Linux-Misc Digest #753, Volume #18 Mon, 25 Jan 99 09:13:32 EST
Contents:
Re: NEWBIE: rpm, dialup, apache, X-Windows help! (Chetan Ahuja)
[Fwd: LOCAL: Central Florida ELUG February Installfest!] (Jeff Rose)
Re: X-Windows/Mounting cd-rom (Phil Reardon)
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (Chris Lee)
Re: How To Turn Off Console Terminal Screen Saver? (DJ�nichen)
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (Jim Frost)
Re: Start of Discussion Linux vers NT (Matthias Warkus)
Re: How big is a tar file? (Matthias Warkus)
Calling all hackers... (Dan Davis - Systems Administrator)
Re: StarOffice and Microsoft Office ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PATH (Matthias Warkus)
Re: What is LINKING? (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Matthias Warkus)
Re: My kernel doesn't recognizes my Yamaha OPL-SA3x sound card (Steve Gage)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chetan Ahuja)
Subject: Re: NEWBIE: rpm, dialup, apache, X-Windows help!
Date: 24 Jan 1999 23:12:30 GMT
John Robson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I am new at Linux and I must say that all this power that Linux and its tools
: give to a user can be overwhelming to a newbie like me.
That's very politially correct... :-)
You are one of the countless new brave people who have decided to
give linux a try despite not being familiar with it... the fact is that
linux is simply not a point and click OS out of the box ( if it came in
a box at all...) But you are right about the feeling of sheer power that
it gives you... even microsoft engineers think so.
: I tweaked and
: changed stuff and often found myself asking : "Now what?" I have
: Red Hat 5.2. Can people help me or point me to the right direction on the
: following :
Well... one good rule of thumb in such cases is to try commands like
'man <pachage_name>' or 'apropos <package_name>' where you can substitute
some <package_name> by the ral package name or something similar or other
relevant words... try and learn
: 1) rpm package: I installed the Corel Wordperfect 8 rpm from the bonus CD.
: It ran ok. Now what? Where is Wordperfect? And how do I start it? The
: rpm didn't tell me in what directory it was installed. I think the
: program is called xwp. Do I have to go into X Windows?
why yes of course...Word perfect for unix/linux is a GUI program similar to
it's MS-windows version. If you haven't got X working yet.. well... that's
going to take you some more time ( use XF86Config or XF86Setup to start ).
I hear that there are some problems in placement of executable files with the
word perfect package. Search dejanews for other posts about it ( Dejanews
is your friend.)
: Same problem with other rpm packages. Where the heck were they installed and
: how to start them!
An rpm package can install many different files in many different directories.
But the nice thing is that you can easily find out exactly what a package installed
by using the command 'rpm -q -l <package_name>'
rpm in general is a very powerful and thorough installation system with
hundreds of options. I suggest that you do yourself a favour and at least
glance through 'man rpm' everytime you have a question about packages...
you will find a way to find the answer yourself.
: 2) ppp set up and dialup: I'm sure this question has been asked a
: thousand times before by newbies, and I'm still puzzled and frustrated at not
: finding good AND consistent information on how to connect to my ISP. So,
: I have a 33.6 USR modem, an ISP running freebsd with apache. I tried to
: set up my ppp connection through Red Hat's Linuxconf tool. No luck. Can
: somebody give me a good lowdown and step-by-step information, faq on how to
: proceed and troubleshoot.
If you opted to install the documentation, you will find lots of help
in /usr/doc/ppp-2.3.5 ( or whatever version number ). How did I
know that.. I did 'rpm -q -l ppp' The documentation includes a lot
of sample config files. I can't help you more because I don't use ppp
( I have a cable connection)
: 3) My own directories: I would like to create my own directory, say
: '/john/bin/scripts', and I want to include this directory in my path, so that
: I can execute my shell scripts from anywhere. How do I do it?
