Linux-Misc Digest #352, Volume #24 Wed, 3 May 00 17:13:05 EDT
Contents:
How do I install X? ("Michael Bernardo")
I'm confused about UDMA66- help (Allen Ashley)
Restricting Telnet Access ("Brian")
Linux hangs (Rafael)
Re: su - ("Peter T. Breuer")
Suse Linux & W2K ("Michael Henderson")
Re: rebooting wipes loopback interface (lo) (Duane Evenson)
Re: Turnkey database recommendations... ("Art S. Kagel")
Re: cannot remove `/home/jimmy/.gnome//gmc-fHdvBX (David Efflandt)
Re: best location to load parport.o and parport_pc.o (Bob Tennent)
Re: Super User??? ("Joseph")
Re: The Best Man Page in the Internet? (Roger Blake)
Software Automation Tool. ("Lilia")
Re: News server recommendation (bill davidsen)
Apache: Forbidden, You don't have permission to access / on this server ("Michael
Bernardo")
newbie question ("SIMO MOARI")
Re: 3D support in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux Boot seqence? (hhk)
AMD/Intel... what's faster on Linux? (Sebastian Breier)
Re: Restricting Telnet Access (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: ATA/66 accessed as ATA/33 ? (gos)
Re: How do I install X? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Apache: Forbidden, You don't have permission to access / on this server (Sam E.
Trenholme)
Re: Linux Boot seqence? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Software Automation Tool. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Linux Boot seqence? (Dances With Crows)
Re: tar: "cannot readdir" on samba-mounted directory (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: newbie question (Dances With Crows)
Re: newbie question (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: sparc boot floppy (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: AMD/Intel... what's faster on Linux? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Suse Linux & W2K (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: LinuxRouter doesn't boot!! (Sam E. Trenholme)
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From: "Michael Bernardo" <m i c h a e l @ t i c o o n . c o m>
Subject: How do I install X?
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:40:09 -0400
I did an over-the-net installation of Redhat 6.2 and chose "Server" for the
installation package. It didn't come with X! Can anyone tell me how I can
manually install X? It took me 3 hours to download, and over a week to
configure the server as a firewall proxy. Thanks.
--
M i c h a e l B e r n a r d o
m i c h a e l @ t i c o o n . c o m
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen Ashley)
Subject: I'm confused about UDMA66- help
Date: 3 May 2000 17:54:06 GMT
I am specifically interested in a FIC SD-11 motherboard, but my question
is general: Can I follow the install process for an older version of linux,
say SuSE 6.1, or RH6.0, or Slackware 4.0 on a new computer with UDMA66
controller and UDMA66 drives?
As I understand it none of the current distributions support DMA66 out of the
box. Does that mean the install won't see the IDE drives at all or that
the drives default to DMA33?
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Restricting Telnet Access
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 12:00:37 -0600
Could anyone please tell me how I can allow a user to ONLY access his home
directory and whatever subpaths there are and nothing else? I am running
RedHat 6.0.
Thanks in advance.
Brian
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux hangs
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 20:11:26 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My Linux (Red Hat 6.2 and 6.1) hangs. I run on the same computer
Windows 98 and it works without hangings. I would like use only Linux
on this computer but I can't. It hangs (freeze), the reset button could
not restart computer (black screen). I have to turn power of. Please
help me. What could be the reason.
I have:
AMD K6-3 400 Mhz running on 100Mhz bus ( 4x100)
S3 868 (2Mb) graphic PCI card
128 Mb Ram ( 2x64 Mb)
HD IBM GXP 27GB ( Linux on hda2 (boot- below 1024) and hda6 and swap on
hda7)
Screen Nokia 447M
Please send answer to my email too
Rafael
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: su -
Date: 3 May 2000 18:29:18 GMT
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Wed, 03 May 2000 13:40:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:>When I su to a user with there environment (su - username) I am getting
:>an error message stating:
:>/dev/pts/2: Operation not permitted
Their .login or .bash_rc script probably tries to do a tset or stty
on YOUR terminal :-).
Peter
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From: "Michael Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suse Linux & W2K
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:38:56 -0400
I plan on purchasing a Maxtor 40GB Ultra DMA 66 HD and partitioning it into
4 separate partitions.
I would like to dual boot between Windows 2000 Professional and Suse Linux
6.4.
What is the best way to accomplish this?
Thank in advance,
Michael
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From: Duane Evenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rebooting wipes loopback interface (lo)
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 12:57:16 -0600
Thanks Bill, everyone.
