Linux-Misc Digest #525, Volume #20 Sun, 6 Jun 99 22:13:07 EDT
Contents:
How can I boot RedHat Linux in Single User mode ("Alejandro Isacovich")
Re: Newbie kPPP (modem problem) (Robert Lynch)
Re: Cd-rom Install Problem (Dudley Brooke)
Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me (Gene Wilburn)
Re: OpenLinux (Andrew Bevin)
Free Domain Forward/Direvt Service, ("MM")
Accounting software (quicken type) for LINUX? (Peter Kerekes)
gcc vs Microsoft and Borland (Seth Van Oort)
Re: crontab help (almost there!) (Les Cole)
Re: redhat 6.0 fprintf core dumps using objects from 5.2 (Ragene Henry)
Re: DOSEMU can't find font 'vga' trying 9x18... (han)
Network Design Options (Aaron Helleman)
Re: Test your knowledge of Linux at new site! ("Chad Mulligan")
How to stop service (daemon) (Igor Tereshchenko)
Re: Level Domains DNS qestion. Help badly needed. ("David Means")
Re: Mounting an HPFS partition (Kaya Imre)
Re: How big can swap partition be? (Justin B Willoughby)
Re: crontab to start PPP (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: What is the URL to the making_ms-windows_read_ext2 utility ?
([EMAIL PROTECTED] ())
sudoers problem (Kurt Hindenburg)
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From: "Alejandro Isacovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I boot RedHat Linux in Single User mode
Date: 6 Jun 1999 22:41:12 GMT
My computer hangs up during boot starting the atd daemon.
I need to boot Linux without those services to fix the problem
I'm using ReadHat Linux 5.2
Could it be an atd bug?
Thanks
Alejandro Isacovich
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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 16:09:52 -0700
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie kPPP (modem problem)
Jay Daniels wrote:
>
> tpage wrote:
> >
> > I went into kPPP and set up an account (for my ISP). When I go to query my
> > modem I get a message "sorry, modem is busy" but my modem is not in use (to
> > my knowledge). I've tried all the device settings (/dev/modem,
> > /dev/tty...) and none of them seem to work. Any help greatly
> > appreciated...
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > TC
> >
> > ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> > http://www.searchlinux.com
>
> Do this
>
> ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem
>
> ttyS0 (S as in Snake, that's zero for com 1, use 1 for com 2, etc.)
I would also check out the man pages for setserial; I use (obviously for
my modem config, yours may differ):
/bin/setserial /dev/cua0 port 0x3f8 irq 4 uart 16550A spd_vhi
(this is with a 2.0.36 kernel, which still uses the cua* devices; if you
have the 2.2.x kernel, use ttyS*.)
I'm not currently using kppp, but set it up recently and this fixed the
"busy" problem.
HTH.
Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.best.com/~rmlynch/
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From: Dudley Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.help,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Cd-rom Install Problem
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 00:07:37 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am trying to install Redhat 6.0 on an old Gateway 486 DX2 66 with a So=
ny=20
>CDu31a Cd drive. When I select the cdu31a driver it say it can't find t=
he=20
>drive anywhere. I tried all of the drivers. The Sony 5xx driver gives =
me a=20
>box saying it is initializing the drive but then gives me an error. I t=
ried=20
>to use what the Redhat FAQ tells me to do, but it didn't work. My syste=
m=20
>consists of two hard drives, the first partitioned into two. My cd driv=
e=20
>takes F: in dos and win95. Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Collin
At the boot prompt try typing 'linux hdc=3Dcdrom' , some CDs are pretty s=
loppy
about reporting that they are CDs. I have assumed the CD is secondary m=
aster,
if it is an older board, and you are running it from the sound card ide
channel, then there is a workaround, but I can't remember, try the CDrom =
howto,
it is pretty good.
Dudley Brooke
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From: Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 23:08:51 GMT
My goodness there's a lot of nonsense about Red Hat in this post. I use
both SuSE and Red Hat and find both of them excellent.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In SuSE, it gives details in every step, and more options.
