Linux-Misc Digest #801, Volume #19 Sat, 10 Apr 99 15:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Apache - no "/" after directory ??? (Robert Lynch)
Re: reconfigure RedHat Linux after first install? (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Parallel port problems after upgrading to 2.2.5 (Bob Schreibmaier)
Re: nested ` (NF Stevens)
How do I get 5.1 off my partition? (Poohba)
Re: seti@home graphical client (George Armhold)
Re: about rpm under slackware (Thomas Zajic)
Re: cdrecord 1.61, xcdroast 0.96e and Sony CRX100E CDRW problems ("Tim")
hdparm (Kenneth Harrington)
Re: AD: The Computer Underground sells and supports Linux computers (Christopher B.
Browne)
Re: X session dies whenever I save a GIF in GIMP? (Upali Bandara)
Re: What is the best Linux to install? (Michael W. Ryan)
Re: I killed my Linux box (Michael J Surette)
Re: SB16 does not work with kernel 2.2.5 ("Robert C. Paulsen, Jr.")
Gnome 1.0 on 2.2.3 Kernel (Doug Taylor)
Re: X11 tuXeyes 0.0.1 released (Michael Kress)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? ("Tom O'Meara")
Re: reconfigure RedHat Linux after first install? (Josh Miller)
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 17:06:25 +0000
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Apache - no "/" after directory ???
Boris wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to configure Apache so that users don't have to put a
> slash after a sub-directory name?
>
> For example:
> On other servers I can type:
>
> http://www.domain.com/sub
>
> and automatically display the index.html file in the directory "sub".
>
> but with Apache, I must type
>
> http://www.domain.com/sub/
>
> to display the index.html file in that directory. The first example gives a
> 404 error.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Boris
This is in the Apache FAQ:
http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#set-servername
9.Why does accessing directories only work when I include the trailing
"/"
(e.g., http://foo.domain.com/~user/) but not when I omit it
(e.g., http://foo.domain.com/~user)?
HTH.
Bob L.
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http://www.best.com/~rmlynch/
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: reconfigure RedHat Linux after first install?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 08:09:13 -0700
> Brian V. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have installed RedHat 5.2 without an ethernet card because I was using
> >a modem for network access at the time.
> >Now that I have an ethernet card (3c509) I would like to enable it in
> >the kernel.
try adding the appropriate module via the kerneld part of the control
panel.
Gerald
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Schreibmaier)
Subject: Re: Parallel port problems after upgrading to 2.2.5
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:04:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Peter Caffin wrote:
>
>> When you type `dmesg | less` you should see entries like:
>> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>> lp1: using parport1 (polling).
>>
>> If you don't that means that your kernel hasn't seen the devices, for
>> whatever reason.
>
>I had a similar problem, the kernel wouldn't load the parport module
>(yes I enabled PC Style hardware) - it would work if I used modprobe
>manually (!?)
>
>I just compiled parport and pc style into the kernel (not as modules),
>it works just fine now *8-)
I don't know about anyone else, but I've had trouble with autoloading
modules ever since going from kernel 1.2.13 to 2.0.x. In 1.2.13, I
had almost everything running as a module. They autoloaded and unloaded
with no problems. Ever since 2.0.x, I've had nothing but trouble.
The only modules I have now are sound and iBCS, which I load at boot
time. Yes, I know about /etc/conf.modules. 8^{)
Of course, my 1.2.13 machine was a 40 MHz 386 with 8 Meg of RAM, so
it was great to unload memory when it wasn't needed. With today's
machines having 64 to 128 Meg or more, saving 50K of RAM doesn't
seem like such a big deal anymore. 8^{)
Bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: nested `
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:47:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Siemel Naran) wrote:
>How to use nested ` operator.
>
>For example,
> basename pwd
>outputs "pwd".
>
>But
> basename `pwd`
>is the same as "basename /home/sbnaran/folder" (or something like this),
>and the output is "folder".
>
>Now in my Makefile I want to assign the result of `basename `pwd`` to
>a variable. The following, which is close to what I want, works:
> PWD=`pwd`
>But this does not work
> PWD=`basename `pwd``
PWD=`basename \`pwd\``
The backslash character means that the character following it
loses its special significance and is treated as an ordinary
character. Without it the second backquote character will terminate
the command started with the first one, with the result that
you have two commands "`basename `" and "``".
