Linux-Misc Digest #989, Volume #25 Mon, 9 Oct 00 13:13:04 EDT
Contents:
c compiler upgrade worth it? (Alan Needleman)
Re: c compiler upgrade worth it? (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: Can I do this??? (Rodney)
defrag (John Molitor)
Re: problem installing rpm >3
Re: defrag (Andreas K�h�ri)
Vbox and 8 Bit sound ("Thomsen, Ole")
Re: How to uninstall stuff (Robert Heller)
Where could I get SuSe PPC? (Alexandre Binette)
Re: Linux contra Microsoft ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PAM_pwdb problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux contra Microsoft (Harry Lewis)
Re: Where could I get SuSe PPC? (Andreas K�h�ri)
Re: How to copy a file to a floppy? (Cristian)
Re: what is the most convenient and effective way to backup? ("Ricky J. Sethi")
Re: what is the most convenient and effective way to backup? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: can linux use sleep keys etc. on keyboards? (Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
Re: c compiler upgrade worth it? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Setting amount of RAM in lilo/grub (Jens Leypoldt)
Re: Setting amount of RAM in lilo/grub (James Luongo)
Odd Mouse Behaviour (MDM)
deleted /var/log/messages and it doesn't reappear (Bjoern)
Re: alsa troubles (David Efflandt)
Re: Where could I get SuSe PPC?
Re: deleted /var/log/messages and it doesn't reappear (Jean-David Beyer)
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From: Alan Needleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: c compiler upgrade worth it?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:13:22 GMT
Hi,
I have egcs 1.1.2 installed with f77 support. I noticed that the latest
gcc compiler is 2.96. Is it worth switching, i.e. has optimization
improved, fewer bugs, etc.? Is there a significant difference between
the egcs and gcc branches? Thanks.
Alan
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Subject: Re: c compiler upgrade worth it?
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 9 Oct 2000 17:19:59 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alan Needleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have egcs 1.1.2 installed with f77 support. I noticed that the latest
>gcc compiler is 2.96. Is it worth switching, i.e. has optimization
>improved, fewer bugs, etc.? Is there a significant difference between
>the egcs and gcc branches? Thanks.
>
>Alan
It is not likely that a snapshot (not a release) of the GCC compiler
suite will contain less bugs than the most recent release.
For an explanation about "EGSC vs. GCC", see
<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/fom.cgi?file=8>.
/A
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Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
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From: Rodney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I do this???
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:21:59 -0700
Yes, this is one of the things that makes Linux so great .. you can do
anything ... with almost no cost just time. Take a look at
IP-Masquerade-HOWTO
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:14:30 GMT
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
> Subject: Can I do this???
>
> Can I do this???
>
> I have two computers running redhat 7.0 and both of them are on a
> network. (will its a network with only the two computers). I have one
> modem on one of my computers. If I am connent to my ISP on the computer
> will the modem. How can I make the other computer see the internet??
>
> If you can please email me about [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
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From: John Molitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: defrag
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:29:26 GMT
Hello,
Is there a "defrag" type utility available on Linux?
Thanks in advance
John
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem installing rpm >3
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:30:05 -0000
Villy Kruse wrote:>>> On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:52:55 -0700, MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:>> >> >Don't know why the 4.0 version doesn't work, but 3.0.5 will. I read>
>somewhere that it isn't recommended to upgrade to to 4.0 from any> >version earlier
than 3.0.5.>>> You need 3.0.5 to decode the rpm file for release 4.0. The 3.0.5>
version was specifically built for RH6.x and RH5.x for this purpose> and is available
from the redhat update collection.>> The alternative way is to do a full RH7.0
upgrade.>>>> Villy>I've upgraded to 3.0.5 but I still can't install packages >3. I
triedinstalling 3.0.6 but i get an error saying that it will conflict withglibc2.1.
Please Help !!! I still can't get RH7 from where I live. and it'simpossible to
download it.. so upgrading to v7 is not possible yet...
