Linux-Misc Digest #762, Volume #20 Thu, 24 Jun 99 00:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Children's Software (jik-)
Re: Children's Software (jik-)
Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX (Andreas Pilz)
Re: RHL 6.0: Broken Japanese text support (Makoto Kawase)
anybody seen such sofware? (Denis)
Re: Children's Software (jik-)
Re: Using .htaccsess and .htpasswd (Richard Beigel)
SCSI problems (HP ScanJet 4p) ("Sanya")
UDF CDs (Jim Shaffer, Jr.)
help -- database ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ABCNews article. (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: first/second/third world (Anonymous)
Re: first/second/third world (Anonymous)
Re: Secure backups with tar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: apache htaccess problem (witht dbm) (Richard Beigel)
Re: How to pronounce SuSE?
Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (was: Depoliticising the argument (was:
The End of Free Software)) (Peter da Silva)
System Security DNS....... (Chuck Snively)
apache htaccess problem (witht dbm) (Richard Beigel)
Re: Can you put rules in an .xinitrc? (Floyd Davidson)
Increasing size of swap partition (Christian Ahkman)
Remote fsck possible for Linux? (Abe Lin)
Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (was: Depoliticising the argument (was:
The End of Free Software)) (Tom Christiansen)
Re: Linux jingle ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Guides to Linux Performance Tuning??? (Martin Maney)
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Children's Software
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:02:44 -0700
Robert Heller wrote:
>
> jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:33:52 -0700, wrote :
>
> j> Hmm, my 4 year old neice (just turned 4 too) can work the pointer pretty
> j> good. If the mouse had just 1 button, using gimp would be ok. My
> j> nephewe is too hyper to get the point of any of it...he just shakes
> j> everything.
>
> In *theory* it should be possible to use xmodmap to map all three
> buttons to Button-1 (which would be a bitch for a serious X user). I
> don't suppose a Mac mouse would work on a PC (but there is Linux for the
> Mac).
Yeah xmohemap might work...I need to look into that kind of solution.
I did however come to realise that it isn't the 2nd button that is the
problem in GIMP....even though I try to make the drawing area encompase
the entire screen...the window manager I like doesn't exactly let you
choose to put the window in a stupid location...it tries very hard to
center the edges of the window to the edges of the screen when you try
and go beyond it. This causes me to have to leave some part of it
there. Do this....break out the paint brush, paint a line, then move to
the edge of the drawing window and click on one of the rulers...now go
back and draw a line.....you will see exactly what happens to her and
why the GIMP is just not up to the task....she then panics for a while
and then calls me to fix it.
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Children's Software
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:09:18 -0700
Robert Heller wrote:
>
> jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:30:25 -0700, wrote :
>
> j> > IB> Having played with my nephew and niece (3 and 2), I'm aware how difficult
> j> > IB> it is for them simply to move the mouse around and coordinate it with the
> j> > IB> pointer on screen. So a toddlers game could just be a really simple
> j> > IB> hide-and-seek kind of thing (move the pointer over different coloured
> j> >
> j> > xroach, xbill ?
> j>
> j> Isn't xroach that program that infects your desktop with a bunch of
> j> skittery roaches? Not really something a kid could play with is it?
> j> Might interest them for a short time, but really very little
> j> interaction.
>
> The roaches can be squished. Toss on a collection of random windows
> (say with a simple Tcl/Tk program) that can be moved about to find the
> roaches (which 'hide' under windows). All sorts of possibilities...
hehehe I had never gave it much of a chance I guess...I hadn't realized
there was actually any point to that program :P
> Opps. I forgot. Here it is:
>
> http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller/Workshop/Fish.tcl.gz
Yeah, that is pretty good.
>
>
> --
> \/
> Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: Andreas Pilz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:20:07 +0100
Try running texconfig. You should see a menu with a lot of options, where
you choose 'Rebuild ls-R-database' (or something like that). It worked well
in most cases I've ever been in.
andi
Leila Schneberger wrote:
> After doing an upgrade to Red Hat 6.0 (from 5.2), my LaTeX (which was
> also presumably upgraded using RPM) broke. I checked the
> /tmp/upgrade.log for any error messages, but it said everything was
> installed fine. But I get the following error, which didn't happen with
> the same *.tex file yesterday:
>
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3) (format=latex 1999.4.5) 22 JUN
> 1999 16:38
> **newsletd
> (newsletd.tex
> LaTeX2e <1998/12/01>
> Babel <v3.6k> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> ngerman, n
> ohyphenation, loaded.
