Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shell Processing
$ cat abcfile xyzfile This is the contents of xyzfile $ If anyone has an answer to this, tell us! Try tracing it. We can use a very important trick to find out: set -x - - What shells does that work with? UX, I know, but BASH? $ set -x $ $ cat abcfile xyzfile + cat xyzfile + 0 abcfile xyz $ "0"? $ set -x $ echo xyzfile + echo + 0 xyzfile $ "0"? $ echo x /dev/null + echo x + 1 /dev/null $ "1"? I've seen 2 before for redirecting STDERR. So, these streams have numbers... I know that 2 is for STDERR, and I can see (from the above example) that 1 is for STDOUT. 0? Nowhere? The bit bucket?
RE: [newbie] compiler
Hi, I installed that, but it came back and said makeinfo missing (can't find that anywhere) and compiler can't make execuatable Thanks, Bob On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, you wrote: Make sure the pgcc package is installed.
Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..
Hmm. Maybe root isn't the only user who wants to shut down the system when he presses Ctrl+Alt+Del. Try comparing the $USERNAME against the names in shutdown.allow (a la a GAWK script). Would that work, guys? why not just compare 'id -u' with zero then? id? I haven't seen this before... Maybe I need another book.
Re: [newbie] compiler
I would venture to guess when you installed, you chose the custom install and neglected to install the development packages. begin rant Does anyone see a pattern here? I would suggest that those packages be included by default, with the option to remove them if you wish. It seems most of the documentation that is presented during the install was tacked on as an afterthought, and offers very little help to the new linux user. / end rant Ben - Original Message - From: Bob Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 2:15 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] compiler Hi, I installed that, but it came back and said makeinfo missing (can't find that anywhere) and compiler can't make execuatable Thanks, Bob On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, you wrote: Make sure the pgcc package is installed.
Re: [newbie] Mylex D960PG problem
Thanks, I thought to do that but this configuration isn't very good The idea of RAID-5 is lost if I boot from hard drive and next mount RAID Yes, I boot directly on the Raid system For example, WindowsNT works fine with Mylex It can directly boot on the RAID-5 and Linux 6.0 declare full support the Mylex D960PG As far as I understand, Linux must boot directly from Raid, but It can't detect Mylex in the first boot I think, that there is a bug in the boot images. :0( If you have any ideas will you please write to me -Original Message- From: Carl St-Jacques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 31 ÉÀÌÑ 1999 Ç. 2:31 Subject: Re: [newbie] Mylex D960PG problem Do you check in the Bios of the MylexD960PG... Probably you boot directly on the Raid system. Do you have another hard drive in your box? If you have an hard drive try to boot the rootfs on this drive and then activate and mount your raid system. Hope this help Carl St-Jacques - Original Message - From: Victor Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 1:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Mylex D960PG problem I have some problems with RAID-5 and Mandrake 6.0 When I install Linux, it find correctly my Mylex D960PG After finishing installation and the first reboot , Mandrake can't mount rootfs Anybody know what can I do?
Re: [newbie] How to mount ATAPI ZIP Drive in Mandrake 6.0?
