Re: Hanging server

Here's a summary that's both superficial and obvious, but at least it's based on a tortured analogy: A) If the patient is conscious and communicative, you can sometimes get them to tell you where it hurts, or at least to report as much as they can about how they feel and what they know,

Re: Need help debugging either a network or a sendmail problem.

(assumption: you're running dhclient) man dhclient-script Search for make_resolv_conf ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: The dread "Stale NFS file handle"

> Can you explain *why* this works? Nope. P.S. in case that smiley I included wasn't clear enough I should mention that (best we could determine) it was a nasty kernel NFS bug that was giving us fits at the time and nothing we could blame on Paul, try as we might! ___

The dread "Stale NFS file handle" (was Unkillable processes? )

I have a devious, wave-the-dead-chicken voodoo hack that will sometimes save the day when you're suffering the dread "Stale NFS file handle" error. It only unwedges NFS clients, and only sometimes, but when you're foaming at the mouth with frustration it's a good trick to know. ( Hey, Paul - yo

Re: [OT] Locating source of FM radio interference

>There is a technique that works without going to RadShack or the local >supermarket for parts... Though, as has been pointed out, it works >better for AM than FM... but it should work in FM. > >It's called "Body Shielding". Your body can act as a shield. Tune the Beauty! I suspected that

Re: [OT] Locating source of FM radio interference

> It's also entirely possible that there is a "pirate" broadcaster - Heh. I'm pretty sure it's not a pirate broadcast station unlesss their demographic studies indicate there's a market segment that's fond of the sound of motor noise or arcs discharging. (And, yes - I realize that the former i

[OT] Locating source of FM radio interference

Something near our house has recently started generating spectacular amounts of radio intereference that's most noticeable around 89MHz. I have no portable radio equipment of any kind except a humble little $10 handheld with a normal telescoping antenna that seems not to be very directional, or a

Re: Windows-like registry for Linux?

My cow-orker (from the Windows side of the company and maybe transitioning to Linux) thanks y'all for the feedback and is impressed with the GNHLUG. Same here. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mail

Re: GRUB, booting, and SW RAID 1+0...

> If anyone can tell me how to convert a script(1) log into a > human-readable text file (accounting for final rendering of escape > sequences, backspaces over all my typos and the like) I can put up > a log of the tutorial we did at DLSLUG a few months back on this. > I've tried the Perl VT100 e

Re: Windows-like registry for Linux?

>> A cow-orker is tasked with implementing a lean- >> and-mean registry thingy that's maybe similar >> to the Windows registry, or maybe not. The real >> goal is for multiple processes/threads to be able >> to perform attribute lookups cheaply and reliably >> and possibly VERY frequently (many t

Windows-like registry for Linux?

A cow-orker is tasked with implementing a lean- and-mean registry thingy that's maybe similar to the Windows registry, or maybe not. The real goal is for multiple processes/threads to be able to perform attribute lookups cheaply and reliably and possibly VERY frequently (many thousands/sec) with

Re: Hard Disk Failure

> buy another of the same model drive and try swapping the platters Yow! I've disassembled dead drives just out of curiosity and I'd bet serious cash that the even an accomplished hobbyist would find swapping platters from one drive to another to be anything but straightforward. The various pa

Re: Help build the new GNHLUG Internet server

Somebody said that the proper place for this exchange was the admins list but even though it isn't directly applicable to anything I happen to be currently working on I'm glad to see it going by and it's comforting to think that I could dig it out of the main GNHLUG archive if I had to. ___

Re: Video translation magic

Sorta-kinda maybe obliquely related: http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/cablecard.ars/1 > CableCARDs have an intriguing pedigree. They come not from the > cable industry, but from Congress, which in 1996 passed the massive > Telecommunications Act and charged the FCC with (among other thin

Re: [OT] Information security, recycling and irony

I once toured WMI facility (that used to be? is still?) in Rochester NH. I did this primarily because I'd heard a number of people around town (Chelmsford, MA) muttering about how WMI probably just threw all our recyclables into a hole instead of actually processing them. For our visit we drop

