Linux-Misc Digest #669, Volume #24 Wed, 31 May 00 22:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Linux Counter: 146774 registered Linux users ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel Building Question (DanH)
ftape 4.xx config question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Loop Device (Steve)
Re: What is Enlightenment? (Steve)
Re: Can't Mount 6GB FAT32 ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: Can't Mount 6GB FAT32 ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: recursive mv? ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: How to use groups (ljb)
Color adjustments for Epson Stylus Color 600 w/ uniprint driver (Robert Heller)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Counter: 146774 registered Linux users
Date: 1 Jun 2000 01:00:03 GMT
This is the monthly report from the Linux Usage Counter.
It is posted on the 1st of every month on the newsgroup
comp.os.linux.misc, and on the Linux Counter "announce" list.
Registration and information is available via the World
Wide Web; connect to URL http://counter.li.org/
This is the preferred interface to the counter.
NOTE: You can UPDATE your record in the counter if you have
your registration key, which was sent to you when you registered.
EMAIL:
To enter your registration into the statistics, send an E-mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], with the SUBJECT line containing the word "Linux",
such as:
I use Linux at home
I use Linux at work
I use Linux at school
Any questions should be adressed to the maintainer of the counter,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good luck!
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This is the Linux Counter summary as of Thu Jun 1 00:39:55 2000
There are 146774 persons registerd.
3023 users have been registered by friends.
There are 76739 machines registered.
I guesstimate that between 0.2% and 5% of all Linux users have
registered with the Linux Counter.
So the total number of Linux users is probably between
2,935,480 and 73,387,000 people.
WHERE LINUX USERS LIVE
The table is sorted by number of Linux users divided by population
No Country Pers Fri Mach P/Mpop Mpop
======================================================================
1 IS Iceland 212 4 97 784.3 0.3
2 NO Norway 3187 49 1403 727.0 4.4
3 FI Finland 3174 55 1633 621.7 5.1
4 DK Denmark 3097 17 1180 589.9 5.2
5 SE Sweden 4917 60 2319 552.4 8.9
6 AQ Antarctica 2 0 0 486.0 0.0
7 NF Norfolk Island 1 0 0 452.7 0.0
8 FO Faroe Islands 18 0 2 410.4 0.0
9 EE Estonia 511 16 311 350.1 1.5
10 SI Slovenia 639 8 170 327.4 2.0
11 GI Gibraltar 8 1 11 278.1 0.0
12 NL Netherlands 3812 51 1919 244.9 15.6
13 MS Montserrat 3 0 1 234.9 0.0
14 CA Canada 6112 83 3121 212.1 28.8
15 AT Austria 1697 31 942 211.5 8.0
