Linux-Misc Digest #197, Volume #20 Fri, 14 May 99 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?) (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Jim Richardson)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Jim Richardson)
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?) (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Marco Anglesio)
Re: Does Linux have IRQ's (Ed Young)
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?) (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Mike Coffin)
creating redhat 6.0 cd ("Bob Cunius")
SOS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Mike Coffin)
Alternative to OSS for Sound Blaster PCI128? ("Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\"")
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?) (Alexander Viro)
Re: car mp3 player (brian moore)
Re: rotating signature (Tim Sutherland)
Re: emulate a removable media (Tim Sutherland)
Re: RedHat price... (Ray)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Peter Seebach)
Porting to HP's (default user)
Re: car mp3 player (Kent Perrier)
Re: Glibc2, do I need it to upgrade to 2.2.x? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Printer. (Hans Dumbrajs)
screen(1) problems with linux (Kim DeVaughn)
CAMAC Acquisition Software for Linux (J Mars)
Re: redhat 6.0 cd image (Steffen Kluge)
Exhaustive testing of a suspect hard drive ("Matthew B. Kennedy")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Date: 13 May 1999 21:59:29 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tor Slettnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now, the difference between ../bin and ../sbin is a little more
>unclear. It used to be that static binaries went into sbin, and
>binaries linked against a library in ../lib went into ../bin.
>Nowadays, however, more and more people seem to have the idea that
>'sbin' is for system administration utilities.
Ah, does anyone remember the days of booting from a tiny drive
that couldn't hold all of your binaries and libraries so they
had to be on a separate partition and mounted later? Now,
what's the smallest drive you can buy - 2 gigs or so? I think
this contortion can be considered a historical artifact.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 14 May 1999 03:12:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 May 1999 15:58:04 GMT,
Marco Anglesio, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>On 13 May 1999 04:50:34 GMT, Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>1) It's *fiction*
>
>Even the *slowest* college student knows that books can be political.
>
can be != is
Animal farm is fiction, it was written to show some of the (many) flaws in
socialism.
Starship Troopers was written to put food on the table. Maybe some of
Heinlein's philosophy is there, but an out of context quote doesn't prove
that.
and the quote still didn't say that might makes right. Which was the original
poster's claim.
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 14 May 1999 03:12:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 May 1999 17:07:17 -0700,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>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?
>
who's taling about getting rid of the Xterm?
>[deletia]
>--
>
> Microsoft subjected the world to DOS until 1995. |||
> A little spite is more than justified. / | \
>
>
> In search of sane PPP Docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Date: 13 May 1999 21:40:19 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Let's see, here's the patched gnutar that amanda needs, compiled on
>: a 2.1.5-RELEASE system, executing on a 2.2.2-RELEASE:
>: tar --version
>: ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libc.so.2.2"
>: Same on a 2.2.5-RELEASE system.
> >snip and moved a bit<
>:> #COMPAT1X= yes
>:> #COMPAT20= yes
>:> #COMPAT21= yes
>:>
>:> 1.x -> CURRENT compatibility is also available as part of the system
>:> install and *turned on* by default.
> >snip<
>: Did the guy that set these boxes up break them on purpose or is
>: this compatibility a very recent thing?
>
> You tell us, did you break it on purpose?
I inherited these boxes from someone else who appeared to know
what he was doing. Each one was carefully tuned to do a particular
job and they have been doing it well enough up to the point where
the requirements change or I've tried to add other things to them,
and then they are full of surprises. I don't like surprises.
Should a binary compiled on the 2.1.5 box run on 2.2.2? I
just used the defaults for everything.
>: Hmmm, make... That reminds me. Where's gnu make? Bsd make chokes on
>: the gnutar makefile.
>
> Actually pmake (Berkeley make) has no problem what so ever with
> GNU tar's build.
Really? Then it shouldn't have done this either?
make
make all-recursive
Making all in doc
Making all in lib
"Makefile", line 259: Need an operator
Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
*** Error code 1
Stop.
*** Error code 1
Stop.
But it worked with gmake. More surprises...
