Re: Alt-SysRq & kernel 2.6.8: HOWTO?
>IIRC, You have to enable kernel hacking. Then the Mag-Sys-Reg-key-config >should appear. Well, I thougth that were the solution. But the "Magic SysReq" option for kernel 2.6.x is now under "Kernel debugging"... I found it! anyway, thanks.
Re: Mail on laptop
Op za 02-10-2004, om 20:27 schreef Bob Proulx: > > I recently acquired a laptop, and ofcourse I installed Debian on it. > Of course! :-) After a regular i386 and a UltraSparc 10, what else could I do... > Not sure this helps you but you can tell debconf to send mail to a > different address. > export [EMAIL PROTECTED] That helps for debconf, but does not solve the more general problem. > I actually use it to turn off those messages entirely. > export DEBCONF_ADMIN_EMAIL="" > When you install a security upgrade for ssh to a few hundred machines > and each and every one wants to say the same thing to you it gets a > little tedious. :-) Sounds like spam from your own machines :-) > But really the only two users that you care about are yourself and > root so the simplest thing (what I would do) is to create aliases for > those two users and forward that mail to the address you want. Right, but the simplest MTA's (nullmailer, ssmtp) don't support that as far as I know, and there doesn't seem to be anything in between these simplest MTA's and stuff like exim or postfix. The obvious reply to that would be 'there's a great opportunity for you to contribute something to the world', but unfortunately, my programming skills nowadays are limited to Matlab and some scripts for personal use. So, I guess I'll just have to install exim or postfix then. Koen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote backup
i've heard about Mondo Rescue packages and bootable cd... i've never tried it, so it's just a suggestion... http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ HTH marco On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 04:22, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On 2 Oct 2004, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net > > my laptop once it is connected: > > what is the best way to do so ? > > My recommendation would be the 'BackupPC' package, found in testing and > unstable. That will happily produce long term archival backups of the > laptop, and can dump to tape, etc, for off-line storage as well. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single > complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea. > -- RFC 1925 > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail on laptop
Hello! I do not know wether this will help in your setup, but with esmtp you can send to different smtp relays depending on the senders address. On my laptop I have the following: I let exim deliver only local mail, including that all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] That handles my local delivery. Additionally I use esmtp to get my mail out. Now if I send from my regular email address at the isp, then esmtp will send it to their smtp relay. However, when I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a sender, esmtp will deliver locally. So - pretty useless though - I can even send a email locally to my girl. Cheers, Martin On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:13:51AM +0200, Koen Vermeer wrote: > Op za 02-10-2004, om 20:27 schreef Bob Proulx: > > > I recently acquired a laptop, and ofcourse I installed Debian on it. > > Of course! :-) > > After a regular i386 and a UltraSparc 10, what else could I do... > > > Not sure this helps you but you can tell debconf to send mail to a > > different address. > > export [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That helps for debconf, but does not solve the more general problem. > > > I actually use it to turn off those messages entirely. > > export DEBCONF_ADMIN_EMAIL="" > > When you install a security upgrade for ssh to a few hundred machines > > and each and every one wants to say the same thing to you it gets a > > little tedious. :-) > > Sounds like spam from your own machines :-) > > > But really the only two users that you care about are yourself and > > root so the simplest thing (what I would do) is to create aliases for > > those two users and forward that mail to the address you want. > > Right, but the simplest MTA's (nullmailer, ssmtp) don't support that as > far as I know, and there doesn't seem to be anything in between these > simplest MTA's and stuff like exim or postfix. > > The obvious reply to that would be 'there's a great opportunity for you > to contribute something to the world', but unfortunately, my programming > skills nowadays are limited to Matlab and some scripts for personal use. > > So, I guess I'll just have to install exim or postfix then. > > Koen > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote backup
Hello List, thank very much for your suggestions. Tobias Kraus wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2004 03:39 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: Hello List, I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net my laptop once it is connected: what is the best way to do so ? I'm using rsync for this. My desktop is a rsync-server and my laptop tests hourely if it is available. If so, and the last backup is older than one day it rsync my hdd. On the server, I have a script that creates snapshots via hardlinks. (thanks to http://www.heinlein-support.de/web/projekte/rsync-backup/ :-) for inspiration) Tell me if you want to have my shell scripts and more details. I was planning to do something similar: backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files. Yes, please send your shell script. Thanks, Jerome Tobias Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
Hi list, as I cannot read my battery status, my laptop went off unexpectingly. After reboot, and a fsck, and reboot again, I get the following message: INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (none) tty1 (none) login: root Login incorrect (none) login: root Login incorrect [Ctrl+Alt+Del] INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6 INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal INIT: Sending the processes the KILL signal INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): (none)~touch /tmp/try.log touch: cannot touch '/tmp/try.log': Read-only file system I have in my /etc/fstab: /dev/hda5 / ext2errors=remount-ro 0 1 after remounting the root partition, nothing changes: (none)~mount -o remount /dev/hda5 (none)~touch /tmp/try.log (none)~init 3 INIT: Switching to runlevel: 3 INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal INIT: Sending the processes the KILL signal INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (none) tty1 (none) login: Any idea? Thanks in advance, Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:59, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" What does ls -l /etc/init.d/rc* show ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote backup
You can try also rdiff_backup: http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/index.html A, C, Censi On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:55:50 +0200, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > thank very much for your suggestions. > > Tobias Kraus wrote: > > Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2004 03:39 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: > > > >>Hello List, > >> > >>I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net > >>my laptop once it is connected: > >>what is the best way to do so ? > > > > > > I'm using rsync for this. My desktop is a rsync-server and my laptop > > tests hourely if it is available. If so, and the last backup is older > > than one day it rsync my hdd. On the server, I have a script that > > creates snapshots via hardlinks. (thanks to > > http://www.heinlein-support.de/web/projekte/rsync-backup/ :-) for > > inspiration) Tell me if you want to have my shell scripts and more > > details. > > I was planning to do something similar: > backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files. > > Yes, please send your shell script. > > Thanks, > Jerome > > > > > > > Tobias > > > > > >>Thanks in advance, > >>Jerome > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- A. C. Censi accensi [em] gmail [ponto] com accensi [em] montreal [ponto] com [ponto] br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!
