> Here's my /etc/hosts file:
> 127.0.0.1 nzingha nzingha.org
You really need to add localhost to that line. Lots of things "know" that
localhost refers to the local machine.
That will get you past the connect problem.
To add some background to this, /etc/hosts is usually the first pla
> I wonder how /etc/host.conf differs from /etc/nsswitch.conf. I have
> both files, and they both seem to set the search order...
You're right. I've got no idea what host.conf is for. nsswitch.conf is
definitely the one being used:
% strace ping mv.mv.com
...
open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDON
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> >Do they layer on top of the X-windows environment? What is their use?
> >Is there someplace someone could direct me to learn more about this?
> Tell me about it. I still don't get it.
There is a set of layers that looks like this (usually):
Sessions
A
> as I said, I was assuming I could garuntee testset was an *atomic*
> function... i.e. indivisible and possibly smaller than the timeslice
> of a scheduler... like a few i/o functions...
Speed doesn't guarantee anything. A timer interrupt can reschedule you
anytime, anywhere. Also, reschedule
> Someone with a login that is *all* numbers is having a problem logging
> in... can login *eventually*, but never on the first try.
This isn't related to logging in, but various utilities allow specifying users
as either login names or uids. These can get horribly confused when a
user-name is
> mount /dev/hdc/cdrom
Is this is actual command that you're using? It looks like it's missing a
space:
mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
Will mount the CD regardless of what's in mtab or fstab, assuming that
/dev/hdc is the CD drive and /cdrom is available to have something mounted on
it.
If t
Have a look in /var/log/maillog. There might be some interesting error
messages in it.
Jeff
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> Do I have to tell what and give away my stupidity?
Everybody's done stupid things. Wanna trade "I can't believe I did that"
stories :-)
Jeff
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> You should be able to create the linux partitions on the 4.5 gig
> drive, copy the FS from the 9 to the 4.5 (assuming of course, your not
> using all 9 gig for linux ;), swap drives, boot from floppy (not
> nescessary?) and run lilo. You should be set.
Right. The copy is a little bit tricky.
> I always wonder why people use tar beasts if they have the wonderful
> GNU cp?
Because cp will completely foul up device files. Try copying /dev/mem from
one place to another. You won't like the results :-)
> Lean back and enjoy the show... I think this alternative is far less
> error prone
> Because cp will completely foul up device files. Try copying /dev/mem
> from
> one place to another. You won't like the results :-)
> sorry, but I can't stand it if people don't actually try things
> instead of repeating false statements:
> ---8<--- snip ---
> root@wombat:/tmp> ls -l /dev
> What switches where you using for cp? It _only_ works with '-a' all
> others ('-dpf' for example) copy "byte by byte" and thus fill your
> disk :-).
I did just -p.
Both the man page and info file say this:
-a, --archive
same as -dpR
-d is preserve symlinks, -p is preserve
> I was planning on publishing an API for this system that others could
> use in proprietary software. (Note: no code from the system would/
> should be used in the proprietary system, just method/function calls)
Then you release your code under the GPL, and document the API. Anyone else
can i
> So...is there an easier way than running through that entire config
> again?
What I've done in my many X installation nightmares (I seem to have a cursed
combination of video board and monitor) is this loop:
1. Start off in runlevel 3 (via telinit 3 or boot with id:3:initdefault in
/etc/in
> I had it dump it's stats, memstats, and database, but I can't seem to
> decipher WHAT address "is already in use".
I get a chance to plug one of my favorite utilities...strace :-).
run strace -p -f -e trace=network
and look for something returning EADDRINUSE or 98. Then look at the
argume
> Is there something I am missing here? Here's what I have:
> crond.pid (according to /var/run/crond.pid) is 328
I was trying to be fancy with the "-e trace=network" bit. It looks like the
interesting system calls aren't captured by "trace=network".
