Linux-Misc Digest #446, Volume #24 Fri, 12 May 00 12:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: X-windows is failing please help (Dances With Crows)
awe64 midi ("Steven Thurgood (1X0S)")
System.map file? ("Steven Thurgood (1X0S)")
Re: NTFS: Linux performance? (Dances With Crows)
Re: System.map file? (Dances With Crows)
Module loading ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: connect LINUX to Free ISPs??? (mst)
Re: System.map file? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Module loading ("Florian E.J. Fruth")
Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Samba and FAT attrib flags ("Conor Daly")
Re: vmware problems (John McKown)
[Q]CDROM does not mount (Jim Hollenback)
Problem Slackware 7.0 : NFS, bash (Herve Gautier)
Re: Damn samba (Bob Hauck)
strange binaries support (Herve Gautier)
Re: X-windows is failing please help (Steve)
Re: using "dd" from /dev/nst0 (Steve)
Re: cu command (Steve)
Re: general modem setup (Steve)
Re: convert num to string ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (John Hasler)
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (John Hasler)
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (John Hasler)
Hello friend need help quick please (faisal gillani)
Re: Module loading (Dances With Crows)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: X-windows is failing please help
Date: 12 May 2000 09:07:37 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 12 May 2000 11:40:01 +0100, Kofi Asante
<<8fgmva$41g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have set Linux to start X-windows when it boots up. This has worked
>successfully for rhree weeks until yesterday. it has gone biserk. When
>X-windows tries to start up, it seems to be going in a loop. Since i am not
>able to get the propmt, I can't even try antthing. I have tried using the
>interactive set up but it still goes into a loop. Any ideas?
*sigh* didn't you Read The Fine Manual and notice the bits about
"virtual consoles" and "runlevels"? Entering "linux S" at the LILO prompt
will boot the system to single-user mode (no X, root-only login, bare
minimum of system services started) while pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1..F6 will
switch to virtual text consoles 1..6. From a text-mode prompt, you can
have a better chance of figuring out what's going on. I suggest trying to
re-run SaX, Xconfigurator, or XF86Setup, just in case your XF86Config has
gotten screwed up. HTH,
--
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: "Steven Thurgood (1X0S)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: awe64 midi
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:08:42 +0100
-- Hi, I tried recompiling my kernel to get midi to work with my awe64,
however it refuses to recognise that it was there( .wav etc. works
fine). upon startup I get some message about it not being detected. It's
not pnp (i'm fairly sure, and I have tried both compiling into the
kernel, and as a module. I also tried setting up isapnp to use the sb,
but then the wav didn't work either. I have the kernel version 2.2.05,
and I tried 2.2.15 (the latest?), which still didn't work, and gave me
problems. I have Redhat 6.0, and have followed the mini howto to no
avail. And advice?
-Steve
=============================
.Triggle
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From: "Steven Thurgood (1X0S)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System.map file?
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:10:28 +0100
What exactly does this file do please?
I attempted to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.05 to 2.2.15, and it worked
fine, but many of the daemons being started at boot time complained that
this file had an incorrect version or something. I don't recall seing
this file mentioned in any of the docs on recompiling the kernel. Is it
something specific to redhat or not?
Any help appreciated.
-Steve
--
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.Triggle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: NTFS: Linux performance?
Date: 12 May 2000 09:23:13 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12 May 2000 13:05:47 GMT, Ken Yasuda
<<8fgvjb$7sp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) writes:
>|> On Thu, 11 May 2000 12:03:48 -0700, Edward Lee
>|> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>|> >Last time I tried, Linux NTFS driver is not stable enough for writing.
>|>
>|> Nope. Adding the right incantations to /etc/fstab will allow ordinary
>|> users to access a FAT partition, or allow all users at once to access it.
>|> Main problem is that every file on said FAT filesystem will be owned by
>|> the user who originally mounted it, since FAT knows nothing about
>|> security.
>|>
>Funny you should mention this -- I'm just now trying to wrestle with why
>root can "cd" to a mounted NTFS zipdisk and nobody else can. Any
>suggestions as to the particular incantation?
"Ia! Ia! Ph'nglui ml'gwnath R'lyeh wga'naghl Cthulhu ftaghn!" is a nice
one [0]
Or make sure that the permissions on the mount point for the disk are set
to 755, and mount said disk like so:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip -o umask=000
since /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt says that by
default the files are readable by root and not readable by anyone
else. The umask= should take care of that. I think. HTH,
[0] Shouted that before powering my rebuilt system on for the first
time. So far, no hardware problF`F4xDxD{_":<a+NO CARRIER
--
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] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: System.map file?
