Linux-Misc Digest #723, Volume #18 Fri, 22 Jan 99 12:13:12 EST
Contents:
test --please ignoretes (Igor Syry)
Re: PROPOSAL: comp.unix.year-2038 (WAS: 2038 and Linux) (Andreas Schwab)
Re: Help !!! How to access FAT32(WIn95) from Linux (Phil Edwards)
Any program conver text file to g3 format file ? ("Wilson Lam")
Printing to Network Printer from COL 1.3 ("Donald E. Stidwell")
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux defrag? (Dirk Ruediger)
Re: SAMBA observations and questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie Question (Dirk Nuyens)
Re: Pentium Pro or Pentium II for signal processing? (Richard Steiner)
Rh 5.2 and SB AWE 32 PnP freezing ("Al Kooz")
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From: Igor Syry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test --please ignoretes
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 07:58:25 -0500
test
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From: Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.software.year-2000,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: comp.unix.year-2038 (WAS: 2038 and Linux)
Date: 22 Jan 1999 13:56:00 +0100
Andre Fachat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> In comp.os.linux.development.system Bloody Viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|>
|> > Yeah, before the time_t expiry, you tar up the ext2fs partitions, move the
|> > tars, then format the ext2fs partitions into ext3fs, and untar right back.
|>
|> I'm no expert, but how does tar save the dates of a file?
As an octal ascii string, like all other numbers in the header.
--
Andreas Schwab "And now for something
[EMAIL PROTECTED] completely different"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help !!! How to access FAT32(WIn95) from Linux
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:10:12 +0000
You most certainly can! Assuming that you have Win95 installed in the
first primary partition of your first (E)IDE hard disk, then:
cd /
mkdir /win95
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /win95
ought to do it. If you want this mounted permanently, i.e. every time
you boot Linux, then put this in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda1 /win95 vfat defaults 1 1
I have to confess that I'm not too sure what the "1 1" on the end of
the line are for - perhaps someone who know a bit more about the subject
can enlighten us!
HTH!
tong deng wrote:
>
> How to access FAT32(win95) partition from Linux(Redhat5.0), Can i
> mount it?
>
> thanks
--
Phil Edwards
Technical Specialist
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Travellog Systems Phone +44 (0)1444 459016
The Priory, Haywards Heath Fax +44 (0)1444 456655
West Sussex, RH16 3LB
United Kingdom http://www.travellog.co.uk
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From: "Wilson Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,de.alt.comm.mgetty
Subject: Any program conver text file to g3 format file ?
Date: 22 Jan 1999 13:39:30 GMT
Hi,
I have tried pbmtext comes with mgetty. It seems it not working
correctly. Is there any other program can do the job correctly ?
Any help is appreciated !
Wilson
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing to Network Printer from COL 1.3
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:21:20 GMT
I have a laptop setup with Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 and it's attached to my
LAN at work. The NW Client works fine as does every other aspect of
networking except for one thing: I can not print to any of my networked
printers.
Well, I can print, but all I get is either blank pages or a single line.
I am trying to print to a Laserjet IID and a Laserjet 5SI. The IID uses
an Intel Netport Pro 100 and the 5SI uses the built-in JetDirect card.
Neither printer is setup for Netware printing - I use TCPIP printing for
all the printers on my network.
I can print fine to both from my AIX box.
I used printtool to setup the printer to print to the built-in queues on
both boxes (the same way I do with the AIX box) but all I get is the
output described above. I even tried printing through print queues on
the AIX box with negative results.
Any suggestions welcome and appreciated.
Don
============================================
Donald E. Stidwell, RM1, USN (Ret.)
Network Technician II
Certified Novell Administrator
Bon Secours Hampton Roads Home Care
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 22 Jan 1999 15:51:58 +0100
Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I respect your views, but the other people are right: Capitalizing
> the words sentences begin with makes the whole text just a little
> bit easier to read. Status quo got nothing to do with it.
Yes it does. Case in point: in German, all nouns are capitalized, and
lots of people consider that this helps readers to recognize nouns
more easily. I seriously doubt, however, that German can be read
faster than any other language. Did it ever even occur to you that
you're missing something by nouns (except proper nouns) being
lowercase?
