Linux-Misc Digest #985, Volume #27 Wed, 30 May 01 13:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: getting vfat support on a bootable floppy (David)
Re: palm m505 & USB & Linux (Ken Mankoff)
opening a *.dbf file on unix software ? (Bernard DEBREIL)
Re: getting vfat support on a bootable floppy ("hdc")
Re: Upgrading glibc (Colin Watson)
Re: Bind 9: Sorta working ("Karl Heyes")
Re: Best Window Manager. (Dave Brown)
Re: getting vfat support on a bootable floppy ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Start bash along with X ("Stefan Viljoen")
Re: Problems with transfering files from win to linux ("Stefan Viljoen")
Re: e2fs to reiser? (Ulrich Brachvogel)
Re: Please help me get my WIN98 back! ("Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS")
freeswan?! ("����")
Re: Linux on a computer on a PCI card in a computer? ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Programming for X windows. ("Tauno Voipio")
Can't see the windows I minimized on the panel! (Karthik Subramanian)
test (Jim)
cups with my own filter (Bernd Rieke)
xfsdump with oops (Jan Merkel)
How to get rpm --install to specify owner and group ("jww")
Re: How to start an executable??? (fred smith)
Re: Using TAR (David Douthitt)
lsof and special characters (Bolt Thrower)
k6/2 optimisation ("Paul Sutton")
Loginmanager - RedHat ("Crazydj")
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getting vfat support on a bootable floppy
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 14:08:42 GMT
hdc wrote:
>
> It is in the kernel. I've tested the kernel out in a system booting off a
> hard drive, and it can handle vfat.
>
> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > hdc <x@x> wrote:
> > > running on my bootable linux floppy. When I try to mount the FAT16
> > > partitions, with or without the -t vfat option, I get a statement that
> vfat
> > > is not supported. Now, vfat is operable on the system I created the
> floppy
> > > from. What do I have to do to get the floppy to support vfat? It
> >
> > Load the vfat module into the kernel, or compile vfat support into it.
> >
> > Peter
Are you wanting to mount FAT16 or vfat? Isn't FAT16 the same as MSDOS?
mount -t vfat = FAT32
mount -t msdos = FAT16
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.225% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Ken Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot
Subject: Re: palm m505 & USB & Linux
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 08:07:54 -0600
Reply-To: Ken Mankoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > "Ken Mankoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >
> > I cannot get my m505 to talk to linux. There is some basic recognition of
> > the USB port and the device attached to it, but no communication between
> > the palm and the computer whatsoever.
> >
>
>On Wed, 30 May 2001, Darren wrote:
>
> what distro of linux do you have ??
>
> 2.4 kernel onwards have USB support, although I still cannot get my webcam
> working (not supported) - check out your distro's website for hardware
> compatibility
>
>
Hi Darren,
I am running RedHat 7.1 (kernel: 2.4.2)
redhat.com has no help. I have spent *hours* searching the web, and have
only found information for the visor and USB. I can load (insmod) the
visor module, but it does not help.
-k.
--
Ken Mankoff
LASP://303.492.3264
http://lasp.colorado.edu/~mankoff/
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From: Bernard DEBREIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: opening a *.dbf file on unix software ?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:13:33 +0200
Hi there !
Could someone tell me if there is a way to recuperate a large dbf file
on Unix (Linux) software ? My file is too big to be imported into
StarCalc (StarOffice), since it will not import any file larger than
32,000 lines. Prior to import to StarCalc, I would have to split the
file in smaller halves... to that purpose, I can't see any other means
than to first open it into a Dbase or compatible software. Is dbase
available on unix systems ?
Thanks for any help
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From: "hdc" <x@x>
Subject: Re: getting vfat support on a bootable floppy
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:22:04 -0400
I have trouble with both FAT16 and FAT12 with -t vfat. -t msdos doesn't
work either.
I repeat, all is well when I use the same kernel on a hard disk and try to
mount FAT16 files on either the disk on chip or a floppy.
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hdc wrote:
> >
> > It is in the kernel. I've tested the kernel out in a system booting
off a
> > hard drive, and it can handle vfat.
