Re: make-kpkg doesn't work properly when compiling i386 kernel on amd64 host

2013-04-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article xs4all.CAHurxuitAusyBJ9aqo0-Ncegvp4wHXb_dxdSjJQue-FF=_k...@mail.gmail.com you write: Hello, I am trying to build a kernel for my i386 PC on a amd64 server. I follow a old instrusion at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/07/msg00926.html . It can build the kernel itself

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on Etch. If your PC is fast enough, why not use dosbox instead. It uses cpu-emulation

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 20:54 -0500, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [...] Besides, you can't wipe files on a journaling fs. So, you re- mount your ext3 partition as ext2, wipe the file(s) and

Re: No shell, Only FTP access

2006-04-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:56 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 23:30 +0200, Øyvind Lode wrote: [snip] And yes I considering switching to proftpd but havn't got the time yet and I

Re: amd64: why is sizeof(int) =4? why not =8?

2006-04-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 06:48 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I wanted to find out more about amd64, so I installed the debian distro Did you install the 64 bit version? (etch/sid) on my amd64 dual core system.

Re: Cleaning /tmp regularly using bootclean.sh + crond

2006-02-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josep Serrano wrote: On Friday 17 February 2006 07:29, Josep Serrano wrote: Do you guys clean regularly your /tmp ? Yup. The tmpreaper package is great for that. Yes, tmpreaper does the job. But here I was preteding to

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ð ÐžÑ Ð°Ð»ÐžÐ¹ Ð Ñ ÐµÐœÐºÐŸ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it stores all threads like plain lists, not as treeview and that's uncomfortable for me, or i'm mistaken an evo has the abiliti to handle mailing-list and display them as trees? View - Group by Threads (or

Re: Most directories locked read-only: how to unlock them?

2006-01-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel B. wrote: That looks like you mistyped defaults as drfaults in your /etc/fstab file. I was well aware that I mistyped defaults as my original post indicated. I was also aware that this error caused the root

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories? OT question...

2005-12-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 11:46:14PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gerorge Reece-Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can see that / and /srv are ext3

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gerorge Reece-Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can see that / and /srv are ext3 and /var and /home are xfs. I chose xfs for these because they contain directories with a lot of files (the already mentioned Maildirs and a news spool).

Re: [OT] SATA vs. SCSI

2005-10-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 October 2005 20:59, Allan Wind wrote: On 2005-10-27T19:33:22-0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Our first foray into using a scsi based commercial server resulted in its getting converted to ata disks fairly rapidly as

Re: minicom display problems

2005-09-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mercifully forgot everything I knew about terminals in the '80s, But now I am puzzled by two purely theoretical questions: 1) why don't LINE and COLUMN get listed when I run printenv? Because the resize command prints out the

Re: minicom display problems

2005-09-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get minicom to properly display the color graphics of an ncurses app like iptraf? I am using the multi GNOME terminal as my X terminal, but xterm seems to have the same problems. So far I've tried: -setting the

Re: Every fifth character blurred in text

2005-09-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Xeno Campanoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not that familiar with the kind of words I should use for this video problem with every sixth character blurred. I wonder if there's another word I should use for google searches? Can anyone make a suggestion? Do you

Re: I messed up bootmisc.sh - now can't log in!

2005-08-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bryan Donlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/30/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest a tutorial on writing what I think are called init scripts? Take a look at the files in /etc/init.d, just use one of them as a template, and symlink

Re: kPDF

2005-08-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that source, put it in, ran apt-get update and then apt-get sintall acroread when it was done I sintaleld the suggested acroread-plugins as well. opened up each file continuously of TUX, with out it crashing. It's

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 14:04 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially

Re: why do PPP connections die with heavy disk usage?

2005-07-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why Linux can't seem to maintain a diald-dialed serial PPP connection while performing lots of disk I/O, especially on a PIO-mode IDE disk? Because the IDE driver turns off interrupt processing completely when

Re: fsck on ext3 drives. Do we need to routinely? how to shut off or change 30 boot/180 day settings or why should I not?

2005-07-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mitchell Laks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I am really not supposed to reboot my machine? But how can I stop 180 days from passing? :) 1. How do I modify this to 100 boots or 500 days or never? man tune2fs. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Quad-port Fast Ethernet on Debian

2005-06-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But using VLAN is much more administaration and risking mal configuration. Depends. Once you're used to handling VLANs, it makes _so_ many things _that_ much simpler that you cannot imagine ever having lived without it.

