Linux-Misc Digest #819, Volume #21 Wed, 15 Sep 99 10:13:18 EDT
Contents:
Re: "Freeware" vs. GPL (Matthew Bafford)
setuid shell scripts ("Markus Hasen�hrl")
Re: Creative Labs SCSI CD-R 4XXX (Carl Fink)
Help: Max No. of clients supported... (Jimmy Lio)
linuxconf won't start (kev)
Re: Java Development Kit that will work under Red Hat 6.0? (Hans Wolters)
Re: Apache errors when shutting down (Jon Skeet)
Re: Dial in PPP -- the next step (Jon Skeet)
Re: Linux SCSI and CD Writer (Pat Heuvel)
ProftpdHelp: ftp: bind: Address already in use. Solaris 2.6 Sparc (Abe Lin)
Re: rasmol (Pat Thoyts)
Dial in PPP -- the next step ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
FS:Cheap Pentium Systems for Linux (DeepSpace Technologies)
Re: Hotmail anyone? (Bruce Schultz)
how to convert a palette to another palette without viewing the gif (root)
Re: Are tar tapes OS dependent? (Joerg Schilling)
Re: setuid shell scripts (Bob Tennent)
Compiling SparcWorks 4.2 Sources on Intel? (Oliver Wahlen)
Can't get network connection (Eric Headley)
Re: Help: Max No. of clients supported... (Jimmy Lio)
Re: Any advice on alternate character set over telnet? ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: module-info file in RH 6 /boot - where does it come from? (Jon Bloom)
Linuxfeed: New Linux site looking for help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Are tar tapes OS dependent? (Rob McMahon)
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From: *@dragons.duesouth.net (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: "Freeware" vs. GPL
Reply-To: *@dragons.duesouth.net
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:12:08 GMT
On 15 Sep 1999 01:56:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent) enriched us
with:
: Unless you use the code of GPLed development tools in your
: software, you are not required to GPL your software. For example,
: you can use gcc to compile proprietary software.
Be careful, though. Until recently Bison required you to distribute your
software under the GPL.
Ya must read da fine print.
: Bob T.
--Matthew
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From: "Markus Hasen�hrl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setuid shell scripts
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:17:06 +0200
Hello!
I recently upgraded my old suse linux 5.3 to a newer 6.1 (kernel 2.2.5 I
believe) and now have the problem that shell-scripts with the setuid-bit set
do not work any longer (the effective user-ID is not changed when the script
runs).
Is that a new security feature and is there any way to enable setuid shell
scrips again?
Thanks a lot!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: Creative Labs SCSI CD-R 4XXX
Date: 15 Sep 1999 11:46:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:23:36 +0200 Joe Mansfied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hmmm,
>
>I have a creative labs cd-r and I would love to record some cd-s. I run
>Linux (of course!) :-)
>
>Does anyone know of any software I can do this is. As far as I know,
>CDRECORD does not support the Creative Labs CDR4XXX system.
I'm using cdrecord with the 4224E, an ATAPI version, but I strongly
suspect that if one works the other will. I follow the plain
instructions in the CD Recording HOWTO and they work fine -- have you
tried it?
--
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: Jimmy Lio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
tw.bbs.comp.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,hk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.protocols.smb,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Help: Max No. of clients supported...
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:48:32 +0800
We are planning to run a Linux server in a school to provide file
service and Internet service. There are about 72 Win'98 clients that
are going to hook up to the server, and Samba and Apache are chosen to
support these services. These clients are divided into two groups. One
group has 37 clients and the other 35. These two groups belong to two
different subnets (Say, 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 and
192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0) Do you think a single Linux box with Samba
running is capable of supporting all these client machines? The Linux
box will have two network cards, each supporting a different subnet of
clients. The Linux box is made up of an Intel 350 Mhz CPU, 128M RAM,
and SCSI hard-drive (SCSI-2, I guess) and two generic NE2000 network
cards, installed with Mandrake Linux 6.0 BTW, the network is running on
coaxial cables... (Pretty old...)
Please help...
