Linux-Misc Digest #121, Volume #19 Sun, 21 Feb 99 02:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (John S. Dyson)
Re: Balsa, gnome 0.99.8, RH5.2 and compile problems (Jim Zubb)
Re: pop3d acting up? (Stew Benedict)
Kernels and make dep (Mark Robinson)
Re: tpconfig and gps/X (Henry)
slrnpull - help (Dan Hogan)
Re: GCC x EGCS (Seth Van Oort)
Can not run mkinitrc or mkbootdisk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Darin Johnson)
Network applications ("Sylvain Gauthier")
Re: Linux suxxxx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Legal implications and advantages ("Sylvain Gauthier")
Home & End keys in pico ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problems with NE1000 (STLim)
Re: Problems with NE1000 ("The InkFreq")
PPP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is It Just Me (John McBride)
libc5/glibc advice ("N. Malmstadt")
Re: Apache on a Beowulf cluster? (Pavel V. Zaitesev)
Putting NT on the Same System? (Wayne Watson)
Re: The .pl- extension? (Jim Hill)
Re: New to Linux (Michael Trausch)
Re: Permissions on non-linux partitions... (Holger Eitzenberger)
how to change permission bit on vfat partition? (Te-Cheng Shen)
HELP: Callback login - has it been done? (St�phane Brunet)
Re: KDE? Gnome? ... confused (Felipe \"RaPPa\")
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Richard Steiner)
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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: 21 Feb 1999 03:14:13 GMT
In article <7ang38$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro) writes:
> In article <7anbg0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> John S. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [big fat snip]
>>I am parroting GPL'ites kind of language, in implying parasitism...
>
> John, with all due respect, you are sounding as nutty as RMS. Sorry
> if it insults you, but it became outright nauseating. I didn't see RMS rants
> in c.o.l.* or c.u.b.f.m at least for a year. Can't say that I miss them and
> I doubt that anybody does. Could you take it into gnu.misc.discuss where such
> discussions belong? It really resembles "He pissed on the floor! What a mess!
> It's inacceptable! What an example for kids! I must compensate! <sound of
> zipper going down>". Hmm... come to think of that, it depressingly accurately
> describes USENET... Oh, well...
>
Sometimes hyperbole is appropriate. When in Rome, do as the Romans
do. :-). (No offense meant to those in Italy...)
--
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: Jim Zubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Balsa, gnome 0.99.8, RH5.2 and compile problems
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:52:18 -0500
Matthias Warkus wrote:
>
> It was the 19 Feb 1999 08:35:03 -0600...
> ..and Tom Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've got a brand spanking new Red Hat 5.2 install and have recently
> > installed all the gnome 0.99.8 rpms on this system.
>
> Rule #1 for the Gnome aficionado: install from source. RPMs are
> worthless with this beast.
I have always installed from RPM with little problem. I
find it easier to install this way because it will let you
know what lib version you need, etc.
I still am at 0.99.7 so 0.99.8 might have screwed this all
up.
I must say though that it is really coming together nicely.
Running it with E 0.15 here.
--
Jim Zubb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stew Benedict)
Subject: Re: pop3d acting up?
Date: 20 Feb 1999 01:23:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Same problem here, but only on one box - definitely interested in a
solution.
Thanks,
Stew Benedict
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:12:33 GMT, Jasper Janssen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I've been using my linux box as a email server, with sendmail, for a
>little over a month now. There appears to be something very odd going
>on with either sendmail or pop3d:
>
>When I try to login to pop3d, after USER & PASS, I get:
>
>-ERR being read already /usr/spool/mail/jasper
>
>After mv'ing to jasper2, I could read it out through pop3d,
>originally, but when I try that now, it doesn't work.
>
>an rm of the spool file gets respite as long as there are no messages.
>
>I tried rebooting, even that didn't work.
>
>There are no extraneous processes that i can find on ps x.
>
>Could anyone suggest why it is doing this?
>
>And if you CC' a copy to my email, I'll be able to read it with cat,
>if not normally, so I'd appreciate that.
>
>Thank you for your help,
>
>Jasper
>
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From: Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernels and make dep
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 04:00:48 GMT
I have just downloaded Kernel 2.2.1 in RPM for rawhide. I ran make
xconfig, it mention something about clock mismatching, but I changed the
clock.
