Linux-Misc Digest #400, Volume #27 Mon, 19 Mar 01 22:13:01 EST
Contents:
RH 6.0 ("arman96")
Re: Initiating kernel crash ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Initiating kernel crash (Juergen Heinzl)
Anyone know about Aureal Semiconductor? (Shekhar Patkar)
Re: Initiating kernel crash (Michael Heiming)
Re: Anyone know about Aureal Semiconductor? ("Ethan M. Schwartz")
Re: CRC error b4 decompressing kernel? ("Michael Westerman")
Re: Where to get GNOME desktop background wallpaper ? (Jay & Shell)
Re: Instructions for installing 3com NIC Driver (Jun Galamay)
Re: What is where in Debian? (Hartmann Schaffer)
Re: Linux crash like a Windows! (George Georgakis)
Re: Help: Howto setup dialin server (Dean Thompson)
Repartitioning Linux Partitions
Re: Instructions for installing 3com NIC Driver (Dances With Crows)
Re: where to set harddisk geometry (Dances With Crows)
Re: running a process in the background and "nice"ing it... (John Thompson)
Re: Linux Partitioning Problems, HD gone (David Efflandt)
How to install Sawfish themes ? (Arctic Storm)
Re: ssh question (David Efflandt)
Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem ("D. Stimits")
when is rh 7.2 comming out ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "arman96" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.0
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:11:37 GMT
arman96
That would be RED HAT 6.0
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Initiating kernel crash
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:58:21 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > I would certainly agree that a _software-based_ "auto reboot" scheme
>> > is not likely to fly terribly well; if the system is hosed enough that
>> Err .. that's precisely what the software wtachdog does, in
>> combination with the watchdog kernel code.
> No, if you look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/watchdog.txt, you'll
> see that the crucial part of the kernel-supported "watchdog" facility
> is the hardware, from WD or Berkshire.
> Without the hardware, it's all wishful thinking...
Nonsense. It's quite simple: the kernel implements a task that has to
receive a write every 60s from the watchdog daemon or it reboots the
machine. If the watchdog daemon can't do that for any reason, pszzzzat.
Reboot.
The watchdog daemon itself can be configured to try many things designed
not to work if the machine is in trouble. It's most basic task is to
launch a process. If it can't do that inside 60s, machine reboots.
I have my watchdog also set to ping the net. Lose contact and blaam.
A useful other task is to read a file from all of the mounted fs's. If
any of them is in trouble, the watchdog will hang on them, and the
machine will reboot.
I also have the watchdog set to reboot if inetd is running a shell as
root :-).
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: Initiating kernel crash
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:16:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Heiming wrote:
>Juergen Heinzl wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Heiming wrote:
>> >Chris Divine wrote:
>> >>
>> >> This may sound stupid, but it's for testing purposes. Which running process
>> >> on a RH 6.2 server install can be "killed" to initiate a relatively safe
>> >> kernel crash and hang the system? I'm testing the capability of initiating
>> >> an automatic system reboot if the kernel becomes unstable or the system
>> >> crashes.
>> >>
>> >Sorry, but Linux is not designed to became unstable or even crash, I never saw
>> >this happen in years, only if your hw is faulty/your power supply/USV go down or
>> >you mucked the system up dreadful, Linux will crash and in this case your automatic
>> >system reboot wont help.
>> [-]
>> If you really believe Linux can't crash, then you must be living in a
>> permanent state of denial and an automatic reboot system can be *very*
>> useful.
>
>Believe it or not, up to the few points I mentioned I have never seen Linux
>crash. And your examples shows this too, I never talked about using development
>kernel,
>and your second example is the above "mucked up the system dreadful", you should
>never
>use insmod, modprobe will do this for you, Documentation/modules.txt (comes with
>the kernel sources) will explain. Sure this can happen everyone, but we should not
>blame Linux, UID 0 can always crash the hole system....
[-]
I don't blame Linux as being a developer myself I know one can't make
a system 100% perfect and stable within the lifetime of our universe.
Oh and try crash, a userspace application and let's see how long
whichever kernel you've running survives. It's meant to crash Unices
by the way and so helpful to weed out bugs.
