[EUG-LUG:2491] Re: NFS
Bob, I saw the earlier posting earlier and thought I would throw my $0.02 in as well. I ran the test using the following four machines: eugsrv1- Dual PII 350, 512 MB Ram, Intel 82559 Fast Ethernet NIC, LVD-SE Drives lnxets1 - PPro200, 196 Mb Ram, 3Com 3c595 100baseTx - SCSI2 Drives lnxets2 - Dual PPro200, 256 Mb Ram, 3Com 3c595 100baseTx - SCSI2 Drives nfsets2 - Dual Sun UltraSparc II, 2 Gb Ram, A1 Raid Array (mode 5) - Ultra160 Drives Here is what I saw with a ~27 Mb file. [root@lnxets1 /]# mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=2 lnxets2:/scratch /mnt/tmpmnt [root@lnxets1 /scratch]# time cp tmgver8.0.341.nt.exe /mnt/tmpmnt/ real0m7.504s user0m0.000s sys 0m1.000s [root@lnxets1 /scratch]# !um umount /mnt/tmpmnt [root@lnxets1 /scratch]# mount -t nfs -o nfsvers=3 lnxets2:/scratch /mnt/tmpmnt [root@lnxets1 /scratch]# time cp tmgver8.0.341.nt.exe /mnt/tmpmnt/ real0m7.556s user0m0.020s sys 0m0.960s [root@lnxets1 /scratch]# mount -t smb -o username=ggrigsby,password= //eugsrv1/userdisk /mnt/tmpmnt [root@lnxets1 /scratch]# time cp /mnt/tmpmnt/temp/1garl/tmgver8.0.341.nt.exe ./ real0m12.348s user0m0.020s sys 0m2.210s [root@lnxets1 /scratch]# time cp /mnt/tmpmnt/temp/1garl/tmgver8.0.341.nt.exe ./ real0m12.199s user0m0.030s sys 0m2.260s nfsets2:/app_data/software on /mnt/software type nfs (rw,vers=3,soft,addr=146.122.20.28) [root@lnxets1 /scratch]# time cp /mnt/software/tmgver8.0.341.nt.exe ./ real0m4.870s user0m0.020s sys 0m0.320s SMB sucks for performance. That is all there is to it. NFS Vers 3 should give you much better performance than you are seeing. I would guess you are either having a network problem, you have a bad NIC, or the NFS software you are using really blows. I would recommend using either Interdrive 5.0 or maybe Reflectios NFS. Both are decent nfs clients. Garl Bob Crandell wrote: > There are 2 Linux boxes and 1 Windows box. My test is a directory with a little >over 5 M of various size files copied between the 2 Linux boxes using either Windows >or Linux. Linux is, understandably, faster but it is still slow. Windoze took 15 >minutes to do this copy. > > Windoze is using nfsAxe from http://LabF.com. This allows Windoze to be a nfs >client or server. > > Both /etc/exports files look like this: > /home 192.168.1.0/22(rw,no_root_squash) > > One /etc/fstab looks like this: > oci:/home /mnt nfs rw,noauto,user 1 1 > > The other looks like this: > server:/home /mnt nfs rw,noauto,user 1 1 > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/19/01 03:39PM >>> > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 09:36:05AM -0700, Bob Crandell wrote: > > I've been trying to use NFS instead of Samba or MARS_NWE and > > although it works, it is really ssslllooowww. It this the nature of > > the beast? Can it be tuned? > > When NFS is working properly (and over UDP on a local ethernet) it is > very fast. What's your configuration? > > Randolph -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:2488] Re: RedHat 7.0 installation question...
Dennis, If need be I have the 7.1 iso. I can burn you cds if you want. Garl "Dennis J. Eberl" wrote: > Thanks, Christopher. I will use 7.0 just long enough to upgrade to 7.1. > > > From: Christopher Maujean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:13:22 -0700 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [EUG-LUG:2484] Re: RedHat 7.0 installation question... > > > > don't use 7.0 > > If you must to use redhat, make a descision, 6.2 or 7.1 > > don't use 7.0 > > > > as far as the devil goes.. thats a freebsd thing. > > > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:16:37PM -0700, Dennis J. Eberl wrote: > >> I'm -- for reasons I'd prefer not to have to defend (the devil you know > >> is...) reinstalling RedHat 7.0 on my only Linux box. I remember that 7.0 or > >> 7.1 had a flawed compiler or glibc library or something that was so serious > >> even Linus himself felt compelled to comment on it. Does anyone remember the > >> details? Does anyone know the fix? I checked the RedHat site a few months > >> ago and found them to be expectedly vague. I'd prefer not to have to read > >> between their corp-speak lines. Thanks. > >> > >> Dennis > > > > -- > > > > Christopher Maujean IT DirectorPremierelink Communications > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.premierelink.com > > ---------- > > GnuPg/PGP: 0x5DE74D38 > > Fingerprint: 91D4 09FE 18D0 27C1 A857 0E45 F8A4 7858 5DE7 4D38 > > > > -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:2483] Re: RedHat 7.0 installation question...
There is an updated gcc avalible off of their site. This was fixed in 7.1. Garl "Dennis J. Eberl" wrote: > I'm -- for reasons I'd prefer not to have to defend (the devil you know > is...) reinstalling RedHat 7.0 on my only Linux box. I remember that 7.0 or > 7.1 had a flawed compiler or glibc library or something that was so serious > even Linus himself felt compelled to comment on it. Does anyone remember the > details? Does anyone know the fix? I checked the RedHat site a few months > ago and found them to be expectedly vague. I'd prefer not to have to read > between their corp-speak lines. Thanks. > > Dennis -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:2418] Re: Interesting question...
That would probably be all that your system could do. What type of traffic data are you looking for? garl Tim Howe wrote: > 64meg of RAM, PCI Intel Etherexpress pro 100+ > > On Monday 20 August 2001 17:56, you wrote: > > How much memory do you have and how fast is your network connection. Also > > is your NIC a PCI or ISA card? > > > > Garl > > > > Tim Howe wrote: > > > I was running tcpdump to capture network traffic in a file for about 20 > > > seconds as a test. There was a LOT of traffic and this file ended up > > > being about 1.2meg in size... At that rate, if I ran tcpdump for 1.5 > > > hours it would fill that file system... So what I'm wondering is this: > > > If I pipe tcpdump's output to a perl program that keeps a cumulative log > > > that doesn't get very big, will it be able to run fast enough on this > > > 166mhz machine to keep up with the packet data? How fast can perl run? > > > How fast can it parse data? Am I looking at this all wrong? > > > > > > Tim > > > > -- > > === > >== Garl R. Grigsby > > Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team > > --- > >-- Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO > > Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 > > 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: > > http://www.sdrc.com > > === > >== -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- > > === > >== -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:2403] Re: Interesting question...
How much memory do you have and how fast is your network connection. Also is your NIC a PCI or ISA card? Garl Tim Howe wrote: > I was running tcpdump to capture network traffic in a file for about 20 > seconds as a test. There was a LOT of traffic and this file ended up being > about 1.2meg in size... At that rate, if I ran tcpdump for 1.5 hours it > would fill that file system... So what I'm wondering is this: If I pipe > tcpdump's output to a perl program that keeps a cumulative log that doesn't > get very big, will it be able to run fast enough on this 166mhz machine to > keep up with the packet data? How fast can perl run? How fast can it parse > data? Am I looking at this all wrong? > > Tim -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:2214] Re: PC Training aka Stan's has this...
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk7.html
[EUG-LUG:2210] Re: PC Training aka Stan's has this...
There is nothing wrong with Tyan boards. The problem is that currently they are
very expen$ive. Last time I looked they were $370 or so. Ouch. Just wait a couple
of months..
G
"Dennis J. Eberl" wrote:
> Ok, I'm sold on the Athlon chip (easy sale : ), but can anyone fill me in on
> dual processor boards? What's wrong with Tyan et cetera? Briefly. Thanks.
>
> ~:>(X){athl-on;athl-on;athl-on;o uch
>
> Blinky's been generating too much Methane again and managed to find a book
> of matches. The screw little ramjet tyke!!! Still, he's the only penguin
> that can fly.
>
> Dennis, his pal
[EUG-LUG:2172] Re: PC Training aka Stan's has this...
> That's cool. I'd like my next Linux box to be dual processor. I've had very > good luck with my dual processor Pentium Pro boxes (under both Linux and > Windows 2000). I run several dual PPro 200 boxes here at work for various tasks. Very fast for a PPro class machine. > I noticed (subjectively) a nice performance jump with dual > processor under Linux. About a year ago or so, dual processor Celeron boards > were popular, but then I came across someone saying Intel has fuzzed up the > Celerons so they wouldn't work on dual processor boards because the cheap > little processors were cutting into their Pentium III (or IV?) sales for > multiprocessor servers. > I remember hearing something about that, but I can't remember where. Shouldn't be too hard to dig up on the web though. > > Can anyone confirm this? Is there an inexpensive route to dual processors > using the AMD's Athlon chips. That I would like to try, you bet1 > AMD **just** released their multiprocessor chipset so they would be expensive right now. Give it 6 months. The way they are flying off the shelf, prices should drop quickly. They are reportedly unbelievably fast too. > > Dennis > > > From: Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:27:19 -0700 (PDT) > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [EUG-LUG:2155] PC Training aka Stan's has this... > > > >
[EUG-LUG:2151] Re: ===}(X)<:~ )))))))))... sonic waves...)))))Re: Re: Is CodeRed affecting
Though to of another idea. If you did it right, you could just get a MB with onboard
video. That way you don't have to worry about finding a card. In fact pcpartsxpress
has a PC Chips 810LMR that has onboard video, sound, 10/100 NIC, and 56k modem for
$89. Add a AMD Duron 750 for $55 and you have the basics of a decent windows
box..
"Dennis J. Eberl" wrote:
> Thanks, Garl. I am doing an LCC coop gig out at Rosen Product Research in
> the IT Department where they have me writing Active Server Pages.
>
> My old dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro "IBM Intellistation Z Pro" box has a PCI
> bridge chip that won't play under Windows 2K. Fortunately it sees PCI card 0
> (my Adaptec SCSI controller, whew!!! :), but I had to swap out (1) a PCI NIC
> and substitute an ISA 3Com NIC (no big deal) and (2) swap out a decent PCI
> video card and live with a five buck ISA 4-bit color display card I got from
> Stan (a very big deal since some of the software I am using won't work and
> most of it looks like s..t squared!).
>
> I would be happy with anything that lets me run Windows 2K as an ASP
> development platform and play with software associated with getting my CCNA.
> Of course, open source stuff like Apache and Zope, both of which I have
> installed, run just fine ... ~:>))) <-- Blinky stroking his chin. Could be
> worse, the little f..k.
>
> Building a W2K box frees up my second of two IBM Intellistation Z Pro boxes
> to work as a Linux server. I also want to build a super Linux box, but
> that's another story and right now I'm out of cash . . . Need to find at
> least a part time digital burger flipping job for the Fall semester. Right
> now, all I have to do is get decent _video_ running under W2K. If I could
> find a decent ISA bus video card, that would solve the whole thing in the
> cheapest way. Can anyone help?
>
> Dennis (a.k.a., ~:>(X){)
>
> > From: "Garl R. Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'t
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:49:29 -0700
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [EUG-LUG:2140] Re: ===}(X)<:~ )... sonic waves ...)Re:
> > Re: Is CodeRed affecting
> >
> > Dennis,
> > As far as other mailorder shops, try edgemicro.com (they are in springfield
> > but
> > do not have a shop) and outpost.com. Both have been good for service and speed
> > for
> > me. As for advice on a win2k box, what do you want it to do? Just an office
> > type
> > box(word/excel/internet/email) or are you looking to do number crunching? Are
> > you
> > wainting to play games? Need more details.
> >
> > Garl
> > "Dennis J. Eberl" wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks, Gary and (everyone else :). I've built plenty of clones so I can do
> >> it myself (unless you mean hand solder surface mount chips to a
> >> Mother#$%@!ngboard :^o uch! ). PC Parts Express seems to be getting the
> >> most votes. Are there any mail order sources anyone can suggest. I might
> >> just go piece-by-piece to pricewatch.com (and certainly would if this were
> >> to be a Linux box), but I need advice on putting together a cheap but
> >> adequate Windows 2000 box. Thanks.
