Linux-Misc Digest #942, Volume #25 Wed, 4 Oct 00 12:13:05 EDT
Contents:
calculation troubles with RH 6.2 (Ken Siersma)
Re: calculation troubles with RH 6.2 (Andreas K�h�ri)
Changing the Sizes of RAM Disks (Donald Heskett)
Very simple question (Andrew)
Re: NT + Linux dual boot, can I repair damaged NT loader? (Robert Wiegand)
mailing a file from command line (Andrew)
Changing Hostname differnces between LinuxConf and NetCfg ("Phil Hedley")
Re: mailing a file from command line (Hal Burgiss)
Re: MS Netmeeting under Linux? (Bill Pringlemeir)
Re: finding my hacks (enlightenment)
Re: Very simple question (Derek Jolly)
Re: slow? (Jeph Herrin)
Re: slow? (Jeph Herrin)
Where did XMPS go ??? ("Bryan Christ")
Re: mailing a file from command line (-ljl-)
Re: slow? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Newbie Question! (Sort Of!) (Steve)
Re: ppp setup in SuSE 6.2 (Steve)
Re: PATH (Steve)
Re: Installing a desktop icon (Steve)
Re: Printer driver for HP 932C (Grant Taylor)
Re: HELP! - Corel Linux install - data recovered!!! (Glen Stromquist)
Linux install problem (Jacob Hageman)
Re: Changing the Sizes of RAM Disks (-ljl-)
Re: Perl : ODBC and DBI with ActivePerl on Linux ("Etienne Laverdiere")
disk quota per directory (Ted George)
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From: Ken Siersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: calculation troubles with RH 6.2
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:10:15 +0000
We are experiencing small differences in rounding on our RH 6.2 systems
compared to our 6.0 machines in FORTRAN code. Has anyone else seen
this?
Ken
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Subject: Re: calculation troubles with RH 6.2
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 4 Oct 2000 16:18:32 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ken Siersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We are experiencing small differences in rounding on our RH 6.2 systems
>compared to our 6.0 machines in FORTRAN code. Has anyone else seen
>this?
>Ken
>
What compiler are you using? If it's g77, what does it print when you
say "g77 -v"? Are you using the same compilation options? How large
are the differences? Are they exactly reproducable? What hardware do
you run?
/A
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Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
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From: Donald Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing the Sizes of RAM Disks
Date: 04 Oct 2000 09:17:49 -0500
Following the example in www.tcu-inc.com/mark/articles/Ramdisk.html, I was
able to create a RAM disk. It worked fine when I wrote files to it, read their
contents, etc. Default size of the RAM disk was about 4Meg.
Following the instructions in the same article, I tried to change the default
size of RAM disks to 10Meg. I added the line "ramdisk=10000" to the end of
lilo.conf, then rebooted, and followed the same procedure as before to create
a ramdisk. However, its size was still 4Meg.
I'm running RedHat Linux 2.2.12-20 #1.
Thanks for any help.
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Very simple question
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:25:14 GMT
In the following command:
nohup postmaster -i >pgserver.log 2>&1 &
what does this part "2>&1" mean?
Regards
A.
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT + Linux dual boot, can I repair damaged NT loader?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 09:16:15 -0500
Harry Lewis wrote:
>
> 1. Make sure you have a Linux boot diskette (so you can boot to Linux
> and configure LILO).
>
> 2. Boot to DOS using a DOS system diskette that has the FDISK tool
> copied to it.
>
> 3. Issue the command FDISK /MBR
This method will work if you have a copy of DOS hanging around.
It is also possible to do the repair from Linux. When LILO overwrote the
MBR it saved a copy of the old MBR. It is possible to put this back.
Read the LILO manual for instructions.
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From: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mailing a file from command line
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:28:36 GMT
Anyone knowing how to do this?
It would be nice to have a command such as:
mail -a my_file.rtf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:)
Regs.
A.
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From: "Phil Hedley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing Hostname differnces between LinuxConf and NetCfg
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:51:20 GMT
How can I change the hostname on the fly ?
Currently I'm changing the files:-
/etc/sysconfig/network
/proc/sys/kernel/hostname
I 've noticed LinuxConf and NetCfg both do things differently. Which is
correct ?
Thanks,
Phil Hedley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: mailing a file from command line
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:46:23 GMT
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:28:36 GMT, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone knowing how to do this?
>It would be nice to have a command such as:
>
>mail -a my_file.rtf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mail -s Test [EMAIL PROTECTED] < my_file.rtf
-s is subject. I believe you get an annoying, but harmless, warning if
this is left out.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: MS Netmeeting under Linux?
