Linux-Misc Digest #64, Volume #19 Wed, 17 Feb 99 00:13:09 EST
Contents:
PS + HP Laserjet-5L + margins ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mail client for Linux (Bill Hayles)
Does chroot work on Red Hat Linux 5.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mail client for Linux (Bill Hayles)
Re: WindowMaker (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: Linux has too many problems (Rob O'Connell)
glib-1.1.15 and gtk+-1.1.15 with RedHat 5.2 (James H Timberlake III)
Re: Novice Help: Modem Gone Undetected? (Rob Clark)
Re: Set modem speed in a script ("David Z. Maze")
Re: floating point accuracy on Linux? (William Burrow)
Re: Multi IP addresses on one NIC question (Miguel Cruz)
Re: one thing that sux about Linux.... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Product Evaluation (Jeff Grossman)
Re: Netscape Question (John Thompson)
Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated? (Todd Knarr)
Re: Linux & faxes (William Burrow)
Re: VAX Basic compiler for Linux? (Ron Nicholson)
Re: graphical performance monitor (Bob Hauck)
Re: Linux jingle (James Dale)
How do I determine if Linux is swapping (info)
Q: Where is core-size limit be set to zero (Dean S. Messing)
Chinese on Netscape Communicator? (Kenny Zhu)
Re: Word Perfect 8.0 d/l question (Rob O'Connell)
Linux jingle (James Beard)
Re: http downloading (YoungSu Kim)
Re: Simple text processor (Michael Powe)
Re: Simple text processor (Michael Powe)
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Subject: PS + HP Laserjet-5L + margins
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 16 Feb 1999 22:24:58 -0500
Hi.
Perhaps someone has dealt with this and can point me in the right
direction:
On Linux 2.0.36, printing Postscript to an HP Laserjet 5L using gs
version 4.03. Currently the printer is cutting off a couple 1/10's of
an inch off each edge (and I don't want that). The Postscript file is
a very simple file I'm using for diagnostic purposes, just a couple of
straight lines drawn to the edges. Looks fine on gv and ghostview.
I've tried using ljet2p, ljet3, and ljet4 devices, no difference.
Have tried various PCL command sequences in the print filter, also
resetting the printer, but no luck. Typical PCL lines in the filter:
echo -ne "^[E"
echo -ne "^[&a0L" # zero left margin ... ?
Also tried running align.ps, calculating the numbers as indicated,
added the .HWMargins/setpagedevice lines to the test file ... no
change.
I vaguely recall this printer printing to the edge in the distant
past, don't know what might have changed.
I'm sure there is a simple solution. If only I knew what it
was. Grateful for any pointers, email or here.
Thanks
Judah
--
Judah Milgram [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bill Hayles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mail client for Linux
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:41:08 +0000
Richard Lewin wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a good mail client for Linux.
Fetchmail works well for me - collects mail from 4 accounts on 3 servers
on every run. So easy to set up, even *I* managed it :-)
--
Who needs a life when there's linux?
Bill Hayles
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Does chroot work on Red Hat Linux 5.1
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 02:40:50 GMT
Hi, perhaps someone could point out my deliberate mistake, it appears
the chroot command on linux just fails all the time with
'no such file or directory' I know this must be something obvious but
I can't spot it
[root@dev /test]# chroot /test /test/testprog
chroot: cannot execute /test/testprog: No such file or directory
[root@dev /test]# chroot /test ./testprog
chroot: cannot execute ./testprog: No such file or directory
[root@dev /test]# ./testprog
heello
[root@dev /test]# ls -al /test
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 1024 Feb 17 13:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1024 Feb 17 13:26 ..
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 17 13:26 bin
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 4137 Feb 17 13:41 testprog
[root@dev /test]#
Thanks in advance, Chris
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From: Bill Hayles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Mail client for Linux
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:46:23 +0000
Patrick Lanphier wrote:
>
> Make it simple just use Netscape unless you have needs it can not meet.
>
> Patrick Lanphier
>
> Richard Lewin wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone recommend a good mail client for Linux.
Netscape is fine if you have a permanent connection to the net, but it
has very bad off-line capabilities, and (AFAIK) can't be set up to fetch
mail and news as a cron event. That's why I use leafnode and fetchmail
as front ends to Netscape.
--
Who needs a life when there's linux?
Bill Hayles
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: WindowMaker
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 03:48:25 GMT
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:51:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Finally got Windowmaker .50 Installed and working. Have a problem in trying
>to create the Program Menu. It is currently empty. Looking at the menu script
>in the ~/GNUstep/Library/Windowmaker directory. There is a file called menu.
