Linux-Misc Digest #643, Volume #20 Tue, 15 Jun 99 11:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Diamond Supra Express 56i PRO Pci modem ("Rui Soutelino")
Re: Commercially speaking....? (Jamie)
Re: Parition Magic 4.01 obliterated my ext2 partition (Daniel Tong)
Re: Which GUI? (Roberto Alsina)
Re: no x11-server but x11-clients (peter)
Re: Decent Partition Sizes?? (Stephan Schulz)
Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux and Alternative Operating System Web Portal (Joel Peterson)
Re: HELP! kernel screwed up! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP! kernel screwed up! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Core files, how do I check them? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
KFM not accepting cookies ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
performance tuning (John Assalone)
Re: Multi-OS machine (Linux, Solaris, NT) (Rainer Krienke)
Client DHCP on RedHat 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Which Window Managers? (was Which GUI?) (Ed Young)
This is what I WANT to do (Daniel in Oregon)
kernel 2.2.10 changelog? (CompWiz)
High Resolution Glide (John Garrison)
printing via smb (benjamin j snyder)
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From: "Rui Soutelino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Diamond Supra Express 56i PRO Pci modem
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:04:20 +0100
Thanks for the info, by now I�m really convinced that it's a Winmodem, but I
believe that I found the solution for the problem!
I send the "#%&%&" modem back and ordered an EXTERNAL one :-)
William Stulz wrote in message ...
>It doesn't work under dos ... only with a dos program running in windows.
If
>you double click my computer>control panel>system then click the device
>manager tab you will see your modem but above that you will see a device
>called a modem enumerator. that takes your modem and steers the com/irq
>settings to one that older dos programs can use. If windows isn't running
>the system won't even see the modem.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>Rui Soutelino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:7jqlcl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Did anyone successively install a Diamond Supra Express 56i PRO Pci
modem?
>>
>> when I try it in win98 appeared in a window on control panel a message
>like
>> "to use
>> this modem in DOS use the following settings .... " witch were different
>> from the settings on win, my question is:
>> if it can work in DOS, is it a Winmodem?
>> And by the way it has two nice Chips from Rockwell, this means anything?
>> If anyone has any clue about it please post it, please.
>>
>> After of setting it up in win I install it in a linux box running REDHAT
>5.0
>> Kernel 2.0.36 in a 486 dx4, using setserial it reported the same irq and
>io
>> port that has in the previous window in the win machine, but when I use
>pppd
>> to dialup I got an input/output error.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>
>
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From: Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:14:02 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthew Malthouse wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> } The book implies that it will only leave the first of an 8.3 filename
> } without a ~1.
>
> What will it then do if the resultant 8.3 is not unique in the directory?
>
> Matthew
>
> --
> "Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto"
> http://www.calmeilles.demon.co.uk/index.html
If it is not the first (not unique) the system reverts to ~2 format ;-(
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From: Daniel Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Parition Magic 4.01 obliterated my ext2 partition
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:48:44 -0400
"R. Paul McCarty" wrote:
> I don't know how else to describe what Parition Magic did when I resized a linux
> ext2 partition from the windows side of a dual boot win95/linux system, then it
> obliterated it.
>
I had the same setup (using PM for a 3 weeks' new 10G HD) and had the system
running for only a few days before it complained about file system access. I am
still trying to see if its is related to that 1024 cylinder limit. Obviously Linux
must have lost when it encountered anything over 1024 then.
I am not sure about the nature of my problem except that I just reinstalled RH6 the
5 times just to trace the problem source. Pretty steep learning curve though.
Daniel
Toronto
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From: Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which GUI?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:10:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger) wrote:
I'll just answer to a very small point:
> Window Maker:
> Midway between IceWM and KDE in features. Linux-esque (No start
bar!!!)
> Not as small as IceWM, but not even as large as KDE's BASE backage.
Window Maker is a window manager (plus an app launcher?)
KDEBase includes: Window Manager, app launcher, taskbar, pager,
background changer, file manager, web browser, find tool, terminal
emulators (2 of them), icon collection, backgrounds collection (140
images), screen savers (19 of them), HTML based help browser with
support for man and info pages, and more.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter)
Subject: Re: no x11-server but x11-clients
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:55:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> How are you trying to invoke netscape? Are you logged in on your server
> machine, which presumably is the one with the display running X-Window
> or whatever, setting xhost to the machine that has the clients, telnetting
> to the machine with the clients (like netscape), setting DISPLAY on
> that machine to the server (the machine with the monitor,mouse and keyboard)
> and then invoking netscape? That's the only way I ever invoked netscape
> when it was a client on a different machine from my server.
