Linux-Misc Digest #142, Volume #26 Wed, 25 Oct 00 22:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Signal definitions? ("Arthur H. Gold")
Re: Absurd mouse behavior (Dances With Crows)
Not so essential command line tools ("J.H.Delaney")
uptime....I love linux! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X-CD-Roast (Rich Birch)
Re: HP35480A scsi tape drive config ("Ken Abrahamsen")
Burning .BIN files.. ("Trail")
Re: Reminder shell script (Fester)
Re: Not so essential command line tools ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: Not so essential command line tools ("J.H.Delaney")
Re: Slackware 7.1 / Telnet (ljb)
atlon thunderbird, problems with vi and screen writing (Jon Wright)
ldconfig disappeared, cannot run anything, do anything (Jon Busey)
Re: How to set up Virtual E-Mail Domain on Red Hut 6.1 (Steve)
Re: rpm questions (Steve)
Re: Copying an 7GB-partition to an 8GB-partition (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Setting Up an ADSL connection under Linux (Steve)
Re: atlon thunderbird, problems with vi and screen writing ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: Not so essential command line tools ("Michael")
Re: Not so essential command line tools (Robert Jones)
Re: kde2 rpm dependency problem. (Steve)
Re: kde2 rpm dependency problem. (Garry Knight)
Re: Linux Certification (Garry Knight)
Re: Reminder shell script (Garry Knight)
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:52:44 -0500
From: "Arthur H. Gold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Signal definitions?
Micer wrote:
>
> I don't know what a HUP or SIGHUP are so I searched the web and found this:
> http://www.linux.it/~agx/info/linuxcmd.htm
>
> kill
> Send a "signal" to a process
>
> Sintassi: kill [options] [PID]
>
> Opzioni:
> -s Specify the name or number of the signal to send
> -l Display a list of all the available signal
>
> Signals:
> 1) SIGHUP 2) SIGINT 3) SIGQUIT 4) SIGILL 5) SIGTRAP
> 6) SIGIOT 7) SIGBUS 8) SIGFPE 9) SIGKILL 10) SIGUSR1
> 11) SIGSEGV 12) SIGUSR2 13) SIGPIPE 14) SIGALRM 15) SIGTERM
> 17) SIGCHLD 18) SIGCONT 19) SIGSTOP 20) SIGTSTP 21) SIGTTIN
> 22) SIGTTOU 23) SIGURG 24) SIGXCPU 25) SIGXFSZ 26) SIGVTALRM
> 27) SIGPROF 28) SIGWINCH 29) SIGIO 30) SIGPWR
>
> QUESTION: What on earth do all these signals mean? Can anyone point me to
> documentation on this stuff? Why don't the MAN pages for kill or killall
> document the various signals? And what is the difference between saying
> "killall -SIGHUP" and "killall -HUP"? Finally, what does HUP stand for? (the
> best I came up with on the web is "HUng Up".
>
> Thanks,
> Micer
Try `man 7 signal'
Quoting:
Linux supports the signals listed below. Several
signal
numbers are architecture dependent. First the
signals
described in POSIX.1.
Signal Value Action Comment
=========================================================================
SIGHUP 1 A Hangup detected on
controlling terminal
or death of controlling
process
SIGINT 2 A Interrupt from keyboard
SIGQUIT 3 A Quit from keyboard
SIGILL 4 A Illegal Instruction
SIGABRT 6 C Abort signal from
abort(3)
SIGFPE 8 C Floating point
exception
SIGKILL 9 AEF Kill signal
SIGSEGV 11 C Invalid memory
reference
SIGPIPE 13 A Broken pipe: write to
pipe with no readers
SIGALRM 14 A Timer signal from
alarm(2)
SIGTERM 15 A Termination signal
SIGUSR1 30,10,16 A User-defined signal 1
SIGUSR2 31,12,17 A User-defined signal 2
SIGCHLD 20,17,18 B Child stopped or
terminated
SIGCONT 19,18,25 Continue if stopped
SIGSTOP 17,19,23 DEF Stop process
SIGTSTP 18,20,24 D Stop typed at tty
SIGTTIN 21,21,26 D tty input for
background process
SIGTTOU 22,22,27 D tty output for
background process
Next various other signals.
