exist or points at
something that doesn't exist. If param.h is the only thing missing, then you
more likely have a messed up system.
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a file (-o file) is also useful.
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>From memory there is a Linux specific one:
I probably am not going to be the only person to post a pointer to the whole
thing, but maybe I'll be first :-)
http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/linux/airline.txt
e net.
So, I think that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is probably three counts of
false advertising.
If we can't believe that, we can't necessarily believe anything else coming
from that address.
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ces? The new rpm
might work with the old libc even it doesn't want to.
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though. The lilo README has this to say
about LIL-:
LIL- The descriptor table is corrupt. This can either be caused by a
geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/map without running the map
installer.
Does this ring a bell about anything else you did?
file in /var/qmail/man.
Try running 'strace man ' and look for something returning EPERM
right before the write that spits out the "permission denied".
That should tell you what file is involved.
Jeff
pdating a multiply-linked file through one of the
links and expecting a notification through one of the other names is the main
one.
That problem was a topic of discussion in Sydney, with no major breakthroughs
made...
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> A!
> Any day in which you learn something is a good day.
Any day you manage to teach someone something ain't so bad either :-)
> Thanks, Jeff, for making this a good day for me. :)
hich when you cat them give you stuff.
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live and learn :-)
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help... And see if there's anything else whose state is 'D' while you're at
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Any complaints in the message log?
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ned in a page table, which pretty serious. If it had switched a bit in a
non-zero pmd, you could have had some pretty serious data corruption.
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the output from ksymoops is also
> numeric.. and how do i translate that ? is there a table that i
> should use for reference?
And if it sees your System.map, then you should get symbols.
And then post it to the kernel list...
ne else was teaching the course when I took it though :-(
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ost of them are probably too small to risk
delaying 2.4.0 with a bogus fix, so they'll be fixed in a 2.4.x release. The
rest require design changes and will go into 2.5.x and maybe be ported back to
2.4.x.
Jeff
crash that the ocassional user will see. If you wanted complete
non-bugginess, instead of having 2.2 released almost two years ago, you'd
still be waiting for it, because Alan is still making 2.2 releases with
bugfixes in them.
have to be fixed
before 2.4.0 hits the streets are marked as "CRITICAL". I did a quick scan
and saw 14 (that might not be totally up-to-date - I saw one or two which I
thought were already fixed). Also look at the agreeably large number of fixed
bugs at the end.
l ports, and I'm running 2.2.5, heh.
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hat's not on the console. Also, I would see if the Sparc
port has magic SysRQ support, compile it in if necessary, and poke the various
magic keys and tell us what they do...
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be coming from 10.1.2.6).
I think the first case is more likely, but I don't know for sure.
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acks ending at 0xc000.
The reason that they're not all tromping on each other is that those are
virtual addresses which are mapped to different physical addresses by the OS
and processor.
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> using group read and write is not an option.
Why not? The obvious thing is to chgrp file foo to group foo_group and anyone
who's allowed to modify foo is a member of foo_group.
isn't as prone to fragmentation as fat-based filesystems.
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ntries in /proc.
Others you have to redefine and rebuild the kernel.
> It appears that I'm either hitting the system limit for open files or
> the user limit.
There are a couple of interesting things in /proc/sys/fs, like file-max and
file-nr.
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> >> find . -type f -print | xargs grep /dev/null
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> I don't get it. I doubt it hurts, but why the /dev/null?
To prevent grep from reading stdin (and just sitting there) if is
empty.
k or whatever libraries you're interested in.
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~/linux/html 1057: ls -l a b
--wx-w---x 1 jdikejdike 0 Aug 31 14:34 a
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Also check out mason (http://users.dhp.com/~whisper/mason/). It's not a GUI,
but it does have the feature that you can put it into learning mode, make
connections to the firewall, and have it generate the rules needed to block
that connection.
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> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
>
> > Somewhere there is a default GNUStep directory, that windowmaker uses
> > whenever you run it for the first time. One option is to f
[*] if you can't, do this:
log in to the console, and in bash run these commands:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
eterm &
That should pop an eterm up on the screen.
Jeff
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My Public Key -- http://24.5.73.229/pubke
.
> Then move the old one back and restart the window manager again.
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu
is the location of the default menu, after you've cleanly reinstalled.
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xists and there is a symbolic link to it at
/etc/rc.d/rc.2/S20sendmail (or something around 20, it's been a while
since I've messed with RH's init scripts).
> I want it to deliver email instantly.
> I want it to send all the emails in the queue.
Hope that helped.
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My G
onally run a *BSD
(yet), but I would not be lost if given one to admin).
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e. Depending on the system, it will give you
quite a bit of information. On dante.u.washington.edu (the student
mailserver), uname reveals the model of computer that I'm logged into --
and I can then go look up the specs for that computer on IBM's webpage.
