Linux-Misc Digest #972, Volume #18 Wed, 10 Feb 99 06:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: SuSE 5.3 Networking SLOW (Jaroslaw =?iso-8859-1?Q?Br=FCst?=)
Re: PPP Problem --- Please help! (brian smith)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Io)
Re: Errors compiling 2.1.43 (Paul Kimoto)
Forte Agent help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SVGALIB and i/o permissions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Converting filenames from uppercase to lowercase (Ville Voutilainen)
Best version of Netscape 4.5 (Alex McCreath)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (James Ewing)
Re: File Type Application Association - How? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code ("Mark Harrison")
help on strings libraries ("schatzi")
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Jason Clifford)
UNIX/C++/Emb. eng.wanted (Garynlang)
CMI8330 Howto (Mike Plemmons)
Re: xterm or text console? how can program find out? ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: Strange message in /var/log/ (jamie)
Re: Hard Drive (Tim Laursen)
Backup/Mirror WIN95 (Christoph Dohmen)
Re: kernel 2.2.1 doesn't like ppp (John Thompson)
Any equivalent of MS NetMeeting on Linux (Michael Keightley)
passing options to SYSV print server (Michael Keightley)
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From: Jaroslaw =?iso-8859-1?Q?Br=FCst?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 5.3 Networking SLOW
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:51:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keith Davey wrote:
>
> I just installed an "evaluation version" of SuSE 5.3 and set it up for
> use with a PPP connection. Unfortunatly I can not get more than 700 bps
> thru-put on a 33.6KBS modem. When I switch over to Win98 and hit the
> same sites they work just fine. Whats up?
>
hallo,
i have a german SuSE Linux 5.3, but i think
i can help you. I have had the same problem!
So, the solution is:
You can set the modem-speed with YaST:
in the PPP-network configuration dialog
push F4 (modem parameter) and set the
right modem speed (38400 for 33.6k modem)
Jarek
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: brian smith <[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: Re: PPP Problem --- Please help!
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 12:28:43 -0600
Try to make sure that the PAP authentication box is checked in netconfig. I had
the same problem and this fixed it. Good luck and welcome to linux!
pschless wrote:
> 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: Io <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 03:01:38 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> the
> biggest hurdle in the Manhattan Project was likely just figuring out how
> to 1) isolate the pure form of uranium needed, and 2) figiuring out how
> to design an enclosure to facilitate said slamming of pieces together).
>
> --
>
> Paul Doherty
It was my understanding the largest issue was the design of the shaped
charges and the critical nature of getting them to detonate at the exact
same time to "crunch" the uranium to critical mass.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Errors compiling 2.1.43
Date: 10 Feb 1999 03:03:27 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Patrick Lanphier wrote:
> I am running a 2.2 kernel, however, I would like to go back and
> compile a 2.1.43 kernel so that I can patch it with mlppp.
> /tmp/cca24704.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/cca24704.s:65: Error: operands given don't match any known 386
> instruction
> /tmp/cca24704.s:68: Error: operands given don't match any known 386
> instruction
A common reason would be not having sufficiently recent binutils.
It would seem strange if you can successfully compile 2.2.x, though ...
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Forte Agent help
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 07:34:11 GMT
I have two problems with Free Agent 16 and Red Hat 5.2. The program seems to
function fine, but 1) the fonts are all messed up, specifically the menu
fonts. There is a way to change all the other fonts, and I've done that, but
the window title font changing mechanisme eludes me. The other thing that
annoys me is that wine -managed agent produces windows the size of the screen
(1024x768). How can I get it to default to a smaller size? I've tried
closing Agent with the X gadgets, with its own file/exit button...nothing
seems to help.
The other problem (which makes 3, I know) is that window sizing functions as
well as menu popups are all shifted...I click to resize a window and agent
thinks my mouse is 3 inches to the left. I click to get a menu and agent
thinks the mouse is 6 inches to the right...
I'm using the latest Wine and RH 5.2.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SVGALIB and i/o permissions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:36:23 GMT
Mario Moder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When i start a program using svgalib as a normal user, it says:
> svgalib: Cannot get I/O permissions.
> As root there is no problem, but it must also work as normal users because
svgalib applications have to be suid root
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ville Voutilainen)
Subject: Re: Converting filenames from uppercase to lowercase
Date: 10 Feb 1999 07:49:20 GMT
>>Here it is. I've got a whole bunch of files having names which most are
>>in upper case. So i would like them to be changed using a shell
>>script. Something which looks similar like this:
>>Is there maybe a command which can do the translation from upper to
>>lower in one go?
>
>for file in *
>do
> mv $file `echo $file | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]"`
>done
>
>NB This will fail if your filenames contain spaces or non printing characters.
