Linux-Misc Digest #118, Volume #19 Sat, 20 Feb 99 21:13:10 EST
Contents:
Mouse occasionally goes wild (Jonathan Bobin)
Re: Linux Compatible modem? (Marco Tephlant)
Stack size limit (Van Snyder)
Re: Linux jingle (Brodo)
Re: Disabling a hard drive? ("Thomas S. Urban")
[Fwd: No new AIM for linux] (Bev)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (John S. Dyson)
Re: Sending request to remote WWW server (Curt Timmerman)
Help needed with Diamond Stealth 2 S220 (Aalzen Wiegersma)
Re: ESS1868 sound card problem (Marc Hering)
Re: proxy server with IRC support? (Jason Clifford)
Re: bash, csh, tcsh, ... ??? (Bev)
Re: glibc-2.1 and ld.so (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Possible problems with kernel 2.2.1 (Steve Gage)
Re: 2.2.1 upgrade; kernel panic; superblock problem (Timothy Murphy)
IP addresses of PC under same network how to get? ("John+@newbie@+Wong")
Re: The .pl- extension? (John Thompson)
PPP problem - invalid numeric parameter 'modem' for asyncmap option ("Hugh")
Re: H E L P !!! (Ed Young)
Scary, no? ("Mark J. Straka")
setuid and svgalib (Jeff Pierce)
Re: Where to get link/unlink command? (Victor Wagner)
Re: How to low-level format a harddrive (Allen)
Re: kernel compilation problems (Ed Young)
Re: MCSE preparation exams (Jayasuthan [VorHacker])
directory inode from file inode? (Mike Kennedy)
Re: Adobe with RH5.2 - Error help (Ed Young)
Re: Screen Capture in Xwindows (Douglas Loss)
Where to get link/unlink command? (M Sweger)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Bobin)
Subject: Mouse occasionally goes wild
Date: 19 Feb 1999 21:22:35 GMT
My mouse, a PS/2 Genius Netmouse (it's similar to the Microsoft
Intelli-mouse), goes crazy once in a while.
When I start my system, the mouse works like it should. However,
sometimes, but not always, after usually 10 minutes, the mouse just starts
going crazy when you touch it.
Like if you try to move it around, it will bounce around random places on
the screen and start copying and pasting strange stuff.
I'm running 2.0.35.
If anybody has any suggestions here, please let me know.
Thanks,
Jonathan
--
Jonathan Bobin http://members.xoom.com/moocat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dumped Communications http://www.dumped.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This
means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
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From: Marco Tephlant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Compatible modem?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:30:28 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Could you tell me whether I can use either a Diamond Supra Express 56K v90
> modem or a ZOOM DUalMode 56K modem with Linux?
>
> I need to know of some success reports before I buy one - so a reply to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> -ashutosh
>
> LINUX ROCKS :)
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
I'm using the Supraexpress 56E PRO (external) and it works fine under linux.
--
Marco
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Van Snyder)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Stack size limit
Date: 19 Feb 1999 21:22:41 GMT
I'd like to be able to increase the stack size limit. The amount depends
on the size of the memory of the machine, and on the tasks I'll be running.
I can set the stack size in tcsh with the "limit stacksize" command, but
can increase it only if I'm root. Or, I can re-compile the kernel.
After I log in, none of the ancestor processes of my shell are shells
running as root, with scripts into which I could add a limit command.
I'd rather not need to log in as root, then change the stack limit, then
"su" to myself. I'd also rather not recompile the kernel (unless somebody
can tell me an easy way to construct a kernel configuration that's the same
as the one that's presently installed, so that I can be confident that all
I'm changing is the stack limit).
It occurred to me that a command could be added in inittab to change the
stack limit, perhaps as a function of run level. The changed stack limit
would then be inherited by all processes, because they're children of init.
It would be a lot easier to add one line to inittab, to change the stack size
on different machines with different amounts of memory, or for other reasons,
than to re-compile the kernel.
I looked at init.c, but got confused right away about where to do it.
Is it silly to consider doing this in init?
If not, can somebody refer me to a good part of init in which to do it?
I have thought of two places. One, in read_inittab, after parsing the input
and checking syntax. This would be insensitive to run level. Two, in
start_if_needed, I could put a loop at the top that changes the stack limit
if it finds a stack limit entry in the to-do list that has the current run
level. Does either of these make sense?
E-mail would help me most, because my news reader seems not to collect all
of the messages that are posted. But post, too, because others may be
interested in the answer.
