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how to set number of xdm sessions in kde??

Posted: 07 Apr 2005 01:32 PM PDT

"Dan Miller" <com> wrote in news:1112905979.450887.216880
@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
 
Isn't there *anyone* here who can tell me how to increase the number of
sessions, or DisplaysPerHost, or whatever, under KDE??



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GRUB: how to reactivate after (re)installing XP

Posted: 06 Apr 2005 03:50 PM PDT

Tauno Voipio <fi.NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in news:eX85e.175
$inet.fi:
 

Here's what I tend to do.

Let's asuume a disk with 4 partitions:
1 - NTFS
2 - /boot
3 - /
4 - swap

I leave the MBR alone, and install GRUB to the boot sector of partition
2. When XP gets installed (OK, caveat: I've never actually installed XP
in this manner, only Win2K.. but I'm assuming it's the same) XP will be
installed to partition 1, and it will be set as the bootable partition.
Then you can go in and switch the bootable partition back to partition 2
to "restore" GRUB. Also, if something goes completely bad with GRUB, you
could use an external program to switch the bootable partition back to
partition 1 and then you can boot XP again...

slow log in process with /etc/hosts.deny or hosts.allow

Posted: 06 Apr 2005 03:23 PM PDT

On 8 Apr 2005 14:09:15 -0700, Sam wrote: 

That works, show me what you did in deny.
 


Well, something on 128.x70 is asking. Tell it to quit, or add it to
your /etc/hosts file and allow it. I have found it best to fix errors
as I find them even though they seem unrelated to what I am try to
fix.

Was the ssh gov have the slow login
problem?

SYSLINUX and RH kernels

Posted: 06 Apr 2005 11:30 AM PDT

net wrote:

Hi, interesting what you are doing. I've done the same but am stuck at a
different level. I'm also using a board from embeddedx86 (a TS5400) and
compiling a 2.6 kernel, which is planned to move into a realtime kernel
within time. This already works (the board loads the 2.6 kernel fine), but
I've problems with the opening of a remote connection (ssh, telnet etc.)
and some pcmcia flashcard stuff. These problems are more related to 2.6.
Since you are working with an old 2.4 kernel you're problem is related with
the booting the bzImage file. the boards have 4 bootoptions, mentioned in
display.txt: initrd, linux, nfs or dos (in whatever order). Take care that
you run linux and not initrd. Also take much care in your creation of the
bzImage file. Carefully compare the tslinux config file with your kernel
config file (use xconfig and look for the abbreviations of the options). I
would by the way not use a redhat kernel, because they do a lot of kernel
modifications. Perhaps better to download a clean kernel source tarball.
You can contact me also directly by:
walstra .at. science dot uva dot nl
Taco Walstra
 

Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack DVD problem

Posted: 06 Apr 2005 10:48 AM PDT

Thank you for your reply. I will study it to learn what it does and
why this might work. However, I finally got Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack
distro to install by making a GRUB floppy that pointed to the
decompressed ISO on a FAT32 partition of an external USB drive for the
boot system, then selected the still compressed ISO on an NTFS
partition to install from.

Oddly, the install would fail :
a) If I pointed to the uncompressed ISO on the boot partition.
(It said it "no hdlists found", though they were present.)
b) If I pointed to a still compressed ISO on another FAT32
partition. (Failed to decompress ramdisk.)
c) If I pointed to the DVD that installed fine on the laptop.
(failed to decompress the ramdisk.)
d) Booted from the DVD: "failed to decompress the ramdisk".

The install seemed to go properly if I installed non-powerpack
community release from CD images, but would crash on boot with kernel
panic.

I am a Linux newbie and have no idea why this might be happening. I
report it in case others may have an explanation, and in case it might
help someone else with the same problem.


On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:14:09 GMT, Philip Callan <ca>
wrote:
 

primary vs logical partitions, 2 drives, 4 distro's, where's theMBR and LILO go?

Posted: 06 Apr 2005 09:55 AM PDT

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:18:45 -0500 mjt <ru> wrote:
| (net) scribbled:
|
|> | I'm want to install the four distro's, and point each of their
|> | installers to the 'common swap' space and each to their (own) respective
|> | partition, *but* let each installer "divvy up" it's own partition and
|> | install itself "as it sees fit" - question: is this doable by mr dumbhead?
|>
|> You might want to have a common /home partition that is mounted by each
|> of the distributions so you have access to your own files under all of
|> them without duplicating the space or hunting around.
|
| ... be cautious of the slight nuances between the
| distros: even though two distros might have kde 3.4
| as their default environment, one distro vendor may
| have applied customization that could goof up the
| sharing of a /home. just be conscious of this.

