Caleb, I assume you are still running gentoo
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime
then set the clock with date or ntp -q
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 02:49, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 00:46, Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-05-22T231932+, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote:
Caleb, I assume you are still running gentoo
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 23 11:09 /etc/timezone
- /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland
seams fine to me...
then set the clock with
At 2004-05-23T192918+, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 23 11:09 /etc/timezone
- /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland
seams fine to me...
/etc/timezone !=
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:38, Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-05-23T192918+, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 23 11:09 /etc/timezone
-
On Sun, 23 May 2004 07:57, Nick Rout wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:38, Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-05-23T192918+, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 23
date shown here is 24/5/2004 8:20 am...
Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 07:57, Nick Rout wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:38, Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-05-23T192918+, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote:
ln -sf
unsubscribe linux-users
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On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:20, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 07:57, Nick Rout wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:38, Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-05-23T192918+, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote:
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland
Nick Rout wrote:
[snip]
you shouldn't need to ever reboot unless you get a new kernel, but
nevertheless I think it might help this time.
[snip]
Come on now... let's get real. Linux isn't perfect, nor is plenty of the
software that runs on it. If you want to lock up your machine, it's
pretty
On Sunday 23 May 2004 10:50 pm, steve wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
[snip]
you shouldn't need to ever reboot unless you get a new kernel, but
nevertheless I think it might help this time.
[snip]
Come on now... let's get real. Linux isn't perfect, nor is plenty of the
software that runs on
On Sun, 23 May 2004 09:26, Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:20, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 07:57, Nick Rout wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:38, Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2004-05-23T192918+, Caleb Sawtell wrote:
On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote:
Steve wrote:
Come on now... let's get real. Linux isn't perfect, nor is plenty of the
software that runs on it. If you want to lock up your machine, it's
pretty simple.
Well I was telling someone in the weekend that since I built my current box
with Gentoo at home 18 months ago I do not recall
How do I find out what things are taking up memory and processor time?
I'm sure that RH9 on a PIII-450 shouldn't be this bad.
It takes up to 10 seconds just to open a new mail message and minutes to
open or close things like mail reader and web browser.
Coming back from screen saver is a
Hi All,
I'm using version 1.2.2.
Looking on rpmfind.net there seems to be a bunch of more recent
versions.
I did a google (sorry Nick :) and ended up at a novell site that didn't
seem to tell me alot (thou there was a lot to read).
What's the best thing to do?
Obviously I want the most
top provides an interactive view in a terminal, and there are many
variants for X, which often go under varying names like 'system monitor'
in the menuing system
RAM is likely to be a big part of your problem - how much ram and swap
do you have (run the program free in a terminal to find out).
On Monday 24 May 2004 9:28 am, Don Gould wrote:
How do I find out what things are taking up memory and processor time?
The commands 'ps' and 'top' display this info.
I'm sure that RH9 on a PIII-450 shouldn't be this bad.
It takes up to 10 seconds just to open a new mail message and minutes to
I have version 1.4.6 on Gentoo
Mandrake 10 has version 1.4.5
RedHat 9 came out over a year ago (my iso's are dated April 2003)
Regarding your problem, is your reply to address correct?
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
-Original Message-
redhat 9 updates only seem to go as far as something like 1.2.2-5, which
may indeed be a bugfix. You can download the update from here:
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/9/en/os/i386/
If it complains about dependencies, they should all be on that mirror too.
fedora core 2
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 09:53, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
are your friends.
Thank you friends.
I shall venture forth and prune.
The more I use this OS the more I like it because the more I know it (to
be expected I guess).
More in seconds...
Cheers Don
On Mon, 24 May 2004 09:48:03 +1200
Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I'm using version 1.2.2.
Looking on rpmfind.net there seems to be a bunch of more recent
versions.
I did a google (sorry Nick :) and ended up at a novell site that didn't
seem to tell me alot (thou there
I know I sound like a stuck record, but I have had many versions of RedHat
and Mandrake on an old PII/300Mhz/128Mb laptop here at work and I can
confirm that Mandrake 10 (with 2.6 kernel and KDE 3.2) is definitely faster
than the older versions.
Rob
Nick and Robert,
Yes I'm thinking the MDK10 thing might be the best way to go.
Might need to do some serious cleaning up on this machine now so I can
install that.
Can I install it over RH9?
Will it work like Windows does and let me have more than one distro on
the same disk system?
Where's
Ok got your hint :)
See other message.
