Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-02 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 03-Dec 01:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This I aready know. ...but seeing as I didn't ask how do I set an environment for my cronjobs but how do a set a GLOBAL evironment for the entire system, it doesn't actually help me much. :) .../Nemo [snip other answer} Just slip it in

Re: global environment variables?

2001-12-02 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 03-Dec 09:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 01:02:50PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote: On 03-Dec 01:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This I aready know. ...but seeing as I didn't ask how do I set an environment for my cronjobs but how do a set a GLOBAL evironment

Re: mke2fs default mmc

2001-11-26 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 26-Nov 09:16, Sean Middleditch wrote: Hi! I was wondering what is used to detemine the maximum mount count in mke2fs. I am told the default should be 20, but I've got (when reformatting the same partition) a result of 24 and results of 31. Why is this? iirc, mke2fs tries to make the

Re: IDE CD recorder, in machine with SCSI tape?

2001-11-02 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 02-Nov 08:37, Stan Brown wrote: K, at this point i've tried this on 2 different machines. Here's the scenarion HP cd16ri CD recorder installed in machines with Aadaptec SCSI host card, each has exactly on device on the SCSI bus. Both are Debian potato + Progeny + 2.4x kernels ( one

Re: Kernel updates for Adrian Bunk's packages?

2001-10-12 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 12-Oct 10:18, Hall Stevenson wrote: I have been using Adrian Bunk's 2.4 kernel packages. The last kernel update is 2.4.9. 2.4.9 isn't that old, actually. There's no harm in not having the 'latest and greatest' versions of everything. Other then the fact that 2.4.9 has the habit of

Re: Letters displaying as aquares.

2001-10-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 06-Oct 04:51, Charles Baker wrote: ``apt-get remove`` any XFree 3.x packages and ``apt-get install`` all the XFree 4.x packages. [snip] I did have this problem under kde2--kde2 apps worked but nedit/vmware didn't. I finally got logged into X as root (to see kde2's default setup once), and

Re: video ram?

2001-10-04 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 04-Oct 08:09, parn wrote: O.k. so about 4mb is ok. I am using X with gnome/enlightenment. I guess my real question would be where and how to add the append = . would this be correct: append videoram = 400 or am i still clueless??? Again thank-you to any that reply! I

Re: kernel 2.4.10 and linus vs ac VM?

2001-10-01 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 30-Sep 07:44, Randolph S. Kahle wrote: I am confused about the state of the 2.4.10 kernel. It seems that there are two VMs that are going to fight it out moving forward: the original one (in the ac line of code) and a new one (in the main line of code). Before this became clear, I was

Re: Help - Large Files Support

2001-08-23 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 23-Aug 01:08, David McNab wrote: Hi all, I've just now managed (after a few attempts) to install deb testing/unstable, and find Debian to be unquestionably the best Linux distro to date. One thing I need help with is in getting large files support working. Some of my uses (eg Freenet

Re: please read: very odd network traffic

2001-08-07 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 07-Aug 08:29, P Kirk wrote: [snip] killa.bat says killall ftpd and call killb.bat and killb does the same in reverse. I know someone must have a neat shell script that does this? -- [a bash script] $while true; do killall ftpd; sleep 1; done; Thomas pgpS5WslsxtQU.pgp Description:

Re: OT: Dropped Packets

2001-08-07 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 07-Aug 03:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how many dropped packets is common on a small 10-Base-T Network? I get 20% or so on a flood ping. -- Deven G. When I had 10bT and tested with a ping flood, ~3% dropped. This was with very good cable and terminators. Between two

Laptop sleep

2001-08-06 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
I've been using an old laptop for a couple of days. I have the harddrive spining down after 30s but it never stays down. (I even echo'ed some new setting to /proc/sys/vm/bdflush...didn't seem to help). I was wounding if anyone has some tips on what to check; so this drive will stay asleep when

Re: Specifiing Drivers at installation

2001-07-29 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 28-Jul 10:29, Michael Blood wrote: I need to load a raid driver at installation time but am unsure of the exact syntax and commands. Do anyone know of a good place to find the exact syntax and examples for the boot: prompt. Thanks in advance, Michael Blood I have always

Re: RAM size

2001-07-12 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 12-Jul 08:58, Alexey wrote: I have 128M RAM. dmesg: ... Memory: 64364k/66496k available (808k kernel code, 416k reserved, 864k data, 44k init) ... Am I right thinking that Linux sees 64M only? Well, the *free* utility displays total memory at 64M. What's wrong? Your BIOS is bugy.

Re: reiserfs

2001-07-11 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 11-Jul 12:18, Michael B. Taylor wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:14:48PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: Hi all I am new in debian. What is reiserfs It is a high performance file system, still somewhat in the experimental stage. However, it has already (as I understand) proven useful

Re: ext2 filesystem

2001-07-10 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 10-Jul 05:06, Andrew Dixon wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for a filesystem to put on a some-what embedded system. I was considering ext2 but IIRC there is a minimum 4K file size. Does anyone know if that really is the limit (I also remember that you can resize the sectors on an ext2

Re: Reiserfs and disk spindown: separate /var partition?

2001-07-09 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 09-Jul 01:51, Christian Jaeger wrote: At 12:43 Uhr +0200 9.7.2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: xfs can put the logfile on another physical disk (I don't think you can put it into a file, but only raw partitions). So, get yourself two HD's (a big one and a small one), install your system on the

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-23 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 23-Jun 12:31, Gary Jones wrote: ~# cdparanoia 1 general info stuff snipped Ripping from sector 33 (track 1 [0:00:00]) Ripping to sector 11822 (track 1 [2:37:14]) Ouputing to cdda.wav (== PROGRESS == [ | .. 00 ] == :-P . ==) hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0

Re: local time

2001-06-22 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 22-Jun 05:24, Steve Kowalik wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 03:57:52AM +, John Patton uttered: My systems clock is set for my local time zone (or used to be), which always worked well before. Now it lists the time in UTC (correctly, meaning that the time listed is about 5 hours off

Re: QRe: Raid; mkraid /dev/md0_HELP?

2001-06-21 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 21-Jun 11:17, Frans Schreuder wrote: ls -l /dev/md*: brw-rw1 root disk 9, 0 Jun 9 21:51 /dev/md0 [snip] Cutting it down to the important stuff: Jun 20 22:20:16 venom kernel: Oops ! md0 not running, giving up ! Jun 20 22:20:16 venom kernel: Bad md_map in

Re: Ripping MP3s

2001-06-20 Thread Thomas Zimmerman
On 21-Jun 01:09, Joel Mayes wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:34:23AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend any package for creating mp3s from CDs (yes, I do own them :) under Debian? I tried searching the package list but there was nothing obvious, only players it seemed.