Try this: strace -p -f -o strace.out
Let t
> hmm... no EADDRINUSE or 98 in the whole file
> this is what happens (well an example, the ESPIPE eror is constant):
> 15242 _llseek(0x5, 0, 0, 0xb76c, 0x1) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
> 15242 read(5, "bind: Address already in use\n", 4096) = 29
Are you sure you did the -f on strace? Becaus
> X also allows applicatons to use their own colormaps, and switch them
> with X's colormap when they want to. However, if two programs use
> different colormaps, their colors will map differently, so gray in one
> will be purple in another, which is what GIMp is doing. This is
> perfectly norma
> The big one is that the gnome libs 1.0.53 won't compile, because they
> cannot find a file called "xpm.h". I have done a find on the entire
> drive, and this file does not exist. Gnome expects it to be in the
> X11 directory. What package should I download and build to get this
> file?
~ 100
> Does anyone have a clue what this means?
>
> "TERMCAP", line 0, col 273, terminal 'screen': unknown capability 'xv'
> "TERMCAP", line 0, col 276, terminal 'screen': unknown capability 'LP'
> "TERMCAP", line 0, col 523, terminal 'screen': unknown capability 'AX'
> "TERMCAP", line 0, col 526,
> but thanks anyway for you effort, jeff :)
Oh well. I guess if I'm going to be any help, you're just going to have to
have easier problems :-)
Jeff
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Below is a little perl script I wrote that removes html parts from messages
that have text parts as well. I wrote it because exmh goes ballistic when it
sees such mail. The only downside that I've seen is that it can't tell if the
two parts have the same content, so if someone sends you a pla
> Basically, I'm writing a script that takes two parameters from the
> user, an alphanumeric character and a directory.
What's the matter with
find -type d -name "$ALPNANUM*" -print
Jeff
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> I am a Slackware user and typically count on "tar" and "gzip" to
> extract packages. Some of the tools that I want to install are in RPM
> archives. How do I extract this source?
Sounds like what you want is alien (http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/).
Here's the freshmeat appindex record:
Ali
> I have set up Apache. I was wondering if anybody could let me know as
> to where I will have to put my web pages (like a simple page with no
> forms of any sort).
In one of the Apache config files (it's in my /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf) find
this:
> # DocumentRoot: The directory out of which
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not
> authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: :0.0
> By changing the current configuration, I will be loosening the
> security of X windows, but I do need other users to be able to use the
> same display at the same
> I am sure I chose a wrong option someplace along the way because now
> my long file names are truncated.
Is this doing 'ls' on a windows filesystem?
If so, I don't see how it's related to the new kernel. That's (in my
experience) controlled by how you mount it. If it's mounted as an msdos
> In the /etc/fstab, the entry the corresponds to the filesystem you
> want to have mounted at boot time should have a 1 in the fifth field.
> A 0 in this field indicates that it should not be mounted at boot
> time.
This is what man fstab has to say about field # 5:
The fifth field, (f
> If so, how can I install it (or do I need to reinstall RedHat?).
> Install directions seem to want to use gcc to do the installation.
You didn't way whose install directions want gcc. If the system is up enough
to run rpm (and it should be if you can do 'which foo'), check to see if it's
in
> > My ppp log shows that all 7 bits set to zero not 8 bit clean, is there
> > any way to resolve this?
> It's often a problem with the ISP, I don't remember what the exact
> cause is. So it's not your problem, unless you've also changed
> something in the ppp configuration.
> It goes withou
> Obviously you would select n for items that you don't need included in
> your kernel, but what is the difference in saying y to support for my
> scsi or m?
For the average user, it doesn't make any difference. You need to say 'y' to
anything that you need to boot the kernel (so if you're boot
> I can't find it spelled out plainly anywhere. Anyway, I want to:
> 1) load the kernel onto a floppy so I can make sure linux will boot
> with the new kernal 2) backup the old kernal 3) install the new
> kernal
You shouldn't need the floppy. When you build your new kernel, just make sure
i
> To delete such problem files, if you use emacs, you can use the
> directory editing feature in emacs is useful (^X ^F from memory).
dired is ^X ^B. ^H m will give you a little buffer which tells you what all
the commands are, but the most interesting ones are the movement commands (^N
^P - u
> > Also, I seem to remember there's a way to find out how large a disk I
> > have without having to open my box and look at it. Anyone?
