Linux-Misc Digest #661, Volume #25 Sun, 3 Sep 00 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: so what do I do with my spare CPU cycles? (John Ridley)
Re: Partitions ("Peter T. Breuer")
can't umount /usr/ (Tony)
Re: Netscape and video/x-ms-asf ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Headless X86 Linux system (Cokey de Percin)
Re: Partitions (Dux)
Re: Various questions (Grega Bremec)
Re: ncurses, /usr/share/terminfo v /usr/lib/terminfo (Andy Key)
Re: Partitions (Justin B Willoughby)
Question about "%F" ("Yura")
Re: Microsoft Linux ("Yura")
Re: Cluster-Software for Linux (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: Maybe OT: RealPlayer vs. Windows Media cost for broadcaster?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Partitions (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Strange output in Gnome. ("Yura")
Re: Is there a limit to the number of files in 1 directory? (Jean-David
Beyer-valinux)
Netscape HDD accessing ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
stable Clustering File System available? (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Headless X86 Linux system (Peter Mitchell)
Re: How to get directory size and free disk space under RH with Gnome? ("Yura")
Re: glibc-2.1.2 update error... How to install? ("Yura")
ProFTPD problem (Michael Beaucourt)
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From: John Ridley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.society.futures,sci.astro.amateur
Subject: Re: so what do I do with my spare CPU cycles?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 15:35:14 -0400
check out:
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
It's a longshot, but name another project that has this much potential
to change EVERYTHING. Can you imagine how different it would be to
wake up in a world where we knew there was someone else out there?
I'm not a UFO believer, but I do believe in Drake's equation, and as
you said, the CPU cycles are just being wasted, anyway.
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 21:59:34 +0800, "Dan Jacobson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So what can I do with my extra CPU cycles? Any 'extra cycles for peace'
>to
>donate to [but I am not on-line all day]? When my 166Mhz computer is
>idle, it's such a shame to think that it could be solving some of my other
>problems, ... indeed I got more MIPS than Einstein would die for, and no
>good use for them....
>
>Hmm... I suppose an possibility would be say 'byte-compiling' things [like
>emacs does] for later runtime efficiency...
>
>I suppose I could tell it to check & defragment
>my disks or something, but that entails wear on disk heads (and the guide
>book says isn't really necessary with Linux) whereas say, cracking pi to
>the nth decimal wouldn't cause any wear, but I would more likely hinder
>rather than help in that effort,
>plus, maybe they've got it down 'to the subatomic level' and it wouldn't
>help to crack it anymore?
>
>Situation: computer mostly off-line, powered up 5 hours a day reading
>these silly articles :-)...
>Off afternoons [mandatory, lightning storms.]
>
>Hmmm, wait, I'm timidly into GPS and astronomy, perhaps I could have it
>compile an immediate version of a sky chart for my personal area, which
>would be too slow real-time..?
>
>Or maybe it's OK to not be computing everything, all the time.
=====
To reply to me, remove .NOSPAM from my address.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help
Subject: Re: Partitions
Date: 3 Sep 2000 20:29:59 GMT
Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
:> Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : couldn't set up Lilo boot or something. The problems I have are
:> : understanding what the
:> : various partitions are for and the sizes they need allocating to each.
:> : Root, boot, swap, home etc.
:> Read the Partition-HOWTO.
: Unfortunately I cannot locate a Partition -HOWTO.
Is that your question? Do you mean "how can I locate ..". Or do you
mean "where are the howtos"? I'll answer the latter question, because I
honestly don't believe that a person who knows where the howtos are on
his disk or at least how to locate them can't see the relevant howto
amongst them. Just look for any one starting with P.
Here is the result of a search on my disk:
barney:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.10% locate Partition
/usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Partition
/usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Partition-Rescue
barney:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.10%
and as you can see, they are installed under /usr/doc/*HOWTO*/ on my
disk. I don't know where you've put your copy, but it might well be
nearby. In general, if you don't know where something is, you should
search for it as above. If it isn't on your disk, search on the net, or
on your cd, or in other obvious places. The FAQ for this newsgroup
strikes me as good reading too! And as a random guess, I just looked up
www.linuxdoc.org on the net, and hit the howtos there too:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition-1.html
Peter
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From: Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't umount /usr/
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 20:31:45 GMT
When shutting down the OS it reports a problem of not being able to
umount /usr/. I have tried to umount -f /usr/ and I've tried remounting
/usr/ in read only, but I can't seem to do anything. How can one umount
a drive that is busy?
