Linux-Misc Digest #991, Volume #19 Fri, 30 Apr 99 01:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Assembler in GNU's C++ compiler ("Marshall G. Gates")
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to "GNU Communism") (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: Are there other ports of java in linux? (Darren Greer)
Re: Slow Login due to large /etc/passwd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LinuxConf or Webmin? (Ben Short)
Re: Convvert .htm(l) files to .ps? (William Burrow)
Re: LinuxConf or Webmin? (Regit Young)
Re: Stupid $PATH question that I am ashamed to ask, but having no pride, I proceed
(Andrew Comech)
Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ? (Captain Dondo)
Re: [wm-user] WordPerfect: WP8 new window creation? (Philip Rackus)
Re: Fractals !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!? (jason)
Re: Mail forwarding (Gavin McCord)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to "GNU Communism") (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: Slow Login due to large /etc/passwd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The Linux Group ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where do I get the files that go in /usr/include? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help libc6 libc5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: find, xargs, grep ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: rup,rwhod problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Assembler in GNU's C++ compiler ("Jeremy L. Buchmann")
DBA username and password Sybase (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Stupid $PATH question that I am ashamed to ask, but having no pride, I proceed
(Michael Powe)
Re: HELP! /usr directory lost!!! (Frank Paprosky)
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From: "Marshall G. Gates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.c-programming,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Assembler in GNU's C++ compiler
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:17:41 -0400
Reply-To: "Marshall G. Gates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Toke Gaarde Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am using the built-in C++ compiler when programming under LINUX and I
> would like to incorporate small pieces of assembler code into C++ code.
>
> I have searched for a manual covering the reserved words in GNU's C++
> compiler and their meaning but without succes. Do anyone know a link or
> two?
#include <iostream.h>
void main()
{
cout << "LINUX is fun? ";
.
.
asm("mov ah,09");
asm("mov al,59");
asm("mov bl,07");
asm("int 10");
One thing to note, the use of those BIOS interrupts is not advisable in
Linux.
Marshall
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to "GNU Communism")
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:44:02 -0500
"John S. Dyson" wrote:
>
> In article <3727c99f$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Jim Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > For example, no longer can companies make money selling a UNIX port
> > or a C++ compiler, now that gcc and Linux is freely spreading like gonorrhea.
> > Those companies once used to provide jobs and salaries, which are now gone.
> >
> The even more sad thing is that most of the standard unix clones are
> 10+yr old technology, with most of the real innovation over the last
> 10+yrs being ignored in the implementation. When the market tightens
> up, it will be interesting to see how much "development" will be
> done on a "product" that the end product cannot be owned by the
> value added developer. (I am talking about kernel internals here.)
>
> It is likely that the tolerance for the GPL is partially due to the
> "good times" that are happening in the US. As soon as companies have
> to have a real return on investment (reasonable P/E ratio's, etc) then
> spending money on development by companies who are not in the closed
> business of "GPL code support" that must be "source code released" will
> slow down (or cease in some cases), except by those who have other
> than profit and fiduciary responsibility as a motivating factor. At
> least with free (GPL doesn't count here) license terms, those who
> have fiduciary responsibility in companies can choose at a later time
> to release software source code, after profiting on the capital
> investment in the meantime. Once the GPL is (mistakenly or otherwise)
> chosen, the GPL requires a bona-fide offer (*1) of source code
> redistribution to those who receive binaries. In more realisitic
> economic times, it might even be a breach of fiduciary responsibility
> to "waste" development time on code that cannot effectively be
> directly capitalized upon.
>
> *1) Note also the fact that GPLed binaries cannot be redistributed
> if you don't have source code. This is quite problematical in the
> case of mistaken or irresponsible source code destruction. Such
> things shouldn't happen, but can and do...
>
Not quite, the source code only has to be available if the recipient
wants it. And, the source code is ubiquitous.
--
JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Greer)
Subject: Re: Are there other ports of java in linux?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:39:24 GMT
Hop over to any web search engine, and search for JDK and Linux
together...and you will find a plethora of information.
Darren
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:34:07 GMT, jmsalvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
-->Are there other ports of java, other than the one being done by blackdown.org,
-->in linux?
-->
-->John Salvo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Slow Login due to large /etc/passwd
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 02:01:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 22:55:05 GMT,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there any way to solve this problem? (other than a hardware upgrade :-)
> > Maybe a more efficient version of /bin/login?
>
> Are you sure it's slow because of looking them up in the password file?
>
> Or is it slow because of things like checking disk quota and mail
> status?
