Re: WARNING: ReiserFS (and request for help!)

2001-04-08 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 12:45:26PM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On 08 Apr 2001 10:59:19 +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > These are exactely the kind of faults that I've been getting. This is > > with a 2.4.2 kernel. Just to let you know, 2.4.3 refused to compile (I >

Re: Debian on a RAID How do I?

2001-04-08 Thread Matthew Sackman
#x27;ve not got a mylex raid controller then I can only suggest you install onto a bog standard ide disk, set up to compile a new kernel, patch that kernel with the drivers for whichever raid controller you are using and then compile and install your own kernel. The pray again. Hope this kinda h

Re: ot: imap server-side filtering

2001-04-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
imap servers. > If you're using courier imap then your best bet is maildrop as it copes with the mail-box-directories that courier uses (same as qmail). Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: Advice on creating a workstation

2001-10-13 Thread Matthew Sackman
o > welcome). > > At the moment I am deciding how to partition the > hard disk - I have reserved 4GB for linux. > > TIA > > T:Irvine > -- > > Only in the dictionary does success > come before work > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ext3 patch for kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-14 Thread Matthew Sackman
Tip]From : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > LOST #140 -**< Sub : Line numbering your programs (#1) >**- > Want a listing of your program with line numbers ? > Try: grep -n $ my_prog.c > my_prog.no.c > -n is to number a line; and $ for till end ... > > > -- > To

Re: ext3 patch for kernel 2.4.12

2001-10-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
can you > synopsize the benefits that ext3 brings over ext2? > > Thanks, > Russ > > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > No, ext3 is not yet ready for 2.4.12. > > This is mainly because Linus changed a whole bunch of s

Re: potato e RAID software

2001-10-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
_ > > > > Sebastian Ezequiel Ovide > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact &g

Re: /etc/princtap && opera

2001-10-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
I have cupsys-bsd > installed? > > Thanks much :), > Rohan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND ---

Re: Navigating IMAP in Mutt

2001-10-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
t had something to do with pressing space (or maybe that's when you've gone c c to chdir and then space to select dir. And then return to select mailbox. Not sure - been using UW-Imapd for ages now. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND -

dual head in XFree86

2001-10-28 Thread Matthew Sackman
g is set properly in XF86Config-4 - I'm sure it's not something in there - has anyone else come accross this? Also, I sometimes notice a horizontal line sinking slowly on the primary and rising on the secondary - is this a timing problem or what? Any help/advice much appreciated!

Re: best ac kernel for ext3

2001-10-29 Thread Matthew Sackman
2.4.13-ac4 sounds like it ought to be good, but I haven't tried it. > > Craig > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND

Re: [OT] Mutt Configuration

2001-10-30 Thread Matthew Sackman
A pulls the name from /etc/mailname and puts your username infront of it. You therefore need to configure your MTA that you are a privileged user and am allowed to send emails from systems other than your own (which is what it amounts to). This will depend on your MTA - check the man pages f

Re: [OT] Mutt Configuration

2001-10-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:16:06PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:14:18PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > | On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:54:55AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: > | > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled: > | > > I'm trying to

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-08 Thread Matthew Sackman
med to support linux more actively. However, I'd personally not touch either and go for SCSI - I'd even prefer software SCSI RAID to hardware IDE RAID. Plus the 3ware is true hardware RAID whilst the Promise is firmware RAID ( = software RAID on dedicated processor = not as good). A

Re: OT: 3Ware vs. Promise

2001-11-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
t to try to get it to work properly - and as we've heard, it doesn't. If you're going to be setting up a dedicated fileserver then you will probably not get a severe performance hit if you just use software RAID 5 in the kernel - i've been using it here for some months

Re: HD spin down with hdparm : HD always wakes up !!!

2001-11-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe > 905 ttyp000:00:00 bash > 917 tty1 00:00:00 getty > 1050 ?00:00:15 emacs > 1051 ttyp200:00:00 gnuserv > 1064 ttyp000:00:00 bash > 1092 ?00:00:00 cron > 1095 ?00:00:00 atd > 1124 ttyp0 00:00

Re: ext3 in 2.4.15

2001-11-17 Thread Matthew Sackman
7;s just AFAIK 2.4.14 is the latest - am I wrong here? Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND - The contents of this email are intended for the indicated recipient(s) only. This may or may not be indicated in the above e

./configure dies with --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass

2001-09-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
Thanks in advance, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.

Re: ./configure dies with --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass

2001-09-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.

