LVM + multipath

unpleasing at best. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Debian Lenny amd64. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso - Mount Holyoke College officials will *NEVER* ask for your password. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

filesystems created on etch in such a way that I can still use the filesystem on etch? I imagine going the other way would be impossible. ?? -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso facebook: http://tinyurl.com/d63r5c - I wish my computer

Re: etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

is in production, running etch. The other is new, and I'd like to use lenny. Will lenny read/write ext3 filesystems created on etch in such a way that I can still use the filesystem on etch? I imagine going the other way would be impossible. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount

Re: etch/lenny ext3 compatibility

inode ext3 filesystem created on lenny? I'm thinking ACL's. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso facebook: http://tinyurl.com/d63r5c - I wish my computer would do what I want it to do - not what I tell it to do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: stability of multipath

with it. I'm just fishing for a statement like: Yes, I've used multipath on at least twenty heavily used servers for quite some time and it's like a rock. Or maybe Don't even think about it unless you're insane, because I lost my job, my family, and even my dog doing that. That kind of thing. -- Ron

stability of multipath

be nice to have some reassurance that I'm not sticking my neck out too far. TIA -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: Is anyone on this list using multipath and/or multipath-tools in production at an enterprise level? I'm considering using multipath for a new fileserver and a new

Re: software suspend and system cloning

2007-08-29_20:50:49-0400 Ron Peterson debian-user@lists.debian.org: I was cloning a software raid system to a hardware raid system (Dell 2650 to 2850). I took out the mdadm startup scripts, but apparently software suspend was somehow trying to restore some kind of state information about

Re: PAM + LDAP and SSH

this to /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/gdm, the user can't loggin. It would help others to help you to see what you actually did. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

ssh x11 forwarding on etch

appear to be affecting more people. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: an ssh auth. question++

PROTECTED] /a/local/file Depending on your application, you may want/need to include other options like 'no_pty' in your authorized_keys file (see man page for options). -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Locating Debian kernel .config

that the distributed kernels are compiled to put config.gz in /proc. That would certainly remove any ambiguity about which config file to look at. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://pks.mtholyoke.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xB6D365A1op=vindex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Experiences with LSI / Adaptec cards

either of them 'suck', as you say, but I wouldn't give either one an A+ either. I'd like to spend more time w/ the Adaptec now that the drivers seem to have been fixed, but haven't found the time... -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

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

skipped or mistyped some crucial step that will drive you mad. Oh, like the mbr... Maybe something like this to copy the boot record: * ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'dd if=/dev/hda bs=512k count=1' | dd of=/dev/hda -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu

Re: scp: file download history

is in your command history. In bash, something like: history | grep scp Best. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

runlevel policy

runlevel policy seems to have strayed so far from traditional System V? Why is xdm/gdm/kdm etc. in runlevel three, for example? -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: runlevel policy

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: Can anyone explain why Debian's runlevel policy seems to have strayed so far from traditional System V? Why is xdm/gdm/kdm etc. in runlevel three, for example? I realize the concept of 'traditional' System V runlevel policy

Re: runlevel policy

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:45:19PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 11:11:55AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: Can anyone explain why Debian's

Re: sendmail trouble

://www.sendmail.org/m4/mailertables.html I don't know Postfix or Exim well enough yet to have an opinion about their relative merits. Getting to know them better is on my infinitely long to-do list though... -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu

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

/dev/md8 using /dev/hab,/dev/hdd both ext3 they started, and sync'd on reboot, md7 and md8 didn't auto start. If you do 'cfdisk /dev/hda' (and b,c,d...), does it show the partition type set to 'Linux raid autodetect'? -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http

Re: offline ?? Re: sendmail trouble

is to properly modify your access file to set pause to zero for localhost and probably your local subnet. If you do happen to find it's blocking a legitimate sender, it's easy to whitelist them in the access db. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

Re: Hardware RAID advices needed

know it. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: eth1 (3com905B) question

the pre-up bit unless you're familiar with how to set up an iptables script, for example. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: utility for temperature

that command or something similar... Not answering your question, but on a related note, the hddtemp package is nice for monitoring hard drive temps. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

what startup scripts attempt to update sendmail config?

