March 2003 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] add memory, loose sound?

by John Stoffel

Bill> I just added 128 MB of memory to my Dell Optiplex GX1, and now Bill> my sound card (on motherboard CS 4236) is no longer recognized. Bill> It's possible that I did something bad to the motherboard when Bill> inserting the memory cards. Or, is there any way that adding Bill> memory (now 128 + 128 + 64) could disable the sound? What do the boot logs say when you look at them after adding the memory? Any errors? It's possible that you did something bad, but as a first check, I'd just pull the extra memory and see if it comes back. If not, then you have other problems. Is the sound driver compliled as a module, or is it in the kernel? John

March 26, 2003

Tonight...

by Keller, Tim

I'm not sure what Maddog's rules are on this, but would anybody (specifically, those at WPI, who might have access to the equipment) be interested in taping the lecture tonight? I've got access to a NLE machine and a DVD-R burner, so I could make DVD's out of the lecture if people would be interested. Thanks, Tim.

March 26, 2003

Re: [Wlug] Tonight...

by Bill Smith

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 09:16:58 -0500 "Keller, Tim" <Tim.Keller(a)stratus.com> wrote: KT> I'm not sure what Maddog's rules are on this, but would anybody KT> (specifically, those at WPI, who might have access to the equipment) KT> be interested in taping the lecture tonight? KT> KT> I've got access to a NLE machine and a DVD-R burner, so I could make KT> DVD's out of the lecture if people would be interested. I'd like one, too. i won't be able to make it because of familial obligations. <shrug> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "Of course, the more I learn, the more I realize I don't know. At some point, I hope to learn enough to realize that I know nothing at all. Then maybe I'll be able to snatch a pebble from Julia Child's hand." -- Alton Brown, "I'm Just Here For The Food" * TAG! v3.1 *

March 26, 2003

add memory, loose sound?

by Bill Mills-Curran

I just added 128 MB of memory to my Dell Optiplex GX1, and now my sound card (on motherboard CS 4236) is no longer recognized. It's possible that I did something bad to the motherboard when inserting the memory cards. Or, is there any way that adding memory (now 128 + 128 + 64) could disable the sound? TIA, Bill

March 26, 2003

Cheap Laptops...

by Keller, Tim

While doing some research, I came across this site... http://www.pcsevolve.com/products/hotdeals.asp Under their "hot deals" they've got some great prices on laptops... Tim.

March 21, 2003

Perl programmer needed

by Sean

I have a web based project at work that requires a talented Perl programmer to build a user database/authentication scheme and perhaps tie that database into another or rebuild the whole thing from scratch. Familiarity with MySql a necessity, and would mostly be off site requiring only a few visits in the beginning (We are located in Whitinsville). Contact me off list to discuss rates, details, etc. Cheers, Sean

March 20, 2003

Re: [Wlug] up2date question

by Charles R. Anderson

A couple of points I missed in my previous message: It is a good idea to save the output of each rpm command: rpm ... 2>&1 | tee rpm.out especially the last one, so you can see which config files might need to be replaced or merged in with your existing ones (.rpmorig, .rpmnew, and .rpmsave files). For doing a bunch of machines, just NFS export your directory containing the latest-only updates, and mount that on each client to do the updates. My scripts which I use to mirror the updates and maintain the latest-only tree are available here: ftp://angus.ind.wpi.edu/pub/cra-contrib/mirror-tools -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

March 20, 2003

Re: [Wlug] up2date question

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:00:39AM -0500, Bill Mills-Curran wrote: subssn594> > I believe you can use a single up2date account to pull down the necessary subssn594> > RPMs and store them locally at which point you can rsync them to your pool subssn594> > of machines and upgrade each that way. subssn594> For most of the updates, that would work great. The kernel updates subssn594> are trickier, I understand. If you are going to do that, you might as well just do everything manually. It is pretty simple to apply errata manually. I mirror Red Hat's FTP site containing the update packages, and I also wrote a script to maintain a tree of just the latest versions of each package: ftp://angus.ind.wpi.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/updates (full mirror) ftp://angus.ind.wpi.edu/pub/updates (only latest) The latest-only tree is useful with the "rpm -F" command, and is used in my method below. My method for updates is as follows: 1. Determine if the kernel needs to be updated, and install the correct architecture of the main kernel, -smp, and/or -enterprise packages first. Always use rpm -i, so you install the new kernel without deleting the older kernel versions (in case you need to boot back to the old one if there is a problem): uname -r rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort rpm -ivh i686/kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0.i686.rpm i686/kernel-smp-2.4.18-27.8.0.i686.rpm (If you are not using grub bootloader, you may need to mkinitrd, edit /etc/lilo.conf, and re-run /sbin/lilo. Since at least Red Hat 7.2, if you are using the grub bootloader, everything is automatic.) 2. Next handle other packages that have i586 and/or i686 architectures (currently only glibc and openssl are compiled for i586/i686). Use rpm -F (freshen) to only upgrade what you already have installed. You also need to install the i386 sub-packages of each package at the same time (i.e., install the i686 version of openssl, but also the i386 versions of the openssl-devel and openssl-perl packages at the same time): rpm -Fvh i686/openssl-*.i686.rpm i386/openssl-{devel,perl}*.i386.rpm rpm -Fvh i686/glibc-{,debug}-2.3.2-4.80.i686.rpm i386/glibc-{common,debug-static,devel,profile,utils}*.i386.rpm 3. Finally, freshen everything else. This will automatically skip over the above packages which you already installed: rpm -Fvh i386/*.i386.rpm noarch/*.noarch.rpm 4. If you upgraded the kernel, reboot to the new one. If you upgraded glibc, you might want to reboot too. Otherwise, you can get away with just restarting services that use the upgraded packages (like restarting apache and sshd after an openssl upgrade): service httpd restart service sshd restart shutdown -r now -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

March 20, 2003

procmail redhat 8.0

by Karl Hiramoto

i upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0 last night for some reason my $HOME/.procmailrc is not being processed Any ideas? It's procmail 3.22 and i'm using sendmail. And i belive procmail is being used for local delivery. thanks -- ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ Freedom: http://www.technojihad.com/ Zoop Productions: http://www.zoop.org/ KTEQ Rapid City: http://www.kteq.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø The policy is not to have policy. It works as well in kernel design as politics. - Alan Cox on linux-kernel

March 20, 2003

RE: [Wlug] up2date question

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Brett Russ wrote: > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:31:41 -0500 > From: Brett Russ <icycle(a)charter.net> > Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > Subject: RE: [Wlug] up2date question > > > Is there a way that I can use up2date to manage multiple > > installations? The last time I used it, it indicated that it was > > limited to one machine per user email. > > I believe you can use a single up2date account to pull down the necessary > RPMs and store them locally at which point you can rsync them to your pool > of machines and upgrade each that way. > > BR > For most of the updates, that would work great. The kernel updates are trickier, I understand. Bill

March 20, 2003