Linux-Misc Digest #332, Volume #20 Mon, 24 May 99 18:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Kernel .config file for RH 6.0 (Rod Roark)
Re: .Xclients (Shimpei Yamashita)
Re: RH 6, sndconfig, sound balster 16 PnP (Dan Finn)
Re: Log Watcher (Brad Knowles)
Re: Favorite Linux Distribution (Rod Roark)
Re: Samba and printing. (Jake Kim)
Re: My Windows is dead...and I need it!! ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Root Password lost... ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: "tcp/:7100" Not available ??? (Glenn)
Re: Commercially speaking....? (brian moore)
Re: Adding ethernet to dial-up machine (Matt Starnes)
Re: /etc/issue (Grand Poobah of PRAM)
Re: Linux Books (Brian Lane)
Sun SPARC Processor Perfomance & Linux (Stephen Thomas)
CD Burner (Erb)
Re: Increase Swap size ? (Bob Tennent)
Re: FTP Symbolic Links (Matt Starnes)
Increase Swap size ? (TurkBear)
Re: Security: Messages in /var/log/secure (Matthew Bafford)
call back service (The Dude)
kernel config and make problems ("darrin")
Re: Ishmail no longer being developed - source code available (albi)
Problems with 2.0.33 and pgcc (Slav Inger)
Re: Favorite Linux Distribution (Gene Wilburn)
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel .config file for RH 6.0
Date: 24 May 1999 19:58:15 GMT
M.V. Ramana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
>I may at some future date build a kernel or two. Since the precompiled
>kernel
>seems to work well, I would like to use it as a starting point, and so I
>am
>wondering if is it possible to get the .config (the configuration file
>used to build the kernel) from somewhere (I looked in /usr/src/linux,
>but to no avail).
If you just type "make menuconfig" from /usr/src/linux, it will start
you off with reasonable-looking defaults, which I'm guessing (but
don't know for sure) represent the standard kernel. If you already
hosed the default .config, try using rpm to remove and reinstall the
kernel source.
Use "make bzImage" instead of "make zImage" to get around the
kernel-too-big error.
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
======================================================================
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From: Shimpei Yamashita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: .Xclients
Date: 24 May 1999 18:04:25 +0100
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I'm pretty sure the default kde install makes use of the .Xclients
>file as for the advantages over .xinitrc and .xsession, you got me.
RedHat's default xinitrc runs a few convenient setup commands (namely,
xrdb and xmodmap) before it runs your (or the system's) .Xclients
file. If you make your own .xinitrc file, then you will have to call
these commands yourself. The default xinitrc file is very simple,
however, so there probably isn't a whole lot of a loss if you override
it altogether with your own .xinitrc.
It makes more sense in multi-user settings, where the system
administrator may create a complicated default xinitrc for whatever
reasons. With the split .xinitrc/.Xclients system, you can let the
sysadmin worry about updating all the complicated background stuff
in the default xinitrc.
--
Shimpei Yamashita <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>
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Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 13:31:29 -0400
From: Dan Finn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RH 6, sndconfig, sound balster 16 PnP
I don't have the manual, i got settings from windown 95 but I have read
before that sometimes what you get from windows will actually be incorrect
and not totally correct. My settings I think should be quite similar to
what yours are though. Thank you for the help.
Dan Finn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Silviu Minut wrote:
> Here it is: (/etc/isapnp.conf)
>
> (VERIFYLD N)
> (DEBUG)
> (READPORT 0x020b)
> (ISOLATE)
> (IDENTIFY *)
>
> # this is my modem (motorola)
> (CONFIGURE MOT15f0/90692603 (LD 0
>
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x03e8))
> (INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> # from here on, is the sound card, AWE64
> (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/12636550 (LD 0
>
> (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
> (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
> (IO 1 (BASE 0x0330))
> (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/12636550 (LD 1
>
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x0200))
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> (CONFIGURE CTL00e4/12636550 (LD 2
>
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x0620))
> (IO 1 (BASE 0x0A20))
> (IO 2 (BASE 0x0E20))
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> (WAITFORKEY)
>
> To create the isapnp.conf file you do
> pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
>
> This creates a stub. You must uncomment only the settings that work for
> you. How do you know them? From the manual for your card, or from Win95.
