Linux-Misc Digest #799, Volume #19 Sat, 10 Apr 99 09:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need information about newsreading software for Linux (George Dau)
X CDROM (jik-)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: A couple keyboard questions (Andreas Hinz)
Re: C/C++:IDE (Jon Green)
can't mount cd-rom ("flee")
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Harry)
setting hardware clock? (Georg Schwarz)
Re: harddisk keep busy (digger)
Re: Parallel port problems after upgrading to 2.2.5 (Chris MacKenzie)
Re: cdrecord 1.61, Plasmon CDR480 problem (Steve)
Re: make (gcc) (Matthew Slowe)
Re: Where's the source code? (David Steuber)
Re: Soundcard ESS1688 setup failure, no Audio devices on /dev/sndstat, HELP!!! (Hans
Wolters)
Hard drives (Alexander Frolkin)
Re: about rpm under slackware (jik-)
Re: about signal in linux (jik-)
Re: CD-RW question (jik-)
Re: Crypto filesystem? (jik-)
Re: about signal in linux (Villy Kruse)
Re: setting hardware clock? (Villy Kruse)
Re: can't mount cd-rom (Tina)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Dau)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.fan.jeremy-reimer
Subject: Re: Need information about newsreading software for Linux
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 08:08:43 GMT
"Jeremy Reimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]These are the things I love about Outlook Express:
]
]- read items faint, unread items bold. Best visual representation I've
]seen. Much better than looking for little green or red lights.
]- Auto expanding of threads.
]- Mousewheel support everywhere. Hey, Star Office has this, why can't all
]Linux programs?
]- Three-window format (tiled)- newsgroups, message list, message. It's all
]possible and on a 800x600 desktop on top of that. I don't like huge windows
]that waste space.
Sounds a bit like the features I like in Forte Agent, which runs in Linux under
wine. No MS-Windows installation required at all, just wine and Agent.
Maybe you could tro OE under wine.
http://www.winehq.org (I think, from memory).
--
,-,_|\ George Dau - Unix (Solaris, DEC Unix, Linux), Oracle, Internet. __
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v WWW: http://www.pobox.com/~gedau ! Carpentaria Buffalo Club. W--W
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 01:29:05 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x
Subject: X CDROM
Thinking of offering XFree86 4.0 on CDROM when it is released (no point
doing 3.x). Would include source and binaries for at least Linux
systems (rpm, tgz, deb, stampede?), and if there is room, also the *BSD
packages (however they work).
How interested in such a thing would people be? I would likely need to
charge $10 per CD,....can probably do the jewel case thing, but I would
have to be cheap on the book and tray. This would make me enough to
contribute to XFree86 and to make a few $$ for me. But I would need to
be sure I could sell them.....a run of CDs is pretty expensive (though
not so much if you sell them ALL)
So, who would be interested? Would you pay $10 to get XFree86 on CD?
If I end up having to do a smaller run and charge more, would you pay
it? Frankly all I would be doing is downloading X frm various known
places and burning it on a CD and then ordering a Replication turn....
How many people want 3.3.3.1 on CD? If enough wanted it I could
possibly scrape up the cash to do one, but I would need to be SURE of
getting my money back (would likely need to borrow and hawk) 50 is the
shortest run that would be worth while and it would be CD-R....anything
smaller I would have to do myself on a one-on-one deal.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: 10 Apr 1999 09:39:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <uzasT9yg#[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I can't do that from a GUI
>
>You can, with an xterm. But, please, don't let me stop you
>hatings GUIs.
>
>Harry
Eh? You can click at a xterm all day long, and it won't do that
(abomination) that he posted. Because, tah-dah... it's a CLI.
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A couple keyboard questions
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 09:13:52 GMT
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:10:53 +0000, Pavel Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>3. If I press a key down and hold it, what determines how fast the
>characters appear on the screen?
>
>
In your ~/.xinitrc, add then line:
xset r rate 30 250
This should work for X only.
