Linux-Misc Digest #548, Volume #20 Tue, 8 Jun 99 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux on a 486? (David Vrabel)
RH6.0 Linux, Less, and terminfo? (James Seymour)
Re: ATI and X Server problem (Greg Wildman)
Re: the last two characters of a dos text file are? (David Vrabel)
Newbie: POP account news/mail readers (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Re: Cable Modems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: US Robotics 56K FAX INT PNP modem problem (Andrew Comech)
Re: Linux on a 486?
procmail question ("AMJ")
Re: problems with glibc2 (Mark Johnson)
bug in the "read" shell function ? (Nico Reservoir d'Yop)
Re: My story (Sitaram Chamarty)
Backup Issues (Matthew T. O'Connor)
Boot Stuff Anyone? (Brian Vicente)
Re: Help with Cw-7502 and cdrecord ("slee")
Re: vmware for linux (Sitaram Chamarty)
Burner question (Rod Templeton)
Re: Backup recommendations? (Dominic Mitchell)
Re: Linux on a 486? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mosaic: is it dead? (Neil Zanella)
Re: How do I configure sound in SUSE Linux 6.1? (MAnderson)
Re: How to stop service (daemon) (Greg Wildman)
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From: David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 486?
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:17:11 +0100
On 8 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <7jj9vp$do$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I've got an ancient Slackware 2.3 (kernel 1.2.13) on my old 386sx25 laptop
> >w/ 120MB drive & 6 MB RAM.
>
> Are there any security patches for 1.2.13, and is it possible to compile
> that 1.2.13 as ELF?
> >I doubt that any except Slackware will get a reasonable system within 120mb.
>
> I've gotten a 20MB system with debian 2.0.
How did you do this? The base system takes up 40MB as I recall.
David Vrabel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Seymour)
Subject: RH6.0 Linux, Less, and terminfo?
Date: 8 Jun 1999 14:06:02 GMT
I'm experiencing a rather strange problem. When I log onto my
new RH6.0 Sparc Linux box (using an xterm window), anything run
through "less" mis-behaves. Underlines don't stop when they
should and reverse-video, once turned on (i.e.: for
high-lighting), never gets turned off. "TERM" is either "xterm"
or "xterms."
"More", for example, doesn't seem to have this problem.
Anybody got any idea as to what's going on here? It's pretty
irritating.
Thanks,
Jim
--
Jim Seymour | Medar, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 38700 Grand River Ave.
Systems & Network Administrator | Farmington Hills, MI. 48335-1563
| FAX: (248)615-2971
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From: Greg Wildman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI and X Server problem
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 18:23:25 +0000
Marius van Deventer wrote:
> I installed my ATI rage II+ on RH5.2 without many problems. I however had to
> choose a pretty low refresh rate and not go over 800*600 res.
>
> According to xf86config it is never a good idea to run autoprobe with this
> card. I had to take pot luck with my rate settings until i found one that
> worked.
>
> Lucky for me my first guess was correct, namely the lowest refresh on the list!
>
I have a ATI Rage II+ graphics card in one of my linux boxes (mach64 chipset) and
I run a resolution of 1152x864 without any problems with a depth of 16. Her are
the Modelines I have for this resolution at different refresh rates and the Screen
section I use.
ModeLine "1152x864" 65 1152 1168 1384 1480 864 865 875 985 Interlace
Modeline "1152x864" 89.9 1152 1216 1472 1680 864 868 876 892 -HSync
-VSync
Modeline "1152x864" 92 1152 1208 1368 1474 864 865 875 895
Modeline "1152x864" 110 1152 1240 1324 1552 864 864 876 908
Modeline "1152x864" 135 1152 1464 1592 1776 864 864 876 908
Modeline "1152x864" 137.65 1152 1184 1312 1536 864 866 885 902 -HSync
-VSync
# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64
# I128, and S3V)
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "Samsung SyncMaster 17GLi"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1152x864"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Hope this helps..
Greg.
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From: David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: the last two characters of a dos text file are?
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:12:54 +0100
On 8 Jun 1999, Matthew D. Melbert wrote:
> Charles Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > I am specifically interested in which characters are used at the
> end......