>
> Then you run isapnp:
> isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
>
> That's all.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Knowles)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Log Watcher
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 22:08:53 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone know of a log watcher for Linux and/or Solaris machines?
swatch.
--
Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/>
<http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE38CCEF1>
Are you looking for a news feed from a site in the Freenix Top 130?
If so, contact me via private e-mail for details.
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Favorite Linux Distribution
Date: 24 May 1999 19:50:22 GMT
Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>While not scientific, a Feb/99 online poll on Slashdot asked users to
>vote on their favorite Linux distribution. Here was the breakdown:
>1. Red Hat (45%)
>2. Debian (27%)
>3. Slackware (15%)
>4. SuSE (9%)
>5. Caldera (1%)
>Given these results, you might want to add Debian and Slackware to your
>"look list".
Slackware 4.0 especially, IMO. This brand-new release is a major
improvement, with the inclusion of KDE 1.1.1, kernel 2.2.6 and updated
versions of many other packages.
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
======================================================================
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From: Jake Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba and printing.
Date: 24 May 1999 20:31:23 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Nitin Mule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: If you want to load all the printers, add this to your [global] section.
: Specify appropriate values for your system.
: printing = bsd
: load printers = yes
: printcap name = /etc/printcap
Finally mine works. Key was "printing = bsd". Thanks.
Jake
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Windows is dead...and I need it!!
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 13:46:25 -0400
mist wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Charles Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>>
>>mist wrote in message ...
>> <snip>
>>>from it. Assuming you have a working FDISK on the dos bootdisk then
>>>that should fix your win98 MBR and let you boot windows again. You
>>>can't use LILO on the MBR of a fat32 disk.
>>
>>That's news to me! I boot either Win 98 (FAT32) or RH 5.2 (ext2) from
>> LILO on the MBR of a 10 Gb drive
>>
>
>Then LILO must have been upgraded since I last used it. Are you sure
>it's not on the boot block of your Linux partition? (If not, I might
>start using it myself.)
If I run DOS FDISK /MBR then the LILO boot menu doesn't appear until
I reinstall LILO from within RH5.2 (after booting from floppy), if that's
any
evidence.
I previously had installed RH5.1 and couldn't get Linux to boot from the
hard drive even after several attempts at installing LILO. That may have
been
my inexperience, or a deficiency of that version of LILO as you say.
But I could boot from the hard drive immediately upon installing RH5.2.
Regards,
Charles Sullivan
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Root Password lost...
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 10:45:39 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Robert B. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 22 May 1999, NF Stevens wrote:
>
> > It depends on how you have your machine set up. On mine using
> > the linux single option in lilo brings up sulogin which requires
> > the root password before going into single user mode.
>
> What if you pass init=/bin/bash to the lilo command line?
If you would have read the LILO documentation you might have stumbled across
the note, that **ANY** paramater added to the LILO command line requires the
LILO password (if LILO has been setup that way).
jue
--
J�rgen Exner
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From: Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "tcp/:7100" Not available ???
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 12:45:22 -0400
Hi Ray,
Wouldn't it be better to reomve xfs so there is only one font server or is
there no problem and no reason to do this? I just run with xfsft and all seems
well.
Glenn
========
Ray wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:42:13 +0000, Joseph White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I'm trying to get xfstt font server working on my Redhat 5.1
> >system. I'm using Accelerated-X 4.1.2 and in there
> >instructions there web site (see below) they say to add
> >"tcp/:7100" to the [FontPath] section of the Xaccel.ini
> >file. Then run xfstt --sync and then start it with xfstt&.
> >My problem is when I start the xfstt server it reports "Port
> >7100 not available please select another Port".
> >
> >Any idea what it is referring to? Or what what other port
> >number I could use.
>
> Sounds like xfs is already running on port 7100. xfstt should then be run
> on 7101.
>
> --
> Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.help,linux.news.groups,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: 24 May 1999 20:53:19 GMT
On 24 May 1999 18:04:36 GMT,
Erik Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Now this is a nightmare scenario I hope never happens to any company, but
> >> the utter disreguard the GPL has for the commercial sector and their
> >> priorities will let this sort of thing happen. Freedom for the user my
> >> @$$, what about my freedom for my company to make a profit?
