Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

2011-08-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm using rsync on normal Debian (6.x), on two embedded systems that run what look like Debian variations (DNS-321 by D-Link and Stora by Netgear) and on OS X. On Debian, whenever I run rsync (rsync --delete -rlptv -e ssh /my/path/ myname@mybackup:Backup/, if there are no files to transfer,

Re: Rsync -- Different Outputs on No Transfer

2011-08-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 14, 2011, at 10:08 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com writes: […] It's not a must fix but when I'm scanning output files, obviously it's a LOT easier to verify everything went smoothly if I get a quick and simple output than if I have to scan a long list

Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a system with several different users and would like to use cron to run this script as root: #!/bin/bash for user in `ls /home/`; do # echo Path: $user if [ ${user:0:1} != 0 ]; then path=/home/$user/Backup if [ -e $path ]; then

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a system with several different users and would like to use cron to run this script as root: #!/bin/bash for user in `ls /home/`; do #echo Path: $user if [ ${user:0:1} != 0 ]; then path

Re: Changing Users in a script

2011-08-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: The problem is sudo can't be run without a tty, so I can run it myself, but it won't run from a script. Using 'su' would solve that problem. BTW... I assume that is because you have tty-tickets turned

Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a frustrating situation. I had a RAID go out on me and require rebuilding. It's mostly rebuilt and all my data is intact, but not all the settings and config info and program files have been copied over yet. And, while I have to rebuild that RAID, which is my back up -- well, you can

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jan 8, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 08 ian 11, 18:42:53, David Sastre wrote: On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:22:01 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I can simply re-install Debian with no trouble, the only issue is that I don't have the up-to-date list of all the packages installed

Re: Where Is the List of Installed Packages?

2011-01-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
for the help on this, but overall, thank you for Debian and all those willing to help on this list. Hal On Jan 8, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a frustrating situation. I had a RAID go out on me and require rebuilding. It's mostly rebuilt and all my data is intact, but not all

DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another? For example, an

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:16 PM, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:08:36 -0800, Mike Bird wrote: I'm running Debian Squeeze, and I have only gnome-core installed so that I would not have Evolution or Epiphany installed since I do not use them. Me too. Basically because

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:26:17PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: This is an example of why I've been moving away from FOSS. Someone makes a good point in a bug report and the programmer/developer/maintainer throws it back in his face, which

Trouble PXE Boot After Kernel Starts Loading

2011-02-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a Soekris Net5501 and I'm using tftp to boot pxelinux.0 and, ultimately, from there, I want to install Squeeze. First, I have to thank Debian, since the PXE boot explanation (sorry, lost the link from earlier) was a very good explanation on how to set up PXE. But since it was for Etch,

Re: Trouble PXE Boot After Kernel Starts Loading

2011-02-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 15, 2011, at 5:31 AM, Michael Tsang wrote: On Tuesday 15 February 2011 16:17:27 Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Soekris Net5501 and I'm using tftp to boot pxelinux.0 and, ultimately, from there, I want to install Squeeze. First, I have to thank Debian, since the PXE boot explanation

Re: Trouble PXE Boot After Kernel Starts Loading

2011-02-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
in 3 different places. What was happening was that when the baud rate changed, rather than getting garbage on the screen, I was getting nothing, so it didn't seem like a baud issue. Hal On Feb 15, 2011, at 3:17 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Soekris Net5501 and I'm using tftp to boot

Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

2011-02-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm working with some embedded systems where the OS will be Squeeze on a CF card. The idea is to have a basic setup that will be stored in a zip file and when it's time to create a new system, the files will be unzipped onto a new CF card, then the card will be put in a new system. Of course

Re: Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

2011-02-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Bob wrote: On 02/17/2011 06:38 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm working with some embedded systems where the OS will be Squeeze on a CF card. The idea is to have a basic setup that will be stored in a zip file and when it's time to create a new system, the files

Re: Cleaning DHCP and Host Info for New LAN

2011-02-17 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 17, 2011, at 6:40 AM, Bob wrote: On 02/17/2011 12:24 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Bob wrote: On 02/17/2011 06:38 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: 8 snip system image pushed onto a CF card rm -f /mnt/src/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules rm -f /mnt/src/etc

Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a compact flash card I'm experimenting with that goes into an embedded system. In the future I'll be working with more CF cards and I know I won't always know the size of the card ahead of time. I'm working on a Perl program so I can put the CF card in and the program will partition

