Linux-Misc Digest #148, Volume #19 Tue, 23 Feb 99 04:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Kernel/CD-rom trubble (Tim Moore)
Re: Possible problems with kernel 2.2.1 (Timothy Murphy)
Re: Kernel/CD-rom trubble ("Bill Dunn")
Re: Multi-boot (Steven Tondre)
Re: trouble ticket system for redhat 5.2? (Gary Momarison)
Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ???? (Jason Clifford)
Re: redhat 5.0 -> 5.2 (garv)
Re: GCC x EGCS (Michael Powe)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Michael Powe)
Re: linux commmands (garv)
Re: Under Hack Attack! (Gary Momarison)
Re: netscape and realplayer (Michel Catudal)
Re: linux commmands (jkamat)
Re: redhat 5.0 -> 5.2 (jkamat)
Re: Upgrading xfree (Gary Momarison)
Re: Linux Sources (Richard Steiner)
Re: Bar Code scanner/Printout? (Gary Momarison)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Alexander Viro)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Stuart Krivis)
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:46:20 -0800
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel/CD-rom trubble
> I have trubble mounting my CD-rom.
> message:
> "mount: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel."
> This problem started since I changed/updated my kernel to
> kernel-2.0.36-1
You forgot to add iso 9660 support in the kernel.
# grep 9660 /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
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[Replies: make the double y a single]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Possible problems with kernel 2.2.1
Date: 23 Feb 1999 00:45:38 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Vere) writes:
>>I suspect you didn't read the CHANGES file. If you had, you would have
>>learned that under kernel 2.2.x, lp designations shift around. In my
>>case, my lp0 became lp1. Just fire up printtool and make the change.
>That would explain it. Where did lp1 go?
I had the same problem, but that wasn't the solution in my case.
(The printer was lp0 before and after the change.)
The problem went away when I updated the auxiliary programs
as recommended/ordered in Documentation/CHANGES .
I'd be interested to know if the problem _was_ in fact solved
in many cases by entering a different lp? in /etc/printcap .
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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: "Bill Dunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel/CD-rom trubble
Date: 22 Feb 1999 01:02:50 GMT
Try installing modutils2.1.85 rpm and initscripts3.78(?) rpm. The Redhat (?
I assume this is your distribution) modified versions support this kernel.
jkamat wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>go to /etc/fstab and add the mount entry for ur cdrom. check out man
>mount on how to do that. its easy
>
>Richard Lindgren wrote:
>>
>> I have trubble mounting my CD-rom.
>> message:
>> "mount: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel."
>> This problem started since I changed/updated my kernel to
>> kernel-2.0.36-1
>>
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From: Steven Tondre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.windows95
Subject: Re: Multi-boot
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:49:34 -0800
Norton System Commander solves the problem eloquently.
Dennis wrote:
>
> I need to have Win95/98, WinNT, and Linux on the same computer. What is
> the best way to set up a good (reliable and easy to config./use)
> multi-bot system so I can use these OS's without problems?
>
> I have considered using removable disks, but I'm not sure if this can be
> done because some of these OS's seem to require access to the C drive.
> Anyone tried this?
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: trouble ticket system for redhat 5.2?
Date: 22 Feb 1999 23:57:48 -0800
Jody Whisnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone suggest a trouble ticket system for RedHat 5.2? I'd like to
> keep track of calls and emails I get for help, what the problem was, and
> how I fixed it (if I did). Any and all suggestions are greatly
> appreciated.
There's a few things in the "help desk" section of
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/business.html
but they may be more than you had in mind, and might all be
commercial. ?? "mot - Ministry Of Truth" might work better:
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/pim.html
Or whip up something from one of the databases. Some are quite simple.
Emacs has a built-in database system that isn't great, but can be useful.
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/databases.html
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ????
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:40:07 +0000
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Sniper wrote:
> 1. Is red had 5.2 a good choice for a Toshoba laptop, or will I have
> problems with drivers, Infra red USB etc.
Generally speaking Red Hat 5.2 will be fine for a Toshiba laptop although
you are advised to have a look at the Linux laptop web site for
information on any potential issues with your particular model - I cannot
remember the URL just now but I am sure you know how to use a search
engine.
> 2. What can I use application wise that's not going to involve a huge
> leap from Office ? and provide backwards compatibility with Word and
> Excel 97 ?
There are a couple of office suites for Linux that provide the document
compatibility you require. They are Applixware and StarOffice.
Applixware has a more traditional UNIX look and feel to it. If you used MS
Office prior to the version labeled 95 you will find it familiar.
StarOffice is somewhat more advanced the MS Office with regard to the
interface. In fact it provides a complete desktop environment and is thus
a much larger application to load.