If you want to allow only yourself to execute these scripts... just edit
the file .profile in your home directory to include this line
$PATH="$PATH:~john/bin/scripts"
( assuming you mean your home directory when you say /john..
if not, remove the tilde character and insert the slash )
If you want every user on the system to have access to these files,
put that line in /etc/profile file.
: 4) Apache web server: is there a good book or documentation on how to
: configure Apache for CGI scripts and mime types and other stuff for my
: personal standalone HTML development.
Oh yes. There is a very good O'Reilly book on apache. (I don't
really know that for a fact but I consider it a safe statement about
anything connected to unix/linux ;-) If you are like to buy good
technical books and are just getting started with the unix world, you
will get very familir with the distinctive and excellent O'Reilly books
very soon.
: 5) X-Windows: I use X11 server and Windowmaker. How do I configure
: X11/Windowmaker to show the applications on the drop-down menu and to execute
: them?
Ahh... you already have X-windows and windowmaker running.
Windowmaker has a very nice GUI configuration utility called WPrefs.
If you have a typical installation, its at the bottom of your "doc" or
you can run it from command line by invoking it thusly
/usr/X11R6/lib/GNUstep/Apps/WPrefs.app/WPrefs
( you have to give the full path because most likely that directory
is not in your path )
: Oh, one more thing: Are the KDE and GNOME desktops free? and where do I get
: them?
Yes of course. Try www.kde.org and www.gnome.org
or just look for it in the RedHat CD ( or wherever you installed from)
: I'm having fun, but it can be overwhelming at times, so I would appreciate
: very much any help, documentation and detailed pointers. Please reply
: with e-mail if you can. Thanks!
you are welcome.
Enjoy
Chetan
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From: Jeff Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: LOCAL: Central Florida ELUG February Installfest!]
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:20:16 +0000
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From: Phil Reardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-Windows/Mounting cd-rom
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 21:25:07 -0700
Scott Portinga wrote:
> I know this may seem like a silly question, but here goes: I have loaded
> RedHat 3.0.3 on a 386. It runs OK, but I am having problems getting XWin
> configured. Any hints? The monitor is a rather old generic VGA, with
> unknown horizontal and vertical frequencies. I have tried setting up as
> 'generic' on the card and monitor, but it doesn't work.
>
> Also, how do I mount the Cd-rom? I loaded the programs off of it (starting
> in DOS, and loading from there) but I am not sure how to access it in Linux.
>
> Any input would be appreciated. I know you guru's may think these questions
> are pretty basic (they are!) but I gotta start somewhere!
>
> Scott
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can't help you with your monitor, but mounting the cdrom is easy. I have a
scsi cdrom, so I type
mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom at the prompt. If you have a different sort of
cdrom, the device won't be scd0.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: 25 Jan 1999 12:28:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>In article <78g4p9$c9q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>says...
>>In article <e$dtm$7R#GA.229@upnetnews03>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>>>
>>>Maybe this would be a good way to find enough programmers to fix the Y2K
>>>problems in Linux.
>>
>>There aren't really any Y2K problems in Linux, this Y2K nonsense for the
PC
>>is mostly a problem for software that runs under MickySoft created
>>operating systems....
>>
>>
>>
>
>Right. The entire world is working to fix mainframes because of MS. Why
>not blame MS for all the ills that have plagued the world since the birth
>of mankind?
Did I say *Mainframe*? I said PC's which is pretty much what the MickySoft
OS's run on. Learn how to read guy.....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DJ�nichen)
Subject: Re: How To Turn Off Console Terminal Screen Saver?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:50:56 +0100
Scott Gravenhorst (remove _ for reply) schrieb in Nachricht
<36aa1bbd.11202775@proximus>...
>I have a monochrome monitor on a hercules card, no X support. I'd
>like it to constantly display "top", but it will blank the screen
>after a certain amount of non-use time. Is there a way to disable the
>screen saver on this device?
You switched on the Advanced Power Management (APM) in your BIOS! Disable
it! Then it would work!
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From: Jim Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:32:28 -0500
> >Yea but we've worked through that on other UNIXen by expanding time_t to a
> >64-bit int. Problem solved for a couple gazillion years.