Anyways, I fixed that but now when I run make dep I get the following.
Entering directory`/usr/src/linux-2.2.1/arch/i386/boot`
nothing to be done for `dep`
Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.1/arch/i386/boot`
scripts/mkdep init/*.c > .depend
scripts/mkdep: error in loading shared libraries
: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
make: *** [dep-files] Error 127
Do I need glibc 2.1?
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From: Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: tpconfig and gps/X
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:48:20 -0500
I just submitted a change to GPM to support the Synaptics touchpad
(serial and PS/2). It is in release 1.17.5 (ftp.prosa.it/pub/gpm --
just out today). I did this because the tpconfig program couldn't
perform the changes which I wanted against my touchpad. It appears that
the newer touchpads have fewer options and the options are now handled
by the driver. Also I use my touchpad through the serial port and use a
PS/2 mouse at the same time (gives me options for when a touchpad
doesn't seem quite the right option).
Also, I wanted the cursor to continue when I hit the edge of the
touchpad. This wasn't an option to my touchpad and only worked on drag.
This change to GPM supports many of the things which the touchpads used
to do internally. This has the advantage of configuring GPM as you want
(it reads a configuration file to setup options). The configuration can
only be changed by changing the config file and restarting GPM.
Just thought you might want to know.
Henry
Bruce Kall wrote:
>
> I currently support the tpconfig utility (Synaptics
> Linux touchpad driver -- www.compass.com/synaptics). Anyway
> I just released the latest version to fix a problem with
> the 2.2.X kernel. The next enhancement I would like to
> add is to make it work while either gpm and/or X is
> running. From what I know from the initial author of
> tpconfig, the PS/2 port does not support sharing and
> this is the reason why tpconfig hasn't support running
> itself while gpm and/or X is running.
>
> What I'm looking for is suggestions/pointers on how to
> add this functionality to tpconfig (run on top of X).
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>
> --
> ====================================================================
> Bruce Kall
> Mayo Foundation
> Rochester, MN
>
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> phone: (507) 255-4768
>
> ====================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Hogan)
Subject: slrnpull - help
Date: 19 Feb 1999 17:51:39 PST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have installed slrn-0.9.5.4 with slrnpull, twice. On RH5.2. I get
"command not found" both in root and as user. slrn functioning OK. I
don't see an exec file foe slrn other than the slrnpull.conf file. The
slrnpull direcrory is in my path ans SLRUNPULL_ROOT is in my envieon
ment. O get the "command not found" when I use the full path as listed
in the docs with slrnpull. Is there/or am I missing something?
Thanks,
Dan Hogan
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From: Seth Van Oort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GCC x EGCS
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 01:57:22 +0000
You have computers in Alaska? I thought you just sat in your igloos
waiting to club the next innocent polar bear that walked by. :-)
Seth
Floyd Davidson wrote:
>
> Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In article <7akave$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Floyd Davidson wrote:
> >> Philip Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> However, there is no reason not to use EGCS to compile a 2.0.x
> >>>> kernel. It requires application of a simple patch to the source
> >>>> code tree and thats it.
> >
> >By the way, this patch can be found at
> >http://www.suse.de/~florian/kernel+egcs.html .
> >
> >>> Nooo...absolutely not. You do this at your own risk. 2.0.x kernels
> >>> are *not* guarenteed to work when compiled by egcs.
> >
> >> Oh shudder the thought, *at your own risk* !!!!
> >>
> >> How does that differ from running a 2.0.x kernel compiled with gcc,
> >> which is also at your own risk. I don't recall any guarantee coming
> >> with any variation of a Linux kernel yet.
> >>
> >> Lots of people are indeed compiling 2.0.x kernels using egcs, and
> >> that is not significantly different than, for example, running a 2.1.x
> >> kernel.
> >
> >This is true.
> >
> >But Alan Cox maintains 2.0.x (funded by Red Hat, I believe),
> >and he doesn't want you to use egcs. If a gcc-compiled
> >(2.0.x) kernel breaks, you can complain to him or to the
> >linux-kernel mailing list, and someone should take an
> >interest. If an egcs-compiled (2.0.x) kernel breaks, those
> >folks will ignore you, and so you get to figure out how to
> >fix it.