If you want the change system wide, put the following in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
/sbin/kbdrate -r 30 -d 250
Redhat 5.2, kernel 2.2.5
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Andreas Hinz
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From: Jon Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: C/C++:IDE
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:05:56 +0100
To inform you that the JASSPA distribution of MicroEmacs does
provide some facilites for debugging with GDB, compilation and
shell windows.
You can find this distribution at:-
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Thinktank/7109/
This is a much reworked version of MicroEmacs that runs
under Linux.
Jon.
Robert Heller wrote:
>
> Niels Gierse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Wed, 07 Apr 1999 23:23:13 +0200, wrote :
>
> NG> Hello to all Linux users!
> NG>
> NG> I am a programmer who is not very good in programming c/c++. While I am
> NG> developing applications I have many spell errors or leave out simple
> NG> things like the ';'. When I programm at a Windows OS that is no problem,
> NG> since there are many good developing areas like MS Visual C++ or Borland
> NG> C (IDE). Is there anything familar running at Linux?
> NG> I would apericate if you could tell me where I can get it.
>
> I believe GnuEmacs 'understands' the C compiler messages and will allow
> you to split screen - a source code window and error log window and
> there is a key binding for 'next error' which positions the buffer
> cursor on the source line in error.
>
> GnuEmacs also has an interface to gdb that gives you a similar access
> during run-time.
>
> It is not as elaborate GUI/Point-And-Click as MS Visual C++, but you get
> the base level functionality.
>
> I have heard of a 'real' C/C++ IDE for Linux. Also I have heard that
> Metrowerks will be/has out a version of 'CodeWarrior' for Linux.
> CodeWarrior is a C/C++/Pascal/Java IDE, originally for MacOS, but there
> is a MS-Windows version and I have heard 'rumors' of a BeOS and Linux
> versions as well. I've used the MacOS version. *I* personally have no
> desire to use an IDE like this unless I have to (eg on the Mac).
>
> (*I* don't use GnuEmacs -- I use MicroEmacs, which does not have the
> features of GnuEmacs WRT dealing with the compiler or the debugger,
> which *I* don't need.)
>
> NG>
> NG> Niels 8-)
> NG>
> NG> Please mail this to me personal!
> NG> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> NG>
> NG>
>
>
> --
> \/
> Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: "flee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't mount cd-rom
Date: 10 Apr 1999 20:07:52 +1000
i've been trying to install a program (WordPerfect) from the CD-ROM drive,
but Linux doesn't seem to want to know anything about it.
When I type mount /mnt/cdrom I get the answer
CFS Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev 1640
mount wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too
many mounted filestystems
mount /dev/cdrom gives me
mount can't find /dev/hdd in /etc/metab or /etc/fstab
when I look in /etc/fstab I can see
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom ext2
user,dev,exec,ro,suid 0 0
It seems that the cdrom is there, but I can't mount it. Anyone tell me
where to go from here? Do I have to reinstall Linux, in which case I might
as well upgrade to redhat 5.2 (I'm running 5.0).
Any help appreciated.
tks
frank
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 04:51:28 -0400
> I can't do that from a GUI
You can, with an xterm. But, please, don't let me stop you
hatings GUIs.
Harry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: setting hardware clock?
Date: 10 Apr 1999 10:32:28 GMT
I'm running RedHat Linux 5.2 on a PC. On startup the time is set from an
NTP server. Prior to that process, however, Linux uses the internal
hardware clock, which is supposed to run in local time (UTC=false). This
clock has two problems:
a) it has a poor long term accuracy
b) it does not know about daylight savings time
so, should I periodically let Linux set that hardware clock? How could
that be accomplished? By a cron job? Could xntpd do it?
Also, because of b), should I rather use UT for the hardware clock?
