Linux-Misc Digest #856, Volume #18 Mon, 1 Feb 99 13:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Login ? (gus)
Re: how to access RAM ("Ron van Middendorp")
Re: PROPOSAL: comp.unix.year-2038 (WAS: 2038 and Linux) (Andre Fachat)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Richard Steiner)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Chris)
Re: Shutdown (gus)
Re: 2.2.1 kernel upgrade problems (ser)
Linux keyboard locks up ("Eric Peterson")
Re: Login ? (David Martin)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Mark Stolz)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (pdohert)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Stephen So)
Strange pppd behaviour (Fabrizio Albonico)
Kernel 2.2.0 problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: strange file permission (Thomas Boggs)
Re: Does playing sound from CDROM supposed to load sound module? (Fabrizio Albonico)
PROPAGANDA - A Message From President Kennedy (John F. Kennedy)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Chris)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: StarOffice vs. Applixware vs. WordPerfect (Ian Briggs)
Re: ISDN FOR LINUX PLEEZ HELP!!!!!!!!!1 (Fabrizio Albonico)
X-Terminal on disk (Merzinger Markus)
how do I turn numlock on when I boot? (Eric Wyles)
Re: manually upgrading to glibc2 ? (Koen Janssens)
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Login ?
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 14:50:31 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bori7 wrote:
>
> I installed RH 5.2 for first time and when I reboot my computer,
> a Lunix asking my login and password.
> I know my password, but login ?
> I newer create it.
>
> Boris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As far as I know, a new installation will have only one usable login
which will be "root", and there will be no password (If it prompts you
for one, just hit <enter>).
All the best
gus
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From: "Ron van Middendorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to access RAM
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:10:06 +0100
Reply-To: "Ron van Middendorp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Is right, however it is NOT a good idea to do this rightaway.
First do this at the LILO-prompt when booting.
When you put it in lilo.conf rightaway and it doens't work you might have
problems doing a clean boot, as I found out a few weeks ago...
Ron
>The answer to your question, BTW, is that you need to add
>
>append="mem=xxM"
>
>to your /etc/lilo.conf file, where you change the "xx" to whatever
>amount of memory, in megabytes, you have, and rerun lilo.
>
>By the way, any kernel version greater than 2.0.36 fixes this problem
>on PC's that have more recent BIOS implementations.
>
>Gary
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From: Andre Fachat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.software.year-2000,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: comp.unix.year-2038 (WAS: 2038 and Linux)
Date: 1 Feb 1999 14:59:53 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> |> >
> |> > As an octal ascii string, like all other numbers in the header.
> |>
> |> That is to say, `as a time_t'?
> As seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00:00.
fixed size?
Andre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:05:03 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Stephen So <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>> >I *like* knowing that in addition to Linux there's FreeBSD and other BSD
>> >variants, OS/2, PIOS, BeOS, MacOS, AmigaOS, Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, OSF/1
>
>OS/2, BeOS, Mac OS, and Amiga OS are not BSD variants. They are not even
>remotely related to UNIX. I think Solaris, Irix,
>and HP-UX are more based on System V than BSD but I'm not sure.
I think you misparsed his sentence.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
That was definately the LAST bug! ;-)
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 10:31:08 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >And I can't believe Intel engineers couldn't understand why they could
> >do this. They must be blind. Cheaper labor, No unions, People who are
> >happy to have a job and will do anything to keep it.
>
> I guess the following statistics are not true, then:
>
> USA Japan
> ---------------------------------------------------
> union membership
> in total workforce 15.5% 24.2%
>
> average income per
> household $41,428 $53,420
>
> average income $15,930 $14,438[1]
> per capita $17,806[2]
>
> average income $31,671 $33,471[2]
> per working head
>
> average workweek 39.1h 38.2h
>
> yearly rate of
> industrial deaths
> per 100.000 6.4 2.8
>
> GNP / capita $25,850 $37,560
>
> Unemployment 6.1% 2.9%
>
> [1] Using average household size of 3.7 (given with the figure on average
> per household income)
> [2] Using average household size of 3.0 (given earlier, and much more in
> line with the ratio of 125,000,000 population vs 40,000,000 households,
> particularly as that is 1995 population and 1990 households)
>
> >Seems like a no brainer to me.
