Linux-Misc Digest #39, Volume #19 Mon, 15 Feb 99 00:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Newbie Problem with ./configure ("Eric Chauvette")
Re: Weird happenings with "su" (brian moore)
Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad? (Tim Moore)
Re: Newbie Problem with ./configure (Shadowspawn)
Help: make utility segmentation fault (Kemal Ertugrul Tepe)
GVC K56Plus Modem problems (Martin Gillett)
Re: Newbie Problem with ./configure (Shadowspawn)
Re: Lotus 1-2-3 file (Tim Moore)
Barcode software needed (Acadix Software Systems)
Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated? (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. ("David J.V. Brown")
Re: symbolic link permissions (brian moore)
Re: Linux & overclocked CPU (Tim Moore)
Re: changing resolution?? ("Karsten M. Self")
Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers (Johan Kullstam)
xfree86 for slackware package? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad? (Bev)
Re: Weird happenings with "su" ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: Terminal Emulators. . . (Ben Russo)
Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad? (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: My modem won't work. Please help! (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: lyx 1.0.0 - install. problem (Micha� Kuratczyk)
Re: kernel compilation problem (Micha� Kuratczyk)
Shared Directory Access ("FiSTY")
Re: SCIOCADDRT: Invalid Argument.... HELP (Villy Kruse)
Re: Making Recovery Disks ("Karsten M. Self")
Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad? (William Burrow)
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From: "Eric Chauvette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie Problem with ./configure
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:26:59 -0500
I'm having the same problem on my linux box. I'm running Red Hat 5.2 with
KDE 1.1. Any help would be appreciated
>Shadowspawn wrote:
>>
>> When trying to run ./configure I get the following messagel
>>
>> oading cache ./config.cache
>> checking for a BSD compatable install... /usr/bin/install -c
>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>> checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
>> checking for working aclocal... found
>> checking for working autoconf... found
>> checking for working automake... found
>> checking for working autoheader... found
>> checking for working makeinfo... missing
>> checking for gcc... gcc
>> checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
>> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
>> cannot create executables.
>>
>> I have the latest gcc installed on redhat 5.2, kernel 2.0.36, latest x
>> windows, and kde 1.1
>> any help would be greatly appreciated. BTW this problem is not program
>> specific any program I try has the same problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Weird happenings with "su"
Date: 15 Feb 1999 04:12:28 GMT
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 03:49:07 +0000,
Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
export XAUTHORITY=~username/.Xauthority
Without the magic token that's in that file, not even root will have
permission to run X applications.
(You want it this way, else anyone with a shell on your system could
snarf your keystrokes, as well as insert keypresses for you.)
--
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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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:14:03 -0800
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad?
> I've got a 300 MHz Pentium II with 128 MB of RAM and 512 MB of swap. But
512MB? I run a 333/128MB and 2x40MB. I've run ns4.5, staroffice, applix and
15-16 xterms, some remote, all at the same time without getting near the end of
swap space or thrashing. Something else is wrong.
2.0.36 only allows 128MB swap per partition. You should see messages
complaining
in /var/log/messages.
Try bumping freepages in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
/bin/echo "320 480 640" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages
'# cat /proc/sys/vm/freepages' will tell you what the defaults are.
--
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"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: Shadowspawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie Problem with ./configure
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 04:16:11 GMT
Tim Moore wrote:
> Shadowspawn wrote:
> >
> > When trying to run ./configure I get the following messagel
> >
> > checking for gcc... gcc
> > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... no
> > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler
> > cannot create executables.
>
> Either you're in a directory where you don't have write permission or gcc isn't
> installed correctly.
>
> Try rpm -qi `rpm -qa | grep gcc`, which for RH5.2 should give you this:
>
Ok I tried it and got package rpm -qa | grep gcc not installed
however using the kpackage utility in kde it shows it installed
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From: Kemal Ertugrul Tepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: make utility segmentation fault
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:23:47 -0500
i folks,
I really do not know whether this is the right place to ask that
question but if you give me any feedback, i really appreciate.
