Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #179
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 05:14:56 EDT

Linux-Admin Digest #179, Volume #2               Wed, 12 Oct 94 05:14:56 EDT

Contents:
  Unable to handle page == hardware problem ? (Martin-D. Lacasse)
  Re: Please don't post security holess... (Jeff Kesselman)
  dosld for Linux (Bleisch Paul L)
  Re: XFree86 3.1 and Linux on CD? (Colin Telmer)
  Re: Dial-in and Dial-out on one modem? (Thomas Quinot)
  problem with 2GB SCSI drives (Richard Shetron)
  problems with >1GB SCSI drives on linux (Richard Shetron)
  Re: Cron Problems - Script runs from shell but not cron (Stephen Vance)
  Serial cards (Drivers) (Phillip Hardy)
  Bus mouse (Todd Fries)
  ftp sites for linux (Chris Sorge)
  Linux and Solairs (Donald Griffin (CE))
  Re: InterViews/ where?? (Murray Dawson)
  Re: help with FTape (G. E. Terry)
  Re: Please don't post security holess... (La'szlo' Lada'nyi)
  Re: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux (Harald Milz)
  Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Harvey J. Stein)
  [H] missing "Close" item onSWiM motif menu (david her)
  Re: CD-ROMs (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
  Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
  Re: HELP with CDROM problems (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
  Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.) (Sam Brown)
  Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.) (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  Re: Hardware Compatability Guide for linux? (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)

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From: [email-masked] (Martin-D. Lacasse)
Subject: Unable to handle page == hardware problem ?
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 14:37:24 GMT

        My linux box is in Wonder Land!

        My machine stopped booting (either 1.1.27, 1.1.50, or 1.1.52)
        with the message vaguely like:
        Unable to handle page request at virtual address ...
        right after the partition check (before mounting root).

        I can boot from a floppy, mount all my partitions, install the swap.
        But no way to boot from my IDE drive. 
        I reinstalled lilo, fsck'ed all my partitions, rebuilt the
        swap, shuffled memory simms, but still...
        Oh! BTW, dos still works but what can I do with it? :-(

        What's up doc?

Martin

 """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 Martin-D. Lacasse                   internet: [email-masked]
 Physics Department                     voice: (514) 398-7027
 McGill University                        fax: (514) 398-8434
 Montreal, Quebec, Canada       named on fire: 132.206.6.10
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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Kesselman)
Subject: Re: Please don't post security holess...
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 23:41:54 GMT

Yeah, what Patrick said.

Surely the man who thinks his breaking into MY machine and using MY 
system resources for something I didn't intend is not a crime wouldnot 
mind if I broke into his car and borrowed it to run drugs??? I'll return 
it as soon as I'm done.....

As Patrick ably poinetd out the issue is that the system in question 
belongs to someone else who did NOT give you permission to use it.  Myabe 
in YOUR house nobody cared if you took your parents stuff without asking, 
but in MY up bringing that was considred immoral.

JK

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From: [email-masked] (Bleisch Paul L)
Subject: dosld for Linux
Date: 11 Oct 1994 19:14:52 GMT

I posted a similar article to comp.unix.questions a few days ago and 
thought I would come to you all too.  I want to know if there is a DOS 
linker for Linux?  I know SCO has one available and I need to finish up a 
DOS project (chuckle chuckle) but I don't want to give up the Linux 
environment.  What my plans were.... 
        a) find a linker (I like this idea <g>)
        b) see if DJGPP's linker will compile and work easily under Linux)
        c) write one... (EGADS I don't like this IDEA at all)

Thanks
Paul 

BTW - I could just reboot and load DOS 6.2, but the novelty of writing 
DOS apps under Linux is... well funny to me.
Later

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From: [email-masked] (Colin Telmer)
Subject: Re: XFree86 3.1 and Linux on CD?
Date: 12 Oct 1994 01:45:27 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Jae Yim <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Is there anyone out there that has both of these on CD, Yggdrasil's Fall 94 
>has XFree86 3.0.  

InfoMagic's 2 CD set includes the new 3.1 starting tomorrow, Wednesday 
the 12th.
-- 
==================================================================
Colin R. Telmer                       Department of Economics
Email: [email-masked]   Queen's University, Kingston
Office: (613)545-2269                 Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6

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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Quinot)
Subject: Re: Dial-in and Dial-out on one modem?
Date: 10 Oct 1994 18:31:00 +0100

Le Prostetnic Vogon Viktor T. Toth écrit :
 
> > [...] If I turn
> >echo off (Q1E0) then cu never sees the "CONNECT" message.

