Re: [Eug-lug]network monitoring?

2003-03-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 11:30:38PM -0600, Timothy Bolz wrote: I hope this will clarify how it works and answer Josheph's e-mail about homepna. It works very well. You get dsl speeds nothing super fast. But if there are a lot of guest on it will slow down due to the bottleneck at the dsl

Re: [Eug-lug]meeting

2003-03-05 Thread Ralph Zeller
If only we had grub. (sorry!) On 03/04/03 11pm, Mike O wrote: How about I boot my roomie and we go back to my place :) If only . --- Bob Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Howe wrote: Is there a meeting this week? Today, tomorrow? This week, the clinic is on Wednesday.

Re: [Eug-lug]meeting

2003-03-05 Thread Tim Howe
If we plan to now, perhaps people could prepare something to bring tonight... Maybe I could throw some pasta together? Anyone else? TimH On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:47:33 -0800 Ralph Zeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If only we had grub. (sorry!) On 03/04/03 11pm, Mike O wrote: How about I boot

Re: [Eug-lug]network monitoring?

2003-03-05 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
I hope this will clarify how it works and answer Josheph's e-mail about homepna. It works very well. You get dsl speeds nothing super fast. But if there are a lot of guest on it will slow down due to the bottleneck at the dsl going out. I got between 450-600 in the guest rooms. You

Re: [Eug-lug]do you do PHP?

2003-03-05 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:22:25PM -0800, Linux Rocks ! wrote: Mike, Hey... Ive setup php... Im unsure what mhash is though... more info needed... http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8safe=offq=mhash+phpbtnG=Google+Search ___

[Eug-lug]cron and mandb

2003-03-05 Thread Rob Hudson
Every morning when I come to my workstation at work (Debian testing), my CPU is maxed out at 100%. If I look at top, I see mandb is taking up 100% CPU. Looking at my process tree shows this: 282 ?S 0:01 /usr/sbin/cron 20594 ?S 0:00 \_ /USR/SBIN/CRON 20595 ?S

Re: [Eug-lug]cron and mandb

2003-03-05 Thread Beaker (aka Jeff W)
Rob Hudson wrote: Every morning when I come to my workstation at work (Debian testing), my CPU is maxed out at 100%. If I look at top, I see mandb is taking up 100% CPU. Looking at my process tree shows this: snip Anyone have an idea of what's going on and how I can fix it? from

Re: [Eug-lug]meeting

2003-03-05 Thread Larry Price
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Tim Howe wrote: Is there a meeting this week? Today, tomorrow? This weeks meeting is tonight. Next weeks will be on either wednesday or thursday, (watch for the poll being posted during tonight's meeting) -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice( Community, Cooperation,

Re: [Eug-lug]cron and mandb

2003-03-05 Thread Rob Hudson
Looking at the man-db file in /etc/cron.daily, if I run this command: start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null --startas /usr/bin/mandb \ --oknodo --chuid man -- --no-purge The thing runs and runs and doesn't stop. The thing is that this thing used to run, along with all the other stuff

Re: [Eug-lug]meeting

2003-03-05 Thread Linux Rocks !
Maybe Ralph should have said lilo ? Jamie On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:00 am, Tim Howe wrote: : If we plan to now, perhaps people could prepare something to bring : tonight... Maybe I could throw some pasta together? Anyone else? : : TimH : : On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:47:33 -0800 : : Ralph Zeller

Re: [Eug-lug]meeting

2003-03-05 Thread Ralph Zeller
More than one way to boot a roommate. On 03/05/03 12pm, Linux Rocks ! wrote: Maybe Ralph should have said lilo ? Jamie On Wednesday 05 March 2003 09:00 am, Tim Howe wrote: : If we plan to now, perhaps people could prepare something to bring : tonight... Maybe I could throw some pasta

[Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Larry Price
Seth is in a house cleaning mood; -- http://www.efn.org/~laprice( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)

Re: [Eug-lug]cron and mandb

2003-03-05 Thread Rob Hudson
Figured it out... /var was full! apt-get clean to the rescue. :) On 20030305.1143, Rob Hudson said ... Looking at the man-db file in /etc/cron.daily, if I run this command: start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null --startas /usr/bin/mandb \ --oknodo --chuid man -- --no-purge

Re: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Timothy Bolz
If he has any linuxcare disks lying around I know a couple people here I could hand them out too. They would have to be sent to me of course. Tim On Wednesday 05 March 2003 03:50 pm, you wrote: Seth is in a house cleaning mood; ___ Eug-LUG mailing

Re: [Eug-lug]network monitoring?

