Linux-Misc Digest #518, Volume #21 Mon, 23 Aug 99 16:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux vs. Unix (Richard Steiner)
Re: eznet & wvdial (John Hasler)
Re: *nix vs. MS security (Casey Schaufler)
Re: Web Page Authoring Tools (toby)
Re: Editing the KDE GUI. ("Duy D.")
Re: Linux text editor .. (SkAtAn)
Re: Netscape & Java ("Christopher W. Aiken")
Re: Alert: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz processor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ISDN or 2-56k Modems and RH 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
slocate.cron and cron weekly errors Mandrake 6.0 (Warren Bell)
Re: lilo and Ontrack (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: WTF is the difference between Linux and FreeBSD??? (William Burrow)
[HELP]: An SCA to SCSI-III Adapter Needed (Young4ert)
Kernel compiling (SkAtAn)
Re: ALSA (Kaz Kylheku)
Re: Text Editor (Paul Seelig)
Re: postgreSQL (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Linux Journal or Linux Magazine (Jerry Gardner)
Re: Questions about package management in Mandrake 6.0 (WorLord)
Re: [ `id -gn` = `id -un` ] and "[: Command not found." (Stuart R. Fuller)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux vs. Unix
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 06:32:27 GMT
Here in comp.os.linux.setup, Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>However, Barrow does happen to be the northern most incorporated
>city in the _world_, not just North America (and on top of that,
>just saying "American" as opposed to "North America" generally
>is accepted to mean the USA only).
How about Resolute Bay? :-) Though that might just be a couple of
gravel runways and a research station.
>Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
Question: we look at weather for Dead Horse all the time (IATA station
code SCC) at work. Where is that relative to you, and what type of
place is it?
I've always thought it had a rather cool (if depressing) name. :-)
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eznet & wvdial
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:33:42 GMT
W.G. Unruh writes:
> They ... all ... make assumptions about what your ISP wants.
Not all. pppconfig doesn't.
> If those assumptions are not good, you tend to left hanging with no clue
> as to how to get out of the problem.
pppconfig turns on debugging by default so that if the connection doesn't
work you look at the log to see what went wrong. You can then try again
with pppconfig or edit the files by hand.
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From: Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: *nix vs. MS security
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:24:24 -0700
Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
> Casey Schaufler wrote:
> A while ago, Microsoft defined to us the meaning of "heterogenous network".
> To them, it meant networking MS Windows 3.1, MS Windows/95 and MS Windows/98
> and MS Windows NT 4.0 together.
Um, that's not what I said. First, Microsoft didn't invent that
definition, SGI (i.e. I) did. Second, networking together all of
the listed products would produce a homogenous, not a heterogenous,
network. A homogenous network is composed of a set of identical
systems. For an evaluated configuration, that would mean the same
version of the C2 OS on all the machines.
> I wonder what they'd call MS Windows (anything) networked to an IBM OS/390
> system?
A homogeneous network. Or have I blown past your point completely?
>
> > Christopher Browne wrote:
> >
> > > If you want to talk about formal security certifications, there are
> > > UNIX systems rated as high as B1 by the NSA/NIST. NT is only rated
> > > C2, and that is only true for version 3.51, with *networking turned
> > > off.*
> >
> > Actually, there's a B2 UNIX (Trusted Xenix), but I don't think
> > TIS is selling it any more. NT's C2 evaluation-in-progress will
> > include homogenous networking (or so I'm told) as SGI's B1 did
> > in 1995. Be careful casting the networking stone as only two of
> > the UNIX evaluations (SGI and Cray) include networking.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Casey Schaufler voice: (650) 933-1634
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (650) 933-0170
>
> --
> Lew Pitcher
>
> Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: toby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web Page Authoring Tools
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:28:30 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suddn wrote:
> What is a good, easy to use web authoring tool for Linux?
>
> Thanks
vi
toby
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From: "Duy D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Editing the KDE GUI.
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:57:24 -0400
-~=Darek M=~- wrote:
> After installing redhat 6 the first xWin I used was GNOME
> and I really liked it for its ability to add various
> applets anywhere on the desktop. Like a CPU load applet,
> the cool looking clock, modem lights, etc.
