Linux-Misc Digest #38, Volume #19 Sun, 14 Feb 99 23:13:07 EST
Contents:
mounting SunOS optical (Rich Sweeny)
Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad? (Ed Young)
Re: REQ: plz god....Help with kICQ-0.2.2 install (Tetes des Betes)
Linux & VPN ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Midnight Commander: Viewing graphics files? (Kent Robotti)
Re: Advanced RAM usage question... (Joel Sloan)
how to disable 'dialtone-check'? (Peter Holler)
Linux & Netscape based Info. Kiosk? (Dale Coleman)
Re: Linux & overclocked CPU ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: symbolic link permissions (Eric Goforth)
Re: Dual boot with NT and Linux (Steven Whatley)
Re: Microsoft Linux 1.0 ("Cj.Spaans")
Re: querying RPM's on remote servers (Tim Moore)
Re: Modem init woes ( ezppp?) (Walter Strong)
Re: lyx 1.0.0 - install. problem (Asif Chowdhury)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Michael Powe)
Re: What is on this floppy? ("K. Vosburgh")
Re: Shutdown (gus)
DIEGO RAMOS ("Fans club de Diego Ramos, \"Loquitas por Diego\"")
Weird happenings with "su" ("Steve D. Perkins")
Adaptec AHA-3985 RAID ("miked")
Re: fetchmail as daemon (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Linux & overclocked CPU ("Randall E. Williamson")
Re: MetroX ("K. Vosburgh")
*nix Rar and other OS (Mongo)
Re: Running root FS syncronous (Geoff Short)
Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad? (Todd Knarr)
Re: xfree86 for slackware package? (Armand)
Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad? (Tim Moore)
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From: Rich Sweeny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting SunOS optical
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:58:57 -0500
Hi,
I am trying to mount a sunOS optical on my Linux machine. The ufs
filesystem is built into my kernel, the optical is at /dev/sda, and the
directory I am going to is /pd.
When I enter the command : "mount -t ufs -o ro /dev/sda /pd"
I get the error:
sda: DEV 08:00 Sun disklabel: bad magic 0000
unknown partition table
ufs_read_super: bad magic number 0x00000400 on dev 0/0
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/sda,
or too many mounted file systems.
Any suggestions would be appreciated
Thank you
Rich
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad?
Date: 15 Feb 1999 02:52:38 GMT
This may be asking a dumb question, but have you got your
kernel compiled for max 16Meg usage only? Probably not,
but do a top or free and confirm...
> "Aaron M. Renn" wrote:
>
> I've got a 300 MHz Pentium II with 128 MB of RAM and 512 MB of swap. But
> Linux goes into thrash mode all the time on me. If I've got X, two xterms,
> and two netscape instances up, it sometimes starts thrashing and never
> recovers. This is clearly ridiculous, espically since my netscape
> configuration allows only 20MB of memory cache. I've even had X crash with
> out of memory errors. My disk space is getting low on my normal
> filesystems, which seems to be associate with the problem for some reason.
> Any ideas? I'm running 2.0.36 BTW. Please respond via email. I'll
> summarize replies if warranted.
>
> --
> Aaron M. Renn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/
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From: Tetes des Betes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: REQ: plz god....Help with kICQ-0.2.2 install
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:34:45 -0500
Could you tell me what version of KDE you are using?? I was able to compile
kicq fine with KDE 1.0 and qt-1.42-3. But with KDE 1.1pre-2 I got the same
error as you did. I haven't tried it with KDE 1.1 yet, but I'll do that and
find out what happens. I know kxicq works with all the above versions of KDE
and Licq is also another good ICQ clone(but doesn't have the built in KDE
specific features, although there is an older KDE version)
kxicq -- http://www.caiw.nl/~herwinjs
Licq -- http://licq.wibble.net
Klicq -- http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~savardch/
X Fan
Tumyeto wrote:
> sorry to bug all you guys with this but its driving me up the wall...
>
> when I try to install kICQ-0.2.2 or whatever (sorry its 3am here :) )
> I installed the latest libraries just like it said. (and I quote "doesn't
> need KDE doesn't need QT")
> so I'm like cool but upon compilation I get this screen dump
>
> checking for X... libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers usr/X11R6/include
> checking for QT-1.30... libraries /usr/lib, headers usr/lib/qt/include
> checking for moc... /usr/bin/moc
> checking for KDE... libraries /opt/kde/lib, headers /opt/kde/include
> checking for icqlib... libraries /usr/local/lib, headers usr/local/include
> checking for main in -lcompat... no
> checking for giflib... configure: error: You need giflib23. Please install
> the kdesupport package
(snip)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux & VPN
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:55:27 GMT
Reply-To: steve
Looking at options for building a VPN. With MS I can use NT, Proxy
Server and PPTP. What options do I have if I go the Linux route.
