Linux-Misc Digest #283, Volume #19 Wed, 3 Mar 99 15:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: FreeBSD vs LINUX (T. William Wells)
Re: Is linux 64-bit ready already? (B. Binegar)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Andreas Klemm)
Re: Compiling STL programs (Thomas Boggs)
Re: REQ: Canon BJC-7000 Printer Driver for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Compiling STL programs ("Thomas T. Veldhouse")
Re: Downloading at half the speed under Linux vs NT (Mike)
Re: printing letters with generated addresses from db (Grant Taylor)
Re: ICQ in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Install of WordPerfect 8 (Dan Dubosky)
Re: Install of WordPerfect 8 (Eric Potter)
Re: Public license question (Rick Onanian)
Re: Linux/FreeBSD compatability (Was Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)) (Graffiti)
cmp nt vs linux security links? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: bvi 1.1.0 - binary editor based on vi (Joe Dumais)
Problems with 'home-built' bootdisks (David Fetterman)
Re: Am I stupid or am I stupid. PPP. ALMOST!!! (Bill Unruh)
Re: demand dialing vs. the other demand dialing (Alan Curry)
Re: Cable Modems with Linux (Charles Boivin)
Re: Am I stupid or am I stupid. PPP. ALMOST!!! (Alex Armstrong)
Re: Encryption of passwords for AuthUserFile on Apache server? (Mark White)
HP Designjet 650C under Ghostscript (Yan Seiner)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (T. William Wells)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs LINUX
Date: 3 Mar 1999 13:30:46 -0500
In article <7bjp7d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >But, assuming you've built a kernel and booted, you're still stuck
: >-- it'll try to run /sbin/init....and even if Linux keeps it
: >there, chances are that program will just fall over and die. And
: Even? Sure it keeps it in /sbin/init. Fall over and die?
I saw a Unix where init wasn't in /sbin, there wasn't even an
/sbin,... ya never know what people will do. :)
: *Very* unlikely. It doesn't use anything fancy - besides usual
: open/read/write stuff it uses setsid(), fork(), exec(), sigaction(),
: wait(), kill(), sleep() and syslog().
SysV and BSD have differences in behavior in some of those calls
and since Linux is more SysVish than BSDish, I'd expect things to
break. Signals, in particular.
: Now, hardware-related stuff
: in rc scripts will act funny. setserial, hwtime, hdparm and friends
: will not work.
That's for sure.
: But most likely you will be able to boot into
: single-user.
That's possible. The places where init is likely to break probably
aren't hit when going into single user mode.
: If init(8) will not work with FreeBSD kernel under it
: I will consider it as bug in init. I.e. that would indicate that
: thing does something *really* weird.
Not really. As I said, there are differences in signal processing
between SysV and BSD. A BSD kernel is going to do signals somewhat
differently than a SysV init is going to expect. Not dealing with
that wouldn't be a bug. A lack of a feature, perhaps, but not a
bug.
: >if you fixed that, you'd find zillions of other things that won't
: Mostly badly written scripts and explicit pathnames.
Things like differences in internal kernel structures, different
ways of doing things (e.g., subinterfaces vs. aliasing on ethernet
interfaces), differences in /proc, sysctl and other ways of
manipulating the kernel, fcntl() vs ioctl() differences, and on
and on and on. Not to mention those explicit pathnames, many of
which are unavoidable.
: >In short, it's not a reasonable thing to do to try to graft Linux
: >userland onto a FreeBSD kernel. It's likely *possible*. But not
: >reasonable.
: More or less agree, but it might be funny experience. Hmm...
: OK, I'll play with it and will post the results.
It'd be interesting, that's for sure.
: Bullshit. It is trivial. If the kernel sees the slice and
: your guy simply copied the corresponding stuff from LINT it will
: mount ext2 happily. That is, if he didn't forget to rebuild the
: kernel ;-/
Oops.... I just checked... It's in the list of "Undocumented
options", which we skipped because, well, they're undocumented.
