Linux-Misc Digest #349, Volume #18 Fri, 25 Dec 98 21:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: ftp speeds on a 56K modem? (Ronald Hands)
Re: Infringement of the GPL ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Labview and Linux (Bill Ripley)
Re: ftp speeds on a 56K modem? ("Jeff")
Re: modem dialing ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Infringement of the GPL ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Anti-Linux FUD ("Hoyt")
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Richard Robinson)
Re: SuSE or RedHat ? (burk)
Re: Linux Autoexec.bat (Grahame M. Kelly)
Re: Linux port to the AS400 machine? (Thomas Neilson)
Re: good office package for linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
QuickCam through ipmasq ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: iso9660 not supported by kernel? (JaWz)
Re: rpm files (Eduardo Perez)
Re: df reports no space left (Eduardo Perez)
Re: executable won't execute (Eduardo Perez)
SuSE 5.3 and PostgreSQL - getting it to work. (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: memory size reporting wrong in Slakware 3.5 (Fhurqaan Hamid)
error message in ./configure command (Howard Mann)
Re: Virtual domain question. (Dale Miracle)
Tracing and modifying system calls ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Infringement of the GPL ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: error message in ./configure command (Steven Zinck)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald Hands)
Subject: Re: ftp speeds on a 56K modem?
Date: 24 Dec 1998 14:49:53 GMT
Richard Steiner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
: spake unto us, saying:
: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner) writes:
: >
: >> Keep in mind that "56k" modems actually negotiate speeds which are no
: >> more than 53k and possibly lower, at least in the US, due to limits on
: >> the signal they can produce and still fall within legal guidelines.
: >
: >That applied to USR's "X2" technology. It never applied to K56flex
: >(although it had other problems) and does not apply to V.90.
The manual for my Sportster 56k V90/X2 external modem says, in a
footnote: "Due to FCC regulations, receiving speeds are limited to 53
Kbps." No mention that this is limited to X2.
Has anyone *ever* achieved 56k on any protocol?
BTW, I'm in Canada -- and presumably beyond the reach of the FCC -- and
I've never done better than 31.2, thanks to a crummy phone line.
-- Ron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Infringement of the GPL
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 21:17:47 GMT
K. Spoon writes:
> However, I remember a quote from someone (Paul Vixie, maybe?) saying that
> he had been hired by a few companies to maintain their proprietary
> products and found his own GPL'd code in them. He said he never
> prosecuted.
steve mcadams writes:
> Now there's a real reason not to go GPL.
I wrote:
> I don't follow you.
steve mcadams writes:
> Wouldn't it rather piss you off to find somebody selling your GPL'ed code
> as their own proprietary work?
And that's a reason not to use the GPL? It would piss you off less had
you used a different license?
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Bill Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Labview and Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:07:09 -0500
Hoyt wrote:
> My brother works for a company that makes testing equipment for batteries.
> He expresses the usual frustrations with the NT boxes they sell to accompany
> their equipment. He is curious if Labview
> (http://www.natinst.com/products/ ) will run under Linux. I see that they
> support Solaris and HP-UX (in addition to NT, Win 98, Win 3.1, DOS, MAc OS
> and Real-time OS) . I'm not technically savvy enough to to know -- will it
> run under Linux? Any ideas? I haven't heard back from them.
>
> Hoyt
http://www.natinst.com/linux/
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From: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp speeds on a 56K modem?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:25:16 -0500
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Richard Steiner wrote:
>>
>> Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
>> spake unto us, saying:
>>
>> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner) writes:
>> >
>> >> Keep in mind that "56k" modems actually negotiate speeds which are no
>> >> more than 53k and possibly lower, at least in the US, due to limits on
>> >> the signal they can produce and still fall within legal guidelines.
>> >
>> >That applied to USR's "X2" technology. It never applied to K56flex
>> >(although it had other problems) and does not apply to V.90.
>>
>> I've heard this before -- if correct, I need to adjust my thoughts on
>> the subject. I know I still get about 48kbps with V.90 (same as my old
>> x2 connections), so there must be other limiting factors.