>
> Perhaps a short clip from the web page mentioned above for the
> ecgs patches is appropriate:
>
> "A warning about using newer compilers:
>
> Even with these patches applied, you should know that you will
> use a compiler/kernel-pair that is not as much tested as a
> kernel compiled with gcc 2.7.x. Some code in the kernel is only
> executed very seldom and your production server might loose data
> if your machine decides to depend on that code...
>
> That said, I have to confess that I use development versions of
> egcs for many months on several production machines without any
> problems."
>
> Floyd
>
> --
> Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Pictures of the North Slope at <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can not run mkinitrc or mkbootdisk
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 04:40:35 GMT
I am going through the directions that is on Linux Today for upgrading to the
2.2.1 kernel. Well I tried to run mkbootdisk but it would tell me that bash
could not find the command but I could see the file. Well I skipped that part
and continued compiling the kernel I got as far as try to run mkinitrd. I got
the same error. The file is there but bash does not know what it is. Help,
what do I need to do to get this to run? Thanks for your help.
Eric Hesselberg
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From: Darin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 19 Feb 1999 15:05:43 -0800
Thomas Joynt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) Games generally use bleeding-edge technology that is by it's very
> nature unstable and error prone. They're often trying to do something "new and
> improved", which means *unproved*.
There's also a different attitude to games programmers. Back when I
used Amiga a lot, there were often games that kicked out the OS,
require rebooting of the game, broke when run on later models of the
machine, refused to use or be installed on a hard disk (no matter how
good the game, having to shutdown the system and reboot from floppy is
going to make you hate it), etc. And inevitably, the developers would
defend this practice as being perfectly appropriate. They'd say
things like "but we have to get the fastest speed possible, otherwise
you wouldn't play the game", and ironically, they'd be saying that
about games that didn't look all that cpu intensive.
--
Darin Johnson
Laziness is the father of invention
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From: "Sylvain Gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network applications
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:06:15 -0500
In a Firm
Does Linux offer the same possibilities has Windows for Network
applications?
Please help.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux suxxxx
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:46:49 GMT
This would have been a valid complaint 3-4 years ago when there wasn't
RedHat, Caldera, etc... and you had to figure it out yourself. But these
days a monkey could buy RedHat and install it. I've got to assume you have
non-standard hardware or your brain has just been fried for too long by MS
software. I know kids here where I live that are 14-15 and installing Linux
and all the programs they want without a hitch.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"softalk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Let me tell you I give up. After 3 solid weeks trying to set up a linux
> system I finally submit to the fact that me and Linux do not get on. I have
> been installing novell & Win networks as a job for 9 years but wow what a
> shock I got from Linux. It's like trying to learn to program in C with no
> manual or source code to compare. Even a simple job like installing a new
> program is sometimes impossible. So goodbye Linux and goodbye smug Linux
> users.
>
>
Jason Baugher
Extreme Systems Consulting
Systems Administration, Custom Programming
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From: "Sylvain Gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Legal implications and advantages
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:16:47 -0500
In a Firm
What are the legal implications and advantages to develop applications with
Linux?
Please help.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Home & End keys in pico
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 05:33:15 GMT
Any help would be really appreciated. Pico is my editor of choice, just
because.
Anyways, I have my system setup to do home and end keys @ the command line,
but they still don't work in pico. BS & Delete do, just not these two.
Any ideas how I could change this?
Thanks!
Chris Woods - MCSE
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (STLim)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problems with NE1000
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 05:46:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have an NE1000 on my card after having swapped a 3C503 out of it.
After the swap, I did a simple recompilataion of the kernel, by
setting the options for the experimental NE1000 to "Y". However,
after restarting the system with this new kernel, I was unable to find
the device with ifconfig.
Advice?? My kernel is 2.2.1
Ciao
ST Lim
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From: "The InkFreq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems with NE1000
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:51:18 -0700
use the command "dmesg | more" and look to see if the card was found by the
kernel. If not, then your card was not detected due to conflicts, chip
problems, etc...
if you can see the card was detected, but can't see it with ifconfig, then
try using:
ifconfig eth0 up <ip address>
and then see if you can see the card with ifconfig
STLim wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have an NE1000 on my card after having swapped a 3C503 out of it.
>After the swap, I did a simple recompilataion of the kernel, by
>setting the options for the experimental NE1000 to "Y". However,
>after restarting the system with this new kernel, I was unable to find
>the device with ifconfig.
