Linux-Misc Digest #314, Volume #25 Wed, 2 Aug 00 07:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Linux RIP ?? ("Dennis")
Re: <click me click me> (Thomas Zajic)
[off topic] *.raw Images ("Alejandrin")
Help! group descriptors corrupted (Janus Loo)
Syslog Server ("Simon")
Can't run pppd as a background process (Hugo)
Re: MP3's skip : How I solved it (Richard Watson)
Re: [off topic] *.raw Images ("Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]")
internet/harddisk (Tom Weyer)
MIT-MAGIC-COOKIES and X start problem ... (Michael Yuan)
Re: xcdroast problems (Steffen Katzner)
Re: How to install soundcard? (Juan Eliseo Carrasco =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=EDaz?=)
Re: dual os mail setup (Kousik Nandy)
window$ en Linux Netscape bookmarks connected? (Vanmeerbeek Koen)
Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users. (Richard Steiner)
Re: Postscript (Geoff Short)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (John Hasler)
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (John Hasler)
Re: Which IDE linux C programers use? (John Hasler)
Re: at&t lex (ed)
Re: at&t lex (ed)
LinuxConf ("Kwizatz Haderach")
Re: Syslog Server ("Simon")
Re: Linux and Netgear RT311--????? (sideband)
Re: MP3's skip : How I solved it ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Advice on cutting memory usage ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: Linux for ancient RS6000? ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
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From: "Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux RIP ??
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 17:07:52 +1000
Hi all....
No, I'm not saying that Linux is dead, just asking for a RIP (Raster Image
Processor).
Anyone have any ideas ?
Cheers
Dennis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: <click me click me>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:06:49 GMT
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 03:54:08 GMT, Martin Skj�ldebrand wrote:
> ==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> N/A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> N/A> [ ... ]
>
> IF you stoped posting three nearly identical messages to every one of
> your questions people perhaps would seriously answer you. [ ... ]
Amen. That was annoying the hell out of me, too. I asked him to stop,
but he wouldn't listen. Result:
[zlatko@sphere]:~$ grep -3 N/A News/Score
Score: -9999
%Expires:
% Subject: <XVidTune>
From: N/A <objectofdezire@yahoo\.com>
% References: <so4nec1go0b91@corp\.supernews\.com>
% congo\.fdns\.net\.not comp\.os\.linux\.misc:31871
% Newsgroup: comp\.os\.linux\.misc
Yet another satisfied customer ...
Thomas
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From: "Alejandrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [off topic] *.raw Images
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:17:59 GMT
I have downloaded the image files of the Debian distribution of Linux. This
files are with a *.raw extension and I don't know which program to use to
burn those images to a CD. If somebody knows anything I will be eternally
grateful.
Thanks in advance and forgive my poor english :(
Greetings from Spain
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janus Loo)
Subject: Help! group descriptors corrupted
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:28:07 GMT
I am in despair!! Can someone please, please help me with a fatal
error? I was playing with some parameters in hdparm and when I
rebooted my machine, I get this error message while booting:
ext-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap
for group 1 not in group (block 2).
Ext2-fs: group descriptiors corrupted!
kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01.
Please help me as I dont have any backups!! I shoudnt have played with
the program... I really wished that there is somehow a way to get them
back to work. I need the data!!!
I really really appreciate it if u guys can help!!!
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From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Syslog Server
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 08:43:11 +0100
People.....
I've been trying to setup my RH6.2 as a Syslog Server for some Cisco
routers, but don't seem to be getting it right.
I've been through the man pages for syslogd, but am not getting very far,
can someone please give me an idiots run down coz I must be missing
something simple.
Simon
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From: Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Can't run pppd as a background process
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 07:37:21 GMT
Hi.
I've been experimenting with a couple of Linux PPC distributions on my
home machine. I just switched from Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) Champion
Server 1.1 to SuSE 6.4 PPC. The script file to start a ppp session I
used with YDL works as foreground process but I can't seem to get it to
work as background process. If I start a ppp session (as root), the
second I close the xterm or logout, the session is dropped. What is
going on? With YDL, I could start the process as root and then work as
a regular user without keeping an extra terminal window around. Also, I
get a lot of messages from pppd when it's running--something I didn't
experience with YDL. I made sure there was no -v flag anywhere, yet I
still see the messages even when invoked with the ampersand.
