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debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #2925

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debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 2925

Today's Topics: 

  Re: dmcrypt on an existing partition  [ Andrew Sackville-West  ]
  Re: Firestarter                       [ Patter  ]
  Re: perl Time::HiRes debian package?  [ Patter  ]
  norton commander                      [ steef  ]
  Urban Terror debian package?          [ Gabriele Tozzi 
  Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (SOLVED - I ho  [ andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> ]



Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:30:51 -0800


From: Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: dmcrypt on an existing partition (firewire external disk)
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:37:52AM +0100, Andrew Henry wrote:

> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > It comes down to this. Backups -- if its something you don't want to
> > have to go through the work to replace, then you should back it
> > up. Even if it's something that can't be "lost" because you have
> > original cds lying around, is the *effort* to re-rip it all something
> > you don't want to "lose".=20
> >
> > my recommendation is: pick up another drive, slap it in a cheap
> > IDE-USB box and copy that stuff. Then, when you're done with the
> > change, you'll have a lovely backup you can stick in your safe... and
> > you'll have a spare drive floating around for when one dies.=20
> >
> > A
> >  =20
> Thanks for the advice.  I looked around and managed to find a simple
> guide for doing this the "right" way:


>=20

> http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/howto-disk-encryption-with-dm-crypt-luks-a=

nd-debian


Do you need help?X

nice guide. it was definitely part of my list of open tabs when I was
setting up my encrypted laptop. He's got some other good ones there as
well.=20



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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:59:20 -0500


From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: In-place migration to LVM?


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> I have a data file collection on three hard disks, each with just one
> partition. The 'primary' partition has the complete directory structure. The
> two 'secondary' partitions partially mirror that directory structure. There
> are some data files on the primary partition. For each data file on one of
> the secondary partitions, there is a soft link to it from the primary
> partition. Each partition has a couple of GB space left. 
Do you need more help?X
> Is it possible to migrate these partitions into one logical volume without loosing or backing up the data? If I had a backup storage large enough to hold all the data ...

If you really really really really want to do it, it can probably
be done.  Something like:



  •   shrink each partition as much as you can (using resize2fs or
  somesuch).
  
  •   move each one of those partitions to the end of the drive.
  this can be done with parted or manually with dd.
  
  •   create a new partition on the now free space on each drive.
  
  •   give those partitions to LVM.
  
  •   create an LVM group and volume, create a filesystem on it and
  mount it.
  
  •   move as much as you can from the old 3 partitions to the new
  LVM partition.
  
  •   now you have more free space in your old partitions, so, again:
  shrink them, move them to the end of the drive.
  
  •   grow your 3 LVM partition with the space newly created.
  
  •   move as much as you can from the old 3 partitions to the new
  LVM partition.
  
  •   repeat until the old partitions are empty.




The more free space, the faster.



I've done similar things (tho on a single drive), so I know it can
be done.



But I strongly recommend you don't do that, even if you can find a spare
drive to temporarily hold your data and make the whole thing less
painful: spreading a single partition over 3 drives means that if one of
the drives fails, you'll most likely lose most/all of the data rather
than just a third of it.




        Stefan



Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:53:26 +0000


From: Patter <steve@patter.mine.nu>


To: debian-user@lists.debian.org


Subject: Re: LDAP - howto get linux to talk to exchange/AD
Message-ID: <m9v525-155.ln1@moriarty.lan>


Can we help you?X

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:10:07 +0100, Bob Goldberg wrote:

> I agree - problem is DEFINITELY ldap authentication; forget about exim....
>


> my exchange server is setup to accept clear text, and anonymous OK (even
> though I'm not trying to be anon).
>


> here's the thing - I have no idea what is going on between ldapsearch, and
> my exchange server.
> ldap is definitely running - I can run custom queries, and ldap://queries
> thru my windows browser with success.


>

> the problem IS debian authenticating w/ the exchange server.

You need to authenticate to the LDAP tree using a username that exists
in Active Directory, I can't remember how but I did this a few years ago
for a squid proxy.


> Can someone tell me some way to diagnose just what is happening in this
> communication between ldapsearch & ldap server ???

Wireshark or any packet sniffer should be able to show what's being
transferred, it may also be worth installing the openldap client
utilities (ldap-utils under debian) and querying the database manually
from them.


> Or can someone point me / show me   how a structured communication to the
> ldap server would look like, so I can try sending it thru telnet - just to
> see if I can get it to work that way.... Then I can try & figure out what
> ldapsearch is sending...
http://www.mozilla.org/directory/standards.html may be useful but LDAP
isn't the easiest of protocols to grok manually.


