Linux-Misc Digest #653, Volume #20 Wed, 16 Jun 99 00:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Funky Colors with Netterm (David L. Bilbey)
Re: How to install redhat 6.0 and win95 on the same pc? (Ed Young)
kppp, need to log in twice for connection to work ("Carl Alexander")
Re: backup on CD? (":)")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest News
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Larry)
Keystroke aliases ("Didier Trosset-Moreau")
Re: backup on CD? (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Linux Shop in London? (Thorsten Nicklaus)
How do I print manpage? (Sergei Gnezdov)
Re: editorial: Stupid Linux Tricks (Dave Aronson (remove x's to reply))
Re: Newbie: recommendations for Linux study and reference materials (Scott Lanning)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Joseph T. Adams)
Re: Newbie: How to DE-install a program in Linux?? (Donovan Rebbechi)
KDE strange question. (Alex Lam)
Re: samba-server does not appear in the network neightbourhood (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Resolution in X (Lew Pitcher)
RH6.0 w/Netscape (K.C. Adams)
Re: How to find out HD geometry data (Marc Mutz)
Re: iomega external zip drive (Sam Hostetter)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: kernel 2.2.10 changelog? (CompWiz)
Disk Corruption Repeatedly with RedHat 6.0 and WD 18 GB ("Patrick Nunez")
Re: Telnet in as root! (Donovan Rebbechi)
DVD Movie Player (Mike)
Re: tar problems (Marc Mutz)
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From: David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Funky Colors with Netterm
Date: 15 Jun 1999 15:56:59 GMT
+-----On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:47:33 -0400, Bill Weedon spoke unto us:----------
| I'm using Netterm 4.2 from my Win98 box to login to a networked linux box.
| There's something funky going on with the colors. Every time I do an "ls",
| I get different colors. Often, I can't even see the text because it blends in
| with the background color. What I really want is a single background color
| and a single foreground color that I can select. I have tried changing
| Netterm's
| background colors, but it works for a while, then the "ls" and other UNIX
| commands mess it up again. Any suggestions?
Your ls command is most likely aliased to 'ls --color'. Either type
'unalias ls' after you log in, or for a more permanent solution, find the
file that is doing the alias (probably .login, .cshrc, .profile, or
.bashrc), and remove the line that performs the alias command.
bilbey
--
"Police Detective Riley was a no-nonsense kind of guy. Before, he really
loved nonsense, and would use it a lot in his murder investigations. But
he found that most people didn't appreciate it, especially the family of
the victim." --Jack Handey
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install redhat 6.0 and win95 on the same pc?
Date: 16 Jun 1999 02:26:38 GMT
Tom wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Can anyone point me in the direction of a site with info on how to
> setup RedHat and Win95 on the same PC. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated..
It's quite simple. Win95 is usually installed, if not, then
install it.
Leave a large part of your hard drive empty (you won't be using
Win95 much after getting used to Linux :-). If you have the
empty part of your hard drive partitioned as DOS or EXTENDED DOS
partitions, delete them while running DOS using FDISK.EXE. DON'T
DELETE THE ACTIVE DOS PARTITION UNLESS YOU WANT TO DELETE WIN95.
Then run the RH6.0 install. It will use it's own fdisk to partition
the empty portion of the hard drive for the various Linux file
systems you will need. It will also install LILO which will allow
you to select at startup which operating system you wish to boot
into. Study the documentation carefully before you install, you
will be asked to make some partitioning decisions.
You will be able to mount your Win95 partitions in Linux so you
can read from and write to them. So, while you may wish to make
a backup before installing Linux, you don't have to save any of
your data to other media for Linux access.
Have fun...
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From: "Carl Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kppp, need to log in twice for connection to work
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:49:22 -0700
I have rh6.0 and am using kppp to connect to worldnet when I first run kppp
it connects but most programs won't start, Then if I log out of X and back
in kdm pops up with some weird new host name and when I start kppp every
thing is working OK. but I'd like to only have to start kppp once. Also any
advise on how to get kppp to work with other users would be nice
Carl Alexander
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From: ":)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: backup on CD?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:27:28 -0700
Stefano Ghirlanda wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to know if there is any good software for scheduled (cron)
> backup on CDs that e.g. keeps track of how many has been written and mails
> you when to change the disc or things like these...
>
> thanks a lot for your help,
> Stefano
>
This might be what you need. I haven't tried it yet. But looks promising.
http://cdbl.linuxbox.com/
Good luck.
