Linux-Misc Digest #694, Volume #21 Sun, 5 Sep 99 23:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: Advantage of ext2 over vfat??? (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Terrance Richard Boyes)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Guy Macon)
Re: can not compile KDE packages RH6.0 (Robert Sheskin)
Re: bypassing fsck (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Guy Macon)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Steve Gage)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (Guy Macon)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (newsseeker)
Re: My Linux crashes more often than M$ (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Netscape color (Chris Mahmood)
Re: minicom (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution ("Jason Le Vaillant")
Problem after kernel compilation (Gustavo =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gonz=E1lez?=)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution ("Keith Blakemore-Noble ")
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution (John or Jenn)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Gary Hallock)
Re: LS120 Super Drive (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: Distributions RH, Suse, Mandrake (Albert Ulmer)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: uname -a ("Doctor Kevorkian")
Help Naming Executable files (Jason Bond)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Tim Hanson)
Reviewing boot-time messages... ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (Jim Richardson)
Re: Reviewing boot-time messages... (Justin B Willoughby)
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Advantage of ext2 over vfat???
Date: 05 Sep 1999 16:22:59 -0700
"Scott Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > ---- Jesus Is Lord ----
>
> Incorrect again.
This is quickly becomming one for the FAQ....
-ckm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terrance Richard Boyes)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 01:17:35 +0100 (BST)
Paul E. Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Jeffrey C. Dege" wrote:
>>
[snip]
>> You still have the option of compiling drivers into the kernel, and
>> there are one or two oddball drivers that can only be linked that
>> way, but the great majority of drivers can be dynamically loaded.
> Ok, but can they be dynamically unloaded, when no longer needed?
Yes, the modules "handler" handles that.
--
<URL:http://www.pierrot.co.uk/> Team AMIGA
In 1880 the French captured Detroit but gave it back ... they couldn't get parts
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Macon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: 05 Sep 1999 16:56:16 PDT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip
Kaulfuss) wrote:
>
>A potato resembling Paul E. Bell miraculously spoke thus:
>
>> From this, I would say it sounds (in English) like "Leen'ooks" (ee as in
>> clean, oo as in book, with the accent on the first sylable). Thanks,
>> now if I could get the guys at work to pronounce GIF as "jiff", rather
>> than "giff"...
>
>I would have thought the latter pronunciation was correct, seeing as the G
>is for "graphics". Certainly, everyone I know pronounces it that way.
Some of our more creative software engineers come from a background in
the pornography industry, where Jiff brand peanut butter is the spread
of choice for spreading on exposed skin. Naturally, they tend to hang
on to the "jif" pronounciation when they switch careers. The rest of
us use the proper "gif".
Ever try to pronounce PCMCIA as one word? Has anyone been sucessful at
aquiring the habit of calling them PC Cards instead?
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From: Robert Sheskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: can not compile KDE packages RH6.0
Date: 5 Sep 1999 19:07:06 -0500
>>>>> "bd7777" == bd7777 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bd7777> I'm not able to compile any KDE packages under RH6.0. I
bd7777> have installed the latest QT and the compiler sees the KDE
bd7777> libs but I get an error message from several KDE packages
bd7777> during 'configure' that the 'small test KDE program
bd7777> fails'.
bd7777> Any ideas?
bd7777> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you
bd7777> know. Learn what you don't.
Make sure you also installed the dev libraries.
--
Robert Sheskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replace "nospam" with "tidalwave" for email
ICQ 5788323
AIM RobertLS
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: bypassing fsck
Date: 05 Sep 1999 16:15:51 -0700
Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> First, you should shutdown the system correctly with the shutdown
> command and fsck will be skipped. Another way to do it is take it out of
> fstab, then put your mount commands just like you would do manually, in
> rc.local.
Bob, that's a horrible idea. Why not just use 'shutdown -rf now'?
The -f is for 'fast boot'.
-ckm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Macon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: 05 Sep 1999 18:16:08 PDT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) wrote:
> Well, the whole "convergeance" thing is supposedly to take computers and
> make them as easy to use as TVs and VCRs.
>I know, we all have seen the
> odd consumer who can't run a TV or a VCR, or even a telephone, but
> that't beside the point.
Actually it is exactly the point. The majority of VCR owneres cannot
set the VCR recording timers. Many can't set the clock. VCR's are
usually TERRIBLE examples of "easy to use".
If you want to see how it is indeed possible to make computers much
easier to use, read THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM. This book
explains how software engineers design interfaces that only a software
engineer could love, managers design interfaces that only a moron with
a perfect memory could love, why the average user thinks that the
problem is that they are stupid, and why so many engineers are
apologists for hard to use software. It's an eye opener.
avalable at amazon.com.