>
> Seems to me like someone needs to do a bit of research before shooting
> off his mouth.... Both union membership and productivity seem to be
> roughly 50% higher in Japan than in the US. (Yes, of course that is
> a simplistic way of interpreting these numbers. But at least it takes
> the numbers into consideration at all!).
>
> Bernie
>
> P.S.: The above numbers were taken from the 1998 CD edition of the
> Encyclopedia Britannica, which just so happens to be published
> by a US company.
>
> --
> ============================================================================
> "It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy...
> ...let's go exploring"
> Calvin's final words, on December 31st, 1995
You forgot to include the cost of living in that country.
Did you research what it cost to rent an apartment in Japan.
If you can find one.
Chris
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Shutdown
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:39:38 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gordon Weast wrote:
>
> "Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" wrote:
> >
> > G'day...
> >
> > > Create user "down" in group 1 and have it execute /sbin/down on login.
> > >
> > > Then to shutdown the system, you just have to issue "su down" and it
> > > goes down to halt state. My system is also single user so I don't
> > > bother to put a password on this account.
> >
> > Whoohoo... *risky* solution.... Really *risky*...
> >
> > All the best...
> >
> > Michael.
>
> I beg to differ about this being risky. The only risky thing
> about this is leaving off the password. We use this same method,
> with password, on all our Sun machines here at work.
>
> With a password, this is as secure as your root account.
>
> /etc/passwd is already protected from attack. The shell script
> in /sbin/ can be write protected and belong to root so it can't
> be overwritten unless security is already breached.
>
> In short, I find this method to be safer and more deliberate
> than Ctrl-Alt-Delete. As someone earlier in the thread mentioned,
> many users use the 3 fingered salute during login out of force
> of habit with NT. Rebooting on that is most unkind.
>
> Gordon Weast
The security issue is that there is an account with root privilidges for
which the password is common knowledge or non-existant.
If you are concerned with the three finger salute and NT, then it would
be easy enough as root to encapsulate the shutdown -r now in a script
which seeks user approval for the shutdown in the "Are you sure you want
to reboot?" manner.
This means that a non-root user can only reboot at the console, and root
can still reboot remotely.
Then again, if your machine is stand alone, then it is always easier to
use the short cuts which breech security.
gus
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From: ser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 kernel upgrade problems
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 00:36:44 +0800
hmmm check MANPATH to see if the path are set correctly?
for global settings, usually in /etc/bashrc (assuming using bash)
>
>
> Oh, and if anyone knows what might cause this: For either kernel, all of a
> sudden man doesn't work. If I man to the /path-to-manpage, it works. If I just
> type in man "command", she doesn't work.
>
> I haven't done anything with man. How can I fix man???
>
> Thanks.
>
> --TomC.
>
> --
> Windows NT has crashed,
> I am the Blue Screen of Death,
> No one hears your screams...
> ==============================
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From: "Eric Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux keyboard locks up
Date: 1 Feb 1999 16:39:38 GMT
Hi,
I've been running Linux for about a year, now, as an internet server for
my home network. In the last month or so I have begun to get a weird
problem. I turn on my linux monitor (the machine runs all the time) and
the keyboard is locked up. The screen has a couple of garbage characters
at the login prompt, and the keyboard is completely frozen. The only way I
have been able to find to correct the problem is to telnet in from another
machine and reboot.
I'm sure there is a more elegant way to fix the problem, but I am
embarrassed to say I don't know it.
The only changes to my system lately have been that I finally got my SB16
working (required me to change addresses for my network card and SCSI
card). The only other thing that I have noticed lately is that Windows has
screwed up the IRQ & address settings for the network card on one of my
other machines, so it is unable to access the network, and the network is
unable to access it. I'm going to have to disable the network card's PnP
functions and hard set the IRQ etc.
