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[Alug]O'Reilly Book Reviews
by kpwatson＠pop3.ukfsn.org 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Are there any guidelines for the format of book reviews? and, if not, would some be helpful? A quick Google throws up loads of sites, even an O'Reilly one <http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html>. Once we've written a review what's the next step? Keith

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Re: [Alug]automount with NFS
by Steve Fosdick 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

On 2003.10.06 23:13, Steve Fosdick wrote: On 2003.10.06 22:30, MJ Ray wrote: > One tip: be very careful with NFS mount options. If a server hangs > on you, then you can't just kill the thing and restart like you can > with the userland amd. You could lose the whole autofs system for > the duration unless you have timeouts and interruptable options. Any > process trying to touch it will block hard, leading to amusingly high > load averages (I think around 120 was my highest before fixing > it...). Futhermore if you enable use the intr option so any blocked processes can be killed, then killing one of them can cause a kernel oops on the client. Specifically, imagine you have a process that has a file open but has removed the directory entry for that file. The normal way unix handles this is that the file will continue to exist anonymously until the last process closed it whereupon the file is deleted and the space recovered. On NFS, when the last directory entry to an open file is deleted the file actually gets renamed to a hidden filename. So, you have this process running and it's holding the file open but the NFS server has gone away and you want to unmount the filesystem so you kill the process at which point the kernel panics because it can't delete the hidden file on the NFS server.

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[Alug]automount with NFS
by Craig 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

Anyone successfully managed to get this working? I cannot really make sense of some online documents (quite surprised at that). Quick guide anyone? C -- - Craig - http://www.wizball.co.uk "Simplicity, the best way to approach life"

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Re: [Alug]ALUG meeting in Norwich on Sunday
by Tristan Scott 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

Syd Hancock wrote: > Hi tristan > > >>ill check out how i book a room sometime, an let you know. > > > That would be great. If you need advice, several people on the list > were at UEA and know the ropes. I checked. I cannot book a room in january until november or possible even december. they havent even got a calendar for Jan yet! > > HTH > Syd > > -- Tristan Scott Engineer 0800 computer Services Wenceslas House (Opp. Boundary pub) 355 Aylsham Road Norwich NR3 2RX Tel: 0800 0185237 Tel: 01603 442233 Fax: 01603 404410

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[Alug]Reminder: Norwich Meeting NOT this week
by Syd Hancock 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

Reminder that the October Norwich evening meet has been postponed for a week. Now takes place on thursday 15th October, 8pm The Forum coffee bar. Syd

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[Alug]Laptop thermal zones and pcmcia - forked from meetings thread
by Tristan Scott 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

this was in the meetings thread... > > >>maybe you can help me with my laptop. >>damn thermal zone isnt recognised in 2.6.0, so i can only turn >>the fan on flat out, or off (and overheat) btw, in 2.4.* you cant even turn the fan on - overheats in a few minutes. >> >>theres a dsdt patch for 2.4.18 which fixes it, but i cant work >>out how to apply it to the 2.6.0 kernel. >> >>it doesnt seem to use the same data structure? >>?:( <edit> Syd Hancock: > > Sorry, I have no idea at all, other than the obvious comment that > 2.4 and 2,6 kernels are very different. A message to the list may > get you some useful feedback as several people are testing versions > of 2.6 > > I have seen on the Thinkpad list that there are some builds > specifically for laptops (may be Thinkpad only?) which may help as > this may be an ACPI problem. Google for Andrew Morton's patches > e.g. 2.6.0-test6-mm1 (the mm suffix indicates that it is an Andrew > Morton patch). running 2.6.0-test6-mm. dosent help. got a new problem: my bootiful new cisco 352 802.11b pcmcia card will send....but not receive. same card works a different laptop. i can talk to the card, get model number, mac address etc etc but although it requests a dhcp lease, it ignores the response... if i manually assign, it will ping itself but merely drops the packets sent anywhere else. the hub reports it present (i turned off its mac address and it then logged warnings about it) - and YES i did turn it back on. -- Tristan Scott Engineer 0800 computer Services Wenceslas House (Opp. Boundary pub) 355 Aylsham Road Norwich NR3 2RX Tel: 0800 0185237 Tel: 01603 442233 Fax: 01603 404410

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[Alug]Call For Help: bestmeat and refs web pages
by MJ Ray 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

Hi all, Alexis Lee has bowed out of editing the web site, so can you take over one of the two following pages that Alexis used to edit? http://www.alug.org.uk/articles/2001a/bestmeat.html - Suggesting "best of breed" applications, maybe should be updated to mention recent releases? http://www.alug.org.uk/articles/2001a/refs.html - Book list, still edited by Jenny, but I'm sure help/suggestions would be appreciated. If you can edit one of these, please send a short email to the list, then download the page, edit it and email the edited copy back to me. Thanks to Alexis for work in the past, including general site editing as well as these pages. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef(a)jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/

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[Alug]Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '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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[Alug]Microsoft foot-in-mouth again?
by Graham Trott 05 Oct '03

05 Oct '03

Just to get that warm feeling of superiority... "Microsoft has banned the cover-mounting of its software on magazines, and is advising users to go to its own web sites for updates instead. And apparently, it's all Sun's fault." http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33021.html -- GT

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[Alug]RE: +AFs-Alug+AF0-Bourne Grammar Open Day
by Jenny Hopkins 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

Ben Francis wrote: > no, I forgot. It didn't seem like anyone was interested either :P > > The open evening runs from 7:00pm - 9:00pm, Bourne Grammar > School, South > Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire. All welcome. > Ben, I would have been thoroughly interested in going if I had the time - little enough spare time being a full time working mum as it is - don't think we're not interested, though, I think it's a fantastic project and would have loved to come and see how it is going. Was there much interest from visitors? Jen

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