> >>
> >> Dennis and, pal, Blinky Foobar, ~:>(X){, His Mark
> >>
> >>> From: "Garl R. Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:47:41 -0700
> >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> Subject: [EUG-LUG:2103] Re: Is CodeRed affecting Linux or FreeBSDmachines?
> >>>
> >>> I would recommend either building it your self, or hitting pcpartsxpress in
> >>> Springfield. They seem to be at least semi honest. I would also recommend
> >>> going
> >>> with an AMD chip. You will get a faster chip for less money. I have even
> >>> been
> >>> known
> >>> to put machines together for people for a small fee...
> >>>
> >>> "Dennis J. Eberl" wrote:
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> Dennis, I need to build a box for Windows 2000 for school. (I am currently
> >>>> running it on a dual processor (200 MHz Pentium Pro x 2) IBM Intellistation
> >>>> Z Pro, but it has a PCI-to-PCI bridge chip that won't "play" under W2K . .
> >>>> .
> >>>> so I'm using an ISA bus 4-bit video card!) Can you recommend a local source
> >>>> for 500 MHz Pentium III (or above), Motherboard, 256 to 512 MB RAM, 20 to
> >>>> 40
> >&
[EUG-LUG:2150] Re: ===}(X)<:~ )))))))))... sonic waves...)))))Re: Re: Is CodeRed affecting
> I would be happy with anything that lets me run Windows 2K as an ASP > development platform and play with software associated with getting my CCNA. > Of course, open source stuff like Apache and Zope, both of which I have > installed, run just fine ... ~:>))) <-- Blinky stroking his chin. Could be > worse, the little f..k. > I would look for a AMD k2-450 or 500. You should be able to find a MB and Proc for about $75 - $100. Any Diamond or ATI card would work for video. You could probably find a decent PCI or low end AGP for about 25-30. I think you can get a Diamond Stealth S540 (16mb ram,agp) for about $30 and they work find as general windows cards. If you went used, you could do even better than that. > If I could > find a decent ISA bus video card, that would solve the whole thing in the > cheapest way. Decent ISA card? hahahahahahahahahahahaha.. Sorry. the last ISA video crad I had was a VGA b/w card that I used on linux web server and it only worked well in the console. G
[EUG-LUG:2140] Re: ===}(X)<:~ )))))))))... sonic waves ...)))))Re: Re: Is CodeRed affecting
Dennis,
As far as other mailorder shops, try edgemicro.com (they are in springfield but
do not have a shop) and outpost.com. Both have been good for service and speed for
me. As for advice on a win2k box, what do you want it to do? Just an office type
box(word/excel/internet/email) or are you looking to do number crunching? Are you
wainting to play games? Need more details.
Garl
"Dennis J. Eberl" wrote:
> Thanks, Gary and (everyone else :). I've built plenty of clones so I can do
> it myself (unless you mean hand solder surface mount chips to a
> Mother#$%@!ngboard :^o uch! ). PC Parts Express seems to be getting the
> most votes. Are there any mail order sources anyone can suggest. I might
> just go piece-by-piece to pricewatch.com (and certainly would if this were
> to be a Linux box), but I need advice on putting together a cheap but
> adequate Windows 2000 box. Thanks.
>
> Dennis and, pal, Blinky Foobar, ~:>(X){, His Mark
>
> > From: "Garl R. Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:47:41 -0700
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [EUG-LUG:2103] Re: Is CodeRed affecting Linux or FreeBSDmachines?
> >
> > I would recommend either building it your self, or hitting pcpartsxpress in
> > Springfield. They seem to be at least semi honest. I would also recommend
> > going
> > with an AMD chip. You will get a faster chip for less money. I have even been
> > known
> > to put machines together for people for a small fee...
> >
> > "Dennis J. Eberl" wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Dennis, I need to build a box for Windows 2000 for school. (I am currently
> >> running it on a dual processor (200 MHz Pentium Pro x 2) IBM Intellistation
> >> Z Pro, but it has a PCI-to-PCI bridge chip that won't "play" under W2K . . .
> >> so I'm using an ISA bus 4-bit video card!) Can you recommend a local source
> >> for 500 MHz Pentium III (or above), Motherboard, 256 to 512 MB RAM, 20 to 40
> >> GB HD, std 3.5" floppy, "nothing fancy" CD-ROM drive, case, and power
> >> supply? I have a video card, NIC, and sound card.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Dennis Eberl, a.k.a., ~:>(X){
>
--
=
Garl R. Grigsby
Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team
-
Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372
TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277
1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com
=
-FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
=
[EUG-LUG:2103] Re: Is CodeRed affecting Linux or FreeBSDmachines?
I would recommend either building it your self, or hitting pcpartsxpress in
Springfield. They seem to be at least semi honest. I would also recommend going
with an AMD chip. You will get a faster chip for less money. I have even been known
to put machines together for people for a small fee...
"Dennis J. Eberl" wrote:
> Below, please.
>
> > From: Dennis Soper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 09:36:33 -0700
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [EUG-LUG:2087] Re: Is CodeRed affecting Linux or FreeBSD machines?
> >
> > On Saturday 11 August 2001 19:40, you wrote:
> >
> >> Robert at VOS told me The CodeRed is affecting Linux and FreeBSD and some
> >> other Unixes. I tend not to believe him untill I have some facts. He said
> <--- snip --->
> > own). They've also screwed over a number of other people who I know-- so
> > much so that I recommend that people I know who ask me where to buy clones to
> > steer clear of their business, and to go to Stan's instead.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dennis
>
> Speaking of which . . .
>
> Dennis, I need to build a box for Windows 2000 for school. (I am currently
> running it on a dual processor (200 MHz Pentium Pro x 2) IBM Intellistation
> Z Pro, but it has a PCI-to-PCI bridge chip that won't "play" under W2K . . .
> so I'm using an ISA bus 4-bit video card!) Can you recommend a local source
> for 500 MHz Pentium III (or above), Motherboard, 256 to 512 MB RAM, 20 to 40
> GB HD, std 3.5" floppy, "nothing fancy" CD-ROM drive, case, and power
> supply? I have a video card, NIC, and sound card.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dennis Eberl, a.k.a., ~:>(X){
--
=
Garl R. Grigsby
Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team
-
Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372
TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277
1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com
=
-FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
=
[EUG-LUG:1927] Re: Telnet and Mandrake 8.0
James,
Two things. First, you can add a disable line to the /etc/xinetd.d/telenet
file. This will allow you to turn telnet on and off at will. You don't even
have to restat anything. Here is an example of the telnet file from my Redhat
server:
service telnet
{
flags = REUSE
socket_type = stream
wait= no
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
log_on_failure += USERID
disable = no
}
Second, if you want a ssh client for Windows, I would recommend TeraTerm with
the ssh addon. It is freeware and works VERY well. Let me know if you are
interested. I can either send you a link or the files.
Garl
James wrote:
> I'm very confused about the telnet setup on Mandrake 8. I know all about
> the security risk with running telnet, and I don't plan on using it all
> the time, but I need to be able to telnet into my server, or a friends
> server to help make some changes.. I'm using windows to telnet and I don't
> have ssh.
>
> In Mandrake 7, all I had to do to turn telnet on and off was edit the
> /etc/inetd.conf file and remove the has in front of "telnet." Now, it
> seems there is an xinetd.d directory which contains a telenet file. When
> I open the file, I see this:
> _
> service telnet
> {
> . flags = REUSE
> . socket_type = stream
> . wait = no
> . user = root
> . server = /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
> . log_on_failure += USERID
> }
> -
>
> Do I need to add something to turn telnet on, and off? I want to be able
> to turn the telnet server off when I am done using it. Is there another
> method for turning telnet on?
>
> I do have the telnet and telnet server installed, when I do:
> rpm -qa | grep telnet
> the system informs me that I have both installed.
--
=
Garl R. Grigsby
Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team
-
Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372
TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277
1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com
=
-FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
=
[EUG-LUG:1880] Re: portable terminals, long battery life, ideal hackish remote.
Also see the following for more info: http://www.theregister.co.uk/991020-03.html "Garl R. Grigsby" wrote: > >From :http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19991008S0011 > > The Traveler is based on a custom Geode chip from > National Semiconductor Corp. The Geode NSC1028 RISC processor is a > 16-bit system-on-chip design with integrated keyboard and printer ports, > LCD display controller and speech synthesis circuitry. The PDA features a > 13-line x 25 character LCD touch screen. The Traveler uses a proprietary > operating system developed by VTech. The company used the same > processor and OS in two e-mail-only devices it had introduced in > September: the E-Mail Post Box, priced at $99; and the portable E-Mail > Express, priced at $79. >
[EUG-LUG:1879] Re: portable terminals, long battery life, ideal hackish remote.
t; >the size in bytes of what they call a message. It looks like it would make > >a half decent reote terminal and it has a store and forward type of model > >where it squirts messages up and down and is read and edited offline. > > > >Who wants to have a go at hacking it? I bet we can do this thing up to to > >at least run short scripts or at minimum cross-compile with gcc and get a > >decent portable editor and ssh-terminal. I see it as meeting our own needs > >for portable longlife rugged terminals. And you dould probably get decent > >comms in the field if you hooked it up to a spread spectrum radio box > >;-) > > > >Dependencies are the following libraries gcrypt,OpenSSH,glibc, and > >jabber on the servers to handle presence etc. > > > >Make no bones about it this a challenging hack, at present we don't know > >exactly what hardware lies underneath that tiny little keyboard but if it > >can run linux we can do it!! Grab 'em now before they get yanked off the > >market :P They're way too cheap to last. And they're marketing 'em to > >bored and jaded who want to get their email on the go, recase with a > >decent keyboard and they're ideal remote controls. (think couch and > >multimedia and editing global config files for your house) > > > >Yum, if you have one and are at mikes next week, we can get started on the > >reverse engineering... > > > >Larry Price | "We have seen the truth. > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | And the truth makes no sense." -chesterton > >___ > > -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1821] Re: 10/100 NIC
Rob, I believe that the 8029 is a 10Mb card only, but I know of no way to tell for sure. Garl Rob Hudson wrote: > Is there any way to tell if you have a network card capable of 100 > Mbps for a 100-base-T network? > > I've got a Realtek RTL-8029 (NE2000 compat, PCI) card. It won't > connect to the network as 100 base, but I was curious if there was > another way to find out. > > My ifconfig shows this: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:38:6B:04 > inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:3047999 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:117 > TX packets:3051844 errors:346 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:692 > collisions:87761 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:2360189199 (2250.8 Mb) TX bytes:1064362386 (1015.0 Mb) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1020 > > I thought maybe it would say something there. dmesg doesn't tell me > too much about it... > > ne2k-pci.c: v1.02 for Linux 2.2, 10/19/2000, D. Becker/P. Gortmaker, >http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html > ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0x1020, IRQ 11. > eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x1020, IRQ 11, 00:80:AD:38:6B:04. > > Thanks, > Rob > > Random Quote: > > There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. > - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1753] Re: RedHat install
Sam, Sorry, but no. I have done at least 10-15 Redhat 7.1 installs and have never had that problem. What graphics card are you using? What type of machine are you running (CPU/RAM/etc.)? Also what is currently on your harddrive. Just after picking the install type, you are asked about harddrive partitioning so maybe that has something to do with it. Garl Sam Crow wrote: > Hello all, > > Has anyone tried to install redhat 7.1 and while doing so had the installer > locked up your system just as you tell it what type of install to do. ie > workstation server etc. > > I've tried booting from cdrom, bootdisk, going in text mode etc etc and it > locks up right there no matter what. RedHat's all powerfull knowledge > database has absolutly nothing at all about the problem, nor are there any > errata fixes. I can't believe I'm the only one who has encountered this > error. I'm using cd's directly from the box and I don't have any weird > hardware or anything > > If anyone can help me out please email me back. > > Thanks > Sam Crow > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1657] RE: CD Burn (Was: Re: RE: 2001, EUGLUG at the Magic Odyssey)
