Re: [SLUG] memory usage
That's what I was after. Thanks. On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:40:29 +0900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not sure what you exactly want, but 1. free 2. top 3. cat /proc/mem will all give you info about memory you can put (1) and (3) inside a loop if you want to monitor, ie while true do free sleep 1 done On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:28:09 +1100 sm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Could anybody tell me how I can monitor memory usage from the command line? Thanks, Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] memory usage
Better still watch -n1 free On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while true do free sleep 1 done -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] memory usage
Try vmstat I use 'vmstat 5' (prints memory and other parameters to stdout every 5 seconds) Cheers, Barrie - Original Message - From: sm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 4:28 PM Subject: [SLUG] memory usage Hi, Could anybody tell me how I can monitor memory usage from the command line? Thanks, Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] An odd ping thing
I'm currently playing with a script to measure average ping times between some sites and have tries a variety of the ping options, but I have noticed some curious behavour. If I flood ping for 1 second with: ping -q -n -f -w1 target then it appears to put out around 100 packets, I get quite high packet loss and a ping time average around the same as for a normal ping. If I war ping with 100 packets in 1 second with: ping -q -n -c100 -i0.01 target then I get no packet loss and a similar ping time when the target is a PSTN connection. Now here comes the odd bit. If I take out the -q option so that I can see the responses, then from ADSL to PSTN the ping times marginally increase during the sequence. From ADSL to ISDN the ping time increases by a factor of around 2 from start to end. From ADSL to ADSL however this ping time increases steadily over the 1 second by a factor of over 15. Weird... -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Kernel panics reading cdroms
I've been trying to write the 6th CD in an 8 CD full backup set. cdrecord kept failing, on 3 different CD-RW discs (at a different point for each one). Each CD contains just two files. One is empty and is the name of the backup set, and the other is a cpio archive of the backup data that will fit on one CD. The CD filesystem is a plain ISO9660 type. I seemed to eventually succeed, with a 4th CD-RW. Then I mounted it, and looked at the two files on it, and it seemed fine. But when I ran cpio on the backup file from the CD, to verify it, the system panicked. I've had about 10 panics tonight. (After the 1st one, I booted into single user mode and unmounted all but the small root system, to minimise fsck times.) From a text console, the panic message was something like: Aiee. Can't return from interrupt handler. Panic. At first I suspected that a dodgy filesystem had been created on the CD, but I get pretty much the same result even accessing ordinary CDs (e.g. a CD from a Linux magazine). But sometimes it works. Sometimes the system panics when mounting the CD; sometimes it panics when copying large files from it; sometimes the CD can in fact be read. I'm running RH 7.1 with a 2.4.17 kernel. Though I get the same panics from the original RH 7.1 kernel. The CD is a pretty new Sony CD-RW CRX175E, running via generic scsi emulation. It's on a shared bus with a DVDROM drive, that's also managed as a generic scsi. I got the same kind of crash from the DVDROM drive, which is original equipment with the computer. So I suspect the problem is in the scsi emulation system. The new element is the CD-RW drive. I may not have actually tried to use it to read bulk data from CD before today... Until today, I've had no trouble writing with it. How robust is Linux with regard to device errors on scsi devices? Certainly, the previous HP CD writer that started playing up, was handled very badly by Linux when it did play up. The scsi module went into a tight loop re-sending the scsi command that failed, and filling /var/log/messages with error messages as fast as it could. (The only way that I could find to stop it was to reboot.) There is also this discouraging comment in the man page for cdrecord: The Philips CDD 521 CD-Recorder (even in the upgraded ver sion) has several firmware bugs. Some of them will force you to power cycle the device or to reboot the machine. When using cdrecord with the broken Linux SCSI generic driver. You should note that cdrecord uses a hack, that tries to emulate the functionality of the scg driver. Unfortunately, the sg driver on Linux has several severe bugs: · It cannot see if a SCSI command could not be sent at all. · It cannot get the SCSI status byte. Cdrecord for that reason cannot report failing SCSI commands in some situations. · It cannot get real DMA count of transfer. Cdrecord cannot tell you if there is an DMA residual count. · It cannot get number of bytes valid in auto sense data. Cdrecord cannot tell you if device transfers no sense data at all. · It fetches to few data in auto request sense (CCS/SCSI-2/SCSI-3 needs = 18). I'm a little puzzled that I can write CDs reliably (e.g. music CDs), but not read them. Does anyone have any advice? Should I report this problem to someone? If so, which group? For the generic scsi device to be described as it is in cdrecord's man page, it sounds like this problem has been around for a while. Anyway, I thought I'd send this before trying any more experiments, to see if anyone had any advice. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] [OT] burned on a deal
