Linux-Misc Digest #427, Volume #18 Fri, 1 Jan 99 07:13:22 EST
Contents:
Re: How to use Tape Backup ? ("mct1")
- Help is Linux Y2K Complient ?? - (Fuboco)
Dictionary for Linux? (Peter Lee)
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (Michael Powe)
Re: New HD -- Partitioning question (Michael Powe)
Re: Dictionary for Linux? (+G. Momarison) (Philippe Esperet)
Re: AOL as ISP? (LinuxCyrix)
Re: Use for a 386SX box.. (LinuxCyrix)
Re: LS-120 SuperDisk (LinuxCyrix)
Re: Cyrix (LinuxCyrix)
Re: Howto signal incoming mail (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Rebuild Kernel specifically for my CPU? (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Can't get mail ("K. Vosburgh")
Re: mount type iso9660 not known; One Answer that worked (LinuxCyrix)
Re: bash error message (James Youngman)
Re: help me choose license (James Youngman)
Re: grep to a tab (James Youngman)
Re: system lockup (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: Which book for newbie? (LinuxCyrix)
Q1:Posts Q2:Infection? (jose)
Re: Some X Windows apps not running (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
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From: "mct1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: How to use Tape Backup ?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 07:24:39 GMT
The howto on 'ftape' should help,
Look for it here:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Ftape-HOWTO
Good luck, Doug!
Pat Donahue
Doug Bryant wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello all
>
>I have become the proud administrator of a new linux server at work.
>(the owner did not care what I used as long as it worked. COOL ) I
>got everyones accounts in the small workgroup up and running with samba
>without a hitch.
>
>I have been using Linux for a year or so but have never had to use or
>had available a tape backup unit and I am not real sure how to use this
>thing. I played around with bru2000 but the non graphical version says
>license expired. (The version included with 5.2)
>
>I did not care to use the graphical version as I want to run the backups
>at night as a cron job.
>
>I found the program mt and can access the tape drive and rewind it,
>erase it. I do not really understand the purpose of moving around the
>blocks (to the beginning of the first and end of the previous, etc.
>Well I understand what it does but when and why does to do it)
>
>I also found the dump program.. I played with this and backed up the
>home directory as a test ( not very big yet ) the program kept asking
>me if the next share was ready.
>
>Anyway, is dump the best way to do this? Any suggestions? Better yet,
>If anyone has any scripts that I could use that would be very nice.
>
>Oh yea, the tape is a SCSI HP that uses 4Gb dat tapes. I do not
>remember the exact model. (at home now) The backup will only run on
>the local machine, atleast for now.
>
>Thanks for all the help.
>
>Doug Bryant
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fuboco)
Subject: - Help is Linux Y2K Complient ?? -
Date: 31 Dec 1998 21:40:56 GMT
Hello
I'm new to the Linux world, I just want to know is Linux and it's variants
going to function Ok in the year 2000??
Thanks
Dan.
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From: Peter Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dictionary for Linux?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 07:55:32 +0000
Hi,
Is there a good non-commercial or cheap English Dictionary software for
Linux? Thanks!
Pete
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Date: 01 Jan 1999 00:10:49 -0800
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>>>>> "howard" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
howard> (edit)
>> Don't email to people who munge addresses. (edit)
howard> I endorse this sentiment. I frequently reply to questions
howard> by E-mail only to subsequently receive an " undeliverable
howard> " message, even though I try to decipher a "proper" E-mail
howard> address.
