Linux-Misc Digest #955, Volume #19 Mon, 26 Apr 99 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
cdrdao (jik-)
Re: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone recieved their CD yet? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code (Donal K.
Fellows)
Re: Shared calendar solution for Linux? (Gordon Hunt)
How to log a telnet session ? ("Francois-Xavier LEBLOND")
Re: Netscape Plug-In To Display MS-Word (DOC) Files? (Paul McGaughey)
Re: memory usage of KDE (ANDREW R. POST)
system(3) and exec(3) question (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: Newbie: Learning Linux And Databases (Robert Wuest)
changing BOOT scripts (benjamin)
Re: HELP! Having Trouble Installing "tar" and "gz" Files (Mark Howson)
Cheyenne ARCServe Open Client for Linux (You friendly system administress ;-)))
Re: Redhat 6.0... Coming tomorrow?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Need help setting up a remote X-term. ("Matthew B. Kennedy")
Re: Answering the phone (Alexei Kakhno)
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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 04:13:55 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrdao
I also am having problems with cdrdao, if anyone knows how to fix this I
would really like to know.
I got the toc from the CD with cdrdao read-toc and then ripped with
cdparanoia. I get this error when running cdrdao write:
ERROR: Requested length (9111648 + 7495236 samples) exceeds length of
file 'track02.cdda.wav' (7495236 samples).
FATAL ERROR: Toc file 'jimi.toc' is inconsistent - exiting.
The track is labeled in the toc as:
TRACK AUDIO
NO COPY
NO PRE_EMPHASIS
TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
ISRC "USMC19442369"
FILE "track02.cdda.wav" 03:26:45 02:49:72
The track is actually 02:49:71 according to cdparanoia, but adjusting
the entry to show this does not help, nor does editing the starting
position of the next entry.
I get these errors when reading the toc....
ERROR: SCSI command failed:
ERROR: sense key 0x2: NOT READY.
ERROR: additional sense code: 0x4
ERROR: additional sense code qualifier: 0x1
ERROR: Cannot get catalog number.
The first track got read and the second started and I left to watch
TV...not sure were it failed, but it is beyond the scope of my xterm
scroll. Track 1 and 2 have ISRC in the toc, the rest do not. It seems
to take a very long time to get a simple index from a CD....is this a
bug or just something that happens?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.databases,linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone recieved their CD yet?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:31:31 GMT
On 24 Apr 1999 00:12:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony
Smolar) wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 03:40:23 GMT, Mark A. Scarton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>I took _major_ umbrage with one of their speaker's indication that Oracle was
>>now in charge of the technical direction of Linux,
>
>Wow! In what context was that remark made?
In the context of Orable being ignorant, arrogant suppliers of crap
"database software" that runs best on a 35mm slide projector.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Criminally Insane Programmers Are Attracted To Open Source Code
Date: 26 Apr 1999 12:41:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joshua E. Rodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The opposite also occasionally happens; an XY child can be under
> certain conditions in the mother which prevent the androgens from
> performing their function properly which results in a female child,
> developing as a normal female (only diff. would be the
> aforementioned sex-linked genetic disorders).
There is one other difference - a higher rate of miscarriage since YY
is not genetically viable IIRC. This might not be noticeable though,
since I think the failure would happen at a very early stage.
Sex has pretty much nothing to do with X and Y chromosomes - that's
just where some of the relevant genes are located.
Donal.
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Donal K. Fellows http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- The small advantage of not having California being part of my country would
be overweighed by having California as a heavily-armed rabid weasel on our
borders. -- David Parsons <o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s>
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From: Gordon Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shared calendar solution for Linux?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:40:08 GMT
There is a new, free Web-based calendar system available that is very
intuitive. It's designed for groups, but supports personal calendars
also. You can post a message to your personal calendar and elect to
simultaneously post the message to the group calendar. You needn't
"become a member" either. It also supports e-mail reminders. Why put
up with the poor user interface and complex sys. admin. demands of
Netscape Calendar when there is a free alternative?
