Linux-Misc Digest #666, Volume #24 Wed, 31 May 00 15:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (JEDIDIAH)
loaded machine: all network ports in use
****Help Me Help Me****(a linux question) (N/A)
Re: ide-scsi - How ignore IDE Zip drive? (JEDIDIAH)
Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? (Bill Vermillion)
Re: Remove strange -M file? (James Silverton)
Re: Matlab or MathCad Like Programs (James Silverton)
Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true???? (Sak Wathanasin)
Re: Remove strange -M file? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Kernel Building Question (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Random letters all over my screen ("Jeffrey Tubes")
using chmod -R on directories only (Peter Bismuti)
Re: Clustering sparcs? "Pirahna?" (Dan)
Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux (Yarick Rastrigin)
I keep seeing a "sleep 10" in the running processes. How can I make it stop or find
what is calling it? ("Alex")
other fonts for consolechars ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mounting ide-scsi device (Duane)
Clock Synchronization problem... ("Jonathan")
GNUware 1.7.0 now available (Kerry Cox)
Re: PS Editor? (Andreas Kahari)
Re: I keep seeing a "sleep 10" in the running processes. How can I make ("Gregory
G. Woodbury")
Re: using chmod -R on directories only (Johan Kullstam)
Re: *.doc viewer? (Andreas Kahari)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
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: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:10:59 GMT
On Wed, 31 May 2000 15:59:59 GMT, David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH) writes:
>
>' >A database is the only way to really solve this problem with any
>' >speed. Sure, you could find(1) all executables and ldd them to see
>' >which libraries they use, but what a waste of time. It won't even
>'
>' No it isn't. Such a practice would tell you what is ACTUALLY
>' on the system rather than what has been made known to the debian
>' or rpm databases.
>
>I use updatedb and locate rather a lot. Updatedb is run from
>cron.daily ( I think ). It doesn't seem like such a stretch to then
>do a file command on each entry in the locate database to see if it is
>an elf and if so what it ldds.
>
>Seems like something a sh script can do.
Certainly. Just rebuild the db at 3am when the system is idle
and the end user is asleep...
I was also thinking that this could be added to the filesystem
in some way. Applications could create a sort of hard link to
any file that was dependent on. Of course that 'hard link' would
go away with the file that owned it. This could serve as a reference
counter exposed to the OS at the lowest level possible.
--
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a document? --Les Mikesell / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: loaded machine: all network ports in use
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:30:07 GMT
Our server was particularly loaded this morning and telnet users began to
get the message:
telnetd: all network ports in use
I first suspected we were bumping against the 256 pty threshold, but we
only had about 194 users on when the message began appearing.
1) what else might trigger this message?
2) i identified several stale files in /dev/pts. is it okay to remove
them? will that free up the pty?
Thanks,
Carrie Coy
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From: N/A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ****Help Me Help Me****(a linux question)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:30:09 GMT
when i go to enter linux by typing the command "StartX" i get things
about 'a server kill or something' nevertheless it doesnt let me just
enter into the linux desktop like i would like, what could be the problem
or do i need to be a little more detailed about my problem.........any
possible solutions would be helpful.............DKWII.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: ide-scsi - How ignore IDE Zip drive?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:43:36 GMT
On Tue, 30 May 2000 00:28:19 +0200, Ruediger Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article ide-scsi - How ignore IDE Zip drive?,
> Ken Pratt writes:
>>
>> I have an IDE CDRW and am using the ide-scsi kernel module so that the
>> cdrecord command can access the CDRW (using the SCSI interface) and
>> "burn" CD's. This works well. However, the ide-scsi module also grabs
>> my IDE zip drive. I do not want this because the SCSI translation
>> provided by the ide-scsi module does not support the eject function. Is
>> there a way to get the ide-scsi module to ignore my IDE zip drive short
>> of changing the source code and recompiling?
>>
>
>Hello.
>
>I don't know how you tell the kernel to use the ide-scsi-driver for your
>cdrw-drive. I use a simple kernel boot-option: 'hdd=ide-scsi'
modprobe ide-cd ignore=hdd
modprobe ide-scsi
Make sure whatever module is responsible for your IDE Zip
functionality is loaded before you start ide-scsi. ide-scsi
will do emulation for any ide device that has not already
been snarfed up by another driver.
