Linux-Misc Digest #109, Volume #19 Sat, 20 Feb 99 08:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: HELP: Callback login - has it been done? (Brian Wainscott)
RH5.2 PC going to sleeeeeeep..... ("Adam Flinton")
Re: Help with X related concepts. (Emile van Bergen)
Re: Soundblaster doesn't work.. (Vladymyr Iljyc Lenin)
Re: PPP seems slow (Michiel Roos)
Re: KDE? Gnome? ... confused ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (John Dow)
Re: HELP: Callback login - has it been done? (Wim Osterholt)
Neomagic ("Gordon Ritchie")
Re: Can someone tell me how to get LILO to update my boot floppy's kernel map? (Tom
Fawcett)
PPP/PAP problems - UK: Connection to Freeserve (Mike Willett LADS LDN X7563)
Help needed setting DTR off from Perl script on Linux box (Cynthia Sellers)
Multilink PPP in Linux with 2 x V90 = 105,333 bps? (Doodle)
Re: fsck error at boot-time (Klaus Kocheisen)
plz explain directory standards: /, /usr, /usr/local (Miernik)
Re: Can someone tell me how to get LILO to update my boot floppy's kernel map? (Tom
Fawcett)
Script not doing its job....!!?? Need some simple help!!! ("Sven Burgener")
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Jason Clifford)
Re: Linux jingle (Matthias Warkus)
how do I change resolution? ("TomWolf")
Re: Partition Magic? (Joeri Sebrechts)
Re: Multilink PPP in Linux with 2 x V90 = 105,333 bps? (Philip Armstrong)
Re: Printing Man Pages to Text File (Jim Hill)
Re: Compiling Kernel breaks ("Richard Payne")
Re: Write to disk every five minutes? (Ben Russo)
Re: RedHat 5.2/ how to install/update ghostscript 4.03 to 5.10? (doug)
Re: GCC x EGCS (Patrick Lanphier)
Re: directory removal program (Mike Willett LADS LDN X7563)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (James Knott)
Re: Can someone tell me how to get LILO to update my boot floppy's kernel map?
("Jeff Kowalczyk")
Re: Q: Linux on IBM Thinkpad i Series(model 1451) ? (doug)
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From: Brian Wainscott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Callback login - has it been done?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:17:57 -0800
Well, perhaps this isn't what you are looking for, but you can (at least
COULD, I used to have one) buy a modem that does this itself. The one
we had, you hook the modem up to your computer, then log into it using
any simple terminal program (like kermit). You could then program up
to, say, 10 user names/passwords/phone-numbers. Then IT handles the
callback part, and doesn't connect to the computer at all until a
connection has been established. We used it as an incoming SLIP line on
an IBM workstation running AIX, and it worked great.
St�phane Brunet wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Ever setup a callback-login system like Win95?
>
> I have this with work. The system expects a Win95 machine to dial in,
> login as a user, hang up and wait for the callback.
>
> (the username is used to get the unique callback phone number)
>
--
Brian Wainscott | No Jesus ---> No Peace
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Know Jesus ---> Know Peace
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From: "Adam Flinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH5.2 PC going to sleeeeeeep.....
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:12:26 +0000 (GMT)
Reply-To: "Adam Flinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear All,
I am having the devil of a time with RH 5.2 due to it's going to sleep.......
I think it's down to the motherboard having an APM BIOS (Allows for power
saving etc) but I am now not so sure.......
I have swapped the MoBo but the second also has an APM BIOS. I have
recompiled the kernel a bunch of times with the different APM option & have
the watchdog function started. I also have the APM Daemon starting on boot
up.
I have a base Rh5.2 install with nothing else loaded (e.g. KDE / a DBMS etc)
Symptoms:
If I have the Monitor saving set to "always on" then I can see the screen
with the logon or whatever the screen is showing. The cursor is blinking etc.
However no response from the keyboard or the mouse to "wake it up".
The only way out at the moment is to switch the machine off.
