Linux-Misc Digest #481, Volume #18 Tue, 5 Jan 99 18:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: QMAIL question - Where is my email disappearing to? (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Project management software ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Compiling gives header file errors (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Monitor Flashing (Bjorn Lindstrom)
Re: Kernel 2.0.35 and 2.2.0Pre4 with modules on same machine (Sam E. Trenholme)
Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march? (Bill Unruh)
off-topic humour ("Larry Z.")
Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<] (Alan McLean)
Re: maxtor 17gig and rh 5.1 (joey)
Re: Stealth II G460 and X-Windows (Steve Romero)
Re: "setfont" program called at bootup rh5.2 (Michael Meissner)
Audio CD's (Jimme Quinn Ross)
Apache with ASP (Mark Robinson)
Caching nameserver causes delay in sending mail (Steve Snyder)
Re: modprobe --help (Codifex Maximus)
Re: Linux 2.0.35 - Linux 2.0.36 (Thomas Brandl)
Re: euro support in kernel 2.0 (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Excel to HTML converter? (Abigail)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Tim Smith)
Re: Using C++ with RedHat 5.2? (Henry Zheng (C))
Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march? (jod)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: QMAIL question - Where is my email disappearing to?
Date: 5 Jan 1999 12:51:14 -0800
>Help! Since switching to Qmail from Sendmail (I used Redhat5.0 rpm's),
>my email is disappearing into a black hole and I can't find any of them.
>They used to go into ~/mail, but I've searched /var/spool and /var/qmail,
>etc., and no luck.
Try this file:
~/Mailbox
Also, look in /var/log/maillog to see if there are any delivery problems.
--
Email address here: http://www.samiam.org/ssi/mailme.shtml
Music I write here: http://www.mp3.com/sam http://www.samiam.org/mp3
Mp3 reviews here: http://www.samiam.org/music
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Project management software
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 14:28:54 GMT
In article <75l1sa$10a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah) wrote:
> Is there a commercial Project management software for Linux? Thanks.
>
> Napi
>
our web-based time tracking product is very much aimed at tracking
the progress on projects. the coming version contains percentage
completion and estimate features among others.
it is available on linux and is free for 5 users or less
__________________________________________________________________
Web-Based Time Tracking. Journyx Time
is *FREE* at (800) 755-9878
http://journyx.com/wts.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Compiling gives header file errors
Date: 5 Jan 1999 12:55:36 -0800
>When I try to build some network-related software (diald and ipfwadm for
>instance) I get errors about header files. These programs compile fine
>on a friend's RedHat 5.0 system, but not on my fresh-out-of-the-box
>RedHat 5.1 system. I tried upgrading glibc*.rpm to 2.0.7-29 and it
>didn't help. Any ideas what could be wrong?
You need to have the kernel header files. The simplest way to get these
is to simply install all of the kernel-related RPMs:
[insert RedHat cd into CDROM drive]
mount /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
for a in kernel*rpm ; do rpm -i $a ; done
- Sam
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:53:46 -0800
From: Bjorn Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor Flashing
I ran into this after attempting to custom configure my XF86 video,
bypassing it's defaults. It tried to force it to use the higher
resolutions that my video card and monitor were capable of. Everytime I
tried to force 1280x1024 (my monitor is 1600x1280 capable) it would boot
up flashing.
When I took the defaults, everything worked. You may still have to custom
configure your monitor, but try more conservative settings. This was what
I had to do on my installation.
Best of luck to you!
Yours truly,
Bjorn Lindstrom
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ran through the entire compilation of the kernel, and everything
seemed to run smoothly. I changed my lilo to reflect the new change. I did
keep a backup of the old kernel, just in case.
