Linux-Misc Digest #765, Volume #21 Sat, 11 Sep 99 14:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: "autoexec.bat"-type service in Linux? (Carl Fink)
Re: Staroffice Aborts on startup.. (Carl Fink)
Re: Kernel 2.2.5-22 SMP/ Hang under high traffic load? (Bo Stark)
Re: C++ Error (NF Stevens)
Re: Rescuing the console from an X lockup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Comments on some of the comments in this URL?
http://www.federaltimes.com/topstory.html (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: How to find SCSI ID's ??? (-ljl-)
reading the BIOS from user space (Nicolas Tripon)
Re: Netscape 4.6 + JAVA -> freezes (Robert Bernier)
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie (John Thompson)
newbie programming questions ("John Mitchell")
Re: Rescuing the console from an X lockup ("bowman")
Re: help w/mail... (Big Daddy)
Re: Apache ~ user directories? (Andy Busch)
xf86config ("Lohengrin")
Re: Partitioning for Linux (Leejay Wu)
Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution ("Paul E. Bell")
Re: Maximum Linux Mag (Erik Stewart)
Re: How to find SCSI ID's ??? (Gavin Parker)
cachectl() or equiv. for Linux-intel ("Roberto Romano")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: "autoexec.bat"-type service in Linux?
Date: 11 Sep 1999 15:51:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10 Sep 1999 12:46:31 GMT Stan Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Well, a welcome text would normally be put into /etc/motd (message of the day)
>which is displayed as soon as the user logs on. Might be more difficult if
>you use xdm, though.
If you *are* using a graphical login (xdm/kdm/gdm/whatever), you
might add a line to /etc/Xsession like so:
xterm -e less < /etc/motd
and make sure your message of the day ends in "press 'q' to exit".
Note that I have not tried this, so experiment before making it
permanent.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: Staroffice Aborts on startup..
Date: 11 Sep 1999 15:56:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:38:35 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I reciently installed Star office 5.1 on my Red Hat Linux 6.0 system and
>it worked just fine. Then for some reason it just stopped running. If I
>attempt to run the application soffice from the command line it just
>says Abort and exits after putting up the Star office banner. Any Ideas
>what I have screwed up?
No.
The file "soffice" is actually a script. You might try inserting
some echo commands and finding out what line the script is dying on.
Running the actual program (soffice.bin) in the gdb debugger might
also be illuminating.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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From: Bo Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.5-22 SMP/ Hang under high traffic load?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:36:26 +0200
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:22:56 -0400, John Murtari
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The "hang" has occurred twice in the last three days and
>it is QUITE a problem. Have see the following message on the
>console display:
>
> "Unable to handle kernel paging request"
> "Aiee, killing interrupt handler"
> "Kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task"
>
The same thing happens to me, if you get it straightend out, please
post the soulution to comp.os.linux.misc.
--
bo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: C++ Error
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:24:15 GMT
"Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Trying to do a simple compile for the first time and am getting the
>following. Can someone tell me where I went wrong?
>
>gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory
The c++ compiler is in a separate package from the c compiler.
Look for a package named g++???.rpm or gpp???.rpm. You may
have to install some additional -devel- packages too.
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Rescuing the console from an X lockup
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:49:17 GMT
"bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Luckily I have a dumb terminal connected to the PC too and could still log
>> in but neither X nor vmware were still running. I managed to free the
>console
>> in the end by switching run levels using init but is there a cleaner way
>> to do it?
>
>Ctrl-Alt-F2 should bring up another console unless the system is really
>smoked. Login in and kill the offending process. Ctrl-Alt-F7 will put you
>back in X, unless you have had to kill the whole thing. (Disclaimer: this
>works on RH5.2, but I think it is universal )
Tried all of the above but the console was totally locked including the
keyboard and mouse. Also there was no process left to kill because X had
bombed out before it had reset the console back to text mode.
NJR
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Comments on some of the comments in this URL?
http://www.federaltimes.com/topstory.html
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:59:25 GMT
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:53:53 -0400, Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
posted:
>On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Anthony Ord wrote:
>
>> Title says it all I feel.
>
>From the article:
>
>> Zaman added that Microsoft has been considering making some of its
>> software products open source for two years.
>
>It would be interesting to see how much of it's code MS will release as
>"open source". They've been talking about it for two years... still, no
>action.
That really tells you everything you need to know about MSFT and "open
source."
They uttered platitudes about maybe releasing something, and then released
nothing.
It's not precisely "FUD," but it's a kid brother to FUD.
>> "Open source is a very innovative way to develop software," Zaman said.
>> "The issue is how much of our own code we should put out in the open
>> source environment."
