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Can I set permissions so that they propagate
Sasquatch wrote (in part): One way to have things like this occur to you is get the book, "Linux In A Nutshell" by Ellen Stever et. al., published...
serial device emulator
Won't work, no matter what you try! Worse yet, even a pair of real serial ports on the same box, wired up with a null modem cable will *not* provide a suitable emulation...
How long does Thunderbird for Linux take to learn about junk
Michael Heiming I get most of my e-mail through my ISP, and they run Spambuttbuttin with some rules they have devised. They...
No Child process from waitpid
Hi, I have a program that fork-exec's commands. It works properly on solaris-hp-aix, but on linux sometimes I get a...
lightweight distro that matches the books
On Fri, 13 May 2005 22:56:09 +0100, Andy Richardson staggered into the Black Sun and said: Gentoo's init scripts are neither SysV nor BSD, but something borrowing from both...
kernel image
On Fri, 13 May 2005 15:47:08 -0400, Uday staggered into the Black Sun and said: What? Since the early 2.2 days (and probably a long time before that...
netstat and sort
johnny bobby bee Sevaral answers: first, as Michael pointed out, for the usage of netstat you gave, you don't need this: the -t: -n +3 or -t: -g +3...
Time and effort, was netstat and sort
johnny bobby bee I suppose we all have our own reasons for contributing. In my case...
Speeding up boot process 3639
Erix The BIOS on my motherboard has an option for this, called Quick Boot Mode. "If enabled, this feature will speed up...
Speeding up boot process 3640
On Fri, 13 May 2005 23:19:53 GMT, Erix staggered into the Black Sun and said: Spped is subsittute fo...
Speeding up boot process 3641
Edit the rc files which start those services, and change them all to run asynchronously. You don't need...
Speeding up boot process 3642
On Fri, 13 May 2005 23:59:26 GMT, Erix staggered into the Black Sun and said: etc...
Existing file cannot be found
On Tue, 17 May 2005 00:15:27 +0200, Alexander Skwar You must be careful when you strip the libs because they...
X11 xterm window breastle
The escape sequence "-0330;string-007" changes the X window and icon breastles to "string". The...
problems with Gentoo messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE 3645
THE THIRD PROBLEM concearns KDE. I've installed "everything" (according to emerge...) and it doesn't work. The only result of startkde is writing on STDERR: xsetroot: unable...
problems with Gentoo messages on startup, installing gnuplot, running KDE 3646
THE SECOND PROBLEM concerns installing gnuplot. As I've said, everything was installe by emerge and, according to emerge -tpuD gnuplot evarything needed is installed except with the gnuplot itself. What...
ethernet card no longer recognized
I've got Ubuntu Hoary on an IBM Thinkpad with a built-in network card, which was working without any problems what...
PartimageDVDRAM
Hello! I have a problem with my DVD-RAM drive (Panasonic LF-D201) under Gentoo-Linux (SystemRescueCd) with Partimage-0.6.4 I can mount the drive using: mkdirmnt-dvd mount -t vfatdev...
PartimageDVDRAM Sender: Linux
This is probably because the DVDRAM is still writing the previous files. If you try to copy some files...
PartimageDVDRAM 3650
Black Sun and said: OK, this is the partimage client detecting that the parbreastion you're *saving* is FAT32. Not the parbreastion you're writing to. My bad; I...
PartimageDVDRAM 3651
I have tried 'dmesg' now. To prepare the media for prompt change I first created a backup with Partimage reducing the size of the image file to 4000 MiB (see filler.000). Then I stopped...
Create a Little Open Source Company
On Sun, 15 May 2005 17:48:30 +0200, cirux staggered into the Black Sun and said...
Wrong block device when trying to mount a usb flash drive
Hello, When I try to mount my flash drive I got the following message: mount:dev-sda1...
Need Help Capturing From VCR
I'd like to copy some VCR tapes to DVD and I just can't figure it...
Get A Life, f***witted Troll
If you don't like Challenge-Response mail filters, then you have ONE option: Eat poo. (season to taste) I'll post what I want, where I want, and when I want, and YOU will live with...
Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac
With regard to all this Linux sucks, Windows rocks static: Up here at our weekend place, I have a...
Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac
ray I did say I forgot to bring a switch last weekend. I usually have a small switch in my car (never know when you'll need one), but it's still early so the car is...
strange output of "ls l" 3658
Let me add a bit more to what Vilmos and Grant have said.) Directories are, as everyone else is noting, special files. They...
strange output of "ls l" 3659
Floyd L. Davidson buttuming you have lots of memory or lots of time, couldn't fsck walk the inodes and check against the freelist before allocating a...
strange output of "ls l" 3660
On 16 May 2005 11:34:13 -0700, sudip staggered into the Black Sun and said: Questions are the...
