Linux-Misc Digest #253, Volume #27 Wed, 28 Feb 01 14:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Dual CPU (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: redirect stderr to both screen and logfile at same time? (David Wallis)
daemon question (Jan Duennweber)
Re: LILO + Mylex 170 ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Unable to mount...08:32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Unable to mount...08:32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
c-pen (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: XMMS question (Ton Nijkes)
Re: licence loops (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: Stop misspelling Beowulf ! (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: Swap File Question (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: daemon question ("Paul J. Lucas")
lin winpopup question ("MB666")
Re: daemon question (Eric Buddington)
Re: Linux "error 0x10" ("Kevin Gill")
Clone an Linux machine (how)? (Eugene Grayver)
Flash-Player 5 on SuSE 7.1 crashes (Gerd Jungbluth)
Re: redirect stderr to both screen and logfile at same time? (Hemant Shah)
Bizarre ntp error (Elephant)
Re: linux 6.1 and star office 5.1 ("Harlan Grove")
Re: shared email between Linux and Windows 2000? ("Harlan Grove")
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual CPU
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:14:08 -0500
rc wrote:
>
> The motherboard only has 1 CPU slot. It's a Tyan and it looks like they had
> the same motherboard for 1 or 2 CPU's except that the single CPU one does
> not have the second socket, but the same BIOS. Here is the error:
>
> per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 100.2 usecs
> CPI0: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
> calibrating APIC timer...
> ...CPU clock speed is 199.45 Mhz
> ...system bus clock speed is 0.000 Mhz
> Booting processor 15 eip 200
> Not responding
> Total of 2 processors activated (199.07 BogoMIPS)
> enabling symmetric IO node... done
> ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
> ...changing IO-APIC IRQs
> ...changing IO-APIC physycal APIC ID to 2
> kernel panic: could not set ID
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
> Then it hangs...
>
> I hope there is a way to fix this...
>
Starting where you did, my machine (with a Tyan board and 2 CPUs)
comes up with:
Feb 26 16:01:50 valinux kernel: per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 100.04
usecs.
Feb 26 16:01:50 valinux kernel: CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping 03
Feb 26 16:01:50 valinux kernel: calibrating APIC timer ...
Feb 26 16:01:50 valinux kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 551.2756 MHz.
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: ..... system bus clock speed is
100.2318 MHz.
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: Booting processor 1 eip 2000
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 550.50
BogoMIPS
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: OK.
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping 03
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: Total of 2 processors activated
(1101.00 BogoMIPS).
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: enabling symmetric IO mode... ...done.
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: init IO_APIC IRQs
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-9, 2-10,
2-11, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected.
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: number of MP IRQ sources: 19.
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: testing the IO
APIC.......................
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel:
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: IO APIC #2......
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: .... register #00: 02000000
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: ....... : physical APIC id: 02
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: .... register #01: 00170011
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: ....... : max redirection entries:
0017
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: ....... : IO APIC version: 0011
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: .... register #02: 00000000
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: ....... : arbitration: 00
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: .... IRQ redirection table:
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat
Dest Deli Vect:
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 00
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 01 000 00 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 59
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 02 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 51
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 03 000 00 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 61
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 04 000 00 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 69
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 05 000 00 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 71
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 06 000 00 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 79
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 07 000 00 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 81
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 08 000 00 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 89
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 00
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 00
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 00
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 0c 000 00 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 91
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 00
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 0e 000 00 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 99
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 0f 000 00 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 A1
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 10 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0
1 1 A9
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 11 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0
1 1 B1
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 12 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0
1 1 B9
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 13 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0
1 1 C1
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 00
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 00
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 00
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: 17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 00
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: ....................................
done.
Feb 26 16:01:51 valinux kernel: checking TSC synchronization across
CPUs: passed.
I suppose you are trying to run an SMP kernel on a UP machine. As has
already been suggested, you should seriously consider running a UP
kernel if you have but one processor.
> Roberto
>
> --
> Roberto
> "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:prmh79.i47.ln@helix...
> > > I installed RedHat 6.2 on a machine that has a dual CPU capability, but
> > only
> > > has 1 CPU (not planning on adding). After reboot, it crashes cause it
> > can't
> > > find the other CPU. How do I fix that?
> >
> > Some motherboards require a "terminator" in any unused CPU slot. Is
> yours
> > one of those? If it seems like it's a problem with Linux, give us the
> error
> > messages that you see.