Alex Lam
e mail: lamalexATjunoDOTcom
>
> --
> Stefano Ghirlanda, Zoologiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet
> Office: D554, Arrheniusv. 14, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
> Phone: +46 8 164055, Fax: +46 8 167715, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Support Free Science, look at: http://rerumnatura.zool.su.se
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:07:43 -0700
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:19:09 +1200, Stuart Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:40:29 +1200, Stuart Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>> >
>> >Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> >> >
>> >
>> >> If you read the supplied URL above, you'll learn that microsoft doesn't
>> >have
>> >> to cheat, to give a better performance than linux on an SMP box.
>> >> Personally, I'd like to see the results on the same machine, when
>> >> linux is swapped out for solaris.
>> >>
>> >But Linux != Solaris, the benchmark is between Linux and NT.
>>
>> So f*cking what? I'm often cited as one of the most
>> rabid Linux Zealots here and if I had the budget for
>> a Quad Xeon I'd go get Sun hardware.
>
>My point being
>a) No one in either Linux or NT camp will dispute that Solaris scales better
>than either OS (if they do, they're idiots)
>b) Whenever scalability is mentioned, most Linux users start talking about
>Solaris, which as I pointed out != linux
That's likely because once you've gotten to single machines
that NT is supposed to scale better on you're in Sun
UltraSparc Enterprise territory in terms of price.
Linux users are less likely to feel married to PC's.
--
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/ | \
Seeking sane PPP Docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Jun 1999 15:59:22 -0600
>Another important note to the statement on the Second Amendment Right.
>Although it is often applied to the individual, it is more applicable to
>various orginizations, ie Militias. But it does in many off ways still apply
>to the individual.
You know absolutely nothing about the Constitution and the history of the
founding of this country. In this case you should really butt out.
>This amendment does NOT apply to the bearing weapons of mass destruction.
>Machine guns, automatic weapons, etc. All of these are covered as personal
>protection. The right to bear arms is speaking of items that are for use in
>protecting yourself, your family, your friends and your country.
The second reads:
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Where does it talk about personal protection? It says because a well trained
militia is necessary to protect the country, the rights of the people to keep
and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The first part of the paragraph ( a well regulated militia, being necessary
to the security of a free state) is the dependent clause, it cannot stand
alone, it must be fullfilled by the second clause which can stand alone.
So before you even try the idea of the second amendment being only for the
militia I have already marked it out for you.
God you people are stupid.
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From: "Didier Trosset-Moreau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Keystroke aliases
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:36:37 +0200
Hi,
Does anybody know how I could define keystroke aliases (using bash).
I mean defining : when hitting F8 execute command "ls -l"
Or if anyone knows about another shell that can do it !
Thanks for help.
Didier
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: backup on CD?
Date: 15 Jun 1999 16:31:36 GMT
>This might be what you need. I haven't tried it yet. But looks promising.
> http://cdbl.linuxbox.com/
Thanks, it looks a good starting point!
Stefano
--
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Office: D554, Arrheniusv. 14, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: +46 8 164055, Fax: +46 8 167715, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Support Free Science, look at: http://rerumnatura.zool.su.se
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From: Thorsten Nicklaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Shop in London?
Date: 14 Jun 1999 16:17:13 +0200
Hi,
next Weekend I'm in London. I search for a good Linux Shop. My B&B is near
Oxford Street.
Please help me.
bye
Thorsten
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Mausnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Sergei Gnezdov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I print manpage?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:01:04 -0400
I usually print text files with command:
pr -l 62 -f file_name | lpr
How can I print manpage with the same settings?
Currently I do it this way:
man page_name > buf
pr -l 62 -f buf | lpr
This way I get page formatting for the screen (date, name of the page and so on
are in the middle of the sheet of paper).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Aronson (remove x's to reply))
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: editorial: Stupid Linux Tricks
Date: 15 Jun 1999 13:40:56 -0400
(F'ups weedwhacked to what I read, so there, nyeah!)
"ajr-5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Windowz was copied from Mac so don't give Gates too much credit.
> If Macs didn't have a GUI who knows what we would have today...
Then Mickeysloth would probably have stolen it directly from Xerox
PARC, where Apple got it.
--
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Opinions MINE, not by GeoCities/Template/Mensa/NRA/SCA/CAUCE/USGov/God!
Support Rep. Smith's no-spam bill, NOT Sen. Murkowski's spam-is-OK one!
