Linux-Misc Digest #438, Volume #20 Mon, 31 May 99 19:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Download 128-bit Netscape via FTP... (Michael Powe)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Jimmy Navarro)
any GPLed or opensource OCR software for Linux ? (Zeljko Blace)
Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested (Chris Hedley)
Re: telnet in as root? (Eric Veldhuyzen)
Re: Road Runner Customer User Agreement Violation - Using Alternative Operating
Systems (Dave Hitt)
Just a few more questions.... ("theoddone33")
Re: AtGuard-style program? (Eric Anderson)
Re: Contributions (was Re: Tired of X11???) ("Mr LoneWolf")
Re: telnet in as root? (brian moore)
Re: Procmail (brian moore)
Re: DDS-3 DAT drive (Eric Veldhuyzen)
Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ????????????? (Tyson Weihs)
Linux for $1.00 (Coder69)
Re: nobody is doing a find on my drive ! (Ed Young)
Re: bind 8.2 $TTL value? ("D. Vrabel")
Re: RH 6.0 and .bash_profile (Jayasuthan [VorHacker])
Re: FTP clients that can do site-to-site transfers? (Marc Mutz)
Re: kernel update (Jayasuthan [VorHacker])
Re: RH 6.0 and .bash_profile (Johan Kullstam)
Re: FDD Tape Drive--The Saga Continues (Frank Miles)
Re: kernel update (Marc Mutz)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Cameron L. Spitzer)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Re: Download 128-bit Netscape via FTP...
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 May 1999 14:26:44 -0700
=====BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE=====
Hash: SHA1
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marc> Windows 10000 wrote:
>> ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/crypto/browsers/128bit/CommunicatorUS-v460/
Marc> don't try: connection refused
Must've been temporary, it's accessible now.
mp
- --
Michael Powe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portland, Oregon USA http://www.trollope.org
"There are certain rights that a woman loses when she becomes a
wife." -- Farrah Fawcett
=====BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE=====
Version: GnuPG v0.9.0 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Encrypted with Mailcrypt 3.5.1 and GNU Privacy Guard
iD8DBQE3Uv6P755rgEMD+T8RAlmFAJ47yTMQ0FuPH4nXhUMn5DgqJfxHigCfbrHj
LZ47cLESCJP4onCH8+EzWYo=
=2Eds
=====END PGP SIGNATURE=====
------------------------------
From: Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 13:55:41 -0700
==============E1C9420C4DDE75C2594F8E42
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
If NT is the best web platform, it has to be available for free. Be sure your
NT has no memory leak.
Anthony Ord wrote:
> On 26 May 1999 23:12:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon
> Drukman) wrote:
>
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Olaf Walkowiak wrote:
> >>If you have a lot of dynamic content, exspecially when using custom
> >>modules with mod_perl or something, using Squid can reduce the
> >>necessary Apache childs, especially if there are lots of "slow"
> >>clients. This can reduce memory consumption.
> >
> >If you're going to use Squid, you should give it all the memory you
> >can spare.
> >
> >I'm not sure what you mean by "dynamic" content here. If the content
> >is truly dynamic (in my mind that means it is different on each request)
> >then you *cannot* cache it with something like squid, because that would
> >defeat the entire point. Now if you mean the pages are mostly static
> >but do change from time to time, then I'm with you.
>
> Let's say the results depend on 3 files, with modification
> dates of 1/5/99, 2/5/99 & 3/5/99 (uk format). I can put a
> Last-Modified of 3/5/99 and cache it for as long as it
> doesn't change.
>
> >We use squid specifically to accelerate our *static* content. Each pageview
> >has something like 30 associated images. Squid makes a fantastic "images
> >only" server. It has low overhead compared to Apache.
> >
> >Throw it on a separate box with a ton of RAM and you will double or triple
> >your Apache boxes' capacity instantly. Squid+Apache is a great solution
> >for high volume sites.
>
> 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 |
> -----------------------------------------
--
.--.
|o_o |
|:_/ |
// \ \
(| | )
/'\_ _/`\
\___)=(___/
==============E1C9420C4DDE75C2594F8E42
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
If NT is the best web platform, it has to be available for free.
Be sure your NT has no memory leak.
<P>Anthony Ord wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>On 26 May 1999 23:12:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Jon
<BR>Drukman) wrote:
<P>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Olaf Walkowiak
wrote:
<BR>>>If you have a lot of dynamic content, exspecially when using custom
<BR>>>modules with mod_perl or something, using Squid can reduce the
<BR>>>necessary Apache childs, especially if there are lots of "slow"
<BR>>>clients. This can reduce memory consumption.
