On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Gertjan Klein wrote:
> Unfortunately, the filesystem ext2 recognises neither the gid= nor the
> umask= options, and refuses to mount! I can find no similar options for
Those options are only valid for MS-DOS and other filesystems which do not
have provisions for permission
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Timothy Hospedales wrote:
> Which palm pilotswill available linux software work well with?
All of them.
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Robert Rati wrote:
> How does Linux handle bad clusters or can linux not use a hard drive with
> bad clusters? How do you get a report of the bad clusters? I was
It should detect them automatically during formatting of the drive.
However, a modern IDE or SCSI HD should neve
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:
> Can someone send me a DOS Master Boot record so a can dd it to
> /dev/hda?
No, but if you boot a DOS floppy then you can reconstitute it by running
(DOS) "fdisk /mbr". Linux fdisk will not do this. This procedure will
not alter your partitio
On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Paul Miller wrote:
> Is it possible to have Linux split up the bandwidth automatically on
> aliased IPs?
I don't know (I don't think so), but there would be no value in doing
this. You should describe your environment in more detail.
Unless you mean, I am a router for severa
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Peter Allen wrote:
> I'll try that, thanks.
> By the way, I *thought* that rather than a slot by slot basis it was
> meant to be handled by the bios, but then mine doesn't, and as it
> is an award bios at least half of all modern Pc's won't as well.
It is supposed to be handl
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote:
> This also works, and might be a little more readable(?)
>
> eval "perl -e 'printf \"%#o\", ((stat(\"$1\"))[2] & 0x1ff)'"
Uhm... I dunno if this is too easy, or what, but what's wrong with ls -l?
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> SuperProbe (in X) might be able to identify your gfx card, but
> there are no guarantees. So, I'd check with the docs that come
/proc/pci is likely to identify your video card, if it is PCI.
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Wayne Topa wrote:
> I just did an informal survey on which mailer program by those
> offenders are using.
>
> Pine8
As a long-time Pine user (check the headers) I must confess that I have
been occasionally guilty of the same offense.
The problem is that, although
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > there would be a way to make settings to provide them.
> > iphains TOS bit can do this ; i know ;
> >
> > But HOW? and whats the logic?
Don't get too excited; the delay/throughput options don't do anything
(anywhere on the Internet. It's not a Linux is
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, esoR ocsirF wrote:
> I have to learn to use a database for a CS assignment. I have the choice
> of either postgres or MySQL. My question is this, are there any reasons
> that I should pick one over the other? I would like to learn something
Postgres is "free-er" if that matte
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Bernhard Rieder wrote:
> > Postgres is "free-er" if that matters to you, but either one will give you
> > full source for free so it may not.
>
> I thing You're not right about this. You can download the Source of
> PostgreSQL at http://www.postgresql.org (or http://gd.tuwien.
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Michael Edward Christman wrote:
> I am trying to implement the memcpy_tofs/memcpy_fromfs. My question is
> how do I find the pointer to the user space. I have tried to use fopen()
> etc. but there are conflicts when I try to include "stdio.h". As this is
You can't use fope
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> Sounds like a processor overheat problem or so, I think. But it's quite
> strange that you could ping it. Isn't the processor needed for beeing
> pinged??
Yes. It is not likely a CPU problem.
It is more likely that something is wrong with your X -
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
> > modem, and masquarading for the rest of the network. I could ping it from
> a
> > win95 box, and 'see' the Internet through it. I couldn't telnet/ftp into
> it
> > though, only ping and masq.
Of course, upon further review by the replay official
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, x x wrote:
> Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to
> use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating
> system, "applications", and data). I asked recently at a fairly large
Over the long haul a tape drive is probably the c
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, George Bonser wrote:
> There is one MAJOR flaw with tar. If there is an error anywhere in the
> archive, ALL files after the error are lost. Better to use afio instead of
> tar. At most you will loose only the file where the error is.
Use the option: --ignore-failed-read.
(th
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Keith001 wrote:
> BTW, does anyone have an idea about how to use different fstab at
> bootup - by using a boot parameter for instance? The idea is to be
Not possible. /etc/fstab is read by mount, which is called by the startup
scripts.
You can, of course, modify the script
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Keith001 wrote:
> Can those scripts get some input from the keyboard at that time?
Probably. You can just use sulogin to get a quick root-shell to make any
needed tweaks. The advantage to this is that you can use vi or something
to make changes, instead of having to rely on
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Joseph Chung wrote:
> if they were using Win9x. All the pieces are in place, expect for
> those infrequent instances when my Dad forgets to shutdown before
Tell them not to turn the PC off. Best thing to do is configure it to
automatically turn off the screen and any surplus
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> I am running Debian potato on a box with 128 MB RAM. My swap file is
> 64 MB. This was the size I got recommended when partitioned the disk.