>One of the lines in that file looks like this:
>
>""Programs" OPEN_MENU | wmconfig --output wmaker 2>/dev/nul"
>
>Is the 2> a mistake. And it appears that the line is supposed to make a
>generic Programs Directory but it doesn't. Is there something wrong with the
>script or do I need to modify the script by hand to add my programs?
>Thanks...
>
>This is on a RH5.2 Machine...
>
>Bill Sends...
Install "egcs" rpm or make /lib/cpp a symlink to the real "cpp"
program (on RH 5.2 that should be
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.7.2.3/cpp).
Took me a long while to figure this out - reading los of docs on
www.windowmaker.org and wm.current.nu. RH's "spec" file for the
WIndowMaker RPM should have mentioned "egcs" as a dependency.
But then again, you dont really need egcs - all you need is that
symlink to *any* cpp.
HTH
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From: Rob O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux has too many problems
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 21:53:56 -0600
Scott D. Hernalsteen wrote:
> TomX wrote:
> >
> > A software engineer's experience on RedHat 5.2:
> >
> > Extremely difficult to install. (take me one week to get installed)
> > Often hang up(esp. in X Window).
> > Less descriptive error messages.
> > So many problems, Linux still has a long way to go.
> >
> > I believe all the problems I met are caused by my hardware,
> > but why Linux developers can't test on more hardware list?
>
> Because they're volunteers giving their spare time to update it.
> Perhaps you could talk to the developers yourself to help them get the
> hardware problems worked out(or, being a software engineer, look at the
> code and fix it!). The Linux community depends on everyone in it to fix
> any problems and get hardware working.
>
> --Scott
well said Scott - I'd like to add - you/we are a Linux developer! So why
don't you list precisely the hardware you have, what happened - I don't
believe the messages are as undescriptive as you believe. I have installed
linux on many (often weird homebuilt) PCs and I have never failed - so
I think with some work yours will work. If and when it does we can send
the info to RedHat, or update the relevant FAQ's and HOWTO's (which you
must have read 8-) especially the INSTALL HOWTO.
Linux, for me, always takes less time (and works afterwards) than windows
to install
Rob
--
Rob O'Connell - "Work is the curse of the drinking class" - Oscar Wilde
lab#: (608) 2659467 mob#: (608) 3473838 home#: (608) 2519918
Work address: Plasma Physics, 1150 University Ave., Madison WI 53706
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://aida.physics.wisc.edu/~oconnell
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From: James H Timberlake III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: glib-1.1.15 and gtk+-1.1.15 with RedHat 5.2
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:59:20 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i've been trying to get both glib and gtk installed to no avail. i've
been installing glib first under root using ./configure, make, and then
make install. everything goes ok. then when i try ./configure for gtk,
it can't find glib. i've read the INSTALL file and tried to make sure
the paths are ok, but i'm not sure what i'm doing. is there something i
don't have set? maybe a default PATH or something? i'd appreciate any
help with this, i can't get gtkICQ installed and it's driving me nuts.
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Subject: Re: Novice Help: Modem Gone Undetected?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 04:04:47 GMT
In article <7ad55m$t5k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Klecha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now, I just got done reading the FAQ and the Modem HOWTO, and it would
>seem that I may be in a spot of trouble. Linux does (may?) not support
>PnP and Winmodems and whatnot. Linux does (may?) not support any sort of
>PCI modem. Now, as of yet I haven't been back home to pop the cover and
1. Linux does support ISA PnP, but it's not fun for newbies. It's
only mildly enjoyable for the rest of us. ;)
2. Winmodems do not support Linux. Winmodems, HCF, HSP, soft-, etc.
modems require software to do some of the things real modems do.
This "modem emulation" software is provided by the Winmodem
manufacturer as Windows software, thus "Winmodem."
3. The modems in Compaq Presarios are _consistently_ Winmodems.
4. Non-winmodem 56K PCI modems exist, but no one seems to get them
to work consistently, either in Windows or Linux.
(Counterexamples?)
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <-- Come see the Compaq
hall of shame.
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Set modem speed in a script
Date: 16 Feb 1999 23:19:44 -0500
Albert Want <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AW> I need to write a script to connect my modem to the vodafone-sms gateway at
AW> the fixed speed of 2400bps.
AW>
AW> I'm thinking about write this script in expect or shell script but I don't
AW> know how to set a fixed modem speed.
