Linux-Misc Digest #264, Volume #21 Mon, 2 Aug 99 17:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: IDE vs scsi? ("Art S. Kagel")
Re: LUG in LONDON ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: video editing on linux? ("R.K.Aa")
Re: Netscape 4.61, libstdc++ version problems (Pinwu Xu)
Re: Installing Netscape 4.61 (Patrick Barrett)
Help: Recall Last Command ("M. Cao")
'mount' freezes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
kdepath error solution (Rick Goyette)
Re: VB and Linux (NF Stevens)
bash question: changing path within script? ("G. Pollack")
Re: root authority?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Permission denied ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IDE vs scsi? ("Art S. Kagel")
Can't log in to Red Hat system. (Daniel Doreika)
Re: What I think of linux. (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Re: What I think of linux. (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Re: netscape and newsgroups (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Raid setup problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: TTF Fonts ("Christopher W. Aiken")
WordPerfect and True Type Fonts? (William Knechtel)
Re: Is Linux A Memory Hogging OS? (Donn Miller)
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From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE vs scsi?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 15:10:26 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No. What is meant by multiple reads/writes is that SCSI can read and write to
all 7 or 15 devices on it's bus simultaneously while EIDE can only access one
of the two devices on each channel at a time. Also since EIDE controllers tend
to not be as intelligent as SCSI controllers I do not think, I am not certain,
that a mulit-channer EIDE controller can access even separate channels in
parallel.
Then there is Tagged Queuing which allows the SCSI controller to reorder reads
and even writes to optimize drive access. In a multi-user, and especially an
SMP, environment SCSI always out performs EIDE. The benchmark you quote sounds
suspiciously like a single user WinXX test to me.
Art S. Kagel
Stefan Ehlen wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Richard Steiner wrote:
> >>
> >> Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Ehlen)
> >> spake unto us, saying:
> >>
> >> >The fastest SCSI and the fastest EIDE drives are really close together.
> >>
> >> How can this be when the fastest commonly available SCSI drives are all
> >> usually 10000rpm drives and the fastest commonly available EIDE drives
> >> are only 7200?
> >>
> >> --
> >> -Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
> >> OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
> >> + VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
> >> Burma Shave.
> >
> > I dont think anyone can convince me that ide is as fast or faster then
> > scsi. Usually ide qoutes burst speed. This means ide writes/reads in
> > bursts. Scsi has a sustained speed.
> >
> > Scsi is quite a bit faster and can perform multiple read/writes where
> > ide cannot and thus is quite a bit slower.
>
> The benchmarks I quoted are made under realistic circumstands concerning
> both segmentation of data and different file length. So your considerations
> are automaticly taken into account.
>
> I don't know what you mean by "multiple read/writes", but if you mean that
> several sectors can be transferred within a single read/write access: EIDE
> supports this, too, since some years.
>
> > Im no expert in scsi but on my system with a mylex 40mb/sec controller
> > and a good scsi drive I can see a world of difference between scsi and
> > ide. I would never ever buy ide again after switching to scsi.
>
> In this case I assume your IDE disk does not use DMA, but PIO. PIO is much
> slower than DMA, which made the big difference between SCSI and IDE in
> former days. The first Chipset I know that allowed DMA transfer for IDE
> was Trition II used in e.g. my Asus T2P4 mainboard, which is several years
> old. Since then, DMA has become the standart transfer mode (for the main
> boards, not for e.g. win9x, which must still be convinced by hand that DMA
> is the better choice :-( ).
>
> CU
> Stefan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LUG in LONDON
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 19:27:28 GMT
On 2 Aug 1999 14:57:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>The web site is http://www.lonix.lug.org.uk/
>
>The next meeting is
>
>Date : Thursday August 5th 1999 6.00pm to 6.15pm
>
>Place : Piccadilly Circus Station. Meet outside Tower Records basement
>level. Tower records has two entraces to the store. One is directly
>inside the underground station and one is on street level. We will
>meet outside the basement level entrance. Look for the lonix sign.
why are you meeting outside a tube station ?
wouldn't a classroom or an office be a better location.
i know you can hire out office space at the weekends and educational
resources in the evening.
A sedentary life, as I have already said elsewhere, is the real sin against the Holy
Ghost.
