October 2002 - main

Web hosting
by Jamie French 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

Hi Guys, Someone asked about web hosting a few days ago, sorry can't remember who, but I am currently developing a site for a customer and they use www.fasthosts.co.uk . I must admit very impressed so far, they offer hosting on M$ or Redhat, your choice and their technical support line is very good. May help, if not sorry to bother you guys. Take Care, Jamie

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RE: [Alug] Problems with CD-Writing
by Jonathan Dye 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

Raphael Mankin wrote: > Are your CD blanks rated for that speed? However good the hardware > you cannot go faster than the media will take. I think so. I bought them to use with this writer and I would have checked that but it was a long time ago and it's not printed on them (they are on a spindle and it's not printed on the case). JD > > > On 23-Oct-2002 Jonathan Dye wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm having problems writting CD's (It is an IDE cd writer Acer 20 10 >> 40 soemthing) under linux (debian3 kernel 2.4.18). I can't seem to >> write a CD without getting errors on it (i.e. a diff with the >> orginal show differences). What seems to be happening is that I'm >> getting buffer underrun on the drive as it stops writing >> momentarily. I can't see why as I have cdrecord's fifo set to 16Mb >> and it doesn't drop below 90%, the writer is on it's own channel and >> even if I did get under-run the drive is supposed to have BURN-Proof >> which according to cd-record is switched on. I've tried slowing down >> the writing from 20x to 8x and still got a bad write (although I >> didn't notice the drive stop writing but I didn't watch for the >> whole 10 mins). I've also tried turning DMA on and off by using >> hdparm on the /dev/hd* entires (which seems to work even though I'm >> using ide-scsi) and turning it off means I can't spool data quick >> enough for 20x anyway. I was hoping someone would have a suggestion >> as to what I could do to stop this happening (appart from buy >> scsi!). I'm currently compiling the kernel with less crud and the >> preemptive patch to see if that improves the situation. >> >> JD _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service

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RE: [Alug] Gentoo 1.4 install
by Jamie French 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

I am glad that it wasn't my newbism :) Thanks for the advice will give 1.2 ago if I decide to scrap debian on my laptop. Take Care, Jamie -----Original Message----- From: Ricardo Campos [mailto:corez23@linuxmail.org] Sent: 24 October 2002 19:44 To: Jamie French Cc: lug(a)linuxmail.org Subject: Re: [Alug] Gentoo 1.4 install > Will probably try Gentoo 1.2 when a chance. Not entirely sure which tarballs > to use as what does it mean when stage 2 installs some of the system? I had the same problems with Gentoo 1.4, the install process was totally different compared to the install instructions, and it lacked pcmcia modules, and was therefore useless for my laptop. I tried Gentoo 1.2, and assuming you have broadband, you can have it up and running in one whole day (and night). I would say go for stage 2 or 3 tarballs (esp. if on dialup), but I just did it from stage one. Again, YMMV. Ricardo -- Powered by Outblaze

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Speedtouch Modem
by Wayne Stallwood 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

I have a rather odd problem using the Alcatel Speedtouch USB Modem with the sourceforge USB speedtouch drivers http://sourceforge.net/projects/speedtouch/ Running SuSE 8.0 with the latest (and all previous versions of the drivers) I have a stable connection, until I try and listen to a shoutcast stream using xmms. In this instance the connection will usually drop within 3 hours and always within 5. Downloading large files (say an ISO) from a fast mirror presents no problems. After the connection fails there are no errors reported in any of the syslogs. I am unable to restart the connection until I reboot the machine (even after killing all relevant processes and unmounting USB etc) I have posted a message on the Speedtouch mailing list, but had no response. Has anyone experienced this, or got any ideas as to what may be the cause. The machine also dual boots XP, under XP I have no such problem so I know my DSL line/Service is ok. Any help you be greatly appreciated Wayne

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Re: [Alug] strange processes
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

Chris Glover wrote: >Hi Jenny, > >have you tried > >umount -f /ducati Chris, thank you: that gives "illegal seek" however. fuser -v /ducati also causes the terminal to hang. Thanks, Jenny.

