Linux-Misc Digest #919, Volume #18 Fri, 5 Feb 99 23:13:14 EST
Contents:
ncpfs -- slist -- no server found in ncp_open (Mike Freitas)
Linux 2.1.131 VFAT / SMP problems (Ralph Seguin)
Re: module problems with kernel 2.2.1 (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Re: Help: FTP hang Solaris 2.6->Redhat 5.2 ("Arthur P. Smith")
Access NTFS from (Sim Grant)
No Color in Midnight Commander or SLRN (RHS Linux User)
Re: slackware out of the box - security issues ("Al @Work")
one thing really great about Linux.... (Frank Carney)
Re: AWESOME WEB HOSTING! ("aallen")
Re: Linux kernel 2.2.0 and a vanilla Sound Blaster 16 card (Ken Witherow)
Re: 2.2.1 and performance. (Frank Van den Heuvel)
Linux 2.1.131 VFAT / SMP problems (Ralph Seguin)
Re: Q: How do I stop a 4:02 AM scheduled mystery process? (jamie)
Re: Only one browser for linux? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Compressed filesystem (William Burrow)
Re: LILO + shutdown questions (Tim Moore)
Re: Trouble Starting X with correct resolution (Alexander Perry)
Re: Q: How do I stop a 4:02 AM scheduled mystery process? (Shaygetz)
Re: Broadcast faxing for Linux (Duncan Simpson)
Re: PIPE input to an already running process??? (David Efflandt)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Ben Russo)
Re: RedHat - Need some help (please) (John Thompson)
Re: How to make it run faster? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Mike Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ncpfs -- slist -- no server found in ncp_open
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 10:14:25 -0800
Linux will not see my NetWare 4.11 server. I've compiled my kernel
(2.0.36) with ipx protocol and ncp support and rebooted. Ncpfs-2.0.10
has been compiled. IPX has been started both with the ipx_interface add
-p eth0 802.3 and ipx_configure --auto_interface=on --auto_primary=on
and slist still fails. I get the above error stating that 'no server
found in ncp_out'.
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From: Ralph Seguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,revue.linux-smp
Subject: Linux 2.1.131 VFAT / SMP problems
Date: 5 Feb 1999 19:10:27 +0100
Hi.
I was doing a little bit of development work last night and I ran into a
big problem when moving some files around: when I did an
cd /dosd/Dev/BlahStuff
mv blah.cpp blah2.cpp
it did the move, but blah2.cpp became a directory!!! Not only that, but
it was a cycle as well, with
/dosd/Dev/BlahStuff/blah2.cpp
pointing to /dosd and it wasn't a symlink or a hard link either.
/dosd is a FAT16, 2 gig [1st] primary partition, 4 gig FAST SCSI-2
drive, mounted as VFAT
That was pretty freaky. Also, I'd noticed some strange behavior earlier
when I copied a file and the destination file
seemed empty (at least when I did a cat, or less on it), but then later
on it synced up and actually had the right stuff in it.
Machine config:
RedHat Linux 5.0, kernel 2.1.131 with SMP=1
SuperMicro P6DLE, dual Pentium-II motherboard with two matched Intel
Pentium-II 300 MHz CPUs overclocked to 375 MHz via 75 MHz bus, 192 megs
PC-100 SDRAM, Adaptec 2940UW, 24X Pioneer SCSI CDROM, Micropolis 4.3 gig
SCSI (/dosd partition lives here), Seagate 6.4 gig UDMA drive (Linux is
installed on 2nd primary partition here), 128 megs swap (primary
partition 3 on UDMA drive), 3Com 3C905-TX ethernet.
Is this a known bug?
Fixes?
Fixed in later 2.1.x kernels?
SMP work ok in the last 2.1.x kernel?
Should I try a 2.2 kernel and is SMP ok in 2.2?
Is there NTFS support yet???
I was planning on redoing the machine anyways with RedHat 5.2 and the
latest 2.1.x kernel.
Thanks.
-Ralph
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: module problems with kernel 2.2.1
Date: 5 Feb 1999 18:23:56 GMT
Charles Mulks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> shaped electrons to say:
>>> make mrproper
>>> make xconfig
>>> make dep
>>> make clean
> make zImage
>>> make modules
>>> make modules_install
But there is still no indication that you have told LILO to use the
newly built kernal for booting.
