"BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!"

2007-05-11 Thread Jim Reimer
Anybody know what this error message is about? Looking at Google, it appears that lots of people see it from time to time, but nobody has a definitive explanation for it. I updated to kernel 2.6.20-1.2948 and started having the problem (along with a completely unresponsive computer). Reverted to

Re: FTP Script - TOTAL NEWBIE HERE!!!

2007-02-18 Thread Jim Reimer
flyfshmn wrote: > At this point - I can manully make this happen. What I dont know is how do I > create a script that will automatically insert file name (may use mput *.*), > verify the success and then delete the file. I will not have access to snmp > traps to actually know if the file was succ

Need a network traffic monitor

2004-11-27 Thread Jim Reimer
How can I set up to monitor what's coming and going on my gateway? Network is all hubs, no switches, and all I need to do is count bytes going to and coming from 192.168.0.1 - don't care where it came from or where it's going, I just need to count it. -- -jdr- - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: .prn to .txt conversion = ?

2004-03-30 Thread Jim Reimer
Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 05:32 PM 3/28/2004 -0500, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > When you say "the content is all text", can you be a bit more exact? (I > haven't used DOS for years and I cannot recall what the.prn extension > signifies.) A .prn file is generated when the "print to file" option

Proof that Windows is more secure....

2004-03-25 Thread Jim Reimer
I didn't believe it until I read this article, but now I do... Windows is more secure than Linux. http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/04/03/16/1915249.shtml?tid=149 -- -jdr- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] M

Re: Spam from linux-newbie

2004-03-09 Thread Jim Reimer
On Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 9:05:59 AM, you wrote: > Peter -- This is simply too vague to permit a decent reply. Other replies > seem to be making different guesses about what you mean. I won't try to > guess. I offer what specifics I can below. I receive very little spam here, and most of what I

Re: Setting up DNS without domain

2003-08-14 Thread Jim Reimer
Peter Edstrom wrote: Could you please explain yourself? The reason why I've decided to set up my own DNS instead of using someone else's is to avoid any problems in the future. The problem, however, could be performance since I'll be running it on my workstation. Do you think this is a bad move?

Re: File names with spaces

2003-02-18 Thread Jim Reimer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A solution should look like this: for file in `ls -1`; do newfile=`echo "$file" | sed 's/ /_/'` echo "File is named ${file}" echo "The new file is named ${newfile}" mv "$file" "$newfile" done IHMO in the main-loop it is better to choose "ls -1", so the field se

Re: string manipulating?

2003-01-05 Thread Jim Reimer
Chuck Gelm wrote: > > Hi, Jim: > > Thanks, that works great. > Please explain: > > \( is the left parenthesis escaped (?) yes - we're defining the left paren as the field delimiter, and cut will complain and refuse to work if you just give it -d( > > '-f' is 'output only these fields' > wha

Re: string manipulating?

2003-01-05 Thread Jim Reimer
how 'bout cut -d\( -f2 -jdr- Chuck Gelm wrote: > > Howdy, Y'all: > > Using 'grep' I've parsed some stdout to lines ending in > ...(123.45.67.89): > How can I either: > extract the last 17 characters > all characters after the first "(" > all characters from "(" to ")" > ? > > I tri

Re: how do i transform documents to ps

2002-12-13 Thread Jim Reimer
r4mz3z wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi friends How do I transform a OpenOffice document to postscript format using "gs"?? thanks As far as I can tell, you do not, as gs is a PostScript viewer/interpreter, not a generator. I do not have OpenOffice installed, but am sti

Re: Need fdformat from Slackware 3.5

2002-12-03 Thread Jim Reimer
http://www.ibiblio.org (oops - not ftp) Click the 'Linux Software' link and then search for fdformat - it's there as part of a utilities package. Don't know if it'll install with pkg, you may have to use make. -jdr- Jerry James Haumberger wrote: > > Hi, folks -- > > After installing BasicLinu

Re: A few questions

2002-12-02 Thread Jim Reimer
Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: On Monday 02 Dec 2002 11:56 pm, dashielljt wrote: You'd want to do more than one tar command of the form: tar zcvf user1.tar.gz /home/user1/ tar zcvf user2.tar.gz /home/user2/ and so on. You'd have to specify the path of user1.tar.gz like where it was going to go and t