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probably needs to be configured to support it, I know it gets turned off
sometimes because of past security problems.
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get some kind of ``standard'' (as in an agreement/protocol, which is a
standard), it won't play nicely with anyone else's toys.
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to this, check the docs on the modules you have installed.
The apache config file is centralized, but I've never heard of anything
in there related to cookies (I've messed with a couple configs, but only
for small servers with mod_php installed -- and the only place I've ever
dealt
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> Doh! I sent it to Jeff only, sorry Jeff...let's try this again...
Don't worry about it. Procmail put the first one in right spot -- I
thought it had gone to the list myself (that's
answer the questions you've asked (and some other good questions you
didn't ask, but will later) is Essential System Administration, by
Æleen Frisch (yep, another O'Reilly book...).
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> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Jeff Frasca wrote:
>
> > Just to pick a nit, class A, B, and C address are all valid, however,
> > you are probably thinking of the reserved ranges within those class
(24.5.73.229) isn't Class A, or that it
isn't valid.
Sorry, if you actually meant that, but I bet there is at least someone
else who didn't know about it on the list.
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er around,
check out what getty program it uses and what the /etc/issue file looks
like -- the issue file has a really cool ASCII Tux, using the techniques
you are asking about.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
You're Welcome, I hope this helps.
Jeff
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when there is a ton of memory in buffer/cache?
If so, that's a bug. I would try a newer kernel. 2.0.36 is pretty old, and
there's been a lot of work done on the vm system since then.
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our generic server that serves up random html, the one that comes with the
system (and from an rpm on my box) seems to work just great.
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comes with a nice little GUI which, among other things, lets you keep the
connection up, regardless of whether everything has timed out.
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across two lines, and that may have caused the problem).
If it doesn't work, let me know what happened, and I'll see about fixing it.
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go with Linux, then I don't think you don't have any use for those Windows
files and directories any more.
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than I expected.
However, I don't think you should do this without explaining why you think you
need to. Did some window-y thing dump a bunch of spacey filenames into your
Linux filesystem or are you trying to change all the spacey filenames on a
l through a little perl script which dumps all html
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eature. You set the shell variable
`autologout' to the number of minutes of inactivity you want a user to
be booted. There is one drawback to this, a user can simply reset the
variable and the inactivity limit goes away.
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nd see what doesn't repaint itself. And then 'kill -CONT'
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I haven't installed RH6.2 at all, so I'm not completely sure. Just
to check (and assure yourself), run this command:
ps ax | grep inet[d]
If it pops up with anything, there is an inet daemon running. If it
comes back with nothing, there isn't one, and you don't have to worr
it is
a great resource for keeping up to date on security holes and issues.
You can find out more at:
http://www.securityfocus.com/ (BugTraq is in the Forums section)
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l you need to do to get it to work -- unless you
have a restrictive hosts.access or hosts.deny. Also, not to be
insulting, but check to make sure the binary is there, maybe run it
manually from the command line, and good luck. It worked on my Slack 7
install, I'll try it at school on Monday
eading them, because they will tell you what you need to know to get
something installed. Also, learn how to use the tools the people
distributing the software are using for installing, this means if what
they wrote is boogered-up, doesn't work for your distro for some reason
or ano
ther.
Also, does Solaris name its shared libraries *.so? If they're named something
else, maybe the module you want is named mod_{whatever}.o.
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there is commonly a small /boot partition which contains the kernel, a map
file, and not much else.
So, try making a little /boot and see if that helps any.
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pular ones - Zope and
Midgard come to mind. Find sites that use them, and see if any of them have
something like what you're talking about.
You could also locate mailling lists associated with these projects and check
their archives or just ask there.
anted other parts of the line, the awk command could be something like
awk '{print $6, $7, $1, $2, $3}'
which would give you "LAA02244: to= May 12 11:39:45". This
would let you select or sort by date and username.
If all of this is
.h
gnome-core-devel-1.0.4-34
So maybe you need to install gnome-core-devel...
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random memory corruption.
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> I need some help making a small script file. What I need it do is
> copy the directories on one HD to another.
I usually do this with 'cd srcdir; tar cpf - | (cd destdir; tar xpf -)'
cp -a will apparently do the same thing.
;Segmentation fault
> (core dumped)'
> I understand this could be a memory access problem but do not know
> how to set the problem right.
BAD memory (again).
gcc segfaulting is a classic symptom.
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nted answered more than that is what's going on.
With random behavior like you're getting, and with random SIGSEGVs involved,
my WAG would be bad memory.
I would find some kind of a memory tester and run it.
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hich version?
I don't know but any recent development kernel will have the change. That was
last fall or so.