Look at stty(1). Something like 'stty -F /dev/ttyS0 2400' should do
the trick.
AW> Please answer in mail too ! (remove #--remove--#)
Umm, posted only because your mail address isn't valid.
--
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] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: floating point accuracy on Linux?
Date: 17 Feb 1999 03:23:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 15 Feb 1999 23:17:56 GMT,
Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>sure, I expect so, but still I think 0.2*5-1 should be output as 0.0 and
>not -5.551115e-17.
If you talk to some numerical analysis folks, math and CS departments
tend to have them, they might talk you out of this.
The thing that is curious, is that BSD does return 0.0e+00, and yet the
assembler output for a C program that calculates this expression appears
to be the same. (Note that gcc will optimize the expression to 0.0e+00
automatically on either platform if it sees it, another curiousity.)
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Cruz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Multi IP addresses on one NIC question
Date: 17 Feb 1999 03:58:47 GMT
Stormie Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to set up a masquerading firewall. I have done this before
> with no real problems, but I am doing something a little weird at a
> customer's request. It has a legal address assigned by the ISP, and they
> want me to assign a private address for ipmasq to the same NIC, so the
> same physical interface is configured for the public and the private
> network.
Your customer is being stupid. Spend the $15 and get a second ethernet card.
miguel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: one thing that sux about Linux....
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 03:10:17 GMT
In article <L9BY9tzSDwrQ-pn2-17pUJ9CjEPIj@localhost>,
jansens_at_ibm_dot_net wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:41:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rowan Volvo) wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Karel Jansens <jansens_at_ibm_dot_net> wrote:
> > >On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 23:27:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rowan Volvo) wrote:
> > >
> > >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory Propf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > >> >Rowan Volvo wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> so... how stable would x-windows be when the CEO demands root
priviledges?
> > >> >
> > >> >You missed the earlier poster's point - the CEO doesn't do system admin
> > >> >stuff himself and that's the only reason he would need root privilege.
> > >> >
> > >> I don't really think my point is contentious with the earlier poster's
point.
> > >> I merely bring up another point to consider. The CEO might not want
to
> > >> learn anything new, but he might want to read others' Email, or he might
> > >> just like the term 'superuser'. Unfortunately most people , in
> > >> management or otherwise are not strictly rational in regards to what they
ask
> > >> for -- especially when it has to do with their limitations.
> > >>
> > >So set up a user called 'God' or 'supreme ruler of users' or summink and
> > >give that to the CEO to play with. They're usually too dumb to find out
> > >that they're not root and those who are smart enough will also have the
> > >brains to leave sysadmin to the specialists.
> > >
> > >Karel Jansens
> > >jansens_at_ibm_dot_net
> >
> > Actually you just give him 'ROOT' priviledges - that's the same as 'root'
> > --- isn't it?
> > >
> No. DON'T give them root privileges. Make them _think_ they're the big
> honcho in the network. Flashy name. Macho title.
>
I think you misunderstood, give them 'ROOT', all caps, different from 'root'
. . . Remember, Linux is case sensitive in just about everything!
> You know. Just to keep the suits happy.
>
> Karel Jansens
> jansens_at_ibm_dot_net
>
> =======================================================
> "Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day,
> but set fire to him and he's warm
> for the rest of his life."
>
> (Terry Pratchett - Jingo!)
> =======================================================
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Grossman)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Product Evaluation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 03:48:02 GMT
Has anybody used IntraStore Server 2000? I see it is free for Linux
users with less than 250 users. I was thinking of loading it but
would like some feedback first.
Thanks,
Jeff
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Netscape Question
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:39:09 -0600
ali wrote:
>
> I was wondering if there's a way to share a cache
> between 2 or more users in netscape.
>
> I'm running linux on a computer at home and
> there's really no need to waste disk space having
> multiple caches.
I haven't tried this but I can't think of any reason why it
wouldn't work. Go to
"Edit...Preferences...Advanced...Cache...Cache folder" and
set it to point to the same directory for all your users.
Make sure this is a directory with permissions set so that
all users can access it.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Todd Knarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is X video setup for i386 so complicated?
Date: 17 Feb 1999 04:23:28 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Frank McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I realize that the entire class of existing monitors and adapters (IBM
> PGA, anyone? (;-)) includes a number of really strange beasties. But
> one might expect that a SVGA monitor and adapter combination that works
> fine for DOS and MSWinXX (a smaller set of monitors) _would_ be simple
> to set up.
