Linux-Misc Digest #225
Linux-Misc Digest #225, Volume #26Sat, 4 Nov 00 03:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: free internet for Linux? ("Database")
free internet for linux in the US. ("Database")
OT - no wars pls, but a good read (An Metet)
Re: Secure mail under Red Hat 6.2 (J Sloan)
cd burning ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: libc versions? (Mark Post)
Re: LINUX utility to change IRQ on 3C509 ("Default User")
Re: perl - need help with a regexp (Aaron Dancygier)
Re: console screensaver ("Michael Faurot")
Re: Linux Routing ("Les Mikesell")
Re: decent synaptics driver? ("Dada")
Mounting HDD's (Nick)
RPM installation (David Richard Larochelle)
How to install XF86_SVGA? ("gina")
Re: samba and etc/printcap? (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
From: "Database" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: free internet for Linux?
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 04:20:23 GMT
I live in the US
database
"Database" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:pLEM5.128852$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Is there any providers that have free internet access for Linux?
Database
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From: "Database" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: free internet for linux in the US.
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 04:27:40 GMT
I was wondering if there were any providers for free internet for linux in
the US.
database
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:12:19 -0500
From: An Metet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Subject: OT - no wars pls, but a good read
Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
http://www.workingforchange.com/news/column_dsp.cfm?ItemId=8542
by Molly Ivins
Damned if I know why he's running
Dubya is a nice fellow, sure, but he's a bantamweight who's never been
interested in governing WASHINGTON -- As they used to say, long ago and far away,
there it is.
Tuesday night's debate gave us the real Al Gore and the real George W. Bush.
Gore won -- he may even have killed -- but he's still annoying. One can only
conclude that that smarmy, pietistic streak of his is absolutely authentic;
that's exactly who he really is.
He's sharp as a razor, knows his onions (does anyone else outside of
Congress know what "Dingell-Norwood" is?) and will probably be a good
president. Bush not only amply demonstrated his vast ignorance but also was
so profoundly misleading on his supposed role in the Texas Patients' Bill of
Rights that I have to conclude he knowingly lied.
It's possible to not know or be confused about a lot of things, but Bush
cannot possibly believe what he said: "As a matter of fact, I brought
Republicans and Democrats together to do just that in the state of Texas, to
get a patients' bill of rights through." He was there, I was there, and
that's flat untrue. He reviewed the details of the bill accurately, so it
was clear that he had recently prepped on the subject.
To add insult to injury, Bush went on to claim: "But we did something else
that was interesting. We're one of the first (actually, the first) states
that said you can sue an HMO for denying you proper coverage."
What is called the Patients' Bill of Rights was actually a package of bills,
only one of which was ever controversial. That's the bill Bush hated so much
that he refused to sign it. He had to be talked out of vetoing it because
the veto wouldn't stand.
Texas Rep. Hugo Berlanga, who was chairman of the Public Health Committee at
the time, and Kim Ross, lobbyist for the Texas Medical Association, both
fought him on it.
In 1995, his first year as governor, the Texas Legislature passed a
Patients' Bill of Rights, and George W. Bush vetoed it. In 1997, the
Legislature passed very much the same Patients' Bill of Rights, this time by
a veto-proof majority, and Bush refused to sign the crucial segment of the
bill, the very one he bragged about -- that in Texas you can sue an HMO for
denying you coverage.
He refused to sign it because he hates trial lawyers and didn't want them to
be able to sue HMOs. That's what that whole fight was about for two
sessions.
The person who deserves the credit that Bush so egregiously took for
bringing R's and D's together in support of a strong bill is a Republican
state senator, David Sibley of Waco. Bush was an impediment throughout the
entire process.
