Linux-Misc Digest #774, Volume #19 Wed, 7 Apr 99 15:13:17 EDT
Contents:
Re: Shebang on redhat (Matthew Bafford)
Re: smake to GNU make transition (Frank Sweetser)
Re: netscape is ugly (Bob Hauck)
Re: Xfree86 4 Release?? (Scott Murray)
Passwd locking ? (Chris Severn)
Re: ez-drive win98 and Linux (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
free computer15 (webmaster)
filter for printer HP 870cxi ? (Yoram Benchetrit)
Re: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter (Bob Schreibmaier)
Re: filter for printer HP 870cxi ? (Yoram Benchetrit)
Re: BUS error - Netscape (Brad Clawsie)
Re: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where did www.freeciv.org go? ("Tom Emerson")
Re: RCS problem over NFS (Bernd Strieder)
Re: about GNOME (D. J. Birchall)
ftp and telnet on redhat 5.2 (Bill Simpson)
Re: stupid newbie question about mount ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ftp and telnet on redhat 5.2 (Marv Nachatelo)
Re: [wm-user] WordPerfect: WP8 new window creation? ("Karsten M. Self")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: Shebang on redhat
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 13:05:37 GMT
Tue, 6 Apr 1999 21:42:44 -0500 -- AJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
-> Is there any one who might have an idea why "#!" (shebang) will not work on
-> my Redhat 5.2? it is a pretty recent install, and I just noticed this when
-> trying to fool
-> around with some Perl (#!/usr/bin/perl). (This is not a path problem.) It
-> will not work on shell calls either, #!.bin/sh, /bin/bash., etc .
Define 'will not work'.
I'm going to make a guess here, either:
a) You don't have the #! as the very first two bytes.
(It is very important that there is nothing before
it)
or
b) You aren't calling the program correctly. Remember,
in Redhat (and most good distributions), the current
directory is not in your path. This means you have
to call the file like ./myfile.
or
c) Your script isn't marked as executable. chmod 755
the script and give it a try again.
-> Thanks
Hope This Helps!
-> A Jonsson
--Matthew
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.misc,gnu.utils.help
Subject: Re: smake to GNU make transition
Date: 07 Apr 1999 13:45:56 -0400
Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As we want our software developed on the SGI to be easier to build on
> other systems, notably Linux, we are planning to ditch smake and start
> using GNUmake instead (as I suppose smake exists for Irix only.) Can
> anyone give me general rules, hints or any kind of information at all
> about the process of rewriting Makefiles that use smake specific
> features like conditionals, special targets/sources and variable
> expansion modifiers?
you also probably want to check out the autoconf package - it can be a
godsend for setting up packages to compile on multiple platforms. find it
on ftp.gnu.org
--
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paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
"Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-night
hacking (and/or conversations with God)."
(By Matt Welsh)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: netscape is ugly
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 17:53:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Princess Confusion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually I'm nearly positive I was running 24 bit color,
Netscape doesn't seem to like 24-bit with many X servers. Try
32-bit instead.
> so then i shut down X and restarted this time with 24
> bit color again and netscape still looks fine?!
Weird.
--
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From: Scott Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Xfree86 4 Release??
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:00:50 GMT
Ed Gatzke wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to when a version of the new XFree86 may
> become available?
As far as I know (Slashdot, GGI mailing list, various other net sources),
the XFree86 team have not committed to a firm date, but are hinting at a
late summer/early fall timeframe.
> I want a multi-head display and don't want to go buy new hardware and
> new Xserver software. Any suggestions?
What hardware do you have now? It is already possible to run multi-head
with certain cards under the currently existing XFree86. You will not have
a unified desktop across the two screens (I've not heard if 4.0 will even
have that), but you will have traditional multi-head support. I believe
that the Matrox Millenium I and II series cards had good support for this,
and they are now quite reasonable in price.
Another alternative if you're up to installing bleeding edge software would
be to try out the soon to be released new GGI beta with something like
XF86_FBDev or X-GGI.
Good luck,
Scott
--
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Tel: (416) 594-1026 Toronto, Ontario
Fax: (416) 594-1919 Canada M5A 1K3
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From: Chris Severn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Passwd locking ?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 21:19:14 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got this problem with the passwd file.
Whenever I try to add a new user to the system, I get an error, saying
that the passwd file is locked, and that I should try again later. I do
try again later, but it always gives me the same error.
So, whenever I need to add a new user, I first manually delete the
.pwd.lock file in the /etc directory. Then it works.
So, it seems that the "adduser" program locks the passwd file, but
doesn't unlock it.
Does anyone know why ?
I've inherited looking after a Redhat5.1 machine, with the stock
standard kernels and utils that come with it. I'm running squid, and
using the machine as a mail server (POP and SMTP) for about 20 PCs on a
local ethernet. The "standard" daemons are running. The only
difference is that it appears to be running an ftp proxy on port 21, and
standard ftp services on port 36.
