Linux-Misc Digest #478, Volume #20 Thu, 3 Jun 99 16:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux newbie! Help! (Paul Kimoto)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (TurboTex)
Re: Anyone know a good linux book ("David Perkins")
Re: My horror story ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (Paul D. Smith)
Slirp Compiling Error (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Re: New kernel -old sysmap? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Does this OS exist? (Philip Brown)
Re: HELP! RedHat5.2 Sony CDU33a Wont Install. (Satya Purohit)
Re: Converting Netscape mail from Win to Linux? (Matthew Lewis)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Bruno Wolff III)
Re: Kernel 2.2.9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
lilo with RH6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (bryan)
Re: problem with locate (TurkBear)
Re: Linux 2.2.X with only 4 MB RAM? (Radovan Garabik)
Re: boot new kernel on SuSe 6.1 (Jerome Mrozak)
PPP HELP! (-=Rage Matrix=-)
Re: Does Java run well on Linux? (Stephen R. Savitzky)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Linux newbie! Help!
Date: 3 Jun 1999 14:15:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newsgroups trimmed]
In article <7j6dk4$224$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Antony Mak wrote:
> I am new to Linux. I just install two Redhat 4.2 linux servers.
Perhaps you should choose a newer version (5.2 or 6.0).
> 1. I export a dir to other one but it can not be mount. the
> /var/log/messages always tell me that "Jun 3 16:22:47 ib nfsd[203]: Access
> by unknown NFS client 192.1.1.1". Is this a problem with "tcpd"? Do I need
> to modify the files "hosts.allow" and "hosts.deny"? Must I use "tcpd"?
Probably the nfsd server uses the same mechanism as tcpd (with
/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny), although not tcpd itself.
Try adding lines like
portmap,rpc.portmap: 192.1.1.1
mountd,rpc.mountd: 192.1.1.1
to /etc/hosts.allow
> 2. When I use rlogin on a AIX box to them, the /var/log/messages always tell
> me
> Jun 3 16:24:19 ib pam_rhosts_auth[6795]: allowed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> as root
> Jun 3 16:24:23 ib syslog: PAM authentication failed for in.rlogind
> Jun 3 16:24:25 ib PAM_pwdb[6796]: (login) session opened for user root by
> root(uid=0)
> Jun 3 16:24:25 ib syslog: ROOT LOGIN ON ttyp0 FROM fax
> and need to type the root password twice. What is "pam"? How to config it?
"PAM" stands for something like "pluggable authentication modules", and
I don't know how to configure it. However, it is often considered a bad
idea to allow direct root rlogins. Preferred is to rlogin as a regular
user, then "su"; or (better) using ssh.
> 3. Every time I reboot the machines, the time is changed to UTC time. Why?
Do you mean (1) that the time is incorrect, because something is
interpreted as UTC that should not be, or (2) that the time is correct,
but reported as UTC rather than in the local time zone?
If (1), then there is some configuration problem that probably boils
down to an incorrect flag being given to "clock" or "hwclock" in some
startup rc script. If (2), then you need to set up the correct time
zone information in /etc/localtime.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: TurboTex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 23:49:59 -0500
None have tried TurboLinux???????? Obviously.
M.H. Collins < LINUX: The Official OS >
****** < for the New Millennium >
Powered by TurboLinux 3.4 http://www.linuxlink.com
Driven by XFCE2 http://www.austinlug.org
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From: "David Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone know a good linux book
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:42:15 -0600
I am also new to linux, and have found that there are some differences, but
between the help commands, and a decent book, you can get by. I have found
a book at Barnes and Noble that is decent called Mastering Linux by Arman
Danesh. It has been extremely helpful for me. It is published by Sybex.
However, the best way is to go to a bookstore that has a return policy (30
days) and try books till you find one that has what you need. You may find
that the gui is only useful after you get a grasp of the command prompt.
Also, only get linux books that are distributing the distribution you are
using. eg. red hat, if that is what you are using. A book based on
slackware won't be as much help if you're using RH.
User941444 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello
>
> Personally im a windows 95/98 expert and have recently installed red hat
6. Im
> finding certain thinks confusing and difficult. Can anyone reomemnd a good
book
> thAT NOT ONLY LOOKS AT LINUX BUT the graphical user intefaces like kde and
> gnome as many books ive looked at only cover the command you type, not
press
> with the mouse.
>
> 2. Is there actually a great deal of difference between red hat 5.2 and 6.