>
>Put the entire source code to Windows 2000, or even Windows 98 out. It
>would be interesting to see what comments MS is making in their code
>(although, I suspect they'll be taking some comments out). If we had the
>source code to these OS's, we'd be able to see how good (or bad) they
>really are.
We can likely never see *all* of Windows, of whatever version, for reasons
that lie outside MSFT's control. There's the legitimate problem that
MSFT has very probably licensed technologies from other companies that
they can't release.
Look at the "Netscape Navigator - About" screen to see how much stuff
there is in Netscape Navigator that they couldn't "open source" as part
of Mozilla. Things from Sun, RSA Data Security, Bitstream, Visigenic,
Object Design Inc, Full Circle Software, L&H Speech Products, ...
That being said, NCC did strip out the "foreign" bits of Navigator,
and actually did release Mozilla code, which makes the word "excuse" come
to mind when thinking of MSFT.
>I agree with the government's move. However, I'd be disappointed if other
>OSS OS's such as FreeBSD are being overlooked (the more users you have,
>the more bugs that can be found). I think, though, that they will be
>taking a look at Open and/or FreeBSD. I guess they would choose based on
>where in the government the machine is being used. For high-security
>applications, I think OpenBSD would be the best choice. (I don't run
>OpenBSD, so I don't know).
In the long run, more security than that may well be necessary. I surely
expect that MSFT is looking at their code, even if they're not considering
adopting the security models involved.
But that's "in the labs," and is only tenuously connected to anything that
gets sold.
The *real* point here is that Microsoft isn't going to really concentrate
on *real* security until there is both:
a) A market of would-be purchasers that actually understand computer
security, and
b) People making product marketing decisions at MSFT that actually
understand computer security.
If you consider that the people that MSFT actually sells to today are the
marketing reps at PC manufacturers and the marketing reps at computer
retailers, you will understand why I am terribly skeptical that they
are likely to sell truly secure systems any time soon.
The *only* way they'd be likely to have any Real Security wash over into
their retail products would be if they had an organization like unto the
IBM Federal Sales Division, with security requirements sufficiently
stringent that it mandated writing software to satisfy the needs of
government security, as opposed to the more usual:
"We've got this Windows NT product here; let's sell it to them."
where the government purchasers get whatever tenuous bits of security
actually survive once you install MS Office on Windows NT.
--
"If the future navigation system [for interactive networked services on
the NII] looks like something from Microsoft, it will never work."
-- Chairman of Walt Disney Television & Telecommunications
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/msprobs.html>
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to find SCSI ID's ???
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:03:25 GMT
In article <n6cC3.294$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Back when I ran kernel 2.0.27 I would get these reports at boot
> time:
>
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
>
> Notice that they report the SCSI IDs of the units installed in
> my system.
>
> I don't know if this is kernel related (what else could it be?)
> but, now I'm on kernel 2.0.34 and there aren't any messages that
> tell me what SCSI IDs are used in my system.
Try dmesg it shows the kernel's latest messages. If you use this
command after boot it shows stuff like the above, my 2.2.7 does.
Take a look in "/var/log/": grep channel, or something like that.
Should find the same info in messages.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Nicolas Tripon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: reading the BIOS from user space
Date: 11 Sep 1999 15:03:16 GMT
How could one read a few octets in the BIOS from the user space ?
Thank you.
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From: Robert Bernier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,netscape.public.mozilla.java
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.6 + JAVA -> freezes
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:04:04 GMT
The problem is the font setting, I got mine to work after I looked at the errata
section at the redhat site
cheers
Robert Bernier
Howard Pepper wrote:
> Daniel P. Gelinske wrote:
>
> > Bev wrote:
> >
> > > Nils Bluethgen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello out there,
> > > >
> > > > I have a question about NETSCAPE 4.6 / 4.61 and JAVA. On some (not on
> > > > all!) of our computers (we run linux-RH6.0) Netscape freezes when I open
> > > > the URL
> > > >
> > > > http://www.stadtplandienst.de/query;ORT=b;LL=13.420389x52.54105
> > > >
> > > > with JAVA enabled. Without JAVA there's no problem,
> > > >
> > > > I read about the wrong fontpath-settings, but this does
> > > > not seem to be the problem, since chkfontpath --list prints:
> > > >
> > > > Current directories in font path:
> > > > 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> > > > 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled
> > > > 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled
> > > > 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
> > > > 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
> > > > 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
> > > > 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
> > > > 8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic
> > > > 9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mytype1
> > > > 10: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts
> > > > 11: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
> > > >
> > > > I also upgraded to Netscape 4.61, which gave the same result. Has someone
> > > > an idea?
