Linux-Misc Digest #973, Volume #20 Thu, 8 Jul 99 23:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: grep (Michel Catudal)
Handling Time on Linux (Hans Kruger)
Re: Did Samba Support Shadow Password? (Steve Arnold)
Help! gcc error while compile samba2 ("Wang Jun")
Change-passwd Compile Error RH5.2 ("Patrick A. Miller")
Kernel Compile Error #22 ("Joseph S. White")
Re: New Deal Office (Carl Fink)
Re: Help! Can't print in Linux from a compiled kernel (Carl Fink)
Video Card Recommendation? (Flash)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (Jason O'Rourke)
Demand dialing problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
cdrdao questions (Dave Brown)
Re: eth0-eth1 same network address? (Steve Arnold)
Re: UUCP question. (M. Buchenrieder)
Linux in Education, Linux for small children (Greg O'Keefe)
Re: Need opinions- how's S.u.S.E. 6.1 (Michel Catudal)
running xconfig ("Joseph S. White")
Re: Linux site with 100's of links (Michel Catudal)
Re: ANSI term type in linux doesn't behave properly? ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: Floppy boot to linux-only scsi hardrive on Win95 PC? (Steve Arnold)
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: grep
Date: 8 Jul 1999 21:10:11 -0500
"Martin A. Boegelund" wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Does anyone here know a command/tool for Windows that does the same
> thing as the UNIX command grep?
>
> --
> ------------------
> Mr Sparkle - Aka Martin A. Boegelund
>
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From: Hans Kruger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Handling Time on Linux
Date: 9 Jul 1999 02:01:03 GMT
Hello everybody
I am using my Linux-station to dial in to the internet. Every time I
connect to my ISP the clock ist automaticly updated via NTP. I would like
to know how can I handle ?day_saving_time? (that kind of thing, when the
clock ist shift +/- one hour - Don't know if that is the correct word :).
I am in Brazil. So I should be using EST as mine /etc/localtime. Till now I
have updated to clock by just using an other GMT-? Setting. I would like t
know if there is another way in doing that.
Thanks in Advanced
Hans Kruegr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Arnold)
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Did Samba Support Shadow Password?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 01:32:39 GMT
"David ROSSIGNOL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Normally, there is no problem because samba check the password in smbpasswd
>file and not in passwd.
>you can have a lock user in passwd and the same user in smbpasswd file whith
>a password.
>try the smbadduser program.
Actually, samba reads from /etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow) when running with
non-encrypted passwords. It only uses smbpasswd when support for encrypted
passwords is enabled. And yes, samba works fine (when properly configured)
with shadow passwords *and* M$ encrypted password support. Simply enabling
encrypted passwords in smb.conf is not enough. You must specify the location
of smbpasswd (the default is in the makefile, but can be changed in smb.conf),
which is different in various linux flavors. Then you must run the
mksmbpasswd script which copies the user info (except the hashed passwords)
from /etc/passwd into smbpasswd. Then you must populate the smbpasswd file
with M$ hashed passwords, either by setting Update Encrypted = yes (while
still running with plaintext passwords) or by using smbpasswd for each user.
I seem to remember someone on the samba mailing list writing some shell
scripts to aid in adding the passwords, but you'll have to search the samba
archives on your own. You could also subscribe to the samba list (it even has
a digest version).
>Orange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Hello,
>>
>> Any knows? How about Shadow + Encrypted? I cannot get this to work.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Orange
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From: "Wang Jun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! gcc error while compile samba2
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:51:07 +0900
when I tried to compile samba2.0.4b, I see following errors,
gcc:Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 6
who could help me with this problem
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From: "Patrick A. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Change-passwd Compile Error RH5.2
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 20:58:44 -0500
I'm Trying to compile the change-passwd cgi program to allow httpd users
to change the password. I'm running linux Red Hat 5.2 ,,, kernel 2.0.36.
The error is something about unreferenced field(??) for crypt.
