Linux-Misc Digest #120, Volume #26 Mon, 23 Oct 00 13:13:02 EDT
Contents:
DHCP and Token Ring PCMCIA card (Peter Heuchert)
Re: System spends too much time in X, but only sometimes...? (Dances With Cows)
Memory clean up (Mark Guzzo)
Re: Linux PDA (James Omura)
Palm Pilot connection problem (jeff)
Re: Memory clean up (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
Re: Which Gcc version to compile Linux Kernel ? (Timothy Murphy)
Re: hosts.lpr (Villy Kruse)
Re: so what do I do with my spare modem bandwidth? (Steve O'Hara Smith)
Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ (-ljl-)
Mapping SSH IP Clients ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linuxconf: Changing TAB hotkey to other ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Memory clean up ("Stuart D. Gathman")
Re: Palm Pilot connection problem (Phillip Deackes)
Re: placing java VM into kernal, good or bad ? ("Stuart D. Gathman")
Re: tape backup + mount tab? (NAVARRO LOPEZ, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs?= Manuel)
Re: Qmail problem (NAVARRO LOPEZ, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs?= Manuel)
Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ (Leonard Evens)
Re: hosts.lpr ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Any problems with Red Hat 7? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ (Robert Kiesling)
install under /home or /usr/local ("Anderw G. Bacchi")
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From: Peter Heuchert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP and Token Ring PCMCIA card
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:55:51 GMT
I try to use DHCP with my IBM Turbo 16/4 PCMCIA card. When using dhcpcd
I get an error message:
xmit ret_code=23
using dhclient I get the message:
sendpacket: Kein passendes Ger�t gefunden
which means no device found.
I'm using Suse 7.0 (kernel: 2.2.16 PCMCIA 3.3.17). When using the
adapter with a static ip address, it works fine. Even tcpdump is
working, but dhcp not. Any ideas ?
Peter Heuchert
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From: Dances With Cows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System spends too much time in X, but only sometimes...?
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:42 -0500
>Do not worry about this unless you're having performance problems, and
>if SETI is that important to you, get rid of X, most of the daemons, all
>but one virtual console, and any interrupt-generating hardware you can
>part with.
I have a bunch of virtual consoles running gnome. I'd like to run
gnome on alt-F1 and have alt F2 thru alt F4 running txt mode. How
can I do that?
DWC
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From: Mark Guzzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory clean up
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:35:39 -0500
Question,
When I run Netscape and StarOffice 5.2 (just using them as an example) I
end up using all of my RAM(128M) and about 64M Swap out of 256M.
After I close Netscape and StarOffice and even run gtop to make sure all
sure process for the two are closed, the memory is still all used up. Is
there any app that will release the memory like there is for Window$?
Mark Guzzo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Omura)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Subject: Re: Linux PDA
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:54:16 -0400
David W. Swager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8snb63$s10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > New palm device using Linux Open Source!
> > http://www.agendacomputing.com/
Actually, this has been posted to this newsgroup before back
around July or August. But your message is timely. According to
the company's announcements, the Agenda was supposed to be
available some time this month. It's over half way through the
month and as far as I know, they haven't shipped yet, but they
still have a week or two.
> Looks interesting. Very light, but limited to 8mb+8MB. Decent 66Mhz
> processor.
The interesting thing is that the minimum configuration is
2MB Flash and 8MB RAM. That implies that they believe that they
can make an image, including the advertised application, within
the 2MB of Flash. That was the big question. Today's Linux is
quite large, and the compiler is never going to be as efficient
as hand assembly code.
> I know Compaq (I hate them!) have a linux build running on the Ipaq 3650
> (206 Mhz) in place of Pocket PC OS. Rumor is it is pretty sweet, but there
> are interoperability problems with both Palm and Pocket PC.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's an odd and vague comment. What do you mean by it?
As I've noted before, quite a few times now, that so far the
only handheld you can buy with an officially backed Linux effort
other than the Compaq iPaq is the VTech Helio. I've been trying
to find out what progress has been made on the Helio Linux ports
(there are 2 port projects in progress). So far, you can download
images from both ports (and I think the sources too), but they
are probably in primitive states.
