Linux-Misc Digest #946, Volume #18 Sun, 7 Feb 99 20:13:10 EST
Contents:
FS: Pipeline 50 ISDN Router ("John J. Rushford Jr.")
Question to all Adaptec AHA 3985 Owners (Fionn Behrens)
Re: KDE is my desktop. (Tim Smith)
Re: first unix port to x86 (Alexander Viro)
Re: Ditto Tape Device on Linux ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Re: KDE RPMs for Red Hat 5.2 ??? (Andreas Schyman)
Re: smb2www install problem (Andreas Schyman)
Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug? ("Henrik �sterberg")
Is Linux better than DOS/Win3.1 on 486? (Bill Wooten)
Re: first unix port to x86 (Nick Zentena)
Re: KDE RPMs for Red Hat 5.2 ??? (Prasanth Kumar)
Re: PPP slow transfer (Leonard Evens)
Re: why are linux x apps so slow? (Mark Brown)
Re: Sick of Windows, newbie thinking about Linux (Mark Brown)
Re: ipfwadm for 2.1.1xx and glibc 2.0.1xx? (Mark Brown)
Re: Ditto Tape Device on Linux ("TheAirBear")
Re: repartitioning win98 drive (Leonard Evens)
Solution: Screen capture of Red Hat install menus? (David Guertin)
Re: Need help with a script file (Ben)
Re: KDE RPMs for Red Hat 5.2 ??? (Neil Zanella)
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From: "John J. Rushford Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FS: Pipeline 50 ISDN Router
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: 7 Feb 1999 18:11:46 +0600
In a week, I'll be turning down an ISDN link and will have an
Ascend pipeline 50 for sale. I'm asking $350.00 plus shipping
or best offer. Includes Pipeline 50 Reference Guide and User's
Guide, ISDN cable, pipeline 50, 4.6b release notes addendum and
5.0a release notes addendum.
This router is two years old and has performed flawlessly as
the default router for a network of FreeBSD, Solaris, and Windoze
computers. This pipeline has a built-in NT1, model number P50-1UBRI.
It is currently running release 4.6b. I will upgrade it to the
current release of 5.0a before shipping if desired. See Ascends Website
for the 5.0a release notes, http://www.ascend.com.
regards
--
John J. Rushford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cs.du.edu/~jjr
--
John J. Rushford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cs.du.edu/~jjr
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Subject: Question to all Adaptec AHA 3985 Owners
From: Fionn Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 Feb 1999 01:05:51 +0100
The controller works great with Linux! Unfortunately I need to boot Wind-OS
every two weeks or so and have at least my SCSI CDRom recognized. If you
have a 3985 / 3985 W and found out how to establish at least rudimentary
functionality with Win95, please share your knowledge with me. I have
read and heard several time that it should be possible, just no concrete
clues how.
Thank you,
Fionn
--
PGP-Key available on request
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: KDE is my desktop.
Date: 7 Feb 1999 15:10:19 -0800
David M. Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (concerning resizing Netscape):
>OK, thanks, I'll try it out. This will make it less embarassing when
>demoing KDE for the heathens.
Netscape, at least some versions on some platforms, is really stupid
about window resizing. When the window resizes, it doesn't just redraw
the contents in the new size--it treats it as if you had hit the "reload"
button, and actually goes to the net to get the document again!
--Tim Smith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Subject: Re: first unix port to x86
Date: 7 Feb 1999 19:38:30 -0500
In article <Capv2.8869$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Doehring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When did that come out? I have a "True Blue" copy of PCIX that's
>dated 10/83. It's System III and runs on the 8088 (yes, an XT).
Shrug... Sorry, I've messed substraction up - Xenix goes back to 81 (maybe
some pieces are earlier than that), so it's 10 years, not 8. It's a direct
descendant of v7.
--
"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: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ditto Tape Device on Linux
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 16:45:46 -0600
Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. wrote:
> Charles Stroom wrote:
> >
> > I have a similar experience with the 2 Gb ditto floppy tape drive
>
> Thanks for the response. It would have been nicer if you had the secret
> to make it work, but at least I know I'm not the only one having
> Iomega/ftape problems.
