Linux-Misc Digest #579, Volume #18 Tue, 12 Jan 99 03:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Bob's Ignorance -- Or Is It Flamebait? (Michael Powe)
Re: mandrake (Bill)
latex2html problem -- no image creation (Grant W. Petty)
Re: linuxberg: wow (Jason Costomiris)
Re: Cutting and Pasting in X windows (Keith Kaple)
HELP: compiling SATAN under redhat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux users group in New Orleans? (Gary Momarison)
Re: Help needed: corrupt mbr (Gary Momarison)
Re: hostname and finger plan (Francesc Guasch)
Re: Opinions on Applixware (Peter Cedermark)
Re: Let A Linux server look like a W95 / NT Share? (Andy Piper)
Acessing binary file from the code without open(argv[0] ..) ("Pedro Ribeiro")
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Larry)
Re: Linux fails to boot after dual-booting Windows 95;Reinstall LILO and it works
again!? (Eric Hardwick)
Syslog dies at boot time. (Enkidu)
SCSI (Gregory Leblanc)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Powe)
Subject: Re: Bob's Ignorance -- Or Is It Flamebait?
Date: 11 Jan 99 16:04:29 GMT
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Jan 1999 08:04:29 -0800
Organization: The Hospice of the Mind
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>>>>> "look" == look <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
look> that in your average Windows newsreader.. ;-)) :> :> : What
look> are "regexps"? :> :> Regular expressions. Like A*B being
look> A<any number of characters>B.... : ^^^1 or more
look> ^^^^^^^^^^^"A" : </pedant> ;-)
look> I thought the * indicated 0 or more characters. If you want
look> one or more, you'd use ?* wouldn't you?
No, `+' means at least one of the previous characters. `*' means 0 or
more, as you point out. `?' means optional for the previous
character, e.g., `colou?r' to match both `color' and `colour' but not
`colouur'.
mp
8<---------------how-easy-is-it-to-demunge-an-address?------------------->8
#! /usr/bin/perl # if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Another Luser):
while ($line = <>){ if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/ ){ last; }
if ($line =~ m/^From: (\S+) \(([^()]*)\)/){ $from_address = $1; } }
if ($from_address =~ m/\S+NOSPAM\S+/){ $x = index($from_address, NOSPAM);
substr($from_address, $x, 6+1) = ""; printf("The real address is %s\n",
$from_address);}else { printf("No munge, just plain %s\n",$from_address);}
printf("\nBrought to you by the Truth In Mail Headers Foundation\n");
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Portland, Oregon USA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill)
Subject: Re: mandrake
Date: 11 Jan 99 17:42:00 GMT
From: Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:42:00 -0500
Organization: Common Sense Party
Rick Knebel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just read about another disrto of linux called Mandrake.
> It is RedHat 5.2 with kde integrated into it.
>
> Anyone try this yet?
>
> Thanks
> Rick
>
> --
> Rick Knebel
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wanted to try it and paid 8$ or what ever and it never arrived a call
and a couple of emails later I was told that it shipped Nov 18 '98 and
it never arrived. All I got was an 8$ charge on the credit card a long
distance bill and no software. Caveat emptor.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant W. Petty)
Subject: latex2html problem -- no image creation
Date: 11 Jan 99 16:35:16 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant W. Petty)
Date: 11 Jan 1999 16:35:16 GMT
Organization: Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University
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I recently discovered latex2html on my PC (w/ S.u.s.e. 5.3) but ran
into trouble using it to convert my LaTeX docs to html. For some
reason, it refuses to invoke LaTeX to convert math equations to
embedded gif images, which is what I understand is supposed to happen.
Instead, it simply encodes a poor approximation of the equation as
pure HTML. That is, it gets the superscripts and subscripts right but is
unable to do anything with special math symbols, instead leaving some
cryptic residue involving the '&' symbol.
When I run the 'install-test' script, it claims to find all of the
needed utilities (TeX, LaTeX, gs, etc.). But running
latex2html test.tex
fails (without comment) to invoke LaTeX for the embedded math stuff, e.g., :
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Here is some text.
Here is an equation that should be typeset into an embedded
GIF image :
\begin{equation}
y = \int_0^\infty x \;dx
\end{equation}
\end{document}
I have tried multiple variations on the above theme, all with the same
non-result. What's going on? The troubleshooting docs only address
the case that the DVI-PS-GIF conversion fails to execute for some
reason, not the case that LaTeX fails to get called.
thanks
Grant
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Purdue University, 1397 CIVL Bldg. |Fax: (765)-496-1210
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1397, USA |Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Costomiris)
Subject: Re: linuxberg: wow
Date: 11 Jan 99 16:10:53 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Costomiris)
Date: 11 Jan 1999 16:10:53 GMT
Organization: Friends of Richard Roundtree
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:34:36 GMT, David M. Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: But what I want to know is who rated vile better than emacs.
Even more interesting would be to find out who decided that pico
was somehow better than vim. Pico was rated better than emacs as well.