Now, here's what happens. I load up the new kernel. Everything seems to load
up normally, as it did before. I get to the opening screen, which says the
usual bit, including the new version change: (was 2.0.32 before)
Red Hat Linux release 5.0 (Hurricane)
Kernel 2.0.36 on an i586
login:
Now, if I don't type anything, after about 2 seconds, the monitor starts
flashing on and off. I've tried logging in quickly, and I can usually get to
the first prompt after password, but once the screen starts flashing, all
commands are frozen. The only way I could see how far I got was the
cntl-alt-delete sequence, but then it reboots. I figured it's just the X
Windows messing up on me with the new kernel, so I tried a cntl-alt-backspace
to exit out. However, I had changed my inittab file to make it start up in X
Windows every time. So when I try to exit out, it puts me right back in
again. I can't get past that first prompt to get into inittab to change
anything around. Is there anything I can do to stop it and get it back to
normal, or am I going to have to wipe everything away, and just start over
again? Oh, and I tried the old kernel to see if it would boot up that way. No
good. It starts loading up, then gives me a line saying somethign to the
effect of Kernel panic: can't load extended fs, or something like that.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E. Trenholme)
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.0.35 and 2.2.0Pre4 with modules on same machine
Date: 5 Jan 1999 12:57:36 -0800
>I've downloaded and built kernel 2.0.2Pre4 on a SuSE 5.3 machine that runs
>kernel 2.0.35. I used module support and built some modules as well. Now I
>know how to copy the kernel image to root and set up lilo.conf for it. What
>confuses me is what do I do with the modules? I don't want to overwrite the
>2.0.35 modules, do I?
The modules for 2.0.35 should be in /lib/modules/2.0.35, and the modules
for 2.2.0pre4 should be in /lib/modules/2.2.0. This is the location
make modules_install places the compiled kernel modules, and there will be
no conflict.
- Sam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march?
Date: 5 Jan 1999 21:29:27 GMT
In <76tk66$gf4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
]We haven't had two opposing headlines like this since we began the daily news
]service for Linux enthusiasts: Today's newsflash is "Linux to survive?". The
]question has been raised by an article on CNN interactive pointing out that
]Linux's survival hangs on a DOJ thread. It is an interesting article and one
]that I would recommend to Linux lovers to read.
Where? What DOJ throead? What has the DOJ to do with Linux?
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 13:00:46 -0800
From: "Larry Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.databases.ms-access,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.dcom.sys.cisco,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: off-topic humour
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan McLean)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<]
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 14:57:27 GMT
David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> jisong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > thanks for your input... i just went to
> > ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/XFree86/3.3.3/binaries/ and it seems like alot to download
> > for modem connection so i got the patch 3.3.2==>3.3.3, would that work (i'm
> > running redhat 5.2)? if it does, how do i install it? do i just replace a
> > current dir with the new one? thanks again for your help =8]
>
> No, for a redhat-5.2 system you should go to updates.redhat.com and
> get the XFree86 packages from there.
For a trouble free installation do what David said.
You don't need to download all of the X rpms. The
following are all you should need
XFree86-3.3.3-1
XFree86-libs-3.3.3-1
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.3-1
XFree86-devel-3.3.3-1
XFree86-VGA16-3.3.3-1
XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.3-1
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.3-1
If you are fortunate to have a largish monitor you may also
want the 100dpi fonts.
To install do
rpm -Uvh XFree*
then run
XF86Setup
when you select the video card (Millennium G200 8M/16M), also click
on the advanced button, and make sure "VideoRam 8192" is listed
in the box (or VideoRam 16384 if you have 16M), if it is not
click on 8M or 16M (i.e. specifically tell it you have 8M/16M).
There is a problem with autodetecting the video ram for the
G100/G200, so this is the crucial step. You can read all
about this at http://www.xfree86.org/ or in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.MGA after the installation.
After you have saved and tested the configuration you can delete
XFree86-VGA16-3.3.3-1
XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.3-1
if you like, as they are only necessary to create your
XF86Config.
Also, XFree86-devel-3.3.3-1 is only really necessary if you
will be developing/compiling any X apps, but you should
keep it, as you will no doubt want to compile some.
-amcl
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From: joey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: maxtor 17gig and rh 5.1
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 09:58:01 -0500
I just thought I'd let you and the group know that this bug has not been taken
care of in win95 osr2 running fat16. I just ran a check by copying much more
than 2 gigs of stuff to the drive in question and the windows machines still
report 2 gigs of empty space along with a few very large data sets. I guess,
maybe, you have to be running fat 32 to see the true size of the samba
export. But, since there are currently no machines running fat 32, I can't
check this theory. Thanks for the information. It saved me lots of time
trying to figure out what was wrong with my Linux configuration when the
problem was "elsewhere." If anyone out there has a Samba directory larger
than 2 gigs exported to a win95/98 machine with fat32, drop me a line/email
and tell me if, when mounted as a network drive, the Samba directory is the
correct size......just curious.sendto<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>thanks
Chris wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 18:52:07 -0500, joey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> comp.os.linux.hardware:
>
> >However, when I mount the drive
> >on a windows machine, the drive appears to be 2 gigs.
