Linux-Misc Digest #491, Volume #20 Fri, 4 Jun 99 09:13:17 EDT
Contents:
Help!!! Linux and ISDN ("Christopher Zeman")
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Ottavio G. Rizzo)
Masquerading: strange question (Vitali Chkebelski)
Need translators for NLS for XFce 3.0pre1 (aka GTK+XFce) (Olivier Fourdan)
Re: where is "patch" program?!? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: How to edit a file in /proc (Charly)
How to change the searching path for inc/lib ? ("Andrew Shiue")
Re: How to fsck root filesystem without rebooting? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mice recommendations ("D. Vrabel")
Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to edit a file in /proc ("D. Vrabel")
Re: NT the best web platform? (Thomas Parsli)
Re: Linux |Going over 98 ("John G. Sandell")
Re: whee is FETCH? (Stuart R. Fuller)
Quotas (Nathan Crapo)
Re: NT the best web platform? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NT the best web platform? (John Hascall)
Re: What is "Mount Point?" (Scott Lanning)
Re: What is "Mount Point?" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Changing from RH to SuSe (Reinier Post)
Re: SETI@home with proxy? (Mihaly Gyulai)
Re: How to edit a file in /proc (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Help with TAR (Marc)
Re: The Glass Cathedral (Reinier Post)
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From: "Christopher Zeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help!!! Linux and ISDN
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 05:54:52 -0500
I just had my ISDN line installed and purchased a 3ComImpact IQ External
ISDN modem. Is there anything special I need to do with Linux in order to
make it work? I am running Multilink (128k dial-up).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Christopher Zeman, KB9RHA
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such equipment, punishable by action to recover actual monetary
loss, or $500, whichever is greater, for EACH violation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ottavio G. Rizzo)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Date: 04 Jun 1999 09:57:39 +0200
Jeff Shern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Looked in your wallet lately? Drivers licence, social security card, credit
> card.. Sure you can leave the house without them.. as long as you don't take
> the car, don't plan on getting a job, or cashing a check. Like it or not, we
> are this close [--] to having National IDs
It's still a PITA to carry it around if I'm just riding my bike (well,
if I were in the US I would be carrying a gun too, so the ID wouldn't
add much annoyance :-)
> BTW, what does this have to do with Linux advocacy? Well, let me think.. hmm.
> usually I can come up with some connection.. but this time I'm at a loss..
I see a connection: if the Britons (or Americans) will be forced to
have an ID, let it be a card with a microchip, and let all the cops
have a Palmpilot with Linux to read them :)
Ciao,
Ottavio
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From: Vitali Chkebelski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Masquerading: strange question
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 12:32:18 +0200
Hello,
I have a rather strange question to masquerading under Linux.
Is it possible to have only "ip_masq_ftp" on while for all other
services the masquerading is not allowed (or not active)?
In other words:
a) can ip_masq_ftp modul work without starting "ipfwadm -M..."?
b) can ip_masq_ftp modul work with "ipfwadm -M -a deny ..."?
Any help will be greatly appriciated.
Vitali
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 23:38:52 +0200
From: Olivier Fourdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need translators for NLS for XFce 3.0pre1 (aka GTK+XFce)
Hi all,
XFce 3.0, aka GTK+XFce, pre-release 1 is now on http://www.xfce.org
I need volunteers to translate the po files in foreign langages (German,
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.)
If you are interrested, please drop me a mail, Olivier Fourdan
(mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]).
PS : It doesn't take much time it took me about 1 hour to make the french
translation.
Cheers,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: where is "patch" program?!?
Date: 3 Jun 1999 17:31:30 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and e-mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian Jones wrote:
> I've been trying to find the "patch" program (ya know, patch -p < duh.diff),
> which surprisingly was not installed with RH 5.2. Where could I download
> this file?
Surely it must be a Red Hat package. But you can also get
the source code from GNU. I recommend the test version:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/patch-2.5.3.tar.gz .
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Charly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to edit a file in /proc
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:09:01 +0200
Mihaly Gyulai wrote:
> Why do you want to edit ? (I suppose to change something...)
>
> I'm not an expert on this field, but as far as I know, the
> files in /proc are existing in _memory only_ so they are
> virtual files ! (therefore you can't edit them...)
>
> You should go to other directory to change something...
Ok. I know that. So my question is : what could I use to make
this file have the right value on startup.
Some configuration tool?
