Linux-Misc Digest #20, Volume #20 Sun, 2 May 99 15:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Really big hd under linux (Jean-Francois Landry)
Re: Gnome Help ! (brian moore)
Re: Good ISP that supports Linux ("Matt O'Toole")
Re: Commands needed (NewUser) (Paul Kimoto)
Re: I am on a quest... (brian moore)
Re: linux to replace windoze machines ? (-bill-)
Re: Question (Rizwan Syed)
Re: Installing PPP into the Kernel (hellraiser)
Re: irc (Peter Granroth)
Re: SUID games? What is RedHat doing? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Installing PPP into the Kernel (hellraiser)
Re: Zip drive configuration (Rev.) -- parallel port (Anthony Campbell)
Re: A new video card (brian moore)
Re: question... (Paul Kimoto)
Re: How to see Win95 longnames under Linux (OldUncleMe)
Re: Learning Linux ("William B. Cattell")
Re: Textpad/ultraedit class editor (Walter Strong)
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux (Luther barnum)
Help! X can't find font. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems upgrading to 2.2.6: dip, X, glib (Thomas Zajic)
Re: User removal (Justin B Willoughby)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 13:06:27 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sun, 2 May 1999 01:39:04 GMT...
..and PILCH Hartmut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don Bashford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes (in an excellent long
> article that makes some often muddled points clear):
>
> >But there are
> >other communists who reject the involvement of the State in
> >production, and even want to abolish the state altogether. They
> >believe the the workers are capable of spontaneously organizing
> >themselves and taking charge of production. These are the "anarchist
> >communists". As you might guess by now, GNU is anarchist communist.
>
> Do you really mean that the GNU people have an agenda of trying to
> "abolish the state altogether"?
>
> Is there any evidence for this?
>
> Actually the FSF is also an organisation that tries to centrally coordinate
> some tasks, and RMS is very keen on having people think in terms of a
> whole system, which is called GNU, even GNU/Linux, rather than just each
> work for himself and produce a lot of disparate pieces that will somehow
> grow together automatically.
>
> So, I think, RMS is not quite an anarchist communist, even in the software
> sense.
He's neither anarchist nor communist as far as I can see. ESR is
anarchist.
mawa
--
Face it, Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being
a villain in a James Bond movie."
--Dennis Miller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Francois Landry)
Subject: Re: Really big hd under linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 16:49:26 GMT
Once upon a time, Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I will need to upgrade my HD sometime soon. My data disk is 6.4 GB and
>it's getting squeezed. I am looking at the new 25 GB EIDE drives from
>IBM. Is it possible to format these as one large partition?
>
>I have a primary HD that has all the OS and swap on, so this one needs
>to be a big space for data.
>
>TIA,
>
>Yan
If you really want to, there's no problem at all (assuming that your computer
will see the drive correctly, wich may be a problem if it's somewhat old). Ext2
filesystems can be 2 terabytes big at most... if you can afford the raid
adapters and huge pile of drives.
Have fun
Jean-Francois Landry
--
"Windows multitasks, it can boot and crash at the same time."
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Gnome Help !
Date: 2 May 1999 17:32:48 GMT
On Sun, 02 May 1999 09:52:57 -0400,
-bill- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm even more of a nubie than you are, what is GNOME ?
See http://www.gnome.org/
In short, it's a collection of applications and libraries that provide a
common user interface. Applications range from the obligatory
minesweeper (Gnomine) to a spreadsheet (Gnumeric) to IRC client (xchat),
etc, as well as "applets" such as a slash-dot ticker and a drive mounter.
It can be a bit demanding of the color pallete, so it's not recommended
at 8b color. It works great otherwise, though, and is damned pretty.
--
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: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good ISP that supports Linux
Date: 02 May 1999 10:36:02 PDT
Jet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7gedh7$4ees$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone suggest a good ISP that supports Linux? I am in the LA area and
> would like unlimited access with no set up fee, a good news feed and a
UNIX
> shell account.
I'm in OC. I 've been a Deltanet subscriber for years. Delta has been
absorbed by Concentric, so I'm now a Concentric subscriber. So far,
performance has been pretty good, far better than Earthlink and the other
biggies, but Pacbell's web service is still the fastest. I occasionally
have trouble getting hooked up on the first try, but several tries always
does it. The news feed is good.
