Linux-Misc Digest #899, Volume #19 Mon, 19 Apr 99 03:13:18 EDT
Contents:
Anyone built prc-tools on SuSE 6.0? (Jim Hill)
Re: Scrabled characters after exiting X Window! (Matthew Bafford)
ppp-on (Lian PL)
The Best Linux distribution? (was Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux) (Donn Miller)
Re: Web Mail Server for Linux? ("Gray McCord")
Re: [Newbie Q] Modem Is Busy and kppp ("Jethro Wright III")
Re: Scrambled characters after exiting X Window! (Jimmy Navarro)
Re: linux being user-friendly (peter)
Re: Insecure Swap Permission (brian moore)
EPS (jik-)
We've got all the music software you need ... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Firewall and SOCKS5? (Alexander Stanovoy)
Printing problem: waiting for queue to be enabled ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux kernel 2.2.5: support for UMAX UDS-IS-11 SCSI Controller Card ("Frank")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Hill)
Subject: Anyone built prc-tools on SuSE 6.0?
Date: 19 Apr 1999 00:58:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recently switched over from Red Hat to SuSE and I need to rebuild the
prc-tools for developing Palm Pilot applications. Alas, the stock
package which on Red Hat worked its magic with 'make doeverything' is
crashing in SuSE. Specifically, the make in the patched gcc directory
is bonging out with:
cc1: Invalid option `68000'
cc1: Invalid option `-Wnomulti-char-constant'
make: *** [g++-cross] Error 1
A scan of the Linux and Pilot newsgrops reveals only that one other
person asked the same question in pilot.programmer.gcc and got no answer
there.
Can anyone offer a suggestion?
Jim
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"People have grown used to thinking of computers as unreliable,
and it doesn't have to be that way." -- Linus Torvalds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Scrabled characters after exiting X Window!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 01:35:57 GMT
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:56:37 -0700, Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lucked upon a computer, and thus typed in the following:
) I'm using RH5.2. There are times I get scrambled garbled words after
) exiting X Window. Is there a way to reset to plain readable English or
) ASCII text without restarting Linux?
reset
You may have to type ^J rather than return.
reset^J
) P.S.: To reply me direct, remove extra.
To get replies direct to you, remove extra.
--Matthew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lian PL)
Subject: ppp-on
Date: 19 Apr 1999 05:50:18 GMT
My ppp-on does not work. When I key in the command ppp-on ,bash says
command not found. I have already used chmod a+x ppp-on.
My ppp-on script is ok. I have checked. Could it be the path problem. But
I have cd to the path itself viz /usr/local/bin.
cud someone help by emailing me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: The Best Linux distribution? (was Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:21:33 -0400
Leahy wrote:
> Regards to Donn, I'm not familiar with Debian or Slackware so I cant really
> compare. I use RedHat 5.2
> (as well as FreeBSD 3.1) I'm not sure why he is recommending against RedHat. I find
> it to be stable and easy to set up. The accompanying software is extensive and
> RPM's are readily available and easy to install. Compiling and installing from
> source is also relatively simple. As I say though, I have not tried the other
> Linuxes.
> Donn, can you tell me why you recommend against RedHat? I'm not being smart, I'm
> genuinely curious.
Well, I've tried both Slackware and Debian. My first encounter with
Linux was with the Slackware distribution, back in May-June 1995. I
ran that until about Oct 1996 (the same distribution with no kernel
upgrades). Then, I switched to FreeBSD in Nov. 1996, and I'm still
running it now.
I tried the free Solaris promo. (Summer 1998) on my second HD, which
is what I used previously to download packages and such. After
finding out that Solaris wouldn't work with my CDROM, I basically said
the heck with it, and decided I can put Linux as my "third" OS, on my
spare HD. Well, I started out with Debian. I found the package
management system frustrating. From reading a lot of posts on Debian
(on DejaNews, and on my news server), I found that a lot of people
liked it's package management system, and denounced Red Hat as being
too "graphical" with its administration tools. People were also
saying that Red Hat installations tend to put config files in
"strange" directories. Actually, this is just from hearsay from
reading DejaNews posts, so I'm basing my recommendations on that.
I scrapped my Debian system, as it was causing me some headaches.
Seeing as to how I started out on Slackware, I replaced my Debian with
Slack. I like Slack because, well, it was my first exposure to
Linux. So familiarity was the key decision here; I figured why try
to force myself to like Debian, when I feel most comfortable with
Slack?
Actually, you'll find people getting kind of personal over what Linux
distro. to use. Like, "Slackware is the most BSD-like, but it's not
as secure as Debian, and the package management system is sloppy".
Or, Slackware fanatics (especially those who use FreeBSD also) will
like the fact that it is more BSD-like than the other distros. I like
Slackware the best, since I can just download the whole distribution
with a command like:
get slakware.tar
And the distribution size, minus the packages, seems smaller than the
other Linux distros. So for me, Slackware is best, because of 1.)
familiarity, 2.) I find it easiest to download 3.) I like the
simplicity of its set-up programs. I like Debian too, but I found it
hard to find out which packages I needed, and I didn't like it's
package management system. Slackware seemed to be very good at giving
you the packages you needed, without hunting around all over the
place. Plus, I find that Slackware does a lot of hand holding when
installing the system for the first time.
