Linux-Misc Digest #95, Volume #20 Fri, 7 May 99 11:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: GTKICQ (Holger Eitzenberger)
Serial printing doesn't work?! ("Felix Leung")
cdrom filesystem? (Frank Waarsenburg)
Re: Best Free X Windows Server for Win95/98 Box on Samba/Linux Network? (Greg Weeks)
mounting and unmounting cdrom (Damien Clark)
Re: procmail question (Holger Eitzenberger)
Quiting Discussion (Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?) (Jesus Monroy, Jr.)
Re: CPU idle tool in Linux? (Tuomo Louhivuori)
Re: NTFS - again and Redhat 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I am on a quest... (Brandon)
QT Library Problems (Jason Bond)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (David Kastrup)
Re: GTKICQ (Hans Wolters)
Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (Jesus Monroy, Jr.)
Help with compiling libraries ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ejecting a CD (Damien Clark)
Re: Tuning Linux? (Erik Svenkerud)
Re: Newbie problem modem is always busy (AnOldCowboy)
Problem with GTK & Glib (Jason Bond)
C++ Problem under Linux ("No Limit Hacker")
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From: Holger Eitzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GTKICQ
Date: 7 May 1999 11:00:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
> configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is generated by
> gnome-libs install"
> i did install my distro with GNOME, not KDE. and i searched for this file but
> it is nowhere to be found.
Try
./configure --without-gnome
If you want gnome support you have to install the appropriate gnome-devel
packets.
-- Holger
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From: "Felix Leung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial printing doesn't work?!
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 16:44:33 +0800
I have a HP LaserJet 4MP which used serial connection to connect with Redhat
Linux ver 5.2, I already installed teh printer driver "hp4mp", it works fine
when I print ASCII testing, but it got error message once I try to print
postscript testing.
The "40 ERROR" definitation is :
"The printer encountered an error while transferring data from the computer.
If you are using the serial I/O, you might have caused this error by turning
the computer ON or OFF while the printer was on line; or your printer's baud
rate or parity was not the same as the computer's."
then I tried to change the closing_wait and closing_wait2 into higher
number, it stills doesn't work. THen I tried another which is matching the
baud rate speed on the printer and serial port are the same (57600, 9600,
etc), it also got the error message.
Anyone have any idea?
I would be appreciated if you could help.
Felix Leung
U of W, Business Computing B.A.
System Analyst
Lexibook Ltd. HK.
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From: Frank Waarsenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrom filesystem?
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 14:36:57 +0200
Hi,
since my Linux box does not have a CD of it's own (Usually it's just a
dedicated router), I share a CD on a Windoze box if I need one, using
smbmount. This works, but the files on the CD appear on the Linux
console in 8.3 all capital format. Is there a way to mount the CD so it
presents long filenames?
Frank
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Weeks)
Subject: Re: Best Free X Windows Server for Win95/98 Box on Samba/Linux Network?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 07:50:25 -0500
In article <7gtqmq$4q6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Good referral - so far VNC is fantastic! I can't believe just last
> week I was visiting this site for their open source CORBA
> server - who are these guys?
Part of AT&T now. Read the first page of their web site and it gives
the story.
Greg Weeks
--
http://durendal.tzo.com/greg/
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Subject: mounting and unmounting cdrom
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damien Clark)
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 10:52:08 GMT
I have a peculiar problem with a Red Hat 5.2 system. System has been running
now for 62 days, and is a squid proxy server for our organisation. I mounted
the Redhat CD into its CDROM drive, and after i type "mount /mnt/cdrom", it
segfaulted. Now, the drawer is locked, and when I type "umount /mnt/cdrom" it
says that the device is not mounted, and when I type "mount /mnt/cdrom" it says
that the device is already mounted. It is a bit of a catch 22. I noted in the
syslog that the mount command caused some sort of memory page fault error,
however the system table in the kernel appears to have conflicting information
about the state of that device (ie, mounted or not). Just wondering if anyone,
knew where in the kernel I could make changes (ie, in the /proc ) to allow the
device to be put back into consistent state, as I do not want to reboot the
server on account of a stupid cdrom drive issue.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards
Damien.