<BR>>
<BR>>If you're going to use Squid, you should give it all the memory you
<BR>>can spare.
<BR>>
<BR>>I'm not sure what you mean by "dynamic" content here. If the
content
<BR>>is truly dynamic (in my mind that means it is different on each request)
<BR>>then you *cannot* cache it with something like squid, because that
would
<BR>>defeat the entire point. Now if you mean the pages are mostly
static
<BR>>but do change from time to time, then I'm with you.
<P>Let's say the results depend on 3 files, with modification
<BR>dates of 1/5/99, 2/5/99 & 3/5/99 (uk format). I can put a
<BR>Last-Modified of 3/5/99 and cache it for as long as it
<BR>doesn't change.
<P>>We use squid specifically to accelerate our *static* content.
Each pageview
<BR>>has something like 30 associated images. Squid makes a fantastic
"images
<BR>>only" server. It has low overhead compared to Apache.
<BR>>
<BR>>Throw it on a separate box with a ton of RAM and you will double or
triple
<BR>>your Apache boxes' capacity instantly. Squid+Apache is a great
solution
<BR>>for high volume sites.
<P>Regards
<P>Anthony
<BR>--
<BR>-----------------------------------------
<BR>| And when our
worlds
|
<BR>| They fall
apart
|
<BR>| When the walls come tumbling in
|
<BR>| Though we may deserve
it
|
<BR>| It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
<BR>-----------------------------------------</BLOCKQUOTE>
<PRE>--
.--.
|o_o |
|:_/ |
// \ \
(| | )
/'\_ _/`\
\___)=(___/</PRE>
</HTML>
==============E1C9420C4DDE75C2594F8E42==
------------------------------
From: Zeljko Blace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.apps
Subject: any GPLed or opensource OCR software for Linux ?
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:41:31 +0200
Is there any good and stable OCR software for linux ... that is stable
enough and has some kind of automatization ?
Thanks for tips ...
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Hedley)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested
Date: 31 May 1999 21:05:43 GMT
In article <7iupnp$15p1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> He specifically mentioned directory reading speed:
> Linux reads a large group of ~7000 article
> files at slightly over twice the speed of FreeBSD.
>
> This would imply a difference in read buffering unless simultaneous
> writing is causing a slowdown. The sync vs. async setting would
> be more directly involved in write timing.
Read-ahead buffering should give FreeBSD the advantage since its
spool should be more contiguous wrt block allocation as the spool
was fairly recently copied from the Linux system, which, by contrast,
had months worth of potential fragmentation between files to contend
with; read-buffering as in 2nd pass does make a huge difference,
probably in the order of up to 10x faster on Linux as compared with
its 1st pass (ie reading the stuff off disc for the first time)
assuming that there hasn't been too much disc activity elsewhere (I
haven't tried this one on FBSD yet; I must do so without the
temptation to sneak in a recompile between reentering a newsgroup!)
As regards other disc activity, I've ensured that nothing else major
is happening on the same physical device as the news spool (including
updates, which are "only" once hourly anyway)
Chris.
------------------------------
From: Eric Veldhuyzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: telnet in as root?
Date: 31 May 1999 21:47:34 +0200
John Burton writes:
> D. Vrabel wrote in message ...
>> On Sun, 30 May 1999, jimlynn wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I have a RedHat 5.2 system and I want to be able to telnet
>>> into the system as root. How would I go about setting this up?
>> Don't. It's a big security risk. Use ssh instead. If you can't use
>> ssh you can always just su to root after telneting in as a normal
>> user.
> It's not always a security risk. I've got two computers in my house
> on their own network so there is no risk and it's appriate to be
> able to do the easiest thing.
The easiest thing is ssh with the use of RSA keys (whithout passwd on
the RSA keys). And it's even secure!
--
#!perl # Life ain't fair, but root passwords help.
# Eric Veldhuyzen http://www.terra.nu/
$!=$;=$_+(++$_);($:,$~,$/,$^,$*,$@)=$!=~ # [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/.(.)...(.)(.)....(.)..(.)..(.)/;`$^$~$/$: $^$*$@$~ $_>&$;` #Perl Monger
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Hitt)
Crossposted-To: alt.fan.roadrunner,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Road Runner Customer User Agreement Violation - Using Alternative
Operating Systems
Date: 31 May 1999 16:39:17 -0500
"David A. Spicer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Eddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:374a8915.229005@news-server...
