Linux-Misc Digest #49, Volume #20 Tue, 4 May 99 00:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: ACL (Christopher Browne)
INN : file size default ("Brian Kachel")
Getting rid of a RPM (Mike Rego)
Re: Win98 and Linux Dual Boot (Jeremy Weinberger)
Sorry that should be cabletron e22xx with an "n" :) ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ())
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Jim Richardson)
Re: Getting rid of a RPM (Sean Yamamoto)
Re: Mac-emulation on Linux? (Rick)
Re: WordStar (or equiv.) on LINUX? (J. Otto Tennant)
Re: Linux's Last Chance ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: SETI@home output capture (Thomas Amsler)
Re: Printing on an Epson Stylus 400 (Rod Smith)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (LEBLANC ERIC)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: ACL
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 02:27:12 GMT
On 3 May 1999 09:47:32 GMT, Andreas Moroder
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>is there a way to have ACL on Linux ( if possible with the ext2fs )
Sure. Franz does have a port of ACL to Linux, and version is "freely
available for some purposes."
See: <http://www.franz.com>
--
"Now, if someone proposed using people who spam comp.sys.* groups with
political screeds in place of lab rats for drug testing, I'd
wholeheartedly concur". -- John C. Randolph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/langlisp.html>
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From: "Brian Kachel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: INN : file size default
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 21:06:50 -0400
Has anyone come across a problem with the INN v 1.7.2 that comes compiled on
Redhat 5.2 that does not allow the server to receive any postings larger
than 75000k (i assume its K because it wouldnt even let me post a small JPG
file.?
Here is an exerpt from my /var/log/news/news.err file...
tail news.err
May 3 21:07:31 nntp innd[19685]: 198.6.0.180:6 internal rejecting huge
article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (473440 > 75000)
May 3 21:07:34 nntp innd[19685]: 198.6.0.180:6 internal rejecting huge
article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (473336 > 75000)
May 3 21:07:38 nntp innd[19685]: 198.6.0.180:6 internal rejecting huge
article
<37946ee2.6731764@news> (631380 > 75000)
May 3 21:07:40 nntp innd[19685]: 198.6.0.180:6 internal rejecting huge
article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (473408 > 75000)
May 3 21:07:43 nntp innd[19685]: 198.6.0.180:6 internal rejecting huge
article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (410786 > 75000)
May 3 21:07:46 nntp innd[19685]: 198.6.0.180:6 internal rejecting huge
article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (473347 > 75000)
May 3 21:07:47 nntp innd[19685]: 198.6.0.180:6 internal rejecting huge
article
<POqX2.2085$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (315744 > 75000)
May 3 21:07:50 nntp innd[19685]: 198.6.0.180:6 internal rejecting huge
article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (473341 > 75000)
May 3 21:07:53 nntp innd[19685]: 198.6.0.180:6 internal rejecting huge
article
<WFrX2.1965$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (461462 > 75000)
May 3 21:07:57 nntp innd[19685]: 198.6.0.180:6 internal rejecting huge
article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (473336 > 75000)
So, needless to say, I am not getting any large posts, or attachments.
Inn is running with the -p4 and -r flags, which have nothing to do with post
sizes.
The default is supposed to be limitless... I have checked my config files
pretty thoroughly, and havent seen where this may be set..
Any ideas ?
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From: Mike Rego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting rid of a RPM
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 19:52:39 GMT
I am using RedHat 5.2 and I have downloaded a RPM from the Internet and
installed it. I worked fine but I deleted everything in the directory
that the program was in. When I go to re-install it (through the control
panel RPM in X) it is still listed in the RPMs that are installed and
when I try to uninstall it I receive an error message that reads
"Errors occurred during the uninstall" "package ICQnix-Beta-1-0 is not
installed".
When I go to look for available packages and set my path to where all my
downloaded RPM's are it doesn't show up as a package to install just the
ones that are not install are available because that package is listed
as installed.
My question is how can I get rid of that package in the "Installed
Packages" so I can reinstall it again?
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From: Jeremy Weinberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win98 and Linux Dual Boot
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 21:12:23 -0500
Erik Akkermans wrote:
>
> many people have certain PnP-devices in their computer that can only be
> initialised through DOS, because only DOS-software is available. To
> start Linux without resetting the initialised device you need something
You're right; I forgot about this because all my hardware worked
smoothly from jumpers and pci resource assignments..
> About config.sys: there is indeed a timeout option, I use it myself. In
> fact, the startup-menu I created with config.sys is nicer than the one I
Really.. What is the syntax? That was my biggest frustration with the
loadlin setup I was using. I had originally used the config.sys method
because it's more cautious; zero risk of accidentally ending up with an
unbootable machine. The risk of screwing things up with lilo is very
minimal if you have modern hardware+software, but it is still a
possibility. Plus I had never rewritten my mbr before; now i just grab
my copy of norton diskedit and play... (almost..)
