Linux-Misc Digest #873, Volume #19 Sat, 17 Apr 99 01:13:16 EDT
Contents:
PPP monitoring program (Mark Powell)
Re: Linux is dead ("Rufus V. Smith")
Re: Mail server for Linux (Ben Short)
Re: LINUX 2 UNIX (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Re: LINUX 2 UNIX (Jason Bailey)
Re: Linux filesystem and powerdown (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Email with Earthlink, Sendmail, exmh, mh, Linux libc5 (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Finding source code for mktime() (David Kemper)
Re: Netscape Keeps Stalling (Ed Cogburn)
Re: x11amp - is my sound configured properly? (Jeremiah)
egcs Installation Problem (Your Name)
Re: x11amp - is my sound configured properly? (brian moore)
Samba! Samba? Samba??? (Ge Baolai)
RPM - Cannot read database record error. ? (Jason Rotunno)
Re: ***** Creating a type 82 swap partition (Lloyd Weehuizen)
Cool penguin icons (Sabbat)
only 2 of my joystick buttons work (*MoNsTeR*)
Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft??? (Philip Brown)
Re: How to print an envelope ? (Robert Heller)
Re: ? Linux community manage vs. chaos ? (brian moore)
Re: x11amp - is my sound configured properly? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Voodoo Banshee and XF86_SVGA (Dave Murphy)
Hacker (Ziya Arnavut)
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From: Mark Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: PPP monitoring program
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:19:03 -0600
Hi
I am looking for a good graphical program to moniter my ppp stats.
I want it tell display connected, disconnected, bytes sent, etc. I
already have chat scripts and such, so I don't need anything to dial for
me, just the monitor. Anyone know of a good one out there?
Thanks,
Mark Powell
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From: "Rufus V. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is dead
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:44:08 -0400
Harry Lewis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> > > If Microsoft ever published a piece of software that was
>> > > worth the retail list price, it would be a flaming miracle.
>> >
>> > Internet Explorer? List price $0,000.00 (including local taxes)?
>>
>> It's not even worth that much.
>
>You know, you're right. A piece of software that allows you to surf the
>web, view image files in a large number of formats, play audio files,
>use plug-ins, render HTML including all industry standard tags and the
>majority of non-standard ones including those of its competitors and
>interpret embedded Java scrips and run Java applets really isn't worth
>anything. My god - what was I thinking? Prejudice alone is worthy. I'm
>converted. Never again will I miss an opportunity to snipe and bad-mouth
>Microsoft - in fact from now on I'll take to calling them M$, 'cos
>that'll make Bill Gates sorry for all those tens of billions of dollars
>he's amassed forcing crap, unreliable, unusable, worthless software that
>not worth bothering with even if it's free.
>
>Raj - you cured me. There I was being conned by the World Conspiracy
>into making a good living from M$ crap and now I'll spend all my days
>making nothing tinkering with Linux!
>
>Harry
>
>
>(BTW - please don't take this reply too seriously and start getting
>worked up - it's just a send-up!)
>
(And a damn good one at that!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Mail server for Linux
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 08:55:36 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luca Filipozzi) writes:
>
> > sendmail is probably the hardest of the mail servers to set up.
> > consider smail or qmail
I disagree. I would say that qmail is hardest to set up. Sendmail is
nothing more that a make; make install job, and then the hardest part is
making a .mc file up for a sonfig.cf file. Its even easier id you have an
rpm ;)
>
> As a sendmail->smail convert I can't comment on qmail but I think the
> wealth of documentation available on sendmail means that in complex
> situations it's actually easier to set up than smail.
>
>
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Shortboy Productions http://www.shortboy.ddns.org
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX 2 UNIX
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 06:51:25 +1000
John J. Straumann wrote:
>
> Hey all:
>
> Will C programs compiled under LINUX run under UNIX? I am asking because
> I am developing some CGIs, and I am getting some strange errors when I
> transfer them to my Web Server (they run fine under Linux when I access
> the Linux server via my internal network). Before I go through a bunch
> of dead ends I thought I better find out if the compiled code is
> compatible...
Linux binary executables will not in general run under other unices
without recompilation. It may work for some executables on SCO unix.
Erik
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A sufficiently advanced programming error is
indistinguishable from the Windows 95 Operating System.
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From: Jason Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX 2 UNIX
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:01:38 -0800
The binaries won't work...especially if you are running linux on an Intel
based machine and the ISP is using a sparc, Alpha, or any other processor.
