Linux-Misc Digest #149, Volume #21 Sat, 24 Jul 99 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Remote Booting of X-Terminal ("Brian Schell")
Re: CIA assassinations ("R.Bloch")
Re: CRON has the wrong time - help please (Leonard Evens)
ZIP drive question on RH 6.0 ("Peter Loftus")
Bash & vi mode? (Doug O'Leary)
Write permissions on dos paritions? (Patrick Berge)
mounting msdos partions (Patrick Dooley)
weird ping (Daniele Vian)
A Modem Hung up! (Katsunori Michida)
Re: A Modem Hung up! (Bob Martin)
Re: Linux hangs every outward connection ("m")
Re: xterm: scrolling up and down (Charles M)
Removing pipe files (Jean-Yves Provost)
Re: xterm: scrolling up and down (Roy Culley)
Re: CLI text editor for Windows ("T.E.Dickey")
Kernel 2.3.0 compile error (Vijay Patel)
Where is NULL/__null? (Tim Harrell)
Re: AMD processor upgrade (vj)
Re: xterm: scrolling up and down ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: CIA assassinations (Peter Seebach)
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? (Joe Cosby)
Re: AMD processor upgrade (vj)
Re: Linux only use 1% of my CPU??? ("John D. Verne")
Re: Linux only use 1% of my CPU??? ("Paul Y. Peng")
Autofs- redirecting messages from /var/log/messages (Warren Bell)
Newbie problems with procmail and RH 6.0 (Phil Harrison)
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From: "Brian Schell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Remote Booting of X-Terminal
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:06:03 -0400
Hello!
I just picked up one of the Diskless Network Cards from Linux System Labs.
It's a network card with a bootprom essentially- no hard drive or floppy.
It's supposed to load & run X-Windows directly from the server. I've
followed the instructions on their website (www.disklessworkstation.com) and
I've gotten the server configured just about right. Now I've run into a snag
that hopefully someone can shed some light on.
1. I turn on the workstation machine, and it searches for the server.
2. It finds the server and reports the correct IP#s for both itself and the
server.
3. It loads the kernel with no problem
4. It begins to run X-Windows- I can see the gray screen with the "X" cursor
on it.
5. No login prompt or Window Manager- just the gray screen & X cursor. How
do I get a login prompt or what did I forget?
Note: According to the Diskless Nodes HOWTO
http://metalab.unc.edu/Linux/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO.html, Which really
doesn't apply to this setup, but has a few helpful pointers) I am at the
point where I should type "X -query server" but there is no term window. It
just boots to the "X". There should be something on the server that
instructs something to open a login window or start a Window Manager
Session... What do I do now?
I'm 99% of the way there, but I'm stuck at this point. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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From: "R.Bloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 12:20:58 +0600
Richard Kulisz wrote:
> Paul Wickre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz) wrote:
> >> Do you realize you're quoting someone who denies Aristotelian logic?
> >Obviously you haven't the faintest idea what you're babbling about.
> Ayn Rand contends that Aristotle "really meant" something completely
> different from what every mathematician, logician, philosopher and
> scientist has taken him to mean for the past two millenia.
Bertrand Russell didn't think highly of Aristotelian logic too.
Nevertheless, that doesn't make Rand his equal or worth reading. Why is
this thread so cross-posted?
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CRON has the wrong time - help please
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:24:46 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Running RedHat 6.0 on a machine, I am faced with the following -
>
> use date to check date, shows correct date and time
> use linuxconf and timezone, also show correct date, time and zone
>
> but ...
> cron seems to be out by 8 hours!
> IE - when the time shows 9am, cron is just running processes set for 1am
>
> this may have something to do with pacific time and UK time (where I am)
> but how do I find what setting is wrong?
>
> Ideas please.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Check what /etc/localtime points to. It is a link to what
your local time zone should be. If it doesn't point to
the correct time zone, remove the symbolic link and remake
it. For UK I assume the way to make the symbolic link would
be
ln -s /usr/lib/zoneinfo/Greenwich /etc/localtime
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Peter Loftus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ZIP drive question on RH 6.0
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:09:54 -0400
I've a external parallel port Zip drive on my machine. I use it when in
win98 and would like to use it in linux also. However everything I read in
"Howto's, etc" seem to imply that I will have to recompile the kernel in
order to access the drive in linux. I'm quite new to linux and its been 20
years since I worked in a unix system, so I'm not anxious to do a recompile,
especially since it took me 24 straight hours and a dozen attempts to
install RH 6.0. I finally did it by stripping out most of the packages in
the install list. Then I had to RPM the various items I wanted individually.