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Subject: Re: defrag
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 9 Oct 2000 17:31:12 +0100
In article <qvlE5.51351$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Molitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Is there a "defrag" type utility available on Linux?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>John
>
>
Read section 5.5 of the FAQ at
<URL:http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/>.
/A
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Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
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From: "Thomsen, Ole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Vbox and 8 Bit sound
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 17:27:18 +0200
Hi there,
I hope anyone of you has a simple idea to help me with the following:
I have a small P100 box with a AVM A1 ISDN card, which I want to operate
as answering machine.
Everthing works fine with SuSE 7.0 and VBOX, but the sound has a
problem.
When I try to play an incoming message with vboxplay, the system
answers: "Cannot switch to 8 Bit sample"
But I would like to use my old soundblaster 1.0 8 bit card. Is there a
trick to convert these vbox-soundfiles, or to record them
with vboxd in 8 bit mode ?
Thanx for you help and hints.
Ole
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to uninstall stuff
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:32:25 -0000
"Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Mon, 09 Oct 2000 05:11:12 GMT, wrote :
"S> I have RedHat Linux 7.0.
"S> Installing stuff is easy; rpm -Uvh filename,...
"S> What about uninstalling?
"S> How do you do that?
rpm -e packagename
Read all about the rpm command:
man rpm
"S>
"S> --
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"S> Please remove the "-SpamShield-" to send email. Thanks.
"S>
"S>
"S>
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Subject: Where could I get SuSe PPC?
From: Alexandre Binette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:34:34 GMT
Hi,
I'm looking to get for free the SuSE PPC version of Linux. Does anybody
know where to find it?
Thank you very much for your precious help,
Alexandre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux contra Microsoft
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:33:12 GMT
In ALL DISTRIBUTIONS ALL software IS COMPILED, if you need to compile a
piece of software it's sure that you downloaded it from the net and it's
not part of the distribution. Your comment makes me think that you know
very little about linux distributions, you should read some more info
(or better you should use it) before you post comments like that.
BTW, there is a lot of windows software that have to be compiled before
you use it.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll give you a quarter if you can get AOL instant messanger up and=20
> running in less than a week (if you're really a novice - if you're
an=20
> expert, you get the quarter for a < 2hr install).
>
> Any OS which requires that you COMPILE a program before using it is
not =
>
> ready for the masses. When was the last time you compiled the OS in
your=
> =20
> microwave, or your car?
>
> At the very least, everything one needs to do the compile should be=20
> included in the distribution.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> On 10/8/00, 12:41:16 AM, Jacques Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote=20
> regarding Re: Linux contra Microsoft:
>
> > Mark Seavers wrote:
>
> > > But the fact is that in terms of user-friendliness Linux really is
> > > behind Windows a bit.
>
> > Two months ago I installed Linux-for-idiots-like-me (aka Mandrake)
> > in the hope of kissing Windows good-bye. It was the easiest thing
> > in the world. So far, I had stuck with Win3.11 -- I had been warned
> > about Win95 trying to take over. Connecting to the Net, which with
Win=
> 3
> > had taken me some head-scratching, and fiddling with software
> > provided by the ISPs I was with, connecting to the Net, was
> > dead easy. Must have taken me two minutes. There is more, but
> > what's the point? Sure, I spent much time exploring what Linux-
> > for-idiots-like-me provides you for free... I must have spent
> > 15 minutes configuring PINE and five minutes on the E-mail
> > client, by trial and error. The whole thing, to me, was much,
> > much more user-friendly that Windows 3.11.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PAM_pwdb problems
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:32:25 GMT
Hi!
I get a bunch of errors in my syslog from pwdb.
I'w noticed it has something to do with samba
since they stop showing up when I shutdown samba.
The syslog messages looks like this:
PAM_pwdb[XXXXX]: get passwd; pwdb: request not
recognized
Any ideas what's causing this?
