On 16 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
No, but you'd better use FreeBSD for such a task. While Linux may be
nicer for a personal workstation, as a serious server FreeBSD offers
more performance and stability.
This is no longer true. Hasn't been true for two years. Both FreeBSD and
Linux are
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Chuck Carson wrote:
Linux can out perform NT maybe, but Solaris? That is like
comparing a GEO Metro to a Mercedes Benz IMHO.
It's more like comparing a Camaro to a Mercedes. One of them might be
nice and comfy, but the other is just as fast and soups up a lot easier.
On 17 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote:
We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have
only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very efficient.
It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that Solaris requires 128MB to do
anything useful, it runs very nicely in 64MB, maybe 32MB if
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Peter Chen wrote:
I can't find a qmail SRPM or RPM package. Moreover, since I don't have much
There isn't any. The qmail author permits free use of the program, but
won't allow redistribution of it. So you have to get it from him. (Well,
now he allows redistribution,
On Tue, 19 May 1998, David Miller wrote:
I want to have Win95 be the default option at boot time so my wife and
At the top of lilo.conf put default=dos.
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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Rick L. Mantooth wrote:
Opinions?
I'd suggest running fsck on your drive. But a corrupt filesystem by
itself shouldn't cause a kernel panic.
Do you have both hard drives installed at the same time on the same IDE
channel? Try moving one of them to its own IDE channel
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Eugen Constantinescu wrote:
Now, I cannot use the su because I get a error message : "Cannot set
groups: Operation not permited".
Su needs to have permissions 4755.
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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Matt Housh wrote:
Not a specific redhat question, but here goes. Can some people
recommend to me a good ISDN modem/router for Linux that's relatively
affordable? Even an internal modem would be ok, although I prefer
Get the same brand that your ISP uses. The
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote:
Is there a way to know at what speed is stablished a ppp connection?
This will depend on your modem. Some modems will report the actual
connect speed in their connect string, you can do with this as you wish.
Some will do so, but only if you
On Thu, 21 May 1998, DGM wrote:
biggerusr
Stands for "user". In the olden days, the user home directories lived in
this directory. "bin" was just another user so the files belonging to
"bin" (which meant binary) were in /usr/bin. Now /usr has a different
purpose (in the Linux world,
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Fred Whipple wrote:
I'm trying to work my way through the Java-CGI HOWTO, but have run into
Although I can't imagine why you'd want to write CGI scripts in Java other
than the "coolness factor," I think I can point out your problem.
# test.class is in the same directory
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Neely Kountze wrote:
I am trying to find our about the function of portmap, and cannot find
Portmap is used so that programs on one system can connect to a single
well-known port (belonging to the portmapper) on another system and ask
the portmapper where it can find other
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Thomas Hubbell wrote:
I'm looking for a good, inexpensive, Linux-compatible Ethernet card.
ISA/10Mb is fine. Any suggestions?
Get one of the $20 or $30 NE2000 clones. I use the Genius GE2000 cards,
which work fine without any tweaking to the driver. Some NE2000 cards
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Anand P. Kale wrote:
Does anyone has the idea if ORACLE is available on Linux ?
It isn't. But there is a sizable number of people at Oracle who think it
should be ported. Tell them you want it and it might do some good.
I don't know whether the SCO version
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Joe Nestlerode wrote:
"Vendor A" has an FIC VA503+ motherboard, w/ an AMD K6 300MHz MMX
processor, VIA Apollo VP3 chipset and 1 Mb on-board cache for $259.
This is a much better chipset than the Intel 430TX. The TX (the T stands
for "Terrible") has SDRAM support, USB
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote:
I talk about how FTP typically sets the HIGH THROUGPUT TOS, and others
(like Telnet) set the LOW DELAY TOS. And I mention that modern routers
handled packets in the queue based on the TOS flags, and that I suspect
that Linux can even do that.
