Linux-Misc Digest #751, Volume #19 Mon, 5 Apr 99 17:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: start from floppy, boot from disk? (Matt Denton)
installing bootloader ("Temel")
Re: Inaccessable boot device: HELP! (NT Error, Linuxes fault?) (John Winters)
Re: Overclocking was: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer (Vagabond)
Re: [Help] PPP worked but now fails [modem q] (William Burrow)
Re: Inaccessable boot device: HELP! (NT Error, Linuxes fault?) (John Winters)
Re: Baby-sitting Mum and Dad over a telephone line (Jonathan Crompton)
Re: /tmp screws up printing if moved? ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Inaccessable boot device: HELP! (NT Error, Linuxes fault?) (John Winters)
Motion Screen Capture Utility ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: C++ Heeeelp!!!! ("No Spam")
Re: emacs launches internet connection ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Appending Files (Gerry Oakson)
getting my start menu changes to "stick" (AfterStep) (Justin Nawrocki)
Re: Tools for IRQ and IO address (Andy Piper)
Re: Modifying the path (Easy quest) (David Steuber)
Re: Virtual FTP sites (Thomas H Jones II)
Re: I killed my Linux box ("Jonny Boy")
timezone and daylight savings problem (Adam P. Jenkins)
How to delete a device-file? (Helmut Steger)
automatic xdm login (Brett Longworth)
Re: /tmp screws up printing if moved? (William Burrow)
Re: C++ Heeeelp!!!! ("No Spam")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Denton)
Subject: Re: start from floppy, boot from disk?
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 11:05:10 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is the problem with making the selection from the hard disk? LILO
> allows you to pick which kernel to boot, just install it in the MBR or
> boot partition if you can't put it in the MBR.
Can you point LILO to a CD-ROM that has a kernel and boot from that?
--
Matt Denton
San Francisco, USA
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From: "Temel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing bootloader
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:28:09 -0400
I get unable install bootloader error message while installing the Redhat
5.2 to my system. I downloaded the updates into the RPMS and created a new
boot and supp disks since I 'm installing from a harddrive.
What am I doing wrong in this setup that redhat setup cannot install
bootloader?
I cannot install bootloader (presumably lilo). I select it to install MBR or
partition info but seem not to make any difference.
Here is my system; 450 intel/128mb ram/2 hardrives
4.5GB SCSI on Adaptec2940uw (boot disk)
Pri: Fat16 2GB windows 98 and /Redhat directory
Ext: Fat32 2.5 GB filled with files
3.2 GB IDE on motherboard channel 1
Pri:Linux native 500MB
Pri: Fat16 113 MB only a bootable partition
Pri:Linux swap 128Mb
Ext:Fat32 1GB filled with files
Please help. Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,microsoft.public.windowsnt,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Inaccessable boot device: HELP! (NT Error, Linuxes fault?)
Date: 5 Apr 1999 17:36:17 +0100
In article <7ealrf$sgv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>System Configuration
>IBM 10.1 GB IDE HD
>Paritiion 1: 2047 (ntfs)
>Partition 2: 4095 (ntfs)
>Partition 3: Linux Swap (127MB)
>Partition 4: Linux Native (2047 minus 127MB)
>
>1) The NT partitions both existsed prior to the Linux install and booted
>from partition 1 (only) with no problem. After installing Linux (and it
>boots fine with lilo), now NT gives me an error "Inaccessable boot device".
>Now obviously nothing is wrong with the "boot device" (the IBM HD) if Linux
>boots. What happened, why I am out to lunch with NT?
Did you install LILO in the MBR? Some versions of NT seem to require
a DOS boot loader in the MBR and sulk if they don't find one. Try booting
with a DOS floppy and typing "fdisk /mbr" to install a fresh copy of
the DOS boot loader.
HTH
John
--
John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
The Linux Emporium - a source for Linux CDs in the UK
See <http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Overclocking was: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
From: Vagabond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:27:55 GMT
The Celeron is not clocked locked, it's Multiplier locked. For example my
300a Celeron, 4.5 clock Multiplier, works flawlessly at 450 Mhz by going
from the default FSB of 66Mhz to a 100Mhz FSB.