Concentric has shell accounts available. I believe they're the only
national ISP that still does. They don't 'officially' support Linux.
However, I'm runnning KDE, so using kppp, I just plugged in the phone
number, my username and password, selected PAP protocol, and dialed right
in. Nothing could be easier. I suspect that any other GUI PPP program that
supports PAP would work just as well.
Of course, I assume you're a regular dial-up subscriber.
Matt O.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Commands needed (NewUser)
Date: 2 May 1999 13:25:36 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, OldUncleMe wrote:
Please wrap your lines at somewhere like 75 characters/line.
> 2. I'd like to be able to move a subdirectory and all it's contents to a new
>location keeping
> symbolic links intact instead of having the cp command fill in the symbolic linked
>directories
> with the contents of the targets. [...]
> in the case where there are many such links, how to go about it
> automated with the copy command?
Why not use a program designed for this purpose, like tar(1)?
For example,
$ mkdir /path/to/newdir
$ cd /path/to/olddir
$ tar cf - . | (cd /path/to/newdir && tar xf -)
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.slackware.linux
Subject: Re: I am on a quest...
Date: 2 May 1999 17:47:29 GMT
On Sun, 02 May 1999 08:19:57 GMT,
Jeffery Cann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> for an X-windows email client for Linux. If my dream of the "perfect"
> email client could be written down, it would have the following
> features:
>
> - stable: never hangs, never blows up!
> - reliable: messages don't evaporate!
> - scalable: if I have 2000 messages saved, performance shouldn't drop.
> - graphical: what can I say, I am not into pine.
> - threaded: this seems to be a hard feature, not sure why.
> - minimal resources: bloatware sucks even with P2/350 (128 MB)
>
> Here are the email clients I have tried:
>
> Netscape Communicator
> - It is fairly solid, has threading, but cannot support multiple
> accounts. It also randomly blows up and uses about 13 MB. I know I can
> launch into the mail window by default at startup of netscape, but all
> the components of communicator still are loaded.
Mutt is smaller and does only mail.
> KDE Kmail
> - Lean and mean. Too lean on features. Font support is underdeveloped
> and there is no threading in kmail 1.1. Kmail 2.0 will have threading.
> Cannot support multiple email accounts. Seems to be stable.
Mutt threads and supports multiple accounts via IMAP or fetchmail.
> Star Office
> - While pretty, 5.0 filtering of MS Office documents is buggy. So,
> download the 'filter update' in 5.01 'to improve performance' and watch
> how your pop email accounts no longer work. Star Mail does have
> threading and multiple emails. It also has major problems in that it is
> easy to blow up and 5.01 is literally useless for the Linux version.
Mutt works.
> What do you use? How does it rate with the above wish list?
Mutt in an xterm.
--
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: -bill- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux to replace windoze machines ?
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 09:48:51 -0400
brian moore wrote:
>
> On Sat, 01 May 1999 14:24:06 -0400,
> -bill- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I love my 1280x1024x32bpp. :)
> > >
> > go ahead and gloat brian ! <G>
> >
> > I just didn't even think I could do that in unix !
> >
> >
> > what card do you have?
>
> That's an AGP matrox millinium with 16M of VRAM.
>
> The AGP cards are quite will supported by the current XFree and they're
> cheap (usually cheaper than PCI) and fast. :)
>
> I'm pondering switching to 1600x1200 at 16bpp though... 16b color is
> pretty close to sufficient, and that'd be a HUGE desktop. :)
>
> (And, yes, it sucks to go to work, where my video card can do either
> 1280x1024 at 8bpp or 1024x768 at 16bpp..... the 1024x768 is just too
> small to be useful and 8bpp color sucks.)
>
> --
> 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
Thanks Brian, I love it !
--
-bill-
Technical Service Systems - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rizwan Syed)
Subject: Re: Question
Date: 2 May 1999 17:50:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann) writes:
>> email me please. I need to find out how to make files invisible
>> or 'hidden' in linux. If anyone knows, please let me know at your
>> earliest convenience.
