Linux-Misc Digest #484, Volume #20 Fri, 4 Jun 99 00:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Help with Cw-7502 and cdrecord ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help with crontab (foobar)
Re: NT the best web platform? ("Chad Mulligan")
Re: Help:Core dumps when calling C routine rexec ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
My story ("theoddone33")
Re: Operating systems (The Ghost In The Machine)
Re: AfterStep or KDE or ...? Which one? (user-2)
Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH ("Sergio P. Korlowsky")
Re: Decent Partition Sizes?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problems w/GNOME Panel in RH6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
video driver ("Jose Menezes")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.cdr.panasonic,alt.comp.periphs.cdr
Subject: Help with Cw-7502 and cdrecord
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:58:36 GMT
I recently bought a Panasonic cw-7502 and have been trying to get the
thing to write with cdrecord. When I use the -dummy option, everything
works fine, but when I actually want to write the CD for real, it chokes
after about 500k. For all I know the CDR is defective, but I thought
I'd ask and see if anyone had any ideas why this might be happening.
I'm using:
4.17 firmware for the CDR,
Diamond Fireport 40 SCSI adapter (newest firmware)
cdrecord 1.8a22
Linux Kernel 2.2.9
Here's the output from cdrecord (it gives me this consistently):
Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '3,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 3 lun: 0
atapi: -1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities : SYNC LINKED
Vendor_info : 'MATSHITA'
Identifikation : 'CD-R CW-7502 '
Revision : '4.17'
Device seems to be: Matsushita CW-7502.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 1044288 = 1019 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 621 MB
Total size: 714 MB (70:44.52) = 318339 sectors
Lout start: 714 MB (70:46/39) = 318339 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
ATIP start of lead in: -11640 (97:26/60)
ATIP start of lead out: 335100 (74:30/00)
Disk type: Cyanine, AZO or similar
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 335100 Blocks current: 335100 Blocks remaining: 16761
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 0 of 621 MB written.CDB: 2A 00 00 00 01 20 00 00 10 00
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 34.275s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 589824 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 120s
Trouble flushing the cache
Writing time: 40.155s
Fixating...
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.004s timeout 480s
Fixating time: 0.021s
If anyone has a clue, please help.
Thanks,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (foobar)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help with crontab
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 02:20:19 GMT
Couple of things:
* When cron kicks off, it doesn't know anything about the environment
variables which were present when you wrote the netmrtg script.
You'll need to define a PATH for any binary (sed, awk, perl, etc.)
that you want to execute. This may not be your problem, but you did
say that your scirpt "does not appear to run at all."
* You can use cron for an every minute job, although I prefer to use
it for identifiable days, weeks, specific times, etc. If I were you,
I would consider a simple script and run it in the background:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
while : #always true
do
sleep 60 #sleep for 1 minute
/usr/local/bin/netmrtg
done
Save this in a file (e.g. bgproc)
then run it:
$ nohup bgproc &
The script will run from now till kingdom come. Every minute.
Just another approach (of many!)
Regards,
Dave
On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:29:20 +0000, "Adam L. Mendelson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 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
> --
>
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Reply-To: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 19:54:37 -0700
Thomas Parsli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Thomas Parsli wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> [snip]
>
> > >4) Can you give an example of a PROFESSIONAL OS?
> >
> > VMS, MVS, MCP, OS/360
>
> And those OS'es have _never_ had a serious bug?
>
> Thomas
To the best of my knowledge, yeah, excluding Y2K of course, but then IBM planned
that for their end of century stock options.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help:Core dumps when calling C routine rexec
Date: 3 Jun 1999 15:36:38 GMT
In his obvious haste, J. Sako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: This message is in MIME format.
That was nice to know...
But... what message?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 02:52:13 GMT
--Mandrake is the best distro I have ever used. Easy to install, great
support, and it just plain WORKS.
--I'm trying Caldera OL 2.2 and it just gives me some plain weird
errors. The way they shipped the CD's, I couldn't get X/KDE configured
and I have to borrow files from Mandrake to make some things work.
--Mandrake is a better RedHat than RH, without the Politics. MHO.
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)?
>
> Thanks.