On October 3, 2004 05:49 am, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 07:27:42PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:43:08PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > On September 28, 2004 08:47 am, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:46:23PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > > [...] > > > > > uhci-hcd > > > > hid > > just for the record, it seems that 'hid' is called 'usbhid' since at > least 2.6.7 Well, that explains the message every time I start up, that says "hid" can't be found. It was working fine, anyway, so I didn't get around to checking it. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote backup
On October 4, 2004 05:43 am, Marco Bellini wrote: > i've heard about Mondo Rescue packages and bootable cd... i've never > tried it, so it's just a suggestion... > http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ imo, the critical word there is "Rescue". I couldn't figure out a way to get Mondo to just back up my _data_. It wants to create a bootable CD and just seemed to be doing too much (in the end, it went off and spent 4 hours creating a bootable CD of my 4GB Oracle partition, and I gave up on it - it seemed to be doing _something_ - the fan kept coming on - but not ever actually writing anything). -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Andrew Porter wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:59, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" > > What does ls -l /etc/init.d/rc* show ? it shows: -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2235 Oct 4 14:25 /etc/init.d/rc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1190 Oct 4 14:25 /etc/init.d/rcS > > > > > > I found the following: the /bin/sh was missing, as well as /bin/bash. I linked: ln -s /bin/zsh bin/sh Basicly seems like the whole system is not working properly: "apt-get dist-upgrade" wants libc6. "apt-get install libc6" says that it cannot get the debconf version. The debconf version is ofcourse installed... So, the first task in the moment is to find a way to install libc6... (a lot of things in /lost+found/.)is there a way with apt-get or so to recover the previous state of the system? Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cannot get debconf version
Hi list, I have the following problem: when I try to install whatever with: apt-get install ... i get: Try 'apt-get -f install' When I try that, I always get: E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? Unpacking libc6 (from ...)... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-installed script: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing .. (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 I tought that the problem might be in dpkg, so i compiled it from source. But the error still persist. In summary in the moment there is no way to install on my system: libc6, bash,... whatever you can think of. I have some questions: 1. How and where from I can get the sources of debconf? (with "apt-get source --tar-only" It is not downloading nothing) 2. Where does apt-get read the debconf version? 3. What is this pre-installed script? In fact for any idea I will be greatful... Thanks in advance, Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debconf source
Hi list, I have the following problem: when I try to install whatever with: apt-get install ... i get: Try 'apt-get -f install' When I try that, I always get: E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? Unpacking libc6 (from ...)... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-installed script: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing .. (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 I tought that the problem might be in dpkg, so i compiled it from source. But the error still persist. In summary in the moment there is no way to install on my system: libc6, bash,... whatever you can think of. I have some questions: 1. How and where from I can get the sources of debconf? (with "apt-get source --tar-only" It is not downloading nothing) 2. Where does apt-get read the debconf version? 3. What is this pre-installed script? In fact for any idea I will be greatful... Thanks in advance, Ivan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot get debconf version
Hello, Ivan Glushkov a écrit : E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? I am not an expert at all, but : - what is the output of 'dpkg -l debconf'? - then try 'apt-get install debconf' Your problem sounds strange as 'debconf' seems to be a core component of a Debian system. My 2 cents. HTH, -- Emmanuel Halbwachs Labo. de Photonique et Nanostructures tel : (+33)1 69 63 61 34 CNRS UPR 20 fax : (+33)1 69 63 60 06 Route de Nozay F 91460 Marcoussis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debconf source
On October 4, 2004 12:31 pm, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Please don't start new threads to ask old questions. This is all based on an apparent corrupted partition as reported in the thread 'Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"', but people aren't going to know that from your description here. > E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? > debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get > debconf version. Is debconf installed? > > Unpacking libc6 (from ...)... You seem to be going about things rather the wrong way. Fix your file corruption first. Then install anything you can from _binary_ packages. Trying to install from source means that you have to worry about the status of all your devel packages, as well as everything else you already know is corrupted. > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-installed script: No such > file or directory > dpkg: error processing .. (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 > > > I tought that the problem might be in dpkg, so i compiled it from source. > But the error still persist. dpkg seemed to be working. It probably can't access /var/lib/dpkg/info/. > 1. How and where from I can get the sources of debconf? (with "apt-get > source --tar-only" It is not downloading nothing) > 2. Where does apt-get read the debconf version? I _think_ it doesn't. I think the preinst, postinst, etc, scripts do that. > 3. What is this pre-installed script? .deb files have optional pre-install, post-install, pre-rm (remove) and post-rm scripts. They're in the package, but after unpacking them it was unable to find, in this case, libc6 has libc6.postinst, libc6.preinst, and libc6.postrm in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ I'd start by looking in your lost+found for anything that looks like it belongs in /var/lib/dpkg. Or just reformat the partition and restore it from backup. :-) -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote backup
[...]
>
> I was planning to do something similar:
> backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files.
>
> Yes, please send your shell script.
@ML:
I turned of automatic line break for this mail.
Please don't complain about lines longer than 80 characters.
Thanks.
Thanks for inspiration to:
http://www.heinlein-support.de/web/projekte/rsync-backup/
Hi Jerome,
on server-side (desktop) I'm running a rsync-server (see rsync(1), rsyncd.conf(5))
On client-side (notebook) every hour I run the rsync-backup script. It is configured
with 5 environment variables (see below). If more than $RSYNC_TIME seconds have passed
after last backup, it checks whether rsync-server is reachable. If it is, it calls
the rsync_func() bash function to do the actual backup.
On server-side, the rsync-rotate script is called hourly by cron.
If no rsync-process is running and the creation time of the lockfile of $ROTATE_DIR
is younger than $ROTATE_DIR.0 it locks the rsync-port using iptables (if you don't
know how iptables works, drop me a line and I'll give you a _short_ introduction
- I don't have very much spare time now :-( ). After that it deletes the oldest
backup and rotates all others (8->9, 7->8, and so on).
After that, it makes a backup of $ROTATE_DIR using hard
links. So unchanged files don't use any hard disk space, except inodes for the hard
links. Finally it copies "$ROTATE_DIR" to "$ROTATE_DIR"- (if an important file should
get
corrupted - remember: if a file did not change for the last 10 rsync-rotate runs, or so
(see $NUM_BACKUPS), there is exactly one copy of the file on the hdd!)
BTW, sorry for my bad english.
