Linux-Misc Digest #870, Volume #18 Tue, 2 Feb 99 21:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: xscrabble anyone ? Help wanted... (Stephen Richard FREELAND)
Re: sendmail ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Paul Doherty)
Re: Newbie-Gray screen with startx-Redhat 5.1 ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: Linux/KDE/Netscape PAGING immensly (doug)
pls help: resize filesystem? (S.T. Wong)
Re: use theramin as input device (John Hasler)
Re: HElp, i can't compile (Ben Russo)
Re: ES1688 sound card (ty)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Craig Kelley)
Print filter for Canon BJC-800? (Michael Hucka)
Linux apps in win2000 port news! (M Sweger)
Re: HElp, i can't compile (Jarvis)
Re: Dynamically linked libraries, aren't. (Matthew Vanecek)
Re: Partition Magic (Frank Miles)
Re: PPP and ISP connection (Ben Russo)
Re: 2.2.1 and performance. (Patrick O'Neil)
Re: SAMBA: cannot be recognized by win95 (Yasutaka Danke Hirasawa)
Re: Easy(?) kernel question. (Frank Hale)
Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND idiot-friendly?
(jim)
Re: alternatives to Round Robin DNS (was Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks)
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From: Stephen Richard FREELAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xscrabble anyone ? Help wanted...
Date: 2 Feb 1999 15:52:27 GMT
Dave Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Greetings:
: brutus:/home/> xscrabble
: xscrab -players 2 -time 0 -n1 "dlp" -d1 :0.0 -t1 0 -n2 "cpu" -d2 :0.0
: -t2 1 &
: If I try running just 'xscrab' I receive a 'Bus error' message. 'ps'
: reports nothing hanging.
Bus error, huh? Interesting. I just compiled it myself, without
problems. Did you: Build and install as per instructions in the README?
Which version are you using? I got mine from:
http://www.belgarath.demon.co.uk/programs/xscrabble.tar.gz
However, you can get an RPM at
ftp://contrib.redhat.com/libc6/i386/xscrabble-1.0-1.i386.rpm
Which you won't have to compile and presumably works as is.
Good luck... . SNF .
--
Steve 'Nephtes' Freeland | Okay, so maybe I'm a tiny itty little
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | bit of a minimalist.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: sendmail
Date: 3 Feb 1999 00:39:37 GMT
In linux.redhat.misc Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# configure sendmail and encountering alot of problems. Do you know
# anyone or know of any sites that might assist us with this task? Thanks
# in advance.
www.sendmail.org?
no, really ... if you want information about sendmail, I'd suggest buying
the 'bat book' (Sendmail 2nd ed. from O'Reilly & Associates). It covers
anything you'd want to know.
--
To reply via mail, please remove the obvious from the email address.
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From: Paul Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 18:05:16 -0600
David Martin wrote:
> WHen you compare it to baseball or american football (where foot and ball
> rarely coincide), yes. Look at the social engineering behind the various
> team sports. An interesting little exercise.
Why would I compare them to American football or baseball? I have no
use for pro sports of any kind. Unless I'm playing them I find them a
complete waste of time.
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie-Gray screen with startx-Redhat 5.1
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 15:40:47 +0000
Bob,
Here is an example of my .xinitrc file. I normally run Window Maker, but
sometimes also run KDE.
<-snip->
#!/bin/sh
# Window Maker default X session startup script
# KDE startup
# startkde # uncomment this line to start KDE
PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace osfBackSpace"
# If you login from xdm, uncomment this to make error messages appear
# in the console window.
#
# tail -f /home/kerry/.xsession-errors > /dev/console
exec wmaker # comment this line to start another Window Manger
<-snip->
Just download the latest Window maker and compile it and you should be good to
go.
Hope that helps.
KJ
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Bob Glover wrote:
> What are the contents of the file ~/.xinitrc ?
>
> Quinn wrote in message <796tn9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Newbie-Gray screen with startx-Redhat 5.1
> >
> >I am very new to Linux, the Redhat 5.1 installation from Que seemed clean
> >and straightforward. Install picked up the PS2 (MS IntelliMouse), NIC,
> also
> >had correct selection of Video Equipment: Optiquest V95 and STB Velocity
> >128. My processor is a PII400 Intel 440bx chipset 128 MB SDRAM?.
> >
> >The first install I made sure that X-Windows was selected and the color
> >depth was automatically determined. When I try to start x I hang with just
> >a dark gray screen, no crunching of the HDD (waited about 10 min?. nothing)
> >
> >The second install I set up the color depth myself and selected the no
> >chipset standard. The same thing happened.
