Linux-Misc Digest #193, Volume #20 Thu, 13 May 99 21:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: A bash question (Do-Hoon Kwon)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (NF Stevens)
Maximum file size in ext2 (Ju Wang)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (was: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?)
(Peter Mutsaers)
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Bcase@highland (Los)
Re: Xfig can't fit!! (ron cole)
Re: newsgroup for LinuxPPC? (Rick)
How to get Linux 2.0.30 to mount FAT32 (Michael Wolf)
vmware and fusion (Ramin Sina)
Re: best distribution (brian moore)
Registry in Linux ??? ("Thomas Scholz")
Re: please suggest a smaller WWW browser. (John Girash)
mastering RH CDs (Mark Robinson)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Re: ESS Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Debian: still viable? (William Wueppelmann)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Peter Seebach)
Help getting X going with RedHat and SOny monitor (Michael Wolf)
Need to restore "normal" mono vga settings (John Cope)
Glibc2, do I need it to upgrade to 2.2.x? (Paul Thomas)
Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives (Michael Balderas)
Re: Programming crashes my system ("D. Vrabel")
Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional ??? (Jason Mcconochie)
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From: Do-Hoon Kwon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A bash question
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 19:03:46 -0400
Niel Markwick wrote:
>
> You need statement 1 to finish before statement 2 has been started so that
> you can retrieve the exit status.
>
> This is not possible with a pipe, because with a pipe, both commands
> execute simultaneously - you will have to use temporary files.
>
> TMPFILE=/tmp/temp_`basename $0`_$$
>
> statement_1 > $TMPFILE
>
> if [ $? = 0 ]
> then action_on_sucess < $TMPFILE
> else action_on_failure < $TMPFILE
> fi
>
> HTH,
>
> Niel
Thank you for reply.
However, I really can't afford to break the pipe. The script
I'm working on is on network backup of Windows clients to
tape drive on a Linux backup server. I'm using smbclient
from SAMBA suite. The first statment is logging on to Windows
machines with smbclient and creating tar file, and the second
statement is gzipping and dumping to a tape device. The tar
file could be in MB-GB range and I don't want to store them
on disk. :^(
Do-Hoon Kwon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:40:54 GMT
Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>The contradiction is not mine. You seem to be a little confused, so I
>will explain. One person claimed that implementing libertarian ideals
>would result in an elite few ruling over all others. I refuted that.
You did not refute it. Unless you are using an incorrect definition
of "refute" (such as "to deny").
>In my refutation, I mentioned that in a natural state (or, "in a
>state of nature" if you'll allow me) strong will tend to dominate
>weak. Libertarians think this is bad, and would like a society that
>prevents it. It's as simple as that.
Yet libertarians seek to remove the very thing, i.e. the state,
that currently prevent the strong from dominating the weak.
>
>You seem to think I said "in a Libertarisn society, the strong
>dominate the weak. Libertarians don't like it, and try to
>prevent it", which would be a pretty sad self-contradiction.
>Unfortunately for you, I didn't actually say that.
I, for one, am not arguing that libertarians do not ardently
wish for more freedom for everyone. They are misguided,not
evil.
Norman
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From: Ju Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Maximum file size in ext2
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:03:49 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Ext2 support file size up to 2GB, How does this number comes? According
to
the inode structure it can have the maximum file size of:
(12+256+256*256+256*256*256)*(size of block), so if the block size be
1024.
the upper bounder of file size is 4GB or so.
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From: Peter Mutsaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (was: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?)
Date: 13 May 1999 09:12:03 +0200
>> "SL" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SL> On 08 May 1999 10:34:40 +0200, Peter Mutsaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Otoh I don't see much development in the kernel anymore. Look
>> at the very very slow pace of Linux kernel development at the
>> moment. I browsed a bit through linux-2.2.5,6,7 recently, and
>> really not much is happening and a lot is old.
SL> Let me give you an example of what you just said in
SL> FreeBSD terms, ok?
SL> I browsed a bit through 2.2.8-STABLE recently, and really
SL> not much is
SL> happening and a lot is old.
No. First, stable is the 3 branch nowadays (3.1 being the current
stable release). And, -current development (4.0) is out in the
open. Maybe something is going on w.r.t. true developments at the
moment in Linux but then it is closed and unknown. I saw the
detection yesterday of 2.3.0 (on slashdot) and everyone was
speculating on what would going to be happening.
