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SCSI reset error
by Chuck Homic 26 May '02

26 May '02

Hey guys... from my syslog: May 22 17:05:28 biznatch kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 5591, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 61 01 11 00 00 80 00 May 22 17:05:28 biznatch kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) SCSISIGI 0x44, SEQADDR 0x110, SSTAT0 0x0, SSTAT1 0x3 May 22 17:05:28 biznatch kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) SG_CACHEPTR 0x0, SSTAT2 0xf, STCNT 0xe8 May 22 17:05:29 biznatch kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 5591) timed out - resetting May 22 17:05:29 biznatch kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. May 22 17:05:30 biznatch kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Can anyone who knows more about SCSI tell me what can cause a command timeout, etc... Do I need a terminator or something? I thought my configuration was right, since I can transfer hundreds of megabytes between errors. Can a problem with terminator configuration even be that subtle? (Forgive a SCSI newbie!) So, the error resolves itself in 7 seconds, and no data is lost, so maybe I don't care. ;) Really, the problem is that it muddies up the console when it happens, and I have to press ^a l. The system is a decade-old experimental dual Pentium-133 running 2.2.21 SMP, with an onboard AIC-7870 (with a BIOS that says "EVALUATION VERSION. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE.") and a 4GB Western Digital Enterprise that someone told me was dead. Heh... okay that sounds pretty bad. So, I guess only pay attention to the terminator question. ;) Thanks. -Chuck

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KDE 3.0.1
by Andy Stewart 24 May '02

24 May '02

HI gang, I had installed KDE 3.0 as part of my upgrade to SuSE 8.0 and was quite unhappy with the frequency of crashes with Konqueror (multiple times nightly). Well, I've just upgraded to KDE 3.0.1 and have been using Konqueror for over an hour without a crash. Things are looking up! If you are a KDE 3.0 user, I'd recommend upgrading to version 3.0.1. -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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RE: [Wlug] Flat panel monitor for sale!
by Keller, Tim 23 May '02

23 May '02

I thought it was brand new, but its not. so change that to used. Though I bought a dvd player of this same person and he had all the original packaging, etc. So, I can vouch and say his "used" is about 3 times nicer that what I would consider "Brand new"... Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Keller, Tim [mailto:Tim.Keller@stratus.com] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 15:19 PM To: 'wlug(a)wlug.org' Subject: [Wlug] Flat panel monitor for sale! Hey Everybody, One of my co-workers is selling a brand new 17" Mag Innovision LCD Monitor. He's asking $425.00 and has all the original packaging materials for it. Here's more info on the monitor: http://www.maginnovision.com/Products/LT765.asp Let me know if your interesting, I'll forward all responses on to him. Thanks, Tim. _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Flat panel monitor for sale!
by Keller, Tim 23 May '02

23 May '02

Hey Everybody, One of my co-workers is selling a brand new 17" Mag Innovision LCD Monitor. He's asking $425.00 and has all the original packaging materials for it. Here's more info on the monitor: http://www.maginnovision.com/Products/LT765.asp Let me know if your interesting, I'll forward all responses on to him. Thanks, Tim.

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RE: [Wlug] Considering Linux for Recording Studio
by luke macneil 23 May '02

23 May '02

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Re: [Wlug] Considering Linux for Recording Studio
by luke macneil 23 May '02

23 May '02

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RE: [Wlug] Considering Linux for Recording Studio
by Keller, Tim 23 May '02

23 May '02

definity check out "ultramaster"! Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Sands Fish [mailto:fishsands@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:06 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Considering Linux for Recording Studio Hey guys, I'm about to acquire an Intel 1U PIII-650 256MB 10gig server, used (racked & left) for $250, (*cheer*), and I had intended to use it for my audio recording purposes. My first idea was ProTools and Win2K on it, but as I'd always love a reason to go full Linux, I wondered if there was a quality, (hopefully free), recording/audio editing software option out there. Suggestions would be appreciated! :) -Sands _______________________________________________ "daddy, what does 'formatting hard disk' mean?" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Streaming audio from sound card...
by RB 18 May '02

18 May '02

Any recommendations on what to use as a server app to stream audio from a sound card input? I'm looking to send an MP3-encoded stream from a police scanner radio over an internal network. I need to be able to use WinAmp and XMMS as clients. Been searching around and see lots of choices but looking for recommendations on a simple and stable solution. Would prefer a non-GUI server app so I can use a low-end machine but that's not absolutely necessary. Thanks! -- Rob -= rb(a)millbury.net =-

