Linux-Misc Digest #400, Volume #19 Wed, 10 Mar 99 13:13:21 EST
Contents:
switching from enlightenment back to WM (Donald)
Re: Help! Debian 2.1 installation won't recognize Initio 9100UW (**Nick Brown)
If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix ("Norm Dresner")
Re: FS support - kernel 2.2.1 (Matthew Kirkwood)
Re: Help me with experiment (doole)
Re: Database for Linux (David Steuber)
Re: Need advice re: upgrading to SUSE 6.0 from RH5.1 (David Steuber)
Re: No-Win Modem Situation (Hugh Johnson)
Re: Public license question (Stephan Schulz)
Re: memory management (Matthew Bafford)
Re: I need help on configuring a RAID 1 ("Bruno Prior")
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (normski_r)
Re: chown: bug or feature ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RPM install problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Serial transfert (LETOT R�mi)
Re: Moving directories accross partitions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: No-Win Modem Situation (Ned Carlson)
Re: "/usr is busy" error message on shutdown (Floyd Davidson)
rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd killed and restarting automatically
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Help! Debian 2.1 installation won't recognize Initio 9100UW (Rod Smith)
Bizarre "find" process running under owner "nobody" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: accessing cdrom ("Mike Noonan")
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From: Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: switching from enlightenment back to WM
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:41:26 -0400
I've installed enlightenment on my computer and I don't know how to
switch it back to windowmaker. Any suggestions?
Thanks alot.
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Debian 2.1 installation won't recognize Initio 9100UW
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:32:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What you may be able to do is put the 2.2.1 kernel on whatever disk you
are using to boot Linux. I always boot from a floppy, for obscure
reasons. See if you can build a boot floppy which uses LOADLIN and
SYSLINUX.CFG. If you can, you can replace the "linux" file with
whatever kernel you want.
You could also try to beg/borrow a more compatible SCSI controller for
the duration.
Bill wrote:
>
> I am a total newcomer but want to install Debian 2.1, which only offers my
> IDE (hda) for initialization, not sda1 and sda2, which are controlled by my
> Iwill Side 2935UW SCSI controller, which has the Initio 9100UW chipset and
> works fine with Initio drivers. In fact a friend got Debian installation to
> actually see and use a SCSI drive with Initio drivers.
>
> Well the friend is off in Europe and here I am eager to start my Linux
> experience and I can't even get it to see, much less installed on, my SCSI
> hard drive. I think what my friend did was somehow incorporate kernel
> 2.2.1, which includes Initio support, into the Debian installation routine,
> but to me these are hardly more than words. I'm hoping someone will have
> the goodness to explain to me how to do what needs to be done to get out of
> this dilemma and into Linux.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to give me.
--
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Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.shell
From: "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:36:54 GMT
All I'd have to do is to write a program to translate even a simple word
processing file into a manpage. I'm sure that I could sell thousands.
Alternately, even a simple X-Window based editor would rake in the dough.
Why doesn't someone else do it?
Norm
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From: Matthew Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: FS support - kernel 2.2.1
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:01:48 +0000
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, David Roberts wrote:
> If I recall correctly the author of the adfs support is Russell King,
> but there is no e-mail address in the source - does anyone know if
> Russell is contactable please?
[EMAIL PROTECTED], I think.
Matthew.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (doole)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help me with experiment
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:48:23 GMT
propsync <"NOSPAM propsync"@stratos.net> insinuated:
>Hello
>
>I have 2 partitions on my harddrive. The first one has the redhat linux
>distribution on it. On the second partition, I want to create a bare
>bones linux system by copying the necessary files from partition 1 to
>partition 2.
Just out of curiosity - is that second partition the one where Windows
used to be? <g>
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Database for Linux
Date: 08 Mar 1999 18:24:36 -0500
Klaus Bernpaintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> I am thinking of developing a small application that requires some
-> databasing. Initially this will be a small app, intended to run
-> locally. Would Postgre be suitable for this, or does it consume to much
-> resources? Are there any tools for using filebased databases (a la
-> dBase) on Linux? Would that be more suitable?
->
-> Ideas, experiences, anyone?
Just a useless comment, I'm afraid. I have a nit to pick with
'consume to much resources' and it is not the grammar.
