Linux-Misc Digest #529, Volume #20 Mon, 7 Jun 99 12:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Reversed APM (Ole Jakob Sandberg)
Re: Help:Core dumps when calling C routine rexec (Peter.vanHelden)
Re: Unstable Netscape ("Chris")
Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory! (Markus Wandel)
Re: Windowmaker 0.60 and dockable apps (Kees de Bruin)
Re: Very,very slow KDE (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Linux and BIOS (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Wordperfect for Linux installation problem (Daniel Bruce Lynes)
Re: can i share the monitor between 2 linux box w switch box? (Glen Turner)
Re: Help with TAR (Daniel Bruce Lynes)
Re: Mice recommendations (benjamin j snyder)
Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me (Daniel Bruce Lynes)
Create 2 volumes in a HD ("Y W Wong")
Re: Q. re automated download tools (Daniel Bruce Lynes)
newbie Q: Caldera OL 2.2: Fresh install then kernel (2.2.5) compile - locks!? (Chris
Raper)
Re: Checking free space on file systems (Daniel Bruce Lynes)
Re: rawrite question (Daniel Bruce Lynes)
Re: Unstable Netscape (Gordon Charrick)
Re: Living penguin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Reversed APM ("Asbjørn Sæbø")
Red Hat 6 mounting problems. (Eric Thompson)
Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cd-rom Install Problem (John Girash)
Re: gcc vs Microsoft and Borland ("Art S. Kagel")
Re: Red Hat 6 mounting problems. (Eric Thompson)
Re: vmware networking? (Tom Goodale)
Re: How to stop service (daemon) (Nguyen-Dai Quy)
failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm (Rod Brick)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole Jakob Sandberg)
Crossposted-To: no.linux
Subject: Reversed APM
Date: 7 Jun 1999 09:39:10 GMT
Reversed APM
I came along some software on some Dell computers here the other day,
it looked like a reversed apm, you pressed the power button in the
front and the computer performed a shutdown of the OS (windows NT i belive).
Is there some kind of similar software for linux, maybe a feature for the
apm or something to implement into the kernel, i'm not my self a programmer
so i really don't know what to do, but i know that i sometimes could need
to just push the button in the front of the computer and wait for it to
powerdown, and know that it was a clean shutdown.
TIA
ole jakob sandberg
please send answers as a mail... ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter.vanHelden)
Subject: Re: Help:Core dumps when calling C routine rexec
Date: 7 Jun 1999 11:36:14 GMT
root ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have written a C program that allows me to supply the password to rexec, for
: use in batch programs for instance. This program has worked on HPUX, AIX and
: Redhat 4.0. However, since upgrading to RH 5.2, it core dumps whenever invoked,
: both at 2.0.36 & 2.2.6 kernels. I've included the source code. Anybody have any
: ideas.
Well, just type
gdb <your program> core
followed by
bt
at the gdb prompt.
Peter
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unstable Netscape
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:41:43 +0100
> Netscape of course. Remember Linux != the software you run on it.
> Netscape is famed for its crashability. It's got nothing to do with the
> kernel. (But at least when Netscape crashes in linux, it doesn't take the
> entire system down with it....)
Funny,
When it crases on my NT boxes the system doesn't go with it either!
What a system the Linux OS will allow when the apps start appearing. Can't
wait.
--
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory!
Date: 7 Jun 1999 11:52:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>open a new xterm or console and run top. Then watch the app's while
>doing your things. This will help you figure out if there are any
>processes which consume too much memory. Netscape for example often
>grows to more than 30M!
Netscape can grow up to about 60M in normal use (with very large pages
with lots of pictures) plus quite a bit more used by the X kernel on
its behalf.
However Netscape 4.07 as it comes with RH5.2 also has a memory leak, it
occurs when composing an email message on Yahoo, and it can lose several
kilobytes PER KEYSTROKE. I just managed to stop my house mate from
crashing my machine when Netscape was at 226 megabytes and growing.