>
> After GNOME kept freezing up at the start and taking 5 to
> 10 minutes to load, I decided to go with KDE but havent
> found a way to add a different clock, modem lights or other
> applets to the menu bar. Is there any way to accomplish
> this? I also accidentaly removed the likt to the terminal
> from the bottom toolbar and would like to put it back
> there, rather than having a shortcut on the desktop.
>
> Thanx.
>
> * Sent from RemarQ http://www.remarq.com The Internet's Discussion Network *
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It's under KDE menu, panel add or something similar, however, you can't use
gnome icons for these apps, which really sucks.
Be sure to use the kappfinder to add gnome stuffs to your KDE menu first before
you can add them the the panel.
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From: SkAtAn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux text editor ..
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:06:57 +0200
steve mcadams wrote:
>
> Midnight Commander (mc) has a built-in editor that is the one i've found
> most similar to the MS edit.com, have you tried it?
>
Yes .. I like it to .. but em looking for other , simpeler/more portable
text editors like this one.. however mcedit is kinda like 'what i've
been
looking for' , yes
SkAtAn/freax
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From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape & Java
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:17:17 -0400
I'm in the middle here, so I don't know what distro you
are using. Makdrake has the Netscape 4.61 RPM available
here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fupdates.php3
You need two files: netscape-common...... and netscape-communicator........
Should work with RH & Mandrake. May work with others.
...hope this helps
...cwa
"Scott W. Kinkele" wrote:
> Thanks Steve & Jim for the same advice unfortunately it did not work...
> Any other ideas I can try. I have heard a billion different stories on
> Classpath and Mozilla Home... Anything there?
>
> Is there a Netscape RPM package instead of tar.gz?
>
> I will try reinstalling and let you know if I got it to work. Thanks
> for your help!
>
> Scott
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Christopher W. Aiken
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
SuSE 6.1, Kernel 2.2.7
Mandrake 6.0, Kernel 2.2.9
The box said 'WIN95/98 or better.' so I installed LINUX!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,comp.os.linux.x,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: Alert: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz processor
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:46:31 GMT
You mentioned that it locked up mostly during disk access. What type
of disk subsystem do you have. Mine is running SCSI, when I attempted
to use my integrated adaptec ultra-wide scsi I was getting periodic
lockups (always during disk activity). Later I dumped in a older
adapted 2940 card and my problem went away. Flakey device drivers are
quite often the culprit in things like this.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
cedric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Rob Mason wrote:
> >Has anyone else experienced a system freeze with this processor on
RH6.0
> >???
>
> For what it's worth:
>
> AMD has a patch for their chips running over 300 MHz with W95.
> It is available at www.amd.com Go to support then patches.
> This sends you to MS to download AMDK6UP.exe or something close to
that.
>
> I recently upgraded to a PFI motherboard, 128 megs ram and AMD K6
2/450.
> W95 used to crash often enough at 200 MHz when I had several files
open at the
> same time. Now, It crashes even more. Even more proof that MS sucks.
I did not
> need this as I have to use W95 for Auto Cad and MS Office 95 for
reports.
>
> Red Hat Linux 6.0 loves the new system.
>
> cedric
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ISDN or 2-56k Modems and RH 6.0
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:57:28 GMT
Denis,
I ordered ISDN last week since it only cost me $15 more per month.
Thanks for the advice!
David.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Denis Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I am deciding on ISDN vs. 2-56k modems for faster internet access. I
am
> > too far from the telco co so these are my only choices using todays
> > technologies.
> >
> > Linux- What I need to know is which is easier to setup under RH
Linux
> > 6.0 ? <as I don't have alot of spare time (who does?)>.
>
> Performance wise, ISDN is vastly supperior. ISDN has much much much
> better latency, because it uses SyncPPP which is a version of the PPP
> protocol optimized for digital lines. Latency is a lot more important
> than bandwidth, though it doesn't seem to be a well known fact. Modems
> rely on data compression to improve bandwidth, but that hurts latency,
> and besides a lot of the bandwidth-consuming data on the web (sounds,
> images) is already compressed.
>
> As far as installtion, configuring ISDN under RH 6.0 is not so simple,
> but is worth the effort. Just make sure you get an ISDN card that's
> supported (see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/isdn for lists of
supported
> cards). Make sure you get the exact same cards (if it says IDE version
> supported and you get the PCI version, I can guarantee it won't work
;-)
> ).
