Linux-Misc Digest #554, Volume #20 Wed, 9 Jun 99 13:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux on a 486? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NFS Problem SubOs/Linux Redhat (Brian Vicente)
Re: redhat 6.0 secure ttys (Ryan Carter)
Where the heck is redhat hiding their rpm's? (Henry Hollenberg)
Sparc: possible to install linux from tape ? (Frank Mattes)
Re: Where the heck is redhat hiding their rpm's? (Seth Van Oort)
cannot mount floppy (Antonio Martinez-Alcantara)
Re: A new front in the war is opening! (Larry)
login recursive error (Christian Stiens)
Re: Environmental Variables in a C Shell Script ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
linux/ksh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Bttv & ATI TV tuner (Edward Graham V)
Re: cannot mount floppy (Frank Miles)
specification for a 14" PS/1 monitor??? (Eric)
Re: Any Mail Application for commercial use (Grant Edwards)
Re: Linux on a 486? (gus)
Re: PPP Help needed. (Scott Lanning)
Re: Swap file limit? (Mark Redding)
Re: the last two characters of a dos text file are? (Seth Van Oort)
Re: Swap file limit? (Frank)
Re: Linux on a 486? (Alan Gauld)
Re: Telnet like root (Mark Redding)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on a 486?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 13:08:30 GMT
In his obvious haste, Sparky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: I personally love the idea of Linux, but it sounds as the X-windows
: system is just too resource intensive for this spec of machine.
Nahhhh.
I had X windows running on my SX33 with only 8 Meg of RAM, and even managed
to get some REAL resource hogs on as well...
(Namely GIMP and Wordperfect 8)
In fact, I wrote my final year project report on that machine in WP8.
(So it's not all *THAT* slow. A bit sluggish in places, but hardly anything
to tear your hair out over....)
As much
: as I dislike Micro$oft, it would appear that I might as well stick with
: MS Win3.1/MS Word 2.0 - rather than try to get a similar system with
: Linux/X-Windows/Linux WordProc (sorry, don't know of any Linux WordPs).
Wordperfect 8... Very nice.
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| Andrew Halliwell | |
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| Computer Science | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e>e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Vicente)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: NFS Problem SubOs/Linux Redhat
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 01:10:58 GMT
I think Redhat 6.0 changed the rules on tha also.
You use /usr/sbin/exportfs <hostname> <mount> ....etc.
I think a '-a' allows it to incorporate teh /etc/exports file..I think
Afshin Poraria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>I want to exoprt /home directory under Linux file system to other
>machines in our network running SunOS and Solaris. I followed the NFS
>HOWTO but still I can not mount the Linux directory on any other
>machines and I get " NFS service not responding."
>I tried another Linux box and everythings work fine.
>Can anyone help?
>Afshin.
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From: Ryan Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0 secure ttys
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 13:13:45 GMT
I've been suffering the same frustration and just got off the telephone
with redhat support. According to the engineer that I spoke with, root
telnet access has been removed completely from redhat 6.0. No
workarounds whatsoever.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andrew Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, i have only just upgraded our RedHat 5.2 server to 6.0
>
> the /etc/securetty file contained console ttys and ttyp0-5 so that we
could
> do a remote root login, but now it doesn't work
>
> the reason is that when you do a telnet login to redhat 6, it gives
you the
> tty /dev/pts/0 (like solaris)
>
> when i put pts/0 pts/1,etc into /etc/securetty it doesn't do anything
(that
> i can see anyway)
>
> what do i need to do so that i can do a remote root login???
>
> --
>
> Andrew Hatfield
> Tech-Support Engineer
>
> Hatfield & Associates Pty. Ltd.
> Phone : +61 7 3849 7155
> Fax : +61 7 3849 6277
> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web : http://www.hatfields.com.au/
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From: Henry Hollenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where the heck is redhat hiding their rpm's?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 02:08:36 GMT
I used to be able to go to the redhat site and find all sorts of
intresting stuff including
updated rpm's that match particular releases. I'm currently looking of
libPropList for
Intel RedHat 5.2 but can't find ANY rpm's on their site.
Does anyone know where they are hiding them now?
--
Thanks,
Henry Hollenberg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Mattes)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Sparc: possible to install linux from tape ?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 14:12:13 GMT
Hi all,
I never had contact with linux, but thinking to install
linux on my sun sparc classic.
The machine has at the moment no access to the internet,
but I'm wondering if its possible to install either redhat or
debian from a dat tape.
