Linux-Misc Digest #70, Volume #19 Wed, 17 Feb 99 08:13:08 EST
Contents:
Linux Wrappers for DOS programs (Andrew Cannon)
Re: Is this normal? Internet connection locks out new apps. (Pat Palermo)
Re: Linux has too many problems (John Thompson)
Re: Linux jingle (Navindra Umanee)
Re: innd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Really slow tar (Jayasuthan)
Looking for timer and load monitor (Didier Nghia Le Tien)
Re: Modem init woes ( ezppp?) modem works in minicom(sort of) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: plip and forwarding (Enrique Alonso de Armas)
Re: Linux & faxes (George Farris)
Re: plip and forwarding (Enrique Alonso de Armas)
Setting up Linux to dial-up on incoming call. (Goran Grcic)
Re: SMC Ethernet cards (Supat Faarungsang)
Can't unmount / partition - device busy ("Raivis Bucis")
Q: auto probing of ppa (Jan Buckow)
Re: Duplicate ext2 hard drive for backup (John Roberts)
Searching for a Linux Sequencer (Nick Codon)
Re: TIMER - FUNCTION under LINUX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Making uninstall file lists ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: kernel 2.2.1: shutdown problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: glib-1.1.15 and gtk+-1.1.15 with RedHat 5.2 (Jacques Oosthuizen)
Re: dns setup problem (Andrei Osin)
Re: How do I determine if Linux is swapping (Ed Young)
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From: Andrew Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Wrappers for DOS programs
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:55:59 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know of a system for combining a DOS .exe file with a
"wrapper" which will make it executable under Linux. In other words,
rather than firing up dosemu and running the DOS program inside it, I
want to create a Linux executable which can be run from bash like any
other Linux program.
The wrapper would have to provide the virtual machine/BIOS environment
expected by the DOS program and connect console I/O to the Linux stdio
paths.
Obviously the success of this is going to depend on what DOS
functionality the program uses, but for programs which just do console
and disk I/O and look at environment variables (eg compilers etc) this
should be relatively simple.
Has anyone got information on something like this or about how to do it?
Thanks.
...Andrew
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From: Pat Palermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is this normal? Internet connection locks out new apps.
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 06:02:38 -0500
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> No it is not normal. But what do you mean you cannot start up any other
> apps? do you mean that when you type into the same xterm window in which
> you started up kppp nothing happens? Or do you mean that you cannot even
> open another xterm window not start up a command in another window?
> In the former case, put & at the end of the kppp command. In the latter,
> something much more serious is at fault.
I started kpp from the k 'start' menu. I cannot start any new x apps untill
my internet connection
is closed. Any current x apps work fine, I just can't start any new ones,
including any new xterm windows.
Argh!
Pat
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux has too many problems
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:39:32 -0600
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?
Many if not most linux developers do the work on their own
time, using their own hardware. They don't have the deep
pockets of a large corporation to go out and buy all the
latest whiz-bang hardware as it becomes available. For
well-established devices linux support is excellent, but the
bleeding-edge stuff may be problematic.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Navindra Umanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Date: 17 Feb 1999 10:58:35 GMT
Not exactly a jingle but SoundIt on Sunsite has a rather hilarious
"composition", invoke it with "demo2 < beat-2". There's also a techno
mp3 out there featuring mostly RMS but also a part by Linus, I have a
copy on my harddisk.
-N.
--
"These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After unzipping,
these files can be viewed in any text editor, including all versions of
Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer." [Microsoft website]
< http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~navindra/editors/ >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: innd
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:05:56 GMT
Gareth R Woolridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Redhat 5.2 system with the default innd config, and am using
> suck to receive from my ISP for a small network.
> One worker wants a group that contains binaries, but inn is refusing all
> files larger than 75k, how can i modify this??
Heh, I went through this. Redhat patch the default distribution to add
a 75k cap.
I fixed it by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.news and changing the FLAGS= line
to add a '-l' which you can read about with 'man innd'.
Hope this helps.
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:59:58 -0800
From: Jayasuthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Really slow tar
I did something ... dangerous ..
try some setting on hdparm on you hard disk... It works for me.
man hdparm
Daren Scot Wilson wrote:
>
> tar runs very slowly on my machine. This started about a month ago, after
> reloading linux (RH5.0) and upgrading the kernel, compilers, etc. Everything
> else runs normal. There are no symptoms other than that tar runs slow. It's
> not unzipping - I can run gunzip in a few seconds, then tar -xzvf takes
> forever. The -v option shows one to maybe six files flying by, then many
> seconds paused, then one to a few files, the another pause, etc.
