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debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2562

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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2562

Today's Topics: 

  Weird modem behavior.                 [ bobula  ]
  Re: Debian Package of the Day         [ Paul Johnson  ]
  Re: Help with RAID and Formating Dis  [ michael@estone.ca ]
  Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pd  [ Bill  ]
  Re: Help with RAID and Formating Dis  [ "Adrian Levi"  ]
  postscript viewer that can "measure" [ Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physi ]

Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 21:51:55 -0700 (PDT) From: bobula <joz_mak@yahoo.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Weird modem behavior. 

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=0A=0A=0A =0A=0A Since a few days, I have been experiencing a strange m=
odem behavior. I am running lenny and I connect to the internet with an ext=
ernal Robotics dial up modem. I have never had problem with this modem befo=
re but since a few days the modem got erratic, it randomly disconnects and =
when I reconnect it goes to nowhere. This puzzled me and I discovered a loc=
k file in the var/lock directory. The name of the file is Lck...ttyS0. I ha=
d to delete the this file, to be able to reconnect again. But sometimes it =
works without deleting this file. Other times not. Strange; there are times=

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 when I can surf half an hour without problem then suddenly I get disconnec=
ted. The lock file it seems appear when I reconnect. I do not understand wh=
at's going on here. I have never had this problem before. I would appreciat=
e if someone who understand the problem could advise me how to proceed with=
 the solution. =0A=0A   =0A=0A  =0A=0A =0AThanks alot.=0Ajmak=0A=0AHere is =
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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:20:46 -0000
From: Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Debian Package of the Day
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On Oct 3, 6:20 am, Rick Pasotto <r...@niof.net> wrote: > What's up (or should I say down?) withhttp://debaday.debian.net/?The > site won't come up and email is rejected.

Looks like it's up now.

Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:03:52 -0700
From: michael@estone.ca
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Help with RAID and Formating Disks Message-ID: <20071004230352.1zlx46uvwwwkg808@estone.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; 

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Quoting Michael Acklin <freeop@swbell.net>: 

> Hello all. I am very new at what I am attempting to do. I have run
> Debian in the past and just recently installed it on a new built system
> that I am setting up. So please take it easy on the Newbie.
>
> First I built the system with the ASUS Motherboard and AMD-64x2 5800+.
>
> Added 3 - 500gig drives and a DVD/CD writer to access the Downloaded
> netinst of Debian. The installation went fine with no problems over the
> internet installation. Added all the programs that I thought I would
> need and finished the installation. During the installation process it
> formatted /dev/sda as ext3 and used the complete disk for the
> system/files. I was never given the opportunity to format/partition the
> second and third drives. Figured I would get to that when I set up the
> RAID.
>
> Anyway tried using mdadm but am at a loss what I am trying to do. I
> tried the parameters that was called out in the --help file, but kept
> getting "not enough devices" errors. I believe the command line I used
> was:
>
> mdadm -create /dev/md0 -l 5 -n 2 -x 1 -c 32
>
> and in different combo's of the above.

 From what I can tell, you successfully installed debian to your sda =20 drive and booted it. Now you want to setup a raid array (from your 2 =20 remaing disks) so that you can mount it somewhere on your system. =20 Correct?

There are some fundamentals missing here. You attempted to build a raid 5 array, which requires a minimum of 3 disks. If your sda is entirely used up as your bootable system, you can't use =20 it elsewhere. Having said that, mdadm is a powerfull raid tool which =20 will allow
you to use paritions of disks in your raid array, instead of the entire disk=  .Try looking in /usr/share/docs/mdadm for more info. 

>
> I then figured that as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc where not partitioned or
> formatted, I should do that. But that is where I am completely lost. I
> have no idea how to format or partition the other drives.
>
> Tried finding some tools that might help out, but couldn't find
> anything that might help. I know I am not using the terminology
> correctly to search for the right tools. So came here to see if anyone
> could help out.
>
> So I guess my question is: Do I have to format/partition each of the
> drives before making a RAID or can the mdadm program do this. And what

Can we help you?X

> is the easiest way to set up the RAID.

Thats right,
Your disk will need to be partioned and the partitions need to be =20 setup as type "Linux Raid Autodetect" partitions. cfdisk is a great =20 tool for this.

Can't find what you're looking for?X

Again, check the mdadm man page or its docs. Lots of good stuff there.

Since you have a bootable system, with 2 remaining unused disks, try =20 making a raid 0 or raid 1 array. For example, something like: 

# cfdisk /dev/sdb
# cfdisk /dev/sdc
# mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l 0 -n 2 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1

Cheers,

Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:30:13 -0700
From: Bill <bill3@uniserve.com>
To: debian mailing list <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Converting sxw files to ps or pdfs 

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On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 11:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: 

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> On 10/04/07 11:27, Bill wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-04-10 at 06:33 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> >> * Bill  [2007 Oct 04 06:21 -0500]:
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>>
> >>> I've got a problem with Open Office Writer. I've done a mail 
> >>> merge that produces a ton of .sxw files. These need to be 
> >>> faxed in bulk, but of course none of the fax programs can 
> >>> handle bulk input. No prob. I wrote a looping script using efax 
> >>> which uses ps/tiff input and that works. But I can't find a
> >>> utility to convert OOo .swx files to ps. Any suggestions?
> >>> I've googled my fingers off.
> >> .sxw would be the old Star Office format files so modern tools would
> >> probably work with .odt files which are Open Document Format (ODF). 
> >> Other than opening the files in OOo and printing to a file. which
> >> results in a .ps output, there doesn't seem to be an outside converter.
> >>
> >> - Nate >>
> >  Yes this is an older version of OO but like you say there 
> > isn't an external filter such as pdf2ps. The problem though
> > remains the same - bulk conversion - so the export to pdf and 
> > print to file .ps options are useless because they're done one
> > at a time. It would take me a week to get the job done.
> > 
> > It's a definite shortcoming in OO. 
> 
> AbiWord might be able to do what you want.

