Linux-Misc Digest #761, Volume #19 Tue, 6 Apr 99 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
How do I install/use Ghostscript to print on my unsupported printer? (Roy Malcomess)
LN03 module for Ghostscript ? (**Nick Brown)
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Rick Ansell)
Re: IRQ's (Johan Kullstam)
Re: menuconfig is not working (Another linux newbie)
Re: Sound in Linux? ("Walter L. Williams")
pam.d rsh hosts.equiv promiscuous option? (Martin Tullier)
Re: How do you hang up pppd? (mist)
Re: OT tidbits (was:Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) - origin of dollar sign)
(Matthias Buelow)
Unresolved modules (symbols) ("Walter L. Williams")
Configure scripts unable to ID RedHat 5.2? (AHM)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs? (Leslie Mikesell)
Configure scripts unable to ID RedHat 5.2? (AHM)
Re: Sighold and sigrelse? (James Bottomley)
What files to backup - and what not in RedHat 5.2 (Juhani Jaakola)
Re: cpio -H crc (Juergen Heinzl)
SuSE Subscription vs. SuSE 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Groupware on Linux ... ? (Gary Momarison)
Re: New Microsoft News (Mykool)
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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 18:37:28 +1000
From: Roy Malcomess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I install/use Ghostscript to print on my unsupported printer?
In the quest to find a printer driver for my Canon BJC-7000 printer, I
found a reference to a Ghostscript device (Canon BJC-800) which
supposedly supports my printer.
I am completely in the dark about how to implement such support. Can
someone please direct me to a reference which tells me what I have to do
to install this Ghostscript support for my printer.
Presumably, I have to install Ghostscript, but then what?
How does Ghostscript get used for printing?
Where do I find Ghostscript?
How do I install a printer so that Linux knows about it and uses
Ghostscript as required?
Any assistance appreciated! Sorry for the stupid questions, but I am
desparate to get some kind of interface to my printer working.
--
Roy Malcomess Phone/Fax: +61-2-6226 8046
Canberra, Australia Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LN03 module for Ghostscript ?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:46:45 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm told that Ghostscript supports an LN03 output format, but I can't
find ln03 in the output of "gs -?", for example. Is there somewhere I
can get an LN03 module for gs ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Ansell)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 01:09:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 02 Apr 1999 20:36:21 -0500, wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Enkidu wrote:
>
>> wizard wrote:
>> >
>> > On top of adding value the strengthen the Linux code base by
>> > setting things like RPM free.
>> >
>> RPM is a good package manger, but it is *not* essential. I've been
>> running Linux for years without it.
>
>Never said it was essential just stated that it was developed by
>RedHat. RPM is not perfect but very little of UNIX or LINUX is. The
>fact is that when used properly by developers, RPM is a very helpful in
>supporting an installation.
>> >
>> > The other key item that everyone overlooks is the large amount
>> > of effort the people at RedHat, Suse and others put into driver
>> > development. If that does add value I don't know what does.
>> >
>> This is a fiction. Redhat do *not* develop drivers.
>>
>
>What makes you think this. If RedHat isn't developing drivers then
>why did they hire the guy that wrote the aic7xxx drivers? RedHat and
>Suse have had a hand in developing X-servers for different cards. And
>then there is gnome which RedHat is involved in, this may not be a
>driver but it is key to Linuxes future as it is a whole lot better than
>KDE.
Two words: Alan Cox
http://www.linux.org.uk/diary
<snip>
Another two words:
Learning Curve
I'm new to Linux. I'm new to Unix. I _try_ not to be a luser.
The .rpm approach has got me up and working with various
packages pretty fast. I would probably have given up without it.
As it is I have a working system which gets booted to Win about
once a week, if that.
No I don't know all the details, but I'm learning on a running
system. In other words rpm has flattened the learning curve for
me.
I still use Agent under Wine for news, but I'm working on
understanding INN. I now use Lyx for document production. I use
Navigator for the web...
I could never have got so far so fast without a system like rpm.