I
> mean, would a book for 5.2 be fine for 6, and to what extent.
>
> Any advice apreciated.
>
> Thanks, Russ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: My horror story
Date: 3 Jun 1999 17:56:19 GMT
theoddone33 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Tue, 1 Jun 1999 22:02:50 -0500 in comp.os.linux.misc:
t> boot the system failled, but I think I've got it figured out now. I'll try
t> to get it all fixed tomorrow. The moral: Always have a spare boot disk.
Didn't you knew that before? ;->>
I learnt that after recompiling the 1.0.2 KErnel of news.rz.fh-hannover.de
five years ago. I tried to reboot it, it was only a try. ;-<<<
Had to travel to Hannover (156 km) to plug in the boot disk.
Lernt that. Never Compile a Kernel remotely an hope that all goes right.
Erare humanum est. Or: Shit happens.
mfG
Jojo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
Date: 03 Jun 1999 00:44:43 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes:
pb> On 02 Jun 1999 10:56:17 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
f> Ruiming Chen wrote:
>> >> The Subject askes its all. Are they the same free database software
>> >> with two names? Or they are two different free database software?
>> >> Are they both run on Linux?
>> They are two different databases. Neither is 100% free. mSQL is
>> _significantly_ less than 100% free. MySQL is free for the large
>> majority of uses. They both run on Linux (and most other UNIX
>> platforms, as well as Windows).
pb> of course, if you have the disk space, sybase for linux is 100% free, last
pb> time I checked.
I'm talking about "free speech", not "free beer". MySQL is much more
free than Sybase, since it comes with complete source code, permission
to modify it, etc.
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Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Management Development
"Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
===============================================================================
These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
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Crossposted-To: alt.dcom.slip-emulators
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Subject: Slirp Compiling Error
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 12:34:26 +0100 (BST)
A couple of people have posted a problem compiling slirp in
the last months or two. I did post a (very) ugly solution
which didnt work for at least one person. As a result, I
now I have a better one; so I thought I'd post it here:
THE PROBLEM (slirp-1.0c), Angus March
I'm trying to compile slirp under Linux kernel 2.0.33 and the process
quickly stops after being overloaded w/errors:
gcc -I. -I. -DUSE_PPP -g -O -O2 -Wall -Wno-implicit
-Wmissing-prototypes -c ./m
ain.c
./main.c:501: conflicting types for `writefds'
main.h:34: previous declaration of `writefds'
./main.c:501: conflicting types for `readfds'
main.h:34: previous declaration of `readfds'
./main.c:501: conflicting types for `xfds'
main.h:34: previous declaration of `xfds'
make: *** [main.o] Error 1
The version is slirp 1.0c, and I follow the instructions in the REAME
to the letter: cd slirp-1.0c/src
./configure
make
None of the documentation, or anything that I've found on DejaNews
talks about this.
THE SOLUTION (not the most elegant, but it works)
Here is the basis of the problem:
main.c defines
line 9: #include <slirp.h>
line 501: fd_set writefds, readfds, xfds;
However, slirp.h contains
line 176: #include "main.h"
And because other bits of code need to know what is in main.c,
main.h defines
line 34: extern struct fd_set readfds, writefds, xfds;
Note that fd_set is only defined in /usr/include/gnu/types.h.
So when main.c is compiled, it first gets the "extern struct fd_set"
from main.h:34, but later on come to line 501, where it gets a conflicting
definition, and so compilation is halted with an error.
The Fix: (in the src/ directory)
(1a) cp main.h main-x.h
(1b) in main-x.h, comment out line 34 ("extern struct fd_set ...")
(2a) cp slirp.h slirp-x.h
(2b) in slirp-x.h, replace #include "main.h" on line 176 with
#include "main-x.h"
(3) in main.c, replace #include <slirp.h> on line 9 with
#include <slirp-x.h>
(4) then make, as normal.
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==============================+==============================
Dr. Paul Kinsler
Institute of Microwaves and Photonics
University of Leeds (ph) +44-113-2332089
Leeds LS2 9JT (fax)+44-113-2332032
United Kingdom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WEB: http://www.ee.leeds.ac.uk/staff/pk/P.Kinsler.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: New kernel -old sysmap?
Date: 3 Jun 1999 14:26:53 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hazzmat wrote:
> here's another little issue I ran into the other day. I have
> RH6.0 installed and I got, configured, and installed kernel 2.2.9. Then
> _sometimes_ when i boot it, the boot process fails and complains that
> the Systemmap has the wrong kernel version (2.2.5-15 as supplied in RH)
> That's correct, sometimes it fails and sometimes it doesn't. Not the
> kind of behavior I expect from a computer. ~8^0)
The System.map file should not be required for the kernel to run,
as far as I know.