>
> And now if only we could persude programmers to use time_t rather than
> int for their time variables!
That's what ANSI-C is good for :-). They have another forty years or so before
it really matters anyway.
jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Start of Discussion Linux vers NT
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:52:39 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sun, 24 Jan 1999 09:32:40 GMT...
..and [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All
> As a new user of Linux, i would like to start a discussion on the plus
> and minuses of windows and linux.
What a wonderful idea. I haven't seen any so far. :->
[schnibble]
mawa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: How big is a tar file?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:30:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sun, 24 Jan 1999 08:19:08 -0500...
..and Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using tar cvfz /dev/ht0 to create my backups. Now the drive I use
> is a 4GB uncompressed (TR-4) drive. How can I tell how much of the tape
> the tar file is using?
I suppose there is no way to find out because the data is written on the
tape in raw form, without a file system. Just a stream of bytes. The only
way to find out how big that stream is, is to read it in again.
BTW, you shouldn't use compression when making tape backups. One messed up bit
can kill the data on the whole tape when you compress. The tape drive
may do hardware compression itself, too, and then additional software
compression doesn't make much sense.
mawa
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From: Dan Davis - Systems Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Calling all hackers...
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:40:17 -0500
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No, not the ones who break into systems, the ones who write the
programs. Can you decipher these hieroglyphics:
read(7, "", 1024) = 0
alarm(0) = 900
write(6, " /* The TC"..., 2030) = 2030
write(1, "226 Transfer complete.\r\n", 24) = 24
close(7) = 0
munmap(0x40105000, 4096) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
time([917270485]) = 917270485
open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY) = 7
fstat(7, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40105000
read(7, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 1250
close(7) = 0
munmap(0x40105000, 4096) = 0
getpid() = 12819
sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x400ae620, [], 0}, {0x804acd0, [],
SA_STACK|0x65758}) = 0
send(3, "<91>Jan 25 08:21:25 ftpd[12819]:"..., 54, 0) = 54
sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x804acd0, [], 0}, NULL) = 0
chdir("/") = 0
sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x804ac98, [], SA_NOCLDSTOP}) = 0
sigaction(SIGILL, {SIG_DFL}, {0x804ac98, [], SA_NOCLDSTOP|0x5d054}) = 0
munmap(0x40104000, 4096) = 0
munmap(0x40102000, 4096) = 0
munmap(0x40103000, 4096) = 0
_exit(1) = ?
This is the output is from an strace of wu-ftpd-2.6.0 from Andy Church
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I have emailed them
with no response.
Please help me.
Please reply by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dan Davis
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No, not the ones who break into systems, the ones who write the programs.
Can you decipher these hieroglyphics:
<br><tt>read(7, "",
1024)
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>alarm(0)
= 900</tt>
<br><tt>write(6,
"
/* The TC"..., 2030) = 2030</tt>
<br><tt>write(1, "226 Transfer complete.\r\n", 24) = 24</tt>
<br><tt>close(7)
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>munmap(0x40105000,
4096)
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---</tt>
<br><tt>time([917270485])
= 917270485</tt>
<br><tt>open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY)
= 7</tt>
<br><tt>fstat(7, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0</tt>
<br><tt>mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x40105000</tt>
<br><tt>read(7, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 1250</tt>
<br><tt>close(7)
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>munmap(0x40105000,
4096)
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>getpid()
= 12819</tt>
<br><tt>sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x400ae620, [], 0}, {0x804acd0, [], SA_STACK|0x65758})
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>send(3, "<91>Jan 25 08:21:25 ftpd[12819]:"..., 54, 0) = 54</tt>
<br><tt>sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x804acd0, [], 0}, NULL) = 0</tt>
<br><tt>chdir("/")
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL}, {0x804ac98, [], SA_NOCLDSTOP}) =
0</tt>
<br><tt>sigaction(SIGILL, {SIG_DFL}, {0x804ac98, [], SA_NOCLDSTOP|0x5d054})
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>munmap(0x40104000,
4096)
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>munmap(0x40102000,
4096)
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>munmap(0x40103000,
4096)
= 0</tt>
<br><tt>_exit(1)
= ?</tt>
<p>This is the output is from an strace of wu-ftpd-2.6.0 from Andy Church
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and
<br>Bernhard Rosenkraenzer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I have emailed
them with no response.
