Linux-Misc Digest #770, Volume #18 Tue, 26 Jan 99 18:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Apache WEB server. (William Burrow)
Re: A newbie versus "vi" (William Burrow)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks (Rahul Dhesi)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks (Rahul Dhesi)
Re: ppp-server problem ("tim")
connection speed of modem (Matt Coarr)
E Equational Theorem Prover 0.3 "Castleton" released (Stephan Schulz)
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (William
Wueppelmann)
Re: which distribution package do you recommend? (Steeve)
Re: Making .tar.gz Files Work (Steeve)
dialin\dialout ("Ken Schrock")
bash/sh "exec" problem - startx doesn't work (Mark Paulus)
gnome images (Steve Gage)
Re: Got Hack ! (Steeve)
Re: ppp-server problem (David Kirkpatrick)
Re: where are my files (Tim)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (eagle95)
gnu tar problems, errors taring large files ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: where are my files ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code ("Norm Dresner")
ls color (/etc/DIR_COLORS) on RH5.2 (Dominic Mitchell)
Re: Help, Kernel too big (Patrick Clerc)
Re: ls color (/etc/DIR_COLORS) on RH5.2 (Dominic Mitchell)
Re: Help, Kernel too big (Cooper)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Apache WEB server.
Date: 24 Jan 1999 21:06:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:28:03 +0100,
Jesper K. Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Basically nomatter what Perl script (ready made from the net) that I try
>out - it terminates with an error message :
>
>something something something "reason: premature end of script headers"
>[somedate].
>
>Can anyone give me a clue of why ?
Yes, look in the logs/error_log and find out why. Also, read the other
article posted.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A newbie versus "vi"
Date: 24 Jan 1999 21:03:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 24 Jan 1999 17:43:32 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>eloquently scribe:
>:> Oh yeah, well when I started college, we had to punch the
>:> cards with flint knives & rocks...;)
>
>: Oh, you had knives and rocks? When I was young, we had to use our
>: teeth.
>
>Punch Cards?
>Luxury. When I were a lad, we 'ad to enter the code in binary by manually
>manipulating the edge connector with a piece of wire.
Wire? Luxury! We had to push around little stones in the dirt!
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William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rahul Dhesi)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks
Date: 24 Jan 1999 21:27:01 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
>According to a contact I have at Hotmail (who is not a Microsoft
>supporter), the story is untrue: Hotmail has never tried to replace
>their systems with NT.
>OTOH, Microsoft -has- repeatedly asked them to use it in some capacity,
>and consistently been told that it would not perform well enough.
>There is no real usage of NT within Hotmail (except perhaps on the
>desktops of some managers, but that's it).
The likely scenario is:
Microsoft HQ tells Hotmail: "Switch to NT."
Hotmail does tests, finds NT won't work, tells HQ it won't switch.
Now you can interprete this as "Hotmail didn't try to switch to NT", or
you can interpret it as "Hotmail tried to switch to NT but it didn't
work." Either way, the point is that Microsoft would like to run
Hotmail on NT but can't make it work.
--
Rahul Dhesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rahul Dhesi)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks
Date: 24 Jan 1999 21:27:57 GMT
In <78f8s9$9gl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim
Smith) writes:
>brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>According to a contact I have at Hotmail (who is not a Microsoft
>>supporter), the story is untrue: Hotmail has never tried to replace
>>their systems with NT.
>What amazes me is the number of people who should have known better who
>believed that story. Just look at the timeline from first rumour that
>MS might buy Hotmail to the alleged attempt to switch to NT, and you'll
>see that there was no time for such an attempt.
Would it take more than a weekend to do simulations of how NT would
perform under load?
--
Rahul Dhesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ppp-server problem
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:23:35 +0100
hi !
Meanwhile I had a look at winipcfg and I got no IP-adress!!!
I had a look at /var/log/messages :
mgetty: TIOCMBIS failed : I/O-error
mgetty: cannot turn off soft carrier: I/O-error
mgetty: tcgetattr failed :I/O-error
mgetty: cannot get TIO : I/O-error
Does anyone know what that means and why ppp isn't running ???
Tim
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From: Matt Coarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: connection speed of modem
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:02:36 -0500
How do I determine the speed at which the modem connects to the dial-up
server for a PPP connection? I am using RH 5.1.