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Anglesio)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:58:04 GMT
On 13 May 1999 04:50:34 GMT, Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>1) It's *fiction*
Even the *slowest* college student knows that books can be political.
m.
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> Marco Anglesio | from the things I care about <
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> | --Robert Smith <
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Does Linux have IRQ's
Date: 14 May 1999 02:49:06 GMT
Al wrote:
>
> Does Linux have IRQ's?
Yes. Type the following command to see their current status:
cat /proc/interrupts
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Date: 13 May 1999 21:50:58 -0500
In article <7hdqcn$l4e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Good point. All I'm really after is the ability to mkfs the system
>> partition(s) without losing anything of my own. However, most
>> everything you grab in source form wants to install itself in
>> /usr/local, so it's extra work to modify the install destination
>> of your locally tweaked stuff so you can turn over /usr/local
>> to the stock packages.
>
>It's still unclear what distinction you're drawing between "stock
>packages" and "your locally tweaked stuff". Are you saying you have
>[for example] a stock installation of apache as well as a "tweaked"
>version? In that case, I don't understand why you care about the
>"stock" version at all. If you're saying something else, I can't see
>what it is.
I have an assortment of local utility programs that I keep in
/usr/local/bin that aren't part of any distribution. I want them
to still be there after mkfs'ing every partition that had anything
included in the system install (assuming, of course that /usr/local
is on it's own partition or is a symlink to one not used by the
system). There is also an assortment of locally tweaked programs
that need to checked on a case-by-case basis as to whether this
distribution version is better than mine.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mike Coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 13 May 1999 20:36:24 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens) writes:
> Mike Coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens) writes:
> >
> >> Libertarianism may not be founded on the principle of "might
> >> makes right" but that state of affairs is the logical outcome
> >> of trying to implement libertarian ideals.
> >
> >How?
>
> By destroying the very institutions that people have
> created to prevent that state of affairs. The purpose
> of society is mutual support. In its absence the principle
> that "Your right to swing your fist stops at my nose"
> becomes "Your right to put your nose anywhere stops at
> my fist".
No, they don't. Most of government has nothing to do with preventing
aggression. That part of it that does---a minimal, defensive military
and a justice system---libertarians don't want to abolish.
> >This reminds me of the fourth grade: a popular pastime was finding
> >someone gullible and, by sheer repetition, convincing him that the sun
> >rose in the west during the summer, or other such nonsense. Repeating
> >nonsense doesn't make it true.
>
> It's you who are trying to convince by repetition without
> any solid details. Perhaps you could explain how exactly,
> in the absence of any state judicial system, you would
> prevent those who wish to impose their will on others
> by force.
Perhaps you have libertarianism confused with anarchism. Libertarians
don't want to abolish the judicial system. Some want to privitize
pieces of it; none I know of want to abolish it.
-mike
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From: "Bob Cunius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: creating redhat 6.0 cd
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:55:11 -0400
hi,
i recently downloaded redhat 6.0 from ftp.redhat.com in hopes of burning
the files onto a cd. Right now I have windows 98 on my only computer
capable of burning a cd. I've tried to burn the files 3 times. Each time I
try and boot the redhat install and search for the cd on my local cdrom it
says that the cd-rom does not contain a redhat linux disk. I burnt it with
the following options: bootable iso9660, ascii character chart, allow
pathdepth of more than 8 directories, allow more than 255 characters in
path, and format mode 1. The bios is able to boot the disk into the install
program but the redhat install program just can't read the disk. I noticed
that on my redhat 5.1 manufactured disk that the disk label is "Red Hat
Lin". I tried to create the same label but nero - burning rom (which i
used) changed the label to "RED_HAT_LIN". I doubt this is the problem but I
thought I'd mention it anyway.
Thanks in advance for the help. I'd hate to keep wasting cds :(
bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.dev.config
Subject: SOS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 01:06:18 GMT
Any Linux guru out there pls. help.
When i try to make the newly downloaded gtk+, it give me this error
msg.
libtool:link:'../..glib-1.2.2/gmodule.la' is not a valid libtool
archive.
