Linux-Misc Digest #588, Volume #19 Wed, 24 Mar 99 13:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux setup (Drew Simonis - US Internet Support)
Re: VNC xstartup (grey screen) - $DISPLAY problems? (Sean McEwan)
Linux server for dos/windoze machines. . . (Norvell Spearman)
Rs6000 mod 590 (BobNWL)
Re: Change string script (Erwin Waterlander)
No RV G2 for Linux (William Lacy)
How can I strip cartridge returns (015) ? (Sergei Gnezdov)
Re: Linux-supported hardware (James Lee)
Re: Tape Backup software ("Philip Chan")
Re: Linux and HP Deskhejet 712C (Ed Finch)
Re: Win95 X-software suggestion (John Murtari)
Broken FP emulation in RH 5.2 for sparc (Bradley J Lucier)
Attachments problem (Nicholas Guarracino)
Is this drive defective? ("Thomas Boggs")
Re: Cheapbytes - What happened??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: multi-boot machine (Robin Chung)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Harry)
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:30:55 -0500
From: Drew Simonis - US Internet Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: ibmnet.general,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux setup
This whole thread is wandering just a little bit off topic for this
group...
Also, it is becoming an excercise in "I know more than you do about
DNS", which
isn't even funny to read anymore. The best answer was one of the first:
> >There are places providing "Dynamic DNS" for dialup users. Try
> >http://www.dyndns.com/ for one or http://www.ddns.com/ for another.
Any other manipulation of files will be wastefull and become
increasingly
annoying.
-Drew
Michael Proto wrote:
>
> Georges Heinesch wrote:
> >
> > Some Linux networking question ;))
> >
> > When dialing into IBM, I get a dynamic IP. Hence my computer can be
> > addresses with (e.g.) "slip-111-111-111-111.lux.lu.ibm.net". Now, I
> > would like to call my computer "foobar", so that I can access it
> > without knowing the IP address. The call would be
> > "foobar.lux.lu.ibm.net".
> >
> > I was looking into many books, many man pages, many files
> > (/etc/resolv.conf, ...), but didn't get an answer.
> >
> > Is it possible to configure Linux that way?
> >
>
> You may want to do some research on mumble DNS.
>
> --
> -] Michael Proto [-
> -] MCP: Win95 [-
> -] Happy Linux user since 1997 [-
> ERROR: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (Y/n)
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From: Sean McEwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: VNC xstartup (grey screen) - $DISPLAY problems?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:10:52 -0600
I did manage to get this working. This is what I did:
1. Copied vnc programs into /usr/bin (I think it was that directory. Anyways,
one that is in your path)
2. Telnetted into the Linux box from Win95
3. Ran 'vncserver'
4. The first time you run it, it asks for a password
5. Then it gives a name and session # to connect to (ex: linux.domain.com:1)
6. Then, I ran vncviewer from Win95, and instead of typing the word address, I
typed the numberic IP address : (ex:192.168.1.3:1)
7. It gave me an xterm. Doing a 'ps aux' showed a 'xdm' running.
This worked for me. I didn't start any X programs on the Linux box. I hope this
helps.
Sean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here's what I'm trying to achieve: vncserver on a Linux box, vncclient on
> a
> windows box. What I get is merley a "grey screen and cross cursor"
> seen from
> the clinet end - i.e: no applications running. This is dispite
> the fact that
> my xstartup file contains the line:
>
> afterstep &
>
> Now, here are some
> observations. The line (I assume) is identical to:
>
> afterstep -d $DISPLAY &
>
> which (I assume) is identical (for me) to (e.g. in one particualr instance):
>
> afterstep -d PC007248Linux:2
>
> None of the above seem to work.
> I have put
> a line in the xstartup file, to the effect:
>
> echo $DISPLAY > ~/diag.log
>
> and it confirms that $DISPLAY is PC007248Linux:2
> (or PC007248Linux:n more
> generally).