Indeed. I'm inclined to think there's something sheep-like in the way
people have attached themselves to the `munge addresses' movement.
howard> -- Howard Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
howard> http://www.xmission.com/~howardm (a LINUX website for
howard> newbies)
But Howard, I note that <your> From: line is incorrect! ;-) Time to
fix that one, too.
mp
8<---------------how-easy-is-it-to-demunge-an-address?------------------->8
#! /usr/bin/perl # if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Another Luser):
while ($line = <>){ if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/ ){ last; }
if ($line =~ m/^From: (\S+) \(([^()]*)\)/){ $from_address = $1; } }
if ($from_address =~ m/\S+NOSPAM\S+/){ $x = index($from_address, NOSPAM);
substr($from_address, $x, 6+1) = ""; printf("The real address is %s\n",
$from_address);}else { printf("No munge, just plain %s\n",$from_address);}
printf("\nBrought to you by the Truth In Mail Headers Foundation\n");
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Michael Powe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
Portland, Oregon USA
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: New HD -- Partitioning question
Date: 01 Jan 1999 00:16:17 -0800
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>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Beware! I used Partition Magic 4.0 to both move and
Charles> resize the extended partition containing all my Linux
Charles> logical partitions on a hard drive with both Win 98 and
Charles> Linux. Both Win 98 and Linux continued to boot and
Charles> operate satisfactorally after this operation, however
Charles> when I attempted to upgrade to a later version of Linux I
Charles> found that fdisk would not recognize the extended
Charles> partition.
Not necessarily surprising, however. It's generally true that you
should handle partitions with the same program. I believe I have read
that using PM on your disk generally makes it necessary that you
continue to use it for subsequent operations. You cannot use MS fdisk
to remove linux partitions, either. Or at least, that has been my
experience.
mp
8<---------------how-easy-is-it-to-demunge-an-address?------------------->8
#! /usr/bin/perl # if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Another Luser):
while ($line = <>){ if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/ ){ last; }
if ($line =~ m/^From: (\S+) \(([^()]*)\)/){ $from_address = $1; } }
if ($from_address =~ m/\S+NOSPAM\S+/){ $x = index($from_address, NOSPAM);
substr($from_address, $x, 6+1) = ""; printf("The real address is %s\n",
$from_address);}else { printf("No munge, just plain %s\n",$from_address);}
printf("\nBrought to you by the Truth In Mail Headers Foundation\n");
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Michael Powe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
Portland, Oregon USA
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From: Philippe Esperet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dictionary for Linux? (+G. Momarison)
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 10:25:38 +0000
Peter Lee wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a good non-commercial or cheap English Dictionary software for
> Linux? Thanks!
>
> Pete
linux18.tex Fri 01 January 1999 10:10:42
Peter Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I post the same mail last week, and get and excellent answer from Gary
Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, whom I could not personaly thank (fake
email address).
So, first thank to Gary Momarison, and second I copy his answer.
Please note that I was unable to purchase the American heritage dic.,
dux.com, 50 US\$) : they *never* answered my purchase mail. Please
note also that dict.org had given eventually a free good enough
solution to my dic. problems.
Please remove all the ``a'' in may email address, and change the final
rf with fr (vive la France...).
[Gary Momarison]
% What luck. A few hours ago, I stumbled across what you're asking for.
% It's called WordNet. Search for it in the jargon page of Gary's
Encyclopedia
% where you might find some others. I'm fairly sure there ARE more.
% I have vague recall of something at Sunsite. Try one of the archive
% searchers listed in the second link below.
%
% http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/jargon.html
% http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/software.html
Best regards
--
Philippe Esperet (France)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxCyrix)
Subject: Re: AOL as ISP?
Date: 1 Jan 1999 09:36:10 GMT
Ok.. Is me with the WINE comment. Yes, I was using AOL4. Why I would want to is
because I can't really be bothered to change ISPs until I can get connected
using Linux. I will need Win until that happens. If AOL3 works, great.. I may
reinstall that and see what happens... : )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxCyrix)
Subject: Re: Use for a 386SX box..
Date: 1 Jan 1999 09:45:14 GMT
I just got the same thing for free.. but with only 4m. Anybody know how
difficult it really is for a relative newbie to install on a machine like
that????? Especially when you haven't got CMOS access .... lol
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxCyrix)
Subject: Re: LS-120 SuperDisk
Date: 1 Jan 1999 09:47:28 GMT
I have RedHat 5.1 and it worked swell outta the box. as for the 200mb... well,
I haven't even heard of those until tonight... so I really doubt that they're
supported yet.. <sic>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxCyrix)
Subject: Re: Cyrix
Date: 1 Jan 1999 09:38:34 GMT
I have the exact same chip in my machine. However, I also use a stable kernel.
