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Alias file
by jayhen＠wanadoo.nl 21 Dec '00

21 Dec '00

Message-ID: <3A4226C1.50EF2F7D(a)wanadoo.nl> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:50:25 +0100 From: jayhen <jayhen(a)wanadoo.nl> Subject: Alias file I know that this is a lame question but I'm looking for the alias file that contails the information below so that I can add some aliases of my own. I have tried to make an alias and .alias file but neither works. What am I over looking? Here is some more information that might be helpful. 1) As a normal user I can use these aliases but I cannot find the alias file to add my own aliases. 2) As root I cannot use these aliases and I can find the files aliases and aliases.db but aliases contains other information. 3) If I enter the connand newaliases, none of the aliases work as root or a user. alias +='pushd .' alias -='popd' alias ..='cd ..' alias ...='cd ../..' alias A:='echo -e '\''Error: There is no such thing as a drive A: in Un*x!\n Use mtools, mount or autofs to access your floppy.'\''' alias C:='echo -e '\''Error: There is no such thing as a drive C: in Un*x!\n Your harddisk should already be mounted (via /etc/fstab or autofs).'\''' alias beep='echo -en "\x07"' alias cd..='echo '\''Error: Try: cd ..'\''' alias chkdsk='echo -e '\''Error: Your filesystems are checked on bootup.\n If you want to do it manually, use fsck.\n Use df and mount for an overview of your disks.'\''' alias copy='echo '\''Error: Try the command: cp -piv'\''' alias del='echo '\''Error: Try the command: rm -iv'\''' alias dir='ls -l' alias dos2unix='recode ibmpc..lat1' alias format='echo -e '\''Error: The D*S concept of formatting a disk is screwed.\n Maybe you want to create a filesystem? Use mkfs then.'\''' alias l='ls -alF' alias la='ls -la' alias ll='ls -l' alias ls='ls $LS_OPTIONS' alias ls-l='ls -l' alias md='mkdir -p' alias mem='echo '\''Error: Try the command: free'\''' alias move='echo '\''Error: Try the command: mv -iv'\''' alias o='less' alias rd='rmdir' alias rehash='hash -r' alias unix2dos='recode lat1..ibmpc' alias unmount='echo "Error: Try the command: umount"' alias ver='echo '\''Error: Try the command: uname -a'\''' alias which='type -p' Regards, Jay

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UDMA controller questions...yet again...
by Chris.Smith＠raytheon.co.uk 21 Dec '00

21 Dec '00

Message-Id: <OF9D4D51B5.75801A9D-ON802569BC.003F040C(a)raytheon.co.uk> From: Chris.Smith(a)raytheon.co.uk Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:49:51 +0000 Subject: UDMA controller questions...yet again... Hi, I've asked this before, and I've read some reports on the mailing list archives regarding this but I'm still stuck. Is there any way to determine if the UDMA controller is running in mode 5 (UDMA100)??? It works, and it's quick but I really need to know how quick as all I can say at the moment is `it feels quicker than my old ATA33'. Thats bloody useless - even win2k is more helpful (for once). hdparm and bonnie are *not* acceptable as they dont tell you what transfer mode the drive and controller are in AFAIK. Transfer mode is very important!!!! Can someone pull finger-out and write an up to date SDB article on UDMA too so we can clear this up? There are loads of posts in the mailing lists regarding this - mainly people asking the same question I am. Also, the SDB is our first port of call. FYI I'm using an Intel DE815EEA mobo with 2 very nice IBM Deskstar 30G 75GXP disks. This setup is about as standard as it gets as Intel made the chipset and IBM made the disks :) Cheers, - Chris.

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Konqeuror crashes on this URL
by koos_pol＠nl.compuware.com 21 Dec '00

21 Dec '00

From: "Koos Pol" <koos_pol(a)nl.compuware.com> Date: 21 Dec 2000 08:41:01 CET Message-Id: <20001221074103.8548B8281(a)bitbucket.extern.uniface.nl> Subject: Konqeuror crashes on this URL Hello folks, Can some of you guys verify if konqueror crashes on this url? Which version of KDE do you use? http://www.postbank.nl On SuSE 6.3 my privately compiled KDE2 behaves typical: - The GA version renders the page OK - 2.01 version crashes. - The CVS version (cvs updated last night) crashes also. Konqueror just disappears without any error messages or other feedback. Thanks, -- Koos Pol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S.C. Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol(a)nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available

