Linux-Misc Digest #3, Volume #19 Sat, 13 Feb 99 00:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Making a RH 5.2 install CD (Rod Smith)
Re: a.out will not work (Bob Martin)
Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers ("Steve Cyr")
Re: Terminal Emulators. . . ("Cj.Spaans")
Re: SuSE / F-keys over telnet (Tobin Fricke)
Re: experience with software RAID-1 ? (Ben Russo)
Re: first unix port to x86 (Alexander Viro)
Re: Sorting mail and news (brian moore)
Re: File Type Application Association - How? (George Farris)
Re: Linux 2.2 upgrade pack for Red Hat 5.2 available (Timothy Murphy)
Red Hat novice seeking (elementary?) advice ("D. M. Smith")
Re: kernel too big? (Tom Trebisky)
Re: ISP Administration Help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Burning MP3s to CD, long file names? (Stef)
Re: Changing hard drives (Bruno Barberi Gnecco)
how to compile and run a c program in linux?
compiling pppd 2.3.5 with kernel2.2.1 (David Fenyes)
Re: gcc for Linux (fernando)
Re: KDE is a Memory Hog. (Tom Evans)
Re: pthreads/linux/setstacksize (Dave Butenhof)
/lib/modules/preferred deleted on boot ???????? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: INN (Julius Gehr)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Matthias Buelow)
Sound Blaster 32 PnP Problems (Rodrigo Castro)
Re: help with xcopy (Chris Leith)
Re: KDE opens more and more Xterms each time! (Marco Tephlant)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Making a RH 5.2 install CD
Date: 11 Feb 1999 22:18:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <79u0ks$npn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Dion Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I make a bootable RH5.2 ISO CD image after I downloaded all the
> necessary files?
1) See my web site on the topic:
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith/rhjol.html
2) Don't get hung up on the "bootable" part. In most cases, that's a VERY
MINOR convenience, and you'll waste more time trying to figure out how
to do it than you'll save from having a bootable CD.
> Is this step necessary to make a working RH5.2 install CD?
What step? If you mean it being bootable, then no, it's not necessary.
> Another thing, when I download the RH5.2 files with win98 (/misc/src/...),
> what about the symbolic links, will that cause any problems if they are
> absent? (Windows will obviously not copy sym links)
Yes, you must have the symlinked files. Duplicate copies will do. This is
discussed in detail on my web page.
> I have a HP8100 writer that comes with the adaptek CDcreater software
> capable of writing a ISO9660 image, but not long filenames and without two
> "." in the filename???? How do I get past this.
Adaptec's Easy CD Creator is unsuitable for the task. There are ways
around this, though -- again, see my web page for details.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.users.fast.net/~rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a.out will not work
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:01:41 -0600
How are you executing the commad ?
# a.out
if you are try
#./a.out
Unix does not normally look in the current directory unless you tell it.
@erols.com wrote:
> i recently installed Red Hat 5.1 on 3 PCs and they all work great, except
> for running a c program. i tried cc hello.c
> a.out
> but it gives error message: bash a.out: command not found
> (i also tried gcc -o hello hello.c but it give similar error hello not
> found)
>
> Please help!
>
> Jerry Squadron
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From: "Steve Cyr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:20:19 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<99Lv2.85$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Mon, 08 Feb 1999 17:52:39 -0600, Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>>
>>If there is comparable evidence of perjury under oath in a court of law
>>then ditto!
>>But you really don't expect to see the press cover for Delay the way
>>they do for Clinton do you?
>
>Must we get politics in here ?
>$60-80 million down the drain for what ?
1) So the Republicans could (try to) get revenge for what happened to
Tricky Dickie
2) So Ken Starr could say "I got him fpr something!"
Never mind that it had NOTHING to do with the Whitewater thing he was
supposed to investigate.
>--
> +---------------------------------------------+
> | Warren Hrach, San Diego, CA 92107 |
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> | Linux BBBSP on an AMD K5 |
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From: "Cj.Spaans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulators. . .
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:52:03 +0100
I know a program called smartterm from termsoft there emu is great. You
can get an evoluation version of the program. It expired but until then
is completly functional.
Hans Spaans
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Norvell Spearman wrote:
> I have a Linux server running an accounting program called OSAS (Open Systems
> Accounting Software). I need a good terminal emulation program for
> Windoze95/98 machines so they can telnet into the Linux server and run that
> program, retaining colors, keybindings, et cetera.
>
> Thanks for any help with this.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To reply, remove my opinion about
> unsolicited e-mails from my address.
