Linux-Misc Digest #110, Volume #20 Sat, 8 May 99 11:13:09 EDT
Contents:
How to determine IRQ's (Jason Bond)
Re: viewing Linux Xserver Xfree86 on NT ? ("Michael P. Meyer")
Re: Installing RedHat 5.2 via ftp using DHCP ("mikerego")
Re: ipfwadm and RedHat 6.0 (root)
GTKICQ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO, can't boot from 2nd SCSI drive. ("Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\"")
problem with grepping ("Steve Horne")
Re: mail config (John Thompson)
Re: Small X Window ("Anthony DeLuca")
Music CD writing (Andy Jones)
Re: ppp problem (hellraiser)
Re: Microsoft is the Communist!!! ("Joshua E. Rodd")
Re: epson drivers (Stephen Wilson)
help with glibc-2.1 (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Patte)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Ed Avis)
Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (Michael Maxwell)
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to determine IRQ's
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 22:31:43 -0700
Is there a program that shows which IRQ's are assigned to which
devices? Thanks,
Jason
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From: "Michael P. Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: viewing Linux Xserver Xfree86 on NT ?
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 03:48:49 GMT
1. Start your xserver on the pc. You may need to configure it to run in
"Single window mode", or whatever.
2. Telnet into your linux box, login as your userid
3. set your DISPLAY variable: "export DISPLAY=pcaddress:0.0"
4. run your .xinit or /etc/X11/xinit verify these file locs first I
can't remember where they live.
Robin Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <7E5X2.3438$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Larry Brasfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >As they say at their site,
> > http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/
> >MicroImages is happy to make its X Server freely
> >available for use on any Macintosh or Windows computers.
> >
> >It installs very easily, works great, and can
> >pretty much be configured by referring to
> >the X documentation.
>
> Well I have MI/X on my Mac.
>
> HOW do I get the normal Xwindowx desktop that comes up on my Linux machine
> to come up under MI/X?
>
> ie I want to see the control Panel, desktop manager, start bar etc??
>
> I have tried setting DISPLAY but nothing seems to work?
>
> Robin
>
>
>
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From: "mikerego" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing RedHat 5.2 via ftp using DHCP
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 05:32:54 GMT
Hi Joel
I have a cable modem and I don't use the DHCP in the setup of the
installation, I use the Static and use the information provide by my ISP to
configure it, it was pretty easy. I tried to install RedHat 6.0 through FTP
but after I logged in to the ftp site I wanted to download from it started
to retreive some files but I received an error message saying that it
couldn't set remote host to passive, what ever that means if you have any
luck using the FTP install let me know.
I hope this helps
Mike Rego
Joel D. Cohen wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi all,
>
>I was attempting to do the above, and the RedHat bootup/install program
>doesn't
>seem to be able to get a response from my DHCP server. I'm on a 2-way
>cable
>modem ............
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ipfwadm and RedHat 6.0
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 13:35:39 +0800
> >I have a network that allows my machines to communicate. I'm running
> >RH5.1, kernel 2.0.35. The rest of the "network" is one Windows98 machine.
> >I get a PPP connection from the linux gateway, and to the best of my
> >knowledge all of the settings on the '98 machine are correct. I've been
> >using the masquerading HOWTO as a guide. When the guide says to enter the
> >commands:
> >ipfwadm -F -p deny
> >ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 0.0.0.0/0
> >The first command gives no feedback. The second command gives me:
> >ipfwadm: no ports allowed without specific protocol
> >Try `ipfwadm -h' for more information.
> >ipfwadm -h suppplies plenty of info, none of which I understand.
> >Has anyone encoutnered this problem? The HOWTO and a couple of other
> >resources I've consulted don't touch the subject, unless my sleepless eyes
> >are blind....
I just installed RedHat 6 which does not have ipfwadm anymore. Apparently
there is ipfwadm-wrapper and ipchains modules to do the same thing. Has
anyone managed to configure the new modules to do what many of us do with
ipfwadm.
