Linux-Misc Digest #194, Volume #27 Thu, 22 Feb 01 10:13:02 EST
Contents:
using --exclude in rsync ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HOW DO I KILL THIS PROCESS? (Villy Kruse)
Re: inetd/xinetd (Dave Pearson)
Re: Another great Linux Hard Drive Mystery (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Netscape problems with 2.4.0 kernel ? (was Netscape 4, Mozilla errs with (Roger
Young)
NIC Help ("Steve Degg")
Linuxconf unavailable (:98) after upgrade ("Andy B")
AOL + Linux (Claus Atzenbeck)
autostart in SuSE-linux (Steffen Otto)
Re: How to make Linux slim? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: FTP scripting... (NDQ)
Re: debian 2.2 unstable (Chris Lawrence Amshey)
Best distro for old PC? ("Rob Chambers")
stopping exe,vbs mail attachments (Bill Dossett)
Re: Best distro for old PC? (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Reading CD-volumelabel? (PoD)
Re: Best distro for old PC? (Edwin Johnson)
Re: DSL connection problems ("Tom Edelbrok")
Synchronizing time between linux boxes ("chris lamb")
Re: debian 2.2 unstable (Gerald Willmann)
Re: AOL + Linux (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Another great Linux Hard Drive Mystery (mike)
Re: where is dict? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Another great Linux Hard Drive Mystery (Jean-David Beyer)
1280x1024 resolution with Geforce2 MX card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: using --exclude in rsync
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:34:22 -0000
I thought I had this working, but apparently not. The man page
just doesn't make any sense, and the examples aren't what I am
trying to do.
What I want to do is exclude a whole tree from data being transferred
by rsync (client is getting data from the server). Can anyone give
a pattern for exclude to block a whole tree? As an example I want
to exclude a tree named "abc/xyz" relative to the directory which is
the target.
--
=================================================================
| Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: HOW DO I KILL THIS PROCESS?
Date: 22 Feb 2001 08:48:25 GMT
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:56:22 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>You might improve the situation by killing the parent of the process
>and thus getting it inherited by init. Init has magic powers.
>
Yes, but it doesn't have the magic powers that is needed here. The only
magic about init process is that the kernel will arrange for it to
adopt orphans. It is then programed to wait() for any child process
which terminates.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Pearson)
Subject: Re: inetd/xinetd
Date: 22 Feb 2001 09:29:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Gaurav Navlakha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> # Converted by inetdconvert
> service telnet
> {
> socket_type = stream
> protocol = tcp
> wait = no
> user = root
> server = /usr/sbin/tcpd
> server_args = in.telnetd
> disable = yes
> }
>
>
> With xinetd running, and when I try to telnet to my machine, I get:
> "telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused"
>
> Can anyone think of a possible reason for this?
I've never seen xinetd so I might be missing something, but, that line that
says "disable = yes" looks promising.
--
Dave Pearson
http://www.davep.org/
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another great Linux Hard Drive Mystery
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:45:37 +1100
Two things come to mind.
a) The newer distributions need 586 or higher CPU's.(not sure I don't
use RH)
b) "If it works don't fix it"
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
mike wrote:
> Hi,
> I have Redhat 5.1 installed on an old Fujitsu 428mb hard drive
> on a 486 DX2-66 Gateway with 16mb ram. It works well. I decided
> to try to upgrade it with Redhat 6.2. When I try to do the upgrade,
> the installation program says that it can't find the hard drive. I
> tried Redhat 6.1 and it says there are no Linux partitions on the
> drive. I tried to do a clean install of either and it comes up with
> an error indicating that it can't recognize the drive. Since
> nothing actually got installed in this whole process, my
> Redhat 5.1 still boots and works fine.
>
> Thanks
> Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Young)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Netscape problems with 2.4.0 kernel ? (was Netscape 4, Mozilla errs with
Date: 22 Feb 2001 10:31:40 GMT
There are a number of possible explanations.
ECN has been mentioned.
