Linux-Misc Digest #668, Volume #25 Mon, 4 Sep 00 20:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Changing Desktop Appearance ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Largest file (Christopher Browne)
Help. Can't find Apache NG. (MH)
Re: .tkdesk/popups ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: how to set env var from inetd? (Grega Bremec)
Re: dev-files ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Is linux compatible with the "Asus K7V" Motherboard? ("Bill Piety")
Re: Cluster-Software for Linux (Marius Aamodt Eriksen)
Re: Help find a clock/time display program,... (John Hasler)
dhcpd? (Derek)
Display ("Henriette Holm")
Re: Display (Cray Drygu)
ZIP 100 Plus and ZIP ZOOM SCSI (aha152x.o) (Ed)
Re: installing suse 6.4 (Danny Wingate)
Re: Notebook/Windows rebate? (Larry Ebbitt)
SuSE 6.3 / KDE problems (Dale Walker)
VMWARE.......GUEST OS DISABLE THE CPU ("dj oliver")
Simple BBS (Dave)
RPMBUILDER....HOWTO????????????????''' ("dj oliver")
RE: Red Hat Enterprise Edition ("spud")
Modem Hangup ("William Bradley")
��� ANIA DESNUDA !!! La de GRAN HERMANO ("Info")
Re: newgrp (Steve)
Re: Strange output in Gnome. (Steve)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing Desktop Appearance
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:08:24 -0500
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
~~ Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 19:29:55 GMT
~~ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.x, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux,
~~ comp.os.linux.help
~~ Subject: Changing Desktop Appearance
~~
~~ Hi all,
~~
~~ My PC runs win98 and Redhat6.0. The Icons on the desktop and the panel
~~ at its bottom are very big; the width of the panel is about 3cm. I
~~ thought the problem is to do with one of the settings on the
~~ XF86config; but which one and how?
~~
Use XF86Setup to change it (easy way), or hack it by hand
(hard way). If you choose the latter, look for the relevant
'screen' section, and change the Modes line in the Display
subsection:
Section "Screen"
Driver "VGA2"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768"
~~~~~~~~~~
Change me.
EndSubSection
EndSection
Just make sure you have a valid modeline for that mode!
anm
--
Andrew N. McGuire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
perl -le'print map?"(.*)"?&&($_=$1)&&s](\w+)]\u$1]g&&$_=>`perldoc -qj`'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Largest file
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 21:10:59 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Andrew N. McGuire would say:
>On 4 Sep 2000, Fred Nastos quoth:
>
>~~ Date: 4 Sep 2000 16:38:46 GMT
>~~ From: Fred Nastos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
>~~ Subject: Largest file
>~~
>~~ I know this has been discussed before, but what is the
>~~ largest size file linux can handle. I'm not sure on the
>~~ type of filesystem. Also, what happens if you try to
>~~ create a file this size? Do you just get an error message?
>
>ext2 2147483648
>
>yes.
This isn't _quite_ true, although it is a typical limit. Note that it
is NOT a filesystem limitation; the same limit will apply to any other
filesystem. Typically, on 32 bit architectures, file sizes get limited
to 2GB.
ext2 supports files up to 2TB in size. But only if you are using
the LFS (Large File Summit) interface.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/linuxkernel.html>
Rules of the Evil Overlord #169. "If I have massive computer systems,
I will take at least as many precautions as a small business and
include things such as virus-scans and firewalls."
<http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help. Can't find Apache NG.
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:16:51 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe my news server is failing to load some groups, but the only Apache
NGs I saw listed were "announce" and "modules" and "ssl" groups. None of
these seems appropriate to the problem I'm having, and there is nothing
in the Apache help files that explains why I might be having this
particular problem.
Problem:
I just installed Apache and am attempting to learn how to set up a WWW
server. There are a bunch of "help" files installed in the "html"
directory that I can view from a remote box, but which do not show up in
that directory on the WWW server locally?!? How is that possible?
How can I remove these files? How can I install my own WWW files? How
can I manage my WWW files? Does all this have to be done remotely via
FTP?
TIA
--
Don't waste your vote. Vote Green, or don't vote at all.
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: .tkdesk/popups
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:16:52 -0500
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Frank quoth:
~~ Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:22:33 +0000
~~ From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: .tkdesk/popups
~~
~~ Hello,
~~ has someone an idea how to make a popup item
~~ that removes all backupfiles (*~) from the marked directory.
