Linux-Misc Digest #597, Volume #25 Mon, 28 Aug 00 12:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Operating system file name restrictions? Where? (M. Uli Kusterer)
Re: HELP! using hdparm (Dances With Crows)
Re: Backup Software (Dustin Puryear)
Installed Helix-code, and now no xdmcp? (Michael Segulja)
Re: Linux Mail Server (Dustin Puryear)
Help needed with email (Richard Kimber)
Re: Pro*C (mst)
Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows (Craig Kelley)
Re: Linux <-> Older Macs, how? (mst)
Filtering spam with procmail (Ramin Sina)
Re: Linux Mail Server (Phil)
Re: Headless X86 Linux system ("William Alexander Segraves")
Re: [HELP] How to configure SoundBlaster PCI 128 ("Colin W Holywell")
Re: Firewall for Linux ("Colin W Holywell")
Re: Linux Mail Server ("D. C. & M. V. Sessions")
Mass (non-spam) e-mail solution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: scsi bus resets with aic7xxx (David C.)
Re: So where is the performance analysis tools? ("Colin W Holywell")
visual impairment (John Ravenscroft)
How to debug a shared library (Alexander Zvyagin)
Restaurant Booking System ("Darren Paxton")
Re: visual impairment (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Backup Software ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Using gnomeicu (JCA)
Re: Help - what to do if X runs at bad resolution and graphical logins are used?
(root)
Re: Hidden Partition - shouldn't be! Can't boot. (root)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Uli Kusterer)
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.mac.programmer.help,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc
Subject: Re: Operating system file name restrictions? Where?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:14:04 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karsten Wutzke
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I'm writing a Java (hooray) application where I'm generating plain ASCII
>> files and I want the user to be able to choose whether s/he wants a
>> Unix, Windows Joliet, MS-DOS or Mac file to be generated (it will also
>> run on any of these platforms). It's not only about the carriage
>> returns, but also about which characters are forbidden in file names AND
>> how many characters long a file name and its extension can be at
>> maximum, e.g. for DOS it's 8.3. Luckily Windows tells me that when
>> creating an absolutely invalid filename, like /§&%(§%&)", the characters
>> \ / : * ? " < > and | are forbidden, but what's the maximum filename
>> length...? What about Linux or Unix in general? Don't they have
>> different file naming systems? What were they based on...Minix file
>> system? Don't remember... What about the Mac?
>>
>> Can anyone explain WHY some characters are prohibited?
Hi,
the limit on the Mac is 31 characters for HFS volumes, and 255 for HFS+
volumes, but you need to use the new FSRef stuff to access files then (not
sure how that is done in Java, maybe it happens automatically with newer
runtimes, maybe not). Since the Mac uses the colon (":") to delimit path
names, you also can't use these characters or they will be interpreted as
a file path or partial pathname. If you start your filename with a period
("."), you can get into trouble on older MacOSs, as there the call to open
files used a period at a file name's beginning to indicate you wanted to
open a driver, not a file. The newer API calls don't have this problem,
though.
--
Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: HELP! using hdparm
Date: 28 Aug 2000 14:14:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28 Aug 2000 13:51:54 +0100, Stephen Cornell wrote:
>Can some kind soul help me to use hdparm to tune my hard disks?
[massive snip]
Recompile the kernel with support for your particular IDE chipset, and
make sure "Use DMA by default" is set to Y in the kernel config. Then
put the following in /sbin/init.d/boot.local :
hdparm -c1 -u1 -m16 /dev/hdX
where X = the letter for the drive you wish to tune. Laptop hard drives
are generally slower than desktop drives because of power needs; it
takes a lot less power to spin platters at 3600 RPM than it does to
spin platters at 5400 or 7200.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: Re: Backup Software
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:15:32 GMT
Veritas has some excellent programs available, especially if you are
or will be running a mixed environment.
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:10:29 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Some customers asks for commercial backup software with a GUI of some
>sort. I know that Computer Associates have released ArcServe-IT for
>Linux which also handles autoloaders.What I understand "tar" can't
>handle the loader mechanism and some customers (those who are used with
>windoze) asks for a GUI-based backup-tool.
>KDat is based on "tar" and suffer from the same problem of not being
>able to handle the loader mechanism.
>Or am I dead wrong here.
>Anyway, any suggestions on which software and if possble why just that
>software package.