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From: Holger Eitzenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: procmail question
Date: 7 May 1999 10:55:45 GMT
Dirk Freese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If a mail arrives from [EMAIL PROTECTED] procmail passes the body of
> this mail (the mail itself would also be ok) to a script call "maileval"
> so that "maileval" can use the content of the mail to start some action.
> It would be important that that only mail from a certain user of a
> certain domain will be delivered to "maileval" all other mail should go
> to the normal mail-dir.
Put this in your .procmailrc:
:0:
* ^From.*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| maileval
As with almost everyhing the man-pages are your friend.
-- Holger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesus Monroy, Jr.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Quiting Discussion (Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 11:04:33 GMT
First let me appologize to those of you I'm emailing,
I thought this would be the most direct method to end this
discussion.
In short, I have spent the last 1 hour on this one thread topic.
I made a simple statement, but I've got all you nay-sayers
disagreeing with me. Needless to say I can be drain by
20-30 saying I'm wrong when I know I'm right.
However, I have no love for M$, nor windoze 95. I was
simple stating a new possible architetual(sp?) scheme.
I don't have time or energy for a protracted discussion.
So, if you all will excuse me I will not answer to the
previous thread. The question was:
Is Unix a single user operating system?
It is now a debate on
The definition of a a single-user macine.
I'm out. Please start a new thread if you wish to discuss
this, but please, please, please, reduce the cross-posts.
I have enough of a reputation as a x-poster I don't
need a legend to follow me also. :-)
=================================================
On Thu, 06 May 1999 11:24:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>"Rolf Marvin Be Lindgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: UNIX supports several users out of convenience - some processes are best
>: run as a separate users. to me, the fact that the same machine can run
>: several login shells simultaneously is not sufficient to call it
>: anything else. the concept, in UNIX, is a hack - for instance, that
>: there are only two levels of user - root and not root.
>
> This is why Unix has groups.
>
>: if you want a true shared user system, go for an operating system that
>: supports it - NOS, VMS, TOPS-20.
>
> Want or need? Most people don't need VMS and fewer still want it,
> even in true multi-user settings.
>
>--
>-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> Yah, Emacs is a good OS, but I prefer FreeBSD.
--
If you have to read the docs, it's broken.
I hate making mistakes.
You can check my spelling at: http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster
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From: Tuomo Louhivuori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU idle tool in Linux?
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 23:13:11 +0300
Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> You don't need.
> Linux does the halt command in the idle job by itself.
*blush* Sorry about the question then... still amazed at linux :)
-Tuomo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NTFS - again and Redhat 6.0
Date: 7 May 1999 13:48:40 GMT
Bruce Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone has seen/heard of NTFS support
> in RedHat 6.0 yet..
> Only been a few days since its release, but I would like
> to use it if possible..
> And I would like to do read/write operations too, but I
> gather it is unlikely we have a stable writning NTFS driver
> at this stage..
Adding to the response from RedHat, I just checked my 6.0 install,
and, indeed, there is no ntfs.o in the modules directory. On my
5.2 install, I am running a 2.2.5 kernel compiled from the regular
downloaded source with ntfs support compiled in, and it works fine.
So you could just re-compile the source from the rpm's RedHat
comes with. But, I figure that if you're going to recompile a kernel
anyway, you may as well download the latest one (2.2.7) and do that one.
:)
Also, your suspicions are correct -- the non-experimental support is for
read-only.
HTH.
--
====================================
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 17:09:40 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.slackware.linux
Subject: Re: I am on a quest...
Shimpei Yamashita wrote:
>
> Jeffery Cann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >for an X-windows email client for Linux. If my dream of the "perfect"
> >email client could be written down, it would have the following
> >features:
> >
> >- stable: never hangs, never blows up!
> >- reliable: messages don't evaporate!