>>
>
>I have a Zoom V90. My usual ftp speed is between 4.2 to 5.2Kbs. On one
>occasion compression kicked in and I sustained 10.2Kbs for a 1.2MB
>download from France!
one thing you have to understand is that it going from digital to analog and
depending how far you are from a telco will determin how fast you will
connect. As far as the 10.2 kbs that might have beena uncompressed file to
begin with, when i was using an x2 connection anywhere from 42k to 51k most
files would avrg 4.5 to 5.5 now if i would dl a text file i would see as
high as 10k or so.
as far a the 56kflex and v90 they are just differnt proticals so there is
really no diffence in speed between them, v90 is just so x2 and 56kflex
modes are saported instead of isp's beening one or the other.
hope that clears up a few things
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: modem dialing
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 22:01:19 GMT
The Chameleon writes:
> Can anyone suggest a way to connect to an ISP using the modem? I'm
> running Debian 2.0 and can't seem to get the thing working.
Run pppconfig and answer the questions. You will then be able to start the
connection with the command 'pon' and stop it with 'poff'. Once the
connection is started you will be able to use network applications such as
Netscape.
> I use minicom and it connects to my ISP fine. I enter my login name and
> password and it tells e some info such as mMTU is.... such and such.
> then it sits there. quietly sitting.....
minicom is a terminal emulator program. It would be what to use if you had
a shell account with your ISP. But you don't.
> if I hit enter I get garbage.
That's ppp starting up at the other end, just as it should.
> It eventually disconnects.
Your ISP is starting up ppp and expecting to find ppp running at you end
for it to connect to. It gives up, eventually.
> I tried quitting minicom without reset and using arena but that didn't
> work either.
Because arena expects the ppp connection to already be up.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Infringement of the GPL
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 22:45:20 GMT
Jerry Lynn Kreps writes:
> I did the work on a Welch Foundation Scholarship and part of it was that
> the results would be in the public domain, which it is. Later, however,
> a promenient pharmicutical company "improved it" and then patented it and
> began selling it.
They did not patent your work. They patented their improvement on your
work.
> Software companies that take GPL code and incorporate it into
> "propriatary" software are nothing less than thieves.
No, they are copyright infringers.
> All such developed code is by law, which they agreed to honor when they
> used the GPL code, public domain and free.
GPL code is *not* public domain. If it was, those companies would be free
to incorporate it into their proprietary work.
> He lost his rights to his own code and they now own it.
Wrong.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 25 Dec 1998 16:10:34 GMT
Floyd Davidson wrote in message <7600c7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Peter Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Rich Grise wrote:
>>
>>> /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:.
>>>
>>> what else do you need?
>>
>>/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
>>
>
>It probably should be mentioned that normal users do not
>need the sbin directories in their PATH.
As more and more users migrate to Linux using it as a stand-alone desktop
OS, the more you'll see requests like this and the braoder the definition of
"normal user" will become.
Perhaps the solution would be for the unorthodox programs to install a link
in a directory that would already be in the path.
Hoyt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Robinson)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 25 Dec 1998 15:40:36 -0000
In article <75vqp2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Rich Grise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Steve Mading wrote:
>>[...]
>>>and 2 - I don't want a $PATH
>>> variable that's over 1000 letters long because of all the /opt/yadda
>>> directories in it.
>>
>>Howcome you're strewing your executables all over your drive such
>>that you need a PATH that's that long?
>>
>>/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:.
>>
>>what else do you need?
>
>I would personally also like to run everything that is in /usr/local/bin,
>plus I happen to like ${HOME}/bin too on systems where I don't do the
>systems admin, plus there are other programs that sometimes end up in
>/usr/local directories other than bin, for example /usr/local/netpbm
>and /usr/local/teTeX. Plus there is a /usr/local/sbin too.
>
>And then there are the X bin directories. And odd programs that
>want to go in /opt which are too much trouble trying to reconfigure...,
>or whatever...