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REMINDER: Meeting Wed, May 15th
by Andy Stewart 16 May '02

16 May '02

HI everybody, This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting to be held this Wednesday evening, May 15th, at 7:00 PM in Kinnicutt Hall on the WPI campus. At this meeting, Andy Stewart will give a short presentation about his recent experiences with PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol). The Linux PLIP software allows the user to connect two computers together via their printer ports. A network is run between the parallel interfaces. If you ever wanted to build a cheap, quick (as in rapid setup), and dirty point-to-point network that actually functions, this is it. If two people would like to bring their laptops, I'll bring the cable and we can try a live demo. Be sure you have parport, parport_pc, and plip compiled as modules. My cable has male DB25 connectors. As I don't expect the PLIP presentation to be lengthy, if there are others who would like to do a quick presentation, please let me know. Afterwards, we'll visit the Boynton Restaurant for pizza and beer. All are invited to attend. See ya later! Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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driftnet
by Bill Mills-Curran 16 May '02

16 May '02

I just installed driftnet (http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/driftnet/) on a whim, but I can't seem to get it to show me any graphics, and I'm fairly sure there is some going by. I'm running RedHat 7.1. Here's the command I'm running as root: ./driftnet -v -i eth0 I get a blank pop-up, and the command window shows that it's seeing traffic. TIA, Bill

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RE: [Wlug] Locked up
by dibb_jim＠emc.com 15 May '02

15 May '02

Regarding the IDE hard drive going bad... can you elaborate more on the symptoms? I've been trying to track down system instability on one of my systems which is running *cough* XP pro. I think I've traced it down to a bad hard drive, but I'm curious what symptoms you were seeing. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Stewart [mailto:andystewart@attbi.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 8:14 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org; Gregory Avedissian Subject: Re: [Wlug] Locked up On Tuesday 14 May 2002 01:05, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > Still? I don't know, as I've never logged in remotely. Can I do this > from a friend's house next time it locks up? I'm not set up as a server, > and I don't really know what I'd need to change to do that. > > Could I do it with the parallel port connection that Andy is going to > talk about on Wednesday? > > Greg HI Greg, If you setup the parallel port connection between two computers (A and B) and insure that its working, when computer A locks up, you could try logging in over the parallel port connection from computer B to see if it really locked up or simply not responding to keyboard/mouse input. Lockups really stink. It took me several weeks to finally figure out my problem (an IDE hard drive slowly going bad). Memtest is great - definitely try it out. I would also recommend the Cerberus Test Control System program (ctcs). It is the program used by VA Linux to burn in their hardware. It does some *really* stressful things to the hardware and will find anything that is flaky (supposedly). Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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Re: [Wlug] REMINDER: Meeting Wed, May 15th
by Andy Stewart 15 May '02

15 May '02

HI gang, I have one person who has confirmed that he will bring his laptop to the meeting for a PLIP demonstration. Is there one other person who will do the same? Now, keep in mind that although one group member who shall remain nameless is notorious for yanking on power cords (most especially while they are still in use), it should be safe to be tethered to his laptop with my LapLink cable for the demo at the meeting. You have been warned! :-) Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

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Locked up
by Gregory Avedissian 14 May '02

14 May '02

Sometimes my computer locks up completely, so that neither the mouse nor the keyboard will work. I'm running SuSE 7.2 on an Athlon 1.2GHz/Shuttle Spacewalker AK12A, 256M memory. It seems to happen when I'm in a chat room. Running Mozilla 0.9.9 with recent Java plugin, also running Yahoo Instant Messenger, and it seems like things were loading very slowly in the chatroom all the times this had happened. I'm on a dialup line, so when I say slow, I mean like go-and-make-tea slow. Otherwise, the connection is ok (46.6K) when loading other pages. ctrl-alt-backspace does nothing, alt-F2,3 etc. does nothing, same for ctrl-D, ctrl-C, ctrl-Z, ctrl-alt-Fx. I had to hit the kill switch. This last time, it wasn't too bad, but the time before this, rebooting to linux was pretty scary. This only happens once every couple of weeks. I'm suspicious of the keyboard, because it persisted once when I rebooted to win98, then it cleared when I rebooted once more, first wiggling the wire where it goes into the keyboard. Does it sound at all like a software problem, or should I just ignore it and replace the keyboard? And is there some other way to bail out that I haven't tried? Thanks, Greg

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Compaq auction
by Michelle Vadeboncoeur 11 May '02

