Re: Swap space not used

Hi, In article alpine.deb.2.00.1205021543070.14...@bret-dd-workstation.busby.net, Bret Busbyb...@busby.net wrote: When I installed it, I had a swap partition of about 40GB set up, as is shown by gparted. But, for some strnge reason, Debian 6will not use the swap space, even

Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?

Hi, In article 87txy4iqik@gmail.com, Csanyi Palcsanyi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system. What must I do to keep the system in it's relative usable state when testing come to stable? What lines do you have in your sources.list? Do you refer to

Re: Debian 7

Hi, In article 51268e5d.8030...@rail.eu.org, Erwan Davider...@rail.eu.org wrote: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/02/21/1335255/debian-project-releases-70-wheezy-candidate Ça arrive. That's just the RC of the installer isn't it? The rest of the distro is still frozen I

Re: Does any one know what day Wheezy will be released?

Hi, In article cabea5jpc1ircu7ubywoxmtxnj31ybbzp_b+f8gcnpbtpbdf...@mail.gmail.com, Timothy Mageetimothymag...@gmail.com wrote: I am about to install linux on a computer, and I want to install debian. Right now I have two computers one running Ubuntu 12 and another running Debian 4

Re: Does any one know what day Wheezy will be released?

Hi, In article caerryqgu0zdcebsxtc0op_ru4nnhhi70vzdas4tgr6mcsuv...@mail.gmail.com, Harvey Kellyharvey1...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 March 2013 18:53, Andy Hawkins a...@gently.org.uk wrote: There's no date set yet. However, there's no reason why you can't install Wheezy now. Now

Re: How often to reboot a production Web server?

Hi, In article 327621362615...@web6f.yandex.ru, Victor Portonpor...@narod.ru wrote: Should I reboot my production Web server? If yes, how often? Generally, the only time you need to reboot is when there's a kernel upgrade. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian Etch - CLARIFIED

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Maddox (Architect)[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also very little of you seem to have seen that I was after recommendations for open source control panels too... I have however made a short list of them here. H-Sphere - http://www.psoft.net

Problem with udev rules under etch

Hi all, Yesterday I upgraded my system to etch, and now my udev rules aren't working any more. I've had a read of the man pages and have changed one of them (for my parallel ZIP drive) to read: SUBSYSTEMS==scsi, ATTR{model}==ZIP 100, KERNEL==sd?4, NAME==%k, SYMLINK+=zip (I've wrapped

Re: Problem with udev rules under etch

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mathias Brodala[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you expect your rule to match these properties? You say: SUBSYSTEMS=3D=3Dscsi But it is 'SUBSYSTEM=3D=3Dblock' instead. The bit that contains the 'ZIP 100' is the 'scsi' subsystem, not the 'block'

Etch and transparent caching with Squid

Hi, During my upgrade to etch, I also noticed that squid no longer accepts the http_accel config file commands for transparent caching. Is transparent caching no longer available in Squid 2.6? Thanks Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Problem with udev rules under etch

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mathias Brodala[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The udev manual says that trailing whitespace is ignored. Not fully: ATTRS{filename} [=E2=80=A6] Trailing whitespace in the attribute values is ignored, if the specified match

Re: Etch and transparent caching with Squid

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Liam O'Toole[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:41:39 + (UTC) Andy Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, During my upgrade to etch, I also noticed that squid no longer accepts the http_accel config file commands for transparent

Re: Problem with udev rules under etch

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Florian Kulzer[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I vaguely remember that I also had problems with the ? wildcard when I wanted to create a symlink to partition 1 of my USB harddrive. After some trial and error I found this udev rule: # Lacie 120GB external

Re: Problem with udev rules under etch

Hi, Apologies for the slow reply, was away for a few days In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Florian Kulzer[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Use == instead of = for the KERNEL test. = for tests has been depreciated for a while. (It was still supported long after that, but maybe that has

Strange aptitude problem

Hi all, My box automatically runs aptitude overnight to update the packages list, and download any packages that need upgrading. It doesn't install them, I'd rather do that myself. However, it's now doing this: gently:~# aptitude -f dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency

Re: Strange aptitude problem

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Roberto C Sánchez[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sort of unrelated, but why not use cron-apt? Can't remember off the top of my head, but when I tried it I couldn't get it to do exactly what I wanted. Maybe I'll revisit it. Anyone help with the update

Re: Strange aptitude problem

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Douglas Allan Tutty[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fire up aptitude interactively (no command line arguments) and see what's up. gently:~# aptitude Ouch! Got SIGABRT, dying.. Aborted Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Strange aptitude problem

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Douglas Allan Tutty[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ouch is right. In your origional message, you wondered if something was broken at your end or the other. I guess you now know that its something at your end. :(( I'm not so sure. It is complaining

Re: Strange aptitude problem

Hmmm.. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Hawkins[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, it's now doing this: gently:~# aptitude -f dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done

apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

Hi all, Recently, I've been getting regular instances of the bin files in /var/cache/apt getting corrupted (any apt related command seg-faults unless I delete these files and do another 'update). There is plenty of space on this partition, so it's not that they're being truncated. The ones I

Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Sackville-West[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what version of apt? there was a segfault problem in recent sid version-2 or -3 which is supposedly fixed in -4. version 0.6.46-3 I think it was. Apologies, should have said. This is Debian Stable:

Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], José Alburquerque[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into similar problems with version 0.6.46-3 as Adrew explains above. In fact, I was referred to bug report #401263 a couple of weeks ago which was exactly what I was experiencing with apt . My

Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], José Alburquerque[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, I remember starting to experience segfault problems with apt shortly after I upgraded my kernel. I haven't fully read the apt segfault bug reports but I think it is not exactly due to apt but

Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

Hi, An update to this, it appears that my cron job runs: apt-file update which is what corrupts the bin files Does this help at all? Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt cache files (*.bin) corruption

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], José Alburquerque[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm really no expert, just suggesting as best I know to help with what I've seen, but I really don't think that running apt-file is what corrupts your bin files. Maybe others know better? Thanks. You

Re: LVM

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yuriy Padlyak[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, but I don't know how to move ext3 file system or it's content without loosing any file attributes, etc either :) I tend to use: (cd /src/dir tar cf - *) | (cd /dest/dir tar xf -) Andy -- To

Problem finding eth1 after rebooting

Hi all, My Debian box has been running for several months now. It has two 8139 based Ethernet cards. Both were previously being successfully detected by Debian and used. I upgraded to the latest Stable when it came out, and I'm not sure I've rebooted since then. Today I had to shut the box down

Re: ether-wake won't work anymore.

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruno Buys[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I´ve relied on etherwake to up remote machines, and it worked ok for quite some time. But recently I noticed it kind of stopped working. Since today I bumped two more machines which don't etherwake, I decided

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael S. Peek[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what if what I want is to keep our machines at testing? It seems to have the latest and grooviest versions of stuff. So how badly would I be shooting myself in the foot if I changed etch to testing in

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael S. Peek[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so, just to make sure that I understand completely. Once Etch becomes the new stable release, does the unstable release replace the testing release? I.e. if I leave my systems at testing, will I

Re: mp3 organizer

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], J Merritt[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to find a good mp3 organizer that will run under Debian. Features: organizing mp3 audio files (by ID3v1/v2 data) into subfolders by artist or category, rewrite ID3 tags, etc. Is anyone aware of such a

Firewire ZIP 750 in Linux 2.4.x

Hi, Just wondering if anyone has tried using a Firewire ZIP 750 drive under Linux 2.4.x? Is it just a question of enabling the various firewire modules in the kernel compile (I always compile my own kernels) or is there more to it? Does it even work? Thanks. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John A. Martin[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As root: ,[ pvcreate /dev/sdc ] Device /dev/sdc not found. ` Doesn't this need to be done on a partition, rather than the disk itself? Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Trouble LVM: pvcreate to usb disk managed by udev

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John A. Martin[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can mount /dev/vg1/test and do df. I can umount it, mount it, do df. If I unmount it then unplug the USB and plug it in again I cannot mount it again until after I reboot! Have you re-run the vgscan again?

Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

Hi, Now that aptitude is the recommended package manager for Debian Stable, is there any way of removing apt-get? I accidentally used apt-get to install a few packages yesterday, and when my nightly automatic aptitude update aptitude -s -f dist-upgrade ran overnight, it wants to remove the

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Jardine[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could put: alias apt-get='echo Use aptitude instead ' in /etc/profile. I did think of something similar :) I did also try uninstalling apt, but it tried to remove aptitude too! Does aptitude use apt?

Udev, USB and LVM

Hi, I recently connected up a new USB disk to my Debian box, and started using LVM to manage logical volumes on it. However, I noticed that the LVM information isn't updated automatically at boot time when this drive is detected. Can anyone tell me what I need to do (presumably in udev) to

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Henrique de Moraes Holschuh[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Andy Hawkins wrote: First, make sure /etc/lvm/lvm.conf allows scanning of the devices the USB disk will show up as. I can. If I run vgscan and vgchange manually, the volums

Re: Any way to 'remove' apt-get?

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael Marsh[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could always run aptitude from a regular user account instead of root. Interactive aptitude will prompt you for a password when it needs one, and you can use sudo for the non-interactive calls. Then it's

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John L Fjellstad[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PROGRAM key is used for rule matching. Yeah, I spotted that. However, there is a 'RUN' key. However, this isn't mentioned in the version of udev in debian stable. I tried installing udev from backports.org,

Re: Udev, USB and LVM

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John L Fjellstad[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never done this, but you can put scripts into the /etc/dev.d directory. These are called after a node has been created by udev. Check the udev man pages. Thanks, I'll check that out. Andy -- To

Re: ghost MB of memory

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], roberto[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello actually i use a desktop with 1GB of memory installed but my kernel installed from debian sarge repositories takes into account 885MB only. How can i rescue the remaining size of memory?? Could it be something

