Linux-Misc Digest #787, Volume #19 Thu, 8 Apr 99 17:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: BUS error - Netscape (Nick Wagg)
Re: PPProblems. I'm almost there. (Daniel TONG)
Re: Running as root? (TurkBear)
Re: (Q) Is there a pgp.rpm ? (Eric Bryant)
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (Jon-o Addleman)
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (Jon-o Addleman)
Re: Can I read an HP-UX backup tape? (Paul Sherwin)
Re: xterm is launched by root all the time? (-rws--x--x ) (Brian McCauley)
Re: Running as root? (Walter Tice USG)
LOGIN.... HELP!!!! (Josh)
Linux NFS and IRIX problems? (Nicholas Strugnell)
Thanks + ("Mike")
Re: fetchmail/exim/procmail ("The Lone Scribe")
Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!! ("The Lone Scribe")
Crypto filesystem? (Trapper)
Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!! (NTGUEST)
Re: QIC-80 help (Richard Steur)
Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!! (Josh)
Reflector (Giuseppe D'Antini)
Re: Q) disk cp fd0 to fd0 (source to target) (mist)
Re: Shutdown problem with gpm ("brian")
Help me!. I can't get PPPD to work ("Dr A Medina S]")
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Frank v Waveren)
Re: Communicator 5.1 will not run with AccelX but works fine with XFree????
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!! (NTGUEST)
Re: Benchmark questions (Armin Kaiser)
Re: Emacs; is there a third way? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!! ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Yet another glibc 2.1 question ("brian")
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From: Nick Wagg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BUS error - Netscape
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:34:27 +0100
Ilya wrote:
>
> I was running Netscape when it suddenly crashed! I got this message:
>
> root@republic-p4-~>
> [1] + bus error netscape
If it is any comfort, I get bus errors with every version of Netscape
I have ever used (2, 3 and 4) on Solaris 2.4 - 2.6 (on Sparc 4, not PC),
HP-UX B.10.20, OSF1 v3.2 and AIX 4.1.
This is not because of hardware configurations but because of bugs
in the application, almost certainly in the multi-threading, as I find
that things are most prone to go wrong when kicking off some intensive
process in one Netscape window, then switching to another and doing
something else.
In spite of the bugs it is still my favourite browser but it does
give the impression of being PC software.
--
Nick Wagg <>< (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Laser-Scan Ltd,
Software Project Manager Science Park, Milton Rd,
Tel: +44(0)1223 420414 (ext 213) Cambridge, CB4 0FY, UK.
Fax: +44(0)1223 420044 http://www.laser-scan.com/
Opinions expressed are attributable to me, not my employer.
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From: Daniel TONG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PPProblems. I'm almost there.
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:16:16 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have the SuSE 5.2 distribution on a standalone box. I
> can get a ppp connection but it doesn't stick. Below is
> the output of /var/log/messages:
>
> Apr 7 19:30:30 rjshank pppd[3600]: Serial connection established.
> Apr 7 19:30:40 rjshank pppd[3600]: Using interface ppp0
> Apr 7 19:30:40 rjshank pppd[3600]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
> Apr 7 19:30:40 rjshank pppd[3600]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1524>
> <magic 0x2c063329>]
> Apr 7 19:31:07 rjshank last message repeated 9 times
> Apr 7 19:31:10 rjshank pppd[3600]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
>
> Apr 7 19:31:10 rjshank pppd[3600]: Connection terminated.
>
Before doing anything, check your route while you have dialed up to your
isp.
Is there a default route back? If not, type route add default gw ???????
where ? is the dynamic address shown.
Daniel
3 months newbie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TurkBear)
Subject: Re: Running as root?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:27:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to avoid using my root login, but that;s the only account that can
receive mail ! - I have posted requests for help on this strange problem, but no
ideas have come in ( Its a RedHat 5.2 install - Other user I created can FTP and
Telnet to the server, 'Finger' returns the correct User Data, but any mail sent
to that user is returned as 'Unknown user' )
So, to send myself stuff for other places, I need to mail it to root - not what
I would prefer to do....
Any Ideas!!
Thanks in advance...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>According to oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
=========================Snip=============================================
>
>
>A good systems administrator will run as root only when absolutely
>necessary, and will even install system daemons w/o root privs. That
>way, if someone does fine a 'sploit in the program, damage control
>will be limited to a user broach instead of a systems broach.
>
=============snip============================
To reply please remove the 'nospam' part of the address
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From: Eric Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (Q) Is there a pgp.rpm ?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:26:38 -0700
Try http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Could some kind soul tell me where to find an rpm for pgp (Pretty Good Privacy)?
> (Preferably the latest version.)
> Is there some reason why this is not on the RedHat CDs?
