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RedHat7.2 memory shortage?
by Glen Tyler 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

Hi everyone, I'm just starting migration, and was impressed enough with what I'd seen of an old copy of RedHat 6.0 to install RedHat 7.2 on my machine. Its a P133 with 64MB, and 4.0GB hard drive. While I'm impressed with all the eversocool features of this (desktop) install, it has slowed the system to a crawl. Everything seems to take ages to load and respond, and trying to do anything more than just move the mouse about or type in Kword seems to involve a huge amount of thrashing of the hard disc (the swap space being utilised?). I've noticed that balsa as and email client and Galeon as a web browser seem faster than Mozilla - is there a suite of 'lighter' programs that I should choose? Any recommendations? Glen

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Re: clug "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd"
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

Tom Huckstep wrote: >Just to clarify, I didn't get nmdb in my error messages, just what >ever happened to be running at the time, e.g. `VM: >do_try_to_free_pages failed for mozilla', particularly when running >memory hungry programs. That would make sense - nmbd would have been trying to allow NTserver to access the linux box to copy my backup file to its backup tape. But my backup file was getting its proverbial knickers in a twist. Thanks all. Jenny.

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Re: clug "VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for nmbd"
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

Martin Oldfield wrote: >The problem stems from the machine running out of memory, so it's >probably unrelated to nmbd. I'd look at the time you saw the error, >and then look for cron jobs running just before that time. Groan. Thanks Martin, I had set a cron job for * 21 * * *. Stupid thing to do, but even more stupid as it is the 2nd time I've done that. Some people *never* learn....... ;-) Jenny.

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

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.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" 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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Re: [Alug] Debian, Slackware, hardware, BIOS and what am I doing wrong?
by MJ Ray 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

> I could get rid of windows from the first disk, but I would prefer to keep it > for the better quality printing it provides, (although I could be persuaded > that the other benefits of Linux outweigh it). What's your printer? ;-) -- MJR

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Linux for the Disabled
by John Seago 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

At this afternoon's meeting I took down the Email address of the gentleman who is trying to build a set for the disabled and promised to send him the web site URL's of the Skipper project which is also working on a `Linux' solution to provide access to computers for the disabled.Unfortunately I seem to have taken his address down wrongly, I am therefore seeking the indulgence of all and sending the URL's via the List. They are:- http://home.freeuk.net/thousandminds/ and http://www.linuxmednews.org/linuxmednews/1001454073/index_html John Seago

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CD-Writer for meeting today...
by Simon Parkes 04 Nov '01

04 Nov '01

I'll be bringing a CD writer to the meeting today if anyone wants to use it.... Also if anyone coming has a copy of RH7.2 could they please bring it as I would like to copy it if it's ok... Thx Simon P.S. I have around 30 700MB Blanks that I can let people have for 40p each (50 for 19.99 at Argos) no cases though...

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RE: Antivirus
by Martyn Drake 03 Nov '01

03 Nov '01

Hi, Take a look at Amavis (http://www.amavis.org) - integrates with Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, and Qmail. As for actual anti-virus software, I highly recommend Sophos (http://www.sophos.com) which has clients for just about every operating system available :) Regards, Martyn -- Begin Quoted Message -- Message: 7 From: "Simon Parkes" <simon(a)sparksy.org.uk> To: "ALUG" <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 16:52:21 -0000 Subject: [Alug] Anitvirus... Hi list.... Can anyone recommend an Antivirus solution for Linux, running Sendmail ? Simon

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Re: [Alug] Sundays meeting
by Jenny_Hopkins＠toby-churchill.com 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

I'm raring to come, but I'll have to bring the chiddlers, so I won't stay too long. They are mostly quite decorous and if they misbehave I'll dunk them in the unheated poll. I'll be bringing a debian box networked using co-ax, so if anyone has a spare "coax-utp media convertor"...? I was hoping for some help on php. Jenny.

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Re: [Alug] Anitvirus...
by MJ Ray 02 Nov '01

02 Nov '01

> Can anyone recommend an Antivirus solution for Linux, running Sendmail? Martyn uses amavis with Postfix I think, for the ALUG.org.uk mail server. I don't know of anything that will scan files downloaded from the web. Me, I think fixing client problems by hacking the server stinks. You'll still only get people running stuff not got through the means covered and they'll be complacent. Linux virus problems are still rare (you only installed GPG-signed packages of software from recognised sources, right?) and most other problems can be taken care of by keeping your system patched up to date. -- MJR

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