Linux-Misc Digest #831, Volume #18 Sat, 30 Jan 99 22:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: configuring mailx or pine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can Sybase AS run on Slackware linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Stable Word Processor (Michel Catudal)
Re: Problems with number of heads from DOS FDISK partitions and Linux fdisk on 8.4
GB drive (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: How do I read open source code CD Redhat 5.2? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: dial-up web server? (Ashok Aiyar)
Re: HELP!! Parallel tape drive setup question (Grant Guenther)
Re: Booting Linux from a Zip Drive!?!!?!! (nivenh)
Re: How big is a tar file? (Yan Seiner)
Re: X windows crash please help! ("TEX@go")
Re: Web Browsers. . . (Michel Catudal)
Re: HELP!! Parallel tape drive setup question ("Blackey")
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Arthur)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: configuring mailx or pine
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 07:23:21 -0600
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Wowix wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I can get mail from my ISP using netscape (on my redhat 5.1 box) but how
> > do I configure my system to use mailx or pine for my ISP mail?
> > Thanks,
>
> You need a program to get your email from your ISP...which I recommend...
> fetchmail.. Then fetchmail will move it to your local mailbox..then after
> that use pine to read your e-mail.......
Ok, I am using fetchmail, but it dumps the mail into root on my local
machine,
instead of sending it to the users mail file. How do I fix?
Thanks,
--
Mike Cabaniss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Digital Sea Internet Services - Web Hosting powered by Linux
http://www.digitalsea.net
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Wowix wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<P>> I can get mail from my ISP using netscape (on my redhat 5.1 box) but
how
<BR>> do I configure my system to use mailx or pine for my ISP mail?
<BR>> Thanks,
<P>You need a program to get your email from your ISP...which I recommend...
<BR>fetchmail.. Then fetchmail will move it to your local mailbox..then
after
<BR>that use pine to read your e-mail.......</BLOCKQUOTE>
Ok, I am using fetchmail, but it dumps the mail into root on my local machine,
<BR>instead of sending it to the users mail file. How do I fix?
<BR>Thanks,
<PRE>--
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Digital Sea Internet Services - Web Hosting powered by Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can Sybase AS run on Slackware linux?
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:19:15 GMT
Can the Sybase release found on the SuSE web site be installed on the
Slackeware distribution of linux?
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stable Word Processor
Date: 30 Jan 1999 20:48:07 -0600
Ruben Decrop wrote:
>
>
> I have downloaded Staroffice 5 and Wordperfect 8 on a similar machine (Pentium
>166/32 MB ram). Staroffice is
> definitely too slow (you need more RAM). Wordperfect runs well and stable (up to
>now no crashes)
>
> Ruben Decrop
>
I have Star Office 5 and WordPerfect 8 with a Canaon BJC-250. I can't print anything
in color with WordPerfect and can't change the font.
It's great with Star Office and not slow. I have a 686 at 230Mhz with 40M of RAM.
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Problems with number of heads from DOS FDISK partitions and Linux fdisk
on 8.4 GB drive
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:48:10 -0600
Have you tried the "linear" option in lilo.conf?
Visit
http://metlab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
and read the Large Disk HOWTO...
It explains how 7.875GB is the addressable limit. Don't know if that
still is valid.
Jerry
Leslie Groer wrote:
>
> Hi There
>
> I have a problem with the partitions on my new Western Digital Cavaliar
> 8.4 GB that has been partitioned by DOS FDISK as seen by Linux.
>
> I am running Red Hat 4.1, kernel v 2.0.27 on a
> Micron 133 MHz Mironics M54Hi Motherboard with
> Phoenix Bios 4.05 upgrade from Micro Firmware with
> Win95 on /dev/hda1 (800 MB of 1.6 GB) and Linux on the other half of the
> disk. I will upgrade to RH5.2 once I get the disk problem fixed.