>
> --
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon-o Addleman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:34:21 GMT
Once upon a Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:23:48 -0700, "D. C. Sessions"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you don't know which magical registry bit to set, you can:
>
>1) Look in the documentation that came with the system
>2) Go to the Windows Documentation Project for the HOWTOs
>3) Call up Microsoft Support
>4) Haul out the source code and figure it out
>5) Spend a few hundred $$ on Windows sysadmin books
>6) Try things at random until something works
>7) Take and MSIE course on the chance they'll know
>8) Post a question on comp.os.windows.networking
>
>I don't know what you're complaining about.
Ah. Of course you're right. I was silly to complain! ;)
--
Jon-o Addleman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon-o Addleman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 18:36:29 GMT
Once upon a Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:25:12 -0600, John Thompson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Really? Why would they want it to be impossible to save your password
>> unless a particular protocol was in place? It makes llittle sense to
>> me... the dial up networking has nothing to do with the network
>> protocol that it uses. Please explain this to me!
>
>Perhaps to encourage you to use their proprietary protocol
>instead of other, more open protocols?
That makes no sense, even for microsoft... the client for ms networks
means nothing to anyone running a tcp/ip netowrk (i.e. almost
everyone). Requiring it to be installed is like requiring drivers for
an ms mouse loaded even if you're using a different mouse that has its
own drivers! (Which, come to think of it, windows probably does... )
--
Jon-o Addleman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Sherwin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can I read an HP-UX backup tape?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 19:35:31 GMT
On Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:46:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm trying to read a backup tape created with HP-UX's fbackup.
I don't know anything about fbackup but the first thing I'd do is pull
the raw data from the tape using dd (see the man page for more info):
dd if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/tape1 etc.
>From your examples, you seem to suggest that fbackup is a front end
for cpio. If this is so, you shouldn't have any problems unpacking the
files.
I take an interest in these things and would appreciate an email when
you finally sort this out.
Good luck and best regards, Paul
Paul Sherwin Consulting 22 Monmouth Road, Oxford OX1 4TD, UK
Phone +44 (0)1865 721438 http://www.telinco.co.uk/psherwin/index.htm
Fax +44 (0)1865 434331 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pager +44 (0)7666 797228
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xterm is launched by root all the time? (-rws--x--x )
Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:26:23 +0100
NewsMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Even when I, as a plain user, launch xterm, it is actually
> launched by root. I know it is due to the "s" bit:
> -rws--x--x 1 root root 244432 Jan 19 11:55
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
> Why is that so? What is the reason behind this?
So that it can obtain and chown() a pty device and update /etc/utmp (list
of sessions used by "who" and so on).
It may in some ways be more elegant to have a suid helper process to
do this but then you could fake the "where" field of /etc/utmp even
more easily than you can now.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Tice USG)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Running as root?
Date: 8 Apr 1999 19:31:32 GMT
In article <kq5P2.26335$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
>According to oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
<snips>
>A good systems administrator will run as root only when absolutely
>necessary, and will even install system daemons w/o root privs. That
>way, if someone does fine a 'sploit in the program, damage control
>will be limited to a user broach instead of a systems broach.
>-p.
It's true, but being an impatient sort, I really like to run long
commands (find, grep, etc.) scripts (perl), and apps (Netscape)
with the 'nice' turned way up, to like -15 or -20. As far as I
know I can only do this as root. Anybody got a way for me to
give this ability to myself as a non root user?
W
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From: Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: LOGIN.... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:44:31 -0400
I completly instaled LINUX5.2 succesfully.....but when it asks for the
LOCALHOST LOGIN: before the password, what do i put?
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From: Nicholas Strugnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.admin
Subject: Linux NFS and IRIX problems?
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 15:42:56 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I administer a linux machine (Redhat 5.1 Kernel 2.0.36) used for writing
CDs. It mounts, via NFS, 7 filesystems from an SGI O200 running IRIX 6.4.
The mount options are:
rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard
The O200 sysadmin has just asked me to stop mounting the partitions as the
O200 has been suffering massive filesystem problems (although I think that
the filesystem problems were happening before I started mounting
filesystems off the server.)
The main problem with the O200 is that other client machines (not the
linux one) will lock up when trying to do e.g. an 'ls' in a users home
directory. This eventually times out after a while (5-10 mins) and you get
the result of your 'ls'. Rebooting the O200 solves the problem for a day
or so. There are no relevent log messages on the SGI (according to the
sysadmin).
The only solution to the problem seems to be rebooting the O200 _and_ the
master NIS server for the domain (a Solaris box). One other thing to note
- the linux box does not use NIS and does not share UIDs/GIDs (don't ask).
Well, I unmounted the NFS filesystems at lunchtime and we've had no
problem since but it's early days yet. However, having to ftp stuff over
to write a disk image is not an ideal solution.
Any ideas as to wether the linux box could be bringing an O200 and all its
clients to its knees and what I could do to solve this.