I'd suggest adding something like:
image = /boot/vmlinuz.old
label = linux.old
root = /dev/hda<whatever>
read-only
to the /etc/lilo.conf file, and then doing "make zlilo" instead of the
simple "make zImage" you are using. It does the same thing as the zImage
target, but then goes on to move the previous vmlinuz to vmlinuz.old and
runs lilo to install the new kernel.
Note also that if you want to use /boot, you *MUST* edit the kernel
makefile (top level) and uncomment the "INSTALL_PATH" definition, otherwise
it does installs in the root (/) and will probably mess up while running
LILO.
(While you're in the Makefile you can also add "-j3" to the definition
of "MAKE" which will let the kernel build do some modest paralleling of
the compiles and generally will reduce the time necessary for the build.
Most of the time in the build is spent waiting on the i/o system, and
allowing multiple compiles lets other compiles do their memory work while
some are waiting for the i/o buffers. Make does a pretty good job of
not scheduling a compile until its dependencies are complete.)
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From: "Arthur P. Smith" <[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: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:59:58 -0500
Arthur P. Smith wrote:
> I'm experiencing a problem with FTP regularly hanging going from a
> series of Solaris 2.6
> boxes (and even one 2.5, but not a machine running Solaris 7, at least
> so far) to a server
> running Linux RedHat 5.2, with the wu-ftpd (2.4.2 beta 18).
>
> The ftp session always starts ok, but if I run an mget to get a bunch of
> files, I can get
> maybe 1- 2 dozen (the number varies a lot) and then it hangs getting one
> of the files.
> The hang is at least 2 minutes long (generally the files take only
> seconds to transfer) and it does
> not recover while I wait. If I hit Ctrl-C it looks like the entire file
> did transfer, but it was waiting
> for something to finish or close?
Well, it turned out to be a Sun TCP problem. "netstat" on either end showed
the connection ESTABLISHED on the Sun end, but in FIN_WAIT_1 on the Linux
end, meaning that the Linux box had sent a FIN, but the Sun box was not
acknowledging it. 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. Turning to
trusty old Sunsolve we found Sunsolve Bug ID 4083814:
> Sun fails to ack the FIN from the other system. It is a little subtle,
because
> other system sends data in the packet with the FIN and we ack all the
> data, but not the FIN. Since we do not ack the FIN, he resends it,
> but instead of sending just the FIN, it resends the entire last packet.
> We continue to ignore the FIN. In addition, it is apparent from the
> behavior of the ftpd app, the data that has been received is never
delivered to
> the ftpd.
until finally of course it times out some other way. The patch for Solaris
2.6 is number 105529 (for Sparc), dated Sep 15 1998.
I would think this would leave other protocols hanging, besides FTP,
wouldn't it? And there are a lot of Sun Solaris 2.6 and earlier boxes out
there! It does seem to be fixed in Solaris 7. Anyway, I'm surprised there
wasn't more of an awareness of this type of problem out there...
Arthur ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sim Grant)
Subject: Access NTFS from
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 19:36:19 GMT
Hi,
How am i supposed to access(read/write) NTFS from Redhat 5.2
??
I'm still learnig,
correct me if i'm wrong
Best Regards,
Sim Grant(Gummy Bear)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RHS Linux User)
Subject: No Color in Midnight Commander or SLRN
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 03:05:50 GMT
When I start mc or slrn as a user, there is only black and white.
When I start mc as root there is color.
When I su (as root) to any user, and run mc there is color.
When I su -l (a login shell with path etc) and run mc there is NO color.
I can FORCE color in mc by starting it with 'mc -c' but I used to
be able to get color automatically without forcing it.
Can anyone think of what might be happening? I can't remember changing
anything really significant.
Thanks in advance for any help posted to the group.
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From: "Al @Work" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slackware out of the box - security issues
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 12:43:27 -0500
Jason,
Not for Linux in particular, but a whole lot of security links can be found
at:
http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security
Al
Jason Rotunno wrote in message <79f6hu$gg5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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: Frank Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: one thing really great about Linux....
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 19:21:50 -0700
...is that you have the option to get rid of it!
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From: "aallen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AWESOME WEB HOSTING!
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 03:14:34 GMT
Must be free cuz you can't reach it...
