Linux-Misc Digest #715, Volume #23 Tue, 29 Feb 00 23:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Access files on NT from the linux box ? (Matt)
Re: Old versions of Slackware ("WME")
Re: swap space (Dances With Crows)
Re: block-major-22 (Bob Martin)
Re: linux without xwindows? (Jan Schaumann)
Re: connecting to internet via command line (Jeremy)
Re: Seeking remote control and tn3270 software (Cokey de Percin)
Turn off Auto-logout (Stephen Speicher)
Re: Restrict ftp users to a specific directory ("Arief Y.W.")
Re: Netscape Radio Feature (Bill Piety)
Which distribution is better (Newbie question) ("Bal�zs J�vor")
Re: swap space (rob)
linux mandrake 7 ("fieldbug")
Re: Which distribution is better (Newbie question) (Bit Twister)
Re: copying from linux to win ("Melissa Nelson")
Re: Ipchains for a newbie (Ursa_M)
Re: Which distribution is better (Newbie question) (Rod Smith)
Connect HP2500CM via JetDirect J4100A from RedHat 6 (Thanh Nguyen)
burning linux from download (Blasto)
one moment hda1 has space, the other hda1 full (Jan Schaumann)
Re: Switching to BSD (Dances With Crows)
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:02:25 -0500
From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Access files on NT from the linux box ?
Greg,
You can use the FTP like smbclient, like so:
smbclient '\\NTSERVER\SHARENAME' password -I 111.222.333.444 -U username
Where 111.222.333.444 is your IP address and the rest of the fields
should be obvious.
Alternately, you can mount the NT share like so (make sure you are root)
smbmnt '\\NTSERVER\SHARENAME' password -I 111.222.333.444 -U username -c
'mount /mnt'
And the NT share will be mounted under /mnt (or whereever you specify)
Hope this helps.
-Matt
Greg wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a small network with NT and Linux,
>
> What I want to do is back up my Linux data to the NT machine over the
> network, I could then automate this process.
>
> My network works fine and from NT I can access the Linux box, but how do
> access files / transfer files from the Linux box via the command line.
>
> Thank you
>
> Greg
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sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again." -PF
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From: "WME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Old versions of Slackware
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:23:36 -0500
> W[address [drive: record record]]
Here is an example I took from a DOS 5.0 manual.
"Suppose you want to write the contents of memory, beginning at the address
CS:100, to the disk in drive B. You want the data to begin in the disk's
logical sector number 37h and continue for 2BH sectors. To do this, type the
following command:
wcs:100 1 37 2b
When the write operation is complete, Debug displays the Debug prompt
again."
That looks easy to me. It also says: "You cannot write an .EXE or .HEX file
with this command". they are referring to the "W" command.
> What address on the disk is the beginning of the bot sector? According
In Norton's "Advanced Assembly Language" he says: "Every hard disk starts
(on the first sector of the disk, BIOS cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1) with
the boot record and Partition table. This boot record is not the same one
you will find at the beginning of the DOS partition since its primary task
is to read in the correct boot record (the one in the bootable partition)
and give it control. Only one partition can be bootable on the disk.
The master boot record ends with the characteristic signature 55AAH. The
partition table is kept just before that signature, at offset 1BEH to 1FDH
in the boot record."
> to my ancient copy of Norton's book Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC
8> (1985), on p.112, one examines the boot record in debug by executing,
e.g.,
> DEBUG
> L 0 0 0 1 ; load first sector
According to what I've seen I would interpret this as follows:
- load the bytes in address 0 (the first 0).
- from drive 0 (the second 0) drive 0 is the floppy disk drive.
- from sector 0 (the third 0). I think sector 0 on the drive.
- for a length of 1 sector.
> U 0 L 2 ; unassemble and list first and second bytes
This command I'm not sure about. The manual says U [range]. The command
above doesn't follow this.
> U 2E ; unassemble and list all bytes form 2E on
As you said, unassemble the data starting at location 2Eh and on. Each
screen contains 16 (10h) bytes.
>
> The L command has the same syntax as the W command. I think L 0 0 0 1
> means load the stuff from record 0 0 to record 0 1 into memory. That
> suggests to me that the sequence to write the file foo.bar to the boot
> record is:
>
> debug foo.bar
> w0000
I think it means
- write the contents of location 0 in memory (the first 0).
- To the FDD A: (the second 0). By the way 0=A, 1=B, 2=C,...
- Starting at sector 0 (on the disk I think).
- and for a length of 0 sectors (which doesn't make sense to me). Mayb 1 is
more useful.
Since you are writing to a floppy, the risk is lower, but always be prepared
for the worse. When you're loading data, you'll notice the FDD light goes
on.