Jimmy
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From: kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: linuxconf won't start
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:07:41 +0100
Hi,
I've just tried to start linuxconf, but got _hundreds_ of the following
error message:
Error message from remadmin :Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtksignal.c: line 537
(gtk_signal_emit): assertion `signal_id >= 1' failed.
Error message from remadmin :
A clue, anyone?
ta,
Kev
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Subject: Re: Java Development Kit that will work under Red Hat 6.0?
Date: 15 Sep 1999 12:05:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard
and could not resist the temptation ....
>I just recently upgraded to Red Hat 6.0 from Red Hat 5.1. I had
>jdk1.1.6 installed and working, but now it fails. Netscape crashes
>every time I hit a web site that uses Java, and when I try to run a
>Java program (like Mapedit), I get all sorts of library error
>messages. Where can I find jdk (at least 1.1.6) that will run under
>Red Hat 6.0 (preferably in RPM format)? Thanks.
Hi Matt,
Get the glibc version of the 1.1.7 at http://www.blackdown.org.
Chau Hans
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Apache errors when shutting down
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:13:26 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm getting an notice in /var/log/httpd/error_log over and over when
> apache starts and stops. Is this normal? It's the stock installation of
> Apache for Mandrake. Is it getting shut down properly?
Yup - SIGTERM is the "please stop" signal. Apache is just telling you
that it's received the signal and is shutting down as requested.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dial in PPP -- the next step
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:17:46 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have set up my RedHat5.2 Linux box to accept dial up PPP connections
> from a remote Win95 client, using autoPPP.
> A couple of questions:
>
> * Using my browser on Win95, I can access Apache/Linux using http://IP
> address but not http://hostname. Do I need a caching nameserver or
> something? Do these work OK on a standalone box? Currently, the PPP
> options for the dial-up server have entries for external DNS lookup
> servers. Given that the Linux box only has one modem, how can it even
> use these anyway?
Your Windows 95 box needs to know how to get a number from the name,
either through DNS or a hosts file. I believe in Win95 there's a
"hosts.sam" file somewhere: rename that to hosts and add your linux box
hostname/number. You may need to reboot the Win95 box afterwards. The
Linux DNS doesn't come into it, I suspect - it's getting from Win95 to
the Linux box that is the problem, by the sounds of it.
> * Is there any way I can dial into the Linux box and get Apache to
> display a certain html page. i.e. You don't have to enter an http://...
> site address in the browser at the client side. Maybe some sort of ppp
> script?
Not entirely sure what you're asking for here... What *exactly* would you
be wanting to run and see, and on which computer?
> * What client programs can I use to access the Linux box and the
> attached LAN?
telnet?
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Pat Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux SCSI and CD Writer
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 21:35:25 +1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello everyone:
>
> I have a AHA 2940 SCSI card with a scanner connected to it. The
> system is RedHat 5.2.
> Now my boss will buy a 12X CD Writer and asks me to install it on a
> RedHAt 6.0 system with this SCSI card and scanner.
> My questions are
>
> (1) IS there any Linux software which can support 12 X CD writer?
> (2) If there is, where to purchase and download it.
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Te-Cheng Shen
>
> ps. Can you post in this news group and also email me back.
Have a look at freshmeat.net. Many of the new releases are listed there.
You may also want to do a search on cdrecord (which is what I use).
Have fun...
Regards,
Pat
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+---------------------------------------------------------+
+ "Logic clearly dictates, that the strokes of the many +
+ outweigh the strokes of the two..." +
+ (Apologies to Mr Spock) +
+---------------------------------------------------------+
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abe Lin)
Subject: ProftpdHelp: ftp: bind: Address already in use. Solaris 2.6 Sparc
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:19:15 GMT
Sorry, guys, but I'm puzzled:
Basically I installed Proftpd 1.2.0pre6 on a Solaris SPARC.
ftp in okay, and when I do ls, it says ftp: bind: Address already in
use.
This didn't happen in Linux...
Cannot figure out why, and port 20 is free. Help!
Shuo
Here's the detail:
Install:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/proftpd;make; sudo make install;
Test configuration:changed the default one only by one line:
Port 2121
Server run as standalone:
sudo /usr/local/proftpd/sbin/proftpd -c
/usr/local/proftpd/etc/proftpd.conf
====================Begin Failed
session===================================
[shuo@mtlweb03 shuo]$ ftp xxx.xxx.com 2121
Connected to xxx.xxx.com.