Signal Value Action Comment
=====================================================================
SIGTRAP 5 CG Trace/breakpoint trap
SIGIOT 6 CG IOT trap. A synonym
for SIGABRT
SIGEMT 7,-,7 G
SIGBUS 10,7,10 AG Bus error
SIGSYS 12,-,12 G Bad argument to
routine (SVID)
SIGSTKFLT -,16,- AG Stack fault on
coprocessor
SIGURG 16,23,21 BG Urgent condition on
socket (4.2 BSD)
SIGIO 23,29,22 AG I/O now possible (4.2
BSD)
SIGPOLL AG A synonym for SIGIO
(System V)
SIGCLD -,-,18 G A synonym for SIGCHLD
SIGXCPU 24,24,30 AG CPU time limit
exceeded (4.2 BSD)
SIGXFSZ 25,25,31 AG File size limit
exceeded (4.2 BSD)
SIGVTALRM 26,26,28 AG Virtual alarm clock
(4.2 BSD)
SIGPROF 27,27,29 AG Profile alarm clock
SIGPWR 29,30,19 AG Power failure (System
V)
SIGINFO 29,-,- G A synonym for SIGPWR
SIGLOST -,-,- AG File lock lost
SIGWINCH 28,28,20 BG Window resize signal
(4.3 BSD, Sun)
SIGUNUSED -,31,- AG Unused signal
(Here - denotes that a signal is absent; there where
three
values are given, the first one is usually valid for
alpha
and sparc, the middle one for i386 and ppc, the
last one
for mips. Signal 29 is SIGINFO / SIGPWR on an
alpha but
SIGLOST on a sparc.)
The letters in the "Action" column have the
following
meanings:
A Default action is to terminate the process.
B Default action is to ignore the signal.
C Default action is to dump core.
D Default action is to stop the process.
E Signal cannot be caught.
F Signal cannot be ignored.
G Not a POSIX.1 conformant signal.
HTH,
--ag
--
Artie Gold, Austin, TX (finger the cs.utexas.edu account
for more info)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"I'd sooner fly another combat mission than ride the Cyclone
again" -- Joseph Heller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Absurd mouse behavior
Date: 25 Oct 2000 23:01:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 25 Oct 2000 04:58:10 GMT, Tyler Larson wrote:
>You had it exactly right. Right after reading your message, I tried out
>your advice. I had an instance of X running, incidentally, and ran
>'gpm -k' in a text-mode console. The mouse *immediately* started working
>in X. I never though of disabling gpm before because most of my time is spent
>in text consoles and gpm comes in very handy. I just heard a few hours ago
>from my boss at work that he had heard a few complaints about bugs in gpm in
>the past. There must be some sort of conflict with my new motherboard I put
>in the computer the last time I installed. Fascinaing.
If you need both gpm and mouse control in X, you may wish to look into
using "gpm -R" and setting up X to use the mouse device /dev/gpmdata
instead of /dev/mouse . The protocol used is "MouseSystems", or should
be. I never got it to work right, but then my mouse runs fine in both X
and console without tweaking of gpm or X.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "J.H.Delaney" <this.is.my.forewall.against.spam@com>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Not so essential command line tools
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 01:19:19 +0200
Recently I have been starting to use linux at home, so I can have a *nix not
just at work, but at home too. Unfortunately, I seem to be missing some fun
but not too essential commands, like fortune, banner, calendar (no, not
'cal', 'calendar') and others... Yes I know that these commands and others
like it can hardly be called 'essential', but I sort of have gotten
accustomed to them, and was just wondering if linux version of these were
available, and where I can find them?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: uptime....I love linux!