16 LU Luxembourg 82 0 41 197.2 0.4
17 AU Australia 3288 50 1860 180.1 18.3
18 NZ New Zealand 615 3 373 173.3 3.5
19 US USA 44776 832 22508 168.0 266.5
20 CH Switzerland 1184 16 709 164.3 7.2
21 MC Monaco 5 1 4 157.6 0.0
22 IE Ireland 553 5 251 155.0 3.6
23 BE Belgium 1556 525 792 153.0 10.2
24 HU Hungary 1325 48 737 132.5 10.0
25 DE Germany 10382 187 5398 124.3 83.5
26 CY Cyprus 90 0 14 120.9 0.7
27 PT Portugal 1128 9 331 114.3 9.9
28 SG Singapore 386 7 151 113.6 3.4
29 FR France 6168 111 2368 105.8 58.3
30 GL Greenland 6 0 1 103.1 0.1
31 ES Spain 3944 32 1109 100.7 39.2
32 GB Great Britain 5817 109 2976 99.5 58.5
33 KR Korea (South) 4405 19 472 96.9 45.5
34 AD Andorra 7 0 6 96.2 0.1
35 IL Israel 505 13 240 93.1 5.4
36 PL Poland 3459 55 1484 89.5 38.6
37 VG Virgin Islands (British) 1 0 0 75.8 0.0
38 CZ Czech Republic 734 21 421 71.1 10.3
39 BG Bulgaria 554 6 214 64.3 8.6
40 LI Liechtenstein 2 0 3 64.3 0.0
41 LT Lithuania 222 3 108 60.9 3.6
42 PW Palau 1 0 0 59.0 0.0
43 CR Costa Rica 202 0 82 58.3 3.5
44 HR Croatia 290 6 82 58.0 5.0
45 KY Cayman Islands 2 0 3 57.7 0.0
46 UY Uruguay 185 0 44 57.1 3.2
47 GR Greece 580 13 224 55.0 10.5
48 IT Italy 2846 64 1133 49.5 57.5
49 BM Bermuda 3 0 4 48.3 0.1
50 NC New Caledonia 9 0 12 47.9 0.2
51 FM Micronesia, Federated States 6 0 0 47.9 0.1
52 GU Guam 7 0 1 44.6 0.2
53 BB Barbados 11 0 3 42.8 0.3
54 MT Malta 16 0 8 42.6 0.4
55 VE Venezuela 921 3 139 41.9 22.0
56 BN Brunei 12 0 7 40.0 0.3
57 SC Seychelles 3 0 0 38.7 0.1
58 BR Brazil 6250 59 1263 38.4 162.7
59 MV Maldives 10 0 1 36.9 0.3
60 SV El Salvador 210 0 27 36.0 5.8
61 RO Romania 778 36 366 35.9 21.7
62 SK Slovakia 186 1 120 34.6 5.4
63 BZ Belize 7 0 6 31.9 0.2
64 AR Argentina 1039 6 282 30.0 34.7
65 TW Taiwan 560 5 190 26.1 21.5
66 CL Chile 373 6 136 26.0 14.3
67 LV Latvia 64 0 43 25.9 2.5
68 TT Trinidad and Tobago 31 1 5 24.4 1.3
69 MY Malaysia 482 6 114 24.1 20.0
70 RE Reunion 16 0 6 23.6 0.7
71 BS Bahamas 6 0 2 23.1 0.3
72 ZA South Africa 962 10 405 23.0 41.7
73 PR Puerto Rico 88 0 20 23.0 3.8
74 MX Mexico 2106 18 391 22.0 95.8
75 VI Virgin Islands (U.S.) 2 0 1 20.6 0.1
76 MP Northern Mariana Islands 1 0 1 19.1 0.1
77 MH Marshall Islands 1 0 0 17.1 0.1
78 PA Panama 44 0 15 16.6 2.7
79 AG Antigua and Barbuda 1 0 2 15.2 0.1
80 KW Kuwait 29 0 11 14.9 2.0
81 AW Aruba 1 0 0 14.8 0.1
82 AM Armenia 50 0 8 14.4 3.5
83 AN Netherlands Antilles 3 0 1 14.4 0.2
84 TR Turkey 864 9 178 13.8 62.5
85 BH Bahrain 8 0 5 13.6 0.6
86 PF French Polynesia 3 0 4 13.3 0.2
87 RU Russia 1884 34 717 12.7 148.2
88 NA Namibia 21 0 11 12.5 1.7
89 GP Guadeloupe 5 0 4 12.3 0.4
90 CO Colombia 449 3 139 12.2 36.8
91 MO Macau 6 0 1 12.1 0.5
92 YU Yugoslavia (Serbia and Monte 127 6 72 11.8 10.8
93 SR Suriname 5 0 4 11.5 0.4
94 AE United Arab Emirates 35 1 15 11.4 3.1
95 BA Bosnia and Herzegovina 30 0 4 11.3 2.7
