Linux-Misc Digest #204, Volume #21 Thu, 29 Jul 99 05:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Java installation problem ("Otha Stubblefield")
Increase partition limit. (Regit Young)
Re: Inserting links crashes netscape (coffee)
XFS and True-Type fonts (Andy Busch)
Re: Linux has finally crashed (Villy Kruse)
Re: keeping dialup clocks about right? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Am I damaging my Monitor !! (J Rappe)
ftp uploading, man ftpaccess sucks! (Jeff Greer)
Re: Red Hat 6.0 and passwd command (Villy Kruse)
Re: Kernel Panic: No init found (Villy Kruse)
Re: RH6 timezone (Villy Kruse)
Re: CIA assassinations ("A.T.Z.")
Re: Unresolved symbols in module... (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: Hey has the matrox g400 out yet??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++??? (Michael Hasenstein)
Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++??? (Michael Hasenstein)
Re: windows dll vs. linux libraries (Todd Knarr)
Linux Soft-PLC ("Hans van Zijp")
Re: CIA assassinations (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Disk mirroring with PowerQuest Drive Image Pro (Jan Swartling)
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From: "Otha Stubblefield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Java installation problem
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:24:49 -0700
I was trying to install ICQ for java, and installed version 1.1.7 of the
JDK. When I try to run ICQ I get the following errors:
SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation
Full thread dump:
Monitor Cache Dump:
Registered Monitor Dump:
Monitor IO lock: <unowned>
Child death monitor: <unowned>
Event monitor: <unowned>
I/O monitor: <unowned>
Alarm monitor: <unowned>
Monitor registry: <unowned>
Thread Alarm Q:
I believe that I've installed Java incorrectly. Any help?
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From: Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Increase partition limit.
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 14:34:52 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible to increase the partition limit of a single scsi drive
from the 15 maximum ?
Thanks,
Regit
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Inserting links crashes netscape
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 01:21:49 -0400
Jim McIntyre wrote:
>
> When I try to insert a link in my postings or e-mail, netscape crashes
> as soon as I click on "apply" or "OK". has anyone dealt with this
> before.
> Thankx in advance
If its any consulation I have the same problem when I hit the save
changes key. My apply works good but then I have to go to the upper
right of the window and it the X to close it.
Strange?
--
Newbie Problems? Visit www.indy.net/~coffee for help
coffee at indy dot net * ICQ 1614986
Kokomo, Indiana, USA
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From: Andy Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XFS and True-Type fonts
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 03:16:26 -0400
I have a Mandrake 6.0 installation and it uses XFS for rendering fonts.
I used to use xfstt, but I'd like to leave as much as I can as
installed. Mandrake came with some true-type fonts, but I'd like to add
more. There seems to be more to it than just putting some *.ttf files
in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts (and restarting XFS, which I don't
know how to do, so I reboot).
Any help would be appriciated.
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Linux has finally crashed
Date: 29 Jul 1999 09:05:08 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David L. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My experience with AIX is (fortunately)�behind me, but the filesystem was not
>as reliable as linux. My AIX box would never re-boot after a power failure
>(which happens rather frequently at my U), and more than once files were
>corrupted.
Note that aix jfs by design protects only the directories, inodes and free
space information, not the contents of the data files. A UPS is still well
worth it for protecting the data itself.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: keeping dialup clocks about right?
Date: 29 Jul 1999 03:30:51 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew J Robb wrote:
> Unless anyone can come up with a utility that does it all, I shall write
> a daemon that:
>
> 1) Uses a choice of SNTP or ICMP 13 protocols to get accurate time from
> the network when it is available (callable from PPP connect).
> 2) Maintains a sliding average of system clock frequency
> (calling adjtimex() function to update kernel).
> 3) Maintains a sliding average of hardware clock frequency.
> 4) Periodically updates the hardware clock.
> 5) Adjusts system time from hardware clock at bootup
> (similar to hwclock --adjust).
Have you looked at chrony
(http://www.rrbcurnow.freeuk.com/chrony/index.html)?
It seems to do at least a subset of what you want.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Rappe)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Am I damaging my Monitor !!
Date: 29 Jul 1999 08:02:38 GMT
Rakesh Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am currently running RH6.0 on a PII 350 + 64 MB ram + 16mb Riva TNT
>machine. I also have a 15'' monitor that is not listed under Xconfigurator.
>the problem 'i think' is that when I switch to different resolutions (Ctrl +
>Alt +/- ) the screen seems distorted at different areas (depending on the
>resolution). Am I damaging my monitor ? Also when X just starts up (the grey
>screen just before the logon) there are horizontal lines moving across the
>screen, but once the logon screen appears it looks fine !!
