Linux-Misc Digest #347, Volume #20 Tue, 25 May 99 19:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Which mp3-encoder is best? (Konrad Mieredorff)
Re: how to kill a dead process? (Sam Steingold)
Re: Problems with Redhat 6 (Matthew Vanecek)
Re: WordPerfect gunzip ("Gero H. Marten")
Installed RPM and printer stopped working (Frank C Bogle)
Typing tutor ("Kerry J. Cox")
wtf is the enlightenment logo? (pikachu73)
"can't load library libX11.so.6"? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
netscape, download, long wait fails on large files (Leon Harris)
Re: Commercially speaking....? ("D. Vrabel")
Re: Linux vs. NT performance / Mindcraft results (Scott A. spam-me-some-moore)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Scott)
Re: A Simple Question (Mike)
Where to put 'rc.local' stuff under RH6.0? ("Darrel Davis")
Re: Bart or Lisa could keep the family running Linux (Gerald Willmann)
Re: A Simple Question ("John Burton")
Re: internet (Lim Chee Onn)
LinuxCanada.Net News ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Communism dosn't even exist, never did... (dentoir)
Re: Need Presentation Graphics Software (mj)
Re: Linux Winzip utility (mj)
Re: libncurses.so.4 ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: smp kernel has "oops" error (mumford)
ip masquerading fine access control question (Son Trung Nguyen)
Re: Tape Backup causing lockup (Edward Vigmond)
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From: Konrad Mieredorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which mp3-encoder is best?
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:27:57 +0200
Hi,
I aready tried bladeenc which is slooooooooow. (I encoded about 45 min.
wav to 128K/s mp3 files on a K6-2 350 and it took me 1 1/2 hours ...)
Are there better alternatives?
Thanx in advance ...
- Konrad Mierendorff
P.S.: Please CC answers to my mail-account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
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From: Sam Steingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to kill a dead process?
Date: 25 May 1999 16:18:29 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wrote:
>> how do I get rid of this process:
>>
>> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
>> sds 26725 0.0 1.3 4808 3532 pts/2 D 12:54 0:00
>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/cc1 /tmp/ccgcQxbp.i -
>>
>> (except by rebooting the machine, of course).
sorry about not saying this right away: kill doesn't work on this
process (note "D" stat). not -9, not -15, nothing.
--
Sam Steingold (http://www.goems.com/~sds) running RedHat6.0 GNU/Linux
Micros**t is not the answer. Micros**t is a question, and the answer is Linux,
(http://www.linux.org) the choice of the GNU (http://www.gnu.org) generation.
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
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From: Matthew Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Problems with Redhat 6
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 15:33:11 -0500
Ok, all of the following (aside from the KDE editorial) is predicated on
the fact that you have a sane modem. If you have a Winmodem, you're
screwed. There are a couple of projects out to use Winmodems for
various things, but not as a modem. Since you didn't say what type of
modem you have, I'm going to assume in the following that you have a
decent modem, and not a braindead Winmodem.
Scott M Gorham wrote:
> 1. I installed Redhat 6.0 with the KDE 1.1.1 Prerelease that it came with.
> When I try and use kppp version 1.04 it says modem ready, and then tells me
> "Sorry, the modem doesn't respond". Can someone help me with this? I am
> using /dev/modem and if I access it via minicom it dials out find.
Ok, first off, get rid of KDE. That will solve many of your problems
(not that Gnome is much better, but hey, RH works on Gnome in their
labs...). Check in /dev/ to see what modem is linked to. Should be
ttyS1, in a standard PC. If linking modem to ttyS1 doesn't work, try
ttyS0.
Also, you need to make sure you have support for ppp compiled into the
kernel. If you don't have ppp support in the kernel, you won't be able
to surf the net over a dialup ppp line, or send email, etc.
Lastly, try dialing a number with the modem using communications
software such as minicom. If you can't make the modem work with
minicom, then there are probably other issues, such as maybe having a
Winmodem.
Finally, if you *must* use the KDE <stuff>, have a look at the EZ-PPP
HOWTO. It (used to) apply fairly well to kppp, and may still.
>
> 2. I have noticed that KDE 1.1.1 release is out, and there are rpm's for all
> major distributions including OL 2.2, but nothing for RedHat 6.0 Has anyone
> heard if this is in the works?
>
Hopefully not. It would be a terrible disappointment if there were.
Down with KDE!! Seriously, though, just keep an eye on the KDE ftp
mirrors, and possibly on rufus.
--
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except me. I'm always getting in the way of something...
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WordPerfect gunzip
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 05:55:16 +0200
Rod Smith wrote:
> ..however, as the usual way to get to the files is via links on web pages.
