Linux-Misc Digest #813, Volume #23 Sat, 11 Mar 00 11:13:01 EST
Contents:
Bug: Date Change on Reboot (Daniel Norton)
Re: Automatic logout due to inactivity (Desmond Coughlan)
ftp accounts ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: tar and unwanted ownership (peter pilsl)
Re: How to re-create a boot disk ("Michel J. Vos")
Re: Best HTML tool for Linux (Pas Moi)
Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch! ("Adam C. Emerson")
Re: C++ in Linux (Florian Waas)
Re: C++ in Linux (Florian Waas)
Re: ppp problem (Andrew Purugganan)
sending email with attachment (coco)
Re: Best HTML tool for Linux ("Adam C. Emerson")
/dev/audio over nfs? (tijmen stam)
Off Topic Language Trolling (Was: C++ in Linux) (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
DNS Entry
Re: Automatic logout due to inactivity (Jaume Guasch)
cdrecord read from ide => scsi ?? (Dave Thompson)
Re: How to install new network Ethernet adapter?!! (Matheus Cunha Torres)
Re: How to re-create a boot disk (Christian Winter)
Re: help:Need a good editor... (Edwin Johnson)
Re: sending email with attachment (Bastian)
Re: sending email with attachment ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Howto for a small peer network attached to a cable modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Boot beyond 1024 cylinders with LILO (John in SD)
Re: Can I setup an internet mailserver with only an IP, but no F.Q.Domainname? (Rod
Smith)
Good Linux Books - Cheap (was - I need Linux for Morons (Mark S. Bilk)
Re: Mndrk 7 suspend prob on Tosh Sat 4010CDS (Rod Smith)
Re: Installing Linux with Web Server on 486 (Andrew J. Perrin)
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From: Daniel Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bug: Date Change on Reboot
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 05:21:34 -0500
I changed my system's hostname and rebooted and the system apparently
chose to advance the date. Here are immediately adjacent log entries
from "/var/log/messages"
Mar 4 18:13:24 claude exiting on signal 15
Mar 5 18:16:24 rivers syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
What's going on here? (Incidentally, this is EST -- why aren't the logs
in UTC?)
I guess there's a chance my system glitched on reset, but it never
happened before...
--
Daniel Norton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Desmond Coughlan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Automatic logout due to inactivity
Date: 11 Mar 2000 11:29:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:11:15 -0500, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How do I setup my linux box so that it will
> >
> > automatically log out those users who haven't
> >
> > been doing anything for a certain period of
> >
> > time ?
> setup a script to periodically parse the output of the 'who' or 'w'
> command and depending on the value of the time they have been logged on
> let them stay logged in or drop them. how to do the actual script is
> beyond my level of knowledge though
I believe that there is a small tool in some distributions, or you
might be able to get it from tucows.com ... I think it's called autologout
but I couldn't swear to it ...
--
Desmond Coughlan |Restez Zen ... UNIX peut le faire
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.coughlan.net/desmond
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ftp accounts ?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:58:30 -0500
Hello
I'd like to open an ftp account for a friend, but when I do it
with linuxconf, it seems that the new user can browse the
whole tree, including my mounted DOS partitions. I tried to
do it again by assining the group FTP to the user, but it doesn't
change anything. Could you tell me how to create an ftp account
so that the user can ONLY read and write in his home folder ?
Thank you for the help
Sacha
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter pilsl)
Subject: Re: tar and unwanted ownership
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:55:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] told us...
>
> If you're root, when you untar files, if they don't exist, they get the
> ownership of the original owner. If you're *not* root, they don't get
> the original ownership, they're owned by you.
>
I never faced this problem before and I often untared files
as root. It makes no sense at all. the original ownership
is totaly useless on my system and I dont want to chown
every time I unpack something. I think the p flag is for
extracting the ownership and if one doesnt use it, the
extracted files should have the default-ownership of the
calling user (even if he is root). and I�m quite sure that
is the way tar behaved on my system in the past.
peter
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From: "Michel J. Vos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: How to re-create a boot disk
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:03:02 +0000
Tony Wiegand wrote:
>
> Here's my story. I have to disks, the first disk has windows installed
> and
> the second disk has linux installed. I'm running Mandrake 6.0. When I
>
> installed Mandrake, LILO had a problem. So I re-installed windows into
> the Master boot record and booted to linux with the boot disk. Now my
> boot disk is screwed up and I can't get back to Linux.
