Linux-Misc Digest #31, Volume #24 Mon, 3 Apr 00 12:13:04 EDT
Contents:
How to force the kernel to use a module? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie - a few questions (Leonard Evens)
Re: Questions (Leonard Evens)
Re: Write access on my vfat drives. (Larry Ozarow)
Re: Write access on my vfat drives. (Hans Dumbrajs)
Re: cron problem (Leonard Evens)
Re: Write access on my vfat drives. (Leonard Evens)
Re: mounting second hard disk (Leonard Evens)
Re: Write access on my vfat drives. ("Marc")
Light Weight web browser suggestions? ("Rob Tolman")
Any web based free e-mail system run on Linux?? ("Calvin")
Using Linux's web server hardware requirment. ("Calvin")
Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions? (Big Daddy)
Mouse wont work in xfree86 (Phil)
Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: QUESTION! (brian moore)
Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions? ("Rob Tolman")
Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions? (Grant Edwards)
Cut 'n paste from KDE app to Netscape ("G. R. Gaudreau")
Re: Dual-booting between DOS/Win and Linux (John Hasler)
Re: networking question DHCP + local? (Kevin White)
Re: Large File Support (David E Allen)
Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions? (Leonard Evens)
Re: Create batch file and send screen output to a file (Steve)
Re: add ppp0 in Redhat (Steve)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: How to force the kernel to use a module?
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 14:11:14 GMT
Hi there,
I installed Redhat 6.1 on my PC (kernel is 2.2.12-20smp).
I have a Asus SC875 SCSI card based on Symbios 875.
The kernel picks and uses the NCR53C8XX driver.
I want to try the SYM53C875 driver to see if there is any
difference. I see that SYM53C8xx.o is there in /lib/modules.
Is there any way to force the kernel to use SYM53C8xx?
I tried to edit /etc/conf.modules but it didn't work.
Thanks for the help!
--
Regards,
Roger Shum
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie - a few questions
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:09:03 -0500
soldier wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I purchased Linux 6.0 with the Linux Unleashed book. I have installed it and
> learned all the basics, and have a few questions I was hoping someone could
> answer:
I think you probably mean you have RedHat 6.0. There are other
Linux releases, e.g., SuSe, Mandrake, etc.
>
> 1. I have download Linux apps and installed them with GNORPM. But afterward,
> I can find no icons to run the applications? GNORPM shows the app is
> installed and what directory it is installed in. I am running the Gnome X
> Windows interface and am logged in as root while I learn. I hope this is
> isn't too stupid of a question, but how do I find and run the applications
First you should create a user and run as that user unless you
need to do administrative tasks. Running as root can be very
dangerous. A minor typing error can annihilate your system.
> after I install them with GNORPM?
Very few applications are currently designed to run that way.
Most are designed to start within a terminal window using a
command line interface. Increasingly more and more applications
will be designed to start by double clicking on the icon, either
of the program or the application. But you can change some of
these things. For example, if you double click on a .jpg file,
it will start up in the Electric Eyes program. But if you right
click on such a file and choose Open with, you can change this
to gimp or some other program if you want. Study the Gnome
help borwser for more information. But as I said, you would
be well advised to learn how to start programs from a command
line interface.
>
> 2. Is there an easy way for me to upgrade from 6.0 to the latest version of
> Linux?
Again, if you have RedHat 6.0, you should get the RedHat 6.1 or
6.2 CD, which you can get for about $2 plus shipping from
Cheapbytes or Linuxmall. That will have a upgrade option.
If you get RH6.1, make sure you get the Anaconda installer
updates available from RedHat Errata on their web site. The
original installer was buggy on upgrades. This was probably fixed
in 6.2.
>
> 3. I'd like to use Linux as my main OS if possible (switching over from
> Windows) but need access to a suite of apps similar to MSOffice if I am
> going to do it. I heard from someone that these apps, or their equivalents
> are free on the Net somewhere? I would like to have an MS Word equivalent
> program if possible.
The favorite seems to be Star Office. This is available free
from Sun Microsytstems and possibly elsewhere. I've used a
suite called Applixware, but it costs about $80.
With either of these, you may not be able to read some MSOffice
documents. That is because the default is to save them in an
internal MS format, which can't even be read by other versions
of MS programs. I've had good luck though in most cases, and
users of Star Office also claim they can read most such documents.
You can save your documents in rtf format, and users of MS Office
should be able to read them.
>
> 4. Last question: Working with TAR, GZ, Z and all the other types of files
> at the command line is a bunch of bull. Is there a nice GUI that handles ALL
> of the possible archives (similar to Winzip)?