No driving this way with some CD's are you? :)
Cheers Don
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:01, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
I know I sound like a stuck record, but I have had many versions of RedHat
and Mandrake on an old PII/300Mhz/128Mb laptop here at work
On Mon, 24 May 2004 10:09:17 +1200
Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick and Robert,
Yes I'm thinking the MDK10 thing might be the best way to go.
Might need to do some serious cleaning up on this machine now so I can
install that.
Can I install it over RH9?
Will it work like
I have the iso's if you want a set burnt. Letb me know.
Yes you can dual boot.
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
-Original Message-
From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 24 May 2004 10:09 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The first patition on the disk is Fat32.
How do I see (mount?) that within rh9?
Cheers Don
I work on Moorhouse Ave and live in Parklands so you could pick them up from
me. Contact me off list (at [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
-Original Message-
From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 24 May
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29285
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
-Original Message-
From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 24 May 2004 10:23 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:How do I see the
On the other hand, I'm still getting plenty of lockups since I installed Gentoo.
.. It is definitely improving though as I work my way through various
kernel/driver/framebuffer issues. I'm getting there slowly.
Quoting Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Steve wrote:
Come on
first make a place to mount it
# mkdir /mnt/win
then mount it
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
it should pick up the filesystem type automatically, if not re run the
command like:
#mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
then you will be able to browse the file system under /mnt/win
it will be mounted
I read somewhere that on your nforce chipset board you should disable
either apic or acpi.
now if i could find where i saw it. i'd be really useful!
On Mon, 24 May 2004 10:27:57 +1200 (NZST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, I'm still getting plenty of lockups since I installed
If you want to have permanent access you could add a line such as this to
/etc/fstab
/dev/hda2 /mnt/storage1 vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
-Original Message-
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL
On Mon, 24 May 2004 10:35:06 +1200
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I read somewhere that on your nforce chipset board you should disable
either apic or acpi.
now if i could find where i saw it. i'd be really useful!
got it, it was a response from the gentoo-dev list in response to a
That worked...
There must be a basic concept idea that I'm missing here but why can't I
just see the volume at /dev/hda1 ?
Why do I have to mount it?
Sorry if this is a dumb ass question.
Cheers Don
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:33, Nick Rout wrote:
first make a place to mount it
# mkdir
Hi,
Fedora core 2 is going to be a demand. Two things::
1st, 256 meg of mem is the realistic minimum of memory for X/KDE etc.
Fc2 will run on 160 or so megs, but it will have little rests every
now and then. (what I found on FC2 test 3)
disk space, the new full install is 6.5 gigs.
On Sun, 23 May 2004 22:50:00 +1200
steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
[snip]
you shouldn't need to ever reboot unless you get a new kernel, but
nevertheless I think it might help this time.
[snip]
Come on now... let's get real. Linux isn't perfect, nor is plenty
/dev/hda1 is a device file. it is the kernel's abstraction of the
physical collection of the disk blocks that make up a partition.
raw tools like dd can overwrite those blocks. if you want to destroy
/dev/hda1's data try dd'ing or cat'ing /dev/zero to it.
however to read it in the normal way as
On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:12:42 +1200, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There must be a basic concept idea that I'm missing here but why can't I
just see the volume at /dev/hda1 ?
The filename /dev/hda1 refers to a device driver that knows how to access
your hardware.
It doesn't know anything
And I am sure that Don will not suggest that Windows is easier for this
topic.
Try reading your Linux partitions from Windows Don. LOL
(Yes I know it can be done but not very easily me thinks.)
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
On Monday 24 May 2004 11:12 am, Don Gould wrote:
That worked...
There must be a basic concept idea that I'm missing here but why can't I
just see the volume at /dev/hda1 ?
Because that is the raw device file.
Why do I have to mount it?
So that you can access your data via the file system
Top says I have ~9 mb of ram free and 167mb of swap.
I have 27 services running (most of which I have no idea what they are),
is this normal?
Are there any got'yas that I should know about and be looking for?
How do I get a basic list of the services that are running?
ntsysv gave me quite a
Thanks,
I did a bit more googling around just now and found this
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=169004highlight=nforce2
which has a patch for the problem which will allow me to use acpi and apic. I
will have a go at this tonight.
Luuk
Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon,
RedHat does have several GUIs for configuration...
This from a google search...about installing RedHat. (I cannot remember the
menu item for RedHat services GUI but it is very good.)
In Server Configuration Tools select all of the GUI configuration tools you
require for the various services you
I have 27 services running (most of which I have no idea what they are),
is this normal?
Are there any got'yas that I should know about and be looking for?
