Linux-Misc Digest #832, Volume #27 Fri, 11 May 01 21:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Straight copy of a CD-ROM? (Paul Hughett)
Re: Straight copy of a CD-ROM?
Re: chown to another user (give a file away). (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: Netscape helper applications? (Sean)
Re: Logrotate NFS Safe? (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: latex -> PDF. How to do it properly? (Garglemonster)
Re: inetd (Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner)
Re: Straight copy of a CD-ROM? (Ian Northeast)
Re: Straight copy of a CD-ROM?
Re: chown to another user (give a file away). ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: printtool (Dave Uhring)
Re: 2.4.4 on Athlon/Duron compiled for Athlon/Duron (Dave Uhring)
Re: inetd (Angry Bob)
Re: fdisk without restart (Jerry Kreps)
configuring sound on debian stable (wroot)
Re: Utility for parsing RPM database? (J Hayward)
Computer case badges with 3D effect with your own logo. Order (SecurisysAgency)
Re: where has the imici been installed? ("Garry Knight")
Re: Straight copy of a CD-ROM? (Michael Heiming)
Re: Using pine to check multiple POP accounts? (Eduardo Chappa)
Re: configuring sound on debian stable ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: fdisk without restart (John Hasler)
Re: latex -> PDF. How to do it properly? (Professor J Frink)
Re: configuring sound on debian stable (wroot)
Re: Linux in college & high school (Robert Heller)
Ximian GNOME - CTRL key no longer selects items ("Flacco")
Re: fdisk without restart (Dances With Crows)
Re: disappearing hard disk space (SammyTheSnake)
Re: disappearing hard disk space (David Efflandt)
mail notification (Neil Zanella)
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From: Paul Hughett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Straight copy of a CD-ROM?
Date: 11 May 2001 20:19:41 GMT
Is there a simple way, preferably using cdrecord, of making a
straight one-to-one copy of a CD-ROM? So far, the best method I've
found has been to run mkisofs on the old CD-ROM to make a new file
system that cdrecord can write; this works, but it seems like there
ought to be a better method for such an obvious operation. (I've
tried supplying /dev/cdrom as the input to cdrecord; that doesn't
work.)
Paul Hughett
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Straight copy of a CD-ROM?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:23:01 GMT
On 11 May 2001 20:19:41 GMT, Paul Hughett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a simple way, preferably using cdrecord, of making a
>straight one-to-one copy of a CD-ROM? So far, the best method I've
readcd (included with cdrecord) will generate an ISO image from
from a cd.
it can also be done w/ dd
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: chown to another user (give a file away).
Date: 11 May 2001 20:26:49 GMT
SammyTheSnake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> another reason is because it would otherwise be possible to do something
> like this
> echo -en "echo \"hahaha! I'm you!\" \n rm -rf ~" > a.file
> chmod u+s a.file
> chmod a+rx a.file
> chown enemy.enemysgroup a.file
> ./a.file
No, it wouldn't. Linux ignores the setuid bit on shell scripts, which
is what that is. Anybody who tried that would get hoist by his own petard,
as they say.
There are plenty of valid reasons to disallow giving away your files,
but that's not one of them.
JDW
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape helper applications?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 21:24:26 +0100
try setting the helper application to:
acroread %s
Sean
Bill Simpson wrote:
>
> I am running Netscape 4.7 under Linux. I am having problems getting Netscape
> to automatically open .pdf files when browsing.
>
> I go to preferences/navigator/applications/
> choose: Portable Document Format
> insert the helper application: acroread
> On my system acroread will start up acroreader.
>
> When I have done this, and am browsing a pdf file with netscape, it will start
> up acroreader BUT the acroreader window is empty. It doesn't automatically
> open the file I am browsing.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get it set up properly? I am finding more and
> more that people are putting .pdf links up instead of html and it is too
> painful to have to download each .pdf and then start up acroread manually.
>
> Thanks very much for any help!
>
> Bill
> _______________________________________________
> Submitted via WebNewsReader of http://www.interbulletin.com
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Logrotate NFS Safe?
Date: 11 May 2001 20:36:04 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Brian Seppanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is logrotate not NFS safe?
Well, what do you mean by "NFS safe"? Programs generally don't know
or care what kind of filesystem they're running on, which is the beauty of
the abstraction Linux (and most any Unix) provides. Given your question,
though, I think your problem really lies elsewhere...
