Linux-Misc Digest #153, Volume #19 Tue, 23 Feb 99 15:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: IDE RAID controllers for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Marco Anglesio)
Re: changing shells ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Should IBM port Visual Age for Java to Linux? (Jay O'Connor)
Re: Install Problems (Chris in sunny Manitoba)
Re: SoftOSS Installation (Jeremy Crabtree)
Re: Figgering out kernel capabilities (J.M. Paden)
Install Problems ("Ray York")
Re: NT/Linux Boot (Hermann Boeken)
Re: changing shells ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: More bad news for NT (Jason Clifford)
C code to import Excel? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Zenin)
Re: Apache and different users (Morten Ranheim)
Re: a stable ICQ clone ? (Bruno Barberi Gnecco)
Re: Hard disk duplication?? (Ben)
Re: Missing memory (Mouse)
Re: minicom question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem with mouse getting stuck (ben)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Graffiti)
Re: Questions about glibc2 (posterkid)
Re: Where is the config file that sets which librarys at strart up? (Cooper)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE RAID controllers for Linux
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:50:37 GMT
In article <7asj1e$8hr6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen) wrote:
> In article <76ruku$3et$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | Most computers today come with two onboard IDE controllers. If you need to
> | mirror lots of drives, you can install one DupliDisk RAID 1 controller on
the
> | Primary IDE and another on the Secondary IDE. Each DupliDisk can handle up
> | to two pairs of mirrored drives--one pair on the Master Channel and another
> | on the Slave channel. If you hook up your four existing 6.5 Gbyte drives to
> | the DupliDisk on the Primary IDE, you can still add two more pairs of 6.5
> | Gbyte drives to the DupliDisk on the Secondary IDE. Or, you could hook up
> | one pair of really big drives to the second DupliDisk, using only the Master
> | channel of the Secondary IDE for mirroring. This would leave the Slave
> | channel free for a CD-ROM.
> |
> | Donna Barron
> | http://www.arcoide.com
>
> On a very related issue, before motherboards had IDE, we used to buy
> ISA/EIDE/VESA IDE controllers. Now since Linux will support up to four
> controllers, is there anyone still making controllers, obviously for
> the PCI bus these days, which can be used to add the other two?
>
> The Duplidisk gives the reliability protection of RAID-1, but lacks the
> performance benefit, since with traditional RAID-1, if you get multiple
> reads to a single drive you can read one off the mirror, while with a
> single virtual IDE device you don't get that benefit.
>
> bill davidsen
As you say, people looking for RAID 1 want it for the mirroring protection it
offers, that is, being able to write the same data to two drives at the same
time. Not being able to read from both drives is irrelevant. Think about
it. If you only have one drive and are not doing mirroring, you're reading
from only one drive.
Donna Barron
http://www.arcoide.com
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Anglesio)
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: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:49:14 GMT
On 21 Feb 1999 19:17:40 GMT, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>That's what it's _designed_ to do. So shut up, you're just arguing that
>it's working exactly the way it's _supposed_ to work.
>
>Some of us consider it important that you don't lose information due to
>fragmentation and proprietary code, like UNIX historically did, and the
>BSD's seem to be doing now.
You might be interested in knowing that the last-page article in this
month's IEEE Computer magazine declares that OSS is doomed precisely
because open source means that it is subject to embrace-and-extend tactics
from larger competitors.
I would assume that the writer of this article is referring mainly to
BSD-style licenses; in any case, even though RMS is a zealot of sorts, I
am very glad that he has created the GPL, which dodges this problem. Some
describe it as a parasitic feature, but it is the feature that will keep
open development open (if not gratis, libre).
marco
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> | I don't know who or what put the <
> Marco Anglesio | question, I don't know when it was <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | put. I don't even remember answering. <
> http://www.the-wire.com/~mpa | But at some moment, I did answer yes. <
> | --Dag Hammarskjold <
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: changing shells
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:52:50 +0100
Just type which shell you want to run at the prompt, or edit the last entry
of your /etc/passwd file to change the user's default shell.
In Red Hat you can also run the command "chsh"
In comp.os.linux.misc Chris T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can anyone help me on how to change shells?
--
Anders Gulden Olstad @ Jeeves
RedHat 5.2 Linux kernel 2.0.36
"Penguins are generally nice creatures"
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From: Jay O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Should IBM port Visual Age for Java to Linux?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:18:54 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shyam Govardhan wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been playing with DB2 on my Linux machine for a while now and I
> am very impressed with it. I think that it would be really good if IBM
> could port Visual Age for Java to Linux. If this were to happen, then
> the Linux community would obtain a sophisticated IDE for JAVA and I also
>
> think that it would increase the popularity of DB2 on Linux.