>
> Charles you are in luck...I have a great idea!!!!! I just fiinished
> writting a Perl program for the same thing. (Just finished debugging it
> yesterday as a matter of fact.) Anyway, I had the same sort of problem at
> first. Just didnt know what to look for. After a lot of research I
> figured out that you can read each line of a file (sounds like you did that
> part), convert it to an array of ascii numbers (use the "unpack" command)
> look for the Carriage Return ( 13 in ascii) and look for the Line Feeds (
> 10 in ascii ). Strip whatever you want by comparing the current element
> of the array to whatever you want to delete (like the number 13) "if
> ($current_element eq 13){ do your strip Carriage Return commands...whatever
> you want to do with that char}" After your strip your Carriage Returns,
> "pack" your array and do whatever.
> The key to the program was using the bit by bit comparing. To do that you
> need to use the pack and unpack commands. Using chomp or chop commands
> are just tooo risky for this operation. Good luck with your Program. I
> hope that I helped.
I have to mention tr again...
tr -d '\r' <old_file >new_file
Use the right tool for the right job.
David Vrabel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Subject: Newbie: POP account news/mail readers
Date: 8 Jun 1999 21:06:17 -0400
I'm considering to switching to linux on my next computer, coming
shortly. I currently do not have a POP account, because all Windows
newsreaders and mail programs suck compared to the unix trn and elm I
get with my shell account. (Been on the net 12 years, had a POP
account only two of those years, gave it up. Wasn't worth the extra
money, since I can read Sluggy at work ...)
What I'm wondering is: if I get linux, can I get a POP account and
still use trn and elm AND use Netscape to read my daily dose of the
Sluggy Freelance online comic (www.sluggy.com)?
Thanks,
--
-Steffan O'Sullivan |
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Today is the yesterday you won't be able to
Chapel Hill, NC | remember tomorrow."
www.io.com/~sos | -Daniel M. Pinkwater
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cable Modems
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 23:07:07 GMT
Would like to hear about the 'kludge' you had to
work thru. I'm having a strange issue w/ @Home &
RH 5.2. Using IP addr/netmask/GW provided, I can
ping local NT & W95 OK, and they ping Linux
fine. NT & 95 also have no problems getting to
gateway and beyond, but not Linux.
jdd
In article <Pine.LNX.4.05.9906070546540.332-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel Bruce Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Anthony DeLuca wrote:
>
> > Does LINUX have support for cable modems? If
not will it? Thanks in
> > advance..
>
> It doesn't need it. The cable modem is an
external device that has absolutely nothing to do
with the operating system.
>
> Are you sure your question shouldn't be does
Linux have support for the network card that the
cable service provides with the cable modem? If
so, yes, it does for the most part. I've only
come across one supplied ethernet card that
didn't, and that was because @Home has been
distributing ethernet cards based on an el-cheapo
chipset. If you don't have cable internet
service yet, but will be getting it in the
future, make sure you don't get a D-Link ethernet
card. The ones that @Home gives you (not all D-
Link ethernet cards) is a modified chipset of an
ancient cheap chipset.
>
> Of the cards I've used from the @Home service,
the Realtek 8029 and the DEC21041 both work very
well with Linux, Windows 95 (with the driver pack
for OSR2), Windows NT, and OS/2 Warp v4. (I've
run it under Slackware 96 (kernel 1.2.20(?)), and
Slackware 3.6 (kernel 2.0.36), without
problems.) However, under Linux I have had to
use a kludge to get it to work with @Home, due to
their network/gateway/netmask setup.
>
> Just my 2c worth.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: US Robotics 56K FAX INT PNP modem problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 Jun 1999 21:00:29 -0500
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 22:53:47 GMT, Michael Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've been unsuccessfully trying to get this modem to work with my
>Redhat 6.0 system. I believe this modem uses the 3Com Akita drivers
>and I don't think that it is a winmodem. I see a 16550A UART on COM1
>using setserial and since my mouse is PS/2 I believe that this is my
>modem -- it uses COM2 in Win98, but I'm sure plug and play may set it
>differently under Linux. However, linking it to /dev/modem or trying
>to access /dev/ttyS0 directly using minicom yields no response.
>Anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
Hi Michael,
I believe knowing the model number of your modem would help..
Look up your modem at http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
If indeed this is not a winmodem, say
# setserial -b /dev/ttyS0 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig session_lockout
and (if still in trouble) post the output of
setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
dmesg
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports
Best,
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Linux on a 486?
Date: 8 Jun 1999 19:53:40 GMT
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 19:38:20 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>If the machine is a proxy server, it really doesn't need a console at
>all, let alone to be running X windows. Just do all your
I'd like to play around with it a bit as well, for a little break
from dealing with Microshaft crap day in and day out.
>Fortunately, you have enough RAM that running X really won't hurt
>anything, but having 48 megs of ram in a 486 *is* a bit of a oddity.
It had 16 Meg originally, but the sucker takes 72-pin SIMMs and I
had a couple more 16-Meg sticks laying around not doing anything.
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" from address for email)
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From: "AMJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: nl.comp.os.linux
Subject: procmail question
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:04:18 +0200
Hi there!
I'm using the following .procmailrc file:
LOCKFILE=$HOME/procmail/.procmail.lock
LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail/procmail.log
:0 b:
* ^Subject:.*pm
$HOME/procmail/bla
Is there a way to save attachments (plain text in this case)
to a file without the leading body and:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
=======_NextPart_000_0016_01BEB1F0.20DEEAE0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<body>
=======_NextPart_000_0016_01BEB1F0.20DEEAE0
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name="auto.prn"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="auto.prn"
<the attachment>
and trailing:
=======_NextPart_000_0016_01BEB1F0.20DEEAE0==
I can strip this with for example a Perl-script but
maybe there is the handy method in procmail or in
mimencode?
Thanks,
Marius
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From: Mark Johnson <markj*no*spam*@gilanet.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: problems with glibc2
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 18:55:36 -0600
Reply-To: markj*no*spam*@gilanet.com
>
> Where to get glibc 2.0.7?
It tells you in linux-2.2.9/Documentation/Changes
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From: Nico Reservoir d'Yop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bug in the "read" shell function ?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 19:59:09 GMT
Hello, I have Linux 2.2.7 (Debian 2.1) and I noted a possible bug in the "read" shell
function (in both ksh and bash, so it might be a bug in the underlying pipe mechanism)
:
this doesn't work (but SHOULD) :
echo 1 | read a -> $a has no value
but, with a FIFO, it works :
echo 1 > /dev/fifo & read a < /dev/fifo -> $a equals 1
Has someone encountered this problem ? Does someone have a fix for it ? I have some
shell scripts (HPUX, ksh) to port under Linux and it's not very "beautiful" to put
fifos everywhere ;-)
thanks for your help,
Nico ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: My story
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 01:38:57 GMT
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 18:58:24 -0500, theoddone33
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Also, does anyone have any tips on manually setting up a network in Red
>Hat?
>>
>>The usual commands:
>> ifconfig eth0 a.b.c.d
>> route add -net a.b.c.0 dev eth0
>> route add default gw a.b.c.x
>>
>>If you have PCMCIA and DHCP it's also pretty easy - in fact I have
>>found it's easier than messing with linuxconf etc. Let me know if
>>you need help there.
>What file would I put these in? I think the main problem is that RH won't
>automatically load my card's module. I'll mess around with the scripts a
>little today and see what happens.
If you have recently installed your network card (or changed the
card for another one), you need a line like this in
/etc/conf.modules:
alias eth0 3c509
Substitute that 3c509 for whatever module you need. (Running a
"locate 3c509" and then looking in the directory that 3c509.o is
contained in, on my 2.2.6 laptop, returns about 50 different
modules).
As for where to put the ifconfig/route commands, that depends. if
you have PCMCIA, you'd best put them in /etc/pcmcia/network -
otherwise put them in /etc/rc.d/init.d/network and put the
appropriate symlinks[1]. Put them under the "start" option, and
under the "stop" optin you should only need
ifconfig eth0 down
If you need to get an IP address from a dhcp server it's even
easier!