Your suggestions got me on the right track. After tracing through the startup
scripts, /etc/sysconfig/network, /etc/rc.d/init.d/network, etc., etc. I looked
around and said "Where's the S10network link?" Somewhere, somehow, I deleted
this link, so I entered it in rc3.d. Then found ntsysv that does this easier.
Talk about doing things the hard way -- I'd probably knock down a wall to go
through a door. ;)
Bill Staehle wrote:
> Hi Duane,
>
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:01:43 -0600. you posted to comp.os.linux.misc:
>
> >If I reboot, the loopback interface doesn't exist.
> >What do I check/do??
>
> What distribution? Each one does it differently. Except for SuSE, look in
> the directories under /etc/, and work your way down till you find where
> networking is set up. SuSE hides stuff under /sbin/ someplace.
>
> For Red Hat and derivitives like Mandrake, TurboLinux, and LinuxPPC, look at
> the conditions checked in /etc/rc.d/init.d/network (you may need a bash man
> page to interpret some of the commands). Taking it very short,
>
> if [ ! -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then
> exit 0
>
> That file has to exist,
>
> [ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
>
> and the variable NETWORKING in that file must not be 'no',
>
> [ -x /sbin/ifconfig ] || exit 0
>
> the command has to exist and be executable,
>
> ./ifup ifcfg-lo
>
> The ifup command must exist, as well as the file ifcfg-lo, as they are run
> at this point.
>
> That will bring up the lo interface on boot, assuming the network script is
> run. (This is RH5.2, so some things may be in different places.)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 15:13:22 -0400
From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Turnkey database recommendations...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Look for ideas for turnkey database solution, preferably running on
> Linux. It needs to be accessiable from the web and could grow quite
> large so needs to be scable. Any product/vender recommendations?
Talk to Informix, they have many Web enabled solutions which use their
various database servers and no other server scales as well as Informix.
Art S. Kagel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cannot remove `/home/jimmy/.gnome//gmc-fHdvBX
Date: 3 May 2000 19:17:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:37:22 -0700, Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How will I get rid of this error when exiting X Window? :-(
>--
>rm: cannot remove `/home/jimmy/.gnome//gmc-fHdvBX': No such file or
>directory
>
>GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
Good question, often asked, but never answered. Is this just a RedHat
error or does this happen in any other Linux distributions as well? That
might help determine if it is a gnome problem or just a RedHat problem.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: best location to load parport.o and parport_pc.o
Date: 3 May 2000 19:29:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 03 May 2000 11:54:46 -0400, Yan Seiner wrote:
>Modules can be loaded as required; kmod and/or kerneld does it. It's
>magic.
>
>> I can't figure out where this module is loaded under RedHat 6.X.
>> I've also not been able to figure out where some other things
>> are loaded. I've checked everything in /etc/rc.d and
>> /etc/rc.d/init.d. What am I missing?
>>
Not quite magic. For example, the incantation
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
is probably to be found in /etc/conf.modules.
Bob T.
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From: "Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Super User???
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:30:17 -0400
you're trying to execute a text file there!!
use an editor to view it. like vi .
vi < file>
provide path if the file is not in the current directory
Hope you enjoy CLI .
regards,
joseph
Eric wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Lim Kian Tee wrote:
>>
>> Hi! I hope someone can help me out with this weird problem. I looged
>> into linux redhat 6.0 as root and tried to manually edit my XF86Config
>> file because I was having a display problem. I typed
>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config but I get the message "Permission denied".
>> No matter what I do I could not access this file. The message I get is
>> always "Permission denied". This is not supposed to happen right?
>> Something is awfully wrong. Hope somebody can help me out.
>>
>> Kian Tee
>
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config is not an executable but a configuration
>file, you cannot start it by entering it's name.
>either use a text-editor (like vi) to edit the file or run xf86config
>(all small characters!, linux is case sensitive) which guides you
>through the setup process.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: The Best Man Page in the Internet?
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 19:42:34 GMT
On Wed, 03 May 2000 15:10:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'll frequently need to look up man page while surfing. Would you mind
I don't understand. What does "surfing" have to do with computers or linux?
Why would you even be thinking of man pages while on a surfboard?
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: "Lilia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Software Automation Tool.