>
> Hope this helps.
> -denis
>
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NetWare / IntranetWare / NT Integration Specialist
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:43:35 +0000
From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: slocate.cron and cron weekly errors Mandrake 6.0
I installed Mandrake 6.0 recently and am getting some major errors from
cron. I'm getting something from cron.daily that says:
##########
/etc/cron.daily/slocate.cron: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of
file
Here is my slocate.cron file:
###########
#!/bin/sh
[ -e /usr/bin/updatedb ] && { sh /usr/bin/updatedb } || {
/usr/bin/slocate -u -e /tmp -e "/var/tmp,/usr/tmp,/afs,/net,/proc"
}
And cron.weekly is sending me a email with tons of errors. Like 1000+
lines. Some of them are:
###########
bzcat: Input file ./ghostscript.1.bz2 doesn't exist, skipping.
bzcat: ./rdist.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file, skipping.
bzcat: ./statserial.1.bz2 is not a bzip2 file, skipping.
bzcat: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows.
bzcat: Success
Input file = ./convfont.1.bz2, output file = (stdout)
Does anyone know what these are from? Is this a bug in 6.0 releases?
I've searched the newsgroups and found one other person with the same
problem on RH6 but no answer.
This is a stock Mandrake 6.0 with most of the updates.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: lilo and Ontrack
Date: 23 Aug 1999 16:25:48 GMT
In article <7prh1c$3a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wolfgang Feierabend wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Yannick Arnoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I recently bought a 10.1 Go DD as a second disk.
>>
>> In order to be seen as a 10.1 Go disk by the motherboard (Intel 440
>LX),
>Neither Linux nor any Windoze 95,98,NT use the BIOS HD parametrs. They
>just need to be informed, if any HD is installed or not. I had the same
>Problem with my Gigabyte Mainboard. After HD-Autodetection my BIOS shows
>my 4GB disk as 80MB. I told the BIOS the disk should be used in "logical
>block mode", stored those values and that's it. My disk is partitioned
>to two 2GB partiitions, one for W95, one for Linux. Both is running
>perfectly. No problems at all. Beleive me. Linux and the newer Windows
>(95+) have their own "BIOS".
>
>Good luck, Yannick
Yannick's approach will work. The Ontrack Disk Manager (or whatever
they call it these days) will also work. Just install Ontrack first,
according to its instructions, and write down the CHS numbers it
gives you. Then boot the Linux Rescue Disk of your choice,
either Debian 2.1 Rescue or the install diskette that came with your
distribution, and at its boot prompt give it the parameters for
CHS that came from Ontrack. (It will work anyway but if you're not
sure you can force the issue by giving disk parameters.)
The boot command will be something like
linux append="hda=12345,255,63"
where 12345 is your cylinder count.
Use cfdisk or fdisk to make a partition table. Be sure to include a
data partition (most likely C: for Microsoft or Linux root) that ends
before cylinder 1023 where you can put your Linux boot files.
Install the Microsoft product. It will find the FAT-32 partition you
made with cfdisk. Install Linux.. Don't let your distribution's
(Red Hat's, Debian's,...) install program run lilo; leave that till
later. Use a boot floppy for Linux until your are confident your
Microsoft setup and Linux both work right.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: WTF is the difference between Linux and FreeBSD???
Date: 23 Aug 1999 17:59:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:02:14 -0600,
Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> AT&T was not interested in making an operating system, specifically.
>
>Close enough. They were trying to make a system written in some sort of
>language that allowed them to do more things on a computer. That is an OS
>isn't it?
See the other post in response. AT&T was not interested in anything of
the sort. Read the article I sent.
>> Also, Unix is not the first OS by any imagination. What this statement
>> means is not clear, but for sure System 360 existed before Unix, GECOS
>> existed before Unix, Multics existed before Unix, etc.
>
>Yes, but a newbie to UNIX doesn't know about all that stuff. They think that
>Linux is a "new" OS and while it is somewhat, it really comes from UNIX, a
>system that has many variations and has been around just as long as Windows
>or Apple computers.
