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

05 Nov '01

This lovely message was waiting to greet me on all consoles of my debian box when i came in to work this morning, and I can't telnet in. A search on google says: >Upgrade to 2.2.19 , that should fix the problem. It's a bug in the >releases between 2.2.14 and 2.2.19, afaik. Has anyone heard of this before? I'm using kernel 2.2.18pre 21, activity on box over weekend should have been minimal apart from backups running. And what were those keys that try to reboot cleanly again? (not the ctl-alt-del) (Hope it isn't going to be one of "those" days....) Nice to meet so many folk yesterday. Jenny.

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RE: clug Ctrl-Alt-SysRq Enabling
by Ian Wells 05 Nov '01

05 Nov '01

> Ian Wells wrote: > > > > < Snipped > > > > > > Incidentally, when I've used SysRq I've found it needed > enabling with an > > echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/sysrq on boot. Do it. It's > invaluable when your > > machine goes tits up. > > < Snipped > > > Thanks Ian > > That gets my tip of the day vote! Just checked and found > that my Eridani > Linux 6.3 systems ( Redhat 6.2 update based ) all have that unset. > > Presumably it will be the same story for other default RedHat systems. > > One more change to default init that's highly recommended... It's also not there by default in Redhats to 7.1 (not tried 7.2), although RH-default kernels have sysrq compiled in. Strange. Dunno whether there's a nice way of turning it on; we just bodged up an init script for it.

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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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