Linux-Misc Digest #377, Volume #24 Sat, 6 May 00 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: cloning linux partitions (Bastian)
Re: [HELP] Mounting Macintosh fileserver on Linux (Jonathan Sanderson)
Re: where to get debian 2.1r5 ISO files from internet? ("ChemSoft GmbH")
Re: Would I be able to install as UNIX? (Oliver Jung)
Re: Those distributions are stupid (Moe Koenig)
Newbie question about power saving ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I NEED HELP (Andrew Purugganan)
Which WM lends itself well to skinning? (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Which WM lends itself well to skinning? (Aron Felix Gurski)
Re: where to get debian 2.1r5 ISO files from internet? ("David ..")
redhat 6.1 install woes (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: Need to find my IP address (Tobias Anderberg)
Re: Mounting my system read only? (Leonard Evens)
Re: Newbie question about power saving (Leonard Evens)
Re: restoring the lilo (Leonard Evens)
Help: "Swapoff" error (George Bell)
Remote authentication ("I-Way")
Benchmarks and relative speeds (Raj Rijhwani)
Re: redhat 6.1 install woes (Stephen Cornell)
Re: Help: "Swapoff" error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
howto setup vi style cmdln editing with bash (lam)
quake 3 file (noel)
Re: Xfree86 4.0 XF86Config help needed (Harvey London)
Re: Newbie question about power saving (Karel Jansens)
Re: quake 3 file (Dances With Crows)
Re: cron stderr question (lam)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: cloning linux partitions
Date: 6 May 2000 13:14:31 GMT
On Sat, 06 May 2000 04:13:55 +0200, Bård Selbekk wrote:
>Hi people at comp.os.linux.misc!
>
>I have Redhat 6.2 installed on a PC with two large IDE drives. I
>installed everything in one drive (/dev/hda). Now I want to make disc
>no. 2 (/dev/hdc) a clone of /dev/hda. Because if the /dev/hda disk
>crashes, I will be able to get the system up and running in no time by
>booting the /dev/hdc disk.
>
>In Solaris we have ufsdump and ufsrestore. Excellent tools for the
>mentioned task. I'd like to be able to do a "ufsdump --several_opts
>/dev/hda1 | ufsrestore --several_opts /dev/hdc1" in Linux. So far I've
>failed to locate such a tool for Linux.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>-Bard Selbekk
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb (if the disk are the same size) or
dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/hdb/image (if hdb is mounted and larger than hda).
To restore swap if and of.
Bastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Sanderson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: [HELP] Mounting Macintosh fileserver on Linux
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 15:04:29 +0100
Paul Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a very large picture archive stored on an Apple Mac server, which I
> would like to be able to mount (nfs style) onto a Linux server. The Mac
> server already exports volumes to many other Macs in my organisation, so
> effectively I just want my Linux box to "pretend" to be a Mac.
I hate to point out the obvious, but I've overlooked it often enough
myself... would running an FTP server on the Mac solve anything for you?
--
Jonathan Sanderson <http://www.quern.demon.co.uk/jonathan>
'If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter' (Pascal)
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From: "ChemSoft GmbH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where to get debian 2.1r5 ISO files from internet?
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 15:51:50 +0200
Hi YamYam,
go to ftp://ftp.kando.hu
/pub/CDROM-Images....
Tobias
YamYam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi there...
> I have a tow parts question:
> 1. Where can I get debian 2.1r5 -latest version- ISO files from internet?
> 2. Can I find the 4 debian 2.1r5 ISO files -all latest debain CDs images-
from the
> internet?
>
> Thanx in advance for ur help.
>
> -YamYam
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: Oliver Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Would I be able to install as UNIX?
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 10:38:46 +0200
On Thu, 04 May 2000 21:25:44 -0400, Jason Stegman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Binary files are available for:
> 1) Digital UNIX v4.0 (nee OSF/1) [ ]
> 2) HP 700 HPUX v10.0 or v11.0 [ ]
> 3) IBM Power PC AIX 4.2 [ ]
> 4) SGI IRIX 5.3 [ ]
> 5) SGI IRIX 6.3 [ ]
> 6) Sun Solaris 2.5.1 [ ]
> 7) UltraSPARC Solaris 2.5.1 [ ]
>What architecture(s)?
