January 2003 - main

fscking hel(p)!
by Ricardo Santos Campos 25 Jan '03

25 Jan '03

Sorry bout the title, just couldn't help myself. Anyway. After doing an emerge -u system, the pc froze totally and so I had to hard reset. Sadly, on startup I get this message: Unexpected inconsistency, please run fsck on hda3 manually. inode 161 has imagic flag set. This is fine and dandy, I could get tomsrtbt on the case, but in fact, I have no idea what the imagic flag is, nor what it's meant to be. Interestingly, /dev/hda3 is the root filesystem I'm typing this e-mail on, so it ain't all that bad... is it? I use fsck 1.29 and ext2 as my filesystem.

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man page format problems
by Ricardo Santos Campos 25 Jan '03

25 Jan '03

Another problem with the gentoo system upgrade (or destruction, depending on the way you look at it) is that now man pages are formatted incorrectly. They look like this: (from man man): ESC[1mSynopsisESC[om and so on... lots of ESC's and I presume control characters. Obviously this is a bug, but I don't know who's bug it is- would it be the man programs or some other program that formats it to display?

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Re: [Alug] Paintball? + NTL free webcam
by NuTTeR -- Not Entered -- 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Im up for some paintball =). LOL we could hold the next meeting at a paintball game. I think we'd see even less kit at the meet ;). Anyone know of a q3 install howto just i dont want to get another copy just for Linux well if the company theat made the boxset were still around i might but as there not, pa =). What deal are NTL doing at the moment then? ive been thinking about geting it but was wondering if i need a bt phone line installed at the address, dont see why its needed but most broadband companys have it as a requirment i just want cable or ADSL not a phone line. (Ive been mailing a uea address by defult... lol how old is that) ----- Original Message ----- ... > I would be up for it...... eventually ;) Just need to do some last > minute practise on Q3A... oh wait....... > > -- -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://www.graffiti.net Powered by Outblaze

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Webcams
by Paul 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Just a quick update on the freebie webcam that NTL are giving out at the moment. After a snotty phone call on Tuesday, one was delivered the same afternoon. After getting the USB drivers loaded (enabling the BIOS stuff first), I grabbed a driver from http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/ - A very quick compile produced a kernel module of about 100K, and with a little work with the strip command this could probably be reduced to around 70K. "make install" does not copy the module across correctly - Mine ended up in /lib/modules/misc instead of /lib/modules/2.4.18/misc. With usbcore, videodev, usb-uhci, and mod_quickcam loaded in that order, "xawtv -c /dev/video0" produced a full colour image at approx 1fps. Downloaded gqcam, but found the image monochromatic with a distinct blue bias. All in all, quite a simple device to set up and use (not sure what for though). Regards, Paul. -- The spamming scumbags have won - A new email account is now in use with a mangled return address. Send replies to : paul AT bdiemc DOT fslife DOT co DOT uk Or : bdi-emc AT ntlworld DOT com

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RE: [Alug] PCI Modem Problems
by Keith Watson 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

> I've recently installed Linux on my computer, and when I tried to > configure my connnection using kppp to get to my ISP, I failed because > my PCI modem was not configured. > I would appreciate if anyone could give advice on setting a dial up connection. As you say it's a PCI modem I assume its internal, is it a so-called WinModem?, cause if so then you may have a problem. In this case the LinModem site <www.linmodems.org> and the Linmodem HowTo at <www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linmodem-HOWTO.html> If not then see the general Modem HowTo at <www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html> Keith ____________ Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.- Carl Gustav Jung

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(no subject)
by Paul, Jean R 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Hi , I've recently installed Linux on my computer, and when I tried to configure my connnection using kppp to get to my ISP, I failed because my PCI modem was not configured. I would appreciate if anyone could give advice on setting a dial up connection. Cheers lads.

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new member
by toby cockburn 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Hello, I had been meaning to join alug for a while, but only just got round to it. Am interested in learning more about the O/S, although I first installed RH4.2 back in 98, I have been quite intermittant about developing my knowleadge, I would also like to pass on any of the small amount of knowledge I have to anyone who might need any assistance. I work in IT although unfortunatly not looking after any unices, but the bit mapped dungeon itself! Anyway thats it really. Toby

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Configuring ethernet IP information for eth0... fails
by Robert Stelmack 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Configuration: RedHat 7.2, DELL Latitude Laptop CPi-A Problem: Configuring ethernet IP information for eth0... fails Ultimate goal: Local Area Network to share Linux files with Window/98 system PHASE I: Prepare ethernet communication Steps taken: Logged on as root: [root@localhost root]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:2F:33:E7 BROADCAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4 collisions:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2360 (2.3 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:8324 (8.1 Kb) TX bytes:8324 (8.1 Kb) [root@localhost root]# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up [root@localhost root]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:2F:33:E7 inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast 192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4 collisions:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2360 (2.3 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 RX bytes:8324 (8.1 Kb) TX bytes:8324 (8.1 Kb) [root@localhost root]# ping 198.168.1.100 PING 192.168.1.100 (192.168.1.100) from 192.168.1.100 : 56(84) bytes of data 64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=487 usec Warning: time of day goes back, taking countermeasures. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.100: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=487 usec <ctrl>c --- 192.168.1.100 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted. 2 packets received. 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.487/0.626/0.766/0.141 ms [root@localhost root]# ifdown eth0 [root@localhost root]# ifup eth0 Determining IP information for eth0... failed Cheers, Robert (Roger) Stelmack

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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exim
by BenEBoy 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

I'm about two steps from abandoning my SuSE linux install to my whizzy linuxfromscratch setup but I've hit a dead end. Exim just won't deliver mail properly... Everytime it gets mail it moans about not being able to get a lock on /var/mail/<whatever> (where I *plan* to store my messages), because of the 'permissions' and defers them. When installing exim I set up an 'exim' user and group and chown/chgrp 'ed /var/mail to that user (and the subdirectories) and in a fit of desparation did a chmod 666 without any success (that is the chmod worked but exim still didn't ::grin::) So....arrrggghhh! I've tried disabling locking altogether with no luck and I'm desperate. Can anyone help me pretty please? Cheers, BenE (also pine moans about /var/mail/<whatever> not being a 'selectable folder'. Maybe it's related??) ::sob:: -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.norwich-anarchists.org.uk Officially the best norwich based anarchist web site that has overly large jpegs

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