Having built many systems around the new Celeron's, I can tell you 100%
that they are not clock locked but are Multiplier locked. Your milage may
vary with overclocking though.
Ben
Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <Pine.OSF.3.96.990405160353.25808A
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>One little thing though - the Celeron is clock-locked, so you can't
>overclock it :-(
>
>(P-II's aren't though, and I'm not sure about P-III's?)
>
>
>Andrew
>
>On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, it was written:
>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jet
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Eugene wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Here is my dream machine:
>> >>
>> >> Celeron 366 overclocked to 550
>> >
>> >OK, this is a stupid question, but how do you overclock a processor?
>> >Is it done by setting the jumpers on the motherboard?
>> >
>> Sometimes, some newer boards have a menu in the BIOS that allows you
>> to set the speed of the bus speed and clock rate. One site is
>> http://thetechzone.com/overclock.htm and there is at least one
>> overclocking newsgroup. What you basically do is set the bus speed and
>> clock rate to settings that aren't certified by the manufacturer.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> Get rid of the blahs to email me :}
>>
>>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: [Help] PPP worked but now fails [modem q]
Date: 5 Apr 1999 17:00:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 01:23:55 +0100,
Peter Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Matt wrote:
>[...]
>> Apr 3 08:15:27 compuserve chat[200]: ATDT08450801000^M^M
>> Apr 3 08:15:27 compuserve chat[200]: CONNECT -- got it
>> Apr 3 08:15:27 compuserve chat[200]: send (^M)
>> Apr 3 08:15:27 compuserve chat[200]: expect (Host Name:)
>> Apr 3 08:15:27 compuserve chat[200]: 49333/ARQ^M
>> Apr 3 08:16:12 compuserve chat[200]: ^\@`^N^\^\GG^\G^N^\@
>
>You need an additional line in chat-ppp0 right after the one with
>CONNECT in it, saying:
>
>'49333/ARQ' ''
I believe that initializing the modem with ATW2 will get rid of the problem
as well. It puts all the connect text on one line. Checking for the
speed won't work, because it may change from connect to connect.
>it's not documented anywhere I can find). It's lunatic in 1999
>having to rely on "expect" "send" pairs instead of the programmable
>dialog you get on otherwise inferior operating systems beginning
>with a "W" :-)
Expect-send pairs at least allow one to trace the problem.
I don't want to debug or try to understand some convoluted script
someone else wrote to handle most (not even all) the possible
responses from a modem.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,microsoft.public.windowsnt,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Inaccessable boot device: HELP! (NT Error, Linuxes fault?)
Date: 5 Apr 1999 20:47:49 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Barton Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>Warning: the advice in another response in this thread to use
>FDISK /MBR from a DOS diskette -- that advice is very wrong-headed,
>and is guaranteed to leave your disk booting only DOS, killing
>off both NT and Linux. NT does *not* use the DOS boot loader in
>the MBR. It has its own OS loader. NT does *not* depend on any
>aspect of DOS in any way.
Wrong. I didn't say it *used* the DOS boot loader, just that it
expects to see it there. There is no good technical
reason for NT to need to see the DOS boot loader in the MBR, but
the fact remains that if it isn't there some installations of NT
whinge and refuse to boot.
The DOS boot loader may well however be used as part of the NT boot
sequence, just as it can form part of the boot sequence of DOS, Windows,
Linux, OS/2 or practically anything else.
Re-installing the DOS boot loader will *not* cause your system to
boot into DOS (not unless that is what it was booting before anyway).
It *will* prevent your system booting Linux if LILO is just in the MBR,
and it may well fix the problem of booting NT.
NT does indeed have its own boot loader - which is usually loaded by
the DOS boot loader in the MBR. This of course does not mean that NT
*depends* on DOS.
