Linux-Misc Digest #973, Volume #19 Wed, 28 Apr 99 07:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: smaller font in xemacs (Surver Netzbetrieb)
resizing "growable" partitions (Tadas Paegle)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Chris Johnson)
VMWare an higher Screenres ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to get Slackware to recognize my mouse? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dos Text Files to Linux Text Files (Jason Bond)
NFS how do I? solved (David Steuber)
MySQL binaries for Redhat 6.0 Linux ("DatabaseStud")
Netscape and Chinese (mhankins)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Jamie)
Re: Continuity (Richard Steiner)
Continuity ("J. Benjamin Hale")
Re: Log file gzipping and numbering thing ("Peter Caffin")
Re: DTC SCSI Card Problems (Matt Kuznicki)
WORDS OF WISDOM!! Upgrading RedHat 5.1 to 2.2.X Kernel (David Pendell)
linux on floppy? (Erik Ryberg)
Re: Mozilla: can't type in URL ? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Log file gzipping and numbering thing ("Peter Caffin")
Log file gzipping and numbering thing ("Peter Caffin")
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From: Surver Netzbetrieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: smaller font in xemacs
Date: 28 Apr 1999 06:18:04 GMT
Thank you very much! Thats it !!!!!
Ekkard Gerlach
Alan Wigginton wrote:
.....
emacs*font: -*-fixed-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
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From: Tadas Paegle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: resizing "growable" partitions
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:15:11 -0500
Does anyone know how to resize a growable partition in linux. I have a
full 4GB HHD dedicated to linux. Apparently I made my /opt too small.
I have kde and netscape on it now, but I want to install Sybase and it's
rpm wants to go there....my /usr/local dir have tons of room. I was
either thinking of trying to force Sybase to go to a different dir
(can't figure that out) or taking some space from /usr/local and moving
it to /opt. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Tadas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Johnson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:22:33 -0400
In article <kvsV2.13604$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:55:24 +0300, Filargiropoulos Stavros
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Well, despite what you think, communism is a great ideology.
>No doubt it's great *ideology.*
>Just so long as it stays as such, and people don't try to actually use
>it in practice...
Actually, the trouble is that capitalism truly sucks in the context of
electronic media. It's great to compete for money, but in a lot of areas
the best way to compete is to _produce_ more. In electronic media, often
the best way to compete is to _destroy_ more, and figure out ways to
penalize anybody not doing things your way. This is because the common
welfare is not a capitalistic value- it's more social than economic, and
in fact the common welfare is likely to be measurably less profitable than
greed, extortion and destruction of enemies.
For this reason, a Commie approach to software (at least in theory-
never mind historical examples of practice! o_O ) has marked advantages to
turning it over to a capitalistic ethos.
*begin Strange Metaphor Block*
In goods manufacturing, storefront operation, whatever, it's very
possible to have some people's success going along like an oxcart drawn by
a tired donkey, and other people's success zipping along like a Mercedes.
There are goods to produce, tangible supplies to manage which set sane
limits to greed and cause the business to proceed in fairly reasonable
fashion.
In electronic media, the trouble is it's all weightless and
hyper-accelerated, and the oxcart mode seems completely useless- until you
notice that what with the crazed velocity of the whole race, all the
players are spending their efforts shooting out each other's tires and
laying land mines in the road, causing horrible pollution- and such is the
nature of their industry that this is a winning tactic for them, because
virtually the _only_ pressure on them is 'who leads the race?'. Who gets
the hype, who is 'the standard', the only acceptable choice? More sane
businesses exist in a context where they produce something tangible,
finite, perhaps unglamorous- nobody thinks much about the prospects of
McDonald's destroying all other hamburger stands. People will drink Coke
and not think for a moment that they need to obliterate Pepsi from the
earth- and yet people will treat electronic media as if it's a battle for
survival and those who won't fight have to die- and by playing along with
this absurd viewpoint, they help to make it possible, and legitimise the
extensive actions by many, many electronic media companies to damage other
players in the industry.