Hi Andrew, Sorry to hear of your misfortune. While it is possible that the unit will work at 110 v. your monitor is not likely to want to run at that voltage. You also risk the prospect of problems caused by confusing which cable is which under your desk. Firstly, put the problem in writing to the seller. Send a copy in writing to Auction Traders along with a covering letter requesting their involvement in the dispute and for them to advise you of their procedures. Do this by email but also invest a few dollars and send a hard copy by secure post or registered mail to their company secretary. This is your buy -in. Getting your money back will depend on your negotiation skills and on how good a poker player you are. Auction Traders need to see the benefits of being on your side vs the costs of being other than on your side. You need to lead them to this revelation without threatening them. You then need them to feel obliged to act on your behalf. In the event that the seller tells everyone to rack-off, you need Auction Traders to put their hands in their own pocket. This is all possible. Their Terms Conditions don't have the air of having been composed by top flight legal team at Allens, Mallesons or Minter Ellison. Rather they have the distinct odour of something that was copied from elswhere and modified to suit by the companies managers. ( typos, spelling mistakes, errors in phrasing and case, etc. - perhaps somebody's sister was dating a second year law student.) My point is they appear to have cheaped out on having their T C properly put together. If Auction Traders have to refer this to a solicitor it will cost them $1,000 minimum. If they have to put on a defence in the Federal Court, $15,000 to lodge and another $20,000 to run - minimum. Given the nature of their business they are an attractive target for both ACCC and Fair Trades. It is therefore more likely that you will be able to persuade some government authority to run the matter for you. COST TO YOU - SOME PHONE CALLS AND A LOT OF NAGGING. Auction Traders business is dependant on the confidence of prospective buyers. Confidence that is unlikely to endure any negative publicity much less a well promoted negative web site. Your posting to SLUG has already cost them some buyer confidence. Most auction sites take a fairly dim view of misleading descriptions and from the wording of their condition #15 (quoted below) one can reasonably assume that Auctiontrader.com.au are no exception. They also appoint themselves as sole arbiter in any disputes (condition #2 below). Thus implying that they have the power to effect a satisfactory outcome in the case of such a dispute. And it is implied that they will do so with respect to the laws of the State of Victoria ( their Fair Trades Act mirrors the Federal Trade Practices Act and is almost word for word identical to the NSW Act) and the Laws of the Commonwealth of Australia. See condition #1 as permitted by Australian Federal Law, and the Law of the State of Victoria, and if any portion is held invalid. All of these jurisdictions would take a dim view of the sellers advertisement for its ommissions. Firstly ask them to deliver on this. They have been as unwitting a victim of this unscupulous seller as you have. If they don't you have an action against them under Trade Practices on the basis that their published terms and conditions are a misleading advertisement. The relationships between the seller and Auction Trader is a little blured as to who is actually making the statements about the UPS ( do Auction Traders refer to the word advertisement anywhere on their site?). BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER! Auction Trader is either the agent making the statement themselves, or they are the publisher in the same position as News Ltd or Fairfax. Their conditions don't make this clear - either way they are in deep doodoo over a misleading advertisement The commercial expedient for them is to find in your favour and do their upmost to assist in your recovering the monies paid. This would include the invocation of Condition #15 and I suspect extend to providing access to any logs or other documents in their possesion to assist in identifying and determining the nature of the seller. They could further demonstrate their good faith by joining you in any action against the seller. By the publishing of their Terms and Conditions they have produced an advertisement as defined in Federal Trade Practices Law. Their is the question of the exact content of the advertisement - eg: Was the question of new/ second hand addressed at all? Were any statements made as to its suitability for a particular purpose? ( including the category it was listed under). Further the issue of duty of care. What advice/warnings do they issue to sellers when placing ads? And what prominence do the essential parts of these comments have? Are they bold and obvious or hidden in a great length of continuos
Re: [SLUG] Python SIG: The saga continues.
