Linux-Misc Digest #296, Volume #26 Sun, 12 Nov 00 17:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Can't mount File System on Boot (Mark Post)
pine locally through dialup? (Rick)
Re: pine locally through dialup? ("Jan Schaumann")
mkinitrd help ("Raibatak Das")
Re: Problem with upgrading kernel ("Raibatak Das")
Re: Problem with upgrading kernel ("Raibatak Das")
Suse 6.4 on Laptop Toshiba 8100 ("Holger Hummel")
Re: Terminal blanking... (Adam Schuetze)
Re: SSH problems (Bill Unruh)
Re: Problem with netgroup in /etc/exports ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
TV Card ("Ernest N. Mamikonyan")
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem with netgroup in /etc/exports ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ethernet speed! ("Antony Mak")
True GTK+ will eliminate Qt in next few years? (James Hutchins)
How to hire Linux programmers/testers? ("David J. Topper")
Re: Why, ext2 don't need defrag (Peter)
Subdirectories (Michael McMaster)
Re: ethernet speed! ("Anders Hanssen")
Re: Problems with sendmail (Sir Joltalot)
Re: ethernet speed! (Miguel Cruz)
Re: Subdirectories (Black Dragon)
Re: Terminal blanking... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Terminal blanking... ("Hexxor")
Re: pine locally through dialup? (Sean)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: Can't mount File System on Boot
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 17:24:13 GMT
On 12 Nov 2000 11:45:09 GMT, "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Red Hat is already installed. I am trying to get acces to the Linux
>: system and the Kernel is Panicking because it is trying to access hda7
>: for the file system and it the file system is now in hda8. How do I go
>How on earth did you move it? You'd have had to insert an extra logical
>partition _below_ hda7.
>: about changing this, if I can't get into the system.
>Give the parameter "root=/dev/hda8" to the booter at boottime (no quotes).
And then once he's back up again, he can use the rdev command to permanently
change where the system will look for the root on the next re-boot.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: pine locally through dialup?
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 12:31:28 -0500
Does anyone know if it might be possible to use PINE locally through a
local dialup ISP.
--
Rick
* To email me remove NOSPAM from my address *
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pine locally through dialup?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.mail.pine
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 12:51:57 -0500
"Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know if it might be possible to use PINE locally through a
> local dialup ISP.
If you xpost - how come you couldn't find the group where it's *on*
topic?
xpost & fup2 accordingly
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
Fan: "Aha ha, fan beats man."
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From: "Raibatak Das" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: mkinitrd help
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:16:30 +0500
i was trying to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.0 on my machine which runs linux
mandrake 7.2 with kernel version 2.2.17mdk at the moment. after the initial
make xconfig dep clean modules modules_install routine when i try to run
mkinitrd to generate the initrd image i get the following error message.
No module reiserfs found for kernel 2.4.0-0.31mdk
does anyone have any clues as to what's going on and how i might get around
this problem?
thanks very much for your help in advance.
raibatak.
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From: "Raibatak Das" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with upgrading kernel
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:21:47 +0500
thanks a lot for your reply to my post on the newsgroup. i followed your advice
and tried to run mkinitrd to generate the initrd.img file but i get the
following error message.
[root@maxine modules]# mkinitrd /boot/initrd.img 2.4.0-0.31mdk
No module reiserfs found for kernel 2.4.0-0.31mdk
i have already done the make xconfig dep clean mosules modules_install routine
prior to this. could you kindly point out what i might be doing wrong here?
thanks again. i really appreciate your taking time to reply.
raibatak.
In article <hU2P5.839$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mike Mattix"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Raibatak Das wrote:
>
>> i was trying to upgrade to kernel version 2.4 on my machine with linux
>> mandrake 7.2 currently using kernel version 2.2.17-21mdksecure and ran into
>> the following problem. any help in resolving this issue would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> the usual make xconfig; make dep; make clean; make bzImage routine went fine.
>> and i moved the resulting bzImage file to the /boot directory. now, prior to
>> this my /etc/lilo.conf file looked as follows.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux
>> keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message
>> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure
>> label=linux root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.17-21mdksecure.img
>> vga=788 read-only
>> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>> label=linux-up root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.17mdk.img
>> read-only
>> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>> label=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.17mdk.img
>> append=" failsafe" read-only
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> and after compiling the new kernel i added the following section to the above
>> file.
>>
>> image = /boot/bzImage label = linux-new root = /dev/hda1 read-only
>>
>> note that there is no corresponding line for initrd = ...