TIA
steve
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From: Kent Robotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Midnight Commander: Viewing graphics files?
Date: 14 Feb 1999 13:15:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone know what I have to do to view graphics files with mc?
> I'd like to tell something in ~/.mc to view all files with the .jpg
> extension with "zgv" which can normally be invoked on the command line
> with zgv file.jpg
> By the way, anyone know of a way to view a file in thumnail mode? I
> mean say I have 20 really huge graphics files and I just want a peek
> at a couple of them to see what they are, what would I have to do to
> view them as a thumbnail so that I don't have to wait to load the
> entire massive image? Perhaps some option like zgv -thumbnail file.jpg
> Thanks
You could put this in the /usr/local/lib/mc/mc.ext file.
regex/\.(jpg|gif|png|bmp)$
Open=zgv '%f'
When you press enter on a highlighted .jpg etc. file in mc, it
should call zgv.
I think if you want to create thumbnails you should press the v then
the u key in zgv while in the directory that has the images.
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From: Joel Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Advanced RAM usage question...
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:07:23 GMT
"news.rogers.ca" wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just added an additional 48 megs of RAM to my slackware Linux system
> and after a week of usage I have 5 megs free (when I run "free" I see this)
> and 45 Megs in Buffers.
>
> My question is, what do those buffers do and should I be worried that I
> have a running program with a memory leak? After all I only have 5 megs
> free... I was expecting to see 45 megs free.
Free memory is a waste. Linux will use whatever memory it finds for the disk
buffer cache. If that memory was instead just sitting around doing nothing, it
would be as brain dead as windoze!
If you start a memory hogging program (say, netscape) Linux will take some ram
away from the buffer cache and use it for netscape. quit netscape, and you
should see a bunch of free memory, which will eventually get re-used for the
disk buffer cache if it doesn't get used somewhere else...
cheers,
jjs
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:33:51 +0100
From: Peter Holler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to disable 'dialtone-check'?
hi!
i cannot get my pppd-connetion working!
my modem is in 1 of 5 phones in my house. They are connected with a
phone-machine. So normally i have to type a "0" before the normal
telenumber. But after typing 0 the phone-machine takes some seconds to
connect me out of my house to the normal net. So the modem thinks there
is no dialtone and exits! I just want to ignore the dialtone-check! I
already did that in win95. i just disabled the dialtone-check and
everything works super!
so can anybody tell me, how to disable this check?
i use pppd in KDE!
please send all answers direclty to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cause i never read the linux-newsgroups!
thanx
Pete
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From: Dale Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux & Netscape based Info. Kiosk?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:44:27 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I'm interested in trying to setup a Linux and Netscape based information
Kiosk for use in a sport retail store.
What I have in mind is a low cost system that would be used by customers
to enter personal data into a form as well as a display for other information.
Something along the lines of a frame based .html local web site with a
cgi script to collect the customer data.
My concerns center around setting up X and Netscape to allow access
only to the local site and not the rest of the HD.
I would think it would be best to lock X and Netscape so somebody can't
exit X or Netscape or use Netscape to access anything other than the
local site.
Does anybody know of links or other people that have done this?
Thanks for any help,
--
Dale Coleman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gate.net/~kf4sir
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux & overclocked CPU
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:20:37 +0000
This may sound ignorant, but I've been seeing alot of posts lately about
"overclocked CPU's". Do you know of any good web links or resources for
explaining what this is and how it works? Thanks!
Steve
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:02:48 +0000
From: Eric Goforth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: symbolic link permissions
brian moore wrote:
> Try fixing the permissions of /desc/windows/desktop/phonenos
>
> The symlink permissions follow what is being pointed at, not the
> permissions of the link itself. (Why? Because anyone can create a
> symlink to /etc/passwd and /bin/sh -- so you can't trust the
> permissions of the link, and have to rely on the permissions of the
> target.)
>
How do I go about changing the permissions of the target? /dosc/windows
is a Win95 partition and Win95 doesn't support file permissions.
--
To respond via e-mail please remove what's between Eric and Goforth in
my return e-mail address.
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From: Steven Whatley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual boot with NT and Linux
Date: 15 Feb 1999 03:30:03 GMT
saleem akhtar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I like to know the steps to install Linux on a windows NT 4.0 machine. Any
: Pro's and Con's?
