Re: Unsupportable FUD

2003-05-27 Thread Fargusson.Alan
While SCO did not put anything about GPL or OSS in the suit, they have been making comments that Linux, and perhaps GNU software, has SCO IP in it. I am hoping that they do implicate GPL during the trial so that this issue can be resolved in a more definitive way. I think the worst possible

Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I shot my self in the footagain. I'm bringing up Suse 8 with the default installion. The manuals kept referring to installing with a minimum of 256 MB or 560 MBs. But now that I had a system up, I started bring down the size to see how small it can be and still run. In all cases, I was

Re: Setting up CUPS for Samba on 390

2003-05-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 07:48:45PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003, Marist EDU wrote: Thanks to all who responded. On my original problem I stated I was having problems installing the glib-config and pkg-config sources on SLES7. Once I RTFM for the 10th time I figured

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Fargusson.Alan
I think you can fix this with rm /usr/man/cat1/rpm.1, although I don't have a Linux system to look at right now, and I may have the pathname wrong. -Original Message- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Man

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Jeremy Warren
Perhaps: -u?? From man --help: usage: man [-c|-f|-k|-w|-tZT device] [-adlhu7V] [-Mpath] [-Ppager] [-Slist] [-msystem] [-pstring] [-Llocale] [-eextension] [section] page ... -a, --all find all matching manual pages. -d, --debug emit debugging

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
You might find the (partially) cached version in /var/cache/man/cat1/rpm.1.gz

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Not there. The other mans that have been done are there. But not the corrupted one. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/27 2:03 PM You might find the (partially) cached version in /var/cache/man/cat1/rpm.1.gz

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
-u didn't work. Gave a whole bunch of messages. But when I used the -u option on a manual that was good, I got the same messages. BTW, I had to write some code to do this, but is there a native way to do, in effect a dir rpm.* /s ? When I use the -R option with LS, it doesn't seem to like the

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Post, Mark K
strace man might give you a hint as to where it is having problems, and with which file. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Man formatting problem Not there. The other mans

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
Try the find command. -Original Message- BTW, I had to write some code to do this, but is there a native way to do, in effect a dir rpm.* /s ?

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Post, Mark K
find . -name rpm.* Mark Post -Original Message- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Man formatting problem -u didn't work. Gave a whole bunch of messages. But when I used the -u option on a manual that

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread McKown, John
find / -name rpm.* Or, if you have locate running, try: locate 'rpm.*' -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Applications Solutions Team +1.817.255.3225 This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and

Re: Unsupportable FUD

2003-05-27 Thread Ryan Ware
-Original Message- From: Fargusson.Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unsupportable FUD While SCO did not put anything about GPL or OSS in the suit, they have = been making comments that Linux, and perhaps GNU software,

LinuxPlanet: Big Machines, Big Linux

2003-05-27 Thread Ferguson, Neale
See: http://linuxtoday.com/high_performance/2003052701626NWHESV; The joke used to be that IBM's mainframes were the useless dinosaurs of computing. None of IBM's rivals are laughing now. With Linux gaining popularity on IBM's zSeries, the mainframe is making a strong comeback. This really isn't

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Duerbusch
There we go! Using find / -name 'rpm.*', I found the file in /var/cache/man/cat8/rpm.8.gz which I copied and deleted the origional, just in case. I then tried the 'man rpm' command again, and it worked and repopulated the directory with a file that is 8,922 bytes in size instead of 20 bytes in

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 28 May 2003 03:39, you wrote: find / -name rpm.* Or, if you have locate running, try: locate 'rpm.*' No. locate '*rpm.*' Maybe better: locate '*/rpm.*' This is not a regex, and the dot is a character to be found. With locate, if you use an asterisk wherever there are characters you

Re: kernel / buffer tunning SuSE vs RHL

2003-05-27 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 27 May 2003 22:11, you wrote: The RH 7.1 kernel is at 2.4.7, and the SuSE 8 kernel is at 2.4.19 -- radical changes in Linux VMM have been made between the two versions. The reasons the RH 7.1 sysctl values won't change is that their underlying /proc filesystem objects are set with 0440

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Post, Mark K
Actually, none of those additional characters are necessary. Simply issuing this command: locate rpm will find all files and directories that have those three characters in that order in their name. Depending on which version of locate/slocate you're running, the search will even be case

Re: Setting up CUPS for Samba on 390

2003-05-27 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 28 May 2003 02:09, you wrote: John, you mentioned that gs might not be a good fit for 390, can you please elaborate on that? Ghostscript requires lots of CPU power to interpret postscript which, after all, is an interpreted language. But since we're talking about postscript

Re: Man formatting problem

2003-05-27 Thread Jim Sibley
How about cd (to the base directory you're insterested in) find . -print | grep rpm | less the find (dot) -print will show everthing in the tree and grep will trim it for you. And it give all the approximate matches, too. Regards, Jim Linux S/390-zSeries Support, SEEL, IBM Silicon Valley Labs

DIAG vs. ECKD question

2003-05-27 Thread Marcy Cortes
OK, I'm setting up our Sles 8 for cloning and am reading the performance Redbook about DIAG vs. ECKD. It's pretty clear that DIAG is a good thing for swap. How about for regular disks? It doesn't seem like there is a clear answer in the redbook. Any real world experience? As an aside, if you