Norman
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From: Poohba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I get 5.1 off my partition?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 10:52:03 -0500
I want to uninstall linux. How do i do this? There is no doc. in my book
that i can find. I would like to use the gig that i set asside for linux
with win98. How do i do this?
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From: George Armhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: seti@home graphical client
Date: 10 Apr 1999 11:56:14 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Schuerkamp) writes:
> I guess quite a few of you have been following the development of
> seti@home project. When the client finally became available to the
> public I was a bit disappointed to see that there is no graphical
> status display as the windows version has or will have.
>
> Being a member of the Linux community I said to myself: "Hey, let's
> propose such a beast that will put the Windows client to shame", so
> here I stand on my soap box, looking for people who would be interested
> in developing such an interface. I think perl/gtk would be nice as the
> only way to get at performance data is the log file output, and of
> course perl comes to mind first with such a format.
If you look in the slashdot archives for the article on seti@home, you
will see a few folks are indeed talking about this, including JWZ (of
xscreensaver fame.) However the SETI people also say that they've got
an X11 screensaver in the works as well. So in light of that, it's
not clear if the independent efforts will materialize something or
not.
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From: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: about rpm under slackware
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:54:53 GMT
jik- wrote:
> pyjamas wrote:
> > with the orignal libary in slackware. could i install glib 1.2.x as well?
> > so that my slackware could recognize and i could install rpm package?
pyjamas: Why would you want to spoil a nice, clean Slackware install
with an .rpm?! Just get the glib-1.2.tar.gz package and compile it
yourself.
> Slackware 3.6 comes with both a glibc2 runtime, and rpm2tgz converter
> programs.
jik-: First, glib-1.2 != glibc2. Second, Slack�s own rpm2tgz seems to be
a bit buggy. I use alien (http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/) instead
in the very few cases where a .tar.gz is not available (there has only
been one so far actually, and that was the Voodoo^2 Glide library).
HTH,
Thomas
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From: "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cdrecord 1.61, xcdroast 0.96e and Sony CRX100E CDRW problems
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:49:58 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7ek93p$teu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi. I just got a Sony CRX-100E, 4X/24X/2X CDRW ATAPI/EIDE drive and
>I'm having problems getting it to work.
>
>I have xcdroast 0.96e (and hence cdrecord 1.61).
>
>Config: RedHat 5.2, 2.0.36, 64M RAM, Sony CRX100E is secondary slave
(hdd).
>
>xcdroast displays the drive and cdrecord -scanbus shows the drive, but when
I
>go to write, it works for a couple of seconds and then ejects the CDR. I've
>included the log message that I'm getting.
[details snipped]
Have you tried moving the drive to hdc? My Mitsumi cdr won't write
reliably jumpered as a slave. It also gives comparable SCSI errors (whether
master or slave) if I open the draw of my other cdrom which is on the same
channel. I've had very little joy when trying to write cds using xcdroast
(because I haven't taken the time to set it up properly), but using cdrecord
directly from the command line I've only minced one cd.
I'm using cdrecord 1.8.x with kernel 2.2.5 and having no problems that
aren't due to me doing silly things like starting kernel compiles whilst
writing cds ;)
what does
cdrecord -v -dummy -speed=4 dev=[whatever] -audio [file]
give? Do dummy writes fail? Does altering speed= make a difference?
Tim.
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From: Kenneth Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hdparm
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:06:33 +0000
I have been trying to see if I could get better performance from my hard
drives, by using hdparm, and I have a couple of questions that I hope
someone can answer.
I have RedHat 5.1, running on a Celeron processor, with an Asus P2B
motherboard (BX chipset).
When I run "hdparm /dev/hdb", it shows 0 on everything except readahead
(8), and of course geometry. I would have thought that with a
relatively new motherboard, it would have known enough about the chipset
to use some of the performance features, such as 32-bit I/O, at least.