11 May '02

http://www.dovebid.com/Auctions/AuctionDetail.asp?AuctionID=1260 Compaq out of Houston, TX is having a webcast auction on 5/14 of a bunch of their stuff (check the equipment catalog), ranging from the office TVs and video projectors, to monitors, servers, storage arrays, desktops, individual cards, etc. Looks like some nice stuff. 8) I thought that you guys might be interested in perhaps picking up something, hopefully on the inexpensive side. Sorry for the late notice, though. -- --==*==-- --==*==-- Michelle R. Vadeboncoeur --==*==-- --==*==-- mrv(a)kluge.net: http://www.kluge.net/~mrv/

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2 month + Linux Kernel consulting job
by Greg Donovan 09 May '02

09 May '02

Dear WLUG, Thank you for allowing me to send this communication to your members. Optimal Engineering Partners provides embedded software and hardware development expertise within the communications, wireless, storage, and medical industries. Cumulatively the founding employees of Optimal Engineering possess many years of knowledge and contacts within these sectors, and the extent of our expertise within this space will be evident in the quality and responsiveness of the services we provide. We are seeking a consultant to perform some work for a customer of ours leveraging Linux kernel and SCSI skills. It is a two month+ assignment with a customer here in the Boston area. The work would be performed full time on our customer's site. Here is a brief description of the work: Our client is completing a port of Linux 2.42 to their fault tolerant platform and need assistance in finishing the effort. Must have strong debugging skills, storage SCSI or Fiber Channel and Linux kernel experience. Linux SCSI is a major plus. Please feel free to contact me if you or someone you know might be a match for this role. We pay a generous referral fee. Thank you. -Greg Greg Donovan OPTIMAL ENGINEERING PARTNERS "Resources and Expertise for Embedded Systems Development" (978) 256-1113 ext 103 gdonovan(a)optimaleng.com

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stderr v. stdout
by Bill Mills-Curran 09 May '02

09 May '02

I can't believe I'm revisiting this yet again... I'm struggling with identifying "standard practice" for deciding when to write to stdout v. stderr. In particular, I'm working with processes associated with software maintenance (building, copying, SCM, etc.). I'd love to find a definitive whitepaper on the subject. Does anyone have any pointers? TIA, Bill

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timezone
by Baris Hasdemir 08 May '02

08 May '02

hi, I have a strange-for-me problem. I am one of those paranoid guys, who has added "ntpdate time.nist.gov" to the crontab to be executed every day. the problem is that, every night the system time is set 1 hour earlier of the actual time. i.e it is executed at 23:00 and is set to 22:00 after ntpdate, as far as I could observe. I am pretty confused about the subject. Tried different timezone names, etc, hence more confused. I also have a problem with the name of the timezone. which timezone name do you choose guys? US/Eastern? America/Newyork? GMT+5? EST? EDT? or any other? I am using slackware-current. set the timezone to America/New_York and whenever I send a mail, sylpheed shows my timezone as GMT-4 and #date shows my timezone as EDT. any comments. other than removing the crontab job? :) thanks, baris

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PowerMac CD-ROM
by Jeremy 08 May '02

08 May '02

Does anyone have a SCSI cdrom that I can borrow/buy for an old 7500? My linux box is such a hackjob of software that I want to reinstall it with YDL. Low and behold I try it last week and the damn CDROM drive doesnt seem to work! Some files copy, some dont... I will just assume its the drive due to age/heat. So I was hoping someone (near WPI) had a CDROM drive i could borrow (external would be good). The drive i think would have to work in MacOS too (to install BOOTX files). Such a PITA some times. Beside CDROM, what other PPC install options still exisit? The boot floppies over network from linuxppc.org use to work but i am not sure they are still around. YDL seemed like a good choice for now. -Jeremy ===== - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

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nvidia drivers, re-visited and working
by Brad Noyes 08 May '02

08 May '02

Hi All, You may remember that earlier this year i was having difficulty in getting the nvidia drivers to work with my TNT card. Today i figured out the problem. I needed to enable 'Assign IRQ to VGA' in my BIOS. Things seem to work, except some re-draws are slow for X-term, and konsole. --brad

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Cheap colo!
by Adam Keck 07 May '02

07 May '02

It's not linux, but it is reasonable, finally. http://www.johncompanies.com/collocation/ -Adam "lingua machinationis creo, ergo sum" _____________________________________________ Adam Keck The Mathworks 508-647-7298 Natick, Ma www.mathworks.com FreeNIX/Backup/Unix Administrator _____________________________________________

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Bad NIC?
by Andy Stewart 06 May '02