Are you sure that ide-scsi doesn't support eject?
cdrecord ejects just fine.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:24:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Schanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Grant Edwards wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GENE wrote:
>> >As one who spent a lot of lab time with SparcStation 10, 20, and various
>> >Ultra machines, let me caution you about old hardware. You may find it hard
>> >to fix, and Sun CE's don't come cheap. In the Sparc 10 era, for example, the
>> >frame buffers were as slow as DOGs. They had some boards for the S-bus
>> In the bang-for-your buck department, an old P120 with 64M of RAM, a $100
>> PCI graphics board, and a decent SCSI disk system will really surprise you.
>A friend of mine used a P66 with 96 megs of edo ram and only scsi-2
>drives, it outperformed a Cyrix 233 w/ a 64 meg dimm for compiling
>nearly the same size Linux kernel.
Well it should. The Cyrix chips are really enhance '386 or '486
architectures. At identical clock speeds the Pentium (P5
architeture) typically ran twice as fast as an indentically clocked
'486. P5 (or even better P6) stuff really will outperform many
'clone' chips designed to work well with MS 'stuff'.
--
Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com
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From: James Silverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Remove strange -M file?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 12:54:37 -0500
Paul Kimoto wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Silverton wrote:
> > Following "Unix Power Tools", you can sometimes find a wild card to do
> > the removal
>
> What can they have in mind? If you have a file called "-M", then the
> shell will expand
> $ rm *
> to something like
> $ rm -M [and other files]
> and rm(1) will interpret "-M" as a flag.
>
> Some people used to put a file called "-i" in directories, so that
> $ rm *
> would expand to
> $ rm -i [list of files]
>
> Of course, a file called "-f" would have the opposite (destructive)
> effect ...
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Have you actually tried rm *.
This is what I get under bash:
james@hhl:~ > ls -i
1058878 -M 1058870 finger
1058873 Check.kdelnk 1058882 foop
960530 Desktop 1058872 james@hhl:~
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Deletions; there's more than just
these>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
james@hhl:~ > rm *
rm: invalid option -- M
Try `rm --help' for more information.
Even if it did work, I would only use rm -i and that would be more than
tedious in a large directory.
Best wishes,
Jim.
--
James V. Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
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From: James Silverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matlab or MathCad Like Programs
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:06:14 -0400
Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
> Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Anyone here knows of a MatLab or MathCad like program
> > which will work in Linux?. Thanks.
> >
> > Jon
>
> There is also scilab, with which I have played little but not much,
> looks similar to matlab, but at least the graphic is not as good as
> the one from Matlab.
>
> Uwe Brauer
I have used Mathematica and I like it immensely. However, since I am
neither a student nor a teacher, I cannot afford to buy it for myself.
Jim.
--
James V. Silverton
Potomac, Maryland.
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Subject: Re: Sun Sparc faster then intel pentium: is this true????
From: Sak Wathanasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:21:03 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JEDIDIAH
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My employer's older P6 SCSI based workstations with SCSI disks
> ~ 2-4 years old still manage to outperform newer systems running
> UDMA/66 disks running on machines with more RAM and faster CPU's.
Define "outperform" (as in: "let's see some numbers"). Also are you
sure you have UDMA support enabled? It isn't by default unless you're
running 2.3-pre99 or later. Eg
hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 13.61 seconds = 4.70 MB/sec
But after I do
hdparm -c1 -u1 -d1 -m16 /dev/hda (*)
I get
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.62 seconds =13.85 MB/sec
And this is on a cheapo 8GB 5400 RPM Seagate Medallist.
(*) Warning: read the man page for hdparm and test in single-user mode
- some of the args may not be appropriate for your disk and can have an
adverse effect.
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Network Analysis Limited
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Remove strange -M file?
Date: 31 May 2000 13:13:09 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Silverton wrote:
> Have you actually tried rm *.
Okay:
: autolycus[0,361]: rm *
: zsh: sure you want to delete all the files in /home/autolycus/kimoto [yn]?
