Topic: I am constantly being cut off from the internet

[CharlieBrady]

Unless your ping is doing something more exotic, I'll just stick with my pings.

I think it is very wise of you not to install software from a website you have no reason to trust.

[CharlieBrady]

Thanks, I'll do that.

When?

[LANMonkey]

Here it is, Stefano:

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[root@xxx ~]# mount
/dev/mapper/main-root on / type ext3 (rw,usrquota,grpquota)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/md1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)


[Stefano]

ok..

you should repeat

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df -h
df -i

during the backup, i.e. when something is mounted on /mnt/smb (now it's only a dir in /mnt, i.e. in /dev/mapper/main-root)

[Jáder]

ok..

you should repeat

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df -h
df -i

during the backup, i.e. when something is mounted on /mnt/smb (now it's only a dir in /mnt, i.e. in /dev/mapper/main-root)

Or if it's a nightly backup, you could mount the backup device and try both commands anytime. Just remember to umount them after... or your backup will die because cannot mount an already mounted device (if it's not smart enough!).

[LANMonkey]

Or if it's a nightly backup, you could mount the backup device and try both commands anytime. Just remember to umount them after... or your backup will die because cannot mount an already mounted device (if it's not smart enough!).

If you could tell me how to mount the BU at any time, I could do that right away.

Can we assume this has nothing to do with my internet access?  Here is the original thread regarding Space Not Available during backups:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,47706.0.html

[janet]

LANMonkey

Here is the original thread regarding Space Not Available during backups:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,47706.0.html

Search the forums on mount and umount, you should find plenty of examples or read some of the USB disk and hard disk howtos for examples. Read even the Dar2 contrib wiki IIRC.

Where are your bug reports ? In both threads you were immediately asked to submit bug reports, and since July 2011 (8 months now) you still seem to be having issues.
The problem will be properly determined to be a bug or not a bug in bugzilla. Depending on the outcome you can then come back to the forums.
Documenting these sort of issues in bugzilla (whether it turns out to be a bug or not) will also help future users who have the same or similar problem, ie they find an answer in bugzilla when searching.

[purvis]

Charlie
do not look a gift horse in the mouth.
and yes it does do more than an simple pnig
it logs and displays your up and down internet connection
place on the command tail about four internet sites that you can receive a ping from
i found that using my main dns server from my isp, then 8.8.8.8, then one of my locations, then google or yahoo.
if the first pinged site does not return a response then it moves on to the next site
you can have up to 9 sites, but around four is the best number of sites to ping
if you just place one site to ping, then it will ping that same site 3 times and if it does not get a response on all three, it logs your internet as down
after 3 seconds it will then repeat the ping of the sites to check your status of an internet connection
you could probaby find software else where that might be better and do more, but mine is simple run and uses low cpu and does not write to the disk
to get the log, just click on the small text in the gui
i made the gui as small as possible to allow you to see it on the screen
if you minimize the program, you can tell the status by looking at the minimized gui title, if your connection is up, then the title is in upper case, if it is down, then lower case

this program is really good too for just monitoring a single location, like i have been having to do in various ways because of internet disconnects.
it was so bad, i had to run the program at all workstations upon bootup at each workstation so the people at the location would not go crazy trying to figure out whether the internet was
up or down by walking to looking at lights on internet equipment every 30 minutes. people do not want go to a command prompt and ping a location and try to figure out what is going on. that is big time frustrating for most all people, even me.

 

 
 

[janet]

purvis

Charlie
do not look a gift horse in the mouth.

I think that comment is inappropriate.
It is usual practice when supplying executable programs, to also supply the source code, so that peer review can take place.
When supplied as an exe file, no one knows whether your ping program does anything else it should not do, or whether it has security flaws etc etc etc.
Bugs could easily have been introduced without your knowledge and cause problems for unsuspecting and trusting users.

If you post exe's to the net, also post the source code for peer review, comment and if necessary, correction or amendment.

Charlie is very correct to advise users not to use unknown programs from untrusted and unknown websites.

[purvis]

Mary,
Charlie's comment that the site i posted was untrusted and there was no reason to trust it was a very high insult to me.
His words deserved an appropriate response
As long as i have been on this forum, there was no reason for his comment.
I was easy on my words to him.
 
Just because he puts in time, does not give him a reason to be so rude. He can do that on another site.
I said this was my site in the original post.
And i rarely give out for FREE my hard work that goes into my programs. The program is free but the code is not.

Sorry Mary, i do not feel bad about the words that i chosen.
I just feel bad about dropping to his level rude behavior.

[chris burnat]

This thread is degenerating into what appears to be a rapidly diminishing standard and is leading noways.
Locking to prevent further deterioration, LANMonkey please bring your issue to Bugzilla where it can be dealt with in clean air.
Thanks.