Linux-Misc Digest #675, Volume #19 Wed, 31 Mar 99 17:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: ICQ auf Linux (Markus Goetz aka guruz)
Re: IP Forwarding Configuration (Matthew Vanecek)
Re: ICQ auf Linux (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Is Microsoft a nasty company ? I'm asking you this question. (Dara Hazeghi)
Re: A major mess - genius needed!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
DHCP failed (Benjamin HERZOG)
HELP!; Intellimouse locks desktop (Ivo Naninck)
Re: Stealth II videocard (Scott Francis[Mechaman])
gtk+10/glib+10, and gtk1.2 (Scott Francis[Mechaman])
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the (Ewan Dunbar)
Re: lost xterm and login (Yan Seiner)
Re: Calendar Program (Mike Werner)
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Andrew Comech)
Re: Q: S.u.S.E. 6.0 (Ewan Dunbar)
Re: NetBSD/Linux (No advocacy) (Emmanuel Dreyfus)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (NF Stevens)
Need help disabling screen blanker (James S. White)
Re: Remote root login (Oliver Cook)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Goetz aka guruz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ICQ auf Linux
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:58:44 GMT
Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schoenfeldt) !
To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (35 lines) you said :
FYI : Mirabilis has announced an offical ICQ for X
Markus
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From: Matthew Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Forwarding Configuration
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 11:11:55 -0600
David Peppard wrote:
>
> I am a new user to Linux and am configuring an existing Linux box. I am
> needing to find where the configuration for IP forwarding is. The box is
> currently routing all incoming e-mail to one server and I need to add/edit
> this setting. Where can I find this configuration? Thanks to whoever can
> help. :-)
>
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That all depends. Which kernel are you using? If you are using 2.0.x,
then the most likely culprit would be ipfwadm. Try "man ipfwadm". To
see the current rules, you would type in the following syntax:
ipfwadm -<type> -l
where type is one of the major types of firewalling rules, e.g., F or A,
etc. See the man page.
To delete a rule, you will need to type in the exact way in which it was
added. Or just use the flush option to delete *all* rules for a
particule rule type (A or F, etc). Be careful when you do that, though,
that you don't get in trouble with sysadmin, and that you remember the
rules that you want so you can put them back.
I'm not sure with 2.2.x how it works, except that they use ipchains
instead of ipfwadm. I've got 2.2.5, but not on my masq box.
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ICQ auf Linux
Date: 30 Mar 1999 10:32:59 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Goetz aka guruz) writes:
> Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schoenfeldt) !
> To <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (35 lines) you said :
>
> FYI : Mirabilis has announced an offical ICQ for X
IIRC, it's been 'announced' for apx 2 years now. luckily, there's enough
unix versions (micq, licq, kicq, gicq, gtkicq, etc) that we don't have to
wait for mirabilis's vaporware.
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Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
Depends on how you define "always". :-)
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Dara Hazeghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.conspiracy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.x,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Is Microsoft a nasty company ? I'm asking you this question.
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:20:02 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Klaus Schilling wrote:
> John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > BeOS is even easier to install that Linux or Windows. it took me 5
> > minutes to install it once PM3 finished making the BFS partition. I
> > installed it and have it almost ready for daily use.
> >
> No, it's by no means easier to install, as the installation of those
> proprietary stuff is downright inflexible. Linux can be bootstrap installed.
> Klaus Schilling
BeOS suffers a severe lack of hardware support. Even if there was a reasonable
amount of nice software for it, it just doesn't run right on many machines.
Modem support is particularly lacking. Linux may be more difficult to install
but it's nice to know there are things to it beyond a cute 3D cube demo.
Dara Hazeghi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A major mess - genius needed!!
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:51:55 GMT
You can't boot from a CD or a floppy!?!?!? The only thing I can imagine
would cause that would be some horrible Wintel related hardware mess. Are
you SURE you can't boot from a floppy?? Really?? IF this is the case, you
have a hardware/bios problem. Try removing the hard drive. Now try to boot
from the floppy. If the hard drive is sitting on the table across the room
and you still can't boot from the floppy that is attached because of an evil
influence projectd by the Linux installation on the hard drive, call the
Amazing Randi and get ready to take his money.
In article <7dpq9p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Sullivan) wrote:
(snip)
> I've now got the problem that I can't boot into Win98 by any means:
> neither from the hard drive, nor from a Win 98 boot or rescue floppy,
> nor from the Win98 CD. I can boot into Linux either from the hard drive
> via LILO or from a Linux boot floppy with no problem, and once into Linux
> I can access my Win98 partition. Linux fdisk indicates no problem with
> any of the partitions.
