Linux-Misc Digest #187, Volume #21 Tue, 27 Jul 99 18:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Open Sources (Robert Burrows)
Re: windows dll vs. linux libraries (Craig Graham)
Re: Redhat 6 and postscrip printing..... !@#$*! (Leonard Evens)
Re: Where can I get Xlib.h? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++??? ("John King")
Linux! (Pdpsnarfa1)
Re: Need script to convert filenames from UPPER to lower (Thomas S. Urban)
Re: drives mount in linux and dos-like OS's (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Toronto + Rogers@home + RH 6 (Stewart Honsberger)
Iomega Zip Plus ? ("www.Boxing-Connection.com")
2 Questions about elm and wtmp ("David P. Cunningham")
Re: Linux tape backup crash? (Armin Kaiser)
Re: Networking Problem (Paul Anderson)
Re: Setting environment in bash shell? (William Wueppelmann)
ppp mystery on new installation ("Gordon D. Anderson")
Re: help with invalid ICMP error (Malware)
updatedb / No setup signature found... ("rt")
Re: Help, I Need A Time Server ("Quiney, Philip (EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)")
Re: character based word processor?? (Matthew W. Roberts)
Re: PPA Zipdrive & Redhat 6 (Coy A Hile)
Re: setting a memory ceiling (Ole Jacob Taraldset)
Re: CLI text editor for Windows (Johan Kullstam)
Re: ISA AWE64 blasts!! during boot. (Michael Wittman)
Re: character based word processor?? (Robert Heller)
Setting up Advanced Power Management (was Re: Powering down with RH6.0) (Anthony
Tsakiris)
Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++??? (Tony Houghton)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Burrows)
Subject: Open Sources
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:12:59 GMT
I have just finished reading Open Sources, a very interesting and
informative book edited by DiBona, Ockman, and Stone and published by
O'Reilly. I will give it to the first person who sends me their address.
--
Robert Burrows
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Craig Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: windows dll vs. linux libraries
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:23:18 +0000
Mark Hamstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Craig Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lou Grinzo) wrote:
>> >The Windows "DLL Hell" problem is not a fault of the=3D20
>> >technology, but a problem with how many companies have
>> >used them. Linux's "shared misery" problems, like all
>> >the recent problems with StarOffice and glibc, are a=3D20
>> >similar situation.
>>=20
>> I'd probably agree there - the only unsurmountable shared lib
>> problem I've had has been when I upgraded glibc and StarOffice
>> broke - I tried for day's to get it to re-install, no joy :(
>> I think, if companies are going to ship binary only versions of a prog=
ram
>> that they'd be better off forcing static linking (as it stops being a =
pro=3D
>> blem
>> if you can simply rebuild from source).
>
>They can't static link LGPL libraries (like glibc) with proprietary code=
=20
>unless they ship the .o files and let people relink the application and
>internal libraries.
Then that's what they should do (or allow the option of doing as
part of the install). Although, I would say the glibc problem is one
that shouldn't (in my opinion) be happening - smacks of someone
not thinking through the results of their actions...
>Mark Hamstra
Craig.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6 and postscrip printing..... !@#$*!
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:58:34 -0500
RH6 user wrote:
>
> hi
>
> I have Redhat 6 and i cant seem to get postscript printing to work.
>
> When i run printtool both the ASCII tests run ok;
> but the postscript test just dumps out a blank page.
>
> Staroffice 5.1 just dumps out a blank page and so does netscape and
> xemacs. GIMP though can produce a printer output.
>
> Is there a problem with the ghostscript?
>
> Printer is HP deskjet 660C which ran fine with 5.2 before i upgraded to 6.
>
> Any ideas suggestions on what problem may be would be appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Rumpole
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Please remove 's' in email address to reply..
> .a precaution against spammers who
> harvest email address's from newsgroups.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
The answer could depend on what printer you are using.
I have an HP 5MP laser printer, and I have to select
`postscript printer' as the filter. Your choice or lack
of choice of filter may have something to do with your
problem.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Where can I get Xlib.h?
Date: 27 Jul 1999 16:25:23 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Calla wrote:
> I'm using RedHat Linux 5.2 and I'm getting a bit frustrated when it
> comes to installing apps. Some people only release the source and so
> I have to compile it myself
Would you prefer to have some binary that doesn't work on your system, say
because it was compiled for libc5, or built with egcs on a system whose
glibc exports __register_frame_info, or built for glibc-2.1?
