Linux-Misc Digest #783, Volume #20 Fri, 25 Jun 99 09:13:51 EDT
Contents:
Did anybody compile Glade in Solaris? (Guillermo)
Re: Increasing size of swap partition (Bob Tennent)
Re: Apache not serving web pages ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help -- database (Raymonds Doetjes)
Editor for Unicode files (NJG)
Re: apps in kde - sloooooow loooooaaaading (Marc Mutz)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: (yan seiner)
Re: WIN 95 and 2 Linux distributions at the same time (John Kinsella)
Re: PROXY (Marlon)
Re: How can I lower X:s footprint ? (Lew Pitcher)
documentation formats (was: Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing) (Jonathan
Thornburg)
Re: Where can I get free Linux CD? (Chris Aiken)
Wrong major or minor number mounting /dev/scd1 (Zeger Hendrikse)
Re: Mounting dos file system (Douret Patrick)
Re: (Newbie) Problem in mounting a DOS partition (Dave Brown)
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From: Guillermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Did anybody compile Glade in Solaris?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:44:03 +0200
I have installed the solaris 2.6 in a Sun sparc. Besides I have
installed the gcc, make, perl5, bash, gzip, tcl, tk,... all packed in
solaris format (very easy)
I have installed the gtk in solaris-pkg format and the examples work
properly.
Now I am trying install Glade but it never compile
It displays this error
make[3]: ar: Command not found
make[3]: *** [libgbwidgets.a] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/glade-0.3.5/glade/gbwidgets'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/glade-0.3.5/glade'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/glade-0.3.5'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
i have tried with --with included gtext and --disable-nls so the problem
when i prompt a make is the same
Any help?
Thanks a million
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Increasing size of swap partition
Date: 25 Jun 1999 10:37:31 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Ahkman wrote:
>>>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?
>>>
You can have more than one swap partition.
You can create a new swap partition by using
fdisk to create the partition and tag it as swap,
mkswap to create a swap file system, and
swapon to mount it.
Then add that partition to /etc/fstab to have
the mounting done at boot-up.
Bob T.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Apache not serving web pages
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:44:27 GMT
Hello Byron.
I know you said that httpd is running. Is it listening for
connections? Check it with netstat -i. Also test it to see that it's
listening and also serving httpd by connecting to it using telnet
<hostname> 80. You may not get anything on screen using telnet but you
can issue a "get /" within the telnet command and you normally get a
message from the webserver.
daniel
In article <7kv2v6$3qe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Lord Byron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The machine is connected to a LAN and the network settings are
configured
> properly. I am able to connect to the machine from any other machine
via
> the telnet, ftp, mail, news, daytime, etc., just not http. I can't
access
> the http port from the machine itself, from any of the other machines
in the
> local network, or from any machines outside the local network. I
have done
> quite a bit of reading on the topic, and I have configured http
access on
> other machines before. However, on the other machines, I was always
doing a
> full install of linux. My question was what exactly is the minimum I
need
> to install to get a working web server, and I know it's not just the
base
> stuff and apache. There's something missing that I haven't been able
to
> figure out.
> --
> Byron
>
> Monte Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Welll actually <G>
> > Benjamin is partly correct. it should be:
> > http://<your host name> the default is localhost
> >
> > More importantly though you failed to tell us just HOW you could not
> > connect. Vua a samba network? some other network? stand alone
> > machine? Does ANYTHING work between the machines, or is it just
> > Apache you cannot access. Need lots of info to be able to help you
> > and give meaningful answers.
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Raymonds Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help -- database
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:32:57 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
First of all ket me tell you, I never heard of DBMaker!
> 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
If there is a ODBC driver for DBMaker, then you can use any WIndows
front-end you want. ACcess, VB or Delphi (wich is the best for building
Datasbe apps).
> tool that I can use it to development application on database?
Depends on what application you wish to make. When DBMaker comes with
C libs you can build in either C or C++
>
> 2. What's GTK+? Is it popular?
>
GTK stands for Gnu Tool Kit it's one of the many Widgets libraries arround.
GTK is easy when you use the easyGTK those are rappers arround the standard
GTK toolkit wich reduces the typing of long pieces of code. GTK is pretty
popular among the Gnome people.
>
> 3. What do you think a database should have to make you like to use
> it?
>
You mean a database or a client?
For a databse I like to have the ability of nested Queries.
Standard ANSII SQL.
Stored Procedures and Triggers.
For a client I think the most important thing is visibility and speed.
WIth visibility I mean that data needs to be grouped in such a matter that
the most important data is in you focus area of you monitor. This goes for
ASCII asswell as GUI based frontends.
>
> 4. What do you think a well-defined database solution should have?
Huh? One that is stable has been normalized to at least the second degree
(third would be better but can make the database slow).