(snip)
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From: Benjamin HERZOG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP failed
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:52:22 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello ,
I am runing Linux Kernel 2.2.4 (upgraded from RedHat 5.1)
I have the client dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2
My ethercard is well detected ,
and everything worked perfectly until one day, suddenly, i get:
"Using DHCP for eth0 ... failed"
In the log files, i see:
"dhcpinit: DHCP_NAK server response received: requested address not
available"
"timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response"
Yet, nothing has changed, and i can go on connecting via ms (brr).
Thank you for helping.
Benjamin HERZOG
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From: Ivo Naninck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP!; Intellimouse locks desktop
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:53:46 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello All,
Today I bought a MicroSoft IntelliMouse 1.1A PS/2 Compatible mouse.
However, after changing everything I think needs to be changed,
my desktop locks. Let me explain 'locks': the X-server (XFree-3.3.3.1)
starts, but the mouse-pointer doesn't react and my keyboard is
completeley locked. The only way to get access to the box again is
through a telnet-session from another machine and kill the
Window-manager,
which is 'kwm', as in KDE-1.1
I did the following:
- enabled BIOS-checking of the PS/2 port in the PC
- recompiled my 2.0.36 kernel to have PS/2 mouse support
- changed XF86Config as it reads on
http://www.xfree.org/3.3.3.1/mouse26.html
(tried several combinations of the configuration)
dmesg says
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed
These are the devices I tried:
~> ls -l /dev/ps*
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 1 Jul 18 1994 /dev/psaux
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 1 Mar 31 21:52 /dev/psmouse
~>
I also tried chmodding them to 777, no luck.
According to the manual of my motherboard, IRQ-12 is reserved for PS/2.
I do NOT have other devices that use IRQ-12.
Can somebody give me a hint on what is wrong here?
Thanks for your time!
--
Best regards, and don't let the bits byte!
Ivo Naninck.
~
~
:wq!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Francis[Mechaman])
Subject: Re: Stealth II videocard
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 20:59:00 GMT
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:46:09 -0500, "Lefebre, Shawn"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recently bought a Diamond Stealth II 2D/3D video card to replace my
>Number 9 video card. I needed to change my XConfigurator settings, but
>can't set it up to run Xwindows with the new card. Does anyone know how
>I can add support for the card? I am currently running Red Hat 5.1.
Would that be a Stealth 2 G460 card, with the i740 chipset? If so,
you'll need the XBF_i740 X-server from RedHat, since the regular
servers(except for VGA16) do not work with the i740.
Scott Francis IS [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
Also at #anime/manga, a.f.bgcrisis, or rec.arts.anime.misc.
PlanetShogo is open! http://www.planetshogo.com
Not that you care about this either.
"Silence when you're speaking to me!" -Leona Ozaki
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Francis[Mechaman])
Subject: gtk+10/glib+10, and gtk1.2
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:03:12 GMT
Since the jokers on #linux got me into this, and the local LUG are
Debian fans..
Trying to install the gtk/glib10 compatibility libraries using RPM
results in:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by gtk+10-1.0.6-4
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by gtk+10-1.0.6-4
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by glib10-1.0.6-4
symlinks don't work, and --force --no-deps 'ing them last time
completely killed gtk(got weird symbol unregistered errors), and
upgrading from RH5.0 to 5.2 fooled it into thinking gtk isn't there at
all now(even though glint shows the gtk+ 1.0.6 package)
What's the best way to get the gtk+10 compatibility libraries as well
as gtk 1.2 onto a RH system?
Scott Francis IS [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
Also at #anime/manga, a.f.bgcrisis, or rec.arts.anime.misc.
PlanetShogo is open! http://www.planetshogo.com
Not that you care about this either.
"Silence when you're speaking to me!" -Leona Ozaki
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From: Ewan Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:28:59 -0500
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Harry wrote:
> More than likely - I evaluated a number of text editors, including
> vi, and found vi to be by far the worst of them. Spending any more
> time learning it would be pointless. For editing text files in Linux
> I use Midnight Commander, which I find excellent.
>
> > I use gvim in Linux and WinNT (when I have to be in NT) for
> > the power you say it lacks.
>
> I don't recall saying anything about gvim - doesn't vim stand for
> "vi improved". No, definitely haven't even looked at this editor in
> my entrire life. BTW have a tissue - you're foaming at the mouth -
> it's the NT-o-phobia. It makes it impossible to get pragmatism out
> of anyone in this newsgroup.
Well, as a rule, we tend not to like NT (at least I don't anyway), because
it's not that great. Many don't like its politics either. So, a bit of
'NT-phobia', as you say, is to be expected, and *not* to be expected from
someone who deosn't understand vi. You may have used vim and not known
it, too. It's often symlinked, especially on Linux boxes. Personally, I
didn't even know mc had an editor. I just opened it up and checked, and it
definitely runs vim when I ask to Edit.
