Debian

rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25
Debian Users & Cygwin: I have a Perl/ rsync backup script that pulls files from a Windows XP Professional SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25 machine. The script worked fine on one Debian box (5.0.1 upgraded to 5.0.3), but consistently hangs 1,000+ files into a large transfer after I moved it to a fresh Debian 5.0.3 box. Both ... 20 Dec 2009 04:56

NTP setting
Hi, everyone I have a 2 PCs in my office and they are not connected to internet. But I wish to synchronize the 2PC. One is for time server and one is for time client. Is it possible to use NTP for the purpose? How I can config NTP server with local time? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, J.Hwan Kim --... 16 Dec 2009 20:13

zero report from ifconfig; was Re(3): freezing Ethernet crossover link.
Folk, Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:46:38 -0800 I wrote, ... Cantor can use the other 200M and cable. Yes, the other Linksys USB200M Ethernet adapter and cable exhibit the same behaviour. ifconfig always reports 0 bytes transported. There has been one communication freeze as described previously for eth0... 15 Dec 2009 14:28

mutt deletes 1st unread
Duly, this only happens in my debian-user mailbox. (I sort with procmail.) The first unread email is always marked with a D, when I enter my "l-debusr" box. I have to jump to it by number and undelete it. I index by date so it is usually the newest or close to. :8 I use folder-hooks to archive mail after n... 18 Dec 2009 23:49

jmeter 2.3.4-2 bug report in unstable justified?
Dear all, I've been having trouble with jmeter-server not being able to access the host from java.rmi (java.net.SocketException: Network is unreachable). Version is 2.3.4-2 on unstable i386. jmeter runs fine but I am not using it for any tests (another PC is supposed to farm out the tests and collect the da... 15 Dec 2009 11:09

DenyFilter Proftpd
> Hola Alguien puede darme alguna idea o ejemplos de como utilizar el DenyFilter en proftpd para poder especificar extension las cuales no puedan ser copiadas a este ftp por ejemplo*.mp3, *.mp4, *.mpeg Tambien quisiera saber como puedo restringir el tama�o de los ficheros que se copien eje... 14 Dec 2009 23:13

Keymap not loaded at boot time (Squeeze)
Hello Debian users. After upgrading Squeeze, I couldn't help but notice that the Caps Lock key wasn't working. After a little investigation, I discovered that the keymap isn't loaded at boot. If I load the keymap (loadkeys /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz) manually, Caps Lock comes back, but when I reboot it's gon... 14 Dec 2009 13:13

Centralized Managed Cron Daemon
Is there any centralized managed cron daemon for debian where I can manage crontabs from other nodes? -- Regards; Israel Garcia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org ... 14 Dec 2009 14:20

new udev
The udev module in testing got updated this morning. As a result I got these lines in my syslog: Dec 14 09:51:02 niof udevd[15399]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please use ATTR{}= to match the eventdevice, or ATTRS{}= to match a parent device, in /etc/udev/rules.d/z60_libchipcard-tools.rules:5... 15 Dec 2009 16:43

Chromium OS on Virtualbox hangs
Hi, I am running Virtualbox 3.1 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala i386 arch. I have created a virtual machine using a Chromium OS .vdi file as the hard disk. Previously, I was not able to log in and was getting the message "Network not connected and offline login fail". I searched this up, and the problem was that m... 14 Dec 2009 10:59