Linux-Misc Digest #666, Volume #25 Mon, 4 Sep 00 14:13:02 EDT
Contents:
syslog.conf ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: backup os? (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: Cluster-Software for Linux ("Mark J Bento")
Re: syslog.conf (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: PPP works but web browsers don't ("Chew GH")
Re: xanim for Mandrake ?.mov (Carl Fink)
Re: Installing Red Hat, and Turbo Linux (Leonard Evens)
Re: backup os? (Szabolcs Csetey)
A tale of two computers (astorwilliam)
disabling rlogind and others ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X Windows Can't Support Sony Monitor? ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: Notebook/Windows rebate? (s. keeling)
Help find a clock/time display program,... ("Arctic Storm")
Re: backup os? (Dewald Rossouw)
Pam Error Message (Jeff Grossman)
Re: disabling rlogind and others (Jean-David Beyer-valinux)
Re: Redirect EMAIL ("Ernesto Gianoni")
Re: Redirect EMAIL ("Ernesto Gianoni")
Re: export-command (ThomasWalz)
dump win98 partition ("Volker Kalms")
Re: Installing Red Hat, and Turbo Linux (Dave Brown)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: syslog.conf
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:13:50 GMT
what a decent /etc/syslog.conf should contain?
--
E
note: take the z of my email addres befor using it.
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: backup os?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:13:15 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, the security of one OS is becoming more and more important.
> However, there are some unexpectable catastrophes (not only the hack),
> which will destory the whole system. So there is such backup system: the
> second computer is runing the same pace of the first computer, then even
> the first computer crashs for some reason, the second computer can start
> work in very short time. Now, I like to ask you, is there such function
> which is finish by linux? Sorry, I even don't know the name of such
> system: backup os? or other name people have used? Any discussions of
> such os are wolcome.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
If I understand your question, yes such systems have been built. The second
(backup) system is called a hot spare (at least, sometimes it is). All
input is sent to both systems, and they process in parallel. The machine
that is nominally the main machine produces the output. At any time, you
can switch from one to the other, such as if the first one goes down.
Another use for such systems is to compare the results at frequent
intervals, such as everytime output is produced. When there is a
difference, the operator is alerted. For extreme reliability, three systems
are used and they vote on the output: 2 out of 3 is the usual thing. If the
system does not get 3 out of 3, it is time to repair one of them.
I do not know if anyone has done this with UNIX or GNU/Linux systems, but I
do not see why they could not. The hardware costs could be considerable,
and the voting machine must be well designed or it will cause more problems
than it cures. Of course, all the equipment must be hot swappable (power
supplies, hard drives, and everything else).
For my desktop machine, I take a less desparate alternative. I have a DDS-2
tape drive on its own SCSI controller (the hard drives are on an Ultra-2
SCSI controller of their own). I have cron do a backup of almost everything
on my hard drives every night when I am asleep. This all fits on one 8GByte
DDS-2 tape because my hard drives are not yet full. The tape drive is an HP
C1599A that has the One Button Disaster Recovery feature. After the crash,
you just install new hard drives of at least the size of the old ones, put
the backup tape in the drive, hold the eject button in and power up the
system. The drive pretends to be a CD-ROM drive and the system boots from
it. It contains enough software in it to make all the partitioins, the
contents of /dev, all the files and configurations, etc. It brings you back
to where you started from, but with a new machine (or, at least, new hard
drives). I accept the delay of the time it takes to get new hard drives and
install them.
Actually, I make an OBDR tape only once a month. I do a normal nearly full
backup every night when I am asleep. So when the disaster happens, I do an
OBDR restore and then restore from my latest full backup. That way I never
lose more than one day's work. YMMV.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 10:00am up 26 days, 17:28, 3 users, load average: 1.06, 1.11, 1.00
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From: "Mark J Bento" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cluster-Software for Linux
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:20:53 GMT
Why not try redhat 6.2 it has clustering built into it
mark
"Raymond Doetjes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Beowulf is not the answer, beowulf is a PVM parallel virtual machine just
for
> number crunching. There is no Clustering File System that would be
reliable
> enough for a RDBMS. They probably want 2 nodes working simultaniously to
also do
> loadsharing.
>
> Raymond
>
> Marius Aamodt Eriksen wrote:
>
> > In article <8otlj9$bo4f4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Hartmann
wrote:
> > >Hi there,
> > >
> > >I am looking for a good cluster-software to cluster 2 linux-maschines
and
> > >one "network attached storage disk array". I want to set up a
RDBMS-Cluster.
> > >Can anybody give me some recommendations? Maybe some URLs?
> >
> > The ultimate resource for such is probably the beowulf website:
> > http://www.beowulf.org/
> >
> > Marius.
