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Forum: Debian 05-01-2009
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Posted By fishsponge
well, as it turns out, the latest stable Debian...
well, as it turns out, the latest stable Debian actually is a 2.6.26 kernel, so my last posting should be ignored...

i could still do with some answers to the first posting if anyone is able to...
Forum: Debian 05-01-2009
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Posted By fishsponge
actually... one other question is - given that...
actually... one other question is - given that the latest stable Debian still has a 2.4 kernel, would i be better going to Ubuntu to get the 2.6 kernel for performance reasons? Or is the 2.4 kernel...
Forum: Debian 05-01-2009
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Posted By fishsponge
Installing Debian onto Dell PE2950/PERC6i/Intel L5410
Hello people! :D

I wonder if you can help...

I am going to take delivery very soon of a Dell Poweredge 2950 III server of the following spec:


1x Quad Core Intel Xeon L5410, 2.33GHz CPU
...
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Posted By fishsponge
Help! imapd is spawning multiple processes, all of a sudden, for no reason!
Hi All,

I need some assistance, if possible...

Our IMAP server has recently (as of 10:30 GMT today) started spawning multiple processes for no reason! This is causing the mail server's load...
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Posted By fishsponge
strangely, i'm beginning to think it's some...
strangely, i'm beginning to think it's some strange environment problem because i just suffered the problem again, and this time decided to open a second terminal to see if the problem could exist in...
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Posted By fishsponge
could it be tied into these messages that we're...
could it be tied into these messages that we're seeing in "/var/log/messages" and "/var/log/warn"?

stg-backup:/var/log # tail messages
Jan 14 14:57:09 stg-backup kernel: svc: bad direction 256,...
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Posted By fishsponge
strange "No such file or directory" errors on NFS volumes
we're seeing very strange "No such file or directory" errors on NFS volumes on one of our suse servers - can anyone please help?

we're seeing it for both our NetApp NAS Device and one of our...
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Posted By fishsponge
HELP! what does this mean: "svc: bad direction 256, dropping request"
For a few weeks now, on several of our machines, i've been seeing this in /var/log/messages and dmesg:

Nov 14 16:37:48 stg2 kernel: svc: bad direction 256, dropping request
Nov 14 16:37:48 stg2...
Forum: Red Hat 07-12-2006
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Posted By fishsponge
i've tried without, and it doesn't recognise the...
i've tried without, and it doesn't recognise the CD-ROM drive, so i can't actually install redhat! lol

with certain parameters i can get it to recognise *only* the CD-ROM drive, which means i have...
Forum: Red Hat 07-12-2006
7,768
Posted By fishsponge
just tried that... no luck. was i correct to...
just tried that... no luck.

was i correct to keep all the other kernel parameters? The parameters i tried were as follows:

root=/dev/hdc3 ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 vga=791 resolution=1024x768 expert...
Forum: Red Hat 07-11-2006
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Posted By fishsponge
Installing RedHat 8.0 onto Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - hdc: status error: status = 0x58
I have successfully installed RedHat 8.0 onto a Dell PowerEdge SC1425 today. This server has two SATA hard drives, and an IDE DVD-ROM drive.

Using the following kernel parameters, i successfully...
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Posted By fishsponge
i have never tried this, but you might be able to...
i have never tried this, but you might be able to install Cygwin with X11 support, and then run gnome-terminal if you install the relevant Cygwin packages.
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Posted By fishsponge
SUSE 9 and 10 NIS clients with RedHat 8.0 NIS server not working
We have a RedHat 8.0 NIS master, with a RedHat 8.0 NIS Slave.

We also have a small number of SUSE 9.1 and SUSE 10 machines here for evaluation.

However, no matter what i do, the SUSE machines...
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Posted By fishsponge
a little difficult unfortunately... this rsync...
a little difficult unfortunately... this rsync was done a while ago, and the windows volume housing the data has since been nuked. We got the missing files from tape in the end, but it does mean the...
Forum: Filesystems, Disks and Memory 09-30-2005
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Posted By fishsponge
apologies for the potentially dangerous thread......
apologies for the potentially dangerous thread... i really meant this topic to be a discussion about reiserfs i guess... i know enough about ext3 already (i think), so without comparing necessarily,...
Forum: Filesystems, Disks and Memory 09-30-2005
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Posted By fishsponge
ah, thank you! :D by the look of it, a truly...
ah, thank you! :D by the look of it, a truly great fs! :D
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Posted By fishsponge
hmm... good point... could the 'basename' cmd be...
hmm... good point... could the 'basename' cmd be used anywhere here do you reckon? i think it can, but i just think it'll make things messy...
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Posted By fishsponge
not ideal, but might work: find...
not ideal, but might work:

find /opt/batch/mdic2/outgoing -name *.txt -mtime +7 | grep MAFRAthere is a way of telling grep to only search for lines where "MAFRA" is at the beginning of a line, but...
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Posted By fishsponge
'ps -ef' is the normal way of doing it. try...
'ps -ef' is the normal way of doing it.

try 'ps -efww' for more detailed info.
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Posted By fishsponge
rsync not copying all files from smb-mounted fs
We have an old windows server here, with a relatively large share upon it (200GB, 1-2 million files). Our entire network is Linux (RH8.0) based, and we therefore automount this using the samba...
Forum: Filesystems, Disks and Memory 09-30-2005
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Posted By fishsponge
ReiserFS vs ext3 vs anything else?
As i'm sure you all know, ext2 (and then ext3) is the most widely used linux fs... but some distros (SUSE & Debian) are now chosing to either use by default, or at least give the option of using...
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