Linux-Misc Digest #944, Volume #18 Sun, 7 Feb 99 17:13:09 EST
Contents:
DHCP (Mark Robinson)
Re: Changing the default server depths ??? (Mats Haglund)
Please,Help me whit tcl/tc...! (Estela Valle Pendon)
Re: Need help with a script file (NF Stevens)
Re: 256 colors? I know it's better than that. (Carl Fink)
Re: Samba Question (Tim Laursen)
Re: Changing the default server depths ??? (Steve Emms)
Re: kernal (Ben Russo)
Re: What do I need for recompiling the kernel? (Tim Laursen)
sound problem (SuperArtem)
Re: Sorting mail and news (Keith)
PPP Problem --- Please help! ("pschless")
2.2.1 and AX.25 support question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: one thing that sux about Linux.... (Frank Carney)
Re: first unix port to x86 (Alexander Viro)
Making a Rescue Image to use on a CD (Matthew Callaway)
Re: Write to disk every five minutes? (Tim Laursen)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ("Ciaran Dunn")
Re: Setserial doesn't. (Orv Beach W6BI)
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From: Mark Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 19:49:28 GMT
I have just upgraded to 2.2.1 and DHCP is no longer working. I have an
NE2000 on the ISA bus. Are there any obscure options that I might have
missed? Should I compile my eth card as a module?
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From: Mats Haglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing the default server depths ???
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 21:51:29 +0100
Try startx - --bpp 16
On Sun, 07 Feb 1999, Mark wrote:
>Hi.
> Could someone please explain to me how you change the default colour depth
>within linux redhat 5.2, I have read quite a lot of howtos and also gone
>through two books (Linux unleashed and linux in 24 hours) neither of which
>seem to have the answer. I have an AGP Ati Xpert 98 card and it uses the
>Mach-64 server which loads correctly, but I seem to only be able to access 8
>bpp colour depth.
>
> Any help much appreciated...Thnx
>
>Mark.
>
>P.s If I leave the 8 Bpp colour depth unchecked in Xconfigurator I get an
>error message and cannot load up X until I check one of the boxes.
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From: Estela Valle Pendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please,Help me whit tcl/tc...!
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 08:44:45 +0100
Hello:
I'm new in Debian Linux so I don't really know what's tcl/tk. I think
it's an grafic development for C++ but I'm not sure. If you can explain
it to me, please do it.
Thank you
Estela.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: Need help with a script file
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:50:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben) wrote:
>nope, I've already tried "sed s/\n/\n\r/ <test >test2" but still no
>go...
>
sed -e 's/$/^M/' <test >test2
To enter the ^M character you need to press ^V then ^M
NB The standard dos end of line marker is \r\n, not \n\r.
In sed the $ is a metacharacter which stands for the
end of the line.
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: 256 colors? I know it's better than that.
Date: 7 Feb 1999 03:15:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 02:09:15 GMT, Chad M. Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I have this one Dell 266, intel, etc ... S3 Video Card and for some reason
>it thinks it only supports 256 colors. Can someone help me who is fimilar
>with this? How do I tell it that it's better than that. It's a man, not
>a boy. Never had a problem before w/other computers. This one is a problem
>child.
I suspect you mean in X Windows, so I'm crossposting and setting
followups to comp.windows.x.i386unix.
To answer your question, you probably need to edit the file
/etc/X11/XF86Config.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum
<http://dm.net>
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From: Tim Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba Question
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 21:54:54 +0100
Trey Wheeler wrote:
>
> I have Samba set up on my Linux box. I have given the box a NetBios
> name and successfully assigned it to a workgroup. The machine is
> networked via ethernet to my NT box. The network connection works
> fine (I can ping either one from the other). I can "see" the Linux
> box from the NT box, but I can not access it. I try to "explore" the
> Linux box from the NT box, and it asks for a username and password
> (note that my windows name & pw match the one I use on the Linux box).
