On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, cr wrote:
> Sorry for the long delay. Real Life (TM) interfered with my investigations,
> and also a point you mentioned brought up a possible complication which I'll
> mention at the end...
>
> Doing /sbin/modprobe sr_mod brings a string of 'unresolved symbol' messages
> an
On 12 Nov 2002, Heimo Claasen wrote:
> On a related note:
> Some accident/repair event apparently had the effect to trash what
> would be just one of the "Gdk" libraries. (At least, this was the only
> fault discovered hitherto after the repair.)
>
> Indication is that just one application compla
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Peter wrote:
>
> There your are.
>
> ]$ gdb tkdesk ./core.1875
>
> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"..."/usr/local/bin/tkdesk": not
> in executable format: File format not recognized
>
> Core was generated by `tkdesksh /usr/local/bin/tkdesk'.
here is the program
On 4 Nov 2002, Paul Furness wrote:
> There is only one snag with tartar: it doesn't pick up 'dot' files in
> the starting directory.
If you mean files of the form .name, I can't see that it doesn't.
ls won't show them without -a though.
Lawson
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Alan Womack wrote:
> The STB 4Com card came to me used, I have attempted to set the card up in a manner
>as such:
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS04 baud_base 9600 irq 15 port 0x03E8 ^fourport ^skip_test
> setserial /dev/ttyS03 baud_base 9600 irq 15 port 0x02F8 ^fourport ^skip_test
> s
On 2 Nov 2002, Heimo Claasen wrote:
...
>
> AND X had run perfectly as usual at the last boot before.
>
> ?!?
Try something like
startx 2>&1 |tee ~/oops
and read on ~/oops what it used as a FontPath.
Maybe it has only
unix/:7101
or so and xfs is not running?
This is also a good way to see whe
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Michael Scondo wrote:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > ##copy a directory or partition
> > tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf -
> >
>
> That's an idea, but I believe parted should be much faster.
> I think compressing and decompressing would be a little bit slow ?
>
It's not compressing
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, 1stFlight wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to upgrade my HD and maintain file/directory structure.
> I've got a 20GB with partitions for / /home /usr how can I copy/clone this
> drive over to it's 60B replacement? Thanks!
>
> Darryl
I wouldn't copy/clone it, I'd
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, root wrote:
> I'm in a real jam: can't run X server, and so trying to run rmail
> out of emacs in text mode from a command prompt. But I'm having
> trouble with rmail in this situation.
It shouldn't happen, but bash will read differen
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Haines Brown wrote:
> Lawson,
>
> At this point I'm only trying to back out of my abortive nVidia driver
> install and get back to the nv driver that came with my RedHat 7.3
> distribution.
>
> To do that, I recovered my old XF86Config-4 file. The rpm install for
> the driver
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Haines Brown wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Here I sit, almost dead in the water. Confident that I could run emacs
> at the command prompt outside X (I'm writing now with emacs-rmail, but
> have lost X altogether), I went ahead and installed the two rpm files
> and edited my XF86Config-4
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 October 2002 12:03, Kevin Curtis wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I hope this question is not too technical. When an oops message is
> > generated and decoded with ksymoops, how do I get an assembler listing of
> > the module that caused the problem so I c
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, LL Phillips wrote:
> How much do you have now ? (memory)
> Lorraine
80m. Why do you ask? I had 8m in an old 486 to start with.
Lawson
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On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> In principle, you could run X with no Window Manager, just starting a
> single xterm when the X server starts. I've never done this myself (I have
> read about the procedure, in a *very* old book), but perhaps when he sees
> this message, Lawson will ske
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Abhijit Vijay wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> My computer (which has Windows 2000/Red Hat Linux 7.0)
> Dual Boot with a WinNT loader, has developed problems.
> Someone else was using it and now when I select the
> Linux option at boot time, it says that some
> kernel.exe file is missing
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> I've never tried it myself, but I seem to recall that Lawson Whitney (are
> you there, Lawson? acn you comment helpfully?) has in the past run his
> xserver "bare metal", without even a basic Window Manager. I don't know how
> versatile he found that set
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Melrez Tan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Could anybody know where to locate the fec.c source
> code?
> Thanks.
>
> -mel
[whit@giftie linux]$ find -name fec.c
./arch/ppc/8xx_io/fec.c
Looks to be in
/arch/ppc/8xx_io/fec.c
Lawson
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Alan Womack wrote:
> OK, made a loop back cable. Works great on the windows box, fast and accurate.
