Linux-Misc Digest #296, Volume #19 Thu, 4 Mar 99 08:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Re: Cable Modems with Linux (Robert Heller)
Re: Newbie question: how to apply a .diff patch? (Robert Heller)
Re: Problems with 'home-built' bootdisks ("Martin")
Re: FreeBSD vs LINUX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: More bad news for NT (Michael Powe)
Re: More bad news for NT (Justin The Cynical)
Re: Backup software (John Thompson)
Re: Speed of accessing tousands of files in a directory? (Dan Mercer)
Re: kcore (Stefan Sassenberg)
Re: looking for openGL, or Mesa... (Seth Van Oort)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Egil Kvaleberg)
Re: Anti-Virus for Linux (Eugene O'Neil)
Re: Public license question (David Kastrup)
Slirp compile error: Linux 2.0.33 (Angus March)
Re: RPM manager ? (Peter Polman)
Re: Help! My printer won't print at all! (Youngser Park)
Re: FreeBSD vs LINUX (John Hasler)
Re: accidentally deleted /etc/modules (John Hasler)
Re: More bad news for NT ("Jon Wiest")
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Subject: Re: Re: Cable Modems with Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Heller)
Date: 4 Mar 1999 06:54:38 -0500
Bob Deep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:40:17 +0000, wrote :
BD> Bill Unruh wrote:
BD> > Use IP Masquarading of the first computer to the second Linux machine
BD> > connected to the cable modem and the net.
BD>
BD> It is possible that this would violate your agreement with the cable
BD> company and it is possible for them to tell you are doing this.
BD>
BD> So... They may shut you down for Masquarading for another box, but I
BD> doubt they would even notice...
No they won't. The way Masquarading would completely hid it. The
*worst* that would happen would be sucking down lots of bandwidth.
This would really require lots of full time network banging. In which
case it would become more than cost effective to get a regular
'business' type hookup.
BD>
BD> -= bob =-
BD>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question: how to apply a .diff patch?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Heller)
Date: 4 Mar 1999 06:54:37 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian),
In a message on Tue, 02 Mar 1999 09:17:05 -0700, wrote :
I> Sorry if this is insultingly simple, but I have read the man for "patch"
I> several times and connot figure out how to apply a diff patch to a
I> directory structure.
I>
I> Here are the details.
I>
I> I installed java from blackdown (jdk1.1.7v1a) into a directory called
I> /usr/local/jdk117v1a
I>
I> Also at the blackdown site was a jdk1.1.7v1a.diff file. How can I apply
I> this file to the java directories?
First of all you probably don't need to. The .diff patch is for people
who want to upgrade to jdk1.1.7v1a from some earlier version. If you
did want to apply the patch, you would use the 'patch ' command:
cd /usr/local/jdk117v1a
patch <pathtodifffile/jdk1.1.7v1a.diff
Do a man patch first and have a look at jdk1.1.7v1a.diff (it is a plain
text file) and see it is really applies. Be sure to look at the README
file on the blackdown site where the patch file was.
I>
I> Any help would be appreciated.
I>
I> Thanks.
I>
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From: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Problems with 'home-built' bootdisks
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:19:06 -0000
Reply-To: "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Dave,
I am uncertian how you made the boot disk and root disk, but it looks
like the root disk has a FAT filesystem on it. Did you just copy the gzip'd
root image to the floppy ?
If that is the case, it will not work. You need to write the image over the
top of the FAT filesystem. I assume you have the program rawwrite.exe, and
have used it to make the boot disk. If so, do the same thing with the root
image. This process will overwrite the FAT filesystem and replace it with
the filesystem from the image.
If you do not have rawwrite, a search at www.redhat.com will point you to a
copy. Assuming the root image is called root.gz do :-
rawwrite
you willl be prompted for the name of the image file, type :-
root.gz
You will be prompted for the destination drive, type :-
a:
If you already have a working linux box, you can do the same with the
command :-
cat root.gz > /dev/fd0
Hope this helps,
Martin
David Fetterman wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>I'm having troubles getting a boot disk to work after following the
>Bootdisk-HOWTO. I'm using a 2.0.35 kernel, using LILO to boot, and have
>a separate root filesystem disk. LILO and the kernel seem to load fine,
>but after hitting ENTER after changing disks to the gzip'd root fs
>image, the kernel panics with the following:
>
>[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT16, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, guid=0, umask=022,
>bmap]
>[me=0x59,cs=480,#5=217,fs=38224,fl=49760,ds=22704,de=20478,data=23984,
>se=2450,ts=629539330,ls=2459,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
>Transaction block size=512
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
>
>This error happens almost immediately. I'm able to boot the system with
>a DOS boot disk, so I don't think the drive itself is the problem. I'm
>wondering if there's something I left out of the lilo.conf or if I am
>missing something somewhere else...
