Re: Brief question as to the Linux kernel in use in the Stable version of Etch

2008-01-27 Thread Andrew Reid
that have had Linux support in the default kernel for years. Or, as others have suggested, you can try Debian testing/"lenny", or upgrade the kernel only. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to send mails with attachments for each file in a directory ?

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Reid
# find *.jpg > find: *.jpg: No such file or directory ... versus > # find . -name "*.jpg" > [big list of files] Try that. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT:weird problem downloading big files

2008-01-31 Thread Andrew Reid
possible there's a jumbo-frame analog of it that's gotten you. In any case, it's pretty easy to lower the mtu and give it a try. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Udev Installation Question

2008-02-02 Thread Andrew Reid
make-devfs script somewhere > to create all the zillions of nodes that Knoppix uses. > > 3. Tarred, feathered and stashed somewhere I had read that this does occur. > Where? 3. Specifically, remounted on /dev/.static/dev. -- A. -- Andrew Rei

Re: php and apache?

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Reid
that the logs complained about symbols being already defined. I'm afraid I don't recall the details very clearly. Check the logs. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: ASUS P5GC-MX mother board - Attensic network card

2008-02-21 Thread Andrew Reid
"linux" directory on the CD with source for an atl2 module that works with the Debian "etch" 2.6.18 kernel. Of course, you'll need to get the linux-headers package and a compiler on to the system first, I'm not sure if they're in the Debian netinst CD or

Re: ASUS P5GC-MX mother board - Attensic network card

2008-02-22 Thread Andrew Reid
ink. Alternatively, you can just put the link in manually. You should consider the 2.6.2[234] idea seriously, it's probably easier, depending on the nature of the constraint that holds you to 2.6.18. Your call, obviously. -- A. constraint that -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Loading modules during startup

2008-02-24 Thread Andrew Reid
tc/init.d/networking. This is slightly dangerous, it might get removed by subsequent package updates, but it would work. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /media and /mnt ownership and permissions

2008-03-08 Thread Andrew Reid
s, you just have to hope that the numeric uids and gids of the files on the device are meaningful on your system, but in my experience, remote media are usually either iso9660 for FAT32, so practically speaking, this isn't an issue. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMA

OpenMP-aware compiler for etch?

2008-03-15 Thread Andrew Reid
#x27;m aware of the commercial Portland Group compilers, and also the Intel C compiler -- these are options, but a FOSS implementation would be best. Security policy requirements prevent me, for the moment, from just upgrading to "lenny". -- A. --

Re: Palm TX Handheld and Debian

2008-03-17 Thread Andrew Reid
k properly, but I'm able to do it over the wireless with pilot-xfer using the "net:any" address. However, I have never actually run Debian *on* my Palm TX, which is what your question sounds like it might mean. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: problems booting

2008-03-23 Thread Andrew Reid
mount the filesystems by label or by UUID. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Starting NTP server: ntpd/usr/sbin/ntpd: invalid option -- p

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 16 June 2008 22:08, David Christensen wrote: > Andrew Reid wrote: > > I'm afraid I'm not much of an expert on openntp. My first guess is > > that, as the system runs, the clock should sync up on its own, if > > ntpd is seeing valid servers and working prop

Re: NOT ABLE TO INSTALL DEBIAN 4.0r3

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Reid
t;pci=nommconf" kernel option. This isn't really a Debian-specific problem, it's due to the devices being newer than the kernel support. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-18 Thread Andrew Reid
erizon for residential accounts. It might be possible to get a "business internet" account, for more money of course, which allows you to relay your own domain's e-mail through your ISP's servers. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dual Core processor ?

2008-07-25 Thread Andrew Reid
"etch" release notes for details. The server world seems to me to be Linux in general and Debian in particular's strong suit. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dual Core processor ?

2008-07-27 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 26 July 2008 07:41, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/25/08 20:21, Andrew Reid wrote: > [snip] > > > - For certain nVidia chipsets in combination with large XFS > > file systems, you need to boot with "iommu=soft" in order > > to avoid (infre

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-03 Thread Andrew Reid
LDAP host? Just guessing. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS is working again, but problem not solved.