> Starting with disk partitioning and assigning of mount points. With Red Hat,
> it asks for the mount points and gives the option of "Check for bad blocks
> during format" or "Normal format". In SuSE, there's the extra one which is
> invaluable... "No Format", which leaves the file system intact.
The option to format or not comes later in the RH installation cycle.
It's always there when you select a custom install.
> When you get to package selection, SuSE is even more friendly. With Red Hat,
> you can step through the packages and install what you want, true. But it
> doesn't give you any idea WHAT each package is.
Nonsense. You just press F1 and it gives you a good description of each
package.
> In YaST, pressing F2 will bring up not only a description of the package,
> but a list of the files it contains.
A definite nod to SuSE on this one.
> Also, in Red Hat, it tells you how much you're installing, but doesn't tell
> you how much room you have left.
Well, it *does* tell you how much, cumulatively, it's going to take up.
The math isn't hard ...
> Finally, after while you're selecting packages, YaST warns you of any
> dependencies during selection, allowing you to auto-install all the
> dependencies, or ignore them. When you get to the point of installing after
> you've finished the selection, if gives a list of all dependencies, and
> allows you to select which ones you want.
>
> Red Hat just offers you the option of fixing all dependencies or none.
> (Which, in the case of my 200 Meg hard disk, pushed it over the limit).
> This then continued to install, and only complained when it ran out of
> space. YaST warns you when you're out of space....
This is a kind of 'so what' thing. Yes SuSE does this more nicely than
Red Hat, but Red Hat does help you resolve dependencies. If you plan
your system before you install it, you won't run out of space.
> And that's just the package installation stage...
I like SuSE and Yast, but I'll tell you straight out that you can set up
a RH system in a fraction of the time, and you don't have to hang around
waiting to change CD's. SuSE is a delightful distro for a workstation,
but RH would be my choice any day for a server.
FWIW,
Gene
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From: Andrew Bevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: nz.comp
Subject: Re: OpenLinux
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 11:03:07 +1200
I used to use OpenLinux 1.3, a fine product.
I paid for the upgrade to Openlinux 2.2, at the same time I downloaded a CD image
of Redhat 6.0.
I was curious that, at the time, I couldnt download OpenLinux 2.2, I then read
the licensing for 2.2. The distribution contains a number of Caldera software
products that they have not GPLed in any sense. The Licensing for the
distrubution now reads, disturbingly like your traditional, legacy, windows
software. ie the software is licensed for one machine only. There has been little
or no press coverage on this?!
So I didnt even load the software, it just wasnt Linux to me.
I loaded Redhat 6. Redhat's own utlities are all GPLed and available to all.
Redhat 6 is freely redistributable. After using KDE I found Gnome OK, not great.
I'll stick to Gnome tho as it is well supported on Redhat and best of all works
on my monochrome X terminals (If anyone wants one I have 40 of the suckers going
for $199 each ), KDE only supports 8bit colour.
Andrew Bevin
The Packing Shed Limited
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From: "MM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp
Subject: Free Domain Forward/Direvt Service,
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 01:17:40 +0800
Free Domain Forward/Direvt Service,
http://www.3man.com
Quick Case study http://www.3man.com/casestudy.html
B/Rgds.,
WebMaster.,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Kerekes)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Accounting software (quicken type) for LINUX?
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 21:42:38 GMT
Is there an accounting software made for Linux, similar to Quicken, or =
can
somehow quicken be used with Linux OS?
Thanks
Peter
- -
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself. Therefore all progress=20
depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw=20
Peter Kerekes Thornhill, Ontario, Canada E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Seth Van Oort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gcc vs Microsoft and Borland
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 03:14:14 -0500
Anybody know how gcc does on optimizing c code for speed versus
Microsoft and Borland compilers, especially for pentium and pentium II?
Seth
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From: Les Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: crontab help (almost there!)