Tobias
/usr/local/sbin/rsync-backup: (client = notebook)
- 8X
#!/bin/bash
#DNS-name/IP-address of rsync-server
RSYNC_SRV="server"
#rsync-share to backup to
RSYNC_SERVICE="system"
#lockfile, also as indicator when last backup was successful
RSYNC_LOCK="/var/local/rsync-backup.lock"
#logfile
RSYNC_LOG="/var/local/rsync-backup.log"
#minium time (seconds) which have to pass for anoter backup
RSYNC_TIME=$((60*60*24*1))
rsync_func () {
echo "Backing up $1" >>$RSYNC_LOG
nice -19 rsync -ax --numeric-ids --delete $2 $1
rsync://"$RSYNC_SRV"/"$RSYNC_SERVICE" >> $RSYNC_LOG 2>&1
if ! [ $? = 24 -o $? = 0 ] ; then
rm "$RSYNC_LOCK";
echo "Error at $1. EXIT!" >>$RSYNC_LOG;
fi
}
ps -e |grep -v grep |grep -v $$ |grep `basename $0` >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
echo >>$RSYNC_LOG
date +"%s = %c" >>$RSYNC_LOG
[ -f "$RSYNC_LOCK" ] && [ $(( `date +%s` - `date -r "$RSYNC_LOCK" +%s` )) -lt
$RSYNC_TIME ] && { echo "No backup. End of program!" $RSYNC_LOG ; exit 0 ; }
rsync rsync://$RSYNC_SRV >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "RSYNC-Server not available. End of
program!" >>$RSYNC_LOG ; exit 0 ; }
rm -f "$RSYNC_LOCK"
#create lockfile, creation time shows last backup
touch "$RSYNC_LOCK"
#do actual backup
rsync_func /home
rsync_func /usr
rsync_func / "--exclude /home --exclude /usr"
echo "End of program!">>$RSYNC_LOG
- 8X
/usr/local/sbin/rsync-rotate: (server = desktop)
- 8X
#!/bin/bash
#iptables-chain used to block rsync port
IPTBL_CHAIN="rsync"
#name or # of port rsync runs on
RSYNC_PORT="rsync"
#iptables executable
IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables"
#rotate which directory. must be the directory rsync shares on the network
ROTATE_DIR="/pub/backup/system"
#lockfile
LOCKFILE="var/local/rsync-backup.lock"
#number of copies stored
NUM_BACKUPS=9
for i in `pidof -x $0`; do
[ x$i != x$$ ] && exit
done
[ `date -r "$ROTATE_DIR"/"$LOCKFILE" +%s` -gt `date -r "$ROTATE_DIR".0/"$LOCKFILE"
+%s` ] || exit 0
[ -d "$ROTATE_DIR" ] || exit 0
[ -x "$IPTABLES" ] || exit 0
[ $NUM_BACKUPS -lt 1 ] && NUM_BACKUPS=1
[ $NUM_BACKUPS -gt 10 ] && NUM_BACKUPS=10
$IPTABLES -L "$IPTBL_CHAIN" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -N "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
$IPTABLES -L INPUT |grep "$IPTBL_CHAIN.*$RSYNC_PORT" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -I INPUT -p tcp --dport "$RSYNC_PORT" -j "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
$IPTABLES -L OUTPUT |grep "$IPTBL_CHAIN.*$RSYNC_PORT" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -I OUTPUT -p tcp --sport "$RSYNC_PORT" -j "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
netstat -t |grep ":$RSYNC_PORT.*ESTABLISHED" >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
$IPTABLES -A "$IPTBL_CHAIN" -j REJECT
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$NUM_BACKUPS ] ; then
NUM_BACKUPS=$(($NUM_BACKUPS - 1))
rm -rf "$ROTATE_DIR".$NUM_BACKUPS
fi
for OLD in 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ; do
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$OLD ] ; then
NEW=$[ $OLD + 1 ]
[ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW ] && rm -rf "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW
mv "$ROTATE_DIR".$OLD "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW
fi
done
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR" ] ; then
cp -al "$ROTATE_DIR" "$ROTATE_DIR".0
Re: APM: will not sleep with AC plugged in?
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Re: remote backup
Thank you very much,
Jerome
Tobias Kraus wrote:
[...]
I was planning to do something similar:
backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files.
Yes, please send your shell script.
@ML:
I turned of automatic line break for this mail.
Please don't complain about lines longer than 80 characters.
Thanks.
Thanks for inspiration to:
http://www.heinlein-support.de/web/projekte/rsync-backup/
Hi Jerome,
on server-side (desktop) I'm running a rsync-server (see rsync(1), rsyncd.conf(5))
On client-side (notebook) every hour I run the rsync-backup script. It is configured
with 5 environment variables (see below). If more than $RSYNC_TIME seconds have passed
after last backup, it checks whether rsync-server is reachable. If it is, it calls
the rsync_func() bash function to do the actual backup.
On server-side, the rsync-rotate script is called hourly by cron.
If no rsync-process is running and the creation time of the lockfile of $ROTATE_DIR
is younger than $ROTATE_DIR.0 it locks the rsync-port using iptables (if you don't
know how iptables works, drop me a line and I'll give you a _short_ introduction
- I don't have very much spare time now :-( ). After that it deletes the oldest
backup and rotates all others (8->9, 7->8, and so on).
After that, it makes a backup of $ROTATE_DIR using hard
links. So unchanged files don't use any hard disk space, except inodes for the hard
links. Finally it copies "$ROTATE_DIR" to "$ROTATE_DIR"- (if an important file should get
corrupted - remember: if a file did not change for the last 10 rsync-rotate runs, or so
(see $NUM_BACKUPS), there is exactly one copy of the file on the hdd!)
BTW, sorry for my bad english.
