ulimit question

2001-04-03 Thread Benjamin Scott
Hello list, Okay, maybe I'm just having a blonde moment here, but can anyone explain to me why after issuing these three commands, as seen, in order: ulimit -d 1000 ulimit -m 1000 mozilla ... how Mozilla can still proceed to consume all available virtual memory on my

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2001-04-03 Thread Dan Jenkins
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Re: Install help please

2001-04-03 Thread Kenny Donahue
OK, I got it. What a PITA. I needed burn a cd with all the xfree86 4.0.2 file for glibc 2.2.16-22 then run the Xinstall.sh script. This overwrite all the X11 stuff. Now X comes up but in twm (yuck). Finally got Gnome to run (many yucks heard fom the peanut gallary) and I'm ssh'ing into work.

Re: Can Linux solve this problem?

2001-04-03 Thread Dan Jenkins
Benjamin Scott wrote: Anything else will be a hack, and not a pretty one. However, anything else is almost always what you have to do, since forms are designed by pencil pushers, not written by programmers. But I suspect you have already realized all that. I just figured your

Re: ulimit question

2001-04-03 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, mike ledoux wrote: I'd take a guess that your system either doesn't support per-process limits as configured ... I wasn't aware it was even an option not to. Do you happen to know what I should check? Kernel config file? /proc/sys? ... or that your mozilla shell

Re: Install help please

2001-04-03 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, mike ledoux wrote: Just for the record, XFree 4.0.2 (released 19 December 2000), definitely had support for the GeForce 2. I know--I used it to run mozilla to download the faster, closed source (argh!) drivers from nVidia's website. A quick glance at the

Re: Using PDF forms (was: Can Linux solve this problem?)

2001-04-03 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:53:01 EDT Benjamin Scott said: As near as I could tell when I briefly looked into it, PDF is just some weird, bastardized form of PostScript targeted at a specialized renderer (i.e., Acrobat Reader). This was in the Acrobat 2.0 days, though, so things

Re: Install help please

2001-04-03 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Kenny Donahue wrote: I'm trying to get Linux installed on my new machine but I'm having problems getting X to come up. I have an Abit KT7ARAID mb and an Abit Gforce 2 MX graphics card. In another message, Kenny Donahue wrote: I'm trying to install a stock version of

Re: Can Linux solve this problem?

2001-04-03 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:03:37 EDT Kevin D. Clark said: Anyone remember what I'm talking about? pageview? Hmmm, that doesn't sound familiar, though it might be. I never actually used it, since I thought ghostview was a better viewer, even back then. And I've had little need

Re: Can Linux solve this problem?

2001-04-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't remember the name of the program, but SunOS used to have a PS viewer/editor that came with OpenLook Windows. I believe this program may have been freely available from Sun, I'm not sure. Anyone remember what I'm talking about? pageview? I don't think

Re: Install help please

2001-04-03 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Kenny Donahue wrote: I needed burn a cd with all the xfree86 4.0.2 file for glibc 2.2.16-22 then run the Xinstall.sh script. This overwrite all the X11 stuff. Now X comes up but in twm (yuck). I realize this is a little late, but if you manually extract just the binary

Re: Using PDF forms (was: Can Linux solve this problem?)

2001-04-03 Thread Mark Komarinski
PDF does get you a few things, unfortunately most people do not bother implemeting them: Intra-document (and extra-document) links Side bookmarks that usually have an outline of the document Word search Annotations (pop up notes) The only thing I do not have working with PDF yet is annotations,

HLD Filter

2001-04-03 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
All, Has anyone out there tried the HLD mail filter (http://www.hld.ca/opensource/hldfilter/)? It's a procmail type system, except that the filtering rules are far more simple than procmail's recipes (and HLD is written in perl). It uses one file to filter on from/to/cc and another to filter on

RE: Linux Standardization (was: inted question)

2001-04-03 Thread Brad Maxwell
If you think that finding a few config files or config entries using grep and find is difficult try finding the right registry keys to actually successfully remove an oracle install from the registry in windoze 2K. If there is some difference from distro to distro it is because linux is flexible