[Slightly OT] Memory reporting

Hi, I have a machine that I'm playing with the memory in. It has 1x128MB, 1x64MB and 1x32MB sticks in it. When I boot the machine and it does a memory check it reports 229376 kB OK, but: # cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 63905792 60915712 299

Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address...

I fixed an identical problem recently by getting new RAM - my old stuff had gone bad. apt-get install memtest86 Run this over your memory and see if it comes up with any errors. Be warned that it takes a while (I let mine run for an hour or so before giving up because it had topped 1000 errors).

Re: mail notification

This is done either by the server comsat, which is the server for biff, or by bash itself. If it is bash then it is done with the MAIL or MAILPATH variables. Regards Tom Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > Can anybody tell me which file causes this to come on my screen: > "You have mail in /var/spool/mail/

Re: woody kernel question

I have used 2.4.17 without problems. If 2.2.18 is what comes with woody now, then I guess it looks like favourite for the woody release. Tom Geoff Ludwiczak wrote: > > I have been using kernel 2.4.18-pre9 for the past couple days and see no > problems with it so far. I was using 2.4.17 before,

Re: downgrade a package

> Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > > Hi! > > I upgraded package 'kinkatta' with > > apt-get -t unstable install kinkatta > > to the unstable version. That was a mistake. How can > I 'downgrade' again? apt-get remove kinkatta apt-get install kinkatta/stable Tom

Re: mail notification

Check out 'man sh' and in particular the MAILPATH variable. In brief, setting it to '/var/spool/mail/my_user_name?"You have mail."' will cause it to print "You have mail." when you receive mail. If you can work control-G into that message then it should beep when you receive mail, assuming that b

Re: dselect and resolving

John Cichy wrote: [snip!] This has caused enough confusion! Why do you _need_ to use the symbolic name for the mirror??? Why not just use the IP address in sources.list? Like this: deb ftp://192.168.83.4/debian stable main contrib non-free or whatever your local ip address is. Regards Tom

Re: command line font size ?

Mike McCue wrote: > > A while back I saw a friend's ZipSlack install, and the font he had on the > command line was a little smaller than that of my command line on my debian > install. Is there a way to change the font of the command line in Debian ? > (Can't fit much on this 14" screen... ) I