Re: diskless box: fanless too ?

Dean Carpenter's Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/05/99 09:07:00 AM AFAICR, a heat pipe is a sealed pipe/tube, with a convection fluid inside. It's not just a simple tube, but does have some structure within. Apply heat to one end, and natural convection causes the fluid to circulate, moving the h

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IDE is not a good technology to use for RAID. You can only talk to one drive per channel at a time. So your read/write cycles would talk to at most two drives at a time, and never to both on one channel at once. IDE has (AFAIK) more system overhead - it's a dumber interface. Using Linux softw

graphic "df" type of util for Linux?

Look at the MRTG package. It's mainly for looking at router throughputs, but it will work admirable for things like diskspace, cpuload etc. It's in http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/devel/mrtg.html Also, look at BigBrother and NoCol. They aren't Debian packages, but do similar th

DHCP and problems with apache, samba etc

is wrong. That can be easily shortened by modifying the /etc/cron.d/dhcp-update-hosts file. Has anyone else had similar problems ? How did you solve them ? -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94TT :) Areyes, Inc.[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Running identd through a Debian firewall ?

y not answering correctly. Hrm ? -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94 TT :)[EMAIL PROTECTED]

DPT SmartRaid IV vs Mylex DAC960-PL

Has anyone done any performance comparisons between the DPT SmartRaid IV and Mylex DAC960PL scsi raid controllers ? I know the DPT drivers have been around for a long time, and the IV supports up to 64meg of cache, but I highly respect Leonards coding prowess, even though the DAC960PL only sup

RE: apt-get update failing

-i386 _Packages is too long.(2) fsmail:~# -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94 TT :)[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 7:45 PM To: Carpenter, Dean Cc: debian

RE: apt-get update failing

Thanks to Nils and Jason for the *really* fast replies ... Just upgraded to apt_0.1.10 from potato - same problem. Looks like there are a few others out there seeing the same thing. -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94 TT :)[EMAIL PROTECTED

apt-get update failing

ee anything amiss in the package file there, do you ? -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94 TT :)[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apache modules compiling ?

ng. I really don't want to install all the source and compile the whole thing just to get this one little module Anyone know just what the gcc line would be to compile from the command line ? -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94 TT :)[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: slink rescue disk

changed that to point to the root.bin file on the diskette. That loads, but the install can't *find* the root image. -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94TT :) Areyes, Inc.[EMAIL PROTECTED] &q

PyNG package ?

u/~richard/gdmodule) and the SNMP module (http://www.rdt.monash.edu.au/~anthony/snmpy/snmpy.html). I managed to get the GD module installed, but the snmp module is evading my efforts. -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94TT :) Areyes, Inc.[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Leafnode oddities ?

> Dean Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does anyone know of any problems with Leafnode ? It doesn't appear to get > > a full chunk of news when fetch runs ... Here's a sample session from a > > logged in session as news : > What vers

Leafnode oddities ?

her groups. I have about 15 groups in the interesting.groups list ... The only change I made to /etc/leafnode was to up the maxfetch to 4000. -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 94TT :) Areyes, Inc. "No matter where you go, there you are&qu

(Fwd) bash block problem

Description +++-===-==-=== = ii bash2.0-3 The GNU Bourne Again SHell [EMAIL PROTECTED] images $ Anything special I should do ? Is this a problem ? -- Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]94TT :) Areyes, Inc.

Re: We should help this guy...

> - download the whole msdos-i386 directory tree (via 33.6Kbps) > - rename all the files in binary-i386 to their msdos equivalents Go ahead and download the msdos-i386 directory. Lots of files, but they're all small symlink files to the real ones. Won't take too long ...

Re: samba and windows NT

mba volumes on our main WWW (unix) servers the way they used to. > I don't yet know of a satisfactory solution. Check out this page ... http://www.netspace.net.au/~bmiller/linux/NT-SAMBA-problem.html Full details on the problem and solutions. Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: FIC PA2011 Board (Was: Debian for PPC Macs)

5H, and they all work flawlessly. Check out Tom's Hardware Page for a rave review - you can pick them up for about $135 or so with 512k pipeline cache. The key here is that the board is JUMPERLESS. All settings are done in the bios, including bus speed, voltages, etc. Changing cp

Problem with Samba, PAM and NT

sword server dccaeipdc.darien.aeilogis.com dccaeipdc.darien.aeilogis.com rejected the session Selected protocol NT LM 0.12 : I assume the session is being rejected because of the PAM problems ? Any ideas ? Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]94TT :) Areyes, Inc.[

Frozen - couple of gotchas

6/cpp_2.7.2.1-4.deb The crux of all this is that the install fails because netstd can't configure without the cpp package. Once I manually installed the -4.deb version, it was able to finish. I have the sneaking suspicion I'm missing something here, not doing "the right thing"