I want to run two pairs of HDs as software RAID 1 arrays, using mdadm.
Is there any point in declaring the HDs as RAID in the BIOS too ?
Cheers,
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On Mon, 18 May 2015 13:35:16 +0200
Petter Adsen wrote:
> > I want to run two pairs of HDs as software RAID 1 arrays, using mdadm.
> > Is there any point in declaring the HDs as RAID in the BIOS too ?
> No.
Ta.
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On Sun, 24 May 2015 12:09:44 +0200
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> Just because it doesn't find the fan or reports 0 rpm doesn't
> necessarily mean the fan isn't running.
Or it may mean that an older fan does not have a RPM sensor...
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0C7 and 0CB compile errors anyone ?
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raw one (or several) diagonal
pencil or ink lines across the top of your card deck...
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then they come to fight you, and then you win.
locked too.
Or they might have black-listed the IP address you post from ?
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On my Raspberry Pi, locate finds me a shitload of systemd files; yet ps aux -A
| grep systemd does not show anything.
Does this mean I can get rid of all those systemd files, to clear some space on
the storage memory card ?
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Which means we would loose the option of not using it ?
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n imposing the use of the
> > free software ?
> >
> > Which means we would loose the option of not using it ?
>
> It is possible to use Debian without systemd. Do something about it,
> if you care. I'll thank you.
Seems the nice people at Devuan are doing just that
#x27; >>
> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd
Will the same pinning prevent systemd from installing when I dist-upgrade from
Wheezy to Jessie ?
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lacing FILEIN and FILEOUT with the names of your choice.
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use it themselves.
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:15:17 -0400
The Wanderer wrote:
> If you substitute in "madams" for "mesdames" (since, AFAIK, "mesdames"
> is just the French equivalent of the same word), it makes more sense.
remember that "madam" is usually apposite for
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 08:23:13 -0400
Haines Brown wrote:
> How do I get rid of the "~" so that the backups are file.1, file.2,
> etc.?
How about using the GNU rename in the dir holding your backup files:
$ rename "~" "" *~*
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> Would that not be something more like
> rename 's/\.~([0-9]+)~$/.$1/' *[0-9]~
Which is why I stick to the GNU version of rename, and shun the perl version;
much simpler syntax.
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 19:08:33 -0400 (EDT)
Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote:
> > ntp
> No. This is an incorrect response.
According to the Description of the package ntp:
"This package contains the NTP daemon and utility programs. "
Cheers
ers,
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On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:27:50 -0500
John Hasler wrote:
> > I want to be able to set the time if for some reason the clock is
> > completely incorrect (this occurred from time to time in the past).
>
> Use your wristwatch.
Or better, your cellphone or GPS receive
s, making grunting noises in the
backwoods and using POP3 (and refusing systemd...)
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s /dev/something ?
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Given a Sata HD that was part of a RAID1 array on a now defunct Wheezy system.
Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the data ?
Cheers,
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Given a Sata HD that was part of a RAID1 array on a now defunct Wheezy
system.
Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the data ?
I have tried to mount it, and get
root@ron:/home/ron # mount -t ext4 /dev/sdi9 /media/eSata
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
ta HD that was part of a RAID1 array on a now defunct Wheezy
> > > system.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the data ?
> > >
> > > I have tried to mount it, and get
> > >
> > > root@ron:/home/r
ay on a now defunct Wheezy
> > > > > system.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a way to mount it on another Wheezy system to recover the
> > > > > data ?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have tried to mount it, and get
&g
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:49:36 +0100
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Now you might want to try
> sudo e2fsck -n /dev/sdi9
Does not like it either:
root@ron:/home/ron # e2fsck -n /dev/sdi9
e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block
e2fsck: Superblock invalid,
mediately, and enjoy a
look at those pictures...
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It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you,
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> Chris Bannister writes:
> > Is sarcasm ever necessary? (BTW, I don't recall reading any.)
