Linux-Misc Digest #911, Volume #18 Fri, 5 Feb 99 11:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: Topicality (Paul D. Smith)
Re: Sick of Windows, newbie thinking about Linux (Simon Kinahan)
Re: KDE is my desktop. (David M. Cook)
Re: Clock Skew (Matt Caswell)
Re: Emacs problems (Matt Caswell)
Re: How to attach a file on command line (Villy Kruse)
Linux 2.2.1 problems on SMP machine (Jacques Oosthuizen)
Re: DVD Video???? (David Steuber)
Re: IDE ZIP DRIVE mounting? (Vladymyr Iljyc Lenin)
Re: Turtle Beach PCI Audio (Jeremiah)
Re: When the next version of different distributions will be released (D. J.
Birchall)
Re: Linux apps in win2000 port news! (D. J. Birchall)
Re: [Help] Need to implement SSL (Jay)
Re: [Q] Spellchecker from within Vi editor (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Problem with true type fonts and Netscape (Adam Christensen)
Re: binutils (original subject was bind8.1.2) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (David Steuber)
Re: Linux driver - legal issue (Duncan Simpson)
Re: Linux Database Question (Duncan Simpson)
Re: Opinions about LyX? (Frank Sweetser)
Re: IDE ZIP DRIVE mounting? ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Re: Standard host name for standalone box? ("Steven M. Cohn")
Connect a VT100 console to Linux ("Harlock")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c,gnu.gcc.help
Subject: Re: Topicality
Date: 05 Feb 1999 09:11:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Rose) writes:
wr> Paul D. Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: If so, then I repeat my question: why bother to have both comp.lang.c
: and comp.std.c, if both are restricted to discussions of ANSI/ISO
: standard C only?
wr> For the nth time (in this thread alone), [...]. comp.std.c
wr> deals entirely with the next C standard, known as C9X.
You're wrong. Please go re-read the charter of the comp.std.c group.
As I said before, I read that group every day.
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From: Simon Kinahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sick of Windows, newbie thinking about Linux
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:03:43 +0000
Jim Ross wrote:
> How close are Irix and Solaris to Linux?
> If I knew Linux would those OSes be familiar do you think?
You would certainly know what was going on most of the time.
Simon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: KDE is my desktop.
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:43:41 GMT
On 4 Feb 1999 23:20:50 GMT, Navindra Umanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>switching to Window Maker [0.14 -- the hamm packages] but I was then
>rather disappointed to find that not everything could be configured
>with the wmaker gui applets (eg: focus follows mouse and autoraise).
That's a *very* old Window Maker. Latest version is 0.51.0 and is much
improved over older versions; it allows setting those properties from
WMPrefs.app.
However, the latest version introduces a little bug with workspace switching
that drives me nuts (but probably won't affect most other people), so I've
gone back to fvwm2 and rediscovered the joys of hacking the rc file. I may
go back to Window Maker if they fix that bug. Window Maker is still the
most elegant window manager for X, certainly much better looking than the
rather tacky looking KWM and much faster as well.
Dave Cook
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 10:08:29 +0000
From: Matt Caswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clock Skew
You normally get a clock skew error if a file has a date/timestamp *ahead*
of the current system time. This could occur for example if you are running
make over NFS, and the clocks on the two machines are out of sync. It could
also occur if you have set your system clock back (I think).
Suggested work arounds:
1) check all files to ensure they don't have date/time stamps in the future
- "touch" them if necessary.
2) If running over NFS, ensure your two system clocks are in sync
3) Sledgehammer approach (this may or may not work - I'm not sure), set your
system clock to be some time in the future - long enough to be past any date
time stamp for the files that you are trying to build.
Matt
Yap Yin Onn wrote:
> Hi,
> I keep getting the below message when ever I try to compile my kernel no
> matter v2.2 or v2.0
> "make[1]: *** Warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be
> incomplete."