Date: 12 May 2000 09:30:20 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 12 May 2000 14:10:28 +0100, Steven Thurgood (1X0S)
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> What exactly does this file do please?
>I attempted to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.05 to 2.2.15, and it worked
>fine, but many of the daemons being started at boot time complained that
>this file had an incorrect version or something. I don't recall seing
>this file mentioned in any of the docs on recompiling the kernel. Is it
>something specific to redhat or not?
/boot/System.map is a set of debugging symbols generated from the
uncompressed kernel image at compile time. It is useful mainly when
you're debugging a kernel, as the OOPS kernel routine can use System.map
to spit out a semi-comprehensible error message instead of a raw hex
dump. The only user-space program that I'm aware of which uses System.map
is lsof--everything else will not care at all about its presence. Unless
you're running a development kernel and you want to help track bugs, you
shouldn't worry about the error messages, but you can get rid of them by
doing:
cp /usr/src/linux/System.map /boot/System.map
--
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]
Subject: Module loading
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:58:48 GMT
Can someone tell me how modules get loaded on demand?
I understood that there was a daemon that ran in the background
that handled this, but I cannot see one on my system. I thought
it was called either kmod or kerneld, but ps -ax doesn't show
either of these.
How can I tell if modules are loading? I ask because I suspect
that they might not be.
I am running Mandrake 7.0
- Richard Kimber
Political Science Resources
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: connect LINUX to Free ISPs???
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:08:16 -0400
NetVAR wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to configure LINUX to connect to
> Free ISPs like Netzero, Freei.net, etc???
> i need the IP configuration settings and which LINUX is best?
> Redhat? SUSE? TurboLinux? BSD? etc??
> thanks in advance
>
I only know of one free ISP that works with Linux: freewwweb. They have
detailed instructions on the web site. Which distro you use shouldn't
make any difference.
MST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: System.map file?
Date: 12 May 2000 10:13:28 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dances With
Crows wrote:
> The only user-space program that I'm aware of which uses System.map
> is lsof--everything else will not care at all about its presence.
ps(1).
(klogd(8) and ksymoops(8) _run_ in userspace, but are not really intended
for ordinary users ...)
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Florian E.J. Fruth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Module loading
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:23:30 +0200
did u compile the kernel with the support for automatic module loading ?
fejf
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:s6US4.1004$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can someone tell me how modules get loaded on demand?
> I understood that there was a daemon that ran in the background
> that handled this, but I cannot see one on my system. I thought
> it was called either kmod or kerneld, but ps -ax doesn't show
> either of these.
> How can I tell if modules are loading? I ask because I suspect
> that they might not be.
>
> I am running Mandrake 7.0
>
> - Richard Kimber
>
> Political Science Resources
> http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
>
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing
Date: 12 May 2000 10:26:04 -0400
Rick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Lastly, Robert, how do you recommend partitioning a Linux system and
> why?
i am not robert but here is my scheme.
i use 3 partitions.
10MB (below the 1024 cylinder limit) of /boot
2GB (or more) of /
1GB (or more) of /home
the reason i like this is that
*) it's easy to squeeze the /boot partion somewhere convenient
*) by having distinct / and /home, you can blow away / and keep your
user data intact. you can also tar up and save configuration,
e.g., /etc and store it somewhere in /home during an OS upgrade.
(the "upgrade" option of many linux distributions is rather flakey
and i prefer to just do a full install.)
*) you do not have too many small partitions so you avoid, e.g., /tmp
being full while you've got oceans of room in /var. besides the
"mv" and especially "ln" commands do not work the same over
partition boundaries. (mv has to copy and remove rather than just
fiddle with directory entries and you cannot have hard links across
partition boundaries.)
i have used the "single giant parition" and the "lots of small
partitions" (/ /boot /usr /tmp /var /home) in the past. this 3 part
layout works best for me but ymmv.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: "Conor Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.samba
Subject: Re: Samba and FAT attrib flags
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:52:38 +0100
Should be.
Samba uses the execute flags to mimic the DOS a s h flags for a file. There
is a line in smb.conf to enable this behaviour but I think it's enabled by
default.
The lines are
map archive = yes|no
map hidden = yes|no
map system = yes|no
--
Conor Daly
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <8epd0r$1rn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>
>I am running Redhat 6.1 and samba 2.0.6 sharing a FAT16 partition. Is
>there any way a client can change the RASH bits on the FAT16 entries?