> Now, cp ing System.map-2.2.5-15 to System.map-2.2.9 doesn't
> help. So I dumped the copy. I can't find explicit references to
> "2.2.5-15" inside the file as it's largely hex or whatever, and I can't
> edit it.
A proper System.map file should be a plain text file. (It contains
the addresses of a kernel's routines.)
> I haven't made a symlink to System.map-2.2.5-15 for 2.2.9 as
> the kernel version # disparity seems to be the problem. There is a
> symlink "System.map" -> System.map-2.2.5-15 in my /boot. I don't want to
> remove that, do I? There is also a binary file "map" which is mentioned
> in lilo.conf, and I can tell it does reflect the changes to the
> systemmap since there are regular text references to the new Linux
> images. I can't find any reference to generating a new System.map in
> the kernel HOWTO, so if you know what I am not doing right, please say.
See the top-level kernel Makefile for the command line that
generates it. (It's a cleaned-up version of "nm vmlinux", where
"vmlinux" is the _uncompressed_ kernel image.)
_Probably_ the program that is complaining about the System.map
version is klogd. See the klogd(8) man page to see where it
looks for this file.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.minix,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Does this OS exist?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 03 Jun 1999 18:46:19 GMT
On 3 Jun 1999 12:29:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>It occurred to me that NF Stevens wrote in comp.os.minix:
>
>> Because it controls access to a piece of hardware?
>
>Using protected modes can be very usefull in -multitasking- operating
>systems. If you have a -single- tasking, -single- user operating system,
>it's most definately not.
>
>On the very moment you have a protected-mode setup, your system isn't
>single-tasking anymore.
I don't see that. What if you are calling lots of sub-programs. Each one runs
one at a time. But you don't want a subprogram to crash, AND take out
the main program. You just want the calling program to get control back.
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From: Satya Purohit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! RedHat5.2 Sony CDU33a Wont Install.
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 01:13:08 -0400
OK,
Opened up the box and took a good look at the interface card for CDU33a.
Suspected it didn't use any IRQ at all, based on the jumpers.
Tried 0x340 & IRQ 0. Worked like a charm. Installed Redhat5.2.
LILO went and wrote into MBR. Wouldn't boot old NT. Used LINUXCONF
(LILO-Other OS boot) settings to setup old NT on /dev/hda1.
Now can boot NT too.
Someone really did their job right with LINUXCONF.....
Just had to exult a little bit.
Satya Purohit wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to install RedHat 5.2 on an old Pentium90. The CDROM is a
> Sony CDU33a. I'm getting nowhere 'cause it wont recognize my CDrom
>
> Autoprobe didn't work. So I looked up the CDROM Settings for WinNT4.0
> on same machine.
> NT Config Says : Addr = 0x340-0x343, IRQ5.
>
> Tried these setting in "Specify options" for CD ROM detection. CDRom
> access light changes colors 2 times and then whole thing hangs.
>
> Anybody know what to do ?
>
> Previously successfully used Slackware 96 with same machine & CDU33a.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Satya Purohit
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From: Matthew Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Converting Netscape mail from Win to Linux?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 23:09:08 -0600
Greg Coit wrote:
>
> I'm slowly migrating from WinNT to Linux for my workstation. I can move
>
> over my bookmarks very easily, but mail seems to be another story. Any
> hints, suggestions, etc for moving stored mail folders and files from
> Netscape 4.6 for Win to Netscape 4.6 for Linux?
Rather than copying or moving the files, use the fromdos program to
convert them to the proper format.
fromdos < dos/windoze/filename> linux/filename
DOS and windows use a cr/lf at the end of each line. Linux uses only a
lf. The fromdos program will simply strip out the cr characters.
Should you (for some perverted reason) want to go back to windoze, use
the todos program to add the cr's back to the file.
--
Matthew .....
The linuX Files -- The Source is Out There.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruno Wolff III)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 3 Jun 1999 18:55:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From article <7j6dk7$pac$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, by "Chad Mulligan"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Okay, pay attention, The bug in Access has a fix. The bug in Disk Druid
> doesn't. The bug in Access might make your phone book inaccurate, the bug
> in Disk Druid would destroy your system. Which programmer would you hire?