> >
> > "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > hdc <x@x> wrote:
> > > > running on my bootable linux floppy. When I try to mount the FAT16
> > > > partitions, with or without the -t vfat option, I get a statement
that
> > vfat
> > > > is not supported. Now, vfat is operable on the system I created the
> > floppy
> > > > from. What do I have to do to get the floppy to support vfat? It
> > >
> > > Load the vfat module into the kernel, or compile vfat support into it.
> > >
> > > Peter
>
>
> Are you wanting to mount FAT16 or vfat? Isn't FAT16 the same as MSDOS?
>
> mount -t vfat = FAT32
> mount -t msdos = FAT16
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
> Completed more W/U's than 99.225% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Upgrading glibc
Date: 30 May 2001 14:15:51 GMT
Peet Grobler <peetgr at absa.co.za> wrote:
>Question : All my apps are compiled using glibc version X. Now I'm upgrading
>glibc to X+1. Will the apps still work?
Typically, yes. 2.0 to 2.1 had some problems due to people using
undocumented symbols, but that shouldn't happen any more.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step."
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From: "Karl Heyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux,sanet.unix.questions,linux.admin
Subject: Re: Bind 9: Sorta working
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:42:42 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "I hate spam"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the advice, but...
> nsswitch.conf has been set files dns from the beginning However, Nicolai
> Langfeldt's DNS HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html
> states:
> "In some resolv.conf files you find a line saying "domain". That's
> fine, but don't use both "search" and "domain", only one of them will work"
> So my resolv.conf reads
> search domain.com domain.com
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> nameserver IP address of the server
> nameserver ISP IP
> nameserver ISP secondary
> under search, i tossed in the second domain.com because i'm grasping, it is
> the exact same as the domain listed. under nameserver - Will a 4th entry be
> used? regards,
change search to domain and only have one domain.com. You should also only
have the one nameserver line as your caching DNS does the forwarding.
What is the output of hostname -f
karl.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Best Window Manager.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 May 2001 10:02:49 -0500
In article <9f2no3$in0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joel wrote:
>I have the GNOME login installed. I didn't even install KDE, because it is
>way too slow. Thanks, I'll look at that file.
Or, you could take control of the situation and simply create a file,
.Xclients, in your home directory, which contains the line:
exec wmaker
(This will, however, override the "desktop" switchers of various sorts.)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getting vfat support on a bootable floppy
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:59:19 +0200
hdc <x@x> wrote:
> I repeat, all is well when I use the same kernel on a hard disk and try to
> mount FAT16 files on either the disk on chip or a floppy.
You are wrong. The kernel does not change. The most likely explanation
is that you have the vfat module available on disk, but not on the floppy.
Or possibly, you are mistaken as to which kernel you are booting when.
Peter
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Start bash along with X
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 18:16:17 +0200
Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> * Jesper Petersen wrote:
> > >Maybe: "how do I make a bash shell/xterm start auto when I start X?"
> >
> > Exactly. Sorry for my mistake, but Linux is new to me.
In GNOME there is an option to put in a post-startup command - don't know if
you use it but wouldn't it work to put xterm & in there?
Stefan
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with transfering files from win to linux
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 18:31:55 +0200
gajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:9ev3cc$7gp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have downloaded a 6 Mb large file. The file is a Linux RPM, but I don't
have internet access on my
> linux machine, so I had to download it to windows. The only way to
transfer this file is through
> floppy disks, and how can I do this? Should I split the file into 3
smaller ones, but how will I put
> them together when they're on my linux machine?
>
> Csaba
Hmm - you can try tarring onto floppies, then untarring at the destination.
I think you get a tar program that runs under win95 that takes much the same
parameters as the Linux tar. Anyway, if it was linux to linux (i. e. 2 linux
machines) you would do something like (?)
1. tar cvf /mnt/floppy/transfer.tar whatever.rpm
then swap floppies as they are asked for. Then, at destination, I "think"
you can do
1. tar xvf /mnt/floppy/transfer.tar
and swap floppies in sequence.
How about it?
Stefan
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From: Ulrich Brachvogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: e2fs to reiser?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:26:49 +0200
Glitch wrote:
> hi,
>
>
> I'd like to use ReiserFS however currently i have everything running on
> top of an ext2 filesystem. Although I think I could move my files onto
> my Windows partition (after tarring the directories up to preserve the fs
> and then moving the file over to Windows drive), format the partitions for
snip ......
