Re: [SLUG] memory usage

2002-01-12 Thread sm
That's what I was after. Thanks. On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:40:29 +0900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not sure what you exactly want, but 1. free 2. top 3. cat /proc/mem will all give you info about memory you can put (1) and (3) inside a loop if you want to monitor, ie

Re: [SLUG] memory usage

2002-01-12 Thread Howard Lowndes
Better still watch -n1 free On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while true do free sleep 1 done -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of

Re: [SLUG] memory usage

2002-01-12 Thread Barrie Hall
Try vmstat I use 'vmstat 5' (prints memory and other parameters to stdout every 5 seconds) Cheers, Barrie - Original Message - From: sm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 4:28 PM Subject: [SLUG] memory usage Hi, Could anybody tell me how I

[SLUG] An odd ping thing

2002-01-12 Thread Howard Lowndes
I'm currently playing with a script to measure average ping times between some sites and have tries a variety of the ping options, but I have noticed some curious behavour. If I flood ping for 1 second with: ping -q -n -f -w1 target then it appears to put out around 100 packets, I get quite high

[SLUG] Kernel panics reading cdroms

2002-01-12 Thread lukekendall
I've been trying to write the 6th CD in an 8 CD full backup set. cdrecord kept failing, on 3 different CD-RW discs (at a different point for each one). Each CD contains just two files. One is empty and is the name of the backup set, and the other is a cpio archive of the backup data that will

Re: [SLUG] [OT] burned on a deal

2002-01-12 Thread John Morrissey
Hi Andrew, Sorry to hear of your misfortune. While it is possible that the unit will work at 110 v. your monitor is not likely to want to run at that voltage. You also risk the prospect of problems caused by confusing which cable is which under your desk. Firstly, put the problem in writing

Re: [SLUG] Python SIG: The saga continues.

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Andrew Bennetts Second Tuesdays after Meetings are ctte meetings, so it can't be then. Perhaps SLUG needs to maintain some sort of monthly events calendar to make scheduling these things a bit easier? Well, we have this new website thingy that kind of does that. Gus can explain.

[SLUG] Crazy stuff with osd and procmail

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
Heyhey crazy kids, Here's another damn fool stunt to pull with procmail: ONSCREEN=osd_cat --color=#ffe000 --offset=-70 --delay=2 --shadow=2 --font=-urw-eurostile-bold-r-normal-*-*-480-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 :0 ich * ^Subject:.*\/.* | echo $MATCH | $ONSCREEN What does this do? XOSD -

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Someone subscribe me to linux-kernel

2002-01-12 Thread Richard Ames
It appears the IP you are coming from is listed as in a 'dialup pool' that has originated spam. See: http://relays.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rbcheck.cgi?addr=63.60.254.167 I'm not surprised uu.net (AKA Ozemail) gets tared with this brush from time to time. Richard. On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, James

Re: [SLUG] Python SIG: The saga continues.

2002-01-12 Thread Harry Ohlsen
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:10, Mary Gardiner wrote: Hi again SLUG, I'm still intending starting a SLUG Python SIG, but here's what I need: Something I've been meaning to ask for a while now is ... Are there any people in SLUG who've been bitten by the Ruby bug yet? I'd appreciate it if we could

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Someone subscribe me to linux-kernel

2002-01-12 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 06:32:56 +1100 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can someone please subscribe my address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the Linux kernel mailing list, by sending mail to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command: subscribe linux-kernel [EMAIL PROTECTED] That won't

[SLUG] Re: Debian 2.3 Config Documentation

2002-01-12 Thread Angus Lees
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:45:45PM +1100, chesty wrote: I have found the lack of documentation about how Debian configure things after the installation quite a surprise. Does anyone know of any decent documentation on post installation of a Debian release? So you're looking for the

[SLUG] RedHat 7.2 network installation problem

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff Ai
hello guys, i am having a problem installing RedHat 7.2 using a PCMCIA network card (D-Link DFE660) on a Compaq Armada laptop. I have a linux desktop set up as a DHCP server and ftp server (Mandrake 8.1) I made the pcmcia boot disk and pcmcia driver disk. boot from the disk is ok, so is the

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2 network installation problem

2002-01-12 Thread Greg Hosler
is this pc to pc, or pc to hub to pc ? in the 1st case you need 1 cross cable in the 2nd case you need 2 straight cables if you do not have the correct utp cable wiring, then you're network won't connect. One test is to ping (using the ip numbers) once the network is configured

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2 network installation problem

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff Ai
It's pc-hub-pc connection. and i think the cables are ok. coz i can see a DHCP request has been recieved by the dhcp server and a ip has been offered. this is the message from /var/log/message Jan 13 13:04:10 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.249 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 when

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2 network installation problem

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff Ai
I found this interesting. when a dhcp client requests a IP those messages will be logged: Jan 13 14:04:48 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd:

Re: [SLUG] nmblookup and Konquerer lan browsing

2002-01-12 Thread Christopher Booth
Hi Malcolm [...snipped...] Where are you clicking on network? NETWORK appears like network neighbourhood in Windows underneath the Folders etc... on the left hand side of konqueror This is an interesting feature. lan connects to lisa and rlan connects to reslisa. Lisa opens a port (7124

Re: [SLUG] DSL vs Cable security

2002-01-12 Thread DaZZa
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Dennis M. Gray wrote: A friend in the USA has been told that DSL is more secure than cable modem. Are there anything to back up this claim? All opinions solicited. Depends how you define secure. As far as normal network-type security goes - they're both running IP, so

[SLUG] Re: INIT: ID1 respawning too fast ...

2002-01-12 Thread getadog
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:41:56PM +1100, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: INIT:Id4 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel. When I tried the same with the 2.4.14 kernel it was simpler: Starting GNOME display manager Not sure why you got that

[SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 25th January, 2002

2002-01-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 25th January, 2002 * When: 6:30pm - about 9pm (then dinner, etc) * Where: UTS, Central Sydney http://slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml The Usual Suspects - 6:30pm * QA - What has Linux done for/to me lately? * Linux News Discussion