Linux-Misc Digest #383, Volume #20 Fri, 28 May 99 16:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: About SuSE Linux 6.1 (Alex Lam)
Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation (Manuel Bouyer)
Maximum CDE and RedHat 6.0 ("Hebert, Greg (EXCHANGE:KWAY:6C26)")
Re: midnight commander behaving strange (Anthony Campbell)
Re: But how do you install those programs ??? (Whigdon2)
Re: WWW: Take my Linux site -- please. (Knud Haugaard =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8rensen?=)
Netscape error: network is unreachable (John Thompson)
Re: Commercially speaking....? (Anthony Ord)
Re: Fun things to do with an extra linux box (Stephen Hammond)
Re: word processing, what to use? (Anthony Campbell)
Re: How to create ISO compatible ROM for linux (Stephen Hammond)
linux starts working on the harddisk and doesn't react to me (Goestl)
Re: AutoInstall is for experts, not beginners!!! (Reinier Post)
antivirus (bgarrett)
RH 6.0 and Tripwire 2.0 problem (Scott Lee-Bradley)
Re: Odd Kernel panic (David C. Lutterkort)
Differences between Unix and Linux ("Michael Sweeney")
Re: Recompiling my kernel (Steve)
Re: Acrobat4 acroread from Netscape 4.07 (RH 5.2) (Kaya Imre)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Anthony Ord)
Re: Linux's Last Chance (Arthur Buse)
Offline newsreader for Linux (Steve)
Rechte :-( ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
KDE vs. GNOME (Robert Washburne)
Recompiling my kernel ("Joseph Dunn")
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About SuSE Linux 6.1
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 11:08:29 -0700
Jaime Mantel wrote:
>
> I agree. I am using both SuSE 6.0 and SuSE 6.1. 6.0 is a rock and
> I have had very few problems with it. 6.1 is quite good also. I have
> not been using it as long so cannot speak to any major problems but
> 6.1 is a joy compared to RH6.0. I have nothing but minor problems
> with RH 6.0. The worst being my gnome desktop keeps crashing when
> ever I open the CDROM door. It is a scsi cdrom but SuSE has no
> problems with it. And the Xserver for the ATI card I have looks great
> under SuSE but crappy under RH6.0. Same Xserver same resolution and
> color depth. If I didn't need to do some configuration testing with
> RH6.0
> I wouldn't use it. And SuSE is less than half the price of RH.
>
I think RH hates me. Never had any luck with RH. Tried to install RH
since RH 4.0.
RH keep giving me crashes during installation, kernel panics, and what
not, it (RH)
even managed to damage my monitor during configuration....
I was able to install Slackware (pre elf days), but it's too much work
in my opinion.
Tried to install RH 5.0 again not too long ago... still the same old
shits (but on different boxes)
Then I got SuSE 6.0. 30 minutes later, I was up and running with my
brand new DSL connection. I can install SuSE easily in any boxes that
I have that RH would be choked to dead.
SuSE rules.
Alex Lam.
> >
> > I don't think so. I find SuSE6.1 as good as any and better than most. The
> > amount of included software is superb, and config. tools are pretty good.
> > Sure, SuSE6.1 has its quirks and bugs -- but so does any distro. In my
> > hands, I've found SuSE far better than RH -- although I will stand corrected
> > if someone could tell me how to stop RH continually freezing my system
> > (440LX P11-300 128MB 12GB SBPro AGP Viper330)
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:7ieh9v$199$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > I did a search for SuSE Linux 6.1 on DejaNews and
> > > from the results, it seems people have been having
> > > some major headaches with the new version.
> > >
> > > Is the release so bad that I should not install the
> > > version I bought and return it to the store?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > -Godfrey Degamo
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> > > --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
> > > ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
--
*** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Remove the XX from my email address if reply by e mail.
**************************************************
*If you receive any spam from my domain name. It's forged.
I DO NOT send spam e mail. But I've found out that my
domain has been forged many times.
**************************************************
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manuel Bouyer)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation
Date: 28 May 1999 16:08:16 GMT
Mikhail Teterin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> [...]