~~
~~ This does not work:
~~ {{Remove *~} {dsk_exec rm $(find -name '*~')}}
~~
~~ rm $(find -name '*~') does fine from the comandline...
~~
I dunno, don't use tkdesk, maybe try:
find . -name '*~' | xargs rm # Faster
or
find . -name '*~' -exec rm {} \;
Again, just a guess, as I am not familiar with tkdesk.
anm
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Andrew N. McGuire
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grega Bremec)
Subject: Re: how to set env var from inetd?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 21:24:16 GMT
...and Retro Grouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> used the keyboard:
>I need to set the HOME variable for a process running from inetd. right
>now it defaults to /, which is not really acceptable.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--Yan
>
"man env"
Cheers,
--
Grega Bremec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gbsoft.org/
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dev-files
Date: 4 Sep 2000 21:19:36 GMT
Andrew N. McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, m quoth:
: ~~ i created /dev/xconsole with "mknod xconsole p"
Does your mknod really perform that kind of miracle? well well. My man
page also announces that form:
SYNOPSIS
mknod [options] name {bc} major minor
mknod [options] name p
but gives no details of the second. It says "p" is for a fifo, though,
in a sentence one can interpret as being generic. I always used mkfifo
for a named pipe. Oh well.
I wonder what xconsole is supposed to be a pipe to. Why did you think
it was a pipe? (it may well be, for all I know).
Peter
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From: "Bill Piety" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is linux compatible with the "Asus K7V" Motherboard?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 16:43:57 -0600
In article <09rs5.174466$Kw2.1291892@flipper>, "Sjoerd Langkemper"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The Asus K7V Motherboard uses the VIA KX133tm Chipset. Does anyone know
>> whether this chipset will support the installation of linux. Thanks.
>> Joel.
I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with a VIA KT133 Biostar M7VKB.
900mhz Athlon Thunderbird. No problem with my install. However,
I had to boot from the CD drive, not from a floppy. Repeated issues
with the floppy boot and hardware detection. Total install from boot to
KDE ~20 minutes. Also no prob with Udma66.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marius Aamodt Eriksen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cluster-Software for Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 21:47:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Raymond Doetjes wrote:
>Beowulf is not the answer, beowulf is a PVM parallel virtual machine just for
>number crunching. There is no Clustering File System that would be reliable
>enough for a RDBMS. They probably want 2 nodes working simultaniously to also do
>loadsharing.
Beowulf != PVM, you can also use MPI. When I think cluster, I think parallel
computing. If not, it's basically a load balancer. You don't need a
'clustering file system'; with proper adaption, something like NFS or AFS can
be used, or even SAMBA.
Marius.
--
Marius Aamodt Eriksen
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help find a clock/time display program,...
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 19:09:52 GMT
Arctic Storm writes:
> I would like to display the time/date on the computre, basically turning
> it into a large clock.
xdaliclock -fullscreen
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dhcpd?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 21:52:16 GMT
I have suse 6.2 on one machine and I am running another computer with
Mac and Windows 95. I am trying to set my linux box as a DHCP server to
give the addresses to the other computers that I have configured to get
an address from a dhcp server through ethernet. I cannot seem to get the
dhcp server to give out addresses to my other computers and I have here
the DHCPD.conf file as I tried to configure it but it is probably wrong
and my book does not go into detail.
If you have any ideas please let me know, by email or on this group.
Also if you need the rc.config file I have that as well or comments on
what to set up or make sure is in the file.
Derek
dhcpd.conf----------------------
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.10;
default-lease-time 7000;
max-lease-time 240000;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option broadcast-address 192.168.0.10;
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option domain-name "me.com";
}
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From: "Henriette Holm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Display
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:34:58 +0200
Hello.
I have just installed Redhat 6.2 on my Compaq LTE 5200, and I�m having a bit
of trouble with the display. I don�t know which monitor there is on the
computer so I pick the generic one, and then I can only have 8 bit 480*620.
The result is that the picture on the screen doesn�t take up the full size
of the monitor. What do I do? Does anybody know which monitor to pick in the
setup?
Henriette
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Subject: Re: Display
From: Cray Drygu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 22:14:39 GMT
Henriette Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <8p0teo$3cr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-net.dk>:
>I don�t know which monitor there is on
>the computer so I pick the generic one, and then I can only have 8 bit
>480*620. The result is that the picture on the screen doesn�t take up
>the full size of the monitor. What do I do? Does anybody know which
>monitor to pick in the setup?