> and this is where the problem arises. I
> often get an error when running "make": can't find X11/Xlib.h.
>
> I assume Xlib.h is one of probably many library files that programmers
> use to write X apps. I've searched my system -- I don't have it. So
> where can I get it?
Look for an RPM called something like "X development".
> And is it part of a huge 50-meg package that I
> have to install? Was it supposed to come with X11R6?
Yes, but these days the convention for repackagers is to split up the
development from the runtime parts.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "John King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++???
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:13:10 -0700
I'm not sure it this will help but there is a 2.7 gcc c++ (??) package
included and a note on another package to include if you want to use the
2.7?? package as your default compiler.
So I think it's there you just use YaST to uninstall (think) egcs and
install the other two packages.
I think egcs is the default c++ compiler in a stock install. As you know you
can't yet compiler the kernel with it AFAIK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7nk7b6$1q9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>So just what is going on here?
>Did C++ disappear from Suse 6.1 egcs package by accident?
>
>Where is __null, iostream.h, g++ ?
>How can people compile KDE apps under Suse 6.1?
>
>I can't believe I'd be the first person to spot a blooper of this
>magnitude, but I'm buggered if I know how to compile the source for KDE
>apps under my current system :-(
>
>Anyone else had probs compiling KDE or other C++ apps off Suse 6.1 ?
>I chose all the dev packages at install and have egcs,libgpp etc.
>
>What initiated this was my desire to compile the latest version of
>kppp. Please don't tell me to use wvdial as the issue is I want to
>hack^H^H^H^Hdevelop C++ progs on my linux box...
>
>
>
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tim Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pdpsnarfa1)
Subject: Linux!
Date: 27 Jul 1999 20:37:03 GMT
There is a New Linux Discussion Board at
http://uc2.groupserve.com/commentlist.jhtml?dn=126.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas S. Urban)
Subject: Re: Need script to convert filenames from UPPER to lower
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:32:31 GMT
On 27 Jul 1999, Kenny McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Phil Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Try this one:
>>
>>gawk '{print tolower($0)}' lowerlist.txt > upperlist.txt
>
>Even better:
>
> gawk '{print "mv -i",$0,tolower($0)}' lowerlist.txt > upperlist.txt
> source upperlist.txt
>
>Note how nicely the -i option to mv takes care of the "file already exists"
>case. Note also that if you are using a sh-ish shell as your login shell,
>you would replace the line:
>
> source upperlist.txt
>
>with:
>
> . ./upperlist.txt
>
>Notice how much nicer this is than all the ugly, complicated Perl
>solutions (which are really posted as advertisements for learning Perl,
>since a user really ought not run code downloaded from the net w/o
>understanding what it does (at at least some minimal level)). See, the
Sure, yours included. There's usually more than one way to
do it. I posted a perl solution, which works as a more general
solution. As to your comment that I posted an "advertisement"
for learning perl, I really don't know what to make of that.
It was just a general solution. If you do know some perl,
and run into the problem of having to rename a set of files
more than once, then it works pretty well. I find myself
renaming files (mostly that come from a dos filesystem)
fairly regularly. Uppercase to lower case. *.htm to *.html.
*.cpp to *.cc. Etc. It saves me time when I do. YMMV.
>real issue here is "How often do I have to do this? Is it a one-time
>deal [the most common instance]?" Most of the time, the user is looking for
>a one-shot solution (which the above is) and we write, debug, and post for
>them fully optimized, production level code.
>
A problems was presented, multiple solutions of varying
complexity were given. I don't see the problem.
Sheeeeeeeeesh
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: drives mount in linux and dos-like OS's
Date: 27 Jul 1999 16:07:51 -0400
YamYam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi...
> I want to ask about the difference in mount/umount the drivers in
> linux 'is it necessary, if so why?' and the easy one in Dos-like
> OS's 'e.g., Win95, Win98, ...'.
> I found it very complicated for the Dos-like users to switch to linux at
> this point. Is there any suggessions to make easy for that user, such as
> writing a script to mount/umount the floppy and cdrom?
1) don't bother mounting floppies. for unix-unix file transfer, use
tar to write to them like a tape. for linux-dos, use mtools. fyi
mtools can access your V?FAT partitions too.
2) you can set options in /etc/fstab to let random luser mount the
cdrom. in my experience, it's not the typing of mount/umount, it's
the hassle of becoming root to do it that's annoying. perhaps
mtools works with cdroms too?