MBR not being read.

2001-09-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
all, and parents are not happy... Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.

Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
y now and again; getting mutt to read off the imap daemon on the other computer also shows very slow reading of the mail. Does anyone have any idea what I need to start tweaking or what might be causing this? Thanks in advance, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
e new one right? Thanks, Matthew On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:41:59PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > I've just set up a 100TX network with 2 computer both running debian. > > Netgear FA311 cards and a single

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
cards. Thanks for your help. Matthew On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:56:31PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Yes, it's a 2.4.9 kernel on both machines with the included natsemi > driver. > > dmesg reports much the same for both machines: > > eth0: link is back. Enabling wa

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
lable. Lowering the port and re-raising it doesn't help either. Thus I've gone back to the ones in the kernel - they may not be quite as fast but at least they don't completely die on me! Mainly FYI I guess. Matthew On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:12:43PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: >

Re: Strange network performance

2001-09-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
ething like running `nc -l -u -p 1666 >/dev/null` on one machine and > `dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k | nc -u -p 1666` on the other, then looking with > `iptraf` how much traffic you?re getting across. > > cheers, > &rw -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND ---

Re: Two ethernet cards, one IP?!?

2001-09-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
onnect the cable to the on-board card, both interfaces continue > to function through the PCI card! > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND - The contents of this email are intended for the indicated recipient(s) only. T

Re: ext3 on install

2001-09-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
mputer with a trashed floppy controller, so I installed from CD - potato CDs, which don't have the module in it for my NIC, so I ended up copying a 2.4 kernel deb onto a harddisc, moving the harddisc to the new machine and installing that kernel. It worked a treat! M

Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-29 Thread Matthew Sackman
ddress] and get an address (provided by your ISP) that will then map back into the same IP. So long as these two conditions are met (and I'm not even sure if the second is really necessary), then the mail should be delivered. HTH Matthew -- Matt

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
> -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND - The contents of this

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 08:11:08PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Matthew Sackman([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Weird! Both of you that replied talk of putting eth0 in /etc/modutils/ > > > > I've never done that at all - I just put in /etc/network/interfac

Re: Network Cards

2001-10-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 12:58:35PM -0500, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 10:48, dman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 11:00:22AM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > | It's a module. The natsemi module. It loads fine without there being > > | anything

Re: woody & ext3

2002-01-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
to tty2, partition and format manually in ext3 and then switch back to tty1 and complete the install. Note that this is not trivial and a large amount of RTFM'ing is required. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: waste water tank overflowed onto computer

Re: semi-ot: learning python

2002-01-19 Thread Matthew Sackman
g 'real' programs (in C): please this is not a call to flame-war! I guess I may eventually get round to learning python. C is a little easier to make myself learn as I *need* to know it to help develop programs written in it... Not sure when I'll learn python. Matthew -- M

Re: What is "OT:"

2002-01-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
>From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: OT Open Transport (Apple) HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Someone thought The Big Red Button was a light switch.

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
ing that the problems are made worse if you're on a privart network and using a gateway. Not sure about that though. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: excessive collisions & not enough packet ambulances

test

2002-01-25 Thread Matthew Sackman
test - please ignore this.

Re: root password forgotten

2002-01-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
the following: mount -o rw,remount -t type /dev/hdXX / mount -t proc proc /proc mount /usr passwd umount /usr mount -t ro,remount -t type /dev/hdXX / reboot That should work, just be sure of your / fs type and the partition before you do this. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England

Re: persistent storage hardware: recommendations, comments, and opinions please

2002-01-26 Thread Matthew Sackman
ories about such setups that if you're going to do RAID 5 then only use hardware SCSI controllers (Mylex for example). These are pricey, but they will not kill you data with gay abandon - cheap (or not so) IDE RAID cards can afford you false security. Just my 2p. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
fully < 50% capacity. There is no switch-over - if one goes then the other has to cope with both. Of course, the irony is that as they are both routed to the same power inlet, if the fuse in the plug goes then you're buggered anyway! :-) Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLA

Re: (OT) Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-05-03 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:24:53PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:18:20PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > ... > > > > Every production server that I've seen that has 2 PSUs has both > > continuously running. At hopefully < 50% capacity.

Re: Postfix or Exim?