>
> Now, after having run vncserver, it responds with something
> like:
>
> New 'X' Desktop is PC007248Linux:2
>
> (or New 'X' Desktop is
> PC007248Linux:3 or whatever)
> So I try typing at the shell prompt, the
> following:
>
> % afterstep -d PC007248Linux:2
>
> But this does *NOT* work,
> returning the following:
>
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno
> = 101
> AfterStep: can't open display PC007248Linux:3
>
> HOWEVER, it *is*
> successful to do:
>
> % afterstep -d :2
>
> which works, opening an aftertep
> session on the vnc client.
>
> HOWEVER, I want the whole thing to be automatic,
> so that
> in the xstartup file can refererence $DISPLAY, by default having...
>
> afterstep &
>
> will "select" the vnc display appropriately, whatever # that
> might be.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Many thanks in advance to anyone out there who knows
> what
> is happening here, and is willing to offer their advice..
>
> Steve.
>
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From: Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux server for dos/windoze machines. . .
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:35:38 -0600
Can someone point me to or give me information about setting up a Linux
server to provide thin-client services to dos/windoze machines? I
believe something called Citrix WinFrame does this and I'd like to know
how to do this with Linux.
Thanks much. . .
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To reply, remove my opinion about
unwanted e-mail from my address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BobNWL)
Subject: Rs6000 mod 590
Date: 24 Mar 1999 15:49:17 GMT
Can anyone tell me if I can run Linux on an RS6000 Model 590?
=================================
Thanks, CyberSlammer Bob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] AOLIM:BobNWL members.aol.com/bobnwl
www.NWLwrestling.com
www.WildSamoan.com
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From: Erwin Waterlander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Change string script
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:20:58 GMT
This will work.
BEFORE=$1
AFTER=$2
export list=`ls *.html`
for FILE in $list
do
sed -e "s/$BEFORE/$AFTER/" $FILE > $FILE.tmp
echo "$FILE:"
diff $FILE $FILE.tmp
echo " "
mv $FILE.tmp $FILE
done
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Gert Vanthienen wrote:
> L.S.,
>
>
> Can anyone help me with this script? I'd like it to be able to replace
> HTML-tags, but this seems impossible. SED has problems replacing
> strings with special characters. Solutions?
>
> Kan iemand mij helpen om onderstaand script te verbeteren? Ik zou het
> graag zover krijgen dat het ook HTML-tags kan vervangen, maar dit wil
> maar niet lukken. SED heeft problemen met de speciale tekens die deze
> tags bevatten. Wie weet een oplossing?
>
>
> Gert Vanthienen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> Script file:
>
> TMPDIR=/tmp
> TMPFILE=$TMPDIR/chstr.$$
>
> BEFORE=$1
> AFTER=$2
>
> shift;shift
>
> for FILE in $*
> do
> sed -e "s/$BEFORE/$AFTER/" $FILE >$TMPFILE
> echo "$FILE:"
> diff $FILE $TMPFILE
> echo " "
> mv $TMPFILE $FILE
> done
>
>
Erwin Waterlander
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From: William Lacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No RV G2 for Linux
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:39:51 GMT
I just got an email back from Real.com telling me that they are not
planning on making a G2 player for anyone but MS-Mac.
That, of course leaves us out and BeOS as well.
Score one for MS!! Give Mac one (after all Billy isn't worried about
them- he bailed them out last year just to make sure he had some "real"
competition) to offset the monopoly thing. But don't give one to the
actual competition.
My RV 5.0 for linux works just as good as my G2 Plus for windows (minus
the fancy knobs) performance is absolutely just as good on the same
machine.
However *we* are locked out from viewing g2 content.
I am extremely disappointed in Real corp, I thought they were actually a
progressive company- I'm sorry that I ever bought their product, but at
least I won't make that mistake again. (I personally have no problem
with purchasing software- just with getting treated disrespectfully,
being lied to, abused and paying good money for crap, which MS is the
absolute master of)
Too bad really, oh well.
William Lacy
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From: Sergei Gnezdov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I strip cartridge returns (015) ?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:15:21 -0500
I copied files from Windows and now I need to remove all \r characters
(015) from all this files. How can I do it quickly?
Thank you.