>
>At the moment I have X up and running but I am not sure if I have chosen
>refresh rates that may be harmful to my Monitor.
>My monitor manual says the following :
>'15 inch multi-scanning color monitor capable of resolutions up to 1280 x
>1024 (non-interlaced)'
>' Multi-scanning at horizontal frequencies of 30KHz to 70 Khz, and vertical
>frequencies of 50KHz to 100KHz'
If you have a configuration that is close to working you can use Xvidtune
to get timing numbers that work better. You then need to hand edit your
XF86Config file to add the fixed mode. I find its easiest to strip out
all the predefined mode lines once you have hand tuned ones; this makes it
easier to find the actual mode line that's being used.
--
-john Finally the day came when I did desparately want a job.
jrappe@ I needed it. Not having another minute to lose,
bigfoot. I decided that I would take the last job on earth,
com that of messenger boy. -- Henry Miller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Greer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ftp uploading, man ftpaccess sucks!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 06:59:10 GMT
Can someone tell me why an anonymous user cannot upload. I've
tried "man ftpaccess" This man file sucks like most other man
files.
thanks.
I am running RH 5.2. Here is the file "/etc/ftpaccess"
=====================================================
email root@localhost
loginfails 5
readme README* login
readme README* cwd=*
message /welcome.msg login
message .message cwd=*
compress yes all
tar yes all
chmod no all
delete yes all
overwrite yes all
rename yes all
log transfers anonymous,real inbound,outbound
shutdown /etc/shutmsg
passwd-check
upload /home/ftp /pub/in yes ftp ftp 0777
--
Jeff Greer
B.S. computer science, University of MO - Rolla
==================================================
Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
No one hears your screams...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 and passwd command
Date: 29 Jul 1999 09:45:14 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently install Redhat 6.0 on a machine to test. When setting up
>users just edited the passwd file by hand and created the users place a :*:
>in the place of the password. I then used passwd user_name to set up the
>passwords for each user and it said it updated everything fine. Every seemed
>fine.
Try /usr/sbin/useradd /usr/sbin/adduser (they are the same command on
RH6.0). This will also take care of /etc/shadow if need be, which you
would need to do separately if you just use an editor. Also, you can use
pwconv to update /etc/shadow, if you still want to use the editor method.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: No init found
Date: 29 Jul 1999 09:39:13 +0200
In article <7nnck9$kll$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Mykkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
>
>> I have the /etc/fstab and /etc/inittab properly configured (I think). Is
>> there anything special that I have to do when installing it to a zip
>> drive? I've read the HOWTOs on the Zip drive and now I am stuck. How do
>> I tell the kernel where my init is?
try: Lilo: linux init=/bin/sh. That wuld drop you directly into a shell
prompt.
>
>Make sure init is statically linked, otherwise, it won't be loaded.
Funny. How are redhat systems able to run when it has a dynamic linked
/sbin/init?
+ ldd /sbin/init
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x40005000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40008000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: RH6 timezone
Date: 29 Jul 1999 09:25:59 +0200
In article <7nn8l6$7ls$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Furie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>jerrad pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> How do you change a system's timezone in RH6 (EST->GMT)? I've heard from
>previous versions to use /usr/lib/timeinfo or something, but I have no such
>directory on my system.
>
>I don't know if it changed in version 6 but in 5.2 timeconfig does the trick
>and doesn't require a reboot.
It does the trick on RH6.0, too. If you don't care to remember the name
you can run the setup command which displays a small menu, and timeconfig
is one of them. The timeconfig command is dientical to the one you ran
during installation.
Villy
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From: "A.T.Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:19:36 +0200
The real problem with some people is the fact that they only know how to
critisize. They have an opinion but no vision how it could be done better.
So I challenge them to do the following:
Tell us how you would like to reorganise the social security/welfare system
in your country.
And how are you going to pay all your expenses. I expect something more
intelligent then "more tax" cause people who have a business or earned a
lot of money are NOT stupid. Do not forget that large companies might move
from to US to a more tax friendly country, leaving the US with more
unemployed and less income from taxes.
If you can't give a real vision then please shut up.
Bye,
B.
Michael Powe schreef:
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> >>>>> "MK" == MK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> MK> On 26 Jul 1999 01:45:09 -0700, Michael Powe
> MK> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> >> No, the ones doing most of the complaining make $60K a year,
> >> >> spend $75K a year and whine about the `gummint' taking their
> >> >> money. At least in the US, the rate of increase for
> >> consumer >> indebtedness is far higher than the rate of
> >> increase for gov't >> debt. The same people who criticize the
> >> `gummint' for >> mismanaging funds are themselves incompetent
> >> in the same >> matter.
