Linux-Misc Digest #755, Volume #20 Wed, 23 Jun 99 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Configurazione modem (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Children's Software (Robert Heller)
Re: making linux go away (Sybren Stuvel)
Re: Network Design Options (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Installing from WINNT network ("William Hamilton")
Re: "LI" Fixed! Magic Number now.. (M. Buchenrieder)
Problems booting 2.2.9 kernel: unable to mount root fs ("Ryan T. Rhea")
Re: first/second/third world (MK)
Re: root login without password: Is possible ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Calendar Program to connect to MSExchange ("John Scrimsher")
Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX (Leila Schneberger)
Re: Newbie wants opinions on programming linux and pet project
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: "LI" Fixed! Magic Number now.. (Edward Ned Harvey)
Dragon Naturally speaking (voice recognition) and Linux (J Mars)
Re: Commercially speaking....? (Anthony Ord)
Re: "LI" Fixed! Magic Number now.. (Tarkaan)
Re: A REALLY Dumb Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
updatedb problem in Redhat6.0 with 10Gb Harddisk ("Jong")
Re: UNIX / LINUX Compatibility (Doug Oleinik)
Re: newbie: about tarring (Chris Aiken)
Re: Shared libs: DLL hell for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configurazione modem
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:17:03 +0200
Uuuuhhh what about english????
I don't speek italian that well ;-)
Try using setserial onto /dev/ttyS3 read the howto's on setserial how to
configure base address and irq
Raymond
Ritz wrote:
> Ho un problema con Linux Red Hat 6.0: dopo aver configurato correttamente il
> modem, la connessione non riesce perch� la periferica cerca di accedere alla
> rete (almeno cos� � scritto). Come faccio a disabilitare questa opzione?
> Grazie.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Children's Software
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:49:58 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Briggs),
In a message on Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:35:43 GMT, wrote :
IB> jik- wrote:
IB> :2) Specialized windowing environment
IB>
IB> Enlightenment seems like it would lend itself to a 'kids theme' with a big
IB> pointer, big maximize/close buttons on windows and pictures in the
IB> background.
IB>
IB> :3) Lots of animals
IB>
IB> Well, there's the penguin to begin with.
IB>
IB> Having played with my nephew and niece (3 and 2), I'm aware how difficult
IB> it is for them simply to move the mouse around and coordinate it with the
IB> pointer on screen. So a toddlers game could just be a really simple
IB> hide-and-seek kind of thing (move the pointer over different coloured
xroach, xbill ?
IB> boxes and something pops out and makes a noise). Slightly more advanced
IB> could be a simple drawing program that draws coloured lines wherever the
IB> pointer goes (and erases them all or changes colour when it moves over an
Tcl/Tk is great for this. I wrote an animated fish tank program in
Tcl/Tk, originally for a counting program for kids. Pure Tcl -- totally
cross platform.
IB> icon). Then -- really advanced! -- something that involves clicking...
IB> Not necessarily clicking *on* anything -- just clicking.
IB>
IB> Ian
IB>
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From: Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:49:14 +0000
I recommend not to use Win9x's Fdisk at all. It has more than once
corrupted my partition-table in such a way, that I had to remove all my
partitions in order to use Partition Magic on it. There were errors in
the part.table, and PQMagic just showed a big red bar, instead of my
partitions.
My recommendation: when modifying/creating linux-partitions, use
linux-fdisk. When modifying/creating Win9x/DOS partitions, use Partition
Magic.
Sybren Stuvel
Jacob Ratkiewicz wrote:
> Actually, last time I removed Linux (not for good,
> just because I like to upgrade clean.. Linux Rules),
> I wasn't able to delete the Linux partition using
> Fdisk on Win95B. I had to use the Linux fdisk to
> trash all the linux partitions, before I could
> use the Windoze fdisk to rewrite the drive.
>
> regards,
> Jacob.
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network Design Options
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:33:02 +0200
Woaw that's a pretty long list.
First of all let me tell you that Cyrix processors and Linux don't mix to
well. Sometime it dumps the kernel. (this only happens with Cyrix AMD's work
great).
I would suggest running Linux as servers and keep the clients windows. It
might seem stupid, but most software for schools will be written on Windows.
The internet connection and email can be done by a Linuxbox there is no
option yet howto disable emailing since emailing is something you should do
all day long. You could terminate the sendmail server that pupils use on run
it only in after school hours. This will implicate that you have a SMTP
server for staff and a SMTP server on a other machine for the pupils.
