Linux-Misc Digest #196, Volume #24 Thu, 20 Apr 00 05:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Error Messages (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Any tool similar to "truss" and "snoop" for linux? (ajn)
Re: Gateway (Hans Dumbrajs)
pilot-xfer on Linux (Richard Goldberg)
Re: [Q] Free English-English dictonary on linux (root)
Re: /etc/issue.net? (Ron)
Re: Disabling anonymous FTP (Ron)
Re: Troubleshooting CD-R Problem (Parminder Lehal)
Re: Disabling anonymous FTP ("Calvin")
FTP Install from RH6.1 CD ("Tim Hicks")
Re: Any tool similar to "truss" and "snoop" for linux? (Grant Edwards)
Re: newbie question (Josef Oswald)
Re: [Q] Free English-English dictonary on linux (Andreas Kahari)
Re: NFS Problem - partition is read-only it seems (Bill Unruh)
No Such User (I have no name!) (root)
How to tell if kernel is running multiple cpus? (Thaddeus L. Olczyk)
Re: Does anybody know a gzip-compressor in hardware ? (Andreas Vierengel)
Re: /etc/issue.net? (John McKown)
Re: Where is in.ftpd (John McKown)
Re: C compiler (John McKown)
UW2 SCSI performance v. IDE UDMA-2 with PostgreSQL (Seth Milder)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation (Mike Jones)
X11 or SDL problem (i think) please help... (knud)
Re: newbie question (adam)
Re: big endian to little endian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Error Messages
Date: 18 Apr 2000 10:37:13 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newsgroups trimmed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> How do I fix the following error message that keeps showing up in my
> messages log file?
>
> Apr 12 04:02:01 apple modprobe: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent
> than /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep
By running "/sbin/depmod -a". You may want to do this every time you
change /etc/conf.modules (or /etc/modules.conf), or each time you boot up.
> Apr 12 04:02:01 apple modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-10
By adding "alias net-pf-10 off" to /etc/conf.modules (or
/etc/modules.conf), or adding IPv6 support to your system.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: ajn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Any tool similar to "truss" and "snoop" for linux?
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 00:52:18 +1000
> I know "tcpdump", but tcpdump does not print out the packet in
> string, making it hard to see what is int he packet. I am already
> running version 3.4 of tcpdump, which I believe is the latest version.
> Anyone modified tcpdump to do it?
Ethereal is reasonably useful for looking inside packets
ajn
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From: Hans Dumbrajs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gateway
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:58:29 +0300
Viper wrote:
>
> I am trying to set up a computer at home to split my internet connection. At
> home i have a Network with 4 computer 2 desktops and 2 laptops in a few
> weeks i will be adding another desktop. I use Road Runner for my internet
> connection and i have 2 ip addresses one is a static and the other is a
> dynamic. That static one is used for work so i can not use it for the
> gatway. So what i need help with is makeing a computer be a gatway with a
> dynamic ip. Right now it is running windows 2000 advanced server but if
> someone can help me figure out how to set it up as a gatway i will more then
> gladely change it to linux.
read the ip-masquerading howto available at www.linuxdoc.org
--
Hans Dumbrajs / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: +358-9-88176060
Fax: +358-3-31390898
GSM: +358-5-05941341
ICQ: 16859609
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Goldberg)
Subject: pilot-xfer on Linux
Date: 18 Apr 2000 14:43:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I had been using pilot-xfer on linux to back up my palm III for several
years.
I just upgraded my OS from Mandrake 6.1 to VA-Linux Redhat and all of
the sudden pilot-xfer does not work anymore.