>There is generally no need to 'hide' files in Linux: if you don't want
>other people looking at the file, change the file permissions so that only
>you have read access (see the chmod(1) command). If you don't want anyone
>to know that the file even exists, put it in a directory and change the
>directory's permissions (using chmod) so that nobody but you has read or
>execute permissions. (try "chmod 700 directoryname") If your goal is to
>protect the contents of the file from prying eyes, this is the proper way
>to do it, and it's much, much more reliable than just trying to hide them.
>Of course, you can't hide a file from anyone with root access.
Ok.. here's the actual question I had, I guess I'm going to have to be a
little more specific. Is it possible to 'hide' a user so that other users
don't know he exists? So that it doesn't show up under /home/ and doesn't
show up under /var/spool/mail/ ??? I want those files to be hidden so that
only root can see, but noone else can. Is that possible?
Thanks
Rizwan
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Rizwan Syed
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: hellraiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing PPP into the Kernel
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 12:56:55 -0400
if ppp is not already installed in your kernel, you should recompile
your kernel with ppp support. read the kernel-howto:
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
i would also recommend that you get the latest kernel (2.2.7):
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.7.tar.bz2
... and the latest version of ppp is 2..7 but i forgot where to get it.
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From: Peter Granroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: irc
Date: 02 May 1999 19:48:08 +0200
"Michael Rathburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can some one tell me the the command structure for for using irc
> from Xterm.
> I have tried :-irc /server Dalnet davis.dal.net.6667 and I get cannot
> resolve host
> what do i put for host and where ? I assume its my username and password but
> I can't seem to get it right.
what irc client are you using? At least, if it's ircII, you can do:
irc -p <port> <nick> <server>
e.g
irc -p 6667 my_nick davis.dal.net
(But you don't really need to specify the port if it's 6667, since
ircII defaults to it.)
And please, DO read the man page and other documentation, before
asking.
HTH
--
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+ Peter Granroth +
+ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +
+ http://soke.dhs.org +
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.security.unix
Subject: Re: SUID games? What is RedHat doing?
Date: 2 May 1999 18:01:32 GMT
In <7ggg42$fvb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: On a new install of Redhat 5,2 (also there in 5.1) I get the following
>: What the hell is RedHat doing shipping games which are suid root? This
>: makes no sense at all!
>Do these game run through the console? If they do, then they need to
>run as root. If they are for X, they don't need to run as root.
>hope that helps.
Not really. Having uncontrolled programs on your system which are suid
root is insane. It is precisely such programs which a user on the system
can use to gain root access, and hving them there as games, instead of
crucial system programs, is just silly and dangerous.
If you need access to something which for some reason requires root
(aparently the SVGAlib is such) then you provide a single access program
which you can then really make sure is safe running suid root. You do
not have each and every program which wants to use the resource doing
so. With games this is especially dangerous, because security is
probably the farthest thing from the minds of the game writer. At least
system daemon writers by now have security as one of their concerns. But
that is not true of games writers.
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From: hellraiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing PPP into the Kernel
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 13:06:27 -0400
> ... and the latest version of ppp is 2..7 but i forgot where to get it.
typo: 2..7 = 2.3.7
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: Re: Zip drive configuration (Rev.) -- parallel port
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 17:39:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 02 May 1999 15:02:22 GMT, Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear friends:
>
>[I forgot to mention the most important thing: it's a parallel port Zip
>drive.-- Benjamin]
>
>I have tried to configure my standard Zip100 in RH 5.2 by using the
>Kernel Configurator. It looks quite easy: you select the "scsi_adaptor"
>module, then the "ppa" module type. But then they ask you for options. I
>have no idea what option values to put in there. No choices are given,
>and even they were, I probably would have no idea how to proceed. Same
>in RH Installation Guide (p. 339).
>
>What options are they talking about?
>
>Most people have a Zip drive and a printer with their RH 5.2 and
>obviously must have succeeded in configuring their Zip drive so they can
>then alternate between Zip and printer (insmod ppa, insmod lp, etc.).
>
>Are there other ways of configuring the Zip drive?
>
>I would be very grateful for help on this matter.
>
>Thank you so much.
>
>
>--
>Benjamin Sher
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sher's Russian Web
>http://www.websher.net
I don't know about the RH Kernel Configurator, but in the standard kernel
configuration setup (using make xconfig) you should select EPP 16 unless
you have a very old parallel interface (this is explained in Help).