> >
> >
> >Suggestions ?
> >
> >Thank you for your time
> >Jason
> >
> >Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux/KDE/Netscape PAGING immensly
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 19:58:36 -0500
Stephen Anthony wrote:
> <snip>
> Can't wait until Opera is ported in the next few >months :)
>
> Steve
Steve,
Next few months? Has Helmar been promising the sky
again? Or do have some inside info? Doug
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.T. Wong)
Subject: pls help: resize filesystem?
Date: 2 Feb 1999 15:41:41 GMT
Hi, there,
I'm testing LVM-0.5alpha. I'd like to know if resize2fs is freely available,
or if any alternative for resizing filesystem is available. Would anyone
please help ?
Thanks a lot.
Regards,
--
S.T. Wong | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: use theramin as input device
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 00:25:05 GMT
steve mcadams wrote:
> Does anyone know of any work that has been done with the idea of using
> a theramin for an input/pointing device?
No, but it shouldn't be hard.
Allen Crider writes:
> Do you mean that '50s sci-fi sound machine?
No. He means the '20s musical instrument.
> Where do you get one of those?
Build it. They are trivially simple.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HElp, i can't compile
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:09:49 -0500
Jarvis wrote:
> I am using slackware 3.0 and i can't seem to compile with cc or gcc
> i get the following error with a simple c program
>
> test.c: In function `main':
> test.c:4: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
>
> Anyone can help?
> thanks
Send the source code of the file.
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From: ty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ES1688 sound card
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 18:44:03 -0600
Try type commands:
insmod uart401
insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=-1
"Steve D. Perkins" wrote:
> It seems that there is only one thing left keeping my Linux system
> from being "complete" and allowing me to just get rid of my Windows
> partition. That is the fact that after years of Linux use, I am still
> without sound. I've been a little too lazy to fool with it in the past
> (and it wasn't really that high of a priority)... but I've finally
> decided to knock it out.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else out there has an ESS "ES1688" sound
> card in their system, and what they had to do to make it work. I have
> just re-installed my Linux box from scratch... with RedHat 5.2. I don't
> know if RedHat 5.2 already has sound support built into the kernel, or
> if you have to re-compile it (oh well, I've got to start experimenting
> with that someday anyway I suppose!). If the sound support is already
> there, can someone tell me what I need to do to "activate" it? If I do
> need to re-compile the kernel I don't expect anyone to explain THAT step
> by step in a newsgroup posting... but can you at least point me in the
> right direction towards the resources I need to read to learn about it?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Steve
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Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 Feb 1999 13:34:50 -0700
(Art VanDelay) writes:
> This doesn't make any sense. I like the OS/Browser integration.
> There is no "definition" of an OS, and if you leave it up to the
> Government, there will be some stupid definition which will stifle
> further progress in PCs. What is Windows 3.1,95/98/NT, but a bunch of
> programs that together make the OS. Why don't the calculator
> manufacturers cry about competition, or WinFax people, or e-mail
> people, or CD-Player people, or game manufacturers, cause you know, MS
> is using its muscle to put solitare, and pinball, or freecell in the
> OS, which has no business being there, right? I'll give you the
> answer, the other companies (right now) are COMPETING in the free
> market instead of the Jim Barksdales of the world using the US
> Government for personal gain (or to mask his incompetance to the
> shareholders of his now-AOL-owned company). The US Gov doesn't know
> how to do anything right except to screw things up and exploit class
> envy, and enslave us with confiscatory taxes, they are damn experts at
> that. Now they will dictate computer Operating System Standards for
> us to follow, Thanks Jim!
You make some pretty good points, but I think your target is off-
center a bit. The US government is not trying to define 'what' an OS
is, but whether or not Microsoft's immense OS power is allowing it to
hedge other markets.
If the Internet Explorer is so much better than Netscape and Microsoft
is really "COMPETING in the free market" then why didn't they compete
toe-to-toe with Netscape instead of "integrating" it into Windows? It
seems to be conveniently coincidental that the OS needed an internet
browser right when IE was at a fraction of the marketshare it enjoys
today. The obvious answer to this question is that Microsoft
integrated Windows into it's OS to strangle Netscape -- not very fair
play, now is it.
> You can still run that piece of shit software AOL Netscape browsers on
> Windows OS's, but it's worthless software that, because of a lack of
> competiton, is going to suck more with each new release!
>
> Hey, Linux, FreeBSD and other developers, You'll have your day, when
> the US Gov dumbasses make the fucked up rules to follow, you maybe
> will wake up then!