Although I think Winzip is a nice program, I find the use of
tar at the command line much more intuitive. At least I
know exactly what it going on. With programs like Winzip,
one has to hope everything goes right. But in any case, in
almost all cases, you should be able to use rpm packages
to install new programs. If you use the file manager,
you can right click on the icon for an rpm package and
choose install or upgrade. That is just as easy as using
Winzip. And you won't get neagging messages after a month
or so asking you to pay fo rpm!
>
> Thanks all for the help!
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Questions
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:19:31 -0500
soldier wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to Linux and had a few questions I was hoping someone could answer:
>
> - I want to get a browser like Network Neighborhood but for Linux so I can
> browse Windows machines and/or other Unix based machines. Does such a thing
> exist?
I hope not! The security implications would be horrifying.
However, if another machine owner chooses to give you permission
to use the other machine, it is certainly possible to arrange
something like that. But I don't think there are any general
tools to do it in one fell swoop.
>
> - How big of a deal is it to convert a Solaris app to run in Linux? Is it
> worth the trouble?
If you are running Linux on an X86 (Intel) architechture machine
and have a program written for Solaris on such a machine, it
may be possible to do that. There has been discussion of that
matter in this newsgroup, but I don't remember the details.
If it was compiled for a Sun workstation running Solaris, you
wouldn't generally be able to do it as far as I know. If you
had the source, you could recompile it. In most cases, there
is probably a Linux version of the same program.
>
> - How can I make my swap partition smaller, and dedicate the extra space
> gained back to my main Linux partition? I accidentally made it too large.
If you simply want to recapture the space and put it in a
separate partition, you would boot with swap turned off
(by commenting out the line for swap in /etc/fstab), and then
use fdisk (or cfdisk) to delete the swap partition, carefully
repartition the space freed up, and then use mkswap to
format the new swap partition. Finally edit /etc/fstab
to reflect the change if any in the number of the swap partition
and reboot. If you want to add the space to another partition
instead, that is much harder. It is probably easier just
to backup you user files and reinstall. If your /home
is on a separate partition, you can repartition during
installation without affecting what is in the /home partition.
But after reinstalling you would have to redo any special
configurations, so it would be wise to save configuration
files in /etc and /var.
>
> - While Linux boots, it autodials my ISP - can anyone tell me how to shut
> this off?
>
> Thanks everyone!
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Larry Ozarow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Write access on my vfat drives.
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 14:20:26 +0000
Brad wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have setup my fstab file to mount my two windows (vfat) drives...
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/winc vfat auto,user 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/wind vfat auto,user 0 0
>
> I read the man page for fstab and it says that by having the 'user'
> option set, that a user would be able to mount the vfat drives.
>
> Well, the drives get mounted but there is a problem.
>
> Problem is that when i am logged on as a user I only have 'read' access
> to the vfat drives. I want 'write' access.
>
> Is this possible?? If so how?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
Brad,
"User" and "auto" are basically contradictory options. By setting the
"user" option you
make it possible for users to mount the drives, but
by having "auto" set, you are mounting them during bootup, and they end
up being
"owned" by root. You must either specify "umask=000" (this gives all files
the
property rwxrwxrwx), or set "noauto" and then explicity mount the fat
partition as whatever
user you want to be allowed to write to the disk.
Oz
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From: Hans Dumbrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Write access on my vfat drives.
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 17:27:41 +0300
Brad wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have setup my fstab file to mount my two windows (vfat) drives...
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/winc vfat auto,user 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/wind vfat auto,user 0 0
Cahnge this to:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winc vfat user,auto,rw 0 0
and the same for /dev/hda5.
I think this should work. If not, try unmounting the partition as root and
mount it manually with your normal user account.
("umount /mnt/winc" as root, and "mount /mnt/winc" as user)
>
>
> I read the man page for fstab and it says that by having the 'user'
> option set, that a user would be able to mount the vfat drives.
>
> Well, the drives get mounted but there is a problem.
>
> Problem is that when i am logged on as a user I only have 'read' access
> to the vfat drives. I want 'write' access.
>
> Is this possible?? If so how?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
--
Hans Dumbrajs / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cron problem
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:21:13 -0500
Peet Grobler wrote:
>
> How do you setup the cron program? I've read the man pages, it doesn't seem
> to work. My user sysadmin's crontab looks like this:
>
> 00 * * * * /usr/bin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/.conf
> 00 * * * * /usr/bin/cleandir 5d /tmp /var/tmp
>
> However, when logrotate runs, it mails a message to sysadmin, saying:
> "Unable to open directory, too many open files"
>
> This after a clean reboot, nothing done.