--
The Moving Target: mobile information technology
http://www.pathcom.com/~jimomura/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeff)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Subject: Palm Pilot connection problem
Date: 23 Oct 2000 15:33:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got a Palm connected to Linux through /dev/ttyS1 at 57600 bps.
pilot-xfer works fine, except that the first try always fails. The sequence
of events is:
- I run pilot-xfer
- Program says "Waiting for connection..."
- I press Hot Sync button
- Program says "pi_accept: Connection timed out"
- I run pilot-xfer again (without clearing Palm screen)
- Program says "Waiting for connection..." but goes into execution without
waiting for me to press Hot Sync again
I've tried different connection speeds and different serial ports, without
any change. Same results, BTW, with a Palm Vx and IIIx.
Anyone have any clues about the "timed out" message? Thanks.
-jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4h=E4ri?=)
Subject: Re: Memory clean up
Date: 23 Oct 2000 17:38:58 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Guzzo wrote:
>Question,
>
>When I run Netscape and StarOffice 5.2 (just using them as an example) I
>end up using all of my RAM(128M) and about 64M Swap out of 256M.
Ok, those applications are notorious memory hogs.
>After I close Netscape and StarOffice and even run gtop to make sure all
>sure process for the two are closed, the memory is still all used up. Is
>there any app that will release the memory like there is for Window$?
You're not confusing "buffered" and "cached" memory with "used"
memory, are you? Also, swapped out programs and data won't be
"swapped in" again until they're needed. That might be why the swap
is still used.
What does the 'free' command say
1. Before staring those applications.
2. Before quitting the applications (using the quit/exit commands in
their menus, not by killing their windows).
3. After quitting the applications.
It *is* possible there's a memory leak in either SO or NS.
/A
--
Andreas K�h�ri,
Uppsala University, Sweden.
================================================================
Debian GNU/Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Which Gcc version to compile Linux Kernel ?
Date: 23 Oct 2000 16:41:27 +0100
"O.Petzold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> This got rid of the compilation errors,
>> but threw up a lot of assembler warnings about not being able
>> to modify .modinfo ,
>> which seemed to result in no modules being installed
>> by "make modules_install".
>This is not related on the kernel at all. I've compiled a kernel module which
>isn't in the kernel tree with gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) and
>got the similar warnings:
>/tmp/ccWv6Hv5.s: Assembler messages:
>/tmp/ccWv6Hv5.s:47: Warning: Ignoring changed section attributes for .modinfo
Thanks for the info.
But is there any connection between this
and the fact that no modules seem to be installed,
basically because /usr/src/linux/modules does not contain
the names of the relevant module units as it used to.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: 086-233 6090
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: hosts.lpr
Date: 23 Oct 2000 15:52:52 GMT
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:03:13 -0400,
Robert Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>PS, I haven't done this on Linux to be sure, but on AIX, it was
>"/etc/hosts.lpd" not "/etc/hosts.lpr"
>
And the same for linux. Also, we always put host names in that file instead
of IP numbers.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve O'Hara Smith)
Crossposted-To: alt.windows98,comp.dcom.modems,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: so what do I do with my spare modem bandwidth?
Date: 23 Oct 2000 15:53:28 GMT
Richard Hoskins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: It's tough to be bandwidth-conscience given the current state of the
: WWW.
Easy, just avoid HTTP :)
--
Steve O'Hara-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
========================================
Win NT - Well I suppose that's better than paying for it.
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:07:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With a bit of effort and luck he could do the same, maybe
> even better! ;-)
>
> Private User wrote:
> >
> > The state of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush,
is
> > ranked:
> >
> > 50th in spending for teachers' salaries
> >
> > 49th in spending on the environment
> >
> > 48th in per-capita funding for public health
> >
> > 47th in delivery of social services
> >
> > 42nd in child-support collections
> >
> > 41st in per-capita spending on public education
> >
> > And ...
> >
> > 5th in percentage of population living in poverty
> >
> > 1st in air and water pollution
> >
> > 1st in percentage of poor working parents without insurance
> >
> > 1st in percentage of children without health insurance
> >
> > 1st in executions (average 1 every 2 weeks for Bush's 5 years as
Governor)
> >
> > Just think of what he could do for the country if he were president!
> >
> > John R. Finnegan Jr., Ph.D.