There are many Linux distributions. I found out going from Slackware
--> Debian required a certain learning curve, and basically, I figured
why deal with learning a new system when I can just stick with Slack,
which is what I am most familiar with. People in this NG have tried
to talk me out of using Slackware, and into using Debian, and I
listened. It's no use! I'm "old school", like slackware, so it's
what I use. In the end, though, it matters little what distribution
you use; the Linux kernel is what matters the most. The differences
will be mainly: 1. package management, 2. configuration tools, 3.)
directory structure, 4.) start-up script functionality.
So I'm going to recant my recommendation on which Linux distro. to
use, as there are so many of them. Some of them excel in areas that
others don't. For example: Slackware is the easiest to download, but
its package management sucks. Well, it's not too bad, but it doesn't
do any dependency checking the way Debian does. From what I've read,
Red Hat has the most GUI-oriented administration tools, and a lot of
people on DejaNews didn't like that.
If you praise one Linux distro. and condemn the others, people will
make it a religious issue and get pissed off. So now, if someone
wants a recommendation on which is better, FreeBSD or Linux, I'll just
say (if Linux is better suited to the task) "Linux, but try to pick
out which distribution suits you the best." And that's the way it
should be; if people want to run Linux, just, as they say, "Do it!"
and just use whatever distribution you find most comfortable with.
Actually, I was basing my previous recommendation of Debian, Slackware
over Red Hat on what I've read from DejaNews. That's wrong; people
should just try each one out for size, so to speak, and just so which
one fits the best. ;-)
--
Donn
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From: "Gray McCord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Web Mail Server for Linux?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:28:00 -0500
Thanks! I'll give it a try.
Gray
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<7fd0r5$b7r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Haven't seen Exchange Server, but I use AtDot (http://www.atdot.org/), it
>seems to have plenty of options, it's GPL, it's Perl, it works. I think it
>checks POP accounts, so you'll need a POP server running if you don't
already
>have one.
>
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>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Gray McCord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I run sendmail and Apache on my 2.0.35 Linux server and was wondering if
>> anyone knew of a solution to permit viewing users' email via a web
>> connection to the Apache server. For those that have seen it, I'm
looking
>> for something similar to the MS Exchange Server facility that lets users
>> access their Exchange mail via IE instead of using the Outlook client.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Gray
>>
>>
>
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From: "Jethro Wright III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [Newbie Q] Modem Is Busy and kppp
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:28:38 -0400
Have scoured the /etc sub-dir for some script that initializes
the comm ports, no luck. Tried minicom, won't connect to either
cua2 or ttyS2. cat some-file >/dev/cua2 and I get a input/output
error. cat some-file >/dev/modem and it pretends to take the chars,
but does nothing.
At boot time, Linux recognizes the com ports and the UARTs
connected to them, but it appears that while the devices are in
the /dev sub-dir, they're failure to perform makes it seems that
they haven't been installed....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: Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Scrambled characters after exiting X Window!
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:26:27 -0700
This is the other reply I got direct... (=: I tried "reset" before but I'm
gonna try it again with Ctrl+J... I'll try that "setfont" too. I'll post
back if some problem. Thanks.
root wrote:
> Jimmy Navarro wrote:
>
> > I'm using RH5.2. There are times I get scrambled garbled words after
> > exiting X Window. Is there a way to reset to plain readable English or
> > ASCII text without restarting Linux?
> >
> > --
> > P.S.: To reply me direct, remove extra.
>
> Try setfont. This only works for me in console mode (non Xwindows).
>
> Rick
Matthew Bafford wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:56:37 -0700, Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> lucked upon a computer, and thus typed in the following:
> ) I'm using RH5.2. There are times I get scrambled garbled words after
> ) exiting X Window. Is there a way to reset to plain readable English or
> ) ASCII text without restarting Linux?
>
> reset
>
> You may have to type ^J rather than return.
>
> reset^J
>
> ) P.S.: To reply me direct, remove extra.
>
> To get replies direct to you, remove extra.
>
> --Matthew
--
P.S.: To reply me direct, remove extra.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter)
Subject: Re: linux being user-friendly
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:35:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> peter wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > says...
> >
> > if a os can be user-friendly it should be userfriendly !! of course !!
> > (I think there is no need for mystery-monger at the beginning of a new
> > millenium)
>
> <snip>
> > I played around with redhat-linuxconf a while. it suggest that you can
> > easily setup a network with it in not time. but it didnt work. (It tried
> > to assign both network-cards to eth0 ;)
>
> Let me get this straight: you tried to assign two ethernet cards to
> eth0 and you are blaiming the redhat-linuxconf program because your
> attempt didn't work? And you excuse that ... stupidity ... with a smily
> face? You HAVE spent too much time in the Windows environment.