Anyhow, am I correct about having to recompile the kernel, or is there
another way?
TIA!
Pete Loftus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug O'Leary)
Subject: Bash & vi mode?
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:01:33 -0500
Hi;
I know I had this set up under other versions of Linux; however, can't
seem to figure it out for Redhat 6.0.
I want to use the vi mode for command line and history editing as it's
done with ksh. I want to hit the escape key then use the vi movement
keys to move through the history and be able to edit the various
commands.
Under ksh and, I thought, bash, you do that with "set -o vi"; however,
that doesn't seem to be working with my current version.
Any hints on what I'm messing up?
Thanks.
Doug
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System Admin
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From: Patrick Berge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Write permissions on dos paritions?
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:26:50 -0400
Why don't non-root users have write accress to Dos files?
ie.. all files/directories in dos paritions (some are FAT32 others are
FAT) have drwxr-xr-x as the access permissions?
I want to be able to write files to any dos partition with out su root.
Is there anything I can do other than the obvious(changing every
file/directory). Also will adding the write permission effect DOS or
Windows in any way?
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From: Patrick Dooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mounting msdos partions
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:34:17 GMT
Hi -- I have a hard drive with multiple msdos partions. I can mount the
first partion just fine using 'mount -t msdos /dev/hdb1 /mnt/pc_c' but
trying to mount hdb2 only results in a message that hdb2 is an invalid
block device. Is this because hdb1 is a primary partion and the others
are logical?
thanks
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From: Daniele Vian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: weird ping
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:42:23 -0400
Hi all,
I can't ping -s 55 localhost or to any other host... Any other packet
sizes would work, but not 55 bytes! MOreover, doing ping -R localhost,
the answer is
RR: localhost (127.0.0.1)
localhost (127.0.0.1)
localhost (127.0.0.1)
localhost (127.0.0.1)
why 4 entries and not 2 (just one hop)??? My routing table is very
basic, only the entries for localhost and the default gateway, that's
it.
I'm running Linux 2.2.7 (redhat6) on two machines (128.197.22.24 netmask
255.255.255.128 and 128.197.22.150 netmask 255.255.255.128 - so in two
different subnets) connected via a 3com 35000 router.
I have a lot of problems with other programs, and I guess that this
weird behavior might be the reason.
Anyone has an explanation to this fact?
Thank you very much,
daniele
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From: Katsunori Michida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A Modem Hung up!
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 22:01:05 +0900
Hi all, this may be a stupid question, but how can I tell if a modem is
gone bad and needs replacement?
I have an internal AT&T Win modem which I had been successfully
using to connect my IBM Aptiva machine to a provider. Now when I use
ppp-d to
dial in, I get connected but a modem hung up!
I tried the command "cu -l /dev/cua0" . But the anser was "Permission
denied!"
What should I do next?
The distribution is SlackWare 3.6.
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Modem Hung up!
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:51:23 +0000
Katsunori Michida wrote:
>
> Hi all, this may be a stupid question, but how can I tell if a modem is
> gone bad and needs replacement?
> I have an internal AT&T Win modem which I had been successfully
> using to connect my IBM Aptiva machine to a provider. Now when I use
> ppp-d to
> dial in, I get connected but a modem hung up!
> I tried the command "cu -l /dev/cua0" . But the anser was "Permission
> denied!"
> What should I do next?
> The distribution is SlackWare 3.6.
Well you said it was a winmodem and sine winmodems do not work with any
OS other than windows, you need to get a real modem.
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From: "m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux hangs every outward connection
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:09:11 GMT
On one of our machines (dual 200 ppro) we were having wierd hangs. It
seemed that it would work ok for a day or two, but as soon as some heavy
processing happened, it would hang (just as you describe). We were trying
to figure out what problems we had in code or in the setup of the machine.
i.e. Linux would install, everything would work apparantly and boom... out
of the blue it would just stop.