Hi John Many thanks for the reply! I was just getting ready to yank out that zip drive and put in in a Windows machine when I got your message. My zip drive is recognized as hdb when Linux is booting and the cd rom is hdc. I have a 6.5 gb hard drive partitioned to 3 partitions (2047 mb) for data and 1 partition for a swap (125 mb). Would my zip drive be just hdb or hdb1 when I add the line you mentioned? Also, does the line need to be in any particular order? I still get a little nervous editing these files although I have been doing it over a year now. Thanks again! Jim On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, you wrote: Jim, Make a directory in your /mnt/ directory called /zip from root prompt-- cd /mnt/ then mkdir /zip then go to your /etc/fstab file and add this line /dev/hdxx /zipvfatuser,noauto,rw 0 0 hdxx being whatever your zip drive is mine is hdd4 John Hi Please help me get my Atapi Zip Drive recognized in Mandrake Linux 6.0. Many thanks in advance!!! Jim Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Mylex D960PG problem
You can load root file system from the Raid with the kernel 2.1.x using append= with lilo. I never tried with this kernel. With the kernel 2.0.36 it's a bit tricky and not secure...First my system boot with a small hd (120mo) and load an image where i activate the md0 device and tell the kernel to boot on device 0x900 (md0). But the problem is when you shutdown the system, the raid is not cleanly unmounted so i don't known if my raid is fine or not... Carl - Original Message - From: Victor Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 4:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mylex D960PG problem Thanks, I thought to do that but this configuration isn't very good The idea of RAID-5 is lost if I boot from hard drive and next mount RAID Yes, I boot directly on the Raid system For example, WindowsNT works fine with Mylex It can directly boot on the RAID-5 and Linux 6.0 declare full support the Mylex D960PG As far as I understand, Linux must boot directly from Raid, but It can't detect Mylex in the first boot I think, that there is a bug in the boot images. :0( If you have any ideas will you please write to me -Original Message- From: Carl St-Jacques [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 31 ÉÀÌÑ 1999 Ç. 2:31 Subject: Re: [newbie] Mylex D960PG problem Do you check in the Bios of the MylexD960PG... Probably you boot directly on the Raid system. Do you have another hard drive in your box? If you have an hard drive try to boot the rootfs on this drive and then activate and mount your raid system. Hope this help Carl St-Jacques - Original Message - From: Victor Zaitsev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 1:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Mylex D960PG problem I have some problems with RAID-5 and Mandrake 6.0 When I install Linux, it find correctly my Mylex D960PG After finishing installation and the first reboot , Mandrake can't mount rootfs Anybody know what can I do?
Re: [newbie] compiler
Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi All, I'm pretty new at this stuff, I'm trying to install kxicq on my machine. But it says that I need a compiler, well I looked through my mandrake 6 box and installed colorgcc. But when I run ./configure it says that the gcc can't create an excutable. Any ideas on what I should do? Thanks, Bob I think the file that starts the compiler is either gcc or pgcc (I think the "p" means "optimize for Pentium", but hey, I'm a newbie, too)
[newbie] Kernel 2.2.10-34mdk, bootdisk trouble
Hi, After updating my mdk kernel from 2.2.9-19 to 2.2.10-34 I created a bootdisk as usual (with "mkbootdisk"). But compared with the old one, it takes ages to start (reading the disk), however, after that it starts and runs without any further trouble. Anybody knows why?? Is there a better/other way to make a bootdisk?? I prefer to use a bootdisk to keep my two OS separated... Thanks and bye willy
Re: [newbie] Loading modules?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Dan Brown" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where do I specify what modules to load at boot time? Currently, /etc/conf.modules Currently, I have one active, and three commented, lines in conf.modules. One commented line reads "# alias eth0 tulip", and I assume uncommenting this line will allow the system to autoload the tulip module. However, there's no reference in there to the sg module, which appears necessary to run xcdroast. How would I add that? Or, alternatively, where is this all documented, so I can stopp bothering the list? Thanks again for any info! -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
[newbie] The shutdown and halt user
I met on /etc/passwd that there exist shutdown and halt username. When I tried to use their feature (shutdown and halt as shell), I got an error message telling that I had no permission for using shutdown. How can I set shutdown so certain users/groups are allowed executing it without having to have root previledge? (I ever met that option on one configuration dialog -- but, ooppss, forget what it was!) -- @mal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Terminal setting
