Linux-Misc Digest #982, Volume #18 Thu, 11 Feb 99 06:13:10 EST
Contents:
install problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters ("Chris Severn")
Re: Fax-Server for Linux ("Albert Want")
Re: More bad news for NT (David Steuber)
Re: File Type Application Association - How? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KERNEL 2.2.0 failed ("Till Mommsen")
Re: Plain text SQL Scripts -> vi (Slava Zimine)
Partition problems (Bernhard Dobbels)
Re: KDE is a Memory Hog. (David Steuber)
Re: what's the difference between desktop/window-manager (David Steuber)
Re: Howto do Encrypted IP Tunneling with Linux? ("Chris den Besten")
Display issue on a Linux workstation (Ilya)
Icons in KDE ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: sendmail-rhcn-8.9.3-1 RPM and SRPM for Red Hat 5.1 and 5.2 (Alexandre Dulaunoy)
Can Linux share modem with Windows?
what's-wrong-with-init5 (Francois Patte)
Problem with Linux Installation (Mr Lithops)
Re: Opinions about LyX? (Gareth Owen)
fetchmail as daemon (Bill Simpson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: install problem
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 05:04:40 GMT
Hi, I'm a newbie at Linux. I obtained a copy of redhat 5.2 deluxe (the one
put out by MacMillan publishing). I advise non-experts to avoid this product
since no support is provided by redhat. By directly from Redhat and get
access to their tech support. In any case, I'm having a major problem with
the installation. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. The
gory details:
After booting from the boot floppy, I get the menu asking for my boot
choices.
I press entrer for the default and after loading the install program,
the system will hang, requiring a hard reset or power off. At the point of the
hang, the last few lines of the screen are:
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks pf 4096k size
ide i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
ide1: BM DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
At this point, the system hangs up completely.
I've tried disabling the cache, both the on-board L1 cache and the L2
cache and same thing happens.
I have Windows NT workstation 4.0 on there now and it boots fine.
My system configuration:
233mhz Pentium II 233mhz
512k L2 Cache
128mb dram
Iwill Mother board p55xub/xubwb w/intel 430TX chipset
Award modular bios v4.51pg and Award Plug and Play Bios extension
v1.0A
Adaptec aha-2920 scsi adapter card
Adaptec aha-2940au pci scsi adapter on the system board (no devices
connected)
Western digital 8.4 gb eide hard drive on pirmary ide interface
conner 1gb scsi drive connected to 2920 card
fujitsu 1gb scsi drive connected to 2920 card
Toshiba 3401TA scsi cd rom connected to 2920 card
Diamond viper pc 2mb video card weitek p9100 chip
Serial mouse
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From: "Chris Severn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:07:05 +0800
Julian T. J. Midgley wrote in message
<79r1jp$ol$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Paul Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>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?
>
>A fine example of American ignorance :-)
>For an unusual value of "recently" (circa 90 years), the answer is yes.
>But I suspect you were born when Australia was already independent.
Well, we're not very independant. We've still got the Queen as our head of
state. Theoretically, she has as much control over Australia as she does
over Great Britain.
So, it really depends on your definition of "let go".
And, what happened 90 years ago exactly, which makes you think we're
independant. You're talking about Federation ? 1901 I think. I think that
just put one more layer beteen the states and the Queen, but didn't change
the fact she's at the top.
But, there's been a lot of talk recently about becoming a republic.
Personally, I don't care. It will just cost a lot of money, for no gain
that I can see.
I'm just an Aussie with a less than 100% knowledge about these things.
Chris Severn
--
Delete the 'x's to remove the spamblock
Except spammers, for whom my email address is abuse@localhost
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From: "Albert Want" <al-want@#--remove--#usa.net>
Subject: Re: Fax-Server for Linux
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:50:27 -0000
Try to have a look at Hylafax...
Scheu, Bernd wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm looking for a fax-server-software for Linux that allows to send and
>receive faxes via an ISDN-adaptor and uses SMTP/POP3/IMAP for
>transmission from and to the client. It would further be nice if there
>would be the possibility to integrate the FAX-Server into Microsoft
>Outlook 97.
