Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 22/08/14 15:57, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> >>> Cron task is invoked from a simple crontab entry: >>> # /home/tony/crontab -- crontab for user tony >>> MAILTO=t...@vanderhoff.org >>> SHELL=

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Cron task is invoked from a simple crontab entry: > # /home/tony/crontab -- crontab for user tony > MAILTO=t...@vanderhoff.org > SHELL=/bin/sh > > * * * * * /home/tony/scripts/test > tony@tony-fr:~$ ls -al /dev/stdout > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 21 17:30 /d

Re: writing to /dev/stdout fails in cron script

2014-08-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Running up-to-date Wheezy. > I have a script, simplified like this: > - > #!/bin/bash > DEBUG=1 > OUT=/dev/null > if [ $DEBUG -ne 0 ]; then >OUT=/dev/stdout > fi > echo hello > $OUT > - > This works f

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Richard Hector wrote: > On 11/08/14 06:05, Sven Hartge wrote: >> The release will be sometimes after that, probably in the spring. > Ahem. Spring happens at different times in different places (if at > all). I don't consider it an appropriate description on an > intern

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-12 Thread Sven Hartge
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 10 aug 14, 22:22:20, Sven Hartge wrote: >> All other were mostly misconfigrations which kinda worked before, >> because sysvinit was more forgiving or just papered over the error, >> for example unavailable volumes during boot without &q

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: >>> I wish to know when will be the final release of Debian Jessie. >> >> The soft-freeze will be in September. The hard-freeze is planned for >> December, AFAIK. The release will be some

Re: Report a testing update bug?

2014-08-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Felix Natter wrote: > I've seen > sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unknown command: `m' > when updating my testing system: > sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unknown command: `m' > /etc/modprobe.d/dkms.conf updated to replace obsoleted module references: > --- /tmp/dkms.1s8k9O/dkms.conf.new 20

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Erwan David wrote: > Le 10/08/2014 20:05, Sven Hartge a écrit : >> Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: >>> I wish to know when will be the final release of Debian Jessie. >> The soft-freeze will be in September. The hard-freeze is planned for >> December, AFAIK. The releas

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > I wish to know when will be the final release of Debian Jessie. The soft-freeze will be in September. The hard-freeze is planned for December, AFAIK. The release will be sometimes after that, probably in the spring. As always: it will be ready when it's ready. It all de

Re: Software compatibility between different architectures?

2014-08-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: >>> how compatible are drivers on ports for different CPU architectures, >>> e.g. I have a USB HSDPA modem which works great on Wheezy port for >>> x86 architecture, but can I expect it to work on Wheezy port for >>> ARM? >> If your ARM platform's USB driver works, then yes, you

Re: Quiet Bootups

2014-08-10 Thread Sven Hartge
David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 10 August 2014 13:13:13 Sven Hartge wrote: >> David Baron wrote: >>> With Grub, I did not see that endless stream of text pouring on the >>> screen to rapidly to read. >> Remove "quit" from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAU

Re: Fsck Every ## Mounts

2014-08-10 Thread Sven Hartge
David Baron wrote: > On my previous 32-bit system, I would get fsck run on filesystems > every so-many mounts. Was using ext3 with some ext4 extensions. Could > take a bit on multi- hundred gig partitions but assumed a necessity to > keep things playing. > On my new 64-bit system with ext4 files

Re: Quiet Bootups

2014-08-10 Thread Sven Hartge
David Baron wrote: > With Grub, I did not see that endless stream of text pouring on the screen to > rapidly to read. Remove "quit" from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub, run update-grub. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: clean up my system

2014-08-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Floris wrote: > Now I want to clean up my system. I know, it is not about disk space, > but more to get a neatly system. Is it possible to remove all the > /etc/rc*d directories? And which scripts are safe to remove from > /etc/init.d? Don't do this. Currently most of the needed services to ru

Re: journalctl and old entries [was: End of hypocrisy ?]