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Problems with CD-Writing
by Jonathan Dye 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

Hi guys, I'm having problems writting CD's (It is an IDE cd writer Acer 20 10 40 soemthing) under linux (debian3 kernel 2.4.18). I can't seem to write a CD without getting errors on it (i.e. a diff with the orginal show differences). What seems to be happening is that I'm getting buffer underrun on the drive as it stops writing momentarily. I can't see why as I have cdrecord's fifo set to 16Mb and it doesn't drop below 90%, the writer is on it's own channel and even if I did get under-run the drive is supposed to have BURN-Proof which according to cd-record is switched on. I've tried slowing down the writing from 20x to 8x and still got a bad write (although I didn't notice the drive stop writing but I didn't watch for the whole 10 mins). I've also tried turning DMA on and off by using hdparm on the /dev/hd* entires (which seems to work even though I'm using ide-scsi) and turning it off means I can't spool data quick enough for 20x anyway. I was hoping someone would have a suggestion as to what I could do to stop this happening (appart from buy scsi!). I'm currently compiling the kernel with less crud and the preemptive patch to see if that improves the situation. JD -- Jonathan Dye, The Automation Partnership(Cambridge) Ltd Registered Office: York Way, Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 5WY, UK Registered in England, Company No:2823205 http://www.automationpartnership.com Tel: +44 1763 227 403 Fax: +44 1763 227 201 mailto:jonathan.dye@automationpartnership.com _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service

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strange processes
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

Hullo List, I've just checked the processes running on my server and discovered a huge stream of the following, one per day: root 4643 0.0 0.5 1760 664 ? S Oct20 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON root 4644 0.0 0.8 2028 904 ? S Oct20 0:00 /bin/sh -c test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily root 4645 0.0 0.3 1252 348 ? S Oct20 0:00 run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily root 4692 0.0 0.8 2028 924 ? S Oct20 0:00 sh /etc/cron.daily/find root 4693 0.0 0.8 2048 952 ? S Oct20 0:00 sh /usr/bin/updatedb --localuser=nobody root 4707 0.0 0.8 2048 952 ? S Oct20 0:00 sh /usr/bin/updatedb --localuser=nobody root 4708 0.0 1.3 2340 1444 ? S Oct20 0:00 sort -f root 4709 0.0 0.2 1244 316 ? S Oct20 0:00 /usr/lib/locate/frcode nobody 4710 0.0 0.5 1412 656 ? D Oct20 0:04 /usr/bin/find / ( -fstype NFS -o -fstype nfs -o -fstype afs -o -fstype proc -o -fstype smbfs -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype auto -o -fstype iso9660 -o -fstype ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o -fstype devpts -o -fstype ftpfs -o -type d -regex $^/tmp$$\|$^/usr/tmp$$\|$^/var/tmp$$\|$^/afs$$\|$^/amd$$ \|$^/alex$$\|$^/var/spool$$ ) -prune -o -print I checked the message log and realised that I hadn't unmounted the nfs mount to my other linux box when I dismantled it last week, and cron is trying to access a mount point that it can't. However, I can't seem to kill any of the processes or unmount the nfs mount. I've restarted nfs-server and portmap. I can't umount /mntpoint , it says : Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive umount: /ducati: device is busy It would be a shame to reboot the box as it has sat there running reliably and happily since last May. Thanks, Jenny.

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browser spoofing
by tom potts 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

It looks as if IE.. can be set to spoof by modifying the registry under W$. A lot of the other browsers can be set to spoof by modifying their .cfg or .ini type files - either through the browser or editing the file itself. Opera doesnt as yet appear to have that facility so perhaps if anyone knows of an open source proxy it might be worth seing if that can be modified to spoof. On the downside.. http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/sniffer/browser_type.html seems to be able to work out you inside leg measurement! Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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*big* gentoo problem
by Adam Bower 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

Hi all, was using gentoo last night and did a emerge clean which should not remove any packages critical for operation of the machine and had it remove portage..... This has resulted in one very poorly box, does anyone have any idea how i could fix this? Is rpm included by default on the system? I can't check anything now as I am at work but I just wanted to read the docs to make sure I hadn't done anything stupid and now feel vindicated that I was not at fault. Anyhow if rpm is included in the base system would somebody mind building me an rpm of portage-2.0.38 please? If it isn't has anybody else got any good ideas? Thanks Adam

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RE: [Alug] strange processes
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

Keith Watson wrote: >have you tried: fsck /off & die > >DON' TRY IT!! Joke! Joke! :O) Oh no! I didn't read the second line till I'd executed the first and now the console has lots of funny error messages all over it.....oh, no, it's gone all black......;-) (- you post this to someone who thinks that the word 'gullible' doesn't appear in the dictionary.......) Adam Bower wrote: >Reboot the box.... or you could try a lsof | grep ducati and killing off >any processes that think they still have files open from the other box >and then unmounting the filesystems. > >The easy option is to reboot the box though if it is non-trivial... >although if the box has been up since May then are you sure you havn't >done anything to it that will stop it coming back up again? ;) > >Adam I've managed to kill nearly all the errant processes with kill -s KILL (seems to mean roughly the same as Keith's suggestion) but still can't approach the mountpoint without it all getting its knickers in a twist. (Quick apt-get install lsof) lsof |grep ducati also hangs. Rebooting the box - *cough* *ahem* well the truth is, gawd knows what I've changed in that time....... I'm off till Monday now, perhaps I'll come in and it will have magically mended itself. Thanks! Jenny.

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