Linux-Misc Digest #687, Volume #18 Tue, 19 Jan 99 01:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: caller id program for the computer? (Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCtt?=)
Re: Mounting Filesystems (Frank Hahn)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks (Clint Olsen)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks (Jason O'Rourke)
rpm available for Rasmol 2.6?? (Andrew T. Phillips)
Re: Beowulf Anyone? (Glenn Butcher)
Re: RH Kernel 2.0.18 (Dan Nguyen)
Re: installing win95 on slave disk ("whoever")
Re: Loadlin (Frank Hahn)
Re: Linux on Mac... (Rod Smith)
Re: Samba -StarOffice (Emanuele Coatti)
Re: Linux not seeing all memory (please help) (Jim Finney)
GUIDs on UNIX/LINUX? ("Mike Strong")
Re: Y2K motherboard clock (John Hasler)
Linux seeing DOS partition (Troy Davidson)
Debian and netbase start/stop problems (Ruud van den Brink)
Re: Linux not seeing all memory (please help) (Darren Greer)
Re: get your money back for Windows preinstalled (Arthur)
Re: What are core files? (Gary Momarison)
Re: What time is it? (Gary Momarison)
Re: Linux on a 286? (R. Sean Fulton)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Secuity hole with perl (suidperl) and nosuid mounts on Linux (Peter Samuelson)
"ps axm" vs. "free" and swap (Terry Husie)
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 05:47:45 +0100
From: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCtt?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc
Subject: Re: caller id program for the computer?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, i was just wondering if there is a callerid program for either windows nt
> or linux (preferably linux). I had heard one exists but i have not been able
> to find such a thing. thank you.
>
> -Gaiko
>
> Gaikokujin Kyofusho
> Student Extraordinare & UN*X Guru Wannbe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
Hi!
You could use mgetty and the cnd-program option. This script
is called, whenever a call comes in with the caller-id as
one of its parameters.
The harder part is finding a modem, that supports
caller-ids. There is a basic implementation with the Zoom
MX ISDN-Modem but it doesn't work always (sometimes the Zoom
doesn't generate a distictive RING). There is also support
for the Zyxel implemented - maybe this works better...
Regards
Thomas
--
home: www.thomas-schuett.de
eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Mounting Filesystems
Date: 19 Jan 1999 03:15:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:50:40 +0000, Matt Cobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've got a box running RedHat 5.2 and Win95. I can mount the Win95
>drive and write to it as root, but I can only read as any other user. Is
>there a way I can give only certain users (e.g. me) read/write access to
>this vfat drive? The reason being that I use Pine on both OS's and it
>would save a hell of a lot of hassle if I could point my saved message
>folders at the same place...
>
Take a look at both "mount" and "fstab" man pages.
This is also one of those topics that gets discussed quite a bit.
I would bet a search of http://www.dejanews.com would give some
guidance also.
Also, try reading through some of the old Linux Gazette issues, especially
the early ones. I believe there was discussion there about this. The
address is http:www.linuxgazette.com.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clint Olsen)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks
Date: 19 Jan 1999 01:48:23 GMT
On 17 Jan 99 22:57:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>And on the flip side, check out www.dejanews.com, which is run under Linux.
Hmm, I didn't realize that. I've actually not been happy with Dejanews,
but it could be a number of factors that contributes to poor performance
(ISP, my Win98 box, transient network problems, cosmic rays).
-Clint
--
Clint Olsen . -- .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason O'Rourke)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks
Date: 18 Jan 1999 14:49:33 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You can see for yourself (Yahoo, www.cdrom.com) how well FreeBSD behaves
>> as an Internet server.
>And on the flip side, check out www.dejanews.com, which is run under Linux.
>
>Both seem to work pretty well,
To be honest, I've lost patience with dejanews. Now that it is trying to
act as a portal, I find it unresponsive and difficult to use. Far
different from my experience with cdrom.com or yahoo's investment pages.
Now, this can be related to issues of loading and network latency rather
than the use of Linux. Nonetheless, this micro benchmark doesn't show an
equal comparison.
--
Jason O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jor.com
'96 BMW r850R
last dive: January 16th, Fire Rock, Carmel. 43 mins at 65ft max.
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From: Andrew T. Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rpm available for Rasmol 2.6??
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:16:37 -0600
Does anyone have an rpm for Rasmol 2.6? I can't get it to compile
with my Redhat 5.2 system.
