Linux-Misc Digest #936, Volume #18 Sun, 7 Feb 99 04:13:16 EST
Contents:
Re: ide tape with taper? (Matthew Hunter)
partition to partition copy? (steve mcadams)
Re: one thing really great about Linux.... (Frank Carney)
Re: Installing Blender (Peter Granroth)
Re: statistical analysis software? (Faheem Mitha)
Newbie - Differences between... (Al)
Re: Netscape Communicator 4.5 (128bit) problem (Michel Catudal)
Re: kernel 2.2.0 and too fast MIDI play (Michel Catudal)
Re: Linux Partition......HELP! (Phoenix)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CD stomper and CD cover ("Michael Faurot")
Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers ("Benedict")
Re: IDE ZIP DRIVE mounting? (Bill Rausch)
Re: statistical analysis software? ("Albert Ulmer")
GIMP problems opening images! (Shawn Simpson)
sshd refuse connection (Parabola)
Resizing of DOS-Partition ("Sebastian Henkel")
Re: Wich Linux shouls I install (Peter Schaffter)
Re: Linux Friendly ISP (Michel Catudal)
Re: tgz - uncompressing using ANY UNIX (Michel Catudal)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Hunter)
Subject: Re: ide tape with taper?
Date: 7 Feb 1999 06:01:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 06 Feb 1999 12:37:50 -0600, in comp.os.linux.misc,
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After poking through dejanews I decided that I should be
>able to use an HP-Colorado 5GB IDE tape drive with linux.
>Other people have reported it to work, anyway. Well, I have
>it installed now, and my kernel(2.0.34)/modules compiled for
>IDE tape support but it doesn't work. The drive is detected
>at boot time but I get a message that the drive is not
>supported:
>Has anybody managed to get this stuff to work? Is there a
>newer version of the IDEtape driver that supports this
>device? If so, where?
My tape drive (HP Colorado 8G) works fine under everything since
2.1.128 under SCSI emulation -- although taper had some other errors,
which other software wasn't bothered by. Using IDE-tape directly
also worked, but was plagued by some strange bugs (SMP-linked) the last
time I tried it.
The error you received (about the device not being supported) is what
you should see under 2.0.x kernels, so far as I know.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams)
Subject: partition to partition copy?
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 06:30:04 GMT
What's the best tool to use to copy a partition?
I have my Linux root partition set up as a 1G primary, and I have a 1G
extended partition on another drive that I want to use for a backup of
the root partition. Norton Ghost will copy the primary into the
extended, but doesn't want to copy the extended back to the primary.
Besides, I'd rather use a native tool. tia. -steve
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From: Frank Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: one thing really great about Linux....
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 23:27:45 -0700
I just had a thought. Maybe we should change the logo to a burning M$
logo. Then when you boot up maybe play the theme song glory. : )
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From: Peter Granroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Blender
Date: 01 Feb 1999 12:16:31 +0100
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install the graphic program Blender. I've managed to
> decompress the tar file and can read the README file.
>
> The README file says I need to set the environment by typing "setenv
> BLENDERDIR <blender directory> and that I need to insert that line into
> /etc/profile to make it automatically set.
>
> So. I edit /etc/profile and add the line
> setenv BLENDERDIR /dnload/blenderLinux_i386_libc6-dynamic_1.5.
>
> then save the file.
>
> When I login again, I get "setenv: bad command" How do I get this
> working? and, I do I launch the program in X?
>
> Thanks David
> BTW...The README said use that setenv if you use csh. use "export BLENDER~~"
> if you sh. I use bash. I don't know if it makes a difference.
yep, that's it. bash uses the 'export VARIBLE=whatever' syntax, so you
should change the line in /etc/profile to
export BLENDERDIR=/dnload/blenderLinux_i386_libc6-dynamic_1.5
(I would recommend to move the blender files to somewhere under
/usr/local, e.g /usr/local/blender and set the variable to point there
instead, since /usr/local is the 'standard' location for applications
intalled manually (at least that's the way debian recommends))
and to run blender, run it with /usr/local/blender/blender, or add the
blender dir to your PATH variable, or make a symlink to blender from a
directory already in your path (e.g /us/local/bin or /usr/bin)
HTH
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From: Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: statistical analysis software?