96 TN Tunisia 97 0 14 10.8 9.0
97 PY Paraguay 56 0 13 10.2 5.5
98 MQ Martinique 4 0 2 10.0 0.4
99 QA Qatar 5 1 3 9.1 0.5
100 UA Ukraine 451 10 192 8.9 50.9
101 MU Mauritius 10 0 3 8.8 1.1
102 VC Saint Vincent and the Grenad 1 0 0 8.4 0.1
103 JP Japan 933 6 283 7.4 125.4
104 MK Macedonia 15 2 4 7.1 2.1
105 CU Cuba 76 6 19 6.9 11.0
106 BY Belarus 68 5 27 6.5 10.4
107 LC Saint Lucia 1 0 0 6.3 0.2
108 BO Bolivia 43 0 11 6.0 7.2
109 VU Vanuatu 1 0 3 5.6 0.2
110 MD Moldova 25 0 8 5.6 4.5
111 LB Lebanon 21 1 6 5.6 3.8
112 PH Philippines 405 4 79 5.4 74.5
113 EC Ecuador 62 0 15 5.4 11.5
114 PE Peru 120 0 28 4.9 24.5
115 JM Jamaica 12 0 2 4.6 2.6
116 BW Botswana 6 0 3 4.1 1.5
117 DO Dominican Republic 32 0 10 4.0 8.1
118 TH Thailand 230 3 79 3.9 58.9
119 HN Honduras 19 0 6 3.4 5.6
120 GT Guatemala 38 0 9 3.4 11.3
121 GY Guyana 2 0 0 2.8 0.7
122 MN Mongolia 7 0 5 2.8 2.5
123 OM Oman 6 0 1 2.7 2.2
124 NI Nicaragua 11 0 3 2.6 4.3
125 GA Gabon 3 0 3 2.6 1.2
126 KZ Kazakhstan 38 0 17 2.2 16.9
127 ID Indonesia 429 34 149 2.1 206.6
128 CM Cameroon 25 0 8 1.8 14.3
129 SA Saudi Arabia 28 0 10 1.4 19.4
130 JO Jordan 6 0 3 1.4 4.2
131 AL Albania 4 1 4 1.2 3.2
132 ZM Zambia 11 0 4 1.2 9.2
133 ZW Zimbabwe 13 0 8 1.2 11.3
134 GE Georgia 6 0 26 1.1 5.2
135 PG Papua New Guinea 5 0 1 1.1 4.4
136 LK Sri Lanka 21 1 2 1.1 18.6
137 IN India 1066 16 291 1.1 952.1
138 KG Kyrgyzstan 5 0 2 1.1 4.5
139 CN China 1275 4 222 1.1 1210.0
140 MA Morocco 30 0 12 1.0 29.8
141 EG Egypt 63 1 9 1.0 63.6
142 UZ Uzbekistan 19 0 7 0.8 23.4
143 MG Madagascar 11 0 4 0.8 13.7
144 NE Niger 6 0 0 0.7 9.1
145 AZ Azerbaijan 5 0 3 0.7 7.7
146 DZ Algeria 19 0 9 0.7 29.2
147 SL Sierra Leone 3 0 0 0.6 4.8
148 PK Pakistan 77 5 14 0.6 129.3
149 IR Iran 37 0 22 0.6 66.1
150 NP Nepal 12 0 0 0.5 22.1
151 CI Cote d'Ivoire 8 0 5 0.5 14.8
152 VN Vietnam 34 0 4 0.5 74.0
153 SN Senegal 4 0 0 0.4 9.1
154 MR Mauritania 1 0 0 0.4 2.3
155 KE Kenya 10 0 3 0.4 28.2
156 MZ Mozambique 6 0 2 0.3 17.9
157 CF Central African Republic 1 0 0 0.3 3.3
158 BF Burkina Faso 3 0 1 0.3 10.6
159 KH Cambodia 3 0 1 0.3 10.9
160 BD Bangladesh 31 0 8 0.3 123.1
161 TM Turkmenistan 1 0 1 0.2 4.1
162 TG Togo 1 0 0 0.2 4.6
163 LA Laos 1 0 1 0.2 5.0
164 LY Libya 1 0 1 0.2 5.4
165 TZ Tanzania 5 0 0 0.2 29.1
166 RW Rwanda 1 0 0 0.1 6.9
167 UG Uganda 2 0 0 0.1 20.2
168 AO Angola 1 0 0 0.1 10.3
169 ET Ethiopia 3 0 0 0.1 57.2
170 XW The World (Somewhere in it) 255 207 1 0.0 5771.9
171 NG Nigeria 3 0 1 0.0 103.9
172 WF Wallis and Futuna Islands 1 0 1 0.0 0.0
WHERE PEOPLE USE LINUX
Place Users Percent
==============================
school 29780 20.58%
home 128430 88.76%
not used 20 0.01%
work 60910 42.10%
somewhere 2875 1.99%
==============================
TOTAL 144688 100.00%
NOTE: The total is the 144688 users who answered this question.