>
> This is my opinion... What do you all think?
Well..in order for IBM to port VisualAge Java to Linux they would have
to port VisualAge Smalltalk to Linux because VA-Java is just a
VA-Smalltalk application. I would be heavily in favor of them porting
VA-Smalltalk to Linux because VA-Smalltalk is a much better development
tool than VA-Java anyway.
They could probably do it fairly easily because they already have
VA-Smalltalk running on Windows, OS/2, AIX, Solaris, HP/UX, MVS, etc...
> - Shyam
--
===================================
Jay O'Connor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.roadrunner.com/~joconnor
http://www.ezboard.com
"God himself plays the bass strings first when He tunes the soul"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris in sunny Manitoba)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Install Problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:53:24 GMT
NOT good news, I think. It's a hardware complaint, maybe something
about a marginal look-ahead buffer or memory timing. If you have spare
simm slots, try putting existing simms into different slots. I saw a
web site dedicated to this somewhere, but can't remember where.
Anyone?
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:21:14 -0800, "Ray York" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> among
other things said this:
>I continue to have my installs crash. It happens at different times of the
>install. What the common symptoms are, is that the install will "hang" and
>the CD will keep reading but the HD stops responding, and then I get a
>signal 7 error and it tells me to reboot. What does a signal 7 tell me?
>
>ray @ nwnexus dot com
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Crabtree)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: SoftOSS Installation
Date: 23 Feb 1999 16:53:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hans Wolters allegedly wrote:
>Steve Gage wrote:
>
>[snap]
>
>:Hmmm... no, v_midi.o did not get generated. Is there another config
>:option I need to select to make that happen? Or should it have been made
>:when I selected SoftOSS?
>:
>:- Steve
>
>Sorry, my mistake. Can't see your kernel version (using slrn as newsreader).
Sure you can, just press 't' to toggle the display of full or partial
headers. ;)
>It's in the new 2.2.1 kernel. I've selected it as a module.
He's using the same kernel, or so his news reader claims. It sounds
like it just may not have ocmpiled properly.
--
"Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself
the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts
that are not hard" --Silvanus P. Thompson, from "Calculus Made Easy."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.M. Paden)
Subject: Re: Figgering out kernel capabilities
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:50:55 GMT
Klaus Bernpaintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a way to figure out what the capabilities of a kernel are? I.e. can I
>somehow query it for what drivers it has compiled in to it?
cd /usr/src/linux
ls -a
The file to look for is .config
less .config
Regards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason."
--T.S. Eliot
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From: "Ray York" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Install Problems
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:21:14 -0800
I continue to have my installs crash. It happens at different times of the
install. What the common symptoms are, is that the install will "hang" and
the CD will keep reading but the HD stops responding, and then I get a
signal 7 error and it tells me to reboot. What does a signal 7 tell me?
ray @ nwnexus dot com
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From: Hermann Boeken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT/Linux Boot
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:26:49 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Ashworth wrote:
>
> To get NT to boot Linux I use the line:
> C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
> in boot.ini on the NT partition in place of the "linux"
> line that you have shown. The bootsect.lnx file can
> be created from your boot floppy after creating it with
> Lilo by using the command:
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> as root. Then move the file to the NT partition.
Yes, that worked also great for me.
But now I have OpenDos on /dev/hdb1, the first partition of my second HD.
In Windows NT it is known as drive m:\.
However, when I enter a line
m:\="opendos"
to my boot.ini I get the following error message:
Boot record signature AA55 not found (CBC4 found).
Then NT tries to start, but fails.
Any hints?
Hermann
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: changing shells
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:36:07 -0800
Chris T. wrote in message ...
>Can anyone help me on how to change shells?
Temporary or the login-shell?
Temporary: just start the desired shell: "csh", "tcsh", "sh", "bash", ....
Changing the login shell: "man chsh"
jue
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J�rgen Exner; microsoft.com, UID: jurgenex
Sorry for this anti-spam inconvenience
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:20:59 +0000
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Jon Wiest wrote:
> >You really should have qualified this statement by adding that this is
> >only true in relation to SMP.
> >
> >For single CPU systems Linux wipes the floor with WinNT - but then again
> >so does every other *real* OS available for the same hardware.
>
> Oh get off your high horse. NT is a "real" OS, and as for "wiping the
> floor" that's pure exageration.
Linux is faster, more stable, scales better, can serve dozens of
applications without crashing, etc. That is wiping the floor!
> Sure, Linux does some great things, why
> else would I devote a hard drive to it? But it also does some really stupid
> things. Each has their merit, and no amount of flag-waving and
> slogan-chanting will change that.
