Linux-Misc Digest #914, Volume #20 Sun, 4 Jul 99 14:13:07 EDT
Contents:
X permissions (rob)
Re: How can I find out my IP address? (Ben Short)
Re: init running *wild* (9wands)
Re: linx vs hurd (wiliam choehen)
Re: RealAudio5 (Leonard Evens)
Re: want to learn linux ("Tom")
Re: help (Gergo Barany)
Re: New LINUX Hardware Vendor!!1 ("Bill Crocker")
Re: Help!! need official redhat boot disk(Release 6.0) (Leonard Evens)
Re: NFS mount problem ("John T. Rice II")
Please help me out !! (Chhabra)
Backing up to a remote tape ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Please help me out !! (Chhabra)
How to add a second parallel port on Red Hat ? (Joao Pinto)
Kernel compile: 'make dep' errors: .h files are not being found... ("H. Michael
Smith, Jr.")
Resize linux partition w/ Partition Magic!! (Alleyoop Sam)
Re: Linux in Win98??? ("Bill Crocker")
Re: internet speed (Silviu Minut)
Re: linx vs hurd (Gergo Barany)
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From: rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X permissions
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 09:26:31 -0600
Hmm... in the process of backing up and restoring my system, I
seem to have lost a lot of the file permissions. Now when any
user but root tries to start X, I get
Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions
You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm.
We strongly advise against making the server SUID root!
I think I'm running a 'plain vanilla' X installation (with source
downloaded from xfree86.org) so its already being run with Xwrapper
or xdm, if that's the stock installation.l
How can I figure out what file's permissions are wrong?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Subject: Re: How can I find out my IP address?
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 00:38:27 +1000
In article <7lnqsc$6dn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Is there any commands in Linux that will find my IP address. I know HPUX has
> a command called "getip". I connect to the internet using a dynamic IP.
ifconfig ppp0 |grep inet ? theres a better way using awk, but I cant
remember it.
>
> Also is there any easy way to find out my connection speed?\
>
> I have been using UNIX for a couple years now but I am new to Linux.
>
> Thanks,
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> B
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From: 9wands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: init running *wild*
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 10:29:12 -0500
Scott Moseman wrote:
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> Running Slackware with 2.2.9 and KDE for weeks now on my new AMD 400 box.
> Just installed xfstt (truetype font server) and noticed that my "init"
> process seems to be sucking up almost 90% CPU constantly. I can kill xfstt
> and it still persists, so I do not know if that has anything to do with it
> or not. Rebooting and kill -HUP'ing the process does nothing. Anyone have
> this problem before? Or have any ideas? Thanks.
>
> Scott Moseman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not sure because I haven' tried installing xfstt on my system since
I installed Red Hat 6, but I think the incorporation of an X font server
into XFree86 3.3.3 may have put the kabosh on xfstt (see the "FontPath"
entry in a recent /etc/X11/XF86Config file). If I'm wrong on this,
would somebody PLEASE tell me so. I would like to use True Type fonts
in Linux, but have no idea how to do it under the recent release of X.
Regards,
--
Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (wiliam choehen)
Subject: Re: linx vs hurd
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 15:13:44 GMT
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>At this point in time, Hurd is not *nearly* as featureful as a system as
>Linux.
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>*If* the Debian/Hurd project goes well, this will add applications, and
>may encourage people to work on the (rather large) set of things that
>Hurd *can't* do right now. (PPP and X serving come immediately to
>mind.)
would it either devloping NEW thinges too hurd than it devlopt by
linux (internet 2 probly make new typ of programs poisibel) same whit
ipv6 ?
and devlop a new user interface ? the windowes interface are more then
20 years old and we have abit more cpu power too dvelop a better
userinterface they the first mac had...
windowes are till hard for newbies ....
and whats the piont whit alle those fancy 3d cardes if we just going
too use it too more fancy whisels and bells in a windowes like sytsem?
isnt the only resso n whey non have devlop a better user interface is
becuse of MS monpoly?
>
>At this point, Hurd is *not* faster, more stable, or more featureful.