--
Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: digger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: como.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: harddisk keep busy
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 06:12:42 -0500
i just found which program keeps writing to the disk by killing the
process one by one. it is /sbin/update, which is supposed to flush the
kernel buffer back to disk. the default value for is 5 sec. i just kill
this process and have not seen any problem yet.
digger
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From: Chris MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Parallel port problems after upgrading to 2.2.5
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 00:40:30 +0000
Peter Caffin wrote:
> When you type `dmesg | less` you should see entries like:
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> lp1: using parport1 (polling).
>
> If you don't that means that your kernel hasn't seen the devices, for
> whatever reason.
I had a similar problem, the kernel wouldn't load the parport module
(yes I enabled PC Style hardware) - it would work if I used modprobe
manually (!?)
I just compiled parport and pc style into the kernel (not as modules),
it works just fine now *8-)
--
Rgds,
Chris MacKenzie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell
for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating
system originally coded for a 4 bit
microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company
that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
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From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cdrecord 1.61, Plasmon CDR480 problem
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:45:58 +0000
Martin Heitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi. I just got a Sony CRX-100E, 4X/24X/2X CDRW ATAPI/EIDE drive and
> > I'm having problems getting it to work.
>
> I have a Plasmon CDR 480 SCSI - drive and it worked fine with my prior linux
> installation (older Suse), but now I installed the new Suse linux with the
> 2.0.36 kernel and I cannot burn CDs any more. Why I am answering this posting?
> The error-message and behavior seems to be exactly the same, although my drive
> is a SCSI device.
>
> > I have xcdroast 0.96e (and hence cdrecord 1.61).
>
> So do I...
>
> > Config: RedHat 5.2, 2.0.36, 64M RAM, Sony CRX100E is secondary slave (hdd).
>
> Suse 6.0, 2.0.36, 32 MB RAM, Plasmon CDR 480 SCSI (device 0,05,0)
>
> > xcdroast displays the drive and cdrecord -scanbus shows the drive, but when I
> > go to write, it works for a couple of seconds and then ejects the CDR. I've
> > included the log message that I'm getting.
>
> The error on my system cannot be an error caused by xcdroast, because the error
> appears also, if I call cdrecord from the command line... Depending on the CD
> type (I tried different vendors for making sure, that it is not depending on
> damaged disks) I am trying to burn, the "power calibration error" (see Ralph's
> error messages below) evolves when the process starts or when the drive starts
> trying to fixate.
> The same hardware without any changes worked fine with my prior linux system
> (sorry, I forgot which kernel that was)...
>
> I read, that there are new and old scsi-devices in the /dev - directory. On my
> system, there are both types (those with the numbers and those with the
> characters). How can I figure out, which of them are used? May I delete some of
> them (perhaps one part of cdrecord tries to use the older ones, the rest tries
> to use the new ones)?
>
> > I didn't see this particular Sony model listed in the cdrecord and/or
> > xcdroast compatability list.
> >
> > Known problem?
> > Fix? Easy fix?
>
> Would be interested in that, too...
>
> >
> > Thanks.
> > -Ralph
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> > ------------------------
> > Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J�rg
> > [...]
>
> > Manufacturer: TDK Corporation
>
> I tried different manufacturers - error remains the same, but sometimes the
> drive manages to write the whole data and fail at fixation instead of failing
> directly at the beginning...
>
> > [...]
>
> > Starting new track at sector: 0
> > /usr/local/CDR/xcdroast/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1:
> > Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable
> > error
> > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> > CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
> > Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 73 03
> > 00 00
> > Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
> > Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area
> > error) Fru 0x0
> > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> > cmd finished after 2.931s timeout 40s
> > /usr/local/CDR/xcdroast/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1:
> > Input/output error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd:
> > retryable error
> > status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> > [...]
>
> --
> http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~heitz/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "... Isch hab mir konkreed neue Audo gekaufd ..."
Hi,
I have the same problem, ie. that the write fails when fixating the disk.