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Toronto + Rogers@home + RH 6
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:05:00 GMT
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999 02:50:11 +0100, Andrew wrote:
>Anybody know if the Canadian 'Rogers@home' cable internet service will
>work okay with linux? I know some people who are getting it and may be
>getting Linux on their computer, but want to know if it will work.
We use @Home on an OS/2 box, so there should be no problem using it under
Linux.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
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Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: "www.Boxing-Connection.com" <@Boxing-Connection.com>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Iomega Zip Plus ?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:13:16 -0400
Hi everyone. My parallel port Iomega Zip drive is having a problem with my
Redhat 6.0.
I found out that the problem is due to the fact that mine is Zip plus
(because it says "AutoDetect" on its cable).
I've been looking for info on how to make Zip plus to work. Does anybody
know about this issue? Is there a site that I can go to for this issue?
I appreciate for any help. Thanks.
=============================================
The Boxing Connection and Fitness Center, Inc.
www.Boxing-Connection.com
(914)376-9368
=============================================
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From: "David P. Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 Questions about elm and wtmp
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:47:45 -0400
I have 2 distinct questions about elm and wtmp on a Redhat6.0 system.
Elm:
How can I set up elm (or Redhat for that matter) to send out with a
different email address. For example it currently sends out as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I want it to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that
when I send email to people that can not see what server I am actually
coming from. Any ideas?? I know how to change the reply-to but that really
doesn't do what I want it too.
wtmp:
Does anyone know of a good cron job to clear out the wtmp file?? I have
tried jsut erasing it, but then at login it doesn't re-create it, it just
sends a message that logging for this login will not be taken because the
wtmp file does not exist (or something like that).
Thanks for the help or any pointers in the right direction to settle these
issues.
--
David P. Cunningham
Webmaster
Cyberix, Inc -- http://www.cyberix.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Armin Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux tape backup crash?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 07:17:24 GMT
Chip Coldwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been having serious problems doing tape backups under Linux: namely
> the backup (using either 'tar' or 'dump') proceeds nicely until suddenly,
> without warning, the entire system freezes. I've had the same problem
> with both 2.0.36 (RedHat 5.2) and 2.2.5 (RedHat 6.0) kernels, using several
> different kinds of SCSI tapes and SCSI controllers. Does anybody have a
> clue?
Well, I think that the problem could be the mainboard. What kind of mainboard
do you have? Are there any other known crashes (e. g. compiling a kernel with
option -j)? Test your mainboard (including Ram-chips), maybe it's broken.
Bye
Armin Kaiser
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Anderson)
Subject: Re: Networking Problem
Date: 22 Jul 1999 01:27:38 -0400
Stephen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>The hard part is coming up with a test to determine if the card is
>'down'. A simple hiccup on the network could trick your scripts into
>switching interfaces.
>
Grab the High Availability HOWTO from the LDP site, it should cover this.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: Setting environment in bash shell?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:57:40 GMT
In our last episode (26 Jul 1999 19:42:27 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Gordon Anderson said:
>
>The setenv command is not available in bash. Is there some other
>way to accomplish the same thing.? After installing Netscape, the
>instructions said to aa addt to profile a setenv MOZILLA_HOME
>/usr/locaal /netscape. Netscape doesn't work so I wanted to try
>this. Thanks
MOZILLA_HOME="/usr/local/netscape"
export MOZILLA_HOME
--
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: "Gordon D. Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppp mystery on new installation
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:21:53 GMT
I have a new setup with pretty much everything working but I can't
use ppp. When I enter on the command line ppp-on, the error message
says that the command doesn't exist. That seems to be correct. On
a manual search through the files, I couldn't find it either. However,
I know that I installed it and ppp does show up on the boot screen.
Did I miss a configuration step somewhere? Thanks.
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From: Malware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: help with invalid ICMP error
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:57:12 +0200
Hi Mark,
you wrote:
> Jul 26 10:29:04 doppler kernel: 142.158.3.1 sent an invalid ICMP error
> to a broadcast.
This messages does occour if you receive a ICMP error message to an
packet that was orginated to a broadcast address. The source does tell
us:
/*
* Check the other end isnt violating RFC 1122. Some routers send
* bogus responses to broadcast frames. If you see this message
* first check your netmask matches at both ends, if it does then
* get the other vendor to fix their kit.
*/
So above especially does speak about the case where you have given a
directed broadcast address as destination but the router does not know
this is a broadcast since it does have another netmask. As it seems this
router is directly connected to your network this might be easily
possible.
