Linux-Misc Digest #713, Volume #23 Tue, 29 Feb 00 20:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Performance counters for Linux? (Alex Vrenios)
block-major-22 (Joe Glenn)
Re: egcs C compiler problem (Andreas Ferber)
Phoenix Firewall ("Aaron Dershem")
Gnome recognizing mouse (fonv)
How can I see a linux partition from windows? (Bill Baird)
Re: mounting win95 partition (Alexis Bilodeau)
Driver module question.. (Ish Rattan)
Re: How to control this very powerful and simple attack? (Markus Wandel)
Re: Enlightenment Themes (Bit Twister)
swap space (DELUCIA ALAN T)
transfer files (DELUCIA ALAN T)
Re: How can I see a linux partition from windows? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Problems with XCDRoast (Dances With Crows)
Re: Seeking remote control and tn3270 software (Dances With Crows)
Re: Kppp Connect locks up other apps (Brian)
Re: Databases for Linux? (George Dau)
Re: Best text editor (Bob Zamites)
Switching to BSD (Sam Wun)
Re: linux without xwindows? ("Max")
connecting to internet via command line ("Max")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Vrenios)
Subject: Re: Performance counters for Linux?
Date: 29 Feb 2000 22:58:23 GMT
I read an article about special counters that exist in the
Pentium: special instructions that can give you the counters
you may be referring to. If that's true, it's OS independent.
In article <e0Yu4.42$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Do the counters exist in Linux that exist in NT for performance monitoring?
>For example, if one created a PerfMon for Linux would there be the wealth of
>counters to choose from or are the counters for performance monitoring
>limited in Linux?
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff
>
>
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Alex Vrenios
Ph.D. Student
Computer Science Dept.
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From: Joe Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: block-major-22
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:00:45 -0600
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Ferber)
Subject: Re: egcs C compiler problem
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:03:57 +0100
* Tyrone Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any ideas on how a Newbie can deal with this?
>
> Redhat 6.0, kernel 2.2.15
> Attempting to ./configure ALSA
> C compiler (egcs) working....no
> compiler cannot make executables
There should be a new file named config.log in the same directory you
run configure from. Look at the end of this file, there should be the
error messages generated by the compiler when it was tested.
CU
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From: "Aaron Dershem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Phoenix Firewall
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:22:34 GMT
I'm thinking about installing the Phoenix Adaptive Firewall package on my
Linux Router. Does anyone have any experience with it? Is it worth the
download? Can I connect my Windows 98 and Mac computers (1 of each) through
the firewall easily?
Thanks for any help,
Aaron.
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From: fonv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome recognizing mouse
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:31:04 GMT
I can get Gnome to come up but it will not recognize my mouse. What do I
need to do to accomplish this?
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From: Bill Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I see a linux partition from windows?
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:30:38 GMT
I've been using Suse Linux 6.3 for a few months now, and I love it.
Just I wish there was a way I could view and modify the contents of my
Linux partitions from Windows 98 or Windows 2000. I've heard of a program
called Linux-In-Dos, similar to the Mac-In-Dos programs, but I can't find
it anywhere, and I don't really want to shell out the money for it, its
not worth that much to me. If someone could get back to me about this,
they would be great, thanks a lot...
Bill Baird
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From: Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting win95 partition
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:41:41 GMT
adam a �crit :
>
> can somebody tell me the command to mount a win partition to view in LINUX?
> I can type: "MOUNT /DEV/HDA1 /MNT", and I get: "success, YOU MUST SELECT
> A FILE SYSTEM!". I would realy like to know how to select file systems.
> any help would be appritiated.
> ADAM
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Here's the trick:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt
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From: Ish Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver module question..
Date: 29 Feb 2000 18:51:29 -0500
System is Mandrake-6.1 running on a Pentium box. I just added a ne2000
compatible ISA ether card. The driver modules are insmod-ed manually and
card configured with ifconfig, comes upand works. How do I tell the
system to load the modules and configure the card as default at next
boot (short of doing a system reinstall)?
