Re: [SLUG] Minimum requirements

[DaZZa]

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Adam Hewitt wrote:

> What do you think would be the minimum system requirements for a linux box
> that will be running debian (minimal, no X) that will be used as a home
> gateway/mail server for 2 PC's/File Server and possibly a UT server for the
> home network??

Should be able to do it on a 486/66 with 32 meg of RAM and a couple of gig
of HD space, depending on how much mail you want to keep.

Maybe 64 meg of RAM if you want to be a little faster.

DaZZa

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[SLUG] Has anyone used small form factor PC104 with embedded Linux

[Richard Hayes]

Dear list,

I am looking for a small computer to use as a X Windows terminal.

Has anyone has experience with a product with similar specs as below?

Any reconmendations where I could get a few?

Full-featured embedded PC78 x 60 mm
AMD ElanSC520 CPU. PentiumTM class
133 MHz, 16 KB cache
FPUPCI and ISA buses16 - 64 Mbyte SDRAM
1 - 136 Mbyte Flash Disk on-board
VGA / XGA graphics controller for LCD and CRT 
PC/AT system logic and peripherals
Low power consumption
Sound sub-system with speaker and microphone support
USB port 
2 COM ports
LPT port
I/O ports
hard and floppy disk controllers
PS2/AT Keyboard controller
10/100BaseT Ethernet port

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Re: [SLUG] might be a stupid question

[Andre Pang]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:37:46AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:

> 1) In windows, format the partition, tell 'doze you want to create a
> swapfile on that partition, using all of the available space.  It should
> create an empty swapfile.
> 
> 2) Back in Linux, dd that partition to a file, and gzip it.  Because
> it's mostly zeroes, it'll compress down *real* small.

No need to gzip it, Windows will re-create the swapfile
automatically as long as the partition exists (and is in the
appropriate filesystem type; NTFS or FAT).  Put a "format E: /q"
in your autoexec.bat file or something (substitute E: as
appropriate, of course :).

If you're going to this effort to save space, you might as well
also use FAT with 64k clusters for your swap partition.  It'll
speed up operations on the swap file.  The effect is probably
negligable, but hey ...


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Re: [SLUG] Minimum requirements

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Adam Hewitt wrote:
>What do you think would be the minimum system requirements for a linux box 
>that will be running debian (minimal, no X) that will be used as a home 
>gateway/mail server for 2 PC's/File Server and possibly a UT server for the 
>home network??

A low end pentium with a good handful of RAM should cope fine.

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Re: [SLUG] might be a stupid question

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote:
>Admittedtly, it's a fairly hackish solution.
[snip]
>It works, and works reasonably well.

Yeah, exactly.  It's a hack, but a good one.  I can't say I have done it for
a long long time, but only because I haven't had to share a windos install
on my machine for a long time.

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Re: [SLUG] Programming query - putenv()

[Rick Welykochy]

Conrad Parker wrote:

> if you need to read the data from another session, or you need to monitor
> a changing state, you'd be better off communicating via a file of some
> kind.

The following approach can be considered a Unix classic:

1. simple C program does its job, say reads the state of the I/O port,
   and returns its result by writing to stdout; call this /usr/local/bin/pinprog

2. bash script does the following:

   PINSTAT=`/usr/local/bin/pinprog`

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[SLUG] DDNS - a hint for the naive player

[Howard Lowndes]

If you are attempting to do dynamic DNS with BIND 9.x, and are getting
errors about tsig not verifying, check that the system clocks on the two
machines are in sync.  ...2 days later (8-(

I can't see it mentioned anywhere in the doco.

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Re: [SLUG] Programming query - putenv()

[Conrad Parker]

Hi Geoff,

a process can only modify the environment of itself and its children. If
you run your program from a shell, the shell is its parent and the program
cannot modify the shell's environment, nor can it modify the environment
of any other programs invoked from that shell or other random shells. But
it can set the environment of programs it exec()'s.

if you need to read the data from another session, or you need to monitor
a changing state, you'd be better off communicating via a file of some
kind.

Conrad.