220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre6 Server (ProFTPD Default Installation) [mtlweb02]
Name (xxx.xxx.com:shuo): shuo
a331 Password required for shuo.
Password:
230 User shuo logged in.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> ls
500 Illegal PORT command.
ftp: bind: Address already in use
ftp> ls
ls
500 Illegal PORT command.
ftp> 500 Illegal PORT command.
====================End failed
session+++===============================
###################Tried to see if port 20 is
occupied:################
bash-2.02$ sudo ./lsof -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2121
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
proftpd 24719 shuo 0u inet 0x61868ae0 0t182 TCP
mtlweb02:2121->montreal.sitepak.com:64136 (ESTABLISHED)
proftpd 24719 shuo 1u inet 0x61868ae0 0t182 TCP
mtlweb02:2121->montreal.sitepak.com:64136 (ESTABLISHED)
bash-2.02$ sudo ./lsof -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:20
bash-2.02$
bash-2.02$ sudo ./lsof -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:21
bash-2.02$
####################End try. It's
free.################################
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From: Pat Thoyts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: rasmol
Date: 15 Sep 1999 13:22:24 +0100
"Frans A. van der Hoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi,
> is there anyone out there who successfully compiled and installed the
> molecular vizualization program RasMol?
> I am using OpenLinux 2.2 from Caldera and cannot get it to work.
> Frans
>
>
Yup. Some time ago though. I don't remember it having any major
problems. I think you can download pre-compiled versions as well.
Perhaps if you post some error messages? Say which version you're
using etc.
--
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PGP fingerprint 2C 6E 98 07 2C 59 C8 97 10 CE 11 E6 04 E0 B9 DD
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Dial in PPP -- the next step
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:38:39 GMT
I have set up my RedHat5.2 Linux box to accept dial up PPP connections
from a remote Win95 client, using autoPPP.
A couple of questions:
* Using my browser on Win95, I can access Apache/Linux using http://IP
address but not http://hostname. Do I need a caching nameserver or
something? Do these work OK on a standalone box? Currently, the PPP
options for the dial-up server have entries for external DNS lookup
servers. Given that the Linux box only has one modem, how can it even
use these anyway?
* Is there any way I can dial into the Linux box and get Apache to
display a certain html page. i.e. You don't have to enter an http://...
site address in the browser at the client side. Maybe some sort of ppp
script?
* What client programs can I use to access the Linux box and the
attached LAN?
Michael
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Subject: FS:Cheap Pentium Systems for Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeepSpace Technologies)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:24:29 GMT
We have a large number of DEC P90 and Dual P90 machines They make great Linux
boxes and back to school machines. They also were originally made to run
Nextstep/Openstep/Windows NT(Nextstep/Openstep were single processor only).
Specs are below(For further information we have a complete manual online under
the Specs & Info section):
DEC Celebris XL P90
90mhz Pentium mid tower with dual capability(Socket 5),
32mb memory,
onboard 53C810 SCSI 2 port,
Cogent e+ ethernet LAN combo,
Sound blaster Vibra 16 sound card,
2mb Diamond Viper 64 video card,
3.5" floppy,
Keyboard and Mouse
Price $75.00 each **Quantity Pricing Available**
DEC Celebris XL P90
DUAL 90mhz Pentium chips(Socket 5) mid tower,
32mb memory,
onboard 53C810 SCSI 2 port,
Cogent e+ ethernet LAN combo,
Sound blaster Vibra 16 sound card,
2mb video card,
3.5" floppy,
Keyboard and Mouse
Price $90.00 **Quantity Pricing Available**
We have 1000s of Digital monitors forsale(Cables included). These are some of
the finest monitors we have ever had. Part numbers are as follows(We also have
specs on some of these under the Specs & Info section of our website):
VRT-17HA(beige) 1280 X 1024 $149.00 each 100+ in stock
PCXBV-KA(beige) 1280 X 1024 $149.00 each 100+ in stock
PCXBV-ZA(beige) 1280 X 1024 $149.00 each 300+ in stock
PCXBV-FZ(white) 1280 X 1024 $149.00 each 500+ in stock
PCXBV-JZ(white) 1280 X 1024 $149.00 each 100+ in stock
VRC-16HA(beige) 1280 X 1024 $ 99.00 each 100+ in stock
We accept VISA, MC and AMEX
DeepSpace Technologies, LLC
7311 Grove Rd.
Suite A-1
Frederick, MD 21701
301-663-3033
301-620-9634(fax)
"http://www.deepspacetech.com/"
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From: Bruce Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hotmail anyone?