I've seen Linux: crash, Solaris: crash, SunOS: crash, HP-UX: crash,
Sinix: crash, DomainOS: crash ... I don't really care as Unix is very
forgiving, which is nice.
[-]
>> BTW yes, I've seen Linux crash and once I managed a panic by starting
>> a freshly compiled ksh. It was a beta kernel though and yes, everything
>> else like even X or Apache was humming along 24/7 for weeks but then I
>> decided to install a new ksh 8 - |
>I never talked about using a development kernel.
[-]
Just a nice example as I was logged in as user, everything had been
running *stable* and peng. Software cannot be bug free, it's a proven
fact by now, even though some seem to think the holy spirit is part
of every Linux distribution 8-]
Aside from that my current "stable" is 2.2.18 -- per definition, as
this means there were 17 kernels before which suddenly weren't that
stable after all.
You can't even prove the correctness of non-trivial software, so sorry,
at the end of the day you'll lose and it all depends on whether you can
tolerate an even remote crash (at home) or not (nuclear power plant).
[-]
Ta',
Juergen
--
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\ EMail Private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ send money instead /
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From: Shekhar Patkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Anyone know about Aureal Semiconductor?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:29:22 -0800
Hi,
Does anyone know what happened to Aureal Semiconductor? I
have an A3D card in my system, and the driver doesn't work
with kernel 2.4.2. I'm trying to fix it and have some problems,
but when I try to look for their web site, it looks like the
company has disappeared!
Would appreciate any pointers ...
Thanks,
Shekhar
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:34:47 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Initiating kernel crash
Juergen Heinzl wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Heiming wrote:
> >Juergen Heinzl wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Heiming wrote:
> >> >Chris Divine wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> This may sound stupid, but it's for testing purposes. Which running process
> >> >> on a RH 6.2 server install can be "killed" to initiate a relatively safe
> >> >> kernel crash and hang the system? I'm testing the capability of initiating
> >> >> an automatic system reboot if the kernel becomes unstable or the system
> >> >> crashes.
> >> >>
> >> >Sorry, but Linux is not designed to became unstable or even crash, I never saw
> >> >this happen in years, only if your hw is faulty/your power supply/USV go down or
> >> >you mucked the system up dreadful, Linux will crash and in this case your
>automatic
> >> >system reboot wont help.
> >> [-]
> >> If you really believe Linux can't crash, then you must be living in a
> >> permanent state of denial and an automatic reboot system can be *very*
> >> useful.
> >
> >Believe it or not, up to the few points I mentioned I have never seen Linux
> >crash. And your examples shows this too, I never talked about using development
> >kernel,
> >and your second example is the above "mucked up the system dreadful", you should
> >never
> >use insmod, modprobe will do this for you, Documentation/modules.txt (comes with
> >the kernel sources) will explain. Sure this can happen everyone, but we should not
> >blame Linux, UID 0 can always crash the hole system....
> [-]
> I don't blame Linux as being a developer myself I know one can't make
> a system 100% perfect and stable within the lifetime of our universe.
>
> Oh and try crash, a userspace application and let's see how long
> whichever kernel you've running survives. It's meant to crash Unices
> by the way and so helpful to weed out bugs.
>
> I've seen Linux: crash, Solaris: crash, SunOS: crash, HP-UX: crash,
> Sinix: crash, DomainOS: crash ... I don't really care as Unix is very
> forgiving, which is nice.
> [-]
> >> BTW yes, I've seen Linux crash and once I managed a panic by starting
> >> a freshly compiled ksh. It was a beta kernel though and yes, everything
> >> else like even X or Apache was humming along 24/7 for weeks but then I
> >> decided to install a new ksh 8 - |
> >I never talked about using a development kernel.
> [-]
> Just a nice example as I was logged in as user, everything had been
> running *stable* and peng. Software cannot be bug free, it's a proven
> fact by now, even though some seem to think the holy spirit is part
> of every Linux distribution 8-]
Yes, even a ordinary user (sudder) may fork{} the system to hell...
Perhaps we talked from the wrong point of view: You as developing
something and I as running Linux in mission critical systems.
