Linux-Misc Digest #14, Volume #19 Sat, 13 Feb 99 20:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: e + diaeresis, how? (Stephen Richard FREELAND)
Bochs - any experience with the Win emulator? ("Frank Bures")
KDE stops cause of missing ibstdc++.so.2.9 (Piot Lee)
Re: Red Hat novice seeking (elementary?) advice ("D. M. Smith")
Re: first unix port to x86 (Alexander Viro)
Re: Precompiled x11amp 0.9? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WP8 prints extra page of PS garbage ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Microsoft Linux 1.0 (Alexander Viro)
Read works once time... ("Thierry BUCCO")
Re: Help Needed: buffer cache ("D. Vrabel")
Setting eth0 and default routing for RH5.1 upon startup ("tf49665")
running MDACON + X ("K. Brant Niggemyer")
FS:Linux Compatable Video Card-S3 (dlewis)
various OS ("Dr. F. Hoeglmeier")
Re: Linux suxxxx (brian moore)
Netscape not working under RH52/KDE (Daniel TONG)
Re: Red Hat novice seeking (elementary?) advice ("D. M. Smith")
linux security (Gordon Vrololjak)
Re: Data for NOT using MS-Exchange. (George Farris)
Re: Red Hat novice seeking (elementary?) advice ("Steve D. Perkins")
RH5.2 linuxconf & control-panel (John)
Re: Red Hat novice seeking (elementary?) advice UPDATE ("D. M. Smith")
Re: FreeBSD / Linux project (James Youngman)
Re: FreeBSD vs RedHat (James Youngman)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ("Keith Peterson")
Re: Sorting mail and news (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Terminal Emulators. . . ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: simple question about text editing tools (Dimitris Kontopodis)
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From: Stephen Richard FREELAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: e + diaeresis, how?
Date: 12 Feb 1999 15:46:57 GMT
Joel Wijngaarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi,
: Can someone tell me how you can do an 'e' with a diaeresis (this is an
: 'e' with two points on top) or any other special character?
Tricky. Getting 8-bit characters to work with Linux is, sadly, a
pretty involved affair. I'd check out the <non-english-language>-HOWTO,
which ought to help. Since I speak French:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/French-HOWTO.html
Basically, each console application has to be told separately to use
8-bit characters, starting with the shell.
X in particular is a pain in the ass if you want to use dead keys
(you have to replace one of the libraries), but at least most native X apps
won't have to be told individually.
Ciao... . SNF .
--
Steve 'Nephtes' Freeland | Okay, so maybe I'm a tiny itty little
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | bit of a minimalist.
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From: "Frank Bures" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bochs - any experience with the Win emulator?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:40:32 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: "Frank Bures" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I wonder if anyone has ever tried the Bochs Win95 emulator on a Linux box.
Any comments, ideas, opinions? Is it worth trying?
URL of Bochs:
http://www.bochs.com/
Thanks
Frank Bures, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use this address for replies)
http://frank.chem.utoronto.ca/electronics
"File not found. Do you want to fake it? (Y/N)"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Piot Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: KDE stops cause of missing ibstdc++.so.2.9
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:59:09 GMT
The error message I got was:
can't load library 'libstdc++.so.2.9'
after taht I wanted to compile the KDE 1.1 Where can I get the
'libstdc++.so.2.9'??
Or what else can I do (I have Slakware 3.6, Kernel 2.2.1)
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From: "D. M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat novice seeking (elementary?) advice
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:06:08 -0000
Buck wrote in message <7a1aek$5g1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On 12 Feb 1999 11:55:07 GMT, Mike Willett wrote:
>:
>: keep things simple - if your Xserver doesn't work then
>: try the XFree-VGA fist that'll give you a crap
>: X-server but its better than nothing. That'll show
>: that the on-board card works. Then grab the latest X-server
>: rpms and install then using
>: rpm -U (-U is upgrade package)
>:
>
>I hate to nitpick but he might not understand;
>
>rpm -U <packagename>
Hello again. My thanks to you both (Mike and Steve) for the replies. They
are very much appreciated! Anyway, down to the nitty gritty. I've installed
the updates off the CD i burnt off using the rpm -i * command as stated
(although I got a lot of 'Conflicting
file' messages) and re-ran XFSetup, and then XConfigurator (or the other way
round) just to make sure. When subsequently calling 'startx' I was initially
presented with a grey and white, vertically striped screen, then a blue one.