>
>
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From: Tobin Fricke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SuSE / F-keys over telnet
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:59:54 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >SuSE's YaST program uses the function keys (F1 -> F10). How can I use
> >these keys though a telnet/ssh connection (with, say, Van Dyke
> >SecureCRT)?
> session preferences/options/Emacs modes
> set "Alt sends escape" and "Preserve Alt-Gr"
> now you can use Alt-1 -> Alt-0 instead of F1-> F10.
This doesn't seem to work. ESC is the key that exits YaST, so when I
enable "Alt sends Escape", then any Alt-combination will exit YaST. )-:
Any other ideas?
Tobin
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: experience with software RAID-1 ?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:37:09 -0500
Matthias Steffen wrote:
> Has anybody some experience with software RAID-1 solutions for linux ? I have
> to set up a new productive system these days and would like to use mirrored
> filesystems for greater security.
> The information I found so far seems to be quite old (end 97) and/or
> everything seems to be in a kind of beta stadium. What about solutions for the
> actual 2.0.36 kernel ?
>
> Matthias
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Matthias Steffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> IVU GmbH http://www.ivu-berlin.de
> Bundesallee 88 tel +49 30 85906 0
> 12161 Berlin, Germany fax +49 30 85906 111
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Get raidtools
and then read the HOWTO that comes with it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Subject: Re: first unix port to x86
Date: 11 Feb 1999 21:15:46 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Max Tulyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>���������, [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
>
>At 08 Feb 99 20:32:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to All:
>
> m> Hum, how does a Unix work on a machine without an MMU?
>At first, I don't know HOW OS can use my MMU? Only for fastest
>memory-to-memory transfer over MMU registers, I think... But it is not
>mandatory.
MMU != DMA and MMU != FPU. MMU on x86 is responsible for paging
and that is used by any modern UNIX. UNIX *can* exist on non-paging
machine (proof: PDP-11 ;-) and can exist even on machine with no memory
protection (also MMU function). Proof: UNIX on PDP-7, PDP-11/20 and... on
8086. Yes, it sucks. But it's doable. Original UNIX did it. Ditto for Xenix,
Minix, Coherent and their ilk. I suspect that 2.xBSD could run on -11/20 too.
--
"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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Sorting mail and news
Date: 12 Feb 1999 17:04:58 GMT
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:38:06 +0000,
Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It was the Sun, 07 Feb 1999 21:37:08 GMT...
> ..and Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ["file manager" to sort messages]
> > > 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.
>
> You didn't get me; I'm looking for a tool to sort huge mailbox files
> by hand - basically a file manager that treats mailboxes as
> "directories" where the messages are the "files".
But any decent mail client should be able to move a message from one
mailbox to another.
(And, yes, I really do have some 500M worth of mail archived... :))
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Farris)
Subject: Re: File Type Application Association - How?
Date: 12 Feb 1999 16:59:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederick M Periquet) writes:
> On 11 Feb 1999 00:54:59 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I agree, FileRunner have to be the most user friendly file manager.
>
> However, *.pdf is not enabled by default. How do I add it so that by
> double clicking a pdf file will launch xpdf with the doc ?
>
Just a thought but you could try the "Help" menu!!!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2 upgrade pack for Red Hat 5.2 available
Date: 12 Feb 1999 17:04:27 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Bourne) writes:
>Packages include are:
>ipchains-rhcn-1.3.8-2.i386.rpm
>modutils-rhcn-2.1.121-1.i386.rpm
>net-tools-rhcn-1.50-1.i386.rpm
>procinfo-rhcn-16-1.i386.rpm
>util-linux-rhcn-2.9h-1.i386.rpm
It seems curious that you don't include the kernel itself.
My impression is that there used to be a 2.2 kernel RPM at redhat,
but that it has been removed.
Is that correct?
[In fact it didn't work for me.]
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: "D. M. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat novice seeking (elementary?) advice
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:46:51 -0000
Can anybody please help?
With trembling hands I tore open the packaging of my new RH 5.2 boxed set
and promptly installed it onto my intel-based machine. The installation
seemed quite painless until it came to configuring my Xserver. Then the
nightmare began. After various fruitless attempts I checked the hardware
compatibility lists (I know, I know, I shoulda done this first!) and
discovered that my Sis 6326 graphics card (onboard, I think) was not
supported by the Xfree86 shipped with 5.2.
