Linux-Misc Digest #848, Volume #19 Wed, 14 Apr 99 20:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: 3com / US robotics 56K (Mark Nielsen)
antivirus (Jason Wagner)
Re: More CD-RW questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: linux email clients (Graffiti)
How to find IP addr of remote connection? ("Warren Odom")
Problem with RH 5.2 + R440LX (diablo)
Re: How to find IP addr of remote connection? (jason)
Re: smake to GNU make transition (Dev Console)
Runtime errors with 2.2.5 ("H. Wade Minter")
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows ("Rufus V. Smith")
Re: HP CD-Writer on NT ("Manuel A. Ortiz")
Re: knews "from" config problem (Eric Potter)
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (Bill Anderson)
Linux-compatable modem list (Eric Bryant)
Re: Dosemu with LILO.... HOWTO? HOWTO manipulate MBR? (Frank Miles)
Re: key values ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Compilation fails (NF Stevens)
FTP server for Mac files? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: x11amp ("bob")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Nielsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: 3com / US robotics 56K
Date: 14 Apr 1999 16:12:38 -0400
>>The answer would be yes.
>
>Hmmm? If there were a reliable source of affordable controller-based
>56k modems, it would be... good.
>From http://http://www.tcu-inc.com/hardware/Primary.html
>"...56k ISA Internal generic jumperable modem * $50"
>
>So, what would be the price for Linux guys, and how much
>is shipping? Please post the details.
Well, $49 would satisfy your requirement for below $50 that you have in
your e-mail. Depends. If someone bought a system, I can probably shove it
down to $45.
Is that good?
Mark
--
Mark Nielsen "Where 98 has no meaning."
www.tcu-inc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Computer Underground, Inc. 614-485-0506
computers, programming, networking, Perl, PHP, SQL, HTMl, Linux, Unix
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From: Jason Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: antivirus
Date: 14 Apr 1999 22:12:34 GMT
hey all,
i run sendmail on a linux box as our primary mail server, and we have been
getting viruses through e-mail that our clients don't always catch ( they
are loaded with norton ).
i know e-mail server resident anti-virus software exists for exchange, but
why on earth would i run exchange when i have linux? are there any
packages taht i can install on our linux machine that will catch and
clean viruses when they are spooled into the users' mailboxes?
( pop clients, not shell/pine )
thanks!!!
jason
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__________________________________________________________________________
Jason Wagner, BOFH | e-mail: jason@
Applications Systems Analyst | uasv.ariz
The University of Arizona | ona.ed
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"So you could say the greatest achievement of the Internet is that it
turns nuclear war into nothing more than a series of routing errors."
-- Mark Pesce
The opinions expressed here are strictly my own, and in no way reflect the
opinions of The University of Arizona.
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Subject: Re: More CD-RW questions
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:21:19 GMT
According to jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> cdrecord I guess does not do disk-at-once burning. Is there any utility
> which will yet? Is there any trick someone has learned which will let
> you burn an audio CD which has no blank spaces in it correctly?
What you want is 'cdrdao' More info can be found at:
http://www.ping.de/sites/daneb/cdrdao.html
Don't feel bad too bad, I had to ask too. ;-)
-p.
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From: Graffiti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux email clients
Date: 14 Apr 1999 14:13:33 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
plendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What are some good email clients available for Linux & Gnome?
Let's see... what's one the GNOME web pages?
Balsa, M.
Let's check the linux applications page at
http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml!
Arrow/elm/exmh/Ishmail/ML/mutt/mxMail/nmh/pine/etc.
Even better, let's check Tucow^H^H^H^H^HLinuxBerg!
http://www.linuxberg.com
etc.
>Thank you in advance,
Amazing thing, the web. You can actually look for information
on there!
-- DN
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From: "Warren Odom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to find IP addr of remote connection?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:26:48 -0500
After I telnet into my Red Hat 5.1 system over the Internet, I need to find
out the (varying) IP address that my ISP has assigned me (the IP address
that the Linux box knows me by). The only way I know to do this is to look
at the last line of /var/log/secure. But that requires me to become the
super-user. I'd like to automate the process of getting that IP address, so
is there any other way to get this information without having to deal with
su?