I got $10 bucks that sez that's yer problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Howto signal incoming mail
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:27:20 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:37:23 +0100...
..and Mould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> Now that I finally got my little Linux-Dialup-Mail-Server up and running,
> I'm trying do some modifications:
>
> My server automatically connects to the provider twice a day for sending and
> receiving mail. I'm using fetchmail and sendmail entries in /etc/crontab for
> that. Works fine.
>
> But now I want my server to beep regulary (say every hour or so) when new
> mail has been received. Surely an entry in crontab, that executes every
> hour, would do the trick, but how do I find out whether new mail went in?
>
> There are several users configured on the server and it should beep if any
> of them has new mail and as long as the mail has not been read.
>
> The fetchmail manpage says, that exit codes indicate new incoming mail - so
> beeping right after the poll is easy. But obviously this does not solve the
> problem.
>
> Can anybody help me to get on the way? Thanks in advance!
Why don't you use biff?
mawa
--
Matthias Warkus | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dyson Spheres for sale!
My Geek Code is no longer in my .signature. It's available on e-mail request.
It's sad to live in a world where knowing how to program your VCR actually
lowers your social status...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Subject: Re: Rebuild Kernel specifically for my CPU?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:28:11 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Thu, 31 Dec 1998 09:45:45 -0500...
..and Bill Gates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am considering rebuilding my kernel as a Pentium (it is currently built
> for 386). I have an AMD K6 (not -2) and was wondering if it is safe to do
> so (the recommendation on the red-hat guide is to only build as Pent. if you
> have Pent).
I think K6 should build either with Pentium or even with Pentium Pro. Give
it a try, do both, boot both, look what happens.
mawa
--
Matthias Warkus | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dyson Spheres for sale!
My Geek Code is no longer in my .signature. It's available on e-mail request.
It's sad to live in a world where knowing how to program your VCR actually
lowers your social status...
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From: "K. Vosburgh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get mail
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 01:21:22 -0800
Are you using Netscape? For earthlink, both incoming and outgoing
mailservers should be set to mail.earthlink.net also set for a pop3
server. That works for me.
Kevin
Tanner McCarron wrote:
> I have Red Hat 5.0. I recently figured out how to connect to internet.
> Now I can send mail, browse the web, ftp , usenet, etc., but I have yet
> to recieve any mail. I've been through many configuration files and
> tried all the mail programs I can find. Anyone have a hint?
>
> Tanner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxCyrix)
Subject: Re: mount type iso9660 not known; One Answer that worked
Date: 1 Jan 1999 09:41:58 GMT
That is odd. I actually bought RedHat 5.1 and it reads ISO9660 Joliet just
fine. It also puts the finished kernel (after make zImage) in
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage. Believe me, I had to hunt for the damn
thing, too, but I found it.
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bash error message
Date: 31 Dec 1998 11:54:14 +0000
Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> if [ 1 = `expr 2 \> $#` ]
Bletch. It is more straightforward to do this:-
if [ $# -le 2 ]
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help me choose license
Date: 31 Dec 1998 12:04:00 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams) writes:
> I've been participating in a couple of threads about the GPL and Open
> Source and have discovered some things. The most important thing I've
> discovered is that I need some help in deciding how to license the
> software "product" that I'm currently developing.
>
> What the "product" is and why I'm writing it: It's a cross-system
> library that specifically targets MS-Windows and Linux. It is
> intended to provide a platform upon which applications can be written
> that need only be recompiled to run on any supported platform. It is
[big snip]
> What I want to achieve with whatever license I choose. I will
> probably want to use this library in purely commercial applications
> later on. I want to prevent forking until the library is mature. I
[big snip]
> I guess the bottom line is that (a) this library is not the summit of
> my life's work, it's just a step in the right direction, so it doesn't
> have to make me filthy rich, (b) I don't want to shoot myself in the
> foot, financially or otherwise, by making it too "open" too soon, and
> (c) more "open-ness" will probably gain more support for it sooner and
> might even gain some help in certain areas.
