Linux-Setup Digest #817, Volume #19 Thu, 12 Oct 00 21:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: lost boot.b (Scott Nolde)
Re: soundcard drivers for biostar? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network (Jonathan Voigt)
Re: reversed vgetty.. ("Fayaz A. Shaikh")
Help! recover system ("C. Shen")
Re: RH7 wont compile (Hal Burgiss)
Root, permission denied, Samba? ("Terry")
Re: apache question (Colin Watson)
Re: Corel(Debian) Linux and glibc upgrade (Colin Watson)
Re: Curious problem: Netscape, Postfix, SuSE 7.0 (Colin Watson)
Help - NetWave Wireless pcmcia card (Chuck Lidderdale)
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Problem ("Alexander Lindhorst")
Re: soundcard drivers for biostar? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cant connect to internet (root)
Re: Really dumb question!!! ("Mladen Gavrilovic")
Re: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Problem ("Alexander Lindhorst")
Re: Root, permission denied, Samba? ("David ..")
console screen resolution ("Mike")
Path?? ("Jason")
Re: please help me AHHHHHH!!!! ("Nicholas A. Corona")
Re: A new directory hierarchy standard - need opinions (Todd Knarr)
Re: Help! recover system (Black Dragon)
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lost boot.b
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:13:52 GMT
I reinstalled lilo... and it worked. whew.
- scott
Scott Nolde wrote:
>
> I did something prety stupid and I lost the boot directory. I have my
> kernel bzImage file, and a good lilo.conf file, but lilo complains:
>
> Fatal: open /boot/boot.b: No such file or directory
>
> Is there a method to recover this? I'm running RedHat 7.0.
>
> Email me directly also, please.
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
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Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
6:10pm up 3 min, 1 user, load average: 1.04, 0.58, 0.23
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.multimedia,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: soundcard drivers for biostar?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:13:38 GMT
In article <39e62720$1$qnivfs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This mainboard has an on-board sound chip, something I usually
> avoid. I can't get it to make a sound in OS/2 or in Linux.
>
> Anyone got it working?
Maybe. Perhaps if you would be so kind as to tell us all *whih* Biostar
motherboard you have we could assist you... :)
--
-Steven Hunter *OS/2 Warp 4 * |"This is a good morning.|
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *AMD K6-2 400* |Oh, it's night." - Sifl |
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Jonathan Voigt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: DNS problems w/ Linux in an NT network
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:52:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am having problems using my Linux box in an NT network.
> System administrator complains that my machines tries to
> act as DNS server so I am forbidden to use it :-(
>
> Does anyone know how to avoid this? And have Linux
> live peacefully together with NT (I know it is a nonsense;-)
> or at least make me live peacefully together with my sysadmin
> and enjoy using a real operating system?
>
> Thanks
that's BS - Linux may grab IP addresses designated for other hosts in a
NT network - so it's better to have a static IP in that case.
Also, make sure you are not acting as a router or anything crazy which
you shouldn;t be doing. - GATED...
--
Jonathan Voigt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.voicomm.com
www.voicomm.vom/jonsbox
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From: "Fayaz A. Shaikh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: reversed vgetty..
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:56:03 -0700
> I want to make few changes. Instead of that, somebody else calls me and
> then vgetty plays the message, I want my machine to call somebody and when
> the other phone is hooked off , vgetty should play some recorded message
and
> not necessarily wait for incoming message. It is exactly like that some
rep:
> of business calls u and leaves computer generated messages for u. I have
> tried vm, dialing through vm and then playing message through vm play -t
> into telco line, but it hangs it up. Any solution. I will greatly
appreciate
> if u reply me and tell me any solution. I am also trying to look around
for
> nice vgetty programming documentation.
>
> Fayaz Shaikh
I found solution myslef. There is Modem-vgetty.pm perl module available on
net. One can download and install it. It has cool features. U can use it to
program vgetty.
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_perl/cpan-search?dist=Modem-Vgetty-0.03
Fayaz
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From: "C. Shen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! recover system
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:45:18 -0500
I was browsing the web by netscape. suddenly, my harddisk became very busy
and then it's dead(no any sound but the light was on, and any key was no
responding). I have to shutdown the power and restart.