>
>/Fredrik
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
---
Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Author of "Integrate Linux Solutions into Your Windows Network"
The Baton Rouge Linux User Group - http://www.brlug.net
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From: Michael Segulja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installed Helix-code, and now no xdmcp?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:05:52 GMT
I just finished the install of the Helix Code, and I get the new gdm on
X startup. But now I can't use my x-server on my Win2K workstation to
connect. Before installing the Helix Code, I just did an XDMCP
broadcast and picked the server out of the list I wanted to connect
to. Now, this server doesn't show up anymore. If I kill gdm and start
kdm, it shows in the list again.
Anybody know what the problem is? I appreciate any help I can get.
Thanks,
Michael
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:18:59 GMT
On 28 Aug 2000 13:28:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil) wrote:
>>You are looking at clusters and server farms and the like. Take a look
>>at the Oxford University mail server project -
>>
>>http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mbeattie/wing
>
>Not necessarily, I've heard of a guy over in the Netherlands running postfix
>(ok it's FreeBSD so I'm cheating a small bit) on a standalone box with 500,000
>users.
I assume you mean he is running Postfix on FreeBSD and not that
Postfix only runs on FreeBSD since I have Postfix running quite nicely
on Linux (and SCO OSR5).
Anyway, Postfix is awesome. Highly recommended.
---
Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Author of "Integrate Linux Solutions into Your Windows Network"
The Baton Rouge Linux User Group - http://www.brlug.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kimber)
Subject: Help needed with email
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:32:20 GMT
I have been looking for a suitable email client and am experimenting with
'arrow', which seems quite good. I sucessfully compiled arrow and got it
working (i.e. I successfully received and sent emails). However, at some
stage in my attempts at optimally configuring my system I must have done
something stupid because now when I try to send an email, arrow pops up with
a sendmail error message (error num 111).
I can't find what this might mean, and indeed sendmail doesn't seem to be
running (i.e. there's no specific entry listed by ps, and when I type
'sendmail status' I get a no such file error). All very baffling, particularly
since all I was doing was configuring mailboxes.
I'd appreciate some help.
--
Richard Kimber
( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Political Science Resources
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pro*C
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:30:53 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> cpp is the C++ compiler, Pro*C is a precompiler that does embedded sql
> code for c and cpp
>
Maybe in windoze it is, but in Linux, cpp is the "c pre-processor". The
C++ compiler is g++. Check the man page for cpp. I don't know if it will
work with the sql code.
MST
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.text.xml,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux, XML, and assalting Windows
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Aug 2000 08:38:21 -0600
"paul snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Some of these things have to be configured together. And I need them on
> platforms other than NeXT and Mac. And I need to gather all the decision
> points made during installs, and perhaps coordiante them with other installs
> on different machines.
>
> Sure, it isn't clear from the list I gave you. But I could have listed
> Websphere advanced, with an Oracle adaptor, MQSeries client and server, DB2
> server and client, along with DB2 Everywhere for our handhelds, Version X of
> the C++ compiler, the proper JDK, DCE server, and DCE clients, etc. across
> four NT Boxes, the firewalls (with the proper ports punched, and the ORB
> configured to use them).
Then this really wouldn't be a Linux installer, but rather some sort
of meta installer that knows how to write native installers for
various OSes (ie, you're never going to be a part of the Windows world
unless you use InstallShield [think SMS]).
> Simple installs (Such as NeXT-style bundles) would be a huge improvement
> over what I generally have to deal with. Still, it wouldn't resolve the
> bigger picture.
Sure it would: Just get everyone to use NeXT-style bundles.
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux <-> Older Macs, how?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:35:52 -0400
Neil Cherry wrote:
>
> I'm very confused about how to get my Mac SE & SE/30 to communicate
> with my Linux server. I have an Farallon ethernet card in each,
> verified that the SE/30 has it's card working (the SE has software
> problems). Now I want to use the Linux box as an Appletalk server. I
> do not have the TCP/IP software for the Mac (system 7.0.1). Any
> pointers? The Linux options are confusing me.
>
Not an expert on mac networking, but I know you can download for free
from Apple the 7.0.1 to 7.5.5 upgrade, and you'll get TCP/IP with it.
ftp://ftp.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/System_7.5_Update_2.0/
MST
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Filtering spam with procmail
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:02:32 -0400
Could someone please tell me what I need to put in my .procmailrc if I
want to forward all mail from .edu, .gov and .org domains to another
account of mine, say foo.umd.edu, and reject (send back, not delete)
all others?
