Linux-Misc Digest #481, Volume #20 Thu, 3 Jun 99 21:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (bryan)
Re: Help with crontab ("Louie R. Orbeta")
Re: X-Windows does'nt start anymore (Jeff Haynie)
Linux/Xwind Xfree86 LCD config ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: antivirus (Eric Y. Chang)
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (bryan)
Re: Printer Drivers (Grant Taylor)
Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found (Georg Schwarz)
Link Question (Arthur Merar)
Heeelp! Uninstalled my rpm package (RedHat 5.2)! (Cevat Ustun)
Re: where o where might i find xagent??? (Jan Panteltje)
Re: New kernel -old sysmap? (hazzmat)
Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH (Jacques Le Marois)
Re: What is "Mount Point?" (Ed Young)
Re: Help with crontab (Werner Klauser)
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (Don Baccus)
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (Terrance Zellers)
RHCE (Jeff Haynie)
Re: What is "Mount Point?" ("John C. VanHoozer")
Re: SETI@home with proxy? (Ted Richardson)
Re: Decent Partition Sizes?? (William Burrow)
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 23:16:10 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.apps Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: If you have one writer and many readers, and that writer is updating several
: tables in a dependent manner, how do you keep the many readers from getting
: partial results?
setup your data so that each record is pretty much an atomic entity.
this is possible, at some expense and inconvenience, some of the time.
in my case, all of the time.
: How about cursor stability for the readers? Are the
: readers sorting the data; what about an insert happening in the middle of
: the sort?
don't know how to answer these questions. I'm far from an sql expert
but so far, in the netmgt apps I write and run, I've never run into
these issues before.
: In a lightly loaded server your probability of encountering these problems
: is low but not zero. Stress the server with lots of activity and these
: problems will show themselves. Transactions and isolation levels address
: these issues.
you have a very valid set of points. perhaps I should consider the
transaction thing a bit more closely. sometime before my servers get
to the saturation point, I guess ;-)
still, it depends on the absolute accuracy of the info. if you're
using a freeware db to manage my money, I would be concerned. for
some snmp polled data (that is constantly being updated by new values
by a poller), then even one erroneous entry won't take the network
down. it probably won't even be noticed. and will be corrected by
the next polled instance.
--
Bryan
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From: "Louie R. Orbeta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help with crontab
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:37:09 GMT
Adam L. Mendelson wrote:
>
> I have an entry in my crontab it reads "1 * * * *
> /usr/local/bin/netmrtg" and crond is running. Hoever this entry does
> not seem to execute. I am trying to run a script every minute. This is
> the first time I have tried to put cron to use. Is there anything wrong
> with the syntax for having this run every minute? How can I debug why it
> does not appear to run at all. Thank you in advance for any help, and a
> cc in email would be greatly appreciated
Hi,
The entry "1 * * * *..." will only run in the 1st minute of the hour.
If you want to have this run every minute, do this:
"1 * * * *..."
"2 * * * *..."
"3 * * * *..."
...
"59 * * * *..."
"0 * * * *..."
Yes, you have to enter an entry for every minute in your crontab, but
that's how crontab works. :p
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Louie
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From: Jeff Haynie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-Windows does'nt start anymore
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:32:15 -0400
Well unfortunately booting a system like that can cause problems with files.
I think one question I have for you and one I haven't seen asked yet is --
"Have you run 'fsck' on your drive(s) yet?" Often times 'fsck' will detect
and correct the errors. Failing that you may have to reinstall your fonts.
Let me know if this helps.
Jeff Haynie, Integration Specialist
Geert Van Loy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently my linux crashed (yes, this is sometimes possible :-)). I was
> running X-windows at that time. Ctrl+Alt+Back didn't help so I had to use
> the reset button.
>
> After rebooting my X-window doesn't start anymore. I get an error with a
> font that can't be found. However these X-fonts were loaded fine when
> booting.
>
> And when I shut down my system now, it fails to shut down these X-fonts.
>
> Can anyone help me with this problem?
>
> Thx anyway
>
> Geert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux/Xwind Xfree86 LCD config
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 14:32:34 GMT
Hi,
I am installing X server on my
laptop (with B/W LCD screen).
