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locale settings question
by Syd Hancock 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

Hi all I sometimes get this error message (MDK8.0, su'd to root in a terminal window): --quote-- perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_MESSAGES = "en_GB", LC_TIME = "en_GB", LC_NUMERIC = "en_GB", LC_CTYPE = "en_GB", LC_MONETARY = "en_GB", LC_COLLATE = "en_GB", LANG = "en" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). --end quote-- Is it serious and what do I do about it? Incidentally I am not trying to run perl - for example, the above is part of the output in response to the supermount command. Sorry if this is a simple question but as a newbie I really have no idea where to begin. I did look at man locale and man perl but did not find anything that seemed relevant to this problem. Many TIAs Syd

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Re: [Alug] 500Bytes - 40 Gig
by Ricardo Campos 03 Dec '01

03 Dec '01

> I've just had another complaint which indicates you may have killed all our > OE-using members... OK, we can probably agree on how crap that email client > is, but killing them before we convert them isn't helpful at all. :-( I have to say I reserved myself to bite on this little morsel til today. I'm glad I didn't subscribe to this list using my work mail. All e-mail including compressed (tgz, zip, etc) attachments are scanned for viruses here, both at the mailserver, and on workstations. This particular attachment is basically malicious code as the two virus-scanners I am aware of uncompress zip files to scan them. It would have crashed our mail server, and, had it actually come through, it would have crashed my desktop machine. Had that happened, I would NOT be a happy bunny. (Understatement of the year) > (Did any OE users get that message OK... and why are you using OE?!?) Just to annoy you! ;-P Actually I don't use OE anymore, but that's not the point. Seriously, though, some of us work in multi-OS environments, including Mac and M$, and so have to use virus scanners. I suspect that it could've nailed a linux box too, seeing as Linux is perfect for a multi-OS environment, as a mail/file server, etc. I've noticed a few people using work e-mails, so let's see how good *their* scanners are... If you want to send this kind of code do it directly to the person who asked for it, please. Anyone fancy posting the NIMDA sourcecode??? >;-) ha ha. Ricardito -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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e2fsck lost+found error
by Ian Douglas 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

Hi folks, If I run "e2fsck /dev/sda5" I get the following error: /dev/sda5 contains a filesystem with errors, check forced: Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Missing '..' in directory inode 195 Fix <y>? yes Missing '..' in directory inode 196 Fix <y>? yes Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Unmounted directory inode 195 (/???) Connect to /lost+found <y>? yes /lost+found not found. Create <y>? yes Error creating /lost+found directory (ext2fs_link): No free space in the directory I am confused. If I mount /dev/sda5 on /mnt and have a look around it, it all looks ok and if I do a df it tells me there is still plenty of free space on the partition (as I expected): Filesystem: /dev/sda5 1k-blocks: 3958767 Used: 1653871 Available: 2100069 Use%: 44% Anyone know how I can correct this "lost+found" error? Ian.

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mail clients
by Ricardo Campos 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

Sidestepping the current debate.... ;) Has anyone got any suggestions for a mail client that suits these criteria: 1. Can handle HTML, but needs to send in either html or text (actually only needs to send in text). 2. Can handle MIME attachments. 3. GUI based, but not desktop environment specific (i.e. not Kmail or Evolution). I use WindowMaker as a window manager, and both those products crash at unexpected times outside their cde. 4. Not Mozilla Messenger or Nestscrape Msgr.(These seem a little shaky to me too- although I'm still on Netscrape 4.77) It *doesn't* need to handle news, or have a calender, or an organiser, or wash my dishes. :) Just a mail client. E-mail me off-list if you wish. Ricardo --------------------- "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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500Bytes - 40 Gig
by Ducttape 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

Someone on list had a zip file which was a few hundred bytes but which uncompressed to several gigs, does anyone have it? Thanks D

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Boot scripts
by Paul 02 Dec '01

02 Dec '01

Hi folks I have a linux box running RH6.x that I want to have booting directly in to X-windows without having to log in first. The various network services still need to be started so that I can telnet in - Question is, in what order are the start up scripts run, and which one(s) do I need to hack to skip the login ? Or better still, where can I find documents on the boot sequence ? Regards, Paul.

