Anybody familier with GNU Queue?

2003-02-27 Thread Paul Sargent
achineG vmaxexec 2 host MachineH vmaxexec 2 host MachineI vmaxexec 2 host MachineJ vmaxexec 2 ----- -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2500

2002-06-07 Thread Paul Sargent
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 08:33:10PM +0200, Emil Pedersen wrote: > Paul Sargent wrote: > > > > Hi People, > > > > Has anybody had any experiance running Debian on a Dell PowerEdge 2500. > > Yes, I've set up one 2500 and a few 2550 at work. Unless something

Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2500

2002-06-06 Thread Paul Sargent
hardware that might be in there. So...Does anybody have any experience with these boxes? Thanks Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's causing my load average?

2002-05-10 Thread Paul Sargent
uane:/var/log# uptime 13:52:34 up 2 days, 22:28, 2 users, load average: 8.92, 12.80, 10.83 Thanks Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Sargent
body here may have had a similar experience. Thanks Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Sargent
time... If it would be accessed > often the kernel would have reduced the cache.) It might be normal, but it's crucifying performance in this case. Cheers Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Sargent
al:6927 3508 3419 Yes, some 40MB of cache gets freed, but it's mainly (300MB) of swap that gets used. This tends to slow down processes before they need to. Anyone got any ideas? Kernel is 2.4.14, and it's a debian woody installation. Cheers Paul -- Pa

Re: Update shouldn't nuke XF86Config-4

2002-04-26 Thread Paul Sargent
stall procedure. I admit it. I'm loose when it come to terminology sometimes. Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Update shouldn't nuke XF86Config-4

2002-04-24 Thread Paul Sargent
at the end of the file, but really I want to set debconf to not mess with the file anymore. dpkg-reconfigure didn't give me the option, just asked me a load of x-setup question and rewrote the file again. I'm just glad backups are always made before debconf writes to files. Paul --

Re: Procmail Rules for Debian lists

2002-04-09 Thread Paul Sargent
I'm wondering if something is stripping them out on the way to me. After all I am sitting behind an Exchange server. Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Procmail Rules for Debian lists

2002-04-09 Thread Paul Sargent
PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" No X-Mailing-List anywhere. -- Paul Sargent Tel: +44 (1784) 476669 Fax: +44 (1784) 470699 mailto: [EMAIL

Procmail Rules for Debian lists

2002-04-08 Thread Paul Sargent
Hi People, I'm getting quite a lot of messages dropping through my procmail rules for debian lists. I was wondering if anyone here had a good setup. The problem seems to be that not all mails from this list get tagged with X-Mailing-List which is what I'm checking on. This is my current rule: :

Re: Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Sargent
> suggestions for how to get out? > > It is a continous and ongoing nuisance in HP/UX :} Really? and you're smiling about it :-) Thanks for the ideas. Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Proprietry Software - The Pain!

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Sargent
hipset 2GB Physical RAM 4GB Swap 16GB IDE Hard Drive Very little else Software: Debian Woody - Last updated about 4-5 months ago. Kernel 2.2.20 (Compiled with 2GB Memory support) patched for ReiserFS libc6 2.2.4-7 libstdc++2.10 2.95.4-0.01100 -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Via82cxxx locked at 48kHz

2001-11-12 Thread Paul Sargent
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:58:51AM +, Paul Sargent wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 12:55:57AM +0100, Nikolai Hlubek wrote: > > > I would be grateful for any suggestion, > > and please no "use alsa instead" replies. > > Nikolai > > I guess you'

Re: Via82cxxx locked at 48kHz

2001-11-12 Thread Paul Sargent
thing else. I believe ALSA does it, and the kernel driver doesnt. Fortunatley mine doesn't have this problem, so this is only hearsay. Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preparations for installing a Farm

2001-11-09 Thread Paul Sargent
ents. We're only really talking about changing the hostname and IP after all. Paul -- Paul Sargent Tel: +44 (1784) 476669 Fax: +44 (1784) 470699 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preparations for installing a Farm

