Linux-Misc Digest #306
Linux-Misc Digest #306, Volume #27Wed, 7 Mar 01 14:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Switching To Linux From Windows (Vincent Fox)
WTD: Info on Promise ATA100 controller and Linux (Stephen Anthony)
Is there a way to do this? vitual file = pipe to command (Lee Allen)
Re: setuid bet for all users (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: Reading superblock and inode (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: Switching To Linux From Windows (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Is there a way to do this? vitual file = pipe to command (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Starting a GUI on Turbolinux ("Alan Fleming")
Re: Starting a GUI on Turbolinux ("Alan Fleming")
Re: too many files open (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
How to compile a static "ls" ? (Bill Delphenich)
Re: too many files open (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: Basic Information ("Harlan Grove")
Re: Changing Mount - Going off on a tangent ("Harlan Grove")
Re: Virus checker for Linuix? (John Hasler)
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've (vicka)
Re: Is there a way to do this? vitual file = pipe to command (Lee Allen)
Re: ppp (Andrew Rounds)
Re: Performance SMTP Server
Video WebCam Question ("Jason C. Hill")
log manager
Help: Linux 6.0 install on laptop (Robert)
Re: Help! partitioning woes with RH 6.1 (Christoph Kukulies)
Re: LILO + Mylex 170 ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Performance SMTP Server (Grant Edwards)
Re: Changing Mount (Lee Webb)
Re: Help: Linux 6.0 install on laptop ("Thom Lawrence")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox)
Subject: Re: Switching To Linux From Windows
Date: 7 Mar 2001 17:03:13 GMT
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stan McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
*snip*
You may have answered your own question above. One of the things I like
about Linux over Win is less need to reboot. I too, am fed up with Win
problems. I wish that I could get some of my applications going on
Linux so I could say goodbye to windows. For instance, I still use
Quicken on windows; I just haven't found anything suitable for Linux
yet? Intuit! Are you listening?
No, the most important thing is that source is provided.
This ultimately means if a problem frustrates you enough
you can scratch your itch and fix it. The *result* of this
philosophy is why Linux needs fewer reboots than Windows.
Ultimately on Windows reboot is all you CAN do to fix many
system problems. On Linux you can debug it yourself. This
may not mean you particularly, but oftentimes someone will
fix it and post their fix to the net. Then you can go
get it without waiting six months for the next service pack.
The advantages of a system where the most dedicated users
and operators have the access to make changes should be obvious.
In a largish pool of users, many will be just users but there
will be several who are skilled and motivated enough to
identify and fix problems. They will pass fixes on.
In the MS model, users cannot fix it themselves and
get so frustrated with waiting on hold for two hours that
the solution is the quicker but less permanent one: reboot.
MS products are not ultimately evil, their brokenness is
rather just a result of the old-style closed-source process.
A side-effect of the open-source model is that the speed of
improvements is considerably faster. This is why systems
such as the Linux family have gone from relative obscurity
a few years ago to it's current place on everyone's list of
"things I should now try out". All without a giant
megacorporation driving it's design top-down. Neat eh?
My only use for keeping a Win98 box around is gaming.
--
"Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
-- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
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From: Stephen Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: WTD: Info on Promise ATA100 controller and Linux
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:38:59 -0330
I'm planning on adding an IBM Deskstar 30GB drive to a Promise ATA100
PCI controller card. I'm keeping a CD writer on the internal IDE port
and disabling the other IDE port (to gain an IRQ).
Anyone have this type of setup, and if so, are you having any problems?
I'm currently running Mandrake 7.2 with kernel 2.4.2. I've heard that
the 2.4 kernels have support built in, how well does it work. Also, is
anyone actually getting 37MB/sec from this drive and controller, as I've
heard is possible in Windows?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve Anthony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Subject: Is there a way to do this? vitual file = pipe to command
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 17:11:05 GMT
This is one of those things that I figure Linux must be able to do,
but if so, I don't know about it, and I don't know where to look.