> The reason I ask is I have a linux client
> that mounts an NFS drive from a Solaris Server. It's been recently
> migrated to this, and I still have the linux client configured to
> do logrotate. Last night at 4 a.m. when logrotate runs, my linux server
> hung hard and bad.
Yes, this can happen with NFS, but it has nothing to do with
logrotate in particular. Do 'man mount' and look at the 'hard' and 'soft'
options, and 'man nfs' and look for 'intr'.
NFS is a good concept, but Linux's NFS implementation is not up to
the standards of most commercial Unices; read the Solaris or Irix
newsgroups and you'll see that it's one of the things that make other
Unices pick on Linux in the playground and take its lunch money. :-/
JDW
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From: Garglemonster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: latex -> PDF. How to do it properly?
Date: 12 May 2001 05:48:41 +0900
>>>>> "Professor" == Professor J Frink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Professor> Here's the situation:
Professor> Various theses and such, written in LaTeX. We want to
Professor> get the output from these into PDF format for
Professor> distributing to various people.
you're using tetex, right?
at the prompt, type "pdflatex file.tex" rather than "latex file.tex".
i think you minimise the font problems that way. give that a whirl.
if it doesn't work out, you might want to ask the folks in
comp.text.tex for advice.
ciao,
g.m.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now I understand the meaning of "THE MOD SQUAD"!
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From: Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: inetd
Date: 11 May 2001 20:44:28 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (for udp
> as well as tcp, not that that's of much interest, since there are no
> interesting udp services because if there were nobody would mind if they
> mostly didn't work, by definition, so they couldn't be interesting).
If you are trying to netboot I assure you you will find udp very
interesting. Talk and biff might also interest some people.
> It also does logging. Useful, but I already have tcplogger and friends.
To me, the most useful part would be that you can have a service
that only listens on one interface. As inetd stands, it listens on every
interface you've got, which means that it may offer services on networks
that are not secure.
JDW
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From: Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Straight copy of a CD-ROM?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 21:44:48 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On 11 May 2001 20:19:41 GMT, Paul Hughett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Is there a simple way, preferably using cdrecord, of making a
> >straight one-to-one copy of a CD-ROM? So far, the best method I've
>
> readcd (included with cdrecord) will generate an ISO image from
> from a cd.
>
> it can also be done w/ dd
Xcdroast will call dd and cdrecord for you. OK so it's a GUI and some
purists may object, but I find it does the job and does it well. Just
remember it's just a front end and only exists for convenience. But the
OP asked for a "simple" way and I find this very simple.
Regards, Ian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Straight copy of a CD-ROM?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:49:00 GMT
On Fri, 11 May 2001 21:44:48 +0100, Ian Northeast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> On 11 May 2001 20:19:41 GMT, Paul Hughett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Is there a simple way, preferably using cdrecord, of making a
>> >straight one-to-one copy of a CD-ROM? So far, the best method I've
>>
>> readcd (included with cdrecord) will generate an ISO image from
>> from a cd.
>>
>> it can also be done w/ dd
>
>Xcdroast will call dd and cdrecord for you. OK so it's a GUI and some
>purists may object, but I find it does the job and does it well. Just
>remember it's just a front end and only exists for convenience. But the
>OP asked for a "simple" way and I find this very simple.
I RTFM and then build stupid little scripts. So when I want to burn
a CD from an iso file, I type "burniso <filename>", etc.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: chown to another user (give a file away).
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:36:49 +0200
Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> SammyTheSnake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> another reason is because it would otherwise be possible to do something
>> like this
>> echo -en "echo \"hahaha! I'm you!\" \n rm -rf ~" > a.file
>> chmod u+s a.file
>> chmod a+rx a.file
>> chown enemy.enemysgroup a.file
>> ./a.file
> No, it wouldn't. Linux ignores the setuid bit on shell scripts, which
> is what that is. Anybody who tried that would get hoist by his own petard,
Don't be needlessly argumentative. It doesn't have to be a script, he
was just giving an indication of what could happen! Have an executable
if you prefer! The valid objection here is that chown strips setuid bits.
Peter
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: printtool
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:31:50 -0500
Kenny@BUI wrote:
> hello,
> whenever we make a change to the printer setup in the gui printtool the
> changes are not taking effect. when we go back in everything changes back
> to what it was.
