Linux-Misc Digest #413, Volume #19 Thu, 11 Mar 99 14:13:16 EST
Contents:
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Carlos Wexler)
Re: More bad news for NT (Jason Clifford)
Re: Making a bootdisk for rescue purposes (**Nick Brown)
Re: StarOffice anyone?? ("Alexander Jo")
Re: CD emulators for GNU/Linux? (Michiel Denie)
Re: Q:Ramdisk larger than 8MB? (Tom Fawcett)
Re: Linux -- "alpha" and "stable" applications? (Jean-Yves TOUMIT)
RealAudio won't play (Mart van Santen)
Re: comments after #!/bin/sh ? (Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?=)
Re: Help me with experiment (David Delikat)
Red Hat Linux Unleashed ONLINE! ("Benjamin Sher")
Re: Public license question (Bill Unruh)
Re: Public license question (Bill Unruh)
Lockd under kernel 2.2.1 ("Graham Simons")
gcc: cannot specify -o with -c and multiple compilations ("A.G.")
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Gary Dale)
Can't compile net-tools-1.5 (pkt_sched.h) ("A.G.")
Re: suid root... (William Cherry)
termcap.h missing ("A.G.")
Re: Modem Init String (Bill Unruh)
Re: Netscape 4.5 setup and run under x-windows/Gnome on RH 5.2 (KingofMensandor)
Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: problem upgrading util-linux (Bernie Borenstein)
Problem rebuilding util-linux-2.9i.src.rpm (Ding-Jung Han)
Re: Linux behind MS Proxy (Michael Shuldman)
Re: problem upgrading util-linux (Eric Brager)
Re: Caldera RPMs in RH? ("Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus")
Re: Which program to use scsi-tape drive? (John Thompson)
Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work? (Rob Fisher)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos Wexler)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: 11 Mar 1999 16:01:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yup! I find it interesting that the Department of Justice is after
>Microsoft for their "Monopoly", but the rest of the Federal Government
>(DoD & NASA in Particular) is busy *increasing* the monopoly by
>*requiring* electronic communications use an MS Office document format
>(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc), and of course MS Office only runs on
>Windows...;-)
>
>Go figure...;-)
Well, the NSF (National Science Foundation) actually requires documents to
be submitted in PDF (Portable Document Format, alias "Adobe Acrobat")
which is supported in essentially all common platforms.
Way to go!!
Carlos
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:04:14 +0000
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
> [ oh, and also: why not Linux for a corporate DB? AS/400's are
> great - my 2nd favourite O/S for enterprise work, but if you
> include "Unix", then why not "Linux"? ]
Because there are a couple of shortcomings in the current Linux filesystem
- ext2 - with regard to how it handles errors - ie no journaling present.
These are being worked on at present and I expect that Linux will soon
answer them.
In terms of the power afforded by Linux it is certainly able to handle the
workload and for small to medium size requirements should be considered.
For large DB requirements get an AS/400.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Making a bootdisk for rescue purposes
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:12:58 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian (www.debian.org) has a nice boot disk setup which might help
you. In particular, the boot disk image which you make from the
installation kit, is a FAT format disk which you can hack about with
from DOS (if you didn't send that back to M$ for a refund :-) ).
> I made a bootable floppy for rescue purposes. The boot floppy is a
> ext2fs floppy, with lilo and a few modules needed by the kernel (scsi
> driver, for example). I made another floppy that contains the image of
> the root filesystem that must be loaded into the ramdisk. The lilo on
> the floppy has the load_ramdisk=1 option.
>
> OK. Now: The kernel is 2.2.2. It has ramdisk and initrd support compiled
> in. (it is the same kernel that boots the machine from the disk). It
> boots, loads scsi module (initrd), continues, and then stops with the
> following message:
> "VFS: Insert the root floppy and press enter", or similar. I do that and
> see kernel panic, cannot mount root.
--
===============================================================
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
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From: "Alexander Jo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: StarOffice anyone??
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:11:47 +0700
Can anybody help me to get a "personal key" for staroffice 5.0,
This key is not a registration key, that we get from www.stardivition.com
thanks,
Alexander
Craig wrote in message <7blr38$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I DL'ed and installed StarOffice recently (that part seemed to go fine),
but
>now I can't seem to get the program to start. The README says to execute
>the script /Office50/bin/soffice, but I've had no luck. The Stardivision
>web site doesn't seem to have a lot of help docs up. Any ideas? I am also
>trying to figure out how to create icons for it in Afterstep.
>thanks,
>Craig Shields
>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:13:07 +0100
From: Michiel Denie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD emulators for GNU/Linux?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I simply wanted to be able to play quake2 and listen to diferent music CD's.
