Linux-Misc Digest #155, Volume #20 Tue, 11 May 99 17:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: RedHat price... (**Nick Brown)
Re: A Simple Question (Paul Kimoto)
what is Red Hat doing? (Tim Kelley)
Printer Problems (Eric Phillips)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to uninstall packages? (Benjamin Marsh)
Re: Ken Thompson on Linux (Jon Haugsand)
Odd math problem. (Nic Percival)
Re: How can use Mathematica? (John Girash)
Re: Problems with Acroread 3 and 4 (Tony Grant)
Re: Web email system Re: MS Exchange and Linux (Ken Williams)
Re: CPU idle tool in Linux? (John Thompson)
cdrdao with 2 cdrecorders (Enrique Alonso de Armas)
Re: Ken Thompson on Linux (Jon Skeet)
Re: KDE very slow (Mark Tranchant)
Re: Problem unmounting file systems (SIMPLE) (Bill Unruh)
Text based interface and escape codes? (Mats Pettersson)
Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (was: Wanted: Database/Contact mgr with
backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web frontend) (Bill Gunshannon)
Re: Locate creates page fault + core dump (gus)
Re: File system for NT and Linux (Jon Skeet)
Re: FreeBSD NFS server with Solaris and Linux clients (Mark Hannon)
Re: RedHat price... (Ray)
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat price...
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:11:54 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yep, but at least it proves that there is a genuine free market at work
here, unlike the monopoly practices of Microsoft. If you don't like Red
Hat at $80, get another distribution (Debian can be had for something
like $5). And if anyone gets themselves so far into Red Hat that they
can't switch, then they are probably the kind of person who needs Red
Hat-type support, and that costs $$$. (You can now turn Red Hat into
Debian without rebooting...)
Frank Waarsenburg wrote:
>
> Fully agree... Just bought a $15 RH5.0 release to set up the box, and then
> upgraded everything from the net. $80 is crazy....
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: A Simple Question
Date: 11 May 1999 11:20:10 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <MPG.11a24bfd6ef0d824989831@news>, Jon Skeet wrote:
>>> James Youngman wrote:
>>>> find / -name '*.sql' -print0 | xargs -0 grep crdb /dev/null
> What's wrong with my normal version:
>
> grep crdb `find / -name '*.sql'`
>
> ?
>
> True, if the find command returns too many arguments you'll have a
> problem, but I rarely run into this...
That's the only problem I know about. Sometimes you just want
to do "find ~ -type f -print"; that returns a lot of files!
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Kelley)
Subject: what is Red Hat doing?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 21:13:33 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just recieved my copy of Red Hat 6 today, and I must say it is nice.
However, what were they smoking whne they decided to put
/misc and /net under /? Why are they trying to further distance
themselves from the standards?
They install KDE, but no /opt, then they add /net and /misc?
What the hell is that?
--
Tim Kelley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer Problems
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 06:38:54 -0400
Hello,
How can I get my parallel port printer and ZIP (since the printer is
piggybacked off of the ZIP drive) to work together? I have Redhat 5.1 (kernel
2.2.7). I have an Iomega ZIP 100 drive with a HP Deskjet 400. I use modules
to use my parallel port, but I can't seem to get linux to recognize my printer.
PLEASE HELP!
Thanks!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 05:05:47 GMT
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
:> Most of the Linux world seems to be pushing for a better
:> Windows/desktop replacement and is driven by a strong anti-WinTel
:> motive. Witness KDE developers openly stating that not only are
:> they in no way X or Unix programmers, they don't think they should
:> have to be. Every day Linux looks more and more like Windows/Mac
:> and less and less like Unix, for better or worse.
:
: that's strange. i seem to be able to use twm even with my most modern of
: linux boxes. i have no kde or gnome or whatnot. maybe i'm weird.
:
: i do notice that i've got bash, emacs, vi, ls, cp, awk, &c. looks like
: unix to me.
I can run pretty much all of the above on NT, does that make NT
Unix? No.
Has Linux completely forgotten its Unix origins? No, of course not.
However, is the bulk of current Linux development pushing towards
the desktop and away from age old Unix practices? Yes, very much
so. This isn't a bad thing in and of itself, it just isn't Unix.
Not everything has to be or even should be Unix; Someone has to
build the big pretty buttons for the masses and I'd love to see
Linux take that role from MS. So far, they are doing great.
:> On the flip side *BSD is mostly pushing for a better Unix and could
:> really care less about the traditional WinTel/Mac desktop market.
:> *BSD isn't anti-WinTel, it's pro-Unix. There is a *big* difference
:> between the two both in the motive and the result.
