Linux-Misc Digest #350, Volume #20 Tue, 25 May 99 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: About SuSE Linux 6.1 ("muzh")
ldconfig dies (please help!) (Brad the Impaler)
Re: G200? (Chris Mauritz)
Re: NT the best web platform? (John Edstrom)
Re: how to kill a dead process? (M van Oosterhout)
Re: "can't load library libX11.so.6"? (M van Oosterhout)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Simon Burr)
Re: ldconfig dies (please help!) (M van Oosterhout)
Cannot use ZGV with user account (Chris Wilson)
Re: Background Colors (NF Stevens)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Bhwana)
Re: Word Perfect (mj)
Re: ip masquerading fine access control question (Ben Short)
Re: Fun things to do with an extra linux box (Ben Short)
Re: Tape Backup causing lockup (Kevin Turnquist)
Re: Dial-in terminal server... (coffee)
Re: Dial-in terminal server... (coffee)
Crontab? (Nick Zentena)
Re: HELP!!!!! problem install linux 5.2 (Joe West)
smbmount delays when reading? (Ken Williams)
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From: "muzh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About SuSE Linux 6.1
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 09:48:42 +1200
I don't think so. I find SuSE6.1 as good as any and better than most. The
amount of included software is superb, and config. tools are pretty good.
Sure, SuSE6.1 has its quirks and bugs -- but so does any distro. In my
hands, I've found SuSE far better than RH -- although I will stand corrected
if someone could tell me how to stop RH continually freezing my system
(440LX P11-300 128MB 12GB SBPro AGP Viper330)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ieh9v$199$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello.
>
> I did a search for SuSE Linux 6.1 on DejaNews and
> from the results, it seems people have been having
> some major headaches with the new version.
>
> Is the release so bad that I should not install the
> version I bought and return it to the store?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Godfrey Degamo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
> ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
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From: Brad the Impaler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ldconfig dies (please help!)
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 14:53:47 -0700
Once upon a time I made jokes about how my linux system was never
"perfect" for more than 24 hours. In ordr for me to get one thing
exactly the way I wanted it, something else would break soon thereafter.
At the time it was a half-serious joke. Now it's getting dreadfully
annoying. I decided to try out gnome and found that I really like the
panel and some of the other gnome apps so I started toying with it. I
gave my desktop a facelift and had the most efficient (And pretty)
workspace to date. But now everything has just.. broken.
The biggest problem is with ldconfig. Every time I try to run it it
segfaults and I get the following in /var/log/messages:
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address dd62302c
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00d05000, %cr3 =
00d05000
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: *pde = 00000000
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: Oops: 0000
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: CPU: 0
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: EIP: 0010:[_namei+143/216]
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: eax: 1d623000 ebx: 00702d00 ecx:
000081a4 edx: 01ede200
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: esi: 00d06f54 edi: 00000001 ebp:
00d06f8c esp: 00d06f20
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs:
002b ss: 0018
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: Process ldconfig (pid: 21523, process
nr: 66, stackpage=00d06000)
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000001 000081a4
0012c1f8 01ede200 00702d00 00000001 000081a4
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: 00d06f54 01f87550 000001b6
01950000 00000004 00702d00 01ede200 0195000f
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: 00000013 001235bd 01950000
00000001 000001b6 00d06f8c
00000000 00000000
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: Call Trace: [do_mknod+36/344]
[sys_close+77/80] [sys_llseek+99/480] [lcall7+29/84]
May 25 14:38:44 afflicted kernel: Code: 8b 40 2c 85 c0 75 12 52 e8 c8 8b
ff ff 89 1e 31 c0 83 c4 04
That's the main problem. The other, almost-as-bad problem is that when I
try to compile gtk+ v1.2.3, I get:
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
make[2]: *** [gtkitemfactory.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/download/gtk+-1.2.3/gtk'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/download/gtk+-1.2.3'
I've been told that this is usualy not bad ram. I have tested the ram in
this machine extensively and found no problems whatsoever.
Oh, one other thing which is little and not a big deal but if any gnome
people could offer advice on fixing a panel problem?