>
> Aside from that my current "stable" is 2.2.18 -- per definition, as
> this means there were 17 kernels before which suddenly weren't that
> stable after all.
Note the word "current" before stable...
>
> You can't even prove the correctness of non-trivial software, so sorry,
> at the end of the day you'll lose and it all depends on whether you can
> tolerate an even remote crash (at home) or not (nuclear power plant).
Nope, I can not loose nor win, as I didn't wrote to this post with this
intention, I never do.
Michael Heiming
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From: "Ethan M. Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Anyone know about Aureal Semiconductor?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:32:50 -0500
they went out of business a while ago...
"Shekhar Patkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know what happened to Aureal Semiconductor? I
> have an A3D card in my system, and the driver doesn't work
> with kernel 2.4.2. I'm trying to fix it and have some problems,
> but when I try to look for their web site, it looks like the
> company has disappeared!
>
> Would appreciate any pointers ...
> Thanks,
> Shekhar
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CRC error b4 decompressing kernel?
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:41:52 +1000
on my gracfully aging 486 it does this if
cache is on internal and external
memory is to fast though win don't care
shadow ram is on.
basicly criple your computer.
then recompile and don't use a compressed kernel
that solved my probs and it is now runs cache , shaddow on
memory normal to fast
"Richard Kimber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:uI8r6.18691$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner wrote:
>
> > Andrew Purugganan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I get CRC error, system halted
> What system do you have? Is it new?
>
> > > and I have to power off then on about 2 or 3 times before it finally
> > > gives in and lets the boot process continue. Any idea what is causing
> > > this, and how can I prevent a recurrence?
> >
> > Are you overclocking? That's one of the ways my machine will
> > sometimes halt if I overclock.
>
> I sometimes get this, though it goes away after a reset. I am not
> overclocking. It's a standard Intel 933 with Intel 815 board.
>
> I wondered if it signified a hardware, possibly memory, problem?
>
> -Richard.
> --
> Richard Kimber
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
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From: Jay & Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where to get GNOME desktop background wallpaper ?
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:15:04 GMT
Here is a really good site:
http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/
Also any .gif .jpg will do.
As for partially transparent term window? Dunno!!!
Why would you want to?
Seven of Nine wrote:
>
> Since the picture will go on the desktop, shouldn't it be called
> "desktop paper"? Just kidding.
> Anyway, I've done some searching for cool wallpapers for the background
> on the GNOME desktop, but I was not able to find any sites that had a
> repository of pictures. I have Ximian GNOME, if that makes a
> difference.
> Can someone direct me to a location where a database of cool pictures
> for GNOME desktop wallpaper is stored,...
>
> A different question: how do you get the terminal screen to be partially
> transparent?
>
> Thanks.
--
Registered Linux user #192969
MS-Windows - A Colorful Clown Suit For Dos !
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From: Jun Galamay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Instructions for installing 3com NIC Driver
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:18:23 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
arman96 wrote:
> Can anyone tell me the best place on the web to get simple instuctions on
> install a new NIC Drv and also on Mounting the floppy drive. Thanks.
> arman96
You can install the driver in two ways.
1. compile a new kernel to include the driver in the kernel. this might be
too cumbersome. i'd suggest
you try 2.
2. if you have a compiled module of the driver, you can add the module in
/etc/conf.modules using the
entry :
alias eth0 3c59x
where 3c59x is module name for the driver. this driver module is
located in
/lib/modules/kernel-version/net with '.o' extension.
first you need to check what driver should you use for your card and
then check it in
/lib/modules/kernel-version/net if exists before you add it in
/etc/conf.modules. reboot
after adding .
after rebooting , execute the command 'ifconfig -a' to see if the
driver was loaded. you should
see something like this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:4F:52:26:9A
.
.
.
your next step is to setup your ip configurations.
if you're using new 3Com card, 3c59x might work but this is not an
assurance though.
good luck,
Jun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hartmann Schaffer)
Subject: Re: What is where in Debian?