2014-08-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Slavko wrote: > Please, how i can get the records from previous boot? Edit /etc/systemd/journald.conf and set "Storage=persistent" Debians default (currently) is to just store the journal in memory which is obviously lost in reboot. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To

Re: dev/log in jail

2014-07-31 Thread Sven Hartge
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > On 31/07/14 18:52, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>> I have a very naive question: how can we create a dev/log socket, >>> similar to `/dev/log', in a chroot jail ? >> It can be done through bind mounts (refer to the mount

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Mike McClain wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:18:51AM +0100, Joe wrote: >> And as someone else asked, why are you worried about this 'stealth'? >> As long as the bad packets don't get in, what does it matter? > Why is there a DROP instruction in iptables as well as REJECT? Sometimes you want

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge wrote: > If I try to connect to a system on (for example) IP 192.168.40.60 and > port 80 and there is no system with that IP, the router for the > network will tell me via an "ICMP host unreachable" package. Erm, please replace "package" with "pac

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Mike McClain wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 01:09:24AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> You can safely ignore that "stealth" FUD. > block:REJECT::Stealth:DROP > Why do you say it can be ignored? If I try to connect to a system on (for example) IP 192.168.40.60 and port 80 and there is no s

Re: iptables firewall

2014-07-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Mike McClain wrote: > I've run into a difficulty with iptables in that both GRC.com and > PCFlank.com's firewall scans show ports 137-139 and 445 as blocked but > not stealthed in spite of the fact that I have these statements in my > firewall script: >iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 137:13

Re: /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Haines Brown wrote: > What troubles me is that my root partition is nearly 500 Gb. df says: >rootfs 474440 474440 0 100% / >/dev/disk/by-uuid/ 474440 474440 0 100% / Where do you see 500GiB? It says 474440 blocks of 1KB size or 463MiB. > But

Re: /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Haines Brown wrote: > I ran: > # find / -type f -size +100M -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }' You are missing the option "-xdev" for find to prevent it from crossing filesystem boundaries. This leads to: > All files that were over 100 Mb were located in broken out directories > e

Re: missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-07-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Florent Bories wrote: > http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=379 No. Don't remove insserv. Unless you want to deliberately wreck your system. Removing insserv is like shooting a person in the head to cure an itch in the foot. The correct answer was already given: purge any left over conf-fil

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:34:00 +1000 > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> There have been very heavy torture tests on thew newer range of SSDs >> and they are performing exceptionally well with mega data being >> written [1], up to fairly heavy data usage levels. >> [1] >> http://www.

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 24/06/2014 3:16 AM, B wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 >> Steve Litt wrote: >>> I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, >>> 240GB SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run, >>> and swap partition, >> >> As a

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Sven Hartge
B wrote:> > On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: >> I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, 240GB >> SSD for /, 750GB Western Digital Black for /var, /tmp, /run, and swap >> partition, > As a SSD has limited write capacities, people usually avoid

Re: Large File Systems - Enough inodes?

2014-05-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Kenneth Jacker wrote: > I am buying two new SATA hard drives: 1TB and 2TB. > I'd like to use the 2TB unit for backups (typical Linux directories > and files) ... with just a single file system (ext4 most likely). > Will 'mkfs' create "enough" inodes? Or, would it be better to, say, > split

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: > for some reason, I do not see those partitions with gdisk: > http://i.imgur.com/4BlDQx7.jpg On the other hand, I'm also using older > version(0.8.5 vs 0.8.8) of gdisk than you.. Or is there some other > reason? No. If gdisk does not show any special boot partition then there is

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: > I see. Thanks! Are those "bios_grub" or "EFI system" partitions > located inside the GPT scheme, i.e. inside the first ~16KiB of the > disk and it is not seen with gdisk? In addition, if this small area > after the last partition is also for alignment purposes, then where is > t

Re: free space before the first and after the last partition if GPT partition scheme is used

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: > 2) Am I correct that boot loaders use their code on this area after > the primary GPT and before the first partition? No. Bootloaders store their code in a special "bios_grub" partition (type EF02) when using the CSM/BIOS boot mode or inside a EFI System partion when using EFI

Re: sshd alert!

2014-05-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 7/05/2014 5:05 AM, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: >> Have you seen that: >> >> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=gjkivAf3 > Release date: 04/30/2014 > Product: OpenSSH > Vendor: http://www.openssh.com/ > CVE candidate number: CVE-2018- (maybe 2020+...) > With "CVE-2018...