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[SLE] UDMA controller questions...yet again... (addendum)
by Chris.Smith＠raytheon.co.uk 21 Dec '00

21 Dec '00

Message-Id: <OF42148B74.22345100-ON802569BC.00459B44(a)raytheon.co.uk> From: Chris.Smith(a)raytheon.co.uk Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:00:43 +0000 Subject: [SLE] UDMA controller questions...yet again... (addendum) Hi, A little addendum for my last question. Excuse the FreeBSD references - this is just to illustrate my point in a little more detail for the uneducated. I am not trying to flame or Troll, just to compare the verbosity of the ATA controller outputs of Linux and FreeBSD. FreeBSD is far easier to debug and get performance info from, but the graphics hardware support sucks compared to Linux (which is why I use Linux most of the time as I rather like Unreal Tournament). >From the FreeBSD 4.2 manpage ata(4) - supported devices:- --------------------------------------------------------- Intel ICH0 Ultra DMA 33 (UDMA2), 33 MB/sec Intel ICH Ultra DMA 66 (UDMA4), 66 MB/sec Intel ICH2 Ultra DMA 100 (UDMA5), 100 MB/sec >From the FreeBSD 4.2 Release notes:- ------------------------------------ The ata(4) driver now has support for ATA100 controllers. [4.1.1] The ata(4) driver now has support for tagged queueing, which is enabled by the ATA_ENABLE_TAGS option. It also supports the ServerWorks ROSB4 ATA33 chipset, the CMD 648 ATA66 and CMD 649 ATA100 chipsets, and the Cyrix 5530. It also has support for ATA "pseudo" RAID controllers, including the Promise Fasttrak and HighPoint HPT370 controllers. Example dmesg (not my system):- ------------------------------- ad0: 3093MB <FUJITSU MPB3032ATU> [6704/15/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 ad1: 1040MB <M1614TA> [2114/16/63] at ata0-slave using WDMA2 acd0: CDROM <BCD-24X 1997-06-27> at ata1-master using WDMA2 This for example (if I was near my system), would look like:- ad0: 30700MB <IBM DLTA-307030> [x/y/z] at ata0-master using UDMA100 ad1: 30700MB <IBM DLTA-307030> [x/y/z] at ata1-master using UDMA100 etc... I cant get a reliable source of these *simple* bits of information for SuSE7 and/or *any* linux distro. This is not aimed directly at SuSE BTW - just Linux in general. Does anyone keep track of any of this - I just want to know a simple thing such as my current transfer mode... Note: Please feel free to beat me with a stick repetitively if I have missed something very simple... - Chris.

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Back to SuSE!
by eagleice＠post.netlink.se 21 Dec '00

21 Dec '00

From: EagleIce <eagleice(a)post.netlink.se> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:09:32 +0100 Message-Id: <00122015093203.01244(a)localhost.localdomain> Subject: Back to SuSE! Hello SuSE'rs......:-) I've been away for awhile running Mandrake 7.2, while re-constructing my box I moved all of my material over to Mandrake and made a new SuSE 7.0 installation. Now when I want to move all of it back to SuSE I notice that all of the folders (/home) are locket. Now I wonder if someone can tip me of a simple command to give me the all rights to do whatever I want with my Mandrake /home. In both cases the user name is eagleice and the same password. Cheers! ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ gnu4u(a)linux.nu ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@

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Re: [SLE] 2 nic
by sfbarbee＠yahoo.com 21 Dec '00