> Please help.....
>
> Yap.
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 08:55:10 +0000
From: Matt Caswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Emacs problems
Frans Gumpu Slothouber wrote:
> Matt Caswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Hi
>
> : I'm running RH 5.2 with KDE. It's a fresh install, and I haven't done
> : anything wierd as far as I know!
>
> : My problem is with emacs. When I fire it up under X it doesn't display
> : properly. The text starts *underneath* the scroll bar on the left hand
> [snip]
> : I can't think what the problem could be. I've tried playing around with
> : some of the settings in my .Xdefaults, but I don't know what to change.
>
> : Any suggestions?
>
> What kind of font do you use? A proportional or a non-proportional?
> If you use proportional it might be that emacs has a problem with
> that.
> If so, add
> emacs*font: fixed
> to your .Xdefaults.
>
Thanks for the suggestion....
I checked my .Xdefaults and I already have the line:
emacs*font: fixed
Having said that I like the theory that its down to proportional fonts. I
tried changing to some other fonts by editing .Xdefaults. It didn't actually
seem to change the font at all....can't think what I'm doing wrong....do I
need to restart my X server every time I change .Xdefaults, or is it enough
just to restart emacs (which is what I have been doing)?
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: How to attach a file on command line
Date: 5 Feb 1999 09:36:41 +0100
In article <796guf$ltm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>I need to send a file to some users by email under certain circumstances, so I
>am looking for some utility or script that could send an attached file to some
>email address.
>
Take a look ate metamail. It contains commands to mimeencode files as
attachments.
/usr/bin/audiocompose
/usr/bin/audiosend
/usr/bin/extcompose
/usr/bin/getfilename
/usr/bin/mailserver
/usr/bin/mailto
/usr/bin/mailto-hebrew
/usr/bin/metamail
/usr/bin/metasend
/usr/bin/mimencode
/usr/bin/mmencode
/usr/bin/patch-metamail
/usr/bin/rcvAppleSingle
/usr/bin/richtext
/usr/bin/richtoatk
/usr/bin/showaudio
/usr/bin/showexternal
/usr/bin/shownonascii
/usr/bin/showpartial
/usr/bin/showpicture
/usr/bin/sndAppleSingle
/usr/bin/splitmail
/usr/bin/sun-audio-file
/usr/bin/sun-message.csh
/usr/bin/sun-to-mime
/usr/bin/sun2mime
--
Villy
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From: Jacques Oosthuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux 2.2.1 problems on SMP machine
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 10:53:43 +0200
Help !!!!!
We have a compaq proliant 800 server at work. If I compile the kernel a
SMP then the machine will run for a while and lock up. I know the docs
say that on the compaq machines you should set the bios to unixware, but
this machines bios does not have such a option. If I compile the machine
for 1 processor there is no problems at all.
Does anyone know what to do. ??
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DVD Video????
Date: 04 Feb 1999 22:23:47 -0500
Derek Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> What about the fact that the Encore kit comes with a decoder board.
-> One wouldn't need to implement the whole MPEG2/AC-3 decoder in software,
-> just stream the data from the drive to the board. (I know I make this
-> sound
-> much simpler than it really is). I followed a similar thread last year,
-> and at
-> the time I was just learning about DVD's and computers. The concern was
-> having
-> the open source code enforce the region codes and copy protection, but
-> that was
-> for a software only solution. The decoder board and the drive both
-> enforce
-> regions codes (I know about the hacks for unlimited region code changes)
-> and
-> do the decoding.
->
-> I hope someone shares my point of view and has started a project!!
-> (Anybody??)
The only thing the hardware does is the MPEG2 decoding and the NTSC /
AC3 encoding for an external TV set.
The smarts for the CSS, navigation, subtitles, audio stream, etc come
from the software.
