Linux-Misc Digest #445, Volume #19 Sun, 14 Mar 99 07:13:48 EST
Contents:
fighting with X ("Kabal")
Re: MAKE command (Benjamin HERZOG)
Re: SuSE 6.0 feelings please. (David Steuber)
Re: Printing man or xman pages (David Steuber)
Re: CD autorun (David Steuber)
Re: Learn the truth - In Dear Recruiter we establish exactly what a recruiter does.
(David Steuber)
Slackware on a second HDD ("Wael Sedky")
Re: Printer recommendations, please (Stuart Eichert)
bonnie results skewed by link library - 2.0.36 (Tim Moore)
Re: Linux vs. Windows (Tim Hanson)
Re: Be and Linux (Richard Steiner)
Re: What is the best Linux to install? (Tim Hanson)
Re: Kernel Panic! (heLP! please URGENT!) ("Mike Noonan")
ps && grep ? (Mike Baroukh)
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From: "Kabal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fighting with X
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 01:15:17 -0800
Hi!
I am (still) having problems setting up and running X. I think i followed
the relnotes instructions that come with new X 3.3.3.1 correctly but still
have XF86Setup and X say it can't find something. Here is how I installed
it. I all went smooth without giving me any errors.
I have Riva TNT card and slackware 3.6
mkdir /home/X11R6
ln -s /home/X11R6 /usr
cd /usr/X11R6
sh /var/tmp/preinst.sh
chmod 755 extract
cd /usr/X11R6
/var/tmp/extract /var/tmp/X*.tgz
cd /usr/X11R6
sh /var/tmp/postinst.sh
these are the errors i am getting:
Kabal:~# XF86Setup
Couldn't determine where u have XFree86 installed. If u have XFree86
properly installed, set the XWINHOME environment variable to point to the
parent directory of the XFree86 bin directory.
and this is what i get when i try to start up X
Kabal:~# startx
execve failed for /usr/X11R6/bin/X (errno 13)
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
i will appreciate any ideas u guys may have... i've been strugglin with it
for a week now and still can't get it to run. thx
Kabal
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From: Benjamin HERZOG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MAKE command
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:11:10 +0100
angel13 wrote:
> Hi
> Sorry I am very new to Linux
Don't be sorry ! All of us once were new to linux, and had the same
problem :-)
> and I have a problem installing
> software. I am using RedHat 5.2 and when I try to install software it
> require the use of MAKE command. But when I try to execute MAKE it
> give a invaild command. What should I do
The software you got can come from ftp (the_name_of_the_software.tar.gz)
then u have to unzip it($ gunzip file.gz) and run tar on it ($ tar -xfv
file.tar).Or you perhaps got it from a CDROM, or a floppy, or anything
else ...
To run well, the MAKE command needs a file 'Makefile'.
You have to look for Makefile in the directories where the softawre is
located.
And, this Makefile will probably need a file named 'configure', or
'config'.
1) If you find the Makefile directly in the directory /directory (this is
a stupid example, don't go in /soft :) ), so run $ make /soft/Makefile.
But the configure file probably doesn' t exist. The reason is simple:
this file tells make how to compile your software, and you may want to
see what will be done by editing the file configure.in .
Find this file configure.in, and run $ autoconf /directory/configure.in .
Then, it will generate a file named 'configure'
Then, go in /directory, run $ make and pray !
2) If you find only a file named Makefile.in, don't run autoconf on it !
Try the command $ ./configure !!!!!!!!! don't forget the '.'
before '/' !!!!!!!!!!!
If it doesn't work, it has to be something like that, so try ./config or
check the readmefile.
i hope that will help you to install your software.
Welcome in the world where you have to do everything by yourself !
> or is there another command I
> can use?
surely not !
> Please forgive me and refer me to the right newsgroup if I am
> in the wrong one.
you are absolutly welcome !
>
>
> Thank
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.0 feelings please.
Date: 13 Mar 1999 04:12:26 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty) writes:
-> Have they finally gotten around to making dhcpcd a part of the
-> installation? That's what turned me completely off SuSE 5.2 - I
-> could deal with it (install dhcpcd, patch a few files in /etc and
-> /sbin), but it's impossible to evangelise Linux to Windoze folks
-> in a DHCP environment without this support!
There is dhclient for DHCP client and dhcp for ISC DHCP server. A
locate on dhcpcd found nothing. I am not in a DHCP environment, but I
see no reason why it shouldn't work out of the box.
YaST has a place for configuring DHCP client. I don't know how you go
about seting up as a DHCP server.
--
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]>
Subject: Re: Printing man or xman pages
Date: 13 Mar 1999 04:35:46 -0500
"John Madden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> Simple question: I can print to my printer with lpr -P[printer]
-> [filename] fine,
-> but I cannot figure out how to print man or xman pages. I tried to redirect
-> the man page to a file and then print it, but the formatting wasn't good.
-> Can someone help me on this? Would like to get a nice print from the man
-> page, this would aid my understanding of Linux immensely!