> >
> > steve
> >
> >
> >
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From: David Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: redirect stderr to both screen and logfile at same time?
Date: 28 Feb 2001 10:23:27 -0600
> J.Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:fSum6.5750$43.28434@zonnet-reader-1...
> > Hi.
> >
> > In a particular script, I would like to be able to (re)direct stdout and
> > stderr to *both* the screen *and* a logfile at the same time. Just doing
> > './commandname 1>/logfile 2>/logfile' will redirect stdout and stderr to
> the
> > logfile, but wont show the output on the screen anymore. And the 'tee'
> > command only seems to work for stdout, and not for stderr.
> >
> > Is there any way to do this?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any and all suggestions.
>
In Bourne/K/bash, the following should work:
exec 2>&1
./commandname | tee logfile
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David Wallis
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From: Jan Duennweber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: daemon question
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:42:03 +0100
can every skript that runs forever ("while [ 1 ] do ... done")
be run as a daemon. i tried running such a skript by adding
"skriptname &" to "/init.d/boot.local" but it did not work.
i didn't try it without the &, because i was not sure if
the machine will still startup then or if it will freeze
in my skript...what is the correct way to let a command be
executed frequently every xxx seconds from startup ?
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO + Mylex 170
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:26:29 -0700
> From the lilo docs:
>
> LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
> loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
> geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
> installer.
Ah. Now we're getting somewhere. How, exactly, do I run the map
installer?
> My lilo.conf looks like this:
(snip)
other than the 'serial' line, mine looks pretty much identical - but I
haven't run the map installer. I imagine that's the problem.... Thanks a
million.
steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Unable to mount...08:32
Date: 28 Feb 2001 17:48:01 GMT
Frank Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 28 Feb 2001 05:51:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I've had my first major crash of RH6.1
<SNIP>
Tried rescue boot,
>>and hung at these error messages:
>>
>>VFS: Cannot open root device 08:32
>>Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:32
>>
>>What is "08:32"?
>>
> I would guess that you either are specifying the wrong Linux partition
> to mount or that you have possibly compiled the driver for your root
> filesystem as a module instead of compiling it into the kernel.
> For whatever reason, when booting, the kernel can't find the root
> partition to mount.
Well, I haven't specified anything, nor compiled anything. I'm
using the boot diskette, type "rescue" at the boot: prompt, and if things
were working right, at some point should get prompted for the rescue
diskette. Doesn't get that far, obviously.
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John Meshkoff johnm at sivakalpa dot org
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neither do I know that I know him not"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Unable to mount...08:32
Date: 28 Feb 2001 17:57:23 GMT
Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<SNIP>
>> Tried rescue boot,
>> and hung at these error messages:
>>
>> VFS: Cannot open root device 08:32
>> Kernel Panic:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:32
>>
>> What is "08:32"?
> From file:/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt (which I understand you
> might have difficulty reading right now):
> 8 block SCSI disk devices (0-15)
> 0 = /dev/sda First SCSI disk whole disk
> 16 = /dev/sdb Second SCSI disk whole disk
> 32 = /dev/sdc Third SCSI disk whole disk
> ...
> 240 = /dev/sdp Sixteenth SCSI disk whole disk
> Partitions are handled in the same way as for IDE
> disks (see major number 3) except that the limit on
> partitions is 15.
<SNIP>
I'm afraid I don't comprehend any of this; the hard disk is IDE, but I'm
booting from the boot floppy, shouldn't have anything to do with
hard disks, (except for trying to get access to the HD, of course I've never
had to try a rescue boot before, so I don't know what's supposed to happen)
supposed to end up prompted to insert the rescue diskette,
but doesn't get that far. I'm using the boot diskette that came with RedHat
6.1. What I'm wondering is if I might have a disk failure, however this
disk is dual boot, and I can get into Win95 (arrggg!), which is now my only
access to the 'net.
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John Meshkoff johnm at sivakalpa dot org
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: c-pen
Date: 28 Feb 2001 19:57:55 +0100
Hi,
I would like to know whether anyone is working on making the c-pen
(http://www.cpen.com) work with linux.
Thanks for the info,
--
Stefano - Hodie pridie Kalendas Martias MMI est
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ton Nijkes)
Subject: Re: XMMS question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:54:29 GMT
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:23:49 -0500, Jon Rook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, I thought of a couple of other points:
> 1) My audio system works fine under Linux. I can play audio CDs with no
> problems.
