Linux-Misc Digest #375
Linux-Misc Digest #375, Volume #27 Fri, 16 Mar 01 18:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: can a serial connection work when keyboard/monitor doesn't? (Grant Edwards)
Print to HP4000/4050N ("Uli Lohrmann")
IDE raid not supported with Suse 7.1 ("Jan Vandesompele")
Re: mkinitrd - loopbacks in use? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Print to HP4000/4050N (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: IDE raid not supported with Suse 7.1 (Roger Blake)
Re: IDE raid not supported with Suse 7.1 (Michael Heiming)
Re: Linux crash like a Windows! ("Scot Mc Pherson")
Re: Path Extraction (NF Stevens)
Re: Linux crash like a Windows! (Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293)
IRC: quite difficult to connect (malicorne)
Re: Beowulf cluster w/ virtual Linuxes in VMWare ? (Steve)
Re: checking email add (Steve)
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Ed Blackman)
Re: taper-6.9b-3 and RedHat 7.0... (John Thompson)
Re: Beowulf cluster w/ virtual Linuxes in VMWare ? (John Thompson)
Re: Help with /usr symlink - Urgent!!! (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Shell script... (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Problems with Jdk1.3 with kernel 2.4 ("Lou")
Re: Newbie - Keyboard, BackSpace key behaves like the Delete key in text editor.
Both write '~' when pressed in the command line. (Markku Kolkka)
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: can a serial connection work when keyboard/monitor doesn't?
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:20:36 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Randy R wrote:
When you ask if I had tried to ssh in, no I haven't. But the reason I
know the machine is down is because it doesn't respond to ICMP
(pings.)
Have you thought about hardware watchdog timers? When I used
to have some remote (as in thousands of miles away) headless
machines, I put watchdog timer boards in them. That way if
they ever locked up, they reset themselves automatically.
If you've already got 300 machines set up, it's probably too
late, but next time around...
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hold the MAYO pass
at the COSMIC AWARENESS...
visi.com
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From: "Uli Lohrmann" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Print to HP4000/4050N
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:50:04 GMT
Please Help.
I am sure this is a newbie type question.
What is the best way to print directly to HP4000/4050N printer? It's got
EIO-2 JetDirect. I don't want to print through a share on another computer.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jan Vandesompele" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IDE raid not supported with Suse 7.1
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:23:16 GMT
Hello,
I just bought (yes, not downloaded) my first Linux distro. Suse Linux 7.1
professional. The problem is I can't get it installed on my system. I have
an Abit BP6 mobo with the onboard hot rod IDE raid controller on it. Since
the installation program doesn't recognize my RAID configuration I can't
install anything on my PC. Does anyone know a workaround for this? I've
managed to install Mandrake 7.2 with some minor problems, but it worked.
Suse does *NOTHING*. I only bought it because the kernel2.4 was included as
a standard.
Real shame for that dual PIII motherboard
;o(
Jan Vandesompele
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: mkinitrd - loopbacks in use?
Date: 16 Mar 2001 19:29:30 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc drw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I go to mkinitrd, I get an error telling me all loopback devices are in
use. What is this?
I've seen this in RH7.0 upgraded to the 2.4.2-XFS kernel (from SGI). I
*think* it means that mkinitrd is trying to load the loop modules, but
doesn't know how (b/c of a missing entry in /etc/modules.conf). The quick
fix is to 'modprobe loop' before running mkinitrd. The correct fix is
to put the appropriate entry in /etc/modules.conf, but I've been too lazy
to look it up yet.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Print to HP4000/4050N
Date: 16 Mar 2001 19:32:40 GMT
Uli Lohrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the best way to print directly to HP4000/4050N printer? It's got
EIO-2 JetDirect. I don't want to print through a share on another computer.
