Linux-Misc Digest #76, Volume #25 Sat, 8 Jul 00 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Partition Magic & Boot Manager ("Jeff Malka")
Re: Question about ls (Rob Kroll)
Re: A good mail server for Linux ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ppp error ? (Ted)
Re: Routing problem for Internet access ("Marcm")
Re: Routing problem for Internet access ("Marcm")
Warning! -- SONY SUBSTANDARD SERVICE! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Starting a program at login or startup (David Efflandt)
Re: Question about ls (James Lee)
Re: Linux in China? (James Lee)
Re: X display garbled - SiS 5597/5598 - any fix? (William Adderholdt)
Re: Problem with compilation (Akira Yamanita)
Re: Problems with CD Writing with CDRDAO (Dances With Crows)
Re: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that? (Jason Brossa)
Re: Nothing is running, then what's it doing? (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: Writing to CD-RW (Alex Chudnovsky)
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From: "Jeff Malka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Magic & Boot Manager
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 16:28:01 -0400
I had exactly the same problem and conclusion. After restoring my FAT
partitions a number of times I used PM to partition the Linux partitions
where I wanted them and then just used Linux's install to format and fill
these partitions. Worked fine this way.
--
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jerry Lapham wrote:
> >
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/06/00
> > at 09:30 PM, P.T.Gowadia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > > BTW,do you know what error 117 is?
> >
> > According to the version 2.x manual:
> >
> > #117 Partition's drive letter cannot be identified
> >
> > Under OS/2, PartitionMagic must know the drive letter for each partition
> > before modifications can be made. A driver on your system may change
the
> > drive letters from their defaults; or your partitions may not have
serial
> > numbers.
> >
> > -Jerry
>
> Similar problems occur with Win98 too. The various partitioning programs
> such as disk druid and partition magic seem to operate slightly
> differently, and can produce partition mappings that are incompatible
> with each other. After stumbling over these kinds of errors, I came to
> the conclusion that the easy way of handling partitioning is to choose
> one program (I chose PM) and do all partitioning with it. Then changes
> later on are a much less troublesome.
>
> --
> My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Question about ls
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Kroll)
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:25:36 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tandem Guy) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Hello. I'm a pretty new linux user and I'm having trouble using the
>command ls. I would like to search the current directory (or some
>arbitrary directory for that matter) and ALL subdirectories located
>under it for the existence of a given file, but I can't make that
>happen. I created a test directory and then created a directory under
>it and a directory under that one, etc. I created five of these
>directories. In the first I craeted a file named zerodown, in the
>second I created a file named onedown, etc. I want to issue an ls
>command from the top directory which will list all of the *down* files,
>but I can't make that happen. I've read the man page for ls and it
>wasn't much help. the '-R' option seems promising, but it didn't do
>anything for me. I tried 'ls -lR *down*' but all that returned was
>zerodown, the file in the top directory. Anyway, any help would be
>greatly appreciated, as I know this is a simple thing which must have a
>simple solution, but I can't figure it out. On a related note, what
>exactly does '-R' do? Thanks in advance.
>
>Tandem Guy
>
-R means recursive. So in your case, go to the root directory, and type 'ls
-lR down", but you've probably got a few better ways of doing this....
A lot of others have suggested using find, but you should also check out
the locate command...
As root, type 'locate -u', and once that's done, type 'locate down' and it
will find any files with 'down' in their name. The locate -u only needs to
be done once.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: A good mail server for Linux ?
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 13:31:26 -0700
Thanks. We installed the trial version of CommuniGate and it works
just fine. It has everything we need plus much more and seems to be a
very mature products.
T.D.
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 10:04:26 -0300, Jim Chisholm
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are looking for a stable and simple mail server for Linux.
>>
>> It should have SMTP and POP3 builtin (that is, no need for Sendmail),
>> and a user data base that is independent of the users of the host. The
>> server should be stand alone and 'smart' such that it does not
>> requires a friendly SMTP server for mail distribution. We plan to use
>> it for 20-70 people so Scalabiltiy is not an issue. A price of up to
>> several hundreds $$$ is acceptable.
