Linux-Misc Digest #461, Volume #20 Wed, 2 Jun 99 11:13:47 EDT
Contents:
help! completely removing linux..... ("Rory")
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (Ernst-Udo Wallenborn)
Re: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone have their CD yet? ("Art S. Kagel")
Re: Name-brand boxes VS clones, what to buy (Murray Resinski)
Re: ISDN in US ("John G. Sandell")
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? ("Richard F. Jr.")
Re: help! completely removing linux..... (Zoran Cutura)
Re: RAID 1 setup ("Andreas Oppermann")
Re: /dev/sda4 not a valid block device? (Glitch)
Re: My horror story (Andres Soolo)
Re: pc speaker (Matthew Bafford)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? ("Richard F. Jr.")
Enlightenment access problem! (Jesus F. Christ)
Re: Netscape 4.60 evaluation (Glitch)
Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes ("Eric Peterson")
Re: Converting Netscape mail from Win to Linux? (Daniel Ganek)
Sendmail/DNS Question (Charles)
NEED sometype of Linus ICQ ("MR.~E")
can't connect to my isp using kppp ("Melle")
Re: help! completely removing linux..... ("rory")
Re: Converting Netscape mail from Win to Linux? ("Donald E. Stidwell")
Re: MAIN BOARD CMI 8330 SOUND CHIP and Kernel 2.2.8 ("Donald E. Stidwell")
Re: Oracle 8.0.5 on Linux SuSe 6.1 (Oracle DBA)
On terminating background processes... (Conway Yee)
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From: "Rory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,tnn.os.linux
Subject: help! completely removing linux.....
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:08:27 -0300
I want to remove all of what the Redhat 6.0
setup put on my computer. I used Partition
Magic 4.0 in Windows to delete the native
linux and swap partitions. But how do I
remove LILO, and all the stuff that comes up
if I try to boot linux from lilo? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Rory
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
From: Ernst-Udo Wallenborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 Jun 1999 13:20:57 +0200
d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox) writes:
> I'd be more interested if Suse didn't have a proprietary package
> manager. Proprietary software seems a bit risky to me. Or has that
> changed? Or was I misinformed?
Yes and no. Yast is proprietary, but it's not the package manager,
it's more the package manager's GUI. The package format is RPM,
like in RH, and all rpm tools work on SuSE, too. So: proprietary
yes, but should SuSE decide to wreck Yast or make it unavailable
at some time in the future i (currently SuSE 6.1) would simply
switch to bare-bones rpm.
--
Ernst-Udo Wallenborn
Laboratorium fuer Physikalische Chemie
ETH Zuerich
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From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases,linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone have their CD yet?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:30:48 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Well, it's now late May and Oracle said they'd be sending out their 8i
> > Linux CDs by now. Anyone have Oracle8i for Linux yet?
>
> I haven't. But I'm not suprised.
>
> I have signed up for similar offers from Oracle in the past, and never
> recieved anything from them but junk mail. What a rip.
Gee, Informix promised Informix Dynamic Server 7.30 for January and
delivered it in January! They have even extended the original $99
offer for a fully supported license! By the time Oracle finally gets
8i out the door Informix will probably have its entire product line on
Linux.
Art S. Kagel
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From: Murray Resinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Name-brand boxes VS clones, what to buy
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:34:02 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
William Wueppelmann wrote:
> In our last episode (31 May 1999 01:33:38 GMT),
> the artist formerly known as brian moore said:
> >On Thu, 27 May 1999 16:58:42 -0700,
> > Clayton Lenderbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hello All,,
> >>
> >> Im wondering about anyones {pos,neg}ative experiences with the
> >> following list of machines that I could buy:
> >>
> >> packard bell synera model mu955, k62-333, (or mu850, cyrix mII-300)
> >>
> >> acer aspire model 1878R k62-333 (or 3060R k62-350) (or 6070R pII-350)
> >>
> >> ibm aptiva e5d (pII-400, 2xDVD)
>
>
>
I am running Acer Aspire 6058R with a PII 300 and 48 megs of ram and have had a really
good experience running Red Hat 6.0. I picked it up as a refurbished machine for cheap
and
everything is fine. The only thing I haven't worked out yet is the sound--USB crap.