Another suggestion: does your ISP operate a transparent proxy server?
This can result in an MTU mismatch which can block transmission to
your computer. Typically there will be an initial connection to a
remote website, but no download. This occurs only with the 2.4.x
series kernels. You may be able to test whether this is happening
by connecting (with the browser) to the ISP proxy server. The problem
should go away, at least for a time.
Roger Young.
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From: "Steve Degg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NIC Help
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:17:18 -0000
Hi,
I have just installed Mandrake Linux 7.1 and am having some trouble /
confusion.
I am trying to instal my network card, following these instructions:
==============================================================
****************************************************************************
*
*
*
* 32-BIT IO MODE PCI ETHERNET ADAPTER
*
*
*
* Driver Installation for LINUX
*
*
*
****************************************************************************
*
32-Bit IO Mode PCI Ethernet Adapter is NE2000 compatable. The newer LINUX
version can detect RTL8029 in the bundled NE2000 driver. You can use LINUX
bundled NE2000 driver to install.
1. Plug 32-Bit IO Mode PCI Ethernet Adapter into PC's PCI-bus slot.
2. Boot into LINUX and make sure your LINUX kernel source code is included.
(check /usr/src/linux)
3. Run "make menuconfig" to select network device.
At linux prompt type:
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
(mark them as '*')
a. Move light bar to "Network device support" and press <enter>.
b. Move light bar to "Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)" and press <space>.
c. Move light bar to "Other ISA cards" and press <space> to '*' sign.
d. Move light bar to "NE2000/NE1000 support" and press <space> to
'*' sign.
e. Save changes and exit menuconfig.
4. Compile the kernel and build up a new kernel boot file.
At /usr/src/linux directory type:
make dep
make clean
make zlilo
If no serious error happens, new kernel boot file will be generated:
For example:
Slackware: zImage may be generated in
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage.
RedHat : vmlinuz may be generated in / root directory.
5. Use "vi /etc/lilo.conf" to make sure or modify boot file path pointed
to the correct directory.
For example: RedHat lilo.conf file
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50 modify
image=/boot/vmlinuz ----------> image=/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
6. Then, write LILO into boot partition and reboot the LINUX.
At /sbin directory type:
lilo
reboot
7. When system boots, the driver will be loaded. Then the driver will
scan I/O port to see if a card is there.
(You can run 'dmesg' to see the boot message.)
8. Run "netconfig"(Slackware) or "netcfg"(in the RedHat's xterm of X-window)
to configure IP environment.
(Run 'ifconfig' or 'netstat -i' to see if there is a interface 'eth0')
==============================================================
I have the source cd but do not have the source installed.
I have unzipped the only file on the cd containing the word source which did
contain some .h and .c files.
I then followed the instructions but only got as far as the make menuconfig
before the OS informed n=me that it was stopping that process because no
rules were supplied.
When I try to use Lothar to get the network card configured the screen
freezes.
Can you tell me how to get the kernel source into the /usr/src/linux
directory please? and also the best way to get this netowrk card working?
Thanks very much,
Steve
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From: "Andy B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linuxconf unavailable (:98) after upgrade
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:35:23 -0000
I've just upgraded to RH7 from 6.1 but cannot talk to port 98, however port
901 (swat) in still working.
Any ideas?
thanks in advance
Andy B.
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From: Claus Atzenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AOL + Linux
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:31:34 +0100
I found a group alt.aol-sucks, but I don't think that this is the right one
to get a good answer for my question.
My ISP (T-Online, Germany) will stop its flatrate. My contract will end in
about 3 months. As far as I know, AOL is the only one which is left
offering a flatrate for ISDN in Germany. This is the reason why I think
about switching to AOL.
Does AOL work well with Linux? (I have Mandrake 7.2)
Any experiences?
Claus.
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From: Steffen Otto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: autostart in SuSE-linux
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:36:11 +0100
Hello !