Is there a command or maybe this information is logged to some file? I
checked /var/log/messages but this contained no information.
Matt Coarr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schulz)
Crossposted-To: gnu.announce,gnu.utils.bug,alt.sources.d
Subject: E Equational Theorem Prover 0.3 "Castleton" released
Date: 25 Jan 1999 16:43:13 GMT
The E equational theorem prover version 0.3 "Castleton" has been
released.
E is a a purely equational theorem prover for clausal logic with
equality. Thus, you can specify a mathematical problem (e.g. a
mathematical puzzle), a (small) piece of program code or some hardware
elements in clausal logic (using rules of the form "If A and B and C
then D or E or F" in a PROLOG-like syntax), and try to have the system
prove certain properties of the described structure. Be warned that
this can consume inane (in fact, theoretically unlimited) amounts of
CPU time and memory for diffcult problems.
E version 0.3. is the most polished version released so far. It now
features a special mode to allow the prover to select all parameters
automatically, so that even new users can get some use out of it. E
0.3 has been tested on all 3275 CNF problems of the TPTP problem
library for theorem provers, and showed no unexpected
behaviour. Results are available from the E web page.
E is available as a source distribution for UNIX-variants. It installs
cleanly under all UNIX variants I could get my hands on: Various
versions of GNU/Linux for Intel and SPARC, SunOS, Solaris and HPUX.
E is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
You can find the source distribution and additional information at
http://wwwjessen.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schulz/WORK/eprover.html.
Have fun!
Stephan
========================== It can be done! =================================
Please email me as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schulz)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:21:22 GMT
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:23:10 GMT, the artist formerly known as steve mcadams
said:
>[Snipped for brevity, quoted material marked with ">"] On Mon, 25 Jan 1999
>19:27:28 +0000, mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>It doesn't matter. Almost every internet key word search ends up at
>>either at "hot teens" or a lesbian chatroom anyway, who is going to look
>>a news group posting.
>
>Yeah, it bites, doesn't it. A year ago you could actually find
>something on AltaVista. Now you just find a billion or two references
>to unrelated stuff that happens to match your search keys. Time for
>some new-tech methinks. -steve
Try using the field modifiers to restrict your search. (e.g. `title:foo'
instead of `foo').
Sadly, porno site owners have, well, fucked everything up for everyone else,
but AltaVista is still your best chance with any index, at least until we get
a standardized Web resource classification scheme in use. Unfortunately, that
seems about as likely as getting people to use HTML as a structural markup
language :(
--
William
====================================================
* I learned Windows so that I could get a job. *
* I learned Unix so that I could get the job done. *
====================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steeve)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: which distribution package do you recommend?
Date: 26 Jan 1999 21:17:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adrian Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : <snip>
> : RTFM mans "Read The Fine Manual"
> : etc....
> "Read The FAQ'n Manual" is closer :)
<snort>
--
steeve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
-- Katherine Hepburn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steeve)
Subject: Re: Making .tar.gz Files Work
Date: 26 Jan 1999 20:57:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simon Gaukroger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I am having a lot of trouble making .tar.gr files I download off the
> net work. I really have no idea on who to make them work. I read the readme
> files, but I don't understand them. Please help.
To view the compressed (gz) tar file (tape archive) do,
tar vtzf file.tar.gz
To extract what you see do,
tar vxzf file.tar.gz
v = verbose
t = list
x = extract
z = de/compress
f = file
Type 'man tar' to see the tar man page. I seem to recall that
the tar people are some of the 'info' zealots so if you can
figure out info ...
--
steeve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ken Schrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dialin\dialout
Date: 26 Jan 1999 21:18:39 GMT
I am fairly new at this (Linux\Unix)...
I need the ability to dialin in to administer machines remotely...
I can use mgetty and minicom to get a basic connection...
But I need something more sophisticated to run X apps too...
(or at least I think I do, I can't get X apps to run over this
connection...
top and other similar apps also don't seem to work under such a
connection)
I have looked at dip, slip, and ppp and find the configs daunting...
(at least they seem to be, Samba looked that way initially too : )
Can anyone give me pointers on a simple dialin\dialout setup...
That will give me the abilities I need?
(These are small businesses, massive security is not necessary...
If I can get this ability, I have Samba et al working great...
