Linux-Misc Digest #74, Volume #19 Wed, 17 Feb 99 17:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: big endian -> little endian converter (Rob Komar)
Re: Shared Memory (max. size) (Patrick Lanphier)
Can I load mousedriver as module? (Q_Modnar)
Re: Linux jingle (Paul Taylor)
Re: Opinions about LyX? (QM)
Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: pthreads/linux/setstacksize (Boris Goldberg)
Re: shell scripting and C++ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (John S. Dyson)
Re: C Programming for ISA Card ("Rick Wheeler")
x-server crashes whole system? (tg)
Re: Mail client for Linux (Joachim Feise)
Re: floating point accuracy on Linux? (Rob Komar)
Viewing Linux db2 docs from NT netscape (Randolph Jones)
What's the Linux Lab? WAS Re: C Programming for ISA Card ("Norm Dresner")
swap partition (Robert Crosbee)
Re: swap partition (Michael Powe)
Re: Error writing headers to "/tmp/elv_1f1.1" (Michael Powe)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: 17 Feb 1999 15:19:09 GMT
In the sacred domain of uk.comp.os.linux didst Sam Felton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently
scribe:
: This statement is highly misleading.
: I preface this by saying that I mean no offence to anyone who lives outside
: North America:
: With _very_ few exceptions, every place outside the US and Canada that I
: have been, has little or no emission control standards. Take a walkabout in
: Pu Dong in Shanghai, or Oxford Circus in London, and you'll see very quickly
: what I mean.
You're wrong about britain.Catalytic convertors are becoming a standard in
petrol driven vehicles, and emission control is now a big part of the M.O.T.
test. Fail the M.O.T., and you can't get a tax disk. (which means you can't
legally drive it until the problem's been fixed and you DO pass the M.O.T.)
: How else can you explain the fact that, despite our consumption of resources
: here in North America (for which I make no apologies, we paid for them), we
: produce far less toxic effluent per user than other countries of equivalent
: population density?
You ARE kidding, aren't you? What about the famous LA Smog?
You're also forgetting that you have dense population centres separated by
100s of miles of wilderness.
--
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| Andrew Halliwell | "ARSE! GERLS!! DRINK! DRINK! DRINK!!!" |
| Finalist in:- | "THAT WOULD BE AN ECUMENICAL MATTER!...FECK!!!! |
| Computer Science | - Father Jack in "Father Ted" |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar)
Crossposted-To: cern.linux
Subject: Re: big endian -> little endian converter
Date: 17 Feb 1999 20:03:07 GMT
Sorry about that last message; I hit the wrong key in the news
reader.
What I meant to say is that the Digital Unix Fortran compiler
has some switches that allows one to read unformatted data
from VAX platforms (for all the various VAX floating point
number types). If you don't have access to a machine that
has one of these compilers, maybe the Digital Visual Fortran
compiler for NT platforms has these features built into it.
You can also look at the various commercial Fortran compilers
available for Linux, to see if they offer something similar.
A good place to start the search is at:
http://studbolt.physast.uga.edu/templon/fortran.html
I'm not sure if there is an easy free solution, but the folks
at comp.lang.fortran might have more to say on this.
Cheers,
Rob Komar
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From: Patrick Lanphier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shared Memory (max. size)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:01:38 -0500
This needs to be set in lilo something like below:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/sda
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
# delay = 5
vga = normal # force sane state
ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
append="mem=96M" # tell the kernel how much memory it has
root = /dev/sda1
label = Linux
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
The key line is
append="mem=96M" # tell the kernel how much memory it has
and it needs to be in the correct place, right where it is.
Patrick Lanphier
Advanced Information Technologies
The Pennsylvania State University
Stefan Obermeyer wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> does anybody know, how I can get a 200-250 MB shared memory segment ?
> Running SuSE Linux 5.3, Kernel 2.0.35 the max. size is 32 MB.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Stefan
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From: Q_Modnar<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can I load mousedriver as module?
Date: 17 Feb 1999 13:36:48 GMT
Hi, I've got a pre-compiled 2.2 kernel but unfortunately my MS compatible
mouse isn't working. I think that the driver hasn't been compiled into the
kernel.