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:12:48 GMT
To all,
I just wanted to pass along a bit of information for the group:
[root@eng_serv ron]# uptime
5:39pm up 105 days, 9:32, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.03, 0.01
I am sure that there are many servers out there with much longer uptimes
but I am impressed! An extended power outage caused the system to go
down a few months ago but our server has been running like a champ. This
is a P166 based machine (which was destined for the dumpster) that is
used as a departmental file server (through SAMBA) for 10 users in an
engineering office. We run a departmental web and ftp server and the
system runs automated backups for us. Linux got us out of a jam when the
server was set up and it continues to impress us with its reliability.
Ron
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:19:18 +0100
From: Rich Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-CD-Roast
Oh my god! I remember thinking when i first realised it stopped working
that I should try TOA, but my memory being what it is I completely forgot
about it. Having said that though I wouldn't have expected it to make any
difference anyway. But I just tried it and it's writing as I speak.
Thanks very much
Rich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Rich, have you tried changing from DOA mode to TOA. I tried this today
> and it worked. I still got a few errors at the end of the burn but the
> CD worked flawlessly.
>
> -Brian
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From: "Ken Abrahamsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HP35480A scsi tape drive config
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:26:13 -0700
OK, this was a few years ago, so the details may only be close but.....
I *struggled* with one of these same Hp drives for 1-2 weeks on a Dell
server running NT 4.0 server.
FWIR, tapes on this HP tape drive will *immediately* eject after loading IF
the current drive setup/configuration is different from the existing tape
header record. The magic key to solving this is to do a FULL reformat of
each tape which will not mount.
So you ask, how do you format a tape when the fool tape drive spits it right
back out?????
At least under NT backup, there was an option to suppress reading the tape's
header record upon loading the tape in the drive. Under Linux, I'd suggest
looking for something like this option too. Sorry I don't know what it is
though. Maybe someone can tell you the command now that you know what needs
to be done. Once you find it and get the tape to stay in the drive. REFORMAT
the tape (assuming your tape drive has now been configured/optioned the way
you want it; ie; recording density / compression on/off, block size, etc).
Once reformatted, the tapes will now remain loaded in the drive but also
still check them for the usual media defects before using them.
Hope this helps.
ken
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <8svelu$e5a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I can't give you much real help, but I can offer
>some encouragement. I got my Archive Python DAT
>drive to work without a problem. I can suggest
>that you look at the manual for the drive to
>figure out if there might be a hardware problem --
> or even try the drive under Windows, which might
>allow you to set up your drive easier, initially
>(try a W98 or W2K backup program, for example).
>You can read the manual page for mt (and st) and
>I think there may be a well-known HOWTO for
>tapes. I'm not sure if it will help, but you can
>look in the linux source code tree, too. But I
>just ran something like 'mt status' and figured
>out that /dev/tape was not set up, so I linked it
>to /dev/nst0 and away it went. I can do multi-
>volume tars; everything seems to work.
>
>See below where I have copied your questions.
>
>I don't visit this newsgroup often. If you want
>to ask me a question (not sure that I can offer
>much more help), email me at
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "SMAMLESS).
>
>-Thomas
>
>In article <d7PG5.325775
>$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Guy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Well, the symptoms changed a bit after I
>selected a resonable varitation of
>> a scinit.def file.
>
>Sorry, what is that?
>
>> Now the tape drive will not hold onto a tape.
>Insert
>> the tape, it loads, spins for a few seconds,
>then ejects.
>
>I'm not sure what might cause this. Could it be
>a hardware problem: SCSI cable problem, dirty or
>busted drive? Bad tape? I think maybe remember
>something like this happening to me when I had a
>SCSI configuration problem. If your cable, SCSI
>addresses, termination, SCSI adaptor and drive
>are all right, you should have no problem, I
>think (assuming your drive has no major quirk --
>and I doubt that).