Here is my internal ipfwadm configuration to share a single modem with my
intranet..
extract from my /etc/rc.d/rc.local
############################
echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
/sbin/depmod -a
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp.o
/sbin/modprobe ip_masq_raudio.o
# deny all ips except specified ones
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -p deny
# allow only these ips
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.10.2/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 #bob
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.10.3/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 #jane
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.10.4/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 #mike
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.10.5/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 #kym
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.10.6/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 #paul
# add the route
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.10.1
/sbin/route add -net 192.168.10.0
echo "IP forwading completed"
###############################
My internal network is running on 192.168.10.x with this linux box/modem on
192.168.10.1.
Any help appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GTKICQ
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 09:06:26 GMT
Just installed Redhat 6.0 and trying to get GTKICQ to compile
this is the error message i get when I try to configure it
"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.
anyone have GTKicq working? I'd appreciate any pointers
Mike
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From: "Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\"" <*****@ix.netcom.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO, can't boot from 2nd SCSI drive.
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 09:22:15 -0400
>You can have Linux on the second disk, but you need to install the first
>stage bootloader in a bootsector on the first disk, in your case either the
>MBR or the bootsector of the extended partition. See the lilo docu for
>further info. (No partitioning needed unless you (a) use a software which
>needs the MBR like some old driver for big drives and you dont have (b) an
>extended partition.)
>
Peter, thanks for the help. I re-read the documentation last night before
going to bed and played around a bit with lilo and was gathering some
information with fdisk. My 1st drive has 1106 cylinders and it's split into
two 4.5 gig partions that are used for Win98. Do I need to make a small
partion (<10megs) for the boot sector? I've used FIPS and am confortable
with it. If that is the case, do I need to format that partion under Linux?
BTW>The info on the CD-ROM worked great. It was scd0 as you said it would
be. Thanks for teaching me some new uses for the ls command. I'm new to
Linux and I'm suffering from information overload from all the reading.
Ed
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From: "Steve Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with grepping
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 01:41:09 -0400
Hi --
I am having a somewhat unique problem. One of my friend's hard drives was
destroyed by chernoybl the other day and he asked me to get his emails back.
I stuck it in my system and typed:
grep "Received:" -A200 /dev/hdc1 > mail.txt
This had worked fine when I had booted up his system with a slackware rescue
disk and took roughly 5 minutes. When I did it on mine, it took an
extraordinary amount of time and only produced a few megs worth of
information. It seems as though it was trying to put the entire hard drive's
(hdc1) contents into memory. After typing free in another xterm while this
was running, it looked like all the memory was gone and basically it was
tearing away at the swap drive. Is there any way to prevent grep (or Linux
in general) from doing this??? I am fairly new to linux so I don't know what
the solution to this is (and I did look around online for an answer in a
faq, but no luck.) My system is an AMD k6-200 with 128 megs of ram (although
linux only detects 64 megs -- I tried loading with MEM=128 at the lilo
prompt, but it didn't do anything) My friend's is a compaq PII 300 with
64megs ram.
I would normally have just let it run all day or something, but we are
leaving tomorrow so I wanted to see if theres a quick way to do it. Well,
thanks in advance!
-- Steve
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mail config
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 20:52:29 -0600
Anup Rao wrote:
>
> Does anybody know how to change the 'From: ' header in mail that you send
> from pine?
I was wondering that myself. Since my linux username is not
the same as the username for my ISP, pine's insistence on
using my linux username can be a problem. Maybe somebody
can share how to do this before I have to go and teach
myself perl to change the mail headers in the outbound spool
before they get uploaded...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Anthony DeLuca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small X Window
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 09:32:48 -0400
Ok, here is my next steps that I have taken. I ran Xconfigurator again and
found a monitor that was just like mine, by cross referencing it to mine. I
have a DELL D825HT, which is a SONY CPD-100SF. The specs matched up when I
checked the SONY web site. One minor discrepancy was that SONY listed the
Horizontal Frequency as 31-70 and the Dell Manual listed it as 31.5-70, but
everything else is the same. So I let Xconfigurator auto-probe my Video
card Matrox Millennium II 4MB, and did not choose a chip set of accelerator.