I have both MySQL and PostgreSQL installed, because I haven't decided
which one to use for an application that will need a database. I need
a database and I want/need to learn SQL. I will probably use Postgre,
but who knows?
The resource usage is secondary to performance. I need to be able to
fetch, insert, and update records quickly. I am also running hardware
from the latter part of the decade. It would take some seriously piss
poor software to not be up to snuff. Hmm. I hope you know what I
mean.
You will only be consuming too many resources if you don't have enough
to do the task. What you need really depends on the application.
What's available is what you've got. In any case, the requirements of
the application will determin how much iron you need to throw at it.
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
Where was it you said you wanted to go today? Sorry, you can't get
there from here.
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Need advice re: upgrading to SUSE 6.0 from RH5.1
Date: 08 Mar 1999 18:29:49 -0500
You might want to go from scratch. Then any other rpms you install
later can be installed with YaST.
YaST is a blast. Have fun!
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
Where was it you said you wanted to go today? Sorry, you can't get
there from here.
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From: Hugh Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: No-Win Modem Situation
Date: 10 Mar 1999 16:43:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ned Carlson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At some point someone's gonna have to come up with a WinModem
> driver for Linux, since the price of Winmodems is starting
> to drive the other stuff off the market.
Yep.
One good thing about the Mac, they had things called GeoPort modems,
which were the same idea as WinModems (modem emulation in the main
cpu), but the OS's lousy multitasking drove the GeoPorts off the
market. They've gone totally extinct.
And that's the last time you'll ever hear me praise the current MacOS
multitasking scheme. ;)
Damn, when is OSX gonna ship?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schulz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: 10 Mar 1999 16:54:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Stephan writes:
>> I am in effect distributing "Snow Crash", and am thus in violation of
>> copyright, even though it is perfectly legal to distibute each individual
>> component, and even though the user has to perform a non-trivial
>> operation ("linking") of the two parts to actually get the novel.
>
>I think that a court would say the encrypted novel contains the novel and
>is therefor a derivative. One of the arguments that the plaintiff would
>make is that someone might invent a way to crack the encryption. Another
>is that as long as a method of decryption exists distributing the encrypted
>novel is distributing the novel, even though the recipients can't read it
>without your help. What if you distributed copies of the novel printed
>with a disappearing ink which only you knew how to make visible? The court
>would consider that and your encryption scheme equivalent.
Sorry, perhaps I should have been technically more specific.
If you have a perfect source of white noise (say a decaying
radioactive element and a Geiger counter), you can use this to create
a perfectly random binary string (a "key"). If you biwise XOR this
string to any other piece of data (of the same lenght, the "original
message"), you get a third bitstring (the "encrypted message") that is
just as random as your original key. Thus you now have two bit
strings that are, by themselves, pure white noise. You cannot get the
original from either of the two bit strings. This is the principle of
one-time-pad encryption. It is not breakable, because, from an
information theoretical point of view, neither of the two strings
contains any information about the original (short of the lenght, but
then you can always pad the original with 0 bits). If this sounds
unconvincing to you, either think about it for a while or read up on
it on any modern book on cryptography.
However, both bit strings can be combined to yield the original work.
Thus, the information is hidden neither in the key nor in the
encrypted message, but in the relationship between the two (and the
encryption is actually symmetric, i.e. there is no conceptual
difference between key and encrypted message).
Now tell me why I am not allowed to distribute a totally random string
of bits just because someone has another string of bits that will
transform my string into a copyrighted work? Also keep in mind that
for either of the two bit strings I can produce third bit string that
combines with wither of the two original ones to give me a copy of the
American declaration of indepencence (to name a public domain
document).
[Other valid arguments/examples deleted - I do not exactly know where
fair use ends for literary texts - there seems to be a pretty large
grey zone]
Stephan
========================== It can be done! =================================
Please email me as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schulz)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: memory management
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:54:05 GMT
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 15:14:39 +0000 -- Daniel Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
-> I have a general question about memory management - I can't figure out
-> what is using 80% of my memory when nothing is running (aside from X
-> and wmaker). I have 64 Mb RAM. When I logon, X and wmaker use about
-> 21K. After I run a few applications (netscape, gimp, etc.), even after
-> I've quit the applications, the free memory does not return to where is
-> started. I use "top" to show what's running. I've added up the column
-> for %mem used - it comes to about 40%, but 80% of the memory is consider
-> "used".