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Bench wrote:
Can anyone tell me why I can't get the 265041 blocks I have allocated for
my swap space. 'cat /proc/meminfo' shows this:
Linux imposes a 128MB limit per-swapfile. You can use multiple swap
partitions and/or swapfiles, however, to work around this problem.
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote:
priority than the HTTP packets, however, this depends on both the routers
handling the TOS field correctly (which Ciscos do, I believe) and the PPP
server doing likewise, and I am not convinced that the Linux based ones do
that, but Cisco 5260s may
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Steve Ki-Won Lee wrote:
they have various "linux" downloads, such as linux-2.1.99.tar.gz and so
forth, but not explicit "kernel" downloads. And yet when I look through
Redhat's ftp site, it doesn't contain any "linux" downloads, but only
have "kernel-*" rpm downloads
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Gary Nielson wrote:
me clarify some of what I think I am hearing. Basically, I have an older
Dell PC, 1993 vintage, that is not compliant. My understanding from my
Why do you think your PC is not compliant? As far as I know all PC-type
computers are compliant, within the
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suddenly linsniffer showed up on my machine. What is it?
It's a hacker breakin, probably. :)
linsniffer typically is used to record the passwords of people flying by
on the network.
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On Wed, 3 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I have to have the second card for the other Network, don't I? Or,
is there a way to route all the traffic for the new network through
the old network?? I have 2 different routers going, one for each
Yes, there is, but it matters whether
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
One option that has occurred to us is to use celeron chips rather than
PII's.
That's an interesting idea, and admittedly not one I thought much about.
I think you'd be better off with 4 PPros than 2 sticks of celery.
We can buy a much faster celeron
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Wim Raets wrote:
The solution:
If I could somehow make my PC wait 'a few seconds, but not to long'
before responding to the server, the throughput would drop. Because the
server has to wait for the confirmation before sending the next packet.
This is probably a bad
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Guin, Jay wrote:
I used fdisk to partition my only harddrive. Thereafter I proceeded to
I'm going to make some assumptions that are not made clear by your email.
1) You already had Windows 95 installed on your single hard drive
2) You installed Linux on your single hard
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Randy Carpenter wrote:
Thought I would share our record uptime:
One of the things that I always wonder about these enormous uptimes in the
modern era is how they contend with the variety of networking bugs that
have been discovered in the modern era. Such an old system
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Blair Craft wrote:
As I understand identd, it allows someone from a remote computer to find out
who owns processes running on my computer. I am curious to know if this has
recently been used to gather information that would be useful to someone
trying to exploit a
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Iztok Polanic wrote:
Why doesn't work this:
e2fsck -yt /dev/hdx
e2fsck won't run on a mounted filesystem, you would have to unmount the
filesystem first. Well, it'll run, but I don't think it will do it
non-interactively. It will raise quite a fuss.
Why are you
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
though zombies are already dead, I would like to kill the ones haunting my
computer.
You can't, unfortunately. Whenever their parent process exits, they will
be cleaned up by the system. Don't worry about it, though. They don't
take up any
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote:
Microsoft Outlook Express, and most other email programs that allow HTML
formatting, put the plain-ASCII text in the main body, and attach the
HTML-formatted version as a MIME attachment.
That's not true. They put the plain-ASCII text in another
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Steve Frampton wrote:
The various BSD' have a 'wheel group' with users allowed to
'su' into root, is there such a scheme for Linux (RH5.1) ?
There is no such wheel group by default in Red Hat. The wheel group
exists but doesn't have this effect for su. But you can
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Scott wrote:
what this means. My isp recommended that I first upgrade to kernel
2.0.34 and see what that does. Any clues would be helpfull.
They gave you a good recommendation. Upgrade to 2.0.34. This is a bug in
2.0.33 and lower.
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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Scott wrote:
difference between the two? Are thier reasons to use on over the other?
Mostly the primary decision is which one your card is supported by.
XFree86 is a better product. It has fewer bugs and is more efficient.