No I checked. There is a difference between internal file formats and exportable or print-to-file formats. This secondary support can be applied only to one file at a time. It's a time consuming and error prone process when you're looking at a massive mail merge. You just know you're going to get 10-20% errors - typos, omissions, misnaming etc. <shudder>.

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Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:11:27 +1000
From: "Adrian Levi" <adrian.levi@gmail.com> To: "Michael Acklin" <freeop@swbell.net> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Help with RAID and Formating Disks 

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On 05/10/2007, Michael Acklin <freeop@swbell.net> wrote: 

> Hello all. I am very new at what I am attempting to do. I have run
> Debian in the past and just recently installed it on a new built system
> that I am setting up. So please take it easy on the Newbie.
>
> First I built the system with the ASUS Motherboard and AMD-64x2 5800+.
>
> Added 3 - 500gig drives and a DVD/CD writer to access the Downloaded
> netinst of Debian. The installation went fine with no problems over the
> internet installation. Added all the programs that I thought I would
> need and finished the installation. During the installation process it
> formatted /dev/sda as ext3 and used the complete disk for the
> system/files. I was never given the opportunity to format/partition the
> second and third drives. Figured I would get to that when I set up the RAID.
>
> Anyway tried using mdadm but am at a loss what I am trying to do. I
> tried the parameters that was called out in the --help file, but kept
> getting "not enough devices" errors. I believe the command line I used was:
>
> mdadm -create /dev/md0 -l 5 -n 2 -x 1 -c 32
>
> and in different combo's of the above.
>
> I then figured that as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc where not partitioned or
> formatted, I should do that. But that is where I am completely lost. I
> have no idea how to format or partition the other drives.
>
> Tried finding some tools that might help out, but couldn't find anything
> that might help. I know I am not using the terminology correctly to
> search for the right tools. So came here to see if anyone could help out.
>
> So I guess my question is: Do I have to format/partition each of the
> drives before making a RAID or can the mdadm program do this. And what
> is the easiest way to set up the RAID.

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>
> I figured I could set it up with 2 500gig drives and have the 3rd as the
> spare. This system is going to be used for backing up different systems
> over the net with BACKUPPC and figured 1 Tb of storage should be enough.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...

Might I suggest you look into evms? Its a realy easy tool to use to configure discs and set up raid. It's not available from the install but is configurable afterwards.

Adrian 

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Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:24:23 -0500 From: "Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> To: bobula <joz_mak@yahoo.ca> Cc: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: Weird modem behavior. Message-ID: <4705E6A7.1060305@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 10/04/2007 11:51 PM, bobula wrote: > > Hello, > > Since a few days, I have been experiencing a strange modem behavior. I am running lenny and I connect to the internet with an external Robotics dial up modem. I have never had problem with this modem before but since a few days the modem got erratic, it randomly disconnects and when I reconnect it goes to nowhere. This puzzled me and I discovered a lock file in the var/lock directory. The name of the file is Lck...ttyS0. I had to delete the this file, to be able to reconnect again. But sometimes it works without deleting this file. Other times not. Strange; there are times when I can surf half an hour without problem then suddenly I get disconnected. The lock file it seems appear when I reconnect. I do not understand what's going on here. I have never had this problem before. I would appreciate if someone who understand the problem could advise me how to proceed with the solution. > > Thanks alot. > jmak > > Here is my dmesg output. > > mak@debian:~$ dmesg [...] What programs are you running when these disconnects occur? Use different programs while you're online and see if the problems continue. Did these problems start right after an upgrade? Check the wiring in your environment. Your phone cord may be partially pulled out or damaged. Please tame your Yahoo mailreader; your post contained a lot of junk text which is annoying to deal with; this is what your post looked like to everyone else on this list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/10/msg00420.html

Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:27:05 -0000 From: "David A." <achoice@gmail.com> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Disk access. Message-ID: <1191576425.942579.128540@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > How I can find what processes access harddisk frequently, periodically > from ~20sec to ~20sec ? I did go to some extent to spin down my disk, here are som e info; What file system are you using? "Journaling filesystems like ext3, reiserfs or xfs bypass the kernel's delayed write mechanisms. This amounts to lousy spindown times when working off such a partition. There's no workaround for this." http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/ Also google "noatime". Also check out the "-" character in syslog conf. Finally - i bought a SSD to get complete silence... :) /david.

Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:23:19 +0200 From: Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: postscript viewer that can "measure" distances? Message-Id: <47062CB7.2030508@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 gsview is a postscript viewer that has the capability of showing distances (in mm or points etc.) in a ps-file. (Click on two points in your file and it will report their distance). Is there something with similar capabilities in Debian? I couldn't find out how to use gv or kghostview to accomplish that and GSview [1] is not in debian [2]. [1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get48.htm [2] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gsview&searchon=all&suite=all&section=all Thanks, Johannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHBiy3C1NzPRl9qEURAoWqAJ4q5/Js19YJA/pKcm6l9bBFCyAyPACfUC5/ Mqe6TkrNsnCsoN73HQ+lFfA=
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