2008-08-03 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 03 August 2008 22:13, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 03 August 2008 13:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > While mfs mounting wasn't working, our LAN was disconnected from the > > wider internet. Although all the machines in question could talk to each > > other, the D

Re: CUPS problem

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Reid
;foomatic" driver package in order to work. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel SATA RAID 82801IR/IO on debian etch'n half

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Reid
odes, including a "looks like disks" mode if you want to do software RAID (or no RAID at all). -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Automated downloads for duplicate laptops

2008-08-15 Thread Andrew Reid
achines will have the same package state. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: StartUp

2008-08-20 Thread Andrew Reid
t to start at boot-time. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: External IP

2008-04-22 Thread Andrew Reid
class-A address (10.0.something.something), so it's useful to have a utility that cuts through the crap. Of course, it does require that you have a working web browser. If you (or I) were clever, we'd probably do some tricky tracert thing. -- A. --

Re: virtual text consoles gone

2008-04-23 Thread Andrew Reid
ou can explicitly "install" the latest version, or do "apt-get dist-upgrade", which takes a more aggressive approach to dependencies. I have no idea how aptitude handles this. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: subscription

2008-04-24 Thread Andrew Reid
e of action is to manually unsubscribe him, and not resort to banning until/unless he comes back and misbehaves again. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto mount a Debian disk (LVM, dm-crypt)?

2008-04-25 Thread Andrew Reid
the new device, I'm not sure. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Howto mount a Debian disk (LVM, dm-crypt)?

2008-04-26 Thread Andrew Reid
quot; in the lvm2 package for Debian "etch" (and others, no doubt). The man page says the syntax is just "vgrename ". I've never done this, but that looks like your answer. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: External IP

2008-04-26 Thread Andrew Reid
o find packages containing files that end with . -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network FUBAR

2008-04-29 Thread Andrew Reid
r network have a MAC whitelist or filter somewhere? Is there a local config file that depends on the MAC address being right, e.g. to assign device names to interfaces? Does your firewall do MAC filtering? That's all I can think of. -- A. -- Andrew Reid /

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Andrew Reid
nearly missed this. -- A, again. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 22:46, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I wonder how to debug this further ...? > > > > If you are logging in successfully, then error messages are > > being sent to the

CRLF (was Re: text file from Linux to windows.)

2008-05-29 Thread Andrew Reid
a server problem," and they'd never figure out how you knew. Not that I ever did that. Purely hypothetical, you understand. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Civil engineering software

2008-06-01 Thread Andrew Reid
er has been the topic of posts on this very list. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: .xsession-errors

2008-06-05 Thread Andrew Reid
ence is not automatically a problem. My experience is that X errors are notoriously hard to diagnose, so unless you're seeing some pathology independently of the error report, I'd ignore them. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: mounting an smbfs as non superuser

2008-06-05 Thread Andrew Reid
this so that the backup user can write to it I use smbmount for that. It's apt-gettable, and has a config file where you can configure defaults so that the actual command you have to issue is shorter. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Debian "etch" hardware compability list?

2008-06-10 Thread Andrew Reid
kernel, but I'd settle for a list of chipsets, or even a list of SATA controllers and ethernet devices. I've googled around, but I haven't found a nice, compact source of all the info I want. Is there such a thing? -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PR

Re: Debian "etch" hardware compability list?

2008-06-13 Thread Andrew Reid
On Thursday 12 June 2008 21:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:34:36PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > > I've googled around, but I haven't found a nice, compact source of > > all the info I want. Is there such a thing? > > I haven't s

Re: Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard Network Driver Availiable? Hardware compatibility with Debian?

2008-06-14 Thread Andrew Reid
ame architecture, and install it manually. Remember to run "depmod" and rebuild the initramfs when you install the module. I usually do (2), although I also have a USB stick with all the stuff for (1) on it. It looks a bit complicated when it's all written dow

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-14 Thread Andrew Reid
ed to do "gopher", it might be worthwhile to file a feature-request on the KDE bug tracker for this. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Reid
although you need to watch out for scripts which use the argument-count for nefarious purposes. I'm not aware of any, but you never know. If it works, this seems to solve your problem, if I've understood it correctly. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Starting NTP server: ntpd/usr/sbin/ntpd: invalid option -- p

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Reid
e init files will still be in place. /etc/init.d/ntpd will find the openntp executable and try to run it, but with wierd/wrong options. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Starting NTP server: ntpd/usr/sbin/ntpd: invalid option -- p

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 15 June 2008 17:10, David Christensen wrote: > Andrew Reid wrote: > > Check if there is also an /etc/init.d/ntpd. If your box used > > to have ntp, and that package was removed but not purged, the init > > files will still be in place. /etc/init.d/ntpd will

