Linux-Misc Digest #659, Volume #19 Tue, 30 Mar 99 14:13:17 EST
Contents:
HotJava for Linux? (Steve D. Perkins)
Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer (Shimpei Yamashita)
Re: fstab and user access (Pete)
lost xterm and login (Yan Seiner)
Re: Framebuffer problems (jik-)
Re: Error compiling kernel for Redhat 5.2 ("Martin R. Soderstrom")
Re: Groupware on Linux ... ? (Aron Felix Gurski)
Re: /etc/hosts.deny syntax differs from man pages ? ("Curt")
Kernel upgrade question (Humphrey Zhang)
Re: Compiling ELF, AOUT programs... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fs msdos not supported since -> 2.0.34 (Surfer Netzbetrieb)
Magic sysrq key (NF Stevens)
Re: ICQ auf Linux (Matthias Warkus)
framebuffer software (Doug DeJulio)
Re: fs msdos not supported since -> 2.0.34 (Surfer Netzbetrieb)
Re: framebuffer software (Matthias Warkus)
Re: fs msdos not supported since -> 2.0.34 (Surfer Netzbetrieb)
Re: Compiling ELF, AOUT programs... (Donn Miller)
Re: why would x freeze? (Jason Rotunno)
video card (Trident 3D image 9750) (ken quach)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve D. Perkins)
Subject: HotJava for Linux?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 19:27:41 GMT
I'm getting kind of tired of the flaky problems I've been
bumping into running Netscape on my Linux box... does anyone know if
there is a decent port (or successful workaround for making the
Solaris version work) of HotJava for the Linux platform?
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From: Shimpei Yamashita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:00:01 +0100
David Fox <d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u> writes:
>Jet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Am I the only one who doesn't like big monitors? I don't like
>> anything bigger than 15".
>
>Quite possibly.
I know one person who doesn't like big monitors because she
gets neck strains looking up and down the screen. Everybody else I've
bothered to survey favors big monitors--bigger than 15", in any case;
very large monitors (> 19") can take up enough desk space to be a
nuisance, and it can be difficult to place a 21" monitor such that you
don't feel lost in all that space.
--
Shimpei Yamashita <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>
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From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: fstab and user access
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:53:47 +0100
John Thompson wrote:
>
> I've been trying to set up my fstab file to allow mortal
> users to access the FAT32 partition on my machine but still
> keep getting "permission denied" errors when trying to copy
> to the partition for any user but root. I've tried a couple
> diferent fstab entries that look like they ought to work,
> but no joy:
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98 vfat defaults 0 0
>
> [john@starfleet john]$ mount
> /dev/hda7 on / type ext2 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/hda8 on /home type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda9 on /var type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /mnt/win98 type vfat (rw)
> [john@starfleet john]$ cp file.pdf /mnt/win98/temp
> cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/win98/temp/file.pdf':
> Permission denied
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win98 vfat user,rw,auto 0 0
>
> [john@starfleet john]$ mount
> /dev/hda7 on / type ext2 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/hda8 on /home type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda9 on /var type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /mnt/win98 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> [john@starfleet john]$ cp file.pdf /mnt/win98/temp
> cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/win98/temp/file.pdf':
> Permission denied
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What about the permissions on /mnt/win98? or /dev/hda1?
Pete
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lost xterm and login
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:23:34 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am running RH 5.1. I appear to have lost both the console login and
xterm. Here's the message I get when running xterm:
[root@portia /root]# xterm &
[1] 886
[root@portia /root]# xterm: error in loading shared libraries
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libXt.so.6: undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale
Xwindows is set up correctly; this used to work. I have since installed
WindowMaker; I am not sure if that installation hosed the libs or what.
Also I thought that libc5 was passe.
mingetty also quit working. I get an "operation not permitted" in the
log files. mingetty -r tty1 works fine.
There are no error messages other than this. This is my production
server. It runs fine as a server; I can log in via ssh.
Any ideas?
