Linux-Misc Digest #917, Volume #18 Fri, 5 Feb 99 21:13:11 EST
Contents:
LINUX FIREWALL - HELP ("News")
Why does Linux do this? (Paul Gifford)
Re: Serial Console -- What's this? (Ben Russo)
Re: Only one browser for linux? (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: How to setup key bindings in Xterm for DEC keyboard layout? ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: Help: FTP hang Solaris 2.6->Redhat 5.2 ("Eric A. Hall")
Killing a Linux Box (AKBishop)
Re: Emacs problems (Frans Gumpu Slothouber)
Re: > 64MB RAM (Ben Russo)
Re: IDE ZIP DRIVE mounting? ("Michael.Creasy")
Re: problems with starting X ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CD-RW as backup alternative (Joerg Schilling)
Re: KDE is my desktop. (David M. Cook)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Arthur)
KDE is a Memory Hog. (Ben Russo)
Re: Best Linux ? (Darren Greer)
Re: kernel too big? (Ben Russo)
Re: Killing a Linux Box (Ben Russo)
dedicated process? ("Ross Henderson")
Re: Topicality (Paul D. Smith)
slackware out of the box - security issues (Jason Rotunno)
Re: SiS5597 / 5598 chipset (Donn Miller)
SCSI Kernel Rebuild... Then LILO problem (Bill Wangard)
Re: Opinions about LyX? (David Magda)
Re: I need an email server for linux ("Joseph K. Vossen")
Re: Q: How do I stop a 4:02 AM scheduled mystery process? (Frank Hale)
Re: Why does Linux do this? (Ben Russo)
Re: SiS5597 / 5598 chipset (Philip Brown)
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From: "News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LINUX FIREWALL - HELP
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 00:38:43 -0000
I have to make a firewall aplication in linux c if you have a source
code of an aplication like this i would be gratefull if you could send it
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Paul Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why does Linux do this?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:07:27 -0700
When I run "shutdown", Linux switches to runlevel 6. Currently it's
set at runlevel 3. Why does it jump to a higher runlevel when I try to
shut down? Could this be the reason my system won't shut down all the
way (after switching to 6, I get the message "INIT: No more processes at
this runlevel" and everything stops...no "system halted" or anything)
Thanks
p
========================
Paul Gifford
NOAA/NGDC
325 S Broadway EGC2
Boulder CO 80303
303-497-6556 voice
303-497-6513 fax
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Console -- What's this?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 19:56:29 -0500
"Edgar F. Hilton" wrote:
> Aha! I understand! So, when someone says that they want to buy a Linux
> box that can support serial consoles, are they implying that they are
> looking for the Linux box to have a serial port or something of the
> sort? What type of hardware would you need on the Linux box? Would the
> serial port suffice or do you need special hardware?
>
> Anyway, Ben, thank you so much for responding. Your email really helped.
>
> -- Edgar
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Edgar F. Hilton
> Rotating Machinery and Controls Laboratory (ROMAC)
> office: (804) 924-6233 fax: (804) 982-2246
> URL: www.people.virginia.edu/~efh4v
> -------------------------------------------------------
Yes if someone wants to buy a Linux box that can support serial consoles
you can sell them any box that will run Linux and has a serial port.
do a search on the net for "Text-Terminal-HOWTO"
However if they want a box that specifically will NEVER HAVE A VIDEO
CARD, you might want to mention to them that if they have to do a
disaster recovery they might have a little trouble. PC's expect a
video card and a console/keyboard for BIOS messages and BIOS
manipulation, and during the boot-up of the box you may need to
see that stuff.
You don't have to have a console and a keyboard in a box to boot
(if the BIOS will let you skip the error on the POST routine check...)
but you won't be able to see any of the BIOS POST and boot messages.
After you have used a Video card and a monitor/keyboard to do an
install of Linux you could get by using a serial-console with no
video card/monitor/keyboard/mouse but if you had a boot problem
you would be screwed until you put those pieces of hardware back
on the box.
The 2.2.x linux kernels do different things with serial-consoles,
so maybe some of this has changed, but definitely not the BIOS/POST
stuff.
-Ben.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: Only one browser for linux?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:55:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David M. Cook wrote:
>On Fri, 05 Feb 1999 21:22:48 GMT, Juergen Heinzl
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>a memory hog too. Yes, there is the Mozilla project ... anyone who
>>knows about its memory footprint (roughly ... if its > 128MB just
Hey, thanks for the quick answer ...
>The distribution of Gecko, the new rendering engine in Mozilla, fits on a
>floppy.
