Linux-Setup Digest #239, Volume #21 Wed, 16 May 01 09:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: can anyone tell me why? (Kenneth 'Redhead' Nielsen)
Re: can anyone tell me why? (H.Bruijn)
Re: Linux, Dell and modems (M. Buchenrieder)
Vi on the command prompt in SuSe ("Ed Bras")
Re: In gvim is there any functionality like to show what all functions exist in a
file? (H.Bruijn)
ISA WANGTEK 5150EQ tape streamer - ftape (Sander van Geloven)
Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe (H.Bruijn)
Re: INIT problems when installing kernel 2.4.2 (now DEVFS config!) (Txema Torne)
Can't find Linuxconf (pd)
Newbie question on X-windows in Mandrake 8.0 (Mike)
New disk added: VFS: kernel panic. unable to mount root on 08:03 ("Hans")
Re: filename contains ":" characters in scp? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe ("Ed Bras")
Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe ("Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III")
Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe (H.Bruijn)
Re: Can't find Linuxconf ("JP")
Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe (Villy Kruse)
Re: serial port monitor (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe ("JP")
Re: can anyone tell me why? ("David Dorward")
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From: Kenneth 'Redhead' Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can anyone tell me why?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:47:38 +0200
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Ron Nicholls wrote:
> Brad Rush wrote:
> >
> > Sometimes when I start my linux system (redhat 7.0) during the
> > interactive startup it says:
> >
> > / has reached maximal mount count, check forced
it's a preset number of counts the partitions should be mounted, befor it
is assumed there might be some errors on it, so the system automaticaly
runs fsck on the partitions. It's just a way of checking if any file were
lost (check your /lost+found after) or there had been some fragmented
files.
> >
> > and also a couple of minutes after x completes loading after logging in
> > the hard drive goes crazy doing 'something' and everything else stops
> > (im guessing due to lack of resources)
> >
[snip]
This is your cron job, after a few minuts cron checks to see, if it has
done all the dueties it was supposed to do during the night
(cron.daily/weekly is default set to run at 4am) when you boot the machine
it will check if the jobs scheduled last were run.. If not then it's run
(usualy updatedb, since it's run daily)
[/snip]
> maximum count is what it says. The file systems are
> checked for errors after a set number of mounts.
>
> The number of mounts before checking can be configured
> -SOMEWHERE-, I don't where.
in /etc/fstab you can see the settings for the mountpoints, at the end of
the lines theres either a (1 1) or (1 2) or (0 0) the (0 0) meaning it
won't be checked during boot.
Kenneth
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: can anyone tell me why?
Date: 16 May 2001 09:51:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 16 May 2001 18:21:34 +1000, Ron Nicholls allegedly wrote:
> Brad Rush wrote:
>>
>> Sometimes when I start my linux system (redhat 7.0) during the
>> interactive startup it says:
>>
>> / has reached maximal mount count, check forced
>>
>> can someone tell me why this happens
>>
>> and also a couple of minutes after x completes loading after logging in
>> the hard drive goes crazy doing 'something' and everything else stops
>> (im guessing due to lack of resources)
>>
>> whats going on??
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> brad
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> maximum count is what it says. The file systems are
> checked for errors after a set number of mounts.
>
> The number of mounts before checking can be configured
> -SOMEWHERE-, I don't where.
It is set with the command /sbin/tune2fs. You can get it list of the
current settings with dumpe2fs.
>
> I suspect the hard drive activity ( I get it too) is
> probably "cron" doing its housekeeping, rotating logs and stuff.
>
> Have a look in /etc/cron.*
Most likely a cron job updating the locate database. Locate is a command
you can use to find files and directories whose names match a certain
pattern. Fi "locate .c " will find all files with .c in their names.
The advantage of using locate is that it uses an existing database, rather
then completely searching the entire system for every query. The locate
database is regenerated with the updatedb command.
Generally speaking "locate pattern" is equivalent to "find / -name
pattern".
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Linux, Dell and modems
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 06:03:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
>On Tue, 15 May 2001 22:59:09 GMT, Thomas Corriher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>On Tue, 15 May 2001 16:06:57 -0500, Jack Lewis
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> I want to buy a computer from Dell, probably refurbished.
>>> I want to run MS Windows and Linux on it. What is the
>>> best type of modem to buy? Why?
