Linux-Misc Digest #205, Volume #20 Fri, 14 May 99 15:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives (Roumen Petrov)
Re: Amaya: works only with local files ? (William Wueppelmann)
Re: Networking Linux (Lew Pitcher)
What happened to fdformat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux finally (Brad)
Re: What's on the RH6 Applications CD? (John Brock)
Re: Oracle and Perl DBI/DBD on Linux Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (John S. Dyson)
Re: [?] help: no printing in RH 6.0 (Ron Olsen)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (Richard Caley)
RedHat 6.0 crashes ALL the time (Seer)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (david parsons)
Re: SETI@Home release version slow??? (Nav)
Re: linux win'98 (marco tephlant)
Half-Life Server (Thomas Siegerist)
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From: Roumen Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba & Win 9x clients: automatically mapping drives
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:10:14 GMT
In article <7hh9qd$549$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Roumen Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > We are preparing to replace our Netware file server with a Linux
> > system running Samba. We considered an NT server, but Linux is what
> > we know and love.
> >
> > I see one shortcoming under Samba, and I know there has to be a way
> > around it.
> >
> > Under Netware, when the Win 9x client would login to the Netware
> > server, it would execute a login script, which would map the drives.
> >
> > Similar capabilities exist under NT.
> >
> > Under Samba, I (think) I have to "map a network drive" on the Win 9x
> > client via point & click. If the client ever boots when the server
is
> > down (or not available), then the client will display a prompt, "Do
> > you want to reconnect the next time you log in?" If the user says
> > "No", the mapping is gone, and must be recreated manually.
> >
> > How can we avoid this problem? Is there some script capability in
Win
> > 9x that remap the drives for us?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -Lee Allen
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> This is some of global options from my smb.conf:
> logon script = %U.bat
> path = /usr/local/samba/var/netlogon
> logon path =
> logon drive = V:
> logon home = \\%N\%U
> domain logons = Yes
OOPS
corect is:
[global]
logon script = %U.bat
logon path =
logon drive = V:
; this is default :logon home = \\%N\%U
domain logons = Yes
#other options ...
[netlogon]
comment = Logon server share
path = /usr/local/samba/var/netlogon
writeable = no
guest ok = no
>
> Go in /usr/local/samba/var/netlogon and make BATCH files for users:
> my rumen.bat:
> @echo OFF
> if ~%USERNAME% ne ~ goto winNT
>
> :win9x
> echo Hello Windows-9x user !
> rem Manual map user home for W-9x:
> net use V: /DELETE /YES > nul
> net use V: \\<MY_SAMBA_SERVER>\rumen /YES > nul
> goto end
>
> :winNT
> rem W-NT map by default user homes:
> rem Options from smb.conf:
> rem logon drive = V:
> rem logon home = \\%N\%U
> echo Hello %USERNAME% on Windows-NT !
> goto end
> :end
>
> In this time i have problem with roaming profiles under NT.
> ( options logon path = \\%N\%U\profile ). This work perfect some time,
> but after some preinstallation of NT, NT try to make every time a new
> local copy of roaming profile to local disk. I become over 10 local
> profiles for 1 user (a NT bug).
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: Amaya: works only with local files ?
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 15:42:31 GMT
In our last episode (Thu, 13 May 1999 08:23:36 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Mihaly Gyulai said:
> I successfully installed the Amaya browser. The problem is : I can view
>only my local HTML files, and not web sites...
>Is Amaya capable of viewing the Internet or not ?
>(as we have a proxy server, I have set it in Amaya...)
>
>Anyone use Amaya for browsing the Net ?
You can use it for real Web browsing (though that isn't its real strength).
IIRC (I can't check right now as I'm offline and besides I'm running on a
console right now), you *do* have to include the protocol specifier
(http://), which a lot of browsers allow you to omit if you want http.
--
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Networking Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:26:53 GMT
I've always wanted to see someone cobble up a network by
connecting serial ports between two systems with a "null modem"
cable, and running PPP against this setup. It would be an
extremely cheap, slow two-node network, but *should* work. ;-)
On Fri, 14 May 1999 11:34:18 -0500, Fernando Sanabria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>You need network cards in both systems
>If you only want to connect 2 machines you can use a crossover cable and
>plug the systems back to back without a hub
>
>Julia Cristina Varela de Montoya wrote:
>
>> I am fairly new to linux. I have an old Pentium with linux and Oracle 8
>> running. I would like to create a network in my home using it and my
>> current Windows machine. The purpose is mainly to learn networking, and
>> perhaps gain some functionality. Does anyone have any suggestions as to
>> configurations, hardware, software, etc?
>>
>> Thank you.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: What happened to fdformat
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:57:03 GMT
I know this sounds stupid, but I used to think that you can low-level
format a floppy in Linux using "fdformat". Well, on my Debian system
this is what I get:
==================================
histria ~ # fdformat
bash: fdformat: command not found
histria ~ # man fdformat
No manual entry for fdformat
===================================
(as root). How can I format a floppy ?