... my search too has come to an end 8)
Cheers,
Juergen
--
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: How to setup key bindings in Xterm for DEC keyboard layout?
Date: 5 Feb 1999 16:56:44 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x Ivan Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having problems with key bindings under x-windows. Specifically,
> here's what I wnat to do:
> In a regular Linux console (with TERM set to linux), I can telnet into a
> VMS system and when I use the NumLock key, it acts as the GOLD key in EVE,
> the text editor for VMS. My keyboard acts as it should under a VMS system.
> If I go into x-windows and then telnet to the VMS system in an xterm
> window, the NUMLOCK key no longer acts as the GOLD key and other keys no
> longer work as they should under a VMS system.
with XFree86 xterm, F1-F4 are used for PF1 (GOLD) through PF4. (NumLock
is really used for other things in X Windows).
The XFree86 3.3.3 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation
There's an faq at
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/xterm/xterm.faq.html
ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/xterm
(the other programs that I'm aware of are basically unusable for this purpose)
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: "Eric A. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help: FTP hang Solaris 2.6->Redhat 5.2
Date: 05 Feb 1999 08:23:47 PST
> Scanning with tcpdump confirmed that the Linux box was repeatedly
> sending the FIN in a packet that also had the last bit of data -
> and the Sun box was acknowledging the data but not the FIN.
Yeah, this is one of the more interesting TCP anomalies: Solaris won't
ACK/FIN a segment with data.
> I would think this would leave other protocols hanging, besides FTP,
> wouldn't it?
It's a problem for any app that puts the FIN flag on a data segment
that's talking to Solaris.
--
Eric A. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+1-650-685-0557 http://www.ehsco.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AKBishop)
Subject: Killing a Linux Box
Date: 06 Feb 1999 01:04:19 GMT
I have been given the task of killing a linux box to check security. Anyone
have any ideas on where to begin?
Thanks.
....
remove the -remove- from my e-mail address.
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From: Frans Gumpu Slothouber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Emacs problems
Date: 5 Feb 1999 16:25:51 GMT
Matt Caswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Matt Caswell wrote:
: The problem is definately due to proportional fonts. Once emacs has loaded I am
: able to change the font manually to a fixed width font. Everything then works as
: it should. My problem now though is that emacs is ignoring my .Xdefaults file.
: No matter what I put in there it doesn't seem to make any difference. I have to
: change the font every time emacs loads up. Why might that be?
Emacs also read a .emacs file. It might be the the font setting
is over-written there. Try renaming the .emacs file and see
what happens....
If it is not in there you might want to put the command you use
to change your font in the .emacs file :)
Have fun,
Frans.
--
______________________________________________________________________
/Frans Gumpu Slothouber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
\___/\ GalaxyNG Game Master. http://gumpu.student.utwente.nl/~galaxyng
/ \/
Implementation: The fruitless struggle by the talented and underpaid to
fulfill promises made by the rich and ignorant.
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: > 64MB RAM
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:02:14 -0500
lgbp wrote:
> Ben Russo wrote:
>
> > For 2.0.x kernel's only finds up to 1023 MB, (the kernel won't boot if
> > more than that!!)
> > for 2.2.x kernel's only finds up to 2GB.
> >
> > Sorely limited if you ask me. I have HP-UX and SOLARIS boxes that are
> > limited to
> > 4GB or 2TB respectively.
> >
> > Linux needs to move to 64 bit!!
> >
> > -Ben.
>
> What exactly are you doing that requires one machine to have over two
> Gigabytes of memory??
>
> gbp
I work at an international corporation with offices in over 60 Cities and
6000+ employees. Some of our Databases are 100's of GB in size. Some
tables alone are more than 2GB. I personally don't see the need for
rip-roaring blinding speed in most of these applications (they could
be run in the background) but our Finance department and Sales dept/
managers disagree. I just poor IS grunt trying to make them happy.
-Ben.
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From: "Michael.Creasy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IDE ZIP DRIVE mounting?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:39:32 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> sorry but i think this not works for you
> device must be /dev/hdd1 not hd4d
> device hd4d is not recognized under linux
Actually will be hdd4 - just a typo.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problems with starting X
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:33:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"PaulErguido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please, Could someone give me a good tutorial about Xwindow (KDE)
> instalation , setting and running?
> Thanks, from Brazil!
There's lots that could go wrong. Have you read *all* of the
documentation? Someone else might be able to help, but I think
you need to be more specific.
-chad townsend
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: CD-RW as backup alternative
Date: 5 Feb 1999 14:59:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tom wrote:
>>
>> I would say, you can tar-up specific directories that you may
>> need and copy them to the cd-rw disc. That might do it for ya.
