Linux-Misc Digest #844, Volume #25 Sat, 23 Sep 00 14:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: which editor should I learn VI or EMACS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: get user ID from user name (Scott Hunter)
Re: Text file busy (Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (lyttlec)
Wait a long time at Starting Sendmail (Dzung Nguyen)
Re: non-interactive mail client (Tony Lawrence)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (lyttlec)
Re: End-User Alternative to Windows (lyttlec)
Re: Easily compiling/moving kernel+modules to another computer (Douglas Bollinger)
Re: Wait a long time at Starting Sendmail (Peter Bishop)
Re: Wait a long time at Starting Sendmail (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: Spam from Storm Linux (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: Spam from Storm Linux (Robert Lynch)
Re: Ethernet interface problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Implications ("Peter T. Breuer")
question about dual boot setup, re: xcopy (Apostata)
Re: mouse not working in Corel Linux ("Sajith")
Re: get user ID from user name (Amit)
Re: get user ID from user name ("Martin Adler")
Re: 4004 (David C.)
Want Linux Tutorials & More ("SEATTLE")
Re: Want Linux Tutorials ,Dnloads & More ("SEATTLE")
Re: Kernel 2.2.17 ( problem to get vfat support) (Josef Oswald)
Help--readonly nfs mounts (Bob Terrell)
Netscape fonts (Gregory Propf)
Re: Netscape fonts (Bit Twister)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: which editor should I learn VI or EMACS
Date: 23 Sep 2000 16:07:57 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrew N. McGuire
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Charles Samuels quoth:
> BTW, how do you go straight to line 121 in pico?
pico +121 filename
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From: Scott Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: get user ID from user name
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:24:35 -0700
Amit wrote:
>
> How to get the ID (uid) of any user ? Is there any function in
> Linux/Unix that returns the user id if I have user name as input
> ......getuid(username)?
>
> -Amit
Try the shell command id -u
--
Scott Hunter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.surrealistic.org
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Subject: Re: Text file busy
From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Sep 2000 18:29:55 +0300
Rick Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have gotten (Text file busy) this after I edit with vi a
> perl script, the script will not execute, the only way
> to get rid of this is to reboot.
Check with fuser which program is holding the file open, and make
it close the file; kill the process if nothing else works.
Or replace the script with a fresh copy:
cp -p SCRIPT temp && mv temp SCRIPT
You could also try running it explicitly with perl (perl SCRIPT);
this might skip the text-file check in the kernel.
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From: lyttlec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:24:05 GMT
chrisv wrote:
>
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:44:05 +0100, Garry Knight
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I remember sitting in my local launderette building a Forth-based OS for the
> >Spectrum by writing opcodes into a pocket notebook (which, of course, in those
> >days was made of paper). Ah, the good ol' days... :o)
>
> You think that's bad, in tech school (early 80's) we each had to build
> a simple Z80 computer. Programming this computer was done via direct
> machine-code (of course). The really bad part was that loading the
> program into memory consisted of flipping switches on a 8-position DIP
> switch for each byte, followed by a press of a button to load that
> byte in. Talk about stupid!
You think that's bad, in my tech school days we programmed the computer
with "plug boards". Put one end of the blue wire into the green hole and
the other into the red hole type of thing. We thought it was great when
we got a computer with tubes instead of relays.
We also walked two miles to school every day bare foot in the snow.
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From: Dzung Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wait a long time at Starting Sendmail
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:30:06 GMT
At boot time the machine stuck at 'Starting Sendmail' quite a bit around
5 minutes.
What is happenning there ? Can one do something to reduce the wait time
there or
is it safe to bypass it ? and if so how ?
Thanks in advance ...
Dzung
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: non-interactive mail client
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:40:25 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Any help on this would be great.
>
> I've got this script I run on my SuSe 6.4 server. At the moment it
> requires user input - but I want to make it interactive so I can run it
> via cron. The last action is to send an email with two attachments - a
> CSV file and a plain text file. At the moment I am using this command
>
> pine [EMAIL PROTECTED] -attachlist file.csv file.txt
>
> Which takes me into to pine and composes an empty message to the
> address given with the two files as attachments. I have to manually add
> a subject, message body and send it. pine has a -I flag to include
> keystrokes - but it seems to ignore the control codes for sending the
> mail.