>
> Drives are seen as
> hda: WDC AC31600H, 1549MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=787/64/63
> hdb: WDC AC28400R, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, LBA, CHS=16383/16/63
>
> The CHS corresponds to the specs from the manufacturer and how the BIOS
> sees the disk. I feed in the CHS for the 8.4 GB drive on boot-up (using
> LOADLIN hdb=16383/16/63). If I don't do that, it sees the drive as
> CHS=1027/255/63.
>
> I partitioned the drive using DOS FDISK and Win95 can see the partitions
> fine. There are 4 partitions, 1 primary and 3 logical in an extended
> partition to get around the 2.1 GB limit with FAT-16 partitions (I don't
> have OSR2 so need to stick to FAT-16).
>
> When I boot into Linux, I see the partitions on boot up
>
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 >
>
> However, cfdisk gives a fatal error -- "Cannot seek on disk drive" and
> linux fdisk gives the following
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 1 1 4155 2094088+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(276, 239, 63) should be (276, 15, 63)
> /dev/hdb2 3350 4156 15345 5639760 5 Extended
> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(1022, 239, 63) should be (1022, 15, 63)
> /dev/hdb5 3350 4156 8310 2094088+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hdb6 7723 8311 12465 2094088+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
> /dev/hdb7 12096 12466 15345 1451488+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
>
> Command (m for help): v
>
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(276, 239, 63) should be (276, 15, 63)
> Partition 1: head 240 greater than maximum 16
> Partition 5: head 240 greater than maximum 16
> Warning: partition 1 overlaps partition 5.
> Partition 6: head 240 greater than maximum 16
> Warning: partition 5 overlaps partition 6.
> Partition 7: head 240 greater than maximum 16
> Warning: partition 6 overlaps partition 7.
> Logical partition 5 not entirely in partition 2
> 1046360 unallocated sectors
>
> I did try deleting all the partitions using linux fdisk and repartitioning
> but I still get overlap warnings for the various partitions.
>
> I can mount the partitions in linux and I can create linux partitions but
> I am concerned about the warning of an overlap - will this cause a problem
> later? It looks like the Start cylinder of the partitions do not overlap
> but the Begin cylinders do. I am not sure of the difference between
> these. I do not want to be overwriting data on one partition while
> writing to another.
>
> Also, I want to install Win/NT on this disk later and having a clean
> partition configuration I think would be safer. How do I fix the problem
> of partition boundaries?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice/help.
>
> Leslie Groer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How do I read open source code CD Redhat 5.2?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:22:00 GMT
In article <78bjla$ev0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Mulks) wrote:
. . .
> Wordpad seems to handle linux/unix text files very nicely
>
>
For a very small and versatile text editor for windows check out:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/editor/wnot193.zip
This thing (written by someone named Julie Melbin --an angel for sure) is a
lot like EMACS but it is more intuitive and has simple menu operation. You
can unzip it and then put a shortcut on your main window (I think that they
call it a "desktop" or something) and then drag any text file to it and it
will open it up so you can read and or edit it.
One very nice thing about it is that it handles files with lf line
terminations as well as those with cr-lf terminations so you don't get all
those nasty little boxes that you sometimes get with some DOS text editors.
Harold
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: 30 Jan 1999 14:46:13 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently
scribe:
:> Your point?
: This is a fairly silly game.
I know... Fun, isn't it...?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: 30 Jan 1999 14:53:22 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently
scribe:
: I said this more to be funny (or perhaps lame), but you
: guys seem to take it pretty seriously. History (however
: you want to read it) can stand on its own, but I will
: point out that:
: 1. "God Save the Queen" and the cult of royalty is as
: humorous here as the "Pledge of Allegiance" seems to
: be to you.
It is here as well... Very few Brits actually take the royal family
seriously (or even like the sponging money wasting gits).
I don't have stock in either one. I'd like
: to see a Monty Python skit about the Pledge as much as
: one about the Queen or the Spanish Inquisition (might as
: well offend another nationality while were at it).