>
I am used to log on from the machine with x11-server to the machine I was
talking about via ssh which can do auto-x11-forwarding. so display is set
to localhost and ssh forward it to the machine I came from.
but now, when I didnt install any x11-thing and connect via ssh I get the
warning-message : server does not support X11-forwarding
(where server is the ssh-server = the remotemachine without x11)
so it looks like, there are needed some x11-client-tools to enable x11 on
client-side.
peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schulz)
Subject: Re: Decent Partition Sizes??
Date: 14 Jun 1999 21:01:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>This is kind of minimalistic approach. I noticed that it is good idea
>to plan around 50MB for each "new thing" (java, maple, kernel source, ...).
>256MB does not sound good to me.
I have a /usr of 320 MB on an older machine (with a 540 MB disk) and a
/usr of 512 MB on a newer one. Both are barely adequate for the stuff
I wanted from their respective distributions....
>Regarding / -- the unpredictable beasts are /var and /tmp (and /home...).
Nope. /home is absolutly predictable. It will always grow to whatever
is available. Trust me. I have been admining for 5 years now...a new
server system with disks (which we get maybe every 2 years) ususally
gives us a 5-fold increase in space for /home, and our users need
about 2 month to eat it all up.
Stephan
========================== It can be done! =================================
Please email me as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schulz)
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From: Joel Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux and Alternative Operating System Web Portal
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:33:39 GMT
test wrote:
>
> > "R.I.P. Windows" t-shirts.
>
> Can you say "unprofessional"? I knew you could.
It's unprofessional to have a sense of humor? How odd, all of my
"professional" friends have loved the shirt.
--
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Joel Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
President
Odin Consulting, Inc. http://www.odin-consulting.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP! kernel screwed up!
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:45:38 GMT
> Notice that the date of boot.b and chain.b is not the same as that of
> System.map and vmlinuz? I guess that's where all this disaster comes
> from.
You are confused. Boot.b is part of LILO, and just needs to match the
LILO executable, it is not rewritten and it should not have the same
datestamp as your kernel and map. Chain.b is the loader for non-linux,
such as DOS, operating systems, and also is part of LILO, not written.
You can rerun lilo from tomsrtbt if you just make sure that the LILO
version of the lilo you are running (the one on tomsrtbt or the one on
your hard drive) matches the boot.b and chain.b you are referring to in
your lilo configuration (either the ones on tomsrtbt or the ones on your
hard drive). There are actually 2 or 3 ways to get lilo reinstalled
from tomsrtbt, but it does require that you understand the lilo-boot.b
version issue. Usually, one would either 'chroot' to your hard drive
for running LILO (picks up the lilo and the boot.b on your drive), or
use the boot.b from the boot floppy and the lilo from the boot floppy
(either copying the boot.b over somewhere or otherwise picking it up in
the lilo run), or if you are lucky enough that they are the same version
of LILO, just run the boot floppy lilo with "-r /mnt", which tries to
pick up your normal configuration and boot.b- but does require the
versions to match.
-Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP! kernel screwed up!
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:48:52 GMT
Ding-Jung Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just type "chroot /mnt/sda7 /boot/lilo" or if you are lucky you can use
"lilo -r /mnt/sda7". -Tom
> Hi thanks for the pointer. I've managed to mount my /dev/sda7 (root
> partition) under /mnt/sda7. However I don't know how to run lilo to
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Core files, how do I check them?
Date: 15 Jun 1999 12:41:24 GMT
In his obvious haste, Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: Basically, I have three core files that I'm not sure about, I would
: *assume* a package would NOT have a file called 'core' that is used by
: its programs, rather the core was dumped from the package into its'
: current directory.
: But I want to make sure.. :) Is there a core analyzer, or somesuch? I
: have three core files I'm not sure about, here is the ls -l from my cron
: event to locate them:
gdb (The standard C debugger) can be used to analyse cores.
Unfortunately, I think you actually need the sources to be able to use it.
(Not too sure about core analysis in this respect though)
The core tends not to get dumped into the executables directory, but the
directory you were in when you executed it...
If you want to try it, type in
gdb <name of executable you suspect dumped> <path/to/core>
Also, gdb can't do much with an executable if that executable wasn't
compiled with debugging information embedded....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: KFM not accepting cookies
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:42:56 GMT
When I use KFM as a web browser it never accepts cookies. I chose Ask as
default policy for cookies in Configure Browser Window but it does not
ask it just rejects all cookies.Please, help.