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calculate sizes in megabytes from cylinder info fdisk does allow you to specify the start cylinder, then something

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 19, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/19/2011 02:18 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Rob Owens wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:49:41AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: fdisk: Doesn't seem to have a batch/script mode and I'd have to calculate sizes

Re: Command Line Partitioning

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
into with other projects. Hal On Feb 19, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:49:41 -0500 (EST), Hal Vaughan wrote: I have everything else worked out so it can be done in a batch mode or in a program, but I'm having trouble with partitioning. I've been working

Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
I found this when using tar to unpack an OS image archive. I've been doing this for a while on another CF card and had no problem. But now, when I untar the archive, I keep getting cannot create symlink and operation not permitted. I bypassed tar and tried creating some of the symlinks by

Re: Can't Create SymLinks on CF Card

2011-02-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-02-22 21:14 +0100, Hal Vaughan wrote: I found this when using tar to unpack an OS image archive. I've been doing this for a while on another CF card and had no problem. But now, when I untar the archive, I keep getting cannot

xinetd UDP vs. TCP Output

2011-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm using a small program that's started by xinetd. The incoming signal to it would be a broadcast signal, which means it has to be UDP. I wrote two versions of the test program, one in Perl and one as a bash script and both ran into the same problem. They worked fine when I first set them up

Re: xinetd UDP vs. TCP Output

2011-02-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
Short answer: It's not possible. Long answer: After the research it took me, I'm just too damned lazy to write it up. Just trust me, can't be done. Hal On Feb 24, 2011, at 3:49 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm using a small program that's started by xinetd. The incoming signal to it would

Re: please help me write a udev rule

2011-03-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:08 PM, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, I always run a command like this when I plug a USB disk: echo 1024 /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors however, the disk is not always `sdb'. Can I write a udev rule according to the UUID of the disk? Do you mean a specific USB

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 08 April 2007 11:55, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 11:25 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: I've run aptitude update aptitude upgrade too many times now, and cat /etc/debian_version still says 4.0. I was hoping to be able to come back from breakfast and see a Debian Lenny

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Joey Hess wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I guess the question is where to draw and then who draws that line. While M. Fioretti has basically pointed out that no matter what line is drawn, there's still clearly a problem, and so I'm tempted to not respond; it's

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 15:12:51 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Not true. For example, I'm having trouble with Firefox crashing Asking here could help a great deal with that. Of course. But rambling for months about religion

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:43:08PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-05-19, Roberto C Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:51:51PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: =20 If somebody's current provider provides only

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 03:12:51PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: We had a problem on the Libranet list where a number of us got into some serious and deep discussions about religion and politics. Not one person was being disrespectful

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:40:08PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:43:08PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-05-19, Roberto C Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:17:16PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:40:08PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: Then you missed the overall point, the human point

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:50:31PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:17:16PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: Did it ever occur to you that there is a reason for bash

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:51:08AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: This particular problem is solved for the most part by a policy change that says non-Debian topics are inappropriate. This opens the door to various actions starting with this is

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:58:37PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and be enumerated so that it could be referred to directly when we

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for off-topic messages. For the messages

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 21 May 2007, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:01 +0200 M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really hope they put a stop to this, this time. As people have pointed out; this is exactly the issue. There

Re: [Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Celejar wrote: Lots of sigs are derogatory of another culture - those mocking religion, or liberal / conservative / other political views. It may help people to remember that another person cannot define you or tell anyone who you are, what kind of culture you are part

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:18:27 Nic James Ferrier, vous avez écrit : ... PS: I hope this thread will end very soon. You do realize, don't you, that you've just guaranteed this thread will still be high in volume for the next month with that

Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

2007-06-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have an NVidia GEforce 6800 with two monitors attached. One is a widescreen, hooked up with a DVI cable, at 1680x1050, and the other is hooked up with a VGA cable and set at 1280x1024. They are working, but there are two issues I'd like to resolve. According to KDE, the CRT is #1 and the

Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

2007-06-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 25 June 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: 1) Is there a way to tell my NVidia card or xorg.conf to recognize the widescreen as my first screen? See the nvidia driver document: /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.gz Option TwinViewOrientation string

Re: Twinview Monitor Issues (Monitor #s and Resolution)

2007-06-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 25 June 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:46:50PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 25 June 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: 1) Is there a way to tell my NVidia card or xorg.conf to recognize the widescreen as my first screen

