Linux-Misc Digest #737, Volume #25 Mon, 11 Sep 00 18:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Kernel question (The Drag)
Re: MS Word Format Automation - StarOffice?? (Andrew J. Perrin)
Re: no such file or directory (Steve Yelvington)
promise controller ultra66 problems (Ken Siersma)
Re: Apache: don't have permission to access / on this server (red hat 6.2) (Mike)
Re: Have An Hour?(Maybe Two) Alright Proceed....... (Mike)
rpm building problems (Praedor Tempus)
setting up a router ("Darren Welson")
Re: how to mount a drive during start-up? (Hammer)
Re: efax and .ps files ("David Quinn")
Re: Apache: don't have permission to access / on this server (red hat 6.2) ("Peter
T. Breuer")
Re: Technical information about ispell (Josef Oswald)
Re: efax and .ps files ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Linux on TV! (sorry!) (Scott Alfter)
Re: setting up a router (Shawn Stone)
Linux test available for download (Tony Lawrence)
Re: MS Word Format Automation - StarOffice?? ("Christopher A. Stevens")
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (sinister-catsup)
Alias in a shell skript (ThomasWalz)
Re: umount: /usr: device busy (Hal Burgiss)
Re: What's eating my disk space? (Tony Lawrence)
Re: what is the ORB? (Grant Edwards)
Re: What's eating my disk space? (Tony Lawrence)
Re: How to delete -ash (ThomasWalz)
Re: umount: /usr: device busy ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: MS Word Format Automation - StarOffice?? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Score another one for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: no such file or directory (Chris J/#6)
you can turn the power off now ("Dan Jacobson")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Drag)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Kernel question
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:15:50 GMT
Where does the server hang on bootup? Are you able to complete the
boot process if you use the boot disk created during the install?
Have you considered creating a new ISO image with the 2.2.16-3 kernel?
You could also download a new ISO distro and burn it onto a cdrom.
Another option is setting up Redhat Kickstart with the distrubution on
another server.
A quick work-around is also possible with a boot disk to avoid the
RAID issue until you have the newer kernel installed.
If you don't have a cd burner, you could also do an install direct
from a drive partition by copying the distribution to a partition on
the target boot harddrive.
All of these options are explained on the Redhat Install Support
website. Sometimes it helps to have someone tell you that other
options actually exist.
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:40:12 +1000, Greg Goossens
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>I have a question regarding a problem I have that I need to find a
>simple solution for I am hoping that someone has a neat workaround for
>this.
>
>I need to setup an IBM Netfinity 6000 with Redhat 6.2 but the kernel in
>the ISO image I have is a 2.2.14 kernel and the only kernel that
>supports the RAID adapter is a 2.2.16-3 kernel. I can install redhat
>using the device driver provided from IBM but when I reboot after the
>initial install the system hangs. As I have said IBM say I need the
>2.2.16-3 kernel.
>
>Is the solution as simple as getting another release of redhat that has
>the correct kernel in the original install (if possible ) or do I have
>to build a redhat install on another disk upgrade that kernel and
>somehow move the entire load to another disk using dd of a similar util.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew J. Perrin)
Subject: Re: MS Word Format Automation - StarOffice??
Date: 11 Sep 2000 15:19:34 -0400
"Christopher A. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
> Any TEX people out there?? What if I were to just use GNUPLOT with TEX
> output instead of matlab? I don't know a thing about this program (TEX,
> LATEX), but have wanted to learn. Can MS Word formats be created using
> this?
> --
> Christopher A. Stevens
I wouldn't call myself a LaTeX "person" (at least not yet) but I use
it for general writing. As far as I've found there's no LaTeX->Word
direct converter, however, there is latex2rtf and word likes rtf, so
if that works you can send it to your customers that way.
Also, the standard outputs from LaTeX are postscript or pdf; pretty
much anyone can read pdf on any platform.
ap
--
======================================================================
Andrew Perrin - Solaris-Linux-NT-Samba-Perl-Access-Postgres Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
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From: Steve Yelvington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no such file or directory
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:27:03 GMT
Andreas Kahari wrote:
> Does the executable file 'quake.x11' really live in the directory
> where you stand? Try removing the './' from that command line (I think
> 'quake.x11' is somewhere in your $PATH, but not in your current
> directory).
Yes, it's in /usr/local/games/quake and I'm in /usr/local/games/quake. All
of the required files are in the id subdirectory.