>
> I posted some. And yes, it is sometimes justified.
He must have missed my reply, where I profusely thanked the original poster for
the useful pointer he had given us
camouflage class !"
"Sir ! Thank you, Sir !"
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Is there a way to config the system so as to limit the bandwidth that will be
used by the (wifi) network interface ?
Debian Wheezy, sysvinit.
Cheers,
Ron.
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interfaces as post-up
> commands.
Grateful thanks.
Cheers,
Ron.
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then your upkeep will be your downfall.
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as post-up
> commands.
Finally, from what I read it wont work, as tc only limits the traffic going out
of a box.
I need to limit the traffic going in ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 09:36:58 +0100
deloptes wrote:
> Start educating is what I want to say, start educating your children, and
> building up self protection. Believe me this is the only way you can
> protect them.
And that would start with educating the parents...
Cheers,
Ron.
-
On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:53:14 +0100
deloptes wrote:
> dealing with overweight (political correct word) people
Please: "ponderally challenged"...
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Under communism, it's
I have added an external Sata port on my box.
When I hot-plug a Sata HD into it it appears in dmesg as /dev/sdi1
How can I get the system to auto-mount whatever Sata HD I plug into it to
/media/eSata/ and this without having to give a root password ?
Cheers,
Ron
> See systemd.mount(5) for details
Thanks; forgot to mention: Wheezy, no systemd.
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Thanks; forgot to mention: No systemd, Wheezy.
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On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:31:24 +0100
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> Another way is marking the SATA port as external:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/udev#Mark_internal_SATA_ports_as_eSATA
Tried this already, it does not work.
Would it be systemd dependent ?
Cheers,
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Thanks, but I am not completely clear:
Does this mean replace UDISKS_SYSTEM with UDISKS_SYSTEM_INTERNAL in the
/etc/udev/rules.d/10-esata.rules ?
I tried that, but it still does not work ;-3(
Cheers,
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e
> > to install debian with the first dvd and whatever number that other dvd is
> > in future.
>
> The DVDs contain free software only.
In other words, you are buggered, since you need the non-free driver to connect
to the internet through which you will be able to downloa
entirely possible to pick up a
turd by the clean end."
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Is there a way for a system admin to post a message on the desktops of all the
machines on a LAN ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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code, so all I can think of-- and what we've
> done at every place I've worked-- is just to send everyone an email.
No good, since they will only get the message if/when they open their MUA.
I was thinking of something like a gxmessage posted simultaneously on all the
GUIs...
Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory.
How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run
root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv
to reload the font cache ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:46:55 +0300
Reco wrote:
> > Given a collection of .ttf font files I keep in my ~/MyFonts/ directory.
> > How do I instruct Wheezy to also look in that dir when I run
> > root@ron:/home/ron # fc-cache -fv
> > to reload the font cache ?
> Debi
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:44:03 -0500
Felix Miata wrote:
> > Ta, I'll risk the hackish way as I want those fonts to be available to all
> > users.
>
> Make symlink from ~/MyFonts to /usr/local/share/fonts
Ta, that should remain through updates.
Cheers,
Ron.
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> manager is as follows:
> put your fonts into /usr/local/share/fonts instead of ~/MyFonts.
Except that your font collection is lost on the day you format the / partition
for a new install.
The ln way at least lets them be kept sa
New install of Wheezy; from the DVD.
When I execute apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, I am given a list of 168
packages that have been kept back and not upgraded.
Why are they not upgraded ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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gt; probably want to get started with a tutorial, because it is not completely
> inuitive to use.
Thanks, will try aptitude
> Also, be aware that wheezy is oldstable, jessie is the current stable.
Want to stay with GNU-Linux, not ready to switch to Systemd-Linux.
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:53:41 +
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > Want to stay with GNU-Linux, not ready to switch to Systemd-Linux.
>
> Jessie without systemd?