>
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From: "theoddone33" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My story
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 21:35:57 -0500
Well, some of you may have noticed that I've posted a few RH 6.0 questions
here in the past week. I just thought I might tell you about some of my
past problems and tell what remains. When I first installed it, all I had
to do was get my sound and network working and my X server up, then tweak
the personal settings a little to reflect my old, comfortable settings I had
in Slackware. Well, I started out by transferring a lot of files from my
slackware's /etc to the new one. This fixed my X server and my mounts and
all. Then, I got some help here with starting kde and fixing my ls. I got
Quake 2 set up pretty nicely, which pleased me, but since my network wasn't
up, I couldn't transfer some necessary files from my other computer.
Anyway, I discovered linuxconf, and set up my 3c515 card's module. However,
while using linuxconf (which I may never do again), I also accidentally
deleted the /root and /usr/games folders. Bye bye Quake 2 and personal
settings.
Anyway, after a couple attempts to recompile the kernel, I ended up not
being able to mount floppies. After another kernel recompile attempt, I
ended up not being able to boot my machine. I reinstalled lilo, which fixed
this little problem, and promptly changed to the 2.2.3 kernel that I already
had from my Slackware version. Now I can mount floppies, but my network
still isn't up for some reason. I'll try finding the file to route my stuff
later. Anyway, Red Hat didn't handle the kernel version change well. It
says the system map has the wrong kernel version. How do I change this?
Also, does anyone have any tips on manually setting up a network in Red Hat?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Operating systems
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 02:17:13 GMT
On 3 Jun 1999 07:33:28 GMT, Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>The Ghost In The Machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On 2 Jun 1999 04:03:31 GMT, Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>_Design Patterns: Elements of Resuable Object-Oriented Software_,
>>by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides.
>>Published by Addison-Wesley.
>
>That's the one. There's so much hype around Patterns it's made me sick.
>
>>It's a work for the clarification, proper use, and implementation
>>of various patterns in OO software. I'm not sure it's wonderfully
>>written, but it does contain some useful info. :-)
>>
>>(I know Abstract Factories, Chains of Responsibility,
>>Visitors, and Singleton classes might be useful right off the
>>top of my head...)
>
>>No, but cycles in themselves are not harmful. It's merely a redundancy
>>in the information of the system; they generate an infinite number
>>of pathname representations for a given object, but are otherwise
>>harmless unless disconnected from the root -- in which case, they're
>>just garbage to be collected.
>
>I never thought of that; great, another reason why cycles are bad.
>I don't want to have to check accessbility before garbage collecting
>hard disk space (which is a huge overhead as it is) and I especially
>don't want to make root a special case.
It is an issue, admittedly, having to traverse the entire graph just
to delete a file....
(Mind you, I've seen file deletes take quite a while for enormous
files on ext2 -- I'm not quite sure why of that either.)
>
>>The algorithm given below does that very easily. It's not a problem.
>
>You're right, avoiding infinite loops is not a problem.
>
>>*What* parent links? That's redundant information; the proper way
>>of doing this is to set up a separate datastructure, and be able
>>to search for it two ways. The data structure is (P,C,iname);
>>P and C are internal Inode numbers, and iname is the name of
>>C inside of P.
>
>I bet you like Prolog a lot, am I right?
*chuckles* Never touch the stuff. :-)
Mind you, I do prefer high-level concepts to low-level ones;
it simplifies things somewhat to not have to worry about such
mundanities as "where do you want this pointer to dangle today?" :-)
I would hope that the performance penalty isn't too high, either.
>
>I don't think setting up a separate data structure is an efficient
>way to do it, especially since I don't plan to export inode numbers
>the way Unix does; they're internal and so accessible only to internal
>methods. I also want to be able to add inodes whenever necessary.
>
>>It's a very common method of handling relational database
>>many-many relationships (in this case, an Inode can have many
>>Inode children, and Inode children can have many Inode parents;
>>one might consider it a self-cross).
>
>Unfortunately, I haven't read anything on databases.
Ah well...in any event, it's hard to properly handle many-many
relationships (as opposed to one-one or one-many or many-one)
without putting in another intermediary:
A many many B => A many 1 C and C 1 many B;
one can even state C = A cross B, in a way.