Tobias
/usr/local/sbin/rsync-backup: (client = notebook)
- 8X
#!/bin/bash
#DNS-name/IP-address of rsync-server
RSYNC_SRV="server"
#rsync-share to backup to
RSYNC_SERVICE="system"
#lockfile, also as indicator when last backup was successful
RSYNC_LOCK="/var/local/rsync-backup.lock"
#logfile
RSYNC_LOG="/var/local/rsync-backup.log"
#minium time (seconds) which have to pass for anoter backup
RSYNC_TIME=$((60*60*24*1))
rsync_func () {
echo "Backing up $1" >>$RSYNC_LOG
nice -19 rsync -ax --numeric-ids --delete $2 $1 rsync://"$RSYNC_SRV"/"$RSYNC_SERVICE" >>
$RSYNC_LOG 2>&1
if ! [ $? = 24 -o $? = 0 ] ; then
rm "$RSYNC_LOCK";
echo "Error at $1. EXIT!" >>$RSYNC_LOG;
fi
}
ps -e |grep -v grep |grep -v $$ |grep `basename $0` >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
echo >>$RSYNC_LOG
date +"%s = %c" >>$RSYNC_LOG
[ -f "$RSYNC_LOCK" ] && [ $(( `date +%s` - `date -r "$RSYNC_LOCK" +%s` )) -lt $RSYNC_TIME ]
&& { echo "No backup. End of program!" $RSYNC_LOG ; exit 0 ; }
rsync rsync://$RSYNC_SRV >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "RSYNC-Server not available. End of
program!" >>$RSYNC_LOG ; exit 0 ; }
rm -f "$RSYNC_LOCK"
#create lockfile, creation time shows last backup
touch "$RSYNC_LOCK"
#do actual backup
rsync_func /home
rsync_func /usr
rsync_func / "--exclude /home --exclude /usr"
echo "End of program!">>$RSYNC_LOG
- 8X
/usr/local/sbin/rsync-rotate: (server = desktop)
- 8X
#!/bin/bash
#iptables-chain used to block rsync port
IPTBL_CHAIN="rsync"
#name or # of port rsync runs on
RSYNC_PORT="rsync"
#iptables executable
IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables"
#rotate which directory. must be the directory rsync shares on the network
ROTATE_DIR="/pub/backup/system"
#lockfile
LOCKFILE="var/local/rsync-backup.lock"
#number of copies stored
NUM_BACKUPS=9
for i in `pidof -x $0`; do
[ x$i != x$$ ] && exit
done
[ `date -r "$ROTATE_DIR"/"$LOCKFILE" +%s` -gt `date -r "$ROTATE_DIR".0/"$LOCKFILE"
+%s` ] || exit 0
[ -d "$ROTATE_DIR" ] || exit 0
[ -x "$IPTABLES" ] || exit 0
[ $NUM_BACKUPS -lt 1 ] && NUM_BACKUPS=1
[ $NUM_BACKUPS -gt 10 ] && NUM_BACKUPS=10
$IPTABLES -L "$IPTBL_CHAIN" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -N "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
$IPTABLES -L INPUT |grep "$IPTBL_CHAIN.*$RSYNC_PORT" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -I INPUT -p tcp --dport "$RSYNC_PORT" -j "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
$IPTABLES -L OUTPUT |grep "$IPTBL_CHAIN.*$RSYNC_PORT" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -I OUTPUT -p tcp --sport "$RSYNC_PORT" -j "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
netstat -t |grep ":$RSYNC_PORT.*ESTABLISHED" >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
$IPTABLES -A "$IPTBL_CHAIN" -j REJECT
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$NUM_BACKUPS ] ; then
NUM_BACKUPS=$(($NUM_BACKUPS - 1))
rm -rf "$ROTATE_DIR".$NUM_BACKUPS
fi
for OLD in 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ; do
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$OLD ] ; then
NEW=$[ $OLD + 1 ]
[ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW ] && rm -rf "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW
mv "$ROTATE_DIR".$OLD "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW
fi
done
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR" ] ; then
cp -al "$ROTATE_DIR" "$ROTATE_DIR".0
Amilo A1630
Hey! I have an FSC Amilo A1630 and wanne know if anyone of you have any experience with debian on this laptop. I also wanne ask about the hardware informations. I couldn find any special informations aubout this laptop except the normal sell infos. thxAufnehmen, abschicken, nah sein - So einfach ist WEB.DE Video-Mail: http://freemail.web.de/?mc=021200 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: broken cd-rw drive
David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... [snip] There has been a single case of confirmed CD-RW hardware malfunctioning due to software bugs related to Linux, and it was due to questionable use of ATAPI codes by LG, and it only affected LG CD-ROM drives under Mandrake 9.2 (which shipped with a patched kernel image that queried the hardware through the use of the above-mentioned ATAPI codes). You can check on that: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 I don't want to sound like a zealot, but your situation does not sound at all like it was caused by software. I know you tried not to sound like you are blaming Debian/Linux for what happened, but please try to exhaust all possibilities before coming up with the usual "well, this was the only thing I changed, so it must be the cause of my problem" approach. Cheers, and good luck findind a replacement drive. Ulisses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: broken cd-rw drive
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:58:28AM -0300, Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >Hi group, > > > >I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a > >possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... > > > > > [snip] > > There has been a single case of confirmed CD-RW hardware malfunctioning > due to software bugs related to Linux, and it was due to questionable > use of ATAPI codes by LG, and it only affected LG CD-ROM drives under > Mandrake 9.2 (which shipped with a patched kernel image that queried the > hardware through the use of the above-mentioned ATAPI codes). You can > check on that: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 So there is a confirmed case, but these drives could be recovered. No real physical damage here, :-) > I don't want to sound like a zealot, but your situation does not sound > at all like it was caused by software. >From time to time, my family/friends tell me, I _do_ sound like a zealot. > I know you tried not to sound like you are blaming Debian/Linux for > what happened, but please try to exhaust all possibilities before > coming up with the usual "well, this was the only thing I changed, so > it must be the cause of my problem" approach. On the contrary. This wasn't my approach at all. But then, as it happened while I was switching kernel modules etc., I want to absolutely make sure it is _not_ caused by software so I can wholeheartedly yell at the support people when (if) they tell me they don't support linux and well, it was not recommended to run that anyway, so warranty is void. > Cheers, and good luck findind a replacement drive. Thanks! David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote backup
Hi, * Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041004 10:09]: > On 2 Oct 2004, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net > > my laptop once it is connected: > > what is the best way to do so ? > > My recommendation would be the 'BackupPC' package, found in testing and > unstable. That will happily produce long term archival backups of the > laptop, and can dump to tape, etc, for off-line storage as well. Thanks for pointing out this package. I've just installed it and it seems quite nice. I have a question about this package, and was unable to find the answer (or even the question) in the documentation, FAQs or on google. I suffer from a small /var partition... (if only there was SPAM with a pill for that), and BackupPC wants to put all the backups in /var/lib/backuppc/pc. It seems there is no way to tell BackupPC to use a different location. The simple "fix" was to just symlink this directory to somewhere else. This seems to work ok, except that BackupPC continues to look in /var to determine how much space it has available. Does anyone have a proper solution to this problem? Thanks, Nick. -- Debian 3.1 Linux twofish 2.6.8-looxt93c4 i686 GNU/Linux signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: remote backup
Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2004 03:39 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: > Hello List, > > I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net > my laptop once it is connected: > what is the best way to do so ? I'm using rsync for this. My desktop is a rsync-server and my laptop tests hourely if it is available. If so, and the last backup is older than one day it rsync my hdd. On the server, I have a script that creates snapshots via hardlinks. (thanks to http://www.heinlein-support.de/web/projekte/rsync-backup/ :-) for inspiration) Tell me if you want to have my shell scripts and more details. Tobias > > Thanks in advance, > Jerome
Re: Alt-SysRq & kernel 2.6.8: HOWTO?