: 2. Which "part of the war" was it that Britain won on
: "her own" - Dunkirk?, North Africa?, logistics (I seem
: to remember something about "Lend-Lease")?
Battle of Britain?
:)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashok Aiyar)
Subject: Re: dial-up web server?
Date: 30 Jan 1999 15:51:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 15:34:25 GMT,
steve mcadams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>Is there a way that I can set up my Linux box (currently running SuSE
>5.3) so that it will somehow call up my ISP, and "register" itself as
>a web-server that supports my InterNIC domain?
If you get a static IP address each time you dial-up, the solution is
simple. You simply need to have your ISP (or someone else) serve
as your primary DNS so that "www.your.domain" resolves to that static
IP address.
If you get a dynamic IP address, the solution is slightly more
complicated. You need to make use of one of the several "dynamic DNS"
services that are offered by several companies. These services
ensure that "www.your.domain" resolve to the dynamic IP address
that you receive each time you dial up. Three such services that I
am aware of are:
DynDNS - http://www.dyndns.com
DynIP - http://www.dynip.com
TZO - http://www.tzo.com
All of them charge about $25 per year for the service, and my guess is
that their service is pretty equivalent. I use TZO myself and their
service has largely been quite reliable. There may still be a few free
dynamic DNS providers out there ....
Later,
Ashok
--
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McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research
http://aiyar.cjb.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Guenther)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP!! Parallel tape drive setup question
Date: 30 Jan 1999 15:51:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:39:42 GMT, Dennis Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:47:34 GMT, C Sanjayan Rosenmund
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>QIC 80 generally refers to Floppy type tape drives. If you are looking
>>to install a Travan type drive, they are QIC 3020 (?) I would recommend
>>getting an internal one for the Linux box and just swapping tapes as
>>needed.
>
>Thanks for the reply and I stand corrected. The Windows applications
>refer to it as a QIC-80 but indeed it really is a Travan type drive.
>In any case getting another drive is not an option. I am stuck with
>what I have. Is your response implying that there is no support for
>this type drive in Linux?
Just go back to the linux-parport home page and look a little more
carefully. Your drive is not a PARIDE supported device, but it is
probably supported by FTAPE.
Check out
http://www.torque.net/ftape/
(which is a mirror of the official ftape site.)
==========================================================================
Grant R. Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: nivenh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting Linux from a Zip Drive!?!!?!!
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:04:06 +0000
Neil Zanella wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to install Linux on a Zip Drive and somehow run Linux off
> the Zip drive?
>
> My BIOS has nothing that says I can boot from the parallel port...
>
> Is it possible to install LILO on the MBR and select boot from Zip Drive
> as am option or something like that?
>
> Here are some other questions...
>
> Will there be a significant loss in speed if I run a program from a Zip
> drive, compared to running it on a hard drive?
> How does access to the Zip Drive compare to access to the floppy drive?
>
> How many back ups does it take on average for a zip disk to stop
> functioning correctly?
>
> My own personal experience is that 3.5in. floppy disks seem to typically
> last about 6 months and tend to become faulty after you overwrite them
> approximately 20-25 times. Of course, it all depends on how often you use
> them, how you use them, and how careful you are with them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Neil
Well, there is a HowTo on that, but it is a little old, i recently tried it
out, and had to make a couple of modifications to create a zip disk that had
RH5.2 installed. Because its a P Port Zip Drive, i had to use a floppy with
the kernel on it to boot up the system to detect the zip drive. It is worth
trying, you can learn alot about what make your system works, even if it you
never really use the zip disk to do any real work. I am currently trying to
find out what packages that i have installed on the zip disk that i do not
need, and make enough room to install X on it :) If i get it to work
right, i will write my own HowTo on it.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How big is a tar file?
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:19:50 -0500
The drive does not have compression, so I need to use some form of software
compression to get everything packed on the tape.
I always thought that each file was compressed separately (in other words, the
pipe was something like cat file | gzip | tar, rather than cat file | tar | gzip.
If each file in the tar is compressed individually, I would only lose 1 file, no?
