Re: Current Available RAM/Memory

2000-07-24 Thread James Manning
you'd have to allocate to really force paging. That said, there is a getconf param for available phys pages % echo $[ $(getconf _AVPHYS_PAGES) * $(getconf PAGE_SIZE) / 1024 ] KB free 4804 KB free might get stuck parsing /proc/meminfo otherwise. James -- James Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Filtering HTML messages.

2000-07-20 Thread James Manning
[Mike A. Harris] > I'm working on a procmail recipe to filter out all HTML postings, > and wondering if anyone can help. for mutt users, you can "auto_view text/html" in .muttrc and it'll lynx -dump and put the output in-line. Very handy. -- James Manning &

Re: Kernel Debugger for linux??

2000-06-16 Thread James Manning
[Samdeep Nayak] > Is there any kernel debugger available on linux?? http://www.google.com/linux?q=kernel+debugger http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kdb/ http://oss.sgi.com/projects/kgdb/ http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/ikd/ James -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: LILO security problem

2000-06-16 Thread James Manning
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Is there a way to do this without disclosing the password in the > lilo.conf file?? While a mode 600 should suffice, it may be a useful hack for lilo to put in an md5 or crypt capability (the password checking code isn't part of the MBR write, is it? If so, this is certainl

Re: scsi

2000-05-27 Thread James Manning
ask about those (and also ask SGI and maybe one or > two others). > > Perhaps James Manning would comment? http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/products/ess/ess.htm If you decide to more do-it-yourself, IBM drives are nice too: http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/prod/us36xp.htm

Re: bug in df from fileutils-4.0-21 (rh6.2)?

2000-05-08 Thread James Manning
[Chris Abbey] > [root@tweedle /mnt]# df /dev/sda1 > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sda1 939573 628943 262093 71% / > [root@tweedle /mnt]# df /dev/sda > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sda

Re: gcc-2.95.2-3.i386.rpm

2000-04-03 Thread James Manning
[John Summerfield] > > The official stance (last time I saw Alan write on the subject) was > > that 2.95.x tickles kernel bugs that egcs 1.1.2 and gcc 2.7.2.3 don't, > > so as of yet kernels are still best compiled with older compilers. > > Compile-time? or do they show at run-time? The only thi

Re: gcc-2.95.2-3.i386.rpm

2000-04-02 Thread James Manning
[John Summerfield] > Can this compile safely be used for compiling everything? > > I'm most concerned about kernels (2.2 and 2.3), but I compile quite a lot > of other stuff here. The official stance (last time I saw Alan write on the subject) was that 2.95.x tickles kernel bugs that egcs 1.1.2

Re: bash2

2000-02-01 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, February 1, 2000 ] Kevin Waterson wrote: > Tony Nugent wrote: > > Let the old #!/bin/bash scripts break -- they need to be fixed. > > > > The sooner "echo $BASH_VERSION" returns 2.x by default, the better... > > perhaps a simple bash2 script to update bash1 scripts? Perhaps an RH-spe