From: Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:01:34 GMT
>>>>> "John" == John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> An interesting looking thing, but is there anything that will
John> do cross platform telephony or audio video conferencing ?
Speak Freely. "http://www.speakfreely.org/"
Bill
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From: enlightenment <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: finding my hacks
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:07:38 +0200
i use:
ls -ilR /etc > documentation.etc.txt
and so on for the important directories
then i store the documentationfiles in cvs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek Jolly)
Subject: Re: Very simple question
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:10:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew), in message <8rfek0$ubb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wrote
>In the following command:
>nohup postmaster -i >pgserver.log 2>&1 &
>
>what does this part "2>&1" mean?
Redirect stderr to the same place that stdout is pointing to.
This means you'll get all messages and errors written to the file
pgserver.log.
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From: Jeph Herrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slow?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:20:29 +0200
Thanks for all the hints. These two seem most
promising:
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> >the system monitor shows all the ram, with most of it (~55mb) in use
> >with no apps running. i don't seem to have any hoggy processes running
> >in the back, and i've got a 250MB swap file (which, however, sometimes
> >is flagged as FAILED for shut down while halting the machine). the
>
> Something wrong here. Use 'free' to make sure swap is being used. If
> not, things can really drag. You might try recreating the swap partition
> too. See 'mkswap' man page.
>
Here's what 'free' gives with Gnome +E + Netscape running. No fancy
backgrounds etc.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 63036 61568 1468 41492 2232 37556
-/+ buffers/cache: 21780 41256
Swap: 262196 4048 258148
Is this what I should expect? Thought more swap would be used.
> >video card has 1MB, not a lot, but it shouldn't make the machine crawl
> >(should it?).
>
> Not if the card has good support from Xfree86 and is configured right.
> Go to their website and check your card/chipset. Sometimes there are
> surprising comments, and tricks to get better performance.
>
Well, this is an open question. the xfree86 website had details for
my card (AT24 chipset, Alliance Promotion card), but they didn't
work, so i had to finagle a bit to get it to go. i wrote xfree86 about
this, but no reply. maybe go back to generic 600x400? i could try to
see if it improves performance, but then i can hardly use the thing
(and i may never luck into the right configuration again).
thanks again,
jeph
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From: Jeph Herrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slow?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:21:02 +0200
Thanks for all the hints. These two seem most
promising:
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> >the system monitor shows all the ram, with most of it (~55mb) in use
> >with no apps running. i don't seem to have any hoggy processes running
> >in the back, and i've got a 250MB swap file (which, however, sometimes
> >is flagged as FAILED for shut down while halting the machine). the
>
> Something wrong here. Use 'free' to make sure swap is being used. If
> not, things can really drag. You might try recreating the swap partition
> too. See 'mkswap' man page.
>
Here's what 'free' gives with Gnome +E + Netscape running. No fancy
backgrounds etc.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 63036 61568 1468 41492 2232 37556
-/+ buffers/cache: 21780 41256
Swap: 262196 4048 258148
Is this what I should expect? Thought more swap would be used.
> >video card has 1MB, not a lot, but it shouldn't make the machine crawl
> >(should it?).
>
> Not if the card has good support from Xfree86 and is configured right.
> Go to their website and check your card/chipset. Sometimes there are
> surprising comments, and tricks to get better performance.
>
Well, this is an open question. the xfree86 website had details for
my card (AT24 chipset, Alliance Promotion card), but they didn't
work, so i had to finagle a bit to get it to go. i wrote xfree86 about
this, but no reply. maybe go back to generic 600x400? i could try to
see if it improves performance, but then i can hardly use the thing
(and i may never luck into the right configuration again).
thanks again,
jeph
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From: "Bryan Christ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where did XMPS go ???
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 10:38:35 -0500
Does anyone know what happened to the XMPS homepage ? I have unsuccessfully
tried the go to the old site at
http://www-eleves.enst-bretagne.fr/~chavarri/xmps/pres.php3 . All
refrences to the XMPS homepage list this URL. What's the deal ?!? Anyone?
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mailing a file from command line
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:30:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:28:36 GMT, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >Anyone knowing how to do this?
> >It would be nice to have a command such as:
> >
> >mail -a my_file.rtf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> mail -s Test [EMAIL PROTECTED] < my_file.rtf
>
> -s is subject. I believe you get an annoying, but harmless, warning if
> this is left out.