>> Definitley not a solution for a daily backup thing though.
>>
>
>Okay, I keep seeing people through around CD-RW. Where is the software
>to record to these types of disks? I have a CD-RW drive but xcdroast
>doesn't give you options to record to a rewritable disk let along erase
>one.
>
>Or are people confusing the 2 different types? CD-R (write once) CD-RW
>(rewrite multiple times)???????????????
>
>I would really like to know what software is available for CD-RW's.
Xcdroast doesn't work on Solaris because of it's hard coded Linux Paths.
If you want to erase/blank a CD-RW media, use cdrecord from command line.
Read the cdrecord man page and/or call cdrecord blank=help
to learn what blaking options are available.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: KDE is my desktop.
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:44:48 GMT
On 6 Feb 1999 00:35:48 GMT, Navindra Umanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just noticed that Window Maker doesn't display the window contents
>when resizing (by default), but KWM does by default. So you can keep
>the resize animation but turn off the "Display content while resizing"
>option.
OK, thanks, I'll try it out. This will make it less embarassing when
demoing KDE for the heathens.
Dave Cook
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From: Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:38:33 -0800
> Tim wrote:
> >
> > Arthur wrote:
> >
> > > I meant electronic analog computers, not light based
> > > computing with a GUI. Did it run Linux?
> >
> > Would that be a granite user interface? ;o)
Used remotely via SLIP (Slingshot Lithic Interface Protocol)
Watch out for those packets ...
Arthur
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE is a Memory Hog.
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 18:58:04 -0500
"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote:
> KDE is more of a hog than Windows 9x or NT!!! It is also very slow. I
> don't think Qt is ready for performance application development yet.
>
Do you have any stats to back that up?
It is smaller in Memory size "text area + data area + stack"
than CDE or dtwm by about 2.5MB, (30%) but it has much more
friendly and pretty functionality. I can't compare it to Win95 or NT
because you can't run Win95 or NT under a Linux Kernel.
(stats taken from the http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ site)
You don't have to run all the different parts of KDE if you don't want too.
If you take twm or fvwm and run the pager and the goodstuff module
and the tasklist thingy (I don't remember what it was called)
you are talking about 60% of the memory that KDE uses.
So KDE is a little big, but it gives you a lot of things that make it very
friendly. The 1.0 file manager is GREAT. the KDE control center
and menu editor are amazing. The icon's on the desktop are very nice.
Just because it looks like Windows 95 or NT (or maybe some system
microsoft stole it from) doesn't mean it is a BAD thing.
I haven't had to edit an "rc" file for
my window manager since I got KDE.
Granted, if I had a machine with less than 48 MB of RAM I don't think
I would be using it.
About the Qt being ready for "performance application development"
I don't run X on my "performing application"
machines. I run X on my workstations. On my servers I have consoles.
How much speed do you need with 32Bit 200MHz and higher CPU's and
RAM available for $1 a meg?
-Ben.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Greer)
Subject: Re: Best Linux ?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 01:43:40 GMT
Seeing as you are experienced in the *nix world.....I would go with
debian.
www.debian.org
Probably one of the best thought out dists there are,
Darren
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:37:57 +0000, Andrew Fry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-->OK, after years of AIX, OpenDesktop, UnixWare, Solaris
-->and (some) BSD ... I am finally going to get Linux and
-->install if on one of my machines.
-->But which is the best one to go for ? (Red Hat, Caldera
-->OpenLinux Lite, SuSE, etc).
-->Any views ?
-->
-->---
-->Andrew Fry
-->"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana". (Groucho Marx).
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: kernel too big?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:39:20 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, i just got my hands on 2.2.1 and tried compiling it, it compiled ok but
> it was huge! I really didn't think i had selected that much but anyway i
> tried using zlilo and lilo apparently agrrees with me in that it is really
> big, but lilo doesn't seem to use it... i try using it anyway and my box
> boots up ok but it boots up with all the things that were in the old kernel!
> and nothing from what was in the new kernel! the kicker is that i moved my
> old kernel and it seems to still be using it... i am quite confused. i have
> tried compiling it with *everything* i could as mods but it is still > 1megs!
> i have used bzImage but that doest seem to be of much help. any help would
> be greatly appricated here!
>
> -Gaiko
>
> Gaikokujin Kyofusho
> Student Extraordinare & UN*X Guru Wannbe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
If you moved the old kernel by changing the name or directory, the
actual
bits of that old kernel may still have the same inodes (i.e. physical
disk address).