This goes to show that we find easy what we're used to.
kai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:13:10 GMT
In comp.editors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: "Mark A. Flacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: > Your redundancy isn't. Your lack of capitalization would imply
: > that you're unlearned, but I really don't think that you give a
: > flying f**k what I think.
:
: In what way does use of capital letters or lack thereof imply anything
: about being `unlearned'?
in fact, it may only imply that i can in principle type faster than
someone who wastes at least one keystroke per sentence.
paul
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paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 38.3 degrees)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Ruediger)
Subject: Re: Linux defrag?
Date: 22 Jan 1999 06:24:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:57:14 GMT, Brian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone successfully defraged a linux partition using defrag 0.73
>which is available in rpm format.
>I continually get the error message - bad magic number in superblock.
>fsck finds no problems with the same partition.
>Any ideas please.
Why do you want to defrag your linux partition? I think, it makes only
sense, if you're having an FATish filesystem. Ext2 is "selfdefragmenting"
and you can see it, when you (or automaticly at bootup) look at the output
of fsck. It's only 1..2% defragmented.
Ciao for now, Dirk
--
Dirk Ruediger, Magdeburg, Germany
"I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see of it the more it
looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything
technically interesting there. In my opinion, MS is a lot better at making
money than it is at making good operating systems." -- Linus Torvalds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SAMBA observations and questions
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:57:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthew Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Raj Rijhwani wrote:
> > HP-9000 <-- NFS -- Linux <-- SMB -- Win95
[snip]
> > But the main point of this article is the that whilst I can read
> > the Win95 shares from the HP, I can do so only one level down -
> > that is to say that only the directory at the root of the share is
> > readable - any lower directories appear empty even though they
> > aren't (you can cd to them, but nothing shows if you ls), even
> > though on the Linux box the entire hierarchy is visible. This is
> > a pain, because it means that I have to set up each directory as
> > a separate share, mount them each separately on the HP, then
> > smbmount them individually on Linux. Now this one I DO want to
> > find a solution for (if one exists), or at the very least and
> > explanation.
> That's odd. Which version of samba are you using, and what does your
> smb.conf look like?
1.9.18pl5
mount.remote script:
#!/bin/sh
do_cmd(){
echo $*
$*
}
cmd="smbmount //srcpc101/datain /home/remote/datain -c srcpc112 -P
{password}" do_cmd $cmd cmd="smbmount //srcpc101/dataout /home/remote/dataout
-c srcpc112 -P {password}" do_cmd $cmd cmd="smbmount //srcpc101/usdatain
/home/vantive/sub/datain -c srcpc112 -P {password}" do_cmd $cmd cmd="smbmount
//srcpc101/usdataout /home/vantive/sub/dataout -c srcpc112 -P {password}"
do_cmd $cmd
smb.conf (as you can see, it's not much changed):
; The global setting for a RedHat default install
; smbd re-reads this file regularly, but if in doubt stop and restart it:
; /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop
; /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
;======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]
; workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name, eg: REDHAT4
; workgroup = WORKGROUP
workgroup = {local.workgroup}
; comment is the equivalent of the NT Description field
comment = Call-centre Samba Server
; volume = used to emulate a CDRom label (can be set on a per share basis)
volume = RedHat4
; printing = BSD or SYSV or AIX, etc.
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
; Uncomment this if you want a guest account
; guest account = pcguest
log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
; Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb)
max log size = 50
; Options for handling file name case sensitivity and / or preservation
; Case Sensitivity breaks many WfW and Win95 apps
; case sensitive = yes
short preserve case = yes
preserve case = yes
; Security and file integrity related options lock directory =
/var/lock/samba locking = yes strict locking = yes ; fake oplocks = yes
share modes = yes ; Security modes: USER uses Unix username/passwd, SHARE
uses WfW type passwords ; SERVER uses a Windows NT Server to provide
authentication services ; security = user security = server ; Use password
server option only with security = server ; password server =
<NT-Server-Name> password server = {password.server}
; Configuration Options ***** Watch location in smb.conf for side-effects
***** ; Where %m is any SMBName (machine name, or computer name) for which a
custom ; configuration is desired ; include = /etc/smb.conf.%m
; Performance Related Options
; Before setting socket options read the smb.conf man page!!
