Linux-Misc Digest #960, Volume #18 Tue, 9 Feb 99 05:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Still no luck with RH 5.2 and 2.2.x... :( (Mike Jackson)
Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers (Pas Moi)
Re: Unzip ("D. Vrabel")
Re: one thing that sux about Linux.... (Frank Carney)
Re: Microsoft Linux 1.0 (Chad M. Townsend)
Re: Argghh!! File searches ("D. Vrabel")
Re: use theramin as input device (Nix)
Re: xf86Config question... resolution. ("D. Vrabel")
Re: tgz - uncompressing using ANY UNIX (Bill Unruh)
problem with RH5.2 & networking (John Doug Smith)
Re: ppp prodigy setup - help!!! ("John McKown")
Re: logging in with your thumb (humor) (Carl Ebrey)
Re: APSfilter and printer offline.. (Michael Powe)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Michael Powe)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Michael Powe)
Re: X-Window sessions on MSWindows machines (Timothy J. Lee)
Re: glibc 2.0.6 now error compiling kernel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Unzip (fred smith)
Is this a reasonable partition scheme? (Bill Curtis)
How can I make my linux machine beep with internal speaker? (Tobias Galitzien)
Re: mod_php3 & OpenLink ODBC (Tim Haynes)
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From: Mike Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,linux.dev.kernel,linux.redhat.misc,umich.linux
Subject: Re: Still no luck with RH 5.2 and 2.2.x... :(
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 23:35:11 GMT
Try a newer version of the driver, you can d/l it from
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/index.html#ISA
Also, for the aliasing, check the kernel, there's a setting for network
aliasing, I have it on and can alias my card (3c59x).
Greg Waugh wrote:
> I thought I'd repost this since my last post got severly buried in a
> thread...
> Everything seems to be working, but no network. I cannot add IP aliases or
> it gives me the following error "No kernel support for devices aliasing".
> Now granted that's using RH linuxconf to add the aliases, so maybe the
> syntax is wrong... but that's not my main problem... no network. I have to
> boot in 2.0.36 and disable sendmail, httpd and smbd from loading or else
> they will hang on boot. I cannot ping anything on the local network and
> here's ifconfig: BTW: the NIC is a 3Com 3c509B. It's detected correctly
> on bootup though....
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:26:FC:12:3E
> inet addr:10.0.0.9 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:6978 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:37
>
> Notice there's never any packets received. But it's not a hardware problem
> since as soon as I reboot in 2.0.36 everything works. I'm using all RedHat
> 5.2 distribution rc.d scripts, so if there's something that needs to be
> changed in there that I don't know about I may not have done it. I notice
> that RH 2.0.36 kernel uses 3c509.c v1.16 whereas 2.2.1 comes with v1.14. I
> tried copying the 3c509.c into the 2.2.1 drives/net directory but got this
> error when trying to compile:
>
> 3c509.c:510: macro `dev_kfree_skb' used with too many (2) args
> 3c509.c: In function `el3_start_xmit':
> 3c509.c:467: warning: long int format, int arg (arg 3)
> 3c509.c:489: void value not ignored as it ought to be
> make[3]: *** [3c509.o] Error 1
>
> But I'm assuming that this is not a good use of my time and probably won't
> help. I do have both IP aliasing compiled in the kernel and yes they have
> the correct booleans in them.
>
> # grep ALIAS .config
> CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
> CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y
>
> I've upgraded to net-tools 1.50, modutils 2.1.121, sysklogd-1.3-31,
> ipchains-rhcn-1.3.8-2, util-linux-rhcn-2.9h and everything else I can think
> of... I really hope whatever's left is a silly thing... please help me!!!
>
> Greg Waugh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 00:18:13 GMT
On Mon, 08 Feb 1999 17:52:39 -0600, Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>If there is comparable evidence of perjury under oath in a court of law
>then ditto!
>But you really don't expect to see the press cover for Delay the way
>they do for Clinton do you?
Must we get politics in here ?
$60-80 million down the drain for what ?