>
> The requirements are to be stable (of course), have PPP software, and
> run Netscape... I'd prefer to set the disk up at home, using my
> FreeBSD/i386 machines, but I'm not sure I can make it bootable by a Sun
> box.
>
NetBSD will do it really well on such hardware. It has a working ppp, there is
a package for the SunOS version of netscape. You can use mozilla as well
(there's a package for it too).
I run NetBSD on some sparc servers, and got up to 200 days uptime, without
any troubles.
--
Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
------------------------------
From: "Hebert, Greg (EXCHANGE:KWAY:6C26)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Maximum CDE and RedHat 6.0
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 13:08:47 -0400
Anyone have Maximum CDE working on RedHat 6.0.
Could you post what you needed to do to get it
working.
Thx
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: Re: midnight commander behaving strange
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:04:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 May 1999 12:36:57 +0200, jeroen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just installed the 2.2.9 kernel into my S.uSE 6.0 sustem. (previous
>kernel 2.0.38). Quite often but not always the mc crashes and dumps a lot of
>'strange' character on the console, when I try to quit mc. (F10)
>
>I have not had this problem before. I wonder anybody can help me. It is
>quite anoying to wreck a terminal once in a while. I can't really see a
>patern in the crashing behaviour of mc.
>
>
I've had this happen too, though I think it's been when I've typed "exit"
or "quit" or something at the command line rather than F10.
You can reset the terminal if you use CTRL-J instead of RETURN after
"reset". (See the reset man page for details.)
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Whigdon2)
Subject: Re: But how do you install those programs ???
Date: 28 May 1999 18:12:16 GMT
>(oh, I come back one week later and try again and again and finally it
>takes weeks to get a sound out of the box, compared to the 5 minutes
>under Windows ...) Sorry for that, but Linux extremely frustrating.
After working at it for a few hour yesterday, I was able to get a "test" page
to come out of my windows printer under Linux... but hey - it felt great! I
definitely know what you mean though...hang in there, you're learning alot more
this way -- and I expect that that's important to you, or you wouldn't be
messing around with all this nonsense ;)
Bill Higdon
------------------------------
From: Knud Haugaard =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8rensen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WWW: Take my Linux site -- please.
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:43:07 +0200
>
> ANNOUNCEMENT:
>
> "Gary's Encyclopedia", at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html , has
> been released to the Public Domain and is available for copying by anyone
> interested in incorporating any of its content into a Linux web site. It
> is mainly a Linux documentation site with > 1 MB of > 4000 annotated links
> and other info in > 150 hierarchically-organized categories covering almost
> anything that might interest a Linux user or developer.
>
> In the unlikely event you would want to use the existing name, please
> don't, as I intend to keep the site on the WWW with little maintenance.
Hi, Gary.
You got lot of stuff.
But you have to make it searchable.
Knud
________________________________________________________________________
Stud. Scient Knud Haugaard Soerensen homepage:
http://www.imf.au.dk/~khs/
FreakTech: Free ezine reveals the hottest high tech news!
http://sunsite.auc.dk/FreakTech/
Aeiwi: A search engine with a unique interface. http://www.aeiwi.com/
------------------------------
From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape error: network is unreachable
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 08:18:01 -0600
I just updated Netscape from v4.08 to v4.6 and now am seeing
the error message "Netscape error: network is unreachable"
shortly after firing up the Message center to read news.
Netscape is configured to use the news server on my home
network and despite the error message appears to function
properly.
Why does it display this error and is there a way to turn it
off?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:45:41 GMT
On Mon, 24 May 1999 12:14:35 +0000, Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Iain Georgeson wrote:
>>
>>
>> Iain, forced to use DOS every working day.
>
>It is amazing the number of people that do not realise that Win 95 is
>running on top of DOS just like 3.x did. They just put a (not so)
>pretty picture up at the begining to hide the DOS stuff at boot time.
Some people deny it point-blank when you clue them in. They
come up with all sort of funny explanations...
