On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> Sorry if this info is already available elsewhere, but has anyone had
> any experiences (good or bad) with AGP mother boards/video cards? Does
> Linux even care about this sort of thing? If so, does it pose a
> problem?
Linux doesn't care, but the X s
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, RHS Linux User wrote:
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and will be interested in their reply. If they are
> not interested in it perhaps others will take on the challenge and
> create this new distribution.
You need to look at independence.dunadan.com and www.seul.org.
These focus on u
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, David E. Fox wrote:
> One thing in particular I noticed early on - especially on DOS, is that
> the rand() function isn't good enough for certain applications, for
Well, what do you expect, working libraries on DOS? :) The random number
generator under Linux is reasonably g
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Ian Paton wrote:
> I am a small ISP and a requirement has come up which requires me to
> redirect all mail addressed to a certain domain name to a particular user.
In order to do this you have to rebuild your sendmail.cf to add support
for the "virtual user table". I could s
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, death wrote:
> Is there some public exploit that lets a person get root on a linux box
Yes, all kinds of them. Boy, are you in for a treat when you discover the
wonderful world of Unix security. And it's not just Linux, either - this
sort of thing happens to all Unix syste
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> though zombies are already dead, I would like to kill the ones haunting my
> computer.
You can't, unfortunately. Whenever their parent process exits, they will
be cleaned up by the system. Don't worry about it, though. They don't
take up any reso
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Scott wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could help me here. My Linux server (runs ftp
> and quake2) keeps dying with a the following error: "kernel panic
> skput:over". Sometimes this message is followed by a bunch of numbers,
Haven't you asked about this already? It is
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, James Michael Keller wrote:
> Innd is loading at boot ok, I don't have an active list yet, and I'm not
> sure how to get that down from the ISP.
Ask them for it. :)
> I don't want to carry the entire feed, ( ie 80% of the damn feeds are
> the *.binary.* groups. ) Just a few
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Guin, Jay wrote:
> I used fdisk to partition my only harddrive. Thereafter I proceeded to
I'm going to make some assumptions that are not made clear by your email.
1) You already had Windows 95 installed on your single hard drive
2) You installed Linux on your single hard dr
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Wim Raets wrote:
> The solution:
> If I could somehow make my PC wait 'a few seconds, but not to long'
> before responding to the server, the throughput would drop. Because the
> server has to wait for the confirmation before sending the next packet.
This is probably a bad
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> priority than the HTTP packets, however, this depends on both the routers
> handling the TOS field correctly (which Ciscos do, I believe) and the PPP
> server doing likewise, and I am not convinced that the Linux based ones do
> that, but Cisco 5260s m
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Bench wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why I can't get the 265041 blocks I have allocated for
> my swap space. 'cat /proc/meminfo' shows this:
Linux imposes a 128MB limit per-swapfile. You can use multiple swap
partitions and/or swapfiles, however, to work around this problem.
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> I talk about how FTP typically sets the HIGH THROUGPUT TOS, and others
> (like Telnet) set the LOW DELAY TOS. And I mention that modern routers
> handled packets in the queue based on the TOS flags, and that I suspect
> that Linux can even do that.
T
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Phillip Ching 605.734.71 wrote:
>I must miss something in xv. Any tips on how can I save these
>*.jpg or *.tif files as *.gif ?
.jpg and .tif files are 24 bit color files, whereas .gif is a maximum of 8
bit color. Therefore you must convert the colors. Once you dither or
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Wim Raets wrote:
> I am FTP'ing a new kernel(+/- 10MB) at max speed (4K/s).
> If I would start surfing(http) now, the speed of webpages coming through
> would be terrible. So I would like to lower the priority of the
> ftp-connection and raise those of the http-connection. Ho
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Tony Wells wrote:
> For the client workstation ease of use and penetration of
> application software is the driver. Win9x and NT are the clear
Right. We all agree that there is less application software for Linux
than for Windows, there is no doubt about that, and that the
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Scott Kindley wrote:
> It said you would need a copy of some file from this provider. Cant
Yes, the newsgroups file. :) If you are not connecting to an upstream,
you create this file yourself. It's a plaintext file.
