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List:       sentry
Subject:    RE: [Sentry] Information Overload
From:       "Joel" <joel () cyberbest ! com>
Date:       2002-09-30 22:09:41
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Of course you do realize IRQ 7 is the default for the printer port in BIOS.
So if you are using it for something else, you might want to consider
disabling your printer in BIOS.

Joel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sentry-admin@psionic.com [mailto:sentry-admin@psionic.com]On
> Behalf Of Paul Schmehl
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 11:42 AM
> To: Charles Howse; sentry@psionic.com
> Subject: Re: [Sentry] Information Overload
>
>
> Since no one has responded to this, I'll take a stab at it.
> 8259A refers to
> an interrupt controller.  If you google for 8259A, you'll see a
> lot of hits.
> The speculation is that the IRQ7 message you're getting is caused
> by using a
> tulip network card.  Do you, by chance, have a cheapo network card in your
> box?  It also appears to be a fairly common error message that everyone
> seems to be ignoring, although one guy has submitted a bugzilla report to
> Red Hat about it.
>
> Paul Schmehl (baldeagle)
> The Stovebolt Geek
> http://www.stovebolt.com/
> geek@stovebolt.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Howse" <charles@howse.dns2go.com>
> To: <sentry@psionic.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 9:17 AM
> Subject: RE: [Sentry] Information Overload
>
>
> > OK, thanks for the info to everyone.  I've got things settled in now.
> > Just one more thing...where can I find out the meaning of these entries:
> >
> > Sep 22 18:49:03 curley kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> > Sep 22 07:38:43 curley ipop3d[9264]: Command stream end of file while
> > reading line user=charles host=[192.168.0.3]
>
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