Linux-Misc Digest #952, Volume #19 Mon, 26 Apr 99 01:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: How do I connect to Internet with Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cron.hourly redirecting ("Daniel Gooderidge")
Re: Software Compilation Question????? ("David Z. Maze")
Re: Software Compilation Question????? (brian moore)
Re: A file manager that I've always wanted (burk)
Its SPAM. (jik-)
Netscape: get flagged mail in newsgroup (Ekkard Gerlach)
smaller font in xemacs (Ekkard Gerlach)
Problem with the Qt GUI application (Jason Bond)
Re: 2.2.6 ppp problem (Kumar Vijayaratnam)
How do I connect to Internet with Linux? ("Dennis Jensen")
corrupted shared library? (spacechimp)
Re: Cdrdao problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Cdrdao problems (Arcady Genkin)
Re: Getting GIMP and StarOffice to coexist (Paul Kimoto)
Re: How do I connect to Internet with Linux? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Linux Sucks as a Java Server, comments??? (XuYifeng)
Re: Next Redhat Linux Release (Monte Milanuk)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How do I connect to Internet with Linux?
Date: 26 Apr 1999 09:50:57 +0800
>
> How do I connect to Internet with Linux?
>
> From: "Dennis Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply to: "Dennis Jensen"
> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:45:02 -0400
> Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services
> Newsgroups:
> comp.os.linux.misc
> Followup to: newsgroup(s)
>I just got Red Hat 5.2 today and want to connect to the internet but don't
>now how to. Can anyone help?
if u want details -- see the /usr/doc/HOWTO for the PPP or ISP stuff
if u want to 'do' it -- u could use kppp ( 1st u need KDE) or wvdial. if u don't have
them, use netcfg.
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From: "Daniel Gooderidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: at.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: cron.hourly redirecting
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:05:14 +1000
Thanks, Permission's did the trick.
Thanks for the prompt reply.
Regards
Daniel Gooderidge
Gerry Marthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Daniel Gooderidge wrote:
>
> > Hi Guy's,
> >
> > Is it possible to echo "hello world" > /dev/tty1 within a script.
> >
> > It works from the /etc/crontab file but does not through a script within
the
> > /etc/cron.hourly directory.
> >
> > Any Ideas..
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Daniel Gooderidge
>
> That should be possible as far as I know, but check on the write
permissions;
> if you are
> not logged on /dev/tty1 you will not have write permission.
>
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Software Compilation Question?????
Date: 25 Apr 1999 22:22:41 -0400
Shaun Schembri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SS> I was wondering if I could get more performance from a piece of
SS> software if I compile it from source instead of installing it from
SS> a pre-compiled package. Is this true, will you get more
SS> performance?
Well...possibly. You could, in theory, use a C compiler that had
specific optimizations for your CPU. But these optimizations are
negligible compared most of the other stuff that your typical
optimizing C compiler (e.g. gcc) does. You also lose the advantages
of having a package-managed system unless you rebuild the package.
I'd claim that, for the average user, the effort required to build a
Pentium-optimized binary outweighs the performance gain you'd get.
(Compare download, unpack, configure, build, install to 'apt-get
install package' on a Debian machine, for example. And good luck if
you ever want to remove the installed package, which will now probably
involve tracking down every file included in the package by hand and
rm'ing it.)
SS> And would it be more stable?
No, since every correct compiler should produce functionally
equivalent code. gcc 2.7.2 is very good about producing "correct"
code; recent versions of EGCS and pgcc have the required
hardware-specific optimizations but are less good about producing
"correct" output.
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
"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] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Software Compilation Question?????
Date: 25 Apr 1999 22:15:26 GMT
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:07:59 +0200,
Shaun Schembri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was wondering if I could get more performance from a piece of software
> if I compile it from source instead of installing it from a pre-compiled
> package. Is this true, will you get more performance? And would it be
> more stable?
Possibly: your compiler may optimize better for your CPU than whoever
packaged the program. (ie, they may optimize for i386 when you have a
PII... or vice versa!)
Will it matter? Not likely: most programs are IO bound, not CPU bound.
You're not going to see your speed double, even in extreme cases. You'll
get a few percentage points faster on a CPU bound process. That may
matter for things like xmame, but won't matter a whit for things like
your mail client.