>
I don't really know about Quake 2, but you could probably simply
copy the files from the cd to a directory. Or you might copy the
cd to an iso image and mount it with the loopback filesystem
(kernel option).
Michiel Denie!
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Q:Ramdisk larger than 8MB?
Date: 11 Mar 1999 09:41:35 -0500
Doug Apel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have roughly 100MB of highly I/O intensive files, that I would like to
> store in a ramdisk for faster performance.
>
> When I try to write 128MB to /dev/ram0 or /dev/ram1, I instantly get
> errors when I go past 8192kb. I would like to know how to surpass that
> limitation.
>
> Current setup is Slackware 3.6 (kernel 2.0.36), running on Intel
> P2/333MHz, 256MB RAM (with appropriate APPEND line in lilo), 4GB UWSE
> SCSI disk.
What exactly is the "appropriate APPEND line" you're using?
What ramdisk_size are you specifying?
When the system boots and the ramdisk driver is initialized, how big does
it say the ramdisks are?
-Tom
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From: Jean-Yves TOUMIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux -- "alpha" and "stable" applications?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:28:14 +0000
> > I have noticed at the new Linux section of the Tucows web site that Linux
> > applications are usually listed as "alpha" or "stable."' Having just read
> > the Intro to Linux Documentation about the "alpha" and "stable" stages, I
> > am a little confused. Is "stable" a synonym for "Beta"? Usually an
> > application is offered in two versions "stable version 1.x;new version 2.x"
> > and so forth. When can one feel confident enough to download a Linux
> > application?
Well, if I wanted to be bad to Microsoft, I would say that "alpha" linux
stuff is
equivalent to "beta" MS products, "beta" linux programs are "stable" MS
products
and "stable" linux apps don't exist under Windows...
Just being a bit nasty... ;-)
Anyway, there _are_ some bugs in linux, nobody's perfect!
--
Jean-Yves TOUMIT
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://rfv-pc28.insa-lyon.fr
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:14:51 +0000
From: Mart van Santen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.linux,a2000.comp.software.os.linux
Subject: RealAudio won't play
Hi,
Since I have a new soundcard, rvplayer doesn't want to play anymore. I
had a very strange soundcard, witch worked correct with OSS/Linux (the
commercial version) but not with the 'normal' kernel sound drivers.
So I swaped this card with someone else (a window$ user), and now I have
a Creative PCI soundcard, Ensonic1371 chip. This card is working well
with a lot of application, except with realplayer.. Anybody knows this
problem or know how to solve? Would like to listen to my real audio
files again :-))
Thanks in advance.
moon
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From: Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: comments after #!/bin/sh ?
Date: 10 Mar 1999 21:03:57 GMT
Mike Coffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In a shell script, is there a way to put a comment on the first line?
: In Solaris, I can do this:
: #!/bin/sh -- # this is really -*- perl -*-
: eval "exec perl -S $0 ${1+\"@\"}"
: if $never_true;
: # more perl here ...
: However, in linux (Red Hat 5.2, if that matters), executing this file
: apparently passes the string "# this is really -*- perl -*-" to
: /bin/sh, which thinks it is supposed to be a file name. I can see the
: logic in this, but I can't see how to do what I want to do, which is
: to put "perl" somewhere in the first line of the script.
Why don't you just put #!/usr/bin/perl (the way it was _meant_ to be ;-)
--
Ernesto Hern�ndez-Novich - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Running Linux 2.2.1
Just another Unix/Perl/Java hacker.
One thing is to be the best, and another is to be the most popular.
Unix: Live free or die!
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From: David Delikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help me with experiment
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:15:03 -0600
Robert Martin wrote:
>
> Sorry, I can't be of much help, but I like the idea!
>
> propsync wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I have 2 partitions on my harddrive. The first one has the redhat linux
> > distribution on it. On the second partition, I want to create a bare
> > bones linux system by copying the necessary files from partition 1 to
> > partition 2. My goal is to see just how small I can get the operating
> > system. The first thing I did was to create the filesystem (ext2) on
> > partition 2. My next move was to add this partition to lilo to enable
> > it to boot. The third thing I did was to copy vmlinuz to the /boot
> > directory that I created. When I attempt to boot from partition 2, the
> > system freezes by saying "cannot find the console" or something like
> > that. Can anyone help me by specifying what files I need to copy to the
> > second partition to get it to boot?
> >
> > thanks
this dows sound incredibly interesting! I hope you can post your
results so that we can all learn from this.
my suggestion would be to spend time digging around in the kernel
source to find out what it does when it boots. also look at lilo.