Then the system recovered the file system, but finially it told me I have to
use root password to enter to repair the filesystem, or press Crtl+D to
reboot. If I choose reboot everything will be like the first time. If I
choose entering as a root. I cann't delete any file, it always show the
information:"cannot unlink 'XXXX.XXX':Read-Only file system".
What can I do. :-(
I don't want reinstall the system.
thank you for any suggestion.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: RH7 wont compile
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:06:24 GMT
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:01:50 -0500, havesum2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i have a news server i am building abit kt7 raid it uses hardware raid
>in RH6.2 it still sees the 2 - 45GB ibms as 2 drives. I upgraded to RH7
>and it wont compile the kernel that it came with.
You need to use kgcc for kernels. That is why it is there.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Root, permission denied, Samba?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:09:04 -0700
I am a newbie, just installed red hat 6.2, modem O.K.
network can ping nt workstation both ways O.K.
Playing with samba now, when at the prompt I type:
/etc/services I get Permission denied
/etc/inetd.conf I get Permission denied
/etc/smb.conk I get Permission denied
I am in root, how could I setup samba? Need help can't get out of Permission
denied.
This is a new install and I only used linuxconf for the network part.
I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, including installing red hat
again.
Thanks
Terry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: apache question
Date: 12 Oct 2000 23:01:53 GMT
alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When setting up my apache, i seemed to run into a small anoying problem.
>
>http://domain.com/~username = 404 not found
>http://domain.com/~username/ = works fine
>
>without the trailing slash, it will not display.
http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#set-servername
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"I see people didn't read the smiley I didn't include."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Corel(Debian) Linux and glibc upgrade
Date: 12 Oct 2000 23:08:57 GMT
Chetan Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm comtemplating upgrading the glibc version on my Corel (Debian) linux
>because of the many packages which are giving me errors regarding the
>glibc version being too old (2.0.7 or something).
>
>I download the source and thought of doing a compile (persumably the
>safest way). Reading the README file, though has scared me straight as
>it warns about how dangerous it is to try to upgrade glibc libraries.
>Has anyone of you safely and without much hassle done such a thing and
>if so, (a) could you share you experience (b) recall any things to be
>careful about ?
If you're at all unsure about it, don't. If you break the C libraries,
you're going to need rescue disks to work your way back, and it won't be
fun. Besides, you'd have to hack the packaging system anyway to get it
to recognize the packaging updates, and even then you can expect to run
into bugs that have already been fixed in the proper libc6 packages.
You'd essentially have to make sure everything was built exactly the way
the Debian maintainer did it.
I think I'd probably upgrade to Debian 2.2 (potato) instead. I assume
that's possible from Corel.
>[Alternative: text/html]
Probably best not to do that here ...
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Why would you make a better DPL than Wichert?
(Wichert, I'm particularly interested in your answer to this)"
- Anthony Towns, debian-vote
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Curious problem: Netscape, Postfix, SuSE 7.0
Date: 12 Oct 2000 23:11:40 GMT
Jan Wielemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hanspeter Schmid wrote:
>>I have just replaced sendmail by postfix in my SuSE 7.0 installation.
>>Since then, Netscape hangs itself up when there is no internet
>>connection (i.e., no ethernet or ppp), even when it only tries to access
>>loaclhost. When I dial up, Netscape wakes up immediately after wvdial
>>says "Connected..."
>
>I can only say that I've got the same problem now and then. It may indead
>be related to periods without connection. I'm running sendmail, so it is
>not exclusiverly related to postfix. It started after upgrading from
>SuSE 6.4.
This sort of thing is often related to trying to do DNS lookups - does
running a local caching nameserver help?
It might also be interesting to see an strace of the netscape process as
it's about to hang.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
If I had mayonnaise I'd be dangerous.
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From: Chuck Lidderdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.network,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Help - NetWave Wireless pcmcia card
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:18:13 GMT
I have a laptop running RH7.0. I'm trying to get a NetWave Wireless
pcmcia
card to work - /etc/pcmcia/config... knows about the card. Any one out
there
have it working or know how to make it work?