Date: 6 Jun 1999 23:31:16 GMT
Roland Latour wrote:
> Les Cole wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to run anlog every day to update my web page stats and
later
> > each day archive these stats in the web page directory. I have tried
the
> > following script and have success with the first part (noosastat.html
is
> > created and updated) but not the second - what am I doing wrong? By the
> > way should %D%M%Y be preceded by + DATE ?
> >
> > * 1 * * * /usr/bin/analog
> > * 3 * * * cp /home/noosastat.html /home/httpd/html/noosa/%D%M%Y.html
>
> You got the %D%M%Y stuff from 'man date', right? Try:
>
> > * 3 * * * cp /home/noosastat.html /home/httpd/html/noosa/`date +%D%M%
Y`.html
>
> Stuff in back-quotes is interpreted first. I have not tested the above.
> --
> Retired TechSupport Engr. Linux@CDSnet:http://home.cdsnet.net/~rolandl
> "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the
> urge to rule." -H. L.Mencken
Thanks Roland
I hope one day that I can make a contribution and assist others in the
same way as you have - in the meantime I'll keep on trying to absorb the
knowledge!
Les Cole
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From: Ragene Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0 fprintf core dumps using objects from 5.2
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 19:45:50 -0400
Ron Stanonik wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>writes:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Stanonik) writes:
> >
> >> After upgrading from redhat 5.2 to 6.0, one of our applications
> >> began core dumping in fprintf. The cause appears to be using
> >> objects from 5.2. For example, here's a simple program which
glibc-2.1 breaks compatiblility with glibc-2.0. This means that your
programs will fault in some way if they try to use functions from the
2.1 version of the library when they were linked for 2.0. The newer
versions of glibc contain information about which version the program
was linked to, so in theory the dynamic linker will load the right
library. In theory :-)
If possible, I would suggest doing a clean build of anything that is
segfaulting. Then you will have two (or more) versions of your
executable - a glibc-2.1 version and a glibc-2.0 version. That's the
way it is for now.
If it's a commercial product, or someone else is maintaining it, get in
touch with them and ask that they release a build for glibc-2.1
Ryan Henry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DOSEMU can't find font 'vga' trying 9x18...
Date: 6 Jun 1999 23:31:15 GMT
Bruno Taglienti wrote:
> Jon Slater wrote:
> >
> > What should I be looking for in order to get DOSx (DOSEMU) to find font
> > 'vga'?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jon
> > --
> > Jon D. Slater QualComm Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6150 Lookout Road
> > Phone: (303) 247-5037 Boulder, Colorado
> > Fax: (303) 247-5167 80301
> Usually this happens vhen you reinstall X AFTER DOSEMU.
> To make DOSEMU find vga.pcf, go to the path where vga.pcf is (usually
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc) and issue the command:
> mkfontdir
> This rebuilds the file fonts.dir, including vga.pcf
>
> then restart X, or issue the commnand:
>
> xset fp rehash
>
> --
> Bruno Taglienti
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks bruno
but I just tried it and in my case it didnot help.
I use rh6.0 with a 2.2.9 kernel.
dos[emu] exits with:
ERROR: X: Unable to open font "vga"ERROR: , trying "vga"...
ERROR: X: Unable to open font "vga"ERROR: , trying "9x15"...
any hints?
han vd woerdt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Aaron Helleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network Design Options
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 23:42:28 GMT
I'm in the unique position to help redesign a high school's network.
I'm keen on implementing Linux as the primary OS for the school - but I
need to work through a few different ideas I'm having on the
implementation details.
I'm looking for some feedback on the performance of these options - or
others that can fit the following needs:
The Needs:
==========
A secure student network with monitored internet access for 30+ client
machines. Machines are Pentium Class Cyrix 200's with 32M ram,
integrated Sis 5597/5598 Video, Ne2000 compatible network cards, 1.5G
HD's, no floppy, no cd. All student generated work files must be on a
central fileserver for backup purposes (and ease of implementation).
School's administration 10 client machines running NT. Similar H/W.
Primary Distribution - RedHat 6.0 just because I'm familiar with it.