Re: Quad-port Fast Ethernet on Debian

2005-06-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am after some general advice or info on people's experiences with quad port ethernet cards. Any assistance would be much appreciated. For this, I am specifically looking to use *quad* port ethernet cards, due to the number

Re: MySQL Performance Woody Vs Sarge

2005-06-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: Simon: Jacob S wrote: # hdparm /dev/hde [...] # hdparm /dev/hdg Again, I think you are searching in the wrong direction. Your 'hdparm -tT' results clearly showed that the great difference between your

Re: Move from i386 to ia64?

2005-05-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/26/05, Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I upgrade the kernel without upgrading the userspace apps? If you'd run in 64 bit mode - No. In fact, you can. I built a 64 bits kernel on my amd64 workstation, then

Re: How to enable a user access to fsck at boot up.

2005-05-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ivan Teliatnikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day. When machine reboots and there is problem with file system one has an option to enter root password and user fsck utility to check and fix file system errors. I think this is done via sulogin utility and

Re: Use of dual CPU?

2005-05-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Mercer ha scritto: On 23/05/05, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, normally, even if i use an SMP kernel if i'm not telling the program to use both CPU it will continue using only one CPU, right? Yes,

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Miquel van Smoorenburg said: If you want to keep updates from starting the daemon, just chmod 644 it. That sounds reasonable...and simple. :) thanks. Reasonable, simple, and wrong

Re: sarge apt and init daemons

2005-05-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Clymer wrote: The debian post install script probably doest go through the rc.* directories looking for runlevel entries since these are all just symlinks to a script in

Re: kernel2.6 I cannot login

2005-01-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Massa Takeuti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My keyboard is a PS/2 American style 104 keyboard. My mouce is a PS/2 wheel mouce. I can use them for 2.4 kernel without any trouble. I show you my kernel configuration. Hmm, looks like the keyboard/mouse driver is not compiled

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 2004.12.29 16:20, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:30:27 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: No, kill(-1, SIGWHATEVER) is guaranteed to kill all processes /except/ the caller. man 2 kill on any unix/linux box. What kernel are you using, this might be a kernel bug. Is this an i386 or

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 2004.12.28 17:42, Robert Waldner wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:40:48 +0100, Robert Waldner writes: Hmm, can it be that killall5 doesn't actually manage to *not* kill itself? Ofcourse it goes through great lengths to do exactly that - NOT kill itself. It kills all processes _except_ itself and

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:25:08 +0100, John Smith writes: On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem rant It must be one of the most mentioned

Re: crontab every 5 minutes?

2004-12-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joao Clemente [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I must wonder: Is there a way to shift this by a wanted value? (for instance, when x MOD y = 1, something like putting into cron the instance (*/5)+1 ? It would run at 1,6,11,16,21, ... Is it possible? Perhaps 1-59/5 ?

Re: howto know if raid is really working?

2004-12-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harland Christofferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thursday, 16 December 2004, you wrote: Thanks for the reply, but I still haven't cleared my doubt. I'll cut the relevant part of the reply (relevant for what I'm trying to understand) and comment at the end:

Re: M$ Frontpage Replacement ?

2004-12-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nayyar Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Is there any as good as M$ Frontpage and flexible website development tool, which could give all those luxarires present in Frontpage. Nvu, http://nvu.com/ ? Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: run levels 1 and S

2004-12-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any differences between the run-levels 1 and S? I know that S10single is not executed for S, but init spawns sulogin directly. Any functional differences? Runlevel S doesn't have start/stop scripts. Runlevel 1 is

Re: LC_LANG and Init

2004-12-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, how can I set environment variables for processes listed in /etc/inittab? Especially LC_LANG which is needed for correct running (german umlauts) of a backup client. aa:2:respawn:/bin/sh 'LC_LANG=de_whatever exec

Re: OT? hypertread on or off for SMP kernel

2004-12-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, for one simple test (v.low memory, v.low comms, high compute) case which is Fortran90 compiled using mpich, I actually found turning HT off helped -- when it was on then for -np 2 there was no speed up (top implied they ran

Re: login into a particular directory using ssh

2004-12-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kamaraju Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 17:18:54 -0500, David Mandelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sh -c 'cd dirname; exec somecommand' somecommand is the command you want to run after cd'ing. E.g. if you want to run

Re: .ini files in bash?