> I tried downloading the boot.img from Red Hat, but it just tries to do a
>
> re-install of the OS.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
You can start Linux from DOS with loadlin. Should be on the distro cd...
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Subject: Re: Best HTML tool for Linux
From: Pas Moi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:04:51 GMT
>> "r" == rj2nagle schrieb am Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:56:04 GMT:
r> i had a question though about emacs. i've read a little about it
r> and i know it's versatile. What is "emacs in html-mode"? Can you
r> explain?
emacs users have generously contributed lisp extensions to emacs to
give it modes for editing various types of files. these often provide
things like highlighting and shortcuts for common commands. for
example, in html mode, typing in an emacs key sequence like Cntrl-z b
will put "<b> </b>" in your buffer and prompt you for the text you
want put in boldface.
ciao,
g.y.
--
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WHOA!! Ken and Barbie are having TOO MUCH FUN!! It must be the
NEGATIVE IONS!!
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From: "Adam C. Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch!
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:30:41 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oh, geez, you vim zealots!
> New topic: vi or vim? Go ahead, fight it out to the death!
vim has nice things like color highlighting, but vanilla nvi
(the most viish of the vi clones I've seen) is nice and compact.
(And doesn't come linked to the X libraries by default.)
--
Adam C. Emerson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I think it's just horrible that the only people who can control the
Internet are people who understand it."
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From: Florian Waas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: C++ in Linux
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:48:53 GMT
Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Don't worry about learning C++.
>
> Why not? Is C++ not better than C?
recall, outside australia the meaning of "don't worry" is a different.
cheers,
fl.
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From: Florian Waas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: C++ in Linux
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:48:29 GMT
Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Don't worry about learning C++.
>
> Why not? Is C++ not better than C?
recall, outside australia the meaning of "don't worry" is a different.
cheers,
fl.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: ppp problem
Date: 11 Mar 2000 13:38:36 GMT
Sergey Grishin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: route
: Ifconfig
: cat /etc/resolv.conf
: cat /etc/host.conf
One time Ifconfig reported a host 0.0.0.0, delete this line as per
MandrakeUser.org. Obly if you have such a line
worked for me since then
--
jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
Registered linux user no. 164098-88940
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: coco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sending email with attachment
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:57:37 GMT
How do you attach a file with email? I don't see this option in when i
man mail.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Adam C. Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best HTML tool for Linux
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 14:18:51 GMT
Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For WYSIWYG, Netscape Composer is about as good as you'll find for Linux.
> Webmaker is probably the best Linux program with drop-down tags, etc., like
> Homesite. If this is the kind of program you really want to use, then
> you're better off working in Win/Mac with Dreamweaver, and Homesite or
> BBedit.
HTML isn't hard, but if you want something to help you position
things, or whatever, take a look at Amaya, put out by the W3C.
Main qualification is that it doesn't generate junk HTML.
--
Adam C. Emerson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I think it's just horrible that the only people who can control the
Internet are people who understand it."
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From: tijmen stam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: /dev/audio over nfs?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:34:41 +0100
I want to send audio over my network. Does anyone know more about this?
My situation is this one:
I have two comuters standing next to each other, but only one AWE32
creative soundblaster.
- One has a soundcard in it, and i'll refer to it as "soundpc", but is
too slow to have X on it. The souncard is properly configured in the
kernel and is working.
- The other Computer, "Xpc" has no soundcard, but is my usual X pc.
Sound is also configured in the kernel, and /dev/audio exists, but whan
you cat a fille to it, it sais "no such device".
- I have a working NFS system (soundpc as server, but I can change that)
between them over 10 mb Ethernet.
When from Xpc I cat a file to the /dev/audio on Soundpc, it still gives
me a "no such device".
when I put the soundcard in Xpc, it is working there.
My goal is to be able to let Xmms run on Xpc and play mp3 over the
network, but for now a simple blip is enough.
any suggestions?