:
: yeah, one's popular -- the other's not. ;-> can't you use kde in freebsd?
: if not, that'd be a freebsd failing.
Of course you can run KDE on FreeBSD (I do, but only to support a
few KDE based apps). Does FreeBSD push KDE, GNOME, and the rest of
the desktop style code the way Linux does? No, not in the least.
Do you see tons of big button GUI apps being built under or for
FreeBSD? No, you don't. They are almost all in the Linux camp.
More over they could care less about Unix and X and have often
stated as much publicly (see the KDE list archives).
:> Personally I think what Linux is doing is *great*; The world *needs*
:> a *viable* WinTel replacement/alternative. It just isn't what I
:> need. I need a better Unix, and so I use FreeBSD.
:
: the differences are marginal.
And so it is with Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, et al; At least to an
end-user that hasn't had much Unix experience.
: one may have a better virtual memory scheme than the other, one may
: schedule better. those are valid reasons to prefer one to the other.
True, but that's only one of many reasons.
: however, the linux kernel or freebsd kernel present largely the same api
: as any other flavor of unix.
Unix kernel != Unix system
: the shells and command utilities are all about the same.
As far as POSIX required utilities, yes. For more advanced systems
like package management, no. Ports still blows away everything else
to date, and lets not forget reliable integration issues ala make
world and friends, builtin syncing systems using cvsup, etc.
Playing the Linux patch of the week, RPM dependency "go fish", or
the libc shell game isn't my idea of a fun sunday afternoon.
None of these issues have anything to do with how familiar awk
works, the kernel's VM, or the file format of /etc/fstab.
Reliability isn't simply measured in uptime.
: /etc/fstab looks similar on all unixes. if you want to believe in some
: touchy-feely my unix is more berzerkely than thine, you go right ahead.
Thank you, I will.
:> Yah, Emacs is a good OS, but I prefer FreeBSD.
:
: emacs doesn't run on freebsd? looks like i ain't gonna try it any time
: soon. ;-)
It's a joke. Go read alt.religion.emacs sometime.
: J o h a n K u l l s t a m
: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
: Don't Fear the Penguin!
Our mascot breaths fire and carries a big stick; The Penguin doesn't
stand a chance. :-)
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From The Blue Camel we learn:
BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 05:09:57 GMT
Sam Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rolf Marvin Be Lindgren"
:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>snip<
:> Now here's the catch. One day you find that all the
:> machines have been upgrade to a new buggy version of
:> the OS which you never authorized. What do you do?
:
: The sub-administrator gets sacked and possibly has legal action launched
: against them. However, it would never occur in practice because you would
: use sudo in that situation and thus restrict what the person can do.
Agreed.
: Anyway the backup tapes would fix the problem.
Or:
cvsup -g stable.cvsup && build world
:-)
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Yah, Emacs is a good OS, but I prefer FreeBSD.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benjamin Marsh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to uninstall packages?
Date: 11 May 1999 10:09:26 GMT
Also remember that if you want to remove a folder that has 300+ (or
any number) files
in it do rm -fr foldername
a forced recursive remove - just don't do it to anything that may
contain a important file else it is never coming back and could
take the system with it. I once did it to the bin folder
in root (oops) well had to run the reinstall for RH :)
Ben
Claude Chaudet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: >-->I'm using RH6.0, which doesn't come with glint. I'm relatively new to UNIX,
: >-->and I'm wondering whether or not there is a command line sequence that can
: >-->locate a package and uninstall it.
:
: you ca use
: rpm -e myPackage
: (where myPackage is the package name without extensions (.i386.rpm))
:
: >-->Also, is it dangerous if I just use the "rm" command to delete programs? The
: >-->main reason that I want to avoid removing programs via that method (aside from
: >-->that it would be time-consuming) is that I'm likely to miss certain files.
: >-->However, I'm wondering whether or not it's bad for the system to just delete
: >-->programs that are installed in the system without a complete uninstallation.
:
: The purpose of rpm is to be sure you don't remove anything that is still
: needed by some other application. That's the only diference with rm
: (except that rpm knows which files belong to which package while I often
: don't). This works quite well if you only install apps using rpm. If you
: compile yourself some progs you can never be sure you won't need that or
: that library. (actually you can try and uninstall the libs, see if your
: apps still work, and if they don't put the lib back).
:
:
: Claude.
:
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From: Jon Haugsand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ken Thompson on Linux
Date: 11 May 1999 13:07:54 +0200
* Rob Fisher
> > My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is
> > quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is
> > worse.