>
> Jim> Where did you get this little gem? cites?
>
> >> Do you have any "cites" to the contrary? I offer in evidence,
> >> the amount of whining that goes on in newsgroups ... there are
> >> no poor people in evidence here, and yet there's plenty of
> >> whining about the `gummint' taking their money.
>
> MK> Shrug. Because it's true. It _is_ their money, and the
> MK> government _is_ taking it away. Whether the individual
> MK> mismanages his money or not is _his_ problem only; when
> MK> government mismanages money (and it is routine, try to look at
> MK> European economies), everybody looses. That's group
> MK> responsibility, something that civilized people frown upon.
>
> And you evade the point. I have no respect for bourgeois whining about
> their tax bills. The only reason they do so is because they're too
> weak to live within their means -- then, when they overspend, they
> blame it on the gov't. The gov't then responds by increasing the tax
> burden on the lower classes, who don't vote and therefore pose little
> threat at the polls.
>
> >> Currently, the US Congress is about to pass yet another tax
> >> package for the bourgeois, the "marriage penalty" tax break,
> >> the lying lizards are calling it. If you're not married,
> >> you're already at a tax disadvantage -- and now, that
> >> disadvantage will grow.
>
> MK> This was a ricochet in the battle between feminists and
> MK> conservatives -- feminists wanted to get a tax funded daycare,
> MK> so conservatives fired counter-torpedo of tax cut to prevent
> MK> the bill for daycare being handed to couples with
> MK> children. Unfortunately, singles have got a part of
> MK> blast. Well, that's what happens when the government becomes
> MK> "involved" in the economy.
>
> Wow! There's some nice "reinterpretation." Apparently, you're one of
> those people who think businessmen will suddenly, miraculously "play
> nice" if there are no more regulations. Hey -- it could happen.
> Monkeys might fly out my nose, too.
>
> >> Who does Congress represent -- the poor? Yeah, I had to inject
> >> a little humour there. After the "Tax REform Act of 1986," my
> >> taxes went up -- and the taxes went way down for people making
> >> $10K per year more than I was making. Entirely predictable.
>
> MK> Or else those people will evade the taxes (take note of
> MK> proliferation of tax havens), or if they will be absolutely
> MK> unable to pay, they will pass most of their taxes onto
> MK> customers, Sherlock. That's what happens in Europe, check
> MK> practice if you don't believe theory. Purchasing power of
> MK> hour of work, etc.
>
> Right, the old "give businesses a bigger tax break or they'll raise
> their prices" blackmail. Funny, the tax burden on US business has
> dropped more than 50% in the last 30 years ... with no appreciable
> benefit to the consumer.
>
> How do you tell a businessman is lying? His lips are moving.
>
> mp
>
> - ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Michael Powe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Portland, Oregon USA http://www.trollope.org
> - --
> Amount of all stock owned by the least wealthy 90% of America: 18%
> Amount of all stock owned by the most wealthy 1% of America: 41%
> [Economic Policy Institute]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Unresolved symbols in module...
Date: 29 Jul 1999 07:36:01 GMT
In article <7nnbvl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Abreu wrote:
>After compiling my kernel and rebooting it, I got the message "Unresolved
>symbols in module ..." for a lot of modules.
I got a whole blast of those today. Weeks ago, I made 2.2.10 with
everything a module that isn't in the boot path, and I don't have the
kernel daemon enabled. For the first time since then I tried to mount
a FAT-16 floppy. The messages came when I tried to insmod
msdos.o before fat.o. Inserting fat.o and then msdos.o worked fine.
It seems the symbols that come with one module are used to insert the next.
>I did everything by the book:
>
>make mrproper ; make menuconfig ; make dep ; make clean ; make boot ; make
>modules ; make modules_install
I don't trust any distribution to set up "make boot" correctly.
The rest of the targets are the work of Mr. Torvalds, but "boot"
depends on the packager, Red Hat in your case. I always
make: mrproper, xconfig, dep, clean, modules, bzImage, modules_install
and then copy the bzImage to where it needs to be and add it to my
Lilo setup. Only do mrproper after unpacking a new source tree;
it blows away the work config/menuconfig/xconfig does.
>I am using RH 4.2 w/ kernel 2.0.36 and libc 5.4.46 and the message also
>shows when I issue "depmod -a" when logged as root.
>
>In the kernel config menu, I chose not to have version information on the
>modules.
Oops, if you're making a set of kernel + modules all at once, put the
version info in them.