Re: Extract images from zipped .eve archives

2002-12-01 Thread Jim Reimer
You might find gEDA useful. http://www.geda.seul.org Very nice set of tools for drawing schematics. -jdr Haines Brown wrote: Jim, Thanks for pointing me to the .eve site. So the extension did turn out to be proprietary. There are vector drawing facilities available for linux, and rather th

Re: Extract images from zipped .eve archives

2002-11-29 Thread Jim Reimer
eve (embedded vector editor)... http://www.goosee.com Download it and just maybe it'll run under wine (or... fire up the old windows machine). -jdr- Haines Brown wrote: give unzip the entire file name (no wild cards) and it should work. Yes, of course! So much else understands wildcards tha

Re: Extract images from zipped .eve archives

2002-11-29 Thread Jim Reimer
give unzip the entire file name (no wild cards) and it should work. -jdr- Haines Brown wrote: # unzip -v circuit-svg-gates* Archive: circuit-svg-gates_library.zip Length MethodSize Ratio Date Time CRC-32Name -- --- - --

Re: Variable Quoting

2002-10-14 Thread Jim Reimer
> ( by the way > > you don't have to surround the variable name with braces unless it's > right up against something else, as in > > filename="test" > cp somefile ${test}.txt > > if it's seperated by white space they don't have to be there > > ) oops - my face is red now. that should

Re: Variable Quoting

2002-10-14 Thread Jim Reimer
Paul Kraus wrote: > I am having trouble quoting with variables. > > For example > > source="/backup/My\ Documents/*" > cp ${source} /tmp either protect with quotes -or- escape the space... source="/backup/My Documents/*" (quotes, no escape) or source=/backup/My\ Documents/* (escape,

Re: Synching directories at night

2002-10-10 Thread Jim Reimer
man cp check out the -u option -jdr- Paul Kraus wrote: > I want to be able to have my Linux server at night sych some folders > that are on some windows machines. I want it to be able to have exact > copies that are current as of the previous day. Is there a way to do > this so that only change

Re: Debian install issue

2002-10-09 Thread Jim Reimer
Paul Kraus wrote: > I know you can redirect the standard output with > and then the file > name you want. But how do you also redirect the STRERR? cmd 2>file will leave stdout on screen and send stderr to file cmd > file 2>&1will send both to file (cmd

Re: creating CD ROM bootdisk

2002-10-03 Thread Jim Reimer
Yes, you can make a bootable cdrom. It's covered in the cd-writing howto at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html Section 4.11 tells how. -jdr- Adwin wrote: > hello > could I make a cd rom bootdisk instead floppy disk bootdisk ? > I cannot create/use bootdisk since my fd damag

Re: Script as root

2002-10-01 Thread Jim Reimer
suid bit on a script is ignored, isn't it? -jdr- Ray Olszewski wrote: > Yes. You want to set the suid bit on it and have it owned by root. "man > chmod" (or maybe other chmod documentation) for the details. > > At 09:55 AM 10/1/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: > >> I have a backup script that moun

Re: breaking up a zip file

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Reimer
Jude DaShiell wrote: > let's try zipsplit. It appears it's nearly time for a new keyboard. > > > > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > >>That would be ipsplit. I remember zipsplit from my DOS days, but where's it available for Linux? -jdr- - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: System Resource Management

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Reimer
look at the man pages for 'nice' and 'top' -jdr- Paul Kraus wrote: > Is there a way to give a processes for cpu time? In nt you can set a > priority. Is there a way to see a list of processes based on the cpu > time they are using? > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company > 2

Re: Adding data to file name

2002-09-30 Thread Jim Reimer
Paul Kraus wrote: > I have script that calls smbtar. Then for the output file I want it to > display the date. > > smbtar . -t "/home/pdk/backup.MM.DD.YY" > > Where mm.dd.yy is current month date and year. > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company > 216.267.5775 Voice > 21

Re: switching environments

2002-09-26 Thread Jim Reimer
switchdesk if you don't have it, you can download it from rpmfind.net -jdr- On Thursday 26 September 2002 09:04 am, Sagar N Chand wrote: > i have mandrake linux on my desktop. I've both the kde and > gnome environments installed. But i'm not able to change from > one environment to the other.