Thanks
Chuck
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Reply-To: "Alexander Lindhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Alexander Lindhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Problem
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 01:11:10 +0100
Folgendes Problem:
Ich habe gestern auf meinem Rechner das Java Runtime Environment
installiert. Beim Starten des Java-Interpreters erhalte ich folgende
Meldung:
[Alexander@linux bin]# java -version
/usr/Java/jre1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error in loading shared
libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
Woran kann das liegen? Woher kriege ich diese Library? Auf meinem Rechner
gibt es die jedenfalls nicht.
Der Name legt ja nah, da� es sich um etwas aus dem libstdc++-Paket von GNU
handelt. Das habe ich jedoch daraufhin zusammen mit gcc neu compiliert
(Version 2.90.8, gcc Version 2.95.2). Die Bibliothek gibt es immer noch
nicht auf meinem Rechner.
Was mich ein wenig wundert: Auf meinem Rechner gibt es �berhaupt keine neue
libstdc++*.so.* (nur alte von der urspr�nglichen Installation), sondern eine
neue Datei namens libstdc++.a.2.10.0 - ist das auch eine "Shared" lib?
Ich habe mal in die Dateilisten einiger RPMs auf der RedHat-Homepage und des
Webserver an meinem Arbeitsplatz gesehen. Da kommt die gesuchte Datei aus
libstdc++-2.90.....(usw.).rpm. Deswegen wundert es mich umso mehr, da� diese
Datei auch nach dem Kompilieren bei mir nicht auftaucht.
Um f�r ein wenig Hintergrund zu sorgen, hier ein paar Systemdaten:
Mandrake Linux 5.2
i586, 133 MHz
glibc 2.1.3
gcc 2.95.2
binutils 2.10
Ich w�re sehr dankbar, wenn mir vielleicht jemand sagen k�nnte, warum ich
die Lib nicht habe und wie und wo ich sie bekomme. Dabei liegt die Betonung
auf "Warum"; ich w�rde gern verstehen, warum es die Datei bei mir nicht
gibt. Das "Bekommen" ist - vorl�ufig - nicht so wichtig, weil ich bereits
eine gut funktionierende Java-Umgebung habe.
F�r Eure M�hen im Vorraus vielen Dank
Alexander
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.multimedia,comp.os.os2.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: soundcard drivers for biostar?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:27:08 GMT
In <8s5d2c$8o8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/12/00
at 10:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>In article <39e62720$1$qnivfs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> This mainboard has an on-board sound chip, something I usually
>> avoid. I can't get it to make a sound in OS/2 or in Linux.
>>
>> Anyone got it working?
>Maybe. Perhaps if you would be so kind as to tell us all *whih*
>Biostar motherboard you have we could assist you... :)
Ahem, sorry. (I'm a bit fatigued and also harried by some
expensive on-line charges.)
It's an M7VKB.
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cant connect to internet
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:32:31 -0400
patrick wrote:
>
> hi there,
>
> im trying to connect to the internet using debian and wvdial.
>
> i have established a nameserver configuration file, and created
> a link from the serial port connected to the modem to /dev/modem.
>
> my reference then suggests the following two commands
>
> 1. type in - route del default
> output - SIOCDELRT: No such process
>
> 2. type in - wvdial
> output - cannot open /dev/modem: Input/output error
>
> anyone with any suggestions?
>
> patrick
Have you used setserial to assign your modem to a device file, set I/O
and IRQ, etc?
do you know if you have a winmodem or not? If you do, look into isapnp
and pnpdump.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Mladen Gavrilovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Really dumb question!!!
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:38:47 GMT
You can't just burn the image files onto CDs... that would be like burning
a zip file onto a CD. You have to open them in whatever program came
with your burner (something like "Create CD from Disc Image..." in Adaptec
Easy CD Creator, although you may be running different burning softare)
and burn the actual files onto the CD. You should end up with a CD that
looks very similar to the "current" directory at ftp.redhat.com or one of
its
mirrors.
Regards,
Mladen
P. U. Psilanimous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Yes, this is a probably stupid question.
> I've downloaded the ISO images for RedHat 7.0 along with the boot.img
> file. I've run rawrite and made an installation boot disc which works
> fine. Of course, Ive burned the ISO files on 2 CD's but they are not
> recognized as a valid file.
