Linux-Misc Digest #492, Volume #24 Tue, 16 May 00 21:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need input on developing a unified configuration program for linux (Victor
Wagner)
WinModems (TomG)
Re: newbie's questions (TomG)
Re: add a second root-account (Harlan Grove)
Re: Missing Partition table (Dances With Crows)
Re: WYSIWYG web page generator (I R A Darth Aggie)
Re: Separate HDD for swap? (Dances With Crows)
Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Mongoose)
Re: Anyone have a clue about PAM? (Malware)
9 Hours to tar 2 Gigs? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Announcemnet: Fire Extinguisher (HTTP Tunneling) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WinModems (Robert Schweikert)
Re: FreeBSD and Linux (Christopher Browne)
Re: Need input on developing a unified configuration program for linux (Christopher
Browne)
Re: WYSIWYG web page generator (Christopher Browne)
Re: add a second root-account (Alexander K)
Modifying the Kernel (Chad Lemmen)
Hard Disk Weirdness - suddenly disk full ("Frank J. Schmuck")
Re: Boot Disk ("Scott")
Re: Export Filemaker DB to use in MySQL? ("Terry Cox")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Wagner)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need input on developing a unified configuration program for linux
Date: 16 May 2000 22:09:55 +0400
In comp.os.linux.misc Mongoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I was going to allow remote administration of the system. I know
: this creates lots of security problems but none that can't be solved.
: As for linuxconf... linuxconf is actually the reason why I'm making
: this program. Linuxconf is pretty messy and disorganized. But the main
: reason is that linuxconf only allows C++ modules to be added into the
Then look on the BSDi configuration system, called maxim.
It was created by professional programmers, highly respected by me
(which I couldn't tell about majority of modern opensource developers,
especially developers of such things as linuxconf, KDE and GNOME).
And yet they failed as miserably as team of volonteers who wrote
linuxconf.
Try to learn something from their mistakes. BSDi now have merged with
FreeBSD, so there are chances that sources of maxim are available.
Or found someone with working BSDi system, who trust you enough to run
configuration interface on his machine.
: program, and they have to be written to work with a new interface
: users have to learn. I was going to write my program to allow modules
: in any language. As long as they can do STDIO. They just output their
: html page, the web server can serve it and then send data back to the
: program, using cgi. It won't matter what language its written in and
: the user will just have to learn html and cgi, which most people
: already know. As for the web server, I was going to write my own mini
: webserver, if there wasn't one already. Just enough to serve the pages
This is very right decision. Becouse it would allow you to start and
stop main web-server. Think about optional https support (may be using
stunnel if found installed), which would allow to use your interface to
configure rackmounted web-servers located at ISPs.
: on a different port. This way the user configuring their system
: wouldn't be required to have a web server installed, and I wouldn't be
: running through port80 creating and more security issues.
: Which kinda brings me to another question. Is passing data through
: stdio a good idea? Won't certain characters, like high ascii
: characters, get lost if you try to pipe them through stdio?
Never mind. I use Russian, which users characters with high bit, and
never have problems passing Russian texts via pipes.
Moreover, binary data can be safely passed. Consider for example:
gunzip -c something.tar.gz | tar -xf -
BTW, i'm not sure that placing functionality of CGI script inside each
module is very good idea. Module should write out something more simple
than complete HTML page and read in something _much_ more simple then
HTTP query string (even worse, POST data with multipart/form-data type).
May be specialized XML DTD would be better. And your mini-webserver
would translate it into HTML forms.
Really, using problem oriented markup language would help if people
want to develop other interfaces for same modules, i.e. console menu
interface (yes, one might run lynx or links, but ...), GTK/KDE interface
or even some kind of automated configuration robot which talk with user
on natural language and contain builtin expert system.
At least robot which would automatically configure big number of
workstations in some large college or corporation is definitely
possible.
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From: TomG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WinModems
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:30:03 GMT
any ideas about WinModems under Linux anyone?
thanks
TomG
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From: TomG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie's questions
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:30:05 GMT
John Cohen wrote:
>
>
> what's redhat and what's sparc?
> are they related at all?
> what should i put on my pc?
>
>
> any advice is appreciated as well as referrals.
>
>
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> Before you buy.
Redhat is a very popular distribution of Linux. Sparc is a particular
computer architecture. I assume you are thinking of installing Linux.
