Linux-Misc Digest #823, Volume #18 Sat, 30 Jan 99 09:13:19 EST
Contents:
Re: Shutdown (Fhurqaan Hamid)
Re: New to Linux (Frank Hale)
Flash Mem cards (Jim Richardson)
Re: Socks compliant? (Michael Shuldman)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Chris)
Re: How to check if someone is logged on from the console? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to change the default fonts for linux? (Larry)
Re: smbmount problem ("Terry M. Lee")
Re: Thoughts on file organization (Thomas Zajic)
Re: pine (The Man)
Re: Help for STB nVidia ZX video card (Jun Zhuang)
Re: Multidrop Mail Software (Peter S. Frouman)
Re: Redhat 5.0: :X-window & pppd (Peter S. Frouman)
Fonts, can hardly read anything (Kaustav Bhattacharya)
Re: How much space needed? (Frank Sweetser)
Kscd puzzles me (Oliver Immich)
Re: LILO problem with win98 (Redhat) (Phil Lewis)
Re: Are conditional symbolic links possible? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Linux on PC's not ready for Enterprise ("Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus")
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Paul Repacholi)
Apache really SIMPLE question (root)
Re: Linux or FreeBSD? (Dan McGregor)
Re: How to have the NUMLOCK key on by default in X-Windows? (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Help with Creative PCI64 soundcard please? (Richard Taylor)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fhurqaan Hamid)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Shutdown
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 20:00:00 +0800
Reply-To: fha@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Cory Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> How can I shutdown my system without logging into root each time?
>
>What do you mean by "logging into"?
>Are you aware that you only need to do this in a shell as a normal user?
>
>su
>[enter password]
>shutdown -h now
How about the three finger salute.
Ctrl+Alt+Del
--
What's the speed of dark?
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From: Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: New to Linux
Date: 29 Jan 1999 16:40:53 GMT
Gaea wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm about to install RedHat 5.2 on my p2 450 computer. Is there anything I
> need to know before I install it? I have a 14.4GB HD and I'm going to put
Not sure LILO will like that 14.4 gig hard drive. Just look on these
newsgroups all kinds of people are having trouble with these huge
drives. It may or may not work I don't know.
> Linux on a seprate partion. I would also like to know how do I boot between
> 2 Operating Systems. Can Windows 98 and Linux coexist?
Yes Windows and Linux can coexist. Try www.linux-howto.com for the howto
on dual booting linux and windows. Trust me its an easy thing to do.....
>
> BTW, Is this OS easy to learn?
>
Took me about 1 year to get proficient at it. Of course I was a
Microsoft monkey so it was expected.
--
From: Frank Hale
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7205161
Website: http://www.franksstuff.com/
"I say line-ux you say lynn-ux,
whats the difference? Its still better than windows"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Flash Mem cards
Date: 29 Jan 1999 02:47:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have t 4mb pcmcia flash mem cards that I am trying to get to work with
linux. System is a RH5.2 running on fujitsu lifebook 340.
Cards are Chinon ES-3000 cards from the digital camera. But they are standard
4mb flash ram cards.
I have read the PCMCIA-HOWTO
I can ftl_format fine (as written in the howto) and if I give a block count,
then I can mke2fs fine also. (allready did a mknod for block device with
major/minor device number)
Then I can mount the card, and write to, read, erase, write etc.
But, when I umount the card, and remount it, then nothing shows up at the
mountpoint. Allthough if I strings or cat the device directly
(strings /dev/ftl0c0 etc) then I can see that the files I wrote to the card
are still there, they just don't show up under the mountpoint.
Any suggestions or help?
Oh, when I format the device and create the filesystem, (with the same
number of blocks that ftl_format shows) then it tells me that the
"Filesystem larger than apparant filesystem size. Proceed anyway?"
So I say yes and on it goes.
Thanks all, Not sure what to do with these cards, but what the heck,
they seem useful.
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Shuldman)
Subject: Re: Socks compliant?
Date: 29 Jan 1999 16:44:50 GMT
Steve Terrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a Linux program like windows sockscap or
> Hummingbird that will make any winsock program socks 4 and 5 compliant
> for use with a socks proxy?
The socksify program that comes with Dante (http://www.inet.no/dante)
is supposed to do that. Support for "socksify" on linux was added
in last version.
