February Edition of Smalltalk

2002-02-27 Thread Vik Olliver
Launchpad's sister publication "SmallTalk" emerges once more, bringing news from the world of the small and weird: http://olliver.family.gen.nz/launchpad/#smalltalk Vik :v) -- /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign One of The Olliver

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Vik Olliver
Huan Yee Chew wrote: > > Hmmguess I was lucky then. Manage to get LBT written on mine and it > works so far on machine that I tried. Though, now I'm on the same > bandwagon, how do we stuff 47MB of image onto a 35MB CD? You can't. Not all business card CDs are 35MB, except (as far as I can

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Vik Olliver
Huan Yee Chew wrote: > > By the way, does anyone know where to purchase these business card size cdr? Dr Floppy in Queen St. sells them but they ar NOT big enough to take the Linuxcare CD. Vik :v) -- /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaig

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Huan Yee Chew wrote: > Hmmguess I was lucky then. Manage to get LBT written on mine and it > works so far on machine that I tried. Though, now I'm on the same > bandwagon, how do we stuff 47MB of image onto a 35MB CD? After some search: Mystery solved! :-) It seems

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Huan Yee Chew
Hmmguess I was lucky then. Manage to get LBT written on mine and it works so far on machine that I tried. Though, now I'm on the same bandwagon, how do we stuff 47MB of image onto a 35MB CD? Huan At 16:01 28.02.2002 +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: >On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Huan Yee Chew wro

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Huan Yee Chew wrote: > Could be a typo on the website. I've got one of those and it's around 50MB. I assume you are talking about the credit-card CD capacity. It may not be necessary a typo. According to the "orange book" the maximum permissible tolerances for CDR allow fo

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Nick Rout wrote: > Guessing here, you compress the .iso and then mount it via some > decompression utility?? And what exactly decompression utility do you have in the BIOS ? (just joking, no you can't compress this iso) Still a mistery. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailt

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Huan Yee Chew
Could be a typo on the website. I've got one of those and it's around 50MB. Huan At 15:36 28.02.2002 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > > > > "Ryurick M. Hristev" wrote: > > > > > > Question: the toolkit have 47 Mb while those business card CD > > > > are r

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Nick Rout
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > > "Ryurick M. Hristev" wrote: > > > > Question: the toolkit have 47 Mb while those business card CD > > > are rated at 35 Mb. Are there larger ones or am I missing something ? > > > > It has a large file which contains a compressed > > filesystem t

Re: Looking at memory of running process

2002-02-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
Rex Johnston wrote: > Can can look at traffic on the system interface with strace -p PID. > That may tell you what you want to know. Yes. I forgot about strace. ltrace is even more useful. Thanks. Cheers, -- Carl Cerecke, Assistant Lecturer|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer

Re: Looking at memory of running process

2002-02-27 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:40, Carl Cerecke wrote: > So, I need some way of looking at the memory of the process to figure > out how much work has been done without killing it. Like a core dump > on the fly. You can find out how much memory is resident with ps -elf. Can can look at traffic on the

Looking at memory of running process

2002-02-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
I have a large process (~300MB) which has been running for about 24hrs. It's a program I wrote which does some complex manipulations for an experiment. Trouble is, I don't know whether it is almost finished or stuck in an infinite loop somewhere. I had commented out the code that prints out where

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
"Ryurick M. Hristev" wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > > "Ryurick M. Hristev" wrote: > > > > Question: the toolkit have 47 Mb while those business card CD > > > are rated at 35 Mb. Are there larger ones or am I missing something ? > > > > It has a large file which contains

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: > "Ryurick M. Hristev" wrote: > > Question: the toolkit have 47 Mb while those business card CD > > are rated at 35 Mb. Are there larger ones or am I missing something ? > > It has a large file which contains a compressed > filesystem that is mounted via

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Carl Cerecke
"Ryurick M. Hristev" wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Mahesh De Silva wrote: > > > have look at www.blankcd.co.nz he is in halswell > > (chch) and his prices are quite good. > > Question: the toolkit have 47 Mb while those business card CD > are rated at 35 Mb. Are there larger ones or am I miss

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Mahesh De Silva wrote: > have look at www.blankcd.co.nz he is in halswell > (chch) and his prices are quite good. Question: the toolkit have 47 Mb while those business card CD are rated at 35 Mb. Are there larger ones or am I missing something ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hrist

