powerdown harddisk

2011-04-20 Thread geertsky
Hello group, I want to powerdown my ide harddisk completly.  I'm booting from a usb stick so the IDE disk is CONSUMING... I have an old laptop so I'd like to preserver as much as possible. I tried hdparm -Y /dev/sda but hdparm -C /dev/sda reports it's only in standby... And actually I can hear it

Re: mounting and/or permissions problem

2011-03-03 Thread geertsky
Hi Lisi, have a look at ls -l /dev/cdrom to mount /dev/cdrom you need r-x permissions or maybe even rwx, but w is going to be pretty useless... Also, /etc/udev/rules.d/ contains rules which device the permissions of for instance your cdrom,cdrw,sdcard ed But google a udev manual, itś too extens

Re: iptables/routing network problem

2011-01-30 Thread geertsky
On Jan 30, 10:20 pm, geertsky wrote: > On Jan 30, 4:50 pm, Mihira Fernando wrote: > > > > > On 01/30/2011 08:48 PM, geertsky wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve... > > > I have a pptp connection from my hou

Re: iptables/routing network problem

2011-01-30 Thread geertsky
On Jan 30, 5:00 pm, Anand Sivaram wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 20:48, geertsky wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve... > > I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using > > 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's > > I

Re: iptables/routing network problem

2011-01-30 Thread geertsky
On Jan 30, 5:00 pm, Anand Sivaram wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 20:48, geertsky wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve... > > I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using > > 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's > > I

Re: iptables/routing network problem

2011-01-30 Thread geertsky
On Jan 30, 4:50 pm, Mihira Fernando wrote: > On 01/30/2011 08:48 PM, geertsky wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve... > > I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using > > 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's > >

iptables/routing network problem

2011-01-30 Thread geertsky
Hello, I'm having a wierd problem I cannot solve... I have a pptp connection from my house to my server using 192.168.2.0/24 range ip's I ḿ trying to make mysql access able from the 192.168.2.0/24 network. On the server I've got ufw firewall so I state "ufw insert 4 allow proto tcp from 192.168.2.0