More generally, do you know of any good online references for old dos
gems such as this? I don't have my old manuals handy and they cut the
damn help system out of dos 7.
> LILO. I believe it can be installed by just starting 'lilo' see for
> yourself 'man lilo'). If you have reasons to use loadlin, whatever they
lilo is installed (i.e. copied into the master boot record, creating a
lilo-booted system) by running /sbin/lilo. However, first you must edit
/etc/lilo.conf so that it does something intelligent when it is copied
into sector zero, ref. my earlier posting and relevant manpages.
j
--
____________________________________________
Death to the demoness Allegra Geller!
Jeremy Weinberger
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isp.nwu.edu/~jeremy
�Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little
different immediately as they are expressed, a little distorted, a
little foolish. And yet it pleases me and seems right that what is of
value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.� -- Siddhartha,
Herman Hesse.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (<blank>)
Subject: Sorry that should be cabletron e22xx with an "n" :)
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 02:39:01 GMT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 4 May 1999 03:03:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 3 May 1999 15:47:34 +0200,
Matthias Warkus, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>It was the 03 May 1999 01:01:39 -0700...
>..and Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[may Raymond and Perens duke it out some day?]
>> The false notion that Raymond had threatened Perens with violence was
>> first propagated by Perens in response to a statement from Raymond
>> that Perens interpreted to mean that Raymond might shoot him. Perens
>> subsequently retracted his interpretation of Raymond's statements and
>> admitted he had misunderstood them. You guys really should pay more
>> attention to what's going on ... even if it means less time spent
>> gossipping about what you don't know.
>
>I fully expect ESR to go completely nuts someday. Maybe it's not
>Perens whom he'll shoot. We'll see.
>
>mawa
Why do you expect ESR to go completely nuts some day? do you have a
rational reason for this expectation?
>--
>"An Amiga a day keeps the Apples away"
> -- David Jung, U. of Adelaide, S. Oz.
(still got my A3000T :)
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: Sean Yamamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting rid of a RPM
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:00:49 +0000
Mike Rego wrote:
> My question is how can I get rid of that package in the "Installed
> Packages" so I can reinstall it again?
Forget about trying to delete it. Just use brute force:
# rpm -ivh --force [package name].rpm
Sorry, I don't know how to do this with the GUI - only on the
command line. Good luck.
S.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: Mac-emulation on Linux?
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 21:56:54 -0400
FM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew J. Brehm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I'm fairly sure that it will
> > > be an improvement over Windows/MacOS, but I'm not even sure
> > > if most Linux softwares are available for this setup (or if
> > > it's generally source-level compatible).
> >
> > It is source level compatible. And most Linux software is available as
> > source codes. However, some Linux software is only available as Intel
> > (Star Office).
>
> Is Netscape available? I've heard once that it's impossible
> to build from sources obtained from mozilla.org.
>
Yes, Netscape Communicator ships with LinuxPPC. Im not sure about other
distributions.
> > > I think my doubts stem mostly from my lack of knowledge
> > > about the Macintosh systems, which I've used before but
> > > never administered. Are these the only options I have
> > > considering that I want to use Linux and remain compatible
> > > with Mac at the same time? Any additional information
> > > would be apprecited. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Your only option would be to use a Mac.
>
> What versions of Linux are available on Mac? I've heard of
> MkLinux and LinuxPPC but not much else. Does LinuxPPC use
> the same kernel as X86 versions? Are there X-compatible
> free windowing systems available?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Dan.
There is Yellow Dog Linux. That seems to be gathering a following. As
for window managers.. LinuxPPC ships with a bunch. KDE is set as
default. KDE comes with several apps and is pretty good, although it
uses a fair amount of memory. Still, the K apps are fairly well
integrated. You can set up fvwm, fvwm2, Afterstep, AnotherLevel right
out of the box, or you can DL others.
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Subject: Re: WordStar (or equiv.) on LINUX?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Otto Tennant)
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:27:07 GMT
Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>: Help, please.
>: I know someone who would like to switch to LINUX. Because he can type 100 WPM
>: and knows WordStar for DOS better than his phone number, he would like to know
>: if a version of WordStar, with control diamond (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+E, Ctrl+X, and
>: Ctrl+D) functionality, exists for LINUX. Or, an equivalent. I looked into
>: StarOffice, it looks like it came out of StarWriter.
>: Does anyone know what became of WordStar? Has anyone heard of someone buying
>: WordStars assets or code or the rights thereto?
>: Or, can he just run WordStar in a DOS window? He needs this as an
>: honest-to-God word processor, not a text editor.
I have successfully installed WordStar in a dosemu session. The screen
colors are kind of bilios, and the cursor disappears, but everything
else works. (I'm sure both of these problems are easily fixable; I
just haven't bothered.)
--
J.Otto Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
Charter Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux's Last Chance
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 23:39:16 -0400
> Well, despite being won over by the sheer spangliness of Gnome...