Check it out: http://www.huntcal.com/
Regards,
Gordon Hunt
In article <36fe6d52.89682869@news>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Edick) wrote:
> I'd avoid Netscape Calendar server. We tried a rollout where I work
> and it flubbed. Communicator Pro isn't free by the way. The calendar
> software (both client and server) are licensed from a 3rd party
> company and they have to pay license fees on it. In fact, the major
> difference between Communicator and Communicator Pro is the calendar
> client and the license fee. Coming from an organization that has a
> significant commitment in Netscape server software (we run their web,
> mail, and ldap servers as well), I've found their calendar server to
> be a MAJOR disappointment. The calendar support and development teams
> appear to be completely asleep at the wheel.
>
> Having done a lot of research in this area, I'm rather disappointed
> overall. This is a very common area of interest, but very little work
> has been done on software for shared calendaring. Virtually nothing
> at all has been done in the way of open source shared calendaring.
> All the efforts I've seen to date were just personal calendars that
> allowed multiple users.
>
> Someone else on here recommended the CrossWind product. If the
> requirement of purchasing and distributing client software is
> acceptable, I'd concur with that recommendation.
>
> On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 23:32:12 GMT, Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> You might want to check out Netscape Calendar Server. They were
> planning
> a port to Linux, if I remember right. It uses Communicator Pro (free)
> as
> the client and resembles apps such as Exchange and Groupwise, but it
> is
> more oriented towards open standards.
>
> Gene
>
> Cameron Spitzer wrote:
> >
> > My organization is on the verge of abandoning POP and SMTP for
> > Microsoft Exchange Server. It turns out the reason is the management
> > wants a shared calendar and appointment system, and Exchange is
> > the only solution our MIS department is aware of.
> >
> > Everybody in the company has a Web browser on their desk.
> > Our telecommuters and globetrotters connect to the office through
> > a VPN client, and can see Web servers on the company network.
> > We have a hundred users now, and the system might eventuallly have to
> > support perhaps two thousand.
> >
> > Is there a shared calendar and appointment book application out there,
> > ready to use, that I could put up on Apache-on-Linux in my office?
> > If so, I think we'd use it.
> >
> > Reply to cls (at) truffula.sj.ca.us if you don't want to post.
> >
> > TIA!
> >
> > Cameron
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Gene Wilburn, Northern Journey Online, http://www.interlog.com/~njo
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --
> /Dave Edick/ dedick at home dot com.
> or remove the hates.spam part from the header
>
>
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From: "Francois-Xavier LEBLOND" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: How to log a telnet session ?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:24:03 +0200
Hello,
I want to log automatically in a file all my telnet sessions. Somebody has
told me to look in /etc/syslog.conf, but for the moment I've just manage to
log authentification messsages, and not the complete work I've done in my
sessions ...
Thanks
FX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul McGaughey)
Subject: Re: Netscape Plug-In To Display MS-Word (DOC) Files?
Date: 26 Apr 1999 13:02:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe Sun has something? For Solaris 2.6 we use /opt/SUNWdtpcv/bin/sdtpcv %s
to view word,excel, powerpoint, or 123 documents. You can view but not print..
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ANDREW R. POST)
Subject: Re: memory usage of KDE
Date: 26 Apr 1999 13:43:39 GMT
I was amazed by how much memory kde and its apps take up. The window
manager itself takes up over 4MB of memory. Kvt also takes up 4.5MB per
instance. Rxvt, on which Kvt is based, only consumes about 800KB (that's
about 1/5 the memory consumption). Kedit takes up about a megabyte more
than nedit, which is a Motif application that is far more powerful.
So, if Motif bothers you because it is a memory hog, don't bother with
QT applications or KDE. I'm curious to see how GNOME compares, but I'll
probably wait a few more months for it to get more stable.