I don't think so. There's no NFS involved and I tried copying the /etc/passwd
file to another host (which performs all right with its original 20 lines
/etc/passwd file) and I got the same slow behavior.
Besides, the problem occurs only when logging on from the console or from a
telnet connection. There's no delay logging on through ssh. I checked login
source code and I find it's using getpwent to access /etc/passwd; sshd, in the
other hand, is not using that function, so I think the problem resides in the
getpwent API.
Saludos!
Fernando Cuenca.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: LinuxConf or Webmin?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:17:13 +1000
Hi,
Was just wondering which is better for remote administration of linux
using the http protocol - Webmin or LinuxConf?
I am fiddling with webmin, but am finding extremely slow to operate with
it's perl base.
Opinions/Comments on both?
Thanks,
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Shortboy Productions mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Convvert .htm(l) files to .ps?
Date: 29 Apr 1999 22:13:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:20:12 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a way to convert a .html file to a postscript .ps file(or a .pdf)?
Netscape does this. See the print options. OTOH, it puts little bits
in the head and foot of the page.
>or better yet, is there a way to convert a bunch of .html files to a single
>(maybe huge) postscript .ps file?
Dunno.
--
William Burrow
Copyright 1999 William Burrow
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From: Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: LinuxConf or Webmin?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:25:09 +0800
Ben,
I chose Webmin ... portable to many platforms.
My 2 cents,
Regit
Ben Short wrote:
> Hi,
> Was just wondering which is better for remote administration of linux
> using the http protocol - Webmin or LinuxConf?
> I am fiddling with webmin, but am finding extremely slow to operate with
> it's perl base.
>
> Opinions/Comments on both?
> Thanks,
> --
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I've been working for 10 weeks 2 days 13 hours 54 minutes
non-stop. Please ask my stupid owner to reboot me.
He can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Stupid $PATH question that I am ashamed to ask, but having no pride, I
proceed
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 Apr 1999 22:48:47 -0500
On 29 Apr 1999 12:37:12 -0700, Michael Powe wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Oh yeah, PGP thing! serious stuff is coming; right, Michael?
>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> On 28 Apr 1999 22:24:36 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew
> >> Comech) wrote:
>
> >>> Michael Powe wrote:
> >>>> >> Citation corrected; please post with a valid mail address.
> Andrew> and, even worse,
> >>>> Don't munge your address. You are violating Usenet
> >>>> standards.
> >>> Michael, how did you sleep last night? Get well soon!
>
>Yet another post unencumbered by the thought process. How
>surprising.
You must be a living example of a Profound Thought Process (PTP),
right?
>Heh, I see you're a graduate of the Bill Gates' "I don't give a damn
>about standards" school of computing. I'll bet you think Visual Basic
>is a great idea & conio.h is part of the standard C language, too.
>Oh, that's right you don't care about standards.
Well, I do not care about standards for communicating with Mr. Powe.
Actually, any kind of progress implies violation of certain standards.
Gates's driving on the wrong side of the road, however, is not
progressive.. There are different kinds of standards, do not you
think, Michael?
>Thanks for the laugh. As though something bad would happen to me if
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hey, what about standards of written English? Assuming you are native
English-speaker, you have got less excuse to make mistakes than I do.
Do not waste your precious time, go fight violators of usenet standards.
a.
PS. What is good is that this quarrel clearly demonstrates the broadness
and diversity of Linux community. We need to conduct a survey some day:
pro-life or pro-choice, pro- or anti-guns (to mention, Eric Raymond
is a real gun lover), then... I better do not dig further (I am a jew
myself!!).
--
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From: Captain Dondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ?
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:44:54 -0400
extenal modem with an intelligent serial card.
No mess, no fuss, 100% performance, no CPU load.
The money you spend on hardware you save on your time (even if it's just
beertime).
Yan
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:14:00 -0400
From: Philip Rackus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: corelsupport.wordperfect-linux
Subject: Re: [wm-user] WordPerfect: WP8 new window creation?
Hi Guys,
Also don't forget, if you add new entries in ld.so.conf, you still have
to run ldconfig before those changes take affect.
If I had a penny for everytime I pulled out hair for forgetting that, I
could go out and buy a copy of RH 6.0 <g>
Phil
Alan Shutko wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > [karsten@ali-ca6-11 karsten]$ ldd /opt/wp/wpbin/xwp
>
> Please try the ldd in ld.so or at http://rescomp.wustl.edu/~ats/ldd.
> The one RH ships (from glibc) is useless with libc5 programs.
