?

2004-07-07 Thread Lucas Albers
incidents.org discusses this. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Comparision presentation of Debian with RedHat

2004-07-07 Thread Lucas Albers
John Summerfield said: > I don't know of any papers, but I have moved from RHL to Debian. > > My advice is do not convert. > > Instead, Replace. > If you plan on changing distro, this might be a good time to consider > consolidating hardware, even changing platform. If Apple, Sun, IBM > hardware

Re: Squid ACL for Windows Updates failed

2004-07-01 Thread Lucas Albers
[stuff about squid not working for windows update deleted.] I dont' acl limit what users can connect to. Only users on the local domain can use the proxy cache. I use a debian squid proxy for upwards of 3000 clients. Works perfectly, saves tons of bandwidth, and speeds everything up. attached is

Re: Which Debian version?

2004-06-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Paul Johnson said: > If you need to ask, stable is what you need. Wait until you know how > Debian works before moving on to the development distros (testing, > sid). I dont' think I'd choose debian stable as the easiest linux desktop to setup. For a server I'd use stable. For a desktop, Perhap

Re: Which Debian version?

2004-06-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Adam Aube said: > If it's a production server or a test for a rollout onto production > servers, > run Stable. You seem to have older hardware, so Woody should install on > it. > I would suggest using the "bf24" option to install a 2.4 kernel. I use bonzai to install debian stable. Bonzai is a m

Re: Making new installations

2004-06-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Vineet Kumar said: > If you'll be running multiple debian machines at a site, I > highly recommend apt-proxy. Configure one machine as an apt > proxy and point all of the other machines' sources.list at > it. Then you only download each package once, on demand > (rather than creating a whole loc

Re: apt-get: mixed system

2004-06-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Paul Johnson said: > > Unless you have a thorough understanding of the packaging system, you > can do more harm than good toying with how it resolves dependencies. > sh*t, I use it on production systems every day. Works for me, doesn't seem to cause problems. When stuff breaks I get 300 people in

Re: Possible convert to Debian

2004-06-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Simon Kitching said: > Personally I would recommend the "testing" distribution. Sid/unstable > really can be unstable at times. I upgraded last week and lost all > Stable is really old at the moment - though hopefully a new release will > be out within a few months. It's really more appropriate t

Re: delete key doesn't work with csh in xterm session

2004-06-07 Thread Lucas Albers
Bob Proulx said: >> For users using /bin/csh and running rxvt-xterm, their delete key does >> not >> work. >> Users running /bin/bash and running rxvt-xterm, their delete key does >> work. >> >> Both delete keys work on an ssh session. > > When you say it does not work do you mean it prints out ^H

Re: mail server changing machines

2004-06-04 Thread Lucas Albers
I dealt with this problem recently, my mail server had one of it's raid disks failed. I had to move it to another machine. While I powered the machine off to put in a new disk. I didn't want the downtime required for the reboot and putting in the new disk. I use the vserver project to use virtual

grsecurity ending

2004-06-01 Thread Lucas Albers
It appears the grsecurity kernel hardening project is ending support, perl slashdot: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/31/1949241&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=126&tid=172&tid=185 End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced? Posted by simoniker on Monday May 31, @03:58PM from the futur

grab kernel crash dump

2004-05-28 Thread Lucas Albers
What crash dump utility would you reccomend to troubleshoot a system that hangs? I looked at lkcd but they don't appear to have new versions available for download from sourceforge. I haven't been able to determen what is the most common crash dump utility to use. I would like to save the dump and

RE: delete key doesn't work with csh in xterm session

2004-05-27 Thread Lucas Albers
Croy, Nathan said: >> For users using /bin/csh and running rxvt-xterm, their delete >> key does not >> work. >> Users running /bin/bash and running rxvt-xterm, their delete >> key does work. > stty erase Nope, doesn't work. Thanks though. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman

Re: Replicating Debian Systems

2004-05-27 Thread Lucas Albers
Adam Aube said: > Loren M. Lang wrote: > >> I may have to rapidly deploy multiple debian systems that will have >> the same software installed and be configured the same way. The ideal >> way to install debian would be to stick a cd into a computer, turn it >> on, and come back a couple hours late

Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list

2004-05-27 Thread Lucas Albers
somebody said: >>>systems every day. I've been doing it on about 10 systems for about 2 >>>years, and haven't had a lot of trouble; indeed once my mail servers >>> went >>>down for a few hours for that reason, but my mail servers are always >>> looking >>>for an excuse to go down. Use ssh-agent, a

use 2.6.5 kernel with debian patches and tg3 network card

2004-05-26 Thread Lucas Albers
I want to use the 2.6.5 kernel with the debian patches. They are some additional patches that apply cleanly to the 2.6.5 kernel. So I want to use this particular version. I have the tg3 network card, and so I need to use it. Tigeon3 support is disabled in this version, how can I enable it again? I

delete key doesn't work with csh in xterm session

2004-05-26 Thread Lucas Albers
I recently upgraded our central server from redhat 7.3 to debian woody/sarge. Not so hard, been really happy with the new setup. For users using /bin/csh and running rxvt-xterm, their delete key does not work. Users running /bin/bash and running rxvt-xterm, their delete key does work. Both delet

Re: Howto install Debian Sarge kernel 2.6.3 on Software RAID1?

2004-05-23 Thread Lucas Albers
Joost Kraaijeveld said: > Hi, > > Is there someone that has Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.3 (from the > installer > beta 4) installed on a software RAID1 and is willing to hare his/her > knowledge with me how to do that? > > I have followed the procedures as described in: > > 3. http://alioth.debia

Re: nfs-common write pid file

2004-05-20 Thread Lucas Albers
Thomas Adam said: > Why don't you run it, and see? duh, just needed the -m switch, did a man start-stop-deamon and finally saw the -m switch. I'm configuring all my service to be monitored by monit. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

nfs-common write pid file

2004-05-20 Thread Lucas Albers
I am running nfs-common from woody. I was trying to modify the /etc/init.d/nfs-common script to write the pid file of statd/lockd on startup. Does this syntax look correct, I just need to add in a --pidfie to start-stop-deamon to have a pidfile written for the process, correct? Assuming I have de

Re: Mail system setup on Debian Sarge

2004-05-02 Thread Lucas Albers
Bob Proulx said: > Achton N. Netherclift wrote: >> - Webmail access (Squirrelmail or Open WebMail?) >> - Mail forwarding > Squirrelmail is easier/simpler to setup. Less features, but enough features to replace my desktop mail clients. Works fine for me for upwards of 600 users. I use imapproxy/pos

Software Raid Documentation

2004-05-02 Thread Lucas Albers
I've been working on software raid documentation. It documents how to convert an existing system to software raid. I just added some directions on how to use a stock kernel with it. Specifically directions on updated directions on using initrd, as per numerous and repeated requests. Please let me

Re: newbie to Linux (Debian).

2004-03-10 Thread Lucas Albers
Frank J Bivings said: > I am a complete newbie to Linux (Debian). I thought it would be a > good way to get around the glut of Windows. > > I am having problems with the graphics card. I installed Debian > Linux 3.0 and, during the install I included XFree86. > > Upon booting it I get an error sta

Re: Speeding apt by multiple connections

2004-03-10 Thread Lucas Albers
setup a local apt-cacher repository. This drastically speeds up downloads, as it only gets new package lists once per day (per configuration). It saves all previously downloaded apt files to the cache. This is good because: Downloads are a lot faster. You save bandwidth for everyone involved. GCS

Re: testing versus unstable: tradeoffs?

2004-03-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Roberto Sanchez said: > > In this message I describe some of the cool features: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200403/msg00160.html > > Also checkout their website: www.systemimager.org > > -Roberto > systemimager has saved my so much bitch-work on managing my servers and

Re: new installer

2004-03-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Richard Lyons said: > On Tuesday 02 March 2004 16:47, Dr Gavin Seddon wrote: >> Hello again, >> A patern of my questions is emerging. Knoppix 'recognises' all my >> hardware and actually I am growing fond of it, but I cannot use multiple >> partitions on my hdd as I would like to. > if thsi was a

Re: Debian on Dell

2004-03-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Marc Koenders said: > Installing Debian is something you dont do at 02:00 at night. You gotta > make sure you are awake and alert. Read the messages Debian pops. Even > if your only option is OK or Continue. Or else. > I decided to do install from the netinstall iso (woody) and since the > 2.4 ke