Apps to run: (suggestions for the following)
============
1) Office suite with : Word processing, Spreadsheet
2) Programming SW: C++ and possibly Pascal (for programming courses)
Nice GUI and debugger, etc.
3) Educational windows software?? DOH!
4) Email for staff<->student<->student but student<->student access
needs to be time activated (ie. no mailing other students during class
hours, only before school, after school, lunch).
5) Automated nightly backups - staff member to do tape swaps.
My pics for the Apps so far:
============================
1) StarDivision's StarOffice 5.1
2) C and C++ already installed - but a GUI?
3) WINE to emulate windows? or dual boot? (some help here please.... the
teachers may insist on Win95 so we can run some yet to be purchased
educational software - this is one of those make or break issues i
guess)
4) Netscape with sendmail? how to time limit mailings?
5) tar, cron jobs
Now for the real sticky questions:
Should I install RH 6 and Staroffice on ALL the client machines and just
use the central fileserver for the students to save their work on?
OR
Should I leave the machines as dumb X clients, run staroffice on some
yet to be purchased monster machine X Server?
---
Right now with 32M of ram, Star office runs like a pig swapping ALL the
time.
SO - either I can buy another 32M of RAM for each machine and get decent
performance that way - with very little network traffic...
OR
I can save the money on the ram, buy one or two monster machines to act
as X servers for StarOffice (network traffic problems now)??
I have a feeling that most people will say buy the RAM, and put the
effort into putting the software on all the machines.
Any advice on quick ways of installing the same stuff to every machine?
remember - these machines dont have floppies or CDroms!!
Pulling the HD's is one option I guess.... ?
Comments?
Thanks in advance!
Aaron Helleman
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From: "Chad Mulligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Test your knowledge of Linux at new site!
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 17:13:45 -0700
COOL a benchmark for geekiness...
<Disclaim>
The above is a joke, please take is as such, if you have no sense of humor
go to www.slashdot.org .
</Disclaim>
:-)
Michael Littman wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Dear Linux Administrator,
>
>We are currently beta testing our web-based 'Linux Administrator'
>knowledge test. The format is multiple choice. To take the test,
>simply go to http://www.tekmetrics.com/betapins.html. The rest should
>be self-explanatory.
>
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>2-Beginner, 3-Intermediate,
>4-Advanced and 5-Master) and be provided the percentile that you fell
>into, based on the others
>who took the test. The test is actually comprised of two tests of 16
>questions each (that's two
>chances to make the top ten!). Any feedback you can provide us on the
>quality of the questions and
>the test itself would be greatly appreciated. You will be given the
>opportunity to provide feedback
>on each question as it is administered as well as at the end of the
>test.
>
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>
>If you have any problems getting to the site, or have any questions in
>general, please feel free to
>contact me. We hope that you enjoy the test and look forward to your
>feedback!
>
>Also, feel free to try out any of the other beta tests while you're
>there. Thanks in advance for your
>help and good luck!
>
>Michael Littman
>VP Operations
>TekMetrics, Inc.
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Igor Tereshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: How to stop service (daemon)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 00:20:25 GMT
Does anyone can point me out how to stop daemon (particularly sendmail)?
Is there any good doc on boot process and how to config which service to
run? I've killed half of day in attempts to find answer on above
question
without significant result.
Thanks in advance,
Igor.
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From: "David Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Level Domains DNS qestion. Help badly needed.
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 17:47:53 -0700
Well, I'm with the folks that say that something is wrong with the
nameserver at dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu. You don't say how your
Win95 machine is connected to the internet when it IS able to make
a connection to acpub.duke.edu
Two things you should do:
1. In conversations with net-heads, you need to distinguish between
accounts and hosts (or machines). The latter have (separate) IP
addresses,
the former don't.
2. Check to see if the nameserver (dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu) can
translate the IP address back to some name. On your Linux box, do
# nslookup
> set type=ptr
> 152.3.233.44
nslookup should return the name corresponding to this address to you.