>
> Anybody knows why this is happening?
What happens if you try to run to program exactly as indicated
from the command line?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Write access on my vfat drives.
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:29:55 -0500
Brad wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I have setup my fstab file to mount my two windows (vfat) drives...
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/winc vfat auto,user 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/wind vfat auto,user 0 0
>
> I read the man page for fstab and it says that by having the 'user'
> option set, that a user would be able to mount the vfat drives.
>
> Well, the drives get mounted but there is a problem.
>
> Problem is that when i am logged on as a user I only have 'read' access
> to the vfat drives. I want 'write' access.
>
> Is this possible?? If so how?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brad
user only works that way for ext2 filesystems. FAT and FAT32
are entirely different ways to organize files and permissions
don't work the same way. But it is possible to make the files
available to all users by playing with the entries in
/etc/fstab. Do man mount and look at the options for
fat.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting second hard disk
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 10:24:33 -0500
Prasanth Kumar wrote:
>
> Markus Wagner wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > when I partition my second harddisk with cfdisk as one large Linux
> > partition I get the following results:
> >
> > cfdisk reports one partition "sdb5".
> > fdisk reports two partitions: "sdb1: Extended", "sdb5: Linux", both
> > occupy the same disk area
> >
> > Why do I get two partitions?
> > Why aren't the partitions numbered incrementally?
> > What's the difference between "primary" and "logical" partition?
> >
> > Thanks, Markus
>
> A harddisk can only have 4 primary partitions. To have any more
> partitions,
> one of these primary partitions must be changed into an extended
> partition
> which in turn can be split into about 32 logical partitions maximum. My
> understanding is that back in the stone ages of computing when harddisks
> were small, the partitioning standard allowed for only 4 partitions. As
> the devices became larger, the standards were extended in a backwards
> compatible manner to allow for more parititions.
>
> Under Linux, the devices sdb1 to sdb4 will be primary while sdb5 on up
> will
> be logical. In your case, the sdb1 is a primary partition labeled as
> extended
> and the sdb5 is the logical partition inside of the extended one. For
> purposes
> of mounting, you should only be concerned with logical parition sdb5.
> Fdisk
> give you more precise control over partitioning while cfdisk takes a
> simplistic
> approach and puts everything as logical paritions.
>
> --
> Prasanth Kumar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good response. Let me add that, using fdisk, you could remove
the logical partition and change the type of the extended partition
to a primary Linux partition. But you would have to run
mkfs on that partition. Then you wouldn't have to worry about
the logical partition. But it is probably not worth the trouble.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Write access on my vfat drives.
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:29:08 +0200
hi,
i think you have to add umask 000 to your options. But I'm not sure in what
exact syntax.
perhaps:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winc vfat auto,user, umask 000 0 0
does it, but as already said, I'm not sure.
Brad schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Hi all
>
>I have setup my fstab file to mount my two windows (vfat) drives...
>
>/dev/hda1 /mnt/winc vfat auto,user 0 0
>/dev/hda5 /mnt/wind vfat auto,user 0 0
>
>I read the man page for fstab and it says that by having the 'user'
>option set, that a user would be able to mount the vfat drives.
>
>Well, the drives get mounted but there is a problem.
>
>Problem is that when i am logged on as a user I only have 'read' access
>to the vfat drives. I want 'write' access.
>
>Is this possible?? If so how?
>
>Thanks
>
>Brad
>
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From: "Rob Tolman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Light Weight web browser suggestions?
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:14:42 -0400
Any suggestions/ recommendations for light weight web browser?
Netscape is too much for my machine. Running Slackware 7.
Rob
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From: "Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any web based free e-mail system run on Linux??
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:27:50 +0800
Hi,
I want to find a web based free e-mail system that running on Linux???
is there any one?? Or i need to write one myself?
Best regards
Calvin
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From: "Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using Linux's web server hardware requirment.
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:30:49 +0800
Hi,
If i have a web site that got around 30000-40000 hit rate every day, is
the following hardware requirement enough?? It will use Linux + Apache
PIII 500Mhz Processor 512K cache
128MB SD RAM
One Floppy Drive
One 9GB SCSI Hard disk
One 40X CD-ROM Drive
Intel 10/100 Ethernet Card
Two 32-bit / 33 Mhz PCI slots
Four hot-swap Hard disk Bays capable for supporting two 1" and two 1.6"
LVD SCSI Hard Drives
Two system fans
One 300-Watt PFC PS/2* power supply
2U rack mount chassis (3.46" H x 16.75" W x 28" L
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From: Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions?