But porting shouldn't be hard since you wrote the code...if your C code is
close to the ANSI C standard it should just be a matter of FTPing the files
and re-complining on the ISP's computer.
Hope this helps!
Jason
"John J. Straumann" wrote:
> Hey all:
>
> Will C programs compiled under LINUX run under UNIX? I am asking because
> I am developing some CGIs, and I am getting some strange errors when I
> transfer them to my Web Server (they run fine under Linux when I access
> the Linux server via my internal network). Before I go through a bunch
> of dead ends I thought I better find out if the compiled code is
> compatible...
>
> TIA.
>
> John.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Linux filesystem and powerdown
Date: 16 Apr 1999 22:49:27 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Herwig Huener (Siemens) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Have another computer in another room, connect it with
>NFS and do the "cp -a" trick now and then. Then, the probability for a
>full data-loss by pure technical reasons goes down to once in a few
>million years.
Rsync is even better for this. It will update the remote copy doing
a miminal set of changes.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.mh,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Email with Earthlink, Sendmail, exmh, mh, Linux libc5
Date: 17 Apr 1999 03:40:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
> On 17 Apr 1999 03:14:41 GMT,
> Keven R. Pittsinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Um, I'm using RH 4.1 with some 4.2 updates.
>
> Will probably still work. Most distributions come with a mondo
> sendmail.cf with all sorts of options turned on but commented out.
>
> Look for the string 'generics' in your sendmail.cf file. If
> genericstable is there, you're set. If not, you'll have to rebuild
> the sendmail.cf to add it. (Which isn't as scary as people will tell
> you.)
>
> This will allow you to have a file like:
>
> joe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> fred [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> And have both local addresses rewrite into the proper return address
> (think of it as a sort of reverse of virtual hosting).
OK, from my sendmail.cf:
# Generics table (mapping outgoing addresses)
#Kgenerics dbm /etc/genericstable
Uncomment it and add a genericstable file?
Keven
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In Reavers' Deep
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Kemper)
Subject: Finding source code for mktime()
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Kemper)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:38:25 GMT
Hello,
There may be a better newsgroup for this question; if so, please let me
know what it is. I am not a regular Linux newsgroup follower.
I am looking for the source code to the ANSI C library routine mktime().
[It does not necessarily have to be the Linux version of this routine, but
since I have access to a Linux installation I thought that would be the
easiest to find.] I did not find it in the linux-kernel source tree, nor
in the source for gcc, and I'm at a loss on where else to look.
Since much of the source seems to be stored in RPM format, it is not easily
searchable with the "find" command.
My specific question is where I might find the source to mktime(). A more
generic question would be how to find source code for a given routine on a
Linux installation.
The machine I am using is running Red Hat Linux release 5.1.
Thanks in advance.
--Dave
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From: Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Keeps Stalling
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 07:28:27 -0400
Carl Davis wrote:
>
> I have tried three different isps :(
My bet is Netscape itself is the problem. Netscape, regardless
of version, hangs on a number of people with no obvious
explanations. This type of question comes up once every other
week on the Debian Linux user list. I heard about one specific
problem discovered by Linux users that will solve the problem for
some people, but that fix won't show up until the next version
(4.52?).
--
Ed C.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremiah)
Subject: Re: x11amp - is my sound configured properly?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.debian,comp.os.linux.sound
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:48:14 GMT
In article <7f8uup$52c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thusly:
> Are you using GNOME? I recently GNOME onto a bran new installation of RedHat
> 5.2 and I had the exact same problem with x11amp. I checked file permissions
> for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio but that didn't help. However, when I disabled
> sound support in GNOME and restarted X, suddenly x11amp started working...no
> more "Couldn't open audio!" error.
I had the same problem with GNOME and x11amp (and gqmpeg, for
that matter). The problem for me was that GNOME uses the Enlightened
Sound Daemon to handle sounds... so if you do anything that requires
a sound in GNOME, esd takes over /dev/audio, and doesn't release it for
some time (it used to be 30 seconds.... the new version of the RPMs I
grabbed from Red Hat Labs' site has it set to 2 seconds)... and that's
why x11amp can't open /dev/audio... To see if this is your problem,
the next time you get that error, type 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' (or 'fuser
-v /dev/audio'). That should tell you if something else is using the
audio device... if it is, you can:
a) hack the source of esd to make the timeout smaller (e.g. 2 seconds)
b) grab new GNOME RPMs from Red Hat Labs's site (it's linked from the
main GNOME site)
c) try running x11amp through the esddsp wrapper, or pipe it through
esdcat... the commands would be:
esddsp x11amp
or x11amp | esdcat
Good luck,
Brian
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From: kgogolin@telusplanet.$net (Your Name)
Crossposted-To: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: egcs Installation Problem
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 04:09:04 GMT
I downloaded the latest version of EGCS from their website and
followed the installation routine described on their website. Now, I
try to compile a C++ program using g++ and it appears to fail during
the linking stage (gcc appeared to work fine on my test). If I
specify the -c option for it to simply generate the object file, no
problems. It's when I specify the -o option that I get an "undefined
'main' in crt1.o (I think) in /usr/lib". I read in one of the FAQs
that this could be due to an old shared library. Is this the problem?