Personally, I think emacs is the ultimate in overbloat, but if you like
it, go for it. At least you'll get lots of finger exercise, doing those
ctrl+meta+alt+left-shift key combos. :-)
I'm extremely happy to see Tucows doing this, and am impressed with the site,
but the ratings could use a bit of work.
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Technologist, cryptogeek, human.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Kaple)
Subject: Re: Cutting and Pasting in X windows
Date: 11 Jan 99 17:49:45 GMT
From: Keith Kaple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:49:45 -0500
Organization: Cisco Systems, Inc.
Paul Davies wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm using Redhat 5.2
>
> How does one cut and paste text from one X window to another?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
1) swipe the text. --does copy
2) press the middle mouse button. --pastes buffer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: HELP: compiling SATAN under redhat 5.2
Date: 11 Jan 99 17:59:29 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:59:29 GMT
Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion
X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686)
X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x3.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 130.64.196.46
Running make on SATAN 1.1.1 I exit w/ the following errors:
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/satan-1.1.1/src/port_scan'
cc -O -I/usr/src/satan-1.1.1/include -DAUTH_GID_T=int -c tcp_scan.c -o
tcp_scan.o
tcp_scan.c: In function `receive_icmp':
tcp_scan.c:524: structure has no member named `th_dport'
tcp_scan.c:524: structure has no member named `th_dport'
tcp_scan.c:539: structure has no member named `th_dport'
make[2]: *** [tcp_scan.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/satan-1.1.1/src/port_scan'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/satan-1.1.1'
make: *** [linux] Error 2
Anyone seen this before? Replies via email would be appreciated. Thanks.
DP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Momarison)
Subject: Re: Linux users group in New Orleans?
Date: 11 Jan 99 18:16:21 GMT
From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Jan 1999 10:16:21 -0800
Organization: none
Andy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know if there is a Linux users group in the New Orleans
> area?
Find several lists of LUGs in Gary's Encyclopedia at
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/user-groups.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Momarison)
Subject: Re: Help needed: corrupt mbr
Date: 11 Jan 99 18:27:03 GMT
From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Jan 1999 10:27:03 -0800
Organization: none
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
> Is there a way to recover the MBR or a utility availabe?
Sounds like you formatted over the copy of the old MBR, but
that's OK; few try to reuse it anyway.
To replace the LILO MBR with a M$ MBR, use M$'s "fdisk /mbr"
command.
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Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Francesc Guasch)
Subject: Re: hostname and finger plan
Date: 11 Jan 99 19:01:33 GMT
From: Francesc Guasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:01:33 +0100
Organization: upc
To: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Chris wrote:
>
> How do I change my hostname without rebooting? Is it even possible?
> Right now it's localhost.localdomain and I want it to be my domain
> name. I've used linuxconf with success but I'm telneting right now
> and I can't run a gui app ya know?
> Also, how do I set the plan for users? I assume it's a file somewhere
> in the ~user directory but I can't figure it out. Any help is
> greatfully welcomed! =)
man hostname
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Cedermark)
Subject: Re: Opinions on Applixware
Date: 11 Jan 99 20:14:00 GMT
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:14:00 +0100
From: Peter Cedermark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I use ApplixWare 4.1 at school and it works great. It uses a different
approach,
i.e. doesn't offer an integrated desktop (which I like). The programs in the
suite are very capable and should satisfy your needs. They are on a par with
the
programs in the StarOffice suite.
What I don't know is if there is a capability to import documents from
Microsnot
Office, but that information is probably available at the company's website.
That's my (very brief) opinion...
Jim Heffner wrote:
>
> I've installed Staroffice 5.0, but the maddening registration process,
> along with the incredible slowness of the software, have motivated me to
> look at alternatives. If anyone who has used Applix (or even both),
> could offer their honest opinion, I'd be interested in hearing what you
> have to say.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Piper)
Subject: Re: Let A Linux server look like a W95 / NT Share?
Date: 11 Jan 99 19:09:06 GMT
From: Andy Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:09:06 +0000
Organization: UUNET WorldCom server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNET
WorldCom)
X-Accept-Language: en
Johan Prins wrote:
>
> I am trying to get Linux accepted in my office, not only by the
> unix-people who are used to ftp rather than to drag & drop. That means
> that I need to "show" the linux box to the other machines the "easy"
> way.
> Does the SMB feature within Linux do that job, or does it just add the
> capability to the linux box to see SMB shares on Nt machines?
> (sorry, quite a basic question)
Samba allows your Linux box to "masquerade" as a Windows machine
on a network... I'm using it very successfully at home to share
my Linux partition out to my NT laptop, etc.. From the Windows
side, what you see is a "standard" Windows networked machine, and
you can connect to the shares and so on as you would normally.
HTH.
Andy
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From: "Pedro.Ribeiro"@sjpc.org ("Pedro Ribeiro")
Subject: Acessing binary file from the code without open(argv[0] ..)
