Linux-Misc Digest #604, Volume #19 Thu, 25 Mar 99 21:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: What is the best Linux to install? (jedi)
Re: Fat 32 and linux: can I mount? (jeff m)
Re: Snapscan310 and adaptec 1505AE SCSI adapter (M.J. Gray)
Re: Linuxers play dirty? (Tommy Willoughby)
Re: Cheapbytes - What happened??? (jimterm)
Re: HELP! Need data from BAD Floopy! (Kevin Smith, ShadeTree Software, Inc.)
Re: Why Does Mail Break after adding a new Mail user ? ("Kim Knoblauch")
Re: RH 5.1 is missing /proc/swaps: So, swapon -s doesn't work...
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: VPN for linux/NT ("ELVIS")
Xconfigure ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Database library for C++ Linux (gcc) (Mike Castle)
Use of make xxx (Christian D Freet)
Re: Open source version of Java Messaging Service ("David Wall")
Urgent!! group descriptors corrupted!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Load Balancing in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ghostview does not scroll page. (Bill Unruh)
Gimp compilation (Michael Chajkowski)
Re: System locks when I play mp3s ("Rapha�l LANGELLA")
Re: Help with X-Windows ("Jesse Olson")
Adduser (Lian PL)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (John Thompson)
No core files when program segfaults (Mennie-Mail)
How to load a different MIB on Linux when .... ("toxo")
Re: Linuxers play dirty? (Ian Hay)
Re: Using make menuconfig ("ne...")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:24:49 -0800
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:17:58 +0800, Graham Daniell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>RedHat - the boxed set - by far the easiest to install. And comes with
>several Linux books on CD ROM. If your PC supports it you can boot into
You are refering to the MacMillian 3rdParty version of Redhat.
Official redhat only comes with the small blue manual which can
also be bought separately for 15bux (Borders).
>Linux from the CD
>
>Graham Daniell
>(A beginner)
>
>Joe Keane wrote:
>>
>> In article <7d6822$6u1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Rufus V. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >What's the best tasting fruit: Apples, Pears, Oranges, or Bananas?
>>
>> Pears.
>>
>> >If it's not in the FAQ's, it should be added.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Keane, amateur mathematician
>
>--
>Graham Daniell
>Perth, Western Australia
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From: jeff m <[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 17:06:56 -0600
Doug Burgess wrote:
> Go to the /mnt subdirectory and make a place for your drive to be
> mounted .... say fat32_part so
>
> mkdir fat32_part
>
> then try as root or superuser
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/[drive-partition designator] /mnt/fat32_part
>
> 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.....
I'm not sure if this really matters, but the only way I could get RH to
mount my fat32 win partition was the mount it as
mount -t msdos /dev/win95 /mnt/win95 -t vfat wasn't working for me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M.J. Gray)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,fido.belg.linux,linux.redhat.announce,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Snapscan310 and adaptec 1505AE SCSI adapter
Date: 22 Mar 1999 15:37:29 GMT
"Dirk Demuynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Does someone knows how to install/configure the Agfa Snapscan 310 and the
>SCSI adapter ADAPTEC 1505AE on RH5.2 ??
>Which drivers??
The aha152x SCSI driver should work, although you may need to use
isapnptools to set up the card, and you may need to experiment with
different interrupt settings.
You'll need SANE v1.0 (http://www.mostang.com/sane/), and the
appropriate patch from http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~charter/snapscan.html
to take the Snapscan backend to v0.6.
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:48:28 -0800
From: Tommy Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linuxers play dirty?
Bill Amsinux wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> MS-IE does not work with the latest ipchains and linux masquerade, is
> this intentional like MS did to Netscape with their Proxy server?
Since the source code for Linux is freely available to anyone, you're
free to have a look and see for yourself. Microsoft might get away with
little hidden gadgets, but in Linux it's pretty tough to hide anything
when the whole world can see into your pajamas.
Your conspiricy theories just don't hold up in the world of Open Source
Software.
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From: jimterm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cheapbytes - What happened???
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:38:18 -0500
Thanx - problem cleared up - was a software problem here
Jim T
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Smith, ShadeTree Software, Inc.)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.sco.misc,alt.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: HELP! Need data from BAD Floopy!
