Linux-Misc Digest #135, Volume #27 Sat, 17 Feb 01 15:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: compiled 2.4.1 and PPP doesn't work (Michael Heiming)
Re: compiled 2.4.1 and PPP doesn't work (Robert Lynch)
Re: Bash: How to address a (windows) folder containing a space? (Mark Bratcher)
Pass through printing in telnet session (Steven Conway)
Re: Politics (was Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else) (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: Slow sound problem (E J)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Mark Bratcher)
Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: Politics (was Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else) (Aaron Kulkis)
Re: Automatic server status watch? (Matt Haley)
Re: Pass through printing in telnet session (Frank da Cruz)
Re: repost about netscape problem (Matt Haley)
Re: linux only know first 8 char of password! (Lee Webb)
Re: mike with SB Live! ("Cameron Jay Erens")
Re: How to associate *.mp3 with XMMS? (Mark Bratcher)
POP mail client ("Eric Wertman")
Re: A7V onboard ata100 install (Dan Amborn)
Re: Size of LINUX (Richard Steiner)
Re: NFS : Linux with AIX... (J Sloan)
Re: Bash: How to address a (windows) folder containing a space? (Lee Webb)
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:20:27 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compiled 2.4.1 and PPP doesn't work
Robert wrote:
> Hey !
>
> after compiling 2.4.1, when i run wvdial 1.41 to connect to my ISP i get
> disconnected
> after the modem CONNECT signal.
>
> wvdial says it's a pppd error code = 1
>
> and i can find in /var/log/messages the following error:
>
> Feb 17 21:57:16 darkstar pppd[503]: ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS): Invalid
> argument
>
> i don't know at all what does this mean.
>
> attached is my /usr/src/linux/.config file if you wanna look.
>
> thanks for your help!
>
<SNIP>
Hello,
I remember there is a file called Documtentation/Changes (comes with every
kernel)
which mentions all progs and their versions you need to compile a kernel, did
you read it
and does your system meet the requierments?
Good look
Michael Heiming
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From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: compiled 2.4.1 and PPP doesn't work
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:26:30 -0800
Robert wrote:
>
> Hey !
>
> after compiling 2.4.1, when i run wvdial 1.41 to connect to my ISP i get
> disconnected
> after the modem CONNECT signal.
>
> wvdial says it's a pppd error code = 1
>
> and i can find in /var/log/messages the following error:
>
> Feb 17 21:57:16 darkstar pppd[503]: ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS): Invalid
> argument
>
> i don't know at all what does this mean.
>
> attached is my /usr/src/linux/.config file if you wanna look.
>
> thanks for your help!
[snip]
Most probably all you need do is upgrade ppp.
Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA USA: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== NOTE:
**New address! Please CHANGE your addressbook listing.***
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Bash: How to address a (windows) folder containing a space?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:29:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Badt wrote:
>Hi,
>I've a dual boot system.
>I need to address a Windows folder whose name contains a space (e.g.,
>"D:\Internet Data").
>How can I address such a path from bash?
Either:
/mnt/Internet\ Data
Or:
"/mnt/Internet Data"
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Steven Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Pass through printing in telnet session
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:35:20 -0500
Heres what I am trying to accomplish.
Two Linux Boxes A & B loaded with RedHat 6.2.
A telnets to B, logs in and runs a proggy that executes vt100 Escape
Sequence (slave.on) that turns on local printing until the Escape
sequence
is traped that turns of local printing (slave.off). I have done this
with
Dumb Terminals connected by a serial connection and with telnet
sessions in
winblows using CRT's telnet emulator.
I have tried this with a Linux telnet session hoping that the telnet
session
on A would trap the slave.on/slave.off sequences and redirect output
to A's
parallel port. Needless to say I can't get it to work.
I have tried changing the TERM on B to vt100, vt102 and it still does
not
work.
The TERM setting on A is set to Linux and changing this does not work
and
only corrupts the display.
I checked /etc/termcap to actually investigate whether The Linux
terminal
definition supported slave.on/slave.off but I only got more confused.
Has anyone done this or can at least lead me in the right direction.
TIA
Steven Conway
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From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Politics (was Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:35:06 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Bloody Viking wrote:
> >>
> >> Walt wrote:
> >>
> >> : In Los Angeles, thousands of illegal immigrants, along with people in
> >> : local cemeteries, registered and voted in recent elections. And of
> >> : course, they voted overwhelmingly Democratic.
> >>
> >> And in Florida, the GOP does the same crap. And we all know about
> >> the election debacle that ensued.
>
> > So why did Gore only challenge the counts in [democrat]-controlled
> > counties?