Date: 14 Sep 1999 21:07:44 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe) writes:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:55:04 -0500, Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"Luke Th. Bullock" wrote:
> >>
> >> The GURU Ben Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >> >> Well, maybe I'm still a little groggy... Doesn't hotmail run linux for
> >> >> some of its stuff? If the breakin was a linux issue then it belongs
> >> >> here.....
> >
> >Let's see.... Hotmail runs on FreeBSD with Apache. FreeBSD and Apache
> >have excellent reputations. M$ is in a battle for its life against a
> >Unix clone. M$ has a reputation for buying phoney polls, doctoring
> >benchmarks and VHS tapes in court and lying about security holes in its
> >products, just to name a few recent behaviors. M$ buys Hotmail (and one
> >asks why, since NT supposedly is 2.7 times faster and can handle a ton
> >more traffic that a Unix clone) and shortly thereafter Hotmail has a
> >major security hole exposing 40 million email accounts. Very
> >interesting indeed. Maybe somebody didn't tell Gates that FreeBSD is
> >not Linux.
>
>
> They have switched from freebsd to nt a while back.
Yeah, then they switched back when they discovered that NT couldn't
handle the load.
--
Bruce Schultz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.graphics.misc
Subject: how to convert a palette to another palette without viewing the gif
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:03:51 +0000
Hi,
I need to convert the palette of a lot of gif, and i want to obtain all
these gif with the same palette i have choose.
Does anyone know how to do this without opening each gif one by one, and
so on...
I work under Linux (Mandrake 6.0), and I haven't yet found a tool for
this .
Thanks
Michael.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.misc,alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: Are tar tapes OS dependent?
Date: 15 Sep 1999 09:42:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, joeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Defdef wrote:
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> > Can tar files made on tapes under one architecture/OS be transported to
>> > another architecture/OS?
>> >
>> > Specifically, if I create some far files to tape on a SunSPARC running
>> > Solaris, can I read them on an Intel box running Linux?
>> >
>> > Both machines have a DDS3 DAT drive.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Matt
>> >
>> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>>
>> You can use the GNU tar.
>>
>> frederic.
>
>What does GNU tar do that other tar's won't please?
Both, GNU tar and star have many advantages over other tars.
The most important is that they allow you to record
any file, files with holes in them and files of nearly
arbitrary name length.
Star in addtition by default will not overwrite a file on disk
that is not older than the file on tape. Star also includes
a powerful pattern matcher for about 15 years.
Star autodetects the tar archive type flavor and star also
finds out if the archive needs to be byte swapped.
If an archive is compressed, star will tell you which option to
use to uncomress the actual archive automatically......
Star is at:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/alpha
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: setuid shell scripts
Date: 15 Sep 1999 11:34:21 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:17:06 +0200, Markus Hasen�hrl wrote:
>
>I recently upgraded my old suse linux 5.3 to a newer 6.1 (kernel 2.2.5 I
>believe) and now have the problem that shell-scripts with the setuid-bit set
>do not work any longer (the effective user-ID is not changed when the script
>runs).
>Is that a new security feature and is there any way to enable setuid shell
>scrips again?
>
Use super or sudo.
Bob T.
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From: Oliver Wahlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compiling SparcWorks 4.2 Sources on Intel?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:18:03 +0200
I am working on a pretty large C++ project that actually compiles on a
Ultra 10 Sun with Solaris SparcWorks 4.2:
The linking of the code compiled with debugging output takes over 90
minutes.
To speed up the compilation process I want to make the sources compile
on a much cheaper and faster high-end intel platform.
