February 1999 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SuSE Linux] 2.2.1 on SuSE 6.0
by linux1＠mail.crc.com 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

I discovered that I had to add a "sleep 3" to the /etc/rc.d/pcmcia at the end of the start block when I went to the 2.2.x kernels over the 2.0.36 kernels. -----Original Message----- From: Rachel Greenham <rachel(a)epinet.co.uk> at Internet <IMCEACCMAIL-Rachel+20Greenham+20+3Crachel+40epinet+2Eco+2Euk+3E+20at+20Inte rnet(a)mail.crc.com> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com at Internet <IMCEACCMAIL-suse-linux-e+40suse+2Ecom+20at+20Internet(a)mail.crc.com> Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 2:51 PM Subject: RE: [SuSE Linux] 2.2.1 on SuSE 6.0 > >zentara wrote: >> >> Rachel Greenham wrote: >> > >> > zentara wrote: >> >> > Hmm. >> > >> > My /etc/conf.modules does indeed hold the following: >> > >> > alias eth0 ne >> > options ne io=0x220 >> > >> > The fact remains that with the exact same scripts and conf.-files >2.2.1 >> > exhibits a fault that 2.0.36 doesn't. Albeit not a showstopper. >> >> I'm still waiting for my disks, so I'm just guessing. :-) >> >> Is it pnp? Maybe the card isn't getting setup right with >> the new "built-in-pnp" feature of the new kernel. >> Do the boot messages show the card being initialized? >> Did you enable the pnp feature of the 2.2.1 kernel? > >PNP is not enabled at any stage. I can't remember right now if it reads >the card details during bootup. > >-- >Rachel >- >To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with >this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e >Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the >archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>> > > > - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] SuSE 6.0 bug: Acrobat plugin for Netscape
by rachel＠epinet.co.uk 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

OK this is all with virgin stuff installed from SuSE 6.0, not downloaded or installed from anywhere else - the Acrobat Plugin for Netscape Communicator doesn't work because it's looking for libc5 (libc.so.5) and can't find it. The exact error message is: "ERROR: libc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Can't load plugin /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat3/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so. Ignored. The listed file ...nppdf.so is there, and accessible under my user, so I think it's the library that's missing not the plugin. :-) acroread itself seems to work OK. And I've just checked my /lib and guess what? No libc.so.5 (standard install from SuSE-Linux.6.0-evaluation, no subsequent modifications by me). I'm just looking at the SuSE ftp site... Downloading shlibs.rpm and shlibs5.rpm in the hope that this is what I need - although YAST *tells* me I already have them... Anyway, we'll see - this could of course kill my system... :-} Nope, that wasn't it. What should I do to run stuff that needs libc.so.5? (Hey, I thought Netscape needed it, but that's working... Is SuSE distributing the glibc version these days?) -- Rachel - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] BitchX is not an X application. :-)
by rachel＠epinet.co.uk 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

Just thought I'd mention it, as it's listed under xap for X applications (or Applications that run under X to be exact). It's a terminal program, not X. :-) Probably should be under n for Networking stuff - where ircii lives... -- Rachel - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] minimal rescue boot system
by mperry＠basin.com 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

I just downloaded a rather nice minimal boot rescue system that fits on a floppy diskette called ramfloppy. This includes utilities, will mount ide disks interactively with mount commands, and the process creates a bootable floppy diskette for those times you need it. It took me about 10 minutes to build the rescue diskette but you will need the RAR archiver/unarchiver to decompress it. Pretty cool stuff. It launches with mc running and an editor in place. Its at sunsite incoming now. -- Michael E. Perry mperry(a)basin.com ------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] 2.2.1 on SuSE 6.0
by rachel＠epinet.co.uk 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

Well, I've blasted my installation and put SuSE 6.0 on it from scratch - to be precise, the installation from the 6.0-evaluation directory, which was a reasonable size to mirror locally for the process. It works very nearly perfectly, except for the following: Running YAST resets KDM's backdrop settings to their defaults, overriding what's been set. Just the backdrop setting as far as I can tell. There were a couple of other oddities but they were probably my fault. :-} Then, with everything working fine (I like the "done" messages in green), I installed kernel 2.2.1 This seems to be working fine except: Loading of the network modules didn't work. The dummy and ne modules which are all I use didn't load on startup and those parts of the boot showed "Failed". This was fixed for the real network card by adding "modprobe 8390<lf>modprobe ne<lf>" at the start of /etc/rc.d/network - this may not be the best way of adding things to those scripts, but it does solve the problem for now. Definitive fix? However, it doesn't solve the Dummy driver not loading. "modprobe dummy" has no apparent effect in the same place. I'm not terribly worried about this as it doesn't seem to do very much at the best of times, but it's slightly irritating to see a failure notice. :-) -- Rachel - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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Re:[SuSE Linux] New Linux User
by dizzy73＠connix.com 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