I suggest running M$ Office suites and install it on a Linux based SambA
server so that only a minimal amount of software needs to be installed on
the clients. You can map homedirs during logon were the pupils can save
there documents. Running StarOffice from X is not a bad Idea but StarOffice
is resource intensive. Specially when you run 30 clients simul. over 10 Mb
network that would kill your eth. bandwidth. When you have a server with a
minimum of 256 MB and a 100Mb bus then it could cope with the load.
(depending what the users do within the office suite). When you decide to
run it via X, then you should make a dedicated StarOffice server for this
and mount the homedirs from a fileserver via NFS.
You can use X-servers on Windows to run the C++ compilers and IDE's. There
are several IDE (Intergrated Development Environments) for Linux just search
on IDE linux. This way you cut the cost for C++ compilers on Windows.
Forget WINE for now since it is NOT stable enough and pretty slow when you
have more heavy machines like PII 350 then you could use VMWARE to run
Windows in a Linux box (vmware runs 2 OS's simul.). But I still think that
when you depend on Windows software that you should run Windows and a X
server for nice X programs.
To mirror the harddisk is to use a program like ghost or if the are
identical dd if = /dev/hdb of=/dev/hdb could do the trick.
Raymond
Aaron Helleman wrote:
> I'm in the unique position to help redesign a high school's network.
> I'm keen on implementing Linux as the primary OS for the school - but I
> need to work through a few different ideas I'm having on the
> implementation details.
>
> I'm looking for some feedback on the performance of these options - or
> others that can fit the following needs:
>
> The Needs:
> ----------
> A secure student network with monitored internet access for 30+ client
> machines. Machines are Pentium Class Cyrix 200's with 32M ram,
> integrated Sis 5597/5598 Video, Ne2000 compatible network cards, 1.5G
> HD's, no floppy, no cd. All student generated work files must be on a
> central fileserver for backup purposes (and ease of implementation).
>
> School's administration 10 client machines running NT. Similar H/W.
>
> Primary Distribution - RedHat 6.0 just because I'm familiar with it.
>
> Apps to run: (suggestions for the following)
> ------------
> 1) Office suite with : Word processing, Spreadsheet
> 2) Programming SW: C++ and possibly Pascal (for programming courses)
> Nice GUI and debugger, etc.
> 3) Educational windows software?? DOH!
> 4) Email for staff<->student<->student but student<->student access
> needs to be time activated (ie. no mailing other students during class
> hours, only before school, after school, lunch).
> 5) Automated nightly backups - staff member to do tape swaps.
>
> My pics for the Apps so far:
> ----------------------------
> 1) StarDivision's StarOffice 5.1
> 2) C and C++ already installed - but a GUI?
> 3) WINE to emulate windows? or dual boot? (some help here please.... the
> teachers may insist on Win95 so we can run some yet to be purchased
> educational software - this is one of those make or break issues i
> guess)
> 4) Netscape with sendmail? how to time limit mailings?
> 5) tar, cron jobs
>
> Now for the real sticky questions:
>
> Should I install RH 6 and Staroffice on ALL the client machines and just
> use the central fileserver for the students to save their work on?
>
> OR
>
> Should I leave the machines as dumb X clients, run staroffice on some
> yet to be purchased monster machine X Server?
>
> ---
> Right now with 32M of ram, Star office runs like a pig swapping ALL the
> time.
>
> SO - either I can buy another 32M of RAM for each machine and get decent
> performance that way - with very little network traffic...
>
> OR
>
> I can save the money on the ram, buy one or two monster machines to act
> as X servers for StarOffice (network traffic problems now)??
>
> I have a feeling that most people will say buy the RAM, and put the
> effort into putting the software on all the machines.
>
> Any advice on quick ways of installing the same stuff to every machine?
> remember - these machines dont have floppies or CDroms!!
>
> Pulling the HD's is one option I guess.... ?
>
> Comments?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Aaron Helleman
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From: "William Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.networking.general,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Installing from WINNT network
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:41:20 +1200
Not sure about Redhat but I have doen a few Debian installs via NFS, there
are a few NFS setups for Win32. good luck
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sreekumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7kqghc$56i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
> My machine is conneted to a WINNT network where I can acces a CDROM. My
> machine as such do not have a CDROM. How can I install redhat linux 6.0
> using the network CDROM. Currently my OS is WIN98.
> Thanking
> Sreekumar
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: "LI" Fixed! Magic Number now..