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From: James Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux-supported hardware
Date: 24 Mar 1999 09:16:56 -0600
Most times, the Linux gurus are ok.... they get their way around. But
I think a lot of the woes may come from those buying new machines or
wanting to use their existing Windows machines, and then wanting to
try Linux, and then running into a lot of problems because they have
winmodems, winprinters, etc. So, perhaps a much less ambitious project
is a site that list manufacturer and model, and then people help chip in
their experience on each piece of hardware they have on that
particular model. This will help people who want to buy a machine to
run Linux. Something like:
manufacturer: compaq
model: presario xxxx
Works: cd-rom,
ls-120 superdisk
hard-drive
X (or maybe the video card) running Mach64
blah blah blah
printer...
Don't work: Rockwell HCF 56K Winmodem.
Some kind of standard format (or maybe via a form at the website),
and only for the original setup. Would this be useful?
This can be an interactive site like the printers website of Grant
Taylor.
This should help people to steer clear of incompatible hardware, and
help others not to ask again if it doesn't work in the first place.
What do people think?
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From: "Philip Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Tape Backup software
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:40:36 +0800
Go to www.linuxberg.com, then go under the
software section and look for backup utilities.
Linuxberg is mirrored in hkstar, so the respond
time is quite good.
Jack Cheng wrote in message
<58A5CE5756240D7D.34A59D8C8C6F2327.814FF3055347A28
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>
>I'm looking for a very easy & good DAT tape
backup software.
>Any idea?
>
>Regard
>Jack Cheng
>
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From: Ed Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and HP Deskhejet 712C
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:56:55 -0500
Jeremiah wrote:
>
> So I'll echo Grant's tip: take it back, if you can.
I haven't opened the box yet, for just this reason. What printers
do work well with Linux? B&W is important to me for source code,
man pages, etc. Color would be a nice plus.
Regards,
Ed
--
Q: Why do PCs have a reset button on the front?
A: Because they are expected to run Microsoft operating systems.
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From: John Murtari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Win95 X-software suggestion
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:04:36 -0500
Jon,
We have had nothing but good experiences with Xwin from a
company called Starnet, http://www.starnet.com/ -- you can download
a free eval (which is limited to 2 hour sessions). It installs real
well on both Win 95/98, no problem with fonts, or mystery crashes.
It emulates both single windows, or an entire window manager
environment. Really was fairly painless!
John Murtari
http://www.thebook.com/
lany wrote:
>
> Take your pick ->
> http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html#XMicrosoft
>
> Jon Slater wrote:
> >
> > I want to be able to run X on my Win95 box. I am connecting to a RedHat
> > Linux 5.2 box.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > --
> > Jon D. Slater QualComm Inc.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6150 Lookout Road
> > Phone: (303) 247-5037 Boulder, Colorado
> > Fax: (303) 247-5167 80301
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bradley J Lucier)
Subject: Broken FP emulation in RH 5.2 for sparc
Date: 24 Mar 1999 11:04:44 -0500
It seems that the floating-point emulation in RH 5.2, kernel 2.0.35,
for sparc, is seriously broken. For example, the following program:
[lucier@www tests]$ cat test.c
void main() {
double x = 0.0, y;
y = x/x; /* generate a NaN */
if (y == y)
printf("bad\n");
else
printf("good\n");
}
when compiled with egcs-1.1.2 by "gcc -o test test.c"
yields the following assembly:
[lucier@www tests]$ cat test.s
.file "test.c"
.version "01.01"
gcc2_compiled.:
.section ".rodata"
.align 8
.LLC1:
.asciz "bad\n"
.align 8
.LLC2:
.asciz "good\n"
.align 8
.LLC0:
.long 0x0 ! ~0.00000000000000000000e0
.long 0x0
.section ".text"
.align 4
.global main
.type main,#function
.proc 020
main:
!#PROLOGUE# 0
save %sp,-120,%sp
!#PROLOGUE# 1
sethi %hi(.LLC0),%o0
ldd [%o0+%lo(.LLC0)],%o2
std %o2,[%fp-16]
ldd [%fp-16],%f2
ldd [%fp-16],%f4
fdivd %f2,%f4,%f2
std %f2,[%fp-24]
ldd [%fp-24],%f2
ldd [%fp-24],%f4
fcmpd %f2,%f4
nop
fbne .LL2
nop
sethi %hi(.LLC1),%o1
or %o1,%lo(.LLC1),%o0
call printf,0
nop
b .LL3
nop
.LL2:
sethi %hi(.LLC2),%o1
or %o1,%lo(.LLC2),%o0
call printf,0
nop
.LL3:
.LL1:
ret
restore
.LLfe1:
.size main,.LLfe1-main
.ident "GCC: (GNU) egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)"
and produces on an IPX box
[lucier@www tests]$ ./test
Floating point exception (core dumped)
with a message on the console something like
"Attempt to emulate unknown FPop!"
