Linux-Misc Digest #940, Volume #19 Sat, 24 Apr 99 17:13:09 EDT
Contents:
PPP/Mgetty hang-up problem HELP Please???? (David Hughes)
Mgetty/PPPD Hangup Problem HELP PLEASE?? (David Hughes)
Re: multiple X sessions ("JACK")
Re: scanners (Edwin Johnson)
Re: Newbie--What is my PATH file? (William Burrow)
Idiot Seeks Help 1: Linux and Modems ("Dave Tansley")
Re: creating a start up floppy disk (Adrian Hands)
Re: umounting cdrom (Adrian Hands)
creating a start up floppy disk (The Dude)
Can default telnet message be modified? (William)
Re: Stupid $PATH question that I am ashamed to ask, but having no pride, I proceed
(Mike)
Re: problems with starting kde (Chris)
umounting cdrom (The Dude)
KDE: kmail problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SETI@home output capture (Thomas Amsler)
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux (Jesus Monroy, Jr.)
Re: problem with playing mp3s (David E. Fox)
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From: David Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,de.alt.comm.mgetty
Subject: PPP/Mgetty hang-up problem HELP Please????
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:53:01 -0600
Am running RedHat 5.2 with the supplied mgetty and pppd binaries. Using
a 16 port digiboard with a U S Robotics v.everything 33.6 modem.
Everything is working fine. Modem/mgetty answers a call, receive PAP
authentication no prob, routing works, everything. . . except when there
is a dropped carrier. If the connection is disabled, the mgeety
reinitswith no problem for the next call. However, if I yank the
connectionand just drop carrier, the pppd process just sits there. I
have tried to add all kinds of detach calls, crtctson and off, xonxoff
calls, tweaked the modem init strings (studied the modem references for
this modem as called for by the HOW-Tos and tried to deviate from them
too), and so on. The only thing I have been able to do is is set an
idle timeout which reinits if packets are not being passed. Great to
get the mgetty back to life, but no good if someone is not active for
x-number of minutes. I see severeal references to 'use -detach if it
doesn't cause your ppp deamon to hang, otherwise don't'. . . . something
like that. So after all my fiddling, am guessing that either pppd is
not seeing a dropped carrier and passing it back to mgetty, or the
modem/digiboard is not issuing a dropped carrier tho the LEDs certainly
indicate a dropped carrier.
Can anyone help? I've tried a mess of combinations with settings, init
strings, and so on. Haven't been able to find anything referencing the
'what if your mgetty doesn't reset due to a dropped carrier'. I am
hoping someone out there has had a similar experience and discovered a
solution.
Thanks for anyone who can find the time to respond. . .
david hughes
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From: David Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mgetty/PPPD Hangup Problem HELP PLEASE??
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 22:58:12 -0600
Am running RedHat 5.2 with the supplied mgetty and pppd binaries. Using
a 16 port digiboard with a U S Robotics v.everything 33.6 modem.
Everything is working fine. Modem/mgetty answers a call, receive PAP
authentication no prob, routing works, everything. . . except when there
is a dropped carrier. If the connection is disabled, the mgeety
reinitswith no problem for the next call. However, if I yank the
connectionand just drop carrier, the pppd process just sits there. I
have tried to add all kinds of detach calls, crtctson and off, xonxoff
calls, tweaked the modem init strings (studied the modem references for
this modem as called for by the HOW-Tos and tried to deviate from them
too), and so on. The only thing I have been able to do is is set an
idle timeout which reinits if packets are not being passed. Great to
get the mgetty back to life, but no good if someone is not active for
x-number of minutes. I see severeal references to 'use -detach if it
doesn't cause your ppp deamon to hang, otherwise don't'. . . . something
like that. So after all my fiddling, am guessing that either pppd is
not seeing a dropped carrier and passing it back to mgetty, or the
modem/digiboard is not issuing a dropped carrier tho the LEDs certainly
indicate a dropped carrier.
Can anyone help? I've tried a mess of combinations with settings, init
strings, and so on. Haven't been able to find anything referencing the
'what if your mgetty doesn't reset due to a dropped carrier'. I am
hoping someone out there has had a similar experience and discovered a
solution.