Yes, and when was the last time a Linux or FreeBSD developer
integrated anything into the OS simply to kill off some product they
didn't like? It doesn't make sense.
> Nobody really knows the purpose of the trial, except Barksdale, et al.
> because he/they started it all.
Do you work for Microsoft or something? You sound like you are
personally involved, or that your life depends on their survival.
They have billions and billions of dollars in the bank, I wouldn't
shed too many tears just yet.
> >Judge Jackson is a _conservative_ judge , I think he's seen his share
>
> He certainly doesn't seem conservative!
Sen. Orrin Hatch is one of the most conservative senators in
Washington and he pretty much lighted the fires that started this
round of legal action. There is a huge difference between an economic
conservative and a social conservative (and the difference is opening
a chasm for the republican party right now).
Settle down and enjoy it all for a bit -- it's quite a ride that the
tech sector is in; for perhaps the first time this decade people
aren't playing follow-the-leader to Bill Gates.
Perhaps we *will* go off a cliff, but that could be fun too. :)
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: Michael Hucka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Print filter for Canon BJC-800?
Date: 02 Feb 1999 20:31:26 -0500
(Running Red Hat Linux 5.2 under i386.)
Does anyone know where I can find a print filter (for use with printtool) for
the Canon BJC-800? Alternatively, does anyone if the BJC-600 filter that
comes with rhs-printfilters-1.46-3 will work properly for the BJC-800?
Any help much appreciated.
--
Michael Hucka, Ph.D. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GENESIS Development Group, Division of Biology, Caltech
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Linux apps in win2000 port news!
Date: 2 Feb 1999 15:58:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
Just saw on the biz wire that a company http://www.interix.com has
developed a 64 bit application that runs a a unix/linux emulator within
the MSoft Win2000 (NT5.0) platform environment. They want alot of
Linux apps ported to their API interface so that Unix runs within Windows.
Seems kind of ironic since Linux is trying to run Windows apps in Unix;
but we don't have the source code to their stuff, but they have ours.
Hmmm! seems like there isn't any competition again. Msoft is supporting them
though.
They have a limited list of things they want ported such as gcc (all compilers and
assemblers) and emacs and Tex to name a few. You have 2.5 months to do it
by -- they end of January 1999. Anything else is nice but they won't pay for.
Those they'd like you to port will only pay a maximum of $1000 to a cheap
payment of $500. They didn't mention [conveniently] that they would like the
linux kernel or Sunos x86 kernel etc to run within the interix Win2000.
The reason it was supposed to be done by the end of January 1999 (now past)
is due to todays press release about this product.
Hmmm! if you can't get the Unix software vendors to port their stuf from Unix
to Window Nt, then make the Unix apps run within NT! In this way you can
say that your OS is a engineering workstation.
--
Mike,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HElp, i can't compile
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 23:55:35 +0800
I am using slackware 3.0 and i can't seem to compile with cc or gcc
i get the following error with a simple c program
test.c: In function `main':
test.c:4: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
Anyone can help?
thanks
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From: Matthew Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Dynamically linked libraries, aren't.
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 10:00:31 -0600
Tom Fawcett wrote:
>
> Matthew Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I just put together a new computer: A K6-2 3D/350Mhz, BT-932 Host
> > adapter, with a Seagate 4.5G SCSI HD, and scsi CD/CD-R, and 64M Ram.
> >
> > I'm having problems with the libs being detected as dynamic. When ever
> > I run ldd on a dynamic library, I get the following error:
> >
> > root:reliant me2v$ ldd /lib/libss.so.2.0
> > 6
> > not a dynamic executable
> >
> > I get this error on all the libs on this system. I have mounted my
> > other box via NFS, and ldd'ed libs on that drive, and got the same
> > error. All those libs, however, return correct responses to ldd if I
> > run it on my old box. I've copied known good libs to the box, and got
> > the same error. I have all the correct versions, stock RH 5.1 install,
> > nothing fancy. If I nfs mount the errant box from my old box, and run
> > ldd on any lib, I get the correct results. Yet my scsi system
> > consistently returns errors on the exact same libs that returned good
> > results on my other box.
> >
> > Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated; this problem has me
> > stumped.
> >
> > BTW, if it matters, I've tried this with kernel 2.0.34, 2.0.36,
> > 2.2.0pre9, and 2.2.1. I doubt that the kernel or software is the
> > problem. It's almost definitely got to be a hardware incompatibility of
> > some type, but what?
>
> What does "ldd --version" say on your errant box, and on your old box?
> What does "ld --version" say on each?
