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Set Date/Time
by Peter Nikolla 04 Mar '01

04 Mar '01

Hi, I am having a problem setting the date/time on my Linux box. I set it using date 030310152001 for 3/3/2001 10:15. Everyting seems fine until I reboot the box. At that time it changes to some other time. I checked my CMOS and the time is correct. What am I doing wrong? thanx for your help. Peter N.

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UNIX Developer Positions
by B.J. Herbison 02 Mar '01

02 Mar '01

HighGround Systems has a couple of positions open for experienced UNIX developers. Our current storage resource management products support several versions of UNIX, and we expect to do more UNIX work when our purchase by Sun Microsystems is completed. Two of the current positions have UNIX in the title, but most of the open positions list UNIX as a relevant technology. Please send me your resume if you are interested in one of the positions. B.J. Employment: http://www.highground.com/employment/default.htm Career Opportunities: http://www.highground.com/employment/careers.htm Principal Engineer UNIX Developer: http://www.highground.com/employment/careers.htm#pe_unixd Principal Engineer - Senior UNIX Developer: http://www.highground.com/employment/careers.htm#two -- B.J. Herbison / bj(a)herbison.com / http://www.herbison.com/herbison/bj.html The Next Asylum / 203 Long Hill Road / Bolton, MA 01740-1421 / +1 978 634-1061

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Cable Modem
by Bill Mills-Curran 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

I'm about to take the plunge and get hooked up to Charter Cable for internet access. Does anyone have any experience/recommendations for cable modems? Is it better to buy my own, and from where? TIA, Bill

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UNIX Admin position
by Ritacco, Alan 01 Mar '01

01 Mar '01

I was very successful last time in mailing this list when I was looking for a UNIX (Solaris) admin [about a year ago I sent a similar message in which Adam responded and has been working at UMASS since]. I am now again looking to fill a UNIX admin position at UMASS Medical School (in Worcester). If you know anyone and or you are interested please email me your resume and I will forward it to the powers to be. Thanks And sorry for the spam :) Al

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Re: [Wlug] Cable Modem
by Thomas Carey 28 Feb '01

28 Feb '01

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Re: [Wlug] Network problem: mine or theirs?
by ccb＠acm.org 26 Feb '01

26 Feb '01

Hmmm. Perhaps they have a proxy in-line and the proxy is having trouble. ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems Engineer, Northeast US 25 Burlington Mall Rd., Suite 300 +1 617 543-6513 Burlington, MA 01803-4145 ccb(a)valinux.com www.valinux.com

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Network problem: mine or theirs?
by Andy Stewart 24 Feb '01

24 Feb '01

Hi all, I have a problem accessing the Internet. On precisely every other attempt, I get failures. For example, every other unique URL I click in Netscape gives me the following error: A network error occurred while Netscape was receiving data. (Network error: connection reset by peer) Try connecting again. I suspect that my network provider's DNS server is having problems. Since I'm a DHCP client of AT&T Broadband, I tried removing all but one of the nameserver lines in the /etc/resolv.conf file to see if one of them was flaky. After trying all 3 provided nameservers uniquely, either this isn't the problem, or they're all flaky. Any thoughts? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder -o) | It is easier to change the specification Worcester Linux Users' Group /\ | to fit the program than vice versa. Worcester, MA, USA _\_v | http://www.wlug.org |

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PPPD 2.3.11 on kernel 2.4.1
by Peter Gutowski 23 Feb '01

23 Feb '01

I've got kernel 2.4.1 up and running and am pleased that all seems to be relatively well. My boss has an iMac at home and dials in via a ppp connection to one of my linux boxes running now 2.4.1. I've played with various ppp options and have removed just about everything from the /etc/ppp/options file. Feb 23 11:37:15 lx1 pppd[10485]: pppd 2.3.11 started by a_ppp, uid 0 Feb 23 11:37:15 lx1 pppd[10485]: ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS): Invalid argument Feb 23 11:37:15 lx1 pppd[10485]: tcsetattr: Invalid argument Feb 23 11:37:15 lx1 pppd[10485]: Exit. Here's the current modules: (root on lx1) peterg # lsmod Module Size Used by iptable_mangle 1884 0 (unused) iptable_filter 1848 0 (unused) ip_tables 13016 2 [iptable_mangle iptable_filter] slip 5688 0 (unused) bsd_comp 4172 0 (unused) ppp_deflate 41148 0 (unused) ppp_async 6060 0 ppp_generic 13088 0 [bsd_comp ppp_deflate ppp_async] slhc 4836 0 [ppp_generic] 3c59x 23420 2 (autoclean) agpgart 21900 0 (unused) I also happened to read something this morning on lwn.net (http://lwn.net/2001/0222/kernel.php3) that suggested that certain ppp things weren't working because the MTU min size was higher than ppp wanted to set. As it suggested i've done: `echo 256 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/route/min_adv_mss` to no avail! I keep suggesting (lately increasingly less subtly) that he consider a cable modem but so far he still wants to do it this way. Any ideas? -- Peter Gutowski peterg(a)powervue.com http://www.powervue.com/~peterg

