Free Radio Linux

2002-02-05 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
>From Information Week > ** The Linux Kernel: An Unlikely Grammy Nominee > > Several AM, FM, shortwave, and Internet radio stations Monday > began broadcasting an automated voice reading the source for > the Linux kernel--all 4,141,432 lines of it. Reading the > entire kernel will take an

Re: RFC re: Talk on LVS

2001-12-18 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> >way to have high-availability for (a|my) company, but not if it's still > >going through growing pains. I see it's at .9.8, which sounds promising: > >do you have any further info? There is a deployment page off the LVS site which may shed some light on its readiness for production use:

Re: 2.2.17 kernel compilation error ?

2000-12-03 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> Yes, if compiling had been working fine before, this is likely memory > going bad. I've also seen errors such as this when you run out of swap. A malloc request fails and if the code doesn't check the return, you get the sigsegv dereferencing a bad pointer. FWIW, Pat -- Patrick O'Rourke [

Re: open files, super-newbie-question

2000-08-28 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> You can do it any time, but as a practical matter you don't generally > change this value once you figure out what you need it to be, and you > generally will always need it to be set to that value, so in general it's > something you'd want to do at boot time. Right. I thought that Bruce was

Re: open files, super-newbie-question

2000-08-28 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> For the whole system, its very easy: > > echo 4096 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max You can also use the sysctl(8) command: sysctl -w fs.file-max=131072 > Note that you'll have to do that at boot-time to (probably in > /etc/rc.d/rc.local). Just curious, but why would you have to do thi

Re: Linux 2.4 32bit UID.

2000-08-24 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> Ted T'so is (supposedly) maintaining a status page, but I don't have the > URL and I don't know if it will give you what you're looking for. The 2.4 to do list is at: http://linux24.sourceforge.net/ -- Patrick O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Capturing Text

2000-05-24 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> > > Is there a way to capture(record) the text in a terminal window or in run > > level 3? on a somewhat related note... xterm's on Solaris have an option to 'Log to File' on the 'Main Options' menu (CTRL-BTN1), however I noticed on Linux this option is labelled as 'Print Window'. Is this a

Re: mounting raw (iso's) as CD images

2000-04-18 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> Yes, you need the loopback driver. Would you would do is something like: > > mount -t iso9660 -o loop my_iso_file.raw /mnt/cdrom2 I believe you have to first run losetup(8) to associate the file with a particular loop back device. This is what I've done in the past: losetup /dev/loo

Re: here's a good one - 127.0.0.1 error

2000-02-11 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> *please excuse the formatting > routed is running as well as dhcpd,gated is not. > my question is ... is there a way to clear the routing info manually > ?? > or better yet ... remove the error(entry) much thanks Rob F. look at the route(8) command... Pat -- Patrick O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Off topic ?

2000-02-09 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
> Please excuse a "not necessarily linux" question, but who wants to share > opinions/experience on the virtues of mmap ing a file as opposed to opening it > ? I'm about to start work on a project where the local custom is to mmap input > files and I'm not so sure that's a good idea (the files an