>> I was disappointed to learn from someone in your organization recently
>> that I am violating the Customer User Agreement by using an
>> unsupported operating system, BeOS for Intel.
>
> I think you're taking this a little too seriously. TWC is never going to
>support all OS's, but the key word here is support. I can't imagine why
>TWC would care what OS you are using...they just won't be able to
>help you support wise.
RR is actively afraid of anything they don't understand. If they
don't understand it must be hacking, or something else evil.
----
Cops Always Have the Best Marlboros:
A Modest Proposal for the Tobacco Companies
http://home.nycap.rr.com/hittman/may99/modest.html
-Dave Hitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove "spamblocker" to reply)
------------------------------
From: "theoddone33" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Just a few more questions....
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:34:38 -0500
Ok, in RH6.0, my PS/2 mouse works fine for X, but causes some very strange
behavior when I fire up Quake 2. I haven't tested it with any other
programs yet. Any ideas?
Also, what's the command to set up your network in RH? In Slackware, it was
"netconfig". I didn't see anything for networking in RedHat's "setup".
--
theoddone33
"Brevity is the soul of wit"
AGQ2 Configs Page:
http://www.quakefiles.com/agq2configs/
My homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/2541/
To email, descramble the pig latin
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Anderson)
Subject: Re: AtGuard-style program?
Date: 31 May 1999 21:38:37 GMT
http://www.junkbuster.com/
It runs as an HTTP proxy server, unlike AtGuard.
-Eric
On Mon, 31 May 1999 19:16:44 GMT, Chris Dahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Under Windows, I have successfully used a program called AtGuard to
>block ad banners and cookies and other unwanted items from web sites.
>It's a great tool. Does anyone know of a similar program for use with
>Linux?
>
>Chris Dahler
>chris dot dahler at gte dot net
------------------------------
From: "Mr LoneWolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Contributions (was Re: Tired of X11???)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:35:04 +0100
>>>>>"What have you contributed to free software today?..."
>>>>
>>>>What do you want me to contribute with... money? ;O)
>>>
>>>One of many possibilities... See URL below...
>>
>>I rather eat up my sock than contribute with money(code contributions is
>>another thing though)... But thats me...;O)
>
>Hmm. Apparently you were willing to invest your money in computer
>equipment.
>
Free Software and hardware is to different things.. I don't pay for
something I can get for free..
>If there are the 10-odd million Linux users that are claimed, then at about
>$1K/box, that's TEN BILLION DOLLARS (assuming USD; feel free to think about
>that figure in terms of local currency...) that represents a sizable amount
>of money spent.
Maby whe should build temples for our Gods..
>It is reasonably likely that *that* spending resulted in Microsoft's
coffers
>receiving a sum of on the order of hundreds of millions of dollars, what
>with the propensity for pre-installs getting replaced by Linux.
You are way out in the blue now. What the f*k has my hardware to do with
Microsoft.
I haven't bought a Microsoft product in my life.. But I wouldn't blame any
who have..
Some software is good for some people and some aren't..
>I would think it a small matter for someone who has already spent perhaps
>thousands of dollars on hardware, and as likely as not paid in as much as
>$200 for the Microsoft Tax (for W95 + MS Office pre-installs), to consider
>tossing the piddling sum of $20 at the free software community.
Free ??? as in have to pay 20 bucks.. hmm... What have you self brought to
the free
software community...?
>If you prefer to consider that such tiny sums of money are of tremendous
>importance to you, and that you'd be shocked and appalled at anyone
>investing any money in the construction of "free" software, feel free to do
>so.
Thanks.. Free software is for me free software. That is it will not have
anything to do with money.
Free software is the wrong place for you to be if you want cash..but hey..
thats me..
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: telnet in as root?
Date: 31 May 1999 18:19:19 GMT
On Mon, 31 May 1999 01:35:52 +0100,
D. Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Logging in as root and su'ing to root have the same security risk because
> the password is sent as plain text for anybody to read. Use ssh for
> greater security.
Not entirely true.
It's trivial to write a sniffer that logs the first couple packets of an
open connection. It's much harder to have it log every packet without
being noticed.
Since passwords are usually given in the first couple of packets, it's a
great way to steal passwords from POP or telnet sessions and there are
existing tools to do just that. Much less disk space and cpu needed. :)
--
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
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Procmail
Date: 31 May 1999 18:27:10 GMT
On Sat, 29 May 1999 09:41:59 -0700,
Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to set-up Procmail on a Redhat 6.0 system to filter out my
> incoming mail. Here is a copy of my .procmailrc file, but it does not seem
> to work. And, I just noticed in my sendmail log file, it keeps saying
> "suspicious rc file /home/jeff/.procmailrc". Could anybody shed some light
> on this problem?