That could break upgrading, too. But these are things I want to find
out about that I test for.

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HOWTO check if my EM64T is running in 64 bit mode?

Posted: 06 Apr 2005 07:49 AM PDT

Hi, 

okay arch / uname -m works.
If I see under /proc/cpuinfo the keyword flags: 'ht', it should be a HT-CPU.

Thanks

Advice needed on getting rid of XP

Posted: 05 Apr 2005 03:26 PM PDT

In article <d2v3aj$m82$ccit.arizona.edu>,
org (poorstudent) writes:
 

Use the fdisk or cfdisk which comes with your Linux installation
disk. First you delete the Windows partition(s) on the disk, then
create your Linux partitions. This is typically part of the Linux
installation procedure. The next step - again part of the standard
process - to format your new partitions. Don't specify the "quick"
option if it's offered; the slower options ensure that every sector
will be overwritten.

XP might be a bit more persistent (e.g. in its use of the master boot
record), but I've successfully exorcised Windows 95/98/2000 boxes
and turned them into productive members of the computing community.

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FC3 runs Interactive Startup EVERY time

Posted: 05 Apr 2005 02:32 PM PDT

Thank you for your reply.

I have checked in /etc and /etc/init.d
the only

RPMSAVE or RPMORIG files are

ftpusers.rpmsave
proftpd.conf.rpmsave
rndc.key.rpmsave

rndc.key.rpmsave is identical to rndc.key
and I had uninstalled the ftp pakage (viar "rpm -e") prior to the FC3
upgrade.

Any other thoughts/ideas?

Thanks!!


On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:54:43 -0400, "Nico Kadel-Garcia"
<net> wrote:
 

SUPERUSER IN LINUX

Posted: 05 Apr 2005 01:22 PM PDT


"Peter T. Breuer" <it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
news:it.uc3m.es... 

And Peter Breuer once again starts spewing silliness *Ignore* him. It
somehow makes him feel empowered to insult newbies and pretend he knows
something when he actually has no hint of how to solve the problem or really
help out.

How are you creating them? If you're editing the locally existing files as
that user, and the files you want to change are in a restrict directory that
that user lacks permission to change, you still may be blocked from doing
the "rm" or "mv" operations that some web editors will try to use. And where
are the files that you wish to edit? Are they in ~username/public_html of
the user you added? Or are they in /var/www/htdocs, where Fedora usually
puts its default web directories? Or are you using a web based editor such
as Netscape or Amaya?

fedora 3 and kernel 2.6

Posted: 05 Apr 2005 06:45 AM PDT


yasaswi wrote: 

From:
ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/
kernel-2.6.9-1.667.i586.rpm
kernel-2.6.9-1.667.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-1.667.noarch.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667.i586.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.667.i686.rpm

Looks like kernel 2.6.9 dated 11/2/04 is what this current iso
contains.

prg

Suse9: what are all these partitions??

Posted: 05 Apr 2005 04:43 AM PDT

Daniel Miller wrote: 
Gawd! It looks vaguely like one of my systems, but I have 6 hard drives
on it and the /data1, /data2, etc., are each on a separate drive. It
looks like a big mess. Do you have a lot of data on your machine that
matters? If not, why not just re-install and manually configure the
partitions on your machine?

If you have valuable data on your machine, back it up and then
re-install and restore the stuff you need. That way, all the wasted
space will be put together and you can split it up later as need arises.

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VMware and Fedora

Posted: 03 Apr 2005 09:06 AM PDT


"Lucas Raab" <com> wrote in message
news:SqI4e.4407$news.atl.earthlink.net... 

Besides Wine, at http://www.winehq.com? The problem is not the open source
development, it's reverse-engineering the proprietary stuff that Microsoft
changes without warning and actively deceives people about to protect their
intellectual property. It's also dangerous to violate patents that Microsoft
holds, without having paid the fees and gotten the licenses to use those
patents, and that's just what VMware does: they pay licensing fees for the
source code to do development work with it.