>>
>>External modems are always best.
>I'd rather forgo the extra $50 and get an internal ISA modem.
>They are rarely winmodems.
[...]
Wrong. About 90% of all modems sold out there in a preconfigured
system will be Winmodems nowadays. It is indeed _really_ hard to find
a real internal hardware modem now, as most resellers won't have them
in stock.
Besides that, internal modems are a pain in the ... - an external
one you may simply switch off/on if it hangs. An internel modem
would require a reboot of the machine to be brought back to life.
Michael
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:05:53 +0200
Reply-To: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Can someone please tell me what I need to configure in SuSe to use vi on the
command prompt ?? ( I did it in RedHat 7.0 but in SuSe it doesn't work...
:()
Eddie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: In gvim is there any functionality like to show what all functions exist
in a file?
Date: 16 May 2001 10:20:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 16 May 2001 06:21:25 +0000 (UTC), v.naga srinivas allegedly wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any functionality in gvim, to show what all functions
> exist in a file ( .c file) and the classes information (.cpp files)..
> Any helpful script....
> I am using gvim-5.7-78 and vim-5.4-15
> and SuSE 6.3..
(g)vim comes with syntax highlighting, if that's what you mean. It tries
to find the type of file (akin to the file command) and then uses a
pattern matching macro to set different colours for special strings.
An example of the result (in the console version of vim) can be seen
here: http://www.hermanbruijn.com/Docs/gui.c.html
You set the syntax as default by editing the ~/.vimrc file :
" Configuration file for (g)vim
" Vim5 comes with syntaxhighlighting. If you want to enable syntaxhightlighting
" by default uncomment the next three lines.
if has("syntax")
syntax on " Default to syntax highlightning
endif
If you think the sysntax isn't to your liking; you can add to it by
changing the file $VIM_HOME/syntax/c.vim.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: Sander van Geloven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ISA WANGTEK 5150EQ tape streamer - ftape
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:12:10 -0400
Hi,
I have a WANGTEK 5150EQ tape streamer with ISA controller card connected
to a PII with Mandrake 8.0 installed. Now I cannot approach the device
because there is no /dev/... for it or maybe I am looking at the wrong
/dev/... (I do a check with tar fb /dev/...) However the ftape modules
load OK into the kernel.
Does anyone have tips to get this thing going? The controller card has
dip switches for IRQ, DMA and ADDR, so unfortunately it isn't a Plug and
Pray thingie.
Thanks,
Sander van Geloven
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe
Date: 16 May 2001 10:33:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 16 May 2001 12:05:53 +0200, Ed Bras allegedly wrote:
> Can someone please tell me what I need to configure in SuSe to use vi on the
> command prompt ?? ( I did it in RedHat 7.0 but in SuSe it doesn't work...
>:()
Install the package vim (VI IMproved) which is generally a lot better
then old vi. Then simply do "vim file_name" and the file is opened in
vi.
But I assume your problem is a bit more difficult ;-) What's not
working? Error "Can not open display"? The reason telnet clients often
don't work properly is that they don't send any, or the wrong information
about their capabilities, resulting in a wrong TERM variable, or being
incompatible with the standard terminal emulators settings. The standard
windows telnet client was, last time I checked, absolutely useless. It
works slightly better after issueing "export TERM=vt100" after you have
logged in on your linux machine but better use something else.
PuTTY is quite good as a telnet/ssh client. You can find it on it's home
at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ or the usual windows
software depositories as fi tucows. It even supports ANSI colours,
usefull for "ls --color=auto" and syntax highlighting in vim (vi
improved).
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Txema Torne)
Subject: Re: INIT problems when installing kernel 2.4.2 (now DEVFS config!)
Date: 16 May 2001 10:31:09 GMT
Rasmus B�g Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> On 14 May 2001, Txema Torne wrote:
>
>> May 11 14:21:00 pruebas init: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled
>> for 5 minute s
>
> Seems like you have a faulty entry in your /etc/inittab. Look for a
> line, which starts with 'c2' and comment it out (put '3' in front of
> it).
>
> Boot your system with 'linux single' to get to single user mode.
>
> Rasmus
>
Seems that finally I got the problem (but not yet the solution! :(
I got this from /var/log/syslog file (I wonder why I didn't check it
before...
--BEGIN--
[..]