Are permissions and ownership of your .procmailrc correct?
--
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
------------------------------
From: Eric Veldhuyzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: DDS-3 DAT drive
Date: 31 May 1999 22:07:55 +0200
Chris Mauritz writes:
> I wasn't able to get anything useful out of either the Seagate or
> the HP DDS-3 drives. I simply got I/O errors when I tried to
> read/write tapes. Looks like I'm going to have to keep one
> Slowlaris box around just to make backups....sigh.
[...]
Please quote UNDER the message next time.
Aren't you getting anything to work or is it just that your can't read
tapes with one drive that were written with the other drive? If that's
the case, you have been bitten bij the nice 'everyone use your own
hardware compression standard' problem. It might work if you turn
hardware compression off.
--
#!perl # Life ain't fair, but root passwords help.
# Eric Veldhuyzen http://www.terra.nu/
$!=$;=$_+(++$_);($:,$~,$/,$^,$*,$@)=$!=~ # [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/.(.)...(.)(.)....(.)..(.)..(.)/;`$^$~$/$: $^$*$@$~ $_>&$;` #Perl Monger
------------------------------
From: Tyson Weihs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ?????????????
Date: 31 May 1999 16:31:10 GMT
I did the following and all worked fine:
1. Created CLASSPATH env. variable and put full path to java40.jar on the
classpath.
2. added /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, (remember to put commas in if you
do this. I forgot commas the first time and no luck).
3. added /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi as well
4. restarted xfs with '/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart'
5. Installed JDK 1.17 from blackdown, using native threads.
Some combination of this worked.
Tyson
Deuce wrote:
>
> >I installed Red Hat 6, Netscape 4.51 works fine, but when I try to open
> >a page that includes some Java, Netscape suddenly exits just after
> >printing
> '>Starting Java...' in the status bar.
> I had the same problem and the fix was to digress to version4.08. I could
go to Freshmeat and crash every time, now it works better.
> --
================== Posted via SearchLinux ==================
http://www.searchlinux.com
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Coder69)
Subject: Linux for $1.00
Date: 31 May 1999 19:22:23 GMT
I will soon be selling copies of Linux CDs for $1.00
If you would like to order a copy, e-mail me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nobody is doing a find on my drive !
Date: 31 May 1999 19:21:55 GMT
Matteo Sartori wrote:
>
> Actually he is and I only notice it when my drive suddenly starts
> thrashing. I assume it's a system thing, but what is it ?
Do an
rgrep nobody /etc/*
Which finds an su to nobody in file:
/etc/cron.daily/updatedb.cron
The specific line reads:
su nobody -c "/usr/bin/updatedb --output=$TMPFILE \
--localpaths='/' --prunepaths='/tmp /var/tmp \
/usr/tmp /afs /net' --netpaths=' 2>/dev/null"
So let's find out when it runs:
cat /etc/crontab
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
On my computer anyway I can expect 'nobody' to login once a
day at 4:02 in the morning to update the database used by
the 'locate' command.
Check out:
man updatedb
for details.
So let's check it out:
grep nobody /var/log/messages
May 30 04:02:07 dad PAM_pwdb[2853]: (su) session opened for
user nobody by (uid=99)
May 30 04:03:14 dad PAM_pwdb[2853]: (su) session closed for
user nobody
May 31 04:02:03 dad PAM_pwdb[14970]: (su) session opened for
user nobody by (uid=99)
May 31 04:02:59 dad PAM_pwdb[14970]: (su) session closed for
user nobody
Yep. Looks like about a minute each time. You could further
check out the disk activity by actually running the command.
You are up late aren't you ;-)
Of course your crontab may execute this event at a different
time than mine does. I seem to remember that RH5.0 did it
around midnight...
------------------------------
From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bind 8.2 $TTL value?
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:22:31 +0100
On Mon, 31 May 1999, D. Vrabel wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Ken Williams wrote:
>
> > So I can't find one example that actually shows a TTL value. What is a good
> > number to use?
> The TTL is reset every time the name is queried so it needn't be very
> large. I seem to recall about 3 minutes? It's critical.
Ignore this. My memory's playing up -- I was thinking about the RIP
TTLs. Duh!