At the moment the sources do not compile under Linux g++ because of the
different template instantiation mechanisms used by SparcWorks 4.2
(Cfront model) and g++ (Borland model).
In the g++ documentation on http://egcs.cygnus.com/onlinedocs/gcc_5.html
there is a note that a future version of g++ will support a hybrid model
of the Borland and Cfront template instantiation mechanism.
Does anyone know what version of g++ this would be or when it will be
done?
Does anyone know a different way of compiling SparcWorks 4.2 sources on
an intel platform (e.g. using a different compiler or a different OS)?
p.s.: I know the g++ capabilities (-frepo and so on) but this would mean
too many changes to the sources.
--
Oliver Wahlen
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From: Eric Headley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't get network connection
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:51:10 GMT
I recently got a Gateway GP6-400 which I can't connect to my network.
It has a 3com 3c905c-TX card preinstalled but I can't even find eth0
when I do an ifconfig or netstat. I see this message when the machine
is booting up :
eth0: i586_open() irq 0
What could be causing the problem, and how can I solve it ?
Eric Headley
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From: Jimmy Lio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
tw.bbs.comp.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,hk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.protocols.smb,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help: Max No. of clients supported...
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:10:51 +0800
> Yes IT can but changing the structure of net will be better e.g. serwer net
> on 100MB connected to the switch with 10MB (about 1000USD) , the dual
> processor mainboard with more RAM etc., in my network the main serwer has
> 256MB RAM Dual PII 450, SCSI II with 200 clients and works pretty fast.
>
Thanks a lot for your suggestions...
What other servers are running on your server in addition to the Samba server?
Do your clients do I/O on the server very often? The coaxial cables in school
is giving us lots of headache because they're pretty old and the connections
seem to be rather loose... still thinking of a way to get around it.
Jimmy
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any advice on alternate character set over telnet?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 12:55:25 GMT
Cameron L. Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Curses and termcap/terminfo are a damn mess. Avoid them if you can.
(if you don't have good advice to give, it's better to listen)
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http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: Jon Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: module-info file in RH 6 /boot - where does it come from?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:39:37 -0400
Hugh Sparks wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.setup Brian Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I note that there is a module-info link pointing to
> > module-info-2.2.5-22 in my /boot directory.
>
> > Anyone know how much it matters, I'm in the process of trying out
> > 2.2.12 and I was wondering if this is important.
>
> I have searched the archives of this newsgroup and several Redhat
> mailing list archives. Your question has been asked many times
> but no one has ever provided an informed answer or even a
> plausible guess.
It's used by Red Hat's kernelcfg utility. May be used elsewhere, too,
for all I know.
Jon
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Electronic Publications Manager (Software, CD-ROMs and Web site)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linuxfeed: New Linux site looking for help
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:11:33 GMT
Hey,
I am part of a new Linux site called Linuxfeed. We're looking for
help in numerous areas. If you're interested, check us out at
www.linuxfeed.com and go into the 'jobs' section.
Thanks
Kevin
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From: Rob McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.misc,alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: Are tar tapes OS dependent?
Date: 15 Sep 1999 15:07:42 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) writes:
> Star is at:
>
> ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/alpha
Not to put you down Joerg. I use star for a few things, when I'm scripting,
(now the source is around ... I wouldn't look at it before that) and am
grateful for your contribution.
*The* big problem with star as far as I'm concerned is its rather
"interesting" slant on use of arguments. It's not even close to being a
drop-in replacement for `tar', and every time I try to use it I have to work
out just how. Normally I just don't bother. It's neither compatible with
tar, nor POSIXy.
cudcv (445) > star xvpf /dev/rmt/1
star: Must specify -x -c -u -r -t -n -diff.
cudcv (446) > star -xvpf /dev/rmt/1
star: Bad Option: -xvpf.
Oh, right, you need
cudcv (447) > star -xvp f=/dev/rmt/1
It's all very bizarre. Some things need a -, some things can't have one.
Some options need `option=argument' like the equally perverse `dd'. Some
options you can link together (-xvp), some you can't because they're expecting
more (-time). It all just feels very un-unixy.
Sorry Joerg, no offence meant, but I just hate it in these days of
standardisation and making things consistent. I don't use it because I can
never remember how.
Rob
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