Lenz Grimmer wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Delbaere, Tim wrote: > hard to recommend a certain one. Maybe you should start with "Linux for > Dummies" (no pun intended) or "Running Linux". You should have a look at > your local book store. > > Bye, > LenZ Id second the running Linux by Mat Walsh. Although I wouldnt waste any $ on the Dummies book. IMO the dummies book gives an overall snapshot of the picture similar to reading a newspaper rather than a book.The dummies book may be ok for your grandmother to read about what her grandson is interested in but wont do anything for you the user. An Excellent book on networking is The Linux Network by Butzon& Hilton.IDG books You'll also find the hard core reference to be from Oreilly. The best experience is from doing, get some tips from this list (once the fanfare of 6.0 and kerenl 2.1 dust settles maybe this list will go back to the basics) and apply them, make mistakes and you'll learn more of how linux and suse does things. Also lurk/read/print/file info from <A HREF="news:comp.os.linux.setup"><A HREF="news:comp.os.linux.setup</A">news:comp.os.linux.setup</A</A>> <A HREF="news:comp.os.linux.help"><A HREF="news:comp.os.linux.help</A">news:comp.os.linux.help</A</A>> rob ps: why does the replyto seem to go to only the sender? I strongly suspect my messages not making it to this list. Must i reply to *all*. Many messages Ive sent... Ive not seen appear on this list ideas? Linux Home page <A HREF="http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm"><A HREF="http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm</A">http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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Re: [SuSE Linux] grep recursive
by wybo＠servalys.hobby.nl 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

Ralph Clark wrote: > Honestly! You perl fanatics would write a perl script to do > anything. There is no need for this really, it can be done with > standard unix commands. Just pick one of the following: > > To print out all the matching lines themselves: > > 1) find <top-directory-name> -type f -exec grep '<string>' {} \; > > To print out the names of all the files which contained a matching string: > > 2) find <top-directory-name> -type f -exec grep -q '<string>' {} \; -print > or > 3) find <top-directory-name> -type f -exec grep -l '<string>' {} \; > > To print out both (with the file's name appearing _after_ each list > of matching strings) > > 4) find <top-directory-name> -type f -exec grep '<string>' {} \; -print > > I do this all the time. It might be interesting to compare memory > usage, CPU utilisation and execution time of these methods vs. the > above perl script. OK. First of all: find -f sees ELF binaries, .dvi- files etcetera, which you don't want to scan with grep-like programs. They can mess up your screen. Then: 1) does not show filenames at all, 2) and 3) work fine (except for the binaries) if you just want the filenames 4) shows the filenames at the end, which is not what you want because the output if difficult to parse. Even worse: you get the name on a separate line, and only after the last matching line. Finally: speed and memory usage: Your command 4): elap 1.104 user 0.600 syst 0.500 CPU 99.65 My script: elap 0.296 user 0.260 syst 0.030 CPU 97.82 Yes, you are slower, because you start a process for every file you find. Which is also why you use more memory. Its your turn!! I hope you'll also become a Perl fanatic, sometime. -- Hartelijke groet, Wybo Dekker ___________________Servalys Analytical Chemistry Services__________________ wybo(a)servalys.hobby.nl | Deilsedijk 60 | tel +31-345-652164 www.hobby.nl/~servalys | 4158 CH Deil, The Netherlands | fax +31-345-652383 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Linux Books
by nils＠bourbon.propertymall.com 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

Talking of Linux books, can anyone suggest a book that goes in depth into the Linux environment. What I am looking for is a book which does not give basic details of how to use Linux, but one which goes into details about system libraries (i.e. explaining a.out, ELF, glibc) and similiar topics? Nils nils(a)propertymall.com - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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Re: [SuSE Linux] grep recursive
by gordster＠juno.com 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

>I have to search all the files in a directory and its subdirectories >and their subdirectories for a string. > >I can search a directory at a time with fgrep 'string' *.*, but this >is >taking ages to do for every dirictory. >>Is their a way to grep recursively through the directories? I could >not find anything like that in the manual. > >Thanks >Nico >- A friend of mine has a utility called "tgrep" which does exactly what you describe. Has anyone else heard of this? If it's not available out there I could see about getting it to you. Gordy gordy(a)usjet.net ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at <A HREF="http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html"><A HREF="http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html</A">http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html</A</A>> or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Consumer NT? CXN take :)
by johnvv＠hotmail.com 05 Feb '99

05 Feb '99

Hello, I spent 2 full days killing myself with single-floppy-linux, and I can say that, if I cant handle the stress, how the h*ll is Gates gunna do it ?? :) So anyway, the ThinMan project is unfolding as a browser based java station running on a SuSE base/cyrix w/ the best pub-dom stuff I can find, with as much from IBM as possible. So I am interested in making an X version of CE, knowing full well that CE will never be a development envrio. Every set-top-box OS dilbert-ately locks down the user, the Corp/MBA is not here to enable you, he/she/they are here to knock you down, maintain control, and squeeze you for $. Needless to say there are companies that support the pub-dom/linux/gnu/artistic principles, but in the consumer market (or arena) the sadder reality is true, and Microsoft, with Bill Gates as founder, is inherit-ly committed to "the squeeze" >>Hey, johnvv, lighten up, its Friday OK Oh yea, I installed debian yesterday from floppies, and in the haze I accidently ordered SuSE. > ><A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3060.html"><A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3060.html</A">http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3060.html</A</A>> >- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at <A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com"><A HREF="http://www.hotmail.com</A">http://www.hotmail.com</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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