----- Original Message ----- From: redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:00 pm Subject: redhat-list Digest, Vol 27, Issue 11 > Send redhat-list mailing list submissions to > redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx > > You can reach the person managing the list at > redhat-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxx > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of redhat-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. RE: limiting CPU access per user (Gavin McDonald) > 2. adding new hardware (dbrett@xxxxxxx) > 3. Old Version of kermit Source Code (cu188) (Wayne Bastow) > 4. Re: Old Version of kermit Source Code (cu188) (Stuart Sears) > 5. server freezes from time to time (PE1750 RHEL 4) - Unable to > handle kernel NULL pointer (G?tz Reinicke) > 6. Re: Old Version of kermit Source Code (cu188) (Johnie Stafford) > 7. Re: Old Version of kermit Source Code (cu188) (Wayne Bastow) > 8. Amount of data passed through a port (Edson Noboru Yamada) > 9. autofs and cifs syntax (Bruce W. Martin) > 10. Re: autofs and cifs syntax (Ed Wilts) > 11. Re: server freezes from time to time (PE1750 RHEL 4) - Unable > to handle kernel NULL pointer (Ray Van Dolson) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 10:51:11 -0700 > From: "Gavin McDonald" <gavitron@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: limiting CPU access per user > To: "'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <4460d693.7379dbff.53f2.ffff88e0@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Perhaps the Sun n1GE Grid-Engine Software would be useful in this > instance? > The tools are really meant to schedule jobs across many machines, > with many > CPUs, but you could probably repurpose their scheduling tools to > restrictuser jobs to one CPU on a single system with similar ease. > > http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/ > > -G > > Regards, > > Gavin McDonald > ======================== > EVI Logistic Enterprises > email: me@xxxxxxxxxxxx > phone: (604) 313-3845 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list- > > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Magklaras > > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:02 AM > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > Subject: Re: limiting CPU access per user > > > > A wrapper script that takes what is to be executed, check it out and > > then dplace it to a certain CPU(s) comes to mind. Since dplace > can also > > maintain a global count of all active tasks in each CPU that > should not > > be a problem for you to check out what happens at your end. > > > > If it's not going to be a wrapper script, then that could form > part of > > your queue system scripts. We handle this issue by placing the > dplace> arguments in our PBS scripts. > > > > Maybe someone has a more straightforward solution, but this is > what we do. > > > > -- > > -- > > George B. Magklaras > > > > Senior Computer Systems Engineer/UNIX Systems Administrator > > The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, > > University of Oslo > > http://www.biotek.uio.no/ > > > > EMBnet Norway: http://www.biotek.uio.no/EMBNET/ > > > > > > Mark Haney wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > I have an SGI box that I want to be able to allow certain > users access > > > only to certain processors. I looked at dplace and cpuset, > but they > > > both rather require the user to manage the jobs. As this is > less than > > > perfect, is there a way to limit a user to be able to run jobs > on only > > > certain CPUs, similar to sudo where a user my be able to have root > > > access to certain applications? > > > > > > > > > - -- > > > Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum > > > > > > Mark Haney > > > Sr. Systems Administrator > > > ERC Broadband > > > (828) 350-2415 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > > > iD8DBQFEX3OUYQhnfRtc0AIRAnFyAKC8i3Gmx17V4/Z8/qhjYPmQFKBozgCgj9/f > > > TsL0Xd3DZigDgQmUWbYatvY= > > > =JQ7f > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list- > request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 17:46:12 -0400 (EDT) > From: dbrett@xxxxxxx > Subject: adding new hardware > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605091741090.21224@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > I have a laptop with a Broadcom wireless card. The Broadcom > website > appears to indicate it supports Linux. I don't know how to > configure > Linux to support the card. When installing and starting up the > wireless > card is not discovered. > > How do I add the Broadcom to Fedora 5? > > david > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:10:26 +1000 > From: "Wayne Bastow" <ayu.njoman@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Old Version of kermit Source Code (cu188) > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: > <8b5356090605091910n3e27ecf6qf722326fed93b73c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi, > > Running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2). > > We have a barcode reader that will only work with an older version of > kermit than that which is supplied with AS4. The vendor isn't > upgradingtheir barcode software for a few more months. We are > moving our > inventory application, which requires files to be loaded from the > barcode reader, from TRU-64 to Redhat. The version of kermit needed > which works is cu188 [Kermit 5A(188)] but I only have the binary for > TRU-64. I've found some links through Google to the source but the > linksno longer exist. > > Has anyone out there a copy of the source that I can get, please? > > Thanks for your time, > > Wayne > -- > Wayne Bastow > Wyoming, NSW, Australia > 33.41 degrees S, 151.35 degrees E > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:46:11 +0100 > From: Stuart Sears <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Old Version of kermit Source Code (cu188) > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <4461B663.7060709@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wayne Bastow wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2). > > > > We have a barcode reader that will only work with an older > version of > > kermit than that which is supplied with AS4. The vendor isn't > upgrading> their