Both of these can import MS Office 97 documents and export documents in a
format suitable for MS Office.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 5.0 -> 5.2
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:16:14 -0800
Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> finally i got a linux destribution. RedHat 5.0....
>
> What is the main difference between RedHat 5.0 and RedHat 5.2?
Differences? Night and day. You can get RH5.2 from cheapbytes for $2.00.
Manual on cd.
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GCC x EGCS
Date: 22 Feb 1999 23:43:41 -0800
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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> But Alan Cox maintains 2.0.x (funded by Red Hat, I believe),
Paul> and he doesn't want you to use egcs. If a gcc-compiled
Paul> (2.0.x) kernel breaks, you can complain to him or to the
Paul> linux-kernel mailing list, and someone should take an
Paul> interest. If an egcs-compiled (2.0.x) kernel breaks, those
Paul> folks will ignore you, and so you get to figure out how to
Paul> fix it.
Oh, well. I've been running on egcs-compiled kernels 2.0.x for 4
months and egcs-compiled 2.2.0 since the day it came out. Without any
noticeable problems. My system runs 24x7. I don't know what the fuss
is all about. I do think it's a damn shame the way people are rushing
to dump egcs, though. Last year, it was the 'dump emacs with MULE'
herd; now, it's the turn of egcs. Like a bunch of damned sheep.
mp
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"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]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: 22 Feb 1999 23:23:18 -0800
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>>>>> "Mayor" == Mayor Of R'lyeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mayor> On 21 Feb 1999 00:37:57 -0800, Michael Powe
Mayor> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chose to bless us all with this
Mayor> bit of wisdom:
>> >>> >That would be why Ford decided it would be cheaper to pay
>> >>> accident >victims compensation than to design a safer car?
>> >>> To what are you referring? >> Presumably to the Ford
>> Pinto, which had a small design defect >> that would have cost
>> tens of millions to fix and looked like it >> would cost in the
>> neighborhood of zero to one lives if it >> weren't fixed.
>> Unfortunately for Ford, the one life didn't end >> up ended but
>> merely horrible burnt and very, very litigious.
Mayor> Ah the Pinto case. One of the biggest bits of urban
Mayor> mythology around. What most people don't know about that
Mayor> case was that the car had no gas cap. The women were
Mayor> backing up the highway to get to the exit they just
Mayor> left. They had just realized that they had left their cap
>> Grush-Saunby Report on Pinto Gas Tanks, Table 3: This report is
>> the Ford Motor Company document in which the authors compared
>> the likely costs of lawsuits to the known costs of properly
>> retrofitting the cars with safety bars. The rather
>> cold-blooded decision was simply that it would be more
>> "cost-effective" to pay off the victims than to protect their
>> lives.
Mayor> There can always be 'one more thing' that can be done to
Mayor> make vehicles safer. As we are seeing with the SUV
Mayor> situation once you do something to make vehicles safer
Mayor> someone will sue you for making them too safe. The
Even if this were true (your "blame the victim" argument), it has
nothing to do with your assertion that the problem with Pinto gas
tanks was "urban legend."
Mayor> automakers are in a no-win situation. They are going to be
Mayor> sued after an accident. Usually because they have much more
Mayor> money than the person who actually caused it. They have
Mayor> accepted this as a cost of doing business. What your report
Mayor> is actually an attempt to balance those costs. So long as
Mayor> people are more interested in turning a buck from ever
Mayor> traffic accident instead of getting the bad drivers off the
Mayor> road that's the way it will be. As far as cold-blooded
Your unproven assumptions are riding on their rims. Bad drivers do
not create exploding gas tanks. Immoral men do put earnings ahead of
human life.
Mayor> goes, if you really want to see that in action then you
Mayor> need look no further than the lawyers and their clients
Mayor> attempting to profiteer from the deaths and injuries of
Mayor> their freinds and loved ones. While every one has their
Mayor> hands out to the auto companies the driver that caused the
Mayor> accident is usually out driving in his/her piss poor manner
Mayor> again. But no one cares because they're pockets aren't very
Mayor> deep.
You need to cut back on your consumption of the Jerry Springer show.
It's leading you to all sorts of undemonstrable assertions.
mp
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From: garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux commmands
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 17:20:28 -0800
Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm pretty new with unix think. I have spent hours with FAQ's and
> HOWTO's.
>
> But I cant find things like:
>
> How to check free disk space on filesystem (like dos chkdsk. or just the
> dir command...)
>
You justa gotta read, read and heed.
Disk space df
or df -h (human-readable)
Little by little.
Dir is ls; ls -l; ls -a; ls -F.
Do a man ls (for example).
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.admin.isp
Subject: Re: Under Hack Attack!