>
> > Why should you have freedom to profit from the works of others?
>
> That was my point, the GPL will allow the above nightmare scenario.
No it won't.
> If you GPL your code you have just given me the right to hijack it.
> And hijack it, for profit as in the example of HP selling a debugger
> that is based on gdb. HP is not doing anything wrong, they just
> put a Motif front end which is closed source on top of gdb.
ala xxgdb? Who would want such a thing?
Of course it's legal: it's just as legal as running Netscape or Oracle
or any other commercial application on Linux. "Oh, no, evil Oracle is
making syscalls to my GPL'd kernel!"
If such a thing exists, it exists only as a wrapper. For it to be a
true standalone debugger it would have to comply with the GPL and
release source.
> An even better example is the Sendmail company. How they are getting away
> with this level of proprietariness with the GPL is beyond me.
Um, since when has sendmail been GPL'd?
> Didn't you know the GPL allows this?
It doesn't do what you claim, no.
Hint: there is a HUGE difference between a GUI wrapper (such as xxgdb
and its role with gdb) and integration into one program (such as what
sendmail.com sells). I gather you've never done serious programming or
you'd understand the distinction.
Of course, claiming sendmail is somehow indicative of GPL licensing
caveats shows how little you know of the issues.
Sendmail is very much a product of Berkeley Unix and is very much BSD
licensed, not GPL'd.
You did know that, didn't you?
Please learn about the issues before spouting off nonsense about what
you think they mean.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: Matt Starnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adding ethernet to dial-up machine
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 13:01:20 -0500
Have you tried "netconfig" yet? This will setup your non-dialup network
options.
Matt
Colin Walls wrote:
> Until recently my machine has only had ppp dial-up networking.I have
> just added a network card so I can use the box as a file and mail server
> for my daughters' machines (W95 unfortunately).
>
> I have a problem in that I must keep my ppp hostname/IP address to
> communicate with my ISP. However if I set this as a default Samba (v2.0)
> attempts to bind to this and fails.
>
> If I set the default hostname to correspond to the ethernet IP address
> the sendmail (v8.9.3) refuses to relay between my ISP and my local
> network.
>
> Any ideas how I resolve the conflict? Please reply by mail as I can't
> always get to this group.
>
> --
> Colin Walls
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web: http://www.murorum.demon.co.uk
> Phone: 01625 535123
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Crossposted-To: uchi.comp.unix
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grand Poobah of PRAM)
Subject: Re: /etc/issue
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 20:26:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alex Jacoby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If I'm not mistaken, I think the script copies /etc/issue.net
>to /etc/issue at each reboot.
Actually, there were some lines that echoed the default issue to
/etc/issue, and then copied that to /etc/issue.net.
It was trivial to fix after I found the proper rc...
--
"Somehow there's cosmic justice in the fact that movie makers can now spend
the gross national product of Romania on special effects and still wind
up with something that looks like a teenager's Web page."-Andrew O'Hehir
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Lane)
Subject: Re: Linux Books
Date: 24 May 1999 14:58:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 24 May 1999 09:08:32 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there,
>
>I wonder if anybody knows any simple introductory books on Basic Linux
>OS Administration.
Any of the O'Reilly books, especially Unix System Administration. Linux in
a Nutshell is also supposed to be pretty good.
Brian
--
========[Inside 74.10]=======[Outside 48.84F]=======[Drink 67.65F]=========
Brian C. Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Consulting & Web Hosting www.nexuscomputing.com
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From: Stephen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sun SPARC Processor Perfomance & Linux
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 16:51:53 -0400
I have various model Sun SPARC machines lying around and I can't keep
them all. I'm trying to figure out which ones are worth putting RH on.
RH doesn't have their SPARC hardware compatibility listing for 6.0
available on their web site as of this date. From what I could
determine they are listed below in order of relative processing power:
Sparc20
Sparc5
Sparc10
Classic/LX
IPX/Sparc2
IPC
I'm sure this list needs adjustment...Comments or suggestion welcome
directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Erb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD Burner
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 17:13:06 -0400
I have a HP 7200i CD-Writer and would like to use it under Linux. I do
not have the time to search all over the web for sites which explain how
to set everything up for CD Burning so does anybody know about a site
where it is all explained?