As a relatively simple example: the nodes in a graph.
Nodes can traverse to arbitrarily other Nodes (in this case,
Node is the relation, and "traverse to other" is a data relationship
between two relations -- so what's happening is that we need
to cross Node with Node (i.e., itself)). Therefore, Arc
records a pair of Nodes, the "traverse from" and the "traverse to".
>
>>(However, after further review, I may simply say neither parent
>>nor child, merely links, which have names. See below.)
>
>>There are some issues here that may be problematical.
>>First off...the (P,C,iname) is unidirectonal, although it can be
>>made bidirectional: (P,C,pname,cname), where C.pname is P, and
>>P.cname is C. In short, *two* entries are created in the InodeNaming
>>relation whenever an Inode is created, and both have to be named.
>
>Yes. It gets more complex because there are sibling-sibling links. The
>parent/sibling/child categories are necessary for the security scheme.
Ugh, you lost me now. Sigh.
>
>>Once one does that, the file system ceases to be a tree, and
>>instead becomes a web -- not a problem, but can throw off some people.
>>
>>In fact, in a case like that, one might as well dispense with
>>the notion of children and parents, and instead look at the issue
>>from a graph-theoretic standpoint, where Inodes dot the data
>>and Names dot the arcs, and a pathname is merely a series
>>of traversal specifications -- arcs from the starting point.
>
>You know, I never thought of naming directories instead of links.
>The problem is that you might want some file to have multiple
>different names, like glibc5.0 and glibc.
Not a problem, since the file is an Inode, not a link. There's
nothing in Unix right now to prevent a file having multiple names,
anyway. (What's in a name? :-) )
>
>>(2) There are no directories as such. All nodes can have data,
>> and arcs to and from them.
>
>:-) It turns out that File is a subclass of Directory (the reverse
>of Unix).
Somehow, that doesn't surprise me. :-)
>
>>>The only way to remove an object from the filesystem is to delete each
>>>and every parent link to that object. Having a parent link to an object
>
>>Partially correct; the only way to garbage-collect an object is to
>>delete each and every cross-link thereto, making the object
>>inaccessable.
>
>If a container receives a delete, it checks whether it contains any
>parent links (or is it child? I keep forgetting which is which).
Heh...that's one reason why I said "screw it" and just used
bidirectional named Arcs. :-)
Mind you, if the root (yeah, yeah, I know) is the ultimate Parent,
then it would be children; it depends on which way your trees (DAGs?)
grow, I guess.
>If
>it does then that's it. If it doesn't then it marks itself as deleted
>(updates the deleted timestamp) and sends a delete message to all its
>links. It gets complicated because sibling links might not allow the
>directory to delete them, in which case it sets the delete permission
>on the other side of the sibling link (so that the other side's owner
>/can/ delete the link) and then unsets every other permission, again
>on the other side (so the other user can do nothing /but/ delete the
>link). And then there's what the links do when they get a delete ...
>
>I probably shouldn't mark the directory as deleted until it's finished
>the operation. That way garbage collection is easy; something is garbage
>if it is deleted (the delete time is greater than the last access time)
>and it's been deleted before time X.
>
>>>If the root has no parent, then it too is inaccessible. The root is not
>>>a special case.
>>
>>The root has to be a special case; someone has to know where it is! :-)
>>(One can simply have a convention that Inode 2 is the root; this means
>>of course that an auxiliary data structure can be used to search for
>>Inodes by internal Inode number.)
>
>If someone knows where the root is, then it has a parent. <cackle>
Hmm...a static in-memory only root?? It's a thought -- and it
has been done.
>
>>>Impossible since there would be no way to reliably figure out what
>>>a user's domain is (in fact, if someone used encrypted directories
>>>then the filenames would be scrambled).
>>
>>Hm...an interesting point, but this may break bidirectionality.
>>Is an arc of my graph one of your "portals"? If so, that would
>>make sense; a Portal (an Arc) would be nameable (though
>>it's far from clear that the name must be unique on both sides).
>>
>>Does a Portal have a unique name across both its nodes, or not?
>>An interesting question, methinks....