Date: 25 Mar 1999 18:58:55 -0500
In article <7dd12j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Moritz Barsnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Andrew Gierth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> If he has two identical copies of the disk, both bad (which seemed to
>> be what he was implying), then careful use of dd might enable the data
>> to be recovered (unless the same blocks are bad on both disks).
>
>IIRC, `dd' demands to read through its input. It will therefore encounter
>those bad blocks and fail. I remember reading of a `dd'-replacement whichs
>seeks to the "skip"ped part. You can read about it in the Linux
>"Ext2-Undeletion" mini-HOWTO, I think.
If you have access OSR5.0.x you can use dd with the iseek= argument
(documented as lseek=) to explicitly seek to a position on a file or
device. You could also try the conv=noerror arg. Don't know if that
would need to be combined with conv=sync to preserve spacing in the
output file. Don't know if linux dd supports the iseek and noerror
options.
You could do a similar thing in perl doing explicit lseek()/read()s
on the input and lseek()/write()s on the output.
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From: "Kim Knoblauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Does Mail Break after adding a new Mail user ?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:03:35 GMT
Thanks for the help chmoding /var/spool/mail things are working again. Still
can't figure out why adding new users would trash things so much ( But this
is an old release )
Now if only I could figure out why sendmail will not accept incoming
connections. Outgoing works fine.
Kim
Bill Unruh wrote in message <7dds36$ol0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Kim Knoblauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>
>>/var/spool/ mail is mail mail , perm list is drw-rw----
>
>The permissions for /var/spool/mail should be drwxrwxrwt
>The users must have permission to read their own mail and to remove the
>mail from the spool file after it has been read. The t is there to make
>sure that only the owner of the file can actually remove it.
>
>chmod a+rwxt /var/spool/mail
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RH 5.1 is missing /proc/swaps: So, swapon -s doesn't work...
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:37:06 GMT
I am looking for a facility like this because suddenly my swap space stopped
being used and bad things happen when the system runs out of "real" memory. I
have done mkswap all over again and the problem persists.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ben
Nairobi
In article <7d2ehf$2kr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Not sure if this is what you mean, but the command "top" in an xterm will show
> you all sorts of interesting things, including the amount of swap you have and
> how much of it is being used.
>
> VanL
>
> In article <7d1dh0$79o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > NF Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny McCormack) wrote:
> > >
> > >>I have an RH51 system, installed from "Official RH 5.1" in the pretty box.
> > >>
> > >>I have 2 working swap partitions - Running 'free' shows 96 megs of swap.
> > >>When I run "swapon -s", I get /proc/swaps: No such file or directory.
> > >>
> > >>Assuming something is missing from the kernel. How do I fix this?
> > >
> > >/proc/swaps is not available in 2.0.xx kernels. It is a new feature
> > >that only became available in 2.2.0.
> >
> > I see. Odd that they would program for a non-existent feature in the
> > version (of the swapon program) shipped with (on the same CD as) the
> > 2.0.x kernel.
> >
> > Is there any other way to find out what is currently being used as swap?
> >
>
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From: "ELVIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VPN for linux/NT
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:14:24 -0500
>Any movement onthe VPN front?
>
>I need to connect NT ws to linux server across the internet. Any
>pointers to software or howtos for this mised breed vpn are most
>welcome.
>
There was a PPTP patch for ip_masq back in the 2.0.32 days (Spring '98). It
worked fine then and our company needed it to connect MS engineers back to
the home office in Redmond. At the time it was the only way to do PPTP
through a firewall (or so they told me).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Xconfigure
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 22:49:41 -0800
Hi all,
I am using Redhat5.2 now. I don't know if it is possible to setup
different resolution for different users by using Xconfigure. Can
someone teach me?
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.progress,comp.programming
Subject: Re: Database library for C++ Linux (gcc)
Date: 25 Mar 1999 14:58:12 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Klaus Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"No Spam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I am looking for a database library for C++ for linux. I am also looking for
>
>gdbm
Is gdbm really the best choice anymore? It seems to not be supported much
really. I get the impression that using berkeley "db" might be a better
starting point. At least there you get sorted indexes in addition to the
hashing that gdbm/dbm use.
mrc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian D Freet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Use of make xxx
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:23:58 GMT
How do I use "make xxx"? (Yes, I'm a linux virgin). I have read about using the
command, but
when I try, command line says there is no such command (in bash)....