I must disagree here. Most files you can presumably click on and
download on web sites are located on ftp servers. Look at the URL
while scrolling your mouse over such a link. That's why every
serious computer user writes down the URL and then uses a ftp client
to make the download.
> AFAIK, WP for Linux is NOT available on the usual Linux ftp sites.
Sorry, but you can get WP on about 15-20 mirrors here in Germany.
> You can claim "user error," but the design of the links on Corel's web
> site makes it plain that they EXPECT users to download WP for Linux using
> a web browser. There are no instructions there to Shift-click to do it,
> either. IMHO, blame on this one does *NOT* belong at the user's feet, but
> at Netscape's and Corel's.
No, its a users problem, who obviously doesn't know how his software
works.
--
Gero H. Marten
<http://www.provi.de/gmarten/index.html>
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From: Frank C Bogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installed RPM and printer stopped working
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:52:19 +0100
Hello Friends,
Can you help, I installed a redhat RPM (I am using Redhat 5.2) file
which executed perfectly however now my printer does not work. To
originally get my Epson Stylus Colour 740 to work I had to install all
the erratta RPM's. It has been working perfectly, however now just
nothing. Any ideas other than going through the erratta again; it is a
time consuming process! I used the erratta as of Jan/Feb 99 to get the
printer going in the first place.
Regards...
Pongal (Scotland)
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Typing tutor
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:18:52 +0000
I saw in here sometime back someone had mentioned that there was a
typing tutor available for Linux. Since my typing sucks so bad, I
thought I'd give it a try. If I remember correctly it was only in .deb
format. Any assistance would be appreciated.
KJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pikachu73)
Subject: wtf is the enlightenment logo?
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:03:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wats it suppose to be???
a golf club with hair???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,3dfx.glide.linux
Subject: "can't load library libX11.so.6"?
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:43:48 GMT
I'm having some trouble running an ELF application -- glquake, to be
exact. When I run it, I get the error message "can't load library
libX11.so.6". I've checked/tried a few things so far:
1) glquake IS an ELF executable
2) I setuid it to root (as per the Quake HOWTO)
3) libX11.so.6 exists in the correct place and is a symlink to
libX11.so.6.1
4) ldd shows that glquake knows where libX11.so.6 is
5) "/usr/X11R6/lib" is in /etc/ld.so.conf (as is the linuxaout dir
below)
6) in desperation, I tried setting it up to use the libX11.so.6 found
in /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib (for a.out compatibility), but the same
thing happened
For the record:
RedHat 5.1, running kernel 2.2.6, and while I'm very computer literate,
I'm a bit new to Linux (I compiled the 2.2.6 kernel, if that counts :)
I'm stumped. This is the only app I've run across that does this to
me. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
-g.
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From: Leon Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: netscape, download, long wait fails on large files
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:08:27 +0800
Hi to all.
Sorry about the long title, but ....
I have a problem with netscape 4.5 downloading large files ( I assume
over http).
When, for example, I grab the latest postgres tarball, netscape will
save all but the very last bit of it. It then sits forever, with
essentially 100% of the file - less some tiny amount.
If I ls -trl in the dir, I can see that the file doesn't change in size.
If I copy it to somewhere safe and then close the netscape download
window, and then copy it back - no joy, the file gets corrupted. Of
course if I just close the download window, netscape removes the file,
and I am screwed.
I have a suspicion that it is a proxying issue - my isp uses a squid
proxy, and my university uses one to (reportedly, though I don't know
where). Is there any way to force netscape to do the right thing and
save the file cleanly? Why does this only seem to be a problem with very
large files ?
any advice would be most appreciated.
Cheers,
Leon
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.help,linux.news.groups,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:51:30 +0100
On 25 May 1999, brian moore wrote:
> Um, Erik: xxgdb is not an HP product.
>
> It's an example of a gdb wrapper that does much of what you claim HP's
> product does. DDD is another one.
>
> I would like to see an announcement of this HP debugger, though. HP has
> its own debugger that isn't based on gdb at all (and in fact, they have
> donated PA-RISC specific code to gdb), so it seems odd that they would
> write a mere wrapper for gdb when they have their own tools.
HP does have a debugger based on gdb it's called Wildebeast. Here's what
show version gives:
Hewlett-Packard Wildebeest 1.1.01 (based on GDB 4.17-hpwdb-980821)
Wildebeest is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License,
and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under
certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is
absolutely no warranty for Wildebeest. Type "show warranty" for details.
Wildebeest was built for PA-RISC 1.1 or 2.0 (narrow), HP-UX 10.20.