No one expects Bush to know the difference between Chernomyrdin and
Berezovsky, but the one subject that he IS supposed to know about is the
state of Texas. In the course of these debates, he has claimed that the
governor of Texas appoints state Supreme Court justices, which is a hopeless
howler. He dwelled with great relish on the claim that all three killers in
the most notorious murder case of our time got the death penalty. Only two
of them did. And Bush in fact did nothing to stop a hate crimes bill, which
was the
Linux-Misc Digest #225
Linux-Misc Digest #225, Volume #25 Mon, 24 Jul 00 10:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: removing LILO BOOT?? (RAPH)
C compiler cant create executables (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: How do I remove eth0 in shutdown command? (-ljl-)
Re: Netscape 4.72 (128-bit) and 4.73 keeps crashing!!?? (DaveH)
Re: disk geometry swifty (chs)
Freeciv Fans? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Alan Beagley)
Re: mandrake 7.0 staroffice(newbie) ("Gerald Pollack")
Weird Redhat System Time problem (David Brodmann)
Re: kernel 2.4 and modules ("Mr. Ape")
i810 and Redhat 6.2 ("Mariusz Grabowski")
Re: Configure error x... (Ted Kegebein)
Re: C compiler cant create executables (Dances With Crows)
Re: How to create a CD-writer device under RedHat 6.1 (Dances With Crows)
Re: non-English letters in xterm (Nicolas LS)
Linux ISP (future) (Trevor Brown)
Job Opening at University of Notre Dame (Steven M. Boker)
Job Opening at University of Notre Dame (Steven M. Boker)
Re: Linux dialing up to a NT server (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Recommended RAID... (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Netscape Mail Server (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Recommended RAID... (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated (LFessen106)
Re: Weird Redhat System Time problem (LFessen106)
Burn Nero5 images under linux ?? (Timo Kolwe)
Re: Load Balancing (Raymond Doetjes)
Where is IPOP3D? (Paul)
Re: Netscape 4.72 (128-bit) and 4.73 keeps crashing!!?? (Gary Carlson)
UPS with serial port (David Steuber)
From: RAPH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: removing LILO BOOT??
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:30:03 GMT
Dimitri,
Thank you so much for your help it was exactly what i was looking for as i
now run linux on its individual box...thanx heaps
Raph..
Dmitri V wrote:
I guess you use Windows only; if however Linux is the sole OS on the
box, you need LILO anyway. If the former is correct, then issue the
following command from within Windows:
fdisk /mbr
This will remove LILO and make it boot WIndows by default.
HTH
Dmitri
RAPH wrote:
HI,
Curious to know how to remove the LILO boot, after it is no longer
required??
I am no longer dual booting my machine and need to remove the LILO as
it
always comes up at the begining of the boot sequence!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: C compiler cant create executables
Date: 24 Jul 2000 12:23:52 GMT
WHat can I (re)install so that this error won't appear again? RIght now
I'm forced to use binary installs all the time.
If I do reinstall, will I break something in the process, is there
something I have to watch out for?
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jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: -ljl- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How do I remove eth0 in shutdown command?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 12:27:16 GMT
In article 8ld85a$ra5$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got eth0 hanging problem while reboot or shutdown both dhcpcd and
pump. I use a SMP Linux box.
My idea is to kill the eth0 driver process manually and shutdown the
system.
Well, even though I kill the pump process and 'ifconfig' only show local
IP address 127.0.0.0, the shutdown involve eth0 one of the list of
killing processes.
...
Don't you have a rc-file that starts, reloads, or stops networking.
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Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:38:01 +1000
From: DaveH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.72 (128-bit) and 4.73 keeps crashing!!??
Patrick Lam wrote:
Hi all:
I have Caldera OL 2.3 with kernel 2.2.16. The Netscape that came with
it 4.61 ran pretty stable on this machine. However, as soon as I
upgrade to 4.72 (128-bit version), Netscape starts crashing every once a
while, with no noticeable pattern (the reason seems to be random).
I then tried to upgrade to 4.73 (58-bit), the same thing keeps happening
(in fact, it happens at least 3 times today that prompts me asking this
question here).
Have anyone seen this behavior with Netscape before? Anything that I
might have missed when I recompiled the kernel?
Thanks very much in advance.
Patrick.
