Linux-Misc Digest #394, Volume #18 Tue, 29 Dec 98 12:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: SuSE or RedHat ? (Destrius)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Destrius)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Destrius)
Re: The goal of Open Source (Destrius)
Re: Unix vs Windows NT (Destrius)
Re: AOL as ISP? (Simon)
Re: conflict with ppp ("Charles Stack")
Re: bash error message (Destrius)
IDE / LILO Problem (Shaun Allen Dishman)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Victor Danilchenko)
Where to get Linux FAQ ("Paul Stevens")
Re: Red Hat buyers beware! (Victor Danilchenko)
Re: pppd permissions (Paul Griffiths)
Re: Slackware screen clear on logout (Douglas E. Mitton)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Victor Danilchenko)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Destrius)
Re: Netscape 4.5 problem (Andreas Micklei)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Victor Danilchenko)
Re: SuSE or RedHat ? (Destrius)
Re: Memory Problems ("Jeff P. Koon")
Re: gnome & windows manager (brent verner)
Re: Deleting /var/log/messages... ("Gopal")
Re: Deleting /var/log/messages... ("Charles Stack")
Re: which company uses linux as main o/s (Victor Danilchenko)
Re: How to create a shell script? (Victor Danilchenko)
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. ("Dennis McGrath")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Destrius)
Subject: Re: SuSE or RedHat ?
Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:18:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...and it was written on the heavens that on Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:00:03 -0500,
the entity named Victor Danilchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
inscribed the following words in comp.os.linux.misc:
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> Ummm... Any GNU/Linux is "free", since it is distributed under GPL.
>What do you mean by Debian being GNU -- does FSF endorse Debian as
>"official" GNU/Linux incarnation?
-clip-
Debian is a distribution built by various people all over the world, ie. in
a GNU fashion. That's why its free.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Destrius)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:18:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...and it was written on the heavens that on Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:58:35 -0500,
the entity named Victor Danilchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
inscribed the following words in comp.os.linux.misc:
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> Ummm, that's what "foreach" loops are for.
>
>cd /usr/X11R6/bin
>for i in /opt/kde/bin/*
> do
> ln -s $i
> done
>
> As easy to undo as it is to implement... And even allows you to keep
>record of where everything came from, in case you don't use some package
>management.
-clip-
IIRC, there's some program called stow that does all this and more. At
least, that's what info tells me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Destrius)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:18:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...and it was written on the heavens that on 28 Dec 1998 00:13:52 GMT,
the entity named Mengmeng Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
inscribed the following words in comp.os.linux.misc:
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>Why not just do a "make -n install"? Then, you can see exactly what is going
>to happen. Of course, somebody could just hide it in a binary executable
>that installs things, but that wouldn't be a very good way of distributing
>packages in the first place. Most packages I've seen uses the standard
>"install" command to install things, so it should be pretty easy to see where
>things are going.
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Does 'install' keep a log of where it's installing stuff? That way,
uninstalling stuff from tarballs would be easier. Perhaps source tarballs
should try to have some uninstall mechanism by default.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Destrius)
Subject: Re: The goal of Open Source
Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:18:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...and it was written on the heavens that on Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:54:53 GMT,
the entity named steve mcadams ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
inscribed the following words in comp.os.linux.misc:
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>If I spend a lot of time and effort determining the order the bits
>need to be in to cause a certain function to happen, don't I have a
>right to expect recompense for my efforts? Have I not created
>something that is useful? -steve
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So should we pay J. Random Mathematician $10 every time we use a certain
formula for homework?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Destrius)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix vs Windows NT
Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:18:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...and it was written on the heavens that on Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:26:38 +0200,
the entity named Shani Oren ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
inscribed the following words in comp.os.linux.misc:
>What?! No nethack on linux?!
>
>There must be nethack for linux, and it's the best ever, ya know...
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There is nethack for Linux, but that's not the game genre I'm after. I tend
to classify those separate from CRPGs like Ultima.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon)
Subject: Re: AOL as ISP?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:24:17 GMT
On 29 Dec 1998 04:37:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxCyrix) wrote:
>IT IS POSSIBLE. Try looking toward freshmeat.(org?). DL Wine, the windows
>emulator. It's still in funny testing, but I got my AOL software to *run* under
>Linux with it. The only reason I still have Win98 is because AOL is my ISP, and
>I haven't been able to get the AOL software to recognize the COM port my modem
>is on under Linux yet. Lemme know if you can get it to go...
Which version of AOL did you get running under WIne - I heard that AOL
4 was not possible.
As I understand it, AOL does not use a proprietry connection protocal,
its just that they do not use PPP (which is certainly a pity).