Since then I've hacked a little script which displays current Netscape
memory usage in a little windows so he can quit and restart if it goes
crazy. This only occurs when composing email messages on Yahoo.
Markus
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From: Kees de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windowmaker 0.60 and dockable apps
Date: 07 Jun 1999 13:40:00 +0200
"Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since upgrading to RedHat 6.0 and now to Window Maker 0.60 I have had
> trouble running any of my dockable apps, i.e. wminet, wmmon, wmifs, and
> wmtime. I think it's either the DISPLAY variable (I've seen other
> comments from people about this) or else Window Maker itself, more
> likely. I went back to WM 0.53.0 but to no avail so I've resigned
> myself to 0.60.
> Has anyone else has problems? Please email me directly.
> KJ
You probably have something like
"*" = {NoAppIcon = Yes;};
in your ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMWindowAttributes file. Remove this line (or
just the "NoAppIcon = Yes;" if more is defined) and restart Window Maker.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Very,very slow KDE
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:13:25 GMT
On Sun, 06 Jun 1999 17:52:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have Pentium II Mendocino - 300Mhz, HD Quantum 6.4MB with Ultra DMA
>33, 32MB SDRam, BX chipset, Rendition Verite 2200 videocard with 4MB
>Ram. I use Mandrake Linux 5.3 and KDE. My swap partition is 100MB. My
>KDE is so slow that sometimes I have to wait 15 sec just to open a menu.
>It seems that every time it needs something it searches the whole disk
>for it, and it does this in such a way that the whole computer shakes. I
>do not know what the problem is, and I would be very obligied to anyone
>who could help.
To be frank (I'd have to change my name - nyuk!), KDE is thus far the *ONLY*
thing that's ever caused me to hit the reset button under Linux. KDE may be
trying to make Linux look more like Windoze, but IMNSHO, it's too bloated and
unstable for everyday use.
After KDE crashed like that, I downloaded and installed Window Maker, and
haven't had a crash since.
http://www.windowmaker.org
It may not be as easily configured as KDE (IE: you may have to edit a text
file or two), but once configured it's a beautiful thing. Hasn't crapped out
once on me! :>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Linux and BIOS
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:16:14 GMT
On Sun, 06 Jun 1999 13:58:58 -0400, Mike Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to try to get into my BIOS to disable Plug and Play(I think it's
>screwing up my network card).
Into your BIOS settings (DEL at startup, usually) you should find an option
labelled "Plug-and-Play Aware OS?" change this to "No". From memory, I beleive
you'll find it under Advanced Setup or Chipset. Nevertheless, just go through
the menus until you find it.
BTW - this won't 'disable' Plug-n-Pray, per se, it just means that the BIOS
will assign IRQ's instead of leaving it up to the OS.
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From: Daniel Bruce Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wordperfect for Linux installation problem
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:29:02 GMT
On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, J Schieke wrote:
> I installed WP8 for Linux on my RedHat 6.0 system. Wordperfect seems to be
> working as it's name says : perfectly, but it altered my console terminal
> characters. When working in a terminal window (not under X) the characters
> in applications such as linuxconf and userconf are not the same as they
> were. The characters used to draw the borders have changed from lines to
> characters.
Try typing 'fontconfig'. This should allow you to setup your console font. If not,
you might have to download this package. It comes standard with Slackware, so the
first place I would suggest is:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/Linux/slackware/slakware-4.0/a1/
(I think that's the directory...memory's bad..)
In that directory, or a2, a3, or a4, you should be able to find a .tgz file that will
contain the fontconfig program you need.
As for where to find it on Redhat, I wouldn't have a clue. Yes, I know slackware's
outdated, but I hate Redhat's install and directory structure.
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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 21:56:47 +0930
From: Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can i share the monitor between 2 linux box w switch box?
Cliff Story wrote:
>
> Alex Lam wrote:
> >
> > can i share the monitor between 2 linux box?