In these circumstances, if the choices are commie oxcarts with wooden
wheels which don't do any harm, or capitalistic James Bond vehicles
throwing bombs at each other and blowing big holes in the road, it's
reasonable for anybody to conclude that gee- in a perfect world capitalism
would absolutely rock, but in the real world the problem is that it's all
too easy to make money by killing off your competitor- or sowing landmines
so they blow up if they try to follow your path.
If the only value (as in capitalism) is purely the self and absolutely
no concern is taken for either others or indeed the condition of the
environment you're in (i.e. the road), this is fine and indeed expected.
However, it's a very strange perspective for anybody to take if they have
the faintest clue or inkling that the world works through people
cooperating and exchanging things with each other, which it does.
Therefore, while communism may be a very poor way to run a society of
citizens, or establish manufacturing of goods, in an information economy
communism can be the only way to hobble competition that is destroying the
environment (a thing that leads to the loss of _all_ players).
And it would be fine to hope that capitalist competition does not
destroy the environment, but it looks like it not only destroys the
software environment, it also is tearing hell out of computer _hardware_,
for instance Compaq. It's a death spiral of intra-capitalist hostilities,
and it looks grand to the consumer until you realise that these guys are
so busy killing each other that they won't have any money or resources
left to meet the needs of consumers, or do any research and development,
or indeed manufacture things properly.
Look at the RAM market! Why are prices what they are? Because the RAM
market was pursuing cuthroat capitalism- and damned near bled to death,
shaking entire _economies_. What happened? They got together and agreed to
hold prices at certain levels and cut back on production- otherwise they
would _all_ have bled to death making chips and selling them below cost to
sell any at all because their enemies were also selling below cost etc
etc. So they chose to produce from each according to their abilities, with
prices for each according to their needs, and gave up on capitalism. Quite
communist of them, isn't it? On the other hand, they didn't all die of
financial hemorrhaging.
There are places where only communism (or socialism) will deliver
acceptable results in practice. The trick is knowing _which_ places...
Chris Johnson
@airwindows.com
chrisj
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: VMWare an higher Screenres
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 06:28:37 GMT
Hi,
i using VMware under X11, Gnome an Enlightenment. My Screenres. is 1280x1024
with 32 bit Colors and i�m not able to set any higher Res. for my VMware as
640x480 and 16 Colors. None of the SVGA-Cards in my Virtual Machine (Win98)
can do more as 640x480 with 16 Colors. I want a res. of 800x600 with 8bit
colors in the Virtual Machine. The FAQ from VMWare-Homepage tells me, i can
Run any Res. supported by my Host-System. I using an RIVA TNT 16MB (Asus) and
think there are a lot of higher Res. supported :).
Any Ideas?
best regards
Patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to get Slackware to recognize my mouse?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:19:36 GMT
I have Slackware (2.0.34) and a Microsoft "Mouse Port Compatible" mouse. I
unerstand that this is a PS2 mouse. Anyway, when I run XF86Setup and try to
use the mouse, I get no response. I tried it as a Microsoft mouse as well. I
also tried a Logitech mouse. No luck.
I noticed that the psaux module was failing, so I compiled it into the kernel.
Still no luck.
Any ideas?
I have a Gateway 133MHz.
Thanks in advance...
Bil
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dos Text Files to Linux Text Files
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 00:33:08 -0700
brian moore wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:19:04 -0700,
> Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Do any of you helpful folk out there know of a good way to
> > convert a dos text file to a linux text file? See, when I read my
> > dos text files in vi, all of the carriage returns are replaced by
> > control-m's and carriage returns....terribly annoying. Thanks
> > kindly for any help.
>
> In vi: ':%s/^V^M//' (that's what you type, anyway, you'll see
> ':%s/^M//' after typing it since the ^V is just to let you type the ^M).
>
> Of course, if you're using vim, it will remember that you loaded a DOS
> file and will put the ^M's back unless you tell it not to. See the vim
> manual, since I use vile. :)
>
> --
> 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
Thank you both...you've been quite helpful.
J-
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS how do I? solved
Date: 27 Apr 1999 20:17:37 -0400
I was pretty close. I was missing a couple zeros in my fstab and I
failed to restart a couple deamons.