I hope I was of any help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: swap space
Date: 29 Feb 2000 21:26:19 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:39:39 -0500, DELUCIA ALAN T
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>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?
No. Running X in less than 32M of RAM will probably cause your machine to
swap constantly no matter what the size of the swap file is.
>How do I do this without reinstalling?
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=8192
# sync
# mkswap /swapfile
# swapon /swapfile
That will add 8M of swap. Change that "8192" to "16384" to add 16M of
swap, etc. Make sure to edit /etc/fstab to reflect the presence of this
additional swap. Please note that this swapfile will be slower than a
dedicated swap partition, but them's the breaks.
>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.
No and no. Swap+RAM=total amount of memory, and for that little RAM I'd
suggest having swap=2*RAM... especially if you're running anything that's
memory-hungry!
--
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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: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: block-major-22
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:21:34 -0600
Joe Glenn wrote:
>
> modprobe looks for this at bootup and can't find it. Anybody know what it is?
That's your second ide port.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux without xwindows?
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:36:37 -0500
Max wrote:
>
> 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?
in comp.os.linux.setup there is a thread called "connecting to the
internet via command line" or something like that. It's not gone very
far by now, but it might give you a hint.
a suggestion was to "try ~/sbin ifup ppp0"
I haven't actually done this, but what if you tried minicom from the
command-line? might help, or at least give you a hint.
You might also want to check out the PPP-howto
(http://www.linux.com/howto/PPP-HOWTO-12.html) and the modem-howto
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO.html)
Good luck!
-Jan
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http://jschauma-0.dsl.speakeasy.net/chat/
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From: Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: connecting to internet via command line
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 02:31:28 GMT
wvdial. Ships with Red Hat 6.1 and configures itself. I was really
impressed and up in about 5 minutes.
Max wrote:
>
>
> 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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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seeking remote control and tn3270 software
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 02:55:32 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> 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.
Better yet, use VNC. I use VNC at work to control NT boxes locally and
over our WAN; works very nicely and it's free. I don't have a URL, but
do a search on Vertual Network Computer (VNC); should be AT&T labs. It's
very simple to install, nothing to it and the viewer runs on Linux, NT,
and a number of others. It even has security... A tip; over a slow
network, use 8 bit mode at the client.
>
> >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...
The tn3270 and x3270 packages work very well as long as you're doing ip
to your host machine, not LU2. Note that there is also a tn5250 package
now that is getting quite mature. I've heard that it works well also -
if you need it. Check freshmeat or any archive.
Best
Cokey
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From: Stephen Speicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Turn off Auto-logout
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:56:39 -0800
How do you turn off the auto-logout feature?
In RH6.1 it seems to be an installed 'feature', whereas in
RH4.1 I never did anything special to disable it.
I want to stay logged on until I decide to log off.
Stephen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can always tell a pioneer by the arrows in his back.
Printed using 100% recycled electrons.
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From: "Arief Y.W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Restrict ftp users to a specific directory
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:28:41 +0700
Josef Drexler wrote in message
<89gt9r$687$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>And Lo! It was upon the 01 Mar 2000 that Brad said unto the
world:
>> another question regarding that...... Ok i understand
that bit, but now,
>> if a USER logs in, not anon, normally they can go back a
>> directory......say they log into /home/user1/ they can
easially go back
>> to /home/ How can I stop that from happening, so that
each users home
>> directory via ftp is /home/username/ and that it has no
parent directory,
>> so they will never be able to get to /home/ or any other
part of the
>> system for that matter? Brad
When I maintained a FTP on NT Server, user anoymous can get
in to default FTP
directory where he can download only, he can not go to
updir, but in order to
upload and have read-write permission into his
home-directory, he has to write
an alias directory which is a secret word - not a pair
username & password.
>It's not so easy to do with wu.ftpd because you'd have to
set up binaries
>for ls etc. in each user's home directory.
>
>However proFTPD has a built-in "ls" command, so that with
proFTPD you can
>just put "DocumentRoot ~" in the config file and then your
users will be
>confined to their home directories.
And if the user can both read-write permission on his home,
so he can
delete a "built-in ls command" and any other stuff which
confining him.
What then an aftermath ?
regards
~yudi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Piety)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Netscape Radio Feature
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:04:20 GMT
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:13:08 -0500, John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Has anyone gotten the Netscape 4.7 Radio to work? Both rvplayer 5.0 and
>realplayer G2 Beta 6.0 are installed and I still get the silent treatment
>from Netscape Radio.
>
>John
Same here, but I notice the Spinner logo on the Netscape player.
Spinner has many more channels & does work well with G2. Go to
www.spinner.com if you haven't tried it yet.
