Linux-Misc Digest #144, Volume #20 Mon, 10 May 99 21:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: REDHAT 6, cant get custom Kernel 2.2.6 to boot... ("Todor Todorov")
Re: Benchmark software for Linux? (Brad Knowles)
Office Home compatability question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installing "glib" and "gtk" : how?? ("D. Vrabel")
Re: A Simple Question (Tom Fawcett)
Re: Ftp software ? (Lev Babiev)
Re: system hangs ("Al Goins")
Re: system hangs ("Al Goins")
Re: pppd (Dardo)
Re: I did something stupid and now I can't boot... ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Software for drawing flowcharts? (sergio)
Re: removing -->{root@localhost) (Elchonon Edelson)
Re: Long file names in Linux? ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows (Richard Caley)
Creating Redhat 6 CD image (Lee Yeow Leong)
getting those nice cross-like menu icons in enlightenment ? ("marc*")
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From: "Todor Todorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: REDHAT 6, cant get custom Kernel 2.2.6 to boot...
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 22:14:32 +0200
Hi,
this is new in the RH6.0 distribution. If you install the kernel sources
when you install the system and then lilo, the system uses an initrd image.
If you don't install the sources for the kernel - it doesn't. I have no idea
why RedHat made it this way. But it's realy easy.
First, when you make dep clean modules modules_install .... the created
modules will be placed under /lib/modules/ in a directory named with the
number of the kernel - 2.2.6-0 on your box I suppose. Then you have to cd to
this directory and run <depmod> to computate the dependencies. See man
depmod for the proper options with the command. After that you have to make
the initrd.img with the command <mkinitrd -f -v
[the_name_you_want_to_give_the_image] [the_name_of_your_modules_directory]
(note, that you have to give only the name of the directory without any
slashes or so, mkinitrd seeks automatically for the given directory under
/lib/modules/ ). If you havent installed mkinitrd.rpm, you have to do it,
it's in the distribution. The new initrd.img is placed in the directory
where you have run mkinitrd, so it's better to cd to /boot prior to issuing
the mkinitrd, otherwise you have to move it to /boot. Then you edit your
lilo.conf to tell it to use that image. That's it.
One more thing. To make a new initrd.img you need the loop device compiled
in the kernel or as a module. And when configuring the kernel, which you
want to use, you have to enable the options <loop device>, <RAM disk> and
<initial RAM disk>.
Good luck!!!
T.Todorov
Alan W. Jurgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> hiyall,
>
> Got redhat 6.0 up and running a-ok. Now i'm going to setup a RAID1
mirrored
> partitions...
>
> have downloaded linux 2.2.6 and applied raid0145-19990421-2.2.6
> patch... Now compiled a bzImage and installed via lilo:
>
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.6
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda2
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15smp
> label=RHlinux-smp
> root=/dev/sda2
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15smp.img
> read-only
>
>
> When LILO starts booting it, is says uncompressing.... and then nothing
> more.... its like it MIGHT be booting, cause I hear hard drive working...
> BUT no boot messages... no login...ping from another system wont work...
>
> what am I doing wrong?
>
> This is a ultra2 scsi only system... I notice the redhat boot options use
> something called initrd... but Ive never needed that with scsi disks
> before.... They appear to just contain SCSI module ncr53c8xx anyways....
>
> I've included the ncr53c8xx in my kernel....
>
> doesn't appear to get that far though....
>
>
> HELP!
