Re: howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/08/11 09:59, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> On 24/08/11 06:44, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> abdelkader belahcene wrote: but it fails to �reboot from the second disk alone. although �i installed �grub in both disks >> >> >> >>> Probably just: >>

proftpd

2011-08-23 Thread Eric Sepich
I am using lenny. I did this: aptitude install proftpd useradd animal123 passwd * /etc/init.d/proftpd restart Then I did this: useradd dirtypenguin passwd dirtypenguin * /etc/init.d/proftpd restart Why is it that animal123 can access via regular ftp through FileZilla and dirtypenguin

How to control network speed?

2011-08-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Hi, For some reason, I have a linux machine that has to have a network bandwidth limitation for the whole system. So I looked into command tc. And used this script from the internet. Well, the script returned successful, but in fact it did not effect anything. Could someone help me? Thanks.

Re: pdfedit

2011-08-23 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 06:03:20PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I guess I'm too stupid to figure it out. > > I have a pdf document that I would like to add two lines of text to > (different positions, different fonts). Under the 'Page' menu I see an > icon for adding text but it is greyed out. I d

debmirror starts works stops on error

2011-08-23 Thread Greg Madden
I have a partial local amd64/i386 mirror, been using debmirror & my mirror script as a cron job for at least two previous releases. This has stopped working with my upgrade to Squeeze. I have enclosed the part of the output cron sends to me. Not sure if relevant but the dl stops, on a daily

Re: howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 24/08/11 06:44, Bob Proulx wrote: >> abdelkader belahcene wrote: >>> but it fails to  reboot from the second disk alone. >>> although  i installed  grub in both disks > > > >> Probably just: >> >>   grub-install /dev/sdb > > Followed by:

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-23 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 22 August 2011 22:02, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:27:57 +1000, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 21 August 2011 21:20, Camaleón wrote: > >> But do you really need it? I mean, does your ISP require you to use a > >> PPP connection with your router? I also use a DSL connection and don'

Re: howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 24/08/11 06:44, Bob Proulx wrote: > abdelkader belahcene wrote: >> but it fails to reboot from the second disk alone. >> although i installed grub in both disks > > Probably just: > > grub-install /dev/sdb > > Bob Followed by:- # update-grub Cheers -- "People ask me what I think

Re: howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> For the new Grub2, I don't know. I haven't been able to learn it yet. >>> Perhaps someone else will be kind enough to step up and say what needs >>> to be done to install grub2 on a second disk. Probably j

Re: howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > For the new Grub2, I don't know. I haven't been able to learn it yet. > > Perhaps someone else will be kind enough to step up and say what needs > > to be done to install grub2 on a second disk. Probably just: > > > > grub-install /dev/sdb > > Correct. Oh g

Dropped Connections and "Failed to create cgroup nnnn: -17" Kernel Message When vsftpd Spawning a New Process

2011-08-23 Thread Dirk Weinhardt
Hello list, I am experiencing the following issue with a Debian squeeze based server and the most recent squeeze-backports kernel: I realized that some vstfpd daemons randomly drop connections (sending a FIN right after the initial TCP hand shake was completed). Furthermore, a "Failed to cre

Re: howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > For the new Grub2, I don't know.  I haven't been able to learn it yet. > Perhaps someone else will be kind enough to step up and say what needs > to be done to install grub2 on a second disk.  Probably just: > >  grub-install /dev/sdb Correct

Re: howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > # grub > grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb > grub> root (hd0,0) > grub> setup (hd0) > grub> quit Oh! I made an (hd0,0) assumption above and didn't explain it. That valud may be different depending upon your configuration. But in the old grub you can search for it like th

Re: howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
abdelkader belahcene wrote: > but it fails to reboot from the second disk alone. > although i installed grub in both disks Are you very certain that you installed grub on both disks? Because failure to do this is a very common reason that systems won't boot from the second disk. Previous vers

Re: Installing debian package independent from system

2011-08-23 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:24:38 -0300, D G Teed wrote: > A user would like the latest and greatest zsh and we have a deb package > for it. For security purposes I want to keep the slightly older version > of zsh obtained and maintained from debian packages as the system > default zsh. Your reasonin

libnet-snmp-devel package ?

2011-08-23 Thread hvn
Hi, I'm trying to install HPLIP on Debian 6, but install fails for network (which I need) because of libnetsnmp-devel. I can find libnet-snmp, but no devel. Can someone help me out where I can find that? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: Followup With ssh problem

2011-08-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 08/23/2011 04:18 PM, RiverWind wrote: > I do indeed have an "ssh" server installed on my linux box, and it > seems to be working just fine. We need details, see below. > I am able to ssh over to my > "shellworld" account without any problem. However, I am not able to > ssh over from shellworld

Re: howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/23/2011 12:50 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > *hi, > I installed squeeze on 2 disks sata using raid 1. Hardware/mobo fakeraid, or Linux MD RAID (mdadm)? Please state mobo brand and model#, as well as any IDE/SATA PCI/e cards. > the system runs fine with both disks, it runs fine with t