Mine worked without too much trouble using ftape 3.03 under RedHat, but
after a few months it started running the tapes off their spools. You can
manually re-spool them, but it got to the point that a tape would be
despooled as soon as I inserted it and tried to do *any* tape operation on
it. It's completely useless now, and I doubt that I ever got more than
15-20 backups out of it before it got that way.
Last year I saw a post from someone else having the same problem. He said
IOmega traded him a new drive, but it ended up doing the same thing after
a while.
So I feel like my purchase has been money down the drain. That, taken
along with the fact that one of my two Zip drives has recently started in
on the dreaded "click of death" makes me extremely reluctant to recommend
IOmega products to anyone. I realize that these are electro-mechanical
devices, and thus may be more trouble-prone by nature than the purely
electronic parts of my computer, but they certainly haven't made a good
impression.
Unfortunately, the alternatives seem to be a lot more expensive.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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From: Andreas Schyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE RPMs for Red Hat 5.2 ???
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:14:11 +0100
Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> version of KDE. Are there any KDE RPMs for Red Hat 5.2 out there?
>
> The directory
>
> "ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/rpm/RedHat-5.2"
>
> is empty.
> Is there anywhere I can get the RPMs from?
Well, the ftp-directory you mentioned is the right one, it's just that
the new version of KDE (1.1) was just released and the guys at KDE
haven't hade the timw yet to make rpm's for you. However, if you are
really anxious to get KDE you could either download an earlier release
(1.1pre2 at
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1pre2/distribution/rpm/RedHat-5.2/i386/)
or you could download the .src.tar.gz's from
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/1.1/distribution/tar/generic/source/
and compile them manually.
Concerning the issue why RedHat 5.2 doesn't come with KDE, I have no
clue. However I still don't think that it is anything that I "can't
belive".
For me it's like KDE isn't that big deal anyway. It comes with some
great apps, but the environment is a hog when it comes to memory
consuming. I still prefer the fast and stable WindowMaker. Besides, KDE
is to much like Windows, but hey, it's your choice and I think the guys
at KDE makes a great effort in providing a easy look for everyone
converting from Windows to Linux.
Andreas Schyman
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From: Andreas Schyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: smb2www install problem
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:19:28 +0100
tim wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> I tried to install smb2www as descriped by the author. But when I try to
> access http://localhost/samba/smb2www.pl
> then I get the message 403:You are not allowed to access the file on this
> server.....
> It is no problem to access other sites on my apache-server.
> Samba is working fine, I have perl 5.004 installed.
> I changed the /etc/httpd/srm.conf (Alias and Scriptalias ) as I was told
> after running perl Install.pl !
>
> any idea ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> tim
Have you changed the permissions of the file smb2www.pl? Try doing
"chmod 777 smb2www.pl" when you are in the right dir.
Andreas
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From: "Henrik �sterberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 00:27:56 +0100
Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> I've the same problem with K6 200 Mhz, 32Mb and a motherboard with
> i430TX
>
> When I install linux, the kernel load, it starts to make its uusal
> check-in and after the PCI probe the system just reset.
> I've almost 20 Pc where I can't install linux :(
>
> --
> Hilaire Fernandes
> Dr Geo project http://members.xoom.com/FeYiLai/dr_geo/doctor_geo.html
my system is a K6-2 300, Asus TX-97E mb..
Hercules Stingray 128/3D Voodoo Rush board (6mb.. sandwich model)
sb AWE32
1.2Gb fujitsu ide harddrive & 6.4Gb Quantum BF ide harddrive.
96mb sdram.
Orchid righteous 3D 2 (12mb Voodoo 2)
Tekram DC-390 U/F UW-SCSI controller
a noname PCI NE2000 network card.
linux runs fine on this...
i use LILO for booting..
if you use loadlin.. be sure to check for the latest version of it!
/Henrik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Wooten)
Subject: Is Linux better than DOS/Win3.1 on 486?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 01:59:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm trying to re-built the software on the following machine: AST
486/33DX/8MB-Ram/250MB Hard drive. The main use of this machine will
be e-mail. Some games would be nice, but I'm not holding out for
that. Before the box got hosed, I was running DOS with Windows 3.1
due to lack of hard drive/memory. So assuming a budget of $0.00 would
Linux be a better solution? Would the system run better, possibly
even faster? I don't know a whole lot about Linux so any insight
would be great.