Re: Chromium not installable on Testing

2014-05-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Joachim wrote: > Because chromium still has not been built on i386 in unstable, the > latest version failed because the linker ran out of address space. It could work by disabling the build of debug symbols. At least this was hinted at in some bugs in the upstreams Chromium bug tracker. O

Re: Securing apache

2014-04-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Jochen Spieker wrote: > Sven Hartge: >> Jochen Spieker wrote: >>> I didn't check, but I would be surprised if it was possible to only >>> install Apache 2.4 from testing without upgrading half of your >>> system. What you need is a backport -- Ap

Re: Securing apache

2014-04-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Jochen Spieker wrote: > Tanstaafl: >> I'm curious how many here enable the testing repo so they can run >> apache 2.4, which apparently is a bit more secure? If so, any gotchas >> or things to be aware of? > I didn't check, but I would be surprised if it was possible to only > install Apache 2.

Re: Matrox G450 PCI DVI with modern xorg ?

2014-04-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Mark Carroll wrote: > I have a Matrox G450 video card in a 5v 33MHz PCI slot in an old system. > I hope to get DVI output from it, I don't care about using the other > head. While the console is fine, I can't get xorg to work with it. I am afraid to say this, but: G450 DVI with modern Xorg does

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Curt wrote: > On 2014-04-09, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> The repository now contains a fixed version (0.9.4.2-r413). I tested it >> and the new version looks fine. > Don't mean to hijack, but is this a useful tool? > http://filippo.io/Heartbleed/ To scan your complete network in mere seconds:

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Jochen Spieker wrote: > Thinking about this … what I actually use is mod_spdy which is not > linked against libssl. It probably has the same bug … > Yes, here it is: > https://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/issues/detail?id=85 > | Note that just disabling the spdy module in Apache won't work, becau

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Jochen Spieker wrote: > Thinking about this … what I actually use is mod_spdy which is not > linked against libssl. It probably has the same bug … > Yes, here it is: > https://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/issues/detail?id=85 > | Note that just disabling the spdy module in Apache won't work, becau

Re: OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, Apache still vulnerable?

2014-04-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Jochen Spieker wrote: >>> Am I doing anything wrong? Is the testing tool broken? I also tried the >>> one at https://gist.github.com/takeshixx/10107280 which confirms there >>> is still a problem on port 443 (HTTPS served by Apache). >> >> That test tool was updated a few hours ago to include ch

Re: XBMC and SSL

2014-03-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Brian wrote: > On Tue 25 Mar 2014 at 23:00:33 +0100, Nils Erik Svangård wrote: >> I run unstable and have a problem with XBMC. >> The youtube-plugin has stopped working. > You are asking a lot here; XMBC isn't even in Debian but someone might > have some insight. Ahem: $ apt-cache policy xbmc

Re: Help with GPT

2014-03-03 Thread Sven Hartge
ha wrote: > Last few weekends I struggled with the GPT. I've tried to install > debian 7.2 from live DVD (but booting from USB). However, at the end > of installation I always receive the message "Grub-pc package failed > to install into /target/", or something like that. Now, I'm aware that > I

Re: resolv.conf misbehaving

2014-02-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Danny wrote: > However, I have noticed that my resolv.conf gets overwritten by something > after > every reboot. apt-get purge resolvconf Grüße, S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Florian Götz wrote: > I got a network problem with one of my Debian VMs. The VM runs on an > ESX Host (5.1) with several other VMs (SLES11). > It´s a Debian 6 (can´t upgrade due to errors with the other running > software at the moment) which hosts a Network Management System > (Opsview) based

Re: Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 09:56:24AM +0100, Florian Götz wrote: >> It takes about an hour before the hosts get back to state "pingable" >> on the Debian machine. > a whole hour!? That is way too long for spanning tree to settle down. > So spanning tree/routing can probab

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Jochen Spieker wrote: > François Patte: >> Le 28/01/2014 14:35, Sven Hartge a écrit : >>> Jochen Spieker wrote: >>>> lina: >>>>> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied >>>>> >>>>> d? ? ??