HP also produces a GUI frontend to WDB (WDB-GUI) this is proprietory
software as it is not derived from any GPL'd code.
> > That is not the point, HP sells it, it is proprietary, it is based on gdb,
> > and gdb is GPL.
>
> It isn't based on gdb at all.
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott A. spam-me-some-moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.qnx,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded
Subject: Re: Linux vs. NT performance / Mindcraft results
Date: 25 May 1999 20:16:23 GMT
In article <7idvj0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Armin@Steinhoff_de says...
>
>
>Bruce Weiner wrote in his rebuttal:
> "Setting the Record Straight: Where ABCnews.com Got It Right and Wrong":
>
> "2.Mindcraft used a server with a MegaRAID controller
> with a beta driver (which was the latest version
> available at the time of the test) while the PC Week
> server used an eXtremeRAID controller with a fully
> released driver. The MegaRAID driver was single
> threaded while the eXtremeRAID driver was
> multi-threaded."
>
>That means that these Mindcraft guys were aware that they have tested
>the LINUX performance with a BETA DRIVER for the MegaRAID controller and
>they were aware that this beta driver was just a SINGLE-THREADED driver!!
>
>It's evident that the multi-threaded NT driver for the MegaRAID controller
>has a much better performance under havy load as a single-threaded
>driver ... so their so called test results are very dubiuos and rigged.
>
>As Lincoln said:"One can cheat the poeple .. but only for a limited time"
>
>Armin
>
The test was paid for by Microsoft. A more interesting statistic would
be the number of tests that came out favorably for the people who paid
for the test results. Unfortunately, no one appears to want to pay for
that study.
[sam]
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From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 15:59:00 -0500
>>Michael David Jones wrote:
>>
> >Mike,
> > It's pretty amazing that you tell of how a small band of armed men
> >can't win against bigger force, but your signature tells different!
>
> You have a remarkably low threshhold for amazement.
>
> >You have a QUOTE from "The Pirates of Penzanze". In that show didn't
> >the Pirates, a small band of armed men, defeat the Cops, a bigger force
> >and better backed????
>
> Bigger, yes. Better backed? Hardly. Less well trained, less well
> armed, not terribly inclined to fight in the first place.
>
> >Yes, it is a musical, but one would think that your views are reflected
> >by what you sign your responses with!
>
> I generally hope that one would think clearly enough to separate light
> entertainment from serious argument, but perhaps not.
>
> Mike Jones | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> One of the problems I've always had with propaganda pamphlets is that
> they're real boring to look at. They're just badly designed. People
> from the left often are very well-intended, but they never had time to
> take basic design classes, you know?
> - Art Spiegelman
Mike,
You are correct, light entertainment shouldn't be put in the same arena
as serious argument. Point taken!!
What I see is that in many cases of history a smaller force of untrained
peoples has defeated a larger force. Example: US Revolutionary War &
Vietnam.
Whatever argument you use, it is still a fact that the smaller force
won. This may have been due to determination, willpower, or luck, but
you should never overestimate the will to win, no matter who you are
facing.
Scott
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Simple Question
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:00:40 GMT
Ok...I've got one...I just want to delete all the files of a given type
recursively through a subdirectory structure. For example - to make
sure a build is 'fresh', I want to delete all the object (.obj) files
from a tree structure and recompile.
Any help?
(no, 'rm -rf *.obj' doesn't work nor does 'rm -rf *obj')
Thanks in advance.
Have a great day :)
Mike
In article <7gs3rk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson) wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Wa;t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Hello-
> > After beating my head against the wall for an hour, I'd like to
pose a
> >very straightforward question to linux users: how can I search a
> >filesystem for files meeting a particular patten (e.g. ending with
> >"sql"), which contain a particular string ("crdb")? I can't seem to
> >convince grep to do anything except search the current directory, and
> >find doesn't seem to have an option to look for a string within a
file.
> >I know this must be simple, I just can't get it to work.
> > Thanks in advance for any information & assistance.
>
> grep does not understand wildcard filenames in any case. The when you
> use wildcard file names the shell expands them before ns grep, rm, etc
> never see them. If you want a big list of file names then choose an
> appropaite tool to generate them.
>
> If you except the list might be too long then xargs knows about the
> limits and will split the argument list into small enough chunks. Your
> problem, for example, could be addressed using
>
> find . -name \*sql -type f -print | xargs fgrep -l crdb
>
> which generates a list of files (the -type f) which match the glob
*sql
> (the -name option) and feeds the output to xargs. xargs invokes fgrep
> on chunks of the output. (Since you had no wild cards fgrep looked
> like a good move). [Some versions of find need -print if you want them
> to actually send the list of files found to stdout. GNU find usually
> guesses you want this and does it anyway :-)
>
> See TFMP for detials.