Re: Dumb Questions

2002-09-25 Thread Jim Reimer
everything you ever wanted to know about foo but were afraid to ask is at http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/entry/foo.html -jdr- On Wednesday 25 September 2002 10:38 am, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Hello All , Not to prolong this threads death ... > > FUBAR , Old Military (& others) Fou

Re: IP command, was SuperNwebie.

2002-09-18 Thread Jim Reimer
It may be there but not in your path: [jdr@pyro2 jdr]$ ip -V bash: ip: command not found [jdr@pyro2 jdr]$ /sbin/ip -V ip utility, iproute2-ss001007 -jdr- On Wednesday 18 September 2002 05:07 am, Chuck Gelm wrote: > :/share/tmp# ip -V > > bash: ip: command not found > > on my Slackware v8.0 ins

problem installing rpm

2002-09-10 Thread Jim Reimer
Can't get the fonttastic rpm included with Corel Photo-Paint to install: [root@pyro2 i386]# rpm -iv fonttastic-glibc-2.1* Preparing packages for installation... package fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.06.22.14.00-1 is already installed file /etc/init.d from install of fonttastic-glibc-2.1-2000.06.22.14

Re: two questions

2002-08-10 Thread Jim Reimer
On Saturday 10 August 2002 00:51 am, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: > 1) How do I manually fsck my root filesystem? > > 2) Where can I find a program to convert windows .ICO files into a more > open file format (ie. PNG). > Regarding second question: netpbm from http://sourceforge.net netpbm is a gr

process time limit?

2002-06-26 Thread Jim Reimer
I have a script run by cron once every half hour which gets a RADAR image, does some manipulation on the file, and stores it. It's been running fine for a few weeks now. However, when I got home from work today, the computer was *very* sluggish, and 'ps' showed many many instances of both the sc

Re: trouble setting shell variable

2002-05-26 Thread Jim Reimer - WA5RRH
forgot about formatting that makes it a LOT easier. thanks. On Sunday 26 May 2002 10:58 am, Suriya Narayanan M S wrote: > On Sunday 26 May 2002 7:37 pm, Jim Reimer - WA5RRH wrote: > > echo `date` | cut -b 25-28,12-13,15-16,18-19 > > > > gives me what I want to

trouble setting shell variable

2002-05-26 Thread Jim Reimer - WA5RRH
I'm trying to rename files based on what time it is *now* echo `date` | cut -b 25-28,12-13,15-16,18-19 gives me what I want to use for the file name, but I can't figure out how to get it into a variable for use later in the script when I rename the file. I've tried variablename= followed

List archive

2002-05-20 Thread Jim Reimer - WA5RRH
List is being archived at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-newbie&r=1&w=2 and (again) at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-newbie%40vger.kernel.org/ -jdr- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: ? info on ip-up ?

2001-07-10 Thread Jim Reimer
le. > :-| > Chuck > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > -- Regards, Jim Reimer - WA5RRH | R

Re: wget from behind proxy?

2001-07-09 Thread Jim Reimer
Philips wrote: > Jim Reimer wrote: > >>Sent this to the list 25 hours ago, but never got a return >>from vger. If you're seeing it as a dupe, I apologize >> >> >> >>How do I get it to work? >> >>I have /usr/local/lib

wget from behind proxy?

2001-07-08 Thread Jim Reimer
Sent this to the list 25 hours ago, but never got a return from vger. If you're seeing it as a dupe, I apologize How do I get it to work? I have /usr/local/lib/wget.rc containing: ftp_proxy = 192.168.0.1 http_proxy = 192.168.0.1 I've also tried including the port settings for the

Re: Can't Configure Display in RH7.0

2001-07-07 Thread Jim Reimer
For what it's worth, I have an early Diamond Speedstar Pro, and with Redhat ever since version 5.something, I have had no trouble getting some form of X to work with it. Now, with 7.1, I can't get it to do anything. I've tried all the listed Speedstar options, as well as the generic VGA stuff -

Is Earthlink Linux-friendly?

