Linux-Misc Digest #93, Volume #25 Mon, 10 Jul 00 03:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: REPOST: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that?
("Michael Westerman")
Re: kernel 2.2.16 questions ("Horst Simon")
Re: Writing to CD-RW (Christopher Wong)
Re: fonts problem in Netscape (Jim Jerzycke)
Netscape & DVI, How to get it to work (Robert Love)
Re: Linux wont boot (Leonard Evens)
Re: fonts problem in Netscape (Mike Frisch)
sdc : READ CAPACITY failed (Krzys Majewski)
Re: Web Browser ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: setup (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Re: backup and sync utilities (Homer Jay)
Re: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed (B'ichela)
Can't get darn printer to work! (Jimi Aleshin)
Re: Ethertap Devices (Tim Godfrey)
Re: Java JDK Install Question ("miles zarathustra")
Re: Add pictures to LyX (J Bland)
Re: why make clean before making kernel? (J Bland)
Re: Web Browser ("miles zarathustra")
Re: Web Browser (Valentin Guillen)
Compressing filesystem (Michael Greulich)
Re: sbrk(0) on Linux? (Rico Tudor)
wu-ftpd authentication problem (Jack)
Re: @home port scanning (David Steuber)
Application required - Word Processor ("Barns")
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: REPOST: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:20:53 +1000
Turbo cluster from turbolinux
is a linux distribution that handles clustering though it costs.
Doug Holtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:39669a16$0$56835$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Bert;
>
> You need assistance. Linux is not a clustering solution. A RAID 5
> controller manages a set of 3 disks or more, not 2 servers. I'd suggest
> finding a local reputable network consulting service.
>
> Doug
> Bert [reposted because of HipClone cancel] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> message news:0$-_%%_%_$---$_%[email protected]...
> > Hi!
> >
> > I need to set up a mail /web server at where I'm working, and after
> > thinking about it for a while, I thought it better to have a fault
> > tolerant set up. I sort of managed to determine what bits & pieces I'd
> > required... but putting it together is entirely another matter!!
> >
> > I'd appreciate any help, pointers, advice, resources anyone could point
> > me towards.
> >
> > The basic stuff are:
> > 2 linux boxes, built-in dual channel SCSI RAID
> > 1 load balancer
> > 1 external RAID
> > RH Linux 6.2
> > (Mix well....ugghh)
> >
> > What i need to do is to have the 2 Linux boxes to be identical, these 2
> > boxes access 1 set of data on the external raid. ie, there should be
> > only 1 set of mail app, mailboxes etc.
> >
> > So these 2 boxes need to have their own OS? Can they share data?
> >
> > A load balancer will determine which box gets the job etc. for a fault
> > tolerant setup.
> >
> > How can I put everything together? Are there any extra special bits that
> > I require?
> >
> > Is there a better way of doing this? ie, sharing data on 1 RAID
> > subsystem is a no-no?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help!!
> >
> >
> >
> > Bert
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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From: "Horst Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.16 questions
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:19:12 +1000
I have RAID 0 and after upgrading to kernel 2.2.16 it will no more
recognize the the raid drives it fail with VFS eerrors. I tried to
recreate the raid 0 array, but when i did mke2fs it hung on
creating the inodes. After reverting back to kernel 2.2.15 all was
ok. Anyoneexperience the same problems and is there a fix/patch
available?
regards,
Horst Simon
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2000 21:23:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Fox) wrote:
>
>>In <8jdp7l$uie$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I
>>would do, go into your old kernel, make menuconfig. From there, go to
>>the bottom, save out your kernel config as a file somewhere accessible
>>to all kernels like /usr/src/ Now go into the new kernel tree, make
>>menuconfig, and read in this kernel config file. Done. I'm sure someone
>>else will have a better simpler faster way.
>
> I always copy the .config file from the old kernel tree to the new one,
> cd into the new tree and run make oldconfig this asks you every new
> kernel option to be set. Then I run make menuconfig or make xconfig to
> check the configuration. this works fine for me. I just upgraded to
> 2.2.16, no probs.
>
> --
> Eggert Ehmke Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Wong)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Writing to CD-RW
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 04:26:37 GMT
On 8 Jul 2000 14:09:12 GMT, Robie Basak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:09:40 -0700, Joachim Feise said:
>>Sure you can do incremental writing, i.e., multi-session. cdrecord
>>supports that just fine.