The CPU is an Intel Pentium 133
The Motherboard is P5I430VX-250DM Explorer II
The BIOS is Award 4.51PG Energy Star V3.4S
The Drive is a (from /var/meassages) ST36531A, 6204 MB, w/ 128kb cache, CHS =
790/255/63, DMA
divided into 2 125 mb Swap partitions & the rest into 2 main partitions / &
/home.
Any thoughts welcome as it's really tedious as it used to run day in day out
when loaded with RH 5.1. I don't know what the difference is or what the
problem is as it exhibited the exact same symptoms on the last board which
also has APM once I shoved RH5.2 on it. Maybe it's not the APM though loading
up the APM daemon & compiling APM into the kernel has reduced the number of
lockups (though not stopped it entirely). Before doing this if I had the
board APM set to 1 minute for everything (for testing) then a couple of
minutes post boot it was locked. Now it will wake up most of the time but
everynow & again it locks (around once / twice per day). If I disable the APM
in BIOS it doesn't seem to make much difference if any...........
Basically if I'm using it, it's fine but if I leave it it goes to sleep. The
Cursor is there & flashing but not even the Num Lock / Caps Lock etc works.
Any thoughts helpfull
Adam
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From: Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Help with X related concepts.
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:30:33 +0100
Christopher Browne wrote:
> "Dock" apps are going to be a pretty special class, as they need to
> have intimate involvement with the "Dock" on which they'll be based.
> I've never concerned myself with this, so I can't elaborate further.
Not necessarily... the fvwmbuttons module in fvwm2 lets you 'swallow'
pretty much any X client whose geometry is either reasonably small or
can be resized by the WM.
I've made a litte clock/xbiff combo just for fun, and I didn't have
to put in any WM-specific code to be able to make it 'swallowable' by
fvwm2.
--
M.vr.gr. / Best regards,
Emile van Bergen (e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
This e-mail message is 100% electronically degradeable and produced
on a GNU/Linux system.
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From: Vladymyr Iljyc Lenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Soundblaster doesn't work..
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:16:14 +0100
for kernel 2.2.0 this works for my friend
compile soundcard as module and combile as sb, also enable FM Synthesis
too
to modules conf or modify followind lines
Options sound dmabuf=1
Options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=3 mpu_io=0x330
Options opl3 io=0x388
you must also at startup init card with isapnptools and load module
sound,sb,opl3
--
= lenin =
proste lenin
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From: don'[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michiel Roos)
Subject: Re: PPP seems slow
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:06:21 GMT
>What's wrong?
>
What about your serial speed?
Is it set to high? (setserial /dev/cu? spd_hi)
are you using the correct irq?
Good luck,
Michiel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: KDE? Gnome? ... confused
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:21:42 GMT
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:07:00 -0800, "P.G."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
KDE and GNOME are going to prove to be integral to the success of
LINUX in the mainstream. The GUI for LINUX is will be the 'killer app'
and whoever gets there first will be the kings of the LINUX world.
>OK here is a question. I used linux sometime ago, always using fvwm. Now I
>installed RH5.2 on my new machine. I am trying to figure out which desktop
>manager to use. KDE seems nice, and I like the drag and drop capabilities
>(which I think it has?). Now when Rh was installing I saw that gnome was an
>option and I installed it.
>
>Is gnome working with kde or are two products aiming in the same direction?
>
>Bottom line: Any suggestions on which desktop environment is best? and how I
>choose which one to run?
>I am overwhelmed with options, please help me understand them.
>
>Thanks,
>Panos
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Dow)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:06:34 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 04:00:36 GMT, W Gerald Hicks
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scratched:
>Although I too like the operating system that Linus named after
>himself but was mostly developed by others,
That is extremely unfair, and deserving of an apology. Linus developed
a kernel which he named after himself. The term "Linux Operating System"
as opposed to "Linux based (GNU) Operating System" was something penned
by other developers, not by Linus.
J
--
John M Dow, LARTing into the new millenium[0]
Director, Systems
Dow Carter Ltd : Edinburgh, Scotland : http://www.dowcarter.com
[0] Oh, God, not another one.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wim Osterholt)
Subject: Re: HELP: Callback login - has it been done?