Russ, if you buy this book and don't like it, I will buy it from
you at twice what you paid for it.
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From: Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 00:22:26 GMT
Matthias Warkus wrote:
> [0] Notice how thoughtfully and diplomatically I am *not* assuming
> that what you leech is porn. Which is often done when people argue
> about whether Usenet should be used for things for which you would
> be better off with an FTP server.
I instantly assumed he was leeching porn. ;-)
- Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Macon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: 05 Sep 1999 18:22:37 PDT
In article <7qukv8$dvr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Joe Cosby) wrote:
>If the basic concepts (what is a file, what is a program, GUI
>elements, directory structure) were introduced first, I think
>real computer literacy would rise.
This is the wrong direction to go. Files, programs, and directories
are a classic case of the human interface being a one to one
representation of the internal structure of the program. Calling a
directory a Folder doesn't change that. I can learn how to drive
a car or to use the telephone network without knowing the internal
details. Who says that the way CP-M and Unix organized information
is the most understandable for humans?
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From: newsseeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 20:28:43 -0500
"K. Bjarnason" wrote:
> [snips]
>
> No, do NOT learn about "ps" and "kill" - ask the Linux community why an OS
> presumably aimed at taking over from MS (according to many of the hypesters,
> at any rate) can't handle something as basic as a point-and-click "kill
> process" operation as easily as Windows does?
Windows does not handle " something as basic as a point-and-click 'kill
process' operation easily....lest you forget about the 'End Task' and 'Wait'
for the application dialogues every time you try to kill off the task. You
don't mention the bottom line of 'End Tasks' in Windows which is, The
application will end if and only if it wants to. Windows will seldom outright
kick off an application (BSODs for the system and Application not
withstanding).
Linux on the other hand will flush the task when kill -9 is invoked...End of
story. Finding the right or all of the process IDs to kill is a different
story.
--nwskr
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My Linux crashes more often than M$
Date: 05 Sep 1999 16:20:29 -0700
muzh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I used to have TERRIBLE troubles with this problem of random freezes --
> and all my questions to newsgroups etc seemed to elicit answers that it
> is a "hardware problem". Not very helpful for a newbie --
But more likely than not it *is* a hardware problem. Using a card
that is not well supported under XFree, overclocking, etc. B/c
XFree86 is free, their support for the card-of-the-week is
understandably weak. The hardware vendors are less likely to give
them needed info and they can't sign NDA's. For better or worse, my
advice to newbies with lockup problems in X is to either but a
well-supported card (e.g., older S3's) or a commercial Xserver.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape color
Date: 05 Sep 1999 16:24:20 -0700
ORRIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I noticed that the copy of Netscape (4.5.1) that came with my copy of
> SuSE 6.1, has a black & white heading and icons rather than color like
> my old Windows version. It that the way it is, or is there a way to
> fix it. I didn't see anything in the options.
That's b/c you've run out of colors. Make sure you're running at
something higher than 8bpp.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: minicom
Date: 05 Sep 1999 17:00:15 -0700
Brekeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What other suggestion to dial a system and give control to runscript ?
Why not just get the connection up with chat and use a shell or perl
script to do the work? I do something similar to pull my news twice a
day.
-ckm
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From: "Jason Le Vaillant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:31:21 +1200
> I would have thought the latter pronunciation was correct, seeing as the G
> is for "graphics". Certainly, everyone I know pronounces it that way.
jiff jiff jiff jiff jiff jiff jiff jiff!
lih-nucks lih-nucks lih-nucks, lih-nucks!
CUL8er,
Jason
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From: Gustavo =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gonz=E1lez?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem after kernel compilation
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 22:36:16 +0200
Hi, folks
Today I tried to change my stable kernel 2.0.34 to 2.2.5, which is also
stable. I use Debian 2.1. The source code was set in the directory
/usr/local/src/kernel-source-2.2.5 and then I tried
make xconfig (and select the desired options, many of them as modules)
make dep
make clean make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
and then I moved /vmlinuz to /vmlinux.old and then moved bzImage as
vmlinuz.
I ran the /sbin/lilo map installer and reboot.
When loading LILO the system hangs...
The message is:
LILO loading linux...
No setupsignature found
Would someone be so kind of help me?
Thanks in advance
--
A. Gustavo Gonzalez linux user #101379
Departamento de Quimica Analitica. Universidad de Sevilla
http://www.eumetrics.us.es
Linux: Altius, citius, fortius
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Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
From: "Keith Blakemore-Noble " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:58:00 GMT
On or around 05 Sep 1999 16:46:10 PDT, Guy Macon wrote something about
"Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution"...
> In article <7qu9oh$gqk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Cosby) wrote:
> >>
> >>>>It's Gif, not jif!!