quote who=Andrew Bennetts Second Tuesdays after Meetings are ctte meetings, so it can't be then. Perhaps SLUG needs to maintain some sort of monthly events calendar to make scheduling these things a bit easier? Well, we have this new website thingy that kind of does that. Gus can explain. Heh -- you really need to take a close look at Twisted (twistedmatrix.com, or just apt-get install twisted)... I didn't think it had anything appropriate for this particular task, but I'll peek again. I've no idea what your problem is That's funny, everyone else claims they know what all of my problems are... but I'm sure Twisted is one of the answers :) ... and everyone says that's one of them! FIE! ;) - Jeff -- Broken hearts rarely come with Some Assembly Required stickers. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Crazy stuff with osd and procmail
Heyhey crazy kids, Here's another damn fool stunt to pull with procmail: ONSCREEN=osd_cat --color=#ffe000 --offset=-70 --delay=2 --shadow=2 --font=-urw-eurostile-bold-r-normal-*-*-480-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 :0 ich * ^Subject:.*\/.* | echo $MATCH | $ONSCREEN What does this do? XOSD - pointed out to me my Jacques Wilkinson of This Very List - is a cool little utility that prints up an onscreen display in X. Very nifty for music players and the like. The procmail snippet pipes the subject (sucked out of the headers by matching it) to xosd's osd_cat command, which pops it up on your screen to alert you. You can do anything with osd_cat, and you can also use the osd library to bring crazy osd fun to your own software. An Evolution filter hack would be pretty cool. ;) On Debian, you can get it (and the associated xmms plugin) with: apt-get install xmms-osd-plugin xosd-bin Crazy Crack! Go get some! Run, don't waltz! - Jeff -- 2.4.1ac17 is full of innovations and should be used with caution. - Linux Weekly News -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] [OT] Someone subscribe me to linux-kernel
It appears the IP you are coming from is listed as in a 'dialup pool' that has originated spam. See: http://relays.osirusoft.com/cgi-bin/rbcheck.cgi?addr=63.60.254.167 I'm not surprised uu.net (AKA Ozemail) gets tared with this brush from time to time. Richard. On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, James wrote: Hi, Can someone please subscribe my address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the Linux kernel mailing list, by sending mail to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command: subscribe linux-kernel [EMAIL PROTECTED] The dickhead who manages this list has fucked it up and I cannot subscribe myself, not from any address. I must be on a bad IP block or something, this is the only possible reason I see now. Thanks, James -- Richard Ames linsup.com, Sydney, Australia mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linsup.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Python SIG: The saga continues.
