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@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ linkend="port-xxx-to-linux" endterm="port-xxx-to-linux">'')
</para>
<para>
Some companies have commercial software available, including Motif,
WordPerfect, and Framemaker. They often announce their availability in
WordPerfect, and Framemaker. They often announce their availability on
<citetitle>comp.os.linux.announce</citetitle>--
try searching the archives.
(``<xref linkend="are-the-newsgroups-archived-anywhere"
@ -1488,7 +1488,7 @@ the Mainmatter Press,
<title id="world-wide-web-for-linux-stuff">
Where Should I Look on the World Wide Web for Linux Stuff?</title>
<para>
In addition to the Linux Documentation Project Home Page
In addition to the Linux Documentation Project Home Page,
<ulink url="http://www.linuxdoc.org/">
<literal>http://www.linuxdoc.org/</literal></ulink>,
there are many pages that provide
@ -1537,6 +1537,11 @@ to Linux:
<literal>http://linux.davecentral.com/</literal></ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Erlug Webzine (Italian).
<ulink url="http://www.erlug.linux.it/">
<literal>http://www.erlug.linux.it/</literal></ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Ext2 File System capabilities (draft).
<ulink url="http://pocket.fluff.org/~mrw/linux/ext2.txt">
<literal>http://pocket.fluff.org/~mrw/linux/ext2.txt</literal></ulink>.</para>
@ -1672,6 +1677,12 @@ the Subject: send giveaway_list.</para>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Red Hat and ISDN4Linux
<ulink url="http://www.webideal.de/">
<literal>http://www.webideal.de/</literal></ulink>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>SearchLinux.
<ulink url="http://www.searchlinux.com/">
<literal>http://www.searchlinux.com/</literal></ulink>.</para>
@ -1748,6 +1759,9 @@ recent for the documentation but are answered in the newsgroups.
<para><citetitle>comp.os.linux.development.system</citetitle></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><citetitle>comp.os.linux.embedded</citetitle></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><citetitle>comp.os.linux.hardware</citetitle></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@ -1843,6 +1857,12 @@ Here are a few of them:
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>BASH Frequently Asked Questions
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pug/bash/FAQ/">
<literal>ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pug/bash/FAQ/</literal></ulink>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>GNU Emacs. http://www.lerner.co.il/emacs/faq-body.shtml.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@ -1856,6 +1876,18 @@ Here are a few of them:
<literal>http://www.ccs.neu.edu/software/contrib/gnus/</literal></ulink>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>List of Periodic Information Postings
<ulink url="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/">
<literal>ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/periodic-postings/</literal></ulink>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Sendmail.
<ulink url="http://www.sendmail.org/faq/">
<literal>http://www.sendmail.org/faq/</literal></ulink>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
@ -2407,12 +2439,13 @@ this patch is included in the 1.1 alpha testing kernel series.
<title id="support-compressed-ext2-file-systems">
Does Linux Support Compressed Ext2 file Systems?</title>
<para>
As of recently, it does. Information about them is located at
<ulink url="http://www.netspace.net.au/~reiter/e2compr/">
<literal>http://www.netspace.net.au/~reiter/e2compr/</literal></ulink>.
The <literal>ext2compr</literal> project provides a
kernel patch Information about them is located at
<ulink url="http://e2ompr.memalpha.cx/e2compr/">
<literal>http://e2ompr.memalpha.cx/e2compr/</literal></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
There is also a Web site for the e2compr patches The code is still
There is also a Web site for the e2compr patches. The code is still
experimental and consists of patches for the 2.0 and 2.1 kernels. For
more information about the project, including the latest patches, and
the address of the mailing list, look up the URL at
@ -2420,7 +2453,7 @@ the address of the mailing list, look up the URL at
<literal>http://debs.fuller.edu/e2compr/</literal></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
&lsqb;Roderich Schupp&rsqb;
&lsqb;Roderich Schupp, Peter Moulder&rsqb;
</para>
<para>
<citetitle>zlibc</citetitle> is a program that allows existing
@ -2557,11 +2590,14 @@ Web site at <ulink url="samba.anu.edu.au/samba/">
<title id="can-linux-access-macintosh-file-systems">
Can Linux Access Macintosh File Systems?</title>
<para>
There is a set of user-level programs that read and write the
There is a set of user-level programs that read and write the older
Macintosh Hierarchical File System (HFS). It is available at
<ulink url="metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/">
<literal>metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/</literal></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
Access to the newer, HFS+ file systems is still under development.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="4.10">
@ -2635,7 +2671,7 @@ There is also a user-space server. Although it lacks remote file
locking, it is easier to install. It may be equally efficient.