> I type in the name & pw anyway, and NT tells me that "The account is
> not authorized to log in from this station". How do I fix this? I
> have setup a share on a directory on the Linux box, but I don't know
> what else to do (I'm quite new at this obviously, bear with me).
Edit /etc/smb.conf, and put "public = yes" into the section that defines
your share. If you do a "man smb.conf" it should be hard to miss the
notion about the "public" parameter.
>
> Also, is there some graphic way to browse my NT box from the Linux
> box? Any specific advice you folks can send my way is appreciated. I
> have read through (many times) the man pages, and gleaned some
> information from them.
Weeel... Not really. I've seen a web interface to samba, but it is not a
very elegant way to browse your smb shares. I think that I saw something
about a browser recently, which I can't remember the name of. As an
alternative you can mount the shares on your file system with
"smbmount", and then browse the files with your favorite file browser.
That also have the advantage that you don't have to download the files,
in order to use them. You can for example play your mp3's directly from
the NT machine without moving the data first.
> I appreciate email in addition to posts if you have time. TIA
You've got it.
--
(\ Best regards, /)
-||||8- Tim -8||||-
(/ 2B OR NOT 2B = FF \)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Emms)
Subject: Re: Changing the default server depths ???
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:57:09 GMT
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:35:45 -0000, "Mark"
<~[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.
> Could someone please explain to me how you change the default colour depth
>within linux redhat 5.2, I have read quite a lot of howtos and also gone
>through two books (Linux unleashed and linux in 24 hours) neither of which
>seem to have the answer. I have an AGP Ati Xpert 98 card and it uses the
>Mach-64 server which loads correctly, but I seem to only be able to access 8
>bpp colour depth.
>
startx -- -bpp 16
startx -- -bpp 32
etc
Regards
Steve Emms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxlinks.com
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernal
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 14:13:09 -0500
ImY2Kool wrote:
>
> ok here my problem:
>
> b after about the 10th try I finaly got RedHat installed on my system (like
> u did it your first try) and with out thinkingset it up as the main OS to boot
> Well I didnt want this I wanted windows to be the main to boot so at /root I
> typed lilo -U witch did the trick it restord my windows. but now Im not sure
> how to get in Linux I go into LoadLin and it says to enter the kernal image
> name. I dont know what to do here, I have tryed Zimage, Core, Linux, Lilo, and
> about anything elese I could think of but it just says "Image not found" so
> whare is my Kernal? in the setup I told it to put the lilo at the begining of
> my second partition (whare linux is).
>
>
> Thanx,
>
> Y2Kool
>
> P.S. I need a reply soon before I pull all my hair out!!!!
OK, on the disk partition where the loadlin command is you need
your kernel, but you don't have it there right?
Well you have to get to your linux partition and fix your MBR
(master boot record) with a good lilo.conf.
boot off of the Linux Boot Floppy, and then type rescue at the
prompt. It will prompt you for a rescue diskette.
Do you remember the partition name for your "root" partition?
It should be something like /dev/hda2 or /dev/hda6?
Mount it using the mount command like follows:
mount /dev/hd<your-specs-here> /mnt
Then do the following:
chroot /mnt bash
Then run
mount -a
Now, read the /etc/lilo.conf file. It should look something like
this:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/custom
label=custom
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
The first "image" line is the default. When the system
boots, it will come to a "LILO:" prompt.
If you were to hit <tab> it would show you a list of the
bootable images lilo knows about. In this case,
custom*
linux
dos
The "*" is the one that will boot by default if the timeout
value expires while sitting at the LILO: prompt.
If you wanted to boot to "dos" you would just type "dos" and
hit enter before timeout occured.
So, make sure you understand the options for YOUR /etc/lilo.conf
file and edit it to work, then enter the following command:
lilo
This should reply with:
Added <label-default>*
Added <label-option>
If anything else comes out, it didn't work and you will have to
write back to the newsgroup or go RTFM.
-Ben.