Thanks -- Warren
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From: diablo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with RH 5.2 + R440LX
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:21:49 GMT
Welcome
I just buy Intel R440LX (Redwood) mainboard, and try to install RH 5.2.
Unfortunately, RH have problems with onboard AIC 7880. After a short time
I have information "SCSI host rest due to timeout". After four - five
communicate like this system inform me "SCSI host probably hang".
Have you any ideas what is it ?
Regards
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to find IP addr of remote connection?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:36:16 -0400
ifconfig
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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From: Dev Console <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smake to GNU make transition
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.misc,gnu.utils.help
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:25:10 GMT
In comp.sys.sgi.misc Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pretty much every feature of GNU make not contained in POSIX.2 make is
> listed here.
>
> Just what exactly are you looking for, anyway?
Well, as the subject line says, I suspect the author was looking for
specific information about the differences between SGI's smake/pmake and
GNU make, and advice for transitioning from one to the other.
I gather your information was insufficiently specific to be helpful to
the person who asked the question.
"Sheesh," indeed.
--
crw--w--w- 3 root sys 58, 0 Apr 7 12:01 /dev/console
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From: "H. Wade Minter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Runtime errors with 2.2.5
Date: 14 Apr 1999 21:00:49 GMT
Got a question about a core dump I'm getting, and I was wondering if
anyone had some pointers for me...
I'm running an application that was built for a linux 2.0.36 (stock
RedHat 5.2) system, but compiled on a 2.2.5 one (SuSe 6.0, kernel upgrade to
2.2.5). The compile went fine, but it dumps core when run. Using gdb
to trace it leads to:
(gdb) where
#0 0x401c4c72 in chunk_alloc (ar_ptr=0x4021f1a0, nb=16) at
malloc.c:2616
#1 0x401c4b95 in __libc_malloc (bytes=12) at malloc.c:2561
#2 0x80f7c06 in XtMalloc ()
#3 0x4012fe39 in get_values_prehook (widget=0x82226d8, args=0x822b0a0,
num_args=0xbfffe2ec) at Vendor.c:1232
#4 0x4003dff1 in GetValuesRootWrapper (w=0x82226d8, args=0x822b0a0,
num_args=0xbfffe2ec) at BaseClass.c:1744
#5 0x8105cf2 in CallGetValuesHook ()
#6 0x8105cc7 in CallGetValuesHook ()
#7 0x8105cc7 in CallGetValuesHook ()
#8 0x8105cc7 in CallGetValuesHook ()
#9 0x8105cc7 in CallGetValuesHook ()
#10 0x8105cc7 in CallGetValuesHook ()
#11 0x8105cc7 in CallGetValuesHook ()
#12 0x8105cc7 in CallGetValuesHook ()
#13 0x8105cc7 in CallGetValuesHook ()
#14 0x8105cc7 in CallGetValuesHook ()
#15 0x8105efd in XtGetValues ()
#16 0x812367e in XtVaGetValues ()
#17 0x8055b61 in config () at config.c:4102
#18 0x804f550 in main (argc=0, argv=0xbffff754) at main.c:629
My theory right now is that there's some sort of incompatibility with
2.2.5 - does this sound right?
Thanks,
Wade
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From: "Rufus V. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:32:54 -0400
ROTFL!
That Microsoft Trademark of "Industry Standard"!
Frank Sweetser wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>... in Industry Standard(tm) MS-Word format.
>
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From: "Manuel A. Ortiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: HP CD-Writer on NT
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:24:17 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another possibility is use 'mkisofs' under linux to create an ISO image
file then you can write that ISO image to the cd and it should keep the
long file names intact.
-manuel
Jason Bailey wrote:
>
> Jim Ross wrote:
>
> > Jason Bailey wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >At work I have an HP CD-Writer Plas 7200 series attached to an NT 4.0
> > >server (service pack 4). I have been trying to use Adaptec Easy CD
> > >Creator to copy some Linux files onto a CD. Problem is that Linux sees
> > >all the files as MS-DOS 8.3 files. Anybody know a way around this with
> > >out connecting the CD-RW to a Linux box?