There is not much audio processing going on in either Linux or your sound
card when playing CD's. It's pretty much the CD-ROM player which is
responsible for playing the CD. The audio output of the CD player is
simply lead through the sound card's audio mixer and that's it.
You could (almost) accomplish this without an OS in place...
> 2) I also tried 'mpg123' and 'gamp' and all of them exhibit the same
> behavior. MP3 files only play for the first few notes and then repeat
> indefinitely.
This sounds like your sound card (driver) isnt't setup correctly.
Check IRQ and DMA settings in Windows and compare those to the settings
in Linux (cat /proc/interrupts; cat /proc/dma). Something's wrong here.
Try playing a large wav-file and I bet this will display the same behaviour.
Greetings,
Ton.
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: licence loops
Date: 28 Feb 2001 20:06:47 +0100
"Christopher R. Carlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Things to patent must be innovations, not only as yet unpatetented.
>
>
> Like the street light post a block from my home. It has a typical pipe
> street light post, with an integrated pushbutton to activate the "Walk"
> light.
>
> Profoundly innovative. I couldn't believe it when I saw the patent
> number printed on it.
It must have been innovative when it was first placed. The telephone
was patented, but how innovative is it TODAY? This patent has expired,
the one you mention maybe not.
I'm not saying it's a smart logic, I'm just telling you what the logic
is (should be!).
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stop misspelling Beowulf !
Date: 28 Feb 2001 20:09:55 +0100
"Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Stop misspelling Beowulf !
For those looking for a further surprise, I suggest looking up the
pronounciation of Beowulf in a dictionary.
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap File Question
Date: 28 Feb 2001 20:13:30 +0100
"D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Anyone know why the swap files are not working and more
> > importantly, how I can get them working again?
>
> Are the swap files listed in /etc/fstab? A sample:
> /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> If that doesn't work, perhaps you didn't run mkswap on the partitions in
> question (installation usually does this for you on a partition marked
> swap).
Also check that something like /sbin/swapon -a is in your init
scripts:
# grep -r swapon /etc/rc.d/
If nothing is found, you should add /sbin/swapon -a as soon as
possible in you init sequence.
--
Stefano - Hodie pridie Kalendas Martias MMI est
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: daemon question
From: "Paul J. Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:14:10 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jan Duennweber
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>can every skript that runs forever ("while [ 1 ] do ... done") be run as a
>daemon.
This is a general Unix question, but yes.
>i tried running such a skript by adding "skriptname &" to "/init.d/boot.local"
>but it did not work.
tail /var/log/messages
>i didn't try it without the &
That's your problem.
>because i was not sure if the machine will still startup then or if it will
>freeze in my skript...what is the correct way to let a command be executed
>frequently every xxx seconds from startup ?
"frequently every xxx seconds" and "daemon" are two different
things.
- Paul
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From: "MB666" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lin winpopup question
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:23:44 +0100
Can somebody tell me the name and url of linux CONSOLE version of simple
winpopup program ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Buddington)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: daemon question
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:39:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jan Duennweber wrote:
>can every skript that runs forever ("while [ 1 ] do ... done")
>be run as a daemon. i tried running such a skript by adding
>"skriptname &" to "/init.d/boot.local" but it did not work.
>i didn't try it without the &, because i was not sure if
>the machine will still startup then or if it will freeze
>in my skript...what is the correct way to let a command be
>executed frequently every xxx seconds from startup ?
You are right to worry about the script hanging if you don't use '&'.
Your method is reasonable, though there are other ways:
- have a line int /etc/inittab that respawns the task; here your
script would have to sleep xxx seconds before exiting.
- run it with cron (man cron; man crontab)
-Eric
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From: "Kevin Gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux "error 0x10"
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:40:08 -0800
"jayslattery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hey guys, not sure if my last post went through so i'll post again. I did
> not use fdisk to partition. I used partition magic. Here is the info
> that Partition Magic gives me:
>
> Disk Partition Type Size Used Status Pri/Log
> 1 *./boot LinuxExt2 23.5 3.2 None Pri
> 1 *. Extended 8440.4 8440.4 None Pri
> 1 *./ LinuxExt2 8369.8 1115.6 None Log
> 1 *.SWAPSPACE2 Linux Swap 70.6 0 None Log
> 1 C: FAT32 20159.7 13270.3 Active Pri
>
> I used the wizard in partition magic to develop the partitions for a Linux
> install. It seems really odd that line 2 (Extended type) is completely
> used up. That can't be right, can it?