> This is what I get under bash:
>
> james@hhl:~ > ls -i
> 1058878 -M 1058870 finger
> 1058873 Check.kdelnk 1058882 foop
> 960530 Desktop 1058872 james@hhl:~
>
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<Deletions; there's more than just
> these>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> james@hhl:~ > rm *
> rm: invalid option -- M
> Try `rm --help' for more information.
What I meant to emphasize was that using "*" will not help you delete the
file "-M" because rm(1) will interpret "-M" as a flag. That's all.
One foolproof way to do that is to call the file by a pathname like "./-M".
(The "rm -- -M" method won't work on some very old shells found on other
unixy systems.)
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel Building Question
Date: 31 May 2000 13:17:49 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Several newsgroups snipped.]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Walter L. Williams wrote:
[Please do not post this text/HTML hybrid. Once--in text--is correct for
Usenet.]
> --------------97F106EC0280FC12D4D72473
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Mounting /dev/pts.modprobe : modprobe ; can't locate module devpts
> mount : fs type devpts not supported by kernel
>
> Now I looked and looked for any reference to a devpts in my
> kernel setup, especially the "file system" part and have come
> up empty. I have tried different thing in the kernel setup and
> get the same results.
Documentation/Configure.help (in the kernel source code) says:
: /dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs
: CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS
: You should say Y here if you said Y to "Unix98 PTY support" above.
: You'll then get a virtual file system which can be mounted on
: /dev/pts with "mount -t devpts". This, together with the pseudo
: terminal master multiplexer /dev/ptmx, is used for pseudo terminal
: support as described in The Open Group's Unix98 standard: in order
: to acquire a pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number
: of the pseudo terminal is then made available to the process and the
: pseudo terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/<number>. What was
: traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be /dev/pts/2, for example.
:
: The GNU C library glibc 2.1 contains the requisite support for this
: mode of operation; you also need client programs that use the Unix98
: API. Please read Documentation/Changes for more information about
: the Unix98 pty devices.
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> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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From: "Jeffrey Tubes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Random letters all over my screen
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 12:51:13 -0500
Actually, I couldn't get my ATI 128 Pro to work at all in 3.3.6 and install
4.0 and it worked on the first try. It was great.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8h38o6$agm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> This is a problem I've had for a few weeks.
>
> I think it first came about when I installed the 0.16 release of
> Enlightenment.
>
> The problem occurs when I'm scrolling up or down a window. Randomly a
> line will vanish from the window I'm scrolling in and then appear
> somewhere on the screen.
>
> I hoped the problem would go when I upgraded to RH6.2 and GNOME1.2 but
> the problem still seems to be there.
>
> I'm using SAWFISH at the moment not enlightenment and my graphics card
> is if I remember correctly an ATI RAGE 3D.
>
> I assume the problem is with XFree86, but has anyone seen anything
> similar?
>
> Duncan
>
> p.s The reason I haven't just upgraded to XFree86 4.0 is it was a bit of
> a hassle getting the graphics card to work in the first place. I
> therefore don't want to go through all that if I can avoid it.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: using chmod -R on directories only
Date: 31 May 2000 17:43:33 GMT
How can I use chmod -R and specify either directories only or
files only? I just the mistake (again) of executing a
chmod -R 644 and changed all the directories as well by mistake..
THanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan)
Subject: Re: Clustering sparcs? "Pirahna?"
Date: 31 May 2000 17:59:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prasanth A. Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "G. Fenstermacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I've got myself a stack of old sparcstations (two 10's, two IPX's), that I
> > figure would be a worthwhile timekiller project to cluster together. I'm not
> > even sure if beowulf will work under non-i386, but someone tells me there's
> > a simpler clustering system called "pirahna." However, I've been able to
> > turn up nothing on it. Anyone?
>
> What kind of clustering are you trying to do? Is it computational or
> redundancy? I think pirahna is for redundancy. The program is written
> by Redhat and can be found in any of their distributions. As to the
> former, I would suggest Beowulf for computational clustering. But let
> me warn you that much of this is do-it-yourself... Having a cluster
> doesn't mean much unless the program is written to make the best use
> of it.