I faced this problem while trying to upgrade the kernel from 2.0.x to
2.2.1.
When I try to use "make" utility, it immediately gives segmentation
fault error and core dumps. I can not compile anything which uses
Makefiles. I downloaded newest version
(3.74) of make and installed but it gave the same problem.
I tried to call make inside a debugger, the error message created by
gdb is as follows:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x8004096 in sigprocmask ()
my questions are:
How can I fix this problem ?
Where to look for help ?
Thanks in advance.
--
Kemal Ertugrul Tepe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Martin Gillett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GVC K56Plus Modem problems
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:15:47 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Has anyone successfully installed a GVC K56Plus Modem
with Linux.
I am using S.u.S.E. 5.3. I managed to get my modem recognized so
I can dial up to my provider. I seem to login alright in and press
P for PPP and things look alright until within a minute it
disconnects. I tried it from the dialer and minicom and the same
thing happens.
Any help would be appreciated,
Martin Gillett
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Shadowspawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie Problem with ./configure
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 04:18:37 GMT
John Garrison wrote:
> Have you tried compiling a program with GCC (as opposed to with make).
> Just write a small program and try to compile it. GCC should give you
> some error messages telling you why it is not working. If you don't
> know how to write C code or use GCC then let me know and I will email
> you a small program and shell script to compile it with GCC.
> Either way after you try it either post the messages GCC gives you and
> let the group help or email them to me and I'll try to help.
>
I don't know how to program yet just trying to get used to the os first
then I'll be getting into the programming stuff so please send me some code
with instructions on how compile it and I'll give a whirl
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:59:18 -0800
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lotus 1-2-3 file
www.stardivision.com
--
[Replies: remove the D]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Acadix Software Systems)
Subject: Barcode software needed
Date: 14 Feb 1999 21:40:08 -0600
I need to find an inexpensive Barcode label maker for some type of
Intel Unix. The best I've found so far is XBarcode, a nice little
Xwindows program that *almost* meets my needs.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
TIA,
-Jason
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:21:18 -0600
Frank McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7a77bc$9us$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>I'm fairly new to Linux, so I've only been through the pain and
anguish
<snip>
>
>My test/development machine (AMD 486DX4-100, 32Mb RAM, Cirrus 5434 ISA
>video) has MSWin95, Warp 4, Warp Server 5, and SuSE 5.3 installed on
it.
>The first three of these were able to autodetect the video hardware
>correctly at installation, but after several days of trying to make
the
>Linux X SVGA server work correctly SaX and xvidtune) I've still been
>unable to come up with settings that produce an X desktop which is (a)
>reasonably large, (b) single (not multiple), (c) centered, and (d)
>doesn't show retrace jam-up on the trailing edge of the display area.
>
>Why is this process so difficult?
The Cirrus 54XX cards should not be probed, as per the documentation
(Cirrus.README) that comes with SaX. You don't select the card, just
the monitor.
>DOS programs which use better-than-VGA modes (e.g. FractInt) seem to
>able to display a nice, clean screen without having to know what the
<snip>
>So, my question: what is it about Linux installation and/or operation
>that forces users to go through a complex and (from my experience)
>highly error-prone process to accomplish what is being done elsewhere
>much more easily? Why is it that those approaches which work for
>MSWinXX and OS/2 can't be re-implemented under i386 Linux?
>
Many vendors will not share specs with OpenSource developers, for a
variety of reasons, some of them relating to pressure from M$.
Secondly, many devices are Win-xxx, meaning that the device
manufacturer, under M$'s prodding,has removed their own firmware and
offloaded the control of their devices to M$'s OS. It allows them to
generate a higher profit margin and it forces consumers into staying
with M$ if they want their printers, etc, to work. M$ certainly won't
share specs with OpenSource coders. And, some vendors want big $$$ for
specs. OpenSource coders are volunteers.
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From: "David J.V. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:27:33 -0600
>
>
> I'm not much impressed by the inductive argument in this case. One or
> two percent of the programmers does not a case make.
