Linux-Misc Digest #261, Volume #20 Wed, 19 May 99 11:13:13 EDT
Contents:
[Q] PPP-strange error!! (Janusz Kawczak)
Re: NT the best web platform? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
WIN98 and Suse-Linux 6.1 Problems ("Thomas Hock")
Re: possible to burn Mac Bootable with xcdroast? (Bill Unruh)
tar and gz (Jeff Busch)
Re: Journaling Filesystem Anyone? (Michael Segulja)
HELP: disabling shadow password ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HTML Parser for text extraction ("Alain Charroux")
Re: Video capture card drivers (src) ("Selious")
SSH v1.2.27 is out! ("rackles")
Re: Calendaring (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: AutoInstall is for experts, not beginners!!! (Richard Robinson)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (was: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?)
(david parsons)
Re: RealVideo 5.0 and kernel 2.2.x ?? ("William B. Cattell")
Re: DDS-3 DAT drive (Chris Mauritz)
Re: Communism dosn't even exist, never did... ("Chris Campbell")
Fax Recieve Software ("Steve Cholerton")
Re: HTML based POP tools ("Mies")
Re: Need help setting up system. (Mark Tranchant)
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From: Janusz Kawczak <"jkawczak"@math,uncc.edu>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: [Q] PPP-strange error!!
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 02:59:21 GMT
Hi everyone:
I've upgraded from RH5.2->RH6.0 and now I am getting some strange
looking error messages.
1) when the system boots, I get
.... modprobe: can't locate module lo:0
.... modprobe: can't locate module lo:1
and so on, until 50 runs are reached.
Any suggestions????
2) when I try to connect via ppp, I get
May 18 22:29:52 localhost pppd[704]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
May 18 22:30:27 localhost pppd[704]: Serial connection established.
May 18 22:30:27 localhost pppd[704]: Using interface ppp0
May 18 22:30:27 localhost pppd[704]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
May 18 22:30:58 localhost pppd[704]: LCP: timeout sending
Config-Requests
May 18 22:30:58 localhost pppd[704]: Connection terminated.
May 18 22:30:58 localhost pppd[704]: Connect time 0.6 minutes.
May 18 22:30:58 localhost pppd[704]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit
clean:
May 18 22:30:58 localhost pppd[704]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
May 18 22:30:58 localhost pppd[704]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
May 18 22:30:58 localhost pppd[704]: Exit.
The above is really looking bizarre (at least to me). The dial-in
process goes amoothly, but
it cannot make a connection. Of course, before upgrading to RH6.0
everything worked very
well.
Again, any suggestions - answers.
Please send the answers to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you in advance.
John.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:17:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
bz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> please.. no more benchmark crap. anyone can make a bechmark say
> whatever you want. if you had statistics, you remember that. you
> could even take ms stats and make them say whatever you want. the
> reality is that you cannot count on ms.
>
> a bit off topic.. i remember when all the managers at hertz believed
> the hype that ms spewed and ditched their os400 machines for new $20k
> PCs for servers. the short of that story is that they are back to
> the old os400s. what a waste of time & money.
>
That's a shame and very short sighted. I recently went down to IBM's
Teraplex Center in Rochester MN and tested my company's application
using one of those huge honk'n AS/400's (12cpus, 40Gb RAM and 1.2Tb
disk) as our database server. Wow! What a nice box, what a nice OS.
I can see why every person I know that has worked on the AS/400 raves
about them. Hopefully IBM will fix some of the minor short comings of
their RDBMS (lack of LOB and nested outer join support) soon and it'll
rock.
cheers.
--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
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From: "Thomas Hock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WIN98 and Suse-Linux 6.1 Problems
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 14:32:08 +0200
Hi ...
i retrieved some prblems after installing the newest SuSe distibution 6.1.