But MetroX supports some cards that XFree
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Leston Buell wrote:
actually have a section on monitors, but i want to know if the general
lack of compatibility with Plug 'n Play applies to monitors as well. ¿Do
No. Plug 'n' Play with respect to monitors is a marketing gimmick. It
effectively means that it is a
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Tony Wells wrote:
For the client workstation ease of use and penetration of
application software is the driver. Win9x and NT are the clear
Right. We all agree that there is less application software for Linux
than for Windows, there is no doubt about that, and that the
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, James Michael Keller wrote:
Innd is loading at boot ok, I don't have an active list yet, and I'm not
sure how to get that down from the ISP.
Ask them for it. :)
I don't want to carry the entire feed, ( ie 80% of the damn feeds are
the *.binary.* groups. ) Just a few
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, David E. Fox wrote:
One thing in particular I noticed early on - especially on DOS, is that
the rand() function isn't good enough for certain applications, for
Well, what do you expect, working libraries on DOS? :) The random number
generator under Linux is reasonably
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy!
I was just wondering... can the netmasks of two
different computer be the same network?
I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, but in general the answer is
yes, it is possible for different computers on the same ethernet to have
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Jeff Ivany wrote:
This talk about 386's has got me wondering... Has anyone ever tried to
use a bunch of 386's as a small distributed computing system? I know
Well, uhm, I do use a 386 in my network, but not as a distributed
computing system. :) I use mine for a DNS and
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Steve Stuart wrote:
Is is possible to assign two ip addresses (say 44.70.161.1 and
192.168.28.1) to a single ethernet network interface card??
Yes. You must compile multiple IP support into the kernel. I don't
believe it is present in RH5's default kernel, but it might
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Hoe-Teck Wee wrote:
Can anyone tell me if it's possibly to run 1280 x 1024 non-interlaced
in 15 bpp on S3 Virge 2 M ? Sounds theoretically possible, since 1280 x
It isn't. The best you can get on a 2M card is 1152x864. Note that this
isn't much worse than 1280x1024
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
the case, prompts are and always have been a very personal thing.
I think it's the first thing in a long time that we agreed on :)
But that's good for newbies. In a multi-user environment such as an
ISP, adding "-i" to everything is *very*
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
Don't get stuck in an "us versus them" mentality. Just because Microsoft
does something doesn't mean Microsoft's doing it wrong. If people
I'm not. I don't have any religious dislike for Microsoft. I like their
context sensitive help, for
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Marco Iannacone wrote:
Stampede people say that their distribution (fully compiled with pgcc)
runs 10 to 30% faster that the other...
I'm surprised it runs at all. pgcc simply doesn't work very well. It
introduces lots of subtle bugs into complex programs. I would
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Steve Hamlin wrote:
If the BIOS supports having 3 hard disks and a CDROM, does RH5 also
allow it?
Actually it doesn't matter whether the BIOS supports it or not. Linux
does not use the BIOS. It only matters whether you disk controller
hardware can manage the feat.
I
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally I would not use Linux to do NAT and packet filtering. Most
Linux does have a big whopping advantage in two cases: 1) You want to
route between ethernet segments, 2) You want to run a proxy on the
same host, and 3) You have
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Chris Frost wrote:
Also, the 2.1.x development kernels have *significantly* faster
networking, so 2.2.x will be much faster than 2.0.x (obviously I guess ;-)
I did not mention that I am using the 2.1 kernel to do this. But how much
faster is the networking going to get?
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
NB. Just a note to clear up any questions about what I'm trying to
do. We currently have an NT/95/Novell network with an NT box as the
web/mail server. We require a firewall to protect our site (don't
It is actually considered the better way to
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, SC Altex Impex SRL wrote:
RH5.0, gcc 2.7.2.3.
Trying to compile a program that compiled well with gcc 2.7.2.1.
errer: undefined symbol crypt.
glibc moves the crypt() out of libc and into its own library. Add -lcrypt
to your linker flags.
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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
I will attempt in a near future to put up a "case study and
implementation proposal" for the migration of a number of old unix
machines here in our dept to modern Unix variants.