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 06:41:12 GMT
Tarkaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>My problem is this...I sectioned off 15 megs for /boot and I want to
>dual boot Win95 with the rest of the drive. I have the rest of the
>drive set up as /dev/hda5, a Primary DOS partition (bootable). I have
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
/dev/hda5 can never be a primary DOS partition.
>the standard crap in my lilo.conf, and I've included:
> other=/dev/hda5
> label=dos
> table=/dev/hda
>When I run LILO, it tells me, "Can't get magic number of /dev/hda5".
>Any suggestions?
It is not on /dev/hda5 . Most probably it's /dev/hda2 .
Michael
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From: "Ryan T. Rhea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems booting 2.2.9 kernel: unable to mount root fs
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:40:25 -0400
I downloaded the new 2.2.9 kernel and after succesfully
configuring/compiling the kernel, I recieved the following error at the
first boot:
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:06
Anybody have any ideas?
Sincerely,
Ryan T. Rhea
p.s. please send a courtesy copy of any replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MK)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:33:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23 Jun 1999 05:27:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
wrote:
>>>Of course, you don't need any argument to prove that the USA isn't
>>>fascist or imperialist because Everyone Knows That, right?
>>
>>No, because experience indicates that.
>
>Ahhh, so Columbia, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Tahiti, Grenada,
>and countless other nations are not colonies of the USA. And of course,
>Vietnam, Cambodia, Indochina, and even Japan were not blatant examples
>of an imperialist power wreaking havoc.
US is not some snow white because no country in the world is
snow white; but then Japan which basically made civilisational
leap because US needed base for war in Korea would definitely
disagree. Also, you could ask South Koreans if they liked to live
in North Korea.
>>>History proves this again and again, but that doesn't seem to matter
>>>since those in power have a vested interest in your type never learning
>>>anything from it. You prove yourself to be far more a pawn of those in
>>>power than the socialists you attack in your ignorance.
>>Conspiracy theory of quality worse than those in X-files.
>Take a course on the topic from your local university's journalism
>department, read a book on the subject, or attend one of Chomsky's
>lectures.
Chomsky is good on grammars, and that is where he should stay.
Last time I checked he claimed that terror by communist guerillas
was justified or in Russia there was no terror really. I wonder
if he claimed that if he has gone through that himself.
Marcin Krol
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: pt.comp.so.linux,redhat.config
Subject: Re: root login without password: Is possible ?
Date: 23 Jun 1999 14:13:04 +0100
On 22 Jun 1999 22:06:36 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joao Pinto) wrote:
Editas o ficheiro \etc\passwd e na linha onde est� :
root:passord_ecriptada:...
(Penso que � assim que comessa a linha agora n�o posso verificar, pois
n�o tenho nenhum computador com linux ao p� de mim, mas de certeza que
existe uma linha tem l� root escrito e algures est� algo iligivel
que � a password encriptada.)
apagas a parte da "passord_ecriptada" e deixas de precisar de
password para a root. Isto d� para fazer para qualquer utilizador e
funciona no RedHat. Se o teu sistema for com shadow password, penso
que j� n�o funciona.
ATENS�O : n�o apagues os : ou ent�o ficas sem acesso a esse user.
Antes de fazeres isto faz um bakup do teu passwd e testa isso abrindo
outra sess�o (ex: telnet).
PS: J� agora podes o post em portugu�s, pois a maioria das pessoas que
l�m este news group s�o portuguesas....
Penso eu de que... :)
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From: "John Scrimsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Calendar Program to connect to MSExchange
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:46:14 -0700
I realize that we can use OWA (outlook web access), but this does not give
the entire functionality that a calendar program would, and is slower in
performance... We could also user Netscape Calendar, which is proprietary as
far as I know. I was hoping that there would be a better solution... But of
course, I don't think that there is any program for WinXX other than Outlook
that can do this either, so its doesn't appear to be strictly a lack of
software for Linux problem, but rather a lack of software for any OS.
John
K.C. Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [This followup was posted to comp.os.linux.misc and a copy was sent to
> the cited author.]
>
> Probably not what you want but, if you set up Exchange's Outlook Web
> Access, then you can access exchange mailboxes through netscape as a web
> page.
>
> -K-
>
>
> In article <vxH93.846$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> > The corporation that I work for is migrating its users to an
> > Outlook98/Exchange messaging platform, but part of my job is testing
Linux
> > for integration into our NT networks.