>IIRC, You have to enable kernel hacking. Then the Mag-Sys-Reg-key-config >should appear. Well, I thougth that were the solution. But the "Magic SysReq" option for kernel 2.6.x is now under "Kernel debugging"... I found it! anyway, thanks.
Re: Mail on laptop
Op za 02-10-2004, om 20:27 schreef Bob Proulx: > > I recently acquired a laptop, and ofcourse I installed Debian on it. > Of course! :-) After a regular i386 and a UltraSparc 10, what else could I do... > Not sure this helps you but you can tell debconf to send mail to a > different address. > export [EMAIL PROTECTED] That helps for debconf, but does not solve the more general problem. > I actually use it to turn off those messages entirely. > export DEBCONF_ADMIN_EMAIL="" > When you install a security upgrade for ssh to a few hundred machines > and each and every one wants to say the same thing to you it gets a > little tedious. :-) Sounds like spam from your own machines :-) > But really the only two users that you care about are yourself and > root so the simplest thing (what I would do) is to create aliases for > those two users and forward that mail to the address you want. Right, but the simplest MTA's (nullmailer, ssmtp) don't support that as far as I know, and there doesn't seem to be anything in between these simplest MTA's and stuff like exim or postfix. The obvious reply to that would be 'there's a great opportunity for you to contribute something to the world', but unfortunately, my programming skills nowadays are limited to Matlab and some scripts for personal use. So, I guess I'll just have to install exim or postfix then. Koen
Re: remote backup
i've heard about Mondo Rescue packages and bootable cd... i've never tried it, so it's just a suggestion... http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ HTH marco On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 04:22, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On 2 Oct 2004, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net > > my laptop once it is connected: > > what is the best way to do so ? > > My recommendation would be the 'BackupPC' package, found in testing and > unstable. That will happily produce long term archival backups of the > laptop, and can dump to tape, etc, for off-line storage as well. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single > complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea. > -- RFC 1925 >
Re: Mail on laptop
Hello! I do not know wether this will help in your setup, but with esmtp you can send to different smtp relays depending on the senders address. On my laptop I have the following: I let exim deliver only local mail, including that all mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sent to me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] That handles my local delivery. Additionally I use esmtp to get my mail out. Now if I send from my regular email address at the isp, then esmtp will send it to their smtp relay. However, when I use [EMAIL PROTECTED] as a sender, esmtp will deliver locally. So - pretty useless though - I can even send a email locally to my girl. Cheers, Martin On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:13:51AM +0200, Koen Vermeer wrote: > Op za 02-10-2004, om 20:27 schreef Bob Proulx: > > > I recently acquired a laptop, and ofcourse I installed Debian on it. > > Of course! :-) > > After a regular i386 and a UltraSparc 10, what else could I do... > > > Not sure this helps you but you can tell debconf to send mail to a > > different address. > > export [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > That helps for debconf, but does not solve the more general problem. > > > I actually use it to turn off those messages entirely. > > export DEBCONF_ADMIN_EMAIL="" > > When you install a security upgrade for ssh to a few hundred machines > > and each and every one wants to say the same thing to you it gets a > > little tedious. :-) > > Sounds like spam from your own machines :-) > > > But really the only two users that you care about are yourself and > > root so the simplest thing (what I would do) is to create aliases for > > those two users and forward that mail to the address you want. > > Right, but the simplest MTA's (nullmailer, ssmtp) don't support that as > far as I know, and there doesn't seem to be anything in between these > simplest MTA's and stuff like exim or postfix. > > The obvious reply to that would be 'there's a great opportunity for you > to contribute something to the world', but unfortunately, my programming > skills nowadays are limited to Matlab and some scripts for personal use. > > So, I guess I'll just have to install exim or postfix then. > > Koen > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: remote backup
Hello List, thank very much for your suggestions. Tobias Kraus wrote: Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2004 03:39 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: Hello List, I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net my laptop once it is connected: what is the best way to do so ? I'm using rsync for this. My desktop is a rsync-server and my laptop tests hourely if it is available. If so, and the last backup is older than one day it rsync my hdd. On the server, I have a script that creates snapshots via hardlinks. (thanks to http://www.heinlein-support.de/web/projekte/rsync-backup/ :-) for inspiration) Tell me if you want to have my shell scripts and more details. I was planning to do something similar: backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files. Yes, please send your shell script. Thanks, Jerome Tobias Thanks in advance, Jerome
cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
Hi list, as I cannot read my battery status, my laptop went off unexpectingly. After reboot, and a fsck, and reboot again, I get the following message: INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (none) tty1 (none) login: root Login incorrect (none) login: root Login incorrect [Ctrl+Alt+Del] INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6 INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal INIT: Sending the processes the KILL signal INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): (none)~touch /tmp/try.log touch: cannot touch '/tmp/try.log': Read-only file system I have in my /etc/fstab: /dev/hda5 / ext2errors=remount-ro 0 1 after remounting the root partition, nothing changes: (none)~mount -o remount /dev/hda5 (none)~touch /tmp/try.log (none)~init 3 INIT: Switching to runlevel: 3 INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal INIT: Sending the processes the KILL signal INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (none) tty1 (none) login: Any idea? Thanks in advance, Ivan
Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:59, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" What does ls -l /etc/init.d/rc* show ?