Good plan. :)
1) Is it possible to make RH Linux-4.2.ppc work on an
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Fred W. Noltie Jr. wrote:
'The greatest danger facing freeware today is software patents. When
This isn't exactly true. You can't simply declare a patent. There are a
number of issues that really prevent this from being a problem.
the open software model on technical
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Pankaj Kumar R wrote:
i know that one can choose from Messg queue, Shared mem, Semaphore opn,
(std ipc) or create unix domain socket or a socket stream.
Well, obviously which one you need depends on what you are going to do
with it. My personal preference is domain
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Kevin W. Reed wrote:
What exactly is "lots of evil stuff"
It is definitely evil stuff and not the usual mysterious looking but
harmless things that shells tend to collect. In this case it is smurfing
attacks. There's also another "mystery process" running which I
On 30 Apr 1998, James Youngman wrote:
wtw tcpd was replaced with a trojan one.
Ouch.
That's an easy problem to fix. The RPM database is what I'm concerned
about, since it contains the MD5 information in the first place. Does
anyone know a way to compare the MD5 of an installed package
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Drachen wrote:
I know zilch about PnP as you can probably tell. What does it take for
Linux to work with that stuff?
in my experience, taking it out of PnP mode and hand configuring it. You
can't do this with all cards, though..
The isapnptools (on sunsite, I
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Richard Potter wrote:
Is there anyway available to restrict access to services, based on the
clients MAC address, rather than their ip?
No, because the MAC address isn't part of TCP/IP. All that is required of
a TCP/IP connection is that it have an IP number and that's as
On Sun, 3 May 1998, David E. Fox wrote:
If you want to specifically tell the system to run your process only
when not doing anything else, then use 'nice -19' rather than 'nice'.
Unfortunately, you have the numbers backward. Negative numbers have a
HIGHER priority than regular processes.
On Sun, 3 May 1998, macker wrote:
i'm having a problem with /usr/bin/who .. it keeps failing. i've seen
...
who: Memory exhausted
who does this when your wtmp/utmp files get too large. The best solution
is to use w, which is a little more robust, or clean out your utmp/wtmp
files
On Fri, 29 May 1998, Joe Harrington wrote:
Unfortunately, neither the CERT advisory nor Red Hat's Errata site
stated in clear language a layman can understand that this bug was an
external root security hole, and many therefore did not consider it
very serious. There are lots of internal
On Sat, 30 May 1998, Peter Lavender wrote:
I idea here is to use the 325 meg IDE drive to boot up linux, after
that with the OS up and running, will linux see and use the 1.6 gig
HDD??
Yes. In fact if Linux is the only OS on your system, you don't even need
the 325MB drive at all, just
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Chris Newbill wrote:
Hopefully people will actually read this since no one seems to be
Here's a tip: more people will read your messages if you make them
legible. A message consisting of a MIME attachment with HTML in it is
useful if you're using Netscape, but the vast
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Ian Paton wrote:
I am a small ISP and a requirement has come up which requires me to
redirect all mail addressed to a certain domain name to a particular user.
In order to do this you have to rebuild your sendmail.cf to add support
for the "virtual user table". I could
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, RHS Linux User wrote:
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and will be interested in their reply. If they are
not interested in it perhaps others will take on the challenge and
create this new distribution.
You need to look at independence.dunadan.com and www.seul.org.
These focus on
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, robert collins wrote:
Hello; well, Ping
finds the localhost
giving an ICMP output:
Traceroute finds it with
all the outputs: But, nslookup
can't find the hostname and
nslookup doesn't use the /etc/hosts file (or the nsswitch file itself).
It simply talks to the name
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
On a Linux system it doesn't really matter so long as you have enough
:-).