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From: Pas Moi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
Date: 08 Feb 1999 23:41:09 -0500
>> "JLK" == Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote on Thu, 04 Feb 1999 16:34:52 -0600:
JLK> Steve wrote: <snip>
JLK> mmmm... the extreme right and left getting so far away from the
JLK> rest of us that they meet each other on the dark side. As I
JLK> always thought - just a family feud. After all, Lenin was a
JLK> socialist, Hitler was a National Socialist and Saddam Hussain is
JLK> a Bath Socialist. If only in their disputations they didn't kill
JLK> so many of the rest of us.
yeah right. so they agree they don't like run-of-the-mill, status-quo
types. (kind of goes with the definition of radical politics, no?)
so they're all the same. qed.
brilliant. the logic is just awesome. stunning.
plonk!
guy
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unzip
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:27:14 +0000
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Warrior wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Is there a program that unzip .zip files? Gzip does not work.
> Try gunzip
gunzip can only unzip single file zip files. Get unzip which will handle
multiple file zips (excepted spanned ones).
David
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David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: Frank Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: one thing that sux about Linux....
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:05:42 -0700
I am talking about the logo on the start button. I am not talking about
logo.sys, logow.sys, or logos.sys. By the way you can animate logo.sys.
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From: Chad M. Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Linux 1.0
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 07:00:12 GMT
I'm sure they'll try something, they'll have too. Does'nt mean we have to buy
it.
-chad
> Kinda scary, huh?
>
>
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Argghh!! File searches
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:38:40 +0000
On 8 Feb 1999, Stephen Richard FREELAND wrote:
> Warrior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> : Mike Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> :>
> :> Is there a preferred site where one can reliably search for
> :> Linux-related source tars?
>
> : Try www.freshmeat.net or www.sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux
>
> Yep, freshmeat is good, but sunsite doesn't provide any search
> facilities, unless you count the ls-lR.gz file....
Search for an ArchiePlex form on the web. Sunsite at Imperial College, UK
has one and there are others.
> I usually go to freshmeat first, then http://filewatcher.org (Not
> sure if it has true RE searches, but wildcard globbing at least), and as a
> last, desperate measure, the Linux Software Map (searchable version at
> http://www.boutell.com/lsm/)
David
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David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: Nix <$}xin{[email protected]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: use theramin as input device
Date: 07 Feb 1999 11:27:20 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams) writes:
> With an appropriate theramin array (as in 20 or so tiny theramins,
> appropriately spaced) and appropriate software (that could recognize a
> finger movement from its theramin channelt) we are talking about a
> device that would let you type on thin air, point to your selections,
> and exercise your fingers at the same time.
`Type on thin air' implies `lose tactile feedback'.
i.e. you have to look at the `keyboard' all the time, because otherwise
you can't easily tell where the keys are for autocorrection.
Remember the days of typing on a ZX81's keyboard? This would be *worse*.
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R. Williams on alt.religion.emacs
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xf86Config question... resolution.
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:47:10 +0000
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, PG wrote:
> On the widows side I can have a screen resoltion of 1152 x 864 with 16 bit
> depth. I'd like the same resolution In Linux but I can only go from 1024x768
> to 1280x1024 w/ 8 bit depth. Is it simply a matter of putting 1152x864 in
> the <Modes> line w/16 bit color?
You can rerun XF86Config and select the correct resolutions and color
depths.
> Second, I know the keystrokes for cycling through screen resolutions
> (800x600 to 640x480) but what's the keystroke for cycling through color
> depths?
You can't cycle through color depths. Different color depths have
different numbers of bytes per pixel.
David.
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Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: tgz - uncompressing using ANY UNIX
Date: 9 Feb 1999 07:46:34 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Michael Lee Yohe wrote:
>> >What is a tgz file? And how do I uncompress it?
>> tar xzvf {name of tgz file}
>> This only works with the GNU version of "tar". Most UNIXes don't use the
>> GNU version of tar. Thus, the syntax would be reported as incorrect. The
>> "universal" way of uncompressing the tgz (.tar.gz) file:
>>
>> zcat {name of tgz file} | tar -xvf -
>>
This is also not universal. Most unixes do not have gzip, and zcat is
the compress/uncompress program.