gt; > > > > > > > > > > > the Benton County fair. It seems that free > > > > CD's are scarce > > > > > > > > > > > > these days but I continue to try. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > We will likely end up burning our own CD's for > > > > > > the event. If > > > > > > > > > > > > you guys have any other suggestions I am all ears. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Cooper > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:10:47PM -0700, Edward > > > > > > Craig wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Nope, this started as a report > > of EUGLUG at the > > > > > > > > > > Oregon Country > > > > > > > > > > > > > Fair in 2001 (since [SNIPPED]), which > > kicked off a > > > > > > > > > > > > discussion of how we > > > > > > > > > > > > > might do better next year to burn our > > own CD's to > > > > > > > > > > > > distribute, rather than > > > > > > > > > > > > > rely on a revival of dot com generosity > > by remaining > > > > > > > > > > distributions. > > > > > > > > > > > > > As for County (or the State) Fairs, > > > > > > nobody'd brought > > > > > > > > > > > > that up yet. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, D. Cooper Stevenson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Are you talking about the Benton County Fair? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Cooper > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:45:47AM -0700, Tim > > > > > > Howe wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What Fair? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You are, of course, correct. Ease of use > > > > > > is important. > > > > > > > > > > > > See how much nicer > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am after a cup of coffee? Just wait > > > > till I get > > > > > > > > > > beer in me... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So, is there gonna be a meeting someplace? > > > > > > Or should I > > > > > > > > > > > > keep hanging onto > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > this IRC channel? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Edward Craig > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:37 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Subject: [EUG-LUG:1617] RE: 2001, > > EUGLUG at the > > > > > > > > > > Magic Odyssey > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It occurs to me that the > > > > audience we're looking > > > > > > > > > > at is just those > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "lazy" Windows (and Apple) users. Not every > > > > > > > > computer user is > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > dedicated to > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > learning to program or even really even > > > > > > > > administer a system. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Theo's no-compromise version may be > > > > > > > > just the thing to > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > totally turn > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > off such a user to Open Source. No matter > > > > > > how desirable > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > increased security > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > for casual users might be, it won't > > fly if the > > > > > > > > > > users won't do it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > While OpenBSD might be the ideal, maybe > > > > > > > > FreeBSD or > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > NetBSD is more > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > what we need for the Fair. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The same might be said for > > > > Slackware or Debian, > > > > > > > > > > of course, which > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > is why I rather prefer Progeny or > > Mandrake for > > > > > > > > this purpose. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > That said, I see no reason to exclude > > > > > > > > more challenging > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > distributions from the mix, with > > perhaps a note > > > > > > > > that whoever > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > provides the > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > challenging version is available for > > > > > > support (with, or > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > perhaps without, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > suitable renumeration). > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Tim Howe wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I should probably be clear... I am not a > > > > > > > > Linux user at > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > all. If I was > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > going to use a Distro, it would be > > > > Slackware or > > > > > > > > > > Debian. I am a > > > > > > > > > > > BSD > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > user (among other things) and I > > have no love > > > > > > > > for Red Hat, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mandrake, or > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > any other Distribution that attempts > > > > to dumb down > > > > > > > > > > the OS so that a > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > lazy Windows user can use it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [SNIP] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Taxi (I need an income) > > > > > > GNU/Linux (I > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > can afford a Free OS) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Think this through with me, let me know your > > > > > > > > > > mind... Hunter/Garcia > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > Ed Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > Taxi (I need an income) > > > > GNU/Linux (I > > > > > > > > > > can afford a Free OS) > > > > > > > > > > > > Think this through with me, let me know > > your mind... > > > > > > > > > > Hunter/Garcia > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1444] apt-get for RPM
http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2780164,00.html -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1428] Itanium chip
By Molly Williams Of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) Compaq Computer Corp. (CPQ) is expected to announce it will use Intel Corp.'s (INTC) Itanium processors in all its server products, replacing the Alpha processors that Compaq gained as part of its $9.1 billion acquisition of Digital Equipment Corp. three years ago, according to a person familiar with the agreement. As part of the agreement, Intel will hire several hundred Compaq engineers that worked on designing Alpha products, the person said. Intel Chief Executive Craig Barrett and Compaq Chief Executive Michael Cappellas will announce the agreement at a news conference later today in New York. Financial details weren't available. Compaq's sales of Alpha and Himalaya fault-tolerant machines, which will all run on Itanium-based processors now, were $3.2 billion last year. The agreement is a boon for Intel as the chipmaker gains a major customer to build products with its newest chip. Itanium, which was just released formally a few weeks ago but has been under development for many years, is Intel's effort to get its chips into the heart of the heavy-duty computers that do most of the work in a corporate environment. For Compaq, it is likely to be seen as a disappointment, as Alpha was considered a key asset of Digital when Compaq bought the computer maker in 1998. It also may hurt near-term sales as Compaq makes the transition. Still, it may be seen as an incremental positive by some analysts who believed that Compaq should concentrate its efforts and not be trying to sell so many different kinds of computers. All the software that currently runs on the Tandem and Alpha machines will be written to run on Itanium. Products with the new Itanium and other products in that family will be out in about two to three years. -By Molly Williams, The Wall Street Journal; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 415-765-6118 (END) DOW JONES NEWS 06-25-01 07:45 AM
[EUG-LUG:1418] the demise of Storm Linux
I may be way late in hearing this, but I just went to www.stormix.com and found the following. I went up there to look for information on their Storm firewall product. I guess I won't be purchasing anything from them.. G Dear Visitor, Thank you very much for your interest in Stormix Technologies Inc. We regret to announce that in light of the weakness in the financial markets we are unable to secure additional funding for our company. Accordingly, despite our technological achievements, Stormix has suspended its operations and has gone into "hibernation" mode. Since all of Stormix's employees are regrettably laid off, we can no longer offer support. We would like to thank our Customers, Suppliers, Investors, Employees, Partners, Friends and Supporters. In contrast to our current position, we would like to express the following wish - "Long live the Open Source Movement, Linux and Debian." We hope our paths will cross in the future. The Stormix Team. -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1385] Re: Rackmount Enclosures
I can't vouch for their rackmount cases, but there tower cases are some of the best cases I have ever seen. Plenty of case fans (4 fans, including one built into the front of the harddrive bay), very quiet (I am running two case fans, a cpu cooler, and the power supply fan and I can hardly hear it.), easy tool to work on, no sharp edges, and very sturdy. Also their power supplies are very good and very stable. If you want a large case with lots of drive bays, I would really recommend this machine. http://www.antec-inc.com/product/cases/sohoser.htm G Dexter Graphic wrote: > Hey guys, I hit the jackpot! Look at all these 1U, 2U, > and even 3U & 4U cases. And they all accept full size > drives instead of requiring a special laptop version. > They even come with risers for mounting an expansion > card or two sideways. Now, I just have to make up my > mind which one I like the best. -Dexter > > http://www.antec-inc.com/product/cases/1u.html > > PS: It looks like those mounting flanges will have > to be cut off sides of the face plate Unfortunately. -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1368] Iptables and NAT
Does anybody have any good references for setting up an iptables firewall that will perform NAT (or is it SNAT?). I can find tons of stuff on ipchains, but very little on iptables.. Garl -- Arguing with an Engineer is a lot like wrestling in the mud with a pig: After a few hours, you realize the pig likes it.
[EUG-LUG:1352] Ximian Gnome
I just wanted to see if anybody had an idea on how to fix this. I am trying to install Gnome 1.4 on a couple of boxes and thought I would try Ximians installer app. I figured since I had several boxes I was going to install this on I would first ftp the files and then install locally. So using ncftp I downloaded the whole RedHat 7.1 tree, the installer and the install.xml file. I then went and launched their installer. For what I am assuming is updating dependencies, the installer still needs access to Ximians site. If you use the installer to download the files, then it allows you to specify a proxy server, but if you use the files from a local directory, it does not. So I checked the startup options. Yup, you can specify the proxy settings here. But the dang things don't work. Works fine from the gui, but the CLI options just don't work. Anybody seen this? Any Ideas? Garl -- ===== Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1146] File Servers
Maybe a little off topic, but I know that there is a fairly large group of knowledge here. Does anybody have any experience with NetApp boxes? My corporate MIS group is trying to convience me to dump one of my Sun servers for a NetApp server. I know that they are supposed to be great in that they talk to everybody (nfs, Microsoft, Novel, Apple, etc), but I am wondering how fast are they? How reliable are they? Will they be able to replace a Dual CPU Sun E250 running hardware raid? I keep asking these questions, and IS keeps saying "Hey they talk to every platform natively!! There is no administration!". Also the bloody things are EXPENSIVE. Garl -- ===== Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1145] Re: Hopefully not adding to the fire but...
Tell me about it. All of my NFS servers are Solaris and have Gigantic raid arrays on them. If something bad happens, they take forever to fsck. On the other hand they are MUCH faster than Win2Choke servers.. Bob Miller wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > Softupdate is now /recommended/ in OpenBSD. According to > > http://www.openbsd.org/29.html, "some tests show a 60x improvement in > > filesystem speed". > > Woo-hoo! Now if only Solaris would get faster. (-: > > -- > Bob Miller K > kbobsoft software consulting > http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1139] Re: environment variables, init and what's really happening
Larry, As I understand this process, you are a little off. When you export a variable it is available for that shell and for all sub-shells. This does not mean that all of root's env varbs will be available in everybody's shell. What this means is that if I launch a shell and type the following: export MYVARB=cool_tools xterm & Both the original shell and the new shell will have the MYVARB variable set. If you are looking to set a variable for all users then you would want to add this to the "global" environment file (bashrc, cshrc, profile, login, csh.login, whatever). This should be called by all users when the launch their shell. The problem starts when you have several users using different shells. I hope this helps. I cannot say that this is all correct, as I have figured this out by trial and error. Garl larry a price wrote: > hi all, i've got a question for the gurus, > > what really happens with environment variables, and how are they visible? > > when you say something like > > APP_LOG_DIR=/var/log/app/error.log > export APP_LOG_DIR > > that sets the the environment variable for the rest of the current session > and for all sessions spawned by that session, right? > > so if those statements are in a script executed by root at startup that > variable should be set for all user sessions, right? > > but it doesn't seem to be happening that way, so where am i confused? > > also what does the > > . /etc/path/to/script > > idiom do, it doesn't seem to be documented in the place i expect it to be > but i see it used in a number of scripts in /etc/postgresql > > can someone point me to a clear and lucid explanation of what's going on, > i've read the man pages but they are rather opaque...and i'm still not > getting what i expect from the beast. > -thanx > > Larry Price | "We have seen the truth. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And the truth makes no sense." -chesterton > ___ -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:1133] Hopefully not adding to the fire but...