Date: 20 Feb 1999 11:29:28 GMT
St�phane Brunet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Ever setup a callback-login system like Win95?
: I have this with work. The system expects a Win95 machine to dial in,
: login as a user, hang up and wait for the callback.
: (the username is used to get the unique callback phone number)
: Is there a way to make this work from a linux system?
Take a look at mgetty. It has a callback feature.
--
Regards, Wim.
===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
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From: "Gordon Ritchie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Neomagic
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:25:45 +0200
I need a neomagic display driver for my laptop, running slakware can't get
XFree86 running !
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can someone tell me how to get LILO to update my boot floppy's kernel map?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 08:23:36 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse) writes:
> Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >You use lilo's -r flag which does a chroot before running. Something like:
> >
> > lilo -v -C /etc/lilo.conf -r /mnt/floppy
> >
> >-Tom
>
> And that will use the lilo.conf found on the floppy disk, not the one on
> the root disk, correct?
Yes, specifically /mnt/floppy/etc/lilo.conf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Willett LADS LDN X7563)
Subject: PPP/PAP problems - UK: Connection to Freeserve
Date: 19 Feb 1999 13:30:05 GMT
Hi,
Has anyone in the UK got Linux to access to Freeserve.
I tried to get it to work. It fails at the pap authentication.
I get the message "Authentication failure" from Freeserve.
I've checked the debug messages and it appears I'm sending
the correct username and password . I get [LCP AuthRej ... ]
from the remote site.
Any give me any hints on debugging it - or does Freeserve
specically not allow access from non -Windows OS's.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cynthia Sellers)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Help needed setting DTR off from Perl script on Linux box
Date: 19 Feb 1999 13:22:26 GMT
My boss sent this from a research vessel at sea:
I am looking for a C/Perl program or Linux command that will turn off DTR
on a serial port. I used to be able to do this with on stty command "stty
nohupcl < /dev/ttyS0", but the stty in RedHat 5.2 does not seem to have the
same functionality. Ideally, I need to be able to do this from a Perl
script.
Mgetty is normally running on the port and tends to set DTR high whenever
it does a reset. This is fine when it is in dialin mode but because of a
very strange port-switch configuration I have on a SATCOM unit I need to be
able to manually turn off DTR for several seconds on occasion.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
E-mail appreciated
I hope to be able to send him an answer soon! Thanks
Cindy
===============================================================================
Cynthia Sellers/Research Associate Voice: (508) 289-2425
Mail Stop #11/Bigelow 210 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution FAX: (508) 457-2194
Woods Hole, MA 02543
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doodle)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Multilink PPP in Linux with 2 x V90 = 105,333 bps?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:56:12 GMT
Hi there,
I know Win95/98 has support for Multilink PPP to 'channel bond' two
V90 modems to gain something like 10k/sec connection speeds. Can I use
two V90s in Linux to get 10k/sec connection speeds?
If so, can somebody be a nice chappy and guide me through this
process? <vbg> TIA.
Doodle
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From: Klaus Kocheisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: fsck error at boot-time
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:08:26 +0100
A.G. schrieb:
>
> Hi all:
>
> When I boot into Linux I get the following warning:
>
> /dev/hda2: Inode 237785 has illegal block(s)
> /dev/hda2: UNEXPECTED INCONSESTENCY Run fsck MANUALLY
>
> fsck RETURNED ERROR CODE - REBOOT NOW
>
> what am I to do about this?
>
> /dev/hda2 mounts as /usr, and can't be unmounted. fsck freaks out that I
> want to use it on a mounted partition.
>
> Any input hightly appreciated!!
>
> Thanx,
> Arcady
Go to single user mode and try to umount /usr. If you still cannot
unmount the partition, you might boot Linux from your distribution media
and applying fsck on the device special file of the defective partition.
