Linux-Misc Digest #766, Volume #23 Mon, 6 Mar 00 13:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: xmms plays nothing, sound is working (Geoffrey de Vlugt)
Re: XFree86-xfs very slow (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Microsoft reinvents the wheel!!! ("Charles Sullivan")
need to change /dev/hdc to /dev/hde for LILO ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
change ctrl-c to delete key (rick_h)
Printing (lpd) - Disabling Header Pages (Mike)
TAPE Probelm ("Gazza")
Re: User Shutdown (Francois Reygagne)
Tyan S1837UANG Thunderbolt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PPP needs 2 tries for session (Brian Moore)
Re: RH on a laptop (Brian Moore)
Eicon Diva 2.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: multiple users using X on same computer at same time? (Donald R. Weimann)
fscanf / float problem (Gerald Pollack)
Re: lilo failed? ("Charles Sullivan")
Best 'Free' Backup Solution??? ("Brad Melendy")
Re: Computer - Red Hat Linux 6.0 - startx (Dances With Crows)
symlink (Alex)
Re: Cshell how use the command foreach ("Christopher W. Aiken")
rm command ("Bob Cent")
Re: PPP needs 2 tries for session (Robert Lynch)
SMP Process Control ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Microsoft reinvents the wheel!!! (Tim Hockin)
Re: Salary? (Tim Hockin)
Re: fscanf / float problem (Dances With Crows)
Printing pb on a HP4 with jetdirect (=?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Foissac)
Re: HELP - Install Linux on Last Partition of a 30 GB Hard Drive? ("Andrew Scutt")
Red Hat Installation: How to get past the "Which driver" screen when you have PCMCIA
ethernet (Kenny McCormack)
Re: 40 GB Disk problems (Tim Hockin)
Re: fscanf / float problem (Tim Hockin)
Re: rm command (Tim Hockin)
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From: Geoffrey de Vlugt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xmms plays nothing, sound is working
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:02:33 +0100
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Make sure you don't have the disk writer plugin enabled instead of ESD or
OSS driver. Type in ctrl-p or use the menu to go to the preferences and
check the output plugin settings.
ps. also check out your homedir or other dirs for .wav files this plugin
creates.
> I have xmms-1.0.1-1. I've been upgrading
gnome's and many packages
> now I found out it stopped working. It launches, and seems it plays
> but I hear nothing. It also looks it parses the file too fast.
>
> What could have been ?
> gnome-core, gnome-audio ? I've always used rpm to install things so
> I don't know what could have been. And going back to the CD packages
> will be a pain.
>
> I tried to install latest gnome but I couldn't because it complains
> it needs the package windowmanager. That I couldn't find.
>
> Please help me .
Ciao,
Geoffrey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=================================================================
"Binky the doormat!! Binky the doormat!!. That should be my name.
Not Binky the clown.. Binky... the... doormat!"
from "The Citizen Kane of Alcoholic Clown Movies"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: XFree86-xfs very slow
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:12:53 GMT
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:53:45 +0000, Chris Lowth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a redhat 6.0 box - its an i486/50dx machine - nothing flash.
>Running XFree86 and netscape.
>
>I dont expect miracles, but I have found there is a severe speed
>problem with XFS. It manifests itself as a 2 minute delay in the
>start=up of netscape.
>
>Even "xbanner" takes 90 seconds to run.
>
>Using "ps -A x" I have noted that all the time delay is being mopped up
>in "user land" loops in the xfs server.
>
>I have even re-installed redhat 5.2, 6.0, 6.1 and caldera 1.3 - ALL
>have the same problem.
>
>Am I missing something here - is this a bug, or do I really have to
>live with the auful though that Windows is better than linux on this
>box - I think I really couldnt handle that!
Very strange. I have a hard time thinking what xfs would be doing to
cause this. But, you might try hardwiring all your Fontpaths into
/etc/X11/XF86Config, kill xfs, restart X and see if it is xfs or maybe
something else that xfs is interacting with. It might be something wonky
with your networking as all of these are using Unix Domain Sockets. Why
would xbanner need xfs (just thinking out loud)?
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft reinvents the wheel!!!
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:22:41 -0500
Julio C. Gutierrez wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi all,
>
>This is worth reading!
>
>Microsoft has been working hard to develop a new technology that will save
>disk space!! Links to files!!!! Incredible? No!
>
>Read it detailed at:
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/02-28w2k.asp
>
>PS: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!