No flag waving or slogan chanting - simply telling the truth.
Perhaps you would like to be a little more specific with regard to the
"really stupid" things you think Linux does. If they are bugs the Linux
developer community will be more than happy to squash them - you could
even do so yourself if you have the skill.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: C code to import Excel?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:30:40 GMT
Is there portable C code that imports the text (numbers) in Excel
spreadsheets?
Nothing fancy; I do not care about formatting or other issues. I just want
tab-delimited text fields, preferably from multiple worksheets in the same
spreadsheet.
/ivo welch
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Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
From: Zenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 23 Feb 99 17:59:53 GMT
Marco Anglesio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On 21 Feb 1999 22:38:45 GMT, John S. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >It is cool, because it ends up being a mass of free software for everyone
: >to use, and profit from. Not just the ones who are on the ends of the
: >food chain. You forget that the pie expands, it isn't fixed size.
: What's the incentive to redistribute derivative works in BSD-style
: licenses?
The same as under the GPL, only with more options for the user.
: (For that matter, what's the incentive to distribute them in the first
: place, knowing full well that someone may use them, extend them, charge
: for them, make a buck, and not share).
This is the same as under the GPL.
: Note that GPL'ed code is not necessarily licensed as GPL'ed for everyone;
: if you want to use another license, you just have to ask the copyright
: holder.
All N number of them... And contact email addresses listed in
copyrights never go stale, right?
: The copyright holder can distribute in whatever form and under whatever
: license that they want, being personally free from any and all licensing
: restrictions.
Of course. Many however, don't understand the very licensing they
use.
: >It seems that writing code based upon GPLed works is a loosing
: >investment, since it appears to show little confidence in ones own
: >creative abilities.
:
: Now, that's a straw-man if I've ever heard one. Perhaps, by contrast,
: GPL'ed work is a winning investment, since it shows confidence in one's
: ability to inspire expansion and redistribution.
>snip<
Actually, I'd say the BSD license goes far further to "inspire
expansion and redistribution".
Obviously both the GPL and BSD licenses work. The existence of
mature projects such as Linux and FreeBSD prove this. Also quite
obvious from the existence of these same projects is that the added
restrictions of the GPL have not shown themselfs to be of any added
value over the BSD license. That is, FreeBSD and similar BSD style
licensed projects continue to expand at least at the rate of GPL
projects and often more so, and have yet to tempt the exploitation
that inspires deathly fear in GPL fans.
Infact, the opposite is true. The very "commercialization" of
FreeBSD code has been the basis of some of it's greatest
enhancements. Commercial based efforts that never would have seen
the light of day under a GPL license.
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From The Blue Camel we learn:
BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
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From: Morten Ranheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache and different users
Date: 23 Feb 1999 19:07:15 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (L J Bayuk) writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >...
> >I got mod_userdir.c compiled in. So it must be somewhere else.
> >...
> >I've tried all the above, without any luck I'm afraid. Any more tips?
>
> Doesn't your Apache error log give you any hints as to why the
> http://host/~user URLs aren't working?
Yes. It says that it can't find
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/<USER>/public_html ??
So what should I do?
--
Morten Ranheim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a stable ICQ clone ?
Date: 23 Feb 1999 13:00:34 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marc Greene wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:32:19 +0200,
> Gilles Lortet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >I feel a little bit lonely now that I spend most of my computing time on
> >Linux, and the reason is that I miss my ICQ chats. I tried to find some
> >equivalent for Linux, and for the moment only encountered some troubles.
>
> http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq lists most (all?) of the icq clients for
> linux. I prefer zicq myself because it doesn't require X.
For X, try licq.
--
Did you *REALLY* check that interface between the chair and the keyboard?
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ #1383173 - PGP 5.0i user
[I'm running Linux] -=-=- Electric Engineering at Politechnic School, USP
Check my homepage at http://graphx.home.ml.org * C, 3D graphics, and more
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From: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Hard disk duplication??
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:11:04 -0500
Will PowerQuests drive image do that for you? I use it in the Win world
but have not tried it in the Linux world.
Dion Burger wrote:
>
> Is there a way to duplicate a hardisk image after the linux installation.
> I need to set up multiple linux boxes (assume identical hardware). This will
> save me hours of installation and configuration time.
>
> Cheers
> Dion
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From: Mouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Missing memory
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:28:47 -0800
... add the following line to the end of your lilo.conf file:
append = "mem=128m" (include the quotes) ... save the file ... type lilo at the
command line, and reboot. Check your result with "free" at the command line.
Hope this helps :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm running RedHat 5.1 and on both of my machines (one a laptop the other a
> Pentium II class machine) I see only 64MB of 128MB.
