Linux-Misc Digest #282, Volume #24 Wed, 26 Apr 00 14:13:21 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU? (John Brookes)
Re: kernel null pointer dereference (Michael Kelly)
Re: News server recommendation (Cord Beermann)
Re: security ("David ..")
Re: Counting hard disks (Albert Hopkins)
Disk usage, way high? (Elden Fenison)
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation ("Ermine Todd")
Re: How can I keep my PPP from redialing after disconnect? ("David ..")
vectorizer (Oliver D. Bedford)
Re: Passing Value to Linux Script from CGI (Apple Advertising)
Re: kernel 2.2.15 (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Disk usage, way high? (Leejay Wu)
Re: Disk usage, way high? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Oracle8i for Red Hat Linux ("Buck Turgidson")
Palm Pilot and Datebook ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How can I keep my PPP from redialing after disconnect? (Bill Unruh)
Re: I think I have been HACKED!!! (Kerr Gibson)
Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED - gzip/gunzip (Yan Seiner)
Re: EMERGENCY!!! (Tim Hockin)
Logical Volume Manager for Linux? (George)
How to config eql and ppp on two modems? ("Cheong")
Re: database (Albert Hopkins)
Gnome default configuration (Christopher Broussard)
Re: How Big Will X Grow Today? (Christopher Broussard)
CHEAP CALL (Vit)
bypass shell in /etc/passwd? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Brookes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help - How do you pronounce GNU?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:43:02 +0100
I pronounce 'em both as g-noo; hard g (as in GIMP) followed by noo (to rhyme
with 'who').
Flanders and Swann (English music/comedy duo from the 50s) did a song which
gives an idea:
"I'm a gnu, I'm a gnu,
I'm the strangest-looking creature in the g-zoo
......."
Joseph Dale wrote:
> "G. Asch" wrote:
> >
> > Arjan Drieman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > AD> On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:24:44 GMT, Tandem Guy
> > AD> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> So, how do you pronounce GNU?
> >
> > With one hand on your chest and one hand raised. ( moist eyes
> > is a prefered optional ;-)
> >
> > AD> Sorry, can't tell you... you wouldn't understand ;) I pronounce it
> > AD> as the characters gnu are pronounced seperately, but in dutch.
> > AD> But that pronounciation of 'g' is unknown in English.
> >
> > Seriously, Gnu is an large African herbivor, AFAIK, so the pronunciation
> > features in every decent dictionary.
>
> Except that the pronunciation in dictionaries -- English ones, at least
> -- is different than the proper pronunciation of GNU as it appears in
> the phrase "GNU's Not Unix".
How do _you_ pronounce each of them? There are so many other ways you can
think of (noo, new, g-new, geenoo etc.) but AFAIK they're all wrong :-)
>
> > "in a sense, you are already dead"
> > J. L. Borges
<fatalism> So tell me something I don't know </fatalism>
>
> >
> > ________________________________________________________
G-bye, g-boss
--
John Brookes | "I know how to make 4 horses pull a cart -
Manchester Computing | I don't know how to make 1024 chickens do it"
University of Manchester |
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | --Enrico Clementi
Tel: (0161) 275 7029 | (commenting on Parallel Computing)
Standard disclaimer, yadda, yadda
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel null pointer dereference
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:44:49 GMT
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:56:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have trouble with a Linux Kernel 2.2.10 , because I get strange kernel
>messages, which I can't handle.
Try a newer kernel and see if the error goes away.
If not, then you probably have some driver with a
bug in its code(trying to use a NULL pointer) or
the memory where the pointer value is stored is
getting zeroed out somehow.
If it does go away, then you have a new kernel.
2.2.10 is gettin' kinda dated anyways.
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: Cord Beermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: news.software.nn,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: News server recommendation
Date: 26 Apr 2000 15:32:45 +0200
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>"David Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 2. A web page interface to the same server for users that do not have NNTP
>> clients
>who has a web browser but not a nntp client? unless you're running
>some stone-age browser like mosaic, web browsers have a (albeit poor)
>nntp client built-in.
Netscape distributes Communicator AND Navigator (only the
Browser-part of Communicator). Navigator doesn't support nntp:
and mailto: -URLs.