Whenever I restart my panel any launchers that I've created on it
dissapear. They're just... gone. This wasn't always the case. It
started, exactly as I should have predicted, when I sat back and said
"there, I *like* that setup).
Could someone please try to spare my sanity with some advice on any of
these problems?
Here's the information on the machine:
AMD K6II/300 with 64m of RAM.
SuSE Linux 6.0
Kernel v2.0.36
gnome v1.0
If it's not too much touble, please email me replies so that I don't
risk losing them amongst all the traffic on this NG.
Thanks tons in advance to anyone who can help.
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From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: G200?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 01:51:30 GMT
Chris Knapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm using RH5.2. Is support for the G200 included out of the box? I can't
> seem to get X to work properly.
No, it isn't. However, Redhat 6.0 does support it out of the box. It
found and probed my G200 and automagically set me up in 1280x1024x32bpp.
C
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Christopher Mauritz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Edstrom)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 25 May 1999 21:53:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Olaf Walkowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Hiran Chaudhuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
...
>
> Apache has to do a lot of work (depending on the actual configuration)
> doing uri/filename translation, detecting the right mime-type, looking
> for .htaccess files aso. With Squid "in front" this work has not to be
> done on every access.
>
Is this true? If squid ignores .htaccess constraints it would be a
security risk.
>
> CU
> Olaf
--
John Edstrom | edstrom @ slugo.hmsc.orst.edu
http://bubo.hmsc.orst.edu/~edstrom
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:38:02 +1000
From: M van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to kill a dead process?
Sam Steingold wrote:
>
> I wrote:
> >> how do I get rid of this process:
> >>
> >> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
> >> sds 26725 0.0 1.3 4808 3532 pts/2 D 12:54 0:00
>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/cc1 /tmp/ccgcQxbp.i -
> >>
> >> (except by rebooting the machine, of course).
>
> sorry about not saying this right away: kill doesn't work on this
> process (note "D" stat). not -9, not -15, nothing.
If something is in D state that long, something
has really died. Either it's a kernel bug of
hardware failure.
I beleive ps xl will tell you where it's died. You might
wan't to send a message to the linux kernel mailing list
if it's reproducable. Maybe upgrade to a newer kernel (you
didn't say which one you were running)
Martijn van Oosterhout
Australia
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:41:24 +1000
From: M van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "can't load library libX11.so.6"?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 4) ldd shows that glquake knows where libX11.so.6 is
If ldd shows all the libraries in the right place, then
the bug must be in glquake itself.
You can try to strace it to see where it's looking.
you did run ldconfig, right?
HTH,
Martijn van Oosterhout
Australia
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From: Simon Burr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 26 May 1999 03:12:18 +0100
In <7if65l$kfb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Edstrom) writes:
>Olaf Walkowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Apache has to do a lot of work (depending on the actual configuration)
>> doing uri/filename translation, detecting the right mime-type, looking
>Is this true? If squid ignores .htaccess constraints it would be a
>security risk.
Squid does not deal with .htaccess constraints as it does not have to. Using
Squid in reverse-proxy mode (aka HTTP accelerator) means that Squid goes to the
backend web server (in this case Apache) for the request. If the request
accesses a page which has password authentication on it (more on why you don't
use name based access controls in this configuration later) then the web
server will return back a 401 (Authorization Required) code to Squid which
passes that back to the client who then has to pass the authentication details
back to Squid which in turn passes them to the backend web server.
The best way to view this is that to the web server the Squid frontend is
just another client. And like any other client it would have to provide
the username and passwords to access areas controlled by such access methods.
It should be noted that the use of password authentication results in the
content being protected not being cached by Squid. In other words, every
request to a password protected page results in a hit on the backend web
server.
Another important note is that with Squid being used in reverse proxy mode,
all requests from clients should go to the Squid frontend. This means that
the machine running Squid makes the request to the backend web server. Thus
host based access controls no longer work. Personally I do not see this as
much of a problem as IMHO username/password authentication is better than
plain host based access controls.
--
Simon the stressed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remind me again... just *why* am I doing this ?
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 11:46:16 +1000
From: M van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ldconfig dies (please help!)