Cheers,
Nick
Dept. of Geography | Phone (Office): +1 (617) 353-8031
Boston University | Phone (Home): +1 (617) 247-6292
675 Commonwealth Avenue | Fax: +1 (617) 353-3200
Boston, MA 02215-1401, USA | WWW: http://crsa.bu.edu/~nstrug/
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Thanks +
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:42:14 -0700
Hi,
This is another very grateful newbie who wants to thank the many people that
have posted and sent responses about my modem problem. I can now dial out
to my ISP through Minicom and it appears to work well. the solution was to
reset the jumpers on my USRobotics 33.6 modem to COM 2 and IRQ 3.and rerun
Modem tool and then netcfg.
Now the second reason for my new post. I can dial in to my ISP but it would
be kind of nice to be able to browse the web and use e-mail. Ok I know this
sounds dumb but the only application that i am aware of that has these
functions is Netscape. It is installed on my system but i cannot get it to
access any thing.
When i enter url into the location area all i get returned is an error
message that home.netscape.co cannot be located, it does not have a DNS
entered. I also cannot get it to accept my user name, POP or SMTP server.
from my previous post i am aware that i must be on line and i am connected
to my ISP via netcfg when this info is entered. again i get a error message
that states the server (mail.the-den.com) is not recognized.
if i am doing something wrong can someone help or if there is a different
browser available for LINUX could some one please tell me the name of
it???????
again i want to thank you all for your help and apologize for filling up
thegroups with the my questions. I am just so close now I am excited and
want to be able to use my Linux system to its full potential (for me).
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From: "The Lone Scribe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: fetchmail/exim/procmail
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:56:01 -0700
Arcady Genkin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>RE. Fetchmail - fetchmailconf doesn't work for me because it can't
>find some library ... In any case I prefere configuring it through the
>.fetchmailrc file
Writing a new rc file won't get around that limitation, even though you may
prefer that it did. Just go get the missing lib and install it.
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From: "The Lone Scribe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:49:58 -0700
Typing 'root' and then its password would be a good start, unless you
installed some user accounts during setup.
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From: Trapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Crypto filesystem?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 12:59:28 -0700
Fellow Linuxers:
ISTR hearing about an encrypted filesystem for Linux. Anyone know what the
software is called and where I can find it?
-Scott
m i l o r o s "at" m i t o k o r "dot" c o m
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From: NTGUEST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:58:28 -0500
Just put root
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From: Richard Steur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: QIC-80 help
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 05:31:15 +0200
Are you running RH 5.2 ???
JoeBob the Great wrote:
>
> I am having trouble getting my Colorado QIC-80 tape drive working under Linux.
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:05:00 -0400
If I put root it asks for for a # what do i put?
NTGUEST wrote:
> Just put root
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Giuseppe D'Antini)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Reflector
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:28:09 GMT
We are starting a training project needing videoconferencing between
teacher and pupils at their home via Internet. We have choosen
CU-SeeMe solution based on Reflector server, but there are some
problems. It seems that multicast messages can't go through the
routers, so users cannot cooperate. Can you help us about the
Reflector configuration?
May be that problem is in the router configuration?
Sorry for my poor english. Bye.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q) disk cp fd0 to fd0 (source to target)
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:36:51 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>
>That is not necessary because the dd command copies the entire
>disk, including the filesystem.
Yup, and this is how I understood it to be. But for some strange reason
sometimes using just "dd" has failed to give a disk that can be booted
from when the original could. Maybe it was just duff disks...
--
Mist.
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From: "brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shutdown problem with gpm
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:12:46 -0500
I had the same problem. I fixed it by disabling gpm altogether since I never
used it, anyway. I think you can also get the same effect by killing gpm
manually before you attempt to shutdown/restart.
brian
In article <7eihit$ccs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , "Joachim Johansson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Finally, I got X working on my Dell XPSR450 machine, i.e. I had to download
> the latest version. However another problem arised insted. After using X,
> and shutting down the machine it hangs after propting "Shutting down gpm
> mouse services:" when I use the command "Shutdown -h(r) now". However using
> the Poweroff-command works fine. The mouse is a MS Intellimouse PS/2.
> Why? What can I do to fix it?
>
> Thanks a bunch
>
> /Linux-beginner, Joachim Johansson
>
>
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:48:08 -0600
From: "Dr A Medina S]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help me!. I can't get PPPD to work
I'm using Red Hat 5.2. When I try to connect to Internet, I get to call,
then chat with my ISP, and when I select ppp, and pppd should start, I
get "PPPD died unexpectedly".
I tried Xdialppp, X-ISP, KPPP, without any success. I followed
ISP-HOWTO, and when I try to connect my modem disconnect automatically
after a few seconds, and I never get to connect.
Help! How can I check/correct my PPP daemon?. I even uninstalled and
reinstalled from disk, using glint,without success.