I got the following problem:
I wrote an application that "occupies" at startup the streams "stdin"
and "stdout" using the following code:
int open_stdin( void )
{
int erg;
struct termio tio;
const char *p;
p = "/dev/tty";
/* get file descriptor to controlling terminal */
if ((tty_fd = open(p , O_RDWR | O_NDELAY | O_NONBLOCK)) == ERR )
{ perror( p );
return ERR;
}
// set flags for termio and so on
// now work...
return OK;
}
Even while I'm logging as user "xy" (in runlevel 2) and starting the
application by typing
their name at the command line, it is runing very successfull, also, if
I'm putting the start command into ".profile" and logging in as user
"xy".
But my destination is to login the user "xy" automatically (!) and start
the application also automatically.
So I have written a start script located in "/etc/rc.d/rc2.d", which
only does: "su - xy".
(The start command is into ".profile").
Doing this, I get the error message: "Access denied for device /dev/tty"
(its permissions:
crw-rw-rw root root /dev/tty).
Now I changed the application's permissions to "g+s" (at a later attempt
also "u+s" and "a+s"). Result: The same error.
Getting this error my application shuts down and ends. And first after
this (!) the following message has been written at the console:
"Master resource control: runlevel 2 has been reached."
That is logical, because my start script in /etc/rc.d/rc2.d suspends the
bootup as long as it is running.
I suspect, that t h i s message will refers to the causal problem for
denied access.
But: What exact is the problem, and how can I solve it ?
Is there anybody with a good idea ? Or anybody who knows to login
automatically after a complete bootup ?
Regards, Steffen
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make Linux slim?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:25:42 +0100
Mike Castle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Squid caching http proxy, 3 megs RAM-cache, 100 megs disk-cache, 4
>>> win98 clients
>>
>>Your real problem is probably trying to run Squid on a system with 16MB of
>>RAM. Increase the RAM to 32MB or kill Squid.
> Would apache at a cache work better in this memory configuration?
No. Well .. not unless you set the in-memory cache to near zero, which
you can do for squid too (hot cache).
Your problem is trying to run a cache server on a system with no memory.
That means it must use disk, and thus will be slow. Even if it uses
disk exclusively for the cache, it'll still be swapping in and out.
So if you try using it, try tuning it too!
Peter
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP scripting...
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:38:29 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Ren� Scheibe" wrote:
>
> ...can someone tell me if the normal ftp-client is scriptable???
> How can I write a script for it.
> Can you give me an example???
> I want to login to a server and put a file on it.
>
> Th@nx
Try;
#!/bin/bash
FTP=ftp.belnet.be
REMOTE_DIR=/packages/redhat/releases/guinness/i386/iso/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LOCAL_DIR=/home/quy/tmp/iso
LOGFILE=/home/quy/tmp/iso/rh7.log
#---------------------------
cd $LOCAL_DIR
{
echo "---------`date`-----------"
ftp -inv $FTP <<!
user anonymous $EMAIL
bin
cd $REMOTE_DIR
lcd $LOCAL_DIR
get 7.0-i386-disc1.iso
get 7.0-i386-disc2.iso
ascii
get MD5SUM
bye
!
echo "---------`date`-------------"
} > $LOGFILE 2>&1
I used this script for downloading ISO images of RH.
HTH,
--
NGUYEN-DAI Quy
http://vnilux.com
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From: Chris Lawrence Amshey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: debian 2.2 unstable
Date: 22 Feb 2001 00:29:09 -0500
Short version: Make sure you didn't install unstable; check for
hardware errors.
Perhaps you should check your /etc/apt/sources.list; did you, by any
chance, set your lines to look in the 'unstable' hierarchy rather than
the 'potato' hierarchy?