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>It is not likely to be much faster for things that *can* be deployed on
>Linux; the place where benefit would come is in being able to deploy
>applications that would be impractical to *write* for Linux.
4excatly that what i mean is the market for hurd be creqative and
devlop soe new software and things thatys not posibel too liinux becse
of kernel
maybe some xml poisbiultesys ?
That
>hasn't yet proven to be much of a problem, so people can surely remain
>skeptical about the likelihood of this representing a major factor.
but rember linux strated in 1991 dident take of before maybe 95.96...
and hurd just start too be usefuke for hackers now ...
EVRYTHING IS JUST A SATE OF MIND
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.rpm.general,redhat.general
Subject: Re: RealAudio5
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 10:47:15 -0500
Carl Fink wrote:
> On 4 Jul 1999 04:50:45 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >You CAN use RealPlayer G2 Beta for Linux. Finding this on
> >RealNetworks web site is near impossible . . .
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> A one-minute Deja News search would have found this link posted
> dozens of times:
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> http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html
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> "Near impossible"?
> --
> Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
> -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
Unfortunately, as several people have pointed out, this does not give
you access to the G2 Beta. But the Linux providings on www.real.com
seem almost to change from day to day.
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: want to learn linux
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 11:34:58 -0400
Mike
this reply comes from another newbie at linux. Worked till 5 am one night to
install the darn thing, but had problems with monitor - this will probably
be your biggest woe at the onset. Read smart (not just carefully - there is
a lot of things that are likely to confuse one) the instructions how to
install - make sure you DON'T create boot from hd on your main hd (I used
secondary hd and after being intuitive linux screw me up by redoing mbr to
linux from my main - WIN98 - hd. Enter 'floppy' for boot when asked) But
fixed it by booting the system with boot 98 diskette, and run CDrom support
etc etc then fdisk /MBR. Now I can boot to linux from floppy or regular boot
gives me win98.
Few commands - dos like - will be helpful to learn, but you'll get the idea
soon enough. I needed about 1 mb hd space to install their suggested default
package. After installation and login type 'startx' and you're in
windoze-like desktop. There are many drivers you'll have to get from the net
(sound, modem, etc..) I wish one could install and configure hardware from
the desktop, but still haven't found the way (it's done from dos-like
environment in YAST install program that comes with package.) This is still
in infancy, but I think it's going to take off. Good luck, Tom in Toronto,
very much newbie at this.
Mr. Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> aloha from big island-hawaii,
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> please email me directly @ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> i have a question, currently i have an old macintosh LCIII 25mhz, i
> would categorize myself as an intermediate user, i have a desire to
> become more computer literate via books and distance education, one
> thing i may be interested in is learning linux, unix.
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> my question is how much frustration will i be in for, assuming i buy a
> new PC and then attempt to partition my hard drive and have a choice of
> running windows98 and linux, or is that even possible.
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> i'm sure some of the frustration will lead to learning, but i don't want
> to regret my decision,
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> further what components of the PC are a must to run linux? do most new
> PCs come with generally what i will need. EG if i get 4 gigs of HD,
> 128mb RAM, an 8mb vid card, aren't there some cards that won't work with
> linux.
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> lastly, i suppose linux crashs less than windows, but do people use
> linux for everyday tasks like webrowsing, email, word processing and not
> use it at the same time for server functions, or things that linux
> uniquely does and therefore one needs linux.
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> any suggestions besides books on getting started.
>
> there are machines at 300mhz at the linux store specifically "ion"
> brand, but i do want to run both windows and linux and not sure if these
> products at linux store would support me enough technically and whether
> the machines are new and/or any good.
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> hey thanks for any help here.
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> The current superparadigm assumes that space,
> time and matter constitute the basic framework
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Subject: Re: help
Date: 4 Jul 1999 13:47:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shawn Lang wrote:
>i need help i need to make a symbolic link
>this is what i get when i use ln
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>ln -s /home/qudesttalk/www/Ops /usr/local/domains/questtalk.com/Ops/
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>ln: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/local/domains/questtalk.com/Ops/'
>to `/home/qudesttalk/www/Ops': No such file or directory
>what can i do to get this to work
I guess you need to switch the parameters around. The first file should
be the one you link to (it already exists), the second file is the link
you want to create:
ln -s /home/gergo/myfile /home/gergo/mylink
>i can make a dir in the local dir
mkdir.