I hope someone out there can help.
--
Eric F. Peterson
Politically Incorrect and Proud!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Martin)
Subject: Re: Login ?
Date: 1 Feb 1999 14:23:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
bori7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I installed RH 5.2 for first time and when I reboot my computer,
> a Lunix asking my login and password.
> I know my password, but login ?
> I newer create it.
When you first install RedHat it asks you for a root password and then for
you to repeat it (to confirm that you typed it correctly).
WHen you come to the login prompt, type 'root' (all lower case) as the
username and your password as the password.
Then you will be able to access the system and create a new user for yourself
The RedHat manual should have some help there.
..d
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From: Mark Stolz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:28:06 +0000
David Martin wrote:
>
[snippity]
>
> Britain is a rainy, cold country. We took our criminals and shipped them
> to a warm sunny country (a long time ago).
Australia! You sent your criminals to Australia. You sent your religious
fanatics to the Americas.
--Mark
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From: pdohert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 08:29:18 -0600
Andy Wendel wrote:
> On 30 Jan 1999 22:43:41 -0800, Michael Powe
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Wendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Yeah, you have to think all these bigheaded Americanos are using
> >Windows -- since it's the pinnacle of American achievement in
> >software.
> >
> No, it is far from the pinnacle of American achievement in software...
> It may be one of the pinnacles in Marketing, however...
And I guess he's never heard of UNIX, which last time I checked, was
created in the USA...
--
Paul Doherty
Systems Analyst/Programmer
http://www.dfw.net/~pdoherty
Home of PC DiskMaster
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From: Stephen So <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:40:45 +1000
> >I *like* knowing that in addition to Linux there's FreeBSD and other BSD
> >variants, OS/2, PIOS, BeOS, MacOS, AmigaOS, Solaris, Irix, HP-UX, OSF/1
OS/2, BeOS, Mac OS, and Amiga OS are not BSD variants. I think Solaris, Irix,
and HP-UX are more based on System V than BSD but I'm not sure.
Steve.
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:48:22 +0100
From: Fabrizio Albonico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange pppd behaviour
Hello people,
I use RH5.2 on a "stock" 2.0.36 kernel with KDE. I used to connect to the
internet with the KDE-specific program "kppp", which took care of logging in.
Yesterday, I tried to connect and the program told me that "pppd died
unexpectedly"!!! The strange thing isn't that it died, but that the connection
to the Internet was up!
Anyone with suggestions?
TIA
- Fabrizio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Kernel 2.2.0 problems
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 14:23:08 GMT
I compiled kernel 2.2.0 the other day and when I tried to boot the kernel...i
would get a messages saying "uncompressing linux and now booting the kernel"
and it would just hang right there.....wouldn't do a thing. In fact...this
exact thing happened on 2 different machines. On one of the machines(my home
machine), I use loadlin to boot the kernel. On the other machine(a test
server at my ISP), the kernel is typically booted using LILO. Anyone have
any ideas as to why it won't boot?
Thanks
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From: Thomas Boggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: strange file permission
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:33:50 -0500
Louis Lam wrote:
> Could anyone help me delete the following two files? I have an
> improper shutdown of my linux and when I brought up the linux box, it
> automatically check for problems and fixed them. Below is what I get
> from the console.
>
> senna:/users/library/fonts# du -s psfonts
> -503837053 psfonts
> senna:/users/library/fonts# cd psfonts
> senna:/users/library/fonts/psfonts# v
> total 1643646579
> p-wS-w-r-T 1 24568 50600 0 Sep 23 1914 0861a___.pfb|
> s-wS-wx--t 1 43723 root 3542361139 Jan 31 23:27 0862a___.pfb=
>
> senna:/users/library/fonts/psfonts# delete *
> bash: delete: command not found
> senna:/users/library/fonts/psfonts# rm *
> rm: remove `0861a___.pfb', overriding mode 5224? y
> rm: 0861a___.pfb: Operation not permitted
> rm: 0862a___.pfb: Operation not permitted
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Linqi
Have you tried using chmod to give them more "normal" permissions and
then deleting them? Maybe try `chmod 666 *`, then try deleting them.