Also, if you want to send a binary use:
uuencode my.bin my.bin | mutt -s"Some info."
at the other end (recipient):
save mail to file (junk) then
uudecode junk
You will find my.bin and junk in the current directory.
Of course you don't have to use mutt, any MUA should work.
Note: If the file is too big some MTA setups will reject it. But
nowdays I think this is rare. Users customarily attach very large
files.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: slow?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:46:15 GMT
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:20:29 +0200, Jeph Herrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >in the back, and i've got a 250MB swap file (which, however, sometimes
>> >is flagged as FAILED for shut down while halting the machine). the
>>
>> Something wrong here. Use 'free' to make sure swap is being used. If
>> not, things can really drag. You might try recreating the swap partition
>> too. See 'mkswap' man page.
>>
>
>Here's what 'free' gives with Gnome +E + Netscape running. No fancy
>backgrounds etc.
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 63036 61568 1468 41492 2232 37556
>-/+ buffers/cache: 21780 41256
>Swap: 262196 4048 258148
>
>Is this what I should expect? Thought more swap would be used.
How much swap is being used depends on several factors. This looks
fairly normal if X has not been running to long, ie not enough time to
eat up some buffers/cache.
The error message still worries me. That is definitely not normal. I'd
be concerned that the swap may be corrupted or something. Don't think
this accounts for a slow down, but corrupted memory is not a good thing
;) But just based on this output, I'd say swap is functioning. Someone
else mentioned hparm. This is a good idea. Read the man page first, and
if no reason to be concerned, then to 'hdparm -d1 /dev/whatever'. This
can really help disk access.
>> >video card has 1MB, not a lot, but it shouldn't make the machine crawl
>> >(should it?).
>>
>> Not if the card has good support from Xfree86 and is configured
>> right. Go to their website and check your card/chipset. Sometimes
>> there are surprising comments, and tricks to get better performance.
>>
>
>Well, this is an open question. the xfree86 website had details for
>my card (AT24 chipset, Alliance Promotion card), but they didn't
>work, so i had to finagle a bit to get it to go. i wrote xfree86 about
>this, but no reply. maybe go back to generic 600x400? i could try to
>see if it improves performance, but then i can hardly use the thing
>(and i may never luck into the right configuration again).
I would suspect the answer is here somewhere. You might try different
color depths. Are you 24 or 32 now? If so drop to 16. Are you running
the latest X server? Not meaning 4.x, but would at least be 3.3.6.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Newbie Question! (Sort Of!)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Oct 2000 16:48:46 +0100
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 04:30:07 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I m wondering what is the difference between RedHat, and uh...Mandrake?
>i mean, specificly! Like in softwares, kernel, system bit, etc.
You could start by checking their web sites.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: ppp setup in SuSE 6.2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Oct 2000 16:48:48 +0100
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 20:44:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I configured my modem and dialling options (number to
>dial, userid, password etc.) under ppp. The modem
>was auto detected with no problems. When I try
>ro run WvDial as suggested in the wvdial configuration
>section of the manual, it tries to start the ppp daemon
>process which dies with an error code of 10 .
>
>Any idea what could be wrong with the configuration? Any
>help would be appreciated.
Reading previous posts in the NG is a real good idea. I'm
sick of answering this question, why the hell don't they
write the answer on the CD in big red letters.
Find your pppd executable, probably in /usr/sbin but you
can find it with:
$ whereis pppd
you get:
pppd: /usr/sbin/pppd /usr/man/man8/pppd.8.gz
So do cd /usr/sbin then do su and input the root password,
then type:
# chmod u+s pppd
(don't type the dollar or hash sign, it's meant to be the prompt), that
should sort it out.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: PATH
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Oct 2000 16:48:47 +0100
If you do:
$ echo ${PATH}
What do you see? Are the newly added directories listed?
As someone else mentioned is the path being exported, I
have a line in my .bash_profile that says:
export USERNAME BASH_ENV PATH
This comes after the path and bash_env have been defined.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Installing a desktop icon
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Oct 2000 16:48:47 +0100
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:21:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Can you programatically (how) install a desktop icon when using rpm
>when installing software??
Yes, for Gnome just write the appropriate text based file in
/home/usrename/.gnome-desktop don't know about KDE but I'd
imagine it's similar.
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer driver for HP 932C
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:43:51 GMT
"Peter Loftus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a printer driver available for the HP 932c printer in Linux?
Yes, there are several. See
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=108320
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From: Glen Stromquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! - Corel Linux install - data recovered!!!