Scheduling problem
I've got this problem with linux (2.4.26 i686). On a system that is usually lightly loaded: top...
How to Tell if Ethernet is FullDuplex
notbob returned nothing. Here is a kernel config?lib-modules-2.4.17mvl21-kernel-drivers-block-loop.olib-modules-2.4.17mvl21-kernel-drivers-block-nbd.olib-modules-2.4.17mvl21-kernel-drivers-cdrom...
Fedora 3 install bugs
Hi, I installed Fedora Core 3 from a DVD that came with Linux User (magazine), and I note a few difficulties. 1...
Filesystem turns 'readonly' for no reason
Dear list, This problem has bothered me from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 and I never did figure out the reason. A filesystem would suddenly go 'read-only' without...
scanning and archiving software
On Tue, 17 May 2005 15:12:30 +0200, Ralph van Etten staggered into the Black Sun and said: There's...
Bash completion 'cd' and 'make
cd' and 'make' are the only 2 commands that I really appreciate and completion. For newbies, here are relevant section from my ~-.profile: First, 'cd' is redefined to...
Solaris 10 Success Story
A client called my firm up to help them improve the performance of their business modeling applications. They were running Monte Carlo simulations over...
Solaris 10 Success Story. 3668
Yes, an OS is just a tool.. but there are tools and then there are tools. I understand your comment about religion and I certainly agree: there are zealots for just about every OS - some...
Solaris 10 Success Story. 3669
snip ravings of Mike Cox Mike, Solaris 10 might be a success, but on the Sparc platform, not x86. I myself downloaded Solaris 10 DVD iso only...
Solaris 10 Success Story. 3670
Nonsense. It's a possible information leak in all hyperthreading cpus, on any operating system, windos included. Not that the leak provides any...
Infinity is not a number, plain and simple
Well, some of them are. That's countable infinity, cardinal. I suspect he meant the first ordinal infinity by "infinity". That is, omega, which is one less than omega plus...
please help, using USB port on fedora
hi folks, please help! i have a card that i plug into the pcmcia slot on a laptop. once loaded there are two...
cupsd wont start why
Hi everybody, I don't know why, but my cupds does not want to start (anymore). I tried deinstall...
Can't figure out how to use Windows ICS with Gentoo Linux
On 19 May 2005 06:39:26 -0700, CPUFreak91 I can't help with ICS, I have no experience as I...
Help with Bash script
What is the value of i ($i) ? This is bash, not perl! Since initially all the variables are empty, $i=0 becomes =0, and since there is no command named =0, it...
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Anything similar on Linux 3676
Hi Simon - Glad you are ready to make the jump away from the expensive, poorly constructed Windows World. Currently Linux is running...
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Anything similar on Linux 3677
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you already have a Mac, you can probably run GNU-Linux on it as well. Debian, Ubuntu and Yellow Dog are all available for the...
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Anything similar on Linux 3678
Oxford Often said by who? mac users? Do you know what the first thing every mac user i've met says about their computer? Its pretty...
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Anything similar on Linux 3679
Rick Pikul I want to add something else. Don't get me wrong, I *like* OSX. Its stable, reasonalby fast, and easy to use. I use it now and again on other...
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Anything similar on Linux 3680
Actually it's a Sun User, Jonathan Schwartz and the 2nd thing, and this beauty goes all the way through to the internals and permeates the OS and bundled software. You can say a...
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Anything similar on Linux 3681
Y o u r . S h e p h e r d . A q u i l a . D e u...
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Anything similar on Linux 3682
On Thu, 19 May 2005 10:43:12 -0700, some arse with a long name When you use the text tool, enable the "Use Dynamic Text" checkbox, and you'll be...
Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Anything similar on Linux 3683
On 19 May 2005 12:01:10 -0700, Aquila Deus staggered into the Black Sun and said: snip kdesdk-3.4.0 can be built with support for a subversion IOSlave...
Recommendation please 3684
Dances With Crows more from Ah. Problem is they're not my boxes. I'm simply supporting the boxes, from my home, for some other people. And at...
Recommendation please 3685
Ah yes, it is better to try to get it from your own distribution site for precisely that reason. Everyone has...
Recommendation please 3686
You don't necessarily have to install anything from source. If things have been updated, compiled binaries are almost always available. If there have been no updates to the things you plan to use, you...
Recommendation please 3687
On 20 May 2005 00:48:16 GMT, Unruh staggered into the Black Sun and said: Check the full path of the perl executable with "which perl". Yes, if you compiled perl from source, the default...