> Just a small comment: you turn echo off with E0 but this has no effect on the 
> display of CONNECT and other status messages. Q1 on the other hand turns off 
> those messages (result codes). So it is entirely possible that your system 
> would work with an ATE0Q0 for both dial-in and dial-out.

IMHO the best one is E0Q2, that is modem response codes enabled in originate
mode (for things such as uucp dialout chat-scripts), and disabled in answer
mode (then you just have to find a getty that opens the serial port in
blocking mode : it will sit around till it senses something on the Carrier
Detect line.)

-- 
Thomas QUINOT                       |  "Un roi sans divertissement est un
<[email-masked]>      |             homme plein de misère."
Linux - choice of a GNU generation  |                          Jean GIONO

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From: [email-masked] (Richard Shetron)
Subject: problem with 2GB SCSI drives
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 18:23:08 GMT

We have a 2.1GB Micropolis drive that we are using as a news spool.
when it fills up above about 1GB, the filesystem starts becomming corrupt.
We have tried this on two different machines, one with an adaptec 1542B
and one with a 1740A.

We are runing slackware 2.0 and linux 1.1.33 with the ext2 file system.

The root/boot drive is IDE.

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From: [email-masked] (Richard Shetron)
Subject: problems with >1GB SCSI drives on linux
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 18:19:28 GMT

We have a 2.1GB Micropolis drive that we are using as a news spool.
when it fills up above about 1GB, the drive starts becomming corrupt.
We have tried this on two different machines, one with an adaptec 1542B
and one with a 1740A.

We are runing slackware 2.0 and linux 1.1.33 with the ext2 file system.

The root/boot drive is IDE.

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From: [email-masked] (Stephen Vance)
Subject: Re: Cron Problems - Script runs from shell but not cron
Date: 11 Oct 1994 10:50:19 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Brian Kramer) writes:
>
>I am having trouble with some scripts running fine from a prompt, but not
>from cron.  Here's one of the scripts.  Anyone else have problems like this?
>
        [script snipt]

        I haven't played with cron yet on Linux, but on several other Un*ces
it *requires* that scripts be written in Bourne shell.

Steve

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From: [email-masked] (Phillip Hardy)
Subject: Serial cards (Drivers)
Date: 11 Oct 1994 22:50:50 GMT

I have the following multi-port serial cards..
i am after Drivers/info for these.

1. 
AST 4port CC-832 
 I need a octopus Connector DB-50 to 4x DB-9 or 4x DB-25
 Or the pin outs for the DB-50 connector.
also ;-) the dipswitch setings.

2.
Stallion Anvil V 3.2 I 16 Port. (I intelegent??)
 I need the Drivers? and any info on this card. ie. has it
got 16550's and has it got handshakeing....

Anyone got a spare manual for this one? or know the jumper/dip switch
setings

--
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From: [email-masked] (Todd Fries)
Subject: Bus mouse
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:31:28 GMT

I am having a problem figuring out how to get the /dev/bmousems driver for
my mouse to appear.  I've no clue which part of the distribution, if any,
should have it...the selections command is the one that is giving me the
problems, so I don't have any clue how to find the drivers, although I 
did re-compile the kernel, so that it includes bus-mouse support...

Please someone help...

Later, Todd [email-masked] 

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From: [email-masked] (Chris Sorge)
Subject: ftp sites for linux
Date: 12 Oct 1994 01:24:01 GMT

Hi all,

     This is my first time posting in this group, and would really appreciate
help you could give me as far as sites go to ftp linux.  All responses
are greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Chris

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From: [email-masked] (Donald Griffin (CE))
Subject: Linux and Solairs
Date: 11 Oct 1994 19:08:05 GMT