Intel Gbit spec

Not sure how much interest there is on this channel but, FYI, Intel have published the spec for the e1000 and friends: http://download.intel.com/design/network/manuals/8254x_GBe_SDM.pdf Until recently they've apparently only supplied this info on a Pain-Of-Death Double-Secret Compartmented Eye

Re: RHAT bug? /etc/init.d/functions:daemon()

> Um, maybe I'm missing the obvious, how does that > establish whether providing getopt as a shell feature > is a POSIX standard or a GNU extension? :) Sorry. I was in a hurry and misread your question. You're right - it proves nothing. GNP* (*Gnu's not POSIX) __

Re: RHAT bug? /etc/init.d/functions:daemon()

> I thought providing getopt *as a shell function* was a GNU > extension. Hmmm... well, 60 seconds of Google work didn't find > a definitive answer. :) You went all the way to Oz when the answer was right in your own back yard: # echo $BASH_VERSION 2.05b.0(1)-release # type getopts geto

Re: RHAT bug? /etc/init.d/functions:daemon()

> If you're doing option parsing, IMO, it's a *lot* easier to use > getopt, whicn is a bash built-in than arcane and confusing bash > magic like this... I agree, but apparently RHAT doesn't - it's their code, not mine. P.S. That's a novel way to spell "which" - I had to clean my

Re: RHAT bug? /etc/init.d/functions:daemon()

Ben Scott wrote: [a surprisingly detailed response] Many thanks to Ben, but it turns out that the puzzle was easily solvable as soon as I abandoned my assumption that my cow-orker has a clue about the code in quesion. His code (which I'd copied) was passing the args to that daemon() function

Re: RHAT bug? /etc/init.d/functions:daemon()

Never mind... I got led astray because I cloned my script from one written in-house here. I just noticed that it's calling that daemon() function with the args in the wrong order. :-/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.

RHAT bug? /etc/init.d/functions:daemon()

A couple of questions; first, does anybody else have a recent RHAT EL4 system where the daemon() function defined in /etc/init.d/functions starts out with this line: while [ "$1" != "${1##[-+]}" ]; do ...and second, can anybody explain the alleged logic? I claim it can NEVER evaluate true bec

Re: [OT] next episode of CSI

> Just out of curiosity, how did Erik come to write an episode? > I've always been curious how they find people for things like that, > what kind of steps those people have to go through, etc. Well, it definitely helps to know people and shmooze like hell. He's been in LaLa land for years, poun

[OT] next episode of CSI

Erik is my brother-in-law. I never watch the show so I have no idea what to expect, but I'll definitely be watching this episode, if only for the last reason he mentions. > In a self indulgent and blatant plug, I wanted to let everyone > know that the episode of CSI for which I wrote the story

Re: [OT] In defense of Google

Hey, Fred - As I've mentioned several times privately, the headers in your messages look like this: [...] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverte

[OT] In defense of Google

I am genuinely worried about how monstrous Google is becoming, but this defense of Google in light of recent events seemed worth a mention: http://antiwar.com/justin/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.

Re: Custom Distro

> I have a pretty convoluted and heavily customized FAI environment Convoluted? FAI? you don't say... ;-> I got all excited about (the idea of) FAI(*) back in 2002 and for a while had FAI rigged up in a way that sorta-kinda did what we needed, but yikes! at least back then it w

[OT] RIM vs NTP

A fairly readable summary of the Crackberry mess: http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060128.wxcover0128/BNStory/Technology/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gn

Re: a question about evim

>> those backup files would be silently evaluated AFTER the "real" >> files and basically inflict the previous config on them. > >Wow! That's some really poor script writing! I can only imagine a >loop like this: > > for i in /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg.* I can't remember the details in

Re: a question about evim

>> I'd advise getting used to/enjoying [...] backups. [...] >I don't know how long it would take me to kill my >computer if I couldn't turn that off Amen! Backup files like that have caused me MUCH more trouble than they've ever been worth. For example, in just the last couple of mont

Re: Cell phone built in GPS - not (Was: Open Source vs. Closed Source)

GPS-on-a-chip (not counting antennae, I assume) http://www.rakon.com/ http://www.rakon.com/whatsnew/display?article_id=-80&template=news ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-

Re: a question about evim

I don't know evim but vim has help built in. Start help (the screen will be split) by saying: :help ...and then search for the "options" explanations by saying: /options ...which gets you to the options "tag", which you trigger by saying: Ctrl-] ...which takes you to the particular

Re: Carn1v0re?