If you want to rewrite history to suit your desires, go ahead. Such a
description would be called inaccurate and misleading, though.
If you simply want communicate that Unix was around before Windows,
simply state so. A phrase like, ``Unix was around long before DOS was
even thought of, let alone Windows,'' would be accurate and get the
point across, no?
Just consider that if your audience knew better, or asked people who know
better about the accuracy of your comments, and found them wanting, they
could dismiss Linux at large as overhyped.
>> IBM never wanted Windows. IBM bought copies of MS-DOS for the IBM PC.
>>
>> After a few years, sometime after the 286 was released, IBM decided that
>> a nice GUI OS would be nice, and started development of OS/2 with
>> Microsoft. Bill kept developing Windows on the side, though, and around
>> 1990 released Windows 3.0, dumping the OS/2 project in IBM's lap.
>
>Maybe IBM never wanted Windows/Dos, but from what I have read they did. It's
Where did you read that? It is trash. Anybody in alt.fan.bill-gates
will tell you the fable of how Bill got the contract for DOS. But
Windows was a different matter. Perhaps for some people, Windows is the
same as DOS, but it is not. Try not to confuse the two.
>nowadays. They wanted to own an OS like the other companies. But Gates
>refused to sell Dos to any particular computer company because he really
>believed he had a good thing. (Even if it was by far the largest computer
Y'know, considering how bad Windows 2.0 was, it is fascinating, to say
the least, that MS would battle Apple for years for the rights to the
look and feel. Perhaps today it is even more astounding that Lotus
would sue for the right to the / key. Ah well, it is all history now.
>> Andrew Tanenbaum had developed it for teaching purposes. I believe
>> there is also something called Xinu that was at one time popular for
>> teaching. It doesn't seem to factor into the Linux history, though.
>
>Do you know if Minix was a free system or what kind of computers it worked
>on?
It is apparently free now, but I recall a $150 price tag on the source
code long ago. Perhaps somebody who picked up Minix 10 years ago could
comment....
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HELP]: An SCA to SCSI-III Adapter Needed
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:09:19 -0400
Hi,
This may be out of topic in this NG. However, a friend asked if I
posted this question asking for help. He has a rather old one GIG SCSI
II hard drive (Seagate Model: ST, #:31200WC) extracted from a Sun
Sparck-2 workstation and an Adaptec AHA-1542CF SCSI controller. What he
would like to do is to put these two together on his AMD K6-2 400MHz
system with SuSE-6.1 Linux distro. However, since the hard drive uses
an SCA adapter and the controller does not provide an SCA connection, he
is wondering if anyone out there has an extra and unused SCA-SCSI III
adapter that would like to give it away so that he can use this SCSI
drive as an additional add-on drive for his CD burner.
TIA.
--
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From: SkAtAn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Kernel compiling
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:26:53 +0200
YEZ , I am GONNA TRy IT DAm*Et
I am gonna compile my very first kernel
Owkey.. I guess everything is pretty simple
eh.. except 'make menuconfig' .. wich stuff
do I have to enable/select if I want to use
the following components/stuff? :
- pentium 75
- Ip masquerading (with 2 network adaptors:
one is a cable connection using dhcp , the
other goe's to the hub allowing all Pc's
that are connected to this hub to access
the internet connection, at this moment
the pc is a sygate windows crash/gate-way)
-both are suppported and 10mbit-
this is the main job of this pc.. so it SHouLd
work eh :)
(at this moment 2 SMC ethercard plus elite 16 combo's
are used.. but I contacted SMC and they said the card
was not supported by linux. So I decided to buy 2
other cards for the job, except if somebody know's
how to make my smc's work under linux?)
- Cdrom
- Cd-r : HP 7200i plus (scsi emul.??)
- 2 IDE harddisks, floppy
Intel 82371FB PCI Bus Master IDE controller
pri IDE controller (dual fifo)
sec IDE controller (dual fifo)
- vga adapter: S3 Trio32/64 PCI
So :) wish me goodluck , and if you have comments,
suggestions about the hardware I use .. please
feel free to reply me about it (or e-mail, aldo
I will also read reply's)
I have collected a lot howto's about all my hardware
and ip masquerading .. but some personal suggestions
of you kernel-hacking guys would be great =)
SkAtAn/freax
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ALSA
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 06:41:59 GMT
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:56:46 +0300, Timo Tossavainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Use the ALSA drivers:
>
>http://www.alsa-project.org
>
>worked for me and it's free (and better); a bit hard to setup for a newbie
>perhaps. Cracking is stealing; the author of a piece of software has every
>right to ask money for it and you have the right to not use it.