>>
>> following this i ran lilo which registered the new boot image fine. but when
>> i try to reboot with the new kernel, it basically reaches a point in the boot
>> up process where it tries to mount / and runs into a segmentation fault and
>> hangs. also, when i try to add the initrd =
>> /boot/initrd-2.2.17mdk.img in the new section of /etc/lilo.conf file, and
>> try to boot with the new kernel it goes into kernel panic and hangs.
>>
>> could someone provide some insight into what's going on here? more
>> specifically what is the purpose of the initrd tag and how can i generate a
>> corresponding initrd.img file for the new kernel?
>>
>> thanks in advance. raibatak.
> You need to run mkinitrd pointing to the new 2.2.4 kernel. Initrd (I must
> have posted this more than a few times) loads the modules you require to
> mount the system root (/). If your system root resides on a SCSI drive or
> uses a modular file system (ReiserFS) then your boot will generate a kernel
> panic as it will not be able to mount the file system root.
>
> Example: 'mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.4-0mdk.img 2.2.4-0mdk' (I used 0 because
> I do not know what revision you are using). Edit the
> /etc/lilo.conf and add the initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.4-0mdk.img line to your
> new kernel entry.
>
> HTH
>
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From: "Raibatak Das" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with upgrading kernel
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:24:08 +0500
thanks a lot for your reply. my boot device is /dev/hda1. what parameters do i
have to specify in order to compile the kernel with boot device support.
thanks again for your time.
raibatak.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "MH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Or recompile your kernel with support for your boot device.
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From: "Holger Hummel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suse 6.4 on Laptop Toshiba 8100
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:27:17 +0100
Reply-To: "Holger Hummel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have problems to install the SVGA XFree86 Server on my Toshiba Laptop. I
can`t find an working confuguration with sax or xfree86setup.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Schuetze)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Terminal blanking...
Reply-To: adam at adam-schuetze dot org
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:34:56 GMT
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 03:23:00 GMT, Sir Joltalot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use slackware 7, and I'm pretty happy with it. I've used it to set up
> a firewall on one machine, and I use it for my workstation as well.
>
> There's one thing that sorta ticks me off though - the terminal going
> blank after 15 minutes. What I'd really like is for the monitor to go
> into power-saving mode after 40 minutes, but if that's not possible I
> want to disable the terminal blanking altogether. How would I go about
> doing either of these things?
I had the same problem. A fix was suggested, which worked just
fine for console mode, but didn't do anything if I was running
X.
Put
setterm -blank off
in your .profile, .bash_profile etc... so that it gets executed
automatically when you login.
This prevents the screen from blanking altogether. I don't know
how to setup power save mode, I think you need to use power
management daemons, which I know nothing about.
I have been unable to get the screen to stop blanking in X
though.
More information about timeout blanking etc.. can be found in
man setterm.
later,
--
Adam Schuetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Get my pgp keys at http://www.adam-schuetze.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: SSH problems
Date: 12 Nov 2000 19:16:02 GMT
man sshd
Use the -d option to sshd, -- this produces a lot of output ( to syslog
I believe, the daemon facility-- so make sure that /etc/syslog.conf is
set up to send the daemon output somewhere)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matthew L Creech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
]The SUID changes were not what caused it, because I set them all back to
]exactly how they were (I kept a file of all programs originally setuid
]before I started) and it still doesn't work. Most of those programs are
]completely unneeded anyway, the only things I really need setuid are
]things like ping, passwd, X, and a few others. SSH doesn't need setuid,
]because the server is executed as root anyways by init (which is why it
]isn't setuid by default), and the client only comes setuid because it
]needs access in order to do RSA authentication - if you're not using
]RSA, you can safely remove the bit. All the other programs on there
]were stuff I wasn't using, like user info programs and such. And no, I
]am not using the xterm that I crippled to try to run SSH. :) I don't
]use it, that's exactly why I disabled it. Anyway I ran an strace and
]found a whole lot of jack squat, it apparently validates my password
]then the client receieves a 'connection closed' signal. I even tried
]attaching strace to my already-running sshd pid, then connecting with
]the client, then killing sshd. That didn't tell me anything either,
]sshd did everything fine and then at the end it just receives an
]INVALID_CONNECTION signal, with no other info. So that leads me to
]believe that it is in fact a problem stemming from the login program or
]some other program since SSHD itself didn't generate the error. Oh
]well, thanks for your attempted help, let me know if you have any
]creative ideas, otherwise I'm just gonna go through my log file and find
]every file that was changed over the past couple of weeks and have a
]look at it (that's a lot of files.) :)
]Dustin Puryear wrote:
]>
]> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:12:14 -0500, Matthew L Creech
]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]> >Dustin Puryear wrote:
]> >>
]> >> To check the permissions use ls with the -l option. In addition, the -a
]> >> option will give you a listing of *all* files. Hopefully, you get the
]> >
]> >Hehe - based on the replies I received I take it this newsgroup gets
]> >quite a few posts from not-so-familiar-with-linux people. :) Anyhoo,
]> >permissions on /etc/passwd are fine (owner root, perm 0644), and
]>
]> I read Peter's reply before relying to this and I am just going to agree
]> with his suggestion. You will need to compare with a working system to
]> see exactly what is broken. Also, next time, before you change the SUID
]> bit on everything you might want to double-check that the program indeed
]> does not need SUID.