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 00:35:43 -0500
Reply-To: Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have just installed the S-Plus clone R in my system (Redhat 5.1). It is
not quite as much a finished product as S-Plus (I am told) but is
regularly used in Stat Depts and people who know tell me it is good.
If you use emacs you may also want to install the emacs-R/S lisp interface
ESS (standing for Emacs Speaks Statistics). This allows you to run R
through emacs and this can be nice. Here is some info about R
that I got off a stat newsgroup. Get back to me if you want to know more.
Or one of the stat newsgroups would be a good source.
Sincerely, Faheem Mitha
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Check out the R system at:
http://franz.stat.wisc.edu/pub/R/contents.html
and Macanova at:
http://www.maths.uq.edu/~gks
These and other free and commercial packages are listed at:
http://www.maths.uq.edu/~gks
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> Lee Green MD wrote:
> >
> > Are there any powerful general-purpose statistics packages for Linux? I'm
> > accustomed to running SAS and SPSS on my SPARC under Solaris, but I'd like
> > to be able to use my Linux machine for those tasks. I can't find any
> > stats packages mentioned in the usual sources on the web. Thanks -Lee
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From: Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie - Differences between...
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 23:32:54 +0000
Hi.
OK, so I installed SuSE.
I have a question...
With Linux (more specifically SuSE Linux) is there anything similar to
the AIX function 'export EDITOR=vi' where the command line will respond
to 'vi' commands looking at a .history file?
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.5 (128bit) problem
Date: 7 Feb 1999 01:15:05 -0600
I updated to the new 4.5 Netscape with libc6 (128 bits encription) and the
brit time is gone, it's back to displaying the time correctly like everything
else.
It seems much less buggy than 4.08 or 4.5 libc5
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.0 and too fast MIDI play
Date: 7 Feb 1999 01:15:02 -0600
Michel Catudal wrote:
>
> Chad Wolfsheimer wrote:
> >
> > Glenn PM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > : I made and installed kernel 2.2.0 including the second patch, last
> > : night. All seems to work well except for MIDI sounds. They are being
> > : played at about what seems to be, 50% faster than they should. I run
> > : them with timidity. Has anyone else experienced this?
> > Yes. This problem began around kernel 2.1.120. Upon discovering that playmidi
> > did not have the same problem, I realized it was probably not a kernel bug,
> > but a bug with timidity. You need to upgrade timidity. Last I checked, the
> > maintainer was not going to continue work on it, but a group of Japanese
> > developers picked it up. Look for "timidity-0.2i+AC3-modified.tar.gz" or
> > newer. It is a well-organized package with many more options than the
> > original package (and it works).
> >
>
> I installed the new timidity and it still plays too fast.
> You have to take this into account
> 1-Even with the old timidity kmidi still played correctly
> 2-The problem is only present with the plugin ump. The beta I've tried of ump
> flushes netscape and I can no longer run netscape until I remove it and put
> the other one back.
> 3-I have never played playmidi so I wouldn't know if it failed before
> 4-The bug is indeed with the kernel, kde seems to be the only one able to deal with
>it.
I recompiled the plugin and get "can't resolve symbol" messages from netscape
timiditySetPipe
timidityMain
Neither of these is in the plugin files or timidity directories.
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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 01:16:41 -0600
From: Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Partition......HELP!
ImY2Kool wrote:
>
> ok im prepaining to install redhat linux on the same box that I have windows 98
> on. I need to Re-Partition for both windows and linux without losing any thing
> that i alreay have. I have a 8 gig HD and at the moment im not sure how much is
> in use (for some reason windows DriveSpace only shows me as have a 2 gig HD
> and that 0% of it is in use I am trying to fix it) when I run FDisk that was
> included in my linux distrubition it the only choice i have for second
> partition is 977 cylinder. im not sure whare that puts me and if it will be
> enuf to run windows in.
>
First run defrag with the "arrange my programs so the load faster"
option turned OFF.
next use FIPS (on Rh cd) or partiton magic or whatever to split your
partion into
two smaller ones.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 07:30:18 GMT
In article <y29v2.6940$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"mz001" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Anyone who thinks the U.S. isn't the most technologically advanced
> >country in the world is living in a vacuum.
>
> I guess that's what happens when war is the driving force for the
> advancement of technology in a country. You think that microwaves, radar,
> and infrared would be used by policemen and telecommunications companies if
> they hadn't already been invented for use in war?