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: cls)
>
> The file contains this line:
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>
> I suspect that it is some kind of configuration problem, but I don't
> know where to start looking. Any help or pointers would be greatly
> appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Leila
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From: Makoto Kawase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,fj.os.linux,japan.comp.linux
Subject: Re: RHL 6.0: Broken Japanese text support
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:13:57 +0900
Frampton Steve R wrote:
> I am having difficulty getting Japanese support working under Red Hat 6.0.
> I downloaded and installed the following packages:
>
> kinput2-v2fix5alpha1-4.i386.rpm
> kterm-6.2.0-8.i386.rpm
> wnn4-4.2-7.i386.rpm
>
> I *think* that should be good enough for rudimentary Japanese support.
> Yet, when "wnn" attempts to start, it aborts with the following error:
>
> Starting Wnn4 server:
> Nihongo Multi Client Server (4.20)
> : can't bind inet-socket
It may mean that jserver (Wnn) is already running. If it is running, check
its
PID and kill it. If it is really not running, please check if there is a
file,
/tmp/jd_sockV4. If you find it, please remove it. Because this file is
created
each time jserver is started. And you should check the permission of /tmp
directory. If it is 775, change it to 1777.
# chmod 1777 /tmp
Then you can start jserver, I hope.
Additionally, several JRPM packages for RedHat 6.0 are tentatively available
on the site:
http://www.linux.or.jp/jrpm/JRPM60/
Also, great pioneer people have been making various RPM packages for
RedHat 6.0, you can find on the site:
http://kondara.sdri.co.jp/
This Japanese site is quite valuable for those who use Japanese on Redhat
6.0.
--
***************
Makoto Kawase
***************
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From: Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: anybody seen such sofware?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:59:51 -0400
Hi, I'm looking for software that helps
planning, tracking, and analyzing workouts (such as for triathlon) under
linux. I know there are such things for Windows. (i.e RunLog.) Anybody
seen something like that? I would really apreciate if you can let me
know about it.
thanks a lot.
denis
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Children's Software
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:30:18 -0700
Robert Heller wrote:
>
> > All nice...but thats for older. I am talking the little guys...still
> > like barney and Mr Rodgers etc......they don't gain much from that kind
> > of deal I don't think. Course I would like to also see programs
> > targeting 7-10 and pre-teen.
>
> Check out my 'updated' Fish Tank program. Does not do much, but has
> some nice fish which display their colors when clicked.
>
> URL: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller/Workshop/Fish.tcl.gz
Hmmm....yeah, that's pretty good, but could use some sound for kids that
can't yet read.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Beigel)
Subject: Re: Using .htaccsess and .htpasswd
Date: 24 Jun 1999 02:06:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R.Joseph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I write CGI for a web design firm, and I know that and .htaccsess file
: or and .htpasswd file can be placed in a directory to block accsess to
: it to only thoose with a password, but I don't know how I would go
: about setting up one of these files, and I don't know which file to
: use! Any help is greatly appreciated!
There is a man page for htpasswd but it's not very helpful. Check out the
NCSA documentation instead at
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs-1.5/tutorials/user.html
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From: "Sanya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI problems (HP ScanJet 4p)
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:54:45 +0100
Hi!
Here is my config:
1.HP Scanjet 4p scanner
2.An SCSI card with a Symbios 53c400a chip
3.Redhat 5.1 with kernel 2.2.9
4.AMD 5x86 PR133 with 40M EDO RAM, Ali Mainboard (4 ISA, 3 PCI slots).
I tried these modules:
1. NCR53c406a : no answer
2. g_NCR5380: modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=3 ncr_addr=0x350 ncr_53c400=1
It throw an kernel oops no. 002. lsmod says: unitialized module and I
cannot remove with rmmod either.
3. sym53c416: Seems like the best, but it is'nt work too.
Says always scsi host: 0, but if I load g_NCR5380 before it, says scsi host:
1.
Just not works ! It can't find any card the given adressess and irqs.
I tried many.
Here is my kernel config
#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
# SCSI low-level drivers
CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_ MEM=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A=m
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C416=m
If anybody has got a config or any idea or something please mail me to my
box too.