Re: Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
The rotten old Warehouse has 4 packs of Transonic 3" cd's for like $10, worth taking a gamble on, haven't seen any other shops stocking them or the business card ones. JeremyB. http://www.jeremyb.net > From: Huan Yee Chew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/02/28 Thu AM 12:12:29 GMT+12:00 > To:

Re: Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Heaps, I think they even link to a bunch of them from their website :-) JeremyB. http://www.jeremyb.net > From: Huan Yee Chew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/02/27 Wed PM 10:59:53 GMT+12:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit > > This is very handy. Is there an

RE: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Craig Falconer
http://www.corpcons.co.nz/ You might need to call Michelle 365 5060 if they're not on the web page. I bought 100 ages ago, still have 60 left. They're not cheap like 13cm CDs, though the cuteness factor can outweigh that. > -- > From: Huan Yee Chew[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sen

Re: unresolved symbols

2002-02-27 Thread Zane Gilmore
Often unresolved symbols can mean you are running the wrong version kernel for the driver. You might need to recompile the driver for the kernel you are using. That means pointing the ld.so.conf file at the correct kernel libraries then compiling the source of the drivers (assuming the driver cam

unresolved symbols

2002-02-27 Thread Marcus Liddle
Hi all Is it bad in my boot.log file I read: depmod: *** unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/driver. rc.sysinit: finding module dependencies: succeeded Yesterday I talked about getting IDE RAID motherboards working - we found a driver in the most obvious place ...the ma

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi all have look at www.blankcd.co.nz he is in halswell (chch) and his prices are quite good. C Mahesh > By the way, does anyone know where to purchase these > business card size cdr? > > Cheers, > > Huan = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz/linux http://movies.yahoo

Re: Postfix

2002-02-27 Thread Johnno
I did a chmod 777 /var/spool/postfix/maildrop and it seems to fix the problem... altho this is not ideal it works and thats the main thing for now... Many thanks for all your help.. Johnno - Original Message - From: "Richard Waid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thur

Re: Postfix

2002-02-27 Thread Richard Waid
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 00:19, Johnno wrote: >> drwx-wx---2 postfix postdrop 1024 Feb 27 01:30 maildrop/ This is could be the source of your problem, if your /usr/sbin/postdrop doesn't have the permissions rwxr-sr-x you have a problem. The maildrop directory needs to be either world writa

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Huan Yee Chew
By the way, does anyone know where to purchase these business card size cdr? Cheers, Huan At 14:35 26.02.2002 +1200, you wrote: >I've just downloaded and had a bit of a play with the >Linuxcare bootable toolkit, extremely cool mini distro >which has X, networking & pcmcia support and Mozilla/Ly

Re: Postfix

2002-02-27 Thread Johnno
they are.. /var/spool/postfix/ drwx-- 16 postfix postdrop 1024 Feb 19 01:30 active/ drwx--4 postfix postdrop 1024 Feb 27 00:50 bounce/ drwx--2 postfix postdrop 1024 Feb 5 17:18 corrupt/ drwx--2 postfix postdrop 1024 Feb 5 17:18 defer/ drwx--

Re: Postfix

2002-02-27 Thread Johnno
in the /var/spool/postfix dirs they are.. drwx-- 16 postfix postdrop 1024 Feb 19 01:30 active/ drwx--4 postfix postdrop 1024 Feb 27 00:50 bounce/ drwx--2 postfix postdrop 1024 Feb 5 17:18 corrupt/ drwx--2 postfix postdrop 1024 Feb 5 17:18 defer

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Huan Yee Chew
This is very handy. Is there any other flavours that are in similar size? I.e. below 180MB or so. It's rather handy to be able to carry around those smaller CDs. Cheers, Huan At 14:35 26.02.2002 +1200, you wrote: >I've just downloaded and had a bit of a play with the >Linuxcare bootable too

Re: Postfix

2002-02-27 Thread Johnno
this is the error i get Feb 27 23:46:50 venturis postfix/postdrop[24936]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/99845.24936: Permission denied if i try to use postfix's sendmail program.. Johnno - Original Message - From: "Chris Hellyar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Meeting

2002-02-27 Thread Nick Rout
> The meeting for 28th Feb? > > What is the venue? > and time? > > Lanktree Davies > see here, theres a map too! http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Meeting

2002-02-27 Thread Lanktree Davies
The meeting for 28th Feb? What is the venue? and time? Lanktree Davies