--
To reply via email remove 'NOSPAM' from email address
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From: Miernik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: plz explain directory standards: /, /usr, /usr/local
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:47:16 GMT
Can someone explain me the difference between these groups of directories,
what goes in which, etc.:
/bin/
/sbin/
/lib/
/usr/bin/
/usr/sbin/
/usr/lib/
/usr/local/bin/
/usr/local/sbin/
/usr/local/lib/
And what is this directory:
/initrd/
It is empty, can I safely delete it?
--
www.miernik.nask.com/miernik/ _/ _/
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_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/
GSM: (+48) 603 201 700 _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/
page: (+48) 64 2222 864_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/
ICQ UIN: 4004001 _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can someone tell me how to get LILO to update my boot floppy's kernel map?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 08:35:41 -0500
"Jeff Kowalczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >FYI, this is in the Bootdisk-HOWTO, Section 6.1.
> >You use lilo's -r flag which does a chroot before running. Something like:
> > lilo -v -C /etc/lilo.conf -r /mnt/floppy
>
> Thanks. I wasn't sure what chroot did when I read the man page for lilo.
>
> Is that command to change the filesystem's notion of root to whatever that
> argument specifies? (/mnt/floppy -> /)
Yes.
> How long is that in effect after such a command?
For lilo's -r command, just the lilo invocation. For chroot(1), for the
duration of the command you give it.
-Tom
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From: "Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Script not doing its job....!!?? Need some simple help!!!
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 00:06:04 +0100
I have the following in my ip-up script. But, when running it from another
script that checks whether there is outgoing mail, it simply seems to start
fetchmail and then suddenly cuts the connection without having fetchmail
finishing its job. Sendmail doesn't even run at all! What do I need to do? I
am sure I have missed out some really basic thing, but I am not at all
experienced in writing scripts for Linux....
Part of my ip-up:
case "$6" in
mail)
sendmail -q
fetchmail
/etc/ppp/ppp-down
;;
*)
;;
esac
If you could help me, I'd be very pleased as I've been trying for days and
days now....
Please reply by E-Mail if poss.: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks a lot!!!!
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:07:34 +0000
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, John Dow wrote:
> >Although I too like the operating system that Linus named after
> >himself but was mostly developed by others,
>
> That is extremely unfair, and deserving of an apology. Linus developed
> a kernel which he named after himself. The term "Linux Operating System"
> as opposed to "Linux based (GNU) Operating System" was something penned
> by other developers, not by Linus.
If you look into the history of this you will discover that Linus did not
call Linux after himself. His initial suggestion for the name was Freax
but other developers suggested that this was not a good choice and `Linux'
came about as a result.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:43:22 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Fri, 19 Feb 1999 04:55:30 +1100...
..and Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hows this
>
> On the first day of Linux my puter said to me
> Piss off you bloody great twit
And all of a sudden, the light comes to me:
He was right, and now would you please BEAT IT!
mawa
--
I will not let the Great Equaliser, that is, the capitalist race-to-
the-bottom, steamroll over every aspect, every minuscule detail of my
life, my world and the society I live in. I believe that there are
things to spared from devastation by the "free market". -- mawa
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From: "TomWolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: how do I change resolution?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:59:12 +0100
I have just installed redhat 5.2 but I cant open xwindows because I got the
wrong resolution. How do I change the resolution?
Please email me the answere at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wtih love and respect
Tom
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Partition Magic?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:53:47 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know this isn't everyone's thought of adding multiboot to your system.
But I must say that I was pleasantly surprised by NT's boot manager when
I switched from a mainly NT system to a mainly linux system.
I have a clean bootup menu with it which allows me to pick linux, win98
or win nt.
Frankly, I expected much worse performance from a microsoft product.
Although I must admit documentation on the microsoft side of things was
non-existent. (I bet if you ask them how to do it, they'll claim it's
impossible)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hey!
>
> What is the recomended Boot/partition Manager for multi OS'?