I am trying to run answerbook from a sun-10 (solaris 2.3), to my linux 
box (XFree 2.11) via xhost.  I get the answerbook screen, but when I try 
to display a page it says that it cant start the viewer.  I believe the 
viewer uses xnews but I dont appear to have an xnews client on my Linux 
box (The same thing happens when I try to launch imagetool).  Is there 
anyway to get these machines to co-exist happily??
                                Thanks
                                Chris
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Murray Dawson)
Subject: Re: InterViews/ where??
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 94 00:59:07 GMT

interviews.stanford.edu

---
|            - Murray I. Dawson -             |  
|        [email-masked]       |
|       Signal Processing Research Centre     |
|   QUT, GPO 2434, Brisbane 4001, Australia.  |
| phone: +61 7 864 2459 | fax: +61 7 864 1516 |

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From: [email-masked] (G. E. Terry)
Subject: Re: help with FTape
Date: 12 Oct 1994 02:39:58 GMT

BRAD A ODEGARD ([email-masked]) wrote:
: okay, i took someone's advice and upgraded my kernel again to 1.1.52
: and that seems to have solved one problem, but another has popped up
: when i try to compile the ftape module under 1.1.52 now :(

: once again:
: ftape-1.13b     
: kernel 1.1.52
: and i get this while trying to compile the ftape module...

: fdc-io.c: In function `fdc_grab_irq_and_dma':
: fdc-io.c:949: warning: implicit declaration of function `irqaction'
: fdc-io.c:954: too few arguments to function `request_dma'
: make: *** [fdc-io.o] Error 1
:  
: any ideas?
: thanks Brad

Did you apply the irq_dma patch to ftape? It sounds like you didn't. Its
available on sunsite and mit right next to ftape-1.13b.

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From: [email-masked] (La'szlo' Lada'nyi)
Subject: Re: Please don't post security holess...
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 15:27:40 GMT

[email-masked] (M. K. Shenk) writes:
[...]
>>>                                        Penetrating the security of a 
>>> computer system is totally harmless in and of itself.
>>
>>This is your opinion, and you would probably find that 99% of 
>>administrators will disagree with you.
>>
>No.  This is a true statement.  READ.  "In and of itself."  Meaning--when
>the system says "Password:" and I say "Susan" and I hang up, this is
>totally harmless IN AND OF ITSELF.  If 99% of admins disagree, well, then 
>99% of admins can't think straight. 
This reminds me of the joke:
A guy is driving on the higway and listens to the radio. It say: "Attention!
There is a crazy driver driving the wrong way on the highway!" The guy is 
amazed: "One? All of them!"...

Seriously. I do not agree with you. If 99% of admins are against your opinion 
you still might be right, but the probabilities are *very* low.
And if you want to be shown something you really steal when breaking in,
then two things:
CPU cycles. Others have to pay for them and you don't pay. (Yes, even 
universities have a theoretical value for CPU hours and if they sell 
time to companies they have to pay for it, even if the ordinary user,
e.g. an employee of the univ, or a student doesn't have to pay, and it 
seems free.)
You yourself mentioned that you might break in just to use a compiler
you do not have access to. Well, wherever you break in and they have that 
compiler, they have paid for it. (It might be a free software, but I don't 
think so, since in that case you likely would have to access to it.) So
if they paid for it then you are using other's property without their
permission.
These are just two examples and I'm sure there are more.

I do hope that in time you'll realize that you are mistaken - at least in
the opinion of 99% of the admins.

Laci Ladanyi

-- 
======================================================================
| Laci Ladanyi           | God made one mistake when he created man: |
| [email-masked] |     He wrote self-modifying code ...      |
======================================================================

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From: [email-masked] (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: [Q] Commercial Software on Linux
Reply-To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 17:37:50 GMT

In comp.os.linux.admin, Ahmad Al-rasheedan ([email-masked]) wrote:
> Jan Mario Stankovsky ([email-masked]) wrote:
> : Is there a list of commercial software(i.e. FrameMaker, Smalltalk, a.s.o.)
> : available for Linux? Does anybody knows any details if commercial SW will be
> : available for Linux someday ?

> : thanks
> I second the motion, please post rather than mailing the Gent.

I announced the Linux Commercial-HOWTO recently. It's on 
ftp.ix.de:/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO. WWW users might want to check 
ftp://ftp.ix.de/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Commercial-HOWTO.html. By today,
the list contains a comprehensive list of 26 commercial products
for Linux.