Thanks!
Andy Phillips
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From: Glenn Butcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Beowulf Anyone?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:16:34 -0800
Glenn Butcher wrote:
(snip)
> I'm going to try the same thing with RARP and a NFF-root kernel on a
> floppy.
That's "NFS-root": fumblwes finsgers...
Glenfnds Buhgxhder
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH Kernel 2.0.18
Date: 19 Jan 1999 04:59:08 GMT
Gramo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi,
: I'm currently running with 2.0.18. I know I've been asleep for
: a while. Do I have to install and rebuild all the kernel patches to
: reach x.x.36 or can I just build 2.0.36
If you currently have the 2.0.18 kernel tree, you will need to get all
the patches between 2.0.18 and 2.0.36 and apply them in order. But
I'd recommend just grabbing the source for 2.0.36
--
Dan Nguyen | There is only one happiness in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | life, to love and be loved.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
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From: "whoever" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.windows95,alt.windows95,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: installing win95 on slave disk
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:04:51 -0600
Check here:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/PRODUCTS.HTM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <780rqd$tkd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>I have linux installed on my machine, and want to put in my second hard
disk
>and install windoze95 on it so that I can play my games. Now, I know that
>Windoze demands that it be installed on the first partition on the first
>disk, but I was wondering if there is a way around this. Any help would be
>greatly appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Loadlin
Date: 19 Jan 1999 03:15:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:54:40 -0600, Troy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am looking for a copy of Loadlin, but can't seem to find it anywhere.
>Do someone know where I can find it?
>
Did you look on your Linux CD or any of the Linux ftp sites?
--
Frank Hahn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux on Mac...
Date: 18 Jan 1999 23:51:57 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <78077d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
>
> what about the lack of the second mouse button? how do you deal with
> that?
Actually, many X applications assume THREE mouse buttons (on a two-button
mouse, the third can be emulated by "chording," or pressing both buttons
simultaneously, if XFree86 is configured in this way). I recall reading
recently that one solution is to use a couple of otherwise rarely-used
keyboard keys in place of the second and third buttons, but I don't
recall the details, and I don't know if this is the only solution. A
better solution is to buy a Mac mouse or trackball with three (or at
least two) buttons. I've seen Mac versions of the Logitech Trackman
Marble with three buttons, for instance (I use the PC version of one of
these and love it). I don't know offhand if there are any three-button
USB pointers (for the latest Macs), though. I know there are two-button
USB mice.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.users.fast.net/~rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the digit and following word from my address to mail me
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From: Emanuele Coatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba -StarOffice
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:40:06 +0100
staroffice official site: http:/www.staroffice.com
bye.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto:
> Hi!
> I've just finished my first installation of Linux (Redhat 5.1), and I
> like it, although i feel like a baby penguin taking it's first
> insecure steps on drifting ice-flakes.
>
> I have two questions (! - not more than 2 ? *Shure but they'll come
> later*)
>
> 1. Where can i find info on how to implement Samba? (This is very
> important to me, cause i work in a very MS-Infested place)
>
> 2. Anybody knows how to obtain the free StarOffice package?
>
> Thnx in advance
>
> AceBone
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From: Jim Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux not seeing all memory (please help)
Date: 19 Jan 1999 03:40:02 GMT
Darren,
If you are running RedHat5.1, try this:
- In /etc/lilo.conf, add this line, append="mem=64M"
- run /sbin/lilo
- reboot
This should force linux to recognize your memory.
Good luck,
Jim...
Darren Greer wrote:
> Do a search at dejanews for: linux, lilo, memory, recognize, append, mem=
>
> And I am sure you will find _a ton_ of information that will help you,
>
> DrGreer
>
> bgreen wrote:
>
> > I bought a Shuttle Hot 661/p motherboard with a PII 350. The board is
> > populated with a single PC-100 64 meg DIMM. RedHat only sees 15 meg of ram.
> >
> > WIN98 sees the whole 64 and no errors are evident during POST.
> >
> > Any idea what's wrong? A bad memory chip?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Jim Finney
==============================
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Mike Strong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: GUIDs on UNIX/LINUX?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:44:11 -0600
Microsoft provided a utility called UUIDGEN that can generate a globally
unique identifier (GUID). I would like something like that that works on
UNIX, and, if possible, cross platform. For my purposes, it does not need
to replicate the algorithm used to generate the GUIDs put out by Microsoft's
utility. I would simply like something on UNIX that could generate IDs that
are guaranteed to be unique.