I'd appreciate any help in this matter.
Thanks,
Hugo
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Before you buy.
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From: Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MP3's skip : How I solved it
Date: 02 Aug 2000 08:43:13 +0100
Gordon Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Sure. restore from the backup that you made before you started messing
> > the hdparm settings. You did make a backup, didn't you? You did follow
> > the recommendations in the hdparm man page (specifically in the BUGS
> > section)? If you didn't, and you munged your hard drive and file
> > systems, then you deserve what you got....
>
> Backup? Buy me a big enough tape drive and I'll gladly back it up.
> Otherwise, I hope you get what you deserve for being an asshole.
Can't stand someone pointing out your mistakes?
There is no excuse for not making a backup of important data. Even if
it means buying another hard drive or even another computer to back up
onto.
If the data isn't that important then what's your problem? In any case
it's your choice whether to backup or not. Did you make the right
choice?
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From: "Quiney, Philip [HAL02:HH00:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [off topic] *.raw Images
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 08:50:13 +0100
Alejandrin wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the image files of the Debian distribution of Linux. This
> files are with a *.raw extension and I don't know which program to use to
> burn those images to a CD. If somebody knows anything I will be eternally
> grateful.
>
> Thanks in advance and forgive my poor english :(
Hi,
Your English is better than my Spanish ;-)
.raw files can be written by xcdroast
(http://www.fh-muenchen.de//home/ze/rz/services/projects/xcdroast/e_overview.html)
- but I suspect it might be a .iso file and could probably be written by
any CD package that can do this (you may have to rename the file to
<name>.iso.
On a Linux box, try 'file <name>.raw' to see if that gives any clues.
HTH
Regards
Phil Q
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From: Tom Weyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: internet/harddisk
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 09:31:13 +0200
Hi !
Everytime I go into internet via modem and wvdial I wonder why Linux
accesses my harddisk permanently. Sometimes it takes 15 minutes until
Linux has finished its work. During this time my computer gets very
slow. Can anybody tell me which special tasks need to access my harddisk
when I'm online and if there is a way to stop some of them ?
(Suse Linux 6.1).
Thanks !
--
Tom
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From: Michael Yuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIES and X start problem ...
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 03:19:59 -0500
Hi guys,
I have this problem for while but could not figure out a solution ... I
can only startx as "root" from one of my RH6.2 box. Any other user will
get "auth failed" message when they tried to start X server. It would not
work even if I deleted .Xauthurity from the user's home directory. Even
as root, the start is pretty slow and there were MIT-MAGIC-COOKIES-1
errors on the console screen.
I was told that it is likely to be a network related problem. But I really
cannot figure out what went wrong. Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot
Michael
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From: Steffen Katzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xcdroast problems
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:38:36 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I had this problem with the 92 version because it cannot write to a disk
> more than once. No multisession support. What that means is that you
> now have a one song cd!!!
>
> If that is your case either upgrade to 96 (i couldn't get it to install,
> or write all your songs in one smack.
> Brian
This happens with every new cd I'm trying to write to.
And I always try to write all songs in one go.
Do you have another idea? Steffen.
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From: Juan Eliseo Carrasco =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=EDaz?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How to install soundcard?
Date: 2 Aug 2000 10:05:11 +0000
If you can't install it with "soundcfg", read the Getting Started Guide,
there is a simple a good help about this.
Siw Sang Yau wrote:
> Anybody know how to install a soundcard to the Linux? I got a Aztech PCI
> 288 Q3D II soundcard and using RedHat 6.2.
>
> sylvain
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kousik Nandy)
Subject: Re: dual os mail setup
Date: 2 Aug 2000 09:51:46 GMT
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:51:43 +0200, Grischa Stegemann wrote:
>
> I'm running Suse Linux and Win98 on a dual boot machine. It would be
> really cool to have an automatically synchronizing Netscape setup on both
> systems.
We use Red Hat Linux 6.1 and Windoze NT on a dual boot machine. We have the
C: drive as FAT32 (not NTFS). The local mail directory of netscape in Linux
is set to be /mnt/c_drive/Program Files/netscape/Users/blah/blah/mail (of
course C: is mounted at /mnt/c_drive read-write) and the local mail
directory of netscape in NT is set to be C:\Program Files\... etc. In this
way, we can read the mails from both the OSs.