Re: [NOT SOLVED, BUT PROGRESS] Failure to boot after failed resume from s2something

2009-07-16 Thread Andrew Reid
t matter what's in your resume partition. I dimly recall setting the resume partition in the initramfs.conf process somewhere, but can't seem to find documentation about that now. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: [NOT SOLVED, BUT PROGRESS] Failure to boot after failed resume from s2something

2009-07-18 Thread Andrew Reid
On Thursday 16 July 2009 22:33:44 John wrote: > On (16/07/09 20:55), Andrew Reid wrote: > | I dimly recall setting the resume partition in the initramfs.conf > | process somewhere, but can't seem to find documentation about that > | now. > > I've looked at that do

Re: [NOT SOLVED, BUT PROGRESS] Failure to boot after failed resume from s2something

2009-07-19 Thread Andrew Reid
On Thursday 16 July 2009 22:33:44 John wrote: > On (16/07/09 20:55), Andrew Reid wrote: > | I dimly recall setting the resume partition in the initramfs.conf > | process somewhere, but can't seem to find documentation about that > | now. > > I've looked at that do

Re: proper place for iptables script

2009-07-28 Thread Andrew Reid
ot;network things happen when the network changes state" thing aesthetically pleasing, and enjoy the small practical advantage I already mentioned. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-05 Thread Andrew Reid
nciple, you should be able to run the commands to set up the root FS from within the shell, have you tried that? You might get a more informative error message. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-06 Thread Andrew Reid
some config files, which might expose details of your network enviornment -- where are *your* WPA credentials cached? So, encrypting as much as you can meets the confidentially need in an easy-to-describe, easy-to-enforce, and relatively easy-to-implement way. --

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-07 Thread Andrew Reid
can then do an "ls" in /dev, and see if the relevant hard drive partition (/dev/sda5, in your case) is are present -- this tests the udev step pretty directly. Hope this helps. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Unable to install mencoder debian package from debian-multimedia.org.

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Reid
ebian-multimedia.org/debian-m.php > I've got an Intel quadcore CPU (which means I'm on the AMD64 > architecture, right?) and am running Debian stable (Lenny). Yes, those chips are amd64 architecture. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net

Re: Etch to 5.0.2 upgrade failed - Encrypted filesystem will not boot

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Reid
nes, is update-initramfs writing its files to the correct place so they're read at boot time? That's about all I can think of. Good luck. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Strange log-rotate problem

2009-08-21 Thread Andrew Reid
ations? Some obscure cron thing that doesn't show up when I grep for "auth" or "log", because it's doing some kind of crazy pattern-matching thing? Thanks in advance... -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-21 Thread Andrew Reid
, and if you then started all the /etc/init.d services manually, it would run fine for months at a time. I never did figure that one out, I eventually got rid of the machine. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Strange log-rotate problem

2009-08-22 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 22 August 2009 02:09:09 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-08-22 01:08 +0200, Andrew Reid wrote: > > My problem is that I can't figure out who is rotating > > /var/log/auth.log. > > > > It's currently being rotated every day, and retained for a

Re: help for kernel panic

2009-08-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 August 2009 11:12:49 Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2009-08-22, Andrew Reid wrote: > > That would seem to narrow it down to a corrupt initramfs, > > or, as you already suggested, motherboard hardware issues. > > Thanks for confirming the md5sum and the sugge

Re: [Debian] Re: Grub boot problems

2009-08-25 Thread Andrew Reid
ill fix things. If leaving it out works, then (hd0,0) is a likely candidate for the right answer. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-13 Thread Andrew Reid
so have this habit, and I generally intend to use ext2, but sometimes I forget to switch it from the installer's filesystem default, which is ext3. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: why can't i use grub with an ext3 /boot partition?

2009-09-15 Thread Andrew Reid
om an alt console, but I'm not 100% sure it's possible, and I certainly don't remember how. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Lenny upgrade -- kcheckpass behavior change

2009-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid
st run as group "shadow" now, and not as user root. Opening up permissions on /etc/shadow (I changed it to 440) fixed it. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Lenny sun-java6-doc installation issue

2009-02-21 Thread Andrew Reid
e this already? How does it work? My other idea, which I haven't tried yet, is to download that jdk-6u10-docs.zip file and just rename it to satisfy the package installer, but this is not a satisfying solution to me. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-21 Thread Andrew Reid
orphan to prune the installed package list. Deborphan has to be installed first, and if you're very brave, you do: > apt-get remove --purge `deborphan` ... repeatedly until it "converges", i.e. runs out of packages to remove. -- A. -- And

Re: [OT] Bloatware and how to make Programs smaller

2009-02-21 Thread Andrew Reid
y Barry Kauler, which shows, along similar lines to the article you referenced, how to build a 32-bit executable for Windows 95 "by hand" -- they're a good deal larger than ELFs, of course, since on that platform, the window handles and GUI event callbacks are mandatory.