I want t
Linux-Misc Digest #306
Linux-Misc Digest #306, Volume #26 Tue, 14 Nov 00 05:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Can't see, blind man walking, HELP. Where's the door? (Eric)
Re: UPDATE: PM Error 105 Please Look: Results of `fdisk -l /dev/hda` (Eric)
Re: the relation between Linux and GCC (Lew Pitcher)
can't print in redhat 7 ("Orion Slevin")
Re: problem with screen (patrick)
Intel Pocket PC Camera and Redhat 6.1 (Shyam Govardhan)
Tuesday 14 November 2000: Elliott Spitzer, Attorney General of New York, Martin
Garbus, Defender of the People, and Jules Polonetsky of DoubleClick on the several
massive intertwined plots against your privacy and property ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: MP3 decoder-encoder (Andrew Pritchard)
Re: Upgrading kernel (From 2.2.14-5.0 to 2.2.17) (Kaybenn Sturas)
PPP on RedHat 7.0 (Toffer)
fetchmail... (Huebner Thomas)
Stack access speed ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't see, blind man walking, HELP. Where's the door?
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:43:25 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chicken wrote:
No, nobody can 'come in and tell you what the name of the file' IS...
like good 'ol windoze, your _monitor_ limits the resolutions your OS can
handle, so check if you set the right monitor type make etc. _before_
upping the resolution
Still the file to change these things manually exists (and is used
often), and is called /etc/X11/XF86Config
Eric
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From: Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: UPDATE: PM Error 105 Please Look: Results of `fdisk -l /dev/hda`
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:40:32 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brando wrote:
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000 05:42:37 GMT, Brando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CORRECTION: This is what it looks like
Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 776 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End BlocksId
System
/dev/hda2 * 39 775 5564160 c
Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(774, 15, 63) should be (774, 239, 63)
Brando
First of all I deleted some NG's from your list, make a choice, and post
there, it doesn't really matter, lots of people monitor more than one
group anyway.
This result stil shows the reason of your problem, The easiest solution
now, is to use DOS FDISK to create a new partition, that does start/end
at a cylinder boundary (DOS FDISK will do this for you) Then copy all
data from the old partition to the new partition, and remove the current
partition. after you've done that, you can use PM to move that partition
you've just created and add new partitions.
Unfortunately PM is very strict on what it allows in partition tables,
therefor it cannot handle partition tables that aren't compliant to
these strict rules (one of them is that partitions must start/end at
cylinder boundaries.
Eric
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From: Lew Pitcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: the relation between Linux and GCC
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:31:10 -0500
Rod Smith wrote:
[Posted and mailed]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Te-Cheng Shen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello
This question has confused me for a while and I think that it is
time to speak it out and ask for some help.
The question is that Linux kernel is compiled with gcc but gcc is
built on top of Linux kernel. How can this happen? Image that I have a
gcc and it needs being installed on top of Linux kernel. This sentence
makes sense to me. However, if the previous sentence makes sense, how
can we compile Linux kernel using gcc? I really do not understand.
Take the first version of Linux, for example, what compiler used to
compile it? Gcc? or some other compilers? Can anyone show me a way to
figure this out?
If I recall correctly, the first versions of the Linux kernel were
compiled using GCC running on Minix. (It's conceivable that Linux was
first built using some other compiler, though.)
I don't know for sure (not having been around Linux from the beginning),
but it was probably the ACK (Amsterdam Compiler Kit) C compiler that
came with Minix that was _first_ used to compile the Linux kernel.
Once Linux was running
well enough, GCC was recompiled (again, using Minix's version of GCC)
to run natively under Linux.
Remember, GCC is not a Linux-only program; GCC existed LONG before
Linux existed, and it runs (and ran) on many other platforms --
Windows, DOS, OS/2, BeOS, most or all commercial Unixes, etc. Many of
these were not compiled using GCC, although they were compiled using
other compilers.
Ultimately, though, this chicken-and-egg cycle leads to the same
conundrum: How can you build an OS without a compiler, and how can you
build a compiler wit
Linux-Misc Digest #306
Linux-Misc Digest #306, Volume #25Tue, 1 Aug 00 15:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: How do I restrict user processes on Linux (Bernhard Brueck)
Re: Advice on cutting memory usage
Has anyone tried Vodoo5 or the GeForce2 cards?