>
> This is a bug in the original Microsoft DOS/Windows filesystem code, which
> not only had the FAT16 filesystem size limit but also assumed that the
> network servers had the same limit.... It was not fixed until Win95-OSR2.
> Pre-OSR2 operating systems will allow you to read and write to the entire
> network filesystem, but will not report the remaining space correctly
> unless (until) there is less than 2Gb free.
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From: Steve Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stealth II G460 and X-Windows
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 12:52:10 -0800
If your using RedHat this is the place;
ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/XBF/
Joshua Mennega wrote:
> Can someone please let me know what server I'm to use for this card, or
> where I can locate the files for an update.
>
> Thanks ....
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "setfont" program called at bootup rh5.2
Date: 05 Jan 1999 16:03:16 -0500
Filip Hosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> On my toshiba laptop I have installed redhat 5.2 now. Everytime at
> bootup
> just after mouning local filesystems the font changes into a ulgy
> looking font on my lcd. "setfont" program is called somewhere at boot
> time but I couldn't find where. I solved the problem by chmod'ing the
> setfont program. to not executable and it is ok now, but it is a
> temporary solution. I would like to edit the script wich is calling the
> setfont program.
>
> Anybody knows wich bootup script is calling setfont? ( I did'nt find it
> in the rc.d directory and subdirs.)
I've already reported this as a bug in RedHat 5.2, but have gotten no answer.
Here is my report
(http://www.developer.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184):
I have a Toshiba 420CDT laptop (40 meg of memory, 2 gig
disk, 100 Mhz Pentium, 800x600 screen). It was running
RedHat 5.1 just fine. I upgraded to 5.2, and immediately
after fsck'ing the disks, something changes in the font
used that makes it less clear. I'm not sure I can explain
it, except that it looks like when the 640x480 mode is
displayed at 800x600, or when a computer tries to make a
bold font by overlaying the font at one pixel difference.
This happens whether I use the normal boot, or boot into
single user mode. It also happens when I build a custom
kernel, or even boot 2.1.129. This did not happen in
RedHat 5.1.
======= Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/26/98 19:05 =======
I debugged it further, and I believe that if /etc/sysconfig/i18n is
not defined (ie, the user has not chosen a default font), then in the
script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, /sbin/setfont should not be called. Thus
whatever font is loaded by the bios will still be used, rather than
always using default8x16.gz as the font. Also, as a side note, the
call to setfont should really be traced to the op console like just
about everything else is during the boot process.
I think as a workaround, I dumped the current console font and made that the
default font loaded. I don't have the machine with.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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From: Jimme Quinn Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Audio CD's
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 16:52:07 -0500
I want to play my audio CD's on my Red Hat 5.1 box. Is this possible?
Any information will be appreciated. (I'm at the office now, and my
Linux Enc. is home otherwise I'd have looked there first.)
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From: Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache with ASP
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 15:31:46 GMT
I have Apache-1.3.3 and would like to know how to enable ASP suppport?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Snyder)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Caching nameserver causes delay in sending mail
Date: 5 Jan 1999 21:57:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Snyder)
When sending mail on my RedHat Linux v5.2 system there is a 40 - 45 second
delay before the mail is actually sent. Receiving mail on the same system
is all but instantaneous.
This machine is the server for a small LAN. The delay is seen whether the
mail client is on a different machine or if the sender and recipient both
have accounts on the server. The delay period is the same regardless of
the client or of the originating operating system. (In Pine, running
on the server itself, for instance, 0% sent is shown during the delay.)
This server, corona.snydernet.lan, has dial-up Internet access. I
discovered today that no delay is seen if an Internet connection has been
established. I concluded that the delay is the timeout of trying to
contact my IPS's nameserver while no connection exists.
This is what my /etc/resolv.conf looks like (I added the leading spaces
for clarity):
search corona.snydernet.lan snydernet.lan
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 199.3.65.1
That last IP address is my ISP's nameserver. If I remove that nameserver
entry, the delay is still seen in sending mail. Sigh.
Note that I'm not running a nameserver, which is why there's no reference
to it in /etc/resolv.conf. My name resolution is done soley through the
/etc/hosts file. I am running a caching nameserver, caching the data
gotten from my ISP while connected.
My new conclusion: the delay in sending mail is due to the attempted
lookup of corona.snydernet.lan in the cache. Sure enough, if I shut down
named, the delay is gone.