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
; Socket Address is used to specify which socket Samba
; will listen on (good for aliased systems)
; socket address = aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
; Use keep alive only if really needed!!!!
; keep alive = 60
; Domain Control Options ; OS Level gives Samba the power to rule the roost.
Windows NT = 32 ; Any value < 32 means NT wins as Master Browser, > 32 Samba
gets it ; os level = 33 ; specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser ;
domain master = yes ; Use with care only if you have an NT server on your
network that has been ; configured at install time to be a primary domain
controller. ; domain controller = <NT-Domain-Controller-SMBName> ; Domain
logon control can be a good thing! See [netlogon] share section below! ;
domain logons = yes ; run a specific logon batch file per workstation
(machine) ; logon script = %m.bat ; run a specific logon batch file per
username ; logon script = %u.bat ; Windows Internet Name Serving Support
Section ; WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's
WINS Server ; the default is NO. ; wins support = yes ; WINS Server -
Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client ; Note: Samba
can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both ; wins server =
w.x.y.z ; WINS Proxy - Tells Samba to answer name resolution queries on
behalf of a non ; WINS Client capable client, for this to work there
must be at least one ; WINS Server on the network. The default is NO. ;
wins proxy = yes
;============================ Share Declarations
============================== [homes] path = /home/%u comment = User home
directory browseable = no read only = no preserve case = yes short
preserve case = yes create mode = 0750
[CDROM]
path = /mnt/cdrom
comment = CD-ROM
browseable = yes
read only = yes
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
[remote]
path = /home/remote
comment = Shared service directories (on FTP)
browseable = yes
read only = no
preserve case = yes
short preserve case = yes
; Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons
; [netlogon]
; comment = Samba Network Logon Service
; path = /home/netlogon
; Case sensitivity breaks logon script processing!!!
; case sensitive = no
; guest ok = yes
; locking = no
; read only = yes
; browseable = yes ; say NO if you want to hide the NETLOGON share
; admin users = @wheel
; NOTE: There is NO need to specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
printable = yes
; Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print
; public = no
public = yes
writable = no
create mode = 0700
;[tmp]
; comment = Temporary file space
; path = /tmp
; read only = no
; public = yes
; A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in
; the staff group
[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/samba
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
write list = @users
create mode = 0774
; Other examples. ; ; A private printer, usable only by fred. Spool data will
be placed in fred's ; home directory. Note that fred must have write access
to the spool directory, ; wherever it is. ;[fredsprn] ; comment = Fred's
Printer ; valid users = fred ; path = /homes/fred ; printer =
freds_printer ; public = no ; writable = no ; printable = yes ; ; A
private directory, usable only by fred. Note that fred requires write ;
access to the directory. ;[fredsdir] ; comment = Fred's Service ; path =
/usr/somewhere/private ; valid users = fred ; public = no ; writable = yes
; printable = no ; ; a service which has a different directory for each
machine that connects ; this allows you to tailor configurations to incoming
machines. You could ; also use the %u option to tailor it by user name. ; The
%m gets replaced with the machine name that is connecting. ;[pchome] ;
comment = PC Directories ; path = /usr/pc/%m ; public = no ; writeable =
yes ; ; ; A publicly accessible directory, read/write to all users. Note that
all files ; created in the directory by users will be owned by the default
user, so ; any user with access can delete any other user's files. Obviously
this ; directory must be writable by the default user. Another user could of
course ; be specified, in which case all files would be owned by that user
instead. ;[public] ; path = /usr/somewhere/else/public ; public = yes ;
only guest = yes ; writable = yes ; printable = no ; ; ; The following two
entries demonstrate how to share a directory so that two ; users can place
files there that will be owned by the specific users. In this ; setup, the
directory should be writable by both users and should have the ; sticky bit
set on it to prevent abuse. Obviously this could be extended to ; as many
users as required. ;[myshare] ; comment = Mary's and Fred's stuff ; path =
/usr/somewhere/shared ; valid users = mary fred ; public = no ; writable =
yes ; printable = no ; create mask = 0765
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From: Dirk Nuyens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:22:58 +0100
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Charles Riley wrote:
> Is there any way to access a Zip Drive from Linux? Please help ASAP!!! I
> need to copy over my newest video drivers from a WIN98 partition, but they
> are too big and I'm not sure any other way....