I think you get the same result if you install M$
Internet-Exploder without Outcast Excess.
Cord
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: security
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:41:07 -0500
ed johnson wrote:
>
> I have a problem with someone downloading my passwd file from a linux server
> on the net and using some utility to crack the root password. I need anon
> ftp access to the server but how can I stop this please...???
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
proftpd might help if they are gaining access through the ftp program.
http://www.proftpd.net
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Albert Hopkins)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Counting hard disks
Date: 26 Apr 2000 12:00:43 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try looking in /proc/partitions
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:55:29 +0100, Chris West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I need a way of counting the number of hard disks installed on a machine.
>I am currently attempting to open each of /dev/hd* and /dev/sd* in
>read/write mode and counting the number of successful opens but I believe
>this will also include CD writers.
>How can I just count the number of hard disks?
>
>
--
Albert Hopkins
Sr. Systems Specialist
Dynacare Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Elden Fenison)
Subject: Disk usage, way high?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:27:03 -0700
Greetings,
I am a little surprised at my disk usage. (see below) I can't figure out
why I'd be using 874mb in my / partition. I'm running RedHat 6.2 and
chose the default Workstation-class install. The only other things I've
installed are, the Java JDK, StarOffice, and WordPerfect. And most of
StarOffice is in my home directory. Can anyone tell me how to analyze my
disk usage so I can figure out what's taking up all this space?
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb3 1976524 874352 1001768 47% /
/dev/hdb1 23302 2878 19221 13% /boot
/dev/hdb5 1500080 243917 1178651 17% /home
/dev/hdb6 676435 77460 564036 12% /var
--
Elden Fenison
http://www.moondog.org
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From: "Ermine Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition & innovation
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:00:10 -0700
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy
Not to harp on too fine a point, but I suggest that you research the
MSInstaller service before you condemn it as "just another installer". It
is an integral element of the OS that does much more than just copy files.
The SFC utility is terribly hard to find: you might try Find/Search but if
that's too much for you, you can always just try Start-Run-SFC.
--ET--
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ermine Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >snip<
> : A few very basic points of fact here. First, there is now a universal
> : installer for the Windows OS that does work for Windows 9x, NT and Win2k
> : (and ME). In fact, applications to be certified for Win2k are required
to
> : use it.
>
> A standard installer does not a decent package system make. Unless
> something drastic changed since RC2, even Win2k still has no decent
> package management system to speek of.
>
> : Second, trying to replace a system file on Win2k and ME is an operation
> : that won't succeed unless you have the package from MS - you may think
> : you've succeeded, but quietly in the background, the OS repairs your
> : mistake.
>
> Oh, great....silent magic "repairs"... Thanks, really... :-(
>
> : Also, the SFC utility has existed for several years now (installed by
> : default in Win98 and Win2K) and this utility will allow you to repair a
> : corrupted install of Windows without having to reinstall.
>
> Interesting. Where do I find this SFC utility?
>
> --
> -Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From The Blue Camel we learn:
> BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
> Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
> medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
> more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I keep my PPP from redialing after disconnect?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:55:11 -0500
Andreas Eibach wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> this is almost getting me MAD here.
>
> If you're connected to the Net - great.
> But if you want to disconnect again (by hand it's like doing a
> /etc/ppp/ppp-down) this thing
> keeps on redialing all the time unless I switch my modem off by the hardware
> switch or pull the
> mains plug out of the socket.
[snip]
> thanks in advance
> Andreas
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
change PERSIST=yes to PERSIST=no
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver D. Bedford)
Subject: vectorizer
Date: 26 Apr 2000 18:04:12 +0200
Hi!
I am searching for a program which converts bitmap-files into
a vector-format (preferably eps). Is such a program available for Linux?
(I think Corel Draw offers such a feature)
Oliver
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From: Apple Advertising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Passing Value to Linux Script from CGI
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:09:53 -0700
The problem is your looking for a command-line variable in a CGI program.
I'm not sure of the exact syntax, but it looks like you're using the GET method
of posting (the "man.cgi?topic=ls" in your call).
The informationn AFTER the ? becomes available from standard input stream. You
have to make allowance for this when programming in CGI.