Re: remote backup
You can try also rdiff_backup: http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/index.html A, C, Censi On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:55:50 +0200, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > thank very much for your suggestions. > > Tobias Kraus wrote: > > Am Samstag, 2. Oktober 2004 03:39 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: > > > >>Hello List, > >> > >>I would like my desktop (an openbrick) to backup via the net > >>my laptop once it is connected: > >>what is the best way to do so ? > > > > > > I'm using rsync for this. My desktop is a rsync-server and my laptop > > tests hourely if it is available. If so, and the last backup is older > > than one day it rsync my hdd. On the server, I have a script that > > creates snapshots via hardlinks. (thanks to > > http://www.heinlein-support.de/web/projekte/rsync-backup/ :-) for > > inspiration) Tell me if you want to have my shell scripts and more > > details. > > I was planning to do something similar: > backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files. > > Yes, please send your shell script. > > Thanks, > Jerome > > > > > > > Tobias > > > > > >>Thanks in advance, > >>Jerome > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- A. C. Censi accensi [em] gmail [ponto] com accensi [em] montreal [ponto] com [ponto] br
Re: broken cd-rw drive
David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... [snip] There has been a single case of confirmed CD-RW hardware malfunctioning due to software bugs related to Linux, and it was due to questionable use of ATAPI codes by LG, and it only affected LG CD-ROM drives under Mandrake 9.2 (which shipped with a patched kernel image that queried the hardware through the use of the above-mentioned ATAPI codes). You can check on that: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 I don't want to sound like a zealot, but your situation does not sound at all like it was caused by software. I know you tried not to sound like you are blaming Debian/Linux for what happened, but please try to exhaust all possibilities before coming up with the usual "well, this was the only thing I changed, so it must be the cause of my problem" approach. Cheers, and good luck findind a replacement drive. Ulisses
Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!
On October 3, 2004 05:49 am, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 07:27:42PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:43:08PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > On September 28, 2004 08:47 am, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:46:23PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > > [...] > > > > > uhci-hcd > > > > hid > > just for the record, it seems that 'hid' is called 'usbhid' since at > least 2.6.7 Well, that explains the message every time I start up, that says "hid" can't be found. It was working fine, anyway, so I didn't get around to checking it. -- derek
Re: remote backup
On October 4, 2004 05:43 am, Marco Bellini wrote: > i've heard about Mondo Rescue packages and bootable cd... i've never > tried it, so it's just a suggestion... > http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ imo, the critical word there is "Rescue". I couldn't figure out a way to get Mondo to just back up my _data_. It wants to create a bootable CD and just seemed to be doing too much (in the end, it went off and spent 4 hours creating a bootable CD of my 4GB Oracle partition, and I gave up on it - it seemed to be doing _something_ - the fan kept coming on - but not ever actually writing anything). -- derek
Re: broken cd-rw drive
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:58:28AM -0300, Ulisses Reina Montenegro de Albuquerque wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > >Hi group, > > > >I broke my cd-rw drive. I really hope this has nothing to do with a > >possible bug in linux and/or cdrecord. Here's my story... > > > > > [snip] > > There has been a single case of confirmed CD-RW hardware malfunctioning > due to software bugs related to Linux, and it was due to questionable > use of ATAPI codes by LG, and it only affected LG CD-ROM drives under > Mandrake 9.2 (which shipped with a patched kernel image that queried the > hardware through the use of the above-mentioned ATAPI codes). You can > check on that: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 So there is a confirmed case, but these drives could be recovered. No real physical damage here, :-) > I don't want to sound like a zealot, but your situation does not sound > at all like it was caused by software. >From time to time, my family/friends tell me, I _do_ sound like a zealot. > I know you tried not to sound like you are blaming Debian/Linux for > what happened, but please try to exhaust all possibilities before > coming up with the usual "well, this was the only thing I changed, so > it must be the cause of my problem" approach. On the contrary. This wasn't my approach at all. But then, as it happened while I was switching kernel modules etc., I want to absolutely make sure it is _not_ caused by software so I can wholeheartedly yell at the support people when (if) they tell me they don't support linux and well, it was not recommended to run that anyway, so warranty is void. > Cheers, and good luck findind a replacement drive. Thanks! David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Andrew Porter wrote: > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 12:59, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rcS" > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > > INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc" > > What does ls -l /etc/init.d/rc* show ? it shows: -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2235 Oct 4 14:25 /etc/init.d/rc -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1190 Oct 4 14:25 /etc/init.d/rcS > > > > > > I found the following: the /bin/sh was missing, as well as /bin/bash. I linked: ln -s /bin/zsh bin/sh Basicly seems like the whole system is not working properly: "apt-get dist-upgrade" wants libc6. "apt-get install libc6" says that it cannot get the debconf version. The debconf version is ofcourse installed... So, the first task in the moment is to find a way to install libc6... (a lot of things in /lost+found/.)is there a way with apt-get or so to recover the previous state of the system? Ivan
Cannot get debconf version
Hi list, I have the following problem: when I try to install whatever with: apt-get install ... i get: Try 'apt-get -f install' When I try that, I always get: E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? Unpacking libc6 (from ...)... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-installed script: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing .. (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 I tought that the problem might be in dpkg, so i compiled it from source. But the error still persist. In summary in the moment there is no way to install on my system: libc6, bash,... whatever you can think of. I have some questions: 1. How and where from I can get the sources of debconf? (with "apt-get source --tar-only" It is not downloading nothing) 2. Where does apt-get read the debconf version? 3. What is this pre-installed script? In fact for any idea I will be greatful... Thanks in advance, Ivan
debconf source
Hi list, I have the following problem: when I try to install whatever with: apt-get install ... i get: Try 'apt-get -f install' When I try that, I always get: E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? Unpacking libc6 (from ...)... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-installed script: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing .. (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 I tought that the problem might be in dpkg, so i compiled it from source. But the error still persist. In summary in the moment there is no way to install on my system: libc6, bash,... whatever you can think of. I have some questions: 1. How and where from I can get the sources of debconf? (with "apt-get source --tar-only" It is not downloading nothing) 2. Where does apt-get read the debconf version? 3. What is this pre-installed script? In fact for any idea I will be greatful... Thanks in advance, Ivan
Re: Cannot get debconf version
Hello, Ivan Glushkov a écrit : E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? I am not an expert at all, but : - what is the output of 'dpkg -l debconf'? - then try 'apt-get install debconf' Your problem sounds strange as 'debconf' seems to be a core component of a Debian system. My 2 cents. HTH, -- Emmanuel Halbwachs Labo. de Photonique et Nanostructures tel : (+33)1 69 63 61 34 CNRS UPR 20 fax : (+33)1 69 63 60 06 Route de Nozay F 91460 Marcoussis
Re: debconf source
On October 4, 2004 12:31 pm, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Please don't start new threads to ask old questions. This is all based on an apparent corrupted partition as reported in the thread 'Re: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"', but people aren't going to know that from your description here. > E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed? > debconf: apt-extracttemplates failed: Bad file descriptorE: Cannot get > debconf version. Is debconf installed? > > Unpacking libc6 (from ...)... You seem to be going about things rather the wrong way. Fix your file corruption first. Then install anything you can from _binary_ packages. Trying to install from source means that you have to worry about the status of all your devel packages, as well as everything else you already know is corrupted. > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute new pre-installed script: No such > file or directory > dpkg: error processing .. (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 > > > I tought that the problem might be in dpkg, so i compiled it from source. > But the error still persist. dpkg seemed to be working. It probably can't access /var/lib/dpkg/info/. > 1. How and where from I can get the sources of debconf? (with "apt-get > source --tar-only" It is not downloading nothing) > 2. Where does apt-get read the debconf version? I _think_ it doesn't. I think the preinst, postinst, etc, scripts do that. > 3. What is this pre-installed script? .deb files have optional pre-install, post-install, pre-rm (remove) and post-rm scripts. They're in the package, but after unpacking them it was unable to find, in this case, libc6 has libc6.postinst, libc6.preinst, and libc6.postrm in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ I'd start by looking in your lost+found for anything that looks like it belongs in /var/lib/dpkg. Or just reformat the partition and restore it from backup. :-) -- derek
Re: remote backup
[...]