Yan
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 05:20:20 -0800
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Framebuffer problems
Matthias Warkus wrote:
>
> Now, finally I've got my /dev/fb0 working, and I did some nice
> diddling with libggi... but there is a problem: I can't switch modes,
> and the VESA FB XFree server doesn't seem to work at higher
> resolutions or higher colour depths.
>
> Whenever I try to switch modes with fbset, it says that the argument
> to some ioctl call is invalid. Could the reason be that I haven't set
> up an /etc/fb.modes file yet?
>
> I hope this information isn't too vague, I suppose I'll try all the
> modes and give you exact descriptions of what happens in every mode.
>
> But maybe it's just some trivial error of mine?
Actually, the fbset program sucks the big one. I know someone working
on a much more competent program. I will get in touch with him about
releasing it and see what he plans to do. Right now it functions pretty
good.
Personnally, I am having troubles with the fb device at 16bpp mode..the
color to the bg of ncurses programs is often green or blue when it
should be white, but yet the strings are printed with the right
backgrounds.
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From: "Martin R. Soderstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error compiling kernel for Redhat 5.2
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:16:22 GMT
Maybe in your kernel (I'm using Mandrake 5.3, which is said to use RedHat
5.2). In any case, IP Masq is included, but you still need to recompile
your kernel to turn it on, as a mod or inclusion.
At least, that's what I found.
Cheers,
-- Martin
Bill Garrett wrote in message <7dpr02$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>HI
>
>Yes, this is so. IP Masq is included in RedHat 5.2 kernel by default.
>
>Bill
>
>>Curiously - I've seen plenty of people talk about the need to compile IP
>>masquerading into the Red Hat 5.2 kernel. I was under the impression
>>that a stock RH kernel already included support for IP masquerading as a
>>module. No es?
>
>
>
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From: Aron Felix Gurski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Groupware on Linux ... ?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:35:18 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I need some help!
>
> I'm into my third week with a North Sioux City, South Dakota-based company and
> I'm in charge of the Intra/Internet structure and services.
>
> One of the things I've been asked to clean up/construct is the corporate
> e-mail system. There is a strong corporate preference for Lotus Notes. I'm
> not in favor of this for any number of reasons, chief among them is that I'm
> going to have to learn a proprietary set of tools that run on NT.
>
> I've already wormed a Red Hat box into the organization for my network
> monitoring tools, and have a triple-boot P-III box for everyday work (Red
> Hat, DR-DOS, NT). I would LIKE to put a functioning mail/groupware server on
> a Linux box, bring it to my brass, and say something like, "Well, we COULD
> bring in Lotus Notes ... but we already have this functioning,
> standards-based, open- source alternative in place. Here, let me show it to
> you."
>
> My thought is that a working demonstration is probably worth more than a
> promise of a proprietary installation several weeks off. I don't know that it
> would be enough to overcome Management's preferences, but it's worth a shot.
>
> Anyway, my problem is this:
>
> I can set up a POP/IMAP/SMTP server any day of the week. An NNTP server for
> shared discussions is a cinch. Web pages with our corporate e-mail is no
> problem.
>
> The killer is that I can't find an attractive alternative to some of the group
> conferencing and scheduling that Notes offers. There are some CGI scripts out
> there that will do nice things, but their interfaces uniformly SUCK, and I'm
> not sure I have time to clean up the HTML they're generating.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution that I can implement quickly, preferably that
> uses the Web browser as the interface?
>
> Help!
>
> I'd appreciate useful responses be also CCd to my e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> so as to more quickly come to my attention.
Actually, Notes will be released for Linux soon. Why not get in touch with
Lotus and check into what the status is for the release? I'm not a great
fan of Notes myself (it has been virtually a religion at the company where
I work for some years now), but it *does* do the job reasonably well and,
if that's what your company uses, why not try to minimize the
complications?
--
-- Aron
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From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: /etc/hosts.deny syntax differs from man pages ?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:27:54 -0500
Here is an alternative if you don't need to know when someone right away
that someone
is trying to break in.