--
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: burk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A file manager that I've always wanted
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 01:34:24 GMT
In article <7fql99$hlu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes it exists... it is included with the Redhat 5.x distros... I can't say for
> certain about the other distros.
>
What's it called? I've obviously missed it.
-burk
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - No Spam Please!
My Linux File Manager Page: http://www.pobox.com/~burk/LinuxFile.html
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 16:11:02 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Its SPAM.
The cost of the CD-ROM is $19.95 plus $3.00
> shipping and handling for the U.S. (I don't know the shipping costs for
> overseas). Payment can be in U.S. dollars (although mailing cash is generally a
> bad idea), personal checks in U.S. dollars, money orders in U.S. dollars,
> cashier's checks in U.S. dollars, or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American
> Express, or Discover). Credit card payments will be processed by WebPrecision,
> a for-profit company.
Fuck me, I thought this was an honest request for help only to find out
at the end its a fucking SPAM slam.
$3.00 shipping for a CD is rediculous, and testers don't PAY for the
privilage of finding all the bugs in your software.
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape: get flagged mail in newsgroup
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:21:58 +0000
Hello,
how can I get the mails I have flagged ?
I have downloaded the headers. After I have cut the ppp-connection.
After I have flagged the mails I want to read. How can I tell Netscape
to download all flagged mails ?
Thank you
Ekkard
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: smaller font in xemacs
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:18:01 +0000
Hello,
how can I get smaller font in xemacs ? I can't find the configuration
parameter.
Thank you.
Ekkard
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with the Qt GUI application
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:34:21 -0700
I have installed the file qt-1.42-3rh51.i386.rpm on my
Red Hate 5.2.2 kernel and when I try to compile programs
they can't seem to find it. Usually the programs are looking
for Qt 1.4 (instead of 1.42). Should I download 1.4 and install
that as well? Thanks much in advance,
Jason
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From: Kumar Vijayaratnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.6 ppp problem
Date: 26 Apr 1999 03:32:23 GMT
I had the same problem. It seems that the kernel is not loading the
bsd_comp and the ppp-deflate modules. You can modprobe these modules
manually before starting the ppp deamon. Check to see that
/lib/modules/2.2.6/net contains these modules.
Kumar
XuYifeng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just have upgraded kernel from 2.2.5 to 2.2.6, and found ppp daemon
> always
> log some strange text:
> ----------------------
> Apr 25 18:52:15 xu chat[406]: send (yfD6t^M)
> Apr 25 18:52:15 xu pppd[405]: Serial connection established.
> Apr 25 18:52:16 xu pppd[405]: Using interface ppp0
> Apr 25 18:52:16 xu pppd[405]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
> Apr 25 18:52:18 xu modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
> Apr 25 18:52:18 xu modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26
> Apr 25 18:52:18 xu modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
> Apr 25 18:52:19 xu pppd[405]: not replacing existing default route to
> eth0 [192.168.199.254]
> Apr 25 18:52:19 xu pppd[405]: local IP address 202.109.56.213
> Apr 25 18:52:19 xu pppd[405]: remote IP address 202.109.15.45
> ----------------------
>
> could anyone help me to fix this problem, it seems ppp speed is slower
> than before.
> any help will be appreciated,
> ---
> XuYifeng
>
>
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From: "Dennis Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I connect to Internet with Linux?
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:45:02 -0400
I just got Red Hat 5.2 today and want to connect to the internet but don't
now how to. Can anyone help?
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From: spacechimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: corrupted shared library?
Date: 21 Apr 1999 23:32:21 GMT
Help!
I grabbed a bunch of KDE libraries from a public FTP site (they were
supposedly RH 5.2 versions) while trying to compile some KDE app or other.
I think it was viewfax.
When i ran make, it complained about a missing .h file (kkeyconf.h), so I
FTPSearched for it and grabbed it along with all the .h's in the same
folder for good measure. I put them in /usr/local/kde/include and make
still didn't find it, so I went to /usr/include and ran:
ln -s /usr/local/kde/include/* ./* to make sure they were visible to make.