SuSE 6.4 ipchains problems ("Cheong")
Re: Linux on Mac LC III possible? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
unable to determine tty ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
unable to determine tty ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Apologies for three posts (Fermat)
Re: Software under 90$ 5114 ("David ..")
Unresolved Symbols (Tim)
6805 assembler (Eric Y. Chang)
Re: Advice on cutting memory usage (Rasputin)
Re: partitioning for Linux (Rasputin)
Re: gmc trash? (Mike Styne)
Re: partitioning for Linux (Mike Styne)
Re: linux mp3 (Lorin Winchester)
Re: Learn Unix on which Unix Flavour ?
RH 6.2 boot panic (Jason Bacon)
Re: linux mp3 (Akira Yamanita)
Switching to 40-characters video mode under Linux (character based) ("Benjamin
Nyrup")
Re: Advice on cutting memory usage (Andrew J. Perrin)
Re: Which IDE linux C programers use? (Luis Yanes)
Re: linux mp3 (The Darkener)
From: Bernhard Brueck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How do I restrict user processes on Linux
Date: 1 Aug 2000 15:28:58 GMT
TeohST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Solaris, one can always specify in /etc/system to limit a user's processes to a
maxnumber by using statement such as:
set maxuprc=30.
man bash
(search for "ulimit")
Bernhard
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Bernhard Brueck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Advice on cutting memory usage
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 16:30:05 GMT
Andrew J. Perrin wrote: Greetings. I've got linux (Debian, kernel 2.0.38) running
nicely on an oldish laptop (Toshiba Portege 610CT), details will follow on setup
issues, of which there were quite few. My concern is that the system alone consumes
most of the poor thing's 16M of RAM: achebe:/boot free total
used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 14288 13172
1116 4564324 10136 -/+ buffers/cache: 2712 11576 Swap:
32756 4108 28648I am not sure what you mean ??? At this point you
have 11576 free out ofthe 16M. The first line gives a total including disk cache (it
will beautomatically available if needed for something. )It is a good thing thatLinux
uses the RAM (I assume that you run free after a boot and onlydeamons running
which started during init ... in which case you already"optimezed it quite a
bit)Although 16M could be quite tight for X for example ...The best thing to try to
make a slim kernel maybe even use modules ... thatcould increase your "Mem: total" a
little bit ...Hope this helps ...GaborPS I am not sure if you new to linux or not but
this is quite a FAQ forbeginners (which is OK ..) I'm wondering if anyone can offer
advice on what I could drop in order to reduce memory usage; I've turned off
junkbuster, postgreSQL, gpm, isapnp, isdnutils, and samba, since I don't need them on
the laptop. Particularly, I'm wondering what xntpd and omniNames do for me.
Thanks. -- --
Andrew Perrin - Solaris-Linux-NT-Samba-Perl-Access-Postgres Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Has anyone tried Vodoo5 or the GeForce2 cards?
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:44:00 -0400
Hello, I am interested in getting a video card to replace my G200+Voodoo2
(sli) combo.
Has anyone worked with Geforce MX cards on an amd 751/756 chipset , and got
it working in Linux ?
I have a GA7IXe ( that's the gigabyte board with 2 isa slots ), bios of F4c
( the latest, I
guess, since I couldn't boot the t-bird with out the bios update )
Sure, any of those cards will work under winxx , but I am not willing to
loose X windows useability. If I have to wait for some time, I will .
The reason I am interested in a new card is because :
1) the new drivers for my v2's are not very good in glide mode. They work
from direct 3D mode, though, and seem to be OK. But I get some bad motion
sickness. A 700mhz t-bird is driving the 2 v2's and certain games do feel
"jerky". I had the same problem on an asus k7m board when the agp wasn't
working properly. a bios flash fixed that one. Here, on my system, what
trashes it is Klingon accademy: turning the view point in 1024x768 induces a
quasy feeling mostly because the view seems to bounce from position to
position. I'm guessing video bottle neck.