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
François Patte wrote: > Le 28/01/2014 14:35, Sven Hartge a écrit : >> Jochen Spieker wrote: >>> lina: >>>> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied >>>> >>>> d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs >> >>&g

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
lina wrote: > On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:46 PM, Craig L. wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:34:00PM +0800, lina wrote: >>> On Tuesday 28,January,2014 09:24 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >>>> This is normal. GVFS is a userspace filesystem used by GNOME to >>>&

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Craig L. wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:00:05PM +0800, lina wrote: >> It is so strange, as a user (before I didn't try as user ): >> >> dr-x-- 2 lina lina 0 Jan 28 14:44 .gvfs >> >> which is under my /home/lina directory. >> >> while as a root, it shows: >> >> root@debian:/ho

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Jochen Spieker wrote: > lina: >> >> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied >> >> d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs > If this is actual ls output then your filesystem is broken and you > should fsck it, possibly in single-user mode (init 1). Please don't spread panic, when

Re: Port 123 and ipv6

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Henning Follmann wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 01:43:17PM +0800, lina wrote: >> I read something online, and wonder: >> 1] shall I close the port 123 >> 2] disable ipv6 >> >> Shall I follow the advice from https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6 to >> turn off the ipv6 in wheezy as in squeeze, >

Re: how to remove ? directory

2014-01-28 Thread Sven Hartge
lina wrote: > ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied > d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs > a# rm -rf .gvfs > rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory > any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I > tried to mount the iphone. > Thanks ahead for yo

Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management

2014-01-14 Thread Sven Hartge
Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2014-01-03 9:18 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >>> emerge --pretend -vuDN world >>> results in a list of all available updates, as well as any dependencies >>> that would be installed, which I can then pick and choose from. I >>> usually wait

Re: GQView compiling error

2014-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > i'm attempting to an older piece of software, GQView, and it appears I > do have all required software installed. "./configure" does not puke > when ran. Why? Geeqie is a fork and successor of the now defunct GQView image viewer, which is of course available in Debian as

Re: GPT + RAID + boot

2014-01-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > My goal here is to be able to have a bootable, running system in the > event of a disk failure. I've been running two disks in a RAID-1 > configuration, with grub installed on both disks, for some time. My > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf is essentially empty, as mdadm has been > s

Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management

2014-01-03 Thread Sven Hartge
John Hasler wrote: > Sven Hartge writes: >> Depending on which version of Debian you installed, you will rarely >> get any updates at all. Wheezy (7.x) is stable and only get security >> updates and major bug fixes via point releases about every two >> mont

Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management

2014-01-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Tanstaafl wrote: > In gentoo, I routinely perform pretend updates to see what updates are > available, so a process like: Depending on which version of Debian you installed, you will rarely get any updates at all. Wheezy (7.x) is stable and only get security updates and major bug fixes via point

Re: No space left on device (28) but device is NOT full!

2013-11-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Neal Murphy wrote: > 3. 'mkreiserfs /dev/sdb1' # to avoid the whole issue of inodes Really? ReiserFS 3 is dead, IMHO and ReiserFS 4 was never included in any vanilla kernel. I'd suggest XFS or a properly configured ext4. Sure, ext4 has a fixed set of inodes, but properly configured and sized

Re: Fwd: Cron [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -ignore_readdir_race -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlif

2013-11-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Tony van der Hoff wrote: > I recently did a dist-upgrede from squeezy to wheezy, and all went > -apparently- well. > I'm now getting the following message from cron at half-hourly > intervals. No big deal, but I'd rather not. > I think php5 has now abandoned suhosin in favour of its own > impro

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Itay wrote: > Can someone help me, please, to understand why syslog is not rotating? The system ist not running at the time when cron.daily is scheduled to run? --> anacron takes care of that. Or somehow there is an error and logrotate refuses to run. In that case run logrotate manually with t

Re: [OT] Ping mystery

2013-11-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Brad Alexander wrote: > I have sort of a weird one here. On my network, I have my firewall, > which has 3 interfaces. eth0 to the internal network, eth1 to the DMZ > with a wireless access point hanging off of it, and eth2 out to the > interwebs. > My workstation is on the internal network, and