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 12:10:26 -0700
Dear Linux community,
You are my only hope. I am desperately looking for any automation testing
tool available for testing application running on Linux (Gui-XWindows). Our
company just moved from SCO to Redhat Linux (yeah !) and we want to move
from manual testing to automation tools, but i have no luck of finding any
tool for Linux. If you know resources where to ask, please, share. I posted
to software testing group but i have a feeling they don't even know what the
linux is (those .com testers). BTW, software is not a Web based application,
so i am not looking for java support. Thanks in advance,
Lilia
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: news.software.nntp,news.software.nn
Subject: Re: News server recommendation
Date: 3 May 2000 20:00:37 GMT
In article <%itO4.1251$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
those who know me have no need of my name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| <8e4ddl$eag$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> divulged:
| > However you run the auth code, a list of 40k or so newsgroups, each
| >with an individual password, is going to be ugly. And unless you have
| >more than 40k readers, you might as well have a group set for each
| >reader, rather than authenticate for every group.
|
| which is, of course, why databases were invented. if you feel perl is the
| way to go, then dbi is your friend.
Let's see, each user will have to have a database of all the passwords
for all the groups they are allowed to see... and the admin has to
identify the groups for each user, get the user the information, get the
database on the user's machine working...
You really don't want, and probably don't need, a password for each
group, all you want is a password for each set of groups people are
allowed to use, say one for each project and it's related groups.
It's hard enough to get users to deal with a separate news and mail
password setup, honest. The master list is the very least tiny part of
the problem if you really want a unique password for each individual
group. The admin of who gets what passwords and how the users cope is
the hard part. I like my original comment on "less than 40k users," as
it was originally made.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
"Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979"(tm)
The hardest test of maturity is knowing the difference between
resisting temptation and missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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Reply-To: "Michael Bernardo" <m b e r n a r d @ a s y l u m . t o>
From: "Michael Bernardo" <m b e r n a r d @ a s y l u m . t o>
Subject: Apache: Forbidden, You don't have permission to access / on this server
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 16:09:07 -0400
I'm trying to setup Apache on Redhat 6.2, and have spent hours trying to
figure out what is wrong with my setup. When I access the website (try it:
http://www.asylum.to), I get an error message:
"Forbidden, You don't have permission to access / on this server."
The error log reads:
"[Wed May 3 14:04:32 2000] [error] [client 209.20.37.194] client denied by
server configuration: /home/httpd/html"
meaning it's something in the httpd.conf file. I have searched the Apache
FAQ pages to no avail. Index.html has read permissions to user/group
nobody, and so does the directory that it's in (/home/httpd/html). Please
help me.
--
M i c h a e l B e r n a r d o
m i c h a e l @ t i c o o n . c o m
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From: "SIMO MOARI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie question
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:24:00 -0700
hi there,
i've installed redhat 6.1 and i can connect thru' dhcp and browse
the internet. i've one question to ask may be silly, i want to put icons in
the desktop, how do i do that and is there any good website that are useful
for newbie users like me. i'm running kde desktop.
thanx in advance.
joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 3D support in Linux
Date: 3 May 2000 20:08:48 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sandhitsu R Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Which chipsets have full 3D support in Linux ?
>>
>> I don't want to buy a board which gives 3D performance in Windows but only
>> 2D in Linux.
> I have a Voodoo3, and the drivers are nice. nvidia released beta GeForce
> drivers; I'll be trying them later this week...
Nvidia's drivers seem to be of very poor quality and source is not
available. I'd steer clear of their offerings.
--
David Griffith Have you met Cadbury, the Destructo-Bunny yet?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Linux Boot seqence?
From: hhk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 13:28:02 -0700
Hi all,
I know that when win98 boots, it will first run
1) Autoexec.bat, config.sys
2) Win.ini, System.ini
3) read Registry
How about linux? When will the following files run ? ... eg)
linuxconf, inittab, ??? Is there any site which can give me more
information on this or any HOWTO documents?
Thanks all.
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From: Sebastian Breier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD/Intel... what's faster on Linux?
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 22:34:42 +0200
Hi!
I have a discussion here with a friend...
I say AMD has the faster processors, he says Intel has the faster
processors.
Now we know that the Intel support in Linux is much better than AMD's,
but...
Compared on a Linux Machine, what would be better?
AMD or Intel processor? (Same clockspeed, and standard RAM [that
means, no Rimm for Intel, because that would give the Intel chip an
unfair advantage and would be much more expensive]).
Thank You for any answers.