Drivers for Linux - compared to Windows

Posted: 02 Apr 2005 03:09 PM PST

begin virus.scr Unruh wrote:
 

Because it is rude and stupid?

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syslog-ng problem

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 02:56 PM PST

Hey,

I notice something, when I'm typing netstat -an on the syslog-ng
server, there is no port listening on 514 (the default syslog port)

In the file /etc/services i'm getting st like
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
shell 514/tcp cmd # no passwords used
syslog 514/udp
....
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Does the syslog should listen on the tcp protocol too ?

What should I do to put the port 514 on listening mode ?

ty
joe

linux cant read/write to USB

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 12:39 PM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup patrick <net>: 

And make the same mistake over and over again, installing doze?
 

Get a recent Knoppix and retry.

[..]

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I can't use escape sequences in login / shell prompts

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 10:06 AM PST

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 09:23:03 -0800, Gary Krupa wrote: 
 

I figured that you probably didn't need all the extra junk but it was
nice to have as a reference. My rather large prompt string comes from
my days of working with 3B2 computers (circa 1980's). I worked in tech
support and tended to be in several computers at any one time. The
prompts where the only thing that kept things straight. I was ksh
then, but the principles were the same. I now run several gnome-terms
with several tabs, emacs, gdb and firefox. Works great!

The main problem you had was the ANSI escape sequence. I figure since
you tried several it would be best to show you one that works.


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webcam-based surveillance software?

Posted: 01 Apr 2005 05:58 AM PST


"Jules" <this.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:this.yahoo.co.uk... 

I did this in a commercial setup for off-site server cages about 5 years
ago. Most of the necessary tools are available on the dag repositories for
Fedora Core Linux, including motion detection with the "motion" package and
other tools. The solution was rejected because I used an honest-to-ghod
current 2.4 kernel, instead of the randomly customized, wildly out of date
and completely unsupportable 2.2 that the kernel developers had been dragged
kicking and screaming into the dotcom era to use.
 

Welcome to the "motion" software. Lighting levels matter: the ability to
control the pan and zoom of the camera matter, and the security of your
off-site feed and what to do when that feed is cut matter.
 

Shell script? Gaack. You want a much higher frame rate and processing rate
than a shell script can possibly do.

How do I get the partitions I want with Fedora 3?

Posted: 31 Mar 2005 04:49 PM PST

This is a very interesting case (I don't think the OP did anything by
accident, I think FC3 now defaults to installing on an LV). Most
distributions seem to be trying very hard to prevent the new user
having to deal with partitions at all, to maximise the speed and ease
of the install. IMHO this is totally the wrong approach - making
installs as quick and easy as possible is fine, but people NEED to know
about partitions - what they are, why they exist, and how they work. So
a one-screen tutorial which explains this and summarises the pros and
cons of a single / partition vs separate partitions for /home, /usr,
/var, /tmp etc. etc. ... would be much better than what we have now,
where the default setting works fine without explanation for maybe 70%
of users, and makes life much harder for the rest.

To the OP: if you want to go the many partitions route, for whatever
reason, you are much better off using LVM to do it. The more partitions
you have, the more likely you will want to resize one of them at some
point, and this is much easier with LVM. (Plus, LVM is a Good Thing to
know about.) You can do this without reinstalling - just shrink your
current root volume and use the freed space to make LVs for your other
partitions.

If, OTOH, you don't think you'll need all that, you *can* uninstall LVM
without reinstalling completely. I think. You need to shrink your LV
*and* PV to create real unpartitioned space on the disk, make a new
root partition and copy it all over. As someone else said, you should
really do this having booted from CD.

If you're happy to reinstall, I'd recommend Debian over Fedora. It's
default partitioner (partman) is no better than anyone else's, but the
rest of the installation and package management system is excellent.

Regards,

CC

Problem with modem over USB-serial converter

Posted: 31 Mar 2005 02:10 PM PST

Unruh a écrit : 

I got the internal modem working with a Linuxant driver over the
weekend, at least. A friend is sending me a USB modem to try - are these
generally "hardware" modems or do these need special software too?

Rob

Besides $PATH what determines which program is called?

Posted: 31 Mar 2005 12:58 PM PST

George3 <com> wrote: 

As has been mentioned, PATH is the only determining factor, unless the
program is called with a pathname (./java, /usr/bin/java etc.).