Well lets see. If my hard drive gets toasted, I know about it and will
recover stuff from back up tapes. If some data gets corrupted I might not
notice until the only backup tapes with the correct information on them
have been resused. Or I may use the incorrect data without knowing it is
incorrect. It seems to me, that losing the whole hard drive is better.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.9
Crossposted-To: alt.unix.wizards
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:57:13 GMT
[ Followup-To set to comp.os.linux.misc ]
Raetin Blace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ Reformatted for width ]
> Hi guys! I'm battling with a wee small little problem called
> upgrading my kernel.
> I went ahead and downloaded the kernel, did everything by the book,
> except for preserving my old kernel and the entire setup. Now, when
> I boot into my new kernel ... I got everything up and running and
> looking beautiful ... except my sound. It disappeared.
> Completely. When I run sndconfig, it says that the modules are busy
> or something. I had this problem before when I installed RedHat 5.2
> for the first time ... and I solved it by removing the isapnp.confo
> file in /etc ... but now ... hmm .... I can't get it to work
> for sqaut .. :(
> What I think the problem MIGHT be is that when I did the "make config"
> that I didn't answers those billions of questions right in accordance
> to my old setup ... like what stuff to compile into the kernel, or
> what stuff to compile as modules .. and what stuff to not compile at
> all. I tried doing "make oldconfig" but that made no significant
> change and I've been advised not to use it.
> I have the 2.0.36 and 2.2.9 kernel on the same linux box. 2.0.36's
> config is working 100%, 2.2.9's config is not ... how do I get the
> 2.2.9 config the same as 2.0.36?
> All help is greatly appreciated!! thanx!!!
2.1 and 2.2 moved the IRA, DMA, and all that wonderful stuff into
parameters of the modules. Look in Documentation/sound for examples,
and use the values from /etc/soundconf. You would add the parameters
in /etc/conf.modules (or other places, depending on whether your
distribution automatically rebuilds /etc/conf.modules from other
files.)
--
Adam C. Emerson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.calvin.edu/~aemers19/
Movesource Network Systems Specialist
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 01:20:38 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: lilo with RH6.0
Have lilo 21 on RH6.0. After recompiling the kernel (which was about
480K compressed, down from about 610K for the default kernel), lilo
complained the kernel was too large and wouldn't install with the new
kernel.
Any idea why this is so? (or is the kernel really too large?)
Thanks
Shumin
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 19:02:13 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.apps Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Don Baccus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: > Meanwhile, MySQL seems like a good choice if you don't
: > need the transaction model.
: > --
: You would have to be insane to implement any significant database app
: without transaction support.
not really. it depends on whether this is new development or porting
an existing model. for my work (snmp-based netmgt, saving polled and
topology info to sql) I simply don't need transactions. I know just
enough db stuff to get my work done but I'll admit I'm no sql guru.
maybe because of that is why I find that xactions are overkill and
extra fluff I can live without.
: I spent weeks trying to recover data out of an
: older non-transaction based system when the system failed. Transactions are
: critical to ensuring the integrity of your data.
again, depends on the app. when my poller gets data, it ALWAYS wants
to save to the db. and if I carve my pollers from separate
non-overlapping polled lists, there will NEVER be a collision and not
even any need for record locking. one writer, many readers. simple
model and mysql works just dandy for this.
: Apache also causes databases to be heavily multi-user even if they are
: running and the same machine with Apache. Each of Apache's multiple
: processes (there may be hundreds) looks like a separate user to the database
: engine. Transactions are a necessity for sorting this out.
again, like I said, with multiple writers contending for common
resources, yes you're right. for the "one writer, many readers" you
do NOT need xactions.
--
Bryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TurkBear)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: problem with locate
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:42:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I just installed RedHat 6.0.
>When I use the locate command I get the message ;
>locate: decode_db(): open: (2) No such file or directory
>Does someome know what can be wrong ?
>Thanks in advance for the answer
>Maurice Mahieu
I believe that you need to 'populate' the database before its first use...
Try
/etc/cron.daily/updatedb.cron
as root...
( This is based on my memory of 5.2, so 6.0 may handle it differently, but it
shouldn't hurt to try...)
Hope it helps,
John G
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Radovan Garabik)
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.X with only 4 MB RAM?
Date: 3 Jun 1999 18:59:00 GMT
D. Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Sun, 30 May 1999, Georg Schwarz wrote:
:> Common wisdom says that Linux 2.2.X requires at least 8 MB of RAM - and
:> I must admit that there's quite some truth to that.
