Linux-Misc Digest #938, Volume #19 Sat, 24 Apr 99 08:13:19 EDT
Contents:
Re: multiple X sessions (jik-)
Newbie: Free disk space (Jeff Busch)
Help, broken xinit after installing latest gnome (Brian Davis)
Re: Who's knocking at my door? (Adrian Silveanu)
Re: Netscape Plug-In To Display MS-Word (DOC) Files? (Bob Tennent)
RH 5.2 network problem upgrading to Linux 2.2.x (Neil Booth)
Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1-1.1.i386.rpm (Keven R. Pittsinger)
problems with starting kde ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Wanted: Database/Contact mgr with backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web (Jared Hecker)
Stupid $PATH question that I am ashamed to ask, but having no pride, I proceed
(Mike)
Re: The little dual boot that didn't (Villy Kruse)
Re: Apostraphes being replaced with question marks? (Matthew Bafford)
Re: scsi emulation and cdrw (jik-)
Re: Vfat and Redhat 5.2 (Tim Schofield)
Re: GNOME compliant window manager - not ("D. Vrabel")
Please help! (Nuno Donato)
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 18:09:17 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: multiple X sessions
JACK wrote:
>
> hello all...
> i remember reading "somewhere" that you can have two Xsessions running
> at the same time. i.e one on <alt>-f7 and another on <alt>-f8 ....or
> similar.....
> could any one tell me how to do this or at least point me in the right
> direction.
> btw...assuming that its possible..
>
> j
startx -ws 1 -- :1 -bpp 16
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From: Jeff Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie: Free disk space
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 20:01:55 -0500
I've had Rh 5.2 up and running for about five weeks. Got all my
hardware working (had to do some research and server upgrading). But I
cannot figure out how to check the amount of space left on my hard
drive. Is there a command like the DOS "dir" command that I can use.
How is this basic function accomplished with Linux.
Jeff
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x
From: Brian Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help, broken xinit after installing latest gnome
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:52:26 -0400
Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me solve this problem. I recently installed
the latest Gnome RPMs for RedHat. After doing so, I get the following
error when I try to start up enlightenment:
enlightenment: error in loading shared libraries
: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
Can someone plese tell me know to fix this. I just upgraded to the latest
libc, I think it was libc-5.23-12-128 or something like that. Any help is
greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian
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From: Adrian Silveanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Who's knocking at my door?
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:34:15 -0500
Hi,
tcpdump is what I am looking for. While it doesn't tell you
literally that you are being pinged, you can tell from the difference
of the messages when you ping yourself from a remote host. Another
neat feature I noticed with tcpdump is that I can see which
computers on the our residence hall's network is using the network
at the moment.
Thanks,
Adrian
Bernhard Brueck wrote:
>
> Adrian Silveanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > Does anybody know of a program for Linux or if it comes with
> > Linux that would tell me the IP address of any computer that
> > tries to ping, ftp, telnet, etc. my computer?
> > The reason that I ask is because I have noticed activity
> > on my network card LED indicator and could not find a process/program
> > that would explain the activity. I am certain that it wasn't
> > Netscape checking my e-mail.
>
> tcpdump
>
> Bernhard
> --
> ---------------------------------
> Bernhard Brueck
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Netscape Plug-In To Display MS-Word (DOC) Files?
Date: 23 Apr 1999 19:25:55 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 18:46:06 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I often get people emailing me MS-Word documents. Is anyone selling a
>plug-in for MS-Word that can display these emails in the Netscape
>Communicator mail window (or at least allow me to see the document after
>double-clicking on them, without requiring additional clicks to go through
>menus, etc)? It would be even better if it gave me an ASCII version to use
>in drafting responses...
>
MSWordView is a program that understands the Microsoft Word 8
binary file format (Office97) and is able to convert Word
documents into HTML, which can then be read with a browser.
For further editing, I'd suggest getting a Word-to-LaTeX converter:
http://www.fz-juelich.de/isr/1/texconv/texcnv.html
Bob T.
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From: Neil Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RH 5.2 network problem upgrading to Linux 2.2.x
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:51:52 GMT
Hi,
I have upgraded a fairly stock RH 5.2 system to Linux 2.2.2 and 2.2.5.
The problem I have below occurs under both, but does not occur under
Linux 2.0.36. *All* packages have been successfully upgraded and
installed as described in Documentation/Changes. The only problem I
experience under 2.2.x is with this networking - everything else is
fine.
My problem is when I have connected to my ISP using PPP, I cannot get
any TCP/IP services to work, such as ftp, pop3 and http under Netscape.
Ftp under FileRunner says "opening connection to XYZ..." and times out
after about 2 minutes. Netscape reads "Contacted XYZ: waiting for
reply" and times out after a while (note it has successfully resolved
the hostname). I have dumped a telnet session to my mail account at my
ISP below. I have tried many destination sites and locations, so it is
not a problem with the sites being down. Name lookup and "ping" both
work perfectly. Here is a pop3 connection attempt which I terminated
after waiting for a response to the user command for 2 minutes.