Brad the Impaler wrote:
[oops snipped]
Run that though ksymoops for more info, but my guess is hard disk
corruption.
> gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
> make[2]: *** [gtkitemfactory.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/download/gtk+-1.2.3/gtk'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/download/gtk+-1.2.3'
>
> I've been told that this is usualy not bad ram. I have tested the ram in
> this machine extensively and found no problems whatsoever.
It's either bad ram or gcc has a bug or gcc is
corrupted. Take a guess.
HTH,
Martijn van Oosterhout
Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Wilson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Cannot use ZGV with user account
Date: 25 May 1999 22:40:30 GMT
I recently downloaded the console-based jpeg/gif viewer known as "zgv", but
I'm only able to run it correctly when logged in as root. When I'm logged
into my user account, it won't open. Here are the explanations given to me by
the computer:
When in the console:
svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions
When in X:
zgv: not running on console and no free VTs found
(Note: I am able to run zgv in X when logged in as root.)
I doubt this is a difficult problem to solve, but because I am relatively new
to Linux, I'm not sure how to solve it. Any help would be appreciated --
please CC your reply to my address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Background Colors
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:56:26 GMT
Cliff Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>What I want is a way to identify the terminal in the prompt.
export PS1='`tty`> '
(Note the outer two quotes are single quotes, the inner two
are back quotes).
Norman
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Crossposted-To: talk.politics.guns,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bhwana)
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 02:32:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>On Fri, 21 May 1999 18:42:26 -0700, Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>Jim Richardson wrote:
>>
>>> >American children aged 14 and younger are 16 times more likely to be
>>> >killed by firearms than are children in
>>> >25 other industrialized nations averaged together, according to the
>>> >Centers for Disease Control and
>>> >Prevention.
>>>
>>> Given that there are < 1500 accidental firearms deaths in these US
>>> total, per annum, and the vast majority of them are >18, this is a
curious
>>> figure. Does it inlude homicide? suicide?
>>
>>I include all children aged 14 and younger who were killed by guns.
>>frankly, after reviewing my comments, the discussion sickens me. 20,000
>>people are killed each year in the United States by firearms.
>>
>>> What are the total death rates, from _all_ sources, for this age group
>>> in US and out? that would seem to be more relevent, unless somehow,
firearms
>>> deaths are "worse" than say drownings...
>>
>>Relevent is the amount of children people like yourself, knowingly or
>>not, are willing to sacrifice to protect your right to own a firearm.
>
>And how many children are you willing to sacrifice to protect
>your "right" to own an automobile?
>How many children will you sacrifice to the war on drugs?
>How many children will die in poverty due to wage inequality?
>How many children will you sacrifice to electrocution so that
>you can have cheap electrical power?
>How many children will die from falls to allow us to have
>multi-story buildings?
>How many children will you sacrifice to your ideals each year?
>
>
>Guns are the great equalizer, they allow the weak to stand up
>to the strong. They allow the frail to defend themselves physically.
>They allow more rapid intervention in the defense of others (that
>is one reason police use them). Guns have quite a lot going
>for them. Of course they can be misused, but so can cars, knives,
>small appliances, baseball bats, golf shoes, and a host of other
>things.
>
Im afraid youre pushing shit up hill with a stick........the media, the
universities, the welfare groups who are so behind the anti gun zealotry are
now controlled by the same ones , who 30 years were singing "all the way with
LBJ, how many kids have you killed today "and spitting on our returning
Vietnam vets.
They fancied themselves are superior beings then, theyre practicing their
superiority now. .....but its ok to still screw your buddies and infect them
with AIDS,.thats chic.
>--
>Daniel Taylor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mj)
Subject: Re: Word Perfect
Date: 25 May 1999 21:54:27 GMT
Hi,
In addition:
Note that "f" must be the last char of the switches. if you do
tar -xfv <filename> , it may not work (on my box at least, it doesn't).
Have luck!