06 May '02

HI gang, I have a network interface on my firewall that is throwing receive errors at me. They are in the overrun and frame columns of the ifconfig printout for that interface. I tried to restart the interface and reload the kernel module to no avail. I also power cycled the Linksys switch and cabled to a different switch port. A different cable didn't help, either. I'd rather not reboot the machine with 135 days of uptime. I noticed that on a 100 Mbit ethernet segment, I'm getting a failure rate on approx. 25% of the packets. Reducing the MTU from 1500 to 768 helps the transfer rate but doesn't solve the problem. This is the only machine on my home network that shows any errors. Any thoughts? Is it a bad NIC or something I've missed? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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Advise Needed
by Michael Long 02 May '02

02 May '02

It appears that my computer has been hacked into. The following services are run periodically throughout the day. How do I go about finding out what is starting and stopping them and more importantly prevent them from being run. I have a hardware firewall between the computer and isp. 17762 root sh -c (safe_finger -l @64.213.97.247 2>&1| /bin/mail -s "in.ftpd-64.213.97.247 unknown" root) & 17763 nobody safe_finger -l @64.213.97.247 17764 root /bin/mail -s in.ftpd-64.213.97.247 unknown root 17765 nobody finger -l 64.213.97.247 17768 root /usr/sbin/sshd 17770 root sh -c (safe_finger -l @::ffff:64.213.97.247 2>&1| /bin/mail -s "sshd-::ffff:64.213.97.247 unknown" root) & 17771 nobody safe_finger -l @::ffff:64.213.97.247 17772 root /bin/mail -s sshd-::ffff:64.213.97.247 unknown root 17773 nobody finger -l ::ffff:64.213.97.247 Thanks, Mike

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Advise Needed
by Michael Long 01 May '02

01 May '02

It appears that my computer has been hacked into. The following services are run periodically throughout the day. How do I go about finding out what is starting and stopping them and more importantly prevent them from being run. I have a hardware firewall between the computer and isp. 17762 root sh -c (safe_finger -l @64.213.97.247 2>&1| /bin/mail -s "in.ftpd-64.213.97.247 unknown" root) & 17763 nobody safe_finger -l @64.213.97.247 17764 root /bin/mail -s in.ftpd-64.213.97.247 unknown root 17765 nobody finger -l 64.213.97.247 17768 root /usr/sbin/sshd 17770 root sh -c (safe_finger -l @::ffff:64.213.97.247 2>&1| /bin/mail -s "sshd-::ffff:64.213.97.247 unknown" root) & 17771 nobody safe_finger -l @::ffff:64.213.97.247 17772 root /bin/mail -s sshd-::ffff:64.213.97.247 unknown root 17773 nobody finger -l ::ffff:64.213.97.247 Thanks, Mike

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Returned mail: see transcript for details (fwd)
by Michelle Vadeboncoeur 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

can anyone determine from the status codes what software the Reporting-MTA is? Maybe the reason is hidden in that code. Your mysterious non-delivery generated a Status: 5.0.0 for a comparison returned email, I send a test message to a friend's inactive hotmail account (disabled for lack of use). I sent it using Pine on a linux box running sendmail. sorry, I'm not on charter so I can't completely replicate things... besides the status codes being different, it's my server rejecting the email, and not a response from hotmail. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From MAILER-DAEMON(a)kluge.net Tue Apr 30 15:34:51 2002 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:23 -0400 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)kluge.net> To: mrv(a)eclectic.kluge.net Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details The original message was received at Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:21 -0400 from mrv@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com> (reason: 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mx09.hotmail.com.: >>> RCPT To:<outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com> <<< 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive 550 5.1.1 <outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com>... User unknown [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ] Reporting-MTA: dns; eclectic.kluge.net Arrival-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:21 -0400 Final-Recipient: RFC822; outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; mx09.hotmail.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:22 -0400 Return-Path: <mrv(a)eclectic.kluge.net> Received: from localhost (mrv@localhost) by eclectic.kluge.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3UJOL702343 for <outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com>; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Michelle Vadeboncoeur <mrv(a)eclectic.kluge.net> To: craig roberts <outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com> Subject: testing Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204301524100.27941-100000(a)eclectic.kluge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

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Mail delivery problems
by Bill Mills-Curran 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Sorry for the misleading initial description of the problem. Here's what hotmail has been sending me. Bill ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:50:33 -0700 From: postmaster(a)mail.hotmail.com To: subssn594(a)charter.net Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. kamikaze003(a)hotmail.com

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