That's really true. I have one system with 48M of ram and 48M of swap and
another system with 128M of ram and 20M of swap. It's always best to have
a LITTLE bit of swap - a
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Craig Kattner wrote:
After restarting linux this evening, during bootup it complained about
"/dev/hda2: Deleted inodo 14989 has zero dtime" for about ten different
This is usually caused by not shutting down properly. You must not shut
off linux by simply turning off the
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which leads to my question, what really does happen with Linux when you
use up all the memory, RAM + swap? What is the worst that has happened
to anyone? EMWTK.
Typically some of your applications will segfault. Linux itself will not
crash under
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Benji Spencer wrote:
partitions on /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb1 300 meg (full) /var/spool/news
/dev/hdb2 300 meg (unused)
/dev/hdb3 100 meg (unused)
/dev/hdb4 200 meg (used) /usr
/dev/hdb5 200 meg (used) /var
can I join hdb1, hdb2, and hdb3, creating a 700 meg partition,
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
All systems with local users that do not have the root password should
have these fixes applied. The fixes are available for Red Hat Linux
If my understanding is correct, the 'initscripts' packages only run during
bootup... right? (unlike the
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Damond Walker wrote:
In short, yes, it should all work. I put Linux on an old '386sx with 16
megs of ram and a 200 meg drive. It worked...well sorta...if you could
I have it on a 25MHz AMD 386 and it runs very nicely. RH5, and the system
has 8M of ram and a 500M
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Jeff Hansen wrote:
some buffer to gain a root shell. This exploit is either in inetd or
identd (I am thinking it is in inetd, because identd is run as
'nobody'). If anyone would like to check out inetd for any holes,
I'm surprised that it would be in inetd, since inetd
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
Make the refresh rate anything but 60 hertz, and the flicker should go
away. THe tradeoff is the actual speed of the display will be slower.
Try xvidtune, or Xconfigurator, and hopefully you can fine-tune it.
I have to disagree here. Flicker can be
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Michael P. Plezbert wrote:
I don't really know if a 386 can keep up with a 28.8 modem or not, but I
It can, barely. I use a 386DX/25 to (among other things) connect to
another system via a null modem cable. It occasionally loses characters
at 57.6Kbps, this is with a
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Robert Hart wrote:
Whats RH's offical stance on kernel upgrades? Are we supposed to stick with
2.0.32 until they release an upgrade to 2.0.33? Or is RH Hurricane only
Red Hat only issues kernel upgrades when these are required to fix
serious bugs or security
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, George Toft wrote:
If a modem were a hard drive, that would be correct. But it's not.
In the dark ages from whence I came, the serial card could buffer 16
bytes and a hard drive 256 bytes. Even with these numbers in a
single-tasking DOS, I saw the above performance
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Fred Whipple wrote:
I'm wondering if anyone has any opinions on the stability of using
Communicator as an IMAP4 client and the IMAP4 server that comes with RHL
Communicator's IMAP support just isn't very good. No matter what server
you use, Communicator will foul things
Does anyone know if the SU bug they have been discussing on Bugtraq
affects Red Hat 4.2/5? I don't think it does (I already checked SU for at
least one hole) but can anyone confirm it?
Also, does anyone have any further information on that supposed identd
hole that cropped up about a week ago?
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, CyberMan wrote:
What type of cable should I use for a network of 2 computers,
considering that the distance between them is 100 meters max. I don't need
There are a number of factors to take into consideration here.
First, 100 meters is the maximum rated distance
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Fred Whipple wrote:
Does this imply that the IMAP server with RHL5 is relatively good?
It's as good as anybody else's. Considering that IMAP stands for 'Interim
Message Application Protocol' or some such, IMAP implementations are a
little bit different everywhere. I
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
I haven't heard of any RAD tools for Linux, this doesn't strike me as
the Unix way. If you want to use other people's functions, you know how
to do that, or your own. RAD tools are for people that want to program
without programming.
Aha, it is
I got this message, but I don't think it's really intended for me. :)
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:39:42 -0600
From: Paul F Almquist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Network
On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 08:25:30PM -0500
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, George Toft wrote:
This is an honest query from someone who does not
understand how the real world works. In my job, the OS
You're being sarcastic... right?