Regards
Anthony
--
=========================================
| And when our worlds |
| They fall apart |
| When the walls come tumbling in |
| Though we may deserve it |
| It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
=========================================
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Hammond)
Subject: Re: Fun things to do with an extra linux box
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:28:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 24 May 1999 18:23:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerritt Baer)
wrote:
>Well, I've found myself with an extra PII/266, and can't find a real
>use for the darn thing. I could install w95 on it to chain my pcs
>together so I can play quake2 with myself, but I was hoping to do
>something more useful/interesting with it. So i've installed SuSE 6.1
>on it yesterday and I'm trying to think of some interesting/fun things
>to do with the box. As, of now, it just sits there doing not much of
>anything :) Anyone have any good ideas?
>
>Gerritt Baer
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Similar to the SETI project, but equally interesting is the
Distributed Computing project. Check them out at
<http://www.distributed.net>. Who knows, your computer might be the
one to crack the RC5-64 challenge and you could win US$2000 for the
effort.
P.S. If you do get involved, please join my team "Encryption Is For
Sissies". :)
Regards,
-Stephen Hammond
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: Re: word processing, what to use?
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:04:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 May 1999 13:59:51 GMT, Adam C. Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 May 1999 10:03:51 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>...
>>>
>>> Wrong! vi is a very nice, quick way to edit text files.
>
>> It can be used to "quickly edit files". However,it does not fit the
>> description of "nice".
>
>> any one of dozens of modeless editors would better fit the description
>> "nice, quick way to edit text files".
>> jove, joe, uemacs, jed, .....
>
>Quickly edit files, not quickly start editing files (though it
>does that too.) vi's good for writing up a resume (if you have
>troff handy), or writing a program, or anything else you
>need to do (for evaluating lisp expressions, I use a lisp interpreter,
>no need to put one in the text editor, any more than there's need to
>put in a C compiler.
>
>--
>Adam C. Emerson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.calvin.edu/~aemers19/
>Preach from it unto the Righteous, that they may renounce their
>ways and repent. -- Honest Book of Truth
I missed a WP at first when I switched to Linux from DOS, but now I don't
miss it at all. I use vi (well, vim actually) all the time for all editing,
including book-length MSs. It's powerful and fast and does everything that
a WP does and more, although admittedly it's not WYSIWYG; I use xdvi for
that.
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: www.achc.demon.co.uk/bookreviews/
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on..." - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Hammond)
Subject: Re: How to create ISO compatible ROM for linux
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:00:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Tim Underwood wrote:
>
> I have been trying to create a compatible CDROM for linux that supports long
> filenames. (Testing with CDRW at the moment).
>
> I am creating the ROM on a Win98 PC, and have tried the NTI CD Maker Pro
> 3.1.730 program that came with the unit, as well as Adaptec Easy CD Creator
> Deluxe 3.5b.
>
> I have tried the Joliet format, as well as the ISO 9660. While 95/98 can
> see long filenames with either format, as soon as I mount it on linux, I get
> 8.3 names.
>
> For the time being, I am using CDRW, as I keep downloading more programs or
> updated programs, and don't really want to burn them as of yet.
>
> Any ideas???
>
I had some problems burning a CDROM of Linux files because of the
really long filenames and such. Here is what I did.
I started with
ftp://www.guug.de/pub/members/truemper/cdr/txt/CD-Writing.txt
Using a RedHat 5.2 machine and a Win95 machine with CD burner running
Adaptec Easy CD-Creator Deluxe 3.5b:
On RedHat box, create a tree (e.g. /tmp/cdsource) and put all the
files you want burned into the tree.
then do a: mkisofs -r -o /tmp/cdimage.iso /tmp/cdsource/
This creates an ISO image with rock ridge extensions of the cdsource
tree. Then ftp the cdimage.iso file to your win95 box with the
burner.
(***IMPORTANT***)
On the win95 box, double click on the cdimage.iso file. This is
because if you open CD-Creator Deluxe and say file/open/cdimage.iso
things don't work correctly, but if you double click the file and that
causes the application to open, CD-Creator will do the right thing.
Lastly, I had the best luck if I burned the CD using Disc-at-once. I
think that should be the same as Track-at-once on a data CD, but my
results were better with the Disc-at-once selected.