Date: 11 Jan 99 19:38:50 GMT
From: "Pedro Ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:38:50 -0000
Organization: CCISEL / ISEL
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X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0
Can anyone tell-me how can i access the binary file i'm executing from the
code under Linux (without open(argv[0], ...) ???
It should be any way to know the addresses where the binfile was paged an
simply access them with a pointer no ??
Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry)
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: 11 Jan 99 16:03:49 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Jan 1999 16:03:49 GMT
On 11 Jan 1999 03:09:09 GMT, Jeremy Crabtree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mayor Of R'lyeh allegedly wrote:
>>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:46:16 +1300, Con / Tiki
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chose to bless us all with this bit of
>>wisdom:
>>
>>>Mayor Of R'lyeh wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 08 Jan 1999 01:57:01 +0100, David Kastrup
>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chose to bless us
>>>> all with this bit of wisdom:
>>>>
>>>> >"Netnerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>> >
>>>> >> The consumer has spoken, but will this affect Penfield JacksonAs
>>>> >> rulings? Of course not, a biased and angry Penfield will rule
>>>> >> against Microsoft on every count and impose the most severe penalty
>>>> >> he believes possible. But not to worry, there is a contingency plan
>>>> >> in place regardless the DOJ trial and appeals outcome. Long live
>>>> >> Microsoft.
>>>> >
>>>> >Well, in *our* country court cases are decided by the law, not by
>>>> >public votes, but of course, in the land that has made lynching
>>>> >popular the procedures might be different.
>>>>
>>>> Do I understand this right? A German citizen wants to name call based
>>>> on a countriy's past? A [******] GERMAN wants to go down that road?
>>>> Were you absent on the day they went over your country's history, in
>>>> say the 1940's? You might want to go look it up before you start this
>>>> kind of [****].
>>>
>>> Please don't put your foot in your mouth. The USA has done many things
>>>that were not very ....... too.
>>
>>The US has never committed genocide. Trying to compare anything
>>anything in US history to the Holocaust is just plain absurd.
>
>The American Indian...case closed.
Bullshit! You need to read up on your American history.
The poor mistreated savage was responsible for a number
of attrocities upon women and children. These were wars
where the Indian had a chance to fight back.
This crap about the poor mistreated red man is bunch of
bogus drivel promulgated by the usual history revisionists.
Did we take their land? Yep sure did. Was it genocide?
Nope sure wasn't. The indian was just as treacherous as
the white man, maybe even more so. The only difference
was that they were way out numbered and they really had no
war fighting experience of the type needed to win the type
of war the White man waged. IF these 2 factors were reversed
I guarantee you we would all be living in teepees today.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Hardwick)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux fails to boot after dual-booting Windows 95;Reinstall LILO and it
works again!?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 02:11:12 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris) wrote:
>Is your Win95 partition FAT or FAT32? There is a known bug in Linux (as
>of 2.0.36) which *may* cause the kernel to crash if you mount a defective
>filesystem. To the FAT12/16 code, a FAT32 filesystem *is* defective.
>Next time you get a successful Linux boot, edit the fstab file so that the
>Win95 filesystem does not auto-mount. You may find that this cures the
>problem.
>
Yes it is FAT32. I just tried your suggestion. It seemed to work the
first time I booted win95 and then Linux. Linux booted correctly all
the way through. So I tried it again...Booted windows then Linux. No
go. Same problem. One thing was different the first time, might mean
nothing. I used 'rmmod' to unload the vfat module, then rebooted into
windows, then Linux. This worked. Another round of reboots and Linux
*doesn't* boot. I don't really think this is the cause but can someone
tell me how to prevent the vfat module from loading during boot up? Is
it a config file I need to edit?
Thanks for the suggestions.
Eric Hardwick
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From: Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Syslog dies at boot time.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:47:21 +1300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject says it all. No messages that I can see. It takes a long time
to attempt to start, then fails to create messages, debug, and syslog
files. (I rename these on shutdown) This has happened since a system
crash.
System is Linux 2.0.22.
Cliff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory Leblanc)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: SCSI
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 06:22:58 GMT
Hi there! I've been using NT for the last couple of months, because I
already understand how to operate it, and I didn't want to run
something as bad a WinBlows 9x on such a nice box. Ideally, I'd like
to run Linux and X, but I have a few questions.
1) Is SCSI as easy under Linux as it is under NT. I.E. I plug in a
SCSI zip drive, and provided that it's set to a valid SCSI ID, it
works, without any drivers or anything. If I have support for my SCSI
card compiled as part of the kernel, will it recognize my ZIP drive as
a removeable drive, and my CD-R as a WORM, or at least a read-only
media drive?
2) I heard someplace that NetGear had some really good 10/100Mbit
NICs, that had features that were lacking on the 3Com Etherlink XL,
and Intel 10/100 TX cards. Has anybody heard about this?
Thanks a bunch,
Greg
Greg Leblanc
Network Admin
Concordia University Portland
gleblanc at cu-portland.edu
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