->
-> What gives? It doens't go into swap when I start new applications, so
-> should I just pay no attention to it?
Relax, you're not using Windows anymore!
There was recently a discussion about this, but...
Linux does The Right Thing (tm) by using as much of your memory as possible.
This generally makes your system seem even faster than it is, and makes sure
you use the memory you paid for. That memory is freed when you actually need
it (say, to run a program), so you don't even notice.
What good would it be if you only used all of your ram once a week?
Try running the 'free' program for a little more info.
Also note that top doesn't show all running programs (at least not on my
machine) it only has so much space.
-> Any advice would be appreciated.
Rejoice!
-> Thanks
HTH!
-> Dan Naughton
--Matthew
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From: "Bruno Prior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: I need help on configuring a RAID 1
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:06:02 -0000
Curtis Adams wrote in message <7c384h$8dc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>There's a mini-Howto at
>http://www.ssc.com/linux/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Software-RAID.html
>that's a good starting point. However, it's very lacking in information.
This is completely out of date. Try
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/. This has been incorporated
into the latest raidtools, so you could simply go to
http://www.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha
and download the latest raidtools (raidtools-19990309-0.90.tar.gz) and patch
(raid0145-19990309-2.0.36.gz or raid0145-19990309-2.2.3.gz depending on your
kernel version). Remember, you will also need a pristine kernel source
package to apply the patch to.
>Here's a simplified step-by-step process
>1) Install the RAID tools v0.5 (if you have RedHat 5.2, the tools are on
the
>CD in RPM format)
raidtools has been at 0.90 for a while. It is much improved on 0.5, so make
your life easy and upgrade. The changes to the init scripts which are in
RH5.2 to take account of v0.5 are junk, not just for 0.90 but for 0.5 as
well. If you have RH5.2, you will want to search the rc scripts for mentions
of raidstart and raidstop and remove the appropriate lines.
>2) create a partition on the two separate drives using fdisk (must be equal
>in size)
Not necessarily, it's just that inequal size partitions waste some of the
space on the larger partition.
>3) edit /etc/raidtab to look like... (modify the device parameters to
>whatever your drives are)
>
>raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
>
> device /dev/hdc1
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/hdd1
> raid-disk 1
>
>4) Add the RAID to the kernel configuration, execute...
> raidadd /dev/md0
What happened to mkraid? Without creating the device, you won't be able to
raidadd or raidstart it.
Also, this all assumes that raidtools was installed from an RPM. If he had
to download the raidtools tar.gz and patch, then he won't have known to
patch and compile a new kernel to include the latest RAID support (and
reboot so it's running), nor to compile the raidtools with "make; make
install; make install_dev" in the gunzipped/extracted raidtools directory.
The latter command can be very significant on a machine which has not had
RAID on it before. Without it, you can apply all the right commands and
still be told that the devices do not exist.
>5) Start the RAID, execute...
> raidstart /dev/md0
mkraid does this automatically for you now.
>6) Format the RAID device, execute...
> mke2fs /dev/md0
>
>7) Change to the top level mouting point, and create a directory name for
>the mounting point,...
> cd /
> mkdir myraid
>
>8) Mount the RAID device as the new directory,
> mount -t ext2 /dev/md0 /myraid
>
>You can also tell Linux to automatically mount the device when booting, if
>desired. I used linuxconf to do this.
I assume linuxconf adds a line to /etc/fstab for the RAID array, does it?
This will only work if the RAID is already running, so you will want to use
RAID auto-recognition. Just use fdisk to mark any RAID partitions as type
"fd", and enable RAID auto-recognition when you compile the kernel. Now the
kernel will start any RAID arrays at boot time without any commands needing
to be issued, and shut them down cleanly when you shutdown. All you need to
do is add a line to your fstab (with linuxconf or whatever) showing where
you want the RAID array to be mounted, just like a normal partition.
>Review all the man pages for the various commands so you can customize to
>your needs.
>
>Good Luck
>Curtis
>
>
>Ray wrote in message ...
>>Hi, i have a 4 gb SCSI boot hd and 2 9 gb SCSI data hd�s. I would do a
raid
>>1 over the 2 9 gbhd�s, how do i ?