What I do in cases like this is to install the stuff wherever is convenient
and then put symbolic links to the executables into /usr/local/bin, to the
manpages into /usr/local/man, and so on.
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
I don't want to receive UCE :- remove 'x' to reply.
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From: burk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE or RedHat ?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:48:51 -0500
Understand that I mean no offense, but I use Redhat and _never_ use the
X based tools. Install and upgrade at the distribution level (like RH5.0
-> 5.2) is done in "character mode" (is that ncurses they use for the
installer?), and I upgrade at the package level with rpm. ( rpm -Uvh
foobar-1.2-3 ). You don't _need_ X for Redhat, although some of the
tools are nice.
Respectfully disagreeing,
-burk
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grahame M. Kelly)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux Autoexec.bat
Date: 25 Dec 1998 23:46:19 GMT
>>
>> What is the Linux equivalent of the autoexec.bat file.?
>>
>> I need to have the command " insmod advansys" run at startup but I'm not
>> sure in which file I should put such a command.
>>
>> (SNIP)
>>
In Linux (RedHat distribution) the rc.local in /etc/rc.d directory
is usually where you add any local "autoexec" type features you want
to start at boot time. rc.local is run by "root" so you need to be aware
of this if you want to run a application or util as another user.
So to load and run your advansys module, simply add the following line.
/sbin/insmod advansys
If you wish to have a program run under the username of another user
(like I run my fetchmail command at boot) do as follows:
su - gmkelly -c 'fetchmail' &
>> Also i would like to have other commands run automatically, such as:
>>
>> "mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/jaz"
>>
To automatically add a filesystem on booting simple add the following
to your /etc/fstab (file system table)
/dev/sda4 /mnt/jaz vfat defaults 1 2
Hope this helps,
Cheers for Xams, Grahame
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From: Thomas Neilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux port to the AS400 machine?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 23:55:28 GMT
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> "Daniel D. Roscigno" wrote:
>
> > I have heard that there is a Linux port to the AS400. Am
> > I mistaken? I cannot seem to find any info regarding this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> > --
> > Dan
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > Dan Roscigno [EMAIL PROTECTED] (352)392-4028
> > Physics Dept. University of Florida 2122 New Physics Building
>
> I may be way of base here, but isn't that just the MIPS distribution?
>
> -Ben.
Linux/MIPS is a port of the LINUX Operating System to computers equipped
with MIPS processors. Linux/MIPS is based on the latest sources
distributed by Linus Torvalds, the author of the original Linux/i386
kernel.
Suggest you goto and read: http://www.fnet.fr/linux-mips/#first
And yes some AS/400 systems do employ the 64 bit RISC PowerPC ASTM chip
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: good office package for linux
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,pl.comp.os.linux
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:10:13 +0000
I run my Applix smooth - well smooth enough on an old P90 with only 24MB RAM.
No probs.
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Applixware is a great office suite. The recommend 32M.
--
Anders Gulden Olstad @ Brinkley
RedHat 5.2 Linux kernel 2.0.36
"Penguins are generally nice creatures"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: QuickCam through ipmasq
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:42:03 GMT
Hi, the author of commercial program 'PhonePatch' claims that:
"I'd tried opening all the UDP/TCP ports as described at the
ipautofw applications page to no avail - PhonePatch is the only
solution that seems to work for Linux for both Video/Audio as
well as application sharing."
Is buying his program truly the _only_ means of videoconferencing
(H.323) through a Linux router?
-Brent
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From: JaWz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat,alt.linux
Subject: Re: iso9660 not supported by kernel?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 19:11:25 -0700
I've got the same problem and the suggested fixes don't work. I noticed the
iso9660 not supported by kernel during boot. If I try to mount the cdrom I
get a message saying it couldn't find it in the fstab or mtab. I looked at
both files and the device is listed. Any ideas?
rks wrote:
> The installation kernel is (probably) different then the one you have
> installed.