HTH
John
--
John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
The Linux Emporium - a source for Linux CDs in the UK
See <http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html>
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From: Jonathan Crompton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Baby-sitting Mum and Dad over a telephone line
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 20:43:06 +0100
Mike McEwan wrote:
> Well much as I'd like to, I don't think I can supply them with a
> Linux box - least, not straight away :-). It'll have to be the Windows
> 95 that came with my old machine. However, I was thinking I might make
> the system dual-boot with a mini Linux partition that somehow I could
> use to (after they have booted into it) log into their machine over a
> telephone line and essentially baby-sit/look over the Windows 95
> stuff, should they have problems. The DOS/windows partition would
> obviously be mounted and accessible when booted as Linux.
Have a look at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ which will let you
export the Win95 screen back to base, IIRC.
Also have a look at http://www.vmware.com which would allow you to run
Win95 UNDER Linux. Unfortunately it will cost $$$ once it is out of beta.
Jonathan.
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /tmp screws up printing if moved?
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:45:45 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:rBSN2.246$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Without /tmp I can't print. What's more without the original /tmp I
> can't print. If I
>
> mv /tmp /tmp-hold
> mkdir /tmp
>
> I still can't print, but wait - there's more - even if I copy all the
> files in /tmp-hold to the newly created /tmp I still can't print.
> The only way I can print again is to
>
> rmdir /tmp
> mv /tmp-hold /tmp
>
> in other words to have the original directory back. Otherwise when I
> attempt to print I just get a blank page.
>
> I have to remove the original /tmp because I need to make /tmp a
> ram drive, but this thing has got me confused. I can't see what
> /tmp has to do with printing, much less the original /tmp.
Why that?
If you really insist on using a RAM disk, then what's the problem with
simply mounting the RAM disk as /tmp?
BTW: I don't believe that this has anything to do with your problem. I
suggest to check the permissions.
jue
--
J�rgen Exner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,microsoft.public.windowsnt,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Inaccessable boot device: HELP! (NT Error, Linuxes fault?)
Date: 5 Apr 1999 20:53:56 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Barton Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>stuart wrote:
>
>> System Configuration
>> IBM 10.1 GB IDE HD
>> Paritiion 1: 2047 (ntfs)
>> Partition 2: 4095 (ntfs)
>> Partition 3: Linux Swap (127MB)
>> Partition 4: Linux Native (2047 minus 127MB)
>>
>> 1) The NT partitions both existsed prior to the Linux install
>> and booted from partition 1 (only) with no problem. After
>> installing Linux (and it boots fine with lilo), now NT gives
>> me an error "Inaccessable boot device". Now obviously nothing
>> is wrong with the "boot device" (the IBM HD) if Linux boots.
>> What happened, why I am out to lunch with NT?
>
>Depends on how LILO works. If it installs itself as a
>primary partition, then the partition numbers have changed.
>Let's say your NT boot.ini file formerly said to boot NT from
>partition 1. If LILO installed itself as a new partition 1,
>then what was formerly partition 1 is now partition 2 (for
>example).
LILO doesn't work like this. It installs itself either in the MBR
(replacing the DOS boot loader which is otherwise usually there) or
in the boot record of one of your partitions. If it is in the MBR
then it's the first thing your BIOS loads and sets running. It in
turn then loads Linux, or something else which you select (DOS or
the NT boot loader perhaps).
HTH
John
--
John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
The Linux Emporium - a source for Linux CDs in the UK
See <http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Motion Screen Capture Utility
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:40:37 GMT
Is there an application that will capture screen motions for Linux? I am
looking for an application that works like Lotus ScreenCam, capturing mouse
movement and such. My company is currently developing and creating User and
Administrator CD-ROM training to compliment our video training. We need
something that will capture screen motion. Just to warn you, I am not a
programmer in Linux nor do I know a lot about it so try to keep it simple for
this ignorant guy. Any suggestions, solutions, or people to contact will be
greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Thomas Noonan
KeyStone Learning Systems, Corp.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
801.377.3966, ext. 155
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From: "No Spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: C++ Heeeelp!!!!