Do anyone know how to set the
monitor section in xfconfig file for
LCD ? I can manage to get a low
resolution display using the default
value in SVGA server. I think I
need magic numbers for the timing
setting of LCD.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Y. Chang)
Subject: Re: antivirus
Date: 3 Jun 1999 23:02:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. I just had some virus problems. A machine on my intranet running
Windows 98 passed a macro infected Word document through the Linux
sendmail server and router/gateway. The virus was caught by a client
who received the data, causing some damage in reputation. Although the
Linux machine did not catch the virus, it did act as a vector of
transmissing, with equally bad consequences. I don't know how to
prevent this type of transmission, except to place a smarter version
of sendmail on the Linux gateway.
Ed Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: bgarrett wrote:
: >
: > 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
: The only viruses I have heard of on Linux boxes are compliments of:
: MSDOS
: Windows 95
: Windows 98
: Windows NT
: Windows 2000
: By that I mean they are the only way to introduce virus damage in
: a Linux box that I am aware of.
: The solution is obvious. But since some jobs require the use of
: said virus attractors, not always attainable :-(
: MacAfee or Norton are good in your (do I gotta run?) Windows
: environment...
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 23:23:03 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.apps Don Baccus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <ViA53.1666$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >again, like I said, with multiple writers contending for common
: >resources, yes you're right. for the "one writer, many readers" you
: >do NOT need xactions.
: Not necessarily true. If you have several related tables
: that need to be logically updated at once, the atomicity of
: the transactional model is, well, useful if there's a crash
: while records are being inserted or updated.
yes, that's true. I tend to like hardware raid, just for this very
reason. its a crutch that simpler db model's can leverage from.
: Even if you don't have a crash, when you have such related
: tables it's generally kinda nice if "select" statements are
: guaranteed to return information in a consistent state.
: Without transactions, in this scenario a "select" can pick
: up stuff where only a subset of the tables have been
: updated.
yup. definitely true.
: It sounds like your application's really simple, and MySQL
: sounds like it's great for you.
for my stuff, its stood up to constant polling, monitoring, web-based
reporting and trouble-ticket submission at a major computer company in
the silicon valley. its been in-place for almost 2 yrs now and
continues to go strong. the mysql system hasn't given me much trouble
and it was SO easy to install (even from source) and to code/interface
with.
(fwiw, I was very close to just using flatfiles on this project since
I had nothing but bad times with previous sql db's. but I decided to
give this one a chance and hope it would 'redeem' all the bad karma I
had with sql. it did make a convert out of me and now I'm a huge
proponent of -simple- sql implementations. I understand that
lightweight isn't for everyone, but it sure does the trick for many
apps that don't need the $100M performance of Oracle and its ilk.)
--
Bryan
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer Drivers
Date: 03 Jun 1999 18:36:34 -0400
Frank Riha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Check at http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht for a start. Very
> good list of drivers, plus other printing information.
The official location of that is http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
Gatekeeper is a sort of quick and dirty back door; it's on a rather
flaky cable modem connection, whereas www.picante.com is on a stable
telco line.
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Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Date: 3 Jun 1999 12:46:40 GMT
Robert H�gberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>The kernel was able to detect lp0 *only* if I had a monitor connected to the
>computer. Now this sounds weird but that was the case. However I solved this by
>setting the printerport to lp1 in the system's BIOS and now it works just fine
>even without a monitor attached to it.
Thanks. This also did the trick for me. Now it's detected:
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
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Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur Merar)
Subject: Link Question
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 22:31:28 GMT
Hello,
I am a bit new to Linux. I have Jet Admin for Linux and I want to
install it. However, it is sitting on my Windows box. How can I
create a link from my Linux box through my network to my Windows box
so I can get this archive?
Please send e-mail.....thanks
Arthur
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From: Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Heeelp! Uninstalled my rpm package (RedHat 5.2)!
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:44:01 -0400
Being a relative newcomer to the world of Linux
(RedHat 5.2) I did something really dumb: I
uninstalled the rpm package itself. Now not
only does _that_ not work, but also Netsacape
seems to have gone too...
