can't see
what it is.
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> > (NOTE: please ignore my earlier and utterly misinformed plea
> > for help. turns out that, in attempting to mount /dev/sda1 as the
> > alleged root filesystem, the new 2.6 kernel was finding the
> > ex
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> that is the *ultimate* goal, but i'm doing this in steps. on the
> chance that it's the default 2.6.18 etch kernel, i just upgraded that
> to the 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel. we'll see if that fixes things.
upgrading to the
simple as
# update-initramfs -k 2.6.18
???
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* there are no megaraid rules in /etc/udev
this seems to be a pretty clear indication that i just need to add
a udev rule file for the megaraid modules to create the /dev/sda*
entries, yes? because without *something* creating those /dev/sda*
entries, i'm pretty well doomed to failure, yes
on this system, it's 0.105. and i'm assuming that, after i modify
my udev rules, i have to rebuild my initrd, yes? do i understand
correctly that that would bundle my entire udev directory inside the
initrd, so that i get the effect of those changes? that wo
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
>
> (with respect to getting my /dev/sda* device files built)
>
> > So here, your best choice seems to try.
> > here's my z60_hdparm.rules file:
>
> i'm assuming that&#x
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> > >
> > > (with respect to getting my /dev/sda* device files built)
> >
i'm sure there will be more questions when that happens. thanks to
all who gave advice.
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olled off the screen.
thanks.
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Kevin Ross wrote:
> > From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Emanoil Kotsev
> > Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:50 PM
> >
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > > * followed docs to upgrade kernel alone to 2.6.18 (based on
&g
kages were "lib" packages, so it should be
easy(?) to ask whether there's anything installed that needs an older
version. if not, i should be ok to get rid of it, no?
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On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> >
> >
> > > See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'.
> > >
> >
> > it does, but how does that solve my problem?
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
>
> > Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> > >
> > > > See if your 'apt-get' supports 'apt-get purge'.
> > &
r place to make that suggestion?
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out the output from the 4.2
version that would suggest that it needs to be retained, given that
4.3 is on the system?
and on the system i'm upgrading, there are a number of packages that
are installed with more than one version. i'd just like to clean that
system by purging a
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Chris Burkhardt wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > currently perusing the FAQ, section 5.10 asks, "where is pine?"
> > since alpine is apparently available for debian, shouldn't that
> > section at least mention that alternative
ase?
because my plan is to, for all of those older lib packages, use
"apt-cache rdepends" to see who cares about it and, if no one, purge
it. i see no reason to hang onto useless packages, if they are in
fact useless.
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On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully-updated lenny
> system right now, and i see not a single example of a lib package
> for which multiple versions are installed, which is what i would
> expect.
argh, i take it back
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Kevin Ross wrote:
> > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpj...@crashcourse.ca]
> > Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:00 AM
> >
> > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > > for comparison purposes, i'm looking at a fully
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are
> > a number of packages that have more than one version installed. for
> > example (and from memory), there are at least
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
>
> > Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > this should be an easy one: on my current (etch) system, there are
> > > a number of packages that have more than one version installed
hat i've found
"apt-rdepends", i'm good.
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rence -- moving a working debian
system from an aging, old system to a newer one. thoughts?
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to just keep upgrading, and that a number of
> people will jump in and tell me they have done this from potato or
> earlier, but I run a live mail server with no backup and I really
> don't want it to be down for more than a couple of hours. Parallel
> running was very
ve to do
since it's currently a 32-bit system and i'm moving it to a 64-bit
server. duh. (yes, i know i could install a 32-bit OS but that would
be a waste of all that 64-bit processing power.)
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Mark Allums wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > theoretically, i can see that it shouldn't cause any breakage.
> > but i was curious when i noticed that "libhal1" on this etch
> > system is listed as an orphan.
> >
> >
but if that's the extent of
them, i'm in good shape.
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> > i finally pulled the trigger on this, almost 300 packages upgraded,
> > rebooted and here are some of the (apparently non-fatal) issues i ran
> > across:
... snip ...
> > 3) in fact, running "aptit
do a safe upgrade generates that same diagnostic.
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p.s. should i have done something differently during the upgrade to
have avoided this issue?
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> > this might actually be the final issue for me to resolve after this
> > upgrade (one can only hope). there is one package that is still only
> > partially configured: imapproxy. an attempt to complete
apache2 is currently on the
system, it's just not being started.)
thoughts?