Any pointers, folks?
Mike
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Y2K motherboard clock
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:40:46 GMT
Rick OHair writes:
> Everyone claims that linux will run on 386's, but no one can answer my
> question about motherboard clocks and the Y2K problem with older
> hardware. Maybe one of you can help.
I installed Debian 2.0 on an old no-name 386/33 and tried all combinations
of allowing the date to roll over, rebooting after it rolled over, allowing
the date to roll over while the machine was off, etc. No problems.
It appears that hwclock already has the equivalent of your DOS program
built-in.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Troy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux seeing DOS partition
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:17:38 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a DOS partition on my HD and wanted Linux to see it so I did:
mkdir /mnt/win98
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98
This worked, but when I restarted Linux, it wouldn't go to the
partition. And it would say that it was busy or already mounted when I
would try and remount it.
Any ideas would help. Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruud van den Brink)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Debian and netbase start/stop problems
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:42:13 GMT
Hi Folks,
When i boot my system, everything works fine. Then I enter:
/etc/init.d/netbase stop
....
/etc/init.d/netbase start
Now i can't connect to any TCP port anymore. No telnet. No FTP. No
Samba. Nothing. InetD refuses any connection. My logfile:
Jan 18 23:16:43 stress inetd[24328]: bump_nofile: cannot extend file
limit, max
= 24
Jan 18 23:16:43 stress last message repeated 5 times
Jan 18 23:16:43 stress inetd[24328]: netbios-ns/udp: unknown service
Jan 18 23:16:43 stress inetd[24328]: socks/tcp: unknown service
Jan 18 23:16:43 stress inetd[24328]: swat/tcp: unknown service
Jan 18 23:17:27 stress inetd[24331]: getpwnam: root: No such user
Jan 18 23:20:19 stress inetd[24339]: getpwnam: root: No such user
Jan 18 23:20:38 stress inetd[24340]: getpwnam: root: No such user
Jan 18 23:20:44 stress inetd[24341]: getpwnam: root: No such user
Jan 18 23:20:53 stress inetd[24343]: getpwnam: root: No such user
Jan 18 23:21:01 stress inetd[24347]: getpwnam: root: No such user
Jan 18 23:21:12 stress inetd[24348]: getpwnam: root: No such user
Jan 18 23:22:49 stress inetd[24350]: getpwnam: root: No such user
Jan 18 23:22:57 stress init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jan 18 23:22:58 stress inetd[24353]: getpwnam: root: No such user
So far, there are two problems. netbios-ns, socks and swat are all in
the services file. The user root exists ofcourse. The very strange
thing is, that a system reboot will get everything to work, even
samba, even swat and even socks.
Does somebody have any idea?
Ruud.
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Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:43:09 -0600
From: Darren Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux not seeing all memory (please help)
I believe you meant that to be re-directed to bgreen :)
DrGreer
Jim Finney wrote:
> Darren,
>
> If you are running RedHat5.1, try this:
>
> - In /etc/lilo.conf, add this line, append="mem=64M"
>
> - run /sbin/lilo
>
> - reboot
>
> This should force linux to recognize your memory.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Jim...
>
> Darren Greer wrote:
>
> > Do a search at dejanews for: linux, lilo, memory, recognize, append, mem=
> >
> > And I am sure you will find _a ton_ of information that will help you,
> >
> > DrGreer
> >
> > bgreen wrote:
> >
> > > I bought a Shuttle Hot 661/p motherboard with a PII 350. The board is
> > > populated with a single PC-100 64 meg DIMM. RedHat only sees 15 meg of ram.
> > >
> > > WIN98 sees the whole 64 and no errors are evident during POST.
> > >
> > > Any idea what's wrong? A bad memory chip?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help.
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
>
> Jim Finney
> ==============================
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: get your money back for Windows preinstalled
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:52:27 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Here's an incredible story of how one Linux user got their money
> back for the Windows pre-installed on the laptop they bought.
>
> http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html
>
> It is based on the premise that the Microsoft Software License Agreement
> allows you to return the software if you do not agree to its terms.
> I have nothing to do with this, except I was told about the above
> Web page and I think all Linux users should do the same. Good luck.