Any way out of this mess without having to
reinstall everything from scratch and losing
existing configurations?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cev.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Panteltje)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: where o where might i find xagent???
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 99 21:39:29 GMT
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> hi
>>
>> i cant seem to find this proggie
>
>I found xagent-0.7.5.tgz at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu in directory
>/pub/Linux/system/news/readers/
>
>Hope you have better luck with it than I did. I found it wants to
>download the entire list of groups every time you fire it up, and my
>server has over 58,000 groups on it. Needless to say, I don't have all
>day to wait when I only subscribe to about 20 of those 58,000.
This is not correct, xagent only downloads the group list if you ask it to.
'refresh group list ' from the online menu.
Agreed you have to do this the first time you use it, so you actually have
a group list.
Anyways, I have discontinued work on that, the commercial version, NewsFleX,
has a few more features, and less bugs.
It may well be possible you had an even earlier release of xagent, that
had faults in it.
J.
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From: hazzmat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New kernel -old sysmap?
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 19:27:10 -0400
Hi,,
I looked at the Makefile as you suggested, eventually found the
System.map for my new 2.2.9 kernel and moved into /boot. removed System.map->
symlink. All is well. Thanks!
Paul Kimoto wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hazzmat wrote:
> > here's another little issue I ran into the other day. I have
> > RH6.0 installed and I got, configured, and installed kernel 2.2.9. Then
> > _sometimes_ when i boot it, the boot process fails and complains that
> > the Systemmap has the wrong kernel version (2.2.5-15 as supplied in RH)
> > That's correct, sometimes it fails and sometimes it doesn't. Not the
> > kind of behavior I expect from a computer. ~8^0)
>
> The System.map file should not be required for the kernel to run,
> as far as I know.
>
> > Now, cp ing System.map-2.2.5-15 to System.map-2.2.9 doesn't
> > help. So I dumped the copy. I can't find explicit references to
> > "2.2.5-15" inside the file as it's largely hex or whatever, and I can't
> > edit it.
>
> A proper System.map file should be a plain text file. (It contains
> the addresses of a kernel's routines.)
>
> > I haven't made a symlink to System.map-2.2.5-15 for 2.2.9 as
> > the kernel version # disparity seems to be the problem. There is a
> > symlink "System.map" -> System.map-2.2.5-15 in my /boot. I don't want to
> > remove that, do I? There is also a binary file "map" which is mentioned
> > in lilo.conf, and I can tell it does reflect the changes to the
> > systemmap since there are regular text references to the new Linux
> > images. I can't find any reference to generating a new System.map in
> > the kernel HOWTO, so if you know what I am not doing right, please say.
>
> See the top-level kernel Makefile for the command line that
> generates it. (It's a cleaned-up version of "nm vmlinux", where
> "vmlinux" is the _uncompressed_ kernel image.)
>
> _Probably_ the program that is complaining about the System.map
> version is klogd. See the klogd(8) man page to see where it
> looks for this file.
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Jacques Le Marois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 21:41:34 GMT
In article <7j4h9r$1f4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Okay, I need reasons to convince the other sysadmins to use Mandrake
6.0
> over RH for our servers, 1st and desktops, 2nd.
>
> I know that Mandrake is faster since it is completely compiled for the
> Pentium versus RH's kernel only (IMHO, this should be enough). I also
> know that Mandrake has newer rpm's for gnome, kde, and the kernel.
>
> My question is what other reasons can I give (or am I missing)?
If you use Apache there is a very good Apache package with PHP3 support
and which allow to add SSL easily.
Jacques
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is "Mount Point?"
Date: 3 Jun 1999 23:15:43 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install Linux 5.0 and the autoinstall "Druid" keeps
> asking for valid "Mount Point"
The Linux filesystem is arranged in a tree structure of directories. The root
directory is /. All other directories are branches or subdirectories of /. If
you have multiple drives or partitions these have to be "mounted" somewhere in
the filesystem hierarchy of directories. So a mount point is a directory.
There are many strategies for selecting your partition sizes. Workstations,
servers, multiuser computers, and web servers are usually setup with different
things in mind.