<rant>
Red Hat's default scripts are way too complex. The goal
(controlling everything from a file called /etc/sysconfig/network)
is laudable, but the result looks like a kludge, with all kinds of
files pointing to each other - or so it seems at first glance!
And a pox on theit new "pump" - twice so far I've had to disable
it in other peoples' RH 6.0 setups (I dont use RH 6.0 - I never
use *any* ".0" version of anything ;-)
</rant>
Sitaram
who still thinks RH is pretty good, you just have to know what to
take and what to ignore/avoid ;-)
[1] I assume you know what I mean by "appropriate symlinks" - if
not feel free to ask and I will elaborate.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew T. O'Connor)
Subject: Backup Issues
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 01:20:04 GMT
Hello, I manage a large network of 100+PC's. Each department has a
server (Some NT, all new are Linux) for Authentication and file
storeage. I have a Linux box in my office for the sole purpose of
backing up all the other servers. I am backing up the other servers
to tar files on the backup server using either smbtar or tar. This
works fine. I then write those tar files to a DAT drive using dd.
This seems to work also, but when list the contents of the tape, I
have to issue several tar --list --file /dev/nst0 commands before it
will list the contents of the next tar file. Why is this happening
and what can I do about it? The number of tar commands I have to
issue is inconsistent. I think I can do something about it using mt
commands to move to the next file, but there is very little
documentation on that and I havn't been able to figure it out. Where
can I get better more infomration on mt then the man page has to
offer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, also any comments (positive or
negative) on my backup solution would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Vicente)
Subject: Boot Stuff Anyone?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 01:26:40 GMT
We have a peculiar situation.
We install Redhat 6.0 on one system and then chop it up into parts
to be sent ( anything will do.. ftp etc) to machines and reassembled.(
Tar blah Tar etc).
Instead of rebooting with a floppy and proceed to an upgrade of our
cluster( bunch of machines) we decided to do the following:
Put the boot image on to a small partition ( down low like at the end
of the HD--8Mbytes free happen to be down there).
We then use the current running system to have lilo add boot to the
small partition.
Boot from said partition and then do some tar blah tar which copies
the system we want to be running onto the big partition. Sounds snazzy
right?
The challenge is to lilo the new build.
Lilo should and would work except that we were using CCLinux floppy
image which doen't have lilo etc.
So we copy a lilo ( that uses libc5-that's what CCLinux uses) onto the
small partition and we <expletive> doesn't work.
We just needs to have a workiing lilo and this sytem would work
groovy.
Does anyone have something that would work in this case?
Thanks a bunch,
Hmm.....
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From: "slee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.cdr.panasonic,alt.comp.periphs.cdr
Subject: Re: Help with Cw-7502 and cdrecord
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:56:06 +0100
It could be the Autoinsert notification detecting your CD when the TOC is
being written. I've heard that this can cause problems with some software.
Slee
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7j78bo$uvs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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,
> --
> Jacob A Kohn
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: vmware for linux
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 01:39:00 GMT
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 08:35:40 -0400, Dan Schaertel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a question. I can't get a sound driver for my card (Maestro) in
>Linux and I have a Winmodem. So in Linux I have no sound and no
>online. If I run vmware and run Windows95 as a virtual machine should
>the sound and modem work?
I suspect your best bet is to find out if the winmodem will work
with N(ice) T(oy), and run the vmware host on N(ice) T(oy), with
Linux being the guest.
I dont think there's any other way you can use a winmodem. I
woudl disregard the other post that said he managed to get win95
dialing out using the modem - he didnt say it was a winmodem he
did it with! Linux will see a normal modem, so of course win95
can use it.
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From: Rod Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Burner question
Date: 9 Jun 1999 02:17:35 GMT
Just wondering if anyone had heard/knows of a driver for the Pinnacle
Micro RCD-202 external SCSI burner for Linux? The only driver I've
been able to find anywhere is for Win 3.1 and there's no way I'm
going to punish myself by using that.