I think from memory that Caldera advise you to go back to 4.72 if you're
having problems with 4.73 :-)
Your experiences seem to parallel mine - 4.61 was stable, upgrading to
4.72 and then 4.73 and going back to 4.72 caused intermittent crashes
for no apparent reason. Netscape on linux has a reputation as being
crap - I believe it, however I persist with it :-)
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Linux-Misc Digest #225
Linux-Misc Digest #225, Volume #24 Fri, 21 Apr 00 15:13:05 EDT
Contents:
modules.dep is older than modules.conf (root)
Soundcards (Penpal International)
USR modem setup ("Mike Long")
Lynx ftp never works (Ken Williams)
SV: snoop command for Linux? ("Tele2 usenet")
Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition innovation (Roger Blake)
Re: RPM failed dependencies ...(?) (aflinsch)
Re: Changing screen resolution on Redhat-SPARC? (Grant Edwards)
Re: modules.dep is older than modules.conf (Dances With Crows)
linux redhat 6.2 (mike)
Re: Linux is Hard to Use: part 3 (Peter T. Breuer)
How to add Home folder to the gnome panel? (John Ledesma)
Re: help with tar (Otavio Exel)
Re: Can't boot Linux from hard disk ("Charles Sullivan")
filesystem error (Alexis Bilodeau)
From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: modules.dep is older than modules.conf
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 18:00:44 GMT
Ok I'm an extream nubbie. I get "/lib/modules/2.2.14/modules.dep is
older than modules.conf.
This has happened after alot of changes when I was trying to install a
3c509b NIC.
I would like to just be pointed to the right info. I don't mind the
rtfm, I just don't know which one to read. Please help.
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From: Penpal International [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Soundcards
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:08:18 +0200
Currently I have 1 soundcard. But it's using 2 interrupts. This first
one is: OPL3-SA3 Snd System (5) and the second: MPU-401 UART (7). I
realy don't need the second. I want to free that interrupt so I can
place an extra sound card into my system. I'm using OSS. But it won't
allow me to disable the MPU-401.
can anyone say me if it's possible anyway. If yes, how?
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Penpal International
http://ppi.searchy.net/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Mike Long" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USR modem setup
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 11:05:03 -0700
I have Redhat 6.2 installed.
I have a US Robotics 56K Faxmodem. (Model 5687)
Admittedly, I'm a newbie, but I can't make it work.
Where can I find step by step instructions to configure it?
Thanks,
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams)
Subject: Lynx ftp never works
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 18:08:40 GMT
Can anyone tell me why going to ftp sites with Lynx barely ever works? It
just sits there after "Making connection with whereever", then I try it
normally with normal ftp and it goes fine. Happens all the time on all kinds
of different servers.
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From: "Tele2 usenet" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SV: snoop command for Linux?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 20:14:16 +0200
If you mean to snoop on another users tty then ttysnoop is available.
/Kim
Svein Tjonndal [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Does Linux have an equivalent of Solaris' snoop command?
Thanks,
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Svein Tjonndal
Educational Consultant, Advanced Technical Program
Business Objects University
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
telephone: (33) 1 41 25 37 18
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.lang.java.advocacy
Subject: Re: How Microsoft inhibits competition innovation
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 18:17:00 GMT
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:50:55 -0400, Seán Ó Donnchadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like I said, those OSs don't have nearly as many hardware
manufacturers writing drivers for them. And those that do can afford
You're reaching here, trying to blame Windows' notorious problems
on drivers from hardware vendors.
What design issues?
There are so many deficiencies with Windows design that it's hard
to find a place to start! On a high level, one good example is the
braindead design of the registry which in its Win95 incarnation would
grow boundlessly until it wouldn't permit the OS to boot up! It's still
so damned fragile and nearly impossible to debug that now Windows 98
keeps multiple copies around and tries to heal itself if corruption
is detected. Not to mention that so many registry entries use the
short version of a file's name that, given the way long filenames are
implemented, you can't even make a reliable backup of the OS if your
backup software works through the filesystem!
Then how about a network subsystem whose design dictates that the
response to network errors is that THE ENTIRE SYSTEM HANGS INTERMINABLY.
