ssh may be a better choice. Easier to setup for occasional file transfers.
man scp, or man sftp.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Staudenmayer
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:27 AM
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Subject: RE: How can I
You can use badblock on a swap partition.
However, since it isn't a filesystem, you can't map around it. Other than
replacing the hard drive (probably a good idea if it is going bad), you
could create 2 partitions around the bad sector and leave it unused. This
depends, though, on how your
The badblocks command can be run on individual partitions, including the
swap partition, when booted off of floppy. It does not remap blocks, but
just reports them. It can be run in read only mode, read-write mode
(non-destructive), and destructive mode. I believe you can run it on the
whole
Assuming the SCO is anything at least relatively modern, such as SCO
Openserver 5, then it is probably formated HTFS. I had looked into it back
when my company was migrating from SCO to Redhat.
I used to see a commercial implementation available on the web (never tried
it), but it doesn't appear
I have the Matrox 450 card too, and I was having sporadic freezes after
upgrading to RH9 (though I could still telnet in).
It hasn't happened since I disabled the screen saver.
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As root, on a virtual terminal, init 3
init 5 will restart the X login.
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Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:07 PM
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Subject: How to shut down X without shutting down the
It is a font issue.
I had to do some searching on Google to find a way to fix it. On my US box,
I ended up editing my /etc/sysconfig/i18n file to contain:
LANG=en_US
SUPPORTED=en_US:en
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
SYSFONTACM=iso01
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I rebooted my Windows box one time without remembering to quit evolution
first (using the Cygwin X server), and it stopped remembering my password.
It worked fine again once I rebooted the Redhat box. I think some service
was left in a strange state.
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You mention an AMD K6. What version and speed?
Early K6's (such as the 200 I had) had a known issue that showed up
compiling kernels.
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[mailto:redhat-list-admin;redhat.com]On Behalf Of mark
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:18 AM
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Samba can be used on RH, then assuming you use the same workgroup on both,
Windows can see it. I currently share my big Linux drive with my XP box.
If you want to go the other way, you can use the smbfs to mount your Windows
shares the other way.
In either case, I'm assuming that both of the
You should be able to share files from your XP box, even XP Home, but that
is getting a little off topic for this mailing list.
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[mailto:redhat-list-admin;redhat.com]On Behalf Of Joseph A Nagy Jr
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 4:01 PM
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If I was going to go this route, I would test it with a floppy, then make a
bootable CDROM with the floppy image. Boot faster, and should hold up
better.
Of course, I am someone who went from using his Linux box as the firewall
device to a Linksys router, because something always came up when I
Linux/PPC would be for the PowerPC, such as is in an Apple computer.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bobby Treaster
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 12:05 AM
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Subject: Re: Real Player for linux
I am assuming the
This is FUD.
ext2 supports large files. It is the application that may limit it,
generally because it wasn't compiled with support for large files.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Martin Shears
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Your application. Programs must be written and compiled to have support for
large files.
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Subject: 2GB File limit?
I understood
Only if some process actually needs to have the swapped memory paged back
in. It is inefficient to page the data back in just to page it back in.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Giles
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:16 AM
To: Red
A lot of it depends on how adventuresome you are, and what you are running
on it.
For my purposes, ReiserFS has run well. The only times I've had problems
were with underlying IDE problems, or when an immature, buggy, driver
overwrote freed memory. But there have been some reports of problems
A quick look at www.iomega.com gives me the impression that the main benefit
is being able to write protect disks, if needed, drivers, if needed, and
tools to get information about the disks.
I still have an old SCSI ZIP drive, but I've never used their Linux tools
(or, for that matter, their
I've noticed too that Evolution doesn't seem to be the fastest program out
there. Probably still a matter of maturity. In tests, it downloaded and
moved mail slower than Mozilla, for instance. Though I liked the program
better. So I don't think it is Linux thats to blame.
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With a raid controller, you probably could. Otherwise, the problem is
that the boot drive has to be seen by the BIOS, so you can't stripe the OS
partitions accross drives in a purely Linux software solution.
3.6 gig is perfectly adequate for a Redhat install as long as you excercise
restraint
Iso images aren't editable. I would think that you would have to hope that
the previous image was done allowing multisession.
The other possibility, if you knew what options were used previously, would
be to just extract the files into a directory, add your file, then use the
mkisofs options to
The BOOT.INI file in Windows maps where it expects to find certain files.
And it includes partition and drive information in it. You have to edit
this file even if just a partition before Windows changes on a single hard
drive.
In your case (I haven't tried this, adding another hard drive with
I've heard complaints before too, but I've had a 100GB WD drive connected to
my HT366 controller for a few months now with zero problems. And I get my
ATA66 speed.
I previously had IBM hard drives in that computer, and I couldn't use them
on the HT366 controller. I got DMA timeout errors after
It would appear that there is approximately a 6 month gap between releases.
Which may mean 4 months more, unless something comes up.
This is just as an enduser. 7.3 seems fine to me. The major advantages to
me are that Redhat bundles together newer versions of applications on each
release.
It should be /dev/st0 (/dev/nst0 for no rewind). At least it is for my SCSI
DAT drive.
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Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:25 AM
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Subject: How to configure Tape drive
My tape drive
I've seen reports of a commercial driver that supports HTFS. But I guess
there isn't enough demand for someone to write a free one for Linux.
We have a few computers at my job that are dual boot Redhat/SCO. But we
have gotten by by copying the files via the network.