Gergo
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From: "Bill Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New LINUX Hardware Vendor!!1
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 15:39:37 GMT
And they said Linux runs just fine on a 386! :) Here we go again.
Bill Crocker
Jenine Von Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> This hardware vendor is located at http://www.essenz.com
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> Under the products area they provide custom built high performance
> servers and workstations. The servers feature Dual Pentium III or
> Pentium III XEON. A base od 256MB RAM expandable to 2GB. Ultra2 LVD SCSI
> drives, high speed networking, and fault tolerant chassis solutions.
> On the workstation end, systems come with 3dfx Voodoo3 video cards. What
> about the Operating System?
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> All Systems can run:
>
> Linux (Go Redhat 6)
> BeOS 4.5
> FreeBSD
> BSDi
> SCO Unixware
> OPENSTEP 4.2 (Single Processor Only)
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> You can order online, custom build a system, whatever... Its cool check
> them out.
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> http://www.essenz.com
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> These affordable systems can easily blow away any Windows NT server....I
> mean really! A Dual Pentium III 500MHz XEON machine with 256MB RAM and
> Ultra2 SCSI utilizing symmetric multiprocessing compared to a Windows NT
> server!
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!! need official redhat boot disk(Release 6.0)
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 11:24:57 -0500
Frederic L. W. Meunier wrote:
> I just accidently erased the official redhat boot disk(release 6.0),
> which is used to set up the official redhat linux 6.0, if someone
> has that disk, please send me a package of the whole disk in a zip
> file or tell me how I can make a new copy? Thanks. By the way, please
> give me a reply at my email address so that I can know it, as I am
> using this web based news server which I am not very comfortable with.
> ,,,
> Go to ftp.redhat.com and search for the boot.img file of RedHat 6.0. After
> that use dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 (you're using Linux, right?).
You can also find it on the distribution CD if you have that. Also, there
is a dos utility---it may be called rawrite or something similar---which
comes with the distribution and allows you to make disk copies using dos.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "John T. Rice II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: NFS mount problem
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 09:55:50 -0700
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For example:
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I have naming working fine, but I had to use actual numbers....
The only problem I have now is that it takes 1 - 2 minutes for my Sun to
mount a Linux export. I hear
that there is a mount/export option that I can set, but have yet to find
it....
Any takers there?
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From: Chhabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help me out !!
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 22:16:17 +0400
Hi !
I am a Linux newbie and need your assistance in one matter.
Let me first state the facts of the case. I have a TCP-IP dial up connection
to the internet with a local ISP here. I am currently using kmail (the mail
client that comes packaged with KDE). I think that it is
prudent to configure sendmail to get and send my mail. One reason is that I am
right now somewhat bored with KDE and want to shift to WindowMaker(which I
already have). Therefore, I will not have to configure and reconfigure each
time I move my GUI if can get pine (really the best mail client that I have
used) working. I do not mind the absence of graphics frills : it is robust and
"portable").
Accordingly, I configured my sendmail.cf file. (I am using the domain name
of my ISP (ch1.dot.net.in) in the sendmail.cw
file._
Details of what I want to realise :
I have a single email account ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
and multiple user accounts on the local machine. My dream is to set up a mail
system that will will accept mail from each user and queue it (something that
it does imperfectly right now.) and when using fetchmail, it uses some filters
to redirect all the messages to respective users. Currently, the DM entry is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and the DS entry is ch1.dot.net.in (in the sendmail.cf
file).
When I queue an email from root it gets entered as originating from
[EMAIL PROTECTED](user x gets queued as [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
I want all these users to use the single email id : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I fix
this ? Related problem : whenever I do a mailrun (see the file
attached as an addendum), I connect to the mailservers of the people that I am
sending emails to . This is extremely wasteful of my time. Is there some way
that I can dump these to the local SMTP server of my ISP (ch1.dot.net.in 25) ?
(the way kmail does). Fetchmail works OK though the filtering is not yet in
place.