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Touchscreens for the microwave.
by Paul 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Hi Folks I finally sorted the touchscreen out that I had at the meeting yesterday. A case of not reading my XF86Config notes properly. Had missed the "AlwaysCore" option from the XInput section ! At least the driver I had to write works fine against a fresh install of linux and XFree86-3.3.5. Regards, Paul.

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Re: New Toys questions
by John Seago 01 Dec '01

01 Dec '01

Can I thank all those who responded to my requests for help, both those who responded via the list and those who responded privately. The question on swap space seems to have prompted a discussion which I am watching with interest, but not necessarily understanding completely. On the matter of booting multiple `Linux' distributions it would appear that just continuing with Lilo is enough, which in view of my steep `Linux' learning curve so far, seems far, far too easy........ John

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Wireless networking
by Andrew Savory 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Hi all, As I live just a few streets away from an ADSL-enabled area, I'm pondering going halves with a friend that can get ADSL and then setting up a wireless connection from his house to mine. The trouble is, I know *nothing* about wireless networking ;-) If anyone out there in ALUGland does, could you give me a few hints? I want to know: * what are my options? * what range I can get? * what hardware is required? * likely cost? Looking forward to someone telling me it'll cost 50p and give me gigabytes a second to play with... Andrew. -- All views are my own .... who else would want them?

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Re: [Alug] Re: previous post, Slackware 8 and Debian not `seeing' the CD drive
by Adam Bower 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

>From: "Ricardo Campos" <corez23(a)linuxmail.org> >To: abower(a)thebowery.co.uk >CC: main(a)lists.alug.org.uk >Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: previous post, Slackware 8 and Debian not `seeing' > the CD drive >Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:51:55 +0000 > > > Not with 2.4.* kernels the vm needs either at least 2x swap to RAM or no > > swap at all, if not you may/will see performance problems on your >machines. > >Hmm... methinks not. I have 512MB RAM (& kernel 2.4.3), and only 133 MB >swap space (to use during the install), and find no performance problem in >any way. In fact the opposite! There is simply no reason for me to use 1GB >of swapspace! Besides which RAM is *much* faster than swap, easier to >upgrade, and just stupidly cheap. I only spent £40 on 512MB (that's >probably expensive now), & don't expect to upgrade anytime soon....... Hmmm, I think this is the thread on linux kernel mailing list that covers it more in depth http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0101.3/1221.html but don't have time to read all of it... there is a comment somewhere in there though that shows that Linus should shoot himself though. Adam _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: previous post, Slackware 8 and Debian not `seeing' the CD drive
by John Seago 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Thanks to all who offered suggestions aimed at solving this problem, some time after I posted my query, I found an unlikely answer on one of the newsgroups which was to replace the IDE cables with new ones, (and they had to be new as opposed to different), this worked, (and being both cheap and easy, was most satisfactory), and Chris and I have managed to install both Slackware and Debian now. It has to be said that in my case they are going in at an alarming rate until such time as I get it right! When Chris opened up my case and replaced the cables he found that my rather elderly computer was in fact suffering from old age and neeeded replacing. I am having a `bare bones' computer built to take my new drives, and this raises a question, up to now I have followed advice I read somewhere that the swap space be twice the memory, (RAM?), having 64 whatever-they-ares of memory I have a 128 swap space, having ordered 128 memory, do I need a 256 swap space? All suggestions gratefully recieved, although I may be too old/full of pain killers to understand any explanation. John

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New toys question 2
by John Seago 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Having decided that I can probably do without `windows' it just occurred to me that more important than the swap space is how to get it to boot, (other than using boot floppies), particularly as I wish to boot several partitions. Up to now I have cheated and used a Mandrake 8 or 8.1 installation disk to make the partitions, and reset after it has written them to the partition table. I believe that I will need a partition at the front of the primary master hard disk to boot from, and I can, (as yet), find no information in any of the library of books I seem to have acquired over the past few months. this time I think I may to have to have it explained to me, or understand it, before I start making big mistakes. Can someone point me at a source of information that I can take in at my own pace? John Seago

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Re: [Alug] Re: previous post, Slackware 8 and Debian not `seeing' the CD drive
by Ricardo Campos 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