>
> --
> Duncan (-:
> "software industry, the: unique industry where selling substandard
goods is
> legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems."
>
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From: "Darrel Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where to put 'rc.local' stuff under RH6.0?
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:40:10 -0400
I had some lines that I had added to the end of my rc.local in RH5.2
to start my IP masquerading. I have found the way to start IP masq
under RH6.0 but it doesn't seem to pick it up from rc.local.
I currently have them in a file that I execute as a shell script (and it
works fine) but I would like to execute this at boot as well as mysql.
Any help appreciated.
-darrel
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bart or Lisa could keep the family running Linux
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 14:21:27 -0700
On Tue, 25 May 1999, Gilles Pelletier wrote:
> Do you really figure the average user will be amused having a
> conversation about mount - umount - mtab - fstab - /mnt - /dev - etc.
> just to read a CD, or that a graphical interface will solve all the
> problems interfacing with Linux?
well, he/she doesn't need to care. A standard installation of Solaris will
automount (and umount) floppies and cdroms and the average user doesn't
need to do a thing. Automount is available on Linux AFAIK and could easily
be included in a standard install. Personally I prefer to do things by
hand and graphical interfaces make this easier: on our linux box we only
have to click on an icon (under tkdesk) to mount/umount cdrom/floppy and
it works w/o any problem. The user doesn't even have to care which format
the floppy is in.
Gerald
PS: no comment on the rest of your post.
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From: "John Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Simple Question
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:31:13 +0100
find . -name \*.obj -exec rm {} \;
should do it. Try it with something other than rm as the command first
in case I've made a mistake. I don't want to delete everything!
Mike wrote in message <7if31n$ff5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Ok...I've got one...I just want to delete all the files of a given type
>recursively through a subdirectory structure. For example - to make
>sure a build is 'fresh', I want to delete all the object (.obj) files
>from a tree structure and recompile.
>
>Any help?
>
>(no, 'rm -rf *.obj' doesn't work nor does 'rm -rf *obj')
>
>Thanks in advance.
>Have a great day :)
>Mike
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From: Lim Chee Onn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,jaring.pcbase,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: internet
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 23:16:01 +0800
Mohd H Misnan wrote:
>
> Anyway, moral of the story, the standard installation sometime doesn't work for
> you, you still need to read the HOWTOs and READMEs and need to manually tweak
> your system.
>
Then what's the point of having a distribution in the first place? A
proper distribution is supposed to make all these transparent to the
user (new and experienced) and should work just as well. I am not saying
that RH6.0 is not a good distribution but my point still stands.
I wish hard for the day when they finally package everything well for
that's the day when we will see a larger customer base for Linux. In the
meantime, those less technically inclined will tend to stick to the
'other' OS.
Cheers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LinuxCanada.Net News
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:44:04 GMT
Hi,
Just a quick word to let you know that LinuxCanada.Net is in operation
with a lot of info & links & headlines & lots more like a Linux
bookstore, the daily User Friendly comic strip, details about the
upcoming Ottawa Linux Symposium, etc. Find it all at
http://www.linuxcanada.net
-pi
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From: dentoir <[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: 25 May 1999 22:21:58 GMT
dhs.org> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization:
X-No-Archive: Yes
In gnu.misc.discuss W.A. Scheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When the Soviet Union fell apart, the dream of achieving Communism around
>> the world died with
>> it.
> GOOD !!
Yeah wonderfull, Russia is doing great these days isn't it? Complete total
economic meltdown and stuff. Glad to see they've left the days behind when
they could get free college education etc.
>> So what is all this dribble about Linux being a Communist Software package.
> It's fairly 'drivel' actually. Linux is one of the best examples of whatcan
> happen when INDIVIDUALS have the freedom to pursue their own goals, rather
> than those dictated by the state. NEVER COULD HAPPEN under any centralized
> system of control. It would be too much of a threat to the 'Party' toactually
> allow the 'workers' control over their own destiny in such a fashion.
Ofcourse ideal communism has nothing to do with dictatorship of the state,
it's about the PEOPLE taking control instead of some corporation.
-- dentoir
http://www.xs4all.nl/~edtx/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mj)
Subject: Re: Need Presentation Graphics Software
Date: 25 May 1999 21:37:30 GMT
Hi,
StarOffice 5.0 or above does too. The program is named StarPresentator (?) or
somewhat like that. It uses Bitmaps and vector graphics, and the apropiate
picture editors are included too. I haven't used it but it looked well working
to me. It's for free (for personal use), so you don't lose nothing trying it.
bye.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Johnston) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Steen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>... I need to
>>display slides a la MS Powerpoint or SGI Showcase. I am unaware of any
>>software to do this under Linux. Can anyone suggest something? Any
>>comments from experienced users would be welcome.