You can get specifications on the patented portions of the DVD
system. All you have to do is purchase copies of the appropriate
patents. If you have access to a patent repository (library or
university) then the cost is the same as printing out copies of a few
microfiches
The hard part is the trade secret information. This covers the file
format and a host of other details that you can only get through one
of two ways. The legal way is to buy the DVD spec from Toshiba ($5000
USD) and other documents (considerably more) and sign an NDA. The
alternative way that is illegal in the United States (AFAIK) is to use
a copy of the software that came with your player and reverse enginere
it. You might get lucky. It may not be pentium optimized code. You
can look at any dlls and drivers that shiped with the software to get
the names of the exported symbols and what portions of the code they
map to. You have to disasemble the software and do a flow analysis on
it to work out the algorithm so that you can create a clean room
specification from which you can re code a program in C.
I have not undertaken this task because of the amount of work involved
and the fact that as a U.S. citizen, my ass could get sued into the
stone age. I estimate that the amount of work involved would be at
least a few man years, if not months. By then, there will probably be
a high definition format that uses strong encryption with some
protocol that makes playback pretty much impossible without a
legitimate player. The studios take their profits very seriously.
--
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From: Vladymyr Iljyc Lenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IDE ZIP DRIVE mounting?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 03:59:59 +0100
"Robert A. Trifiletti, Jr." wrote:
> anyone know how to mount an internal IDE/ATAPI Zip Drive/Disk?
> Thanks in advance.
> Bob
conforming to kernel source documentation
you must have enabled IDE FLOPPY on your kernel
that is not default and not as module
then you must recompile your kernel with this option
mounting zip drive is exactly same as mounting cdrom or floppy or other
removable media
--
= lenin =
a ze ja sem ve~c~nej co?
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From: Jeremiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach PCI Audio
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:26:26 -0500
Michael Tweedie wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if there are sound drivers for RHL 5.2 for a Turtle Beach
> Montego PCI Audio card? It is the standard audio card in most DELL Deskyops
> right now!
There aren't... The TB Montego uses the Aureal Vortex chip, and
Aureal hasn't been too forthcoming with specs on it. The OSS group is
working on a driver (it'll be $20 when they're done with it), but it's
not expected until summer (late spring?). They've been pushing the
release date back for over half a year, so don't hold your breath...
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. J. Birchall)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: When the next version of different distributions will be released
Date: 4 Feb 1999 16:25:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Richard Perry Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know the release plans/dates for various Linux distributions
>(ie. Red Hat, Debian, Slackware, S.u.S.E, etc...) based on the 2.2.x
>kernel??
I've read that Red Hat will be shipping a 2.2 kernel in the
second quarter of this year. Don't know about the others.
-Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. J. Birchall)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux apps in win2000 port news!
Date: 4 Feb 1999 16:20:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 03 Feb 1999 15:57:53 -0500, Adam P. Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>to start a non-gui Unix app you'd still need to actually log into the
>Unix machine, whereas if you had a Unix emulator you could just run
>them on your NT machine too.
I have to wonder what sort of performance an NT system emulating
UNIX would deliver. Has anyone played with this?
-Dan
--
Daniel Birchall, VP - Technology, Digital Facilities Management.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is no longer a real address for me,
since a bunch of illiterates spammed it! :) My username is djb.
http://www.scream.org/maisha/ is the Unofficial Maisha Fan Site.
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From: Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: [Help] Need to implement SSL
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:01:33 +0000
Andrew Daviel wrote:
>
> Jay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : I neeed to implement SSL in a server that I have.
>
> http://www.free.lp.se/ssleay/ etc.
Thanks for the URL.
>
> --
> Deniable unless digitally signed
> Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada
> Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376
> http://andrew.triumf.ca/andrew
Take care,
Jay
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http://www.ezboard.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [Q] Spellchecker from within Vi editor
Date: 5 Feb 1999 07:50:03 GMT
Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I invoke a spellchecker such as ispell from within the Vi editor,
>i.e., to check the file being edited.
