Re: Kerberos-secured NFSv4: nss_getpwnam: name '8' does not map into domain

2015-07-10 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi, Am 2015-07-08 15:34, schrieb Jonas Meurer: I've another annoying issue with my new Kerberos-secured NFSv4 setup. Sometimes when Exim4 writes to the mounted NFS share, it fails to set owner and permissions on the written file. Exim4 runs as local user Debian-exim:Debian-exim but tries t

Kerberos-secured NFSv4: nss_getpwnam: name '8' does not map into domain

2015-07-08 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi again, I've another annoying issue with my new Kerberos-secured NFSv4 setup. Sometimes when Exim4 writes to the mounted NFS share, it fails to set owner and permissions on the written file. Exim4 runs as local user Debian-exim:Debian-exim but tries to set owner of created files on the NFS shar

Re: NFSv4 first read/write takes 1 minute to start

2015-06-29 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi Mart, Am 28.06.2015 um 21:40 schrieb Mart van de Wege: > I run a fileserver and am trying to switch over from NFSv3 to NFSv4 with > RPC-GSS. My exports work, and my clients nicely authenticate to the > Kerberos server and the NFS server, I can mount the exported filesystems > and cd into them.

Re: write permissions on Kerberos secured NFS share

2015-06-28 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi Christian, thanks again for your very valuable help. It's much appreciated! Am 28.06.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Christian Seiler: > On 06/28/2015 08:03 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> On 06/28/2015 07:51 PM, Jonas Meurer wrote: >>> root@clt# su -s /bin/sh -c "cat /var/v

write permissions on Kerberos secured NFS share

2015-06-28 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi, I'm struggling with getting the permissions on an NFS share right. Mounting the NFS share on my client works. Read/write access as user 'root' works, and read access as user 'mail' works as well after I successfully authenticated at the Kerberos server as that user 'mail'. Kerberos server and

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-27 Thread Jonas Meurer
ug report.) > > Link to thread on debian-user for people reading the bug report: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/06/msg01508.html Thanks for linking this thread to bugreport #775542. I wasn't aware of that bugreport yet. > On 06/27/2015 03:39 PM, Jonas Meurer wrote: >

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-27 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi Christian, thanks for the comprehensive reply. It helps a lot to better understand the details of systemd NFS mount handling. Am 27.06.2015 um 12:55 schrieb Christian Seiler: > On 06/26/2015 07:44 PM, Arno Schuring wrote: >>> On 2015-06-26 18:38 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: &g

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-27 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi Brian, Am 27.06.2015 um 07:29 schrieb bri...@aracnet.com: > On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 19:28:37 +0200 > Sven Joachim wrote: > > >> Maybe rpcbind was started too late, see bug #763315[1] on that topic. >> What is the output of "systemctl status rpcbind.service"? > > i have a similar warning/error.

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-27 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi Sven, Am 26.06.2015 um 19:28 schrieb Sven Joachim: > On 2015-06-26 18:38 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: >>> # grep nfs /etc/fstab >>> nfs-server:/vmail /var/vmail nfs4 _netdev,sec=krb5i,bg 0 0 >> >> results in unmounted NFS shares after reboot and: >>

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi again, Am 2015-06-26 18:15, schrieb Sven Joachim: On 2015-06-26 17:42 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: While searching the web I learned that Ubuntu and Redhat based distros seem to support the '_netdev' option to entries in /etc/fstab for such cases, but it seems like Debian doesn

auto-mount NFS shares on boot

2015-06-26 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I fail to configure my Debian/Jessie server system in a way that the NFS mounts are mounted automatically on boot. Problem seems to be that the NFS mounts are mounted directly after the root fs, before the network is set up properly. Also, the mountnfs if-up.d hook from /etc/network/if-up

Re: NFSv4+Kerberos shares and ownership (root:root)