Another issue is the endless problems with shared DLLs. EVEN DLLs
PRODUCED BY MICROSOFT ARE FREQUENTLY INCOMPATIBLE ACROSS VERSIONS AND
CAN CAUSE SEVERE SYSTEM PROBLEMS!
One of my favorite Microsoft Moments came recently while attempting to
install Publisher 98 for one of our users at work. At the same time the
background splash screen was bragging about its co
Linux-Misc Digest #225
Linux-Misc Digest #225, Volume #21 Fri, 30 Jul 99 16:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: spin down HDD (Simon Hosie)
Re: Ghost Pro (Kenny McCormack)
Re: Which flavor of Linux to use? (Elephant)
Re: Incorrect amount of memory... (Karl Brian Barnes)
Re: What I think of linux. (OrangeDino)
Re: CIA assassinations (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Superuser (Joseph_A_Philbrook__III)
Re: SB PCI 128 Config (OrangeDino)
Re: Unresolved symbols in module... (Hz back!)
Re: Scripting Question ("Jeff Grossman")
kde error (Rick Goyette)
Re: kppp setup solution! (Harri Porten)
Re: VMELinux memory mapping (Greg Leblanc)
boot on serial port (Lars Gullik Bjønnes)
Re: RAID1 Questions (Jon Bloom)
Re: ppp help needed (Dan Bizuneh)
BRU2000 PE how to exclude directories (Derek Ealy)
Re: Magic SysRq (was Re: Linux has finally crashed) ("W. Christopher Everhart")
From: Simon Hosie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: spin down HDD
Date: 31 Jul 1999 04:02:23 +1200
xander:
problem is bdflush. kick it out.
bdflush flushes every now and then.
Why is it that it does that all the time, even when there is nothing to
flush? Why doesn't it check?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack)
Subject: Re: Ghost Pro
Date: 30 Jul 1999 14:01:38 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a program for linux similar to
GhostPro (from Binary Research) - a program to duplicate
harddisks by creating a file image of one harddisk and
applying this image on to another harddisk, possibly checking
for any differences in size from the source and acting accordingly..?
JM
cat or netcat, both of which are free.
You can do it with cat to a file, copy the file, cat it back, but the
slickest way is to put the two machines on a network (easiest is with a
crossed ethernet cable) and use netcat to copy directly from one
machine to the other.
Of course, you have to be really careful what you use for the source and destination
"drives"...
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From: Elephant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Which flavor of Linux to use?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:41:54 -0700
DHobbs wrote:
Elephant wrote:
Hi there.
I'm hoping to set up a dual-boot system, NT and some flavor of
Linux/PC-unix yet to be decided. I was hoping some of you might have a
suggestion as to which variety would most likely lead to success.
Hardware:
using an Intel DK440LX motherboard, 512M, 2 SCSI i/f, 2 P2-300, 66MHz
FSB, AGP video, RAID slot (probably won't use it tho).
The proposed goal of this system is to experiment with commercial ECAD
tools as they become available on Linux, providing a more reliable,
low-cost alternative to NT as an in-house engineering environment.
Possible barriers are the stability of Linux video drivers, the bizarre
SCSI BIOS on the motherboard, and the prevailing corporate wind from
Micro$oft.
I'd like a well-supported PC-unix that takes appropriate advantage of
multiple processors and coexists peacefully in dual-boot. So far I'm
leaning towards Solaris x86 or SCO. Any thoughts?
-- Elephant
I have both Solaris 2.7 x86 and a couple versions of Linux. I use Linux
on my SMP box and used to use Solaris on a single processor machine
until I did some timing testing and found that Redhat Linux beat the
snot out of it for speed.
I heard Redhat doesn't do multiprocessor support; will try to verify if this
is the case.
If you want to find out about "which Linux" then go to www.linuxmall.com
or www.cheapbytes.com and get one of the bundle packs with all the
distributions (about $10) and load and play with each and see which one
meets YOUR needs best.
Dan
Thanks for the tip. And thanks to those who replied via e-mail (you know who
you are...:), I appreciate the feedback.