>Jeff Busch wrote:
>>
>> I am running RH5.2. I have learned that while I am downloading the file
>> (guilg00.gz), or other such files, that "Netscape" sometimes gunzips the
>> file. OK so now all I have to do is "untar" the file. I have tried
>> "tar -x guilg00.gz" and a few other combinations of switches and all
>
>
>Do a: 'file guilg00.gz' to fund out what it is. If it is a gzip'ed file,
>gunzip it, and keep reading. If it is a tar archive, then go ahead and
>'tar xvf filename'. The key thing to extracting the tar file is the 'f'
>parameter to tar: it says 'the next argument is the filename to operate
upon'.
>
>Hope this helps,
>-jason
>
>(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ip masquerading fine access control question
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:40:29 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Dear netter,
>
> I am somewhat of a newbie to ip masquerading and wonder if you can
> show me how I can activate and deactivate an ip number from my rules.
> For example let say I have activated ip masking for two machines on
> my internal network. ie
>
> ipfwadm -F -a m -S aaa.bbb.ccc.180/32 -D 0.0.0.0/0
> ipfwadm -F -a m -S aaa.bbb.ccc.181/32 -D 0.0.0.0/0
>
> and now for some reason, I want to turn off access to machine aaa.bbb.ccc.180
> but leave the other one active. Right now all I know how to do is an
> ipconfig eth0 down
> but this isn't too nice because both machines now can't access the outside.
> There must be a way with ipfwadm where I can remove only the aaa.bbb.ccc.180
> without affecting aaa.bbb.ccc.181 I have read through the faqs but like
> usual, I missed it, so I apologize if it is in there. I will read it
> again
> just in case.
>
> Further more, is there a way you can restrict the bandwidth through one
> of the ip? ie allow only a 1200 bps through aaa.bbb.ccc.180 and give the
> rest of the bandwidth to the other machine? Hope you can do this.
>
> Any pointers, hints, solutions is so greatly appreciate.
>
> thanks in advance
>
why not simply:
ipfwadm -F -d m -S aaa.bbb.ccc.180/32 -D 0.0.0.0/0
-a adds the rule, -d deletes it.
Ben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Subject: Re: Fun things to do with an extra linux box
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:35:07 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Well, I've found myself with an extra PII/266, and can't find a real
> use for the darn thing. I could install w95 on it to chain my pcs
> together so I can play quake2 with myself, but I was hoping to do
> something more useful/interesting with it. So i've installed SuSE 6.1
> on it yesterday and I'm trying to think of some interesting/fun things
> to do with the box. As, of now, it just sits there doing not much of
> anything :) Anyone have any good ideas?
>
> Gerritt Baer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
My little 486 runs as my border router, mail server, webserver and DNS
Server. Its a little slow with the CGI programs, but on a P266 that you
have, that would be *no* problem ;)
Its nice to be able to dial in with linux, then have windows routed
through the gateway. You dont need to dial back in every time windows
crashes ;)
Ben
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From: Kevin Turnquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Backup causing lockup
Date: 26 May 1999 02:25:35 GMT
Edward Vigmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > Could it be a bad/corrupted file in /lib, or something else? I'm using
: > a Seagate Travan-8000 SCSI-2 drive for backup. Presently, I'm using
: > kernel 2.2.7, with tape support as a module (it doesn't seem to matter).
: >
: > If anyone else has seen this behavior, I'd be grateful. I really don't
: > want to re-install the distribution if I can help it.
: What SCSI card do you have? I am having similar problems with an
: AHA-1520B which I have decided to replace with a fully supported card. I
: can use my Sony SDT-7000 drive under other SCSI cards with no problem..
That's the odd thing...it happens with both a Buslogic 950 and a
Buslogic 958, two cards that are heavily supported.
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dial-in terminal server...
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:57:16 -0500
mike murray wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grand Poobah of PRAM) wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm interested in configuring my linux box (running RedHat 6) for
> > > use as a dial-in terminal server. Can anyone point me to any howtos
> > > on this-LDP doesn't seem to have anything on this.
> > >
> > > --
> > > "Somehow there's cosmic justice in the fact that movie makers can now
> > spend
> > > the gross national product of Romania on special effects and still
> > wind
> > > up with something that looks like a teenager's Web page."-Andrew
> > O'Hehir
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > well, few months ago I have the same problem to configuring my box to
> > answer incoming calls and I solved the problem using information of
> > PPP-HOWTO (/usr/doc/HOWTO) section 26, Serial-HOWTO section 7 and the
> > information about getty_ps (or uugetty_ps), especially the file under
> > /usr/doc/getty_ps-2.0.7j/Examples/default/uugetty.autoanswer. If you
> > have time, look to the other files in this same directory, like
> > uugetty.ringback (This last one is very nice !!!).