>
> Of course I could do something like
>
> cat file.csv file.txt | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> but I don't want them in the body, I want them as attachments.
>
> Does anyone know how I can do this?
mutt.
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: lyttlec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:40:55 GMT
Roberto Alsina wrote:
> =
> El vie, 22 sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi=F3:
> >Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:00092210093302.27004@pc03...
> >> El vie, 22 sep 2000, D. Spider escribi=F3:
> >> >It appears that on Thu, 21 Sep 2000 18:19:51 -0300, in
> >> >comp.os.linux.advocacy Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> >wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>El jue, 21 sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi=F3:
> >> >>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> For most early-era operating systems, there was not much of a
> >> >>>> difference between binary and source code.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Have you ever written anything in machine language. The differenc=
e
> >> >>>between machine language and even a primitive assembler is HUGE.
> >> >>
> >> >>Z80 machine language inserted in a REM statement in a Sinclair 100=
0
> >> >>(ZX81 clone) counts?
> >> >
> >> >Hahah you too? I did the same thing, well, not on the 1000, but on =
the
> >> >related Timex/Sinclairs, the 2068 in particular.
> >>
> >> You rich guys with 16 colors and over 16KB of RAM ;-)
> >
> >We used to do the same thing with the TRS-80 Model I, only rather than=
REM's
> >we would load the machine code into string variables.
> =
> The funny thing about those REMs in a sinclair was that that thing used=
a sort
> of insane ASCII where the higher chars contained lots of things, from
> semi-graphic characters to actual basic keywords!
> =
> So, for example, if you had a 0xF0, it could display as a "THEN", which=
was, of
> course, something entirely different from the 4 chars THEN :-). In fact=
, it
> *was* possible to enter any opcode by hand directly, only that it would=
have
> been even MORE insane ;-)
> =
> --
> Roberto Alsina
An interesting point is that those techniques still work today. You can
do some very fun stuff by loading a program into memory and having it
modify itself on the fly. Most compilers won't let you generate such
code, so you have to do it by hand.
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From: lyttlec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: End-User Alternative to Windows
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:48:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <HTOx5.1724$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Yannick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Now consider someone working with his computer for interactive tasks
> > (wordprocessing, drawing, multimedia, etc...). What the job is about
> is
> > communicating with the machine, so one of the major quality
> requirements
> > will be a rich user interface. I personnally prefer (for interactive
> tasks)
> > software that has a rich interface (for instance Windows apps using
> the GUI
> > intensively) to software that I can run for three days without a
> crash,
>
> There are several problems with that. First, for an end user, a major
> part of quality is being able to figure out how to do his job. If the
> help data are useless nad the hardcopy manuals are a joke, then it
> doesn't matter how pretty or rich the interface is. Not that I agree
> that the m$ interface is either; it isn't.
>
> Another problem is that a crash often loses the user's data, and even
> when it doesn't it disrupts his train of thought. I doubt that you would
> get a user looking at the BSOD to agree that it is quality.
>
> --
> --
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
>
> "A BIND is a terrible thing to waste"
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
But, from MS standpoint, NT/95/98/2k/Me is quality. It meets the
requirements of MS marketing, it got to market, and they have something
they can force OEMs to use without getting too many end users upset.
There is no Quality requirement at MS for the product to actually work.
Your definition of Quality and my definition of Quality differ, but they
don't count.
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From: Douglas Bollinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Easily compiling/moving kernel+modules to another computer
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 12:53:24 -0400
-ljl- at [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > There must be many people besides me who perform this operation and
> > who have streamlined it. I suppose ideally I'm looking for a script
> > to collect the modules, kernel image and system map into a tarball
> > for easy movement to Tortoise.
>
> Excerpt from '/usr/src/linux/Makefile':
>
> # INSTALL_PATH specifies where to place the updated kernel and system
> map
> # images. Uncomment if you want to place them anywhere other than root.
>
> INSTALL_PATH=/boot
>
> #
> # INSTALL_MOD_PATH specifies a prefix to MODLIB for module directory
> # relocations required by build roots. This is not defined in the
> # makefile but the argument can be passed to make if needed.