Thanks,
Ramin Sina
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: 28 Aug 2000 16:15:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dustin Puryear -[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]- spewed forth the following rubbish:
>On 28 Aug 2000 13:28:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil) wrote:
>>
>>Not necessarily, I've heard of a guy over in the Netherlands running postfix
>>(ok it's FreeBSD so I'm cheating a small bit) on a standalone box with 500,000
>>users.
>
>I assume you mean he is running Postfix on FreeBSD and not that
>Postfix only runs on FreeBSD since I have Postfix running quite nicely
>on Linux (and SCO OSR5).
Yes, considering the guy was talking about Linux, talking about postfix
running on FreeBSD is cheating a small bit. I see no reason why Linux couldn't
do the same, but anyways, a standalone box for a mail server is probably
impractical, especially for that many users
Phil.
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From: "William Alexander Segraves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Headless X86 Linux system
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:01:52 -0500
Reply-To: "William Alexander Segraves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In my previous, I failed to mention that the Linux and Windows machines are
on a LAN. Thus, any of the machines can control (in a limited way) one or
more of the other Linux machines across the LAN.
Bill Segraves
"William Alexander Segraves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8oc4em$7o2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Three linux systems here, sharing one monitor. The monitor moves to
> whichever machine I need to "see". Otherwise, the Linux systems don't care
> if the monitor is connected or not. When I want to work on one of the
> monitorless machines, I simply rlogin (from a Linux machine) or telnet
(from
> a Windows machine), or move the monitor.
>
> Bill Segraves
> Auburn, AL
> "mst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > fred smith wrote:
> > >
> > > My employer is preparing to ship a turnkey Linux system complete with
> > > one of our applications.
> > >
> > > The question came up whether it was necessary to include a monitor and
> > > keyboard, or if it could be run "headless".
> > >
> > > As far as I know, you need (or at least ought to have) a monitor/video
> > > card/keyboard for the boot process if for no other reason than to
allow
> > > you to view the POST and any BIOS errors that may occur.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any experience with headless X86 Linux boxes, or
> > > can someone point me to HOWTOs or other docs on the subject?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> >
> > If your hardware allows it (i.e. if it boots without having a keyboard
> > and video card), then Linux won't care. I had to setup a
> > headless/kbd-less box once, and the only problem I had was to find a
> > motherboard that will boot without them (I eventually ended up with a
> > Octek Hippo DCA2, probably the best 486 motherboard ever built, complete
> > with MrBios BIOS). I then put in all the hardware I needed, as well as a
> > temporary vidcard and keyboard; setup Linux as usual, configured
> > networking, attached to network and made sure it worked, then stripped
> > out the vidcard and keyboard. That was all. Works perfectly, 2 years
> > next month.
> >
> > MST
>
>
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From: "Colin W Holywell" <*REMOVE-TO-REPLY*[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HELP] How to configure SoundBlaster PCI 128
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:14:35 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Lam Dang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Another question please. The Linux "Sound Mixer" doesn't provide for
> adjusting the bass and treble levels. Is this the way it is or am I
> missing something?
>
It is an old driver. I had the same problem with my SB Live!. I downloaded the latest
driver from ftp://opensource.creatice.com and compiled it. The latest one had a whole
bunch of goodies on the mixer.
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From: "Colin W Holywell" <*REMOVE-TO-REPLY*[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Firewall for Linux
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:25:17 -0700
In article <8nvg72$oiu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jason Ng"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to install a firewall on my Linux box. Does anyone have any
> suggestions? I am a newbie for this and I want to know which one is
> good...
>
> Regards, Jason
>
>
The easiest one for newbies has to FireStarter. It has a configuration druid and a real
time hit monitor. It is pretty cool. http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/
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From: "D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:27:49 -0700
Jason Ng wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What's the best mail server for Linux? I would like to support a large
> population... above 500, 000. Any comments?
OK, now that you've heard references to the religious issues, I have
a slightly different take on the matter.
Find a good mail admin, and give her the tools she likes best.
For 500K users, you aren't talking about trivial administration
no matter what tool you're using, and the conversion is going to
be interesting no matter what. This is not a job for someone
who has never administered a *nix mail system before, so you are
going to be dead if you don't have a wizard admin. And wizard
admins are subtle and quick to anger, so don't tick them off by
telling them what to use based on asking a Usenet newsgroup.
Hire a good admin, pay her for her expertise, AND LISTEN TO HER
because you are, after all, paying her for knowing more about
mail adminsitration than you do.