Personally (especially for a newbie) I reccommend the SuSE distribution.
See www.suse.de for more detail.
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: add a second root-account
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 16:21:20 -0700
In article <8fsk0p$aht$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander K
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
>and no, single-user mode won't do. nor boot/root disks.
um . . . how can you screw up the root account in such a
way that you can't fix it in single-user mode but you can
with a second ID with superuser equivalence running in
multiuser mode? Restoring /root after a 'rm -rf /root'?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Missing Partition table
Date: 16 May 2000 19:36:02 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 16 May 2000 19:27:02 GMT, Richard Goldberg
<<8fs7e6$6dm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>When I plug the disk into the new box it doesn't boot. It just sits at
>a flashing "_" and does nothing. If I boot with a linux boot floppy and
>run fdisk to print the partition table, I get a blank table (ie there is
>nothing on the disk). While I was doing this, someone had already
[snippage]
There's a utility called "gpart" available at
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/gpart-0.1f.tar.gz
which might be what you're looking for. However, you'll probably need a
working Linux box in order to compile gpart and put it onto a floppy. Get
a boot disk, boot from it, insert the disk with gpart, execute gpart, hope
for the best.
It's entirely possible that the new board and BIOS have a different idea
of the drive's geometry than the old board and BIOS did. Maybe gpart can
fix this. I don't suppose that the info for "fdisk -l" on that drive was
written down anywhere? If it was, then try recreating the partition table
with that exact information... and do an "fdisk -l" on all your Linux
drives and write down the info obtained. You might be glad you did
someday.
--
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 \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I R A Darth Aggie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG web page generator
Date: 16 May 2000 23:32:14 GMT
Reply-To: no-courtesy-copies-please
On Tue, 16 May 2000 17:14:14 +0100,
Jamie Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ I am very unimpressed with some of the arguments here involving Lynx--
+ unless we are prepared to put old standards behind us and support new ones,
+ even if they are incompatible, and even if they are proposed by Microsoft
*yawn* Same ol' "gotta be new to be good" arguement. To me, the most
useful websites are the ones that give me *content* not *glitz*. If
there ain't no content, then there's no need to download glitz.
By your arguments, email and Usenet (text/plain media) should have been
buried long ago...
+ (whatever you may think about them, MS's HTML DOM and CSS implementations
+ are much more functional then Netscape's or W3C's), we will not make
+ progress.
That wouldn't be due to the number of programmers M$ throws at the
problem, would it?
James
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Separate HDD for swap?
Date: 16 May 2000 19:43:01 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 16 May 2000 22:28:22 GMT, Scott Thomas
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>
> Silly question - I'm assembling a few Linux boxen, and I have a
>handful of small (~100MB) IDE drives lying around I've been unable to
>find a use for or get rid of. How sensible/feasible would it be to use
>one of them in each machine as swap space, instead of using a partition
>on the main drive? If so, any suggestion as to where on the IDE
>channel(s) it oughta be?
It would be feasible, no doubt, but I don't know how sensible it would
be--that depends on the exact setup. These old drives will be slow,
unfortunately, and the structure of the IDE bus means that for maximum
speed, they will have to be on an IDE channel separate from the one the
main drive's on. If you're set on doing this, I'd put the main IDE drive
on /dev/hda, the CD-ROM on /dev/hdc, and the 100M swap drive on
/dev/hdd.
If these were SCSI devices, you could put them anywhere and performance
would hardly drop at all, but only one IDE device can control a channel at
once and if you put the swap drive on the same channel as the primary
drive, they'd fight over the bus and performance would suffer. The
CD-ROM's data transfer rate is slower than a HD's, and it isn't normally
in constant use, unlike the HD.
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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 \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: Mongoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:47:56 GMT
Hello,
I am attempting to start a college project and have two of my
ideas already being worked on. So I wanted to know what other people
had for suggestions for linux projects? I was thinking of something
along the lines of a project that would help promote the use of linux.
What is something that most people could use? Something that could
make a good 1 year R&D project?
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From: Malware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux.isp,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Anyone have a clue about PAM?
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 01:14:53 +0200
Hi Bruce,
you wrote:
> Any clue what might cause this error, or how to disable pam to prevent it?