>
> thank you,
> Kenny.
>
>
>
>
I can't get it to work on RH-7.1 either. Installed apsfilter; it works OK.
http://www.apsfilter.org
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.4 on Athlon/Duron compiled for Athlon/Duron
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 16:34:25 -0500
Chris DiPierro wrote:
> I've recently setup a RedHat 7.1 install on a Duron system. I'm trying to
> get 2.4.4 up and running, but if I compile it for Athlon/Duron CPU type,
> it'll kernel panic on boot. This is on a VIA KT133A chipset (Epox 8KTA3
> board)
>
> There are some references to this on deja.com, but they all seem to say
> that ithis problem was fixed in 2.4.4, so I'm a little confused as to
> what's going on.
>
> Anyone have more info?
>
>
>
>
No problem on my system, MSI K7T Pro 2A with KT133 chipset. When the
kernel panics, what message does it give? There are all kinds of kernel
panics; which one is it?
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: inetd
Date: 11 May 2001 22:12:38 GMT
What would you like to read? [comp.os.linux.setup or *?]
This is a Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scroll! it says:
> a) it's new, hence buggy.
Not that new....
> b) it uses millions of separate little files instead of one single
> nice human-editable file.
is that like comparing /etc to the windows registry?
--
AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
"F--- off Gates, I'm in a meeting."
-- http://www.ghetto-prostitute.com/lalala/23.html
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk without restart
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:16:10 -0500
Lutz Lehmann wrote:
> > Is there any method that I don't need to
> > reboot the machine after fdisk a new partition
> > and can format and use it ?
>
> recent fdisk versions (pretty much all versions I know) re-sync disks
> after
> modifying the partition table - but only if none of the old partitions
> are mounted. If we're talking about the disk containing your root
> partition, don't look any further. There's NO WAY to modify the partition
> table of the root disk without rebooting
>
> HTH Lutz
>
>
I don't think swap disks activate without reboot either...
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From: wroot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.debian.user
Subject: configuring sound on debian stable
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:14:26 -0400
Hi,
How can I configure Debian to like my sound card? (Crystal Clear cs4232)
I tried adding the appropriate lines form my Redhat /etc/conf.modules file
and running update-modules, but that didn't help. Debian version of
sndconfig is for the 'unstable' release and doesn't seem to work properly
on 'stable'.
Thanks in advance.
Wroot
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Utility for parsing RPM database?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 15:30:53 -0700
Hello,
Chris Divine wrote:
<snip>
>
> rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}, Version: %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' >
> rpms.txt sort -o rpms.sorted rpms.txt
>
Nice touch putting the word "Version:" in between. How about this instead
to put it in to columns:
rpm -qa --queryformat
'%-25{NAME} Version: %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' | sort-o rpms.sorted
Create an alias for this in your .bashrc file in your home directory:
alias sortrpms="rpm -qa --queryformat '%-25{NAME} Version:
%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n' | sort -o rpms.sorted"
Save the changes to .bashrc then in a console to re-read .bashrc:
source ~/.bashrc
Then anytime you want a new list just type: "sortrpms", without the quotes
in a console. If you don't like "sortrpms" just change it too what you want.
Regards,
Jim H
> Then I just print "rpms.sorted" and it looks the way I want it to.
>
> Now I just need to learn how to put both commands in one "batch file"
> (sorry, too much old DOS days) that I can run by issuing one simple
> command. Then later develop a (maybe java) GUI to run it and display the
> output. My first "idea" for an open-source project!
> >
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From: "Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where has the imici been installed?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:53:16 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Teke Tu"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a Linux Newbie, I have just installed the imici using root. but now
> I can't find where has the package been installed?
It might help if you say whether it's an .rpm or a .deb package. If it's
an .rpm, then enter 'rpm -ql imici | less' at a command prompt and check
the list for something like /usr/bin/imici. Press Q to get back to the
command prompt. Another way of finding it is to enter 'whereis imici' at
the command prompt. Neither of these ways will work if the actual name of
the program is not 'imici'.
> and how do I run this program?
Well, you didn't say what the program does, and whether it's an X-based
program or a command-line program. Try entering 'imici' at the command
prompt.
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 01:31:45 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Straight copy of a CD-ROM?