--
| Engineers solve problems -- it's what we do. |
| Do you want to be a problem? |
| D. C. Sessions === [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mass (non-spam) e-mail solution
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:24:16 GMT
I just checked the archives and didn't see this addressed. Monthly, I'm
responsible for sending out between six and seven thousand e-mails to
people who've subscribed to our mailing. (It's not spam, and we follow
all the "mass-mail" guide-lines.) I'm struggling with a good solution.
Currently, the addresses are in an MS-Access database. I'm learning
Linux and know it is the key to getting these sent, I just don't have
the experience to know the best programs/procedure to get my RedHat box
to send them for me. This last time, I managed to get SendMail running
on it, and I just used Outlook to hand them to SendMail and they went
from there. It felt cludgy and slow.
Thoughts? It's really not necessary for people to be able to sign
themsevles up, as most of our sign-ups come from product registrations
where they checked, "yes, I'd like to receive ..." We handle all
bounces manually, although that's a pain.
Thanks!
Nathan
BTW-A few bonus questions. :) While sending this last mailing, my CPU
utilization never went over 5%, and I didn't notice a slowdown in my
internet connectivity. Is it possible to get Sendmail to "hog" the CPU
and internet, so stuff goes faster? Will SendMail scale to use as much
as it needs? If so, then it would be Outlook that needs to hand the
mail off quicker right?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: scsi bus resets with aic7xxx
Date: 28 Aug 2000 11:32:40 -0400
vlado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I've run up on a "cute" problem with receiving scsi bus resets under
> heavy load.
If you've already got current drivers, then check cable lengths.
> Hardware details
> ------------
> Motherboard - ASUS P2B-DS SCPI Rev1012
> Award bios v4.51p6
> with onboard Adaptec 7890 bios v.2.11
>
> "HD" - ZERO-D 400 IDE-RAID system, firmware v.2.2W
You don't say what kind of SCSI bus you have (Ultra, Ultra-Wide,
Ultra-2, etc.)
Cable length limits for non-LVD busses can be pretty short:
Fast-SCSI: 6m
Ultra-SCSI: 3m
Ultra-Wide SCSI: 1.5m
Ultra2 (LVD): 12m
Ultra3 (LVD): 12m
If you mix different device types on a single bus, your overall limit is
the tightest limit of all the devices.
So, if you mix a Fast-SCSI device (like a CD-ROM) and an Ultra-Wide
device, your limit is 1.5m.
The reason you may only notice this under heavy load is because your
host adapter will switch bus speeds to the slower speeds when accessing
slower devices. Tehcnically, (in my hypothetical scenario) the limit is
6m when accessing the Fast-SCSI devices and 1.5m when accessing the
Ultra-Wide devices.
In reality, however, this doesn't really work. Even if the Ultra-Wide
devices are close to the host adapter on the bus, the terminators are
separated by more than 1.5m.
I found this exact problem on my system. I've got a 2940UW card with an
Ultra-Wide hard drive, a Zip drive, a CD-ROM and a tape drive.
Normally, they'd all work well together. But when accessing both the
Zip and hard drive at once (copying a lot of files), I'd start to get
errors and bus resets.
Moving the slow devices to a separate bus (I installed a 1542B card that
I had lying around) fixed the problem. Now the Ultra-Wide devices is on
a bus all by itself, where the cable is shorter than 1.5m. And the
three Fast-Wide devices are on a separate bus, where the cable is
shorter than 6m.
-- David
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From: "Colin W Holywell" <*REMOVE-TO-REPLY*[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: So where is the performance analysis tools?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:32:58 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Neal Rhodes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm somewhat new to managing big linux systems and I'm really missing
> the info I used to get from SAR on unix systems.
>
> Where do I find out: A. what is the activity level and i/o performance
> of each drive in my system?
/sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hd<x>
Not exacltly what you are looking for but it will give performance figures and
let you tweak the drives for speed.
> B. Please list the processes that are taking the most memory. List them
> in order.
top or gtop under Gnome.
> Aside from vmstat, which doesn't tell much, what is there?
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From: John Ravenscroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: visual impairment
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:37:10 +0100
Hi
I work in the field of visual impairment and IT.
Recently I have been getting into linux for my own use.
However, it is now time for me to look a linux for the visually impaired.
I have had a look at blinux websites but I am really looking for
something for the complete newbie.
Questions?
Does linux has an accessibility option like windows does.
What accessibily software is available aprt from emacspeak
How easy is it to set up
This would do for a start and if there are any blind or visually impaired
computer users reading this - please email me off list.
Many thanks
John
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From: Alexander Zvyagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to debug a shared library
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:30:00 +0200
Hello,
I can not debug a program with shared library.