>
> I was planning to do something similar:
> backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files.
>
> Yes, please send your shell script.
@ML:
I turned of automatic line break for this mail.
Please don't complain about lines longer than 80 characters.
Thanks.
Thanks for inspiration to:
http://www.heinlein-support.de/web/projekte/rsync-backup/
Hi Jerome,
on server-side (desktop) I'm running a rsync-server (see rsync(1),
rsyncd.conf(5))
On client-side (notebook) every hour I run the rsync-backup script. It is
configured
with 5 environment variables (see below). If more than $RSYNC_TIME seconds have
passed
after last backup, it checks whether rsync-server is reachable. If it is, it
calls
the rsync_func() bash function to do the actual backup.
On server-side, the rsync-rotate script is called hourly by cron.
If no rsync-process is running and the creation time of the lockfile of
$ROTATE_DIR
is younger than $ROTATE_DIR.0 it locks the rsync-port using iptables (if you
don't
know how iptables works, drop me a line and I'll give you a _short_ introduction
- I don't have very much spare time now :-( ). After that it deletes the oldest
backup and rotates all others (8->9, 7->8, and so on).
After that, it makes a backup of $ROTATE_DIR using hard
links. So unchanged files don't use any hard disk space, except inodes for the
hard
links. Finally it copies "$ROTATE_DIR" to "$ROTATE_DIR"- (if an important file
should get
corrupted - remember: if a file did not change for the last 10 rsync-rotate
runs, or so
(see $NUM_BACKUPS), there is exactly one copy of the file on the hdd!)
BTW, sorry for my bad english.
Tobias
/usr/local/sbin/rsync-backup: (client = notebook)
- 8X
#!/bin/bash
#DNS-name/IP-address of rsync-server
RSYNC_SRV="server"
#rsync-share to backup to
RSYNC_SERVICE="system"
#lockfile, also as indicator when last backup was successful
RSYNC_LOCK="/var/local/rsync-backup.lock"
#logfile
RSYNC_LOG="/var/local/rsync-backup.log"
#minium time (seconds) which have to pass for anoter backup
RSYNC_TIME=$((60*60*24*1))
rsync_func () {
echo "Backing up $1" >>$RSYNC_LOG
nice -19 rsync -ax --numeric-ids --delete $2 $1
rsync://"$RSYNC_SRV"/"$RSYNC_SERVICE" >> $RSYNC_LOG 2>&1
if ! [ $? = 24 -o $? = 0 ] ; then
rm "$RSYNC_LOCK";
echo "Error at $1. EXIT!" >>$RSYNC_LOG;
fi
}
ps -e |grep -v grep |grep -v $$ |grep `basename $0` >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
echo >>$RSYNC_LOG
date +"%s = %c" >>$RSYNC_LOG
[ -f "$RSYNC_LOCK" ] && [ $(( `date +%s` - `date -r "$RSYNC_LOCK" +%s` )) -lt
$RSYNC_TIME ] && { echo "No backup. End of program!" $RSYNC_LOG ; exit 0 ; }
rsync rsync://$RSYNC_SRV >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "RSYNC-Server not available.
End of program!" >>$RSYNC_LOG ; exit 0 ; }
rm -f "$RSYNC_LOCK"
#create lockfile, creation time shows last backup
touch "$RSYNC_LOCK"
#do actual backup
rsync_func /home
rsync_func /usr
rsync_func / "--exclude /home --exclude /usr"
echo "End of program!">>$RSYNC_LOG
- 8X
/usr/local/sbin/rsync-rotate: (server = desktop)
- 8X
#!/bin/bash
#iptables-chain used to block rsync port
IPTBL_CHAIN="rsync"
#name or # of port rsync runs on
RSYNC_PORT="rsync"
#iptables executable
IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables"
#rotate which directory. must be the directory rsync shares on the network
ROTATE_DIR="/pub/backup/system"
#lockfile
LOCKFILE="var/local/rsync-backup.lock"
#number of copies stored
NUM_BACKUPS=9
for i in `pidof -x $0`; do
[ x$i != x$$ ] && exit
done
[ `date -r "$ROTATE_DIR"/"$LOCKFILE" +%s` -gt `date -r
"$ROTATE_DIR".0/"$LOCKFILE" +%s` ] || exit 0
[ -d "$ROTATE_DIR" ] || exit 0
[ -x "$IPTABLES" ] || exit 0
[ $NUM_BACKUPS -lt 1 ] && NUM_BACKUPS=1
[ $NUM_BACKUPS -gt 10 ] && NUM_BACKUPS=10
$IPTABLES -L "$IPTBL_CHAIN" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -N "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
$IPTABLES -L INPUT |grep "$IPTBL_CHAIN.*$RSYNC_PORT" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -I INPUT -p tcp --dport "$RSYNC_PORT" -j "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
$IPTABLES -L OUTPUT |grep "$IPTBL_CHAIN.*$RSYNC_PORT" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -I OUTPUT -p tcp --sport "$RSYNC_PORT" -j "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
netstat -t |grep ":$RSYNC_PORT.*ESTABLISHED" >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
$IPTABLES -A "$IPTBL_CHAIN" -j REJECT
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$NUM_BACKUPS ] ; then
NUM_BACKUPS=$(($NUM_BACKUPS - 1))
rm -rf "$ROTATE_DIR".$NUM_BACKUPS
fi
for OLD in 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ; do
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$OLD ] ; then
NEW=$[ $OLD + 1 ]
[ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW ] && rm -rf "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW
mv "$ROTATE_DIR".$OLD "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW
fi
done
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR" ] ; then
cp -al "$ROTATE_DIR" "$ROTATE_DIR".0
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Re: remote backup
Thank you very much,
Jerome
Tobias Kraus wrote:
[...]