Please choose your newsgroups more carefully. There is /nothing/
Linux-specific about your question.
>Sorry if this is a FAQ.
It is. It is answered in one of the FAQs of the appropriate newsgroup:
comp.editors .
HTH,
Ray
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From: Adam Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with true type fonts and Netscape
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:53:03 +0000
Daniel Dui wrote:
>
> I installed xfstt and I am trying to use true type fonts with Netscape.
>
Where did you get xfstt?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: binutils (original subject was bind8.1.2)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:11:55 GMT
Thanks- All my current problems are solved. I believe the original problem
was that it wouldn't allow me to do a "server" install because of
insufficient disk space. When I did a custom install, I failed to include
all the components I needed. Your help is greatly appreciated.
In article <79c0qe$bnd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse) wrote:
> In article <79aq4v$b2o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Thanks for the info so far. I'm learning. Realize I should have originally
> >searched the newsgroup for libbfd, not bind. I've used rpm to get libbfd off
> >the CD, but am not getting it to install successfully:
> >
>
> These utilities ar on the first CD under the directory RedHat/RPMS
> Here you will fine bind-8.1.2-5.i386.rpm and binutils-2.9.1.0.15-1.i386.rpm
>
> To install bind run 'rpm -i bind-8.1.2-5.i386.rpm' No compilation is
required.
> Same for binutils, and while at it you probably should install all the other
> development stuff, too.
>
> Villy
>
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From: David Steuber <[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: 04 Feb 1999 22:35:06 -0500
"Jim Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> You forgot to say "just kidding." Linux device support is not in Windows
-> 9X's class. Nor is apps support for X. Not specifically a "Linux problem",
-> but nonetheless not yet in Windows class. Ease of use, nope. Linux is not
-> yet spoonfeeding as is Windows. Being powerful is ok, but just as important
-> to most is ease of use. I can appreciate choice and a good GUI and GUI apps
-> help me there. PPP works in Windows, in Linux for me it does not. Maybe I
-> could do even more to fix it, but the need is why Linux is not ready. I do
-> not want to have to troubleshoot it. I shouldn't have to.
You should get a Mac. It is easier and more reliable than any Windows
machine.
Linux will probably never be as easy as the Mac. It runs on a wider
variety of hardware with many more combinations of hardware and
software than most other OSs. Windows only got where it is out of a
shear statistical fluke. All the OEMs support it because that is
where the money is.
Linux can and will get easier. But it will never get to the level of
being the OS for the idiot. Linux is derived from a standard that was
designed to be useful for technical people. It has features as
standard components that have to be obtained seperatly under other OS
platforms. For what it was designed to do, Linux is one of the best
OS platforms out there.
Don't worry. The big distributers will pay people to make Linux as
easy to use as possible. It just won't be as simple as less
sophisticated systems like Windows.
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: Linux driver - legal issue
Date: 5 Feb 1999 15:31:02 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "J. S. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>"Dr. Henrik Seidel" wrote:
>> I wrote a Linux kernel driver for the Typhoon radio card
>From scratch, I am assuming.
>> My question is now: Is it illegal to release the kernel driver without
>> an explicit permission of the manufacturer?
>It certainly should be, as long as you wrote everything from your own mind
>and experimentation. Read the license with the included DOS software and
>make sure you're not `reverse-engineering' anything (we all know you
>weren't :-).
Stop right there. Reverse engineering is an inalieanbale right in the EU
*unless* you are cloning a product. So it would be illegal to reverse
engineer the DOS driver to write an alterntaive DOS driver.
Writing a Linux driver is not cloning a DOS driver. The EU gives me an
inalaieanable right to reverse engineer any product for purposes like
writing a file in its format. Any licence restriction that suggests
otherwise is illegal.