So, what exactly is involved in dealing with ext2fs? Just setting
options "EXT2FS"? Are any other things required?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. Binegar)
Subject: Re: Is linux 64-bit ready already?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:42:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After further correspondence with the Kayll Lake (the physicist that's carrying out
the 64 bit calculations on a linux/alpha machine), I learned that it's not the Maple
binaries for linux that are being used, but rather that the Maple binaries for
Digital Unix are being run on a linux/alpha machine. While it's still amazing that
this works, this is not as miraculous as I first thought..
Birne Binegar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Klemm)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 2 Mar 1999 22:51:18 GMT
In article <7bhj5d$2itv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Klemm) writes:
> No the two true points are:
not two or three, four ....
[...a) b) c)... ]
the lawsuit, when Novell became the owner of Unix sources.
Many peeople were unsure, if they safely can use BSD (that
time based on the Net/2 tape).
--
Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas
What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ?
http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html
"NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP''
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From: Thomas Boggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling STL programs
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:01:06 -0500
Nevermind.
I replaced libstdc++-devel-2.8.0-14 with
egcs-libstdc++-devel-1.1b-1 and it links properly.
Thomas
Thomas Boggs wrote:
> Do I need to link with a specific library to use STL in an
> application or is everything necessary in the STL include files?
> I'm getting undefined references at link time but I don't see any
> obvious libraries with which to link.
>
> I'm using egcs-c++ 1.1b-2 and libstdc++ 2.8.0-14 on Redhat 5.2.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: REQ: Canon BJC-7000 Printer Driver for Linux
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:33:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael A Beckmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Is there a BJC-7000 driver available for Linux and where can I get it
> from? If there is no such driver where can I get the source code for the
> BJC-4000 driver so that I can modify it.
>
> --
> Michael A Beckmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Try a look at Suse�s homepage http://www.suse.de
There�s a hint in the "supported hardware list".
As far as I remember, it is supported by ghostscript 5.10,
but I don`t remeber the name of the driver.
Jan
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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling STL programs
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:34:00 -0600
STL, buy definition, should not require any additional libraries. They are
templates, which are solely contained in header files. STL and the standard
C++ library are separate things. Compare
#include <iostream.h> // standard c++ libraray
// with
#include <iostream> // STL
using namespace std; // all encompassing inclusion
Thomas T. Veldhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thomas Boggs wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Nevermind.
>
>I replaced libstdc++-devel-2.8.0-14 with
>egcs-libstdc++-devel-1.1b-1 and it links properly.
>
>Thomas
>
>
>
>
>Thomas Boggs wrote:
>
>> Do I need to link with a specific library to use STL in an
>> application or is everything necessary in the STL include files?
>> I'm getting undefined references at link time but I don't see any
>> obvious libraries with which to link.
>>
>> I'm using egcs-c++ 1.1b-2 and libstdc++ 2.8.0-14 on Redhat 5.2.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Thomas
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: Re: Downloading at half the speed under Linux vs NT
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 04:29:56 GMT
thanks i'll give it a shot
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 08:32:10 +0000, Pat Palermo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Mike wrote:
>
>> As far as I know my modem is using the same init string for both NT
>> and Linux, whatever the default is. NT says I'm getting a line connect
>> speed of 45300. Is there a way to check line connect speed in Linux?
>> thanks
>> mike
>>
>>
>
>Mine was doing exactly the same thing. I used the same init string as my nt box
>but was connecting much slower. I'm using kppp and it has option to display dialog
>box.
>Any responses coming back from modem such as connect speed are displayed here.
>Try adding &U14 to init string. This worked for me, although I can't explain why, as
>the
>default init string should have produced connection speeds that I was experiencing in
>nt
>and win95
>
>
>
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing letters with generated addresses from db
Date: 03 Mar 1999 13:45:47 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Is there a program or something, that allows me to write a letter
> once and print it multiple times, each time with a different
> address, and the address coming from a db, or a text file.
There are probably many such programs. It would be trivial to write
one yourself; that would take less time than the search for a
perfectly suitable prewritten program.
> What would you the letter write in? Latex?
Latex is certainly a good candidate; you can trivially generate
well-formed letters with it.
