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Ftape on Slackware 10

Posted: 21 Feb 2007 03:49 AM PST

com wrote:
 

Yeah, I know. Also all of the documentation that you might find is out of
date.

The ftape I got was on the Slackware 10.2-CD. There is a 4.04-version on
http://www.sourcefiles.org/Backup/

It seems it is not maintained anymore.

ljm

How to take printout of linux file from windows xp using putty?

Posted: 19 Feb 2007 09:28 PM PST

com wrote:
 

If it is just text you want to print, use the possibilities of putty.
Otherwise:
- on your xp-box: share your printer. As I am not a Windows-man, you need to
figure out how to do that yourself.
- look at
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMicrosoftWindowsNetworkIntegration.ht ml#PRINTING


ljm

Yahoo or google mail on RH 7.3

Posted: 19 Feb 2007 05:10 AM PST

In comp.os.linux.setup CCDSJ <com>: 
 
 
 

They should be on the install medium and can be installed through
yum/rhn.

BTW
Please stop multi-posting, cross-post if you think it is needed,
see: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

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Linux System Imaging (restore and capture)

Posted: 18 Feb 2007 08:42 AM PST

Harshal writes: 


Package: systemimager-common
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 176
Maintainer: dann frazier <org>
Architecture: all
Source: systemimager
Version: 3.6.3dfsg1-2
Depends: perl, rsync
Filename: pool/main/s/systemimager/systemimager-common_3.6.3dfsg1-2_all.deb
Size: 38484
MD5sum: c4eacd4d8cff7137e253fa1ba4a201e8
SHA1: 4a8e2f493f2532e287ff9e532743c31e26798617
SHA256: 6b21ea59a5d34cdabdef2db43ea1799cdcce0675350c81cf41 67d955cb66c162
Description: Utilities and libraries common to both the server and client
SystemImager is a set of utilities for installing GNU/Linux software images to
clients machines over the network. Images are stored in flat files on the
server, making updates easy. The rsync protocol is used for transfers, making
updates efficient.

Dual core processor and software....

Posted: 16 Feb 2007 07:51 AM PST

bgeer wrote: 
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 28.8% 351.6% 18.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.4% 0.0%
cpu00 3.2% 93.7% 2.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1%
cpu01 4.3% 93.7% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.0%
cpu02 17.6% 75.9% 6.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
cpu03 3.8% 88.2% 7.4% 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%


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Formatting C drive

Posted: 15 Feb 2007 10:52 PM PST

com wrote: 
 
 

Offhand it sounds like a partition at least that should be the simplest and
cleanest way to do such a thing.

Remove the partition. Format the disk with a live CD linux.

OR leave it and mount it separately. OR 7G might be enough to install linux and
use the rest of the disk for user files. OR install different versions of linux
on each partition and see which you like best.

I did the second OR when a small boot disk failed and I had to install the OS
on the data disk without losing the data. Of course I created the partition first.

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installing RHEL 3 on an unsupported storage array

Posted: 15 Feb 2007 07:54 AM PST

Zak. wrote:
 

From the installation main menu type (as explained on this menu screen);

linux dd


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fontconfig question

Posted: 14 Feb 2007 10:34 AM PST

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:31:49 +0000, Dave Gibson wrote:
 

Thank you very much.



Eddie.

Locking down the desktop...

Posted: 14 Feb 2007 08:45 AM PST

CSG72 <k12.ga.us> did eloquently scribble: 

Is gnome really neccesary?
Seems you want an iconless window manager.
(Blackbox and iceWM are two good ones)
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getting high resolution display on Acer Aspire 1681

Posted: 13 Feb 2007 06:57 PM PST

On Feb 15, 4:03 am, spam () wrote: 

I have an Intel i810 integrated chip, which is easily detected. I am
fairly sure the
problem is in the montir (e.g. sych ranges). I have 1280x800 entries
in the Xorg config
file, but it seems that my best guess for the synch ranges is wrong.

Gary Whitten

1280x800 with Intel 945GM (laptop)

Posted: 13 Feb 2007 03:13 PM PST

Baho Utot wrote:
 

Both failed :-(

With the KDE utility is even worse: that one does not even show the
1280x800 mode (the GNOME Display Settings utility shows it --- it's
just that it's no use to select it, since it is ignored afterweards)

system-config-display runs the same Display Settings utility (to the
same effect :-( )

Carlos
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touch pad is supported in linux?