[snip]
Consider the GPL. No, don't press delete yet! You, as the copyright
holder, will be able to use your own creation in proprietary products
without a problem, but others will not, because of the GPL license.
However, the GPL will (I assume) provide the degree of "openness" that
you indicate that you would like.
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ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: grep to a tab
Date: 31 Dec 1998 12:06:42 +0000
Dave Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have not had any luck getting grep to search only the first column of
> a tab delimited database. I have tried grep ^.*\t to no avail - it
> doesn't seem to recognize the \t - am I doing something wrong?
>
> Or is there a better way to search just the first column of this
> database?
Pipe the input data through "cut -f1".
man cut
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ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: system lockup
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:44:05 -0600
Eduardo Perez wrote:
> > Whats up? Was there anything else I could have done from the remote box?
<snip>
> I think it is very significant that someome posts a message whenever
> Linux locks his computer up. I wouldn't dare do that with MS.
That happens so often it wouldn't be news.
I got the Jan 19 Issue of PC Magazine yesterday. Jim Seymore wrote, in
his column, that Win95 corrupted so often, "and Win98 is a lot worse",
that he keeps the Win CD in the drive ALL THE TIME so that it will be
handy when a system file goes south or some other problem appears. Now,
THAT'S a message I wouldn't dare to post in such a mag.
BTW, have you noticed how much smaller PC Mag is been the last few
issues, and how much more it is looking like that old puff & ad mag, PC
Windows?
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxCyrix)
Subject: Re: Which book for newbie?
Date: 1 Jan 1999 10:01:32 GMT
I *think* after your (more extensive than normal) discourse I just might go get
this one for myself.. : )
Linux Application Development, Erik W. Troan & Michael K Johnson,
Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN: 0-201-30821-5
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From: jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q1:Posts Q2:Infection?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 20:51:06 +0900
Hello all,
I would appreciate any help/info for the following:
Question #1 Can anyone see my post?
My provider here in Japan seems to be a little inconsistent. The most
recent posts on the news server starts from 12/22/98 and end on
12/28/98.
Before that, the posts are before 10/23/97. So, I am curious if this
actually
makes it to the newsgroup.
Question #2 Virus infection?
When running Linux for days (running experiments with neural
networks...)
a background process with "find" begins around 4:45 am. Does anyone
else
get something like this? I have installed LOTS of stuff, including
software
for Hangul (Korean) and Japanese writing. I found this place
(www.avpve.com)
for virus info but they don't mention anything similar to what I am
having.
And yes, I do usually run everything as root (I know I shouldn't, but I
have
never read of anyone getting infected under Linux). I will definately
practice
safe computing after this!
I actually have a few more questions, but I think I will wait and see
if this
actually gets posted before I write more.
Thank you in advance!
Happy New Year!
(In case anyone was wondering, this year is the year of the rabbit)
Jose
ps If anyone decides to send email instead of replying by post,
don't forget to delete the NOSPAM in my address.
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Some X Windows apps not running
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 05:49:39 -0600
> Donald Hurst wrote:
>
> Some of the apps in X Windows won't run. For example: Midnight
> Commander. When I select the menu option, I get the zzZZZ for a few
> seconds then back to the arrow. It never comes up. This happens with
> other apps too (WordPerfect for example).
>
> I have 64 Meg of RAM with a 125 Meg Swap Partition. My video card is a
> S3 Virge with 4 Meg. CPU is a Pentium 233MMX. 4.2 Gig Hard Drive.
> Yes, I am new to Linux. I'm running Redhat Linux 5.2.
I've run 5.2 and Midnight Commander (mc) comes up ok. It appears that
those apps are not in your path statement. use "echo $PATH" and see
what dirs are in your path. If need be, edit .profile and add the
appropriate dirs to your path and then "source .profile"
Jerry
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