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From: Ken Witherow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel 2.2.0 and a vanilla Sound Blaster 16 card
Date: 6 Feb 1999 02:36:07 GMT
Tim Laursen wrote:
>
> When I try to compile kernel 2.2.0 with support for SB16 (not a clone, a
> real Creative Labs one), the compilation ends with this message:
Use 2.2.1 It fixes this bug as well as a MAJOR security problem (and
some other stuff)
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From: Frank Van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 and performance.
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 18:34:13 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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David A. Frantz wrote:
>
> Guys;
>
> I've seen gains even on my laptop with 24 meg of ram. This is really
> excellent. My question is has anyone successfully targeted something
> other than i386? In other words has anyone attempted to compile for i586
> or 686. I could imagine great performance increases by do that. Its
> like my old laptop has been reborn.
[Snip]
> Brian mitchell wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >gus wrote:
[Snip]
> >>
> >> Seriously, X is flying, Compile seems to be quicker, although I have no
> >> benchmarks, and generally I feel I get better response. My major thing
> >> is Netscape. I had it loading in about 10 seconds b4 the upgrade, and it
> >> now loads in a couple seconds. I have a mostly SCSI PII400 w/ 192M.
> >>
[Snip]
> >I have noticed the same. - Dual PII300 w 128M - Around 50% faster at a
> >guess.
I upgraded a few days ago from 2.0.27 to 2.2.0. Didn't notice much
difference.
However, I am running a parallelized Monte Carlo simulation over several
boxes
at the same time while using the Linux box as my main interface and
workhorse.
I noticed that the X-windows now seems to be jerky and that the direct
interface has slowed
down. When I rebooted and went back to the old kernel the problem
disappeared.
This is a PII266 128Mbyte system. Any suggestions?
Frank
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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 10:08:15 -0800
From: Ralph Seguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux 2.1.131 VFAT / SMP problems
Hi.
I was doing a little bit of development work last night and I ran into a
big problem when moving some files around: when I did an
cd /dosd/Dev/BlahStuff
mv blah.cpp blah2.cpp
it did the move, but blah2.cpp became a directory!!! Not only that, but
it was a cycle as well, with
/dosd/Dev/BlahStuff/blah2.cpp
pointing to /dosd and it wasn't a symlink or a hard link either.
/dosd is a FAT16, 2 gig [1st] primary partition, 4 gig FAST SCSI-2
drive, mounted as VFAT
That was pretty freaky. Also, I'd noticed some strange behavior earlier
when I copied a file and the destination file
seemed empty (at least when I did a cat, or less on it), but then later
on it synced up and actually had the right stuff in it.
Machine config:
RedHat Linux 5.0, kernel 2.1.131 with SMP=1
SuperMicro P6DLE, dual Pentium-II motherboard with two matched Intel
Pentium-II 300 MHz CPUs overclocked to 375 MHz via 75 MHz bus, 192 megs
PC-100 SDRAM, Adaptec 2940UW, 24X Pioneer SCSI CDROM, Micropolis 4.3 gig
SCSI (/dosd partition lives here), Seagate 6.4 gig UDMA drive (Linux is
installed on 2nd primary partition here), 128 megs swap (primary
partition 3 on UDMA drive), 3Com 3C905-TX ethernet.
Is this a known bug?
Fixes?
Fixed in later 2.1.x kernels?
SMP work ok in the last 2.1.x kernel?
Should I try a 2.2 kernel and is SMP ok in 2.2?
Is there NTFS support yet???
I was planning on redoing the machine anyways with RedHat 5.2 and the
latest 2.1.x kernel.
Thanks.
-Ralph
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jamie)
Subject: Re: Q: How do I stop a 4:02 AM scheduled mystery process?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 19:56:44 -0600
I'm not positive, but it may be updatedb (for the locate command),
typically a cron job (var/spool/cron/crontab) run about 4 am by "nobody".
It looks as though your drive is in need of an e2fsck.
I just noticed that you said it wasn't in the cron spool.
Perhaps in the atjobs or atspool?
Kurt Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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):
>ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #395267: ...
>
>Feb 3 04:02:09 linux3 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:01):
>ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #395267:...
>
>Feb 3 04:02:09 linux3 PAM_pwdb[22026]: (su) session
>closed for user nobody
>
>
>My questions are:
>
>
>1. How can I track down which script, process,
>or daemon is spawning this process at 4:02 AM?? I checked
>the spool/cron/ directory and it's empty. My only other guess
>is that it's a daemon.