>
> I may be wrong, but the way I read this I think he might mean that
> everyone knows windows is unreliable, but that people trust Linux more
> than perhaps they should.
Perhaps this is what he means. However, he doesn't say it. He says
that Linux is worse than Microsoft.
> I've seen Linux go belly up in ways I've never seen with Solaris or
> HP-UX. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. If you expect Linux
> to be as reliable on big systems under big loads as a more seasoned
> commercial Unix, then you are inviting trouble.
Have you ever ever run Irix on an SGI? It is plain unstable. Goes down
frequently. To HP-UX I have no experience, but my own Linux is as
stable as the Solaris at work. The drawback with Solaris is the 8-bit
color X-terminals.
--
Jon Haugsand
Norwegian Computing Center, <http://www.nr.no/engelsk/>
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pho: +47 22852608 / +47 22852500,
Fax: +47 22697660, Pb 114 Blindern, N-0314 OSLO, Norway
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From: Nic Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Odd math problem.
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:43:41 +0100
I've encountered a strange problem with the following code...
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
main()
{
double fred=1235;
int dpt, sg;
char *jack;
jack = ecvt( fred, 16, &dpt, &sg );
puts(jack);
}
If you compile this normally, all is fine, the result is
'1235000000000000'. If however
you link in libm, or libstdc++, the result is '1234999999999999'.
Any idea what's going on here? I've tried debugging this but end up
stepping thru
system source (efgcvt_r.c looks hopeful) which I don't actually have.
That is to
say, gdb is telling me I'm in efgcvt_r.c but I can't see it..
Cheers,
Nic
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can use Mathematica?
Date: 11 May 1999 12:05:31 -0500
P.J. Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On 10 May 1999, John Girash wrote:
:> One thing to watch out for: afaict, you don't "buy" the student version so
:> much as you "rent" it: the registration key needs to be renewed every year,
:> and Wolfram requires proof of student status each renewal before they'll
:> provide you with the new key.
: While it is true that Wolfram Research, Inc., requires proof of full-time
: enrollment in an educational institution to complete registration of a
: student version, the claim that the license for Mathematica for Students
: requires annual renewal is patently false.
: The user may be confusing the license for our student version with site
: licenses that we have with academic institutions. A site license is not
: the same as a student license. These licenses are purchased directly by
: the institution rather than by the student. Many of these licenses are
: based on a time-limited contract and must be renewed upon expiration.
Oops! Indeed, it's more than likely that I am confusing the two.
My apologies to Wolfram for the unintentional FUD.
:> They will however give you a "break" on the non-student price if you
:> already "own" (read: are currently renting) the student version come
:> renewal time.
: Registered users of Mathematica for Students can always upgrade to the
: professional license during the time that they are full-time students.
: They can even do so for a limited period of time after they have completed
: their studies. Details can be obtained from Wolfram Research's Customer
: Service department <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
This, combined with the site-licence-renewal system, is probably at least
part of what created my confusion. When inquiring with Wolfram about
purchasing a personal copy of "Mathematica for Students", I received
the following reply:
"Mathematica for Students version 3.0.1 is sold to full-time students only at
the cost of $139.95. It is available on the Mac, Windows, and Linux
platforms. With Mathematica version 3.0, the software included in the
student edition is the same as that included in the professional edition."
So instead of making a (possibly incorrect) statement, I'll ask a question:
why would one, having legally purchased a copy of Mathematica whilst a
student, have any reason to pay Wolfram more $$$ for the exact same software?
I guess I (incorrectly) inferred that there was a licence-renewal scheme in
place to enforce the double payment.
Part of my confusion also arises out of the occasional "do not buy Mathematica
b/c of the registration process" complaints that show up on usenet; a deja.com
search on (past) "mathematica register" will give some of them if you can wade
through all the "LEO-Archiv" hits. My concern is largely due to the following
anecdote:
1. User legally purchases Mathematica, installs/registers it, it works fine.
2. User's harddrive crashes; manufacturer sends a larger one as replacment.
3. User restores system from backup.
4. Mathematica no longer accepts the old registration key.
5. User contacts Wolfram and is told that the registration key is hardware-
dependent, and pretty much any system upgrade will require a new key.
Please note that the above is pure heresay, I do not know it to be true.
But given this opportunity I will ask Mr Hinton if it is _accurate_.
I would love to receive the answer "no it is not". But if it is, I will
ask the followup question: should the above situation occur to someone who
purchased Mathematica for Students as a student several years prior, would
WR refuse to issue a new key unless the Professional Upgrade was purchased?
If "yes", it pretty much amounts to the same thing that I originally warned.