--
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From: Ken Siersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: promise controller ultra66 problems
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:23:34 +0000
Hello,
I'm trying to setup a dual processor system with an ultra66 promise
controller. A friend of mine told me I had to put the controller in one
of the slots, boot into my RedHat linux 6.1 installation disk, and
select another terminal to look at /proc/pci. What I get for the
promise controller section is this:
Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0xeff0 [0xeff1].
I/O at 0xefe4 [0xefe5].
I/O at 0xefa8 [0xefa9].
I/O at 0xefe0 [0xefe1].
I/O at 0xef00 [0xef01].
I'm new at this, and he told me to use the RedHat 6.2 bootnet.img (with
promise controller support) and to enter
text ide2=0xeff0,0xefe4
at the boot prompt, taking the addresses from the first two entries
above. I've done this, but whenever I try to boot (with my freshly made
boot disk) after the install is finished, I get a kernel panic, can't
mount root.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: Re: Apache: don't have permission to access / on this server (red hat 6.2)
Date: 11 Sep 2000 12:04:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Our newsgroup friend frank wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>With my fresh install I have the following message in my browser when I
>http://192.168.0.1 : Forbidden you don't have permission to access / on
>this server.
>
>1) I am logged in as root !
>2) the httpd responds when I use file:/home/httpd/html/index.html
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think that's the problem- change permissions of that directory to
rwxrwxrwx
I hope it'll help!
If it doesn't, then it may concern your DNS and httpd.conf
Try
http://localhost
If it works- then you'll have to modify your httpd.conf
Good Luck!
--
Mike ( mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: Re: Have An Hour?(Maybe Two) Alright Proceed.......
Date: 11 Sep 2000 12:08:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Our newsgroup friend QNA wrote:
>1) How can i get linux to detect my graphics card so i can get what it is
>capable of visually? The problem is when i go into the /etc/X11/XF86Setup
>file to change things the next time i wanna startx it locks up and i can
>no longer get into my desktop, i get an error. this causes me to re-
>install linux again. i am nervous to make any changes to my graphics files
>because of this, but if you know.......what can i do?
Install X 4.0 - it'll help.
>
>2) When i get a Modem Locked Message what do i do?
You probably have winmodem installed- check out the vendor and model-
and if it's winmodem- it won't work. (except of Zoltrix Phanthom- you
can use the driver).
--
Mike ( mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rpm building problems
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:19:28 -0600
I have been trying to build XFree86-4.0.1 over
this last weekend with no success.
I am running a Mandrake 7.1 system with rpm-3.0.5,
glibc-2.1.3. I downloaded the Mandrake Cooker/7.2
beta XFree86-4.0.1 mdk.rpm and tried the normal
"rpm --rebuild XFree86...". It installs and goes
thru the build process, seemingly without problems,
but when it come to the end, I get no binary rpms.
I see no error messages. What is the deal with
rpm not installing, compiling, and then failing
to actually produce a binary rpm at the VERY end...
without ANY error messages?
Has anyone else run into this sort of behavior? If
so, what should I check to try to fix this?
praedor
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From: "Darren Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: setting up a router
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:42:40 -0700
I am setting up a router/firewall on my home LAN. I have a Linux box acting
as the router and windows boxes going through the linux box. On my windows
boxes which NIC should I point to as my gateway, the internal LAN NIC, or
the external (internet) NIC?
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From: Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to mount a drive during start-up?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:24:39 GMT
Thanks Frank, interesting info!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Frank Ranner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hammer wrote:
> > [snip]
> Is this a private argument or can anyone join in?
Jump right in, by all means :)
> There is an abstraction at the fs driver level. If you look at
> the mount options
> for FAT you will notice a uid=value and gid=value parameter. This sets
> the user and
> group for the entire filesystem. The default is whoever mounts the fs,
> usually root.
Aaaaaah. I get it (eureka!).
> Another option is to mount as umsdos, which then stores unix
> metadata in dos files
> in each directory, with the obvious performance implications that that
> entails.
Good to know! Overkill for me, but this is good to know for future
ref. Tx.
[snip]
> file security is taken very seriously.
As I would expect.
> Keep persevering with Linux. It really is a powerful system once
> you get tha hang of it.
I was. I am. I will. Cheers. :)
-=hammer
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "David Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: efax and .ps files
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:28:06 +0100
Thanks Peter.
Microsoft call it ADSC or as they put it 'Optimize for portability"!