>
> thx al-man
>
> see linux-2.2.6 .config:
> #
> # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
> #
>
> #
> # Code maturity level options
> #
> # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set
>
> #
> # Processor type and features
> #
> # CONFIG_M386 is not set
> # CONFIG_M486 is not set
> # CONFIG_M586 is not set
> # CONFIG_M586TSC is not set
> CONFIG_M686=y
> CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
> CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
> CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
> CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
> CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
> CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
> # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
> # CONFIG_MTRR is not set
> CONFIG_SMP=y
>
> #
> # Loadable module support
> #
> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
> # CONFIG_KMOD is not set
>
> #
> # General setup
> #
> CONFIG_NET=y
> CONFIG_PCI=y
> # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
> # CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
> CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
> CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
> CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
> CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y
> CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y
> # CONFIG_MCA is not set
> # CONFIG_VISWS is not set
> CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
> CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
> CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
> CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
> CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
> CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
> CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
> CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
> CONFIG_PARPORT=m
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
> # CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
> # CONFIG_APM is not set
>
> #
> # Plug and Play support
> #
> # CONFIG_PNP is not set
>
> #
> # Block devices
> #
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
>
> #
> # Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
> #
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
> # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
>
> #
> # Additional Block Devices
> #
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
> CONFIG_AUTODETECT_RAID=y
> CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=m
> CONFIG_MD_STRIPED=m
> CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING=y
> CONFIG_MD_RAID5=m
> CONFIG_MD_TRANSLUCENT=m
> CONFIG_MD_LVM=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
> CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
> # CONFIG_PARIDE is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
>
> #
> # Networking options
> #
> CONFIG_PACKET=y
> CONFIG_NETLINK=y
> CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
> # CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set
> CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
> # CONFIG_FILTER is not set
> CONFIG_UNIX=y
> CONFIG_INET=y
> # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
> CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
> CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
> CONFIG_NETLINK=y
> CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
> # CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH is not set
> # CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS is not set
> # CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE is not set
> # CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES is not set
> CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_NAT=y
> # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
> CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
> # CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_NETLINK is not set
> # CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG is not set
> # CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK is not set
> # CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set
> # CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
> # CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set
> CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y
> # CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES is not set
>
> #
> # (it is safe to leave these untouched)
> #
> # CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
> CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
>
> #
> #
> #
> # CONFIG_IPX is not set
> # CONFIG_ATALK is not set
>
> #
> # SCSI support
> #
> CONFIG_SCSI=y
>
> #
> # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
> #
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
> CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR is not set
> CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
>
> #
> # Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
> #
> # CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING is not set
>
> #
> # SCSI low-level drivers
> #
> CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST=m
> # CONFIG_SCSI_ACARD is not set
> CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=m
> CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542=m
> CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740=m
> CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=m
> # CONFIG_OVERRIDE_CMDS is not set
> # CONFIG_AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS is not set
> CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY=5
> # CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_MEGARAID is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280 is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_GDTH is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_INITIO is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100 is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_PPA is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_IMM is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C416 is not set
> CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=m
> # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_sync is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT is not set
> CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=m
> CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=4
> CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32
> CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=20
> # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PROFILE is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PQS_PDS is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2000 is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2220I is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_PSI240I is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set
> # CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set
>
> #
> # Network device support
> #
> CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
> # CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
> CONFIG_DUMMY=m
> # CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
> CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
> CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
> # CONFIG_EL1 is not set
> # CONFIG_EL2 is not set
> # CONFIG_ELPLUS is not set
> # CONFIG_EL3 is not set
> # CONFIG_3C515 is not set
> CONFIG_VORTEX=m
> # CONFIG_LANCE is not set
> # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set
> # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL is not set
> # CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set
> # CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set
> # CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set
> # CONFIG_FDDI is not set
> # CONFIG_DLCI is not set
> # CONFIG_PLIP is not set
> # CONFIG_PPP is not set
> # CONFIG_SLIP is not set
> # CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
> # CONFIG_TR is not set
> # CONFIG_HOSTESS_SV11 is not set
> # CONFIG_COSA is not set
> # CONFIG_RCPCI is not set
>
> #
> # Amateur Radio support
> #
> # CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set
>
> #
> # ISDN subsystem
> #
> # CONFIG_ISDN is not set
>
> #
> # Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE)
> #
> # CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set
>
> #
> # Character devices
> #
> CONFIG_VT=y
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL=y
> # CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is not set
> # CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED is not set
> # CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
> CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
> CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256
> # CONFIG_PRINTER is not set
> CONFIG_MOUSE=y
>
> #
> # Mice
> #
> # CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE is not set
> # CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
> # CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set
> CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
> # CONFIG_82C710_MOUSE is not set
> # CONFIG_PC110_PAD is not set
> # CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
> # CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
> # CONFIG_NVRAM is not set
> CONFIG_RTC=y
>
> #
> # Video For Linux
> #
> # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set
>
> #
> # Joystick support
> #
> # CONFIG_JOYSTICK is not set
> # CONFIG_DTLK is not set
>
> #
> # Ftape, the floppy tape device driver
> #
> # CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
>
> #
> # Filesystems
> #
> # CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
> CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
> # CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
> # CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
> CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
> CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
> # CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
> CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
> CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
> # CONFIG_JOLIET is not set
> CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
> CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
> CONFIG_HPFS_FS=m
> CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
> CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
> # CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
> CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m
> CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
> # CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set
>
> #
> # Network File Systems
> #
> CONFIG_CODA_FS=m
> CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
> # CONFIG_NFSD_SUN is not set
> CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
> CONFIG_LOCKD=m
> CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
> # CONFIG_SMB_WIN95 is not set
> # CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set
>
> #
> # Partition Types
> #
> # CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL is not set
> # CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION is not set
> # CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL is not set
> # CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION is not set
> CONFIG_NLS=y
>
> #
> # Native Language Support
> #
> CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15 is not set
> # CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set
>
> #
> # Console drivers
> #
> # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set
> # CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT is not set
>
> #
> # Sound
> #
> # CONFIG_SOUND is not set
>
> #
> # Kernel hacking
> #
> # CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ is not set
>
>
> --
> +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
> Alan W. Jurgensen - Full Compass Systems
> phone: (608) 831-7330 - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Knowles)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Benchmark software for Linux?
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 13:11:48 +0200
In article <7grpku$6to$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd-Hanafiah
Abdullah) wrote:
> Thanks. But I'm looking for something like WinBench from Ziff-Davis for
> Windows95 or Speedometer for the Mac. Would be nice to have something like
> this for Linux to test the overall system performance.
I think that the ByteMark code will compile under most versions of
*nix, and would be one measure. There's also the lmbench stuff from
<http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/> (which I believe is pretty standard for
Linux).
However, note that since you can't get direct access to the low-level
disk devices (not without doing some *real* shenanigans that require
kernel-level modifications), it's going to be hard to compare any
performance numbers you may get back with regards to the disk subsystem.
The same would be true of bonnie, and you have to try and make sure
that you make the test big enough so as to greatly exceed the amount of
physical RAM you have, so that buffer cache effects are minimized. This
gets harder and harder to do as your amount of memory grows, especially as
you get close to the built-in 1GB limit (you need to change some kernel
parameters and recompile if you want to make use of anything over 1GB).
--
Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/>
<http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE38CCEF1>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Office Home compatability question
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 23:38:30 GMT
I want to use Linux with word processers and spreadsheets.
I also need to bring files from my Microsoft Office products at work and
load them on my Linux machine. Has there been any articles written on
this or can some one inform me if there is a way to do this.
Thanks,
Gene
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing "glib" and "gtk" : how??
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 21:29:49 +0100
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Judy wrote:
> I'm new to linux, and one of the first steps I'm trying to take in my
> transition phase (from win98, or course) is get a good MP3 player :o) I've
> been trying to install X11Amp for 3 days in vain.
>
> The problem lies in when, in the readme file, it says to install glib 1.2
> and gtk 1.2 . After several attempts I managed to install glib/gtk and their
> respective 'devel' through rpm. But when I try to install X11Amp, it goes
> fine until something like this is printed:
>
> GLIB - version >= 1.2.1... yes
> GTK - version >= 1.2.1...no
>
> I tried re-compiling gtk from the tar.gz files, but I'm stuck at ./configure
> where after checking the GLIB version, it says something like "X....no" then
> dies :))
Does this message mean the X development files are not installed? If
they're not install them.
> Anyway to get thru this? I can't live without MP3!!!!
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Simple Question
Date: 06 May 1999 08:00:39 -0400
"Wa;t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After beating my head against the wall for an hour, I'd like to pose a
> very straightforward question to linux users: how can I search a
> filesystem for files meeting a particular patten (e.g. ending with
> "sql"), which contain a particular string ("crdb")? I can't seem to
> convince grep to do anything except search the current directory, and
> find doesn't seem to have an option to look for a string within a file.
> I know this must be simple, I just can't get it to work.
> Thanks in advance for any information & assistance.
find DIR -type f -name "*.sql" -print | xargs grep crdb
The -type f is probably unnecessary but it's good practice to use it.