2004-11-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How might one save and restore setting of variables in a bash script to and from a file in one's home (or sub-) directory? Okay so everybody's trying to outdo eachother trying to write sed scripts that do proper quoting. I'd

Re: Making my USB based webcam work

2004-11-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just picked up a cheap USB based webcam, and I'm trying to figure out how to use it with Debian. lsusb reports 04fC;0561 Sunplus Technology Co, Ltd. When I plug it in it's detectd but not claimed by any driver. How do I go about

Re: sysv-rc-conf breaks sysvinit

2004-11-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've filed a bugreport against sysv-rc. I meant sysv-rc-config, ofcourse. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysv-rc-conf breaks sysvinit

2004-11-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Trounson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently tried to apt-get install sysv-rc-conf, since rcconf seems to have dropped off the repos, and got this: Unpacking sysv-rc (from .../sysv-rc_2.86-5_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing

Re: where are debian boot-messages logged?

2004-11-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bram Mertens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my desktop (running SuSE 8.2) the messages printed to tty1 when the machine is booting are stored in /var/log/boot.msg. On my laptop I can't find any file in /var/log/ that contains these messages. Suse uses bootlogd for

Re: autofs or am-utils?

2004-11-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I just want my USB pen drive to be automounted dismounted, it sounds like autofs would be the one to use, then. Or supermount. That's a seperate kernel patch, though. http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

2004-11-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (see below for long story background ) The last time I created a large HW RAID5 volume (1.6 TB) the kernel was unable to see all of it... If I create several smaller block devices (like 400GB each) can LVM bind them together into

Re: Where is the key for the password files stored?

2004-10-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is the key used to decrypt the passwords (shadow) files stored? I want to reinstall an old redhat system with debian, but I wish to preserve old users and passwords to ease the transition process. You can't decrypt

Re: Can't umount / at shutdown

2004-10-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 October 2004 15:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: init 1 root 10u FIFO3,6176334 /dev/initctl It is this init process, apparently. I have had the same problem with recent 2.6.* kernels.

Re: Can't umount / at shutdown

2004-10-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pau Capdevila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've added a probe in the umount rc script to see what's opened just before trying to umount filesystems. I can see the following COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICESIZE NODE NAME lsof 2401 root1w REG

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc D Ronell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under Debian, is there a method which allows any user directly logged onto the host and using the host's keyboard and monitor to take ownership of some that host's devices? pam_console Mike. -- In times of universal

Re: change /dev/console owner to user logged on console?

2004-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc D Ronell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.user as well. Miquel == Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc D Ronell

Re: NFS slow/lockups

2004-10-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tim Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:05:21PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: Just to show its not networking problems, I have resorted to copying the files via scp - even encrypted I am getting about 0.5Mb/sec That's horrible! Is this a 10Mb

Re: More on umount problems on shutdown

2004-10-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several posters, including myself, have cited problems umounting the file systems on shutdown with recent 2.6.8 kernels. This may be caused by timing problems leaving the file systems busy. I got rid of the error messages and

Re: sysvinit/gnome/display bug report

2004-10-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Arjen Dragt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to determine the best category under which to file a Debian bug report. The symptoms (completely repeatable) are that trying to change to runlevel S (via telinit or init) does not work, insteat causes my screen

Re: running fsck on root

2004-09-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've my drive setup like this: /dev/hdb1 /boot dos /dev/hdb2 / xfs /dev/hdb3 /usr/local xfs /dev/hdb5 /u01 xfs /dev/hdb6 swap I've tried shutting down to single-user mode and then remounting / as ro but all the xfs disk check

Re: `who -d' Dead processes

2004-09-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Floris Bruynooghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a computer (old PC) running at my student house over the holidays and was using it (as I am now) to ssh into and do my normal work etc. Just by accident I discovered the `who -d' command and saw I had a couple of 100

Re: root partition full and du and df do not agree

2004-09-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Harrold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a delima. My root partition is about 24Gb and it's full. The problem is that I cannot figure out what is taking up the space. If I goto '/' and run 'du -x' it says that about 500Mb are being used. This is about what I

Re: Orderly dismount at shutdown?

2004-08-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that I have my multi-partition file system up and running: One of the partitions (mounted /usr/share) does not dismount in an orderly manner on shutdown. I get messages like: Illegal seek ...hdb6 not mounted ... It's

Re: /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted

2004-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I do a su - sysadm on one server with Woody I get the error message in the subject line. That happens only when su to sysadm is being used. Apart from the error message everything seems work normally: 14:40:38 [EMAIL

Re: Exim4 return-path header

2004-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use Exim4 with Sarge and have a little configuration problem regarding mail headers. What should I do in order to have Return-path and Sender headers added by Exim to be exactly the same as the From header created by my mail

Re: domain name of debian

2004-08-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rus Foster wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Shu Hung (Koala) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 where does the domain name of a debain stored? is there anyway to change it? Try edit /etc/domainname or

Re: Where's routed?