Thus you need to make sure you have gzip/gunzip installed. By then you
might as well also install gnu tar.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doug Smith)
Subject: problem with RH5.2 & networking
Date: 9 Feb 1999 00:26:25 GMT
Mysterious Problem
Here is the setup
1 machine running Linux (Red Hat 5.2) running on an NEC versa 6050MX with
Xircom 10/100 PCMCIA (CE3B-100BTX). IP address 1.1.1.249.
2 machines running Win95. IP addresses 1.1.1.2 & 1.1.1.3.
1 10 megabit hub
1 ISDN bridge/router running NAT (Baynetworks CLAM 854). Internal IP address
1.1.1.1, IP address assigned to it by ISP x.x.x.x.
The CLAM connects the internal network to the Internet through an ISP. It
has a dedicated IP address on the ISP side, Lets say x.x.x.x. It is
running NAT for the internal network of 1.1.1.0. The 3 machines (1 Linux &
2 Win95) all reside on the internal 1.1.1.0 network. The 2 Win95 machines
have no problems getting to the Internet. However the Linux box is giving
me all kinds of fits.
Problem #1
Linux box seems to lose all network connectivity after a short period of time.
I can not ping anything from the Linux box nor can anything ping it. However
the link light is still on on the adapter but there very little if any
traffic.
Problem #2
Sometimes when I run the route command the system lists the first route in
the table then the route program appears to hang, I have to hit ctrl-c to
get out of it. Netstat -rn still works but route just hangs. It takes a
reboot to get the route command to comeback to life.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Douglas
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From: "John McKown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp prodigy setup - help!!!
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:24:12 -0600
I also have Prodigy. I can connect from Linux (Redhat 5.1). The main thing
different (and it's a weirdie!) is that in my chat script, I have the line:
CONNECT
Notice the lack of the "" after the word CONNECT. I don't know why this
works, but it does for me. It certainly can't hurt to try.
John McKown
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From: Carl Ebrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: logging in with your thumb (humor)
Date: 9 Feb 1999 00:41:42 GMT
gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Robert Carl Ebrey wrote:
:>
:> Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : NF Stevens wrote:
:> :>
:> :> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Dickopp) wrote:
:> :>
:> :> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
:> :> >Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: [snip]
:> :> Won't you need his thumb as well?
:> :>
:> :> Norman
:>
:> : No, only what any cracker would use to break into this device: a thumb
:> : print from anything he has recently touched.
:>
:> I'm afraid that wouldn't work because that would give the reverse image of
:> his thumb print. Touche :-)
:>
: That is simply misleading, you could always use it as an image of the
: thumb on his OTHER hand. Have you never heard of lateral thinking?
: gus
I'm afraid you're wrong there too! Every finger print is different, hence
the reason the police force have been using finger print id for all these
years. Even individual prints on the same hand would be different. Your
shot...
Carl :-)
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and thought to
myself - "Where the hell is the ceiling???"
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.misc
Subject: Re: APSfilter and printer offline..
Date: 09 Feb 1999 01:03:58 -0800
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>>>>> "Pio" == | @nc&|ot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pio> I'm trying to setup SUSE 6.0 with APSfilter to print on my
Pio> LaserJet 5Mp without success!!
Pio> If i try to print from shell (cat foo.txt > /dev/lp) or
Pio> within KDE applications, the only response is:
Pio> ...NOTHING!!!...
Pio> Naturally my printer is ready and online......
Put your filter in /etc/printcap and print with lpr.
mp
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"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: 09 Feb 1999 00:44:57 -0800
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>>>>> "look" == look <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
look> In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Michael
look> Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe: : Err
look> ... sorry, nope. It was first designed to use vacuum tubes
look> but : they could not figure out quite how to make it work &
look> they were under : time pressure. So, the final design used
look> electronic valves for : translating input from paper tape
look> and doing the calculations; and then : generating output
look> through manipulating the "wheels and things" in : order to
look> produce a typewritten result. Its use of the electronic :
look> valves and its ability to store some of its program
look> internally is why : some people give Colossus the credit for
look> being the "first" computer.
look> But the 1941 enigma decoding machine wasn't called
look> colossus. It was called the "Bombe". It was a purely
look> mechanical device.