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Tim Pickering wrote:
> that's not entirely true. if you build under solaris 2.4, it's likely
> that it will work under solaris > 2.4. however, if you build something
> on 2.5.1 or 2.6, it will NOT work under 2.4 because of library
Does anything work under 2.4? :)
I wouldn'
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> I'm not sure, but I think that the analogous process on a system-V-style
> *n*x box is changing runlevels. Whenever you change from one runlevel
Not exactly. shutdown -r does a change to runlevel 6. The fact that the
system reboots cold instead of w
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Chris Frost wrote:
> I'm beginning to setup a cluster here, and most of the nodes will be
> disk-less (and thus nis isn't needed), but for those that will have their
Probably should use it anyway. It keeps your password files organized, it
is better than mounting /etc/passw
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Tony Wells wrote:
> About the only thing Linux and SAMBA can't replicate is the
> ability to easily manage users sharing multiple Novell 4.x
> servers. This is because Novell have a handy system called the NDS
> tree. This enables access permissions and passwords to be change
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> 56k won't cut it. Last time I checked, 128k would, but I wouldn't be
> surprised if it's gone past that now.
I don't think you have. A full newsfeed is up over 10GB per day. It
requires almost a full T-1 just to carry the news. Over half of this is
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, dreamwvr wrote:
> linux box as a router? Would like to ideally get intimate with using
> bgp and ospf using red hat as a router over 100 base T. Is this
> different than setting up two nics and doing route add and default route?
No. bgp and ospf are routing protocols. Wh
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> Ironically, the necessary final nail in this coffin is being placed
> there by Microsoft and Intel; the PC 99 spec doesn't allow ISA slots.
> Certain internal devices are allowed to continue to use the ISA bus.
Well, Microsoft and Intel don't have an
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Jeremy Domingue wrote:
> I was wondering if there is some way that you can configure linux as to
> prevent UDP floods from originating locally? Could UDP be filtered out
> completely w/o damaging other services or. ?
First step is to rig your router to block spoofed pack
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2. Tier One applications. The leading applications must
Fortunately some Tier One applications are coming to Linux. There's
WordPerfect and friends, Star Office, Oracle (which SCO version works, as
I just learned), Netscape, as well as the tradit
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Son of a Preacherman wrote:
> Does anyone know of an ICQ program for linux?
Mirabilis makes an ICQ client available for Java, so if you can make Java
work, you can get ICQ.
There are several hacker efforts to make a command-line or native linux
version. So far they don't w
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Michael George wrote:
> What I'm still unclear on is how Netware and IP interact... I know that
> both run as a layer above the media protocol (ethernet in this case),
> but I thought that Netware was the same layer as IP, and that one ran
> one *or* the other.
That's not
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Jason Belich wrote:
> On my RH5.0 box, my compressed files tend to be corrupted. I get
> "Invalid compressed data --crc error" with my gzips about 2/3 of the
> time. I've reinstalled gzip several times BTW, no luck.
My guess is it's a CPU or RAM problem. Corrupt c
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> any Micro$oft OS, I have just about zero familiarity with PC hardware.
> (I've lived in a world of Sun, Sequent, NeXT, Digital, SGI, and HP
> machines.)
It's amazing that MS claims that Unix is so hard when, in fact, the
hardest thing in the entire c
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Grant Bayley wrote:
> On thing was, when I checked in the process listing, ftp was showing up as
> "sendmail", as follows:
I can confirm this odd behavior. I can't imagine what would cause it.
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On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote:
> Got a problem I hope someone can help with, problem follows:
Couple of problems with this zone file.
> Jun 21 23:58:21 router named[8365]: named.forward:1: expected a number
Indicative of having your parenthesis at the end of the first line
pointing
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, George Toft wrote:
> This is an honest query from someone who does not
> understand how the real world works. In my job, the OS
You're being sarcastic... right?
> If our computers don't work right, our first step is
> reboot Win95 (clients) or NT (server), wherever the
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Benji Spencer wrote:
> partitions on /dev/hdb
>
> /dev/hdb1 300 meg (full) /var/spool/news
> /dev/hdb2 300 meg (unused)
> /dev/hdb3 100 meg (unused)
> /dev/hdb4 200 meg (used) /usr
> /dev/hdb5 200 meg (used) /var
>
> can I join hdb1, hdb2, and hdb3, creating a 700 meg parti
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Joe Nestlerode wrote:
> "Vendor A" has an FIC VA503+ motherboard, w/ an AMD K6 300MHz MMX
> processor, VIA Apollo VP3 chipset and 1 Mb on-board cache for $259.