Even if "no", the _first_ "yes" prooduces a highly-undesirable dependency.
apologies for taking this off-linux.
jg
--
"don't listen when you're told about the best days in your life Spirit of
a useless old expression, it means passing time until you die." the West
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-- John Girash -- girash @ cfa.harvard.edu - http://skyron.harvard.edu/ --
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From: Tony Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Acroread 3 and 4
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:53:24 +0000
Florian Rupp wrote:
> I trying to use Acrobat Reader 3.0 or 4.0beta. My operation system
> is SuSE Linux 6.1 (glibc).
>
> Unfortunately, acroread produces the following output on startup:
>
> Warning: Unmatched quotation marks in string <garbage deleted>,
> any remaining fonts in list unparsed
> Warning: Unmatched quotation marks in string <garbage deleted>,
> any remaining fonts in list unparsed
>
> After startup, several segmentation faults occur. The output
> is a mess of mixed colors and letters.
>
> Does anyone know a solution ?
4 beta is a wonderfull piece of software.
Are the libs correctely declared in ld.so.conf ?
Cheers
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: Re: Web email system Re: MS Exchange and Linux
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 20:05:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome wrote:
>"Tim Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>|BTW: Anyone know a good Web based email system using Apache and Qmail?
>
>What does Microsoft Network Hotmail use?
Its a custom setup on Solaris. I imagine a lot of perl is used. I think its
sendmail too.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU idle tool in Linux?
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 12:18:55 -0600
Tuomo Louhivuori wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the linux and I was wondering if there are tools to
> run HLT-command on CPU in idle threads. Like CPUidle etc on windows.
It's already built into the linux kernel. Check you
/var/log/messages file:
May 2 12:26:36 starfleet kernel: Checking 'hlt'
instruction... OK.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Enrique Alonso de Armas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrdao with 2 cdrecorders
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 21:58:39 +0200
Someone has succeded in burning 2 cds at the same time?
when I launch the socond cdrdao, It crashes the first one : (
Thanks
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Enrique Alonso de Armas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
visita
http://indulinux.etsii.upm.es
ftp://ftp.indulinux.etsii.upm.es
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Ken Thompson on Linux
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:48:48 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But my point was that you /can't/ compare your single user home computer
> to the heavily loaded, heavily network-dependent machines you probably
> have at work. That's like saying your car never breaks down when you
> only ever go to the end of the road in it. Do 40,000 miles a year in it
> without breakdowns and then I'll believe it's reliable.
I believe Linux is used by many UK ISPs for web serving and possibly
other tasks. (I know the ISP my web-site is on uses Linux.) Possibly most
of these boxes aren't heavily loaded compared with some major corporate
web-sites, but I think it shows that Linux can at least cope with a step
up from the "single user home computer" that you seem to imply Linux is
solely used for.
Must go - got to check the Linux mailserver I'm testing with 250
concurrent users...
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE very slow
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:09:45 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm suspicious of this. I have KDE-1.1 on my 486DX4/120 with 40MB of
RAM, and it runs fine. It is *slightly* slower at window management than
win95, and it perfectly happy in that amount of memory. 28MB (my
previous amount) didn't quite cut it, so yes, it is rather heavyweight
in its requirements.
As to the speed accusations, my guess is that the problems are
network-configuration-related. I run it occasionally at work (when I
don't need Office and have a lot of intranet work to do) on a PII-350
with 64MB of RAM, networked to everything, and it is slightly slower
here than at home on the standalone 486.
Mark.
jik- wrote:
>
> I recently tried KDE 1.1.1pre1 and yes, KDE is tremendously slow.
> Someone somewere down the development line REALLY screwed this one up.
> KDE Beta3 was the last KDE I tried that worked (Beta4 turned out broken
> and I quit using it) it was somewhat slow to start, but then ran just
> fine for the most part...slower then other systems, but it was a
> reasonable amount for what you got. The new KDE seems to be much slower
> then would be expected for what you get, especially considering that it
> runs slower now on a 200Mhz then it did then on a 150 with less RAM.
> Looks like the desktop fiasco has taken a major turn for the worst.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem unmounting file systems (SIMPLE)
Date: 6 May 1999 23:19:26 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sellaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>/usr/local is mounted in a separeted partition. KDE is installed on it.
>When I have to shutdown the system, /usr/local is not unmounted because
>it's in use. I think this happens because the system is running in level
>4, and I'm using KDM as login manager.
Make sure that KDM and KDE are killed before the file systems are
unmounted-- ie that the /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K* file which kills kde and kdm
is killed before the unmount occurs.