Hi, in the German LINUX-Magazine 04/2000 was an article which described how
to transfer an ext2 root-partition to a reiserfs formatted partition using
tar. What yor need is enough space to store your ext2 intermediately,
reformate your ext2, and transfer the partition back to the new reiserfs
partition. I don�t know if there is in the meantime a lilo which can boot
from reiserfs otherwise you have to establish an ext2-Partition mounted to
/boot and make lilo boot from that after having transferred your
boot-folder there.
If you speak German or have somebody who can translate I send you a copy of
the article by e-mail.
TTFN Ulrich
--
<O
\\__///
/\ Save the curlew!
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From: "Block Iron & Supply Co - CIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linus.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help me get my WIN98 back!
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:40:52 -0500
If you have your Win98 CDROM boot from that when you get to the three
choices choose #2 boot with cdrom support. Then type fdisk /mbr. Also make
sure your BIOS is set to boot from the CDROM drive first.
"Arnulf Norkus" <0003236521380222513204#[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Somphong K schrieb:
>
> > During this Memorial weekend, I installed Redhat 7.1 (Kernel 2.4.2-2)
> > on my PC at home. Win98 is on IDE drive/A and Rh7.1 completely on IDE
> > drive/B. I did not realize at the time that part of linux, such as /boot
> > partition, had to be on drive/A to use LILO.
> >
> > During graphic installation,I was prompted where to put LILO i.e. in MBR
> > or linux drive's boot partition. Unfortunately I decided to avoid
fooling
> > with MBR and opted for the later.
> >
> > The lilo installation ended up with failure. Everything else went fine.
> > I created boot diskette. I then realized I was no longer able to boot
> > Win98. Everybody in my household jumped on me!! My wife wanted to search
> > webs about her stock investment, my kid wanted to play starcraft with
his
> > folks, ....
> >
> > I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
> > surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes failed
> > to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after reading/
> > loading a few blocks.
> >
> > When I mounted on to /dev/hda1, I could see that all Win98 directories
> > and files were still intact. I just do not know why drive/A broke when I
> > tried my best < which was obviously not good enough :-( > not to disturb
> > its MBR.
> >
> > I would appreciate any advice that can pull me out of this mess.
> >
> > 1) What corruptions on drive/A and how to restore it??
> >
> > 2) I configured lilo to boot either linux and win98 but the later never
> > came up - it hang just like when I booted off diskettes. Could you
> > offer me a copy of /etc/lilo.conf to compare. My copy is at home.
> >
> > 3) I configured printer OK but not my sound card (Turtle Beach Montogo
II
> > and Altec Lansing 495). sndconfig autoprobe concluded it was Altec
> > ADA305 and mentioned it is not supported by Linux yet. I tried
without
> > probe but there were only 2 Turtle Beach choices and my Montego II
was
> > not ont the list. I tried both and they all ended up in errors.
> >
> > Does it mean I'm out of luck as far as sound card is concerned?
> >
> > 4) Does Linux support HP 6200C scanner?? If affirmative, how?
> >
> > 5) I have MSN connection which I usually use their 'MSN Internet Access'
> > tool to connect. Could and how I connect to MSN from Linux??
> >
> > Please asnwer to my e-mail address. Thanks for kind assistance.
> >
> > Rgds somphong
>
> I had the same problems with various linuxes. Best what helped me was the
> following.
> First: be sure that your computer is set to boot from floppy at bios.
> Next: boot from a bootable (rescue) disk and at the DOS-prompt set "sys
c:",
> after that maybe "fdisk /mbr" to make sure that mbr on boot-disk is
correct.
> Tip: set LILO to a disk and start linux from there.
> Hope to have helped you
> Ulf
>
>
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From: "����" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: freeswan?!
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 23:46:27 +0800
i heard that freeswan is used to create vpn in linux. i just want to know if
i can use freeswan to create a secure tunnel with windoz machine, just like
what PopTop does. thanx.
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a computer on a PCI card in a computer?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:48:33 GMT
"David Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Are there any cpu-on-a-card solutions that can be used to run
> linux inside a PC that otherwise is running windows (where
> linux has its own IDE, ports etc), and sets itself up as a
> networked interface such that the windows computer thinks
> that it is networked to another computer?