I had thought of something like this, but my intention was to modify
the kernel in order to minimize the boot cycle. your work would be
of extreme interest in this light.
thenks
-dav
--
<((((><
Consultant: Internet, Database, Business Systems
Unix/Linux, Windows95/NT
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From: "Benjamin Sher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat Linux Unleashed ONLINE!
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:40:51 GMT
Dear friends:
Phenomenal is the only word for it!
Red Hat Linux Unleashed is available IN ITS ENTIRETY online and for free on
Macmillain's site at:
http://www.mcp.com
Look for "My Personal Bookshelf."
You may need to have the ISBN number to at least one of their books. And I
am sure nearly everyone owns at least one of the books represented on the
site (Que, Sams, etc.)
--
Benjamin Sher
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web & Index
http://personal.msy.bellsouth.net/msy/s/h/sher07/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: 11 Mar 1999 17:40:10 GMT
In <7c8c8i$5hl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schulz) writes:
>I argue that it makes sense (Note: I do not argue legal reality here -
>as far as I know there are no precedence cases yet) that if the only
>purpose of A is to be combined with B into a running program, then it
>does not matter if the user or the programmer combines A and B -
>distributing A+B is covered by copyright, and since B (the key or
>library) is already out there, distributing A alone is equivalent to
>distributing A+B.
Again NO. Copyright covers ONLY the copying of works. It does not cover
the use of the work. Thus is the programmer does not copy A he cannot
violate copyright on A. If the user copies A withing the terms of the
license he has to copying A, then the user can copy A. Wheteher he then
combines it with B is a use issue, not a copyright issue. Use is not
covered under copyright, just copying.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: 11 Mar 1999 17:45:20 GMT
In <LkSF2.604$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach) writes:
>Thus, an XOR of two copyrighted works is, itself, a violation of both
>copyrights, even though there's probably no way to extract either of them
>from it without knowing what it is.
Of course one would have to prove in a court of law that that is how the
work was created, and that in order to do so the person had to copy both
of the works-- not use them, copy them. It is perfectly legal to
paraphrase a work-- ideas are not copyrighted and teh courts will resist
any attempt to use copyright to limit the use of ideas-- copyright fails
if the work is the only way of expressing the idea, even if the person
uses the identical phrases.
Thus the person prosecuting you for copyright infringment would have to
prove that in order to make that XOR you actually copied his work. (I
could imagine arguments on both sides, and it could depend on the judges
breakfast that morning).
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From: "Graham Simons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lockd under kernel 2.2.1
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:14:23 -0000
Hi,
Can anyone give me some advice on setting up nfs to use lockd. I've built a
2.2.1 kernel with nfs support compiled in, and I've now got a lockd.o module
in /lib/modules/2.2.1/fs, but its not installed by anything. I want to use
the linux box as an nfs server for solaris and vms clients.
Its Redhat 5.2, nfs-server-2.2beta37
Any help would be great
Graham Simons
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From: "A.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: gcc: cannot specify -o with -c and multiple compilations
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:56:49 GMT
Hi all:
What do I do about this compilation error? I'm trying to compile proccps
with gcc 2.8.1. and glibc2.07.pre6.
gcc -O -O4 -Wall -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/include -Dl
inux
LinuxMachineDefines -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURC
E=500L -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DFUNCPROTO=15 -DNARROWPROTO -DOSMAJO
RVERSION=2 -DOSMINORVERSION=0 -c XConsole.c -o XConsole.o
gcc: cannot specify -o with -c and multiple compilations
make[1]: *** [XConsole.o] Error 1
Thanx for any input!
Arcady
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From: Gary Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:49:44 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, I get cable modem access also at $39.95 per month.
However, this is in Canadian dollars so that converts to about $26.50 in your funny
green stuff. I also get "free" local calls, which basically means unmetered. We
still have to pay our monthly fee to the telephone company for the privilege of
having the "free" calls. Fortunately I get in more than my fair share of calls, so
I won't complain.
Donn Miller wrote:
> C Lamb wrote:
>
> >
> > Remember, all the world isn't the US, we don't get free local calls.
> >
>
> But can you get cable modem access in the UK? If so, how much is it per month?
> Mine (Pittsburgh area, USA) is $39.95 per mo.
>
> Donn
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From: "A.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Can't compile net-tools-1.5 (pkt_sched.h)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:57:36 GMT
Hi all:
I get the following error message (running Slackware 3.6):
gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -O2 -Wall -g -I. -idirafter
./include/ -Ilib -I/home/antipode/bs/net-tools-1.50 -idirafter
/home/antipode/bs/net-tools-1.50/include -c utils.c -o utils.o
utils.c:29: linux/pkt_sched.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [utils.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/antipode/bs/net-tools-1.50/lib'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
Anyone's got a clue? Thanx!