> >
> > Of course Netscape Messenger can connect to Exchange as a mail
application,
> > but is there any app that can connect as a PIM application to an
Exchange
> > Server for Calendar, Tasks, Contacts management as well as email on a
Linux
> > OS?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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From: Leila Schneberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 07:19:31 -0500
Thanks! That fixed the problem. This is scary, though....
Leila
>
>
> RedHat 6.0 upgrade is utterly broken, and in spite of dozens of bug
> reports from the start, they still have not put out any official
> notice or fix. They are really trying to set up a track record of
> incredibly shoddy upgrades. 5.1 was very bad, and 6.0 is even worse.
>
> Not just LaTeX is affected. Dozens of packages are upgraded
> incompletely. It is a mess.
>
> Try
> rpm --verify -a
>
> All packages in which files are flagged as missing (some displayed
> messages will just be about changed configuration files which
> obviously don't need reinstalling) you should reinstall with
> rpm -U --force packagename.rpm
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie wants opinions on programming linux and pet project
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:26:32 GMT
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:15:11 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet) wrote:
>With just *real* dumb terminals it would be tricky, but if your emulators
>can do VT100 or better (and I would have thought they could!) you should
>be okay.
>
>You'll probably want to use the curses or ncurses libraries for doing
>terminal stuff.
I was going to look into that.
>[snip] a well-thought
>out UI paradigm can make all the difference both in final look and in
>coding.
This I know well; I've used some very poorly thought out interfaces and this can
causes more wasted time and frustration than it was intended to save.
>For real time chat, Lynx probably isn't suitable - but you could perhaps
>run an IRC server and give your clients sIRC.
Might be worth a try until I learn more C (pretty much the point of the whole
project).
>I would, but then I'm a C programmer :)
I'm looking at a career change and this is something I want to experiment with
in this project - now that I've found some good sites on the net to help me
remember what I've forgotten from my DOS days.
>Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
Thanks for the help!
Wade Segade
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From: Edward Ned Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "LI" Fixed! Magic Number now..
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:51:47 -0400
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Tarkaan wrote:
> such, but I assume, in the end, it will boot. Is that my problem? How
> do I make this dual-boot system with Linux first and DOS second?
To change the boot order:
(I think there's a HOWTO or a mini about it)
edit /etc/lilo.conf
You should see at least two sections with image=
Simply swap the orders of the sections. (Keep the indented stuff
following the image= line. You'll see what I mean)
Then, run /sbin/lilo
and it will rebuild lilo for you, with a different boot order.
---
Be sure you have a backup boot disk, just incase. And some files may be
in different locations on your machine.
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From: J Mars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dragon Naturally speaking (voice recognition) and Linux
Date: 23 Jun 1999 16:30:54 GMT
Would like more info. on integrating Dragon Naturally Speaking (or other
voice recognition software) with Applixware, Star Office or Word Perfect
Office 7 for Linux (Redhat 6.0). Please reply asap.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:19:35 GMT
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:44:25 -0700, "Chad Mulligan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anthony Ord wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 23:37:48 +0100, "mike ryder"
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Jeff Shern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>>> > >
>>>> > >DOS was part way there, indeed some non MS versions of DOS
>>>> > >were multi-tasking. And for that matter Concurrent CP/M was
>>>> > >also multi-tasking...
>>>> >
>>>> > Yeah, I remember double-DOS. Anyone here ever been subjected to Pick?
>>>
>>>Yeah, I'm into Pick - a really clever O/S with its own database - minimal
>>>hardware with lots of users.
>>
>>I have a vague recollection of LIST <dbname> WITH x = "y"
>>AND y = "z" <fieldnames>
>>
>>Is that it?
>>
>That be it.
So what's worse? The fact that I've used it, or the fact
that I remember using it.
>>>And now - you should see it zip running on Linux !
>>
>>It runs on Linux?
Regards
Anthony
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From: Tarkaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "LI" Fixed! Magic Number now..
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:36:21 -0400
John Girash wrote:
>
> Okay, mesa confused. Just how did you get hda5 to be a primary partition?
> I always thought partition #'s > 4 were only used for logical partitions.
Well, the DOS fdisk utility says that it's a primary partition...I
didn't think it was all that strange. Will I have trouble booting DOS
from it? I figured it would take some hacking of MSDOS.SYS or some
such, but I assume, in the end, it will boot. Is that my problem? How
do I make this dual-boot system with Linux first and DOS second?