For a single user workstation I suggest the following:
MountPoint partition size type
========== ========================== =======
/ remaining ext2
/var 32 Meg ext2
RAM < 64Meg ? 64 Meg : RAM swap
Why this? /var can grow out of control. It's where logging takes place. On a
single user system logging is about the only activity where files grow unseen by
the user. So you can limit the affect of overgrown log files by giving them
their own filesystem.
Swap is 64 Meg or RAM size if RAM is > 64 Meg. If the applications you use
require a lot of virtual, you may want more swap. Usually you won't. I have 96
Meg RAM, and I very rarely use any swap.
The rest of your available memory is used by code and data. So this
partitioning provides the maximum flexibility of disk use. If you use a lot of
data (like mp3's) you have space for a large /home. If you like to test a lot
of applications you have space for a large /usr. And if you change your mind,
you don't have to repartition.
Anyone else have ideas for single user workstation partitioning? I would like
to learn about other constraints in partition selection and sizing...
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From: Werner Klauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help with crontab
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 15:08:51 +0200
"0-59 * * * * ..." results in the same
>
>
> "1 * * * *..."
> "2 * * * *..."
> "3 * * * *..."
> ...
> "59 * * * *..."
> "0 * * * *..."
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Baccus)
Date: 3 Jun 1999 16:52:20 PST
In article <r7E53.54$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.development.apps Don Baccus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Not necessarily true. If you have several related tables
>: that need to be logically updated at once, the atomicity of
>: the transactional model is, well, useful if there's a crash
>: while records are being inserted or updated.
>yes, that's true. I tend to like hardware raid, just for this very
>reason. its a crutch that simpler db model's can leverage from.
RAID doesn't help you if the entire system crashes while
you update a set of related tables. It removes one kind
of hardware failure (or greatly lessens the odds, two
disks can fail at the same time, after all!) but not all.
>: It sounds like your application's really simple, and MySQL
>: sounds like it's great for you.
>for my stuff, its stood up to constant polling, monitoring, web-based
>reporting and trouble-ticket submission at a major computer company in
>the silicon valley. its been in-place for almost 2 yrs now and
>continues to go strong. the mysql system hasn't given me much trouble
>and it was SO easy to install (even from source) and to code/interface
>with.
MySQL has a reputation for being very good at what it does.
It's just that it's not a transaction-based db.
My only disagreement with you is that you made some statements
about when you do/do not need transactions, statements that
were wrong.
Now hopefully you know a little more and hopefully you're
correct that it doesn't matter for YOUR application.
>(fwiw, I was very close to just using flatfiles on this project since
>I had nothing but bad times with previous sql db's. but I decided to
>give this one a chance and hope it would 'redeem' all the bad karma I
>had with sql. it did make a convert out of me and now I'm a huge
>proponent of -simple- sql implementations. I understand that
>lightweight isn't for everyone, but it sure does the trick for many
>apps that don't need the $100M performance of Oracle and its ilk.)
The complication factor's a pain with these huge enterprise-scale
systems.
That's one reason I'm hoping Postgres continues to improve. It's
easy to install, there are hardly any management options so by
definition it's easy to manage, and it's transaction based.
It will never scale like a "real" db engine, that's the penalty
for simplicity I guess. The work I'm doing definitely wants
the transaction model (because I use related tables that need
to be kept in a consistent state for readers), otherwise I'd
most certainly look at MySQL.
--
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Terrance Zellers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 13:00:26 GMT
In comp.lang.java.databases Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: It's not clear to me that I want the ability to modify my database engine.
: Commercial versions of these engines go through extreme reliability testing
: before being released.
: Sybase on Linux is completely free in binary form - check out
: http://linux.sybase.com. If you want to use Perl you don't have to buy
: anything.
: The Sybase Java driver for Linux is not free, but you only need the
: workplace version to cover Linux.
: http://www.sybase.com/products/internet/jconnect/ It costs $495. This gives
: you an unlimited user, commerical deployment license. $495 is less than
: msql/mysql would cost for commercial use. There is a free eval of JConnect
: available too.
Just a minor correction. MySQL's commercial license is required only
if you resell the product (though I urge all commercial users to pay it!)
and is only $200 (about due to currency fluctuations). The two jdbc
drivers free for edu/private or $25/commercial in one case and LGPL in the
other - and there are many other apps and interfaces available on similar
terms.