Paul Hughett wrote:
>
> Is there a simple way, preferably using cdrecord, of making a
> straight one-to-one copy of a CD-ROM? So far, the best method I've
> found has been to run mkisofs on the old CD-ROM to make a new file
> system that cdrecord can write; this works, but it seems like there
> ought to be a better method for such an obvious operation. (I've
> tried supplying /dev/cdrom as the input to cdrecord; that doesn't
> work.)
>
> Paul Hughett
Check cdrdao/xcdrdao, but it will only do straight forward DAO (disc at
once)
with audio CD.
Michael Heiming
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From: Eduardo Chappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using pine to check multiple POP accounts?
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 15:52:48 -0700
*** Ryan Joseph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote in comp.os.linux.misc on...:
:) Is it possible for Pine to check multiple POP accounts at once? I
:) do not need to worry about SMTP, as I only send from a single
:) address anyway.
You can set as many pop accounts as you want in Pine. I will suggest that
you set all your POP accounts as I will describe later, since in that way
you will always have the latest information about new mail in your
account(s).
Ok, here's how to:
Press M S C and [X] enable-incoming-folders, then quit and restart Pine.
Go to your folder collections, and put the cursor over INBOX, and press
"A", then enter the following data:
name.pop3.server/pop3/user=userid
It will ask you for a folder, enter:
INBOX
finally it will ask you for a nickname, this is the name of the folder
as you will see it, enter anything, since you can always rename it later.
Every time that you open the folder, you'll see the latest updated state
of it, which you can not do if you set your INBOX to be a pop3 account
(unless you quit and restart Pine every time you want to check for new
mail!)
I hope this has helped you.
--
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configuring sound on debian stable
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 01:16:56 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc wroot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I configure Debian to like my sound card? (Crystal Clear cs4232)
> I tried adding the appropriate lines form my Redhat /etc/conf.modules file
> and running update-modules, but that didn't help. Debian version of
That is all that is required. If the kernel driver doesn't work, try
the alsa driver.
Peter
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk without restart
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 23:17:49 GMT
Lutz Lehmann wrote:
> If we're talking about the disk containing your root partition, don't
> look any further. There's NO WAY to modify the partition table of the
> root disk without rebooting
I don't see why not, though you'd have to unmount it, which would require
measures so extreme that you might as well reboot.
Jerry Kreps writes:
> I don't think swap disks activate without reboot either...
Nonsense. man swapon.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Professor J Frink)
Subject: Re: latex -> PDF. How to do it properly?
Date: 11 May 2001 22:13:48 GMT
> Professor> Various theses and such, written in LaTeX. We want to
> Professor> get the output from these into PDF format for
> Professor> distributing to various people.
>
>you're using tetex, right?
>
>at the prompt, type "pdflatex file.tex" rather than "latex file.tex".
>
>i think you minimise the font problems that way. give that a whirl.
>if it doesn't work out, you might want to ask the folks in
>comp.text.tex for advice.
This is one of the solutions we've tried, but there's two problems:
1) The font problem still persists (maybe not as bad but still there)
2) You need to provide pdf format figures
The tex2pdf script does use pdflatex to good effect but isn't perfect yet.
I have recently (following the advice given here) tried using the dvips
-Ppdf solution along with ps2pdf13 and gs 6.50. I'd tried this before but on
gs 5.50 it made no difference. On 6.50 the fonts come through fine as far
as we can see and everything seems hunky dory. No bookmarks or hyperlinks
but that's something for people *starting* their thesis to get right from
the beginning.
Cheers,
Frink
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From: wroot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configuring sound on debian stable
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:31:33 -0400
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc wroot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How can I configure Debian to like my sound card? (Crystal Clear cs4232)
>> I tried adding the appropriate lines form my Redhat /etc/conf.modules
>> file and running update-modules, but that didn't help. Debian version of
>
> That is all that is required. If the kernel driver doesn't work, try
> the alsa driver.
It worked with Redhat6.2, which is old. Why wouldn't it work with current
'stable' Debian?
