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Posted: 27 Sep 2008 12:10 PM PDT

The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote: 

You can also use dselect.

Mark.

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REQ: Distro recommendation for a newbie

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 09:17 AM PDT

"Ralink RT73 chipset"

OK, but the problem is, one USB stick I have already tried is Ralink RT73
based - and didn't work under PCLOS2007 / Ubuntu (or several others whose
names escape me again). Still, I can try the actual Dlink version.

Thanks for the updates.

DDS

Linux Partitioning Layout

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 08:26 PM PDT

Well, how about this one:
I am planning this layout for PRODUCTION SERVER(Linux,Apache,
PHP,MySQL) - about 4 websites with MySQL backend
and around 10 websites with static content, so I am trying to optimize
it for MySQL.

Server has 16GB RAM.

Based on your advice and some googling I have this layout so far.
Please feel free to critize it( + explanation so we all can learn
something)

================================================== =====
Device | Mount Point | File System | Size |
================================================== =====
"RAID 1"(hardware RAID) capacity 146GB (2 x 146GB Serial-Attach SCSI)

/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 100 MB
/swap swap 16 GB
/dev/sda2 / ext3 40 GB
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 40 GB


on "RAID 10"(hardware RAID) capacity 146GB (4 x 73GB Serial-Attach
SCSI)
I create separate partitions for security(and protect from
overflowing)
and performance reasons.

/tmp tmpfs 10 GB


Primary partitions
/dev/sdb1 /var ext3 20 GB
/dev/sdb2 /var/lib/mysql ext3 60 GB
/dev/sdb3 /var/log/mysql ext3 20 GB


Extended partition
/dev/sdb4 ext3 20 GB
Logical partitions in sdb4:
/dev/sdb5 /var/tmp ext3 6 GB
/dev/sdb6 /var/spool ext3 6 GB
/dev/sdb7 /var/mail ext3 6 GB

Keymap Issue

Posted: 24 Sep 2008 06:54 PM PDT

Chuck writes: 

Sounds like some idiot hard-coded the Wyse keys into his application
instead of using the curses library or least using terminfo directly. This
was, unfortunately, common. I no longer remember the Wyse codes and don't
have any references on hand, but you may be able to dig what you need out
of the terminfo data base. You can either try to find the source or use
the infocmp command to reconstruct it. On my Debian system
'infocmp -B /usr/share/terminfo/w/ -L wyse60' does the job.
'man 5 termcap' for the format.

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Fedora Core 2 on x86_64 with 4GB RAM

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 01:01 PM PDT

John Hasler <gt.org> wrote: 

Not entirely certain... It depends on the age of the motherboard (and
relevant chipsets in the machine)...

FC2 is 5 years out of date now. So any newer hardware might be a bit of a
struggle to get working.
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Multiple USB serial ports

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 09:04 AM PDT

I'm interested in serial ports rather than storage devices or
ethernets, so anything that uses data on the disk (label) or
the host-ID won't work.

I managed to do what I wanted with something like this in
a udev rule file:

ID=="1-4.1:1.0", MODE="0666", SYMLINK+="gpsusb3", OPTIONS="last_rule"

I got the magic ID text by watching /var/log/messages while plugging
a device in. (There is a hub in there on an extender cable.)

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any linux distro that sets up like windows?

Posted: 20 Sep 2008 11:42 PM PDT

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<com>, Grant wrote:
 
 
 

No personal experience with it - neither of the companies where my wife
and I work use windoze, and we got rid of it at home before microsoft
discovered the concept of multiple users on a system. I'm always
hesitant to write to a non-native filesystem (especially a proprietary
one). Make sure you're using a kernel newer than 2.6.26, as there have
been several problems with the FUSE including one specific to NTFS-3G
corrupting files. See commit 78bb6cb9a890d3d50ca3b02fce9223d3e734ab9b
which actually dates from May 12, 2008.

Old guy

Printing PDFs through CUPS

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 03:26 PM PDT

Everything appears to look OK, and the doent dimensions are correct
in print previews or doing a `pdfinfo` on the file.

The label size is defaulted to 4x6" in the printer options, and the
IPP class just sends the PDF directly to CUPS.

The "re-size" is apparently happening during one of the CUPS filter
stages, as I get this in the error_log initially:

D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] width = 300, height = 500
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] PageSize = [ 216 360 ],
HWResolution = [ 100 100 ]
(...)
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] Updating PageSize to [216
360]...
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] size = w216h360

Which then changes later on in the log:

D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] Updating PageSize to [612
792]...
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] size = Custom
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] margins[] = [ 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ]
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] Reallocating memory, [612
792] = 1725x2233 pixels...
(...)
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] width = 1725, height = 2233
D [21/Sep/2008:16:39:47 -0400] [Job 161] PageSize = [ 612 792 ],
HWResolution = [ 203 203 ]

Which leads me to think one of the filters is misreading/not
interpreting the doent dimensions and defaulting to US letter
(we're in a North American locale so this would make sense).

Thanks,

Phil.

On Sep 20, 6:08am, donottypethisbit.com (Mark
Hobley) wrote: 

when is the file /etc/profile and /etc/environment loaded

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 11:44 AM PDT

Mark Hobley wrote: 

Some of us prefer to keep such settings in /etc/profile.d, where most Linux
systems allos them to be set on a file-by-file bases by including them from
/etc/profile.d if they end with *.sh.

Manually setting /etc/profile on a system by basis is fraught with hazard.

Using Linux in RAM...

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 09:01 AM PDT

Pascal Hambourg wrote: 

And I thank them for correcting me.
 

Technically, that's true. But perhaps as an effect of the prioritising
of pages for swapping, combined with typical usage patterns for /tmp, it
is often much faster to use tmpfs for /tmp even though you may need a
larger swap file, as compared to using the same space for a /tmp partition.

Another reason I mention it is that use of swap space is one of the big
differences between tmpfs and other ram disks, which typically are
allocated non-swappable memory.