>
> I know about software solutions that can be used to run windows
> inside linux, but I don't like the poor performance.
>
> I need to run both, but I'd rather not have two physical boxes.
>
If you really want to run Windows and Linux at the same time in the same
box, you should check Vmware. It does cost some money, though.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Programming for X windows.
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:53:30 GMT
"Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9f2o09$sku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi. I have been programming in Microsoft Windows, and I'd like to learn
how
> to make apps for X windows. Do you guys know of any tutorial on the net
> somewhere that would set me in the right direction? What about a good
book?
> I use c++. Thanks.
>
The story it a bit too long for a website. A book for starters:
J. Robert Brown, X Window Programming from Scratch, Que Books, ISBN
0-7897-2372-7
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: Karthik Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't see the windows I minimized on the panel!
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:02:54 -0400
Hi,
Everytime I minimize a window in GNOME (Linux 7.0), it dissapears from
the taksbar. However, I can click on the 'arrow' in the desk guide and
get the window open. I do not know which setting to change to get the
task applet to my panel.
Could someone help me out.
Karthik Subramanian.
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From: Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:59:11 GMT
wgwg
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From: Bernd Rieke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cups with my own filter
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:05:32 +0200
Hi all,
I installed cups printer system on my linux box, nice tool,
SuSE 7.0. cups 1.1. But now I want to use my own filter.
In which directory do I have to install this filter-program
and where do I have to tell the cups-system to use this filter
for the specific printer. The filter confirms to the rules
given in the cups manuals e.g. it accepts the 6 or 7 parameters,
reads the data, converts the data in any way and sends it to
stdout. Important to me is that cups does nothing with the data
before and after scheduling the filter.
Thanks in advance
Greetings B. Rieke
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From: Jan Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xfsdump with oops
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:47:28 +0200
Hi
I have problems running xfsdump on my xfsfilesystem.
redhat 7.1 with 2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0-2 SMP
Thank you for any help.
regards, Jan
dmesg output:
==========
xfs_iget_core: ambiguous vns: vp/0xd1fe1530, invp/0xd437f910
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
printing eip:
c01ee672
pgd entry ce44f000: 0000000000000000
pmd entry ce44f000: 0000000000000000
... pmd not present!
Oops: 0000
CPU: 1
EIP: 0010:[<c01ee672>]
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: 00000084 ebx: d437f910 ecx: c1ade000 edx: 00000000
esi: d437f910 edi: 00000084 ebp: d437f910 esp: ce36fa24
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process xfsdump (pid: 1181, stackpage=ce36f000)
Stack: d437f910 d437f910 c18e07b8 00000001 14003fff 0141b8a8 00000000 c01d0001
0000003a 00000000 3b04c5f3 0ba1eba8 3b04c5f3 0ba1eba8 3b04c5f3 0ba1eba8
c01c0000 00010000 00000000 00000000 d437f620 d437f730 00000000 00000000
Call Trace: [<c01d0001>] [<c01c0000>] [<c01ee649>] [<c01c43f0>] [<c01c43e0>]
[<c01c4478>] [<c01ee429>]
[<c01ed966>] [<c0149f67>] [<c014a2b5>] [<c01e6ac7>] [<c01c586b>] [<c01e7dfd>]
[<c01c586b>] [<c01c586b>]
[<c01b185c>] [<c0186966>] [<c018acb4>] [<c0186dfc>] [<c01876f8>] [<c01d9beb>]
[<c01ae864>] [<c01b0cf0>]
[<c01437fc>] [<c020385d>] [<c01437fc>] [<c020385d>] [<c0112e17>] [<c01e1fc0>]
[<c0206154>] [<c0202639>]
[<c0206154>] [<c0201f56>] [<c020249c>] [<c020446c>] [<c01e65e3>] [<c01c586b>]
[<c01e65b4>] [<c01c586b>]
[<c0143bd7>] [<c01c586b>] [<c01090cb>] [<c01c586b>] [<c010002b>]
Code: 8b 4a 08 6a 00 25 80 00 00 00 50 8d 44 24 18 50 52 8b 41 14
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From: "jww" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to get rpm --install to specify owner and group
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:20:13 -0400
I would like the RPM package I build to be installed in whatever owner
and/or group the user chooses.