21 Dec '00

Message-ID: <20001221083950.5884.qmail(a)web1606.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 00:39:50 -0800 (PST) From: Stuart Barbee <sfbarbee(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] 2 nic Sorry for reply to your post Maurizio but I did not have original post. I recently added a 2nd nic to my pc to create a firewall/gateway and experienced a similar situation. Improper configuration on the firewall caused the external nic not to get connected to the dhcp server of my isp. After timing out the first time, the external nic would not establish a connection to the dhcp server even after I disabled the firewall and rebooted. The resolution was I had to shutdown, remove the internal (not the external) nic, reboot (causing linux to spit out errors reporting no device, etc.). I then shutdown again, re-inserted the internal nic, rebooted (w/o the firewall) and my external nic would then get connected to the dhcp server and get an ip. After making sure my firewall config allowed connection to the dhcp server I restarted the firewall and now everything works on bootup. I have been able to repeat this scenario consistently. I don't know if the nics make the difference or what. I am using a Farallon 10baseT nic for external connection (ne2k-pci driver) and a Lynksys 10/100TX nic (tulip driver) for the internal connection. I have SuSE 6.4 installed w/ ipchains, masquerading turned on. I would suggest the user try removing/reinserting the nics and make sure no firewall rules are blocking connection to the dhcp (if this is the case). Stuart --- Maurizio Firmani <m.firmani(a)sirio.regione.lazio.it> wrote: > What do you mean with "looses the gateway"? I have a > system with two nics, SuSE > 7.0 and all the packets travels back and forth. Did > you execute the command: > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > You can also set it in /etc/rc.config to execute it > at boot time. > > Maurizio > > I > > > > I have installed suse 7.0 on my system > > and i have tried to add another card > > after i select the driver and configure its > ipsettings > > from yast and reboot the system, it looses the > gateway > > > > can some one tell me how to add another nic > without > > loosing the gatway so that the system would boot > > and enable and use both nic?? > > > > regards > > Mat > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe send e-mail to > suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com > For additional commands send e-mail to > suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the FAQ at > http://www.suse.com/support/faq > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

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remote login
by schvansj＠whitman.edu 21 Dec '00

21 Dec '00

From: Steve Schvaneveldt <schvansj(a)whitman.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:54:56 -0500 Message-Id: <00122022555703.31159@camela> Subject: remote login I am begging for help. I am running SuSE 6.4 on a pentium host. Everything looks great. I am using an old IBM RISC/6000 to X over remotely to the pentium host as an X-terminal. On the terminal - I have the following problems when connected to the host. None of these problems exist when logged into the host locally: 1. Netscape crashes regularly. 2. StarOffice is buggy - for example the formula editors symbols are all garbled. 3. gifs and jpgs are washed out in color. Graphics are poor in general. 4. other programs crash regularly. Again, everything is great when logged into the host directly. Even the fonts in the formula editor in Office. The problems come about only during the remote login. xfs configured poorly? How do I fix this? (Or more likely - the several problems.) One other twist that may be a clue. Rasmol works _remotely_ - but not locally! Thanks for any tutoring, Steve

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Problem with some KDE2 update RPMs
by avi＠CFFtechnologies.com 21 Dec '00

21 Dec '00

Message-ID: <3A41A4D2.D6B5297D(a)CFFtechnologies.com> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 00:36:02 -0600 From: Avi Schwartz <avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com> Subject: Problem with some KDE2 update RPMs Hi, Couple of days ago some new KDE2 upgrade RPMs appeared in /pub/suse/i386/KDE2/update_for_7.0. It seems that some of the RPMs have a problem since they are not recognized as RPMs. For example, I have a problem with the following files (but these are not the only ones with the problem): kinternet-0.2-3.rpm kdebase-devel-2.0.1-1.rpm kdebase-ksysguardd-2.0.1-1.rpm kdebase-nsplugin-2.0.1-1.rpm kdegraphics-devel-2.0.1-1.rpm Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux

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Access Linux from Windows
by raghav＠easi.soft.net 21 Dec '00

21 Dec '00

Message-ID: <3A3DA0FC.14FADE2E(a)easi.soft.net> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:00:36 +0530 From: Raghavendra R <raghav(a)easi.soft.net> Subject: Access Linux from Windows Hi, I have a system loaded with Windows 95 and Linux. Is there anyway of accessing my Linux filesystem from Windows 95?? Can VNC be used for this?? Raghav

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Re: [SLE] Back to SuSE! MORE ?
by kuhlmav＠elec.canterbury.ac.nz 21 Dec '00

21 Dec '00

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:03:21 +1300 (NZDT) From: Volker Kuhlmann <kuhlmav(a)elec.canterbury.ac.nz> Message-id: <200012210103.OAA06238(a)lupus.elec.canterbury.ac.nz> Subject: Re: [SLE] Back to SuSE! MORE ? > How can one cp things to another HD partition as a backup. Although there may be versions of cp which alow this (e.g. GNU, butthere might also be the only ones), one doesn't take the risk and uses rsync -auH. With --delete if you like. Volker

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