Looks like your 2 logical partitions (items 3 and 4) completely fill your
extended partition. Sounds right to me.
(remainder snipped)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eugene Grayver)
Subject: Clone an Linux machine (how)?
Date: 28 Feb 2001 18:41:27 GMT
Hello,
I have a linux box (2cpu) setup just the way I like it. I have just got
another box and would like to add it to the network. I would like to have
everything the same (except for the IP and hostname). What is the best
way to do this copy? Note that the new machine comes completely empty.
The existing machine has a CDR, and the / partition is probably small
enough to fit on it, if compressed. (BTW, we are running RH7, and I have
the RH7 bootable CD).
Thanks,
Eugene
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From: Gerd Jungbluth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Flash-Player 5 on SuSE 7.1 crashes
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:51:09 +0100
Hi everyone!
I just downloaded the latest version of Flash-Player for Linux (5.0r47) and
installed it on my Linux boxes. Unfortunately it works on SuSE Linux 7.0,
but not on 7.1 :-( Netscape as well as Konqueror crash when loading the
plugin.
Did anyone experience the same problem? Any suggestions?
Greetings
Gerd
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From: Hemant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: redirect stderr to both screen and logfile at same time?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:46:42 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.unix.aix J.Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:)>
:)> This does not satisfy the reqirement if I read it literally
:)> because it also redirect the the stdout to the logfile.
:)>
:)
:)Sorry if my english is a little rough around the edges, but...
:)
:)BOTH stdout AND stderr had to go to the logfile AND to the screen, yes.
:)
:)Sorry if my previous post was unclear about that.
:)
:)But when I try this on AIX 4.x, using ksh, like:
:)
:)cat thisfiledoesnotexist 2>&1 | tee -a logfile
:)
:)stderr still goes to the screen (the cat error message, complaining it cant
:)find the file), but *not* to the logfile...
:)
:)huh ?
:)
:)Does this mean ive found a bug... errr feature ? Or am I screwing up in
:)there somehow?
:)
:)
:)
:)
It works for me:
$ cat thisfiledoesnotexist 2>&1 | tee -a logfile
cat: cannot open thisfiledoesnotexist
$ ls -l logfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 shahhe users 38 Feb 28 12:43 logfile
$ cat logfile
cat: cannot open thisfiledoesnotexist
I tested this on AIX 4.3.3 and AIX 4.2.1.
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From: Elephant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bizarre ntp error
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:30:55 -0800
Some recent linux builds have been coming up with the time an hour
ahead. Claims to be PDT, but acts like mountain time. Secs since 1970
look correct when compared to some non-ntp machines, but the conversion
to day/time is funky.
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From: "Harlan Grove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux 6.1 and star office 5.1
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:09:04 GMT
William Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>How do I load Star Office 5.1 into Linux Red Hat 6.2
As I recall, SO5.1 (you do mean 5.1 and not 5.2?) came in one big tar.gz
file, so you'll need to untar the installation files into a directory by
themselves. SO5.1 (and 5.2) comes with a _large_ PDF file (I forget the
filename) that provides complete directions for how to install it. The best
way to do it is a 'network' install (with the /network option on the command
line) for the bulk of the files, after which each user (even if you're the
only user) would run a workstation install of configuration and a few other
files into their home directories. SO5.1 has its own binary installer - you
can't use rpm to install it. The installer doesn't add anything to Gnome's
menu, so you may want to edit the Gnome menu to add entries for SO5.1.
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From: "Harlan Grove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shared email between Linux and Windows 2000?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 19:09:05 GMT
Mark Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:YS6n6.1738$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
...
>I am a consultant, and I frequently have to reboot between
>Linux and Windows 2000. I would like to set up a shared
>email system on a writable FAT32 partition.
>
>Unfortunately, my ISP does not support IMAP (that would
>solve this problem).
>
>I would appreciate any ideas for setting up either a shared Mozilla
>or shared Netscape system so that I could have a single data
>repository for email and usenet news on my writable FAT32
>partition.
If you're going to use Netscape under Linux and Win2K, put an entry in
/etc/fstab to mount this FAT32 partition automatically, then make your
~/.netscape a symbolic link to your Netscape user directory on the FAT32
partition. Then you have to hope that Netscape uses the same file and
subdirectory naming convention for both Linux and Windows versions (I have
no idea).
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