Best regards, Sanya
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Shaffer, Jr.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: UDF CDs
Date: 23 Jun 1999 21:51:15 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I noticed that there is now a UDF filesystem available on the web. Is this all
that is necessary to read CDs produced with a packet-writing program (assuming a
compatible drive), or is some sort of modification to the device driver
necessary? Also, is anyone working on a way to *do* packet-writing?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help -- database
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:59:48 +0800
Hi,
My company wants to focus our database product -DBMaker (Does
anyone hear about it? DBMaker has 5-user free package for anyone who
wants to try it.) on Linux. We need to gether more information. So I
have some questions need you guys' help.
1. Execpt Perl, PHP3 and Python, is there any more popular front-end
tool that I can use it to development application on database?
2. What's GTK+? Is it popular?
3. What do you think a database should have to make you like to use
it?
4. What do you think a well-defined database solution should have?
ChingYi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: ABCNews article.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:20:02 GMT
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 08:48:21 -0400, Rick Nelson wrote:
>I'm not sure if this is proper netiquette, but since this is a .misc NG,
>I figured we should start posting URLs for articles featuring Linux. We
>all know and read about it, but the "real world" people are just
>beginning to get exposed to Linux, and I think it's important that we
>know what John Q. Public knows/doesn't know.
>
>Anyway, ABCNews.com had this to say about MS vs. Linux
>
>http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/CNET/cnet_esrmsftii990621.html
I've known for some time now that Microsoft is scared of Linux. More and more
I'm seeing MS advocates attacking Linux more and more ferociously.
Usually, people attack what they fear.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:20:22 -0500
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Oh that was a good argument. And if you ask most any citizen of Iraq,
they'll tell you the US is populated by satan himself. Yeesh...
Richard Kulisz wrote:
>
> In article <7kmk7h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> John S. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >It is fun to see your misuse of English in the terms that you
> >use to describe the USA. Is it that you don't own a dictionary
> >and are making up usage, or perhaps maybe you know nothing about
> >things that you are talking about?
>
> Of course, you don't need any argument to prove that the USA isn't
> fascist or imperialist because Everyone Knows That, right? Shit,
> only US citizens could swallow that bullshit. Ask citizens of El
> Salvador, Columbia, or even Tahiti whether the USA is imperialist.
> Be prepared with your excuses.
>
> >Do you know what being free is?
>
> Do you? Freedom to the likes of you is freedom to destroy, enslave
> and murder. To me it's what's enumerated in the Universal Declaration.
> And nobody who's taken a look at it can say with a straight face that
> the USA upholds a single one of them for even a single day.
>
> > Is freedom what the gov't gives
> >to you, or is it what you demand of the gov't?
>
> You know, I just don't give a damn about "freedom". I care about
> Human Rights. What a radical idea!
>
> > Are you the same
> >person who chooses not to protect yourself from an insane person
>
> I consider running away a far more effective form of protection
> than fumbling for a gun in order to murder the other person (oh
> right, I'm supposed to call him a "perpetrator" because he's not
> a human being, as we all know).
>
> >or a mugger? Is it that you also choose not to protect yourself
> >from the excesses of a bureaucratic gov't?
>
> And how do you suggest protecting oneself from that? Knowing your
> type, it's probably with nuclear bombs, am I right? The only effective
> way to protect oneself from the government is to start a mass movement.
> 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.
>
> >You do seem to allude to various pieces of literary fiction as some
>
> Ahhh, so Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent is "fiction" now because as
> we all know, the media are wholesome and pure and utterly unbiased.
>
> A solid 70% of your article was empty tripe. Can you make 80?
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:16:05 -0500
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Precisely which of our colonies are we exploiting?
Richard Kulisz wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >South Africa is considered to be a Developing Country which is
> >predominantly thrid-world, but a substantial proportion of the
> >population live a First World lifestyle, with first world
> >infrastructure.
>
> Mexico has one of the world's largest populations of billionaires,
> and /they/ surely can afford a first-world lifestyle. As a famous
> aphorism goes, to get the measure of a society you must look at how
> it treats its poorest and most vulnerable members.
>
> First World largely refers to Exploiter nations (eg, USA) and Third
> World to their colonies (eg, Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Saudi Arabia).
> Nations like France and Germany also exploit their colonies but no
> nation (not even Britain) has ever been as ruthless and callous as
> the USA has shown itself to be; the USA achieves in decades the levels
> of misery Britain could only impose on India in centuries (now there's
> something to be proud of!) Second World refers to nations that are
> both exploiter and exploited or neither.