> >>>>
> >>>>(Unless, of course, one chooses to pronounce "graphic" [the
> >>>>>>>>word in "gif"] as "jraphic", perhaps? :) ).
> >>>
> >>> The creators of the gif format insist it's `jif'
> >>
> >> One must assume that they pronouce jpeg as "gpej" then? ;-)
>
> Well if they pronounce Graphic Interchange Format as "jif", then
> pronouncing Joint Photographic Experts Group as "gpeg" seems to make
> just as much sense.
That would be, presumably, the "goint photojraphic experts jroup", yes?
;-)
"jif" indeed! Pah!!!!!
--
http://www.BuiltWithAmiga.org Member of Team *AMIGA* and ICOA
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
From: John or Jenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 01:15:46 GMT
In article <7quhhs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Guy Macon,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Gig-uh-bite vs. Jig-uh-bite, anyone? ;)
That one�s actually got roots in the precursors to PC (not personal
computer...political correctness).
Intentionally mispronounced to avoid the perception of a slur, or so
I�ve been told by those who were around when Giga got applied to
cycles (pre Hz).
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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 21:16:31 -0400
From: Gary Hallock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
"K. Bjarnason" wrote:
> [Open another console.
> Log in as root.
> run ps ax | grep netscape
> Find the process numnber
> kill process
>
Its easier than that:
Open another console
Log in as normal userid (no need for root)
killall netscape
Or, if using KDE:
Ctrl-Alt-Esc followed by point to the netscape window and left-click.
>
> No, do NOT learn about "ps" and "kill" - ask the Linux community why an OS
> presumably aimed at taking over from MS (according to many of the hypesters,
> at any rate) can't handle something as basic as a point-and-click "kill
> process" operation as easily as Windows does?
>
It can. Use KDE, not Gnome.
>
> > There is a learning curve, all right. Yes, sometimes installing a
> > program can be convoluted. That's why RPM was invented. It works quite
> > well. You can find RPMs for just about anything at Freshmeat or some of
> > the other repositories.
>
> I haven't worked with RPM (been a while since last I ran Linux, although I
> have Mandrake sitting here waiting for my new CD to get put in before I fire
> it up.) Is it smart enough that - like a typical Windows install - you can
> have the entire app installed and running in perhaps a half-dozen mouse
> clicks, without even really having to know how your system is configured?
> Could be; as I said, I haven't worked with it.
Yep. rpm itself provides a command line interface. But there are GUI
interfaces for rpm that come with both Gnome and KDE to allow point and click.
You can even ask it to provide a description of the package and list the files
it will install But the command line interface does come in handy. When I
upgraded from Redhat 5.2 to 6.0 I also received an updated copy of the Redhat
Powertools CD with hundreds of packages. only some of which I had installed
from the previous version. All I had to do is insert the CD, cd to the RPM
directory and type the following command:
rpm -Fvh *
That simple command caused rpm to search through all packages on the CD, check
to see if I had an earlier version on my system and if so, install the new
version. It would not install packages on the CD that I didn't already have
installed. It took 20 minutes total time to upgrade and almost all of that
was just waiting for all the files to be read from CD. I just started it up
and walked away.
Gary
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: LS120 Super Drive
Date: 5 Sep 1999 19:39:04 -0700
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 16:22:31 +0059,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Create an fstab entry as below and away you go. If you insert a 1.44 Mb
>floppy it will mount that and if you put a 120 Mb disc in that will work
The only downside to having one of these drives instead of a
"real" floppy drive is that cool tools like "mulinux" or
"tomsrtbt" will not work. They either assume they are being
booted off of /dev/fd0 or they format the diskette as 1722 KB
(which an LS-120 cannot read, it would appear to me - I may be
wrong). Either way, there are problems.
It's a minor issue, but worth keeping in mind.
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From: Albert Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Distributions RH, Suse, Mandrake
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 02:26:42 GMT
> Backup all your important files, and reinstall from scratch.
> It's the only safe way to change distros or make a big leap in the=20
upgrade
> path.
This is indeed 100 % true!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: 5 Sep 1999 22:33:53 -0400
On 5 Sep 1999 19:09:38 GMT, Lizard wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi) wrote in
>>C++ ? C ? Java ? Perl/Tcl/python ?
>
>C++ and Java, mostly.
If you're into C++ , take a look at QT. It's architecture is very nice,
and it is the backbone of the most popular linux GUI.
Firstly, there is a project that the KDE people are working on called
KDevelop -- you can find it on http://www.kde.org
There are some development tools for QT that are freely available.
QtArchitect http://www.primenet.com/~jharris/qtarch
QtEZ http://qtez.commkey.net
EBuilder http://www.fys.ruu.nl/~meer/Ebuilder/
I don't know much about the status of the above though.