After a period of prolonged inactivity I ctrl-alt-backspaced and noticed (in
the messages that were generated) instances of my Sis card being mentioned.
'Eureka' he cried! After some more messing about with the configuaration I
had no more joy so I configured it for the mono server. Yup! I am now the
proud owner of an XWindows GUI,albeit mono, but I can at least lessen the
learning curve by playing around with this for a while until I better
familiarise myself with the OS or get a better Graphics card.
Thanks again for your invaluable advice.
Cheers lads!
Darren.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Subject: Re: first unix port to x86
Date: 13 Feb 1999 18:37:08 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It was the 13 Feb 1999 00:30:31 -0500...
>..and Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >No segfaults, then?
>> Nope. Just panic(). Damn, get Minix or ELKS and try them - both are
>> easily available. Both run on 8086 quite fine (Minix runs on other MMU-lacking
>> platforms).
>
>I still don't get it - how can the system panic() when it's got no way
>to determine whether there has been a violation? Or is panic()
>unrelated to memory management?
Yes, it is. If you managed to screw the kernel data - it will
most likely panic (heck, look into v6 source - thing panics at anything,
including faulty hardware. Basically anything unexpected and you are in it -
almost no attempts to recover, just panic(). And that was way after -11/20
days, not to mention -7). If you managed to screw the kernel *code* - it
will most likely hang. On machines with protected kernel memory you are
more or less OK (but you have to use swapping instead of paging).
Original variant kept in the core *one* process at any moment.
Look at the papers on Ritchie's site - it's all there. Pity that v1 sources
didn't survive... AFAIK the earliest available version is v5 - SCO sells the
source license (and source) for $100 and binaries + PDP-11 emulator are
available on gatekeeper.dec.com for free. Emulator compiles and runs under
Linux jsut fine. So you can play with v5, v6 and v7 - no problems.
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Precompiled x11amp 0.9?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:25:52 GMT
> Can anybody send me or direct me to a compiled x11amp 0.9alpha2? I'm
I picked up an rpm right off their www site
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WP8 prints extra page of PS garbage
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:46:26 GMT
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:01:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have RedHat 5.2 and my bjc250 is configured as a bjc600 with printool using
>the floyd steinburg option for color (when I put the cartridge in). I use
>the postscript passthrough option in WP8. When it prints, other than
>everything is shifted to the left (which I think is a problem with the latest
>GS), it prints fine...but the last page is a page of postscript garbage.
>
>I also use Applix, and it doesn't do this.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
>http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
I set up a printcap entry with NO input or output filters and used the
printer driver built in to WP8, I have an HP Deskjet though. I'd
give it a try anyway. Everything else I use GS for postscript
processing as an input filter except web pages in which I use lynx
--dump as a filter.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Subject: Re: Microsoft Linux 1.0
Date: 13 Feb 1999 18:41:09 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know that Xenix was made by Microsoft.
>But I don't think SCO is owned by MS.
SCO isn't owned by Microsoft, nobody claims it. But they began as maintainers
of Microsoft Xenix. Later it became SCO Xenix and then - SCO UNIX.
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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From: "Thierry BUCCO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Read works once time...
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 05:22:20 +0100
Hi,
I've a little problem,
I want to know the name of a iso9600 cd. So i make that :
fd=open("/dev/cdrom",O_RDONLY);
lseek(fd,2048*16,SEEK_SET);
read(fd,buffer,2048);
j=0;
for(i=40;i<=47;i++)
{
CDName[j]=buffer[i];
j++;
}
close(fd);
it work, the Name of the CD is correct, but if i change the CD, the name
doesn't change, why...