Linux-Misc Digest #306
Linux-Misc Digest #306, Volume #24 Fri, 28 Apr 00 21:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: VPN server for linux (Matt Friedman)
Re: windows on linux? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: SuSE 6.0 - 6.4 upgrade and kernel hassels (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: VPN server for linux (Alex)
Re: cdrtools-1.8.1 released (Mark Miller)
Re: How can I tell Linux-Intel from Linux-Alpha (nathan wagner)
Re: From GNOME to KDE in RedHat 6.2 (Bit Twister)
Re: VPN server for linux (Tom Eastep)
Re: cdrtools-1.8.1 released (Joerg Schilling)
StarOffice installed as root ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: arp error (Robie Basak)
Kppp and modem busy message ("Terence J. Golightly")
Re: How the blank do I use .dif (.diff) files?
Re: HOT HD (David C.)
Re: How Big Will X Grow Today? (Robie Basak)
Re: StarOffice installed as root (Mike Pepera)
Strange kernel problems (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Kppp and modem busy message ("Terence J. Golightly")
Cron not working ("Rask0")
Re: How the blank do I use .dif (.diff) files?
From: Matt Friedman "mwf"@total.net(remove-to-reply)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: VPN server for linux
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 18:16:30 -0400
"H.T. Sun" wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know of any VPN (Virtual Private Network) server
applications for Linux ? Any info. will be very helpful.
Off the top of my head, there's Netmaster's Gateway Guardian VPN
Edition. They're at http://www.netmaster.com/.
MF
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: windows on linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:24:45 GMT
On 28 Apr 2000 00:26:20 EDT, Dances With Crows wrote:
Has anyone developed a PC emu yet, so that Windows can be run from within
Linux?
Er, you probably mean "Windows Emulator" unless you're on a {Sparc,
PowerPC, MIPS, S/390} machine. But try--
Nope. VMWare is a PC Emulator. BIOS and everything.
To use VMWare effectively, you must have the Other OS installed on a local
hard drive,
Nope. I created a virtual disk of 500M and installed Win'98SE within it. I
do have a 500M FAT partition, but it's currently empty, and my VMWare Win'98
doesn't even know about it.
and you should have a processor 400MHz and 128M or more RAM for decent
performance. Lots of folks swear by it.
This I won't argue, but I find that it WORKS on a P233 with 64M of RAM. It also
works rather nicely on a PII-400 with 64M of RAM.
After my 233/64 system, everything else I can give it only makes it work
*BETTER*.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.0 - 6.4 upgrade and kernel hassels
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 22:28:20 GMT
On 27 Apr 2000 22:45:01 EDT, Dances With Crows wrote:
[..Re: Error WRT modules.dep and conf.modules..]
SuSEConfig is overkill.
I figured as much. About the only thing it runs WRT modules would be ldconfig,
correct?
The only reason I've run it so often is due to other system configuration for
which it had to be run anyways.
# cd /usr/src/linux make modules
# mv /lib/modules/2.2.14 /lib/modules/2.2.14.old
# make modules_install
# depmod -a
...shuffles all old modules away, installs only those modules you've
compiled (removing "unresolved symbol" errors), rebuilds modules.dep.
Should work. HTH,
I did that, and wow! My old /lib/modules/2.2.14 directory was 14M and change,
while the new one is only ~868k. Loads of space saved!
If nothing else, atleast I'll have that. :
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Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14
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From: Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: VPN server for linux
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 15:44:59 -0700
"H.T. Sun" wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know of any VPN (Virtual Private Network) server
applications for Linux ? Any info. will be very helpful.
Thanks a million
There's a joint project between ATT and Cambridge University in
the UK on VPN, and an application has been released.
Don't have the url on hand. But it's on a cambridge.ac.uk site.
Do a search on that.
Alex
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breed in the dark. Crackers thrive on code secrecy.
It's time to let the sunlight in. - E.S Raymond.
-*Linux Rocks. BSD Rules.But both are great.