See my web site, http://listen.to/davearonson (last update 1999-06-09).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Newbie: recommendations for Linux study and reference materials
Date: 14 Jun 1999 16:29:16 GMT
Gravot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I am very new to Linux, and would like to hear recommendations for
: good Linux books or study/reference materials.
Linux is a broad topic. Which area are you interested in?
The best start is the Linux Documentation Project webpage:
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/mirrors.html
but it's probably on your system already. Look in /usr/docs, maybe.
: Also, does anyone know of an accurate and authoritative computer
: dictionary that doesn't skew the facts in an M$-centric way?
I don't know what you mean by "accurate and authoritative".
There is http://whatis.com, which has just about anything.
--
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"How can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man,
that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental
psychic forces in the individual?" --Albert Einstein
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph T. Adams)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: 16 Jun 1999 01:34:30 GMT
Stuart Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
:
: My point being
: a) No one in either Linux or NT camp will dispute that Solaris scales better
: than either OS (if they do, they're idiots)
Agreed thus far.
: b) Whenever scalability is mentioned, most Linux users start talking about
: Solaris, which as I pointed out != linux
When discussing NT vs. Linux, it is useful to note that Linux-based
solutions can scale up to Solaris or any other commercial Unix with
little if anything beyond a simple recompile, while NT "solutions"
require a total rewrite. This is one of many reasons why Linux is
preferred over NT for developing potentially scalable software.
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: Newbie: How to DE-install a program in Linux??
Date: 16 Jun 1999 03:21:14 GMT
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:48:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Please tell me: what is the best way to DE-install a program. I'm using
>SuSE-Linux and I've used Slackware. Installing a program isn't hard,
>just untar and compile it (make install etc. - if it work).
Well this isn't such a succesful strategy if you want to be able to
DE-install it. If you want to DE-install it, the best choices are:
(a) download the RPM
(b) roll your own RPM
(c) run a find on your system after the install to work out what new
files the install has created.
>know what a program needs to exist and what I should remove if I wish to
So you're best off using RPM to install and uninstall software.
See rufus.w3.org for a lot of RPMs.
>But what if I like to manually deinstall a programm or just a part of a
>rpm-package?
You need to know what you're doing.
> Which libs and header-files should I remove?
You only need header files to compile programs, not run them. You can remove
all the headers you want, and it won't stop anything running, but it will make
compiling difficult.
>Is this a problem similar to the registry in Windows??
The registry's main problems are that it's format is cryptic and it gives rise
to single point of failure issues. In other words, "no".
--
Donovan
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE strange question.
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:53:08 -0700
Hi,
The news reader(KRM 0.4.8) that came with KDE desktop was working
okay
for a couple days, but now it will disappear after fetching new
articles from news server.
Any remedy for this strange behavior?
Thanks.
Alex Lam
--
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** no more M$ Windoze.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: samba-server does not appear in the network neightbourhood
Date: 16 Jun 1999 03:28:43 GMT
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:12:53 +0200, Hauke Luethje wrote:
>The samba-server work fine but he does not appear in the network
>neightbourhood windows of the windows servers and clients.
>
>With "search computer" the samba-server will be found and its shares
>will be displayed.
You could try mounting a network drive in your windows startup files (
"net use" ) . This worked for me ( I had the smae problem as you ).
CHeers,
--
Donovan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Resolution in X
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:43:00 GMT
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 17:30:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>How do I change the resolution in X? Ex. from 640 * 480 to 800 * 600?
>
>Thanks
>Mike Overvold
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assuming that your XF86Config file has the proper settings to permit
multiple resolutions, <ctl><alt><numeric-keypad-plus> and
<ctl><alt><numeric-keypad-minus> will cycle you through the resolutions.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (K.C. Adams)
Subject: RH6.0 w/Netscape
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:45:01 -0400
Greetings all!
I'm a longtime user of 5.2 and decided to download 6.0 and install. I
installed it to a laptop and its running nicely. I do have a few
questions/problems though.
1. Netscape crashes whenever it tries to load a page with any type of
Java enhancements.
2. I downloaded my RedHat from an FTP site and burned a rom. When I try
to use the Boot disk to do an install it hangs when I tell it that the
disk is in the local CD. I wound up having to copy the files to the
harddrive partition that they were going to be installed on to get the
install to work. Anyone have any ideas what I did wrong in burning the
CD?