>>
>> Any recommendation will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tal
>
>Check out CommuniGate, I've been using the free trial version and it's
>just great.
>
>Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted)
Subject: ppp error ?
Date: 8 Jul 2000 20:58:06 GMT
Hi folks,
I have run ppp as root using Debian on a PIII. When I attempt to use
'pon' to connect, it instantly fails. I tailed /var/log/ppp.log and found
the following entries:
pppd[1518]: pppd2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
pppd[1518]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5)
pppd[1518]: Exit.
I am using a Lucent Winmodem but the driver is properly installed so that
it works with Linux, at least with minicom. Can anyone explain this
problem?
Thanks,
Ted Schuman
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From: "Marcm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Routing problem for Internet access
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 14:13:39 -0700
Excellent explanation. Thanks very much for your time. I still find routing
rather confusing ... it's starting to come together.
Mark M.
"Robie Basak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 07:55:49 -0700, Marcm said:
> >But why can't the NT box route through the Linux box onto the net, and
get
> >responses back from the net? Shouldn't you be able to do this just with a
> >static routing table entry or two? Why can't you send the request from NT
to
> >the Linux box, which then forwards it to the ISP and onto the net, then
> >replay all the way back to NT?
>
> OK. Let us say that your NT box is using the IP 172.17.10.100 on the
> internet, and your Linux box is 212.66.152.156 on the internet.
>
> Your NT box wishes to connect to www.yahoo.com (216.32.74.50, but
> there will be others; let's use this one for this example). It sends a
> TCP SYN packet (a single packet) with the headers in the packet
> including source as 172.17.10.100 and destination as 216.32.74.50.
>
> The NT box looks at it's routing tables. As it doesn't find anything
> that matches, it sends this packet to the Linux box, which is set as
> the default gateway.
>
> The Linux box has routing enabled, and forwards this over the
> internet unaltered. Let's now assume that the packet does, in fact,
> reach 216.32.74.50 (in reality, it should be dropped by your ISP's
> router if it is configured correctly with egress filtering).
>
> 216.32.74.50 replies with a SYN+ACK packet (I think, I don't have the
> TCP specs to hand :-)
>
> The source of this packet is 216.32.74.50, destination 172.17.10.100.
>
> Now, however, no routers on the internet know which way to send this
> packet - where is 172.17.10.100? What if a whole bunch of people
> decided to do their net access the same way; then you'd have multiple
> computers with the same IP address - then which way do these replies
> go to?
>
> (This is why your ISP's router should be set up to only permit packets
> coming in to the router from your line which match the IP addresses
> you have been assigned; unfortunately many do not)
>
> Basically, then, this means a computer which sends packets out into
> the internet _must not_ have private IPs; they may confuse routers
> and will not work. IP address _must_ be properly assigned to you if
> you use them on the internet at large (and it's a good idea to use
> 10/8, 172.16/12 or 192.168/16 only for private use anyway, just in
> case you want to connect later).
>
> See RFC 1918 at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html, or your
> favourite RFC archive for more information about this. An exerpt
> (relating to the use of already assigned IPs, not specifically private
> ones):
>
> For a variety of reasons the Internet has already encountered
> situations where an enterprise that has not been connected to
> the Internet had used IP address space for its hosts without
> getting this space assigned from the IANA. In some cases this
> address space had been already assigned to other enterprises.
> If such an enterprise would later connects to the Internet,
> this could potentially create very serious problems, as IP
> routing cannot provide correct operations in presence of
> ambiguous addressing. Although in principle Internet Service
> Providers should guard against such mistakes through the use
> of route filters, this does not always happen in practice.
> Using private address space provides a safe choice for such
> enterprises, avoiding clashes once outside connectivity is
> needed.
>
>
>
> IP Masquerading on the Linux box causes the kernel to modify the
> source of outgoing packets to the IP of the Linux box (216.32.74.50),
> and to remember that that packets corresponding to that particular
> connection should have the destination set back to 172.17.10.100 when
> the replies are sent.
>
> So, check out the IP Masquerading HOWTO at http://linuxdoc.org to set
> it up on your computer, or if you just want access to the web, install
> squid, available at http://www.squid-cache.org.