--
What fraction of Americans believe | Van Snyder
Wrestling is real and NASA is fake? | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Brodo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:00:00 +0000
"C. Costello" wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brodo wrote:
> >Hey Cool. The original is neat, but how to play mp3's anyone???
> >
>
> Download mpg123.
>
> --
> When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now
> I'm beginning to believe it.
> -- Clarence Darrow
thanks bro, I already got it. x11amp also got a bit of a mention on
deja, but requires some weird xthreads library to compile... Sorry for
not checking the situation out more.
BTW: Congrats to both the makers of the original and esp the techno
remix. Good work! Unless someone comes up with something fast we may
have a winner here!
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From: "Thomas S. Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disabling a hard drive?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:46:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a need to turn off the kernel's detection of one drive on a dual
> IDE setup, i.e. hide the drive from Linux. Can this be done and how?
>
> Thanks.
If you only have linux on the system, you diable the drive
in the BIOS setup. If you have linux and another OS on
the system that you want to see the drive, I don't know.
You could change the BIOS everytime you reboot, but that
would be a PITA unless you switch infrequently. Other
than that, you'd probably have to patch the kernel.
Scott
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: No new AIM for linux]
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:22:32 -0800
<RANT>
I just got an email from NS encouraging me to download the NEW WONDERFUL
version of AIM. Follow the links, fill in the info, bla bla bla,
ultimately to be told "Tough luck, loser, the update is NOT for your
operating system."
A few words IN ADVANCE that linux isn't supported would have been the
courteous thing to do, right? I guess that's too much to expect...
No, I will NOT turn the RANT tag off!
--
Cheers,
Bev
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Marketing Professional's Motto: "We don't screw the customers. All
we're doing is holding them down while the salespeople screw them."
-- Scott Adams
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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: 19 Feb 1999 21:21:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus) writes:
> It was the Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:08:15 GMT...
> ..and DrBoom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Actually, it seems to me that the term "free" is deprecated these days
>> in preference to "open source".
>
> Till the day ESR walks up into my room, puts his fine-tuned Army Colt
> against my head and makes me say "open source" under the threat of
> putting one of his libertarian-anarcho-capitalist hardball rounds
> through my brain, I will call free software what it is: free.
>
In some cases, the term "free" might be appropriate, and in some
cases (with proper branding approval, from the central authority),
it might be okay to use the term "open source." Is "open source"
a registered trademark now -- with the appropriate centralized
control and judgement?
It is best to use the correct terminology, in order to convey
information, rather than convey spin and marketing malarky.
--
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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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:41:44 -0900
From: Curt Timmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Sending request to remote WWW server
LIBWWW is a general purpose HTTP API (with C source) that does what you want.
It can be found at:
http://www.w3.org/Status.html
Matt Perdeck wrote:
> How do I receive a page from a WWW server using a C program?
>
> I need to write a C program (under Linux) that send a request to a remote
> WWW server for an .html or .cgi page and then receives that page. As far as
> the remote server is concerned, my program would look like a WWW browser.
>
> If you know how to send a request from a C program to a remote WWW server,
> I'd be really grateful if you could tell me how, or point me in the right
> direction.
>
> Matt Perdeck
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From: Aalzen Wiegersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help needed with Diamond Stealth 2 S220
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:05:58 +0100
Does anybody have an idea how to get the Diamond Stealth 2 S220 working
for X ? It's not in the card database when I run xf86config.I tried to
runthe XFREE86-SVGA server but that doesn't work.SuperProbe can't detect
the card.I have this problem with both Slackware 3.6 and Redhat 5.2.
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From: Marc Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ESS1868 sound card problem
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 22:58:23 GMT
go to www.opensound.com and get oss it will solve all woes! (just read the
README before you use it,,,) it is not free,, but you can try a demo
version for free to see if it works befire U buy!! (it got my ESS card
working just great as well as a ad1816a card working!
Ken Roberts wrote:
> Well, after reading the Sound-HOWTO and other stuff, I still get an
> error message and no sound.
>
> Basically, ISAPNP initializes the card, but the sound module returns
> with an error about failing IRQ 5.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions? The card works under Windows 95/98.