Re: problem with IPTABLEs

2009-02-25 Thread Andrew Reid
to selectively allow a particular service, are probably the right choice. Check the man-pages of /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny for details. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: grub locked

2009-02-27 Thread Andrew Reid
ssible that Windows has messed things up somehow. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Streaming Video from a Debian box

2009-03-22 Thread Andrew Reid
lenny, and probably others. If you want non-open formats, you might have to get codecs from debian-multimedia, they won't be in the main repos. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: any image viewer for etch that you can recommend?

2009-03-29 Thread Andrew Reid
ge file that I don't like > Thanks! The "display" command, from the ImageMagick suite, can do all of these. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-04 Thread Andrew Reid
work card into an existing system, but it does have unexpected behavior for transplanted images. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-04 Thread Andrew Reid
he file and remove the stanza with the "conflicting" MAC address. I just tried to find the exact file name on my current "lenny" system, but things appear to be more complicated -- maybe this behavior is fixed in lenny? -- A. -- Andrew Re

Re: new problem - networking is strange

2009-04-04 Thread Andrew Reid
On Saturday 04 April 2009 23:45:48 Andrew Reid wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2009 19:07:53 Miles Fidelman wrote: > > H.S. wrote: > > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > > > Is udev giving your interface a new name (ethx instead of, say eth0)? > > > > how

Re: "X includes" missing

2009-04-05 Thread Andrew Reid
refix is the same as the libraries, but with the suffix "-dev". In this case, installing the package "xorg-dev" and its dependencies will almost certainly solve this problem. -- A -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRI

HAL and KDE mounting USB drives

2009-04-15 Thread Andrew Reid
he "hal-doc" package was awesome for the first part, but I can't seem to find an equivalent for the second part. Does anyone know where to find docs on KDE/HAL interactions, or what the answer is? This is all on Debian "lenny". -- A. -- Andrew R

Re: tftpd-hpa fails to start.

2009-04-17 Thread Andrew Reid
netstat" -- because it's inetd triggered, the "bad" tftp doesn't show up in the process list. The fix, of course, is to just remove that line from inetd.conf. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-25 Thread Andrew Reid
matic creation and testing of back-ups, maybe. Simple scripts, and in an environment (especially in .bashrc) where other tools just aren't as good. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Bash Session

2009-04-26 Thread Andrew Reid
else (even cron, etc.), there's always an alternative -- you could write a custom program in another scripting or compiled language to do what you want, but in the .bashrc, bash-scripting is really the only way to do anything. There wasn't any more profound idea to it than that.

Re: Out of memory crashes ssh

2009-05-20 Thread Andrew Reid
sshd fail. That's much more rare, of course. Somewhere on my "todo" list is to figure out memory management, and try to set up sshd so that it doesn't get sacrificed when resources run low. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatl

Re: XFS frequent crashes on PE1950 with perc 5/e and 2xMD1000

2009-06-10 Thread Andrew Reid
It sounds like this is at least an easy thing to try -- I really wish I could find my notes... -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: When you needed newer software than Sid/Backports provide...

2009-07-07 Thread Andrew Reid
at the real location -- built software remains organized by package subdirectories. It's not a panacea, some build schemes are not stow-friendly, but generally if it would work in /usr/local, it'll work with stow. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / re

HIDS recommendations?