>
>In fact, packet writing support is currently in development - see
>http://www.kernel.dk
The current version of cdrecord has a switch for packet writing
(labelled "experimental"). Anyone knows how to use that? I know this is
not the UDF file system. The trouble with multi-session writes is that
there is a great deal of overhead: you can only add some 40-odd sessions
before filling up the CD. That is not a lot of files.
Chris
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fonts problem in Netscape
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 04:35:27 +0000
Thanks......I actually DID manage to find it buried in one of the other
FONT- HOW-TO's, but the links you gave me had more info.
BTW.....Netscape looks nice now, and I can scale the fonts. It wouldn't
do that before!
Jim
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From: Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape & DVI, How to get it to work
Date: 08 Jul 2000 19:39:47 -0500
I'm running netscape 4.72 on RH 6.2 Intel. Kinda works. What is
killing me is trying to view teTeX documentation. I browse the
toplevel index.html file just fine. When I click on a link to a
dvi file I get an error. I have the application preference set
to:
/usr/bin/xdvi %s
for the entry "TeX DVI data". The error that pops up is:
xdvi.bin: Could not create temporary directory. Exiting.
I'm not sure where it is attempting to create a temp directory.
Certainly it can work in /tmp. The documents are located in
/usr/share/texmf/doc. I've tried to set the permissions there
so a directory can be created. Is it trying in my $HOME area?
All advice appreciated.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux wont boot
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 23:23:29 -0500
JLH wrote:
>
> I have just installed TurboLinux Workstation 6.0 on the 2nd partition of my
> Western Digital 20Gig drive. I had the setup program install LILO on the
> MBR.
> when setup rebooted the computer, there was no sign of LILO and windows
> loaded.
> I tried XOSL and it wont boot linux either. If you can help me out I would
> really appreciate it.
Did you install lilo in the MBR of the first disk if you have
two?
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Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: fonts problem in Netscape
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 05:04:10 GMT
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 04:35:27 +0000, Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks......I actually DID manage to find it buried in one of the other
>FONT- HOW-TO's, but the links you gave me had more info.
Which document is it that you're referring to?
>BTW.....Netscape looks nice now, and I can scale the fonts. It wouldn't
>do that before!
Care to share your /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/Netscape or .Xresources
file? I've been fooling with this all night and about the only thing I've
been able to do is change the fonts of the menu, url bar, and personal
toolbar to be something more bearable. I still have _tiny_ fonts when
displaying cnn.com, for instance (yes, I did make the 100dpi changes in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape as well as in the font server).
Much thanks,
Mike.
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed
Date: 10 Jul 2000 05:06:25 GMT
OK, I can read and write ZIP100 disks now, but when I do a
fdisk /dev/sdc
I get the following errors. Has anyone seen this before, or can
you suggest where to start debugging? -chris
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: SCSI error: host 1 id 6 lun 0 return code =
27010000
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended sense 0
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc : status = 0, message = 00, host = 1, driver =
27
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc : sense not available.
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size
1GB.
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: unable to read partition table
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: SCSI error: host 1 id 6 lun 0 return code =
27010000
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended sense 0
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc : status = 0, message = 00, host = 1, driver =
27
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc : sense not available.
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size
1GB.
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: unable to read partition table
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Web Browser
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:54:36 -0700
On or about Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:21:47 -0400, eliot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scrivened:
> Ok..this is my opinion - so nobody take it to extremes -
> Does enayone know where I can get a GOOD web browser for Linux?
> As much as I dislike Windows, Internet Explorer was the best web browser
> around.. I don't like Netscape. I've tried several others, and I've had no
> success in getting Mosaic to run at all..
> If anyone has any links to GOOD web browsers for Linux I'd appreciate them.
> fyi - I'm running Redhat 6.2 (2.2.14 kernel) and X, KDE
Poke around at Freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net/, an online index of
(mostly) Linux apps. In the AppIndex under Console/Web Browser and
Web/Applications, you'll find a number of text-based and graphical
browsers.