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:48:17AM +0800, Gatward, Geoff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm hoping that somebody might be able to help me with a hopefully simple
> programming query.
> 
> I am in the process of writing a bit of code in C that looks at the parallel
> port and sets an environment variable depending on the state of the pins. I
> need this to be accessible to a bash script which performs some other
> functions.
> So far I have the interfacing to the port working fine, but I cannot set the
> environment variable.
> 
> I have used getenv() to READ an environment variable, and this works fine.
> I am trying to use putenv() to set a variable called PINSTAT, but when I
> check it is still set to a null value. One thought was that the variable
> only remains set whilst the program is running, so I set a do/while loop to
> continually set it.  Even with my program in a loop, from another session,
> an
> "echo $PINSTAT" still shows a null.
> 
> I have read a few bits and pieces about glibc's putenv() function not
> working correctly - is this my problem and is there a way around it?
> 
> Setup is Redhat Linux 6.2, gcc and glibc-2.1.3-23 if this helps.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Geoff
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [SLUG] sendmail

[Tony Green]

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:10, Tony Green wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:00, David wrote:
> > 
> > I'm using sendmail 8.9.3 and I've suddenly started having serious problems
> > with delayed mail delivery. The only symptoms I can find are:
> > 
> > * a very large number of NOQUEUE entries on the maillog
> > * processes that look like this:
> > 32559 ?S  0:00 sendmail: startup with f244.law12.hotmail.com
> > * very long delays in receiving mail (up to several days)
> > * some individuals complaining about "unable to connect" or mail
> > delayed messages from their mail servers (I don't have any original header
> > to check though).
> > 

Also, an entry like:

NOQUEUE: Null connection from host.domain [IP.AD.DD.RESS]

in the logfile means that host.domain connected to your MTA but neither
initiated transmission of a message (by issuing the MAIL command), nor
used any of the commands that are logged separately (EXPN/VRFY/ETRN).
Unless this happens very often, you can ignore this. If it happens very
often, it's either someone playing around or it's a network problem.
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Re: [SLUG] sendmail

[Tony Green]

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 13:00, David wrote:
> 
> I'm using sendmail 8.9.3 and I've suddenly started having serious problems
> with delayed mail delivery. The only symptoms I can find are:
> 
> * a very large number of NOQUEUE entries on the maillog
> * processes that look like this:
> 32559 ?S  0:00 sendmail: startup with f244.law12.hotmail.com
> * very long delays in receiving mail (up to several days)
> * some individuals complaining about "unable to connect" or mail
> delayed messages from their mail servers (I don't have any original header
> to check though).
> 

OK, firsly have you checked if you're running an open relay.  If you're
seeing a lot of mail to hotmail accounts and you're not (as in the
company) sending it - I would guess you've got an open relay.

Secondly, check your mail logs for errors
Thirdly, check your dns etc

Feel free to contact me off list to discuss this further.

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[SLUG] sendmail

[David]

I'm using sendmail 8.9.3 and I've suddenly started having serious problems
with delayed mail delivery. The only symptoms I can find are:

* a very large number of NOQUEUE entries on the maillog
* processes that look like this:
32559 ?S  0:00 sendmail: startup with f244.law12.hotmail.com
* very long delays in receiving mail (up to several days)
* some individuals complaining about "unable to connect" or mail
delayed messages from their mail servers (I don't have any original header
to check though).

Can any one help me with this problem. It's beginning to get quite serious
because we are losing customer mail.

The problem has appeared suddenly (last few days that I am aware of) and I
haven't changed any configurations in that time.

David.

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[SLUG] postfix lost connection after CONNECT

[Shaun Cloherty]

Dear SLUG Oracle,

I have recently ugraded a mail server to RH7.2 taking the opportunity to
upgrate to postfix 1.1.4-2. Now my mail log is full of 'lost connection
after CONNECT' messages such as these;

Mar  6 12:10:27 gsbme-lx040 postfix/smtpd[5080]: connect from
murphy.debian.org[216.234.231.6]
Mar  6 12:10:27 gsbme-lx040 postfix/smtpd[5080]: lost connection after
CONNECT from murphy.debian.org[216.234.231.6]
Mar  6 12:10:27 gsbme-lx040 postfix/smtpd[5080]: disconnect from
murphy.debian.org[216.234.231.6]

This is anoying, but mail does seem to be trickling in (nothing from
murphy.debian.org though!).