Re: How to install testing package in Stable distn

2004-03-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Some of servers are running testing/stable. All the external service are stable and internal services are testing. Example Sendmail:stable mimedefang,spamassassin,pyzor/python: testing perl,clamav: unstable. read about apt-pinning here: http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html Andreas Jansse

Re: Debian on Dell

2004-03-07 Thread Lucas Albers
I've had nothing but success using name brand dell/hp computers with debian. I only run servers, all my desktop linux machines run redhat-9. If I could get the hardware auto detection working on debian, I would use it on desktops. That is another story. If it works with rhel, it will probable work

Re: Need spamassassin startup script

2004-03-07 Thread Lucas Albers
just install it from testing or unstable repositories. or go look at backports.org. read about apt-pinning and setting multiple repositories. NEVER use cpan to install stuff, just use debs. you can use cpan2deb to convert cpan to deb files, also. Thomas CarriƩ said: > Hi, > > I've setup SpamAssas

Re: changing to debian from slackware

2004-02-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Joel Kaasinen said: > Hi, > > I have an old dual 133mhz pentium server (64mb ram, ~8Gb scsi harddisk) > with > slackware 9.1 installed. >So now I'm seriously thinking about switching to debian. > > Any tips (I want to keep my config the same and avoid reconffin')? > Differences between debian an

Re: a good mirror to download sarge

2004-02-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Didier Caamano said: > I'm wondering if any of you know a good mirror, preferably from Canada to > download sarge, the isos or the network image? if the mirror is in the US > I wouldn't mind either. run apt-spy to find fast mirror. install apt-cacher to cache all apt requests. apt-cacher speeds u

Convert system to root software raid

2004-02-25 Thread Lucas Albers
I have finally finished my documentation on converting a system to use software raid. http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/ Took me about 100 hours to finish it from start to finish. Over a 3 month period. Surprising how long it takes. I would like to thank the following people for their effort in

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-30 Thread Lucas Albers
Dan Lawrence said: >> I am not sure why you need to upgrade postfix to a newer version >> from stable? What new wizbang items does it do? > damn just do apt-get -t testing install postfix But I was wondering was thus? Not how to upgrade,but... Why upgrade to the newer version of postfix? -- --Lu

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Tobias Reckhard said: > I'll throw postfix into the ring. It's very secure and still very > flexible. You may want to use a more recent version than the one in > woody, though, but a backport is available on http://www.backports.org. I am not sure why you need to upgrade postfix to a newer version

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Steve Lamb said: > Sendmail - so difficult to configure the configuration language needs > a > macro language to make sense of it. > > Exim - so easy to configure that in most cases you can do it with the > comments in the config file. > > That's where the comperison ends for me.

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Pigeon said: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:09:57PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: >> Would be nice to have your address munged from this list, or the option. > > You do have the option. Add to /etc/exim/exim.conf: All the spam comes from other machine. I reject 99% of it anyway, I ju

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-29 Thread Lucas Albers
Pigeon said: > There was a lot of gas generated about the swen worm when that hit. That > harvested email addresses off the web. Again, clueless Windows users > without > effective virus protection - only a wider base of them, ie. not just ones > subscribed to this list. > My solution is - for th

install particular version of package

2004-01-28 Thread Lucas Albers
I would like to install a particular version of sendmail using apt-get googling says I can do it like such: apt-get -t testing install sendmail=8.12.10-6 versions are listed here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sendmail.html Does the central deb mirror not have multiple versions for download?

sendmail configuration for mail hub

2004-01-24 Thread Lucas Albers
I setup a sendmail server as a backup mx mail server for my domain. I have configured the mailtertable and domain items so it will relay mail destined for the two domains I am using. Everything is working great except, the recipient address dissappears from the envelope. When I relay mail through

Re: Debian dedicated hosting

2004-01-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Dennis Kaplan said: > > Check out 1and1.com I don't know if they are runing debian but they are > hosting my http://guyscope.com there and I am very happy. I got an account on the system and they were running (i believe) based on the version of the tools debian 3 and with 2.4.xx-grsecurity and po

Re: reject non-english mail as spam?