May be somebody knows how to do this?
Here is my situation.
I have two files: 1.c and 2.c.
// file 1.c
void f(void);
int main(void) { f(); }
// file 2.c
void f(void)
{ int i=0; i++; }
Now I compile and link the program:
$ gcc -g -c 1.c 2.c
$ g++ -shared -o 2.so 2.o
$ g++ -o 1 1.o 2.so
$ gdb 1
....
And GDB do not want to step inside f() function.
GDB command 'sharedlibrary' reports that library 2.so is loaded already.
And if I create static library 2.a (with the help of 'ar' program) GDB
works fine.
What are wrong in my efforts?
Thank you,
Alexander Zvyagin.
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From: "Darren Paxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Restaurant Booking System
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:45:36 +0100
Hello, All
Apologies for cross-posting, but I felt the need to do this in order to gain
the greatest level of responses from the Linux Users.
I work for a restaurant chain based in Glasgow, Scotland, and we would like
to introduce some form of online restaurant booking system to our website.
We have already had consultations with a company who specialise in this kind
of system, but one of their stipulations is that every time a booking is
made from our website, we are to be charged a fee. Our MD would like to
avoid having to pay such a fee, and with the introduction of higher speed
connections, we are considering introducing our own webserver, and therefore
we would be able to host our own programs and back ends to the website.
What I would like to know is are there any linux based applications
available out there that would allow online bookings, and hopefully would
also allow this to be done for multiple locations. Each of the locations
would also need access to every other unit's booking sheets so that they
could pass bookings on to other sites if they were full for that period. We
are also looking at bringing in a team of dedicated telephone agents to also
take bookings over the phone, but this could obviously be done via the web
front end.
Any advice anyone could provide would be greatly received.
Many Thanks
Darren Paxton
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Subject: Re: visual impairment
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 28 Aug 2000 17:47:38 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Ravenscroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi
>
>I work in the field of visual impairment and IT.
>
>Recently I have been getting into linux for my own use.
>
>However, it is now time for me to look a linux for the visually impaired.
>
>I have had a look at blinux websites but I am really looking for
>something for the complete newbie.
>
>Questions?
>
>Does linux has an accessibility option like windows does.
>
>What accessibily software is available aprt from emacspeak
>
>How easy is it to set up
>
>This would do for a start and if there are any blind or visually impaired
>computer users reading this - please email me off list.
>
>Many thanks
>
>
>
>John
>
>
>
>
There's a HOWTO called "Linux Access HOWTO" that you should read.
It's available from the LDP at
<URL:http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Access-HOWTO.html>.
Good luck!
/A
--
Andreas Kähäri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Backup Software
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:41:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Veritas has some excellent programs available, especially if you are
> or will be running a mixed environment.
Didn't know that Veritas had released BackupExec for Linux.
Have to check that out.
/Fredrik
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Before you buy.
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From: JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using gnomeicu
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 08:47:06 -0700
Can anybody summarize how to use this baby? Also, what is gnomeicu
and gnomeicu-client? Does one need them both?
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help - what to do if X runs at bad resolution and graphical logins are
used?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 01:48:01 +1000
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Noble Pepper wrote:
>At the lilo prompt, press tab, this will list your boot options. One of
>them should be linux or something similar. You can add arguments to the
>system you select. Linux single will bring you up in maintenance mode
>kinda like safe mode in windows. I believe linux 3 will give you console
>in full multi user.
Yup. Using Xconfigurator from here will solve your probs. AND!
When u select your resolutions, do NOT setup X to run automatically! Get it to
boot to command prompt.
It's a small incovenience, but the following format will let u access any of
the resolutions u select within Xconfigurator(assuming they're ok with your GFX
car/monitor etc)
After login: startx -- -bpp 16
startx -- -bpp 32
ETC!!!
Not sure how to go about it exactly if u have multi depths at same res
selected........but that should get u started! and at least from here if it
refuses to work/hangs etc, you can jump to another console and KILL it(xinit)
Good luck.
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hidden Partition - shouldn't be! Can't boot.
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 01:53:23 +1000
Thanks for that - both of you have helped immensely...
And I learnt something to boot!(sorry, bad pun....)
>You're using it! The Linux Fdisk program allows you to set partition
>types. Reset it to a DOS type. Since you have to use a floppy to boot
>into Linux anyway, you can run the DOS FDISK program to reset the Master
>Boot Record with 'FDISK C: /MBR', then use LILO as your dual boot
>controller. Better yet, reformat the Win98 partition as ext2! ;-)
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