Linux-Misc Digest #857, Volume #19 Thu, 15 Apr 99 17:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Netscape Doesn't Like Incomplete Web Pages ("Jethro Wright III")
Re: VMWare speed (Steve D. Perkins)
Re: Help choosing distribution (John Girash)
Re: problem with playing mp3s (Mark Tranchant)
Re: parallel port (Mark Tranchant)
Re: "Network unreachable" - Help! ("Emile Joubert")
Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft??? ("Edwin E. Thorne")
Re: Install ? again. (Jonathan Charles Masters)
only root can print! (Ramin Sina)
Re: System scripts (Gary Momarison)
Re: antivirus (Gary Momarison)
Re: Able to access CDROM in root but not is user (Mark Tranchant)
How to print an envelope ? (David Pando)
Re: Opinions on KDE? (Steve D. Perkins)
Re: Newbie help with Linux, IBM PS/2 30-286 (Greg H.)
Re: Help - Linux, MPI, Mouse? (Mark Tranchant)
Re: Gissa job? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
kernel, modules, rc.sysinit and mkinitrd (Stephen Thomas)
Re: please suggest a smaller WWW browser. (Val)
Re: redhat 5.2 and memory (Jonathan Charles Masters)
Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft??? (Chris Welch)
Re: only root can print! ("David Z. Maze")
FREE Computer Documentation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ZDNET or c-net for Linux? (Robert Lynch)
Re: Dosemu with LILO.... HOWTO? HOWTO manipulate MBR? (Frank Miles)
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From: "Jethro Wright III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape Doesn't Like Incomplete Web Pages
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:03:52 -0400
I haven't got my Linux box on the 'net yet, but I still try
and use Netscape to open various HTML files on my system. It
works for the most part, but whenever I have a file that I d/l'd
from a remote site (so the graphix aren't present), I get a dialog
that says Netscape can't access certain hosts (the same ones each time,
like home.netscape.com) and doesn't load the page at all. The
Windows version doesn't do this regardless of the absence/presence
of a connection. I haven't changed the default settings of
Netscape, so what gives ? TIA....Jet
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In Paris, they simply stared when I spoke to them in French;
I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their
own language. - Mark Twain, The Innocent Abroad,1869
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve D. Perkins)
Subject: Re: VMWare speed
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:03:02 GMT
I have a Pentium 233 with 64 megs of RAM... vmware runs fine
for me once it's up (although it seems to take an eternity to "boot"
the virtual machine). However, I've been discouraged at how badly it
decreases the performance of everything else that it running while
I've got it up.
I think that I'm going to stick to dual-booting under I have
the cash together to shell out for a more up-to-date system.
Steve
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From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Help choosing distribution
Date: 15 Apr 1999 11:43:30 -0500
In comp.os.linux.misc Hate Spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: So, here I am, debating perhaps I should go with Slackware, or maybe
: Debian. I don't know too much about other distributions (like SuSE and
: such). What I would like is your comment on the strength and weaknesses
: of various distributions. Thanks in advance.
After using Slackware for a few years I moved to Debian 2.0 "hamm" and haven't
regretted it a bit. Debian gives you the freedom to get your hands dirty
just like in Slacky, but it's kept more up to date vis-a-vis libc, gcc/egcs
etc. (Note: this isn't a dig against Slackware, just my personal preference
as to what choices each distribution makes).
And of course Debian has the package management system if you want it too.
The install _can_ be a royal pain if you try to use the initial instance of
dselect to do more than minimal configuration, but if you follow a couple
simple tips it goes quite smoothly. (This may have improved in 2.1 "slink").
I've installed and set up RH for my sister (who's a complete newbie to Un*x)
and it was a breeze, with fairly good on-line tutorials etc. But if you're
looking for a more traditional feel I'd say Slacky or Debian. They seem to
have handled the libc5->libc6 and gcc->gcc+egcs transitions more smoothly.
(Note the "seem" in that statement, I'm not claiming it to be authoritative).
They just each did (or do) it in their own way.
[colm removed from followsup; this is a cola topic]
jg
--
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a useless old expression, it means passing time until you die." the West
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-- John Girash -- girash @ cfa.harvard.edu - http://skyron.harvard.edu/ --
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with playing mp3s
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:34:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK - to start with, playing audio CDs involves nothing more than the
soundcard's mixer. The output from the CD drive is analogue.