It has 4 extra expansion slots which is nice. Performance has been good for a nice
home/development machine.
__________________________
The art of living is
more like wrestling
than dancing.
--Marcus Aurelius
__________________________
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From: "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN in US
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:10:51 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What kind of terminal adaptor did you use?
What software on Linux was needed?
I need to set up an ISDN connection between a main office and two
satellite offices. Commonly routers are set up to connect to the ISDN
line and then a serial or IP connection is made to the computer. But I
think I can do it without the routers; I just need a good terminal
adaptor that works with linux.
By the way, I just installed SuSe 6.1 on a machine and it's great, but I
can't get StarOffice to print to my HP 697C, though I can do it with
SOffice on RH 6.0.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Regards,
John Sandell
Paul John wrote:
>
> "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I have 128K ISDN set up & working on SuSE 6.1. What do you want to know?
>
> > I have seen postings here re: ISDN in Europe but need info from anyone
> > who has set up ISDN with linux in the U.S. Can anyone help?
> >
> > John Sandell
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From: "Richard F. Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 12:13:58 GMT
any Linux can be too expensive, go download it for FREE, or
go to www.linuxmall.com 2 $ a CD :-)
"D. Vrabel" wrote:
> On 1 Jun 1999, Rec0il wrote:
>
> > Redhat is too expensive! Get SuSE.
> Both are too exensive. Get Debian (http://www.debian.org/)
>
> > Syed Mujtaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > i am currently in the market to buy Linux, and cannot decide whether
> > > to get SuSE 6.1 or Red Hat Linux 6? any input on the matter would be
> > > most appreciated.
>
> David Vrabel
--
Registered Linux User # 118173
Can you handle the FREE power of a real OS ?
http://www.suse.com | http://www.linux.org
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From: Zoran Cutura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,tnn.os.linux
Subject: Re: help! completely removing linux.....
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:27:50 +0000
Rory wrote:
>
> I want to remove all of what the Redhat 6.0
> setup put on my computer. I used Partition
> Magic 4.0 in Windows to delete the native
> linux and swap partitions. But how do I
> remove LILO, and all the stuff that comes up
> if I try to boot linux from lilo? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Rory
That really is an faq
fdisk /mbr
in DOSe/Windooze will help!
Bye
Zoran
--
LISP is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you
will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a
better programmer for the rest of your days. Eric S. Raymond
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From: "Andreas Oppermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RAID 1 setup
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:19:40 +0200
Al Nios schrieb in Nachricht <7j0tit$5u5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm trying to implement a RAID 1 (software) using linux 2.2.5 - I've read
>all the relevant FAQs.
>I've created two partitions /usr and /usr2 on different disks and would
like
>to mirror them. When I follow the instructions (mkraid /dev/md0) in the new
>software FAQ, I get a "device is busy" error and I cannot umount the
>partition. If there a way (and is it a good idea) to create the raid before
>the devices are mounted?
>
>Any help on this matter would be grealtly appreciated.
>
>Al Nios
>
I�ve got this error message too. Try this:
- Edit config file in /etc/raid1.conf
- Unmount the partitions you want to use in the raid array
- Make the array: mkraid /etc/raid1.conf
- mdadd /dev/md0 /dev/hda4 /dev/hdc4
(note: hda4 and hdc4 are samples!)
- mdrun -p1 /dev/md0
- Make the filesystem: mke2fs /dev/md0
- mount the new raid filesystem: mount /dev/md0 /mnt
- at this point you should have the new raid filesystem
- for the first time don�t forget to manually unmount
and stop the raid.
umount /mnt
mdstop /dev/md0
Andreas Oppermann
The software raid of linux is a very nice thing. Thanks
to all develpers.