>
> --
> Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - C_Tech volunteer
> Please direct replies to the newsgroup so they can help others
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fractals !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:17:52 -0400
xfractint, for one. I'm sure there are many others. Go to freshmeat.net and
search for 'fractals'.
Good luck,
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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From: Gavin McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mail forwarding
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 00:04:24 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<SNIP>
Just keep on at him until he installs qmail.
I tried masqerading hostnames with sendmail, but I don't
have a degree in foreign languages. I solved the problem in a week
with qmail.
--
"I'm Keyser Soze. No, I'm Keyser Soze. I'm Keyser Soze and so's
my wife..."
-Monty Python plays The Usual Suspects
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to "GNU Communism")
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 04:06:49 GMT
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 17:39:13 -0400, Ewan Dunbar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Jim Brooks wrote:
>> For example, no longer can companies make money selling a UNIX port
>> or a C++ compiler, now that gcc and Linux is freely spreading like gonorrhea.
>> Those companies once used to provide jobs and salaries, which are now gone.
>>
>> (If you live in an advanced democratic/capitalistic nation...)
>> Should we write to our congressman about stopping this new
>> technocommunism?
>>
>> Any (on-topic) comments for/against "GNU Communism"?
>
>Yes. As the thread has mentioned before, there are areas in which
>capitalistic ideas simply do not work. Technology is one of them,
>especially computing. While it has a few meagre benefits, on the whole,
>capitalism gets computers nowhere.
And this thread nicely backs up my snide remark earlier in the week to
the effect that
"Communist ideology is fine so long as it's kept as ideology, and
out of practice."
The above comments, and most of the comments in this thread, whether
pro-capitalism or pro-communism represent presentations of *rhetoric*
about commonly-promoted ideologies about the respective "social
organization methodologies."
Note that I say *rhetoric* about *ideology,* which is quite separate
from reasoned arguments about the respective ideas.
These threads of discussion tend to turn into competitive "farting
sessions" where the air is filled with the flatulence of various
prejudices about these systems, rank enough to quickly scare off
non-competitors, and almost entirely free of any insight about the
respective natures of capitalism and communism.
The notion that it's "GNU Communism" flies in the face of the hundreds
of companies selling software that runs on Linux.
The notion that "Capitalism is Next To Godliness" flies in the face of
the consideration that there probably isn't any country that
implements more than very limited editions of capitalism, and
particularly not the putative "Home of the Free," which contains a
couple of the world's largest "planned economies" (in good communist
"five year plan" style).
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to free software today?..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Slow Login due to large /etc/passwd
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 03:45:09 GMT
I would tend to agree with checking your DNS servers for both forward and
reverse lookups for all your users. Sounds exactly like a problem I had about
2 months ago here at my office.
-Steve
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 22:55:05 GMT,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > At the University I work for, we are running a Linux host that has grown a
> > relatively large /etc/passwd (aprox. 3800 accounts). When we upgraded to
> > RedHat 5.2, the login process turned too slow (more than 15 seconds and some
> > times more than 60 seconds).
> >
> > Is there any way to solve this problem? (other than a hardware upgrade :-)
> > Maybe a more efficient version of /bin/login?
>
> Are you sure it's slow because of looking them up in the password file?
>
> Or is it slow because of things like checking disk quota and mail
> status?
>
> (The last slowdown I saw on a machine with roughly as many user as you
> cite was because of checks on quota and mail: both of which were NFS
> mounted on a noisy as hell network.)
>
> It could also be something as simple as slow DNS: where exactly is the
> slowdown occuring?
>
> --
> Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
> Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
> Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
> Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Linux Group
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:33:04 GMT
Hello Linux users and developers my name in Jon and I'm starting a new Linux
e-mail community where linux users and developers can come together to share
information regarding Linux. The community is really new and it won't succeed
without people. I know that there are lot of issues surrounding Linx OS and I
thought that it would be cool if we in the Linux community could come together
to discuss those issues. If you want to join hit the URL:
www.milomail.com
and from the homepage do a search for The Linux Group. I thank you for taking
the time to checkout this opportunity.
Bests,
MJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where do I get the files that go in /usr/include?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:34:20 GMT
Adam Haun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> pretty well. However, being the fanatic that I am, I've been upgrading
> every component of my system(RedHat 5.2) that I can. I'm up to kernel
> 2.2.6, gcc 2.8.1, make 3.77, and whichever ld comes with RedHat.
If you have RH-5.2, then it came with the egcs-1.0.3 compiler which is
already 'higher' than gcc-2.8.1
> I don't think that I did anything to break the header files,
> so I'm wondering if I didn't do something that I was supposed to do.