(I don't have the console output in front of me.)
Subsequent runs yield:
[lucier@www tests]$ ./test
Floating point exception (core dumped)
[lucier@www tests]$ ./test
good
So the assembly looks correct, it yields indeterminate results, and
running the thing through gdb shows that it's the fcmpd instruction
that is bombing.
Does anyone know if this is fixed in the 2.2 kernel series? Or how
to otherwise get around it? The egcs documentation says that using
-msoft-float changes the calling sequence for functions, so I can't
use -msoft-float here without recompiling glibc with -msoft-float
(at least that's my understanding).
Brad Lucier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Nicholas Guarracino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Attachments problem
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:26:44 -0500
For some reason, I am having trouble sending attachments over email. I do not
think it is my email program, since I have tried 2 ( kmail & netscape ) with
the same results. It simply hangs there and never goes through. Kmail gives
me the error:
Sending failed:
A SMTP error occured.
Command: <body>
Response: network error
Return code: 0
Netscape says: Message sent, waiting for reply, and then just hangs there.
I also don't think it's the server, since nobody else has had
trouble sending attachments. Is there some daemon or program I'm forgetting to
run? I am using PPP and sending mail directly to an smtp server, not using
sendmail. I don't have any trouble sending normal messages. Thanks for your
help,
Nick Guarracino
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From: "Thomas Boggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is this drive defective?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:31:24 -0500
When I tried to login through the display manager this morning, my machine
locked. When I rebooted, fsck detected errors in the root partition. I
tried to fix them with fsck, which caused me to lose about a dozen files
(including etc/services, etc/protocols). Now I get these messages repeated
several times when booting:
EXT2-fs error (device 03:01): ext2_write_inode: unable to read inode block -
inode=10049, block=40966
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=81995,
sector=81932
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01, sector 81932
Is this indicative of a serious problem with the hard disk? I dont' know if
I should just replace the missing files or replace the drive.
Thanks,
Thomas
--
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cheapbytes - What happened???
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:33:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
jimterm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know what happened to Cheapbytes.Com
>
> There website just returns "404 Not Found"
We are up and running. We have moved our domain over
to another server. You can try http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart
as well.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Chung)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware.misc,alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: multi-boot machine
Date: 24 Mar 1999 17:01:55 -0000
In article <7d9v1o$psh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bernd-Ulrich Adrigam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi Robin,
>did you check, whether NT sees the drive as LBA and Solaris perhaps
>doesn't???
>Did you test partitioning with LBA _off_? It shouldn't be a problem neither
>for NT nor
>for Solaris.
>
>Bernd
>
Hi Bernd,
Yes, I've tried combinations of LBA and Large, but the problem is the same.
NT disk admin doesn't see the drive correctly if there Solaris co-exists on
the drive. The Solaris isntall seemed happier with LBA though, it didn't
give me warning messages about the 1024 cylinder limit, etc.
still frustrated...
cheers,
-r
--
Robin Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Univ. of Warwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Systems Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mulder to Scully: "I had you big time..."
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 07:46:58 -0500
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is at least theoretically possibly to literally blow up a
> monitor by cranking up the refresh rate. I've heard that there
> have been viruses designed to attempt this trick.
Coo-ool. Now, is there any way to blow up an IT director using a
software setting?
Harry
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