Same code will compile on an HP
Please Help
Pat Miller
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From: "Joseph S. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel Compile Error #22
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 19:31:21 -0600
Hi All,
I was building a new kernel at school on a Pentium 266. Got
the Kernel-*.*.*.rpm off the Redhat 5.2 CD as they were not
install on the drive in the beginning. rpm them to
usr/src,and then did 'make config' 'make dep' 'make clean'
and 'make zImage'. All was well but at the end of the
compile the very last line reads: make zImage [error 22]
No zImage was place in the /i386/boot directory either. Any
Idea what is going on here.
Thanks Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: New Deal Office
Date: 9 Jul 1999 00:12:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 08 Jul 1999 16:45:14 GMT SeaDick40 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been a user of Geoworks/New Deal for 8 years. I have been using the
>New Deal 2.5 version for about 2 years and just downloaded the Release 3.0 45
>day sample version last week. Anyone looking for an alternative to Windows or
>that has a computer kicking around that can't run the latest version of Windows
>needs to download this test version and take it for a spin.
>(www.newdealinc.com)
But what has this got to do with Linux? New Deal Office is for DOS
only, isn't it?
--
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
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Help! Can't print in Linux from a compiled kernel
Date: 9 Jul 1999 00:00:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:28:06 -0500 dkmallick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am using Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on a Pentium II 333.Everything prints fine
>from the kernel 2.2.9 that came with the distribution. Howver, I cannot
>print anything from kernel 2.2.5 that I had to compile just so that I can
>use my sound card. I made sure that I compiled this kernel with parallel
>port support, printer support etc.
Check daemon.log in your /var/log directory for error messages from
lpd. Type
ps aux | grep lpd
and see if lpd is in fact running. If it isn't, become superuser and
type lpd at the shell prompt, and see if you get any error messages
from the program explaining why it can't start.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
<http://dm.net>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Flash)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Video Card Recommendation?
Date: 9 Jul 1999 02:26:21 GMT
Reply-To: Flash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, I m finally getting around to replacing my 2Mb video card, and I am
looking for a recommendation.
This is what I run on the machine
Windowmaker 0.60.0 on XFree86
RH Linux 5.2, kernel 2.2.x
Viewsonic 19" Monitor
Pentium 200
64Mb RAM
PCI Bus only.
I would like to get the most out of my new, beautiful Viewsonic G790, and
increase my resolution to maybe 1280x1024, 24bit color.
I would like to stick to around $150.
If anyone can give me a good recommendation for a card that is very
XFree86-friendly, PCI, and will support high refresh rates and
resolutions, I would be most grateful.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason O'Rourke)
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?
Date: 8 Jul 1999 18:39:49 -0700
I R A Aggie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>+ in terms of lives lost, though it pales in comparison to the price paid by
>+ the Soviets and Chinese (approx 30million each).
>
>I'm gonna call you on this. Where did you get these figures from? I am
>unaware of them. Typical figures for *all* of WWII comes to ~25 million
>deaths, including the 6 million Jews and other "undesirables".
Accurate counts are difficult in total wars, especially in the case of
China where massive numbers of civilians were killed.
One source: http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/wwii.html#partic
gives 20.6M for the Soviets alone, and 9.5-13.5 for the Chinese (the first
one is probably more solid than the second).
It also puts the Polish and Germans at 6M each, The Yugoslavs and Japanese
at about 2M each.