This is a much better chipset than the Intel 430TX. The TX (the T stands
for "Terrible") has SDRAM support, USB po
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Dave Reed wrote:
> excuse the question. So does this mean if you have a monitor that
> says it's PnP that you can safely ignore the warning about damaging
> your monitor when you set up X-Windows if you set the wrong refresh
> rates.
Yes. Actually if you're quick on the dr
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Will Shaw wrote:
> cp (--recursive) all of your data to the new disk from /. Then reinstall
Actually you need to use cp -a. It will preserve device and other special
files as well as permissions and ownership. If you just use cp -r it will
mangle your filesystem.
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Leston Buell wrote:
> actually have a section on monitors, but i want to know if the general
> lack of compatibility with Plug 'n Play applies to monitors as well. ¿Do
No. Plug 'n' Play with respect to monitors is a marketing gimmick. It
effectively means that it is a moni
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Scott wrote:
> difference between the two? Are thier reasons to use on over the other?
Mostly the primary decision is which one your card is supported by.
XFree86 is a better product. It has fewer bugs and is more efficient.
But MetroX supports some cards that XFree doesn
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Scott wrote:
> Only a user who is familair with messing with an OS. I for one don't
> want to think about touching my OS in this manner. I doin't know C nor
> do I have any plans to know. I'll grant you that someone somewhere does
> fix it and updates are more quickly avail
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Scott wrote:
> what this means. My isp recommended that I first upgrade to kernel
> 2.0.34 and see what that does. Any clues would be helpfull.
They gave you a good recommendation. Upgrade to 2.0.34. This is a bug in
2.0.33 and lower.
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On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Steve Frampton wrote:
> The various BSD' have a 'wheel group' with users allowed to
> 'su' into root, is there such a scheme for Linux (RH5.1) ?
There is no such wheel group by default in Red Hat. The wheel group
exists but doesn't have this effect for su. But you can easi
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> Microsoft Outlook Express, and most other email programs that allow HTML
> formatting, put the plain-ASCII text in the main body, and attach the
> HTML-formatted version as a MIME attachment.
That's not true. They put the plain-ASCII text in another a
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Chris Newbill wrote:
> Hopefully people will actually read this since no one seems to be
Here's a tip: more people will read your messages if you make them
legible. A message consisting of a MIME attachment with HTML in it is
useful if you're using Netscape, but the vast ma
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Sim Robert wrote:
> I used lpr to print a dvi file, but while the printer was printing,
> I switched the printer off and then shut down the Linux. Thereafter,
Well, don't do that again. :) Print queues on Unix are stubborn, er,
especially reliable. :)
> how. Is there a
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Iztok Polanic wrote:
> Why doesn't work this:
>
> e2fsck -yt /dev/hdx
e2fsck won't run on a mounted filesystem, you would have to unmount the
filesystem first. Well, it'll run, but I don't think it will do it
non-interactively. It will raise quite a fuss.
Why are y
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Blair Craft wrote:
> As I understand identd, it allows someone from a remote computer to find out
> who owns processes running on my computer. I am curious to know if this has
> recently been used to gather information that would be useful to someone
> trying to exploit a mac
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Randy Carpenter wrote:
> Thought I would share our record uptime:
One of the things that I always wonder about these enormous uptimes in the
modern era is how they contend with the variety of networking bugs that
have been discovered in the modern era. Such an old system sh
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Fred Smith wrote:
> When utmp gets trashed on other Unixes, the usual way to clean it up
> is to go to single-user mode then type:
It's not strictly necessary to go to single-user mode. Users that are
logged in while you reset utmp will notice weirdness, but it will go away
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
> One option that has occurred to us is to use celeron chips rather than
> PII's.
That's an interesting idea, and admittedly not one I thought much about.
I think you'd be better off with 4 PPros than 2 sticks of celery.