> Try the command df
That only tells you about filesystems on the disk which isn't necessarily what
she wants.
echo p | fdisk /dev/hdb
is a little messy, b
> dired is ^X ^B.
Sorry to follow up on my own blatant disinformation, but the above is wrong.
dired is ^X d; ^X ^B is the buffer editor which is real similar.
I stand by the rest of it. (heh)
Jeff
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> > grep hdb /var/log/messages|more
> > is better. It tells you what the disk told the OS when it booted.
> Bingo. Thanks, Jeff!
Actually, this is probably the right way to do it:
hdparm -g /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
geometry = 1048/16/63, sectors = 1056992, start = 0
Multiply sectors
> xauth has been partially overwritten with bad data
xauth or your .Xauthority?
> .Xauthority for my personal account is listed when I do ls, but I
> can't get a text editor to read it.
It's (at least partly) binary data. Mine has some readable strings in it, but
it's definitely data.
> So t
> I am beginning to believe that I sent to wrong place, say
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or something.seems strange I did not get
> them back though.
Why not go poking through /var/logs/maillog to see what really happened?
Jeff
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> Because I screwed up my linux install, and had to start over yesterday
> :-)
Gotta hate it when that happens...
Jeff
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> Because I screwed up my linux install, and had to start over yesterday
> :-)
BTW, what did you do? I'm having trouble thinking of anything short of
trashing a disk that would call for a complete reinstall.
Jeff
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> I remember when I was first learning linux (redhat 2.something, I
> think), there were a couple of times when I screwed something badly
> enough that it was easier (and faster) to reinstall than to learn
> enough (on an unusable system) to make the system usable again. ;)
For those of us with s
> Hey girl,
I'd probably get flayed if I said something like that :-)
> What I use is postgres.
Also, mysql (mysql.com) and msql, both free. Freeness makes them good for
learning what you want in a "real" database. And they might turn out be be
"real" enough for you.
> > Also, mysql (mysql.com) and msql, both free. Freeness makes them good
> > for
> > learning what you want in a "real" database. And they might turn out
> mysql is not free according to the DFSG[1] (or opensource
> according to the OSD[2], if you take that side). See
True. I was being a b
> The next question, of course, is: Can anyone recommend any rackmount
> servers from companies that support both Linux and NT?
dcginc.com. They sell rackmount servers, your choice of Linux or NT. A
popular local co-lo service swears by them. An extra attraction for us (YMMV
on this) was th
> Well, i've already downloaded the latest versions of those libraries
> (source rpmd), unpacked, configured and installed them according to
> the manual, and those programs still prompt the same msg
You built them from source, not from a binary rpm, so rpm doesn't know about
them.
So, just
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> I got same weird message every time I tried to boot, so I wimped out
> and reinstalled. :-) Guess I need to buy a book eh?
Pay attention to the chapter called "Single-user mode". :-)
Jeff
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> Or, can I just not bother with initrd? Is it worth having?
You don't need it.
You should also probably change the kernel version number if it would
otherwise be the same as what you've already got. What I did was make
EXTRAVERSION=a, so that the new kernel version was 2.2.5a rather than th
> Is there some command or function that I can use that tells a hard
> drive to spin down, etc?
Try 'man (heh) hdparm'.
The -y switch looks like what you want. -S and -C also look interesting.
However, this is an ide command, but there is this at the end:
Although this utility is in
> It is always the same inode-- When fscking, inode 818763 is always
> deleted with zero dtime. What does this show?
This could just be a temporary file that some daemon has opened and unlinked.