>
> How slow? A tarball several meg in size used to untar in just a minute or two
> or three, depending on CPU load. Now i have time to eat lunch, see a movie,
> see another movie... Linux kernel 2.2.1 took all hours overnight to untar.
>
> Once the stuff is untarred, it's good. I'm running a 2.2.1 kernel, 2.1 glibc,
> and the latest xterm, bash, netscape all having been slowly untarred.
>
> Tar, and nearly everything else, was compiled with gcc 2.8.1, using glibc 2.0.6
> and since today, glibc 2.1.
>
> Computer is a PII-400, 96RAM, 6G HD nowhere near full, 100M swap. Plenty of
> raw material - nothing else runs anomalously slow.
>
> Any good diagnostics suggestions? Fixes?
>
> --
> Daren Scot Wilson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.newcolor.com
> ----
> "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for"
> -- William Shedd
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From: Didier Nghia Le Tien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Looking for timer and load monitor
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:12:03 +0100
In order to do precise performance evaluation
of my program, i'd like to know the most efficient way to
get time performance and system load monitoring.
Does anyone got information about that?
Thanx a lot,
Didier L.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Modem init woes ( ezppp?) modem works in minicom(sort of)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:12:07 GMT
hi there
i tried minicom and it can recognize the modem, but i'm still haveing
problems getting it to dial &connect i get all kinds of schreeeeeching
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:56:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : hi there
>
> : no winmodem , if i try different com,cua ports it wont even recognize
> : the modem , so i have the right port, it just doesnt seem to do
> : anything except say expecting ok, then i see the atz come up in the
> : debug screen, i'm stumped?
>
>
>
> : On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:19:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> : > hi there
> : >
> : > linux suse 5.1 is up and running users created, ezppp,netscape
> : > installed,
> : > 56k U.S. Rob int voice modem doesnt seem to start, ezppp starts i hit
> : > connect i here modem pick up i see atdt in window then it says
> : > expecting OK and basically stops , nothing else happens. Then i shut
> : > it down after awhile, anyone have any ideas, modem init strings
> : > maybe???
> : >
> : > thanks
>
>
> If it is an init string problem USR's webpage will give you init strings
> for their various products. I would guess that it's an init problem as
> what you describe is exactly what happened to me until I got the string
> right.
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From: Enrique Alonso de Armas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: plip and forwarding
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:07:35 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:35:22 +0100, delegado
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >>
> >> I don't know about plip but with ppp I use proxy arp to do it
> >> just something to think about.
> >
> >I know. But the question is how can I do proxyarp with plip. With ppp is easy
> >because 'proxyarp' is just an option of the daemon but with plip there is not
> >daemon and there is not options (I think). I would like do something like
> >'proxyarp' but manually. I don't know how but I want to.
> >
> >enrique.
> >
> a link turned up in altavista....
>
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/RedHat/PLIP-Tips-5.html
>
> discribes how to set up proxyarp for an interface targeting PLIP
>
> hope this helps
Yeah!!!!! It runs.... but I have to make some appointements:
In PLIP-Tips-5.html say that it is not necessary to add route entries for the
plip link
I actually need them. For the laptop I need also to add two entries: one for the
local net and one for the gateway.
Etherneted computer:
route add <laptop-ip>
Laptop:
route add <etherneted-ip>
route add -net <network> plip1
route add default gw <gateway>
(where gateway is or etherneted or etherneted's gateway -It is actually
running 'routed -s' and I have not tried to kill the daemon yet, so I don't know
if is necessary to run it-)
Bye and thank you!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Farris)
Subject: Re: Linux & faxes
Date: 17 Feb 1999 05:10:25 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <7acsvd$ji7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I work for a company that takes a lot of orders via FAX. We normally have
> three large fax machines that handle all of the FAX traffic. However, a
> couple of times each year, they have promotions that last for a few days,
> during which time, the three fax machines get overloaded. Rather than buy
> additional fax machines, management's decision has been to take faxes via
> some existing modems/computers, since this only happens a couple of times
> each year.