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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 08:17:09 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/sda4 not a valid block device?
did u compile in scsi emulation support along with going under 'other
scsi low level drivers' and selecting 'parallel port zip drive' or
whatever it is called in there and compiling that into the kernel too?
Phillip George Geiger wrote:
> I'm trying to mount a parallel port zip drive.
>
> insmod parport
> insmod ppa
>
> appear to work correctly, the drive even grunts once or twice.
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zipdrive
>
> produces the error in the subject line. Any suggestions?
>
> This is on a Red Hat 6.0 system running the provided 2.2.5-15smp
> kernel. Thanks.
>
> --
> Phil Geiger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andres Soolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My horror story
Date: 2 Jun 1999 12:12:23 GMT
theoddone33 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> to get it all fixed tomorrow. The moral: Always have a spare boot disk.
The alternative is to have a known good kernel handy and an
extra lilo.conf entry pointing to it, so you can just boot the
backup kernel in case something goes wrong while installing the
new kernel.
An example is on the lilo.conf manpage.
A spare boot disk is useful too, of course.
--
Andres Soolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Below you can see an invisible tagline.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: pc speaker
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:37:18 GMT
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:32:24 -0500, Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
held some poor sysadmin at gun point while typing in the following:
: Nice trick. However, this will not solve the beep with emacs. I would like a
: global fix. I know this is possible. Unfortunately, the answer isn't very
: forthcoming. :)
setterm
or
xset
--Matthew
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From: "Richard F. Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 12:18:30 GMT
SuSE uses YaST to install thing's "Packet's" ect.
just good old RPM, TAR, GZ, what ever ya like....
YaST like RPM best...
Rich - running SuSE 6.0 kernel 2.2.9
--
Registered Linux User # 118173
Can you handle the FREE power of a real OS ?
http://www.suse.com | http://www.linux.org
David Fox wrote:
> p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I must agree with the this point of view. I have tryed Redhat 5.2 and
> > results were OK. Recently installing Suse Linux 6.1 on my laptop has
> > made me a believer. I actually installed it on my laptop after 2
> > attempts.
> >
> > Redhat has sold out. Suse is were its at.
>
> I'd be more interested if Suse didn't have a proprietary package
> manager. Proprietary software seems a bit risky to me. Or has that
> changed? Or was I misinformed?
> --
> David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
> UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesus F. Christ)
Subject: Enlightenment access problem!
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 12:20:59 GMT
whenever i try to use enlightenment (in suse 6.0) i keep getting
"fatal error cannot initiliase Imlib?
what is this and how can i correct the problem?
I`m also getting can`t open xv in tkdesk??
Help with either of these problems much appreciated!!
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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:47:25 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.60 evaluation
Michel wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Chris Aiken wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I downloaded 4.6 from Netscape in the form of a gzipped tarball file.
> > >> I installed in my /opt directory w/o any problems at all. I edited the
> > >> /bin/netscape script to point to my new version being careful not to
> > >> destroy the old version. It works great! No problems so far. It
> > >> seems to be a bit faster that 4.51 but who knows. I did pick up
> > >> new bookmarks and address books from my .netscape directory.
> > >>
> > > You must not have gone on java sites yet!
> >
> > > My netscape goes in a warp hole here, I have RedHat 6.0
> >
> > I've been to all the java sites I used to visit with netscape 4.51 and
> > there were no probs with 4.6
> >
> > No considerable difference though. I just like to keep to the latest
> > version although sometimes that's not necessarily a good idea.
> >
> > What problems are you having with java sites?
> >
>
> As soon as it is to start loading java stuff netscape vanishes and leaves only
> a lock file. It basically kills netscape. If I go back to Netscape 4.5 it loads
> the java stuff but eventually crashes netscape.
>
> I have RedHat 6.0 with 40M of RAM, two swap partitions of 64M and lotsa hard disk
>space.