Thanks to the respondants for their help.
In my /etc/fstab file on solo:
interloper:/ /interloper nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr 0 0
In my /etc/exports file on interloper:
/ solo(rw)
/lost+found (noaccess)
And I had to execute the following commands:
killall -HUP /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
killall -HUP /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
If you wish to reply by mail, _please_ replace 'trashcan' with 'david'
in the e-mail address. The trashcan account really is a trashcan.
Fine's Corollary:
Functionality breeds Contempt.
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From: "DatabaseStud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MySQL binaries for Redhat 6.0 Linux
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.databases
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 04:30:17 GMT
Does anyone know when T.c.X. is going to release RPMS built for Redhat 6.0?
I just completely redid my system for the new Redhat 6.0, and I was
wondering when they will have binary RPMS built specifically for this
distribution...
Thanks in advance. =)
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From: mhankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape and Chinese
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:52:08 -0500
I'm not sure how I did it, but the locale being used on my machine **for
netscape only** is Chinese. All of the menubars, labels, etc., come up
in Chinese. Well, I don't speak or read Chinese. There is no Netscape
file in the /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults directory, and I've checked my
XAPPLRESDIR and associated environment variables and none point to
anything which would load a Chinese locale. I've gone so far as
uninstalling and reinstalling netscape, removing my .netscape directory,
but each time the application starts, it is in Chinese.
Any ideas where this localization is coming from?
Thanks in advance
Mike Hankinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:37:58 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
< snip >
In a very real sense, we produced practically all the world's energy,
so
> the fact that we only consume about 40% of it would seem extremely
> generous. Before you point out that most oil comes from the Middle East,
> Mexico, Indonesia, etc., I'd like to remind you that until the the
> industrial world (primarily the U.S.) discovered that petroleum could be
> harnessed as an energy source capable of running an entire economy, the
The main source of energy eminating from the US is the hot air coming
from their arogant mouths. Are you really as stupid as you sound or are
you running some sort of wind up here ?
--
=======================================================
Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it wasn't me ...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Continuity
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 03:00:19 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, "J. Benjamin Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>Is there anyway to make an ext2 file system contiguous once again?
Out of curiosity, why do you want to?
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
Cthulhu for President --- don't vote for a lesser evil.
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From: "J. Benjamin Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Continuity
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 01:27:12 -0400
Is there anyway to make an ext2 file system contiguous once again?
--
J. Benjamin Hale
85 SE 16th Avenue, F203
Gainesville FL 32601-0504
352/335-6532
http://members.tripod.com/nebhale/bens_public_key.txt
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From: "Peter Caffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.users
Subject: Re: Log file gzipping and numbering thing
Date: 28 Apr 1999 08:57:37 GMT
Esa Tikka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 28 Apr 1999 06:23:31 GMT, Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Okay, I feel a bit silly asking this, but, what process is gzipping and
>>numbering my log files in /var/log/? It's really quite annoying and I'd
>>like to find out how to disable this "feature" (single long flat text log
>>files are fine, thankyouverymuch).
> (supposing you're using RH or similar distribution)
Yup. A package managed system; Debian 2.0.
> Try editing /etc/logrotate.conf and edit the options as you like.
There isn't a file of that name. The only thing similar in name is the
`rotatelogs` executable, from Apache.
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From: Matt Kuznicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DTC SCSI Card Problems
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 05:14:40 -0400
DV8MCSE wrote:
>
> I've got a DTC 3510A SCSI card that is supposed to be compatible with the
> AHA152x mod. I've tried adding append="aha152x=0x340,10,7,1" to the
> lilo.conf, I've tried passing the same thing in at boot time (although I'm
> not sure I did that correctly), and I've combed through everything I can
> find. DTC tech support says that it will work, I just have to add the above
> to the LILO.CONF or pass it at boot time. I've checked everywhere to see if
> I can find any IRQ conflicts and can find none. This is the error that I'm
> getting..
>
> Aha152x: Bios test passed, detected one controller
> Aha152x0: vital data; PORTABASE=0x340, IRQ=10, SCSI ID =7, reconnect=enabled,
> parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
> Aha152x: Trying software interrupt, lost.