Thanks a lot for your help...
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Needed: buffer cache
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:24:01 +0000
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Jeff Chua wrote:
>
> Is there a way to flush the buffer cache so that a "mount" would read
> DIRECTLY from
> the disk instead of looking at the buffer cache?
I am curious. Why would you want to do this?
David.
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: "tf49665" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting eth0 and default routing for RH5.1 upon startup
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 13:54:03 -0000
Does anyone know where (which startup files) to put my eth0 setting and
default routing upon startup? I'm running redhat 5.1.
I have to manually set eth0. The following settings work after I login to
Linux, but I don;t know where the startup files are for these commands. My
settings are :
insmod 8390
insmod ne io=0x2a0 irq=11
ifconfig eth0 ???.???.???.???
route add default gw ???.???.???.???
Thanks and please email me directly in response.
Tom
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From: "K. Brant Niggemyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: running MDACON + X
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 18:44:26 -0500
Anyone sucessfuly run dual-head w/ a monocrome monitor AND X?
It seems that if I am in a tty on my main monitor, I can type in either
'chvt 14' or 'open -c 14 -l -s bash', and be on my secondary head which
is a monocrome monitor running with mdacon.
If I am in an xsession, and I type either of those commands in an xtem
window, the system hangs so hard I have to telnet in to fix.
I would really like to eventually be in an X session and hotkey over to
the monochrome. The whole point here is that I want to have my main
monitor always displaying the X session, and use the monocrome for
tty's. Somehow, this just makes sense to me.
Any tips or hints are appreciated.
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From: dlewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.ads.forsale,alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: FS:Linux Compatable Video Card-S3
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 17:14:12 -0600
Linux Compatible Video Card-S3 chip. See www.execpc.com\~dlewis for
more info.
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:26:14 -0800
From: "Dr. F. Hoeglmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: various OS
Hi everybody,
I have a little problem to solve:
My new computer (Pentium II 450 MHz, 256 MByte RAM, 9 GByte SCSI-HDD,
SCSI-DVD, SCSI-CD-ROM, ELSA Erazor II 16 MByte AGP, Samsung 1000p 21"
Mon.,
JAZ 2 GByte SCSI ext., Fritz-Card ISDN PCI, Modem 56k ext., Soundblaster
Live)
comes with Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (probably under NTFS-Filesystem).
I have to use a lot of occupational programs running only with other
operating
systems (OS) namely: DOS 6.22 + WfW 3.11, Win 98.
And for my pleasure I'll try to install Linux (SuSE 6.0) in addition.
WfW-programs and DOS-programs should run with VFAT 16 (all in all 500
MByte),
Win 98-programs should run with VFAT 16 or FAT 32 (all in all 1000
MByte),
Win NT-programs should run with NTFS and/or FAT 16 (all in all 4000
MByte),
Linux should run with ext2 (I think about 1000 MByte).
The remainder of the HDD should be reserved for later.
Some programs (like MS Office Prof.) will be used under two or more OS.
How should I install the 4 operating programs and how should I
partitionate
the HDD (I have PartitionMagic 4.0)?
Can I install programs to run under two or more OS first under one of
the OS
(e.g. Win 98) and than under one of the others (e.g. Win NT) with the
same
destination place on the same partition to save place?
I would be grateful for proposals easy to comprehend.
I look forward to hearing from you and thanks for thinking about my
problem!
Hoe ;-}
--
Dr. Friedrich Hoeglmeier
Dr.-Karl-Lexer-Weg B 300
86633 Neuburg a.d. Donau - Germany
Tel. +49-8431-49220, Fax -48492
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Linux suxxxx
Date: 14 Feb 1999 00:19:37 GMT
On 13 Feb 1999 11:32:49 +0800,
Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Now, when I have to work on Miscrosoft products... Windows, I am totally
> lost. I do not know anything about it. I just do not care. Life is too
> short to waste on non-Unix software. Windows and everything else is such a
> pain. They do not exist for me.