>>
>>(raid 1 i think it is : mirroring a harddisk and keep it alive mirrored)
>>(i think to keep the mirror alive is much easier than to bring it to live
>>;-) )
Actually, it's all pretty easy now, thanks to some excellent work by Ingo
Molnar. Just follow the HOWTO at the URL at the top of the message, and
ignore all documentation in older raidtools packages.
Cheers,
Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: normski_r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:08:44 +0000
Tom Emerson wrote:
> The solution, then, is incredibly simple -- at least, at the first level.
>
> <...>
And the ordinary user is supposed to be able to do all that!? Get a grip on
reality.
Normski.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: chown: bug or feature
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:58:56 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought it had to be
> "if you are trying to change UID to something other then it is now and
> you are not owner of inode or SU, then deny access"
You can't give files away. This would have accounting and quota implications.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RPM install problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:06:00 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Rafael Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) I get the following message when I try to install the RPM package in
> my Slackware LINUX when I use config command
Best to grab rpm as a .tgz from ftp.rpm.org
This will get you started.
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From: LETOT R�mi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial transfert
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:48:43 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Because I have the very same problem with pilot-link and a PalmIII, I
think Kermit or the HP are not the problem.
I will check anyway, thanks
--
R�mi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Moving directories accross partitions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:11:58 GMT
Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cd olddirectory
> tar -cf - .|(cd newdirectory; tar -xpf -)
^
s/;/&&/
I'm paranoid :)
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From: Ned Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: No-Win Modem Situation
Date: 10 Mar 1999 08:53:01 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Varela wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:57:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford) wrote:
>
> > The jumpers are usually a good indication it's not a winmodem, though.
>
> But the inverse is not true: i.e., a modem without jumpers may not be a
> winmodem. 3COM model 5687 is an internal V.90 x2 modem, not a winmodem, with
> no jumpers.
>
> --
> John Varela
> (delete . between mind and spring to e-mail me)
One indication that it's a Whinemodem is the price is too good to
be
true...WinModems are cheaper 'cause they're missing half the
parts.
At some point someone's gonna have to come up with a WinModem
driver for Linux, since the price of Winmodems is starting
to drive the other stuff off the market.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Re: "/usr is busy" error message on shutdown
Date: 10 Mar 1999 13:56:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> "Gregory" == Gregory G Woodbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Gregory> Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> shaped electrons
> Gregory> to say:
> >> I've started getting this message when I shutdown the system.
> >> When going through the shutdown procedure, I see the message
> >> "/usr is busy" when the filesystems are being unmounted. Then
> >> when I come back into the system, I get "/dev/hdc3 not cleanly
> >> unmounted, check forced" and then fsck runs. No problems are
> >> detected/fixed.
>
> >> Not sure what caused this. I very seldom reboot this system,
> >> the last time would have been late January when I upgraded to
> >> kernel 2.2.
>
> >> Any ideas what might be causing it? How to fix it?
>
> Gregory> My experience is that there is some process that is not
> Gregory> properly responding to the signals that the shutdown
> Gregory> process send to them. Generally I find that it is one of
> Gregory> the system daemons or something in the /etc/rc.d tree.
>
> Gregory> The solution I used was to edit the rc.sysinit(?)
> Gregory> script (where the system is unmounting partitions) and
> Gregory> adding a "mount -o remount,ro /usr" at the end of the
> Gregory> sequence so that the fsck is avoided in subsequent boots.
>
> Gregory> If the remount fails, then there is probably a corrupt
> Gregory> process or kernel module, and more investigation is
> Gregory> warranted.
>
>Thanks for the info, I'll check this out.
Check also that your versions of mount and umount are recent.
At least one combination of upgrading to a new version of mount
causes exactly the problem you have if older versions of umount
are used.
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pictures of the North Slope at <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd killed and restarting automatically
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:36:57 GMT
Hi mates!
I have three Linux RedHat 5.2 machines running.
On one of the machines which has the original 5.2 installation mountd and
nfsd work properly and can be seen both by rpcinfo -p and by the K20nfs
-status etc.
The other 2 machines were "enhanced" with the informix needed patches
*.(2.0.36-07kfd.rpm).
Those machines fail to start nfsd and mountd although perfectly configured and
portmap running.
Any attempt to run exportfs or any other "restart" etc. results in a display:
rpc.mountd: no process killed
rpc.nfsd: no process killed
The bizarre phenomena is that if I run /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K20nfs status I get a
different pid for the processes each time I run them - rapidly increasing
number!!!
rpcinfo -p shows only the rpcbind processes.