-- 
HE:  Let's end it all, bequeathin' our brains to science.
SHE: What?!?  Science got enough trouble with their ___OWN brains.
                -- Walt Kelley
-- 
Harald Milz ([email-masked])      WWW: http://www.ix.de/editors/hm.html
iX Multiuser Multitasking Magazine      phone +49 (511) 53 52-377
Helstorfer Str. 7, D-30625 Hannover     fax   +49 (511) 53 52-378
Opinions stated herein are my own, not necessarily my employer's.

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Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!
From: [email-masked] (Harvey J. Stein)
Date: 9 Oct 94 10:56:35

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (Donald Jeff Dionne) writes:
   Olli Vinberg ([email-masked]) wrote:
   : If you have a card that is supported for 16bpp oar 32bpp and enough
   : video-memory, then go for it! (I have a cheap cirrus 5428-card and 1M of
   : memory on it, so I can only have 800x600 resolution with 16bit colour,
   : but I use it anyway)

   Hmmm.... I'm having a little trouble with that.  I've got the 3.1 X server
   running (just the server, I don't want all those incompatible lib's kicking
   around until things get recompiled for them) and besides it being bigger, as
   one would expect, it seems to be about the same.  I just can't get 16bit
   colour to work, that's all.  I've got an S3 with 2Meg of VRAM but the server
   complains about my "normal" RAMDAC.  I'm sure my RAMDAC is capible of more
   than that.... Could someone point out what I'm missing in my XF86config?

You need to specify the RAMDAC.  Evidentally the X server isn't
detecting it.  On my board (an Actix GraphicsEngine UltraPlus S3
card), The X server would hang because it couldn't figure out the
RAMDAC.  Try running SuperProbe to see what kind of ramdac you have, &
then put the apropriate command in your XF86Config file.  I'd tell you
the command, but I've only installed 3.1 at home & I'm at work now.
In any case, the man pages (either for XF86Config, or for XF86_S3)
should document the exact command.

Also, to get 16bit color, I had trouble getting the line directly to X
via startx.  The command "startx -- -bpp 16" didn't work - I still
ended up with 8 bit color.  Finally, I started the X server by hand
using "X -bpp 16", & then switched back to a console, where I set my
DISPLAY variable & started the window manager.  I then got 16bpp
color.

Good luck,
--
Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research

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From: [email-masked] (david her)
Subject: [H] missing "Close" item onSWiM motif menu
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 05:29:35 GMT

I have SWiM 1.2.4 on Slackware 2.0. everything seems work fine, but the
window default menu (run mwm) isn't supposely has items 'Restore' 'Minimize'
'Maximize' 'Size' 'Move' 'Lower' 'Close' ? Mine dose NOT has'Restore''Lower'or
 'Close'. It is very troublesome whenever to close a window. Do I need to
 fix somthing to make them shown ? Please help ! Thanks in advance.

   regular menu        My window menu (Alt+F4, Alt+F5, Alt+F3 don't function)
 +-----------------+           +-----------------+
 | Restore  Alt+F5 |           |                 |
 | Move     Alt+F7 |           | Move     Alt+F7 |
 | Size     Alt+F8 |           | Size     Alt+F8 |
 | Minimize Alt+F9 |           | Minimize Alt+F9 |
 | Maximize Alt+F10|           | Maximize Alt+F10|
 | Lower    Alt+F3 |           + ----------------+
 | Close    Alt+F4 |
 +-----------------+

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 06:07:43 +0100
From: [email-masked] (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
Subject: Re: CD-ROMs

Hello Riku Saikkonen and all others,

on 02.10.94 Riku Saikkonen wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX.ADMIN:

RS> Lots of performance questions today... :)
RS>
RS> Which is the fastest, a double-speed SCSI CD-ROM with an ISA host
RS> adapter, the same with PCI/VLB (does it make a difference with something
RS> as slow as a CD-ROM?), or a double-speed Sony interface CD-ROM?

If you have Linux in mind and if "performance" has to include "features",
there is only one choice today. Guess which. ;-)

A busmaster DMA SCSI controller can save you some CPU time; on the
other hand, you can get much more than the maximum double speed transfer
rate across a cheap ISA "proprietary" interface.

Greetings ... Eberhard

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 06:37:52 +0100
From: [email-masked] (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee!

Hello Carlos Dominguez and all others,

on 03.10.94 Carlos Dominguez wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX.ADMIN:

CD> Will fvwm and its modules work in Xfree3.11?