That should be plenty for 'normal' use. If you have a particularly high
intensity server you may need more.
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
> `normal' without netscape. I I'm regulary goint to about 200 MB on swap
> (with 96 MB RAM).
Netscape frequently leaks memory when combined with particular libraries.
Mine doesn't leak, but I have a late glibc 2.0.7 and Netscape 3 Gold, so
YMMV. Someti
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Then you should email the authors and tell them not to insist on
> having exact kernel headers in /usr/include/linux. It's an assumption
> which is not true on Debian GNU/Linux. They should allow you to specify
But it is true on every other Linux distr
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> What are the permissions and ownership of /tmp supposed to be? I don't
1777.
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote:
> While I'm at it, is it necessary to setup a DNS in order to give a
> server a name? I've no intention of going online with this particular
> pc.
No. DNS is only necessary if you want to go on the Internet. If you are
not on any network (or
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote:
> Sort of...
> Strictly speaking, DNS is not required for internet access. More
> accurately, an end user does not have to set up DNS on his/her machine
> to enable him/her to go onto the internet. The internet service
> providers provide one or more of t
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> doesn't work. I think that it is trying to lock the files in some
> non-NFS compatible way.
You have to run lockd if you want locking to work over NFS. Even so,
locking still doesn't work right (i.e. it still leaves open the
possibility of race conditi
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote:
> machine... I know I'd have to remount my / partition as read-only, run
> e2fsck & remount the partition as rw, but I can't seem to be able to do
> the first step (the system says / is busy)...
You have to be in single-user mode. Do 'telinit 1'
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:
> Wordperfect (evidently using flock()) works fine. An strace on kexpress,
> however, reveals that gdbm uses fcntrl! Perhaps I'll look into it and
> submit a patch at some point.
It's possble that the NFS client software in the kernel simply translates
fc
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote:
> Now I'll have to call them (listen to the hard sale) and find out if
> they have $4,000 per month in mind -- no thanks -- or something less.
> $4,000 per month just for a hook up, plus ISP fees, is way too
> expensive for what I have in mind.
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, shadow wrote:
> The 15,200 foot limit ..is that physically from the central office or
> can it be from one of the "outhouse" switching station. I've been
> wondering if those little outhouses were the digital to analog
> switching and if that would qualify. I am out in the mid
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote:
> Having got to single user mode (as root, BTW), umount the slice that
> you want to run e2fsk on before you e2fsk it. To be really safe. when
> you do the / filesystem, reboot from diskette first.
It isn't necessary to do that. If you remount it read-o
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Heh, netscape is a bit of a memory hog. After running it for a few days, I
> have seen it eating more than 60megs -- even with only one window open. I
> understand that calls to free the memory don't always make the OS actually
> reclaim it -- which make
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> PostgreSQL has more features, especially transactions; Mysql does not have
> these and is therefore faster, but less suitable for applications which
> need to guarantee informational integrity. Look at www.postgresql.org
> for more information on Post
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Jack Lee wrote:
> commands. The database I was working on is named
> "mysql", but the prompt of the interactive mode
> is also called mysql:
Be sure not to name your own databases mysql. That database is used by
mysql to store its permissions information and things.
>my
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Brian May wrote:
> I find that lots of programs (eg emacs, xemacs, xnetscape, and from memory
> xfig) open up windows that a too big to fit on the screen, and it is
You can have X handle a virtual screen for you. Then you can scroll
around (in my case with alt-arrowkeys). I
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I just noticed that when I post, the time of the posted message
> is 5 hours behind what my system time is. I have the computer I
> reading mail on behind another debian (2.1) machine that has IP
> masquerading set up. Could this be affecting it?
IP masqu
On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Nathan Sandver wrote:
> This may be an FAQ, and I apologize if it is. Does anyone have any
> suggestions for a good Linux ICQ client? I want to get rid of my old
I use MICQ. It's public domain and the latest version (0.3.4) is almost
even stable - at least when it loses its
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote:
> When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s" and then copy those files to my linux machine
> with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long
You need to mount the floppy disk with filesystem type vfat, instead of
filesystem type msdos.
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Paul wrote:
> I`ve tried looking for "makedev" which dselect tells me is installed but
> all I seem to have are the doc files and the /var/lib/dpkg/info/ files.