If your make and model doesn't show up on the list, try searching some
Linux websites for hardware compatability lists. If you can't find
anything there (or just don't want to...I know what it's like), then
you can probably safely guess. Use the text-based "xf86config" tool,
and when it comes to the monitor setup, just choose option #1 for each
of the questions asking you about frequencies and such. I find that
these are generally safe bets.
If you start X and nothing shows on your monitor, though, do a quick
CTRL-ALT-BKSP to make sure you don't damage your monitor (and maybe even
unplug it). I know newer monitors will go into standby mode rather than
try to run at unsupported frequencies, but older monitors might be damaged.
--
Cray Drygu
cray [at] org
silverlight <dot>
"It's all about the Pentiums, baby!"
-- Weird Al
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From: Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ZIP 100 Plus and ZIP ZOOM SCSI (aha152x.o)
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 22:15:10 GMT
I'm trying to set up my ZIP 100 Plus on Linux version 2.2.14-5.0 and
have read everything out there (that I could find). My problem appears
to be linked to the ZIP ZOOM card. I've run ./insmod aha152x.o as
instructed in the documentation I've found and I receive the following:
aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
The ZIP ZOOM SCSI card has the following settings according to the
jumpers:
irq=9
i/o=0140
I've added the following line to lilo.conf (the mem statement is just
for my >64 RAM):
append = "aha152x=0x140,9,7,1 mem=112M"
I've added the following line to fstab:
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip vfat noauto,user 0 0
Any suggestions? Thanks
-Ed
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From: Danny Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing suse 6.4
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 22:30:59 GMT
I made a floppy boot from disc 1, but I'm not sure how to do what you say.
Should I boot from it and follow the steps 'till I'm told to insert disc1?
I'll try that and see what happens. Any more suggestions? I really
appreciate you replying so quickly. Thanks, Danny
James Campbell Andrew wrote:
>
>
> Danny Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to install suse 6.4 om my compaq laptop. I don't have an
> > internal cdrom only an external. Is there a way to get my pc to boot
from
> > it? I'm not very experienced, and have never installed any Linux at
all.
> > The installation manual makes it look easy to do if using yast. Any
help
> > will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Danny
>
> You should be able to make a boot floppy and use that. There's a good
> chance it will detect your external CDROM. The only problem will be if
> you can't have both the CDROM and the floppy installed at the same time.
>
> Check disk one - there should be a setup program on here that will
> create boot disks for you.
>
> I'm running 6.4 on a TI laptop that *can* only have a CDROM *or* a
> floppy drive installed, and won't boot from CDROM. That was
> challenging...:-)
>
> Jim
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vertigo 1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 18:40:11 -0400
From: Larry Ebbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Notebook/Windows rebate?
"s. keeling" wrote:
>
>
> This is a ridiculous statement. Just ask all those out there who are
> overclocking their machines in order to squeeze a few more mhz out of
> their cpus, or replacing an obsolete (!) 400mhz PII. Yes, scsi is
> expensive, but what's it worth to you to off-load IO handling to a
> dedicated specialized chip?
Absolutely. SCSI may be of no advantage on windos systems, but on systems
that actually multiprogram, it is a mojor improvement. SCSI also offers
better error recovery.
--
Larry Ebbitt - Linux + OS/2 - Atlanta
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From: Dale Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 6.3 / KDE problems
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 22:57:55 GMT
I've got a few problems with my SuSE version 6.3 that I think all
relate to KDE (I think).
Firstly, The graphical login thing does not work with normal users,
only root. If I try to use a normal user login, it just throws me back
to logon prompt. If I use the ASCII login method, everything works
fine.
Secondly, if I use ASCII mode to login as a user and then open up KDE
using startx, none of the selections in the application menus work.
Again, they're fine as root.
I've tried removing users and adding them again but that doesn't seem
to do anything.
Would I be right in thinking it may be some sort of permissions
problem or is it something more fundamental?