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It would appear that the driver is already included in Redhat 7.3. And in
the mainstream 2.4 kernels.
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Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 7:53 PM
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Subject: AHA-154x driver.
I am
You didn't mention what OS you are currently using.
With Linux, mount -o loop iso image /mnt/mount point.
But if you are wanting to install from them, you can put the 3 ISO images on
a FAT or ext2 filesystem, and boot from floppy. This is how I installed on
my laptop with the defective CD
I'm
pretty sure that he just wants to know the settings for IPChains to open up the
firewall and forward the requests to a given Windows workstation. I used
to do this before I bought a Linksys router instead.
Unfortunately, I don't recall the details of what I
did.
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Look at cdrecord.
If cdrecord -scanbus
finds your CD burner, then it is a pretty easy process: cdrecord
dev=(whatever the scanbus finds) -v file.iso
You may want to try the -dummy option the first time to see that everything
works, etc.
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With
RH7.3, I was finally able to backup 4GB with the Windows 2000 backup
program. (Actually, 33GB). Before that, the Windows backup program
would get stuck at 4GB.
This
is with Reiserfs. But ext2/3 and, I'm sure, JFS and XFS would work fine
too.
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What is the reason you want to change from ext3 to ext2? That is a question
many of us probably have.
There are a few different levels of journalling available within ext3, so if
the performance loss (shouldn't be significant) bothers you, drop to a lower
level.
To me, the benefits of a
I believe their intent is that they would prefer you use EXT3, which is
another journalling filesystem, with it's own advantages and disadvantages
with regard to Reiserfs.
I have had good luck with Reiserfs, so I hope I can successfully upgrade an
all Reiserfs system running 7.2 to 7.3.
: Monday, May 13, 2002 1:42 PM
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On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 01:02:49PM -0500, Kevin Krieser wrote:
I believe their intent is that they would prefer you use EXT3, which is
another journalling filesystem, with it's own advantages
I have an ATI Rage 128 card that worked perfectly when configured under both
RH 7.1 and 7.2. What kind of problems are you having? You can try starting
X from the command line, and redirect the error to a file. i.e. startx
/tmp/error.out 21
If it is attempting to come up when you boot, edit
I guess it depends on how you define expensive. I see that PCI SCSI cards
are pretty cheap on ebay. I've bought an used Adaptec for $25 in the past,
and there are SCSI cards bidding for under $20 right now.
Of course, I've seen new USB scanners for under $60 :) And much higher
resolution than
My experience with an USB printer under Linux is that things worked well,
especially with later distributions, but that Linux didn't like the printer
being turned off and back on again. There would be an error about the
printer not accepting the new address, and the only way I could fix it was
You can source any text file. It doesn't have to start with a period.
However, the reason it doesn't work with a file called test is because
test is a shell builtin command. Useful in if statements:
if test $VAR = I
then
...
fi
, though normally, the [ command is used instead for the same
My understanding is that vfat provides the long filename support, whether
the filesystem is a FAT16 or FAT32. MSDOS provides the old 8.3 filenames.
I just tried it. One of my computers doesn't have msdos compiled in the
kernel, though vfat is. The other only gave me the short filenames, even
Have you compiled a new kernel at some time? If so, you may not have
configured the vfat filesystem. If so, they may be compiled as modules. So
a modprobe vfat done as root should provide support.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of daniel
A way that would work for special cases is taking away all but owner read
permissions, then using a SUID bit on the program{s} that are allowed to
actually read the file. If these programs don't provide a way to make
another copy of the file, and don't just output the file to the screen in a
way
Have you updated the /etc/xinetd.d/swat file and changed disabled to no?
The default may be yes.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Oatman
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:01 PM
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Subject: Re: Samba: Could not
I suspect the problem is in how vim is writing the file. If it is deleting
the original file first (which is allowed because the directory is writable
by the user), then creating the new file with the old name, it works with
the given permissions.
The vi that is used on Solaris may be
One way to accomplish a similar behavior is to make your VNC session your
main session. Then, when you login from the console, just connect to the
VNC server there. Or remotely. If setup to enable sharing, it essentially
accomplishes the same thing.
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I suspect that he is interested in bonding 2 modems together, to get double
the throughput. However, for this to work, your ISP has to support it. And
I suspect that the normal $20 unlimited account won't support this, along
with dialing into the account twice.
I'm not sure where you would
It probably depends more on your BIOS version on your motherboard. The only
problem I had on my boxes when I bought a 40GB drive was BIOS related, and
once updated it, the BIOS also handled a 100GB drive I bought later.
However, you mention USB in your title. Are you talking about USB 2.0?
Is there a reason he can't run scoterm on the SCO system, with the display
on the Linux X display?
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Wood
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:53 AM
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Subject: Re: Sco-ansi emulation
One reason to dd from cds is that he may have the disks available, but be
unable to do a network install.
For instance, I recently installed 7.1 on my laptop. Under Windows, I was
able to download the ISO images from my Linux desktop via my USB network
card (obviously, it takes awhile via USB
Is there any problem with putting Reiser on everything BUT the /boot
partition?
My employer is going to start developing using Red Hat Linux, and because of
the environment the computers will be running in, a filesystem like ReiserFS
will have definate advantages. I personally have had more
A possibility is some program has an open filehandle to some file that
another process has deleted. It won't go away until the other program
closes it, or quits.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ashley M. Kirchner
Sent: Monday, April
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