Re: ufs on linux question/problem

2001-07-03 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
> > You need support of Solaris disklabels. isn't that what CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION is? > And UFS patches that are in > -ac. Then you can get more or less safe r/o mounts. r/w is hopeless > at that stage. that's ok, i only need to read. -Tony .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-.

ufs on linux question/problem

2001-07-03 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
Trying to mount a solaris x86 drive under linux. kernel 2.4.5, ufs support and x86 partition support compiled in (no module) On boot, linux recognizes the drive, but shows no solaris partitions on it. Below, linux drive is hda, solaris is hdb. Jul 2 19:57:56 stevenjude2 kernel: PIIX4: chipset r

Re: [PATCH] User chroot

2001-06-27 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
On 27 Jun 2001, David Wagner wrote: > > Why is it useless? It sounds useful to me, on first glance. If I want > to run a user-level network daemon I don't trust (for instance, fingerd), > isolating it in a chroot area sounds pretty nice: If there is a buffer > overrun in the daemon, you can ge

memory problems?

2001-04-26 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
I'm running 2.4.2ac23 (can't run 2.4.3, messes up my quota system) glibc 2.1.3, intel providence PR440FX mobo, intel etherexpress 100B onboard, RAM is 128MBx3. Started getting the following errors: VM: bad swap entry 2000 Unused swap offset entry in swap_dup 2000 memory.c:84: bad pmd 00

quota problems 2.4.2->2.4.3

2001-04-19 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
Hi, WHen i upgrade from 2.2 to 2.4, my first version was 2.4.1, in which i upgraded my quota utils to 3.00 and then converted to the new quota formats for 2.4. my last 2.4 upgrade was 2.4.2ac23, quotas work fine on that. but when i run 2.4.3 they dont. quota -v on a user shows just blank space n

aic7xxx TCQ settings?

2001-04-02 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
I'm using 2.4.3 vanilla with aic7xxx (aic7880 onboard) I set the max # of TCQ commands per device setting to 50..what's a really good setting for this, just the default of 253? In /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0 i see for my drives these numbers: Commands Queued 14 Commands Active 0

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac21

2001-03-23 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
> > > >It was causing SMP boxes to crash mysteriously after > >several hours or days. Quite a lot of them. Nobody > >was able to explain why, so it was turned off. > > I know why it was turned off by default. The annoying this is that now > the *only* way to activate the watchdog is via a boot

NMI messages - 2.4.1-ac13

2001-03-08 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
I got some NMI messages I have never seen before. In fact i've never seen a NMI message before. This is kernel 2.4.1-ac13. Got them while running X (4.0.2) and KDE (2.1). After 15 mins the system froze hard. PR440FX mobo, dual ppro 200s, 256MB RAM, aic7xxx, no power management at all. I've never

gids in kernel

2001-03-02 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
apache documentation states: # NOTE that some kernels refuse to setgid(Group) or semctl(IPC_SET) # when the value of (unsigned)Group is above 6; # don't use Group nobody on these systems! does this apply to linux in either the 2.2 or 2.4 kernels? i'd like to use a block of uids from maybe

2.4 VFS message

2001-02-20 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
got this message spewed on my console this morning: VFS: dqduplicate(): Locked quota to be duplicated! SMP 2.4.1-ac9 quota is used on 1 ext2 FS, converted from the old quota format with the new quota utils quota-3.00 Thanx, -Tony .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-.

Journaled FS on RAID stability..2.4?

2001-02-19 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
Can anyone give testimonials on a journaled FS on software-raid? I'd like to raid-0 2 SCSI 18Gers, adaptec 2940 u2w controller, kernel 2.4.x. Also pros and cons for reiser-fs/ext3 on this solution would be appreciated Thanx, -Tony .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._

shared memory problem

2001-02-12 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
I've been using the 2.2.x series successfully, latest i used was 2.2.19pre7. Today i upgraded to 2.4.1-ac9 and noticed that shared memory shows 0. I searched the list archive briefly and someone said the stats have been broken since sometime in 2.3, but my system also shows my swap being used up

Re: rlim_t and DNS?