>
> Guess you just edit the Makefile. It's OK to be lazy as long as you
> are not idolent.
/me slaps head.
Jeesh, how did I miss that? That's painfully obvious. I scanned
the makefile, but I guess what I wanted and what was presented was
different. Thanks for the pointer. This was absolutely fix my
problem.
PS. Don't you meant "indolent"
--
Douglas Bollinger
Mt. Holly Springs, PA
My other computer runs Linux.
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From: Peter Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wait a long time at Starting Sendmail
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:53:41 GMT
This is most likely due to Sendmail unable to resolve your machines
hostname. Check the Sendmail log....
Dzung Nguyen wrote:
>
> At boot time the machine stuck at 'Starting Sendmail' quite a bit around
> 5 minutes.
> What is happenning there ? Can one do something to reduce the wait time
> there or
> is it safe to bypass it ? and if so how ?
>
> Thanks in advance ...
>
> Dzung
--
"In a world without walls and fences...
Who needs Windows and Gates?"
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Subject: Re: Wait a long time at Starting Sendmail
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:57:58 GMT
Dzung Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At boot time the machine stuck at 'Starting Sendmail' quite a bit around
> 5 minutes.
> What is happenning there ? Can one do something to reduce the wait time
> there or
> is it safe to bypass it ? and if so how ?
>
> Thanks in advance ...
>
> Dzung
Make sure you defined a 'fully qualified domain name' as in
'localhost.localdomain.com'
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Spam from Storm Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:01:25 GMT
Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This morning I got two spam mails from Storm Linux. A "Welcome
> To "Stormletters"!" and "[Stormletters] StormLetters - September
> Issue". I assume this is the result of having my having posted
> to Linux newsgroups. Anyone else getting this?
>
> The Storm folks can not claim they didn't know what they were
> doing. And what they are doing --SPAMing people-- is not
> acceptable, at least to me.
>
> Bob L.
> --
> Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you go to the Linuxworld Expo and fill out their forms to get a
free gift?
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Spam from Storm Linux
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 10:27:35 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Prasanth A. Kumar" wrote:
>
> Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > This morning I got two spam mails from Storm Linux. A "Welcome
> > To "Stormletters"!" and "[Stormletters] StormLetters - September
> > Issue". I assume this is the result of having my having posted
> > to Linux newsgroups. Anyone else getting this?
> >
> > The Storm folks can not claim they didn't know what they were
> > doing. And what they are doing --SPAMing people-- is not
> > acceptable, at least to me.
> >
> > Bob L.
> > --
> > Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Did you go to the Linuxworld Expo and fill out their forms to get a
> free gift?
>
> --
> Prasanth Kumar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ah, yes! That's where they got the info. Looks like I am going
to regret that action.
Thanks for answering. Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ethernet interface problem
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:08:45 -0600
In article <8qdkh8$uqr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chakravarthy Sannedhi"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using the Redhat linux for a particular project. I had problem whenever
> i reboot my machine. Whenever i reboot the two ethernet interface cards
> (eth0 and eth1) on my machine are becoming inactive. So all the time i am
> doing the following course to make them active.
> System -> Control Panel -> Networking configuration
> after that i am pressing the Interfaces tab and making them acive and then
> quit.
> Is there any permanent solution to get around this problem. What is the
> command i could use. How come they could be default active?
Do you have them set in netcfg (Network configuration of
control-panel) to get started on booting? It should have a place that
says 'atboot' if it is.
If you don't do that and try again.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.software.config-mgmt
Subject: Re: Implications
Date: 23 Sep 2000 17:20:25 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:45:25 GMT, paul snow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>Here is the equation:
:>
:> X --> P --> E
It's not an equation. There is no equals sign.
: 1. comp.os.linux.advocacy
: 2. comp.os.linux.misc
: 3. comp.os.linux.setup
: 4. comp.software.config-mgmt
: I'm seeing it through 4 where it is slightly topical, but uninteresting. The
: presence of 1 removes any doubt that you are a troll. The contents remove any
: doubt that you are a boring kook with uninteresting, unoriginal ideas who is in
: need of professional help.