> We can buy a much faster celero
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, I have to have the second card for the other Network, don't I? Or,
> is there a way to route all the traffic for the new network through
> the old network?? I have 2 different routers going, one for each
Yes, there is, but it matters whether
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Suddenly linsniffer showed up on my machine. What is it?
It's a hacker breakin, probably. :)
linsniffer typically is used to record the passwords of people flying by
on the network.
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On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Barfuß Egon jun. wrote:
> Is it possible to encrypt the data between two redhat - firewalls with
> fwtk 2.0 so that I can make a secure login or transmit sensitive data???
SSH is your best bet. Try www.replay.com. It allows secure telnet and
file transfers.
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On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> We are in the process of changing Networks. And I need a way to switch
> our web machines from one network to the other with no downtime. At first
> we were going to mirror the machines on both networks. But, i think there
That would work. In the
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Joe Harrington wrote:
> I contend that all external root accesses are serious, because of how
Perhaps so.
Upon reflection, does named really need to run as root? Yes, it needs to
bind the port, but other than that, what does it need root for? It
doesn't write any files th
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Jason wrote:
> I use a small util called "promisc" which shows whether or not a
...
> sniffer has been detected. On one machine, when I quit using tcpdump,
> the program reports that a sniffer is not detected (which makes sense,
> since it's no longer reading from eth0.) On
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, W.D.McKinney wrote:
> Is there a MB that caches more than 256MB's of RAM ?
There are a smattering of Pentium motherboards which cache 512MB of RAM,
the Intel HX is one of those (provided you have the tag ram) and many of
the Tyan and Asus do as well. But that's only an issue
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Gary Nielson wrote:
> me clarify some of what I think I am hearing. Basically, I have an older
> Dell PC, 1993 vintage, that is not compliant. My understanding from my
Why do you think your PC is not compliant? As far as I know all PC-type
computers are compliant, within th
On Sat, 30 May 1998, Peter Lavender wrote:
> I idea here is to use the 325 meg IDE drive to boot up linux, after
> that with the OS up and running, will linux see and use the 1.6 gig
> HDD??
Yes. In fact if Linux is the only OS on your system, you don't even need
the 325MB drive at all, just
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Steve Ki-Won Lee wrote:
> they have various "linux" downloads, such as linux-2.1.99.tar.gz and so
> forth, but not explicit "kernel" downloads. And yet when I look through
> Redhat's ftp site, it doesn't contain any "linux" downloads, but only
> have "kernel-*" rpm downloa
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Joe Harrington wrote:
> Unfortunately, neither the CERT advisory nor Red Hat's Errata site
> stated in clear language a layman can understand that this bug was an
> external root security hole, and many therefore did not consider it
> very serious. There are lots of internal
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> I have no basis for disputing your doubts, but we _have_ had very good
> luck making large, complex SCO apps run with nothing other than iBCS and
> the proper, normal configuration (user setups, permissions, jazz like
> that).
Hm. Well, it appears th
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Anand P. Kale wrote:
> Does anyone has the idea if ORACLE is available on Linux ?
It isn't. But there is a sizable number of people at Oracle who think it
should be ported. Tell them you want it and it might do some good.
I don't know whether the SCO version
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Scott Tyson wrote:
> DONT GET AN NE2000 CLONE!!! Although cheap (20 bucks for pci) they are
> SLOW. Its an ISA card stuck onto a PCI bus. I started with this since
Not the ISA ones. :) Since he's looking for an ISA card I don't see this
as a problem. Although the ancien
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Thomas Hubbell wrote:
> I'm looking for a good, inexpensive, Linux-compatible Ethernet card.
> ISA/10Mb is fine. Any suggestions?
Get one of the $20 or $30 NE2000 clones. I use the Genius GE2000 cards,
which work fine without any tweaking to the driver. Some NE2000 cards
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Neely Kountze wrote:
> I am trying to find our about the function of portmap, and cannot find
Portmap is used so that programs on one system can connect to a single
well-known port (belonging to the portmapper) on another system and ask
the portmapper where it can find other
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Fred Whipple wrote:
> I'm trying to work my way through the Java-CGI HOWTO, but have run into
Although I can't imagine why you'd want to write CGI scripts in Java other
than the "coolness factor," I think I can point out your problem.