>
> Robie.
>
> >"Robie Basak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 05:09:17 -0700, Marcm said:
> >> >I have a Redhat 6.0 Linux box that I connect to my ISP via a 56K USR
> >> >external modem using "pppd" and "chat". This works great and provides
me
> >> >with an IP address. I can ping anywhere on the web, though I haven't
> >> >connected to my ISP's nameserver yet so I must always use IPaddresses.
> >> >
> >> >I have a second PC that is running NT Server 4.0 and is connected to
the
> >> >Linux box via a network card and hub. It can ping the Linux box. What
I
> >want
> >> >to do is have the NT box browse the web via the Linux box, (ie: pass
> >through
> >> >the Linux system to the internet). But my routing is not right.
> >> >
> >> >QUESTION: How do I set up routing to accomplish this?
> >> >
> >> >Here is the setup of my system:
> >> >
> >> >NT box: 172.17.10.100, mask 255.255.0.0, default gateway
172.17.10.116
> >> >Linux box: 172.17.10.116, mask 255.255.0.0, (default gateway
> >172.17.0.1???)
> >> >The default gateway of the Linux box was set up automatically when I
> >> >installed Redhat, but the default gateway of the Linux box shouldn't
> >matter
> >> >here, (should it?).
> >> >When I attach to the internet I am assigned address 216.66.152.156 on
the
> >> >PPP with a mask of 255.255.255.255.
> >> >
> >> >On the NT box I cannot ping anything on the net or the 216.66.152.156,
> >> >therefore I do the following "route add" command at the dos prompt:
> >> >
> >> >route add 216.66.152.0 mask 255.255.255.255 172.17.10.116
> >> >
> >> >After adding this route on the NT box I am then able to ping
216.66.152.0
> >as
> >> >well as 172.17.10.116. But I cannot ping any other address on
> >216.66.152.0
> >> >or the internet, (the ISP-assigned address is actually a Class 'C',
ie:
> >> >216.66.152.0 mask 255.255.255.0). At this point in my testing I am
> >pinging
> >> >the ISP over the PPP interface going out the modem on the Linux box
(from
> >NT
> >> >across my LAN) because I get a reply from 216.66.152.0, (am I right?).
> >> >
> >> >How can I get my NT box to ping anything on the net rather than just
the
> >> >single IP address of the ISP (ie: 216.66.152.156)?
> >>
> >> You can't have your NT box hanging around on the net with an IP of
> >> anything unless that IP has been assigned to you by your ISP (which, I
> >> assume, it hasn't).
> >>
> >> You can use IP Masquerading to have your Linux box dynamically switch
> >> around IP addresses so that NT appears to have Linux's IP when on the
> >> net - see the IP-Masquerading HOWTO at http://linuxdoc.org for
> >> information on how to set this up.
> >>
> >> However, if you just want web access, it is easier to install a proxy
> >> server like squid (http://www.squid-cache.org) on the Linux box, and
> >> set the NT web browser to use the Linux (ethernet) IP as the proxy.
> >>
> >> Robie.
> >> --
> >
> >
>
>
> --
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From: "Marcm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Routing problem for Internet access
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 14:14:17 -0700
Thanks ... I didn't know that.
Mark M.
"brian moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 07:55:49 -0700,
> Marcm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But why can't the NT box route through the Linux box onto the net, and
get
> > responses back from the net? Shouldn't you be able to do this just with
a
> > static routing table entry or two? Why can't you send the request from
NT to
> > the Linux box, which then forwards it to the ISP and onto the net, then
> > replay all the way back to NT?
>
> Because how is anyone in the world to know that '172.17.10.100' is your
> NT box and how to route the packets back to you?
>
> Now, if you ran ip masquerading on the Linux box, you could set it up
> like that, and when the Linux box got a packet from the NT machine, it
> would change the '172.17.10.100' into its own IP number and then send
> the packet out. When the response came back, it would change the IP
> number back to '172.17.10.100' and send it on to the NT box.
>
> --
> Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
> Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be
waiting
> Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
> Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Warning! -- SONY SUBSTANDARD SERVICE!