Why can't you use:
man foo | lpr
?
Works nicely on my system.
--
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]>
Subject: Re: CD autorun
Date: 13 Mar 1999 04:43:07 -0500
"Penna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> We are making a CD ROM for use with linux machines, with some HTML pages on.
-> Is there any way to 'autorun' the CD when it is inserted?
I hope not. I find that to be one of the more anoying features of
Windows.
--
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.lang.pascal.borland,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Learn the truth - In Dear Recruiter we establish exactly what a recruiter
does.
Date: 13 Mar 1999 04:49:51 -0500
Please don't keep posting this stuff here. I'm sure there is a much
more appropriate group for job related articles.
This is a technical group.
--
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: "Wael Sedky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Slackware on a second HDD
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:46:36 GMT
Hi,
How can I install slackware 3.6 on a second hard drive? I am familiar with
linux. I have installed it about a dozen times before, but on one partition.
I can't find my hard drive when I run "fdisk"
I have win98 on a 2GB partition and 340MB partition on the first drive.
The second drive is currently fat formatted (to be deleted) 1GB.
when i run the boot and root disks. I noticed
hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5>
hdc: [PTBL][621/64/63] hdc1
Is this hdc my second drive?
I tried doing fdisk hdc, but i didn't get the fdisk program running. It
looked like there were some partition table errors although the drive is OK
with windows.
Any clues? regardless of my errors how can i install linux on a second hdd?
how can i use fdisk on the second hdd that is?
Please email
Thank you for your help
Wael
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Eichert)
Subject: Re: Printer recommendations, please
Date: 14 Mar 1999 09:44:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been very happy with my HP 6MP. It is a postscript printer and
therefore I can easily print to it from any UNIX system, Macintosh, and I
was even able to get Winbloated to print to it. I bought mine about 1.5
years ago for around $900 plus tax. It is expensive, but worth it for
high quality fast output. I also recommend using decent paper, like
Hammermill, with it as you can actually see and feel the difference of the
printed output.
stu
Bob Tennent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:47:45 -0500, Ed Finch wrote:
: >
: >A few years ago I purchased an HP 820Cse printer for my wife. At the
: >time I didn't realize what "for Windows" meant :(
: >
: >So, I'm in the market for a printer that works with Linux. My need is
: >mostly fast black and white (for printing source code). Color would be
: >a nice bonus. I went to Staples tonight and liked the HP 722 color
: >deskjet. Whaddyathink?
: That's also a WinPrinter. Check out
: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html
: particularly the last paragraph on that page.
: Bob T.
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSEcon Wharton School '99 *
* www.stwing.upenn.edu/~seichert/ MSE Tcom. & Networking '99 *
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 02:38:55 -0800
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: bonnie results skewed by link library - 2.0.36
Four different compilations, three different results for putc/getc and seeks. Other
common tests indicate ~16MB/s (stripe set). How is bonnie to be compiled for results
that are actually comparable (or even accurate)?
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
orig 256 15027 89.5 14096 26.2 4465 14.3 12176 52.3 15569 18.2 117.0 1.0
orig 256 15097 89.5 14065 26.1 4501 15.0 12559 54.7 15284 20.6 115.7 1.2
libc_O2 256 7634 95.7 14057 25.6 4394 13.3 7670 85.6 15513 13.3 100.4 2.2
libc_O2 256 7788 96.0 14040 26.5 4441 14.2 7533 85.0 15494 16.0 98.9 1.9
libc_stat 256 9124 96.2 14036 25.4 4476 14.1 8794 82.3 15556 15.3 97.4 1.5
sysV_O2 256 7858 96.9 14223 25.8 4479 15.0 7554 85.4 15529 15.3 212.0 3.5
sysV_O2 256 7853 96.6 14078 25.0 4518 14.0 7567 85.3 15585 14.9 208.0 2.8
sysV_stat 256 9055 95.5 14124 25.9 4445 14.2 8706 81.8 15557 14.7 206.4 2.7
orig = (bonnie-1.0-3 rpm: libc.so.5)
libc_O2 = (locally compiled: 'make')
sysV_O2 = (locally compiled: 'make SysV')
_stat = (locally compiled: add '-static')
> rpm -qi bonnie-1.0-3
Name : bonnie Distribution: (none)
Version : 1.0 Vendor: (none)
Release : 3 Build Date: Sat Dec 28 20:04:49 1996
Install date: Mon Mar 8 01:24:38 1999 Build Host: ew
Group : Utilities/Benchmarks Source RPM: bonnie-1.0-3.src.rpm
Size : 42312 License: distributable
Packager : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Summary : Bonnie benchmark for Unix filesystems
> rpm -qa | egrep 'gcc|libc'
gcc-2.7.2.3-14
glibc-profile-2.0.7-29
libc-5.3.12-28
glibc-2.0.7-29
glibc-devel-2.0.7-29
Bonnie's target for these runs is a 6GB RAID0 stripe set. The host machine: 2.0.36
kernel, 82371AB PIIX4 + Promise U/33 controllers, Celeron 300A@450MHz, 128MB.