When Cryptography is outlawed then bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir Pelcgb. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Fonts in Open Office question(s)

apt-get install msttcorefonts ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: umount: device is busy

I believe it's sometimes possible (when lsof and friends can't figure out who's got a particular device or mount point busy) to find the culprit with an approach something like this: find /proc/[0-9]* | xargs -l20 ls -aFdl 2>/dev/null | grep itemOfInterest __

FTP to /dev/null

Anybody know how to rig an RHAT box's vsftpd such that /dev/null can be specified as the destination during an upload? In other words, a client machine would push bits over the wire to this vsftpd which would promptly throw them away. This is for a network bandwidth/throughput test (we're qualif

Re: Samba PDC/BDC

By coincidence I just now stumbled across this link and thought I'd pass it along on the chance it's at least of passing interest to those reading this thread: http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=217 I didn't read more than a few paragraphs so apologies in adva

Re: extract string from filename

"cat -n" will number output lines ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Emacs & PINE -- "perfect together." [Don't hurt me!]

> A sad, sad truth that I've come to accept is that I have PINE's > keystrokes emblazoned in my memory. I use it at least once a > year, whether I need to or not, and I never even have to pause. > They keystrokes are just THERE. I tried MUTT. No dice. Never was > a big ELM fan. And GUIs are

Re: extract string

> Ooo, look! - a new business model for Lugs! I happen to like these threads and far from regarding them as a burden I think they're a pleasant diversion and extremely useful as learning opportunities. But I've been asking for a long time when our IPO will be happening; we've got more talent an

Rationale for not releasing drivers as FOSS

In general, I am still baffled by companies who withold Linux drivers for their HW, my current employer included. However, this article: http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20060108163615614 ...provides at least a glimpse into that mindset.

Re: Firefox goodies

>Check out NoScript: > http://www.noscript.net/whats > >Last I heard DHS was recommending Firefox with NoScript as the safest >browser platform. > >Also in the bag-o-goodies: SessionSaver, FasterFox, CustomizeGoogle, >FlashBlock. FlashBlock and AdBlock are indeed wonderful FireFox extensions,

Guido Van Rossum hired by Google

Pythonistas among us might be interested: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8821 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros

> FVWM rules! ;-) CTWM ! http://ctwm.free.lp.se/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Any Opinions on SuSE 10.0 vs other Distros

>I don't mean to turn things into a Gnome-vs-KDE thing, but >I'm a KDE guy and options are good. Pick your preference. Awww, c'mon now fellers - make up your minds. Is it Gnome vs. KDE, or KDE vs. Gnome...? ;-> I'm somehow reminded me of that scene in The Blues Brothers' movie where that

Re: HOWTO? run k3b as root

My sugestion may not have been clear. What I have in mind is that you start a normal KDE session as a nonprivileged user, with all the usual GUI glop on the screen that KDE normally presents when you do that. (It might even make sense to verify that you can start normal X clients like xclock fro

Re: HOWTO? run k3b as root

If you can't diagnose your problems one workaround may be to start KDE as a nonprivileged user and then say: ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...which should get you authenticated as root and then tunnel all your X traffic back to your nonprivileged session, which should at least allow you to run th

Re: disk scrubber for Linux?

The basic premises leading me to investigate scrubbers: #1. Storage devices aren't perfect. #2. RAID won't always save you from #1. #3. Backups won't always save you from #2. As has already been mentioned, item #1 is such a fact of life that drives come equipped with spare sectors, tracks

Re: disk scrubber for Linux?