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:43:48 GMT
After trying many different data recovery packages (I'd given up on
getting my WIN back) I was ready to delete the linux partition through
linux fdisk and take my chances. Then I came across Powerquest's Lost &
Found and thought I had nothing to lose so I tried it. Well, right away
it scanned the bad drive, recognized two partitions on it, and
proceeded to find about 95% of the data on the drive, and let me
recover 100% of what I wanted. Thw whole process took about 3 hours, I
was VERY impressed with the program - which installs itself on 3
floppies that you run it from and then you boot from it, it analyzes
the whole disk, loads which files it can recover in to memory while
color coding the files based on chance of recovery, then lets you pick
which ones to recover to the destination drive. Definatly a superior
product to Easy Recovery and HDR-Data (which were the only two programs
to recognize the drive, but returned gibberish).
Thought I'd pass this along to anyone that may fear they lost their
data the same way I did.
Now that I have my critical data back I'm going to remove the Linux
partition using linux fdisk and see what happens, ie - will WIN98 see
the disk again... I'll update this thread with the results
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Glen Stromquist a �crit :
> >
> > I tried the mount -tvfat /dev/hdb /home/win98, but still get an
error.
> > I don't think the disk is physically damaged because Norton showed
it
> > as ok, other than the boot sector. I'll try the other commands you
> > suggested and see what happens. When I ran fdisk then ran the l
command
> > on it the disk showed 1 big partition I think, there was a
partition on
> > hdb1 that I deleted with linux fdisk, prbably shouldn't have done
that
> > huh? I was going to delete the other linux partition using linux
fdisk
> > but thought I may lose all my data, (if I already hadn't by then).
> > Interestingly, dos fdisk shows one big primary, active partition on
the
> > disk when I run it to show partition info.
> >
> > I downloaded the demo version of Ontracks easyrecovery program and
ran
> > it just to look at the disk, it shows the drive as having one
> > big "unknown" filesystem partition, and finds about 28 files and 19
> > empty directories, so I dont know if that means the other files are
> > toast or it just cant see them.
> >
> > I am debating on whether or not to remove the linux partition using
> > linux fdisk, but wouldn't that destroy the data for sure?
> >
> > Even after all of this I am not soured on linux, (I'm familiar with
and
> > work with AIX), but I will be VERY carefull next time I install it
on
> > its own disk, in fact I will remove the win(lose) disk completely
> > before doing this and use a boot utility instead of an os dual boot
> > method. And I don't think Corel will be my choice!, although what I
did
> > see I liked, to be perfectly honest about it.
> >
>
> It seems to me that recovering your data may be a problem. I will
describe
> a bit more what happened to me when I installed Corel and you may
make a decision
> as it seems to me that a similar thing happened to your hard disk.
>
> My case was a bit different in the sense that I had Winblows 98,OS/2
and DRDOS on the
> first drive and the fucked up drive was a 14G IBM drive on as second
drive.
>
> I first setup a 4G primary partition with partition magic. This was
at the beginning
> of the drive. I had SuSE Linux 6.3 on the rest of the drive and I had
a boot disk for
> SuSE. I was using the OS/2 boot manager to boot to different OS. When
I went in the
> install the Corel install refused to install on a freshly formatted
partition and
> I had no choice but let it remove said partition and recreate it.
This was a deadly
> mistake. When I rebooted I found out that the Corel install program
had messed up
> with the partition table. My boot of SuSE no longer appeared on the
OS/2 boot manager
> menu. I had installed almost all the linux distributions in existance
in the past
> and didn't foresee this and felt like kicking me in the ass
considering that I had
> made no backup whatsoever of my stuff that was on the SuSE partition.
>
> I was relieved to find out that I could boot on a floppy. Apparently
SuSE didn't give
> a shit about what was written in the partition table, up to a certain
point.
>
> I tried to fix things with fdisk by removing the offending Corel
partition but was
> unable to save the info. fdisk told me that the partition table was
corrupted.
> I then proceeded in saving all my data to the other drive. I was not
able to recreate
> a correct drive partition table with the IBM software which told me
that the information
> in the bios and the disk didn't match. With SuSE fdisk I recreated a
dos partition table.
> This flushed all the disk but when I booted on OS/2 and DRDOS their
fdisk as well as
> partition magic were not happy with the disk. I repartitionned and
reinstalled SuSE 6.3
> Corel Linux ended up a frisbee.
>
> You might be able to see the correct information by booting on a SuSE
CD and
> mounting the partitions. I think Corel doesn't read the partitions
correctly.