This won't:
for i in *;do mv "$i" "`echo $i| tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`";done
The trick is to enclose filenames with normal quotes. Works with
spaces and other evil <g> characters. Whether you use [A-Z] or
[:upper:] withtr makes no difference although I bet [A-Z] is
understood by most versions of tr whereas [:upper:] might not
be. YMMV.
-VJV-
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:18:42 +1000
From: Alex McCreath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.news,linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Best version of Netscape 4.5
Which version of Netscape Communicator (4.5) runs best under Linux RH52.
I have a standard Pentium 120 machine with 64M memory and plenty of
drive space. Thanks in advance.
Alex McCreath
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From: James Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:54:22 +0100
I love these off-topic threads! Makes linux.misc much more entertaining.
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Io wrote:
> > the
> > biggest hurdle in the Manhattan Project was likely just figuring out how
> > to 1) isolate the pure form of uranium needed, and 2) figiuring out how
> > to design an enclosure to facilitate said slamming of pieces together).
> >
> > --
> >
> > Paul Doherty
>
>
> It was my understanding the largest issue was the design of the shaped
> charges and the critical nature of getting them to detonate at the exact
> same time to "crunch" the uranium to critical mass.
>
>
The Manhattan project made two kinds of bombs - a Uranium bomb (Fat
Man) and a Plutonium bomb (Little Boy). Evidently a Uranium bomb is easier
to detonate than a Plutonium bomb because it reaches critical mass more
easily (physists are welcome to flame me on this point!).
The Fat Man U235 bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was described by one
author as 'a stove pipe with a Uranium plug aimed toward a lump of Uranium
in a stove belly' (paraphrased). The Plutonium bomb, which Nagasaki
received, required precise timed detonation of lense shaped charges around
a spherical Plutonium mass.
There is much speculation as to why the US needed to drop two bombs when
one should have sufficed. My opinion is that they wanted to test the
Plutonium bomb. The one live test in New Mexico was of a Uranum 235 bomb
and I think the politicians and scientists were curious if the Plutonium
bomb would work. It answered their questions, but was a bit rough on the
poor residents of Nagasaki...
Jim Ewing
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: File Type Application Association - How?
Date: 10 Feb 1999 10:06:46 +0100
David J. DeFrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, I understand, let me be more specific. I'm running Red Hat 5.2 and am
> using the included "file manager" xfm. I have a group of images (.jpg's)
> I'd like to view when I've located them in xfm. Now, if I double click an
> image file nothing happens. I'd like to have The Gimp start automatically
> and load the image I've double clicked. I want to associate a specific file
> type with an appropriate application to open it. TIA.
OK; then you just have to edit (using your favourite text editor) a file called
xfmrc located in your ~/.xfm directory. The content is rather self-explanatory,
so you should not have too much trouble changing the association of jpg files
(I think it is xv by default) to gimp.
Hope this helps!
--
Alain Borel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Mark Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:27:54 +0800
Max F Lang wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In the 80's among OS/2
>developer groups it was pretty well known that BG -hated- children,
>esspecially babies. Couldn't stand to be around them. Now he has two(?).
You get used to them... if you're not careful, you actually
become quite fond of them.
;-),
Mark.
=====================================================================
Mark Harrison
AsiaInfo Computer Networks http://usai.asiainfo.com:8080/
Beijing, China / Santa Clara, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "schatzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help on strings libraries
Date: 9 Feb 99 17:53:10 GMT
Hello ...
Sorry for such a basic question but I really want to know !
With c++, under RedHat 5.1, I wish to use strings libraries and can't
find them.
I have try several includes (<strings.h>, <memory>, <cctype>, <cstring>)
and several class names (basic_string, string, cstring, ...)
without success.
As you see I miss documentation. Do such libraries exist and how do we use
them? Are they standard? Is it possible to find documentation on the c++
libraries (templates, lists, ...) ?
Thank you very much for your help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:55:18 +0000
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, David Masterson wrote:
> Your second paragraph here goes against your first. It would have been
> perfectly fine for Microsoft to integrate their browser into the OS *IF*
> Netscape had just as much ability to integrate their browser into the
> OS. Integration of the browser into the OS is a perfectly fine idea,
> but, due to technological issues, only one browser could be integrated
> into the OS. Therefore, doing this would probably (95%+) wipe out the
> independent browser market.
The point here is not actually whether a browser get's implemented into
the OS per se but the fact that MS are seeking to use their existing
market monopoly in the OS to leverage extra markets and through that to
take total control of the Internet.
It has already been shown several times that Microsoft is in the habit os
abusing it' monopoly in the OS market so allowing it to gain another one
would cause immense damage to computing and the Internet generally.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Garynlang)
Subject: UNIX/C++/Emb. eng.wanted
Date: 9 Feb 1999 19:24:14 GMT
We have an excellent permanent position in
Irvine (CA) for an embedded engineer with
UNIX/C++ knowledge. US Citizenship req.