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From: Tim Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: What do I need for recompiling the kernel?
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 22:19:52 +0100
Razor wrote:
>
> Hey guys :-)
> I have old 486/66 mhz, 16 mb ram, 540mb hdd (285 mb available for
> Linux). As u see I have very little space for my Linux. So I had Redhat
> 5.1 installed on it , but when i've decided to recompile my kernel, i
> went to /usr/src/linux and found out that i don't have /usr/src/linux
> (or /usr/src/linux-2* )!!! I forgot to include something when i was
> installing Redhat :-)
> So then i've decided to reinstall linux and i've included
> "kernel-headers, kernel-source, gcc, bin86", when I was recompiling the
> kernel (when i was making "make zImage" it gave me an error that i don't
> have something (like tools/build or smth like that). So please, could u
> tell me what the complete list of packages i need to recompile my
> kernel? On my primary puter i was always installing everything (except
> howto in multiple languages) , so i didn't have this problem :-)
> So please, tell me what do i need to successfully recompile my kernel
I don't have the answer to your question, sorry, but I do have a stupid
question for you: Why don't you compile the kernel for your 486 on your
primary computer? That would save you the space needed for the compiler,
kernel code etc.
--
(\ Best regards, /)
-||||8- Tim -8||||-
(/ 2B OR NOT 2B = FF \)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SuperArtem)
Subject: sound problem
Date: 7 Feb 1999 20:02:30 GMT
I really need to get my sound card to work. I've read the Sound-HOWTO and it
doesn't help me much. I have tried recompiling the kernel several times with no
success. But when I cat an .au file to /dev/audio I can hear it, I can also
hear MIDI and CD's but I cant get anything else to play correctly. Specifically
I can't get wavs and mp3's to play, and I'm sure the software works correctly.
Any help appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith)
Subject: Re: Sorting mail and news
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 21:37:08 GMT
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:15:57 +0000, Matthias Warkus
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need a program to sort large amounts of mail and news stored in
> vanilla Unix mailboxes.
>
> It should be a kind of file manager that allows me to open mailboxes
> and move messages between them easily. Ideally, there should be drag
> and drop, but probably, I will do fine with an MC-like split-window
> console interface.
>
> Is there such a beast? I really need to get these dozens of megabytes
> of postings and mail that I accumulated sorted.
>
> mawa
Well for email there is procmail, for news I'm not sure what to use.
HTH,
--
Keith
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From: "pschless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.applixware,linux.redhat.axp,linux.redhat.development,linux.redh
Subject: PPP Problem --- Please help!
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 15:19:00 -0600
I am very new to linux. I installed Red Hat Linux 5.2 two days ago on my
computer (as a server), and I am having trouble connecting to the net from
it.
I can get the modem to dial in using either netcfg or usernet, and it sounds
like the modem connects, because it makes those modem sounds, but then it
just disconnects.
I am so confused.
Please help.
Thanks,
Patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 2.2.1 and AX.25 support question
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 21:27:45 GMT
How will the 2.2.1 kernel affect the AX.25 support for packet radio, as well
as soundModem support? The AX.25 howto I've found is not newer that late
1997. I'm running a RedHat 5.2 system now, and I'm looking to set up an older
pentium devoted to packet.
Thanks
-- Jon Berry, N8YRE
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From: Frank Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: one thing that sux about Linux....
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 14:33:34 -0700
Resistance is futile...you will be assimulated...we will decomoditize
protocols...all of your technology will be assimulated into our
system...we will not be denied!
Prepare to be assimulated...
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remove "NOSPAM" from the reply-to address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Subject: Re: first unix port to x86
Date: 7 Feb 1999 15:32:08 -0500
In article <79kq1q$28g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What was the first unix port to x86?
>Bsd or linux?
Xenix. About 8 years earlier.