When i try to locate the gmoudle.la, it is not on my system. What
should i do?
I would appreciate if anyone ever encountered this msg before help me
solve the problem.
Thanks in advanced
Andrew
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From: Mike Coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 13 May 1999 20:57:32 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefaan A Eeckels) writes:
> Libertarians believe that by maximizing individual freedom, and
> thus reducing the influence of the collective (which inevitably
> expresses itself through the "organs of the state"), this maximum
> of well-being will be achieved, mainly through the generation of
> massive amounts of "wealth". The sheer volume of wealth will
> ensure that, even with a massive skew towards the more able,
> the "totally inept" will have access to sufficient wealth.
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work.
Well. Hard to say since we don't have any examples of real libertarian
states. The latest boom in the US, running almost without
interruption since 1982 now, has certainly made almost everyone more
wealthy---rich and poor alike. This is in spite of many government
programs that have the net effect of transferring wealth from poorer
people to richer people.
> Socialists believe that by severely restricting the freedom of
> the individual, and by using the collective (IOW the organs of
> the state) to divide the goods and services generated by "society"
> according to certain rules, this maximum of well-being will be
> achieved, mainly through the repartition of fairly scarce resources
> according to moral principles such as "solidarity" and "justice".
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work.
Agreed. We have seen examples of this.
What seems to be true is that states that are closer to libertarianism
also generate more wealth for everybody. States that move toward
socialism tend to do ok for a generation or two, and are held up as
examples, but then begin to rot from within. The most productive
people emmigrate. The welfare bureaucracies run out of money. Taxes
are raised. More people leave; others spend their time doing
unproductive things like avoiding taxes. Eventually, people get sick
of the whole thing and elect a Thatcher or Reagan.
-mike
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From: "Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\"" <*****@ix.netcom.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Alternative to OSS for Sound Blaster PCI128?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 21:00:32 -0400
What are my options for running a SB PCI128 sound card? I'm using OSS now
and it seems to be OK, but I'm curious if there are alternatives that will
work better. I copied all my sound themes over from Win98 and only half of
them work, the other half don't play. I think this is a problem in OSS
since they are all *.wav format. Thanks.
Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
Date: 13 May 1999 21:09:04 -0400
In article <7hfdap$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
david parsons <o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s> wrote:
>In article <7hf43j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>No, you are the one who has bought into the Windows trap of being
>>>married to a single distributor. What if your next hardware upgrade
>> Windows is a distribution???
>
> He didn't say that.
>
>>Wow! Now, who the fsck maintains it
>
> a) If you mean fuck, the second letter is a `u'
> b) Microsoft, Inc.
Hmm... Out of context reply, actually. If we are talking about the thing as
maintained system - Microsoft as maintainer means that all 3rd-party stuff
is out. AFAICS remaining part is not too big. So I'ld rather say that Windows
doesn't have a single distributor - it's hand-assembled on the place. Usually
badly. So Les is cute but bogus here.
> ____
> david parsons \bi/ time to crosspost to alt.flame
> \/
s/alt.flame/autoresponders/
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: car mp3 player
Date: 14 May 1999 04:06:12 GMT
On 13 May 1999 21:02:49 -0500,
Kent Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
>
> > On 13 May 1999 16:04:06 GMT,
> > David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm looking into constructing an mp3 player for my car. I've searched the
> > > web, but come up with lots of useless (for me) info. Basically, what I'm
> > > looking for is a linux mp3 program that I can use for the playing. It
> > > should support keypad control, and ideally, output to an LCD screen. Does
> > > anyone have any pointers. If not, where can I get info on writing one
> > > myself? Thanks.
> >
> > Actually, I'm pondering something similar (but in the case of a
> > circa-1986 CD player that I need to retire :)).
>
> Take a look at www.empeg.com
Yeah, but theirs is prebuilt and last I checked not shipping.
Besides, I'd still have that old CD player. (If I can replace the CD
drive with a CD-ROM drive and have a 4G or so drive as well, it'd be way
sweet. I'd even leave the JVC label on it to confuse people. :))
--
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] (Tim Sutherland)
Subject: Re: rotating signature
Date: 14 May 1999 04:08:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Anup Rao wrote:
>How do i set up a rotating signature?