Get it's IP address/hostname, and set it up as a PostScript lpd printer.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: IDE raid not supported with Suse 7.1
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:41:40 GMT
On Fri,
Linux-Misc Digest #375
Linux-Misc Digest #375, Volume #26 Thu, 23 Nov 00 13:13:02 EST
Contents:
How to show badblocks in swap partitions? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
More kernel trouble? (Sebastian Palm)
Thread scheduling (saba)
Re: A stronger kill (Craig Macbride)
Re: Databases in Linux (Redhat) (Ryengoth)
Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it. (Jerry L Kreps)
Re: Tailing files with added timestamps? (Russell Marks)
Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it. (Jerry L Kreps)
Re: wu-ftp group permissions help (Wayne Pollock)
Re: cron output redirection (Wayne Pollock)
Re: Netscape cable 'net access? (Bob Hauck)
Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it. (Jason Boyd)
Re: Hard disk partition problem (rewrite to make it understandable) ("Shane Bush")
Re: Console fonts have changed to being unreadable :) (John Hasler)
Re: How is a module properly loaded during bootup? ("Shane Bush")
Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it. (bob_more)
Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it. (bob_more)
Re: Screw KDE 2.0!! - Im going crazy trying to install it. (bob_more)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH ("Conrad Drescher")
dumping multiple volumes to tape? (Paul Reilly)
Re: Install Linux without erasing NT4 boot (DualIP)
Re: RH7 kernel compile error (Martin Stenzel)
Re: error compiling tulip.c (Martin Stenzel)
Re: ext2 fs on magneto optical disks (Marc SCHAEFER)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to show badblocks in swap partitions?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:18:39 GMT
How to print the blocks which are reserved as bad in the swap
partitions, like "dumpe2fs -b" in e2fs?
Thanks.
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Before you buy.
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From: Sebastian Palm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: More kernel trouble?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:29:39 GMT
So there I am, merrily recompiling the 2.4.0-test9 kernel,
after having gotten the required modutils and other packages
listed in Documentation/Changes. 'make install' I type,
then 'make modules_install' - and lo, the error messages have
vanished. So I enter the command 'reboot', and hope to see the
new kernel in all it's glory...
But then e2fsck kicks in, and informs me that the superblock
of /dev/hda1 (my root partition) cannot be read or is missing.
Very nice. I try the listed fix - e2fsck with the -b option -
and it repeats the error. It does mount the fs - in read-only
mode. I've got a few more options to check, but I thought I'd
ask here first - does anyone have a fix for this? The 2.2.17
kernel works just fine, it's just that I want ACPI and HID
compatibility...
Sebastian
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Before you buy.
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From: saba [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Thread scheduling
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:31:46 GMT
Hi friends,
what algorithm is used for thread scheduling in linux os.
sabarish
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Before you buy.
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Subject: Re: A stronger kill
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Macbride)
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 14:41:42 GMT
James Silverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Good Lord! It sounds like Stephen King (!! g)
I remember [he says, showing his age] reading BSD source code for init
almost 20 years ago. The comments were pretty good reading. I guess
I should look at similar Linux source and comparing them for humour value.
--
Craig Macbride [EMAIL PROTECTED]
===http://www.nyx.net/~cmacbrid
"It's a sense of humour like mine, Carla, that makes me proud
to be ashamed of myself." - Captain Kremmen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryengoth)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.apps,comp.lang.java.databases,comp.databases.informix,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.sybase,linux.redhat.misc,linux.postgres,comp.databases.pick,comp.databases.ibm-db2,comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: Databases in Linux (Redhat)
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:24:20 GMT
Don't forget Picksystem's(I mean Raining Data's) D3.
Ryengoth
http://pick-source.freeservers.com
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:47:39 -0500, Freelancer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I need decide which database going to run for Redhat Linux.
I know MySQL is the most popular one in Linux world. I need
you help me to fill out the blank and hole (?) in table below.
Databases for Linux (Redhat)
Y -- yes; N -- No; NA -- not apply; ? -- don't know/not sure
Database Trigger/Store Procedure Transaction Foreign Key Constrain
JDBC/RowSet C/C++ Library PerlDBI
MySQL N N N
N Y (mm.