If lilo gave you an error when it tried to set up the new kernel then
it probably never overwrote the old MBR, so you are still using the old
lilo config and the old kernel.
try making the kernel with "make bzImage" instead of "make zImage"
or try making some of the kernel options modules instead of compiled in
options.
-Ben.
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Killing a Linux Box
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:40:50 -0500
AKBishop wrote:
>
> I have been given the task of killing a linux box to check security. Anyone
> have any ideas on where to begin?
>
> Thanks.
> ....
> remove the -remove- from my e-mail address.
Go to the "root-shell" web site.
http://www.rootshell.com/beta/exploits.html
-Ben.
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From: "Ross Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: dedicated process?
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:22:09 -0500
Hello,
We are interested in running a realtime process
on a dual-processor Linux machine. Can anyone tell
me if the 2.2 Linux kernel can be made to run on
one CPU while the other CPU locks the application
process? We're doing data acquisition, and the
less interrupts due to OS calls, the better.
Thanks.
Ross Henderson
Laboratory of Neuropsychology
Neural Coding and Computation
National Inst. of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health
Bldg. 49, Room 1B-80
Bethesda, MD 20892
tel: 301-496-5625 ext. 251
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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 13:02:04 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%% "J. Benz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jb> Paul D. Smith wrote:
>> %% [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
t> In which case you'll know that [regardless of whatever the charter
t> might be] the discussions all tend to be about C9X.
>> You're wrong. Go check. A quick scan over the last month shows about
>> 40% the posts deal with C89 topics, or are otherwise relevant to C89.
jb> Hmmm....checking reveals *no* posts whatever, not even ancient
jb> ones.
jb> Can somebody please tell me why my reader consistently shows this
jb> group as *totally* (void*) - and has for years, on multiple news
jb> servers? Am I just using cheesy servers? How can I get my ISP to
jb> carry this? Or are you referring to 40% of nothing?
Weird, if it happens with multiple servers. I don't know what to say;
my server has ~450 posts to comp.std.c over the last 30 days (how long
my server keeps comp.* posts). Comp.std.c has existed for a *long*
time--since before C89 was approved, I believe.
You can always try DejaNews :)
--
===============================================================================
Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Management Development
"Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
===============================================================================
These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Rotunno)
Subject: slackware out of the box - security issues
Date: 5 Feb 1999 16:34:06 GMT
i'm currently running slackware 3.1 and plan to upgrade to 3.6 soon. i've
been messing around with linux for a couple of years now, but never used
it for anything serious. now that i'm getting more serious about it
security is becoming a concern. i've read quite a few times that a fresh
slackware installation has some security holes that need to be
patched. a couple url's were given that explained and provided a patch
for the security issues, but the links were dead (i don't remember the
url's, but i believe one was a *.gov site. maybe even nasa...(?)). i'm
wondering if anyone can point me to a page that addresses these issues or
if anyone has any suggestions concerning slackware's security. thanks.
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From: Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS5597 / 5598 chipset
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 10:18:45 -0500
Barrie Wood wrote:
> Hello !
>
> Can seemingly only install Linux with VGA 16 colour display. The
> problem appears to be video chipset SiS 5597 / 55978. Is this
> unsupported by Linux. I have Xfree86 3.3.2 / Red Hat 5.1
No -- XFree86 3.3.3, which just came out a while back, supports these two
chipsets. I've got the SiS 5597/5598 chipsets, and XFree86 works great
with them. That would be the Asus SP-97 V, correct? Actually,
XFree86-3.3.3.1 is out now. Just get it in whatever package format your
system supports, or you can download the source at ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/
Again, you want XFree86-3.3.3.* Go to http://www.xfree86.org/ for
details.
Donn
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From: Bill Wangard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SCSI Kernel Rebuild... Then LILO problem
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 18:53:13 -0700
We installed Redhat 5.2 and NT on Pentium Pro computer. It has
SCSI. To get the dual boot to work properly took a few shots.
Naturally,
it did not work the first try. The method we used for setting up the
dual boot is described after PART B (see below).
Well here is our problem... We needed to rebuild the Kernel. Since
our system is SCSI, I've read that we "need" to have a ramdisk to
load the scsi modules to set up the root partition. While I have
accepted
this to be true, I still don't know why we can't compile the scsi
adapters
into the kernel and screw the ramdisk.... I don't know. Anyhow, for
the time being, since the original setup of Redhat used a ramdisk, who
am I to say that they didn't need to do what they did? Furthermore,
their boot up works, and ours doesn't.
So to belabor the obvious, we are asking for any help we can get!
To help with this, I have laid out in fairly gory detail every step we
did to
rebuild the kernel, create the ramdisk, run lilo, etc....