</para>
<para>
In the <filename>Documentation/Changelog</filename> of recent kernel
In the <filename>Documentation/Changes</filename> of recent kernel
distributions, there is a list of URL's for both the
<command>knfsd</command> server and the user-space server.
</para>
@ -2660,8 +2696,26 @@ reside on
</literal></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
The linux-kernel mailing list has on-and-off discussions of the status
of the NFS subsystem, which appears to be changing rapidly.
In the case of older Solaris releases, the lack of
<literal>statd</literal> or <literal>lockd</literal> on a client or
server machine may cause incompatibility. On some versions of
Solaris, <literal>statd</literal> can be used to exploit features of
the automounter. Sun released a patch to correct this, but <literal>
statd</literal> still needs to be started by root on such systems. On
recent Solaris systems, refer to the information in
<literal>/etc/dfs/dfstab</literal> and the
<literal>share(1M)</literal> manual page to enable volume sharing. In
addition, the <literal>rpcinfo</literal> program can tell you if
<literal>statd</literal> or <literal>lockd</literal> are available on
the local or remote machines.
</para>
<para>
The <literal>linux-kernel</literal> mailing list has on-and-off
discussions of the status of the NFS subsystem, which appears to be
changing rapidly.
</para>
<para>
&lsqb;Nicolai Langfeldt, Robert Kiesling, Anders Hammarquist&rsqb;
</para>
</sect2>
@ -4671,6 +4725,16 @@ list of packages from the FTP archive.
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.3">
<title id="resume-ftp">
How do I resume an interrupted FTP transfer?
</title>
<para>
Use the ``<literal>reget</literal>'' command of the
<literal>ftp</literal> program.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.4">
<title id="scrollback-in-text-mode">
How Can I Get Scrollback in Text Mode?</title>
<para>
@ -4699,7 +4763,7 @@ number of VC's. See <filename>linux/tty.h</filename>.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.4">
<sect2 label="8.5">
<title id="e-mail-to-work">How Do I Get E-mail to Work?</title>
<para>
For sending mail via SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and
@ -4732,7 +4796,41 @@ also archived at <ulink url="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/">
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.5">
<sect2 label="8.6">
<title id="sendmail-pause">
How do I prevent Sendmail from pausing for up to a minute at
each command?
</title>
<para>
Make sure that Sendmail can resolve your hostname to a valid (i.e.,
parsable) domain address. If you are not connected to the Internet,
or have a dial-up connection with dynamic IP addressing, add the fully
qualified domain name to the <literal>/etc/hosts</literal> file,
<emphasis>in addition</emphasis> to the base host name; e.g., if the
host name is ``<literal>bilbo</literal>'' and the domain is
``<literal>bag-end.com</literal>:''
</para>
<para>
<screen>
192.168.0.1 bilbo.bag-end.com bilbo
</screen>
</para>
<para>
And make sure that either the <literal>/etc/host.conf</literal> or <literal>
/etc/resolv.conf</literal> file contains the line:
</para>
<para><screen>
order hosts,bind
</screen></para>
<para>
<emphasis>Caution:</emphasis> Do not change the
``<literal>localhost</literal>'' entry in
<literal>/etc/host</literal>, because many programs depend on it for
internal message-passing.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.7">
<title id="switch-virtual-consoles">
How Do I Switch Virtual Consoles? How Do I Enable Them?</title>
<para>
@ -4767,7 +4865,7 @@ to start.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.6">
<sect2 label="8.8">
<title id="set-the-time-zone">How Do I Set the Time Zone?</title>
<para>
Change directory to <filename>/usr/lib/zoneinfo/</filename>.