Hope this be of some help,
Kousik.
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From: Vanmeerbeek Koen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: window$ en Linux Netscape bookmarks connected?
Date: 2 Aug 2000 09:52:47 GMT
Hallo,
Yesterday I (or better a friend) installed Mandrake Linux. Now I have a
Netscape-bookmark file on my Window$ partition and one on my
Linux partition and I'm wondering if it's possible to link (or something else) those
files so that I'll have the same bookmarks on both
systems?
Thanks,
Koen Vanmeerbeek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: I feel bad for RH/Mandrake users.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 03:43:56 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>I generally refer to Mandrake as RH/Mandrake just to clarify much
>of the lineage of Mandrake. Much like many say Linux, and some
>say GNU/Linux to clarify the lineage of most of the tools for the
>OS. If this is a bit confusing, I apologize. Perhaps I should just
>say Mandrake.
Mandrake and Red Hat are becoming different enough that it might be a
good idea to consider them as totally separate (if largely compatible)
distributions.
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OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
DYNAMIC LINKING ERROR: Your mistake is now everywhere.
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From: Geoff Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Postscript
Date: 2 Aug 2000 10:19:16 GMT
Nobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi there,
: I've got a postscript document which was splitted by the author into several
: files (File No. 1 is Chapter One, File No. 2 is Chapter Two...) and I'd like
: to merge them into one single file.
Try psmerge, one of the psutils
Geoff
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 03:28:35 GMT
I wrote:
> Wrong. Debian sells nothing.
blowfish writes:
>
>http://linuxmall.com/shop/01496?cat=ROOT&sort=2&vid=&search=debian&SID=90de0b724faa8352f505f5269a3dc28b&Start=
> It shows a $17.95 price tag there. ;-)
Linux Mall sells Debian CD's. Cheap Bytes sells Debian CD's. Offer me
some money and I will sell you Debian CD's. Debian is free software:
anyone can sell it. Debian, however, sells nothing.
> No, I *NEVER* care about beer. Free or not free. :-)
Ioo bad. You're missing out.
> But Free Speech is what I like, and treasure. But I also want to support
> those who contribute to the good stuff. ;-)
Then contact them and ask them what they need.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 03:38:36 GMT
blowfish writes:
> Sure. *BSD are making money too. But they do allow the developers to keep
> their codes proprietary; just a tiny bit more option for the
> contributors- in my fscking opinion.
I retain the right to license my code to any one I choose under any terms I
choose whether I release it under the GPL or the BSD license or any other
free software license. The terms of the license do not bind the author.
> I'll re-read the GNU-GPL again.
First go study up a bit on copyright.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which IDE linux C programers use?
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 03:44:25 GMT
Robert Heller writes:
> I have 'played' with a few wysiwyg design tools -- did not like them -- I
> found I could create a logical design quicker. I guess I am not a very
> 'visual design' sort of person.
I think that this means that you _are_ a very visual person: you can
visualize what you want and easily translate it into symbolic form. Those
who require WYSIWIG are not very visual at all: they cannot imagine what
the thing will look like and so must have the computer show them.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: at&t lex
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 10:30:02 GMT
David Rysdam wrote:
>
>
> ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > David Rysdam wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Can at&t lex be purchased somewhere and can it be installed on a
linux
> > > > system?
> > >
> > > flex no good? Comes free from FSF on every Linux distro.
> > >
> > > --
> > > My public encryption key is available from www.keyserver.net
> >
> >
> > flex is no good, the output is too different. I do not want to rewrite
> > legacy code/source. need to be able to install at&t (or more similiar
> > substitute than flex) onto a linux machine.
>
> Hmmm...I thought there was a -traditional switch to flex that made it
> work like lex, but perusing the man page I don't see it. I may be
> thinking of yacc vs bison. Sorry!
>
Yes, there is a "-l" option that makes flex "more" at&t compatable, but not
close enough. Thanx for your input.