Out of curiosity, what does "spangliness" mean?!?
Steve
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 19:53:58 -0700
From: Thomas Amsler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SETI@home output capture
==============D40EF5F0907824B17F8D2AA7
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I tried this without success. It just created the setiathome file in /var/log
with zero length. The program was running in the background though.
Alex Butcher wrote:
> What's wrong with:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/setiathome >/var/log/setiathome 2>&1 &
>
--
Thomas Amsler
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein
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Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
I tried this without success. It just created the setiathome file in /var/log
with zero length. The program was running in the background though.
<p>Alex Butcher wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>What's wrong with:
<p>#!/bin/sh
<br>/usr/bin/setiathome >/var/log/setiathome 2>&1 &
<br> </blockquote>
<pre>--
Thomas Amsler
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein</pre>
</html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Printing on an Epson Stylus 400
Date: 4 May 1999 03:15:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fred Kuipers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings!
>
> I have been using Linux for some time, but I have not yet set up
> printing in under Linux. I have, as I mentioned, an Epson Stylus 400
> color printer. Currently I am using RedHat 5.9 running kernel 2.2.3-5.
> I can print ASCII text well, however, I cannot print any postscript at
> all. Consider the following command and resulting output:
>
> % gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r360x360 stcolor.ps \
> /usr/share/ghostscript-5.10/examples/tiger.ps
>
> Unknown device: stcolor
This means your version of Ghostscript doesn't have the stcolor driver
compiled into it. Try the version from:
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~typhoon/
> If i use a similar command using the upp driver (stc.upp),
The stc.upp file isn't a printer driver in the sense that stcolor is; it's
an adjunct to the uniprint driver. I recommend using stcolor with the
ESC400, since the only uniprint .upp file I've gotten to work (for the ESC
500) produces horifically slow output at 720x720 dpi.
> ##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL stcolor 360x360 a4 {} EpsonStylusColor 4 {}
> Epson:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lpEpson:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/lpEpson/filter:
This part is fine. Now you need to modify your
/var/spool/lpd/lpEpson/postscript.cfg file so that it includes these
lines:
GSDEVICE=stcolor
RESOLUTION=720x720
EXTRA_GS_OPTIONS="-dSoftweave stcolor.ps"
(There'll be other lines, too; don't mess with them.) You can set the
RESOLUTION line to other values. In fact, you can set up several queues
for different resolutions. (I've got four, ranging from 180x360 to
720x720 dpi.)
> Secondly, I would like to eventually set up the printer in some way so I
> can print to the printer from both the Linux machine and a Win 95
> machine (networked). What way is it easiest to configure the printer
> for both machines? Set it up on the Linux box with Samba?? or on Win
> 95?
Either will work. Using Linux as the print server gives the advantage
that you can print to it using either Windows PostScript drivers (via the
queues you set up as I've just outlined) or with Windows native Epson
drivers (via a queue you'd need to set up to pass output directly to the
printer, without passing it through Ghostscript). Printing PostScript
will reduce network bandwidth when you're printing text, and may have
other advantages in some situations. If you use the Windows box as the
host machine, then you'll get bidirectional communication between the
Windows drivers and the printer, which will give you access to information
on ink useage.
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LEBLANC ERIC)
Subject: Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)
Crossposted-To:
talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.activism,alt.society.liberalism
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 03:51:28 GMT
Chris Costello ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: Forcing people to share is just plain stupid. I'm sorry if
: you don't realize that.
Forcing people to share is the choice of the copyright holder(s).
Would you denie them the choice of licensing the IP the way they
want? Beside, if you really want their code in your product, nothing
is stopping you from contacting them and try to make a deal with
them for use of their code in your proprietary codebase.
Regards,
E/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 21:02:34 -0700
On 4 May 1999 03:03:18 GMT, Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 3 May 1999 15:47:34 +0200,
> Matthias Warkus, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> brought forth the following words...:
>
>>It was the 03 May 1999 01:01:39 -0700...
>>..and Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[may Raymond and Perens duke it out some day?]
>>> The false notion that Raymond had threatened Perens with violence was
>>> first propagated by Perens in response to a statement from Raymond
>>> that Perens interpreted to mean that Raymond might shoot him. Perens
>>> subsequently retracted his interpretation of Raymond's statements and
>>> admitted he had misunderstood them. You guys really should pay more
>>> attention to what's going on ... even if it means less time spent
>>> gossipping about what you don't know.
>>
>>I fully expect ESR to go completely nuts someday. Maybe it's not
>>Perens whom he'll shoot. We'll see.
>>
>>mawa
>
>Why do you expect ESR to go completely nuts some day? do you have a
>rational reason for this expectation?
He already seems a bit nutty as is...
--
Microsoft subjected the world to DOS until 1995. |||
A little spite is more than justified. / | \
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