Anyone have any thoughts as to how I can have a caching nameserver *and*
no delay in sending mail?
Thanks.
***** Steve Snyder *****
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From: Codifex Maximus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modprobe --help
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0600
kamrin wrote:
> hey, me again, still no sound, in my /var/log/messages there are messages like
> 'kernel: hdd: tray open or drive not ready'
> 'modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14'
> the cd does play and i can hear it if i plug my earphones/speakers into the
> headset jack on the actual cd-rom drive...
>
> if someone can help me out here i'd greatly appreciate it.....also
> anysuggestions as to why my modem would disconnect after about 30 sec. or
> so..??? took me about two good afternoons just to get Linux to admit i had a
> modem...Bocamodem PnP..:o)
> anyway, once again any help would be greatly appreciated...thanx
>
> kamrin
Is the tiny cable from your CDRom drive plugged into the sound card? Does your
sound card appear in a pnpdump? If you are using RedHat, try setup and go to
soundconfig, work with it until you can hear Linus telling you how he pronounces
LINUX. Lee-nooks!
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 22:07:16 +0100
From: Thomas Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.0.35 - Linux 2.0.36
Hello!
I guess you compiled a module for 2.0.35 but didn't do that for 2.0.36.
When switching to a new kernel version, you should re-compile all your
modules, too.
Hope this helps!
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: euro support in kernel 2.0
Date: 5 Jan 1999 16:38:33 GMT
[Please choose your Newsgroups: more carefully. Massive crossposting doesn't
win you any friends, and there is nothing Caldera, hardware, m68k, networking,
PowerPC or X about your question.]
Colin Ling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know if there is a patch for the Euro support in kernel 2.0
The kernel doesn't do much with character sets (there are some translation
tables for converting filenames in some filesystems). In 2.0.36 it does not
support ISO 8859-15 ("latin9"), the successor to Latin1 which includes the
euro sign.
>and will it be supported in 2.2?
The conversion table for Latin9 support is in the pre2.2 kernels already.
Supporting Latin9 is much more a user-space issue. See
http://freshmeat.net/news/1998/11/24/911939067.html .
HTH,
Ray
--
PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose
between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would
have the decency to betray his country.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abigail)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Excel to HTML converter?
Date: 5 Jan 1999 22:06:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Damon K. Haley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on MCMLIII September MCMXCIII
in <URL:news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
""
"" Is there an excel to html converter out there?
Maybe. But what does that have to do with Perl?
Abigail
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 5 Jan 1999 14:09:45 -0800
Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Find useful URL in text somewhere.
>Select it.
>Wipe URL currently in Netscape's location box by selecting it, and
>pasting the first one on top.
>
>Oops...
Instead of wiping the current URL, just paste the new URL into the
main part of the Netscape display, rather than the URL entry area.
Netscape accepts that as a command to go to the new location.
--Tim Smith
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From: hzheng@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Henry Zheng (C))
Subject: Re: Using C++ with RedHat 5.2?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 99 15:41:57 GMT
If you have installed the Developement Packages from RedHat 5.2, a GNU
C++ compiler should be on your system. Say if you have a C++ source code
called "helloworld.cc", you can compile it using:
g++ -o helloworld helloworld.cc
Then, run the executable file "helloworld" ...
Rage Matrix ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi,
: I am a newbie to Linux having got RedHat v5.2 for christmas. I know that
: it had a C Compiler (which I have used). However, for my course at Uni I
: am required to use C++, specifically the ANSI standard I/O header file
: IOSTREAM.H. Is there a package for C++ on Linux that uses IOSTREAM.H and
: where can I find it?
: Sorry if this turns out to be a stupid question!
: Cheers,
: -- Jon.
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From: jod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux: Fight for survival or on victory march?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 15:47:28 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> We haven't had two opposing headlines like this since we began the daily news
> service for Linux enthusiasts: Today's newsflash is "Linux to survive?". The
> question has been raised by an article on CNN interactive pointing out that .....
Hey buds -- the last place I go to look for facts is a commercial news
service. Right now they're on our side because linux is the only true
threat to MS. Tomorrow, these same people could be working to trash
Linux.
My point is -- never, never, ever trust the media. The fact is, the
media is just about one step higher than most politicans. Search your
heart, you know that most politicians are one step lower than whale
shit.....
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