Unfortunately, changing to this setting still created the printer entries in
the file. I'm going to try a few more postscript printer drivers in case
this 'feature' isn't implemeted correctly in the HP 4 driver I'm using
David
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8pgssr$rua$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> David Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Not being a postscript expert, can anyone advise me how I print to a
> : postscript file in a Windows client without including any
printer-specific
> : header information.
>
>
> You tick the well hidden little box for "produce standard postscript,
> not some deliberately mutilated windows version designed to make the
> world think that only windows gets it right".
>
> As far as I recall, the acronym they use to disguise "produce standard
> PS" is pretty opaque. APSD? Something like that.
>
> Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache: don't have permission to access / on this server (red hat 6.2)
Date: 11 Sep 2000 20:34:15 GMT
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>1) I am logged in as root !
:>2) the httpd responds when I use file:/home/httpd/html/index.html
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: I think that's the problem- change permissions of that directory to
: rwxrwxrwx
: I hope it'll help!
And your next joke is ... ?
The correct permissions are 644. It's a file, not a directory. The
directory above and the path components to there should have
permissions 755.
Peter
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From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Technical information about ispell
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:54:09 GMT
You could ask this question in the comp.emacs.xemacs newsgroup, I have
seen quite a few posting regarding ispell there..
hth :-)
Josef Oswald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>
> Somebody knows where is technical information about ispell.
>
> I have read the man pages but I have not found some answers. For
> example, how many flags can be used to write an affix file? I know that
> setting MASKBITS to 32 you can use 32 flags, and that setting MASKBITS
> to 64 you can use 64 flags, but can you use MASKBITS 128 or 256?. If the
> previous question is answered positively, what sign can be used as
> flags?
>
> Is there any list, newsgroup ou webpage about this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: efax and .ps files
Date: 11 Sep 2000 20:49:18 GMT
David Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Microsoft call it ADSC or as they put it 'Optimize for portability"!
: Unfortunately, changing to this setting still created the printer entries in
: the file. I'm going to try a few more postscript printer drivers in case
: this 'feature' isn't implemeted correctly in the HP 4 driver I'm using
Once you have got the postscript into standard form, you can get rid of
the jcl or whatever at the top using the ps2ps filter that normally
comes with the pstools suite. Otherwise, tail -3 or whatever shoudl do
nicely as a filter.
The ADSC should tell them to include the fonts too, and not tell the
postscript code to make a windows call for it later ...
: Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:8pgssr$rua$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:> David Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : Not being a postscript expert, can anyone advise me how I print to a
:> : postscript file in a Windows client without including any printer-specific
:> : header information.
:> You tick the well hidden little box for "produce standard postscript,
:> not some deliberately mutilated windows version designed to make the
:> world think that only windows gets it right".
:> As far as I recall, the acronym they use to disguise "produce standard
:> PS" is pretty opaque. APSD? Something like that.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Linux on TV! (sorry!)
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 20:58:46 GMT
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>Not really surprising is it, in that situation, would you want a fatal error
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It would definitely give "blue screen of death" a whole new meaning...
GDRLH...
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From: Shawn Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: setting up a router
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:02:32 -0600
Darren Welson wrote:
> I am setting up a router/firewall on my home LAN. I have a Linux box acting
> as the router and windows boxes going through the linux box. On my windows
> boxes which NIC should I point to as my gateway, the internal LAN NIC, or
> the external (internet) NIC.
That depends on how your Linux box is configured, but most likely, you're going
to want to set your workstations to point to the lan NIC on the linux box. Just
a guess, but the linux box will probably handle the routing portion.
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux test available for download
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:04:13 -0400
For some time now, I have made my 530+ question Linux Skills
Test available at http://aplawrence.com/linuxtest.html
The complete test is now also available for download at
http://aplawrence.com/download.html
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: "Christopher A. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS Word Format Automation - StarOffice??
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:19:21 -0400
"Andrew J. Perrin" wrote:
>
> "Christopher A. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ...
> > Any TEX people out there?? What if I were to just use GNUPLOT with TEX
> > output instead of matlab? I don't know a thing about this program (TEX,
> > LATEX), but have wanted to learn. Can MS Word formats be created using
> > this?
> > --
> > Christopher A. Stevens
>
> I wouldn't call myself a LaTeX "person" (at least not yet) but I use
> it for general writing. As far as I've found there's no LaTeX->Word
> direct converter, however, there is latex2rtf and word likes rtf, so
> if that works you can send it to your customers that way.