>
> Patrick G. Heck wrote:
>
> > I installed RH 5.1 from CDROM, but now I can't seem to mount the cdrom.
> > I get an erorr telling me that iso9660 is not supported by the kernel.
> > If that is not true, then how the heck did it install? This is an
> > installation from the boxed distribution on an IBM Aptiva E2U (AMD K6-2
> > 333 Mhz) and I am using loadlin to boot from a win98 config.sys menu.
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From: Eduardo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm files
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:26:53 +0100
Ilanit Bitan wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> How should I unpack the source file
> Packed in rpm files.
>
> Thanks,Ilanit
If you want to install the files, try 'rpm -i filename.rpm'.
If your want to unpack them, use 'rpm2cpio filename.rpm | cpio -i
--make-directories'
I hope this helps.
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From: Eduardo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: df reports no space left
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:31:27 +0100
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> #df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 484M 122M 337M 27% /
> /dev/hda9 484M 158M 301M 34% /home
> /dev/hda6 50M 12M 35M 25% /tmp
> /dev/hda8 995M 567M 376M 60% /usr
> /dev/hda7 293M 40M 238M 14% /var
> /dev/hdc1 11G 10G 0 100% /home/ftp
> /dev/hda10 537M 257M 253M 50% /home/storage
>
> After seeing this, I create 5 files, 50MB each with 'dd if=/dev/zero
> of=file.1 bs=1024 count=50000' on /dev/hdc1 and it works! Why? The file
> system is full!
You can see 'Size=11G, Used=10G'. Linux (actually, it is mke2fs)
reserves 5% on each partition for the root user. You must also consider
that df has a precission of 1%; try 'df' to have a more acurrate
information.
I hope this helps.
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From: Eduardo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: executable won't execute
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:24:31 +0100
Bogdan Udrea wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> This is a dumb question to which I couldn't find the answer in any FAQ
> or Linux
> manual.
>
> I've just setup my RedHat 5.2 and wanted to try out the f77 compiler.
> Well, I wrote
> a two liner that prints a real. The compiler spits out an a.out with the
> right permissions
>
> ...
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 udrea udrea 65733 Dec 13 23:02 a.out
> ...
>
> but linux says that a.out is not found as a command. I've tried it as
> root also with the
> same result.
>
> Am I missing something fundamental here?
Unless you have '.' in your path (and you should not have it), you must
specify to your shell where the file is. Try './a.out'.
I hope this helps.
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.postgresql
Subject: SuSE 5.3 and PostgreSQL - getting it to work.
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:28:16 -0600
When I installed SuSE in Sept it automatically installed PostgreSQL. To
save space I used YaST and removed it in Oct, and set the automatic load
flag in rc.conf to "no".
After loading and playing with MySQL I deleted it today and ran YaST to
install PostgreSQL. It seemed to install with no problems. However,
the 1st error msg on page 7 of the PostgreSQL Tutorial was staring me in
the face. The postmaster (a link from postgres) was not running.
Try #1: uninstall and reinstall. No go.
Try #2: Uninstall and expunge any trace of PostgreSQL. Reinstall. No
go.
The problem appeared to be that the example to start the engine:
echo "postmaster 256 -B /var/log/pqlog 2>&1 &" | su - postgres
failed because a) postgres had a password which I didn't know. (YaST
installed it, not I) and b) postgres didn't appear to be an actual
account, but a deamon.
So, I su'd to root and removed the password from the postgres account.
I got the same message.
Try #3: Expunge PostgreSQL AND the postgres account, to the last byte.
Reinstalling with YaST gave error msgs about not finding the postgres
account, "switching to root".
The postmaster still wouldn't start.
Try #4: Expunge PostgreSQL. Create a regular user account called
postgres, but don't give it a password. (I know, I know, security
hole. My box is a single user).
Reinstall. It installs! Set the path's. Set the autostart flag in
rc.conf to "yes".