> >
> > --
> > Marius Aamodt Eriksen
> > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: syslog.conf
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:22:55 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> what a decent /etc/syslog.conf should contain?
>
> --
> E
>
> note: take the z of my email addres befor using it.
I do not know if this is decent or not, but this is what I got
with my Red Hat 6.0 distribution. YMMV.
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.*
/dev/console
# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none
/var/log/messages
# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.*
/var/log/secure
# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*
/var/log/maillog
# Everybody gets emergency messages, plus log them on another
# machine.
*.emerg *
# Save mail and news errors of level err and higher in a
# special file.
uucp,news.crit
/var/log/spooler
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*
/var/log/boot.log
#
# INN
#
news.=crit
/var/log/news/news.crit
news.=err
/var/log/news/news.err
news.notice
/var/log/news/news.notice
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 10:18am up 26 days, 17:46, 3 users, load average: 1.04, 1.05, 1.00
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From: "Chew GH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP works but web browsers don't
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 22:27:11 +0800
Another of my concern is the amount of configuring that needs to be done on
the part of the specific web browser/s. In Netscape for instance, are the
settings in Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Proxies sufficient (for http)?
Or do I have to dig somewhere else in the configuration files of Netscape to
get it working?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: xanim for Mandrake ?.mov
Date: 4 Sep 2000 03:38:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 19:27:02 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Anyway, I got the 'codec not supported' message. Plugger says it's a
>licensing issue and xanime for Mandrake/RH doesn't have them all.
>Is there an RPM or Tarball for Mandrake/RH that will help? Or a HOWTO?
If it's the Sorenson codec, you're out of luck: Sorenson won't
license it for anything but Apple QuickTime, meaning that Mark
Podlipec *cannot* include it in xanim.
Mark suggests contacting Sorenson (www.sorenson.com) and *politely*
asking them to support xanim. I suggest contacting whoever created
the video file and requesting that they release it in a compatible
format.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
<http://dm.net>
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat, and Turbo Linux
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:26:15 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is installing Red Hat and Turbo Linux on the same hard
> drive okay? Since there are several different versions
> of Linux, I am interested in playing with them.
>
> A few days ago I posted a message on lilo. Since I had
> difficulty installing NT, NT Workstations, and Linux
> on the same hard drive, it was probably due to lilo.
> I am thinking that I might encounter similar problems
> when I try to install Red Hat and Turbo Linux on the
> same hard drive. Am I going to be okay? Before I encounter
> any disaster, I would like to have some advice from Linux
> gurus.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> alea
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
You shouldn't have any problem if install lilo for one and not
the other. That lilo should be able to boot either. If you
install lilo in both, it is possible you could have some problems
but I'm pretty sure the last lilo you installed would be the
one the system was using.
Try reading the Lilo User's Guide which probably has some examples
to guide you.
It is possible that lilo may fail for one or both OSs because
of the 1024 cylinder limit. Each kernel must be in a partition
entirely below that limit for the versions of lilo currently
shipped with Linux releases. But the latest version of lilo
can be used to overcome this problem if used with the lba32
option.
Make sure you make boot floppies during installation, if possible
for both versions of Linux.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Szabolcs Csetey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: backup os?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:25:58 GMT
I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> However, there are some unexpectable catastrophes (not only the hack),
> which will destory the whole system. So there is such backup system:
> the second computer is runing the same pace of the first computer,
> then even the first computer crashs for some reason, the second
> computer can start work in very short time. Now, I like to ask you, is
> there such function which is finish by linux? Sorry, I even don't know
> the name of such system: backup os? or other name people have used?
Called as high availability.
http://linux-ha.org/
http://www.missioncriticallinux.com/
http://community.turbolinux.com/cluster/
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: astorwilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A tale of two computers
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:47:31 GMT
I have a Pentium III computer with a newTaxan monitor. I am
thinking of getting a relatively cheap Celeron computer to act as a
standby computer in case my main computer goes faulty.
I have Linux MANDRAKE 7.1 installed in my main computer and have made
Norton Ghost image files of all my Linux partitions in my main computer
except the swap and /tmp partition. Now the Celeron is going to have a
different graphics card, sound card and modem card but I will be using
the same Taxan monitor on both computers.
After I dump the image files of my LINUX partitions onto the Celeron
computer's hard drive, how do I SAFELY configure Linux to the different
hardware of the standby computer. I am assuming that I can do this from
the multi user or console mode [ where the pixelled penguin comes up on
the left side] when I boot up Linux on the standby computer.
I have read that the wrong drivers can damage the Taxan monitor. PLEASE
send me full console commands to type in so that I may be able to test
them on my main computer before proceeding.