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 17:24:11 GMT
> If you cannot find the documentation for the c library reference, let me
know
> and I can send you a text only version of the reference manual. Note that
you
> should already have this on your system.
>
************Please do.*************
> From the emx 0.9d library reference manual:
>
> Headers:
>
> #include <sys/video.h>
>
> Prototype:
>
> void v_clear (void);
>
> Compatibility:
>
> emx
>
> Description:
>
> Clear the screen using the current attributes.
>
> See also: v_attrib(), v_clreol()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs launches internet connection
Date: 05 Apr 1999 17:54:31 +0200
Eric Bohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [...] Strange that Emacs should want to know your domain name
> though.
The domain name is needed if you read mail, for instance -- your email
address contains your domain name. Similar for reading news. I don't
know offhand of other places where the domain name is needed.
kai
--
Abort this operation? [Abort] [Cancel]
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From: Gerry Oakson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Appending Files
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:45:29 GMT
Are there any commands built into linux that would make appending 100
or so text files into one file an easy chore. I have to do this
about 500 times, appending approx. 50,000 text files with and end result
of about 500 files.
Thanks,
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From: Justin Nawrocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: getting my start menu changes to "stick" (AfterStep)
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:38:02 +0000
Hi, I just recently installed RedHat 5.2 and I'm using AfterStep (soon
enough to switch to GNOME) as my GUI. My problem is this:
I had Netscape 4.07 installed and I just installed 4.51, as well as
JavaICQ and WordPerfect. I want them on my startbar, and I figured out
that I need to
edit the "links" in
/"my account"/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/start/Networking
So I edit those links and restart my session, and everything works
fine. ICQ, WordPerfect, and Communicator are in my start menu and are
the
versions I want. HOWEVER...whenever I logout and log back in,
everything gets changed back to the default settings...netscape reverts
back to 4.07 and ICQ disappears from my start menu. Not only that but
even though all my settings for color and background stay what I want
them at, the freakin mouse speed goes back to the slowest possible
setting. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Why won't anything stay
changed? Thanks, I really hope someone can help me...please email me
Justin Nawrocki
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andy Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tools for IRQ and IO address
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 19:15:28 +0000
Jing Duan wrote:
>
> I seems to have IRQ or IO conflict. I wonder if there are any tools similar
> to MSD that display the IRQ and IO address in Linux.
The procinfo package that comes with RedHat provides at
least some of the functionality you need. It will also be
available as source if you're not running RH. I'm afraid I
don't have an address, though.
Andy
--
Andy Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fareham, Hampshire
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modifying the path (Easy quest)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 11:43:40 -0500
"No Spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> How can we add something to the path. I installed java and I would like all
-> my users to be able to use it without having to go to /usr/local/jdk117...
->
-> What I am doing is: I have a .profile file for every user with the path
-> modified there, but what if I have a 100 users (i don't).
->
-> I tried /etc/ld.so.conf, but doesn't work.
Try /etc/profile or /etc/profile.local. It works in SuSE 6.0. That
is where I have 'stty erase ^H'.
I have no idea what triggers the call to /etc/profile. Is it
hardcoded in bash?
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
If you don't, I won't see it.
A priest was walking along the cliffs at Dover when he came
upon two locals pulling another man ashore on the end of a rope.
"That's what I like to see", said the priest, "A man helping his fellow
man".
As he was walking away, one local remarked to the other, "Well,
he sure doesn't know the first thing about shark fishing."
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From: Thomas H Jones II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Virtual FTP sites
Date: 5 Apr 1999 15:11:41 -0400
Reply-To: Thomas H Jones II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kerry J. Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did thusly spew forth:
>Okay, quick question. I'm using Solaris 2.6 on our virtual server, but
>I'm sure the same question applies to Linux as well which I use
>personally, hence the cross-posting of the article.