--
_ //
\X/ -- Michael Shuldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:45:20 -0600
Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus wrote:
>
> G'day...
>
> > > (After all, where do you think all your hardware comes from - almost all
> > >
> > > hardware is developed and manufactured in Asia.) In fact, if it wasn't
> > > for Asia,
> > > modern computing would incredibly *far behind* what it is today.
>
> [...]
>
> > I'm sorry but the only reason asia has the technology is because we
> > sent it over there because labor was cheaper. And yes it did help
> > modern computing leap ahead. Only because of lower prices.
> > I bought 4K YES 4K of memory in 1977 made in USA by TI for $700.00
> > Today from asia I can get 64MB PC100 for under $100.
>
> No, thats not quite right. Not only was it cheaper, but also better and
> produced faster and as time went on with further and further surpassing
> quality - and by Asian companies rather than US ones.
>
> Intel couldn't keep up. That's why they specialise in CPU's now, not memory
> (what they used to specialise in). The Intel engineers couldn't understand
> how come their foreign counterparts produced better memory faster. (You can
> read about this in Andrew Grove's book).
>
> If you dismiss Asia in such a manner - then one can just as easily dismiss
> all US innovations due to what the US received externally.
>
> All the best...
>
> Michael.
Could you tell me what memory they invented/designed before they got the
technology from us? Or what CPU's they invented/designed/manufactured?
I seem to remember a company called Texas Instruments who used to be the
biggest manufacturer of memory. They gave that up. Stating "We can't
compete
with asian countrys lower prices" Not because they are any better.
And I am not talking about any other innovations, I'm talking about
computer technology.
Heh, we wouldn't have gotten to the moon as fast as we did without
vanbraun(spelling?)
And I can't believe Intel engineers couldn't understand why they could
do this. They must be blind. Cheaper labor, No unions, People who are
happy to have a job and will do anything to keep it.
Seems like a no brainer to me.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to check if someone is logged on from the console?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 08:28:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 28 Jan 1999 09:28:44 GMT, Binand Raj S. wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am writing a program (in C) which has to check if the user is
> >logged on from the console. The method I'm currently using is:
>Excuse my asking, but what's wrong with 'who'?
Hi Geoff,
I dont want to use 'who', since this is a C program, and I want to
achieve what I want by using function calls and not by using external
programs.
Binand
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry)
Subject: Re: how to change the default fonts for linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 Jan 1999 16:55:37 GMT
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 16:12:08 -0800, GTGT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>because the fonts in netscape and xterm is so small....
To change the size of the fonts in xterm either start xterm with the
font size like this:
xterm -fn *-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
The 14 is the size of the font. Do some reading up on how fonts work.
Or put this in .Xresources in your home directory and xterm will always
comeup with the correct font size:
XTerm*Font: *-courier-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
TO make sure that your .Xresources file is properly called, you need this in
your .xinitrc file:
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
FOnt sizes for netscape are changed in netscape under one of the pull down
menus.
To help you learn about what fonts are available run xfontsel and it will
let you setup different fonts of all diferent sizes and tell you how to call
them. It will not set them up for you. It only shows you what different
settings will do.
To learn more about X run: man X
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From: "Terry M. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smbmount problem
Date: 29 Jan 1999 08:57:02 GMT
Thomas Sch?tt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> Theo van der Merwe wrote:
:>
:> How do I diagnose smbmount? I have used smblient to
:> transfer files from a Win95 computer:
:> smbclient // win95 /share -I myIP
:> When I try to use smbmount with similar parameters, I get
:> an error message of 'device or resource busy - please
:> consult man smbmount':
:> smbmount // win95 /share /home/theo -I myIP
:> What could be the difference between smbmount and
:> smbclient?
smbumount your mount point.
--
================================================================
Terry Lee
================================================================
To err is human. To really screw up it takes Windows!
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(65) 8719-719
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From: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on file organization
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:34:10 GMT
Jim Richardson wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:44:39 -0500,
> Michael Doherty, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> brought forth the following words...:
> > [ ... ]
> >What I would like to know is the way to find out the size of
> >directories and the unused space in the various partitions on the
> >hard drive.