It may help attract the 'dumber than an average ameoba' crowd,
but hey, what a little colateral damage between friends? :-)
Nothing in this world is 100% good or bad. Thats where the
'rabid dogs' amoungst the advocates go wrong. Even the 'anything
but MSoft, but give me a MSoft clone' lusers aren't 100% bad,
at least they are showing half a clue in rejecting MSoft.
Verdict on rpm: Good tool, but can be misused/misadvertised.
Rick
--
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ's
Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:30:08 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder) writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown) writes:
> >I have a video card that apparently claims irq 10 (according to the
> >ROM boot messages reporting PCI bus). But it doesn't show up in
> >/proc/interrupts either.
>
> No surprise. The Linux video drivers don't use the IRQ at all.
> There's no need for it.
hmm. i have video cards which also claim an irq. since linux doesn't
use the irq, is there any way to get them to stop taking it?
btw what would the irq be used for anyhow? is not using it an
oversight and a potential for performance gains, or is it provided for
the benefit of less capable operating systems such as ms-dos?
--
johan kullstam
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From: Another linux newbie
Subject: Re: menuconfig is not working
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:16:40 GMT
Erwin Odendaal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to configure my Kernel for linuxppc on a Mac G3, but "make
> menuconfig", "make xconfig" and "make config" are all not working...
> What can be the problem and how can I solve this?
First of all, get kernel source which is generally a gzipped tar file,
gunzip it, untar it and you get a source tree, typically resides in /usr/src
then in /usr/src/linux(or if it doesn't exist, make such a symbolic link to
/usr/src/linux-version-number) make config/menuconfig, or if you are under
X, make xconfig. This works on my pentium II machine of red hat 5.1, your
milage may vary, but I guess the similar idea.
good luck!
> E.R. Odendaal.
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From: "Walter L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound in Linux?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 10:28:47 -0600
Michael O'Malley wrote:
> Forgive if this is not the place to ask this question. I have run
> Slackware and Red Hat for quite a while and actually never bothered to
> get sound working. I recently bought the $1.95 Linux Mandrake disk from
> Linux Central ... great deal BTW. It has KDE on the disk and was a
> breeze to install. Problem is, despite selecting sound in the setup, I
> am getting none. "ps" shows the sound process running but nothing is
> coming out (wav, mp3, nothing...) KDE is so cool (and I think really
> could open up the desktop for Linux) that I feel compelled to get sound
> going too in this install.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
This might be wrong. But, it is my understanding that the Open Sound system
does not need Kernel configuration. Also many plug and pray cards need
"ISAPNP"
working. Just a shot.
Walt in Utah
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From: Martin Tullier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: pam.d rsh hosts.equiv promiscuous option?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 12:20:11 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have looked through the docs and found that this should
work but doesn't.
# cat /etc/pam.d/rsh
#%PAM-1.0
#[For version 1.0 syntax, the above header is optional]
#
# The PAM configuration file for the `rsh' service
#
auth required /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so
promiscuous debug
auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
session required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
______________________
This should allow the /etc/hosts.equiv file and .rhosts file
to use "+" as a wild card for all hosts and/or all users.
# cat /etc/hosts.equiv
#
+ +
_______________________
# cat .rhosts
#
+ +
I have not found this to work with 2.0.33 (Caldera 1.2) and
pam 0.58
When I specify a particular host and user in the ~/.rhosts
file it will work
I would like to move about these hosts with greater ease.
any help out there?
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From: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do you hang up pppd?
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:47:34 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Matthew Bafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>Sun, 04 Apr 1999 20:48:29 +0000 -- Tonny Sejr Kromann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>-> You can make a script containing the command:
>->
>-> "kill `ps aux | grep pppd | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'` "
>
>:-)
>
>That's why they wrote killall.
>
>killall pppd
>
Since changing to kernel 2.2.5 and PPP 2.3.6 I've found killall pppd
isn't as good as it used to be. Some bits of PPP still carry on going.
8-(
--
Mist.