I will start recommending Linux to my clients instead of NT)
Please e-mail me if possible.
--
Ken Schrock
Solutions
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Paulus)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: bash/sh "exec" problem - startx doesn't work
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:46:47 GMT
I had startx working on my system at one time, but since then
something has broken. After spending several hours fiddling,
I finally figured out "what" seems to broken, but I don't know why.
Maybe someone can help??
When I run startx (RH 5.2, w/XFree-3.3.3.1 RPM updates for my
Creative Labs TNT), I get a gray screen (XServer starts), and my
nice 'X' cursor, and there it sits. My window manager never starts.
However, if I run xinit, and then run /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients in the
xterm that is started, my X comes up fully, with the window manager.
So, I went further. My shell startup/identification string in
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
is defined as #!/bin/sh, and in Xclients it's #!/bin/bash. It appears
to me that somehow the "sh clone" is having problems doing
an "exec <script>" when the script is not the same shell.
If I change xinitrc to be #!/bin/bash, then I get a hangup in some
other script that it 'execs'. I would really like to know what is
wrong here, and fix it, rather than have to manually edit all
my script files, and then have to re-edit them if I ever upgrade
any little software package. Any info appreciated.
Thanks.
**** Please remove the NO.SPAM when replying ****
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From: Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gnome images
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:29:16 -0500
After having spent most of the day downloading all the latest bits and
pieces of gnome from the RH update site and installing all the rpm's,
when the panel tries to run it issues a whole bunch of
"gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image:
/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-up.png All fallbacks failed."
errors.
It then gives another bunch of errors in the style of
"Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 725 (gtk_signal_connect_after):
assertion `object != NULL' failed."
Does anyone know what to make of this? Where can I find a package that
provides the default images? I think I've updated everything that needed
updating. I've tinkered with gnome before and never had this problem...
- Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steeve)
Subject: Re: Got Hack !
Date: 26 Jan 1999 21:25:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Louis Alexendra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> My Redhat Linux Box get hacked few days ago. Now I am installing again
> the clean system and I don't wish to get hacked again. Could anyone out
> there teach me how to avoid get hacked? Any tools to use? Thanks very
> much.
Go to the redhat site and check the errata, most notably NFS.
--
steeve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
I WISH I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that
I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was
thinking about doing that anyway. -- Jack Handey
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ppp-server problem
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:51:58 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whats your setup? Are you expecting a server to give a dynamic
ip issued from an ISP to other computers on your network?
==================================================================
Generic info for RH 5.2. Assumption: you installed PPP.
===================================================================
RH puts ppp scripts in /usr/doc/ppp-2.3.5
Copy ppp-on, ppp-on-dialer, options to /etc/ppp.
===================================================================
Modify ppp-on:
TELEPHONE, ACCOUNT, PASSWORD
==================================================================
For exec command. put in correct device probably
cua1, modem speed
===================================================================
Edit /etc/resolv.conf and put in ISP nameserver
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
You usually get two from your isp.
====================================================================
execute ppp-on & and monitor logs with
tail -f /var/log/messages.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
OR:
Control Pannel: Modem configuration. Select
correct device. (used in ppp-on script)
===================================================================
Network Configurator: Routing: Defaults blank
PPP0 will use this:
===================================================================
Network Configurator: Names: insert ISP
nameserver addresses.
===================================================================
System Configurator: PPP/SLIP/PLIP: Configurations, Add
Fill in Hardware, Communication. Assumes PAP not
required - If things do not work check with ISP.
==================================================================
Save quit. Verify /etc/resolv.conf has your ISP
addresses.
==================================================================
The linuxconf sets up most things but does not
setup the ppp-on script - that must be done by hand.
==================================================================
tim wrote:
>
> hi !
>
> Meanwhile I had a look at winipcfg and I got no IP-adress!!!
> I had a look at /var/log/messages :
>
> mgetty: TIOCMBIS failed : I/O-error
> mgetty: cannot turn off soft carrier: I/O-error
> mgetty: tcgetattr failed :I/O-error
> mgetty: cannot get TIO : I/O-error
>
> Does anyone know what that means and why ppp isn't running ???
>
> Tim
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where are my files
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:46:16 +0000
David R. Conrad wrote:
> man find
Very helpful....