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:37:37 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to find out HD geometry data
R. Denoire wrote:
>
> I am trying to boot Linux (SuSE v. 6.0) using lilo, but I get a "LI"
> and nothing more (otherwise, I can boot using loadlin). I have a
> SCSI-System with an removable disk drive as /dev/sda, and a second
> drive as a harddisk hosting Windows in /dev/sdb1 and Linux in
> /dev/sdb4. Both partitions are primary partitions. Here are some ofmy
> parameters from the lilo.conf file:
>
> boot = /dev/sdb4
> #linear
> root = /dev/sdb4
> prompt
> label = 60
>
> Calling /sbin/lilo invokes a warning telling me that the partition is
> on the second drive (i thing this can be ignored since it is
Nope. Can't be ignored. I heard that the BIOS is unable to boot from 2nd
HD. You have to install lilo in sda's MBR (i.e. root=/dev/sda, so that
means you should swap the SCSI-id's of the removable media and the disk.
> practically the first drive, at least from the point of view of the
> BIOS). That means that lilo itself is located on the root sector of
> one primary partition on the second drive. I use a boot manager to
> reach the Windows or the Linux partitions (i.e, the corresponding root
> sectors).
>
> Getting a "LI" means that at least the root partition code was
> reached, but probably geometry data is needed for the
> "disk = " - parameter.
>
> So how do I find out these data?
> ----------------
Marc
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From: Sam Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iomega external zip drive
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:32:54 GMT
One of the problems I ran into when trying to set up the ppa is that it
doesn't always successfully detect the Zip drive on the first go.
Steps that I took to remedy the problem:
1) compile the ppa support as a module
2) if you need parallel printer support, compile it as a module.
3) ensure that the ppa module is loaded BEFORE the parallel printer
module. Check your start-up scripts. On slackware it's
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules which dictates how modules are loaded.
4) if your system doesn't detect the drive on the first go then simply
rmmod ppa
insmod ppa
Hope this helps.
Sam Hostetter
Kaya Imre wrote:
>
> Studchris9 wrote:
> >
> > hey.
> > i bought an iomega external parrallelll port zip drive(for my laptop & my linux
> > box)
> > and i recompiled the kernel with scsi emulation, and the iomega ppa drivers.
> > i installed the kernel, and rebooted into the new kernel, and it detects the
> > scsi host, and does the ppa thing, but i don't think it detects the drive. when
> > it boots up, i think my freind said its supposed to spin the zip disk up if it
> > detects the drive. it didn't. if i am doing everythign right, then how do i
> > mount it?
> > please e-mail me back, this is about the only time i've ever looked into a
> > newsgroup, and i probably won't look too often.
> > oh yea, i'm running RH5.2, and a paralell port set on the 378 thing with epp
> > mode. (i can change that, but i've tried every mode i have.
> > anyaway...i hope someone knows the answer, because i don't.
> > my e-mail is:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > thanks,
> > -chris
>
> Did you check your cable connections? Zip drive works fine here.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: 16 Jun 1999 02:50:17 GMT
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 13:19:09 +1200, Stuart Fox wrote:
>b) Whenever scalability is mentioned, most Linux users start talking about
>Solaris, which as I pointed out != linux
Most "linux advocates" aren't completely blind, and don't/wont use linux
for everything. In particular, if a network requires (X) low end servers (1)
and (Y) high end servers, most of us would install linux ( or possibly BSDs )
on the (X)'s and Solaris on the (Y)'s. We certainly don't advocate NT on
the Y's since it's not as scalable as Solaris. And on the (X)'s, linux and
friends simply give much more value for money.
If for some reason low end hardware wasn't useful for any of the tasks at hand
( which is quite unlikely... ) we wouldn't use linux.
An interesting point: Netware's scalability is abysmal ( see the PC Week
article , which says that it's SMP is *worse* than linux's ) , but that hasn't
held it back. This has a lot to do with the fact that for file and webserving,
low end hardware provides a greater performance/cost ratio ( as any NT advocate
will tell you the moment you say "Solaris" )
--
Donovan
(1) for this discourse, I am calling anything with at most a dual CPU Pentium
II with no RAID (but possibly SCSI) "low end"
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From: CompWiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.10 changelog?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:36:05 -0400
I'm surprised this is the only site with such a changelog available..
Paul Kimoto wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CompWiz wrote:
> > where would I find a changelog for the latest kernel release?
> > kernelnotes.org doesn't seem to have anything.
>
> We should expect delays, according to http://edge.kernelnotes.org/.