Date: 3 Apr 2000 15:23:47 GMT
Scribbling furiously, Rob Tolman managed to write....
: Any suggestions/ recommendations for light weight web browser?
: Netscape is too much for my machine. Running Slackware 7.
man lynx
;-)
--
Big Daddy
Monogamy leaves a lot to be desired.
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From: Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse wont work in xfree86
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 15:30:36 GMT
ive installed linux andd setup the x-windows interface by using the
xfree86config file but cannot get the mouse to work when accessing xfree.
the cursor does not move so i am only able to use the console function out
of x-windows - any solutions will be gratefully recieved
thanks
phil
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 15:31:23 GMT
On 3 Apr 2000 15:23:47 GMT, Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Scribbling furiously, Rob Tolman managed to write....
>: Any suggestions/ recommendations for light weight web browser?
>: Netscape is too much for my machine. Running Slackware 7.
>
>man lynx
Or w3m. w3m does decent job of tables and frames. Text browser too.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: QUESTION!
Date: 3 Apr 2000 15:32:19 GMT
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 08:48:43 GMT,
Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG ** <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, brian moore:
>
> [Snip...]
>
> |> Oh, I wouldn't say "cheapo".
>
> |> The systems made by places like ASL (http://www.aslab.com/), for
> |> example, are extremely high quality and work much better than the "brand
> |> name" systems that come with Windows.
>
> [Snip...]
>
> Linux has come a long way not only in servers, but desktop/portable also.
>
> I've used an ASL latptop for just short of a year now, and it's one of the
> best IMO. Certainly not "cheap" as you say, but they used quality hardware
> and there's the hassle aspect. Having done several installs myself on some
> very "interesting" hardware, I appreciate and will pay for someone else to
> ship me a system that worked *flawlessly* for me from the first boot. They
> are also very prompt about service and my emails have been answered on the
> same day basis. Right now, they are hassling with a vendor for me over the
> original battery which failed to take a full recharge after a few boots.
Well my objection was more to the word 'cheapo' than 'cheap'. For what
you get, ASL's systems are a great value. (They are substantially less
than the same class machines from 'The Big Guys'....) Gimli, the
desktop I use at home most often is a year-old ASL system. My next
desktop will almost certainly be ASL as well. (I want a dual cpu
system for no real reason, and am waiting for Gimli to be more than
just one generation old... :))
Last I looked, ASL's systems were about 30% less than comparable systems
from Dell, Gateway, etc. (And I'm using 'comparable' pretty loosely,
since the big guys don't tell you what motherboard of the week they're
using.) Budget around $2k or so and you get a great machine from ASL.
(Okay, I'm a scsi snob.... you can get a nice IDE machine from them for
less, but Ultra ATA/66 doesn't match Ultra SCSI-3 at 160Mbps. :))
> I don't mean to bore everyone with this; just a reminder that, except with
> the Evil Empire, you mostly get what you pay for. Horses for courses, etc.
And except for Linux. :)
> I have no commercial relationship with ASL except as a happy customer.
Nor I.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "Rob Tolman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions?
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:34:55 -0400
How about an X version?
Rob
Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8cad23$8f1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Scribbling furiously, Rob Tolman managed to write....
> : Any suggestions/ recommendations for light weight web browser?
> : Netscape is too much for my machine. Running Slackware 7.
>
> man lynx
>
> ;-)
>
> --
> Big Daddy
>
> Monogamy leaves a lot to be desired.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions?
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 15:44:33 GMT
In article <qT2G4.2869$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Tolman wrote:
>> : Any suggestions/ recommendations for light weight web browser?
>> : Netscape is too much for my machine. Running Slackware 7.
>>
>> man lynx
>
>How about an X version?
$ xterm -e lynx
Sorry, couldn't resist ;)
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Are we THERE yet? My
at MIND is a SUBMARINE!!
visi.com
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From: "G. R. Gaudreau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cut 'n paste from KDE app to Netscape
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:46:54 -0400
Hi all,
I'm running KDE and trying to find a way to cut 'n paste between a KDE
app and Netscape messanger. Netscape doesn't seem to want to accpet data
from KDE apps. Is there a way of doing this?
--
You go Yahweh, I'll go mine.
Rev. G. R. Gaudreau
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Dual-booting between DOS/Win and Linux
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:28:19 GMT
Peter writes:
> I exercise more control than to follow suggestions! I only have
> pre-requisites pulled in. Using that policy, my installations of potato
> are running about 700MB.
I don't use the tasks either, but with more than 4000 packages to choose
from it's a bit much to expect new users to just pick and choose. The
tasks give them a starting point.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Kevin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: networking question DHCP + local?