In the case of England vs the USA, it's values are
295k soldiers plus 62k citizens (UK)
vs
293k soldiers (USA)
----
Here's another set of estimates from
http://www.stokesey.demon.co.uk/wwii/casualty.html
(sorry no print references, those would be at home)
Soviets - 8.6M + 16.9M civilians = 25.5M
Chinese - 1.3M + 10M = 11.3M (probably undercounted)
Germans - 3.2 + 3.8 = 7M
Polish - .8M + 6M = 6.8M
Japanese -1.5M + .3M = 1.8M (seems to undercount civilians
deaths greatly - a-bombs alone came close)
Yugoslavs- 3M + 1.4M = 1.7M
Brits 326k + 62k = 388k
USA 295k = 295k
--
Jason O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jor.com
'96 BMW r850R
last dive: June 13th, Pescadero Wash Rocks (Carmel), 46 mins at 64ft max
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Demand dialing problem
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 01:31:25 GMT
This is what I got. I have a server setup running Redhat 5.2 with the
2.2.9 kernel running pppd setup to do demand dialing with two network
cards. I tried diald and had the same problem. I am running Samba and
Squid but I had this problem when I was not running them. I have the
server setup to do masquerading for the internal network. With ipchains
and IP spoofing setup. I have two computers on the network one is
Linux/Windows and the other one is Windows. The link will come up when
there should be no activity and when it does hang up the link will come
back after a few minutes. I is worse when Windows is on the network but
it will happen when there is no other computer on the network. There are
no cron jobs running that might cause this. Any help with this problem
will be apprecated. Here some configuration files and output for your
viewing pleasure.
Here is a dump file from tcpdump
)? PACKERS. (34)
09:42:50.313964 216.17.9.218.61002 > 205.219.138.11.domain: 43+ Type0
(Class 256
)? PACKERS. (34)
09:42:51.813964 216.17.9.218.61002 > 205.219.138.11.domain: 43+ Type0
(Class 256
)? PACKERS. (34)
09:42:53.313964 216.17.9.218.61002 > 205.219.138.11.domain: 43+ Type0
(Class 256
)? PACKERS. (34)
09:46:01.483964 216.17.10.178 > 216.17.9.218: icmp: echo request
09:46:01.673964 216.17.3.206 > 216.17.10.178: icmp: time exceeded
in-transit
09:46:02.493964 216.17.10.178 > 216.17.9.218: icmp: echo request
09:46:02.653964 216.17.3.206 > 216.17.10.178: icmp: time exceeded
in-transit
09:47:50.323964 216.17.9.218.61002 > 205.219.138.11.domain: 47+ Type0
(Class 256
)? PACKERS. (34)
09:47:51.823964 216.17.9.218.61002 > 205.219.138.11.domain: 47+ Type0
(Class 256
)? PACKERS. (34)
09:47:53.323964 216.17.9.218.61002 > 205.219.138.11.domain: 47+ Type0
(Class 256
)? PACKERS. (34)
09:52:50.323964 216.17.9.218.61002 > 205.219.138.11.domain: 51+ Type0
(Class 256
)? PACKERS. (34)
09:52:51.823964 216.17.9.218.61002 > 205.219.138.11.domain: 51+ Type0
(Class 256
)? PACKERS. (34)
09:52:53.323964 216.17.9.218.61002 > 205.219.138.11.domain: 51+ Type0
(Class 256
)? PACKERS. (34)
(END)
Here is my ifconfigeth1
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:04:6C:14:BF
inet addr:192.168.2.4 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x300
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:216.17.10.178 P-t-P:216.17.3.208
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:74 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 Kernel IP routing table
Here is my route
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
216.17.3.208 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth0
192.168.2.4 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
eth1
127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
lo
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth0
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0
eth1
0.0.0.0 216.17.3.208 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
ppp0
route (END)
Here is my pppd config
/dev/modem 115200 crtscts
connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0'
192.168.2.100:192.168.2.200
ipcp-accept-local
ipcp-accept-remote
mru 1500
mtu 1500
lock
defaultroute
demand
noauth
idle 300
noipx
debug
silent
nomagic
Here is a dump of dial out
Jul 1 09:32:52 Homer chat[480]: ~
Jul 1 09:32:52 Homer pppd[394]: Serial connection established.