I use fortune, with the -s options to limit length to 160 characters. With slrn,
I just set the editor command to pipe the output of fortune into the file used
for my signature before the call for editing.
Like so:
set editor_command "/usr/games/fortune -s > /home/tim/.signature-news;vim %s
+%d"
--
It has been said that Public Relations is the art of winning friends
and getting people under the influence.
-- Jeremy Tunstall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sutherland)
Subject: Re: emulate a removable media
Date: 14 May 1999 04:08:10 GMT
In article <7h9clp$vb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> : I want emunlate a floppy disk or a ZIP with a file or a partition,
>> : it is possible? and how ??
>
>In fact, I want my appli think have a ZIP on the system, without ZIP.
Why? Applications don't care whether a file is on a zip drive, or a hard drive.
They just request the file, and the kernel gives it to them.
--
If you don't drink it, someone else will.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: RedHat price...
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:04:49 GMT
On Tue, 11 May 1999 18:26:56 GMT, "(BXTC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just wanted to recomend Mandrake linux, this is the full version of
>RH6 integrated with KDE(so it is actually better;))
>
>You can get the standard powerpack (which includes 4 disks), a
>instalation/user manual, and e-mail support all for $44.95.
>
>And the Plus powerpack has all that plus a few other things for $52.95.
Thanks for these recommendations... I have heard of Mandrake a bit
before, but didn't know all that much about it
> I also think stores need to start advertising Suse and other
>"easy" versions so more poeple will try linux.
Agreed. I've heard that the new Caldera is wonderfully easy for new
users to get up and running, although I'm leaning toward SuSE 6.1,
since it also includes Gnome. About the *only* retail outlet I find
SuSEin is Border's Books. If the other outlets start pushing Caldera
as much as they push RedHat, we might have something....
Ray
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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 04:31:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher B. Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>With the *dramatic* decreases in price of television sets, it is no
>longer a challenge to pay for one nicer than anything that was
>available 10 years ago.
Yup! Same money, more wealth.
>People can have "color TV" and nonetheless live in frightful squalor,
>which is one of the things that makes it remarkably difficult to draw
>conclusions about changes in peoples' "economic well-offness."
Yes. However, it remains the case that a lot of our problem isn't lack of
resources, it's poor allocation.
-s
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Visit my new ISP <URL:http://www.plethora.net/> --- More Net, Less Spam!
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From: default user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Porting to HP's
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:59:52 -0700
I've heard that they (someone) was able to port Linux (or a smaller
version of Linux) into a Texas Instruments calculator (a TI86 I think).
Has anybody ever ported Linux to an HP48 GX calculator? If you know,
please respond, thanks....
Michael Whitaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kent Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: car mp3 player
Date: 13 May 1999 21:02:49 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
> On 13 May 1999 16:04:06 GMT,
> David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm looking into constructing an mp3 player for my car. I've searched the
> > web, but come up with lots of useless (for me) info. Basically, what I'm
> > looking for is a linux mp3 program that I can use for the playing. It
> > should support keypad control, and ideally, output to an LCD screen. Does
> > anyone have any pointers. If not, where can I get info on writing one
> > myself? Thanks.
>
> Actually, I'm pondering something similar (but in the case of a
> circa-1986 CD player that I need to retire :)).
Take a look at www.empeg.com
Kent
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Glibc2, do I need it to upgrade to 2.2.x?
Date: 14 May 1999 00:17:28 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and e-mailed]
In article <AaI_2.6180$me.2604763@WReNphoon4>, Paul Thomas wrote:
> I am interested in upgrading my 2.0.27 kernel to
> 2.2.8. Do I need glibc2?
No. Your libc5 should be adequate.
For discussion of converting to glibc2 (== libc6), see the Glibc2
HOWTO at http://www.imaxx.net/~thrytis/glibc/Glibc2-HOWTO.html .
> but where do I get it
>From an update to your distribution, or from
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/software/libs/glibc .