>
>> "mt load" results in an I/O error.
>
>What does 'mt status' return?
>
>> Attempting a tar results in " Cannot write: No
>medium found"
>>
>> So, I'm stumped. Anyone successfuly using a
>HP35480A that can give me some
>> pointers?
>>
>> --- orig msg ---
>>
>> I have loaded Red Hat 6.2 on an old PC. Most
>everything is working OK,
>> except for an HP35480 DAT drive. The device is
>seen at boot (see next -
>> dump from dmesg)
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------
>----------------------------
>> ----------------------------------
>> Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id
>3, lun 0
>> st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info
>fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense
>> key Not Ready
>
>The SCSI commands that go out over the SCSI bus
>are standardised. I believe the "Not Ready"
>indicates some particular reply was not returned
>from the drive. I'm not sure if this is normal
>or not. If you're still having trouble, I'll
>check this next time I boot my Linux system and
>see what I get. I'm pretty sure it is not "Not
>Ready".
>
>> 1) Not sure to what to make of the message
>>
>> 2) Cannot find any good documentation on
>configuring scsi tape drives, much
>> less anything specific on this model
>
>There's basically nothing to it if you have the
>scsi tape module (st), which dmesg is indicating
>you do.
>
>> Looking for any guidance.
>
>Sorry I've been so long-winded.
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: "Trail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Burning .BIN files..
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 01:39:01 +0200
Hi all,
How can i burn a .BIN and .CUE combination file with linux ?
Kind regards,
Trail.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fester)
Subject: Re: Reminder shell script
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 23:43:17 GMT
I saw Gregory Spath rant about the following:
>
>The format of the crontab file (which oddly enough isn't covered in the man
>pages for some dumb reason?) is:
try: man 5 crontab
Section 5 of the man pages covers document formats.
--
-- Fester
"And Dream dreams of the future. Progress dreams of clean.
And Stress only dreams about stress, all over everything."
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not so essential command line tools
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:58:32 -0400
"J.H.Delaney" <this.is.my.forewall.against.spam@com> wrote:
> where I can find them?
http://www.freshmeat.net
Cheers,
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
Please add smileys where appropriate.
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From: "J.H.Delaney" <this.is.my.forewall.against.spam@com>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Not so essential command line tools
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 02:06:44 +0200
>
> http://www.freshmeat.net
>
> Cheers,
> -Jan
Sorry, but...
Been there, done that... And no luck so far...
Any other suggestions?
;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: Slackware 7.1 / Telnet
Date: 26 Oct 2000 00:43:42 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>...
>I tried changing /etc/services but it just changed the port outgoing
>telnet connections go on.
Yes, that's what it will do. To change the port the telnet daemon
listens on, you would change the first word on the line for telnet
in /etc/inetd.conf. This word, normally "telnet", is the service
name to listen on. (The actual telnet daemon, in.telnetd, doesn't
care what port it uses - that's inetd's job.) So, you could for
example add an entery to /etc/services like: "teltest 999/tcp"
and then change inetd.conf to say:
"teltest stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd"
(your paths may differ). Now you have a telnet daemon listening
on port 999.
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From: Jon Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: atlon thunderbird, problems with vi and screen writing
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:02:03 -0700
I have red hat 6.2, and a 950 Mhz athlon with asus a7v motherboard.
I have several odd problems that i haven't encountered before. I have
redhat 6.2 running
on a pentium system with none of the peculiarities.
when editing a file with vi, frequently get message
error opening swap file
at the same time it seems to get stuck for a few seconds. it can happen
either when opening or closing a file. it doesn't happen consistently.
Sometimes characters appear on the screen, not on one of the terminal
windows.
(I use gnome terminal usually, but i don't think that matters)
In a recent example, i was running a make file in a terminal window and
the first line
was GNU etc. and The GN appeared outside the terminal window. Refresh
desktop
clears the offending characters.