> Peter
>
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux in college & high school
Date: 12 May 2001 00:52:27 GMT
Matthew Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Fri, 11 May 2001 23:24:01 +1200, wrote :
MG> Christopher Corbell wrote:
MG> >
MG> > I'm looking for leads to information, statistics, or just
MG> > individual testimonials about the use of Linux in educational
MG> > settings, particularly in high school, community college,
MG> > university, and grad school settings. Does anyone out there
MG> > know of any general sources of information on the use of
MG> > Linux in these settings? I would especially be interested
MG> > in the use of Linux in math & science education. Also, I'd
MG> > like to know about any advocacy groups, PC 'salvage' groups
MG> > or similar organizations that are active in getting Linux
MG> > used in schools.
MG> >
MG> > Thanks for any info.
MG> > - Christopher
MG> Massey University in Wellington uses Digital UNIX for their servers
MG> running Samba. This is used as their main server OS, along with squid
MG> for proxy services.
MG>
MG> Central Institute of Technology (now known as Welltec). Debian UNIX,
MG> used in UNIX OS module.
MG>
MG> Matthew Gardiner
MG>
The UMass Computer Science Dept. uses lots of UNIX and Linux systems
for the research computers and things like file, mail, web, and ftp
servers. Linux on PCs is the system-of-choice for grad. student desktop
machines.
--
\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: "Flacco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ximian GNOME - CTRL key no longer selects items
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 00:49:52 GMT
Since upgrading to GNOME 1.4, using the CTRL key when clicking on items
in lists no longer selects individual items. For example, if I want to
select a few messages in Evolution, I click on one item, then CTRL-Click on
subsequent items to select them. But now the additional items do not get
selected.
Is there some way I can fix this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: fdisk without restart
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 2001 00:54:01 GMT
On Fri, 11 May 2001 17:16:10 -0500, Jerry Kreps staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>Lutz Lehmann wrote:
>
>>> Is there any method that I don't need to reboot the machine after
>>> fdisk a new partition and can format and use it ?
>>
>> recent fdisk versions (pretty much all versions I know) re-sync disks
>> after modifying the partition table - but only if none of the old
>> partitions are mounted. If we're talking about the disk containing
>> your root partition, don't look any further. There's NO WAY to modify
>> the partition table of the root disk without rebooting
>>
>I don't think swap disks activate without reboot either...
A swap partition or a swap file can be activated with "swapon
/path/to/device/or/file" and deactivated with "swapoff /path..." .
Reboots are completely unnecessary for that case.
--
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] (SammyTheSnake)
Subject: Re: disappearing hard disk space
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:24:30 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sudhakar R. wrote:
>could you please explain what you mean by "recycle the logs"
feed them into a log mill and make paper out of them
HTH
Cheers & God bless
SammyTheSnake(JK ;)
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: disappearing hard disk space
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 01:05:58 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 11 May 2001 11:35:34 -0400, Sudhakar R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> could you please explain what you mean by "recycle the logs"
Normally if you leave your box on overnight, a cron job automatically
rotates your log files (moves them to backups and restarts any affected
daemons). But if you turn your box off every night, this does not happen
and logs keep accumulating. You might also have some process in debug
mode that is causing extra logging. See what files you have in /var/log
or 'du -k /var/log' to see total usage of your logs.
> thanx
> -sud
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 11 May 2001 10:28:43 -0400, "Sudhakar R."
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>>I've noticed that everytime I login to my RH 7.0 system a good chunk of
>>>hard disk space is used up (usually around 0.15 MB) everytime. this space
>>>is not released again. so my / partition is close to running out of
>>>space(6MB free now!!)
>>>
>>>/home is mounted on a different partition...so i know that is not the
>>>problem. can some1 help me figure out what's going on here before my
>>>system crashes.
>>
>>Have you recycled your log files? Take a look in /var/logs and see
>>what syslog, messages, debug, etc. have in them.
>>
>>Have you cleaned out your /tmp directory lately?
>>
>>>thanx. any help will be highly appreciated.
>>>-sud
>>>
>>
>>
>>Lew Pitcher, Information Technology Consultant, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
>>([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>>
>>(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
>>
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mail notification
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 21:53:05 -0230
Hello,
When I ssh to a Linux box there is a program that displays my last
login time and also displays something like "You have new mail."
or "No mail." or "you have mail.". I would like to turn these
messages off as I find them annoying. Could I turn these messages
off and how please? What is the name of the program that causes
these messages to be dieplayed? I really think this should be a
user configurable feature. Ideally I would like to get a plain
shell prompt after using ssh and nothing else.
Thanks for your replies,
Neil
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