Correct me, if i am wrong, but I think there are several emulators
outhere, so you should find on for running some of the files above...
Greetings,
Olli
P.S.: FUp2 redhat.general
--
Oliver Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Dolo agit qui petit quod statim redditurus est..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moe Koenig)
Crossposted-To:
ch.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Those distributions are stupid
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 14:37:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 11:00:39 +0200, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Oh yes they should make it easier for developoers. Why is for example
>SAP only
>supporting Red Hat!! Because they are to lazy to support others. So why
>should anyone writing programms make himsely the troubles of supporting
>not only one but half a dozen of dirtributions.
Do not feed the troll!
f'up atlantis
--
mfg m.k.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newbie question about power saving
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 14:43:19 GMT
I am doing my best here to free myself from Microsoft's tentacles. I was
wondering if someone can tell me if I can implement some kind of power
saving in Linux (Red Hat 6.1) and how. I don't want to turn off my
computer, but I don't want to waste electricity either. Please keep in
mind that I am very, very new at this and will need a little bit (but
not too much) more detailed explanation. Thanks in advance.
Peter
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: I NEED HELP
Date: 6 May 2000 14:57:03 GMT
tgois ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: How do I install hardware in linux Mandrake 6.0.
: Where can I get the new Kernel
for mandrake the best help column is www.mandrakuser.org, IMO
for kernel ,head over to freshmeat.net, type 'kernel' in the Find box
--
jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
Registered linux user no. 164098
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Which WM lends itself well to skinning?
Date: 6 May 2000 14:54:54 GMT
I know that KDE and GNOME do. Sometimes I'd like to fiddle with the look
myself, but only a little bit here and a bit there. Which is the easiest
to fiddle around with? Has anyone here fussed about the look sometimes?
(I'm probably one of the casual hobbyist-type user)
--
jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
Registered linux user no. 164098
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: Aron Felix Gurski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which WM lends itself well to skinning?
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 15:10:57 GMT
Andrew Purugganan wrote:
>
> I know that KDE and GNOME do. Sometimes I'd like to fiddle with the look
> myself, but only a little bit here and a bit there. Which is the easiest
> to fiddle around with? Has anyone here fussed about the look sometimes?
> (I'm probably one of the casual hobbyist-type user)
Have you had a look at fvwm ver. 2.x?
--
-- Aron
NB: To reply by e-mail, remove "spam-block." from my address.
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-- Josh Billings
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where to get debian 2.1r5 ISO files from internet?
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 10:07:20 -0500
YamYam wrote:
>
> Hi there...
> I have a tow parts question:
> 1. Where can I get debian 2.1r5 -latest version- ISO files from internet?
> 2. Can I find the 4 debian 2.1r5 ISO files -all latest debain CDs images- from the
> internet?
http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: redhat 6.1 install woes
Date: 6 May 2000 15:33:39 GMT
I tried to install RH 6.1 on a P90 ASUS PCI/P54SP4 board, 64MB,
2 IDE (M-2.2 GB Maxtor, S-2.1 GB Quantum FB), ELSA Victory Erazor,
Intel Etherexpress NIC.
Nothing fancy, as one can see.
Installing runs fine, I install a minimum system, on root
partition of 2192 MB (or something like that), 350 MB swap on second IDE.
But when I reboot first time I just can see the letters LI
(obviously from LILO) and then stop. Nothing anymore. I can only
CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Tried this now three times, even with IDE Normal mode.
--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Anderberg)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 17:51:38 +0200
Doug Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a sockets program an need to find the IP address of the machine
>the program is being run from so I can bind the socket to the correct
This function fetches the IP associated with eth0:
static char *
get_ip(void)
{
int fd;
struct ifreq i;
fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
strncpy(i.ifr_name, "eth0", 5);
ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFADDR, (int) &i);
close(fd);
return (char *)inet_ntoa(((struct sockaddr_in *)
&i.ifr_addr)->sin_addr);
}
/tobias
--
"There's no trick to it, it's just a simple trick!"
- Goodman, The Simpsons
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting my system read only?
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 10:50:30 -0500
mike wrote:
>
> I understand that to use e2fsck or fsck to check and repair
> a filesystem / partition that it must be mounted read-only to
> avoid damage. How would that be done?