I used to conect with this same configuration, and Right now I'm using
the same machine under windows.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank v Waveren)
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 21:20:28 GMT
Old zeeland (actually called just zeeland) is a province in the south of holland.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (who?) writes:
>
>> : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> : Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> : > This is a fiction. Redhat do *not* develop drivers.
>
>> stupid comment, but I cant help but chastise poor english, which I am a
>> master of (poor english for those not following very closely).
>> that do, it should be does.
>
> not if you're from a commonwealth country - which includes new zealand
> (where is the old zealand btw?). in *english* (as opposed to american
> english) redhat is a group entity and considered plural. therefore,
> redhat do.
>
--
Frank v Waveren
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ# 10074100
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Communicator 5.1 will not run with AccelX but works fine with XFree????
Date: 8 Apr 1999 12:43:05 GMT
Eric Skup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have redhat 5.2 running kernel 2.2.4. I was running XFree86 for a
> while and I had no problems running Netscape Communicator 5.1. I
Netscape Communicator 5.1? 4.51 was the most recent one I could find
at Netscape. Am I missing something?
--
Daniel Dorau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<< If a train stops at a trainstation, what happens at a workstation? >>
PGP key available, send mail with 'Subject: send pgp key'
fingerprint: 8D7E0B2F9E2E5338 DB7B24742E8B2EAE
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From: NTGUEST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:20:30 -0500
what you mean by #?
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From: Armin Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Benchmark questions
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 10:07:55 GMT
Andy Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was reading over the bogomips howto today, and the numbers really
> surprised me.
> Consistently, socket-7 or super-socket-7 systems are twice as fast as
> comparable
> slot-2 systems. For example, a Pentium MMX 233 is as fast as a
> Pentium-2 466.
> A AMD K6-2 440 is twice as fast as a Pentium-2 450. Why is this? The
> AMD K6-2 440
> beat out all single processor Linux systems, including Alphas! (for
> 32bit math). It
> was almost as fast as a Cray J90!
You should not take BogoMips for benchmarking. It's called "BOGO", which
means that you can't compare various processors with BOGOMIPS. It is possible
to compare an AMD K6 200 Mhz with AMD K6 300 Mhz. For real benchmarking try
nbench or something else.
Bye
Armin Kaiser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Re: Emacs; is there a third way?
Date: 8 Apr 1999 19:30:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hal Sadofsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>It runs under X, using the mouse, colors, pull-down menus, etc. in a
>nice way. If I type emacs when I'm at the console though (without
>Xwindows running) then emacs works fine in the console. In addition,
>if I start emacs with emacs -nw while using X, it runs in console mode
>inside the xterm I started it from.
>
>This is all with GNU Emacs, not with Xemacs, which I know less about.
>There are several machines at work that I've installed both GNU Emacs
>on, _and_ Xemacs without any interference, as well.
XEmacs works the same.
The only minor problem that I know if is that while one can run
"xemacs -nw" to get a non-windowed process while X is running,
it isn't possible to run gnuclient without getting an Xwindow.
Hence if the X server is running and the EDITOR variable is
defined as gnuclient for example, and a program executed from a
virtual console automatically pulls up the $EDITOR... you have
to go back to the X virtual console to find it!
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UPDATED Mar 20, North Slope images: <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: LOGIN.... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:00:47 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I completly instaled LINUX5.2 succesfully.....but when it asks for the
Where did you get 5.2??? Must have been a time travel because the latest I'm
aware of is 2.2 or the dev kernels 2.3.
> LOCALHOST LOGIN: before the password, what do i put?
Try "root".
And then create asap a user account.
jue
--
J�rgen Exner
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From: "brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Yet another glibc 2.1 question
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 15:30:08 -0500
I am running a RedHat 5.2 distribution on Intel. Upgrading to glibc-2.1.1
broke finger, real good. It would say that people who logged off days ago
were still logged in. The number of people that it thought were logged in
would slowly grow and grow as the days went by.
Reverting back to glibc-2.0.7 seems to have brought everything back to
normal. However, it seems that finger and last (and possibly w and who) do
not correctly account for X (well, xdm) logins. This seems to be a well
known problem. Does anyone know how I can use glibc-2.1 and not break finger
while I am at it?
(Please, no witty remarks about physically breaking fingers on my hand...)
brian
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Look to Redhats rawhide site or one of its mirrors. The reality is that if
> you upgrade to this library you will have to also upgrade many of the
> applications on you system. This is not a bad thing but should not be
> considered in haste. You want to be sure that everything you need will
> work with the new library. So far I have not had problems with my
> installation and find that everything is snappier with the new libs. That
> may be due in part to glibc being targeted I586 and the recompile of many
> other programs with improved compilers.
>
> Gnome can be a pain wether you stay with RPM's or compile from source.
>
> Dave
>
>
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