What system do you have? Playing mp3s involves quite a high spec
machine. I have a 486DX4/120 and I can *just* play mp3s with the latest
kmp3 so long as I don't do anything else. If I do anything else, the
playback stops temporarily.
Can you play other sound file formats OK?
Mark.
Stefan Hetzl wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have tried the two mp3 players x11amp and freeamp but I get the same
> result with both (I tried it with different mp3 files): There is always
> a very high level of "background" noise / distortion which makes it
> impossible to hear and even identify the song. Playing Audio-CDs works
> without problem on my system (perfect quality). This seems to be somehow
> sound driver-related... but I am not sure, I have no idea what I could
> try to do. Has anyone had a similar problem or knows what could be wrong
> ?
> I am using a Soundblaster 16 Clone (by Terratec) and Redhat 5.1. The
> sound driver is loaded as a kernel module.
>
> Thanks
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: parallel port
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:30:00 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are presumably aware that dev/lp has changed from lp1 to lp0 (or
vice-versa)?
Mark.
Jonas Arndt wrote:
>
> Edward A. Baron wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get my version of RH 5.2 kernel 2.2.5
> > to recognize my parallel port and need some help.
> >
> > I've compiled the kernel with parport, parport_pc
> > and parport_probe as modules
> >
> > I assume when I do a modprobe lp
> > everything gets loaded
> >
> > I've read parport.txt and edited conf.modules
> > with
> >
> > io=0x3f8 irq=auto
> >
> > and also tried irq=7
> >
> > to no avail.
> >
> > any hints?
> >
> > please email replies.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > -ed baron
> >
> > --
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > PGP Key fingerprint=B3 6A 5B B3 17 80 65 DE 67 46 0D 35 D0 A6 0E 6D
> > PGP public key available from http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~baron/
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> I have the same problem! Help!!
>
> // Jonas
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From: "Emile Joubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Network unreachable" - Help!
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:06:57 +0100
I can think of some things that may be wrong:
- try to run lilo manually
- does your new kernel have IP support?
- does the kernel have network loopback support?
(device 'lo')
- are network devices initialised?
(check with 'ifconfig')
-is your routing table set up?
(check with 'route' command,
you should have a line reading
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 <number> lo )
The most likely problem is no loopback support in the kernel.
Does the system log contain any useful diagnostics?
(/var/log/messages)
Hope this helps
-Emile
===================
Michael Shtemler wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I receive "Network unreachable" message on ping
>after I recompiled my kernel (without changing something in source)
>
>I did it by next commands:
>
>>make dep
>>make clean
>>make zlilo
>>cp /vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz
>>reboot
>
>I check my network configuration it seems to be o.k
>
>What can be a problem ?
>P.S i receive same message on ping to myself IP.
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From: "Edwin E. Thorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft???
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:04:33 -0500
Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:49:09 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >...
> >Do you know of anyone who has walked completely away from Windows on
other
> >than a server or a home machine? Can you really give up the vast
amount
> >of Windows software? Besides Quake, X-Plane, and rumors of a Half-life
> >port, what games are there for Linux?
>
> the key is to spend $100 on a playstation.
But I have a PC, so I bought Bleem! (Virtual Playstation) for the
introductory price of $24.00. With my PC's graphic acceleration, I'll get
better performance for less money than a real Playstation.
When does StarCraft, Ceasar III, or Tomb Raider come to the Playstation?
>
> --
> [Trim the no-bots from my address to reply to me by email!]
> [ Do NOT email-CC me on posts. Pick one or the other.]
> --------------------------------------------------
> The word of the day is sescaquintillion
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From: Jonathan Charles Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Install ? again.
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:45:26 +0100
cyberfiche wrote:
> Yes it is possible. I'm not all that familiar with Linux myself but I've
> installed Linux and Win95 on one HDD. I Installed 95 first. Use the fdisk
> command so it wont take up the entire drive. Then I installed Linux.
> You'll have the option to make Linux partitions and all that. You'll
> probably have to have a small swap partition too (just 16MB or so). Then
> you can use LILO to boot either OS. When you get to the LILO config you'll
> se the two OS's. The first one (you can change it) is the default for boot.