Unfortunately, I was root at the time, so I think it overwrote some
important libraries in /usr/include with the symlinks. All of a sudden, I
couldn't ls - I got "Reading from corrupted shared library." So I rebooted,
now I can't even get a boot prompt - same error message comes up and system
freezes during boot. I can't even get to a shell to dmesg or anything.
I don't even know where to begin to fix this. Someone please help?
BTW, it's RedHat 5.2, kernel 2.2.6.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cdrdao problems
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 04:03:00 GMT
Hi Arcady,
I'm just a newbie to Linux, but in my efforts to get my Yamaha CDRW to
record in windows 95 I came accross the following web site
http://www.elektroson.com/
which is the site for the GEAR CD and DVD recording software.
It is a commercial programme, but you can download a 30 day fully
funcyioning free trial, and they have a version for Unix, which should
work on Linux I believe.
The software works great in Windows with my recorder, wherwas Adaptec
Easy Cd Deluxe kept having Buffer Under runs.
They also list all CDR's that work with their software.
Check it out, it might help you determine whether your CD recorder
works with Linux or not.
Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:10:58 GMT, Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>I have a SCSI Panasonic 7502b CDR-drive. I've been fighting the whole
>day to burn a copy of an audio CD, and am ready to give up. :(
>The drive happily extracts audio at x8 and writes at x4 under Windows.
>
>I'm using Slink and uninstalled all cdr tools, that came with it, and
>compiled myself the newest versions.
>
>cdrdao won't work with "read-cd" command. It says:
>
># cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/sg0 cd.toc
>/dev/sg0: MATSHITA CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 4.17
>Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 1.0 (data) (options 0x0000)
>Reading toc and audio data...
>ERROR: Sorry, this driver does not support reading audio data from CD.
>
>But I am able to read the disk into a .wav with cdparanoia. I then did
>the following: read the cd into data.wav with cdparanoia. Then read
>TOC with cdrdao with command "read-toc". So far so good. Then I tried
>to simulate write. As you can guess, it didn't work. Also, after the
>attempt, my CDR's "BUSY" LED stayed lit, and I can't eject the blank
>CDR or do anything with the drive. Below are the error messages that
>cdrdao produced. Can you please advise what I can do to get this thing
>working? I have seen a report of the same drive working with cdrdao,
>so I guess I am doing smth wrong. (FWIW, the SCSI adapter is
>QlogicISP, and the kernel is 2.2.6, with SCSI support compiled as
>modules, including support for generic SCSI devices).
>
># cdrdao simulate --device /dev/sg0 --speed 4 --datafile data.wav cd.toc
>/dev/sg0: MATSHITA CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 4.17
>Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 1.0 (data) (options 0x0000)
>
>Starting write simulation at speed 4...
>Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort.
>Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\).
>Using POSIX real time scheduling.
>cdrdao: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: retryable error
>CDB: 2A 00 FF FF FF 6A 00 00 0D 00
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 4E 00 00 00
>Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0
>Sense Code: 0x4E Qual 0x00 (overlapped commands attempted) Fru 0x0
>Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>cmd finished after 30.145s timeout 180s
>ERROR: Write data failed.
>cdrdao: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: retryable error
>CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 4E 00 00 00
>Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0
>Sense Code: 0x4E Qual 0x00 (overlapped commands attempted) Fru 0x0
>Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>cmd finished after 0.065s timeout 180s
>Warning: Flush cache failed - ignored. Your disk will be OK.
>ERROR: Simulation failed.
>cdrdao: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: retryable error
>CDB: 1E 00 00 00 00 00
>status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
>Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 4E 00 00 00
>Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0
>Sense Code: 0x4E Qual 0x00 (overlapped commands attempted) Fru 0x0
>Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
>cmd finished after 0.061s timeout 180s
>ERROR: Cannot prevent/allow medium removal.
>
>--
>Arcady Genkin
>"I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Cdrdao problems
From: Arcady Genkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 00:10:58 GMT
Hi all:
I have a SCSI Panasonic 7502b CDR-drive. I've been fighting the whole
day to burn a copy of an audio CD, and am ready to give up. :(
The drive happily extracts audio at x8 and writes at x4 under Windows.
I'm using Slink and uninstalled all cdr tools, that came with it, and
compiled myself the newest versions.
cdrdao won't work with "read-cd" command. It says:
# cdrdao read-cd --device /dev/sg0 cd.toc
/dev/sg0: MATSHITA CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 4.17
Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 1.0 (data) (options 0x0000)
Reading toc and audio data...
