Linux-Setup Digest #879, Volume #20 Wed, 21 Mar 01 07:13:12 EST
Contents:
Best E-mail Client? (Steve Withers)
php probs (Jonathan Snyder)
Problem With a canon lbp-4i ("Dragster")
Re: php probs (Brian Lee)
Re: cannot start mysqld (Brian Lee)
linux wLAN problem (a.afrika)
Re: compile error with 2.4.2 ("Dave Thompson")
3COM 3C905C-TX under Debian 2.2r2 (Paul Nulsen)
Re: Internet Sharing (Ingeborg)
Re: php probs (Jonathan Snyder)
Re: QRPFF Source Code (Glitch)
Problem with lan card ("Andrzej Szczepanik")
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Christian Garms)
Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream> (Steve Bradley)
Re: Scrolling with Microsoft IntelliEye Mouse ("Ron Nicholls")
Re: /dev/null is read-only ? (Clive Small)
tarball ("Ron Nicholls")
Re: GUI Xconfigurator? ("Ron Nicholls")
Re: configure sound ("Ron Nicholls")
Re: Best E-mail Client? ("SacredSalt")
Re: Shut off & power down? (Joe Durusau)
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:47:11 +1200
Folks....
I have been using Netscape for mail on Linux for a long time because it
supports HTML and Javascript and graphics.
But it has also lost some of my mail...and the address book doesn't work
worth squat. I can put entries in there, but the TO: line never finds my
nicknames...so I have to manually enter the addresses anyway (v4.76).
I also have PINE set up....and the default mailer with RH 7.0....but
they all lack HTML, javascript and graphics.
Is there a good mail client? I use Lotus Notes for my work e-mail via
VMWare in a Windows 98 VM. I would prefer to use a Linux mail program
for my personal, non-work mail.
Opera doesn't have a mailer or I'd try that.........the browser is very
good...though it doesn't support plugins or most other essential
stuff....so Netscape is still No 1.
Help! This is bugging me.
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Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
"First, they ignore you. Then they
laugh at you. Then they fight you.
Then you win." Mahatma Ghandi
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From: Jonathan Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: php probs
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 04:51:55 -0500
I have just done a fresh install of Redhat 7 and made sure I put in the
following modules:
php
php-imap
mod_php
php_mysql
mysql
mysql-server
My question is that when I try to browse a file called test.php3
containg just : <?php phpinfo(); ?>
I get the text instead of server output. What do I need to change in my
httpd.conf file to tell the server to execute files with php
extensions. I tried randomly adding: AddHandler php-script .php .php3
.php4 .phtml to my httpd.conf file, but to no avail. I also made
sure that all lines pertinent to php in my httpd.conf file were
uncommented.
thanks,
jon
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From: "Dragster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem With a canon lbp-4i
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:00:33 +0100
Hi
I have got a problem with my printer!
When I send a printjob to my printer, it start's printing (that seems to be
normal), but it does not print what I told it, I just get some weird code
and I continues to print page by page, until I unplug it.
I have tried to connect the printer to my WIN ME machine, and it works like
a dream, so nothing's wrong with my printer.
I'm using CUPS on a Mandrake 7.2
And my printer is a: Canon LBP-4I
Could someone please help me?
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From: Brian Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: php probs
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:14:00 GMT
Jonathan Snyder wrote:
>
> I have just done a fresh install of Redhat 7 and made sure I put in the
> following modules:
>
> php
> php-imap
> mod_php
> php_mysql
> mysql
> mysql-server
>
> My question is that when I try to browse a file called test.php3
> containg just : <?php phpinfo(); ?>
> I get the text instead of server output. What do I need to change in my
> httpd.conf file to tell the server to execute files with php
> extensions. I tried randomly adding: AddHandler php-script .php .php3
> .php4 .phtml to my httpd.conf file, but to no avail. I also made
> sure that all lines pertinent to php in my httpd.conf file were
> uncommented.
>
> thanks,
> jon
Check out follow in conf/httpd.conf file.
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3
And do not forget to restart apache deamon.
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From: Brian Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cannot start mysqld
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:16:15 GMT
"Jon J. Morin" wrote:
>
> Hi everyone. I am having a problem starting the mysql daemon. I am using
> SuSE 7.1. I use the startup script as follows and get the following
> message:
>
> linux: /usr/bin # safe_mysqld --user=mysql &
> [1] 7000
> linux: /usr/bin # starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
> 100320 15:31:10 mysqld ended
> [1]+ Done safe_mysqld --user=mysql
> linux: /usr/bin #
>
> This looks to me that the server starts and stops immediately. Can anyone
> help me with this?
>
> Jon J. Morin
The reason MySQL server down can be very various and I recommened you
to check error log file as var/%{YOUR_HOSTNAME}.err.