True, but I believe it wasn't actually a decoding device. What it did
was mathematically reduce the number of possibilities of encoding for
a particular text. Then cryptanalysts deciphered the actual text.
The problem with the `Turing Bombe' was that the process of actually
breaking the code took so long it often wasn't useful.
In 1942-43 Turing and Newman worked out the design of the new, faster
device that became known as the Colossus. In passing, I note that the
Colossus did not actually decode the text, either. It just deciphered
the keys used to create the encryption. Then this information was
passed onto the British copy of the Enigma, which used the keys to
decrypt the text.
Here's a few URLs with some good information on this topic:
Enigma and the Turing Bombe (a complete description of how the Bombe
worked + emulators)
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/4040/bombe.html
Enigma & Colossus Home Page
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~stu19/hum2e03/o'brien/humaniti/
colos.htm
Colossus History Page
http://www.sd22.bc.ca/kalamalka/students/stogrin/history/stogcoll/
collosus.html
The Alan Turing Home Page (maintained by Andre Hodges, his biographer)
http://www.turing.org.uk/turing
mp
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"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: 09 Feb 1999 00:51:02 -0800
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>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Troughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:44:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kinkster)
wrote: �On Mon, 08 Feb 1999 08:17:23 GMT,
Dearest Jack, if you don't like it, you may also shove it up
your ass !!
Jack> Your imagination knows no bounds.
Hmm, only if `zero' is unbounded. I believe this is not
mathematically correct.
mp
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Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
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"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: X-Window sessions on MSWindows machines
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 01:28:02 GMT
"Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> See VNC at http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc . You start an Xvnc on the
|> Linux computer; this is an X server that allows VNC clients to
|> remote the X server display. Then use a VNC client on a Microsoft
|> computer to use the X display through VNC.
|
| Thanks for the info, this looks like exactly what I need!
|
| However, I have run into a minor stumbling block. I have the server
|software running on the server, but it is refusing connections from the viewer
|software. Now, my predecessor here was real tight on security... and almost
|all basic TCP/IP functions are set to non-standard port number (for example,
|to telnet into our server... you have to specify the port we use, it's not
|23). I am wondering if this is the problem here... do you by chance know what
|port number the server is trying to work with by default (or am I off on a
|wild goose chase here? <smile>)
TCP 5900 + n, where n is the number of the session (e.g. if the
Xvnc session name is linuxbox:1, n = 1).
You probably want to check the packet filter (probably ipfwadm or
ipf) configuration; it may be blocking all connections not specifically
allowed. But if the security paranoia really is justified, you may
want to send the VNC connections through ssh port forwarding so that
they won't be out on the net in the clear.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: glibc 2.0.6 now error compiling kernel
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:24:44 +0000
In comp.os.linux.misc Piot Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just installed glibc on my linux box that has kernel 2.2.1. I
> now wanted to recompile the kernel, cause I changed glibc after having
> changed the kernel. Now I get all the time error messages, when I try
> to run
> make menuconfig
> it says something that my curses.h causes problems.
> Then I tried to reinstall glibc, because I thought this would solve
> the problem, but even this installation stops now with an error.
> The first errer could have been because I created a link
> ln -s /usr/lib/g++include /usr/include/g++
> but the source directory never existed. Could this have caused the
> error??
> Anybody has any idea what to do?
Read the Changes for the Kernel. You should use glibc-2.0.7-pre6 at least...
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Thorben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fred smith)
Subject: Re: Unzip
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 17:30:23 GMT
Mark Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Is there a program that unzip .zip files? Gzip does not work.
Actually, gzip works just fine. It's just that gzip is neither designed
nor intended for unzipping .zip files. (man gzip)
You should have zip and unzip on your system. If not, they are widely
available (such as sunsite, cdrom.com, etc.)
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Subject: Is this a reasonable partition scheme?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Curtis)
Date: 8 Feb 99 19:50:07 GMT
Hello...
I am setting up a Linux only machine, and would like to get
feedback/reactions to the partitioning scheme I'm considering.