> >- scalable: if I have 2000 messages saved, performance shouldn't drop.
> >- graphical: what can I say, I am not into pine.
> >- threaded: this seems to be a hard feature, not sure why.
> >- minimal resources: bloatware sucks even with P2/350 (128 MB)
>
> Sorry, such a beast does not exist on any platform as far as I know.
>
> Take away "graphical" and mutt (with fetchmail as the POP back end)
> would fulfill other fields rather nicely. Take away "minimal
> resources" and you might look into exmh or a mail reader under
> (X)Emacs. Take away "threaded" and "runs under Linux" and Eudora does
> rather nicely, although you probably don't care much about that.
>
> Take a look at exmh, but prepare to be disappointed. Other than that,
> my advice is either to stick with existing, unsatisfactory GUI mail
> readers or to grit your teeth and learn to use enough of mutt to get
> by--until someone comes up with a killer graphical email application.
>
why not edit the source yourself or pay to edit the source to Netscape
andmake it like u want it to be?
Brandon
> --
> Shimpei Yamashita <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: QT Library Problems
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 07:17:41 -0700
Sorry to inundate this newsgroup with my problems
but I am having some trouble installing programs
that depend on the QT libraries. Specifically, I have QT-1.42 installed
on my Redhat 5.2 system:
(root@blah: ~/kuickshow-0.6.3) rpm -q -a | grep qt
qt-1.42-3rh51
and when I try and install a program that depends on the qt libraries, I
get error messages of the form:
checking for QT... configure: error: QT-1.3 (headers and libraries) not
found. Please check your installation!
Thanks kindly once again,
Jason
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From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
Date: 07 May 1999 16:19:07 +0200
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > More money is made through music than through books (counting both trashy
> > novels and rap). More people are affected by music than by books. Old music
> > is still relevant, old books are (mostly) not, and are certainly less
> > enjoyable than old music.
>
> I don't find that to be true at all. Most of the best books I have read
> were written more then 100 years ago....and I have read far less of them
> then new novels. Authors have to be pretty good to live for more then a
> few years, and to span 100s is very rare,...so those that do are for the
> most part very good.
Most of the best music I have listened to is more than 250 years old.
The point?
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Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-709-4209
Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Subject: Re: GTKICQ
Date: 7 May 1999 11:20:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard
and wrote the following ....
>i did install my distro with GNOME, not KDE. and i searched for this file but
>it is nowhere to be found.
>
>anyone have GTKicq working? I'd appreciate any pointers
I do not know what version of the glib and gtk is installed using rh6 but I
know that gtkicq needs 1.2.0. You can find the version typing gtk --version.
If it's an earlier version you will have to get the 1.2.x rpm's of both the
glib and gtk. You can then install them using rpm -ivh so your old apps are
still having their dependencies to the older versions
Hope it helps, Hans
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesus Monroy, Jr.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 11:26:38 GMT
I stated before that I was discontinuing this thread, but
as your question is easy...........
On Fri, 07 May 1999 12:10:25 +0200, Ian Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>"Jesus Monroy, Jr." wrote:
>>
>> On 7 May 1999 04:44:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
>>
>> >As long as your machine is connected to the net it is
>> >wide wide open.
>> >
>> 'wide open' in what sense. certainly no one can install
>> programs on your machine without your knowledge.
>
>I was under the impression that Win95 had some sort
>of "file sharing" capability. In fact, I was under
>the impression that I had used this feature to modify
>files on other machines. Was I mistaken?
>
win95 can share, but it is entirely with other
winXX systems and only if you install the network
portion and ONLY if set the sharing. It's relatively
simple, but requires a person to do this.
Additionally, win95 has no facilities to
have programs started remotely; unless
special packages are installed.
--
If you have to read the docs, it's broken.
I hate making mistakes.