>
>--
>Julio C. Gutierrez -- Please remove both X to send email
>Penguins live only in cool environments... ;)
This ranks right up there with Al Gore's claim to have invented
the Internet (when everyone knows that Bill Gates invented it -
right after he invented the computer). :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: need to change /dev/hdc to /dev/hde for LILO
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:16:05 GMT
I've got an ABIT BP6 motherboard with four IDE channels.
IDE1 and IDE2 are UDMA33, IDE3 and IDE4 are UDMA66.
The hard drive is plugged into IDE2 and the CD-ROM is plugged into IDE1.
My hard drive device name is /dev/hdc.
However, I want to plug my drive into the UDMA66 IDE3 slot.
I do have a UDMA66 drive and a kernel patch to support the
UDMA66 drive.
When I plug it in there and start the new kernel, I notice it is
looking for a drive at a different device location, /dev/hde.
Is there a way to associate each kernel image with a specific drive
assignment via LILO? So if I type 'linux' at the LILO: prompt, it will
look for it's device at /dev/hdc, but if I type 'newkernel' at the LILO:
prompt, it will know to look for device /dev/hde?
If not, how can I change it so that on my next boot, it will know to
look for /dev/hde for the boot drive/image?
Thanks.
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From: rick_h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: change ctrl-c to delete key
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:30:14 GMT
I would like for my delete key and my backspace key to work as they do on
SCO on the console. I have tried "stty intr "^?". Then my backspace key
is the delete key.
Thanks for any help
Rick
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing (lpd) - Disabling Header Pages
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:30:03 GMT
Using RedHat 6.0 & lpr printing to HP JetDirect connected printers I just
cannot switch off the header pages ie.
User: xxxx
Host: xxxxxxxxxxx
Class: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Job: xxxxxxxxxxxx
I've used the 'printtool' utility to switch off headers, confirmed that
/etc/printcap has the 'sh' suppress headers option enabled and yet I'm
still getting header pages !
I have other printers which are connected via lpr/lpd which do not print
header pages. What is actually generating these pages ? Is it the JetDirect
card, if so can I switch it off ?
Thanks
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From: "Gazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TAPE Probelm
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 16:39:19 -0000
I am having a problem with a seagate st380000a ide tape drive. I'm not sure
if the prob lies witht the tape or with my config.
I can get one successful session of copying files to the tape drive after a
reboot. Any further attempts will fail unless the server is rebooted.
I use the command tar -cvt /dev/tape /directory name to backup the files
and I can restore them again using tar -xvf.
If i try the same command immediately after doing a backup it fails.
The var/log/syslog gives the following errors after a successful tar session
> hdc:irq timeout status 0xd0
> hdc: ATAPI reset complete.
> ide-tape:hdc: I/O error, pc=10, key=2, asc=4, ascq=1
> ide-tape: couldnt write filemark.
> ide-tape:hdc: I/O error, pc=1, key=2, asc=4, ascq=1
> rewinding tape failed.
>
> The above message is repeated after the second unsuccessful TAR command.
> with the additional error message
> ide-tape: DMA disabled reverting to PIO
I have checked that the jumper on the tape drive is set to master and it is
the only device on the seconday ide controller. The motherboards bios for
that controller is set to none. (I have also tried auto with no change)
I have run the seagate sgtape21 test program and it reports that the drive
is working. o.k
DMESG report the following relevant info after rebooting
Linux version 2.0.33
ftape-2.08 960314 for Linux 1.3.70
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 1000KBps, 6*54kB buffer, 5400kB pipeline, 160ms tDSC,
DMA
can anyone offer any guidance please
tia
garry
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From: Francois Reygagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: User Shutdown
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:31:59 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Timo Benk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > how can I let a user shutdown the Computer from the Console? Shutdown,
> > halt, etc. sais that only root can do that.
Two other solutions:
1) set the setuid bit to each exec file
2) use sudo and the associated visudoers file
to keep the trace of who did the shutdown
Francois Reygagne. Software Architect
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.addx-technologies.com/
Sophia Antipolis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Tyan S1837UANG Thunderbolt
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 16:41:34 GMT
Has anyone tried to implement a Linux server class machine on this
motherboard?
Im wondering about the on-board Dual processor, on-board dual LVD-SCSI,
and on-board ethernet.
I have never tried to use any of these features previously. Are the
current Linux distributions capable of handling and configuring these
on-bard devices and the multiple processors?