I tend to use (preference ranking, scale 1-10, 5 is a usable product):
o 7.0 Netscape 4.72: bloated, buggy, crashes, but supports most
current site features, has decent UI, and supports fonts. I find it
absolutely essential to disable Java and Javascript. I also browse
through a Junkbuster proxy (applies to all following browsers) and
Vasile's Gif Animation Toggle, which stops animated gifs from
cycling (search for it on Google).
o 6.5 w3m: text-mode browser -- supports frames, tables, and other
advanced features. No Java, Javascript, or SSL support (AFAIK), the
last is the only one I miss significantly. Can render large complex
displays slowly due to rendering requirements. links is a similarly
featured browser.
o 6.0 lynx: text-mode browser -- similar to w3m but lacking
frame / table support. Can render complex pages more rapidly --
mostly by ingnoring most of the layout.
o 5.5 Mozilla: stability is rapidly improving, performance is a
bit slow (I've been meaning to build it w/o debug support, should
be faster), and a number of UI features are still somewhat annoying:
mouse button mappings, URL drag'n'drop, inability to configure
TT font support, ability to kill gif animations. I think it's going
to be good, but not there quite yet.
o 5.5 kfm: The KDE File Manager is actually a pretty decent web browser.
Somewhat feature-poor, but lightweight. Manages some pages that
confuse Netscape. Since you're already running KDE, you might give
it a shot. It has some nice privacy/security features for managing
Gifs and Cookies.
o 5.5 Netscape versions 3.02 - 4.05: Old gold. While lacking some modern
browser features, the earlier versions of the Netscape browser were
lighter, faster, and more stable than most of the more recent 4.x
series. Plus they give that nostalgic edge. You can download them
from the Netscape site somewhere, poke around.
o 5.0 StarOffice 5.1: StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig. However it's a
reasonably good office suite (I hate office suites), despite an
incredibly annoying all-in-one design. The web browser is pretty
good.
o 2.0 telnet port 80. 'nuf said. Useful for finding out what's wrong
with an absolutely broken site.
o 1.0 Opera pre-alpha, can't say I like it. Very unstable. I'm also
unfamiliar with the Opera interface, and find it non-intuitive.
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Subject: Re: setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 05:26:15 GMT
Steven Boogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i'm new to linux and i want to install 2 things: vmware and staroffice, i
> have unzipped it and when i want to open setup, my computer doesn't react
> please help, thanks
You have opened what? It may refer to both apps.
How are you calling setup?
One way to try is to got to the directory where you installed and
issue:
./setup
That would help I think.
For VMWare the setup file is called something else. I believe there is
a readme file in the archive? Check it out.
M.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Homer Jay)
Subject: Re: backup and sync utilities
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 22:50:39 -0600
On 10 Jul 2000 10:25:20 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking for an utility which can do file backup and files synchronisation between
>two directories or two disks.
>Any recommendation ? Utility which can support command line execution with options
>are preferred.
I use GNU tar, but if you want true mirroring instead of a backup you could
try out some kind of RAID mirroring scheme. However, tar with the
``--listed-incremental'' option is a good choice for simple backup schemes.
See ``info tar''; it's long, but informative.
Homer Jay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 01:36:32 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10 Jul 2000 05:06:25 GMT, Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>OK, I can read and write ZIP100 disks now, but when I do a
>fdisk /dev/sdc
>I get the following errors. Has anyone seen this before, or can
>you suggest where to start debugging? -chris
>Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: SCSI error: host 1 id 6 lun 0 return code =
>27010000
>Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended sense 0
>Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
>Jul 9 22:01:24 cr275960-a kernel: sdc : status = 0, message = 00, host = 1, driver =
>27
Oh yes! I get them on my Bernoulli Box drives all of the time!
Plop a zip disk into the drive before booting. then you won't see the
errors. You can still put a disk in after the error message. The
reason you see this is simple. The media has the track/sector and
partition info on each disk or in my case cartridges. Unless you have
your Zip drive as part of your fstab at bootup. you should not have
any system problems. This error should be renamed
"Read Capacity failed, do you have a disk in the drive?"
B'ichela
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From: Jimi Aleshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Can't get darn printer to work!
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 05:59:48 GMT
Hi,
I have Redhat Linux 6.1 kernel 2.2.12-20 on an i386 and a Hewlett
Packard DeskJet 695C. I just set it up yesterday and can't get it to
print at all. The lpd deamon is on and running, and I used printtool to
configure the printer. The only thing I get is that the job is queued
and spooled. I know that the job goes in the Spool directory right
before it prints. But I do not know where to go from there to get the
paper printed? I'm probably missing something right in front of my nose.
Anybody have any ideas?
BTW, I only set this up to be a Local printer.
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From: Tim Godfrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Ethertap Devices
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:55:20 +1000
> Do you have this option compiled into your kernel?
