[EUG-LUG:619] Re: inaccessible web

2001-12-20 Thread Rob Hudson
If you're behind @home, I've noticed a lot of DNS screw ups since the switch. A lot of times it tells me the page can't resolve, but if I refresh, then it gets in just fine. Could it be a DNS lookup issue? -Rob On 20011219.2252, Mr O said ... As some of you have witnessed on my primary box

[EUG-LUG:620] Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Crandell
Hi, I have a client with a Linux server running Samba. Something is filling up memory and the swap space. This is dragging down to the point where it's unusable. They have to reboot almost every day. My question is how do I find out what is taking up all that memory? Thanks -- Bob Crandell

[EUG-LUG:621] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Miller
Bob Crandell wrote: I have a client with a Linux server running Samba. Something is filling up memory and the swap space. This is dragging down to the point where it's unusable. They have to reboot almost every day. My question is how do I find out what is taking up all that memory?

[EUG-LUG:622] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Crandell
That shows how much memory each program is using but it doesn't add up to the amount of memory being used. There is over a half Gig of RAM and 96 M of swap. It all gets used up just before it goes down. Is there another utility? Thanks Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: Bob Crandell

[EUG-LUG:623] Re: inaccessible web

2001-12-20 Thread Christopher Maujean
Perhaps your reverse ip info is screwed up.. Who holds the reverse DNS records for your ip addresses? On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 22:52, Mr O wrote: As some of you have witnessed on my primary box I am no longer able to access certain websites with ANY browser. The list of sites is growing and I'm

[EUG-LUG:624] Folding@home Team EUGLUG

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Miller
What a nice surprise I got this morning! Folding@home's Team EUGLUG now has six contributors who've finished a work unit.* Now we're starting to look like a real team instead of The Rob And Bob Show. We're up to 162nd place -- two weeks ago we were down around 400th, and three days ago we were

[EUG-LUG:625] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Christopher Maujean
PostgreSQL used to have a memory leak that would take all 2gigs of ram from my machine. I wrote a perl script that filled an array with 'A''s infinitely, until it ran out of memory once it crashed, it gave all that memory back. Ran it as a cron job every half hour. On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 09:12,

[EUG-LUG:626] Re: EUG-LUG digest 37

2001-12-20 Thread Jason Dommasch
At 11:03 PM 12/19/01 -0800, you wrote: Mr O wrote: As some of you have witnessed on my primary box I am no longer able to access certain websites with ANY browser. If I recall correctly, you weren't even able to telnet into www.ucomics.com's port 80. Do I recall correctly?

[EUG-LUG:627] Re: Folding@home Team EUGLUG

2001-12-20 Thread Mr O
Otay, I found the client I downloaded a couple weeks ago. How do I set the team/user that I am with the client? I'd hate to give away my bandwidth and not benefit the team. Thanks, Mr O _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address

[EUG-LUG:628] RE: Folding@home Team EUGLUG

2001-12-20 Thread Justin Bengtson
will be joining once my system is re-organized/re-installed. sometime this weekend. -Original Message- From: Bob Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 9:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EUG-LUG:624] Folding@home Team EUGLUG What a nice

[EUG-LUG:629] Re: Folding@home Team EUGLUG

2001-12-20 Thread Rob Hudson
It's it's linux, it will ask you the first time (or it did for me). Otherwise edit 'client.cfg' file that is in the directory where it runs. Add the line: team=668 under the section [settings] If it's windows, right click on the tray icon, choose 'Configure', and enter number 668 where it says

[EUG-LUG:631] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Crandell
They aren't running PostgreSQL. Your fix is pretty drastic. If you ran Top with the M option, did you see a program using up the memory? Christopher Maujean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: PostgreSQL used to have a memory leak that would take all 2gigs of ram from my machine. I wrote a perl script

[EUG-LUG:632] Re: Folding@home Team EUGLUG

2001-12-20 Thread Christopher Maujean
You can also run the client with the -config argument and answer the questions.. On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 09:45, Rob Hudson wrote: It's it's linux, it will ask you the first time (or it did for me). Otherwise edit 'client.cfg' file that is in the directory where it runs. Add the line: team=668

[EUG-LUG:633] is der clinic?