I cron the following script once a day, from /etc/cron.daily: (you could
run it as often as you like)
#!/bin/sh
grep fail /var/log/secure > /tmp/secure
grep refuse /var/log/secure >> /tmp/secure
grep warn /var/log/secure >> /tmp/secure
if [ -s /tmp/secure ]
then
cat /tmp/secure | elm -s 'secure' root@domain >> /dev/null
fi
Pierre Bodart wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I'm using RH 5.2 kernel 2.0.34. I'm protecting a little bit also my box
>by running tcpd from inetd for most of the services (Telnet, FTP, ...).
>With tcpd you can allow/deny access to services with the configuration
>files hosts.allow and hosts.deny.
>According the man pages, you can also ask tcpd to run a command when a
>rule is valid. E.g. in hosts.deny you can have an entry like :
>
>in.telnetd: ALL: (/usr/bin/finger -l @%h | /bin/mail -s %d-%h
>[EMAIL PROTECTED])&
>
>which will for each telnet attempt (who will be refused by this rule)
>run the finger command against the calling host and mail the result to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] The command is launched in the background to not hung
>the service.
>
>By the way, when attempting to telnet to my box, I'm well 'denied', but
>the log file show me the following error and I'm getting of course no
>mail under root :
>
>in.telnetd: connect from xx.xx.xx.xx
>in.telnetd: error: /etc/hosts.deny, line 9: bad option name:
>"(/usr/bin/finger"
>in.telnetd: refused connect from xx.xx.xx.xx
>
>I've tried several other syntax or commands, no way.
>It seems that the command is passed to telnet as an argument, which is
>of course a bad option .... but it's not what is expected or explained
>in the man page.
>
>Does anyone have an idea ?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Pierre
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From: Humphrey Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel upgrade question
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:42:13 -0500
I installed Kernel 2.2.3, boot OK, but message say the iBCS as a module
is
not found. I had this iBCS started each time when booting my previous
kernel
2.0.35 on the same machine. Do I need to get a fresh iBCS and install it
or there
is someway I can locate it somewhere on my 486PC and run it under 2.2.3?
Jun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Compiling ELF, AOUT programs...
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 14:17:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a question about compiling ELF, AOUT programs. How do I tell
> gcc/ld what format I want the executable in? AFAIK, gcc compiles ELF
> executables by default, but how do I get gcc/ld to produce an AOUT
> executable? (Not that I want to, but what procedures would I follow
> just in case).
Have you looked at:
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/GCC-HOWTO
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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From: Surfer Netzbetrieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fs msdos not supported since -> 2.0.34
Date: 30 Mar 1999 18:18:05 GMT
That's it. Thank you.
Thomas Zajic wrote:
>
>
> <*> Native language support (Needed for FAT and ISO9660)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Magic sysrq key
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:17:37 GMT
I crashed X yesterday evening and tried to recover using the new
sysrq key facilility in 2.2.x kernels. It all seemed to work,
except that I could not swap back from graphics mode to text
mode, so I eventually had to reboot.
When I checked /var/log/messages after rebooting there are
entries for the disk sync, killing all processes on the
terminal etc. There is even one from mgetty saying it
got an invalid character in the login name.
Am I missing something? Is there a way to force the screen
from graphics to text mode?
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ICQ auf Linux
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:03:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:58:44 GMT...
..and Markus Goetz aka guruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schoenfeldt) !
> To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (35 lines) you said :
>
> FYI : Mirabilis has announced an offical ICQ for X
Can you say "bandwagon"?
:)
mawa
--
When you look at yourself in an aberrational mirror, you see your real
self, looking back at the twisted you.
-- Dr. (?) Bob Miller, "The Aberrational View of the Universe",
Twisted Science, Heat, National Public Radio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug DeJulio)
Subject: framebuffer software
Date: 30 Mar 1999 09:33:07 -0500
With my new 2.2-series kernels, I've finally got a framebuffer device
on my machine at home. The only software I can find that uses it,
however, is an X server.
Is there a list of other apps that use the framebuffer anywhere?
Games, console image viewers, etc? Maybe someone implemented an
SVGAlib wrapper?