Reboot the machine. Login as postgres. ps ax | grep postmaster says the
postmaster deamon is running!!! Run createuser. Give my account name
and accept the default ID of my Linux ID when it asks. Log out and log
back in as myself. Edit .profile to add the evironmental variables
PGLIB and PGDATA and activate them with source .profile.
Enter psql template1 and the prompt. It comes up! Joy!
Follow a few steps in the tutorial to see if it is working ok. It is.
This represents the only instance I know of in which an app installed by
YaST from teh SuSE 5.3 CD set didn't run as advertised. Getting it to
run was a lot of fun. Honestly. What can I say, I'm a geek. Even at
57. ;->
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fhurqaan Hamid)
Subject: Re: memory size reporting wrong in Slakware 3.5
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 02:39:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Precious Metal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> Paradox wrote:
>>
>> > I'm running Slakware 3.5 w/ 2.0.35 kernal and whenever I run the "free"
>> > progie it alwasy reports my available memory as 64megs of ram. I have an
>>
>> at the boot prompt, type <kernelname> mem=96M
>>
>> example:
>> LILO: linux mem=96M
>>
>> ta-ta-taaaaaaaaa
>>
>> You can add a line to /etc/lilo.conf with 'append="mem=96M"' to auto-do
>> this.
>> --
>And if you don't use Lilo? Say, Loadlin, then what?
I suggest that you read the manual and params.txt for loadlin.
basically just add the mem=n<K|M> to your loadlin.
man rdev might help too.
--
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: error message in ./configure command
Date: 25 Dec 1998 02:56:42 GMT
Hi all,
I am trying to install the Blackbox window manager.
I get the following error message:
[root@localhost blackbox-0.50.2]# ./configure --enable-kde
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... no
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... missing
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for AIX... no
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for c++... no
checking for g++... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create
executables.
I use Red Hat 5.0
/sbin/ldconfig : version 970402
I would appreciate any ideas and suggestions. I would be happy to
provide additional/pertinent information.
Please reply to me by E-mail as well, and I will summarize as appropriate
for the group.
Thanks,
--
Howard Mann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xmission.com/~howardm
(a LINUX website for newbies)
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From: Dale Miracle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Virtual domain question.
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 21:51:02 -0500
mcv wrote:
> Hi,
> If I set-up my Linux PC with the virtual domain blahblah.blah, and set-up
> the DNS service on my PC, can other internet users connect to blahblah.blah
> or do I need to register this domain so it can be accessed?
> Cheers,
> Mark.
Yes because anyone not using your dns server will not be able to find that site
unless they type in the IP address for it.
--
Dale Miracle "No matter where you go, there you are",
System Administrator Oliver's Law of Location
The Edge of Insanity "Real funny Scotty, now beam down my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] clothes"
"I've gone to look for my self, if I return before I get
back keep me here."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tracing and modifying system calls
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 02:46:32 GMT
Hello!
I need to trace and possibly modify the system calls of another process.
I am familiar with ptrace, but there seems to be a better way of doing
it using /proc files (reference: Understanding ELF object files and debugging
tools) and ioctl. However I am unable to find request types such as PIOCSENTRY
PIOCSEXIT etc. in any .h file. Also though there is sigset_t in signal.h
there is no sysset_t in syscall.h or anyother .h file. I have redhat linux 5.1
installed. (I also checked 5.2, but couldnt find in there too). Am I missing
something?
Any help in this regard will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Kapil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Infringement of the GPL
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 01:27:00 GMT
K. Spoon writes:
> However, I remember a quote from someone (Paul Vixie, maybe?) saying that
> he had been hired by a few companies to maintain their proprietary
> products and found his own GPL'd code in them. He said he never
> prosecuted.
steve mcadams writes:
> Now there's a real reason not to go GPL.
I don't follow you.
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From: Steven Zinck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: error message in ./configure command
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 03:06:29 GMT
Do you even have g++ installed? If not, get the rpm @ redhat's ftp site.
Also get RedHat's libstdc++ package.
Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc ) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create
>executables.
> I use Red Hat 5.0
> /sbin/ldconfig : version 970402
-steve
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