Linux-Misc Digest #596, Volume #19 Thu, 25 Mar 99 05:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: how do I configure VIM to display an edited file after exiting? (Gary Johnson)
Re: Modem PCI intern & PPP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Gnome 1.0 bugs (Jim Harritt)
Re: Redhat 5.9 - error in rpm: cannot open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc ??? (Kevin Becker)
Re: Linux and Exchange Server (Timothy J. Lee)
Help Wanted: BurstNET� Seeking Part-Time Sysadmin (Sales Dept)
Re: Email-only terminal accounts (Michael Powe)
Re: Linux-supported hardware (Richard Steiner)
Re: LILO (Jeff Mullins)
Re: HELP! Need data from BAD Floopy! (Andrew Gierth)
Re: No RV G2 for Linux (Carl Fink)
Re: Proxy Server Help? ("LinuxQnA Team")
Need Groupwise client for Linux. ("BlackBug")
SpeakFreely and IP Masquerading ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to get X to use modem (Marc Hering)
Re: Fat 32 and linux: can I mount? ("Chad A. Storm")
Re: HELP! Need data from BAD Floopy! ("Radek Tomis")
Re: Linux In Banks? (Michael A. Powe)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Johnson)
Subject: Re: how do I configure VIM to display an edited file after exiting?
Date: 25 Mar 1999 06:01:21 GMT
yft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Is there a way to configure VIM so that after I exit it doesn't clear the
> file from the screen but keeps it there? I'm use to the "traditional" way vi
> works ie the edited file is displayed after an exit.
Me, too, but it's been one of those annoyances I hadn't bothered to try
to fix. Your question prompted me to look for a solution. I found the
following in the tips.txt doc file for version 5.3:
Switching screens in an xterm *xterm-screens* *xterm-save-screen*
...
NOTE 2: If you want to disable the screen switching, and you don't want to
change your termcap, you can add these lines to your .vimrc:
> :set t_ti= t_te=
I haven't tried this myself yet. Although I have access to the
documentation, I don't have my Linux system running right now. You may
have noticed that 'less' has the same "feature." It can be disabled by
putting the following line in your ~/.bash_profile:
export LESS=-X
I _have_ done that and it works fine.
Gary
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Modem PCI intern & PPP
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 01:52:48 GMT
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 01:50:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On 24 Mar 1999 03:49:13 GMT, Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>c&c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>: I cannot initialize a ppp connection with my modem. PPPD is unable to
>>: find it, or find it busy ? Can anybody help me ?
>>
>>You don't actually have a modem. You have a piece of s%!^. Winmodems suck
>>
>
>al right, this is getting tireing, just because it's a PCI modem
>doesn't mean its a win modem. how to tell the difference.
>pci winmodems have a modem enumerator<sp> and pci modems have a pci
>serial device.
>believe it or not
> I have a pci modem
>io=0x3f8
>irq=5
>
>it's on the pci bus so linux wont tuch it because it lacks support for
>pci serial cards ( other than the multi-port cards ) it has a
>rockwell based chipset. I only wish I knew C because this is the
>perfect opertunity for me to contribut to the linux comunity.
>
>tng
>
actually, the kernel identify it but wont use it.
tng
>
>>--
>> Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts;
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it.
>>http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -La Rochefocauld, Maxims
>>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Harritt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Gnome 1.0 bugs
Date: 15 Mar 1999 22:24:02 GMT
According to Alexander Sirotkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> 2. when I hide the task bar I get very weird graphical effects at the
> bottom of the sceen - when I have an open window, near it's bottom
> side (which would be normally obscured by a taskbar) there are some
> blinking effects which may be very beutiful but somehow unusual :)
It sounds like you are running Enlightenment WM with the ripple effect
turned on. You can turn it off from the descktop menu. Middle button
click on desktop: Menu->Desktop->FX - Ripples. This selection will
toggle ripples on and off.
Jim
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Jim Harritt - HP Corvallis Operations - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kevin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.rpm,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.9 - error in rpm: cannot open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc ???
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 21:52:45 -0500
Nice email address. I accidentally replied to sender and my answer went
to Bill Clinton instead of you. I'm not about to send it again so I
guess you lose.
/KevCo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: Linux and Exchange Server
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 05:59:31 GMT
Robert Binz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|I am looking for a Exchange Server Client that will run under Linux. =20
|Our office has moved to Exchange 5.5 and the people running the=20
|Exchange servers refuse to open up pop or imap. Since I use Linux as=20
|my OS at work I have found myself having to logout of Linux and boot=20
|into MS OS and do my mail thing and then boot back into Linux.