Well, to make a long story short, we finally opened the case up (because
our backup tape drive didn't get used when a machine was unstable) and we
noticed that it was really dusty and the fans weren't running. hmm. the
fans weren't running.
That was it. Fans weren't running
replaced them and voila. no failures (well, not weird ones).
My guess from your description is that your machine isn't cooling its
processors properly.
Perhaps the room they are in are too hot
good luck
Michael Preminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> HEllo!
>
> I am running RedHat 6.0 on a 400Mhz double processor, 256MB SCSI
> machine,
>
> The machine runs database applications, and I have a php script
> searching extensively in a MySQL database.
>
> I suspect that the php script runs too slowly, and this may or may not
> be associated with my problem:
>
> While running this script I have twice experienced that the machine
> hangs up.
>
> It reacts normally to ping, but every attempt at communication (telnet,
> ftp) fails. Even the console screen gets black!
>
> Has anybody experienced this problem? What can be the cause?
>
> --
> Michael Preminger
>
> Forsker / Research Scientist
> Avdeling for journalistikk,
> bibliotek- og informasjonsfag /
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> Information Science
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>
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles M)
Subject: Re: xterm: scrolling up and down
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 12:59:12 -0500
In article <7ncn8e$fk2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Hello Linuxers
>
> I would like the page up and page down keys on the keypad
> to page up and down the xterm window and not scroll through
> the bash command history. I have tried adding the following
> to my .Xdefaults without any affect:
>
> *VT100.Translations: #override <Key>KP_Prior: scroll-back(1,page)\n\
> <Key>KP_Next: scroll-forw(1,page)
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to do this? It works on my Sun
> at work by defualt (ie: I don't need to do anything). If I do
> an 'xrdb -q' I see the translation above. The keypad is not in
> numeric mode.
>
> I am running SuSE 6.1.
>
> Regards,
> Roy
>
>
I don't run KDE by default (I use Enlightenment) and I'm not on Linux
right now so I can't check, but I believe its KDE's terminals that don't
use the up and down keys to scroll. I believe that normally an xterm will
scroll up and down with those keys just like on your Sun box, at least I
seem to recall doing this and it works. You might try an nxterm and see
if that works. There is, I believe, some line or lines in the system wide
.Xdefaults that is resetting this under KDE, but I forget which ones off
the top of my head. You might also try a blank .Xdefaults in your home
directory to see if that helps. Then try adding lines back in till you
find the offending lines.
CMM
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From: Jean-Yves Provost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Removing pipe files
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 19:50:55 +0200
Hi,
following a system crash (XFree86 3.3.3 on Cyrix mediaGX)
I've had a few corrupted files, one of them being /bin/cp
[jyp@Petit-Camion jyp]$ ls -l /bin/cp
p--x----wx 1 65280 14700 0 Jul 13 1969 /bin/cp
[jyp@Petit-Camion jyp]$
I'm unable to delete it or reintall the rpm fileutils-3.16-10.i386.rpm
Any help to help me delete this file would be more than welcome
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roy Culley)
Subject: Re: xterm: scrolling up and down
Date: 24 Jul 1999 18:12:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles M) writes:
> I don't run KDE by default (I use Enlightenment) and I'm not on Linux
> right now so I can't check, but I believe its KDE's terminals that don't
> use the up and down keys to scroll. I believe that normally an xterm will
> scroll up and down with those keys just like on your Sun box, at least I
> seem to recall doing this and it works. You might try an nxterm and see
> if that works. There is, I believe, some line or lines in the system wide
> .Xdefaults that is resetting this under KDE, but I forget which ones off
> the top of my head. You might also try a blank .Xdefaults in your home
> directory to see if that helps. Then try adding lines back in till you
> find the offending lines.
>
> CMM
Hi Charles,
I'm not running kde. I use afterstep. I used to run kde and
the same thing happened with that. A friend uses debian and
fvwm2 and his xterms behave the same. The page up / page down
keypad keys scroll through the bash history and not the xterm
window. Still, I will look to see if there's something doing
this system wide.
Regards,
Roy
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CLI text editor for Windows
Crossposted-To: comp.editors
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:14:48 GMT
In comp.editors Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The version of ViM that I use in Win32 needs ansi.sys (there's one in
> \windows\command) in your config.sys file.
hmm (I've got more than one match from 'locate'):
that's windows95.
nt has one under \winnt\winnt\system32 (but I haven't used it -
something to check on, I guess).