Another option would be to use something like the PHP module or lookup
server-side scripting in a web page, then call your script from a web page.
- Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.15
Date: 26 Apr 2000 12:25:18 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Kaufman wrote:
> the 2.2.15 tree is alive and well, Alan Cox' testing folder has plenty of very
> recent entries
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.2.15pre/
You can follow the progress of AC's life (including very informal
descriptions of the progress of 2.2.15, etc.) in his diary at
http://www.linux.org.uk/diary/ . Issuance of official, numbered
kernels has been delayed lately because Linus Torvalds is moving.
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk usage, way high?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:22:15 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 26-Apr-100 Disk usage, way
high? by Elden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Greetings,
>
> I am a little surprised at my disk usage. (see below) I can't figure out
> why I'd be using 874mb in my / partition. I'm running RedHat 6.2 and
> chose the default Workstation-class install. The only other things I've
> installed are, the Java JDK, StarOffice, and WordPerfect. And most of
> StarOffice is in my home directory. Can anyone tell me how to analyze my
> disk usage so I can figure out what's taking up all this space?
>
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb3 1976524 874352 1001768 47% /
> /dev/hdb1 23302 2878 19221 13% /boot
> /dev/hdb5 1500080 243917 1178651 17% /home
> /dev/hdb6 676435 77460 564036 12% /var
Hm. If you wanted to know which directories had the most stuff in
'em, you could do something like
du -x / | sort -n -r | more
[ -x: limit to filesystem
-n: sort by numerical value, not ASCII
-r: descending order
]
which should list space usage in 1k blocks per directory, including
all subdirs. If you want to exclude subdirs from totals so, say,
/usr doesn't include /usr/lib etc, then add -S to the du.
That'll narrow things down a bit, and may flag oddities like if
your /tmp directory is laden with large files. It will be pretty
slow, however...
--
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the silly student |
|--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
| #include <stddiscl.h> | readers all go mad |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Disk usage, way high?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:32:46 GMT
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:27:03 -0700, Elden Fenison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>I am a little surprised at my disk usage. (see below) I can't figure
>out why I'd be using 874mb in my / partition. I'm running RedHat 6.2
>and chose the default Workstation-class install. The only other things
>I've installed are, the Java JDK, StarOffice, and WordPerfect.
I would suspect all these are using quite a bit of space, mostly in
/usr and/or /opt.
>And most of StarOffice is in my home directory. Can anyone tell me how
>to analyze my disk usage so I can figure out what's taking up all this
>space?
'man du'. You can figure out just what using what. I have a separate
/usr and this by itself is 800+Meg, so does not look out of line to me.
And this is without any of the three you mention.
>Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hdb3 1976524 874352 1001768 47% /
>/dev/hdb1 23302 2878 19221 13% /boot
>/dev/hdb5 1500080 243917 1178651 17% /home
>/dev/hdb6 676435 77460 564036 12% /var
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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From: "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Oracle8i for Red Hat Linux
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:39:03 GMT
Sorry, I cut but didn't paste.
http://jordan.fortwayne.com/oracle/rh6x.html
Garel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What the address of the site?
>
>
> Ira Weiner wrote:
> >
> >
> > Have a look at this site. It has pretty good instructions.
> >
> >
> > Garel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > How to install the Oracle8i for Red Hat Linux as I tried under x
> windows
> > > runinstaller but it won't work. What the problem?
> > >
> > > Please help
> > >
> > > --
> > > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > > http://www.help.com/
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Palm Pilot and Datebook
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:31:17 GMT
I currently use Jpilot to sync my Palm III with my RH6 box and things
work fine. I also use some of the pilot-link programs on their own, and
those work fine too.
However, what I _really_ want to do is to take, for example, the
datebook pdb file and parse it directly using some command line
utility. That is, I want to take the Pilot out of the loop altogether,
and be able to extract readable data from the pdb files themselves.
The "reminders" pilot-link program would be ideal, but it seems to
require direct access to the Pilot. The "pilot-file" is close, but
doesn't seem to give me all the data I'm looking for.
Is there a utility out there that can parse pdb files, without having to
dump the data from the Pilot?