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 21:20:04 GMT
Anyone considering the purchase of a Sony peripheral for their computer
might want to give it some further thought. There clearly is not a
reciprocal relationship between what they sell and what they service.
-
I purchased a CD-RW drive back in April that just recently went bad
(won't read). When I called Sony service, I was told that I could not
get a replacement and that I had to ship it across the country to be
"repaired" (and we all know what that means...) - with a three (3) week
turnaround. Assuming that they keep their 3-week commitment, with
shipping both ways, I'd be without the use of the unit for at least
five weeks!!!
-
I hardly think that's reasonable or fair.
-
Compare this to HP, who under the same circumstances would simply ship
you out a replacement unit and issue a call-tag for the old one.
-
Sony is a behemoth in the marketplace and as such, they have an
obligation to scale their service facilities to meet demand. To not do
so is an indication of their lack of commitment to customer satisfaction
and an unwillingness to stand behind their products.
-
Buyer be ware!
-
-
-
-
/
/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Starting a program at login or startup
Date: 8 Jul 2000 21:23:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 08 Jul 2000 11:58:25 EDT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 19:45:34 +0800, Chew GH
><<8k73vr$fih$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>>Which files do I edit to start a certain program (for those who've heard of
>>it, it's Seti@home) that stays in the backgroud whenever a user, any user
>>logs in, without editing the $HOME/.profile files? The program should
>>preferably be executed with a specific user as the initiator of the program
>>since it writes files to the disk. A better arrangement is that the program
>>starts even before anyone logs in. How is this done?
>
>If you want to start a program at boot time, without the need for anyone
>to log in, the thing to do is to put a line in /sbin/init.d/boot.local
>(SuSE) or /etc/rc.d/rc.local (RedHat and derived.) If you want this
>program to run as a particular user, use the su command as well since the
>boot scripts run as root. I believe the line you want is:
>
>su -c '/path/to/setiathome' username
But before that do that, you need to be in that dir for setiathome to work
and might want to redirect output to nowhere (not sure if & is need at end
of line to fork):
# export PATH here if needed
cd /path/to/setiathome
su -c '/path/to/setiathome > /dev/null 2> /dev/null -nice 19' username
To check setiathome status from command line with a Perl script see
http://www.de-srv.com/linux/setinow.txt
--
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: James Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Question about ls
Date: 8 Jul 2000 21:32:37 GMT
Andrew Onifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> find . -name "*.zip"
> Without the quotes, the asterisk will get passed to the shell.
I normally use
find . -name \*.zip
one less keystroke. ;-)
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From: James Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux in China?
Date: 8 Jul 2000 21:33:33 GMT
MaryP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Front page headline in July 7, 2000 New York Times
> Fearing Control by Microsoft, China Backs the
> Linux System
> is this true? anybody in China want to comment?
> (parts of this article are very funny incidentally)
> (http://www.nytimes.com - but if you are reading
> this after 7/7/2000 it will be archived already)
this is actually old news. Red Flag Linux has been unveiled for quite a
while already. Search the archive in linuxtoday.com.
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Reply-To: William Adderholdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X display garbled - SiS 5597/5598 - any fix?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Adderholdt)
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 21:22:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Avinash Chopde; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a PC with onboard SiS display - using the 5597/5598 chips.
>
> According to Xfree86 3.3.6 documentation, this chips is supported
> by that release, but when I try anything, I get a screen with some
> graphics looking correct, but text is all sold black rectangles.
> The mouse also does not work - could not even make gpm work in
> linux shell mode.
>
> Before I give up on this and wipe out my Linux partitions and
> give them back to Windows - does anyone have anything else I can try?
> The mouse and display (in 16bit color, 1024x768 mode) does work
> in Windows 98, so it must just be a matter of driver support or absence
> of driver support in Linux...?
I have the same chipset, and I have had the same problem with the text.
This is a bug in XFree86, and it seems to have been introduced in the
3.3.4 version and still hasn't been fixed. The only workaround I have
found is to use a 3.3.3.x server until they fix the problem. I don't
know what version of Linux you are using, but in my case I just found
one of my Slackware 4.0 disks and grabbed XFree86 3.3.3.1 off of it.