<p>Please help me.
<p>Please reply by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<p>Dan Davis
<br> </html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: StarOffice and Microsoft Office
Date: 25 Jan 1999 13:31:56 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Bob Warshawsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Ian S. Nelson wrote:
:> > Of course, free versus $695.00 for Applixware is something to ponder....
:>
:> I'm pretty sure you can get Applix a lot cheaper than that.
: A number of folks have suggested this, and I'm sure they are right.
: This, however,
: was the price that was quoted to me for the entire Applixware suite for
: Solaris
: SPARC.
The x86 Linux version of Linux is much cheaper. Linux Systems Labs
sells the "Office Edition" for $74.95 and the "Professional Edition" for
$219.95. If you ask me, $695 for a Solaris app is pretty cheap though
compared to some of the apps we've bought in the last year. ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: PATH
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 21:57:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sun, 24 Jan 1999 20:21:48 GMT...
..and Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I put /rpms/mesa/Mesa-3.0/lib in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable?
I'd guess running ldconfig with the appropriate options is a better way to
do what you intend to do.
mawa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: What is LINKING?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:01:01 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:24:51 -0500...
..and David Sisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm a little confused, so maybe someone can explain or point me to a
> resource. On DOS/MS Win/etc., LINKing is the process of taking the object
> code output from a compiler, and rolling it up with the pieces that are
> necessary to make it a native executable. In other words, source code ->
> compile -> object code -> link -> executable.
>
> So, what is exactly linking in Linux (and other unices)? It seems to be far
> more than my traditional idea of linking. Could anyone offer a brief,
> simple explanation?
Linking makes executables out of object code, resolving symbols, that is,
references, inside the .o files. The main difference to, say, DOS is that
lots of libraries are not statically linked in, but mere stubs are put in
place of the library functions; the dynamic linker resolves these references
at run-time, getting the shared libraries from lib/ directories.
This makes the actual executables pretty small if lots of the functionality
are in shared libraries. For example, the Enlightenment window manager,
being probably the most featureful one we know, takes up only ~260 KB.
mawa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:31:59 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:47:37 -0500...
..and allacircle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Fred Flatstone wrote:
>
> > <SNIP>
> > The biggest problem with Windows is shared by no other breed of OS.
> > <SNIP>
>
> Bill Gates??
Stemming from CP/M via MS-DOS?
mawa
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From: Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My kernel doesn't recognizes my Yamaha OPL-SA3x sound card
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:45:19 -0500
"Dr A Medina S]" wrote:
>
> I use SUSE 5.1, kernel 2.0.33, on a P166, 64Mb, 1.8Gb for Linux.
>
> I have a Yamaha OPL-SA3x sound card, that I use without problems on
> Windows 98. I have tryed to install it on Linux, without any success.
>
> If I try make config, I'm only asked about what sound card I have, I
> select OPL2/3, and I'm never asked about /dev/dsp and /dev/sound. If I
> use XFree86 to compile my kernel, I select OPL2/3 on the menu, but I'm
> never asked about IRQ, DMA, etc.
>
> When I reboot my new kernel, It says Yamaha OPL2/3 at $388 or something
> like that (my card uses $330, according to Windows).
>
> If I print my selecting, I don't get anything below sound devices (I'm
> not sure about that phrase, well, something like that), it's like Linux
> didn't detected the card, but then how it shows it (even with a bad
> address) at dmesg).
>
> What can I do now?
You can go to:
http://thor.prohosting.com/~savant/
or
http://www.xdt.com/ar/linux-snd/
for instructions on how to make it work.
- Steve
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