>
> pam_parse: expecting return value; [...auth]
> unable to dlopen(/lib/security/required)
> adding faulty module: /lib/security/required
It's surely just a typo in one of the files in /etc/pam.d.
You for sure do not want to disable PAM. It might make it impossible to
login since applications needing authentication like /bin/login are
linked to it.
Malware
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 9 Hours to tar 2 Gigs?
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:47:09 GMT
I am using some spare disk space on an NT machine to backup my Linux
server and I have noticed that the entire process takes quite a while.
>From Linux I am using smbmount to mount a share on the NT box and a cron
entry to tar several directories over to the NT share. There is 2 Gigs
of data in the archive, should it take 9 hours to do this? The
machines are on a 100BaseT network. Is this a weakness of smbmount?
Would rsync or cpio be faster? The server is a P166 with 32MB RAM, is
this the performance that I should expect? Any info would be greatly
appreciated.
Ron
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Subject: Announcemnet: Fire Extinguisher (HTTP Tunneling)
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 23:54:12 GMT
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WinModems
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:06:11 -0400
Tom,
They don't work, they are junk, throw it away if you have one. You might
also read the modem HOWTO and come up with the same conclusion.
http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/Modem-HOWTO.html
Have fun,
Robert
TomG wrote:
> any ideas about WinModems under Linux anyone?
> thanks
> TomG
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:27:39 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Peter T. Breuer would say:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>: Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: [snip]
>:>--
>:>((LAMBDA (X) (X X)) (LAMBDA (X) (X X)))
>
>: If you didn't do it by hands I'm very impressed - sigmonster picking
>: the perfect Subject: for this thread...
>
>Eh? A self-applying function applied to itself? This wouldn't be the
>fixpoint operator ...
The point of the "joke" is that I inadvertantly made what is an
"ultimate" reference to Lisp in a context of response to some people
that hold significantly "anti-Lisp" sentiments.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need input on developing a unified configuration program for linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:27:40 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Richard Huxton would say:
>Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8fq877$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Mongoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >html page, the web server can serve it and then send data back to
>the
>> >program, using cgi. It won't matter what language its written in
>and
>> >the user will just have to learn html and cgi, which most people
>> >already know.
>>
>> <shudder> Considering the quality of HTML floating around (let alone
>> CGI - that's a separate rant) I wouldn't use the word "know". Aside
>of
>> the biblical sense, that is...
>>
>Might be a better idea to restrict your modules to accepting/producing
>XML (if you feel up to designing a DTD). That way you can keep the
>interface simple and separate out the look & feel.
>Each module could receive one XML document and return one XML
>document - have your code translate it to/from HTML/CGI.
>This would also let you handle a load of validation, so that
>IP_Address and Email_Address are defined in a standard manner.
>Doesn't have to be XML, regardless that its flavour of the month, but
>there are plenty of parsing libraries people could use.
Passing around XML is all well and interesting, but requires having a
translation layer to transform it into HTML.
Adding a couple more languages to the mix would be helpful _HOW_?!?!?
>> > Which kinda brings me to another question. Is passing data
>through
>> >stdio a good idea? Won't certain characters, like high ascii
>> >characters, get lost if you try to pipe them through stdio?
>
>XML would also let you deal with accented characters etc. Oh yeah,
>encourage people to keep all their text in separate files to allow
>easy translation. Oh, and have a standard for storing help-text too,
>it'll help to keep things standard.
>
>Not a small project if you're looking to do it right.
Using XML would either require putting extra layers into the server
side of the application, or mandate using web browsers that are still
experimental and which don't run all that well on Linux yet, and
pretty much deny any ability to do sysadmin tasks without running X.
There isn't a console mode web browser that speaks XML yet.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG web page generator
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:27:44 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Praedor Tempus would say:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > There is nothing wrong with WYSIWYG web creation. I see no way to
>> > avoid the problems that people mention about the editors available
>> > except to use standards. [...]
>>
>> This *appears* to be a response to my post, according to the thread list.
>> I'll repeat what I said in that post:
>>
>> >>you can't count on *anyone* seeing the same thing you do.