Jul 1 09:32:52 Homer chat[480]: -- got it
Jul 1 09:32:52 Homer chat[480]: send (^M)
Jul 1 09:32:53 Homer pppd[394]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
Jul 1 09:32:54 Homer pppd[394]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1514>
<asyncmap 0xffffffff> <magic 0xabb0cb52> <pcomp
> <accomp> < 11 04 05 ea> < 13 03 00>]
Jul 1 09:32:54 Homer pppd[394]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <pcomp>
<accomp>]
Jul 1 09:32:54 Homer pppd[394]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <magic
0xabb0cb52> < 11 04 05 ea> < 13 03 00>]
Jul 1 09:32:55 Homer pppd[394]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 <pcomp>
<accomp>]
Jul 1 09:32:55 Homer pppd[394]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <mru 1514>
<asyncmap 0xffffffff> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 1 09:32:55 Homer pppd[394]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 <mru 1514>
<asyncmap 0xffffffff> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Jul 1 09:32:55 Homer pppd[394]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <addr
192.168.2.100> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jul 1 09:32:55 Homer modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
Jul 1 09:32:55 Homer modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26
Jul 1 09:32:55 Homer modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
Jul 1 09:32:55 Homer pppd[394]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x4 <compress VJ
0f 00> <addr 216.17.3.208>]
Jul 1 09:32:55 Homer pppd[394]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x4 <compress VJ
0f 00> <addr 216.17.3.208>]
Jul 1 09:32:58 Homer pppd[394]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <addr
192.168.2.100> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Jul 1 09:32:58 Homer pppd[394]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x3 <addr
216.17.10.178> <compress VJ 0f 00>]
Jul 1 09:32:58 Homer pppd[394]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x4 <addr
216.17.10.178> <compress VJ 0f 00>]
Jul 1 09:32:58 Homer pppd[394]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x4 <addr
216.17.10.178> <compress VJ 0f 00>]
Jul 1 09:32:58 Homer pppd[394]: Local IP address changed to
216.17.10.178
Jul 1 09:32:58 Homer pppd[394]: Remote IP address changed to
216.17.3.208
Jul 1 09:32:58 Homer pppd[394]: sent [proto=0x21] 45 00 00 1c 1e 00 00
00 1f 01 05 f4 d8 11 09 da 95 01 01 01 08 00
08 b6 ee 49 01 00
(END)
Here is my rc.local file
# Load IP Masquerade modules
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_irc
#/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_cuseeme
#/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_vdolive
ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.2.0/24 -j MASQ
echo Starting Dialup ....
/usr/sbin/pppd call isp &
Hope this is not to much. Thanks
Eric Hesselberg
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: cdrdao questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 9 Jul 99 01:21:13 GMT
It appears that cdrdao is "just fine" for copying an audio
cd. However, it's not clear how to assemble a collection of
tracks from various cds and then write a dao cd. Any
suggestions?
Also, I didn't see it stated, but it seems to only want to
deal with SCSI, even when scanning a disk for table of contents.
I have my CD Writer set up for SCSI emulation, but not my
other CD drive that I usually use for ripping. Is there any
particular reason for requiring the source drive to be SCSI?
(Or am I missing something?)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Arnold)
Subject: Re: eth0-eth1 same network address?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 01:51:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Suppose my class c network consists of hdsl -> cisco 2500 -> hub.
>
>I want to have a packet filter in between the cisco 2500 and the main
>hub.
>
>My question is, can I have two ethernet cards configured with the same
>network and mask? If so, how do I know which interface gets what
>packets?
No, two ethernet interfaces can not have the same IP address (they all have
unique hardware addresses assigned by the manufacturer). Of course, they
probably *should* have the same netmask and network address. It sounds like
you need to read the linux Ethernet HOWTO and the Network Admin Guide. Both
excellent documents.
>All the firewall examples use 192.168.xxx.xxx. How can I preserve my
>current networks address' and still implement a linux
>packet-filter/firewall?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
I'm no network guru, but let me see if I understand you. You want the DSL
connection to come into one interface (on the linux box) and the other to go
to your cisco router? If you're going to use the linux box as a router, why
do you need the cisco box?
Anyway, as I understand it, the DSL interface is normally configured via DHCP,
so your ISP/DSL service provider will serve up the IP address for that
interface. I would think the second (internal) interface can be whatever you
want (private IP, corp domain IP, etc).
HTH, Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: UUCP question.
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:57:42 GMT
Chhabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have a dial up acct. with my ISP.