>
> Because the democrat countries are where most democrat voters are
> and hence where most were lost to election-rigging scams, intentional
> or not.
What election rigging scams?
Oh, you must mean the ones being perpetrated by the Democrat-run
election boards, and the Democrat local governments...
Clue for the clueless: the party OUT of power in a district has
no ability to pull of election-rigging.
>
> > Is that a sign that not even a Democrat candidate can trust
> > a Democrat election board to do things properly?
>
> As the state board was keen to point out, election officials do not
> have party biases, just party affiliations. :-).
And I have lovely ocean-front property in Kansas.
>
> Peter
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slow sound problem
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:31:53 GMT
$ su -
password: <secret>
# cp /etc/conf.modules /etc/conf.modules.bak # back up your conf.modules
# vi /etc/conf.modules # use your editor on your conf.modules
# this is my sound card so your values may not be the same
alias sound-slot-0 sb
options sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
# LOCATE THIS LINE SIMILIAR TO BELOW AND ADD YOUR SOUNDCARD TYPE
# MY CARD TYPE IS ESS1788. esstype=1788
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330 esstype=1788
# reboot # cross your fingers and hope your sound is normal.
Eero Torri wrote:
> Has anyone stepped before in this kind of a problem?
>
> I have linux 2.2.16-22 in a compaq armada 4131T and when I use "play" to
> play the sndconfig sound sample everything works just fine and I hear Linus
> explainig the prononciation of linux in normal speed.
>
> But when I try to play an mp3 with freshly installed mpg123-0.59r the sound
> comes out with wrong speed like the sound samples were played in half the
> speed.
>
> Could this be in the libraries, kernel, hardware or what?
>
> thnx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:45:46 GMT
In article <96l1kk$1m9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Todd wrote:
>
>"Mark Bratcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>> PMFJI... but "disposed of accordingly" in "more 'spiritual' days"?
>> Could you be more specific? The only period of time I see more universal
>> "disposal" of offspring outside of primitive cultures is in modern
>> days (viz. abortion). What your describing certainly was not true in
>> family culture described in the Old Testament.
>
>How do you know what is written in the "Old Testament" is true?
How do you know that what is written in any historical text is true?
Usually through coroboration of other historical materials.
The Bible is one of the most highly coroborated history texts in
existence.
>
>I've found most Christians either very hypocritical or just plain
>disillusioned and wrong.
I'm sorry that you've had that kind of experience with Christians.
And since it has been your experience, I can't say that you're wrong.
I can say that Christians are human and will make mistakes like
anyone else. Also, many can get a bit zealous and, thus, become
hypocritical. In such cases, I would hope that you wouldn't throw
out the baby with the bath water, as it were.
>
>Remember when Christians thought the earth was the center of the universe?
>Heh. Time after time, scientists prove Christians wrong again and again.
Well, _everyone_ thought that the earth was the center of the universe
until Galileo came along. Like I said, they were all just people making
a conclusion from observations, and I agree they were digging in their
heels based upon a misconception of the Bible. The Bible certainly does not
describe the earth as being the center of the universe. That was a human
invention and, I agree, erroneously in the name of religion.
Long before Christopher Columbus (or whoever :-)) the Bible in the
Psalms reverse to the "sphere of the earth".
Science is an act of identifying patterns in the observable universe
and comprehending other observations in terms of patterns from previous
observations. Names are given to things to help communicate this information.
Although I would agree that scientists have proved mass religous zealots
incorrect in some things, science also proves itself wrong as well over
time. Scientists abhore this type of change. They work very hard at
guarding their beliefs as much as the religious folk they criticize.
Scientific beliefs are based upon, as I said, observations of patterns
and drawing conclusions from that. Although our powers of observation
have increased multi-fold in the last few decades, there appears to be
no end to finding out there's so much more that is unknown or currently
unobservable. I have a high degree of respect for science with respect to
its ability to give us (a) observations and ability to see patterns
and explain phenomena, many times to our benefit, and (b) simply
revealing the beauty and structure of the universe. However, I think
many things go beyond science, and to make science effectively into a
religion is counterproductive.
>
>Religion sucks. All it does is gives man another reason to hate one
>another.
I define "religion" as man's messing up what God's will really is
and making it into his own system of laws. In that regard, I agree,
religion sucks. However, at least according to the Bible I've read
many times, there is nothing in there that says we're supposed to hate
one another. If people are hating one another in the name of "religion"
then that's man's invention of religion, not God's will.
Of course, scientists are a fine example of people who never hate
each other, always in harmonious agreement. :-)
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:49:01 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Steve Mading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> > In comp.os.linux.advocacy Robert Surenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > : My comments where not being used as a proof. I am bored by Materialist
> > : because their phylosophy is so easily shown to be false.