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs LINUX
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 20:19:24 GMT
I work every day of the week in both FreeBSD and Linux. I run servers of all
types on both. Here is what I would advise as far as the FreeBSD/Linux
debate. FreeBSD is by far a more stable server. BUT, it's not nearly as user
freindly as linux. If you are going to be doing desktop style work on your
system. Go with Linux of any sort. If you are going to be serving. Linux is
good and very reliable. Yet for seriously high uptimes under heavy loads.
FreeBSD is hands down the better of the two. But, keep in mind. what you gain
in stablility, you lose in user freindly.. The pathing for a lot of things in
FreeBSD is different. A lot of the networking files are easier as well as
kernel compile file that are easier then Linux. BUT, that's were the easy
part ends and where linux takes top notch as a user freindly OS. That's my
.02 Server == FreeBSD mild server/desktop == Linux I know people are goin
to see this and send me all their comments on how they run a server on linux
that gets a high load. And that it works fine. I don't disagree. It does. But
even Linus admits, it's not as stable as the other Unix versions. Keith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I ran FreeBSD several years ago on a 486 66mz machine and was
> impressed with how solid and fast it was. I ran Apache on it and
> used it to develop HTML/cgi for uploading to a large university
> Sun/Solaris system.
>
> I've now decided to abandon Windows and install "unix". I know
> there are major organizations still using FreeBSD on servers, but
> I'm worried that with all the attention Linux is getting, it's
> probably the bandwagon to hop on.
>
> What are the pros and cons? I'll be using the JDK, GNU-C++,
> Apache, Netscape, etc. What are the chances of a merger of Linux
> and FreeBSD?
>
> Thanks for any input...
>
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: 04 Mar 1999 02:36:21 -0800
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cjt&trefoil> Michael Powe wrote:
>>
cjt&trefoil> <snip>
>> Hmm, DESKTOP != DOOM. DESKTOP == real work. Plenty of
>> opportunity there for linux. I know a lot of people are hot
>> for "games on linux" - -- but really, you timewasters might as
>> well stick with the TimeWasters(tm) OS -- Windows.
>>
cjt&trefoil> <snip>
cjt&trefoil> Id you have in mind TimeWasters95, TimeWasters98, or
cjt&trefoil> TimeWasters2000?
Gee, it's so hard to choose! ;-)
mp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin The Cynical)
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: 4 Mar 1999 12:00:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999 00:31:55 -0500, Jim Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
->
->Paul Farber wrote in message ...
->>There is a simple test to see if the OS is "HUNG" or just to busy doing
->>something else. Press the CAPS LOCK key and look at the keyboard. If the
->>light goes ON/OFF then the CPU is running and the 'puter is running. The
[snip]
->That's an interesting trick to try Caps Lock.
But, this is not a 'tell-all' option. There are a few things that
will cause the keyboard to stop responding. For example, there is a known
bug (IIRC, hardware based) with Quake/Quake2 and a Voodoo card. In some
cases, when Q/Q2 crashes, it can leave the video blank and/or keep the
keyboard from responding. Usually, if telneting in doesn't work, the only
option from there is a reboot.
But, the OS itself _has not hung_, just the console. It is still
possible to telnet in and use the manchine. And I have experienced this
myself a few times. However, it is somewhat rare.
--
"1995 - Windows 95 forever changes the way we think about flaky software."
- _Mr. Bunny's Guide to ActiveX_
Justin The Cynical - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Backup software
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 20:59:22 -0600
Ed Young wrote:
>
> Rick Knight wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a backup/restore program for Linux (RH 5.2) and
> > X? I have a Seagate STT28000n SCSI Travan tape drive GUI based program
> > to use with it. I've tried Knox's ARKEIA but it seems to buggy and the
> > backup utility that comes with KDE doesn't support my drive.
> You might explore afio. It has a safer approach to recovering from corrupted
> media than tar. It is cpio like.