> > >
> > > No, but FWIW the page loads OK with the NS 4.51+java+javascript that
> > > installed along with SuSE 6.1. MY problem is that the stupid
> > > spellchecker freezes it! Oh yeah, other random things freeze it too.
> > >
> > > Nicer looking map than mapquest...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cheers,
> > > Bev
> > > oxoxoxoxooxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
> > > Is there any way I can help without
> > > you know, really getting involved?
> > > -- Jennifer, WKRP
> >
> > Seems to work fine in Red Hat 5.2 with NS 4.61 with java/javascript enabled.
> >
> > Dan
>
> That's funny, I haven't been able to get Java to work on ANY version of
> Netscape (Linux) above 4.05
> (which I'm currently running). Same for my friend at work and for our RH 6.0
> box at work. Go to any page with Java, the Browser crashes!
>
> Howard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:19:45 GMT
K. Bjarnason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> Have you ever actually *tried* this with MS?
[...]
>Take MSI - the Microsoft Installer for Win2K - as an example, if you
>like. Beta users found many shortcomings to it, notably in terms of
>missing features. MS was informed. Voila - a new version coming down
>the pipe with many of those user-requested features implemented, and
>user-described bugs fixed.
You'd bloody well hope so. That's what a beta test is for, after all.
When you do a beta test, you plan to fix bugs and send out other stuff.
Now, the versions of Windows I have used weren't called beta tests. They
were "production" versions. Do you _really_ think phoning up MS and telling
them that their product doesn't work would have any effect (other than
adding to my telephone bill)?
>No, they're not perfect - but they do, in fact, respond to the end user.
>They have to; that's how they stay in business. Perhaps you've heard of
>"service packs"? Generally those include any number of bugfixes. Do
>you think MS finds all those bugs on their own? I'd very seriously
>doubt it.
How many service packs have there been for Windows98?
>> And the packet loss problem is not all that uncommon, it seems, if
>> one is to believe Deja. Quite a few people report similar problems
>> with PCI NE2000 cards, yet I wasn't able to find a solution there.
>Can't find a solution on Deja? But weren't you the one suggesting that
>newsgroups are the way to solve things? :)
Well, the difference is that I _do_ usually find solutions to my linux
problems.
For problems on either platform, I usually find quite a few people who
had the same problem. For linux problems, either one of them or some
other nice person usually takes a look at what actually happens, and
posts what you have to do to fix it. I have been that nice person on
a number of occasions, so it's a game of give and take.
For MS problems, taking a look at what actually happens seems to be
near impossible. There simply is no way to put a few printk statements
into your network card driver, to see how far the packet you send gets.
Heck, there isn't even any obvious way to find out whether the driver
ever gets called at all. So people with degrees in EE and CS and 15 years
of low-level computing experience will be reduced to "let's try a reinstall,
maybe that will fix it".
>And, in all fairness, accept that they may _not_ fix it any time soon.
>Any company doing serious development has to prioritize issues. Packet
>loss, while annoying to you and me and anyone trying to run servers, is
>ultimately not a fatal or even major problem to the majority of users,
>whereas a kernel bug causing resource losses and eventual system
>instability simply by leaving the system running, would be.
I beg to differ. Packet loss, when it reaches 50%, is rendering the
network connection utterly useless. Believe me, I know, I have seen how
doing something as simple as accessing the WEB through such a network
connection simply doesn't work. Sure, if you like to wait several minutes
for a document that is on a local sever on a 10base2 ethernet, then you
are fine. But somehow, that wasn't really the sort of experience my housemate
was looking for. Note: This is doing low-bandwidth WEB browsing on an
otherwise rather quiet ethernet, and the Windows box is the client. No
packet loss on the server.
>This is the one thing that really bugs me about the anti-MS crowd; there
>seems to be a mindset of "If they can't fix _my_ problem, and
>_immediately_, then they don't fix problems at all."
Oh, they fix problems. Eventually, in the next version of their OS. Maybe.
At the moment, they seem to release new versions every three years. And yes,
the PCI NE-2000 support in Windows98 is much much better than that in
Windows95. So maybe by 2001, it will actually work.
I would be more than happy to blame crappy hardware --- after all, the machine
with packet loss is a 486DX4-100 with a PCI bus. But I can't. The reason
I spent 4 hours trying to find out what was wrong with my proxy was quite
simply that I knew the hardware was OK, as I had used it just before to
copy 200MB of files onto the disk. Under linux, of course.