>
> > Nobody's done it yet. WTF are you talking about?
>
> I think we need to help him here... He appears not to know what the word
> materialism means...
>
> The goal of materialism is to acquire money and things to improve your
> quality of life at the cost of moral/spiritual/whatever health...
That's the 'vernacular' definition.
Surenko's definition of materialism is the correct one.
[Get an introductory book on philosophy]
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________________
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
> |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't |
> | in | suck is probably the day they start making |
> | Computer science | vacuum cleaners" - Ernst Jan Plugge |
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Politics (was Re: MS to Enforce Registration - or Else)
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:49:27 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> >> I am a Democrat. Please take your politics to a political forum.
> >>
>
> > Fuck off, Socialist.
>
> LOL! That's a good one... Calling an american "Democrat" a socialist...
Their ideology is totally socialist.
> ROTFL! There's no such thing as a socialist in america. (Not in any serious
> political position anyway). They're both as bad as each other.
>
> Oh, and fuck off arsehole... Lose that fucking sig!!!!
> (how many times have you been told about that now?)
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a |
> | | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
> |Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
> | in |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
> | Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Subject: Re: Automatic server status watch?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:24:14 -0000
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:21:02 GMT,
Jari Huovila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi everyone!
>
>Is there a program available for Linux to automatically watch status
>of remote server(s) and send an e-mail alert when a server goes down?
>Watching could mean just pinging the remote server, or preferably
>whether or not specific TCP/UDP services are responding.
Check http://freshmeat.net
--
Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mandrake 7.2 / RedHat 6.1 / Windows 98 SE / FreeBSD 4.2 / Windows NT 4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank da Cruz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Pass through printing in telnet session
Date: 17 Feb 2001 19:26:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steven Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Heres what I am trying to accomplish.
:
: Two Linux Boxes A & B loaded with RedHat 6.2.
:
: A telnets to B, logs in and runs a proggy that executes vt100 Escape
: Sequence (slave.on) that turns on local printing until the Escape sequence
: is traped that turns of local printing (slave.off). I have done this with
: Dumb Terminals connected by a serial connection and with telnet sessions in
: winblows using CRT's telnet emulator.
:
Use C-Kermit 7.1 as your Telnet client:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck71.html
Pass-through printing is explained here:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit2.html#x3.3
Note: this feature was added in C-Kermit 7.0 but it had a bug, which is fixed
in C-Kermit 7.1.
- Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Subject: Re: repost about netscape problem
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:28:38 -0000
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:26:03 GMT,
john connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here is my original post:
>
>Occasionally, when using netscape 4.7x on a slackware7.0 (xfree 3.6xx)
>system and kde2.?? my cpu (celeron 400) usage goes up to nearly 100% and
>
>stays there and the only way to recover is to kill netscape. This has
>happened any number of times in navigator when visiting web sites and
>once in a while in communicator using the local road runner news server.
>
>Any ideas about this?
>Thanks, JWC
It's a common problem with Netscape 4.7x.
>The resulting thread went off into the bushes. What I am trying to find
>out is:
>is there anything I can do to prevent this happening in the future?
Don't run netscape, or upgrade.
--
Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mandrake 7.2 / RedHat 6.1 / Windows 98 SE / FreeBSD 4.2 / Windows NT 4
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Webb)
Subject: Re: linux only know first 8 char of password!
Date: 17 Feb 2001 19:28:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:27:50 -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>Carfield Yim wrote:
>>
>> I have set the root password of my machine have more than 8 char for
>> security reason, but I find that everyone can login as root if he know
>> the first 8 char of root password. How can I tell linux to know all
>> password?
>
>You need to enable the MD5 password mechanism. I enabled it during
>the install and do not remember how to do it later.
>
>I looked around in my Red Hat control-panel, but could not find it
>there.
>
For Redhat (and variants), edit /etc/pam.d/passwd to include:
password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok shadow md5
Hope this helps.
Lee.
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Reply-To: "Cameron Jay Erens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Cameron Jay Erens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: mike with SB Live!
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:41:00 -0500
Any microphone will work. That is something completely OS independant.
Don't know about the mp3 part...try mpg123...I'm sure there's a way to do it
with that. Use Ogg Vorbis instead though.
"wroot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:96h9at$pgq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Jeez,
>
> I just found out that several months' worth of my trying to get SB Live!
to
> work under Linux were unsuccessful only because the speakers were plugged
> into the wrong sound output!!!