Is it possible to write the tape with a other machine (hp-ux)
which than can be used to load linux (booting).
Frank
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From: Seth Van Oort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where the heck is redhat hiding their rpm's?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 21:33:21 -0500
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html
Seth
Henry Hollenberg wrote:
>
> I used to be able to go to the redhat site and find all sorts of
> intresting stuff including
> updated rpm's that match particular releases. I'm currently looking of
> libPropList for
> Intel RedHat 5.2 but can't find ANY rpm's on their site.
>
> Does anyone know where they are hiding them now?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Henry Hollenberg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antonio Martinez-Alcantara)
Subject: cannot mount floppy
Date: 8 Jun 1999 20:19:02 GMT
Hi there,
I am new at linux and I cannot mount a floppy disk with msdos files.
I am typing
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
I have also tried vfat and umsdos instead of msdos above.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance
Antonio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry)
Subject: Re: A new front in the war is opening!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 9 Jun 1999 09:26:21 -0600
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 06:44:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vikinsey) wrote:
>
>> HELP!
>>
>> I recently learned that Microprose is planning a Linux release of Call to
>> Power, but!
Thank God that a major gaming company is going to start porting games for
Linux. I was on the virge of soiling a harddrive with 'filthyword/95' but
now I may wait the time it takes them to get their porting in gear.
A zillion chears for Microprose.
>> 1.They're going to charge serious money
Bummer, I thought they were going to charge 'joking' money but that's ok, I
have some of both.
>> 2.They're not going to release the source code
So?? You wouldn't have the slightest idea what to do with it anyway.
You don't need it.
>> Hey, get with it! The corporate slugs are trying to seduce us! If Master
>> Torvald can give away the magic that makes Linux happens, then so can the
>> corporate vampires!
These people are "in business" that means they need to charge money for
their efforts so they can pay the guys that write those fantastic flight
simulator type games. I have a number of them that run on DOS, they are
great and I will gladly pay them again for ports of the same games to Linux.
Money greases the wheels of virtual reality you know?
>> There's a reason Master T used the copywrite he did! To keep the vampires
>> OUT!!!
No it was most likely so the masses could have an excellent OS.
Don't forget "Master T" works for corporate money just like the rest of the
normal world.
>> Proprietarianism has NO PLACE in the Linux community! Linux is NOT about
>> money!
No but you're certainly allowed to make money off it.
>> If you're like me,
Thank God most aren't.
>> when TelNet was the new frontier, you know what a sorry state slugs like the
>> King of Redmond have reduced the computer community to. They almost
>> extinguished the free-flow of ideas and code, and now that we're fighting back,
>> they have the greed to try and litigate us out of existence!
BALLS!
>> I will have nothing to do with Microprose's game, and am seriously considering
>> mailing back all the Microprose products I possess in protest.
Send 'em to me in protest.
>> Please join me in boycotting this sleazy attempt to establish corporate
>> proprietarianism in the community of Linux Users.
I don't think so, I want Linux games. And I'm willing to pay the 'fair day's
wage for the fair day's work.'
>> Yes, I do believe the monkeys who sat at their consoles and sweated out this
>> code deserve recognition for their labors. But does it HAVE to be cash?
Do you work for free? If so, I have a shit load of stuff around the house I
would like you to do for me. I'll even send you the bus ticket to get here
on.
>> does anyone believe that the apes who actually DID the work will see any of the
>> money Microprose wants to suck out of us?
Yep, Im quite sure they don't work for the joys of labor.
>> Help me spread the word! To your e-mailers! Urge everyone, as I am doing: Do
>> NOT buy this bait!
Actually, I will spread the word to my Linux compatriots that we are finally
going to be able to PURCHASE good gaming software for our beloved operating
system. They cast the bait and I'm bitin'.
>> If it was an independent development group that created the game, and were the
>> ones saying 'Hey, we put ten zillion hours into this and we need to re-stock
>> our 'fridge before we starve," I wouldn't be writing this, but it's NOT! It's
>> just another corporation trying to exploit our desire for quality
>> entertainment!
What a freaking idiot. You may want to consider the fact that every
corporation is made up of INDIVIDUALS who 'need to restock the fridge'
before they and their families starve.