>
> - Ken
>
> **** Output of isapnp
>
> Board 1 has Identity d7 ff ff ff ff 03 00 73 16: ESS0003 Serial No -1
> [checksum d7]
> ESS0003/-1[0]{ESS ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive}: Port 0x800; ---
> Enabled OK
> ESS0003/-1[1]{ESS ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive}: Ports 0x220 0x388
> 0x330; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5 --- Enabled OK
> ESS0003/-1[2]{ESS ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive}: Port 0x201; ---
> Enabled OK
>
> **** Output of cat /dev/sndstat
>
> Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Fri Feb 19 12:09:15 CST 1999 root,
> Linux p350 2.0.35a #6 Fri Feb 19 09:50:42 CST 1999 i686 unknown)
> Kernel: Linux p350 2.0.36 #1 Fri Feb 19 12:02:20 CST 1999 i686
> Config options: a80012
>
> Installed drivers:
> Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
> Type 5: Roland MPU-401
> Type 2: Sound Blaster
> Type 7: SB MPU-401
>
> Card config:
> Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5
> Roland MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 7 drq 0
> (SB MPU-401 at 0x310 irq 7 drq 0)
> OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0
>
> Audio devices:
>
> Synth devices:
> 0: Yamaha OPL-3
>
> Midi devices:
> 0: MPU-401 0.0 Midi interface #1
>
> Timers:
> 0: System clock
>
> Mixers:
>
> **** Output of dmesg
>
> Sound initialization started
> sb: Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - device disabled
> <MPU-401 0.0 Midi interface #1> at 0x330 irq 7 dma 0
> <Yamaha OPL3 FM> at 0x388
> Sound initialization complete
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.internet
Subject: Re: proxy server with IRC support?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:51:36 +0000
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm new to Linux, so maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find any
> information on proxy servers for Linux that can handle IRC protocol.
If you mean you want a server that will handle Network Address Translation
and work with IRC then Linux will do so without any particular problems.
If you specifically want an application proxy to handle IRC I suggest you
take a look at the appindex at http://freshmeat.net/
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bash, csh, tcsh, ... ???
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:12:16 -0800
Fabrizio Albonico wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> mine might be a stupid question, but I try anyway: since Linux (as UNIX)
> supports several types of shells, I was wondering which one to use.
> Are there substantial differences that make us prefer one instead of the others?
> Or is it just a matter of personal preference?
>
> Any comment on that is welcome!
> - Fabrizio
>
> BTW: I use tcsh...
So do I because when I started Way Back When, tcsh was the only shell that
the system was running that permitted command/filename completion. I
haven't seen any reason to change...
--
Cheers,
Bev
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Marketing Professional's Motto: "We don't screw the customers. All
we're doing is holding them down while the salespeople screw them."
-- Scott Adams
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: glibc-2.1 and ld.so
Date: 20 Feb 1999 18:59:01 -0500
Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Madore writes:
> > In the switch from libc5 to libc6, the following solution to this
> > problem was adopted: the ld.so was given the ad hoc capability of
> > distinguishing between libc5 and libc6 libraries, and the given ld.so
> > would only load whichever libraries concerned it. That way, both
> > something like /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib and /usr/lib could be put in
> > the /etc/ld.so.conf and they wouldn't get mixed up despite the name
> > conflicts for some libraries (such as libX11.so.6). This solution
> > can't be used for glibc-2.1 because the dynamic linker can't
> > distinguish glibc-2.0 and glibc-2.1 binaries. So it seems you can't
> > make glibc-2.0 and glibc-2.1 cohabit on the same system.
>
> Heeh, Netscape still loads libc5 _and_ libc6!
doubtful. note that ldd from glibc tends to give bogus results for libc5
binaries. instead, use
strace <proggie> 2>&1 | grep open
to see what libraries it's really opening up and using.
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.1 i586 | at public servers
Woody: Hey, Mr. Peterson, what do you say to a cold one?
Norm: See you later, Vera, I'll be at Cheers.
-- Cheers, Norm's Last Hurrah
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From: Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Possible problems with kernel 2.2.1
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:37:34 +0000
Sam Vere wrote:
> Okay, two things here:
>
> Firstly, the kernel sound support for the Ensoniq AudioPci appears not
> to work for .au files. Any ideas?
>
> Second, when trying to use the printer I get a 'lpq waiting to print.
> Printer offline?' message. Am I missing something here?
I suspect you didn't read the CHANGES file. If you had, you would have
learned that under kernel 2.2.x, lp designations shift around. In my
case, my lp0 became lp1. Just fire up printtool and make the change.
- Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 upgrade; kernel panic; superblock problem
Date: 21 Feb 1999 00:31:29 -0000
"John Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I wanted to play with changing my kernel but didn;t want to make my machine
>unbootable. How do I change lilo.conf so that I can boot my old working
>kernel?
>Do I just duplicate the lines starting with "image=/vmlinuz"?
Yes, except that you must give a different "label" in the two cases,
eg "label=linux.old" and "label=linux".