How do you install that ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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In the days I used MS Windows, I had a suite of progs that allowed me, when run
on both boxes, to see the desktop of one box in a window on the other, and
mouse and keyboard actions in that window would act on the remote box.
Is there something similar in Debian ?
Cheers,
Ron
lling_without_systemd
> http://noone.org/talks/debian-ohne-systemd/debian-ohne-systemd-clt.html
Yes please, and thanks.
Cheers,
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:02:52 +
Joe wrote:
> Ron was not completely clear here. Only the 'professional' versions of
> Windows have the standard RDP server, but all versions since about 2000
> have had 'remote assistance', which is an RDP connection to the
>
multitude of offers,
including those with external aerial.
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ian will be.
Cheers,
Ron.
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Stabit vetus memoria facti.
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Having posted Roco's comments on an IPCop list, I got these comments
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In the Land of Redmond where the shadow
eing sufficiently UNIX-y
> (which FAT isn't)), and simplicity.
Not to mention that, given the rarity of changes in /boot, a journalling FS may
not be really useful...
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b
Would a kind soul remind me the invocation needed to have removable drives
automount to /media/label instead of /media/user/label ?
TIA
Cheers,
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temd jessie, with XFCE.
I remember doing a modification on my system shortly after installing a couple
years ago, completely forgot what; and now I need to do the same on an install
for Eldest Daughter.
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Sat, 05 Mar 2016 20:57:40 +0100
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > always /media/label when automounted.
>
> Not using udisks2, or maybe you have entries in /etc/fstab?
Same behaviour for me, nothing in /etc/fstab but I remember I had to modify
something to get that behaviour.
C
I have the .pdf scan of an old book, with some pages leaning at an angle.
Is there in Debian a program that would let me rectify the offending pages one
by one, but, avoiding the hassle of turning the .pdf in individual .jpg,
modifying the jpg and turning back into .pdf ?
Cheers,
Ron
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 12:46:08 +
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> And the Everything Free brigade is so pleasant to anyone who wants to use
> binary blobs??
Because, it seems, for some people "Linux is about freedom of choice" means
"you are free to accept MY choices, and no ot
this be seen in the Social
> Contract?
You are the one stirring thing: I never mentioned Debian; only Linux...
Cheers,
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And of course you could not access the BIOS with a USB keyboard until the
setting had been changed. (Catch 22 anyone ?)
The solution then was to borrow a PS2 keyboard for the initial BIOS setting
process.
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:53:02 +0200
deloptes wrote:
> And Germany is still officially occupied by the USA.
ISTR that occupation was over with the re-unification of Germany in October
1990.
Cheers,
Ron.
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and
event the window from popping up ?
Cheers,
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:06:19 +0100
Brad Rogers wrote:
> Look at "Device Notifier settings" or whatever your chosen DE calls it.
Running XFCE, I find nothing about the pop-up window in either Notifications,
or in Removable Drives and Media ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
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enounced a long time ago both Gnome and Kde, their pomps,
their works and their bloat...
Cheers,
Ron.
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say in Froggish
;-3)
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 09:10:21 +0100
Tixy wrote:
> pcmanfm has settings for Volume Management (see 'Preferences' on the
> 'Edit' menu).
Thanks, that solved it.
Cheers,
Ron.
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ly acquired over the years running and caring for a Linux system has
suddenly become unusable.
Cheers,
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s way:
eth1 192.168.1.0/24
eth1:0 192.168.2.0/24
eth1:1 192.168.3.0/24
eth1:2 192.168.4.0/24
and then changed the IP address on the machine to belong on which
subnet. what problems may i encounter on this kind of setup?
Thanks in advanced.
Regards
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regards
Ron
On 12/6/2010 8:39 AM, Doug wrote:
On 12/05/2010 06:32 PM, Joel Roth wrote:
Hi all,
I'm finding all the repetitive mount/unmount operations
I do to be somewhat tedious.