In writing to file using g77, frequently not all of the file is
written. The same program has
no trouble on the other Pentium compter (the files are cross mounted so
i use the same
executable)
As far as I know the two computers are configured the same, although I
can't be absolutely
sure since they were confugured at different times. I don't know if it
is a configuration
problem or something funny with the cpu or motherboard or perhaps one
should use
a different kernel.?
One of the oddities is that the problems seem to happen randomly.
--
Jon Wright
University of California, San Diego
858-534-1675
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jon Busey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ldconfig disappeared, cannot run anything, do anything
Date: 25 Oct 2000 21:13:36 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For some strange reason my ldconfig has disappeared, rendering any
installing/removing impossible. ldso is still there, but when I
re-download it for install, I can reinstall it because I don't have
ldconfig! I use Debian, and have a *whole bunch* of unconfigured
packages right now.
Does anyone know what provides ldconfig and how to get it onto a
nonworking system? I've looked all through packages.debian.org and
can't find anything about it, and freshmeat only lists it under ldso,
which is supposedly working fine. What to do?!
Jon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: How to set up Virtual E-Mail Domain on Red Hut 6.1
Date: 26 Oct 2000 02:21:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:50:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>How do I set up Virtual E-Mail Domain (using two different domains) on
>Red Hut Linux 6.1 which is configured as a mail server? I want people
>to be able to use two different e-mail formats with the same user name
>and all mail still goes to the same user account.
>Thank you
Set the networking side up correctly, then have two different spools
and give your users aliases when you set them up, have a look in the
HOWTOs, on my distro in /usr/doc/HOWTO/ and /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/ or
if you don't have them goto http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ .
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
1:49am up 15 days, 3:09, 2 users, load average: 1.23, 1.11, 1.03
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: rpm questions
Date: 26 Oct 2000 02:21:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:36:35 GMT, Kevin Mooneyham wrote:
>If I have a source package mypkg.src.rpm how do I use rpm to do
>everything required to install this package?
>
If you're running RH then as rood to
# rpm -ivh whaterver.src.3.05-1.rpm
then it extracts the source (or sometimes the binaries) and a Makefile
to:
/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/whatever3.05-1/
So you go to this directory by doing:
# cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/whatever3.05-1/
Read any README files in this directory they may give you some
important information.
Then do:
# make
and then if you don't get any error messages:
# make install
And then your package should be installed, you'll probably need to
do most of this as root as none of it's in your home directory.
If the rpm extracts zipped up source looking like:
whatever.src.3.05-1.tar.gz
Then go to the directory where that is and do:
# tar -xzvf whatever.src.3.05-1.tar.gz
Then do the make, make install thing as described above.
I've missed a few bits out, but you can't go wrong if you
read the docs that come in the rpm.
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
1:49am up 15 days, 3:09, 2 users, load average: 1.23, 1.11, 1.03
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Copying an 7GB-partition to an 8GB-partition
Date: 26 Oct 2000 01:29:49 GMT
Stewart Honsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 24 Oct 2000 17:43:39 GMT, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>>> cp -a /data/on/7G/partition /data/on/8G/partition
>>
>>But this won't preserve creation/modification/access times, which dump/restore
>>will. tar will preserve ctime and mtime, but not atime (I believe).
> It did for me when I've used it. I've copied my entire installation atleast
> thrice; once to upgrade from a 2GB to a 4GB, a second time to upgrade to a
> 6GB, and a third time to convert all FSs to ReiserFS. All of my file dates and
> times have remained the same as before, and I used the cp -a method all three
> times.