barcode software for a few more months. We are > moving our > > inventory application, which requires files to be loaded from the > > barcode reader, from TRU-64 to Redhat. The version of kermit needed > > which works is cu188 [Kermit 5A(188)] but I only have the binary for > > TRU-64. I've found some links through Google to the source but > the links > > no longer exist. > > > > Has anyone out there a copy of the source that I can get, please? > you can probably find src RPMS for older versions of kermit on > ftp.redhat.com > lftp ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS> > ls ck* > - -rw-r--r-- 6 ftp ftp 2915735 Oct 21 2003 > ckermit-8.0.209-2.src.rpm > > or on ftp.download.fedora.redhat.com > there is at least a version for fedora core 1 on there > > or possibly ckermit from > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html > > regards > > Stuart > - -- > Stuart Sears RHCA RHCX > To err is human, to forgive is Not Company Policy. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFEYbYyamPtx1brPQ4RAm2KAJ4xCXCsMa/BaVkqG/1CcpViwysimgCfVrmv > SuuAkSJ5IQpbY5u0f2o2p5I= > =0Ktq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:04:19 +0200 > From: G?tz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: server freezes from time to time (PE1750 RHEL 4) - Unable to > handle kernel NULL pointer > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <4461BAA3.2010207@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed > > Hi, > > in the last week and today again our PE1750 with raid 1, dual CPU > freezes. The OS is RHEL 4 with kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL. We used > kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL before and AFAIK there where no freezes. > > A couple of days before the freezing starts, we changed one defect > harddisk and rebuildet the raid with a new harddisk from dell. Other > hardware/software wasn't changed > > Any ideas? > > > Regards > Götz Reinicke > > > The last messages on the terminal and in /var/log/messages are: > > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > dereference at virtual address 000001b8 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: printing eip: > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: c0185420 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: *pde = 31cb6001 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: SMP > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: Modules linked in: iptable_filter > ip_tablesdcdipm(U) dcdbas(U) parport_pc lp parport md5 ipv6 > autofs4 i2 > c_dev i2c_core sunrpc dm_mirror dm_mod button battery ac ohci_hcd tg3 > floppy sg ext3 jbd megaraid_mbox megaraid_mm sd_mod scsi_mod > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: CPU: 3 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c0185420>] Tainted: P > VLI > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.9-34.ELsmp) > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: EIP is at show_map+0x70/0x111 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: d38d1544 ecx: > 00000008 edx: e94ed2b0 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: esi: 00100071 edi: f5f2f280 ebp: > d986ac80 esp: cb5aef24 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: Process lsof (pid: 20988, > threadinfo=cb5ae000 task=d72d83b0) > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: Stack: 00000070 00124000 00000008 > 0000000600030069 cb5aef40 e94ed2b0 c032c980 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: c032c980 f5f2f280 00000000 > d38d1544c0174614 000001f2 00000000 00000400 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: b7fe2000 00000007 00000000 > 0000000600000000 c032ce60 dd391480 00000400 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: Call Trace: > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: [<c0174614>] seq_read+0x1c7/0x2c2 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: [<c015a3d9>] vfs_read+0xb6/0xe2 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: [<c015a5ec>] sys_read+0x3c/0x62 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: [<c02d251b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: [<c02d007b>] schedule+0x46b/0x8d3 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: Code: c1 e0 0c 50 89 f0 24 80 3c 01 > 19 c0 > 83 e0 fd 83 c0 73 f7 c6 04 00 00 00 50 75 1b 83 3d bc 11 41 c0 > 00 75 19 8b 54 24 18 8b 42 70 <8b> 80 b8 01 00 00 39 43 04 73 07 > b8 78 > 00 00 00 eb 05 b8 2d 00 > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds > May 10 06:30:11 mail root: Process did not exit cleanly, returned > 0 with > signal 14 > > > -- > Götz Reinicke > IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet > > Tel. +49 (0) 7141 - 969 420 > Fax +49 (0) 7141 - 969 55 420 > goetz.reinicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg > Mathildenstr. 20 > 71638 Ludwigsburg > www.filmakademie.de > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: 10 May 2006 05:55:45 -0500 > From: Johnie Stafford <jms@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Old Version of kermit Source Code (cu188) > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <oqwtcu174e.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > If you can't find the 188 version, I've got source to the 190 version > from 4/1995. Its newer than what you're looking for, but it might > work. I've also got the 192 version from 12/1996. > > Johnie > > > >>> On Wed, 10 May 2006 10:46:11 +0100, Stuart Sears > <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > ss> Wayne Bastow wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant > Update 2). > >> > >> We have a barcode reader that will only work with an older > version of > >> kermit than that which is supplied with AS4. The vendor isn't > upgrading >> their barcode software for a few more months. We are > moving our > >> inventory application, which requires files to be loaded from the > >> barcode reader, from TRU-64 to Redhat. The version of kermit > needed >> which works is cu188 [Kermit 5A(188)] but I only have > the binary for > >> TRU-64. I've found some links through Google to the source but > the links > >> no longer exist. > >> > >> Has anyone out there a copy of the source that I can get, please? > ss> you can probably find src RPMS for older versions of kermit on > ss> ftp.redhat.com > ss> lftp > ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/os/i386/SRPMS> > ss> ls ck* > ss> -rw-r--r-- 6 ftp ftp 2915735 Oct 21 2003 > ss> ckermit-8.0.209-2.src.rpm > > ss> or on ftp.download.fedora.redhat.com > ss> there is at least a version for fedora core 1 on there > > ss> or possibly ckermit from > ss> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 21:22:15 +1000 > From: "Wayne Bastow" <ayu.njoman@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Old Version of kermit Source Code (cu188) > To: jms@xxxxxxxxx, "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" > <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <8b5356090605100422t752cdb83j438151ff71e021e7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 10 May 2006 05:55:45 -0500, Johnie Stafford <jms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If you can't find the 188 version, I've got source to the 190 > version> from 4/1995. Its newer than what you're looking for, but > it might > > work. I've also got the 192 version from 12/1996. > > > > Johnie > > > > > > I eventually got a copy and it compiled fine. We will test it > tomorrow. > Thanks for your replies. > > Wayne > -- > Wayne Bastow > Wyoming, NSW, Australia > 33.41 degrees S, 151.35 degrees E > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:13:57 -0300 > From: "Edson Noboru Yamada" <enyamada@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Amount of data passed through a port > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: > <90f80d730605100513m1e984122gcbc24a7abe402e65@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Hi, > > I need to know how much data has been recorded to a tape within > some interval > (for example, the last 10 minutes). Using Solaris, I can obtain > this information > using kstat (using the appropriate options, I can learn how many bytes > has passed > since the last boot); is there something similar in Linux? > > TIA > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 08:49:38 -0500 > From: "Bruce W. Martin" <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: autofs and cifs syntax > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx>, > Red Hat Network Users List <rhn-users@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <63C6A54F-C985-4A51-8070-F1E56278F994@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > I have been looking at howtos and googling for a couple of weeks > and > can't seem to find the answer to fix an autofs problem. > > I am using RHEL4 with a 2.6.9 kernel. > > > under RH7.3 and a 2.4.x kernel I had a /etc/auto.net file with the > > following entries: > > > dragon -fstype=smbfs,rw,credentials=/opt/ > dragonlo,gid=10009,fmask=660,dmask=770 ://10.1.1.223/anyuser > sting -fstype=smbfs,rw,credentials=/opt/ > stinglo,gid=10009,fmask=660,dmask=770 ://10.1.1.35/Export > > > This worked fine to mount /net/dragon and /net/sting. > > > Upgrading the machine to RHEL4 with a 2.6.9 kernel > > I can still mount /net/dragon but not /net/sting. The difference > between the two machine is that dragon/10.1.1.223is a Mac running > MacOS 10.4.x and sting/10.1.1.35 is a WinXP machine. > > A little more googling yielded that I should replace smbfs to cifs > > and as a result some of the other option names changed. > > so now the entry for sting looks like this: > > sting -fstype=cifs,rw,credentials=/opt/ > stinglo,uid=500,gid=10009,file_mode=0660,dir_mode=0770 > ://10.1.1.35/ > Export > > but it still is not working. > > Can someone tell me what is wrong and/or point me to documentation > to > get this to work. > > Bruce > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 10 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 10:17:29 -0500 > From: Ed Wilts <ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: autofs and cifs syntax > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <20060510151729.GB15041@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:49:38AM -0500, Bruce W. Martin wrote: > > I have been looking at howtos and googling for a couple of weeks > and > > can't seem to find the answer to fix an autofs problem. > > [snip] > > With my RHEL 4 rebuild, I'm using the following for an XP Pro client: > > [ewilts@pe400 ~]$ cat /etc/auto.samba > twilts -fstype=smbfs,credentials=/usr/local/d800.credentials > ://d800/twilts > It works just fine... > > > A little more googling yielded that I should replace smbfs to > cifs > > and as a result some of the other option names changed. > > I'm still using smbfs... kernel 2.6.9-34. > > .../Ed > > -- > Ed Wilts, RHCE > Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx > Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 08:34:35 -0700 > From: Ray Van Dolson <rayvd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: server freezes from time to time (PE1750 RHEL 4) - Unable > to handle kernel NULL pointer > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <20060510153435.GA10769@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:04:19PM +0200, Götz Reinicke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in the last week and today again our PE1750 with raid 1, dual CPU > > freezes. The OS is RHEL 4 with kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL. We used > > kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL before and AFAIK there where no freezes. > > > > A couple of days before the freezing starts, we changed one defect > > harddisk and rebuildet the raid with a new harddisk from dell. Other > > hardware/software wasn't changed > > > > Any ideas? > > > > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: CPU: 3 > > May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c0185420>] > Tainted: P > > VLI > > What module are you using that's tainting your kernel? > > I found that using a third-party MPPE module (now included with > the kernel > proper) would cause kernel panics like this when in SMP mode. > Running in > single processor mode fixed the problem. Fortunately we didn't > really need > that second CPU anyways. > > Ray > > > > ------------------------------ > > __ > redhat-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > End of redhat-list Digest, Vol 27, Issue 11 > ******************************************* > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