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
ght into folders which I then access via uw-imapd and mutt over imaps which is really fun! ...but a little silly ;-P Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing pgpcsdSw3v0Jr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: wet blue

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
D : show the differences between the versions Z : background this process to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. The default action is to install the new version. The default action is to bulldoze over your existing house in order to install wet-blue-sp

KDE printing to cups

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hay all. So how do you do it then? I really can't work out how to get kde to print to cups. Any ideas? I normally just print with a pipe to lp -d LaserJet. In all the kde apps there is just listed a generic dot-matrix printer, but printing to it does sod all. Thanks, Matthew -- Ma

ISA and PCI network cards

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
the PCI card as eth1? Is it reliable to assume that the ISA IO address will always be the same (so long as no other hardware is added/removed)? and thus can this address be premanently inserted in /etc/modules? Thanks for any help you guys can offer. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLA

Re: booting 2.4.4

2001-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
l 2.4.4 ? > The only thing I can think is that you've got your / partition as a reiser partition? Do you have a seperate /boot partition that's ext2? Apart from that, I can't think of owt else. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing pgpl45GkvO7l3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: IDE raid - which is better ?

2001-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
lems under linux so I would not recommend these. I'm quite encouraged by 3ware's linux drivers: they support many more distributions than promise and seem to have a better commitment to linux. Thus although I've not used them, I'd be tempted to go for the 3ware cards. Matthew --

dual NICs

2001-05-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
tthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

[: Re: dual NICs]

2001-05-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
Matthew > > >- overid3 =) > > > > > >On Tuesday 15 May 2001 14:12, Matthew Sackman wrote: > >> Hay all. > >> > >> Does anyone have any knowledge of a network card that has two > >> independant eth ports on it? The reason I ask is th

Network printing HP 840C over Samba

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
freeze on the server, requiring a restart of those services. I'm not particularly bothered about using CUPS - if someone has this printer (or similar) working successfully under LPRng (or equiv) then I'd be very grateful to hear about it. I just really need this printer working. Thanks in a

Re: Web server

2001-05-20 Thread Matthew Sackman
titute |C75D D0AF 457E 7454 BEC2 > http://www.mri.ernet.in/~raghu/ |37AD C6E1 0407 0361 8806 -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

FYI: KDE printing through CUPS

2001-05-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
er way round if you're symlinking) and then restart your KDE apps, then you will find that they now know about the correct printers and will print fine to em. Hope this is useful, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

mutt imap ssl etc

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
ow gone back to 1.3.15 and that's still working. Anyone any ideas? Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: Window manager ....

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
> http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger > - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: Printing using CUPS from the command line.

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
gt; _ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: A little off topic - Microsoft Networking Problem

2001-06-07 Thread Matthew Sackman
ail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing

Re: Window manager ....

2001-06-07 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:23:39AM +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > Try uwm - it's very very non-system hungry - it's built > > around the xwindows libraries rather than qt or gtk so it's > &g

hardware RAID boot

2001-06-15 Thread Matthew Sackman
support it wouldn't it? Just hoping someone can shed some light on this. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux. pgpeijPeadVRY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
ig differents between 17Mhz and 700Mhz ... also 8MB Flash and > a 20GB HD can't be compared. I'm waiting for the Sharp Zaurus SL5500. Proper keyboad (well, small), linux and Qtopia (QT embedded) plus a large range of expansion slots: this thing should be big when it hits the shelves so lon

Iomega Ditto Drive

2002-05-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
Hi all, Does anyone have an Iomega Ditto Max Parallel drive? What's it like, does it work, is it reliable etc etc? I know that they will work under Linux, I'm just curious as to how *well* they work! Any advice gratefully received, Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England B

Re: IMAP and POP

2002-05-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
server and IMAP server are you using? Cyrus certainly should be able to do what you require... Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Small animal kamikaze attack on power supplies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What about Woody?

2002-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
m probably about to get flamed for suggesting a date. In which case I think I'll say "it gets released when it's ready"... I think that we can all rest assured that the people who are working on the woody release are working to get it released asap. Matthew -- Matthe

Re: My ultimate linux box

2002-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
en, etc. > > You'd only get Fast Ethernet speeds, but your executables will > be on Box 2, and with 2.5GB RAM, you'll have a huge cache to > work with... Yes, that's what I would do too: a workstation and a compile/testing/development machine. Plus allows you to have a

Re: My ultimate linux box - raid

2002-05-09 Thread Matthew Sackman
e said. "But these haters need to realize that if you > > mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat." > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Operators killed when huge stack of backup tapes fell over. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What about Woody?