-- Jack Tarkaan Kalamazoo, Michigan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A REALLY Dumb Question
Date: 23 Jun 1999 16:32:32 GMT
Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
= Haha, must not be TOO dumb... someone new asks that every three or four
= days! <smile>
= I'm not exactly sure what the "official" pronunciation is, but I have
= NEVER met anyone in real life who pronounced it in any fashion other than
= "len-uks".
Most people I know pronounce it Linux (short 'i' as in... well... 'in') or
Lienux, as in "Lie". I'm a Linux man myself...
= Of course, I'm told that in the "official" pronunciation of GNU the "g"
= is actually pronounced... though again I've never met anyone in real life
= that didn't pronounce it the same as "new" (which seems to make a hell of
= alot more sense to me!).
Really? I've always pronounced it GNU...
Strange....
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From: "Jong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: updatedb problem in Redhat6.0 with 10Gb Harddisk
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:39:32 +0800
Dear Linux world,
I have english rh 6.0 linux and win98 on my computer with a 10Gb
harddisk. The partition for linux is around 3.9Gb. No matter I run updatedb,
it runs for a long time ( see my harddisk moving) and then hang ( harddisk
not moving but updatedb had not finish in consolel)
I killed the process but locate will have an error message ( ~
decode_db( ): (2) file or directory not found)
What is wrong? Can somebody tell me? Thank you
Regards
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Oleinik)
Crossposted-To:
alt.unix,alt.unix.geeks,alt.unix.wizards,alt.unix.wizards.free,ca.unix,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX / LINUX Compatibility
Date: 23 Jun 1999 13:18:31 GMT
In article <7kodjq$7p3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Victor Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.development.apps Brian M. Begg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>But your question was about compilied languages, like C or C++. I can
>say only one thing - never write CGI on those. It is much better to
>invest time into learning perl and Tcl. You see - I've done this and now
>have enough time to write long messages in Usenet ;-).
>
Why should you never write CGI in compiled languages like C or C++?
Wouldn't you get better performance from them over an interpreted
language like perl?
Doug Oleinik
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From: Chris Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: newbie: about tarring
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:19:58 -0400
Try this for all the files in /home/mystuff:
tar -cvf mystuff.tar /home/mystuff
...cwa
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> im kinda new to unix, but i was just wondering how you tar all the files
>
> in a directory into one *.tar file?
>
> And if it can be done at once, with different switches in the command line?
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Subject: Re: Shared libs: DLL hell for Linux
Date: 23 Jun 1999 10:25:34 GMT
Christopher Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am 15 Jun 1999 15:49:32 GMT in comp.os.linux.development.apps:
CW> I would like to hear some advice (and perhaps a pointer to a URL, if
CW> any) on handling shared library versioning in Linux. Each new Linux
CW> distribution brings with it another set of upgraded shared
CW> libraries. Far too many times, I download an RPM only to be told of
CW> failed dependencies due to my not having the very latest shared
CW> libraries. Is this the curse of a Linux user: forced frequent upgrades?
I.g. no, this is not intended to be so.
But there is a pain with Systems running the new glibc against systems
running the elder libc5. Quite simular was the cross over from the a.out
binary format to ELF. ;-<<
The major step to turn the system into glibc should be done, but the minor
revision steps only if there is a real bug to fix.
CW> Perhaps somebody could point me to a howto or primer on shared libraries
CW> under Linux. Looking under /usr/lib, I see (for example), a
CW> libglib.so.1.0.4, a libglib.so.1.0.6, and a link to
CW> libglib.so. Obviously, there can only be one libglib.so, so is there a
CW> purpose to having multiple versions of the library around?
There is a fine mechanism in the Linux dynamich loader, you can set a
a Path in which you can force an application, which shared libraries are
to load.
In practice there is approven to start a commercial application over
a "wraper" script, which sets the correct LD_PATH, that this app. requires.
So you can put the shared libraries which your application requires into
the application's envrionment. Then this libs exsists only for the
running application and do not disturb the rest of the system.
You can read exactly how to do that in "man ldconfig" and "man ld.so"
also "man ldd" is quite interesting.
CW> Perhaps my main concern is in commercial applications: imagine a vendor
CW> sending binary distributions to customers. A vendor may not be able to
CW> ask customers to all upgrade their Linux distributions in lockstep. Yet,
CW> that vendor may be developing on a relatively up-to-date set of
CW> libraries. Does the only viable solution consist of shipping statically
CW> linked executables?
No, definetely not. See my answer above.
Good Luck
Jojo
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