> I've been looking for replacement files for my /usr/include directory,
Use the rpm program to find out which packages files belong to
Example:
$ rpm -qf /usr/include/stdio.h
glibc-devel-2.0.7-29
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help libc6 libc5
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:30:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am working with RedHat 5.2 (libc6 I presume), and I have to compile and
> link a Rexx package (a shared lib) which needs libc5.
> I tried to install libc5*.rpm by doing 'rpm -iv somepath/libc5*.rpm', and I
> Now, what should I do to tell the linker-loader (ld) to take
> /usr/i486*/lib/libc.so.5 instead of /usr/lib/libc ?
I'm assuming you loaded a package called something like libc-5.3.12-27.i386.rpm
This is only a runtime environment to run older libc5 apps. It doesn't contain
header files or linker objects needed to compile new libc5 apps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: find, xargs, grep ???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:26:10 GMT
David Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried the following from my /lib and /usr/lib directories ...
> find . type f -fstype ext2 -print | xargs nm | xargs grep -n cerr >
> result.file
> with no luck. Any ideas on this one???
Build up your pipelines a stage at a time.
In this case find produces a list of filenames.
xargs takes a list of filenames which it optimises for throughput and
avoids command line overflow.
The output of nm is simply a pile of text symbols.
Piping this into xargs is unnecessary, you should pipe straight into
the grep
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: rup,rwhod problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:37:37 GMT
Luis Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I m trying to install rwho,rup,... with SuSE 6.0
> I have modified the rc.config, removed the ad hoc comment in inetd.conf,
And did you kill -HUP inetd to ask it to reread inetd.conf ?
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From: "Jeremy L. Buchmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.c-programming,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Assembler in GNU's C++ compiler
Date: 30 Apr 1999 00:06:41 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Toke Gaarde Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am using the built-in C++ compiler when programming under LINUX and I
: would like to incorporate small pieces of assembler code into C++ code.
: I have searched for a manual covering the reserved words in GNU's C++
: compiler and their meaning but without succes. Do anyone know a link or
: two?
You can do it with asm().
http://www.umr.edu/~sunws30/SUNWspro/c-compiler/user_guide/c_sparcIX.doc.html
This page has a reference to it, and I compiled the following without any
trouble on gcc version egcs-2.90.25 980302 (egcs-1.0.2 prerelease).
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("\nTesting...\n");
asm("");
return 1;
}
It doesn't do anything, but I am on a Mac and don't know anything about
Motorola assembly. Also, I don't know how/if registers are
cleared/restored before and after using the asm statement.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] neither freedom nor safety." -- Ben Franklin
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DBA username and password Sybase
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 05:53:11 +0200
I have sybase running on my Liuxbox.
But I can't seem to find what the dba user and password is.
Can someone help me out.
Raymond
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Subject: Re: Stupid $PATH question that I am ashamed to ask, but having no pride, I
proceed
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29 Apr 1999 21:47:03 -0700
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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mike> Michael, My original point is that I did not appreciate
Mike> someone else taking it upon themself to change my email
Mike> address and repost it. Had he simply made a comment to the
Mike> effect that "munging" violates Usenet standards and gave a
Mike> link to the page like you did, I wouldn't have had a problem
Mike> with it. I'm not sure I totally agree with the concept that
Mike> I'm helping to bring about the fall of Usenet and turning a
Mike> blind eye to those that would destroy it (i.e. spammers) by
Mike> doing so. I currently use Netscape to retrieve my email from
Mike> my ISP and may have to look into using Procmail to get
Mike> better spam filtering than Netscape provides. At any rate,
Mike> my original point still stands. As far as I'm concerned
Mike> editing another users information and reposting it without
Mike> their consent is also violating standards. Of common
Mike> courtesy if not "official" Usenet. mike
"Common courtesy" is that you use a legitimate mailbox for your
headers. Spammers violate standards. You violate standards. What's
the difference? Ironically, if there were no standards, spammers
would be in the right and so would you.
mp
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Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
"Would John the Baptist have lost his head if his name was Steve?"
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From: Frank Paprosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! /usr directory lost!!!
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:56:40 GMT
> I have no idea what I could have possibly done! Would I be better off
> uninstalling ---> Yeap
> Linux (stupid question?), or can I simply recreate a /usr directory from the
> CD? ---> Nope
>
To screed up a big directory has /usr you must have used the "rm -r"
command !
the /usr directory is a huge directory it contains the kernel sources, X, many
utiltiies in /usr/bin & /usr/sbin.
With the boot & root disk you could possibly re-installl the packages needed.
Bests regards, Frank
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