Bernie
--
Definition of a compromise: An agreement between two men to do
what both agree is wrong
Lord Edward Cecil
In a letter 3 Sep 1911
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: General Rant from a Linux Newbie
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:04:30 -0600
"K. Bjarnason" wrote:
> Why did Windows win out from DOS? Back when Windows started becoming
> popular, most folks didn't have the system resources to do anything
> significant in terms of multi-tasking, so that wasn't it. Better
> interface, easier installation and configuration of devices, these were
> the key features - that is to say, ease-of-use.
Silly me. Here I thought it was because of the OEM bundling
licenses that Microsoft forced on manufacturers that
required them to include Windows and Windows apps with their
DOS licenses...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "John Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie programming questions
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 10:10:38 -0500
I wrote a small program in C that compiled fine under gcc, but when I tried
to execute it, I got "sementation fault - core dumped". What does this mean?
To get rid of it, I removed a large (1000 element) global array.
Also, when I try to use the gets() function, the compiler tells me that it
is dangerous and should not be used. How else can I accept a variable length
string? Right now, I'm using scanf with a preallocated character array.
Thanks,
John
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rescuing the console from an X lockup
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:23:44 -0600
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Luckily I have a dumb terminal connected to the PC too and could still log
> in but neither X nor vmware were still running. I managed to free the
console
> in the end by switching run levels using init but is there a cleaner way
> to do it?
Ctrl-Alt-F2 should bring up another console unless the system is really
smoked. Login in and kill the offending process. Ctrl-Alt-F7 will put you
back in X, unless you have had to kill the whole thing. (Disclaimer: this
works on RH5.2, but I think it is universal )
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From: Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help w/mail...
Date: 10 Sep 1999 19:35:53 GMT
Scribbling furiously, Daniel P. Gelinske managed to write....
: I could use a little help with the same thing, however my problem is
: reversed... I can receive email fine, but I cant send it...
With me, I had to set the mailer's option (KMail, in this instance...) to
use sendmail instead of an SMTP server. I s'pose you could set up an SMTP
server, but that's still out of my knowledge base, at the moment. ;-)
--
Big Daddy
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the
law free.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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From: Andy Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache ~ user directories?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:51:59 +0000
Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> "Daniel P. Gelinske" wrote:
>
> > I am having the same problems myself... I did the 'grep public-html
> > httpd.conf' and nothing came up.
>
> Try looking for "UserDir" in httpd.conf. In my setup I have
>
> UserDir www-home
>
> and files in a subdirectory named "www-home" of each user's
> home directory are then available for browsing.
>
> Note that permissions must be right. Users' home directories
> should be mode 711, and their html subdirectories mode 755.
There is another way, if you want your user directories to be mode 700
instead of 711. change the "UserDir" to "/home/httpd" (btw - it's
srm.conf on my system, not httpd.conf), then create directories under
/home/httpd for each user, and maybe a symlink from their directory to
/home/httpd/$USER
You then have to chown the dir to the user.
This is nice if you are very paranoid, or want to have pseudo-users, so
that someone can issue a www.host.domain/~userX without actually having
a user userX.
Andy
--
Andy Busch & "Andy, sometimes I think you're strange,
The College of Wooster & and then you say something, and I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] & know for sure." - Nick D. Kost, to me
http://buschap.wooster.edu/~andy & http://pages.wooster.edu/buschap
AIM: apbusch & ICQ: 35760210
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From: "Lohengrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: xf86config
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 00:43:36 +0800
Hello, I'm new to Linux.
I got a problem with configuring Xf86 (My ver is 3.3.2).
The window can only be set to 1024 x 768.
My mon goes off when attempting with other res.
I can't even set it to a standard VGA with 640x 480.
The most awful thing is that the screen split into 2!
My video card's Leadtek WinFast 3D S680 w/2M
The chip's S3 ViRGE/GX2; DAC: S3 SDAC
My mom's MAG XJ500.
How can I fix this apart from downloading X 3.3.5 (I would, of course.)?
Any suggestions?
Thank you for your help.
Regards,
PS Mail reply is appreciated.
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning for Linux
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:09:59 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 12-Sep-99 Partitioning for
Linux by "Timothy"@ozemail.com.au
> I've been reading quite a few posts in this newsgroup about using
> different hard disk partitions for different parts of linux (eg.
> /usr). When I installed linux I wasn't sure what to do so I used
> one hard disk partition of 80MB for swap and 1.4 GB for the rest.
> Are there any drawbacks to this, or should I separate the 1.4 GB
> into smaller partitions and then reinstall everything? In fact,
> I was going to get back another 3 GB from windows. Is it ok to
> use one huge partition (eg. 4.4 GB) for everything? This is 'cos
> I'm not sure how much space I should allocate to different
> sections of linux.... Any hints would be very appreciated....