I'm using SuSE 6.0 and XCDRoast 0.96e, and I am using ATAPI IDE CD-ROM writer (a
Philips 3610). Personally I had to recompile the kernel with SCSI emulation
switched on and with ATAPI IDE CD-ROM support switched out, which means that I
cannot use my CD-ROM normally if I want to record. That's OK (just about) because
I can reboot to another kernel where the ATAPI interfaces are compiled
in (SCSI support cannot be included if native ATAPI support is included - this
required a careful reading of the individual help screens for each option in
xconfig).
I also would like to know why my disks are not being fixated - I now have an extra
five coasters, and it's driving me up the wall.
Could this be a bug with either cdrecord or XCDRoast ? Should we report this to
the autor?
Any extra information and ideas will be most welcome.
Regards
Steve
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From: Matthew Slowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: make (gcc)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:41:01 +0100
Reply-To: Matthew Slowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Smith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 21:27:51 +0100, Matthew Slowe
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Makefile. The readme says to type 'make', but this does nothing (cmd not
>
>>I am running Redhat 5.1, and would like to know how to compiles these
>>progs!
>>--
>>Matthew Slowe
>> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>You need to install "make". The RPM probably came with your system. In
>RH5.0, make-3.76.1-2.rpm (or something like that) is the binary.
>
Thanx to both of you, I'll go and try it now!
--
Matthew Slowe
To Reply by email, click on the mailto link below...
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'Is that your hat, or did a weasel climb onto your head and die?'
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.so.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Where's the source code?
Date: 09 Apr 1999 23:10:10 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-> I realize this post is flame bait, but hopefully so reasonable people will
-> respond.
Not at all. The system you describe sounds awesome. I don't know if
it can be implimented in the anarchy of the Linux world, but I like
the idea.
The best I can offer is to find a distribution that you like, and try
to stick with it when there are rpms for it. It is possible to build
everything from source, but I expect that is a lot of work.
I use SuSE 6.0. Most of what I want is there. I am running a newer
PCMCIA distribution than SuSE provides, built from source. I am also
running leafnode built from source from the leafnode site (don't feel
like looking up URL).
I would expect your biggest anoyances to come from SVR4isms mixed with
BSDisms. It doesn't bother me so much because Solaris is the only
other Unix I have experience with and it was not that extensive.
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
If you don't, I won't see it.
Every nonzero finite dimensional inner product space has an orthonormal basis.
It makes sense, when you don't think about it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Subject: Re: Soundcard ESS1688 setup failure, no Audio devices on /dev/sndstat, HELP!!!
Date: 10 Apr 1999 12:06:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wong Tsun Hin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard
and wrote the following ....
[snap]
>The sound 've been doing well in RH 4.2. But after formatting and
>installing
>RH 5.2 all over again. It doesn't work. Could somebody help me?
>
>Any suggestion is welcome!! Thank you.
Hi John,
Try the HOWTO in my signature. It helps on most cards that have a soundpro
chip.
Regards Hans
--
Java Search Engine Front End
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/
Linux Links/CMI8330 Soundpro HOWTO
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/linux.htm
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From: Alexander Frolkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hard drives
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:18:24 GMT
Hello,
Does anyone else here have an old IDE computer, with a hard drive > 528Mb?
I do - it's a Samsung 1.27Gb drive. Because of the limitation, it uses a
driver which is installed in the MBR. The drive has three partitions which
I can access under DOS, but not Linux. Linux reports that there are no
partitions on the drive, and cfdisk tells me that there is nothing but free
space on the drive. I am running Linux from my older 80Mb drive. Does anyone
know if there is any way I could get Linux to 'see' the partitions on the
1.27Gb drive? Would it help if I deleted all the partitions in DOS, and then
created new ones in Linux?
Thanks a lot.
Alexander Frolkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 02:01:15 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: about rpm under slackware
pyjamas wrote:
>
> with the orignal libary in slackware. could i install glib 1.2.x as well?