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 28 October 2006 14:39, Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello, I really do not want to start any flame here but after all, as I used Debian for few months, I find honest to say why I'm leaving it. Hmm. Why on earth would anyone use Linux, and not want to start flame wars? That's

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:43, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 29 October 2006 06:29, Karl Goetz wrote: Bruno wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 02:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... I 'll say that Debian detect correctly the hardware on my laptob (Dell Aspire 9100). Except, it seems, video card ATI Radeon x600 for which I had to install

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 29 October 2006 09:02, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/27/06, Stephen Cormier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * word-processor [ Kwrite, Kword ] Do you mean Kate when you mention Kwrite? I searched Debian and couldn't find Kwrite. KDE has 3 (that I know of) text editors: Kate (my

Re: questions for when Etch goes stable

2006-12-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Also, I have found the sarge to etch upgrade to be brutal. The systems I have tried to upgrade recently are all in shambles. The particular problem I've encountered seems to be the Xfree86 - xorg 7 transition. Fortunately, I

Where is Lame in Sarge?

2007-07-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a server running Sarge. I tried to find lame and got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ aptitude show lame Package: lame State: not a real package This was after trying to install it just by the name lame. Then I did this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ aptitude search lame p flamethrower -

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

2007-07-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 26 July 2007, Manon Metten wrote: Hi Hal, On 7/26/07, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a server running Sarge. I tried to find lame and got this: Snip Neither toolame or glame provide lame itself. It's LPGL, does that create a conflict with Debian's social

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

2007-07-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
Uh, just ignore that other response. I forgot which e-mail was still on the screen when I hit reply. It's just one of those days... Hal On Thursday 26 July 2007, Hal Vaughan wrote: Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions and offers. I've contacted someone who will be swapping routers

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

2007-07-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 26 July 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I know there's an issue with MySQL and permissions with an easy work around, but other than that, I want to have time to check out known issues before I upgrade a server. Wise plan. In fact setting up a Sarge machine

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

2007-07-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 26 July 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Manon Metten wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Neither toolame or glame provide lame itself. It's LPGL, does that create a conflict with Debian's social contract? The mp3 encoder is patented outside of the context

Re: how to set up a wireless network?

2007-08-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 03 August 2007, Serena Cantor wrote: first, I consider wireless LAN, but I learn that wireless can't connect computers in different rooms. From Wireless-howto: The most important thing in Wireless communications is the line of sight clear: you MUST SEE (with eyes or with a

Virtual Networking Interface Problem

2007-08-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've been working on a project with some Linksys routers. New routers are set to use the IP address 192.168.1.1 and my network uses the 172.16.*.* address space. I've had this in my workstation's /etc/network/interfaces file: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 172.16.7.11 netmask

Re: Virtual Networking Interface Problem

2007-08-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 06 August 2007, Anson Gardner wrote: On Monday 06 August 2007 12:12, Hal Vaughan wrote: I've been working on a project with some Linksys routers. New routers are set to use the IP address 192.168.1.1 and my network uses the 172.16.*.* address space. I've had this in my

Mdadm won't rebuild a RAID5

2007-08-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a RAID5 on 3 drives with a spare. One drive failed and it rebuilt itself using the spare, then, before I could replace the spare, a 2nd drive failed. I shut it down, got some new drives (bigger to be sure they weren't too small, allowing for differences in drive sizes reported by

Using USB Drives for a RAID

2007-08-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
Has anyone built a RAID out of USB drives? I'm considering it but I'd rather hear from others who may have done the same thing first. I can see several possible problems. Last time I was working with USG devices, if I unplugged the drives and did not plug them in using the same order

Re: Using USB Drives for a RAID

2007-08-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 18 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/18/07 19:39, Hal Vaughan wrote: Has anyone built a RAID out of USB drives? I'm considering it but I'd rather hear from others who may have done the same thing first. I can see several possible problems. Last time I was working

Re: Using USB Drives for a RAID

2007-08-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 18 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/18/07 20:35, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 18 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/18/07 19:39, Hal Vaughan wrote: Has anyone built a RAID out of USB drives? I'm considering it but I'd rather hear from others who may have done

Re: Using USB Drives for a RAID

2007-08-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 19 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/18/07 23:59, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 18 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/18/07 20:35, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 18 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/18/07 19:39, Hal Vaughan wrote: Has anyone built a RAID out of USB