Ed
> --
> My public encryption key is available from www.keyserver.net
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From: ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: at&t lex
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 10:30:03 GMT
David Konerding wrote:
>
>
> On 01 Aug 2000 20:06:23 -0400, David Rysdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> David Rysdam wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> >
> >> > > Can at&t lex be purchased somewhere and can it be installed on a
linux
> >> > > system?
> >> >
> >> > flex no good? Comes free from FSF on every Linux distro.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > My public encryption key is available from www.keyserver.net
> >>
> >>
> >> flex is no good, the output is too different. I do not want to
rewrite
> >> legacy code/source. need to be able to install at&t (or more similiar
> >> substitute than flex) onto a linux machine.
> >
> >Hmmm...I thought there was a -traditional switch to flex that made it
> >work like lex, but perusing the man page I don't see it. I may be
> >thinking of yacc vs bison. Sorry!
>
> "flex -l" turns on compatibility mode. Some Linux distributes have a
'lex' program which is
> just a shell script that runs "flex -l $*"
>
> Dave
Yes, I have tried the "-l" option, it does not make it compatable enough
though. And yes, Linux does accept the "lex" command, but it is only a
link to "flex".
Thanx for your input,
Ed
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From: "Kwizatz Haderach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LinuxConf
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 10:31:13 GMT
Does anybody know where I can find Linuxconf for SuSE 6.3?
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From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Syslog Server
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:50:32 +0100
FYI...
I got it working by editing the /etc/init.d/syslog and put in the -r
param... Not the next question is...
How do I get the messages from the cisco routers to go into a separate log
file from the messages ??
TIA
Simon
"Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8m8j8e$ov9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> People.....
>
> I've been trying to setup my RH6.2 as a Syslog Server for some Cisco
> routers, but don't seem to be getting it right.
> I've been through the man pages for syslogd, but am not getting very far,
> can someone please give me an idiots run down coz I must be missing
> something simple.
>
> Simon
>
>
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux and Netgear RT311--?????
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 06:54:12 -0400
Ok....
Let's make this simple, 'cause it really doesn't have to be difficut.
The NETGEAR RT311, and, in fact, all NETGEAR's RT series, hold multiple IP
addresses. There's one assigned to the WAN port (the port connected to the wall
to the outside world), and one assigned to the ethernet port.
Telnet to the RT311, and give it a static, private IP (say,
192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0) and assign your eth0 another IP on that same subnet
(say, 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0) The default route/gateway on your machine's eth0
should point to the RT's ethernet IP address.
While you're in there, set up NAT, and DCHP on the WAN port, and you should be
good to go.
Hope this helps.
-SSB
Julian Cook/Sherab Gyatso wrote:
> Thanks Brian!
> The RT311 is set up for DHCP. Windoze is set to grab first available IP.
> I downloaded the new DHCPCD module and set that up. So I have figured
> out that I have to use DHCP. Whenever the machine boots up, it tries to
> configure eth0 by contacting a DHCP server and then I get a timeout
> waiting for DHCP server response.
>
> While the Linux box is waiting on the DHCP response, the corresponding
> hub light DOES light up on the hub box, then when it times out, it goes
> out.
>
> When I issue ifconfig I get....
> lo Link encap: Local Loopback
> inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> It apparently recognizes the loopback, I can ping localhost with no
> problems.
>
> Then I issue
> ifconfig eth0 up
>
> The hub light comes on for the corresponding port..
>
> When I issue ifconfig then I get
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:24:AC:1B
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> interrupt:11 Base address:0x300
>
> lo Link encap: Local Loopback
> inet addr: 127.0.0.1 Mask: 255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> I don't have enough experience networking linux to know if this is OK
> or not. My initial impression is that it may indeed be set up correctly.
> That is, it's asking for an IP from the Netgear and it isn't getting it,
> so it can't configure eth0.
>
> I truly appreciate all the assistance that you and the other folks are
> giving me on this....
>
> Thanks again!
> Julian
>
> --------------------
> brian moore wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:20:50 GMT,
> > Julian Cook/Sherab Gyatso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello folks!
> > > I have a network I am trying to set up and I have wasted SO many hours
> > > and no results.
> > > One machine is Windows 98
> > > The other is a Linux box running Slackware 7
> > > Both machines are hooked into a Linksys 5 port workgroup hub
> > > The Router is a Netgear RT311
> > >
> > > This router has been great after some initial difficulty setting it up.