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Armstrong)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Multilink PPP in Linux with 2 x V90 = 105,333 bps?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 21:39:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Doodle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi there,
>
>I know Win95/98 has support for Multilink PPP to 'channel bond' two
>V90 modems to gain something like 10k/sec connection speeds. Can I use
>two V90s in Linux to get 10k/sec connection speeds?
>
>If so, can somebody be a nice chappy and guide me through this
>process? <vbg> TIA.
>
linux/Documentation/networking/eql.txt might be of some help...
Phil
--
nosig
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hill)
Subject: Re: Printing Man Pages to Text File
Date: 20 Feb 1999 02:00:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <7al0jj$4q2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Reidar Sjoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone know how I can print out a man page to a text file?
man manpage | col -b > file
(Or you can use another pipe, and go man manpage | col -b | lpr
to get a handy hard copy for future reference.)
Jim
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.swcp.com/~jimhill/
"Visualize world peace...good.
Now wake up and smell the coffee."
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From: "Richard Payne" <payner at timken dot com>
Subject: Re: Compiling Kernel breaks
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:54:59 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7ajeqk$9ct$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>
>if i try to compile a new kernel i heave the following error after a new
>installation of S.U.S.E 5.3:
>
>Xlib: connection to "linuxtjpc:0.0" refused by server
>Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>...
>
>i think there are some files with the wrong file-permission entries. which
>file(s) have the wrong file-permission-bits?
>or how can i make the client authorized to connect to the server?
There's nothing wrong with file permissions, in fact this has nothing to do
with
the kernel. My guess is that you're logged into the system as a 'user' and
then
did an su to root to compile the kernel? and you're trying to use make
xconfig?
Open another terminal window, as 'user' and type in 'xhost +' , this will
allow
anybody to connect to the display.. you may want to look at the man pages
of xhost so that you learn how to only allow local connections.
--
Rich Payne
(Speaking for myself, not my employer)
payner at timken dot com
Looking for Alpha-Linux info?
http://www.alphalinux.org
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Write to disk every five minutes?
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 10:38:13 -0500
oak wrote:
>
> I'd like to change the behaviour of linux to write to disk every 5 minutes
> instead of every few seconds. Anyone know how I might do this?
>
> update (bdflush) and kflushd seem to be running already, is there a command
> I can give to the system to write to disk only every 5 minutes?
>
> This would allow me to spin down the hard drive long enough to do some
> recording.
>
> Also, I might want to raise this time to, say, an hour or so if I'm just
> editing a file in order to have some real silence - I have a noisy hard
> drive. I can write to a floppy to keep whatever I'm editing backed up.
>
> I recall hearing of some kind of danger in doing this sort of thing....if I'm
> backing up to floppy what exactly can go wrong? Corrupted file system...?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Tony
man bdflush
The danger involved with this is like what follows:
Linux keeps a disk cache of disk blocks.
Whatever is read from disk is put in whatever free RAM is
available. If you write something to disk it goes into whatever
free ram is available as well.
If a change is made to a disk block it is considered
a "dirty" buffer in RAM and bdflush will organize dirty buffers for
efficient writing and "flush" dirty buffers to disk every
few seconds by default.
You can change the behavior of bdflush to lengthen or shorten
the periodicity of flushes. However if you have a poweroutage,
or if a disk is removed without gracefully unmounting (umount will
"sync" the buffers with disk) then whatever dirty buffers there
were were never written to disk.
Because bdflush only knows about blocks, and does not care about
filesystems this could result in situations where the filesystem
becomes corrupt. Some of the blocks of a file could have been
flushed to disk without others.
-Ben.
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From: doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.2/ how to install/update ghostscript 4.03 to 5.10?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 07:10:41 -0500
Bob Tennent wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:38:07 -0500, doug wrote:
>
> > I'm having some problems in getting the newer (5.10) ghostscript
> >package
> >installed on my RedHat 5.2 system. It currently has 4.03 ghostscript. If
> >I use rpm -i or rpm -u, the package is installed OK, but it breaks the
> >printtool (i.e. in the filters menu there are only 2 selections instead
> >of
> >the normal many. it shows only postscript & plain text filters). If I
> >try
> >gs --version, it errors out with unable to open libraries.
