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Some advice needed
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 29 Oct '02

29 Oct '02

I am using a backup application which I wrote myself in Free Pascal which uses Afio to do the dirty work in conjunction with my SCSI tape drive. Very occasionally a problem occurs during a backup (read or write error) which causes error messages to be appended to the logs, kern.log, messages. sys.log, at such a rate that it consumes about 500MB in a couple of hours. Can anyone suggest a method of monitoring the logs for excessive growth or for the occurrence of the same error message occurring say 25 times which would then automatically kill Afio (which stops the messages). I can't monitor this from inside my own application once control is passed to Afio for the Backup or Verify. Many thanks Barry Samuels

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 28 Oct '02

28 Oct '02

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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Gentoo 1.4 install
by Jamie French 28 Oct '02

28 Oct '02

As we are talking about Gentoo, anyone tried the Live 1.4 cd? Tried to install last night, but found the install instructions did not always relate to the installation and some of the noted commands failed to execute i.e. not found. This may be due to the fact I tried it on a Tosh Tecra 8000, so I gave up a installed Debian woody which worked but took an age and generated many errors and no I did not write them down, got to late to care :) 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? Probably trying to do to much to late, tired eyes and all that :) Take Care, Jamie

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re: web hosting
by tom potts 26 Oct '02

26 Oct '02

I've been using fasthosts for a year or so now and have found them to be reliable and helpful. Now if only I could get some of my domains back from certain idiots in the US who want to charge $40 to release a name I own... 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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Cuddly toys
by John Seago 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

For cuddly toys try here: http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/trivia.html -- John Seago

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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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