>
> My observation is that the majority of games are hacked-out products,
> strictly commodities. And I don't care what the motivations are,
> particularly, for their creation; if I have to spend day in and day
> out helping people repair their systems after another lousy piece of
> programming screwed it up -- what do I care for "cutting edge"
> programming -- whatever that is. I suspect "innovative and clever"
> means tweaking some code so that it will perform correctly only in a
> certain band of platforms under certain conditions & hose everything
> else.
I'm curious regarding the kinds of games and repairs you're talking about.
I'm a semi-reformed avid gamer, and still boot Windows periodically to test
out the newest bleeding-edge stuff, like Half-Life or Unreal or Need For
Speed III. In all my years of gaming, I've never had a single game hose my
PC in any way. Is it possible that it's not the games, but the gamers that
are corrupting their systems? And if you argue that the programming is poor
because it *allows* the users to do harmful things to their systems with
games, then you'd have to argue that Linux suffers from the same poor
programming...
IMHO, of course.
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: symbolic link permissions
Date: 14 Feb 1999 17:30:47 GMT
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:02:48 +0000,
Eric Goforth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Mount it with 'uid=500' or whatever as an option. ("-o uid=500" if you
mount it yourself, or add it to fstab. Replace 500 with your uid, of
course.)
--
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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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 19:55:51 -0800
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux & overclocked CPU
> - ABIT BX6 MB + Celeron300A CPU. Overclocked to 450.
> - Linux 2.0.36 won't boot up after overclocking. It goes through all
> initialization stuff at startup, and then, just when it's supposed to
> display "login" prompt, it would reboot the 'puter. If I take the speed back
> to 300Mhz, everything works. NT and w98 work perfectly on overclocked
> computer..
>
> I suspect it's the memory. I have 96M, 32 of which is non-100Mhz. Could this
> be the thing? Maybe I should adjust smth in BIOS setup?
Assuming you use lilo and your PC100 memory is in slots 0 & 1, when the LILO
prompt comes up type 'linux mem=63M'. It might boot. Either get rid of the
PC66 memory or keep your memory bus below 100MHz. Bad policy even if Wxx gets
away with it.
--
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"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: changing resolution??
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:31:35 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cameron Fraser wrote:
>
> hey, how do i change my resolution? i have it set at 1024x768 w/ 8 bit
> color. but i want it to be 800x600 w/ 16 bit colors?
This is controlled by your XF86Config file (usually under /etc, exact
location varies by distribution). Mine is /etc/X11/XF86Config. You can
modify your settings by hand, or using the xconfigurator command-line
tool.
Note that this file is friendly, but discriminating about who its
friends are <g>.
> as that is the
> highest res. i can get w/ 16 bit color....
This varies with your video card and monitor. I'm running 1024x768 and
32 bit color with a ViRGE S3 and OEM (Sony Trinitron) monitor.
You specify color depth with startx: startx -- <display> -bpp=<bits per
pixel>
....where display is your display (e.g.: :0.0), and bpp= 8, 16, 24, 32,
etc.
You need corresponding lines in your XF86Config file.
--
Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
Welchen Teil von "Gestalt" verstehen Sie nicht?
web: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
SAS/Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html
8:21pm up 3 days, 7:49, 6 users, load average: 0.19, 0.17, 0.17
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Feb 1999 12:36:01 -0500
Chris Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bitbucket wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:08:57 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > >Need I remind everyone that there are currently 115 people in the USA that
> > >are serving prison time for doing exactly what Bill Clinton did. Lying in a
> > >civil case regarding sex.
> >
> > Pure BS. Do you have the numbers to back this up? All 115 were jailed
> > due to lying in a civil case about sex? Let's see the cases.
>
>
> I specifically remember watching a tv news show where they interviewed 4
> people who were in jail for lying about sex in a civil case. In every
> instance, they were in jail for perjury, not sex. If you are interested
> in facts and not pointing fingers/calling names, you can do the
> research. I know the facts are out there and I don't care to prove it
> to everyone who will not do any research themselves.
and how many people did the same thing and did not do jail time? the
justice system isn't always fair. the president did do some
reprehesible things. he is certainly a scoundrel. our justice system
does, however, lean (at least in theory) toward letting people go in
case of doubts.
what about that guy in congress in the 19th century who bludgeoned a
fellow congressman to death with his cane? iirc he was never
prosecuted. while this is surely an outrage, the nation did not
collapse into a state of anarchy over this issue.