Andrew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Is it right that KDE uses a lot of memory?
: I use an AMD 486DX4-100 with 32mb and a 4mb s3 virge dx videocard.
: KDE is terribly slow.
: Please replt to my email address
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: system(3) and exec(3) question
Date: 26 Apr 1999 09:52:41 GMT
Hi,
I'm new to system calls. My program needs to launch another one and then
either quit or wait for more input based on some option. I would also like
to check that the commands do succeed. With system(3) this seems (to me)
unfeasible: if I system() a valid command or a bogus one (e.g.
sdfgsdfgsdfg) I alwyas get a return value of 0 and errno unmodified (I
suppose because the _shell_ execution succeds). If I use execvp(3) I can
detect the error but not get control back to the program if that's needed.
Should I use fork()/exec()? Any suggestion appreciated.
thanks, Stefano
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From: Robert Wuest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie: Learning Linux And Databases
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:54:34 +0000
Rupinder wrote:
>
> ***** This is the scenario:
>
> I'm a student... I can afford Linux :)
> And I know there are some good free and cheap databases out there for
> Linux.
[snip]
> What would be the best way to learn everything I need to know about
> Linux to administer this box - QUICKLY. I need to learn FAST... any
> suggestion for good ADVANCED books?>
If you really want to learn Linux well and learn it fast. Get a PC and
a copy of slackware. Do not sleep until it is up and running. Then, do
it again.
[snip]
Robert - who learned more from installing Slackware
10 times in 2 days than in the 5 years since.
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From: benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: changing BOOT scripts
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:55:28 +0200
Hello ,
I want to add two things in my boot scripts:
1) A perl script that regularly updates my dns. I think i have to add a
line in /etc/ppp/ip-up. But in this file it is said to change the file
ip-up.local Do i need to create such a file ? And then , where do i put
it ?
2) I want that the DAEMON *sshd2* runs at boot. So, i was thinking
about adding a line in /etc/inetd.conf, but i don't know the options
needed there:
<service_name> <sock_type> <proto> <flags> <user> <server_path>
<args>
Thank you for helping.
Benjamin.
Runing Linux Kernel 2.2.4
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark Howson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! Having Trouble Installing "tar" and "gz" Files
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:01:18 +0100
"Roy A. McCoy" wrote:
> I guess I'm a bit confused about installing programs that come in the "tar" or
> "gz" format. I tried tonight and it was a disaster. Tried two programs and the
Assuming you're trying to decompress something in .tgz or .tar.gz
format, the easiest way is:
tar xvzf your_archive.tgz
The 'z' option tells tar to use gzip automatically. Mostly, source code
is tarred (creating an uncompressed collection of files), than the tar
archive is gzipped to provide some compression; anything ending in
.tar.gz or .tgz is probably a tar/gzip archive of this sort. This (in my
limited experience) is more common than a plain .tar or .gz file.
You can, of course, use 'gunzip archive.gz' then 'tar xvf archive' to
decompress in two stages. If you haven't already, try 'info tar' and
'info gunzip' for documentation. The above tar command should work
though.
> uncompressing went OK. Saw tons of files names scrolling by on the screen but
> when I finished and typed "ls", there were only two files in the directory, the
> original file with the "gz" extension and another file without the extension.
The file without the extension could well be your tar file - did you
use:
gunzip <archive>
on your original source archive?
> What happened to all the other files? I spent quite a while looking for them
> but without success. Does the program create its own directory? If so, how do
> I find it?
Usually they'll create a directory for you, so that:
tar xvzf my-program-0.15.tgz
will create an archive named 'my-program', or something similar, in the
current directory.
> Whenever I try to compile a program and type "./configure", I always get an
> error message that says "No such file or directory." How do I ever install
> programs?
It does sound like you haven't installed the source archives properly.