Simon
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From: "Charles Stack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: conflict with ppp
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:28:22 -0500
Did you compile with PPP support enabled?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Destrius)
Subject: Re: bash error message
Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:18:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...and it was written on the heavens that on Thu, 24 Dec 1998 16:52:24 -0600,
the entity named Mike Detlefsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
inscribed the following words in comp.os.linux.misc:
>I'm getting an error message when I log into any account that goes:
>
>bash: ecport: command not found
>
>Now, I deduce that in some script I have misspelled 'export' as
>'ecport'. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to search for the
>file? I've looked in all the ones I could find, but the little devils
>are hiding all over the place in Linux. Grep doesn't seem to want to
>work on a global scale. Is there anything that does?
-clip-
Try looking into these files:
/etc/profile
~/.bash_profile
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaun Allen Dishman)
Subject: IDE / LILO Problem
Date: 29 Dec 1998 14:08:42 GMT
Just remembered another possibly vital piece of information: right before
pulling out all the IDE cables I repartitioned the HD. It used to be
2GB - Linux native
56MB - Swap
2GB - Windows (for games only, of course!)
and now it is:
2GB - Linux native
56MB - Swap
1.2GB - Windows
800MB - Reserved to hold Cd-R images
Could this cause the LILO hangup problem as well, and still, how to fix
it?
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:42:09 -0500
From: Victor Danilchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Floyd Davidson wrote:
>
> Victor Danilchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> The right way is to prepend it to the PATH variable defined in
> >> /etc/profile.
> >>
> >> BTW, what would a "share" directory be doing in a PATH statement?
> >
> > It's a department LAN supporting about 10 different UNIX flavors, and a
> >few hundreds machines (most of the Alpha, Solaris, and Linux). One thing
> >you do NOT want to do is make changes local to every system (many of the
> >Linux boxes are actually Linux/Windows dual boot). The "right way"
> >simply is not viable is such an environment.
> > BTW, it's "share" -- as opposed to "common". Platform-dependent vs.
> >platform-independent stuff. the decision was made before I came here.
>
> I'm not sure that I'd agree that it can't be done the "right"
> way, since that is the way most folks do it even with the same
> or a larger number of versions and machines. However, that is
> not really the point. You have a specialized need, whether it
> is topography or history makes no difference. My point is that
> if your needs are unusual, fine, but others don't have that
> unusual situation and shouldn't be encouraged to view that as
> normal.
And my point is that this is *A* way of doing things -- and a rather
neat one at that ("neat" as in "cute", not "orderly"). Yes, it is better
suited for some environments than others -- just as yours is. There is
nothing inherently disgusting about either way -- one gives you a huge
path (which BTW the original poster was trying to avoid, hence my
suggestion), the other gives you a bunch of softlinks in the /usr/bin
and /usr/X11R6/bin directory. My answer was to your previous message --
when you said that it "does not work well" for packages with multiple
binaries. It may be somewhat aesthetically offensive, but it is very
utilitarian, and gets the job done to the specs of the original poster.
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From: "Paul Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where to get Linux FAQ
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 19:26:29 +0400
Been following this ng and comp.os.linux.answers for a while but seen
no references to date. Can somebody point me to a Linux FAQ, if it
exists, please.
Paul
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:14:51 -0500
From: Victor Danilchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat buyers beware!
LinuxCyrix wrote:
>
> Um.. dude, MacMillan IIIIISSSSSS the "official" RedHat release. If tech
> support even talked to you then yer registration number *must* have checked
> out. RedHat doesn't print these CDs in their own plant. Nobody does. That's
> what "publishers" are for.
Actually, no. If you buy a McMillan CD set, you get no support from
RedHat -- they are very specific about supporting only the "Official
RedHat Linux" (as opposed to McMillan's "Complete redHat Linux Deluxe").
You also get two completely different tech support e-mail addresses.
"Official" CDs may very well be printed by McMillan, but that does not
mean that McMillan's release is the same as RedHat's. In fact, the
documentation that comes with McMillan's CD set says, "there is an error
in the manual, you must register with and receive install support from
McMillan rather than RedHat".
if you don't believe me, buy a mcMillan CD set and read the docs that
come with it.