> The same would've happened if the party affiliations were reversed. The
> entire show was partisan to the core. Unfortunately, partisan
> oneupmanship allowed a president to break the law (I'm talking about
> perjury here. I don't care about the sex at all) and get away
> clean.
it was partisan to the core. the republicans seemed to go out of
their way to irritate the democrats on this issue. the constant
attacks from the right such as the vince foster tape (which was a
total crock of lies) inured the public to any vices bill clinton has.
the crying wolf and six years of investigation meant that the general
public was not going to listen now that the wolf has arrived.
it seems as if there are two different planets, one republican sphere
and one democratic sphere.
the former has believed that bill clinton is a worthless scoundrel
from day one and still have yet to get over george bush losing the
election. they simple cannot understand how anyone could even want
bill clinton regardless of the lewinsky debacle. their opinions were
established long before 1998.
the latter has taken a cynical view in that bill clinton is their man
and do not care about these personal problems. the more shrill the
right becomes, the less the left listens.
it is clear that the two sides do not know how to talk to each other
and live in completely different worlds.
the house republicans were particularly short sighted in not
recruiting/persuading some democrats to their side. only a democrat
standing before the senate could explain to the poeple living in the
democrat world what was wrong with bill clinton.
i don't care really one way or another. i am sick to death of the
whole thing and hope that it will finally die and stay dead. bill
clinton has only two years left. in the six he has been in office,
how much has changed in your life due to bill clinton? really? not
much. i have to say. not much will happen the next two years.
--
Johan Kullstam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: xfree86 for slackware package?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 14:49:43 GMT
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. My two problems are #1 I don't know where to get a
X package setup for Slackware (i was told i should get a package setup for
slackware, just like they have setups for suse and redhat etc) and #2 i am
not quite sure how to go about installing it (though i could probably figure
that part out if i get the package and a FAQ or two).
Thank you very much,
-Gaiko
Gaikokujin Kyofusho
Student Extraordinare & UN*X Guru Wannbe
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:32:26 -0800
Reply-To: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Andrew Comech wrote:
>
> I recall I read somewhere that the largest size of the swap
> partition is 128MB. If you want to have more, you
> need to assemble it from several pieces. I am not sure
> whether this restriction still exists and how this might be
> related to the described problem.
It doesn't. It happens to me and I have 128MB of ram and no swap
file/partition.
--
Cheers,
Bev
*******************************************
My computer doesn't have to be friendly;
civil is entirely sufficient.
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weird happenings with "su"
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 04:33:18 +0000
Thanks, I've got it working now! That's kind of bizarre... that file has
some data in it for the version that under my normal user's directory, but the
one under root's home directory has a file size of zero. I copied the one for
my home user to root's home directory, and I was able to run command's through
"su" again.
Odd that it would exist for a normal user, but have NOTHING in it for
root....
Steve
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulators. . .
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 12:43:48 -0500
Norvell Spearman 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.
>
> Thanks for any help with this.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To reply, remove my opinion about
> unsolicited e-mails from my address.
Try the following link.
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
You can get Xterms for Cygwin. (work just like Xterms in X, cept for
Win95/NT)
Someone even ported GIMP to windows using this.
-Ben.
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:25:52 -0600
Todd Knarr wrote:
>
> 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
>
mmmm.... I've run Netscape 4.05 and now 4.5 and don't have that
thrashing problem.
I have 64MB of RAM with a 128MB swap disk (128MB is max size, and you
can have up to 64 of them IF I remember correctly) Linux always uses
nearly 100% of memory all of the time. It is very efficient in this
manner. I suspect you have other problems related to hardware or
system configurations.
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My modem won't work. Please help!