-Tom
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From: Lev Babiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ftp software ?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:32:52 -0400
I highly recommend lftp. It feels just like bash, allows to background
jobs,
mirroring, etc. You can find an RPM at http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/ .
- Lev
> I wanted to know if there is any Good Ftp software for (Redhat) Linux? I
> am using NCFTP currently. I would also like to know if there is any
> command that would let me transfer subdirectories as well (in NCFTP)?
> Thanks in advance,
>
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From: "Al Goins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: system hangs
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:53:35 -0500
None of these solutions have worked. The system still hangs in multi-user
mode when sendmail starts.
any other suggestions?
-Al
mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
> >In <7h58ji$1th$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Albert Goins"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >writes:
> >
> >>I am kind of new to linux and have no idea how to solve this problem. I
> >>have Red Hat 5.1 installed and it was working fine but now for some
reason
> >>my system hangs while it is booting when it gets to starting sendmail.
I
> >>don't need sendmail as I don't have networking right now but I don't
know
> >>how to boot my machine now. What can i do?
> >
> >Probably looking for some name resolution.
> >Anyway, at lilo
> >linux single
> >will put you into single user mode as root.
> >
>
> <snip instructions for disabling sendmail>
>
> Or you could fix it. Then the various programs that rely on Sendmail
> will still be able to use it. (eg, for local mail transfer, etc.) It's
> trying to resolve it's own domain-name, which is probably set up wrongly
> (as default) in the /etc/sendmail.cf
>
> Look for the line where it talks about "my official domain name", and
> change it to, say
>
> Dlocalhost.localdomain
>
> and just make sure that /etc/hosts has
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>
> in it.
>
>
> --
> Mist.
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From: "Al Goins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: system hangs
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 14:57:51 -0500
Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7h59s8$pbf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In <7h58ji$1th$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Albert Goins"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >I am kind of new to linux and have no idea how to solve this problem. I
> >have Red Hat 5.1 installed and it was working fine but now for some
reason
> >my system hangs while it is booting when it gets to starting sendmail. I
> >don't need sendmail as I don't have networking right now but I don't know
> >how to boot my machine now. What can i do?
>
> Probably looking for some name resolution.
> Anyway, at lilo
> linux single
> will put you into single user mode as root.
>
> cd /etc/rc.d
> for i in 1 2 3 4 5
> do
> mv rc$i.d/S80sendmail rc$i.d/K30sendmail
> done
>
The files are already named this!
-Al Goins
> That's it.
>
>
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From: Dardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 20:50:36 +0000
Jesse Hodenfield wrote:
> Somehow I did something that placed pppd and the chat script into my
> initialization routine which runs when I turn on my Linux. This results in
> my being already connected to my ISP by the time initialization is complete
> and I am at the command prompt.
>
> Somebody please advise on how I can add and remove things from my startup
> lineup?
> This is a RedHat system(I know RedHat is of ill-repute. I will have Debian
> soon!).
Make sure that you have:
ONBOOT=no
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp#, where # is the ppp interface
number (ie. 0)
Just an opinion, no flames please: RedHat's not so bad - especially for
"newbies" - if they ever become RedmondHat, then I'll eat my words :)
- Dardo
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I did something stupid and now I can't boot...
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:54:46 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mladen Gavrilovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In my epic battle to upgrade my glib to 2.1, in a moment of stupidity I
> renamed my /lib to /oldlib instead of copying it. Now nothing works. I
> can't rename it back because mv doesn't work. Basically only cd works.
> I am running RedHat 5.0. I can boot off the CD into a live system
> (rescue mode) but I have no idea how to mount my the linux partition
> (hda4) to rename the directory back to /lib. Can anyone help me?
Use the programs in /sbin, they are statically linked for exactly such an
incident.
jue
--
J�rgen Exner
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From: sergio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Software for drawing flowcharts?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 02:29:30 +0100
Raymond wrote:
>
> Hello,
> What software is available in Linux to draw flowcharts? Particular,
> I want tools to do Unified Modeling ( I just want the diagram, no need
> for forward/reverse engineering, but if there exists one, I will also be
> interested in ).
>
> Thanks in advance for your advices!