After finisching yast-lilo configuration (hda1 = dos, hdb1 = linux standaard
IDE-Kernel) i restartet the system and it seem to work with the new linux
partitions.I rebooted the system again to start my old (Windows) system and
it dosn't come up until it press the reset button. in the next step I booted
in secure mode (and this is the only way to start Win) and I could not
change anything to repair my registry.
Finaly I started with a DOS-Boot Disk and used the fdisk With /mbr options
in hope to fix the Win problems. Nothing happens.
Now I need help!
It's an personal emergancy !!!!
Did anybody resolve this prob or got any idea ????
Thnax 4 reading
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: possible to burn Mac Bootable with xcdroast?
Date: 19 May 1999 02:37:35 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> William Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Is it possible to burn Mac Bootable CD's with xcdroast/cdrecord?
xcdroast cannot burn any bootable CDs in the present verion. (It is
promised for the next version) cdrecord does however burn bootable CDs.
Whether then burn bootable Mac CDs I do not know.
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From: Jeff Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tar and gz
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 02:31:13 GMT
Would someone please explain what I am supposed to do with the "tar.gz"
files I download. Or where I can find books or information. I have
tried the procedures in the books I have, but continue to get error
messages like "file or directory doesn't exist". I am running RH5.2.
Thanks in advance.
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From: Michael Segulja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Journaling Filesystem Anyone?
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 13:13:36 GMT
What exactly is a journaling file system? I remember reading an interview
with Linus Torvalds, and he mentioned this being one of the big things in
upcoming kernel versions. From what I understand, all the major versions of
Unix do it (SGI, Sun, etc.), so it makes sense for Linux to have it,
according to Linus.
Just some info floating around in my head!
**Nick Brown wrote:
> Such a project is under way, I believe, with a guy called Stephen
> Tweedie at the head of it.
>
> Chris Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a current project covering a journaling filesystem
> > for Linux?
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)int)
>
> Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
> http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP: disabling shadow password
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:19:30 GMT
Hi there!
How do I temporarily disable shadow passwords in Linux (SUSE 6.0)?? I
want to run the Cheyenne ARCserve client, but you cannot connect to
the machine runnig that client, because it won't work with shadow
passwords. Is there any way to disable shadow password for distibct
applications or to disable it for just an few minutes??
Ciao,
Arne
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From: "Alain Charroux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HTML Parser for text extraction
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:11:08 +0200
I need a speed and industrial HTML parser.
I just want to pass it an html file and get the text off the page (not the
code, just the visible text :) )
Of course, I want to parse real html. The parser must traverse Frames (and
IFrame) and be free with sources.
Who knows ?
Thanks
Alain Charroux - Software Engineer - Sevenix
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mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.keeboo.com
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From: "Selious" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video capture card drivers (src)
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:17:23 +0200
>I am not shy to start writing a driver for this card, but I need some
>pointers and help.
I had simular problem with a Philips SoundCard, and they don't mind that you
develop a linux driver. They even send me technical information (but because
they use other components, they pointed to specifications of certain chips).
Anyway, concerning video, it's probably inhouse technology (I hope), so I
advice you to politly ask for specs or windows sourcecode !!
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From: "rackles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SSH v1.2.27 is out!
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.security,comp.security.unix,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:32:02 GMT
Cool...
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/packages/security/ssh/ssh-1.2.27.tar.gz
http://x39.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=478128364 for the official announcement on
news:comp.security.ssh ...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Subject: Re: Calendaring
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 13:16:43 GMT
On 19 May 1999 05:54:50 GMT, Cameron Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>In article <N6o03.11012$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Tue, 18 May 1999 10:36:30 -0600, Stan Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>I need to know if there is an application on Linux that would allow calendar
>>>sharing. I have a bunch of users running Windows 95/98 using Outlook 97.
>>
>>Plan has been doing this for a goodly five years;
>
>Great tease. How is one supposed to look up a computer program named "plan"?
Looking at the URL at the bottom of the post might have gotten you somewhat
nearer to it, linking to <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/pimslinuxvcard.html>
which has links to Plan and Ical amongst others.