Some parameters passed to a daemon?
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From: "Andrew Shiue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to change the searching path for inc/lib ?
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 17:26:29 -0400
Is there any methods to change the default searching path for inc/lib as
compiling with egcs?
I know there is a file named "ld.so.conf" that SHOULD be able to append some
searching
path for libs, but it's not work in my RH51??? I add a line "/usr/X11R6/lib"
in that file, but
my egcs still bothered me with "can not find libXm ..." (Of course, they
are there!) . Is anyone
know how to use it?
And is there any way to append the searching path for inc files?
What I want is changeing the default path, then I can just compile my
program and don't need to
use -Lxxx/-Ixxx to egcs.
Thanks
--Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to fsck root filesystem without rebooting?
Date: 4 Jun 1999 10:34:34 GMT
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am 4 Jun 1999 09:27:32 GMT in comp.os.linux.misc:
CW> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
CW> Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I had a horrible fs crash last week, due to my PC not rebooting and
>> Linux
>> not checking for any errors.
>>
>> Is there a way I can make cron run fsck daily and mail me if there are
>> serious problems? I ran e2fsck, fsck and fsck.ext2, but they all say
>> that the root filesystem is mounted and damage will occur if fsck is
>> ran.
CW> You could try running 'mount -n -o remount,ro /' beforehand to remount
CW> the root filesystem read-only (the -n is needed to stop it trying to
CW> write to /etc/mtab), and then run 'mount -o remount,rw /' afterwards
CW> to mount it read/write again. You might experience strange effects if
CW> anything tries to write to the filesystem during that time, though ...
>> All I want it to do is check it without trying to fix anything and if it
>> comes across serious errors, mail me...
CW> The mailing bit is easy, 'cos cron will mail you standard output and
CW> standard error of whatever it runs. You could pipe it through grep or
CW> a perl script to filter out cases when it's worked, I suppose.
I think, it's better to switch the runlevel to Singeluser,
e.g. "runlevel S" and do this stuff then.
mfG
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mice recommendations
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:23:09 +0100
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What mice do most people recommend to use with Linux?
One with at least 3 buttons.
David Vrabel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:53:27 GMT
--Yep, I'm testing COL 2.2 on my box, but have it installed alongside
Mandrake. Mandrake is still my main distro. :)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 $1.99 from cheapbytes and an afternoon.
> I have tried both I have also tried the new one from Caldera I am
sticking
> with Mandrake.
> just my humble opinion. John Pisini
>
> >
>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to edit a file in /proc
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:29:03 +0100
On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Charly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to edit a file that stands in /proc but I
> don't know what
> program to use to do that. I tried vi (maybe a silly
> solution). It
> worked but when I reboot, the modification are discarded.
The files in /proc are not real files stored on the harddisk but virtual
files generated by the kernel.
You'll have to make the modifications every time you boot. Of course you
can automate this process.
David Vrabel
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Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
From: Thomas Parsli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Jun 1999 23:08:58 +0200
"Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thomas Parsli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Miguel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:IsT43.1183$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > >> *NT* afaik is *not* free.
> > > > >
> > > > > Either is a professional UNIX.
> >
> > Please tell Walnut Creek that FreeBSD is unprofessional, tell Cisco that
> > their worldwide print-system is based on an unprofessional OS (Linux),
> > tell Amerada Hess Corp (global oil giant) that their linux-based
> > (Beowolf) cluster is unprofessional...
You didn't comment this one did you?
> > > > I take it your definition of a professional Unix is "one that is not
> > > > available for free."
> > > >
> > > > miguel
> >
> > > Essentially, hobbyists don't have the discipline to do it properly. For
> > > examples look at Disk Druid, and RH 6.0.
> >
> > And that makes Linux unprofessional?
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> In a word. Yes! Leaving a bug in a recommended installer program that will
> destroy data is UNPROFESSIONAL!
1) Don't call RedHat Linux, it's a distribution...
2) Call diskdruid bad/flawed/unprofessional, judging an OS by one of the programs
a user could use is just plain stupid.
3) Write something with several thousends lines of codes and you get bugs...
4) Can you give an example of a PROFESSIONAL OS?
Thomas
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From: "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux |Going over 98
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 07:24:43 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since you have 2 GB of free space you should have no problem. The RedHat
install lets you (1) specify a mount point for the C: drive and (2)
install the LILO boot loader, which lets you boot either Windows or
Linux, your choice at startup.