2004-01-15 Thread Lucas Albers
Pascal Hakim said: >la(reject non english email) > This is non-trivial. The current plan is to just have some procmail > rules to deal with this, which can be set on a per-list basis, instead > of having different Spam Assassin configurations for different lists. > > Not really. This list is suppo

reject non-english mail as spam?

2004-01-13 Thread Lucas Albers
I keep getting spam on the list that is completelly foreign. SA scores it as this in regards the foreign langauge component: 1.5 BODY_8BITS BODY: Body includes 8 consecutive 8-bit characters 2.8 UNWANTED_LANGUAGE_BODY BODY: Message written in an undesired language 3.2 CHARSET_FARAWAY BODY: Chara

secure apache webserver

2004-01-11 Thread Lucas Albers
I am exposing another machine as http mirror, and am trying to secure it. Done with iptables. configured portsentry to auto-block portscans. How to block TRACE in apache? I believe you do it with rewriting rule like such, but does not work. #security changes RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE R

run make-kpkg with distcc

2004-01-06 Thread Lucas Albers
I installed distcc and finally got it working kept on puking when I ran it from inetd: with this line in inetd.conf (verbatim from the install.) so ran it as user distcc and works great. I am able to run kernel compile with this command make -j8 CC=distcc and it is offloading the jobs to the

install module in webmin

2004-01-05 Thread Lucas Albers
I installed webmin from testing, Version 1.121 I am unable to get install a new webmin snort module from snort.org via teh webmin interface. All the documentation talks about these steps for installing a module via webmin from www.webmin.com --If you are using Webmin version 0.88 or above, these u

Debian Software Raid FAQ

2004-01-01 Thread Lucas Albers
I finally finished my software raid FAQ for converting an existing system to a one using software raid as it's root partition. http://www.cs.montana.edu/faq/faqw.admin.py?query=Convert+Root+System+to+Software+Raid&querytype=simple&casefold=yes&req=search It took me a few weeks of research and tria

Re: unsubscribe

2003-12-31 Thread Lucas Albers
Is it possible to configure the list to: Reject mails that have a blank message, and a subject of unsubscribe as the subject? OR Just forward the message to the correct unsubscribe mailing list, OR bounce back with the correct unsubscribe address. I get 20 unsubscribe messages per day on this list

Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

2003-12-27 Thread Lucas Albers
Carl Fink said: >>Lucas Said: >> Is their a backport of spamassassin for stable? > > Several. >> I generally use the testing mimedefang/spamassassin becuase it uses the >> newer perl version 5.8. > > Why is that an advantage, given SpamAssassin 2.61 with Perl 5.6? I was not aware of backports, and

Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

2003-12-26 Thread Lucas Albers
Carl Fink said: > Thanks. I will try it this weekend I just use procmail to remove duplicate messages when I am cc'ed. I have not backported spamassassin to stable from testing. Is their a backport of spamassassin for stable? I generally use the testing mimedefang/spamassassin becuase it uses

Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

2003-12-25 Thread Lucas Albers
al > delivery. > > So I decided to try mimedefang as suggested by Lucas Albers > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:17:06PM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote: > >> The debian installation is by far the easiest linux installation. >> apt-get install mimedefang. > > No, it isn

Re: Compiling kernel on a different computer

2003-12-24 Thread Lucas Albers
Monique Y. Herman said: > You might also look into distcc, which allows you to run the compile > across multiple computers. > > Oh, wait, just reread - the above won't help with harddrive space =/ > but it's still a really cool tool. > > -- > monique i never could get distcc to work, anyone have a

Re: Reliable replication of installed packages

2003-12-24 Thread Lucas Albers
Evan Simpson said: > I'm trying to come up with a reliable process for "replicating" the set > of installed packages from one Debian installation to another. I have > two use-cases: > > 1. Restoring a system from backup. > 2. Maintaining a secondary server. Just use systemimager for a complete ne

Re: compiling kernel

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
GCS said: > But no other problem really. Anyway, I _do agree with you strongly_: > 2.6.0 is not for widespread yet. I will switch at ~2.6.10 on my servers, > depending the fixes get in by that time. Until then I use > 2.4.23+grsecurity. You are on my same wavelength. I thought I was the only perso

Re: apt-mir script.