If you did, than you're probably screwed (because you will have just
'upgraded' to unstable.) If this is the case, it -is- possible to
downgrade. You can try changing your lines to 'potato' but apt may
refuse to upgrade to earlier versions, and it -certainly- isn't tested
to work that way. If apt balks, try doing 'dpkg --purge <packagename>'
for each package in an entire dependency chain, and then apt-getting
those packages back. If this gets stuck you still have plenty of
options, sort of. Read dpkg documentation. Ftp .debs and use force
options. Tweak. Try again. It's a learning experience. :)
If this is -not- the problem, look for a program called memcheck86. It
is not a linux program, though it builds under linux, it is a
standalone memory checker; flaky memory creates all sorts of screwy
problems. Replacing flaky memory does not fix them, unfortunately,
because every package installed while flaky memory is in place is
potentially corrupt. (I had this problem, and basically did a whole
lot of apt-get remove, apt-get install, and then rebuilt my kernel
just to be safe.)
ChrisA
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Reply-To: "Rob Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Rob Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best distro for old PC?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:25:57 -0000
I'm thinking of building a system to play with out of some old parts.
It's likely to be a 33MHz 486DX with 4 or 8 Mb RAM, 250 Mb HD (80 + 170)
and no CD-ROM. I've been recommended muLinux, are there any other good
distros for such a machine? I'm not bothered about running X on such a
machine if it's not really feasible.
Rob
--
I cried because I had no shoes
Until I met a man who had no feet
So I laughed and called him "Stumpy"
And ran away
Because I knew he could not chase me.
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From: Bill Dossett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: stopping exe,vbs mail attachments
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:35:36 +0000
Hi,
I am running RH 7.0, sendmail with procmail and imap/pop3
mail server.
I would like to stop users from receiving or sending .vbs .exe
attachments... any advise on what the best way to do this would
be without changing my current config too much?
also, could you please copy my email on any answers as my
news server only keeps messages for about 3 days... and I
seldem get back to them in time and just see the headers
which is soooo agravating...
Thanks
Bill
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best distro for old PC?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:50:04 +1100
You don't need mu (micro) Linux.
With 8M RAM and a "borrowed" CD installed Slackware 7.0 (OK stripped from
GUI and other non-essential parts). Works like a charm.
The HD is 256M with space left.
Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.
Rob Chambers wrote:
> I'm thinking of building a system to play with out of some old parts.
> It's likely to be a 33MHz 486DX with 4 or 8 Mb RAM, 250 Mb HD (80 + 170)
> and no CD-ROM. I've been recommended muLinux, are there any other good
> distros for such a machine? I'm not bothered about running X on such a
> machine if it's not really feasible.
>
> Rob
> --
> I cried because I had no shoes
> Until I met a man who had no feet
> So I laughed and called him "Stumpy"
> And ran away
> Because I knew he could not chase me.
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Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:42:42 +1030
From: PoD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Reading CD-volumelabel?
fred smith wrote:
>
> Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 18:27:58 +0100, Michael Schaarwaechter staggered
> : into the Black Sun and said:
> :>I wonder if it is possible to read a volumelabel of a CD from Linux. I
> :>found no hint in any manpage.
>
> : isoinfo ? It's part of the cdrecord package. isoinfo -d will probably
> : do what you want. Or look through the mkisofs source, find the byte
> : offset where the volume label is, seek() to that offset and read() the
> : bytes.
>
> Here's a quick'n'dirty C program I threw together some time ago that
> does what you want. Save it as getvn.c, compile it as "cc -o getvn getvn.c"
> and run it "./getvn /dev/cdrom" or wherever your CD drive is if not
> /dev/cdrom. The drive should be unmounted when you do this.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> int main (int argc, char ** argv)
> {
> int fd;
> char buf[12];
>
> if (argc != 2)
> {
> printf ("Usage: %s <cdrom devicename>\n", argv[0]);
> exit (0);
> }
>
> fd = open (argv[1], O_RDONLY);
> if (fd < 0)
> {
> printf ("oops! Error opening device %s\n", argv[1]);
> exit (1);
> }
> if (lseek (fd, (long) 0x8028, SEEK_SET) != (long) 0x8028)
> {
> printf ("oops! Error seeking device %s\n", argv[1]);
> exit (1);
> }
> if (read (fd, buf, 11) != 11)
> {
> printf ("oops! Error reading device %s\n", argv[1]);
> exit (1);
> }
> close (fd);
> printf ("Volume name in device %s: %s\n", argv[1], buf);
> return (0);
> }
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Or quicker and dirtier
head -c 32819 /dev/cdrom | tail -c 11
PoD.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Re: Best distro for old PC?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 22 Feb 2001 14:12:14 GMT
Slackware 3.2 or 4.0 could be easily obtained on disk by downloading and
would work fine on that machine.