I then FTP'd into the RH updates site and downloaded a bunch of files
including Xfree86-3.3.3.1-1.i386.rpm onto another machine. These files I
shall copy to CD and from there install the updated version of Xfree86 onto
my linux machine. The question is, HOW? Can anybody please give me some step
by step instructions on how to do this? I'm just learning here and neither
the RH 5.2 manual nor any of my Linux books throw any light upon this so I
would be forever indebted to anyone who can help get me up and running.
By the way, I played it safe and downloaded all the updated files I could
see and so have the following on CD:
Dump-0.3-17.i386
ftp-0.10-4.i386
fvwm2-2.0.46-12i386
vwm2-icons-2.0.46-12i386
kernel-2.0.36-3.i386
kernel-headers-2.0.36-3.i386
kernel-ibcs-2.0.36-3.i386
kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.0.36-3.i386
kernel-source-2.0.36--3.i386
libc-5.3.12-28.i386
minicom-1.82-3.i386
netscape-common-4.08-1.i386
netscape-communicator-4.08-1.i386
pam-0.64-4.i386
perl-5.004m7-1.i386
samba-1.9.18p...
lots of XFree86 stuff..
�and everything else located in
ftp.dreamtime.org/pub/mirrors/updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386.
I admit I don't know what a lot of these are but thought I'd better get them
just in case.
(Phew, some download. I hope it�s worth it.)
Anyway, any advice as to what I should load and how I should go about
loading it would be received with unbounded enthusiasm.
I know it's a tall order but I'm desperate here!
Cheers people.
Darren.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Trebisky)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: kernel too big?
Date: 12 Feb 1999 10:00:20 -0700
In comp.os.linux.setup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Hi, i just got my hands on 2.2.1 and tried compiling it, it compiled ok but
...
- boots up ok but it boots up with all the things that were in the old kernel!
- and nothing from what was in the new kernel! the kicker is that i moved my
- old kernel and it seems to still be using it... i am quite confused.
Sounds like you didn't run LILO and it is still booting the old kernel,
but you mention running lilo.... I am confused too.
--
Tom Trebisky MMT Observatory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Arizona
http://kofa.as.arizona.edu/ Tucson, Arizona 85721
(520) 621-5135
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ISP Administration Help
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:45:12 GMT
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 07:55:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am an ISP looking for a method to manage my hosted domains through a
>database type of system so I no longer have to configure all the linux config
>files with small scripts to build apache, passwd, zone file and the such.
>Does anybody have any they can share or recomend ??
>
>Thanks !
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Jack :) Linux Admin
>"Off the keyboard, thru the ethernet, over the hub, past
> the router down the wire, ....nothing but NET!!"
>
>-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
>http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
Didn't think of that one....That is a good idea. I'm an ISP myself
and all the programs I wrote is RADIUS user accounting stuff. ( time
based for billing purposes) I have a Virtual domain script to
automate setting them up on boot but that's it. I really don't use
virtual users. qmail takes care of the rest.
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From: Stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Burning MP3s to CD, long file names?
Date: 11 Feb 1999 20:24:19 +0100
: mkisofs -o music.raw -R -T /data/musicdir
I also add the option -J for Joliet extensions, so I also have the
long Filenames under MS Windows.
You need a recent version of mkisofs for this.
Stef
--
WebMaster D-WERK
President SOS-ETH
ETH Zurich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hoes.li
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From: Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing hard drives
Date: 12 Feb 1999 11:43:02 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Steve D. Perkins" wrote:
> 1) First... I plan to attach the new hard drive as a slave drive,
> partition and format it, then copy all the data from the first drive to
> the second. What I don't know is how you format a new drive in Linux
> (the setup scripts on the installation CD-ROM have always handled that
> for me! <smile>). There is a "fdisk", of course... but I haven't
> exactly found a "format" DOS-equivalent command yet...
Here I installed Win when I changed the drive too, so I formatted
with DOS format and partitioned with linux fdisk. No problems...
> Also... I was planning to copy all my files from the old drive to
> new using a command like "cp -R /* <new-drive-mount-point>/". Will I
> need to be running in single-user mode to get all the files that might
> otherwise be in use? Is this the best way to go about transferring the
> data like this?
There's a HOWTO called... HDChange or something... see the list
of howtos and you'll find it. There're several ways to do it there.
> 2) I am assuming that all I have to do to make the system bootable
> again (after switching the new drive into the master position) is boot
> from floppy and re-run LILO... am I correct here?
You have to edit /etc/lilo.conf too, if you changed some partition
information...
--
Did you *REALLY* check that interface between the chair and the keyboard?
