Tag Archives: Linux Support

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #90, October 2001 Our experts answer your technical questions. Really Big malloc() I would like to understand what the issues are that limit the memory available to a single process under Linux. I have an Athlon 1.2GHz processor with 1.5GB of RAM and 2GB of swap space. The OS is Red Hat 7.1 with ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #89, September 2001 Our experts answer your questions. The Dreaded “LI” Problem I put a second IDE hard drive in my PC and installed Mandrake Linux 8.0 on it. Now when I reboot, I have the dreaded “LI” problem, i.e., LILO displays only the first two letters of the LILO prompt. I believe the ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #88, August 2001 Our experts answer your technical questions. Copying Old Tapes Before I came to my current job, the archive system was sporadic at best, using multiple media formats from DAT to Exabyte. I have been given the task of copying all these formats to a single standard (in this case AIT). I ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #87, July 2001 Our experts answer your technical questions. Tar over rsh I’m running a small private LAN with Linux Red Hat 7.0. The following command was entered on system “lucy”, with the resultant message: [root@lucy]# tar cvf testbed:/home/someuser file.txt Permission denied. tar: testbed\:/home/someuser: Cannot open: Input/output error tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #86, June 2001 Our experts answer your technical questions. PPP on a PCMCIA Modem My Dell arrived with factory-installed Red Hat 6.2, Kernel 2.2.14-6.1.1, and a factory-installed PCMCIA modem. All worked fine until one day, I turned on the PC and at bootup I was told: Bringing up interface ppp0 FAILED Somewhat later during ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #85, May 2001 Our experts answer your technical questions. PHP Can’t Connect to MySQL I installed MySQL3 and PHP4 with an RPM package. Apache is running well and the MySQL server is running well from the shell. PHP4 also runs with the infophp() function call. But I can’t connect to the MySQL server. What’s ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #84, April 2001 Our experts answer your technical questions. Programming with Shared Memory Segments I have some processes that create shm segments and others that link to those segments. The problem is that some processes create shm segments with a key, but the addresses of the attachment are the same as that of previous ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #81, January 2001 Our experts answer your technical questions. Can’t Create User in COAS I am facing a problem with COAS. I can’t open the user creation tool. I deleted all lock files but still can’t open this tool. What is the problem? —Anil Nair, anicmair@usa.net This is a well-known issue covered in FAQs. ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #80, December 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Trouble with Netscape I am having trouble getting Netscape to run on Linux. I have Windows NT in the first 4G and installed Linux in the remaining 4G partition. Linux detects the Ethernet card when first installed, but when I log off to use NT ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #78, October 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Dependencies and Libraries Recently, I downloaded a Linux application and when I tried installing it, I encountered an “unsatisfied dependencies” error message in the package manager. Where do you go for missing Linux libraries and how do you install them? —Kelvin L. Barnes, Kelvin.Barnes@worldnet.att.net If ...