Arcady
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From: William Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suid root...
Date: 11 Mar 1999 11:50:59 -0600
Jean-Yves TOUMIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have installed shadow on my linux box. Everything seems ok except for
> xlock.
Well, here are a few things you can try.
First, when you installed the shadow suite, did you actually move
the passwords into /etc/shadow and out of /etc/passwd? You should see
"x"'s in the password field in /etc/passwd if you installed the
shadow stuff correctly. If the passwords are still in /etc/passwd,
try running pwconv (or some such thing, depending on exactly how
shadow passwords are set up on your system). Not all programs that need
to do password vertification will look for passwords both in
/etc/shadow and in /etc/passwd.
If that doesn't work, I'd download the sources for xlock and
compile them on your system. The ./configure script that comes
with the sources knows how to look for most common shadow password
implementations.
--William Cherry
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From: "A.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: termcap.h missing
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:59:30 GMT
Hi all!
Can't compile procinfo:
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -c procinfo.c -o procinfo.o
procinfo.c:28: termcap.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [procinfo.o] Error 1
Any idea what's missing in my system?
Arcady
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem Init String
Date: 11 Mar 1999 17:47:48 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cengiz Oezcan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]my ISP tells me that I have to send a certain init string to
]my modem and even gives me the sring. Can somebody please
]tell me ho to send an init string to a modem in linux?
](I run suse 5.2)
As part of the chat string to the modem (I do not know what your's is so
will have to guess)
"" AT OK "ATE0D3&X1" OK ....rest of chat string
^^^^^^^^^ replace with your string.
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From: KingofMensandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 setup and run under x-windows/Gnome on RH 5.2
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:55:42 GMT
NOTE: version 4.51 is now available
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Park) wrote:
> Sean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Could someone please email me and explain how do i set-up and run
> : Netscape 4.5 under x-windows/Gnome. I have it currently installed at
> : /usr/local/netscape and i am also using the AfterStep decoration mode
> : for x-windows. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> : BTW- Is there a RPM for the lastest 2.2x kernel and which site is it
> : located at?
>
> I don't know about GNOME, but under X-windows, Navigator-4.5 runs
> straight out of tarball. This is how I did it under Slackware 3.3:
> 1. tar -xzf netscape-...tar.gz
> 2. cd netscape-...
> 3. ./ns-install
> 4. ln -s /usr/local/netscape/netscape /usr/local/bin/netscape
> 5. export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape
>
> Now, 'netscape -geometry =741x741+0+0 &' will bring up Netscape, and
> it will create ~/.netscape for you. My only complain is that there
> is memory leak in Netscape 4.08 and 4.5. It continually eats up memory
> in monotonic fashion, until all my RAM and SWAP are exhausted.
>
> Yours truly,
> William
> --
>
================
Michael Barker
Toronto, Ontario
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:05:40 GMT
NO, you export the file in ascii text format and usr nroff/troff to message
into Man pages. We used to do this back at AT&T. Doubt anyone would make
much money off of this (since it seems nobody reads MAN pages anymore)!
In article <01be6b39$242895a0$93ed4e0c@nilrem>,
"Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does nroff take a Word(Im)Perfect or WordForWindows file? I didn't think so
> and that's why I wrote what I did!
> Norm
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article <7c6fv0$6kb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Ever hear of nroff?
> >
> > In article <01be6b02$57011d30$8aea689b@w784749>,
> > "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > All I'd have to do is to write a program to translate even a simple
> word
> > > processing file into a manpage. I'm sure that I could sell thousands.
> > > Alternately, even a simple X-Window based editor would rake in the
> dough.
> > >
> > > Why doesn't someone else do it?
> > >
> > > Norm
> > >
> > >
> >
> > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
>
> >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernie Borenstein)
Subject: Re: problem upgrading util-linux
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:04:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Hey folks,
>
> Getting an annoying error that when trying to upgrade the util-linux rpm
> on redhat-5.2 / i386
>
> # rpm -Uvh util-linux-2.9-0.i386.rpm
> util-linux unpacking of archive failed on file
> /bin/login: -2147483639: Operation not permitted
> error: util-linux-2.9-0.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> #
>
> I even tried to rebuild the rpm from the srpm to no avail.
>
> [root@primate /root]# cd /bin
> [root@primate /bin]# ls -alp login
> -rws--x--x 1 root root 15588 Jun 1 1998 login
> [root@primate /bin]#
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Eric
>
>
Check what version of RPM you are using and see if there is an upgrade
on www.rpm.org.