Here goes
*****************************
PART A --- Make kernel
*****************************
cd /usr/src/linux
make mrproper
make xconfig (and then select options and save/exit)
make dep
make clean
make zImage
make modules
make modules_install
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz.new
mkinitrd /boot/initrd.new 2.0.36 (2.0.36 was the name of the
new /lib/modules/2.036 directory)
edit lilo.conf
************************************
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz.new
label=linux.new
root=/dev/sda7
initrd=/boot/initrd.new
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux.old
root=/dev/sda7
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img
read-only
other=/dev/sda1
label=dos
table=/dev/sda
*************************************
****************************************************************
PART B --- RUN LILO & PEEL OFF BOOT SECTOR FOR NTs OSLOADER
****************************************************************
Well, since we have a Dual boot system with NT, we have to do a few
other things like peel the partition and stuff.... Here are the details
lilo (to install lilo in the MBR)
dd if=/dev/sda of=/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1 (to peel the MBR and paste
it in the file boot.lnx)
lilo -U /dev/sda (to restore NT's control of the MBR)
mcopy boot.lnx a: (to copy the peeled boot sector onto a floppy
disk)
shutdown -r now (to restart)
.... boot up into NT.
copy a:\boot.lnx c:\boot\boot.lnx
Add a line to c:\boot.ini to tell NT to add the option to boot Linux
(from c:\boot\boot.lnx)
..... restart
When the OSLoader boots up, we see
NT.
Linux
Click on Linux.....
LI
And that's all... folks.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Also, could you respond to the newsgroup and by direct email, too.
Thanks.
Bill Wangard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Magda)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Opinions about LyX?
Date: 6 Feb 1999 01:25:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Robinson) writes:
[...]
>The last time I looked at it, it wasn't capable of importing latex files,
>which makes it a bit 'all or nothing'. You can export latex out of it,
>though.
It does as of 1.0.0. Which is now.
--
David Magda <dmagda at acs.ryerson.ca>, 2nd Year Electrical Eng.
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best--" and then he had to stop and
think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do,
there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better
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From: "Joseph K. Vossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need an email server for linux
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:42:45 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Daddy Rabbit wrote:
>
> I'm setting up a linux box to be hosted by my ISP. I have a sql
> database on it so that people can request information etc. but only if
> they will give me an email address. What I would like to do is send an
> automatic email to people base on what item they requested info on.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this type of situation?
>
> I would appreciate your input.
>
take a look at procmail. I use it to auto-respond to incoming mail
based on the To: or Subject: fields
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: How do I stop a 4:02 AM scheduled mystery process?
Date: 5 Feb 1999 16:33:56 GMT
Seth Van Oort wrote:
>
> Kurt Gray wrote:
> >
> > Please help! I'm running Red Hat Linux 5.2 on a Pentium 166 with
> > a 4GB SCSI internal drive, 32 MB of RAM, and 128 MB swap.
> >
> > My file ext2 system is getting trashed and the cuplrit appears
> > to be some mystery process that launches itself at 4:02 AM everyday.
> >
> > Here is a part of the /var/log/messages file:
> >
> > Feb 3 04:02:06 linux3 PAM_pwdb[22026]: (su) session opened
> > for user nobody by (uid=99)
> >
> > Feb 3 04:02:09 linux3 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:01):
> 4:02am is when daily cron jobs get run. Look in /etc/cron.daily.
> updatedb is probably the big one.
>
You've been hacked!
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"Where I lack in skill I make up in desire"
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why does Linux do this?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:36:10 -0500
Paul Gifford wrote:
> When I run "shutdown", Linux switches to runlevel 6. Currently it's
> set at runlevel 3. Why does it jump to a higher runlevel when I try to
> shut down? Could this be the reason my system won't shut down all the
> way (after switching to 6, I get the message "INIT: No more processes at
> this runlevel" and everything stops...no "system halted" or anything)
>
run level 6 means reset the system
what dist of Linux are you running?
what mod's have you made? (specifically anything in inittab or /etc/rc.d*
recursive)
Could you display what you see on the console beginning with the shutdown
command?
How long do you wait without doing anything after typing the shutdown
command?
-Ben.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Subject: Re: SiS5597 / 5598 chipset
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 06 Feb 1999 01:58:16 GMT
On Fri, 05 Feb 1999 10:18:45 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>No -- XFree86 3.3.3, which just came out a while back, supports these two
>chipsets. I've got the SiS 5597/5598 chipsets, and XFree86 works great
>with them.
Wel, perhaps "great" is too strong a word. when I tried it, there was nasty
screen noise when using high-res modes.
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