> > Professor and Associate Dean For Academic Affairs
> > School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
The original poster must be a rep for IEA/NEA.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mapping SSH IP Clients
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:05:45 GMT
Hi,
I have a Linux RH6.2 running SSH server + remote Database access.
Then, all people connect to server using SSH client + a general
user account and password.
After this, if I run "who | grep <user> | wc -l" I know how many
users are currently connected.
Now, I would like to know where the users are connecting from ...
I need this information to map what are the users currently connected.
But I don't know how to do this and I would like to know if SSH gives
this information for me.
Thanks for any help,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linuxconf: Changing TAB hotkey to other
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:12:21 GMT
Hi,
I have used TTSSH to remotely connect to a Linux RH 6.2 server.
Then, I would like to use Linuxconf to make some simple configs.
However, <TAB> hotkey doesn't work from TTSSH. Is there some way
to change <TAB> to other hotkey at Linuxconf?
Thanks for any help,
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From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory clean up
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:12:33 -0400
Mark Guzzo wrote:
>
> Question,
>
> When I run Netscape and StarOffice 5.2 (just using them as an example) I
> end up using all of my RAM(128M) and about 64M Swap out of 256M.
> After I close Netscape and StarOffice and even run gtop to make sure all
> sure process for the two are closed, the memory is still all used up. Is
> there any app that will release the memory like there is for Window$?
>
> Mark Guzzo
The "Free" memory in gtop means "idle" memory. Linux tries to never
have much idle memory - making the kernel much more efficient than
Windoze. (The GUI is another story.) Once you've loaded a few
programs, your idle ("Free") memory should never go above a meg or so.
"Cache" is memory that can be instantly reused when something needs
memory, but why throw away what it currently holds when you might need
it again? It typically holds recently accessed pages of files and
things.
"Shared" is pages of read-only shared libraries (like DLLs) and
programs. These can be instantly reused when out of Free and Cache, but
will likely need to be paged in again since they are shared by multiple
processes (which is why Cache memory is reused first).
"User" is pages of read-write memory private to a process. These are
used as a last resort, because they must be paged out first, and will
likely need to be paged in again.
"Buffer" will have to be explained by someone else.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Microsoft is the QWERTY of Operating Systems" - SDG
"Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - Mozart background
song
for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?"
commercial.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Subject: Re: Palm Pilot connection problem
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:29:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jeff wrote:
>I've got a Palm connected to Linux through /dev/ttyS1 at 57600 bps.
>pilot-xfer works fine, except that the first try always fails. The sequence
>of events is:
>
>- I run pilot-xfer
>- Program says "Waiting for connection..."
>- I press Hot Sync button
>- Program says "pi_accept: Connection timed out"
>- I run pilot-xfer again (without clearing Palm screen)
>- Program says "Waiting for connection..." but goes into execution without
>waiting for me to press Hot Sync again
>
>I've tried different connection speeds and different serial ports, without
>any change. Same results, BTW, with a Palm Vx and IIIx.
>
>Anyone have any clues about the "timed out" message? Thanks.
I have been plagued by this scenario for quite a while now. It came upon
me suddenly after months of perfect syncs and has now disappeared again.
What distro of Linux are you using? I use Storm (Debian). Do you have
these lines in your ~/.bashrc file (if you use xdm, kdm, gdm or some
other graphical login for X) or in your ~./.bash_profile if you login to
X from the command prompt):
export PILOTPORT=/dev/ttyS0
export PILOTRATE=115200
Note that unless you have upgraded to PalmOS 3.3 or higher 115200 is too
high.
Check that your system is setting the correct variables by opening up an
xterm and entering 'env'. You should be able to see the two variables.
I use the unstable branch of Debian (Woody) and while upgrading the
other night I noticed that my pilot-link was upgraded to version
0.9.5-0pre3-helix1 - the helix involvement is interesting . . I must go
off and set up GnomePilot to see what is going on!
Pilot-link did sort itself out before the upgrade though. I do belive it
had something to do with the environmental variables. Try setting them
and see what happens - setting the parameters on the command line seems
not to be an acceptable alternative.
Hope this helps. Let us know how you get on.
--
Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux 2000
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From: "Stuart D. Gathman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: placing java VM into kernal, good or bad ?
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:23:56 -0400
Ulrich Pfisterer wrote:
>
> I have heard that there are plans to place the java virtual machine
> directly into the linux kernal. What are the good and bad points ?
