Linux-Misc Digest #361, Volume #20 Wed, 26 May 99 21:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Printer Drivers (Konrad Mieredorff)
Re: kppp can't resolve addresses (newbie q) (Vic Rosenthal)
STB 4mb agp board ("Peter Loftus")
Re: * * * Mindcraft offer to re-run Linux vs NT test (Philip Brown)
Re: * * * Mindcraft offer to re-run Linux vs NT test (Philip Brown)
Re-placing LILO (Technical Computing Services)
Re: About SuSE Linux 6.1 (Bill McClain)
HELP!!! I cant explain these few loglines! ("=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Griese?=")
Re: NT the best web platform? (Jon Drukman)
Re: new 2.2.5 Kernel (Giuseppe Pittavini)
Re: Communism dosn't even exist, never did... (Johan Kullstam)
Re: What is /dev/dsp ? (garv)
Re: how to kill a dead process? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Rebuilding SRPMs (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Normal user can't mount floppy on RedHat 6.0..why???? (William Lacy)
Re: Installed RPM and printer stopped working (Ray)
Ethernet Card Plus Elite 16 (Uwe Brauer)
Re: RH6, Gnome & RealPlayer not quite right (Douglas Bollinger)
Re: Restrict Directory access (Darren Greer)
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From: Konrad Mieredorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer Drivers
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:38:39 +0200
Chocolate Moose wrote:
>
> Does anyone here know where I can find a printer driver for an NEC
> SuperScript 100C for Linux? How about where I might go to look for one?
> Chocolate "New to Linux" Moose
Check "ghostscript" and ask again if it doesn't have the driver ...
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From: Vic Rosenthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kppp can't resolve addresses (newbie q)
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:43:20 -0700
Steve Nospam wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 May 1999 11:42:51 -0700, Vic Rosenthal
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I'm trying to access the net with Caldera Open Linux 5.2. I have set up kppp to
> >call and log in to my isp (I can do it either as 'script-based' or PAP). This
> >appears to succeed. I have entered the dns addresses provided by my isp into
> >the kppp setup, but when I try to ping anything other than localhost, ping just
> >hangs.
>
> If you actually mean COL2.2 instead of 5.2, then if you used a theme
> to set up your desktop, I suggest that you create a new account and
> don't use any themes. That was the only way I could get Kppp to work
> reliably. Another option is to update to KDE v. 1.1.1 which also
> seemed to work quite a bit better than v.1.1. However, I found COL2.2
> to be completely unreliable and swapped it for SuSE 6.1 which is
> vastly superior in stability IMO.
Yes, COL 2.2 is correct. I didn't fool with the desktop at all yet; I wanted to
get the basic stuff to work first.
Vic
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From: "Peter Loftus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: STB 4mb agp board
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 15:44:48 -0400
Caan anyone tell me how I might be able to get the above board to work with
Xwindows?
TIA
Pete Loftus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Subject: Re: * * * Mindcraft offer to re-run Linux vs NT test
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 May 1999 22:53:04 GMT
On 25 May 1999 22:59:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>...
>According to Dan, even companies doing $2 CD's count as "commercial use"
>of his code, ignoring that the $2 CD's are loss leaders to get sales on
>books, t-shirts, stuffed penguins, etc, and that the $50 distributions
>are selling the support, the pretty box and 'convenience' of buying it
>from a bookstore.... not the software at all.
I agree with Dan on the last point. THere's no way someone isn't making money
off the $50 distributions, unless they are grossly incompetant.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Subject: Re: * * * Mindcraft offer to re-run Linux vs NT test
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 May 1999 22:54:01 GMT
On Thu, 27 May 1999 00:13:44 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>[microemacs] is included in OS-9, too, and they are not selling cheap CDs,
>they want real money for it. So there must be a way...
I think there is/were multiple distributions of a program called "microemacs".
Would be nice to find out definitively where the OS9 variant comes from.
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From: Technical Computing Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re-placing LILO
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:25:33 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installed SuSE 6.1 on my 2nd hard drive (/dev/hdb). Win95 resides on
the first
hard drive.
After fragging the 2nd hard drive a few times, I finally succeeded
installing
SuSE 6.1 and putting LILO on the first hard drive....or so I thought.
I rebooted and received the "LILO" prompt. Chose 'linux' and booted
into
Linux just fine.
Shut down, restarted. All that did appear was "LI"
Well, this is normal, I thought. At least I have System Commander.
System Commander does let me boot into Win95, but of course doesn't
let me into Linux.
I'd like to re-install LILO as my boot loader, but I'm not exactly sure
how
to do this once I'm past the initial install phase.