/Anders
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From: Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux contra Microsoft
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:40:37 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Seavers wrote:
>
> True, true...
>
> But the fact is that in terms of user-friendliness Linux really is
> behind Windows a bit.
>
> Don't get me wrong - I love Linux, (I'm using it now), but I consider
> myself a reasonably advanced user, and I still find little things
> cropping up that surprise and often confuse me.
>
> I don't think Joe Public out there would have been able to do what I had
> to do in order to get my graphics card (a Hercules 3D Prophet II mx -
> based on the NVidia GeForce 2 MX chipset) working, for example.
>
> Maybe, two or three years down the line, someone (most likely Mandrake,
> SuSE or Caldera) will release a very accessible Linux distribution for
> the masses - but right now it doesn't cut the mustard in that
> environment. If you ask me.
I'd agree with everything you say except the two year estimate. I
installed Red Hat 5.1 about two years ago and thought the installation
was lightning quick compared with NT (twelve minutes for a reasonably
configured server compared with an hour and a quarter for NT server with
at least another hour to go to get it to the same level as Linux). The
user interface was OK but flaky. Then about a year ago I tried Red Hat 6
and was flabbergasted by the progress on the UI. I tried Red Hat 6.1
earlier this year to find yet more real, tangible progress in the UI,
and my flabber was again gasted a couple of months back when I tried out
Red Hat 6.2. The progress in the UI is amazingly quick - even outpacing
that in my flabber (which is growing at an incredible rate thanks to the
pizza and the sit-down job). At this rate we really won't have to wait
two years for a version of Linux that you can put in front of end-users.
Harry
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Where could I get SuSe PPC?
From: Andreas K�h�ri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 9 Oct 2000 17:50:09 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alexandre Binette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> I'm looking to get for free the SuSE PPC version of Linux. Does anybody
>know where to find it?
>
>Thank you very much for your precious help,
>
>
>Alexandre
>
<URL:http://www.suse.de/en/produkte/susesoft/ppc/index.html>
/A
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Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
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From: Cristian <c{ristian}h{umberto}[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to copy a file to a floppy?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:59:02 GMT
mpulliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I look at /etc/fstab to see if something is weird
> with how the floppy is set up.
> relevant line is:
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto, owner 0 0
I suggest you change here "ext2" to "auto". Chances are that your kernel
includes msdos compatibility. Then you can buy any "IBM formatted" disk
(most of them), put it in the drive and mount it with "mount
/mnt/floppy" and never worry about formatting floppies. I prefer this
method since you can then use the disks to transfer files to/from PCs and
Macs too. (If you insist on ext2 filesystem and reformat the floppy, the
auto option would still work of course).
C.
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From: "Ricky J. Sethi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: what is the most convenient and effective way to backup?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 15:59:23 GMT
"NAVARRO LOPEZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> jeff wrote:
[SNIP]
> > Harddisks are getting so cheap that I install a spare (using a removable
> > tray, but that's optional) and just use dd to clone my entire system.
20GB
[SNIP]
>
> Well, not a bad idea, but (there's always a 'but', isn't there?)
> One of the virtues of a good backup strategy is the ability to take
> off-site your backups (how far, from next shield to next country, it
> deppends). What if the problem with your disks is a broken controller,
> or a physical disaster (this coffee cup over the box)? Then your working
> systems goes out along with your recovery... not a good idea!!
Well, Jeff did say that he uses a removable tray so that means you can plug
in a hard drive when you want to do a backup and then remove that sucker in
the morning and take it off-site or anywhere else you like. So this really
is the perfect backup method (personally, I use a much worse backup
methodology where I backup to remotely mounted drives but have been
considering switching over to the same scheme as Jeff outlined).
Adios,
Rick.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: what is the most convenient and effective way to backup?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:04:47 -0400
Lucas Tsoi wrote:
> As title.
> Thanks very much.