>
>Are we getting philosophical? I can look in on every single lab in this
>building, people using Netscape, IE, KFM, etc, and I never see anything
>that I don't recognize as being essentially the same as I see on any
>other browser I have EVER used. I have used and do use (on occasion)
>lynx. Even then, it is still formatted properly, but without the
>graphics or frames...so what. The generally WYSIWYG - based html
>code out there still renders usefully on lynx regardless...UNLESS M$ or
>Netscape-only extensions are used. IF one sticks to real html
>standards, then you can design a web page using a WYSIWYG (that is
>itself based only on standards) and it does NO harm to the lynx user.
>They STILL can read the content of the page and still see it
>formatted in a readable style. What's the beef? I am not talking
>about using an M$ tool or a Netscape tool, I am talking about a fully
>compliant tool (hmmm, like Amaya, by its very definition).
The problem comes in when the web tool tags in a "capricious" manner.
For instance, I recently had to reformat a document that was prepared
using Netscape Communicator.
The results are at <http://www.ntlug.org/jobs.html>.
The original had lines looking rather a lot like the following:
<P> <B> A shortage of Linux specialists has driven one Dallas software </B>
<BR> <B> entrepreneur to create a network of programmers and
consultants in </B>
<BR> <B> about a dozen countries. </B>
</P>
<P> <B> Tom Adelstein, chief executive of Bynari Systems, said he has
found it</B>
<BR> <B> easier to recruit experts in the Linux operating system in
Malaysia</B>
<BR> <B>and Portugal than back home in Texas.</B>
</P>
This happens to be "standards-conformant," but it is _UGLY_ to say the
least.
>Amaya is made and used by the standards body. Hence it uses
>standards.
Amaya was established as a test bed to demonstrate and test some new
developments that the W3C was looking to establish as standards.
Similar was true of Arena.
It would be nice to hope that Amaya would "conform to standards," but
reality is that it _predates_ the standards. It may _presage_
standards; there may be cases where standards were made so directly
after the test implementation on Amaya.
But if standards got revised after the test implementation, which
doubtless does occur now and again, that would lead to some divergence
of functionality.
>As to worrying about someone's screen not showing what another's does,
>I have NEVER run into this at all except when M$ or Netscape-only
>extensions
>are there. Beyond that, they essentially all place bold headers,
>center-justified (or not) as the designer wanted. Color depth is
>largely
>irrelevant. Shall websites default to the lowest common denominator
>(lets
>say ASCII graphics) because SOMEONE might not be able to view a 24-bit
>jpeg?
>You cannot and should not worry about that.
The problem with visual layout is in the insertions that _may_ be
legitimate. For instance, does the end of a line truly indicate the
end of a line? Or should it be ignored, so that text can flow hither
and thither as it will.
If line breaks are forced within paragraphs, then reading my web page
at any "resolution" other than that for which it was explicitly
designed may not work out well. On the other hand, my own web pages
show off reasonably well even on a PalmPilot web browser. (Even the
graphics seem to work OK.)
>Perhaps there are those here who would prefer to dispense with ALL html
>crap and go STRICTLY ASCII (or unicode) text. Period. Ain't going to
>happen. MOST people, by far the incredibly vast majority, to the point
>of being able to nearly ignore those that don't, use graphical browsers
>that all generally handle standard HTML the same. Bold text is
>displayed
>boldly. Italics displays as italics. A header, centered, appears as
>a header, centered.
No, it's not going to happen, and the curmudgeons that propose
"strictly ASCII" are widely ignored.
>Just what does WYSIWYM mean anyway? That you only mean to present plain
>text, damn the graphics and formatting? I think not. You use html to
>center bold text, italicize text, change overall text formatting on the
>page, stick useful graphics in the page...for visual purposes to enhance
>readability or understandability.
>
>You ONLY run into problems if the browser doesn't comply with the
>standard.
>W3C IS the end-all be-all of the standard, and the tools they use are
>strictly
>based on the standards. Hence, you cannot go wrong using a standard
>supporting
>editor to graphically produce standards-based HTML pages that visually
>present
>exactly what the html is saying it should.
The thing is, _competent_ use of HTML pretty much mandates using HTML
in the way it was designed, which is to provide _structural_ tagging.
<B>This text here is bold.</B>
<em> This text is emphasized.</b>
<h2> Here is a title </h2>
<P> Here is a fairly short block of text that I call a <em>
paragraph. </em>
<P> Here is a list with
<ul>
<li> An item,
<li> Another item,
<li> A mispelled item,
<li> And still another item.