>
> Naturally, when you categorize "objectively" you must put everything
> in terms of average incomes or some other convenient conjured up tripe.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,linux.admin,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Secure backups with tar
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:58:19 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> I have a Redhat Linux 5.2 server with the kernel upgraded to 2.1.10. I
<snip>
i presume this is a production server, so why the fsck are you using
a dev kernel?
--
Darrin Hodges
QM Industries
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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By the way, I am working on a patent for personal mobility via
appendages
extending from the human body. So look forward to not walking without
appropriate royalties being paid per step - AC /.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Beigel)
Subject: Re: apache htaccess problem (witht dbm)
Date: 24 Jun 1999 02:55:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry to follow up my own post, but I think I solved the problem. I
moved .htpasswd to /usr/local/apache and changed .htaccess
accordingly. Now it works fine (I was a little confused at first,
though, because IE5 had saved the password for me).
Richard Beigel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I set up .htpaccess and .htpasswd in the same directory with just one
: account, following the instructions given at NCSA. Apache correctly
: prompts for a username and password, but always denies me access with
: the message:
: Authorization Required
: This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the
: document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g.,
: bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the
: credentials required.
: --------------------------------------------------------------------
: Apache/1.3.6 Server at [host name] Port 80
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: How to pronounce SuSE?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:03:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Emmer wrote:
>>
>> Ok, I know this is trivial, but I just did a search on Deja News and
>> looked at their website, and I can't find the answer. How does one
>> pronounce SuSE? Is it like 'use' or like 'uzi'?
>
>Despite its official pronunciation, it'll always be "Suzy" to me :-)
>
>Gene
>
>--
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>Gene Wilburn, Northern Journey Online, http://www.interlog.com/~njo
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't know if there are any old movie buffs in the audience
who would recognize the name W.C. Fields. He's supposed to have not
like to drink water because fish f**ck in it, and imbibed other liquids
instead, and thought that anyone who hated dogs and kids couldn't be all
bad. However, in one of his movies (sorry can't remember which one) he
played a character name Egbert Souse, and was careful to tell people in
the movie that it was pronounced SuSE. (I still think it would've been
nice to call it Zuse after German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter da Silva)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (was: Depoliticising the
argument (was: The End of Free Software))
Date: 24 Jun 1999 02:41:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I once had a fricking RedHate system claim to be installing for a
>"server" (whatever that meant), newfs my disk (which was fine), and
>then not bother to install a dump program -- or more importantly, a
>restore program! Hello? Knock knock knock. Is there anybody home?
That's actually reasonable. The ext2fs dump and restore are so broken
you're better off with tar (ref: any random month on the Amanda mailing
list).
--
In hoc signo hack, Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
`-_-' Ar rug t� barr�g ar do mhact�re inniu?
'U` "Be vewy vewy quiet...I'm hunting Jedi." -- Darth Fudd
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From: Chuck Snively <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System Security DNS.......
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:38:19 -0500
Hi All,
I am thinking of providing public access to my machine via dial-up and
providing web access/e-mail/ftp to users through a 128K ISDN connection
using IP Masquerading or Proxy and I have a few questions.
Can anyone make suggestions as to how I would keep my system secure
being open to the internet?
Would a firewall work 100%?
Would making all files and directories read-only, without a firewall, be
enough?
Do I have to run a DNS (primary, secondary, caching) or can I just use
my ISP's?
In short, I would like to know if there is a howto that would tell me
how to setup everything so I can let users dial up my system and surf
the web maintaining a secure system.
My system will only be used as this type of service, so, it won't
contain any important personal info.
Thanks in advance for any information.
Chuck
Please e-mail direct at:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Beigel)
Subject: apache htaccess problem (witht dbm)
Date: 24 Jun 1999 02:12:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I set up .htpaccess and .htpasswd in the same directory with just one
account, following the instructions given at NCSA. Apache correctly
prompts for a username and password, but always denies me access with
the message:
Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the
document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g.,
bad password), or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the
credentials required.
====================================================================
Apache/1.3.6 Server at [host name] Port 80
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Re: Can you put rules in an .xinitrc?
Date: 24 Jun 1999 02:36:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and emailed]
Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have two different window managers I use. Can I put somthing in my
>xintrc file that says somthing like
>
>if the option -wm is present with xinit then
>exec windowmaker
>else
>exec default
>
>can you do this? If so could somone give me an example?