-thomas
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:23:24 +0100
From: Fabrizio Albonico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does playing sound from CDROM supposed to load sound module?
"Jesus M. Salvo Jr." wrote:
> I have compiled sound as a module and have tested it. kerneld
> automatically loads sound as a module when I do:
> cat sample.au > /dev/audio
> or
> cat /dev/sndstat
> Now when playing sound from my cdrom, I just type cdplay and I get sound
> played through my sound card .... but the sound module does not get
> loaded. I can load sound and unload it which does not affect the cdrom
> playing audio.
> Is this natural?
Yes it is, provided you connected your CD-ROM to your SoundCard with the small,
grey cable. It is the same as if you would plug your headphones (or your boxes)
to the female connector in front of your CD drive.
- Fabrizio
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From: John F. Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: PROPAGANDA - A Message From President Kennedy
Date: 18 Jan 1999 17:37:10 GMT
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 10:25:27 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >And what is wrong with me saying I live in the best country in the
> >world? Should I say the US sucks but I'll stay here and make money.
>
> What's wrong with doing either is the apparent lack of research behind the
> statements. If you say "the US is the best country in the world", you are
> saying that it is better than all other countries in the world. Now, if
> you could provide a good argument for why the US is better than, say,
> Finland, Japan, the post-Apartheit South Africa, Argentine, Australia,
> New Zealand and Canada, you might have a point. However, most of the people
> who tout opinions such as the above on Usenet turn out to never have been
> to any of those places (often with the exception of Canada, where they
> stay just long enough to consider it "quaint"). And that goes either way ---
> whether you say a place is the best in the world, or whether you say it
> is the worst, you need to have a foundation for such claims.
Hmm, When did I become the spokemen for the US? I didn't say that other
countries suck. I should have put a disclaimer stating that it was my
opinion and that I was not speaking for everyone in the US. But
apparently
you decided I was speaking for everyone in the US. I think we are
straying
from the original subject here. I thought we are discusing technology?
Also I have never been to canada and probably never will.
> Also, the above kinds of statements are amazingly general. What do you
> _mean_ by a place being "the best" in the world? What do you measure, and
> how? What defines a "good" country? I have lived 4 years of my life in Oz,
> after growing up in Germany. The two countries are quite _different_, for
> sure (although much less different, I am sure, than for example Germany
> and Uganda), but I couldn't say which one is "better". Heck, even for single
> characteristics (like the way the bureaucracy[sp?] works), I can't make
> my mind up which one I prefer --- sometimes Oz, with its easygoing approach
> is great, and I shudder thinking about the contortions doing something "the
> German way" would have meant.... and at other times, I am going crazy over
> the exact same approach, because "the German way" has the advantage that
> there is always one right way of doing something, while in Oz sometimes
> things are amazingly easy, and sometimes they are completely impossible.
>
> >Are you enjoying posting messages on an American server?
>
> Last I checked, I am uploading my postings to two Australian servers.
> I downloaded yours from one of them, too --- so did you enjoy posting
> to an Ozzie server?
Your research is lacking. The server you are using is what is called a
mirror. I didn't post to an auzzie server. I posted my message on an
American server and it was mirrored to the server you use.
A side note: I will in my lifetime go to Australia. That is one of
my goals. You live in one of the most beautiful countries I have
researched.
> >Or do you think you should stop because we are just a bunch of morons.
> >And why would you want to post a message on a server that is run by
> >morons?
>
> Is it possible you are building a strawman here? All he said was that
> unjustified patriotism is getting up his nose....