> I hope that gets you started.
>
> cyberfiche
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have a 13G hard drive. Can I install win95 OSR2 on half of it and
> > install Linux on the other half? How? Please, I'm waiting to set up it
> > for working on my project.
> > I have nothing important on the hard drive now.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Pls reply to me.
> >
Good, but ****never**** use such a small partition. I have 128Mb of RAM, but
still have 128Mb swap!
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: only root can print!
Date: 15 Apr 1999 09:04:07 PDT
Hi all,
I am getting errors when trying to use lpr
me@rmy_computer> lpr file_name
lpr: file_name: temp file write error
lpr: file_name: empty input file
me@rmy_computer>
The problem goes away if I su and do it as root. I am assuming that
some file some how got a wrong permission. Does anyone know which file
might that be. My lpr file has the following permissions but chmod 555
does not help.
-r-sr-sr-x 1 root lp 20704 Mar 4 1998 /usr/bin/lpr
Thanks,
Ramin
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Ramin Sina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: System scripts
Date: 15 Apr 1999 08:35:58 -0700
"Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm looking for some handy scripts for managing DNS updates, parsing out
> Radius logs, etc. Basically, setting up virtual accounts, new
> customers, editing conf files and the like are taking quite a bit of
> time. I was wondering if anyone knows of a good repository of scripts
> that automate lots of these processes. Mainly, I'm looking for info on
> automating DNS entries, loading up new clients, checking Radius logs,
> and any other type of time-reducing scripts.
There are links to some of that kind of thing in
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/sys-admin.html
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: antivirus
Date: 15 Apr 1999 08:25:09 -0700
Jason Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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!!!
There are some that sound like they'd do that listed in
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/security.html
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Able to access CDROM in root but not is user
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:21:28 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If the advice at the bottom doesn't fix the audio problem, you need to
run "chmod 666 /dev/hdc" (or whatever /dev/cdrom points to ("ls -l
/dev/cdrom" will tell you)), which gives everyone read and write access
to the device.
Mark.
Sander Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Chas Samuels wrote:
> >
> > The subject pretty well sums it up. When I reinstalled RH 5.2, the audio
> > wouldn't play at all. I set it up using Setup and it worked. While still in
> > root, I accessed the CDROM drive and audio OK. I attempted to access it as a
> > user and the CD drive would not activate.
> >
> > The cdrom file in the /dev directory reads out lrwxrwxrwx so it would seem
> > that the user should be able to execute it. I may be confused with some of
> > the Linux lingo and perhaps what I'm looking at but I'm new at this and we all
> > gotta learn if we're gonna use this booger.
> >
> > So, any help you could give me to resolve this problem would be appreciated.
> > And, I thank you in advance.
>
> you need to add the option user to your cdrom label in /etc/fstab, like
> this
>
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom noauto,ro,user 0 0
>
> this works also with your floppy disk,
>
> --
> Sander Zijlstra,
> HTS afstudeer-student.
> Technische Universiteit Delft.
> Faculteit Informatietechnologie en systemen. (ITS)
> Mobile Multimedia Communication Project. (MMC)
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Room: 11.110
> Phone: +31 (0)15-2783234
> url: http://mmc.et.tudelft.nl/~sander
>
> --- Microsoft SELLS you Windows, Linux GIVES you the whole house ---
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Pando)
Subject: How to print an envelope ?
Date: 15 Apr 1999 15:49:12 GMT
Is there any little utilitie for printing envelopes in a HP printer ?
I�m very happy with Klyx, so I don�t want to install WP or StarOffice just
to make adresses look good.
Any suggestion ?
Thanks in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve D. Perkins)
Subject: Re: Opinions on KDE?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:57:25 GMT
KDE is about the best desktop environment I have ever seen
under any platform. There are a few reasons why it isn't even more
popular than it already is... I've met a few people that find Gnome
more appealing (I don't understand why, it seems less attractive and
more buggy to me... but different things work for different folks).
However, the main problem that the anti-KDE crowd seems to have is
"religious" differences with the licencing scheme used by the QT
libraries that KDE is built with (they've recently changed this... but
I don't know all the details, and don't particularly care).