I see no *.o files in/usr/local/lib although there is some larger *.so
and *.a files in there. Did I just not build them correctly? How can
I rebuild them? Or do I need a new shared library altogether? I am
running Red Hat 5.0 on a Pentium II 266.
Please e-mail and post any replies.
=====
Kyle
Please remove '$' for e-mail reply.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.debian,comp.os.linux.sound
Subject: Re: x11amp - is my sound configured properly?
Date: 17 Apr 1999 04:09:35 GMT
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:25:18 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you using GNOME? I recently GNOME onto a bran new installation of RedHat
> 5.2 and I had the exact same problem with x11amp. I checked file permissions
> for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio but that didn't help. However, when I disabled
> sound support in GNOME and restarted X, suddenly x11amp started working...no
> more "Couldn't open audio!" error.
>
> Hopefully there is a better solution than disabling sound support for GNOME
> because that just isn't a practicle work-around.
>
> Anyone else experience this problem with GNOME/x11amp? Got a better fix?
Yep.
This is because, by nature, only one process can futz with /dev/dsp at
a time. (Sound would be a mess if two processes started playing with
it, since they'd be undoing each other's programming of the sound
chips.)
GNOME, though, does a lot of sound and a lot of processes want to talk
to /dev/dsp, so they use a trick and have one process do the dirty work
('esd', the enlightened sound daemon) -- they just need to know to talk
to esd instead of trying to do sound directly.
The catch is what to do with other programs that don't know how to talk
to esd? They'll still be trying to grab /dev/dsp and will always fail,
even when GNOME isn't needing to play anything.
esd has a switch for that, to allow it to unlock /dev/dsp after you've
stopped using it for a few seconds. This lets other apps that aren't
aware of it to use /dev/dsp directly.
But there's a catch: there's no easy way that I've found to change how
GNOME runs esd without hacking source. It either runs esd or it
doesn't.
There is a simple solution, though: get the esound source, look in the
file 'esd.c' and you'll see:
int esd_autostandby_secs = -1; /* timeout to release audio device, disabled <0 */
Change the -1 to, say, 2 or 3. Then, run configure (possibly specifying
--prefix=/usr to overwrite the stock esd), make and make install.
Now esd will get along with un-enlightened programs as long as GNOME has
been quiet for a couple seconds.
This really should change to the default and I've suggested as such to
the esound author, but haven't heard back yet on if it will happen.
--
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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From: Ge Baolai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Samba! Samba? Samba???
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 00:04:23 -0400
I didnt quite following the Printing-HOWTO and Print2Win on
printing off a printer connected to a networked Windows 95 PC.
I have my /etc/printcap as follows
lp|bj5:\
:cm=Canon BJ-5 Printer:\
:lp=/dev/null:sh\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:lf=/var/adm/lpd-errs:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
:if=/usr/bin/smbprint:
as suggested in ini-HOWTOs' Print2Win. I've also had /etc/smb.conf
(unsurely created from sample file) and brought up smbd as daemon.
Now my question is how to identify the machine with local IP xx.yyy.0.2)
to which the printer is connected, so that lpr file would print to the
indows printer? Can anyone give me a working example? Thanks. Geb.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Rotunno)
Subject: RPM - Cannot read database record error. ?
Date: 17 Apr 1999 04:11:22 GMT
I got this error when opening kpackage under KDE. Aside from the error
message I don't seem to be running into any problems. I want to be on
the safe side, though and find and correct the cause of the error message
because it may cause problems in the future. It sounds as though an
RPM database could be corrupt, but I'm pretty unfamiliar with RPM aside
from using it to install programs. Anyone have any idea as to what could
be causing this problem and how to resolve it? Thanks.