BB
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From: Ding-Jung Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem rebuilding util-linux-2.9i.src.rpm
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:31:08 -0500
A few days ago I downloaded util-linux-2.9i.src.rpm and tried to rebuild
it using "-O2 -mpentiumpro" (an i686 rpm). Everything went fine and I
installed the home-made rpm. Now this morning I tried to fdisk my ZIP
disk, only to find that I have no /usr/sbin/fdisk installed! I checked the
rpm, there is *no* fdisk in it -- but the one in contrib.redhat.com (i386
rpm) does have fdisk in it. My rpm is smaller by about 100kb.
In my /etc/rpmrc I changed arch_canon i386 to i686, changed the OPT_FLAGS
of i386 to "-O2 -mpentiumpro"...
I'm new to all this rpm building stuff. Any hint?
Ben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Shuldman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Linux behind MS Proxy
Date: 11 Mar 1999 14:31:42 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Edward Lee
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How to setup RedHat 5.2 behind Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0?
>
> I am in the same boat. MSproxy is supposed to support SOCKS but I have had
> zero success in getting beyond it using SOCKSified apps.
Most of the msproxy protocol has been reverse engineered and support
for it has been added to the proxyimplementation "Dante".
For msproxy it currently supports TCP (including hostresolving but
not UDP). Reports indicate "user authentication" must be switched
off on the msproxy. Look at http://www.inet.no/dante, good luck.
--
_ //
\X/ -- Michael Shuldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:47:11 +0000
From: Eric Brager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem upgrading util-linux
Hi Bernie,
#rpm --version
RPM version 2.5.5
#
I see that there is a 2.5.6 in ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-2.5.x/
I'm not sure my other posts have made it downstream to you yet... but in
general I can't chmod, chown, mv /bin/login. I'm guessing that if I'm logged
in as root trying that from the shell, then a new version of rpm might not
help.
#
ls -alp /bin/login
-rws--x--x 1 root root 15588 Jun 1 1998 /bin/login
#chmod 755 /bin/login
chmod: /bin/login: Operation not permitted
#chown eric:eric /bin/login
chown: /bin/login: Operation not permitted
#mv /bin/login /bin/monkeys
mv: cannot move `/bin/login' to `/bin/monkeys': Operation not permitted
#rm /bin/login
rm: remove `/bin/login', overriding mode 4711? y
rm: /bin/login: Operation not permitted
#
Thanks... I'll prob compile the new rpm just for the hellovit :)
-E
Bernie Borenstein wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> says...
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > Getting an annoying error that when trying to upgrade the util-linux rpm
> > on redhat-5.2 / i386
> >
> > # rpm -Uvh util-linux-2.9-0.i386.rpm
> > util-linux unpacking of archive failed on file
> > /bin/login: -2147483639: Operation not permitted
> > error: util-linux-2.9-0.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> > #
> >
> > I even tried to rebuild the rpm from the srpm to no avail.
> >
> > [root@primate /root]# cd /bin
> > [root@primate /bin]# ls -alp login
> > -rws--x--x 1 root root 15588 Jun 1 1998 login
> > [root@primate /bin]#
> >
> > Any help would be great.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> >
> Check what version of RPM you are using and see if there is an upgrade
> on www.rpm.org.
>
> BB
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Eric Brager, UNIX Network Administrator
University Hospital and Medical Center at Stony Brook
Network Services, Information Technology
Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Michael 'BeLFrY' S. E. Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Caldera RPMs in RH?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 01:55:59 +1100
G'day...
> Can I install Caldera RPMs in Red Hat 5.2? I want to add netatalk, but RH
> doesn't supply a package. Caldera does, but I'm not sure if it will work
> correctly.
Maybe I'm missing something here... and maybe I'm wrong... but I thought RH
came with netatalk.
Michael.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Which program to use scsi-tape drive?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:42:35 -0600
Ray wrote:
> Which program to use scsi-tape drive? The program taper is, what i see, only
> for Floppy-Streamer.
No. On my other linux machine I use taper with an Exabyte
2501 SCSI tape drive. You need to have SCSI and SCSI tape
support available in linux and start taper thus: "taper -T
scsi"
I haven't managed to get taper to work on this machine yet
(Colorado 5GB IDE drive) :-(
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Rob Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:18:49 +0000
> Try a
>
> mount -o remount,rw /where/your/solaris/fs/is/mounted
>
> then and you'll succeed in getting write access.
Excellent! (I wish I'd thought of that!) So, the next obvious question,
if there a Linux version of fsck that can handle UFS slices?
Rob
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