Thank you,
Cristian Barbarosie
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From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux finally
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:07:00 +1000
I made it. Finally got linux installed. Finally got X working and
finally got on to the net. Here I am.
It would not be right If I didn't have a problem. So here goes.
It took me a while to get X to start up in anything but 256 colors. But
hours of reading man pages and trial n error and I'm in 24bit colour.
I'm pretty sure that I am in more than 256 colours because if looked at
a few images in Gimp and they look fine and you all know how easy it is
to spot a 16bit colour image in 8bit colour..
My problem is with Netscape. Stuff on the web looks fine when viewed
with Netscape but Netscape itself looks like hell. There is NO colour in
it at all. It's all grey with black writing and graphics. Not even a
shade of grey in the image just under the menu bar. All black.
Is this something I can fix or is this the way Netscape looks in Linux?
I would find that hard to believe.
Thanks in Advance
Brad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brock)
Subject: Re: What's on the RH6 Applications CD?
Date: 14 May 1999 14:29:33 -0400
In article <7hhd2u$pg1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Adam Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Brock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I will point out that except for the support (which I never really
>> used) Red Hat Linux Core seems to be the exact equivalent of earlier,
>> less expensive, Red Hat editions, which just included CDs and an
>> Installation Guide (and a Boot Floppy... *HEY*, what happened to the
>> Boot Floppy?!?).
>the cd is bootable.
>NT4's cd is also bootable, which i found was a heck of a lot faster than
>using the 3 install diskettes.
Don't you need special BIOS support to boot from a CD? My PC is 4
years old, and I'm not sure it can do that.
--
John Brock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: Oracle and Perl DBI/DBD on Linux Problem
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:39:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Simon Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> I've got the pre-production release of Oracle 8.0.5 for Linux, and I'm
> trying to compile Perl DBI/DBD-Oracle, However it appears I'm missing
> the oci80 directory and subdirectories - I don't think they were
> included in this build.
>
> Is there any kind person who could tar, gzip and email it to me, or
tell
> me where I could get it from !
> I'm really trying to avoid the 170Mb download just to get about 100k
of
> files !
>
> I think that what I realoly need is the *.h files from the include
> sub-directory !
>
> Much thanks in advance !
>
> Simon.
did you apply the patches (there are three of them for the
prerelease)? with those applied (and oracle environment set
as another poster suggested) DBD::Oracle builds and works
well... I honestly can't remember whether it built before
the patches, it's been so long...
- mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John S. Dyson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel
Date: 14 May 1999 16:58:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb) writes:
> On Fri, 14 May 1999 10:39:23 -0400, Davis Doherty
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>And this was written back around FreeBSD 2.2.5, so it is definitely not a
>>new thing.
>
> Whoa, someone who has a level head. I think I was a 2.2.2 system at the
> time and it moer certainly did not check for dependencies and compile them for
> me. Then you for being lucid and telling me what I experienced didn't happen.
>
That is ancient.
>
>>Perhaps you had difficulties on time. But this does not necessarily mean
>>that the problem was in the ports system. Perhaps it was one particular
>>port. Or perhaps the tree was not up-to-date. Or perhaps a million other
>>things. One experience is no basis on which to start spouting out how the
>>ports tree is a piece of crap.
>
> That is my point though, the tree is, by design, out of date. The last
> time I checked the ports tree FTPs the source directly from the author's site.
> With a few thousand programs in the ports tree all it takes is one author to
> release a new version, change the name of his archive and the MD5 sum of said
> archive and you've got problems. Now whomever maintains the ports tree needs
> to notice that and fix it, by which time another package has changed, etc,
> etc. That may have changed recently, I'm not sure. But that has been my
> experience.
>
That is pretty much a non-problem, because if the license allows, the
files are also archived on other servers by the FreeBSD project. I believe
that newer versions of FreeBSD (if the license allows) has allocated
more CDROMS, and probably has the files on the distribution.
Ports is cool because it even allows for (almost) automated creations of
new packages also. I have never seen anything perfectly slick, and ports
isn't perfect either. However, it does seem that biased and incorrect
assertions are often made about FreeBSD.
If such assertions were on a subtile, technical subject, then there
might be some room for disagreement. However, this is a very clear
case of the uninformed with an assertion.
FreeBSD ports handles both dependencies, and the FreeBSD project does
provide backup for older distributions. The biggest plus is that,
even as a very sophisticated developer, I don't have to deal with all
of the little details, of even finding the location of the distribution
or dependencies. I can even modify the distribution and repackage it
very, very easily, when using ports. There are no proprietary file
formats used, and the system just works.