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From: "Bal�zs J�vor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Which distribution is better (Newbie question)
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:28:31 +0100
I'm more or less a newbie to Linux (although not entirely), and I'd find it
dard to decide
which distribution I should go with.
I'm not new to computers though, so I'm don't necessarily look for the
distribution which is
the easiest to install or maintain.
What I would like to do is to learn Linux inside out, if possible. Also
among my primary
concerns are flexibility and availablility of many applicaions etc. Now many
apps come out
claiming to be for RedHat or SuSE etc. I've read that you can get those
packages to work
with other distributions, but I've also read that because of the different
distributions use different
directory structures it may still be problematic.
I've also read somewhere that Debian is good because it's entirely
"non-profit" (which I like),
but also noticed that RedHat seems to be the most popular, and also the most
"commercialized"
(Which I have mixed feelings for, since it meens a lot of apps, but can also
mean "unique" solutions
and all other possible negative effects of commercialism as well in the long
run.)
And of course there are dozens of other distributions left.
I know this is a bit subjective matter, but I would still appreciate some
oppinions so I could
easier decide for which one to go.
Many thanks in advance!!!
Balazs
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From: rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: swap space
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:18:17 -0700
I don't know about that - 16 meg might be ok. I say this
because in 1995 16 megs was a lot of memory and that's
how much my system had and X ran ok. Most or all of
the distributions now run gnome or kde by default, and
these would be _horrible_ on a 16 meg system - how
about twm instead? Also, on my system, X for some reason
requires more main memory (not just video card memory)
if I run it in 32 bpp instead of 16 bpp, so use 16 bpp.
Finally, it's likely (unless you've already checked) that
lots of programs are running that you don't even want,
like httpd, nscd, and on and on. Use 'ps aux' to see
them all, and take the ones you don't want out of your
startup scripts. When all is said and done, I don't
know if the machine will run X acceptably, but I think
it might. And don't bother repartitioning to get a bigger
swapfile until your programs start getting memory allocation
failures, failure to fork, random crashes, etc, etc. If
you're truly out of virtual memory, things will be worse
than just slow.
<snip>
> >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.
>
> No and no. Swap+RAM=total amount of memory, and for that little RAM I'd
> suggest having swap=2*RAM... especially if you're running anything that's
> memory-hungry!
<snip>
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From: "fieldbug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux mandrake 7
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:19:43 GMT
I have win 98 installed on a 2 month old pIII based system.
My 13 gb. hd is partitioned to 4 drives ,all fat 32, ! active primaryC
the others, extended logical partitions.
Now, use the Linux floppy , to start, and then the cd rom
starts the drakx . I choose RECOMMENDED class of instal.
It is supposed to be auto matic.A map of the hdd shows the 4
partitions. On the left a text says: PLEASE CLICK ON A PARTITION.
If I click "C" drive, then auto allocate, a dialogue box appears
saying : HDA WILL BE WRITTEN TO DISK.
It seems right. I don't want to lose my win 98 data.
Keep going?? Am I right so far??
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Which distribution is better (Newbie question)
Reply-To: The news group
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:23:17 GMT
something to read
http://207.178.22.52/lj-issues/distable.html
http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:28:31 +0100, Bal�zs J�vor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm more or less a newbie to Linux (although not entirely), and I'd find it
>dard to decide
>which distribution I should go with.
>I'm not new to computers though, so I'm don't necessarily look for the
>distribution which is
>the easiest to install or maintain.
>What I would like to do is to learn Linux inside out, if possible. Also
>among my primary
>concerns are flexibility and availablility of many applicaions etc. Now many
>apps come out
>claiming to be for RedHat or SuSE etc. I've read that you can get those
>packages to work
>with other distributions, but I've also read that because of the different
>distributions use different
>directory structures it may still be problematic.
>I've also read somewhere that Debian is good because it's entirely
>"non-profit" (which I like),
>but also noticed that RedHat seems to be the most popular, and also the most
>"commercialized"
>(Which I have mixed feelings for, since it meens a lot of apps, but can also
>mean "unique" solutions
>and all other possible negative effects of commercialism as well in the long
>run.)
>And of course there are dozens of other distributions left.
>
>I know this is a bit subjective matter, but I would still appreciate some
>oppinions so I could
>easier decide for which one to go.
>
>Many thanks in advance!!!
>
>Balazs
>
>
>
--
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If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
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: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: copying from linux to win
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:23:59 GMT
Thanx MaX for this link i didnt know about it but i was wondering about it
you just saved me allot of search time
Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:89hroi$g6p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> this program saved my life (and 2 months worth of php scripts)
> it is called explore2fs and allowed me to see my linux partition from
> windows and copy files to windows.