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ #1383173 - PGP 5.0i user
[I'm running Linux] -=-=- Electric Engineering at Politechnic School, USP
Check my homepage at http://graphx.home.ml.org * C, 3D graphics, and more
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From: <@erols.com>
Subject: how to compile and run a c program in linux?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:22:25 -0500
How do i compile and run a c program in linux?
Tried cc hello.c and a.out, but get an error a.out
command not found...
Thanks in advance,
Jerry
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: compiling pppd 2.3.5 with kernel2.2.1
From: David Fenyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 04:10:06 GMT
Hello,
I'm now running kernel 2.2.1, and although pppd 2.3.3 seems to work
with this version, it did not with the 2.1.x series, and I understand
that 2.3.5 is the preferred version of pppd.
When I try to compile pppd 2.3.5, it doesn't copy its own headers into
the kernel tree, saying the kernel files are newer. Nonetheless, the
compile fails with obvious ppp structure discrepancies. Is this a
known problem? What is the appropriate way to compile the latest
pppd?
Thanks,
David.
--
David Fenyes -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc for Linux
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:43:33 +0500
yes there is.
any distribution included.
AME wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Is there a free gcc compiler for Linux? Where can I find it?
> Thanks
>
> --
> Ayman Elsaedi
--
============================================
This are my personal opinions
Real email: sanabriaf at yahoo dot com
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From: Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE is a Memory Hog.
Date: 11 Feb 1999 11:08:03 -0500
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [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?
So only the OS needs to be efficient? I understand some things take
memory, but the attitude that "memory is cheap" excuses poor
programming just doesn't cut it. I'm not saying KDE/GNOME are poorly
designed or programmed, I'm just against the "memory is cheap"
response as a reason for memory consumption.
--
Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All disclaimers apply...
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From: Dave Butenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.programming.threads
Subject: Re: pthreads/linux/setstacksize
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 12:51:46 -0500
Robert Canright wrote:
> I'm porting code from SunOs to Linux. The pthread.h from Sun has
> pthread_attr_setstacksize, but the pthread.h from linux (via X. Leroy)
> doesn't have it.
>
> I'm new to pthreads. What gives? I thought Posix was Posix. How can
> one pthread.h have not have a standard pthread function
> (setstacksize)? were there different drafts of the pthreads standard
> and the linux version came from an earlier draft?
"POSIX is POSIX", but other things aren't POSIX.
As Xavier Leroy already said, POSIX allows implementation options, so
that some POSIX functions may not be supported on all implementations of
POSIX. You can always tell which are there by looking at the feature
macros defined in <unistd.h>, or by calling sysconf() at runtime.
However, none of that is relevant in this case, because while the
pthread_attr_setstacksize() function is sometimes useful, it's not POSIX.
It's from the much later Single UNIX Specification, Version 2 (also known
as UNIX98). Solaris 7 supports the UNIX98 extensions to POSIX, but most
other systems don't yet, including Linux.
People who have been exposed to DCE threads are sometimes confused by
this chronology because they've been setting stack size in a "POSIX-like
environment" for over 8 years. That's because this, like many other
UNIX98 extensions, comes from the DCE threads package. (Although the DCE
thread name was pthread_attr_setstacksize_np(), the "_np" being an
archaic and ultimately pointless designation that it was "non-portable".)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: /lib/modules/preferred deleted on boot ????????
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:37:49 GMT
After compiling a new kernel, same version 2.0.34, we are getting "can't
open /lib/modules/preferred/modules.dep" on boot.
/lib/modules/preferred is not there. There is a 2.0.34 directory with
the modules under other directories and there is a modules.dep there as
well.
We have made links and even tried creating the /lib/modules/preferred
directory but the links and/or directory "preferred" is deleted on
reboot. ????????
We did the make modules ; make modules_install. Made sure the
vmlinuz-2.0.34 in lilo.conf matched the /lib/modules/2.0.34 and
everything else suggested in newsgroup postings on the subject.
help :-(
Thanks!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julius Gehr)
Subject: Re: INN
Date: 11 Feb 1999 19:14:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 Feb 1999 15:11:33 +0100,
Boergmann Ralf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ich habe auf meinem System den INN - News - Server installiert.
>Wenn ich mit einem Netzwerkrechner auf diesen News-Server zugreife
>klappt alles einwandfrei. Jetzt moechte ich neue News-Gruppen(Foren)
>hinzufuegen, krieg es aber beim besten Willen nicht hin. Eine Doku
>die mir helfen koennte, hab ich auch nocht nicht gefunden.
>Also wenn einer einen Tip hat ...