>We have a lot of customers who want to have their own virtual ftp
>sites. Rather than being hosted on our main server under one of our
>generic ftp directories, Joe at www.cheapdomain.com (whose domain we
>host) wants to have the possibility of people ftp'ing to
>ftp://ftp.cheapdomain.com/
>We are using wu-ftp-2.4.2-beta-18 on both Solaris and Linux. I heard
>there was a patch out there somewhere that would assist in setting this
>up.
what you are seeking isnt so much a patch (at this point) but a whole
separate release of the wu-ftpd source tree. this release would be one of
the 'Academ' releases of wu-ftp. You can currently get the 2.4.2 Release
version from the Academ web site, www.academ.com.
It should be noted, however, that these arent really true virtual ftpd's
as the configurations for each ftp.domain.name are not 100% independent
(the website will explain it in much better detail). That level of virtual
ftpd configuration wont be out until the 2.4.3 (and higher) betas start
to be released.
-tom
-tom
--
"You can only be -so- accurate with a claw-hammer." --me
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From: "Jonny Boy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: I killed my Linux box
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:57:18 +0100
Hey try Lilo
If you can use an atapi drive the Boot the lilo CD and try reinstalling the
default access will still be there but the vital info saying read only
should go after install, Don't scrap Staroffice yet, it may still work if
you use a CD version if not Wordperfect will be just as good, and Interbase
is supposed to be good as well
Hadean Dragon wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I just read your post, and I'd just like to add... For me, when I did
>that exact same thing (using RedHat 5.2) my linux box died completely...
>I couldn't figure it out, and so I just reformatted and reinstalled
>RH... Suffice it to say, I won't be installing StarOffice again... (I'll
>just stick with WordPerfect 8... it can read WP and Office 97 documents
>excellently, so that's good enough for me)
>
>Nadine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Something went horribly wrong when I tried to install StarOffice 5.0
>the
>> other day.
>>
>> I'm running RedHat 5.1 (upgraded here and there) and KDE 1.1.
>StarOffice
>> needed some glibc libraries that it supposedly couldn't find on my pc.
>> Since that glibc .tar file that came with the program was to be
>> installed in a StarOffice subdirectory, I thought what the hey,
>install
>> it anyway.
>>
>> 1. From an X Windows terminal I run /bin/sh to then run the script
>that
>> installs the libraries (as is said in the readme).
>> 2. The libraries don't install successfully, and the shell stops
>> recognizing commands.
>> 3. I can't even exit X properly, and when I press ctl-alt-backspace it
>> comes back to a command line login instead of kdm.
>> 4. Try to shutdown:
>> /bin/shutdown: file not found
>> 5. I do the forbidden: press the power button.
>>
>>
>> Needless to say, nothing cleared up magically when I rebooted. The
>> normal Linux boot messages scroll up the screen, until it gets to
>this:
>> Partition check
>> hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8>
>> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>>
>> Then nothing. Blank. You enter commands and there's no reaction, not
>> even an error message. I tried to use RedHat's rescue disk and get
>> nothing but an error message, too.
>>
>> So, what do I do? Should I start looking for an upgrade disk? Is all
>my
>> data loss (well, the stuff that wasn't backed up yet?) Please help me.
>>
>> Sob. Sob. Boo-hoo.
>>
>> --
>> Nadine
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://www.dsuper.net/~anacaona
>> http://www.chenpeyi.com/tww
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> Best damn mammy portrayals this side of the Atlantic!!!
>> --- paraphrasing Ms. Watching:
>> http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/8119
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: timezone and daylight savings problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Jenkins)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 13:04:27 -0400
Hi,
When I run date, it prints
Mon Apr 5 12:52:47 EDT 1999
Notice that it's April 5, yet it still says it's daylight savings
time. Shouldn't the timezone be EST?
I have RedHat 5.0, with glibc upgraded to glibc-2.0.7-29, on a
Pentium. /etc/localtime points to the correct timezone.
$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Apr 5 00:53 /etc/localtime ->
../usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern
Can anyone tell me why the system still thinks the timezone is EDT
instead of EST? Thank you.