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: "John+@newbie@+Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: IP addresses of PC under same network how to get?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 03:22:55 +0800
Dear Linux World,
I'm now trying to get files from my MS neighbouring PCs on my linux
box. Tsang suggested smbclient for me this newbie... but how to get the
IP of the PCs on the network?
What can I use? What should I do?
Thank you for any suggestion and help.....
Best Regards
John
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The .pl- extension?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:21:07 -0600
M.C.F. van Deutekom wrote:
>
> Where does the .pl-extension stand for?
That indicates the file is a perl script.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Hugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPP problem - invalid numeric parameter 'modem' for asyncmap option
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:35:05 -0600
Part of /var/log/messages follows. Can anyone explain what I need to do to
remedy this?
Thanks,
Hugh Brian
Feb 20 18:04:09 localhost PAM_pwdb[391]: (login) session opened for user
root by (uid=0)
Feb 20 18:04:09 localhost login[391]: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1
Feb 20 18:04:09 localhost PAM_pwdb[391]: (login) session closed for user
root
Feb 20 18:29:14 localhost pppd[1152]: invalid numeric parameter 'modem' for
asyncmap option
Feb 20 18:37:57 localhost pppd[1375]: invalid numeric parameter 'modem' for
asyncmap option
Feb 20 18:38:24 localhost pppd[1379]: invalid numeric parameter 'modem' for
asyncmap option
Feb 20 18:49:55 localhost pppd[1600]: invalid numeric parameter 'modem' for
asyncmap option
Feb 20 18:50:57 localhost pppd[1618]: invalid numeric parameter 'modem' for
asyncmap option
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: H E L P !!!
Date: 19 Feb 1999 23:12:49 GMT
Robert Criss wrote:
>
> Ok, I admit it I'm a rank amateur at this (RH5.2) Linux stuff. I am the
> information systems administrator for the company I work at and I
> understand NT pretty well. I thought I would pick up Linux in a snap.
> No way homie! I would like to use Linux as server on a couple of
> machines on the network. I will survive this. Right now I would just
> be tickled pink if someone would tell me how to get more than 640X480
> out of my Trident TGUI9440 PCI video card. When I was setting up Linux
> (all things considered, a pleasent experience) it found the card easy
> enough but would only let me set the resolution to 640X480 in 256
> colors, no options. Now I don't know how to increase the Res. The card
> has 2meg of ram and I know it is capable of 1024X 768 because I was
> using it in another computer at that Res. Help! I'll completely
> reload Linux if necessary.
> P.S. ( I would like to add that although I can't get Linux to give me
> any decent video resolution, I have managed to make it talk to the
> network and I can access it from other machines on the network. Maybe
> I'm just concentrating on the important stuff a little too hard.).
Go to a RedHat updates site, get the XFree86-*3.3.3.1-1.i386.rpm
updates. Install them. Also install the VGA16 driver. Then use the
XF86Setup utility to configure your mouse, keyboard, video card, and
monitor. This has worked well for me on 5 different computers.
Enjoy...
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From: "Mark J. Straka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Scary, no?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:20:16 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are over 16 thousand messages in this and other similar groups
(comp.os.linux.setup; etc), but precious few "answers" to these pleas
for help!
Cool patience seems to be crucial. |:^{
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From: Jeff Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setuid and svgalib
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:07:55 -0500
How do you use chmod to setuid to root. I tried logging in as root and
running 'chmod +s mousetest', a svgalib demo program, as stated in the
README.svgalib file. But, I still get the "cannot get I/O permissions"
error. What am I doing wrong?
--
Jeff Pierce
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Wagner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.sys
Subject: Re: Where to get link/unlink command?
Date: 20 Feb 1999 17:17:42 +0300
In comp.os.linux.development.apps M Sweger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi,
: I'm trying to compile and run the test scripts for perl 5.02. I get test
: failures for some of the tests and it says also that I'm getting umsdos
: inode fat table corruption which ummsync seems to correct. Upon looking at the
:particular test I see the bash shell script calls "link" and "unlink" along
You probably miss something like
exec perl
if $running_under_some_shell;
At the beginning of your script. link and unlink are not commands, they
are system calls and perl functions (although there is root-only command
link on Solaris, which allows to do really weird things with filesystem)
so, I assume,t that it is perl script, and open in it does completely
differnt thing than /usr/bin/open.
Your problem is that you are using umsdos file system which doesn't
support hard links. You should try (if possible) to rewrite script
so it would use rename instead link/unlink pair.
(unlink works perfectly well on fat systems - it just deletes file)
: with "open". I have the "open" in /usr/bin/ but I don't have the link/unlink
: commands and associated man pages.