Thanks for any information,
--max
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: How can I keep my PPP from redialing after disconnect?
Date: 26 Apr 2000 16:46:59 GMT
In <8e6kro$jiu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andreas Eibach
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]this is almost getting me MAD here.
]If you're connected to the Net - great.
]But if you want to disconnect again (by hand it's like doing a
]/etc/ppp/ppp-down) this thing
]keeps on redialing all the time unless I switch my modem off by the hardware
]switch or pull the
]mains plug out of the socket.
]I know that it MUST have something to do with 'persist / nopersist' ;
]reading the man pages did not have any effect so far, I tried to include the
]'nopersist' line
]in /etc/ppp/options but this resulted in nothing.
]Can anybody help me?
How can we help if you give no information? Please include
a) the contents of your /etc/ppp/options (and /etc/ppp/options.ttyS?)
files
b) the contents of the pppd command line you run.
c) details in how you start ppp.
By the way, the best way to disconnect is
killall pppd
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From: Kerr Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I think I have been HACKED!!!
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:50:11 -0400
After reading this series of articles, it got me thinking about my own
system. This system is unknown to anyone save my own little LAN, so I
did not expect any kind of outside attempts to login. But, when I did a
little check of /var/log/secure* files, I found the following entries:
Apr 9 07:11:14 Linuxbox in.proftpd[9039]: connect from 216.161.180.140
Apr 18 06:43:36 Linuxbox in.proftpd[15520]: connect from 24.92.199.147
Apr 18 06:43:37 Linuxbox proftpd[15520]: Linuxbox
(dt153n93.tampabay.rr.com[24.92.199.147]) - ANON anonymous: Login
successful.
Apr 18 15:47:04 Linuxbox in.proftpd[16913]: connect from 142.165.206.93
Apr 18 15:47:14 Linuxbox proftpd[16913]: Linuxbox
(hss-dslam206-93.sk.sympatico.ca[142.165.206.93]) - ANON anonymous:
Login successful.
Apr 25 01:49:00 Linuxbox in.proftpd[13473]: connect from 216.209.81.109
Ok, obviously a successful attempt by somebody outside to login as
anonymous. Unfortunately I had nothing in the /etc/hosts.deny file so I
was vulnerable. I'm afraid I'm new to this stuff so I am not aware of
all the precations. This machine is on a LAN using a cable modem
connected through dhcp, so I guess I naively believed that nobody would
really know or care to find it. Apparently somebody has.
My questions are- what can they do through proftpd and what should I do
to find out what they did. Has the machine likely been violated or is
this simply a probing attempt by somebody?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
--
Kerr Gibson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URGENT HELP NEEDED - gzip/gunzip
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:15:04 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pkware released a unix version of their software. I don't know if it
works on a sun, but it's worth a look:
www.pkware.com
HTH,
--Yan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I know this is not a linux problem, but I thought someone might have an
> idea on how to fix this. It is using the gnu gzip/gunzip tools.
>
> thanks
>
> ----------------
>
> I'm in urgent need of help. We have several d/l's coming from our
> mainframe system. These files are gzipped on the mainframe. The size
> of the files gzipped are between 200meg and 1gig. This translates to
> multi-gig files (possibly upto around 80gigs/file) after unzipping.
>
> The problem:
>
> When we try to run gunzip, it will run for a while and then state "File
> too large". We checked, and the largefile option is turned on for the
> mount on which we are working. Therefore, we concluded that the
> problem is with gzip/gunzip. Does anyone know of a workaround?
>
> Unfortunentally, it is not possible for the files to be broken down any
> further by our mainframe folks. Therefore, we must find the solution
> on the sun side.
>
> Thanks for any ideas
>
> wax_man
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
Think different
ride a recumbent
use Linux.
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EMERGENCY!!!
Date: 26 Apr 2000 16:54:38 GMT
mh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Ed Hurst wrote:
:> > partition) as "free space"!! I ran "e2fsck /dev/sdb" and it reports
: Nothing like starting a new life, eh? It seems almost incredible to me
: that an operating system used on a scale that Linux is being used could
: have disk utilities this flaky. Live and learn, the HARD way.
well, if you ran e2fsck /dev/sdb - it was your fault. that is not an e2
filesystem. it's not flaky disk tools, it's a user who entered bad data -
all the tools did was what they were told.