I have a one comment and one question. First for my comment. I have been following this thread with interest and have always considered trying to install and run OpenBSD and FreeBSD. This latest "discussion" has prompted me to look into OpenBSD further. As I was pursuing their online FAQ I came across the following. Now for a OS thats number one claim to fame is security, this scares me. (Source http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#8.3) 8.3 - I forgot my root password, what do I do now? A few steps to recovery 1.Boot into single user mode. For i386 arch type boot -s at the boot prompt. 2.mount the drives. bsd# fsck -p / && mount -u / 3.If /usr is not the same partition that / is (and it shouldn't be) then you will need to mount it, also bsd# fsck -p /usr && mount /usr 4.run passwd(1) 5.boot into multiuser mode.. and remember your password! Seems awful easy to bypass security. I know that the commerical unix OS' (Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, AIX) that I deal with all require that you enter the root password to enter single usermode. Now for my question. What file system does OpenBSD run? Do they have a Journaling FS? Does OpenBSD require you to deal with Disk Labels Like Solaris? Thanks Garl -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- =
[EUG-LUG:462] Instant messaging Software
Evening all, I have a new project and before I dive to deeply into it I thought I would "browse" the knowledge base of the eug-lug. I am looking at setting up an instant messaging service for the division I work in. This service must meet the following criteria: 1) Must be easy to use. So far I like the AIM or MSN approach to the messengers. 2) Must run on WinNT and Win2k. Would be very nice if there was a Platform independent version (Java?), but at this point that is not required. 3) Should run as a service and reside in the task bar (on the windows boxes). 4) Must not require a server outside of our WAN. No messages can leave our network (security issues). 5) It would be VERY nice if the server software ran on linux. 6) The server should be able to maintain groups of users (E.g. I would like to message all of the users in the Foo.bar group) as well as a list of all users (e.g. I don't want to have to have each users add everybody in our organization.) 7) A group chat feature would be very nice (maybe similar to a chat room?) but again this is not required. 8) A web based interface would be nice, but not essential. Does anybody know of a package that meets these criteria? Maybe something close? I have looked at Jabber, but so far the clients are crap and the server documentation (all 4 or 5 pages of it) sucks. AIM and MSN Messenger are out because they all connect to a central server. I believe that ICQ and mIRC are out for the same reasons (they don't sell their server packages do they?) Thanks in advance. Garl -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:460] Re: mike's networking can openers and box-cutters
First off I would like to say "thanks" to Mike for giving the presentation on Linux security. Second I know I mentioned I would post out some links I had on Linux Firewalls so here they are. If I missed something I had said I would post, please let me know. Garl http://www.linuxfirewall.org/ This is a great site with loads of links to other good sites. Some of their online docs are very good ( I especially like the Knowing your enemy section. They also have links to gfcc which is a good interface for working with IP chains. http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/ This is the site written and maintained by Robert Ziegler. He is the author of Linux Firewalls which is a very good reference on IP Chains (lots of examples, lots of details. Maybe the only draw back is the fact that it contains almost too much information). This is also the site that has the web based Firewall design tool I mentioned. Basically it walks you through a series of questions and writes the IP Chains rules based on your responses. http://www.babel.com.au/del/linux-security.shtml This site is not as good as the first one. It does not contain much direct info, but is mainly a bunch of links. Still not a bad site to walk through. http://www.insecure.org/nmap/index.html This is the home site for nmap (the port scanner Mike was using). It is loaded with good security info as well as a lot of nmap documentation. Also, I don't know if Mike mentioned it but nmap also has a decent gui interface called xnmap which is also available at the above site. Michael Smith wrote: > Cool... thanks, Larry. > > If anybody has any questions... just ask, eh? [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --Mike > > larry a price wrote: > > > Mike Smith's excellent guide to Linux network security > > > > "Security is always a calculated risk, it's a matter of minimizing that risk." > > -- > Organizing Linux users is like herding cats, > only harder. -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:407] Re: Saturday
First I expect the sun will rise. After that, who knows. Sorry, I just had to. Bob Crandell wrote: > What's happening Saturday? Mike? Seth? Anyone? > > Bob Crandell > ComSource Associates, Inc. > Your IT Department > 747 Willamette St. > Eugene, Oregon 97401 > www.comsourceinc.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: 541-345-0408 > FAX: 541-345-0876 -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:384] Re: Specific questions on tar, gzip, and ipchains
Cory, To get the command you mentioned below to work you have to add a '-': bzcat foo.bar.tar.bz | tar xf - It may work without the 'f' but I am not sure. Garl Cory Petkovsek wrote: > The tar's vary across versions of unix as well. > > There are some cool shortcuts with linux's tar, like using sdtin/stdout: > > bzcat kernel.tar.bz2 | tar x > > This works on linux. However the tar on SunOS 5.8 (UofO CS dept) won't work with >stdin. (At least I haven't figured out how to do it.) To get the same result as >above, I have to do this: > > bzcat kernel.tar.bz2 > kernel.tar ; tar xf kernel.tar && rm kernel.tar > > Note executing: > bzcat kernel.tar.bz2 | tar x(or with gzip: tar xfz kernel.tgz) > will leave the kernel.tar.bz2(.tgz) file as is, extract the files within, and >nowhere does the kernel.tar file appear. > > bunzip2 kernel.tar.bz2 > will delete the original archive, and leave 'kernel.tar', which is why I used bzcat >above. Same thing with gunzip, unless some parameters are specified to say, don't >delete the original archive (but I haven't figured out what those are). bzcat/zcat >will leave the file, outputting the uncompressed tar information to stdout (standard >out, which can then be redirected with > or | ). > > For sunos5.8, there is a bunch of monkeying with the file kernel.tar to produce the >same result as the linux command above. This is due to sun's tar (seemingly) not >accepting stdinput and requiring the data in a file. > > bzip2 and gzip are two different compression techniques, incompatible with >eachother. gzip has been incorporated into the linux (and others) tar command. Tar >calls gzip I believe, rather than incorporating gzip code directly. > > for a gzipped file, > zcat file.tgz | tar x > is equivalent to > tar xfz file.tgz > > trying to do this > tar xfz file.tar.bz2 > WON'T WORK, at least until a new version of tar comes out. > > Here's something I learned from Pat, using tar and ssh to copy a host of files from >one computer to another via a secure channel: > > tar czp somedir/files | ssh -l frank computer.com "tar xzp" > create an archive, passing 'files' through gzip, and retaining permissions (p), and >output that to standard out. Redirect that to ssh, login as frank to computer.com >and run "tar xzp". Extract info coming from standard in, passing it through gunzip, >and restoring the files and their permissions (p). > > But here's another way, part of the ssh package, scp: > scp -Crq somedir [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > secure copy with compression (-C) all subdirectories (-r) to computer.com. Log in >as 'frank' and store files/subdirs in his home dir (:). And don't display the >progress meter (-q). > > I think the tar version is much faster though: > cory@cory-l:~$ time tar czp devl | ssh petersen-arne.com "tar xzp" > real0m37.957s > cory@cory-l:~$ time scp -Crq devl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > real1m19.797s > > Cory > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:46:13PM -0800, Dean Ridgway wrote: > > Greetings All, > > > > >untar and unzip a .tgz .tar.gz or something similar: > > > > > >tar xfz > > > > > >x means xtract, f means file, z means pass through gzip to decompress > > > > > >to create a .tar.gz file: > > >tar cfz > > > > Note: on some versions of tar the order of the parameters is important. > > I.e. the 'f' parameter (for file) needs to be followed by the actual file > > name (example tar xzf and tar czf ). > > > > Also the file extensions .tar.gz and .tgz are used interchangably. > > > > /\-/\ Dean Ridgway | Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- > > ( - - ) InterNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I took the one less traveled by, > > =\_v_/= FidoNet 1:357/1.103| And that has made all the difference. > > CIS 73225,512 | "The Road Not Taken" - Robert Frost. > > http://www.peak.org/~ridgwad/ > > PGP mail encouraged, finger for key: 28C577F3 2A5655AFD792B0FB 9BA31E6AB4683126 -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:116] Re: Open/Free BSD
Have you tried working with NetBSD at all? Is their sparc support anybetter? Garl "Patrick R. Wade" wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:40:55PM -0800, Garl R. Grigsby wrote: > > > >Evening all, > >I know we have some BSD users out there, so I have a few questions > >for you. > >First some background. Most of my Un*x experience falls with the > >following flavors: HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, Mandrake, and RedHat. With > >the exception of the Linux variants and HP-UX, most of my experience is > >limited to basic admin knowledge (e.g. I have not gone through setting > >up a complete machine from start to finish). I can usually manage to > >fight my way through most things with enough time and determination. > > Now to my questions. Recently I have acquired several Sun Sparc (32) > >machines (IPXs, 5s, & 10s) and am looking to put a OS on them that is 1) > >Free/Inexpensive, 2) Fairly easy to install, & 3) is fairly complete. I > >have looked through the offerings from the Linux community in regard to > >the sparc platform and I am not impressed. I do know that OpenBSD offers > >a sparc port and my question is how is their install process? How > >different am I going to find OpenBSD as compared to the other flavors of > >Un*x that are out there? Can I download Iso images for the cds anywhere? > >Does OpenBSD come with any firewall/proxy abilities? Any other comments? > > > > Well, OpenBSD is not terribly different from other BSDs; i haven't worked > with H-PUX, so i don't know how it stacks up to modern BSDs. The install > process is pretty straightforward. OpenBSD comes with some nice firewalling > and proxying capabilities; that is one of OpenBSD's main uses in the field. > Note that support for Sparcs is still a bit rough, see > http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html > > -- > Yes, we ARE a bunch of anal, short-tempered, quick to fly-off-the-handle, > sarcastic, know-it-alls. That's what running networks does to you. > > - James Fischer on inet-access -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:111] Re: List membership
Please see: http://www.euglug.com/list.phtml Josh Eagle wrote: > Greetings, > > Sorry to have to ask this as its probably been answered a thousand times > already, but I was wondering how to unsubscribe. > > Thanks, > > Josh -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:108] ReiserFS and 2.4.1
Did anybody notice that 2.4.1 of the kernel is out AND it includes support for the ReiserFS? Very cool. Garl except from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.1 pre8: - Don't drop a megabyte off the old-style memory size detection - remember to UnlockPage() in ramfs_writepage() - 3c59x driver update from Andrew Morton - egcs-1.1.2 miscompiles depca: workaround by Andrew Morton - dmfe.c module init fix: Andrew Morton - dynamic XMM support. Andrea Arkangeli. - ReiserFS merge <** - USB hotplug updates/fixes - boots on real i386 machines - blk-14 from Jens Axboe - fix DRM R128/AGP dependency - fix n_tty "canon" mode SMP race - ISDN fixes - ppp UP deadlock attack fix - FAT fat_cache SMP race fix - VM balancing tuning - Locked SHM segment deadlock fix - fork() page table copy race fix -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:107] Open/Free BSD
Evening all, I know we have some BSD users out there, so I have a few questions for you. First some background. Most of my Un*x experience falls with the following flavors: HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, Mandrake, and RedHat. With the exception of the Linux variants and HP-UX, most of my experience is limited to basic admin knowledge (e.g. I have not gone through setting up a complete machine from start to finish). I can usually manage to fight my way through most things with enough time and determination. Now to my questions. Recently I have acquired several Sun Sparc (32) machines (IPXs, 5s, & 10s) and am looking to put a OS on them that is 1) Free/Inexpensive, 2) Fairly easy to install, & 3) is fairly complete. I have looked through the offerings from the Linux community in regard to the sparc platform and I am not impressed. I do know that OpenBSD offers a sparc port and my question is how is their install process? How different am I going to find OpenBSD as compared to the other flavors of Un*x that are out there? Can I download Iso images for the cds anywhere? Does OpenBSD come with any firewall/proxy abilities? Any other comments? Thanks Garl -- ===== Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:39] Re: Thanks and a Newbie Question
Acutally you don't even have to do that. Just cd to the /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/ directory, and type rpm -Uvh foo.bar. and then hit the tab key (speaking of short cuts). As for the rpms not installing, As of Redhat 5.2, I have had almost not problems with RPMs. Usually the only problems I do have are with missing dependencies, which are easy to fix. Just my $.02 worth. Garl "Staley W. Mims, III" wrote: > To get any rpm off a redhat CD, first mount the CD (;-p), then go to the > Redhat/ > RPMS directory. Here you'll find all the pre-compiled rh binaries. Copy > the one > you want to whereever (/usr/src/Redhat/RPMS is a good place) then use > the command: > > rpm -Uvh the_ full.pain_in_the_ass.name_of_ program.i386.rpm > > If all goes the way it's supposed to (sometimes it doesn't - rh is > almost as bad > as winblows), you'll have what you want. > > Good luck, > Woody > > Nyal Cammack wrote: > > > > First off I really need to say THANKS for all the replies to my HD Question. > > I was able to get the problem resolved and have wound up putting RH 6.1 on a > > second drive. Now for the question.. > > > > When I did my install for some reason KPPP was not installed (even though I > > asked for it!) I know that it's on the CD but I don't know how to extract > > it. Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > Nyal R Cammack -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:6] Re: Tar extraction?
Rob, Try this. tar xvfz foo.bar.tar needed.file Garl Rob Hudson wrote: > Anyone know of a way to do this? > > I need a single file out of a 1.6GB tar archive. It takes a _long_ > time to untar|ungzip the archive. Is there a way to get that one file > out if I know the exact name of it? > > Thanks, > Rob -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:401] Re: Networking woes.