>>I expect that Ical
>>does the same, and reasonably like for the same scope of timeperiod.
>
>Hotbot finds Interactive Collections Availability List
>(some kind of botany index). And an IETF draft about calsch-ical,
>and an Inventory Calendar. Mostly dead links.
>One at a school called Loramie looks promising, says it's an Ical Tutorial,
>but it's only a picture of a calendar with all links password protected.
>
>I get it, this is some kind of contest, like a treasure hunt.
>I think I'll write a program named "the"; nobody will *ever* be able to
>find it.
Already taken... It's an XEDIT clone that integrates with REXX, and runs on
various "even-vaguely-UNIX-like" systems (that extends far enough to include
Amiga, OS/2). Short for "The Hessling Editor."
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to free software today?..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Robinson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: AutoInstall is for experts, not beginners!!!
Date: 19 May 1999 13:45:22 +0100
In article <7htptl$5p2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Now if I could just stop the help appearing when I don't want it....
>>
>>dselect is very helpful, isn't it? :-)
>
>Its just a case of developing those lightning reflexes to hit space
>(I think it is) not enter when the help pops up.
>
>What it really needs is some way of helping get rid of those libraries
>that were installed with something a long time ago and are no longer
>needed as you got rid of that something or it changed libraries since.
>
>Either some way of flagging things as auto-installed so they can be
>auto-uninstalled when nothing depends on them any more or an interface
>that shows whats at the top of the tree and what isn't so any libraries
>at the top of the tree can be uninstalled by the user.
Would be nice ... but, try just removing a library. If anything depends on
it, it'll complain and you can back off.
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
I don't want to receive UCE :- remove 'x' to reply.
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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 (was: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?)
Date: 18 May 1999 19:35:04 -0700
In article <7ht0aa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John S. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>That is the biggest (only) problem with FreeBSD -- FreeBSD people
>generally eschew advocacy, and has been a point of contention for quite
>a while now.
Physician, heal thyself.
FreeBSD has advocates who are every bit as rabid as the more
outspoken morons who infest the Linux newsgroups. It's a saving
grace that FreeBSD doesn't have as much of a user base, so you
don't have so many of them, but between the
a) complaints about bloodline,
b) complaints about contents of a distribution,
and
c) whining about the GPL
that goes on here, the mindless *BSD advocacy is indistinguishable
from the mindless Linux advocacy out there.
At least you don't have blowhards like Rex Ballard, so you can thank
your blessings that FreeBSD isn't popular yet. But it's starting to
show up in the computer media, so I'm not going to expect the Usenet
reenactment of Yugoslavia in the 1990s to end any time soon.
____
david parsons \bi/ You don't howl about Microsoft, but the RICHARD STALLMAN
\/ IS EVIL AND SO IS THE GPL!!! screed makes up for it.
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RealVideo 5.0 and kernel 2.2.x ??
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 02:03:20 GMT
"David E. Fox" wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It's true. There's a work-around posted on RealAudio's site although
> > they don't endorse it. I tried it but haven't got it working yet but I
> > am getting closer...
>
> I'm running rv5 just fine, but I'm using kernel 2.2.0 still and
> I use the OSS sound drivers rather than the ones provided by
> the kernel.
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> David E. Fox Tax Thanks for letting me
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] the change magnetic patterns
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] churches on your hard disk.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
I finally got it working. There was a note in the 'Changes' doc in the
2.2.6 kernel's Documantaion dir. It talks about the real player having
been coded to adjust for a bug in the 2.x.x kernels. the kernel bug has
been fixed in the 2.2.3?> kernels so there is a patch to apply to real
player using dd.
Thanks,
Bill
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DDS-3 DAT drive
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 20:02:16 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Per Steinar Iversen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 1999 15:59:16 GMT, Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>What's the secret to getting a DDS-3 DAT drive to work with linux?
>>I've tried reading/writing tapes with Redhat 5.2 and Redhat 6.0
>>using an HP and a Seagate drive without success.