It does allow me to set options -c 3 -d 1 -X 34 -m 8, and when I did
this and ran a couple of test ("find" on the whole partition, test mode
in hdparm, etc), it seemed to work ok. Then later I decided to write a
small script to set these modes, with the intention of putting in one of
the startup scripts. When I ran the script, the machine immediately
hung. So I guess at least one of those modes isn't stable on my system.
So I guess my question is, should it be possible to run with something
more than "slowest possible mode" on this system? Or could it be the
drives? They are both less than a year old, Ultra DMA, etc.
Thanks for any info
Kenneth Harrington
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Subject: Re: AD: The Computer Underground sells and supports Linux computers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 16:00:18 GMT
On 10 Apr 1999 10:53:51 -0400, Mark Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>BLATANT AD from The Computer Underground, Inc.:
>
>Sorry we posted this twice, who would figure that trn formats a news
>article better than Netscape. On my previous message, Netscape didn't
>post it the way I saw it.
>
>Yes, I know we all hate ads. We will try not to advertise to the Linux
>newsgroups more than once a month.
How about directing ads to comp.os.linux.announce? That is an
appropriate venue, and nobody will flame you for doing that.
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Upali Bandara)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.graphics.misc
Subject: Re: X session dies whenever I save a GIF in GIMP?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 20:06:28 +0200
Thomas T. Veldhouse schrieb:
>
> Sounds to me like you are running Gnome and the gnome-session is dying.
> Perhaps you should look at upgrading glib and gtk+, which may force a
> recompile of all your gnome stuff. I believe that GIMP relies on gtk+,
> which is probably your point of failure.
>
> Tom Veldhouse
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> D. J. Birchall wrote in message ...
> >This one's a bit weird.
> >
> >I've got Red Hat 5.2, XFree86 (3.3.3.1), Blackbox (0.50.4) and
> >GIMP (1.0.1) on my laptop. Everything has worked fine for
> >motnhs.
> >
> >A few minutes ago, I had a bunch of applications going (Netscape,
> >GQview, numerous GNOME terminals, and GIMP with a bunch of files
> >open). My X session died, and I found myself back at the XDM
> >prompt. Not a big deal; it happens occasionally when I try to do
> >too many things at once...
> >
> >So I logged back in, started GIMP up, opened a GIF, flipped it
> >to RGB, scaled it, flipped it back to indexed, went to save it,
> >and wham-o, there I am back at XDM. Tried again - same deal.
> >
> >The images *are* getting saved properly - but immediately
> >thereafter, my X session is dying.
> >
> >Anybody seen this before? Know what'd cause it? Know how to
> >fix it? I'm guessing that there might be a config file or lock
> >file that GIMP's seeing that it doesn't want to see, or isn't
> >seeing that it wants to see...
> >
> >-Dan
> >
> >--
> >Daniel Birchall, VP - Technology, Digital Facilities Management.
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] is no longer a real address for me,
> >since a bunch of illiterates spammed it! :) My username is djb.
> >http://www.scream.org/maisha/ is the Unofficial Maisha Fan Site.
Another funny thing with GIF, GNOME and The Gimp: When I try to save a
GIF my disk does not stop to work. First I got panic. Before installing
GNOME this did not happen. So your "theory" seems to be true.
Samuel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael W. Ryan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install?
Date: 10 Apr 1999 16:37:08 GMT
Another advantage that Red Hat offers is its "kickstart" installation
option. This option is specifically designed to handle large numbers of
repeated installations.
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From: Michael J Surette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: I killed my Linux box
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 12:37:46 -0400
I haven't gotten around to trying it yet, but gnumeric may fit the bill for a
spreadsheet. It's supposed to be able to handle Excel files well. You can
get it from ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources
Rick Runowski wrote:
> When I tried to Install StarOffice it worked however I couln't get it to
> accept my pass code... I even redownloaded and tried with the second
> code... couln't get it to work... Anyway does anyone know where to get a
> free spreadsheet prog and maybe something that can read/convert access
> files? Thanks!
>
> Rick
>
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From: "Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB16 does not work with kernel 2.2.5
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:41:42 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> My sound card SB16 used to work with SuSE 6.0 / kernel 2.036 without
> problems. I installed it with isapnp, Now that I run kernel 2.2.5, it
> does not work anymore. When I run isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf, I get the
> message "lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked". The
> same message appeares during startup. When I run cat /dev/sndstat, the
> list contains only empty entries. What may have changed from 2.0.* to
> 2.2.* ? I understand the handling of modules has been modified. The
> sound support is compiled as module. Any hints ?
