[Scottish] test

2003-07-16 Thread willie fleming
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[Scottish] Using old Sun and HP boxes for Linux

2003-07-16 Thread Keith Stenson
Hey all, I was just wondering if any of you guys have had any experience in using old sun and HP boxes with Linux. I'm thinking of picking up one to act as a test box to play about with but ultimately maybe using them as samba servers etc? Thanks, Keith. -- "Mayonaise": a Ășnica vez que Billy Co

[Scottish] Detecting Wireless Network Cards

2003-07-16 Thread Stuart McCulloch Anderson
Hi, I am trying to install an Belkin Wireless PCI Network Card 802.11b into my desktop. I am having problem getting RedHat 9 to recognise and install the card. lspci -v detects the PCI card as 00:0a.0 Network controller: Linksys: Unknown device 8201 (rev 11) Subsystem: Accton Technology Co

Re: [Scottish] Authentication methods

2003-07-16 Thread Andrew Back
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Kyle Gordon wrote: > hey all > > In a futile attempt to learn something worthwhile, I've decided to have a shot > at an alternative authentication system. > > Now, I know there's NIS and LDAP, but which one is best and in what scenarios > should they be used? Which is more com

Re: [Scottish] Swap partitions -- do modern boxen really need them? Discuss

2003-07-16 Thread Miah Gregory
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Kyle Gordon wrote: > I'd like to use swsusp to suspend my laptop to disk. However, with 256Mb RAM, > and my affection for KDE, I regularly find myself eating into the 256Mb swap > that I have. I might, in some instances, be using a total of say, 300Mb, so > it attempts to s

Re: [Scottish] Swap partitions -- do modern boxen really need them? Discuss

2003-07-16 Thread Kyle Gordon
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 12:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Talking of which... is there anyway to assign X amount of swap, but only > > let the kernel use a specific amount? > > I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Would creating multiple > swap partitions but only telling the kernel abou

Re: [Scottish] Swap partitions -- do modern boxen really need them? Discuss

2003-07-16 Thread Kyle Gordon
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 12:20, Kevin McDermott wrote: > * Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jul 16. 2003 12:15]: > > On a slightly related note, with the new 2.6 kernel you now get suspend > > to swap. This can be slightly problematic if you have less swap than (in > > use) RAM > > > > I see your

Re: [Scottish] Swap partitions -- do modern boxen really need them? Discuss

2003-07-16 Thread Kevin McDermott
* Kyle Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jul 16. 2003 12:15]: > On a slightly related note, with the new 2.6 kernel you now get suspend to > swap. This can be slightly problematic if you have less swap than (in use) > RAM > > I see your point though, 2xRAM swap does seem slightly excessive, and is >

Re: [Scottish] Swap partitions -- do modern boxen really need them? Discuss

2003-07-16 Thread scottish+Steven . Murdoch
> Talking of which... is there anyway to assign X amount of swap, but only let > the kernel use a specific amount? I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Would creating multiple swap partitions but only telling the kernel about some of them do what you want? Steven Murdoch.

Re: [Scottish] Authentication methods

2003-07-16 Thread willie fleming
On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 11:54, Kyle Gordon wrote: > hey all > > In a futile attempt to learn something worthwhile, I've decided to have a > shot at an alternative authentication system. > > Now, I know there's NIS and LDAP, but which one is best and in what > scenarios should they be used? Which i

[Scottish] Authentication methods

2003-07-16 Thread Kyle Gordon
hey all In a futile attempt to learn something worthwhile, I've decided to have a shot at an alternative authentication system. Now, I know there's NIS and LDAP, but which one is best and in what scenarios should they be used? Which is more complex to set up? And which will scale well and stay

Re: [Scottish] Swap partitions -- do modern boxen really need them? Discuss

2003-07-16 Thread Kyle Gordon
On a slightly related note, with the new 2.6 kernel you now get suspend to swap. This can be slightly problematic if you have less swap than (in use) RAM I see your point though, 2xRAM swap does seem slightly excessive, and is probably useless, unless you have a laptop that you wish to use swsu

[Scottish] Swap partitions -- do modern boxen really need them? Discuss

2003-07-16 Thread willie fleming
Many users now have >512Mb RAM. Do we really need to allocate 2x RAM for swap? Discuss Willie ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish

Re: [Scottish] Poisoned Spam

2003-07-16 Thread willie fleming
On Tuesday 15 Jul 2003 21:31, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Is it just me? _Possibly_ not > > I've been responsible for the care and feeding of a lot of mailboxes. I've > seen SMTP queues stalled, and lots of messages bounced due to bad > formatting. But until this week I never had trouble getting mail