Does the author also have a right to engage into agreements with manufacturers
who are then reluctant to release hardware specs to freeware competitors?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Seelig)
Subject: Re: Text Editor
Date: 23 Aug 99 16:51:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James D. Robinson) writes:
> Is it possible to download mcedit and if so from where.
>
"mcedit" is unfortunately not available as a stand alone application
(i'm ignoring it's X incarnation "cooledit" because this is a whole
different thing) and comes as integral part of the Midnight Commander,
which in itself is a great (if not the very best) file manager for the
console. It is usually distributed with all Linux distributions. See
"http://www.gnome.org/mc/" for more details.
Cheers, P. *8^)
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--------- Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------
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Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: postgreSQL
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:10:01 GMT
Peter Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: How do I get postmaster to start?
:
: When I enter "nohup postmaster >logfile 2>&1 &" as suggested in the man
: page, I get "[1] 703" before returning to the prompt.
: Then, when I enter a command such as "psql" I get the following error
: message:-
: "Connection to database 'xxxx' failed.
: connectDB() failed: Is the postmaster running and accepting connections
: at
: 'UNIX' Socket' on port 5432?
: [1]+ Exit2 nohup >logfile 2>&1"
:
Hmm, you didn't indicate whether you looked in "logfile" for any clues. I'd
start there.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Gardner)
Subject: Re: Linux Journal or Linux Magazine
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:28:29 GMT
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:52:33 -0600, Kenny A. Chaffin wrote:
>Which is better ? Why? (or what other mag is better)
Read them both and make up your own mind.
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | of a kamakaze pilot on his 37th mission."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (WorLord)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Questions about package management in Mandrake 6.0
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:48:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoth the Raven called Steve Sanyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I just upgraded from RedHat 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0, and package management
>seems to have become a LOT more difficult.
I disagree entirely, but do go on� I'm interested in this point of
view�
>I have been used to running glint,
*ack!!*
>where I could easily specify a
>directory full of RPM's and only the ones that were not already
>installed on my system would appear.
>With Kpackage and GnoRPM I haven't been able to do anything like this,
>which is quite a headache for trying to determine what additional files
>on the distribution CDs that I may require.
Why don't you just do a search in Kpackage?
>In addition, with Kpackage for example, although I can open an RPM,
>when I am flooded with a list of hundreds, I have no way of
>distinguishing the organizational hierarchy to which it belongs.
See above.
<REAL LIFE EXAMPLE> Want to know which version of WindowMaker is on
your system? Search for it in Kpackage. </REAL LIFE EXAMPLE>
I don't know about GNORPM (which is, I believe, the official Red Hat
replacement for Glint� so it may share some of the features, I don't
know), but Kpackage is *very* capable. It just works a bit
differently.
>Is there anything comparable to Glint for v6.0 -- that will specifically
>let me view directories full of packages, but only show ones that I
>haven't installed, etc? Or, if I can do this with the existing products
>on Mandrake 6.0, I would appreciate any guidance about how to do so.
Try Linuxberg or the RPM repository. They may be of some assistance,
here.
There are no excuses,
--WorLord
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: [ `id -gn` = `id -un` ] and "[: Command not found."
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:10:02 GMT
Habibi4me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have the following expression:
:
: [ `id -gn` = `id -un` ]
:
: and the tcsh from SuSE-6.1 distro complained "[: Command not found."
: when executed. However, it just works fine under tcsh from the
: RedHat-6.0 distro. What can go wrong with the tcsh from SuSE-6.1
: distro?
On my Redhat 5.1 distribution, the file /usr/bin/[ is a symbolic link to
/usr/bin/test. The error message says that the file is not found. So, is the
file /usr/bin/[ there on your SuSE distribution? If not, you can do the
symbolic link yourself:
# cd /usr/bin
# ln -s test [
Stu
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