"James S. Kaplan" wrote: > At 03:55 PM 1/19/2001, you wrote: > > > My idea is to build a dual nic'd linux box and connect it between > >our top level switch and our wan router. With this setup I should be > >able to see all of the network traffic that is traveling across the wan > >link, right? > > You can place the Linux box anywhere on the network. To see traffic > on a particular segment, just plug a nic into the segment's hub. Typically, > a linux installation doesn't need multiple nic's unless it's a firewall, router > or secure server. Any nic, on a Linux box or not, can view traffic on it's > segment. > My problem is we are running full duplex switches ( a mix of BayStack 350-24Ts and BayStack 70-24Ts ). Since we are running a switched environment, I can only see the data that is running between the linux box and the switch. Nothing else. > > > Now for my questions. Will this setup work? What will I have to > >setup to forward the traffic from one nic to the other, and still have > >ethereal see the traffic. > > You'll want to enable ipforwarding or make modules for ip_forward and > ip_port_fw > only if you are sending data outbound. Tools like ethereal and ksnuffle allow > you to specify the network device to monitor. So there's no need to forward > nic-to-nic unless you are routing with the Linux box. > I figure if I run the linux box as a router between the backbone switch and the router, then I should be able to see all of the traffic destined for the T1. > > >Also how much of a machine will I need for > >this? Currently I am looking at using a Pentium Pro 200 with 128 MB of > >ram. > > That's more than enough for this application and more. I have a Linux > ISDN router installed in 1997, still plugging away on a 486SX with 16MB > RAM and a 800MB disk. > That is what I figured. > > >Does anybody know of a package that would generate a html page of > >the T1 usage? Has anybody done this before? > > Check javascript.com or links found there for network resource doo-dah's. > Will do, thanks. > > Does your switch or router allow usage logging? If not, it may make sense > to let the Linux box route for you. Then you can watch traffic, ports, users, > bandwidth and much, much more. A typical Linux installation will run circles > around *most* router and some switch hardware. > We currently have a Cisco 2600 router. I do not have the authority to replace the switch so I am stuck with that. I have found plugin analyzers (Nortel sells one or two) but they are expensive and I have a budget to $0. If I can make linux come through for this, I might be able to convince the other people in my company of the value of linux. Cory mentioned something earlier that has me digging around. I found settings on our switch for a "Mirrored Port". From what I can tell, I should be able to copy all of the traffic from port X to Port Y and stick a traffic analyzer on that. I think ethereal will do the trick but I am not sure. Thanks for all the help. Garl
[EUG-LUG:389] RE: Networking woes.
Well we are running all registered IPs so I would not need to bother with masquerading. I have setup a linux firewall a while back, so I guess I would just need to use IPChains to forward the packets from eth0 to eht1, correct? Garl Cory Petkovsek wrote: > Oh yes, the docs: > > IP-Masquerade-Howto > Firewall-Howto > IPChains-Howto > > You'll also need to either learn ipchains, or get an rc.firewall script to > properly configure ipchains for masquerading. Search google.com or > freshmeat for rc.firewall, or firemasq. > > I have a pentium 75, 48mb memory, running 2 3com 905b/c 10/100 nics, serving > our 256k dsl line, firewall, dhcp, and dns, and email filter. I'm planning > on swapping out those expensive nics, and putting in some cheaper ones. > > Cory > > -Original Message- > From: Garl R. Grigsby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 3:55 PM > To: eug-lug > Subject: [EUG-LUG:386] Networking woes. > > I need some advise. I know that there is a lot of networking > experience floating around this group, so I am hoping somebody can help > me. > My office currently has a T1 link to our main office. over the last > couple of months the usage of this link has steadily increased to the > point where we are running out of bandwidth, which is causing problems > for several apps that need a full time connection to our main office. > The problem is that nobody will admit to being the bandwidth hog. I have > looked at using apps such as Ethereal and Sniffer Lan but all of our > network is all run off of switches which, as I understand it, makes > these devices almost useless. > My idea is to build a dual nic'd linux box and connect it between > our top level switch and our wan router. With this setup I should be > able to see all of the network traffic that is traveling across the wan > link, right? > Now for my questions. Will this setup work? What will I have to > setup to forward the traffic from one nic to the other, and still have > ethereal see the traffic. Also how much of a machine will I need for > this? Currently I am looking at using a Pentium Pro 200 with 128 MB of > ram. Does anybody know of a package that would generate a html page of > the T1 usage? Has anybody done this before? > > Thanks all, > Garl > > -- > > = > > Garl R. Grigsby > Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team > > - > > Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 > TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 > 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: > http://www.sdrc.com > > = > > -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- > > = > > PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 > PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 > > = -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:386] Networking woes.
I need some advise. I know that there is a lot of networking experience floating around this group, so I am hoping somebody can help me. My office currently has a T1 link to our main office. over the last couple of months the usage of this link has steadily increased to the point where we are running out of bandwidth, which is causing problems for several apps that need a full time connection to our main office. The problem is that nobody will admit to being the bandwidth hog. I have looked at using apps such as Ethereal and Sniffer Lan but all of our network is all run off of switches which, as I understand it, makes these devices almost useless. My idea is to build a dual nic'd linux box and connect it between our top level switch and our wan router. With this setup I should be able to see all of the network traffic that is traveling across the wan link, right? Now for my questions. Will this setup work? What will I have to setup to forward the traffic from one nic to the other, and still have ethereal see the traffic. Also how much of a machine will I need for this? Currently I am looking at using a Pentium Pro 200 with 128 MB of ram. Does anybody know of a package that would generate a html page of the T1 usage? Has anybody done this before? Thanks all, Garl -- ===== Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:364] Re: scratch install
cut and past the appropriate lines from the password file of one machine to the password file of the other machine. Garl Darrin Lajoie wrote: > Situation: Lets say I want to migrate all users on a Debian slink machine to > a new Debian potato machine that's just been setup with identical packages > (only a root user and a single user account have been created on the new > box). > > Question: What's the easiest way to get the dozen or so user accounts over > with groups and passwords intact? -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:332] Re: Local isp services
> > > Steer clear of Rio if you can. > Why? I cannot get either cable or dsl at my location, and have been considering giving Rio a call. I know they have gotten connections for people who Qwest could not. Garl
[EUG-LUG:273] Re: Fwd: Ok, I am kinda lost here
Ron, What you would want to do is give the full path to the executable in the icon. So if it asks for the executable name (or the command to launch the application) when you are creating the icon, then you would want to enter "/some/unknown/directory/filename" (minus the quotes). Hope that helps. Garl Ron LeVine wrote: > In order to execute the file now, I have to go into the directory via a shell > and use ./ to execute the file. > > I.E. : > > cd /some/unknown/directory > ./filename > > Thanks > Ron > > On Tuesday 09 January 2001 12:53, you wrote: > > Hi Ron, can you explain a little more about this? > > > > You have a file called './' without the ''? > > ../ is a directory, not a file. Namely it is your current directory. > > ../blah would be a file/directory inside the current directory > > > > Or do you want to execute a program that is in your home directory? > > In your home directory, you would type in ./blah in order to run this > > program. So now you want a shortcut to blah in your home or other > > directory to be placed on your desktop. > > > > Are you using Gnome or KDE? They have different ways to do it. I > > personally don't use either, so can't be of much help other than clarifying > > what you want to do. I would suggest trying to right click on your > > background. Perhaps there is a 'new link' or *gasp* a 'new shortcut' > > option. For your path you would type in something like: ~/blahto > > execute the program 'blah' in your home directory blah to execute the > > program stored somewhere in your PATH environment variable /usr/bin/blah to > > execute 'blah' stored in the directory /usr/bin > > > > Hope this helps. > > Cory > > > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 12:28:32AM -0800, Ron LeVine wrote: > > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > > Subject: Ok, I am kinda lost here > > > Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 00:27:24 -0800 > > > From: Ron LeVine <60xshooter> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > I need to execute a ./ file from an icon on my desk top. > > > > > > How do I set up an icon to do this. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Ron > > > > > > --- -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:139] ntop
Has anybody out there in Linux land had any luck getting ntop to work? I have been trying to setup a network monitoring station and no matter what I do, ntop never sees any traffic. The documentation is rather lacking, so I was hoping for somebody with first had experience. Any ideas? Garl -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:134] Re: chmod
This article is the second half to the first. I had meant to include it, but forgot. Garl http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html "Garl R. Grigsby" wrote: > I would check out the following article. It was written around BSD, but > permissions are permissions. > > garl > > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/06/FreeBSD_Basics.html > > Rob Hudson wrote: > > > I did an 'ls -l' of my home dir recently, and saw a lot of 's' in > > the whatever_you_call_that_thing_on_the_left_with_10_characters. > > > > Could someone add to my knowledge of these guys? Here's what I > > know (some of which may be wrong) ... > > > > The first character is used to tell what kind of device it is: > > d=directory > > b=block device > > c=character device > > l=symlink > > > > The next 9 are broken up into 3's. The 1st for root, the 2nd for > > group, and the 3rd for user. The 1st of each is for read > > permissions, the 2nd of each is for write permissions, and the 3rd > > of each is for executable permissions. > > > > What I'm not too clear on is the sticky bits, setuid, setgid stuff. > > > > I found this in some documentation about the executable bit... > > > > `s' > > If the setuid or setgid bit and the corresponding executable > > bit are both set. > > > > `S' > > If the setuid or setgid bit is set but the corresponding > > executable bit is not set. > > > > `t' > > If the sticky bit and the other-executable bit are both set. > > > > `T' > > If the sticky bit is set but the other-executable bit is not > > set. > > > > `x' > > If the executable bit is set and none of the above apply. > > > > `-' > > Otherwise. > > > > But it doesn't explain too much if I don't understand what setuid, > > setgid, and sticky really mean. Can someone explain this? > > > > Thanks, > > Rob. > > -- > = > > Garl R. Grigsby > Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team > - > > Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 > TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 > 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: > http://www.sdrc.com > ============= > > -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- > = > > PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 > PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 > = -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:133] Re: chmod
I would check out the following article. It was written around BSD, but permissions are permissions. garl http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/09/06/FreeBSD_Basics.html Rob Hudson wrote: > I did an 'ls -l' of my home dir recently, and saw a lot of 's' in > the whatever_you_call_that_thing_on_the_left_with_10_characters. > > Could someone add to my knowledge of these guys? Here's what I > know (some of which may be wrong) ... > > The first character is used to tell what kind of device it is: > d=directory > b=block device > c=character device > l=symlink > > The next 9 are broken up into 3's. The 1st for root, the 2nd for > group, and the 3rd for user. The 1st of each is for read > permissions, the 2nd of each is for write permissions, and the 3rd > of each is for executable permissions. > > What I'm not too clear on is the sticky bits, setuid, setgid stuff. > > I found this in some documentation about the executable bit... > > `s' > If the setuid or setgid bit and the corresponding executable > bit are both set. > > `S' > If the setuid or setgid bit is set but the corresponding > executable bit is not set. > > `t' > If the sticky bit and the other-executable bit are both set. > > `T' > If the sticky bit is set but the other-executable bit is not > set. > > `x' > If the executable bit is set and none of the above apply. > > `-' > Otherwise. > > But it doesn't explain too much if I don't understand what setuid, > setgid, and sticky really mean. Can someone explain this? > > Thanks, > Rob. -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:84] Re: Wyse Term
Well if this is the case, I would LOVE to have one or two. I have several sun-linux stations that do not have monitors. Garl Timothy Howe wrote: > They were at the meeting, so I assume the PC Training Center was given > them, and they are now distributing them to any interested > parties. Having a terminal on ones *nix box makes it possible to do a few > more things at one time... Properly configuring one can be tough, > though... Baud rates and term types and getty, oh my! > > Tim > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Garl R. Grigsby wrote: > > > Who is giving away Wyse terminals? > > > > Timothy Howe wrote: > > > > > Nevermind, it turns out I grabbed one that works and one that > > > doesn't. The other one lit right up... If there are any more there, I > > > think I will grab a couple more if they are trying to get rid of them... > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Timothy Howe wrote: > > > > > > > Hey, > > > > I took hoe two of the Wyse Terminals, model wy60. I am trying to > > > > hook one up to my firewall at work. I have the needed changes to the tty > > > > config files done, but I don't think that a standard serial cable is > > > > correct. I have a 25 pin RS232 M/F serial cable and a 25 to 9 pin adaptor > > > > between the AUX (serial) and the com1 port of this machine... I turn the > > > > terminal on and just get a beep (which I assume is OK) but never any > > > > screen output. Did I neglect to grab the right cables from the pile? Did > > > > those cables exist? Anybody know what I must do? > > > > > > > > Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > = > > Garl R. Grigsby > > Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team > > - > > Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 > > TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 > > 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com > > = > > -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- > > = > > PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 > > PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 > > = > > > > -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:81] Re: Wyse Term
Who is giving away Wyse terminals? Timothy Howe wrote: > Nevermind, it turns out I grabbed one that works and one that > doesn't. The other one lit right up... If there are any more there, I > think I will grab a couple more if they are trying to get rid of them... > > Tim > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Timothy Howe wrote: > > > Hey, > > I took hoe two of the Wyse Terminals, model wy60. I am trying to > > hook one up to my firewall at work. I have the needed changes to the tty > > config files done, but I don't think that a standard serial cable is > > correct. I have a 25 pin RS232 M/F serial cable and a 25 to 9 pin adaptor > > between the AUX (serial) and the com1 port of this machine... I turn the > > terminal on and just get a beep (which I assume is OK) but never any > > screen output. Did I neglect to grab the right cables from the pile? Did > > those cables exist? Anybody know what I must do? > > > > Tim > > > > -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:47] File structure
Can anybody point me to a good source of information on un*x file systems. I am especially interested in what a inode is, what its function is, and how it affects me. The reason being I had a problem over the weekend with a Mandrake box (I have about had it with Mandrake for a server) where it acted like I ran out of space on the root parition. The odd thing is that it did not run out of space.. For some reason my /var/log/mail and /var/log/news directories are absolutely full of of very tiny files. So I never actually ran out of space, but the partition ran out of inodes. Very odd, and very anonying. But I must say, I am truely impressed with the fact that the server never crashed. I would like to see a NT box fill the root drive and still be running. Now to figure out what the hell happend this weekend. Ack. Garl -- = Garl R. Grigsby Senior Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:5148] Re: Setting up a gate for a private LAN?