> > [ ... ]
> df
> will tell you what the various partitions (the mounted ones anyway.) are at.
�du� will tell you the disk usage per (sub)directory. See �man du�
for details.
Thomas
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From: The Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pine
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:46:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Villy Kruse wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Haaino Beljaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am currently trying to configure pine in such a way that it can read
> >the nntp news server. This newsgroup machine is not located on the same
> >machine I
> >am running pine on. For this reason I have put the line
> >nntp-server=news.telekabel.nl in my /usr/lib/pine.conf . But when I try
> >to fetch any news group pine response with:'no groups to select from'.
> >Same response I get when I use 'tin'. But netscape retreives the
> >newsgroups perfectly. What have I done wrong? Did I forget anything? If
> >so, what? Please help me.
> >
> >greetings,
> >Haaino
>
> try to telnet to news.telekabel.nl port nntp
>
> telnet news.telekabel.nl nntp
>
I tried this and it didn't work. I then tried it on my local newshost
and it worked... Don't know what is wrong...
> When you see the greeting, (if you get any)
>
> type in:
>
> mode reader
> quit
>
> And se if you get any error messages.
>
> Actuall when I tried I got no responce.
>
> Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jun Zhuang)
Subject: Re: Help for STB nVidia ZX video card
Date: 29 Jan 1999 16:58:15 GMT
Jim Orfanakos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have a DELL 400 with a STB 128 card. I had the same problems. go to the
: www.d128.com web site for the latest RIVA drivers.
Thanks a lot! I got the right driver and now the whole lab is happier
with the nice graphics.
Thanks again.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S. Frouman)
Subject: Re: Multidrop Mail Software
Date: 29 Jan 1999 16:55:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 10:24:22 -0000, Tom Furie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I am looking for some software that will allow me to pick up mail for
>multiple accounts on a Linux box from a single POP account.
>
>I looked at Fetchmail, but the documentation advises against using Fetchmail
>for this purpose. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what other
>packages might offer what I am looking for?
I see no reason why this couldn't be done using fetchmail with procmail as
the delivery agent. I guess the main thing would be to have the
.procmailrc filter the To: or Cc: lines to the corresponding local mail
spool files. I have a similar setup but it is only for a couple of local
mailboxes so perhaps a more specific program might be needed if you have a
lot of local accounts.
--
-Peter Frouman | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zippy says:
Vote for ME -- I'm well-tapered, half-cocked, ill-conceived and TAX-DEFERRED!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S. Frouman)
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.0: :X-window & pppd
Date: 29 Jan 1999 16:55:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:19:51 GMT, Michael Tse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>HI:
>
> 1. I have installed Linux 5.0 in my box. Also I have already to
>configure X during setup. During installation PCI probing found X
>Server :SVGA
>then I also choose the type of my monitor, set the frequency and auto
>probing also probe my chipset etc. However when I enter startx under
>root, the error message is as follows:
>
>xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2) no server " X" in path
>xinit: connection refused : (errno 111) unable to connect to X
>server
>xinit: No such process (errnor 3) server error
Is /usr/X11R6/bin in your PATH? Do you have the XFree86-SVGA package
installed? You can check this with 'echo $PATH' and 'rpm -q XFree86-SVGA'
Usually /usr/X11R6/bin/X is a symlink to the apropriate Xserver in the
same directory or (in more up to date X installations) the Xwrapper
program which runs the Xserver specified by the /etc/X11/X symlink or a
file /etc/X11/Xserver which contains the path to the Xserver as the first
line. Since you are using the SVGA server, you want X to be either a
symlink to XF86_SVGA or the xwrapper program which will run XF86_SVGA
try the following:
1. put /usr/X11R6/bin in your PATH and make sure X points to the correct
server and that it exists or
2. put something like the following in a file called .xserverrc in your
home directory
/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
>Then return to root, please help me to solve this problem.
>
>2. During the installaiton I have install the package about
>networking and choose all the services running during boot up the
>kernel. However, when I enter " dmesg | grep -i ppp " . I cannot see
>the message about the version of pppd. Is the pppd running in my Linux
>box.? If no, how can I execute the pppd?
You can execute pppd by typing '/usr/sbin/pppd' and pressing Enter.