Hope this helps. I was able to burn a copy of RedHat 5.2 with all of
the updates onto a single cd using this method.
Regards,
-Stephen Hammond
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Goestl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux starts working on the harddisk and doesn't react to me
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 21:00:59 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sometimes suse linux 6.0 starts to work on my harddisk. Then I don't
have the chance to do anything on my computer. The mouse doesn't move, I
cannot chance the virtual desktop to kill the process ...
I turned off the cron-job for the locate database, but there is no
chance!
please tell me some ideas to solve this problem
thanks, Gregor
------------------------------
From: Reinier Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: AutoInstall is for experts, not beginners!!!
Date: 28 May 1999 21:09:18 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ( (Gilles Pelletier)) wrote:
>I installed Gnome 6.1 last weekend. Everything went well until the
>menu driven installation refused to install the server (driver?) for
>my Mach32 video card. I then had to go to the prompt.
At the prompt, as root, type 'yast', and you're back in the automatic
installation seat.
>So, I figured out that a beginner would be much better of building his
>system manually. You know, mkdir /dev, /mnt, /cdrom, whatever...
SuSE has 4.5 gig of software and you want to install and configure it
manually?
>Once the kernel is installed, Emacs could be opened with instructions
>in a top window and the prompt or the file to edit at the bottom.
Once the kernel is installed, you need to install Emacs. 'Manually'?
>Instructions could be formatted in HTML so that if you were installing
>a second IDE drive from a CD, you wouldn't have to find your way
>through SCSI installation from ftp. You'd read just what you need.
How does the HTML file know what it is you need?
BTW, unlike other distribution, SuSE comes with and extensive HTML
documentation system.
>And IMHO, the HOWTO are a pain in... the red neck. All I need for
>information is, e.g. "mtab means mounted tab. Here appears the list
>of mounted devices". That's clear enough to me for the time being.
I agree, but, again, how does the HOWTO author know what you need?
>Autoinstalling Linux is like putting a nice body around a Ferrari's
>mechanics and giving the keys to John Doe saying "You just press the
>gas pedal and it moves forward."
I don't know about you, but if I ever buy a Ferrari (which is
purely hypothetical) I'll be buying a car, ready for use; not a DIY
Ferrari assembly kit. You are right about the need to know about the
internals, but it's much more convenient to learn about them from a
system that's already set up and running.
>Whereas an expert might save time using autoinstall, it's most
>certainly a waste of time for a beginner. If there's a distribution
>like the one I'm describing here, please advise me.
SuSE 6.1. You've just been unlucky. Use their installation support.
--
Reinier Post (satisfied SuSE 6.1 user)
------------------------------
From: bgarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: antivirus
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:11:49 -0400
i'm trying to decide whether or not to use an anti-virus program for my
linux machine. does anyone have some input on this and/or if anyone uses
one, which is better: dr. soloman, antiVir/X, mcafee ?
thanks in advance, bg
------------------------------
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:21:59 -0400
From: Scott Lee-Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.0 and Tripwire 2.0 problem
I am trying to install tripwire 2.0 for Red Hat on a x86 system running
RH 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5.) I am using the default install.cfg. When I run
./install.sh, I get as far as generating the site keyfile passphrase.
The install script attempts to generate the keyfile, but then returns
the error that the site key generation failed. Since the tripwire files
were installed, I tried running "./twadmin --generate-keys
--local-keyfile ../key/local.key --site-keyfile ../key/site.key" This
also failed with a coredump - segmentation fault. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Scott
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C. Lutterkort)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Odd Kernel panic
Date: 28 May 1999 13:32:28 -0400
Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Eric E. Fronheiser wrote:
>
> > I am having this small, but annoying problem, with Redhat 6.0 on a Dell
> > Inspiron 3200 (dual boot linux/win98).
> >
> > If I allow LILO to time out and automatically launch linux I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > VFS: Cannot open root device 00:30
> > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:30
> >
> > If I just hit enter at the LILO prompt to start linux everything works
> > as it should.