He shouldn't have to have a cable or dsl line. All this unit is is a router. You can hook a router into an existing network. All it does is direct traffic from one sub-domain (192.162.1.*) to another (the U of O netowrk or the @ home network, or..). Infact I have set on of these Cable/DSL routers up on my companies lan, just to test it out and set it up. They work great. Garl Cory Petkovsek wrote: > This is a good unit, but won't work for the UofO connection, unless they provide him >with a cable or dsl or similar BroadBand connection. > > How did you get hooked up siphoning bandwidth from UofO? > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:18:48PM -0800, Garl R Grigsby wrote: -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
[EUG-LUG:5143] Re: Setting up a gate for a private LAN?
I have to say that the simplest and probably the most carefree choice would be to go with a linksys cable/dsl router. This unit has firewall capabilities, a dhcp client (outside connection), a dhcp server (inside connection) and does NAT. It is web configurable and is a no brainier for simplicity and ease of use. buy.com has them for $150 with a $20 rebate. Here is the blurb from buy.com: The Linksys Instant Broadband EtherFast Cable/DSL Router is the perfect option to connect multiple computers to a high-speed Broadband Internet connection. Configurable as a DHCP server, supports up to 253 users, the EtherFast Cable/DSL Router acts as the only externally recognized Internet device on your local area network (LAN). The router can also be configured to block internal users' access to the Internet. A typical router relies on a hub or a switch to share its Internet connection, but the Linksys EtherFast Cable/DSL Router channels this connection through the blazing, full duplex speed of its built-in EtherFast 10/100 4-Port Switch. Dragon Singer wrote: Hello fellows, I have a few questions for you. We will be getting hooked up to the University's LAN in about a month or so. For security reasons I'd like to set up a comp as a gateway instead of getting an IP for each comp my family owns. Will a 486 work for this job? What are the bare requirements for this gate. The 486 I'm looking at doesn't have a HD but I can take the 2.4 gig HD (The Linux HD on my current desktop) and swap it in. The gentleman I'm negotiating with says he'll sell me the box and a NIC for $85.00. Will I need two NIC cards? one for the ethernet connection into the gate and one to go to the hub? Any help would be appreciated. Sincerely and Respectfully Yours Wayne & Leader Dog Sequoia N9PSR FISTS #4409 icq# 315313 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineer Americas Support Center - Eugene, OR Team Americas Operations Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Hotline 800-242-7372 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax 541-342-8277
Re: Problems with rlogin
Well I fixed it. I have no idea what I did, but now it works. One thing I did do was to remove the remote tools rpm and reinstall it. It didn't work right after that, but after several other things (and a reboot) it now works. I guess I got lucky. Thanks to all, Garl "Garl R. Grigsby" wrote: > Afternoon all, > I haven't seen much tech talk lately so I thought I would post a > couple of questions that have been bugging me and something really neat > I just found. First for the questions. > > Question 1) No matter what I do, I cannot get rlogin to work on Mandrake > 7.1. The machine is running NIS and I can telnet into any account, but > for the life of me I cannot get rlogin to work. the rsh package is > installed but still no joy. There are no error messages in the logs. > Nothing. The clients connecting just time out. What am I doing wrong? > > Question 2) (same machine) I am running on a Dual P-Pro 200 system and I > would like to be able to look at the system load on each processor > separately. How can I do this? Top lists a the average for each cpu. So > does vmstat. I know that there is a command to do this some where, but I > cannot find it. I also know that there is a way to see this information > in the /proc directory, but I have yet to stumble on it. Help. > > Question 3) How can I assign a specific process to a specific CPU? Say I > want the system to function on CPU1 and I want a specific process say > nastran to run on CPU2? Is there a way to bind a process to a specific > CPU every time? Can I keep other processes from attempting to use this > CPU? Where can I read more on how Linux uses multiprocessor machines? I > am looking at setting up a dual Xeon 900mHz box and I really would like > to be able to control what CPU is doing what. > > Tidbits - in my stumblings on my Redhat 7.0 box I found the following: > In the /etc/sysconfig directory there is a harddisks file. This file > allows you to setup how your system is accessing your hard drives. > Basically it is just a options file for hdparm command, that is run at > boot time. Very slick. > > Well that is it for me. > > TIA, > Garl > > -- > = > > Garl R. Grigsby > Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team > - > > Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 > TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 > 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: > http://www.sdrc.com > = > > -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- > = > > PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 > PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 > = -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: Problems with rlogin
Yes the 'r' services are running in inetd.conf. There is nothing in host.deny. Yes I want to enable this. I running this machine on internal network and we are sitting behind a checkpoint firewall so attacks from external sources are not a concern. Internal attacks I am not too concerned with as most of the people smart enough to initiate an attack already have access to this machine. SSH is great but a rather large pain in the ass to setup, so I want to avoid this. All of our unix workstations all use the commands, so many scripts are already written to use these tools. Any other ideas? Garl > > Are the "r" services enabled in /etc/inetd.conf? Are they blocked in > /etc/hosts.deny? Are you sure you want this gaping security hole, when > you could be using ssh? > > -- > On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, > Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right > answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of > confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.--Charles Babbage -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Problems with rlogin
Afternoon all, I haven't seen much tech talk lately so I thought I would post a couple of questions that have been bugging me and something really neat I just found. First for the questions. Question 1) No matter what I do, I cannot get rlogin to work on Mandrake 7.1. The machine is running NIS and I can telnet into any account, but for the life of me I cannot get rlogin to work. the rsh package is installed but still no joy. There are no error messages in the logs. Nothing. The clients connecting just time out. What am I doing wrong? Question 2) (same machine) I am running on a Dual P-Pro 200 system and I would like to be able to look at the system load on each processor separately. How can I do this? Top lists a the average for each cpu. So does vmstat. I know that there is a command to do this some where, but I cannot find it. I also know that there is a way to see this information in the /proc directory, but I have yet to stumble on it. Help. Question 3) How can I assign a specific process to a specific CPU? Say I want the system to function on CPU1 and I want a specific process say nastran to run on CPU2? Is there a way to bind a process to a specific CPU every time? Can I keep other processes from attempting to use this CPU? Where can I read more on how Linux uses multiprocessor machines? I am looking at setting up a dual Xeon 900mHz box and I really would like to be able to control what CPU is doing what. Tidbits - in my stumblings on my Redhat 7.0 box I found the following: In the /etc/sysconfig directory there is a harddisks file. This file allows you to setup how your system is accessing your hard drives. Basically it is just a options file for hdparm command, that is run at boot time. Very slick. Well that is it for me. TIA, Garl -- ===== Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: login problem
Mark, Is the Home drive nfs mounted? Is your login local or NIS? If you login to the box as another user, can you su to yourself? Garl Mark Williams wrote: > On a RedHat linux box on a remote login I'm getting a message that my home directory >doesn't exist and then it kicks me out. The home directory does exist, and I'm the >owner, and permissions all look good. The sysadm doesn't know why. Any quick thoughts >on where to troubleshoot? > > Thanks -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: Stuff, stuff and more stuff
What is your best offer so far on the modem? Garl Enchantir wrote: > I just got Mandrake 7.1. Looks great. I like th fact that it actually picked > up my Zip drive... > > I downloaded the newest Star Office suite from Sun via my Cable modem and > peaked out at 440 k/sec. All in all, it took like 3 minutes to download the > almost 93 Meg file. > > The fastest I have seen on the windows side is 260 k/sec. I guess that is > the difference between a networking OS and a POS. :) > > I still have that Modem for sale. > > Ron > Computer Guru to the Gods... > What is it about Penguins that has Microscared so soft??? > > ___ > Say Bye to Slow Internet! > http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
PPP over SSH
Afternoon all, At one point I found instructions on how to setup a ppp connection over ssh. Does anybody know where I could find these again? Also are there any caveats to doing this? What I really want to be able to do is to run my web traffic through a outside box to do some testing on a web page. Can this be easily done? Thanks, Garl -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: Make your Linux hard disk 498% faster!
How do you measure harddrive performance? Bob Miller wrote: > Bob Miller wrote: > > > (a long, boring story.) > > My question was this: > > What should be passed in on the kernel's command line to > enable IDE disk optimization under Mandrake Linux? > > Thanks. > > -- > K > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/ -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Iso files
How do you mount an iso file? I have done this in the past, but for the life of me I cannot figure it out now. Garl -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: where is cdrom dir
usually under /mnt/cdrom John Pocza wrote: > when I open xmms it wants the directory were the traks are -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: NIS ? [not in system]
Do you want to setup a server or a client? If it is a client, I hope the server is not a HP. If it is you may want to consider ritual suicide. It would be less painful. Garl John Pocza wrote: > how do you setup nis -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: iso?
Well that is one ISO I do not have. If nobody else yelps, I can get it for you. Currently I am d/l Suse Sparc v7.0. 4 CDs. Ouch. Kent Loobey wrote: > At 03:22 PM 9/26/00 -0700, you wrote: > >What ISO did you want? > > Well I would like to get the latest version of Red Hat (version 7). I have > been having a lot of trouble with 6.2 and had started to install Slackware > 4.0. I thought that if I was installing 4.0 from a naked cd-rom I should > at least be using the latest (version 7.1). So one thing led to anouther > and I asked what it would take to burn an iso... > > > > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/26/2000 3:32:25 PM >>> > >At 03:15 PM 9/26/00 -0700, you wrote: > >>Yes. > >>What software are you using? > > > >I don't know. I am going to try to get someone with a faster > >connection to > >burn it for me. I just wanted to make sure it could be done > >before I asked... > > > >> > >>Kent Loobey wrote: > >> > >>> At 03:07 PM 9/26/00 -0700, you wrote: > >>> >Yes. Just don't try to put the file on the CD. Use the > >"create > >>> >disk from ISO" option. > >>> > >>> The "create disk from ISO" is a rom burner software option? > >>> > >>> > > >>> > > >>> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/26/2000 2:56:36 PM >>> > >>> >Can I burn a Linux iso cd under Win98 or WinNT/2000? > >>> > > >>> >Thanks. > >>> > > >>> >Kent > >>> > > >> > >>-- > >>== > === > >> > >>Garl R. Grigsby > >>Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team > >>-- > --- > >> > >>Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: > >(800)242-7372 > >>TAO Americas Support Center FAX: > >(541)342-8277 > >>1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: > >>http://www.sdrc.com > >>== > === > >> > >>-FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer > >dangerous- > >>== > === > >> > >>PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 > >>PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 > >45E7 > >>== > === > >> > >> > > -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: iso?
What are you looking for? Garl "I love my T1" Kent Loobey wrote: > At 03:15 PM 9/26/00 -0700, you wrote: > >Yes. > >What software are you using? > > I don't know. I am going to try to get someone with a faster connection to > burn it for me. I just wanted to make sure it could be done before I asked... > > > > >Kent Loobey wrote: > > > >> At 03:07 PM 9/26/00 -0700, you wrote: > >> >Yes. Just don't try to put the file on the CD. Use the "create > >> >disk from ISO" option. > >> > >> The "create disk from ISO" is a rom burner software option? > >> > >> > > >> > > >> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/26/2000 2:56:36 PM >>> > >> >Can I burn a Linux iso cd under Win98 or WinNT/2000? > >> > > >> >Thanks. > >> > > >> >Kent > >> > > > > >-- > >= > > > >Garl R. Grigsby > >Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team > >- > > > >Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 > >TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 > >1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: > >http://www.sdrc.com > >= > > > >-FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- > >= > > > >PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 > >PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 > >= > > > > -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: iso?