2002-05-11 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:23:51PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > I suspect that the very last NMUs are going up, the images are being > > readied and press-statements released: I would expect within the

Re: dentist

2002-05-11 Thread Matthew Sackman
es, controlled by bracing technology. It's also water proof and has high longevity. It'll be popular too, skinnable (veneers) and hard waring. Good high bandwidth communication system, though is limited to communicating between two devices... Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham Eng

Re: default window manager

2002-05-11 Thread Matthew Sackman
update-alternatives --config x-window-manager Or simply control it from your ~/.xinitrc file. Mine reads: #exec twm #exec sawfish #exec gnome-session #exec uwm #exec wmaker #exec enlightenment #exec startkde #exec fvwm exec xfwm Thus very easy to control and you can do it on a user per user basis.

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
er? (in which case see if you can track the logs). Seeing as you mention Eudora is fine, I take it this implies download from POP/IMAP as Eudora doesn't know Exchange. This I therefore find really odd: the emails must be arriving, so why doesn't O/OE show them? Could you see if you can

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-16 Thread Matthew Sackman
TAT > [number of messages, size in octets of all messages] hopefully there's only 1: yours! < RETR 1 text of your email will be shown a '.' terminates the email < QUIT where > is text sent from server and < is text sent to server. [1] LART: Luser Attitude Re-adju

Re: Problems: mutt to Outlook (Express)

2002-05-18 Thread Matthew Sackman
r responces are. Matthew On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:59:34PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Matthew Sackman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:55:33AM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > > > * Grant Edwards ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > In muc.lists

Re: 'hw' RAID1

2002-06-01 Thread Matthew Sackman
e success (I suspect) hanging all your disks off normal IDE channels and setting up software RAID: that is proven to work and there are a lot of people who are knowledgeable as to how to get it to work etc etc. Read the howto on it. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England mysql> select *

Re: OT:spam mail with To:-feld without my address

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
how do I get > procmail to handle this. Use spam assassine [sp!]. I don't, but I don't have that much of a spam problem. Other people will tell you that it's accurate and reliable and a very effective tool. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Zombie

Re: IMAP + fetchmail + procmail

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
e advice, just ask! [1] Yes, I do still use uw-imapd here despite what I've said. The only reason I use it is because I'm lazy and havn't got round to switching over, and also uw-imapd reads mail in standard mbox files and as a result seems slightly faster in sending 6000 emails

Delay on posts

2002-06-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
ding it out to me until 21:19:06 Is anyone else seeing this delay. Is there a known problem? Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: Zombie processes haunting the computer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux and legacy-free motherboards

2002-06-06 Thread Matthew Sackman
oppies mailing list archives, but I know it's come up before. Does the BIOS not provide legacy support? (makes the USB keyboard + mouse appear as standard devices). You make have to pass some kernel options on boot up. Can't remember, but I'm sure it can be done. Matthew -- Matth

Re: hdd change

2002-06-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:55:32PM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > Sure, this would be quite easy to do. > > 1. Install the new HDD on a secondary IDE chain, say primary slave, hdb > > 2. Partition the drive the way you want > > 3. Mount the drive up the way it will appear for boot, on s

Re: Monitor Problems

2002-06-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
g driven too hard. Try resetting up the config files for XFree, specifying a slightly lower spec monitor. You can always tweak later. Use XFree86 -version to find the version of xfree Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: not properly grounded, please bury compute

Re: Problems with 2.4. series kernels and Adaptec scsi card

2002-06-22 Thread Matthew Sackman
than being modular and you shouldn't have any further problems. Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: not properly grounded, please bury computer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: makepasswd: naive question

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
and read the data. As for how to actually do this, I've no idea! I am aware that there are kernel patches available, and some dists have the default kernels with the patches compiled in. Debian does not so you will need to role your own kernel (a good idea anyway). There's most likely a HOWT

Re: dns setup with domain name

2002-06-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
a (TM) to use an illegal domain name internally (i.e. without a valid extension, so not a .com .co.uk .info .biz etc etc. I just use 'namkas' here and bind really doesn't mind). Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham England BOFH Excuse Board: not properly grounded, please bury comp

Re: dns setup with domain name

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:21:13AM -0400, Debian User wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:06:11PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > BIND doesn't care less whether you own the domain name or not. Just so > > long as it's not going to come across another DNS server that thin

Re: How to avoid meltdowns in the future

2002-06-28 Thread Matthew Sackman
e driver > wasn't in my kernel, so I couldn't toss it in. Rule of thumb: keep 'sensible' device drivers compiled as modules. You never know when you're going to need them, and let's face it, it really won't add too much to the compile time. Matthew -- Matt

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