>>
>>When I try to read/write tapes, I get:
>>
>>tape read error: Input/output error
>>
>>I've compiled SCSI tape support into the kernel (tried both 2.0.36 and
>>2.2.9) and made sure the device files (/dev/nst0 /dev/st0) exist.
>>
>>Anyone have any suggestions?
> In the case of reading tapes this could be due to different block lengths
> between the drive that wrote the tape and the reader.
> Assuming that a tape contain a tar-image, then one can make linux figure
> out the blocksize:
> mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0
> tar xf /dev/st0
> The trick is to use "mt setblk" with an argument of 0 - this seems not
> to be documented in the mt man-page, but it works well though.
> I have a handful of DDS-3 DAT tapes running with linux, they work
> very well, both Sony and HP.
When I use the "mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0" command, I get:
/dev/st0: Input/output error
This is with a Redhat 6.0 system, Seagate DDS-3 drive and a 125M
tape. I tried the same with a 90m tape and the same thing happens.
I'm using kernel 2.2.9, but it also happens with the 2.2.5 kernel
that ships with 6.0.
Any suggestions?
C
--
Christopher Mauritz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Chris Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Communism dosn't even exist, never did...
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 21:59:13 -0400
What has this thread to do with ANY of the newsgroups in the header? Can't
this be taken up in a politically oriented group?
Chris
Ottavio G. Rizzo wrote in message ...
>Charlie Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> If you want to talk about THREATENING Governments then we can talk
>> about countries such as Iraq. But they've never been considered
>> Communists....
>
>What about the government that sold Saddam Hussein all his weapons,
>invaded a small country nearby in the '80s just for tha sake of it,
>has been supporting terrorism in Latin America and elsewhere for good
>part of the century, is making a huge mess in the Balkans (and losing
>at it, btw) because of the stupidest foreign minister of the whole
>world? I doubt they would call themselves communist. (Actually that
>particular foreign minister wouldn't call herself stupid, but yet...)
>
>> So what is all this dribble about Linux being a Communist Software
>> package.
>
>I dunno: I don't see how Linux has anything to do with communism, but
>I don't see either how that would be bad :)
>
>
>Ciao,
> Ottavio
>--
>Ottavio Rizzo IRMAR, Campus de Beaulieu
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Universit� de Rennes 1
>T�l +33 (0)2 99 28 67 92 35042 RENNES cedex
>Fax +33 (0)2 99 28 67 90 FRANCE
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From: "Steve Cholerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Fax Recieve Software
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 15:29:14 +0100
Can anybody recommend some software that I can install on my machine which
will autoanswer and receive faxes?
Thanx in advance.
--
Steve Cholerton
IT Manager, Utopia Furniture Limited
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: www.utopia.org.uk
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From: "Mies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: HTML based POP tools
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 16:57:50 +0300
>I'm fairly new at Linux (2.2) and have a couple of questions regarding
<snip!>
>2- HTML based Clients
>
Well you could try IMP, I recall it handles IMAP and POP.
It was http://www.horde.org/ I think...
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help setting up system.
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 14:39:17 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
D. Vrabel wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bev wrote:
> > Just for curious, why do most people use lilo rather than loadlin, which
> > merely requires that you type 'win' or 'linux' at the C:\> prompt and
> > leaves the MBR untouched?
> I'd recommend using loadlin too. It has no problems with disk geometry
> etc. If linux can see it then loadlin will work.
>
> I think the problem wih loadlin is that it is not an option during the
> install hence not many people know about or they think that it is an
> inferior solution. Loadlin should become an installation option.
Hear hear. I like LOADLIN. Combine it with a CONFIG.SYS menu, and you
can have pretty much exactly the same functionality as LILO, with
default choices auto-selected after a short time. I have Windows, DOS
and Linux as boot choices on my box. No messing with the MBR, either - I
let Micros~1 software handle the boot process!
Mark.
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