You might want to look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.Config which
contains a selection of modelines for standard VESA videomodes. At
least the RedHat setup I used included the option of configuring a
basic VESA-standard monitor if you didn't know what yours was or it
wasn't on the list. That's what I did, and wound up limited to
1024x768 until I got my monitor's modelines sorted.
> So... given that many Intel x86 PC video adapters these days are VESA
> BIOS (VBE) compliant, why not just set the adapter to each of the VESA
> modes that the adapter supports, one by one, and read the register
Because the modelines aren't for the video adapter, they're for the
monitor. This is why, in XF86Config, the section for the video adapter
( which contains things like what resolutions you can use and how much
memory the card has ) is seperate from and independent of the section
for the monitor ( which contains the modelines ).
> Sorry - I can't buy that "flexibility" _requires_ complexity. Yes, it's
Design a manual transmission where you do not have the complexity of
clutching or shifting gears. When you realize you've reinvented the
automatic transmission, with all it's restrictions, you will be enlightened.
That said, being able to just select a monitor type and get a suitable
set of modelines installed would be nice. Most of the X config tools
out there ( eg. the Xconfigurator program that came with RedHat ) have
such a list/database, but the sheer number of monitors makes it hard to
keep it current.
--
All I want out of the Universe is 10 minutes with the source code and
a quick recompile.
-- unknown
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Linux & faxes
Date: 17 Feb 1999 03:34:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:54:42 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here's what I'm thinking: I'll install Linux on an old 486DX2-66 that I have
>laying around, connect two faxmodems to it (one to each of the two COM
>ports), and let it take faxes, automatically spitting them out to a printer.
>Has anyone had experience running two faxmodems (connected to different
>lines) simultaneously on the same Linux box? Will it work? Will a 66 MHz
>486 (12 MB RAM) be up to this task? I'm thinking it can't be worse than
>Windoze.
See the other newsgroup posting. You might take some care to select
fax modems that support Class 2 or Class 2.0 protocols. Avoid Class 1
fax modems if you can help it, though efax supports some. Also, some
USR Sportsters are poor fax modem choices due to ever changing
firmware.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Nicholson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: VAX Basic compiler for Linux?
Date: 17 Feb 1999 04:23:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory Propf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm really ashamed to admit it but I work at a place where they still
>use VMS. A lot of the reason for this is the existing body of software
>written in VAX Basic. Is there a compiler for Linux (free or not) that
>can re-compile this kind of cruft?
Don't know about a Basic compiler; but there are several Basic language
interpreters suitable for use under linux (C source code available,
some under GPL.)
I keep a list of Basic language resources in the middle of this web page:
<http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/>
Is there any documentation on VMS VAX Basic syntax around?
--
--
--
Ron Nicholson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://reality.sgi.com/rhn/
#include <canonical.disclaimer> // only my own opinions, etc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: graphical performance monitor
Date: 17 Feb 1999 04:26:13 GMT
In article <7a7l62$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bill Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What graphical performance monitors are available for Linux?
Try xosview.
> of monitor to indicate a PPP connection is alive, like the one in the
> Windows system tray? Thanks.
KDE has one of those.
--
Bob Hauck, Software Engineer - Will program for food.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Dale)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Date: 17 Feb 1999 04:40:30 GMT
James Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi all.
>Is there is a Linux jingle? A catchy little tune?
>Our sysadmin was installing NT yesterday and having heaps of problems.
>I thought of how sweet it would have been if I could have been standing
>beside him, whistling the Linux theme.
>We have the penguin, and the slogans. What we need now is a tune.
>Either an original or a rehash of an existing piece. Any budding
>composers out there?
>Later
>James
How about "I'm standing next to a penguin" (tune of Voodoo Chile)
"I stroke it's beak with edge of my hand"
(fill in more here)
"Cos I'm a Linux child baby, Lord Knows I'm a Linux child"
It's a bit hard to whisle though :-)
Another James (geez they are every where)
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From: info <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I determine if Linux is swapping
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:08:26 +0800
hello,
I'm using Redhat Linux 5.2 and I'm using it as a proxy server. How
do I determine
if my system is swapping?
Raul B.
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From: Dean S. Messing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.pam,comp.os.linux
Subject: Q: Where is core-size limit be set to zero
Date: 16 Feb 1999 20:16:41 -0800
Where is core-size limit being set to zero when I come into
my system via telnet or rlogin??
THE PROBLEM:
If I come in to my linux system via an ordinary console login my core size
resource is initially unlimited and then is set (by /etc/profile) to
1000000 when `bash' starts.