> > >
> > >Any Light that can be shed would be extremely appreciated!
> > >Jason
> > >
> > I'd like to make the distinction.
> > Are you saying Easy CD doesn't see the long file names or
> > are you saying that even in a Bash shell and X program don't see the
> > long file names.
>
> Easy CD creator sees them...I can see them on NT.
>
> > Assuming Linux doesn't even see long file names then you need to mount your
> > NT partition as either VFAT or NTFS to get long file name. It likely is
> > mounted as msdos. I assume you're using Wine to run EasyCD is that right?
>
> No...I am using an NT box at work to burn the CDs. I am then looking at the CDs
> at home and all file names have been truncated. Unfortunately, I gave the disk
> to a guy in my LUG before I knew of the problem. He is the one that reported it
> to me.
>
> > Are you using Redhat? If so cabaret is easy to unmount and remount your
> > drive.
>
> RedHat 5.2 is being used...but I know of no way to mount a CD-ROM as DOS
> partition.
> <snip>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Potter)
Subject: Re: knews "from" config problem
Date: 14 Apr 1999 16:30:36 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
The Blond Alternative enlightened this group thus:
> I am desparately trying to stop using outlook for news, and have installed
> knews on Redhat 5.2
>
> The linux machine sits in a different domain to that which I want the from
> line to read,
>
> IE, the machine is ure.workdomain.com and so the from appears as
>
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Whyte)
>
> what I want is for the from to read
>
>From: John Whyte ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> knews is compiled such that the domain is stored in a file, which works
> fine, so I have got
>
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Whyte)
>
> I have tried adding
>
>mailName: jwhyte
>
> to the config-newsmachine file, but that doesn't want to know :-(
>
> Even if it did, the format of the From line is backwards.
Try putting
Knews.mailName: jwhyte
into your ~/.Xdefaults
>
> Another person uses knews as well, so hard coding or globalising the name
> jwhyte is not an option, although changing the order of the line globally
> wouldn't matter.
>
> Any help would be most welcome.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
>
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:30:40 +0000
Stuart Fox wrote:
>
> >> Also, time for a few facts
> >>
> >> 1. NO operating system is bug free
> >> 2. Both Linux camps and MS spend considerable time locating and fixing
> bugs
> >> 3. A properly configured NT box will not Blue Screen, and will be as
> stable
> >> as a well configured Linux box.
> >
> >Hmmm. Not sure this is really the case, NT does Blue screen sometime
> >without explanation. One thing I do know for sure is that Linux is a
> hell
> >of a lot easier to get working again if it fails to boot. Scramble an NT
> >installation to much and its reinstall time. A key Linux quality is the
> >ability to recover a system if sometthing goes wrong. This can be very
> >difficult with NT.
> >
>
> I have some twenty or thirty NT servers under my direct or indirect
> influence, and they do not blue screen.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The occasions when they do, it is
^^^^^^^^^^^^
> usually because a third party driver is poorly written (e.g. some of the
> Compaq NIC drivers). In my experience, most NT blue screens are caused by
> hardware or hardware related faults (or letting some asshole who doesn't
> know what they're doing at your machine). Recovering an NT box isn't that
> hard, especially given there's such a wide ranging knowledge base available.
> I have never seen a NT box blue screen without a good reason.
>
> Stu
Either they do or they do not. Which is it?
--
Bill Anderson Linux Administrator
MCS-Boise (ARC) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My opinions are just that; _my_ opinions.
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From: Eric Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Linux-compatable modem list
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:04:10 -0700
For an extensive list of Linux-compatable modems and/or to see if your
modem is a "winmodem," check here:
http://www.grapevine.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html and follow it to
"big list" at
http://www.grapevine.net/~gromitkc/19990412b.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Dosemu with LILO.... HOWTO? HOWTO manipulate MBR?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 17:20:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear Linux world,
>
> This newbie feel sorry to bother u guys....
>
> I've read the dosemu-HOWTO and some other documentation. My dosemu
>install and start ok but the xdos windows just open and then vanish
>immediately, time even not enuf for me to read the first several lines
>on the Xdos console. Cuz I got LILO and dos can't start? rite? (or not?)