Has anyone here worked with *both* Red Hat Piranha and TurboLinux
TurboCluster Server? I've used Red Hat since 4.2, but haven't
used Piranha; I've been using TLTCS since it was in alpha-test
(at which time I don't believe Piranha was even vaporware). :) See
http://dbirchall.epinions.com/cmd-review-2C1D-F7A1FA-38C05A81-prod8
for my thoughts on TLTCS.
I'd be interested in reading any comparison of the two products
(Piranha and TCS). I know TCS relies on a modified kernel; does
Red Hat's kernel now include similar modifications that sit idly
unless Piranha is used? I know it's possible to run TCS on a
standalone system without clustering in use, so I could see Red
Hat doing something similar.
-Dan
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From: Yarick Rastrigin <[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: Re: Need ideas for university funded project for linux
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 21:52:40 +0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello !
> >
> >Seems like something a sh script can do.
>
> Certainly. Just rebuild the db at 3am when the system is idle
> and the end user is asleep...
I for myself always hate this behavior. It's not uncommon in our company
to work through
the night, and updatedb slowing things down usually in the middle of
hard debugging session
pisses me off. And when it runs throuhg network mounts with 20 to 100
Gb's SMB-mounted disks
all across our local network - it's waay too long to complete, so it's
better to
killall find. Or servers, running database speed test (1 million of
insert/select) show strange and different results, especially if all
session uses 10-12 hours - depending of when it was started...
>
> I was also thinking that this could be added to the filesystem
> in some way. Applications could create a sort of hard link to
Certainly, could be. I think some unused bits in filedescriptor could
hold at least major
info about filetype. But it would add an unneeded complicacy to fsck ,
and in case of
fs corruption this could create a mess.
> any file that was dependent on. Of course that 'hard link' would
> go away with the file that owned it. This could serve as a reference
> counter exposed to the OS at the lowest level possible.
>
> --
>
> In what language does 'open' mean 'execute the evil contents of' |||
> a document? --Les Mikesell / | \
>
> Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I keep seeing a "sleep 10" in the running processes. How can I make it stop
or find what is calling it?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:06:24 -0700
Hello.
OS = RH 5.2.
Problem: When I do a list of the processes, I keep seeing a sleep 10
running.
Info: It is suppose to die after 10 seconds, but another keeps running.
Basically, a new sleep process runs after the previous one closes. The PID
are different for each. None of them last 10 seconds, and don't seem to
have a specific duration of live time. I thought the 10 represented ten
seconds.
Question: How can I make this continuous calling of sleep stop, or is it
suppose to be this way? How can I find out what is calling the sleep?
Sincerely,
Alex.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: other fonts for consolechars
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:14:28 GMT
Hi,
I would like to use with consolechars other fonts than the default
ones that come with my distribution.
Where can I find them?There is a site about this things?
I am interested in bigger than default fonts.
Thanks
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting ide-scsi device
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:28:30 -0700
John wrote:
>
> On Wed, 31 May 2000 07:43:31 +0930, PoD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Flemming Bjerke wrote:
> >>
> >> John wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am trying to mount my ide CD-RW. X-Roast is able to use it through
> >> > mkisofs and cdrecord. When I type mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom it gives
> >> > me the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe
> >> > 'insmod driver'?)
> >> >
> >> > I have scsi emulation support enabled under block devices in kernel
> >> > configuation and ide/atapi cdrom support disable (this is for X-Roast)
> >> >
> >> > Under Scsi support I have enabled :
> >> > SCSI support, SCSI disk, SCSI CD-ROM support, vendor-specific
> >> > extensions, SCSI generic support.
> >> >
> >> > Under filesystems I have sio 9660 support as a module.
> >> >
> >> > There was another method I tried and got wrong major or minor number
> >> >
> >> > How do i mount my CD-RW.
> >> >
> >> > Thank you
> >>
> >> I am about solve similar problems, but I suceeded mounting a CD in the
> >> CD-RW, after having insmod the module for my SCSI controller. This is
> >> quite easy: You find the module in: /lib/modules/2.214-5.0/scsi/
> >> (depending on Your kernel no.). If there is a module corresponding to
> >> Your SCSI controller, You can just
> >> insmod <your controller module>
> >> Then You can mount Your CD-RW, if it is one which is supported by Linux.