Do you know if it is possible to load the mouse driver as a module? If so how
do I do it? I've check the docs but to no avail.
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From: Paul Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 07:24:45 +1100
Michael Warner wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:15:17 +1000, James Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi all.
> >
> >Is there is a Linux jingle? A catchy little tune?
>
> I run Linux
> You run Linux
> If we didn't run Linux
> We'd be lame.
I thought the "Linux Jingle" was the change left in your pocket by not
buying Microsoft? ;)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Paul Taylor Veni, vidi, tici -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, I ticked.
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From: QM<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Opinions about LyX?
Date: 17 Feb 1999 13:42:41 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Phil Adamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At the risk of restarting yet another KDE/Qt licence war, there are those
> who don't want to use Qt because of Troll's licensing policy.
Troll Tech is changing the licensing policy. Qt is going opensource. See
http://www.troll.no/announce/qpl.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:30:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >>>>> "Eric" == Eric Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Eric> Bitbucket wrote in message
> Eric> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> >> It's about Lying about SEX, pure and simple. Everyone who
> >> cheats lies about sex. It's human nature. What the GOP backed
> >> by those nut bags in the moral majority did was well beyond any
> >> semblance of human nature. It was plain evil.
>
> Eric> Not pure and simple, actually. He lied about sex in order
> Eric> to deprive Paula Jones of supporting evidence in her
> Eric> lawsuit. This is obstruction of justice and grounds for a
> Eric> perjury charge. It's not that he lied about sex, it's WHY
> Eric> he lied about sex.
>
> Eric> Oh, and BTW, I'm Canadian so I have no political axe to
> Eric> grind here. I think he should have been impeached, and
> Eric> should have been removed from office, because what he did
> Eric> has subtly undermined the US justice system and has set
> Eric> dangerous precedent. I say this in spite of the fact that I
> Eric> think he has been doing a very good job as president
> Eric> otherwise. I just think that if the Chief Law Enforcement
> Eric> Officer of a country is allowed to get away with perjury and
> Eric> obstruction of justice, it is a BAD thing for that country.
>
> I think we all have opinions about subjects read in the newspapers.
> None of those opinions have force of law. Without being on a jury and
> hearing the evidence presented in a courtroom, there's no way to
> accurately judge what he did or didn't do. His involvement with the
> Paula Jones lawsuit was as a citizen, not as President. All his
> conduct in that case, right or wrong, was as a citizen, not as
> President. There is no resemblance whatever to the Watergate case, in
> which the President and his employees used their government positions
> to cover up the illegal activities of some 2-bit morons who happened
> to work for them.
It seems as if you are claiming that he did not in fact use any Presidential
power whatsoever in obstructing justice in this case. It's hard to imagine
he could act as a private citizen in the case of obstruction. If he did use
his Presidential power to ostruct, then it does become an impeachment issue.
You could pose an argument as valid for Richard Nixon issuing his orders to
burgle Watergate as a private citizen. It's my opinion that as President,
any action you perform that breaks the law reflects back on the Presidency,
not just you as a private citizen. Also, any illegal activity you perform as
president cannot HELP but be an impeachable offense if it in any way relies
on interaction with or the actions of other people.
>
> I've been listening to this crap for six years and I'm sick of it.
> Republicans have never been able to come to grips with the fact that
> they are the Party of the Corrupt and for 25 years have been trying to
> shovel the dirt of Watergate off on somebody else. They never grokked
> the simple truth "you can't make yourself look good by making somebody
> else look bad." $50 million down the drain. My prediction of the
> outcome of this psychodrama is that the Democrats will regain control
> of at least one house of Congress in the 2000 elections. People will
> not forget the expensive hypocrisy of the plutocrats in charge of the
> Republican Party. The Republicans aren't just "out of touch with the
> people" -- they've moved and left no forwarding address.