>
> Anyway, I've had to do this about four times now over the last year and a half
> using Win95, and I've had it! Can you say CRASH?!?!?!? I had two win95
> machines each with one modem taking faxes last friday using WinFax pro. I had
> to babysit them practically all night (until the promotion ended) to make sure
> they kept running.
>
> I've told management that FAX machines would be the best way to go, but they
> just don't want to spend the extra money for something that would only be
> used a few days out of the year, and no matter how much I try to convince
> them, they won't believe that computers don't take faxes as well as fax
> machines. As a result I think I'm going to try to get a Linux box configured
> for this kind of thing before the next onslaught. I've used Linux
> extensively before for print/file servers, and I love it for its stability,
> but I've never used it for faxing before.
>
> 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.
>
> TIA
>
> Craig
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network
Check hylafax. www.hylafax.org I think.
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From: Enrique Alonso de Armas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: plip and forwarding
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:08:33 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:35:22 +0100, delegado
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> >>
> >> I don't know about plip but with ppp I use proxy arp to do it
> >> just something to think about.
> >
> >I know. But the question is how can I do proxyarp with plip. With ppp is easy
> >because 'proxyarp' is just an option of the daemon but with plip there is not
> >daemon and there is not options (I think). I would like do something like
> >'proxyarp' but manually. I don't know how but I want to.
> >
> >enrique.
> >
> a link turned up in altavista....
>
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/RedHat/PLIP-Tips-5.html
>
> discribes how to set up proxyarp for an interface targeting PLIP
>
> hope this helps
Yeah!!!!! It runs.... but I have to make some appointements:
In PLIP-Tips-5.html say that it is not necessary to add route entries for the
plip link
I actually need them. For the laptop I need also to add two entries: one for the
local net and one for the gateway.
Etherneted computer:
route add <laptop-ip>
Laptop:
route add <etherneted-ip>
route add -net <network> plip1
route add default gw <gateway>
(where gateway is or etherneted or etherneted's gateway -It is actually
running 'routed -s' and I have not tried to kill the daemon yet, so I don't know
if is necessary to run it-)
Bye and thank you!
------------------------------
From: Goran Grcic <"goran"@graficom[dot.]com>
Subject: Setting up Linux to dial-up on incoming call.
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:12:09 +0100
Reply-To: "goran"@graficom[dot]com
Hello all,
Is it possible to set up Linux to call the internet when it receives a
call on a given line ?
For instance.
I have a Linux server running RedHat 5.0. It dials on demand through an
ISDN line.
Now I want to have the possibility to let my Linux server dial the
Internet when I dial one configured number with my cell. phone. This
could be very usefull when I need to download some files from my server
to the computer I am currently at.
Is it possible to set up something like this ? Anyone done it before ??
Thanks in advance,
Goran Grcic
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Supat Faarungsang)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: SMC Ethernet cards
Date: 17 Feb 1999 10:45:23 GMT
Matthew Coulson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
If it is SMC ultra then linux fully support.
BUT it is SMC ultra itself that is all defective.
SMC ultra can work completely correct for a few hours
After that it will pass only few KB per second.
Regards,
zxc
: These cards aren't compatible with linux according to SMC. I had the SMC EZ
: Card 10/100 until I found that out then I changed to the next cheapest model
: a Linksys and it has treated me good so far. Good advice look very carefully
: on the box when you buy it to see if Linux is supported by the card in my
: experience many of the ethernet cards that support Linux mention it on the
: box (unfortunately some that don't say they do as well).
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From: "Raivis Bucis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't unmount / partition - device busy
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:23:46 +0200
Hello,
on Linux 2.2.1 I have following problem:
when I try to reboot my computer it doesn't unmount / partition telling
device busy.
Does anybody knows a solution for this problem?
Raivis
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From: Jan Buckow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: auto probing of ppa
Date: 17 Feb 1999 13:01:22 +0100
Hi,
I've the following question:
I'd like to use an external Zip-Drive and a printer together.
I've got two parallel ports. Everything is set up fine (I can use the
printer at the address 0x378 and the zip-drive at 0x278). I achieved
this with an append-line in the /etc/lilo.conf that looks like this:
append="auto lp=0x378 ppa=0x278"
I still have to use modprobe (i.e. "modprobe ppa ppa_base=0x278") in
order do be able to mount a zip disk, though.