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From: Paul Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: pppd permissions
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:04:17 +0000
Thomas Frese wrote:
>
> After upgrading from RH5.0 to 5.2, I'm having trouble with
> my dial-in perimissions for non-root users - executing my
> dial-in script 'imci', I'm getting the error message
>
> kitty[/boot]19:imci
> /usr/sbin/pppd: using the name option requires root privilege
> kitty[/boot]20:
>
> This happens although I've executed
> chmod a+s imci
> so everything should be executed with root permissions....(this
> worked under RH5.0). Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> Tom
>
> kitty[ppp]26:cat imci
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/sbin/pppd connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/ppp/imci.chat" name
> 03075xxxxx
SetUID doesn't work with shell scripts, because it's security loophole,
so you are not running pppd with root priviledges (unless you log in as
root). Writing a small C wrapper to issue that command line using the
system() function should work however.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Subject: Re: Slackware screen clear on logout
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:56:33 GMT
In the "global" profile file at /etc/profile I added the line
trap clear EXIT
This causes BASH to notice that you have logged out and issue the
"clear" command. Works great.
Also, to get <Ctrl>-d to work as a logout shortcut, make sure that
/etc/profile does NOT contain
ignoreeof=10
Comment this out if it is there, just to try it at least!
Good luck!
"R.A. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Is their a way to make Slackware clear
>> it's screen efficiently such as is done in RedHat
>> when the exit or logout command is issued?
>=============================================================
>
> Sure -
> In your .logout file put the command: clear
>
> r.a.wilson
>
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:23:18 -0500
From: Victor Danilchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Destrius wrote:
>
> ...and it was written on the heavens that on Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:49:43 -0500,
> the entity named Victor Danilchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> inscribed the following words in comp.os.linux.misc:
>
> -clip-
> > Hmmm... An interesting idea -- defining $DEITY... Perhaps
> -clip-
>
> You like religion, don't you? *EG*
Oooh, man, you have no idea. Why, just the other day, I was showering
and thinking to myself: "man, I am so horny, I could sure use another
religion to $%#& up today!"
> -clip-
> >Taoism: export DEITY=`cat core`
> -clip-
>
> Taoism should be /dev/null too. It's all about Nothing, you see...
Nonono, taoism is about "nothing" in the sense that it is not about any
profound truths -- or rather, that its truths are quite non-profound. I
think /dev/null would not do taoism justice.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Destrius)
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:18:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...and it was written on the heavens that on Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:49:43 -0500,
the entity named Victor Danilchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
inscribed the following words in comp.os.linux.misc:
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> Hmmm... An interesting idea -- defining $DEITY... Perhaps
-clip-
You like religion, don't you? *EG*
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>Taoism: export DEITY=`cat core`
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Taoism should be /dev/null too. It's all about Nothing, you see...
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
From: Andreas Micklei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 problem
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:07:24 GMT
Hello,
In comp.os.linux.development.apps John Edstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: My pet weirdness is that Netscape Communicator dies when I click on a
: mailto anchor.
I have seen this to, so just a question: Have you entered your e-mail
address and all the other stuff about your identity in the preferences?
That cured the problem for me.
Or even better: Use Lynx. *hiding* ;-)
bye...
Andreas Micklei
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:32:19 -0500
From: Victor Danilchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Steve Mading wrote:
>
> Victor Danilchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> : Egoism: export DEITY=`whoami`
> : Deism: export DEITY=/dev/null
>
> That should be: export DEITY=/bin/init
Good point. I was thinking about /dev/null because, just like a desitic
deity, nothing comes out of it -- it does not really interact with the
rest of the system. but /bin/init does seem to be closer to the spirit
of deism.
> (Diety just exists for the sake of getting the universe started, and
> setting some operational things in place, and thereafter it just sits
> back and waits for its grand work to finish, not interferring.)
> (DEITY=/bootkernel might make sense for deism too - Deity just creates
> the laws of physics and then sits back and waits for them to get used.)
Hmmm... I may have to start keeping track of this stuff.
> : Atheism: export DEITY=
>
> With my redefinition of Deism's DEITY up above, I'd then use /dev/null
> for atheism.
but /dev/null actually exists!
> Nullstring might make more sense for agnosticism (Deity is
> an undefined value). If you were using csh examples instead of sh
> examples, then unsetenv DEITY would be good for agnosticism. (Or perhaps,
> DEITY=$RANDOM.)
Yeah, I was wishing for unsetenv half-way though, but I liked the
"import deity" part too much.
Anyway, agnosticism... What we would really need is a C++ "private"
declaration here. it exists, but we know nothing about it. maybe I will
just munge the sh syntax, and write:
agnosticism: export private DEITY
Not very understandable, though... Maybe a random pointer? That would
really give us an undefined value.
> : Satanism: export DEITY=/proc/666
>
> That's what runs all the daemons.