So *if* there is really something going on, then 99% of the Linux
community is at least left in the dark about it.
SL> This is because the even numbered kernels are, as you
SL> FreeBSD people would
SL> coin it, -STABLE. 2.2.x is no longer the active development
SL> tree anymore than 2.2.x is for FreeBSD. You want to make a
SL> fair comparison, compare those.
Well, the unstable 2.1 tree has been working towards 2.2.0 (reaching
stability) for almost 1 whole year!!! Over and over Linus refused new
features (except for minor things) to be able to reach stability for
2.2.0.
I must say I have been amazed at how difficult it has been to get back
to stability. In every higher 2.1.x release you saw a fix or small
enhancement for this, breaking lots of other things. Then the next fix
would break some other things again.
If you compare with FreeBSD: new stuff is happening all the time, yet
even -current remains quite stable, and important new stuff gets
backported to -stable.
If you compare what has been happening at the lower levels in the past
year I say that the pace of FreeBSD development (including the time
needed to remain or regain stability) has taken over that of Linux.
FreeBSD's more conservative and ordered approach used to make its
slower than Linux, but I think that Linux's relative chaos is
beginning to reverse this. It would be good for Linux to also start
using a single CVS tree with a -current and -stable branch and a core
team instead of a single individual that needs to approve everything.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:29:27 GMT
In article <7hfdun$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s (david parsons) wrote:
> Looking on the CD, I see an interesting directory. ``games'' So,
> a system distribution includes such OS-critical things as
> backgammon, rogue, sail, wump, and pig. Well, I don't know if
> you've had any experience administering Unix machines, but it's
> perfectly possible to run a Unix machine that doesn't have any
> of these, umm, components on it.
Apparently you haven't been adminning Unix machines long enough. Those
are definitely essential pieces of the system.
I cried when they took "jive", "fudd", and "valspeak" away from me.
Jive used to be part of the old SystemV distribution. Political
correctness killed that, unfortunately.
[On a more serious note, the distinction between "system" and
"non-system" isn't really as technical as some would have you believe.
More accurately, placing things in /usr rather than /usr/local is more a
matter of seniority than anything else. The fact that games are in /usr
illustrates this perfectly -- they're there because most of them are
older than many things now considered "system". It just so happens that
seniority and "systemness" have a huge degree of overlap, and the /usr
vs. /usr/local distinction serves technical purposes in addition to
maintaining historical elitism.]
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From: Los <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bcase@highland
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:56:55 GMT
Hey, Case,, listen all I could tell you is that If you buy it off of
caldera, officially (meaning a cd) and you don't download it, You do get
evrything you can get,, and as far as your hardware compatibility,, get
yourself red hat's linux 6.0 , I got 5.2 and upgrading as soon as I get
it in the mail.. 6.0 comes with KDE , in my opinion , everybody that is
not a guru or they are gurus (some of them), do recommend kde it's a lot
like windows interface,, but way more powerful,,compatibility, your
printer should be fine,, they support most of HP, system is fine,
soundblaster is cool, I just read in my book, your video card is
supported, cd rom wise you should be fine if it is modern which I think
it is if it reads at 24x,, Let me know how you turned out,,
att, Los >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
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From: ron cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xfig can't fit!!
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:49:45 -0700
the easiest thing to do is to run cf86config from the console. when ua re
prompted select to use a virtual desktop.
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Mark Tranchant wrote:
> 1. Use the geometry settings that most applications obey - they are a
> part of X. Look at "man X". It's something like "xfig -geometry
> 800x600+0+0" you want. I think you'll lose some of the tool buttons
> though.
>
> 2. Set up a virtual desktop size and scroll around that.
>
> 3. Get a smaller .sig. 18 lines is too much.
>
> Mark.
>
> Kenny Zhu wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I need some help. I'm working on a laptop the screen is 800x600. I
> > have a problem with xfig. I just can't see the bottom tool bars and some
> > of the side bars below as well. Any remedies? Thanks.
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick)
Subject: Re: newsgroup for LinuxPPC?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:06:50 -0400
Joe Strout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm fairly new to the Linux world, so excuse my stupid questions...