Followup With ssh problem

2011-08-23 Thread RiverWind
Hey There, I would first of all like to thank everyone who responded altruistically to my originally posts. I would say that I now have half a problem compared to the whole specimen that I had before. I do indeed have an "ssh" server installed on my linux box, and it seems to be working just fi

Re: Installing debian package independent from system

2011-08-23 Thread D G Teed
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:25 PM, D G Teed wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Darac Marjal > wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:24:38AM -0300, D G Teed wrote: >> > A user would like the latest and greatest zsh and we have >> > a deb package for it. For security purposes I want t

howto boot from the second disk in raid 1

2011-08-23 Thread abdelkader belahcene
*hi, I installed squeeze on 2 disks sata using raid 1. the system runs fine with both disks, it runs fine with the first disk alone, but it fails to reboot from the second disk alone. although i installed grub in both disks when i used the second disk alone, it is detected as slave

atfptd in squeeze won't do anything

2011-08-23 Thread Isaac Freeman
I have been beating my head against the wall on this for a day and a half. I just installed atftpd (0.7.dfsg-9.1) on Squeeze. When I first installed it, it wouldn't take connections through the default inetd stuff. So I tried editing /etc/default/atftpd and setting USE_INETD=false and running it

Re: LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-23 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> yudi v writes: > I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a > file system: > mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv > someone suggested I use: > mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv > What's the difference? There should be none. Note, however, that /dev/mapper/ m

Re: Installing debian package independent from system

2011-08-23 Thread D G Teed
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:24:38AM -0300, D G Teed wrote: > > A user would like the latest and greatest zsh and we have > > a deb package for it. For security purposes I want to > > keep the slightly older version of zsh obtained and maintai

Re: LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-23 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Yudi, yudi v wrote: I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a file system: mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv someone suggested I use: mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv What's the difference? Perhaps nothing, provided it is mapped properly: # ls -lart /dev/mapper/vg0-root /de

LVM question: what's the difference between /dev/mapper/vg-lv and /dev/vg/lv

2011-08-23 Thread yudi v
I created a LV and was going to use the following command to create a file system: mkfs.ext4 /dev/vg/lv someone suggested I use: mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/vg-lv What's the difference? -- Kind regards, Yudi

Re: Installing debian package independent from system

2011-08-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:24:38AM -0300, D G Teed wrote: > A user would like the latest and greatest zsh and we have > a deb package for it. For security purposes I want to > keep the slightly older version of zsh obtained and maintained > from debian packages as the system default zsh. > > I'm

Installing debian package independent from system

2011-08-23 Thread D G Teed
A user would like the latest and greatest zsh and we have a deb package for it. For security purposes I want to keep the slightly older version of zsh obtained and maintained from debian packages as the system default zsh. I'm willing to install the later version of zsh in an alternate directory,

Re: KDE: Flashing battery icon

2011-08-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 02:49:57PM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > > One thing you could do is to run acpi -b when the weird occurrences > > happen, and see if that is in tune with what the battery monitor > > shows. When on ac, acpi -b should return blank, but when on battery, > > it should display some

no more system bell after squeeze upgrade

2011-08-23 Thread Curt
I don't have the system/terminal beep (bell) in Gnome anymore after upgrading to squeeze. curty@einstein:~$ lsmod | grep pcspkr pcspkr 1699 0 curty@einstein:~$ xset -q (snippy) bell percent: 50bell pitch: 400bell duration: 100 No bell/beep in the console either.

Re: KDE: Flashing battery icon

2011-08-23 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, thanks for the quick reply! > One thing you could do is to run acpi -b when the weird occurrences > happen, and see if that is in tune with what the battery monitor > shows. When on ac, acpi -b should return blank, but when on battery, > it should display some information on the battery life

Re: KDE: Flashing battery icon

2011-08-23 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 01:04:21PM +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi again, > > can't anybody help? I'd really like to report this as bug against upower or > KDE, but in the end I got no clue how I can verify where the problem is > caused. One thing you could do is to run acpi -b when the weird occu

China Transfer Pricing & Supply Chain Planning (14 October 2011)

2011-08-23 Thread Marketing Department
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Re: KDE: Flashing battery icon

2011-08-23 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi again, can't anybody help? I'd really like to report this as bug against upower or KDE, but in the end I got no clue how I can verify where the problem is caused. Kind regards, Ralf On Saturday 30 July 2011 16:13:07 Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi list, > > since I installed the current Debian testi

Pixel garbage when opening context menus

2011-08-23 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi list, since upgrading from Kubuntu (10.10) to Debian testing, I am noticing that a context-menu, directly after right-clicking, contains pixel garbage that is then overdrawn with the actual content. I often recognize the garbage as content from some window. This also applies to other menus,

Re: Running a script on monitor connect/disconnect

2011-08-23 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > And who needs xrandr if you can have the layout you want in a > straightforward way by directly editing the xorg.conf file or by using > nvidia-settings tool? (we are now in a loop ;-P) Editing xorg.conf requires an X-server restart after each setup change, which is ridiculous. In the end,