I only choose the amount of RAM, which Xconfigurator left uncommented in my
XF86Config file, how nice of it :-). It choose my default resolution as
1024x768 at a depth of 32. But this time the screen was lined up fine on
the right hand side of the screen. It left open screen real estate on the
bottom, top and left hand side still. The resolution looked great though.
Well I figured if I post my XF86Config file it may help someone see what my
problem may be. So here is my monitor, device and screen sections: You can
see where I added my own comments.
I also still can't switch between modes with <ctrl>< alt><- or +> using the
num pad. That line is still commented out in the ?Server Flags Section
too... Hope this helps some one see my problem, cause I can't... :-)
Thank you in advance,
Tony
MONITOR
# ***********************************************************************
# Monitor Section
# ***********************************************************************
Section "monitor"
Identifier "Sony CPD-100SF"
VendorName "Sony"
ModelName "CPD-100SF"
HorizSync 31.5 -70 # I modified it from 31 to 31.5,
because my manual stated 31.5.
VerRefresh 50-120
End Section
DEVICE
# *************************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# *************************************************************************
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Chipset "generic"
# VideoRam 256
# Clocks 25.2 28.3
End Section
# Device configured by Xconfigurator:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Matrox Millennium II 4MB"
VendorName "Matrox Graphics"
BoardName "Millennium II"
#VideoRam 4096
VideoRam 4096
End Section
SCREEN
#**************************************************************
# Screen sections
#**************************************************************
# The Colour SVGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
# Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
# Device "Generic VGA"
Device "Matrox Millennium II 4MB"
Monitor "Sony CPD-100SF"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
# I added the "800x600" and the 630x480" modes here
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
End Section
# The 16-color VGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "vga16"
Device "Generic VGA"
Monitor "Sony CPD-100SF"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The Mono server
Section "Screen"
Driver "vga2"
Device "Generic VGA"
Moniotr "Sony CPD-100SF"
SubSection "Display"
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViwPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32,
Mach64
# I128, and S3V)
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "Matrox Millennium II 4MB"
Monitor "Sony CPD-100SF"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
# I added the "800x600"
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
End Subsection
EndSection
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Jones)
Subject: Music CD writing
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 12:09:24 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm attempting to write music CDs using a Pinnacle Micros RCD1000 (works great
for data CDs), Adaptec 2940UW, cdparanoia to rip the tracks of CD and
cdrecord-1.8a18-1. The tracks are saved individually and fed to the CDR using
"cdrecord -v -audio track1.cdr track2.cdr......."
When attempting to play the resulting CD, track 1 plays OK, however it is
impossible to skip or select tracks.
Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.
Andy
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From: hellraiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp problem
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 08:39:07 -0400
Mars wrote:
>
> I'm setting up ppp connection to my isp. The following is the log:
>
> May 8 17:40:13 localhost pppd[289]: pppd 2.2.0 started by mars, uid 0
> May 8 17:40:14 localhost pppd[289]: Connect script failed
> May 8 17:40:14 localhost pppd[289]: Exit.
> May 8 17:41:19 localhost pppd[313]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
> May 8 17:41:45 localhost pppd[313]: Serial connection established.
> May 8 17:41:46 localhost pppd[313]: Using interface ppp0
> May 8 17:41:46 localhost pppd[313]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua0
>
> Why i can establish the connection while login as root, but not ordinary
> user with su command?
>
> And how can i end the connection? (i just kill the process)
use the 'ppp-off' command.
> Regards,
> Mars
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From: "Joshua E. Rodd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Microsoft is the Communist!!!
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 09:40:50 -0400
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
> they were not required to. Ananias and Sapphira, as you may recall,
> lost their lives not because they faild to contribute to the common
> good, but because they lied about how much they contributed. Peter
Note that that poor couple didn't lose their lives because Peter or
the early Church killed them for being counterrevolutionary or the
like; they just keeled over dead.