ERROR: Sorry, this driver does not support reading audio data from CD.
But I am able to read the disk into a .wav with cdparanoia. I then did
the following: read the cd into data.wav with cdparanoia. Then read
TOC with cdrdao with command "read-toc". So far so good. Then I tried
to simulate write. As you can guess, it didn't work. Also, after the
attempt, my CDR's "BUSY" LED stayed lit, and I can't eject the blank
CDR or do anything with the drive. Below are the error messages that
cdrdao produced. Can you please advise what I can do to get this thing
working? I have seen a report of the same drive working with cdrdao,
so I guess I am doing smth wrong. (FWIW, the SCSI adapter is
QlogicISP, and the kernel is 2.2.6, with SCSI support compiled as
modules, including support for generic SCSI devices).
# cdrdao simulate --device /dev/sg0 --speed 4 --datafile data.wav cd.toc
/dev/sg0: MATSHITA CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 4.17
Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 1.0 (data) (options 0x0000)
Starting write simulation at speed 4...
Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort.
Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\).
Using POSIX real time scheduling.
cdrdao: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 FF FF FF 6A 00 00 0D 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 4E 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x4E Qual 0x00 (overlapped commands attempted) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 30.145s timeout 180s
ERROR: Write data failed.
cdrdao: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 4E 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x4E Qual 0x00 (overlapped commands attempted) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.065s timeout 180s
Warning: Flush cache failed - ignored. Your disk will be OK.
ERROR: Simulation failed.
cdrdao: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 1E 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 0B 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 4E 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x4E Qual 0x00 (overlapped commands attempted) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.061s timeout 180s
ERROR: Cannot prevent/allow medium removal.
--
Arcady Genkin
"I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Getting GIMP and StarOffice to coexist
Date: 26 Apr 1999 00:23:23 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Olson wrote:
> In order to install gimp 1.0.4 it was necessary to install glibc-2.1.1.
> My thought was that this way the old libraries would still be available
> for StarOffice, but no luck. StarOffice would not launch
Apparently StarOffice uses glibc-2.0.x and only glibc-2.0.x.
Probably you will have to choose. (Or could you compile
your own gimp under a glibc-2.0.7 environment?)
(Oh, I hear that you can run glibc-2.0.x and glibc-2.1 on the same
system if one is running in a chroot environment, but who wants to
do that?)
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: How do I connect to Internet with Linux?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 02:48:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:45:02 -0400, "Dennis Jensen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just got Red Hat 5.2 today and want to connect to the internet but don't
>now how to. Can anyone help?
>
>
I could write a hundred pages here describing how to get you on to the
internet, but... would you read them. I'd guess no, because you apparently
haven't read any of the documentation that comes with your system that
describes exactly this point.
Go away and read the Net3 howto, the PPP howto, and the ISP Hookup howto.
Configure your system accordingly, and connect to the internet.
If you have any problems or questions after you have done all this, please
come back and ask.
Lew Pitcher
JOAT-in-training
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From: XuYifeng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Sucks as a Java Server, comments???
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 08:48:08 +0800
Java is dead, 1 or 2 years ago, everyone said that java will be running on
any desktop --- write once and run anywhere.
but now, SUN moves java to serve side.
so I think java is dead, who will use java in server side? server should be
speed sharp, java is slow
whatever how you implement it, it cannot compete with C/C++, java is dead.
---
XuYifeng
buz wrote:
> freeBSD is even worse
> comments??
>
> http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?vc=docid_9-123781.html
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Next Redhat Linux Release
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:54:20 -0600
Supposedly RH 6.0 is coming Monday, Apr 26. SuSE 6.1 is supposed to
debut on May 3rd.
Monte
Les Clark wrote:
>
> I heard that that the next Redhat release of Linux, Redhat 6.0, will be
> released on May 3, 1999. Can anyone confirm this date?
--
Food for thought...
" This year will go down in history. For the first time,
a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our
streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the
world will follow our lead into the future!"
- Adolph Hitler, 1935
Something about those who refuse to learn from the past
are condemned to relive it comes to mind.
Monte Milanuk
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