--
John | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | it makes one look stupid
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | and it irritates the pig.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Olsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [?] help: no printing in RH 6.0
Date: 14 May 1999 17:55:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Francisco Cribari-Neto wrote:
> I have just upgraded from Red Hat 5.2 to version 6.0 (intel). I am
> having a few problems. One of them is that I can no longer print to my
> printer. When I try to do so, I get the following error message:
> $ lpr test.ps
> lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> Any hints/suggestions/tips? Thanks. FC.
I had the same problem.
I fixed it by upgrading to the 2.2.8 kernel, and configuring it to
include parallel port support. (Red Hat 6.0 ships with the 2.2.5-15 kernel).
Note that in RH5.2, the parallel printer device is /dev/lp1, whereas in RH6.0,
it's /dev/lp0.
--
Ron Olsen
Boulder Colorado
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From: Richard Caley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel
Date: 14 May 1999 19:46:29 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Powe (mp) writes:
mp> Why don't you give an example of the "pre-compiled binary from god
mp> knows what teenaged hackers jokeshop"?
What do you want an example of? The internet ois full of binaries of
who nows what origin.
I was just saying I don't see why I should trust them over verified
source from the real home of whateveritis.
--
Mail me as rjc not [EMAIL PROTECTED] _O_
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From: Seer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: RedHat 6.0 crashes ALL the time
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:53:54 -0700
Hey now! I've been running Linux for 3 years or so and haven't done an
install in a long time. So a week ago I ftp'ed Redhat 6.0 to a FAT32
drive and backed up my /usr and /home partitions. I wiped a drive clean
and started the install.
Installed fine. Very slick. But when I went to boot. First of all,
Lilo crashed at "LI" with no "LO". Not a very uncommon problem, so I
booted from a floppy (the image that's on the Redhat distro)
So here's the meat of the problem. The system is crashing left and
right, all the time for a number or reasons. I get Kernel oops
messages, things like "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
at virtual address 00000090". and a ton of different message just like
it (with a bunch of pointers, and registers a such)
Also, I will do simple commands like "man lilo" and it will be "Unable
to perform command". But when I'll just type it again and it'll work
(for a few pages, and then crap out). Every command is like that, where
it may or may not work at any whim.
Anyway, I have a K6-2 350, PC Chips mainboard, ATI Xpert@play, Voodoo 2,
SB awe 64, WD 80xx ISAethernet card and 64 megs ram. All my drives are
IDE, nothing fancy in any respect. I have been running a mostly updated
to redhat 5.2 (with many a patch to up it to the 2.2.x kernel series)
until I hosed it with this install of Redhat 6. Please help.
Right now i'm compiling a small sweet kernel to floppy using 2.2.9 to
see if any of that Silent Death stuff is affecting me. HELP!
Thanks in advance.
Seer
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From: o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s (david parsons)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel
Date: 14 May 1999 10:24:54 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My *SPECIFIC* problem with ports is no dependency checking at all.
When did you last use ports? I looked at the ports makefiles last
night (1800+ lines of BSD-make code; it makes some of the
gnumakefiles that ship with Linux look simple) and it certainly
looks like it will do dependency checking. It's a bummer that
it's written in Make instead of C, though, because I suspect that
porting and testing Ports to Mastodon would take so long that I'd
be senile before I finished.
____
david parsons \bi/ pkg_*, on the other hand, took 10 (!) minutes to
\/ port to Linux. Does anyone have a ``how to create
a *BSD package'' tutorial?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nav)
Subject: Re: SETI@Home release version slow???
Date: 14 May 1999 19:02:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14 May 1999 14:40:14 GMT, Charles H. Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Has anyone noticed that the release version of the SETI at Home
>program is -much- slower than the beta version.
Yes, read their FAQ. The newer versions are about 8 times "slower" because
they're doing more calculations.
--
Nave Goren [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The Power almighty rests in this Lone Ring.
The Power, alrighty, for doing your Own Thing."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marco tephlant)
Subject: Re: linux win'98
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 18:33:56 +0100
In article <7hantp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Is it possible to view a linux file under Win'98?
> > The reason I'm asking is that I want to synchronized my Netscape settings
> > under both linux and Win-98.
> > I know this is possible using Win NT and Solaris.
>
> Should be no problem, if Netscape uses the same file format on all systems.
> I have never tried the options, but the bookmark file works fine for me on
> both LINUX and Win. Only one thing is different: the naming scheme - on MS
> systems Netscape sticks to the old DOS 8+3 pattern.
>
> cu
> Philipp
>
>
Yep, the format is the same and they will both read your bookmarks, the
only problem is netscape in linux has always refused to read my bookmarks
automatically and I have to go into bookmarks to load them each time,
even creating a link to the windows version wouldnt work!
--
Marco
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From: Thomas Siegerist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Half-Life Server
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 20:54:08 +0200
Can somebody tell me how the Half-Life Server for Linux is to install ??
please use my E-Mail ! thanx alot,
i always get the error message: "error in loading shared libraries:
libreadline.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory"
PLEASE ANSWER ! Thanx
Or forward to so who knows sth about that !
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