>
> If gs doesn't run, it clearly hasn't installed OK. This would explain
> why there are no drivers available for printtool. gs -h should show
> what's available.
>
> If I then
> >uninstall
> >the package, and re-install the rpms from the 5.2 CD everything is fine.
> >I'm installing the fonts, (gs/urw) & the latest printtool and
> >printfilter
> >packages. I've tried many combinations of the packages. It seems to me
> >that it
> >shouldn't be this hard, I mean I haven't had this type of trouble until
> >this.
>
> Which 5.10 rpm have you been trying to install? The rpms from
>
> http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~typhoon/html/ghostscript.html
>
> are very good. If all else fails, get the source for 5.50 from
>
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
>
> and compile your own.
>
> Bob T.
Bob,
THANKS!, for that link. ghostscript 5.10 is hooked up now, I've got
uniprint, and I'm happy. I had been trying to install one from RedHat
rawhide site, I don't know if it was that or maybe the patch from the
site you gave, but whatever it was my problem is solved. On a side note,
I have RedHat on a 400MB partition on a ThinkPad, so I can't do any
development. :o( Doug
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From: Patrick Lanphier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GCC x EGCS
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:05:12 -0500
uname -a
Bill Simpson wrote:
>
> >
> > >should I use both?
> > If you have 2.0.x kernel you should use GCC to compiling kernel and EGCS to
> > compiling programs.
> How do you find out what kernel you have? Thanks!
>
> Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Willett LADS LDN X7563)
Subject: Re: directory removal program
Date: 19 Feb 1999 13:45:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Steve, try;
>
>rm -rf /
>
>Don
>
You must think yourself very funny.
"Yeh, lets get someone to delete all his files - HoHoHoHoHo."
What next - remove someone brake fluid from their car.
That'll be REALLY funny.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:28:27 -0500
Reply-To: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kinkster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Maybe we should all drive busses ?
PCI or ISA? ;-)
--
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_________________________________________________________________________
The above opinions are my own and not those of ISM Corp., a subsidiary of
IBM Canada Ltd.
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From: "Jeff Kowalczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can someone tell me how to get LILO to update my boot floppy's kernel map?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:07:43 -0500
Thanks, that command worked: lilo -v -C /etc/lilo.conf -r /mnt/floppy , I
can now choose the two kernels and a rescue boot.
However, my dumb self tried to get fancy, and put those append mem=20Mb
statements in the boot floppy's lilo.conf before I had ever checked them
out. I think they're causing problems with either kernel booting. My build
of 2.2.1 gets a GPF :0000 during partition check, and 2.0.36-0.7 hangs
during 'mounted as read only'
I don't have another machine (WinNT boxes here) that can read this floppy, I
just want to edit that lilo.conf or override it to not execute that append
mem command, and see what happens. If I type:
boot: image=/vmlinuz-2... root=/dev/hda6
or boot: /vmlinuz-2... root=/dev/hda6
I get "no such image found, [tab] for a list.
Any ideas on how to override the append from the boot: prompt?
I have to create a separate rescue disk if I use the rescue boot, and I
think there's one on the RH5.2 CD.
lilo.conf reads:
===============================================
boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
prompt
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.1
label=linux
append="mem=20M"
root=/dev/hda6
image=/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux-old
append="mem=20M"
root=/dev/hda6
image=/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=rescue
append="load_ramdisk=2 prompr_ramdisk=1"
root=/dev/fd0
And my floppy drive has contents:
vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7 vmlinuz-2.2.1
/boot
boot.0200 boot.b map message
(what exactly is the map file?)
/dev
fd0 hda6
/etc
lilo.conf
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From: doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: Linux on IBM Thinkpad i Series(model 1451) ?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 07:19:50 -0500
w.s. park wrote:
>
> Anyone knows how well Linux works on IBM Thinkpad
> i Series(model 1451) ? Any known problems ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
take a look at this site
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
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