Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Hi Tom. >Three ideas; you ran out'a disk space or ram/swap or failed to > limit upload rate. Another consideration is you need to be very > careful on movie torrent sites. Most are uploaded (the torrent > file) by really clueless Win

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 11:33 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error > > message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? > > Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ?

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:34 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Any crash you walk away fromright? :-) > > Agreed. On the other hand, under those circumstances it should be > doable to fix a corrupt partition by using reiserfsck. Dark Lady > in the machine, perhaps ? - Anyway, I'm glad you go

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:26, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Just a guess : the message "bad info on file" + shorewall > > stopped could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other > > file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:43 am, et wrote: > /home or /tmp or where ever bt is storing the download until it writes to > the completed file? As far as I know - it usually (but not always) creates (it asks) a folder on /home that it d/ls the file to. I've probably got 20 gigs free on /home

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Just a guess : the message "bad info on file" + shorewall stopped > could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other > file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find malware, > uploaded by the RIAA-type companies in order t

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error > > > message say ? What torrent were you downloading/

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error > > message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? > > Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ? >

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:30 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: > What I would have done is to boot with the installation CD and do a > "linux rescue" - then run the reiserfsck all ReiserFS partitions. I > experienced something similar a few months back on a workstation here - > bootup reiserfsck choked

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message > say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set > your firewall to open for torrents ? > > Kaj Haulrich. It does, doesn't it? The error message was some

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 05:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > As in, I've just had one in the last little bit. :-( > > I was attempting a d/l via bittorrent. It timed out, and gave an error > message. I had to kill it via . Nothing seemed to come of > this for a few moments - then I started losing my sys

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > As in, I've just had one in the last little bit. :-( > > I was attempting a d/l via bittorrent. It timed out, and gave an > error message. I had to kill it via . Nothing > seemed to come of this for a few moments - then I started losing > my