May 11 14:20:40 pruebas /sbin/agetty[180]: /dev/tty4: No such file or
directory
May 11 14:20:40 pruebas /sbin/agetty[181]: /dev/tty5: No such file or
directory
May 11 14:20:40 pruebas /sbin/agetty[182]: /dev/tty6: No such file or
directory
May 11 14:20:40 pruebas /sbin/agetty[183]: /dev/tty3: No such file or
directory
May 11 14:20:50 pruebas /sbin/agetty[184]: /dev/tty2: No such file or
directory
May 11 14:20:50 pruebas /sbin/agetty[185]: /dev/tty1: No such file or
directory
May 11 14:20:50 pruebas /sbin/agetty[186]: /dev/tty4: No such file or
directory
May 11 14:20:50 pruebas /sbin/agetty[187]: /dev/tty5: No such file or
directory
May 11 14:20:50 pruebas /sbin/agetty[188]: /dev/tty6: No such file or
directory
May 11 14:20:50 pruebas /sbin/agetty[189]: /dev/tty3: No such file or
directory
[..]
--END--
Seems that's something related to DEVFS support I'm using. It cannot
allocate correctly the devices for spawing the ttys for the consoles...
So the problem is DEVFS related... but one more time, any idea??
I will re-check the DEVFS documentation to check if I'm missing
something...
Best regards,
--
Txema
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Can't find Linuxconf
From: pd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 10:57:31 GMT
I just installed RH7.1 from the RedHat Workstation kit, taking a
standard "Workstation" installation. But I can't find linuxconf to fix
my W2K dual boot situation. When I installed RH from a disk in the back
of a book (which is not a full kit) linuxconf was there. liloconf is
missing too. I can't find any RPMS for it either - where should I look?
Typing the linuxconf command at root gets the message 'command not
found'.
When I edit the lilo.conf file by hand and try to buut W2K I get the
message 'NTLDR is missing' so I think I have the wrong /dev/hdan number
in there.
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie question on X-windows in Mandrake 8.0
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:36:05 +0400
I tried to install Mandrake 8.0 but when it comes to Configuring X menu,
I got this message "Preparing X-Window configuration", then an error
message that says "An error occurred, Can't use an undefined value as an
ARRAY reference". What could be the problem? I have a Toshiba notebook
with 64mb ram.
Mike
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From: "Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New disk added: VFS: kernel panic. unable to mount root on 08:03
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:56:11 +0200
Hi
(Suse 6.3)
I have a HP server with a RAID controller. The raid controller has one
logical disk (RAID5) which is /dev/sdb.
On this disk, three partitions:
sda1, which is mounted on /boot
sda2, which is swap-filesystem
sda3, which is mounted on /
Now, I added a SCSI-disk, connected to the onboard SCSI-controller. In the
hardware setup, I gave the RAID-controller the highest boot-priority, and
the onboard-controller the lowest. So, I thought, the system will boot from
the RAID-disk.
It seemed however, that the RAID-disk had become /dev/sdb, and the SCSI-disk
is /dev/sda. I changed the fstab file.
I started the rescue system off the SUSE-6.3 distro disk and the changed the
fstab file. No problem.
Now, this is what happens:
When booting, the bootsequence detects the SCSI-controller, along wiht the
one disk, and after that, it detects the RAID-controller and also the three
partitions.
Everything stops when I get a mesage:
VFS: kernel panic. unable to mount root on 08:03
When I start disk2 of the distro and then load the neseccary modules, and
then choose 'boot installed system', point to /dev/sdb3 (which is the root
partition on the RAID disk), the system does boot. The only thing what's
going wrong this way, is that the system is unable to determine its
hostname, so it calls itself (none). (As is shown in the prompt)
What can I do other than reinstall linux on the SCSI-disk
Gr, Hans
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: filename contains ":" characters in scp?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:57:39 +0200
In comp.os.linux.help Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the other hand, your physix <g> professor must make a choice:
> either teach a simplified physics course that the majority can
> understand and feel good about, or teach a tough course that only
> majors will appreciate. (In my experience about 1 in 30 students.)
It's not a question of "appreciation", but of "usefulness". There's no
point in teaching physics to people who can't understand physics, just
as there's no point in trying to teach me how to play golf (I'm not
interested, and probably wouldn't be any good at it anyway). As to
only majors? Physics dies not strike me as a subject that one can take
half-heartedly! It's like a side-plate of steak.