>
> Is there a newsgroup specifically for issues related to LinuxPPC? I'd
> swear there used to be one, but I can't find it now. More to the
> point, is this the appropriate place to post my LinuxPPC-specific
> questions?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Joe
Yes, there is...
comp.os.linux.powerpc
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From: Michael Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to get Linux 2.0.30 to mount FAT32
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:37:37 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got a new computer and the hard drives are FAT32.
How do a get Linux 2.0.30 to mount the FAT32 partition.
I have Linux 2.2.7 on the FAT32 drive and have no way of getting it to
my Linux partition unless I can mount the FAT32 drive.
All help is appreciated.
Michael
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: vmware and fusion
Date: 13 May 1999 16:50:04 PDT
Does anyone know know if fusion 2.0 (mac emulator, running under
windows, to be release soon) will run under linux vmware?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: best distribution
Date: 13 May 1999 23:54:56 GMT
On Thu, 13 May 1999 15:44:25 -0700,
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> octet wrote:
> >
> > I'm pretty new to Linux and would like to get some opinions from you
> > folks. This is because I'm thinking about rolling out many Linux
> > workstations to replace Windows workstations.
> >
> > 1. Which distribution is the oldest?
>
> I think there was one that came before slack, but I can't remember the
> name, or be sure if I am right. Certainly Slackware is the oldest which
> is still being worked on?
SLS was first, as I recall.
> > 2. Which one is the "technically" best distribution right now?
>
> technically is defined how? calc best
As in "most like Slackware" :)
> > 3. Which one is the best "over-all" distribution right now?
>
> I like slackware. I like its install procedure, its init rc setup, its
> package manager, and I like how it doesn't follow the croud or sacrifice
> stability for bleeding edge alpha software. At one time that meant that
> slackware was behind in a great deal of packages, but not true anymore.
> Slackware seems to be up to date with most everything but for switching
> to glibc2, which in my mind is not worth the trouble at this
> point....libc5 works perfectly fine.
And now that it's glibc2.1, the people who are "ahead" are having to go
through the same problems all over again (though not as bad as the
original RH5.0 which sorta exploded).
> But, other opinions will vary,....calc best
Yes, but they'll be wrong.
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From: "Thomas Scholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Registry in Linux ???
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 23:11:48 +0200
Hi together,
I'm new to Linux and my question might look a bit strange. Anyway, my
question is:
In Linux, regarding applications only (not hw settings etc.), is there
something similar to the Windows Registry?
If not, is there anything else one has to do to an application before being
able to execute it (in the meaning of "registering" it to the os)?
Thanks for your help
Thomas Scholz
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From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: please suggest a smaller WWW browser.
Date: 13 May 1999 17:38:19 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:> Hi there, just recycled an old PC with linux (486SX25)
:> Plan is just to use it as a web-browsing box. Idea being
:> it'll be faster than a windows machine could be.
I think you're looking for a software solution to a hardware problem.
The SX lack of fpu is going to cost you mucho time under X11. Instead,
you might want to look on classfieds2000.com for a 486DX Overdrive chip;
(mostly for the fpu, not the higher clock-speed). Expect to spend $10-15
for a 50/66MHz one, $20-25 for a 75/100, or $30-35 for a 586-100/133.
And I certainly hope you have at least 8MB RAM, if not 12 or 16.
If neither of the above holds or you're still looking for a software
solution, I'd suggest the Opera browser under Win3.1; I think it does
javascript but not java (most sites use javascript if anything though).
Lookit www.operasoftware.com .
jg
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From: Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mastering RH CDs
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 23:59:17 GMT
How can I make my own bootable RH6 cd? Do I need any special options?
thanx
Plasmoid
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 17:07:17 -0700
On 13 May 1999 15:50:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Andrew Carol
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
>: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Powe
>: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[deletia]
>: I see the Free GUI OS coming, but todays offerings on top of Linux
>: are very immature and are no improvement over Windows. They are
>: too contstricting for the power user to work within, and to little
>: for the beginer.
>
>Power users are never constricted by them, because they can always open a
>shell.
>
>I disagree about there being too little for the beginner though.
>KDE is a very nice desktop. (A little slow on my 486, but fast enough on a
>good pentium system).
How hampered would you be without that xterm?
[deletia]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ESS Modem
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 23:25:19 GMT
depends on whether it's controllerless HSP/DSP or not. If it's not a
"win" modem, then yes. If it is a "win" modem, then no. Check their
website (this is a good indicator, if it's for sale on their site for
under, say, 80$, give up).