>
>Advice?? My kernel is 2.2.1
>
>Ciao
>ST Lim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PPP
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 05:41:15 GMT
Hello all I have a small problem with my dial up connection. Root works fine
but not as a user. I have read all the How-to's....man pages I can get my
hand on and done every thing they said,but no joy. chmod all relevant files
as directed, etc. Minicom will connect from a user logon but usenet give a
message of No user-controled interfaces. Any help apreciated. Thanks in
advance.
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:58:52 -0800
From: John McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is It Just Me
...or wouldn't it be fantastic if all linux configuration files were in
XML? then a single set of parsers could generate and read all the
configuration files...if i had a brain and desire, this would be the
dream project to really pull linux ahead of everyone else.
---
John
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From: "N. Malmstadt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: libc5/glibc advice
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:34:47 -0800
Hi.
I'm running slackware 3.4 which, of course, is compilied against libc5.
I'm wondering what the opinions out there are as to whether it would be
worthwhile, or even practical, to move to glibc. Is there any easy way to
do this, short of waiting for a glibc version of slackware?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pavel V. Zaitesev)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: Apache on a Beowulf cluster?
Date: 21 Feb 99 06:32:28 GMT
Clay Shirky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: A group in New York is considering building a small Beowulf-cluster
: running Apache, in order to explore the possibility of building
: massively scaling Web servers.
: The ultimate goal would be to build a system where commodity boxes
: become the unit for scaling to meet growing traffic demands - if your
: web server load goes up 10%, you buy 10% more PCs and put them in the
: cluster.
: We will be looking at both issues of I/O scalability, bringing
: multiple servers online to serve massive amounts of essentially flat
: data (either heavily requested media flatfiles, or streaming data) and
: issues of multiple server access to shared data, whether vis NFS or a
: central database.
: We understand that there are currently load-balancing solutions
: available, but while these work well, neither the source code nor the
: binaries are freely available, and they are out of the reach both
: financially and technologically from smaller businesses and
: N-P/Educational groups.
: We would like to hear from you if you are working on a similar
: project, if you would like to brainstorm or work with us, or if you
: think this is a bad idea and have some intuition as to why it might
: fail.
I advise you to try 'squid' - httpd proxy that will spread requests among
your servers. If take to extreme - I can pileup 100 servers on two ring
FDDI to serve outside world, but that is not necessary. I belive you may
layer squid proxies, to spread load even more.
For using Beowoulf you have to create programs from scratch - it is
special type of programming. I understand that you can't just recompile
Apache on to it. Beowoulf is a boon for scientific not gaming community.
Scientists often write large programs of their own to do the computations.
With beowoulf they can do computations very very cheaply. I do not know if
it would work for webserver load spreading. It may, but you would have to
take the coding process on by yourself :) Cool project, I would love to
take on, but in my city no one wants to hire me ... yet.
Good luck,
Pavel
.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~.*~
"Nobody has a right to complain about your own code, but you..."
-- Linus Torvalds http://victoria.tc.ca/~ws821
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From: Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Putting NT on the Same System?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:45:31 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A few years ago, I installed DOS, NT 4.0 and Linux on my Zero disk as follows:
Disk 0:
C drive: Partition 0: DOS
C drive: Partition 1: NT 4.0
C drive: Partition 2: empty
C drive: Partition 3: empty
C drive: Partition 4: Linux
F drive: Partition 0: NT files for apps that would not find on C drive
At least, that's more or less how I remember it. In any case, what happened next,
more or less,
caused me some trouble. All was well for a long time and then I decided to use
partition 2 for more
NT stuff and extended the stuff from partition 1. This went well, but I found that I
couldn't boot
Linux any longer. I could never get it to boot up again so gave up using Linux.
What's above is
close to what happened but the key point is that by something like what I described, I
lost Linux.
Now I'm thinking about putting Linux on my system again, but in no way do I want both
Linux and NT
to be on the same disk. I'll probably add the empty and Linux partitions left
dangling above as a
file system for NT to work with. So I'm thinking about buying another disk and
installing Linux on
it. Is there someway that I will be able to put either to NT or Linux in such a
configuration? I
want to minimally, and I mean minimally-like nada if possible, disturb disk zero with
any Linux
stuff. Suggestions?