(The early Christians did not, as a rule, kill people.)
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From: Stephen Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: epson drivers
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 15:47:25 +1000
You can and there is a program called ghostscript that comes on all
distributions. Upgrade the version of ghostscript to 5.10 and use the uniprint
driver. use dejanews to ferret out a search using " linux epson printer suse"
and read the articles. There is one by Bob Tennent that is the way to go. But
use a red hat disstribution of else you are in for a headach getting the "ASP"
printfilter to work fast enough. Good luck...
No doubt you will be a regular to this forum if you do switch to Linux!!!
primus wrote:
> Hi sorry if this in the wrong section.
> I am thinking of switching to Linux and was wondering if I can still run a
> Epson stylus color 640. It says that it is a "Windows only" printer.
> Does this meant that it only comes with a Windows driver but a Linux driver
> is (or may be) available or can the printer physically only communicate with
> windows regardless of driver.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Patte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: help with glibc-2.1
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 11:23:53 +0200
I have loaded the glibc-2.1 and have a lot of problem now:
1- octave no more works:
Octave, version 2.0.13 (i386-suse-linux-gnu).
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 John W. Eaton.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details, type `warranty'.
error: Segmentation fault -- stopping myself...
error: attempted clean up apparently failed -- aborting...
Abort (core dumped)
2- MuPad no more works:
/usr/local/MuPAD/share/bin/../../i386/bin/mupad: error in loading shared
libraries: libg++.so.2.7.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
3- g++ no more works:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lstdc++: Aucun fichier ou r�pertoire de ce
type
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
or, when I tried to rebuild octave with rpm --rebuild:
checking for c++... c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++ -O2 ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler
cannot create executables.
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.65015 (%build)
4- Staroffice worked no more but I found a solution; same for apmd which
I could rebuild with rpm.
Is there a solution, keeping this library?
Thanks for any help.
-- Fran�ois Patte. UFR de math�matiques et informatique.
45 rue des St P�res. 75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tel: 01 44 55 35 59 -- Fax: 01 44 55 35 35
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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From: Ed Avis <[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: Tue, 04 May 1999 11:50:02 +0100
Joshua E. Rodd wrote:
>>I am desperately looking for an open source machine translation program and
>>some open source vector fonts (TTF, Postscript).
>You can also load up Fontographer and play around; I found it easy to
>make basic fonts, but very hard to make them look decent or to hint
>them.
AFAIK all bitmap fonts are public domain in the US. So couldn't you
take a proprietary outline font, create an enormous set of bitmaps
(say 1000x1000 pixels for an uppercase M), and then use some kind of
outline tracing or bezier curve fitting program to create a new, free,
set of outlines?
--
Ed Avis
Advertise here! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?
Date: 08 May 1999 00:56:00 -0500
"Rolf Marvin B�e Lindgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> under VMS, OPERATOR can read and write to all user's directories. under
> UNIX, only root can do that.
>
> whenever a user came to us with a magtape, under VMS it was no problem
> to dump the contents to the user's home directory. under UNIX, we had
> to use the only machine that could read the tape station, find a
> directory with enough room, _ask root to mount that machine's disk to
> the user's machine so the user could read his tape dump_...
>
> all of this convinced me that an operating system that does not support
> an OPERATOR concept is fundamentally single-user. there muse be a user
> midway between user and root.
Well, being an AS/400 operator, I can say that I agree with you here. The
concept you describe above is no problem on AS/400 either. But UNIX does
tend to fall short in this area.
However, there are programs that help. "sudo" is one of them. I use it
all the time on Unix, and it allows users to run only "safe" commands, so
operators can run backups, restores, etc... without having full root
access, only access to those commands they need to perform the operation.
Admittedly, it's a hack, but it works.
--
Michael Maxwell <drwho @ xnet.com> | http://www.xnet.com/~drwho/
-- Stop the illegal attacks on Serbia NOW! --
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