Last weekend, I went into work to copy a gig or so of archives and other
junk off an old SS2 of mine onto the Windows machine that has a
CD-burner. I figured it was a two or three hour task.
First problem: when I started FTP'ing the files, I was getting
8Kbytes/sec. A whopping 64kbps. I called the owner of the Windows
machine and asked why his machine was so damned slow. (This is a 10Mbps
ethernet, which gets typical peak traffic of maybe 64kbps used. 64kbps
max throughput is slow to say the least.)
It turns out the stock Win98 install decided that since he had a modem
it should 'optimize' itself for modem connections, using ridiculously
small MTU's and buffers. I had to download software to fix that. (Or
wait 32 hours while it transferred the files: not acceptable. :))
Then I found that the FTP client installed on the machine didn't want to
copy several hundred files: it would get part way through the transfer
and just stop. I would tell it to copy again, and then it would copy
one more file and stop. Sometimes it didn't copy at all and just
created a 0k file.
So I decidied what the heck, lets just do it multi-session, and copy the
files to CD in clumps of a couple hundred, rebooting after each clump,
since that was the only way to get it in a state where it would complete
the FTP.
I copied the first clump, then ran the CD recording software: it
complained that a DLL wasn't found and exited. I ran it again: this
time it found the DLL it didn't find before, then told me I didn't have
a CD burner. So I exited and ran it a third time and it found it.
The second batch of files to copy kept aborting (like it didn't like
things starting with the letter 'n') and truncating things randomly, so
I had to keep wiping the directory and starting over.
I did finally solve the problem: I went home and wrote to ASLAB and
ordered another Linux box, this one with a CD burner. (They usually
ship ZIP drives, but I opted for removing that and replacing it with a
TEAC burner.)
> No other operating system has as many tools as Unix. grep, sed, vi, cut,
> find commands combined together are a very good tool. Plus Perl, emacs -
> the list goes on and on. I really do appreciate Unix and specifically
> Linux.
And you don't have to spend hours fighting with your tools. After last
weekend, and the wasted hours of trying to do something as simple as
FTP'ing a bunch of files, I remember why I love Unix so much. You have
dozens of tools and they all work.
Got a few hundred .zip files (long story why they're not tarballs :))
and want to verify that they are all valid? Easy:
foreach file ( *.zip)
unzip -t $file >& /dev/null
if ( $? ) then
echo $file is broken
endif
end
(So sue me, I use csh :))
I can create handy-dandy tools of my own on the fly!
I love Unix.
The tools work, the tools work with each other, things do precisely what
you tell them to do.
It's the 'erector set' of operating systems. :)
> If you do not want to install it yourself, that is fine. Just get a
> pre-installed one, I liked www.aslab.com. Quality components, I recommend
> them even though they accidently send me a sound card instead of a
> modem. :)
I should get my new system on Monday. :) I'll be using my current modem
and monitor on the new system, but picked up an additional NIC to put
into my existing system to start working on my home LAN. (May even get
motivated enough to get my old Sun3's and SS1 online here.... start
putting computers in the bathroom. :))
When I told the owner of the Windows machine that I ordered a system to
do the job his system couldn't and that I wasn't getting Windows, he
insisted I would get it anyway. I had to explain that ASL doesn't ship
Windows unless you pay for it, and I had not asked for it. :)
(Okay, usually I don't spend money so freely, but I'd been planning on
buying a system from ASL for some time and putting it off until I
figured out where I'd -put- it in my computer museum... but Windows was
so frustrating that I couldn't put it off any longer.)
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: Daniel TONG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Netscape not working under RH52/KDE
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:52:07 -0500
Rookie's question:
Netscape starts ok under KDE/RH52 but refuses to
go to any site at all by saying that another
Netscape session is on . It says the DNS could not
be reached. Under Win98/NT, the error message
would mean that I have not established a PPP
session. Yet when I pinged my ISP and it showed
that I was assigned a dynamic ip address (via
KKK). I would believe
that is a conclusive proof that I was on .