>http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0101.3/1221.html > but don't have time to read all of it... there is a comment somewhere in > there though that shows that Linus should shoot himself though. I read it up until the point that my browser "couldn't find the server". Couldn't really see the comment. BUT I prefer to use the addage: To increase a servers speed- add more RAM, to increase it further add EVEN MORE RAM. Same for desktop, ESPECIALLY since desktops tend to use IDE rather than SCSI(which is still not as fast as RAM). 128 MB (or 256 to be sure) should be fine, unless you use intensive apps such as 3D rendering and GIMP on big piccies. With the advent of large (32MB+) graphics cards, even 3D games don't really dent your RAM that much. I'm not sure if the kernel actually needs a swap partition to be present, but in general losing 128 MB on a HD isn't exactly a great loss (especially as I couldn't find a first-hand IDE drive with less than 20GB), and £50 for 512MB isn't either (of course, that's just excessive, I was just trying to future-proof as much as poss). My bets are: loadsa RAM, small swap. I think the 2xRAM thing was also partly due to RAM being expensive once-upon-a-time. Ricardito "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Swap space
by John Seago 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

I would like to thank every body who has sent me advice on this matter, I have decided to go with x2 > x4 swap space, (space being of no consequence as I have a total disk space of more than 50 gig). As predicted, this seems to have sparked a technical discussion which I don't understand, I'm glad I didn't ask to have it explained to me! Once again thank you everyone for your advice. John seago

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Re: [Alug] Re: previous post, Slackware 8 and Debian not `seeing' the CD drive
by Ricardo Campos 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

> Not with 2.4.* kernels the vm needs either at least 2x swap to RAM or no > swap at all, if not you may/will see performance problems on your machines. Hmm... methinks not. I have 512MB RAM (& kernel 2.4.3), and only 133 MB swap space (to use during the install), and find no performance problem in any way. In fact the opposite! There is simply no reason for me to use 1GB of swapspace! Besides which RAM is *much* faster than swap, easier to upgrade, and just stupidly cheap. I only spent £40 on 512MB (that's probably expensive now), & don't expect to upgrade anytime soon....... I have noticed one thing, though: about 2 mins after my box boots up and I'm into my WM (WindowMaker at the mo'), it pages (oops I mean writes-to-disk/swap?) like crazy for about 5 seconds, then NEVER does it again (until I reboot for whatever reason). This is different to Windoze 2K server on the same machine, for example, which pages like crazy just for the hell of it, inefficient little beasty that it is! Ricardo "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Re: previous post, Slackware 8 and Debian not `seeing' the CD drive
by MJ Ray 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Adam: > Not with 2.4.* kernels the vm needs either at least 2x swap to RAM or no > swap at all, if not you may/will see performance problems on your machines. I thought the new VM didn't suffer from that? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Filtering spam in Linux
by MJ Ray 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

> My main email address has been activate for about 3 years and thus gets a > lot of spam. Are there known methods inside Fetchmail or procmail to filter > out 'spam' into a separate folder for later viewing? I filter everything that mentions me in the address lines, or looks like a mailing list, into their own folders. Everything else goes in "uncaught" and I read that folder a *lot* less often. I'm using slocal/.maildelivery, so the basic idea is: # .maildelivery file for nmh's slocal # Blank lines and lines beginning with a '#' are ignored # FIELD PATTERN ACTION RESULT STRING # Trap fscking badtrans From <_ pipe R "/home/markj/usr/bin/badtranswarn" # Filter some mailing lists To ezine@author folder ? lists-moderated # All our lug-related lists into one folder List-Id lug folder ? lists-lug Sender ebi.ac.uk folder ? lists-lug # LUG box still uses pre-list-id majordomo Sender lug.org.uk folder ? lists-lug # Try to catch all other lists in the bucket List-Post . folder ? lists Delivered-To "mailing list" folder ? lists List-Id . folder ? lists X-Mailing-List . folder ? lists Sender owner- folder ? lists # Things really addressed to me To markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk folder ? inbox Cc markj(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk folder ? inbox # Put anything not matched yet into uncaught default - folder ? uncaught > If not, do people on the list use services to eliminate the spam? There has > to be a better way than 'download and delete'. Download and feed to spamcop.net? -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Re: previous post, Slackware 8 and Debian not `seeing' the CD drive
by Adam Bower 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