If a drive is busy, how can you tell why it's busy? Is there a way to
see what files are open or in use?
Thanks
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Netscape and video/x-ms-asf
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 20:53:25 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A beta version of Microsoft Media Player for Linux
> is available from Microsoft.
You're not talking about the old Netshow, are you? It was available for Linux
before MS bought it and turned it into MS Media Player. They promised updated
versions for Linux and other platforms for years, but did nothing.
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Headless X86 Linux system
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 20:55:50 GMT
Peter Mitchell wrote:
>
> Thanks for the clarification on su and su -. It looks as
> though I should read 'man' more often. :)
>
> For your home headless system, which distribution did you
> use, do you have a video card in the box, and is there
No, no video board at all.
> anything you needed to do to get it all up with all the
> Linux startup messages coming through the remote machines?
>
I just recompiled the kernal to support a serial console, set
up lilo to use a serial console and that was it. It's all
documented in:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/serial-console.txt
Note that this Doc is abit old and alot of it has been already done.
Serial console is in the 2.2 kernal, so no patching.
Best
Cokey
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From: Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help
Subject: Re: Partitions
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 22:10:08 +0100
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> :> Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :> : couldn't set up Lilo boot or something. The problems I have are
> :> : understanding what the
> :> : various partitions are for and the sizes they need allocating to each.
> :> : Root, boot, swap, home etc.
> :> Read the Partition-HOWTO.
>
> : Unfortunately I cannot locate a Partition -HOWTO.
>
> Is that your question? Do you mean "how can I locate ..". Or do you
> mean "where are the howtos"? I'll answer the latter question, because I
> honestly don't believe that a person who knows where the howtos are on
> his disk or at least how to locate them can't see the relevant howto
> amongst them. Just look for any one starting with P.
>
> Here is the result of a search on my disk:
>
> barney:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.10% locate Partition
> /usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Partition
> /usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Partition-Rescue
> barney:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.10%
>
> and as you can see, they are installed under /usr/doc/*HOWTO*/ on my
> disk. I don't know where you've put your copy, but it might well be
> nearby. In general, if you don't know where something is, you should
> search for it as above. If it isn't on your disk, search on the net, or
> on your cd, or in other obvious places. The FAQ for this newsgroup
> strikes me as good reading too! And as a random guess, I just looked up
> www.linuxdoc.org on the net, and hit the howtos there too:
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition-1.html
>
> Peter
What I mean is I can't find the file, are you sure it exists. The URL you sent
me gave me a dead link.
Ian.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grega Bremec)
Subject: Re: Various questions
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:06:15 GMT
...and Michael Beaucourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> used the keyboard:
>Hi all,
Hiya,
>I have a webserver up and running that uses Redhat Linux 6.1. I have a few
>questions about various things.
>
>1. I have SSH installed on the server to administrate everything. I tried to
>create a user that has no shell access but failed to do so. Everytime I use
>this username and password I can login with SSH. How do i prevent a user
>from having shell access? (I created the user with linuxconf)
If you really don't want that user to log into the box from anywhere
(including the console), i.e. to be used only for mail, ftp and such,
you can enter /dev/null as his default shell. This is guaranteed to
prevent him from logging into the box, whereas still allowing for a
successful FTP login, mail access, et caetera.
>2. As FTP service I use ProFTPD. Now when a user logs in and his directory
>is /home/testuser he can browse into /home and /. How do I prevent a user
>from going up in the directory tree. In other words, how can I only give him
>access to his directory and subdirectories?
I don't know much about ProFTPD, I use wu.ftpd instead, which operates
like this (you might want to try and see if it works): in /etc/ftpaccess,
mark an existing user account as a guest user like this:
# Add testuser as a guest account
guestuser testuser
Set the user's home directory like this: if you want to chroot it to
/home/testuser, with a default login directory of, say, /pub:
/home/testuser/./pub
If you don't want a default login dir, don't forget to at least add
the dot and the slash at the end of the home directory:
/home/testuser/./
This should chroot the user to his home directory upon logging into
the box via ftp, but still enabling him to log into the box at the
console. See above if you want to prevent console logins. Of course,
if you want the user to be able to list directories, get .tar.gz-ed
directories from the server, etc., you still have to recreate a
minimal filesystem, containing ~/etc/{passwd,group}, sh, tar, gz, cpio
and ls in ~/usr/bin, and all the required libraries (don't forget the
libnss_names.so if you want to translate UIDs into names in file
listings). All the executables should have permissions set to 0111 and
the /etc directory should only be readable to the account which ftpd is
running under.