William
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: disabling rlogind and others
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 16:13:50 GMT
Hi,
I'm trying to disable all unencrypted remote authorizations on my linux
boxes, so I removed telnetd & ftpd from inetd.conf. In fact, I have
nothing but comments in /etc/inetd.conf (I'm using sshd)
However, rlogin doesn't seem to be disabled, and I don't know what else
is there. Strangely, rlogind is not even amoung the processes run by
root (the list is below). Does anyone know how to disable rlogind and
what other services I may want to disable (and how)
Thanks a lot.
Wroot
P.S.
root runs:
init kflushd kupdate kpiod kswapd mdrecoveryd lockd rpciod
rpc.statd automount syslogd klogd crond inetd sshd lpd sendmail
gpm httpd mingetty mingetty mingetty mingetty mingetty mingetty
gdm X gdm su bash xemacs sshd
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X Windows Can't Support Sony Monitor?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:45:32 -0400
Run Xconfigurator. If your monitor isn't in the menu then pick custom
monitor. You can use Xconfigurator to try various combinations of
refresh rates, resolutions and depths. You should be able to find a
setting that works.
"T.F.Lai" wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm installed RedHat 6.2 on the following hardware :
> AMD K6-400, 32MB RAM, S3 Trio3D Graphics Card, Sony CPD-15SF II.
>
> But the X Windows seem to detect the graphics card but when I type startx at
> the command prompt. The monitor doesn't display and the button become
> orange.
>
> Can anyone give me some tips or hints?
>
> I'll appreciate for your kindly help.
>
> Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (s. keeling)
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Notebook/Windows rebate?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 16:48:12 GMT
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 00:08:00 -0400, B. Joshua Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
[snip]
> drives up the price of the machine by a thousand bucks. In workstation
> applications SCSI offers no performance advantages, SCSI is only helpful
> in file server applications. The Dell desktops are completely Linux
This is a ridiculous statement. Just ask all those out there who are
overclocking their machines in order to squeeze a few more mhz out of
their cpus, or replacing an obsolete (!) 400mhz PII. Yes, scsi is
expensive, but what's it worth to you to off-load IO handling to a
dedicated specialized chip?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen) TopQuark Software & Serv. Enquire within.
[sed 's/NO@SPAM./@/g'] Contract programmer, server bum.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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From: "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help find a clock/time display program,...
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 16:49:34 GMT
I would like to display the time/date on the computre, basically turning it
into a large clock.
I would like a digital time display.
Can someone help me find a program (screen saver or other wise), that will
display the digital time on the screen? I would like the display to fill up
the entire screen.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please remove the "-SpamShield-" to send me email. Thanks.
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From: Dewald Rossouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: backup os?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:07:49 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Understudy by Polyserve, Inc. is what you might need. Check out
http://www.polyserve.com/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Well, the security of one OS is becoming more and more important.
> However, there are some unexpectable catastrophes (not only the hack),
> which will destory the whole system. So there is such backup system: the
> second computer is runing the same pace of the first computer, then even
> the first computer crashs for some reason, the second computer can start
> work in very short time. Now, I like to ask you, is there such function
> which is finish by linux? Sorry, I even don't know the name of such
> system: backup os? or other name people have used? Any discussions of
> such os are wolcome.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Pam Error Message
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:19:21 -0700
Hello,
I started getting the following error message in my Messages log file,
how do I fix it?
Sep 4 10:17:27 apple PAM_pwdb[6432]: (login) session opened for user
jeff by (u
id=0)
Sep 4 10:17:27 apple pam_console[6432]: can't find device or X11
socket to exam
ine for 0
Thanks,
Jeff
---
Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disabling rlogind and others
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 13:29:50 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to disable all unencrypted remote authorizations on my linux
> boxes, so I removed telnetd & ftpd from inetd.conf. In fact, I have
> nothing but comments in /etc/inetd.conf (I'm using sshd)
> However, rlogin doesn't seem to be disabled, and I don't know what else
> is there. Strangely, rlogind is not even amoung the processes run by
> root (the list is below). Does anyone know how to disable rlogind and
> what other services I may want to disable (and how)
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Wroot
>
> P.S.
> root runs:
>
> init kflushd kupdate kpiod kswapd mdrecoveryd lockd rpciod
> rpc.statd automount syslogd klogd crond inetd sshd lpd sendmail
> gpm httpd mingetty mingetty mingetty mingetty mingetty mingetty
> gdm X gdm su bash xemacs sshd
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I have login disabled in my /etc/inetd.conf, viz.:
# These are standard services.
#
#ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
#telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd
#
# Shell, login, exec, comsat and talk are BSD protocols.
#
#shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rshd
#login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rlogind
#exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.rexecd
#comsat dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.comsat
#talk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd
#ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ntalkd
#dtalk stream tcp waut nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.dtalkd
#
When I try rlogin to my other machine, it just waits forever.
When I try to rlogin to this machine (as localhost), it just waits
forever.