If you fear the ICMP messages did came from somewhere else you should
install access lists on the router filtering out packets with bogus
source- and/or destination-adresses (called spoofing; e.g. packets
coming in from 206.248.112.72 on the outsided interface).
> The error occurs frequently, every 5 minutes or so, whether I am doing
> anything or not. Can somebody please tell me: 1. what is causing the
Wether you are doing something or not is not related. It is only of
interest if your machine does send out packets to an address it thinks
to be an broadcast or not. Programs sending such packets on a regular
schedule are e.g.: SAMBA and timed.
Malware
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From: "rt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: updatedb / No setup signature found...
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:34:03 +0200
Hey,
If have two problems with RED HAT 6.0 that I didn't had with the versions
5.0 and 5.2:
1) after running updatedb is the computer crashing;
2) after rebuiding and compiling the kernel in an completely exact way (like
under 5.0 and 5.2) I get after rebooting under RED HAT 6.0 the following
message:
NO SETUP SIGNATURE FOUND......
and I cannot start the new kernel.
Under Red Hat 5.0 and 5.2 the new kernel started without any problem.
Who can help me for resolving this two problems? Thank in advance.
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From: "Quiney, Philip (EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help, I Need A Time Server
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:32:12 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how I can setup my Linux machine as
> a NTP time server for clients? What do I need so
> that I get clients to sychronize with my Linux machine?
>
You will need to setup the xntp package to do this. You will need to
synchronise the Linux machine with an accurate clock, with an internet
connection you can set xntp to use a time server on the net (your
friendly ISP may have such a machine).
Alternatively you can get a time source for your own machine - such as a
GPS receiver or other 'radio controlled' clock. IIRC there is
information on how to do this in the xntp documentation.
xntp is available on Rufus (http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/) for rpm
distributions.
Time clients for windows (assuming that was your intention) are
available on Tucows or other shareware sites. If you were using other
Linux boxes, then you just set xntp to use the first machine as a time
server.
HTH
Regards
Phil Q
--
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Telephone: +44 (1279) 402363 London Rd, Harlow,
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United Kingdom.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew W. Roberts)
Subject: Re: character based word processor??
Date: 27 Jul 1999 16:05:01 -0500
I have been wondering the same thing. I know about LaTeX
and vi, emacs, etc., but is there something like Wordperfect
5.1 for Linux?
Matt
--
================================================================
Matthew Roberts http://matt.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
================================================================
Friends are those rare people who ask how we
are and then wait to hear the answer.
-- Ed Cunningham
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Coy A Hile)
Subject: Re: PPA Zipdrive & Redhat 6
Date: 27 Jul 1999 17:05:36 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark Mykkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having a problem installing my parallel port zip drive in redhat 6.0
>using 2.2.5. I get an error when I run:
>
>root /% insmod ppa
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_claim_Rcca15f23
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_register_device_R064ebecf
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_unregister_device_R3618c96f
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_enumerate_R648d1e26
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_release_R4430d136
>root /% insmod lp
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_unregister_device_R3618c96f
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_register_device_R064ebecf
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_enumerate_R648d1e26
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_release_R4430d136
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/lp.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_claim_or_block_Rf3d047bc
>
>I specified SCSI Disk support and ppa support and anything else that I
>involves printing, trying both in the kernel and as a module.
>
>I ran:
>make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install
>
try doing "modprobe ppa" instead of insmod so that it also loads any
dependencies that ppa.o might have.
Coy
--
Coy Hile
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Theirs not to reason why; theirs but to do...."
Tennyson, "Charge of the Light Brigade"
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From: Ole Jacob Taraldset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting a memory ceiling
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 09:22:49 +0200
You can restrict the ammount of memory (and other things) used by a
process by the command ulimit (bash) or limit (csh/tcsh). Ex: "limit
datasize 256000".
Ole Jacob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a program which occasionally uses up all
> the system memory and swap space on my Linux
> box. I want to prevent this by setting a limit
> on memory usage. Included below is some C++
> code/[pseudocode] that seems to do the trick.
> In short, it sets RLIMIT_AS to 40% of the total
> system memory. There must be a better way.
> Does anyone know of one?
>
> void abort_handler(int sig)
> { cerr << "\n\nSystem abort received.";
> [Explain that this could be because too
> much memory was used.]
> exit(1); }
>
> ...