...Edwin
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:25:57 -0000, Rob Chambers
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm thinking of building a system to play with out of some old parts.
>It's likely to be a 33MHz 486DX with 4 or 8 Mb RAM, 250 Mb HD (80 + 170)
>and no CD-ROM. I've been recommended muLinux, are there any other good
>distros for such a machine? I'm not bothered about running X on such a
>machine if it's not really feasible.
>
>Rob
>--
>I cried because I had no shoes
>Until I met a man who had no feet
>So I laughed and called him "Stumpy"
>And ran away
>Because I knew he could not chase me.
>
>
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~ Edwin Johnson ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
~ http://www.shreve.net/~elj ~
~ ~
~ "Once you have flown, you will walk the ~
~ earth with your eyes turned skyward, ~
~ for there you have been, there you long ~
~ to return." -- da Vinci ~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DSL connection problems
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:06:17 GMT
PS: I should also say that once I get booted up with eth0 then if I do an
"ifdown eth0" followed by "ifup eth0" it always works OK. The problem only
occurs at bootup. Furthermore, most of the time if it doesn't connect
properly I can reboot and it will connect properly right away. Then reboot
and it won't connect. Then reboot and it will connect.
Weird.
Any answers?
Thanks, Tom
Tom Edelbrok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:%S8l6.12451$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In a recent post I said that my "HOSTNAME=" line in the
> /etc/sysconfig/network was causing me not to get an IP address assigned
via
> DHCP for my Telus DSL line. That turned out to be incorrect.
>
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From: "chris lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Synchronizing time between linux boxes
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:38:08 -0000
Can anyone advise me of the best way to synchronize the time to a time
server in Linux. I have 4 machines networked and wish to sync them to a
single server.
I have looked around briefly but it does not appear to be documented in any
of the books I have.
Best wishes
chris
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: debian 2.2 unstable
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:33:02 +0100
On 22 Feb 2001, Chris Lawrence Amshey wrote:
> Short version: Make sure you didn't install unstable; check for
> hardware errors.
> Perhaps you should check your /etc/apt/sources.list; did you, by any
> chance, set your lines to look in the 'unstable' hierarchy rather than
> the 'potato' hierarchy?
thanks for your time, Chris. I definitely didn't use unstable.
Recently added security/updates and that got me a new libc6 and since then
I have over one week uptime. But last night tripwire segfaultet.
> If this is -not- the problem, look for a program called memcheck86. It
> is not a linux program, though it builds under linux, it is a
> standalone memory checker; flaky memory creates all sorts of screwy
> problems. Replacing flaky memory does not fix them, unfortunately,
> because every package installed while flaky memory is in place is
> potentially corrupt. (I had this problem, and basically did a whole
> lot of apt-get remove, apt-get install, and then rebuilt my kernel
> just to be safe.)
I got memcheck86 and will use it once the machine comes down.
thanks again,
Gerald
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOL + Linux
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 15:35:22 +0100
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Claus Atzenbeck wrote:
> I found a group alt.aol-sucks, but I don't think that this is the right one
> to get a good answer for my question.
> My ISP (T-Online, Germany) will stop its flatrate. My contract will end in
> about 3 months. As far as I know, AOL is the only one which is left
> offering a flatrate for ISDN in Germany. This is the reason why I think
> about switching to AOL.
> Does AOL work well with Linux? (I have Mandrake 7.2)
> Any experiences?