>>
>
>ivtools flipbook can do that, with Ctrl-F/Ctrl-B navigation of
>multiple frames (http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/).
>
>Scott Johnston
>Vectaport Inc.
>http://www.vectaport.com
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mj)
Subject: Re: Linux Winzip utility
Date: 25 May 1999 21:30:27 GMT
Hi,
My Debian 2.0 (Hamm) included some unzip utility, that unzip's ".zip" files,
but does'nt create them. No idea, if there is a complete "zipper", but isn't
it compatible with gzip? I would try that.
bye.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is anyone aware of a utility for linux which understands ".zip" files?
>It would be awfully convienent if I could unzip files created by Winzip
>(in WinX environment of course) in linux.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Kevin
>
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: libncurses.so.4
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:37:44 GMT
Brian Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have slackware 3.6 installed with kernel 2.0.35, it currently has
> ncurses 1.9.8x installed, is there any know problems with installing
> ncurses ver. 4.2
no (read the faqs about /usr/lib/terminfo and red/blue)
The current version of ncurses is 4.2 (5.0 in beta)
There's an faq at
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mumford)
Subject: Re: smp kernel has "oops" error
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:41:26 GMT
A while ago, ag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> begot:
>Hi All,
>
>I've been trying to build an SMP kernel with 2.2.5 (RH 6.0). When the
>time comes to mount the local filesystem, the machine complains:
>
>Mounting local filesystems: Oops 0000
>CPU: 1
>EIP: 0010:[<c2814181>]
>EFLAGS: 00010286
><snipped>
> [FAILED]
>
>
>The boot process continues and then the machine hangs up on "Mounting
>other filesystems". Mono CPU kernels boot and run without a hitch. Any
>idea what the problem is?
No idea, but a few suggestions:
1) Try a more recent kernel. It's up to 2.2.9 as of this writing. I seem
to recall reading something on the kernel mailing list that there were
filesystem problems in 2.2.5.
2) subscribe and post this to the linux kernel mailing list. You can sub-
scribe by typing
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You're far more likely to get help with kernel problems there than here
in the newsgroups.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Son Trung Nguyen)
Subject: ip masquerading fine access control question
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:15:51 GMT
Dear netter,
I am somewhat of a newbie to ip masquerading and wonder if you can
show me how I can activate and deactivate an ip number from my rules.
For example let say I have activated ip masking for two machines on
my internal network. ie
ipfwadm -F -a m -S aaa.bbb.ccc.180/32 -D 0.0.0.0/0
ipfwadm -F -a m -S aaa.bbb.ccc.181/32 -D 0.0.0.0/0
and now for some reason, I want to turn off access to machine aaa.bbb.ccc.180
but leave the other one active. Right now all I know how to do is an
ipconfig eth0 down
but this isn't too nice because both machines now can't access the outside.
There must be a way with ipfwadm where I can remove only the aaa.bbb.ccc.180
without affecting aaa.bbb.ccc.181 I have read through the faqs but like
usual, I missed it, so I apologize if it is in there. I will read it
again
just in case.
Further more, is there a way you can restrict the bandwidth through one
of the ip? ie allow only a 1200 bps through aaa.bbb.ccc.180 and give the
rest of the bandwidth to the other machine? Hope you can do this.
Any pointers, hints, solutions is so greatly appreciate.
thanks in advance
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From: Edward Vigmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Backup causing lockup
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:08:36 GMT
Kevin Turnquist wrote:
>
> I'm experiencing strange tape drive behavior on one of my machines.
> It doesn't seem to matter which kernel is involved, but when the tape
> gets to backing up anything in the /lib directory, the machine locks
> instantly. No time for an error message on screen or in logs...
>
> Other machines don't exhibit this behavior.
>
> Could it be a bad/corrupted file in /lib, or something else? I'm using
> a Seagate Travan-8000 SCSI-2 drive for backup. Presently, I'm using
> kernel 2.2.7, with tape support as a module (it doesn't seem to matter).
>
> If anyone else has seen this behavior, I'd be grateful. I really don't
> want to re-install the distribution if I can help it.
What SCSI card do you have? I am having similar problems with an
AHA-1520B which I have decided to replace with a fully supported card. I
can use my Sony SDT-7000 drive under other SCSI cards with no problem..
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Edward Vigmond
Institut de Genie Biomedical, Universite de Montreal
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