That should only be the basics of what one needs setting up for a
chrooted ftp login, mail me if you still have problems (and by all
means, do look at "man ftpd", or whatever the ProFTPd executable is
called, before you give up).
>3. When installing the server, I tried to upgrade the kernel from version
>2.2.12 to 2.2.16. I used the site
>http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html
>to perform the upgrade. The installation of the new kernel worked fine but
>after the upgrade I couldn't perform any 'make' anymore. Apparantly the gcc
>compiler was missing several variables and files. What is causing this
>problem and how should I normally perform a kernel upgrade?
See to it that the following soft links exist in your /usr/include
directory:
/usr/include/linux -> /usr/src/linux/include/linux
/usr/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm
/usr/src/linux/include/asm -> /usr/src/linux/include/asm-[arch]
where [arch] is your architecture (i.e. asm-i386 for PCs).
If the above two links exist, and only the last one is missing, don't
bother to make the link by hand, because it's most probably won't
work: rather do a
# make symlinks
in /usr/src/linux. After that, all should work as normally.
Hope this does it for you.
Good luck,
--
Grega Bremec
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gbsoft.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Key)
Subject: Re: ncurses, /usr/share/terminfo v /usr/lib/terminfo
Date: 3 Sep 100 21:11:31 GMT
In article <8os8bb$puv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Well what you are requesting is a patch for the problem.
I suppose what I am really saying is that given the distribution vendors
(such as RedHat) can't agree with each other (or even themselves), if the
problem we solved in the actual ncurses source (at source), we wouldn't have
to rely on the the distributions people.
slackware 3.4 /usr/lib/terminfo
redhat 6.1 /usr/share/terminfo
redhat 6.2 /usr/lib/terminfo !
Sure, I can symlink, or set $TERMINFO, but thats just too much for some users.
Cheers
{{{ Andy Key
http://www.interalpha.net/customer/nyangau/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Subject: Re: Partitions
Date: 3 Sep 2000 21:20:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Dux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
>> Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> : "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>>
>> : Unfortunately I cannot locate a Partition -HOWTO.
>>
>> Is that your question? Do you mean "how can I locate ..". Or do you
>> mean "where are the howtos"? I'll answer the latter question, because I
>> honestly don't believe that a person who knows where the howtos are on
>> his disk or at least how to locate them can't see the relevant howto
>> amongst them. Just look for any one starting with P.
>>
>> Here is the result of a search on my disk:
>>
>> barney:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.10% locate Partition
>> /usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Partition
>> /usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Partition-Rescue
>> barney:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.10%
>>
>> and as you can see, they are installed under /usr/doc/*HOWTO*/ on my
>> disk. I don't know where you've put your copy, but it might well be
>> nearby. In general, if you don't know where something is, you should
>> search for it as above. If it isn't on your disk, search on the net, or
>> on your cd, or in other obvious places. The FAQ for this newsgroup
>> strikes me as good reading too! And as a random guess, I just looked up
>> www.linuxdoc.org on the net, and hit the howtos there too:
>>
>> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition-1.html
>>
>> Peter
>
> What I mean is I can't find the file, are you sure it exists. The URL you sent
> me gave me a dead link.
It is, but without too much trouble I am sure you could find it on your
own from www.linuxdoc.org, but just in case you have not looked here is
the url which will work.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition.html
- Justin
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From: "Yura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Question about "%F"
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:28:32 GMT
Hi!
Almost alway I configure MIME types, I add "application %f" and it works.
My question is - what does %f really means?
And where can I get some more info about this trigers.
It's really interesting for me. I wanna get into the "guts" :)
Thanks!
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From: "Yura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Linux
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:29:10 GMT
Thanks, we won't! :)
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cluster-Software for Linux
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 17:26:47 -0400
Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote:
> In article <8otlj9$bo4f4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Hartmann wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I am looking for a good cluster-software to cluster 2 linux-maschines and
> >one "network attached storage disk array". I want to set up a RDBMS-Cluster.