It would take you 10 lines of Perl to paste address/name info into a
latex template, and a few more lines to process that latex file and
send it to a printer. We leave those lines of Perl to the reader ;)
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ICQ in Linux
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 06:11:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joel Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running RedHat 5.2, with kernel 2.0.36, and am trying to get an ICQ
> program going for it.. has anyone succesfully gotten ICQ to work in
> Linux? If so, what version of ICQ (or copy) was it? And how did you go
> about installing it? I have tried the glib, and the gtk versions, but
> can't seem to get those libraries to compile properly, they always have
> errors at the end of the compile.. help!
>
> Joel
>
>
I know of one version that works with icq... the java version. Try using
kaffe, since, it's included in the redhat 5.2 cd, and download the beta java
icq software... it works reasonably well. :)
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From: Dan Dubosky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install of WordPerfect 8
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:34:23 -0500
John,
If you have downloaded files that have all caps such as GUI00.GZ, change all
of them to lower case before unzipping and tar, e.g. to gui00.gz. I think that
you can get away with unzipping before changing but you must definitely change
to the lower case before the tar operation.
Hope that this helps. It did in my case.
Dan
John McNeil wrote:
> I untarred the 7 files and ran the ./Runme. I keep on getting an error
> message that states "nothing new to install." Does anyone on the net have
> any idea what I have done wrong? It there a work around that will solve the
> problem or do I have to re-download the files again?
>
> Thanks everyone for any assistance given.
>
> John McNeil
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Potter)
Subject: Re: Install of WordPerfect 8
Date: 3 Mar 1999 18:09:28 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
John McNeil enlightened this group thus:
> I untarred the 7 files and ran the ./Runme. I keep on getting an error
> message that states "nothing new to install." Does anyone on the net have
> any idea what I have done wrong? It there a work around that will solve the
> problem or do I have to re-download the files again?
>
> Thanks everyone for any assistance given.
>
> John McNeil
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was pretty frustrated with this very bizarre bug also, until I read the
solution on one of these groups.
You have to decompress each of the files and convert the file names to lowercase.
gzip -cd GUI00.GZ > gui00
Do this for all 7 files. Now untar them.
tar xvf gui00
The ./Runme script fails unless the seven GUI0[06].GZ and seven gui[0-6]
files are still present.
--
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From: Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:28:25 -0500
brian moore wrote:
>
> > > The Free Software Foundation does have lawyers, and they do pursue
> > > license violations on code they control.
> >
> > I did not know they even had much money. I got the feeling that they
> > didn't.
>
> No one needs to pay for lawyers.
Really? Wow! Cool! Next time I go to traffic court with 4 tickets in
the past year, I'll bring a free lawyer to help me keep my license...
> > I do not claim to know law, or programming, for that matter. I do
> > not practice law; rather, I offer my opinions from a point of view
> > that I believe to be [very] slightly more informed than those who
> > ask.
>
> You believe wrong.
Well, if I was not slightly more informed than the person who asked,
than it would not have been possible for me to answer. Misinformation
is still information, even if it's wrong. I stand corrected. I will no
longer question what has been answered for me - and thankfully, the guy
with the original question is finally getting some answers.
Ever notice how, if someone posts a real difficult question, they get
no answers..then, if someone posts that same question, but says that
they're tired of trying to get linux to work and that they'll go back
to windows..They get an answer. A lot of answers. Sometimes..you gotta
say the bad thing.
> --
> Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
> Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
> Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
> Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
--
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===============
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From: Graffiti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux/FreeBSD compatability (Was Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?))
Date: 3 Mar 1999 11:34:48 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>Please, don't stereotype... I know _plenty_ well how to read manuals,
>and so do 99% of the teenaged population. Many teenaged people around
>here read online books, from www.mcp.com/personal, because Sams.Net is
>so gracious to publish them there (in their entirety).
My point was (and I admit, I didn't really bring it across well) was that
learning to read manuals is an aquired skill. Many people who use computers
for the first time are a bit lost on computer manuals. Most people, given
a month or so (or less), can usually get the hang of it (reading ANSI/ISO
standards, OTOH, is a painful life-long process. :-).
I know quite a few people who started off in their teen or pre-teen years
knowing nothing about computers. They had no idea how to read a computer
manual to get the information they wanted. But they learned.