Thanks for any feedback.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Moore)
Subject: Re: PPP needs 2 tries for session
Date: 6 Mar 2000 11:54:53 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <89vps8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dale Huckeby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what's going on here? I give the command:
>"ifup ppp0", the phone rings, a connection is apparently established
>momentarily, then PPP hangs up, dials again, and the second time
>I get a continuous connection until I terminate it with: "ifdown ppp0".
Sorry but this is a "me too" post. I have just the same behavior.
I've looked at my log too and it looks a lot like yours. I can't
figure it out. Have you tried changing the wait time?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] , (814)-898-6334
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Moore)
Subject: Re: RH on a laptop
Date: 6 Mar 2000 11:52:41 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8a055d$nol$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello
>
>I can buy a quite cheap laptop, Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDS. Before to
>buy it, I'd like to know if it's possible to insall Linux RH on it,
>and if there are any limitations. Are all drivers available ?
>(soundcard, modem, screen, cdrom and other PCMCIA devices)
>
>Generaly speaking, is it possible to install Linux on most of the
>laptops ?
>
>Thank you for your help,
>
>Sacha
I put RH 6.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 225CDS recently and I was surprised at
how easy it went. I don't have a soundcard/chip but all the rest
are working fine.
I inherited this laptop and it was running Windows95. It had been experiencing
frequent crashes and erratic behavior, which at least one service person
said was probably hardware! Anyhow, I tried first reinstalling
Windows 95 on it, but I had several problems. I had assumed the Linux
install would be not as easy as Windows. After a few days of struggling
with Windows, I downloaded the latest RH6.1 CD, set the bios to boot
from cd and basically I just hit the "do it" button after the
first few install dialogs came up, then I
and went off to lunch. Done. Works great now and it doesn't crash :)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] , (814)-898-6334
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Eicon Diva 2.0
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:06:21 +0100
Hi,
I have an Eicon Diva ISDN card but I can't use it under Redhat 6.1.
When I type
insmod/modprobe isdn
i get:
ISDN subsystem 1.87/1.74/1.92/1.54/1.17/1.2 loaded
so everything goes well. After that I need to load the hisax module
with
insmod/modprobe hisax protocol=2
i get:
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/hisax.o: init_module: Device or
resource
busy
ISDN subsystem unloaded
Any idea how I can get it work? I tried everything but I can't fix it!
Help!!!
Thanks in advance for repling
Tim De Vos
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From: Donald R. Weimann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: multiple users using X on same computer at same time?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:04:02 GMT
Rick,
The easiest way to do what you want is:
cntrl-alt f1
login
startx -- :1
This will give you your 2nd account (the first is :0)
cntrl-alt f2
login
startx -- :2
This will give you your 3rd account etc.
You can do this up to f6 for a total of 7 xwindows.
cntrl-alt f7 will switch you into your 1st xwindow and cntrl-alt f8-f12
will switch you into your other xwindows.
Hope this helps
# Don
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to have 2-3 accounts active on the same computer, running
X
> at the same time. I tried cntrl-alr-f2, but when I log in and start X,
I
> get an error saying display 0 is using X. I tried startx --:1, and
xinit
> --:1, but get the same error. Is it possble to do this.
>
> any and all help appreciated.
> --
>
> Rick
> To reply by email remove NOSPAM from my address.
>
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From: Gerald Pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fscanf / float problem
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:10:59 GMT
Can someone tell me what's wrong with the following? Why doesn't=20
fscanf get the floating point number correctly? (Mandrake 6.1 system,=20
kernel 2.1.13, pgcc 1.1.3-3).=20
Thanks,
G.Pollack
McGill Univ.
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(void) {
int i;
double f;
=09
printf( "Enter an integer, a space, and a float: ");
fscanf( stdin, "%d %f", &i, &f);
fprintf( stdout, "%d %f\n", i, f);
}
=======
Enter an integer, a space, and a float: 1 2.2
1 0.000000
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo failed?
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 12:16:03 -0500
Peter Lee wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I was trying to install Redhat 6.1's lilo to boot linux and win98.
>However, i couldn't make lilo work because it complained about the
>amount of cylinders on my HD (13GB) are too large. Therefore I can only
>boot linux through boot disk now. I used to install lilo on my another
>PC with 3GB HD without problem. Can anyone tell me how to solve this
>problem?
>
>thanks!
>Pete
The problem is most likely caused by your Linux kernel being
located partly or entirely above the 1024 cylinder boundary
on your drive, where the bios can't get to it. The solution
usually suggested is to have a small 10-15 Meg /boot partition
below this boundary - then the rest of Linux can be anywhere.