Any ideas?? Does it have to do anything with the patches?? I guess this is
the only difference I can think of.
Needless to say that I can't mount those files (directories or cdrom) from any
remote machine.
Thanks in advance.
Shay Tochner
International Systems Support Specialist
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:00:03 GMT
Tomasz Korycki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: "Stuart R. Fuller" wrote:
: >
: > brian moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: > : >
: > : > Yes. And Your point, as related to "the last holdout from basing their
: > : > systems on Unix concepts is Microsoft" bit? Mind You, if You look deep
: > : > enough into NT architecture, You'll see.... VMS!
: > :
: > : VMS is based on Unix?
: > :
: > : Very interesting news indeed.
: >
: > It might be interesting, but it is certainly wrong news. If you read the
: > paragraph above, it implies that the NT architecture is based on VMS.
: >
: > Stu
:
: It is. Just look who the main architect was and who he brought with him
: to create NT.
I'm not disputing the fact that NT looks a lot like VMS. I was disputing the
"VMS is based on Unix?" comment.
And, Cutler was involved in VMS, but he was not *THE* main architect.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Help! Debian 2.1 installation won't recognize Initio 9100UW
Date: 10 Mar 1999 17:51:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <7c4ooj$8jg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am a total newcomer but want to install Debian 2.1, which only offers my
> IDE (hda) for initialization, not sda1 and sda2, which are controlled by my
> Iwill Side 2935UW SCSI controller, which has the Initio 9100UW chipset and
> works fine with Initio drivers. In fact a friend got Debian installation to
> actually see and use a SCSI drive with Initio drivers.
>
> Well the friend is off in Europe and here I am eager to start my Linux
> experience and I can't even get it to see, much less installed on, my SCSI
> hard drive.
I don't know much about the internals of Debian installation, but I do
have some suggestions:
1) Try Initio's web site (http://www.initio.com). Last I checked, they
had install disks for Red Hat and SuSE. Maybe they've added Debian
to their stable.
2) Try another distribution. I've got an Initio-enabled install floppy
on my web site for Red Hat (better than the last one I saw from
Initio's site, IMHO). It's at
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith/initio.html, but my ISP's been
having web server problems lately, so try back later if it's down. A
note: unless you're up for a challenge or already know a lot about
Linux or other Unix-like systems, Debian may be a bit obscure for you.
Red Hat and SuSE are much more newbie-friendly, IMHO.
3) Try doing a Deja News (http://www.dejanews.com) search for "initio and
debian") or something similar. You may turn up a helpful pointer.
--
Rod Smith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bizarre "find" process running under owner "nobody"
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:23:33 GMT
Hi mates!
Few times a day I hear my machine (Linux 5.2 RedHat) working hard without me
doing anything special.
Running "top" I can se a very heavy "find" process running, consuming a lot of
cpu and owned by "nobody".
Does anybody knows where is the "trigger" of this process? is it some sort of
a "cron"?, housekeeping work etc.?? Where can I find the files that
configure and invoke this process (or others??).
Thanks in advance.
Shay Tochner
International Systems Support Specialist
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From: "Mike Noonan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: accessing cdrom
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:47:25 +0100
Do this as root.
Not knowing which release you have, here's a generic way to do it...
For the floppy
mkdir /floppy
For a dos diskette,
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /floppy
For a W95 diskette ( long file names )
mount -f vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy
For a floppy to use with linux
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy
For a cdrom, you have to know where it is... see your bootup messages
mkdir /cdrom
chmod a+rx /cdrom
mount -t iso9660 -ro /dev/hd?? /cdrom
If your system complains about unknown file systems, just add them with
insmod
For example
insmod vfat
or
insmod iso9660
If you need to so either of these insmods, you probably want to add them at
the end of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file so they are added when you boot.
If you want to be able to mount and unmount these while not being root,
add the words users to the appropriate line /etc/fstab
I made have made a syntax error in these commands, just use the man command
to find the proper syntax
( ie: man mount )
Peter Strong wrote in message <7c5q41$bnr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>the first of many many q's as Im new to Linux, but how do you access the
>cdrom, and other drives for that matter??
>thankyou :)
>
>
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