Amen. I couldn't follow the stream of thought, and if I couldn't, few
people can. I think he is trying to say something connected with the
old idea of maintaining a programs history along with its code. In, say,
a functional programming environment (like unix!), this happens naturally
at the level of files when you rewrite code, so long as you are careful
to copy and modify the code, and not to modify it in situ, because then
the old inode is preserved. So long as it is referenced, it can be
recovered! People have sometimes suggested or even tried turning "rm"
into an operation like "mv foo hiddendir/foo.verN". He may even
be suggesting the idea of doing this at the object level, whatever
the object level is in the system in question(in unix, this IS the file
level). That could be lines of code, or even bytes.
Hey! I understood that!
Peter
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From: Apostata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: question about dual boot setup, re: xcopy
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:30:04 -0000
Hello,
I'm interested in installing Linux on my Win98 system (dual boot).
However, I'm also planning to upgrade my hard drive soon.
Is it possible to "xcopy" everything (Windows & Linux) from one HD to
another, or will it be more complicated than that?
I've never used Linux before, so please take this into account :)
P.S. I'm leaning towards Mandrake 7.1
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: "Sajith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mouse not working in Corel Linux
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:00:42 +0530
Christoph Haller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8qgi1r$e6n$11$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Sajith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > My mouse failed to work during the installation of Corel Linux. It
worked
> > fine in other distributions like Redhat. I managed the installation
without
> > the use of mouse and after the installation the mouse still doesn't
work!
> > How can I configure the mouse after the installation(in corel
distribution)?
> >
> >
> > Thanks to every one who tries to help.
>
> Why don't you tell us something abou how your mouse is connected to your
> computer (usb, ps/2, serial port) and if you try to use it in X or in
console?
>
> PS: Full Name is appreciated in this NG
>
> --
> Christoph Haller
> ceterum censeo microsoft esse dividendum
The mouse is connected through serial port and i tried to use in X.
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From: Amit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: get user ID from user name
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:33:09 -0700
Scott Hunter wrote:
> Amit wrote:
> >
> > How to get the ID (uid) of any user ? Is there any function in
> > Linux/Unix that returns the user id if I have user name as input
> > ......getuid(username)?
> >
> > -Amit
>
> Try the shell command id -u
>
> --
>
> Scott Hunter
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.surrealistic.org
Thanks
I want to use this in a program, do we have any function in Linux that
can do the same.. The second option obviously is to buffer the shell
command.
-Amit
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From: "Martin Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: get user ID from user name
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 19:36:47 +0200
What programming language are we talking about here?
in c++ i think it is getuid(username);
check the c++ reference manual
Martin
"Amit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
> Thanks
> I want to use this in a program, do we have any function in Linux that
> can do the same.. The second option obviously is to buffer the shell
> command.
>
> -Amit
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: 4004
Date: 23 Sep 2000 13:42:13 -0400
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> What about 286s?
> 186?
> 8086?
> 8080 with 4Kb memory?
> How about the original 4004 with 8 bytes of memory?
Nope.
The Linux kernel requires a flat memory model and a page-based virtual
memory system. For the x86 architecture, this mean a 386 (sx or dx) is
the minimum system requirements. The 286 used segments instead of pages
and doesn't support a flat memory model. Earlier x86 chips don't
support virtual memory at all.
Now, if you had asked about UNIX and not Linux, you'd have gotten a
different answer. Varieties of UNIX have existed for the 8088/8086. (I
doubt anything as substantial as UNIX could run on anything with only 4K
of RAM.)
I think the original Minix (which evolved in to Linux a long time ago)
could be compiled on 8088 systems.
> I know 5Mb disks are a challenge.
Keep in mind that a bare-bones Linux system can be installed on a single
1.44M floppy disk. The Linux Router project distributes such a build.
It's not useful for more than running the kernel and forwarding network
packets, but it works.
-- David
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From: "SEATTLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Want Linux Tutorials & More
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:50:26 GMT
U are welcome to visit this page...