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: OT tidbits (was:Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) - origin of dollar sign)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Buelow)
Date: 06 Apr 1999 17:05:28 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Sira) writes:
>Worst of all for this thread in the Unix newsgroups, I know that I've heard
>some reasonable explanation of why Bourne used a dollar sign, and now I
>can't remember it. There was no companion good explanation for the percent
>sign in the C-shell, but then there's no good explanation for the C-shell.
>I strongly suspect they're both just used because they look neat.
Hmm, when I loaded up V6 in DEC's PDP/11 emulator, the shell presented
a "%" prompt; this was before either the Bourne or C-Shell had been
written.
--
Matthias K. Buelow * Boycott Microsoft, http://www.vcnet.com/bms *
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From: "Walter L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Unresolved modules (symbols)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 11:09:23 -0600
Good morning
In the process of trying to get my PPP working on my system, I
recompiled the kernel to have built in PPP support. I kept having an
error messages while uncompressing and booting to the new kernel. It
would say something to the effect that there was nothing more to load
and die right there and not load any further. I would therefore have to
boot the old kernel.
So what I did was before configuring and compiling a new kernel was I
did a " make mrproper " which is said to do a through cleaning job.
(this is the first time that I tried this command.) I now have a kernel
that will boot with PPP support but I now have a bunch ( A LOT ) of
unresolved modules (symbols) indicated during boot up.
How do I solve the unresolved the unresolved modules or symbols?
I am doing this on a 66mhz ,486 ,8mb ram, 1gb hd. I intend to use this
machine as an E-mail machine for the wife. (running pine)
Many greatful thanks in advance
Walt in Utah
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From: AHM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configure scripts unable to ID RedHat 5.2?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 19:36:32 +0200
I just the other day installed a RedHat 5.2 system from a magazine CD.
Wanting another WM than fvwm95, I decided to install WindowMaker to up
the snazz factor at least a bit. This is where my problem hit: The
configure scripts choked when faced with IDing the system: I got an
error message like
Configure: Unable to identify system - you must specify one
or pretty close - I can't rightly remember. Anyhow, I have never had
this prob before with earlier Debian or RedHat systems on the same
machine/configuration. Any suggestions / What am I missing here ?
Andr� Hellem Mortensen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: 6 Apr 1999 12:22:22 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christopher> I hold the shift key while I'm highlighting text and
> Christopher> when I'm pasting. I move text back and forth between
> Christopher> netscape and other apps. Doesn't seem to be a
> Christopher> problem. (slak3.4-2.0.35)
>
>Hmm, well I went back and experimented and found that if I do as you
>suggest, holding down the shift key and pressing down both mouse
>buttons, I can indeed paste into netscrape. It's not really handy,
>since a click won't do it -- I have to hold to buttons down a bit to
>make it work. That's probably why I missed it before.
You only have to shift for programs that want the mouse themselves for
some other purpose. Most programs let you select by dragging across
with the left button down and paste by clicking the middle mouse on
a visible portion of the window where you want it (you don't have to
bring the destination window to the front). It can't get much easier
than that (snarf & barf...). The only downside is that you can only
have one selection at once, so you can't make a second selection in
the destination window to be replaced by the paste buffer like you can
in MS-windows.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: AHM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configure scripts unable to ID RedHat 5.2?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 19:39:59 +0200
I just the other day installed a RedHat 5.2 system from a magazine CD.
Wanting another WM than fvwm95, I decided to install WindowMaker to up
the snazz factor at least a bit. This is where my problem hit: The
configure scripts choked when faced with IDing the system: I got an
error message like
Configure: Unable to identify system - you must specify one
or pretty close - I can't rightly remember. Anyhow, I have never had
this prob before with earlier Debian or RedHat systems on the same
machine/configuration. Any suggestions / What am I missing here ?
Andr� Hellem Mortensen
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Subject: Re: Sighold and sigrelse?
From: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 Apr 1999 11:47:07 -0500
Stephen Morgana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In Solaris there are two functions, sighold and sigrelse, to hold a given
> signal,
> and to allow a given signal to pass. These functions do not seem to be
> available under Linux. Are there equivalent functions available?
these are legacy functions. Linux supports their POSIX replacement:
sigprocmask().
sighold() adds an individual signal to a processes signal mask,
sigrelse() removes it again. sigprocmask does both of these functions
on any number of signals. For this reason, sigprocmask() isn't a drop
in replacement.