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Brian Lee - http://www.senux.com/
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: linux wLAN problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (a.afrika)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:23:43 GMT
hi!
computer is compaq desktop2000 133mhz.
os. RedHat 6.2 zoot, ISA-to-PCMCIA adapter with Lucent Wlan IEEE card.
i have installed latest wlan drivers and pcmcia package.
problem: card appear to be configured right, when I restart pcmcia card
gives two high beebs, but if i look up ifconfig, it don�t regonize cards
MAC address. I have tried to almost evrything, but nothing seems to solve
this problem. my network configurations is on website:
http://aus.50megs.com/problem.html , could you check it out if you find
what is wrong in my configurations. thanks.
A_A
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Reply-To: "Dave Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Dave Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compile error with 2.4.2
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:30:38 GMT
thanks, I'll do some more digging. I too am running Caldera 2.3 -- I tried
every processor downgrade that made sense -- the machine is actually a
dual-processor celeron 500.
Interesting thing is that it compiled fine and ran but I discovered that I
had not turned on 'scsi generic' in the config required to operate the scsi
CD burner on the machine -- once that was turned on, the compile error
showed up.
hmmmm
Dave
"C. L. Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dave Thompson wrote:
> >
> > I'm getting a compile error with 2.4.2 that looks like the following,
> > compiling i387.o if I understand it correctly:
> >
> > error: no such 386 instruction: 'ldmxcsr'
> > make[1]: *** [i387.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: etc etc.
> >
> > any ideas ??
> >
> > Dave
>
> On my Pentium 233 MMX, attempting to compile under Caldera 2.3 even with
> all the upgrades recommended for the 2.4.2 Kernel, when I try to compile
> for that particular processor. I get the same error. If I remember, I
> tried compiling for a lesser or lower processor and dead ended at the
> same point. The 2.4.0 kernel compiled and ran fine on it. I tried the
> same thing on this machine, with COL, which is an AMD K6-2/550 3D and
> came up with the same problem trying to compile for that particular
> processor. I decided it was something with the compiler on the COL 2.3
> since that is the only thing I could figure out that might be affecting
> it which I hadn't changed. Modutils, sysutils, binutils etc. had all
> been upgraded in accordance with the documentation with the 2.4.2
> kernel. I didn't take it any farther on either machine, but 2.4.2 builds
> and works fine on either with my RH 6.1 system.
>
> Other than that I haven't a clue. I don't have a COL system up at
> present to check the compiler versions and it didn't make all that much
> difference to me at the time.
>
> I'd venture egcs and gcc versions would be the place to start looking.
>
> Charlie
>
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Subject: 3COM 3C905C-TX under Debian 2.2r2
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Nulsen)
Date: 21 Mar 2001 16:47:05 +1100
I've just installed Debian 2.2 on a PC with a 3COM 3C905C-TX PCI Ethernet
card. The kernel appears to detect the card properly. The relevant
messages are (hand copied):
eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xc000, (MAC address), IRQ 11
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
MII transceiver found at address 1, status 24.
MII transceiver found at address 2, status 24.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
The IRQ and base address agree with /proc/pci.
We are on a simple 10BaseT network, with a single default gateway.
The interface seems to be configured correctly (ifconfig reports the correct
parameters; /etc/network/interfaces has the right params, including gateway
IP), but ifconfig reports 0 RX packets permanently. I've tried forcing the
media type (and full_duplex in various combinations) using insmod (and the
media forcing is reported by the driver). It may be transmitting, but I
have no easy way to tell. It reports no timeouts or other errors.
All this is using the default kernel and modules (2.2.18pre21).
Does anybody have any ideas? Maybe I have done something stupid.
Thanks
Paul Nulsen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ingeborg)
Subject: Re: Internet Sharing
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:36:49 GMT
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:12:56 -0500, "<toor>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have a Windows98 machine and a Linux machine. My Windows machine is
>connected to the net, and I want my Linux machine to get on it. How would I
>do this?
>
maybe this page will help you:
http://home.ubalt.edu/abento/linux/troubleshooting/network-manual-sygate.html
Greetings Ingeborg
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From: Jonathan Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: php probs
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 05:48:12 -0500
Yes, this what I already had uncommented in my httpd.conf file:
# The following is for PHP4 (conficts with PHP/FI, below):
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .phtml .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>
# The following is for PHP3:
<IfModule mod_php3.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php3-source .phps
</IfModule>
# The following is for PHP/FI (PHP2):
<IfModule mod_php.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml
</IfModule>
However I still get text to come up instead of having the script run.