Note that in SCSI Support you should have included SCSI Generic Support (I
think; I have, anyway).
BTW, if you use the 2,2,x kernels you don't have to modularize all this;
you get printer support as well as Iomega support automatically, without
all this insmod business.
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: A new video card
Date: 2 May 1999 17:41:20 GMT
On Sun, 02 May 1999 03:32:40 -0700,
Alan Fang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Anyway, there are two rules of thumb (rule of thumbs?) in 2D:
>
> 1) 2D performance doesn't matter anymore anyways, so get some cheap
> nappy card.
Icky. Plain sucky cards suck. (Acceleration does matter still.)
> 2) Get a Matrox card.
>
> One I would suggest is Matrox Productiva G100 4MB. It runs very well
> under windows, but seems to run not very fast under KDE (XFree86?).
> (Anybody wanna help out here?...) But then again, I'm new at Linux. If
> you plan to use this card in the future on a very hi res monitor, then
> mebbe you should get the 8MB versoin.
I'd get a Matrox Millinium G200. A lot of these out there, which makes
it a higher priority for support, and Matrox announced a month or so ago
that they are now providing technical documentation to people who want
to write drivers, so the 3D support will be coming.
> Alan Fang (the guy with the Rock Shox Judy)
>
> Note to usenet people: Don't reply to this email address as the account
> is closing soon. But if you really wanna, change the jc in the email
> address to js.
>
> Matt O'Toole wrote:
> >
> > I need some video card recommendations. I now have an on-board ATI Mach 64
> > w/ 2 MB, and I need more oomph to run Netscape and GIMP, preferably at
> > 1024x768, and 24 or 16 bpp. I get a lot of color map errors at 800x600, and
> > GIMP won't even run. Win 98 performance is important too, but I think X is
> > the main concern, since it seems a bit more video-hungry. I'm not a gamer,
> > so I don't really care about 3D (yet). I want to invest in a card that will
> > last me awhile, so I can move it over to a new machine in the next year or
> > so.
With 2M of video RAM, you should be able to do 1024x768x16bpp just fine.
It sounds like your 800x600 is still 8bit color.
I was doing 1152x900x16bpp with my Mach64. But make sure your chipset
can support that: 'Mach64' is, alas, a huge variety of chipsets and some
can't do decent color.
--
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] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: question...
Date: 2 May 1999 13:20:52 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hellraiser wrote:
> is there any way to manipulate or change the date a file was created?
Unix filesystems have no idea when a file was created. There is a
"last-modified" time stored, though.
> like, for example, if i had a file made on may 2, could i change the
> date to something else, like march 5?
To modify this time, see the man page for utime(2). (Alternatively,
if a perl user, try "perldoc -f utime".)
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Subject: Re: How to see Win95 longnames under Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 14:10:41 GMT
It was: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:42:28 GMT and with STARTLING insight, ""mikeHHH"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" posted "How to see Win95 longnames under Linux" to
"comp.os.linux.misc" :
-->I have installed RH 5.2 Linux and i wish to access to win95 in full,
-->longname mode not like msdos mode
-->is that possible?
-->
-->thanks in advance.
-->--
-->Posted via Talkway - http://www.talkway.com
-->Exchange ideas on practically anything (tm).
I'm not sure if VFAT is compiled in the kernel installed by default with the Caldera
1.3
release, but -- all I had to do to mount a win95 partition as vfat was to specify
vfat in the
fstab entry for the device and before mounting insmod (install module) vfat. Worked
like a
charm.
/ts
tenox @ home dat com
/ts
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Learning Linux
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 18:14:35 GMT
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Or you can go out and purchase (for MUCH less than $799) one of several
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maybe compiling a kernel... The security and integration into an
enterprise network environment pieces are often covered in-depth in one
of the many 'Learn Linux' type books on the market.
JMHO,
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Subject: Re: Textpad/ultraedit class editor
Date: 2 May 1999 16:43:37 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hello
: I�m looking for a medium weight X11 text editor, in the category that textpad
: and ultraedit have for Win.
: I find XEmacs bloated and cumbersome; and nedit, edith, fte, kwrite and
: gnotepad too weak.