But with vile, we usually build the gui and console window versions. (I
think the djgpp port is VGA, underneath, and haven't looked at the ansi.sys
version recently except as part of regression building on Linux).
> (BTW, how do you remotely log into a Win32 system?)
I'm not familiar with them, but have seen some third-party programs
mentioned occasionally that will do some simple operations remotely, i.e.,
the sort of things that one can do by spawning cmd.exe (there was some
followup article a month or so ago on one of the threads I posted to,
from a vendor - but after peeling off the sales hype that's all they had).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 19:20:14 +0100
From: Vijay Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel 2.3.0 compile error
Hi,
I'm trying to compile kernel 2.3.0 from scratch using a completely new
source tree (no patching) on a RH 6.0 system, but the compilation falls
over with the following message:
===================================================================================
ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext
arch/i386/kernel
--start-group \
arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o
fs/f
fs/filesystems.a \
net/network.a \
drivers/block/block.a drivers/char/char.a drivers/misc/misc.a
drivers/ne
video.a arch/i386/math-emu/math.a \
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib/lib.a /usr/src/linux/lib/lib.a
/usr/src/lin
--end-group \
-o vmlinux
fs/filesystems.a(fat.o): In function `fat_file_write':
fat.o(.text+0x264e): undefined reference to `update_vm_cache'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
[root@localhost linux]
==================================================================================
I'm no expert on compilation errors, so any suggestion as to what the
problem might be would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Also, is there
a linux NG dedicated to kernel issues, compilation problems, etc ?
cheers,
vj
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From: Tim Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Where is NULL/__null?
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:24:30 GMT
I have recently installed Suse 6.1, only now when I come to compile
stuff , I get the error that __null is not defined.
__null is what NULL is defined to be it seems but where is __null got
from.
A simple one line c prog will reproduce this...
>>>
char *p = NULL;
>>>
compiling this with gcc -c gives
`__null' was not declared in this scope
so it does see that NULL is defined from __null but not __null itself.
Including <stdio.h> or <stddef.h> does not solve this problem.
I have gcc installed from package egcs-990315, gcc -v gives...
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)
Was there something wrong with my install perhaps?
--
Tim Harrell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 19:24:53 +0100
From: vj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD processor upgrade
Hi,
I'm using a AMD K6-2 with no obvious problems, so a K6 should be no
problem. If I recall correctly, there is s a choice of processors one
can choose, if you decide to do a kernel upgrade, I'm pretty certain the
K6 is among the choices given.
Nevyn wrote:
> pentium 166 to AMD K6 350.....good or bad idea with repect to
> linux???....and recomendations...?
>
> --
>
> *************************************
> ** "yurtta sula cihanda sula" **
> *************************************
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xterm: scrolling up and down
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:20:58 GMT
Roy Culley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like the page up and page down keys on the keypad
> to page up and down the xterm window and not scroll through
> the bash command history. I have tried adding the following
> to my .Xdefaults without any affect:
> *VT100.Translations: #override <Key>KP_Prior: scroll-back(1,page)\n\
> <Key>KP_Next: scroll-forw(1,page)
Perhaps it (the translations) is already set in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
You can see by 'appres XTerm'. If so, you may be able to still override it
by making the resource more specific. (I prefer to not use xrdb - are you
really using it to pick up your .Xdefaults ?)
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach)
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:23:57 GMT
In article <7nbvk0$qqp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ayn Rand contends that Aristotle "really meant" something completely
>different from what every mathematician, logician, philosopher and
>scientist has taken him to mean for the past two millenia.
I've never been able to demonstrate whether that's Rand or just Randians. :)
-s
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Cosby)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: 24 Jul 1999 18:27:02 GMT
** To reply in e-mail, remove "riwjec." from address **
Chris Lee hunched over his computer, typing feverishly;
thunder crashed, Chris Lee laughed madly, then wrote:
> >
>
> Who says [Miami]'s the best? Amiga users? Give me a break....
>
>
Have you used it? Are you at all familiar with it? Do you have
any point of comparison?
Or is your point just "Amiga users are all idiots, so they can't
possibly know a good TCP/IP stack"?