Could you elaborate on this a little, please. I've often
suspected that tar, especially gzipped tar, might be a
problem if any errors happen to occur on the archive. I use
taper (which compresses files individually before writing
them to the tape) with the Exabyte SCSI tape drive on my old
machine, but for some reason I can't get it to run with the
Colorado 5GB IDE drive on the new machine, so I've been
using tar instead. I've not heard much on the relative
merits of cpio, afio and tar so anything you can contribute
would be appreciated...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Mercer)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Speed of accessing tousands of files in a directory?
Date: 3 Mar 1999 20:07:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"J. S. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We have a filesystem connection (NFS/SMB/whatelese) into an AS/400
> library that contains 430,000+ different file entries.
>
> I plan on doing something like this (not a UUOC is it? :-):
>
> foo is a \n delimited list of all files on which we will operate. There
> might be 3000 lines.
>
> for i in `cat foo` ; do
> operate $i
> done
>
> Will there be a problem with the command line length if there are 3k
> lines in foo?
Probably.
>
> Would:
>
> while read ; do
> operate ${REPLY}
> done <foo
>
Why not just:
xargs -l operate <foo
--
Dan Mercer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> be better? The for contruct seems to work in bash in Linux, even
> upwards of 7k, but seems to just hang on an old AIX bourne shell.
>
> Another question for filesystem experts though, when I call my `operate'
> on a small set of 430k+ files, will the shell take an indecently long
> time to search the directory inodes?
>
> I can do this with 20k+ 0 byte files? I don't yet have the filesystem
> available to me to test, but also don't have the resources to produce
> the 430k 50-300kb files.
>
> Any guesses?
>
>
> --
> J. S. Jensen
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.Paramin.COM
>
>
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: Stefan Sassenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kcore
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 13:02:26 +0100
Eric Ho wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In my /proc directory, there is a "kcore" file which is
> over 130Meg, and is growing everyday.
> Can someone tell me what it is ? Can I just delete it ?
> I am running Slackware, kernel 2.0.35, KDE 1.0.
>
> * If it is not too much trouble, please email me a copy
> * of your reply.
>
> Best Regards,
> Eric Ho
I saw this on my machine too, although the file didn�t grow but was
always of my ram�s size.
What I think is that this is not a real file that takes space on your
drive, so don�t matter.
Stefan
--
"Only the blind follow me"
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From: Seth Van Oort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: looking for openGL, or Mesa...
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 21:22:45 +0000
www.mesa3d.org
neurogame wrote:
>
> Hi everybody!
> I'm a newbie in Linux and in Usenet! ( and I'm french, so my english
> might be very bad, sorry... :-/ )
>
> I'm developping a RPG game in 3D, and I want to use openGL, or Mesa, but
> I don't know where to find the necessary libraries and tutorials.( I
> have look for those on the Web, trough yahoo, altavista or metacrawler,
> but my search was a loss of time :-( )
>
> Could you help me please.
>
> P.S. : I'm in a shop providing Internet connexion, and so I can't read
> often the message on Usenet, so if you want to answer myself, I prefer
> the e-mail
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks !
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From: Egil Kvaleberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:19:41 GMT
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Edward Avis wrote:
> Yes, there were lots of currencies called talers (from the town of
> Joachimstal I believe). And there were dollars in Elizabethan
> England. But I don't think these were 'main currencies' in the same
> way as dollar, euro, yen, etc are main currencies.
Oh, but I think they were. At least in all of Scandinavia, where the
"daler" was the main currency untill the 1870s, when it was replaced by
the "krone" (crown).
Egil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eugene O'Neil)
Subject: Re: Anti-Virus for Linux
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 99 21:16:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerald
Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 27 Feb 1999, James R. Bunch wrote:
>
>> On Intel platforms you still have to be carefull of BSI's since they get
>> to the machine _before_ the OS loads. They can do a good job of clobbering
>> lilo. Probably the highest risk systems are those that dual-boot linux and
>> DOS/WinXX.
>
>how exactly do the get to the boot sector before linux boots ???
>or did you mean dual-boot systems are the only ones at risk ???
If your BIOS is set to boot of floppies, and you leave an infected floppy in
your floppy drive as you turn your computer on, it can infect your computer no
matter WHAT operating system you have on your hard disk, because it is booting
off the floppy.
However, the original poster was worried about viruses contracted off a
network, which is virtually impossible under Linux.