Syncing GPE PIM Data on a PDA With a Workstation

2007-08-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
I recently bought a Nokia 770, which is a Linux based PDA. At this point the only reason I haven't been able to stop using my older Palm Tungsten is because I still haven't found a good system for syncing PIM data between the Nokia and my workstation. I use KDE, including apps like Kontact,

User Name Not Allowed

2007-08-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
Since I started using Linux, I've used the same username, hal, for logging in. With Sarge this was no problem since, somehow, it adapted for the actual hal programs. The first problem I had with it was with Ubuntu, but I got by that by just upgrading my old install instead of making a new

Re: User Name Not Allowed

2007-08-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 19 August 2007, Franz Pletz wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 09:23:45PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: I installed Etch on a computer for my Mother today and it wouldn't allow me to use hal. On all my email accounts and other accounts on all the systems I deal with, I've always used

Re: User Name Not Allowed

2007-08-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 19 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/19/07 20:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: Since I started using Linux, I've used the same username, hal, for logging in. With Sarge this was no problem since, somehow, it adapted for the actual hal programs. The first problem I had

Re: Mdadm won't rebuild a RAID5

2007-08-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 20 August 2007, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.08.20.1627 +0200]: 3) RAID 5 is not resilient against multiple failures.  We now use RAID 1. RAID 1 is also faster, although it sometimes requires more drives. In extreme cases we use RAID 1

Re: Mdadm won't rebuild a RAID5

2007-08-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 20 August 2007, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.08.20.2022 +0200]: In this case, I had 4 drives, so if one failed, then the spare should have been added but that hadn't happened. I thought your original email said it did resync the spare

Re: Mdadm won't rebuild a RAID5

2007-08-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 20 August 2007, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.08.20.2114 +0200]: It did on the first failure. Then another failed and I turned the machine off. When I got 2 more drives, I put them in and it rebuilt the array using 3 of the drives

Testing Spare Drives in Software RAID

2007-08-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
I know mdadm offers a --test command, but it seems quite useless: -t, --test Generate a TestMessage alert for every array found at startup. This alert gets mailed and passed to the alert program. This can be used for testing that alert message to get through successfully.

OT: Suggestions for AM/FM or FM Only Receivers

2007-08-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm working on some music streaming on a Debian system (currently Sarge, but will be updated soon) with Slimserver. I like being able to stream all the music on my hard drive and Internet radio stations to wifi devices around my home. The one thing I miss is local radio. I'd like to find a

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:19:06AM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: I just bought a computer that came with ubuntu and would like to switch it to pure debian. Is there a standard way to do this that someone could point me to? (Though I will

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/30/07 14:37, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] While it's just a small, niggling detail and may be just semantics, there is a true root account on Ubuntu that can be used the same as a root account on any Debian release. The only difference

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: Celejar wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:03:17 -0400 Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 30 August 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/30/07 14:37, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] While it's just a small, niggling detail

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 30 August 2007, 应富鸣 wrote: ... If you want to use GNOME, Ubuntu is also a good choice. It's very stable. But if you want to use KDE, as far as my experience, KUbuntu is less stable than both GNOME of Ubuntu and KDE of Debian. I've found Kubuntu quite stable. The only difference

Re: upgrading ubuntu to debian

2007-08-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Charlie wrote: On Friday 31 August 2007 12:47, Miles Bader shared this with us all: --} --} -- --} Freedom's just another word, for nothing left to lose --Janis Joplin I thought Kris Kristofferson wrote that song? And performed it as well. I have a recording

Rogue Directory

2007-09-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
Yesterday I created a new directory on my workstation so I could mount a few NFS mounts on it. As root, I typed mkdir /thresh and it worked, or seemed to. I realize I didn't actually list it, I just tried mounting the imported filesystems on it and it worked. Now when I list it, I get:

Re: Rogue Directory

2007-09-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 05 September 2007, Hal Vaughan wrote: Yesterday I created a new directory on my workstation so I could mount a few NFS mounts on it. As root, I typed mkdir /thresh and it worked, or seemed to. I realize I didn't actually list it, I just tried mounting the imported filesystems

Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 07 September 2007, Serena Cantor wrote: Thanks! most of server-related work are very specialized program I wrote myself. another example: seeding in bittorrent, if memory is big enough and file being served is small enough. Also, depending on RAM size, even if you think everything

Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 07 September 2007, Julian De Marchi wrote: Serena Cantor wrote: Thanks! Could you give me a list of programs that start automatically? Do you mean that there's nothing I can do about it? snip Silly question. No, it isn't and if you want to actually help someone instead of just