Linux-Misc Digest #375
Linux-Misc Digest #375, Volume #25Mon, 7 Aug 00 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Size of /var/lib/rpm - why so big? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: mp3 normalizer for Linux? (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Re: Xdefaults (Fester)
Re: psychology of linux ("Philo")
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Robert Krawitz)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Robert Krawitz)
3c59x using IRQ 0, how to change? ("Jason")
Web BBS with stories Video (Scorpius)
Re: psychology of linux (Stephen Hui)
Re: 3c59x using IRQ 0, how to change? (mst)
Putting 2GB into several CD's (Julio Gonzalez-At)
GUI Software??? Please Help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Help burning CDR (iso) image (Patrick Lamb)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:52:32 GMT
On 7 Aug 2000 19:04:07 GMT, Dances With Crows wrote:
After using the -u1 flag my drive performance seems to have improved,
especially in the buffer-cache reads. They now look as follows;
I just tried it on my drives, both UDMA 33, and got the following results;
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.69 seconds = 47.58 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.73 seconds = 13.53 MB/sec
blackdeath:~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.22 seconds = 57.66 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.32 seconds = 14.81 MB/sec
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.55 seconds = 50.20 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 7.78 seconds = 8.23 MB/sec
blackdeath:~ # hdparm -tT /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.22 seconds = 57.66 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 7.60 seconds = 8.42 MB/sec
I've also enabled Write cacheing on both drives. That, from what I
understand, can cause data-loss after a power failure, but I'm going to
test it for a while and see if performance improves.
The above 57.66 number seems a bit interesting to me - both drives DMA
buffers read at the same speed? Is that normal?
The info on my drives looks like such;
blackdeath:~ # hdparm -i /dev/hda
Model=Maxtor 90648D3, FwRev=GAS74812, SerialNo=A36200NC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=12556/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=29
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=512kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=2
CurCHS=12556/16/63, CurSects=12656448, LBA=yes, LBAsects=12656448
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2
Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17 : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4
blackdeath:~ # hdparm -i /dev/hdb
Model=FUJITSU MPA3043ATU, FwRev=9519, SerialNo=01168939
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs RotSpdTol.5% }
RawCHS=9042/15/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
BuffType=0(?), BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
CurCHS=9042/15/63, CurSects=8544690, LBA=yes, LBAsects=8544940
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2
Drive Supports : ATA-1 ATA-2 ATA-3
VIA MVP3 chipset w/VIA UDMA support enabled in kernel 2.2.16, hdparm
-u1 -c1 -m16 -d1 applied to both drives.
I'm now using all of those settings. It appears as if my Sector Count was
already set to the MaxMultSect value for both drives by default.
The figures are even better with the 2.4.x test kernels,
My kernel version is in my .signature. I must say I'm quite impressed with
the performance of these drives, if those figures are correct. I'm going
to reccomend some of these settings to a friend running a UDMA66 drive and
see what numbers he can come up with.
but overall performance is still worse with 2.4 thanks to the ongoing
VM problems.
Oh? I've noticed snappier performance since switching to 2.4. Memory
management appears to be much better, and disk cacheing is greatly
improved.
"Ongoing VM problems"? Would you mind elaborating?
My early '97 laptop gets 3M/sec even with everything tweaked for hdparm,
so 13M sounds great to me
I dunno, that's just what hdparm tells me. Since applying some of the early
tweaks to my HDD's, moving 3-6MB MP3 files between drives/partitions has
GREATLY improved. I'll have to try moving a 300MB VMWare .dsk file around
and see how fast MC tells me it's moving.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://tinys.cx/blackdeath
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test5
Linux-Misc Digest #375
Linux-Misc Digest #375, Volume #24Sat, 6 May 00 04:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Why partition a Disk? (Dances With Crows)
ppp with worldnet.att (Chuck Busby)
Re: Choice of modem (Robert Grizzard)
Re: The start button and icon panel has dissapeared from Gnome.