>
>Do I stand any chances that there is such a software that can satisfy my
>needs displayed above? Has anyone heard anything about such a software?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Please direct your answers at
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Thanks again.
>
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: 10 Feb 1999 21:51:05 -0500
"Boris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> >To demonstrate the advantages of the platform, the demo last week showed the
-> >appliance running nearly three times faster than a server with Oracle8i
-> >running atop Windows NT on identical HP hardware.
-> That's because Oracle NT sucks. They way to go is Microsoft SQL Server 7.
NT + MS SQL Server 7 vs Oracle8i?
Sounds like a good head to head comparison!
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
When will Altoids be available in 'extra strength'?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: File Type Application Association - How?
Date: 11 Feb 1999 00:54:59 PST
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David J. DeFrain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I associate an application to a specific filetype in Linux?
> I want the GIMP to open automatically when I click on a .jpg file,
> for instance. TIA.
I use FileRunner. It is a very handy X-based file manager with
good ftp support. You can associate a program to be launched for
every type of file extension (for e.g. double-click on
a file with .pdf and acroread will display it).
Get it from: http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html
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From: "Till Mommsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KERNEL 2.2.0 failed
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:35:39 +0100
just realized a typo which may be confusing if someone doesn't know
linuxhq.com..
it is not www.linuxhg.com but linuxhq.com...
rgds, Till
>The first thing I would suggest is that you point your web browser at
>www.linuxhg.com/change22.html. This spcific page has alot of information
>on requirements before you attempt your rebuild. There are several Libs
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From: Slava Zimine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plain text SQL Scripts -> vi
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:00:22 +0100
copy your plain text files as is to linux.
then sweep off the ^M carriage returns in them using dos2unix utility.
the rpm packge name is dos2unix in the redhat contributed rpms dir.
that's it.
regards.
Slava
Gert Ormel wrote:
>
> I've got a bunch of SQL scripts for creating tables, indexes etc
> for an Oracle database running on Windows95.
> I plan to migrate to Oracle on Linux and my question is:
>
> how to copy/import the SQL scrips (which are in plain text format) into my
> vi editor? I'm not really looking forward to type
> all these scripts again.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gert
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bernhard Dobbels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Partition problems
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:44:35 +0100
Hi,
I'm using kernel 2.2.1. (but partitions were made under 2.0.36)
I use windows on c: and the program files & data are on e:, d: is a
cdwriter (scsi), e: a cdrom drive (ide)
This is weird already, but here comes the problem (fdisk -l)
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 39 307408+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(304, 31, 63) logical=(38, 69, 63)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(304, 31, 63) should be (304, 254, 63)
/dev/hda2 * 306 39 52 102816 83 Linux native
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(305, 0, 1) logical=(38, 70, 1)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(406, 31, 63) logical=(51, 18, 63)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(406, 31, 63) should be (406, 254, 63)
/dev/hda4 408 52 784 5886720 5 Extended
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(407, 0, 1) logical=(51, 19, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(1023, 31, 63) logical=(783, 238, 63)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 31, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63)
/dev/hda5 408 52 179 1024096+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hda6 1024 179 338 1280128+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda7 1024 338 402 510016+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda8 1024 402 784 3072352+ 83 Linux native
Everyting works fine, but i would like to add a swap partition in stead
of a swapfile and every program gives errors under windows. I've tried
Partition Magic 4.0 and it told me that there were errors in the
partition table.
I've looked everywhere for info and asked on the belgian/nederland
newsgroup, but no solutions. How can i solve those errors without losing
data?
--
Bernhard Dobbels Student Electronic Engineer
option Automation and Computersystems.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 25783372
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE is a Memory Hog.
Date: 10 Feb 1999 21:33:02 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Evans) writes:
-> In article <79pgk0$6mp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
-> Chad M. Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> >
-> > Ya, but KDE is cool. Memory is cheap.
-> >
-> > -chad
-> Thats the Microsoft spirit!!!