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http://www.redhatisnotlinux.org/petition.php4
Linux-Misc Digest #306
Linux-Misc Digest #306, Volume #21Fri, 6 Aug 99 05:13:11 EDT
Contents:
terminal emulation error using elm (telnet from Windows95 or NT) (Tiger)
Re: NTFS on RH 6.0 (Coy A Hile)
Problem with hardware (Helmut Artmeier)
Re: sz or rz from Xterm -- How? ("T.E.Dickey")
Need reference translate ksh script to bash (Apollo Wong)
Re: nfs problems under RH6 (Matthias Meixner)
Re: mount theory, lost space, and other sundry cack (William Burrow)
Re: Need good Linux equiv to Win95/98/NT4 find text in file function (William Burrow)
Re: Extract the first n characters from a stream? (Kenny Zhu Qili)
Re: root pw problem - URGENT ("Aart Scheepers")
Re: System copy to new harddisk (Matthias Meixner)
Re: Remote switching between Suse and Redhat (Matthias Meixner)
SV: SAMBA, Linux, Win98 ("Christian von Schultz")
fips or Partition Magic? (eze)
the mouse that didn't roar... ("bas van Weelde")
Re: Traditional tar.gz software building (Jim Reidford)
Re: System copy to new harddisk (Jim Reidford)
Re: Quick Question: ISO files (Philipp Maier)
Re: ISDN success? (Philipp Maier)
Re: DAO Cd-recording. ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
IMAP server and Netscape (Claus Tondering)
System copy to new harddisk (jackson)
Re: signal 11 during kernel compile -- will this solve it? (Vilmos Soti Chou)
Re: LOST ROOT PASSWORD (Manuel =?iso-8859-1?Q?H=F6l=DF?=)
Re: Power Failures Linux ? ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
Where is kdepath? (Vinh Le)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tiger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: terminal emulation error using elm (telnet from Windows95 or NT)
Date: 6 Aug 1999 04:57:22 GMT
Hello, can anyone help me to solve this problem?
When I telnet from a MS windows machine (95 or NT same problem) to a
Linux machine (RH6.0), and start elm, then I get this error message:
[tiger@virgin tiger]$ elm
Your terminal does not support the "clear screen" function (cl).
Your terminal does not support the "clear to end of line" function (ce).
Your terminal does not support the "clear to end of display" function (cd).
Your terminal does not support the "cursor motion" function (cm).
Your terminal does not support the "move cursor up" function (cm).
Your terminal does not support the "move cursor right" function (nd).
[tiger@virgin tiger]$
My .login file in the RH6.0 Linux is as follows:
set term = (`tset -I -m vt102:vt102 -m :\?vt102 -r -S -Q`)
unset term noglob
===
And /etc/profile is as follows:
# /etc/profile
# System wide environment and startup programs
# Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc
PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin"
PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
ulimit -c 100
if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then
umask 002
else
umask 022
fi
USER=`id -un`
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=1000
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
export PATH PS1 HOSTNAME HISTSIZE HISTFILESIZE USER LOGNAME MAIL INPUTRC
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
==
Check my enviroment settings by command 'set'
Do a "set |more" I can see my current settings are:
==
OSTYPE=Linux
PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/tiger/bin
PPID=27687
PS1=[\u@\h \W]\$
PS2=
PS4=+
PWD=/home/tiger
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHLVL=1
TERM=ansi
UID=500
USER=tiger
USERNAME=
_=-l
mc=()
{
MC=/tmp/mc$$-"$RANDOM";
/usr/bin/mc -P "$@" "$MC";
cd "`cat $MC`";
rm "$MC";
unset MC
}
=
any suggestions how can I fix this? I basically need to set TERM=vt102
(instead of TERM=ansi, or TERM=console which sometimes I get)
but I have not been sucessful. Please give your suggestions. thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Coy A Hile)
Subject: Re: NTFS on RH 6.0
Date: 6 Aug 1999 00:58:26 -0400
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Matthew O. Persico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The mount(3) page says that ntfs is a legal argument to -t. It is
Linux-Misc Digest #306
Linux-Misc Digest #306, Volume #20 Sat, 22 May 99 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Ken Thompson on Linux (Stephen E. Halpin)
3c509b croaked on 2.2.9 (root)
Re: Linux's Last Chance (Iain Georgeson)
WordPerfect Printers (John Hong)