-- 
Stephen Patterson :: 
steve(at)patter.mine.nu :: 
http://patter.mine.nu/
GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: patter@jabber.earth.li 
"Don't be silly, Minnie. Who'd be walking round these cliffs with a gas oven?"


Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:54:16 +0000
From: Patter <steve@patter.mine.nu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Firestarter
Message-ID: <8bv525-155.ln1@moriarty.lan>

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:50:11 +0100, Michael Pobega wrote:
>

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:30:46AM +0000, Darko wrote:

>> I deinstaled gnome and now I can't start firestarter is exsist a way to
>> run it under KDE
>>
>>
>

> apt-get install --reinstall firestarter


You normally don't need --reinstall, that causes the package to be fully
removed before reinstallation.

-- 
Stephen Patterson :: steve(at)patter.mine.nu :: http://patter.mine.nu/
GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: patter@jabber.earth.li 
"Don't be silly, Minnie. Who'd be walking round these cliffs with a gas oven?"


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

Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:57:18 +0000
From: Patter <steve@patter.mine.nu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: perl Time::HiRes debian package?
Message-ID: <ugv525-155.ln1@moriarty.lan>

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:00:12 +0100, Mark Quitoriano wrote:

> is there a deb package for perl Time::HiRes?


Its in the core perl package.

-- 
Stephen Patterson :: steve(at)patter.mine.nu :: http://patter.mine.nu/
GPG: B416F0DE :: Jabber: patter@jabber.earth.li 
"Don't be silly, Minnie. Who'd be walking round these cliffs with a gas oven?"



Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:27:17 +0000
From: steef <steefvanduin@zonnet.nl>
To: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: norton commander
Message-ID: <47506415.7010008@zonnet.nl>
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hi,

a long time ago, in 1993, i had a 386 box with dos, wp51 and the norton 
commander.  with the norton commander i could talk to a person behind 
the key-board of another computer and send my workfiles (made with 
wp5.1, that marvellous editing program). the 386 is dismantled. the hd 
of 150 mb is still completely loaded in my possession.

i suppose the midnight commander was directly derived from the norton 
commander. or not ?? if yes: where can i find more info on this 
development?. just out of curiosity.

regards,

steef

  

-- 
drs. steef van duin

publicist, research-journalist



Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:03:56 +0100
From: Gabriele Tozzi <gabriele.tozzi@gmail.com>
To:  debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Urban Terror debian package?
Message-ID: <47505E9C.5020809@gmail.com>
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Hi all,

I hope I'm writing to the right address to pose this question, if not, 
please forgive me and point me to the right place.

I've recently discovered a wonderful linux game called Urban Terror, 
staying to what wikipedia says, the game is fully released under GPL 
licensing.

I'm wondering if it is possible to make a debian package and include it 
at least in the "sid" release.
I can make the first-released package and help maintaining it (but I 
can't maintain it alone), if someone can confirm me that this game is 
debian-policy-compatible and it will be included.


Thank you all.

Gabriele

P.s. Please send me a copy of your replies, I'm not following this list 
by now.



Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:30:29 +0000
From: andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (SOLVED - I hope!!)
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Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 06:05:24PM +0000, andy wrote:
>   

>> Hi all
>>
>> Yesterday, I bought a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent (external) USB hard drive. 
>> I plugged it in, downloaded the necessary ntfs-3g driver and all was 
>> fine. Today I plug it in and my Lenny system can't find it at all. There 
>> is nothing loaded on media and it seems that as far as my system is 
>> concerned, it has ceased to exist.
>>
>>     

> It depends: I'm using a similar drive. These drives are very prone to
> turn themselves off into power saving mode or similar / lose 
> interrupts. At this point they remount read only / with directories 
> with no permissions.

>

> A colleague used Google to find that the problem may be with SCSI 
> emulation - if you echo 1 > allow_restart in 
> /sys/block/sd*/device/scsi_disk:<numbers> the problem may go away.

>

> Known problem :(

>

> Andy

>
>
>
>

>   

>> How can I load this manually and how can I prevent this from happening 
>> again? I am not even sure how to debug this, so any help on that score 
>> would be useful too. It has something like 100GB of data on it from 
>> yesterday which I am extremely loathe to lose.
>>
>> Thanks for any assistance.
>>
>>     

>   

Andrew (& others)

Thanks for the ideas. I did a more in-depth Google search and came 
across this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=494673

So far so good, but the proof will really be to leave it for a couple of 
hours and then see.

Holding thumbs!

Andy


-- 

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"

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