Cheers,
Rod
--
Rod Templeton
Maple Ridge, BC Canada
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Backup recommendations?
Reply-To: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 Jun 1999 22:02:03 -0400
Well the strategy I use to backup the system is to use both a tape
and hard drive. I run a weekly backup to the tape and I do a mirror
of the hard drive regularly from a cron job.
Cheers,
Dominic.
mk> In addition to this, most failures are single files accidentally deleted
mk> by users or corrupted for any reason. Often, you will notice the corruption of
mk> a file weeks or even months after it actually did happen. So, if you make
mk> weekly backups, you will have to buy one new HD every week... or use a tape
mk> drive.
mk> Kili
--
==============================================================
Dominic Mitchell Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Economics mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada, K7L 3N6 Running Linux Redhat 5.2
==============================================================
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Subject: Re: Linux on a 486?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 19:38:20 GMT
According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> How about on a 486DX2/66 with 48 Meg RAM and 800 Meg HD?
>
> I want to utilize this otherwise unused box primarily as a
> proxy server. (Our Windoze-based software crashes constantly.)
> Main reason I'd like to use X is for the convenience of having
> multiple terminal windows open, however I can live without it
> if too much for this hardware. I take it that memory and disk
> space should be sufficient, but the CPU is a bit on the weak side.
If the machine is a proxy server, it really doesn't need a console at
all, let alone to be running X windows. Just do all your
administration remotely and stick the proxy box in a rack somewhere.
Fortunately, you have enough RAM that running X really won't hurt
anything, but having 48 megs of ram in a 486 *is* a bit of a oddity.
-p.
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mosaic: is it dead?
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:55:38 -0230
Hello,
Just out of curiosity, is Mosaic still around?
How does it compare to Netscape?
Thanks,
Neil
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From: MAnderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How do I configure sound in SUSE Linux 6.1?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 02:31:18 GMT
Hi Robert!
I found using the OSS packages much easier than dealing with kernel
modules and compiles (simply because I tend to forget something when
recompiling and have hosed a system or two doing it).
I used KPackage to locate where YaST installed the OSS (not demo!)
packages and followed the instructions contained in the README.SUSE file.
Worked like a charm.
To make it load automagically at boot, you'll need to modify
your /sbin/init.d/boot.local file. Instructions are in the OSS readmes.
Piece of cake.
I gave up on RedHat and Caldera after both proved to be a bitch to
configure. Support was horrible (for me...YMMV). The only thing I don't
like about SuSE is that Gnome doesn't appear to work properly (just want
to try it out), but I'm working on it.
Welcome to SuSE!
Mike
Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. wrote:
> Raymond Li wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am used to Red Hat Linux. But since the new Red Hat 6.0 is so
> > expensive, I tried SUSE when I do a kernel 2.2 upgrade. By the way, I
> > can't find the so-called Cheapbyte? version in my place.
> >
> > The Yast of SUSE is fine and configured all my hardware and
software
> > config., except the sound card. There seems to be no option for sound
> > card setting.
> >
> > (I have upgraded the kernel to 2.2.9) I have compiled the
kernel with
> > most of the sound card as modules. Is there a utility like sndconfig in
> > Red Hat?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your advise!
> >
> > Yours,
> > Raymond Li
>
> Some comments...
>
> 1) If you have a plug-and-play sound card you need to use the pnpdump
> and isapnp programs to support kernel/module sound support.
>
> 2) You can avoid using pnpdump and isapnp by using the oss drivers
> installable as a seperate package. (Not the same thing as the oss
> modules that are part of kernel configuration and compiling.)
>
> 3) KDE disables sounds by default. Here is a quote from the SuSE support
> database...
>
> You can reactivate kaudioserver by editing the file
> /opt/kde/bin/startkde and removing the leading '#' character from
> the following lines:
>
> # startifthere kaudioserver
> # startifthere kwmsound
> --
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
> If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the
> inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.
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From: Greg Wildman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to stop service (daemon)
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 20:10:39 +0000
Igor Tereshchenko wrote:
> 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.
If you are using RedHat simply run ntsysv and select/deselect daemons that
you want started automatically.
Greg.
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