-- Elephant
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From: Karl Brian Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Incorrect amount of memory...
Date: 30 Jul 1999 18:50:31 GMT
Thanks to everyone. The mem=amount in LILO fixed the problem.
"Gert Wollny" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Karl Barnes wrote:
1) I cannot get the build to see more than 16MB of memory. I
tried rebuilding
the kernel, but that didn't help. I don't see anything in the
FAQs, Read Me's
or MAN pages about this. Suggestions and pointers to
information would be
appreciated.
Does the bios see more than 1
Linux-Misc Digest #225
Linux-Misc Digest #225, Volume #19 Sun, 28 Feb 99 05:13:10 EST Contents: PPP setup (Rocco Dimase) Re: PPP setup (Rocco Dimase) Re: More bad news for NT (Perry Pip) Re: Finding filename from inode (Frank Ranner) Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (jik-) Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (jik-) Re: What if software could think? (jik-) Re: PPP setup (Bill Unruh) Re: RH vs SuSE (Monte Milanuk) Re: KDE question (jik-) Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Tom Keats) Re: Ethernet card (Berthold Mueller) Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. soundcard problem (uday kiran) Re: need some application recommendations (David M. Cook) Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. QUESTION: How to send html or other MIME type from command line. (Ben Greear) Re: System Commander Won't Boot Linux (John Culver) Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Andreas Klemm) Re: setting the IRQ on the 3c589 (Peter Bruley) Re: Any JDK for Linux? (Christopher Walsh) From: Rocco Dimase [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PPP setup Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:29:44 +1100 Hello all, I have managed to get most of PPP to work under X Windows using Linuxconf, but I still need to go to a shell and type "route add default ppp0" before I can use Netscape Communicator or even do a ping. Surely I shoulld also be able to set this up via Linuxconf, there is something about routes in Linuxconf but they don't seem to allow Netscape Communicator to work. TIA Rocco Dimase [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To see pictures of Melbourne Australia checkout my homepage http://www.netspace.net.au/~rocky/ -- From: Rocco Dimase [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PPP setup Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:32:07 +1100 Hello all, I have managed to get most of PPP to work under X Windows using Linuxconf, but I still need to go to a shell and type "route add default ppp0" before I can use Netscape Communicator or even do a ping. Surely I shoulld also be able to set this up via Linuxconf, there is something about routes in Linuxconf but they don't seem to allow Netscape Communicator to work. BTW I am using Redhat Linux 5.2 and I also have a network card configured. Rocco Dimase [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To see pictures of Melbourne Australia checkout my homepage http://www.netspace.net.au/~rocky/ -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Pip) Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux Subject: Re: More bad news for NT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 07:40:08 GMT On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 01:57:56 -0500, Jim Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe running as root is my problem but clicking around in the Control Center of KDE often hangs my Linux system. The hard drive cranks, like KDE is in a loop, I can't do crtl-alt-del or ctrl-alt-f2 or anything. I have push my reset button. I find this disturbing. Like when MS said 32-bit programs couldn't crash other 32-bit programs or the OS, but yet they in fact could. Jim Sounds Like something is crashing your X-Server, not Linux. Perry -- From: Frank Ranner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Finding filename from inode Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:53:07 +1100 Mike Kennedy wrote: Sorry... let me re phrase... I meant within kernel space... how can I find the filename from the inode. I know it involves looking for a directory entry that contains that inode, but how can I get the directory entry when all I have is the file inode? Basically you can't. For a start, there may be several several directory entries (hard links) to the inode, or none if the file was rm'ed while a process held it open. So the only way is to brute force search directory entries looking for a match to the inode number. Regards, Frank Ranner -- From: jik- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 00:05:54 -0800 Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Louis Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course,a thousand years ago,the pound sterling(currency) originated as a troy pound of sterling silver...though the currency unit will now buy only a fraction of a troy OUNCE of sterling silver. Keep going further back :) It was a *roman* measure, and substantially all of the european units were based on it until fairly recently. franc, lira, pound . . . Wasn't Troy burned to the ground long before Rome ever existed? -- From: jik- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 23:44:52 -0800 One