If it's the latter just say so, place yourself in the ranks with
the other mindless flamers with nothing real to say.
--
Joe Cosby
Amiga Fanatic
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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 19:25:40 +0100
From: vj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD processor upgrade
Hi,
I'm using a AMD K6-2 with no obvious problems, so a K6 should be no
problem. If I recall correctly, there is s a choice of processors one
can choose, if you decide to do a kernel upgrade, I'm pretty certain the
K6 is among the choices given.
Nevyn wrote:
> pentium 166 to AMD K6 350.....good or bad idea with repect to
> linux???....and recomendations...?
>
> --
>
> *************************************
> ** "yurtta sula cihanda sula" **
> *************************************
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From: "John D. Verne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux only use 1% of my CPU???
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 13:30:35 -0400
Rob Stockley wrote:
>
> Mark Simonetti wrote:
> >
> > And erm, 1 gig swap space ? Do you mean you have lots of 128meg swap
> > partitions ? Because normally swap spaces can only be a maximum of 128
> > meg (though you can have lots of swap spaces). I could be wrong though,
> > this could of changed in the 2.2.x kernels (?!?)
>
> Linux will use up to 16 swap partitions of not more than 128M so 1G is
> achievable.
>
I understand that the new mount/swap utilities can make swap partitions
on a single device of up to 2Gb. I quote from the 2.2 Changes file:
Util-linux (including mount)
Among other changes made in the development of Linux kernel 2.2, the 128
meg limit on IA32 swap partition sizes has been eliminated. To use
larger swap spaces, you need the new mkswap found in util-linux. You
also need to upgrade util-linux to get the latest version of mount.
John
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From: "Paul Y. Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux only use 1% of my CPU???
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 15:23:04 -0230
Mark Simonetti wrote:
>
> And erm, 1 gig swap space ? Do you mean you have lots of 128meg swap
> partitions ? Because normally swap spaces can only be a maximum of 128
> meg (though you can have lots of swap spaces). I could be wrong though,
> this could of changed in the 2.2.x kernels (?!?)
I talked about this issue to our system manager when we installed
RedHat6.0. We did find somewhere in the manual of this version saying
it supports 1GB swap space. So we increased to this amount from 256MB.
top also reports this amount of swap space. We totally have three
partitions, one 1GB, one 3GB and one about 300MB.
Paul.
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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:35:33 -0700
From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Autofs- redirecting messages from /var/log/messages
I'm using autofs to automount my cdrom and floppy but it's flooding
/var/log/messages with a bunch of messages that I don't need. Does
anyone know how to redirect the messages automount creates to /dev/null?
I looked all through the /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs script that starts
automount but couldn't spot where it's writing the messages.
I'm using RH 5.2.
Thanks,
Warren Bell
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From: Phil Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie problems with procmail and RH 6.0
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 19:52:39 +0100
I am having a hard time trying to get procmail to work on Red Hat 6.0
I think I have got sendmail working OK. I followed the instructions at:
http://www.hopf.demon.co.uk/demon/sendmail-config.html
After I took out the parts for running mailing lists, I got a demon.mc
file like this:
http://www.ramtop.demon.co.uk/linux/demon.mc
Which produces the following sendmail.cf file:
http://www.ramtop.demon.co.uk/linux/sendmail.cf
Anyway, all this seems to work OK and incoming mail gets placed in
/var/spool/mail/phil (I have my aliases file set up to divert pharrison@
e-mail to this mail box and I hope to be able to use procmail to filter
mail depending on the To: header). When I run pine, it seems to find
this OK and it appears in the INBOX folder.
The problem I am having with procmail is that I can't get it to do
anything. No matter what I do, all of the mail gets placed in the INBOX
folder. I have been following the instructions on the mail-filtering FAQ
at:
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/mail/filtering-faq
So I set up the following files up as instructed:
http://www.ramtop.demon.co.uk/linux/.procmailrc
http://www.ramtop.demon.co.uk/linux/rc.testing
http://www.ramtop.demon.co.uk/linux/.forward
But all of the mail still goes to the INBOX folder regardless of whether
I put the word "test" in the subject line or not. What am I doing wrong?
Incidentally, I am not particularly bothered about whether or not I use
pine, so if there is an easier way involving a different mail reader
then I would be happy to use that instead.
--
Phil Harrison
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