Date: 19 Mar 2001 20:35:05 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rick Griffiths wrote:
>I'm using the Debian Potato release and have just installed 70MB of
>programs and libraries through dselect, and I don't really know what's
>where or all of what I downloaded anymore.
check out
man dpkg
one of the possible invocations lists all the installed packages
>Is there a program that displays an ascii map of the directory tree?
>And how do I find out how much disk space I have left? Man ls doesn't
df
gives you a list of all your partitions, incl. how much is used and how
much is left
> ...
hs
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Linux crash like a Windows!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Georgakis)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:22:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magnus �stergaard) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> After all this talk about bad RAM, I tried a RAM test myself, and of
>> course One of the sticks were bad.
>
>What program did you use? Link please :-)
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86/
--
George Georgakis - geegs(a)tripleg.net.au - http://www.tripleg.net.au
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Help: Howto setup dialin server
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 13:26:26 +1100
Hi David,
You might like to take a look at the PPP-HOWTO document which is located at:
http://www.linuxdoc.org. It explains the various steps that you need to take
to make sure that your machine can dial into another system and get a PPP
connection. I presume this is what you are trying to achieve.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Repartitioning Linux Partitions
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:30:09 -0000
Hi,
My computer currently has 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition.
The first 2 are used by Win2K. The 3rd is used by Linux. I would like to
create a 4th partition by getting some space from the extended Linux
partition. How can I do this without destroying any of my data ?
Tks.
AL
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Instructions for installing 3com NIC Driver
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 Mar 2001 02:25:27 GMT
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:47:38 GMT, arman96 staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>Can anyone tell me the best place on the web to get simple instuctions
>on install a new NIC Drv and also on Mounting the floppy drive. Thanks.
http://linuxnewbie.org/
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ (more detailed)
For the floppy drive, just "mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy" or use
mtools (work like DOS commands, no need to mount anything) or click on
the floppy drive icon in your GNOME/KDE desktop.
Why would you need to compile a new driver for a 3Com card? All distros
ship with just about every module in existence. The only reason I can
think you'd need to do that is if you have a recent 3c905C that doesn't
work with the old standby module, 3c59x.o , and you want to try 3c90x .
(Try 3c59x first. Really, I've never gotten 3c90x to do anything but
cause scary-looking kernel OOPSes, but I've just tried it on 3c905B and
3c900 cards.)
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: where to set harddisk geometry
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 Mar 2001 02:25:28 GMT
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:43:37 +0100, peter pilsl staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
[much snippage]
>but, and I didnt tried this at the beginning, it seems that I can mount
>the complained partitions without problems. So maybe all this is only a
>philosophical problem of different ways to see things (logical, physical)
>But I need to be sure about it, cause when hda fails I need to put hdc in
>it and it needs to boot then ....
Here's another thought: at least some hard disks can be set to report a
"physical" geometry with 16 heads or one with 255 heads with a jumper on
the back. If hdc is set to report 16 while hda is set to report 255,
this could be the cause of your problems. Checking this out would
require physical access to the machine though. You'll never be sure
about being able to boot hdc until you try it; so schedule some downtime
and test it before you have to try it for real! (AXIOM: Scheduled
downtime is *always* better than unscheduled downtime.)
--
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: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: running a process in the background and "nice"ing it...
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:19:26 -0600
"Ethan M. Schwartz" wrote:
> I have a process that will always be running... however, I don't have root
> access on the machine (but I do have authorization to run the process). My
> admin is clueless so I'm turning to newsgroups... I need this process to run
> in the background (even after I log out) and in order to be courties to
> other users I want to throttle the amount of CPU power it uses. I was told
> to "nice" the process, but after reading the man pages I'm still lost...
SYNOPSIS
nice [OPTION]... [COMMAND [ARG]...]
In other words: "nice --adjustment=19 myprogram --whatever"
> also need this process to continue running after I log out (re-starting
> after rebooting isn't really required since the machine rarely gets
> rebooted).