>Mit freundlichen Gruessen
try it with:
/usr/lib/news/bin/ctlinnd newgroup <group>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Buelow)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 13 Feb 1999 03:25:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Give anyone these Linux distributions a try for easy of installation.
>Caldera, Redhat or SuSE. There fairly inexpensive. They also have a
SuSE is an abomination; sorry, I'm not a Gnu/Linux insider, I know
about some people quarrying about which Gnu/Linux distribution is
"the best" and I don't want to participate; but: most new users
here chose SuSE (the german version, because it's got a lot of
stuff in german language and is sold in many bookshops) and we have
it installed on several servers aswell, and it _sucks_ a whole river
of pebbles.
Please excuse my violent fantasy but the creators of SuSE should
be hanged by their balls over an open furnace for the crap they
burned on their cdroms.
The very first thing we do on a newly installed SuSE installation
is rm -f `which yast`; then come hours of work of de-littering the
installed base.
We've also installed FreeBSD on some servers, we've not recognized
any such braindeadness as we've found with SuSE (there's too much
to mention here, anybody who has used that crap once will know
anyways), I guess redhat/debian distributions of Gnu/Linux will
also be a lot better, since it really can't be worse than SuSE.
Unfortunately those who want Linux on certain machines also install
SuSE right away, so we have little choice.
--
- mkb
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From: Rodrigo Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Sound Blaster 32 PnP Problems
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:23:13 -0200
Hello,
I have a SoundBlaster 32 PnP that always worked on Linux. When I
upgraded to kernel 2.2.0 it was still working but now I realized that it
cannot play MP3 anymore. It starts play and stops (with X11amp). I tried
another program, maplay3, and it still stops but in /var/log/messages I
have a message of DMA Timeout...IRQ/DRQ Error?. I changed configurations
several times. Now I put an old sound card (SB16 non-PnP) and it works
just fine (using same config as previous card). What may be
happening? I know it's something related to Plug & Play stuff, but I do
not know what.
Any idea? ;-)
Thnx
Rodrigo Castro
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:20:23 -0500
From: Chris Leith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help with xcopy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Can anyone offer some help on the xcopy command used with mtools. I have a
> RedHat 5.2 distribution, when I try to use the xcopy command I get an error
> "xcopy: command not found"
>
> I know this question is kind of basic, I am on my first installation of a
> Linux system and any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Freddy Vega
>
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"xcopy: command not found" would indicate that either the xcopy binary is not
installed on your system or the program xcopy is not in your path. Make sure
that you even have the mtools package installed on your system first, I don't
think it is installed by default. (You can check by typing 'rpm -qa | more'.
This command will query all installed packages and print them out one page at
a time.) If it is not installed you should have the package on your RedHat
5.2 CD-ROM I think. If mtools is installed, then you need to find where the
actual binary 'xcopy' resides, and include this directory in your path. (I
see that on my system, 'xcopy' is in the directory '/usr/bin/'.) To change
your system-wide path you can edit the file '/etc/profile'. You must be root
to do this.
By the way, one other path related thing that got me for a long time was that
the current directory you are in is not automatically searched for binaries
like it is with Microsoft products. That is, even if you were to cd to
/usr/bin/ you would still get the same error message if you tried to run the
program 'xcopy'. The reason is for security. Anyway, if you want to run
programs from the current directory that are not in your path you can prepend
them with './'. For example, type './xcopy' instead of just 'xcopy'. By
adding the './' you are actually specifying the entire path to the binary
because '.' represents the current directory. (Whereas '..' represents the
directory immediately above the current directory. Recall that to move up a
directory you type 'cd ..'.)
Hope this helps.
Chris Leith
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From: Marco Tephlant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE opens more and more Xterms each time!
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 20:10:53 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tarcus wrote:
> This is the problem. IIRC Kde does "session management", it remembers
> what apps you had running when you exit and tries to restart them
> again. Unfortunately it doesn't pay any heed to the fact that the
> user might want to start the apps from something more flexible, like
> the .xinitrc file, so an xterm and xclock starts from that, then KDE
> starts, remembers that you had some xterms and xclocks running, and
> starts them. When you shut down, it remembers how many you had and
> decides to start them again when you next re-enter KDE.
>
> Just switch off session management and remember that Windows95 is the
> model for KDE.
I tried removing the xterm and xclock from the xinitrc file but then kde
wont start at all!
Thanks for the info, how do you switch off session management (my KDE
installation that SuSe
installed seems broken as none of the KDE help files work!)
Cheers
--
Marco
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