>
> Yours,
> Raymond Li
Try IPAD at:
http://www.demon.co.uk/titan
Regards
Sergio
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From: Elchonon Edelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: removing -->{root@localhost)
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 20:51:55 GMT
Saqr Binghalib wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have tried a lot of things to remove [root@localhost] before the #
> prompt, from users also.. I tried to look in the .profile but I couldn'f
> find out how to do it ..
>
> Could any one tell me how to remove it and just stay with # or $ .
>
> I am using Red Hat 5.2
>
> Thanks,
> Saqr
In /etc/bashrc, find the line that reads:
PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ "
And change it to:
PS1="\\$ "
(posted and emailed)
--
Elchonon Edelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IntelliSoft Corp. http://isoft.com/
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Long file names in Linux?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 14:02:25 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 10 May 1999 00:06:20 GMT,
> Russell Tanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks, I think that's what I was confusing. I was reading a gzip
> > file off of my shared FAT16 partition (since I still haven't been able
> > to get my ppp connection quite working properly). The partition in
> > question was mounted as a DOS fs. I'll try remounting it as a VFAT,
> > and I'm guessing that that ought to solve it.
>
> You will need to upgrade your kernel, though. VFAT was added around
> 2.0.34 or so as I recall.
Plain wrong.
Support for VFAT is in since the very early days. I remember that is worked
in 1.0.9 and certainly it was available even much earlier than that.
Maybe you are confusing VFAT with FAT32, which became part of the standard
kernel somewhere around the 2.0.36 time frame. But even before all you had
to do was to install the patch from
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html (as BTW has been posted
over and over again. Dejanews must be flooded with this hint).
jue
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J�rgen Exner
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From: Richard Caley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows
Date: 06 May 1999 13:24:09 +0100
In article <7gq0l2$1epi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leslie Mikesell (lm) writes:
lm> It can, if you set arbitrarily low limits. It won't be getting all the
lm> jobs done in any case. The question is whether you want to refuse
lm> to start jobs at an arbitrarily low limit for safety or try to
lm> let the machine reach a limit that you don't know yet.
Surely this is only a really unknowable proiblem if you are using the
wrong metric. For instance number of jobs is clearly a stupid limit to
use for this. If your metric is resopnce time, swapping rate or
something else meaningful to the actual task, then it's much easier to
put in reasonable limits.
lm> The point I am trying to make here is that running
lm> freebsd instead of Linux is not the solution - at least not by
lm> itself. They both roll over and die if you overload them badly
lm> enough. I'd give freebsd a slight advantage in survival if you
lm> are willing to stand by and let a non-responsive server limp along
lm> uselessly long enough but in practice that isn't worth much to me.
I'm not arguing that there should never be a resource problem, indeed
I think we have one at the moment, sigh. I'm saying that it shouldn't
be necessary to reboot to untie the knots.
[I have no idea whether FBSD is better than linux on this, if I had to
guess I'd guess yes based on it having been around longer so had more
chance to evolve ways to cope.]
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Mail me as rjc not [EMAIL PROTECTED] _O_
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 02:15:07 +0800
From: Lee Yeow Leong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creating Redhat 6 CD image
I am trying to create the CD image for Redhat 6. I understand that
the autoboot.bat is pointing to an non-existent file.
loadlin autoboot\vmlinuz initrd=..\misc\src\trees\initrd.img
^^^^^^
Thus I copied initrd-local.img to initrd.img. I burned the cd using
the following command
mkisofs -b images/boot.img \
-c boot.catalog \
-R -r \
-f \
-o redhat60img.iso \
/home/ftp/pub2/redhat-6.0
I understand that I must give execute permission to
/RedHat/instimage. However, after I created and burned a CD.
autoboot.bat still refuses to work.
Anyone can give me some advice? TIA.
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From: "marc*" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: getting those nice cross-like menu icons in enlightenment ?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 23:09:50 +0200
i use gnome and enlightenement 0.15
i would like to have those beautiful menu icons launchers (looking somewhat
like a cross) in enlightenment. how to enable them?
when i select a theme in e-conf (ex: shiny metal which contains them) they
don't appear.
i also tried to replace "exec gnome-session" by "exec enlightenment" in my
startup files but then i get just my background and nothing else but a
classic menu when i press the middle mouse button.
how to get those icon and tools launchers ?
tks.
marc.
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