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Locating files (ground zero)
Re: oldest linux box? (Jeff Workman)
rpm problems (Patrick O'Neil)
Linux and PCI..? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How do I get linux to recognize my FAT32 partition?
Re: Choice of modem (Smitty)
Re: Choice of modem (Bob Martin)
Re: Choice of modem (Bill Unruh)
Re: microsoft word on linux (Jim Tom Polk)
kscd rpm (David Mehringer)
Re: kscd rpm ("Peter T. Breuer")
xmixer for console? (BuDMaN)
Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive ("Michael")
Re: xmixer for console? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: xmixer for console? (David Efflandt)
Re: Trouble with the Korn Shell (Ben Park)
Re: Creating multiple pages automatically (BuDMaN)
Re: Installing PCI (non-winmodem) modem ("Troy M. Turner")
Re: xmixer for console? ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: ppp with worldnet.att (Bob Martin)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Why partition a Disk?
Date: 06 May 2000 00:13:18 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 05 May 2000 22:31:11 -0400, hoffmyster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] shouted forth into the ether:
This leads me to another question in what significance does splitting up
directories into different partitions have? That is one concept about
Unix/Linux that I don't fully understand. What harm is there in putting
everything into one partition? What advantages are there in splitting
it all up?
If everything's on one big partition, your options are limited and your
chances for disaster recovery are less. Check the Partition-HOWTO:
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition.html for a lot of advice.
You separate /, /usr, /var, and /home for safety. If / gets corrupted, at
least you can still recover the data from /home. If some malicious user
or process fills up /var, / still has space. If /usr gets br0ken, you
have utilities available in / that can get the system up to a working
state. Personally, I dual-boot to SuSE and RedHat, and I share /home and
/usr/local between the two distros... that option wouldn't be available if
I'd just lumped everything on one partition!
As regards your original question, your backup disk will be difficult to
boot if it's actually on /dev/hdc. Some BIOSes are capable of booting
from an IDE drive on /dev/hdc, but many aren't. /dev/hda and /dev/hdb are
often the only ones available to the BIOS upon bootup. I'd suggest having
a 20M /boot partition on /dev/hda, configured with a lilo.conf like so:
boot=/dev/hda # or whatever!
map=/boot/map
compact
linear
prompt
timeout=100
append="blahblahblah" # whatever you need...
image=/boot/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda2 # or wherever it is
read-only
label=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hdc2 # root partition of backup drive!
read-only
label=backup
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
If /dev/hda fails completely, you'll have to boot with a floppy, of
course, or you could just configure /dev/hdc with LILO in its MBR right
now, and when something BAD happens, open the case and swap /dev/hdc with
/dev/hda! There's more than one way to skin a filesystem, after all.
HTH.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: Chuck Busby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ppp with worldnet.att
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 04:26:41 GMT
Has anyone had success using linux on the worldnet.att isp? If so, how
do I log on? ppp keeps crashing unexpectedly.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Grizzard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Choice of modem
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 23:23:47 -0500
Sandhitsu R Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can somebody tell me which of the following should I choose for linux ?
I'm not sure if any of these are winmodems, so if some are, please let me
know. If you have used any of these in Linux successfully, please let me
know (send an email too please!)
AOpen AOpen FM56 ITU/2-56000
This is a real modem. I'm using it right now to connect to the Internet
through my ppp daemon, and I'll send this post from my leafnode newsspool
to my ISP's newsspool through this modem when I run fetchmail. It works
well for me.