</ul>
The facilities are well-used when they are descriptive of the
structure of the document; when you get overly particular about the
visual layout, when composing a document, there is a high likelihood
that the results won't look good _somewhere._
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From: Alexander K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: add a second root-account
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:16:24 GMT
oh geez.
just a lot of blabla here.
actually, for some reason lilo didnt want to indulge me with a
singleuser mode a few days ago. i really would've needed that root2
then.
why are people so anal about making another root account?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8fsk0p$aht$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander K
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >and no, single-user mode won't do. nor boot/root disks.
>
> um . . . how can you screw up the root account in such a
> way that you can't fix it in single-user mode but you can
> with a second ID with superuser equivalence running in
> multiuser mode? Restoring /root after a 'rm -rf /root'?
>
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From: Chad Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modifying the Kernel
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:16:01 GMT
I'm using Corel Linux and I found instructions on compileing a new
kernel from source. I think I could do that ok, but what I want to do
is modify my current kernel. Is there a way to take the existing kernel
in /boot and umcompress that into /usr/src/linux then I have a patch
file I want to apply then recompile that with make xconfig.
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From: "Frank J. Schmuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hard Disk Weirdness - suddenly disk full
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:32:09 -0400
I was freeing up some space on my hard disk by deinstalling some RPMs. I
don't believe I removed anything of great importance, mainly games and
stuff. After doing so I appeared to have no problems. I was able to free
up space until I had about 20% of the disk free (1.2 gig drive) checking the
disk using > df -m or > df -k. I appeared to have no problems at that
point.
I then changed some permissions for StarOffice to allow a group (my non-root
user account). But was never able to get it to run as my non-root user. To
do this I was switching back and forth between root and user to change
permissions.
I changed the clock to the correct time.
Then I logged onto the Internet with Netscape for a short session (no
downloads just looking about).
At the end of the session I moved from an Gnome session back to command line
as the non-root user and did one last check with df. To my surprise the
disk was now 100% used.
At that point I could not log onto a Gnome session. At shut down I get
x-font server - failed with everything else "ok."
At boot I received no error messages but after logging on as root I still
have 100% disk full. I am able to log onto a Gnome session.
>> Anyone have an idea what I did and how to get out of this situation?
Thanks
Frank
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From: "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot Disk
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 20:34:37 -0400
I tried to make a bootdisk using mkbootdisk, but it complained that I didn't
have a vmlinuz file, but had a bzImage file. Then I tried :
> dd if=vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0 of=/dev/fd0
> Then tell the kernel on the floppy what your root partition is,
> say it is /dev/hda2
> rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda2
And I get the following error when I boot on the disk:
Kernel panic
Not Init found.
Any ideas how to get past this?
Thanks.
>
> First make a boot floppy. If your distribution has mkbootdisk,
> use it to make a boot floppy. See the man page for syntax.
> One warning though. On some newer computers, that boot floppy will
> take a very long time to start booting.
> Alternately you can copy the kernel to a floppy. Say your kernel
> is vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0. Then use
> cd /boot
> dd if=vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0 of=/dev/fd0
> Then tell the kernel on the floppy what your root partition is,
> say it is /dev/hda2
> rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda2
> That will also produce a boot floppy.
> Test your boot floppy and make some copies.
>
> Then run
> /sbin/lilo -u
> That should remove the lilo boot loader from your master boot
> record on the first disk. (That is what is going to the second
> disk to see what to do next.) If that doesn't work, boot from
> a DOS/Windows startup floppy, and run
> fdisk/mbr
> That will clear the MBR of lilo.
>
> All this assumes you put the lilo boot loader in the master
> boot record of the first disk, which sounds very likely from
> what you describe. Alternately, it could be in the first
> sector of some other partition on the first disk with that
> partition the active partition. In that case, you just
> use the linux fdisk to make the Windows partition the active
> partition.
> --
>
> Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Terry Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Export Filemaker DB to use in MySQL?
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 00:38:25 GMT
I haven't used MySQL before. But if it like most RDBMS, it can import comma
delimited text files. I would export the Filemaker Pro database in this
format, and then import it into MySQL. I hope this helps.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8fshkp$7u3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
> I have a client who has an existing Filemaker database and wants
> to integrate it into a web site. I'm inclined to use MySQL
> for the site, so I'd like to export the Filemaker database
> in MySQL-usable form. Can I do that? How?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joshua
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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