-Nietzsche
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video editing on linux?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 21:28:55 +0200
Vito DeFilippo wrote:
>
> Broadcast2000beta is still available for download at freshmeat.net
*** This Broadcast 2000 demo has expired
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From: Pinwu Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.61, libstdc++ version problems
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 13:55:00 -0400
"J. Scott Berg" wrote:
> In article <wk5h3.31054$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> A Guy Called Tyketto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >J. Scott Berg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> >> Use the glibc version, get libstdc++-2.8.0-14.i386.rpm from RedHat.
>
> > This is all fine and dandy.. for REDHAT.
>
> I do not use redhat. My system started as Slackware 3.6 and I've
> worked it up to a glibc-2.1.1 system building everything from source.
> I've built rpm (www.rpm.org), and use rpm2cpio to unpack the package.
>
I am thinking about moving to glibc-2.1.1 now. The problem is, I am using a
Slackware based system, manually upgraded to glibc-2.0.7, compiled almost
everything. Now here is glibc-2.1.1, which needless to say brings some
kind of incompatibilities, but not as clean as moving from libc5 to libc6 as
you got a major libc version number difference.
Would appreciate if someone could shed some lights on the upgrading,
from glibc-2.0.7 to glibc-2.1.1. I've read the announcement, it mentioned
about recompiling libraries, my question come to the X libs, as I don't want
to compile that part myself now.
BTW, just upgraded to gcc-2.95, scared by the new libstdc++ version
number. Now on my machine, for those programs using libstdc++, those I
compiled use libstdc++.so.2.9, downloaded glibc2 version executables
use libstdc++.so.2.8, now we've got some name even hard to remember. (sigh)
Later.
Pinwu
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From: Patrick Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Netscape 4.61
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 16:50:01 GMT
try this:
cd to the directory you have netscape 4.61 downloaded to. Then do rpm -Uvh
*.rpm
This might fail, so try rpm -fvh *.rpm for "freshen".
if this still fails, try this last command
rpm -Uvh *.rpm --nodeps
The last one should work no matter what, but if it gave you errors about
failed dependencies other than netscape common, you should get those rpm's
before trying again.
BTW, when uninstalling an rpm, you don't look for the rpm file itself. it's
# rpm -e packagename
not
# rpm -e packagename.rpm
For instance you would uninstall netscape with the following command:
# rpm -e netscape-common netscape-communicator netscape-navigator
I like how rpm lets you put multiple file names on at once, it makes life
much easier.
Anyway I hope you get the idea now, and that's about it.
Patrick Barrett
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fav Quote:
"It's not X Windows dammit, it's X Window!!!" --Patrick Barrett, 1999
kev wrote:
> I'm trying to install Netscape 4.61 because I have 4.51 at present and
> crashes whenever it gets within spitting distance of a Java applet. The
> chkfontpath fix did not fix this for me.
> I have downloaded the netscape 4.61 common and communicator RPMs.
> I was advised to rpm -e the old ones, but I don't know where they are on
> my system. A 'find / -name *rpm*' turned up no RPMs.
> So I tried rpm -U, but for common I get this message:
>
> error: failed dependencies:
> netscape-common = 4.51 is needed by netscape-communicator-4.51-3
> netscape-common = 4.51 is needed by netscape-navigator-4.51-3
>
> and for the communicator rpm I get this one:
>
> error: /home/kev/tmp/netscape-communicator-4.6-1.i386.rpm cannot be
> installed
>
> I thought RPMs were meant to make installing/upgrading s/w easy. What's
> going on?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> - Kev
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From: "M. Cao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Recall Last Command
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 11:29:24 -0700
Hi,
Could you tell me how to customizing environment to recall last
commands from the keyboard.
If possible, I love to know in Korn, Bash, Csh and Bourne Shells.
Thank you
Minh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 'mount' freezes
Date: 2 Aug 1999 12:47:00 -0500
I'm using Red Hat Linux 6.0, on an AMD K6-2 450MHz/128MB RAM/10GB HDD.
Running 'mount' as command lines like:
mount /mnt/floppy
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/dosfloppy
and all other combinations that i tried makes mount execute but never
return back to the command prompt.
I waited over 85 minutes on one terminal for mount to return, but it
never did.
Yes, I'm logged in as root, yes those directories used for mounting
exist, yes, /dev/hda1 is my Win95 FAT32 partition.