Date: 23 Feb 1999 00:05:16 -0800
Chris William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>
> Anyone have any good links on security? Does anyone know how someone
There's more than you want in http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/security.html
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape and realplayer
Date: 22 Feb 1999 22:40:22 -0600
James Barwick wrote:
>
> [ALL SNIPPED]
>
> Here is what is in my /usr/local/netscape/plugins
>
> RAObserver.class
> RAPlayer.class
> librvplayer.so -> /usr/local/rvplayer5.0/librvplayer.so
>
> All I did was copy the two class files and link the library file in the plugin
> directory.
>
> Then, in netscape preferences, I added the following MIME type
>
> name: who cares!
> type: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin
> extension: rpm
>
> Then selected the plugin name.
>
> Also added
> type: audio/x-pn-relaudio
>
> and
> type: audio/x-realaudio
>
> and linked those to the rvplayer %s executable.
>
> Check "Help/About-plugins" you should see the RealVideo player plugin with the rpm
> extension.
>
> Caveat: I haven't seen it work yet. The one page I've been to that actually
> wasn't trying the G2 stuff (the G2 stuff wont work) gave me an error23.
>
> But it did TRY to run.
>
> Note: Check for MIME type duplicates and delete 'um! I had a couple dups.
>
> JDB
on the site I've been so far it flushes netscape. My setup seems identical to yours
exept for the name which isn't who cares
--
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then try Linux's preemptive multitasking
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: jkamat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux commmands
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:14:30 -0500
man df
man shutdown
jatin
Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm pretty new with unix think. I have spent hours with FAQ's and
> HOWTO's.
>
> But I cant find things like:
>
> How to check free disk space on filesystem (like dos chkdsk. or just the
> dir command...)
>
> how do i turn my computor off? Now I use "reboot" or just ctrl-alt-del
> and wait until linux is shut down and turn it off before lilo restarts.
> I'm shure there is a better way...
>
> Where can I find easy things like that? is there any overview list with
> the commads and a short description what they do? (for more details I
> can see the 'man' pages, i know)
>
> thanks!
> Nat
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From: jkamat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 5.0 -> 5.2
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 20:15:56 -0500
www.cheapbytes.com
$1.99
jatin
Natanael Copa wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> finally i got a linux destribution. RedHat 5.0....
>
> What is the main difference between RedHat 5.0 and RedHat 5.2?
> Is there som easy way to update my RedHat without buying a new CD?
>
> I have been at www.redhat.com but i could find. (did i miss something?)
>
> Natanael
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading xfree
Date: 21 Feb 1999 16:43:59 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mick George) writes:
[...]
> to get the "extract" utility to unzip the files correctly. Is there an
> easy way to unzip these *.tgz files. Like I've said I've only just
> started with Linux so if you could keep the answers to one syllable
> words please :-)
First use "tar tzvf one-file.tgz", look at where what will be
installed, change to proper directory, then "tar xzvf one-file.tgz".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Linux Sources
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 01:02:11 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>SGkgZXZlcnlvbmUuDQoNCkkgYW0gYSBub3ZpY2Ugb2YgTGludXguDQpJIGtub3cgdGhhdCB0aGVy
>ZSBhcmUgc28gbWFueSBsaW51eCBzb3VyY2UgY29kZXMgZm9yIHZhcmlvdXMgYXBwbGljYXRpb25z
Hey! Neat garbage. Care to post that again in readable form?
(Hint: Base64-encoded messages on Usenet, such as the one you posted,
aren't particularly readable by lots of people here).
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
Consistency: The last refuge of the unimaginative.
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bar Code scanner/Printout?
Date: 23 Feb 1999 00:08:53 -0800
Ken Plumbly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone know of decent (if any :-)) bar code software available?
> prefer GPL but any will do.
I found this link somewhere. I've not tried the SW.
<A HREF="ftp://argeas.argos.hol.gr/Linux/linbar/">
linbar</A> (Serial barcode reader SW)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 23 Feb 1999 03:10:48 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tony Porczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>As to RMS, long time ago (in pre-Linux days) I had a lengthy email
>discussion with him. Despite the obvious strength of his convictions
>and his persuasiveness, he was never less than gentlemanly is his
>arguments.
Lets. Not. Go. There.
DejaNews is available, so if you *really* want to look for RMS rants -
search and you'll find.
--
"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] (Stuart Krivis)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 01:17:49 GMT
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 22:22:24 -0800, Ken
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Without getting into whether a BSD-style license or GNU is better,
I don't like the GPL because RMS is a Communist. So there!
Makes about as much sense as some of the other arguments I have seen.
I do see the GPL as being more restrictive than some other licenses,
but that isn't necessarily negative. I'd also like to think that
authors examine the various licenses and choose the one that suits
their philosophy, rather than just using one because everyone else is.
I tend to side with John, but isn't there room for more than one
license in the world?
-sgk
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