If I try telnet, I get:
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ telnet touchl
Trying 192.168.1.201...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
If I type login to a shell on this machine, the shell exits.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 1:24pm up 26 days, 20:52, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 1.06, 1.07
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From: "Ernesto Gianoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redirect EMAIL
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 17:38:43 GMT
What is the alias count?
The problem was that a virtual pop account (1) was redirected to another
virtual pop account (2) that didn't exist instead of being redirected to a
real pop
Threrefore any email that went to virtual pop account (1) was lost without
notifying the user. I try to find the lost messages and i end finding them
in root, i went to the aliases file and It said
root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
so everything was ok what I am not receiving the emails for root
Thanks for your time Folks
===== Original Message =====
From: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: Redirect email
> Ernesto Gianoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The alias was always there
>
> You did a 'newaliases'? Does the alias count match up?
>
> -Chuck
>
> Chuck Swiger | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cd /pub ; more beer
> -------------+-------------------+--------------------
> "Pavlovian slaver at the cash till ring of success..."
"Rod Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:%Ytr5.552622$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Gerald Willmann wrote:
> >
> >> > Ernesto Gianoni wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I have a LOT of email in /var/spool/mail/root
> >> > >
> >> > > HOW CAN I GET THEM with my email client???
> >> > >
> >> > > Thank you in advance
> >>
> >> how about redirecting email for root to your normal user
> >> account? Depends on your MTA how exactly to do that.
> >
> > That's a good idea. I don't like root being the actual receiver. In
> > /etc/aliases, point root to whatever
> > user you normally are, and HE will get root's mail.
>
> It's also often possible to create a .forward file in the /root
> directory. Put the e-mail address of the user who's to receive root's
> e-mail in that file.
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Ernesto Gianoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redirect EMAIL
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 17:43:58 GMT
Thanks Peter I used elm -f /var/spool/mail/root and forward the email no
problem.
I need all root messages to go to me
in aliases file I have :
root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What aint work
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ol32m$npk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ernesto Gianoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I have a LOT of email in /var/spool/mail/root
>
> : HOW CAN I GET THEM with my email client???
>
> man <your email client>.
>
>
> Me, I'd su to root and do "elm -f /var/spool/mail/root". Whassa
> problem?
>
> Peter
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Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 19:45:24 +0000
From: ThomasWalz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: export-command
Hallo Hubert,
if you run script just calling its name, a subshell will be started. The
definitions are then made in the subshell.
You have to call your script
. scriptname
The point followed by a blank causes the script to be run your current
shell.
Thomas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hubert Ming wrote:
>
> dear lingurx
> i'd like to export a few environments-variables on linux-box. so i created a
> small script (export_it) which contains my exports:
>
> export http_proxy=http://proxy.s1.ch:8080/
> export ftp_proxy=http://proxy.s1.ch:8080/
> .........
>
> to run the script now i simply can activate my export_it-script. but the
> export's are not set in bash-shell from which i started the script. how can
> i export the 'export-script' in my shell...
>
> thanx alot
> hubert
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From: "Volker Kalms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dump win98 partition
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:17:53 +0200
Hi all,
since I have linux 6.2 and also win98 on my PC I would like to use linux
to do a full backup of the win98 partition.
How is it possible to do this and how can I restore the backup after
win98 is totaly messed up and the computer cries for a new installation ???
Since I am not working with linux for a long time it would be greate if
anyone
could give me a hint !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many thanks in advance.
Volker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Installing Red Hat, and Turbo Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Sep 2000 13:09:26 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leonard Evens wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Is installing Red Hat and Turbo Linux on the same hard
>> drive okay? Since there are several different versions
>> of Linux, I am interested in playing with them.
>> ...
>You shouldn't have any problem if install lilo for one and not
>the other. That lilo should be able to boot either. If you
>install lilo in both, it is possible you could have some problems
>but I'm pretty sure the last lilo you installed would be the
>one the system was using.
>...
>It is possible that lilo may fail for one or both OSs because
>of the 1024 cylinder limit. Each kernel must be in a partition
>entirely below that limit for the versions of lilo currently
>...
I have several distros installed on my machine. Note, you can share
swap partitions. You can also share things like /home if created as
a separately mounted filesystem. For things like lilo, it's probably
best to let one Linux partition control the lilo config.
When you want to have lilo boot other linux partitions, lilo needs to
be able to access the kernel images for those partitions. Therefore, you'll
have to temporarily mount those partitions and provide proper pathnames to
those kernel images (and initrd's if required). Lilo won't install if
it can't find those kernel images. Alternately, you could copy those
kernel images into the partition which you've selected to control lilo.
Lilo doesn't care which partition they're in, it just has to obtain the
physical addresses of the kernel images.
Incidentally, the latest lilo purportedly ignores the 1024-cylinder limit.
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Dave Brown Austin, TX
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