How do I get a basic list of the services that are running?
chkconfig --list
service --status-all
Below is my top output, does this
hi,
the name of the tools can be determined by:
locate config | grep bin/
It lists a whole bundle (133) on fedora core 2 test 3 with nearly
everthing installed.
there is
system-config-function_name
and one redhat function,
/usr/bin/redhat-config-authentication
Derek.
Ok fresh reboot it says the right time on my kde clock (but it has done this
whole time) soo if it is not fixed my dad said tha he will help get this prob
fixed
I had something similar with my gentoo install, until I modified
/etc/rc.conf as below.
# Set CLOCK to UTC if your system
It was mentioned in The Press on Saturday. Apparently they are not going to
go out to remove it, they are judt going to wait until the toxic gases
destroy it.
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
-Original Message-
From: Jim Cheetham [mailto:[EMAIL
This was suggested to Caleb early on in the thread. Did you check it Caleb?
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.
-Original Message-
From: Col [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 24 May 2004 1:07 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Nick Rout wrote:
I read somewhere that on your nforce chipset board you should disable
either apic or acpi.
On Mon, 24 May 2004 10:27:57 +1200 (NZST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, I'm still getting plenty of lockups since I installed Gentoo.
.. It is definitely improving though as
On Mon, 24 May 2004 13:07:06 +1200
Col [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok fresh reboot it says the right time on my kde clock (but it has done this
whole time) soo if it is not fixed my dad said tha he will help get this prob
fixed
I had something similar with my gentoo install,
On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:32:07 +1200
Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this is a dumb ass question.
Yes, it is. Why don't you buy ( or download ) a book and have a read?
Alternatively using the online Unix manual page would have told you the answer
much faster than than
Don Gould wrote:
Top says I have ~9 mb of ram free and 167mb of swap.
On Linux, and other modern UNIX-based systems, free ram generally
means wasted ram. Stuff is cached in ram for as long as possible.
My machine says:
Mem:515636k total, 510116k used, 5520k free, 9272k buffers
On Mon, 24 May 2004 13:24:23 +1200
Alasdair Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:32:07 +1200
Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this is a dumb ass question.
Yes, it is. Why don't you buy ( or download ) a book and have a read?
Alternatively
Others have answered your specific question. For a lot of help/advice
(for the experienced as well as beginners) I suggest you download the
Rute manual. Google for it. Mine is in html and bookmarked in my
favoutite browser. As you familiarise yourself with it your knowledge of
linux will greatly
If you can sort on the subject line, you should be able to sort on the To:
field which contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] on all CLUG messages.
Quoting Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Andy George wrote:
I wonder if it wouldnt be possible to alter the mail server for those
of us
who are
On Mon, 24 May 2004 14:12:25 +1200 (NZST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you can sort on the subject line, you should be able to sort on the To:
field which contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] on all CLUG messages.
not necessarily. some have [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which is easier to type and remember.
ok, then sort by contains linux-users
Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 24 May 2004 14:12:25 +1200 (NZST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you can sort on the subject line, you should be able to sort on the
To:
field which contains [EMAIL PROTECTED] on all CLUG
messages.
Are the any problems with dual boot, windows + FC2 I saw that there was
a posting on /. about this today.
Does anyone know anything about this?
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 11:16, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
Fedora core 2 is going to be a demand. Two things::
1st, 256 meg of mem is the realistic
Thanks to those who just gave me a straight answer.
RANT - I feel better now... I wouldn't even bother reading the next
400 words :) Have a nice day - Cheers Don
In response to the growing flame on the issue...
aa. /dev/hda1 Man Mount Pages Concepts...
Last week I spent many hours reading
I am new to Linux and am looking for a driver for my capture card. I
have tried the Leadtek site but to no avail
Can anyone help me to a site where I may be able to get one from.
My capture card is a Winfast VC100 made by Leadtek
Ciao
Kev
Don Gould wrote:
The keyword was 'concept'. I have reviewed the man file (as I write
this email) and found there is a total of half a paragaph on the subject
(less text that Jim has written in his response).
Unix documentation in general is very terse. In the first paragraph of
the mount(8)
I am trying to get cdrecord working without any success. I have trolled
through the Rute manual, and implemented procedures from the cd-writing
howto, then rebooted.
The cdrw is on hdb. It works in Windows.
lsmod reports loop, sr_mod, sg, scsi_mod all present. I can
mnt/read/umnt a cd.
The
I assume you are still on a series 2.4 kernel with that distro?
are you sure you are running the ide-scsi driver? you need to boot your
kernel with the option hdb=ide-scsi
if you are , then what user are you when running cdrecord -scanbus?
if you get the same result as root, then can you please
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