]>
]> Regards, Dustin
]>
]> --
]> Dustin Puryear <$email = "dpuryear"."@usa.net";>
]> Integrate Linux Solutions into Your Windows Network
]> - http://www.prima-tech.com/integrate-linux
]--
]Matthew L. Creech
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem with netgroup in /etc/exports
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:58:11 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm setting up a Linux server at work where we use netgroups in our
> /etc/exports files (HPUX and Solaris). According to the man pages,
> Linux should be able to use netgroups in /etc/exports as well, but I
> can't seem to get it to work.
[... see previous post for more details ...]
Some more info.
I set up NIS at home, here I *can* use netgroups in /etc/exports as
described in the man pages.
When I go to work tomorrow, I'm going to take a close look at our
netgroup map, which is far larger and more complex than the single
entry map I set up here. I did try Linux->Linux exporting and mounting
at work, the main difference is the netgroup map which is served from
an HPUX 10.20 machine. The map can be viewed on the Linux machine with
ypcat and ypmatch.
The posters I saw using /etc/netgroup may have had this file work, but
it does not for me. With the libc supplied with Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1,
netgroup is only read via NIS. This is in line with what "Managing NFS
and NIS" says.
After exporting to a netgroup, you can see the individual hosts from
the netgroup entry in /proc/fs/nfs/exports:
jbuchana@zaphod$ ypcat -k netgroup
all_hosts (zaphod,,), (flenser,,), (ichabod,,), (cerberus,,), (google,,)
jbuchana@zaphod$ cd /proc/fs/nfs
jbuchana@zaphod$ cat exports
# Version 1.0
# Path Client(Flags) # IPs
/ flenser(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.3
/dp2 flenser(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.3
/dp3 flenser(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.3
/ ichabod(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.5
/dp2 ichabod(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.5
/dp3 ichabod(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.5
/ zaphod(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.2
/dp2 zaphod(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.2
/dp3 zaphod(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.2
/ cerberus(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.4
/dp2 cerberus(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.4
/dp3 cerberus(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.4
/ google(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.10
/dp2 google(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.10
/dp3 google(rw,no_root_squash,async,wdelay) # 192.168.0.10
They can not be seen in /var/lib/nfs/xtab, explicit entries in
/etc/exports can be seen there.
--
Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
"The world is full of kings and queens, who blind your eyes and steal your
dreams. They tell you black is really white, the moon is just the sun at
night" -Ronnie James Dio
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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:03:35 -0500
From: "Ernest N. Mamikonyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: TV Card
My friend have and Avermedia BTA848 TV Card and we were trying to get
it to work under RedHat 7.0 using the bttv.o module. However, we hav
enot been successfull yet, although very close. We either get a blank
screen and sound or the one channel and no sound. Does anyone have a
clue as to what we are doing wrong (or not doing)? By the way, we were
alble to get all the modules to load without errors.
--
Thanks in advance!
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:03:54 GMT
hi, i just installed debian 2.2 and glibc 2.2 right after, then i wanted
to go on with gnome (from scratch), but when i try to compile glib 1.2.8
it gives me:
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status...
the FAQ that comes with glibc is not much help so i thought i asked here...
thnx for every help in advance
M
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem with netgroup in /etc/exports
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 20:20:02 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I set up NIS at home, here I *can* use netgroups in /etc/exports as
> described in the man pages.
I hate to keep following-up to myself, but:
It stopped working. I tried to set up another host, and it did not
work, back to nothing being exported. I verified that it was still
working from the first host I tried it on (ichabod), and it was.