The device is IDE and I have been able to mount it easily.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Increase Swap size ?
Date: 24 May 1999 18:10:42 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On Mon, 24 May 1999 17:45:36 GMT, TurkBear wrote:
>Is it possible, post-install, to expand the swap file size...I have some free
>space that I would like to add to the /swap partition, but I can't figure out
>how...
You can add a swap partition. Create and label the
partition using fdisk. Then format it using mkswap.
Then activate it using swapon (or add an entry to /etc/fstab
to have it automatically activate during the boot sequence).
If you want a swap *file*, use the following commands to create
a swap file:
touch /swap2
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap2 bs=1024 count=xxxx
where xxxx is the number of 1K blocks. Then format and swapon as
above.
Bob T.
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From: Matt Starnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP Symbolic Links
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 13:16:59 -0500
Angel wrote:
> When you download with FTP a Symbolic Link file, what you are
> downloading is the real file.
>
> �How can I download just Link file?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Angel Belda
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why do you want to do that?
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TurkBear)
Subject: Increase Swap size ?
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 17:45:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Is it possible, post-install, to expand the swap file size...I have some free
space that I would like to add to the /swap partition, but I can't figure out
how...
Any help much appreciated
( RedHat 5.2, 2,2,9 kernel)
John G
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: Security: Messages in /var/log/secure
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 20:37:05 GMT
On Mon, 24 May 1999 15:21:07 GMT, Fred Kuipers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
held some poor sysadmin at gun point while typing in the following:
: My system is set up to work with _several_ of these services. I personally
: telnet and ftp to my machine from work. Imap is mail and pop3 is mail...
: which of these do I need for sendmail to send and receive mail (both internet
: and local mail)?? Finger isn't a big deal... I could probably comment it out.
If you're only using it from work, then only allow connections from work.
Edit /etc/hosts.deny to read something like:
ALL: ALL
And then edit /etc/hosts.allow to read something like:
ALL: xxx.xxx.xxx.
Where xxx.xxx.xxx. is the first 3 bytes of your work IP.
man tcpd
man 5 hosts_access
for more info.
Doing so will limit stuff in incoming telnets, but still leaves non inetd
stuff wide open.
You might want to look into using ipfwadm or ipchains (depending on
kernel version) to control access to other daemons.
: > 24.112.173.186 (cr222868-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com) is port-
: > scanning you, that is, connecting to a range of ports on your
: > machine, trying to find out what services you have open, possibly
: > in hopes of opening a breach.
:
: I'll keep an eye out for this one... >:-|
I'd personally limit what the @home addresses can get into.
Lots of script kiddies out to cause nothing but trouble...
: FK
--Matthew
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From: The Dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: call back service
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 18:59:47 GMT
Hi guys, I'm using RedHat 5.2 + KDE 1.1.
The dialup is working and I'm able to connect to the world.
I have the option of call back service but I don't realy know
how to make it work from my Linux OS (it works from NT).
Well, how do I do it?
--
Regards
The Dude
--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
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From: "darrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.act.kernel,linux.redhat.devel,linux.redhat.development,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: kernel config and make problems
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 15:07:05 -0600
using redhat 5.2 linux, kerenel 2.2.3, i type make config and if i pick
certain things like scsi = y, it goes into this loop and no matter what i
press i can't get to the next question. another problem (after picking no
and as few options as possible) i was able to make config, make dep, and
then make where i get this error -
/usr/src/linux-2_2_3/include/linux/joystick.h:168: warning:
`MODULE_SUPPORTED_DE
VICE' redefined
/usr/src/linux-2_2_3/include/linux/module.h:212: warning: this is the
location o
f the previous definition
/usr/src/linux-2_2_3/include/linux/joystick.h:176: parse error
In file included from mem.c:18:
/usr/src/linux-2_2_3/include/linux/i2c.h:90: parse error
/usr/src/linux-2_2_3/include/linux/i2c.h:112: parse error
In file included from mem.c:17:
/usr/src/linux-2_2_3/include/linux/joystick.h:164: conflicting types for
`spinlo
ck_t'
/usr/src/linux-2_2_3/include/asm/spinlock.h:19: previous declaration of
`spinloc
k_t'
make[3]: *** [mem.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2_2_3/drivers/char'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2_2_3/drivers/char'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_char] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2_2_3/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
any ideas?