>
>
>2. Given just an inode number for a file or directory,
>how can I get the pathname of the file or directory?
>
>
>I suspected the named daemon was somehow involved so
>I removed and killed a some unused dameons out of my
>/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ directory, but I hope someone can answer
>the two questions above.
>
>
>Thanks
>Kurt
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Only one browser for linux?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 03:17:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:28:30 +0000, Marco Tephlant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Why does there only seem to be netscape that is usuable in Linux. Given
>the variety of software available, I find it pretty amazing that I
>can't find a decent browser.
>Arena is terrible, I know KDE has a built in browser, but where is the
>Opera of the Linux world? Small and Beautiful?
>
>(scratch lynx as well, I like my pretty pictures)
The WorldWideWeb Consortium (http://www.w3c.org/) has published a
web-browser/editor called "Amaya", which includes a Linux/X implementation.
It can be downloaded from http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/BinDist.html
Lew Pitcher
Joat-in-training
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Compressed filesystem
Date: 6 Feb 1999 03:03:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 12:52:12 +0100,
Niels Mache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>Is a compressed disk filesystem available with linux?
>I know the ramdisk loaded from a compressed file.
>Does a disk based compressed filesystem exist?
This is the last known address I have for e2compr, a patch to provide
a compressed filesystem.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 01:32:02 -0800
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO + shutdown questions
Boot windows default after a 10s delay:
#/etc/lilo.conf
#sample - don't use
#
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=100
#
other=/dev/hda1
label=w95
table=/dev/hda
#
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
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WS Burroughs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Perry)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Trouble Starting X with correct resolution
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 18:06:58 GMT
"Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ? If I go through and pick 800x600 and the STB Velocity etc� I still get
> the unbearable resolution
Something that caught me out until I figured out what was happening:
X allows resolution switching on the fly, so all the card's supported
resolutions are available. The default (in xf86config) is to put
the coarse ones first and the nice ones last; don't ask me why.
Try typing the 'give me the next resolution in sequence' keystroke
alt-ctrl-keypad-plus and see what happens
If that works, ...
Next time you play with xf86config, when it asks you whether the
resolution list is acceptable, keep the default listing but use
the menu to reverse the order of all the lists.
... hope that helps ...
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From: Shaygetz <"s m c q u a l e"@i x.n e t c o m.c o m>
Subject: Re: Q: How do I stop a 4:02 AM scheduled mystery process?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 13:09:02 -0500
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):
> ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #395267: ...
>
> Feb 3 04:02:09 linux3 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:01):
> ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #395267:...
>
> Feb 3 04:02:09 linux3 PAM_pwdb[22026]: (su) session
> closed for user nobody
>
First, let me declare that I am a newbie, whose only experience
with Linux is confined to a home machine configuration. Okay,
with that out of the way, and with the idea of "from mouths
of babes..." uppermost in mind, I will convey two observations,
which you can take or leave. (And, which you probably already
realized right off the bat.)
One observation is that the process in question takes roughly
three seconds. Obviously, nobody is typing something in from a
terminal. This doesn't mean too much, as you could still have
been cracked. But still, this is a consideration.
Another observation involves the use of username "nobody."
It is a strange notion to me that user "nobody" could ever
run a harmful process on any Unix type system; then again,
I am an ignorant newbie. Anyway, there is bound to be a
"nobody" entry in your /etc/passwd file. I wonder if it is
safe to temporarily comment out the "nobody" entry in the
passwords file -- at least until you have gotten to the bottom
of your problem. Would other vital processes be compromised?
Further, what is the "nobody" entry there for? I believe it
is only for http access to the machine, but I am probably wrong.
At any rate, HTH
Seth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Crossposted-To: alt.fax,comp.dcom.fax
Subject: Re: Broadcast faxing for Linux
Date: 5 Feb 1999 15:01:22 GMT
In <795a3b$ilj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root) writes:
>Hello everyone,
>I have a Linux system running a fax server based on mgetty. It uses
>respond.exe to provide access to my Windows 95 clients. All this works
>pretty well with some reservations.
>There is no broadcast fax capability.