>
> There are so many things the US is working on that the government doesn't
> want us to know about. By now, they have to be able to clone humans, cure
> AIDS and build hovercars because some so called 3rd world countries can cure
> many cases of AIDS and cancer. The technology exists but it is either too
> costly or if it is too costly, it's used for war.
>
> Peking scientists in China were able to take DNA fragments of a dinosaur
> from a fossilized egg back in 1994. By now, there has to be some genetic
> splicing going on between humans and certain animals that we don't know
> about. It's a really sick world we live in.
>
On 1998/12/06 as [EMAIL PROTECTED] in message
<Khxa2.207$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>I don't care what a few individuals in a corporation have to say to anyone. I
>purchased a product I needed and I'm happy with it. The CEO can be a communist
>sympathizer helping to develop a biological weapon in Syberia for all I care.
So now all of a sudden you care?? Bullshit. Go away sociopath.
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD stomper and CD cover
Date: 7 Feb 1999 06:35:05 GMT
Mark Ayzenshteyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Does anyone have any leads on a CD stomper type product for linux? Also
: maybe something to make CD cover art & such?
Around 1993 or so a guy named Andrew M. Schmid wrote a program called
"tapemaker" which will generate PostScript to produce tape inserts for
a variety of tape formats (cassette, QIC, etc.) and for CD jewel boxes.
The program reads a simple ASCII text file to decide what gets put on
the insert.
I've been using this for quite awhile now to make inserts for both
cassettes and the CD-Rs I burn.
Try doing a search on "tapemaker" through any of the various search
engines.
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From: "Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 22:51:33 -0600
My thoughts exactly
Benedict - USA
al wrote in message <7998b7$rhc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Who really gives a fuck if Britain or Us is the best as long as you idiots
>stay where you are and don't pollute the rest of the world by moving
>elsewhere.
> Stop wasting bandwidth and discuss something useful.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Rausch)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IDE ZIP DRIVE mounting?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 23:03:39 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vladymyr Iljyc Lenin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > First, make sure it is recognized during the boot process. Mine
> > worked OK except it wouldn't see it if I was using System Commander.
> > I finally woumd up swapping master boot records manually.
> > If it shows up on the boot, note where it is (hd4b or whatever)
> > then (as root):
> >
> > mount -t msdos /dev/hd4d /mnt/zip
> >
> > The directory /mnt/zip must be created before mounting.
> > This works for me (as I recall)
> >
> sorry but i think this not works for you
> device must be /dev/hdd1 not hd4d
> device hd4d is not recognized under linux
> >
> > Larry Shannon
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Actually it should be /dev/hdd4. Iomega formats them with multiple
partitions for compatibility with various OSs, but the one you want is the
fourth partition.
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From: "Albert Ulmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: statistical analysis software?
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 08:24:12 +0100
He also might want to try DataPlot. It's free and very powerful. I can't
remember the exact URL, but it can be easily found using any search engine.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb in Nachricht <79huno$7cg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Two free statistical packages available that I know of are XLispstat and R
(a
>splus compatible). XLispstat is included in Redhat dist and you can get R
from
>http://www.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/
>
>Keith
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Gordon Haverland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Lee Green MD wrote:
>> >
>> > Are there any powerful general-purpose statistics packages for Linux?
I'm
>> > accustomed to running SAS and SPSS on my SPARC under Solaris, but I'd
like
>> > to be able to use my Linux machine for those tasks. I can't find any
>> > stats packages mentioned in the usual sources on the web. Thanks -Lee
>>
>> According to SAL.KachinaTech.com (Scientific Applications on Linux)
>> the only "big" stats name I can see is S-Plus. However there
>> are lots of other packages out there, some commercial, most
>> open source. As far as BIG jobs goes, I think ROOT from CERN
>> is probably the most capable package. XploRe looks interesting.
>> Octave (a MatLab clone) has stats modules. Xldlas I've used
>> a bit.
>>
>> Gordon Haverland
>> haverlan @ agric.gov.ab.ca
>>
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From: Shawn Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GIMP problems opening images!
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 00:43:39 -0800
I can't get my copy of the gimp to open any kind of image other than the
native format. Whenever I try to open a different type it just gives me
an error and says cannot open.
Another thing that's weird is that there is only a "file" menu, on the
far left, but no other menus. no edit, insert, or anything. Any help
would be much appreciated...