David Vrabel
------------------------------
From: Jayasuthan [VorHacker] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 and .bash_profile
Date: 31 May 99 19:19:52 GMT
try .profile
Jon Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've loaded RedHat 6.0 and GNOME for the desktop with bash as the
: SHELL.
: It appears as if .bash_profile simply doesn't execute. Any ideas why
: not ?
: I there some file I need to modify to allow the profile to execute.
: One of the things I'm trying to add is set -o vi If I add this
: to .bashrc then I can't even issue
: set -o vi from an xTerm and have it work.
: Jon
--
==========
Jayasuthan
[Internal Linux System]
http://eplx01/suthan/
smtp%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
[External]
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/digital/298/ ( UnderConstruction )
smtp%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:44:18 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP clients that can do site-to-site transfers?
Louie R. Orbeta wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone recommend an FTP client that lets me perform site-to-site
> transfers?
>
if you mean to mirror a site or a single directory, try lwp-mirror or
lwp-rget (see man pages). They come with perl.
Marc Mutz
------------------------------
From: Jayasuthan [VorHacker] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel update
Date: 31 May 99 19:31:55 GMT
Dr Death <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
smart.. check my websitE
: The documents seem to agree that the lInux kernel is in /usr/src/linux. I
: dont seem to have this dir. I have /usr/src/redhat but i cant find the
: kernel files there. I am trying to update with 2.2. Ive unziped the files to
: a temp dir called linux.
: Can anyone tell me what to do next
: Thanks
: Ian
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
==========
Jayasuthan
[Internal Linux System]
http://eplx01/suthan/
smtp%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
[External]
http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/digital/298/ ( UnderConstruction )
smtp%"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
------------------------------
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 and .bash_profile
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 May 1999 15:49:44 -0400
Jon Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've loaded RedHat 6.0 and GNOME for the desktop with bash as
> the SHELL. It appears as if .bash_profile simply doesn't execute.
> Any ideas why not ? I there some file I need to modify to allow the
> profile to execute.
put interactive PS1, aliases and commands in .bashrc. all your shells
will read this file. use the -norc flag in scripts to suppress
reading .bashrc.
put all login time stuff in .bash_profile. this means environment
variables and things you want to start once per machine.
> One of the things I'm trying to add is set -o vi If I add this to
> .bashrc then I can't even issue set -o vi from an xTerm and have it
> work.
this i don't know about. i use emacs.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: FDD Tape Drive--The Saga Continues
Date: 31 May 1999 22:34:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Adam J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Again, thanks for the help. For all who haven't followed, I have just
>installed a colorado 250MB floppy controller tape drive on a P166 running
>redhat 5.0. I have tried to back up to it using tar, and, having gotten
>the right switches in the command line, I get this error:
>
>>tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive /dev/ftape: Input/output error
>>tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>Broken pipe
>
>I thought that it might be bvecause the tape needs formatting, but using
>mkfs yields the same error. Advice?
You don't make a file system on a streaming tape device!
Before you go further, I'd recommend that you do some serious doc-reading.
Try checking out (if you don't already have the documentation):
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/%7Eheine/ftape/
-frank
[my recollection is that others have recommended tob, afio, taper...
you might want to look into these]
--
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 21:41:47 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel update
Dr Death wrote:
>
> The documents seem to agree that the lInux kernel is in /usr/src/linux. I
> dont seem to have this dir. I have /usr/src/redhat but i cant find the
> kernel files there. I am trying to update with 2.2. Ive unziped the files to
> a temp dir called linux.
>
> Can anyone tell me what to do next
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try
locate .config
to find the kernel sources...
Marc Mutz
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Date: 31 May 1999 22:15:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, posted in
Newsgroups:
comp.os.linux.misc,
comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,
comp.os.linux.advocacy, and
gnu.misc.discuss
Sam Holden wrote:
>On 28 May 1999 18:51:51 -0400, Maciej Stachowiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Marco Antoniotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) writes:
>>> But the big question remains. Why in Western Europe the violent, gun
>>> related, crime rates are still lower than in the US (or - at least -
>>Interestingly, one Western European country that has an _especially_
>>low rate of violent crime is Switzerland, where all adult males are
>>required to own a firearm.
>But switzerland does not require that. It conscripts into it's militia and
>each soldier keeps a military firearm and ammunition at home, for
>reasons of rapipd deployment. The ammunition is in a sealed box and can
What's this got to do with GNU or Linux? With MS-Windows advocacy?
Cameron
------------------------------
** 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
******************************