@ -4810,7 +4908,7 @@ endterm="computer-has-wrong-time">'')
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.7">
<sect2 label="8.9">
<title id="get-dial-up-ppp-work">
How Do I Get Dial-up PPP to Work?</title>
<para>
@ -5057,7 +5155,7 @@ endterm="howtos-and-other-documentation">'')
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.8">
<sect2 label="8.10">
<title id="version-of-linux-and-what-machine">
What Version of Linux and What Machine Name Am I Using?</title>
<para>
@ -5068,7 +5166,39 @@ uname -a
</screen></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.9">
<sect2 label="8.11">
<title id="core-file">
What is a ``<literal>core</literal>'' File?
</title>
<para>
A <literal>core</literal> file is created when a program does
something, ``wrong,'' due to a bug, or which violates the operating
system or hardware protection mechanisms. The operating system kills
the programs and creates a core file that programmers can use to
figure out what went wrong. It contains a detailed description of the
state that the program was in when it died.
</para>
<para>
If would like to determine what program a core file came from, use the
<literal>file</literal> command, like this:
</para>
<para>
<screen>
file core
</screen>
</para>
<para>
That will tell you the name of the program that produced the core
dump. You may want to write the maintainer(s) of the program, telling
them that their program <emphasis>dumped core.</emphasis>
</para>
<para>
&lsqb;Eric Hanchrow&rsqb;
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.12">
<title id="enable-core-dumps">
How Can I Enable or Disable Core Dumps?</title>
<para>
@ -5089,9 +5219,18 @@ default, you can change the default setting in
definition of <literal>INIT_TASK</literal>, and look also in
<filename>linux/resource.h</filename>.
</para>
<para>
PAM support optimizes the system's environment, including the amount
of memory a user is allowed. In some distributions this parameter is
configurable in the <literal>/etc/security/limits.conf</literal> file.
For more information, refer to the <citetitle>Linux Administrator's
Security Guide</citetitle>. (``<xref
linkend="howtos-and-other-documentation"
endterm="howtos-and-other-documentation">'')
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.10">
<sect2 label="8.13">
<title id="upgrade-recompile-kernel">
How Do I Upgrade/Recompile My Kernel?</title>
<para>
@ -5180,7 +5319,7 @@ endterm="lilo-boot-kernel-image">''
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.11">
<sect2 label="8.14">
<title id="serial-ports-by-sharing">
Can I Have More than 3 Serial Ports by Sharing Interrupts?</title>
<para>
@ -5193,7 +5332,7 @@ possible solutions and workarounds for this problem.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.12">
<sect2 label="8.15">
<title id="systems-perl-documentation">
How Do I Update (For Example) the System's Perl Documentation?</title>
<para>
@ -5344,7 +5483,7 @@ misuse, or abuse, etc.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.13">
<sect2 label="8.16">
<title id="configure-emacs-with-default">
How Do I Configure Emacs to Start with My Default Settings?</title>
<para>
@ -5415,7 +5554,7 @@ other FAQ's are there for Linux? ).
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.14">
<sect2 label="8.17">
<title id="make-rescue-floppy">
How Do I Make a Rescue Floppy?</title>
<para>
@ -5434,7 +5573,7 @@ See the <citetitle>Bootdisk HOWTO</citetitle>.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.15">
<sect2 label="8.18">
<title id="remap-keyboard">
How Do I Remap My Keyboard to UK, French, Etc.?</title>
<para>
@ -5458,7 +5597,7 @@ Console HOWTO</citetitle>, by Andries Brouwer, at
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.16">
<sect2 label="8.19">
<title id="num-lock-default-on">
How Do I Get NUM LOCK to Default to On?</title>
<para>
@ -5486,7 +5625,7 @@ to be defined to (<literal>1 &lt;&lt; VC_NUMLOCK</literal>) when compiling
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.17">
<sect2 label="8.20">
<title id="set-terminal-colors">
How Do I Set (Or Reset) My Initial Terminal Colors?</title>
<para>
@ -5526,7 +5665,7 @@ exec /sbin/mingetty $@
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 label="8.18">
<sect2 label="8.21">
<title id="more-than-128mb-of-swap">
How Can I Have More Than 128Mb of Swap?</title>
<para>