Pls. contact us for futher details.
Gary
Gary N. Lang
Vice President of ACD,Inc.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.acdcon.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Plemmons)
Subject: CMI8330 Howto
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 11:48:24 -0400
I have searched Dejanews and have come up with nothing. Can someone tell
me where I can get the CMI8330 Howto??
Thanks,
--
Mike Plemmons | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WebMaster Speech and Hearing Science
http://www.shs.ohio-state.edu
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xterm or text console? how can program find out?
Date: 10 Feb 1999 10:32:30 GMT
Arthur Corliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9 Feb 1999 14:03:58 GMT, T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Allen Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> "Norm Dresner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>>>Why should you want to know? What difference would it make?
>>>> Norm
>>
>>> Well, for one thing, the key bindings are different.
>>
>>that's a different issue (your terminal description tracks that).
> One could check the TERM environment variable, since in xterm, it is typically
> 'xterm'. The console, of course, would be something like 'linux' or 'vt100',
> and so on.
otoh, the $TERM variable is irrelevant to whether or not you can open an
X display. (I see lots of people who confuse xterm/rxvt/vt100/"ansi" and
linux terminal types).
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jamie)
Subject: Re: Strange message in /var/log/
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 16:00:33 -0600
Scallica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey,
>
>When I looked in /var/log/messages, I found this line and it looked strange.
>What does it mean? Could this be a security hazard? Thanx.
>
>PAM_pwdb[831]: (su) session opened for user nobody
>Feb 7 04:04:09 PAM_pwdb[831]: (su) session close
The time is a clue.
cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/nobody
# This updates the database for 'locate' every day:
40 04 * * * updatedb 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
--
jamie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"There's a seeker born every minute."
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From: Tim Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Drive
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:28:47 +0100
Dion Jones wrote:
>
> I have 2 drives in my PC, but during setup, I can't tab to it in Disk Druid.
> I have tried using FDISK, but can't get my head around it. Can somebody
> please help me and tell me how I can get Linux to access this second drive.
First of all: Forget all about Disk Druid! It is a dead end. The Red Hat
people must have thought that it was a neat thing, but in real life it
is more confusing than helpful. Use fdisk instead.
It's been a long time since I installed my own Red Had Linux, so my
memory of how the menus work is a bit faded, but as far as I remember,
you get the option of choosing which drive you want to partition. If you
have two IDE discs, they will be called /dev/hda and /dev/hdb (as
opposed to C: and D: in DOS). But all of this should be in the manual,
so I guess that is not your problem. If you can't see the second drive,
then maybe it was for some reason not detected. In that case you should
supply us with a bit more information about your set up (controller,
motherboard, BIOS and stuff like that).
--
(\ Best regards, /)
-||||8- Tim -8||||-
(/ 2B OR NOT 2B = FF \)
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From: Christoph Dohmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Backup/Mirror WIN95
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:53:47 +0100
Hi,
dows anyone know a tool for copy/mirror a complete w95 installation
to another drive. Especially long filenames with spaces should be
handled!
Thanks
Chris
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.1 doesn't like ppp
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:47:47 -0600
Kyle Dansie wrote:
>
> John Thompson wrote:
> >
> > I just finished compiling kernel 2.2.1 and everything seems
> > to work except ppp. I can dial into my provider, start ppp
> > but nothing happens. [...]
> You just need to get the newer 2.3.5 version of ppp. There is an RPM for
> it on the redhat site, I dont recall the address though. If you have
> trouble with the config files, let me know I can send you a copy of
> mine.
Thanks; I have since tried the newer ppp again and made some
scripting changes and it appears to work.
Now I just need to get the tape drive going...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Michael Keightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any equivalent of MS NetMeeting on Linux
Date: 10 Feb 1999 10:48:06 +0000
Is there any package available on Linux (Redhat 5.2) which will does
the same as Sun's SunForum or SGI's Sgimeeting, i.e. connect to PCs
running MS NetMeeting. NetMeeting is MicroDross's conferencing software.
Michael
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Michael Keightley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems Manager Tel: +44 131 220 4491
Quadstone Ltd Fax: +44 131 220 4492
16 Chester Street
Edinburgh EH3 7RA, Scotland
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From: Michael Keightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: passing options to SYSV print server
Date: 10 Feb 1999 10:52:00 +0000
On SysV machines you can pass the lp command -o options to select
trays etc, e.g "lp -otray1 file". Is there any way to pass options
to a SysV print server via Linux's lpr command?
Michael
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Michael Keightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel: +44 131 220 4491
Systems Manager Fax: +44 131 220 4492
Quadstone Limited WWW: http://www.quadstone.com
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