That the result sets are as small as possible (this is more a frontend
feature) so you reduce network bandwidth so you can even run your program
over the internet or dialup situation.
And the database or data-device as most people call it must be spread over
several files and over several harddisks to keep speed.
>
> ChingYi
May I suggest that you try Suabsw 11.x.x for Linux the version smaller then
11.9 ar free and Sybase is really robust fast and pretty easy to install
and maintain.
Raymond
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NJG)
Subject: Editor for Unicode files
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:44:14 GMT
Hello,
Can anyone suggest an editor that can read/write Unicode files? The
files will initially contain just ASCII that has been padded. Quite
honestly, a wide character vi would be sufficient.
Thanks.
NJG
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:46:39 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: apps in kde - sloooooow loooooaaaading
Hans Wolters wrote:
>
> Staroffice, Nescape and KDE or 3 programs that use a lot of mem. Take
> some time to try out other WM's like Window Maker (
> http://www.windowmaker.org ), blackbox or icewm. They use a lot less
> memory and things might get smoother. Further more it also counts what
> deamons you are using...
>
I have 128M, 2x4.5G HD Raid0, AMD K6-2-300.
StarOffice (4.0) still needs more than ten seconds to load, with 0K of
swap used before and after loading. NS uses around seven sec.
Don't tell *me* I have too little mem.
When starting StarOffice multiple times back-to-back, it gets better
every time and reached at last around 2 sec, whereas the used time is
still around one sec.
I guess it has something to do with demand-loading, so that prior to
xecuten the next 4K or so chunk of code, it needs to be loaded (either
from disk or from the buffer). So starting big app's would result in
*many* small accesses, unlike win, where - I think - the whole app is
slurped in at once, which will be much faster, but also much more memory
intensive. But I guess those new oop apps with their initial jumps all
around the executable to call their constructors profit immensly from
win's behavior, unlike 'old' sw that has more a linear init code.
Maybe the situation is addressed by the latest changes to the buffer
code that have been put into recent versions of the 2.3 dev kernels. I
really hope so, since I saw Lotus Office pop up on a just-booted
pent200MMX in just a second in Win.
Marc
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From: yan seiner <[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:
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:06:40 +0000
Terry Carmen wrote:
>
> While it's very easy to bash NT and come up with amazing statistics
> supporting either operating system, I should mention that NT is very
> stable if you do a proper install on certified hardware and don't load
> it up with a bunch of crap.
>
> If you take NT certified hardware, install NT, the web server of your
> choice and a recent service pack, then log off and walk away from the
> console, it will run quite nicely for a very long time.
Hmmm. I was running NT server on a name brand system, stock install,
the only two packages that were non-MS were wingate and seagate backup.
I made sure the service packs were installed (with R&RAS you have no
choice.)
As MS-Proxy is way too expensive, and NT does not come with a backup
that's any good, I'd say that's a minimum of stuff.
No IIS, no nothing. The ONLY thing this server was supposed to do was
provide file service and proxy service. That's it.
It never ran longer than a week without a crash of some sort.
Typically, it was R&RAS that quit working; file service was pretty
stable (except for the time that the server froze, and took the entire
NTFS with it. Seagate backup proved its worth that day).
I reinstalled the entire server 3 times in one year. After 18 months of
this, the overhead of maintaining the damn thing become too great.
>
>
> This is a central flaw in the design of Windows, and one of it's
> dirtiest secrets, that there are a virtually infinite number of
> possible DLL combinations, depending on what's been installed, and
> they're not all compatible. However, if you install a good set and
> leave it alone, it's usually OK.
>
Absolutely - I agree that the entire Win32 paradigm is fundamentally
flawed at its core levels. Every software package mucks about with the
core OS, both in the registry and the DLLs. It is impossible to design
in stability, or even make a realistic assumption of system behavior,
when the admin has no control over what is actually running. Worst of
all, there is no way to truly uninstall a package once the DLLs have
been changed a few times.
Yan
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From: John Kinsella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WIN 95 and 2 Linux distributions at the same time
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:48:40 +0100
Sure, it's no problem. You will need separate / partitions for each
distribution,
but you can share swap, also /boot once each is installed right ( this
is what I do ). Several
other directories could be shared, but you would need to think carefully
how
each distribution organizes files. Bear in mind you are limited to 4
primary partitions,
so you will probably need to put swap and any other mount points besides
root
in an extended partition.
Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Hi
>
> I guess this is a FAQ, but I could not find it, so for short:
> is it possible to have in a PC on the same hard disc,
> WIN95 and 2 different Linux distributions, like say RedHat and SuSe.
> In my lilo configuration (SuSe 5.3) it seems only possible to have
> WIN95, Linux and OS2.