Please guide me about the way it can be done.
Thanks in advance,
Madhusudan Singh.
PS: Later, I would like to configure tin in a similar manner.
==============================================================================================
#!/bin/sh
echo Sending out all mail waiting in the mail spool .......
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q $*
echo Picking up all mail from remote host ......
/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 0 -N $*
echo Done !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Backing up to a remote tape
Date: 4 Jul 1999 17:31:16 GMT
Hiyas.. I've got two linux boxes running 2.2.10 each
on 100BaseT-FD. When I connected the DLT to the linux
I want to backup , directly to its scsi controller
it takes 1hr to backup 10GB.
When I connect the DLT to the second linux box, it takes
3 hours to backup the same..
Anyone have any suggestions or ideas how to speed it up??
I'm using the following tar command to back it up.
tar -s -p -b 20 -cvf second.linuxbox.com:/dev/st0 /
Both are using a 3C905B.. rshd has been replace by ssh..
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From: Chhabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help me out !!
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 22:17:53 +0400
Hi !
I am a Linux newbie and need your assistance in one matter.
Let me first state the facts of the case. I have a TCP-IP dial up connection
to the internet with a local ISP here. I am currently using kmail (the mail
client that comes packaged with KDE). I think that it is
prudent to configure sendmail to get and send my mail. One reason is that I am
right now somewhat bored with KDE and want to shift to WindowMaker(which I
already have). Therefore, I will not have to configure and reconfigure each
time I move my GUI if can get pine (really the best mail client that I have
used) working. I do not mind the absence of graphics frills : it is robust and
"portable").
Accordingly, I configured my sendmail.cf file. (I am using the domain name
of my ISP (ch1.dot.net.in) in the sendmail.cw
file._
Details of what I want to realise :
I have a single email account ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
and multiple user accounts on the local machine. My dream is to set up a mail
system that will will accept mail from each user and queue it (something that
it does imperfectly right now.) and when using fetchmail, it uses some filters
to redirect all the messages to respective users. Currently, the DM entry is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and the DS entry is ch1.dot.net.in (in the sendmail.cf
file).
When I queue an email from root it gets entered as originating from
[EMAIL PROTECTED](user x gets queued as [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
I want all these users to use the single email id : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I fix
this ? Related problem : whenever I do a mailrun (see the file
attached as an addendum), I connect to the mailservers of the people that I am
sending emails to . This is extremely wasteful of my time. Is there some way
that I can dump these to the local SMTP server of my ISP (ch1.dot.net.in 25) ?
(the way kmail does). Fetchmail works OK though the filtering is not yet in
place.
Please guide me about the way it can be done.
Thanks in advance,
Madhusudan Singh.
PS: Later, I would like to configure tin in a similar manner.
==============================================================================================
#!/bin/sh
echo Sending out all mail waiting in the mail spool .......
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q $*
echo Picking up all mail from remote host ......
/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 0 -N $*
echo Done !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joao Pinto)
Subject: How to add a second parallel port on Red Hat ?
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 17:16:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What are the necessary steps ?
Thanks In Advance.
Jo�o Pinto
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From: "H. Michael Smith, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel compile: 'make dep' errors: .h files are not being found...
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 12:40:40 -0400
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My world (virtually): OpenLinux 2.2 (2.2.5)
Installed w/ minimum install (tiny HDD)...
recompiling kernel to get IPMASQ / firewall capability (to install IP
Chains)..
(compiling 2.2.5; source from ftp.us.kernel.org)
'make config' seems to go ok (using Kernel HOWTO and IP MASQ
miniHOWTO)
'make dep' : all files in #include's in mkdep.c cannot be found;
in Makefile:
TOPDIR= .... echo $$pwd ...
HPATH = $TOPDIR/include
FINDPATH=$HPATH/asm $HPATH/linux $HPATH/scsi $HPATH/net
HOSTCC = gcc
(seems ok, right ?!?)
I went into mkdep.c and fully qualified the #includes and gcc found
most of them, but then other src files were not. What am I missing
here?
Is my problem w/ gcc or make, or ... uh... my brain?