Re: ghost MB of memory

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcelo Chiapparini[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The video shared memory is set in the BIOS setup? I would imagine so, yes. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anthony Campbell[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using the current tar version from Unstable to back up my home partition. If I do tar -cvf home.tar /home/ac everything seems to go correctly but ends with the message Error exit delayed from previous

Problem with INN

Hi, I've recently started to see a problem with INN whereby the news.daily script doesn't successfully complete, and leaves the server reserved. Further investigation shows the following errors in the news.daily report: expire begin Tue Dec 6 13:47:03 GMT 2005: (-v1) expire: dbzsync:

Re: How to disable a network interface

Hi, In article 49876864.4050...@cox.net, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: 2) Edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to remove the relevant line, based on it's MAC address. It'll just get recreated won't it? Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

libmusicbrainz3 compiled with debug output enabled

Hi all, I'm building some software that uses libmusizbrainz3. The version of this package in testing compiles up with debug output enabled (every query to the service is displayed on standard out or standard error). There is a 'Release' build target in the makefile. Would this be considered a

Re: libmusicbrainz3 compiled with debug output enabled

Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eugene V. Lyubimkin[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, please report using reportbug utility. Maintainer may provide you al= l other relevant info. Done. Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Woody - Sarge apt-get dist-upgrade

Hi all, Now that Sarge has entered freeze, I'm considering upgrading my Woody box to it. This runs the firewall for my local network (connected via Ethernet cable modem) handling mail (Exim v3 and fetchmail), news (newsstar and INN v2.3.2), web proxy etc. Is the upgrade to Sarge relatively

Re: dhclient No DHCPOFFERS received

Hi, In article 20130807133856.GA6733@tuzo, Sean Alexandres...@alexan.org wrote: I've got two Debian Wheezy machines. One can connect to my cable modem fine, and gets an IP address. The other can't. They're both configured the same. Any ideas why this might be? Apologies for

Re: dhclient No DHCPOFFERS received

Hi, In article 20130807164822.GA7727@tuzo, Sean Alexandres...@alexan.org wrote: No, unfortunately. I know it's not a MAC address issue. Both my TP-LINK home router and the Debian Wheezy machine that works get DHCP leases without any problems, and have different MAC addresses. I

Re: Wheezy Alongside Windows7

Hi, In article 20130612032340.GB15667@tal, Chris Bannistercbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: There is no try, you either do or you don't. - Yoda If you're going to quote Yoda, at least get it right :) Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: debian or multi-os virtualized

Hi, In article 51bf8f69.5060...@fuckaround.org, Pol Hallende...@fuckaround.org wrote: I think about change my single debian os to several debian virtualized, ie: main debian on server with iptables and dhcp virtual machine1: apache virtual machine2: mysql virtual machine3: squid

Routing issue with XEN / XCP

Hi all, I have an XCP host based on Debian, that contains a number of virtual machines for my internal network. A basic diagram of my network is here: https://www.gently.org.uk/gently-network.jpeg The 'gateway' vm is the only thing connected directly to the cable modem. eth0 receives its IP

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

Hi, Apologies for the slight thread hijack. In article <20180118214314.442arvnrw4xbx...@eeg.ccf.org>, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The pacakge for ISC's BIND is called bind9. > > This would certainly do the job, but it's massively overkill for a simple > home LAN DNS

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

Hi, In article , john doe wrote: >> What would people recommend for a home LAN DNS server that is authoritative >> for a single domain, providing A, , PTR (both IPv4 and IPv6), NS and >> CNAME records to that

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

Hi, In article <102059aa-fd21-11e7-9b6a-00163eeb5...@msgid.mathom.us>, Michael Stone wrote: > If you said why you were looking to abandon a (presumably working?) > solution that might help explain your requirements. If your goal is > simple integration between DNS

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

Hi, In article <20180119134725.lk5gywprdit4s...@eeg.ccf.org>, Greg Wooledge wrote: > My only experience is with bind8, bind9, and tinydns (from djbdns). > I've never used IPv6 for anything. None of the networks that I deal > with use IPv6, period. They don't even

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

Hi, In article <20180122185135.GA12212@alum>, David Wright wrote: >> You should be able to do that with IPv4 too. If DHCP address allocation >> fails, > > Elaborate on this please. What do you mean by "fails". > What am I meant to want to fail? If a host

Re: [Xen]: Heads UP: kernel from linux-image-4.9.0-7-amd64 might not boot on Xen

Hi, In article <9e5cd72f3a49245a58b3263d5976f96e.squir...@swampthing.dk>, Torben Schou Jensen wrote: > Yep, I had same problem last night, lucky me I started by upgrading a test > server before production server. > > I just see a workaround have been posted. > This workaround work here

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

Hi, In article <20180119151835.GA8374@alum>, David Wright wrote: > I have one valuable use for IPv6 which is point-to-point connections. > I plug a CAT5 cable into the two ends and use predefined functions > to bulk-transfer files with scp. Why? > 1) I don't

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

Hi, In article <20180123144327.GA6815@alum>, David Wright wrote: > This would all be a step in the wrong direction here. Point (2) was > that using IPv6 over CAT5 avoids swamping the router. (Of course, > that's already been snipped out of the thread.) If the