Can anybody tell me why the append-line is not enough? Why do I have
to use modprobe again? What do I have to do in order to automatically
probe for a zip-drive?
(I read the manpages/howtos/... and didn't find any answers)
Any help is very much appreciated!
Thanks,
Jan
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From: John Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Duplicate ext2 hard drive for backup
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 07:24:25 -0500
Can I do this while the system is booted? I was scared to because if
there are open files I thought things might get corrupted?
Thanks,
John
Tim Moore wrote:
>
> > So I have a linux system and I want to make an identical copy on another
> > hard drive. How do I do this?
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024
>
> if the drives are identical and hda is your source and hdb is your target.
> --
> [Replies: little -> big]
>
> "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
> WS Burroughs.
--
John S. Roberts KD4UBM
http://psi.ece.jhu.edu/~johnr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Codon)
Subject: Searching for a Linux Sequencer
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:25:49 GMT
I'm used to CUBASE VST 3.5 under WIN98, but because WIN98 still has problems with my
PC (less and other problems than
WIN95), I'm thinking about switching to LINUX. I'm taking backups almost every day,
because I don't know if I'll make it
till the end of the day.
For a while now I'm searching for a LINUX program that can handle midi-data almost
like CUBASE. If I have to dump the
audio aspect, then that's allright. If not, the better.
If you have experience with th subject I would thank you if you could reply.
Nick Codon
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.codon.homepage.nu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TIMER - FUNCTION under LINUX
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:15:23 GMT
Dieter Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> for a program running under LINUX I need several timers which should be finer
> than 1s. Which timer function is best to use? Can I only set one timer at one
man nanosleep ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Making uninstall file lists
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:20:21 GMT
Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just do this:
> make install &> install.out
> And get a file of all the output make install generates.
Oh yes, I used to do this a lot. Accurately parsing the output from
some larger packages can get tedious though.
Lack of time drove me to using package management tools eventually.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.1: shutdown problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:17:33 GMT
G. Pollack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since upgrading to 2.2.1, I have an occasional problem when shutting
> down. An error message appears to the effect that / is busy. On the next
This is normally a symptom as mentioned in the Changes file - which exact
glibc are you now running ?
Older versions of GNU libc (libc6) have a bug in the dynamic linker.
/etc/ld.so.cache gets mapped into memory and is never unmapped. If one
of your boot scripts calls ldconfig, /etc/ld.so.cache is deleted. Init,
however, still references that file; as of 2.1.122, the kernel will
consequently not be able to remount the root file system r/o at system
shutdown. To fix this, upgrade to at least the pre6 release of GNU
libc 2.0.7.
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From: Jacques Oosthuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: glib-1.1.15 and gtk+-1.1.15 with RedHat 5.2
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:33:33 +0200
Hi !
I had the same problem , but I have solved this . Make sure that the
directory where glib-config is in is in your path ( default is usualy
/usr/local/bin). Also make sure that the file /etc/ld.so.conf contains a
entry that point to the /usr/local/lib or where glib libraries are copied.
Then run ldconfig -v . the -v is just to show you what is happening . Good
luck you can mail me if you are still struggeling.
James H Timberlake III wrote:
> 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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From: Andrei Osin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dns setup problem
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:56:28 +0300
Brian McCauley wrote:
> "C.S.Tsang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am using Linux Slakware 3.6 on my PC.
> > I want to setup a DNS server on this machine.
> > I can set it up easily,when I used linux Slakware 3.3 on the same PC.
> > The Linux Slakware 3.6 new install and the kernel is complied.
>
> Does slackware 3.6 have BIND4 or BIND8? named.boot is a the BIND4
> config file. BIND8 uses named.conf which has a totally different
> syntax.
I had a problem setting up a secondary DNS and finally
discovered that new, 2.0.30 distribution includes a different 'BIND8' DNS
support. It looks like the corresponding man page was still from older
'BIND4'
version describing named.boot etc. I couldn't figure out why named
complained
about syntax error in named.boot and finally just took named from BIND4
system.
So where can I get the new named.conf format ?
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I determine if Linux is swapping
Date: 17 Feb 1999 03:56:56 GMT
info wrote:
>
> 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.
One sure fire way is to listen to it. If your disk drive sounds like a machine
gun you are swapping. You could check into running something like xosview on
your server and displaying it on your desktop (you are running Linux on your
desktop I presume :-)
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