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From: Lloyd Weehuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: ***** Creating a type 82 swap partition
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:37:46 +1200
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Nick wrote:
>***** Creating a type 82 swap partition
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm leary of using Linux's FDISK at all because it victomized me when
>I installed Linux. RH5.1 insisted that my swap partition be in an
>extended/logical partition, and where I put everything else (root,
>usr, etc.) in a primary partition. The problem is that it appends the
>record to the end of the table, where the physical location in at the
>froont of the table. This means that it made the entire disk
>unaccessable to all the other OS's (DOS, Win3x, Win9x, WinNT, OS/2).
Hmm sounds like you where using a RH varient of fdisk, use the normal linux
fdisk, it will allow you to do ANYTHING, very powerful.
--
<=- Lloyd Weehuizen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=>
Another Unix/C++/Java Hacker -- Debian Linux 2.0
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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:32:08 +0200
From: Sabbat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cool penguin icons
Does anyone know where I could find cool penguin icons in xpm format? I
used to have them but now I cant find them anymore...
I tried all the themes sites already...
Thanks
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From: *MoNsTeR* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: only 2 of my joystick buttons work
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:44:50 -0700
I just bought a "Performance Propad 6" (hey, it was $10), and I'm trying
to get it to work right in Linux. I compiled in the joystick driver no
problem, and programs can use the joystick, except that only two of it's
6 buttons are recognized. The joystick.txt file in the kernel source
said to specify a bitmask on the module command line to inform the
driver of how many buttons I have, but if I specify any options to
insmod, it just sits there and never gets the module in, and modprobe
seems to simply ignore them.
Any ideas?
misc info:
the pad has two axes and 6 buttons
I'm running kernel 2.2.5
I'm not a newbie :)
--
*MoNsTeR*
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Apr 1999 00:56:59 GMT
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:02:27 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Philip Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>...
>> Have you used the emulator yourself?
>> This doesn't make sense. I'm presuming it's like running doom on a hi-res
>> monitor. [speaking from experience. I've run DOOM on a DOOM emulator
>> on a hi-res monitor :-) ]
>
>But what kind of graphics card were you using, with how much VRAM?
you're still missing the point :-)
lets say you have a generic 3d shape: a sphere.
let's say you have a texture map that is 50x50 pixels.
Now the program says "wrap the sphere with that texture map".
[assuming you have a 1to1 fixed height ration: the texture map is supposed
to always be exactly the "height" of the sphere]
If you suddenly move from 320x200, to 800x600, okay, you'll get a much
rounder, smoother sphere. But you'll still have the same crudy old 50x50 pixel
texture map. Make the sphere with infinate res, and it'll still look as
sucky as the original display.
No amount of VRAM or acceleration is going to help that.
>..
>Even if it's only equal to the console's performance, it's still a better
>deal. I can't get a Playstation for $24.95. :-)
got me there :-)
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to print an envelope ?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:07:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Pando),
In a message on 15 Apr 1999 15:49:12 GMT, wrote :
DP> Is there any little utilitie for printing envelopes in a HP printer ?
DP> I�m very happy with Klyx, so I don�t want to install WP or StarOffice just
DP> to make adresses look good.
DP> Any suggestion ?
DP> Thanks in advance
DP>
I found (some years ago) a LaTeX style file named 'env.sty' that is
wonderful. Not only does it print envelopes, it will also generate a
United States Postal Service barcode (I'm guessing it should be possible
to modify this for other countries that do bar codes).
I no longer remember where I found this little gem, but it is probably
somewhere on a CTAN archive site.
LaTeX generates a .dvi file and dvips converts this to postscript (or if
you have a laserjet, dvilj can create a lj file). Ghostscript can
convert a postscript file to what your printer speaks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: ? Linux community manage vs. chaos ?
Date: 16 Apr 1999 23:44:25 GMT
On 16 Apr 1999 22:01:07 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Linux community members,
>
> How is it possible that Linux has succesfully grown by contributions from
> so many different persons, without degenerating into chaos ?
Magic.
And Linus uses a death ray on those that are disruptive to the Ultimate
Plan.
> Where did the structures originate, and become disciplined/enforced to:
> collect bug reports and enhancements, to feed into next code update,
> ..........................................documentation update,
> enable contributions from dispersed outsiders, yet avoid chaos from
> undiscipled/incompetent 'members',
> allow division of labour, (specialisation) in co-operated efforts,
> etc .............etc ?
Most came from technology acquired from the visitors from the second
planet of Upsilon Andromadae.
(Some is, of course, indirectly responsible. The death ray, for
example, may not share much in common with the kernel, but it does keep
the developers working and detering the undisciplined from becoming a
nuisance.)