I was able to add Linux to my NT boot loader menu with the instructions
below:
In article, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thomas Lostaunau wrote:
> What I have done that will allow you to choose which OS to boot using
> the NT boot loader is to load lilo on "root" partition. DO NOT have it
> replace the master boot record. Then if you do the following with the
> appropriate changes of course:
>
> dd if=/dev/sda2 bs=512 count=1 of=/c/bootsect.lnx
>
> assuming your linux root partition is /dev/sda2 and you have your NT
> boot partition mounted on /c. This will create a 512 byte file that is
> a copy of your boot sector on your NT boot drive. Now, change the
> attributes of the boot.ini file on the NT boot drive so you can edit it
> and add a line similar to the following:
>
> c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
>
> Then you will now have a choice between the OS's that you had before and
> now linux will show up as a choice. The only problem with this method
> is that the bootsect.lnx needs to be updated every time you run lilo,
> like if you update the kernel. Hope this helps.
It worked for me.
Later,
Steven
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From: "Cj.Spaans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Linux 1.0
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:57:27 +0100
Yep and I can say SCO UNIX is a good product. But I think its time to
close this thread and continue with Linux, because we live now and
we must face the future and not whats behind us in the old days :)
Greetingz
Hans Spaans
On 13 Feb 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 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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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:36:29 -0800
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: querying RPM's on remote servers
> I'd like to query the contents of RPM packages that are located on
> FTP servers. There are loads and loads of RPM's sitting around out
[note: rpm cmd is on a single line]
[19:30] asus:~ > ping -c 1 rpmfind.net
PING rpmfind.net (18.29.1.67): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 18.29.1.67: icmp_seq=0 ttl=51 time=234.8 ms
--- rpmfind.net ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 234.8/234.8/234.8 ms
[19:30] asus:~ > rpm -qpi
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/redhat-5.2/updates/i386/kernel-2.0.36-3.i386.rpm
Name : kernel Distribution: Apollo
Version : 2.0.36 Vendor: Red Hat Software
Release : 3 Build Date: Tue Dec 29 10:22:47 1998
Install date: (not installed) Build Host: porky.redhat.com
Group : Base/Kernel Source RPM: kernel-2.0.36-3.src.rpm
Size : 4920610 License: GPL
Packager : Red Hat Software <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Summary : Generic linux kernel
Description :
This package contains the Linux kernel that is used to boot and run
your system. It contains few device drivers for specific hardware.
Most hardware is instead supported by modules loaded after booting.
[19:31] asus:~ > ^pi^pl
rpm -qpl
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/redhat-5.2/updates/i386/kernel-2.0.36-3.i386.rpm
/boot/System.map-2.0.36-3
/boot/module-info-2.0.36-3
/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-3
/lib/modules
/lib/modules/2.0.36-3
/lib/modules/2.0.36-3/.rhkmvtag
/lib/modules/2.0.36-3/block
/lib/modules/2.0.36-3/block/linear.o
/lib/modules/2.0.36-3/block/loop.o
/lib/modules/2.0.36-3/block/paride.o
/lib/modules/2.0.36-3/block/raid0.o
/lib/modules/2.0.36-3/block/raid1.o
/lib/modules/2.0.36-3/block/raid5.o
... and so on
Probably 'rpm -Uvvh' works too.
--
[Replies: remove the D]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Modem init woes ( ezppp?)
Date: 14 Feb 1999 15:56:41 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: hi there
: no winmodem , if i try different com,cua ports it wont even recognize
: the modem , so i have the right port, it just doesnt seem to do
: anything except say expecting ok, then i see the atz come up in the
: debug screen, i'm stumped?
: On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:19:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: > hi there
: >
: > linux suse 5.1 is up and running users created, ezppp,netscape
: > installed,
: > 56k U.S. Rob int voice modem doesnt seem to start, ezppp starts i hit
: > connect i here modem pick up i see atdt in window then it says
: > expecting OK and basically stops , nothing else happens. Then i shut
: > it down after awhile, anyone have any ideas, modem init strings
: > maybe???
: >
: > thanks
If it is an init string problem USR's webpage will give you init strings
for their various products. I would guess that it's an init problem as
what you describe is exactly what happened to me until I got the string
right.
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From: Asif Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lyx 1.0.0 - install. problem
Date: 14 Feb 1999 15:03:46 GMT
>
> >checking for a working C++ compiler... configure: error: Unable to find
> >a working C++ compiler
> >
> >As far as I know I have "egcs / gcc" installed. Is there anything I am
> >doing wrong?
> Have you installed egcs-c++? I don't think so.
>
> --
> Micha� Kuratczyk
Yes, I have egcs / egcs-c++ / libstdc++ installed.
I am still getting the same error message.