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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From: Matthew Callaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Making a Rescue Image to use on a CD
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 15:26:22 -0600
I'm working on making a bootable CD. I've figured out how to use cdrecord and
mkisofs, and in doing so, discovered that mkisofs requires a boot.img file to be
placed correctly on the CD image. So far, I've used the boot.img file provided
in the RedHat source tree, but this is the boot disk for installation. My
question is, how can I make a new boot.img from my working 2.2.1 kernel? I've
made a boot floppy, but I'd like to make the .img file required for mkisofs?
Any ideas?
Please reply via email
Thanks
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From: Tim Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Write to disk every five minutes?
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 22:29:46 +0100
Ben Russo wrote:
>
> oak wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to change the behaviour of linux to write to disk every 5 minutes
> > instead of every few seconds. Anyone know how I might do this?
> >
> > update (bdflush) and kflushd seem to be running already, is there a command
> > I can give to the system to write to disk only every 5 minutes?
> >
> > This would allow me to spin down the hard drive long enough to do some
> > recording.
> >
> > Also, I might want to raise this time to, say, an hour or so if I'm just
> > editing a file in order to have some real silence - I have a noisy hard
> > drive. I can write to a floppy to keep whatever I'm editing backed up.
> >
> > I recall hearing of some kind of danger in doing this sort of thing....if I'm
> > backing up to floppy what exactly can go wrong? Corrupted file system...?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Tony
>
> man bdflush
>
> The danger involved with this is like what follows:
>
> Linux keeps a disk cache of disk blocks.
> Whatever is read from disk is put in whatever free RAM is
> available. If you write something to disk it goes into whatever
> free ram is available as well.
>
> If a change is made to a disk block it is considered
> a "dirty" buffer in RAM and bdflush will organize dirty buffers for
> efficient writing and "flush" dirty buffers to disk every
> few seconds by default.
>
> You can change the behavior of bdflush to lengthen or shorten
> the periodicity of flushes. However if you have a poweroutage,
> or if a disk is removed without gracefully unmounting (umount will
> "sync" the buffers with disk) then whatever dirty buffers there
> were were never written to disk.
>
> Because bdflush only knows about blocks, and does not care about
> filesystems this could result in situations where the filesystem
> becomes corrupt. Some of the blocks of a file could have been
> flushed to disk without others.
Well then, what if he mount his drives with the "sync" option? That
would mean that all blocks written to a disk are updated immediately,
wouldn't it? Sorry, I'm a bit unsure about if I understood the
sync/async business correctly. In case I'm right that would give Tony a
bit more safety against power outages, at the cost of resource
efficiency.
--
(\ Best regards, /)
-||||8- Tim -8||||-
(/ 2B OR NOT 2B = FF \)
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From: "Ciaran Dunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:07:29 +1100
Paul Doherty wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Ciaran Dunn wrote:
>
>> Well no. Unless you also consider India, South Africa or even America
>> a colony of GB. They are all ex-colonies.
>
>My mistake... Australia was let go? Recently?
England has almost *no* colonial posessions left(except some
silly ones like the faukland island and northern ireland). Australia
has been a Sovereign nation since 1901 and was largely
independent well before then.
Cheers,
Ciaran
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From: Orv Beach W6BI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setserial doesn't.
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 13:14:05 -0800
David Efflandt wrote:
[ some stuff deleted]
> > Since the U2000 is locked at 2400 baud, I used setserial to set the
> baud
> > rate of the serial port at 2400. But here's the catch:
> > setserial insists that the tty port is set at 2400 baud. But I only
> get
> > clear data if Procomm is set for 115,200 baud.
>
> > I know that's the default baud rate set at boot up time for those
> ports,
> > so apparently setserial is not really setting it at 2400 baud.
>
> > Or is some other process resetting it to 115.2?
>
> Do you have a getty running to connect the remote box? Check its
> settings.
>
I find mingetty running against tty1 through tty6, but those are the
virtual consoles, right (available through the function keys)? I'm
don't find any reference to the serial ports (ttyS*) doing a ps ax |
grep.
- Orv -
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