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 01:10, Mary Gardiner wrote: Hi again SLUG, I'm still intending starting a SLUG Python SIG, but here's what I need: Something I've been meaning to ask for a while now is ... Are there any people in SLUG who've been bitten by the Ruby bug yet? I'd appreciate it if we could dispense with the usual flames like why bother with yet ANOTHER language. If you're not interested, that's absolutely fine with me. I just figured there must be at least one other person on the list who has decided Ruby was a better fit for them than Perl or Python, or was at least interested in having a play with it. Hopefully, there'll be two people and we can start our own SIG :-). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] [OT] Someone subscribe me to linux-kernel
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 06:32:56 +1100 James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can someone please subscribe my address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to the Linux kernel mailing list, by sending mail to the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the command: subscribe linux-kernel [EMAIL PROTECTED] That won't work. It will still test the address and reject it. The dickhead who manages this list has fucked it up and I cannot subscribe There's a reason for it. With the traffic that goes on that list (300 odd emails per day) and large numbers of people sunbscribed (probably many thousands), they don't want to get any addresses on the list that will bounce and inconvienience everyone on the list. Your email address has been identified as one which is likely to cause problems for them so they refuse to subscribe it. Thats their right. Have you tried the email address that you used to post to this list? Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) +---+ Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer. I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. -- Jim Allchin, Microsoft -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: Debian 2.3 Config Documentation
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:45:45PM +1100, chesty wrote: I have found the lack of documentation about how Debian configure things after the installation quite a surprise. Does anyone know of any decent documentation on post installation of a Debian release? So you're looking for the Secret knowledge of the Debian pack? www.debian.org www.debian.org/doc apt-get install debian-guide apt-get install debian-policy apt-get install doc-debian *everyone* should have a flick through the Debian FAQ (/usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ/index.html from doc-debian) i'd been using Debian for more than a year before i discovered it, and i still learnt several very useful things. if you want to make it all a little easier to browse, consider installing dhelp, then looking at /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html (or http://localhost/doc/HTML/) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] RedHat 7.2 network installation problem
hello guys, i am having a problem installing RedHat 7.2 using a PCMCIA network card (D-Link DFE660) on a Compaq Armada laptop. I have a linux desktop set up as a DHCP server and ftp server (Mandrake 8.1) I made the pcmcia boot disk and pcmcia driver disk. boot from the disk is ok, so is the driver. Linux detected my d-link card ok and asked me to config the TCP/IP. I selected using DHCP and from the syslog on the DHCP server i can see that an IP has been assigned to the laptop. However, the laptop did not give me any error message nor did it allow me to select the network installation methods (FTP, HTTP or NFS). If i configure the TCP/IP using static IP(192.168.0.250, MASK 255.255.255.0 no gateway, no DNS), then choose install from FTP, it gives me that error that could not connect the FTP server (192.168.0.103 no message in the syslog off course). I think those two machines are not networked. do you guys have any idea what is going on here? thanks a lot Jeff http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2 network installation problem
is this pc to pc, or pc to hub to pc ? in the 1st case you need 1 cross cable in the 2nd case you need 2 straight cables if you do not have the correct utp cable wiring, then you're network won't connect. One test is to ping (using the ip numbers) once the network is configured (ifconfig/route). another thing to check is that the routing is correct, and esp that the default route (though for a local install, all lan references local, standard netmask routing ought to be sufficient). -Greg On 12-Jan-2002 Jeff Ai wrote: hello guys, i am having a problem installing RedHat 7.2 using a PCMCIA network card (D-Link DFE660) on a Compaq Armada laptop. I have a linux desktop set up as a DHCP server and ftp server (Mandrake 8.1) I made the pcmcia boot disk and pcmcia driver disk. boot from the disk is ok, so is the driver. Linux detected my d-link card ok and asked me to config the TCP/IP. I selected using DHCP and from the syslog on the DHCP server i can see that an IP has been assigned to the laptop. However, the laptop did not give me any error message nor did it allow me to select the network installation methods (FTP, HTTP or NFS). If i configure the TCP/IP using static IP(192.168.0.250, MASK 255.255.255.0 no gateway, no DNS), then choose install from FTP, it gives me that error that could not connect the FTP server (192.168.0.103 no message in the syslog off course). I think those two machines are not networked. do you guys have any idea what is going on here? thanks a lot Jeff http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug +-+ You can release software that's good, software that's inexpensive, or software that's available on time. You can usually release software that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all 3. | Greg Hosler [EMAIL PROTECTED]| +-+ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2 network installation problem