You can give them these options:
1. Open up POP and IMAP on Exchange (no cost).
2. Have Exchange route your mail to your Linux computer (no
cost).
3. Replace Exchange with a better, less expensive mail server
(high setup costs, but lower ongoing costs in the long run).
4. Buy you another computer just to run Microsoft Outlook
(probably about $900 if you access it with VNC, more if
you get another monitor to go with it).
5. Accept that you will be less productive because you will
not be able to give timely response to urgent email that
is sent to you and/or you will have to disrupt your work
to reboot just to read email (very costly if your work is
of any value to the organization).
If they choose #5, maybe they are trying to tell you something...
--
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Timothy J. Lee timlee@
Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. netcom.com
No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sales Dept)
Subject: Help Wanted: BurstNET� Seeking Part-Time Sysadmin
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 01:51:36 GMT
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Email-only terminal accounts
Date: 24 Mar 1999 20:22:26 -0800
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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Rossing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eric> What is the best way to set up a user so he is automatically
Eric> put into a mailreader (eg. elm) when he logs in, and is
Eric> automatically logged off when he exits that program?
Write a script to run the program. Include some errorchecking, in
case the program for some reason doesn't work correctly. If there's
an error, you want to be sure that the user can't fall through to a
shell. I just make `exit' the last line in the script.
Exec this script from the appropriate login file in the user
directory, e.g., .bashrc or .login.
For example, I have a user `journal' that I use for writing in my
journal. I log in as journal, give the password, and the .bashrc for
that account looks like this:
# .bashrc
/home/journal/journal
exit
Note the `exit' line. This assures that when I exit from the
`journal' script, I immediately exit from the account. The journal
script does some processing in addition to calling my editor.
There are some other things you probably want to do that I didn't do.
One is to disable ^Z in the program you're planning to run. I suspect
this a compile time option. There may be other shell processes that a
user can run from within the program, as well.
mp
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Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
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"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux-supported hardware
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 21:38:16 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, James Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
> ... 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. his will
>help people who want to buy a machine to run Linux. Something like:
Very good idea! :-)
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
Data not found; make it up as I go along? (Y/n)
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From: Jeff Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: LILO
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:01:55 -0500
Alex Romaniuk wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> I have InfoMagic's Slackware Linux 3.1, Kernel 2.0. I had
> Linux partition on secondary IDE disk and works just fine. Now
> I put linux disk as terciary IDE (removable) and now I have problem
> setting up LILO.
> As prompt appears there is only LI showing and everything is dead.
> (LILO has worked fine with system on secondary IDE).
> LI stands actually for wrong geometry or something like that.
> I've read somewhere, that slackware version has wrong port addresses
> for terciary IDE, but i'm not sure.
> Can anyone help me please ?
>
> alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
That's the same message I get when i dont autodetect my harddisk
in Bios Setup after trying to boot off my linux harddisk, just
after switching harddisks. So give that A try and autodetect and
set your IDE, etc..
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From: Andrew Gierth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.sco.misc,alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: HELP! Need data from BAD Floopy!
Date: 25 Mar 1999 03:20:21 +0000
>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jeff> If you compressed it before tarring it you're s.o.l. unless
Jeff> you're a magician. You have to have *all* of a compressed or
Jeff> gzipped file to uncompress it, as I understand things. If the
Jeff> floppy is "bad" that means at least one block is not
Jeff> retrievable.
If he has two identical copies of the disk, both bad (which seemed to
be what he was implying), then careful use of dd might enable the data
to be recovered (unless the same blocks are bad on both disks).
That's what I would try first, anyway.
--
Andrew.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: No RV G2 for Linux
Date: 25 Mar 1999 09:18:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:39:51 GMT William Lacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
Really? I've gotten two saying that they ARE going to have Linux
version, "hopefully within six months." That was about a week ago.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
<http://dm.net>
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Reply-To: "LinuxQnA Team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "LinuxQnA Team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Proxy Server Help?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 21:27:06 -0500
You can send us your detailed requirements. We will provide you the
solution. We are currently using a very old 486-66 as NAT(proxy server).
Linux could be set up as a transparent gateway with lots of protocol
supports. BTW, don't worry about your money. We will do it for FREE...:)
--
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tel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:uefK2.1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I don't know much about UNIX, but I need to have a proxy server running on
a
> Red Hat Linux box. Is there a good resource for finding UNIX consultants
or
> does any one here want to help? (I'm not exactly loaded with $$$$)
>
> - tel
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "BlackBug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Need Groupwise client for Linux.