While trying to find the differences, I did:
jbuchana@ichabod$ exportfs
/dp4 @all_hosts
/ @all_hosts
jbuchana@ichabod$ su -
Password:
root@ichabod# exportfs -r
root@ichabod# exportfs
/dp4 @all_hosts
/ @all_hosts
This broke it on ichabod. Sigh. If this was my first experience with
Linux, I'd write it off as a poorly developed toy. I've been using it
for years and know better, but still...
--
Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
"It's a good thing the USS Hopper wasn't going to the Seattle area, or I
might have tried to talk the skipper into bombarding Microsoft"
-Jerry Pournelle
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From: "Antony Mak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: ethernet speed!
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:53:21 +0800
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how can I find out what speed is the ethernet card
running?
Thanks in advance
Antony
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Hutchins)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: True GTK+ will eliminate Qt in next few years?
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:07:41 -0500
Remember how Motif became the darling and crowded out all of its
competitors within very few years? Is that what will happen with GTK+ and
Qt?
I was about to switch from Motif to Qt, but have gotten advice from
several sources suggesting Qt failed to get adopted as the darling of the
unix community and GTK+ has succeeded, so Qt will not be around, or will
be a hanger-on.
Seems like when a tool doesn't "win", all kinds of things happen, like
ancilliary tools don't get developed for it, it isn't kept up with new
developments, good books about it (and about using various tools in
conjunction with it, like databases, graphics libraries, etc.) don't
appear, etc.
Thoughts?
Jim
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From: "David J. Topper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to hire Linux programmers/testers?
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 16:16:03 -0500
Hi all,
I'm working on a project that will entail creating custom Linux CDROMs
that can be booted on virtually any PC system. The clutch here will be
creating a smart boot mechanism that will detect hardware and whatnot.
So I guess I'm basically looking for the kinds of folks who've written
installers for RedHat, Mandrake, etc... Anyone know where to look?
Ideally, I'd like to hire out this part of the project.
Thanks,
Dave Topper
--
Technical Director - Virginia Center for Computer Music
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djt7p
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From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why, ext2 don't need defrag
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:29:20 GMT
On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 06:21:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Christopher Browne) wrote:
>In our last episode (Sat, 04 Nov 2000 21:13:34 -0500),
>the artist formerly known as dan said:
>>I understand that the ext2 filesystem is a little "smarter" then the fat
>>fs, and it does not need to be defrag. But can someone explain why, I
>>mean the physical architecture of how the ext2 fs works, or if it's too
>>much to explain does anyone know of a site that can thoroughtly
>>breakdown how the ext2 fs works.
>
>See:
><http://step.polymtl.ca/~ldd/ext2fs/ext2fs_toc.html>
> Analysis of the Ext2fs structure
>
>As well as the references by R�my Card and Theodore Ts'o that are
>referenced therein.
>
>It is _NOT_ a "comparative analysis of ext2fs _as compared to DOS FAT_"
>and thus will not provide a detailed answer as to _why_ ext2 is better.
>
>That is left as an exercise to the gentle reader; if you're not up
>to looking at the sources and assessing it yourself, you would likely
>not be able to find actual value in anything more specific than the
>rather blank claim that "ext2 allocates files more intelligently than
>FAT."
The referenced documents suggest ext2fs is similar to NTFS under NT.
That means fragmentation and related disk management issues are less
of a problem on lightly loaded ext2fs based systems than on FAT based
systems. The converse is likely to be also true.
Part of ext2fs's advantage derives from logical blocking. FAT and NTFS
use logical blocks. FAT gives the user no control. NTFS lets the user
set the logical block size per partition so a partition full of icons
can use 2K while a partition full of video files can use 128K. I have
not seen a partition logical block size parameter when setting up
Linux. One post in this group said Linux uses 8K.
Ext2fs allows block fragments and manages the change from fragments to
blocks and back. Great in a lightly loaded system with lots of small
files that change size. Hopefully heavily loaded systems automatically
stop allocating fragments and stick to whole blocks.
All 3 file systems depend on lots of spare memory to cache files so
disks can keep up. A memory shortage both reduces the cache size and
increases paging. Paging destroys system performance. I note the
frequent recommendation for Linux is exactly the same as for all
variations of Windows, if the system ever pages, increase memory.
Linux has read ahead to reduce the impact of fragmentation. In lightly
loaded systems, read ahead is useful. In heavily loaded systems, read
ahead increases the workload by reading data that is not always
needed.