It's pc-hub-pc connection. and i think the cables are ok. coz i can see a DHCP request has been recieved by the dhcp server and a ip has been offered. this is the message from /var/log/message Jan 13 13:04:10 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.249 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 when static ip is used. this is my config IP: 192.168.0.250 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: n/a Primary nameserver: n/a then FTP server: 192.168.0.103 (this is also the dhcp server) --- Greg Hosler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this pc to pc, or pc to hub to pc ? in the 1st case you need 1 cross cable in the 2nd case you need 2 straight cables if you do not have the correct utp cable wiring, then you're network won't connect. One test is to ping (using the ip numbers) once the network is configured (ifconfig/route). another thing to check is that the routing is correct, and esp that the default route (though for a local install, all lan references local, standard netmask routing ought to be sufficient). -Greg On 12-Jan-2002 Jeff Ai wrote: hello guys, i am having a problem installing RedHat 7.2 using a PCMCIA network card (D-Link DFE660) on a Compaq Armada laptop. I have a linux desktop set up as a DHCP server and ftp server (Mandrake 8.1) I made the pcmcia boot disk and pcmcia driver disk. boot from the disk is ok, so is the driver. Linux detected my d-link card ok and asked me to config the TCP/IP. I selected using DHCP and from the syslog on the DHCP server i can see that an IP has been assigned to the laptop. However, the laptop did not give me any error message nor did it allow me to select the network installation methods (FTP, HTTP or NFS). If i configure the TCP/IP using static IP(192.168.0.250, MASK 255.255.255.0 no gateway, no DNS), then choose install from FTP, it gives me that error that could not connect the FTP server (192.168.0.103 no message in the syslog off course). I think those two machines are not networked. do you guys have any idea what is going on here? thanks a lot Jeff http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug +-+ You can release software that's good, software that's inexpensive, or software that's available on time. You can usually release software that has 2 of these 3 attributes -- but not all 3. | Greg Hosler [EMAIL PROTECTED]| +-+ http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2 network installation problem
I found this interesting. when a dhcp client requests a IP those messages will be logged: Jan 13 14:04:48 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.250 (192.168.0.103) from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.250 (192.168.0.103) from 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 Jan 13 14:04:49 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.250 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 192.168.0.103 is my dhcp server and 192.168.0.250 is the IP assigned to the client however, when i choose to use DHCP when installing i have one message logged: Jan 13 13:04:10 mightymouse dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.0.249 to 00:50:ba:7b:12:58 via eth0 does this mean anything? Jeff http://my.yahoo.com.au - My Yahoo! - It's My Yahoo! Get your own! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] nmblookup and Konquerer lan browsing
Hi Malcolm [...snipped...] Where are you clicking on network? NETWORK appears like network neighbourhood in Windows underneath the Folders etc... on the left hand side of konqueror This is an interesting feature. lan connects to lisa and rlan connects to reslisa. Lisa opens a port (7124 by default I think), reslisa does not do this. Lisa itself uses this port to talk to other lisa servers running on the network, and also the konqueror client uses it (so if you have lisa only running on machine homer and you are on machine marge, lan://localhost wont work, but lan://homer will). Reslisa does everything lisa does except it's output is taken from a specially created pipe(?) in /tmp, instead of a port. Rlan:/ connects konqueror to this pipe (so rlan only works on machines where reslisa is running locally). I'm not sure why some machines are not resolved to hostnames, my best guess is that those not found by nmblookup stay as numbers. All my machines are detected by reslisa and lisa, what does your reslisarc/lisarc file look like, particulary the PingNames, PingAddresses and AllowedAddresses fields? KDE control panel has (on Mandrake) 2 configuration things for this, Under Configuration,KDE,network, there is Windows Shares and Lan Browsing These update files /$HOME/.kde/share/config/kio_lanrc /$HOME/.kde/share/config/lisarc /$HOME/.kde/share/config/rlisarc While looking for these lisarc and rlisarc files, I came across - /$HOME/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/dirtree/lan.desktop it has a line which says URL=lan:/ which is the problem I changed that to URL=lan://localhost/localhost and it works by displaying the active network shares for my computer as defined in the KDE control center I then changed it to read rlan:/ This then should display the machines on the network