Re: install problem

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: This is really an embarrassing question for an old Debian hand to ask, but how do I install Debian? I just bought a netbook which has no CDROM drive, but which can boot from a USB stick. I could dd an Ubuntu image to the stick and then boot from it. But I prefer just

Re: how to remove a module from initramfs

Long Wind wrote: I use etch during etch installation, a bttv module is included in initramfs with wrong options Is it possilbe to remove it? Thanks! On Lenny the module list in initrd is managed by /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf: MODULES=most You can replace most with list, but then

Re: cannot write to usb drive

Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ mount: block device /dev/sdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only umarz...@ctrl:~$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 11G 7.7G 2.2G 78% / tmpfs 1.9G 0

/tmp/.h/update /dev/null - what's that?

Hi, on one of our servers (Debian Lenny) i found this strange lines in the syslog: ... Sep 13 06:31:01 samba2 /USR/SBIN/CRON[3455]: (tmp) CMD (/tmp/.h/update /dev/null 21) Sep 13 06:32:01 samba2 /USR/SBIN/CRON[3466]: (tmp) CMD (/tmp/.h/update /dev/null 21) Sep 13 06:33:01 samba2

LVM logical volumes get deactivated on reboot

Hi, i set up a Debian system with the root filesystem located on a LVM logical volume: /dev/sda1 - /boot (with GRUB) /dev/sda2 - swap /dev/sda3 - LVM physical volume - volume group system The volume group system contains root. The kernel line in GRUB's menu.lst looks like this: kernel

GRUB menu.lst - alternative groot directive

Hello, i'm wondering if there's a alternative groot directive similar to altoptions in menu.lst? Background: I'm running /boot on a software RAID-1 md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]) and i'd like to have a fallback menu item in menu.lst like this: default 0 fallback1

GRUB menu.lst - alternative groot directive

Hello, i'm wondering if there's a alternative groot directive similar to altoptions? Background: I'm running /boot on a software RAID-1 md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]) and i'd like to have a fallback menu item in menu.lst liek this: default 0 fallback1 title

no sound on Toshiba Tecra T9100

Hello all i installed Debian Lenny on a Toshiba T9100 laptop. Everything works fine except of the sound. All the alsa modules are loaded, the gnome volume panel is available etc. No error messages device busy or similar, just NO SOUND : Any idea on how to get sound out of my box? Thank you

no sound on Toshiba Tecra T9100

Hello all i installed Debian Lenny on a Toshiba T9100 laptop. Everything works fine except of the sound. All the alsa modules are loaded, the gnome volume panel is available etc. No error messages device busy or similar, just NO SOUND : Any idea on how to get sound out of my box? Thank you

Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

Hi Michael, are you sure that the binary package of VMWare works for 64bit architecture? Till michael wrote: eg: The installation of VMware Player 2.0.3 build-80004 for Linux completed successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by invoking the following

Re: SASL AUTH problem

Hi Josep, looks to me like sasl PALINTEXT only checks matching on the first 8 characters... Till Josep M. wrote: Hello. I try the following: testsaslauthd -f /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux -u test -p passwordgood (pass OK) This is OK testsaslauthd -f

ServeRAID: tape on second bus not detected

Hello, i installed Ubuntu Dapper (actually OpenExchange Express) on a IBM xSeries 225 server. Everything works fine except of the tape drive connected to the second bus of the ServeRAID-5i card. The tape drive is not detected on boot: [42949379.56] scsi0 : IBM PCI ServeRAID 7.12.05

Re: Installing Madwifi (atheros drivers) into Debian Etch.

James Allsopp wrote: Hi, Just been following the instructions to install the madwifi driver, but it doesn't compile on the final step. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm very new to debian, but experienced with Linux. If anyone needs more information, please ask! I've tried modprobing

Re: archive corrupted !

sfantar wrote: I use tar (tar -cvvf) to compress this archive. It's not a file, it's an archive .tar.gz. You said tar -cvf ? -c stands for create, not compression... tar -cvzf would do a gzip compression. Maybe your archive isn't zipped at all. Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Nameserver update

IN NS ns34.ifo.net. ns10.openforce.com. 172800 IN A 62.99.149.110 ns34.ifo.net. 172800 IN A 217.29.159.131 ;; Received 108 bytes from 192.52.178.30#53(192.52.178.30) in 53 ms thanks martin On 6/27/07, Till Wimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Martin

Re: have to learn python

Strange question ;) Is there anything you cannot do with php, C++,C , bash,... then the answer ist: why not!? bye Till abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, have I need to learn python, I know several interpreters (fro example bash scripting, ) and laguages (php, C++,C..). I administrate

Re: archive corrupted !