2004-08-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out the package zebra. Replaces routed and ripd. http://www.zebra.org/ Zebra has been superseded by quagga, http://www.quagga.net/ Mike. -- The question is, what is a manamanap. The question is, who cares ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?

2004-08-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:46:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote: How can I test to see if the word tuber is in the /etc/passwd file, reliably, and take an action if it is, and take a different action if it's not, in a bash shell

Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?

2004-08-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A programmer would know this . . , but not me ;-) I'm using a script to build a file by concatenating portions of two other

Re: OT: Which tool, and how, to get partial string from file?

2004-08-20 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A programmer would know this . . , but not me ;-) I'm using a script to build a file by concatenating portions of two other files. Then end result needs to be checked to make sure a certain word shows up in a line. I know that

Re: Sarge RAID install

2004-08-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WA9ALS - John wrote: Newbie installing latest Sarge would like to configure RAID 1. Would someone please show me what the partition table should look like for the simple case of / and swap partitions, configured with RAID 1?

Re: bad shutdown

2004-08-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Silvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I have a CD-ROM going south. I started the KDE CD ripper flummy, and then immediately stopped it. I wound up with a kaudiocreator process hung up eating system CPU cycles and making my hard disk do unpleasant sounding

Re: kill process by name

2004-08-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 07:58:02PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 19:29, Muratorio, Diego wrote: Hello Rick, I am looking for the same, did you find something about kill process by name? You want

Re: exim? imap?

2004-08-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a debian woody server, using exim (I believe -- actually, I have whatever Debian installs as default, which I believe is exim), and I have peen persuaded that I should change over to imap. You don't change over to

Re: Exim From header

2004-07-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Master_PE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op za 24-07-2004, om 13:17 schreef Vincent Lefevre: On 2004-07-24 11:00:59 +0200, Master_PE wrote: I already touth that my Pop3 client is broken. But thats nothing i can do about. I use Maildir as a format. Then I don't

Re: nfs locking daemon?

2004-07-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a special nfs locking daemon for NFS-clients? I'm running a server with nfs-kernel-server and on the server there is a lockd process. If I try to log into GNOME 2.2 on the client (which has nfs-mounted home

Re: pppoa package available?

2004-07-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Russell D Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DSL recently became available in my rural area, and I subscribed. I use a linux stable machine as a firewall and gateway for my home lan, accessing the dsl modem via an ethernet port. My provider advises me that they will

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an installed Debian system which I want to move to RAID-1. Try this: http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/raid/ Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: 2.4.26 upgrade = no auto power off

2004-06-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Glenn Meehan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.4.26 and now my system won't auto power down. I am running testing/unstable. What version of sysvinit are you running? 2.85-16 had a bug that caused this. Has been fixed in the current

Re: handling runlevels independently with update-rc.d

2004-06-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sebastian Kügler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's probably easier to use `ln -s` than to get update-rc.d working as you would like. I am now using symlinking rather than update-rc.d, and it seems to work fine. Sure, until policy changes, the internal implementation

Re: kernel 2.6.6 - why shutting down my hard drives while rebooting?

2004-05-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], LeVA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roberto Sanchez 2004. május 13. 01:51 dátummal ezt írta: Thomas Adam wrote: --- LeVA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! well. I think this is something with a misconfigured kernel, because this isn't happening with my 2.4.26,

Re: bootlogd: ioctl (/dev/ttyzf, TIOCCONS): Bad file descriptor

2004-05-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Niels L. Ellegaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just looked at my system (Sarge/sid/linux-image-2.6.5-386), and it seems that my bootlogd is not running. It does not create a /var/log/bootlogd and at some point during the boot process I get the following error.

Re: software raid and lvm

2004-04-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg Sidelinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to find some documentation how installing testing on a system using root on software raid1 and lmv. I've done some searching around and most of the stuff I have seen is for the 3.0 installer and not the new debian

Re: RAID performance

2004-04-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alvin Oga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for filesystems, I personally prefer ReiserFS, but that's just personal preference. If you're comfortable with ext3, then by all means use ext3. ditto, reiserfs is a better choice than ext3 see the reiserfs vs ext3

Re: sid: udev dependency problem

2004-04-07 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Lorenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -=-=-=-=-=- The following occurs when I try to install a new version of udev... seems to be caused by 'initscripts', which is - I have no idea why - not installed on my system... not sure if I should file a bug. seems too

Re: /dev/pts/X not getting reused

2004-04-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, since some days ago, I've noticed that pts devices are not being reused. I mean, the usual behavior was: open a xterm, which gets e.g. pts/7, close it, open another one, which will get pts/7 again. Now it'd get pts/8, and

Re: libc6 - initscripts conflict

2004-04-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Axel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to upgrade libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 to libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11 in Sid, but I get this error: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-11_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/etc/default/devpts', which

Re: What's the mistake in this init script?