-thanks,
Shawn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Parabola)
Crossposted-To: comp.security.ssh
Subject: sshd refuse connection
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 06:36:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all!
I have 2 box:
1) 486, RedHat 5.1, Kernel 2.0.36
2) K6-2, RedHat 5.2, Kernel 2.0.36
I have installed ssh 1.2.26 on both boxes. The 486 works fine:
#########################################
Feb 7 17:30:33 garfield sshd[742]: log: Connection from 127.0.0.1
port 1023
Feb 7 17:30:42 garfield sshd[742]: log: Password authentication for
root accepted.
Feb 7 17:30:42 garfield sshd[742]: log: ROOT LOGIN as 'root' from
localhost
#########################################
However, the K6-2 doesn't...
#########################################
Feb 7 17:26:23 odie sshd[14633]: refused connect from 127.0.0.1
Feb 7 17:27:02 odie sshd[14637]: refused connect from 192.168.0.4
#########################################
I'm only using the default sshd config on both boxes. I've also
verified that "ListenAddress 0.0.0.0" are in both config files.
Any idea why it works on my 486, but not my K6-2? Is that coz of
different RedHat version? Or is it coz of different CPU?
Any help is highly appreciated.
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From: "Sebastian Henkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Resizing of DOS-Partition
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 09:16:05 +0100
Hi,
I have a problem with my WIN95 PC and installing Linux.
There is a nice tool for resizing my old partions on my LINUX CD called
fips. But in order to do any ersizing, I need to sort all blocks on my
harddisk in front of the partition. Unfortunatly I have run Norton
Utilities3.0 to defrag my partition. This program optimized my partition by
moving all my files that are not used very often to the end of my disk. Now
I can't use fips. Unfortunatly I have no CD-Writer or ZIP drive and my
partition is 2.1GB large with 600MB free.
Having a seperate 400MB harddisk I would like to have the full 1GB for Linux
while keeping my original WIN95 partition.
Can anybody give me any hint of what I can do or tell me of a program that
can reshuffel my blocks?
Best regards,
Sebastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Schaffter)
Subject: Re: Wich Linux shouls I install
Date: 7 Feb 1999 07:22:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Francois Beauregard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:79c98v$tsq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I am looking forward to install Linux on my computer.
>>
>> I am hesitating between SuSE 5.3 and RedHat 5.2.
>>
>> The window manager is an important feature for me.
Is it just me, or is everybody always talking about RedHat and SuSE,
and nobody ever seems to mention Debian? I'd recommend it to anybody
wanting to install Linux for the first time. It's the dist I used, and
so far, I haven't found a thing to complain about. Well, not quite. The
front end to their package installation isn't great, but if you skip
the front end and use the command line, it's excellent. (Command line is
"dpkg -i <package name>", which is about as easy as it gets!)
Debian includes a great selection of apps, a really easy-to-configure
X interface, and my absolute favourite window manager (again, why does
no one ever talk about this one?), icewm. And, for whatever it's worth,
Debian scatters its files in more or less the same places as RedHat,
and even comes with a utility for installing RedHat packages.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Friendly ISP
Date: 7 Feb 1999 02:32:00 -0600
Tim Hamza wrote:
>
> I'm sorry, I hate nitpickers, but for some reason this just got my goat.
> The internet was around long before Compuserve was conceived. Get your
> facts straight, buddy. Having used the internet long before there was a
> WWW, it is amusing to see that many people don't know the difference.
You are correct but as far as the general public is concerned the internet came
long after compuserve. Most of us had only access to compuserve or bbs. The internet
is very recent for the average citizen of this planet.
Compuserve sucked but this was all we had. It would cost me around $20-$30 an hour
in 1982 at 300 baud.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: tgz - uncompressing using ANY UNIX
Date: 7 Feb 1999 02:32:01 -0600
Michael Lee Yohe wrote:
>
> >What is a tgz file? And how do I uncompress it?
>
> tar xzvf {name of tgz file}
>
> This only works with the GNU version of "tar". Most UNIXes don't use the
> GNU version of tar. Thus, the syntax would be reported as incorrect. The
> "universal" way of uncompressing the tgz (.tar.gz) file:
>
> zcat {name of tgz file} | tar -xvf -
>
I use gzip -cd file.tgz | tar xfv -
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