Try "find / -user (username)"; that should search the entire file system for
all files belonging to user (username)
It'll probably give you lots of "Cannot open directory (dir)" messages and
such like, but should also give you a list of all files and directories that
you own, along with the full path to them. It'd probably be easiest to
redirect the output to a file ("find / -user (username) >> (filename)"), so
you can read it at your leisure.
Tim
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From: eagle95 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:21:12 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i'd say both sides need to read the history books.
the advances came out of military and university groups, regardless of
nationall boundaries, which is the POINT...but for the record..don't forget
the U.S. army in the 40's or 50's or 60's or.. (ala eniac, mainframes,
arpanet, tcp/ip,...) or the AI lab at MIT( ala hacking, basic, bill
gates,...), the san fransisco bay hardware hackers of the 70's( ala the
"pc", ....) should i go on?
'nuff said.
pdohert wrote:
> Michael Powe wrote:
> > Hard to see where you got the idea that "the US has pretty much
> > initiated the whole thing." The modern "computer revolution" started
> > in Britain. Americans are too self-congratulatory for my taste. They
> > seem to forget a few major technological facts, like they got hosed in
> > automotive technology and manufacturing technologies and had to play
> > catchup in electronic technologies. Isn't anybody here old enough to
> > remember that American businessmen thought transistors would be of no
> > serious commercial value? American businessmen are noted around the
> > world for their inability to see beyond next quarter's earnings
> > chart.
>
> What does the vision (or lack thereof) of businessmen in forecasting the
> usefulness or competetive edge of new technology have to do with the
> point that the technology was *created* here?
>
> Makes it pretty easy to see where the "US has pretty much initiated the
> whole thing" comes from... :-)
>
> --
>
> Paul Doherty
> Systems Analyst/Programmer
> http://www.dfw.net/~pdoherty
> Home of PC DiskMaster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: gnu tar problems, errors taring large files
Date: 26 Jan 1999 05:25:39 -0800
hello,
I am seeing many prroblems using gnu tar, mostly when tar large trees,
as an example:
[root@localhost mytree]# tar cf tree.tar tree/
tar: Only wrote 1024 of 10240 bytes to tree.tar
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
[root@localhost mytree]# tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.12
Copyright (C) 1988, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
[root@localhost mytree]#
anyone else had similar problems with tar on large trees?
thanks,
Nasser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: where are my files
Date: 26 Jan 1999 05:34:40 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dev says...
>
>i just when over the quota with the number of files i can have on the
>server. however in my home dir i don't have a half of thouse files they
>must be somewhere else on the system. how can i find all directories that
>have my files in them, and if possible how many files in each dir. there
>are only 5 days left till the limit kicks in...
you can try to search all the files that you own?
you can get a list of all files on the system (using ls -lR /, or
find / -name *) and then grep the result for your user id in the owner
column.
just an idea.
bob
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From: "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: 26 Jan 1999 22:09:34 GMT
William Wueppelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
`[SNIP]
> but AltaVista is still your best chance with any index, at least until we
get
> a standardized Web resource classification scheme in use. Unfortunately,
that
> seems about as likely as getting people to use HTML as a structural
markup
But AltaVista not only has limits, they have lousy Tech Support too.
I tried searching for Targa+ (the name of a video card) and I tried it
every which way including several levels of quotes, etc. I kept getting
thousands of references to Porsches (not that that's bad either).
All tech support could tell me was to put it in quotes!
Bah!
Norm
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Subject: ls color (/etc/DIR_COLORS) on RH5.2
Reply-To: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 Jan 1999 17:00:26 -0500
Hi all,
I am trying to figure some details. Somehow I can't figure out why
a part of /etc/DIR_COLORS is not working. For example, the end of the
/etc/DIR_COLORS which is shown below is not working. In my home
directory I have defined by an alias ls='ls --color=tty'. I have
tried
eval 'dircolors ~/.dir_colors'
LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.rpm=01;31:';
export LS_COLORS
The output seems OK, but when I try ls again it is still not
working. ls will colorize devices, directories, symlinks and files
based on the permissions settings but not based on the files
extension ( eg, .tar, .gz, etc.). Thus it appears that ls color is
not working properly on RH5.2 or at least I have not succeeded in
setting it. Can someone give me a hint on how to do this?
Cheers,
Dominic.