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lost xterm and login
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:07:54 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The mystery continues. mgetty started working for no reason at all.
Now I get an enormous X login (looks like the screen resolution is way
off.... - but I think I can fix that. I want to put KDE on the server
anyway.)
I am still looking for any help on the xterm issue though.
Yan
Yan Seiner wrote:
>
> 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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From: Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Calendar Program
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:22:51 -0500
Go to http://www.linuxapps.com and do a search for a program called
'remindo'. It is basically a clone of the calendar program and also
advertises some enhancements. Note: the download link of the program's
homepage I could not get to work. The download link off of
linuxapps.com did work.
--
Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?"
ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!"
'91 GS500E |
Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
=====BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK=====
Version: 3.1
GU d-@ s:+ a- C++>$ UL++ P+ L+++ E W++ N++ !o w--- O- !M V-- PS+ PE+
Y+ R+ !tv b+++(++++) DI+ D--- G e*>++ h! r++ y++++
======END GEEK CODE BLOCK======
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:11:12 -0500
From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Privacy Guard wrote:
[good blah-blah-blah snip-snip-snip'ped]
>
> Use these banners on your website and link them to the above sites
> http://www.fightdivx.com/intel_p3_banner.gif
> http://www.bigbrotherinside.com/images/bbi-banner.jpg
>
No, those banners suck. I prefer
http://www.x86.org/IntelArt/Feb98/pisson.html
it is a little out of date, though: Pentium with only two exclamation
marks.
Cheese,
Andrew
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From: Ewan Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: S.u.S.E. 6.0
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:34:39 -0500
On 31 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In his obvious haste, Rolf Inge Stangeland Salte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
> : Any good?
> : Is it a good Linux too start from scratch with?
>
> I've got SuSE 5.2 (from a cover disk a few months ago), and it is an
> excellent distro for beginners.
>
> The Setup tool (YaST) does just about everything for you.
Yes. I think it's probably gotten better for SuSE 6, too. My SuSE 5.2's
yast is great, but not quite good (i.e., bad, considering its goal) enough
for Joe Average Windows Luser.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emmanuel Dreyfus)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD/Linux (No advocacy)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:34:26 +0200
Markus Kurek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMO the NetBSD man pages are very convenient. They are almost up to date,
> and you can find needed informations very quickly.
I know it's not a good thing to post just to say "me too", but I really
agree.
With NetBSD, I learned UNIX administration without any other
documentation than the man pages and a few posts here. No book, no UNIX
guru friend.
--
Emmanuel Dreyfus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 21:32:48 GMT
Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> But vi is actually a good example of the trade off I mentioned.
>> Vi is not intuitive and is not meant to be. However it is a very
>> powerful editor; an experienced vi user will achieve much more in
>> a shorter time than someone fiddling around with the "intuitive"
>> arrow keys.
>
>Word, WordPerfect, Claris Write, Ami Pro etc are all examples of
>software that's more productive in editing text files than vi.
Since these are all word processors they are all totally unproductive
in editing _text_ files. Besides which it is not the software that
is productive (or not); it is the person using it.
> vi
>requires different keystrokes to delete a character depending on
>whethether the character was inserted in the current operation or a
>previous one. Why? Because it's poorly designed.
No. Because its a modal editor. The rationale for using a modal
editor is that finding the place where the text has to be changed
and moving the cursor to that position takes more effort than
actually changing the text. Thus is makes sense to optimize that
part of the process by using the most easily accessible keys;
i.e. alphanumerics.
>
>When I went from using WordStar, with its Ctrl-K commands, to an
>early version of Word on the Macintosh, selecting text etc using
>click and drag did seem to void all the time and effort I spent
>learning WordStar control sequences. However, it also made editing
>easier and more productive.
If continually moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse
and back does not slow you down you must be a terribly slow
typist.
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James S. White)
Subject: Need help disabling screen blanker
Date: 30 Mar 1999 16:07:51 GMT
How does one go about disabling RedHat's blanking of the screen?
TIA.
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The complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver Cook)
Subject: Re: Remote root login
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:07:01 GMT
On 30 Mar 1999 20:30:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>I'm using Caldera OpenLinux 1.2, and have upgraded the kernel to
>2.0.36. My problem is that I can't login as root from anything but the
>localmachine. How can I change this?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Ollie
>
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i've managed to find the answer to this. In case anyone was having
similar problems the solution is to edit /etc/securetty
edit it to include terminals that root is likely to log in from
Ollie
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