Just take your time, read the Red Hat manual carefully, and you should
be okay.
John Sandell
Wammall wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I have a sony laptop running the pre installed 98. I have shrunk the primary
> partision down to 2 gigs, of the 4 avaliable. I want to install red hat 6 from
> cd. What hapopens to 98 if i do this and allow linux to do a workstation
> install. Will I still be able to go into 98. Do I have to do anything special
> to 98. 98 is on a FAT32 2 gig partision.
>
> 2. Can I transfer files from 98 to linux and vice versa, if so how.
>
> Any help much apreciated.
>
> Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: whee is FETCH?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 22:00:04 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: hello
:
: i setup leafnode as per instructionsbut and after a reboot i try
: typing fetch (after logging on) but nothing happens?
:
: do i need to add an absolute path to fetch???
If it's not on your PATH, you do.
Stu
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From: Nathan Crapo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Quotas
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 21:01:30 GMT
I have set up quotas on a machine running i386 kernel 2.0.36. I am
having problems with the "repquota" command putting itself in to
uninterruptible sleep. When this happens I have to reboot the machine.
Maybe I should just stop using "repquota". I would hope that the tools
work correctly, however. Has anyone else seen this type of behaviour?
I am using quota-1.55-9. I have also seen this happen with kernel
2.0.34, but not as often. What a pain!
please cc me directly on any replies. . .
TIA,
Nathan
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Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 03 Jun 1999 17:49:19 -0400
"Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Miguel Cruz wrote in message <7Hy53.8280$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> The Access Team anyway, I did see a fix for that on MS's web site though.
> >> There'sstill a major difference between a couple of data records and an
> >> entire hard drive though.
> >
> >I think we're getting closer now. A bug that corrupts a database is
> >professional, but one that wipes data on a hard drive is unprofessional.
> >
> >I just want to know where to draw the line, because professionalism is very
> >important in my line of work. This sort of guidance can be invaluable.
> >
> >miguel
>
> Okay, pay attention, The bug in Access has a fix. The bug in Disk Druid
> doesn't. The bug in Access might make your phone book inaccurate, the bug
> in Disk Druid would destroy your system. Which programmer would you hire?
on the other hand, disk druid is in the business of partitioning a
drive. presumably you want to wipe it out anyway. yes, a bug in it
could lay waste to partitions that didn't intend to have destroyed.
you *do* have a back-up, don't you?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hascall)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 4 Jun 1999 11:36:51 GMT
Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}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?
}To the best of my knowledge, yeah, excluding Y2K of course,
}but then IBM planned that for their end of century stock options.
As an ex-MVS and ex-VMS system's programmer, I can
assure you thse two have had their share of nasty,
nasty bugs. [The difference being, DEC + IBM
would actually spend the $$$ you sent them for support
on fixing them rather than on goofy new features]
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Subject: Re: What is "Mount Point?"
Date: 3 Jun 1999 22:14:58 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I'm trying to install Linux 5.0 and the autoinstall "Druid" keeps
: asking for valid "Mount Point"
Okay, the files in your Linux system are always there on your hard
drive. However, just like you don't let your drunken friend have
the keys to his car, the kernel won't let you access files until
you "mount" the "file system" in which the files live. <hiccup>
You basically mount these file systems into things called
"directories", which are also known as "folders" in Windows.
For now you may consider filesystems to be folders in which
your files are kept in an orderly manner. The "mount point" to
which disk druid is referring, you can think of as just a
directory. Alternatively, you could think of the mount point as
the "path" to that directory, or as a portal to the filesystem.
Basically, you're telling the kernel which path you want to take
to reach the files in the filesystem you mounted.
At bare minimum, you need to have one "root" file system
mounted; otherwise, the kernel says, "huh uh, fool, you ain't
gettin' the keys". The mount point for the root filesystem is
denoted by a foreslash (/). This is the beginning of every file
in your system. You'll notice how the files are named things
like '/usr/local/bin/perl'; in particular, note that the filename
begins with a foreslash. That's because to get anywhere in the
filesystem, you begin at the root, just like the root of a tree
is its beginning.
So, if you specify a foreslash, /, as mount point, every
single file will be mounted in that root filesystem on just one
partition of your hard disk. But disk druid lets you do more.