[root@tc-1-248 network-scripts]# telnet popmail.gol.com 110
Trying 203.216.5.31...
Connected to pp.mail.gol.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
user neilb2
Terminated
Here are various statistics:-
[root@tc-1-248 network-scripts]# netstat -i
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP
TX-OVR Flg
lo 3924 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 LRU
ppp0 1514 0 31 0 0 0 23 0
0 0 OPRU
[root@tc-1-248 network-scripts]# /sbin/ifconfig
ppp0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:203.216.42.52 P-t-P:203.216.40.12
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1514 Metric:1
RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
[root@tc-1-248 network-scripts]# netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt
Iface
203.216.40.12 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0
ppp0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0
lo
0.0.0.0 203.216.40.12 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0
ppp0
I don't know why MSS is zero - it is not under 2.0.36 and whether this
is the problem.
Any suggestions as what might be wrong or what else to try next would be
greatly appreciated. I am at a loss as what to do next - I've been
trying to use 2.2.x for over 2 months, but have always been stumped by
these network problems. I'm not enough of a networking guru to figure
out what the problem might be.
Cheers,
Neil.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: XFree86 3.3.3.1-1.1.i386.rpm
Date: 24 Apr 1999 05:01:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jacek M. Holeczek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> XFree86-3.3.2.3-25
>> XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.2.3-25
>> XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.2.3-25
>> XFree86-devel-3.3.2.3-25
>> XFree86-ISO8859-2-1.0-1
>> XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-1.0-1
>> XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-1.0-1
>> XFree86-ISO8859-2-Type1-fonts-1.0-1
>> XFree86-ISO8859-9-2.1.2-1
>> XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-2.1.2-1
>> XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-2.1.2-1
>> XFree86-libs-3.3.2.3-25
>> XFree86-VGA16-3.3.2.3-25
>> XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.2.3-25
>> XFree86-Xnest-3.3.2.3-25
>> XFree86-Xvfb-3.3.2.3-25
>> XFree86-SVGA-3.3.2.3-25
>>
>> Where is the S3 thing?
> The SVGA can also work with your S3 Virge.
> Your alternative is the S3V ( S3Virge ) server ( not S3 ! ). Use the one
> that works better ( the last time I tried them, some one year ago, the S3V
> had less bugs, but maybe now the SVGA works better ).
>> are these ISO889 fonts needed for X Window? I was in Install SIG last
> No, if you don't need to display central-european ( ISO8859-2 ) and
> turkish ( ISO8859-9 ) characters, you can safely remove ( "rpm -e" ) them.
> I'm pretty sure, you can also remove ( "rpm -e" ) the Xnest and the Xvfb
> ( for example, try "rpm -qi XFree86-Xnest" to learn what it does ).
> If you don't do any development of programs using X windows, you can also
> remove XFree86-devel.
You don't want to whack out the XFree86-devel stuff. A *LOT* of software
is still distributed as source-only. Without the linking libs and header
files, this software will *NOT* compile.
XNest is a secondary server that pops up a window inside your current
session of equal or lower resolution. Just the thing to run Doom in 8 bit
graphics on a 16 or 24 bit display.
> Most probably you can also remove XFree86-VGA16, but you may get some
> problems with XF86Setup, if you try to run it ( do "rpm -e --nodeps
> XFree86-VGA16" if you decide to remove it ). You can also remove the
> XFree86-XF86Setup if you don't need to run it anymore. Anyhow, your
> /etc/X11/XF86Config is already correct, right ? So you don't need it any
> more.
An understatement. Whack out the VGA16 xserver and XF86Setup will *NOT*
run. The VGA server is a least common denominator server for running
XF86Setup.
> If you want to "spare" place, you can also remove XFree86-100dpi-fonts.
> So, the minimum you need is : XFree86, XFree86-75dpi-fonts, XFree86-libs,
> XFree86-SVGA ( or XFree86-S3V ).
Leave the *standard* fonts and whack the ISO fonts unless you need them
for international word processing or something.
Keven
--
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==============================================================================
Science-Fiction Adventure
In Reavers' Deep
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: problems with starting kde
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 08:45:12 GMT
I am using redhat 5.1 with kernel 2.2.5. I have installed KDE. I have a
problem with starting KDE. My default window manager is fvwm. How can I
startup KDE? Startx KDE didn't work. Please reply to my email address.
Bert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jared Hecker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Database/Contact mgr with backend on Linux/FreeBSD, web
Date: 19 Apr 1999 12:52:54 GMT
ACT uses the dBase III (dbf) fromat. I believe you can find a few
shareware/freeware products on Linux that support that, though being an
Oracle person nothing comes to mind :-). As to a contact manager vertical
app, I haven't seen any built on top of a database.
Regards,
jh
Leonzo E. Miller III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Daniel Ts'o wrote:
: > I am looking for a database application that either is like, or could
: > be made similar to Symantec ACT, ie a contact manager which organizes
: > people, companies, addresses, phone numbers, contact notes, group membership,
: > action notes, perhaps scheduling, phone log, calendar, etc.