>> (Oh, and Microprose, before you send your lawers after ME for voicing my
>> opinion(I'm sure your shysters will call it libel, or slander, or witchcraft,
>> or whatever)
I doubt that they give people like you a second thought. At least I hope
that is the case. I don't want Microprose thinking that the Linux community
is made up of a bunch of blathering idiots.
>> That means: Keep your greed out! It's unwanted, unwelcome, and un-Linux!)
Wrong, we do want their service, entertainment and quality software.
Why don't you go away. Please, even find another OS to use. You are an
embarassment to the Linux community.
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:51:23 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Stiens)
Subject: login recursive error
Hi!
When I try a login from within another login I get the error message
"utemp not set" or similar.
What is wrong? (SUSE 6.0)
-Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Environmental Variables in a C Shell Script
Date: 9 Jun 1999 13:52:22 GMT
In his obvious haste, Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: export SOMEVARIABLE ?
Not in csh. That's what setenv does.
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______________________________________________________________________________
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| Andrew Halliwell | |
| Finalist in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
| Computer Science | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
==============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e>e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linux/ksh
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:13:31 GMT
Hi,
I just installed a ksh in my pc linux. I create
a file ie, start.ksh. To execute i have to type:
"ksh start.ksh". Without the first ksh i get the
message "start.ksh :not found". ksh i invoked before
trying to execute. It runs in /usr/bin/ksh.
Please email your responses:
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From: Edward Graham V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bttv & ATI TV tuner
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 10:30:54 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am looking for a software for my ATI TV tuner. It uses the Bt829 chip.
>
> I have found a software called Bttv, but unfortunately it specifically mentions
> that ATI cards are not supported. Can u tell me of other softwares that do?
>
> Thanks
This might help.
http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos/
Ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Subject: Re: cannot mount floppy
Date: 9 Jun 1999 14:51:37 GMT
In article <7jjtrm$k1e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Antonio Martinez-Alcantara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I am new at linux and I cannot mount a floppy disk with msdos files.
>I am typing
>
>mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
>
>I have also tried vfat and umsdos instead of msdos above.
>
>Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance
Have you tried this as root? If that works, you might consider using
the various 'mtools' rather than becoming root. If it doesn't work as
root, then as another person suggested, you need to look at /etc/fstab
(do a man mount and man fstab).
-frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric)
Subject: specification for a 14" PS/1 monitor???
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 15:45:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My problem is that I need the specification for a 14" PS/1 monitor.
I need :
* the Maximum horizontal vertical scan frequency range and the
bandwidth
The part number for the monitor is : P/N : 33G4577
I need these information in order to install X-Windows.
Thank in advance to anyone how will be able to provide me the
information.
--
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Any Mail Application for commercial use
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 16:00:49 GMT
In article <7jlh7j$f9q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
>> Besides Zmail and Sendmail, is there any mail application suitable for
>> commercial use ? As Sendmail seems too complicated for commercial and
>> the user interface is not so user-friendly.
>
>I'm very pleased with qmail. Easy to set up, fast, and reliable.
By "commercial use" I assume you mean use as a high-volume
high-reliability mail-server.
I've only set up qmail on single-user workstations (as opposed to
"commercial use"), but I was impressed with it. The installation and
configuration is pretty straight-forward thanks to both a clean design
and excellent step-by-step instructions.
It even built/installed hassle-free on an old Iris Indigo running Irix
5.3 (not always the most compatible machine in the world).
OTOH, the few times I've tried to make minor adjustments to sendmail
configurations the results varied but generally included dizzyness,
facial tics, bleeding from the ears, and a broken configuration.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! PEGGY FLEMMING is
at stealing BASKET BALLS to
visi.com feed the babies in VERMONT.
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 486?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 16:31:18 +0100
You can copy and paste with the VT's as well ....
Get a three nutton mouse, Right mouse button can be used to highlight a
region, and the middle button pastes it at the prompt.
gus ;-)
Have a look at "gpm" which installs with every distro I have seen.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 9 Jun 1999 07:21:19 GMT, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >You have multiple terminal sessions available in Linux without X -- they're
> >called "virtual terminals". When you start up the console shows VT1, and
>
> Yes, in fact I've used that in the past. (I played around with Linux
> a few years ago on my home system.) But I like having multiple
> xterms on the screen at once and being able to copy and paste between
> them.
>
> --
> Roger Blake
> (remove second "g" from address for email)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Subject: Re: PPP Help needed.
Date: 9 Jun 1999 05:57:55 GMT
-=Rage Matrix=- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: What am I doing wrong? The modem is setup correctly as far as I
Perhaps check out what I did to PPP to my school:
http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning/pppcon.html
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"He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his
liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind?"
