Linux-Misc Digest #501, Volume #19 Thu, 18 Mar 99 13:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: How to change date for Unix/Linux? (Reinier Post)
Re: FHS - Manually comforming a system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PS/2 Intellimouse hangs...... ("C. Lousberg")
Re: Freecell (Carl Ebrey)
FHS - Manually comforming a system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Q: 4 IDE devices combination & 1024 problem (Martin Opitz)
Re: Running fdisk under Linux after Partition Magic? ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: emacs and color in console mode (Michael Powe)
TCP buffer size error: (mlarsen)
Re: Disk Druid can't see Logical Partitions ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Help a newbie (Paul Richards)
Re: xanim 2800 and the new indeo codecs (zentara)
Very basic newbie questions ("David B.")
****audio: write error: 1090 bytes errno: 11 (Curtis Dean Smith)
Framebuffer XFree server (Matthias Warkus)
Backing up /proc ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HELP: LEAFNODE GURUS !!!! (Abhi Barthakur)
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From: Reinier Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to change date for Unix/Linux?
Date: 18 Mar 1999 15:34:38 +0100
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I found the best way to fix the date and time was to do it in the BIOS.
Linux has a 'clock' command to do this.
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Reinier
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FHS - Manually comforming a system
Date: 18 Mar 1999 15:34:26 GMT
In his obvious haste, [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled thusly:
: It seems an insane idea, but since I don't feel like waiting around for
: months or more for the distributions to do it for me...
: Anyone have an idea on how I'd go about moving things (or recompiling
: various packages) to make, say, a RH52, Debian, or SuSE Linux system FHS
: Compliant?
: And then this begs the question, which distribution is the closest to
: being FHS compliant? The less work I have cut-out for me, the better.
SuSE 5.2 *is* FHS compliant, AFAIK.
(They even have a document on the distro explaining the reasoning behind
FHS)
And as it uses .rpms for it's installation, I imagine RedHat might be as
well...
(could be wrong though)
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From: "C. Lousberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PS/2 Intellimouse hangs......
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:43:26 +0100
What do I have te change dat my MS Intellimouse PS/2 will work under X ?????
X hangs when I start it, but I see the mouse pointer....
Help.....I'm just a beginer.....so.....
Grtzzz,
Cyril
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From: Carl Ebrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Freecell
Date: 18 Mar 1999 14:52:48 GMT
Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Jeffrey L Straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: : So I think that I can convince my wife to start using
: : Linux (and get rid of that darn Win95 partition I've
[snip]
If you surf over to www.freshmeat.net you'll find under appindex/x11/games
(they're all linked on the page) that there is xfreecell. It is a Good
Thing as I have just got it to please my gf. hehe, only staroffice left to
get and then "bye bye Windows 95" (sang to the tune of American Pie :)
hth
Carl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FHS - Manually comforming a system
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:58:30 GMT
It seems an insane idea, but since I don't feel like waiting around for
months or more for the distributions to do it for me...
Anyone have an idea on how I'd go about moving things (or recompiling
various packages) to make, say, a RH52, Debian, or SuSE Linux system FHS
Compliant? I was thinking of doing a really bare-bones install then
grabbing the sources to all the packages, and compiling & installing them
myself to FHS specs. Problem is, I have no idea where I'd start with that.
I imagine I'd have a hell of a time with the development & compiler
packages...or are those already FHS-compliant on all Linux distributions?
And then this begs the question, which distribution is the closest to
being FHS compliant? The less work I have cut-out for me, the better.
...Sean
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Opitz)
Subject: Q: 4 IDE devices combination & 1024 problem
Date: 18 Mar 1999 14:55:46 GMT
Hi,
I have one question.
When I buy a e.g. 13 or 16 GB IDE HD and I use it in BIOS with Mode LBA,
do I have to worry where the Kernel is on this HD ? The 1024 problem ?
I use LILO.
2nd question
I have 1xHD UDMA/33 1xHD PioMode4 1xCDROM 1x Zip
What is the best way to combine them so that the HD UDMA2 ist fastest or
both HDs are fastest.
1st controller
Master hd udma2
Slave hd pio4
2nd controller
Master cdrom
Slave zip
Is that best ? I heard when I put both hd's on seperate controllers
they will adjust to the slowest speed of the device on the controller (?)