OK, so "nice --adjustment=19 myprogram --whatever&"
If the program is already running when you want to change the
priority you'll need to use "renice" instead. Another way is to
use "top" to find your process, note it's PID, press "r" to
renice and then enter the renice value.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Linux Partitioning Problems, HD gone
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:42:22 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:33:03 -0000, LSC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok, here we go,
>
>I have a spare AMD K6-300 computer which I wish to turn it into a full
>Linux system. I have a WD 2.5 Gig HD on the computer which originally had
>Win95 on it. I formatted the whole drive making it clean. I then used
>Mandrakes Red Hat 6.0 Linux boot disk and ran the installation program. I
>chosed to use Disk Druid to partition my hardrive. I created a 2.4 Gig
>Native Linux root partition and a 100 meg swap partition. When I finish the
>configuration, the program gave me an error saying "Error reading partition
>table for the block device hda: No such file or directory". It forced me to
>reboot and I tried running both Disk Druid and Linux fdisk, but both gave
>me the same error, even before they allowed me to setup the partitions
>like my first time. I rebooted with a win95 statup disk in hopes of
>recreating the partitions in Win95 fdisk, but it gave me a error also "no
>hardrive found" and gives me three posibilites, a virus, a third party
>partitioning program, hd is damaged, but yet BIOS detects it fine. I have
>no C drive and cannot fdisk it in Win95 or Linux nor format anything.
>Please help, I would hate to trash a good hard drive.
Check your CMOS setup to make sure it any virus protection for the MBR is
disabled, otherwise it might interfere with clearing the drive or
installing LILO.
Boot a DOS (or Windows rescue) disk, run the WD diagnostic program
(www.wdc.com? if you don't have the WD floppy), and do the destructive
test that writes all zeros to the drive. Then fdisk a partition in
DOS. This should give you a base translated partition table, so you
don't have to be concerned with any 1024 cyl limit.
Then from Linux install, remove that partition and replace it with Linux.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to install Sawfish themes ?
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:45:32 GMT
I have RedHat 7 and Ximian GNOME; if that makes a difference.
Sawfish is the Window Manager.
I'm trying to install the theme DarkAlloy. There seems to be two files:
0.21 and 0.30. I downloaded them both.
As instructed by the web site, I issued the following command.
cp DarkAlloy* ~/.sawfish/themes/DarkAlloy.tar.gz
I got an error, because there's no directory named themes, so I created one.
cd ~/.sawfish
mkdir themes
Then issued the following command.
cp DarkAlloy* ~/.sawfish/themes/DarkAlloy.tar.gz
The file was copied without problems.
I went to Control Center, but DarkAlloy is not in the menu of themes.
So, I clicked on the "Install new theme...", and chose the file DarkAlloy
file. I got no errors, but I still don't see DarkAlloy in the themes list.
Any suggestions?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: ssh question
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:47:39 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:57:10 +0800, news.starzine.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone know where can I download the ssh and how to configure it under
>RedHat 6.2. Can I using ssh under win98 to remote admin. the linux server?
I have used Putty to ssh to Linux and Solaris. A web search for 'putty
ssh' should find it (free). But I had to use the Putty utility to
generate an RSA key for Putty, because I did not know how to use my Linux
generated key with it (I use the same passphrase for both keys).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:56:56 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't rescue, read-only filesystem
Morgan Fletcher wrote:
>
> I am running debian "testing", my system is up-to-date, except that I
> haven't let apt-get remove the 102 packages it recently wants to
> remove.
>
> I believe I saw lilo get updated this weekend, during 'apt-get update
> && apt-get upgrade'. This morning I rebooted and got "LI". (Lilo
> normally let's me boot into win2k or debian "testing".)
>
> I pulled out an old potato-era rescue disk, entered "rescue
> root=/dev/hda3" at the "rescue:" prompt and everything went okay until
> it got stuck in an endless loop, repeating the same messages over and
> over:
>
> insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: insmod net-pf-1 failed
> insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/200010319
>Read-only file system
>
> I don't know what's going on. Advice?
>
> (I've posted this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well.)
>
> morgan
Try Tom's root boot for rescue:
http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html
Don't know what the net-pf-1 protocol is, but Tom's root boot is
probably more capable of booting for rescue.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: when is rh 7.2 comming out ?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:57:57 -0500
anyone knows ?
thanks for your inputs
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