>
> Thanks
> Mike
This is done during the boot process normally. If there
is a problem and fsck can't fix the file system automatically,
you will be dropped into a shell and be asked to run
fsck manually. So if the root file system is on
/eve/hda5
you would do
fsck /dev/hda5
and give the default response to all questions.
Alternately, you could boot using a rescue disk such as
Tom's root/boot disk. You don't need to mount the file
system in order to run fsck on it. Tom's root/boot disk may still
use a 2.0.3X kernel so it may not be able to deal with
partitions created with a recent version of fdisk. But
often you can use the installation media to boot and then
before the installation starts use Alt-F2 (or Ctrol-Alt-F2
if using a GUI interface for installation) to drop into
a bash shell. You can then usually run commands like fsck,
but on occasion it can be tricky. With RedHat from 6.1 on
you can enter
linux rescue
at the boot prompt, but with 6.1 you probably won't have the
device for the partition available and will have to make it
with mknod. This may have been fixed in 6.2.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie question about power saving
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 11:05:21 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am doing my best here to free myself from Microsoft's tentacles. I was
> wondering if someone can tell me if I can implement some kind of power
> saving in Linux (Red Hat 6.1) and how. I don't want to turn off my
> computer, but I don't want to waste electricity either. Please keep in
> mind that I am very, very new at this and will need a little bit (but
> not too much) more detailed explanation. Thanks in advance.
> Peter
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Do man apm. apm apparently has the capability of putting
your computer in standby or ssupend mode if your computer is
capable of doing that. This is quite common in laptops but
I wasn't aware it is available for desktops.
In any case I think a lot of the power goes into running the
monitor, and gnome can use the monitor's power saving features.
I suspect KED can do so also.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: restoring the lilo
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 10:54:41 -0500
"T.VANI PRASANNA KUMAR" wrote:
>
> My system is having win98,winnt and redhat linux 6.2. I am bootig from lilo
> . My windows of win98 has got corrupted,so I reinstalled the win98. Now the
> problem is even though it did not effect the nt boot loader, it has over
> written the lilo,as now I am not getting lilo prompt but directly winnt
> boot loader only. Any suggestions? I do not have any emergency boot disk
> for linux.
> Thanks in advance
> vani
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Try using the installation media, and at the Boot: prompt
enter
vmlinuz root=/dev/XXXX
where XXXX is your root file system for Linux. That should let
you boot Linux and rerun lilo.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: George Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: "Swapoff" error
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 12:29:25 -0400
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When I shutdown the system, I get the following error during the
shutdown process:
Sending all processes the TERM signal done
Sending all processes the Kill signal done
Turning off swap
swapoff: /dev/hdb3: Invalid arg failed
Unmounting file systems
/dev/hdb4 unmounted done
My fstab file for the swap partition looks normal:
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
What could be wrong? I even have reformatted the swap partition to no
effect.
Thanks,
George
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From: "I-Way" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Remote authentication
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 17:46:39 +0100
Hi all,
I am setting up a network at home using only linux boxes. Is it possible to
have a server hold all a persons work and authenticate their
password/username when they log on to a terminal machine instead of having
each machine holding a users account? (Their will eventually be many
machines and many users so having all the users and accounts stored on each
machine wouldn't be practical)
Is it then possible to map the users home directory on the server to the
local file system?
I would hope to use KDE to accomplishe the logon if possible.
Thank you
Ben Wyatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raj Rijhwani)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Benchmarks and relative speeds
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 15:38:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm facing an odd problem.
I recently build a new machine based around an AMD recommended motherboard
and K6-2/500. The strange thing is that with two identical Linux
installations this machine appears to be a little less than 20% faster
than my P160 machine (overclocked at 200). The test here is setiathome
which is getting 99%-plus CPU time on both machines (according to top).
Watching the progress counts on the two machines side by side shows
that for every 10% completed on the old machine the new machine has
processed 11.7% or thereabouts.
What am I missing? What do people recommend in the way of "proper"
benchmarks? Can I log kernel stats and perform the equivalent of
sar reports on commercial platforms?
(I heard some rumblings about Linux not behaving well with more than
64Mb of RAM. Since the new machine has 128Mb I wonder, is this a true
concern?)