What to do?
other questions:
- When I have my soundcard configured in the kernel, do I still need
isapnp.conf?
- What is the exact scanning frequency of /dev/audio? I clocked it at
around 8kHz.
p.s. I'ts an experiment, so I don't want the answer "buy a new
soundcard", or "switch your soundcard" .
p.s.2 do you love techno? do a:
cat core > /dev/audio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: Off Topic Language Trolling (Was: C++ in Linux)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 14:38:26 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Erik de Castro Lopo:
[Snip...Re: E. Robert Tisdale language jihad]
|> I can't think of anything offhand that irritates me about C. Care
|> to tell us what irritates you?
[Snip...]
Why is this language tail chasing in a Linux newsgroup?
Dunno what E. Robert's thingy is about c++ but this is the tenor of a thread
in comp.lang.fortran (excerpt of message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>):
But Fortran has been experiencing increasing competition
from general purpose programming languages lately --
especially C++.
as if a gaggle of doddering NASA pocket protector types gives two hoots.
Suggest followups in appropriate advocacy groups, not OS discussions.
�-
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Pardon the bogus email domain (dseg etc.) in place for spambots.
Really it's (wyrd) at raytheon, dotted with com. DO NOT SPAM IT.
Standard Disclaimer: These are my opinions not Raytheon Company.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DNS Entry
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 14:30:06 GMT
I have both PC and Mac, both running on Netscape installed from the same
CD-rom. When I try to use my Mac it connects no problem but immediately
comes up with the warning "Netscape is unable to locate the server:(no
server specified) The server does not have a DNS entry. Check the server
name and try again." Please help me !
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Jaume Guasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Automatic logout due to inactivity
Date: 11 Mar 2000 15:59:09 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Desmond Coughlan) writes:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:11:15 -0500, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > How do I setup my linux box so that it will
> > >
> > > automatically log out those users who haven't
> > >
> > > been doing anything for a certain period of
> > >
> > > time ?
>
> > setup a script to periodically parse the output of the 'who' or 'w'
> > command and depending on the value of the time they have been logged on
> > let them stay logged in or drop them. how to do the actual script is
> > beyond my level of knowledge though
>
> I believe that there is a small tool in some distributions, or you
> might be able to get it from tucows.com ... I think it's called autologout
> but I couldn't swear to it ...
>
Still easier. In Bash you can set the varible TMOUT. From the info files:
`TMOUT'
If set to a value greater than zero, the value is interpreted as
the number of seconds to wait for input after issuing the primary
prompt. Bash terminates after that number of seconds if input does
not arrive.
so something like
TMOUT=30
export TMOUT
put in /etc/profile should log out any session if no input is given after 30
seconds of waiting. (Of course, the users can overwrite this variable, maybe
there is a way of preventing this, look at the documentation)
Other Shells should have similar variables. Look at the documentation.
Jaume
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From: Dave Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cdrecord read from ide => scsi ??
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:22:10 GMT
I would like to do direct copying from an ide cdrom writing to a scsi cd
writer, without writing the file to disk in between, for both audio and
data. For data, with the ide mounted, I can pipe mkisofs to cdrecord
directly, but how would I do this with audio?
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From: Matheus Cunha Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install new network Ethernet adapter?!!
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:57:04 -0300
Go to /usr/src/linux and run "make menuconfig". At "Network device
support" options, you'll find a driver for Realtek. Mark it as a kernel
built-in (*) or a module (M). If you use it as a module, you'll have
to insmod it later (probably "insmod rtl8139").
Run:
make dep
make clean
make zlilo (or bzImage)
make modules
make modules_install
Ok, is it very hard for a beginner? So, try simply "insmod rtl8139". If y=
ou
are using the default installation kernel, you'll have support for this m=
odule.
Modules are located in /lib/modules/your_kernel_version/*. Check for
some Realtek module there...
Hope I helped you in something...
[]'s,
Matheus Cunha T=F4rres.
Pliev wrote:
> Hello All! I have Linux Red Hat 6.02. I am sorry, my question is funny,=
but
> I am beginner of Linux.