Brian Lee wrote:
> Jonathan Snyder wrote:
> >
> > I have just done a fresh install of Redhat 7 and made sure I put in the
> > following modules:
> >
> > php
> > php-imap
> > mod_php
> > php_mysql
> > mysql
> > mysql-server
> >
> > My question is that when I try to browse a file called test.php3
> > containg just : <?php phpinfo(); ?>
> > I get the text instead of server output. What do I need to change in my
> > httpd.conf file to tell the server to execute files with php
> > extensions. I tried randomly adding: AddHandler php-script .php .php3
> > .php4 .phtml to my httpd.conf file, but to no avail. I also made
> > sure that all lines pertinent to php in my httpd.conf file were
> > uncommented.
> >
> > thanks,
> > jon
>
> Check out follow in conf/httpd.conf file.
>
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3
>
> And do not forget to restart apache deamon.
>
> --
> Brian Lee - http://www.senux.com/
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> the reply address.
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 05:54:58 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: QRPFF Source Code
Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:20:27 +1300,
> Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Apparently the PERL program below can decrypt DVDs a la DeCSS.
>>
>> Anyone tried it?
>
>
> It works, but you will need to authenticate to the DVD drive and get
> its title key before being able to access the scrambled sectors of the
> DVD and decrypt them. Tools like 'css-auth' will do the job.
>
> Sam.
well i got the keycodes (i think that's what their called) by using
css-auth and like i siad in my first response to this topic I can get
the Perl script to run but b/c i don't have anything that handles the
output I cant watch a movie.
qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILE_NAME | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2_dec
what programs do i use for the 'extract_mpeg2' and 'mpeg2_dec' sections?
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From: "Andrzej Szczepanik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with lan card
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:00:26 +0100
Hi everybody
I have problem with instalation of my network lan card. It is called Genius
GE2000II. I don't know how to make it works. I have redhat distribution and
there is driver ne2000 (my card is consistent with it) but it doesn't work.
Please, help me to find appropriate driver (in .rpm form). Kernel has been
changed and compiled.
Mail me on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
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From: Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: 21 Mar 2001 11:56:30 +0100
Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I also have PINE set up....and the default mailer with RH 7.0....but
> they all lack HTML, javascript and graphics.
Why do you need this stuff? Do you want to catch the latest trojans?
Use PDF-Documents instead. ps2pdf is a very good tool for that.
> Is there a good mail client? I use Lotus Notes for my work e-mail via
> VMWare in a Windows 98 VM. I would prefer to use a Linux mail program
> for my personal, non-work mail.
Try StarOffice 5.2. It can handle HTML-Mails, though I didn't check the
JavaScript-capabilities.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Steve Withers
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Registered Linux user #24688
> http://counter.li.org
>
> "First, they ignore you. Then they
> laugh at you. Then they fight you.
> Then you win." Mahatma Ghandi
Please cut your ~/.signature to 4 lines length!
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regards,
Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Steve Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:06:39 GMT
Ok,
I have a GeForce card in my box, and it's running great. What driver are
you selecting for it when you do the installation? What version of X is
Mandrake installing?
If you've tried the basic Nvidia drivers (GeForce DDR and GeForce 256) and
they don't work, you might need to install some generic SVGA driver, get the
system up, then d/l the latest Nvidia drivers from their site - along with
the most recent version of 'X', if you dont have it (X is up to 4.0.3).
There has been some complaints about the nvidia drivers, but they're working
great for me, and should support and GeForce based card.
HTH,
Steve
Laura Goodwin wrote:
> for a much better card, the Jaton GeForce MX, and under Windows this
> card is a dream. It solved a lot of instability problems I was having
> with the old card.
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Steve Bradley
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scrolling with Microsoft IntelliEye Mouse
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:16:46 +1100
I think it only works in the scroll bar not the window
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Regards
RonN
sandrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ab646ae$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <JMkt6.6749$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have experience of the above mouse which is a light emitting
> > device but works via the PS2 input.
> >
> > It works ok in Windoze of course, but I cannot get it to scroll in Linux
> >
> > I am using Mandrake 7.2 and have tried the "imwheel" program. I have
> > changed the XF86Config file as per the instructions for imwheel for a
> > PS2 mouse. The instructions are to comment out # Emulate 3 buttons
> > # Emulate3Timeout 50
> > and to add the line ZAxisMapping 4 5
> >
> > Is this correct for this mouse? Any suggestions as to what I could try?
> > Are there any other programs which would enable scrolling
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Jim
>
>
> You need to run imwheel also.
>
> If you are running gnome then add imwheel to the startup applications and
> you should be fine.
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From: Clive Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: /dev/null is read-only ?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:11:19 +1100
Christopher H wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> My RedHat's 7.0 /dev/null is having some problems I think ;P
>
> When I rebooted my computer RedHat wouldn't boot any further because it was
> complaining (sp ?) that /dev/null was a read-only filesystem. It would then
> prompt me for root's password for repairing.