>
> Also, the standard outputs from LaTeX are postscript or pdf; pretty
> much anyone can read pdf on any platform.
>
> ap
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Perrin - Solaris-Linux-NT-Samba-Perl-Access-Postgres Consulting
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for the reply. I didn't want to start climbing the LaTex
learning curve, only to find a dead end. RTF to MS Office will probably
work, as long as the RTF format supports embedded graphs. Basically I
make the graphs, and my customer writes his report around the graphs. I
didn't want to send him/her a bunch of graph files that they would have
to spend days importing. And everyone here is pretty much MS Office
dependent. Since MS Office won't import PDF or postscript (I don't
think), that would not be an option.
--
Christopher A. Stevens
Navigation/Data Reduction
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Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: sinister-catsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:18:40 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner) wrote:
> Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Lina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> spake unto us, saying:
>=20
> >I'm a Linux newbie. What is the percentage of computers and servers
> >running Linux now.
>=20
> That's a very difficult question to answer, since many copies of Linux
> are installed based on downloaded versions (or legally copied versions)
> and don't show up anywhere as retail sales.
>=20
> Out of curiosity, why is this information important to you?
>=20
> >Will an end-user alternative similar to Linux appear anytime soon?
>=20
> Nontechnical-user-friendly alternative OSes like OS/2 have existed for
> years, but have been overlooked for a variety of reasons (the two most
> common being spelled M-A-R-K-E-T-S-H-A-R-E and N-O-P-R-E-L-O-A-D-S).
>=20
> Today, I would still consider OS/2 and BeOS to be viable alternatives
> for a subset of PC users, and UNIX-Like OSes like Linux and FreeBSD to
> be viable alternatives for others.
>=20
> A lot depends on one's level of expertise and on one's precise needs.
sadly lina, with OS/2, the driver support and hardware compatiblity will =
likely
suffer from IBM's negligence in supporting it, and BeOS it getting better=
with
that still needs work.
I dont think OS/2 is quite viable for anyone but a minimalist and BeOS ne=
eds a
competent sales force if it wants a piece of the desktop marketshare.
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:24:54 +0000
From: ThomasWalz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Alias in a shell skript
I set in a shell skript an alias and use it in the
same skript.
Example "Aliastst"
======================================
#!/bin/sh
alias showdir='ls'
echo "Show Def. of alias showdir : `alias | grep showdir` "
showdir
======================================
If i run Aliastst only by typing its name
in a new subshell the alias showdir seems not
to be defined.
>Aliastst
Show Def. of alias showdir : alias showdir='ls'
./Aliastst: showdir: command not found
If i start it in the current subshell the
skript works as expected:
>. Aliastst
Show Def. of alias showdir : alias showdir='ls'
Adobe.ps mouseswap t.lis
Aliastst x.lis
Does anybody has got an idea?
Thanks in advance.
Please send your response to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best regards,
Thomas Walz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: umount: /usr: device busy
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:29:53 GMT
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:55:04 -0500, Andrew N. McGuire
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Davide Bianchi quoth:
>
>DB> Ok, I don't know what happened today, but now I can't shutdown the
>DB> server (Linux kernel 2.2.17) because the umount keep telling me
>DB> that the /usr is busy, so it wont' umount....
>DB>
>DB> I've already killed all the deamons, basically there is nothing
>DB> alive... How can I know what is using /usr ?
>DB>
>DB> Any idea ?
>
>fuser -u /usr
If you still don't find anything, thing the fs is buggered somehow. Been
there.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's eating my disk space?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:35:44 -0400
Sjoerd Langkemper wrote:
>
> I executed this
>
> [root@server /root]# cat diskfree.sh
> df
> sleep 60
> df
> sleep 60
Try this instead:
while true
do
sleep 60
df
done
> What's eating my disk space when it's not /var/log/messages?
I have an article at http://pcunix.com/nixart/nospace.html
that might be able to help ou find out- it was written for a
different Unix, but most of it applies to Linux directly.
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: what is the ORB?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:37:54 GMT
In article <CVxu5.32891$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nesman wrote:
>anyone knows the orb is?
My ORB is a 2.2G removable-media hard drive from Castlewood
Systems, Inc. I've got the external SCSI model, and it works
quite nicely. 2.2G disks are $30 each.
http://www.castlewood.com/
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Oh my GOD -- the
at SUN just fell into YANKEE
visi.com STADIUM!!
