Linux-Misc Digest #950, Volume #18 Mon, 8 Feb 99 08:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Jack Troughton)
Re: Is Linux better than DOS/Win3.1 on 486? (Jeremy Nickolet)
Re: Unzip (Jeremy Nickolet)
Re: BIOS settings for PnP ("Clue")
Re: Linux on the Lifebook 270dx (Mike Pritchard)
Slow clock in X (Austin Godber)
ftp install problem (Aaron Walker)
Re: BIOS settings for PnP ("Ron")
Re: Dosemu and winndoze partitions? (Andreas Mohr)
Re: How to create a man page (Stan)
Re: command line ftp to download files plus sub directories? (Stan)
Java RPC : Port of ONC RPC To Java - index.html (0/1) (Raja)
Re: X slow because can't get TCP/IP connect??? (Bob Arendt)
Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug? (Hilaire Fernandes)
Re: pls help: can't configure swap device ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: su (to nobody) ... ("David Z. Maze")
Re: g++ missing? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
APSfilter and printer offline.. (|_@nc&|ot)
Re: Autoresponding ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: EXT2-FS warning for nonexistant FS? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Troughton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 08:17:23 GMT
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:04:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kinkster) wrote:
�On 07 Feb 1999 00:29:27 -0800, Michael Powe
�<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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�>>>>>> "Kinkster" == Kinkster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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�> Kinkster> On Fri, 05 Feb 1999 14:01:20 -0600, "Keith G. Murphy"
�> Kinkster> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
�>
�> >>> If you don't like it just don't read it.
�>
�> >> It's not got a thing to do with whether I liked it. Mostly
�> >> agreed with it, in fact. It's wasted bandwidth on the 'Net to
�> >> quote it like that. Not to mention that I've had to download
�> >> the whole thing again just to read that you liked it.
�> >> Seriously, I'm not trying to be a butt, I'm trying to turn you
�> >> on to a little Usenet etiquette.
�>
�> Kinkster> You may shove it up your ass if you don't like it.
�>
�>Geez, what a jerk. Get your head out of that stinky dark place. Guy
�>tries to be nice to you and this is your payback. Let me guess
�>... you're a 15 y/o mama's boy with not enough homework to keep you
�>out of newsgroups. Too bad.
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�You can also shove it up your ass :)
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�>Damned clueless AOL'ers. (I couldn't resist. ;-)
�
�That's OK , it just shows how IGNORANT you are. If you'll check the
�headers (like mom's little boy should have done before making
�comments) you'll see that I'm using an ISP with just a AOL name typed
�in my newsreader. Duhhhhhhh, talk about "clueless."
So far, I have seen you "me too" once, and insult three times.
You may use a local ISP in Flint, but your behaviour marks you as the
classic AOL type. Your use of the address in your newsreader is
indeed appropriate.
You obviously suffer from a rectocranial inversion, and have forgotten
how to use toilet paper on the logorrheac discharge flowing out of
your mouth.
Jack Troughton ICQ:7494149
http://207.96.209.68:8000/
jack.troughton at videotron.ca
jaft at adan.kingston.net
Montr�al PQ Canada
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From: Jeremy Nickolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Linux better than DOS/Win3.1 on 486?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 08:26:38 GMT
Bill Wooten wrote:
> 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!
It would be fine for any console based programs, but if you wanted to run
X then 8 MB won't be enough RAM for a GUI environment. I'd really
recommend at least 32 MB of RAM for that. Pine is a nice and easy to use
console email program that will work great on your machine, and you can
use lynx for text only web surfing. If you're fine with just a console
based system, then have a look at some of the minimal Linux distributions
which are only a few floppies, and they will include nearly everything
you need. Or, go for Slackware's ZipSlack. It's a 35 MB download, but
you install it to a DOS partion by simply unzipping the zip file,
editting a bat file to tell ZipSlack where you put it, and your done. It
comes with more software and some easy to use GUI (primitive but useful)
tools for setting up networking and installing other software packages.
ZipSlack might be what you're looking for.
http://members.home.com/nickoljt/getLinux.html
good luck,
Jeremy
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From: Jeremy Nickolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unzip
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 08:27:56 GMT
Mark Robinson wrote:
> Is there a program that unzip .zip files? Gzip does not work.
Use "unzip" to unzip zip files:
$unzip foobar.zip
Jeremy
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From: "Clue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: BIOS settings for PnP
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:38:30 -0800
Thanks for the help guys.
Now if I can only get my modem to work :)
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From: Mike Pritchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on the Lifebook 270dx
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 02:00:17 -0800
Mark Swope wrote:
> Erin,
> I have the 280dx. It should have the same hardware that you have.
> attached below is the display section of my XF86Config file.
> The display is clean w/o wavy lines or anything (but it's limited
> to 800x600).
Thanks Mark. You solved the problem for me too. I have the 280DX also
and was having trouble getting the X configuration sorted out. The
information in the Linux Laptops web site didn't seem to work at all.
