performance problems while copying large data

2003-09-30 Thread Michael Bartlett
hi all, i run a lowish spec box as my gateway server and file server. i've just put a 120GIG USB Mass Storage device in it and am busy copying about 15 gig of data across to it (from my existing IDE which is on the same hdd that runs the OS). my girlfriend, who is working from home is

vsFtpd question

2003-09-30 Thread Michael Bartlett
hi all, i've recently got rid of WU and moved to vsftpd. i was wondering is someone could help me with the following challenge: user: media /home/media essentially i have this situation in /home/media/: lrwxrwxrwx1 mediamedia 29 Sep 30 12:59 music -

compiling firewire support - problems with make modules in sbp2.c

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Bartlett
hi all, i'm trying to get my windows-based ipod to work on linux. yesterday i trashed my old windows workstation and started clean with rh 9 - so its pretty much a stock standard 2.4.20 kernel (2.4.20-8). basically i changed my kernel config to include IEEE 1394, OHCI and SBP2 (i'm using a large

RE: Re[2]: updatedb problem: last try!!

2003-06-19 Thread michael . bartlett
Ah, herewith the last few lines: open(.., O_RDONLY)= 5 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 fchdir(5) = 0 close(5)= 0 open(mike, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such

RE: updatedb problem: last try!!

2003-06-19 Thread michael . bartlett
to an updatedb symlink issue - but cannot find any more detail on it. -Original Message- From: Jon Haugsand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 June 2003 11:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: updatedb problem: last try!! * michael bartlett 1) How can I exclude /mnt from updatedb

RE: problem with group access

2003-06-19 Thread michael . bartlett
the x when you ls -al on something -Original Message- From: Jianping Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 June 2003 16:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: problem with group access Thank you for your reply. what do you mean by a excutable bit? and how can i check if the directory

updatedb problem: last try!!

2003-06-18 Thread michael . bartlett
Title: Message hi all, after doing a number of rpm updates to my system, updatedb appears to have broken. i have posted this problem now twice to this list without any response whatsoever, but lets see if my latest discovery helps spur some answers on! i have finally discovered what is

RE: updatedb problem: last try!!

2003-06-18 Thread michael . bartlett
Thanks for the recommendation, Brian - but I'm not sure that is the case. FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 9.8G 6.3G 3.0G 68% / /dev/hda2 65G 46G 15G 75% /home none 124M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm I can also cp

Perl module: Memoize problems

2003-06-17 Thread michael . bartlett
Title: Message Hello all, I'm trying to build Memoize on Redhat 7.3 with CPAN and get the following problem during the make test phase: t/tie_ndbm..ndbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "" at Memoize/NDBM_File.pm line 70. t/tie_ndbm..dubious Test returned status 22 (wstat

RE: Perl module: Memoize problems

2003-06-17 Thread michael . bartlett
Apologies for HTML mail all... Herewith in plain text. -Original Message- From: Michael Bartlett Sent: 17 June 2003 12:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Perl module: Memoize problems Hello all, I'm trying to build Memoize on Redhat 7.3 with CPAN and get the following problem during

RE: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses [May Be OT]

2003-06-17 Thread michael . bartlett
Well, this would only cut off residential users who are running their own SMTP servers. Would it not be possible to somehow forward all mail to *.aol.com to your ISPs mail relay server? -Original Message- From: John P Verel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 June 2003 15:39 To: redhat

RE: Would RedHat 7 Be a Good Choice?

2003-06-16 Thread michael . bartlett
I would rather download RH 9 ISOs from http://www.linuxiso.org/ -Original Message- From: Scarletdown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 June 2003 09:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Would RedHat 7 Be a Good Choice? As I had mentioned in a couple previous posts, I've been

updatedb broken

2003-06-13 Thread michael . bartlett
Hi all, I applied a host of patches from red-carpet recently to my base 7.3 installation. Since doing so, updatedb blows up every time with broken pipe. From looking at the behaviour - it runs for a long time and the HDD reads furiously and the CPU does a bit of work too; so I think its when it

RE: samba configure help required.!!@@!!

2003-06-13 Thread michael . bartlett
What error message do you get? This problem may be related to the windows registry patch you need to apply for certain smb configurations. Just do a google for samba windows registry and I'm sure you'll find what you are looking for. -Original Message- From: root_sharif [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Please help: Equivalent software packages of Windows on Linux

2003-06-13 Thread michael . bartlett
See below... 1) MSProject 2000 Don't Know - Possibly some of the office things such as CrossOver Office etc... 2) Visio 2000 Professional Don't Know - Possibly some of the office things such as CrossOver Office etc... 3) VC ++ There are tonnes of IDEs available and you should have all the

updatedb: broken pipe

2003-06-12 Thread michael . bartlett
Title: Message Hi all, I've done a few RPM updates (through red-carpet) and a perl module or two (cpan) over the last few weeks - can't remember exactly all of the details. But today I noticed that updatedb is broken. If I run it, it thrashes and thinks for a very long time, then right at

RE: Question about Apache and users adding their own webpages.

2003-06-12 Thread michael . bartlett
Adam, As far as I remember you need this in your config: IfModule mod_userdir.c UserDir public_html /IfModule Then in /home/$user/ create a dir public_html. Whatever goes in there is what is mapped to www.domain.com/~user. I can't remember if there was anything else one had to do to the

RE: SNMP question

2003-06-12 Thread michael . bartlett
I've never managed to fully grok the whole SNMP thing, but I'm guessing you want this for MRTG'ing (I graph the same things pretty much) Anyway, I've done mine without SNMP just using normal scripts. Most of the info I got from here: http://www.linux-sottises.net/en_mrtg. -Original

Default route keeps changing

2002-09-11 Thread michael . bartlett
Hi all, I've recently re-installed my box which I use as a router/firewall/dhcp/etc... I was running RH 7.2 - but after a horrid hard disc failure I've installed 7.3. My problem is this: I dialup via ppp0 and set that as my default route in my dial script. Three times in the last two days, my