Linux-Misc Digest #81, Volume #21 Mon, 19 Jul 99 11:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Slackware install on notebook (David Turley)
NFS-Problem with Linux 2.2.7 and AIX (Dirk Neunzig)
Re: Store a date in a variable. (-ljl-)
Re: Benchmarks for Linux ("Luke Th. Bullock")
Re: Redirecting output to log file (-ljl-)
Altering BIOS Values w/ Program ? (Erik Lins)
Re: Marx vs. Nozick (Phillip Lord)
Re: gtk+-1.2.3 on a lib5 linux problems. Please help me!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Marx vs. Nozick (Phillip Lord)
Re: CIA assassinations (Phillip Lord)
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? (The Ghost In The Machine)
Re: CIA assassinations (Phillip Lord)
Re: dds-1 tape drive question ("J�rgen Pfann")
Looking for a CD-ROM-Server Software running on Linux for Win32 Clients (Carsten
Springenberg)
Re: Net-Vampire for Linux? (Vito DeFilippo)
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware install on notebook
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:45:54 GMT
In article <7mskre$7q9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Smed Brookwater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I cant get through the install via floppy.
> I load slack 3.6 boot and root and
Given it takes soem time investment to install linix, why wouldyou waste
tiem with an old version? Go to www.slackware.com and version 4. Your
disks are probably hosed.
If you need it quick, install ZipSlack aand then grab the appropriate X
packages. Youc an always convert to "regular" Slacvk later. I installed
ZipSlack, X, Apache, Netscape on my laptop in about 30 minutes.
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David Turley
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From: Dirk Neunzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: NFS-Problem with Linux 2.2.7 and AIX
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 14:16:48 +0200
I have two machines running under SuSE Linux 6.1 (kernel 2.2.7) and AIX
4.2.1. On the AIX-machine some file-systems are exported via
/etc/exports with the insecure option. The Linux box is able to mount
these file-systems correctly but the writing
performace is less than poor while reading is OK. In the Linux's logs I
find messages
like "nfs : task xxx can't get a request slot" or "nfs-server yyy is not
responding / nfs server yyy OK".
While the combination Linux 2.2.7 / AIX 4.2.1 is problematic, the same
physical connection between the Linux box and another with a 2.0.36
kernel and between AIX and 2.0.36 is OK.
Is there anyone who knows some reasons for this behaviour (not 42 ...).
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Store a date in a variable.
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:19:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bertrand LEFEBVRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to store a formatted date like date +'%d%m%y' in a variable
> called NOW to be able to keep trace of some files ex: passwd to keep
it
> like passwd.290799. Thanks.
export NOW="passwd."`date +'%d%m%y'`
Note: those are back-ticks
To test the above, after running it in a shell script, do:
echo ${NOW}
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From: "Luke Th. Bullock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Benchmarks for Linux
Date: 19 Jul 1999 12:20:15 GMT
Ananda Rao Ladi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi All
> Looking for some benchmarks tuned for linux. Have Linux running
> on a PC (1GB HDD, 32 MB RAM, pentium). Would like to run some
> benchmarks to verify some changes.
>
> Any clues will be appreciated.
>
> Anand
> PS: You can mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftp://alge.anart.no/pub/system/bm.tgz
see results table @ http://www.hut.fi/~jlohikos/bm/
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/Luke
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redirecting output to log file
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:29:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How would I redirect the output of a script to /var/log/messages or
> another log file? I have a small script that echos things to the
> console but I want to have it write to a logfile instead. I don't
know
> if I would use cat or a | (pipe).
>
> Also, what exactly do cat and pipe do?
What about redirection, i.e. ">".
cat /var/log/messages >junk
cat /var/log/messages >>junk
the latter redirects output and appends, these are like DOS.
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From: Erik Lins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Altering BIOS Values w/ Program ?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:36:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
is there a possibility to alter bios setup values without using the
internal bios setup program (hit del to enter...) but some other program
? I have an embedded PC system without graphic and want to boot linux
from some harddisk (configured on another machine), which already works.
I compiled the kernal with root console on serial port. I thought it
would be fine to have some Linux utility to alter BIOS settings.
Thanks in advance,
ER!K
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
Date: 19 Jul 1999 14:28:50 +0100
>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Anthony> The conflicts of capitalism are without physical
Anthony> force. What kind of war is this? A war without
Anthony> force... that's silly (unless you meant to say a trade war
Anthony> or a price war ... but not the kind of war -- a bloody war
Anthony> -- you were talking about!)
Are you serious. Look at the genocide in Eastern Timor,
largely because Eastern Timor sits on an oil field. Look at the
brutual repression and execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa in Nigeria, and
Shell's compliticity in that. I notice that the wonderous free market
in the shape of the nuclear industry is going to start shipping nukes
across the Irish sea, and this includes arming the ship with cannon,
the first time the UK merchant navy has travelled under arms since
WWII.