Any suggestions? I can't copy anything into my Linux system because of
this :o(
Thank you in advance!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Goyette)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: kdepath error solution
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:35:44 -0500
Thanks to Ben Sandler and Nick Rout for their help. The culprit was
/etc/profile.d/kde.csh which read
# KDE initialization script (csh)
if ( $?KDEDIR ) then
if ( $KDEDIR == "/usr" ) then
exit
endif
endif
setenv KDEDIR /usr
kdepath="${KDEDIR}/bin"
if ( echo ${PATH} | grep -q ${kdepath} ) then
exit
endif
The thing that was causing the problem was the line
kdepath="${KDEDIR}/bin" which, for csh and tcsh, should be setenv
kdepath="${KDEDIR}/bin". This, however, generates another problem: there
is something wrong with the if-endif statement that I can not see. The
echo ${PATH} | grep -q ${kdepath} works on the command line, but if ( echo
${PATH} | grep -q ${kdepath} ) echo "hello" gives me the error message if:
Expression Syntax.
My solution was to comment it out, but if sopmeone can see the problem and
email me, I would be grateful.
--
R. J. Goyette
Argonne National Laboratory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: VB and Linux
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 21:08:25 GMT
"tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am thinking about building a windows admin program for users on my
>networked Linix box.
>
>Can anyone tell me will I be able to launch programs on (the networked)
>Linux server from Visual Basic. i.e if there is a Vb app on a windows PC
>that displays an Internet access button, when clicked will it, reference and
>launch a bash script on the Linux box.
>
>Anyone got any ideas
If VB can use internet sockets then the easiest way would be
to use the rexec service on the linux box. Check the rexecd man
page for details.
Norman
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From: "G. Pollack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bash question: changing path within script?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 17:53:37 GMT
I'd like to be able to change the path from within a bash script. The
script, called set_path (with execute permission set, of course)
consists of a single line:
PATH=$PATH:/some/new/path
Executing set_path results in no error messages, but inspecting $PATH
from the command line, shows that it hasn't changed. The above command
works fine, however, when typed in directly at the command prompt.
Can anyone tell me how to change the path from within a script?
Thanks,
--
Gerald Pollack
Dept. of Biology, McGill University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: root authority??
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:25:07 GMT
Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Part of this question I posted earlier but got no response.
: I'm concerned that permissions are not working as I think
: they should.
: An ordinary user should not be able to kill a process owned by
: root, right? But I've got a ppp dialup script which I can
: run as an ordinary user, (because pppd is SUID, root-owned).
: When the pppd runs, it is a process "owned by root". Yet,
: as an ordinary user I can kill it with "killall pppd". Why?
I'm no expert at all, and I'm not sure if I understood your problem correctly,
but, was the user who can killall pppd the one who ran the ppp dialup script?
I'm assuming "yes", in this case it's normal because the process was owned by
the ordinary user although it's SUID root when executed, so both the owner and
root can terminite it. However, you won't be able to kill it as another normal
user.
: On the other hand, root should be able to bypass user permissions
: and read or write to files owned by others, right? But if I
: mount a msdos filesystem with the UID=501 option, so that user 501
: can read/write to it, root gets "permission denied" when trying to
: write to that file system. Why?
Not sure about this one, did you mount that system as root? if so, it could
well be because that you set explicitly the permision as root and didn't grant
root the r/w permission, I'm not 100% sure about this and since I'm not by my
linux box now I can't test it either, but as a normal user, when you don't
set the r/w permission to some file/filesystem, you can't read/write to it even
if the file/filesystem is owned by you(some shell commands, like rm, have an
'-f' option which "forces" you to overide that permission barrier), I'm
guessing it's also true with root, ie., once root explicitly forbids itself from
reading/writing from/to the filesysem he/she can't do that without the "force"
option turned on. chmod should solve the problem.
: --
: Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Permission denied
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:27:50 GMT
Did "./a.out" fail also?
Julie Zhong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I compiled a simple C program using gcc but the a.out file
: cannot be executed. An error message "permission
: denied" appears, but the file mode is 777 already.
: Any hints? TIA.
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From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE vs scsi?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 15:42:28 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rod Smith wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "Duy D." wrote:
> >
> >> I'm considering to buy a scsi disk to install Linux on. When i do
> >> hdparm -t /dev/hda on my ide disk, it reads about 15 mb/s most of the
> >> time. Can somebody give me a number on the fastest scsi disk? Thanks.