2001-11-09 Thread Paul Sargent
o list purged packages. That works great, That'll make life a bit easier. Thanks Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preparations for installing a Farm

2001-11-08 Thread Paul Sargent
a boot disk which: o Partitions the disk o untars the image o modifies any system specific bits (hostname, ip, etc) o runs lilo to make the system bootable Doesn't sound tough. Paul -- Paul Sargent Tel: +44 (1784) 476669 Fax: +44 (1784) 470699 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preparations for installing a Farm

2001-11-08 Thread Paul Sargent
ment we've only built the first machine, the others will follow if this is a success. All will try to be as similar as possible, but becuase there's going to be a time delay in buying bits, I'll bet things will be slightly different. Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Preparations for installing a Farm

2001-11-08 Thread Paul Sargent
same packages installed regardless of what was there before? Also, any other pointers that people may have if you've ever attempted this before. Thanks Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Mirroring the distributions

1999-06-08 Thread Paul Sargent
Solved (a) (thanks Marc Mongeon), but I'm no nearer on (b) Paul > -Original Message- > From: Paul Sargent > Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 12:09 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Debian User List' > Subject: RE: Mirroring the distributions >

RE: Mirroring the distributions

1999-06-08 Thread Paul Sargent
*alpha.deb|.*m68k.deb|.*powerpc.deb|.*sparc.deb|.*\/bo.*|.*\/ sid.*' max_delete_files=50% max_delete_dirs=50% > -Original Message- > From: Peter Bartosch > Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:34 PM > To: Paul Sargent > Subject: Re: Mirroring the distributions > > &g

Mirroring the distributions

1999-06-07 Thread Paul Sargent
Hi all, I want to set up a site mirror (i.e. one to be used just on this site) of the stable and unstable distributions. Does anybody have any suggestions on a nice way of doing this. Does apt have any options for doing this type of task? Is it practical to have it mirroring from several sites, so

Booting over the Network

1999-05-19 Thread Paul Sargent
I've just been asked wether I could make a floppy disk which would allow the booting of any PC over the network into Linux. I've got a Debian (slink) host which I would use to serve this, but I was wondering if anybody has experiance, or knows of any documents that outlines the process. Cheers P

Inetd not started

1999-04-21 Thread Paul Sargent
Hi, I'm new to Debian, so this may be a question that I'm only asking because I'm not familiar with the Debian way, but I've just installed slink onto a machine and although inetd is on the system, it hasn't been started. Is this standard Debian policy for security reasons? Either way is the

RE: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

1999-04-19 Thread Paul Sargent
m about to submit this as a bug against exim, suggesting that this be toned down to a warning rather than an error. Paul > -Original Message- > From: John Hasler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 4:06 PM > To: Paul Sargent > Cc: debian-user@lists.debi

RE: exim: FQDN != RFC1035

1999-04-15 Thread Paul Sargent
OK, so my FQDN doesn't match RFC1035 (the 3 at the start of 3Dlabs is non-compliant), but that is my FQDN and I can't do anything about it. Any suggestions? Paul > -Original Message- > From: John Hasler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: exim: FQDN != RFC1035 > > Paul writes: >

exim: FQDN != RFC1035

1999-04-15 Thread Paul Sargent
Can anybody help me with this. I've just installed a new slink machine and while running the configure portion of the exim package I get this error. Error: system's FQDN hostname (rook.3dlabs.com) doesn't match RFC1035 syntax; cannot configure the mail system. What is RFC1035 syntax? Paul

RE: Video Card Recommendation

1999-04-08 Thread Paul Sargent
Hi Nick, I'd recommend a Permedia 2 based card, and not just because I work for 3Dlabs. * They are dirt cheap these days. 8MB card for around $80 (I would have thought. I'm in the UK) * XFree86 now has a nice fast and stable X-server for them, although not included in slink as you nee