Posted: 12 Feb 2007 08:54 AM PST

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:54:10 +0900, kerneloops wrote:
 

tpconfig

http://www.compass.com/synaptics/

How to install Fedora Core 5 on laptop from HD?

Posted: 10 Feb 2007 07:46 PM PST

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On 2007-02-11, zalek spake thusly: 

Crossposting appropriate. Left in.

Just one comment really; Consider if you really need, or want, to run
Fedora core. I used it until six, when I decided that it was getting
more "unpolished" and hard to use with each subsequent version, rather
than getting better.

I resisted comments from others here that Fedora really is a distro
for experimentation and tweaking rather than ease of use and out
of the box functionality. I resisted it because I had devoted alot
of time trying to work the endless useage problems out. There isn't
anything inherently wrong with it. It just isn't the distro for
the guy who wants to install and use with a minimum of fuss. IMHO.
I started looking for a more friendly and complete-from-the-install
distro after I just about ripped my hair out with FC6. I've used quite
a few distro's over the years, but I haven't used any that can compare
to Ubuntu in completeness, simplicity of install, and ease of use.
It comes on a live disk that lets you install it if you like it. The
install asks a few brief questions, then does all the work for you.
I haven't ever used a better installer, and anaconda is an abortion
in comparison. It's going to take you by suprise. Root is handled
differently in ubuntu, and it takes some getting used to. But it's
fast, the add-remove is a breeze and actually works, unlike FC
add/remove and update which is prone to unreliability. Take a serious
look at moving on from FC. I did, and ubuntu is a joy to use.

My wife still runs fedora on her machine, and it keeps farting on
various things at verious times for no apparent reason. I haven't
*ever* had ubuntu do that on my machine. Too bad that she dosen't want
to change over. Oh well.

Best regards,

Mateus

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groups vs users

Posted: 10 Feb 2007 07:50 AM PST

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<co.uk>, Dave Stratford wrote:
 
 
 

OK - I should have done a bit more explaining. As stated, neither the
man or info pages ('man chmod' verses 'info chmod') give the greatest
explanation of what the flags do. Using the octal value rather than
the alphabetical values is just an experience thing. I'm used to working
with the numbers, and not as comfortable with the letters. Each method
has it's uses, strong and weak points.
 

You still need to be a member of the group (to have write access), but
you don't need to run the 'newgrp' command to make a specific group your
'primary' group ID. Yes - very handy.

The Xnnn numeric sequence has eight possible values (like the other
digits), but there are some differences in the effect on a directory
verses on a file. Also, how an 'ls -l' command _displays_ the resulting
mess is less obvious.

For directories, only 1xxx and 2xxx have meaning (4xxx does nothing). If
you look at /tmp or /var/tmp, you'll see that these directories are
readable/writable by everyone, and that _can_ be bad news when you have
"playful" users (like students in a class sharing a directory). So we
change permissions on that directory from '777' (the leading zero is
implied but not shown) which would be

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 2048 Jan 1 1970 /tmp

to '1777' which changes the "others" permission to 't' (o=t is the
letter version of the '1xxx' bit) and this gives

drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 2048 Jan 1 1970 /tmp

The effect of this change is that only the Owner of a file (and root)
can delete it. Without this, anyone who can _write_ to the directory can
also delete files in this directory, leading to much student hilarity.
You _may_ find someone setting a group directory to '1770' and setting
the group ownership to something like 'students' to prevent "outsiders"
from accessing the directory. This would show as

drwxrwx--T 1 root students 2048 Jan 1 1970 /tmp/students

Note the 'T' rather than a 't' - meaning that the sticky bit is set (1xxx)
but the 'others execute' permission is NOT set.

The '2xxx' permission on a directory (g=s) has been described upthread.
The not-very-useful permissions of 2740 (SGID, but without the execute
bit needed to _list_ the directory contents) would show up as a 'S'
rather than 's' in the ls output. (drwxr-S---).

Note that these actions are different for _files_ as compared to
directories. For files, the 2xxx and 4xxx permission causes
executable _binary_ files (does not apply to scripts) to be run with
the GID or UID of the file owner, rather than the person who actually
invoked the binary. The 1xxx bit has no effect any more, but used to
mean that if the file were swapped OUT of memory, it didn't have to
be saved to swap space, but would be reloaded from permanent disk
space when the file were swapped back IN. This is a relic of the past
when both RAM and disk space were expensive and could profitably be
used for other purposes.