> # test.class is in the same directory
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Matt Housh wrote:
> now. My current ISP uses Ascend, anyone got a suggestion as to a specific
> Ascend ISDN modem?
Well, for home use you pretty much have two choices, the Pipeline 25 or
the Pipeline 15. The 15 is a pure terminal adapter and uses your serial
port just like
On Thu, 21 May 1998, DGM wrote:
> usr
Stands for "user". In the olden days, the user home directories lived in
this directory. "bin" was just another user so the files belonging to
"bin" (which meant binary) were in /usr/bin. Now /usr has a different
purpose (in the Linux world, applications
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote:
> Is there a way to know at what speed is stablished a ppp connection?
This will depend on your modem. Some modems will report the actual
connect speed in their connect string, you can do with this as you wish.
Some will do so, but only if you
I have a question myself.
Is it considered "commercial use" if I link (in the USA) apache against
the RSAREF library and then use the resulting SSL-capable web server to
sell things, or is it only considered "commercial use" if I sell the web
server itself? (i.e. do I have to cough up gobs of mo
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Matt Housh wrote:
> Not a specific redhat question, but here goes. Can some people
> recommend to me a good ISDN modem/router for Linux that's relatively
> affordable? Even an internal modem would be ok, although I prefer
Get the same brand that your ISP uses. The big
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Eugen Constantinescu wrote:
> Now, I cannot use the su because I get a error message : "Cannot set
> groups: Operation not permited".
Su needs to have permissions 4755.
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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Chris Fishwick wrote:
> Mine are in full colour... are you having a problem with the colour
> palette in X maybe??
That's likely. If you are running in 8-bit mode with your X server, then
it's likely that Netscape itself is using up all your colors and leaving
none for the
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Bill Day wrote:
> at the school i work at. i told the boss i'd learn a bit about our server
> so we could at least troubleshoot if necessary. ok... i bought a copy of
What happened to the guy that put the server in in the first place? Maybe
he would give you a crash cours
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Piet Barber wrote:
> I thoroughly read the man page for mount, but there appears to be no
> procedure for mounting a swap drive (is this how you do it?)
Mount doesn't handle swap space, so that's probably the reason. :)
My swap space is on /dev/hdb2. Unless your swap space
On Tue, 19 May 1998, Rick L. Mantooth wrote:
> Opinions?
I'd suggest running fsck on your drive. But a corrupt filesystem by
itself shouldn't cause a kernel panic.
Do you have both hard drives installed at the same time on the same IDE
channel? Try moving one of them to its own IDE channel an
On Tue, 19 May 1998, David Miller wrote:
> I want to have Win95 be the default option at boot time so my wife and
At the top of lilo.conf put default=dos.
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Miguel A. de Avillez wrote:
> I need nestcape to be on all the time. How can I get that?
Don't exit it? That is the simplest way. But Netscape leaks memory
(probably it leaks about 50MB per week, especially using Java), so you
need to have either a whole lot of swap or res
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Peter Chen wrote:
> I can't find a qmail SRPM or RPM package. Moreover, since I don't have much
There isn't any. The qmail author permits free use of the program, but
won't allow redistribution of it. So you have to get it from him. (Well,
now he allows redistribution, bu
On 17 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
> We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have
> only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very efficient.
It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that Solaris requires 128MB to do
anything useful, it runs very nicely in 64MB, maybe 32MB if
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Ben Sinclair wrote:
> Does anyone have Sendmail virtual hosts working with the stock RH5
> Sendmail? There is some nice documentation about doing so at
Sendmail virtual hosts is surprisingly easy to do, once you figure it out.
(heh) First, you must add the virtual hosts to
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Steve Glines wrote:
> We modified both local.mail and popper to use a substring of the MD5
> hash string to create 256 sub directories. MD5 gives us a random
> distribution based on user names. We get mail files like
> /var/spool/2f/joe.
Just out of curiosity, why are you d
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Chuck Carson wrote:
> Linux can out perform NT maybe, but Solaris? That is like
> comparing a GEO Metro to a Mercedes Benz IMHO.
It's more like comparing a Camaro to a Mercedes. One of them might be
nice and comfy, but the other is just as fast and soups up a lot easier.
>
On 16 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
> No, but you'd better use FreeBSD for such a task. While Linux may be
> nicer for a personal workstation, as a serious server FreeBSD offers
> more performance and stability.