> >> But, You have to do this each time You boot. I don't know if You have
> >> tried this. It must be a way finding out whether You can mount Your
> >> CD-RW. I have not yet tried to integrate this module in functioning of
> >> the kernel, but if You can do it by insmod, it should be possible to
> >> integrate it in the kernel functioning. Alternatively, it You can make a
> >> small script with insmod and make a call when booting (not very elegant).
> >>
> >> Flemming
> >
> >I got it to load the needed modules by lsmod after trying to mount the
> >CD to find what was being loaded.
> >Then putting an entry in /lib/modules/2.2.15/modules.dep to make one of
> >these modules depend on one of the others which was not being
> >automatically loaded.
> >
> >PoD.
>
> Thank you for your reply;
>
> The problem is that I don't know what modules to install. I have
> taken you suggestion and did a lsmod and found that no scsi drivers
> where installed on boot. I then insmod ide-scsi.o and tried to mount
> it, no success. Then I insmod sg.o and that didn't work either.
> When I type mount /dev/sg0 /mnt/cdrom I get :
> mount: /dev/sga is not a block device.
>
> When I type mount -t iso9660 /dev/sg0 /mnt/cdrom I get:
> mount: /dev/sg0 has wrong major or minor number
>
> Please help.
I am a little puzzled by a couple of things. "insmod ide-scsi.o" worked
for you? I even tried this on my system and it doesn't work for me.
Normally, those commands would be:
insmod ide-scsi
insmod sg
Also, rather than issue those commands, have you tried putting this into
your /etc/conf.modules:
options ide-cd ignore=hdc <- assuming your CD is hdc
alias scd0 sg
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
Reboot, and then try "cdrecord -scanbus" and see what it says.
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From: "Jonathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Clock Synchronization problem...
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 02:28:14 +0800
Hi,
Does anyone have the experience in using the API adjtimex()
to adjust the kernel time of the machine running Linux ?
Recently, I am studying in the "clock synchronization of the linux
clusters" area,
and have implemented some algorithms to synch. the clocks between
some machines
running linux OS.
Any suggestion or Info. is appreciated.
Thanks,
Jonathan Chen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: PS Editor?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:17:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Juho Snellman wrote:
> > pstoedit can convert most PostScript files into formats editable
> > with most of the vector drawing packages available on Linux.
> > You can then edit the output in (for example) Xfig or Sketch,
> > and export back to PostScript.
>
> Where one can found "pstoedit" for Linux ?
>
> Thanks,
> Q.
>
DEB-file (for Debian):
http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/graphics/pstoedit.html
Official home page?:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/1958/pstoedit/
Use the search engine of your choice.
/A
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From: "Gregory G. Woodbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I keep seeing a "sleep 10" in the running processes. How can I make
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 14:31:23 -0400
Alex wrote:
>
> Hello.
> OS = RH 5.2.
>
> Problem: When I do a list of the processes, I keep seeing a sleep 10
> running.
> Question: How can I make this continuous calling of sleep stop, or is it
> suppose to be this way? How can I find out what is calling the sleep?
The command
ps afx
will show the tree of relationships for processes, and the sleep will be shown
below the processes that spawned it. AFAIK there aren't supposed to be any
standard processes that keep a sleep 10 going. There may be some startup process
that is not getting started right doing it.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: using chmod -R on directories only
Date: 31 May 2000 14:44:41 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) writes:
> How can I use chmod -R and specify either directories only or
> files only? I just the mistake (again) of executing a
> chmod -R 644 and changed all the directories as well by mistake..
for this, don't use chmod -R use find.
to change only regular files use
find <dir> -type f -exec chmod 644 {}\;
btw -type d is directories only.
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: *.doc viewer?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:42:18 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jan Houtsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there something like a micro$oft.doc viewer for linux?
> I receive lots of mails with .doc attachments and dont wanna
> run staroffice or so because they are beasts!
>
> I know that at work we have some commercial program that starts
> whenever i click in netscapemail on .doc, excell and ppt files.
>
> Thanks,
> jan
>
strings stupid.doc | less
/A
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