--John Locke
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 17:21:06 +0100
From: Mark Redding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap file limit?
> swap 200MB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I sure you can only have max 128MB swap partitions, although you can have
more than one of them.
Mark.
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From: Seth Van Oort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: the last two characters of a dos text file are?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 21:42:30 -0500
Didn't catch the first part but a useful command is find. This will
execute 'command' on ever file under directory. Take a look at 'man
find' for further refinements.
find [directory] -name '*' -exec [command] {} \; -print
Seth
Ed Young wrote:
>
> "Matthew D. Melbert" wrote:
> >
> > David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> >
> > > I use tr, perl is a bit over the top for this.
> > > tr -d '\r' < old_file > new_file
> > > to delete the '\r' character leaving the '\n' intact.
> > >
> > > David Vrabel
> > >
> > >
> > David...the "tr" command is ok.......as long as you do not have several
> > hundred files to go through in a directory. Then you do need a perl
> > program since "tr" (at least through my resrearch) does not supprt a
> > recursive call to do entire directories. So if you have MANY files to do
> > such as my company does on a weekly basis, you need something a little
> > better then "tr".
> > However I did some more looking at "tr" today since you brought this up
> > and it is possible to use that command in a perl program....at least with
> > capitalization. I have to see if Carriage Return Removal is supported.
> > Thanks for the conversation.
> >
>
> Perhaps:
> for file in *; do tr -d '\r' <$file >xxx; mv xxx $file; done
> ^appropriate filename filter
> would work on hundreds of files...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank)
Subject: Re: Swap file limit?
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:09:50 +0200
[This followup was posted to comp.os.linux.misc and a copy was sent to
the cited author.]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I just built a new RedHat 6.0 box the other day with the following
> specs.
> - ABit6 motherboard
> - Pentium II 350 MHz CPU
> - 128 meg Ram
> - 10 GB hard drive
> - 2 (two) 3C509 NIC cards # it's to be a firewall
> - 40x Mitsumi CD-ROM
> Everything worked great until I started partitioning. I broke it up as
> such:
> / 500MB
> /usr 1500MB
> /usr/local/ 2500MB
> swap 200MB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> /var 1500MB
> /opt 1000MB
> /home 2500MB
>
> It's the swap that I'm having problems with. Is there a limit to swap
> space. Everytime I go on to have it then format, it says no space has
> been allocated for swap. It won;t format that partition. I've used
> DiskDruid and fdisk to no avail. When it asks if I'd like to
> repartition, then it crashes and says it can't find /dev/hda
> The only way I've been able to rectify this issue is be doing a low
> level format.
> I also was unsuccessful in getting lilo installed on /dev/hda and when I
> rebooted It said it couldn't do swapon.
> Would reducing the swap space fix this? Has anyone else had this
> problem? Any solutions?
> Thanks.
> KJ
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> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator |
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> `-------------------------------------------------------'
>
>
>
as far as i know, linux only supports up to 127MB for a single swap
partition, although you can have multiple swaps...
Frank
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From: Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 486?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 15:16:40 +0100
Sparky wrote:
> I have an old 486SX25 PC just doing nothing,
> Would it be possible to run Linux on this,
Yes, but to get the best try one of the older Linux
distributions - minilin comes on 4 floppies including X!
The older a.out Linuces were lightrer in processor
requirements IMHO. Certainly minilin ram fine on my
8M RAM 486SX
If you have less than 8M RAM (and cant find 4M+
cheaply - try a PC repair shop for second hand SIM - <$1/M!!)
don't try X just learn the joys of virtual consoles...
Actually if you don't use X you could use a modern
Linux too.
> as GNOME or would this just be too slow?
X will work slowly but GNOME is probably pushing it
a bit too far!
Alan G.
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 17:28:11 +0100
From: Mark Redding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Telnet like root
> I'm working with Red Hat 6.0. I can't telnet and login like root, but
> like another account it's OK.
>
> �How can I open a telnet session like root?
>
> Thanks
allowing root access from anything other than the console is a BIG no-no.
What you should do is create a normal user and then give that user access to
the same group that root belongs to, so that you can then "su -" to root once
logged in as the normal user.
I think the group is called staff (I usually do this to a FreeBSD box, and
theirs is called wheel !!!).
Mark.
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ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
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sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
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