You should have man pages. They can be missing only if you did't install
man pages for C library functions, which is most silly thing to do
unless you are setting up router or some other machine where nobody is
supposed to work and there is _real_ shortage of disk space.
--
========================================================
I have tin news and pine mail...
Victor Wagner @ home = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How to low-level format a harddrive
Date: 21 Feb 1999 01:36:33 GMT
I don't know how it is formatted, but if it is high-level
formatted with anything that win95 can read, then Sprinrite 5.0 by
Gibson reasearch can accomplish anything that you can do by a
low-level format, and save your data too. That is a fairly drastic
sted to low-level format an IDE drive, and not a casual thing to do to
a SCSI on either. "Are you Sure? Y/N" <g> If it really needs this,
then you probably really need a new hard drive anyway... :-((
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:37:54 -0500, "A.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>I suspect I have problems with my harddrive. Can somebody advise about the
>subj?
>
>Thanx for any input,
>Arcady
>
>
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
fight spam everywhere!!!
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to making a
stable operating system and
Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.
Linux; The Official OS of the New Millennium
http://www.linuxlink.com
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel compilation problems
Date: 21 Feb 1999 01:39:14 GMT
Amelia A. Lewis wrote:
>
> *sigh* I feel like a newbie all over again.
>
> I have two immediate problems. I've finally gotten a system that I hope
> to use to replace my lovely and reliable 486/33 Linux box, a K6-2/350.
> First problem: I have a DLink DFE530TX. Fine; found on the net that
> Donald Becker's got an experimental via3403.c driver that should run it.
> My problem: how do I add the driver to the kernel build? I'm going to
> have to add it into the 2.0.32 that I've got source for, until I can
> get the net up and get later kernel source onto the machine. Any help
> with this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> The second problem may well be a FAQ; I haven't figured out a good query
> for it, for the usual search engines. The kernel (both the original
> redhat 5 kernel, and the newly-compiled (and *my*, that was *fast*!)
> 2.0.32 only see <64 Mb of the 128 Mb of installed memory in the machine.
> I'm certainly not hurting, at the moment, but I'd rather be able to use
> the whole of the DIMM (the hardware is a DFI P5BV3+ 1 Mb L2, 1x128 Mb
> DIMM, AMD K6-2/350). The kernel I compiled, I did as Pentium. Anyone
> happen to know how to unlock the rest of my memory? Or even have a
> guess as to why it's doing this? (NT sees all of the memory, btw).
>
> Thanks in advance for any help/advice anyone can offer.
>
> Amy!
Can't help with the module, but to see your memory your lilo.conf
should have an additional line:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32
label=linux
append="mem=128M" <<<<<<<<<<<<<< for more memory
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
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From: Jayasuthan [VorHacker] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MCSE preparation exams
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Date: 19 Feb 99 22:55:59 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this guy lost or what !
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From: Mike Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: directory inode from file inode?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:42:56 -0800
Say I have the following situation where there is a file called foo in the
/tmp directory. How can I given the inode for the file 'foo' get the inode
for the directory, /tmp. This is within kernel space.
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adobe with RH5.2 - Error help
Date: 21 Feb 1999 01:42:18 GMT
Doug Paradis wrote:
>
> I get the following error after I installed adobe reader for Linux and I
> try to run acroread.
>
> Any help for a newbie?
>
> [root@linux bin]# /main/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: can't
> load library 'libXt.so.6'
>
> Thanks
> Doug Paradis
Try xpdf instead of acroread. I believe xpdf comes with RH5.2...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas Loss)
Subject: Re: Screen Capture in Xwindows
Date: 19 Feb 1999 23:48:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Paul Davies wrote:
>
>> I'm running RedHat 5.2
>>
>> Does anyone know of any screen capture programs I can use to capture XWindow
>> screenshots??
>
> Gimp does this really well.
>
So does xv.
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(717) 326-3987 the corrupt few.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.sys
Subject: Where to get link/unlink command?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 23:55:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'm trying to compile and run the test scripts for perl 5.02. I get test
failures for some of the tests and it says also that I'm getting umsdos
inode fat table corruption which ummsync seems to correct. Upon looking at the
particular test I see the bash shell script calls "link" and "unlink" along
with "open". I have the "open" in /usr/bin/ but I don't have the link/unlink
commands and associated man pages. Does anybody know what tarball and its name these
are in. I also verified that the redhat 4.2 distribution on a friedns machine doesn't
have them; however, checking a Solaris machine this OS has them.
Thanks for any info.
--
Mike,
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