OK.
>How does one configure a mailserver and newsserver through uucp ?
If your ISP does offer UUCP, consider yourself being lucky. Most
ISPs don't have it anymore. You'll need to setup a newsserver of your
own, running either INN or CNews, then setup the needed config stuff
for the UUCP connection (you'll need some info from your ISP to get
that working). Sendmail can be configured to be using UUCP as well,
but it's a bit useless to go into great details, unless you told us
about what programs you're trying to use.
[...]
>What are the advantages ? Speed ? or something else
Speed and reduced costs. UUCP transmits mail and news in "batches",
which are compressed and get decompressed and sorted into the various
directories in your mail/newsspool locally. That is, you don't transmit
the selected messages from a newsgroup (as you would with NNTP) ,
but instead you do tell the ISP's newserver to send you some selected
groups completely, and you can select what to want to read locally.
If you do read more than just 5 groups on a regular base, this is
much more efficient than NNTP.
Michael
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Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: Greg O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux in Education, Linux for small children
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 12:01:53 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
Does anyone know of any groups, projects or resources for Linux in
education or Linux for small children? Could you post to me personally
as well as the list please?
GregO
--
"Hack, then strive against Mighty Problems, have joy in thy Striving..."
Eric S. Raymond, The Loginataka
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need opinions- how's S.u.S.E. 6.1
Date: 8 Jul 1999 21:06:15 -0500
naftali wrote:
>
> First of all, I never said I had any trouble, I said that compared to the
> better distribution I have met, SuSe is bad, I did install it, I did it even
> successfully,*how about that*, and believe it or not, if SuSe was the first
> Linux distribution I came across I wouldn't have complained, and had anyone
> asked me what distribution to get I would have said Suse,
> BUT
> Suse was not my first distribution, I came across many and it is the worst of
> the bunch, THATS what I said.
> for example, emacs which is a basic package works alot faster on Redhat, and I
> do mean Alot faster, yes I know its inconcievable, because the kernels are
> virtually the same, and they probably both got the emacs from GNU but I am
> stating this as a tested fact.
>
On your PC perhaps, as for my PC I have not noticed that much
difference in speed. I have a Cyrix 220Mhz and it flies either
way. The main difference is that I get regular core dump under
RedHat 6.0 and almost none on SuSE 6.1. The setup is nice and
easy on SuSE and sucks on RedHat. I have only 40Meg or RAM and
2 swap partitions of 64M. I only installed about 1.5G of the
stuff available.
Basically under SuSE it works right out of the box and you need
a lot of tweaking to get RedHat to work.
I did recompile my kernel to only support my PC, perhaps you are
loading a lot of useless shit.
> Im not just talking from this aspect, I got the 2 distributions to try them out 'I
>got both distributions ( redhat and Suse), Suse was new to me so I went to their web
>site http://www.suse.de/e/ or something like that, and I saw what
> kind of packages they carry and I must say I was impressed, so impressed that
> I decided to install Suse 6.1 instead of RH6. and I was bitterly disappointed.
>
> About how you describe the installation, I know that procedure, but I measured
> also the amount of time it takes for each distribution to install, and the Suse
> numbers went WAY off the scale in that area. the one good thing about the Yast
> is that it gives alot more time in the bash tty2 shell, which is very helpful
> and also it spans the mounting tree, and the directory tree in general better
> than redhat, but these are trivial aspects .
> Im not saying SuSe is bad, Im saying redhat is much much better, faster,
> and much more friendly.
>
> the question in this newsgroup was ... should i exchange redhat for SuSe I said
> no. I may have used blunt words.
>
And you were full of shit because SuSE beats RedHat on all. You
must have screwed up on install. I too have tried several distributions
and this is the best of the bunch so far.
> now with reference to this letter, you dont measure a distribution in the good
>cases, if you have 196 MB of ram, thats alot, you have to be bill gates to go wrong
>there, I am talking about the more signular cases, when I installed it at
> home on my pc, with limited Ram and aside Win95, I promise you it will take alot of
>time, and red hat does take only 40 minutes.