Delivering video requires 100% from a modern disk. Read ahead, cache
and other tricks do not help as the disk is already struggling to keep
up and the file size is larger than the max memory on a typical
motherboard. The same effectively happens when manipulating an image
or a database. The processes run at disk speed. A 25Gb database cannot
be 100% cached.
Conclusion: The tricks that help all file systems and operating
systems tend to fall down in heavily loaded systems. That is why
heavily loaded systems seem to suddenly go on strike.
(Observations of NT 4.0, Solaris and RH 6.x based systems support the
conclusion. All 3 will reach a point where a linear growth in external
work will produce a dramatic nonlinear drop in performance.)
This leads to questions about the way Linux interacts with ext2fs.
Questions like:
Does Linux turn of block fragments when under load?
Can someone pre tune Linux by turning off block fragments?
Can logical block size be set by partition?
Can pre read be turned off for specific file types, like databases?
If the answer to these questions are not common knowledge, It might
help explain why many ISP's cannot explain their server's lack of
performance during peak periods. They simply do not know what is going
wrong.
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From: Michael McMaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Subdirectories
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:30:05 -0000
Howdy!
I am a Linux newbie and I cannot seem to figure out how to get into a
subdirectory on my CD to install rpm packages. I can get to the main
directory, but not the subdirectory. Any assistance? Thanks in advance!!
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: "Anders Hanssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ethernet speed!
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 22:37:20 +0100
"Antony Mak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how can I find out what speed is the ethernet card
> running?
You can try
# ifconfig -a
\anders
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From: Sir Joltalot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Problems with sendmail
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:33:23 GMT
Hi,
Thanks for your last peice of advice:
> You could try and see what the output is from the following command:
>
> echo '$=w' | sendmail -bt -d0.4
>
What happens is that my gateway has a local hostname of cs47445-a, for
my cable connection. This command identifies the host as
cs47445-a.blahblah.yi.org, where it should just be blahblah.yi.org. Like
I say, I already know that blahblah.yi.org points correctly to my IP and
has a good MX, etc. Is there any way to change my sendmail config so
that it thinks $w is `blahblah' and $j is $w.yi.org?
Thanks again,
-Peter Colijn
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ethernet speed!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Cruz)
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:42:14 GMT
Antony Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how can I find out what speed is the ethernet card
> running?
ifconfig INTERFACE | grep '^\W*media'
...where INTERFACE is the name of your ethernet device (dc2, xl0, whatever).
miguel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon )
Subject: Re: Subdirectories
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:40:31 GMT
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:30:05 -0000 in comp.os.linux.misc,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Michael McMaster' said:
>I am a Linux newbie and I cannot seem to figure out how to get into a
>subdirectory on my CD to install rpm packages. I can get to the main
>directory, but not the subdirectory. Any assistance? Thanks in advance!!
Linux is CaSe SeNsItIvE. Maybe that's your problem? Using Red Hat for
example:
"cd /mnt/cdrom"
"cd RedHat"
"cd RPMS"
Note UPPER & lower case. Use the command "ls" to list the contents of a
directory.
--
Black Dragon
Sign The Linux Driver Petition:
http://www.libralinux.com/petition.english.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Terminal blanking...
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux
Date: 12 Nov 2000 16:46:04 -0500
In comp.os.linux.misc Adam Schuetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been unable to get the screen to stop blanking in X
> though.
Check the man page on xset and the "s" flag.
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From: "Hexxor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Terminal blanking...
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,alt.linux
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:50:36 GMT
In alt.os.linux a rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> into power-saving mode after 40 minutes, but if that's not possible I
>> want to disable the terminal blanking altogether. How would I go about
>> doing either of these things?
setterm --blank 0
or of course, man setterm :)
-Hexxor
http://rains.net/~hexxor/
"Do not take for granted, the powers out there."
GMUd-s:--a--C++UL++++P++++L++++E----W++N+o+K-w---O-
M-V-PS+++PEY+PGPt---5--X-R!tvb+DID+Geh--ry+
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: pine locally through dialup?
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 22:05:36 +0000
Check out fetchmail.
means you set up a mailserver on your own pc. fetchmail collects mail
from your ISP and sends it to your local mailserver. You can then use
pine to collect mail from there.
I love it, as it means I can check more than one ISP's mail at once!
Hope that is of help,
Sean
Rick wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if it might be possible to use PINE locally through a
> local dialup ISP.
>
> --
> Rick
> * To email me remove NOSPAM from my address *
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