More alarmingly, my outgoing mail spool is backing up... nothing seems
to be getting out. The output of mailq contains notes like this for each
message;

(connect to mx4.mail.yahoo.com[216.136.129.17]: server dropped
connection)

I'm not sure if this is a postfix problem, or a more generic networking
problem. When I ftp to some sites, my connection is dumped, i.e.

#ftp mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au
Connected to mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au (129.94.242.25).
220 orff.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU FTP server (Version
6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready.
Name (mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au:root): anonymous
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
Login failed.
No control connection for command: Transport endpoint is not connected
ftp> exit

Wah?? "No control connection for command: Transport endpoint is not
connected"??

Any suggestions?

Shaun

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[SLUG] Programming query - putenv()

[Gatward, Geoff]

Hi,

I'm hoping that somebody might be able to help me with a hopefully simple
programming query.

I am in the process of writing a bit of code in C that looks at the parallel
port and sets an environment variable depending on the state of the pins. I
need this to be accessible to a bash script which performs some other
functions.
So far I have the interfacing to the port working fine, but I cannot set the
environment variable.

I have used getenv() to READ an environment variable, and this works fine.
I am trying to use putenv() to set a variable called PINSTAT, but when I
check it is still set to a null value. One thought was that the variable
only remains set whilst the program is running, so I set a do/while loop to
continually set it.  Even with my program in a loop, from another session,
an
"echo $PINSTAT" still shows a null.

I have read a few bits and pieces about glibc's putenv() function not
working correctly - is this my problem and is there a way around it?

Setup is Redhat Linux 6.2, gcc and glibc-2.1.3-23 if this helps.

Thanks in advance,

Geoff




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Re: [SLUG] An editor for SGML?

[Jeff Waugh]

> Does anyone know of a good SGML editor which can hide the tags (but
> continue to insert them for paragraphs etc), and has a spell checker?

Lyx, or, if you're willing to do some hacking, Conglomerate.

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Re: [SLUG] might be a stupid question

[Peter Hardy]

On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 09:10, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Grant Parnell wrote:
> >On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Scott Howard wrote:
*snip, damn you, SNIP!*
> >> Yes.  Whats more, if you've got Linux and Windows dual-booting on a machine
> >> it's even possible to share the same disk between the Linux swapspace and
> >> the Windows swapfile (or at least, it was under Win95 - not sure about
> >> anything later).
> >
> >Ewww yuk! I wouldn't recommend that.
> 
> Why not?  Reasons, man.

Admittedtly, it's a fairly hackish solution.

In a nutshell, you:
1) In windows, format the partition, tell 'doze you want to create a
swapfile on that partition, using all of the available space.  It should
create an empty swapfile.

2) Back in Linux, dd that partition to a file, and gzip it.  Because
it's mostly zeroes, it'll compress down *real* small.

3) In your startup scripts, you run mkswap on that partition before
swapon'ing it.

4) In your shutdown scripts, *after* you've unmounted your swap, dd that
file back out to the partition.

It works, and works reasonably well.  If saving a few hundred megs of
space on your hard drive is more important than an extra 30 seconds or
so of bootup/shutdown time, then go read the mini-HOWTO.

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Re: [SLUG] Changing user name - implications?

[Howard Lowndes]

Some of the keys might have your email address tagged onto them but that
is of no consequence, I have suggessfully editted that off without any
problems, its only there so you know who the key belongs to.

So long as the private and the public parts are compatible then there it
matters not who they belong to.

On 6 Mar 2002, Simon Wong wrote:

> G'Day all!
>
> I was thinking of changing my username to be more consistent with other
> systems and make ssh'ing etc easier.
>
> Apart from anywhere (scripts etc) where I may have used an explicit
> pathname for soemthing i.e. /home/sjw, are there likely to be any
> serious implications of doing this?
>
> Does it affect SSH keys?
>
> I assume for files there's no drama as long as I keep the uid the same?
>
> People's advice wuld be appreciated.
>
> TIA.
>
>
>

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Re: [SLUG] Minimum requirements

[Christopher Booth]

Don't know about the mail requirements but

I stumbled across the other day in my search for firewall info

http://staff.washington.edu/corey/fw/
with a link to 
http://www.vianova.at/index.php?product_gibraltar_features_eng

It mentions some system requirements here
http://staff.washington.edu/corey/fw/hware.html

Chris

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 10:29:50 +1100 
"Adam Hewitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What do you think would be the minimum system requirements for a linux
> box 
> that will be running debian (minimal, no X) that will be used as a home 
> gateway/mail server for 2 PC's/File Server and possibly a UT server for
> the 
> home network??
> 
> Adam.
> 
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Re: [SLUG] Sending my public key to a key server

[Frode Egeland]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:14:21PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote:
 
> Will change the other entry I had.
> 
> I assume this will sync with the others?
> 

It claims to.. :)
I haven't tested it.