2015-06-09 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hi again, Am 08.06.2015 um 00:10 schrieb Jonas Meurer: > I'm trying to setup a new NFSv4 server with Kerberos as authentication. > The shares are exported as expected and I'm able to mount them using > krb5i authentication on the NFS clients. > > My problem is ownership

NFSv4+Kerberos shares and ownership (root:root)

2015-06-07 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I'm trying to setup a new NFSv4 server with Kerberos as authentication. The shares are exported as expected and I'm able to mount them using krb5i authentication on the NFS clients. My problem is ownership and permission management on the exported shares. I need the shares and their conten

Re: EDAC errors: false positives or broken RAM? (i5000)

2011-08-16 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hey, Am 16.08.2011 19:31, schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Jonas Meurer wrote: >> Now, the messages keep spamming my log and console for more than three >> weeks already. A some days I get more than 36000 errors a day. >> >> It's noteable

EDAC errors: false positives or broken RAM? (i5000)

2011-08-16 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hey, I'm getting tons of EDAC error messages from the kernel lately on a i5000 server with 16GB RAM (4 x 4GB modules). The server runs since about three years. The system is Debian Lenny with 2.6.26 kernel, selfcompiled from linux-source-2.6.26 2.6.26-26lenny3. It's not the first time, that thes

Re: unstable: gnome kind of broken?

2009-10-03 Thread Jonas Meurer
hey again, On 03/10/2009 Jonas Meurer wrote: > since gnome transition to 2.28 was started[1], my desktop seems kind of > broken. the look and feel is comparable to gnomes default five years ago > and several minor issues occured. applets don't start any more, the > position of my

unstable: gnome kind of broken?

2009-10-03 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, since gnome transition to 2.28 was started[1], my desktop seems kind of broken. the look and feel is comparable to gnomes default five years ago and several minor issues occured. applets don't start any more, the position of my desktop icons is not restored after logout+login, gnome-setting

radeon tv-out (RV505)

2009-08-01 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i tried to get the tv-out working for my radeon X1550 64-bit graphics controller, but so far i failed. xrandr lists the S-video output and even detects it as connected when X is started with the option ATOMTVOut set to true for the radeon video driver. but i don't see anything on the tv sc

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-24 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 22/07/2009 lee wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:40:08AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > On 22/07/2009 lee wrote: > > > How did it solve the problem of authenticating with the smarthosts? > > > You're not using open relays, are you? > > &g

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-22 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 22/07/2009 lee wrote: > > i do think that the configuration facilities have great advantages over > > plain conffile editing for unexperienced users. but they're not always > > an option for complicated setups. > > > > in my case the facility does exactly what I would like it to do: it > > take

Re: normal firefox for debian lenny 64bit?

2009-07-21 Thread Jonas Meurer
hey, On 21/07/2009 Soren Orel wrote: > I tried Swiftfox, because Iceweasel is still 3.0.6. > > [...] > > Are there any up-to-date Firefox "clone" browsers? :D:| yes, iceweasel 3.5.1 is available in experimental: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/iceweasel greetings, jonas -- To UNSUBS

Re: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-21 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 20/07/2009 Neil Youngman wrote: > > Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? I found > > information about setting fallback hosts in case that delivery failed, > > but that's not really what I am searching for. > > I haven't done this, but it looks as though it should be easy

Re: exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-21 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, On 21/07/2009 lee wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43:37AM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? > > Afair it is possible by specifying several smart hosts instead of > one. You need to look it up in info exim4 or

exim4: fallback smart hosts

2009-07-20 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, Is it possible to configure a fallback smart host in exim4? I found information about setting fallback hosts in case that delivery failed, but that's not really what I am searching for. My exim4 mta uses a smart host (with SMTP AUTH) for sending remote mail, and I would like to configure o

corrupted software raid

2008-09-07 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I upgraded one of my servers to debian/lenny recently, and unfortunately I forgot to remove the apt pinning for mdadm from /etc/apt/preferences, so an old mdadm from backports.org was kept installed, while the rest of the system was updated to debian/lenny. this lead to a broken initramfs,