I also have a few partition related question, even after reading
several of the HOWTOs. (Multi-disk, Large-disk, Partition, LILO)
The system will have 64 MB ram, eventually (9-12 months) 128 MB.
Initially, 1 IDE (UIDE?) hard drive, 6.4 GB. Eventually I'll would
like to add another disk.
I plan to use the machine primarily as a personal development machine,
(perl, c++) but would like to set up a low-traffic web server, and a
small newsfeed. Also, I will probably set up accounts for a few
friends, who will probably use the machine to read news, set up web
pages, etc. I would rarely expect to have more than three people
logged in at once. I plan to do frequent tape backups, at least of
/home. /var & /usr/local probably less frequently.
Here is the layout I'm considering:
256 MB / primary (inner tracks)
512 /var primary
64 swap primary
3072 /home logical
1024 /usr logical
1024 /usr/local logical (outer tracks)
sym links:
/opt -> /usr/local
/tmp -> /var/tmp
This leaves about 400 MB unused, at the end. Maybe I should instead
make /var bigger -- by 256 MB or so, leaving less unused at the end.
Besides any general critique, I have a few particular questions...
What are the pro's & con's to having a /boot partition? This is going
to be a Linux only system, and I think the whole / partition (256 MB?)
will fit in the first 1024 cyls, so I'm thinking I don't need a
separate /boot partition.
Do primary and logical partitions have different performance
characteristics? Is either more suited to any particular purpose?
(swap?) Is it a bad idea that my scheme is so heavily loaded on
logical, and under loaded on primary?
I was considering a second 64 MG swap, between /home and /usr, on the
theory that two swaps let the controller move to the closer one,
instead of always having to seek to the one swap, which may be far
away... But, I'm also thinking 128 total swap is probably much more
that I need, AND, I would be putting two holes (the swaps) in the
middle of the disk, which I would always be seeking across.
Two other possibilities would be moving the one swap between /home and
/usr, or using the two swap scheme, but having them be 32 MB each.
Finally -- If I expect /home to take longer to fill up than
/usr & /usr/local, does it make more sense to place it after
them, so I'm not always seeking across huge empty space in /home?
I thought outer tracks were the fastest, and best places for /usr,
but maybe that is not as important a consideration.
I'm not looking for the "perfect" scheme, just one that doesn't have
some serious problem which I'm to inexperienced to recognize.
Thanks in advance for your help!
regards,
Bill
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From: Tobias Galitzien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: How can I make my linux machine beep with internal speaker?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:16:48 +0100
Hello!
I want to set up an alarm schript that should check a certain thing
regularly and should somehow give an audible alarm if there is an error.
The problem is the speaker. If I take the following perl script, it
beeps happily when I run it from the console or via telnet:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print STDERR "\033[10;3000]";
print STDERR "\033[11;100]";
print STDERR "\007";
print STDERR "\033[10]";
print STDERR "\033[11]";
But it won't work if run with cron. It mails the output nicely formatted
to me but doesn't give a beep.
Anybody any idea how I can make it beep also from cron?
Thanks
Tobias
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mod_php3 & OpenLink ODBC
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 09:09:24 GMT
Hi,
It looks as though you either have not put the /usr/local/openlink/lib
directory in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or have not
registered that directory with ldconfig(1).
Please let us know if you have further problems!
Best regards,
Tim Haynes
Support Consultant
OpenLink Software Web: <http://www.openlinksw.co.uk/>
Universal Database Connectivity Technology Providers
In article <79d84e$dt0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I installed the ODBC driver from Openlink and re-compiled mod_php3 with the
> --with-openlink=/usr/local/openlink option. mod_php3.spec compiles with no
> errors but when I go to install the new rpm, I get a "failed dependency:
> libiodbc.so.2 is needed by mod_php3-3.0.5-2"
>
> The libiodbc.so.2 is in the /usr/local/openlink/lib directory along with some
> other libraries.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for your help!!!
>
> System Info: RedHat 5.2, Apache 1.3.3, Openlink ODBC Driver
>
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Gabriel Velasquez
>
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