>
> I did a ls -l /dev/null and I got:
>
> -rw-------
>
> I tried chmod'ing but it wouldn't work saying that it was read-only. I tried
> making a copy from my other linux machine to a floppy and overwriting it,
> wouldn't work either. I did a fsck /dev/hda1 but it didn't work. It
> complained that /dev/null was read-only then would continue it's work.
>
> Is there anything I can do besides formatting ?
>
> Thanks
my dev/null
looks like this
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 7 19:56 /dev/null
note this is not a regular file so try deleting yours and
making a new one using
mknod
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tarball
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:19:41 +1100
An attempt to extract a tar file result in the error message
" Cannot change ownership uid 500, gid 100"
NB according to passwd my id's are 500:100.
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Regards
RonN
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GUI Xconfigurator?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:22:35 +1100
I am not sure you can run it from X- it configure your
video conf which could be a disaster while the gui is running.
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RonN
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "David T. Wilson" wrote:
>
> > I am looking for the command to start a GUI X configurator. I am using
> > redhat 7, Xfree86 4.x, and the gnome desktop.
>
> What's wrong with "Xconfigurator?" It's an ncurses based
> configuration utility that should already be on your RH system.
>
> --
>
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Ron Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configure sound
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:30:27 +1100
sndconfig as root
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RonN
Patrick F. Clarin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:998ish$1fhv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What is the command to configure sound?
>
>
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From: "SacredSalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 05:50:11 +0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Christian Garms"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I also have PINE set up....and the default mailer with RH 7.0....but
>> they all lack HTML, javascript and graphics.
>
> Why do you need this stuff? Do you want to catch the latest trojans?
>
> Use PDF-Documents instead. ps2pdf is a very good tool for that.
>
>> Is there a good mail client? I use Lotus Notes for my work e-mail via
>> VMWare in a Windows 98 VM. I would prefer to use a Linux mail program
>> for my personal, non-work mail.
>
> Try StarOffice 5.2. It can handle HTML-Mails, though I didn't check the
> JavaScript-capabilities.
>
>>
One word of warning concerning Star Office.....!!!!
The installer blows bat chunks... Download the binary file - switch to
root - enable all the permissions - and then install by the user account
you will be using it from...Else you'll find out the hard way that it
isn't a very friendly installer...
Tim
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From: Joe Durusau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux,alt.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Shut off & power down?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 06:40:05 -0800
In 6.2 on an IBM thinkpad shutdown -h shuts power down. Suggest that
the original poster look at the shutdown script. Setting state to 5
will
shut the sytem down if the system supports it and the init prog knows
how
to do it on the system in question. Remember the security hole. With
the system
shut down, anyone can become root without alerting anyone else
if they have physical access to the system.
Speaking only for myself,
Joe Durusau
Elizabeth wrote:
>
> Bruce Pennypacker wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm in the process of testing a new server for my company that is based on
> > an Intel L440GX+ motherboard. It came installed with Windows 2000, and when
> > we tell Windows to shut down it would power down the server. When I
> > installed RedHat Linux 6.2 & the 2.4.1 kernel and tried to use either
> > /sbin/poweroff or /sbin/shutdown -p it would shut down linux but it never
> > powers down the server. I've gone through all the BIOS settings I can think
> > of and ensured that APM is compiled into the kernel. What am I missing?
> > What do I need to do to get linux to power the machine down on shutdown? We
> > need this because we have a few dozen linux systems in our server room and
> > need to have them power down automatically in the event of a power failure
> > so our UPS can keep critical systems up as long as possible.
> >
> > Two people I work with who run linux at home say they had no problem getting
> > linux to power their machines down and can't think of why it's not working
> > for our company servers...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Bruce
>
> Actually, in my exper. shutdown -h doesn't turn to computer
> hardware off, it just shuts the os down. I don't know what
> shutdown -p does. Shutdown -h moves the system to run
> level 1 not 0 (according to Lin. in a Nut. 2nd ed. O'Reilly pg.544),
> and I definately do not suggest shutting the system down in
> this fashion. Also, in RedHat it comes pre-configured to
> call shutdown when you hit ctrl-alt-del...(hehe made the mistake
> the other day of hit ctrl-alt-del instead of ctrl-alt-F1...I chuckle..
> I was pissed then though....I chuckle now.)
> Like I said though, I haven't seen a Lin. sys that actually turns
> the hardware off (but I haven't seen them all and there probably
> is some out there that does it, etc.), shutdown -h will save all
> docs, etc...so you're safe there.
>
> Elizabeth
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