Re: using UUID's for a raid1 in /etc/fstab instead of /dev/md0

2008-04-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
SNIP I am on amd64 lenny (with some sid), 2.6.24 I don't normally use UUID's i have been using labels mdadm --detail /dev/md1 | grep UUID UUID : ba8c4627:6e74a6c4:1a2e6c15:22feafcf tune2fs -l /dev/md1 | grep UUID Filesystem UUID: ec3e3537-4e36-443e-8132-5b0f03dd0978 As you

Re: how to fix my broken system..

2008-04-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ey listed a solution). -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
just a benefit, not a right. In almost all cases, you can get better coverage yourself for cheaper, just your boss will not be assisting your payments. Phew, I feel better. I am now donning my fire suite. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I keep coming up against a wall "Solid scripting experience required" in my job search (for Linux sys admin). IYHO, what would be the one scripting language to learn? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 08:23:19 am Damon L. Chesser wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Friday 11 April 2008 06:16:21 am Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/11/08 07:40, Christopher Judd wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/10/08

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
n The Wall came down and our military was no longer needed in the ensuing lack of war and destruction) :) -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 04/11/08 13:47, Daniel Mahoney wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: I keep coming up against a wall "Solid scripting experience required" in my job search (for Linux sys admin). IYHO, what would be the one scrip

Re: moving /usr, /var, and /etc

2008-04-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ening that might require a recovery boot to fix. I am awaiting the results to increase my understanding. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I need further understanding of wine or bash

2008-04-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Solar\ Empire.exe " it works. What am I missing to make it work with a simple script to avoid all the typing or the tunneling via a GUI? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need further understanding of wine or bash

2008-04-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Brian McKee wrote: On 21-Apr-08, at 11:08 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: if I use a term and cd into the games dir and type " wine Sins\ of\ a\ Solar\ Empire.exe " it works Why not try adding a 'cd into the games dir' before the wine line? Brian Brian, That worked:

Re: I need further understanding of wine or bash

2008-04-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Dylan Garrett wrote: On 4/21/08, *Damon L. Chesser* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Brian McKee wrote: On 21-Apr-08, at 11:08 AM, Damon L. Chesser wrote: if I use a term and cd into the games dir and type " wine S

Re: I need further understanding of wine or bash

2008-04-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
second. :P Thanks for fixing my mistake. And sorry to Damon. Hey, I am the guy, after seen this for YEARS wrote #bin/bash! ! If I would have taken a second to SAY it (sha-bang) I would have realized it. No apologies needed. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dche

Re: I need further understanding of wine or bash

2008-04-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damon L. Chesser wrote: Dylan Garrett wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:05:23PM -0400, Dylan G

Re: NC problem

2008-04-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
w that, we can then find out what driver you may need. What is the model of the laptop, someone else might have done the leg work all ready. Google Fujitsu MODEL Linux. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: removed root directory files

2008-04-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If it makes you feel better, I once needed to make a swap file, so I mkswap / It works! It will make your / into swap. Then as you close apps, you will not be able to open them back up, or call new ones. Root!

Re: Strange window problem

2008-04-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
good news, the bad news is I can't remember what it is: perhaps xtrace? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange window problem

2008-04-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:06:04 -0400 "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Frank wrote: For the past week or so I noticed an empty window which pops up seemingly at random on my screen.

Re: NC problem

2008-04-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Martin S wrote: Damon L. Chesser skrev: Martin S wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on an oldish Fujitsu Lifebook laptop. Apparently the installation doesn't recognize the network connection (no DHcP lease) while I know that it works at least with Windows (I have another disk I sw

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

2008-04-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
" has that "good" does not unless it conflicts with the upgrade (but I have not tried it, so am not sure). -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

2008-04-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
? SAMBA? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is the apt cache good for?

2008-04-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
or dpkg --force-overwrite foo for example). HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
x27;t know and I am not finding much on google (lots covering the 2G OLD limit). What I want is documentation so I am not working off of opinion (read religious belief). Got any links you want to share? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBS

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Patrick Ouellette wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 04:45:05PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? Rephrase the question. Ask what the intended use of

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? Simple, right? Try answering it. Used to be the limit was 2G files/partitions with up to 8 partitions total. This does not apply

Re: subscription

2008-04-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sigh. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: -- Spam --Re: re[2]: subscription