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From: "David Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Open source version of Java Messaging Service
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:46:10 -0800
To be honest, I've not looked over the JMS specification in great detail,
but I suspect it's designed primarily for Java usage only. However, there
have always been C++ libraries and/or CORBA interfaces that could wrap such
a system. In my case, I only care about a Java implementation, but in the
future that could easily change.
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Urgent!! group descriptors corrupted!!
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:29:21 GMT
Hi,
My linux box suddenly crash and give me only a message like
"group descriptors corrupted". I get the same message even boot from other HD
and try to mount it :(
I have some important but not yet been backuped data inside the
hardisk(gosh!), any help will be appreciated.
Thank a lot.
Kernel: 2.0.35, Slackware 3.5, Pentium 233
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Load Balancing in Linux
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:27:00 GMT
Hi Paul,
We have lots of customers using our Equalizer load balancing solution with
Linux servers. Please see http://www.coyotepoint.com for details.
Cheers,
-LkM
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Paul Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are there any Load Balancing solutions with Linux?
>
> I am running a webserver hosted on two servers running Linux and want to
> ensure that they are load balanced.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
>
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Coyote Point Systems, Inc | http://www.coyotepoint.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: ghostview does not scroll page.
Date: 25 Mar 1999 20:19:20 GMT
I am having trouble with ghostview (gv) In particular, the window which
is opened is larger than the screen size (1024x768) and the text
displayed in teh ghostview window does not scroll at all. Ie if I shrink
the size of the window for ghostview, the amount of text displayed
shrinks, and there is no way I can see the rest of the page. (The
ghostview scroll bar does nothing, and in fact always displays that the
full text is being shown even though it obviously is not.)
( gv-3.5.8-4.i386.rpm)
OS is Redhat 5.1, XFree 3.3.2, ATI Rage Pro, 1024x768 real and virtual
screens.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Chajkowski)
Subject: Gimp compilation
Date: 26 Mar 1999 01:05:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please excuse this if it is a silly question . . . but I am attempting to
compile the Gimp v.1.1.3 on my linux box and am haveing no luck. When I run
autogen.sh, I get a non terminating error that ./po/Makefile.in.in doesn't
exist and then continues on. The real problem is that when I do make all, the
compiler exits with and error 1 and error 2.
Is there anyone out there that can help me?
Thank you,
Michael S. Chajkowski, B.Sc, B.Ed
Systems Analyst
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From: "Rapha�l LANGELLA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System locks when I play mp3s
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 02:13:45 +0100
RabbidRabbit wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and this is really starting to piss me off. My system locks
> up any time that I play mp3s.I can hear cds and sometimes there is sound from
> some games. I can click on the wave files that come with REDHAT 5.2 and they
> come through fine. Any time that I play and mp3 on turn on the extra bells
> and whistles I'll hear for a while, but then my system locks up solid. Now I
> can't even startx because my start up noise locks my system. Other than this
> I love Linux, but this is drivening me mad!!! Please help...and thanks in
> advance.
>
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Tell us fist what is your sound card, tha might help :)
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From: "Jesse Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.dev.svgalib,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Help with X-Windows
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:35:17 -0500
Hi, everybody! Update time! I got X-Windows running in 320x200 mode.
Whenever I try to run it at a higher resolution the display is garbled. I
can see stuff but it's all messed up. Any ideas what the problem is?
Thanks,
Jesse Olson
Jesse Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:e2zK2.322$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Hi, everybody! I may have posted this to some inappropriate ng's and for
>that I am sorry. I am a newbie to the world of Linux. I obtained a copy
of
>Redhat Linux 5.1 the other day and finally got it coexisting with Win95 on
>my system. So far all I have been able to do is some basic commands using
>the 'bash' shell. I want to get X-Windows running but I am having some
>problems. When I try to start it(startx) it does a bunch of stuff and then
>says something like "Found graphics device - unable to establish mode".