Just
  mkdir /usr/X11R6
  cd /usr/X11R6
untar the archives (they will go into /usr/X11R6 and not disturb your
/usr/X11), extend your PATH and MANPATH (X11R6 before X11) and edit the
startx and/or xinitrc file.

Remember to add "/usr/X11R6/lib" into /etc/ld.so.conf and to run
ldconfig.
Do not use XF86-lib.tar.gz older than 07-oct.

Greetings ... Eberhard

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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 06:58:45 +0100
From: [email-masked] (Eberhard Moenkeberg)
Subject: Re: HELP with CDROM problems

Hello Sid Boyce and all others,

on 08.10.94 Sid Boyce wrote to All in USENET.COMP.OS.LINUX.ADMIN:

SB>      The following was received via Packet Radio TCP/IP mail and has been
SB> posted on Chris' behalf.

SB> I have just fitted a Lazermate INT 562 CD rom in my machine or may be
SB> known as a PANASONIC CR-562-B which it mentions in the CDROM-HOWTO and
SB> the Kenel info but it always looks for a Sound Blaster card on bootup and
SB> cannot find one. I am using the interface that came with the drive.

Use one of the autoprobed addresses (0x300, 0x320, 0x340, 0x360) or use
the LILO command line
    .... sbpcd=0x3??,LaserMate
where 0x3?? is your real address. I am telling about that on your
current boot screen - didn't you see that? ;-)

Greetings ... Eberhard

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From: [email-masked] (Sam Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.)
Date: 10 Oct 1994 06:09:53 -0700

my dx-2-66 at 80 will run very cool. the fan itself is metal cased, hence 
it disperses heat into itself and the fan Sucks air away from the cpu, no 
need to blow dust down :)

maybe you need to get a new motherboard that is design with heat sink 
more in mind?

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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: DX2-66 @ 80MHz (was: AMD mystery chip etc. etc.)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 09:05:58 GMT

Andrew Robert Ellsworth ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I've -heard- of many people overclocking Intel DX2-66's as well, and even went
: so far as to contact some fellow overseas (via the net of course) who was 
: running his at 80 MHz.  I have a DX2-66 (SL enhanced, if that matters -- but
: it still runs at 5 volts) and a clock-selectable motherboard (25,33,40,50).  
: I'd -like- to be able to get a >20% increase in speed by moving a jumper, but
: my main concern is the operaing temperature of the chip.  The way my MB is set
: up, I have room for about a 3/8" high heat sink on the chip, but a CPU fan 
: blocks three of my ISA slots (excellent engineering...), so I rigged a CPU fan
: to blow -across- my heat sink, which is better than nothing at all.  Unlike
: my friend's P60, which will fry eggs, I can -just barely- keep my finger on my
: heat sink without it getting too hot to touch.  I'm just wondering if I can
: keep my chip within specs (assuming it doesn't kill it right off the bat) with
: the jig-rigged cooling setup I've got now.
: Anyone have any input on this?

Perhaps one of those Peltier Junction devices would fit?
        Just a thought.

--
"This is a UNIX system.... I _know_ this...."
                - what's her name, from "Jurassic Park"
============================================================
Mark A. Horton       ka4ybr           [email-masked]
P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747   [email-masked]
+1.404.371.0291 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W    [email-masked]

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [email-masked] (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: Hardware Compatability Guide for linux?
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:20:48 GMT

Pete Stromberg ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi!
: I'm planning to by a PC to run linux on.

: 1. I understand that there exists a guide on which hardware I can
: use with linux.

: 2. I'd also like some options on where to buy a good linux-bundle.
: On CD prefferably. Opinions on shich one is the best are appreciated.

: 3. Also it would be nice to receive a FAQ for the linux groups. So
: that a posting such as this one shouldn't be sent by me again, wasting
: bandwidth.

: Many TIA!

: /Pete aka _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/
:          _/    _/ _/            _/
:         _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/      _/
:        _/       _/        _/
:       _/       _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/

 
Well, you must have overlooked the continuously posted message on this
and just about every other Linux group  with the catchy title:

        *** PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING ***

This posting will guide to to all sorts of FAQs, HOWTOs, and other info.  

Your school crossing guard says:   Look before posting!  :)

--
Tyrannasaurus Rex can't be all bad.... After all, he ate the lawyer!
============================================================
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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747   [email-masked]
+1.404.371.0291 : 33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W    [email-masked]

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