> >
>
> It sounds like the default entry in your /etc/lilo.conf file is pointing
> to a non-existent place. Have a look, and if the first entry is something
I have the exact same problem on the same machine as Eric,
but I can't see anything wrong with my /etc/lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
This is a stock RH 6.0 installation, and the IDE drivers are compiled into
the kernel ... it uses the lilo-0.21-6 rpm
I just reran /sbin/lilo, but the problem persists.
David
X-posted to comp.os.linux.setup, since there were some folks with a similar
problem
------------------------------
From: "Michael Sweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Differences between Unix and Linux
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:42:50 -0400
Can someone point me to a site or explain the MAJOR differences between, say
Linux and Sun's version of Unix?
Can I take a program from a Sun work station and have it run on Unix?
What about syntax? what about security? what about ...anything you can tell
me....thanks!
------------------------------
From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recompiling my kernel
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:36:46 +0000
Joseph Dunn wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering how to install the new kernel after I compile it. I boot off a
> lilo floppy, so I mounted the floppy as an ext2 fs, and I copied
> /usr/src/linux/vmlinux to the floppy's vmlinuz. It did not boot. Lilo came
> up, said it was loading linux, and then it stopped. I have a feeling that
> the vmlinux file in /usr/src/linux is not the new kernel. I'm using Red Hat
> 5.2. Could someone explain to me how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Joseph Dunn
Just a thought, but 'vmlinuz' is a compressed kernel, which is
decompessed on startup. 'vmlinux' is not compressed (and I'm surprised
that it fit on your floppy).
How far does LILO get? ie does it stop at 'L', 'LI', or 'LIL'? your
documentation should tell you waht the difference is.
BTW, copying a kernel staright onto a floppy probably will not work. You
may have to run LILO from a command line before rebooting. I know I have
to when installing a new kernel in the /boot directory on my HD. (I'm
running SuSE 6.0 and kernel 2.2.8)
Regards
Steve
PS. You will find 'vmlinuz' (instead of 'vmlinux') in a directory
something like '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'. 'vmlinux' is in just
/usr/src/linux after compilation.
------------------------------
From: Kaya Imre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acrobat4 acroread from Netscape 4.07 (RH 5.2)
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:44:21 +0000
Peter Stein wrote:
>
> Has anyone gotten this to work?
>
> If I setup acroread as a helper application I get a segmentation
> violation on any PDF file. If I setup acroread as a plugin I get
> a bus error.
>
> Yes, I know RH 5.2 is glibc, and yes, Acrobat4 is libc5 (don't
> ask me why Adobe did this). I've been running both glibc and
> libc5 apps successfully since I upgraded to RH 5.2. It's beyond
> me why acroread can't be started successfully from Netscape.
>
> FWIW, acroread runs perfectly fine as a standalone app. Also I
> verified that the helper syntax under Netscape is similar
> to my configuration at work under Solaris.
>
> Peter Stein
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just got mine working, after Gerald Willmann told me to add %s
after acroread. I am also using RH 5.2, but with Netscape 4.51.
--
_ _
| | ____ _ _ _ __ _ (_)_ __ ___ _ __ ___
| |/ / _` | | | |/ _` | | | '_ ` _ \| '__/ _ \
| <|(_| | |_| | (_| | | | | | | | | | | __/
|_|\_\__,_|\__, |\__,_| |_|_| |_| |_|_| \___|
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ=9327629|___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:45:42 GMT
On 23 May 1999 14:11:06 -0700, Jef Poskanzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>}On 22 May 1999 20:50:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>}(Christopher Browne) wrote:
>}>Wouldn't you want it to cache static content too?
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord):
>}Why? Apache and Squid (sounds like a duo on a Saturday
>}morning cartoon...) reside on the same machine. Are you
>}telling me Squid can hoover a duplicate file up off the disk
>}faster than Apache?
>
>Yes, by a large factor. Apache is slow.
Apache needs to steal some code from Squid in that case, if
its implementation of read a URL and output a file is slower
than Squid's...