One way to be certain that you call the correct one is to try
'which java'.

The environment is something that's process specific, not system specific.
If you define and export PATH in your .bashrc, it will be set on every
invocation of bash and in all processes started from bash.

But if you start an executable from somewhere else (say, you click an icon
on the Desktop), .bashrc will not be read.

If you can, uninstall the bad Java.
Else, if you find no better way to set the PATH variable in the place where
you start the program, you could resort to initscript(5).

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

emachines warranty voided by linux

Posted: 31 Mar 2005 12:34 PM PST

Don't be intimidated by this - the company is obviously part of the
widespread blackmail/bribery effort by M$ to persuade/intimidate
resellers into promoting Windoze and opposing Linux. Heed what others
have said about the warranty and read it carefully - most countries
will have laws mandating at least 12 months warranty on hardware
(including the construction of the PC from its components), but
anything beyond that is anybody's guess. Specifically, if they offer
tech support for applications, that will certainly only be for windows
apps.

The functionality/drivers comment is cunning. Yes, none of the windows
drivers will work with Linux - but instead you get better, more stable
and free drivers with any Linux distribution. For most hardware that is
- if what Nico has said about the quality of this company's machines is
true, you should shop elsewhere!

Functionality depends entirely on what you want to do with the machine.
Surf the internet? Write documents and spreadsheets (and maybe a web
page)? Send and receive email? You can do all this and tons more with
Linux (you can even use MSN Messenger, though M$ regularly try to break
it).

There are things you can't do, all of which are to do with applications
which have not been ported to Linux, don't work under WINE, and for
which no sufficiently close Linux analogue exists. Other than bespoke
business software, the main category is games. Many new games *are*
able to run on Linux, but many more aren't (yet).

If you really want to buy from this company and really care about their
warranty, I would go with GreyBeard's suggestion of a cheap 2nd hard
disk for Linux.

CC

Installing Fedora via FTP?

Posted: 31 Mar 2005 11:02 AM PST

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
 

I managed to create an FC-3 boot floppy (with mkbootdisk)
with a fairly standard self-compiled kernel.

The "official" Fedora kernels are all very large, as far as I can see,
presumably because they have to cover many possible hardware setups.

I find it odd that Fedora don't go to a little more trouble
to help people create small boot CDs.
Linux used to come with a whole range of floppy boot images,
and I don't see that the need has become any less.

Generally, it is my impression that the Fedora team
don't think too much about problems people might have
installing the system - if it installs on their computers
they assume it will install everywhere.

For example, at one point you are asked if you want to read
a CD with extra drivers,
but there is no indication as far as I can see
where one could get, or how to create, such a CD.

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newbie stuck on first Debian install

Posted: 31 Mar 2005 08:24 AM PST

Oscar Dijkhoff <nl>: 

http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/

There's lots of neat stuff there. Also, for questions that others may
already have asked, and yet others have answered:

lists.debian.org

contains a searchable archive of the various Debian mailing lists.


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"Can't find CD, insert additional driver floppy". But, it's booted from CD!

Posted: 31 Mar 2005 07:27 AM PST

I am still having problems, but have narrowed it down quite a bit. I
can install Mandrake 10.0 from CD ROM disks (read by the DVD) fine.
If I try to install 10.1 from DVD the install hangs with read errors
on the DVD while trying to load the ramdisk for stage2.

The same DVD installs properly on my laptop, and a second DVD from a
second image file has exactly the same symptoms.

I think (from looking at the installation messages) that the
installation program thinks it is reading a CD rather than a DVD, and
further suspect this is causing the failure… perhaps there are
different ramdisk images on the DVD than what is expected?

I am wondering if it is possible to put the decompressed DVD image on
a USB hard drive and install from there? (Reasoning: Perhaps 10.1 is
identifying my DVD as a CDROM, but would correctly work from a USB
HD?). I don't know how to "burn" an image file to hard drive. Nero
does not give this as an option.

I suspect it should be possible to format the HD, make it bootable,
and just copy the files over. It would seem that this would have to be
done from Linux, since I suspect the installer will want a Linux file
system (true?).
I do have a working Linux 10.0 system and a working Windows system,
but am quite new to Linux.

If I had a different DVD reader I'd try that first.