> 300-400M, I have a Cyrix 686 230Mhz.
on my system, AMD K6-200 , 96 megs RAM 8 meg swap, I have that same problem. I use
Lycos
chat (the java version) and sometimes when it freezes (happens with everyone who uses
the
damn thing ) and I try to log back into their server Netscape just goes bye bye.
Totally
disappears. Sometimes it leaves a lock file but i think ther has been times when it
hasn't.
I hate when it happens. Sometimes I am using NS mail or news and Netscape just decides
it
doenst want to be running anymore and shuts down by itself and I have to sometimes
erase the
lock file before I can start it again...it gets annoying to say the least.
Brandon
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From: "Eric Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes
Date: 2 Jun 1999 13:33:41 GMT
--
Eric F. Peterson
Politically Incorrect and Proud!
marco tephlant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In article <01bea846$90de08c0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> > I had this problem (although it was about a year ago so my memory might
be
> > a bit off!) and it turned out to be one of the Win95 machines on my
home
> > network was doing a netbios lookup every 15 minutes. I changed
dialdconf
> > to ignore these packets and VOILA!
>
> I've tried to figure out how to do this but with no success, what do you
> put in diald.conf to filter them out?
There is a file called services which defines all the tcp/ip services on
your machine. The netbios services are defined in there. insert "ignore .
. ." according to the services used.
I wish I was at home right now so i could look all this up on my actual
Linux box.
>
> (I've seen Erhards post, but I wasnt running samba at the time so I don't
> think it applies)
>
> Cheers
> --
> Marco
>
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From: Daniel Ganek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Converting Netscape mail from Win to Linux?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:38:50 -0400
"Donald E. Stidwell" wrote:
>
> Greg Coit wrote:
> >
> > PS I've done a search of newsgroups and Netscape's web site, and this
> > question doesn't seem to have come up before (which I find hard to
> > believe), but when I renamed the mail files and tried to open Netscape
> > mail, it crashed, so I'm assuming some thing within the files has to be
> > changed.
> >
>
> I've done this before, when I was using Netscape on Windows (use IE5 on
> my Windows box now) and it was not that hard.
>
On a related note, I switch back and forth between LINUX and Windoze.
I'd like to be able to SHARE all my personal Netscape files, mail, newsgroups,
etc. I tried the obvious and the LINUX version of netscape barfed or got very
confused.
Has anyopne else tried to do this?
/dan
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From: Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Sendmail/DNS Question
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:21:07 -0400
I'm running a web server using Linux.
I have a domain, e.g. www.mydomain.net, and can receive mail sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (i.e. no "www") gets bounced. Can
this be handled by the sendmail configuration (if so, which file -
sendmail.cf?), or does the ISP where my box is co-located need to add
something to their DNS tables?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Please reply to me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Charles
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From: "MR.~E" <mre@@softdisk.com>
Subject: NEED sometype of Linus ICQ
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 00:09:52 -0500
Hi All...
I'm as green as you can get at linux and have installed RH6.0
Have tried to install a ICQ like program to no avail.....need help!
also after install I made a user account and it refuses to allow me to dial
out....(can under root surf and mail/news works fine)
if someone has ICQ installed on RH 6.0 please OH please
contact me and HELP !!!
ICQ# 339776 (would prefer this method)
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thankz
Lee
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From: "Melle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: can't connect to my isp using kppp
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:47:59 +0200
Hi,
i've got a problem with my RH5.2 distribution of linux! i configured kppp
the way it was shown in several comp-magazines for logging in at my isp's
server using PAP - but it doesn't work at all.
the modem dials properly, but it fails to log in. my isp said that my login,
password and servername should be added to the file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets,
but i don't know how in detail. there are two lines of introduction: the
format of an entry should be something like:
client server secrets IP adresses
but what does this mean? i'm not good in English at all (you may have
noticed that already *grin*) since i'm from Germany, hmm.
if you know the answer to my problem please mail me to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanx, Melle
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From: "rory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,tnn.os.linux
Subject: Re: help! completely removing linux.....