>
> int mem_percent = 40;
> ifstream memfile( "/proc/meminfo" );
> while( memfile.peek( ) != EOF )
> { char* line;
> memfile.gets(&line, '\n');
> if ( [line starts with "MemTotal"] )
> { int mem_max =
> [the integer which appears in line];
> rlimit mem;
> mem.rlim_cur =
> mem_max * mem_percent * 10;
> mem.rlim_max =
> mem_max * mem_percent * 10;
> setrlimit( RLIMIT_AS, &mem );
> break; } }
> memfile.close( );
> signal( SIGABRT, abort_handler );
>
> ...
>
> David Jaffe
> Dept. of Math. and Stat.
> Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CLI text editor for Windows
Date: 27 Jul 1999 16:17:23 -0400
"Brent Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know that this is a Linux group, so please don't flame me for the posting.
> I'm asking here because the UNIX community seems to know a lot more about
> software packages than does the Windows community.
>
> I have 4 Linux servers and 1 NT Server (NT required by my client). I have
> SSH running on the NT Server (Just figured it out) and I need to CLI text
> editor for NT. I'm figuring that any such animal would probably be a port
> from UNIX.
>
> Does anyone know of a text editor, like PICO of VI, that has been ported to
> NT? Since even the DOS editor requires graphics to run, I can't use it over
> an SSH session.
edlin
or, more specifically,
c:\winnt\system32\edlin.exe
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Wittman)
Subject: Re: ISA AWE64 blasts!! during boot.
Date: 27 Jul 1999 21:27:03 GMT
In article <7nkp2e$dvq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yes, it is essentially the same. The order that we do things are equal
>(load sound module, adjust mixer setting, and then load midi module)
>just the procedure that is different. It is working fine for me now,
>thanks. Anyway, this may mean a bug in the awe64 midi module. What is
>the linux distribution that you have? I have 2, the problem was with
>Debian 2.1, which I use all the time. RedHat 6.0 apparently doesn't have
>the problem but I don't use it often.
My Redhat 6.0 does indeed have this problem. I'm using kernel 2.2.10
and I get the loud blast of white noise in about one in five boots.
Hopefully the fix you guys came up with will work for me as well; my
girlfriend has been bugging me to fix it for quite a while now. :)
-Mike
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: character based word processor??
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:25:35 GMT
Eric Wyles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:02:16 -0800, wrote :
EW> I am looking for a good, character based word processor for
EW> Linux. The character based requirement is due to the fact
EW> that it will be used by many users on text-only dumb
EW> terminals.
EW>
EW> This needs to have the features of a standard word
EW> processor, not just text editing functions.
EW>
EW> Any ideas (commercial or free) would be appreciated.
LaTeX *comes* with every Linux distributation at no extra charge.
So does a selection of text editors that will work just fine on a
'text-only dumb terminal'. This includes a non-X11 version of GnuEmacs.
Other editors that work well in the land of 'text-only dumb terminals':
pico and vi.
EW>
EW> Thank you,
EW> Eric
EW>
EW>
EW>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Tsakiris)
Subject: Setting up Advanced Power Management (was Re: Powering down with RH6.0)
Date: 27 Jul 1999 09:02:24 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven E Bourland wrote:
>
> [reformatted because of highly brain-damaged line wrapping]
>
> > When I first installed RH6.0 and 'shutdown -h now', the machine would
> > actually power down on its own (I didn't have to hit the power switch).
> > Being the lazy boy that I am, when I compiled a new kernel (2.2.10) and
> > it quit powering down on its own, I was quite miffed. I saw earlier
> > posted re: Suse and this problem which said to add '-p' to the final line
> > in rc.halt.
>
> Did you enable CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF when you configured the kernel?
Any advice or experiences on setting up APM on a laptop would
be appreciated. I'm working through this now (with RH 5.2 and a Dell
Latitude) with the APM and Kernel HOWTOs, but I've never rebuilt
a kernel.
--
Anthony Tsakiris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Houghton)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++???
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:29:27 GMT
In <7nk7b6$1q9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So just what is going on here?
> Did C++ disappear from Suse 6.1 egcs package by accident?
>
> Where is __null, iostream.h, g++ ?
> How can people compile KDE apps under Suse 6.1?
Yes, I noticed that g++ was missing from SuSE 6.0, but I didn't have
the other problems. I linked g++ to gcc which seemed to do the trick,
I suppose gcc reads what command it was called with and works out
whether you want to compile C or C++.
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