W: best way to clone server data using rsync

2012-05-01 Thread Tuxoholic
Hi list I'm about to clone 1TB of server data to a new file server I'm building. Cloning will happen over the internal network, and it will take several days, since I'll only run it while I'm awake/at home and checking up on the progress every once in a while. rsync seems like the right

Re: W: best way to clone server data using rsync

2012-05-01 Thread Tuxoholic
, Tuxoholic wrote: Here's what I got so far from google research: rsync --sockopts=SO_SNDBUF=128000,SO_RCVBUF=128000 -e rsh --archive \ --recursive --partial --partial-dir=rsync-part --progress --append \ --files-from=/root/LISTOFFILES.txt --log-file=/root/rsync.log \ root@myserver

How /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny and smb.conf play along

2012-04-26 Thread Tuxoholic
hi list Can somebody explain why smbd and nmbd are not affected by the following strict ruleset in /etc/hosts* ? /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 MYHOSTNAME localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.1.1 MYHOSTNAME 192.168.2.10MYSERVER cat /etc/hosts.allow #ALL: localhost 127.0.1.1

Re: ssh: no route to host

2011-07-21 Thread Tuxoholic
@Hugo: It might be related to your /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny configuration. With DHCP your internal subnet should not change. You can use this to set up an access rule for sshd - please refer to the debian administrators guide [1] on securing ssh access for the details. I'll only give

Re: Re: Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze

2011-07-20 Thread Tuxoholic
Walter Hurry wrote: I suspected that the problem was the kernel modesetting, but when I tried with the nomodeset parameter it didn't seem to make a difference. Does this get nearer to identifying the issue? Thanks again. You've cut away the loading cycle of libextmod.so - this does handle

Re: Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze

2011-07-20 Thread Tuxoholic
Walter Hurry wrote: Here is the extmod part: -- (--) PCI:*(0:1:5:0) 1002:9612:1025:028d ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/ RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics] rev 0, Mem @ 0xc000/268435456, 0xd220/65536, 0xd210/1048576, I/O @

Re: Can't get XVideo to work on squeeze

2011-07-19 Thread Tuxoholic
Xorg does load the X-VIDEO extension, so whatever went wrong caused an (EE) line in /var/log/Xorg.0.log - what does this line say? I'm having difficulty getting gxine et al to use Xv. Googling has provided some information, but not a solution. I'm running Squeeze 64 bit.

Re: udev rules for 2 identical webcams + 1 spare cam

2011-07-14 Thread Tuxoholic
Von: CamaleĆ³n noela...@x.xxx What do you mean ? - SYMLINK+=webcam%n ? I tried that, didn't help. Nope. I wanted to know why you used Name=video%n instead Name=video1 and Name=video2 in two separate rules/lines. I see your point, so I tried this: $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-webcam.rules:

Re: udev rules for 2 identical webcams + 1 spare cam

2011-07-13 Thread Tuxoholic
the permissions of the webcams (owner/group/mode)? I tried to force GROUP=video but didn't help. Anymore ideas? Should I change the level to sth higher than 10-.rule? Is it worth filing a bug report against udev? Regards Tuxoholic [1] http://somedutch.blogspot.com/2010/01/big-mothers-watching

udev rules for 2 identical webcams + 1 spare cam

2011-07-12 Thread Tuxoholic
/dev/video2 This never happens if I plug in the 2nd Quickcam *after* system bootup, it only happens when both are already plugged in *while* the system is booting up. Any ideas what I can change in the rule? OS in use is Debian 6.02 Thanks and regards Tuxoholic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email