>
Your bias is showing, Michael. If you truly believe that either party is more
free of corruption than the other, I think you are deluding yourself. And the
investigation would have cost NOTHING if Bill had just told the truth to start
with. So who should be morally responsible for that bill? (pun not intended)
> If a jury hears testimony & convicts Clinton of a crime, fine. Let
> him pay his dues. Until then, everything everyone says against him or
> for him is just speculation. Fun and games, but otherwise worthless.
That was more or less the objective in removing him from office in the first
place, IMNSHO. I guess the question is, should the President of the United
States be held to more, or less stringent rules than everyone else. I say
more. I have no particular problem with his having a dalliance or 20, it's
that he lied about it, and continued to lie and attempt to cover it up that
gets my goat. Also, it's just possible that there are a number of other
issues out there for which there is no specific evidence that all add up to
Bill is up to something fishy. From the Tyson deal he made while governor to
the fund-raising issues (yes, the Republicans may also have been guilty of
that. BOTH parties should be punished) to...well...do YOU want to be a
friend of Bill? There has been more death following him around than occurred
in the wake of the JFK assassination...and Bill's still alive to talk about
it.
So in the end, I have to agree that this was probably a waste of money. All
that time spent on the case and the Senate caved and refused to try the case
as it would be in court. This is on par with pummelling Saddam Hussein into
submission and then not finishing the job by eliminating the threat. Not
comparing Bill and Hussein, but it's as big a noncompletion of effort. BTW I
would have absolutely no beef if Bill was tried in the Senate, with testimony
from witnesses, and found innocent. However, he wasn't; essentially he was
tried on the testimony of the house managers, which I think is
unsatisfactory. And the Democrats accusing the Republicans of partisanship is
just silly. It takes BOTH sides voting the party line for partisanship to
occur.
OK, this is just my 2 cents. I am not defending Republicans in general, and
in particular not Tricky Dicky. I just think there was actually a legitimate
case here, but it polarized the nation so much that neither side could
actually listen to the evidence. I'm not going to say anything more at all
about this, so you can reply if you wish, just don't expect a response from
me.
Beers, everyone.
Dave
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From: Boris Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.programming.threads
Subject: Re: pthreads/linux/setstacksize
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:32:54 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kaz Kylheku wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:51:46 -0500, Dave Butenhof
< In any case, there is little need to fiddle with thread stack sizes in
Linux.
< LinuxThreads gives you stacks that automatically grow on demand. They
have a
< virtual size (on Intel) of 2 megabytes. That is, they are
downward-growing
< memory mappings that are spaced at two megabyte intervals, if memory
serves me.
< A stack starts out having a 4K page (on Intel). If more than about 4K
of stuff
< is pushed onto the stack, the system automatically adds another page
on demand
< and so forth.
That's very similar to Solaris thread stack allocation.
But the allocated stack memory never shrinks, though, right?
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Subject: Re: shell scripting and C++
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Feb 1999 10:03:21 -0500
"David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This isn't a Linux install question, nor is it an X or a Red Hat
> question. Followups pointed to comp.os.linux.misc.
>
> jack wallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> JW> i have a question. is it possible to create a script, for linux,
> JW> to do a job and write it in C++.
> ...
> JW> let's say i wanted to write a C++ script to allow me to iniate my
> JW> modem. ...
You might want to look at Python, a scripting language with OO
features. It's easy enough to use in situations where you'd ordinarily
write a sh or awk script. Easier, actually.
http://www.python.org
--
Judah Milgram
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. Dyson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 17 Feb 1999 19:04:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Thomas L|fgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I'm not about to go into a fight arguing that this license is better
> than that one, since we all generally strive towards the same goals.
> When someone makes an irresponsible statement like the one above,
> without giving any references (or even reasons), I feel an explanation
> is due.
>
Okay, I guess that you haven't been aware of the fatal flaw of GPL,
whereby developing significant derived works (where even the GPL
code might be relatively small), GPL infects the derived works with
further such encumberance.