:> I've installed Linux 2.2.9 on a 386SX with 4 MB RAM. It boots and runs,
:> but extremely slowly due to swapping:
:>
:> total used free shared buffers
:> cached
:> Mem: 3024 2872 152 1100 84
:> 1060
:> -/+ buffers/cache: 1728 1296
:> Swap: 17404 2444 14960
:>
:> I cannot log in at the console due to the 60s timeout, but with ssh over
:> the network it works with a very big deal of patience.
:> Needless to say, the system is not practically usable that way.
:> I would however still strongly prefer to use 2.2.X because a) I'd like
:> to configure (startup scripts etc.) all the machines I administrate as
:> identically as possible and b) it uses MCA and ESDI, which in 2.0.X is
:> only supported with patches.
:> So, is there a way (parameter?) I can trim 2.2.X to run usably with just
:> 4 MB RAM? I already did make a rather minimalist custom 2.2.9 kernel, of
:> course.
: Your kernel is only about 1 MB and that's about as small as it gets.
: What's eating up all the RAM is bash I suspect. Find a smaller more
: lightweight shell (ash, esh (?)) or something like that. Trim out as many
: of the daemons as you can.
: David Vrabel.
I (a friend of mine) have such a computer:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3008 2912 96 808 120 1320
-/+ buffers/cache: 1472 1536
Swap: 16192 748 15444
/home/users/user: uname --all
Linux yoda 2.2.7 #1 Mon May 3 21:58:09 CEST 1999 i386 unknown
the computer is used mainly for telnetting, and lynx-ing and zicq-ing
and (given the parameters) is really well responsive
there are however some optimalizations done: /bin/sh points to ash,
all unneeded demons are removed (except syslog and cron and at - it would be
possible to gain some more memory), kernel is built with minimum of features
(again, almost). And interactive shell is fosh
(http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/fosh.html), though with zsh it was
not bad either, and there are only 3 consoles. And he has by about 4MB more
free memory than you (with only one user), that means something is eating
your precious RAM - try to do the same optimalizations as he (I) did.
Btw he was running 2.0.36 before - and there is no noticeable difference.
Oh, and you are running sshd - try to run it from inetd.
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From: Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot new kernel on SuSe 6.1
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 13:20:11 -0500
Paul Rowland wrote:
>
> Compiled new kernel in SuSe 6.1 size is approx. 435k. On reboot it gives
> the message:
>
> Loading Linux...Uncompressing Linux...Ok booting the kernel and hangs.
> I've tried make zImage, lilo, bzImage, bzlilo and still it hangs. It
> boots fine from the boot disk initially made at the SuSe 6.1 install.
> Any suggestions?
Funny you should have this problem. I, too, have SuSE 6.1 (2.2.5
kernel), and in a previous (and yet unanswered! poor me!) question to
this newsgroup I asked this question.
I got around my problem by reinstalling (the 'R' option within the [ ]
brackets) the 'A' group of packages through YaST.
I don't have an answer on why this is a problem. I asked SuSE support
for help with what happened, and they really don't know. They seem
willing to work with me through a series of exploratory tests, but they
also say that this falls outside the scope of "installation support".
Seeing that this is perhaps a recurring problem, I wonder if this is a
Linux problem or just a SuSE one.
Jerome.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (-=Rage Matrix=-)
Subject: PPP HELP!
Date: 3 Jun 1999 19:37:16 GMT
Hi,
I have tried to access the Internet. I am using KDE 1.1 and RedHat Linux
v5.2. I cannot seem to use kpppd as it says that my version is incorrect
and that I need to install a suid bitset. What does this mean and what can
I do about it? Has anyone else successfully used dialup using KDE 1.1 and
RedHat v5.2 and the version of ppp that comes with it?
-- Jon.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Does Java run well on Linux?
Date: 03 Jun 1999 08:02:34 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Could you share your experience with me?
> I would like to learn Java programming. On this old
> 486 PC, i am wodering if it would be better to use Linux.
At work, I have spent the last couple of years building a proxying web
server in Java <http://www.RiSource.org/PIA/>. Every web page I view,
at home and at work, goes through it. It does not crash except when I
introduce bugs, and usually not even then. Even if it or another
application crashes, it doesn't affect the OS.
Java's performance on Linux is somewhat worse than it is on Windows, but
the stability is excellent.
The only OS I use is Linux; it doesn't crash either, as long as the
hardware is in good working order.
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