QT is designed to allow for ease of development on both Linux
and Win32 platforms... although I really haven't seen it used much
outside of KDE so far.
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg H.)
Subject: Re: Newbie help with Linux, IBM PS/2 30-286
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:59:21 GMT
Jonathan Charles Masters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > If you really want to run *nix on a 286, try looking at minix
> > (comp.os.minix) if that is still alive.
> >
> > - Wouter.
> The reason is that Linux uses 386 Protected mode exclusively - since the
> good old 286's didn't have this capability - it doesn't work!!! :-)
What about ELKS, Linux for 8086's up to 80286's? Here's the URL:
http://www.uk.linux.org/ELKS-Home/index.html
Greg H.
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help - Linux, MPI, Mouse?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:18:08 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds to me like some sort of conflict between mouse and network card.
Check your IRQs...
At the prompt, with X not running, do you have gpm running or not?
Mark.
Misty S. Patcyk wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We have 3 pc's here running Linux, each has a 100BaseT card in it.
> Currently we have many test programs sending and receiving data. They
> all are experiencing this problem.
>
> In the simplest program, we are sending a vector of complex floats. The
> vector size varies, usually we have it set to be 4096. The sends and
> receives are fine - both sides sending and receiving correct data.
> The data rates are extremely important to our project so the faster the
> better.
>
> We run the programs to send and receive these vectors between 2 pcs and
> we do nothing else so as not to slow anything down at all. BUT (here's
> the kicker) We've found if we move the mouse, it speeds everything up.
> We get better data rates and the program finishes faster.
>
> We've exited out of Xwindows and tried it at the prompt. Same thing.
>
> I don't know what the problem is or how to fix it.
>
> Any ideas on how to get the mouse out of the picture, or what the
> problem really is?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Misty
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Gissa job?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:18:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
gav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm unemployed, use Linux and want a job.
>
> I have nearly all my own teeth.
>
> I don't shovel shit for no one, though.
>
> --
> gav
>
>
try this great Job web site :
http://jobhorizon.com
post you resume and wait .. for a job.
R.
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From: Stephen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel, modules, rc.sysinit and mkinitrd
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:57:33 -0400
I recently compiled the 2.2.5 kernel and supporting modules. Previously
I ran the stock RH-5.2 2.0.36 kernel and at boot up it loaded the
3c59x.o module and established networking. When I boot the 2.2.5
kernel, it does not load any modules. I can get networking up by
performing "insmod 3x59x" and then "ifup eth0". Ideally, it would just
load during boot up without me adding those two commands to rc.local.
I thought the answer might be to use mkinitrd and have the
initrd-2.x.x-x.img load the 3c59x module. That should load the module
but it doesn't appear when I run lsmod. Perhaps I used mkinitrd
incorrectly? I read through the rc.sysinit file and see that RedHat has
introduced some oddities such as a /lib/modules/2.x.x-x/.rhkmvtag file
containing version info. I can't find exactly where any modules are
loaded or eth0 is initialized. This post-kernel-install
module-manipulation is not addressed in significant detail in either the
kernel-howto or the source readme. I would imagine this is probably
distribution dependent?
Here I guess I have two options. I use do my own kluge or conform to
the RedHat method. I would prefer to figure out how RedHat's init
scripts are really working and follow that example. Can anyone pinpoint
where and in which scripts I should look? Further, what instructions
are in the Red Hat /boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img?
Comments or suggestions welcome to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Val)
Subject: Re: please suggest a smaller WWW browser.
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:04:22 GMT
Wait for Opera for Linux (www.operasoftware.com)
Val
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From: Jonathan Charles Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: redhat 5.2 and memory
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:51:14 +0100
Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> thanks, I just found it as well looking in all howto's. I don't have a manpage for
>lilo
> though...
>
> Franky
>
> Peter Herttrich wrote:
>
> > In comp.os.linux.setup Franky Van Liedekerke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > I have a compaq proliant 5000with 128Mb of memory. Now I have redhat
> > > linux 5.2 installed on it but linux only seems to detect 16Mb of memory.