Another solution is to set BootGUI=0 in your MSDOS.SYS file
so your PC will boot into DOS and not Win 98 (enter "win" at
the DOS command line to load Win 98). Then use LOADLIN.EXE to
optionally boot into Linux (it requires having a copy of your
Linux kernel in your DOS/Win partition.)
Despite another responder's complaint about this question being
asked over and over, I've been reading this newsgroup fairly
regularly over the past year and it's still not clear to me
how one can reliably put a /boot partition on a large drive like
yours if you want to have a single Win 98 partition which is
larger than 1024 cylinders. There have been numerous complaints
about Win not booting or Win interfering with the /boot partition
if the order of the partitions is /boot, <Win partition>, <Rest of Linux>.
I personally haven't _yet_ had this problem since my Win
(FAT 32) partition is smaller than 1024 cylinders so I can put
the /boot partition above it.
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From: "Brad Melendy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best 'Free' Backup Solution???
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:21:48 -0800
Hello,
I'd like to find out what people think the best 'Free' backup solution is
for Linux. Any and all comments welcome. Thanks in advance.
....Brad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Computer - Red Hat Linux 6.0 - startx
Date: 06 Mar 2000 12:33:43 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:30:17 GMT, geniuz <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>My problem is, when I login and want to startx a error message occur.
>The error is..._X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>giving up.
If you'd read the documentation, you'd know that the important part of
that error message comes *before* the "errno=111".
>For your information I'm using graphic card call Creative Graphic Blaster
>riva TNT 2 Value (AGP), so how to configure this card.
The TNT2 chipset did not become supported until Xfree86 3.3.4 or 3.3.5.
RH 6.0 shipped with an older version of Xfree, so all you need to do is
upgrade your X. Check either of the URLs below for how to do that:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhgraham/UpgradeXfree.html
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES.html
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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: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: symlink
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:33:52 +0000
does anybody know which rpm package contains symlink - i listed them all
and couldn't find it, i know readlink is in tetex but not symlink. i'm
sure i've used it before with a red hat installation.
thank you in advance,
alex boreham
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From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cshell how use the command foreach
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 12:35:54 -0500
Grenel wrote:
>
> I am working on Sun Solaris system and i m trying to make a script ,but to
> make it i must use the foreach command and it does'nt work like i learned
> it.
>
> the man exemple for the CShell configuation does'nt work too.
>
> can someone help me ??
>
> thanks
>
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From: "Bob Cent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rm command
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:29:27 -0800
Reply-To: "Bob Cent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I would like to delete some files, but only if they are older than a certain
number of days. Is there a clever way to do that? I was disappointed that
the rm command had no options for it. Thanks.
_____________________________
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University of Washington
Box 357330
Seattle, WA 98195-7330
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voice: 206.543.1433
fax: 206.685.0305
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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 09:30:09 -0800
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP needs 2 tries for session
Brian Moore wrote:
>
> In article <89vps8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dale Huckeby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what's going on here? I give the command:
> >"ifup ppp0", the phone rings, a connection is apparently established
> >momentarily, then PPP hangs up, dials again, and the second time
> >I get a continuous connection until I terminate it with: "ifdown ppp0".
>
> Sorry but this is a "me too" post. I have just the same behavior.
> I've looked at my log too and it looks a lot like yours. I can't
> figure it out. Have you tried changing the wait time?
>
> --
>
> Brian G. Moore, School of Science, Penn State Erie--The Behrend College
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] , (814)-898-6334
Are you two perchance running RH 6.1? This is a "FAQ problem":
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-6.html#ss6.6
6.6 Problems with PPP "double dialing" your ISP
HTH. Bob L.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SMP Process Control
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:26:34 GMT
Hi,
I have RedHat6.1 running on a 2 Celeron system. I watch the CPUs with
wmSMPmon and see that it is rare that boths CPUs are at maximum load.
I want to use 1 CPU 100% for a background calculation job, and use the
other CPU for the user interface.
How can I start a job so that it takes up more CPU time and finishes
faster?
Can I assign a CPU to do a specific task and use all of its cycles?
Thank you,
MT
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft reinvents the wheel!!!
Date: 6 Mar 2000 17:38:39 GMT
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 2.1) Disk develops error on block which contain original? no problem
: 2.1) Disk develops error on block which contain original? Problem.
: Except that if the sectors that are on the HD fail it would only fail on
: one /COPY/ in the non-hardlinked version where it would corrupt /ALL/ copies
: of the hardlinked version. Therefore, the MS automagic it less robust and
: causes problems because of that.