>
> Bernie
No I don't think so. Let's flip the coin here. Well I'm saying I am
tired of unjustified US bashing getting up my nose. All I ever see on
the news and in print is people around the world screaming the US sucks
down with America. All the time we are sending billions in aid to these
countries. Do we ever get a thank you. NO. we get the above.
I think we are getting into personal opinions here and the argument
could
go on forever. So I have stated "MY" personal opinion and that's about
it.
Have a great day!
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 14:44:20 GMT
On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 08:33:19 -0600, pdohert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>David Martin wrote:
>> ANd I thought that the technology was invented in britain, made in Asia
>> and sold to us by americans..
>
>Exactly *what* technologies that the modern digital computer relies on
>were created in Britain?
Computability.
It wasn't Americans that figured out what is computable, what's not,
and built the first useful computational engines.
It was British cryptanalysts, working on the Allied war effort, much
of this before you guys joined the effort.
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/canada.html>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to Linux today?..."
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From: Ian Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice vs. Applixware vs. WordPerfect
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:01:14 +0000
Tim Moore wrote:
> WP is not a suite although a friend told me it was.
I maybe wrong here, but I think I read recently that Corel are hoping to release the
next
version of the WP office suite (called WP2000 or something) on both Windows and Linux
sometime later this year. Can anyone confirm?
-- Ian --
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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:28:48 +0100
From: Fabrizio Albonico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN FOR LINUX PLEEZ HELP!!!!!!!!!1
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> You know, there is an obscure bug in keyboard driver that breaks ISDN if
> CapsLock and/or 1 keys are getting stuck. Start from fixing your keyboard.
>
There's no need to be angry just because someone "breaks" the rules of the
game... Just tell him to write lower case, ain't it easy?
- Fabrizio
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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:01:39 +0000
From: Merzinger Markus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X-Terminal on disk
Is it possible or is there even a HOWTO how to make a boot disk for a
diskless station that connects to an server and behaves as X-Terminal.
The client should load all what it needs from the server via NFS (or is
there a better way?).
- How to make the floppy disk?
Kernel
rlogin
NFS-Client
Script to load X
- How to setup the server to serve these X-terminals via NFS
Thanks, Mercy
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From: Eric Wyles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how do I turn numlock on when I boot?
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 10:17:29 -0600
I have my computer set to boot with numlock on and caps lock off, but
when I boot to linux, my numlock is off every time. I am also running
windows 95 and AP/PRO and both of them boot with the num lock on,
running on the exact same machine. How can I tell linux to boot with
num lock on?
Thanks,
Eric Wyles
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koen Janssens)
Subject: Re: manually upgrading to glibc2 ?
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:05:19 GMT
On 31 Jan 1999 10:47:17 -0500, "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Greanthumb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>DG> Does it make sense to download the latest glibc-2.0.7pre6.tar.gz
>DG> and install it or is it better to go for an all new distribution ?
>
>That depends. What distribution do you use? How attached are you to
>it? If the answers are "Slackware" and "not very" then doing the
Actually, if you follow the (slightly out-dated, but still...) howto
on glibc, you'll manage to do what I did: upgrade your slackware to
glibc without any problems. The only thing you should take care of, is
the second part of the howto on compiling c++ apps: libg++ has been
replaced by libstdc++...but the install docs included with libstdc++
are pretty good...Just make sure to include the compiler and 'make
bootstrap' for a fire-and-forget install.
>DG> Is a ./make install enough;-) or is it too difficult for a
>DG> "normal" Linux user ? If it's easy to upgrade, so is installing
>DG> glibc2...tar.gz sufficient to run glibc2 based apps ?
Whatever you do, don't just do tar -zxvf/configure/make/make install.
Read the howto. If you just want to run apps that need glibc, you
might be better off just installing the binary versions of the libc6
libraries in some other dir and add it to your ld.so.conf. You won't
be able to compile sources linked to glibc, but you _will_ be able to
run the libc6 apps in binary format...and this is strictly
_no_risk_involved :)
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