>
> Where can I find out more about this ?
What you heard were plans to have exec() recognize java jars and classes
and automatically load the JVM as it does for shell scripts. This has
already been done.
It would be really stupid to make it part of the kernel - just as it
would be stupid to put perl in the kernel. The point of the kernel is
to put as few things into it as possible.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Microsoft is the QWERTY of Operating Systems" - SDG
"Confutatis maledictis, flamis acribus addictis" - Mozart background
song
for a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?"
commercial.
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From: NAVARRO LOPEZ, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs?= Manuel
Subject: Re: tape backup + mount tab?
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:03:22 +0200
Martin Gustavsson wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I am rather new to linux, but i have some experience with solaris 2.5 -
> 2.8.
>
> 1. i am looking for a tool that dumpes file systems to tape, like solaris
> ufsdump. is there any one who knows what tool i can use?
>
man dump.
> 2. after i installed mandrake 7.1 i wanted to mount a file system on a
> different mount point, in sunos there is a file called vfstab where the
> mount information is stored, but i didn�t find a similar in linux. I find a
> GUI tool for this but i want to know what file the information is stored.
> Can anyone help me?
>
/etc/fstab
--
SALUD,
Jes�s
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From: NAVARRO LOPEZ, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs?= Manuel
Subject: Re: Qmail problem
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:12:07 +0200
Rafael - LumesITSupport wrote:
>
> I installed Qmail and I have porblem to connect on telnet localhost 25
> I started qmail-smtpd and when I connect using telnet on 25 port I am
> getting
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1)
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> And nothing more, I can waite for ages. Then I have to kill telnet and
> smtpd. What the problem could be. ?????
> Can anybody help me?
>
> Rafael
Well, you did it!!! It simply shows up you got the connection, so you
got no problem at all: your box could probably tell us something like
"Hey, someone did start a connection but then she sends me no other
command, how annoying!!"
--
SALUD,
Jes�s
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 11:27:07 -0500
Private User wrote:
>
> The state of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush, is
> ranked:
>
> 50th in spending for teachers' salaries
>
> 49th in spending on the environment
>
> 48th in per-capita funding for public health
>
> 47th in delivery of social services
>
> 42nd in child-support collections
>
> 41st in per-capita spending on public education
>
> And ...
[Etc. deleted]
This is an inappropriate posting to a linux newsgroup. But
one could easily make a compelling argument for Linux users
to support Gore rather than Bush. Bush has essentially promised
to take the Justice Department heat off Microsoft. Once
Microsoft is free of "big government" it will turn its attention
to crushing Linux. It will do this by corrupting open standards
so that to do anything on the network you have to use a Microsoft
product. They will start of course by crushing netscape. Linux
won't die, but it will be cordoned off in a ghetto of its own
which increasingly won't be able to communicate with the rest
of the world.
Microsoft's usual tactics won't be quite so successful at killing
Linux as it has been with other competitors, but they are pretty
creative about that. It is how they became so powerful, as we
all know, not though the technical excellence of their products.
They have a lot of money to spend to buy politicians, and with
an administration that doesn't like anti-trust activity (as
was true under Reagan/Bush) and lots of politicians in their
pocket, what is there to limit their abuses? Don't rely on
Microsoft's computer industry competitors to save us. When
they see how the wind is blowing, they will all cut deals.
It has happened before.
The Reagan/Bush appointees to the appeals court are clearly going
to side with Microsoft on some crucial issues. So
it will be up to the Supreme Court. If the Justice Department
changes its postion, it will be left to the state attorney
generals to press the case. Any bets on the outcome?
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: hosts.lpr
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:44:10 GMT
Robert- thanks for the reply. I'll check the lpd<->lpr filename
tonight. I'll also try putting names in the hosts file rather than IP
numbers, although I thought the numbers would work.
I have the printer on my firewall box because there is also an iMac on
the network that needs to print. My machine is a dual boot and the
iMac wouldn't be able to print while I'm in Windows playing a game.
This may seem like a dumb thing to do, but its the only way I could get
all the machines printing.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PS, I haven't done this on Linux to be sure, but on AIX, it was
> "/etc/hosts.lpd" not "/etc/hosts.lpr"
>
> HTH
> Robert
>
> Robert Clayton wrote:
> >
> > The printer is hosted on the firewall you say? Is the firewall
allowing
> > lpr connections or denying them? Your hosts.lpr file sounds valid.