: Visual Slick Edit 4 is the closest I�ve found so far, but it is way too
: expensive.
: Does anybody know an nice one (gtk, motif, qt), that handles multiple large
: files, has syntax highlighting (perl, sh, maybe html and C++) and does well on
: search/replace operations? Project management, scripting and debugger are not
: necessary.
: Or has somebody ever seen a crack for Visual Slick Edit?
: Thanks
: Zia
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: http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
emacs?
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From: Luther barnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 10:26:24 -0400
Mark Holloway wrote:
> The company I work for has 90 NT Servers all running on Alpha. The only one
> that crashes a lot is the Proxy server. Of course, our mission critical data
> lives on HP 9000 K Series servers. They just spent $9 million on Oracle.
> Argh!
>
> I am setting up a FreeBSD desktop at work and want to show them we should setup
> a large file server for Windows File Sharing. I'm using the Walnut Creek
> methodology - that is configuring FreeBSD on a Dual PII 450 with a Raid 5 and
> Samba and use that for storage. I have to convince my superiors that FreeBSD
> is cost effective (duh! What's in a name?) and also has the fastest file
> system in the world.. I'm sure once I tell them Yahoo!, Linkexchange,
> Cdrom.com, and Hotmail all put their life on the line for FreeBSD then they
> will buy into it.
>
> Mark
>
> Mikhail Kruk wrote:
>
> > > > Try Windows NT, it's the best, way better than any of those cheezy, free
> > > > UNIX wannabes.
> > > >
> >
> > Windows NT is great OS. However it can not be used as a web server. May
> > be there are some things it can be used for, web service is definitely
> > not one of them.
> > We are running a relatively small web server under NT (no more than 40
> > sim. connections) and it sure can handle the load (well, I guess web
> > server for DOS (provided there is such a weird thing) could do that on a
> > PII with SCSI drives and 128Mb RAM)
> > But what do you know -- we put one bad perl script in the cgi-bin and
> > every
> > time perl crashes (or actually exits relatively gracefully with out of
> > memory warning) the whole damn networking layer dies and server needs to
> > be rebooted...
> >
> > boy, was that offtopic? ;)
Good Luck,
I think just about every Executive who plays golf and only uses his computer to
check stocks has been duped by Mr. Bill. They all think that an easier interface
means better quality. I work as an Unix admin with NT servers also under my
control. I see first hand that NT cannot possibly compete with any flavor of Unix
or Linux. If you don't believe it, try to control 5 pc's at a time with
PC-any(one-at-a-time)where. I can do that with a lowly 386 running on Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help! X can't find font.
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 18:26:09 GMT
I am a newer of linux.when i run startx,i get message:"Fatal server
error:could not open default font 'fixed'...."and back to textmode.The
OS is Turbo Linux with SuSE_SiS Xserver for my SiS530 AGP.
I am appreciate if you can tell me what shoud i do or where i can get
the font 'fixed'.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: Problems upgrading to 2.2.6: dip, X, glib
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 18:38:30 GMT
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999 01:57:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been running Slackware 3.1 for a while and a few days back I decided it
> would be a good idea to upgrade my whole system. I didn't want to reinstall
> because I have lots of things on my system I want to keep. To make it short, I
> followed all instructions on www.linuxhq.com. I also upgraded to glibc 2.0.7.
> [ ... ] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just out of curiosity (I�m also planning to upgrade my once-installed-and-only-
updated-manually-since-then Slackware system): where did you get glibc-2.0.7?!
I found 2.0.6 on ftp.gnu.org, a partial 2.0.7pre6 and several 2.0.1xx and 2.1.x
on alpha.gnu.org, and a runtime-only 2.0.7 both in Slackware�s /contrib dir and
packaged together with alien.
I assume I�m simply looking at the wrong places, but that�s just because I can�t
find the _right_ ones ... ;-)
TIA,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Subject: Re: User removal
Date: 2 May 1999 18:49:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Rizwan Syed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> One more question! How do I remove a user that was created by
> accident? I've tried manually deleting all files, and then deleting
> directories, even deleted the mail file under /var/spool/mail/ but
> just to test, I tried creating that username again, and it said it
> already existed.
You could proably just remove their entry from /etc/passwd
But I just use: userdel
Cheers,
- Justin
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