Is there a way for some parameter to be passed so that my post-install
script can change the owner/group
of the files installed?
man rpm shows a --setperm and a --setgids, but these are unknown options at
execution time.
I have a book called Maximum RPM by Bailey, but I haven't found a way to do
this yet.
Thanks,
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From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to start an executable???
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 10:30:53 GMT
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: gajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
:news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:>> > OK, when I write /usr/tictac/tictac, usr/games/tictac or ./tictac I get the
:following message:
:>> > bash: /usr/tictac/tictac: Cannot execute binary file
:>>
:>> This seems to say that you are executing a script, and the script calls
:>> something that doesn't exist. Please do
:>>
:>> file /usr/tictac/tictac
:>>
:>> and show us the result.
:> the result is:
:> /usr/tictac/tictac: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC)
:> I have no idea what this means.. :)
: It's what it says. ZMAGIC? I don't think I've seen that in a long
: while. It's a particular kind of executable (starts with 0314, which
: appears to be "space" "new line", so maybe it's a script!). What does
ZMAGIC is an ancient binary format from Linux's pre-ELF days. They can
still be used IF you have the ancient libraries on your system and IF
you've got kernel support (direct or via module) for it.
See if the command:
modprobe binfmt_aout
works (i.e., if it returns with no diagnostic). If so, you should be
able to do:
lsmod
and get results something like:
Module Size Used by
===> binfmt_aout 4196 0
ide-scsi 7272 0
lockd 31496 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 53028 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
3c509 5932 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3876 4 (autoclean)
vfat 9276 2 (autoclean)
fat 30400 2 (autoclean) [vfat]
es1371 27264 0
soundcore 2628 4 [es1371]
And if that works, try running the program again. If that works, well
now you know how to make it work. if not, then there's some additional
system service you are missing (possibly the ancient libraries needed
for the ancient binary).
if all this doesn't make it work, you may find it helpful to try to
recompile the program (assuming you can get the source). It shold come
with some form of minimal docs on how to do that, commonly a file named
"INSTALL", or "README", or some such.
Good luck!
--
---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
I can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me.
============================== Philippians 4:13 ===============================
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From: David Douthitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Using TAR
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:24:55 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Filipp Sapienza wrote:
>
> Hello. I have a directory called /stuff with the following contents:
>
> myfile
> otherfile
> junk
> happy
> /one
> /two
> /gallery
>
> Is it possible to use tar to store everything except /gallery?
> What is the syntax to do this?
How about this?
ls -1d * | grep -v gallery | xargs tar czvf mytar.tar.gz
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From: Bolt Thrower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lsof and special characters
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:01:57 GMT
I've noticed that lsof 4.47 misreports filenames that have "special
characters" in them (characters such as '�' and '�' - I don't know
the proper term for them - non-ASCII?). Instead of displaying the
special characters, lsof replaces them with what appears to be an
escaped hex code, such as \xe4 or \xd6. Is this a bug in lsof?
Thanks,
--
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Paul Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: k6/2 optimisation
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 20:55:21 +0100
Reply-To: "Paul Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi
I am running RHL 7.1 (Kernel 2.4.2) on an AMD k6/2 500. I want to try and
recompile my entire system for the AMD chip, if possible from the rpm
source code files, I have done this before when I had to get my banshee
chipset working with Linux, basically it involved rpm --rebuild
filename.src.rpm and this rebuilt the rpm file to be installed as normal.
>From what I have read from the Howto file and Maximum RPM, I need to edit
the rpmrc file. and change some or all of the the following.
build arch : i386
install os : i486
compatable arch list: i486, i386
What I am not sure on is what I change these to and if I need to change them
at all.
I have recompiled my kernel for the AMD (under code maturity). and noticed
that it had -k6 on the options while compiling, so I assume that I need to
change the above i386, i386 to k6. However I am not 100% sure if I should
leave anything intact, Am I on the right track,
my website is at
www.psutton.freeservers.com where I hope to provide notes and information to
help others,
I would be grateful for any advice or pointers to relevant files on the
internet,
thanks
Paul Sutton
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From: "Crazydj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Loginmanager - RedHat
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:07:21 +0200
Hi @ll!!!
Can anyone tell me how to configure the loginmanager in RedHat 7.0?
Currently I am using the gdm but I would like to run the kdm.
Redards and thanx
Bastian Ballmann
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