Both lisarc and rlisarc, I have setup mostly the same (added comments here) AllowedAddresses=X.Y.0.0/255.255.252.0 # local lan addresses and subnet mask BroadcastNetwork=X.Y.107.255/255.255.252.0 # only in lisarc for range X.Y.105.30 FirstWait=99# time to wait for reply in 1/100 sec MaxPingsAtOnce=256 # unexplained meaning PingAddresses=X.Y.0.0/255.255.252.0 # only in lisarc -address range PingNames=X.Y.104.121;X.Y.199.9.116;X.Y.10.45 # these are wins servers on the lan SearchUsingNmblookup=1 # this is self explanatory SecondWait=99 # as first wait UpdatePeriod=300# Refresh period ? My questions ? With my settings above, would a machine with X.Y.107.21 be allowed ? X.Y.143.187? How much do lisarc and reslisarc rely on settings in smb.conf ? Should I put Wins Servers addresses in the line PingNames ? In smb.conf there are two lines remote browse sync and remote announce In Windows Network Neighbourhood, the Domain is displayed, as the domain covers multiple sites, and ip ranges, eg. X.Y.0.0-X.Y.?.? and X.Y.104.0-X.Y.107.255 They all see each other, no problem What should my settings be in smb.conf ? My IP is X.Y.105.30 Should remote browse sync be the ip address of the wins server ? Should remote announce be set to X.Y.107.255 ? Trying to get this happening Chris I hope this helps more then it confuses. It did help somewhat, thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] DSL vs Cable security
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Dennis M. Gray wrote: A friend in the USA has been told that DSL is more secure than cable modem. Are there anything to back up this claim? All opinions solicited. Depends how you define secure. As far as normal network-type security goes - they're both running IP, so they're both prone to hacks, link-lookers, backdoors, trojans, viruses and whatever else someone dreams up to make life difficult on the net. If you're referring to physical security - xDSL is slightly more secure because the last mile connection is dedicated - and intolerant to physical taps on the wire. Cable modems run on a broadcast medium, so theoretically anyone in your cable segment could, if they were smart enough, listen in to your packet conversations and do some form of man-in-the-middle attack. The probability of the latter, however, is extremely low. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: INIT: ID1 respawning too fast ...
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:41:56PM +1100, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: INIT:Id4 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel. When I tried the same with the 2.4.14 kernel it was simpler: Starting GNOME display manager Not sure why you got that message above with kernel 2.4.14 but not from 2.2. I thought you had stopped gdm from starting. (at least from runlevel 2) Does grep default /etc/inittab return: # The default runlevel. id:2:initdefault: INIT:Id1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel I can only make some guesses here. getty appears to be unhappy. Boot in single user mode and check that your tty devices exist ie: ls -l /dev/tty? The first two of mine look like: crw--- 1 root root 4, 0 Jan 9 20:28 /dev/tty0 crw--- 1 root tty 4, 1 Jan 13 15:24 /dev/tty1 See if you have any messages in syslog from than last time you booted and got the respawn messages, ie less /var/log/syslog scroll down to that last time you booted and look for any error messages, or anything that might give you a clue. Try running getty from the command line: /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 See if you get any error messages, or you could try strace /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 2/tmp/getty.out then less /tmp/getty.out Has anyone got any constructive ideas ? You could swap hdb and hde, then do a fresh install of debian on the new blank hdb, upgrade it to woody (or potato + bunk packages) and kernel 2.4. Then try and work out whats broken on your old system, which you should be able to see as hde. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 25th January, 2002
Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 25th January, 2002 * When: 6:30pm - about 9pm (then dinner, etc) * Where: UTS, Central Sydney http://slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml The Usual Suspects - 6:30pm * QA - What has Linux done for/to me lately? * Linux News Discussion Michael Palmer on LambdaMoo MUDing is a popular past-time amongst various segments of the online community - many a University student has fallen foul of their lures. The difficulty has often been creating one of your very own. MOO (for MUD - Object Oriented) is an OO-based programming language, descended from C and Pascal, which is easy to learn, easy to program, and provides a rich interactive component. Human interaction with a MOO is in the form of English-like sentences. This talk will look at MOOs, both interacting with them and programming your own. It will also investigate several non-traditional uses of the MOO system. Grant Parnell on MFilter Abstract coming soon. It's abount viruses and MTAs and 'stuff'. ;) Dinner - about 9pm After the meeting at the House of Boiled Television Entrails. The real name is of course, The House of Guang Zhou, and you'll find it in Haymarket (especially if you follow the crowd at the end of the night). - Jeff -- Think video. Think text flickering over your walls. Think games at work. Think anything where a staid, link-based browser is useless. This person wrote for Ab Fab, right? - Rich Welykochy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
