[newbie] Reproducable system freeze

1999-08-09 Thread Niels Larsen
Hi, After running a certain application on my data for 2 hours, my machine suddenly goes from feeling normal to not reacting to anything: ctrl-alt-del doesnt work, mouse pointer does not move, ping returns nothing. I then reran in console mode as root, hoping there would be something to look a

[newbie] no autofs installed? and copying speed ..

1999-08-07 Thread Niels Larsen
Hi, I selected all the package categories except "extra documentation", that is, I did not select individual packages. After configuring autofs, found no autofs (/usr/sbin/automount not there). Then I went to the RPMS directory on the CD and did rpm -ivh autofs...rpm This went fine, showed that

Re: [newbie] file utilities slowdown with many files ..

1999-08-02 Thread Niels Larsen
Chmouel, > it's normal if your ls is a ls --color, ls do before a file on each > files to see the filetype and colorise it. your perl script do only > a opendir/readdir, it's only two call to system. Thats it, thanks .. I did 'unalias ls' and time dropped from 10-15 mins to 2 seconds. Then I did

[newbie] file utilities slowdown with many files ..

1999-08-02 Thread Niels Larsen
no boot, because now /etc/fstab was gone. I have not tried to reproduce this (pulling the plug while editing a file isnt fun), and I have not yet applied the Mandrake updates (kernel and initscripts). Again, has this been seen by others? Niels Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] "server not responding" + nothing in chooser

1999-07-13 Thread Niels Larsen
ng atalk etc by putting the line /etc/rc.d/rc.atalk into /etc/rc.d/rc.local The output from ifconfig (which I forgot to get with me) shows that eth0, eth1 and lo are all up. Ideas ... ? they are reeely welcome .. Niels Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] swap space

1999-07-12 Thread Niels Larsen
When trying to telnet to a Mandrake 6.0 machine I get this, collect (ROOT) ~> Trying 192.168.10.12... Connected to 192.168.10.12. Escape character is '^]'. telnetd: All network ports in use. Connection closed by foreign host. collect (ROOT) ~> but I can ftp into it. I can also telnet and ftp

Re: [newbie] ftp "login failed"

1999-06-13 Thread Niels Larsen
> Hi, Niels, > Did you install wu-ftpd and anonftp? Good luck, I crossed off all packages on Mandrake 6.0, except Extra Documentation. I see the anonymous ftp directories created, and when I connect, the beroFTP daemon responds, so I think the answer is yes, although beroFTP is not exactly wu-

[newbie] ftp "login failed"

1999-06-13 Thread Niels Larsen
work. I also managed to hang this interface, but dont have a way to reproduce it (will let you know when I do). So, how to let myself in? are there instructions? Niels Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] KDE icons wont go away

1999-06-03 Thread Niels Larsen
ok the first time to see theese, but they shouldnt keep coming, I think. I wish to decide which icons show up, anyone know how to do that? Greetings, Niels Larsen (vitro.cme.msu.edu)