>
>A portal subclass of Link, same as HardLink. The difference is that
>portals are across filesystems, cycles don't matter, they may or may
>not count towards the parentLinkCount (ie, if they count then you
>could get an account on a machine, then cut yourself off from the
>syadmin by disconnecting the remote filesystem), and they're built
>using hard links.
>
>An InsidePortal (that goes /into/ another filesystems) has the pathname
>of the process' stdin) and the pathname within that filesystem of the
>link to which it must forward any message it gets. The link it hands
>off any messages to will be in a directory called /portals because of
>the way portals are built. An OutsidePortal (that goes /out/ of an FS)
>sends a message to the filesystem (which is just a process inside of
>some other filesystem) to do I/O on its behalf.
>
>>>a subclass File called EncryptedFile though I'm going to have to
>>>think a lot about adding classes at runtime.
>>
>>You'd have to; how else are you going to install applications?
>>(Besides, CORBA might be able to do most of the heavy lifting here.)
>
>I don't think it can. Classes are not something an application
>installs because it needs them at runtime, it's something a user
>installs because he wants to make use of that class. I should
>distinguish between classes local to an application and classes
>an application installs in its environment.
Much like Windows does today, in fact. :-)
>
>The problem with being able to add classes is that you can't allow
>anyone to add a method which does "Smalltalk destroyYourself".
Why not? Hopefully Smalltalk.destroyYourself() will be elegant about
it and delete the root, which will delete everything in its path,
but in a fairly controlled way -- a system shutdown, as it were.
Mind you, this would have to be access-controlled carefully, since it's
quite clear that only root should be able to do this.
>
>>>What if you want to share the file with Alice, Carrie, Denise, Eric,
>>>Gerhard, Irene, Julie, Louise, Marc and Veronica but you only want to
>>>give Irene and Julie read access, and Gerhard can't get an account on
>>>your system because your sysadmin hates you ...
>>
>>How does one share a file without read access? What a ridiculous concept,
>
>I meant that you wanted to give everyone /else/ read and write access but
>Irene and Julie read access only.
>
>>unless the file is a pure executable. :-)
>
>In my design, there's no execute permission; it simply doesn't make
>sense in 90% of filesystems. OTOH, you have read, overwrite, delete,
>grow, shrink and mutate. Mutate allows you to create a parent-child
>link to that directory. For directories, grow permission is needed
>to add /any/ link to that directory (similar for shrink-delete). For
>files, grow allows you to append/prepend/insert data and you can
>always create a new child-parent or sibling-sibling link to that
>file (the permissions are duplicated into the new link so it's just
>for convenience).
>
>Permissions are stored in links so that different people (who may
>only have access to different links) get different permissions.
>There's also a concept of dominance wherein a container dominates
>another container iff there is an unbroken parent-child path from
>itself to that second container. Dominance overrides permissions
>so you can do anything you want with files or directories you
>dominate. A user's domain is what they dominate. It's actually
>neat to implement; you send a request to a link telling them you
>dominate them and if they're a child they'll do what you say but
>if they're a parent they won't be intimidated ...
>
>You know, I should just use BDSM language. <whip> <whip>
Kinky. :-)
>
>>If Alice, Carrie, Denise, Eric, Gerhard, Irene, Julie, Louise, Marc, and
>>Veronica are part of one group (call it ExecutableGroup),
>>and Irene and Julie part of another (call it ReadableGroup), then
>>it's simple.
>
>Sure. Who gets to create groups?
Anybody who has permissions to Group, methinks. These would be
specified in the normal way.
>
>>True. I prefer a grouping structure similar to that used in
>>modern Unices; the concept I have is an extension thereto,
>>which allows all groups to have a representation within the
>>File system (i.e., everything's visible in a uniform representation).
>
>That's a problem; a representation is not enough. Far better if the
>groups are embedded within the filesystem itself. In my design, the
>filesystem doesn't have any concept of groups; groups are something
>that emerges from the topology of the filesystem; if you and I both
>have a parent-child link to the same directory then we're a group
>(and owners of that group to boot).
>
>>>You type them by class and this class means something different from
>>>filesystem to filesystem.