I prefer DDS-2 tapes on my personal workstation. I have 2 9.1
GByte hard drives on an Ultra-2 SCSI and an HP C1599A DDS-2
tape drive on a narrow SCSI controller. I have cron do my
backups at about 1AM when I should not be working at the
console. ;-)
I happen to use the commercial BRU product, but before I got
that, I used a bunch of find commands to make a list of what I
wanted to backup and then piped the list into cpio to write the
tape. Since my disks are not full, and because two 2GByte
partitions are excluded (as well as the /tmp partition), they
still will fit onto a single DDS-2 tape that holds around
8GBytes in compressed mode. I can do a backup in about an hour,
with the verify phase taking another hour (what good is a
backup if the data are not correct on the backup medium?)
I do not care for floppys, Zip drives, or CD-ROMs, since they
are not big enough to do a backup unattended while I am asleep.
YMMV, of course.
Some people advocate using a spare hard drive for backups. That
has some appeal, but does not allow for the OS going berserk
and writing all over all the hard drives, nor for the loss of
both hard drives at once. I remember a sad situation where we
had about 10 Vax's or PDP-11's with three hard drives on each.
For various reasons, ALL the hard drives had total head crashes
over a weekend, so all the machines were down. Luckily, the
hard drives were removable disk pack variety, so we had the
backup disks in another room. Once the hard drives were all
rebuilt, we could recover. But with the present hard-drive
design, I would not recommend it unless you have a server
machine with hot swappable hard drives.
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/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 11:55am up 2 days, 3:30, 2 users, load average: 3.99, 3.92, 3.84
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Subject: Re: can linux use sleep keys etc. on keyboards?
From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 Oct 2000 21:14:42 +0300
Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It would be really useful to be able
> to invoke say an apm command through
> one of the keys. Any pointers as to how
> to program them?
First you must get the system to detect when the key has been
pressed. For the console, try `showkey' and `setkeycodes'. For
X, I don't know how to do that, but `xev' may help in testing.
Then you must hook the desired command to the key. For the
console, you could bind the key to `KeyboardSignal' and insert
the command in the `kb' line of `/etc/inittab'; that doesn't work
for multiple keys, though. For X, you could either make a
program which uses `XGrabKey' or use some window manager specific
mechanism.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: c compiler upgrade worth it?
Date: 9 Oct 2000 12:28:12 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Needleman wrote:
> I have egcs 1.1.2 installed with f77 support. I noticed that the latest
> gcc compiler is 2.96. Is it worth switching, i.e. has optimization
> improved, fewer bugs, etc.? Is there a significant difference between
> the egcs and gcc branches? Thanks.
No, the latest gcc is either 2.95.2 (if you want to know the latest
_release_) or whatever is currently in the CVS archive (if you want to
know what the developers are working on). The gcc-2.95 compilers are the
successors of egcs-1.1.*. To see what's new, look in the GCC news page
http://gcc.gnu.org/news.html
for items named like "GCC 2.95 is released".
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: Jens Leypoldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Setting amount of RAM in lilo/grub
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 18:22:53 +0200
James Luongo wrote:
>
> I am using grub/lilo as a bootloader. I really can't tell which one it
> is. There is a GUI when I startup to choose the OS to boot to yet it
> uses /etc/lilo.conf. But anyway, how do I set the amount of RAM? I
> have 384M but its only seeing 66M.
Hi James -
As far as I remember, in lilo.conf you can specify the amount of memory
for Linux via the kernel parameters:
In your case you should add the line
append="mem=384M"
in all sections that describe Linux boot images. At least for my 96M
system this did work (kernel 2.0.something).
HTH,
Jens
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From: James Luongo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Setting amount of RAM in lilo/grub
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:37:14 GMT
James Luongo wrote:
> I am using grub/lilo as a bootloader. I really can't tell which one it
> is. There is a GUI when I startup to choose the OS to boot to yet it
> uses /etc/lilo.conf. But anyway, how do I set the amount of RAM? I
> have 384M but its only seeing 66M.