/----------------- excerpt from /etc/DIR_COLORS -------------------/
# List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls
# to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string.
# (and any comments you want to add after a '#')
.cmd 01;32 # executables (bright green)
.exe 01;32
.com 01;32
.btm 01;32
.bat 01;32
.tar 01;31 # archives or compressed (bright red)
.tgz 01;31
.arj 01;31
.taz 01;31
.lzh 01;31
.zip 01;31
.z 01;31
.Z 01;31
.gz 01;31
.jpg 01;35 # image formats
.gif 01;35
.bmp 01;35
.xbm 01;35
.xpm 01;35
--
==========================================================
Dominic Mitchell Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Economic Department mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada, K7L 3N3 Running Linux Redhat 5.2
==========================================================
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From: Patrick Clerc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Help, Kernel too big
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:43:47 +0100
Wael Sedky wrote:
> make config or make menuconfig
> .......
> .....
> .......
> make dep
> make clean
> make zImage
> mv vmlinux /
try
mv arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz
instead of
mv vmlinuz /
Patrick
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Subject: Re: ls color (/etc/DIR_COLORS) on RH5.2
Reply-To: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 Jan 1999 17:32:31 -0500
Hi all,
I am answering my own post! I put the output of the command
eval 'dircolors ~/.dir_colors' > ~/colors
and inserted the file colors in ~/.bash_profile and now it works like
a charm.
Cheers,
Dominic.
>>>>> "dm" == Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
dm> Hi all,
dm> I am trying to figure some details. Somehow I can't figure out why
dm> a part of /etc/DIR_COLORS is not working. For example, the end of the
dm> /etc/DIR_COLORS which is shown below is not working. In my home
dm> directory I have defined by an alias ls='ls --color=tty'. I have
dm> tried
dm> eval 'dircolors ~/.dir_colors'
dm>
LS_COLORS='no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=01;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.rpm=01;31:';
dm> export LS_COLORS
dm> The output seems OK, but when I try ls again it is still not
dm> working. ls will colorize devices, directories, symlinks and files
dm> based on the permissions settings but not based on the files
dm> extension ( eg, .tar, .gz, etc.). Thus it appears that ls color is
dm> not working properly on RH5.2 or at least I have not succeeded in
dm> setting it. Can someone give me a hint on how to do this?
dm> Cheers,
dm> Dominic.
dm> /----------------- excerpt from /etc/DIR_COLORS -------------------/
dm> # List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls
dm> # to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string.
dm> # (and any comments you want to add after a '#')
dm> .cmd 01;32 # executables (bright green)
dm> .exe 01;32
dm> .com 01;32
dm> .btm 01;32
dm> .bat 01;32
dm> .tar 01;31 # archives or compressed (bright red)
dm> .tgz 01;31
dm> .arj 01;31
dm> .taz 01;31
dm> .lzh 01;31
dm> .zip 01;31
dm> .z 01;31
dm> .Z 01;31
dm> .gz 01;31
dm> .jpg 01;35 # image formats
dm> .gif 01;35
dm> .bmp 01;35
dm> .xbm 01;35
dm> .xpm 01;35
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Dominic Mitchell Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Economic Department mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada, K7L 3N3 Running Linux Redhat 5.2
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From: Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Help, Kernel too big
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 23:40:31 -0100
Wael Sedky wrote:
>
> I compiled my kernel 2.0.35 with the default options plus some really few
> others (sound & printer) options.
>
> After I update my lilo.conf and type "lilo" I get an error "Kernel too big"
> It is about 1M I think!! What do I do. I don't think I can make it smaller
> than that. Should I delete the old one?
The old one has nothing to do with the new one. If you kill the old one you
don't have anything to fall back upon (except for the boot disk, but we don't
want to go there).
I think you should consider kernel modules. This allows you to dynamically
insert support for devices as the system needs it. The resulting kernel will be
*WAY* smaller so lilo won't complain. You'll have to do "make modules ; make
modules_install" after "make zImage" to compile and install the modules. By
default slack doesn't use modules, so you'll have to edit your startup script(s)
located in /etc/rc.d so that it at least kicks in kerneld. This should be one of
the first things that should be run after boot. If you have PCI devices, the
isapnp program needs to be called PRIOR to kerneld, but that's about it.
I haven't tried modules myself yet (didn't need them), but when considering it
this was what I dug up.
Cooper
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