Thanks
Martin
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running fdisk under Linux after Partition Magic?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:04:13 -0500
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On my system (RH5.2) the kernel version appears on the login screen and =
also as the
name of the kernel, i.e., vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7 in my /boot partition.
For fdisk, you'll run something like 'fdisk --version' but check the man =
page to be certain.
RH5.2 is shipped with fdisk v2.8.
Peter DeSimone wrote in message =
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]=
.net>...
I have the same problem. How do I know what Kernel I am using, or =
what version of Fdisk?
=20
Peter
Charles Sullivan wrote in message =
<7cecfj$hr4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
This is a problem with the older kernel and fdisk when there are =
more
than 1024 cylinders, and appears to cause no problems once =
you've
got the partitions created. Kernel 2.2.x and fdisk 2.9i have =
fixed the
problem.
=20
If you don't have LBA enabled in your BIOS you can feed the =
kernel the
correct disk geometry; then fdisk won't complain. But this =
won't work with
LBA.
=20
If you _have_ to use the old fdisk, you can go into the 'expert' =
menu and
set the
correct number of cylinders, then it will allow you to create =
partitions
above
the 1024 point.
=20
See the Large-Disk mini HOWTO for more info.
=20
Bjorn T Johansen wrote in message =
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi.
>
>I have a small "problem". I had to extend the size of my =
extended
>partition on one of my disk and used Partition Magic 3 to do =
that. If I
>now run fdisk (under Linux) and print the partitions, it tells =
me that
>the fysical and logical endpoint is not the same one the =
extended
>partition that I resized. Does anyone know why I get this =
message and if
>I safely can ignore it? (Everything seems to be working fine =
without the
>exception of that message)
>
>
>Regards,
>
>BTJ
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<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2>On my system (RH5.2) =
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--version' but check the man page to be certain.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>RH5.2 is shipped with fdisk =
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<DIV>Peter DeSimone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <<A=20
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<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2>I have the same =
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</A>>...</DIV>This=20
is a problem with the older kernel and fdisk when there are =
more<BR>than=20
1024 cylinders, and appears to cause no problems once =
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partitions created. Kernel 2.2.x and fdisk 2.9i have fixed =
the<BR>problem.<BR><BR>If you don't have LBA enabled in your =
BIOS you=20
can feed the kernel the<BR>correct disk geometry; then fdisk =
won't=20
complain. But this won't work with<BR>LBA.<BR><BR>If you =
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use the old fdisk, you can go into the 'expert' menu and<BR>set=20
the<BR>correct number of cylinders, then it will allow you to =
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mini=20
HOWTO for more info.<BR><BR>Bjorn T Johansen wrote in message =
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extended<BR>>partition on one of my disk and used Partition =
Magic 3=20
to do that. If I<BR>>now run fdisk (under Linux) and print =
the=20
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endpoint is=20
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Does=20
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: emacs and color in console mode
Date: 17 Mar 1999 21:27:50 -0800
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tom> Subject says it all, how do I get pretty colors like in X.
Tom> mutt, lynx, ls, can do colors. Yes I know jed can do colors,
Tom> but it isn't emacs, no gnus, I'm typing this now in boring
Tom> white text
Hurray for boring white text, it's my favorite. But the answer to
your question is, you don't. I'm told that xemacs will do color
consoles. I know it does syntax highlighting in console.
mp
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From: mlarsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comps.os.linux.help
Subject: TCP buffer size error:
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:14:52 +0000
If anybody can help it would be much appreciated:
In /usr/src/linux/net/core/sock.c, if the TCP send or receive buffer
size is
changed using a SO_SNDBUF or SO_RCVBUF parameter in setsockopt(), the
buffer
size is set to twice the value that is requested. The comment included
makes
no sense to me, but clearly the application should get the buffer size
that
it requests, and not twice that size. Taking the '*2' out of the max()
function should easily fix this. If there is some obscure reason why
this
is left in, please explain it to me.
Dave Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
case SO_SNDBUF:
/* Don't error on this BSD doesn't and if you think
about it this is right. Otherwise apps have to
play 'guess the biggest size' games. RCVBUF/SNDBUF
are treated in BSD as hints */
if (val > sysctl_wmem_max)
val = sysctl_wmem_max;
sk->sndbuf = max(val*2,2048);
/*
* Wake up sending tasks if we
* upped the value.