Am I missing something in the way tar cfz works?
Yan
Matthias Warkus wrote:
> 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.
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From: "TEX@go" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: X windows crash please help!
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 21:11:54 -0600
To what????????????/
I know, but I bet most do not... Caio
Funn
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> linux 3
> at the lilo prompt will bring you up in level 3. Then change the default
> level in /etc/inittab.
>
> >I have a neomagic graphics card, in a gateway laptop. At the moment when I
> >try to start linux it starts as normal but when it tries to start the X
> >server, it cant and carries on trying, this stops me from logging in and
> >correcting the problem, How do I stop the automatic starting of Xwindows? I
--
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The irony is that Bill Gates claims to making a
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Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web Browsers. . .
Date: 30 Jan 1999 21:10:01 -0600
Matt Penfold wrote:
>
>
> Just remember that without that 'shit' time mode GMT, there would be no
> concept of time zones, and you would be getting up in the middle of the
> night to go to work!
>
> Matt Penfold
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yeah right! No one around here ever use the GMT, we use eastern time.
As they say on TV," At 10PM, 9PM Central time"
This works well for you because it's the time in england but here we couldn't
care less. Your ranting doesn't shed any light as to why Netscape screws up this
way. The weird part is that the US version is the one with the screwed up time,
not the European version.
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From: "Blackey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP!! Parallel tape drive setup question
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:34:28 +0100
OK guys,
It is nice to see the problem resolved :-)
But (always that) I have qic02 (150MB with extension to 250MB) and I have to
read three tapes. How to do that? I did changes in tpqic02.h but I don't
know even the command hoe to read. I tried with tar - nothing, with ftape -
nothing ...
I use SuSE 5.3 and I'm the new one
If have an idea?
Thanks for your time!
Regards,
Blacky
Dennis Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>On Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:47:34 GMT, C Sanjayan Rosenmund
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>QIC 80 generally refers to Floppy type tape drives. If you are looking
>>to install a Travan type drive, they are QIC 3020 (?) I would recommend
>>getting an internal one for the Linux box and just swapping tapes as
>>needed.
>>
>>
>
>Thanks for the reply and I stand corrected. The Windows applications
>refer to it as a QIC-80 but indeed it really is a Travan type drive.
>In any case getting another drive is not an option. I am stuck with
>what I have. Is your response implying that there is no support for
>this type drive in Linux?
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From: Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:57:44 -0800
Jay O'Connor wrote:
> >Good grief.... James Burkes connections.
> >I rememeber watching that series when I was a kid.
> >
> >For some reason, it's never been repeated.
I think it just ran on The Learning Channel (TLC)
here.
> Actually I've seen Connections sevearl times on PB (Public TV)
> He also did "The Day The Universe Changed" and "Connections 2".
>
> Connections was still the best, though
I liked "The Day the Universe Changed" better - the thread
was consistent start to finish, which was pretty much the
point I was trying to make. "Connections" was more a string
of coincidences - not so much "cause and effect" directly
from end to end.
> >: Just to forestall any accusations of bias,
> >: Burke is British, or at least he talks funny.
>
> He had a certain tone to his voice but it didn't really sound like
> much of an accent
> >
> >Yes, he's british. No, he doesn't talk funny.
> >(that's what americans, australians and all those other bally foreigners are
> >for)
Just a cheap shot :)
Maybe it's just because I'm getting older and more
accustomed to variations in accent, but I really don't
notice as much difference between US, UK and Aussie
spoken English as I use to. Burke's a good example.
There are some differences in vocabularly - my niece
married a Brit. They had an outdoor wedding and everyone
was helping put up a big tent. It was a hot day and
the bride's father had been driving stakes, when one
of the groom's friends from England came over said,
"Would you like me to blow you?" - meaning "take over
the job and give you a break". There was some
explanation required - in the US that would refer
what Ms. Lewinsky did to Clinton.
Arthur
(who appears to be having difficulty staying on topic)
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