I feel that an apology to future developers who are tempted to use
GPLed works as a base is in order. Perhaps adding to the GPL
preamble:
Honest GPL preamble:
I understand that you might have spent 6months or so of your
own or billable time in producing a new techology. However, I
don't believe that your time is worth anything in the sense of
controlling the fruits of your invention, because you had the
arrogance to change my GPLed works, or think that your time is
worthy of some kind of capital investment and therefore feel
that you must deliver source code to those who have probably
funded a small fraction of the effort.
>
> An argument _against_ using the BSD license [2] is that it is
> "encumbered" by this clause:
>
> --[ begin include ]--
> 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
> software must display the following acknowledgement:
>
> This product includes software developed by the University of
> California, Berkeley and its contributors.
> --[ end include ]--
>
Excellent -- that simply means that if use is exposed in advertisement
(in essense, the code is a primary feature), then credit has to be
provided. However, most of the time the above isn't true. Giving credit
to authors has a long and honored history. The other cool thing is
that there is no allusion made by any BSD software author that code
that is added to the codebase has to be licensed in any specific way.
There is *no* concept of prejudging, controlling, and religion associated
with ownership of one's own craft (either as a pieceworker or capitalist.)
Devaluation of authors effort from being a skill owned by an author that
they can capitalize on them reminds me of the feudal (GPL) system. I
suggest that those who mark their code with the GPL license, should
express clearly the control that future authors are loosing -- in these
terms.
--
John | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | it makes one look stupid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | and it irritates the pig.
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From: "Rick Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.dev.c-programming,linux.dev.serial
Subject: Re: C Programming for ISA Card
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 07:34:19 +1000
The board is made by Decision Computer Peripherals, Taiwan
(www.decision.com.tw). They have code examples for VB (using a supplied
DLL), which is no use to me. I really need those C examples.
Regards,
Rick Wheeler.
mlw wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Rick Wheeler wrote:
>>
>> I have an ISA Industrial Digital I/O card, caple of driving up to 64
>> seperate outputs (namely, Relays). I need to be able to drive solenoids
off
>> each relay separately & eclusively. I have programming examples for VB on
>> Windows 95/NT using the DLL provided by the manufacturer. I wish to
control
>> the card via a Linux application written in C.
>>
>> Can anyone provide programming examples, documentation or other advise
that
>> may be of benefit to me?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rick
>
>Who makes the card? Is it a Keithley or a Computer boards product? Is it
>based on standard PIO chips? It should be easy enough to write a device
>driver to do it.
>
>
>--
>Mohawk Software
>Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
>Visit the Mohawk Software website: www.mohawksoft.com
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From: tg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: x-server crashes whole system?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:42:02 +0100
I use suse6.0, an alpha x-server for my banshee-card, Kernel 2.0.36 and
KDE.
I wonder if this x-server is able to crash my whole system(mouse
pointer moves, but I can`t even reboot the system by ctrl-alt-del or
shut down the x-server by ctrl-alt-backspace)?
Does anyone knows the answer?
Thanx
Thomas
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From: Joachim Feise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mail client for Linux
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:03:06 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Steve D. Perkins" wrote:
>
> > I'm using xfmail (check out freshmeat for a link)
>
> What's "freshmeat"?
>
http://ma.us.mirrors.freshmeat.net/
-Joe
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mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jfeise/
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Lest you think that "open" computing can't possibly win, just look
back at the primal lesson of desktop computing of the '80s: Open up
your architecture to all comers and win -- or keep it closed, like
the Macintosh, and lose.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar)
Subject: Re: floating point accuracy on Linux?
Date: 17 Feb 1999 21:15:10 GMT
Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar) writes:
:
: >I believe that -ffloat-store forces (some) intermediate 80-bit results
: >to be moved in and out of 64-bit memory to round them to 64-bit results.
:
: are they actually rounded or just truncated?
I don't know. You'll probably have to look at the specs for the
387 FPU to find out.
: for pgf77, there is a -pc 64 option, which actually speeds up things a
: bit. Also, at least for the calculation I have posted here, it correctly
: gets 0.0 with that option vs. the "incorrect" output when using the
: default -pc 80.
I'm glad you put "incorrect" in quotes, because both results are
actually correct. If "b" had actually been initialized to
"2.0000000000000000000e-01" rather than "2.0000000000000001110e-01",
then both 80 and 64 bit modes would have given the same answer.