Just a home page...No Banners..Commercials
What the Net Should Be...People helping people
--
You are welcome to visit our Home Page:
http://home.att.net/aubreyb
Links For:---Linux- Create Your Own PWP,Tutorials, Emoticons,
Acronyms,Internet Terms, Modem Help, Sites For Kids, Family, 150+Magazines
On Line,Seniors, Women, Health/ Medicines, Herbs ,Windows '95/ '98
Tutorials,Opera, Toll Free #s, PHP , How To Avoid Spam , WebCams & Much More
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From: "SEATTLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Want Linux Tutorials ,Dnloads & More
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:55:23 GMT
My goof:
Address S/B
http://home.att.net/~aubreyb
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Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.17 ( problem to get vfat support)
From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:57:50 GMT
Thanks Peter for your answer:-)
I found out that my version of the gcc compiler was _too_ old to do
the job.... Had a hard time getting the compiler to work so right now
I am stuck.
I am going to install Linux ( another distribution) and then fix
the problem..... :-)
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : The problem is that even though I do select MS-DOS and vfat support
> : during the configuration, at start up I read the message:
>
> : vfat not supported by kernel, also that no modules cant be found.
> : yet if I cd into /lib/modules/2.2.17/fs those models are being listed
> : there.
>
> : So what is the problem here?
>
> Perhaps you forgot to load those modules? (usually also implies that
> you forgot to run depmod -a). Perhaps you also forgot to clear out old
> ones? Since you don't give us a step by step list of what you did, we
> can't tell. What you needed to do was:
>
> make clean
> make oldconfig
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules-install
> (scuffle off with your kernel to some place, edit lilo.conf, run lilo).
> boot in single user runlevel and depmod -a (just in case not done for you)
> continue at your normal runlevel
>
> load the required modules using modprobe and try again.
>
> Peter
--
Josef Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
registered-linux-user # 13.818 at http://counter.li.org
Strange it works but we don't know why: it's Windows it does not have bugs
only features....
the lie of the 20th. century..... will it continue in the third Millennium?
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From: Bob Terrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help--readonly nfs mounts
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 13:58:31 -0400
I've got a RH 6.2 nfs server and both linux and solaris
clients. Everything works except the files are read only.
Things are specified (rw) in /etc/exports, and
exportfs -v shows that the server thinks it has
exported things rw. The clients' /etc/fstab asks for them
with rsize and wsize specified. Still I just get (ro).
The HOWTO mentions this, but I don't see where it says
how to fix it.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Bob
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From: Gregory Propf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.X
Subject: Netscape fonts
Date: 23 Sep 2000 13:54:13 -0400
Can anyone tell me if there is a quick fix to the crappy fonts in Linux
Netscape? Is there a particular set of fonts I can download from
somewhere that can fix this? What I'm talking about is the way certain
web pages come up with either VERY tiny fonts or fonts that are
obviously the wrong size and shape from what the webpage designer
intended. I'm running RedHat 6.2 and Netscape 4.72. TIA
--
Moon is following me, must...run...faster...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.X
Subject: Re: Netscape fonts
Reply-To: This_news_group.invalid
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 18:05:45 GMT
Have not checked these in a while
http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/#mozilla_fonts ! font fix
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/xwin/xfont.html ! font fix
http://216.78.197.97/xstuff/xfs.html ! xfs font server
http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf ! truetype font fix
http://home.powertech.no/rkaa/linux.html#fuzzy ! truetype font fixes
http://home.powertech.no/rkaa/linux.html#ttf ! guide to TrueType fonts
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~smithrod/wpfonts.html
http://www.1001freefonts.com ! truetype fonts
http://www.bitstream.com/webfont/gallery/announce.html ! font webpage check
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/ ! truetype fonts
http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html ! truetype fonts
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html ! truetype font fix
http://www.linuxkb.org/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html ! truetype font fix
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/fonts/trutypef.html !true type fonts hints
http://www.mindspring.net~john_mcl/adding_fonts.html
http://www.saber.net/~cmpcheap/nsjava.html ! netscape font/java fix
On 23 Sep 2000 13:54:13 -0400, Gregory Propf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone tell me if there is a quick fix to the crappy fonts in Linux
>Netscape? Is there a particular set of fonts I can download from
>somewhere that can fix this? What I'm talking about is the way certain
>web pages come up with either VERY tiny fonts or fonts that are
>obviously the wrong size and shape from what the webpage designer
>intended. I'm running RedHat 6.2 and Netscape 4.72. TIA
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