> What do I need to do to the ISO image files to make them workable.
>
> Thanks
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Reply-To: "Alexander Lindhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Alexander Lindhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Problem
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 02:06:09 +0100
Sorry, I got messed up with between German and English newsgroups and didn't
even notice I was posting in German. So let me give you the English
translation now:
I have the following problem:
Yesterday I installed Sun Microsystem's Java Runtime Environment 1.3 on my
Linux box. When starting the java executable, this is what I get:
[Alexander@linux bin]# java -version
/usr/Java/jre1.3/bin/i386/native_threads/java: error in loading shared
libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory
What is the reason for this? Where can I get the missing library? It is
definetely not on my computer.
Judging by the name, I'd guess that lib is part of the GNU libstdc++
package. However, I've just compiled and installed that package (version
2.90.8) together with gcc (version 2.95.2) on my box. That lib is still
nowhere to be found.
Something amazes me a little bit: Even though I just compiled version
2.90.8, there is no new libstc++-*so* on my machine - just the old ones.
However I got a new lib by the name of libstdc++.a.2.10.0 - is that a
"shared" library, too?
I've scanned the file lists of some RedHat rpm packges on RH's home page.
I've also gone through the rpm database on my employer's web server. That
library is part of the libstdc++-2.90.*rpm package. Which makes me wonder
even more why I don't have it.
Lemme give you some background on my machine:
Mandrake Linux 5.2
i586, 133 MHz
glibc 2.1.3
gcc 2.95.2
binutils 2.10
Kernel 2.2.16
I'd appreciate it very much if anybody could turn me towards "enlightenment"
here. I just don't get it. I'd be very happy if someone could explain the
whole thing to me so I can understand it. Understanding the whole thing is
very important. Getting that library is not that important yet, since I
already got a working Java environment.
Thanks in advance
Alex
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Root, permission denied, Samba?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:18:53 -0500
Terry wrote:
>
> I am a newbie, just installed red hat 6.2, modem O.K.
> network can ping nt workstation both ways O.K.
> Playing with samba now, when at the prompt I type:
>
> /etc/services I get Permission denied
> /etc/inetd.conf I get Permission denied
> /etc/smb.conk I get Permission denied
>
> I am in root, how could I setup samba? Need help can't get out of Permission
> denied.
> This is a new install and I only used linuxconf for the network part.
> I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, including installing red hat
> again.
>
> Thanks
> Terry
Typing /etc/services will give the permissions error because it is not
an executable file.
If you are wanting to look at it use "cat /etc/services".
If you want to change it use "vi /etc/services".
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: console screen resolution
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:37:17 -0600
Hi,
How do I switch my console resolution to 50 lines? I tried:
resizecons -lines50 and resizecons -lines 50
neither one works.
Mike
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From: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Path??
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 00:44:00 GMT
Hi,
I'm trying to set up vnc on my linux box and whenever I try to launch
./vncserver I get the error message: Xvnc not found in path I know how to
find and set the path in windows but I'm at a loss as how to do it in linux.
Anyone care to enlighten a linux newkid on how to do this?
Thanks,
Jason
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From: "Nicholas A. Corona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: please help me AHHHHHH!!!!
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:00:25 -0500
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The problem may lie in these two areas: The instructions may not be understood
by rutledge, and that Linux will only run after install by booting off of the
bootdisc created during Linux install.
NC
Mark Tranchant wrote:
> rutledge wrote in message ...
> >I am tring to install linux redhat 6.1 on a 486 100 with win 95-win95 on
> >first harddrive 1.8gig and linux on second drive 3.5gig .I dont want to
> >loose my win95 installation. I would like to leave the first drive as it is
> >if poss. this is a cd install using a boot disk
>
> ...and what is your problem? Red Hat 6.1 is quite capable of doing this -
> just don't select Server Install. Read the instructions!
>
> Mark.