> I'd guess the difference between the machines is in these.
>
> I have a hard time imagining this as a hardware problem if this is the only
> symptom.
>
> -Tom
On the good machine:
me2v:matthew $ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.0.7
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
me2v:matthew $ ld --version
GNU ld 2.9.1
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms
of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no
warranty.
Supported emulations:
elf_i386
i386linux
And on the scsi, bad machine:
me2v:reliant me2v$ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.0.7
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
me2v:reliant me2v$ ld --version
GNU ld 2.9.1
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms
of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no
warranty.
Supported emulations:
elf_i386
i386linux
I was wondering if these programs didn't like the K6-2/3D, maybe?
Additional symptoms, which may or may not be related, are that gcc will
*NOT* compile on the K6. It always fails on the first compile using the
stage 1 results, with "internal compiler errors" in stage1/cpp, and that
any XFree86 server compiled on the K6 causes a segfault, yet the exact
same package compiled on the 486 (or downloaded bins), works fine. Now,
before you cry "memory" on that one, I've changed the memory chip, and
also tried the memory in different slots, and I've also tried this all
with *and* without the onboard cache enabled, and with different
compiler versions (gcc 2.7.2.3 and gcc 2.8.1, and egcs 1.0.2).
Additionally, DB2 won't run on the K6-2, although the same installation
works fine (albeit slowly) on the 486. Another thought was if the
BusLogic BT-932 might be causing problems? Although, CD to CD-R copies
generate perfect results, and my kernels compile and run wonderfully,
and XFree86 SVGA server performs nicely (unless I compile it myself :/).
I'm at a loss; I don't know what else to try/look at.
--
Matthew Vanecek
Studies in Business Computers at the University of North Texas
http://www.unt.edu/bcis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Subject: Re: Partition Magic
Date: 2 Feb 1999 16:11:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know that the company says it should work, I'm just wondering if you
>have run into any problems using Partition Magic 4 to resize (in my
>case, make bigger) Linux ext2 partitions...
On my old Dell P-90 (with slightly weird BIOS settings to make it work
with a HD of 3GB size), PartitionMagic 4.0 wouldn't work, not at all.
After many e-mails with their tech support, we agreed that it wasn't
getting anywhere. So, ok, return it, eat the shipping costs. So on
December 3 I mailed it back to them. Yesterday (Feb 1) I called them
to find out what happened to my refund. They claim they only received
it last week, and that it would be 7 more weeks to process it and send
the refund to me. And that's after having wasted weeks trying to get it
to work.
I never got to see if it would do the ext2 resize properly or not.
A real pity. I liked PM2.0.
-frank
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP and ISP connection
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:24:17 -0500
"Kerry J. Cox" wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone has an easy HOWTO for people using RedHat Linux
> and how to connect to their ISPs. I have several friends who want to
> try Linux but their main concern is getting their modem to work and the
> lack of easy HowTos. Any got any pointers? I've directed some of my
> friends to the Linux HowTos but these are a bit over the heads of
> neophyte Microsoft users used to configuring Dial-Up Networking.
> Thanks.
> KJ
>
Tell them to go to the local Computer Store and/or order from RedHat to get
the boxed set from RedHat of RH5.2.
The linuxconf utility in 5.2 makes setting up PPP dialup accounts a breeze.
You basically run linuxconf as root, select the networking button, select
the ppp/slip/plip
button, select add, enter your name phonenumber and password, and click on
the PAP button.
This will connect to ISP's that let people connect using the "standard"
Win95 dial-up networking
setup.
You might also want to go through the PPP-Howto with them and explain
shells and environments and variables, and daemons, and device names and
file perm's and attributes....(etc.)
They would learn a whole lot.
-Ben.
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 and performance.
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 09:31:17 -0700
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, gus wrote:
> I installed / compiled kernal 2.2.1 over the weekend, and have noticed a
> performance gain in orders of magnitude over the 2.0.36 I was running.
> Is this normal ;-)
[...]
> I was not expecting such a performance change, and although pleasantly
> surprised, I would like to know if this is expected, and why? Is there
> some hardware which is better used?
I have read of others reporting the same thing. It is supposed to be a
rather strong change/improvement.
I compiled 2.2.1 on Sunday but I have not run it yet (I am presently
running the precompiled kernel-2.2.0-0.3.i386.rpm) - I haven't upgraded to
modutils 2.1.121 yet. Every time I have, it totally screws both kernel
2.0.36 and my present 2.2.0-0.3 kernel in regards to loading modules. I
have had to keep going back to 1.0.85 (I THINK that is the version) so
that both 2.0.36 and 2.2.0 will load modules.