> The simple approach is useless to those who plan a career in physics
Yep.
> and already understand the basics. (Notice how I avoid contention
> by using physics not linux? :-) The expert approach leads to
> student frustation and complaints.
The solution is usually to split the class into talented students
and not-so-talented, and get very different people to teach them!
> The better schools have two courses, physics for majors and physics
> for non-majors. But if your institution only has one course and
Yes, just so.
> you must teach it, then you must choose which audience to teach
> for. There is no approach that will satisfy all students.
And also there is no single approach that works for one group of
students. My old prof of algebraic representation theory of groups
springs to mind .. he did everything backwards, and I loved it! He
first stated the theorem, then the lemma needed to prove that, then the
one needed to prove that, and so on, backwards. It was wonderfully easy
to follow. And all his results were about 5 lines long, so each one
was just a simple brainteaser, with no strategic planning requirement.
Most people hated it, as they didn't know which way they were going!
But I had no trouble. I much preferred that to huge proofs in which
you never knew where they were going next, and couldn't stop writing
to think about it either. With the short proofs I had time to think
about how I'd attack it as he was writing, and then compare what he'd
written with what I'd written. But I couldn't do that with proofs that
took days and days to elaborate. I couldn't imagine 20 pages of
development down there on the auditorium blackboard in one go, but 5
lines was no trouble.
> In the early days of the Internet where there were only a few
> dozen netnews groups, there were two unix groups only, "unix-wizards"
> and another (the name escapes me). The experts with no patience
> for newbie questions read and posted in the wizards group, those
> who found newbie questions interesting (or amusing) used the
> other. The system seemed to work, maybe its time for
> "comp.os.linux.experts-only"?
It doesn't work for the usual reasons. You know the story. A newsgroup
needs variety in order to survive. Even occasional rows are more
interesting than ask-the-experts round tables. And newbies-only groups
don't work for the obvious reason that it's the blind leading the
blind. A mix is required.
> Just my 2 cents, worth about $0.00000001 on the open market.
Peter
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:12:01 +0200
Reply-To: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks Herman (dank je), but that's not realy what I want.
I want to use the vi commands on the command prompt.
For example: You are typing
> "netonf.." You want to insert the c and do that by pressing the <ESC>,
followed by the vi commands you use as if you were typing the above in a
text file that you edit with vi
Understand ?
Eddie
H.Bruijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Wed, 16 May 2001 12:05:53 +0200, Ed Bras allegedly wrote:
> > Can someone please tell me what I need to configure in SuSe to use vi on
the
> > command prompt ?? ( I did it in RedHat 7.0 but in SuSe it doesn't
work...
> >:()
>
> Install the package vim (VI IMproved) which is generally a lot better
> then old vi. Then simply do "vim file_name" and the file is opened in
> vi.
> But I assume your problem is a bit more difficult ;-) What's not
> working? Error "Can not open display"? The reason telnet clients often
> don't work properly is that they don't send any, or the wrong information
> about their capabilities, resulting in a wrong TERM variable, or being
> incompatible with the standard terminal emulators settings. The standard
> windows telnet client was, last time I checked, absolutely useless. It
> works slightly better after issueing "export TERM=vt100" after you have
> logged in on your linux machine but better use something else.
> PuTTY is quite good as a telnet/ssh client. You can find it on it's home
> at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ or the usual windows
> software depositories as fi tucows. It even supports ANSI colours,
> usefull for "ls --color=auto" and syntax highlighting in vim (vi
> improved).
>
> --
> If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
> The Netherlands
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From: "Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:08:34 -0400
Reply-To: mvjap3 at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well I'm not using SuSe.
But if your talking about vi style command line editing, then all I've ever
had to do was to go to my shell initialization script such as a .profile a
.bashrc or what ever your shell uses, and add the line
set -o vi
This worked on both Slackware linux and on my SunOs login here at work. If
SuSe does something different, then I'd like to know how they do it too...
So if the answer turns out to be different, would you post it so I might
get to make a note of it...
Thanks
--- ___
<O> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
^
\___/ < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Ed Bras wrote:
> Can someone please tell me what I need to configure in SuSe to use vi on the
> command prompt ?? ( I did it in RedHat 7.0 but in SuSe it doesn't work...