Cheers,
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[SLUG] Changing user name - implications?

[Simon Wong]

G'Day all!

I was thinking of changing my username to be more consistent with other
systems and make ssh'ing etc easier.

Apart from anywhere (scripts etc) where I may have used an explicit
pathname for soemthing i.e. /home/sjw, are there likely to be any
serious implications of doing this?

Does it affect SSH keys?

I assume for files there's no drama as long as I keep the uid the same?

People's advice wuld be appreciated.

TIA.


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Re: [SLUG] Minimum requirements

[David Kempe]

Adam Hewitt said:
> What do you think would be the minimum system requirements for a linux
> box  that will be running debian (minimal, no X) that will be used as a
> home  gateway/mail server for 2 PC's/File Server and possibly a UT
> server for the  home network??

Whatever the minimum requirements are for a UT server. The rest should be
no problem if you can run a UT server with a few players.

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[SLUG] An editor for SGML?

[Michael Still]

Hey folk,

I am working on a fairly large document using docbook (a SGML DTD for the
uninitiated). Some members of my team are complaining that it is too much
like HTML, which is sort of the point.

Does anyone know of a good SGML editor which can hide the tags (but
continue to insert them for paragraphs etc), and has a spell checker?

Thanks,
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[SLUG] Minimum requirements

[Adam Hewitt]

What do you think would be the minimum system requirements for a linux box 
that will be running debian (minimal, no X) that will be used as a home 
gateway/mail server for 2 PC's/File Server and possibly a UT server for the 
home network??

Adam.


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RE: [SLUG] How this for a simple recommendation for IP-Tables firewalling and ICS

[Bernhard Luder]

Yes, masquerading is certainly possible. I am doing it like this:

IFWWW="my interface pointing to the internet eg. eth0"
IPWWW="my fixed IP address of this interface pointing to the Internet eg.
203.168.75.2"

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $IFWWW -j SNAT --to $IPWWW


Or this will work also, if you do not have a fixed IP:

IFWWW="my interface pointing to the internet eg. eth0"
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $IFWWW -j MASQUERADE

Regards
Bernhard


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Subject: Re: [SLUG] How this for a simple recommendation for IP-Tables
firewalling and ICS


Certainly pretty good as far as a basic explanation goes, problem is
that masquerading is not yet up to the level of ipchains and thats what
most people want. (One IP address, masqueraded to many machines for use
with ftp, realaudio etc).  I still reckon that ipchains with a 2.2
kernel is still the simplest and most generally accepted way to do
firewalling if you want particular services masqueraded.



Christopher Booth wrote:

>http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/security/iptables_basics.html
>
>Any major flaws in this, anything important missed ?
>
>Is it worthwhile for recommending to somebody ?
>
>Chris
>



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Re: [SLUG] might be a stupid question

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Grant Parnell wrote:
>On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Scott Howard wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:28:17PM +1100, OhSo Spunky wrote:
>> > 
>> > 
>> > I'm still only fresh and the supplied literature isn't specific,  but can 
>> > someone tell me if for eg, I want to run 3 dif distributions, can they all 
>> > use the same swapspace?
>> 
>> Yes.  Whats more, if you've got Linux and Windows dual-booting on a machine
>> it's even possible to share the same disk between the Linux swapspace and
>> the Windows swapfile (or at least, it was under Win95 - not sure about
>> anything later).
>
>Ewww yuk! I wouldn't recommend that.

Why not?  Reasons, man.

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Re: [SLUG] Was: Family mail server. Is now: Dons asbestos suit

[Daniel Stone]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 04:08:03PM +1100, Kerry Seibold wrote:
> Craige,
> It seems to me to be desirable to have your mail easily read by as many
> different MUAs as possible.
> Like I said if I can't read them first up I bin them.
> My guess is that there are an awful lot of Outlook Expresses out there.