> You may be able to backup stuff.
>
> If you don't want problems go for SuSE 7.0
> I have used several distribution and this one is awesome, much better
yet than
> any of the previous SuSE. Keep note that the US 128 encription
version of Netscape
> 4.75 is not on the CD but you can find it on SuSE's web site.
>
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From: Jacob Hageman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux install problem
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 08:46:50 -0700
Hi, I'm trying to install either Mandrake 7.1 or RedHat 6.2 on one of
Sony's new VAIO laptops, using a PCMCIA CDROM. Now although on
Mandrake's web page they say it supports a ATAPI PC card type CDROM,
I can find no driver that even looks close for it on the startup
screen. Is it possible to use one of the drivers /w some specific
options? I know an easy solution would be to install from the hard
drive, but previous problems have made this not an option. (No
installed driver for the CDROM, no installed driver for the floppy, no
installed driver for ethernet card = screwed.) Any suggestions?
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing the Sizes of RAM Disks
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:47:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Donald Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Following the example in www.tcu-inc.com/mark/articles/Ramdisk.html,
> I was able to create a RAM disk. It worked fine when I wrote files to
> it, read their contents, etc. Default size of the RAM disk was about
> 4Meg.
>
> Following the instructions in the same article, I tried to change
> the default size of RAM disks to 10Meg. I added the line
> ramdisk=10000" to the end of lilo.conf, then rebooted, and followed
> the same procedure as before to create a ramdisk. However, its size
> was still 4Meg.
>
> I'm running RedHat Linux 2.2.12-20 #1.
The RAM disk size is dynamic and it grows as more space is required.
This was changed in kernel v1.3.48, a long time ago in the Linux
world :-)
Reference:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt
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From: "Etienne Laverdiere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Perl : ODBC and DBI with ActivePerl on Linux
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:00:40 GMT
Thanks ! It is very impressive! I thaught that Perl-Linux was some kind of
cryptic!
Best Regards
Etienne Laverdiere
Montreal
"Les Mikesell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> "Etienne Laverdiere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:2OlC5.313061$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi all, I just installed Red Hat 7.0 on my system, and it works very
well.
> > This system is very cool. But I am very "newbie" right now.
> >
> > I installed Apache and it works very well too even with cgi-bin scripts.
> > I use to work with ActiveState Perl on Win Nt. I installed DBI and
> DBI:ODBC
> > to work with a Oracle Database.
> > I was wandering : what is the -- best -- implementation of Perl on this
> > system?
>
> There is only one implementation of perl for all unix-like systems -
> ActiveState
> just deals with the quirks of Win32. Any version around 5.005_03 or above
> should be fine.
>
> > I want to migrate all my works from Nt to a Linux Server. I never tried
> to
> > installed any module with the "make, make install" commands, but only
via
> > PPM from ActiveState. I just installed ActivePerl on my Linux server,
and
> I
> > haved a little problem to make it run from Apache's cgi-bin.
>
> The normal way to handle perl module installation is to first configure
> the CPAN module. Just run 'perl -MCPAN -eshell' and the first time
> it will prompt for config info or you can let it autoconfigure if you
don't
> have to deal with firewalls. Then you can run the same command anytime
> and type 'install module' and it will pull the latest version from the
> internet and install it for you. The 'r' command will tell you what
> modules currently installed are out of date, and 'i /pattern/ will list
> modules that match the pattern.
>
> > Question 1 : Does ActivePerl works well on Linux? At a first glance, it
> does
> > seems to have DBD:Oracle or DBD:ODBC distribution for the Linux's
> > ActivePerl. I really need these
>
> Install from CPAN if they are missing.
>
> > Question 2 : How can I tell my apache system to use the ActivePerl
> > distribution of Perl and not the original Perl?
> >
> > Question 3 : Should I forget ActivePerl and use the default Perl
> > distribution? (Perl 5.6.0)
>
> Yes, but you will probably want to use mod_perl with apache if your
> server is busy enough that starting a copy of perl for each cgi run is
> a problem. A dynamic-loadable module comes with RedHat that
> may or may not work. In earlier releases people have had trouble
> mixing the stock rpm installed programs with custom compiled
> components. If you have any trouble with the distribution versions
> you can always grab source for perl and apache and build them from
> scratch. There is a mailing list for mod_perl if you need additional
> help.
>
> Les Mikesell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: Ted George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: disk quota per directory
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 10:28:24 -0500
does anyone know of a quota system for linux which enforces disk quotas
only on a per directory basis without regard to userid?
thanks
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