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:11:47 -0300
Thank you, very much. That worked perfectly.
rory
Zoran Cutura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Rory wrote:
> >
> > I want to remove all of what the Redhat 6.0
> > setup put on my computer. I used Partition
> > Magic 4.0 in Windows to delete the native
> > linux and swap partitions. But how do I
> > remove LILO, and all the stuff that comes up
> > if I try to boot linux from lilo? Any help
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Rory
>
> That really is an faq
>
> fdisk /mbr
> in DOSe/Windooze will help!
>
> Bye
> Zoran
>
> --
> LISP is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you
> will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a
> better programmer for the rest of your days. Eric S. Raymond
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ from: Zoran Cutura,
> _/ _/ _/ IMH-Innovative Motorentechnik Prof.
Huber,
> _/ _/ post: DaimlerChrysler AG, EP/VRS, X910,
> _/ _/ 71059 Stuttgart, Germany,
> _/ _/ phone: +497031 90-77855
> _/ _/ _/ mobil: +49171 4488407
> _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> PGP fingerprint: F0 C3 30 F4 B3 7E 22 36 1C 51 B7 60 A9 BB 23
BE
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Converting Netscape mail from Win to Linux?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 01:52:23 -0400
Greg Coit wrote:
>
> PS I've done a search of newsgroups and Netscape's web site, and this
> question doesn't seem to have come up before (which I find hard to
> believe), but when I renamed the mail files and tried to open Netscape
> mail, it crashed, so I'm assuming some thing within the files has to be
> changed.
>
I've done this before, when I was using Netscape on Windows (use IE5 on
my Windows box now) and it was not that hard.
Can't remember exactly how I did it but basically you need to look at
the file names on Windows and Linux and change the Windows file names to
match the Linux file names. I do remember that I went ahead and set up
Netscape from scratch, created all my folders and mail filters as they
were in Windows so that I would have the files created on my Linux box
to do the comparison.
I then looked at the filenames on Linux and Windows and renamed the Win
files to match the Linux file names (including case). The only thing I
remember not working were the mail filters, but they were easy enough to
set up.
Don
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MAIN BOARD CMI 8330 SOUND CHIP and Kernel 2.2.8
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 01:54:15 -0400
Adriano wrote:
>
> I wanna know how can I configure my CMI 8330 Sound Chip ( on board ) under
> kernel 2.2.8 ?
> Thanks
I use one of these puppies and I took the easy way out - I use the OSS
drivers that I downloaded from OSS's web site. I'm using kernel 2.2.5 on
COL 2.2.
If you go this route, just make sure you get the correct version of OSS.
Don
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From: Oracle DBA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.database.oracle,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Oracle 8.0.5 on Linux SuSe 6.1
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:58:20 +0200
Marc Lambrichs wrote:
>
> I installed the Oracle database on my Linux SuSe 6.1 system. When
> starting svrmgrl I get an error:
> ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
> What's the problem?
> Thankx, Marc
Never mind. I forgot to set the correct home directory for the DBA. The
.profile couldn't be read so the variables like $ORACLE_HOME,
$ORACLE_BASE weren't set.
Hope it's useful to someone else.
Marc
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From: Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: On terminating background processes...
Date: 02 Jun 1999 10:42:24 -0400
OK, I am beginning to get a handle on things.
The problem is the effect of a process (emacs, for example) run in the
background as its own window.
Starting, xterm spawns bash which in turn spawns emacs in the
background ( emacs &).
Exitting bash with a ^D or exit does not kill emacs.
Killing the xterm with a mouse click in the top right hand corner kills
emacs. Running emacs through nohup does NOT affect the outcome; emacs
still dies.
It seems to me that exitting bash sends a signal to emacs which is
then ignored (by emacs). Exitting by killing the xterm sends a signal
which is propagated through bash to emacs which then dies.
What is the signal that is sent in each case?
How can one catch this signal?
Reading the man pages has not helped.
--
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