>
RedHat 6.0 took me 20 minutes and SuSE 40 minutes plus the time it
took me to make up my mind on what I wanted. The only flaw that I
found was it's stupid choice of the AZERTY keyboard during the install.
I did stipulate that I wanted a French Canadian install but it
ignored my request and setup that moronic keyboard layout.
X was setup to use the ca keyboard which I easily overrid with
my custom cf .Xmodmap.
It works great and the colors under X are superb at 1024x768
With RedHat it only wanted 320 resolution. I had to change the
XF86Config file to get it to work correctly.
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From: "Joseph S. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: running xconfig
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 19:53:57 -0600
Hi All,
How do you run the 'make xconfig' program, for re-compiling
the kernel. The Kernel How To states you must have TK
installed which I do. Anything else needed to run this
program?
Thanks
Joe
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux site with 100's of links
Date: 8 Jul 1999 21:06:43 -0500
"William B. Cattell" wrote:
>
> arty wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > check out my Linux site. I really put a lot of work into this
> >
> > Thanks
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Homepage:
> > Hundreds of links to Linux software, news, and general sites
> > http://nj5.injersey.com/~arty3
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Looks pretty good.
But very very very very very slow. The page stalls on a white background
until I get fed up and click on Stop.
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ANSI term type in linux doesn't behave properly?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 01:52:36 GMT
Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> SCO ANSI != Real ANSI.
>> oh. which one is "Real ANSI"?
> Whichever one matches the American National Standards Institute's
> specifications best, of course. There *must* be one, surely.. surely? ;)
No. All of the terminals that I know of are subsets. (Ask over in
comp.terminals, and Jeffrey Altman may post his summary from the Kermit 95
manual - iirc, he thinks aixterm is the 'best', i.e., closest).
>> (I have a list of those that aren't ;-)
> But then SCO's ANSI just seems that much more broken than the rest of
> them. Point taken, though ;).
( no - just a different subset ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Arnold)
Subject: Re: Floppy boot to linux-only scsi hardrive on Win95 PC?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 02:17:13 GMT
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Sun, 04 Jul 1999 14:56:31 -0400, wrote :
[snip]
>J> The original IDE 1Gig hard drive is FULL of all Win95 stuff I'd like to
>J> keep as-is; SO I have installed an Adaptec 1502 SCSI controller with a
>J> Quantum XP32150 2Gig hard drive.
>
>You might really want to get a better SCSI controller. You need a
>controller with a BIOS to boot an O/S off it -- I don't know if the 1502
>has a BIOS or not. Linux uses the 'AHA-152x' driver.
I second that. Buslogic and Tekram make good inexpensive alternatives to
Adaptec (I wouldn't go with anything less than an AHA1542 for a hard disk).
Check compgeeks.com for a deal on a good PCI ultra-wide SCSI card (it's even
cheaper than when I bought one 3 months ago). See the SCSI FAQ for more
answers: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/scsi-faq/top.html
>J> * I want the ability to transfer files between the two drives.
>
>So long as the partitions on /dev/hda are FAT16, Linux will happily
>mount them. Warning: RedHat Linux defaults to mounting them as 'msdos',
>with 8.3 file names with no gid, uid, or umask values in the fstab file
>in /etc. This is fixable -- you just need to edit /etc/fstab and
>re-mount the drives.
With the latest 2.0.3x (and 2.2 of course) you can mount both fat16 and fat32
parttions as type vfat for long filename support on either (with proper
support in the kernel).
[snip]
>J> PS: Please save the "Why keep 95 at all?" comments for another time. I
>J> agree. Once I verify Linux works with ALL my hardware and teach my wife
>J> Linux basics, I may ditch 95 altogeather.
My wife took to linux pretty quick (the original fvwm95 hack). Her first
comment was something like "It looks like windoze, but it runs much better".
Now she can login, startx, and shutdown. She can even dial out (with the
connect and disconnect scripts I wrote). She's pretty cool...
HTH, Steve
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