Thanks in advance,
- ishwar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: How to control this very powerful and simple attack?
Date: 29 Feb 2000 23:42:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Julio C. Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all.
>
>A friend of mine sent a mail to me. It said something like "Hey, I've
>been said that this line is able to make any unix system crash:
>echo "\$0&\$0" > _ ; chmod +x _ ; ./_ "
>
>I tried to make sense of what that line was supposed to do, and I realised
>that it would create recursively hundreds, thousands of shells in seconds.
>
>I tried it, and, yes, it did it.... In less than half a minute, my linux
>box was trying to handle a load of 106, and the memory was going down and
>down...
>
>I know that there are ways in other unixes to control how many processes a
>user can launch, or something like that, but I haven't seen anything like that
>in the linux kernel, nor anywhere else. I tried using the "ulimit" bash command
>but to no effect.
I just tried it, although in the C shell, where the command is called "limit"
$ limit maxproc 50
$ bomb
where the file "bomb" comtains
#!/bin/csh
while 1
bomb &
end
The limit was quickly reached, and the system stabilized at load average
0.82 with only a small amount of memory used. Responsiveness was unaffected.
The limit only affected the shell in which it was set and its descendants, so
my other shells continued working fine.
These limits are (or can be made) "hard" which means once set they cannot be
removed by the user who set them. So they could readily be invoked in the
login environment before the user's shell gets control.
Am I worng?
Markus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Enlightenment Themes
Reply-To: The news group
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:56:56 GMT
Have you looked here
http://kde.themes.org/php/docs.phtml?docid=21
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:01:07 GMT, Melissa Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do i install enlighten themes?
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Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man every_command_here, before doing anything or running a script.
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From: DELUCIA ALAN T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: swap space
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:39:39 -0500
When I installed linux on my current machine, I set my swap partition to
the size of the ram (8 meg). I upgraded to 16meg and have not increased
the size of the partition. I notice that the hard drive in constantly
reading and writting, making the machine incrediably slow. If I increase
the swap space will this go away? How do I do this without
reinstalling? And is 16 meg enough for a 486/100 running x-win? If I give
it even more I will have to increase the partition again.
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From: DELUCIA ALAN T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: transfer files
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:36:31 -0500
I have REDHAT linux 6.1 on my laptop computer (CTX Ezbook). My floppy
drive has recently died. Now when I need to transfer small files to and
from this machine, I am not able to. I do however have an InfarRed port,
serial, and parrallel. Does anyone know how to transfer file with any of
the above? I need the files to go to either a Win98 machine or another
linux machine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How can I see a linux partition from windows?
Date: 29 Feb 2000 19:17:35 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:30:38 GMT, Bill Baird
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> I've been using Suse Linux 6.3 for a few months now, and I love it.
>Just I wish there was a way I could view and modify the contents of my
>Linux partitions from Windows 98 or Windows 2000. I've heard of a program
Try explore2fs. Free as in speech and beer, but you can't work directly
with Linux files under WinXX. You can copy stuff from ext2 to FAT16/32
partitons, modify/open the stuff with WinXX programs, and then copy the
stuff back. There's another program that might work more transparently,
but I forget its name at the moment.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Problems with XCDRoast
Date: 29 Feb 2000 19:26:36 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:59:45 -0600, Vlar Schreidlocke
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have XCDRoast working perfectly except for copying audio CDs.
>XCDRoast will read the audio tracks and when I write a copy it will
>write the same number of tracks, but when I play the CD I get tracks
>of digital static. I have read the readme and changed several of the
>settings mentioned, but I have yet to be able to make a usable copy of
>an audio CD. Any ideas on this one?
Try turning on the "swap audio" option in Xcdroast's window for writing
audio tracks.