Makedev the binary (actually it's a script) is in /dev.
As a quick fix, you can do (as root):
mknod -m 664 /dev/f
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> If I issue the command "find / -name *.deb -print" in an xterm (fvm95
You have to enclose *.deb in single quotes.
The type of terminal you are on will have no meaning, but whether there
are any .deb files in your current directory will. :}
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
> > True package management, including installation scripts. And a process
> > in place to keep packages out of the main distribution that don't follow a
> > standard for file locations, and other stuff.
>
> But the biggest single reason: this list.
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Question is... which is likely best? Or should I go into mtab and mount the
> new partition at /var/cache/apt/archives/ (if that's possible)?
You're on the right track. The correct solution is:
mount -text2 /dev/whatever /var/cache/apt/archives
Yo
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, rick wrote:
> I was getting the 'DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest' error and
> related hard drive problems after I selected the 'use DMA when
> available' when configging the kernel source. Although I don't
I get this all the time when I try to access a drive that is in sl
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > I get this all the time when I try to access a drive that is in sleep
> > mode. It takes it a minute or two and then it comes back to life and
> > works normally. I have an old '96 era Intel Triton motherboard.
>
> Okay, but why would my drives be
On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, David Blackman wrote:
> that's it, what driver do I use for a 3com etherlink XL pci,
>
> it's the card my DSL supplier supports
I don't know, but you don't have to use their card. Unless they're paying
*very* close attention they won't even be able to tell. If you already
h
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program
> which executes scripts from within /var.
It seems to me that what we have here is a classic case of trying to fix
something which isn't broken.
Simply mount /var in the normal wa
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Indeed. I didn't really understand the point (I DO mount /var/tmp,
> /tmp, and /home noexec on some servers ...)
I find that noexec is only useful on NFS-mounted filesystems if you are
trying to prevent spoofing. There's really not a benefit in prev
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm happy in my new /home, but I want to clean out my old /home.
> 'df -h /' still shows a full file sys, yet 'du -hs /home' shows over
> 2M. I'm assuming that 2M is still hiding under / somewhere,
2M is not really an awful lot of space, you know.
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote:
> > I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have a drive that has at some stage
> Some BIOSes lets you do this.
But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary
any more since the 80's. If you have a drive (ESPECIALLY an IDE dri
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Which you want, I don't know. (I thought inetd handled identd too, but
> my inetd.conf file shows that it runs identd directly -- and it
> DOESN'T USE TCPWRAPPERS. Is *this* right?)
I'm not sure why it is, but that's the correct setup. inetd doesn't
ha
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> : What does cp get wrong? I havmoved entire systems using cp with no
> : problems yet.
>
> device files (tar blows on those too). I don't think cp gets files with
> "holes" right either (but I could be wrong).
cp does have problems with sparse fil
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Gernot Bauer wrote:
> I was wondering, why Linux only checks 8 characters of the
> login-password. I use a much longer password and would like my system
> to check everything of it. Is there a flag I can set that the whole
> password is verified?
You're stuck with it. The fo
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Jon Hughes wrote:
> wondering how he will be able to connect. Technically, @home doesn't
> support windows, but they are sending him the information they said
Sure they do. They support windows by having highly trained support
staff who can say "have you tried rebooting? O
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, rich wrote:
> I have decided that I need more room for my Slink system... my 1GB linux
Didn't we just do this one? :}
First go to single user mode. It is probably not necessary but won't
hurt.
> 1. as root, cp -r -p /usr /linux2a
The correct sequence is:
cd /usr
tar cf -
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> I'm a little curious as to under exactly what circumstances a reboot
> is actually necessary. I know a reboot is necessary to load a new
Internal hardware and kernel changes.
> difficulty. I've heard that if you shut down gpm and X and any other
> rode
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> You can get away without p on that second tar?? I would rather use:
uhm... no. I stand corrected. :}
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> USB should be fine, it was designed so that you could just plug
> something into it and be ready to go. However you are not supposed
> to mess with ps/2 while the computer is on... That really doesn't stop
> me, sometimes nothing happens, sometimes
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote:
> > > Is it possible to make a part of my program a "critical section", so that
> > > during execution of this part of code my program can not be suspended?
> > > I'd like to be able to send a data through the serial port at the known
> > time,
J
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> modules or overclocked CPUs.) Memory usage is permanently about 99%, swap
> usage only a few percent. But obviously processes are dying because they
Then you are not running out of memory. The kernel likes to leave all the
memory allocated. It us
On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote:
> but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago,
> when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user
> nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should
> change my password.