> > > This is what I see in /var/log/messages on boot time:
> >
> > > Memory: 14402k/16384k available (756k kernel code, 384 reserved, 588k
> > > data)
> >
> > > Has anybody any idea how I can address all the memory?
> >
> > > Franky
> >
> > add the following in lilo.conf
> > append="mem=128M"
> >
> > and man lilo ;-)
> >
> > --
> > _____________________________________________________________________________
> > Microsoft has been doing a really bad job on their OS.
> > Linus Torvalds
> > _____________________________________________________________________________
The reason why Linux is not detecting all the RAM is a "bug" in 2.0.35 and 2.0.36.
Simply
adding mem=..... will do the trick, but I think the point is ****ALWAYS KEEP YOUR
KERNEL
UP TO DATE*****
Switch to 2.2.5 and you wouldn't even have to deal with this problem. My machine is
always
bang up to date.
periscope
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From: Chris Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft???
Date: 15 Apr 1999 16:13:40 GMT
In comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Edwin E. Thorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And when will this start happening? Sure I've had to use
> control-alt-delete to kill a program now and then, but it's not so frequent
> as you make it sound. Say, doesn't Unix have commands to kill processes?
> Gee, I wonder why. I'll bet they're not as easy to use as picking the
> process off a dialog box list either.
Type 'ps' at the command line and kill the offending app (almost always
Netscape for me)
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds - Albert Einstein
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: only root can print!
Date: 15 Apr 1999 16:38:04 -0400
Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RS> I am getting errors when trying to use lpr
RS>
RS> me@rmy_computer> lpr file_name
RS> lpr: file_name: temp file write error
RS> lpr: file_name: empty input file
RS> me@rmy_computer>
RS>
RS> The problem goes away if I su and do it as root. I am assuming that
RS> some file some how got a wrong permission.
What are the permissions on /tmp? (Do 'ls -ld /tmp/.', which DTRT
even if /tmp is a symlink.) It should be 0777 with the sticky bit set
("drwxrwxrwt").
--
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"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: FREE Computer Documentation
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:38:36 GMT
FREE Computer Documentation
books, standards, specifications, source code, and more
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- graphics (quicktime, gif, jpeg, pcx, png, targa, tiff ...)
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- internet (cgi, freebsd, html, http, javascript, rfc, tcp-ip)
- publishing (pcl, pcl4, pcl5, pdf, truetype, postscript ...)
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Welcome there.
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:22:25 +0000
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZDNET or c-net for Linux?
David Steuber wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee) writes:
>
> -> In article <7eu93j$sof$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -> says...
> -> >
> -> >Is there a ZDNET or c-net type home page for linux? I mean a page with the
> -> >latest linux news, software, opinion columns etc.
> ->
> -> Who cares if there is?
>
> Obviously the person who asked.
And to that person I would say: http://slashdot.org/
Bob L.
> --
> David Steuber
> http://www.david-steuber.com
>
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From: Frank Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Dosemu with LILO.... HOWTO? HOWTO manipulate MBR?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 08:46:49 -0700
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, network-user wrote:
> Dear Frank,
>
> Thanks for ur advice.
> I'm now using dosemu 0.89 version and I've try "just" dos in the
> terminal. Again nothing happen, i.e. the "C:> or G:> so...." didn't appear
> at all. What can be the potential problem?
>
> BTW, r u using LILO and running xdos/dos? Could u tell me what to do?
>
> Thank you very much
>
> Best Regards
> John Newbeeeeee
Yes, I'm using LILO, and have run both 'plain' dos and xdos.
If you are really having problems, and haven't already done so, you
should use the pre-packaged binary (e.g. *.rpm or *.deb or whatever)
rather than compiling your own. At least, until you figure out
the configuration that you need.
Again, I strongly recommend using the dos debug arguments (RTFManPage);
if you are getting nothing from it, then use strace. There's no
way to mind-read your computer; try-this, try-that, try-the-other is
too time consuming -- if you can't figure it out immediately from the
documentation, then you real data (from debugs) are essential!
You might also want to check your /etc/mtools.conf: can you see inside
your hdimage with mdir? (for more on this...read the docs!!!)
The newsgroup can offer help, but is no substitute for thought, study,
and (as necessary) experimentation.
-frank
>
>
> Frank Miles wrote:
>
> > 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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