2001-12-20 Thread Justin Bengtson
is there a clinic going on tonight? if so, where, when, how, why? note to mr. hudson : if there is a clinic tonight, will bring donate box with me, if convenient...

[EUG-LUG:634] Re: EUG-LUG digest 37

2001-12-20 Thread Jason Dommasch
At 11:03 PM 12/19/01 -0800, you wrote: Mr O wrote: As some of you have witnessed on my primary box I am no longer able to access certain websites with ANY browser. If I recall correctly, you weren't even able to telnet into www.ucomics.com's port 80. Do I recall correctly?

[EUG-LUG:635] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Larry Price
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Bob Crandell wrote: You could try Electric Fence ftp://ftp.perens.com/pub/ElectricFence you do have to relink the affected programs against the tool because it replaces the libc malloc with an instrumented version Hi, I have a client with a Linux server running Samba.

[EUG-LUG:637] Re: Folding@home Team EUGLUG

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Miller
Mr O wrote: Otay, I found the client I downloaded a couple weeks ago. How do I set the team/user that I am with the client? I'd hate to give away my bandwidth and not benefit the team. Do you have a dual-CPU box? If you do, make two directories and install a copy of the client in each.

[EUG-LUG:638] Re: Folding@home Team EUGLUG

2001-12-20 Thread Barker, Gerald A (MD)
Title: RE: [EUG-LUG:637] Re: Folding@home Team EUGLUG Anyone having success with modem connection and Folding? -Garry

[EUG-LUG:640] Re: inaccessible web

2001-12-20 Thread Agthorr
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:52:18PM -0800, Mr O wrote: I'm losing my web here!! Keep in mind this only happens on THIS machine and not on any other accessing the same sites. Other side note. I can ping all the sites I can't access. Wierd enough yet? What's your network setup look like? Is

[EUG-LUG:641] list stuff; plain text please!

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Howe
I generally like to stay out of list politics and etiquette and whatnot, but if you're going to post to this list (which happens to be open source Unix related) could you please do it in plain text? TimH

[EUG-LUG:644] Re: Folding@home Team EUGLUG

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Miller
Barker, Gerald A (MD) wrote: Anyone having success with modem connection and Folding? It should work fine if you leave your modem dialed up all day. Otherwise, say Y when it asks, Ask before fetching/sending work?. -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting

[EUG-LUG:645] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Ralph Zeller
It might be useful to run lsof to see which files are causing the problem, or if someone is opening a bunch of really big files? At 05:12 PM 12/20/2001 Bob Crandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a client with a Linux server running Samba. Something is filling up memory and the swap space.

[EUG-LUG:646] Re: is der clinic?

2001-12-20 Thread Edward Craig
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Justin Bengtson wrote: is there a clinic going on tonight? Well, I have to drive/dispatch tonight, so not at the Greens office if so, where, when, how, why? note to mr. hudson : if there is a clinic tonight, will bring donate box with me, if convenient...

[EUG-LUG:647] Re: is der clinic?

2001-12-20 Thread Larry Price
Well justin, you've got a cable modem, right Seriously though, it would be nice to do some sort of meeting, question is where, I just asked the efn GM and he indicated that we will be able to use the new office, when it becomes available (early next month) Is there much interest in doing a

[EUG-LUG:648] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Crandell
I can't find lsof. Did you mean ls -of ? I just got back from there. From what I could tell, this time, Samba 2.2.2 is the bad guy. I copied a directory with about 7,000 files worth maybe 100M. The server ran out of memory before the copy was done. I had to cancel it and reboot the server

[EUG-LUG:649] Re: is der clinic?

2001-12-20 Thread Tim Howe
I could go for a beer tonight... Anybody want to meet me at the High Street cafe? Or some place like it? TimH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Price Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 3:44 PM To: 'euglug' Subject:

[EUG-LUG:650] Re: is der clinic?

2001-12-20 Thread Justin Bengtson
larry, you've seen my place. do YOU think it's big enough to hold a clinic? -Original Message- From: Larry Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 3:44 PM To: 'euglug' Subject: [EUG-LUG:647] Re: is der clinic? Well justin, you've got a cable modem,

[EUG-LUG:651] Re: is der clinic?