When the system crashes, the one reference to that file (the process) has
disappeared, so fsck se
> What exactly is printk()? I haven't found any information about that
> particular function.
And the reason that this internal kernel function is appearing in user-level
docs is that printk'd stuff shows up in the log.
Jeff
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> It is the print function for the kernel routines. I don't know the
> workings of the output of this fuction yet.
It's just like printf, without a lot of the bells and whistles (no
floating-point, numbered arguments, etc).
Jeff
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> I am using Red Hat 6.1 and was wondering if there's there a way to
> boot directly into gnome without having to log in (anywhere).
This is off the top of my head, so you'll probably have to play around before
it actually works. The basic idea is that you replace xdm in the boot process
with
> Would anybody please let me know if the "noauto" should be "auto" or
> something else?
It should not be noauto (i.e. leave it out) if the media is always there, like
a Windows disk partition, and you want it mounted at boot time. If it's
something like a floppy, "noauto" would be reasonable
> Hm, maybe this should be a FAQ. Both indicate that youre accessig
> memory that you shouldn't.
A segfault does.
I did a quick check of the kernel (core kernel + arch/i386), and found two
places where processes get SIGBUS:
swapping out a process failing to free any memory (swap_out in
> The system seems to be finding it just fine, but
What do you mean by this? The system normally just sees the serial port, and
doesn't know what if anything is attached to it.
> the modem won't respond to commands (ATZ, ATDT, etc.).
Are you sure you've got the right port? If not, just ru
> It got upset and when I boot up, I get a lovely screen with 01 01 01
> 01 ... It's a Dell Dimension L500r with two EIDE drives in there,
> Win98 on the first one and Linux occupying the second one. Can
> anyone give me any hints as to what the booting heartattack is over?
At the bottom of the
> In any case, I can't boot Linux without the boot disk, and when I do,
> "starting linux" it takes about 10 minutes for all the dots to go
> across the screen. Any hints on how to speed up my boot?
Boot off something other than a floppy. Zips can be made bootable, I think.
> Or on how
> to
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> AHA! My DVD is bootable! And I have a CD-RW
> Will let you know if this works tonight... thanks Jeff!
Cool. Since it's a bit larger than a floppy, you can put a whole root
filesystem on it if you want. I'm not sure that's a great idea, though. /dev
likes to be
> I'm trying to get my desktop computer at work (which is connected with
> an ethernet card
Run ifconfig and make sure that it has the right ip addr:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:B0:D0:20:06:FC
inet addr:198.99.130.20 Bcast:198.99.130.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
which
> I'm not at that computer now and can't run ifconfig until tomorrow but
> I've tried pinging from one of our server and this is what I get:
> chipshot # ping 10.254.254.245 PING 10.254.254.245 (10.254.254.245):
> 56 data bytes
Your box is off the net somehow. Make sure the wires are hooked up
> I can ssh to any server (there are dozens) from my puter but I can't
> telnet to my puter from the servers.. I'm thinking it has something
> to do with how security is set up but I don't know.
I think your site has network connectivity problems. Regardless of security
policy, all machines
> But Jeff, I've seen situations where ping has been turned off for
> security reasons.
What security reasons were those? ping is a really basic tool without too
many security implications (besides DOS, which can be done with any protocol).
If ping has been disabled, then I'd start looking
> Strings? How do I do that? Then how do I get the stuff from the
> output?
strings is a very handy little utility. 'strings filename' goes through
filename printing out anything that looks like text.
It is a zero-order approximation to any number of blah2txt utilities :-)
In this case, it
> Any more ideas?
Send in some complete error messages. Console logs. Anything that looks out
of the ordinary...
Jeff
> 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/*.
Jeff
_
> You can comment it out ir remap it to another program, like a script
> that logs who and when pressed it.
> If the console is in a place where other people can easily get access
> to it and you are worried about security there are many programs, for
> X and tty*, that lock the console out with
> When I try to shutdown the machine to reboot into Windows when I need
> to, it no longer shuts down. It stops at a bash prompt. I always used
> shutdown now and had no problems, but it doesn't seem to work now.