Note that just choosing all the services does not automatically set up
your PPP connection. How do you expect it to know which number to dial,
username, password, etc? Once you are in X, you can run control-panel or
netcfg to set up your PPP connection. If you select the atboot option, PPP
will be started automatically at boot.
--
-Peter Frouman | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zippy says:
Vote for ME -- I'm well-tapered, half-cocked, ill-conceived and TAX-DEFERRED!
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From: Kaustav Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fonts, can hardly read anything
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:29:32 +0000
Reply-To: k, dot, bhattacharya, at, bbc, dot, co, dot, uk
Since I installed RH5.2, I have not changed anything much. I find the
fonts really badly unreadable. e.g. in Netscape the KDE site or the Red
Hat site is practically unreadable. I though the Mac had bad fonts but
this makes the Mac look godly! what's going on? Does RH5.2 come with a
buncha arse-shite fonts and if so, where can I download some decent,
free, fonts which look half decent? The problem is the fonts are so
jaggy that at font size 2 everything is a big blob! It this Type One
font crappery and do I need to install TT fonts instead? Help, I'm
going font crazy! When are we getting a nice anti-aliased outline font
manager!?!?!? *sobs*
regards,
Koz
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How much space needed?
Date: 29 Jan 1999 09:24:32 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cmdr_Joe) writes:
> As you may have noticed, I am going to install RedHat Linux soon, more
> specifically, the Mandrake distro. Now what sized partition should I
> make for this distro? I know I should make it as big as possible, but
> I only have 350 megs left on my hard drive. Will this be enough for me
> to play with it, or will the initial installation leave me no space
> left over?
350 is a little tight, esp if you really want to install X, but you can
certainly get a working system on it.
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.0 i586 | at public servers
compiling a kernel is the closest thing to sex on a unix system:
utterly daunting 'till the first time you get it right :)
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From: Oliver Immich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kscd puzzles me
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:04:45 +0100
Hello,
yesterday I saw myself confronted with a very mystic thing concerning my
kscd
giving me an 'CDROM access or read error' when launching it as user
(500).
ls -l /dev/cdrom gives 'lrwxrwxrwx -> hdd' which is unusual, isn't it?
Kscd doesn't work, but other cd-players do...
Has anybody ever encountered a problem like this?
Oliver.
#[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Lewis)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: LILO problem with win98 (Redhat)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:20:26 GMT
I have this exact same problem on a machine running a PII 350 on an
Abit BX6 motherboard (Award BIOS), and an 8.4 Gb IBM hard disk.
I have tried in vain to get Lilo to install onto either the master
boot record or onto the boot sector of another partition.
The only thing I've not tried (which I'm embarassed to admit), is BIOS
virus protection. This sounds the most likely solution.
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From: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Are conditional symbolic links possible?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:06:31 GMT
David E. Fox wrote:
> In article <77r0er$3rb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Thanks for replying to my original post, Micheal. Could you please humor me
> >and tell me exactly what's going on when you use the above command? What's
> >the difference between LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or whatever it's
> I'm not quite sure of the semantic differences between LD_PRELOAD and
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, although both seem to perform the same function.
> [ ... ]
Not quite. Let me see if I can get that straight - someone please
correct me if I�m wrong!
LD_LIBRARY_PATH overrides, or rather adds to, the paths that are set
in /etc/ld.so.conf. That is, the path given with LD_LIBRARY_PATH is
searched before the standard path. Example:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/really-old-libs/ ./really_old_program
LD_PRELOAD, OTOH, allows you to "overlay" one or more specific
libraries. That is, if a program requires a certain function from
a certain lib, the lib given with LD_PRELOAD is used if it provides
this specific function (it does not need to be a _full_ replacement
for a standard lib!). IIRC, the preloaded lib must have the same
soname like the one that it overlays for this to work properly.
Example:
LD_PRELOAD=~/self-written-libs/libReallyFastGL.so ./quake2
You could, for example, have written one or two really fast OpenGL
routines, but not a complete OpenGL implementation. In this case,
Quake2 would use whatever functions are available in your lib, and
take all other functions from whatever OpenGL lib (libMesaGL.so,
lib3dfxgl.so) is available in your standard lib path.
See �man ld.so� for details.
Thomas
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From: "Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux on PC's not ready for Enterprise
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:54:26 +1100
G'day...