: You /DID/ think of that, right? I thought not.
Except that in the Real World you scenario is very rare. It is far more
likely to hit the files you didn't backup than the one you do. My main
point is this:
1) The CoW link idea isn't such a bad idea
2) It isn't exactly novel
3) If you make backups by copying the file to the same disk you're a fool
additionally:
4) the fact that this is automagic IS troublesome
5) the fact that MS touts this as an innovation is laughable
6) I care not one iota, as I won't touch a win* system anyway.
over-and-out
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
Date: 6 Mar 2000 17:39:54 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc 5X3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Depends on where in S.C. Generally, 60K would be a little bit
: low, but pretty much guaranteed. Unless its an ISP; then dont
: expect a dime over 40K for a starting salary.
hey P00k :) good to see you again :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: fscanf / float problem
Date: 06 Mar 2000 12:45:18 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 17:10:59 GMT, Gerald Pollack
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Can someone tell me what's wrong with the following? Why doesn't
>fscanf get the floating point number correctly?
> double f;
> fscanf( stdin, "%d %f", &i, &f);
^^^^^^
%f is not the right conversion character for a variable of type double.
There are some C compilers that automagically promote floats to doubles,
but gcc and its variants don't seem to do that. Try %lf, and re-read
the section on pritnf() and scanf() in your C programming book.
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But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Foissac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Printing pb on a HP4 with jetdirect
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 18:46:48 +0100
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Help !
Hello,
I ve problem while printing on an HP4 laser printer with jetdirect
connect.
The problem is than i've a end banner all the time i print a job; this
banner says:
User: xxx
Host: myhost.mydomain
Class: myhost.mydomain
Job: job_type
HOW TO SUPPRESS THIS POST HEADER ????
(i've put the flag sh on /etc/printcap, and sure i don't have the first
banner.)
Thanks.
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From: "Andrew Scutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.list
Subject: Re: HELP - Install Linux on Last Partition of a 30 GB Hard Drive?
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 17:41:32 -0000
Actually I've just seen a new release of Lilo that claims to get round the
1024 limit in one of the other Linux groups.....
Scutty
Karel Venken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:89ugsg$634$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If you have Windows 98, you can place a menu in the config.sys referring
to
> eg. windows and another entry to linux and boot in this case with loadlin
> before you load any drivers and so on. Then you do not have to bother with
> this 1024 cylinder limit. I use this for quite some time now. You can even
> place a copy command in your config.sys so that you allways boot
> automatically the last system you ran. Of course, if you have other
> bootloaders this might interfere because then you might first need to
select
> Windows 98. (Eg. as far as I know, you can not boot Windows NT from within
> Windows 98 as you can Linux)
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Red Hat Installation: How to get past the "Which driver" screen when you have
PCMCIA ethernet
Date: 6 Mar 2000 11:48:10 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When installing Red Hat, it gets to a screen where it asks you if you want
to configure "LAN (not dialup)" networking. If you say "Yes", it then asks
you which driver to use. Well, the problem is that you may have a card not
listed on their list or, in particular, you might have PCMCIA ethernet,
which is not listed at all. But I've found no way to get past the screen,
to say - "Yes, I want to install the networking, but, alas, my card is not
on your list".
Is there any way to do this? If not, what is the workaround? How to setup
the networking later on, after the install?
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 40 GB Disk problems
Date: 6 Mar 2000 17:45:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I have recently bought a 40 GB Maxtor disk. After upgrading
: my motherboard bios, it was recognized all right (4982 cyl, 255,63 in
: LBA mode).
you'll need to scour the kernel archives for the patch to fix this - it
should be in 2.2.14 or 2.2.15 and later 2.3's. By default linux can't cope
with 40GB disks..
--
Tim Hockin
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fscanf / float problem
Date: 6 Mar 2000 17:47:19 GMT
Gerald Pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: #include <stdio.h>
: #include <stdlib.h>
: int main(void) {
: int i;
: double f;
:
: printf( "Enter an integer, a space, and a float: ");
: fscanf( stdin, "%d %f", &i, &f);
: fprintf( stdout, "%d %f\n", i, f);
: }
because you declare f as a double, but read it as a single.
use %lf for doubles
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Tim Hockin
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rm command
Date: 6 Mar 2000 17:50:19 GMT
Bob Cent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I would like to delete some files, but only if they are older than a certain
: number of days. Is there a clever way to do that? I was disappointed that
: the rm command had no options for it. Thanks.
man find
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Tim Hockin
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