> > one of the box is a server, which does not need the
> > monitor all the time. Both have identical video cards.
>
> Lots of switch boxes at http://blackbox.com/catalog/index.htm; I use one
> to share a monitor between two Macs.
We use switch boxes here for Linux 2.0 and Linux 2.2 with
no problems.
If we were doing it again we would use the serial console
option. Low-speed multiport RS232 cards are cheap and you
can log all the console traffic for all the machines really
easily as well as being able to scroll back past the reboot
messages to see the message that killed the machine.
We do this for our Cisco routers and it has worked well.
--
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Tel: (08) 8303 3936 Information Technology Services
Fax: (08) 8303 4400 The University of Adelaide 5005
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] South Australia
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From: Daniel Bruce Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with TAR
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:31:55 GMT
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Andr=E9s Escribano wrote:
> Hi, i'm new to linux, i only know a little bit. I want to install a
> program that i downloaded in tar format but i can't.
>=20
> The command i write is tar -xvf and the name of the file.
Say for example, the filename is: tintin.tar.gz
You would type the following:
cp tintin.tar.gz /usr/src
cd /usr/src
tar zxvf tintin.tar.gz
rm -f tintin.tar.gz
BTW, if you're wanting other commands:
tar zcvf tintin.tar.gz Will create a gzip'd tar archive
tar ztvf tintin.tar.gz Will list the contents of the gzip'd tar archive
N.B. The leading '-' is not required.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (benjamin j snyder)
Subject: Re: Mice recommendations
Date: 7 Jun 1999 12:53:51 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What mice do most people recommend to use with Linux?
I personlly use the Logitech First Mouse (?). It's the 3-button mouse with a
pseudo ergonomic feel. It's PS/2 and has a 9-pin seriel adapter included with
it if you dont have a PS/2 port. I got mine at CompUSA and it was like $20(US)
--
Ben Snyder
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From: Daniel Bruce Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:53:54 GMT
On 4 Jun 1999, Larry wrote:
> >I would have to say the most basic distribution of linux I have found
> >is slackware. Unfortunately it is not the type of version most
> >non-unix users would want to use.
>
> But it's the best distribution. It's just a little tougher to get started
> with, but for those who persevere, they end up knowing the Linux OS like the
> back of their hand.
>
> The other dists are just windows clones in their attempts at installation
> ease. All in all, in the end, Slackware is the easiest to install and the
> most stable when configuration is achieved.
I would tend to agree...Redhat is a major pain in the ***. I never was able to get
that beast set up to use a dial-up connection over PPP. In Slackware it's relatively
straightforward.
Redhat just does way too much handholding for my tastes.
It's not that I'm originally a UNIX user (I started out on Sinclair's, PET's,
Vic-20's, and MS-DOS.) However, I'm a developer, and would much sooner use the
command-line, than X.
Now, if only I could figure out how to setup the Linux console to use 132x43 text
mode, or 80x60 text mode, I'd be set. :)) Hell, even 80x50 could be tolerated at this
point. :))
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From: "Y W Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: novell.netware5.installmigrateupgrade
Subject: Create 2 volumes in a HD
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 21:00:16 +0800
I would like to create a volume SYS and DATA on NW411 on a single 4GB HD.
However after the creation of a 500MB volume SYS, it cannot create another
volume
on it even there is still a lot of free space.
( It report that there is a Netware partition already. )
Any one can help ?
Thanks,
Y W Wong
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From: Daniel Bruce Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q. re automated download tools
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 12:58:21 GMT
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm wondering about automatic download tools which I can set up to
> search and fetch files.
>
> Ideally, what I want to do is this:
>
> keep my PC running
>
> at a specified time dial out to ISP
> confirm for good ISP connection // with hang-up and retry a number
> of times
[...text deleted for brevity...]
> check to see if any downloads still in progress OR 10 min timeout
>
> drop the connection to ISP
>
> type of thing.
>
> HowdoIdothat??