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm
>
> thanks to John Newbigin for this beauty.
> max
>
>
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From: Ursa_M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ipchains for a newbie
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:31:07 -0500
See Below..
Vlar Schreidlocke wrote:
> My setup works fine, but I'm curious: how did you "trick" it into
> using another MAC address using ifconfig?
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:43:43 -0500, Ursa_M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I agree with Greg. I got the tip here and now have my Linux box, RedHat 6.1
> >upgraded from 5.1, working like a champ with my cable modem. I went to
> >www.grc.com to "test" the firewall and it passed with flying colors. FYI,
> >depending on how your cable modem provider sets things up you may need to
> >fuss with either your host name, the MAC address on your ethernet card or
> >both. Post here if you have trouble. The group is very helpful. The cable
> >people installed the modem first on my Win98 desktop and I later moved it to
> >my Linux box. It appears that the MAC address is cached and I had to trick it
> >to match the one in my Win98 machine to get things to work, using ifconfig.
> >
> >Good luck.
> >
> >Ursa_M
> >
Ursa_M --> The "trickery" is done as follows:
Deactivate the ethernet card, which can be done also from ifconfig or from the
control panel within X windows.
ifconfig eth1 hw ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx <enter>
Reactivate the ethernet card and check the result by running ifconfig with no
parameters. This worked fine so I next ran the masquerade script after verifying
I could now ping my cable gateway address. I really should put this stuff
somewhere where it will auto start if I ever reboot, but I haven't done that yet
nor had to reboot (of course). I have confirmed that nothing gets messed up by
any of the routine cron jobs, so I have just let it run. I have tested the
firewall by browsing to www.grc.com from a masqueraded Win98 box and running both
the "Shields" test and the port probe. Both came up with no holes.
Good luck,
Ursa_M
Sorry for the fake sig, but I HATE SPAM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Which distribution is better (Newbie question)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:35:12 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <89h33o$14l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bal�zs J�vor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm more or less a newbie to Linux (although not entirely), and I'd find it
> dard to decide
> which distribution I should go with.
For my thoughts on the matter, check my Linux distributions web page:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/
I've got to update it for Mandrake 7.0, which I recently installed on a
laptop. One or two others are also a version or so behind the times.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: Thanh Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Connect HP2500CM via JetDirect J4100A from RedHat 6
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:30:57 GMT
With Compliments,
I have a HP 2500CM color Postscript printer that have a JetDirect J4100A
card connected for the Network printer.
I've setup the printer server connect as remote Unix lpd with the Input
Filter as Postscript printer.
I've also tried to put "raw" as remote queue.
However, I've failed to do any test print from the RedHat Linux print.
When I check with lpq -Prfa3c (rfa3c is my printer queue name) the response
is : ...bom.gov.au: waiting for rfa3c to come up
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st root 3 ... 625 bytes
JetDirect lpd: no jobs queued on this port.
It looks to me that my linux box couldn't talk to the JetDirect card at
all.
Anyone could help please?
Cheers
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From: Blasto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: burning linux from download
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:30:32 GMT
I have adaptech 4 and can't figure how to create an ISO. Please help?
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From: Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: one moment hda1 has space, the other hda1 full
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:46:50 -0500
Greetings all,
So just now the following happened:
I was minding my own business, being happy with hda1 being 70% full.
Then I start KLyx, it complains that there is no space on /tmp/ and I
check and who would have guessed, suddenly hda1 is 100% full!
What gives?
I cleaned up tmp and checked all processes and everyhting and still hda1
was 100% full.
So I reboot, log in and find it to be 99% full, can't belive it check
again find it to be 86% full etc. until it's finally where it's supposed
to be (namely 70%).
anybody has any ideas what's going on?
TIA,
-Jan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Switching to BSD
Date: 29 Feb 2000 23:05:34 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:51:04 +1100, Sam Wun <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>--------------9801062BB19A173364DCB4D1
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>I found that Redhat Linux becoming sux in the recent version, slow
>response, easily crash - unreliable.
I find that people are posting crap in MIME format on Usenet, but you
don't see me bitching about it... much.
RedHat has problems, to be sure, but the faults you are describing are
probably due to GNOME. 6.1 shipped with an older, hideously buggy
version. Try KDE--works great for me, in both RH and SuSE, and you can
run GNOME apps so long as the libs are installed. Or upgrade to the
latest GNOME release, which seems to work much better for most people.
>I don't think Linux has code review at all?
I think the developers of most packages would disagree with you. Tried
checking out the GNOME-devel or KDE-devel mailing lists, to say nothing
of the kernel-devel list?
If you want to switch to *BSD, that's all right, but don't expect too much
improvement in the user-level applications...
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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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