: >
: > It should be "client/server" (unlike ACT), preferably with the client
: > being any decent HTML browser on the Internet and the backend running on Linux
: > or FreeBSD (e.g. Apache + PHP + MySQL). In addition to DB entry and reporting,
: > it would be nice if it were capable of printing address labels after a
: > selection (ie print labels in zipcode sorted order for all contacts who are
: > interested in X, or the member of group Y).
: >
: > I gather that much of this could be implemented with MS Outlook and MS
: > Exchange on NT, dialing in with RAS. However I would prefer an "open source"
: > solution.
: >
: > Such a thing around ? Thanks.
: >
: > Cheers,
: > Daniel Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: > The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave MS138, NY, NY 10021
: > 212-327-7671, FAX: 212-327-7671
: go to http://www/angoss.com
: get their SmartWare 2000 for Linux
: send E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the contact manager
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: Stupid $PATH question that I am ashamed to ask, but having no pride, I
proceed
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 09:12:04 GMT
Hi All,
I recently loaded kde on one of my machines and in the install
instructions for RedHat it said to make sure that /usr/local/bin was
in your path. I was logged in as root, (or else su'd, I forget) and
/usr/local/bin was not there. So thinking I'd take care of it for
everybody I added it to the PATH line in /etc/profile. When I logged
on as a regular user and echo'd $PATH I find that /usr/local/bin is
now in my path 3 separate times!!!! I removed it from /etc/profile
resourced it and now it only shows up twice. My .bash_profile only has
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin. So seeing as how my /etc/profile does not
contain /usr/local/bin and my .bash_profile doesn't contain
/usr/local/bin, somewhere it is being added. In fact, /usr/local/bin
and /usr/X11R6/bin both appear twice. Once before and once after
$HOME/bin in my path so something is adding those two after my
.bash_profile is being read. The question, if you've made it this far
you've probably guessed by now is, WHERE!!! Could someone tell me
the sequence of how the PATH is set starting from boot-up? I know that
the system wide path is set in /etc/profile and the individual user
path is set in .bash_profile but obviously something else is involved
as I still cannot find where /usr/local/bin is being set from, either
the first time or the second time. I don't know how to use grep yet to
search all the files on my hard drive to find instances of
/usr/local/bin so if someone could help me out I would greatly
appeciate it. Thank you!!
mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: The little dual boot that didn't
Date: 24 Apr 1999 11:23:40 +0200
In article <7fqbl0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Perry Grieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Surely the caldera cd-rom has rescue floppy inages on it?
>
Confirmed. You boot the install floppy answering boot at the lilo prompt
instead of install.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: Apostraphes being replaced with question marks?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 06:06:25 GMT
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 01:14:58 -0400, Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
lucked upon a computer, and thus typed in the following:
: Hmm... this is weird, I've just noticed that in Netscape some of the
: apostrophe's seem to be replaced by question marks. At first I thought
: this was a typos on the part of a crummy webmaster, until I noticed it
: on several sites. I'm assuming that this is a font issue, anyone else
: seen this?
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/
HTH,
: Steve
--Matthew
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 23:10:09 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi emulation and cdrw
I asked this question a little over a week ago I think. The device your
looking for is /dev/scd0, you need scsi cdrom support.
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From: Tim Schofield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Vfat and Redhat 5.2
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:26:05 +0100
In article <%sGT2.250$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas T. Veldhouse
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Either recompile the kernel with vfat compiled in or see if the module is
>around (/lib/modules/2.0.36/fs/vfat.o), if it is, type /sbin/modprobe vfat
>
You may need to correct the links in /etc/boot too; when I upgraded they
got set up wrong....
Tim S.
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNOME compliant window manager - not
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:36:32 +0100
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Rurick Kellermann wrote:
> Hi Lisa,
>
> I also had the same problem. I 'm also a newbie to Linux. The way i fixed was to
> delete the .gnome directories under the root directory
> (have not had the chance to create another userid besides root).
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think you better find some time to add a new user to your system. It is
dangerous to login as root all the time as you may end up
damaging/deleting vital files, or running Trojan horses which could
exploit your super-user status. Create a new user by:
adduser fred
as root it takes all of 10 seconds to do.
> Once I deleted the .gnome directories, I
> launched X again and the problem disappeared.
>
> Rurick Kellermann
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> >
>
>
>
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: Nuno Donato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help!
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 11:56:02 +0100
I need help with my Linux RedHat 5.2 to connect to the Internet using
PPP.
In my previous version of Linux(Debian 2.0) I just typed 'pppconf' and I
configure everything.
Then I used 'pon' to connect and 'poff' to disconnect.
But in my new Linux RedHat 5.2 Its not like that.
Can anyone tell me how can I configure the PPP, and the tell me the
command do connect and disconnect.
Thnsk a lot who replys this message.
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