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Zentena)
Subject: Re: first unix port to x86
Date: 7 Feb 1999 18:28:28 -0500
In article <Capv2.8869$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Doehring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When did that come out? I have a "True Blue" copy of PCIX that's
>dated 10/83. It's System III and runs on the 8088 (yes, an XT)
Wasn't that actually Xenix? Similar to the way PC-DOS was more or less
rebranded MS-DOS
Nick
--
SUSE 6.0
Linux 2.2.1
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From: Prasanth Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE RPMs for Red Hat 5.2 ???
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 23:30:15 GMT
Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I just installed Red Hat 5.2 and was disappointed not to find a running
>
> version of KDE. Are there any KDE RPMs for Red Hat 5.2 out there?
>
> The directory
>
> "ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/latest/distribution/rpm/RedHat-5.2"
>
> is empty.
>
> How come Red Hat 5.2 doesn't ship with KDE? Didn't Red Hat 5.1 include
>
> KDE after all? Is it because they included Window Maker instead?
>
> Is KDE incompatible with kernel 2.2.x and Red Hat 5.2 for some bizarre
>
> reason? I still can't believe KDE wasn't part of their distribution.
>
> Is there anywhere I can get the RPMs from?
The reason you couldn't find it is a little simpler. KDE v1.1 was just
recently released as of yesterday. So the "latest" directory is pointing
to an empty directory tree since the binaries aren't placed there yet.
I suggest you wait a few day and check again so that you can download
the
new version. If you can't wait, the get the stuff in the "1.1pre2"
directory
instead of "latest".
The reason Redhat didn't include KDE is for among many other reasons,
they
plan to include Gnome, a competitor to KDE. If you really want an
integrated
Redhat and KDE distribution, I suggest you look at Mandrake Linux.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP slow transfer
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 16:31:53 -0600
Joseph Casey wrote:
> Buck wrote:
>
> > : DIALER_SCRIPT=/etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer
> > :
> > : exec /usr/sbin/pppd debug lock modem crtscts /dev/modem 56000 \
> > : noipdefault defaultroute -detach connect $DIALER_SCRIPT
> > :
> >
> > 56000 is not a valid DTE baud rate. Your modem is probably dropping back
> > to whatever the default is, maybe 9600 or 19200. Try using 57600 or if
> > you have a "56K" modem use 115200. The DTE (modem to pc) rate is not to
> > be confused with the CARRIER rate (modem to modem). The pppd string
> > refers to the DTE rate.
>
> That has fixed it alright. It's soooooooo much better.
> TY
> JC
I am happy you managed to fix your problem by putting in a proper baud rate.
However, you are probably not really getting 56K. First of all, there is
some
legal restriction about going that high, but more important, noise on the
line usually drops you down below the maximum achievable. I usually
get about 46K or sometimes a bit higher. Of course, the baud rate is
to some extent fictitious since the protocols do so many things, a lot more
than simply transferring bytes one at a time is going on.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why are linux x apps so slow?
Date: 07 Feb 1999 23:15:31 +0000
Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Possible reasons why your Linux setup may be slower:
> Your swap file is smaller in size than twice the amount of RAM on your
> system.
The amount of swap won't affect speed unless you run out entirely, and
in any case the 2xRAM formula is a rule of thumb, not a rule.
Some Unix variants need more swap than RAM because if the kernel dies
it dumps core to swap (unfortunate if it tries to write beyong the end
of swap), but Linux doesn't do this. The 2x is a rule of thumb and
really depends on how much swap you need - I normally use at most
10Mb swap on my system.
--
Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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From: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sick of Windows, newbie thinking about Linux
Date: 07 Feb 1999 22:34:25 +0000
Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I couldn't recommend Debian to a newbie. The installation is a bit too complicated.
> Maybe when (if) Debian 2.1 comes out.
Depends what sort of newbie. For the sort of newbie I was (wanna
play! new toys!) it would be great - Slackware was perfectly
acceptable (things like package managment were a bit suspect) for me
when I first tried Linux, and my experience of Debian is that it
offers many of the things that made Slackware good for learning about
the system with much better quality control and cohesiveness. I find
it much easier to find out how a particular piece of the system ticks
than I do with RedHat.