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:39:23 -0600
"Mark Kreh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:27:04 -0600, wrote :
"K> I have RH5.2. I followed the instructions that were in the book
for setting
"K> up ppp, but when I try to connect nothing happens. How can I tell
if the
"K> computer even sees the modem? (The modem does work with W95)
It may be a WinModem.
Download the program wvdial and run it. (You may have to "make" and
"make install" first).
It will prob your modem and try to connect to it. If it can it will
leave a file with the setup it found successful and an init string you
can put into kppp to help it connect.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Micha� Kuratczyk)
Subject: Re: lyx 1.0.0 - install. problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 10:47:52 GMT
Asif Chowdhury wrote:
>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.
PS Turn off HTML, please.
--
Micha� Kuratczyk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Micha� Kuratczyk)
Subject: Re: kernel compilation problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 10:47:51 GMT
pato wrote:
>can't locate module midi
>can't locate module net-pf-4
>can't locate module net-pf-5
echo "alias net-pf-4 off" >> /etc/conf.modules #turn the IPX module off
echo "alias net-pf-5 off" >> /etc/conf.modules #turn the AppleTalk module off
and probably:
echo "alias midi off" >> /etc/conf.modules
but I'am not sure.
You can read about it in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt
--
Micha� Kuratczyk
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From: "FiSTY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Shared Directory Access
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 23:42:50 -0500
I'm trying to give a group of users full read/write/modify access to a
common directory. However, I can only manage to give read/write access, not
modify.
Does anyone know how to do this?
...Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCIOCADDRT: Invalid Argument.... HELP
Date: 14 Feb 1999 13:27:50 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ralph Zeller wrote:
>
>> In /etc/sysconfig/network make sure you have a valid gateway.
>> If not, try changing these lines as follows:
>> GATEWAY=
>> GATEWAYDEV=
>>
>> This worked for me, your mileage may vary.
>
>That's it. But since I don't have a gateway, I guess I'll have to leave it as it is.
>
Often the redhat install leaves 'GATEWAY=eth0' and 'GATEWAYDEV=0.0.0.0'.
This will give an error trying to install the default route while booting.
Unfornutately redhat install don't (at least used to) allow you to
specify that you don't need a default route.
You could install a dummy default route specifying your own IP address,
but that gives problems when you also need a default route for for
example a ppp connection, where the default route is realy needed.
That is because you can only have one default route in your system.
Villy
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From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Making Recovery Disks
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:48:52 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve D. Perkins wrote:
>
> This might sound like a dumb question, but it's been so many years
> since I've needed to do this that I've forgotten... how do you make boot
> floppy disks for doing emergency/recovery stuff in RedHat 5.2 if you
> didn't create them during the original installation? Thanks!
I believe there are utilities which walk you through this as well, if
you want to roll your own.
I prefer the mini-distros, such as Tom's Root/Boot
(http://www.toms.net/rb/) and kin. I use these routinely as boot,
emergency, and
Oh-my-God-I'm-gonna-die-if-I-don't-get-my-Linux-fix-at-work disks.
Besides, it's so much fun to slip the floppy into someone's desktop and
be showing them Linux a couple minutes later (1.44 MB loads
_sssslllloooowwwwllllyyyy_ from floppy). Trinux, muLinux, and other
mini-distros come with alternate utility sets, and even an X server (in
instances).
--
Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
Welchen Teil von "Gestalt" verstehen Sie nicht?
web: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
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8:41pm up 3 days, 8:09, 6 users, load average: 0.30, 0.30, 0.24
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Why Does Linux Thrash So Bad?
Date: 15 Feb 1999 01:37:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14 Feb 1999 14:26:27 -0500,
Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recall I read somewhere that the largest size of the swap
>partition is 128MB. If you want to have more, you
>need to assemble it from several pieces. I am not sure
>whether this restriction still exists and how this might be
>related to the described problem.
It exists for 2.0.36, which the user had installed. Perhaps some
further information like the output from free and the last five lines
of ps might assist, run:
ps -max|tail -5
The memory hogs will be there. Also, I use xcpustate to watch the use
of memory, Netscape hemorrages memory. Once VM runs out, the system
becomes, um, hard to use.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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