--
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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.debian,comp.os.linux.sound
Subject: Re: x11amp - is my sound configured properly?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:25:18 GMT
Are you using GNOME? I recently GNOME onto a bran new installation of RedHat
5.2 and I had the exact same problem with x11amp. I checked file permissions
for /dev/dsp and /dev/audio but that didn't help. However, when I disabled
sound support in GNOME and restarted X, suddenly x11amp started working...no
more "Couldn't open audio!" error.
Hopefully there is a better solution than disabling sound support for GNOME
because that just isn't a practicle work-around.
Anyone else experience this problem with GNOME/x11amp? Got a better fix?
-- David
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Matias Orchard V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Arcady Genkin escribi=F3:
>
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I've installed x11amp from the package x11amp_0.9a3-2.deb. Whenever it
> > tries to play an mp3 file, it gives an error message:
> >
> > Couldn't open audio!
>
> I had the same problem. I don't remember very well, but look at in the ma=
> n
> file and go to the xamp preferences, you have to select oss sound driver =
> or
> something like that.
>
> good luck,
> MATIAS O
>
> > .................................
>
> --
> Mat=EDas Orchard V.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ICQ: 460589
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Murphy)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: Voodoo Banshee and XF86_SVGA
Date: 16 Apr 1999 19:58:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rob Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm sure I've read somewhere that you can get XFree86 to work on Voodoo
> Banshee boards using the SVGA server? I had a quick go at it last night,
> but I could only get 320x200x256 resolution. (I'm after 1280x1040x24).
> Am I wasting my time trying this, or is it possible? I don't care about
> the 3D stuff, I just want a big, colourful, fast desktop.
>
> I'm not asking for step-by-step instructions, just hoping someone knows
> what I'm on about. Mailed replies would be especially nice.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Rob
Try http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html, it's a beta version of
an X server to support the card and I've been using it quite happily for the
last couple of months. Only noticable glitch I've noticed is a blank screen
when starting up, other than this it's fairly quick.
Dave.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ziya Arnavut)
Subject: Hacker
Date: 17 Apr 1999 01:45:54 GMT
I am running Red Hat 5.1 on my system and this is the
second time a hacker is breaking in using ftp deamon i believe
Here are the traces left in /.bash_history file
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w
w
ps -uax|more
ls
ls
mv rpc.mountd /tmp
cd /tmp
ls
w
ls
w
mv l /bin/login
chmod +x /bin/login
ls
ls -lta /bni/login
ls -lta /bin/login
telnet localhost
ls
mkdir /usr/src/linux/". "
mv rpc.mountd /usr/src/linux/". "
ls
cd /usr/src
cd linux
cd ". "
ls
ls -lta
ps -uax
kill -9 25165
grep -v moof /etc/passwd
grep -v moof /etc/passwd > a
mv a /etc/passwd
ls
w
chmod +x rpc.mountd
export PATH="."
rpc.mountd &
exit
w
ps -uax
cd /tmp
ls
cd /usr/src
cd linux
cd ". "
ls
mkdir ". "
lks
cd ". "
ls
exit
cd /tmp
ls
ls -l owned.tar
mv owned.tar /usr/src/linux/". "
cd /usr/src
cd linux
cd ". "
ls
tar -xvf *.tar
ls -l
chmod =x login
chmod +x login
ls -l login
chmod 755 login
grep -v moof /etc/passwd > a
mv a /etc/passwd
mv login /bin
ls
ls -l /bin/loginb
ls -l /bin/login
ls -l
ps -uax|grep rpc
kill -9 3974
mv tcpd rpc.mountd
export PATH="."
chmod +x rpc.mountd
/bin/chmod
/bin/chmod +x rpc.mountd
rpc.mountd &
ls -l
l
exit
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What I don't understand is, what is he doing with "rpc.mountd" ?
Also, how can I prevent people who are utilizing "ftp" deamon
becoming root in our system.
Your help will be greatly appreciatted.
Ziya.
///// Contents of /usr/src/linux/". " created by hacker looks like the
following ///////////////////
rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1411 Apr 7 21:57 tcp.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1222 Apr 6 22:08 bcast
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 6 22:08 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Apr 6 22:04 broadcast.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6020 Apr 1 21:41 broadscan
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83 Apr 1 21:41 own
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13968 Apr 1 21:41 papa
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27938 Apr 1 21:41 rpc.mountd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 307200 Apr 1 21:40 owned.tar
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1024 Apr 1 21:38 ..
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