-Eugene
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From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: 03 Mar 1999 18:48:44 +0100
Mark Mokryn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You want to be in some business, you do not want to give your
> > trade secrets to anybody else, you want to keep closed source, you
> > don't want anybody else to be able to port your software to other
> > platforms you find strategically uncomfortable. In short, you
> > want to do just as Microsoft does. Which may be fine, but why do
> > you call yourself a community helper and good guy for it?
>
> Yes, I would consider myself a Linux advocate by doing exactly the
> above type of stuff.
You are confusing a few things here. You are advocating *using* Linux
and setting an example for *not* contributing. This is probably going
to further the acceptance of *using* Linux, but not that of
contributing. You are not doing any Free Software developer any
special favour except perhaps paying a compliment to their skills.
Which is not enough to apply for sainthood, I am afraid.
If you find Linux a sound platform, feel free to use it, for free.
But do not expect that we kiss your feet for this gesture of
magnanimity of yours.
> If someone advertises Linux for free, are they helping the Linux
> community? Definitely.
Linux has come about because of a free community effort. It differs
from proprietary software in that respect. Everything substantial
that makes the difference is the open and free aspect of it.
Proprietary offerings may give some lustre to Linux, but they add
nothing at all to the substance that distinguishes it from other
systems. A proprietary offering is not something you can rely on to
stay. What you can rely on is for Linux to stay available,
indefinitely, unconditionally, free to modify and adapt to growing
needs. Proprietary application vendors plan to profit from this
absolute certainty without giving something of the same qualities
back. They are out to make a bargain by using the work of others.
that is ok, the others permitted it, but being strictly selfish is no
reason to be asking for praise.
Everybody out there proprietary switching to Linux does it for the
money and certainty he smells in Linux. This is ok, it has been
sanctified on purpose, but it will not do for a halo.
> You would be correct in saying that a Windows programmer also helps
> MS by buying the Windows license, something one does not need to do
> with Linux. And this brings us to the main point: What does the
> Linux community require from its users/programmers?
Obey the licenses. That is the requirement. Contribute to free
software. That is the plea that makes for the growth of Linux if it
is adhered to.
> Does the Linux community require me to open up my stuff, even if it
> contained ZERO GPL'ed code, but just #included it, linked with it,
> possibly modified it and published the changes, etc?
Read the licenses. If you #include GPL code, the resulting binary is
a derived work and must only be distributed under the GPL. If you
link with GPLed code, the resulting binary is a derived work and must
only be distributed under the GPL.
However, most of the libraries under Linux are distributed under the
LGPL (read the licenses). If you #include headers from there and link
to the library *as* *a* *library*, the LGPL does not extend to the
parts of the software you have written, even if you link into one
binary.
> If so, then I would say that Linux is an even more expensive
> platform than Microsoft. If a programmer getting paid $60,000/year
> spent a year coding for Linux, this is the minimal cost of his
> source code at the end of the year.
You are confusing here things terribly. You are assuming that you can
get fixed wages paid per year if you write for Windows, and get no
wages at all if you write for Linux. Usually, if you are paid money
for writing code, you are paid because the paying party needs that
software written. If the party can save money by building on GPLed
software, it will often choose to do so, even if it might turn out
that others may use the software as well as a consequence. Not
everybody paying for software is planning on recompensation by trying
to market the stuff off to all the world.
> I have yet to pay that amount in MS licenses...
If you take some Internet Explorer code ripped from the binary and
imbed that into an application of yours you sell off to the world, you
will easily get fined more than measly $60000.
> But I don't know what the Linux community expects, because the GPL
> is so !@^%$* vague.
Read it. It is very explicit. If you have a trouble understanding
it, ask.
> I don't think Linux has anything to gain by putting a gun to
> people's heads regarding their source code. Maintaining the code as
> donated, rather than "give it to me or else", would help Linux far
> more.
It seems some people will not donate without some nudging. You
certainly seem to fall in that category. Besides, Linux does not put
a gun to people's head regarding *their* source code. It does so
regarding its *own* source code. That code may not be ripped off for
certain purposes. As Microsoft does not give you any source code
regardless of what purpose, this is certainly not worse than
Microsoft.
> > You want to base your business on Linux, fine. But for the sort of
> > business you want to do, you need not feel like God's gift to
> > programmers. You certainly can feel free to behave the Microsoft way,
> > but I find it silly for you to demand that we would feel proud of you
> > for it.