>
> thanks
new problem, i tried to use KLILO to change it and also the default and
then rebooted, and instead ofgetting grub, i got lilo as the bootloader
it chose windows to boot, but then hung
i would like to get grub back as the bootloader, in which the default
drive to boot is windows, and the mem setting for linux is 384M
please help
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From: MDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Odd Mouse Behaviour
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:30:13 GMT
System is a VTech Platinum NCP Pro Series
2 x 200 MMX processors
64 Mb RAM
MS 2 button serial mouse
33.6 ext USR modem
RH6.2
This is a fresh/clean install (not that old either) where once every
couple of days or so the mouse seems to take on a life of its' own. When
this happens the mouse pointer does not follow mouse movement (I move
mouse left pointed goes up/down/right - anywhere but where I move the
mouse), 'clicks' are performed without the mouse button being depressed,
and of course it becomes impossible to do anything but hit the reset
button.
Everything else seems to be working fine, any suggestions would be
appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bjoern)
Subject: deleted /var/log/messages and it doesn't reappear
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:46:59 GMT
Perhaps I was a bit too bold, but I had assumed it was just a log
file. Why is it growing endlessly, anyway, shouldn't there be a limit?
I deleted it, and now it isn't being created anew. I tried creating a
file /var/log/messages, but that didn't work either.
What can I do?
Bjoern
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: alsa troubles
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 16:52:12 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000 23:54:24 -0400, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I just went back and changed the permissions on /dev/dsp* and restarted
>X and I get sound now. Thanks a bunch.
>I Do have another question now. After testing sound in X under root I
>have found that this laptop (a P3 500, 128megs RAM) can't play MP3s very
>well at all. They skip and it sounds like chinese music actually based
>on what a girl commented after hearing it come from the computer. Wav
>files play fine but no clue why MP3s cant play well. I've tried kmp3
>and Audio Mpeg Player under KDE. Any thoughts?
Try disabling PnP in CMOS setup. This does not seem to affect Win98 any
because I think it is just for legacy ISA devices. For some reason BIOS
PnP interferes with PCI sound. Although, I have a Sony with Yamaha sound.
Until I disabled BIOS PnP, gnome sounds repeated over and over and longer
.wav files using 'play' tended to get cut short and/or error. I had
already fixed that before trying mp3 or installing Mandrake with KDE.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.powerpc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Where could I get SuSe PPC?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:07:25 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexandre Binette
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+ Hi,
+ I'm looking to get for free the SuSE PPC version of Linux. Does anybody
+ know where to find it?
try
http://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/suse/suse/ppc/
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: deleted /var/log/messages and it doesn't reappear
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 13:08:29 -0400
Bjoern wrote:
> Perhaps I was a bit too bold, but I had assumed it was just a log
> file. Why is it growing endlessly, anyway, shouldn't there be a limit?
>
> I deleted it, and now it isn't being created anew. I tried creating a
> file /var/log/messages, but that didn't work either.
>
> What can I do?
>
> Bjoern
Depends on your distribution, I guess. In Red Hat distributions, there is
an entry in /etc/cron.daily that says:
valinux:jdbeyer[/etc/cron.daily]$ cat logrotate
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
valinux:jdbeyer[/etc/cron.daily]$
If you examine /etc/logrotate.conf, you will see:
valinux:jdbeyer[/etc]$ cat logrotate.conf
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly
# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4
# send errors to root
errors root
# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create
# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress
# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d
# no packages own lastlog or wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}
/var/log/lastlog {
monthly
rotate 1
}
# system-specific logs may be configured here
valinux:jdbeyer[/etc]$
You may want to read the logrotate manual page. It is important, of
course, to leave your machine up so that these administrative tasks can
be executed on a regular basis.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 1:00pm up 2 days, 4:35, 2 users, load average: 4.04, 3.99, 3.85
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