Would that be the fault of Netscape? Has anyone
been running Netscape with no problem under
KDE/RH52? Should I reloaded Netscape again? How
do I uninstall it?
Any input would be most appreciated.
Daniel at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Toronto
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From: "D. M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat novice seeking (elementary?) advice
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:02:36 -0000
Steve D. Perkins wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> install then using
>> rpm -U (-U is upgrade package)
>
> Oops... when I said use "rpm -i" I was forgetting that you had already
tried
>loading the packages in the first place, and they were being upgraded.
He's
>right, the flag is -u.
>
>Steve
>
Thanks Steve, should I reinstall using that flag now?
By the way, thanks to buck too for his response, , I forgot to mention him
in my last post.
Thanks again.
Darren.
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From: Gordon Vrololjak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ucb.os.linux
Subject: linux security
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 09:04:11 -0800
Hello,
Going through my /var/log/secure file on redhat 5.2 linux I find the
following mysterious people trying to connect. Their address via nslookup
is posted just beneath the log entry. Are they doing anything bad, and is
there a way of blocking them or other hackers? I've disabled httpd
already.
Feb 12 01:27:11 h241a-2 imapd[881]: connect from 208.255.69.76
Name: 1Cust76.tnt25.sfo3.da.uu.net
Address: 208.255.69.76
Feb 11 20:30:36 h241a-2 imapd[865]: connect from 24.234.30.217
Name: usdiamond.com
Address: 24.234.30.217
Feb 2 22:48:25 h241a-2 imapd[2295]: connect from 205.242.182.67
Feb 2 22:48:25 h241a-2 imapd[2295]: error: cannot execute
/usr/sbin/imapd: No such file or directory
Nslookup: address non-existent
I've got kernel 2.2.1 running and updated the rpm for wu-ftpd as well as
netscape and a few others from updates.redhat.com
Please send any comments to me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well
as the newsgroup. Any and all advice appreciated. Thanks.
Gordon.
\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Gordon Ante Vrdoljak Ecosystem Sciences
ICQ 23243541 http://nature.berkeley.edu/~gvrdolja Hilgard Hall #3110
[EMAIL PROTECTED] UC Berkeley
phone (510) 643-9951 Berkeley CA
fax (510) 643-2940 94720-3110
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Farris)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Data for NOT using MS-Exchange.
Date: 12 Feb 1999 17:02:55 GMT
In article <7a1ftv$ofj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"extreme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Simply look at Exchanges fragile nature, insatiable appetite for resources
> and reliance on NT to run.
>
Great please send me some good examples, sysadmins who run it,
replaced it etc.
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat novice seeking (elementary?) advice
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:02:31 -0500
> install then using
> rpm -U (-U is upgrade package)
Oops... when I said use "rpm -i" I was forgetting that you had already tried
loading the packages in the first place, and they were being upgraded. He's
right, the flag is -u.
Steve
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH5.2 linuxconf & control-panel
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:17:11 -0500
Has anyone else with RH5.2 noticed trouble with linuxconf and
control-panel processes not dying when logging out as root?
The default X-session for root starts control-panel, and i usually
log into root and start up linuxconf to start a PPP session. Once
the session starts, i log out of root and into my normal account.
I had been noticing some very sluggish system response, so i started
top, and i was surprised to see that the linuxconf and control-panel
processes for the root session were still running and taking up a good
bit of system resources.
SU-ing to root and killing them resolved the system sluggishness,
but ultimately i'd like to solve whatever problem is causing those
processes to remain alive after root logs out.
Just curious whether this is a real problem (bug) or something i'm
doing wrong. Procedure i'm using to log out of root session is to
'really quit' from the window-manager menu.
john
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From: "D. M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat novice seeking (elementary?) advice UPDATE
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:30:45 -0000
I reinstalled using the -u * flag and, although I got a message which ended
in 'erase or use e instead' I've re-run Xconfigurator and now have the full
monty Coloured GUI.