Re: Debian and UEFI and GPT

2013-10-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Chris Davies wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Chris Davies wrote: >>> I assume the 1MB space at the beginning is for grub_boot? I found I >>> needed that for my big (3TB) GPT disks. What's the space required at >>> the end of the disk? >> A gpt disk needs 34 sectors at

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > The UUIDs match. All is good. Can you check to see if they do or do > not match on your system? I suspect that they do not match and that > is why the system will not boot. Because if they match then it should > work. This is the default when booting Debian Wheezy on inst

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> I have the same problem as Jesse, roughly since the update to >> mdadm-3.3 in Sid. > I am using mdadm 3.3-1 in Sid on the machine I am typing this on now. > But I am using LVM which might be the difference. With LVM the UUIDs >

Re: linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 unbootable: /dev/disk/by-uuid not created

2013-10-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Jesse Molina wrote: >> As I said before, the md RAIDs are being assembled. udev, or >> something else, is failing to properly create the device nodes. > A shot in the dark but... Have you added a new md device recently but > forgotten to update the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf fil

Re: RAID: one disk missing when creating the array

2013-06-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Bhasker C V wrote: > I created an array /dev/md0 > --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sd[bcde] > I get this in mdstat > Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] > md0 : active raid5 sde[4] sdd[2] sdc[1] sdb[0] > 5860148736 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] > [UUU_] >

Re: vlans

2013-03-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi Sven, >>> What I do NOT want is to have names like eth0.60 for vlan.60 >>> incoming on interface eth0. Because if I decide it would be better >>> to have vlan60 come in on eth1 I would have to rename all (firewall, >>> etc.) scripts that refer to that name. >>> What I w

Re: vlans

2013-03-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > What I do NOT want is to have names like eth0.60 for vlan.60 incoming > on interface eth0. Because if I decide it would be better to have > vlan60 come in on eth1 I would have to rename all (firewall, etc.) > scripts that refer to that name. > What I would like to have is

Re: FW: 64 bit Wheezy RAM Limitation

2013-02-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > computation@debian:~$ free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 497263613058803666756 0 86828 668240 > -/+ buffers/cache: 5508124421824 > Swap: 10236924 0 10236924 > comp

Re: 64 bit Wheezy RAM Limitation

2013-02-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > It was with a fair amount of surprise that I discovered, entirely by > chance, that according to KInfoCenter that the system is using only > 4.47 GB of total physical memory!!! Please post the output of "free" and the output of "dmesg | grep BIOS-e820". Those will

Re: Using 4gig PAE Capability

2013-01-18 Thread Sven Hartge
David Baron wrote: > Here 'tis: > [0.00] BIOS-e820: - 0009f400 (usable) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: 0009f400 - 000a (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) > [0.00] BIOS-e820: 00

Re: Using 4gig PAE Capability

2013-01-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge wrote: > David Baron wrote: >> This is apparently not at all a rare problem. I put 4gig in my >> computer but it only recognizes 3gig. > Please post the output of > dmesg | grep BIOS-e820 > This will show the memory map provided by the BIOS. I forgot to

Re: Using 4gig PAE Capability

2013-01-17 Thread Sven Hartge
David Baron wrote: > This is apparently not at all a rare problem. I put 4gig in my > computer but it only recognizes 3gig. Please post the output of dmesg | grep BIOS-e820 This will show the memory map provided by the BIOS. > Is there any way for the kernel to bypass/override BIOS and see

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:07:37 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> But it is not recognized at boot. The dmesg output tells me all >>> about finding the old RAID, but it doesn't even notice the new one, >>> not ev

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> Any ideas where to look? Or how to work around the problem? >> What type are those partitions for your RAID inside the GPT? They should >> look like this (output from

Re: understanding the role/relationship of the firmware and driver in case of Wi-Fi adapters

2013-01-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Martin T wrote: > 1) Are there Wi-Fi adapters which do not need firmware? I guess there > are if manufacturer does not use semi-general purpose hardware? I guess: not anymore. The last ones I saw without firmware were in the 11MBit era of wifi. All the new ons with 54Mbit and up are actually so

Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other

2013-01-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Hendrik Boom wrote: > But it is not recognized at boot. The dmesg output tells me all about > finding the old RAID, but it doesn't even notice the new one, not even to > complain about it. > It seems the significant differences bwtween the two RAIDS are: > One is new, and the other os old. >

Re: gibberish in log files

2012-12-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Ross Boylan wrote: > *Dec 15 23:35:43 corn kernel: sf omt"."wt tnadjunl<>2851760]RieF:d-4 sn ree > aamd > *Dec 15 23:35:43 corn kernel: 5[544.113 esrS m4:junlprm:dvc m4,sz 12 ora is > lc 8 a rn e 04 a ac 0,mxcmi g 0 a rn g 0<>2851773]RieF:d-4 hcigtascinlg(m4)nr > aht otnms<5>[2584541.845130] R

Re: RAID 1 (mirroring) question

2012-12-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > The Linus software raid also had the capability to use a block bitmap > to speed up resync after a crash because then it tracks which blocks > are dirty. > See the documentation on this mdadm command to configure an internal > bitmap to speed up a re-sync after an event such

Re: IMAP4/POP3 server that supports mbox?

2012-11-17 Thread Sven Hartge
David Guntner wrote: > Yes, I'm one of those fogies who still prefers the main mailbox for > users to be in /var/spool/mail (which is apparently a link to /var/mail > in Debian :-) ). > I need an IMAP4/POP3 server which supports SSL, and while the IMAP > server can access the userspace of the lo

Re: Persistent MySQL Process

2012-10-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Daniel Latter wrote: > I did as you suggested and found evidence in the second command, but > the only that stood out was the Debian start up script that I have > already commented out and restarted MySQL, I'm going to try a server > reboot, but I'm not 100% that will get rid of the process. Umm

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:26:19 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Hmm. Could you post the output of >> >> grep flags /proc/cpuinfo >> >> so that we can see which capabilities the kernel thinks are available on >> you CPU, > That will be

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Artifex Maximus wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: >>>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:21:50 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: >> >>>>> The question i

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:21:50 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: >>> The question is I need to upgrade my CPU to any VT capable CPU or is >>> there any solution staying at the current CPU? >> >> Well, you can stil install a 3

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Gary Dale wrote: > So why would switching to an SSD slow hibernation times? Frankly I can't > think of any reasons (comparing apples to apples) why a faster drive > should lead to slower performance. Possibly it's an interface issue - > the SSD's controller is getting swamped - while the HDD t

Re: having a problem removing a package

2012-08-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On 8/18/12 8:56 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Rodney D. Myers wrote: >>> > /etc/init.d/bandwidthd: 19: Syntax error: "(" unexpected >>> > invoke-rc.d: initscript bandwidthd, action "start" failed. >>> &g

Re: having a problem removing a package

2012-08-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Rodney D. Myers wrote: > /etc/init.d/bandwidthd: 19: Syntax error: "(" unexpected > invoke-rc.d: initscript bandwidthd, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing:

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-01 Thread Sven Hartge
Mark Panen wrote: > Is it safe to have backports enabled on a stable Squeeze 6.05 system? Sure, why not. Just adding the backpors.debian.org lines to your sources.list will do nothing to your system. You have to manually install a package from the backports repository to add it to your system

Re: List errors?

2001-05-20 Thread Sven Hartge
You wrote: > Is it just me, or is the normal English debian-user mailing list > getting messages from the German debian-user list? No. Someone misconfigured his mail2news gate and is sending ALL postings to DE.comp.os.unix.linux.* to debian-user. The "someone" is a customer of thur.de, which h

Re: HPT370 und Linux

2001-05-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Robert Fritzsching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > habe seit einer Woche ein neues Motherboard (Epox 8kta3+) mit > Highpoint370-Contoller mit zwei Festplatten im Raid0 laufen. Nun > versuche ich SuSE-Linux zu installieren was aber fehlschlägt - laut > Supportdatenbank von SuSE gibt es da auch derze

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