> I had old network adapter, ISA, non PnP, but Linux it recognized (when=
I
> made install Linux) and set made setting - IRQ13 and I/O 300H. But I ma=
de
> change old card and installed new card, PCI, PnP(Realtek Ethernet RTL).=
> Linux don't recognize new card now! How I can to install new network
> adapter?
> Thanks! Dima.
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From: Christian Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: How to re-create a boot disk
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:00:40 +0100
Tony Wiegand schrob:
> the second disk has linux installed. I'm running Mandrake 6.0. When I
> installed Mandrake, LILO had a problem. So I re-installed windows into
> the Master boot record and booted to linux with the boot disk. Now my
> boot disk is screwed up and I can't get back to Linux.
> I tried downloading the boot.img from Red Hat, but it just tries to do a
> re-install of the OS.
Maybe the first disk of smalllinux could help you. It boots a tiny
disk-only only linux, but at the prompt you can give it the harddrive
partitions to mount. This way you could get into your mandrake and
recreate your boot disk from there. smalllinux is downloadable from
the internet.
HTH
Christian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Re: help:Need a good editor...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Mar 2000 15:36:42 GMT
Jed or xjed can cut/paste columns. You can also sort by columns, etc. It is
smaller and more compact than emacs, but can be made to have the same
keystroke commands.
...Edwin
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 03:59:51 GMT, Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking for an editor that can cut and paste columns, does
>anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Cev.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bastian)
Subject: Re: sending email with attachment
Date: 11 Mar 2000 15:41:08 GMT
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:57:37 GMT, coco wrote:
>How do you attach a file with email? I don't see this option in when i
>man mail.
>
How about using another mail reader? Mutt is very comfortable.
Bastian.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sending email with attachment
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:20:09 +0000
And verily, didst coco hastily scribble thusly:
> How do you attach a file with email? I don't see this option in when i
> man mail.
mail is a very basic mailing program.
Pine and Elm both have the option.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Howto for a small peer network attached to a cable modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:48:43 GMT
Can someone steer me to a howto or faq on connecting a samll peer network to a
cable modem using a Linux box for the machine with the 2 NICS? I especially
need the configuration of the network portion of linuxconf for the gateway
and the clent machines. Thanks
Tom Voltaggio
Team OS/2 - Southern New Jersey USA
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot beyond 1024 cylinders with LILO
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:54:13 GMT
An update to Werner Almesberger's LILO v. 21 has been submitted to
Sunsite. Called 21.3, it has been in beta test since 11/99. I attach
the *.lsm file:
============== lilo-21.3.lsm ======================
Begin3
Title: LILO
Version: 21.3
Entered-date: 29FEB2000
Description: Generic boot loader for Linux. Distribution includes
full
source, documentation and support files, but no
pre-compiled
binaries. Updated for disks > 1024 cylinders.
Keywords: Linux, boot loader
Author: Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
John Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (lba32 extensions)
Maintained-by: Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
John Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (lba32 extensions)
Primary-site: sd.dynhost.com /pub/linux/lilo
200kB lilo-21.3.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
Platforms: Linux 0.99pl12 or newer, gcc and as86 needed to
compile.
LaTeX and (optionally) Perl and Transfig needed to
print the
documentation.
Copying-policy: BSD-like
End
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Can I setup an internet mailserver with only an IP, but no F.Q.Domainname?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:54:50 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <3Ghy4.704$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"A Favored Son" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Got dsl.
> Would like to be able to get mail on my OWN mailserver
> (since pacbell's sucks), but don't have a fully qualified domain
> name. (i.e.: want to get email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
> (not my real ip. heh.)
>
> Is this do-able?
> If so, how?
> If it's not do-able, what do you folks
> recommend as a domain name registration process (i.e.: Network Solutions?)
IF you've got a static IP address, this is do-able, and shouldn't take
much effort to configure, but details differ with the mail server you
use, which in turn varies with the distribution you use (most use
Sendmail, but some use Exim, Postfix, or others).