--
Adam P. Jenkins
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Helmut Steger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to delete a device-file?
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 22:34:08 +0200
After a "crash" of my Linux 2.0.35-System
some files in the cache-directory of Netscape 4.05
had file-attributes like the following example:
cr---wsr-- 1 11013 2409 5, 210 Jul 20 1931
cache35D4B146039009A.gif
Why did it (Linux-crash?) change the file-type to character device?
I�d like to delete these files?
How can I do (trying to change the attributes with chmod failed!) ?
Greets Helmut
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 15:46:09 -0400
From: Brett Longworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: automatic xdm login
Hi,
I'm trying to set up a Linux/GNU based internet terminal system, and I
was wondering if anyone knows of any good sources of information on
getting such a beast up and running.
My mail stumbling block at this point is having something like xdm or
even getty/login log the default user in and bring up xwindows with the
default layout. Another is making sure the user's access is limited to
netscape, telnet, ssh and possibly a few other commpn network services.
I'm working with redhat 5.2 if that makes a difference. Any help would
be greatly apreciated.
-Brett
--
=================
Brett Longworth
Asst. Systems and Network Administrator
Department of Biology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Tel: 413.545.0216
Fax: 413.545.3243
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"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: /tmp screws up printing if moved?
Date: 5 Apr 1999 16:00:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 05 Apr 1999 07:30:25 GMT,
oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You've just answered your own question. If you do A and B stops working
>> and then undo A and B starts working again then don't do A. Simple!
>
>Simple minded :)
But the real answer was not given. The fact is, that the directory /tmp
has to provide access to all users. Yet, different users should not be
able to modify or delete files that are not theirs. This is done with
the aid of the sticky bit. Follow this procedure for creating a /tmp
directory, wherever it is:
mkdir /tmp
chown root.root
chmod a+rwx, +t /tmp
Note the +t. This is the sticky bit.
>> I'd really have to ask why you would want to do this. I know you're
>> going to say "but the RAM disk will be so much faster than the drive".
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>You've answered your own question. :)
>
>> Obviously you've fogotten about virtual memory and disk caching under
>> Linux.
>
>Nope.
You are wrong in your thinking. But, you may be seeing some
unnecessary metadata updates. To get around this, mount a /tmp
filesystem with the no atime patch. By not updating the access time on
files, you can reduce the number of accesses to the disk, if this
annoys you.
>I've heard this time and time again but the fact is that something written
>to disk accesses the disk in a matter of a couple seconds or so usually,
They will be written asynchronously. That is, the process does not have
wait for the write to disk to complete. This writing can take some CPU
cycles with IDE drives, however.
>but with temporary files that don't need to be written to disk the drive
>will never get accessed....pretty simple really. In some applications
Instead, they will be in very costly RAM. At 3 cents a megabyte, disk
can't be beat for cost effectiveness.
>there are files that get accessed a alot and a ram drive gives noticable
>improvement. Disk access is notably decreased. I've also thought of
>increasing the flush time.
Please document some cases where there is a noticable speed improvement.
Lets predefine noticable as 20% of the run time for a program with
/tmp on disk, 5 seconds minimum. I think those parameters would be
``noticable.''
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William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: "No Spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: C++ Heeeelp!!!!
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 17:18:16 GMT
> *I* don't know what "clrscr" is. If this is a graphics command, there
"clrscr" is a borland specific command. It has been in Pascal & C++.
> module to make your C++ classes show up as Tcl commands. You can then
> build a shared library with the SWIG generated interface module and
> your C++ class object code and load this into Tcl/Tk (wish) and then
> write the GUI stuff in Tcl/Tk.
>
> But if you are just learning C++, you probably should stick to
> non-graphical programs written in straight C++.
I wish it was like java. You take the program as it is, you compile it
anywhere and the compiler will generate code that is specific to your
platform. You can take the compiled code and the java interpreter will run
it as it the same way on any platform. The only problem is security
sometimes stands in your way.
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