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To: wlug.org message board manager
by Alexander S. Leon 22 Feb '01

22 Feb '01

The postings on the message board at wlug.org have the wrong year attached to them. I posted a message on 2/21/01, and the date on it is "2/21/00", instead of "2/21/01". This ought to be corrected. I hope this gets to the right person...

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ssh
by Brad Noyes 20 Feb '01

20 Feb '01

Hi, When i pop my mail i create a tunnel through ssh, and pop through that. Using this command "ssh -C -f me(a)pop.myserver -L 10110:pop.myserver:110 sleep 30" Well every time i create the tunnel i have to enter my password for the pop server. Is there a way to use ssh tools so i don't have to enter my password? I'm using kmail is that's relevant. Thanks, --Brad

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19 Feb '01

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by Andy Stewart 17 Feb '01

17 Feb '01

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OpenOffice
by Doctor Orbitz 16 Feb '01

16 Feb '01

I use OpenOffice for myst school word processing, it is pretty awesome, but lacks on thing, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the spell checker to work. Does anyone else here have that problem? Has anyone gotten it to work? If so let me know please. Orbitz

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Thanks!
by Doctor Orbitz 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

Hey, thanks alot all of you who went to http://orbitz.dyn.dhs.org/test.php. For those of you wondering why the heck I'd ask a such a thing, here is an explination. A friend of mine got a cool (but I'm assuming not very new idea) for passive OS detection through version strings on network software, in this case web browsers. What the php script does is log all of your version (User-Agent header) strings to a file, then by doing some greps and sort I create a wonderful list of all the strings. Then I use a perl script i made to convert the version strings to snort (www.snort.org) rule sets. So now when people visit http://orbitz.dyn.dhs.org/ and they are using a web browser in my data base, I can log what OS, web browser, and whatelse is in the header. So the bigger the database, the more people I can pick up. Its a pretty cool idea I think. There are other ways (probably simpler and more efficient) of doing this. Such as possible an apache mod. Thanks again, Orbitz

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RE: [Wlug] Memory issues
by Guilderson, Tom W. 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

Are you positive that the problem is memory and not CPU? Most decoding of audit and video is very cpu intensive. If the audio/video app gets swapped out (of the cpu), you can notice choppiness in quality. A good graphical tool such as Xosview can give you an indication where the bottleneck might be since you can see CPU, memory, swap, disk, etc. all at once and see what is pegged. > > michaellong> Is there a way to reserve a block of memory when starting > michaellong> realaudio. I have noticed that when my system is > running out > michaellong> of free memory the audio quality goes to sh*t as the open > michaellong> application fight over resources. > > Without the source, no. With the source, you could do an > mlockall(MCL_FUTURE), which would lock all of the app's pages into > memory. > > One question, though. When you say your system is > running out of free > memory, on what are you basing that statement? The > output of free? > Much of what is in memory is cached. If it wasn't, > performance would > suck. Thus, the "free" field should report very little > if your OS is > being at all effective at memory management. > > One other question, what kernel version are you running? >

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Re: [Wlug] Assembly compiler in Bash...
by Jeffry Smith 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

> Hey Everybody, > > 1st... I won't make it to the meeting tonight, but in regards to the > installfest on Saturday, I'm looking for a couple more > installers/volunteers... > > 2nd... I was reading slashdot and saw that some guy wrote an assembly > compiler in Bash... > > I think next someone needs to write a bash shell in scheme... > Well, they're not the same thing, but psh is the perl shell (use perl for a shell language) and esh is the lisp shell (easy shell) jeff ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Smith Technical Sales Consultant Mission Critical Linux smith(a)missioncriticallinux.com phone:603.930.9739 fax:978.446.9470 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought for today: cycle of reincarnation n. See wheel of reincarnation.

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Assembly compiler in Bash...
by Keller, Tim 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

Hey Everybody, 1st... I won't make it to the meeting tonight, but in regards to the installfest on Saturday, I'm looking for a couple more installers/volunteers... 2nd... I was reading slashdot and saw that some guy wrote an assembly compiler in Bash... I think next someone needs to write a bash shell in scheme... Later, Tim.