I'm well chuffed with this.
Nice one lads!
Cheers,
Darren.
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD / Linux project
Date: 12 Feb 1999 23:59:12 +0000
Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You could still have the separate OSes, FreeBSD, Linux, but the
> knowledge gained from putting the two OSes into one will help out
> FreeBSD, Linux individually. I would suggest a development structure
> based loosely around the FreeBSD "core team member" concept. What do
> you think about this?
This would effectively be yet another *BSD splinter group.
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs RedHat
Date: 12 Feb 1999 22:05:07 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am an ISP looking to compare FreeBSD vs RedHat. I have heard that
> FreeBSD is faster at the networking level,
I think that advice is out of date. In terms of TCP response time (to
pick an arbitrary networking statistic), Linux and FreeBSD led the
world, with a few percent between them. Solaris was about 15% behind
the two. But realy we're talking about small differences here. (Data
as of about 12 months ago).
> but Redhat is much faster at the application level like databases.
I rather think that that advice is either out of date or misleading.
I expect that this months X is faster than last month's Y. Substitute
either FreeBSD or Linux for X and Y.
> Can anyone acknowledge and also tell me your opinions of one vs the
> other. The main function of my servers is to host virtual domains
> and related services like email, shopping cart, database etc.
I tend to use the one I'm familiar with, which in this case is Linux.
I ran FreeBSD on my second machine up until a week ago, when I
replaced it with the Hurd. I think I'll switch the second machine
back when I have the time.
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: "Keith Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:57:32 -0700
>Oh, and one might ask who those damn "Boolean expressions" are named
after....
George Boole - Born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
>P.S.: And extra points for anyone who can name the birth countries of the
> three people who shared a Nobel Prize for the invention of the
> transistor ;-)
John Bardeen - Born in Madison, Wisconsin
William Bradford Shockley - Born in London, England
Walter H. Brattain - Born in Amoy, China
Point well taken!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Sorting mail and news
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:38:06 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sun, 07 Feb 1999 21:37:08 GMT...
..and Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
["file manager" to sort messages]
> > Is there such a beast? I really need to get these dozens of megabytes
> > of postings and mail that I accumulated sorted.
> >
> > mawa
>
> Well for email there is procmail, for news I'm not sure what to use.
You didn't get me; I'm looking for a tool to sort huge mailbox files
by hand - basically a file manager that treats mailboxes as
"directories" where the messages are the "files".
A bit like Netscape Collabra.
mawa
--
Every woman and every man should at least try to keep in mind through
their whole life just how incredibly bad one is able to feel during
puberty.
-- mawa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulators. . .
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:52:53 GMT
Actually two good commercial solutions - Kermit 95 and Anzio-lite.
Use both here,
1. programmer uses kermit to work from home with wyse 60 emulation;
2. Anzio -lite is being installed on all of our public-access inernet
computers. At $25.00, its far less expensive than Kermit and it is
much easier to restrict its functionality.
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:56:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I have a Linux server running an accounting program called OSAS (Open Systems
>>Accounting Software). I need a good terminal emulation program for
>>Windoze95/98 machines so they can telnet into the Linux server and run that
>>program, retaining colors, keybindings, et cetera.
>
>A commercial solution would be Kermit 95, which is available from
>Columbia University. Use the scoansi term emulation-- you'll have to
>create your own keymap (e-mail me for these if you need to go this route).
>
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From: Dimitris Kontopodis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: simple question about text editing tools
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:32:36 +0000
Steve Sanyal wrote:
> Is there an easy way that I can replace each existing tab character with
> 3 spaces?
>
> If so, can someone please tell me the command?
>
So many answers!!!
Anyway, if your editor is vi, go to the command line (pressing ':') and
give the
following command:
%s/\t/\ \ \ /g
Seems ugly, but it works ;->
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