> :()
>
> Eddie
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe
Date: 16 May 2001 12:41:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 16 May 2001 14:12:01 +0200, Ed Bras allegedly wrote:
> Thanks Herman (dank je), but that's not realy what I want.
> I want to use the vi commands on the command prompt.
> For example: You are typing
>> "netonf.." You want to insert the c and do that by pressing the <ESC>,
> followed by the vi commands you use as if you were typing the above in a
> text file that you edit with vi
In the zsh it's done with the line "bindkey -A viins main" in your
~/.zshrc. That makes the default a commandline which behaves like vi
in insert mode. Ctrl+[ or Esc get you in command mode where the normal
vi keybindings hold.
In bash that is done with "set keymap vi-insert" in the your bash config
file.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
The Netherlands
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From: "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't find Linuxconf
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:46:10 +0100
"pd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just installed RH7.1 from the RedHat Workstation kit, taking a
> standard "Workstation" installation. But I can't find linuxconf to fix
> my W2K dual boot situation. When I installed RH from a disk in the back
> of a book (which is not a full kit) linuxconf was there. liloconf is
> missing too. I can't find any RPMS for it either - where should I look?
> Typing the linuxconf command at root gets the message 'command not
> found'.
I can't find it either! It's possibly called something else only we just
have to guess what it is, man -k doesn't help either!
> When I edit the lilo.conf file by hand and try to buut W2K I get the
> message 'NTLDR is missing' so I think I have the wrong /dev/hdan number
> in there.
You can find out ( or have a good guess !!) by looking at the partition
table;
fdisk -l /dev/hda (or whatever)
Should show a list of partitions and their fs type. When you did the install
it should have found it for you. You may have a knackered NT partition and
may need your rescue disk for that.
Don't forget to run /sbin/lilo!
J
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe
Date: 16 May 2001 12:46:00 GMT
On Wed, 16 May 2001 08:08:34 -0400,
Joe (mvjap3) Philbrook III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Well I'm not using SuSe.
>
>But if your talking about vi style command line editing, then all I've ever
>had to do was to go to my shell initialization script such as a .profile a
>.bashrc or what ever your shell uses, and add the line
>
>set -o vi
>
>This worked on both Slackware linux and on my SunOs login here at work. If
>SuSe does something different, then I'd like to know how they do it too...
>So if the answer turns out to be different, would you post it so I might
>get to make a note of it...
>
That would be the same as putting the line "set editing-mode vi" into
the file ~/.inputrc. As a side effect you can do the same line editing
in gdb and other programs that uses the readline library. The environment
variable INPUTRC might point to a differenct file, for example /etc/inputrc.
Such a variable would disable ~/.inputrc, and for example recent RedHat
versions have that "problem".
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: serial port monitor
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:47:14 GMT
On Wed, 16 May 2001 18:31:25 +1000, Ron Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am being dropped soon after connecting
>to my isp.
>
>Is there a monitor utility I can run to
>determine who is terminating the connection,
>the isp or me.
Probably, but there's no need for a seperate monitor utility. Both
chat and pppd have 'verbose' modes to assist in debugging. Turn them
both on, and watch the debugging data. (chat for the pre-ppp
connection, pppd for the ppp and post-ppp connection)
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: "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Vi on the command prompt in SuSe
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:50:28 +0100
You may need to set VISUAL and EDITOR to vi as well.
ksh -o vi also usually does the trick.
I've got used to bash in linux now which is nice but annoying when I go back
to other platforms.
have fun..
J
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From: "David Dorward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can anyone tell me why?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:46:31 +0100
It seems that on Wed, 16 May 2001 08:32:29 +0100, someone claiming to be
"Brad Rush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed this:
> Sometimes when I start my linux system (redhat 7.0) during the
> interactive startup it says:
>
> / has reached maximal mount count, check forced
>
> can someone tell me why this happens
Every so many reboots (usually 20) the system runs the linux equilivent
of scandisk to make sure there isn't any curruption.
> and also a couple of minutes after x completes loading after logging in
> the hard drive goes crazy doing 'something' and everything else stops
> (im guessing due to lack of resources)
Probably delayed cron jobs. Run "top" to see what processes are running
during the thrash.
--
David Dorward http://www.dorward.co.uk/
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink
what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. -- Mark Twain
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