--
"If you don't think too good, then don't think too much." Ted Williams,
Baseball Great
========== Wayne T. Watson ==========
When having fun, which is a lot, you'll find me on the internet pursuing my hobbies of
amateur
astronomy and science. When I get serious, I consult in C, UNIX, C++, Java. See my
web page.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Page: http://www.sirius.com/~mtn_view
(Updated
2/15/99)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hill)
Subject: Re: The .pl- extension?
Date: 20 Feb 1999 02:00:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marco Tephlant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Brian McCauley wrote:
>
>> Please note: this has nothing to do with Linux. Please consider using
>> the generic Unix groups unless you have some reason to suspect that
>> your question may be Linux specific.
>
>Given that he doesnt know what .pl stands for could you assume that he doesnt
>know whether it is specific to linux or not? Also "this is has nothing to do
>with linux" -really? Why does my linux installation have perl on it then?
Most boxed Linux dists come with Perl, sendmail, fetchmail, apache, bash,
Emacs, X, the Gimp, and on and on and on. None of them are appropriate
topics of discussion here save in the context of questions like "I'm
having trouble compiling <package X> on Linux and here's the error
message; can anyone tell me why it builds out-of-the-box on Solaris and
HP-UX but not the nominally POSIX-compliant Linux?"
Jim
--
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"Visualize world peace...good.
Now wake up and smell the coffee."
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From: Michael Trausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: New to Linux
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 01:34:51 -0500
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Yep. That's the wonderful thing about LILO... however, you have to install
Windows to the Primary master, and then play a switcharoo, otherwise, it
don't work. =) Windows' install process will ONLY install on drive C: on
your primary master, and if it's full of an ext2 system and swap, Windows
throws an error about NTFS partitions. =-O
The joys of Windows installation... ::sigh::
- Mike
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On 21 Feb 1999, George Georgakis wrote:
>
> >Linux and other UNIX based computers do this, but Windows does not.
> >Everything needs to be run from the first Windows partition C:.
> >DOS/Win3.1 you can pull this off on a little bit easier.
>
> Slightly off-topic: With a bit of juggling, you can make Win95 boot off the
> second or subsequent hard drives after installing Linux on the first. Win95
> doesn't see Linux partitions anyway, so it continues to think it's on the
> prim master even if it's on the prim slave.
>
> George
>
>
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From: Holger Eitzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Permissions on non-linux partitions...
Date: 20 Feb 1999 02:47:44 GMT
PG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to change group privelages on a DOS partition, or to give
> <Write> permission to users other than root? Every time I try to change
> the permissions on my Windows side (as root), I'm told I'm not
> permitted...
try
man fstab
man mount
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From: Te-Cheng Shen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to change permission bit on vfat partition?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:51:14 -0700
Hi, there
I have a problem about chmod.
I installed both Win95 and RedHat 5.2 on two different hd.
Now I try to enable the permission bit on my vfat partition so that
ALL users can read and write on that partition. I issued this command
chmod -R a+rwx /mnt/e
Unfortunately, the permission is always rwxr-xr-x, how can I
enable the write permission bit on vfat partition?
Thanks
Shen
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From: St�phane Brunet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: Callback login - has it been done?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:20:14 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Ever setup a callback-login system like Win95?
I have this with work. The system expects a Win95 machine to dial in,
login as a user, hang up and wait for the callback.
(the username is used to get the unique callback phone number)
Is there a way to make this work from a linux system?
(I'm running Slackware, but any example would be helpful...)
Thanks ;-} (could you post+email the reply? - thanks!)
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 03:47:30 -0300
From: Felipe \"RaPPa\" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: KDE? Gnome? ... confused
use gnome with enlightenment
www.gnome.org/ftpmirrors.html
they are beta, but "beta quality software" told rasterman
hehe
I use it, and is the best, I'm sure...
KDE and GNOME are two wms, but gnome runs over other wm like
enlightenment or window maker
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Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil
NetMakumba Member
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:21:19 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. Dyson) writes:
>
>> I strongly suggest that people really read licenses, and get help from
>> their legal staff if they need it.
>
>By the way, I completely agree with John.
>
>People should read the licences very carefully. You'll discover that
>a lot of licences are not compatible.
Yes, this is very important I think, and regardless of one's position
regarding other matters. It's very important to understand the license
attached to code you are using. Perhaps even viewing.
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OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
Fnord!
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