William Adderholdt
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with compilation
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 21:57:45 GMT
Slip Gun wrote:
>
> > Have you run the ./configure script first?
>
> The program doesn't seem to come with a configuration script.
So what does the README or INSTALL file say on the procedure
of the installation?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Problems with CD Writing with CDRDAO
Date: 08 Jul 2000 17:58:43 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:40:28 +0200, Jeroen Kransen
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I want to write audio CDs without the 2 seconds gap. Now I saw that
>CDRDAO is made for this. I grabbed the audio tracks, and created a
>toc-file. When I do a 'cdrdao simulate toc-file' it says
>
>'ERROR: Initialization of SCSI library failed: Bad file descriptor'
>
>Now I know something of file descriptors in C programs, but what am I
>doing wrong here?
Is cdrdao SUID root, and is its default device for writing pointing at the
right place? (often /dev/sg0, YCDRMV, check with cdrecord -scanbus.)
Also, if cdrecord is working, why not try "cdrecord -dao" instead? Works
for me; see cdrecord's man page for more info.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: Jason Brossa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that?
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 22:02:02 GMT
You can use a Network Attached Storage unit
which would probably make it alot easier just
mount the nat via nfs and use the same mount point
for both machines
Another option is you can have a raid
in one machine and mount it from the
other via nfs
Jason
Bert wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need to set up a mail /web server at where I'm working, and after
> thinking about it for a while, I thought it better to have a fault
> tolerant set up. I sort of managed to determine what bits & pieces I'd
> required... but putting it together is entirely another matter!!
>
> I'd appreciate any help, pointers, advice, resources anyone could point
> me towards.
>
> The basic stuff are:
> 2 linux boxes, built-in dual channel SCSI RAID
> 1 load balancer
> 1 external RAID
> RH Linux 6.2
> (Mix well....ugghh)
>
> What i need to do is to have the 2 Linux boxes to be identical, these 2
> boxes access 1 set of data on the external raid. ie, there should be
> only 1 set of mail app, mailboxes etc.
>
> So these 2 boxes need to have their own OS? Can they share data?
>
> A load balancer will determine which box gets the job etc. for a fault
> tolerant setup.
>
> How can I put everything together? Are there any extra special bits that
> I require?
>
> Is there a better way of doing this? ie, sharing data on 1 RAID
> subsystem is a no-no?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!!
>
> Bert
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nothing is running, then what's it doing?
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:41:04 +0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have Red Hat 6.2 installed and have been using it for a month or so.
> One thing I noticed is that after shutting down all my running programs
> (according to Gnome's tasklist) the hard drive still access every few
> seconds for hours and hours. I thought I shut everything down, but
> something is still accessing the hard drive.
>
> How can I find out what program is doing this? The system should just be
> totally idle when not in use, right?
Yes - when it is powered down or in a suspend state. Otherwise there are
plenty of processes running. There are several points to consider :
- Gnome's tasklist shows only processes that represent some graphic
applications for X Window System. There are also console
programs/daemons/etc.
- If you see Gnome's tasklist, it means that at least :
- Gnome is running;
- X Window system is running
and so on and so on. That comes to several dozens of programs unseen
but nevertheless working.
Each one of those programs running has its full rights to access your disk
- that is what the disk is for.
To know which program accesses the disk - try to open some terminal and run
the 'top' command. Look at the CPU usage column - not close to disk, but
may help. And try to read some good book on UNIX.
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Writing to CD-RW
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:29:15 +0300
Adventure wrote:
> "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> > You will be able to use them, as the other posters already mentioned,
> > but you cannot use the UDF filesystem yet as far as I know. So if you
> > don't care to make an iso9660 FS on the CD-RW's you're OK. There is read
> > support for the UDF filesystem, but for writing there's no support yet.
> Sorry I'm not too familiar with the standard names... but is the UDF
> filesystem similar to the Adaptec DirectCD format available for
Windows/Mac?
>
>
>
As far as I remember, it is not only similar, it is the same. DirectCD uses
UDF.
Regards,
Alex Chudnovsky,
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ : 35559910
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