2001-02-05 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
d-b612.orghttp://www.intergrafix.net .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-. On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Admin Mailing Lists] > > i have no bits directory > > Really? What version of libc, and on what Linux dist

Re: rlim_t and DNS?

2001-02-01 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Bruce Harada wrote: > > The C file says BSD/OS is the only OS they found not to have rlim_t. > > Am I missing something? > > Where can i find this in linux? I looked in all the include > > files, including resource.h > > Are you sure you looked in ALL the include files? I se

rlim_t and DNS?

2001-02-01 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
Trying to compile bind 9.1.0 here. Kernel is 2.2.18, gcc 2.7.2.1. It failed trying to find the type for rlim_t. The C file says BSD/OS is the only OS they found not to have rlim_t. Am I missing something? Where can i find this in linux? I looked in all the include files, including resource.h For

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-22 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
> > Please don't listen to this. The only place you really want comments is > > a) at the top of files, describing the point of the file; > b) at the top of functions, if the purpose of the function is not obvious; > c) in line, when the code is not obvious. > > If you are writing

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-21 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Mo McKinlay wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Today, Admin Mailing Lists ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > And the lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou write thy holy code. Indenting > > > shalt thou co

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-20 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:19:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just wanted to say that LinusĀ“ CodingStyle is the ONLY SANE style of > > writing code in bigger projects. At university we are forced to use exactly the > > And the lor

Re: reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

2001-01-05 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
thanx everybody -Tony .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-. Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today" http://ww

Re: reiserfs patch for 2.4.0-final

2001-01-05 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
Is ext2 upgradable to reiserfs or ext3? If so, is it transparent..or like a umount, convert, mount..or do you like have to import to a whole new partition? Pointers to any docs of this sort would work for an answer Thanx, -Tony .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-.

system locks HARD on KDE start

2000-12-18 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
Hi, I'm trying to get kde2 running and i'm not positive if it's a KDE problem, or a kernel thing. Whenever I start kde, the kde startup gets so far and the system freezes. Sometimes it does it at "Loading the panel" sometimes it'll get to "100% KDE is up and running" and do it. When it does it t

eepro100 timeout errors - 2.2.18pre20

2000-11-16 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
Was running 2.2.15pre18 with no eepro problems. Upgraded to 2.2.18pre20 and started experiencing transmit timed out errors a day into the boot. eth0 was unresponsive in/out. down/uping the interface had no effect. System was not under any big network load. See attached text file for related kerne

[OT] linux article with kernel references

2000-10-10 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley15.html good article, several unfortunate truths within. -Tony .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-. Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergra

Re: Where to obtain the latest test kernels

2000-10-02 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
i thought they were versus 2.2.17pre20 ? -Tony .-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-. Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intergrafix Internet Services "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if yo

Re: Socket Interface

2000-09-28 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
> > > Note that I deliberately ignored my assumption when replying -- I gave > > instructions for Debian derivations, even though I don't know of any > > Debian-derived distribution with a version number 6.2. > > There are dozens of similarly different (or differently similar - as your > prefer)

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre4

2000-09-11 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
ditto..i patched 2.2.16 with 2.2.17pre20 fine. then patched that with 2.2.18pre4 and got this: can't find file to patch at input line 4697 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -- |diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /

Re: Linux/MANOS Kernel Debugger

2000-09-07 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Actually, the solution I think would be to use the MSDOS loader to boot > linux. I will look at grabbing the ELF code in Linux and loading Linux > from MSDOS -- if this can be accomplished you're there -- with an added > benfit. When I am debuggin

Re: eepro100 trouble

2000-09-06 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 02:57:54PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > > > > I'm having endless problem with an eepro100 here. After some trying found out > > that doing a soft reset (ctrl+alt+del) fixed the problem, and that a power > >