Old guy

WLan Setup Problems

Posted: 10 Feb 2007 07:35 AM PST

On 10 feb, 16:35, Andre Betz <de> wrote: 

Seems to me the instance of your wireless driver is not loaded, or the
driver is not loaded at all.
lo en eth0 are never wireless devices.
try bringing it "up" with iwconfig <interface name> up

lilo problem:how can I increase the waiting time

Posted: 10 Feb 2007 05:38 AM PST

On 10 Feb 2007 05:38:38 -0800, vim
<com> wrote: 
Which version of Slackware are you using? Does Slackware still use lilo
instead of grub?

Try pressing shift when LILO appears. You should get a menu or a
"boot:" prompt.

If that doesn't work you may have to edit /etc/lilo.conf (look at
"delay=", "timeout=", "prompt", "install=" options).
man lilo.conf


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Ubuntu installation from hard disk ISO image

Posted: 08 Feb 2007 05:04 PM PST

The process will not leave your system in a broken state
if you do NOT
- create new partitions during install ; i.e install over an existing
ext3 partition
- Keep the ubuntu install on the windows partition and not on the ext3
parition where you intend to install Ubuntu
- you do not do something really silly

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Dell Optiplex GMT+ NIC on Install

Posted: 08 Feb 2007 03:46 PM PST

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<freeserve.co.uk>, Alan Adams wrote:
 
 

Gotcha! I'd forgotten about that. Thanks for the correction

Old guy

Access to environmental vars to PHP

Posted: 08 Feb 2007 07:57 AM PST

Slawek wrote:
 

Yes.


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"No init found " when boot up.

Posted: 08 Feb 2007 01:50 AM PST

kerneloops wrote:
 


Do you have a /etc/inittab ?

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Installing Linux on Intel DG965SS Motherboard

Posted: 07 Feb 2007 01:35 AM PST

I've assembled this one machine with:

Motherboard: Intel DG965SS
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Memory: DDR2-533 2 GB
HD: Barracuda 7200.10 SATA/250.0 GB/7200 rpm

For the main purpose of scientific development (high performance
computing).
So, I'm trying to find out what's the best Linux distro to work with
this hardware, the distro (not just the right kernel, but the best
hardware support, given this mobo is fully onboard) which has 100%
compatibility between hardware and OS.
This hard disk already has Windows XP Professional installed on it,
and I don't need to have both (Linux and Windows) running at the same
time, but if it is the only way to work, ok.
Can you give me few directions??? Tips??? Answers???

Thanks in advance,

Samuel. (anyone whom may help and answer directly, my e-mail address
is com)

Apache configuration file check httpd.conf

Posted: 06 Feb 2007 02:57 PM PST

On 7 Feb, 12:53, Davide Bianchi <net> wrote: 

And for programs that are not as well written as httpd, you can check
the init scripts in /etc/init.d to see if they use different
configuration files set manually. (Nagios does this). And you can run
"strings /usr/sbin/httpd" to see what strings are in the program
itself, and you can find whatever options it is started with and use
"strace httpd [options]" to see what really gets opened.

There are lots of tools: never be scared of learning the other
techniques: that way you know them when the first one doesn't work.

Thunderbird and line breaks on replies

Posted: 06 Feb 2007 08:12 AM PST

Jules wrote: 

I am using thunderbird. there is your message. Looks fine to me. I have seen a
problem that sounds like you describe with some AOL messages.

My quick solution is to replace the original replay message with a copy of the
original post. I insert a > only on the first of a group of lines I am replying to.

Agreed it is annoying.

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Volume/partition names

Posted: 05 Feb 2007 10:35 AM PST

On 2007-02-05, Bill Marcum <net> wrote:
 
 

Ah, yes. Much better:

[root@vector john]# file /dev/hda1
/dev/hda1: block special (3/1)

It appears the "-s" switch is required:

[root@vector john]# file -s /dev/hda1
/dev/hda1: Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data (needs journal recovery)



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"GRUB GRUB GRUB" repeating error

Posted: 04 Feb 2007 01:00 PM PST

Dan, you da man. That was it. Setting my drive to User Type instead
of auto detect did it. What a nightmare. A whole weekend down the
drain. But at least I'm on my way. Thanks a ton.

allie