Try 'ls' again and make sure you see a file called 'configure'. Oh,
often there are 'INSTALL' or 'README' files provided in the archive
giving tips on how to compile.
> Please help. I'm just about ready to give up on Linux.
Don't give up yet :)
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (You friendly system administress ;-)))
Subject: Cheyenne ARCServe Open Client for Linux
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:58:34 GMT
Hi!
I'm using SUSE Linux 6.0 and SCO-Unix ARCServe Open. I found a Linux
client on Cheyennes homepage, that runs under Linux, but when I try to
connect from the SCO machine, I cannot log in. I've got the feeling,
that the cleint doesn't know how to handle shadow passwords. Any
idea??
Ciao!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... Coming tomorrow??
Date: 26 Apr 1999 12:17:39 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rene) writes:
>
>
> On Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:02:39 +0200, Jonte Regnell wrote:
> >Well today Sunday when I went to the Redhat site and clicked on the 5.2
> >box in the upper right corner.. I got a page saying comming monday and a
> >white box... so 6.0 might be coming around the corner faster the most of
> >us anticipated.
> >
> >/Jonte
>
> Well I for one am ready for it !
As always, I'll wait for 6.1, other than 2.2 kernal, what else is new?
--
Tom Evans
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From: "Matthew B. Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Need help setting up a remote X-term.
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 16:44:02 +0000
Greetings Linux and X users,
I am using RH Linux 5.2. What I am having trouble with is setting up a
connection from my Linux machine at home to a remote computer at work in
order to use X remote applications from home. The idea is that I will
use my local Linux X server to get allow me to use all the graphical X
applications on the remote computer.
I can't find any real specific documentation on how to to this, but this
is what I have tried:
1. I connect to the network using PPP (this all works -- I can access
other services such mail and WWW for instance).
2. Then I telnet to the remote machine using "telnet
remote-machine.qut.edu.au" from my xterm prompt in Linux. I can get in
alright under text mode.
3. Once in the remote machine under telnet, I set the DISPLAY variable
to be the (dynamically allocated) IP address of my local machine)
followed by :0.0 (eg. export DISPLAY=131.181.123.456:0.0). Note, I get
the local IP address information by running traceroute -- is there a
better/ more direct way?
4. Then I run a graphical X application like xemacs. And it just hangs
at the prompt.
I have tried using the local "xhost" command to add
remote-machine.qut.edu.au. But this doesn't seem to make much of a
difference either.
Note that I have previously been able to connect and access these X
programs on the remote computer under windows using X server emulator
like MIX and Xcursion. The technique was similar -- login with telnet,
configure the DISPLAY variable on the remote machine and then fire up
the X server emulator.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I thought using the
dinki-di X server that comes with Linux would make it a breeze --
obviously I'm doing something simple wrong...
Thanks,
Matthew
--
Matthew B. Kennedy
Queensland University of Technology
Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexei Kakhno)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Answering the phone
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:50:45 GMT
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 18:13:29 +0200, "Gert Veldhuis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]%> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am builing my PPP server, but how can I make it possible that the modem
>answer when the line rung 6 times. At this moment the modem is answering the
>line after only one ring.
>
>Thank you in advance!
>Regards,
>Gert Veldhuis
>The Netherlands
>
>
/etc/inittab:
S0:23456:respawn:/sbin/getty -d /etc/conf.ugetty cua0 DT38400 vt220
~~~~
/etc/conf.ugetty:
ALTLOCK=cua0
ALTLINE=cua0
# line to initialize
INITLINE=cua0
# timeout to disconnect if idle...
TIMEOUT=120
# modem initialization string...
# format: <expect> <send> ... (chat sequence)
LOGIN=/bin/login
ISSUE=/etc/issue
INIT="" AT\r OK\r\n ATS9=15S0=1\r OK\r\n
WAITFOR=RING
# this line sets the time to delay before sending the login banner
DELAY=30
~~~
may be these lines that above will help you.
Best regards, Alexei, Russia
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