I get "Unable to bind to port '/dev/cua0'"
Running winNT under vmware, I set cua0 as the serial port and I can back
things up fine. Under linux is I cat /dev/cua0 and then press the hot
sinc button, I get stuff from the serial port. So the port itself
works, and /dev/cua0 is the correct port, but for some reason pilot-xfer
does not want to work. I've also tried the new ttyS0 device with the
same result.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
***************************** **************************************
*Rick Goldberg * * *
*Graduate Student * * "I never wanted to be average, *
*Computer Science Dept * * because when you are average you *
*York University * * are just as far from the top as *
*Toronto, Canada * * you are from the bottom." *
*[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * -Stan Cottrell- *
*www.cs.yorku.ca/~rickg * * *
***************************** **************************************
"If you don't invest very much, the defeat doesn't hurt,
But winning isn't very exciting."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root)
Subject: Re: [Q] Free English-English dictonary on linux
Date: 18 Apr 2000 14:15:07 GMT
Try dict
On 4 Dec 1999 14:28:42 GMT, William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 04 Dec 1999 06:49:33 -0600,
>Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Oh no, there's British English and American English. Two entirely
>>different languages. The unwary are often deceived by their apparent
>>similarity.
>
>And then there is Canadian English that even Corel ignores....
>
>--
>William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada
>vi, the Gatling gun of editors;
>vim, the Tommy gun revision. http://www.vim.org
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /etc/issue.net?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:55:18 -0400
You need to comment out or delete the lines in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local
file that is overwriting issue & issue.net at reboot. (At least that's
the file that does it in RH 6.)
Ron
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I tried to remove /etc/issue.net or put empty words in it so that
> nothing to be displayed while login, especially the information of
> operating system and version number. But every time after I reboot the
> machine, the original issue.net overlapped again. How can I keep my own
> /etc/issue.net?
>
> Thanks.
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disabling anonymous FTP
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:02:21 -0400
Check man ftpaccess for info on how to setup the /etc/ftpaccess file.
An example is always helpful, so here's my /etc/ftpaccess file:
class all real,guest,anonymous *
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
loginfails 5
greeting text Welcome to Ron's Computer
message /etc/motd login
compress yes real
compress no guest,anonymous
tar yes real
tar no guest,anonymous
chmod yes real
chmod no guest,anonymous
delete yes real
delete no guest,anonymous
overwrite yes real
overwrite no guest,anonymous
rename yes real
rename no guest,anonymous
log transfers guest,real,anonymous inbound,outbound
shutdown /etc/shutmsg
passwd-check rfc822 warn
Hope that helps,
Ron
Bruno wrote:
>
> I just installed my first linux-box (Redhat 6.1) and it works!!!
> Now... can anyone tell me how to disable ANONYMOUS ftp access
> while keeping ftp open for users with a password?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bruno
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From: Parminder Lehal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting CD-R Problem
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:46:05 -0400
Joel Wilf wrote:
>
> I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem with my CD-writer. IDE-SCSI support
> is properly enabled, according to the bootup message; and
>
> # cdrecord -scanbus
>
> finds the unit correctly. The iso image I want to write looks okay
> when mounted and viewed using the loop device:
>
> # mkisofs -f -r -v -V linux0400 -o backup.img /BACKUP
> # mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 backup.img /mnt/loop
> # ls /mnt/loop
>
> Then, cdrecord and the CD-writer seem to work fine when I test the
> setup in "dummy" mode:
>
> # cdrecord -v -dummy speed=2 dev=0,0 backup.img
>
> But the actual recording fails!
>
> # cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0 backup.img
>
> doesn't write the tracks and reports the following:
>
> cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 00 00 19 00 0A 3A 03 73 02 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x02 (power calibration area is full) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid)
> cmd finished after 3.783s timeout 40s
>
> write track data: error after 0 bytes
> Sense Bytes: F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 19 00 0A 3E B4 00 00 00 00 00 00
> Writing time: 8.903s
> Fixating...
> cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd:
> retryable errorCDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 19 00 0A 3E B6 2C 00 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid)
> cmd finished after 0.007s timeout 480s
> Fixating time: 4.655s
> cdrecord: fifo had 128 puts and 1 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
>
> The recorder worked fine under Red Hat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36?); but has
> been giving me this trouble since I upgraded to Red Hat 6.0 (and rebuilt
> kernel 2.2.14-5.0, enabling SCSI support in the kernel). The distribution
> and kernel have been exhibiting no other problems. So is this hardware?