Yes. What software are you using? Kent Loobey wrote: > At 03:07 PM 9/26/00 -0700, you wrote: > >Yes. Just don't try to put the file on the CD. Use the "create > >disk from ISO" option. > > The "create disk from ISO" is a rom burner software option? > > > > > > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/26/2000 2:56:36 PM >>> > >Can I burn a Linux iso cd under Win98 or WinNT/2000? > > > >Thanks. > > > >Kent > > -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: kde?
Is KDE installed? If so, when you login, you can choose which window manager you want to use. If not, you will need to download the KDE rpm's. Garl Kent Loobey wrote: > How do I switch my desktop from gnome to kde? I'm using Red Hat 6.2. -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Debain
Ok Debain experts. What is the current release (by number, not name). I am to a point in my life where I need some extra pain. So this week I dive into Debian. Currently I have v2.1. Is this the latest ***stable*** release? If so I am assuming it is based off of a 2.2.1x kernel? Anybody know when to expect the stable 2.4 kernels? Thanks, Garl -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: I'm ba-ack
Travel where? Oregon? NW? US? International? Randolph Fritz wrote: > And I'm shopping for a new ISP. I want imap, irc from my shell account, > and travel access. Am willing to pay. > -- > Randolph Fritz > Eugene, Oregon, USA -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: Question on Memory
Well thanks for the hints. I have a couple of responses below. Garl Bob Miller wrote: > Garl R. Grigsby wrote: me rambling > > Short answer: I don't have a clue. (-: > > Long answer: Here are some ideas... > > 1. Some app is misconfigured and is constantly restarting/dumping >core, and that's keeping your disk busy. This happened on one >machine I put 7.1 on -- the problem was an interaction between >Apache and mod_ssl. I didn't figure it out; I just removed Apache, >since I didn't want a web server there anyway. > >Have you checked syslog and root's mailbox? Y4up and no joy. > > > 2. A kernel or driver bug is leaking memory. If this is the case, >your machine will probably eventually hang. > >Have you checked dmesg? Yes. There are two errors that are each repeated a couple of time, but I have not taken the time to hunt them down. I do not beleive they are related, but I am the first to admit I spend a lot of time being wrong. Here they are for those who are interested (NOTE: these come at the very bottom of dmesg): > scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 02 4d 1f 00 00 >38 00 > Info fld=0x24d2f, Current sd08:01: sense key Medium Error > Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error > scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 150768 > scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 02 5a 57 00 00 >10 00 > Info fld=0x25a63, Current sd08:01: sense key Medium Error > Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error > scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 154144 > scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 02 5a 5f 00 00 >08 00 > Info fld=0x25a63, Current sd08:01: sense key Medium Error > Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error > scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 154144 > scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 02 5a 5f 00 00 >08 00 > Info fld=0x25a63, Current sd08:01: sense key Medium Error > Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error > scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 154144 > ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 > ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 > scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 02 5a 5f 00 00 >08 00 > Info fld=0x25a63, Current sd08:01: sense key Medium Error > Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read error > scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 154144 > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 > > 3. A userland app is leaking memory. Top would show this -- start top >and type 'M' (uppercase) to sort by memory use. Type 'i' >(lowercase) if you don't see a whole screenful of processes. > >The kde tools are known to leak, but not at the rate you're seeing. >I generally have to restart kfm every couple of weeks. X is not running. I typically run from init level 3. I only run X if my HPUX box is down and I need to get something done quickly. Other wise I run everything from a rlogin or telnet session. > 4. Nothing is wrong; you're misreading the tea leaves. Maybe I should start drinking tea again. Then I could figure this out. Hmmm > You say top >shows all memory in use? You aren't basing that on the 4th line >that shows "Mem: ##K av, ##K used", I hope. Those two >numbers are always nearly equal. The Linux kernel caches >aggressively -- it does its best to keep memory full so it won't >have to read from disk. I am basing this on /proc/meminfo. When I look at the MemFree line is will show something like 6k free. Looking at the swap free line I ussually see something like 50% of my swap used (256mb total). >To see the paging rate, try vmstat. Here's some sample vmstat >output under heavy vm load. I will have to do somereading on vmstat. I have never used this command before. Thanks for the hint. > > jogger-egg> vmstat 5 >procs memoryswap io system cpu > r b w swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id > 0 0 0 43316 3476 2896 46388 0 0 3 1118 1 0 6 > 0 0 0 43316 3476 2896 46388 0 0 011 127 124 0 0 99 > 1 0 0 43316 1684 2132 29360 0 0 0 0 106 133 0 3 96 > 2 0 0 56024 1548220 15860 0 25421 636 5188 140 3 93 4 > 2 0 0 69540 1620220 16012 0 27030 676 5509 124 5 95 0 > 2 0 1 81888 1024220 16004 0 2470
Question on Memory
In the last several months (well at least since I joined this list) I have been listening to people go on and on about the virtues of the different linux flavors. When I originally installed linux I installed Redhat 4.something. Well this was not my first attempt, I tried working with linux back around 95-96 but, it would not do what I was looking for so I waited. And watched. Then about 2+ years ago I stumbled across a copy of Redhat, and fell in love. Well anyway I now have two linux boxes I use at work (and 3 at home) for various admin tasks that are both Redhat based. Security was never an issue for me since I sit behind a rather hearty firewall, and Redhat seemed to suit me just fine. Now being an engineer I am never content to just leave well enough alone. I am always trying to make everything work better (Never ask my wife about the VCR.), so of late I have decided to try the other flavors of linux. My first attempt was with Mandrake, mainly because the iso image for Mandrake finished downloading first. At first it seemed to work very well. The system seemed very stable and I had no complaints. Until just recently. In the last several weeks, I have noticed that the OS does not seem to be releasing memory correctly. The machine is a dual Pentium Pro 200 with 196 MB. I was working on the box one day and I noticed that the drive seemed to be running a lot. Most of what I do on the system does not access the disk much. It mostly runs a couple of different Java apps. So I began to investigate and found (through top) that all of the system memory was tied up and the machine was swapping like crazy. So I shut all of the apps down and checked the memory again. It was still running heavily in swap, but nothing appeared to be using much ram. So I shut everything down. Samba, Apache, ypbind, everything I could think of. There was a change, but only a very slight one. So I did something I NEVER do on my Redhat box, I rebooted it. When it came back up it all was normal. So I shrugged my shoulders and went back to work. Two days later the same damn thing happened again. Again, the only workaround I could find was a reboot. I HATE rebooting Unix/Linux boxes, I have to reboot my NT box enough as is. So now to my question(s). 1) How do I find out what app is tying up all of my memory? Top does not list any one app as chewing up all the RAM. 2) Is there a way to force a memory cleanup? (IE force all of the apps to "claim" there allocated memeory?) 3) Is this a problem with Mandrake (v7.1)? (Or is this a PEBKAC problem?) 4) Am I going crazy? 5) Or could this be a problem with the SMP? This is the first time I have ever run Linux on a dual processor machine, so I have no idea if this could be related (I really doubt it, but in my line of work I have learned to question all things computer related) If anybody has any ideas on this I would really appreciate hearing them. I have several Sun Sparc 10's (all dual processors) that I am about to install linux (Either Redhat or Debian. Debian is next on my list of OS's to try so we will see.) on and I need to figure this out, before I dig my present hole any deeper. Thanks. Garl -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- = PGP ID: 0xF2D845E7 PGP Fingerprint: 9C40 CB5E 1C51 CF58 E3F9 3F2C 8F1F F3EF F2D8 45E7 =
Re: Clusters in Linux
Because I have 5 Sparc 10's and nothing to do with them. Michael Smith wrote: > The expression "shits and giggles" comes to mind. > > Bob Miller wrote: > > > Garl R. Grigsby wrote: > > > > > The thread on clusters brought a couple of questions to mind. > > > > I just have one question. > > > > What do you guys want a cluster for, anyway? > > > > -- > > K > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/ -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Clusters in Linux
The thread on clusters brought a couple of questions to mind. Does the application you are running on the cluster need to be specifically written for cluster operation? Or can any-old-app be run on a cluster? Also how much admin is there to running a cluster. I have a trunk full of Sparc 10's that I was just dying to find a use for. This sounds like a great waste of time. Another thing, does the cluster have a master control computer (think brain)? How is the work "shared" between the computers in the cluster? Also how much is does the speed of the network affect the speed of the cluster? How must overhead is there in administering the cluster? Maybe that is more than a couple of questions.. Garl -- ===== Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: File size limit?
Are you getting this message when installing, or when creating the log file from the fortran caluclation? Bob Crandell wrote: > So is Win 95/98. I think it just needs a setting tweaked but being too new at this >... > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/16/2000 12:13:45 PM >>> > Isn't Linux still a 32 bit code? As I recall, a 32 bit code cannot access a file >over 2GB in size without some kind of > trickery. Just what I recall. > > Garl > > Bob Crandell wrote: > > > Here is a message from one of my clients. He is running Mandrake 6.0 on a dual >Pentium 233 with two 36 gig drives. > > > > It seems that I've hit a limit on file size. Do you recall anything > > related to that when installing the big disks? Two of my runs ended > > with the wonderfully informative message "System error: Input/output > > error", after running beautifully for ~12 hours. The output file > > size at the time was 2,147,475,476. > > > > He is running some Fortran calculations that generate a temporary file that might >fill these drives. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > > > > Bob Crandell > > ComSource Associates, Inc. > > Your IT Department > > 747 Willamette St. > > Eugene, Oregon 97401 > > www.comsourceinc.com > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Voice: 541-345-0408 > > FAX: 541-345-0876 > > -- > = > Garl R. Grigsby > Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team > - > Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 > TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 > 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com > ===== > -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: File size limit?
Isn't Linux still a 32 bit code? As I recall, a 32 bit code cannot access a file over 2GB in size without some kind of trickery. Just what I recall. Garl Bob Crandell wrote: > Here is a message from one of my clients. He is running Mandrake 6.0 on a dual >Pentium 233 with two 36 gig drives. > > It seems that I've hit a limit on file size. Do you recall anything > related to that when installing the big disks? Two of my runs ended > with the wonderfully informative message "System error: Input/output > error", after running beautifully for ~12 hours. The output file > size at the time was 2,147,475,476. > > He is running some Fortran calculations that generate a temporary file that might >fill these drives. > Any ideas? > Thanks > > Bob Crandell > ComSource Associates, Inc. > Your IT Department > 747 Willamette St. > Eugene, Oregon 97401 > www.comsourceinc.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: 541-345-0408 > FAX: 541-345-0876 -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Team EUGLUG?
What did you do for SGI? Garl Bob Miller wrote: > Garl R. Grigsby wrote: > > > Sorry all, I am already on a team. But check out my stats. Look under > > Bad_Karma. > > > > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_20126.html > > I'm already a member of a team, too. Team SGI SETI, no less. The > funny thing is, I left SGI last October. The funnier thing is, most > of the biggest contributors to that team are ex-employees. I guess > we forgot to turn the machines off when we left. (-: > > My personal stats are here. > > >http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?email=kbob%40sgi.com&cmd=user_stats_new > > -- > K > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/ -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Team EUGLUG?
Sorry all, I am already on a team. But check out my stats. Look under Bad_Karma. http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_20126.html Rob Hudson wrote: > Team EUGLUG is now in existence. > > Follow these steps to join and start analyzing sky data... > > 1. Get the seti@home client for Unix: > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/unix.html > > For other OSs: > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/download.html > > 2. Untar it and read the READMEs. Running setiathome for the first time > will create an account for you. > > 3. Join Team EUGLUG > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_join_form&id=83862 > > -Rob. -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Unusually high rate of connectivity today?