> Any suggestions as to how to fix this?
I think the thing to do is figure out wh
> My problem is that I'm looking for "eth0" under /dev but it's not
> there. I compared with work and it isn't under /dev/ either so I'm
> assuming it shouldn't be there. So how do I configure a nic?
Network interfaces don't get /dev entries.
> And can
> someone explain where linux is getting
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> I'm a little scared of trying it - a file system is more importatnt
> than a window manager (or TV card driver), so I'm not too keen on
> using something unstable...
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> But It is not stable. I use it only for squid cache now. I
> would not r
> it is only: michelle1:/# myscript -parameter /path/filename
> A small example will be nice.
#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
echo You gave me no parameters
elif [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
echo You gave me one parameter, which is \"$1\"
else
echo You gave me $# parameters which are \"$*
> Item1="0 \"Midnight Commander\" off "
> Item2="1 \"Mouse support\" off "
> Item3="2 \"Dos-Tools\" off "
> Items=$Item1$Item2$Item3
> whiptail --title "$Titel" --checklist "$Text" 15 40 10 "$Items"
The quotes around "$Items" is forcing the $Item1$Item2$Item3 to be a single
argument, whereas
> When I try to telnet to it on 110 from my shell account (this mail
> account), QPOP answers me. So it's somehow related to the firewall.
I hate to ask stupid questions, but can you make sure that your shell machine
and firewall agree on the IP address for maple.he.net?
> Could this have some
> Apr 15 14:40:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: 5.1.0 querying maple.he.net
> (protocol APOP) at Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:40:33 -0400 (EDT)
> Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: timeout after 300 seconds waiting to
> connect to server maple.he.net.
> Apr 15 14:45:33 trinity fetchmail[924]: client/ser
> What's the best way to monitor disk space usage? Ok, the most
> efficient way to monitor disk space usage?
du and df are the basic tools.
To find the disks-space hogs, I usually start where I already know the problem
is (like ~ :-), and do "du -s * | sort -rn" and recurse.
> Surely a script
> I heard a rumor that about six months ago or so there were kernel
> patches for hard disks larger than 34Gig.
> Have these been incorporated into the kernel,
It has been. I believe that was the problem with cylinders being a short and
34 G disks overflowing it.
> and, if so, which version?
> What does signal 11 mean?
Signal 11 is SIGSEGV. It means that the process accessed (tried to, anyway)
memory that it had no access to, either because the address didn't exist in
its address space or because it didn't have the right permissions.
The question you probably wanted answered more
> A g++ program is encountering problems during execution. There are no
> error messages as it gets linked and compiled. The executable file
> does not run though. These are the error messages observed: 'Program
> received a signal SIGSEGV, segmentation fault' OR 'Segmentation fault
> (core dumpe
> 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.
Jeff
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> We kept getting random signal 11's with an old 486, but the memory
> check didn't find anything. The cpu fan wasn't working, though, so
> could that also cause sigsev? Just interested...
I think so. If the cpu is overheading, that could cause the same sorts of
things. Although, I've mostly
> What's ya'll's more educated opinion?
I'd call it more of a wild guess, but when I see where I've got an
applet-widget.h and then see what rpm it belongs to, I get this:
% locate applet-widget.h
/usr/include/applet-widget.h
% rpm -q -f /usr/include/applet-widget.h
gnome-core-devel-1.0.4-34
S
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> On Fri, 12 May 2000, alissa bader wrote:
> > Specifically, anything containing the
> > string "QAA." Tried doing a grep, but I got the
> > entire line again, not just the portion of it that
> > contained "QAA."
> what part of the line do you need to grab, other than QAA
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> The project in question: a generic ratings and comments engine for a
> website. The things being rated could be anything, but site visitors
> should be able to vote on various survey questions for each
> (book|movie|restaurant), and add their comments. Visitors should als
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> Unfortunately, modules/standard/mod_so.o doesn't exist. The file is
> mod_so.c. Do i need to compile this to mod_so.o?