-AC
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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: 14 Feb 1999 08:01:11 -0800
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look> : Gee...can anyone tell me the difference between a vacuum
look> tube and an : electronic valve? I always thought they were
look> the same. You say elevator, I : say lift.
look> Can anyone tell the difference between a cog and a vacuum
look> tube? (Valve). The 1941 bombe was a MECHANICAL
look> device. Colossus came later. --
So what? Colossus replaced the Bombes because the Bombes were no
longer useful. I can't figure why everybody seems to be obsessing on
the Bombes. They were not the major codebreaking activity associated
with the Enigma.
mp
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: "K. Vosburgh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is on this floppy?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 07:59:27 -0800
James Youngman wrote:
> Michael Talbot-Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi. Does anyone know of a program that will look at a floppy and
> > make some guesses as to whether or what file system is on it?
>
> cat /dev/fd0 | file -
>
Or when you mount,
mount -v /dev/fd0 /floppy
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Shutdown
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:39:38 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gordon Weast wrote:
>
> "Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" wrote:
> >
> > G'day...
> >
> > > Create user "down" in group 1 and have it execute /sbin/down on login.
> > >
> > > Then to shutdown the system, you just have to issue "su down" and it
> > > goes down to halt state. My system is also single user so I don't
> > > bother to put a password on this account.
> >
> > Whoohoo... *risky* solution.... Really *risky*...
> >
> > All the best...
> >
> > Michael.
>
> I beg to differ about this being risky. The only risky thing
> about this is leaving off the password. We use this same method,
> with password, on all our Sun machines here at work.
>
> With a password, this is as secure as your root account.
>
> /etc/passwd is already protected from attack. The shell script
> in /sbin/ can be write protected and belong to root so it can't
> be overwritten unless security is already breached.
>
> In short, I find this method to be safer and more deliberate
> than Ctrl-Alt-Delete. As someone earlier in the thread mentioned,
> many users use the 3 fingered salute during login out of force
> of habit with NT. Rebooting on that is most unkind.
>
> Gordon Weast
The security issue is that there is an account with root privilidges for
which the password is common knowledge or non-existant.
If you are concerned with the three finger salute and NT, then it would
be easy enough as root to encapsulate the shutdown -r now in a script
which seeks user approval for the shutdown in the "Are you sure you want
to reboot?" manner.
This means that a non-root user can only reboot at the console, and root
can still reboot remotely.
Then again, if your machine is stand alone, then it is always easier to
use the short cuts which breech security.
gus
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From: "Fans club de Diego Ramos, \"Loquitas por Diego\""
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.moder
Subject: DIEGO RAMOS
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:22:09 -0300
Si te gusta el actor Diego Ramos y queres asociarte a un fans club, queres
cambiar datos o tenes alguna informacion personal de el, escribinos a
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gracias. Angie
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Weird happenings with "su"
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:49:07 +0000
I recently installed RedHat 5.2 on a new hard drive, and have
noticed a weird problem that wasn't present with my last installation (I
didn't do anything differently). I run through KDE as a regular user
95% of the time... occasionally using "su" through a terminal windows to
log in as root for some system administration stuff.
Now, when I use "su" from a terminal window and try running some
programs as root... I get error messages like these:
[steve@localhost steve]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost steve]# linuxconf
remadmin (GUI frontend) exiting abnormaly
[root@localhost steve]# xfm
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
Error: Can't open display: :0.0
[root@localhost steve]#
Any ideas on what I might have accidentally done differently during
this latest install... or some other reason as to why I can't seem to
run anything through "su" anymore?
Steve
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From: "miked" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Adaptec AHA-3985 RAID
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:49:51 GMT
Has anyone successfully setup any flavor of Linux on Adaptec AHA-3985. Any
help or a pointer in the right direction would help. I've checked SUSE, Red
Hat and Caldera Linux, but there are no explicit how-tos. I don't need a
general outline; I'm looking for the step-by-step method in first setting up
the software RAID, then installing Linux.
miked
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Subject: Re: fetchmail as daemon
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Feb 1999 10:34:02 -0500
Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As instructed, I put
> fetchmail -d 600
> in my .bash_profile
> to get fetchmail to start and run in background every time I login and
> start up bash.
i do this too.
> I use AfterStep (X) and use a button to get an xterm that does
> Exec "-" xterm
> Each time I pull up an xterm I get the message:
> fetchmail: can't accept options while a background fetchmail is
> running.
don't launch xterms with -login. .bash_profile is only supposed to be
read when you log in. put all per shell stuff into .bashrc. i call
.bashrc as the last thing in .bash_profile so even my first shell gets
that information.
especially, put the prompt PS1 in .bashrc.