I wish I'd seen that before I made my most recent computer
purchases.
One thing intrigues me ... If you read the link, Toshiba refused
to issue a refund according to terms of the EULA. It's seems to
me (although of course IANAL), that refusing to follow the
terms of the agreement (on Toshiba's part) would be breach of
contract (between the buyer and Toshiba). Since I'm sure
the EULA includes lots of things like forbidding reverse
engineering and copying, if they breach the agreement, are
you then free to do all of those nasty things?
The actual contract is between the buyer and Toshiba, not
between the buyer and Microsoft, but it seems that Toshiba
is Microsoft's agent. If Microsoft's agent breaches the
contract, it seems like the buyer would be free to do
whatever he pleases with the software. I'm not planning
on testing this theory any time soon, but it's a pleasant
thought.
Arthur
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What are core files?
Date: 18 Jan 1999 17:11:10 -0800
".exe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
See "core" entry in http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/files.html
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What time is it?
Date: 18 Jan 1999 17:16:57 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson) writes:
> I am stumped, running RH5.2, upgraded from RH5.1, the time is wrong. I
> can reset the time fine, then when I reboot, changes didn't take effect.
> Any help would be appreciated. (last time I booted into win98, time
> was ok.) Oh, fujitsu Lifebook if that matters. Thanks all.
You didn't use RH's clock GUI tool, did you? So that both OS and HW
clocks are set?
See clock info in http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/clock.html
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R. Sean Fulton)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 286?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:25:11 -0500
Do a search on the web for the ELKs project. They're putting together a
Linux distrib that should work on older intel (286,8086,8088) sytems.
Sean
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael J. Waddell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I currently have Red Hat 5.1 running on a pentium -- a friend of mine
has a 286
> that he is willing to give me. I know that the minimum system
requirements for
> red hat are 386 -- is there any way to put linux on a 286? Or if not, are
> there any other os's that would work on a 286 (such as minix?) that would
> interface well with my linuxboxes (so that I can add it to my linux LAN)?
>
> Thank you for your time
> Mike
>
> --
> Michael J. Waddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> URL = http://www.uwm.edu/~ndell/
> "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
> invisible to the eye." -Saint-Exupery
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 18 Jan 1999 16:23:15 -0800
In article <7807bn$fqg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris says...
>
>
>
>If English is your native language (and it is mine) please set a good
>example and use it properly in these groups.
i aint gona properly use or no use my english cause it see nothing
wrong in it !!
for you info, all the guys in shop think i speak the best english of them,
and the boss alaways tells me my job estimates looks good and never
once bothered me with any english sentenses i wrote on it.
so puzz off and leave us alone. if you dont like it here, go find
another newsgroup to nag people about.
what a jerk.
bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Samuelson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Secuity hole with perl (suidperl) and nosuid mounts on Linux
Date: 18 Jan 1999 19:12:40 -0600
Reply-To: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Oleg Mercader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> If you haven't an exec permition in your /etc/fstab for a floppy
> mounting point you can't execute any from a floppy and if you copy a
> file to a harddisk you lost your suid.
All you need is an entry for a floppy which includes the "user" option
and some type other than "msdos" or "vfat" or whatever ("auto" works)
so that a user can mount an ext2 (or minix, or xia, etc) floppy.
The option "noexec" does not affect this, since the kernel *already*
has a check for this hole if you execute the script directly. (It will
refuse to run it, with EPERM.) You have to invoke the script with
perl /mnt/fd0/script.pl
or some such, so that *perl* is calling the shots, not the kernel.
That is what makes this a hole -- a bug in suidperl. suidperl is
supposed to emulate the kernel permission checks, and it just isn't
clever enough to emulate *this particular* check.
Let it be noted that allowing physical access to an important machine
is asking for trouble already, and allowing users to do things like
mount floppies and cdroms is maybe even a little more careless, so a
truly paranoid admin wouldn't have been hit by this bug anyway.
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: Terry Husie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "ps axm" vs. "free" and swap
Date: 18 Jan 1999 16:47:48 -0800
Isn't the kernel supposed to protect itself against rouge apps? My swap
area fills up until system crashes, even though I restart hog programs
in a futile attempt to clear out swap.
My total of "ps axm" SWAP column is much less than output of "free".
(They're probably leftovers from Netscape.)
No mail, thanks.
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