It seems you like OO programming, so out of the three major scripting
language choices ( Tcl, Perl, Python ), you will probably find python
the nicest.
For more on visual programming tools, take a look at
http://www.linuxapps.com
For an editor that has syntax highlighting for everything under the sun,
take a look at (g)vim.
cheers,
--
Donovan
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From: "Doctor Kevorkian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.news.groups,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: uname -a
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 12:36:05 +1000
Thats a good idea, but I would just use uname -X because I am too lazy =)
Doctor Kevorkian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Cunningham wrote in message <7q050f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Lee. The kernel version reported by uname is correct. This information is
>gleaned from your /proc (a virtual directory generated to report the status
>of your kernel as it functions) directory so it means you really are
running
>release 19 of the 2.2.9 kernel. To fix this, you must either install your
>new kernel to the floppy you're booting from or boot from the harddisk
where
>you've compiled your kernel. (It does matter if you're booting from a
>floppy because in that case the kernel being used is on the floppy.)
>
>
>P. Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>> Ok ... I upgraded my kernel ... to 2.2.9-27mdk .....
>> but when I run "uname -a " .... I get this
>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.2.9-19mdk #1 Wen May 19 19:53 :00 GMT `999
>>
>> i586 unknown
>>
>>
>> As root: I ...
>>
>> typed "mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.9-27mdk.img 2.2.9-27mdk" without the
>> quotes.
>> type d " ls -l /boot/initrd-2.2.9-27mdk*" without the quotes.
>>
>> edit lilo.conf and change the part "2.2.9-19mdk" to "2.2.9-27mdk"
>>
>> typed "lilo -v"
>>
>>
>>
>> what am I doing wrong ... ???? I am booting form a floppy .... but
>> that shouldn't matter ....
>> Thanks again ... any help ... is apprecitatec
>>
>> P. Lee
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help Naming Executable files
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 19:35:06 -0700
I've quite confused about which files can be exectued
by just typing their names at a prompt
and which ones require a ./ in front of them.
For example, I have 2 binary files: 1 is gzip
and 1 is bzip2. Their permissions are:
(root@blah: /home/jbond) ls -l bzip2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jbond users 144192 Sep 5 19:28 bzip2
and
(root@blah: /home/jbond) ls -l /bin/gzip
-rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 45388 Sep 10 1998 /bin/gzip
Now gzip can be executed by just typing gzip at the prompt
while bzip2 requires one to type ./bzip2. Why exactly
is this? Is whatever the difference is true for
text files (written to execute some shell commands)
that are executable as well? Quite confused,
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Hanson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 01:44:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Matthias Warkus wrote:
>
>> [0] Notice how thoughtfully and diplomatically I am *not* assuming
>> that what you leech is porn. Which is often done when people argue
>> about whether Usenet should be used for things for which you would
>> be better off with an FTP server.
>
>I instantly assumed he was leeching porn. ;-)
>
Hey, what's wrong with leeching porn? Safe Sex!!
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Reviewing boot-time messages...
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 22:45:34 -0400
This may sound a bit like a dumb question, but I seem to
remember from reading somewhere that you can review all of the
messages that scroll by as your system is booting up... either by
pressing some key combination at a console prompt, or by
reviewing some log file somewhere. Does anyone else know of such
a means for reviewing boot-time messages on a RedHat system?
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 11:13:21 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 00:11:27 +1000,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>Lizard wrote:
>[chop]
>> Now, on to software. First off, has anyone thought of putting in the
>> INSTALL text file words to the effect of "you better untar this from /,
>> otherwise, you'll end up creating a zillion useless directories where you
>> don't want them because there's no way to tell tar to go to the root to
>> start?"
>
>tar has a -C option which specifies the destination.
>
>so you can:
>
>tar -C / -xzvf foo.tar.gz
>
>Regards, Frank Ranner
>
If you untar the file from the / dir, then you are risking some real
file corruptions. better to use the install script (assuming that the package
came with one, a usually safe assumption.)
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Subject: Re: Reviewing boot-time messages...
Date: 6 Sep 1999 02:53:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Justin B Willoughby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> "Steve D. Perkins" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
>> This may sound a bit like a dumb question, but I seem to
>> remember from reading somewhere that you can review all of the
>> messages that scroll by as your system is booting up... either by
>> pressing some key combination at a console prompt, or by
>> reviewing some log file somewhere. Does anyone else know of such
>> a means for reviewing boot-time messages on a RedHat system?
>>
>
> demesg is what you are looking for,
>
> perhaps demesg | more will be more usefull.
>
opps, its dmesg NOT demesg
- Justin
--
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_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ http://justinw.net
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