please reply by e-mail,
thanks,
darrin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (albi)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Ishmail no longer being developed - source code available
Date: 24 May 1999 21:39:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anno 23 May 1999 22:00:08 GMT, schreef Hans Wolters
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
hello Hans,
>>www.ishmail.com
>>(I still haven't received a free license :-(
>I got the license today,..... and it still isn't working. It's resting in a
>small corner somewhere on my system until I can find the time. In the
>meantime I still enjoy xfmail :)
I still haven't got it, but I asked for the license just to test Ishmail,
to make a 'klik-klak-Linux-newbie' (GUI-addict) happy with it,
I don't like xforms' menus in general, I do like the "confirm receive" option
in XFmail, but as I'm using mutt (www.mutt.org) VERY happily for years now,
I'm just testing other mailers to get an impression, so I get to know a
little bit what's going on in the rest of the world ;-)
-- greetings, Albert --
* Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux! (Unknown source)
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From: Slav Inger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problems with 2.0.33 and pgcc
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 16:44:17 -0400
Hello,
I downloaded the latest pgcc (based on egcs) in the form of RPMs, and
used it to compile zImage, modules, and then did modules_install.
Before compiling, I tweaked the
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/config/config.in file to pass -mpentium flag to
the compiler instead of -m486 (which is what it seems to do, even if
CONFIG_M586=y) is set in .config). The compilation went fine, and the
kernel seems to work, except for the following weirdness: at boot, the
BogoMIPS is identified as 3.27, which is completely ridiculous. The
machine is DEC P-90 (originally), upgraded with Evergreen MxPro 240,
72MB RAM. The BogoMIPS of the kernel that works with no problems and
was compiled under gcc is 95.85. Another weirdness is that the
pgcc-made kernel does oops on shutdown right before it reboots. I'm
passing reboot=warm parameter to the kernel, so it doesn't have to do
POST on reboot. The gcc kernel has no problems with it. The kernel
version is 2.0.33.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
- Slav Inger.
--
Ford Motor Co., FSIC QPL
UNIX Server Group
Phone: 1-313-594-0216
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Favorite Linux Distribution
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 18:58:13 GMT
While not scientific, a Feb/99 online poll on Slashdot asked users to
vote on their favorite Linux distribution. Here was the breakdown:
1. Red Hat (45%)
2. Debian (27%)
3. Slackware (15%)
4. SuSE (9%)
5. Caldera (1%)
Given these results, you might want to add Debian and Slackware to your
"look list".
Gene
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> This is a bit long, my aplogies in advance.
>
> I am a longtime user of Windows NT and am pretty much sick and tired
> of Micky$oft/Winblows and their related apps. Unfortunately, I am
> constrained as that is what our research group has spec'd as its
> computer standard at work. However, I can do whatever I want at home
> and do much of my work at home (oh, the ease of the academic life).
> What I want to do is install Linux on some free space on my current HD
> or on a new, separate HD. I have a been shadowing the various Linux
> NGs for a month or two and have a good grasp on how to install w/ NT
> (want to do it this way until I am comfortable...plus my girlfriend
> would never switch so I need the dual-boot option) and what to expect
> during the general install procedure.
>
> What I want to know is this: what are the consensus favorite
> distributions and why? I have read up on just about every
> distribution I can find and cannot deceide between RH6.0, Caldera 2.2,
> and S.u.S.E. I really want the details as to why you like one
> distribution vs. the others or why you particularly loathe one vs. the
> others.
>
> Please EMAIL ME your responses as I DO NOT WANT TO START A
> FLAME-A-THON!!!
>
> Follow the email addy in my sig or this one (same thing) as I hate
> spam-bots:
>
> pearce AT post DOT com
>
> Thanks a ton in advance for all of your time and feedback. I will
> happily return the favor next time!
>
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