Hope it helps.
John
In article <7hfj6o$k7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know if an ESS es56v-x pnp modem can be configured for
linux.
> This particular modem has a es2830 chipset.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: Debian: still viable?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:58:39 GMT
In our last episode (Sat, 08 May 1999 23:43:12 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Gene Wilburn said:
>I don't hear as much about the Debian distro as I used to. I visited the
>website today and it seems to be a bit behind the more commercial
>releases (Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE).
>
>There's a 'non-stable' release called 'Potato' that runs on the Linux
>2.2.X kernel but the 'stable' release (2.1) is back at 2.0.36.
>
>What's the word on Debian these days? Is it losing ground to the slicker
>distros or is it holding its own?
>
>I'd be interested in hearing from Debian users about what they see as
>the advantages of the Debian distro. I applaud it naming itself
>GNU/Linux and am half tempted to install it but I don't want to cut
>myself off from the Linux mainstream. Is it straightforward to install
>packages like Applixware on Debian? How about packages like Oracle for
>Linux? (Not a troll -- these are honest questions. I don't know any
>Debian users.)
Debian has traditionally favoured well-tested and stable versions over the
latest releases. They also don't release new versions as fast as Red Hat
seems to. It's also aimed more at the sort of person who would be able to
download and compile newer versions if need be. I also think that it
hasn't joined the "let's bring Linux to every Windows user" crowd. There's
a place for that, but let Red Hat and Caldera be the ones to do it. Debian
would seem to be for a different audience. I kind of think of it as being
somewhere between Slackware and Red Hat, but with a stronger philosophical
bent than any of the others (and if RMS uses Linux, sorry, GNU/Linux, I bet
he uses Debian).
I've found Debian to be an extremely well-configured and well-designed
system. I don't mind the old dselect package system, though it does have
its weaknesses (for one, it has to scan the entire CD just to install one
package), though apt is supposed to be a lot better (haven't seen it yet).
I haven't had any problem installing outside software (and the dpkg system
can install rpms if need be).
Really, there shouldn't be anything that will only run one a particular
distribution, since the basic system is the same for each. I'm running
Debian 2.0 (2.0.34 kernel) and I'm using glibc2 and glibc-linked binaries
at the same time without any problems. Technically, I don't think there
are any difficulties, and the entire system is (IMHO) quite
well-organized.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach)
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:21:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marco Anglesio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think that's a hoot. US unemployment is at an extreme low; everyone who
>possibly can is out there creating some more value.
There's a distinction between working and creating value. There are a lot
of people who are "working" but who aren't actually *doing* anything.
>>Let's say I start printing aces. While I may end up with a dozen to your
>>four, you can still have more than you might have otherwise.
>Nice in concept, poor in execution. As you can see above, if you own the
>press, you'll deal me as few as you possibly can, whether you're making
>more or not.
1. I don't see this as inevitable.
2. If you end up with five or six aces, you still have more than you could
*EVER* have gotten had no one invented the ace-printing machine.
As you note, productivity is high. Wealth is high, too; our standard of
"poverty" is a moving target, but last I heard, an awful lot of the people
living "in poverty" had color televisions.
>Don't tell the US Treasury that you're printing your own deck; I hear that
>they look unkindly on that sort of thing.
Ahh, you've mistaken money for wealth. You're allowed to invent new ways
to create value; then you can trade the value for, say, money, if you want.
If the supply of value grows faster than the supply of money, money becomes
more valuable. Increases in productivity are why we haven't had so much
inflation.
-s
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From: Michael Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help getting X going with RedHat and SOny monitor
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:45:27 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(At the bottom of this is the problem I have, the rest up to that point
is info/history)
I have an HP Pavilion with a Sony Monitor.
The Monitor is a Sony Trinitron Multiscan CPD-200ES.
The display adapter (as reported by the device manager) is a: Rage Pro
Turbo AGP 2x (English).
I assume the display adapter is ATI.
I was using the Mach64 server and X would come up but I would get it
shifted to the right and would get 4 splices of the same thing on the
screen, i.e., if I clicked to bring up a root menu I would see 4 of them
show up across the screen.
Someone said I needed the latest XFree86 so I downloaded that
(3.3.3.1). I followed the installation isntructions but when I run an X
server it says version 3.2, this is not my issue.