2009-07-11 Thread Andrew Reid
hat I really want is a file-system integrity tool. A good GUI for tripwire might meet the need, and I'd also be interested in people's experience with other tools, particulary for monitoring about 50 hosts. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlant

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew Reid
initramfs you restored from back-up should work, plus you said you rebuilt the initramfs several times. The other way to investigate the initramfs, incidentally, is to just unpack it somehwere -- it's a cpio archive, you can google for instructions. -- A. -- Andr

Re: boot failure "mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /root failed: no such device"

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 13 July 2009 21:13:16 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 17:52, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 16:38, Andrew Reid wrote: > >>  The other way to investigate the initramfs, incidentally, > >> is to just unpack it somehwere -- it

Re: How to enable Debian to automatically clear the tmp directory

2008-08-28 Thread Andrew Reid
oping Debian has a built in utility, otherwise a package > will suffice if not a simple bash script. Thanks for your input. If you're using "etch", you can use the "tmpreaper" package. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- T

Re: Setup problem with Old sony vaio PCG-Z505SX notebook

2008-10-03 Thread Andrew Reid
the hard drive out of it, and installed a basic system onto it through a USB-to-IDE adapter off another computer using debootstrap. So, I don't know how to solve your problem, but there's a workaround for you. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Any suggest on NFS server in product environment?

2008-10-08 Thread Andrew Reid
) someone decides to do multiple sequential "grep" operations on a multi-gigabyte file over NFS. Having said that, I've never actually used nfs-user-server, because nfs-kernel-server has always worked fine. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Any suggest on NFS server in product environment?

2008-10-10 Thread Andrew Reid
safe way. There are some size adjustments also, but I've forgotten what they are or what motivated them. The NFS performance HOWTO is useful for setting these things. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Reid
there, and I bet it's not complicated. I recently untangled some net-booting issues this way. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: intrusion detection

2008-10-28 Thread Andrew Reid
checking out the docs on these (googling the names will get you there), as I'm not really an expert, just a user and sometime-tuner of these. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to reposition the K desktop unlocking widget?

2008-11-21 Thread Andrew Reid
mailing list as well, of course. I realize this is an aesthetic, rather than functional, issue, but we sometimes have visitors (from funding agencies, even) in our lab, and it would be nice if the computers could convey a sense of professionalism, to them and to us. Oh, and it's a Debian &q

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Reid
either case, installing already-installed packages is harmless. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reinstalling Packages after Rebuilding System with Etch

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Reid
On Monday 24 November 2008 21:13, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Monday 24 November 2008 15:05, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I am going to backup my sarge system, install with the > > etch-and-a-half CDROM and then I want to put back all the extra > > packages such as alsa, calc

Re: advice on cloning system

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Reid
en you boot the copied system. The work-around, of course, is to remove the about-to-be-wrong entry from that file after doing the copy. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Andrew Reid
c crystal of known characteristics in the gap, and measure the change in shape. From this, you can deduce the degree of polarization, and thus the externally-applied field, and from that, again, the voltage difference between the electrodes. -- A. -- Andrew

Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 28 November 2008 16:28, lee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:13:21PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > > On Friday 28 November 2008 14:10, lee wrote: > > > Is it even possible to measure a mere potential? > > > > You mean, in principle? Of course. > >

Re: How to reposition the K desktop unlocking widget?

2008-11-28 Thread Andrew Reid
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 02:00, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 2008 November 21 21:50, Andrew Reid wrote: > > I've recently set up a Debian system for a colleague with > > an NVidia video card that can do dual-monitors. > > This was spectacularly eas

Re: How to reposition the K desktop unlocking widget?

2008-11-29 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 28 November 2008 19:47, Andrew Reid wrote: > Thanks for this -- I'm not in front of the problem system > just at the moment, but I think the difference might be that I > used a TwinView screen directly, and didn't use a ServerLayout > section, so by the time K

Re: How to stop an active network connection

2008-12-02 Thread Andrew Reid
p, it will block particular users who can't get their password right after three tries. I believe it can also be set up to block particular IP addresses that try multiple usernames, but I'm not 100% sure. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: read only nfs root and var

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Reid
e for /var and one for /etc, a small ramfs for /media, and a separate filesystem for /tmp. <http://www.filesystems.org/project-unionfs.html> <http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unionfs&searchon=names&version=all&release=all> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS>

Re: read only nfs root and var

2009-01-18 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 18 January 2009 21:21, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Sunday 18 January 2009 17:30, Micha Feigin wrote: > > I'm trying to setup a server that export root over a read only nfs file > > system. I managed to enable local settings for each machine by mounting > > it's

Installing FreeBSD under Xen on Debian Lenny

2010-02-07 Thread Andrew Reid
Has anyone done this successfully? Can you share your VM config file and/or provide clues? I can of course provide arbitrarily terrifying levels of additional detail. Thanks in advance. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: unionfs

2010-02-08 Thread Andrew Reid
rformance. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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