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 21:40:00 -0500
My office uses Groupwise, I'd like to put Linux on the desktop.
Any thoughts.
Thanks
-FItz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SpeakFreely and IP Masquerading
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 03:17:02 GMT
Hi,
Anyone know how to set up IP forwading / masquerading on a Firewall/Gateway
in order to use SpeekFreely ????
My Firewall/Gateway is a Linux box running kernel 2.0.35.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Charles
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From: Marc Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to get X to use modem
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:15:33 GMT
Christian D Freet wrote:
>
> Those who have answered my previous questions have been a big help,
> but please don't get to vague in your responses... please note that
> even though I am using Linux, I am new to the platform; I had to
> deduce the means by which to implement most of the help I have been
> given. THANKS ANY WAY, NEVERTHELESS!!
>
> Now, I need help with the modem. I have a somewhat standard ISA
> modem... I don't know how to get X (or Linux in general) to use it...
> I tried using the modem dialer in X, but when querying the modem, it
> wasn't found.
>
> Please help, and thanks in advance.
WHat do you want to do? PPP to internet? then you can still use the
regular scripts that you always use. A lot of of people who come in
from the windows world are used to the fact that you never have to type
anything to get things to work.(programs are started using icons and
never from a command line,,well almost never) In Linux you still have to
use the shell command line,,even in X windows (allthough you CAN setit
up to have Icons for things also). As to connecting to the internet.
look at www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial makes things a LOT easier ;)
Good luck :)
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From: "Chad A. Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Fat 32 and linux: can I mount?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 04:05:38 GMT
Christian D Freet wrote:
>
> Does linux recognize FAT 32? I have been unable to mount my second
> partition which uses the FAT 32 file system...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.....
Try this:
mount -o rw -t vfat [device] [mount point]
example... here's how I did it for one of my FAT 32 partitions...
mount -o rw -t vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/wind
also, be advised that I have kernel 2.0.36... you'll need a fairly
recent kernel (2.0.34 or later) to make this work...
Chad
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From: "Radek Tomis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.sco.misc,alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: HELP! Need data from BAD Floopy!
Date: 25 Mar 1999 09:02:16 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I wrote a huge amount of code some years back (like over 5) under SCO
> UNIX and backed it up using tar (the file stored was a cpio file that
> was then compressed).
>
> Now years later I pulled out my backup disks (I had two sets) and
> tried to restore them to Redhat 5.2 Linux. But I got disk errors on
> both sets disk #1 and it aborted. I tried just for the heck of it to
> restore disk #2 and it seemed to work.
>
> So I'm faced with loosing TONS of work if I can't get a recovery
> program for this floppy. The file that was backed up was one large .Z
> file so I probably need to get ALL of the file or none. :(
Just out of curiosity. Have you tried to blow out any visible particles
off the floppy surface ? Seriously, this saved my butt many times. Or
you may want to try it in different drive..
> Questions:
>
> Is there a floppy disk recovery program for unix/linux? Is there a
> compatibility issue between SCO UNIX and Linux tar'ed floppies?
What were the exact error messages you got ?
> Is there a way/utility to sift though what parts of the .Z I can
> recover to try to pull out at least some of the files (C and SQL
> files)?
Can you at least list your tar archive on your floppy ? i.e. `tar tv` ?
I scan floppies for physical errors (bad sectors) with my own tool:
rdwr -rv -e /dev/rfd0 2880K 9K
It will complain about unreadable blocks with their offsets (9K
multiple here). You can then narrow down those offsets with smaller
block size (e.g. 512).
`rdwr` available at http://members.xoom.com/rts101/tmp/rdwr_tar.Z
--
Radek Tomis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux In Banks?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Powe)
Date: 24 Mar 1999 20:39:36 -0800
[posted and mailed]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pasha) writes:
> I'm working for a bank and who are currently looking at changing the
> client and server operating systems in their branch network.
> The choice is between Linux and NT (Workstation/Server).
> Needless to say the techies want Linux, but management are nervous
> about it (vendor FUD, etc., etc.).
> So, are there any retail banks that have already rolled out (or are
> currently rolling out) Linux to between 4000 and 5000 seats in 400 to
> 500 outlets?
Check Linux Journal, one or two months back. There's an article in
there about a Canadian bank using linux for the firewall to their
ATM/online banking setup.
mp
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