Now I get no display since the server does not come up. I have done
-probeonly but it does not appear to show much of anything.
Can someone point me to anything which can help me get this running?
Thanks in advance...
Michael
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From: John Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need to restore "normal" mono vga settings
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 00:26:58 GMT
Here's one you don't see everyday.
Got a problem. It started with running screen on a console, then errant
switches to quake caused it to core dump (and I didn't even want to go
interactive with it anyway - no audio device caused the dump I think), a
few kills from a telnet session to SCREEN processes and now I've got a
mess of a display. It's useable ... barely. Looks like perhaps colours
have been assigned cause I can just make out the text. I've tried a few
things during panic mode like setterm and restorepalette without success
(and without knowing completely what I was doing to begin with). Hoping
you can help (and hoping I don't have to reboot).
The system is running RedHat 5.1 and the video is a 512KB VGA attached
to a monochrome monitor. What should I be looking into? Perhaps a config
for restorepalette? But most important, why did the display get garbled
to begin with? That last question may never get answered but it would be
good to know for future reference.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Thomas)
Subject: Glibc2, do I need it to upgrade to 2.2.x?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:17:02 -0800
Sorry if this has been asked before, I don't have
much net access till I get my upgrades completed.
I am interested in upgrading my 2.0.27 kernel to
2.2.8. Do I need glibc2? If so, sorry to sound like
a dummy, but where do I get it, why do I need it,
etc.? Do I replace libc5 with it? Are we talking
glibc-2.0.7pre6.tar.gz here?
Also, while I'm at it, what is the .bz2 extention as
in: egcs-1.0.3-glibc.x86.tar.bz2.
Please direct any replies to my email as my Usenet
access is a bit spotty. I will post the follup answers
back to the group here.
Thanks in advance,
--Paul T.
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From: mike*no*spam*@yourhelpdesk.com (Michael Balderas)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:22:18 GMT
On Thu, 13 May 1999 21:55:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee
Allen) wrote:
>Under Samba, I (think) I have to "map a network drive" on the Win 9x
>client via point & click. If the client ever boots when the server is
>down (or not available), then the client will display a prompt, "Do
>you want to reconnect the next time you log in?" If the user says
>"No", the mapping is gone, and must be recreated manually.
>
This is the short coming of Windows 9X in any peer-peer network
enviroment using Microsoft's file and print sharing to map shared
resources on remote clients, this is not just related to Samba.
>How can we avoid this problem? Is there some script capability in Win
>9x that remap the drives for us?
>
Short of telling the users to hit yes, I am not aware of any way
around this issue. I get calls from clients all the time who hit "no"
on the "connect next time" prompt instead of yes. To this day the only
resolution I have found is to walk them thru connecting to the share
or fixing it next I was on site. If anyone does have a scripting tool
that will eliminate this issue I'd be interested in knowing as well.
Mike
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux-redhat
Subject: Re: Programming crashes my system
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:52:05 +0100
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Robert J. Sprawls wrote:
> On 9 May 1999, brian moore wrote:
>
> > This is, of course, highly useful for a programmer: at that point, a
> > copy of the state of the program is saved to disk, including the
> > contents of all the registers and all your data. A "postmortem" can
> > often find the cause of the problem.
>
> Question: Is there a utility to decipher the core dump? It's all binary,
> so how does one go about reading it?
It's a standard feature with symbolic debuggers like gdb (and hence ddd).
The program must have had debugging information compiled into it (and
not stripped out) that gives all the symbol names etc.
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: Jason Mcconochie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional ???
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:32:36 +1000
I have had this problem before on a RS6000 I maintain. Check that all of your
group numbers and names and login id's correspond.
Jason McConochie
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Jon Skeet wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> When I use the command :
>>
>> less index.html (i get the following error)
>> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
>> index.html (press RETURN)
>>
>> Somehow I have changed the terminal to VT100 or something like that. Can
>> someone give me a pointer?
>>
>> Redhat 5.2 server It has ran fine for 6 months until I changed something.
>
>Try doing "echo $TERM" to find out what it's been set to. Then look in
>files like /etc/profile and your own personal startup scripts to see
>whether you're setting it there.
>
>When all else fails, you could always do a huge find and grep, using
>xargs where necessary (as find will give you too many arguments to put on
>the grep command line, if you're searching the whole disk).
>
>--
>Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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