>> and you won't know it until you go to read that file >> when you're syncing the new disk. > >Ah, right - so you're trying to avoid replacing a disk >when SMART tells you it's starting to fail? Wow! If you're able to divine from the little bit I've posted on this subject that all we're doing

Re: disk scrubber for Linux?

All that sector/cylinder sparing/remapping magic is wonderful but it won't save you if one disk of a RAID pair has a bad block mapped to a file that's rarely read. If the other disk goes bad and you think, "No problem, I'll just replace that bad disk" you're buggered because the remaining disk

disk scrubber for Linux?

Anybody know of a disk-scrubber for Linux? I'm talking about an app (typically a low-priority background task) that continuously reads your disks to detect bad blocks with the hope that you can do something about them before the situation becomes critical. This is of particular interest with mir

Re: mutt question

I don't know mutt but exmh calls that "Use message as draft" ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: MAC addresses, hostnames, and DHCP

Maybe you could use some trickery involving bonding, maybe declare both interfaces as slaves of the same bonding master? They'd then share the same MAC addr, though which MAC usually depends on which interface is enslaved first. ___ gnhlug-discuss ma

Re: where to buy a new system.

I should have mentioned mwave, as well - I've bought from them and I'm pleased to report it was utterly routine... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: where to buy a new system.

I've bought a lot of stuff online and almost never had a problem. Like Paul, I'm cheap^H^H^H^H^Hselective, so I basically use pricewatch.com to find the lowest prices for each of the desired components, purchasing from multiple vendors and acting as my own System Integrator. Out of approx 25 pu

"whereis" versus "type"

As an aside I'll mention that if you're using bash you can ask it directly what it thinks a certain verb (eg. "ethereal") means, thus: # type ethereal ethereal is /usr/bin/ethereal ...which gives me the exact answer to the question I had in mind: "what will you run when I give this comman

Re: in-situ conversion to FT disk config?

How I ended up creating my RAID1: Recall that hda1 and hdc1 are identically sized partitions on identical disks. hda1 was full of data that I wanted made redundant, hdc1 was empty. I first said: mdadm -v -C /dev/md0 -l 1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hdc1 missing ...which created t

[OT] Creating The Perfect Cookie

...in which the Open Source development model makes an appearance: http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_09_05_a_bakeoff.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: in-situ conversion to FT disk config?

>> perform an on-the-fly conversion from my vulnerable >> single disk config to an FT config that brings that >> second disk (hdc) into play without me needing to make >> substantial changes to hda. > >No, that won't work; when you set up RAID or LVM on the >disks, you'll lose all the data on the

Re: in-situ conversion to FT disk config?

>I've done this... you use: > > mdadm -f -l 1 -C /dev/md0 /dev/hdc1 > >creating a degraded RAID1 array (partition hdc first). >Now mount /dev/md0 wherever, and copy your data over. >Check to see it's there and happy. Then: > > mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 > >(assuming hda partitioned etc.).

in-situ conversion to FT disk config?

I have a system that boots off a single smallish disk that isn't Fault Tolerant and I'm content to have it remain that way because there's nothing irreplaceable on that disk. I mention this only to illustrate that I have a place to stand while I'm fooling with the other two disks in the system (h

Re: Responsibility for Enet link state

>Try adding > > ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off" That looks promising. Thanks! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Responsibility for Enet link state

What entity, if any, on an Enet-equipped system is responsible for seeing to it that the interfaces are live and operating at (somebody's definition of) the "proper" speed/duplex/etc? I'm asking because we have some systems running RHEL4 with some 10/100 NICs that occasionally wake up confused su

Re: Open Documents at serious risk in MA

I'm not that familiar with MA government so I don't know whether this is par for the course or not. I'm pretty sure there isn't any 4-person commission to "oversee" purchases of (say) motor vehicle fleets, so this just seems remarkably sleazy. If only there were somebody I could talk to about th

Open Documents at serious risk in MA

All in the public interest, of course: http://consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?ID=1699 [EMAIL PROTECTED]@!!! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

[OT] Attack of the stupid-bots?