>
>Thanks
>Warren Bell
That depends on how you start your X server. If you use the
/usr/X11/bin/startx program, it is relatively easy. That is
actually a shell script (worth looking at to see what it does
too!) and it will pass any command line argument to startx
along to the X server, which uses it to run the .xinitrc file.
So, you might want to call startx with "startx -wm", and in your
.xinitrc file you can have, at the end where you now exec the
window manager, something like this:
if [ "${1}" = "-wm" ]
then
exec windowmanager_m
fi
exec windowmanager_n
Where "exec windowmanager_n" is the original code to exec
a window manager, and the if/then statement is new coded
added to run a different window manager.
Floyd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Ahkman)
Subject: Increasing size of swap partition
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:01:05 GMT
I just upgraded my RAM and want to increase the size of my swap
partition. I have 200 mb of unpartitioned free space on my drive.
How do I increase the size of swap?
thanks
C. Ahkman
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From: md5�ϼs�[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abe Lin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Remote fsck possible for Linux?
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:02:22 GMT
Hi, guys.
For Solaris we can get a console remotely in this setup in the
*locked* machine room 20 kms away from us:
1.One NT box runs pcanywhere. Serial(s) go to two Solaris machine.
2.Using pcanywhere from home. Do whatever you like to save the machine
when it's done. Single user mode. fsck. Anything.
Do we have something for Linux? (With a Linux only solution...)
Cannot find a useful document on this. I'll keep on dejanews search,
but nothing yet showed up....
TIA a lot.
Shuo.
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From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (was: Depoliticising the
argument (was: The End of Free Software))
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Christiansen)
Date: 23 Jun 1999 21:33:55 -0700
In gnu.misc.discuss,
David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:That the presence of rhbackup, dd, tar, and cpio would offer enough to
:make a reasonable possibility to create a useful backup solution?
Before I ran newfs'd the partition, I used dump. It was there.
Then it wasn't. Definitely a misconnect. And yes, this was from
one RedHat to the next.
:Where is the message about balkanization? It is fine to be ranting
:about Linux in general, but you are off-topic.
The Linux distributions have historically been shoddy in many ways,
not least of all in their installations. Balkanization will foster
competition, which will provide the impetus for improvement. We hope.
:> And no fricking manpages for anything you need to have. The shame!
:Well, I presume the info pages are offensive?
Of course they are. But even so, they too are missing from many programs.
This is simply not a tolerable situation. Period. And thankfully,
it's not a situation we have on BSD. Let's just not get into it and
say we didn't.
:I certainly agree with some of that sentinent with regard to RedHat.
:Still, weren't we talking about balkanization?
:This does not mean that RedHat could not well be better for their
:money, but it makes the customer bite the bullet a lot more.
I'm tired of biting that bullet. I'm running a half dozen different
systems these days. SuSE is less annoying than RedHat -- but that's
not saying much. It's still not as half as nice an experience as BSD.
--tom
--
"Noalias must go. This is non-negotiable." --dmr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Date: 23 Jun 1999 17:49:18 +0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Thurston) writes:
> WIndows '95 used the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up"
I always associated with the other stanza(?), "You make a grown
man cry..."
For Win9x one could also use Fleetwood Mac:s 'Little Lies' or
AC/DC:s 'Highway to Hell'. Don't forget Thorogood's
'Bad to the Bone'.
> I wonder what
> other Stones song would be suitable for Linux.... Hmmm.....
> Mothers' Little Helper?
"She was hot"?
--
Tapio Erola [EMAIL PROTECTED] (No mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please)
Pity you'll get for free, Envy has to be earned
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From: Martin Maney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Guides to Linux Performance Tuning???
Date: 24 Jun 1999 02:41:26 GMT
Gopal Santhanam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Although my understanding is that VA Research and others offer high
> performance Linux systems with support, I was hoping there might be
> freely available guides on the topic of system tuning for a freely
> available OS. I tried doing some quick searches on performance tuning
> for Linux and found that there is very little documentation on the
> subject. And, the little information I find is rather outdated.
www.nl.linux.org/linuxperf/ - the Linux Performance Tuning Pages
Also of interest, though their work runs more along the lines of research
into optimizing things that are more likely to be configured at kernel build
time or even at coding time:
www.citi.umich.edu/projects/citi-netscape/ - Linux Scalability Project
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