This is the first time I have rolled my own kernel. I used kernelbuilder
(acquired via freshmeat) and it made everything painless and simple. I
also used pgcc as my compiler. Just a question...when compiling a kernel,
does it take a look at what is installed at the time of compile or does it
even care? In other words, would compilation of kernel-2.2.1 with
modutils-2.0.85 installed rather than 2.1.121 matter at all? Or can I now
upgrade to modutils 2.1.121 and then reboot to the new kernel without,
presumably, any problems?
patrick
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From: Yasutaka Danke Hirasawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SAMBA: cannot be recognized by win95
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 11:47:18 -0500
Could you explain it a bit more? I have shell prompt "server" and I thought it
automatically came from the host name (which is also "server" in my case), so
they should match always..am I right? or is there something else I need to
check?
Eduardo A. wrote:
> I had the same problem, but i fixed it. F**k problem: Linux host name must
> be the same as shell prompt. Verify this.
>
> Danke Hirasawa escreveu na mensagem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >I just installed/configured samba-1.9.18p7 came with Slackware 3.5. I
> >am running SMB through inetd.
> >
> >After I configured smb.cong file, I tested it by testparm. It seemed
> >OK. I also did smbclient -L (samba-server) and smbclient -L
> >(win95-host) on the samba-server. Both were working.
> >
> >Now I am trying to see if I can see the Samba-server from the Win95-host
> >
> >via NetBios, "net view \\(samba-server)" command on the Win95 host. It
> >is NOT working. Win95 complaining "can not locate the host
> >(samba-server)." I have set Lmhosts file in c:\windows directory of
> >Win95 machine and confirmed that TCP/IP connection between two hosts is
> >working. I tried to run SMB through standalone Daemons, but it did not
> >work either. I checked upper/lower cases of host name, did not matter.
> >
> >If I load Win95 on the server (i.e. both machines are with Win95) then
> >NetBios is working OK. What is potential problem of the SMB???
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Easy(?) kernel question.
Date: 3 Feb 1999 01:42:24 GMT
cano_jonathan wrote:
>
> I'm looking at the 2.0.35 linux kernel and I have a question
> (primarily for the intel platform but info about others is welcome).
>
> When a process context is changed, doesn't the memory manager TLB need
> to be flushed? Is there a specific x86 instruction or register that
> does this? Where is the code that causes this to happen? I've looked
> at
>
> #define switch_to(prev,next) in
>
> linux/include/asm-i386/system.h
>
> but I don't know the x86 instruction set well and can't seem to find
> the code I'm looking for.
>
Were you joking with this question or is it really an easy kernel
question? I have been using linux for sometime now and wouldn't consider
this an easy question.
--
From: Frank Hale
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7205161
Website: http://www.franksstuff.com/
"Linux - 8 million users can't be wrong"
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comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
From: jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND
idiot-friendly?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:34:52 GMT
Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Probably piping the output of Word->ASCII convertor (I've heard there are such
> beasts) to grep might be used if you are *really* pressed.
strings(1) is your friend...
--
jim
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http://madeira.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/people/jim/ Hold the line -
Love is delayed by essential engineering works.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: alternatives to Round Robin DNS (was Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks)
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 15:42:07 GMT
Hi Mike & Keith,
It's not quite that simple to do load balancing in a router. Remember that a
TCP connection involves multiple packets in both directions (client<->server)
so it's necessary to insure that all packets involved in a single connection
make it to the same server.
That being said, we have implemented exactly this in our Equalizer load
balancing/high-availability product. There's a free version of it for FreeBSD
as well, see http://www.coyotepoint.com/cp_products.shtml for details.
Cheers!
-LkM
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Tancsa) wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 11:34:50 -0600, "Keith G. Murphy"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >What would be a comparable solution on a Linux or other Unixoid server
> >farm?
>
> Just a thought, but depending on the type of web application, you could
> probably do it in routing if you didnt want to do round robin DNS which as
> stated in the article does have its drawbacks when there is a server fault.
> Basically, its 'one IP address', and then on your router (hey, a UNIX box
> !), you could programmatically route the data in whatever pattern you so
> desire. i.e. each server aliases lo0 to the 'single ip address' like Rod
> and Todd did. (e.g. lo0 is aliased to 192.168.1.1 irrespective of the
> individual ethernet addresses). Then your router alternates sending the
> data to the different servers and could be programmed to route based on
> availability of the servers, load avg, whatever....
>
> ---Mike
> Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Sentex Communications Corp,
> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
>
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