> >
> > I hope this helps :-)
> >
> > Claudio Cuqui
> > Computer Scientist
> > Institute of Mathematics and Statistics
> > University of Sao Paulo - Sao Paulo - Brazil
> > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Voice: +55 11 9916-2051 (cel.)
> > Fax : +55 11 5506-9182
> >
> > --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
> > ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
>
> mgetty seems to be easier (at least for me :-) to set up
> -----
I spent some time surfing the howtos and the guilds and
didnt really find alot about setting up a dialin server.
Probably I was looking in the wrong places but, I did
finally figure it out. Below is what I did if it helps..
In your /ect/inittab file edit the line below:
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
and change it to this below:
3:2345:respawn/sbin/uugetty -d /etc/conf.uugetty.ttyS0
Now, YOur file conf.uugetty.ttyS0 should be edited and look
like below:
ALTLOCK=cua0
ALTLINE=cua0
INITLINE=cua0
TIMEOUT=60
INIT="" AT\r OK\r\n
WAITFOR=RING
CONNECT="" ATA\r CONNECT\s\A
DELAY=1
-Be sure to change the cua0 to match your comport
(cua0,1,2,3)
- Name the file ending with what comport you use. I used com
1 in this example.
Reboot your system. Now, As long as networking is setup you
can use a dialin program (minicom) to dial in. After you
connect, Hit your enter key and you should see a login
prompt.
****** NOte ******
What really stumped me for about a day was an error I got
when first rebooting. "getty spawning too fast - restart in
5 mins". I solved this by going back through my setup and
fixing a path statement in my inittab file.
I really hope this helps you out and gets you up and
running. If you have any further questions please email me
as I dont always have the time to hitup all the messages in
the newsgroup.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dial-in terminal server...
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:01:20 -0500
Oops, Forgot and left off part of the inittab file entry:
correction below (sorry!):
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/uugetty -d /etc/conf.uugetty.ttyS0
\ttyS0 38400 vt100
Once again, change to suit your baud and comport
(ttyS0,1,2,3)
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From: Nick Zentena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Crontab?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 02:46:20 GMT
Are the fields for crontab documented anywhere? I've looked. Any pointer
would be great.
Thanks
Nick
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www.hophead.dyndns.org <Don't expect much-)>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe West)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP!!!!! problem install linux 5.2
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 02:57:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 01:17:54 -0700, "Yu-Jang Tswei"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I got Dell XPS R450 with win 98 installed. Try to install Linux 5.2 failed.
>First I use "fips" (come with Linux CD) partitioned my hard drive into 3
>parts:
>(1). original win 98
>(2). linux swap
>(3). linux native
>
>then I reboot the system from DVD and
>1. use fdisk assign name to Linux swap and Linux native
>2. continue install the linux 5.2 from DVD into Linux Native
>everything went through ok, at the end of installation, I choose boot from
>Master Boot Area,
>and setup Linux as default (tried both Linux and Win98) boot up.
>
>then I try to reboot the system, it get through the routine (keyboard,
>mouse, floppy drive and DVD)
>then I got blank screen with only one letter 'L' on upper left corner, then
>the system halt..
>
>Anybody got idea what's going on here?
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Hi Yang,
When you assigned partitions, did you set the Linux Native as the
"root" (not the directory but the "/") andf THEN reboot before going
back to install the rest? I know, it happened to me before and I got
my brother, the REAL computer nerd, to lay that little tidbit on
me..damn it coulda saved me a few rolls of Rolaids, if ya know what I
mean! :-)
Loki
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: smbmount delays when reading?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 02:17:30 GMT
I mount an smb share on a directory say /mnt. If I try to copy a large file
from there to /tmp, it works fine, but all other requests to browse or open a
file on the /mnt stop and pause until the file is copied. Any idea why?
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