>
> : Xianity: export DEITY=/son:/father:/spook
> : Islam: for i in `printenv | cut -d= -f1`; do export $i= ; done; export
>DEITY="allah"
> : Roman paganism: import DEITY
> : Hinduism: export DEITY=$DEITY (or true recursive def, perhaps?.. in
> : C?..)
> : Buddhism: export DEITY=`umount /`
> : Taoism: export DEITY=`cat core`
I am thinking of waiting for a few days, and then assembling the list
version 2.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Destrius)
Subject: Re: SuSE or RedHat ?
Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:18:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...and it was written on the heavens that on Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:40:33 -0500,
the entity named Victor Danilchenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
inscribed the following words in comp.os.linux.misc:
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> I am not trying to start a flamewar -- I was just surprised by Destrius
>stressing the "freeness" of Debian as a reason to chose that particular
>distribution.
-clip-
Actually, all I meant was that since a copy of Debian only costs the amount
needed to produce the CD, buying a set wouldn't hurt any.
If you were to try SuSe, OpenLinux, etc., you'd have to spend a bit more to
purcahse those distributions, AFAIK.
I didn't mention the "freeness" as a reason to choose Debian. Just a reason
to try it out.
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From: "Jeff P. Koon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Problems
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:05:24 -0600
Try adding the following to your lilo.conf:
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda1
label = Linux
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
append = "mem=576M aix7xxx=extended"
# Linux bootable partition config ends
I am talking about the "append" line. Of course, change yours to mem=128M. We had
to do this on our servers that run lots of memory.
Let me know if this helps. This is the first time I can actually answer a question
posted here. ::grin::
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Jeff P. Koon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System Administrator
Q4i.com, Inc.
(formerly Corp. Executive Solutions)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I have a PC with a Pentium II processor and 128 Mb of RAM.
> Unfortunately, Linux is only recognizing 64 Mb of RAM. I'm running
> Slackware's 2.0.34 kernel. I know that I have 128 Mb of RAM because when I
> boot up, the machine "counts" to 131072 Kb. I believe that it is only seeing
> 64 Mb because typing "free" gives me:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 64060 60904 3156 40260 1732 18540
> -/+ buffers/cache: 40632 23428
> Swap: 130748 6324 124424
>
> Also, typing "dmesg" gives me:
>
<<snip>>
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From: brent verner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: gnome & windows manager
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:42:36 -0500
I really like Window Maker. as a second choice, i'd say Blackbox.
hth.
brent
"Mat�as Orchard V." wrote:
>
> Hi there:
>
> why does GNome have not incorporated a windows manager?
>
> why can't I have folders on my desktop like under KDE?
>
> which windows manager do you recommend to use under gnome?
>
> thanks a lot,
>
> --
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>
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ: 460589
>
> why reboot? use Linux.
> Red Hat 5.2 ~ kernel 2.0.36 ~ KDE 1.0
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From: "Gopal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deleting /var/log/messages...
Date: 29 Dec 1998 12:15:13 GMT
Charles Stack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article <769n2l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> What is the proper method for deleting the /var/log/messages logfile? I
> know I read it somewhere and now can't find the reference.
use a cron job to do it automatically. use '>/var/log/messages' as the cron
command
check crontab(5) for details on adding a cronjob
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From: "Charles Stack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deleting /var/log/messages...
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:30:09 -0500
See the reply by junker...that'll truncate the file to length 0.
Thanks to all for offering your help.
Charles
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:08:43 -0500
From: Victor Danilchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which company uses linux as main o/s
Posted and e-mailed.
Ilya Alexander S wrote:
>
> please point me, which company uses this mighty pinguin as their main
> o/s.
> or some similiar fact like IBM uses Apache as their main core future
> software (websphere).
Read through www.linux.org and www.opensource.org -- they have quite a
number of examples, I believe.
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 11:09:59 -0500
From: Victor Danilchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to create a shell script?
Rick Glunt wrote:
>
> I have attempted to create a shell script using vi but cannot get it to
> execute. If I call the file test, after typeing in test I get an error like
> "bash: test: command not found". What can I do? I've done a chmod +x test
> and that doesn't help.
1) Be sure to give it "chmod u+x test"
2) Type full path -- something like `pwd`/test or ./test may do the
trick.
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From: "Dennis McGrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 21:11:10 -0800
Michael Lee Yohe wrote in message ...
>Gee, guys - I guess it's not really a known fact that common email gatherer
>programs know to strip out "nospam" "antispam" and other "spam" references
>from your addresses. Be a little creative or just lay out your email
>address plain n' simple.
Amen! I can't tell you how many times I'll email a reply to a request for
help on a NG and have it bounce back 'cause I didn't take the time to see
what the hell the actual email address.
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