Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-18 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 17/10/2002 13:04, Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: Hi I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big /home and symlinking the /var to /home/var . Is there

Re: Promise 20276 IDE RAID

2002-10-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
On Friday 18 October 2002 08:05, Sagi Bashari wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any experience with the Promise 20276 under Linux? Me, a bit.. I got it working with their official drivers with RedHat 7.3. After updating the kernel using RedHat's up2date it stopped working. I can't see any

Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-18 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Fri, 18 Oct: Now when I think of it RedHat puts both WWW and FTP data in /var as well (/var/{www|ftp}). I used to move it to /home/www until now. Is it better to keep everything in /var? this data is mostly static, so I wonder why RedHat decided to

Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-18 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: hdd partitioning: Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Fri, 18 Oct: I used to move it to /home/www until now. Is it better to keep everything in /var? this data is mostly static, so I wonder why RedHat decided to move it to there.

pptp kernel freeze

2002-10-18 Thread Oleg Kobets
Hi! I had a really weird occurence yesterday. My server froze with kernel freeze and the message stated that what froze it was pptp. It was not the first time it happened, so I am a little worried here. Does anyone has such experience or knows how to fix it ? ---Oleg KobetsNetwork

Re: pptp kernel freeze

2002-10-18 Thread Guy Cohen
Yup, had that too. My only guess is that is either a bug with pptp, pppd, or the kernel ;) On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:32:24PM +0200, Oleg Kobets wrote: Hi! I had a really weird occurence yesterday. My server froze with kernel freeze and the message stated that what froze it was pptp. It was

Re: pptp kernel freeze

2002-10-18 Thread Oleg Kobets
kernel 2.4.18 vanilla debian testing pptp 1.1.0 (or debian package name 1.1.0-2) You know it's pptp's fault because your computer freezes with kernel debug info and what module caused the freeze. Trust me, it's pptp. Also I noticed a pattern, it freezes when there is a high load on network (in

Re: hdd partitioning

2002-10-18 Thread Oron Peled
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:37:30 +0200 Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is /var/www preferred over /usr/lib/www, /usr/share/www, /usr/www, and so on? It's a matter of taste and philosophy. Unix/Linux systems allows the administrator almost infinite flexibility, which means you can put

Re: pptp kernel freeze

2002-10-18 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 00:40, Oleg Kobets wrote: kernel 2.4.18 vanilla Have you tried it with a more recent kernel? Perhaps it the problem is already solved? debian testing pptp 1.1.0 (or debian package name 1.1.0-2) You know it's pptp's fault because your computer freezes with kernel debug

[long] asking for help properly [Was: pptp kernel freeze]

2002-10-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Guy Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry, I cannot help you. But in situations like these, mentioning the version of the kernel you are running pptp, and/or your distribution can be helpful. So is writing here the exact message that led you to belive it was a kernel freeze and that it

Re: RedHat 8.0 vs. 7.3, LVM (was: Re: hdd partitioning)

2002-10-18 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: It seems a recurring motive for quite a few posters here (and elsewhere). I have not tried RH 8.0, so I should shut up, but just to remind those who have forgotten, it has long been the Common Wisdom not to try *.0 releases for anything