>I think the "twice times physical memory" (yes, RAM :) rule is very >general. Not with 2.4.* kernels the vm needs either at least 2x swap to RAM or no swap at all, if not you may/will see performance problems on your machines. Adam _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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SNMP Load averages...
by Simon Parkes 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Hi, I'm hoping someone can help lift the mist from my eyes... doing an snmpwalk of my PC on .1.3.6.1.4.1.2010.10.1.3 gives me 3 results (as expected), these are the load averages of 1, 5 and 15 mins.. Can someone tell me what might be a high value ? My 1 min load average is 3.66 most of the time.... 3.66 out of what? 100, is this a percentage? Any ideas anyone... Simon

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Re: [Alug] How to find people with Linux skills
by MJ Ray 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Chris Allen: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:14:46AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > (even if I think that I broadly agree with the spirit (but not the > > letter) of IR35) > Really? Why is that? I think the whole taxation system needs a good tidy up. However, IR35 alone is merely adding ot the complexity, not simplifying it as it ought to. Replies set to go to social, as this has nothing to do with Linux. -- MJR

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Fdisk Errors
by Ducttape 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

When I run Fdisk I get the following error message Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda1: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 612 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1p1 ? 120513 235786 925929529+ 68 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(116, 100, 32) logical=(120512, 47, 32) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(288, 101, 46) logical=(235785, 20, 46) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(288, 101, 46) should be (288, 254, 63) Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(82800, 34, 51) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(116349, 218, 61) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(0, 13, 10) should be (0, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(345, 32, 19) logical=(33550, 137, 11) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(324, 77, 19) logical=(120594, 153, 54) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(324, 77, 19) should be (324, 254, 63) /dev/hda1p4 ? 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(87, 1, 0) logical=(86811, 142, 3) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(335, 78, 2) logical=(86812, 225, 45) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(335, 78, 2) should be (335, 254, 63) Partition table entries are not in disk order Any suggestions on how I could fix this, preserving the data on the partitions? Thanks D

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Hot copying large mySQL databases
by Martyn Drake 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Hi folks, Does anybody have any hints or tips for dumping or performing live backups of large mySQL databases? I've heard about mysqlhotcopy, but I think that's being a bit too simplistic for my needs.. Thanks, Martyn

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Fdisk Errors
by Ducttape 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

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Re: [Alug] new netowrk card
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Ricardo wrote> So you're using the NETBIOS name, then. Hi all, just to let you know the box is now showing on the network again. smb.conf didn't have a netbios name entry. What i don't understand is how changing a network card could make a difference to that - surely it shouldn't have showed up *before* with that entry missing. Thanks for all the replies on it, Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] How to find people with Linux skills
by MJ Ray 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Laurie wrote: > You may (perhaps fairly) think it's a bit harsh, but this is at least > the third time he's done this, and I've asked him to stop twice (which > he both failed to acknowledge, and ignored). Especially given its > precedents, it *is* spam, however relevant it may be to any particular > reader. Laurie, this email was more of a grey area than previous messages, not being a "we've got this job" but a "where should we advertise". Of course, you could still count it as sneaky advertising, as most of the email is occupied by their contact details in a non-signature footer, but it can't really be classed as "spam"/UCE. However, what we saw was you stomping in there with the big boots on and threatening them on-list for what appeared an innocent message. No explanation of why you classed it as spam was given. Please, everyone, if you suspect something of being spam, please contact the three of us at main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk and *we'll* get the big boots on. If you dislike our decision, *then* you can post to the list bitching about our decision and we'll back down if your opinion is the majority one. I'm inclined to accept job adverts etc into announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk, mainly through the absence of any other material. Would people agree to that, as long as tough guidelines (eg no sigs, under a certain length, once per issue max) were set? > Further, Best International are members of ATSCO, and as any > member of the PCG knows, not only supporters of IR35, but as members > of ATSCO, they are acting in the worst interests of contractors (qv. > statements from the ATSCO chairman passim). A cruise through the > private fora in the PCG will show that Best are in fact misnamed... > Consequently, I am unable to find any room for compromise. Now this *is* interesting. I also dislike ATSCO because of their handling of this (even if I think that I broadly agree with the spirit (but not the letter) of IR35) and I think the only honourable thing for any member to do is to either resign or go on record with an open letter objecting to their handling of the affair. -- MJR Anglian LUG http://www.alug.org.uk/ No ePatents http://petition.eurolinux.org/ FSF Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org/

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