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
request. He says he has tried to unsubscribe and fails. Please see the thread with the same subject line on debian-user. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Being in an interview loop looking for employment, I find I am asked questions I never considered, for example: How much is enough swap? Simple, right? Try answering it. Used to be the limit was 2G files/partitions with up to 8 partitions total. This does not apply

Re: prevent writing to unmounted directory

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
networking is down, you will see the "touched" file. If networking is up and smb/CIF is working, you will not see it. The "touched" file will not be overwritten by your file moving/deletion/backups/restores. Does that help? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: How to refresh Debian to install software set

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
it, I think? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Two systems: amd64 and i386. Both ran Sid. printer is networked with 192.168.200.150. Added printer via localhost:631 as a network (LPD) printer url is lpd://192.168.200.150/lpt1. The printer comes to life, the data light blinks (Samsung ML-1430) then the server

custom kernel and make kpkg modules_image

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
. VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 25 EXTRAVERSION = APPEND_TO_VERSION = .cybo.1 KPKG_SELECTED_MODULES = Debian Revision = custom.1.0 KPKG_ARCH= do_parallel = fast_dep = Thanks in advance! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-04-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
il you get from the freeking list. I CAN NOT UNSUBSCRIBE you. I EVEN EMAILED THE LISTMASTER AT YOUR REQUEST. stop pissing me off, I am working FOR YOU. From this point on, you can do it your self. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser

Re: How about LVM?

2008-04-26 Thread Damon L. Chesser
of the drive. RAID5 will give you N+N+N.-N for disk size (you loose one disk worth of storage in raid5). HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Kernel panic with new kernel

2008-04-26 Thread Damon L. Chesser
y had to make module_image for nvidia use on a custom kernel. Presumably, if you needed to make a module work with a running kernel, you would know it. In short, Daniel, I have no idea why you can't bood, but following these steps should fix the problem. HTH. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMA

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-26 Thread Damon L. Chesser
after dinner mint? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIE9grS9HxQb37XmcRAsdkAKDBvcedxDGJzatjhE2nKipKVvx8IgCcDU4e 4+I4AXDwBSbtp8uuavrBXnY= =SiyN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To

Re: f/oss routing solution

2008-04-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
a few more things in place, then I'll rethink everything. IPCop? turns a box into a router with various rules for the diff. nets. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: f/oss routing solution

2008-04-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
a few more things in place, then I'll rethink everything. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_router_or_firewall_distributions -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
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Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
time I dip into experimental, I get badly burned. I recover, but it is a pain. YMMV OTOH, you could download it from firefox and install it under your user if you really wanted to test it. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: OT (slightly) swap limits

2008-04-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
passed it up. NOW that I read it/re-read it, it all falls into place. Thanks Bob for the detailed explanation. That has got to be the most complete single source explanation I have read on the subject. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Is RAID6 supported by Debian?

2008-04-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
6 as a possible "Personality" I would say it works just fine. YMMV. Try it. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is RAID6 supported by Debian?

2008-04-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/28/08 17:47, Mark Allums wrote: >> Is RAID6 supported by Linux/GNU/Debian/Etch/Lenny/Sid, at all? >> >> Can't find any info on this, other than unhelpful references. >> >> Wikipedia was a

[Fwd: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: Is RAID6 supported by Debian?]

2008-04-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
bottom does not address the removal issue Dear Listmaster, please help this person out so he will stop emailing all of use to remove him from the list. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

[EMAIL PROTECTED] anti-spam stopping removal request

2008-04-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ologies to the rest of the list for this spam. HTH. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems

2008-04-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
or day to day use. What annoyance? What horror have I missed? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: Is RAID6 supported by Debian?]

2008-04-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Original Message Subject: *SPAM* Re: Re: Is RAID6 supported by Debian? Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:04:52 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please remove this e-mail address and unsubscribe me from future

Re: Is RAID6 supported by Debian?

2008-04-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Mark Allums wrote: Thanks, all, for your quick replies. Very helpful. Now I now where to look. (Not especially new to *nix, but naive about Linux, especially Debian.) --Mark Allums mdadm can seem tricky from the cli, yell if you need assistance. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-04-29 Thread Damon L. Chesser
the 2nd time around due to cryptic deps) but I have not had this happen doing this. HTH P.S This is off the top of my head, google dpkg get-selection for the exact commands, but I think these are it. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UN

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

2008-04-29 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Sounds like fun. Good luck! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

2008-04-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
G. H. Don't forget about the fans! There is no i8kutils for amd64. I don't know if your xps boxes needs the i8kutils to make the fans go around, but my Vostro sure does. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