Nope, that's normal. Don't wo
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Richard Kaszeta wrote:
> 2. Find a way to save all the routing table entries involving the
>interface I'm bringing down, and restore them after bringing the
>interface back up?
Have you considered running /sbin/route with the appropriate invocations,
and then parsing
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> has had its group permission changed to from x to s without my doing
> so, a couple of times. For example, in the /home directory, one user
This is fine. Depending on the user this may be helpful or even
necessary. Is it a real human or a program tha
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Nathan Smith wrote:
> lab. We're going to need to have Mathematica on the computers in the lab,
> and according to the Wolfram web page Mathematica will run on any ELF
> Linux system, but it's my understanding that Debian is not ELF but glibc6.
This is not a problem. ELF
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm interested in peoples' experiences with the different databases
> available for Linux. Probably the most important factors for me are
> stability, followed by ease of use and power.
You can't go wrong with MySQL. It's a little quirky in places,
On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Oki DZ wrote:
> Interesting... then how did you proceed? As far as I know, Suns don't
> have eject buttons on their floppy drives.
Some do.
> BTW, why would anyone install the Debian on Suns if the machines come
> with Solaris right out the boxes? The only reason I'm asking
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Enrico Zini wrote:
> What's The Right Way (tm) to have / mounted read-only?
You're not really supposed to. / has to be read-write because it contains
/etc. /etc has to be on / because it wants to be consistent both before
and after the non-root partitions are mounted.
You a
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> I have a Cisco 675 modem/router on the way for the DSL line
> here. Should I run it as a bridging or routing (PPP) line? Or
Ask your ISP. They should tell you how to configure it, the same time as
they give you your IP address, DNS information, e
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Thanks William, but my access provider has given me the option
> of going either way, so the decision has yet to be made. I have
Interesting.
In that case, it probably doesn't make a lot of difference which you use.
Things will probably be simpler
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, paul wrote:
> Korea). Is it possible for me to replace the current RH installation with
> Debian from my present location? Where are docs pertaining to this?
> The owner of the machine (call him john) wants to avoid the reboot, and
> does not know (or trust) anyone at the re
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Luis wrote:
> HI Could you tell me if is it possible to recover a NT disk formated
> with linux? I had a 6Gb disk with 3 partitions (2GB for NT, 2 Gb for
> win95 and 2Gb free) and i tried to install the RedHat Linux on the
> free disk space. I choose the linux server custom in
On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, jh wrote:
> Hi. At the command line, how do I keep a message from scrolling so fast and
> missing it? Something like dos "/p"?
You'll want to pipe the output to 'more' or 'less'. In the Unix world,
programs generally don't worry about formatting their own output.
> Also, is
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote:
> Can any kernel gurus out there explain why the final message the kernel
> gives upon system shutdown changed from
> System halted
> in Linux 2.0 to
> Power down
> in Linux 2.2?
I'm going to bet this was done to allow the kernel to automatic
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> mine are:
>
> drwxrwsr-x 8 root staff1024 May 15 18:38 local/
>
> What gives?? Why is this directory setgid?
setgid on a directory makes all the files created in that directory
group-owned by the group of the directory. This allows member
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote:
> I set mine up as a seperate filesystem when I first installed. Dunno
> if that makes a difference permission-wise or not, tho.
It does. Mount points take on the permissions of the / directory of the
mounted filesystem when they are mounted. But t
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, daphne ledwaba wrote:
> My name is daphne,I am working in the IT department where i am doing network
> support,My problem is Part of our clients are running Unix.Let me make a
> short scenario
>
> machine so that users can work on unix environment.In order for the
> client
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, aphro wrote:
> - many software products are designed for it and don't support other
> distributions, not just software(applications) but drivers too. examples
> would be drivers for DPT raid controllers and 3com network adapters(the
DPT raid controller drivers, I know, are d
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Jacob Schmude I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have
> 32mb and at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is
> debian really eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's
> dos/win on this pc too so I'm wondering if the tech
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote:
> By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viruses out there?
> symptom: lilo won't go away.
Not a virus. It's lilo.
> it's phenomenal. I've completely gotten rid of linux (to my knowledge)
> off the hard drive - and lilo STILL shows up!
> Where is
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote:
> What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they
> decompressed?
They are compressed with b-zip. It's like gzip but better compression.
You can unpack them with 'bunzip2'.
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Evan Moore wrote:
> port to act as a loging machine, and then make the web server a read
> only system. How may a person make a read only system. Would mounting
> the drive ro do the trick, or would it be easy for someone to remount
> the system rw.