> thanks! :)
I'd advise you to check the Partitioning (mini-?) HOWTO. Some
points to keep in mind:
* The boot files (mostly, the kernel) should be kept within the first
1024 cylinders. On newish systems, this tends to mean w/n the first
8.4 GB, meaning that it can be a good idea if at least one partition
lies completely within that range (typically a smallish /boot; 10MB
is vast overkill for most).
* With separate partitions, you'd better guess right as to space
requirements. These requirements are going to be based on what
you are doing -- how many users you have, whether you are going
to be creating hordes of huge datafiles, whether you must have
the latest, greatest and biggest office suites, etc; this can
vary enormously.
There are mini-distros that fit on a small set of floppy disks,
and there are multi-CD distros where a *full* installation occupies
gigabytes.
* OTOH, with separate partitions, you can a) make some read-only,
(typically /usr, although that may mean sym-linking into /var)
to help reduce accidental errors/corruption... b) keep some even
if you re-install (say, keeping /home separate, so that you keep
that partition intact even if you switch distros or something)...
* In a multi-user or networked system, it can be important to
put stuff like /var as a separate filesystem so that damage from
running out of space due to logs (caused by abusing the local
daemons) won't interfere with the rest of the system.
--
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the silly student |
|--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
| #include <stddiscl.h> | readers all go mad |
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From: "Paul E. Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga, QNX, Linux and Revolution
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 12:46:39 -0500
Guy Macon wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Thomas) wrote:
>
> >Recently, my BIOS clock got reset (year 2099) for no good reason.
> >This caused Win98 to start breaking in odd ways. In my attempts to
> >fix this, mostly by re-installing packages that I thought might have
> >been corrupted by bad .dlls, things got progressively worse.
> >Eventually I decided to re-install Win98, WHICH THE DOCUMENTATION
> >ACTUALLY SUGGESTS! On about the third attempt to re-install, Win98
> >trashed my entire partition table. This led to all 3 operating
> >systems on the machine being trashed, and the eventual re-formatting
> >and re-partitioning of the drive.
>
> I finally got so tired of this kind of nonsense that I purchased
> a number of removable hard drive rack/tray combinations. Now when
> Win98 is running the hard drive containing QNX, the hard drive
> containing Linux and hard drive containing NT are all several feet
> away from the computer. Even Microsoft has trouble corrupting
> other OS's when I do this.
I just discovered that a store down the street has such frames, and
since I am on the verge of building a Wintel box (mainly so I can play
my games and keep up with technology I need to know for work, not that I
like Wintel), I will include these, as they will allow me to do just
that. I will probably keep some kind of hard drive in there (my current
1.08GB?) as a drive for transferring files from one OS to another
(mostly plain text, HTML, and graphics).
Very usefull.
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From: Erik Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Maximum Linux Mag
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:26:13 GMT
Charles M wrote:
> I thought it was a repartitioning tool, what about Disk Druid and fdisk on
> Red Hat, for instance?).
By partitioning tools they mean partitioning resizers. Caldera, unlike
the other distributions, lets you resize that 2GB partition into a 400MB
partition.
I didn't find Maximum Linux to have errors as much as to entirely
disrespect the free nature of Linux. Caldera uses the propretary
Partition Magic to accomplish their partition changes. Red Hat gets a
lousy review for being over priced, and less easy to use; but there is no
mention that Red Hat Linux can be downloaded for free, bought for $2 from
cheapbytes (or $6 for all 3 CDs), or legally installed on 50 computers
with one purchase, while Caldera in this respect is another proprietary
OS.
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From: Gavin Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to find SCSI ID's ???
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:01:02 +0000
Kevin E Cosgrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Back when I ran kernel 2.0.27 I would get these reports at boot
: time:
:
: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
:
: Notice that they report the SCSI IDs of the units installed in
: my system.
:
: I don't know if this is kernel related (what else could it be?)
: but, now I'm on kernel 2.0.34 and there aren't any messages that
: tell me what SCSI IDs are used in my system.
:
: So, how can I tell what IDs are used in my system, short of
: opening up the box and looking for jumpers?
:
: Thanks....
The easiest should be,
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
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From: "Roberto Romano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cachectl() or equiv. for Linux-intel
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:10:26 +0100
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to mark memory pages as uncachable in Linux-intel.
I use cachectl() in Irix but I didn't found any equiv. in Linux.
Low level tips, shareware or freeware, hacks, etc.. Anything that
could help me is welcome.
Thanks,
Roberto
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