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: A new directory hierarchy standard - need opinions
Date: 13 Oct 2000 01:05:33 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Equinox
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The include files for glibc would go in the location where the glibc
> source would reside if it were present. If the glibc source were to
Which is in my book misleading. I don't _have_ the source for glibc
installed, why do I have part of it's source tree laying around? Like
I said, the /usr/src tree contains what's needed to build packages,
you should not be dependent on it to _use_ those packages after they're
built.
> The includes would need to be accessible from a common location, of
> course, for the benefit of the compiler. This is why God gave us
> symlinks. Of course, the result would be similar to /usr/include/ ,
> but it doesn't need to be directly beneath /usr/ . Perhaps this could
> reside in the lib/ directories, as lib/include/ .
All you're doing is adding an entry to the directory path, and not
changing a thing. And what about include files that have no libraries,
all the package contains is header files? Having them under a libraries
directory is again misleading, because there aren't any libraries.
> The main point here is that the hierarchies immediately beneath / ,
> /usr/ , and /usr/local/ should be as similar as possible. Exceptions
> will occur, of course; but avoidable departures should be, well,
> avoided.
They already are similar: /include|/usr/include|/usr/local/include,
/lib|/usr/lib|/usr/local/lib and so on. I've found the convention
eminently sensible: header files go under include, libraries go under
lib, sources if any go in per-package directories under src, and the
three roots are / ( things needed during the boot/startup process ),
/usr ( most system-supplied or package-managed stuff ) and /usr/local
( for locally-supplied or non-package-managed things ).
> Exactly my point. The "front-end" binaries of a package in opt/ would
> be symlinked into the existing bin/ directory appropriate to its role
> in the system. A separate opt/bin/ would be unnecessary.
That's one I haven't seen. All the /opt systems I've run into use
directories of the form /opt/{package}/..., often including bin, lib
and include directories for the package. I've never run into one with
/opt/bin on it's own. Then again, I don't work with Sun much which may
explain that.
> 1) /opt/ would be for large, complex packages that were required by
> the system (not too many of these, if any at all -- hence my earlier
> language suggesting that perhaps /opt/ shouldn't exist). This also
> raises the question, would "opt" be a fitting name for this directory?
> 2) /usr/opt/ would be for large, complex, non-vital packages that were
> provided by the maintainers of the distribution.
> 3) /usr/local/opt/ would house large, complex packages added by the
> local sysadmin.
Immediate thought: /opt/ would be an oxymoron, as any system that depended
on something that complex during startup would be incredibly fragile and
prone to collapsing at inconvenient times. /usr/opt/ might be as well,
as stuff that uses /opt now tends to be not under package management or
provided as part of the system anyway ( again, modulo I think Sun ).
> True. Most of X's problems lie in the scrambled internal structure of
> the package. But it still needs to be located in something like an
> opt/ directory. It just seems like having the X11R6 directory
> directly under /usr/ is messy.
May be, but it makes sense since X11R6 is usually provided as part of
the system, not as an optional outside package added later. It almost
has to be if you think about it, and it is not usually neccesary for
startup, so /usr/X11R6 is a sensible location to put it.
--
If it's a hobby for me and a job for you, why are you doing such a shoddy
job of it?
-- Linus Torvalds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: Help! recover system
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 01:04:57 GMT
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:45:18 -0500 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `C. Shen' said:
>I was browsing the web by netscape. suddenly, my harddisk became very busy
>and then it's dead(no any sound but the light was on, and any key was no
>responding). I have to shutdown the power and restart.
>Then the system recovered the file system, but finially it told me I have to
>use root password to enter to repair the filesystem, or press Crtl+D to
>reboot. If I choose reboot everything will be like the first time. If I
>choose entering as a root. I cann't delete any file, it always show the
>information:"cannot unlink 'XXXX.XXX':Read-Only file system".
>What can I do. :-(
>I don't want reinstall the system.
>
>thank you for any suggestion.
What you need to do, is log in as root and immediately run the command:
"fsck /dev/your-boot-partition-name" (ex: fsck /dev/hda1) When fsck is
complete, type exit, and Linux will re-boot on it's own.
To prevent this from happening again when using Netscape, disable Java, and
use it only when absolutely necessary. X11 + Netscape + Java = BAD!
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