Because "b" isn't exactly "0.2" in 80-bit mode, you don't get
the expected answer of "0.0". I'd put most of the blame on the
compiler here, but only half-heartedly, because it's hard to
deal with 80-bit numbers in a language that only supports 32
and 64-bit numbers. I think that's why Johan Kullstam advised
to stay away from x86 machines.
: >You can put the FPU into 64-bit mode by setting the FPU control
: >register. On x86 machines, libc provides (or used to, anyway)
: >the __setfpucw function for doing this. It's a C function, so
:
: how big is its impact? does it influcence the calculation of any process
: running, just that process or just that process and its children?
: Could I compile a brief C program which just does that and run that before
: any actual application?
Although I previously said `believe' because I wouldn't bet my life
on it, I'm actually very sure that the FPU control word is part of
each process's context. So, you only have to set it inside your
program, and the other processes will continue to use whatever
they were using. I don't know about children forked off by the
parent because I deal mainly with Fortran code, and you don't
generally fork off other processes from Fortran programs. My
guess is that the children would have the same FPU control
word as the parent, but it's only a guess.
I'm pretty sure that the calculations won't be slower in 64-bit
mode than in 80-bit mode, but I don't know if they'll be faster.
The program _will_ run faster if you don't use `-ffloat-store'
because you were able to change the FPU mode.
In general, even with the FPU set to 64-bit mode, you won't get
the same answers that you got on workstations. This is due to
a lot of reasons. The transcendental functions that are
accelerated in hardware in the 387 probably won't return exactly
the same result as those calculated on traditional workstations.
They are also always returned as 80-bit numbers, regardless of
what mode the FPU is set to. I've heard that the 64-bit mode
isn't really that; rather the mantissa is reduced to 53 bits
from 64 in the FPU, but the exponent has the same number of bits
as in the 80-bit mode (if someone knows for sure, I'd like to hear
it). So, the answers may differ from what you "expect" in the
last significant decimal place, but they aren't "wrong", and your
code should recognize that.
Cheers,
Rob Komar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randolph Jones)
Subject: Viewing Linux db2 docs from NT netscape
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:07:17 GMT
Am running netscape 4.5 on NT 4; pages from Apache display fine;
symlink from Apache to DB2 doc displays as text, with all the HTML
showing. The DB2 docs do not have index pages in each directory; the
docs show ok as directory entries; then as text when doc is accessed.
What am I doing wrong?
TIA
rfjones
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Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.dev.c-programming,linux.dev.serial
From: "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What's the Linux Lab? WAS Re: C Programming for ISA Card
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:07:32 GMT
Does anyone have a URL for the "linux lab" project?
Thanks
Norm
Mike Mangan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> try the linux lab project.
> good luck.
> -mike
>
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From: Robert Crosbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: swap partition
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:57:14 -0500
How can I make sure that my swap is being used? And if it isnt, how can
I get it to work?
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: swap partition
Date: 17 Feb 1999 12:06:48 -0800
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>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Crosbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Robert> How can I make sure that my swap is being used? And if it
Robert> isnt, how can I get it to work?
Type `free' at the command line & you'll see something like this:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 63504 62184 1320 13256 8036 20996
- -/+ buffers/cache: 33152 30352
Swap: 83640 6608 77032
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: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error writing headers to "/tmp/elv_1f1.1"
Date: 17 Feb 1999 12:16:25 -0800
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>>>>> "Aswin" == Aswin F van Woudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Aswin> hi, I have a problem,...
Aswin> When a user on my linux system wants to use vi, exempli
Aswin> gratia:
Aswin> vi text.txt
Aswin> It returns the following error:
Aswin> Error writing headers to "/tmp/elv_1f1.1"
Aswin> elv_1f1.1 is created in /tmp and has size 0
Aswin> What's wrong? When root tries the same thing, everything
Aswin> works fine... the day before yesterday it worked for all
Aswin> users.... any suggestions..?
Check the permissions on /tmp and make sure that users have write
permission there.
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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