Thanks.
Chris Severn.
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ez-drive win98 and Linux
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 16:34:20 -0500
Peter Hoare wrote:
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction please
> I have just brought a 10.1 gig hard drive but because of bios
> limitations I have to use ez-bios to see the whole disk.
> Is there a way I can install win98 and suse linux 6.0 ?
> Thanking you in advance
> ~Peter Hoare
Linux is compatible with the later versions of ez-bios. My version of
ez-bios is 9.09W and it is compatible. It came with the 6.4GB WD Caviar
that I have running on this machine right now. I've never run Win98 but
I know it will work with Win95.
--
JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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Crossposted-To:
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From: yoramb@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Yoram Benchetrit)
Subject: filter for printer HP 870cxi ?
Date: 7 Apr 1999 13:28:00 GMT
Hi,
Is there any HP 870cxi printer user, that could send-me
his /etc/printcap and filter (file pointed to by 'if' in /etc/printcap).
I am using this printer and have ghoscript installed with cdj850 driver,
but it prints very slow. Since the driver cdj850 is for the correct one
for this printer, I think that the problem might be due to a bad filter used.
Could any HP 870cxi user send me please its filter ??
Thanks in advance for your help,
Yoram
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Schreibmaier)
Subject: Re: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:05:00 GMT
In article <7efnl3$fro$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gregoire Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb in Nachricht ...
>>Gregoire Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> For this i need a program that convert it to gif or png file
>>
>>xv and probably any other popular image viewer can do this.
>
>I need a programm that convert the file on the commandline,
>like
>
>bmptogif -inputfile -outputfile
If you can get the old jpeg6 routines, you can do this in two steps.
I say the "old" jpeg6 routines because the latest versions don't
seem to support GIF any longer.
You should be able to go to ftp.cdrom.com and look under /pub/linux
for the Slackware 3.4 distribution. Somewhere under there should
be a jpeg.tgz tarball.
Once you have that, you can use the cjpeg program to convert the
BMP file to JPG:
cjpeg file.bmp > file.jpg
You can then use djpeg to convert the JPG file to GIF:
djpeg -gif file.jpg > file.gif
Hope this helps.
Bob
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From: yoramb@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Yoram Benchetrit)
Subject: Re: filter for printer HP 870cxi ?
Date: 7 Apr 1999 13:34:51 GMT
Oops, I have forgot to put my email in case you could send me
the filter by email
this is : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thx.
Yoram Benchetrit (yoramb@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any HP 870cxi printer user, that could send-me
> his /etc/printcap and filter (file pointed to by 'if' in /etc/printcap).
>
> I am using this printer and have ghoscript installed with cdj850 driver,
> but it prints very slow. Since the driver cdj850 is for the correct one
> for this printer, I think that the problem might be due to a bad filter
> used.
>
> Could any HP 870cxi user send me please its filter ??
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Yoram
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From: Brad Clawsie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BUS error - Netscape
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 13:27:12 GMT
> I suspect that you have timing problems between RAM and the CPU. You wouldn't
> be overclocking a little, would you?
I disagree. Numerous Netscape versions have crashed repeatedly on my linux
box, which is a standard configuration with no questionable settings and
plenty of available hardware resources. I have heard the same complaints from
a number of people.
Netscape's v. 4x browsers are generally less stable than v. 3x, on every
platform, from my experience.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need Bmptogif or Bmptopng Converter
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:32:46 GMT
Gregoire Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For this i need a program that convert it to gif or png file
xv and probably any other popular image viewer can do this.
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From: "Tom Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where did www.freeciv.org go?
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:35:03 -0700
The guy who runs ultraviolet also hosts the freeciv page(s); he screwed
something up in his configuration about a month ago, so some days it works,
other days you get the ultraviolet page.
Andy Piper wrote in message <7ef4a0$eie$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>It seems to have moved to http://freeciv.ultraviolet.org for some reason...
>
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From: Bernd Strieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: RCS problem over NFS
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:48:02 +0200
Hello,
Paul Colvert wrote:
> I have my RCS archives on the first box. When I try to reserve (check
> out) a revision from a machine that has the RCS partition as an NFS
> mount, I successfully get a local copy of the file, but the RCS file on=
> the NFS partition has been wiped (a file of the correct name is there,
> but it has zero length!) If I try to reserve the file from the machine
> on which the RCS partition resides, everything works perfectly!
I=B4m no NFS expert, but there are some differences between NFS and a tru=
e
`filesystem' like ext2. RCS does some things with the access rights and
so on, perhaps it tries locking to ensure safe operations. I=B4m not sure=
=2E
"man -s 5 nfs" might give ideas what is possible to change in NFS
configuration. The option "noac" or "nocto" seem to have an influence to
your problem.