>>
>>Oh lovely. Goodbye shareware! Goodbye datasharing! Goodbye
>>installing software, period!
>>Goodbye computer viruses!
>>
>>Say...that might be a *good* thing... :-)
>>
>>(Or did you have in mind base classes that would be similar within
>>each system, and extension classes which differ from system to system?)
>
>Every component in my design is a filesystem so in the LoggingFS,
>a File is a segment. In the virtualFS, a File is pretty much your
>everyday file. In the networkFS, a File is some kind of network
>connection. In the windowingFS, a File (or more likely the Bitmap
>subclass of File) is a window. Every module has its own definition
>for what a file means.
Ugh. I may have to ask you to lay out your entire design in a
Webpage; I'm getting totally confused. :-)
Sorry. My mind and yours are not meshing. (My fault, methinks;
I'm not up on Smalltalk and OO. I'm a whiz at C++, but that's
no more OO any more than a train is an automobile; both can travel,
but one can travel many more places.)
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:40:17 -0400
From: user-2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AfterStep or KDE or ...? Which one?
Yibing Fan wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I just started to use linux a month ago. Slowly, I am getting
> everything running my way. I just switched to AfterStep and then I
> heard about KDE. I read about it, and now I am confused about so many
> choices of desktop environment. Which one do you recommend?
>
I like KDE especially under SuSE Linux-6.1. It's clean and business
oriented (no animated monkeys or flaming dildos). I can have Netscape
open to local server on screen-1 and 7 diffreent perl script open
on the other 7 screens. Make one change in any one them and I get
an instant live test (the only way with perl).
Gnome is something to keep an eye on too.
BTW the SuSE setup will manage any number of window managers
very nicely (and quickly).
I'll be trying RH and Slacker again after some absence!
cheers.
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From: "Sergio P. Korlowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 17:04:44 -0500
John Pisini wrote:
> [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 was at a loss because everyone said if you have RH6 you have Mandrake
> > but of couse I had to try it myself
>
> First configuration RH6 can't come close menus work the way their supposed
> too.
> Second I use an Intellimouse (say what you want about their operating
> system but I'll defend their mice to my death) Mandrake comes with imwheel
> to use the wheel RH6 I had to add it.
> Third inn RH6 I had to add a lot of other software like xcdroast comes with
> Mandrake.
> Tell them to try it if they don't like it what did it cost the time to
> download or $1.99 from cheapbytes and an afternoon.
> I have tried both I have also tried the new one from Caldera I am sticking
> with Mandrake.
> just my humble opinion. John Pisini
>
> I used to buy from CheapBytes and Linux-Mall.. (and I still do... Some
> items)
But http://www.lsl.com has Linux-Mandrake 6.0 silk screened CDs for only .95
cents..!
and when you place an order you can add redhat 6.0 for FREE! that's a good
deal!
check it out!
I am NOT affiliated with "lsl" thou... just want you guys to know about it!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Decent Partition Sizes??
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 18:51:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
azfar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am going to setup a new box for almost all inet services.
> Will be using Redhat 5.2 kernel 2.2.9. I will be using a
> PII-300MHz based 64MB RAM and 4.3GB SCSI HDD.
>
> I will be giving some 3.8GB to Linux and rest to Win32.
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Azfar Kazmi
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> **** Posted from RemarQ - http://www.remarq.com - Discussions Start
Here (tm) ****
>
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
your mail/news spool will be, or if you'll have a LOT of logs, you may
need to increase /var size.
later!
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems w/GNOME Panel in RH6
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:59:25 GMT
Here's my problem:
After logging in as a user (not root), the GNOME
Panel appears at the bottom of the screen (like it
should). However, after a few minutes of use, it
disappears entirely (i.e., it doesn't minimize to
one side or the other, the Panel just goes away).
I'm assuming this isn't normal because it doesn't
happen when I login as root. Can anyone shed some
light on this? Is there something that I can do to
keep the GNOME Panel from disappearing? And when
it does go away, is there a way to get it back?
Thanks,
Chuck
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From: "Jose Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: video driver
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:57:48 -0300
I installing, Linux and I need a video driver for the - OAK64111 VESA
thank you for this information
Jos� Menezes
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