Debian Sarge.. On boot, apparently right after the networking init script, and quite some time before the actual sendmail init script, something appears to be attempting to update various sendmail db's in /etc/mail. What's doing this? -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke

Re: Apache Sigterm every sunday at 6:25

. Where will I have to write the pass phrease Sounds like your SSL setup uses a cert with a passphrase. Probably the easiest way to avoid manual intervention would be to make a passphraseless cert. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

Re: control-b in konsole

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:28:51AM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:38:13AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: There is a ctrl-b function in konsole that brings up a little dialog Add Bookmark - Konsole. Where it comes from, I don't know. How to shut it off, I don't know

Re: Serial comm program

. Something like: netcat hostname 23 script.txt where script.txt looks like: password term len 0 sho mac-address-table exit I know I'm not answering your original question; just thought I'd add further confusion by introducing even more options... ;) -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount

Re: Serial comm program

case.. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: samba open share

in the smb.conf man page. You probably want to use the 'Bad User' option. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

control-b in konsole

, or a configuration setting that gets activated somehow that turns it on. I can't find it to save my life. I'm dying. Please help. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: pam userdb auth issue (pam_userdb can't open database) Sarge

runs as) are in the shadow group. Make sure you don't inadvertently expose the shadow password file. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: use knoppix to rerun lilo

this, I get the error: Fatal: open /dev/hda: Permission denied Try the '-o dev' option to mount. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: first nfs mount in fstab fails

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:46:09PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:16:19PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: I have an fstab, which after the usual local disk entries has nfs entries that look like: aservername:/s /s nfs rw,bg,intr,proto=tcp 0 0 aservername:/alum

Re: Ethernet Speed and Duplex

kind of card is it? What does 'ethtool eth0' (assuming your interface is eth0) tell you? What duplex/speed does your DSL modem run at? Are you using a crossover cable? -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

. So now, logged in as yourusername or root, for example, you can do: psql -U postgres -d template1 -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: first nfs mount in fstab fails

to try making the first nfs mount a different OS at work today, and I don't want to reboot from home (Murphy's law...). I'm going to try that tomorrow and see if that works better. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:33:41PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: mymap yourusername postgres mymap postgres postgres mymap root postgres (I would normally only do this for root and postgres, btw. I don't typically give my username special

first nfs mount in fstab fails

,proto=tcp 0 0 etc. On boot, the first mount consistently fails to mount. It manually mounts fine. If I switch entries around, the same thing happens - the first entry fails to mount. Any ideas? -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

thread indicator symbols in mutt

My mutt installation isn't displaying the character symbols used in thread mode to show relationships between messages; I'm seeing other special characters instead. What do I do to fix this? TIA. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

scripts at http://mill.mtholyoke.edu/mirror/. I'm not going to claim these are the best script in the world, but they seem to work for me. The include/exclude files are there also, they're just not visible in the index. Just explicitly enter their name in the URL to see them. -- Ron Peterson

duplicate packages found via sources.list

. I have URI's to both the debian and kde packages in my sources.list. Ivan's kde packages are more recent, and are the ones I want to use. Do I need to comment out everything but the KDE URI in sources.list? What's the 'proper' way to handle this situation? -- Ron Peterson Network Systems

xfree86 and woody

What's the story with xfree86 and woody? I don't see any debs for xfree86 in that tree. There are various .deb's in pool, but the most recent ones don't seem to be associated with any dist, including unstable. I've tried searching the list archives on this, but the search page keeps stalling on

Re: debian: size of stable, testing and unstable files

Brendan J Simon wrote: I'm considering mirroring Debian for our company. I'd like to know how much diskspace I would require. Can someone tell me the size of the following Debian Distros. Is there a webpage with this information ?? Is it automagically updated ??? I mirror debian,

what is 'pool'?

What is 'pool'? The Debian FAQ refers to doc/, project/, tools, etc. but makes no mention of pool/. I've searched the debian-user archive for 'pool', and only found incidental reference to it. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College GPG and other info at http

debian kernel modifications

patches to be aware of? -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College GPG and other info at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

Re: Booting past 1024?

guessing that's not what you want to do. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College GPG and other info at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

Re: upgrading libc6 from 2.1 to 2.2 - trouble brewing?