> =
> Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions as to why this is
> happening and how I can fix this? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
Perhaps you could replace RCS with CVS. CVS has a central repository and
remote access features to it included and I think that the philosophy of
allowing concurrent access and resolving conflicts only after they
really have occurred is superior to RCS=B4 strict synchronizing.
Bernd.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. J. Birchall)
Subject: Re: about GNOME
Date: 7 Apr 1999 13:55:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:42:14 -0600, hj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is GNOME useful?
Yes, for some things. It has some nifty applications, and the
use of shared libraries for functionality results in smaller
application binaries.
>Is it neccessary if I'm using windowmaker as my window manager?
No. GNOME is a desktop environment (like KDE or CDE); you can
usually use different window managers and desktop environments
together.
>I know many ppl use it in Enlightment.
Yes, but you don't have to (nor do you have to use Enlightenment
to use GNOME... although you may have to have it installed, at
least.
>Does it really help when it's installed in WindowMaker?
It does provide some functionality that you may or may not find
helpful. Highly subjective. ;)
-Dan (running Blackbox with some GNOME)
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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:52:43 -0500
From: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftp and telnet on redhat 5.2
I am used to slackware system, but have just set up redhat 5.2. With this
machine I can't ftp in or out.
ftp to the machine from outside:
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp from the machine to get filename from outside:
connection gets established, but when try to get filename,
local: filename: permission denied
I take it RedHat is more secure than slackware. Please tell me what needs
to be changed so I can ftp files between the machines (all in same
domain).
Thanks very much for any help.
Bill Simpson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: stupid newbie question about mount
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 13:42:46 GMT
Josh Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You could
> always grep /etc/mtab to check if it's mounted before the backup, etc.
This is good advice, or else all the backed up data will intrude on the
disk space of the root filesystem.
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From: Marv Nachatelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ftp and telnet on redhat 5.2
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 14:37:17 -0400
Bill,
Check the /etc/inetd.conf file and make sure ftp is correct.
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd -l -a
Marv
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bill Simpson wrote:
> I am used to slackware system, but have just set up redhat 5.2. With this
> machine I can't ftp in or out.
>
> ftp to the machine from outside:
> 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
>
> ftp from the machine to get filename from outside:
> connection gets established, but when try to get filename,
> local: filename: permission denied
>
> I take it RedHat is more secure than slackware. Please tell me what needs
> to be changed so I can ftp files between the machines (all in same
> domain).
>
> Thanks very much for any help.
>
> Bill Simpson
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:55:17 +0000
From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: corelsupport.wordperfect-linux
Subject: Re: [wm-user] WordPerfect: WP8 new window creation?
Crossposted to corelsupport.wordperfect-linux, comp.os.linux.misc
Tom Rini wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> > [karsten@localhost wpbin]$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
> > /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib
> > /usr/lib
> > /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
> > /usr/X11R6/lib
> > /opt/kde/lib
> > /usr/local/RealNetworks/rvplayer5.0
>
> Try:
>
> /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib
> /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
> /usr/lib
> /usr/local/lib
> /lib
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> /opt/kde/lib
> /usr/local/RealNetworks/rvplayer5.0
Tried it, this doesn't work.
I recall discussions on Usenet or mailing lists about lib dependencies
not being resolved. It's a somewhat obscure bug. IIRC it's RH 5.x or
RH 5.2 related.
So it remains:
- My library search path includes the libs WP fails to link
- ldd says they aren't found
- The RPM providing the libs is installed (is it current?)
- The RPM providing the libs validates
Ideas?
Info:
$ cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/lib
/usr/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/i486-linuxaout/lib
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/opt/kde/lib
/usr/local/RealNetworks/rvplayer5.0
[karsten@ali-ca6-11 karsten]$ ldd /opt/wp/wpbin/xwp
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40008000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4004b000)
libXpm.so.4 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x400e4000)
libm.so.5 => not found
libc.so.5 => not found
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400f1000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400f9000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4010d000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.1 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00000000)
[karsten@ali-ca6-11 karsten]$ rpm -q --whatprovides libc.so.5
libc-5.3.12-27
[karsten@ali-ca6-11 karsten]$ rpm -q --whatprovides libm.so.5
libc-5.3.12-27
[karsten@ali-ca6-11 karsten]$ rpm --verify -vv libc
D: opening database in //var/lib/rpm/
D: verifying record number 2998744
D: dependencies: looking for /sbin/ldconfig
D: dependencies: looking for grep
D: dependencies: looking for fileutils
D: dependencies: looking for /lib/ld-linux.so.1
D: dependencies: looking for /bin/sh
...I'm stumped.
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