>
> The HOWTO mention the method of first replace the LILO MBR then copy
>the MBR to a file and then place it to somewhere and setting up the
>partition in dosemu.conf to .... somevariable...
>I'm clear about the processes, 1. in how to copy MBR to a file; 2. how
>to set the variable in dosemu.conf cuz all the missing stuffs are
>replaced by a "?" (partition.hda1?...)
>
>Can somebody point me the way... thank you
>
>Best Regards
> John Wong
>
>N.B. An attempt to run JDK with dosemu from my dos partition on my space
>lacking harddisk
LILO has nothing to do with DOSEMU.
Can you run dosemu from an ordinary terminal? (i.e. not X)?
Start there, once that is going, you can get the X version going.
One further thought (beyond -- RTFM *again*) -- if you have an older
version (e.g. 0.6x or earlier), upgrade to a stable 0.9x version,
they are easier to configure. Unfortunately, the documentation
has a lot of old stuff that refers to the earlier forms, which can
confuse things.
Finally, read the man page for 'dos', especially the parts about
using the debug flags. You can learn a lot from the emitted messages!
-frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: key values
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:34:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > We have a program working under Unix that uses <CTRL>-N and <CTRL>-P. We are
> > currently accessing the program via serial connections to the server. We would
> > like to be able to access the program via telnet over TCP/IP.
> >
> > Unfortunately, we have been unable to successfully use these two keys under
> > telnet. We have tried CRT, TeraTerm, and Windows telnet, all to no success.
> > We are emulating a wyse50, but have tried vt200, ansi, and other combinations
> > as well. How do I setup telnet to use these keys? We are limited by our
> > dependence on these two keys to expand the number of terminals since we can't
> > use telnet (really!). Any suggestions?
>
> You might try investingating your PPP configuration. Do "man pppd" and
> read about the "asyncmap" and "escape" options. It might be filtering
> those control characters. I think the default filters some things.
> I wish I understood why.
There is no PPP connection. We are telneting over the local network. I just
assumed that I fix the problem with stty, but am unsure of how to go about
it. "-)
> An even more wild shot in the dark would be to investigate the
> "Telnet 98" program at ftp://quasimodo.stanford.edu/pub/telnet/
I tried the link but IE reported an error. Will try again later. If you or
anyone has another idea on a fix, I am all ears!
Regards, Dustin
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Dustin Puryear
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: Compilation fails
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:18:32 GMT
Paul Olofsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>Thanks for the answer. In configure I find the line
>
>ac_unique_file=x11amp/main.c
>
>and that file exists:
>/tmp/x11amp-0.9/x11amp/main.c
>
>But the errors described above says that configure can not find the sources in or
>.., ie
>the only two directories it tries are "" and "..". But even if I replace "" with the
>real
>directory it still can't find the sources.
The configure script should be looking in "." or ".." so either the configure
script is corrupt or you have a problem with sed or test. Two options you
could try are giving configure a full path, i.e.
/tmp/x11amp-0.9/configure
or specify the source directory directly, e.g.
./configure --srcdir=/tmp/x11amp-0.9
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: FTP server for Mac files?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:29:31 GMT
Hey, I am setting up an FTP server that is going serve Macintosh files. I
know that Macintosh has a special thing in the file system which allows one
to save the extra icon info. If I were to set up a Linux server for Macintosh
files, is there any way to make sure that the icon info doesn't get lost?
Is this dependent on the particular FTP server that is being used or the file
system where the file is being stored?
- Steve
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From: "bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: x11amp
Date: 14 Apr 1999 18:00:08 GMT
Usually /lib and /usr/lib. Can do a "which gtk+" and see where gtk+ is.
They might be in ../some-gtk-directory/lib.
cheers bob
Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> hi, I downloaded X11amp in RPM format and this is what i get for error
> messags when i try to install. WHere do I go to check to see what
> versions of these I have?
>
> failed dependencies:
> gtk+ >= 1.2.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libgdk-1.2.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libglib-1.2.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libgmodule-1.2.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libgtk-1.2.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libaudiofile.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
> libesd.so.0 is needed by x11amp-0.9-beta1-1
>
> thanks
> Brandon
>
>
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