Cameron
http://judi.greens.org/lilo/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Hey has the matrox g400 out yet???
Date: 29 Jul 1999 08:12:06 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: My only complaint with Matrox is that they don't have "This is the best
: supported card under Linux" stamped on their G200 web page.
I thought that TNT/TNT2 based cards are the best supported ones under
Linux, with 3D hardware acceleration and everything. Hell, G200 isn't
even that well supported under Windows, evident with all the people
bitching about the long-waited OpenGL ICD.
Besides, nVidia is not shy about supporting Linux. I will be happy
with Matrox when they release the specs for Rainbow Runner, but before
that, nVidia products will be my top pick for Linux machines.
-- Chuan-kai Lin
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From: Michael Hasenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++???
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:12:38 +0200
someone wrote:
> > I have now installed 'gpp' and I can now compile said KDE app. I wasn't
> > aware that this extra package was needed. I'm a newbie and was told by a
> > linux dude that gcc aka egcs was used to compile c++ progs (and I'd
> > merrily used gcc to compile c++ progs in the past on other Unix
> > systems). Also people have said that one shouldn't be using 'g++' so I'm
> > kinda confused, what exactly _should_ I be using with a 2.2.x system to
> > compile my c++ progs?
No need to be confused. They were talking about the gcc 2.7.2.3 C++
compiler. egcs is or is to become the new gcc, so there�s no gcc vs.
egcs, you have to look at the version numbers. This is why egcs is also
called /usr/bin/gcc, because it IS (a) gcc.
> > They haven't held my hand at all, though not for want of hoping. I never
> > managed to get thru once on the phone support and emails sent would take
> > a week or more to get a response.
I guess there are a lot of people calling, and that employing so many
expensive specialists that the lines are not always crowded is a luxury
no company can efford from selling a 40$ package. Especially with todays
high incomes of computer specialists ;-) (which I like)
> > So you're saying that i DO need g++ for compiling any c++ apps and this
> > is something distinct from the gcc in egcs package? (it's in a separate
> > pkg after all).
It�s part of egcs, but shipped in a separate package. After all, quite a
lot of people don�t need C++.
Also, see above, there�s no egcs vs. gcc, they�re different versions of
the same. Now this is even official, since egcs has been made the
official GNU compiler.
> > What was curious is that i had libg++ stuff (package libgpp) already
> > installed and Yast didn't saying anything about needing gpp package when
> > I selected the dev stuff.
Yeah, maybe they should add a dependency for that...
> > As for being the first one as you so nicely put it, here's a posting on
> > the Linux Today forum from Monday 26th june
> > <http://linuxtoday.com/stories/8053_flat.html>
(deleted, saves space)
The article you posted sounded pretty uninformed at best.
--
Michael Hasenstein
http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha/
Private Pilot (ASEL) since 1998
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From: Michael Hasenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++???
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:59:33 +0200
Michel Catudal wrote:
First, would you please be so kind and NOT quote lots of lines of the
previous posting(s) if you don�t really need to (because you�re reply is
about them)???
> G++ is not ANSI compliant but that is not the reason that I say
> it's buggy and personnally I would never install it on my system.
/usr/bin/g++ in SuSE package �gpp� IS the egcs c++ compiler and not old
gcc 2.7.2.3.
> I ported a large library of my Visual Age for C++ to Linux because
> my program needed the string classes that I used under OS/2.
> What I found out was that g++ not only create crappy programs
It is more complicated than that - their is no egcs vs. gcc, egcs IS gcc
now (i.e. RSN)!
> but that if I exceeded a certain number of virtual functions it
> would generate fixed pointer in lala land from that point on. Anyone
> who has had frequent illogical core dump with C++ programs might
> understand a bit now.
>
> I haven't had time to test egcs yet and if it screws up on mine
> as you say it does on yours I'm not about to use this g++ shit to
> get things to work. There's got to be a way to get this to compile
> without reverting to this garbage. I'll buy Comeau C++ if need be.
--
Michael Hasenstein
http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha/
Private Pilot (ASEL) since 1998
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: windows dll vs. linux libraries
Date: 29 Jul 1999 07:55:54 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But lets talk about the creation of an object in one version and passing
> it to a previous version. This is of course bad news and a good way to
> design a system. Like I said, a bad implementation is not a sign of a
> bad technology.
But that is precisely the point. The problem in Linux shared libraries
is exactly the one in Windows DLLs: if the internal implementation or
external interface of two versions of a DLL differ, you cannot safely
have both versions used in a single program ( because, for example, the
program itself uses one version while another DLL used by the program
uses a different version ) without jumping through a lot of hoops to
keep the uses of the two versions completely separate. I picked DirectSound
because I've had to deal with it lately, but it applies to MFCs, the WinSock
libraries and others equally. The best implementation in the world can still
fall prey to this.