> The problem wrt not booting without a video card Linux can't do anything
> about. It's a BIOS problem. In a few computers I have access to, the
> BIOS will just beep at me if the video card isn't plugged in.
You should be able to set up your bios such that the video option is none
(instead of vga).
All the best.
Michael.
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From: Paul Repacholi <[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: 30 Jan 1999 21:22:00 +0800
Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I truly appreciate your suggestions, but I'd rather get a real workstation
> keyboard like the ones that Sun, HP, DEC and the rest of them sell, and not
> mess with re-mapping.
So find an old LK-250, or get an LK-450. DEC^H^H^HConpak one,
the former is AT, the later PS2.
If anyone has a set of keymap files...
~paul
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Apache really SIMPLE question
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:01:39 -0500
(Please give it a try)
Hi all,
I am trying to change the root directory for apache to a directory
of my choice, so instead of /var/lib/apache/share/htdocs, I am trying to
do /win95/mydir
Whenever I go to the files
access.conf
httpd.conf
srm.conf
and change all the sections that mention root directory, apache stops
and refuses to start. I have to change them all back to the default and
then restart. The funny thing is that if I change any two of the files
it doesn't affect apache. Once I change the third one, it stops.
To be more clear, no matter what I do the root directory is the same
/var/lib/apache/...
Since we're at it, I am also trying to add other directories that
descend from /win95/mydir, so they can be accessed. for example
/win95/mydir/images...
Please suggest anything.
Just in case:
Slackware 3.6
My system is:
A PPro 150
SuperMicro baord 32M
ATI 3d pro turbo
x-windows is running
33.6 USR modem
1GB partition for Native & swap
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From: Dan McGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 02:51:02 GMT
Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:07:57 GMT, Daniel McGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >as microsoft. I hear the old Adaptec drivers are buggy enough to bring
> >the system down from time to time.
>
> Define old. I've been using a 1542 for over a year now and my box only
> comes down when I am upgrading kernel or hardware.
Pre 2.0.31. You are probably runing later than 2.0.30, It is the least
stable "stable"-release of the linux kernel ever by far. I tend not to count it
when I consider "It has never crashed". 2.0.31 is well over a year old, so that
is probably what you started with.
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From: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to have the NUMLOCK key on by default in X-Windows?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 13:27:36 GMT
David Efflandt wrote:
> On 22 Jan 1999 18:49:00 GMT, Stephen Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I looked everywhere for a way to do this. I finally came across a way to
> >patch the kernel so that the NUMLOCK key is on by default in VC's (at the
> >console). But as soon as I startx, the LED goes off. When I exit X-Windows,
> >back to the console, it comes back on again!
> >Tried using xset led ..., didn't work for me. PLEASE, somebody help me
> >with this !!
> >If this is in an FAQ somewhere, then I apologize, please direct me to it :)
> For one way see 'man setleds':
> One might use setleds in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to define the initial and
> default state of NumLock, e.g. by
> INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
> for tty in $INITTY; do
> setleds -D +num < $tty
> done
> If that does not work, try a full path to 'setleds'
Same problem here. �setleds� works fine for the console, but no
go in X:
KDGETLED: Invalid argument
Error reading current led setting. Maybe stdin is not a VT?
�xset� doesn�t work for me, either. Fooled around with various
"XLeds" and "ServerNumLock" settings in /etc/XF86Config, no luck.
Trying several TERM= settings resulted in the same error as well.
Any advice?
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Taylor)
Subject: Re: Help with Creative PCI64 soundcard please?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:32:03 GMT
On 29 Jan 1999 20:40:09 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott
Alfter) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Richard Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I bought the useless darn thing at the local shop owner's
>>recomendation - he's usually pretty good, but a complete Windoze head
>>and as such completely oblivious to concerns like "Does it work in
>>Linux?"
>
>It's nothing more than a relabeled Ensoniq AudioPCI. Compile in support for
>ES1370-based sound cards and it'll work. You'll get two digital outputs to
>play with since the card has no synthesizer of its own. The Win9x driver
>and the DOS TSR are software-based wavetable synthesizers; similar software
>is available for Linux (Timidity comes to mind as an example).
>
Thank you! I've been half-expecting to have to bin it...
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