--
Learning Linux is like joining a cult. Sure it's fun at first but you waste
time, become brainwashed, and then have to
Linux-Misc Digest #375
Linux-Misc Digest #375, Volume #21 Thu, 12 Aug 99 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: brain teaser (benjamin j snyder)
Re: Need help running scriptfor Nvidia TNT support (Jon Skeet)
Re: need help with kppp and floppies PLEASE (Jayan M)
Re: Strange bootup message in RH 6.0 (Jayan M)
Re: What's The best Firewall/Proxy Software (Robin Smith)
System.map questions (Jesse Hughes)
Re: Red Hat IPO (Was: Re: E*Trade: Dishonest or incompetent?)( (coffee)
Saving attachment from script ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help for Shared Vedio Memory. (Jun Zhuang)
Re: What I think of linux. (Steve Hodgson)
Re: CIA assassinations (MK)
Re: io-performance measuring (Abdullah Ramazanoglu)
Re: Organizer on Linix compatible with Sun Calendar Manager (Jozef Dodziuk)
Re: c++ grammer (Stig E. Sandø)
Quicken replacement ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Quicken and Outlook 98 Replacements. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Pentiume III serial number (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: CD-Recorder (Nick Theiler)
running who command = no users! (+ bonus problem) ("Leroy Banack")
running who command = no users! (+ bonus problem) ("Leroy Banack")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (benjamin j snyder)
Subject: Re: brain teaser
Date: 12 Aug 1999 14:19:54 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
William Wueppelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In our last episode (Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:27:03 -0500),
the artist formerly known as Jeff Trisoliere said:
What is the most commonly used MS-DOS command? Hint it's still used in
Windows NT and does not work at the Netware server console. Hint 2: This
command is also available in Linux, the command does a different
function in NT as it does in DOS or Linux and this command can be
disabled in Linux.
Ctrl+Alt+Del
--
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
At first this is what I thought, but in linux and dos it does the same thing,
in NT it's different though. I cant tell from the original posting whether or
not it was intended to imply Linux and DOS have the same functionality with
this command (at least the end result is the same), but in NT it's different,
or if it meant that it was different in all three.
I'd really like to the the posters answer.
--
Ben Snyder
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Need help running scriptfor Nvidia TNT support
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:21:50 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:54:07 -0600, JMNugent wrote:
I downloaded a new X Server from Nvidia's web site, unzipped, etc.
At the # prompt, .What do I type to run the script I've moved to the
directory where the script is located..but it wont run
I realize this is a dumb question,..but I've tried " . / riva_install "
(the name of the script).but all I get is "command not found"
If you actually typed it as written here, then the spaces are your
problem. Instead of . / riva_install you should have done ./riva_install
Hope that helps.
Second, check if "." is in your path. It should be by default.
No it shouldn't - not for root, at any rate. It's deemed a security risk,
for better or worse.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Jayan M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: need help with kppp and floppies PLEASE
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 22:52:17 GMT
About the floppy issue:
What's the file system on the floppy?
Just a shot in the dark, but is this floppy formatted,
and have a valid filesystem?
Or you might be trying to mount a floppy with a
kernel ddied on it for boot..
(the dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 thing..)
Jayan
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
(this is copied from comp.os.linux.networking)
Hi,
I need some assistance with kppp. I set my connections up using linuxconf.
Kppp will dial the modem (Creative Labs Modem Blaster) and start to log in,
but in the end it reports:
"Error
Timeout expired while waiting for the PPP interface to come up!"
Additionally, I think it's a problem with kppp (I'm not sure though),
because when I use the connect in linuxconf it doesn't complain. But I don't
know how to test that to make sure (I've only had it installed for 3 days)
I'm using Linux-Mandrake 6.0
I don't have to use kppp, but what else am I going to do? I tried using
minicom, and I think it worked, but I couldn't get Netscape or any thing
else to work.
I'm also having trouble with floppies. When I try to mount one (or do
anything with it, for that matter) I get the message "Error: you must
specify a filesystem type" but Linux mandrake comes with controls that are
supposed to auto mount and auto detect the filesystem type.