2008-04-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't forget about the fans! There is no i8kutils for amd64. I don't know if your xps boxes needs the i8kutils to make the fans go around, but my Vostro sure does. Hm, my Insp

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

2008-04-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you ever hear your fans blow? Yep, just tried to find the L2 condition number of a 10,000x10,000 random matrix, and I heard the fan go on when I did that. The CPU temperature went up

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

2008-04-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't forget about the fans! There is no i8kutils for amd64. I don't know if your xps boxes needs the i8kutils to make the fans go around, but my Vostro sure does. Hm, my Insp

Re: CLAIM---with/Ticket Number-(106012),

2008-04-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
loce, senza occupare spazio utile nella tua casella di posta. Per saperne di più visita il sito www.tin.it Split it with you evenly? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

2008-04-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sometime today I will turn off i8k and let you know of the behavior. Thanks, I'd like to know. I sorta trust the BIOS to shut off the computer should it ever get too hot, and I don&

Re: Replace Ubuntu with Debian

2008-04-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 30/04/2008, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you ever hear your fans blow? Yep, just tried to find the L2 condition number of a 10,000x10,000 random matrix, and I heard the fan go on when I did that. T

Re: keeping package selection with new install

2008-05-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
now what you are talking about. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
d1 for the system with LVM on it. You will then have to install grub on to hdd or if hdc fails, you will not be able to boot as grub will be installed onto hdc MBR. Makes sense? HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
grub onto both (or all) members of the array. www.damtek.com HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
things! See my old "howto" on Linux, grub and raid at damtek.com for the exact commands. It is not pretty, but it will work. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ivan Glushkov wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: snip I taught I have to install the grub on the raid array, thus the grub will put a copy of itself on the first partition on both hard drives, used for the raid1, right? Wrong AFAIK. You can do that IF you have a boot loader on

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ivan Glushkov wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: snip I taught I have to install the grub on the raid array, thus the grub will put a copy of itself on the first partition on both hard drives, used for the raid1, right? Wrong AFAIK. You can do that IF you have a boot loader on

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ng no reason to "copy GRUB to the boot partition" unless he is meaning the grub command. If anybody knows different, please educate me. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 09:29:14PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:48:57PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Truly, I don't know if you install grub onto a raid1 if it will install it onto the MBR of both physical HDs. I hav

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
tall, just do it again (unless you are metered) and this time install grub on the physical HD. Then use the grub command to mirror it to the raid1 member. HTH. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ivan Glushkov wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: SNIP I have this line in /boot/grub/menu.lst I tried in the following sequence to: 0. boot resque 1. mount /boot from raid1 and the other directories from the lvm volumes 1. enter lvm into /etc/modules, 2. rebuild initrd with

Re: Issue with VMware (2)

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ny patch I keep hearing about? I just run alien -c vmware.*.rpm and dpkg -i vmware*.deb. Not finding alot of info on this any-any patch. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

lightly OT vmworkstation

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anybody figure out how to switch vt? When ever I try it I change my real vt (oxymoronic?) -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Celejar wrote: On Tue, 06 May 2008 16:01:46 -0400 "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] you can not put grub (/boot) on an LVM. You can put /boot on a raid1. Grub (/boot) can apparently be on LVM these days; from the GrubWiki (http://grub.enbu

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ivan Glushkov wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: SNIP I have this line in /boot/grub/menu.lst I tried in the following sequence to: 0. boot resque 1. mount /boot from raid1 and the other directories from the lvm volumes 1. enter lvm into /etc/modules, 2. rebuild initrd with

Re: vmware questions

2008-05-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
physical, you have to have the license for it and you can only use it once (or one at a time if you uninstall it/delete the vm) HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-10 Thread Damon L. Chesser
oks say. Don't be dense. Greed will be our downfall. Greed is ingrained into all humans. Getting rid of it is as impossible as preventing the earth from spinning. Remove the profit, should work. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dch

Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Two systems: amd64 and i386. Both ran Sid. printer is networked with 192.168.200.150. Added printer via localhost:631 as a network (LPD) printer url is lpd://192.168.200.150/lpt1. The printer comes to life, the data light blinks (Samsung ML

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ike a wise guy, apt-get install xfce4. That is how I solved this issue years ago. Short of that, turn off a panel. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Incomplete downloads