If our computers don't work right, our first step is
reboot Win95 (clients) or NT (server), wherever the
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote:
Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I
trusted.
Never, ever, ever, ever, share root access with anyone under any
circumstances. Too many roots spoil the broth. It is far too simple to
They inadvertantly changed alot
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jeremy Domingue wrote:
Anyone know where I can get an RPM for whois? I know it's probably part
of a larger package, but I can't seem to find it anywhere!
Look at the 'fwhois' package. It comes with all versions of Red Hat.
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
Is there a reason why /var/spool/mail permissions are not 01777?
Because they don't need to be. The 775 permissions allow users to read
and write their own mail and for members of the 'mail' group to do the
same. Making the permissions 1777 will
On 26 Mar 1998, James Youngman wrote:
The trouble with this is that it places a strong relationship between
successive passwords. This means that the breaking of one password
can be fatal; the knowledge of one password allows you to break the
What's even worse, the bad guy has only to
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, James Hartley wrote:
This version was a Linux binary. I have used it for awhile , and
noticed that is quite a memory hog.
Communicator is that way. :)
I also appears to have memory leaks because as I run the Top utiility
Probably. Fortunately, Linux is very resistant
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
I have mixed feelings here. The first thing I
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
Most users will want to have activity on com1/3 (com2/4) at the same
time,...
They will? Why? In my experience, users typically have *at most* two
Most of them won't. I have two or three serial devices on many of my
systems, but in most
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
You know, that's a very good question!! Unices, Unixen, Unixes,
capitalized variants, anything else...I've never been able to figure out
which is appropriate.
Traditionally, 'Unices' is correct. According to grammar rules, 'Unixes'
would probably
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Aaron Walker wrote:
key." It says this with all floppies I try. But it works on the 166.
...
reboots. I put the CD in my 166 and it boots fine.
...
works fine in the 166.
Obviously, you have a hardware problem in your 233! Are you overclocking
it? Do you have
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Drachen wrote:
yes, but if you run a machine with high memory req's that you don't reboot
often (like a server) it's a good idea, because otherwise the machine
can't defragment its memory, which affects performance, etcetc
This isn't true. Only Macintoshes have to worry
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Mat Serwas wrote:
The rest of this is directed toward group #2:
Oh good, that's me. :)
I think we should change the name of the list to redhat.advocacy and gate
it to USEnet. :)
I read the comp news groups alot and can say there is as much traffic
relating to
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
I'm wondering if grammer rules apply though. I'm afraid that the answer
is lost in antiquity. Perhaps we could ask Kernighan?
From what I hear he's pretty hard to understand. ;)
You contradict yourself: UNIX, all caps, acronym. But doesn't
On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Paola Sala wrote:
patches installed. I have just noticed that every time I update the
glibc packages, some disk space (a few Mbytes) gets lost, despite
Did you reboot after installing the packages? Ordinarily this isn't
necessary (and it doesn't affect functionality),
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote:
Got a problem I hope someone can help with, problem follows:
Couple of problems with this zone file.
Jun 21 23:58:21 router named[8365]: named.forward:1: expected a number
Indicative of having your parenthesis at the end of the first line
pointing
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
INIT: version 2.71 booting
INIT: No inittab file found
You're dead. If this install is new and contains no important data, you
should probably reinstall. If you have something you want to save, or are
feeling adventurous, you might try booting
Does Red Hat ever plan on fixing the login program so that . is no longer
in the path?
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On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Bug Hunter wrote:
How do I force the system to keep a daemon in main memory and not swap
You don't. The only way to do this is to turn off swap. But this will
only affect that program's data area. If the system runs out of memory
and the daemon has not been used
On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Ben wrote:
Recently my friend and I set up a linux box for him and put it on
the net 24/7. Now he has given some accounts to some not very trust
worthy people.
Welcome to the club. :)
have done password shawdowing, but that is about it. I would apreciate
any and
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