Thanks for anyone who can find the time to respond. . .
david hughes
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From: "JACK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: multiple X sessions
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:59:27 +0100
perfect.
you have just saved me the price of a new moniter ~(8^(|)
cheers...
j
Rob Lahaye wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>JACK wrote:
>>
>> that is more or less what i was looking for....cheers...
>>
>> howabout opening a session from a remote host...i have another linux
box...i
>> can run remote Xsessions from this on a win95 machine ysing
Xwin32...could i
>> open an remote xsession on a linux host all ready running it own local
>> xsession.?
>
>Type:
>
>X :1 -query <tcp/ip_address_of_remote_machine> vt8 -bpp 16
>
>
>Of course ":1", "vt8" and "-bpp 16" can be adjusted to your own needs.
>
>Rob.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Re: scanners
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Apr 1999 14:35:22 GMT
Look at www.mostang.com/sane
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:31:19 -0700, jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I can't find a scanner howto, were do I get info on scanners?
...Edwin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: Newbie--What is my PATH file?
Date: 24 Apr 1999 17:09:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 23:11:47 -0700,
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Geoffrey C. Stanbury wrote:
>> I'm running Slackware 3.6, and I can't figure out which file contains
>> all of my paths, or whatever they're called. The file with the list of
>> directories, like
>> /bin
>> /sbin
>> /usr/bin
>> etc., where I define the directories that are in my path.
>>
>> Thanks in advance, and sorry about the inarticulate language.
You're at NYU, and inarticulate?
>/etc/profile, ~/.bashrc, ~/.profile....use man bash.
Assuming he isn't using [t]csh, where the following files might be of
interest:
/etc/csh.login, ~/.cshrc, ~/.tcshrc
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: "Dave Tansley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Idiot Seeks Help 1: Linux and Modems
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:21:49 +0100
Well, I was enjoying tinkering with Linux, but I've stumbled into numerous
problems
that I just cant solve:
- Modem. I have a Hayes Internal Accura 56k modem. It's installed on my ISA
bus, and
works fine with Win98. It's jumpered to be COM1 IRQ 4. However, I absolutely
cannot
get Linux to talk to it. I have tried following just about every HOWTO, DOC
and manual
out there but cant seem to come close to solving my problem. I have tried
using setserial
to set the config, both manually and using the auto_irq options, but no
damned luck.
Any help would be hugely appreciated. A step by step description of what to
do from
idiots level upwards would be rewarded with eternal gratitude!
Thanks in advance.
--
Dave
ICQ: 20806179
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (work)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: creating a start up floppy disk
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 14:58:23 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Dude wrote:
>
> Hi
> I have have Red Hat 5.2 + KDE 1.1 up and running.
> I would like to make a start up floppy disk (just in case...), how do I do it?
>
> Regards
>
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The CD-ROM contains an image that can be copied to floppy to create a
startup diskette.
You can create diskette from Linux/Unix or from mw-dos/ms-win.
>From *nix:
$ dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
>From dos:
c:\> d:\dosutils\rawrite
source: d:\images\boot.img
target: a:
If you don't have a CD, you can get the boot.img file from any RH
mirror.
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: umounting cdrom
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 14:59:47 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Dude wrote:
>
> After I mount my cdrom as a user (not root) I can't eject it. What should I
> do? Do I have to log as root and unmount it? (I can mount as a user but why
> can't I umunt?) -- Regards The Dude
>
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The system won't let you eject without umount'ing first.
Make sure you cd out of /mnt/cdrom, or the system won't let you umount
it.
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From: The Dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: creating a start up floppy disk
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:21:51 GMT
Hi
I have have Red Hat 5.2 + KDE 1.1 up and running.
I would like to make a start up floppy disk (just in case...), how do I do it?
Regards
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From: William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can default telnet message be modified?
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 02:58:13 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When we telnet to Linux, the following screen shows:
+--------------------------------------------------------+
Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Kernel 2.0.36 on an i586
+--------------------------------------------------------+
Did anyone know how can I replace that message to my favor one or
disable that message?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: Re: Stupid $PATH question that I am ashamed to ask, but having no pride, I
proceed
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 19:04:25 GMT
Thanks, that gets me started. I guess I will have to read up on it. I
get a missing argument to '-exec' when I type that line in. I been too
busy reading other stuff, just haven't gotten to the nitty gritty of
find and grep yet. Thanks again.
mike
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 13:14:23 GMT, Frank Paprosky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike) wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>
>Hi Mike,
>
>Try this :
>
># cd /
># find . -type f -print -exec fgrep 'PATH=' {} \; |more
>
>This will search the word 'PATH=' into all regular files (excluding binaries
>directories, devices etc...) on your system.