Re: [?] lint for Linux ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: NT the best web platform? (Anthony Ord)
Re: Netscape 4.60 evaluation (Herwig Bogaert)
Re: my machine name (Frank Hahn)
Kernel-Patches (Michael)
The World Wide Expo 7633 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape locks up when I first start it up (Frank Hahn)
Re: Binary of XFree86 3.3.3.1 (Herwig Bogaert)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Test (Amegatek)
Configuration for high-spec NFS server (Nick Williams)
Re: Dial-in terminal server... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Root Password lost... (NF Stevens)
Linux hangs intermittently during boot (David Wake)
Sound Problems: sb:dsp reset failed (Bill Damon)
Signal 11 - GCC on Redhat 6.0... ~ ("FTP server")
Re: FTP with Resume feature? (Guillermo Labatte)
Re: Netscape 4.60 evaluation (Andrew Robinson)
Re: telnet and script ("Kurt C. Anderson")
Re: Kernel-Patches (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Christopher Browne)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen E. Halpin)
Subject: Re: Ken Thompson on Linux
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 19:34:43 GMT
On Wed, 19 May 1999 03:01:42 -0230, Neil Zanella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
stuff deleted
And let's not forget that languages like C, C++, Fortran, Tcl/Tk,
^^^
etc... as well as Apache, were all developed on Unix/Linux.
The first work on FORTRAN began at IBM in 1954, nearly 15 years before
work began in earnest on UNIX.
more stuff deleted
-Steve
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From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: 3c509b croaked on 2.2.9
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 16:07:06 -0400
My 3c509b (eth0) stopped working when I upgraded to 2.2.9. When I
recompile it as a module, and run insmod 3c509.o, I get a warning:
init_module: Device or resource busy
I get the same warnings when I try to activate the interface on startup.
Funny, it did seem to work under 2.2.7, yet I cannot find anything in the
change log to indicate how or why this might have become broken. So, I am
reluctantly preparing to downgrade back to 2.2.7 and see if this fixes the
problem.
I have disabled PNP in the bios, so that shouldn't be causing any
problems. Building it as an integral part of the kernel or as a module
seems to make no difference. Is there a hidden lock file somewhere? Did
some device number move?
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From: Iain Georgeson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux's Last Chance
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 20:42:23 +0100
In article 7i3ddg$iu8$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Mr S A Penny
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
In article bA4OvJA$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Iain Georgeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve D. Perkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Well, despite being won over by the sheer spangliness of Gnome...
Out of curiosity, what does "spangliness" mean?!?
At the risk of being percieved as unhelpful: "RTFJF".
erm, what does RTFJF mean? I know RTFM but I can't think what a JF might be...
[A gazillion replies]
And as an encore - how many Usenet posters does it take to change a
light-bulb...? ;)
Iain, careering wildly off topic.
--
The Linux kernel has actually not changed at all since January, '94. Linus
just increments "version.c" once every 48 hours and unleashes the "change"
on an unsuspecting Internet, bringing FTP servers to their knees.
-- Seen on linux-kernel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: WordPerfect Printers
Date: 22 May 1999 19:48:06 GMT
I plucked this out of linux.corel.com today in their support FAQ
for WP8 for Linux regarding their printer drivers...
Q. Where can I get a printer driver for my printer that will work
properly with Corel WordPerfect 8 for Linux?
A. You can search for latest Corel WordPerfect printer drivers on
Corel format (they have a .EXE extension; however, you can decompress them
using InfoZip). You however, you will need to make a few changes
before they correct format for Linux. Convert them to lowercase (they
case) and change the extension so that it has .us before the .all.
For example, WP60DM01.ALL would become wp60dm01.us.all
Hope this helps anyone using WP8 for Linux that are having any
problems with it...