What annoys me are all the people assuming that because someone wrote code
that, ITO, is terrible, the coder will never learn to write better.
-- DN (Learned to love shell scripts on ORCA/C :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cmp nt vs linux security links?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 06:23:32 GMT
Hi
Can anyone point me to a link, or a faq, or anything
that compares linux security to nt security?
Thanks
Rene
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 17:38:51 +0000
From: Joe Dumais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bvi 1.1.0 - binary editor based on vi
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> changes dependent of their different tasks.
>
> Bvi can be downloaded from http://bvi.linuxbox.com/
>
> - --
> Gerhard B�rgmann
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I tried to go to http://bvi.linuxbox.com. No such address was found.
Is the address correct?
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From: David Fetterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Problems with 'home-built' bootdisks
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:37:26 -0500
I'm having troubles getting a boot disk to work after following the
Bootdisk-HOWTO. I'm using a 2.0.35 kernel, using LILO to boot, and have
a separate root filesystem disk. LILO and the kernel seem to load fine,
but after hitting ENTER after changing disks to the gzip'd root fs
image, the kernel panics with the following:
[MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT16, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, guid=0, umask=022,
bmap]
[me=0x59,cs=480,#5=217,fs=38224,fl=49760,ds=22704,de=20478,data=23984,
se=2450,ts=629539330,ls=2459,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
Transaction block size=512
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
This error happens almost immediately. I'm able to boot the system with
a DOS boot disk, so I don't think the drive itself is the problem. I'm
wondering if there's something I left out of the lilo.conf or if I am
missing something somewhere else...
Thanks,
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Am I stupid or am I stupid. PPP. ALMOST!!!
Date: 3 Mar 1999 19:48:23 GMT
In <7bjkvr$7ks$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gernot Fink) writes:
>enable debugging for the pppd
> ( insert "debug" in the optionsfile normally /etc/ppp/options)
>make the output of your chatscript verbose (chat -v -f ...)
Unfortunately that is not sufficient. You also have toinsert the line
daemon.* /var/log/messages
into /etc/syslog.conf
and do
killall -1 syslogd
(remember the -1 or you will kill all logging)
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Subject: Re: demand dialing vs. the other demand dialing
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Curry)
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 19:47:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steven Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <juXC2.703$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Curry
><URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Does "pppd demand" randomly eat all your existing routes, effectively turing
>> off the ethernet device, or am I seeing things?
>
>I think you're seeing things cos it works fine for me! I'm using 2.3.35
>of pppd with demand enabled.
>
OK, here's what happens: at boot time, the loopback and ethernet devices are
ifconfiged and routed. A blanket masq rule is added with ipfwadm. The local
network works. Other local machines can be pinged. Then comes the
"pppd demand defaultroute" (which lots of other options too but those are the
big ones) and pings across the ethernet stop working. The local route is
still in the routing table, but nothing makes it through. killing pppd causes
the local net to start working again.
If I send a ping out to the world to force pppd to dial, it works, and after
the connection is established, the ethernet starts working again. But that's
not helpful because I want the masqueraded boxes to be able to trigger the
initial dialing.
It sure looks like pppd eats all routes while it's waiting for a demand dial.
--
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From: Charles Boivin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Cable Modems with Linux
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 03:47:29 GMT
teddy j wrote:
> 1) We have a cable modem, and our provider sez that it only works on
> Win95. I've heard that there are ways to get around this so that
> I can use it on linux. Any ideas?
They probably mean that they don't support anything else than Win95. If
you're using an Ethernet card with your cable modem (and, I am assuming
you are), there are no reasons why it would not work in Linux. I am using
my own cable modem from Linux right now, even though my provider
(Rogers@Home) does not support Linux.
> 2) How would I setup 2 systems to share the same cable modem? I'm
> told that there might be a way to setup the first system as a proxy
> server...that wd run Win95, and then connect my linux system thru
> that. In the end, both systems could use the cable modem, and that
> would be great!! Anyone know how to do this?