>
> Is there a fix for this?
>
> /Trev
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: minicom question
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:58:39 GMT
make sure u have zmodem protocol file installed i ' ithink its called 'lrsz'
> When uploading using minicom I got the following message, although I have
> set the directory path correctly:
>
> - [zmodem zmodem upload - Press CTRL-C to quit]
> - Retry 0: Timeout on pathname
> -
> - Transfer incomplete
> -
> - READY: press any key to continue...
>
> The path I set was: /tmp
> And the file I tried to read was a text file named "temp".
>
> Is there a special syntax that minicom requires to specify the path? Thanks.
>
> Napi
>
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From: ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with mouse getting stuck
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 19:39:01 +0100
Hello,
After successfully installing RedHat 5.2 I seem to have a problem with
my mouse.My mouse seem to get stuck during X-window session when I
change screen using ctrl+Alt+ F7.
Could it be the mouse which is a Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.1A.
Do I need to use another mouse?
Regards,
Ben
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From: Graffiti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 23 Feb 1999 11:07:59 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 04:00:36 GMT, W Gerald Hicks
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scratched:
>>Although I too like the operating system that Linus named after
>>himself but was mostly developed by others,
>
>That is extremely unfair, and deserving of an apology. Linus developed
>a kernel which he named after himself. The term "Linux Operating System"
>as opposed to "Linux based (GNU) Operating System" was something penned
>by other developers, not by Linus.
And how exactly does "Freax" sound like "Linus"?
-- DN (Yes, that's what *Linus* named the OS)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (posterkid)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Questions about glibc2
Date: 23 Feb 1999 19:14:01 GMT
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello everybody.
>
> I once tried to install glibc2 here, but the result was a mess, and
>I just came back to libc5. I'm willing to install it again, but I have some
>questions:
>
>a) things like ncurses and slang should be recompiled with glibc2. What about
>programs that use them as libraries and were compiled with libc5? Will them
>work with the new library? if not, is there a workaround other than recompile
>them all?
You can copy the old ncurses/slang libraries to something like (as I used)
/usr/libc5lib along with the backup copies of libc.so.5 and such that you
make prior to compiling glibc. You can then just set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
/usr/libc5lib and it will use those libraries when invoking such programs.
That env variable will break recently recompiled programs (those linked
against glibc), so I'd suggest just making a wrapper for your older
programs that runs them with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set.
This could lead to lossage if any of these programs exec a program that
DOES need glibc (like /exec within ircii), so you're really better off
recompiling. This is the lazy solution I use until I get everything
recompiled.
>b) What's the best way to install? the previous time I followed the HOWTO,
>but it wasn't clear about c++ stuff (and other stuff), but it let me
>uninstall very easily. (I don't want to buy new CD's)
The HOWTO seems to explain well enough for me. I don't use C++ much so
I may have it broken and not know. I think it worked properly, though.
>c) What about the stability? I read that 2.1 is very stable, is it true?
>When 2.1 will be released again?
It seems no more or less stable than 5.4.x, in my experience.
>d) any further advices?
Backups are your friends.
--
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DSA 0x0A641AA5:0B1E 37B7 ECCB FC96 B6C6 7242 0A59 F8D5 EFA9 4F81
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From: Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Where is the config file that sets which librarys at strart up?
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:50:01 -0100
Joe (theWordy) Philbrook wrote:
>
> I.m running slackware 3.5... A ways back I tried <unsuccesfuly> to install
> slrn, slrnpull and the slang library that slrn's docs said was required...
>
> I couldn't get it running in the time I had for this so I removed the
> packages... I found the packages on the achive disk that came with my
> cheepbytes slack 5 cd set. But I had to rpm2targz and installpkg to put
> them in... to remove them I used removepkg... BUT ever since then I'm
> getting this during the start up...
>
> -snip. . . . . . . . . . .sig
>
> Starting daemons: syslogd klogd portmap inetd lpd mountd nfsd
> /sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libslang.so.1 (No such file or
> directory), skipping
> Starting sendmail daemon (/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -os)...
> Running gpm...
>
> -snip. . . . . . . . . . .sig
>
> Would somebody please tell me how to stop my linux from looking for that
> library... Please...
>
> Thanking you in advance
That file you look for is /etc/ld.so.conf and it lists the directories it checks
for libraries.
My guess is that you shouldn't modify anything in that file. Instead, check the
/usr/lib/libslang.so.1 file. It's probably a link to a non-existant file which
is why ldconfig is objecting.
/usr/lib holds many other vital libraries so removing that directory from the
/etc/ld.so.conf file will only make things worse.
Cooper
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