*/
sk->write_space(sk);
break;
case SO_RCVBUF:
/* Don't error on this BSD doesn't and if you think
about it this is right. Otherwise apps have to
play 'guess the biggest size' games. RCVBUF/SNDBUF
are treated in BSD as hints */
if (val > sysctl_rmem_max)
val = sysctl_rmem_max;
/* FIXME: is this lower bound the right one? */
sk->rcvbuf = max(val*2,256);
break;
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Disk Druid can't see Logical Partitions
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:54:44 -0500
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Go into the 'expert' menu of fdisk and set the number of cylinders to =
the correct
value (which appears to be 1232).
Peter DeSimone wrote in message ...
Well, I removed the Linux partitions. But Disk Druid still does not =
see any of my logical partitions /hda5 and above for my extended =
partition /hda2.
=20
Under Fidsk, it says the following:
=20
(/hda2) Partition 2 has 2 different, physical/logical endings.
=20
Physical (1023, 254, 63) logical (1231. 254, 63)
=20
So what does this mean? How do I make my existing FAT32 logical =
partitions and the free space visible under Disk Druid, as they appear =
in Fdisk. Fdisk shows the proper blank locations.
=20
Peter
=20
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Peter DeSimone
Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Address: Http://www.bigfoot.com/~desimonp
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<DIV>Peter DeSimone<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in=20
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<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2>Well, I removed the =
Linux=20
partitions. But Disk Druid still does not see any of my =
logical=20
partitions /hda5 and above for my extended partition =
/hda2.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Under Fidsk, it says the=20
following:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>(/hda2) Partition 2 has 2 =
different,=20
physical/logical endings.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Physical (1023, 254, 63) =
logical (1231.=20
254, 63)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>So what does this mean? How =
do I make my=20
existing FAT32 logical partitions and the free space visible under =
Disk=20
Druid, as they appear in Fdisk. Fdisk shows the proper blank=20
locations.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Peter</FONT></DIV>
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From: Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help a newbie
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:33:21 +0000
Reply-To: Paul Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
brian moore writes,
[snip]
>There are several ways to deal with it though, for a typical home
>machine. The three typical ones:
>
>1) 'setuid' -- make pppd itself suid-root
???
>, so that when it's run it
> will become root regardless of who ran it. You can combine this
> with groups (make a group for people who can bring up ppp) so that
> not every user could, just those in the group. See 'man chmod' for
> the details, or cheat and do: chmod 04555 /usr/sbin/pppd
And the other methods are for poofs... :)
>> Thanks for all your help so far, hopefully my next post will be from
>> Linux!
>
>Wouldn't surprise me.
>
I spoke too soon...
And the sound...
The exact error message was:
"An error was encountered running the ModProbe program"
--
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EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP www.dunvegan1.demon.co.uk/paul/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (zentara)
Subject: Re: xanim 2800 and the new indeo codecs
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:54:30 GMT
Reply-To: ""
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 01:59:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>> The new version of xanim was just released and is
>> supposed to support the indeo 4 and 5 codecs,
>> by using a dll.
>>
>> Has anyone got this to work?
>> If so, can you detail, any tricks?
>
> I just got it to work, but it was hidden enough. Here's
>the trick: Check out the readme file for one of the old
Yeah, thanks, I just got them. I wonder why he made the
dlls so hard to find and download? He should have packaged all the
linux dlls in one tarball, there are about 15 different one to
download and unpack?
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From: "David B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Very basic newbie questions
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:39:58 GMT
I'm wanting to get started with linux but there is some things I'd like
to know.
1. Most people when that use linux alot are they using it thru a telnet
session or are they or are they actually using it via the monitor and
keyboard attached to the computer? (does it qualify as a desktop
system?)
2. How does most of the popular software work? - things such as GIMP
or a HTML editor. Is it thru an X-Windows client, telnet, or must
you use the keyboard and monitor attached to the PC?
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From: Curtis Dean Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ****audio: write error: 1090 bytes errno: 11
Date: 18 Mar 1999 12:29:10 -0500
Hello!