Anthony> And you can say "I quit". I don't know of any dictatorships
Anthony> in all of history where that is the case.
You have the theoretical right to quit. However as you know
in our consumerist society this is as empty a right as the right to
vote was in Stalinist Russia.
Anthony> Real, laissez-faire capitalism is based upon the individual
Anthony> rights to life, liberty, and property.
Yeah. We tried that in my country for many years under
Thatcher. Many parts of our industry got shafted as a result. With one
exception which way the arms industry which the govt continually
intervened in. The result. The arms industry cost us money, and
nowadays is still just as shafted.
Anthony> That's why the rights of life, liberty, and property must
Anthony> be respected. Anything less is destruction.
But they are not protected in our society. Take for instance
the people who lived in houses along the route of the M11 (a motorway
which runs into London). So much for their rights to property. Ditto
the Pollock free state (in Glasgow, same thing).
Anthony> and the liberty to dispose of it as you please,
Anthony> then you're free to trade as you please.
This does not follow. For instance most societies I know
accept the idea of taxation, which is an approgation of the right to
ownership that you are talking about, but is none the less a good
thing. I would personally like to strengthen the right to property
more than it is, because at the moment it serves only the rich and the
powerful, which is not right.
Anthony> And since those rights must be protected, your can't
Anthony> infringe on other's rights by physical force.
Again this is nieve. You can do this, and it is done
frequently. Its part of the system we have. Have you ever seen a
family thrown out of their house and onto the streets. I have, and its
not pleasant.
Anthony> Define a capitalist. Define capitalism.
Capitalism is a system where the movement and possession of
capital is of itself considered to be of worth, and probably more
important than the work that you do of your own back, compared to the
power of those who own the means of production (interestingly of
course the "means of production" means people).
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: gtk+-1.2.3 on a lib5 linux problems. Please help me!!
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:26:00 GMT
In article <w_Nj3.2931$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Spud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Make sure you only have one version of gtk+ installed. Also, make
sure
> you only have one version of glib installed, and make sure that
version is
> 1.2.3
>
Hi ya
How to do I do that? I don't have a clue on how to ...
Thanks a lot
Ed
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
Date: 19 Jul 1999 14:39:24 +0100
>>>>> "Ashley" == Ashley Penney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ashley> I'm not saying that to be horrible, I'm trying to be as
Ashley> clinical as I can, and it's a proven fact that
Ashley> illness/weaknesses can be passed down via the genes. The
Ashley> more a genetically weak person reproduces, the worse the
Ashley> human population becomes.
I would have to say here that this argument is total rubbish.
There are many reasons why its rubbish, from the difficulties in
defining fitness, to the length to time individual breeding has to
happend to affect the population. There are many points, which I could
talk about, but I really cant be bothered. These ideas are just as
specious and just as wrong as they were when they were first suggested
early in this century.
The early history of genetics was blighted with the pseudo
science of eugenics and hasnt recovered yet in my estimation. Its
distressing to people working in the field that this stuff is still
going round. The results of the ideas are hideous from forcible
sterilisations, (the UK and the US both did these), and eventually
the concentration camps and the final solution.
Please before you let stuff like this come out of your mouth
again, think what you are doing, do some research into the field, find
out why you are wrong. Its very very important.
Phil
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 19 Jul 1999 14:56:17 +0100
>>>>> "Holy" == Holy Cow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Holy> Phillip Lord wrote:
>> The Soviet system was great, until it moved away from the Soviet
>> system and became Stalinist.
Holy> How can you say something like that? What was so great about
Holy> the Soviet system before 'it became Stalinist'?
It was the most deeply democratic system we have seen.
The soviets allowed ordinary people to have direct input into the
political system. These soviets in turn had representatives on the
larger bodies. The representatives could be called back to their
soviets at any time to account for their actions. Quite a difference
to the "one vote every five years" stuff doesnt it?
Holy> It was a bunch of bullsh#t ideologically and a bunch of
Holy> butchery otherwise--from the very first moment
This statement is I think hard to support. Well the second
part anyway. Clearly your entitled to your opinion on the first. The
october revolution actually was relatively bloodless, and was not
associated with the purges that for instance happened in France. If
you remember that many of the people involved had just seen the death
of half their generation in the first world war, I find the restraint
remarkable.
Holy> Stalin, if anything, stabilized all this crap.
Stalin introduced a system which very akin to the Tsarist
regime. He also had the gumption to drag Russia into the industrial
age, the production of which he used to a large extent to support his
political excesses. It was a very very sad end to a moving political
event. Still its not suprising. The revolution in France went the same
way for many years.
Holy> I also think it's time to add '84 to the reading list <g>.
I have read it of course. Orwells suffers greatly from
being read as set texts for 14 years olds in this country. '84 and
animal farm are great books but lack the clarity of his earlier
works.