Duncan (-:
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Duncan (-:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Subject: Re: Linux Database Question
Date: 5 Feb 1999 15:39:57 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Quinn) writes:
>> I'm going to be implementing a database server using an Intel box running
>> Linux, with PosgresSQL (sp?) as the database software.
>>
>> My understanding is that Linux does not (currently) implement raw disk
>> partitions. This is probably a stupid question, but, given this, is there
>> any way to circumvent the filesystem when implementing a database in Linux?
>> In particular, I want to avoid the filesystem I/O buffering in order to
>> guarantee write consistancy in case of a system crash.
[stuff about ext2 s attribute snipped]
All modern unicies support O_WSYNC which does exactly what you want and is
a lot better than raw disk partitions. Just say
FILE *myopen_rw(const chr *name)
{
int fd;
FILE *out;
fd=open(name, O_RDWR | O_WSYNC);
out=fdopen(fd, "r+");
return out;
}
Solaris seems to think O_SYNC is a better name for O_WSYNC. I think
POSIX specifies O_WSYNC.
Duncan (-:
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Opinions about LyX?
Date: 05 Feb 1999 09:51:19 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Vere) writes:
> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:53:47 +0000, Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >On 4 Feb 1999, QM wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I'll need to write my thesis (subject is a math/engineering one) soon and
> >> I was thinking about using LyX, instead of latex directly. Can anyone offer
> >> any opinions about LyX, as I don't want to get my fingers burnt at a stage
> >> late into my thesis. Thanks very much.
> >
> >LyX is an incredibly easy way to harness the immense power of LaTeX which
> >is probably the best solution for this requirement.
> >
> >Grab hold of LyX 1.0 which is now available and is *very* nice. You should
> >probably also subscribe to the tex newsgroup - I forget exactly what the
> >ng name is but it is the only one so you should find it easy to locate.
>
> Out of interest, what is the best way to learn Tex/latex?
>
> I have absolutely no experience whatsoever...
I found that the not-so-short guide to LaTeX2e was an excellent
introduction. do a search for it - the file name is lshort2e.dvi, or i'll
send you a recent copy if you can't find it.
--
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IDE ZIP DRIVE mounting?
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 20:31:31 -0600
Robert A. Trifiletti, Jr. wrote:
> anyone know how to mount an internal IDE/ATAPI Zip Drive/Disk?
Look at your /etc/fstab to see whether the system knows about the drive,
and if so, what its mount point is. (There's a good chance it will show
up as /dev/hdb4. If you share the disks with Windows systems, you may
need to change the type to vfat, in order to support long file names.)
Assuming the mount point is /mnt/zip, just type "mount /mnt/zip"
(without the quotes) at the prompt.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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From: "Steven M. Cohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Standard host name for standalone box?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:57:31 -0500
You may change your hostname (via the hostname command) to anything that
you like. But, DO NOT change the name of 127.0.0.1 to anything other
than localhost.
As far as I know, there is no standard, but brand/model, (e.g.
Compaq6000) and Personal Names (e.g. Jay) are probably the most common.
In networked environments, themes (Trees, Rivers, etc) seem to be the
most common after informative type names (e.g. LinuxWeb). In spite of
my mixed case usage above, lowercase is generally preferred.
Happy Hosting!
-Steve
Jay wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I'm curious if there is a standard hostname convention for stand
> alone Linux boxes. I run Linux on my home machine and thos hostname is
> localhost.localdomain. Is it customary to change that to something more
> personal?
> I don't have a permant IP address, just a PPP dialup address.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Take care,
> Jay
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.roadrunner.com/~joconnor
>
> "God himself plays the bass strings first when He tunes the soul"
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From: "Harlock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Connect a VT100 console to Linux
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:40:45 +0100
Hi!
I work with a linux PC (Red Hat 5.2) and i wish i could connect a VT100
console to my computer (via a serial connection or something like this) so
that other people may send mail while i work on the PC !!
But i don't know how to do this !!!!!
Someone can help me, please !!!
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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