>
>Thanks,
>jrmn
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: vmware problems
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:35:04 -0500
On Fri, 12 May 2000 11:16:55 +0000, kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]>Secondly - and this is quite scary! - I get this message:
]>
]>"Setup has determined that your computer's startup hard disk is new or
]>has been erased, or that an operating system is installed on your
]>computer with which Windows NT cannot co-exist.
]>
]>If such an operating system is installed on your computer, continuing
]>Setup may damage or destroy it.
]>
]>If the hard disk is new or has been erased, or you want to discard it's
]>current contents, you can choose to continue Setup".
]>
]>Does this really mean what it says? Can I ignore this message or has
]>something gone wrong with my vmware installation?
]>
Does it mean what it says? Yes. But what does it mean? That's what had me
confused. It turns out that what it means is, "The VMWare emulated IDE disk
partition is empty, can I format it?" The answer is, of course the emulated
IDE disk partition is empty, and you can format it. I did this and have not
had any problems. It did not mean that it wanted to reformat any of my
Linux partitions.
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hollenback)
Subject: [Q]CDROM does not mount
Date: 12 May 2000 15:01:04 GMT
Installed Red Hat 6.1 by booting from the cdrom. Install went fine and
the system came up just fine. Went to use the cdrom later and could not
mount the drive. I used mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 -r /cdrom and got
an error message indicating that the cdrom was not a block device.
/dev/cdrom is symlink'ed to /dev/hdc. The CDROM is a master on the
second IDE port, IDE0 is filled with two hard drives. The other drive
on IDE1 is a zip drive. Any clues or pointers would be helpful. Yes, the
hardware is fine, windoze is very happy with the drive as is NT.
--
Jim Hollenback
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Herve Gautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem Slackware 7.0 : NFS, bash
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:04:33 +0200
Hi there
I've got 2 problems on my slackware 7.0
1)
The NFS protocol seems to not work correctly with suid.
When I execute a suided binary executable, I've got a
message as if the processus haven't the good id...
2)
There is 2 bash program :
/bin/bash
/bin/bash1
I don't why, but the /bin/bash shell seems to have a bug
because the test [ -a file ] always return 0...
Any suggestions ?
--
GAUTIER Herve (R.V)
professional email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: Damn samba
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:04:29 GMT
On Wed, 10 May 2000 15:13:21 -0600, Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now I am really cornfused. Both are postscript-compatible
>printers (one is a Phaser Tek350 color printer and the other
>is an HP laserwriter 16).
Try sending them a postscript file then. If _that_ doesn't work, then I'm
at a loss.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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From: Herve Gautier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: strange binaries support
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:08:50 +0200
I read somewhere that we can run strange binaries executables like SCO or BSD
If someone have a clue, it's welcome...
thank
--
GAUTIER Herve (R.V)
professional email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: X-windows is failing please help
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 2000 13:21:23 GMT
On Fri, 12 May 2000 11:40:01 +0100, Kofi Asante wrote:
>Help! Please help!!!
>
>I have set Linux to start X-windows when it boots up. This has worked
>successfully for rhree weeks until yesterday. it has gone biserk. When
>X-windows tries to start up, it seems to be going in a loop. Since i am not
>able to get the propmt, I can't even try antthing. I have tried using the
>interactive set up but it still goes into a loop. Any ideas?
Don't really know what you mean, but you could try typing "linux single"
without the quotes at the boot prompt, then when you get in make the
necessary changes. Personally I oney ever reboot to get my modem
back when it doesn't drop the line properly, I hate internal modems.
--
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
12:16pm up 15 days, 14:17, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.01
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: using "dd" from /dev/nst0
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 2000 13:21:25 GMT
On Fri, 12 May 2000 09:56:11 +0000, Guido Gonzato wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to figure out how to read exactly NN bytes from a SCSI tape.
>I use this command to make an archive on the tape:
>
># BYTES=$(tar zcf - directory/ | tee /dev/nst0 | wc --bytes)
>
>The command "echo $BYTES" will report the size in byte of the archive.
>But if I try to read $BYTES bytes from the tape, it will not work:
>
>dd bs=1 count="$BYTES" if=/dev/nst0 of=foo.tar.gz
^^^^^
Looks like a block size of one bit. Don't piss around with the block size
leave it at 1024.
--
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
12:16pm up 15 days, 14:17, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.01
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: cu command
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 2000 13:21:34 GMT
On Fri, 12 May 2000 08:55:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I would like to connect a console cable from RedHat linux machine
>to a cisco router.
>I have read through cu command man page
>and tried the following commands but they are not successful
>
>> cu -l ttyS0
>> cu -p ttyS0
How about naming the system aswell "-s router_ip_address"
>From the man page which you've already read.