>
> I can't get my modem to work in Linux...(I just started installing today...)
>
> Chip Riley
is this an internal ATAPI zip drive? then follow these steps (and hope that you
have support for ATAP floppy in your kernel: SuSE and RH have)
$ mkdir /mnt/zip # so
you have a directory to mount it on
$ mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip # the type of your
zip floppy will probably be vfat (win95)
# the only thing you should figure out is where your zip is eg /dev/hdd4,
/dev/hdb4, /dev/hdc4
if the mount fails you should try the other possible devices, but it's always
the 4th partition
after that you can simply cd to the mounted directory and do your thing
mounting your windows is the same proces... you should now where your windows
partition is eg /dev/hda1 (probably)
$ mkdir /mnt/dos
$ mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
anyway check out "man mount" and read something about /etc/fstab for automic
mounting of your dos thing
when done with your zip you will notice that you can't eject it, that's because
it is still mounted, do the following:
$ cd / #
go away from the drive, don't use it by sitting there
$ umount /mnt/zip # notice
that it's umount not unmount
hope this helps....
--
Dirk Nuyens
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Charles Riley wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Is there any way to access a Zip Drive from Linux?
Please help ASAP!!! I
<BR>need to copy over my newest video drivers from a WIN98 partition, but
they
<BR>are too big and I'm not sure any other way....
<P>I can't get my modem to work in Linux...(I just started installing today...)
<P>Chip Riley</BLOCKQUOTE>
is this an internal ATAPI zip drive? then follow these steps (and
hope that you have support for ATAP floppy in your kernel: SuSE and
RH have)
<BR> $ mkdir
/mnt/zip
# so you have a directory to mount it on
<BR> $ mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4
/mnt/zip
# the type of your zip floppy will probably be vfat (win95)
<BR>
# the only thing you should figure out is where your zip is eg /dev/hdd4,
/dev/hdb4, /dev/hdc4
<BR>if the mount fails you should try the other possible devices, but it's
always the 4th partition
<BR>after that you can simply cd to the mounted directory and do your thing
<BR>mounting your windows is the same proces... you should now where your
windows partition is eg /dev/hda1 (probably)
<BR> $ mkdir /mnt/dos
<BR> $ mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos
<P>anyway check out "man mount" and read something about /etc/fstab for
automic mounting of your dos thing
<P>when done with your zip you will notice that you can't eject it, that's
because it is still mounted, do the following:
<BR> $ cd
/
# go away from the drive, don't use it by sitting there
<BR> $ umount
/mnt/zip
# notice that it's umount not unmount
<P>hope this helps....
<PRE>--
Dirk Nuyens
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Pentium Pro or Pentium II for signal processing?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:35:15 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>Also...thought the PPro only went up to 200MHz (at least according to
>the Intel docs I've been reading...
Yes, but there's a socket8 overdrive processor for the PPro which runs
at 333MHz. I'm not sure what it'd really qualify as -- probably Xeon,
as I think the overdrive's L2 cache is running at base clockspeed.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
You're sick and twisted. I like that!
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From: "Al Kooz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Rh 5.2 and SB AWE 32 PnP freezing
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:56:18 +0100
Hi, I have a problem,
I installed RH 5.2 on my system (for the 100th time now) and I've been
trying to get my SB AWE 32 PnP to work... I used sndconfig, and it seemed to
detect it right. It played the sample and closed with no error message. Then
I go start X and I'm perfectly able to play Audio Cd's... When I boot
though, there's two error messages:
- First it's the sfxload that can't be found (although it's
there, I checked it)
- Second, the awe_wave.o isn't able to be loaded it says that
the resource
or device is busy...
That wouldn't bother me, unless I had following problem: Whenever I try to
play an mp3 file, the computer freezes. It didn't do that under Rh 5.1.
Please help me. I also tried to connect to the
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/sound/. directory, but that seems to have been
removed. Please help me.
thanx
Al
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