>
> Kernel/User netlink socket (CONFIG_NETLINK) [Y/n/?] ?
>
Yes indeed I do...
I have also tried opening /dev/tap0 as O_RDWR.
Really stumped....
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From: "miles zarathustra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Java JDK Install Question
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:13:39 -0700
Don't use the one from blackdown.org. Get it from sun instead. It's
blackdown's anyway.
I not sure how blackdown's version got fouled up, but it did and they
haven't fixed it for some months now.
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/
1.3 for linux is still in beta. (for windoze it's a 30 meg download. Yow!
Stable, though.)
Also, there is a problem with 1.2 for linux, that it gives a bunch of errors
about not being able to find the symbol font whenever it starts up anything
graphical. It's basically harmless, and can be fixed by copying a symbol
font (which for some reason never gets used) into the fonts directory and
modifying fonts.dir. Maybe just modifying fonts.dir would be sufficient.
One of these days I'm going to figure out how to get it to use my windows
true-type fonts, since I think they're prettier.
-= miles =-
"Brian E. Seppanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm trying to install the Blackdown JDK1.2.2 and I'm not sure everything
> is working as it should. I've placed all of the files in
> /usr/local/jdk1.2.2.
> I've modified my PATH to include /usr/local/jdk1.2.2/bin and I've
> verified that it is there. However, when I go to try and compile Xerces
> a JAVA/XML parser for Apache, It errors out stating that it cannot find
> javac. javac is in /usr/local/jdk1.2.2/bin. If I do a which java,
> nothing comes up in the search path, however, I've verified my search
> path includes the directory it is in. Anyone have an idea as to where
> I might have messed up?
>
> Brian E. Seppanen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Add pictures to LyX
Date: 10 Jul 2000 00:04:58 GMT
>Thanks for advice, I checked the GS installation and figured out that on my
> system are different Ghost script interpreters... LyX and KLyX are pointing
> in their configuration to exactly the wrong one... there are
> GS_X11, GS, GS_BOTH... what are these ? why so many ? I use now GS_X11
That's exactly what my friend did to fix it.
There are different versions because people use different capabilities that
ghostscript has. Some people use it as a postscript viewer/interpreter on X,
some people only use it for printing/conversion on command line, so they use
whichever one is suited to them and cut down the size of the package. Others
who use it for everything can install the fullblown package (and sacrifice a
bit of disc space and memory).
GS_X11 will be for use on an X display, GS for use on vga terminals, GS_BOTH
(surprise ;) can be used on both.
It's like linux itself, why install a load of guff that you don't want to
use and wastes space?
Frinky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: why make clean before making kernel?
Date: 10 Jul 2000 00:15:31 GMT
>> > Its not standard procedure. Wherever did you read that you should use
>> > make clean? You *should* be using 'make mrproper' before 'make xconfig'
>> > which servers a similar purpose, only it clears out additional stuff.
>> >
>>
>> Do not follow this advice. If you "make mrproper" you will lose your
>> .config file, which you will want as a starting point when you configure
>> the kernel again.
>
>Sorry, but you're wrong. I've built many kernels and not lost any
>config files in the process of running 'make mrproper'.
Odd, it *should* do according to the Makefile:
mrproper: clean archmrproper
rm -f include/linux/autoconf.h include/linux/version.h
rm -f
drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/sm_tbl_{afsk1200,afsk2666,fsk9600}
rm -f drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/sm_tbl_{hapn4800,psk4800}.h
rm -f
drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/sm_tbl_{afsk2400_7,afsk2400_8}.h
rm -f drivers/net/hamradio/soundmodem/gentbl
rm -f drivers/char/hfmodem/gentbl drivers/char/hfmodem/tables.h
rm -f drivers/sound/*_boot.h drivers/sound/.*.boot
rm -f drivers/sound/msndinit.c
rm -f drivers/sound/msndperm.c
rm -f drivers/sound/pndsperm.c
rm -f drivers/sound/pndspini.c
rm -f .version .config* config.in config.old
...
See that line there? Unless I'm grasping the stick wrongly here that should
delete any .config files in your linux source.
This is 2.2.16, maybe it's different in earlier ones.
Frinky
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From: "miles zarathustra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web Browser
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:19:05 -0700
Just for fun, don't forget HotJava.
http://java.sun.com/products/hotjava/
It has many flaws, but it is the best if you're trying to run anything with
java in it.