> Aha152x: Irq10 possibly wrong. Please verify
> SCSI0: Adaptec 152x scsi driver; $Revision 1.18$
Hello,
I had a DTC 3520A which worked perfectly well. Your error message
above is key: my 3520A, at least, and most other 152x clones, are
preset for IRQ 11, not 10. So if you didn't diddle with the jumpers and
change that, I'd change the LILO line to read
'append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" '.
If you did change it to IRQ 10, is there something else in your system
that's snagging it? If you have a PnP BIOS, make sure that you have IRQ
10 set to "ISA/manual" or it's equivalent.
Hope this helps.
Matt
--
Matt Kuznicki -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"With the millennium bug fast approaching we've started to save a few
letters
by referring to the year 2000 as "Y2K". Isn't that the sort of thinking
that created the bug in the first place?"
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:56:27 -0500
From: David Pendell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: WORDS OF WISDOM!! Upgrading RedHat 5.1 to 2.2.X Kernel
RedHat has created an interesting problem in upgrading RH 5.1 to the
2.2.X kernel.
(This information is based on the assumption that RedHat automatically
install the shadow utilities. If I am wrong on this point someone please
correct me.)
In order to upgrade to the 2.2.X kernel you need a recent version of the
util-linux suite of programs. This includes some login utilities. Since
RadHat automatically includes the shadow utilities you select this
option in the MCONFIG file (as well as enabling PAM). This has the
effect of NOT compiling the login program that come with the package as
it is not shadow aware.
The RedHat RPMS that come with 5.1 however HAVE A SHADOW ENABLED login
IN THE PACKAGE. This program should be in the Shadow suite.
When the RH 5.1 util-linux RPM is untinstalled the shadow login goes
with it. When you try to login nothing will happen and you will be stuck
at the login prompt, forcing you to reboot and login into single user
mode.
SOLUTION: Make SURE that you get the latest version of the shadow
utilities. This package has a shadow aware login program in it.
I got mine from the following location.
ftp://i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/linux/shadow/shadow-current.tar.gz
This would not bother me much except that RedHat has chosen NOT to
support 5.1 anymore. (The RPMS for the 2.2.X upgrade are for 5.2 ONLY.)
This means that anyone who wants to upgrade has to do it manually and
will run into this problem.
You have been warned.
d.p.
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From: Erik Ryberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux on floppy?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 23:13:26 -0700
Hello,
I have been unsuccessful in my search for linux on 3" floppy. Several
web sites advertise that it is easily available but I have not found
this to be so. Can anyone point me to a source? I cannot download to
my computer and it has no cd drive.
Thanks.
Erik Ryberg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Mozilla: can't type in URL ?
Date: 28 Apr 1999 08:41:14 GMT
**Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, Debian is not known for being super-up-to-date on the latest
>versions, but even their "unstable" section has the same version.
It was the last version I could build on a "slink" system; newer versions
required libgtk versions that were only available in "unstable".
After that, Mozilla has been ignored for some time (as it is an intimidating
piece of software to maintain). Recently, a couple of people showed interest
in producing up to date Mozilla packages. Their current work is available
via http://www.debian.org/~joy/mozilla/ ; presumably it will get placed in
the "unstable" tree soon.
Ray
--
Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.
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From: "Peter Caffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Log file gzipping and numbering thing
Date: 28 Apr 1999 09:18:27 GMT
Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip: trying to kill off log rotation and archiving under Debian]
Found it. My /etc/cron.monthly/standard contains a group of statements
using `savelog` (which I've just commented out). Hopefully, that should
do the trick :).
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From: "Peter Caffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.users
Subject: Log file gzipping and numbering thing
Date: 28 Apr 1999 06:23:31 GMT
Okay, I feel a bit silly asking this, but, what process is gzipping and
numbering my log files in /var/log/? It's really quite annoying and I'd
like to find out how to disable this "feature" (single long flat text log
files are fine, thankyouverymuch).
I checked files in /var/spool/cron/ and below for `gzip` but didn't find
anything. Where else should I be looking?
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