GPG signatures are very easy to read. I'm not signing mine, so this
probably isn't my opinion. In fact, it could be anyone's.

GnuPG signatures are an easy way to make sure that mails really are sent
by who you think they are. I sign all my messages (this one being the
exception) as a matter of habit.

Oh, and WRT HTML email - don't. It's bad practice everywhere but
JavaScript lists. It's an evil, annoying hack that causes me to
immediately press ^D.

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Re: [SLUG] Nautilus - "View as Music"

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:56:17PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 17:49, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> 
> > > All suggested nautilus packages are installed (there are only two
> > > anyway). It works for the only mp3 I have, just not oggs :/
> > 
> > It really does work:
> 
> Excellent. Thanks for that. At least now I do know it supports ogg as
> well as mp3. I just need to keep plugging away at working out why I can
> only get it happening with mp3's.

*yawn*. KDE already does this. Old hat.

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Re: [SLUG] ask perl

[Tony Green]

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 20:51, henry wrote:
> Dear List:
> 
> I want to print the first 5 characters in front of a definite word 
> as follows:
> It's supposed that the definite word is AU.
> INPUT   -->aassewrab cdAUwst 
> OUTPUT(I hope to get )  - ->ab cd
> 
> Could you give some hint ?
> 

Henry,

I feel justified in saying this as I have answered virtually all of your
previous posts.  Can I suggest that you invest in Learning Perl or a
similar book - it will save you time and money in the long run.

I am never opposed to people asking quesions on a list, as long as they
have tried to find out the answer themselves.  Most of the things you
have asked are covered in all basic perl books.

Google is your friend - and it won't get annoyed at answering the same
questions over and over again.

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Re: [SLUG] ask perl

[Tom Massey]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 05:51:16PM +0800, henry wrote:
> I want to print the first 5 characters in front of a definite word 
> as follows:
> It's supposed that the definite word is AU.
> INPUT   -->aassewrab cdAUwst 
> OUTPUT(I hope to get )  - ->ab cd
> 
> Could you give some hint ?

There's probably a better way to do it, but something like this
should work:

#!/usr/bin/perl
$def_word = 'AU';
$input = 'aassewrab cdAUwst';
$input =~ /$def_word/;
$output = substr ($`,-5);
print $output;
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Re: [SLUG] need donation processor...

[Jon Biddell]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:15, Christopher Booth wrote:
> Almost got a working system between us :)
>
> I have a working processor, you have a working motherboard.
>
> :D
>


I have parts of a Compaq Proliant (P75 I think) that are up for 
grabs...:-)

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Re: [SLUG] I knew it...

[Grant Parnell]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Geoffrey Robertson wrote:

> Now if this is true it explains a lot.
> Geoffrey
> 
> 
> *** if you try this for real, you may damage your microwave or disk 
> 
> Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As
> we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows XP
> on my PC. I told him how happy I was with this operating system and
> showed him the Windows XP CD. To my surprise he threw it into my
> microwave oven and turned it on.  Instantly I got very upset, because
> the CD had become precious to me, but he said: "Do not worry, it is
> unharmed."
> 
> After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: "Take
> a close look at it."
> 
> To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be
> heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but on the
> inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription, an inscription
> finer than anything I had ever seen before. The inscription shone
> piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:

Actually, what you get is a way an improvement on the original CD. It now 
has a fractal like pattern on it, that is after providing a few seconds of 
entertainment in the form of fireworks - best done in a totally darkened 
kitchen for effect.

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Re: [SLUG] Expanding partition

[Grant Parnell]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Steven O'Reilly wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have what I hope is a simple problem.  My laptop has 4 partitions (Red Hat,
> Debian, Win95 and swap)
> 
> Since I'm running out of space I want to combine the two linux partions into
> one, but keep my debian installation which has all my e-mail etc and gets the
> most use.
> 
> Is my only otion to leave the current partition settup and move things like
> /home , /var, or have I missed some obvious tool for doing this?  Any pointers
> in the right direction would be useful as I have a setup I'm happy with that
> can use the internal modem etc.