>Does anyone out there know of a Linux fax solution that allows for
>broadcast faxing. This does not have to be a GNU solution since we
>will entertain a commercial package that will do this.
Hylafax and a shell script invoking sendfax will do this
easily. Supply it with multiple modems and it knows how to use several
of them at once. This is open source software from SGI and think it is
GPL too.
A free windows client for sending faxes via hylafax is supported. Use
of copies of hylafax elsewhere, configured to accept your source IP
numbers, is supported.
I do not know of a front end that turns a fax number into the name of
the cheapest hylafax server in an international network of FAX
machines and sends to that machine. IF you have kind of money you proably
have the resources to pay someone to write one.
Duncan (-:
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From: David Efflandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PIPE input to an already running process???
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 03:24:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/6/99, 4:58:21 PM, "David Sisk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding=
=20
PIPE input to an already running process???:
> Hi:
> Is there any way to pipe input to the STDIN of an already running=20
process?
> (Assuming it's a background process.) Is there a command-line way to =
do
> this (without having to write code)?
> Thanks and regards,
> --
> David C. Sisk
> The Unofficial ORACLE on NT site
> http://www.ipass.net/~davesisk/oont.htm
I have done something similar in Perl, forking one FIFO to feed data=20
to an external program, another FIFO to read STDERR real time and feed=20
that to a dialog guage and a third FIFO to hold STDOUT and read that=20
from the parent script after the external process is finished. A FIFO=20
is what appears to be a normal file, so sending data to it is as=20
simple as writing (>>) to a file.
For an example see Quickspy2 on my home page. I could have easily=20
used /tmp files, but was just trying to see if I could pass data 4=20
different ways at once without using any disk space.
--=20
David Efflandt eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xnet.com/~efflandt/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: 5 Feb 1999 18:38:22 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst David Martin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
:> I'm tempted to say, might be the British again, with that Stonehenge
:> astronomical computer thingie. :-)
: That wasn't the first. It was the 50 Megalith upgrade.
: Avesbury was one of the earlier 33 megalith models.
Are you sure it's not the other way 'round.
After all, the Avesbury circle is big enough to surround an entire village.
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 12:12:47 -0500
Donn Miller wrote:
> FreeBSD website. Maybe it's because I'm using Debian; I think I'll switch
> to Slackware. So which Linux dist. is most like FreeBSD? I always thought
Don't know which dist is most like FreeBSD (because I have never used BSD).
But, I have used RedHat, Yggdrasil, Slackware, and Caldera.
The latest 5.2 RedHat release is a breeze.
I suggest 5.2 RH.
Also suggest you get the qt-libs and kde rpms.
Have fun.
-Ben.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat - Need some help (please)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 18:50:07 -0600
Trey Wheeler wrote:
> First, a simple question: my X desktop is 800x600. How do I change
> it to 1024x768? My video card will handle it, I just can't figure out
> where to change it.
As "root" run XConfigurator. One of the menus will be a list of supported
color depths and resolutions your hardware (as specified earlier) can
support. Select one or more of these options. When you run x yo8u can
switch between the various resolutions using CTRL-ALT-[+] and CTRL-ALT-[-]
I have two drives
> installed. The second drive is empty (no directories or files). How
> do I get X File Manager to see this drive?
Mount the partition and point xfm to the mount point you chose.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: How to make it run faster?
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:53:08 -0000
In article <7987g2$klq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, r-a-z-o-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I have my second puter that is 486/66mhz ,16 mb ram with Redhat 5.1
> installed. My swap partition is 65 mb, and I'm running AnotherLevel
> X-Windows (w95 look). So X-Windows is running kinda slow. Even programs in
> control panel are running slow(or any other basic programs).Although I read
> everywhere that Linux is bringing back to life all that old machines, even
> freaking Winblows is running faster on this puter.
You must be doing something wrong. My Linux box is an ancient 486/100
with 16Mb of RAM and a 32Mb swap partition, and, for day-to-day tasks, I
don't find it noticeably slower than my Windows box, a 300Mhz Pentium
clone with 64Mb of RAM. And I even run X at 1024x768, whereas Windows
runs at 800x600.
The Linux box is much more stable as well - I've been running Linux every
day for months, and I've yet to experience a single crash! My Windows
box crashes even if I look at it the wrong way.
Have you tried changing your window manager?
Jamie
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