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:52:37 -0400
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Make sure you have smbclient installed - my Mandrake
installation failed to do so, and I was tearing my hair out
trying to get my machines talking. Once I installed it -
voila!
MrJack of LuLuland wrote:
>
> In article <Io1F4.2404$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >
> > You need to find-out what IP address been assigned using command
> > 'ifconfig' then use it to telnet or ftp. You might prefer to edit
> > '/etc/hosts' file and create a URL or host name for the other PC, but each
> > time you reboot your PC's a new IP address might be allocated then you've
> > got to edit '/etc/hosts' file again to update.
>
> Thanks very much, Enlight!
>
> I thought, since the hub can go between the two local machines as well as
> the Internet, I could have a separate "network-thing" outside of the DHCP
> stuff?
>
> To be sure it's clear, What I have is:
>
> Machine A
> \ dhcp client
> \
> hub- - - Roadrunner,
> / which has separate IP numbers for A and B
> / dhcp client
> Machine B
>
> Can't I, so to speak, draw a little line between A and B via the hub,
> without having to go thru the Inet?
>
> Thanx whatever!
>
> james
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David E Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: nwu.comp.unix.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Large File Support
Date: 3 Apr 2000 15:54:45 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Marc SCHAEFER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: llseek() exists, it allows to do very large seeks on raw devices.
This is perfect. I will be talking to a raw device (scsi). Thanks. Do I
need to use a special open(2)? The man page says O_LARGEFILE is ignored.
I'm just wondering if the driver will keep track of the 64 bits. I suppose
if I always reference it to the beginning of the file, I won't have to
worry about that. (I'm using a red hat 6.2, kernel is 2.2.14-5.00.)
dave allen, colorado springs
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Light Weight web browser suggestions?
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:44:53 -0500
Rob Tolman wrote:
>
> Any suggestions/ recommendations for light weight web browser?
> Netscape is too much for my machine. Running Slackware 7.
>
> Rob
You can try the text based browser lynx.
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Create batch file and send screen output to a file
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 Apr 2000 17:09:25 GMT
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 20:09:33 +1000, Dennis wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I want to execute a number of linux commands from a batch file, and have the
>screen output sent to a file. So...
>
>How do I create a batch file (like in dos).
>
>How do I then send the screen output from the programs which are run from
>the batch file to another file.
>
>Thanks for anyone who can help,
Say for example you want a file that displays a directory listing of your
home directory and you want to be able to run this to refresh the
text file whenever you want to look at the info.
You would use bash (if it's your default shell), and make a file like
this in a text editor:
#!/bin/bash ## tells linux where to look for bash
cd ## sends the shell to your home directory
ls -lha > ~/myhomedirectory.txt ## puts the directory listing into a text
## file called myhomedirectory.txt
xterm -bg 'purple4' -fg 'white' -e less ~/myhomedirectory.txt
## The above line opens up a new xterm (with colours guaranteed to make you
## sick), and uses less to open the text file myhomedirectory.txt.
As you can see from the above example the greater than sign sends the output
to a file, if you want to add the output to a file rather thar replace the
current file with a file which only contains the current output use two
greater than signs together "ls -lha >> myhomedirectory.txt"
Tha manpage for bash 'man bash', gives estensive information on it's usage.
To make your new file executable do:
$ chmod +x mylist ## if your file is called mylist
then put that file somewhere in your search path, I have a bin directory
inside my home directory where I put all my own bash scripts. You change
your search path in the file ".bash_profile" in your home directory, add
the line PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin to add a directory called bin in your
home directory to the search path.
Hope some of this helps, bash is a powerful tool enjoy.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
1:25pm up 2 days, 22:01, 5 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: add ppp0 in Redhat
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 Apr 2000 17:09:25 GMT
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 04:35:49 -0700, jygjyg wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am running RedHat 6.1 and setup a modem for dialup. I can
>successfully dial-up to the ISP and obtain a IP address, but I
>can not ping any host in internet. I happen to find an error
>message -- "cound not find ppp0, No such device", it seems like
>I have not installed a dial-up netwrok card yet.
>
>I want to know how to install a ppp0 device in RedHat. Do I need
>configure any routing information for ppp0 in kppp of KDE?
>
>BTW, the ppp module is modulable in my kernel. If do not want to
>re-build it to "Y", how can I load this module everytime when
>the machine start?
>
Sounds as though you're not seeing the DNS server of your ISP, put
that info in your setup (maybe somewhere in kppp), and it should
be fine.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
1:25pm up 2 days, 22:01, 5 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00
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