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's eating my disk space?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:41:25 -0400
Tony Lawrence wrote:
>
> Sjoerd Langkemper wrote:
> >
> > I executed this
> >
> > [root@server /root]# cat diskfree.sh
> > df
> > sleep 60
> > df
> > sleep 60
>
> Try this instead:
>
> while true
> do
> sleep 60
> df
> done
>
> > What's eating my disk space when it's not /var/log/messages?
>
> I have an article at http://pcunix.com/nixart/nospace.html
> that might be able to help ou find out- it was written for a
> different Unix, but most of it applies to Linux directly.
Bad typing: http://pcunix.com/Unixart/nospace.html , sorry
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:44:28 +0000
From: ThomasWalz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to delete -ash
rm =B4-ash=B4
Herb Stein wrote:
> =
> rm ./-ash
> =
> Barry OGrady wrote:
> =
> > How can I delete a file called -ash?
> > When I try rm treats the file name as parameters.
> >
> > Barry
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > Voicemail/fax number: (02) 85698004
> > Web page: http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~barryog
> > Atheist, scanner, LIPD information, horse pictures
> > Updated 27/07/00
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: umount: /usr: device busy
Date: 11 Sep 2000 21:36:54 GMT
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:55:04 -0500, Andrew N. McGuire
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Davide Bianchi quoth:
:>DB> Ok, I don't know what happened today, but now I can't shutdown the
:>DB> server (Linux kernel 2.2.17) because the umount keep telling me
:>DB> that the /usr is busy, so it wont' umount....
:>DB>
:>DB> I've already killed all the deamons, basically there is nothing
:>DB> alive... How can I know what is using /usr ?
Well, if you eliminate all the daemons, what is left is the kernel, and
kernel threads. Any NFS exports, for example?
: If you still don't find anything, thing the fs is buggered somehow. Been
: there.
Yes. (s/fs/os/)
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS Word Format Automation - StarOffice??
Date: 11 Sep 2000 21:39:07 GMT
Christopher A. Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Andrew J. Perrin" wrote:
:> "Christopher A. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
: Thanks for the reply. I didn't want to start climbing the LaTex
: learning curve, only to find a dead end. RTF to MS Office will probably
What latex learning curve? I never used anything to learn to write latex
with! Just a glance at an example file, of which there are many!
: work, as long as the RTF format supports embedded graphs. Basically I
Whatever that means.
: make the graphs, and my customer writes his report around the graphs. I
: didn't want to send him/her a bunch of graph files that they would have
: to spend days importing. And everyone here is pretty much MS Office
: dependent. Since MS Office won't import PDF or postscript (I don't
: think), that would not be an option.
MS office imports PS fine. So does latex.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Score another one for Linux
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:39:01 GMT
What programme in Linux?
In article <8pj7sn$o2k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I regularly do long raytraces - gave up on final tracing in Windows
(PovRay)
> after one scene kept consistently rebooting the maching.
>
> Switched to Linux and those problems simply dissappeared -
literally!! My
> current render has been grinding away for about 50 hours now - in
Doze I
> never got more than about 25 without some kind of snafu, foul up or
crash...
>
> Long Live Linux!!
>
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris J/#6)
Subject: Re: no such file or directory
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Sep 2000 22:41:55 +0100
Steve Yelvington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm getting an error message when I try to run either quake or squake on a
>fresh install of Mandrake 7.2 beta. Witness:
>
># ./quake.x11
>bash: ./quake.x11: No such file or directory
>
>I've found some postings on the net that suggest a missing library can
>cause this message. I do have both glibc and libc5 available on this
>machine, ld.so.conf appears to be configured correctly, et cetera.
>
>Any clues, or advice on how to diagnose?
>
"ldd ./quake.x11" will list libraries used by the app. If that fails, then
"strings quake.x11 | head" will show the first few vital libs in the binary:
A libc5 binary will have: /lib/ld-linux.so.1 in the first line or two
A libc6 binary will have: /lib/ld-linux.so.2
You may need to install either libc5 runtime or libc6/glibc2 runtime,
depending on what you find :)
Chris...
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: you can turn the power off now
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:38:01 +0800
Recommendation: whereas windows has the comfy 'you can safely turn the
power off now' screen [funny, why doesn't it also tell us when to turn the
power back on? :-)]; and whereas Linux seems to only have the two words
"power off" come out on the screen [is it telling me to turn the power
off, or is it saying that it turned the power off, and if so, why is my
computer still whirring?]
Therefore: Linux should be more clear. [At least my distribution and
probably yours.]
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