>
> Anyways, I got a question for people using SB Live! :
>
> Can I do sound input with it (via microphone)? Do I need to specifically
> buy some Linux-compatible microphone? And is there software that will
> encode sound input directly into mp3's or do I need to construct my own
> command using pipes, etc.?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Wroot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: How to associate *.mp3 with XMMS?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:44:13 GMT
In article <96lu5m$lr3r5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bora Ugurlu wrote:
>
>I have XMMS 1.0.1, KDE 2.1 beta2 installed on SUSE 7.0 and I would see XMMS
>coming up and play the song when I klick on an MP3 file. I registered XMMS
>as primary application in File Associations, but when I click on a song,
>XMMS comes up with the song carried into the list, but it just doesn't
>play.
>
>Please help.
>
>Bora Ugurlu
Somewhere in your GUI manager you should be able to set mime types.
Assign xmms app to files with extension mp3.
If this isn't enough to go on, please post what GUI manager you
are using.
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Eric Wertman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: POP mail client
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:47:31 -0500
Anyone suggest a good POP client other than Netscape?
- for Gnome RH7.0
thanks!
Eric Wertman
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From: Dan Amborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A7V onboard ata100 install
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:11:06 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:14:45 GMT, Rogue2000
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I had a link (disk drive died) that showed me how to install Redhat7 or=20
>mandrake7.2 with the hard drive connected to the onboard ata100 =
controller.=20
>Could some one please post that link again or tell me how to do it.
>Thanks
http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/
The above link will get you going but I have heard that it limits the
drive performance to Ultra33. What I would recommend is downloading a
stock kernel and applying a patch from the site below. This is kind of
tricky since you have to install it on a drive that is on the standard
VIA ide controller. Then download the kernel, patch it, compile,
install it, install lilo to your MBR and then swap the drive to the
Promise controller.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
--
Dan Amborn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Size of LINUX
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:36:59 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolie Baldock)
spake unto us, saying:
>Back in the days of the DEC PDP-6 we ran a TIME SHARING operating
>system in 4K words of memory. Now some horrendous amount of bytes are
>required to run an operating system such as LINUX which does not seem
>to provide any more intelligence than the old PDP-6 operating system.
I would politely suggest doing a complete feature-by-feature comparison
of the two operating systems -- I suspect that Linux is larger because
it is, in fact, doing much more than the old DEC machines did.
Linux is lightweight when compared to many of its peers, particularly
the offerings from Microsoft. The version I use on my firewall boots
off a single 3.5" floppy and runs quite nicely on a 20MB 486 box.
Keep in mind, also, that "Linux" is actually only the kernel -- things
like XFree86 are separate services that run on multiple platforms and
are not tied to Linux in any way (really more like applications than
elements of the OS itself).
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Eden Prairie, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ PC/GEOS + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
BABY ON BOARD...just means five more points!
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: NFS : Linux with AIX...
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:56:56 GMT
1. What distibution of Linux, what patches or modifications?
2. Is it the 2.4 kernel based nfs server, or the old userspace nfs server?
3. What does the linux nfs server say happened? (tail /var/log/messages
and /var/log/secure and run 'dmesg')
4. If it is a newer Linux, check /etc/hosts.allow for portmap access by the client
jjs
jeffrey wrote:
> I have setup Linux NFS Server and one of my clients is a box running AIX .The
>
> directory I'm
> sharing with the AIX machine(called junior) is /home and hence my
> /etc/exports
> (on the Linux box) has the following line :
>
> /home junior(rw,no_root_squash)
>
> and on junior(The AIX machine) I have the following(in the
> /etc/filesystems file)
>
> /newusers:
> dev = /home
> vfs = nfs
> nodename = 196.21.46.132
> mount = true
> options = bg,soft,intr,vers=2
> account = false
>
> where /newusers is the local directory on junior(the AIX machine) where
> /home is
> suppose to be mounted
> When I do " mount /newusers " on the AIX box I get the following
> message :
>
> mount: giving up on:
> 196.21.46.132:/home
> vmount: Not owner
>
> What's going wrong?
>
> Jeff Mutonho
> Cape Town
> South Africa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Webb)
Subject: Re: Bash: How to address a (windows) folder containing a space?
Date: 17 Feb 2001 19:59:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:03:55 GMT, Michael Badt wrote:
>Hi,
>I've a dual boot system.
>I need to address a Windows folder whose name contains a space (e.g.,
>"D:\Internet Data").
>How can I address such a path from bash?
>
>TIA
Escape the space with a backslash:
cd Internet\ Data
Alternatively, enclose the full path in quotes:
cd "/mnt/win_d/Internet Data"
Lee.
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