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From: John Assalone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: performance tuning
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:59:42 -0400
Hi all. I just set up a VAResearch server (VArServer 500). It's a PII400
1GB RAM, 9GB SCSI drive. It came pre-installed with RedHat 5.2, 2.0.36
kernel. I recompiled and installed a pretty bare 2.2.10 kernel. I'm
running apache 1.3.6 with most of the modules turned off (i'm only
serving static html pages - i'm using apache's mod_mmap_static module).
I've been doing some load testing using ZiffDavis's WebBench, running on
about 30 Windows workstations, each workstation generating about 100
child processes.
I ran WebBench on the out-of-the-box config and got about a 3.6M/s
transfer rate (that's before I did the tweaks mentioned above). After
that i've been able to pull out around 5.8M/s. Some people above me (i'm
the lowly linux minion in my company) are pushing for a transfer rate of
near 10M/s. We are building a site with projected peak transfer of
41M/s. (i didn't come up with these numbers, so if they're crazy don't
yell at me).
Is there any other perf tuning i can do to up these numbers?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Krienke)
Subject: Re: Multi-OS machine (Linux, Solaris, NT)
Date: 15 Jun 1999 16:01:37 +0200
In article <7j6emc$l79$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Edward J. Smiley Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to boot the following OS's on one machine: NT 4.0 SP3,
> Solaris 7, and Mandrake Linux (Red Hat w/ KDE). Here is what I have
> found so far.
>
> Here are my disks:
> Master: 2.0G Maxtor
> Slave: 6.5G Seagate
>
> I read that this works: Partition the 2G into two 1G partitions. Load
> NT onto a FAT partition and load Solaris on the other partition.
> Then put Mandrake on the 6.5G and make sure that the swap stays with
> this disk and not over on the Solaris partition.
>
> Has anyone done this or any variation using these three operating
> systems? I was told that I am going to need Randish Boot Manager and
> Bootpart to do this. Has anyone ever used these before? Can you give
> me any experiences.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated!!
>
> Thanks for reading!
>
No Problem. We have a couple of triple boot machines running Linux
(suse), NT and Solaris. The bootmanager of our choice was xfdisk since
it supports all those systems and has a very friendly frontend and is
easy to configure and free.
The only import thing to take care of is the sequence of installation.
This is important because solaris on x86 machines takes all the space on
a disk that
is left (not bound to a partition). So we install NT first, then Linux
and finally Solaris.
Regards
Rainer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Client DHCP on RedHat 6.0
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:31:26 GMT
Hi,
how do i install Client DHCP on RedHat 6.0 installation ???
Regards
C. Bertelsen
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Window Managers? (was Which GUI?)
Date: 14 Jun 1999 21:44:33 GMT
I use AfterStep. It has a very clean and convenient interface
IMHO. The more recent versions (I use 1.7.111) can be configured
to look quite pleasing. It is also very stable.
Steffan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Anyone else have any favorite Window Managers? Or least favorite, and
> why?
>
> Thanks,
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From: Daniel in Oregon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: This is what I WANT to do
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:49:35 -0700
I have an extra drive that I want to append to my existing ext2 linux
partiion..
I have the raid set up and ready to go...except...I can't create it
because the ext2 partition is mounted..
I want to make a boot disk with an existing image on it...and the raid
tools...
I want to be able to boot up...with the FLOPPY disk as the root....then
use the raid tools on the
two partitions...then reboot...and it should be kosher...!!!!
right...sigh.
Any help would be appreciated...
I have already made an "mkinitrd" img...but don't know how to get it on
a dos boot disk...
and what command to enter to make the floppy the root....
Thanks..
Daniel
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From: CompWiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.2.10 changelog?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 17:45:57 -0400
where would I find a changelog for the latest kernel release?
kernelnotes.org doesn't seem to have anything.
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From: John Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: High Resolution Glide
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:48:13 GMT
I have my X-server set to 1024x728 or is that 768? Anyhow it is in that
resolution, but when I try to run Quake3 or BFRIS or anything else in
that resolution under glide it puts it into an 800x600 resolution and
draws in 1024x728, so I can't see the whole screen. I am using a
Voodoo2 which supports the higher resolution, at least it says it does.
What's up, does the voodoo2 really support that resolution or not?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (benjamin j snyder)
Subject: printing via smb
Date: 14 Jun 1999 13:34:38 GMT
Here's a question for you all. On my LAN (small - 3 machines). we have on full
time linux box (firewall/ip-masq), an NT/98 machine, and mine (98/RH6). The
98/NT machine has the printer attatched, however, when that machine is in NT I
must enable the 'fix stair stepping text', but in 98 I didnt have to. Am I
going to have to switch these every time that machine reboots to play games in
98? Could I simply add 'another' printer with the print tool (ie have one for
NT and another for 98)?
Any info would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
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