I heard there is an alpha or beta of their software out - guess you
shouldn't ask work well but work at all :)
Can't you use dsl b/c they keep the flatrate for dsl, don't they?
Gerald
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another great Linux Hard Drive Mystery
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:40:56 GMT
Hi Stanislaw and All,
I have two other 486 machines running
Redhat
6.1. I understand that Redhat includes three kernels on their cd,
an i386, an i586, and an i686 kernel. These are used for the specific
machines that they are being installed on.
Mike
Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
> Two things come to mind.
> a) The newer distributions need 586 or higher CPU's.(not sure I don't
> use RH)
> b) "If it works don't fix it"
>
> Stanislaw.
> Slack user from Ulladulla.
>
> mike wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have Redhat 5.1 installed on an old Fujitsu 428mb hard drive
> > on a 486 DX2-66 Gateway with 16mb ram. It works well. I decided
> > to try to upgrade it with Redhat 6.2. When I try to do the upgrade,
> > the installation program says that it can't find the hard drive. I
> > tried Redhat 6.1 and it says there are no Linux partitions on the
> > drive. I tried to do a clean install of either and it comes up with
> > an error indicating that it can't recognize the drive. Since
> > nothing actually got installed in this whole process, my
> > Redhat 5.1 still boots and works fine.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where is dict?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:52:00 -0500
"Sudhakar R." wrote:
>
> i have a RH 7.0 box. could you please tell me where is the dictionary file
> located. i cudn't find it under /usr/dict/ !
> thanx
> -sud
On my machine, which is running R.H.L. 6.2.3 (a VA Linux Systems
dialect of RHL6.2), there is a file /usr/dict (but actually, it is a
directory). In it is:
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ ls -l /usr/dict
total 404
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409048 Aug 1 2000 linux.words
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 22 18:05 words ->
linux.words
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
Have you ever run the locate command? It can find files for you very
quickly. I would show you what locate dict found on my machine, but
I have a lot of files with that in their names, and it would not
interest anyone.
You might wish to run man locate first to see how to run it. If you
do not leave your machine up 24/7, you may need to run updatedb as
root first.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 9:45am up 1 day, 17:19, 3 users, load average: 2.04, 2.13,
2.10
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another great Linux Hard Drive Mystery
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:53:56 -0500
Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
>
> Two things come to mind.
> a) The newer distributions need 586 or higher CPU's.(not sure I don't
> use RH)
I do not believe that is true of Red Hat. While you can get
distributions that require such CPUs (and I get one for a dual 686
smp system), I believe what you get from Red Hat is still a 386
distribution unless you take steps to get something else.
> b) "If it works don't fix it"
>
> Stanislaw.
> Slack user from Ulladulla.
>
> mike wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have Redhat 5.1 installed on an old Fujitsu 428mb hard drive
> > on a 486 DX2-66 Gateway with 16mb ram. It works well. I decided
> > to try to upgrade it with Redhat 6.2. When I try to do the upgrade,
> > the installation program says that it can't find the hard drive. I
> > tried Redhat 6.1 and it says there are no Linux partitions on the
> > drive. I tried to do a clean install of either and it comes up with
> > an error indicating that it can't recognize the drive. Since
> > nothing actually got installed in this whole process, my
> > Redhat 5.1 still boots and works fine.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: 1280x1024 resolution with Geforce2 MX card
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:10:12 GMT
Hi,
Has anybody been able to set 1280x1024 @ >70Hz vertical
refresh rate with their Geforce2 MX graphics card on Linux? If
so, I would be grateful for some help.
I have managed 1024x768 @85Hz and also 1280x1024 but at a
refresh rate of only 60Hz (which is quite hard on the eyes).
I am running Redhat 7.0 with Xfree86 V4.0.2 with the Nvidia
drivers
NVIDIA_Kernel-0.95
NVIDIA_GLX-0.95
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Geforce2 MX - 32MB
Monitor: Mitsubishi Diamondplus 73 (Diamondtron NF)
Thanks in advance
krishan
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