> Some software issue I don't know about? Some media issue? (I've been using
> good old TDK CD-R media). Any insights would be appreciated...
>
> -- Joel
I am, also getting the same error. Please, let me know if
you found the cause/solution to the problem.
Thanks,
Parminder Lehal
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From: "Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disabling anonymous FTP
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:30:17 +0800
Can i change this file so that some users or anonymous user can't login via
ftp???
Best regards
Calvin
Ron ���g��峹 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Check man ftpaccess for info on how to setup the /etc/ftpaccess file.
>An example is always helpful, so here's my /etc/ftpaccess file:
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From: "Tim Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FTP Install from RH6.1 CD
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:25:11 +0100
I am trying to install RH6.1 onto my 486, from the cd that I have bought.
However, the cd-rom drive has died on me, so I am now trying to use one of
my win98se machines running War FTP on the same network, to do a network
install from it's own cd rom drive. Is this feasible?
I get as far as the rh installer looking for 'base???2.img' or something
like that, but it cannot find it from the mount point of the cd from my ftp
server. The server indicates that a connection has been, made, but it just
remains idle. Thing is, when I look on the cd, I can't really find the .img
file that it seems to be looking for either. Is it possible to do what I am
trying to do, or will I have to download the 'correct' image file from
redhat in order for this to work?
Help much appreciated.
cheers
tim
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From: grant@nowhere. (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Any tool similar to "truss" and "snoop" for linux?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:32:59 GMT
In article <8dhr7p$kkr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wonder if Linux has the tools similar to Solaris's "truss" (for
>finding out what syscalls a process is making)
"strace" is used to trace a program's system calls. The trick
is to pick the right options so that you get the info you need
without having to sift through mountains of chaff.
>and "snoop" (for monitoring network traffic).
Under X11, I use ethereal.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I am a jelly donut. I
at am a jelly donut.
visi.com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: newbie question
From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:34:55 GMT
adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> HOW do you turn off PnP in windows' BIOS??
>
> thanks alot...
During start up you will see a line press del that is your friend :-)
Sometimes all you need to do in the Bios is to turn off the pnp for the
device ( like a NIC) but then you will need to install a non-pnp driver
under WindXX to get the NIC working again....You need to know which IRQ
your Nic uses....
hth :-)
>
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> James Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I know when I had problems with my NIC it was because my BIOS was set
> > for PnP, ergo it did not initialize anything. When I turned off the
> PnP
> > OS option of my BIOS, windows still worked (it simply used the devices
> > as initialized by the BIOS), and the NIC was properly initialized by
> > BIOS for Linux.
> >
> > Arun Keswani wrote:
> > >
> > > Just to update everyone on what is going on. I tried most everything
> that
> > > everyone
> > > suggested. I started out by going into linuxconf. I set up the eth0
> adapter
> > > using the dhcp option and specified tulip as the module. This added
> a line
> > > to the conf.modules file in /etc automatically. I then tried
> ifconfig, but
> > > nothing
> > > came up. When I am in the control-panel the eth0 shows up but it is
> > > inactive.
> > > When
> > > I try to activate it , it just tried to obtain an ip address for a
> while,
> > > during
> > > which
> > > time if you type "ifconfig" the card shows up. But then it gives up
> > > "Operation
> > > failed"
> > > and the card is no longer seen if you type ifconfig.
> > >
> > > Now I am not too sure what is going on. I tried to compile the
> driver that I
> > >
> > > got with the card, but I suspect that it was designed for an earlier
> kernel.
> > >
> > > At any rate it fails giving me various errors about arguments not
> being the
> > > correct number. I had a look at the code, but could not decipher
> anything.
> > > Something to do with pointers. So that was a no go.
> > >
> > > I am willing to take suggestions here. Do you folks think that the
> card is
> > > being
> > >
> > > recognized or that the driver is the right one, after all the card
> does show
> > >
> > > up in the control panel ? Or is it a problem with the DHCP.