--
Raj Rijhwani (umtsb5/16) | This is the voice of the Mysterons...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ... We know that you can hear us Earthmen
| "Lieutenant Green: Launch all Angels!"
http://www.courtfld.demon.co.uk/raj/ (demon, and gods, willing...)
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.1 install woes
Date: 06 May 2000 18:15:40 +0100
Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Installing runs fine, I install a minimum system, on root
> partition of 2192 MB (or something like that), 350 MB swap on second IDE.
>
> But when I reboot first time I just can see the letters LI
> (obviously from LILO) and then stop. Nothing anymore. I can only
> CTRL-ALT-DEL.
At a guess, you're hitting the 1024 cylinder BIOS limitation.
Repartition your disk with a small (8-16 MB) partition at the start
of the disk, mount point /boot, and then try again.
--
Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/fax +44-1223-336644
University of Cambridge, Zoology Department, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help: "Swapoff" error
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 16:50:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> George Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[del]
>Turning off swap
>swapoff: /dev/hdb3: Invalid arg failed
>Unmounting file systems
>/dev/hdb4 unmounted done
>My fstab file for the swap partition looks normal:
>/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
Check if all entries in that line are separated by spaces OR by TABs only.
On my system, all these entries look the same and are separated by spaces.
HTH,
Uli
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Stormweg 24 |listening to: Speed Of Life (Buzzcocks),
24539 Neumuenster, Germany|Cheap Excitement (Stratford Mercenaries)
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From: lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: howto setup vi style cmdln editing with bash
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 19:19:37 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
set -o vi
is obviously not enough. I remember one has to put some funny string
into some file but can not figure that out any more. Can someone help,
please?
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From: noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: quake 3 file
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 17:30:06 GMT
I've just downloaded the quake 3 demo which is a .gz.sh file
(fullname:linuxq3demo.gz.sh). I've not seen one of these before, can
anyone tell me how I extract this file and what I do with it then to use
the demo?
Thanks a lot
Noel
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Harvey London <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xfree86 4.0 XF86Config help needed
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 10:25:48 -0600
Per someone's suggestion, I ran the xf86config utility and it created the
modelines for me. After some small mods I got it working they way I like.
Thanks for the suggestions,
Harvey
On Sat, 06 May 2000, Duane Evenson wrote: >You need to specify some modes and
modelines. Here is what I have (I also have a >SIS 6326):
>Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "My New Monitor"
> VendorName "Acana"
> ModelName "Professional 15Sp"
> HorizSync 30-70
> VertRefresh 50-120
> Option "dpms"
> ModeLine "640x480" 31.500 640 669 743 771 480 480 488 495
> ModeLine "800x600" 49.000 800 867 995 1032 600 631 639 653
> ModeLine "1024x768" 78.518 1024 1044 1275 1307 768 768 777 801
># ModeLine "1280x1024" 100.00 1280 1308 1572 1600 1024 1024 1033 1075
># Modeline "1152x864" 100.00 1152 1180 1412 1440 864 864 874 907
>EndSection
>
>Section "Device"
> ### Available Driver options are:-
> #Option "SWcursor"
> #Option "HWcursor"
> #Option "PciRetry"
> #Option "rgbbits"
> #Option "NoAccel"
> #Option "TurboQueue"
> #Option "SetMClk"
> #Option "FastVram"
> Identifier "My New Video Card"
> Driver "sis"
> VendorName "Multimedia"
> BoardName "6326"
> BusID "PCI:0:14:0"
> VideoRam 4096
> Option "FastVram"
>EndSection
>
>Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "My New Video Card"
> Monitor "My New Monitor"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 4
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> Virtual 1024 768
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> Virtual 1024 768
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 15
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> Virtual 1024 768
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> Virtual 1024 768
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubSection
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> Virtual 1024 768
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubSection
>EndSection
>
>
>Harvey London wrote:
>
>> I have successfully installed the server and it runs except for one problem. I
>> can't get it to run at any resolution other then 640x480. I've tried adding and
>> removing everything I can think of from the xf86config file. Nothing seems to
>> make a difference. My configuration is as follows: AMD K2/500, 256MB RAM, PCI
>> video with SIS 6326 chip set, and Mandrake 7.0. I installed the binary package