--
Artificial Intelligence: Making computers behave like they do in the movies
This eMail is from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Restricting Telnet Access
Date: 3 May 2000 13:35:45 -0700
>Could anyone please tell me how I can allow a user to ONLY access his home
>directory and whatever subpaths there are and nothing else? I am running
>RedHat 6.0.
If it is for only one untrusted user, set up /bin/sh and a few basic file
utilities in their home directory (under ~user/bin) and have his login
shell be a C wrapper that calls chroot(), drops root privledges, and execs
"bin/bash" under his home directory.
There is no "easy" way to do this in Linux because Linux is designed to be
a free and open system. If you are worried about suids, you can put them
all in a single directory, with something along the lines of:
#!/bin/sh
# suids
find / -type f -perm +6000 > /root/suids
for a in `cat /root/suids` ; do
mv $a /suid/bin
ln -s /suid/bin/`echo $a | awk -F/ '{print $NF}'` $a
done
- Sam
--
Go to http://www.hoohahrecords.com/rap for information on the Bohemian RAP CD
Go to http://samiam.org/cgi-bin/mailme to get my email address
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From: gos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ATA/66 accessed as ATA/33 ?
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 22:35:47 +0200
I use ATA/66 HDD. After a lot of problems, (first I tried Caldera OpenLinux
2.3 but no chance!) it works now with Debian!
You need to give some additionnal informations when booting:
For me it is
linux ide0=0xdc00 ide1=0x1f0 hdc=cdrom
so that it recognizes the HD on hda and the cdrom on hdc.
And the systems works as ATA66.
Good luck!
Etienne
motherboard BE6 UDMA66 5PCI AGP2X
harddisk WD U-DMA66 5400T (WD153AA)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How do I install X?
Date: 03 May 2000 16:38:28 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 3 May 2000 13:40:09 -0400, Michael Bernardo
<<HvZP4.14815$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I did an over-the-net installation of Redhat 6.2 and chose "Server" for the
>installation package. It didn't come with X! Can anyone tell me how I can
>manually install X? It took me 3 hours to download, and over a week to
>configure the server as a firewall proxy. Thanks.
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES.html (official)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhgraham/UpgradeXfree.html (unofficial)
"If this machine is going to be a dedicated server, why do you need X
running on it?" is the idea RedHat is pushing here. And it's actually a
good idea.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Apache: Forbidden, You don't have permission to access / on this server
Date: 3 May 2000 13:44:39 -0700
Sounds like the system is set up to not allow directory indexes. Try
copying Index.html to index.html (notice the different case) and see if
you still have this problem.
- Sam
>"[Wed May 3 14:04:32 2000] [error] [client 209.20.37.194] client denied by
>server configuration: /home/httpd/html"
>meaning it's something in the httpd.conf file.
/etc/httpd/conf/access.conf, actually. Make sure you have something like
this there:
<Directory />
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
- Sam
--
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Boot seqence?
Date: 3 May 2000 20:37:21 GMT
hhk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I know that when win98 boots, it will first run
: 1) Autoexec.bat, config.sys
: 2) Win.ini, System.ini
: 3) read Registry
: How about linux? When will the following files run ? ... eg)
: linuxconf, inittab, ??? Is there any site which can give me more
: information on this or any HOWTO documents?
Any book on unix. The init man page.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Software Automation Tool.
Date: 3 May 2000 20:36:22 GMT
Lilia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: You are my only hope. I am desperately looking for any automation testing
What is an "automation testing tool"? Any unix code will run on linux!
: tool available for testing application running on Linux (Gui-XWindows). Our
: company just moved from SCO to Redhat Linux (yeah !) and we want to move
: from manual testing to automation tools, but i have no luck of finding any
What do you mean? Do you mean something that constructs test vectors
from source code? That's generic theory-of-testing stuff, and will
in any case be specific to the source code language used.
Please explain yourself ..
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Linux Boot seqence?
Date: 03 May 2000 16:46:35 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 03 May 2000 13:28:02 -0700, hhk
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hi all,
> I know that when win98 boots, it will first run
> 1) Autoexec.bat, config.sys
> 2) Win.ini, System.ini
> 3) read Registry
>
>How about linux? When will the following files run ? ... eg)
>linuxconf, inittab, ??? Is there any site which can give me more
>information on this or any HOWTO documents?