You can check my spelling at: http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with compiling libraries
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 14:10:53 GMT
Hi I've been using mandrake 5.3 for about two months. I'm having trouble
compiling certain programs, I've installed all the libraries, I don't have any
problems when compiling a new kernel but when I try to compile things like
ksamba or some of the mp3 encoders I end up having to search for the *.h
include files because there in the wrong spot or the programs are looking for
them in the wrong spot I'm not sure which. So I end up with a bunch of
different folders with the same *.h files. Is this normal? Is there something
different I should be doing? Appreciate any help. thanks
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Subject: Re: Ejecting a CD
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damien Clark)
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 10:56:44 GMT
To find out which processes are using that filesystem, simply use the following
command as root:
fuser -m <mount point>
so in the case of your cdrom type:
fuser -m /mnt/cdrom
This will list all process id that are using the filesystem, and in what way
(ie, whether executing file off that fileystem, or open file for read, or open
file for read/write etc..)
In article <7guf97$rdv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> Sorry for the lame question, but anybody know how to get a CD out of the
>CD-ROM drive? I've made sure I dismounted it and I've tried eject but I get
>"device or resource busy." I'm running KDE and there are two CD-ROM icons
>in the toolbar on the lower right but I can't get rid of them. Is that what
>is causing my drive to be busy? How do I tell which process(es) is/are
>keeping it from being ejected? Thanks,
>
>Jared
>
>
>
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From: Erik Svenkerud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tuning Linux?
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 10:09:33 -0500
Marc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone of you have information on tuning linux?
> links r welcome, too.
>
> Thanks
>
> Marc
Hi there,
look in the linux how-to`s,
Erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AnOldCowboy)
Subject: Re: Newbie problem modem is always busy
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:10:20 GMT
On 7 May 1999 02:15:28 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
wrote:
>On Thu, 06 May 1999 20:36:59 GMT, AnOldCowboy wrote:
>>I'm useing Caldera V1.3 and kppp. I have a USR v90 voice internal
>>modem. It's not a winmodem, at least it worked with Redhat 5.2.
>>When ever I try to dial out or query the modem it says that it is
>>sorry the modem is busy. Being a newbie, I'm not sure what other info
>>to you might need or how to get it. Have been reading HOW TO'S,
>>man pages,help pages, info pages,newsgroups and have'nt
>>found any thing that address this problem. Any help would be great.
>>TIA
>
>Hi,
>see whether you have the lock file:
>/var/lock/LCK..modem
>It contains the PID of the process which is supposed
>to be using the modem. If there is no such process,
>just remove that file.
>
>Best,
>a.
Hi,
There is no LCK..modem file in /var/lock, but thanks for the
suggestion. Could something be loading on boot that is
capturing the modem?
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with GTK & Glib
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 07:14:28 -0700
I have a Rethad 5.2 system with the following libraries
installed:
(root@blah: /home/Progs/ICQJava) rpm -q -a | grep gtk
gtk+-1.0.6-3
gtk+-devel-1.0.6-3
(root@blah: /home/Progs/ICQJava) rpm -q -a | grep glib
glibc-2.0.7-29
glib-1.0.6-3
glibc-devel-2.0.7-29
And I am trying to install glib-1.2.1 and gtk+-1.2.1
Gtk requires Glib so after I install Glib (which looks like it
installs without any problems) which installs itself into
/usr/local/lib/glib...ok so when I go to try and install gtk and I run
./configure, it says that it can't find glib...more precisely:
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.1... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program compiled, but did not run. This usually means
*** that the run-time linker is not finding GLIB or finding the wrong
*** version of GLIB. If it is not finding GLIB, you'll need to set your
*** LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or edit /etc/ld.so.conf to
point
*** to the installed location Also, make sure you have run ldconfig if
that
*** is required on your system
and after I define the enviornment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
/usr/local/lib/glib it still gives
the same error....any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jason
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From: "No Limit Hacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: C++ Problem under Linux
Date: 7 May 1999 14:12:44 GMT
I can�t install C++ under Linux 6.1
I have allready installed it with YAST, but I can�t start the
programm,
Thank�s
No Limit Hacker
Berlin
Germany
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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