> >
> > I use a Seagate Barracuda LVD 9.1GB model # ST39173LW it is capable of
> > 80MB/s and works great.
>
> I doubt that very much. I also doubt the 40MB/s figure somebody else
> quoted. Those are both limits for particular implementations of SCSI
> busses. Real-world hard disk transfer speeds are almost always
> substantially lower than the hard disk bus speed. You achieve bus speed
> saturation only when using several devices or when transferring data
> to/from the hard disk's cache.
That's what I used to think. Then someone pointed out to me that a 10,000 RPM
drive with 35 sectors per cylinder on average (entirely possible with even one
high density platter/head and easy with 2 or more) is capable of reading 170MB
per second! Even a 7200 RPM drive can do > 120MB/sec! Do the math! Also I
checked out the spec sheets for those new SCSI drives. They all claim sustained
read transfer rates in excess of 70MB/sec.
Art S. Kagel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Doreika)
Subject: Can't log in to Red Hat system.
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 20:11:29 GMT
I have a Red Hat 5.2 system which has just developed a little problem.
Seems I can no longer log in to it now. Whenever I enter a log in
name, and hit Enter, instead of asking me for a password, the screen
clears quickly and goes back to asking for a username. I have
rebooted the system several times (using Cntrl-Alt-Delete, not by
hitting reset), but I still can't log in. Nor can I telnet in either,
all I get is this:
Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Kernel 2.0.36 on an i586
... after which nothing happens. What's weird is that everything else
with the system appears to be running. It has a web server running,
which I can get to (this system is on a network, so I can access its
services from other computers). I can also FTP into the system, but I
can not get it to allow me to log in, which is of course a major
problem. If anyone has some suggestions on what I can do to fix this,
I would be most appreciative. Thanks for any help!
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 04:17:09 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Tim Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>alann writes:
>>> I would be curious as to the average age of Linux users. I'm 34.
>>
>>Be patient. You'll grow up some day.
>>
> Maybe in other places you can get away with such pedantic arrogance, but not
> here. BTW I'm 51, so these personal attacks won't work on me, either.
Some people seem to be totally incapable of joke recognition these days...
(Seemed pretty obvious to me, but then, I do have a dry sense of humour)
--
| |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |in the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you|
| |can't move, with no hope of rescue. |
| Andrew Halliwell BSc |Consider how lucky you are that life has been |
| in |good to you so far... |
| Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
==============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 04:30:12 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc The Third Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>I punched my first deck of cards for an IBM 1602 (1620??) in 1968.
>>>>That's not a PC - it was a mainframe with lots of blinking lights
>>>>and a typewriter console. I miss those blinking lights.
>>
>>> How quaint! ;)
>>
>>You could always built a small LED array and plug it into your
>>parallel port to relive the old days...
>>
>>:)
> Or buy an external modem (do they make them anymore?). What the hell are
> all the lights on those for, anyways?
Of COURSE they still make 'em.
After my experience today, I wouldn't topuch another internel modem with a
30' pole.
(Went to a computer fair... Bought one that had a "Hardware" sticker on it
which misled me to believe it wasn't a Winmodem. It was. Took it back for a
refund and wasted a morning).
On the EXTERNAL one I bought later the lights are:
RD: Receiving data
TD: Transmitting data
CD: Carrier detect
OH: Off hook
AA: Auto Answer mode
HS: Higher speed
DTR: Data Terminal Ready
MR: Modem ready
PWR: Power on...
They have like 8! Internals have zero
> and work fine.
Hah! Internal modems are a minefield... They also tie up a lot of processor
and bus time better used elsewhere. (some of the winmodems I saw are a real
joke. Minimum requirement >> 300Mhz pentium??? You might just as well write
a program and use the sound card for all they give you...)
--
______________________________________________________________________________
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
| Andrew Halliwell BSc |"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't |
| in | suck is probably the day they start making |
| Computer Science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge |
==============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: netscape and newsgroups
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 05:32:05 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to do all my internet stuff (email, news, web) with
> netscape which came with SuSE6.1. I have managed to configure my ppp to
> get connected to my ISP. I can access email and web; but when I try to
> "Join Discussion Groups..." the window for the list of discussion
> groups opens up and I see at the bottom of it that the list is being
> downloaded, but none of the discussion groups is ever explicitly shown
> in the window. My ISP does not support linux. I have set up the news
> server (in the preference menu of netscape) as they have suggested for
> Win95. I have no problem with enail and web browsing. Has anyone had a
> similar problem? Any advice?