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Volunteers
by Orbitz 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

Hey, Could you guys help me out with alittle project I'm doing? I'm trying to compile a (hopefully) large list of webbrowser version strings. All you have to do is goto http://orbitz.dyn.dhs.org/test.php and I can do the rest. Thanks, Orbitz

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Memory issues
by Michael Long 15 Feb '01

15 Feb '01

Is there a way to reserve a block of memory when starting realaudio. I have noticed that when my system is running out of free memory the audio quality goes to sh*t as the open application fight over resources. Mike total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 261668 24760 236908 0 5472 6712 -/+ buffers/cache: 12576 249092 Swap: 136512 0 136512 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 261668 159788 101880 0 6396 73424 -/+ buffers/cache: 79968 181700 Swap: 136512 0 136512 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 261668 93128 168540 0 6632 73600 -/+ buffers/cache: 12896 248772 Swap: 136512 0 136512

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Player Question
by gwlt＠ma.ultranet.com 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

Newbie looking for quick suggestions. In search of a good media player that operates in Linux and can play either (preferably) RealMedia, or (sadly) WindowsMedia formats. Any suggestions? Sorry for this ultrasimplistic question. Colin

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Free Kylix Seminar
by Al Reinhart 14 Feb '01

14 Feb '01

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Re: [Wlug] old PCs
by Jeffry Smith 13 Feb '01

13 Feb '01

Bill Mills-Curran said: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Leon Do wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:04:16 -0500 > > From: Leon Do <leondo(a)lucent.com> > > Reply-To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > Subject: [Wlug] old PCs > > > > I need some suggestion of what I can do with my 5 old PCs(133MH,16MB or > > 32M RAM , 859MB Disk). > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > Leon Do > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > Leon, > > I'm glad you asked... > > <start charity opportunity message> :-) > > You may have read in a recent Boston Globe about Sudanese teenagers > who are being hosted by an organization in the US. (Forgive this and > future vagueness -- my wife has more accurate info.) These are kids > who have grown up without home or family, roaming in groups of kids > around Africa. > > To make a long story short, some of these kids are here in MA and are > in homes, some of which do not have computers. These kids need some > computers to do their homework. > > Clearly, these kids are NOT techno-geeks, so Linux is probably not a > good thing for them to start with. (I hate windows too, but these > kids need something that is "standard" for school work.) Actually, I suspect setting up the system with SO5.2, with everything preloaded, would work as well as anything else, and would not be subject to corruption that Win95/98 has (i.e. user can't kill critical files, without root access). Also not subject to Windows Registry bit-rot. And not require licensing fees (remember, that Windows / Office is NOT free, and I always encourage paying of licensing fees, following of copyright, etc). Another item is that NH currently has a program that takes old computers, has the prisoners at Concord rebuild them into Linux servers, and donates them to charities for servers / workstations. Contact is bobnhlinux(a)aol.com (Bob Sparks). jeff ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Smith Technical Sales Consultant Mission Critical Linux smith(a)missioncriticallinux.com phone:603.930.9739 fax:978.446.9470 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thought for today: YA- abbrev. [Yet Another] In hackish acronyms this almost invariably expands to Yet Another, following the precedent set by Unix yacc(1) (Yet Another Compiler-Compiler). See YABA.

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Installees for installfest...
by Keller, Tim 08 Feb '01

08 Feb '01

Hey Everybody, If your planning on being an "Installer" could you send me an email letting me know so I can have an accurate count (and so I can print you a nifty name tag) Thanks, Tim.

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attaching processes
by Brad Noyes 06 Feb '01

06 Feb '01

Hi, I was trying to find a way to attach a process to the shell's job list with no luck. I wanted to be able to bring a running process into the foreground of a shell session that didn't start the process. The closet command that i could find was the disown command for bash, which does the opposite of what I'm looking for. Does anyone know of a bash (or any other shell) command that will let you bring a processes into the foreground of a shell, which is not the original parent of the process? Thanks, --Brad

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WLUG mail server crash
by Frank Sweetser 06 Feb '01

06 Feb '01

Hello all - Over the weekend, the machine that serves as the WLUG mail had a major hard drive crash. As a result, the working copy of the WLUG mailing list is now a fine black powder floating around the inside of the hard drive case. While the list has been restored from a backup copy, this has caused a few changes: - since it was a slightly older copy, a few people who have unsubscribed may be back on, and vice versa. you can go to http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug to fix this. - all preferences and passwords have been reset. same page as above to fix this. - the URLs have changed slightly - the .cgi portion has been removed (Rob - can you fix this on the WLUG web page, please?) Other than that, everything should be back to normal. Please feel free to email me if you have any problems, questions, etc. -- Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 14 Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy | : - cut in regexps I don't think we reached consensus on that. We're still backtracking... -- Larry Wall in <199710291922.LAA07101(a)wall.org>

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