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wer versions of LILO and/or newer BIOSes this is no longer
> the case, but don't quote me on that.
Ok, now I need to jump in on this one. A year and 8 months ago, when I
installed SuSE 5.3 on an older P120, I dualbooted with win95. I had two
drives, one linux (hdc),and windows (hda). I can
recurse.
> Surely a script of some nature must be in order...but being rather new
> to this scripting stuff, I'm even more at a loss.
It's simple enough that you don't usually need a script.
Jeff
il[924]: client/server synchronization
> error while fetching from maple.he.net
You also might try "-v -v" on the fetchmail command line in case that it's
getting there, but there's a disagreement over protocol or something and the
fetchmail errors are misleading.
ssible for he.net to have things set up to do checks like probe your
identd and then fake a "connection refused". But it doesn't look like that's
happening here.
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pants" comments).
Cute ;)
>
> now, if only Hot Topic made leather pants with pockets that wouldn't
> kill the line. (i only wore the jacket so i'd have somewhere to stick my
> wallet, palm pilot, knife, cell phone, etc, etc).
Hardcore backpack. Then again, I have
ms"
The quotes around "$Items" is forcing the $Item1$Item2$Item3 to be a single
argument, whereas you want it to be eight or so.
Turn "$Items" into $Items and it should work better.
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you care
about.
If there is any demand (i.e. if I made a release with ReiserFS in it, you'd
use it), let me know. It probably wouldn't take much to get me off my a** on
this :-)
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> And can
> someone explain where linux is getting 'eth0' from if it isn't under /
> dev/?
The names are made up by the driver (or the networking code above it).
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do is figure out what state the machine is in. Does the
bash prompt work? What's running at that point? What runlevel is the machine
in? Any strange messages in the system log?
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s. It's been four
> years since I broke up with my ex-, and left what had been my home
> behind. I've been in apartments since then.
Good luck.
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an extremely strong grasp on
Calculus, math and computers. Beyond that, I'm also decently well
rounded. I think I'm in a really good position for what is going to be
thrown at me next year.
> One of the many reasons I did not choose the UW, even though it's close to
> home.
re. Usually they want you to have 5
> years of experience in a product that's only been out for 3. I'd probably
> grab it.
If they will let you learn on the job, definately go for it.
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Don't get me wrong, OO has its place. It is a great abstraction and
makes some things way easier.
* I have to qualify that statement, see http://www.ioccc.org
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> None of that really matters if you're serious about security. It may prevent
> people from accidentally doing stupid things. It does nothing to prevent
> malicious people with access to the hardware from hitting th
gs. It does nothing to prevent
malicious people with access to the hardware from hitting the power button,
pulling the plug, applying power tools to the case, etc. Once they have the
system off, they can boot it up to single-user and do anything they want.
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 07:54:49PM +, Jennifer Tippens wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 Jeff wrote:
>
> > Oh yeah, those are all going to print in plain text, at least the ones
> > you mentioned, but that still doesn't change the fact that the
> > textonly.cfg
omputer doesn't know
what the printer can do and that the remote print server will do the
translation.
Ugh, printing doesn't just suck under linux. It SUCKS. That's what
I've learned today ;)
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oesn't change the fact that the
textonly.cfg file doesn't exist on an SuSE install.
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what I come up with tomorrow. For now, I'm off to bed ;)
And before you say, ``don't go through all that trouble,'' just
remember, I'm having fun, and I'll have to do this eventually anyway ;)
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ure it out without
downloading apsfilter.
RH uses Printtool and SuSE uses apsfilter; they do about the same thing,
but the arcane incantations needed to make them go seem to be radically
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> Can anybody tell me which is the file where the routing decisions/
> algorithms are implemented in Linux and how to get it's source code.
You can get Linux sources from http://www.kernel.org.
The code you're interested in is in net/*.
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:07:33PM +0100, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if Jeff
> > will solve your problems (I believe you'll need to do a little more to
> > make this permanent, but I don't remember how off the top of my head).
>
> Probably just add it to your ~/.xinitrc
but for now:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
will solve your problems (I believe you'll need to do a little more to
make this permanent, but I don't remember how off the top of my head).
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:29:23AM -0500, Lori wrote:
> My problem is mutt: I found the POP support part in the manual, and read about
Run Mutt, and type `G'
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e best hardware, the stuff that works the absolute best with
Linux and is the most stable. They carefully profile the heat in the
case and make sure it gets dispersed. They make rock solid computers.
If you are putting your money on a solid linux system, these are the
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owever, if you need to do Spread Sheet
calculations, there isn't anything that is really better.
I also couldn't find the main homepage, however if you head on over to
http://www.google.com and search for `Xspread' you'll get plenty of hits
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