It lets you "partition" your hard disk so that each so-called
partition has a different mount point, so each partition has a
different portal through which the files in different filesystems
will be viewed. Now, maybe you want to specify a mount point of
"/" (root) on partition /dev/hda1, but also a mount point of
"/usr" on /dev/hda2. Then, whenever you access any file such as
'/usr/local/bin/perl', the kernel will fetch the file from
/dev/hda2, the second partition of hard drive 'a'. But maybe you
have a file simply called '/hello.txt'. This file would be in the
/dev/hda1 partition.
So, to cut to the chase, for mount point, you want to specify
some directory. Common ones are '/' (root), '/usr' (user programs),
'/var' (variable things like log files), '/home' (home directories
for users). There are many theories which people try to convince
you how much space to set aside for each directory, but it depends
alot on what you want to use your system for, how much hard drive
space you have, how much RAM (for swap), etc.. See, for example,
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.4
Note that Linux also will treat your floppy drive as a file
system which must be mounted. Then you must unmount it before
removing the floppy disk. 'man mount' for details. Ditto for
your CD-ROM disk.
Hope that helps.
--
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"I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it
in misery." --Edgar Allan Poe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What is "Mount Point?"
Date: 4 Jun 1999 11:36:43 GMT
In his obvious haste, [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled thusly:
: I'm trying to install Linux 5.0 and the autoinstall "Druid" keeps
: asking for valid "Mount Point"
A "mount point" is what the user sees as a directory. The only mount point
you *NEED* for linux is the root directory '/'. A partition is then mounted
onto that mount point.
Many people prefer to have more than one partition for the linux file system
however, as this eases upgrade and adds an amount of protection from
deletion and such. These people often have all the directories in '/' as
mount points as well.
Another example is the CDROM. In order to mount that device and read it's
directory, you need to create a directory for it to mount onto. In my
system, it's simple /cdrom. Others prefer /mnt/cdrom (/mnt is the directory
allocated for mounting temporary filesystems...)
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From: Reinier Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing from RH to SuSe
Date: 4 Jun 1999 13:53:58 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>replacements
>of RPM binaries by later compiled binaries from sources etc.
I keep all my homecompiled software in a separate tree, with some
symlinks in /etc for software that really insists on having its config
files there.
It was trivial to move it from RedHat to SuSE and it didn't
break any of the package management.
--
Reinier Post
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From: Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SETI@home with proxy?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:42:22 GMT
In article <7j6vvo$sal$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Try the following:
>
> setiathome -proxy {hostname of proxy}
Thank you it works for me, too ! :)
I don't know why this option is not shown in the 'man' page... (?)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: How to edit a file in /proc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 12:04:13 GMT
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:09:01 +0200, Charly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mihaly Gyulai wrote:
>
>> Why do you want to edit ? (I suppose to change something...)
>>
>> I'm not an expert on this field, but as far as I know, the
>> files in /proc are existing in _memory only_ so they are
>> virtual files ! (therefore you can't edit them...)
>>
>> You should go to other directory to change something...
>
>Ok. I know that. So my question is : what could I use to make
>this file have the right value on startup.
>Some configuration tool?
>Some parameters passed to a daemon?
For those /proc files that are 'writable', the most
frequent method of automated update seems to be
echo. As in...
echo "some data goes here" >/proc/sys/some_funny_file
Either put the appropriate echo cmds into one of your
startup scripts, or dig out the doc on the driver/software
that builds/maintains the specific /proc file you are looking
at, and alter that software's startup/config files, etc.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with TAR
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:31:46 +0200
Hi,
often programms are tared and gziped. you will notice the .tar.gz
extension. so you first need to unzip the tar with gunzip <filename> or
you use tar -xzvf <filename>.
for other compression programms (.bz2) see manual for tar.
Bye
Marc
"Andr=E9s Escribano" wrote:
> =
> Hi, i'm new to linux, i only know a little bit. I want to install a
> program that i downloaded in tar format but i can't.
> =
> The command i write is tar -xvf and the name of the file.
> =
> How can i do it?
> =
> Thanks in advance
> =
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Reinier Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: The Glass Cathedral
Date: 4 Jun 1999 14:31:55 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gilles Pelletier) wrote:
[...]
>[...] I never
>thought my hoax would stand for more than a few hours. [...]
Maybe it's because we don't care? What's the point?
Why don't you try to post something useful instead?
[sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiip]
>Linux: 750 million users by 2004?.
Who cares?
--
Reinier
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