>---
>Jef
>
> Jef Poskanzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.acme.com/jef/
> "Academic freedom can get you killed." -- Spiro T. Agnew
Regards
Anthony
--
=========================================
| And when our worlds |
| They fall apart |
| When the walls come tumbling in |
| Though we may deserve it |
| It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
=========================================
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Buse)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux's Last Chance
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:52:49 GMT
Iain Georgeson wrote:
>And as an encore - how many Usenet posters does it take to change a
>light-bulb...? ;)
How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
They refuse. They say, "It's a hardware fault".
------------------------------
From: Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Offline newsreader for Linux
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 19:28:14 +0000
Hi all,
Well, is there an offline newsreader for Linux?
You know, log on to the ISP, download all new messages in one go and
then log off, and then read the messages at my leisure.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Steve
Remove 'nospam.' from my e-mail address to reply direct.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Rechte :-(
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 20:18:00 +0100
Hallo Freunde der weltweiten Spinnenwebe,
ich als Newcomer unter der Linux-Fangemeinde habe eine fuer mich
unloesbare Aufgabe. Alle sogenannten Fachbuecher, die ich zur Ver-
fuegung habe, schweigen sich zum Thema aus :-(
Als root kann ich auf meiner Windows-Partition schalten und walten.
Loeschen, alte .doc Files lesen, aendern und zurueck speichern, alles
kein Problem.
Gehe ich aber per User hinein, kann ich die Files lediglich lesen. Ein
Aendern und abspeichern auf der Windoof-Partition ist nicht moeglich.
Zugriff verweigert, bzw. unerlaubte Operation....
Ich habe den User unter einer neu angelegten Gruppe erzeugt. Wie kann ich
jetzt die Rechte aller User dieser Gruppe aendern? Irgendwie komme ich
damit nicht klar.
Beispiele:
chmod u+w ... hier bin ich der User, ok.
chmod a+w ... das gilt wohl fuer alle und jedermann, oder?
chmod g+w ... das sollte fuer die Gruppe gelten, doch welche Gruppe?
Wie kann ich expliziet einer Gruppe bestimmte Rechte einraeumen?
Vor allem der uneingeschraenkte Zugriff auf den VFAT-Partitionen
muss mir gelingen. Sonst gewoehne ich mir noch an, jedesmal als
root einzuloggen.
Ich hoffe, mein Problem ist klar geworden und fuer einen Profi was
zum laecheln ;-)
MfG.
A. Grobelnik, 26871 Papenburg/Ems
------------------------------
From: Robert Washburne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE vs. GNOME
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:55:25 -0400
Greetings!
I am currently running the default fvwm2 under RH 5.2.
I am concidering "upgrading" to either KDE or GNOME. But I would like
to do it just once; not install one, decide it was a mistake and install
the other. Life is so short.
Looking at the home pages and checking the screenshots and feature lists
for both environments hasn't told me much. Their bullet lists are very
close.
So far, the only "differences I can see are:
-) GNOME is a GNU project and so must adhere to known coding standards
(such as being proof against buffer overflow attacks).
-) KDE appears to be more popular, but appearences can be deceiving...
-) There are occational threads about KDE being slow, but have not heard
about GNOME...
-) Mandrake is now using KDE as the default, but you can switch to GNOME
(how difficult?).
So...can anyone tell me what the differences are between the two
products? Has anyone done a side-by-side comparison? Any informed
opinions?
Any and all comments gratefully accepted (but DON'T try to give me any
"input". I leave that to the computers).
Thanks Much!
--
Bob Washburne
610-939-3551 (office) 610-939-6058 (fax)
800-759-8888 1636840# (pager)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: "Joseph Dunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recompiling my kernel
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:38:27 -0500
Hello,
I'm wondering how to install the new kernel after I compile it. I boot off a
lilo floppy, so I mounted the floppy as an ext2 fs, and I copied
/usr/src/linux/vmlinux to the floppy's vmlinuz. It did not boot. Lilo came
up, said it was loading linux, and then it stopped. I have a feeling that
the vmlinux file in /usr/src/linux is not the new kernel. I'm using Red Hat
5.2. Could someone explain to me how to do this?
Thanks,
Joseph Dunn
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.misc) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Misc Digest
******************************