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Patrick Nunez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Disk Corruption Repeatedly with RedHat 6.0 and WD 18 GB
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:29:22 -0400
I am having a hell of a time understanding what might be happening wiht my
new system. I will install RedHat 6.0 and run for a little bit - maybe
three/four shutdowns - and then I will have X report some kind of error when
I type startx. The error changes, but inevitably, when I reboot again, the
filesystem is all shot to hell and after a lengthy recovery and messages
about moving lots of stuff to lost+found, I wind up killing fsck and
reinstalling. I am in the setup stage and have no real data to lose right
now, but need to develop a little confidence in my hardware here before I
ever will try to create some data that I would hate to lose :) .
The only things of siginificance that I would do in linux between reinstalls
and failures would be to set up my system - video card (Xconfigurator and
diamond viper 550), sound card (sndconfig will fail first on my soundblaster
128 pci, but I then choose fromt he list and it works great), and modem (ppp
to mindspring, running netcfg and using a USR external 56K (no voice)).
The X setup and sound seem fine, but I don't have my hostname setup
correctly using netcfg - I do not know what to set it to with the dynamic IP
address (any tips?). X *does* report problems as far as identifying the
"hostname" after I set the network info - these are some of the X errors
that happen before the failure. I wouldn't think that a simple
misconfiguration would cause catastrophic failure, but I can't identify
anything else yet.
I do not know if this is problematic, but up until last night I had one
primary partition and a root, /usr, swap, and fat32 partitions under the
single extended partition. fdisk in dos will report that an extended
partition exists and ask if I'd like to view the logical disk. When I type
yes it tells me that none exist. If I try to delete the extended partition,
it reports that it can't until the logical disks are deleted. I created this
situation by creating the fat32 partition using linux fdisk, after creating
the primary and extended partition using dos fdisk.
I did not think that this was a problem until after letting fsck complete
its work one day I returned to win98 and found that my "D" disk was being
reported as empty and not formatted. After letting it complete its work
another time after reinstalling and having the same problems with linux
filesystem I had problems with many corrupt win98 files on that logical disk
in the extended partition. (That's why I'm hesitant to let fsck complete
now). I concluded that, suprisingly, linux' fsck was messing around with
some of my win98 file system. (On the other hand, not keeping careful notes
on what I had been doing in win98 between catastrophic linux failures does
not preclude the possibility that some win98 activity is screwing up my
linux filesystem.)
Anyways, I have an 18 GB western Digital 7200 rpm ide drive. Last night, in
an effort to clear up any problems with the extended partition, I created
removed (using linux fdisk, all partitions except my primary. I then created
my root and /usr as primary partitions 2 and 3 and created the extended
partition across the rest of the disk. I then used dos fdisk to create the
logical drive in the extended partition. Now, I know that dos fdisk will
show me the logical drive info. I have *not* yet reinstalled linux to see if
that changes dos fdisk showing me the logical disk data. I will be a little
more careful as far as doing one thing and rebooting to see where the
problem falls.
Long message, but I hope somebody has followed me up to here and has some
tips.
Patrick Nunez
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I have Win98 and RedHat 6.0. I *had* the system partitioned in such a manner
that one primary partition hel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: Telnet in as root!
Date: 16 Jun 1999 03:43:00 GMT
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:09:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm sure the reason that you can't initially telnet into a linux box as
>root is for security reasons, but is there anyway to make it where you
>can configure it so you can telnet in as root. (I'd really like to do
>that instead of creating another account and then running su)
If your box is visible from the outside world ( ie you connect via PPP ,
or have a network card, ) DON'T do this
The smart way is to install ssh, and ssh in as root. This way is secure
and convenient.
--
Donovan
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD Movie Player
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:03:26 -0400
Hello,
I have just purchased a dvd for my pc. Works great from reading cdroms
but does anyone know a software package for linux that can play dvd
movies?
thanks
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:12:14 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar problems
neil tingley wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm having some problems with using TAR correctly
>
> I want to backup /etc and /home/<user> in a cron job. How do I do this
> pls (tried all sorts of combinations)
>
> here's a line in my crontab - this is one I tried ...
>
> 05 19 * * 1,2,3,4,5 tar -cfv /home/neil /etc > /var/backup/backup.tar
>
tar cf /var/backup/backup.tar /home/neil /etc
You forgot that the 'f' option needs filename argument, and does not
make tar writing its output to STDOUT. And why do you want to use
verbose mode when running as cron job?
Marc
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