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ound do this: add a line to /etc/sysctrl.conf net.ipv4.tcp_frto = 0 that will turn tcp_frto to "off" when you boot. This issue you describe is close to what others have complained of concerning this subject. HTH. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: SNIP Then why use XFCE? Ron, that is obvious! So he can run his game UNDER his console and his boss will not "see" it! Geeze! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/08 15:09, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: SNIP Then why use XFCE? Ron, that is obvious! So he can run his game UNDER his console and his boss will not "see" it! Geeze! Tr

Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-05-12 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Two systems: amd64 and i386. Both ran Sid. printer is networked with 192.168.200.150. Added printer via localhost:631 as a network (LPD) printer url is lpd://192.168.200.150/lpt1. The printer comes to life, the data

Re: Moving RAID1 Set to New Machine

2008-05-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
me data point, make sure NOT to format it. Boot to the new os, and collect your data. There might be/is some way to scan the hd/partitions to register the array pair, but I don't remember what it is and you would still need an OS for it to work. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
home dirs. No idea what though. If it works, that would give you at least to log on, move over required data and start again. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
have tried. We don't know what error logs are reporting. Give us some useful information. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
not the install scripts? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please help2

2008-05-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
want. Do you have an internet connection? If so, have you tried apt-get install gcc?. If you do have an internet connection, you can upgrade all packages by aptitude update and then aptitude safe-update. Please tell us more details so we can assist you properly. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PR

[Fwd: RE: Please help2]

2008-05-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Original Message Subject:RE: Please help2 Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 20:30:54 +0300 From: Egor sv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you! now i under

Re: Please help2

2008-05-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Discover the new Windows Vista! -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Assumed bug in Debian Sid: monitor cannot be reconfigured with dpkg-reconfigure

2008-05-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
this a few times to get X configured, all though not in about two years. FWIW, I no longer get asked about the monitor selection after the first time I run dpkg-reconfigure xorg.conf either. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Assumed bug in Debian Sid: monitor cannot be reconfigured with dpkg-reconfigure

2008-05-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Ron, one of the few times I have to disagree with you: Yes this is 2008 and we are running Debian, however, Xorg -configure will still work. "-configure When this option is specified, the Xorg server loads all video driver modules, probe

Re: Default X resolution

2008-05-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
des "1024x768" "some other value here" "a nother value here" EndSubSection Looks like an Xorg kinda of a day! HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: screen resolution question

2008-05-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
t one would be the preferred resolution, the 2nd and following could actually be higher if you wanted it) I still use the old method: I use nvidia and twinview and I don't know any other way to get 2880x900 out of two monitors that run 1440x900. take the time to read that page, it shoul

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
d that the data he was complaining about was no longer valid. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

enabling cgi-scripts in apatche

2008-05-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
o get cgi-scripts working? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
fense against that in a a business environment. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/08 14:28, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [snip] Employees running amok. What about when Spock runs amok? How will a firewall help? of course, it will not, but that is what proper user permission/sudo config is

Re: Debian secure by default?

2008-05-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/08 15:45, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/25/08 14:28, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [snip] Employees running amok. What about when Spock runs amok? How will a firewall help

Re: [OFF] Sudo

2008-05-29 Thread Damon L. Chesser
a good candidate for this? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HotSwapping Disks

2008-05-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
a hot swap system? Paul I believe partprobe is what you are looking for. Run fdisk/parted makes your changes, write them to disk, exit. Then as root "partprobe" will make the kernel to re-read the partition table. You should then be able to mkfs to your harts content. HTH -- Dam

Re: Re-configure x

2008-06-01 Thread Damon L. Chesser
.intergate.com/~waltwilliams/ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Note, it might still not ask you what resolutions to run at. X has gotten pretty smart and "assumes" many of the formerly asked questions and mostly gets it right. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
n update). If you insists on running Testing OR Unstable there is one program you MUST run: apt-get apt-listbugs you have to read the output before proceeding to any updating. This will save your bacon. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signat

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 15:19 +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: > Damon L. Chesser a écrit : SNIP > > > I'm just an average Testing user, have been for a while, and around me > almost every Debian users I know are using Testing, mostly because it's > the Debian'

Re: Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
ot;. It is perfectly OK to install FC9 (it really is pretty slick) and have all kinds of breakage (I always break FC with in a week, trying to install something I want) but it is not OK to run "Unstable" because it is unstable. GR. And yet Debian is pretty damn slick out of the box, is pretty by default and if you want cutting edge, you can run it (or as a hobbyist, you might NEED to run Testing or Unstable just to install it. But I rant and digress. > > -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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