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RE: [Alug] filesystem problem
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

>Sounds like there was a hitch on startup and your fsck'ed filesystems weren't remounted as read-write. > >1st stupid question (from me that is :o) ), have you tried rebooting again? Keith: Obviously wasn't so stupid! Thanks Jen :-)

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filesystem problem
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hi, My box had a problem with usb and hung. When I rebooted, it hung for ages on "cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20030319.log. Read-only file system" then continued booting but brought up similar messages about not being able to create various files. Looking at 20030319.log, the permissions are 644 and it was created at the time of the reboot. It consists of lines such as 20030319 111648 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- usb0 safemode=1 20030319 111648 probe ended over and over. Commands such as "cp" and "rm" will no longer work, nor will vi, as I appear to be running a "read-only" file system. Flavour is debian, kernel 2.4.19. Can anybody help? I'm not too hot on file-system types. Many thanks, Jenny.

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filesystem problem
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

I wrote: >My box had a problem with usb and hung. When I rebooted, it hung for ages >on "cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20030319.log. Read-only file system" >then continued booting but brought up similar messages about not being able >to create various files. >Looking at 20030319.log, the permissions are 644 and it was created at the >time of the reboot. It consists of lines such as >20030319 111648 start /sbin/modprobe -s -k -- usb0 safemode=1 >20030319 111648 probe ended >over and over. >Commands such as "cp" and "rm" will no longer work, nor will vi, as I >appear to be running a "read-only" file system. >Flavour is debian, kernel 2.4.19. >Can anybody help? I'm not too hot on file-system types. >Many thanks, >Jenny. Problem seems sorted - I did a clean shutdown and reboot, and it ran fsck telling me hadn't shut down cleanly. I suppose that means it hadn't run on the previous boot even though it said it had. It seems okay now. My box has only crashed twice in the space of a year and both times has been a usb problem. Ta. Jen.

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FW: "Unix Text Processing"
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

Folks, A broadcast message (apologies to all who thereby receive cross-postings) to let you know that the excellent book "Unix Text Processing", originally by Dale Dougherty and Tim Reilly and published in 1987 by O'Reilly and Associates (increasingly famous for the outstanding series of "O'Reillys" on all sorts of aspects of Unix and Linux):-- -- having been released into the public domain by O'Reilly has been re-created as groff source code by a team of volunteers coordinated by Larry Kollar, and reformatted into PostScript and PDF. The result, now at "beta 2.1a", is available from http://www.alltel.net/~kollar/utp/ and is essentially complete. For those of you who may wonder what it's really about: -- it covers the use of Unix troff and friends, and the use of many of the general Unix utilities (vi, ex, sed, awk etc) in the coordinated way that Unix (and of course Linux) so readily permits, to produce high quality and sophisticated documents and books of almost arbitrary complexity, with the writer having control over the finest detail of layout and typesetting. Future planned developments will bring the book up to date with respect to the more recent devopments embodied in GNU groff, James Clark's re-creation of the Unix troff suite of programs. Best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 14-Mar-03 Time: 19:28:28 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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I was at the meeting venue today, where was everyone else?
by Ashley 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '03

I was at UEA today, in Union House, in the correct room, at 2:20pm. However, no-one else was around. In fact, there was no indication that the ALUG meeting was ever going to happen, i.e. no signs, no notices in the room, etc. What happened? I waited a few minutes, assumed the meeting had been cancelled and went back home. Is this the start of the Cambridge CLUG experience, i.e. the meeting is at this specific venue, but you have to 'use the force' to find the other members! -- Ashley T. Howes PhD http://www.ashleyhowes.com "when all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 17 Mar '03

17 Mar '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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ODBC on RH8
by Tony Dietrich 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

I've just started try to do some programming on a Linux based system, after years of working in WinDoze. One of the first hurdles I'm facing is that the current project requires accessing a remote MySql server (remote, but on the same LAN). I'm assuming its possible to set up some sort of ODBC service, but for the life of me I can't find out the right way to do this. Has anyone got any hints please? I'm using NetBeans or KDevelop, as my programming environment, it that affects anything :P -- Tony Dietrich Transoft Computer Consultants 07769710115

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modem driver
by Kamel Saadi 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '03

Hi , I have an intel 536ep modem and a red hat linux 7.0(kernel 2.2.x) on my machine, the only driver I could find is for the 2.4.x kernel, can anyone help? Cheers.

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Announce digest, Vol 2 #3 - 1 msg
by announce-request＠lists.alug.org.uk 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '03

Send Announce mailing list submissions to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to announce-request(a)lists.alug.org.uk You can reach the person managing the list at announce-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Announce digest..." --------------.--------------------------------------------.------------ alug-announce | Newsletter of the Anglian Linux User Group | Weekly(ish) --------------'--------------------------------------------'------------ ** Please send articles for this letter to announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk ** *** Please send replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk, not announce... *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Today's Topics: 1. Fwd: [Alug] UEA meeting (16th March) (MJ Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 To: announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:45:24 +0000 (GMT) From: mjr(a)cloaked.freeserve.co.uk (MJ Ray) Subject: [Alug Announce] Fwd: [Alug] UEA meeting (16th March) From: James Edward John Taylor <J.E.Taylor(a)uea.ac.uk> Subject: [Alug] UEA meeting (16th March) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:42:27 +0000 Hello ya'll. I havee been informed that there was a provisinal date for the UEA meeting of ALUG this weekend (Sunday 16th March). As opposed to the previous UEA meeting, this one will be ... semi organised!!!. I have booked a room in Union House for it, and will try to get there early enough to put up relevent penguin pictures pointing to room 1.33 which is the bigg room at the end of the corridor... the only problem with this room is that if we have more then sixty people turn up, then we will be forced to turn some away... Anyone else comming or will it be me on my tod? Is anyone bringing anything cool or semi-cool, or not cool at all but wants to make it cool? Anyone wanting to do a demonstration/presentation/speach at all? Anyways, tis all from me for now J _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Announce mailing list Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce End of Announce Digest

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Re: [SLL] "Unix Text Processing"
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

On 14-Mar-03 Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > This book is on my shelf and it says "Hayden Books" (of Howard Sams). > > It includes easy-to-understand chapters on unix fundamentals, using vi, > nroff, some macros, and drawing images (which I have not done yet). > > It has been quite useful even to this day. > > Jeremy C. Reed > http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ Thanks! You are right, and apologies for the error. Tim O'Reilly, none the less, went on to publish the "O'Reilly" books, and great tribute is in order for this most useful series. Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 167 1972 Date: 14-Mar-03 Time: 22:47:14 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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