2004-04-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adam Aube [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Funk wrote: Sometimes /etc/init.d/exim restart stops but doesn't restart the exim daemon. Does anyone see anything wrong? Maybe the sleep interval is too short, and Exim doesn't finish exiting before the script tries to

Re: how to do/repair a raid1 missing disk install (was: Re: lilo + raid = disaster (again))

2004-03-29 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: sector, and I'm tired of it. If you don't have time to make it into a howto, let me know and I'll do it. Please do it :-) I lack the time to write (and maintain) such

Re: Promise or 3Ware? - booting

2004-03-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:08:50, Alvin Oga wrote: On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: The problem with software raid is that if the first (boot) disk goes south, the system won't boot anymore. If you're using RAID1 just for data integrity and don't care if you have to open up

Re: Promise or 3Ware?

2004-03-25 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 March 2004 18.58, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: I now need to buy some hardware to set up a 2-disk RAID-1 array for a server. The server will run debian with kernel 2.6. The cost

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Short answer: A lot of connections, not really. Long answer: Well, TCP/IP only allows for something like 65535 concurrent connections... .. per remote host. Mike. -- Netu, v qba'g yvxr gur cynvagrkg :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Severe network slowdown

2004-03-21 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], F.L. Tak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having very strage network problems with Woody. A seemingly random amount of time after the machine has booted (I've seen it happen after a few days, but also after a few hours), all network traffic slows to almost a halt. If I

Re: Missing /var/log/wtmp

2004-02-04 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am running debian unstable. I seem to be missing /var/log/wtmp from my system. I have searched debian and found no file by that name in the package contents searches. I searched google; I did find some correspondence on

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-02-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miquel van Smoorenburg miquels () cistron ! nl wrote in part: A thought just hit me. What if we added a update-rc.d name enable|disable command? This has already been wished for. See sysv-rc wish #214757 No, that's not what I

Re: Exim vs Procmail (was: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others)

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-01-30 18:34:17 +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: See http://www.exim.org/ . Click on Documentation and FAQs. There are several things I don't like: You're probably right on most of those, exim filtering isn't

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:21:46AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2004-01-30 14:57:37 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: Aha, that explains why the 2nd message worked: I have a mutt rule that adds the correct From for list-replies. I

Re: /etc/init.d/ - add/remove services

2004-01-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that the expectation of the System V init system is that every service have either an S or a K symlink in each runlevel. If there is no symlink for a service in a particular runlevel then the behavior of sysv's invoke-rc.d

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

2004-01-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:53:43PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: Configuration: Internet with smarthost Append .domain? No Smtp relay host? My ISPs smtp server Final destination domains? default choices ---Force synchronous

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

2004-01-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-01-30 09:03:28 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Exim does not need an MDA and has its own user-level filtering. But the man page is far from being clear and incomplete (compared to the procmail man pages). First, what

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention the fact that the US is following more than one thread by being by far the largest donor of aid to poorer nations Google for foreign aid usa denmark netherlands and you'll find things like

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:29:02PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention the fact that the US is following more than one thread by being by far

Re: Fwd: xfs_force_shutdown(md(9,0),0x8) called from line 1070 of file xfs_trans.c.

2004-01-23 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we're having nasty problems an our new raid on a linux box: When performing hevy i/o (in present case was scp -r), the disks get disconnected with this kernel message: - Dec 3 15:55:34 machine sshd(pam_unix)[1791]: session

Re: OT: Why the net Sucks: Stonehenge

2004-01-13 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nano Nano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but these aren't exactly deep; these are more like the Travel Brochures you see in hotel lobbies. None of the other links are very good at all. And having to type in stonehenge history is the kind of beef I had with old-school

Re: serial terminal and reboot troubleshooting with new kernel

2004-01-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], truck loser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I installed woody with the 2.2 kenel. When I upgraded to the 2.4 kernel I was left with too nerve racking problems. First, my serial terminal no longer prints out the startup and shutdown messages. Also, no iptables

Re: New users not working via NIS and PAM

2004-01-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Melnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using Sarge. New users made through adduser can't log in on NIS clients (OS X). Old users (created when it was Woody) can. When I log in as an old user and try to su to a new user, I get a pam_authenticate error. Type

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