This is my 1st 'manual' kernel compile... the term 'crash course' has
new meaning to me...
Thanks for ANY help!!!!!!
// Michael
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From: Alleyoop Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Resize linux partition w/ Partition Magic!!
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 01:03:00 +0800
Hi, I am a new linux user, using RH 6.0:
Recently, I have resized my linux partition with Partition Magic 4.
After that, I can no longer boot into my linux partition without the use
of linux floppy boot disk. I can dual boot my machine before using the
PQ4 to resize my linux partitioin. I have NT installed and use NT OS
loader to daul boot my machine. If I use the NT OS loader to boot into
linux, it hangs on the prompt: "LI" and nothing goes on. Well, my linux
works fine if I use the floppy to boot in!! Any ideas to fix the
problem? Pls
Thx for you help.
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From: "Bill Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux in Win98???
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 15:38:12 GMT
Hilton:
Caldera's Open Linux 2.2, actually can be installed from Win98. It will
automatically seek out space on your hard drive, create the required
partitions, and install Linux as a dual-boot setup! About the only thing
you have to do is answer a few questions regarding your video, and mouse.
I had a rather pessimistic attitude about this, so a co-worker watched me do
it, rather carelessly I must admit, and it worked perfect!
Bill Crocker
Hilton Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering if there is a version of Linux that will work inside
> Win98? I know it's a bit of an ask (for Win98 to support ANYTHING), but
> anyway...
>
> What I want to do, without having to build yet another machine, is to
> have a single machine that has Win98 running and accessing my Linux
> server. I want to be able to test config changes by using "Linux in a
> Window" so to speak, without having to reboot this machine into Linux,
> and then back into Win98 - a PITA and waste of time to boot!
>
> Anyone know of any distribution like this?
>
> Regards,
> Hilton
>
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: internet speed
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 13:42:53 -0400
>
It sounds kinda like xisp. Xisp has a nice user interface and you enter all
the info right there (user name, passwd, dns, gateway, connection speed,
etc. No scripts to configure manually. When it dials, it displays what it's
doing.
>
>
> wvdial is what they call an intelligent dialer. It relies on some
> entries that yast put in a few files like your DNS nos, name, etc.
> There is a wvdial configuration script which I read about after
> I installed it. Read a bit, don't do what I did and rush to install.
>
> What I did was enter with an editor the information that I needed.
>
> wvdial uses pppd and writes the proper scripts. You don't even
> need to tell it if you need pap as it will fix the file for you
> if needed. I use an external modem so when the line misbehave, which
> is very common with the shitty Ameritech lines, I flip the switch
> off and on and within 5 secs or so I'm back on line. With the
> scripts of RedHat 6.0 I often couldn't kill pppd and even when
> I seem to have succeeded I had to reboot because I couldn't
> access my modem. The modem was internal then, SuSE hadn't had
> any problem with that modem.
>
> I use KDE and I put an icon to start wvdial in a xdm and I can
> monitor what is going on, neat!
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Subject: Re: linx vs hurd
Date: 4 Jul 1999 17:26:35 GMT
In article <7leo3g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Browne wrote:
>At this point in time, Hurd is not *nearly* as featureful as a system as
>Linux.
I wouldn't expect it to be. Do you know of specific things that are
unsupported?
>*If* the Debian/Hurd project goes well, this will add applications, and
What kind of applications are you thinking of?
>may encourage people to work on the (rather large) set of things that
>Hurd *can't* do right now. (PPP and X serving come immediately to
>mind.)
X serving only needs TCP/IP, which I'm sure is implemented by now. And
the GNU website says that the XFree86 project now officially supports
the Hurd, so that point isn't valid. I can't comment on PPP, though.
>At this point, Hurd is *not* faster, more stable, or more featureful.
>
>It is not likely to be much faster for things that *can* be deployed on
>Linux; the place where benefit would come is in being able to deploy
>applications that would be impractical to *write* for Linux. That
>hasn't yet proven to be much of a problem, so people can surely remain
>skeptical about the likelihood of this representing a major factor.
I'm wondering, what kind of applications would be practical for the Hurd
yet unpractical for Linux?
Gergo
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