>> of Xfree86 for glibc2.1. Any help would be appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Harvey
>>
>> Here is a copy of my XF86Config file:
>>
>> Section "ServerLayout"
>> Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
>> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
>> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Files"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Module"
>> Load "extmod"
>> Load "xie"
>> Load "pex5"
>> Load "glx"
>> Load "dri"
>> Load "GLcore"
>> Load "dbe"
>> Load "record"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>> Identifier "Keyboard0"
>> Driver "keyboard"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "InputDevice"
>> Identifier "Mouse0"
>> Driver "mouse"
>> Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
>> Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Monitor"
>> Identifier "Monitor0"
>> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
>> ModelName "Monitor Model"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>> ### Available Driver options are:-
>> #Option "SWcursor"
>> #Option "HWcursor"
>> #Option "PciRetry"
>> #Option "rgbbits"
>> #Option "NoAccel"
>> #Option "TurboQueue"
>> #Option "SetMClk"
>> #Option "FastVram"
>> Identifier "SiS 6326"
>> Driver "sis"
>> VendorName "SiS"
>> BoardName "6326"
>> BusID "PCI:0:9:0"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>> Identifier "Screen0"
>> Device "SiS 6326"
>> Monitor "Monitor0"
>> DefaultColorDepth 16
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 1
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 4
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 8
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 15
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 16
>> EndSubSection
>> SubSection "Display"
>> Depth 24
>> EndSubSection
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "DRI"
>> EndSection
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Subject: Re: Newbie question about power saving
Date: 6 May 2000 18:41:17 GMT
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I am doing my best here to free myself from Microsoft's tentacles. I was
> > wondering if someone can tell me if I can implement some kind of power
> > saving in Linux (Red Hat 6.1) and how. I don't want to turn off my
> > computer, but I don't want to waste electricity either. Please keep in
> > mind that I am very, very new at this and will need a little bit (but
> > not too much) more detailed explanation. Thanks in advance.
> > Peter
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> Do man apm. apm apparently has the capability of putting
> your computer in standby or ssupend mode if your computer is
> capable of doing that. This is quite common in laptops but
> I wasn't aware it is available for desktops.
>
Oh, it is. I have here a P75 with an APM-aware motherboard, dating
back from 1995.
He needs to check his BIOS to see if there are any power-saving
options available. If that's there, it is simply a matter of compiling
APM support into the kernel (at least, that's how it went for me).
> In any case I think a lot of the power goes into running the
> monitor, and gnome can use the monitor's power saving features.
> I suspect KED can do so also.
>
If it's only the monitor you're concerned about, nearly all monitors
come with a neat, built-in power-saving device. They have been for
many years now; it's usually called "on/off switch". <G>
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: quake 3 file
Date: 06 May 2000 13:55:07 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 06 May 2000 17:30:06 GMT, noel
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I've just downloaded the quake 3 demo which is a .gz.sh file
>(fullname:linuxq3demo.gz.sh). I've not seen one of these before, can
>anyone tell me how I extract this file and what I do with it then to use
>the demo?
Seeing as how it's got an extension of .sh, have you tried running it with
the command
$ sh q3demo.gz.sh
?
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
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(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cron stderr question
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 19:59:09 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Efflandt schrieb:
> On Fri, 05 May 2000 21:20:57 GMT, Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >How can I append all messages to one file and append all error message to
> >another file for a cron job?
> >
> >0 17 * * fri /scipts/backup 2>&1 >> /var/adm/error.log >> /var/adm/cron.log
>
> Looking at 'man bash' I believe it would be:
>
> 0 17 * * fri /scipts/backup >> /var/adm/cron.log 2>>/var/adm/error.log
>
With ksh, that is the right way. I guess it should be true for bash. 2&1>
would mix stdout and stderr message into the same file. I would not go for that
specially for crontab jobs.
>
> Assuming that is how you really spell your 'scipts' dir.
>
> >Or, if that won't work, will
> >
> >0 17 * * fri /scipts/backup 2>&1 >> /var/adm/cron.log
> >
> >log everything to cron.log including error messages that came from stderr?
>
> That would work, I guess, but the usual way is:
>
> 0 17 * * fri /scipts/backup >> /var/adm/cron.log 2>&1
>
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