The cu command is used to call up another system and act as a dial in
terminal. It can also do sim- ple file transfers with no error checking.
So are you trying to connect to the Cisco via your modem, and if not then
there's probably something else you should be using like login, rlogin,
screen, telnet, etc.
--
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
12:16pm up 15 days, 14:17, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.01
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: general modem setup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 2000 13:21:41 GMT
On Fri, 12 May 2000 09:46:58 +0200, Koen Aerts wrote:
>Hi,
>
>What is the general procedure to setup a standard modem (lets say on
>COM3) under Linux, and to make it work for dialup to an ISP?
Use modem tool to link to the right device Com3 would be ttyS2.
There are different tools for this on the various distros, on RH
just use linux config to set up your ppp settings.
--
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
12:16pm up 15 days, 14:17, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.01
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: convert num to string
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:09:57 GMT
I prefer something like this:
int i = 123;
char stuff[255];
sprintf(stuff, "%d", i);
You can also use itoa or CStrings if this is microsoft land.
brian
In article <8dpv65$if9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can I convert num to string?
>
> I could not find any documentation for stdc++ library in my RedHat
6.0,
> can you help?
>
> I searched thru Bruce Eckel second volume, but chapter about strings
> does not mention safe type conversion...
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Milos
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
--
---
If you cut off my head, what will I say?
Me and my head or me and my body?
The Choke - Skinny Puppy
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 12:49:30 GMT
Gunter Bengel writes:
> And since this is a tax issue they asked at the relevant authority which
> is the "Finanzamt" (tax office). The statute of a church was refused to
> them by said tax office, not by the governement,...
The tax office is not part of the government? Bizarre!
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 14:28:34 GMT
Gunter writes:
> There is no Ministry of Religion here in Germany.
I know that. I was not writing about Germany or any other specific nation.
> An CO$ is allowed to do what they want if they respect german law.
Nor was I writing about the Scientology loons. They are, in and of
themselves, unimportant and uninteresting. The discussion has moved on.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 12:39:31 GMT
I wrote:
> But German politicians have the right to tell their citizens that they
> should not believe in Scientology?
Gerald writes:
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> ...
> sorry, but your statement reflects the rudimentary information so typical
> of the American press.
First, Christopher Browne did not write that: I did. Second, the statement
is, in context, essentially rhetorical and a response to other statements
in this thread, not to anything I read in "the American press" (I get most
of my actual information about European politics from the BBC).
> ...but if you want church taxes collected for Scientology than why not
> contact the IRS.
What makes you think I want "church taxes" collected for anyone, any time,
anywhere?
> And btw, Scientology's desperate and tasteless propaganda efforts in this
> matter seem to underline what critics accuse them of, but the Catholic
> church is hardly less greedy - only more established.
Did you read my entire article at all?
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: faisal gillani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hello friend need help quick please
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:30:06 GMT
Hi there
I am from pakistan I have been asked to install
Windows 2000 with exchange server 5.5 to provide
email salution to 40/100 users My company has 40 users using win98 now the
cost of Ms servers & clients access licences sre going to about 1000000
pak Rs which is quit handsome consedring
pakistan Nobody know about linux in our company so i was thinking to
propose a salution of Linux .
What do you think ?? will it support win98 users using outlook 2000 can we
configure it to even route e-mail to the internet ?
IS sendmail reliable enough ??
Does linux then require any licenses ?? is it still free ?? cause my
company dont want to get into this piracy stuff
Please answer all my questions as soon as possible cause i have to give
report in 2 days ..
thanksyou
Faisal
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Module loading
Date: 12 May 2000 11:39:08 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 12 May 2000 13:58:48 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<s6US4.1004$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Can someone tell me how modules get loaded on demand?
>I understood that there was a daemon that ran in the background
>that handled this, but I cannot see one on my system. I thought
>it was called either kmod or kerneld, but ps -ax doesn't show
>either of these.
>How can I tell if modules are loading? I ask because I suspect
>that they might not be.
If the modules are loading properly, they will show up in the output of
the "/sbin/lsmod" command when you try to access a device that depends on
those kernel modules. From /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kmod.txt :
Kmod is a simple replacement for kerneld. It consists of a
request_module() replacement and a kernel thread called kmod. When the
kernel requests a module, the kmod wakes up and execve()s modprobe,
passing it the name that was requested.
Not sure why kmod doesn't show up in a ps auxw... kswapd and such do!
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| more creative ways of being
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| stupid!
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| --MegaHAL
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