-> So you want Linux to be like Windoze...I think not.
What Paul Seelig said, plus:
Will GNOME be any smaller? I don't know, I'm just asking. GNOME
looks like it will be pretty sharp, and I may switch from KDE to
GNOME. Can you do that under Windows?
If you don't like fat desktops and window managers, don't use them.
No one says you have to use X. You get a reasonable supply of
terminals in tty.
Maybe I just forgot what it is like to be in debt and unemployed. But
really, memory is cheap. Both my machines have 128MB of RAM and
hardly ever hit the swap partition. This is not bragging. In a few
years, 128MB is likely to be the norm on el cheapo machines.
At least Linux + X + (KDE || GNOME) take less memory than Windows.
That leaves more for your applications.
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
When will Altoids be available in 'extra strength'?
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what's the difference between desktop/window-manager
Date: 10 Feb 1999 21:40:24 -0500
Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> Hi Ben,
-> Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. It clears up a lot of stuff.
-> I think I'll try the KDE one of these days when I have time to kill...
I don't think you will regret it. I use KDE and think it is very
nice. However, GNOME also looks quite good and I might give that a
whirl. One think I really like about GNOME is the GTK widget library
uses C bindings, which allows many languages to link with it. KDE
uses QT which is C++. I may be mistaken, but I think that GNOME may
become the more popular desktop.
At least you have a choice!
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
s/trashcan/david/ to reply by mail
When will Altoids be available in 'extra strength'?
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From: "Chris den Besten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Howto do Encrypted IP Tunneling with Linux?
Date: 10 Feb 1999 08:07:38 GMT
Read the "VPN" mini-howto. It helps you setting up a VPN using SSH for
security.
Chris
Ben Russo wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Anybody out there have a reference to a howto
>on setting up Encrypted IP tunneling over the
>internet between to linux boxes?
>
>-Ben
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Display issue on a Linux workstation
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions
Date: 10 Feb 1999 00:08:45 +0800
I finally dumped proprietory Unix hardware and joined the Linux world!
I just got my Linux workstation with Linux pre-installed.
The display has kind of running lines on it, a little bit, hardly
noticeable but more so on a white background. Is there anything I can do to
resolve it? I think it has something to do with the refresh rate and
frequency. Do I need to run some kind of a configuration program?
Thanks a lot.
Ilya
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Icons in KDE
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:55:07 +0000
Hmm... weird.
Earlier today while looking for an icon file, I stumbled across the
"/usr/share/icons" directory... which I didn't even know was there (it's
been so long since I've used X without KDE, there's probably oceans of
stuff like this I've never bothered to learn!). I thought that some of
these icons were so much better than ones I was using that I had to
incorporate them... so I set a symbolic link to that directory in the
place of the user's KDE icons directory (in my case,
"/home/steve/.kde/share/icons"), so that I could use them without
messing up the standard KDE set in "/opt/kde/share/icons" or having to
move them from the shared X directory (in case I ever decide to try a
different window manager).
ANYWAY... after that I was all happy, except that a couple of weird
things started happening. Mainly, the folders on my desktop were now
represented by this really simplistic and ugly folder icon... the
nice-looking KDE folders were gone. After tinkering around, I found
that this was what "folder.xpm" from the "/usr/share/icons" directory
looks like... ordinarily folders are represented by an icon by the same
name in "/opt/kde/share/icons".
I tried changing the icon back to the one from the main KDE set, but
it said that this was what it was already set for. Finally, just for
the hell of it... I overwrote the "folder.xpm" file from
"/usr/share/icons" with the one from "/opt/kde/share/icons". After
that, it was back to normal again!
I was wondering if anyone else has seen something like this before,
if perhaps it might be a bug in KDE. I'm also trying to figure out why
the "logout" icon on the virtual-desktop-switcher-thingy at the bottom
of the screen has changed from normal to some tan-colored squigly
thing... but I guess that's another story for another day!