> >Can anybody give me some recommendations? Maybe some URLs?
>
> The ultimate resource for such is probably the beowulf website:
> http://www.beowulf.org/
>
> Marius.
Are you sure he wants to run Beowulf for that?
How to do it certainly depends on how the DBMS he will be using is designed.
I run IBM's DB2 V6.1. With that, you can run a distributed dbms system on
machines with the database spread over various machines without going the Beowulf
route. All you need is TCP/IP between the machines (and enough licenses). I do
not do that, though. My needs are sufficiently small that I just run the whole
thing (clients and servers) on one machine. I actually have enough licenses to
run it distributed, and my two machines are networked together, but I do not see
any advantage for what amounts to a single user system. My other machine is about
7x slower than this one, so how much could it help? 14%?
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 5:18pm up 26 days, 46 min, 2 users, load average: 1.22, 1.11, 0.78
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Maybe OT: RealPlayer vs. Windows Media cost for broadcaster?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:33:50 GMT
Brian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I asked, I got the anwser that the software to broadcast for
> Windows was free but the RealAudio software was around $2000.
> Is this true? I find it hard to believe that RealAudio would put
> themselves at such a competitive disadvantage.
Consider that Real gives away the client software. How then do they make
money? They can't give away the server _and_ the client... can they? (Yeah,
there's also a pay version of the client. How many people buy that?)
So why does Microsoft do it? Because they probably don't care about making
money on Windows Media, client _or_ server. It's all about driving their
competitors out of business. :-/ They only need to profit on the big picture:
i.e., Windows and Office. They can afford to throw away massive sums on
developing* free software, like Explorer and Media Player, just to target
perceived threats to their domination. It sounds nuts, but it's true.
Not that I'm any fan of Real, either. They've aggressively pursued people
who wrote software to download "streaming" RealMedia to files, instead of
streaming it. They're all about content control, at the expense of the end
user. If they're any better than MS, it's by a mighty thin margin.
Instead of choosing the lesser of two evils, I'd like to suggest genuinely
free and open solutions, like mp3 over http (supported by mpg123 and WinAMP,
among others). Then again, I suspect that even most public radio stations
subscribe to the content control philosophy. :-(
* Of course, when I say "developing", I don't mean to suggest that MS created
either of these programs. (Explorer is descended from Mosaic, just like its
cousin, Netscape; Media Player was the independently-created "Netshow" --
which even ran on Linux -- until MS acquired it.) But I'm sure they've
invested a lot more in them since they acquired them.
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitions
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 17:35:39 -0400
Dux wrote:
> "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> > Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > : "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> > :> Dux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > :> : couldn't set up Lilo boot or something. The problems I have are
> > :> : understanding what the
> > :> : various partitions are for and the sizes they need allocating to each.
> > :> : Root, boot, swap, home etc.
> > :> Read the Partition-HOWTO.
> >
> > : Unfortunately I cannot locate a Partition -HOWTO.
> >
> > Is that your question? Do you mean "how can I locate ..". Or do you
> > mean "where are the howtos"? I'll answer the latter question, because I
> > honestly don't believe that a person who knows where the howtos are on
> > his disk or at least how to locate them can't see the relevant howto
> > amongst them. Just look for any one starting with P.
> >
> > Here is the result of a search on my disk:
> >
> > barney:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.10% locate Partition
> > /usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Partition
> > /usr/doc/Linux-mini-HOWTOs/Partition-Rescue
> > barney:/usr/oboe/ptb/lang/c/nbd/nbd-2.4.10%
> >
> > and as you can see, they are installed under /usr/doc/*HOWTO*/ on my
> > disk. I don't know where you've put your copy, but it might well be
> > nearby. In general, if you don't know where something is, you should
> > search for it as above. If it isn't on your disk, search on the net, or
> > on your cd, or in other obvious places. The FAQ for this newsgroup
> > strikes me as good reading too! And as a random guess, I just looked up
> > www.linuxdoc.org on the net, and hit the howtos there too:
> >
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition-1.html
> >
> > Peter
>
> What I mean is I can't find the file, are you sure it exists. The URL you sent
> me gave me a dead link.
>
> Ian.
On my machine, I find:
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ locate HOWTO | grep -i partition
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Partition
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Partition-Rescue
If you do not have them there, a similar locate (& grep, if you like) should find
it whereever it is on your machine. locate is your friend. You do have to run
your OS 24/7 to keep it up to date automatically.