However, I'd have to agree with you in general. It takes a bit of
work to get past the initial culture shock, and distributions like
SuSE and RedHat reduce this culture shock.
--
Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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From: Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipfwadm for 2.1.1xx and glibc 2.0.1xx?
Date: 07 Feb 1999 23:16:27 +0000
Fred Heitkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I try to
> compile ipfwadm using egcs-1.1.1, linux kernel 2.1.120 and
> glibc-2.0.108, I get
> reams of errors. Is there a ipfwadm that works with glibc-2.0.108?
For 2.1.x and better you need a program called ipchains instead of
ipfwadm.
--
Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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From: "TheAirBear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ditto Tape Device on Linux
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 11:10:20 -0800
What /dev/ device are you using for the ditto tape?
Was it supplied by IOMEGA or are you using something
that comes preinstalled w. Linux?
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: repartitioning win98 drive
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 16:41:51 -0600
Fabrizio Albonico wrote:
> David Lodge wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > >can i use fips to repartition a win98 hard drive, or do i have to use
> > >something like partition magic? thanks...
> >
> > FIPS2.0 will work fine (it has FAT32 support)
>
> PartitionMagic will work even better... (easier to use)
>
> - Fabrizio
I encountered at least one situtation where Partition Magic did not work
and Fips2.0 did.
Partition Magic couldn't reduce the size of theWindows 98 partition because
it claimed
it had to run a DOS program which didn't have enough memory to run.
I spoke extensively to a Tech
consultant at Partition Magic after examining their web page. It appears
that
Partition Magic had some problems on some machines running its memory
extender under DOS. He suggested some things that might have worked,
but by that time I had got Fips to do the job. I believe they may have
patches
for the problem available on their web site now. But if you just go out
and
buy a copy of Partition Magic and tried to use it as directed, depending on
which
version you get, there is a reasonable chance is won't work as directed.
And of course Fips is free and part of the Redhat 5.2 distribution.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: David Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Solution: Screen capture of Red Hat install menus?
Date: 07 Feb 1999 20:00:32 -0500
Reply-To: David Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> Last week "DG" == David Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (that's
>>>>> me) wrote:
DG> I thought there might be a way to display the menus from a running
DG> system, but when I try that I just get insulted (justifiably, of
DG> course) with the message: "you're running me on a live system! that's
DG> incredibly stupid."
OK, I take so much from this group, finally I get a chance to give
something back. Not that anyone but me asked, but here's the way to
get the Red Hat install menus to display in an xterm on a running
Linux system.
Mount the Red Hat CD, on, say, /mnt/cdrom.
cd to /mnt/cdrom/misc/src/install
'./install --test' will give you the brief first-level install menus.
'./install2 --test --method <foo>', where foo is cdrom, hd, nfs, ftp,
smb, or tape, will give you the main part of the install procedure.
You can capture these windows the usual way with xv.
If you leave off the '--test', you get the "stupid" message.
You also need to make a symlink from /tmp/rhimage to /mnt/cdrom so
that the program can find all the packages.
Cheers,
--
Dave Guertin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben)
Subject: Re: Need help with a script file
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 01:04:16 GMT
thanks! works great!
On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:50:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
wrote:
>[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: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE RPMs for Red Hat 5.2 ???
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 21:13:49 -0330
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Prasanth Kumar wrote:
> The reason Redhat didn't include KDE is for among many other reasons,
> they plan to include Gnome, a competitor to KDE.
That is not a very good reason since they already distribute
competing text editors, shells, mail clients, and window managers too.
I guess KDE would just have taken up too much space.
Anyway, I suppose no distribution has everything, and no matter what
distribution I get, I will always end up having to download stuff from
the web to get what I want on my system. A 10GB distribution of Linux
would be great: it would offer great choice and flexibility though it
would probably be a bit more expensive than the others. One of the
nice things about Linux is that unlike with M$, you get free software
with it. However, the more packages a distribution includes, the more
users are able to appreciate the size of the development effort in
the Linux community and its effectiveness in providing users with
variety and versatility.
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