Colin Cashman wrote: Tonight I tried to install the latest version of ssh onto my system, but I wasn't paying close enough attention to the dependencies. Ssh 2.5.1p1 requires libc-2.2.1-2 or higher, and potato uses libc6-2.1.3-15. I have a vague recollection of problems running apps using

Re: [OT] postgresql triggers

will trillich wrote: snip when i expand this and try to add a SELECT on other tables, or an UPDATE to another table or two, postgresql gripes about NEW used in non-RULE query... Could you provide an example of what *doesn't* work? -Ron- GPG and other info at:

Re: shell script experts pls help a lost soul

john smith wrote: hi, I am having some problems creating some sample scripts...hoping that somebody can lend a helping hand. #!/bin/sh if test -x $1 then whoami; echo $1 fi Yes I know my script sucks but I'm just learning..anyway, my questions are: 1. my script doesn't seem to

Re: debian on del poweredge 4200

andy wrote: i took the resultant megaraid.o file, stuck it on a floppy in /boot, then tried to load it at the appropriate point in the install. load failed. I believe the module needs to exist on the floppy in the same folder as in the final install. E.G. - /lib/modules/2.2.18pre21/scsi/

Re: 3c905/network problems

it. iface eth0 inet dhcp Also make sure your BIOS setting for Plug-and-Pray OS is turned off. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College GPG and other info at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso

Re: after 'su -', 'Can't open display'

When I start X Windows, using the KDE window manager, I change to root (with su - ) for administrative tasks. However I seem unable to run X window applications. Whatever X application I try to run, I inevitably get a message similar to ... unable to open display. Try this. While

Re: kill: cannot kill some processes

William T Wilson wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, brian moore wrote: does the process list Z under STAT ? if it is the process has gone zombied and i don't think there is much you can do. sometimes zombie'd processes die on their own eventually many times they will not die until you

Re: compiling a program

Philipp Bliedung wrote: Hi, I have simple question concerning compiling a programm When I compile a program from the sources and it beakes for whatever reason, how can I get rid of all the files that were created so far or how can I remove this 'broken' program ? Is there anything

Re: unresolved symbols in 3dfx.o

Johnny Blade wrote: I've been attempting to prepare my machine to play some quake, but I can't get the 3dfx.o module to work. I downloaded the device3dfx source using apt-get, ran the buildpkg script, and then installed the .deb created. As the deb is trying to update-modules, I see a

Re: newbie postgresql question

differently. Any suggestions? This is a PostgreSQL issue, not a debian issue. You need to add 'chas' to the PostgreSQL user database. Do 'createuser chas'. See 'man createuser'. -- Ron Peterson Network Systems Manager Mount Holyoke College GPG and other info at http://www.mtholyoke.edu

3com 3c90x install

/2.2.18pre21/. I inserted this floppy when appropriate during the 'Configure Device Driver Modules' portion of the installation. However, no network interfaces are found. I imagine I need to pass some kernel or insmod parameters for the specified module. Where/How do I do this? -- Ron Peterson Network

Re: 3com 3c90x install

with older versions of the 2.2.x kernels, but it is not needed for 2.2.18pre21. John On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:59:40AM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: I'm trying to do a network install of debian on a computer which has a 3com 3c905c-tx network card. 3com kindly provides GNU licenced source

Re: 3com 3c90x install

on, but nobody's home. Joris Lambrecht wrote: hold yr horses, i would be really sursprised if this card would not work can't you refer to any error's you get ? -Original Message- From: Ron Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 4:48 PM To: John Kuhn Cc

Re: 3com 3c90x install

| ot alloc| eth0: Ca| | This a new computer using a new ASUS motherboard (Asus CUSL2-C). Am I having chipset or bios configuration problems? -Ron- Ron Peterson wrote: I'm trying to do a network install of debian on a computer which has a 3com 3c905c-tx network card. 3com

Re: 3com 3c90x install

Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:48:13AM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: I lied. Well, I didn't look closely enough. It's a 3c905cx-txm. Anyway, I tried the 3c59x module first, actually, but it didn't work. Now I'm not even sure the 3com provided driver will work. I might

Re: importing gnuplot eps into microsoft word

Mark Mackenzie wrote: Hi, I plot a graph with gnuplot3.7, and have: set terminal postscript eps set output prop.eps giving me an eps that I can view with gv. However, importing this into ms word gives: Title: prop.eps Creator: gnuplot... Preview: EPS not saved with preview...