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-04 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 03/07/2008 Sven Joachim wrote: > > But I discovered something really strange. If I compare the output of > > 'ls -al /' on my system and in the chroot, several directory sizes seem > > to be different. I thought that directorys always have a size of > > 4069 bytes, but apparently this is not the

ethernet bonding device and virtual devices

2008-07-04 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I just setup a system with two hardware ethernet devices (eth0 and eth1) to share these devices in a bonding device. I use 'mode=0 miimon=100 downdelay=2000 updelay=200' as options to the bonding kernel module, and my /etc/network/interfaces contains the following: auto bond0 iface bond0 i

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-03 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hey Sven, first thanks for your help! On 03/07/2008 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-07-03 11:42 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > >> > When I try to su to a normal user from root, I get: "Cannot execute > >> > /bin/bash: Permission denied." The permissions f

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-03 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 02/07/2008 Sven Joachim wrote: > > I've broken my debian/unstable system by executing as root the command > > # srm -r -d /tmp/.* > > Ouch. That seems a good command to run before you sell your hard > disk. ;-) yes :-/ > > Login as root works without any issues. > > > > When I try to su to a

Re: broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-02 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 02/07/2008 Ron Johnson wrote: > No flames, but "thanks!" for the informative post. > > A reboot cleanly clears out /tmp, so ISTM that the way to accomplish > your ultimate goal is to run sfill soon after boot. Yes, you're correct. ;-) Thanks for the suggestion, will use that next time. Should

broken system after srm -r -d /tmp/.* (user login and several services not working)

2008-07-02 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I've broken my debian/unstable system by executing as root the command # srm -r -d /tmp/.* I aborted the command after something between 20 and 40 seconds, but since then, my system behaves strange: If I try to login as normal user on the console, I get the error "Unable to cd to '/home/u

x-terminal-emulator and delay at workspace change

2008-05-30 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I'm using rxvt-unicode as x-terminal-emulator, and often I do have many terminals opened at the same time, some of them maximized (like the one running mutt or irssi). unfortunately, changing the workspaces in gnome seems to suffer from these terminals. when changing to a workspace with a

gksu, gnome-keyring and lifetime of safed passwords

2008-05-30 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I'm using 'gksu -l x-terminal-emulator' for launching a root terminal, and per default the root password will be saved in the gnome-keyring for the whole lifetime of my gnome session. Since I sometimes keep my system running for several days, the lifetime of a session can be really long. An

Re: traffic monitoring tool with total statistics

2008-05-30 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 30/05/2008 Travis Crook wrote: > > I'm searching for a network traffic monitoring tool which supports to > > report total numbers, like absolute mbytes/gbytes of ingoing/outgoing > > traffic per week/month. The tools i've tested so far (munin, mrtg) > > seem to support only relative numbers like

traffic monitoring tool with total statistics

2008-05-30 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I'm searching for a network traffic monitoring tool which supports to report total numbers, like absolute mbytes/gbytes of ingoing/outgoing traffic per week/month. The tools i've tested so far (munin, mrtg) seem to support only relative numbers like curent, maximal, minmal and average bytes

Re: Brother laserprinter refuses to print pdfs

2008-02-04 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 04/02/2008 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 07:56:47PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've a brother laserprinter (setup as network printer), which works > > quite well in general, except that it refuses to print most pd

Brother laserprinter refuses to print pdfs

2008-02-02 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I've a brother laserprinter (setup as network printer), which works quite well in general, except that it refuses to print most pdfs. I'm running debian/unstable with cups as printing backend. When printing pdfs, regardless whether I try to print from evince, gimp or invoke lpr directly (