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From: "dj oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VMWARE.......GUEST OS DISABLE THE CPU
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:06:39 GMT
HI ALL:
WHEN I START WINDOWS 2000 IN VMWARE I GET THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE: THE
GUEST OS HAS BEEN DISABLED THE CPU
I DONT KNOW WHY. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave)
Subject: Simple BBS
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 00:19:37 GMT
Im looking to setup a simple bbs
with an extra 56k modem iv got kicking around
(the good ol days when i had a multi node bbs, miss them days ;o)--*
All i need is to have callers prompted with login: password: etc
Ill setup a guest account with bare minimum access right's.
Anyways, if someone could give me a rought draft on a quick lesson
on how to do this, examples etc, i would be greatly appreaciated.
Btw, to quickly outline my system.
box 1 = win2k pro (net gateway 1)
box 2 = experimental box for freebsd / novel
box 3 = redhat 6.2 BBS ?
its a small lan, but my goal is to restart my old bbs backup,
something very simple, to have callers login, and access
telnet,ftp,irc,email,lynx and be routed to the net.
nothing special just a simple auto answer single ttyS2 node.
Thank You in Advanced.
(an old bbs sysop from the 80's)
may the door games live.........
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From: "dj oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RPMBUILDER....HOWTO????????????????'''
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:37:21 GMT
HI ALL:
IM TRYING TO BUILD RPMS FROM TAR.GZ FILES WIHT C CODE. I OPEN A TAR.GZ FILE
WIHT RPMBUILDER AND WHEN IM GOING TO BUILD THE RPM FILE THIS MESSAGE APPEAR:
CANT READ SPECDIR SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY. CAN ANYONE HELP ME PLEASE????????
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From: "spud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Red Hat Enterprise Edition
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 00:36:13 +0100
Reply-To: "spud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I have a copy of Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition Optimized for Oracle8i,
new, unregistered and still in the wrapper, retails at $2500
do you know anyone who might be interested in buying it?? (going cheap), I
have been trying to sell it now for a few weeks and no interest.
if so, email me with offers to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "William Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Hangup
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 23:54:12 GMT
Hi, Newbie here, I'm using kppp in KDE to run my modem. It is an external
Motorola, 28.8.
Everything goes fine, it dials out, Connects and then dies. In fact that is
the message: "The pppd daemon dies unexpectedly." When I looked at the log
it read as follows:
pppd 2.3.7 Started by root, uid0
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttys1
Hang up (SIGHUP)
Modem hangup
Connection terminated
Connect time 0.2 minutes
Exit
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
Bill.
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From: "Info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: newgrp
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Sep 2000 01:06:21 +0100
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 21:24:47 -0400, Shahriar Mohktari wrote:
>Hi there,
>I am running redhat6.2. I have some problems with newgrp. I let a group say
>groupa have password. if user1 does not belong to this group and gives the
>command "newgrp groupa" he will be asked for the password. Then when user1
>enters password he gets the messgae "permission denied".
>
>What is the problem? any idea?
This one's weird, I've had a bit of a look around at man pages.
I can't find myself in /etc/group.
Ok I've got it now, if I add myself to a group in the /etc/group
file as it says in man group then do
$ newgrp denis
I get an ordinary prompt I do cd and it takes me to my own home
directory, but I create a file in my home directory, do an ls -l
and it shows me [sjlen] as the owner but shows denis as the group.
I type exit and it takes me out and gives me my old group back
(though I couldn't newgrp back to my own group as I don't seem
to have an entry anywhere), I do touch hello.txt then ls -l h*.txt
and it shows me as the owner again but shows me as being back in
my own group.
Hope that helps, it confuses the hell out of me:-)
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
11:59pm up 14 days, 4:17, 3 users, load average: 1.08, 1.02, 1.01
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Strange output in Gnome.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Sep 2000 01:06:22 +0100
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:44:26 GMT, Yura wrote:
>Hi people. Every time I start any "G" program
>(Gnome compatible or just GTK written) I get this
>kind of output:
>
>But is I start "G" soft as root or any other user,
>I don't have this output. I mean, even with this
>output, program starts fine, I jsut want to get rid
>of it.
>
>I hope anyone has an idea. I suppose somethign is
>messed up in my personal Gnome's configuration.
Sounds like your fonts or your path or something
in your porfile that refers to fonts is messed up.
Try making a backup of your .bashrc and .bash_profile
and copy another users .bashrc and .bash_profile to your
home directory, that may solve it.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
11:59pm up 14 days, 4:17, 3 users, load average: 1.08, 1.02, 1.01
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