> Regards, Eggert
>
I may not be able to solve your problem but I can tell you that the
message you see ("lspci...") is not a problem. It just means that a
separate utility (lspci) is not installed so the isapnp can't use it to
get a list if IRQs used by PCI devices. There could be an underlying
problem that there is an IRQ conflict which you might want to look for,
but it doesn't look like that is your problem.
You can install the lspci utility by installing the package pciutils
from the "a" series. (I don't have it installed and that hasn't been a
problem.)
I have an AWE64 working (except for MIDI) on my 2.2.5 system. The
configuration is supposed to be the same for AWE64 and SB 16, so here is
a copy of the relevant section of my .config file... (You probably don't
want the last part about "CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m"
#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_ES1371 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SONICVIBES is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_WAVEFRONT is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_AD1816 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850 is not set
#
# Additional low level sound drivers
#
CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y
# CONFIG_ACI_MIXER is not set
CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m
# CONFIG_AEDSP16 is not set
____________________________________________________________________
Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the
inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.
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From: Doug Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Gnome 1.0 on 2.2.3 Kernel
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:45:07 GMT
Gnome was running fine, then I upgraded the Redhat 5.2 2.0.36 kernel to
2.2.3 and now Gnome core dumps. KDE works just fine though. Has anyone
done anything special to get the two cooperating?
Thanks
Doug
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kress)
Subject: Re: X11 tuXeyes 0.0.1 released
Date: 10 Apr 1999 12:56:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> X11 tuXeyes is a small Qt application that draws a "shaped" tux (our
> beloved linux mascotte) on your desktop. Tux will follow your mouse cursor
> movements with its eyes just like Xeyes does. It doesn't provide much
> functionality but it looks nice on your desktop! :)
#!/bin/sh
xpinguin -geometry +10+30 &
xeyes -geometry 70x40+96+67 &
-Michael-
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P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L.
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From: "Tom O'Meara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:28:29 -0400
Jeremy Crabtree wrote in message ...
<Lots of SNIPED stuff>
>I have one argument for the power of the CLI
>
>find . -name Makefile | awk '{print "mv " $1 " " $1 ".bak \; sed
s/\\\"INCROOT \
>= \/usr\/X11R6\/include\\\"/\\\"INCROOT = \/usr\/X11R6\/include\/X11\\\"/g
\<" \
>$1 ".bak > " $1}'
>
You call THAT an argument *FOR* a CLI?! ;)
Tom
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From: Josh Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: reconfigure RedHat Linux after first install?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 16:55:45 -0400
Running redhat.... try this....
(as a user)
startx
start an xterm, or kvt, or konsol, or wterm, or whatever.
su root
control-panel &
click on kernel control panel button,
add eth 0 (you shouldn't have to enter any options for it)
click restart kerneld
(if you see it complain in the term that kerneld: command not found, then
you need to quit the control panel, and add /sbin, or was it /usr/sbin, to your
path:
# PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin
and restart the control panel and add ethernet again)
click the network control panel button
configure the eth0 interface to your liking.
That should be it. You may want to restart and see if it loads automatically on
boot. If not, then you'll have to figure that out from there :-) but you should
be able to use it right away.
Good luck,
Josh I.
BTW- you shouldn't have to re-install completely ever... unless doing a major
upgrade (like 4.2-5.2 or something) in which case it's just easier that way.
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999, Brian V. Smith wrote:
>I have installed RedHat 5.2 without an ethernet card because I was using
>a modem for network access at the time.
>Now that I have an ethernet card (3c509) I would like to enable it in
>the kernel.
>I thought I could just boot from the CD and reconfigure it from there, but
>the update option (as opposed to install) only updates applications and utilities,
>not the kernel.
>
>Do I have to do a full install again to tell it about my ethernet card
>or is there another option?
>
>I have looked through all the HOWTO and FAQ files and Dejanews, but haven't found
>anything this specific about RedHat.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>--
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>Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
>Check out the xfig site at http://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig
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