>
is my english that bad !?
not I tried, linuxconf tried !! (and thats why I set the smily)
I tried to install two cards, one to eth0 and one to eth1 ! but after
"installing" the dlink on eth0 I wanted to "install" the 3com to eth1,
but I could only select eth0 again in this nasty gui-box and so found the
following conf.modules:
alias eth0 card1
alias eth0 card2
after that I never started linuxconf again and use insmod instead.
and thats what I wanted to say: for using insmod you have to know the
syntax and a bit of the things behind. linuxconf suggest, you dont have
to know anything and just dont work if things get more complex than one
network-card.
peter
=================
pilsl@
ANTISPAM
goldfisch.atat.at
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Insecure Swap Permission
Date: 19 Apr 1999 06:32:38 GMT
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:24:16 +0400,
Ferdinand V. Mendoza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> All is going well with my Linux_mandrake 5.3 after upgrading it
> from the 2.0.36 kernel to the 2.2.3ac4 . However evertime I boot
> the machine I am warned of a message (during boot time) that
> my /dev/hda2 (my swap partition) is a having an insecure permission
> which it says is 0660 and that the message even recommends to
> change it to 0600. I haven't seen this message before the upgrade.
> I tried to search somewhere in the system to locate and change the
> permission but I can't find it. Anyone has the idea?
chmod 0600 /dev/hda2
That's it.
It's insecure because it allows anyone in the group to directly
read and write to the swap area. There is no reason to allow that.
--
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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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 23:31:53 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EPS
How do you create an Encapsulated postscript image? Neither XV nor GIMP
save that format.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: We've got all the music software you need ...
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 06:22:39 GMT
There's heaps of music software for Linux at
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/linux/?ng2 There's all sorts of audio players,
sound recorders and midi applications. You should check it out.
Cheers
Geoff
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From: Alexander Stanovoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Firewall and SOCKS5?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:45:37 +0300
Hello,
My problem is configuring socks5 of my linux-router based firewall.
I have two interfaces, external eth0 and internal eth1.
my socks5.conf is:
interface AAA.BBB.CCC. - eth1
interface - - eth0
permit - - - - -
When I'm triing to connect ICQ client through my socks5 server( started in
debug mode), i got the message
00650: UDP Proxy Established: (AAA.BBB.CCC.8:1363) for user
00650: UDP Receive: Selecting on outer sockets...
00650: UDP Receive: Selecting on inner socket...
00650: UDP Receive: Selecting...
00650: S5IOCheck: Checking socket status
00650: S5IOCheck: recv failed: Bad file descriptor
00650: Proxy: cleaning command context
00650: UDP Proxy Termination: (AAA.BBB.CCC.8:1363) for user ; 0 bytes out
0
bytes in
Maybe I need additional configuration for UDP packets forwarding ?
Or maybe some other?
What is wrong?
Please help.
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
Alexander Stanovoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Internet and Intranet services developer and administrator
Lietelija Ltd., Juozapaviciaus 6/2, Vilnius 2005, Lithuania
Phone: +370-2-730970; FAX:+370-2-730959; Mobile:+370-99-14421
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Printing problem: waiting for queue to be enabled
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:13:23 GMT
I got message of "waiting for queue to be enabled on elph" when print to a
remote printer, where elph is remote server. But if I am successful in
printing to other remote printers. How could I solve the problem?
Thanks in advance.
Jenny
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From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs.scsi,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.periphs.scanners
Subject: Re: Linux kernel 2.2.5: support for UMAX UDS-IS-11 SCSI Controller Card
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 16:47:46 -0700
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7fd6fs$q4t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.periphs.scsi tota11y /<-rad el33t hax0r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : As described on <http://support.umax.co.uk/technotes/f096B.htm>, the SCSI
> : card that comes with UMAX scanners is really an OEM of Domex's (aka DTC
> : Technology's) DTC-3181 SCSI card.
>
> : I was wondering if anyone knew is Linux has any support for Domex
> : Technology Corporation SCSI controllers?
>
> Add this to your /etc/conf.modules
>
> ---8<---
> options g_NCR5380 dtc_3181e=1 ncr_addr=0x300 ncr_irq=254
> ---8<---
>
> The 0x300 base address may vary (look at your /proc/ioports, the card will go
> from 0x300 downwards in 0x20 steps until it finds "unoccupied space"). Using
> the wrong base address will result in a kernel oops, so be careful.
>
> The "modprobe g_NCR5380" somewhere in your rc.local (or wherever you want,
> as long as it is before you try to scan.
>
> One thing: THIS IS SLOWER THAN A SNAIL. This comes from the stupid design of
> the card, which in standard configuration doesn't use interupts. Sadly I
> haven't been able to enable interrupts on my card, so I think I'll use an
> adapter cable and connect it to my main SCSI card (hope this won't pollute
> Ultra SCSI too much).
Some versions of the UDS-IS11 have a PNR/PNP jumper. In PNP mode
it will use IRQ3 as a default.
Frank
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