> I imagine I need to put
> fetchmail -d 600
> in some other startup file. Which one? Or in any case please tell me how
> to fix this.
>
> BTW I tried .bashrc already and this doesn't work at all (the contents are
> ignored, I think because bash is invoked as interactive login shell and
> such shells ignore .bashrc)
again, don't start them as login shells.
perhaps you could detect a running fetchmail and not call it again in
that case? fetchmail creates a file called ~/.fetchmail.pid as a lock
file to prevent multiple running fetchmails &c. you can detect this
too and act accordingly. put this in your .bash_profile:
[ -e ~/.fetchmail.pid ] || fetchmail -d 600
now if there is no lockfile, fetchmail will get kicked off. if there
is one, fetchmail won't get run.
hope this helps.
--
Johan Kullstam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Don't Fear the Penguin!
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:55:36 -0500
From: "Randall E. Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux & overclocked CPU
Tom's Hardware Guide (www.tomshardware.com) is invaluable for this and other
information.
Look for "Overclocking" at the bottom.
"Steve D. Perkins" wrote:
> This may sound ignorant, but I've been seeing alot of posts lately about
> "overclocked CPU's". Do you know of any good web links or resources for
> explaining what this is and how it works? Thanks!
>
> Steve
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From: "K. Vosburgh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MetroX
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:13:40 -0800
> > Bj�rn T Johansen wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I was wondering if anyone has any experience to share concerning MetroX?
> > > I am considering ordering MetroX and I was wondering if that's a bad
> > > idea?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > BTJ
> >
Considered looking at SUSE? They have a few other XF86 servers and apparently
have worked pretty closely with the organization. Their package (at least the
full bundle) ships with SAX, which is similar to XF86Setup. For some of the
newer hardware, it may not always work, but it does a pretty good job.
This worked pretty well for my desktop applications, but I've yet to try going
to a laptop; which I opted for AcceleratedX. That works pretty well too....
after I installed all of the patches to make it current and also figured out
what you need to do to make it play with RedHat. (Xi's tech support provided
this info, but it was not on the web site at the time I installed)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mongo)
Subject: *nix Rar and other OS
Date: 14 Feb 1999 16:42:28 GMT
A .Rar archive can be used by both *nix and Windoze, but, what if I
create an .exe rar archive _under Win_ or vice versa??
Will a Linux user, say, be able to use said executable archive??
--
Mongo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Short)
Subject: Re: Running root FS syncronous
Date: 14 Feb 1999 16:37:14 GMT
Jim Howes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Short of running sync every few seconds, I'm looking for other
: ways to avoid filesystem damage when they do this.
I'd suggest keeping as much as possible mounted read-only. For instance,
most installations are designed to have /usr read-only (and networked),
ISTR all you really need to write to is /dev and /etc (and /etc you
could probably get around).
Another alternative would be to have a root disk image stored on the
disk but mounted as a ramdisk, so nothing gets accidentally changed
or broken.
Geoff
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad?
Date: 14 Feb 1999 16:48:37 GMT
Aaron M. Renn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a 300 MHz Pentium II with 128 MB of RAM and 512 MB of swap. But
> Linux goes into thrash mode all the time on me. If I've got X, two xterms,
> and two netscape instances up, it sometimes starts thrashing and never
> recovers. This is clearly ridiculous, espically since my netscape
I've had this problem at times, and it always seems related to Netscape
running. Every now and then Netscape just ballons and sucks up all available
memory, forcing the system to go into massive swapping. Shutting down
Netscape releases the memory and things go back to normal. One thing
that consistently triggers this is trying to scroll quickly through a
long page by grabbing the scroll bar and moving it. I suspect there's
some stupidity in Netscape causing this, since it never happens with any
application but Netscape
System: Linux 2.0.36, XFree86 3.3.3, Netscape 4.08, but this problem has
been showing up ever since Netscape 4.0 came out.
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of them annoying.
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From: Armand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: xfree86 for slackware package?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:43:29 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I recently installed slackware 3.6.0 and am quite happy with it but i
> found that the xfree86 that comes with it (and many other linux dists) is not
> the newest release. For various reasons (one of which being that i would
> like it to recognize my matrox mystique g200 card) i would like to just have
> the newest release of X.
>
> -Gaiko
>
> Gaikokujin Kyofusho
> Student Extraordinare & UN*X Guru Wannbe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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I just installed the old package, and then downloaded the new XFree, took the
XF86_SVGA file out of it, renamed the old XF86_SVGA file in my installed package
as a backup, and put the new XF86_SVGA in. It worked.
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:07:01 -0800
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad?
Try 4.5 and trade the memory grab for an occasional CPU grab.
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