>
> BTW, in case you care, this is a theoretical discussion - I have not
> yet developed anything proprietary for Linux, and don't know if I
> ever will.
Well, you easily enough could, as has been pointed out about a million
times before. But apply for sainthood elsewhere.
> But the recent buzz has got me thinking about the implications of
> this so-called free OS.
It is free, not public domain. It comes with guarantees about its
freedom, too. Nobody can abuse it in order to make you pay through
the nose for access to source code or the right to derive further free
works from it. Those guarantees are what make it available to you by
cost-effective distribution channels. Those guarantees are enforced
by the law.
The licensing of Linux allows developing commercial and proprietary
applications well enough, it does *not* allow for proprietarization of
Linux itself or much of the application code base under it.
If that does not fit your purpose, go elsewhere. Stop whining.
Nobody forces you to use Linux. We certainly won't go down on our
knees and thank you under tears for trying to make a buck selling
proprietary stuff for Linux. If you want to try it, fine. But it
does not make you a hero. You are just a mercenary. Behave like
one. If you smell money in Linux, do something about it. If you
don't smell money, either do work under the GPL (where you would not
expect large wads of money), or take your business elsewhere.
--
David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-709-4209
Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Angus March)
Crossposted-To: alt.dcom.slip-emulators
Subject: Slirp compile error: Linux 2.0.33
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 21:26:35 GMT
I'm trying to compile slirp under Linux kernel 2.0.33 and the process
quickly stops after being overloaded w/errors:
gcc -I. -I. -DUSE_PPP -g -O -O2 -Wall -Wno-implicit
-Wmissing-prototypes -c ./m
ain.c
./main.c:501: conflicting types for `writefds'
main.h:34: previous declaration of `writefds'
./main.c:501: conflicting types for `readfds'
main.h:34: previous declaration of `readfds'
./main.c:501: conflicting types for `xfds'
main.h:34: previous declaration of `xfds'
make: *** [main.o] Error 1
The version is slirp 1.0c, and I follow the instructions in the REAME
to the letter: cd slirp-1.0c/src
./configure
make
None of the documentation, or anything that I've found on DejaNews
talks about this.
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From: Peter Polman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM manager ?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:46:32 -0800
Check out "xrpm", try one of SuSE's FTP sites, links are at www.suse.com.
It's simple and easy to use.
If you use KDE you might want to check out "kpackage" or "KPackviewer". Find
links to these from KDE's website - www.kde.org
Luis Sousa wrote:
> Len Cuff wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a decent RPM manager -- something that I could use
> > to 'browse' through and see what's installed ?
> > Cheers,
> > Len
>
> there's glint as a generic X aplication, or kdepackage for KDE.
>
> Luis Sousa.
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Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
From: Youngser Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! My printer won't print at all!
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:29:54 -0500
On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Gary Krupa wrote:
> Youngser,
>
> My BIOS has a PNP / PCI feature that allows me to
> enable a pnp OS, or disable it. Also, individual
> irqs may be pnp-enabled. The default is to disable
> the pnp os, which is how I left it. Since I know
> that I have an Intel PCI motherboard, this
> appeared to be the safest choice. And I haven't
> heard about linux becoming a plug and play system.
>
> Does your BIOS have this option? And if it
> doesn't, are you also running windows '95 (or
> '98)?
Yes, my BIOS has the same option, and it's enabled right
now. And, I do have Win98, and it still prints ok to the
same printer.
- Youngser
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs LINUX
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 20:28:20 GMT
There was a discussion recently on debian-devel about porting Debian to the
FreeBSD kernel. The consensus was that it would not be all that hard (not
that anyone is likely to actually get around to doing it soon).
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: accidentally deleted /etc/modules
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 20:19:20 GMT
Angelo Jerod Keresztes writes:
> hello, I am running Debian 2.2 and have the 2.2 kernel and somehow, I
> managed to delete my /etc/modules file and now I can't get linux to boot
> up anymore without a boot floppy. Is there a way that I can get linux to
> create that file automatically, or will I just have to search and hope
> that I can figure out which files belong in it?
Just reinstall the kernel.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: "Jon Wiest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 22:37:55 -0600
David Hawthorne wrote in message <7bkdls$a55$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>No, no, no... This misses the point of professional computer usage
Amen again. I get too pissed off, you manage to rationally lay out these
points. Thanks.
Jon
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