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Rob Weir said: > Why not just use "dpkg -i foo.deb" to install them directly off the CD? Then I have to resolve dependencies, by typing in all the package names. Me real lazy. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: compiling kernel

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
GCS said: >> Stable gcc for stable kernel, and testing gcc for testing kernel? > ? There's no such relationship. > >> I've done 2.4.22 with gcc 3.2.3 (gcc testing) and it appeared to work >> correctly. > 3.2.3 is _not_ a test version of gcc. There's a newer one, fe I have > 3.3.3 installed. Ple

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
If you go raid software or hardware, compile support directly into the kernel. I also had to have enother disk to boot of my 3ware system. With two disks, as alvin says, go with software raid. Use hardware raid for a monster set. I've not found much appreciable difference in performance between my

Re: software raid - fun

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: > > that's the 1st of the dozen magic test... > - power off and disconnect a disks and try for hands off reboot > after having written a 2-4GB file is my test for resyncing > >> Even if you completelly clear a partition but don't format it you can >> still boot from hda

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Micha Feigin said: > Read the man page for cp, you'll need the options for preserving file > attributes, symbolic links and remaining on the same file system. > I believe tar is more appropriate then cp I think there is some way to > get it to pipe to the new disk somehow instead of actually tari

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: > > > yup.. i know the feeling so my standard answer is its 10x -100x > faster ( cheaper for the customer too ) to just buy 2 new disks > and than no data is lost either :-) > if they rather pay for day or dayz or weeks instead of buy 2 new > disks at $60ea .. it

compiling kernel

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
I've read different opinions on what gcc version to use when compiling a kernel? Stable gcc for stable kernel, and testing gcc for testing kernel? I've done 2.4.22 with gcc 3.2.3 (gcc testing) and it appeared to work correctly. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UN

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Karsten M. Self said: > I've had mixed results with 3Ware, though it's arguably among the better > ATA/IDE RAID cards. Software RAID is strongly recommended by several > people I know, who have experience, though I haven't tried it myself. I've had good results with 3ware on the 2.4.22 or later k

Re: software raid

2003-12-21 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: >> I like this idea but I need help. >> A server of mine has just one 20GB drive. >> >> I have 2 spare 40GB drives. How would I make my current install on the >> 20GB work on the 40GB drives that I want to setup RAID1 on? > You can do it without risk of losing data using just debi

apt-mir script.

2003-12-20 Thread Lucas Albers
I want to install a testing kernel on a stable i386 system, that does not have network yet. I can copy the debs to a cd, create a file apt repository, and just use apt-get to install the additional packages, like such. I tried using apt-move to do this, but I was to dumb to figure it out. Steps:

network card in compaq

2003-12-20 Thread Lucas Albers
I have started the steady process of converting my machines from redhat to debian. Yeterday I got a new hp lt?330, can't remember the exact model number. Planning to use the machine for snort analysis and the old box was too slow. It has the broadcom bcm5700 integrated in gigabit network card. I

debootstrap,define arch

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
On some systems debootstrap runs fine like such: debootstrap --verbose woody /root/woody-chroot http:/blahbla On others it will only run fine like such: debootstrap --verbose --arch i386 woody /root/woody-chroot http:/blahbla On both systems I have dpkg installed, any idea why it acts differently

Re: Web server Partitions - reiserfs

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: >> I was hoping reiser could give me better redundancy. > > supposed to be better > - i assume yoy dont mean "redundancy" but that you dont > want to wait around for fsck checks of the fs after > accidental or silly or testing power off > > xfs or jfs supposed to

Re: Web server Partitions - me

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
whatup alvin, Alvin Oga said: >> I think I'm just going to put spare backup disk in the system. > > usually simpler to use 1 disk for spare.. as long as everythng > fit and you dont have to worry about any config errors > >> >> I've found that some volumes just break sync, >> I have a raid 5 parti

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
Karsten M. Self said: > However, reiserfs (as other journaled filesystems) *does* require > storage space for the journal file. Which on a smallish root filesystem > takes up a significant amount of space (32 MiB, IIRC, for reiserfs). > Reiser uses a fixed size journal file, while ext3's is eithe

Re: woody - crash.