Holy> As far as his being a socialist, I think you're right, he was,
Holy> but he always seemed to me a disenchanted one. This is
Holy> definitely a feeling that registers at the end of his
Holy> 'catalonia' book. There's no propaganda in his books.
Like most people he was a complex person. We know from his
diaries for instance that he was anti-semitic (a common view point at
the time), although it doesnt come across in his work. I would agree
that he is disenchanted as a socialist. I would probably describe
myself as such as well. At the moment however I am much more strongly
disenchanted by the excesses of capitalism in my own society. We have
to change what we are turning into, which is an oligarchical
dictatorship.
>> There are many countries which have strong socialist traditions
>> (including my own) and in many cases these ideals have been
>> incorporated deeply into the society. And most of them have not
>> turned into totalitarian governments.
Holy> That's reasonable. Pretty much all European countries are more
Holy> or less this way.
I am reasonable on occasions. Not many though...
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 13:42:04 GMT
Followups.
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote on Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:19:15 GMT <TQDk3.337$Gf.17631057@interramp>:
>In comp.os.linux.advocacy Ancipital
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Oh, and the Penguin looks a lot more cuddly than the little BSD devil
>> :)
>
> You mean that mean old penguin that, to paraphrase, "is about
>to charge you" as compared to the cute, lovable, smiling BSD
>daemon (and not 'devil') (especially on 2.2 and older discs)? :)
How can Tux be "about to charge you" when he's universally
(AFAIK) depicted as sitting down? :-)
[.sigsnip]
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 19 Jul 1999 15:00:21 +0100
>>>>> "Stefaan" == Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stefaan> BTW, christianity also had/has enourmous appeal for
Stefaan> millions of oppressed people. Does that mean it's also
Stefaan> doing something right?
Definately. To (approximately) quote Marx "religion is the
hope of the hopeless, the heart in a heartless world, the opium of the
masses". Sadly even an impulse like this can be corrupted, and in many
cases the large organised religions have turned into their own forms
of oppressive machinary. The catholic chuch for most of this millenium
is the best example.
Phil
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From: "J�rgen Pfann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: dds-1 tape drive question
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:40:49 +0200
Hello !
Do you know if your drive supports _hardware compression_ ? Mine -
Archive Python 28388 - does, via dip switches. I've already backed up
1.8 GB uncompressed (but hw compression on) and nearly 4 GB with hw and
additional software compression (gzip). I remember, when I bought the
drive about a year ago, playing a bit with the dip switches but not
really noticing a difference between hw compression on and off (in terms
of length of a test archive of given length with 'mt tell').
But maybe that is different with your HP so you can achieve the native
length only with hw compression on (just guessing) ?
Another dip switch setting, however, yielded unexpected results :
The one documented as "SCSI 2 compatibility" changed the SCSI setup
message to "SCSI 1" instead of 2, slowed down the drive a lot, but
let me use 4GB native of a DDS2 tape I've got (But boy, that took time)!
Meanwhile, I've changed that switch back, as the drive is slooow anyway,
but what I want to say with this is : Try and experiment a bit with
your drive's switches/jumpers; also try different brands of media -
it won't hurt too much, as DDS1 is the cheapest media of all (AFAIK) !
Robert Hunter wrote:
>
> greetings,
>
> i am trying to get to the bottom of an issue i am having with my tape
> drive.
>
> i am using 90 meter HP dds-1 tapes with an HP 35470A scsi tape drive.
> i am runing redhat 6, and rpm dump-0.4b4-7.
>
> i should be getting 2 GB per tape, natively (no compression), but am
> only getting around 750 MB.
>
> 'mt' says that my tape DENSITY is 61000BPI, but this yields the
> capacity i mentioned above.
>
> i have not tried messing with LENGTH and BLOCKSIZE parameters.
>
> i really appreciate any suggestions about how i can get closer to the
> rated capacity of these tapes.
>
> tia,
> rh
>
> -----------------
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----------------
CU,
Juergen
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From: Carsten Springenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for a CD-ROM-Server Software running on Linux for Win32 Clients
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 15:36:51 +0200
Does anyone has set up a CD-ROM-Server running on Linux for Win32
Clients?
I allready gave samba a try, but not all CD-ROMs run correct (but some
did). I think some of the Win32-Programs try to read directly from the
CD and get confused that the mapped drive it should get it's data from
isn't a CD-Drive.
I know there is quite a lot of hardware-solutions for CD-ROM-Servers on
the market, but I want to build one under Linux, using a machine with
only 1 CD-ROM drive which hosts all the CDs on hard disk.
Thanks for any ideas,
Carsten
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From: Vito DeFilippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Net-Vampire for Linux?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:55:42 GMT
wget (standard command line driven file retreiver that's probably already on
your system).
pavuk (another option that has an X windows interface)
*puntero_loco wrote:
> Reply-To:
> Followup-To:
> Keywords:
> Summary:
>
> Does anyone knows of a program like Net-Vampire (windows soft) for Linux?
>
> Thanks
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