Anybody else noticed a sudden flurry of bogus email messages from random IP addrs this week. Malformed headers, no message bodies, no Subject: line, no payload. I must have 40 or 50 by now. Weird... ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@ma

http://www.google.com/linux?

Not quite sure what this is or if it's useful, but this appears to be a google interface that somehow filters search results such that they're Linux-related: http://www.google.com/linux? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.or

Re: GNHLUG website (was: MonadLUG meeting)

www.gnhlug.org has worked for me with all versions of Firefox (currently running 1.0.7) on Linux and on Windows XP. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Who here works on Subversion?

> But if I'm understanding correctly, at the point where you've > completed that first merge, your dev branch and your main branch > would be identical, right? The intent of merging changes from a branch back into the mainline is to inflict the same changes onto the mainline as you've inflicted

Re: HTML mail (was: PHP contact manager)

>> Please, K.I.S.S... > > MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. MIME is not the web. >In fact, it predates Tim Berners-Lee's influential hypertext project by >several years. K.I.S.S. is not an invitation to osculation; it stands for the first letters of a phrase often refer

Re: HTML mail (was: PHP contact manager)

> On 9/27/05, ername">Christopher Schmidt et">[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It looks like= > that email came from Gmail - I'm kind of surprised theywould do someth= > ing like that, which makes me wonder if it'

Re: VPNs.

Apropos Ken's posting, this just in: http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/09/22/164231.shtml?tid=78 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: static IP configuration problem

> I believe the Debian /etc/interfaces file requires you > to indent the sub-parameters of each "iface" stanza. My Debian system has a pretty decent man page for "interfaces" in which we find this: Options are usually indented for clarity [...] but are not required to be. ...and which a

FWD [GrokLaw] - It's Final - MA Goes With Open Documents

Friday, September 23 2005 @ 03:00 PM EDT "It's official. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has posted on its web site its final decision, namely to use only formats that conform to the Open Document format for office productivity applications, a format Microsoft so far does not support, alth

I have no style (and I'm happier)

[ Other than the fact that I'm running Firefox on my Debian box, this is not a Linux-specific message, tho it does relate to previous messages posted here. ] I just wanted to rave about the bookmarklets available at: http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/ It seems to me that an incre

Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester

> (IF someone can show us that "lambda" is easy to > read as well as to write!) > > That would be Fred, right? HE could show us... (*) If I were him I'd be afraid to show off my coding skills because y'all might make fun of me in public, and I've never really cared for roasted lambda chops.

Re: static IP configuration problem

FWIW, here's a very simple static config file from one of my Debian boxes: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network

Re: SEOs -- what's the prevailing attitude?

Search engines are so easy to use that stuff like toolbars and other "helpers" seem completely unnecessary. And there are sites on the WWW (are these the "optimizers" you're asking about?) whose supposed value is that they present ready made collections of links about various topics, but in my

Re: Need a Linux Person!

>http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-jobs > > specifically for job announcements. You're guaranteed to reach > the people there who are interested in seeing job announcements. FYI: I already mentioned that to her privately and I also pointed out that it's customary to supply a job d

Re: Ink jet refill kit experiences?

My $0.02 - I bought a refill kit (Black only, no color) back in 2003 for my very humble Apollo 2200 (low-end DeskJet equiv) and was satisfied with the experience. Instructions were clear, drilling the hole was trivial, filling was straightforward, I plugged the hole with a hot-glue dab instead

Re: Splitting tar output, Resolved

>> You did, but it's no big deal. If you're going to do >> mea culpas about your email format I'd rather it was about >> your MIME headers forcing a UTF-8 charset on us...;-> > >Switched to iso-8859-1. Is that better? Muy bueno! . . . >It is a small ga

IBM tutorial - Hacking the Linux Kernel

I've only glanced at the first few screens of this tutorial but what I saw made it seem worth at least a mention: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linux-kernelhack1-i.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org htt

Re: Splitting tar output

>Yikes! Did I attach this to your thread or is that just the way it >shows up on my Kmail? I didn't mean to do that. You did, but it's no big deal. If you're going to do mea culpas about your email format I'd rather it was about your MIME headers forcing a UTF-8 charset on us...;

Re: Splitting tar output

>Does anyone know how to create a tar tape archive and disk file >archive at the same time? > >The present system does something like: >cd / >tar -cf $bkdir/monthly.tar ./ $bkoptions After that point I'd then instead consider just saying: dd if=$bkdir/monthly.tar of=/dev/st0 ibs=X obs=

Re: upgrading systems w/o physical access?