--
Doug DeJulio | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HKS, Incorporated | http://www.hks.net/~ddj/
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From: Surfer Netzbetrieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fs msdos not supported since -> 2.0.34
Date: 30 Mar 1999 18:19:29 GMT
That's it. Thank you.
Thomas Zajic wrote:
>
>
> <*> Native language support (Needed for FAT and ISO9660)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: framebuffer software
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:02:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 30 Mar 1999 09:33:07 -0500...
..and Doug DeJulio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> With my new 2.2-series kernels, I've finally got a framebuffer device
> on my machine at home. The only software I can find that uses it,
> however, is an X server.
>
> Is there a list of other apps that use the framebuffer anywhere?
> Games, console image viewers, etc? Maybe someone implemented an
> SVGAlib wrapper?
The GGI graphics library (fancied by game developers among others)
uses the framebuffer.
mawa
--
When you look at yourself in an aberrational mirror, you see your real
self, looking back at the twisted you.
-- Dr. (?) Bob Miller, "The Aberrational View of the Universe",
Twisted Science, Heat, National Public Radio
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From: Surfer Netzbetrieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fs msdos not supported since -> 2.0.34
Date: 30 Mar 1999 18:20:10 GMT
That's it. Thank you.
Thomas Zajic wrote:
>
>
> <*> Native language support (Needed for FAT and ISO9660)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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From: Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Compiling ELF, AOUT programs...
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:40:31 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a question about compiling ELF, AOUT programs. How do I tell
> > gcc/ld what format I want the executable in? AFAIK, gcc compiles ELF
> > executables by default, but how do I get gcc/ld to produce an AOUT
> > executable? (Not that I want to, but what procedures would I follow
> > just in case).
>
> Have you looked at:
> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/GCC-HOWTO
>
Great -- that's just what I needed (the Cars tune playing in the
background).
Donn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Rotunno)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: why would x freeze?
Date: 30 Mar 1999 18:08:34 GMT
Ted Sikora ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Jason Rotunno wrote:
: >
: > What are some causes of x-windows to just freeze up? I have a new
: > mandrake install. it automatically installs and configures x-windows and
: > kde. i'm not sure what version of x i have, but i believe it's the newest
: > version (3.3.3? - not too sure - how would i check this). kde is version
: > 1.1. my machine is a P200 w/ about 750 megs on the / partition, about
: > 750 megs on the /home partition and 64M on the swap partition (lots of
: > free space on the / and /home partitions. not too sure how much swap
: > space is being used). my video card is an s3 trio 64-dx/gx (x is using
: > the s3 server). for the most part everything seems to run fine, but about
: > four times so far x windows has totally froze. i was unable to switch
: > into any other consoles and cntrl-alt-backspace was non-responsive. the
: > first two times it froze i tried opening xvirc (comes pre-installed) more
: > than once after the first time i tried opening it didn't do anything. the
: > third time as i was downloading staroffice via the web and the last time
: > while browsing the web (when i tried opening a new window). this is kind
: > of frustrating, but i'm too sure what the problem could be. if anyone has
: > any suggestions i'd appreciate it. thanks.
: More memory, more memory. Common with Netscape after heavy use on
: generic setups with nominal memory. A little tweaking would not hurt
: either.(latest kernel, libraries, etc.) 64MB and a 128MB swap
: partition should be considered the minimum for solid Linux computing.
Actually, I have 96Megs of memory w/ a 64M swap partition (I think I read
somewhere that you should have twice the amount of swap space than you do
memory, but if you have a lot of memory (32 or 64M+ or something then you
only need about 64M swap tops).
: --
: Ted Sikora
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: http://tsikora.tiac.net
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From: ken quach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: video card (Trident 3D image 9750)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:31:35 +1000
Hi all,
I just install Trident 3D image 9750 video card (AGP) to my redhat 5.2
machine. But it does not seem to work
Redhat does not have my video card on the video card list, so i choose
others type of Trident chipset. but it only work in 480X640 mode,
whenever I choose higher than that the screen showing garbag.
can anyone please tell me how to setup the Trident card as i am using
AcerView 56C.
thanks in advanced
ken
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