In general it is neither po
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> How can I set up two completely different FQDNs (two totally
> different hostnames) on one box (e.g., my.domain.net &
Point both DNS entries at your IP address. You can only have your IP map
to one of them in reverse DNS, though. If you absolutely
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address.
>
> You can also use a CNAME record. I'm not sure when one approach would
> be preferred over the other.
The answer is simple: Use A records for everything and forget about
CNAMEs. :
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Which port number does ping use in Debian Linux?
It doesn't. Ping uses ICMP, which does not have ports.
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Thanks, William. I've learned. But I am trying to ping
> this machine through a Cisco 675 router/modem (yeah, still messing
> with this thing) from a remote server, so the problem is yet to
If you are using single address NAT, it should "just work
On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
> Yes, I can ping out to the rest of the world. ...looking through
> the documentation for the device again to see if I can find something
> missed before, but doubtful...
Just a question... why are you trying to do this? You can ping out so
obvious
On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> of uptime, you tend to suspect that dual-boot isn't needed) and considering
> swapping the drives so the system is booting Linux from /dev/hda.
Why do you want to do that? Just leave the kernel on /dev/hdb and use
your new space on /dev/hda for home d
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Denis J. Cirulis wrote:
> I have to make VPN like :
>
> [ LAN-A ] ---> Linux router/VPN gateway -> leased line <- Linux
> router/VPN gateway <- [ LAN B ] Is here poeple who had made such a VPN
> using only Linux without special VPN hardware ?
You can make that VPN, but you
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote:
> I have several friends who are admins at a local company, and they
> seem to think it is amusing to flood ping my debian box which is on a
It's not.
> 56k dialup. Is there any way to block ICMP packets just from that
> host? I do like to be able to ping
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Peter Ross wrote:
> > sudo: unable to lookup nielsen via gethostbyname(): Resource temporarily
> > unavailable
> > Segmentation fault
> > $ No recipient addresses found in header
> >
> At a guess the library which contains gethostbyname hasn't been
> installed.
That is prob
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This was just what I was about to suggest. It would be awkward if
> SEUL users had to go to a different packaging system for packages not
> available in SEUL. In effect it would become a kind of Debian-lite,
> (or, dare I say it, a Red Hat-lite or
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> Can I take advantage of a new video card to reduce the flicker I
> see in X Windows, or is this strictly a function of the monitor?
Both. In your case, it's probably the monitor. Your video card is kind
of low-powered too.
The thing that determine
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, I. Tura wrote:
> Everything seemed fine but it happened an event I feared. If I use WP the
> CPU starts going near to 100% and this bugs me a lot, specially because I
Under DOS there is no ability to idle waiting for an event. Instead the
system must continously poll the keyb
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeffrey H. Young wrote:
> hardware requirements says the system should have 12MB RAM. Any
> chance I can get my system running with only 8MB?
It'll run, but you may have to go through some gyrations. Don't expect X
to be useful, and you might have problems with the installer
On 14 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> > floppy. Just seems a little wierd seeing DOS as the default on a Linux
> > manpage...
>
> FAT16 is a pretty good format for floppies (that's what it was designed
> for). Ext2 isn't.
ext2 does fine with floppies, it has a little more overhead than DOS, but
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Leonardo Dias wrote:
> > was improving. Does anyone know what the state of it is? Is potato's SMP
> > better than slink? I would think it is a function of the kernel, not the
> > distro, but I could be wrong.
>
> You are wrong. SMP is totally written in the kernel. But you
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> This is just a guess, but maybe you can't. Maybe the cpu is either
> 100% busy or 0% busy, depending on whether or not linux is running a
> program. After a minute, you can say, OK, a program was running 20% of
It's a good guess. In technical terms th
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, will trillich wrote:
> obvious one would be http/web stuff). seems very silly to offer that,
> and then shut down your server just to play
> 'how-many-ways-can-regedit-fsck-my-shell*'?
But not everyone can afford to have a second computer to play games on :}
That said, there
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote:
> egrep -i "failed|failure|refused|not allowed|illegal
> port|blocked|denied|passwd"\
> /var/log/messages*
There is not much to gain by this. If the information is found in your
logfile, they didn't get in :}
> check the binaries tooo...
> top, ps,
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, David Smock wrote:
> stuff works great. My only problem is hot swapping drives - is there
> any way to get linux to recognize the fact that ive changed block
> devices?
You mean you swap between floppy and CDROM drives?
If you compile these drivers as modules you should get
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