And in the case I mentioned, it was creating an object with an older
version and passing it to routines using a newer version. _That_ should
be dealable with, and IIRC the new symbol versioning in glibc2.1 can
be used to handle this case by providing two versions of the relevant
symbol ( I may be wrong about this, but it seems a logical extension ).
> Also, I have not said the shared library paradigm that Linux has is bad,
> I simply said it is not a good model for distributing binary objects to
> a heterogenius installed base.
Then the Windows DLL model is equally bad, since it suffers from at
least the same flaws. They can all be corrected, but Linux has a head
start on Windows in this area.
> I have called many times for the concept of a shared module in addition
> to shared libraries. Just think about being able to distribute a .so
> file that can be used on any version of Linux, by any application no
> mater what c library it is linked to.
This can be done with shared libraries. You simply need to make sure
that the shared library in question does not link with any other
shared libraries and depends only on system calls.
--
It may be great to soar with the eagles, but weasels don't get sucked into
jets.
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From: "Hans van Zijp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Soft-PLC
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:04:40 +0200
I'm looking for a real-time, IEC (6)1131-3 compatible Soft PLC, running
under Linux.
Questions :
Does it exists ?
Are there people working on it ?
Where can I find more info ?
Thanks.
Hans van Zijp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:10:35 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 28 Jul 1999 20:24:13 -0500...
..and Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthias Warkus wrote:
> >
> > It was the 27 Jul 1999 20:07:14 -0500...
> > ..and Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > "A.T.Z." wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Within a year of 40/50 the US will be under EU supervision (like it was
> > > > before), because EU market and the Euro is much bigger and stronger then
> > > > the US market and the US $.
> > >
> > > A bit dreamer are you?
> > > Nothing better than real money, the US dollar.
> >
> > Remind me that I wave a wad of Euro cash in front of you when I next
> > come to the U.S.
> >
> I have little confidence in the Euro considering the recent problem
> with it. I rather trust the French Francs and the German Marks
> for now when I get European currencies.
They don't exist anymore. The individual currencies are nothing more
but aliases for the Euro in the transition time.
mawa
--
I think it's interesting that the Athenians coined the term 'idiot'
to refer to someone who had _no_ interest in politics.
-- Wayne Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Swartling)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Disk mirroring with PowerQuest Drive Image Pro
Date: 29 Jul 1999 07:58:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:47:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
wrote:
> Has anyone tried using Powerquest Drive Image Pro. I don't want the
> extra load of a IDE RAID controller in my machine and prefer to make my
> "backups" when necessary. The thing that has me concerned is that I'd
> like to be able to use a removable rack mount for the HDD and I'm a bit
> confused on how they get around drive letter mapping.
>
> Since primary partitions are assigned drive letters first and a primary
> partition will be needed on the backup drive for c:\dos then that's
> going to make OS/2 unbootable as it 's drive letter will change when the
> second disk is online or does it? I've used ext2 linux drivers under
> OS/2 and you can control drive letter mapping that way but I want to be
> sure. And since I have several partitions if the first partition on the
> second drive is logical then it's useless as a backup because I'd have
> to delete all the higher partitions and make the first one a primary I
> think.
>
> Now I have deleted and partition lower on the drive list that was an
> ext2 partition and reformatted it as FAT but I'm not sure you can do
> that and change a logical to a primary partition???
>
> And if I'm not mistaken it mirrors both FAT and HPFS. Linmux ext2 I'm
> not so sure about.
I believe you may have misunderstood the purpose of Drive Image. The
program is not for mirroring, it's for imageing. Drive Image let you
make an image (a kind of copy) of the hard disk or partitions of your
choice. This image, which is stored in a compressed way, may be stored
on another hard disk, a ZIP, a JAZ, a CD or similar. The image contain
every bit of information from the original, including all boot
records, allocation tables, all customization you have done to your
operating system and applications. The image can be used for cloning
or deploying workstations or, as in your case, as a backup. If you,
for some reason, have the need to use your backup, you just start up
Drive Image again and restore the image to the hard disk and you'll be
back in business in a couple of minutes. You can make an image of FAT,
FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, as well as Linux, Unix and Netware partitions.
If you just want to back up certain files instead of complete hard
disks, take a look at Powerquest DataKeeper or V-Communications
AutoSave. Be aware though that both those program have the unfortunate
litmitation of backing up only FAT-systems.
Jan Swartling
Blue Soft
Sweden
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