> Incidentally,
> > > as you may have gathered from the previous postings, this is a
> strange case,
> > >
> > > because the tech who set up the service, used DHCP in windows , but
> > > when I contacted @Home , they gave me an IP, gateway add, dns
> numbers
> > > etc. So I am not completely sure if I should DHCP or static. I have
> tried
> > > the
> > > static settings to no avail too. Incidentally the DHCP works under
> windows.
> > >
> > > So I am wondering should I throw the noname card out the window and
> buy
> > > something more conventional ? Your ideas, suggestions would be
> greatly
> > > appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > A.
> >
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
registered-linux-user # 13.818 at http://counter.li.org
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Q] Free English-English dictonary on linux
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:29:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (root) wrote:
> Try dict
>
Or 'wordnet' at
<URL:http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/text/wordnet.html>.
/A
--
# Andreas K�h�ri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>.
# All junk email is reported to the appropriate authorities.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: NFS Problem - partition is read-only it seems
Date: 18 Apr 2000 15:41:26 GMT
In <38fc1f08$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>My setup :
>386 running Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 (Kernel 2.0.35). (name=support)
>/etc/exports entry : "/data haven(rw)"
>running rpc.nfsd, rpc.mountd (is both necessary?)
>Pentium, running Mandrake 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.14) (name=haven)
>"mount support:/data /mnt/data" - Mounts the drive.
>But, when I issue the command "cp /root/CHANGES /mnt/data/CHANGES" I get the
>response:
>"cp: cannot create regular file `./CHANGES' : Permission denied.
Check the permissions on the /mnt/data directory before you mount the
remote system. Make sure tht they are sufficient for what you want to
do. Both the permissions on the mounted directory and on the mount point
apply.
Also as root, I believe the default is root_squash, which makes all root
nfs act as though it came from user nobody. Put in the no_root_squash
option in the /etc/exports directory.
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No Such User (I have no name!)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:54:36 -0500
I am running rh6.1 kernel 2.2.14. I have had it running smoothly for
awhile now with appletalk services enabled using netatalk. Yesterday I
tried to install samba and things went bad. Now we can no longer log
into the server from our macs. Also when anyone log sinto a treminal on
the server their name comes up as [I have no name!@server] x will no
longer start. It simply goes to the startup grayish screen and hangs. If
I switch back to the terminal it was started from there are a number of
NO SUCH USER errors when x tries to start. I have no clue what's going
on. Everything looks ok in /etc/passwd /etc/groups /etc/shadow. I do not
know where else to look. Any input or suggestions are welcome. Thanks in
advance. -peel
John Peel
Blue Road Productions
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L. Olczyk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How to tell if kernel is running multiple cpus?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:52:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm got a dual cpu machine and a basic problem:
I've got the Storm and Mandrake distros (gee guess where I've got them
from ) and I want to know if either supports a dual cpu machine. I'm
willing to install both ( at this time I don't have enough time to
rebuild the kernel ).
How can I tell if either is actually running a dual kernel?
( maybe /proc/cpu ?)
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From: Andreas Vierengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.compression,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Does anybody know a gzip-compressor in hardware ?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 17:57:40 +0200
Thanks for the answers !
First, we do not do archiving or compressing large files.
We generate data on-the-fly, compress it with zlib (compression-level 1) and
send it over network. All in memory...
We don't have disk i/o for this purpose. Our bottleneck is CPU power...
So if we had an PCI-Busmaster DMA gzip-card with a kernel-module for Linux (:-),
we surely would benefit from this...
I have 18 Servers (single Processor 500MHz PIII) for this task and will upgrade
these with dual machines from VA-Linux...
If we do the same without compression we would need only 4 servers, but suffer
more traffic :-) and bandwith allocation...
Simply more servers is not a solution !
I thought about ASIC's, but currently don't know anybody who can develop such a
thing...
Maybe someone have adresses or telephone numbers ?
--Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: /etc/issue.net?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:51:00 -0500
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:30:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried to remove /etc/issue.net or put empty words in it so that
>nothing to be displayed while login, especially the information of
>operating system and version number. But every time after I reboot the
>machine, the original issue.net overlapped again. How can I keep my own
>/etc/issue.net?
On my RedHat 6.0 system, the /etc/issue is copied (replacing the contents)
into /etc/issue.net in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local startup script. Also, in
that script, the /etc/issue is overwritten by a bunch of echo commands.
So, what I'd do is 1) put your message in another file such as /etc/issue.mine
Then, at the END of /etc/rc.d/rc.local , I'd put in the commands:
cp /etc/issue.mine /etc/issue
cp /etc/issue.mine /etc/issue.net
>From what I've read, changing the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file is the "approved"
way to do this sort of thing. However, this script might be overwritten
by a fresh install. So I'd keep a copy of my changes somewhere safe so that
I could reapply them. I don't trust my memory - too many "senior
moments" <grin>.
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: Where is in.ftpd
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:57:28 -0500
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:40:14 +0200, Peet Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
]>Hi.
]>
]>How will I find out which rpm package contains in.ftpd?
]>When I try to ftp to my remote machine, in the remote's syslog I see :
]>"error : cannot execute /usr/sbin/in.ftpd : No such file or directory".
]>
]>The file is'nt there. I installed the following net packages manually:
]>
]>netkit-base-x.x-x.i386.rpm
]>netkit-telnet-x.x-x.i386.rpm
]>netkit-tftp-x.x-x.i386.rpm
]>netkit-ftp-x.x-x.i386.rpm - Only ftp client!
]>
]>How will I find out which rpm has that program?
]>
]>
Just to save you the trouble, on my RedHat 6.0 system, that file is a part
of wu-ftpd-2.4.2vr17-3
Look for something similiar on your CDs.
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: C compiler
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:55:00 -0500
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:30:03 GMT, Zadrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to compile the hello.c program in Mandrake 7.0 and receive the
>following error
>
>$ gcc hello.c
>/usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.0:No such file or directory
>
>I suspect it is a configuration issue
That file is NOT a part of the compiler. It is part of the "glibc-devel"
package. Make sure that you have installed that package (use rpm). If you
want, you can just find a file with a name something like
glibc-devel<more stuff>.rpm
Install this file using rpm. I'm not familiar with Mandrake, but I'd bet that
it is on CD #1 (it is on RedHat).
Hope this helps,
John
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From: Seth Milder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UW2 SCSI performance v. IDE UDMA-2 with PostgreSQL
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:10:42 -0400
Something very strange is happening with my machines:
I have a moderately large database that I am using with PostgreSQL. I
developed it on my desktop machine which is an dual processor
PIII-500MHz SMP machine 256MB of RAM and a 9.1GB ultra-wide2 SCSI disk.
The machine I built for my friend is much more modest. It is a 450MHz
K6-2 with a Maxtor 8.4GB UDMA-2 with 96MB of RAM. Both machines are
identical in the software. They are both running RedHat-6.2 and
PostgreSQL-6.5.3. When I run my perl script to create and fill the
tables the PIII is a dog! Here are the timings:
PIII:
7.29user 2.06system 18:01.38elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (329major+191minor)pagefaults 0swaps
K6-2:
10.95user 2.31system 4:40.39elapsed 4%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (329major+191minor)pagefaults 0swaps
So the K6-2 is 4 times faster! Do I have a hardware problem or
something? What is going on here?
Thanks for any insight anyone may have.
--
Seth Milder
Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics
George Mason University
Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
NASA/Langley Research Center
--
Don't throw your computers out the windows. Throw the Windows out of
your computers.
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From: Mike Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:08:27 GMT
Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> Mike Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I can't speak for Honeywell, but I wonder why you couldn't find a patent
> on such
> > a device. To wit, US patent #US4799055: Optical Mouse, filed on April 26,
> 1984,
> > whose description reads in part:
>
> I did find that patent, but if you understand what it's saying, it's
> describing the optical mouse pad of the more typical form of optical mouse.
> Note that it requires seperate light and dark paterns seperated by edges.