I was planning to do something similar:
backing up my laptop with `backup2l' and synchronizing the related files.
Yes, please send your shell script.
@ML:
I turned of automatic line break for this mail.
Please don't complain about lines longer than 80 characters.
Thanks.
Thanks for inspiration to:
http://www.heinlein-support.de/web/projekte/rsync-backup/
Hi Jerome,
on server-side (desktop) I'm running a rsync-server (see rsync(1), rsyncd.conf(5))
On client-side (notebook) every hour I run the rsync-backup script. It is configured
with 5 environment variables (see below). If more than $RSYNC_TIME seconds have
passed
after last backup, it checks whether rsync-server is reachable. If it is, it
calls
the rsync_func() bash function to do the actual backup.
On server-side, the rsync-rotate script is called hourly by cron.
If no rsync-process is running and the creation time of the lockfile of
$ROTATE_DIR
is younger than $ROTATE_DIR.0 it locks the rsync-port using iptables (if you
don't
know how iptables works, drop me a line and I'll give you a _short_ introduction
- I don't have very much spare time now :-( ). After that it deletes the oldest
backup and rotates all others (8->9, 7->8, and so on).
After that, it makes a backup of $ROTATE_DIR using hard
links. So unchanged files don't use any hard disk space, except inodes for the
hard
links. Finally it copies "$ROTATE_DIR" to "$ROTATE_DIR"- (if an important file
should get
corrupted - remember: if a file did not change for the last 10 rsync-rotate
runs, or so
(see $NUM_BACKUPS), there is exactly one copy of the file on the hdd!)
BTW, sorry for my bad english.
Tobias
/usr/local/sbin/rsync-backup: (client = notebook)
- 8X
#!/bin/bash
#DNS-name/IP-address of rsync-server
RSYNC_SRV="server"
#rsync-share to backup to
RSYNC_SERVICE="system"
#lockfile, also as indicator when last backup was successful
RSYNC_LOCK="/var/local/rsync-backup.lock"
#logfile
RSYNC_LOG="/var/local/rsync-backup.log"
#minium time (seconds) which have to pass for anoter backup
RSYNC_TIME=$((60*60*24*1))
rsync_func () {
echo "Backing up $1" >>$RSYNC_LOG
nice -19 rsync -ax --numeric-ids --delete $2 $1 rsync://"$RSYNC_SRV"/"$RSYNC_SERVICE"
>> $RSYNC_LOG 2>&1
if ! [ $? = 24 -o $? = 0 ] ; then
rm "$RSYNC_LOCK";
echo "Error at $1. EXIT!" >>$RSYNC_LOG;
fi
}
ps -e |grep -v grep |grep -v $$ |grep `basename $0` >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
echo >>$RSYNC_LOG
date +"%s = %c" >>$RSYNC_LOG
[ -f "$RSYNC_LOCK" ] && [ $(( `date +%s` - `date -r "$RSYNC_LOCK" +%s` )) -lt $RSYNC_TIME ]
&& { echo "No backup. End of program!" $RSYNC_LOG ; exit 0 ; }
rsync rsync://$RSYNC_SRV >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "RSYNC-Server not available. End of
program!" >>$RSYNC_LOG ; exit 0 ; }
rm -f "$RSYNC_LOCK"
#create lockfile, creation time shows last backup
touch "$RSYNC_LOCK"
#do actual backup
rsync_func /home
rsync_func /usr
rsync_func / "--exclude /home --exclude /usr"
echo "End of program!">>$RSYNC_LOG
- 8X
/usr/local/sbin/rsync-rotate: (server = desktop)
- 8X
#!/bin/bash
#iptables-chain used to block rsync port
IPTBL_CHAIN="rsync"
#name or # of port rsync runs on
RSYNC_PORT="rsync"
#iptables executable
IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables"
#rotate which directory. must be the directory rsync shares on the network
ROTATE_DIR="/pub/backup/system"
#lockfile
LOCKFILE="var/local/rsync-backup.lock"
#number of copies stored
NUM_BACKUPS=9
for i in `pidof -x $0`; do
[ x$i != x$$ ] && exit
done
[ `date -r "$ROTATE_DIR"/"$LOCKFILE" +%s` -gt `date -r
"$ROTATE_DIR".0/"$LOCKFILE" +%s` ] || exit 0
[ -d "$ROTATE_DIR" ] || exit 0
[ -x "$IPTABLES" ] || exit 0
[ $NUM_BACKUPS -lt 1 ] && NUM_BACKUPS=1
[ $NUM_BACKUPS -gt 10 ] && NUM_BACKUPS=10
$IPTABLES -L "$IPTBL_CHAIN" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -N "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
$IPTABLES -L INPUT |grep "$IPTBL_CHAIN.*$RSYNC_PORT" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -I INPUT -p tcp --dport "$RSYNC_PORT" -j "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
$IPTABLES -L OUTPUT |grep "$IPTBL_CHAIN.*$RSYNC_PORT" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
$IPTABLES -I OUTPUT -p tcp --sport "$RSYNC_PORT" -j "$IPTBL_CHAIN"
netstat -t |grep ":$RSYNC_PORT.*ESTABLISHED" >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
$IPTABLES -A "$IPTBL_CHAIN" -j REJECT
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$NUM_BACKUPS ] ; then
NUM_BACKUPS=$(($NUM_BACKUPS - 1))
rm -rf "$ROTATE_DIR".$NUM_BACKUPS
fi
for OLD in 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 ; do
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$OLD ] ; then
NEW=$[ $OLD + 1 ]
[ -d "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW ] && rm -rf "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW
mv "$ROTATE_DIR".$OLD "$ROTATE_DIR".$NEW
fi
done
if [ -d "$ROTATE_DIR" ] ; then
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