If there's any one who has successfully used Linux-Mandrake (or just KDE) to
connect to the Internet and other basic things (mounting flopp
Linux-Misc Digest #375
Linux-Misc Digest #375, Volume #20 Fri, 28 May 99 00:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Commercially speaking? (Thomas Boroske)
Re: ip masquerading fine access control question (Matthew Vanecek)
Re: advance power management (Nikodemus Karlsson)
Re: Netscape crashes and it takes the whole machine with it! (Do-Hoon Kwon)
Re: PPP and Fax conflict (Brandon)
Re: error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
(111)' ("D. Vrabel")
Re: Iomega products and Linux (L J Bayuk)
Modem sharing? (Samuel AU)
Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation (Kevin C. Weissman)
Re: "tcp/:7100" Not available ??? (Joseph White)
Re: RH6.0 General Linux Question ("D. Vrabel")
Re: RH6.0 General Linux Question (John Hovell)
Real Player G2 (Richard Edwards)
Re: Linux PPP (Brandon)
Re: How to run a script when logging out ? ("D. Vrabel")
gdm compilation troubles (Brent)
Re: "Art Format" images? ("D. Vrabel")
Re: How do you change the Applications Menu? (bowman)
NFS bug in the new kernels (was Re: NFS with Redhat 6 server and ("G. Hugh SONG")
RH6.0 General Linux Question (Michael Olsen)
Re: Application/PDF in Netscape 4.51 (Gerald Willmann)
Re: rpm not working (Gerald Willmann)
From: Thomas Boroske [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.news.groups,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking?
Date: 28 May 1999 04:24:32 +0200
gus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is nothing wrong with writing commercial applications for linux
just so long as you do not copy / use / base any code on the *source*
*code* of a GPL program. There is *nothing* wrong with using a GPL
program for what it is desiged for.
Be careful here ...
A library, if under GPL (not LGPL) can not be linked with a commercial
app - yet linking with it is exactly what every library is designed
for, and does not require source code (except headers).
Of course, you were talking about programs only, which libraries
aren´t.
I personally think that libraries under GPL suck - simply on the
basis that linking with libraries is just normal use of libraries
(there´s simply no other use for libraries than linking an app with
it). I can see the "eithical", "GNU/FSF enthusiast" point though, but I
think LGPL was good enough.
Kind regards,
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Thomas Boroske
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From: Matthew Vanecek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ip masquerading fine access control question
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 02:10:00 +
Son Trung Nguyen wrote:
There must be a way with ipfwadm where I can remove only the aaa.bbb.ccc.180
without affecting aaa.bbb.ccc.181 I have read through the faqs but like
usual, I missed it, so I apologize if it is in there. I will read it
again
just in case.
You have to set input and output rules on whatever interface (most
likely ppp0, right?) you wish to restrict. It's mainly a matter of
reading the man page and plugging in the values. YOu *did* read the man
page, didn't you? So if you have packets originating at source heading
to anywhere, you would set your output filter to REJECT or DENY the
packets. It's been a while since I used ipfwadm; I'm using ipchains
now, w/kernel 2.2.x, but it's the same concept. What you need to do is
setup *firewall* rules, as opposed to *masqing* rules. Although, you
still need to have the masqing rules, too.
Further more, is there a way you can restrict the bandwidth through one
of the ip? ie allow only a 1200 bps through aaa.bbb.ccc.180 and give the
rest of the bandwidth to the other machine? Hope you can do this.
I highly doubt it. It'd be an interesting experiment, though.
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except me. I'm always getting in the way of something...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nikodemus Karlsson)
Subject: Re: advance power management
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 08:34:20 +0200
[Posted and mailed]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Paul D. Pandian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the file /sbin/init.d/halt (or wherever it is located), there is a command "halt".
Just change it to "halt -p", compile for autopower off, and be happy!
Good luck
Nikodemus
Okay: Question. I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.0 (and tried all the rest
upwards too inlcuding the latest 2.3.3). System cannot shutdown. Even when I
selected the APM options under kernel configuration and compilation.
Thanks every