Steve
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From: Alexandre Dulaunoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sendmail-rhcn-8.9.3-1 RPM and SRPM for Red Hat 5.1 and 5.2
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:58:37 +0100
Why don't you include virtusertable,relay-domains ?
alx
James Bourne wrote:
>
> We have posted the i386.rpm, src.rpm, and patches on our WWW site at
> http://www.affinity-systems.ab.ca/software/ for sendmail-8.9.3-1. These
> should work on Red Hat 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2 but were compiled under a relatively
> stock Red Hat 5.2 system and Kernel 2.2.1.
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From: nonet@chain ()
Subject: Can Linux share modem with Windows?
Date: 11 Feb 1999 10:10:48 GMT
Hi,
I have Linux, but my LAN pals have Windows. They won't change.
To convince them, I'd like to let them share my modem through
Linux, something Windows can't do.
Can this be done? Suggestions? Starters?
Thanks
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From: Francois Patte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what's-wrong-with-init5
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:21:43 +0100
Bonjour,
I tried for many days now to install a mouse (Logitech 3 buttons). Here
is what I did:
1- started Linux init 3 and ran mouseconfig: choosed Logitech and cua1.
2- rebooted with init 6 and checked if my mouse worked in console mode.
3- edited XF86Config and set Logitech protocol in pointer section,
commented Emulate3buttons.
4- startx: the mouse worked fine.
5- edited inittab and choosed init5 at start-up. Rebooted.
The mouse didn't work!
I tried other protocols: MouseMan, Microsoft... always the behaviour is
the same: the mouse works when I star X Window with starx and not when I
start it with init5: sometimes the pointer doesn't move, sometimes it
moves jumping from place to place, sometimes the X Window doesn't open
without any error message, the screen just flash!
I installed Linux REdHat 5.2.
Thanks for any suggestion.
-- Fran�ois Patte. UFR de math�matiques et informatique.
45 rue des St P�res. 75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tel: 01 44 55 35 59 -- Fax: 01 44 55 35 35
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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From: Mr Lithops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with Linux Installation
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:49:56 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'm _trying_ to install Linux RedHat 5.0
This is my hardware:
HD1 1,2 Gb IDE: 800Mb Linux - 50Mb Linux Swap
HD2 4,3 Gb IDE : 2GB DOS (other partition to create)
Video Card : Alliance Promotion 6422
CDROM , Sound Card 16bit, Mouse
The installation ends normally and Lilo is successfully installed but
when I try to boot Linux, it boot and then says:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
EXT2-fs error (device 03:01): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory
#2: rec_len is smaller
than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
Unable to open an initial console
I already tryed to install it _many times_ trying to change always
something!
Can you help me, pls????
Mr.Lithops
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From: Gareth Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Opinions about LyX?
Date: 11 Feb 1999 11:01:41 +0000
"Kester Clegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Plus, xemacs has quite wonderful support
> for tex *including* opening existing latex files (unlike LyX), such as
> reftex which lets you jump about a massive, multifile document with complete
> ease and check / interact all your bibtex and refs. And boy, is xemacs
> configurable!
> k.
Plus: All the bits of (X)Emacs that are not directly related to LaTeX but
make typing so much more fun: Easy keyboard macros, abbreviations (dynamic
and static), narrowing, outline mode, Tetris...
--
Gareth Owen
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~gowen/lisp/
"Ugh! Emacs = DOS Edit = crap"
- Deryk Lister in pcplus.linux
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:02:24 -0600
From: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fetchmail as daemon
As instructed, I put
fetchmail -d 600
in my .bash_profile
to get fetchmail to start and run in background every time I login and
start up bash.
I use AfterStep (X) and use a button to get an xterm that does
Exec "-" xterm
Each time I pull up an xterm I get the message:
fetchmail: can't accept options while a background fetchmail is running.
I imagine I need to put
fetchmail -d 600
in some other startup file. Which one? Or in any case please tell me how
to fix this.
BTW I tried .bashrc already and this doesn't work at all (the contents are
ignored, I think because bash is invoked as interactive login shell and
such shells ignore .bashrc)
Thanks very much for any help.
Bill Simpson
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