I do not, however, recommend doing this. It's ugly, it's difficult for
people to remember, and some mail servers may be broken enough to refuse
delivery in this way. I therefore recommend paying for your own domain
name. I used a German outfit called joker.com (http://www.joker.com),
which is unusually inexpensive. They also offer DNS for a few dollars (DM,
actually) more. The last time I tried it, though, their web-based DNS
configuration was broken with respect to MX records, so it was necessary
to leave off the MX record and e-mail back an appropriate correction.
Alternatively, you could use the free DNS service at Granite Canyon
(http://www.granitecanyon.com). If you don't mind using somebody else's
top-level domain, there are services that let you register a subdomain,
and some of these are free (http://www.dyndns.org is one of these). These
services have the advantage of working correctly even if you've got a
static IP address (assigned via PPPoE or DHCP, for instance). (Note that a
static IP address is potentially bad for any server, because DNS servers
cache IP addresses, so if yours changes, people trying to send you e-mail
may not be able to connect until their system's cache expires. In the
meantime, they might try connecting to your neighbor's system, which will
probably not respond, so mail will be delayed; but if your neighbor is
running a mail server, the mail will bounce.)
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark S. Bilk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Good Linux Books - Cheap (was - I need Linux for Morons
Date: 11 Mar 2000 15:54:44 GMT
In article <8abhm0$snh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sage Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>...
>as subject states, I need something even more basic than
>"Linux for Dummies".
If you or someone you know is a member (~ $35/yr) at Costco
stores, you can buy _Mastering Red Hat Linux 6_, and
_Linux: The Complete Reference, 3rd. Ed._, which are both
900+ page books normally priced at $40, for only $24 each.
They might have some small differences from Mandrake 7.0
(based on Red Hat) but for the most part should be very
informative. (You don't really need a book with "Idiot" or
"Moron" in the title. 8^)
There's also plenty of good help documentation on the Web,
much of it at the Linux Documentation Project:
http://www.linuxdoc.org
A good search engine for Linux info is located at:
http://www.google.com/linux
If you still have problems, post questions in
comp.os.linux.setup; that's the main help newsgroup.
Don't worry -- after a few days of playing with the system
using some good information sources, it will become easy
and familiar.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Mndrk 7 suspend prob on Tosh Sat 4010CDS
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 15:57:34 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I just upgraded my Satellite 4010CDS from Mandrake 6.1 to 7 and all was
> well
> except for suspending while in X. Suspending by closing the lid or
> manually
> caused the computer to just shut down making it necessary to push the power
> on
> switch at which time there was an error message 'Resume Failure ...'
> followed
> by a complete reboot. (seemed okay if NOT in X) Mandrake 7 installed
> kernel
> 2.2.14-15mdk and going back to the previous 2.2.13-7mdk seems to solve the
> problem. Anyone have similar problems and/or know how to fix it in 2.2.14?
I have similar problems when using a 2.3.x kernel with Mandrake 7 on a
Compaq Presario 1200-XL106, but all is fine with the default 2.2.14
kernel. I did discover, however, that ejecting my PCMCIA devices before
doing the suspend fixes the problem. The suspend script contains code
that's supposed to correct the problem, but obviously it doesn't work in
all cases.
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Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew J. Perrin)
Subject: Re: Installing Linux with Web Server on 486
Date: 11 Mar 2000 07:57:15 -0800
"Vectorz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wish to install Linux on a dedicated 486 computer which has only 8Mb of
> RAM, 250Mb of HD space, a network card, etc. I understand that installing
> XWindows would be a problem. I already tried installing Corel Linux and
> RedHat 6.1 without success.
What problems did you have? We have RedHat 6.1 running on a 486 just
fine, although we did have 16M of RAM.
> The reason I'm installing Linux is to host a web server (Apache) that runs
> Perl (and perhaps an SQL server as well) so I can use it for testing
> purposes. I want to learn Perl.
You're doing more than you need to do for this purpose - Apache runs
under pretty much anything under the sun (including windows), as does
perl. There are other, very good, reasons to install linux, but
wanting to run apache and perl aren't them. Check www.apache.org and
www.perl.com for details.
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Andrew J. Perrin - UC Berkeley, Sociology & Demography
Consulting: Solaris-Linux-NT-Samba-Perl-MS Access-Postgres
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
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