Get your hands dirty and write some code?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Raper)
Subject: newbie Q: Caldera OL 2.2: Fresh install then kernel (2.2.5) compile - locks!?
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 13:08:14 GMT
Hi
I have just put Caldera 2.2 down on a machine then went to try
compiling the kernel (2.2.5) - did:
- make menuconfig [didn't change anything - saved config]
- make dep
- make bzdisk
- make modules
- make modules_install
rebooted the PC using the new boot disk and it comes up with:
'kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01'
Should this have worked with the default onfiguration? Or do I have to
do lots of tweaking to the kernel to get it set up correctly?
Thanks
Chris R.
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From: Daniel Bruce Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Checking free space on file systems
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 13:12:11 GMT
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Jonathan Alpers wrote:
> How can I check how many blocks are used/free on an ext2 file system,
> while the device is mounted?
df
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From: Daniel Bruce Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rawrite question
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 13:11:42 GMT
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, KingJester wrote:
> what file do i have to rawrite to make a bootable floppy....i can't remember
> and i lost my boot floppy...i have NT so i can't install LiLo
Assuming you're using Slackware, and you don't have SCSI, or any weird hardware, the
following should work:
rawrite bare.i a:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon Charrick)
Subject: Re: Unstable Netscape
Date: 7 Jun 1999 13:10:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.misc Jakup Michaelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Greets.
: One of Linux's strengths is allegeldy it's stability. I hear that, but non
: the less my Netscape crashes more often then kernel32.dll - if that's at all
: possible. I just sit there, surfing, using like 3-6 browser windows at once,
: and all of a sudden: the disapear without a trace!
: This shit has always happend, no matter what distro I've been using - Redhat
: 5.2 & 6.0 and SuSE 5.3. What da heck is wrong?!
: I'm being forced to use Windows, and it's not Bill's fault this time >:->
Netscape crashes about once a day on this piece of shit Win95 machine I
have at work too. I didn't have much trouble at all when I used to have
a Solaris desktop machine to run Netscape at my old job.
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fuck off.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Living penguin
Date: 07 Jun 1999 09:21:15 -0400
btw, since you stated you are a newbie, you know to always do a shutdown
before powering off, else you corrupt the hard drives, that's why many
use a UPS.
--
Tom Evans
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From: "Asbjørn Sæbø" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: no.linux
Subject: Re: Reversed APM
Date: 07 Jun 1999 16:09:41 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole Jakob Sandberg) writes:
> Reversed APM
>
> I came along some software on some Dell computers here the other day,
> it looked like a reversed apm, you pressed the power button in the
> front and the computer performed a shutdown of the OS (windows NT i belive).
>
> Is there some kind of similar software for linux,
Ja. I RedHat vil f.eks. Alt-Ctrl-Delete gjere ein kontrollert reboot.
Frå /etc/inittab:
# Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
Asbj.S.
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From: Eric Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 6 mounting problems.
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 10:31:34 -0400
this is very strange. I think I made a booboo.
I got Red Hat 6.0 to install with out probs. I have to say the new
setup is pretty slick.
anyway so I mount the cdrom to see if I can find a sudo RPM on it and it
mounts fine with
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom.
so I can't find the RPM (no surprise) so I unmount it.
I hate the stupid /mnt/ dir so I edit /etc/mtab so that I can mount the
cd and the floppy in /cdrom and /floppy
and I do the same for /etc/fstab.
so I type
> mount /cdrom
and it sits there looking at me like "yeah so?"
and stalls. I can type but it's like mount is running in the
background. huh?
so I warp to the other terminal and login root
I see that the cdrom is mounted in /cdrom just where it should be. but
ps tells me that mount is still running.