If that name isn't what you think it should be, there is a problem with the
nameserver. Take whatever action you think appropriate.
PS: there is a subtle difference between what most programs do and what
nslookup does; in the normal case, most programs look at the file
/etc/hosts first to resolve a name, and then go to DNS as a backup.
Your Win95 machine may well be doing this, and finding the address of
acpub.duke.edu there. But nslookup will never see it, because it goes
directly to DNS.
Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, I'm stuck here.
> I started having problems connecting to one of my account at Duke.
> it is an ACPUB account, ac opposed to EGR account that is working.
> I give their names here so you can understand the following output.
>
> I read DNS HOWTO and used nslookup command to find out the following:
>
> [root@localhost denis]# nslookup
> Default Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
> Address: 152.3.250.1
>
> > me1.egr.duke.edu
> Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
> Address: 152.3.250.1
>
> Name: me1.egr.duke.edu
> Address: 152.16.101.1
>
> > godzilla.acpub.duke.edu
> Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
> Address: 152.3.250.1
>
> *** dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu can't find godzilla.acpub.duke.edu:
Non-existent host/domain
>
> > teer14.acpub.duke.edu
> Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
> *** dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu can't find teer14.acpub.duke.edu:
Non-existent host/domain
> Address: 152.3.250.1
>
> > set q=ns
>
> > duke.edu.
> Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
> Address: 152.3.250.1
>
> duke.edu nameserver = dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
> duke.edu nameserver = dukedns2.netcom.duke.edu
> duke.edu nameserver = dukedns3.netcom.duke.edu
> dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu internet address = 152.3.250.1
> dukedns2.netcom.duke.edu internet address = 152.3.250.2
> dukedns3.netcom.duke.edu internet address = 128.109.131.40
>
> > acpub.duke.edu.
> Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
> Address: 152.3.250.1
>
> *** dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu can't find acpub.duke.edu.: No response from
server
>
> > egr.duke.edu.
> Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
> Address: 152.3.250.1
>
> egr.duke.edu nameserver = dukedns3.netcom.duke.edu
> egr.duke.edu nameserver = dukedns2.netcom.duke.edu
> egr.duke.edu nameserver = ee.duke.edu
> dukedns3.netcom.duke.edu internet address = 128.109.131.40
> dukedns2.netcom.duke.edu internet address = 152.3.250.2
> ee.duke.edu internet address = 152.3.17.193
> >
>
> as you can see I can access my EGR account because the DNS server can
> find egr.duke.edu. At the same time I can not access my ACPUB account
> because DNS can't find acpub.duke.edu. Some people suggested that I ask
> Duke network people about that, but I think there's no need becasue
> from win95 I CAn access my ACPUB acount - so there's something wrong
> here on my Linux system, that I can't find yet. To me all the files
> that I looked at while reading DNS-HOWTO look fine, but I might be
> wrong. Any ideas where these beast sits?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> PS. I know the IP address of say godzilla.acpub.duke.edu (from above),
> so I telneted it with telent 152.3.233.44 and it works, too
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From: Kaya Imre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting an HPFS partition
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 23:18:19 +0000
Ed Lentz wrote:
>
> On Sat, 05 Jun 1999, Kaya Imre wrote:
> >
> >That works here nicely. Did you include HPFS in your kernel
> >definition?
> >
>
> I dunno. I have the standard Red Hat 5.2 installl. How would I check for this
> and if its not there what would I do to add it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ed Lentz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You need to build a custom kernel (c.f. sec. 11.6 in your manual: read
it)
When you run xconfig (from /usr/src/linux run make xconfig) click on
Filesystems and check Y(es) on the HPFS Filesystem Support. Then
continue the instructions in the manual. The kernel given in RH5.2
is v2.0.36 which gives only read only access to OS/2 files. If you
upgrade to a kernel v2.2 or higher you should be able to write also.
I am in the process of doing that.
If you need more information, refer to
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX.html
in the section The Linux Kernel HOWTO.
Good luck.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Subject: Re: How big can swap partition be?
