Re: [SLUG] Looking for a hosting service provider

All of webcentral's servers run windows - they are one of microsoft's premier partners in aust. This may or may not be of concern. They are ok from what I have heard, but they are expensive. Did I mention that they only run windows? :) I gather stability is paramount? Campbell Jobst Schmalen

[SLUG] [swapshop] scsi hardware + other stuff for sale

Hi, I have the following SCSI items + miscellaneous for sale: 1 x 4.5 gb 10k rpm seagate cheetah SCA ST34501WC (can supply with 80-68pin converter if required) $56 1 x 4.3 GB seagate ST34371WC 80 pin BRAND NEW (spare from a Digital server) $40 1 x Quantum Viking II 4.5GB Ultra Wide SCSI

[SLUG] strange hardware issues with smp kernels

Hi, I have problems with a couple of machines running SMP kernels (2.4.x) and IRQ issues. When I boot the machine with a 2.4.x kernel, it reports below: PCI: Enabling device 00:07.2 ( -> 0001) PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 00:07.2. Probably buggy MP table. The card is an a

[SLUG] applying a patch to kernel source

Hi, I need to patch a 2.4.9 kernel source tree installed as an rpm with a patch from Alan Cox to fix a bug with i810 chipsets and X. I have not been having much success in applying the patch. I have put the patch file in /usr/src and run 'patch -p0 < patch-2.4.9-ac18'. It reports: "can't find

Re: [SLUG] Preventing X from starting automatically...

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:02:32AM +1000, Brendan Dacre wrote: > Gentlepeople, > > Genius that I am, I was so sure that I knew this old monitor's refresh > rate that I just went for it during the installation process. Now X > starts automaticatically and, of course, it turned out I was actuall

Re: [SLUG] /proc/pci

Hi Matthew, On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:05:12PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 11:35:57AM +1000, Campbell McLeay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am having trouble booting a newly compiled kernel - > > (the old 2.2.19 kernel boots fine

[SLUG] /proc/pci

Hi, I am having trouble booting a newly compiled kernel - (the old 2.2.19 kernel boots fine though) it either hangs at 'VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing kernel memory (200k)' or init: error in loading shared libraries /lib/libc.so.6 Undefined symbol: __io_file_setbuf, ver

[SLUG] kernel headers..

Hi, I was wondering whether it is necessary to download kernel headers for the kernel you are compiling. I have rarely bothered with this and things have seemed to work (maybe by sheer luck than anything!). Come to that - what are they actually used for? I thought I read that they are used for c

[SLUG] adding system users

Hi, Was wondering whether there is a general format for adding a 'system' user, i.e., one that just needs to run a daemon. Can you just edit the passwd and shadow files or should you use the 'useradd' facility? Does it really need a shell? Or is it safer to just use e.g., /bin/false? Cheers,

[SLUG] SSL vulnerabilities

Hi, I have a few machines running Debian Potato and I wish to upgrade openssl on them to fix the buffer overflow issue recently discovered. Debian have released an updated package for Woody that resolves this issue but have not (last I checked) done this for Potato. I was considering downloading