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web Browser
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 00:12:41 -0600
I agree with just about all you've posted here. I would say however,
that the version of Opera which I got on a CD in mag is VERY FAST. It's
simply amazing the speed at which pages render, and even how much time
it takes to start the program.
Unfortunately, some page content on certain sites causes the browser to
die. But then it can work for a couple of hours of browsing without
dying. Many of the menu items are non functional, and I don't use it
for general browsing, mainly because some of the menu items I can't
access is the disabling cookies, and others.
When this browser is ready, it'll be the one for me. I've used and
bought several versions of Netscape over the years, but the speed at
which Opera renders is just too appealing. I will need to learn a new
interface, as some of the seemingly intuitive keystrokes don't work the
same or at all. I'll patiently wait until they offer full keyboard
navigation, etc, before I plunk my silver down.
Regards,
Valentin Guillen
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From: Michael Greulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compressing filesystem
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:30:48 +0200
Hi there,
is there any filesystem with a built in compression. I'm trying to find
anything for a long time already...
Please answer by mail as well - TIA
.\\ichael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rico Tudor)
Subject: Re: sbrk(0) on Linux?
Date: 10 Jul 2000 06:16:52 GMT
malloc( ) doesn't observe the break like the good old days. Not that the
"sbrk( 0)" artifice was ever a good idea.
To elaborate on your program:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
static void
showmap( )
{
char s[90];
sprintf( s, "cat /proc/%d/maps", getpid( ));
system( s);
}
main( )
{
showmap( );
printf( "0x%08X\n", sbrk( 0));
printf( "0x%08X\n", malloc( 100));
printf( "0x%08X\n", malloc( 5*1024*1024));
showmap( );
return (0);
}
Results:
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 77340 /home/rico/a
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00000000 08:00 77340 /home/rico/a
40000000-40006000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 14846 /lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.9
40006000-40007000 rw-p 00005000 08:00 14846 /lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.9
40007000-40008000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
4000b000-40093000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 14855 /lib/libc.so.5.4.46
40093000-40099000 rw-p 00087000 08:00 14855 /lib/libc.so.5.4.46
40099000-400cb000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
bfffe000-c0000000 rwxp fffff000 00:00 0
0x08049778
0x08049780
0x400CB008
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 77340 /home/rico/a
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00000000 08:00 77340 /home/rico/a
40000000-40006000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 14846 /lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.9
40006000-40007000 rw-p 00005000 08:00 14846 /lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.9
40007000-40009000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
4000b000-40093000 r-xp 00000000 08:00 14855 /lib/libc.so.5.4.46
40093000-40099000 rw-p 00087000 08:00 14855 /lib/libc.so.5.4.46
40099000-405cc000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
bfffe000-c0000000 rwxp fffff000 00:00 0
The small request was satisfied from the heap. A new memory segment
was created for the large request, which can allow VM to be reclaimed.
You can see the memory segment creation with
strace a 2>&1 | grep mmap | tail -1
As a side note, it's remarkably difficult to malloc all of user VM with
a general program. Furthermore, the allocation dichotomy changes when
going between a 1+3GB and a 2+2GB kernel.
======== my e=mail domain: math.nwu.edu
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From: Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: wu-ftpd authentication problem
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:36:56 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A weird thing happened over the weekend. The wu-ftp daemon on my RH6.2 just
could not seem to authorise users anymore although it was working just fine the day
before. I had no idea what happened so I just removed and re-installed the RPM.
Then it worked. Anyone know what the heck is going on?
Thanks in advance.
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Subject: Re: @home port scanning
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 06:59:57 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fester) writes:
' What they DO scan for, however, is NEWS SERVERS. Every since that big UDP
' thing a few months back, @Home scans for news servers, and you get in deep
' trouble if you run one of them.
So you have ipchains REJECT a connection to port 119 from outside your
LAN. No big deal. REJECT all incoming connections on the ports <1024
and also ports 2049 and 6000. Better yet, use DENY. Then it's as if
you don't even exist.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
The ``From'' address is a valid e-mail address.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hoplite&submit=Look+it+up
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From: "Barns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Application required - Word Processor
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:54:00 +0200
Hi guys,
I dusted off my 386 20 mhz which had been minus a screen for 5 years.
I just want to use it for word processing. Is there a freeware word
processing package available. My machine has Linux 1.2.1 and MSDOS 6.22.
(Did I hear someone laugh - I am from Africa!!)
(I don't have a CDRom either)
Thanks - Bernard
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