Date: 6 Jun 1999 23:43:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Paul Thomas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Hi,
>
> With the new mkswap (2.9i) and kernel 2.2.28, how
> large can swap partitions now be? What is the optimal
I think about 132Megs or some thing close to that.
> size for a swap partition, are two smaller ones better
I have heard several people say to make your swap part equal to the size
of your physical ram. This of course is pretty general and my be diff
depending on the situation.
I have 64Megs of ram and ~64Megs of swap. I almost never use swap after I
upgraded from 32 to 64Megs of ram. I do some times use swap when compiling a
lot of stuff.
I can't really see how two smaller swap partations would be all that much
faster then one larger. I am sure it its probably not very noticeable.
I have heard that having too much swap is some times a bad thing (reduces
performance of the system or the management of swap or some thing like that).
- Justin
--
_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ RULES!!!!!!! * LINUX RULES *
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: crontab to start PPP
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 23:51:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Juergen Heinzl wrote:
>In article <7jek42$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerald Jensen wrote:
>>Juergen Heinzl wrote:
>>
>>> In article <7je5kv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerald Jensen wrote:
>>> >Juergen Heinzl wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> In article <7jcbn2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerald Jensen wrote:
>>> >> >Juergen Heinzl wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> >> In article <7jbdhk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerald Jensen wrote:
>>> >> >> >I'm having trouble getting a crontab to start a PPP session at 11:59pm
>>> >> >> >every night. I've tried ....
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> >59 23 * * * /etc/ppp/ppp-on
>[...]
>>> >SHELL=/bin/sh
>>> ># Make PPP connection using ppp-on shell script
>>> ># MAILTO=""
>>> ># 5 0 * * * /etc/ppp/ppp-on
>>> ># 6 0 * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s -p 132.163.135.130
>>> ># 7 0 * * * /etc/ppp/ppp-off
>>> ... this will not work, at least if those '#' in the last three
>>> lines are really there, since they mean "comment" ... well, it
>>> does work, it just does nothing.
>>> [...]
>[...]
>>There a number of calls in the text file this crontab comes from (I only sent
>>you part of it), and I mistakenly forgot to remove the # signs in the sample I
>>sent you. This is the applicable portion of the crontab as it *actually is* ...
>>
>># crontab to set up PPP connection, get time/date
>># use /bin/sh to run commands, no matter what /etc/passwd says
>>SHELL=/bin/sh
>># Make PPP connection using ppp-on shell script
>># MAILTO=""
>>5 0 * * * /etc/ppp/ppp-on
>>6 0 * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s -p 132.163.135.130
>>7 0 * * * /etc/ppp/ppp-off
>
>Yep ... nothing spurious, so ...
>Change the MAILTO, so a mail is sent.
>Change /etc/ppp/ppp-on, read add ...
>set -x
>... after the #! /bin/sh and use the debugging options for chat and
>pppd for finally there must be a reason. I assume ppp-on does not
>evaluate some environment variables not set if run from cron (?)
>
>Let's see,
>Juergen
... yes, beat me ... following up to myself ... have just gone on-line
via cron, so it check "see above".
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<blank>)
Subject: Re: What is the URL to the making_ms-windows_read_ext2 utility ?
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 00:46:50 GMT
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
On Fri, 21 May 1999 10:13:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrotf:
>What is the URL to the making_ms-windows_read_ext2 utility ?
>
>I had it until my latest windows system crash, and I want it again.
>
>(Hope he have included writing as well now).
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kurt Hindenburg)
Subject: sudoers problem
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 01:39:50 GMT
Why does the following sudoers file not work?
As hindenb9, when I type in reboot , I get the password prompt and
then it core dumps. Even with the NOPASSWD it asks me for the
password.
# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN=/sbin/shutdown
Cmnd_Alias HALT=/sbin/halt
Cmnd_Alias REBOOT=/sbin/reboot
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
hindenb9 ALL=NOPASSWD:SHUTDOWN,HALT,REBOOT
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