> > > The Win machine
> > > works great through it. My problem is setting up Linux and getting Linux
> > > to see the
> > > router..
> > >
> > > The IP of the Router is 192.168.0.1
> > >
> > > The Linux box uses a 3Com 509B NIC. The machine recognizes the card ok.
> > > (Other info, it's a
> > > Pentium 75)
> > >
> > > When I type 'netconfig'
> > > I put in these values .. hostname --> milarepa
> > > Domain name --> this is a complete mystery to me. It's a private
> > > network. What domain name? (I typed 'localnetwork' just for something to
> > > put in)
> > > The when given the options of Static IP, DHCP and loopback I selected
> > > DHCP
> > > Then I get the notification that "Your networking software has now been
> > > configured"
> > >
> > > Now on bootup after this (during startup), I get...
> > > "Attempting to configure eth0 by contacting a DHCP server"
> > > The corresponding hub light goes on during this period, the machine
> > > hangs for about
> > > 30seconds and then the light goes out and I get
> > > "Activating IPv4 packet forwarding"
> > > After logging in, I type in "ifconfig" and the only thing that shows up
> > > are the "lo" settings.
> >
> > So do you have a DHCP server on your network?
> >
> > If you do, why is it not answering?
> >
> > --
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> > 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: Re: MP3's skip : How I solved it
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:31:26 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Stewart Honsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Or, you could use an automated script to put everything into a tarball
>>> in the middle of the night and back it up once a week.
>>
>>I don't leave my system running 24/7. Cron isn't much use when you
>>aren't running Linux at regular intervals.
> Have you read the documentation for cron? It's not limited to the wee
> hours of the night when you're curled up with your teddy bear.
Not to mention the replacement for cron that can catch up with jobs it
missed while the computer was turned off...
> There you go again; making your own projections as to what Linux has to
> do to become "sucessful". Believe it or not, Linux wasn't designed to be
> a LUSER platform. If you want that, you've already got plenty of products
> from that company in Redmond you could pay out the ear for. They sound
> more up your alley.
> You're trying to make Linux into Windows, and that's just not going to
> happen.
GOD I hope not... KDE is big and bloaty enough as it is...
But at least WE have a choice to use something else... fvwm95 in my case...
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Advice on cutting memory usage
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:58:47 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Andrew J. Perrin" wrote:
>
> Greetings. I've got linux (Debian, kernel 2.0.38) running nicely on an
> oldish laptop (Toshiba Portege 610CT), details will follow on setup
> issues, of which there were quite few.
>
> My concern is that the system alone consumes most of the poor thing's
> 16M of RAM:
It's supposed to be this way. Let the kernel grab the memory and do what it
sees fit with it. This is the way unix works (in general). This is not to
say that you shouldn't recompile your kernel and make some things in to
modules, just don't be alarmed that all the "free" memory is used by the
"system." Free memory is bad -- let the kernel have it and decide what to
do with it. If a 16mb machine has, say, 10mb free then the kernel isn't
doing it's job. With only 16mb you should have some swap configured. How
much depends on what kinds of things you run.
This question has been asked hundreds of times on the linux groups since
I've been reading them. There's no problem here from what you've described.
It's normal. Here's part of the 'top' output from a Solaris 2.5.1 machine I
have here:
130 processes: 128 sleeping, 1 running, 1 on cpu
Cpu states: 93.8% idle, 4.0% user, 2.2% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 62M real, 6224K free, 83M swap, 94M free swap
Notice how little "free" memory there is. Let the kernel have it.
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux for ancient RS6000?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:03:11 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert Heller wrote:
>
[...]
> If you fail to catch the AIX Boot Install Tape, you should be able to
> install Linux on the box. Visit http://www.ibm.com/ for info -- IBM is
> said to support Linux on *ALL* of the computers IBM sells (even the
> monster mainframes!).
But the machine itself may be sold old (and probably is) that IBM will no
longer support it, no matter what OS you run, even AIX, and I think all
versions of AIX below 4.1.5(?) are also out of support but I don't know for
sure. Of course, given enough incentive ($) they will probably support
anything. If the machine was new in 1992 chances are it's no longer
officially supported.
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