The safest way is to move say /home to the former redhat partition.
mke2fs /dev/hdaX
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdaX /floppy
cd /home
find ./ | cpio -p /floppy/
mv /home /home.old; umount /floppy; mount -t ext2 /dev/hdaX /home

Now check everything looks fine, then delete /home.old
I use find because it finds files beginning with dot.
I do the mv, umount, mount on one line to minimise how long /home is 
missing. It's not so critical with /home but when doing with /var it's 
good, don't forget to restart syslog for /var too.

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Re: [SLUG] debian

[Grant Parnell]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, gcowling wrote:

> I'm stuck -- and would be very grateful if someone can help me.
> 
> I have had Red Hat for some time, but wanted to put up Debian.
> I set aside a second disk, used APC magazine disk.  It installed the
> kernel, and then (not later as in RH) re-booted.  
> I boot through System Commander--the kernel started booting, but after
> sveral screens there was:
> kernel panic, no INIT ...
> I checked the disk, and there seemed to be no /etc/rc.d files--I don't
> know if that is relevant.
> 
> so, I have 20 G just sitting there ...
> what am i oding wrong--or just not doing??
> 
> prevenient gratitude ..
> 
> Geoffrey Cowling

If it's an older BIOS/mobo combination you might find lilo can't find the 
kernel. Since you already have a RedHat system installed, copy the kernel 
debian installed into RedHat's /boot area under a different name and edit 
/etc/lilo.conf (then type 'lilo') or edit /boot/grub/menu.1st to start the 
debian system.

Oh yeah and no /etc/rc.d files is a problem :-(

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Re: [SLUG] Linux on SGI 02s and Octanes

[Grant Parnell]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Crossfire wrote:

> Dion Curchin was once rumoured to have said:
> > Hi there,
> > Has anyone out there had experiences with running linux on SGI
> > 02s or Octanes.  Are there any traps to avoid ie unsupported or poor
> > performing cpus.  In fact both SGIs site and general searching of the
> > net is producing little in the way of documentation on installing on SGI
> > equipment.  
> 
> This would be because Linux/MIPS is still mostly a work in progress -
> if you need installation instructions, you probably shouldn't be
> working with it yet.
> 
> There is some support for O2 in the pipe, and Linux is reputed to be
> able to boot on them.  I'm not sure about Octanes.  Linux/MIPS can
> boot on Indy's but is very immature.  I do suggest sticking to Irix if
> you want to be actually able to do anything with such a box.

Who knows, maybe there's a port of User Mode Linux for Irix?

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Re: [SLUG] might be a stupid question

[Grant Parnell]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Scott Howard wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:28:17PM +1100, OhSo Spunky wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I'm still only fresh and the supplied literature isn't specific,  but can 
> > someone tell me if for eg, I want to run 3 dif distributions, can they all 
> > use the same swapspace?
> 
> Yes.  Whats more, if you've got Linux and Windows dual-booting on a machine
> it's even possible to share the same disk between the Linux swapspace and
> the Windows swapfile (or at least, it was under Win95 - not sure about
> anything later).

Ewww yuk! I wouldn't recommend that.

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Re: [SLUG] Fax to email service?

[Grant Parnell]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Peter Vogel wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know if there is a service whereby I get a phone number
> which behaves just like a fax machine for receiving faxes, but the fax
> is delivered to me via email as a pdf?

You could easily do this with a hylafax setup on a linux box but for more
general purposes I wonder if the likes of Hutchison or some telco provide
such a service.

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Re: [SLUG] might be a stupid question

[Grant Parnell]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, OhSo Spunky wrote:

> I'm still only fresh and the supplied literature isn't specific,  but can 
> someone tell me if for eg, I want to run 3 dif distributions, can they all 
> use the same swapspace?

Yes, but not if you're trying to run them at the same time (eg under 
vmware).


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[SLUG] ask perl

[henry]

Dear List:
 
    I want to print the first 5 characters in front of 
a definite word 
as follows:
It's supposed that the definite word is AU.
INPUT   -->aassewrab cdAUwst 
OUTPUT(I hope to get )  - ->ab cd
 
Could you give some hint ?
 
 
BestRegards'
Henry

[SLUG] Canon Multipass C70

[Howard Lowndes]

Has anyone had any success in getting a Canon MultiPASS C70 fully functional
under Linux?

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