This is because the stock RH5.2 dist (which I run) has an
`/etc/profile' with the line:
ulimit -c 1000000
On the other hand if I come in via `telnet' or `rlogin', the (hard) system
resource limit for core size is somewhere being set to zero before
`bash' executes the above line, so that I get the error message:
bash: ulimit: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
I am beginning to suspect `pam' but the lines in /etc/security/limits.conf
are all commented and I don't see any reference to `pam_limits' in
the files of /etc/pam.d. So what gives??
Please reply by e-mail (as well as here) as our news service is
quite flakey---we miss lots of articles. Thanks!
Dean S. Messing
Digital Video Processing & Analysis Grp.
To un-mangle e-address Sharp Laboratories of America
remove the digits. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenny Zhu)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Chinese on Netscape Communicator?
Date: 17 Feb 1999 04:45:02 GMT
Hi, I have various chinese fonts in my linux box and my Communicator 4.5
can display Chinese pages already. But Chinese words in textboxes and
pull-down menus in the web page still can't be displayed. Could anyone
tell me how to do that? Thanks in advance.
Kenny
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From: Rob O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Word Perfect 8.0 d/l question
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:00:29 -0600
don't forget - you can ftp and do a "reget" - just make sure you are setup in the
same way as before - ie remote and local directories the same - then "reget
nameof file" - then the ftp program compares what has been downloaded, and
continues...I use this all the time, and it has gotten me to bed many hours
earlier than normal!!
good luck!
Rob
Rluby wrote:
> I've just dl/d the single-file version of WP 8.0 PE and the result was a
> tar file of about 12mb. Since my dl terminated unexpectedly, I wonder it this
> is
> the correct size of the file, or do I have to dl it again - in the multi
> segment version.?
--
Rob O'Connell - "Work is the curse of the drinking class" - Oscar Wilde
lab#: (608) 2659467 mob#: (608) 3473838 home#: (608) 2519918
Work address: Plasma Physics, 1150 University Ave., Madison WI 53706
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://aida.physics.wisc.edu/~oconnell
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From: James Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Linux jingle
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:15:17 +1000
Reply-To: James Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all.
Is there is a Linux jingle? A catchy little tune?
Our sysadmin was installing NT yesterday and having heaps of problems.
I thought of how sweet it would have been if I could have been standing
beside him, whistling the Linux theme.
We have the penguin, and the slogans. What we need now is a tune.
Either an original or a rehash of an existing piece. Any budding
composers out there?
Later
James
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From: YoungSu Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: http downloading
Date: 17 Feb 1999 04:39:19 GMT
Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is this happening with both Nescape and Lynx?
yes.
> Try using an ftp client and see if the same thing happens.
ftp works fine.
> If so I would contact my ISP and ask them for help or see if maybe they are
> having a problem.
I changed my ISP about 3 month ago.
and I was having same problem when I was on old ISP.
I don't understand what's wrong with my linux box (kernel 2.0.36 with
slackware 3.6) .
Additionaly I'm using ppp-2.3.5.
and same problem was there when I was using ppp-2.2.0 too.
Thanks.
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Simple text processor
Date: 16 Feb 1999 20:15:53 -0800
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>>>>> "joseph" == joseph a philbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Unfortunately ;-) for you, you are faced with having to learn
>>> about LaTeX AND a console based editor, like Emacs or vi. I
>>> hope the learning curve doesn't knock you out.
joseph> Not so bad... I may still be a linux newbie, but I've got
joseph> some time with a somewhat limited ksh account at
joseph> work... and there I do use vi <and I do mean vi, not
joseph> vim...> So vim on the linux is a sweet thing...
joseph> But learning LaTeX is likely to be a pretty big curve in
joseph> itself <g> Not to worry, I'm nothing if not stubborn...
It's not that bad. I haven't done LaTeX, but I have done plain TeX
and it's pretty straightforward. Get a tutorial and in a couple hours
you'll be producing documents. Give it a weekend and you'll be
getting real work done.
mp
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Simple text processor
Date: 16 Feb 1999 20:19:31 -0800
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>>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matthias> If you want to do LaTeX, do it with Emacs. Unfortunately
Matthias> normal GNU Emacs doesn't seem to do syntax highlighting
Matthias> on the console - what a paradoxon: XEmacs is better on
Matthias> character-cell terminals than plain GNU Emacs...
Only "better" if for some reason you "have to have" colors other than
black and white. (Which are scientifically proven to be the best
colors for doing text work. ;-)
mp
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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