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
not sure who said what, but if your readin the thread then you know... >> My woody - with 2.4.22 crashed today. >> The problem is that i dont know what actually Oopsed. There is nothing >> about it in logs. Half of my crashes have been directly related to memory. I do thus run memtest86 then run

Re: Web server Partitions - reiserfs

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: > reiserfs-3.6 w/ linux-2.4.23 seems to work fine ( normally ) now for > / and lilo and everything else ( using it daily ) > prior versions/combinations i tried failed miserably Have you notices any corruption using reiserfs, does it sync a lot faster on reboots compared to

Re: Web server Partitions - me

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
Alvin Oga said: >> I've decided to start making my raid >> syncs into smaller sizes, so they can resync back faster. > > the size of the "raid" has NOTHING to do with "resync" faster in general > > the number of files and data that have to be sync between the > degraded raid and the newly inserte

Re: debootstrap doesn't

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
Alan Chandler said: > I am trying to set up a sid chroot on my current system to build some up > kde > debs from the latest cvs > > I try and run debootstrap as root, but it seems to fail > > kanger:~# debootstrap sid ./kde http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
> See generally my guide previously posted. > > Use LVM. > this guide: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html Mentions that you should not use reiserfs as your boot partition? Can you extrapolate, I've used reiserfs as my boot partiton with no problems, and would be interested in

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
> on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:38:50PM +1000, Braxton Neate > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I'm wondering what other people would recommend in the way of >> partitioning? >> > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html You mentioned thus their: "Mount options typically restrict fe

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-19 Thread Lucas Albers
> > hi ya andrew > raid can break due to: > - (1) disk failures > - the silly system takes forever ( dayz ) to resync itself > - too many disks failures renders the entire raid useless > or the system can be on a non-raided disk and raid5 for data only > - have

Re: fortran 90 for debian

2003-12-18 Thread Lucas Albers
> TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ > I'm doing the latter. There are various fortran 90 projects around - > such as g95 and something else. It looks like g95 wont be integrated > with gcc until 2005 or so. > > > The ifc compiler is quite nice. It's diagnostics and error and war

fortran 90 for debian

2003-12-18 Thread Lucas Albers
I looked unsuccesfully for a fortran 90 package, using apt-cache. Does debian have a fortran 90 package? I am trying to get nother department to use debian in their new computational farm. They require a fortan compiler. I realize debian has a fortran 77 compiler. --Luke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

distcc install on xinetd

2003-12-18 Thread Lucas Albers
Result: Installation of distcc on a system running xinetd, results in reference to non existint documentation concerning correct configuration of distcc after installtion. Expected Result: Distcc should add xinetd entry if needed, or refer to existing documentation,which should have a sample entry

General debian questions

2003-12-16 Thread Lucas Albers
I had some general questions about debian. Is their any fundamental reason why apt-get could not use rsync in addition to it's current method? This should be inherently faster.?? Creating iso image from jigdo-file. Assume I want to add in some additional packages onto my stable install cd. Just do

Re: Spamassassin on Debian HOWTO?

2003-12-15 Thread Lucas Albers
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:48:41AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > | A couple of web searches don't find a simple step-by-step guide to > | installing Spamassassin on Debian Stable. > > Oh, sendmail. I can't help with that (other than suggesting > 'apt-get install postfix' or 'apt-get install exim' ;-

Re: Redhat to Debian conversion

2003-12-15 Thread Lucas Albers
Debian is harder to setup then redhat. I've used both. Just stay with redhat, you'll really appreciate debian after you've been doing things for awhile. At first the Debian way will seem stupid. Then some day you'll go aha, I see why they do it this way. I think Debian rocks, but the hard part for

Re: software raid

2003-12-15 Thread Lucas Albers
> > hi ya lucas > > collection of um > http://www.1U-Raid5.net > > "good sw raid" is already part of the linux kernel.. > you dont need anything else ... other than to turn on the raid options in the kernel and create your raid config files > > > minimum testing process.. > http://www.

software raid

2003-12-13 Thread Lucas Albers
I've been trying to get debian stable working with software raid using various documentation. If you can think of any good software raid (running on your root partition) documentation for debian STABLE please send it over. I don't want ANY testing, as these systems are for production systems. I'm t