Sorry for saying this: it probably tells you the truth :( Bye, Till Shams Fantar wrote: Dear all, I have a corrupted file, when I make 'tar xvzf home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz', I have : gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Unexpected EOF in archive tar: Error exit delayed from

Re: Nameserver update

Martin Marcher wrote: Hi, out of interest why are you using nslookup, i though dig is the tool recommended these days... Simply too lazy to learn a new syntax. No idea what's wrong with nslookup - it does everything i want ;) On 6/28/07, Till Wimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IV) ns24

Re: archive corrupted !

about the format of the file it (de)compresses. Maybe you can extract parts of your file using gzip -d -c | tar x. Bye, Till Shams Fantar wrote: Till Wimmer a écrit : Sorry for saying this: it probably tells you the truth :( Bye, Till Shams Fantar wrote: Dear all, I have a corrupted

Re: Problems using subcommander: No working files displayed

Hi Martin, thanks a lot, now i can see my files! But the behavior is a little bit strange. Maybe its a caching issue. Without the 'All' option i couldn't see any files. After checking the option, the files where there. Then i unchecked the option again, but the files remain... Well that's

Re: Nameserver update

Hi Martin, actually this is not a debian related question... If you post your zone file and tell us what version, ip etc. your server is using, we could help you a little bit more... bye Till Martin Marcher wrote: hello, i needed to update our nameserver, now maintaining my own nameserver

Problems using subcommander: No working files displayed

Hi, today i tried to use subcommander for a subversion project. I'm very frustrated: After an hour i was still unable to see the content of a working copy folder. Somebody out there who can help me? What i did: 1. In a shell I checked out a local working copy manually: svn co

Re: Server keeps freezing up

Hi Justin, sounds to me like a hardware problem. Or did the problem start after a certain update? What do the log files look like just before the crash? Maybe you should run a memory check or change the RAM bars. Did you check the BIOS settings? Maybe there are wrong timing settings for the

Re: Server keeps freezing up

Justin Hartman wrote: Hi Till Thank you very much for taking the time to get back to me on this issue. You're welcome. What does concern me however is that the freeze starts first with mysql and in particular quite heavy load database on that. Basically that database crashes while the

Re: Server keeps freezing up

Justin Hartman wrote: Hi Till Thank you very much for taking the time to get back to me on this issue. You're welcome. What does concern me however is that the freeze starts first with mysql and in particular quite heavy load database on that. Basically that database crashes while the

synchronize sendemail / cyrus / ftp / ssh password

Hello, i'm running a server for several customers using cyrus/IMAP, sendmail, apache2 and ssh. I'm looking for a way to store all the passwords for them in _one_ database so i can manage them easily by a web interface. My solution was to store the passwords in a MySQL table. Now the problem is

Re: where ist libapache2-mod-auth-mysql?

i compiled it by myself. Is this the new way to go? Yours sincerely Till Till Wimmer wrote: Hi, after some update of debian Etch my auth_mysql module for apache has vanished... What happened to this module? Thanks, Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: shrink /home

s. keeling wrote: Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I need to shrink my /home partition (/home has its own partition in the system). It is formatted in xfs, so shrink is not supported. In order to shrink it I am planning to use gparted in the following way: 1 - To do a backup of

where ist libapache2-mod-auth-mysql?

Hi, after some update of debian Etch my auth_mysql module for apache has vanished... What happened to this module? Thanks, Till -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BAD Error Installing new Apache2 PHP?

When you swap the kernel, you should first install the new one, then reboot, and THEN remove the old one. Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) wrote: I'm running Debian kernel version 2.4.27-2-386. I needed to upgrade Apache (from 2.0.54) PHP (from 4.3.10-16) on our system. After doing “apt-get update”

Re: dns zone file help

Hi David, I'm quite proficient in setting up DNS... but honestly i don't understand a word of what you'd like to do ;) What do you mean with creating an existing file? When you move that zone to your own DNS then, of course, you should at least set up the SOA und NS records accordingly. Till

How to force aic7xxx SCSI card to use synchronous negotiation?

Hi, i attached a SCSI RAID system to my debian box. The HBA is a Adaptec 29160. dmesg shows that the RAID is attached with asynchronous negotiation: -- snip -- scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0 Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter aic7892: Ultra160

How to force aic7xxx SCSI card to use synchronous negotiation?

Hi, i attached a SCSI RAID system to my debian box. The HBA is a Adaptec 29160. dmesg shows that the RAID is attached with asynchronous negotiation: -- snip -- scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0 Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter aic7892: Ultra160

How to force aic7xxx SCSI card to use synchronous negotiation?

Hi, i attached a SCSI RAID system to my debian box. The HBA is a Adaptec 29160. dmesg shows that the RAID is attached with asynchronous negotiation: -- snip -- scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 7.0 Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter aic7892: Ultra160

SORRY!!! for triple-posting

what a mess :( I first tried to post via news group linux.debian.user... there wasn't any error message, so i tried again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]