I know that my provider can assign 2 different addresses for 2 computers,
at no extra cost. You should perhaps check that out with your provider. I
would also suggest to use Linux if you're comfortable with it. I have
noticed a strong performance boost of my cable modem connection under
Linux compared to under Win95 and Win98... I can sometimes get transfer
rates that are 4-5 times higher in Linux... I thought that was strange
(there might be something wrong with my setup in Windows!), but I won't
complain!
Good luck with your installation,
Charles Boivin
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From: Alex Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Am I stupid or am I stupid. PPP. ALMOST!!!
Date: 3 Mar 1999 06:31:32 GMT
I'm having a similar program (pppd dies after connection is established and
the login phase is complete) and it doesn't work either with the scripts
I've written for pppd, not with wvdial and not with kppp, either.
Any ideas?
dizzy wrote:
> Youre making this *way* more complicated than it has to be
> Get a program called WvDial go here to read the readme, get the source
and
> simply follow the instructions. It dosent get any easier than this
> http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/WvDial.htm
> you've got better things to loose sleep over ;-)
> rob
>
>
> Sergei Gerasenko wrote:
>
> > I've been working on this problem for 4 days already. I've had three
nights
> > when I went to bed at 8 a.m.! Here is the problem. I bought a RedHat
> > distribution of Linux (kernel 2.2.32) a week ago and decided to install
it
> > on my notebook (NEC VERSA 4000). Of course, the first thing I wanted to
work
> > was PPP (I have a PCMCIA modem). My modem was successfully recognized
and I
> > didn't have any problems with that. But I was concerned about PPP
support.
> > At first I thought that it wasn't built in the kernel because the PPP
> > registration lines wouldn't show up at boot up. So, I recompiled the
kernel
> > with the support built in. For some reason other features got messed up
and
> > I decided to switch back to the old kernel. (You must notice here that
all
> > that was going on during the Christmas time when everybody was drinking
> > booze and having fun). Luckily, it turned out that the old kernel had
PPP in
> > modules. With great relief I edited all the scripts (PPP-on and
> > ppp-on-dialer). Of course they didn't work right away, but ultimately I
> > successfully passed the login-password phase. I'm sure that I send
right
> > responses to my ISP because /var/log/messages goes all the way to
"serial
> > connection established" and I also looked through the log line by line.
> > Nothing suspicious. "Serial connection established" was about the only
> > encouraging line in the whole log. Then comes the following:
> >
> > connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS2 (pretty lively too:-)
> > channel ppp0 closing (Oh, oh!)
> > hangup (SIGHUP)
> > modem hangup
> > connection terminated
> > exit
> >
> > I have read a whole bunch of readme's on PPP. Nothing describes
SIGHUP
> > in a detailed way. There was a short description of that in PPP-HOWTO,
but
> > it didn't help. I have looked through old postings dated all the way
back to
> > 1997 and found nothing similar.
> > The PPP service also starts O.K. according to the log. I have tried
> > minicom. The same thing. I get to the point when I enter my
credentials, get
> > the garbage, exit the program without resetting the modem, type
> > #pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS2 38400 & and it goes no further. Something
> > disconnects the modem all the time. My PPP is 2.2.0, so I'm safe there.
No
> > other errors. I'm in despair and about to get on an anti-depressant.
Anybody
> > who has a good suggestion, will get a bottle of virtual vodka and even
drink
> > it with me (virtually)!
> >
> > THANXXXXXXXXXX
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark White)
Subject: Re: Encryption of passwords for AuthUserFile on Apache server?
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:27 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duane Elmer Smeckert)
wrote:
> Heh Heh, you said "rod."
Was that the inanimate carbon rod?
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: HP Designjet 650C under Ghostscript
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:36:07 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to get a HP Designjet 650C (a large format plotter) running
through GS on a RedHat Linux 5.1 box. The driver provided, dnj650c,
apparently needs "additional hardware or software" (this per the
ghoscript page), but I can't any source for this, or even the author(s).
The behavior I'm seeing is that jobs get sent, but hit the GS filter and
disappear. I know it's not my setup, since an HP laserjet works just
fine, and I can plot using HPGL (HP's plotter language).
Form this I am guessing that it really does need "additional hardware or
software".
Has anyone had any luck getting this setup going?
TIA,
Yan
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