What you need to do if you want to read news offline, is set up YOUR machine
as a small news server in its own right. Then you point netscape at
localhost rather than an external newsserver.
(I recommend Leafnode. I spent over a month wretling with INN trying to find
out how to post messages, but managed to receive and post with Leafnode in
less than an hour. [Excluding download time of course].)
--
| |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |in the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you|
| |can't move, with no hope of rescue. |
| Andrew Halliwell BSc |Consider how lucky you are that life has been |
| in |good to you so far... |
| Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
==============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Raid setup problem
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 18:09:33 GMT
Hi,
I am installng software raid into my RedHat 6.0, default kernel.
My /etc/raidtab is similar to the raid0 configuration sample:
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 0
persistent-superblock 0
chunk-size 16
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
device /dev/hda3
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdc3
raid-disk 1
When I do
[root@linux /sbin]# /sbin/raidstart -a
I get an error message:
/dev/md0: Invalid argument
What argument should I use for raiddev?
Thanks a lot.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TTF Fonts
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 13:47:35 -0400
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
You might want to check out:
<br><A
HREF="http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/fonts/trutypef.html">http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/fonts/trutypef.html</A>
<p>...cwa
<br>
<p>"R.K.Aa" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Sid wrote:
<br>>
<br>> Hi everyone ,
<br>> I want to use netscape for browsing . For this I need good quality
fonts
<br>> which are readable and clean at 800x600 . If got loads of them in
my
<br>> c:\windows\fonts directory . I want to know if there is a service
/ program
<br>> by which I can use my windows TTF fonts in X . This would be great
, 'cos
<br>> right now surfing the net looks VERY sad in netscape . Does Linux
support
<br>> Anti-Aliased fonts ??? I think Linux should settle on ONE font format
. Is
<br>> it already that way ? Any font converters ???
<p>Linux as such has nothing to do with TT fonts or not - the X server
and
<br>x font-server has. I don't know of any that does fontsmoothing aka
<br>anti-aliasing under X - yet. That doesn't mean they don't exist however,
<br>but none of the GPL licenced ones has full support for it yet. Some
<br>applications can use it though and there's a project called FreeType
you
<br>may want to look closer at if you're "into fonts".
<p>Only ONE font format would not be practical. If insist on comparing
with
<br>MSWindows, that OS also has more than one font format in use - FON
and
<br>TTF for instance, each for their own use. Many also use type1 fonts
<br>there (PS fonts) and these are an "industry must" if you're into
<br>publishing. MSWindows doesn't ship with PS fonts so it requires
<br>additional (commercial) programs.
<p>If you want to use TT fonts under Linux there are several possiblities,
<br>and the most common ones are free. You may already have a TT capable
<br>fontserver installed without even knowing it. (xfs in RH6). If you
use
<br>another distribution: check out xfsft and xfstt for GPL licenced TT
<br>fontservers:
<p>xfstt is perhaps the easyest to set up and use. Found at:
<br><a
href="ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/">ftp://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/fonts/</a>
<p>xfsft homepage with links to lots of info and utilities regarding TT
<br>fonts under X:
<br><a
href="http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft">http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft</a>
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<br>The box said 'WIN95/98 or better.' so I installed LINUX!
<p>#!/bin/csh
<br>unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; more ; umount
; sleep
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From: William Knechtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WordPerfect and True Type Fonts?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:42:45 -0600
I have a true type font server working flawlessly in X-Windows, however
WordPerfect PE 8 Seems to be oblivious to it, and refuses to see any but
the fonts that came with word perfect. Does anyone know how to make
word perfect see and use true types? Thanks in advance.
Bill Knechtel
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From: Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is Linux A Memory Hogging OS?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:47:46 -0400
William Burrow wrote:
> Look at top. Consider if your system is 99% idle, that there are CPU
> cycles available that you are not using -- you are wasting CPU! CPU
> cycles are really quite cheap, especially compared to the limited
> amount of RAM you have available.
Someone suggested that the temperature of the CPU increases as
the CPU usage increases. By his reasoning, the larger the idle
time, the cooler the CPU will be. How true is this?
--
Donn
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