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From: "T.E.Dickey" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [?] lint for Linux
Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 19:45:33 GMT
Francisco Cribari [EMAIL PROTE
Linux-Misc Digest #306
Linux-Misc Digest #306, Volume #19Thu, 4 Mar 99 22:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: Public license question ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Anthony D. Tribelli)
Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 2 of 6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Public license question (Bill Unruh)
Re: More bad news for NT (Carl Fink)
Re: demand dialing vs. the other demand dialing (Alan Curry)
From: "Charles Sullivan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:01:02 -0500
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote in message ...
On 02 Mar 1999 14:34:05 -0800, Michael Powe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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Copyright is automatic. It's not a trademark or a patent, you don't
have to "register" it.
The length of intellectual property ownership and the regulations
surrounding it change constantly. This is basically so that the people
paying for extension by funding legal battles or candidates supporting
laws can retain critical properties (such as the Mickey Mouse
copyrights and trademarks), while others want those materials
released (such as Star Trek "slash" writers).
Or, in code terms, people who have used the XOR trick for decades want
to be able to continue using common tricks without worrying about the
wienie who tried to patent it recently.
If you want to legally protect your copyright to the extent you can sue
infringers for damages, it behooves you to register your work with
the US Copyright Office, which involves paying a fee (around $20 as
I recall) and depositing a copy of your work with them. For software
the copy doesn't have to be complete, just a certain number of pages.
As far as a weenie trying to patent "the XOR trick" (for a cursor I assume),
any "recent" attempt would fail because it's already been patented, around
15 years ago as I remember.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony D. Tribelli)
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 02:01:38 GMT
mlw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Anthony D. Tribelli wrote:
: Agreed, but it's not a simple 'instruction', and messing with the
: Interrupt Descriptor Table is not something a user level program can do.
:
: No, it is a simple instruction. Not a reaset per se' but a processor
: "hyperspace" instruction that reset the CPU state and read a block of
: memory at (I think) 40H and continued in real mode (The ip was also
: read). The purpose was testing the protected mode portion of the
: processor during device testing. The processor test program needed to
: get back into real mode from protected mode.
Where did you find this information? It sounds like someone is confusing
the fast reset via I/O added to the 286 at some point and what BIOS does
when started. BIOS checks a particular BIOS variable to determine if it is
a cold or warm boot. By setting up this BIOS variable and resetting the
CPU (keyboard controller, fast reset, multiple faults - all preventable by
a protected mode OS that chooses to do so) a program can control where
control goes when the CPU starts. Since memory (programs and data) is
unchanged by the CPU reset this works quite nicely.
: The problem was this screwed up the bios block. OS/2 had to save the
: bios block, setup the future register values at 40H, execute the
: instruction and copy the bios block back.
:
: Seriously it does exist, I bet it still exists in the '386 and higher
: because they run OS/2 1.x.
Restarting BIOS would change various BIOS variables so saving some of
these would make sense. I know the reset technique has been used quite a
bit, I'm only questioning the notion that there is an undocumented reset
instruction in the x86. The various methods of resetting the CPU I'm aware
of involve I/O instruction or descriptor table instructions. My main point
being that a protected mode OS can prevent a user program from causing a
reset.
If you have any URLs about this 'reset instruction' I'll be happy to check
them out.
Tony
--
==
Tony Tribelli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: news.answers,comp.answers
Subject: Linux Frequently Asked Questions with Answers (Part 2 of 6)
Date: 4 Mar 1999 22:56:55 GMT
IPCHAINS HOWTO IPX HOWTO
IR HOWTO ISP Hookup HOWTO
Installation HOWTO Intranet Server HOWTO
Italian HOWTO Java-CGI HOWTO
Kernel HOWTO Keyboard and Console HOWTO
KickStart HOWTOLinuxDoc+Emacs+Ispell HOWTO
MGR HOWTO MILO HOWTO
Mail HOWTO Modem HOWTO
Multi-Disk HOWTO Multicast HOWTO
NET-3 HOWTO