I recently updated from RH5.1 to RH5.2 with kernel 2.2. Since then, I
keep getting the following error when trying to listen to rvplayer in
X:
****audio: write error: 1090 bytes errno: 11
It comes whenever there is a change in the display, such as a new
window, or even bringing up GNUS or mh-e in emacs.
Can anyone help? It is getting very annoying.
Curtis Dean Smith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Framebuffer XFree server
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:58:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
my new Linux box is finally running decently (I've got my news
transport up, too, as you can see), but I still haven't got X because
the chip set of my Hercules Terminator 128 GLH graphics board is
unsupported.
There is development going on on an XFree86 server for my board, but
so far I haven't found an alpha server anywhere - I'd be glad if I
could test it! :) Anyway, I suppose the card supports VESA 2.0, and
thus I tried to get the framebuffer server running. I configured my
XF86Config all right, I created a framebuffer device (kernel 2.2.3),
but when I start X, all I get is an "Operation not supported by
device" error.
Somewhere I read you need the fbset utility to make your framebuffer
device work. Is this true? Is this the problem? And where can I get
that utility (no, it isn't on uni-erlangen as documented - AFAICS)?
TIA
mawa
--
The story of AIDS is still the story of a huge problem that is getting
too few resources.
-- Randy Shilts, journalist and author of And The Band Played On, on
"Fresh Air", NPR
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Backing up /proc ?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:46:34 GMT
What is the proper way to handle the proc directory on a full system backup.
Should I include just the directory without its contents, or skip it all-
together? ....
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From: Abhi Barthakur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: HELP: LEAFNODE GURUS !!!!
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:33:19 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello :
I 've the following problem, do know a solution ?
I used leafnode for posting to a newsgroup which is available
at my ISP's newsserver.
When I run fetchnews it says it has posted the news
but those news article sits as it is in the /var/spool/news/out.going
directory, ant these article NEVER shows up in the remote server ....
Could you please shed some light in to this?
my ISP is vpinet.net
news server of vpinet is news.vpinet.net
thanks
-Abhi
---transcripts -----
Monavi# /home/abhi%> uname -a
Linux Monavi 2.0.36 #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998 i586 unknown
Monavi# /home/abhi%>
[root@Monavi sbin]# fetchnews -v -v -v -v
2.5: verbosity level is 4
Don't fetch threads that nobody has read after 7 days
Don't fetch threads that have been read once after 2 days
Connecting to news.vpinet.net ... connected.
Posting /var/spool/news/out.going/810-920600781-1...
Posting /var/spool/news/out.going/759-920642186-1...
Posting /var/spool/news/out.going/1406-920820496-1...
Posting /var/spool/news/out.going/810-921000992-1...
Posting /var/spool/news/out.going/837-921001171-1...
Posting /var/spool/news/out.going/1209-921532972-1...
Reading list of active newsgroups
Reading newsgroup descriptions
ignore a description since it is wrong:
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode: ?
ignore a description since there is no group: comp.sources.3b1: Source
code-only postings for the AT&T 3b1. (Moderated)
ignore a description since there is no group: misc.invest.funds: Sharing
info about bond, stock, real estate funds
ignore a description since there is no group: misc.invest.markteplace:
All other ads/promotions
ignore a description since there is no group:
news.admin.net-abuse.announce: Information regarding network resource
abuse. (Moderated)
ignore a description since there is no group: rec.games.computer.sars:
The strategy game "Stars!".
ignore a description since there is no group: rec.photo: Hobbyists
interested in photography.
ignore a description since there is no group: soc.religion.pagan:
Networking for Pagans. (Moderated)
GROUP alt.culture.assam (1 up in the air)
GROUP nj.forsale (2 up in the air)
GROUP soc.culture.indian.assam (3 up in the air)
[root@Monavi leafnode+-2.5]# cd /var/spool/news/out.going/
[root@Monavi out.going]# ls
1209-921532972-1 759-920642186-1 810-921000992-1
1406-920820496-1 810-920600781-1 837-921001171-1
--
Abhi Barthakur | QA Engineer; Builder Group
Mentor Graphics Corporation |
15 Independence Boulevard | (908) 604-0967
Warren, NJ 07059 | (908) 604-0901 FAX
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