Some gave more than one answer, so the number of answers is 222015
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From: DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel Building Question
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 21:06:21 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Carbaugh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've seen this before on a RedHat system.
>
> Can't recall where the option is in menuconfig, but I know it's there.
> I'm pretty sure it has the 'pts' in it as well.
Under 'Filesystems' check
/proc filesystem support
and
/dev/pts filesystem for Unix98 PTYs
That should do it.
DanH
--
UNIX - Not just for vestal virgins anymore
Linux - Choice of a GNU generation
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ftape 4.xx config question
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 01:00:41 GMT
Perhaps this is common knowledge in some circles, but I am at a loss to
determine the base address, DMA channel and IRQ used by the internal FDC
on my motherboard. From the FTAPE-HOWTO, I understand this must be
specified in the "conf.modules" file. My 'puter documentation doesn't
provide that detail. I don't see it, at least not explicitly, in the
BIOS settings. Anybody got a hint for a novice?
FYI, the MB is an AMTRON PM-8600. I have one floppy drive and one
Colorado Jumbo 250 internal tape drive.
TIA
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Loop Device
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 Jun 2000 01:34:33 GMT
You can create a swap space that sits in a file rather than a partition of a
disk. These swap files are mounted as swap space st boot time.
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Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
12:25am up 23:56, 2 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.05
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: What is Enlightenment?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 Jun 2000 01:34:40 GMT
On 31 May 2000 00:01:17 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Enlightenment is a journey which is different for every man
>> only you will know when you have found it.
>
>I found it on my Red Hat 6.2 CD. It wasn't really much of
>a journey. If only the Buddha had know about Linux.
My 6.2 disk is on a journey of it's own, I sent off for it on 11 May
and still havn't seen it. So for everyone who's reading this don't
bother ordering anything from CheapLinux.co.uk it'll be out of date
when it arrives.
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Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
12:25am up 23:56, 2 users, load average: 2.00, 2.00, 2.05
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't Mount 6GB FAT32
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 20:09:17 -0400
By any chance you're not attempting to mount BOTH vfat partitions at the
same mount point, are you?
Brett Rosselle wrote:
>
> Yeah, been there, done that. No dice.
>
> Oh well.
>
> Brett
>
> David Efflandt wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 31 May 2000 07:15:18 -0500, Brett Rosselle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Error is wring FS type, bad option, bad superblock, on /dev/hda1, or too
> > >many mounted file systems. FDISK reports ID c, Win95 FAT32 (LBA) on the
> > >6GB drive.
> > >
> > >On the 1.6 GB FAT32 drive that I can mount, FDISK reports ID c Win95 FAT32
> > >(LBA). They appear to be the same type.
> > >
> > >I am using Mandrake 7.0, kernel version 2.2.14.
> >
> > Are you mounting each partition on a different dir? Mandrake 7 usually
> > autmatically detects and sets up mount parameters in /etc/fstab for any
> > partitions it finds during install. Have you looked at /etc/fstab and are
> > you sure that this partition is not already mounted somewhere
> > automatically during boot? The 'df' command can help you determine what
> > is already mounted or check out the /mnt dir and see if the drive is
> > already mounted somewhere there.