> Does anybody has experience in this issue.
> Thanks in advance
>
> Uwe Brauer
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:25:59 -0400
From: Marlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PROXY
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I linux box(198.168.200.1) doing PPP. How do I get WIN95
> (198.168.200.2) Browser to connect to the internet through the linux
> box?
> I can telnet from win95 to linux.
>
> JJ
>
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I too am trying to do the same thing. I have a Linux box with IP
192.168.1.254 with my Win95 logged into in with samba. My Win95's IP is
192.168.1.2.
How do I get my Win95 client to share my PPP connection that Linux has
up and running?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: How can I lower X:s footprint ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:18:01 GMT
Does your usage figures (30%-35%) include the overhead incurred by your
Window Manager / Desktop Manager? If so, you might want to drop the
DM, and/or try a slimmer WM.
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:22:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On my 16MB system, X-window uses 30-35%, and that is too much.
>
>Is there anything I can do to make it smaller, besides lowering screen
>res or colour resolution, which is 1024x768x16 and the smallest I can
>live with.
>
>How about compiling X myself, will that make it smaller on a i586
>(compared to the i386 package from RH)?
>
>Anything else to test ?
>
>
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Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Thornburg)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: documentation formats (was: Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing)
Date: 25 Jun 1999 13:56:51 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It may be
>noted that in the last one or two years there were some changes to the
>standalone info reader that have made it suck less (for example,
>support of cursor keys, surprise, surprise). But the best info reader
>probably remains Emacs.
For those who are (say) more "vi people" than "emacs people", the best
info reader probably remains less(1) , as in
less `egrep -l noreturn /usr/local/info/gcc*`
Yes, this is an awful kludge, but unlike the alternatives, it gets
the job done with minimum fuss...
--
-- Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.thp.univie.ac.at/~jthorn/home.html
Universitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria) / Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
"The first strike in the American Colonies was in 1776 in Philadelphia,
when [...] carpenters demanded a 72-hour week." -- Anatole Beck
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From: Chris Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Where can I get free Linux CD?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:19:22 -0400
www.cheapbytes.com, www.linuxmall.com, etc.
Your best bet is to stop a book store ad buy a book
on Linux ( RH Linux Unleashed ??) Most books on
Linux come with an install CD, and the docu is invaluable
to a newbie...
...hope this helps
...cwa
Bob wrote:
> Can anybody tell me where I can order free, or cheap, Linux CDs on the web?
> I'm a newbie (can't you tell?) who's hungry to get his hands on a disk.
> Please help. Thanks in advance!
>
> Bob
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From: Zeger Hendrikse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wrong major or minor number mounting /dev/scd1
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:29:50 +0200
Dear Linux-experts,
Yesterday I have installed my CD-RW (Philips CDD-3610).
I have burned 1 CD-RW succesfully. However, after a reboot
I was unable to mount my /dev/scd1 anymore:
mount: /dev/scd1 wrong major or minor number.
Strangely enough, I can still mount /dev/scd0 (my 'old' CD-ROM),
so my SCSI-emulation works. What can I do? What might
be the cause of this?
Thanks in advance,
Zeger.
(PS: 'cdrecord -scanbus' shows merely 1 device now,
my CD-ROM, and 'dmesg' shows all kind of strange messages
concerning my CDR. /dev/hdd is recognized properly as a
6x2x2 CD-Writer during first part of boot sequence).
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From: Douret Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mounting dos file system
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:23:34 GMT
I'am trying to mount dos file system in order to allow
all users to read and to write on such file systems.
My /etc/fstab contains the following line:
/dzev/hda5 /mnt/dos vfat
auto,,rw,async,noexec,umask=007,uid=0,gid=500
When trying to read / copy file as root, it works fine.
But when I am logged as a usual user (which as gid=500), I can read
files from that filesystem. But, I want to copy a file to this file
system, I have the following error:
patrick@localhost~/> cp file.txt /mnt/dos/some_directory/
cp: PERMISSION DENIED
> >
> > What is wrong with my settings?
> >
> > --
> > Patrick
> >
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> >
>
> --
> Patrick
>
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: (Newbie) Problem in mounting a DOS partition
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 25 Jun 99 13:06:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Redding wrote:
>
>M$ assume that you are only ever going to want 1 primary partition and so
>if you actually do partition your disk it will create an extended
>partition for you and then create logical partitions within that logical
>partition. Hence your logical partitions will be called /dev/hda5,
>/dev/hda6, etc...but only up to 8 as you can only have 4 logical
>partitions within an extended partition.
>
Shh. Don't tell my hard drive. I've got a whole lot more than 4
logical partitions in my extended partition. I think it's actually
14. (Large disk; I like 1 Gb partition sizes.)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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