James Bottomley
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From: Juhani Jaakola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What files to backup - and what not in RedHat 5.2
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:46:56 GMT
Is there a FAQ or HOWTO on what files should I backup and what files
must not be included in a backup?
I'd like to hear real experiences from people who actually had to
*restore* a backup.
I'm using Red Hat 5.2
For example, you should *not* backup /proc. What about /dev? /tmp
shouldn't be backed up, but what about /var? At least /var/lib/rpm is
very important!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: cpio -H crc
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 17:54:22 GMT
In article <7ecr9l$mgt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am looking for the "safest" backups option with cpio. I understand the -H
>crc format stores the checksum for each file backed up, ok - so when does it
>come into play as far as helping the security of the data? Ie. If/When I
>later restore the tape data does it do a checksum comparison of the file on
>the disk after it is restored? Ie2. Does the "--only-verify-crc" actually do
>anything worthwhile for use as a tape verify?
My first advice, *do not* use -c ... it is broken if cpio is compiled
against the glibc and will result in a complete data loss in so far as
your backups are junk and no, this is not a joke. It really looks like
no-one cares anymore for cpio.
Aside from that, yes, use -H crc ... just because it works. It will not
gain you much safety since (more or less) modern tapes do a read after
write and the probability an error occurs in between is pretty low
I dare say. I'd none in all the years, even with 5 backups a week on
several different machines. It cannot hurt either though.
You should changes tapes though, say have at least one, better more
complete sets, a new tape a day, a new set a week and change them
round robin. Especially DAT tapes are cheap so 14 tapes do not cost
that much. For sure less than the wig you'll be in need of after "it
is all on this one" tape went south some day.
For --only-verify-crc, does just that and does not actually extract
the files. Say it is more useful if you want to verify a, say, old
tape.
Cheers,
Juergen
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\ Real name : J�rgen Heinzl \ no flames /
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SuSE Subscription vs. SuSE 6.0
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:49:19 GMT
I went to SuSE's site to order the CD... And they have two options.
They say that the subscription contains the latest release, but when I click
info about the subscription it tell me all about the features of 5.3
Does anyone know off by hand if the subscription contains 6.0?
Also.. if you have a sec.. what is the difference between ordering the
subscription or just plainly ordering the release. I've heard the
subscription is better.. but I want' told why, and if so I don't understand
why it is cheaper.
Any advice would be appretiated.
-Gut
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Groupware on Linux ... ?
Date: 06 Apr 1999 10:54:48 -0700
There's a small "groupware" section in
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/internet.html
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Mykool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: New Microsoft News
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 13:12:28 -0400
Are you comparing the cost of racketball to the price of getting the
knowledge to program? There is a big difference not only in monetary
cost, but also time put into the activity. There is this thing that is
called opportunity cost. It takes into account the amount of time that
you did something and compares it to what could have been done in the
same amount of time. Most people who take racketball classes and play
it, do it in their leisure time or excercise time. They don't have to
do it! They choose to do it for whatever reason they have. Maybe they
like it, maybe they do it so they can stay in shape, or maybe they do it
for the competition. How many people in the world do you think would
rather code than do something else?
And besides my arguement was that *most* people would not code for
free. And you can narrow that to most programmers. Let's get out of
the ideal world and into the real one. Think about how much money is
spent on R&D by some of the major software manufacturers. The majority
of the people would not do things for others out of the goodness of
their heart. And there is an even smaller number of people who would do
something for another while taking a loss for themselves. Money and
fame are two of the things that drive people to do things for others.
You're the one that needs to get a clue.
And actually racketball is fun.
brian moore wrote:
>
> Nonsense.
>
> The above paragraph is so full of faulty assumptions (my fave is
> "programming isn't fun becuase I hate it").
>
> Racketball isn't fun, why would people pay to learn it and pay to play
> it? It'll never work as a sport because I don't like it.
>
> Get a clue.
>
> --
> Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a
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