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html
Quick: bootsector -> secondary loader -> kernel into memory -> kernel
uncompresses itself -> switch to protected mode -> kernel starts
/sbin/init -> init reads /etc/inittab -> executes /sbin/init.d/boot
(/etc/rc.d/init.d/boot on RedHat) -> determines runlevel -> runs runlevel
init scripts in /sbin/init.d/rcN.d -> runs /sbin/init.d/boot.local -> init
starts mingettys and/or xdm -> you log in.
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS approx. /sbin/init.d/boot
WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI approx. /sbin/init.d/rcN.d
REGISTRY.DAT approx. the /etc directory tree
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.samba
Subject: Re: tar: "cannot readdir" on samba-mounted directory
Date: 3 May 2000 13:49:09 -0700
>I'm getting this really bizarre error message from tar:
>
># tar -cvf foo.tar /odin_e/Sites/Organizations
>tar: /odin_e/Sites/Organizations: Cannot readdir: No such file or
>directory
What does "ls /odin_e/Sites/Organizations" give you? Probably something
like:
ls: .: Permission denied
If so, you need to change the properties of file sharing on the NT system.
No, I don't use NT enough to tell you how to do this.
- Sam
--
Go to http://www.hoohahrecords.com/rap for information on the Bohemian RAP CD
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: newbie question
Date: 03 May 2000 16:51:26 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 3 May 2000 13:24:00 -0700, SIMO MOARI
<<39108869$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> i've installed redhat 6.1 and i can connect thru' dhcp and browse
>the internet. i've one question to ask may be silly, i want to put icons in
>the desktop, how do i do that and is there any good website that are useful
>for newbie users like me. i'm running kde desktop.
Did you try looking in the *KDE Help Browser* for a basic KDE tutorial?
RH's install puts that in the kpanel at the bottom of the screen. That
will get you started; the icon looks like a book and a lightbulb.
There should be a folder visible called "Templates". If you want to
create a desktop icon for a certain program, copy the "Program" file from
the Templates folder onto the desktop. Then right-click on the program
template, select Properties, and config it to your heart's content... RH
ships with a bunch of icons; you can make the thing look like many things
by clicking on the default "gear" icon in the Properties dialog.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO
http://www.kde.org (KDE specific stuff)
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: newbie question
Date: 3 May 2000 13:51:34 -0700
> i've installed redhat 6.1 and i can connect thru' dhcp and browse
>the internet. i've one question to ask may be silly, i want to put icons in
>the desktop, how do i do that and is there any good website that are useful
>for newbie users like me. i'm running kde desktop.
The way you put news items in the desktop in Kde is very simple: Right
click (click on the right mouse button) on the desktop (click on the right
mouse button when your mouse cursor is on the desktop and looks like a big
"X").
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: sparc boot floppy
Date: 3 May 2000 13:57:43 -0700
>DOS machine with rawrite2.exe. Put the boot floppy in a SunIPC, issued
>boot floppy at the ok prompt and it complains there is no Sun label on the
>floppy.
Using rawrite in DOS or dd in Linux are 100% identical, so this is not the
problem.
That particular floppy may have a problem--try another one.
Personally, I feel you may have better luck botting a bootable CDROM with
the "boot cdrom" command at the "ok" prompt. Does the IPC have a CDROM
drive? I can't find any information on the Sun IPC at www.sun.com.
- Sam
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD/Intel... what's faster on Linux?
Date: 3 May 2000 20:45:25 GMT
Sebastian Breier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have a discussion here with a friend...
: I say AMD has the faster processors, he says Intel has the faster
: processors.
You're wrong. They're both faster than each other. Especially at
compiling latex.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Suse Linux & W2K
Date: 3 May 2000 14:01:30 -0700
>I would like to dual boot between Windows 2000 Professional and Suse Linux
>6.4.
The way I did this with NT server 4 and RedHat 6.2 at work is as follows:
1. Install NT, partitioniting it to leave plenty of room for Linux.
2. Install RedHat, placing LILO on the master boot record
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: LinuxRouter doesn't boot!!
Date: 3 May 2000 14:03:37 -0700
>I downloaded linuxrouter's idiot_image-2.9.3 and rawrote to two
>floppies from my NT box. The problem is: neither of these floppies
>boot?? Any tips? I used both rawrite2 and rawrite3 but no success.
I know NT doesn't like Rawrite. Some tips:
* If the floppies are unformatted, format them before rawriting them
* Last time I looked, NT refused to allow rawrite to write to a floppy.
make the floopies with rawrite in DOS or Win95/98, or with dd in Linux.
- Sam
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