If that link does not work, try this one:
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Partition.html
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 5:30pm up 26 days, 58 min, 2 users, load average: 1.36, 1.18, 0.96
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From: "Yura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange output in Gnome.
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:44:26 GMT
Hi people. Every time I start any "G" program
(Gnome compatible or just GTK written) I get this
kind of output:
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
But is I start "G" soft as root or any other user,
I don't have this output. I mean, even with this
output, program starts fine, I jsut want to get rid
of it.
I hope anyone has an idea. I suppose somethign is
messed up in my personal Gnome's configuration.
Thanks
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a limit to the number of files in 1 directory?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 17:41:52 -0400
Dave T wrote:
> Is there a limit to the number of files you can have in 1 directory in
> Linux.
>
>
> I'm approaching over 50,000 files in 1 directory.
>
I do not know if there is a specific limit, but there is a maximum file
size of about 2 Gigabytes, and since a directory is just another file, it
cannot exceed 2 Gigabytes. In the old days, a directory entry was 16
bytes, so it would have been easy to calculate. I assume directory
entries are larger now, since filenames are no longer restricted to 14
bytes, so that limit is probably smaller now. And the largest partition
you can have is 2 Terabytes, IIRC.
Before you hit that limit, you will probably find you have run out of
i-nodes, so you cannot create any more files in your file system. Of
course, if your partition is large enough, perhaps you will not run out
of i-nodes.
Another thing to consider is managing a directory that large. An ls
command must take forever!
> --
> .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
> /V\ Registered Machine 73926.
> /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
> ^^-^^ 5:36pm up 26 days, 1:04, 3 users, load average: 1.05, 1.10, 0.99
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netscape HDD accessing
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:35:43 GMT
Whenever I use Netscape in Windowmaker, after about half an hour
Windowmaker becomes unusable because the system gets clogged up with
HDD accessing, and I can't do anything but kill the X Server. What's
going on? Neither Lynx nor kfm have the same problem, and the
HDD activity goes back to normal after I kill X.
I'm running a P333 with 32MB ram, and using Netscape 4.61.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: stable Clustering File System available?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 23:56:07 +0200
Hi there I posted this question already about 6 months ago also, back
then I did'nt get a single reply I
went out in th einternet forrest and finaly found a CFS called
InterMezzo ( http://www.inter-mezzo.org ) which
is unfortunatly very unstable (it does'nt propagate user rights and
ownerships properly, I already wrote the development and they should fix
that
however there never came a update).
So I'm looking for an other (hopefully free but commercial is'nt a
problem either) CFS.
- What it should do is mirror a certain partition or directory over a
network to other File System cluster members.
- When you know of a CFS that clusters over a SCSI bus then that is my
second choice and please also let me know!
Please also reply by email.
Raymond
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From: Peter Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Headless X86 Linux system
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 14:36:16 -0700
I have left the video card plugged in, but recompiling the
kernal (2.0.36) is how I got the dmesg stuff to the
terminal.
During startup, do you get all the messages that come to the
screen? I find that a whole lot of stuff (that is not logged
to dmesg either) appears only on the console and not on the
terminal.
Peter
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From: "Yura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get directory size and free disk space under RH with Gnome?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 22:01:06 GMT
In GMC it's simple.
Select your directory and go to File menu -> Show directory size.
Simple ah? :)
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From: "Yura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: glibc-2.1.2 update error... How to install?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 22:04:14 GMT
Don't make your self a big problem.
once you killed your original Glibc package, your lost yoru system, I did this once
still remmember.
Best way to update or downgrade is to use RPM package.
rpm -e glibc
(have your new glibc distro handy)
rpm -Uvh yourNewGlibc.rpm
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Subject: ProFTPD problem
From: Michael Beaucourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 22:04:56 GMT
Hi,
I have installed the latest version of ProFTPD and installed it on a
webserver. I am running ProFTPD in standalone modus but am experiencing a
very weird problem. After a certain time (irregular) ProFTPD is shut down
and I have to restart the ProFTP Daemon.
Anyone an idea what may be causing this problem?
I was looking in ftpwho when the ftp daemon unexpectedly quit (using the
more command). Can this be the problem.
Thanks for help.
Michael.
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