This is no longer true. Hasn't been true for two years. Both FreeBSD and
Linux a
On Fri, 15 May 1998, David Villeger wrote:
> I'd prefer Linux as I think it has better features and better
> performance. However, I heard that Linux compares _very_ poorly with
> FreeBSD as an NFS client.
I wouldn't say that it compares VERY poorly. The 2.0 kernel is a lot
faster than it used
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Peter Chen wrote:
> Exchange Server 5.5. But I manage to persuade the management to use Red Hat
> Linux 5.5 instead.
>
> - Now am I too ambitious?
You bet you are. 5.5 isn't even out yet. :)
> - Can a Red Hat Linux box handle the load of a heavy mail server serving
> 4
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Ray Abbitt wrote:
> And unfortunately it is becoming harder and harder to tell what is and
> isn't a WinModem. I was looking for a new 56K modem last week and
I think all WinModems specify it. In general, if a modem will
1) Work on low system requirements and/or
2) Work on
On Sun, 10 May 1998, Marco Shaw wrote:
> Just a general question about PnP modems...Are they very hard to configure?
Yes. Get a non-PnP modem if possible.
Even worse are WinModems, these will never ever work and you have zero
likelihood of making it work.
A PnP modem can be made to work, but
On Sat, 9 May 1998, [iso-8859-1] Linus Åkerlund wrote:
> something wrong, probably something with malloc(), but how come it
> works when I compile it without optimization? There really shouldn't
> be a difference in whether the program works or not, right?
No; optimization changes your code, aft
>Just a little question about BogoMips: when I boot RedHat 5.0 I get
>299 BogoMips, and when I boot my other Linux distribution I get >400.
Doesn't mean anything. The BogoMips value will vary with the version of
the kernel, the options compiled in, the phase of the moon, and is
basically meaning
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Richard Layton wrote:
> partition and now it is full. To my understanding it is impossibe to
> resize a ext2 partitionI want to install StarOffice but I do not have
That's right.
> enough room. So my question is: If I wanted to install StarOffice in
> the /local dir, woul
> wondering, as the subject suggests, is if I can share my /home
> partition between the two distributions, if I have the same users on
> both distributions. This couldn't screw anything up, could it? Of
The short answer is no. :)
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On Thu, 7 May 1998, Iztok Polanic wrote:
> Why can't you write a virus for Un*x??? Why can you write a virus for DOS
> and not for Un*x???
Didn't we just go over this? :) It is because under Unix it is not
possible for code to arbitrarily modify other system binaries, because of
permissions. A
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Gene Wilburn wrote:
> What does 'system is too big' mean, and what should I do about it?? A
> search of the RH archives didn't turn up any info.
System too big means your kernel is too big to fit in the low 1MB of RAM.
This is a common occurrence with modern kernels.
There a
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Ezekiel J. Krahlin wrote:
> >There is one, somewhere, but it's pretty much ignored. Unix, in general, is
> >pretty much invulnerable to virus's.
>
> Invulnerable? What intrinsic quality grants Unix this remarkable privilege?
The fact that not all code runs with root pri
On Tue, 5 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just curious how is the cua devices depreciated? What exactly do you mean?
Their value is being reduced on the books, thereby giving us a tax
writeoff. :)
They are deprecated because at some point in the future they will stop
working. I don't kno
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Dominique Cormann wrote:
> If for example MS did decide to put out a version of perl, but
> didn't release the code as per GPL, who would sue them?
Stallman could, and he probably would. So could Larry Wall, the actual
author of perl. I imagine that the FSF would put up the
On Sun, 3 May 1998, macker wrote:
> i'm having a problem with /usr/bin/who .. it keeps failing. i've seen
...
> who: Memory exhausted
who does this when your wtmp/utmp files get too large. The best solution
is to use w, which is a little more robust, or clean out your utmp/wtmp
files periodica
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Troels Arvin wrote:
> When the rc5des software is not running, the following procedure
> takes around one minute:
> time cat /dev/hda1 >/dev/null
> (CPU usage is around 30%)
Just out of curiosity... why are you doing this at all? :)
> hda1 is an IDE disk (PIO4) of around 3
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