> >
> > If not, try a full mount command:
> >
> > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/Win95c
> > (assuming you have already created Win95c dir)
> >
> > >> Brett Rosselle wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Hi all,
> > >> >
> > >> > Can anyone tell me why I can not mount my 6GB FAT32 drive, but I can
> > >> > mount my 1.6 GB FAT32 drive. I'm not a newbie. I know all about the
> > >> > FSTAB/MOUNT parameters. This is really bizarre, unless there is some
> > >> > size/cylinder limitation that I am unaware of, or there are differences
> > >> > between Win95/FAT32 and Win98/FAT32.
> > >> >
> > >> > Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't Mount 6GB FAT32
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 19:17:31 -0400
So you're using:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
to attempt to mount it?
What is the full output of "fdisk -l"?
Brett Rosselle wrote:
>
> Error is wring FS type, bad option, bad superblock, on /dev/hda1, or too
> many mounted file systems. FDISK reports ID c, Win95 FAT32 (LBA) on the
> 6GB drive.
>
> On the 1.6 GB FAT32 drive that I can mount, FDISK reports ID c Win95 FAT32
> (LBA). They appear to be the same type.
>
> I am using Mandrake 7.0, kernel version 2.2.14.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brett
>
> "Lonni J. Friedman" wrote:
>
> > Kinda hard for anyone to help when you fail to state what is wrong.
> > Error msgs would be nice.
> >
> > Brett Rosselle wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me why I can not mount my 6GB FAT32 drive, but I can
> > > mount my 1.6 GB FAT32 drive. I'm not a newbie. I know all about the
> > > FSTAB/MOUNT parameters. This is really bizarre, unless there is some
> > > size/cylinder limitation that I am unaware of, or there are differences
> > > between Win95/FAT32 and Win98/FAT32.
> > >
> > > Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recursive mv?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 20:08:28 -0400
"cp -a " recursively copies.
LTho wrote:
>
> Is there such a thing as a recursive mv, that is mv -r <from> <to> or
> some such.
>
> I recognize that the mv is basically a rename, and to 'move' a whole
> directory tree, normally just the top 'directory' is 'mv'ed.
>
> In this case, I want to transer a whole bunch of stuff via NFS from a
> remote machine to my local machine. Possible? Or do I have to do a
>
> cp -r <from> <to>
> rm -rf <from> <to>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: How to use groups
Date: 1 Jun 2000 01:36:44 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Marc D Bumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>In UNIX, users can have multiple groups. In the /etc/group file,
>>user names are simply appended to the end of the group entry, as
>
><snip>
>
>> do a man on group, groups, and id.
>
>Well, I did info rather than man on groups, and I had read about
>/etc/group. The point I didn't make well is that under NetWare it's
>possible to create directories in which newly created files may be
>accessed by members of multiple distinct groups. This doesn't appear to
>be the case with linux. Files seem to be given the effective GID of the
>user who creates them, and other groups to which the user belongs would
>be irrelevant because only the effective GID matters. No?
Not exactly. New files get their group either from the creator's
primary group, or from the group of the directory where the
file was created. The latter happens if the directory has the setgid
bit set, like mode 2775.
You really can't emulate Netware's protection/group models under
Unix/Linux, at least not with access control list extensions. (And
yet, I know some Netware admins who still don't understand how it
works on Netware. In my opinion, the Netware implementation is way
too complex.)
Try to find a writeup of Red Hat's "user private group" scheme. I've
found it to be a very useful and clever way to use groups in Linux
and other Unix systems.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Color adjustments for Epson Stylus Color 600 w/ uniprint driver
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 01:39:38 GMT
I recently set up an Epson Stylus Color 600, using the GS uniprint
(ghostscript-5.10-10 under RedHat linux 6.1). I set it up to use the
stc600p (Epson Stylus Color 600, 720x720DpI, Plain Paper) parameter set.
The colors are a *little* off. Blue comes out a little bit purplish.
Is this the printer or is there some parameter setting I could 'tweak'
to improve the colors?
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