hdc: IBM-DHEA-36481, 6197MB w/472kB Cache, CHS=12592/16/63, UDMA
hde: IBM-DHEA-36481, 6197MB w/472kB Cache, CHS=12592/16/63, UDMA
> cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1]
read_ahead 8 sectors
md0 : active raid0 hde7 hdc7 6345600 blocks 16k chunks
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
# hdparm -tT /dev/md{0,0,0}
/dev/md0:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 0.65 seconds =98.46 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 2.05 seconds =15.61 MB/sec
/dev/md0:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 0.74 seconds =86.49 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 2.05 seconds =15.61 MB/sec
/dev/md0:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 64 MB in 0.74 seconds =86.49 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 32 MB in 2.05 seconds =15.61 MB/sec
# /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/raid/tim/tmp/256mb bs=1024 count=262144
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
0.21user 8.52system 0:16.28elapsed 53%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (83major+11minor)pagefaults 0swaps
# rm -f /raid/tim/tmp/*mb; sync
# /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/raid/tim/tmp/256mb bs=1024 count=262144
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
0.25user 8.42system 0:16.57elapsed 52%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (83major+11minor)pagefaults 0swaps
# rm -f /raid/tim/tmp/*mb ; sync
# /usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/raid/tim/tmp/256mb bs=1024 count=262144
262144+0 records in
262144+0 records out
0.30user 8.35system 0:16.45elapsed 52%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (83major+11minor)pagefaults 0swaps
# ls -l /raid/tim/tmp/*mb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268435456 Mar 14 01:16 /raid/tim/tmp/256mb
# echo "268435456/((16.28+16.57+16.45)/3)" | bc -q
16338128.78
--
[Replies: make the double y a single]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: Tim Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux vs. Windows
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 03:09:35 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"David M. Cook" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:26:55 -0800, Nexus 6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Would the hacker world accept Windows
>
> No.
>
> Your post belongs in comp.os.linux.advocacy.
>
> Dave Cook
...where they put up with the same tired old baloney sixty times a day.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Be and Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 03:15:24 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jolly Roger)
spake unto us, saying:
>Anyone tried mixing Be and Linux on the same system?
Sure, but I use System Commander.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
Memory is a thing we forget with.
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From: Tim Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install?
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 03:13:35 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arthur wrote:
>
> Lawrence Sayre wrote:
>
> > Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
>
> > > Richard wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > >I am trying to install the newest and the best linux on
> > > >100+ workstation. What would be the best one to choose
> > > >in terms of standard, support, and setup?
>
> > > >Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> > > >email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >Thanks in advance
> > > >Richard
>
> > > If you are a Linux guru it doesn't matter.
> > > If you are not, then I recommend SuSE 6.0.
>
> > I switched from SuSE 5.3 to Mandrake 5.3 (which is actually RedHat 5.2
> > with a bunch of the latest enhancements, and with KDE 1.1), and now I
> > know that SuSE is far and away the best distribution. Yast does things
> > for the system which Glint could only dream of. I'll be back with SuSE
> > before long!
>
> SuSE gets my vote too - it's easier to set up things like
> NFS, NIS, and Samba if you need them (and with 100 machines
> that seems likely).
>
Me too. What I like about it is that there's so much there (five CDs),
including what some other distributions call "power tools" and charge
extra.
Also, v.6 has Star Office 5 right on the CD.
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From: "Mike Noonan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic! (heLP! please URGENT!)
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:14:20 -0700
If you have taken some nornal precautionary steps you can boot from an old
kernel
at the lilo prompt.
If you haven't, boot from flop, and mount your root file system. The either
copy an older
kernel over /vmlinuz ( or wherever you put it and called it ), or add
another entry to
/etc/lilo.conf to point to an older kernel.
Remember that when you mount the root file system after booting from floppy,
your
hard disk root becomes referenced from wherever you mounted it from.
ie: mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt
Therefore lilo.conf is on /mnt/etc and you must tell lilo to use the config
file in /mnt/etc.
As far as why it won't boot, it sounds like the installation went wrong
somewhere.
Maybe and error message flashed by that you didn't see.
Once you are up again under the old kernel, try a remake with
make dep; make clean; make bzlilo; make modules; make modules_install
eric malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>I successfully installed Kernel 2.2.3 and well when i boot with it.. it
>
> says this:
>
> Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:04
>
> Can anyone tell me how to fix this? please ..
>
> Thank you,
> eric
>
>
>
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From: Mike Baroukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ps && grep ?
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 07:37:20 GMT
Hi all.
Yesterday I installed apache. When I lanch it, I wanted to see if I really
have an httpd process. So I used
ps aux
I can saw somewhere /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd but it was with many other
things so I used
ps aux|grep httpd
and it returns me .... nothing !
I don't understand. Can somebody explain ?
Mike Baroukh
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