> >
> > BTW, not being preachy but why does firewall box double as print
server,
> > it is better not to do this.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Can someone please post an example of a valid hosts.lpr file?
> > > I have a two machine network at home. One machine (192.168.0.1
running
> > > RedHat 6) hosts the printer and is little more than a firewall.
My
> > > second machine (192.168.0.3 running RedHat 7) is the machine I do
all
> > > of my work on.
> > >
> > > From what I have read so far, I need a hosts.lpr file the /etc
> > > directory of the machine with the printer. I've tried making a
file
> > > containing just 192.168.0.3 but that didn't work.
> > >
> > > I set up the printing on the 192.168.0.3 machine using the
printtool
> > > program. It looks like everything is okay, but when I try to test
> > > print an ASCII page, nothing comes out. I'm assuming it has
something
> > > to do with the hosts.lpr, but if anybody has any other ideas, I'd
be
> > > glad to hear them.
> > >
> > > The printer is an HP DeskJet and is hooked up through lpd.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > > Before you buy.
>
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any problems with Red Hat 7?
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:52:55 -0400
Database wrote:
> Im just thinking about getting it, I currently have Storm 2000.
I have a few minor problems with it, but they are so trivial that
I would not avoid it for that reason. I have what started out as
Red Hat 6.0, though I have added a lot of RPMs over the last year
or so.
1.) Once in a while (not even once a month, and I run two systems
24/7), the X Window System locks up. In every instance that that
happened, I could get out of X by pressing Control-Alt-Backspace
or Control-Alt-PF1. Except once. Even in that case, I could tell
the system had not crashed and, since it was running a big
background job, I just let it complete before I rebooted it. Now I
would come in through ssh from my other machine and kill X that
way and start over without rebooting.
2.) I run GNOME/Enlightenment most of the time for a windowing
system. On what Microsoft calls the TaskBar and the
GNOME/Enlightement folks call the panel are little icons for this
and that. One of them is called ModemLights and it shows the
receive and send lights as well as a plot of recent activity. If
you are not dialed up and you click on this little applet, it
dials up a connection and lights an "LED" that shows you are on
line. If you are dialed up and you click it, it hangs up the
connection and turns off the LED. In theory. The LED actually
reflects the existance of /var/locks/LCK..modem, and that is not
set and reset reliably by the applet. It always turns on when it
should, but it does not always remove the lock and turn off the
LED. Unfortunately, if it is on, you cannot dial another
connection with that applet. There are many ways to get around
this, but it is a nuisance.
3.) Once or twice since getting Red Hat Linux 6.0 (May 1999?), I
have been unable to start processes in the GNOME/Enlightenment
environment (though I could when running just a shell). If I click
a menu item for emacs, or a new xterm, for example, nothing seems
to happen. I very much doubt I am running out of resources since I
have 2 550MHz CPUs and 512 Megabytes of main memory. A mystery.
When I logged out and back in, it cured the problem both times,
but I do not know what the trouble was. As I said, this is
extremely rare.
4.) Netscape (I am running 4.75) is the least stable program I
run. It vanishes sometimes. It also locks up completely once in a
while, usually in a busy loop. This seems to happen most when my
ISP's news server is unresponsive.
4a.) The UMP (Unix MIDI Player) stopped working after Netscape
4.72. None of the Netscapes after that could run UMP. I can play
MIDI files using /usr/bin/playmidi or related programs, but they
do not handle streaming MIDI stuff such as sent by Blue Mountain
Arts.
There are probably a few more nits like this, but nothing that
would ever make me go back to that other operating system.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
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Subject: Re: FOR ALL VOTERS - PLS READ
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:53:37 GMT
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [Etc. deleted]
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> This is an inappropriate posting to a linux newsgroup. But
[Further deletions]
Agreed. This is not the appropriate forum for equal-time discussions.
Please take it elsewhere.
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Robert Kiesling
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From: "Anderw G. Bacchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: install under /home or /usr/local
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:56:52 -0400
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Is there any opinion regarding where applications or databases are
installed? Is there any reason whether to install under /usr/local or
/home? Thanks
A
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