Hi guys,
I'm currently preparing a course (for tomorrow, it's almost done).
In this course, I explain the classic UNIX filesystem (stuff like
inodes etc.).
Now, I'd like to show the students "live" what the directory entries
look like - they are files containing a table with the relation inode
number to filename.
IIRC it used to be that you could simply open such a file and look
at the raw contents (hexdump or whatever) - this though doesn't work
any more, if I try to open a directory directly with vi, cat, less,
hexdump, xxd, od, it doesn't work.
Does someone have an idea how I could get a close look at such a
directory entry? Maybe how to directly access an inode, without
going through the filename? [inode numbers can be had by using
ls -i, I'd have liked to directly look at the directory entry
itself].
I asked around the office, the usual suspects have as little ideas
as I do...
Greets & thanks in advance,
Eric
Hi All, I have just bought a shiny new TFT monitor for my home PC. It is one
of the SAMSUNG monitors that can rotate 90 degrees so that the display is in
portrait instead of landscape mode. Although this isn't the reason that I
bought it, it would be a nice feature to use when writing papers.
Does anyone know how I can change the orientation (rotate 90 degrees) of
either X or KDE to take advantage of this pivot screen? I haven't been able
to dig anything up on Google, but I have found that there is an option in the
KDE control center to rotate the screen. Unfortunately, all options except
for "normal" are inactive :(
Mike
Hi
A friend of mine got a modem, a winmodem. He is looking for drivers, but
couldn't find anything.
lspci outputs:
02:0e.0 Comunication Controller: ESS Technology ES2898 Modem Rev03
02:0e.0 Class 0780: 125d:2898 (rev03)
Has anybody an idea???
Al
--
Linux is like a woman, hard to understand
But very nice once you get under the hood.
Hi,
it seems the german TV channel ARD had something on Linux.
Here's their link (all in german) about this:
<http://www.ndrtv.de/ratgebertechnik/themen/20040418_linux.html>
I can't say I like what I read there... much of it ist just
plain wrong, or bad journalism. I hate such disinformation.
Greets Eric
Hi all,
I'm helping a friend who does web-development and is not very linux-aware to
administer his server. The server runs a suse 8.1 distro. I'm not used to the
suse way of package installation. Initially the server has been setup using
cds but we have no (easy) physical acces to it, so I wanted to configure yast
to download the rpms via ftp and manage dependencies to ease installation/
maintenance.
The problem is when I tell yast to use a ftp server with the directory which I
found on the suse webpages (e.g. ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/) I only
get an error message "No Installation source on installation media" .
Does anybody know how to setup yast on suse to work with ftp?
Hi,
I'd like to customize the error message sent back to the sender
when a "unknown user" is encountered.
By default sendmail generates something like this:
>From: Mail Delivery Subsystem
><MAILER-DAEMON(a)some.domain.lu>
>To: <sender(a)some.other.domain>
>Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
>Date: whatever
>
>The original message was received at <date>
>from [a.b.c.d]
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
><recipient(a)domain.lu>
> (reason: 550 recipient(a)domain.lu... No such user)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>... while talking to [b.c.d.e]:
> >>> DATA
><<< 550 recipient(a)domain.lu... No such user
>550 5.1.1 <recipient(a)domain.lu>... User unknown
><<< 503 Issue RCPT TO: command before DATA command
Final-Recipient: RFC822; recipient(a)domain.lu
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; [a.b.c.d]
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 recipient(a)domain.lu ... No such user
Last-Attempt-Date: sometime
So I'd like to customize the message (especially get rid of IP
addresses so as not to reveal topology information of the
internal network).
Does anyone have an idea on how to go about this? Is there some
config file to edit (vi /etc/mail/sendmail.cf anyone? :-)) or
something?
My googling hasn't been very successful so far...
TIA, Eric
Hi Rui,
Did anyone respond to your message? I didn't see anything fly by.
Actually, Luxembourgish GNU/Linux users do share distros and software as
long as it is legal (i.e. accepted by the license) for any purpose
(testing or not).
Since Linux is distributed under the GPL and the GPL allows the sharing
and distribution of software, there is absolutely no problem with this.
AFAIK, people here use just about every GNU/Linux distribution you may
wish, from Suse, to Red Hat, Knoppix, Debian and more.
please join us on the LiLux-Help mailing list
http://www.linux.lu/mailman/listinfo/lilux-help
and you can then ask many more questions :)
More mailing lists of our association may be found at
http://www.linux.lu/lilux/front_content.php?idcat=18
yours
Serge
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 13:07, ruirod(a)pt.lu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if the Luxemburgish Linux users share the latest distros
> with eachother for testing purposes, and if you do, what would be necessary to
> join the program.
>
> I live in Luxembourg, I'm currently a Windows user but I test Linux
> distributions regularly, such as Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, Knoppix, and Vector.
> The moment I find a distribution that completely fits my needs I will migrate.
>
> Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rui Rodrigues
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E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu
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Hi,
as previously indicated by Alain Knaff, the ACX100 chipset support is
finally working. I am typing this using it, with a DLink DWL-650+,
including WEP, with the driver version 0.2.0-pre7_plus_fixes_1, on
an older 2.4.23 kernel.
I'll try some more @home with the PCI version (DWL-520+), and with
a 2.6 kernel.
Greetings, Eric
Hi,
Most shops listed at the "wiki Laptop Linux Vendors" page do not sell
laptops for individuals without windows. others do not provide a large
choice, or prices lower to a laptop w/o windows. the only place i found
an widespread choice at decent prices was at promarkt.de. as far as i
know they have a shop in trier.
Frédéric Becker