^^ (substitute your appropriate country code)
> why do I need it
Perhaps because libc5 is no longer developed, and you want to
stay current. Or perhaps because you want to run new programs
that work only with glibc2. (You may find these reasons to be
completely unimpressive.)
> Do I replace libc5 with it? Are we talking
> glibc-2.0.7pre6.tar.gz here?
Yes, or glibc-2.1.*.
> Also, while I'm at it, what is the .bz2 extention as
> in: egcs-1.0.3-glibc.x86.tar.bz2.
That's the "bzip2" compression method: see
http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Hans Dumbrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Printer.
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:55:40 +0300
Nuno Donato wrote:
> Can anyone tell me step by step how to configure my printer in my RedHat
> 5.2 OS.
> I have tried anything but when I choose the print command in any
> program, nothing happens.
> Help me.
read the printing howto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kim DeVaughn)
Subject: screen(1) problems with linux
Date: 14 May 1999 01:15:26 GMT
I am running into a problem trying to get screen(1) working on an ISP
that is running:
Red Hat Linux release 4.0 (Colgate)
Kernel 2.0.18 on an i586
When I issue just the "screen" cmd, screen(1) eventually comes up for a
moment (following an inordinately lengthy startup time), but immediately
exits after clearing the display, with the [screen is terminating] msg.
This happens with several TERM types (vt100, vt102, vt220, xterm), both
with and without a .screenrc file (which works just fine elsewhere), and
when logged in via rlogin, telnet, or direct dialup. No error msg of any
kind; no core file; etc.
The screen(1) version is 3.07.01 (FAU), and is installed setuid root. I've
verified that the /tmp/screens/S-my_userid directory is getting properly
created. Also, commands like "screen -ls" seem to work OK.
After much fiddling, and a trip or two to the man page, I have found that
"screen -a" will get screen(1) up, and (mostly) working properly. There
is still a lengthy startup time though, and a few times screen(1) seems
to gotten "hung" (no response to *any* input).
Also, if I detach (^Ad / ^A^D) the screen session, then later attempt to
resume the session ("screen -r" / "screen -R"), I (nearly) always get a
SIGSEGV (sig-11) ... I think the resume has worked exactly *one* time, in
many, many attempts.
Anyone seen any problem(s) like this before ...?
Since I don't have control over the installation, I'm wondering if there
is anything I (as a mere user) can do to at least get the -r(esume) func-
tion working?
Thanks ...
/kim
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"When you open the box, the cat's either dead or it bites you." --M. Flynn
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From: J Mars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CAMAC Acquisition Software for Linux
Date: 13 May 1999 14:32:40 GMT
To all Linux-users
I am using PIXE (Particle Induced X-ray Emission) analysis and
the CAMAC (VMS ?) acquisition system for availing the data. Since I'll
be porting to Linux [Redhat 6.x] from Win 32 (nyarggh...!) very soon,
I need software
1--for the acquisition of the data and
2--Any equivalent to GEOPIXIE (Vax VMS) and GUPIX (bad old DOS) based on
Linux platform.
Please reply at your earliest convenience (prayec). Thanx a mil.
JA Mars
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0 cd image
Date: 13 May 1999 14:24:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gordon Vrdoljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was wondering if there was any site I could download the entire redhat
>6.0 cd from.
You can order the CDROM from CheapBytes for a couple of bucks or
so. It'll take about as long to get it...
Cheers
Steffen.
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Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: "Matthew B. Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Exhaustive testing of a suspect hard drive
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 04:23:53 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all,
I recently gained a 2 Gb hard drive which according to the previous
user, has bad sectors. I've installed it in my linux machine,
partitioned it into two 500 Mb partitions and one 1000 Mb partition,
formatted each partition with mkfs, and mounted them successfully for
normal use. None of these operations complained about any drive
problems.
My question: Is there a way I can thoroughly scan the disk for bad
sectors and surface problems? Something like scandisk under dos,
perhaps?
Thanks,
--
Matthew B. Kennedy
Research Concentration in Speech, Audio and Video Technology
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
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