>
> On the linux box it's INCREDIBLY slow, makes 300 baud look blazing. Take like 2
>hours to print the whole dmesg:
>
> cat dmesg (I have it saved to a file) >/dev/ttyS01
>
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Daniel Peter Cavanagh wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Can anyone suggest a good command-line POP-readable mail client.
> Preferrably one that comes with Slackware.
>
> Also, can anyone tell how to kill the beep in GNOME and across all
> terminals. I have "setterm -bfreq 0" in my rc.local
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Brett wrote:
> I use SuSE 8.0 and mostly use the KDE UI but find myself more and more
> using the standard text console either by doing a Alt+f2 or not even
> starting X at all.
> What I would like to do is change the color of the font and maybe the font
> it self.
> Is this a
On 27 Sep 2002, Heimo Claasen wrote:
> BTW, _once_ I stumbled (per pure chance and hazard) into the place where
> this mount counter is set, gladly changed it from 20 (yes, that _was_
> the default) to 99 (ouf, I dare say, still a "safe and secure" setting);
> but one bad day I did a new install
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sagar N Chand wrote:
> I've recently installed Mandrake on my system.
> Everything is well and good. But by default it is going
> into xwindows for the login. I changed the runlevel to 3 in the
> etc\inittab file and now it is showing the login in the console
> mode only. Is
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Peter wrote:
>
> Sep 8 09:52:46 philonline apmd: apmd startup succeeded
> Sep 8 09:52:46 philonline sshd: Starting sshd:
> Sep 8 09:52:46 philonline sshd: execvp: No such file or directory
Aha! sshd. I thought it was odd to try to run ssh as a daemon.
try "file /usr/sbin/
On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Jim Reimer wrote:
> I'm not sure I'm clear as to when I should use sudo, and
> when I should use SUID and/or SGID. It looks like I should
> use sudo when I want only a limited number of users to
> have access to a (normally root) program, and SUID/SGID
> when I want to let e
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Ray.
>
> 1. Axel asked about stripping OBJECT files. These are the
> intermediate files created by the compiler and fed to
> the linker, and I'm not sure that it's even possible
> to strip those.
You can strip object files. Some optio
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> 3. What errors get reported when startx runs?
To see these, you are probably going to need to do something like:
startx >~/oops 2>&1
~/oops should then give the X version, driver used, and some interesting
error messages.
If your shell is bash, you
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> As I indicated in my message to Lawson, "static" is a tricky term, with an
> assortment of context-dependent meanings. It is messy enough that you
> should take what I write next with a grain of salt, since it is easy to get
> mixed up here.
>
> Both .a
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 12:17 PM 8/15/02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >In case you want to make a static executable (one that does not require
> >dynamic linking. Nost distro's link /sbin/ldconfig static so you can
> >use it to recover when you mess up your librar
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> It's been so long since I used a .a libraries, I didn't recall how they
> were created. They are the old-format libraries I referred to above. They
> are kept around, at least on full-size Linux installs, mainly for legacy
> reasons. Don't use them unle
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Alan Womack wrote:
> I'm trying to download the text manuals for the linux pam modules to my palm pilot,
>but there is the appearance of old style double strike for emphasis text all over the
>docs.
>
> e.g. a L(backspace)Li(backspace)in(backspace)n
>
> What utility to remo
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> So, if this line does actually work the same way as LILO, that entry passes
> to the kernel the instruction to use /lsh as init. You need to supply a
> full path relative to root, and since you've told it to use /dev/fd0 as /,
> this is the full path.
>
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Peter wrote:
> Hi,
> trying to configure a program I get the following message and .configure
> stops.
>
> checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot
> create executables
>
> What has to be done to correct this?
>
> Thanks & regards
>
At a
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Mark Johnson wrote:
> Hello all,
> I recently installed Windows XP and reformatted to NTFS. I then
> Installed my partition magic and bootmagic, and boot magic wouldn't
> install to the ntfs partition. well, my problem is that boot magic said
> to not use lilo in the mb
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Haines Brown wrote:
> Lawson,
>
> The "tartar" script worked very nicely to copy a directory on one
> drive to another drive, thanks!
>
> > #!/bin/bash
> > tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf -
>
> However, I ran into a lot of ownership and permission errors, and so
> these
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Haines Brown wrote:
> I'm trying to copy a directory tree from one mounted hard disk to
> another. I want to copy the contents of a directory named "backups" on
> a secondary SCSI HD to one of the same name on an external USB mass
> storage device.
>
> The source is /mnt/sdb1
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