Hi friend, if I switch my runlevel to single user mode then back again to multi-user login, I always met the input for login could not accept carriage return, instead it treated carriage-return as ^M displayed on input. For example, if I switched to single user on tty1, the tty1 will soon get the problem. I think it is about terminal setting: so, how to return the virtual terminal to standard setting? -- @mal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] The shutdown and halt user
`shutdown` checks a file /etc/shutdown.allow (which is just a list of usernames) for users allowed to run it. Everyone that you want to have permissions to shut down the machine should have their username listed in /etc/shutdown.allow. -Matt On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Ikhlasul Amal wrote: I met on /etc/passwd that there exist shutdown and halt username. When I tried to use their feature (shutdown and halt as shell), I got an error message telling that I had no permission for using shutdown. How can I set shutdown so certain users/groups are allowed executing it without having to have root previledge? (I ever met that option on one configuration dialog -- but, ooppss, forget what it was!) -- @mal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] The shutdown and halt user
Did you check in Linuxconf under the user accounts section?? - Original Message - From: Ikhlasul Amal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 31, 1999 6:15 PM Subject: [newbie] The shutdown and halt user I met on /etc/passwd that there exist shutdown and halt username. When I tried to use their feature (shutdown and halt as shell), I got an error message telling that I had no permission for using shutdown. How can I set shutdown so certain users/groups are allowed executing it without having to have root previledge? (I ever met that option on one configuration dialog -- but, ooppss, forget what it was!) -- @mal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Maggelan
I just got around to looking at the ftp site (ftp.kde.org) and the screen shots of this product. It's really beautiful ! ! Unfortunately, I don't know what the response was to Mr. Putteman's query as to whether KDE has made 'Maggelan' available or not. Could someone please inform me about it? I would appreciate it. Thanks, Richard
Re: [newbie] Slow bandwith
tried that... thanks though Ben wrote: In kppp check your connection speed. Setup - Device - Connection Speed Try setting it to 115200 and see if that helps. mdk6.0 kppp says i am connecting @ 38400 but whenever i pull up a site, ftp, download, etc., the maximum i pull is between 300- 600 bytes. under windows i average between 2-3k. I have no idea where to even begin with settings to fix this. thanks in advance. btw: it is a zoltrix 56k flex. not sure the exact model.
Re: [newbie] Slow bandwith
the speed issue is the only problem i'm having... aside from my soundcard not being supported... my vfat partition is recognized every time and my cdrom works perfectly Bob Jiggins wrote: Date sent: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 23:19:41 -0500 From: Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Slow bandwith To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In kppp check your connection speed. Setup - Device - Connection Speed Try setting it to 115200 and see if that helps. mdk6.0 kppp says i am connecting @ 38400 but whenever i pull up a site, ftp, download, etc., the maximum i pull is between 300- 600 bytes. under windows i average between 2-3k. I have no idea where to even begin with settings to fix this. thanks in advance. btw: it is a zoltrix 56k flex. not sure the exact model. I have *exactly* the same problem (kernel 2.2.9-19mdk) and have the speed set on hghest rate. Connection as reported by KPPP is generally 48/49k - yet transfer rates are 300 bytes to 3 k at most. Same hardware, same ISP under win95 (as I'm using now) is now problem - nor was it with Redhat 5.2. Along with all the other problems I've having with 2.2.9-19 (no CDROM - kernal won;t recognise /dev/hdc; no mounting win95 drive (hda) I'm beginning to think this kernel version is nothing short of a lemon. That's my explnation as a non-technie... :-) Bob
Re: [newbie] Slow bandwith
Heres how i fixed slow bandwidth for once and for all. I got ADSL and the guy is coming on tuesaday to set up the line! Damn am i stoked! jerrud
[newbie] ADSL~installation through linux
Well I am getting dsl in a few days, but i will only be able to use in in win98 because i cant find out how to set it up in linux. yeah it will be cool and all, but i realy realy want it to run under linux. i have searched all over the net how to set it up in linux, but to to luck. can anyone help out? thanks jerrud
RE: [newbie] ADSL~installation through linux
did you try the How-To's at linux.org?? They have one there on ADSL also check http://www.linuxberg.com and see if they have some programs there you may be able to use.. James J. Capone Webmaster http://linuxuser.8m.com Webmaster http://teammajestic.8m.com Asst. Webmaster http://www.ptm.com Co Author Linux For Newbies "Even Common People Can Attain Uncommon Results" -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 2:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] ADSL~installation through linux Well I am getting dsl in a few days, but i will only be able to use in in win98 because i cant find out how to set it up in linux. yeah it will be cool and all, but i realy realy want it to run under linux. i have searched all over the net how to set it up in linux, but to to luck. can anyone help out? thanks jerrud