Can I get some reasonable automount function
Hi,
I installed the HP PSC1400 drivers on Linux such that I can print to a
Windows machine which is connected to a HP PSC1410 printer. I am using
cups. This is in my log:
10/May/2006:14:09:54 +0200] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb
(PID 5794) for job 199.
E [10/May/2006:14:09:54 +0200]
rdmgr when off-line? Is pine
smaller than mutt?
On Sunday, cook your mother a nice dinner, and give her a sappy card.
THEN ask for the P133!
P.S. - Confirmation messages are not a "feature"!
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of the meta-package. mail-transport-agent is an example. When,
for example, you install exim, mail-transport-agent is also
installed. If you want to install postfix to test it out, apt
will remove exim, since the exim & postfix packages are both
members of the same meta-package.
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 01:09, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> Ron writes:
> >
[snip]
> >A Debian policy-that-I-think-is-a-quirk: there is the the concept
> >of the meta-package. mail-transport-agent is an example. When,
> >for example, you install exim, mail-transport-agent
odules), but it gives you a bit
> more control over what packages get installed right off, and it doesn't
> try to partition your disk by default into a bizarre layout.
Doing a network install (over cable modem) of woody wasn't so
difficult.
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f for _everything_. When you install a new package,
the pkg manager just creates a new file in /etc/xinetd.d.
All in all, though, I still prefer inetd. Mdk must think it's
special, since they haven't shipped inetd since 7.1.
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gt; > Is there a command to shrink it?
>
> rm
But that will delete the lock file.
As others have said, better to use:
# apt-get autoclean|clean
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d 834 files:
# apt-get -s autoclean
However, the same command with this in /etc/apt/apt.conf only deleted
789 files:
# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Clean-Installed "off";
Ron
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ant directly off the internet.
http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/
http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/debian-cd/woody-i386-1.iso
> I appreciate the assistance and I'm sure I will enjoy Debian.
>
> Thanks again
>
> Joe
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my Mandrake days. That should do the trick.
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se give me some advise as to what is involved in installing
> Linux on a 64 bit powerpc, namely, the machine I have?
I bet the debian-powerpc mailing list would be more specifically
helpful.
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe
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igh end systems
have the proper interface.
> I'm not at all sure you should expect it to work in an 1386 machine.
It may work. Do SCSI BIOSs run on the host CPU or on a built-in
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an
> Windows (which in the case of KDE never has been the case before).
>
> I've heard of KDE 3.1 being now more responsive but i would never have
> guessed such a huge improvement.
Are you using the binaries from SID, or did you get the SID source
and install in sarge?
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about this:
#!/bin/bash -v
for i in 1 2 3 4 5;
do
echo foobar${i} ;
done
echo $HOME ; echo $LANG
The "-v" makes it happen.
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>
> *exactly* what i(/he) wanted! thanks!
Try this:
#!/bin/bash
set -x
set -v
for i in 1 2 3 4 5;
do
echo foobar${i} ;
done
After seeing Benjamin Rutt mention "-x", I tried it along with "-v",
and having both makes it much easier to see the flow of the scr
umount/mount the partition to see if /linux goes away?
Also, aren't there utilities you can run on the MS side to fix this
kind of thing?
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VERSION DISTRO
Thanks,
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On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 07:53, Jaume Guasch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I run "dpkk -l | grep ^ii", it, of course, lists all the installed
> > packages, and version numbers.
> >
> &g
DOS Emulator
xfonts-terminus-dos - Fixed-width fonts for DOS encodings
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ution!
There are nvidia TNT2 and gForce cards that are modestly cheap.
However, since so few are made, the cost is pretty high.
I think I'd go to a swap meet, or see if a friend has one in his junk
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disconnect the
drive and remove it from the premises after the backup.
> So what do you think, is my plan plain stupid, or does this really give
> me some protection against data loss. Should i investigate any other
> technologies? EVMS?
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