Re: ntpd time slewing

2003-09-10 Thread David Cureton
Tom, I had exactly the same situation. I pulled my hair out trying to find why one machine was operating fine whilst another was dropping time at 4 seconds an hour. I recall that the ntpd on the failing machine was always droping out of sync when the error became to great. I went throu

[OT] Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-23 Thread David Cureton
As an a-side but in a similar vein: How can one ensure that the physical interfaces get assigned to the same interface consistently after rebooting. Is the only way to explicitly specify the physical interface/physical hardware address combination as a kernel parameter. On a firewall I

sharing CD-BURNER via iSCSI

2002-12-16 Thread David Cureton
Hi all, I would like to be able to share a SCSI cdrom burner between multiple hosts. I was wondering about if it would be possible to set up the host with the scsi burner as a iSCSI server (being SCSI over the IP protocol) therefore allowing hosts on the network with appropriate iSCSI

Re: dates on share

2002-12-11 Thread David Cureton
Unix has a concept of multiple times. Access time, Modified date, Created time, maybe more. Samba coming from windows linage probably only has one date/time field and depending how you copy depends on which field the date is inserted in maybe? man ls and search for 'time'. You can ls a fil

Re: port :80 and my ISP

2002-12-10 Thread David Cureton
Sound like your ISP is blocking port 80. Some ISP's are real anal about serving web traffic over there cable modem networks. Another graphical tool for seeing what is going on on network ports is called 'ethereal' It uses tcpdump as the underlying packet sniffer but provides a graphical front e

Re: file system

2002-12-05 Thread David Cureton
I note that the kernel is trying to load /dev/hda4 as the root partition. I'm not familiar with the grup notation but is: hd0,3 => hda3 or hda4. Cheers David On Friday 06 December 2002 15:12, Bruce Park wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I need some help regarding file system in Linux. C

Re: Clock running slow - followup

2002-12-05 Thread David Cureton
A, the mist clears. That may be the source of my troubles some time back. NTP _had_ been working flawlessly for many years, then all of a sudden it stoped working properly on both of my machines. Exact symptoms that Bill is describing. Thinking back I had started using the ide-scsi on b

Re: best traffic shaper solution for modem line?

2002-12-04 Thread David Cureton
On Thursday 05 December 2002 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I have only a dial up connection (stone age, I know). I notice there > > a number of traffic shaper/QoS solutions around now and I am wondering > > if anyone has an opinion which is the best. I want the us

Re: Clock running slow

2002-12-04 Thread David Cureton
I had this problem also, never really put my finger on what was causing it, however I have a feeling that is was due to the NTP server being a different NTP version. Whilst there was nothing in the logs about this, the clue that lead me to being different versions was that: Running ntpdc util

xntp v's ntp

2002-12-02 Thread David Cureton
Hi all, No doubt someone in this forum will be able to enlighten me as to what are the differenced between xntp and ntp. Are they simply different implementations of the ntp protocol? I have RTFM and STFW and haven't found a succinct list of the differenced (yet). What are the benefits

Re: Shoutcast - passwords

2002-10-28 Thread David Cureton
Oh I recall a problem like that with icecast. I think it was due to there being a space or some other whitespace character at the end of the password in the config file. Very frustrating!! I recall pulling my hair out when the passwords looked exactly the same (well almost) I have a vague

Re: Can't access 1 IP address on Lan

2002-10-09 Thread David Cureton
I would check the route table. Sounds like you can only reach your mail server because it is probably your default route. Just a thought Cheers David On Tuesday 08 October 2002 08:16, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Strangest thing. > > Our network is 10.0.1.0/255.255.255.0 > I can access any addre

unable to open X window on machine

2002-10-09 Thread David Cureton
Hi all, Firstly I must confess, I have not spent much time trying to sort this one out. However, I have the latest stable Debian installed in my machine running KDE desktop. However I find that I am unable to cause other machines on the network to open an X window on my machine by sett

NTP not syncronising

2002-09-11 Thread David Cureton
Hi all, Anyone else had trouble with ntp lately. I have two hosts that used to syncronise fine, however now they will not hold sync to remote time servers. I don't see anything abnormal with there configuration or operation of NTP. About the only change was an update of debian distibut

RE: OT: NTP hardware

2000-05-30 Thread david . cureton
For a solution developed by amateur radio operators have a look at: www.tapr.org in the area titled TAC32. May be some help however please note that some construction is required. Software is available for to maintain system clock of a linux system very accurately however I cannot recall what is

Mounting root on a diskless using NFS

2000-04-10 Thread david . cureton
Hi All, With some struggling I have managed to get a diskless workstation running and requesting the root from the NFS server. I am now stuck because whatever I do the NFS server blocks the request from the booting workstation to mount its root. I have tried many configuration of /etc/expo

Debian and Microsoft proxy

1999-10-21 Thread David Cureton
Hi all, I have access to the net via microsoft proxy which is capable of ip masq. However to used it on wintel boxes a client need to be installed. Once installed this which works fine. Is it possible to access the net (ip masq. not proxy web content) via the MS proxy server using debian. Is it

Linux masquerading via M$ proxy

1999-10-21 Thread david . cureton
product? Best Regards, David Cureton

Re: Installation Problem

1999-09-13 Thread David Cureton
Hi, I also have similar trouble on my system except it took a VERY long time for the boot to get past md driver. For the 486DX100 it took up to 30 second. I found that the problem diappeared after I compiled a kernal that was more like the one I wanted. You may want to let you compu

Re: CD player question

1999-09-09 Thread David Cureton
Hi Micheal, Generally CD roms play audio cd's in the following way. The CD-ROM reads the disk at 1x speed and converts the data to a audio signal via the internal DAC. The audio output of your CD-ROM should be connected to your sound card via a wire seperate from the power cable and the

Desperately trying to upgrading from Debian1.3 (Apt-get problem)

1999-08-26 Thread david . cureton
Hi, I currently are running debian 1.3 (bo) and I am desperately trying to upgrade to a newer version (lib6). I have installed the lib5 version of apt-get (0.1.5) and have been able to get apt-get to talk to ftp.debian.org. However when I run 'apt-get update' to update the package listings

RE: Network Tangle

1999-08-24 Thread david . cureton
I am not sure where you are setting ftp_proxy but I believe that apt-get has some mechanisim for using proxy servers in the /etc/apt.conf file. I am using the 1.3 distributation of apt-get and I cannot seem to find any information on this type of support. Maybe it is only in later releases of apt-

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1999-08-24 Thread david . cureton
Hi, I am trying to upgrade my debian 1.3 distribution to something a little more recent. I have installed the apt-get package developed for this distribution and intend to use this to upgrade. As I sit behind a proxyserver for http and ftp services I need to configure apt-get to download

FW: Kernel panic!

1999-08-17 Thread david . cureton
I used to get the same thing (Debian 2.0) on the first disk access after my PC went into suspended mode. I thought it was the powersave features of the bios but I didn't have the correct utilities to turn it off. (Too lazy to download them) On a long shot I used the utility hdparm to turn off th

Using Rock Ridge extentions with Windowns NT 4

1999-07-27 Thread david . cureton
HI, Since I do not have a CD-ROM in my linux box I am trying to serve the Debian CD from my Wintel NT 4.0 box via FTP. This appears to work OK except that NT does uses 8.3 file names of the ISO9660 file system and does not make use of the rock ridge extentions. Therefore dse