I go through many many iterations of trying to kill the mount process
(to no avail) and replacing the old mtab and fstab but then when the
mount proc finally dies I get other mtabs like mtab~~ and mtab~
so I get (what looks like) the original mtab back and I restart ( needed
to see if dhcpcd would start) and the stalls on shutdown after
"unmounting local filesystems."
it's dead won't respond. so after 10 minutes I hit the power button
it reboots and stalls after "remounting root filesystem in read-write
mode. [ OK ]"
so can anyone tell me what is going on and what has changed if anything,
with the mtab and fstab stuff?
thanks-
eric
please email me if poss.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me
Date: 7 Jun 1999 14:42:53 GMT
In his obvious haste, Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
:> When you get to package selection, SuSE is even more friendly. With Red Hat,
:> you can step through the packages and install what you want, true. But it
:> doesn't give you any idea WHAT each package is.
: Nonsense. You just press F1 and it gives you a good description of each
: package.
Really? It didn't say anything on screen about F1....
Rather silly of them to omit that.
: I like SuSE and Yast, but I'll tell you straight out that you can set up
: a RH system in a fraction of the time, and you don't have to hang around
: waiting to change CD's. SuSE is a delightful distro for a workstation,
: but RH would be my choice any day for a server.
Well... My comparison was the SuSE 5.2 from a PC PLUS cover disk (One CD),
and the Red HAT 5.2 cover disk (One disk)...
So disk changes didn't come into it...
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From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.help,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Cd-rom Install Problem
Date: 7 Jun 1999 15:00:58 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am running my cd player as the seconday master. I tried the line 'linux
> hdc=cdrom', but it didn't work. Before I get to the installation process I
> watch the following:
> hdc: no response (status=0xff), resetting drive
> hdc: drive not ready for command
> hdc: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0xff
> I see that several times before the install finally begins.
> When it gets to the point where I can select to install from local cd, it then
> goes to 'Initializing Cd-rom', then jumps to a blue screen and hangs there.
You said this was a Sony CDU-31, right? If I remember correctly this isn't
an ATAPI/IDE drive at all, it's one of the old pre-ATAPI proprietary ones.
So the device isn't /dev/hdc it's /dev/sonycd or some such. Here's a clip
from /usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c that may help:
/*
* Sony CDU-31A CDROM interface device driver.
*
* Corey Minyard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
*
* Colossians 3:17
*
* The Sony interface device driver handles Sony interface CDROM
* drives and provides a complete block-level interface as well as an
* ioctl() interface compatible with the Sun (as specified in
* include/linux/cdrom.h). With this interface, CDROMs can be
* accessed and standard audio CDs can be played back normally.
*
* WARNING - All autoprobes have been removed from the driver.
* You MUST configure the CDU31A via a LILO config
* at boot time or in lilo.conf. I have the
* following in my lilo.conf:
*
* append="cdu31a=0x1f88,0,PAS"
*
* The first number is the I/O base address of the
* card. The second is the interrupt (0 means none).
* The third should be "PAS" if on a Pro-Audio
* spectrum, or nothing if on something else.
Hopefully this post counts as "fair use" and doesn't horribly violate the GPL.
When booting from floppy you could just type "linux cdu31a=0x1f88,0,PAS" at the
LILO prompt and perhaps the kernel will pick up your drive (with the SonyCD
module installed).
g'luck
jg
p.s. I've heard that the old Sony drives are a particular pain under Linux.
p.p.s. followsup culled to something more reasonable. (colx?!)
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From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc vs Microsoft and Borland
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:31:23 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Seth Van Oort wrote:
>
> Anybody know how gcc does on optimizing c code for speed versus
> Microsoft and Borland compilers, especially for pentium and pentium II?
Check out the DJGPP Home pages at www.delorie.com. DJGPP is a 32bit
port of gcc to the MS-DOS environment. There should be information
there about comparisons between DJGPP and MSCPP and BCPP.
Art S. Kagel
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From: Eric Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6 mounting problems.
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:22:04 -0400
oh, duh. I forgot that mtab is overwritten by mount so I was prolly just
confusing mount. so I guess i should only be changing fstab. anyone
confirm this? it's been a while since I configured a new system.