Mike
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From: Austin Godber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Slow clock in X
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 05:44:15 +0000
Hello,
I have recently been trying to get ntp or xntpd to work because
after a few months I would be annoyed that my clock was several minutes
behind. Well, I decided against using xntpd after having trouble with
ntp servers at my school. Now the clock on my computer runs slow. I
have read some of the man pages (uhh only in HTML annoyingly enough) for
xntpd and seen that it will alter the clock rate. So I figure it
changed something when I was playing with it.
When I reboot the time is reset and appears to be running well
...until I start running X. At which time it is definately running
slowly (NOTE TO NERDS: my computer and I are in the same inertial
reference frame).
If anyone has any idea (other than not running X) on how to fix
this, I'd be greatful for the information.
Thanks
Austin Godber
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftp install problem
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 05:41:40 -0500
I am trying to install RH5.2 through FTP, and I am having strange
problems...
I have two machines: P133 (host) and P233 (server running 5.2)
Everything is configured fine on the server (wu-ftpd, etc.)
During the installation, in the part where you specify ftp server name
and redhat directory,
I specify 192.168.1.1 (the server ip) and /redhat (the dir on the server
is /home/ftp/redhat).
Then click ok. The dialog goes away for a second or two, then the same
dialog pops up again.
I looked in the server log file, and it says anonymous login from the
host. The second is logs in, it logs
back out again!?!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Aaron
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From: "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: BIOS settings for PnP
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 08:10:02 +0100
Reply-To: "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The only way to really determine this is to try it out.
On several machines I had Win9x running with PnP off in the BIOS, and there
were no problems I couldn't solve (minor IRQ-probs)
On other machines (mostly the newer ones) Win9x really did'nt like it.
In fact, the biggest problems I stumbled into where extra functionalities
that didn't get recognized by Win9x anymore. in most cases I could live with
that...
The more PnP cards tou have in the box, the more problems you can expect
with Windhoze.
Clue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:79lpu8$omr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Hi, I've read that in order to run Linux properly with everything working
>properly, the PnP aware option in the BIOS must be turned off. Would that
>(turning off the OS PnP aware) affect other operating systems on my
>computer? (namely Windows 9x)
>Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Mohr)
Subject: Re: Dosemu and winndoze partitions?
Date: 8 Feb 1999 09:27:58 GMT
Bostjan =?iso-8859-2?Q?M=FCller?= ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >
> > Bostjan M�ller wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >I have a problem concerning dosemu that has problems because my dos is
> > >on a windooze partition and when startiong dosemu it wants to start win.
> > >Is there a away around this ?
> >
> > I had the same problem (even though my MSDOS.SYS file says BootGUI=0).
The
> > solution for me was to create a fake WIN.BAT (e.g. `echo No windows under
> > DOSEMU!')
> > file in the DOSEMU hdimage. Your Mileage May Vary.
> >
> > Yours,
> > --
> > Marius Gedminas
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I am using win95 :( Is there a way to work around it - I have currently
> set up the config menu every time I start win95 so that I have an option
> to boot into the old ms-dos (6.22) and I am ruunning the win on 16 bit
> partition.
> Any Clues?
What about setting
BootGUI=0
in msdos.sys ?
--
Andreas Mohr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: How to create a man page
Date: 8 Feb 1999 10:30:46 GMT
Michail Konstantinidis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Could anyone tell me what I need to create a man page? Like, what tools
: are necessary etc.?
The best way:
View a man page with less. (less /usr/man/man1/cat.1)
Then create it with your favourite text editor.
In short:
========
.TH A man page
.SH Section
blah blah
.B this is highlighted
blah
.TP
.B --option=
blah
=========
C-Ya!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stan)
Subject: Re: command line ftp to download files plus sub directories?
Date: 8 Feb 1999 10:32:57 GMT
stephen wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> Is there a ftp command to download multiple
> files plus sub directories? As in fetch an entire
> directory structure and it's contents.
GetWeb latest version if called as cpRFtp will do dat.
221 C-Ya!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raja)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.development.apps,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.unix.solaris,comp.lang.java
Subject: Java RPC : Port of ONC RPC To Java - index.html (0/1)
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 01:22:22 GMT
Java RPC can be found at
http://netbula.com/javarpc/
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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 00:29:39 +0000
From: Bob Arendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X slow because can't get TCP/IP connect???
Compare the DISPLAY environment variable that root uses vs. your user
account. Use the "env" command, better yet grep for DISPLAY:
env | grep DISPLAY
Sounds like root uses
DISPLAY=:0
while your user account has
DISPLAY=hostname:0
The first form is the "local" interface, bypasses TCP/IP, and is much
faster. The second form will use TCP/IP, even on the local machine.
If IP isn't set up properly, this can be a problem. Check your .cshrc
or .profile scripts in your user account - it could be setting DISPLAY
improperly.
Hope this helps.
-Bob Arendt
Stephen Sanders wrote:
>
> I'm having problems with my X windows after a Office97 load
> fiasco. I had to reload my RH5.1 release and now my X window
> system is nearly at a standstill.
>
> I can log in as superuser and run Xwindows just fine. But if I log in
> as a regular user the server and all subsequent windows take forever to
> open.