This might be system-dependent. I know squat about Solaris, but this is the
sort of thing that might work on one Unix, but not another.
Also, does
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> When I get to Disk Druid and try to partion the root directory, I get
> an error that says Boot Partiton is too big.
I think what it's talking about is the LILO 1024 cylinder limit. The kernel
has to be within 1024 cylinders of the beginning of its partition. That's w
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I approach you now to ask, as I am running Gnome and Windowmaker,
> where can i find out which parts of the GUI i see are Gnome's fault
> and which are the fault of my window manager?
Kill your window manager and see what parts of your GUI go away.
Also, "Gnome" is not
> Once in a while Linux (RH 6.2) will insist that a cdrom is busy and
> thus will not let me umount it and thus will not let me eject it.
Another handy thing is lsof. lsof | grep /mnt/cdrom will tell you what
processes have open files in /mnt/cdrom (I think - my system seems not to have
lsof
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> I'm wondering how to send email messages that query the reader's app
> and display as text if that's what you're reading with (ie, pine or
> mutt), or display as html if you have an html-capable reader (ie,
> Netscape)?
You don't, AFAIK. If you really want to do that,
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> Is there a file I can create that will do this? I am not a programmer,
> so I have limited knowledge in creating files but I can sure try...
> Any help you could provide would be amazing.
I don't think I could pass up a chance to be amazing :-)
find /dos -name "* *" -
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> thanks for the info I will try it out, Actually what I am doing is
> Migrating everything to Linux, so all the Windows File thingy's are
> copied over to a Linux filesystem and well I kind of want to get rid
> of Windows all together.
What do you expect to do with your
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> No not those windows specific directories... all my DOC's etc... like
> I want windows specific stuff on my system, that would be similar to
> hitting my head against the wall and well.. I am not into self
> destruction
In that case, go ahead. That convoluted command th
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> I am automatically disconnected. Is there an easy way to either a)
> disable the auto disconnect feature or b)extend that to a more
> reasonable time constraint (20-30 minutes would be fine).
I use diald, which I got because it provides demand dialling, but it also
c
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> hey, anyone have a minute to explain the differences/advantages
> disadvantages of source vs rpm? I've installed things both ways, but
> i really only know barely enough about them to be dangerous. whenever
> i "make" something and it doesn't work i just kinda sit ther
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> There are certain things that you will and should never use an rpm
> for.. for example.. apache.
Why not? If you've got a server that you take seriously and want control over
what modules (and what versions) go into it, you build from source. But for
your generic s
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> However, we have observed that instead, it just acts as if there is
> no memory available, and doesn't free up buffer/cache allocated
> memory when new programs are started. We're using RedHat 5.2, kernel
> 2.0.36.
So, do you start swapping when there is a ton of mem
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.
Jeff
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> I thought the -p option preserved the permissions. How can I preserve
> my files original permissions scheme (in directory B)?
The permissions being preserved are those of the copied file. Any files that
get copied over don't matter.
Did you try not preserving permiss
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> How do I find out what version of library is on my system?
On RH (and other rpm distros), you can do this:
~ 1009: rpm -q -f /lib/libc.so.6
glibc-2.1.1-6
You have to peel off the "1-6" to see that this is glibc 2.1. Something
similar should work or whatever librarie
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> >> find . -type f -print | xargs grep /dev/null
>
> 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.
Jeff
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> Can someone point me to documentation on the available linux kernel
> params and how I go about querying and modifying them?
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt in your favorite kernel pool. Looking at
them and changing them varies. The most popular ones have entries
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> I'm wondering what disk utilities are available under Linux--or are
> they necessary? For instance what about a disk defragmentation
> utility like Norton Speed disk?
As far as I understand, they're not really necessary. The ext2 filesystem
isn't as prone to fragm
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