2003-03-05 Thread Timothy Bolz
Your right a guest uses there own pcmcia network card and plugs the cable into it and they are off and running. The only thing they say doesn't work is older vpn software and they say it's a security risk. I think this has to do with the firewall/gateway. The little research I did on the

Re: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Tim Howe
I will be bringing a short stack of Knoppix CDs. TimH On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:48:36 -0600 Timothy Bolz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If he has any linuxcare disks lying around I know a couple people here I could hand them out too. They would have to be sent to me of course. Tim On Wednesday

Re: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Bob Miller
Timothy Bolz wrote: If he has any linuxcare disks lying around I know a couple people here I could hand them out too. They would have to be sent to me of course. Are you talking about the bootable business cards? Those run a 2.2 kernel. I'm finding that they're becoming unusable as rescue

Re: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Larry Price
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Bob Miller wrote: Timothy Bolz wrote: If he has any linuxcare disks lying around I know a couple people here I could hand them out too. They would have to be sent to me of course. Are you talking about the bootable business cards? Those run a 2.2 kernel. I'm

RE: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Grigsby, Garl
i'm not sure what everybody does to their linux systems, but the only time i need a bootable linux toolbox (like linuxcare or knoppix) it is to fix a busted Windows system, not a linux system (-:. i can't remember that last time I completely killed a linux box to the point i couldn't fix it

Re: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Bob Miller
Grigsby, Garl wrote: i'm not sure what everybody does to their linux systems, but the only time i need a bootable linux toolbox (like linuxcare or knoppix) it is to fix a busted Windows system, not a linux system (-:. i can't remember that last time I completely killed a linux box to the

Re: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Timothy Bolz
Bob Yes, about the business card. A friend here want one. He will likely download it. He saw what I did with mine and was impressed. I'll let him know you what you think about Knoppix. I think he'd still like a business card. I find the 1.5 disk better than the 2.0 because it had midnight

Re: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Linux Rocks !
chroot On Wednesday 05 March 2003 04:30 pm, Bob Miller wrote: : Grigsby, Garl wrote: : i'm not sure what everybody does to their linux systems, but the : only time i need a bootable linux toolbox (like linuxcare or : knoppix) it is to fix a busted Windows system, not a linux system : (-:. i

RE: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Grigsby, Garl
i see your wisdom. i bow before the master. please don't boot me in the head. --ed gruberman -Original Message- From: Bob Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 4:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes Grigsby, Garl

Re: [Eug-lug]network monitoring?

2003-03-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:18:01AM -0800, Beaker (aka Jeff W) wrote: This appears to be the case: There was a nice picture of the hardware tree at the bottom of the converter link previously provided by Tim. There is a homePNA-Ethernet converter in each room, into which both the phone your

Re: [Eug-lug]Clinic tonight -- Door Prizes

2003-03-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 03:31:14PM -0800, Tim Howe wrote: I will be bringing a short stack of Knoppix CDs. Any of those use KDE 3.1? I have been meaning to give it 20 minutes or so to see whether or not my continued hatred of KDE is justified on the grounds of the software or if I'll just have

Re: [Eug-lug]network monitoring?

2003-03-05 Thread Linux Rocks !
snip On Wednesday 05 March 2003 06:03 pm, Joseph Carter wrote: : : Actually no. New phone cables are usually CAT-3 grade twisted pair for : modems and FAXes in the walls, and you need two lines for each phone line. : CAT-5e wiring has 8 conductors, but of these only 4 get used for 10/100 :