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From: Jeff Haynie <jshaynie@'nospam'negia.net>
Subject: RHCE
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:49:58 -0400
Has anyone attended Red Hat's Certified Engineer course and taken the
test? I don't want to know what was on the test but I would appreciate
your thoughts on the class and test. Did you find it valuable? It
looks like it has a very brisk pace set from the looks of the class
material on their web site.
Your comments/opinions would be greatly appreciated as plan to attend it
later this month.
Thanks in advance,
Jeff Haynie
Integrator Specialist
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From: "John C. VanHoozer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is "Mount Point?"
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:31:25 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Norman and All,
Both Scott and Ed give very reasonable explanations of what a Mount Point is. We'll
be seeing more of this as more and
more people start trying out this "linux thingee".
I really enjoy seeing people who have to go through this get the "light goes on"
look when they realize what this means:
no more C: or D: or stupid drive lettering. If you add drives, you just add them
with a new mount point and it all looks
like one big disk to the user.
So many people have never had anything except DOS/WIN/NT.
jcv
Ed Young wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to install Linux 5.0 and the autoinstall "Druid" keeps
> > asking for valid "Mount Point"
>
> The Linux filesystem is arranged in a tree structure of directories. The root
> directory is /. All other directories are branches or subdirectories of /. If
> you have multiple drives or partitions these have to be "mounted" somewhere in
> the filesystem hierarchy of directories. So a mount point is a directory.
>
> There are many strategies for selecting your partition sizes. Workstations,
> servers, multiuser computers, and web servers are usually setup with different
> things in mind.
>
> For a single user workstation I suggest the following:
>
> MountPoint partition size type
> ---------- -------------------------- -------
> / remaining ext2
> /var 32 Meg ext2
> RAM < 64Meg ? 64 Meg : RAM swap
>
> Why this? /var can grow out of control. It's where logging takes place. On a
> single user system logging is about the only activity where files grow unseen by
> the user. So you can limit the affect of overgrown log files by giving them
> their own filesystem.
>
> Swap is 64 Meg or RAM size if RAM is > 64 Meg. If the applications you use
> require a lot of virtual, you may want more swap. Usually you won't. I have 96
> Meg RAM, and I very rarely use any swap.
>
> The rest of your available memory is used by code and data. So this
> partitioning provides the maximum flexibility of disk use. If you use a lot of
> data (like mp3's) you have space for a large /home. If you like to test a lot
> of applications you have space for a large /usr. And if you change your mind,
> you don't have to repartition.
>
> Anyone else have ideas for single user workstation partitioning? I would like
> to learn about other constraints in partition selection and sizing...
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From: Ted Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SETI@home with proxy?
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 22:35:37 GMT
Dave:
Try the following:
setiathome -proxy {hostname of proxy}
For more options do:
setiathome -?
Ted
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does the Linux version work via a proxy server? I have the Win and
Mac
> versions running fine here thru my proxy, but the Linux version
doesn't
> connect.
>
> Dave
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Decent Partition Sizes??
Date: 3 Jun 1999 23:22:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 01 Jun 1999 18:51:42 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I need to know what are the decent partition sizes for /var,
>> /home, /usr, etc. I am willing to make these all separate
>> partitions.
>>
>> Would someone suggest ones?
It is hard to guess.
>I normally use 128m for /, 128m for /var, 64-128m for swap, and the rest
>under /usr. Create a /usr/home, and symlink /home to /usr/home for user
>home directories. /var is really the tricky one...depending on how big
The last place to put home/ is under /usr. Separate is better, and once
I believe I put it under /var. /usr need not change much (ie with
updates to the distro only). To this end, /usr/local is a symlink to
/var/local on my system (actually, it is /home/local now, but that is
a bit too strange -- gotta get a bigger disk :).
Depending on your distro, /usr/local (wherever it is) may get quite
large over time. /home also has that tendency.
>your mail/news spool will be, or if you'll have a LOT of logs, you may
>need to increase /var size.
/var tends to a certain size and can tend to stay there (eg. you can
adjust how many messages you keep on the news spool, how large log
files can get before archiving them, etc.).
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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