> I tried it again this morning and ran an strace when I started xemacs.
> The program stalls at point where its trying to open a socket and it
> can't.
> I didn't really understand all of the message and the following is not
> it verbatim but here is the gist of it.
>
> socket(PF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,IPROTO_IP) = 5
> connect(5,sin_family=AF_INET,inet_addr "0.0.0.0")
>
> then it complains that it can't connect.
>
> Why does X try to do an IP connection for a new window? Do I have
> something munged in my IP setup causing this? Why does it work as
> superuser
> and not for user level?
>
> The thing that really cranks me off is that I had this working perfectly
> before, and now I don't have a clue. Can someone out there please help?
>
> Steve Sanders
> --
> Steve Sanders
> 630-979-1747
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Hilaire Fernandes <[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: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 07:41:59 +0800
> > 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 :(
>
> There are plenty of people who have had no problems with that
As I do in the past, I already installed Linux over a K6, even this K6
seems to be overcocked but it was ok.
> combination, including me. On the other hand, there are people who
> have reported the same problems as you have. I'm not sure if there is
> a clear or common problem. What brand of motherboards are you using?
I try installing both from floppy and CDROM and try with Redhat from
4.1, 5.1, 5.2. The problems is excatly the same.
I can't remove stuff from the PCs as there are already running W95 and
WinNT workstation, I've no authority to play with the hardware.
There is 1 GB partition free I can use for what I want - installing
Linux, but no chance.
> Have you checked to see if it is AMD certified? Are you over-clocking
> the CPU? Have you tried taking some memory out of the machine, or
> doing 'mem=16M'? Have you tried a Pentium CPU? Can you boot on a
> boot floppy? What distribution are you installing, and have you tried
> difference kernels?
>
> robert
>
> --
> robert cope austin, texas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.linuxwizard.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Hilaire Fernandes
Dr Geo project http://members.xoom.com/FeYiLai/dr_geo/doctor_geo.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pls help: can't configure swap device
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:33:07 GMT
S.T. Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Btw, someone told me that 2.2.x supports swap area of unlimited size. Is that
> true ?
Yes, but you'll need an updated mkswap from util-linux. See Documentation/Changes
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: su (to nobody) ...
Date: 08 Feb 1999 07:54:05 -0500
Uh, your From: line is very clearly wrong (b.c has neither an MX
record nor an A record). Could you please correct it? Thanks...
Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> If i find the following line in my /var/log/messages
Patrick>
Patrick> Feb 8 06:53:15 myhost su: (to nobody) root on none
Patrick>
Patrick> does that mean that a user nobody used su to log in as root?
I think it means root executed the su to nobody.
Patrick> Who has got the right to log onto a linux box as nobody?
Patrick> I understood it was only some daemons(httpd) which ran as nobody.....
If everything is set up right, mere humans can't log on to a Linux box
as "nobody", since that user should have no password. My guess as to
what's happening: a job gets started from cron as root. (Do you get
these messages at the same time every day?) The cron job runs a shell
script. For security reasons, the script doesn't want to run as root,
so it su's itself to nobody (which it can do because it was root).
That generates the message you see.
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: g++ missing?
Date: 8 Feb 1999 10:12:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) works...
>
>the script answers "no" and says: "installation or configuration
>problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables." I believe that this
>is untrue, but am not sure where to start to debug or fix this problem.
Examine the config.log file that configure generates. It shows the test
performed, and its results.
>I am running RedHat 5.2 with glibc-2.0.7-29, egcs-1.0.3a-14,
>egcs-c++-1.0.3a-14, and libstdc++-2.8.0-14.
I'm not really familiar with Red Hat, but AFAIK they too split libraries in
runtime and development packages; perhaps you need to install the
development package for libstdc++?
HTH,
Ray
--
ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking
his name in vain.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (|_@nc&|ot)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.misc
Subject: APSfilter and printer offline..
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:00:47 GMT
I'm trying to setup SUSE 6.0 with APSfilter to print on my LaserJet
5Mp without success!!
If i try to print from shell (cat foo.txt > /dev/lp) or within KDE
applications, the only response is:
...NOTHING!!!...
lpc status is:
bash-2.02# lpc status
ascii:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
printer idle
lp:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
3 entries in spool area
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
raw:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
printer idle
Naturally my printer is ready and online......
Can you help me to found a solution to this amazing and unpleasant
problem.. :-)
Thanks in advance for any tip.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Autoresponding
Date: 8 Feb 1999 07:27:11 GMT
Scott Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking for a way to automatically respond to certain email
> messages. The situation: A user on one web site clicks a button to
> send a request for more info from another web site. Right now, someone
> has to respond to the request manually. I would like to have my Redhat
> Linux box automatically respond when the message is received. I know
> this is common, I just need some direction as to what program allows
> this.
Check out procmail (man procmail, man procmailrc and man procmailex)
It'll do everything you want.
Simeon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: EXT2-FS warning for nonexistant FS?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:01:57 GMT
Mathias Koerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, I do not have a device 08:11:
It is hex, hence sdb1
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