Reply ala BOFH. [root@big_nasty_linux_box /root]# echo "What's your ip address?" [root@big_nasty_linux_box /root]# read ADDR [root@big_nasty_linux_box /root]# ping -f $ADDR [root@big_nasty_linux_box /root]# echo "bwaaahahahahahahahaa" Michael Smith wrote: > All of my connections are hitting land-speed records for data downloads > today. Just curious if anybody else has noticed this too? Maybe the > Napster-heads are figuring out that Napster will be around for awhile so > there's no need to rush out and download everything. > > my house: 344K/sec > @home: 90K/sec > > --Mike -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Free for the first taker
Wow, That didn't take long. They are gone. In fact the first respondent took less than 15 min to respond. Garl Garl R Grigsby wrote: > I have two older Micron Cases, free for the first taker. One of the > cases has a dead Pentium Pro 200 motherboard and a powersupply. The > other has a Pentium 100 motherboard, chip, fan, powersupply, 10 mb > nic, 2mb(maybe?) and a Diamond Stealth 64 vram video card. If nobody > responds...? > > Garl > > > -- > Garl R. Grigsby > Customer Applications Engineer > Americas Support Center - Eugene, OR > Team Americas Operations > Structural Dynamics Research Corporation > Hotline 800-242-7372 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fax 541-342-8277 > > -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Free for the first taker
I have two older Micron Cases, free for the first taker. One of the cases has a dead Pentium Pro 200 motherboard and a powersupply. The other has a Pentium 100 motherboard, chip, fan, powersupply, 10 mb nic, 2mb(maybe?) and a Diamond Stealth 64 vram video card. If nobody responds...? Garl -- Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineer Americas Support Center - Eugene, OR Team Americas Operations Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Hotline 800-242-7372 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax 541-342-8277
Redhat mouse problem.
Afternoon all, A friend of mine just installed RedHat 6.2 for the first time. He got through the installation with no problems, but when he logs in, the mouse is stuck in the upper right corner. If you move the mouse, the cursor with jump around, but always returns to the upper right corner. The mouse works correctly during the installation, and only flakes out when he is working in X. I have hunted around on the net, but have found no answers. Anybody have any ideas? Garl -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Free computer Crap
Well I am stuck on a voice conf call and I can't place the call. How about you call me? I should be off in the next hour or so. 687-2685. RonL wrote: > Ok, 485-2368 > > Leave a message. First one to the phone gets it. leave your number and I > will contact you later today to set up a time to hand it over. > > Ron -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Free computer Crap
Sure I am interested. I can put it to good use. Garl RonL wrote: > Lots of cables, a few drives, cards and such > > Ron > > - Original Message - > From: "Garl R. Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 11:08 AM > Subject: Re: Free computer Crap > > > what kind of crap? I would probably be interested. I am always building > > computers for peoples kids, kids schools, moms, etc. > > > > Garl > > > > RonL wrote: > > > > > ok, I am moving to Portland in less than a month and I have decided > > > that I don't want to cart all this crap up there with me. I have a box > > > full of misc. parts and pieces that I am going to give to the first > > > person who wants it. Ron > > > > -- > > > > = > > > > Garl R. Grigsby > > Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team > > -- > --- > > > > Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 > > TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 > > 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: > > http://www.sdrc.com > > > ============ > = > > > > -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- > > > > -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Free computer Crap
what kind of crap? I would probably be interested. I am always building computers for peoples kids, kids schools, moms, etc. Garl RonL wrote: > ok, I am moving to Portland in less than a month and I have decided > that I don't want to cart all this crap up there with me. I have a box > full of misc. parts and pieces that I am going to give to the first > person who wants it. Ron -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Hello
Well I read and post occationally. I am bound and determined to get to one of the thursday meetings, but I never seem to be able to get away from work in time. But I am sure nobody knows how that is Garl Michael Smith wrote: > Well, hello to all newbies. I'm pretty sure that we have lots of other > lurkers who read the list but never post. That's OK, but I'm just curious > who's out there. You never know. > > --Mike -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Network analyzer
Evening all, Does anybody know of any software that would help me determine how much traffic is going across a wan connection? As of late the T1 connect we have to our main office has gotten rather sluggish. The "IT" folks at our main office are trying to say this is because we are "filling" the T1 continuously with data. I tend not to believe this be cause the problem is continuous (even at night and on the weekends) but I need someway to refute there theory. Does anybody have an idea as to how I could approach this? Thanks, Garl -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Formatting a hard drive
Ron, is mke2fs what you are looking for? This will create a ext2 file system. Garl Blade wrote: > How do I format my harddrive in Linux? > > Ron
Re: Logrotate
Bob et al,
Thanks, guess I missed that. And yes FEA=Finite Element Analysis.
Thanks Again,
Garl
Bob Miller wrote:
> Garl R. Grigsby wrote:
>
> > I have what I thought was a rather stupid question but... RedHat
> > 6.1/2 seems to have logrotate installed and running by default, but I
> > cannot find where it is being started from. Not from a cron job like I
> > initially thought. Anybody know?
>
> It's a cron job. Look in /etc/{,ana}crontab. /etc/*crontab calls
> "run-parts /etc/cron.daily". /etc/cron.daily/logrotate calls
> logrotate. (At least that's how it works in Mandrake 6.1 and 7.0.)
>
> Speaking of which, I read the interview with Andy Hertzfeld on
> Slashdot yesterday. Eazel looks very cool. I poked around their web
> site, www.eazel.com, and found that one of the job listings requires:
>
> ... Deep knowledge and extensive experience with a wide range
> of Linux configurations is essential.
>
> Vast (we mean vast) knowledge of the intricacies involved in
> Linux system management...
>
> Familiarity with all the major Linuxdistributions, and the
> differences between them...
>
> That job sounds really intriguing (not that I'm qualified).
>
> > -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
>
> What's FEA? Finite Element Analysis, or some other FEA?
>
> --
> K
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/
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1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Logrotate
Evening all, I have what I thought was a rather stupid question but... RedHat 6.1/2 seems to have logrotate installed and running by default, but I cannot find where it is being started from. Not from a cron job like I initially thought. Anybody know? Thanks. Garl -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Console messages
Dang it, I thought I had the HTML garbage turned off. Sorry. It is definately off now. Ok I am running xconsole from the linux machine to the HP. After removing the "-file /dev/console" flag, I get some of the messages, but not all. Any ideas on that? Garl Bob Miller wrote: > Garl R Grigsby wrote: > > > [HTML] > > Try it without the "-file /dev/console" part. That part is definitely > wrong - it says "read keyboard input from the console and display it." > > You're running it on the Linux box with $DISPLAY pointing to your > HP, right? > -- > K > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/ -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Console messages
I need some help with an annoying problem. Currently I run a HP-UX workstation at work. I also run a couple of linux (or was that lunix) samba servers. My problem is this. I never work at the console and Samba seems bound and determined to send error messages to the console. So I figured I could run xconsole on my HP, and still be notified of the errors. But it doesn't work. Does anybody know why? Or better yet, how I can do this? Thanks, Garl PS here is the command I use to launch xconsole: xconsole -dameon -exitOnFail -file /dev/console -notify -- Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineer Americas Support Center - Eugene, OR Team Americas Operations Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Hotline 800-242-7372 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax 541-342-8277
Rlogin problems
Ok, Somebody please help be before I go nuts. At work we are behind a very good firewall so we work with our unix boxes in a trusted mode (i.e. you can rlogin to most any box without a password.). I recently upgraded our groups linux server from RedHat 6.0 to RedHat 6.2 to take advantage for several reasons. Now I cannot for the life of me, get the stupid thing to let me rlogin without a password. I know I this worked on the 6.0 box, because I have dozens of scripts that use rlogin/rexec/rsh etc. Can anybody help me out? Has something changed in 6.2? Thanks, Garl -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Anyone Experienced with RAID?
DOH! I just re-read my response. I guess I had spent too many hours staring at a screen and my brain was fried. Sorry. Here is what I should have said: Raid 0 is stripping with no parity. Raid 5 is stripping with Parity. If you loose any of the disks in a Raid 0 array, you loose the array. If you loose a disk in a Raid 5 array, you will run in a degraded mode. This a very degraded mode. If you are looking for good I/O and high avalibility, I would recommend going with Raid 5. For a better explaination of Raid, I would look to this link. It does a very good job of giving an overview of Raid. Sorry for any confusion I caused. Garl "Garl R. Grigsby" wrote: Dennis, I am not THAT experienced with Raid on Linux, but from my experiences with spec'ing out a Sun ES250, I would say that he should definitely go with Hardware raid. As for the the question of Raid 0/Raid 5, you have to ask yourself, can I be down while I rebuild? Raid 5 will give you slightly better performance (depends on several things: raid controller cache, hdd speed, network speed, and size of data files.), but if you loose a disk, you will be down for a while. If you need a system that is never down, and you want the performance advantages of Raid 5, then maybe look into a Raid 10 (stripped and mirrored). This is probably the best performance wise, but is very expensive. I would check http://www.acnc.com/raid.html for a better explanation. Hope that helps. Garl Dennis Soper wrote: > On 24 Apr 2000, at 17:42, Garl R. Grigsby wrote: > > > I have just setup a soft-raid box. I downloaded the Software > > Raid-howto, carefully followed the directions, and everything went > > very smoothly. This is not a real high performance box, P200 > > overdrive, 128 Ram, 4 1GB SCSI HDD, Raid 5, BUT it does work very > > well. I am currently using the raid mount on a samba server. > > Currently the only thing that is on there are some audio files (mp3s) > > while I test this out, but so far, the performance is excellent. What > > were your questions? > > He wanted to know about hardware vs. software RAID, performance > of RAID 5 vs. RAID 0, cost, TCO (as in time to administer), and the > difficulty of setting it up. > > The box is probably going to be a single-processor PIII-600 with 1/2- > 1 GB RAM that has an average of 75 users attached during > business hours, and there are databases involved, but any number > crunching is done on the workstations. > > Cheers, > Dennis > "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." > --Noel Godin -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous- -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Anyone Experienced with RAID?
Dennis, I am not THAT experienced with Raid on Linux, but from my experiences with spec'ing out a Sun ES250, I would say that he should definitely go with Hardware raid. As for the the question of Raid 0/Raid 5, you have to ask yourself, can I be down while I rebuild? Raid 5 will give you slightly better performance (depends on several things: raid controller cache, hdd speed, network speed, and size of data files.), but if you loose a disk, you will be down for a while. If you need a system that is never down, and you want the performance advantages of Raid 5, then maybe look into a Raid 10 (stripped and mirrored). This is probably the best performance wise, but is very expensive. I would check http://www.acnc.com/raid.html for a better explanation. Hope that helps. Garl Dennis Soper wrote: > On 24 Apr 2000, at 17:42, Garl R. Grigsby wrote: > > > I have just setup a soft-raid box. I downloaded the Software > > Raid-howto, carefully followed the directions, and everything went > > very smoothly. This is not a real high performance box, P200 > > overdrive, 128 Ram, 4 1GB SCSI HDD, Raid 5, BUT it does work very > > well. I am currently using the raid mount on a samba server. > > Currently the only thing that is on there are some audio files (mp3s) > > while I test this out, but so far, the performance is excellent. What > > were your questions? > > He wanted to know about hardware vs. software RAID, performance > of RAID 5 vs. RAID 0, cost, TCO (as in time to administer), and the > difficulty of setting it up. > > The box is probably going to be a single-processor PIII-600 with 1/2- > 1 GB RAM that has an average of 75 users attached during > business hours, and there are databases involved, but any number > crunching is done on the workstations. > > Cheers, > Dennis > "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." > --Noel Godin -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Anyone Experienced with RAID?
Dennis, I have just setup a soft-raid box. I downloaded the Software Raid-howto, carefully followed the directions, and everything went very smoothly. This is not a real high performance box, P200 overdrive, 128 Ram, 4 1GB SCSI HDD, Raid 5, BUT it does work very well. I am currently using the raid mount on a samba server. Currently the only thing that is on there are some audio files (mp3s) while I test this out, but so far, the performance is excellent. What were your questions? Garl Dennis Soper wrote: > Hi all, > > A friend of mine who works at a local nonprofit needs some advice > about setting up a Samba server on a box that is using RAID (0 or > 5, he's undecided). Anyone done this? > > Cheers, > Dennis > "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." > --Noel Godin -- ========= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Re: Fwd: Your reviews
How do you take advantage of this? > > >1. 20% Discount for your members on all O'Reilly books and > > software -- ============= Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
Soft Raid
Hello all, I am about to embark on an adventure. I am going to try to run soft-raid on Redhat 6.2. I was hoping somebody could give me an idea of how well this works, how difficult it is to get working, and how stable it is. Also are there any problems I should be aware of before I start? I have been through the HOWTO and the FAQ, but I was hoping for first hand experience. TIA, Garl -- = Garl R. Grigsby Customer Applications Engineering - Analysis Team - Structural Dynamics Research Corporation Phone: (800)242-7372 TAO Americas Support Center FAX: (541)342-8277 1750 Willow Creek Circle Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene, OR 97402 Internet: http://www.sdrc.com = -FEA makes a good engineer great, and a poor engineer dangerous-