--
Tim Hockin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This program has been brought to you by the language C and the number F.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Logical Volume Manager for Linux?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:05:45 GMT
I'm currently a Unix administrator for a major corporation. We have
an HP9000 running HP/UX using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to
administer multiple hard drives into a single volume. For example, we
have 12 9.1gb hard drives arranged into a single volume group to give
us 109.2gb of available space.
I also have a Linux machine at home running RedHat v6.1. I am running
a small news server which carries a few newsgroups that I like to
read. What I have installed in this machine is 2 hard drives, 1 2.5gb
and 1 6gb. The 2.5gb hard drive has the Linux OS on it and some
available free space and the 6gb hard drive is totally devoted to
news. I would like to combine the 6gb and the 1.5gb remaining from
the first drive together to form a single volume. Now some of you
might say, "Why not just buy a larger hard drive?", sure but there
could be other times where someone else may need allot more space than
I do. Take the example above of 12 9.1gb hard drives, now if I had
these drives on my server at home (I only wish) it would make an
awesome news server would it?
Bottom line is... Is there such a program that exists for Linux that
can do volume management?
Thank you.
George
P.S. Sorry for the multiple newsgroup posting, but I wanted to get
the message out to a broader area.
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From: "Cheong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: How to config eql and ppp on two modems?
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 00:50:37 +0800
Hi all,
I have a SuSE6.2 box, with two modem, running ppp and connect to my ISP.
Someone tell me that I can use two modems configured with "eql" and "ppp" to
increase the bandwidth. I have used a lot of time to search the linux web
site but I can't get it. Can anyone tell me how can I get it? Does anyone
successfully run "eql" and "ppp" running with two modems?
Thanks in advance,
Antony.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Albert Hopkins)
Subject: Re: database
Date: 26 Apr 2000 13:27:35 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:12:10 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi All,
>How can I transfer the program I wrote in ms-access 97 to Linux
>environment.( I want to database program work with any browser )May I
>request if there is database program working in Linux and compatible
>with the web ( html ).
You're probably best off using MySQL (www.mysql.com). You need to
somehow (roll your own?) get the information from an Access DB to the
MySQL DB.
There are also other (free) solutions such as Postgres and mSQL. Also
just about every commercial database distributer now supports Linux.
--
Albert Hopkins
Sr. Systems Specialist
Dynacare Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Christopher Broussard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gnome default configuration
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:30:09 -0400
I am trying to set up a Linux lab at my university using Redhat 6.0. I
want to set up Gnome, so that by default it does not display any of the Red
Hat links on the desktop.
I cannot find the default desktop files anywhere on the system. Where
are these files located so that I can modify the default desktop setup how
I see fit.
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From: Christopher Broussard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How Big Will X Grow Today?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 13:41:24 -0400
Jeff Workman wrote:
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 838 root 8 0 284M 284M 844 R 0 3.7 56.3 247:59 X
>
> $ uptime
> 12:23am up 1 day, 9:43, 5 users, load average: 0.46, 0.47, 0.38
>
> *sigh*
>
> RedHat 6.2., XF86_Mach64.
>
> When are the XF86 people going to start fixing memory leaks? Between X and
> Netscape, having 512MB in my workstation is almost a *requirement*.
>
> Jeff
> --
> Jeff Workman | [End of diatribe. We now return you to your
> UNIX System Administrator | regularly scheduled programming...]
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> http://www.gibralter.com | perl distribution.
I read in the SuSE linux documentation, that under Linux, memory is filled up
quickly because Linux will store chunks of information in main memory before it
writes to the hard disk so as to reduce the number of disk accesses. This might
account for the massive amount of memory used by X.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: bypass shell in /etc/passwd?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:56:58 GMT
I changed the root shell '/sbin/sh' to '/sbin/ksh'. But,
ksh shell was not under '/sbin'. It tell me 'no shell' if I am trying
to login as root. Now I am stack. I still remember the password.
Do anyone know how to bypass the shell specified in /etc/passwd? Or Get
around with this problem? Thank you alot.
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