Oops -- you're right. That's what I get for posting without checking
the cp man page.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Setting Up an ADSL connection under Linux
Date: 26 Oct 2000 02:21:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:29:48 GMT, router wrote:
>I don't think many people will be able to help me with this, but I need to
>install software for Bell's High Speed Internet service, and I'm feeling
>really stupid, but I don't understand the instructions they give me. Could
>anyone help me out? The instructions for the Linux install is at
>http://www1.sympatico.ca/help/local/bell/hsedownloadslinux.bell.html
There's an ADSL HOWTO which may be of some help, on my distro in
/usr/doc/HOWTO/ or /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini and if you don't have them then
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ .
--
Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
1:49am up 15 days, 3:09, 2 users, load average: 1.23, 1.11, 1.03
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: atlon thunderbird, problems with vi and screen writing
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:31:31 -0500
Jon Wright wrote:
> I have red hat 6.2, and a 950 Mhz athlon with asus a7v motherboard.
> I have several odd problems that i haven't encountered before.
Post the output of `hdparm -i /dev/hda` and `hdparm -v /dev/hda`.
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Not so essential command line tools
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:21:08 +1000
"J.H.Delaney" <this.is.my.forewall.against.spam@com> wrote in message
news:5UJJ5.26809$tL4.318009@zonnet-reader-1...
> Recently I have been starting to use linux at home, so I can have a *nix
not
> just at work, but at home too. Unfortunately, I seem to be missing some
fun
> but not too essential commands, like fortune, banner, calendar (no, not
> 'cal', 'calendar') and others... Yes I know that these commands and others
> like it can hardly be called 'essential', but I sort of have gotten
> accustomed to them, and was just wondering if linux version of these were
> available, and where I can find them?
>
>
I know fortune is available. Not sure about the others, but you can
probably find them, or an equivalent. A personal favourite of mine is pig.
Found one night by accident when trying to get my LAN working. = )
Michael - please remove is dead to reply
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Not so essential command line tools
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:42:46 -0500
"J.H.Delaney" wrote:
> >
> > http://www.freshmeat.net
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Jan
>
> Sorry, but...
>
> Been there, done that... And no luck so far...
> Any other suggestions?
> ;)
You might check the various distributions' sites. I know for a fact
that fortune and banner came with RH6.0 (/usr/games/fortune and
/usr/games/banner). I'm using fortune to generate these nonsensical
taglines.
Can't help you with 'calendar'.
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QOTD:
"Of course it's the murder weapon. Who would frame someone with
a fake?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: kde2 rpm dependency problem.
Date: 26 Oct 2000 02:54:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 25 Oct 2000 19:37:49 GMT, Larry Autry wrote:
>I'm having trouble with installing the KDE2 base rpm on RedHat 6.2. Every
>package I try to install gets a dependency error. Do I need to uninstall
>something first? What is the order of installation? If I need them, all of
>the kde2 rpm files I found are on my system.
Try rpm --freshen whatever.rpm
You're only upgrading right, not installing from scratch?
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From: Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kde2 rpm dependency problem.
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:45:16 +0100
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Larry Autry wrote:
>I'm having trouble with installing the KDE2 base rpm on RedHat 6.2. Every
>package I try to install gets a dependency error. Do I need to uninstall
>something first? What is the order of installation? If I need them, all of
>the kde2 rpm files I found are on my system.
>From what I understand of the way rpm works, if you put all of them into one
directory, with nothing else in that directory, then enter:
rpm -Uvh *
then it will install all of the packages resolving any circular dependencis.
This way, if there are any dependency errors at all, they will relate to
packages that you don't have and therefore need to get.
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Garry Knight
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From: Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Certification
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:49:04 +0100
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I was hoping someone out there might know of some Certification books on the
>Sair certification
I don't know any titles, but I saw some in Borders today. You could try your
local branch.
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From: Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reminder shell script
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 01:05:07 +0100
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Gregory Spath wrote:
>The format of the crontab file (which oddly enough isn't covered in the man
>pages for some dumb reason?) is:
>
>minute hour dayofmonth monthofyear dayofweek command
$ man 5 crontab
/The time and date fields
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