Re: [OT] Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 07 September 2007, Miles Fidelman wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/07/07 01:45, Serena Cantor wrote: I have sarge, I use it all the time (it's server) The machine is Sarge? Isn't that slightly Jurassic? I don't know, I'm

Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 07 September 2007, Serena Cantor wrote: Thanks! Could you give me a list of programs that start automatically? Do you mean that there's nothing I can do about it? Why not try ps -ax or ps -aux to get a list of programs running at any time? Then examine the crontab files as well and

Re: (solved) Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 07 September 2007, Serena Cantor wrote: Thanks! So did you locate one program in particular that was creating most of the noise? Others might want to know that answer at some point. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: why sarge is so noisy

2007-09-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 07 September 2007, Serena Cantor wrote: Thanks! I don't create swap partition during installation. I don't know if Debian uses a swap file or not. Someone else would know. If so, then you might still be hearing noise from swapping. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Sex spam again on the list

2007-09-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 09 September 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 21:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:15:32PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: This has got more than a joke now. We are being bombarded with s-x spam yet again. ... Sorry if this sounds

Re: Sex spam again on the list

2007-09-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 09 September 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 22:41, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007, Nigel Henry wrote: On Sunday 09 September 2007 21:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:15:32PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: This has

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: Mike Bird wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:55, Mike McCarty wrote: (big snip) Anyway, that's it, FWIW. Long message wth no specifics. No way to help you. I wasn't asking for help. I'm telling you that due to perceived lack of

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Joe wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I provide this only to let you know that it looks like Debian is going to lose a user to Windows shortly, due to perceived lack of concern over user's difficulties shown by those who do support for Debian. I have gently nudged

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: Mike Bird wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:45, Mike McCarty wrote: I'm not trying to be mean, either. I'm reporting a single event. We're all volunteers here. You too. If you find time I guess some of us would appreciate your

Re: jvm 1.6.0_03

2007-10-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 07 October 2007, martin yazdzik wrote: Is anyone else having issues with jvm 6 and gtk 2.12? Java 6 is an issue unto itself. I finally decided to move all my clients back to Java 5 because of too many little glitches on both Linux and Redmond OS. That all my clients are non-local

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 16 November 2007, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: This question is informational and there is no urgency. I'm not going to cover what has the first response has said, but I have a bit I can add: When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and password I

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 17 November 2007, Ted Hilts wrote: ... What I was trying to say is that I am not sure where the AiiNET prompt is coming from. Is it coming from the ISP or is it being manufactured by Minicom as some respone. I think the AiiNET prompt is coming from the ISP just as the user and

Re: Nvu equivalent in Etch?

2007-02-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 18 February 2007 10:15, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Ken Heard wrote: Is there in the Etch packages data base a complete web authoring system more or less equivalent to Nvu, which is in the Sarge data base? Ken Heard Hi Ken, I like Nvu also and I'm running Etch. I converted and rpm

Re: When you're a rank noob (was Re: Old Computer Parts)

2007-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 19 February 2007 09:26, Hans du Plooy wrote: Then that's what you say at the beginning of your email. :) These two quotes are guaranteed to garner sympathy: I'm a noob and I don't know enough to know where to begin to look. Internet access is flaky, slow and expensive.

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:01, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 10:34:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/20/07 10:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:50:16 +0800, Elvis wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, What does it mean by

Firefox: Converting URLs to kill backslashes

2007-03-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a maintenance manual for an antique car that, unfortunately, can best be viewed with a certain insecure browser on a non-free OS. I've found the main issue with using this in Linux is that the file names are all stored as relative URLs with backslashes between the directory levels

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-03-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 08 March 2007 09:18, Kent West wrote: Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely because such threads have tended to be short-lived. However, the off-topic posters (and I have been guilty myself) seem to have taken this to mean that this list is

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 19 March 2007 13:01, Raquel wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:44:38 -0400 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just saw this in the following piece: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/murdockint.html Ubuntu has certainly raised the bar. They have had a tremendous impact on the number of

Re: I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 19 March 2007 13:47, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/19/07 12:35, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 19 March 2007 13:01, Raquel wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:44:38 -0400 H.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just saw this in the following piece: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/murdockint.html

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: ... Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only using firefox to check email, hardly the grandest most eye opening event). Debian is not aimed at the same

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 28 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: ... Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only using firefox to check email

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