I've had the best results not using Xcdroast at all, just using cdparanoia
-B to rip an entire CD into .wav files, then "cdrecord -v track*.wav" to
burn the tracks. IIRC, Xcdroast uses cdda2wav or readcdda to rip audio
tracks, which might not do the Right Thing when it comes to byte-order...
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But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Seeking remote control and tn3270 software
Date: 29 Feb 2000 19:33:37 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:49:06 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Is there a remote control software solution for remote controlling Win
>NT machines?
BackOrifice. ;-) Seriously, a person I know has it installed on
his home NT box so he can remote-admin it. Cult of the Dead Cow
created it; read the directions carefully; no warranty expressed or
implied.
>Also any reccomendations for tn3270 software?
Search for "tn3270" on http://www.freshmeat.net and see what comes up.
IIRC, there are 3 or 4 Linux tn3270-emulation programs and xterm might
even be able to do what you want...
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kppp Connect locks up other apps
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:30:34 GMT
Brian L. Jilek wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 05:30:13 GMT, RDP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Never had this problem with RH and Mandrake distributions, but when
using
> >the kernel for RH 6.1 or Mandrake 6.1, an internet connection with Kppp
> >prevents any other apps from launching until I'm disconnected from the
> >internet. It must be something simple, but can't pinpoint. Driving me
nuts.
> >Please help anyone?
> >
>
> There is a FAQ question in kde help/kpp for just this problem.
> You may have 'auto-configure hostname' selected in the options.
>
> There is a RH specific problem with the ip-up script mentioned also.
>
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Hi. I have looked for the FAQ you mention and I cannot find it. Would
you post a link for it? Thanks.
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Dau)
Subject: Re: Databases for Linux?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:45:24 GMT
Mailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]I do not know about Postgres SQL but I read it is very good and has
]things like transactions etc .. etc.. I will like to try it but as soon
]as I realised mySQL was doing what we wanted I just did not bother.
I have done the same from the other end. Tried Postgres and it did
everything I wanted it to, so never continued to check out MySQL.
Anyone compared the two?
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From: Bob Zamites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best text editor
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:30:59 GMT
=?iso-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane?= Melnitchouk wrote:
>
> What is the best text editor MS-Word like for X ?
> Thanx
>
Well, for out and out versatility, I'd go with StarOffice 5.1. It allows
you to edit documents in Linux, and then import them into MS-Word, or vice
versa. Word Perfect is a good choice too, if you can retrain yourself to
use it.
-popeye-
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From: Sam Wun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Switching to BSD
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:51:04 +1100
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I found that Redhat Linux becoming sux in the recent version, slow
response, easily crash - unreliable.
I don't think Linux has code review at all?
Sam.
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I found that Redhat Linux becoming sux in the recent version, slow
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From: "Max" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux without xwindows?
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:55:33 -0000
Jan and Alex (and anyone else!),
my xwindows has crashed so badly that i don't know what to do :(
i have important files on my linux. my floppy drive does not work. i used to
connect to the internet using kppp in kde, but i can only use the comand
line now. please can you tell me how to log on to the internet using the
linux (red hat 6) comand line?
many thanks
Max
Alex Vrenios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:89he91$ka$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have about 8 old PCs in a network and write distributed
> software for school projects. Not only do I not need X,
> but the small disks on these systems wouldn't allow it!
>
> Like the guy below said, works fine from the command line.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> Where could I find out what you can do in Linux without x windows. What
> >> programs can you run, etc.
> >
> >You can dop pretty much everything from the command-line. You need
> >x-windows only to make things look pretty, or if you something that
> >*absolutely* requires the mouse. Usually, x windows makes it easier for
> >you to do what you're used to, but you can actually do everything (more
> >or less) from the command-prompt.
> >
> >-Jan
> >
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From: "Max" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: connecting to internet via command line
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 01:00:47 -0000
can anyone please tell me how to connect to the internet from command line.
i used to do it fine using kppp in kde on linx red hat 6.
my x windows has crashed bad, my floppy drive does not work and i need some
files urgently.
many thanks
max
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