> so that my slackware could recognize and i could install rpm package?
> thx .
Slackware 3.6 comes with both a glibc2 runtime, and rpm2tgz converter
programs.
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 02:02:03 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: about signal in linux
pyjamas wrote:
>
> under linux, when we continue to send a signal, say SIGUSR, twice,
> and the signal handler will set it to be the defalt handler...
> unfortunately, Linux set it to terminate by default.
>
> so anyone could tell me how to make it behave different from just "terminate"
> the program?
man sigaction
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 02:06:07 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-RW question
> Does anyone know of a driver for udf formatted CDs that works with
> Linux? (ie, discs created with Adaptec's DirectCD software)
udf driver in progress, only reads at the moment afaik.
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 02:13:32 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Crypto filesystem?
Trapper wrote:
>
> Fellow Linuxers:
>
> ISTR hearing about an encrypted filesystem for Linux. Anyone know what the
> software is called and where I can find it?
I think it was posted at freshmeat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: about signal in linux
Date: 10 Apr 1999 13:42:52 +0200
In article <7emiuc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
pyjamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>under linux, when we continue to send a signal, say SIGUSR, twice,
>and the signal handler will set it to be the defalt handler...
>unfortunately, Linux set it to terminate by default.
>
>so anyone could tell me how to make it behave different from just "terminate"
>the program?
>
On glibc systems (redhat for example) the signal handler remain instaled
after a signal is caught. It is better to use sigaction where you can
specify whether a signal handler should reset to default when a signal
is caught or remain installed. Also with sigaction you can specify if
you want a signal to interrept system calles with error code EINTR or
automatically restart the system call transparently.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: setting hardware clock?
Date: 10 Apr 1999 13:52:47 +0200
In article <7en9bs$64i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running RedHat Linux 5.2 on a PC. On startup the time is set from an
>NTP server. Prior to that process, however, Linux uses the internal
>hardware clock, which is supposed to run in local time (UTC=false). This
>clock has two problems:
>
>a) it has a poor long term accuracy
>b) it does not know about daylight savings time
>
>so, should I periodically let Linux set that hardware clock? How could
>that be accomplished? By a cron job? Could xntpd do it?
>Also, because of b), should I rather use UT for the hardware clock?
If you don't dual boot with win9x or NT you should definitely run the
rtc clock in utc time. This eliminates problem b). In the man pages for
hwclock is explained how to record the clock drift to compensate for poor
accuracy. The clock drift will then be compensated for when the system
clock is set from the rtc clock at boot time. It is claimed if you run
xntp then the kernel will synchronize the rtc clock on a regular basis,
but you would need a permanent connection to the NTP server for this
to work properly. The chrony ntp client is better suited for dial-up
connection as you can tell the chrony program to go offline or online on
as needed basis. Also, chrony as well as xntp will ajust the clock drift
so they will run more acuratly even when not connected to the ntp server.
Chrony is available from contrib.redhat.com for redhat users.
Villy
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From: Tina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't mount cd-rom
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:34:30 +0200
flee wrote:
>
> i've been trying to install a program (WordPerfect) from the CD-ROM drive,
> but Linux doesn't seem to want to know anything about it.
>
> When I type mount /mnt/cdrom I get the answer
> CFS Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev 1640
> mount wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too
> many mounted filestystems
>
> mount /dev/cdrom gives me
> mount can't find /dev/hdd in /etc/metab or /etc/fstab
>
> when I look in /etc/fstab I can see
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom ext2
>user,dev,exec,ro,suid 0 0
>
> It seems that the cdrom is there, but I can't mount it. Anyone tell me
> where to go from here? Do I have to reinstall Linux, in which case I might
> as well upgrade to redhat 5.2 (I'm running 5.0).
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> tks
>
> frank
Try changing the cdrom-entry in the fstab to this:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0
Comment: the cdrom isn't a ext2 filesystem. That's probably what's causing
the problem.
Tina
--
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