BTW, I have to be added to the list of those whom have a distaste for Red
Hat. it is what I used in the past but after many years of experience I
have to say it forces me to do weird things I don't like. such as makes it
very hard not to use Gnome/E. blech. they are nice looking.... but that is
about it IMHO
anway I may switch back to debian or try suse...
bye
Eric Thompson wrote:
> this is very strange. I think I made a booboo.
> I got Red Hat 6.0 to install with out probs. I have to say the new
> setup is pretty slick.
> anyway so I mount the cdrom to see if I can find a sudo RPM on it and it
> mounts fine with
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom.
> so I can't find the RPM (no surprise) so I unmount it.
> I hate the stupid /mnt/ dir so I edit /etc/mtab so that I can mount the
> cd and the floppy in /cdrom and /floppy
> and I do the same for /etc/fstab.
> so I type
> > mount /cdrom
> and it sits there looking at me like "yeah so?"
> and stalls. I can type but it's like mount is running in the
> background. huh?
> so I warp to the other terminal and login root
> I see that the cdrom is mounted in /cdrom just where it should be. but
> ps tells me that mount is still running.
> I go through many many iterations of trying to kill the mount process
> (to no avail) and replacing the old mtab and fstab but then when the
> mount proc finally dies I get other mtabs like mtab~~ and mtab~
> so I get (what looks like) the original mtab back and I restart ( needed
> to see if dhcpcd would start) and the stalls on shutdown after
> "unmounting local filesystems."
> it's dead won't respond. so after 10 minutes I hit the power button
> it reboots and stalls after "remounting root filesystem in read-write
> mode. [ OK ]"
>
> so can anyone tell me what is going on and what has changed if anything,
> with the mtab and fstab stuff?
> thanks-
> eric
> please email me if poss.
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From: Tom Goodale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vmware networking?
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 17:23:06 +0200
mist wrote:
>
> Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
> >mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
> >:> I cant seem to get hostonly networking going with windows95 as the
> >:>guest OS. Does Hostonly networking require ipforwarding or any other
> >:>configuration besides the guest OS stuff?
> >
> >: You will need to use ip forwarding / masquerading if you want the guest
> >: OS to be able to talk to the outside world via the host. If you only
> >: want the guest OS to talk to the host, then you don't need it.
> >
> > OK, thats what I needed to know. I'm having a problem just getting the two
> >sides to ping each other.
> >
> > I think my lack of windows expeirence is giving me a problem.
> >
> > What settings are required on the windows side just so I can at least ping
> >the linux side?
> >
>
> Assuming you have the adapter installed as per the readme for VMware,
> then you need to go into settings -> Control Panel -> Network and select
> properties for TCP/IP over the "virtual" AMD (IIRC) network card. Then
> set the default gateway to the IP address of the vmnet0 interface on the
> linux box. Also select "Specify an IP address" and set it to something
> on the same subnet as the vmnet0 interface.
vmware also installs dhcp, so you should be able to just tell windows to
use DHCP to get an IP address. You will need to use the numeric ip
addresses unless you setup a nameserver or hosts file.
Try typing "route /print" in a dos shell on the windows side, and
"route" on the linux side, to see what the network thinks is going on.
Tom
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From: Nguyen-Dai Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to stop service (daemon)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 17:42:54 +0200
Igor Tereshchenko wrote:
>
> Does anyone can point me out how to stop daemon (particularly sendmail)?
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
Is there any good doc on boot process and how to config which service to
> run? I've killed half of day in attempts to find answer on above
> question
> without significant result.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Igor.
--
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From: Rod Brick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 10:06:16 -0500
I've installed an older verion, 2.5.1, and I'm getting this error. I've
got this version installed on another machine, and it works fine. Yes,
I am logged in as root when I get this, and yes, I have /usr/lib/rpmopt
and /usr/lib/rpmrc. What else am I missing? I've seen numerous posts
on dejanews concerning this, but nothing that has helped me solve it.
Any help would be much appreciated.
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