>
>If you want to search only in the /etc or /usr directory
>type :
>
># cd /usr
># find . -type .... (same command)
>
>or
>
># find /etc -type f .....
>
>
>Hoping that helps
>Frank
>
>P.S. read the man pages of the find command this may help you in the future.
>
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems with starting kde
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 14:18:34 -0400
try 'kde' instead of 'startx'
==============================================================================
Christopher E. Geddings
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause,
while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
-- Wilhelm Stekel
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On Sat, 24 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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>
>
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From: The Dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: umounting cdrom
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 18:18:49 GMT
After I mount my cdrom as a user (not root) I can't eject it. What should I
do? Do I have to log as root and unmount it? (I can mount as a user but why
can't I umunt?) -- Regards The Dude
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: KDE: kmail problems
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 15:28:49 GMT
I have a problem with kmail form KDE.
When I launch kmail, I get the following error:
Server died whyleready
We are starting normally
kmail: creating missing folder 'inbox'
kmail: error while creating folder 'inbox':
Is a directory
kmail fatal error: Cannot create folder 'inbox' in /root/Mail
aborted (core dumped)
What does this mean? How can I solve this?
Is kmail an off line email reader (pop3 support)?
Please reply to my email address.
Bert
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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 12:59:08 -0700
From: Thomas Amsler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SETI@home output capture
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I am running the SETI@home program and would like to capture its output
to a file. While running the program, it prints the output to the
terminal. I tried the following:
csh> ./setiathome > foo.txt
csh< ./setiathome >& foo.txt
sh >./setiathome 2&>1 > foo.txt
None of them worked though. Once started, it just sits there with no
CPU load and nothing happens. One more thing, as the SETI people
described in their README file, I used the redirection to /dev/null,
which seemed to work.
It seems that the above program neither uses stdout or stderr for its
output handling.
The SETI@home binary can be obtained here.
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
Thank you for your help.
--
Thomas Amsler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7235124
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein
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I am running the SETI@home program and would like to capture its output
to a file. While running the program, it prints the output to the
terminal. I tried the following:
<br>csh> ./setiathome > foo.txt
<br>csh< ./setiathome >& foo.txt
<br>sh >./setiathome 2&>1 > foo.txt
<br>None of them worked though. Once started, it just sits there
with no CPU load and nothing happens. One more thing, as the SETI
people described in their README file, I used the redirection to /dev/null,
which seemed to work.
<br>It seems that the above program neither uses stdout or stderr for its
output handling.
<br>The SETI@home binary can be obtained here.
<br><A HREF="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu">http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu</A>
<br>Thank you for your help.
<pre>--
Thomas Amsler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 7235124
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein</pre>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesus Monroy, Jr.)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 11:29:24 GMT
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:27:56 -0400, Nicolas Blais
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Stephen H. Kapit" wrote:
>
>> I'm looking at a web server OS for a web hosting only system. I seem to be
>> coming down to Redhat Linux or freebsd. Can anyone comment on this for me? I
>> plan to put it on an AMD 350 scsi hd system with lots of ram. And co-locating
>> the server.
>>
>
>If you want power, use FreeBSD., but if you want a kitten with holes you can
>always get Linux. I'm allergic to cats to I user FreeBSD.
>In other words, get FreeBSD, i'll do the job plus coffee if you need it.
>
Can you explain that coffee bit? I can't seem to find
the daemon for that. ;-)
---
Any questions see:
FAQ: who is Jesus Monroy why should you care<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox)
Subject: Re: problem with playing mp3s
Date: 24 Apr 1999 20:09:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stefan Hetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
I've the same problem with x11amp, and have attributed it to not
enough oomph in the CPU department (I only have a P-100). Kmp3 on
my system plays much better then x11amp does, probably because it
doesn't have to provide that nice spectrum display :). Even so, if
the box is busy doing other things, there will be some static and/or
'pops' in the playback.
--
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David E. Fox Tax Thanks for letting me
[EMAIL PROTECTED] the change magnetic patterns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] churches on your hard disk.
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