> In other words, a cross hatch pattern of light and dark. That's exactly the
> design of the normal optical mouse pad.
Bullshit. A "normal optical mouse pad" does not have a *random surface pattern*.
That's the key differentiating feature.
--
Mike Jones
Of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best....
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From: knud <knudATmyselfDOTcom>
Subject: X11 or SDL problem (i think) please help...
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:59:28 -0400
Hello,
I've been trying to get a good mpeg-1 video player running on my machine. I'm
currently running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3. I first downloaded and installed these
monsters from their source tarballs:
SDL-1.1.2
smpeg-0.3.3
qt-2.0.2
That seemed to work, so I then proceded to install these little guys from thier
source tarballs:
mpegOrion-0.4
ZZplayer-0.5beta
I *thought* it all went great but when I try to run either program I get this
message:
/dev/dsp: No such device
Couldn't initialize SDL: No available audio device
This is really strange (partially because I have no idea what it means and
partially because my sound card works for KDE, playing CD's, etc.). So if you
can help I would greatly appreciate it. Also, if its not asking tooooo much,
please CC replies to knudATmyselfDOTcom (decode that of course ;))
Thanks!
knud
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From: adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: newbie question
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:58:59 GMT
thanks for the help.
i went into my BIOS and turned PnP off. however, linux still does not
recognize the modem. there is no reference to eth0 when i run 'dmesg.'
however, i did notice a line in the out put for 'dmesg.' it was: "PCI
BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9d4..." i'm not sure what this means,
but it seems like it may refer to the bios change i made. pressing the
'reset' button on the modem did not seem to do anything, either.
the cable modem howto seemed to say that my internet connection should
not work in windows after pnp is disabled. i found that the card was
detected when i booted to windows and that i was able to access the
internet.
i am running redhat 6.0 and have a "SMC 1211tx EZNET card." i am using
@home.
does anyone know what linux driver is used for this card?
any other suggestions to get my connection going?
tia, adam
In article <2yJK4.4402$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8dfnqm$aod$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > HOW do you turn off PnP in windows' BIOS??
> >
> > thanks alot...
>
> Depends on the motherboard. When the machine is booting, you'll
probably get
> a message like "Press Del for setup". Press the key required, and you
should
> get a BIOS setup screen, with a number of menus.
>
> You're likely looking for and option called "PCI and PNP Setup"
option. Go
> into it, and Set "PnP OS installed" to "No".
>
> See if that help...
>
> --
> -=R=-
>
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>
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>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: big endian to little endian
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:58:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michel Bardiaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greg Porr wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mecks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >Hi friend,
> > > Originally I am a SGI user and I have a lot of big endian
binary
> > >file.
> > >And I have to convert it into the little endian format. Can anyone
help
> > >to suggest command/methods to do that.
> > > I have heard that the "dd" command can fix it, but I cannot
find
> > >the
> > >detail in the man page and the manual.
> >
> > You probably want to use dd's "conv=swab" option.
> >
> > - Greg
>
> But remember, conv=swab works only to change endianness of files made
> wholly
> of *16-bit* integers. If there are bytes, or longs, or floats, there
are
> no
> other ways than (1) writing a conversion program that *knows* the
> structure of the
> files; or (2) modifying the app that reads the files so that it
*always*
> assumes
> big-endian when reading the files, even when the platform is
> little-endian.
> Option (2) is my favorite.
>
> Greetings.
> --
> Michel Bardiaux
>
One more option! Well, really more of an addition to your option 2
If the code reading the binary files happens to be fortran, some fortran
compilers have an option that switches binary file io between big/little
endian. You could also specify which way to go at the read/write
statement. The Absoft fortran compilers for Linux have this option.
If you decide to go with option 1, the fortran compiler idea could help
also. Or you could go to
http://remus.rutgers.edu/~rhoads/Code/swapbyte.c
for a nice set of functions for performing the byte swapping. I've used
it very succesfully for porting an SGI program to Linux.
Hope this helps
Eric
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