Comprehensive list of d-i (debian-installer) key/value pairs and description

2009-02-28 Thread Joe McDonagh
Hi All, I am wondering if anyone knows where I can find a comprehensive list of debian-installer key/value pairs for preseeding. I discovered /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat but that doesn't show *all* keys. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Comprehensive list of d-i (debian-installer) key/value pairs and description

2009-03-02 Thread Joe McDonagh
hanks guys! Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:38:50AM -0500, Joe McDonagh wrote: Hi All, I am wondering if anyone knows where I can find a comprehensive list of debian-installer key/value pairs for preseeding. I discovered /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat but that doesn't

Re: need help on shell programming

2009-03-03 Thread Joe McDonagh
Why is it not the 'best' idea? Infinite loops can be used to your advantage. It's already been remarked that cron will not work because it is fixed-frequency. That means OP will have to start maintaining state via files to avoid race conditions. An infinite while;do;done construct can be inter

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-05 Thread Joe McDonagh
Because I am a masochist. Just kidding. I inherited an infrastructure as part of my latest job in operations. I can tell you that from a SysAdmin/Ops Engineer point of view, Debian and its derivatives are not as quick to get to a nice automated infrastructure and require a lot of up-front glue

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Joe McDonagh
ill hold that against them? That was like what, 7 years ago? They focus on the enterprise and any change in their business direction is because of a change in enterprise computing, simple as that. Bill Thompson wrote: On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:06:56 -0500 Joe McDonagh wrote: And to the pe

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Joe McDonagh
At the risk of starting a huge religious war: 1. Preseed vs. kickstart If you're only running at home or only a few machines at work, you're not going to run into this. Once you're done a RH install a .ks file is dropped under /root. You can now use this file to kickstart identical machines i

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Joe McDonagh
The FHS doesn't have much to do with what I am talking about. IIRC both distros follow the standard, but it doesn't actually mandate much beneath /etc. 2. The disarray of configuration files vs centralized system config dir In RH you have /etc/sysconfig. Almost every single system configuration

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Joe McDonagh
me results. I will comment in-line because I don't want to risk causing your brain to asplode from the rage associated with people who top-post. Steve Lamb wrote: Joe McDonagh wrote: At the risk of starting a huge religious war: About top posting vs. actually form

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Joe McDonagh
Do you know who it will inconvenience the most? Joe McDonagh. Because now that he gloats that he is a troll, when he needs help nobody will help him. This mailing list is a community effort, and those who don't want to be a part of the community, don't have to be. That's what ki

Re: Measure "cp" Speed?

2009-03-12 Thread Joe McDonagh
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Stackpole, Chris schreef: His exact question was "how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp command?" I took the 'while' to mean 'as the cp command runs' aka progress during the transfer. As for benchmarking, when rsync finishes it prints out messages like: sent

Re: Fwd: Lenny: Anacron job 'cron.daily' error "awk" command not found????

2009-03-27 Thread Joe McDonagh
Curt Howland wrote: == - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64136 2008-11-16 09:18 avisync l? ? ? ? ?? awk - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39828 2008-04-16 18:37 barcode == There's some filesystem corruption. Are you familiar with fsck?

Re: Is there an IM Client that Does Not Use X

2009-05-15 Thread Joe McDonagh
Martin McCormick wrote: Is there any sort of instant message application that can run in a command-line terminal, similar to talkd? Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group pidgin puts out a c