Re: system clock reset on reboot

2007-10-27 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 27/10/2007 Russell L. Harris wrote: > Has it been more than three or four years since you changed the CMOS > RAM backup battery on the motherboard? A dead battery can cause > difficulties, because some of the time utilities expect to make only > minor corrections (seconds and minutes, not month

system clock reset on reboot

2007-10-27 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, since one or two months, my system clock is reset on every reboot. # date Sun Oct 28 11:37:15 CET 2007 # ntpdate-debian 27 Oct 15:52:03 ntpdate[14642]: step time server 134.34.3.19 offset -74779.179229 sec if i'm correct, this is due to a wrongly set hardware clock. so i set the hardware

Re: how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

2007-09-09 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 09/09/2007 Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Jonas, Hi Andy, > > > You can use the normal Debian kernel source and compile like you > > > would normally, making sure to select the xen patch. > > > > Unfortunately, this simply doesn't work. If I run 'make menuconfig' in > > debians linux-source-2.6.22 so

Re: how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

2007-09-09 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 09/09/2007 Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Jonas, Hey Andi, > > i would like to give xen a try, but i didn't manage to compile a dom0 > > host kernel yet. > > Do you need to? What is wrong with Debian's xen kernels? I don't think that there's anything wrong with debian's default kernels, but I alway

how to compile a xen dom0 kernel the debian way

2007-09-06 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i would like to give xen a try, but i didn't manage to compile a dom0 host kernel yet. that's because i would like to use a recent linux kernel (2.6.20 at least), build it the debian way (with make-kpkg), and as well build some external modules (nvidia-legacy-96xx, ivtv) with module-assis

Re: howto build debian xen kernel?

2007-02-06 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 06/02/2007 Grok Mogger wrote: > >I didn't find any documentation about that topic. All howtos/tutorials/... > >that talk about building a xen kernel, use the original xen kernel > >sources, not the debian kernel source with patches. > > You may have some need to compile your own kernel, but if

system freezes with Matrox G400 and GLX

2007-02-05 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I use a Matrox G400 DH as graphics controller, and i run debian/unstable on an amd64 system. Unfortunately this leads to system freezes when i try to use 3d rendering (GLX). Some examples which do always freeze my system are xmms visualisations, tuxkart and mixxx. Do you have any suggest

Re: ping: invalid argument

2007-02-05 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 05/02/2007 Max Hyre wrote: >Dear Debianists: > >Between two successive calls to ping, it crapped out. > (Tried twice in a row because I had a flaky DSL connection, > and wanted to see whether it had decided to join the party.) > > == > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# i

howto build debian xen kernel?

2007-02-05 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I just tried to build a debian xen kernel, based on linux-source-2.6.18, linux-patch-debian-2.6.18 and kernel-package. According to the docs i found, i can apply the debian kernel sources in the following way: resivo:/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.18$ ../kernel-patches/all/2.6.18/apply/debian

userdefined variables in muttrc

2006-09-04 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i have two different gpg commands which i would like to use for gnupg encryption/signing depending on the from: header. as the mutt configuration has lots of variables set for gnupg support, a send-hook which defines all of them would be very complex. is it possible to set a userdefined v

external USB harddrive produces lots of kernel messages

2006-05-18 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i get USB kernel messages printed to the console regularely: usb 1-5.4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 in past, i used the onboard USB controller with a via chipset, and additional to the messages, i had read/write errors. then someone told me, that the via USB

usb 1-5.4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3

2006-05-12 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i've had big problems with my via onboard USB 2.0 controller, it gave thousands of messages like the following to the console: usb 1-5.4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 after someone told me, that the via USB 2.0 controllers are known to be bad quality, i bought

some zope relating questions/problems

2003-08-14 Thread Jonas Meurer
hello, i try to use zope with fcgi. don't know exactly why, quite new to zope. but while installing it I ran into several problems: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/Zope doesn't exist and simply symlinking it to /var/lib/zope/cgi-bin/ gives 403 Forbidden. looking at the permissions there should be no problems. is