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Crandell
I think huddling over warm monitors drinking hot chocolate sounds good. How do you find out how many WU? Marry Christmas. Larry Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: Well justin, you've got a cable modem, right Seriously though, it would be nice to do some sort of meeting, question is where,

[EUG-LUG:652] Re: is der clinic?

2001-12-20 Thread Larry Price
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Justin Bengtson wrote: that might be why the next line starts off with Seriously, larry, you've seen my place. do YOU think it's big enough to hold a clinic? -Original Message- From: Larry Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December

[EUG-LUG:653] Re: is der clinic?

2001-12-20 Thread Justin Bengtson
just making sure no one else was getting any funny ideas... -Original Message- From: Larry Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 3:56 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [EUG-LUG:652] Re: is der clinic? On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Justin Bengtson wrote:

[EUG-LUG:654] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Crandell
I believe _and it worked_ is what's really important. Once I get the Samba issue worked out I'll be enabling MySQL and phpGroupware on their server, thereby heading off a move to Exchange by one of their in-house techs. Do you have Samba running on yours? Christopher Maujean ([EMAIL

[EUG-LUG:655] Re: is der clinic?

2001-12-20 Thread Larry Price
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Bob Crandell wrote: How do you find out how many WU? it generates a log file, for one thing, it also prints messages to STDERR (annoying to those of us console oriented types) the log file lives in it's work/ directory which was created on setup. I look at it this way;

[EUG-LUG:656] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Ralph Zeller
No, see http://www.google.com/search?q=lsof It just shows what files are open, and you can sometimes diagnose a problem if some file is open and you think it should be closed. If Samba's not set up right, it will keep files open and locks active when they shouldn't be. I've never seen the

[EUG-LUG:657] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Christopher Maujean
Running Samba would mean toadying to the corporate overlords by supporting a network system based on a monopolistic, oppressive, and sub-standard operating system. Funny how MS Windows and a word that implies something that works (operating) can be used in the same sentence. grin Seriously

[EUG-LUG:658] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Crandell
Is it my imagination? Or is Samba becoming enough like NT that it is dragging Linux into the same level of unreliability? Mayeb I'm jsut tired. Christopher Maujean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: Running Samba would mean toadying to the corporate overlords by supporting a network system based on

[EUG-LUG:660] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Ralph Zeller
Now, now. Windows XP is very secure: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7050-2001Dec20.html At 04:16 PM 12/20/2001 Christopher Maujean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Samba would mean toadying to the corporate overlords by supporting a network system based on a monopolistic,

[EUG-LUG:661] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Bob Crandell
And don't forget: It's compatible. It will run on all hardware on the market today and it will run the software we have all grown to know and love. Oh drat. I left that bottle of glue open again Ralph Zeller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: Now, now. Windows XP

[EUG-LUG:662] Re: Memory

2001-12-20 Thread Christopher Maujean
And you gotta love that licensing scheme. On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 16:34, Ralph Zeller wrote: Now, now. Windows XP is very secure: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7050-2001Dec20.html At 04:16 PM 12/20/2001 Christopher Maujean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running Samba would

[EUG-LUG:664] Re: The Economy (was: Memory)

2001-12-20 Thread Larry Price
The paragraph you mention is a misconstrual of keynesianism, in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Keynes made a comment that it might almost make sense to pay the unemployed to dig holes in the ground and fill them in for the sake of the economic activity that would be

[EUG-LUG:665] [Fwd: CERT Advisory CA-2001-37 Buffer Overflow in UPnP Service OnMicrosoft Windows]

2001-12-20 Thread Christopher Maujean
Speaking of Windows... -- Christopher Maujean IT Director, Premierelink Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.premierelink.com/ 541-344-8575x305 PGP: --- http://www.keyserver.net/ KeyID: EFAF4176 Fingerprint: 55E6 4DE1 D7D3

[EUG-LUG:669] FW: Installing Mandrake 8.0

2001-12-20 Thread Dan Schumacher
-Original Message- From: Dan Schumacher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Installing Mandrake 8.0 Installed Mandrake 8.0. Set-up my internet connection and couldn't get thru.It connects but the KPPP would time out.