>We've been having a real problem with drive reliability >lately which results in the machine in question needing to be >re-installed (the re-partitioning of the drives vectors around >the newly found bad sectors) If only you knew of some company that had some high-performance, fault-tolera

LILO & GRUB comparison

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bootload.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

802.3ad

Anybody here got 802.3ad running? If so, which kernel are you running and what switch are you using? I've got an RHAT box (RHEL4AS with a 2.6.9 kernel plus a raft of RHAT patches) trying to dance the LACP dance with an Extreme (brand) switch that seems to work OK with Windows as the 802.3ad clie

Re: Stupid bash scripting question

>> It seems that either will do the job, I'm just wondering (for the >> purpose of my own "betterment" and improved knowledge of shell scripting >> *grin*) about advantages of either approach. The only one I've come >> with so far is that Solution 2 requires a separate process to run. > >So does

Re: Laptop Suggestions

> You'd have to get a PCMCIA wireless card if you go that route > because the Apple "Airport Extreme" is a Broadcom chipset, and > Broadcom doesn't play well with Open Source. The butthead mentality appears to be dominant at Broadcom, doesn't it? I've got an HP zd7000 series machine that's pret

Re: Need a quick sed recipe :-(

# echo This is the replacement line >/tmp/replacementFile # cat

Re: Mem utilization on Red Hat 9 brain tickler.

>=>> I hate getting old. :-( >=> >=>Understood, tho most folks agree that it's superior to >=>all currently available alternatives... > >No! It's a Red Hat 9 machine. That's the point. um, I was talking about the aging process. ;-> ___ gnhlug-dis

Re: Mem utilization on Red Hat 9 brain tickler.

The standard x86 kernels can handle 2Gb wthout any special options or parameters, so the issue is almost certainly something specific to your machine, maybe a BIOS setting? > I hate getting old. :-( Understood, tho most folks agree that it's superior to all currently available alternatives...

Access ext2 filesys from Windows

http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Free stuff

I'll also offer a free monitor: Small ( 14" ) HP monitor - D1182a A very humble unit but was in perfect working condition when put into storage last year. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/ma

USB->IDE external adapter $10

Since this sort of item gets mentioned on this channel from time to time: http://www.acortech.com/.sc/ms/dd/54801119625566/9/nc/ee/2275 Free shipping, $8 each for quantity 10 or more. I don't (yet) own one and I've never done business with the company in questions, so caveat emptor...

Celebrities explain various tech matters

Simultaneously humorous and useful: http://routergod.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Is it okay to plug a power-strip into a UPS?

MOV = (Metal Oxide Varistor) A discrete electronic component that diverts excessive voltage to the ground and/or neutral lines. http://www.answers.com/topic/varistor ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.g

Re: [Pedantic RANT] Re: [HUMOR] End Times

Get real. Navarro's Muslim never new Nietzsche's Nazi-supporter, so Wikipedia's written worship of Hitler Youth allow an Air Alestair understatement. Anywhere basic archbishop assessment referred to articles, emergent DVD enlightenment ends, however hopelessly Hopkins insufficiency impressed. Ot

Which kernel debugger for RHAT AS4

I know that there are/were some lurkers from RHAT here - would any of you know which kernel debugger is most commonly used internally at RHAT when working on the 2.6.9-flavor kernel that comes with RHAS4? Care to supply patches? ___ gnhlug-discuss mai

FWD: free computer equipment

Forwarded from FreeCycle: From: "Joshua Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:48:00 - Subject: [Freecycle Lowell] OFFER: Computer Equipment Lots of old mac stuff. PowerPCs, keyboards, main units, and monitors. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. Call (603)264-1092 any time

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