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Need /dev/fb0 if no X windows?

Posted: 04 Oct 2006 05:08 AM PDT


"Jamie Hart" <ath.cx> wrote in message
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Agree about the space; just manic-ly look for packages to remove to improve
security. Of course, presumably this kind of thing isn't that big a deal.



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XFree86 Update Killed my Gnome and KDE Desktops!

Posted: 03 Oct 2006 03:45 PM PDT


Ties wrote:
 

The 2.4.21 kernel is a hint that he's using RedHat Enterprise 3.x or a
similar release. Those use XFree86 4.3 in their latest release.

However, NVidia drivers are a pain in the caboose. They are not managed
by RPM or APT or any other installer, unless you point at the LIVNA
repository at http://rpm.livna.org/, which may be in violation of the
NVidia licensing agreements.

The NVidia installation scripts from NVidia themselves are, frankly,
written by a script monkey in an isolated environment. I prefer the
RPM's.

ntfs support

Posted: 03 Oct 2006 10:53 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.misc Jody Bruchon <rr.com>: 
 
[..]
 

AFAIK you can use mkfs.vfat and doze will happily read it, it
just doesn't allow you to create vfat partitions larger then 32
or so GB. But should read larger created with Linux without
problems...

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Problems after updating kernel

Posted: 03 Oct 2006 09:28 AM PDT

Dustin wrote: 


Well, you've got two problems. The one with lockups could be the kernel
version. The one with ndiswrapper could be that Linux limits the amount
of stack space the kernel uses, but Windows drivers assume they can get
as much as they want.

A better solution to ndiswrapper woes is to use hardware that's
supported by Linux. I swapped out the built-in Broadcom in my laptop
for a built-in Intel card.

Also, the development RPMs for FC5 *are* set up to be "yum"able, but you
have to configure yum to know about the repository. Or you can just FTP
the files and use rpm (which is what I do).

How can I set my time display to my preference

Posted: 03 Oct 2006 07:24 AM PDT


Unruh wrote: 

I am quite new to this, what are the common values for this?

I will try dabbling with some settings in Putty and see what the
outcome will be.

Linux x86 dual boot with FreeBSD 6.0 Help?

Posted: 01 Oct 2006 01:18 PM PDT

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 at 10:42 GMT, Ties eloquently wrote: 
I do mine slightly different. I have a whole drive dedicated
to FreeBSD which has its bootloader installed in the MBR of
the drive. My grub.conf has the following:

title FreeBSD
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1

So I select FreeBSD on boot of the machine, this loads the FreeBSD
bootloader and I can then select how to boot FreeBSD.

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SUID script help!

Posted: 01 Oct 2006 09:11 AM PDT

Ouch. Ok, theres a lesson for me, always supply the full story.

Ok, the script/program is part of a larger project. This C
script/program isnt going to be actually used on any existing systems
so as I said earlier, security isnt a problem.
As part of this project, I cant use sudo because of the way the project
is being developed.

This is the original coding Im talking about (for those that cant find
the original post)

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char *var = argv[1];
system(var);
return(0);
}

As someone said in an earlier post, the program is supposed to be one
which sets to suid root and then can run any command on the system.

Fair enough, the program may be 'attrocious for an suid wrapper' but
its fine for what I need. I just need this program to be slightly
tweaked for the end result needed.

comparing directories

Posted: 01 Oct 2006 03:53 AM PDT

Dave Stratford wrote: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

They are so close there may be no real difference in content but with artifacts
added by the copying or trailing wastage not copied. Wastage being what an
application may carry after the EOF without deleting or secret messages appended
to a jpg by tewwowowits. Since my ISP switched from a local to a remote news
spool it regularly barfs copies which as always one line longer even though all
else is the same.

The suggestion using rsync -v should yield blank likes or garbage like the
above should show what is happening. File copying is not making a remote disk
image.

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Fedora FC5 http/ftp setup looking stage2.img

Posted: 29 Sep 2006 02:47 PM PDT

Jack L. wrote:
 

Are you sure that the double-slash is the problem? That should still be
a valid address.

Restrict user access by hours

Posted: 29 Sep 2006 06:11 AM PDT

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<com>, ben yates wrote:
 

This is "me", not going "there". This is a human problem, not easily
solved with software. If she doesn't have root, and doesn't know how to
bypass this, /etc/nologin is one solution - disabling here account
entirely is another. But you are going to have to live with the
consequences.
 

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Performance problems. Your opinion please !

Posted: 28 Sep 2006 03:26 AM PDT

de wrote: 

Iowait at 60% sounds like its disk bound. Needs more memory allocated to
disk caching probably.
 
That also tends to support the contentiomn that its disk bound.
 

window/icon name setting problem in xterm

Posted: 26 Sep 2006 09:24 AM PDT

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.x.]
On 26 Sep 2006 09:24:53 -0700, com
<com> wrote: 
If you see something like the following in your .bashrc, delete it or
comment it out.

# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
case "$TERM" in
xterm*|rxvt*)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
;;
*)
;;
esac


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Generate NMI to crash a hung system...

Posted: 25 Sep 2006 03:24 AM PDT

big_sid wrote: 

Ah. That was percisely where I had to tune My unix years ago.Informix
Database stuff. Dozens of processes and zillions of open files in a
C-ISAM setup.

I would definitely investigate how many open files and how many
processes these boxes are running. With a once every few seconds cron
script.

If you find that no box ever exceeds a suspicious looking process limit
- like 4096, or ever has more than a similar suspicious number of files
open, you will know where to probe deeper.

I cannot say that ill behaviour in a system that is outside the limits
it has been set is a 'bug' though.

 

My guess is that to dump it required a tad more resources than you had
left.


I honsetly thimk you are looking in the wrong area. Yes, a kernel that
e.g. tries to fork and gets a null response from a memory allocation
request shouldn't bomb, but in practice this isn't the issue you are
trying to fix.

You are trying to make sure it HAS got enough memory to e.g. fork.

Fixing bugs in error REPORTING doesn't fix the problems that caused the
errors..


 

Multiboot - with two linux OS

Posted: 24 Sep 2006 10:26 PM PDT

bhaveshg wrote: 

I presume you have a good reason for such nonsense as a couple cheap extra
drives would do the same thing easily.

I GUESS pre creating partitions before install would cause the install disk to
ask you which partition and thus you could do so.

Are you sure you really want to do this?

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kickstart demans swap have a mount point

Posted: 20 Sep 2006 06:23 PM PDT

david, 09/21/06 03:23: 
Does swap have inodes?

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