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i was hoping to continue running apache 1.3 on my new lenny
> > system, just until i could make sure i had a clean upgrade path,
> > t
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > is there a way to just add php5 support to apache 1.3 so i can
> > get horde up and running again, or should i just bite the bullet
>
as in, is it entirely optional? it's causing me grief on my new
lenny system so i'd just like to take it right out as long as that
won't cause problems. thanks.
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as a followup to a post from a few days back, i still can't get
imapproxy installed and configured on this (fully-upgraded) lenny
system. every attempt to "aptitude safe-upgrade" produces:
... snip ...
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
imapproxy
0 packages up
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> as a followup to a post from a few days back, i still can't get imapproxy
> installed and configured on this (fully-upgraded) lenny system. every attempt
> to "aptitude safe-upgrade" produces:
>
> ... snip ...
>
-gnome, what's the cmd line to activate
that wireless interface? i've tried:
# ifconfig wlan0 up
which simply returns but doesn't give me wireless. any hints on the
magic incantation? thanks.
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On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i'm sitting in front of a lenny system which does not have either
> network-manager or network-manager-gnome installed on it, but i
> would dearly love to activate the broadcom wireless.
>
> the installed broadcom firmware work
f i have little configuration information to
preserve, what's the simplest recipe to save my pkg info, then restore
it after a really basic fresh install? thanks.
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start the install over again? any attempt i make to
modify the LV layout tells me that the "lenny503" (my chosen VG name)
volume group is already in use. so ... restart install?
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > almost assuredly a dumb question but i'm testing a 5.0.3 AMD install
> > and, early in the process, i selected the pre-configured multi-LV
> > partitioning (home, tmp, usr, var). at this point,
grub option back again?
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On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> since i saved the output from "dpkg --get-selections" from the
> previous install before reformatting the hard drive, i understood
> that i could do a bare-bones install, then use "dpkg
> --set-selections" to rep
dumb question but how do i identify the package that contributed a
specific file to my installation? on my fedora system, i'd ask:
$ rpm -qf
thanks.
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factor.
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> j...@jretrading.com wrote:
>
> > 489951
>
> how big is your boot partition?
tiny -- 512M.
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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Andrew Reid wrote:
> On Sunday 13 September 2009 03:33:50 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > possibly related to an earlier post that discussed grub but, when
> > installing lenny, if i choose to create a separate, primary partition
> > for /boot (a long-tim
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 06:58:17PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day
> wrote:
> > does anyone know the debian installer well enough to know *what*
> > circumstances will cause said installer to refuse to offer grub as
> > a bootloade
't have a solution here.
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open to suggestions. thanks.
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This can be done without any pain.
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:21:52AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want
> > to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an
> > old 32-bit sy
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day schreef:
> > i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want
> > to move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an
> > old 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i&#
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-09-16 13:46 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>
> > Robert P. J. Day schreef:
> >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to
> >> move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > a question about mysql. i want to reproduce all the mysql
> > databases on the new system. is it sufficient to copy all of
> > /var/lib/mysql? is that where the databas
openldap account has a UID of
114. on new system, 105. numerous other daemon UID differences as
well. so a straight copy isn't going to work here. this just gets
trickier and trickier.
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he old system to the
new system
seems pretty straightforward, much like i've seen on other linux
systems.
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g else.
no such thing? i would have thought that that sort of thing is
*exactly* what you want for migrations.
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to
> > move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old
> > 32-bit system to a
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:16:32PM +0200, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> > Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >>
> > >> i've mentioned this
x27;t messed with their t-bird settings, so i'm looking at what on
the server might have been tweaked. thanks.
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of the first things i try.
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed,16.Sep.09, 13:24:12, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > if i read this correctly, you're suggesting that if the "server"
> > packages already have entries (100-999) in the passwd/group/shadow
> > files (
les or directories in addition to the above three i
need to worry about? thanks.
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p.s. once all this is done, i really do plan on summarizing what i
had to go through so others can take advantage of it.
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ion when i
installed samba but, since it's not on the old server, i just figure
i'll delete it so everything matches exactly.
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > /etc/samba/*
>
> Samba has some important stuff in /var/
> /var/lib/samba
> /var/run/samba
> /var/spool/samba
> /var/cache/samba
> /var/log/samba
quite right, i'd forgotten about t
re
a cert examination command to display things like expiration dates,
that would let me poke at some of those .pem files and go, "aha,
that's the one with that expiration date."