>That isn't nearly word for word but it's similar. My monitor is listed
>correctly in the XF86Config file but my graphics card is listed as a
generic
>SVGA.
>
> I have a Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix PCI w/ 16MB SGRAM and 3Dfx Voodoo
>Banshee chipset. My monitor is a 14" Optiquest V641. Does anbody have any
>ideas that I can try?
>
>I am still very new to this so please respond with instructions as detailed
>as possible.
>
>Thanks very much,
>Jesse Olson
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lian PL)
Subject: Adduser
Date: 26 Mar 1999 01:35:41 GMT
I have just setup Linux in my Acer laptop. I logged in as root then tried
to adduser.It would not allow me . The message is . command not known in
the bash shell. Any advce from fellow Linuxes?
plse email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Thompson <[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: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:23:56 -0600
max wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, William Wueppelmann wrote:
> >Generally, unless you don't plan to use your computer for a long time, it's
> >probably a good idea to leave the system on. I shut mine down if I'm going to
> >be away for a few days, but that's about it.
> So does this mean you have a screen saver running all night, every night? Or
> does your machine turn itself to "sleep" mode? Wouldn't the screen saver
> processing take a lot of electricity over a long period of time?
On my old machine I have a pre-"EnergyStar" BIOS, but use a
hardware device from IBM ("Display Miser") that simply cuts
power to the monitor after a user-defined time without any
keystrokes. On my new machine, I have the APM services
running to put the monitor into "sleep" mode after a period
of time, and eventually cut the power to the monitor if no
further user activity it detected on the console. The
system itself remains up all the time to handle remote
telnet, ftp, X, etc. but the monitor only gets power when it
is needed.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
From: Mennie-Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No core files when program segfaults
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:12:14 GMT
Recently I've tried to update my system to a libc6 system and
thought everything was working fine.
But when any of the projects I'm working on (in C++) seg fault,
they don't see to produce a core file anymore. Permissions are ok, and I'm
not doing anything differently. But something I updated seems to be
preventing core files.
I remember hearing about somewhere you could turn on/off core
files (in general and for root), but I have no idea where that is.
Can someone give me some ideas on this? thanks a lot
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From: "toxo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.snmp
Subject: How to load a different MIB on Linux when ....
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:01:34 +0100
How to load a different MIB on Linux when using CMU SNMP.
There is the mib.txt file in /etc/ or /usr/lib, but what to do when I want
to check out SpanningTree Parameters??? I need the BridgeMIB (rfc 1493) ...
ok, I could delete the mib.txt and put the bridge-mib there and name it
mib.txt, but then i cannot get other snmp-parameters. Is it possible to let
the snmpd load several MIbs I need, so I can get Information ion different
things???
toxo
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From: Ian Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linuxers play dirty?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:44:21 GMT
jik- wrote:
>
> Bill Amsinux wrote:
> >
> > Hi !
> >
> > MS-IE does not work with the latest ipchains and linux masquerade, is
> > this intentional like MS did to Netscape with their Proxy server?
>
> Yep, we are all so overly conserned with MS creating something that runs
> on Linux that we just had to stop them.
Don't forget that complex, elaborate deception called WINE, where the
folks are tirelessly trying to maintain the devious illusion that Linux
developers actually -want- MS stuff to work on Linux.
:) I.
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Linuxing about since June 21, 1998 <Redhat 5.1 - 2.0.35>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using make menuconfig
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:10:09 GMT
On Mar 25, 1999 at 22:06, Christian D Freet eloquently wrote:
>I have read about reconfiguring the kernel, and I wish to do so. BUT, I can't figure
>out how
>to use the "make xconfig" or "make menuconfig" commands... when used, I get a message
>saying
>"no rule defined [etc.]"
>
>What can I do? What have I done wrong?
su to root.
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
make dep clean [bz|z]image modules
move old modules out of the way
make modules_install
cp arch/<cpu type>/boot/[bz|z]image /boot/vmlinux-<kernel-version>
cp System.map /boot/System.map-<kernel-version>
amend /etc/lilo.conf
/sbin/lilo
reboot
Steps above should do the trick....
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