Ie make sure that that kill file has a low enough number
I do not know where KDM installs its start and stop control program
(actually it probably does not unless you got it from Redhat. So make a
script file which you can put into init.d whichwill halt the KDM and put
a pointer to it in rc6.d with a K initial letter (if you halt it in the
script by doing script stop.
( the unmount is in S00reboot which is a pointer to init.d/halt which does
the unmount)
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From: Mats Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Text based interface and escape codes?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 22:13:33 +0200
Hi all!
I'm planning on doing a small utility program and want people to be able
to acess it through telnet.
The users are novice of computers, so i want to do a simple text
interface (sort of like redhats install interface).
I want the user to be able to jump between fields with arrow or tab
keys.
The telnet client use vt100 emulation.
I planned programming in perl. Can anybody guide me to some examples of
similar code or to information on escapecodes and such for vt100
terminals?
Thanks!
Mats
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gunshannon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (was: Wanted: Database/Contact
mgr with backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web frontend)
Date: 11 May 1999 16:23:13 GMT
In article <7h8nqf$j9t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon
Scott) writes:
|> Larry Blanchard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
|> : C'mon guys, it was a joke :-). I *knew* the Latin :-).
|>
|> I even put a cheeky smily on mine, and still they take us seriouslsy.
|> Ho Hum.
|>
Sorry guys. I was just trying to be helpfull. My first assumption was
merely that others can be as absent-minded as I sometimes am.
bill
--
Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton |
Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Locate creates page fault + core dump
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:42:59 +0100
This may be way off base, but I believe that updatedb can be configured
to keep track of remotely mounted partitions (NFSmounts ...) and a whole
bunch of other things. Check to see what you are holding in UpdateDB,
and recreate it so that it does not include the NFS mounts.
Than try again. It is only a guess, though.
Just by the way, I find "init 1; init 2" is good for fixing some things
without losing (official) uptime ;-)
gus
Henri Brady wrote:
>
> We have a RedHat Linux 5.1 server (p450, 256MB Ram, Raid 5). This
> server has been a great performer; however, a nasty little thing
> happened this AM that I have never seen before.
>
> I can run updatedb; however, every time I use the locate command I get
> "Page Fault, Core Dumped" I suspected the database was corrupt so I
> moved the updatedb database file to updatedb.old and re-ran updatedb.
> This did not fix the problem. I still get "Page Fault, Core Dump".
>
> The only thing that has recently changed is I now have an NFS mount
> pointing to an NFS share on another server.
>
> Any ideas ? I have not tried the Windows solution model (reboot)
> because I pride myself on "Uptime" :-)
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> -Henri Brady
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: File system for NT and Linux
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:58:49 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I notice that in the 2.2.7 kernel, NTFS read/write support appears to
> have gone from "experimental, use at your own risk" to, well, it isn't
> there any more. Draw your own conclusions.
I draw the conclusion that you don't have read-only mode turned on at all
or have it set not to prompt for experimental code... I downloaded 2.2.7
today, and R/W mode is definitely there (marked as DANGEROUS).
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Mark Hannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: FreeBSD NFS server with Solaris and Linux clients
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 20:05:24 +0200
In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Timothy J. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A FreeBSD 3.1-19990416-STABLE computer is an NFS server. It has
> some Solaris 2.5.1 (kernel patch 103640-26) and Linux (kernel 2.0.36)
> clients (less than 10 total).
> Solaris client NFS access seems to be fine, except when someone
> tries to edit or copy a huge file. It works, with lots of "NFS file
> server not responding" and "NFS file server ok" messages in between.
Make sure that the Solaris machine only uses NFSv2 towards the FreeBSD server.
I have had problems with a similar setup and fixed them by doing this.
>From my /etc/vfstab
doorway:/export - /export nfs - yes vers=2,proto=udp
Regards/Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: RedHat price...
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:31:03 GMT
On Tue, 11 May 1999 15:31:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>According to Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> I just checked out the price on the newest version of RedHat (6.0),
>> and I see that the basic boxed set is going to sell for between
>> $75-$80, to which I say, "ARE THEY OUT OF THEIR EVER-LOVING MINDS?!"
>> Is there really that much new in 6.0 to justify such an extreme price
>> hike?
>
>Remember, what you are paying for is *not* the software -- the bulk of
>that cost is for the 30 days on installation and technical support.
A good point I overlooked, and in reading up a bit on the new release,
I see they do offer more support options than with version 5.2.
Thirty days phone support, or 90 days e-mail support. I believe in
5.2 they "only" offered 90 days e-mail support.
Ray
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