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:14:40AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >
> > > On 2009-09-16 15:49 +0200, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >
> > > > a quest
ure
anything on their ends.
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> having finally made the switch from an old server running lenny to
> a new one (running at the same IP address), most functions seem to
> be working, but samba shares are failing -- people who used to be
> able to access shares from t
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Ali Jawad wrote:
> Just a quick Question, why does apache have a shell in passwd file
> on debian ?
not sure this answers your question, but you can't use that as a
login account since its entry in /etc/shadow has no legal password.
so, unless i'm missing something, i guess
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> tidying up some issues from my upgrade/migration, and there was a
> 1-touch maxtor external HD on the old (sarge) system that,
> apparently, did a backup when you did that one-touch thing. the
> question is: what software would have
ew machine will have the same IP address and hostname,
but i can't imagine that will make any difference. can i just grab
the entire previous /etc/ssl and use it unchanged?
and a followup question on this a bit later.
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igure out where that would have been configured so i can add it to
the new system. i've checked things related to autofs but i don't see
it. hint? i'm sure it's obvious, i just haven't found it yet.
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> more specifically, on an old lenny system, when an external maxtor
> (1-touch) HD was plugged in via USB, it was *apparently* mounted
> automatically under /mnt/maxtor, for the purposes of backups later
> in the evening.
>
> i
some kind.
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote:
>
> > I would check with "mount" how the filesystem was mounted, then
> > add it to /etc/fstab. Is that the case?
>
> nope, found it: an entry in /etc/auto.usb.
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, gham...@sv-phoenix.com wrote:
> Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" :
>
> > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote:
> > >
> > > > I would check with "mou
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:08:46AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > no, i don't think i should need to do that. the *old* system
> > didn't have an entry in /etc fstab for this. what i'm puzzled by is
> > th
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:12:03PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i know udev is a better solution *today*, but i'm trying to
> > strictly reproduce what the old system was using, and it wasn't
> > mounting that H
http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/2009/09/next-adventure-in-ecm-begins.html
DISCLAIMER: i know the lady in question, but don't let that scare
you off. :-) remember, it's all about the open source.
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p.s. i've got sources.list configured to use only lenny, so it's
possible that there's a fixed version in testing.
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make sure it stays there over upgrades?
thanks, i've been awake for a day and a half and i'm just too tired to
go looking for the answer. sorry.
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> > as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the
> > current durep package (0.9-1) works *very* differently from the
> > earlier one, so rather than fight with the new one, i'm happy to
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Niu Kun wrote:
> >
> > > Robert P. J. Day 写道:
> > >
> > > > as a followup to an earlier post of mine, i can see now that the
> > > > curren
if i might summarize what i was droning on about below:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> if i might impose on the list one more time, this has to do with
> still tweaking the migration i did once upon a time, and is
> webalizer-specific, but i'm betting someone
VDs earlier. is
that the solution? why?
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Lin
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Odd wrote:
> >
> > > ola...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Also you can use Xen but you still need special hardware like the
> > > > latest CPUs from AMD or Intel for Wi
o (re)enable
that on their own?
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company.
i'll be checking that out shortly as well, but i'm more put off by
the thought that an advanced admin book first feels the need to
evangelize the operating system.
people who are drawn to an *advanced* administration book are
typically past the point whe
n the logs directory, i might as well stay consistent.
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eted].com',
'smtphost' => 'localhost',
'realm' => '',
'preferred' => '',
'dotfiles' => false,
'hierarchies' => array()
);
i have good reason to believe that those settings are n
my only brain fart was not upgrading apache *much* sooner than i
did. do that ASAP.
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On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sun December 27 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > make sure you select /proc/config.gz support so that you can recover
> > your .config file for your running kernel from that file.
>
> I don't remember seeing an opti
have to do all of
> that nightmare over again.
>
> Once you figure it out the first time, it's always easier after that
make sure you select /proc/config.gz support so that you can recover
your .config file for your running kernel from that file.
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-
of nigeria, speaking
on "the effectveness of using all UPPERCASE characters for maximum
communication impact."
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ome.html
i am in *such* trouble now, aren't i?
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Kevin Williams wrote:
>
> I got past the login but now it shows my username@debian20:$ what I do now
apparently, the feature that lets you choose meaningful subject
lines is also broken. i'd look into that.
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