2001-07-05 Thread Jim Reimer
Well, not only did webzone.net dump their Linux server a couple of months ago, now their dumping all their dialup clients, with Earthlink picking up the pieces. The notice from webzone included the following gem: * EarthLink will provide you with a full set-up kit, including EarthLink's propriet

Re: next problem - httpd doesn't start

2001-07-02 Thread Jim Reimer
Brian Bilbrey wrote: > as root, type chkconfig --list | grep httpd > > I get this > > [root@mail bilbrey]# chkconfig --list | grep httpd > httpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > > If you get all OFF, as I suspect you will, yep > > then chkconfig --add httpd > > and repe

next problem - httpd doesn't start

2001-07-02 Thread Jim Reimer
Ok - this probably deserves an rtfm answer, just tell me which fm to r. httpd does not start when the system boots. I can start it manually with no problem. The only decent book I have for is for RH6.0, and it says there's a 'linuxconf' utility for things like this, but it doesn't seem to exist

[solved] Re: Can't telnet/ftp to/from Linux box on LAN

2001-07-02 Thread Jim Reimer
Yep, the firewall was set up to refuse connections on ports below 1023, and xinetd has a configuration file for each protocol, all of which default to 'disabled'. Thanks, everybody. -jdr- Ray Olszewski wrote: > OK, Jim. Your answers rule out a lot of possibilities. > > First thing is to look

Re: Can't telnet/ftp to/from Linux box on LAN

2001-06-30 Thread Jim Reimer
0.0.0.0/0 * -> 7100 Chain forward (policy ACCEPT): Chain output (policy ACCEPT): > > I haven't said much about actual possible problems, because there are too > many possibilities to list short of writing a book. The diagnostics I > suggested will help y

Can't telnet/ftp to/from Linux box on LAN

2001-06-30 Thread Jim Reimer
Finally got around to putting a network card in my Linux machine, and I'm having trouble. It's on a LAN with three Windows machines, and from Linux I can ping each of the Windows machines, and vice versa. But that's all I can do. Running RH7.1. IP addresses are 192.168.0.1, 2, and 3 for the Wi

Re: question about ftp commands

2001-05-24 Thread Jim Reimer
Escape the space(s) like Lawson said, or just put the directory name in double quotes: cd "other files" -jdr- Greg Partin wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I have a question about FTP...hope this isn't too much off topic. I am able > to connect fine and cd to all directories except the one that has a

cron search path?

2001-05-20 Thread Jim Reimer
What does cron use for a search path? That of the user whose crontab is being executed? Root's? Something else? -jdr- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

ISP shell account (a bit off topic)

2001-04-19 Thread Jim Reimer
Just got word that my ISP is pulling the plug on their Linux machine and terminating all shell accounts - they'll be just another Windows shop from now on. Anybody know where I can get a non-dialup (telnet access is all I need) shell account on a Linux or Unix system for a reasonable price? -jdr

Re: How do we interpret this ZDNET benchmark?

2001-04-04 Thread Jim Reimer
WebBench uses stress tests to bombard the server with requests as fast as the clients can issue them." Hmmm testing the server's ability to cope with a DOS attack? > > This is whacky Could be it's the only thing IIS does really well. -jdr- > --Original

Re: How do we interpret this ZDNET benchmark?

2001-04-04 Thread Jim Reimer
Looks to me like it's the number of requests acknowledged, not served. What I don't understand is how a single real-world client could possibly generate more than 100,000 requests per second, unless it's engaged in a DOS attack or something similar. (???) Maybe I'm wrong, but it appears to be s

Re: codec AC97.

2001-03-13 Thread Jim Reimer
Maybe this will help: http://opensource.creative.com/docs.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi!! > > For some reasons i need to know ALL about the codec AC97. > > Welli wait your explanations. > > Thanks you all!!! > > José Luis Alarcón Sánchez. > - To unsubscribe from this li

Re: CreativeLabs/Ensoniq Sound Card

2001-03-01 Thread Jim Reimer
If you're talking about RedHat 6.2/7, check at http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/ -jdr- Jorge Ortiz wrote: > > Does anyone know if this is compatible w/ Linux 6.2/7? > - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

linux-newbie list archive

2001-02-27 Thread Jim Reimer
linux-newbie is now being archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-newbie%40vger.kernel.org/ only a couple of days worth of messages so far. -jdr- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ

Re: Sites with hardware compatibility lists ?

2001-02-27 Thread Jim Reimer
http://www.linux.com/hardware/hdb.phtml?id=643 looks like you should buy it... -jdr- Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > I had some in my bookmarks, but as good bookmarks go, they went ;-) > > I now have to decide on a SOYO SY6VBA 133 Mother board. > > Anyone would be kind enough to point me in the t