Could someone who knows how to do this perchance point me in the
right direction? For the moment, I'm booting into Win with System
Command and Linux with a boot disk (see how cumbersome this is?)
Much thanks to anyone who can rescuse me from this slight madness!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill McClain)
Subject: Re: About SuSE Linux 6.1
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:20:36 -0600
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did a search for SuSE Linux 6.1 on DejaNews and
> from the results, it seems people have been having
> some major headaches with the new version.
I had only one problem during an upgrade: a serial port became
inaccessible. The solution was on the support web page.
-Bill
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From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Griese?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP!!! I cant explain these few loglines!
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:58:04 +0200
Any help would be great, please mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or repost
in this group :-)
THNX!
PS.: The Machine is a 486 DX 33; 16 MB RAM; 2 GB HDD; 450 MB HDD; running
SuSE Linux 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36.
Ciao
..Bj�rn
--- CUT ---
May 24 07:02:18 mrhankey kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address 00000004
May 24 07:02:18 mrhankey kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00cd1000, Xr3 = 00cd1000
May 24 07:02:18 mrhankey kernel: *pde = 00000000
May 24 07:02:18 mrhankey kernel: Oops: 0002
May 24 07:02:18 mrhankey kernel: CPU: 0
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: EIP: 0010:[generic_file_read+1002/1584]
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: eax: 00001000 ebx: 00001000 ecx:
00000400 edx: 008a8000
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: esi: 008a8000 edi: 40008000 ebp:
00207220 esp: 0049bf54
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: ds: 0018 es: 002b fs: 002b gs: 002b
ss: 0018
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: Process mandb (pid: 15255, process nr: 36,
stackpage=0049b000)
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: Stack: 00200018 00000000 00238594 00001000
00948000 0011d4b1 00000000 00003000
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: 00003000 0087a000 00000001 00000001
0087a000 00000000 00000000 00000000
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: 0012638c 00948000 00238594 40008000
00001000 007ee810 080b2fe8 00000000
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: Call Trace: [do_mmap+833/912]
[sys_read+204/256] [system_call+85/128]
May 24 07:02:19 mrhankey kernel: Code: f3 a5 83 e3 03 89 d9 f3 a4 07 55 89
44 24 14 e8 a2 39 00 00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Drukman)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 26 May 1999 23:12:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Olaf Walkowiak wrote:
>If you have a lot of dynamic content, exspecially when using custom
>modules with mod_perl or something, using Squid can reduce the
>necessary Apache childs, especially if there are lots of "slow"
>clients. This can reduce memory consumption.
If you're going to use Squid, you should give it all the memory you
can spare.
I'm not sure what you mean by "dynamic" content here. If the content
is truly dynamic (in my mind that means it is different on each request)
then you *cannot* cache it with something like squid, because that would
defeat the entire point. Now if you mean the pages are mostly static
but do change from time to time, then I'm with you.
We use squid specifically to accelerate our *static* content. Each pageview
has something like 30 associated images. Squid makes a fantastic "images
only" server. It has low overhead compared to Apache.
Throw it on a separate box with a ton of RAM and you will double or triple
your Apache boxes' capacity instantly. Squid+Apache is a great solution
for high volume sites.
--
Jon Drukman
Director of Web Systems
GameSpot Inc.
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From: Giuseppe Pittavini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: new 2.2.5 Kernel
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 17:03:13 -0700
Hello and Thanks for your suggestions and help
I switched the drives but that did not work. Both of my drivers are
EIDE. I am thinking if i disabled the EIDE cdrom support in the kernel might
leave me without any cd drive.
Let me know what you think
thanks
Timothy Litwiller wrote:
> I had similar problems
>
> I had to move my HP cd-rw to master and the cdrom to slave to make it
> work
> also to be able to use cdrecord you have to disable eide cdrom support in
> the kernel and enable scsi emulation and generic scsi support. there was
> also a line to add to lilo.conf ??? hmmm why can't I think of it now.
>
> Giuseppe Pittavini wrote:
>
> > I have a Yamaha cd-rw and an Acer cdrom 24x. Both cd drivers are
> > atapi EIDE drives. The cd-rw is set to be a slave, and the Acer is a
> > master. I was running RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.0.36 and it was able to
> > recognize both of my drives while booting, but since I upgraded to
> > RedHat 6.0 the new kernel 2.2.5 recognizes only my cd-rw in boot time
> > but not the cdrom. Any idea why this happens? Anybody has a similar
> > problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
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From: Johan Kullstam <[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: 26 May 1999 16:01:53 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (witra) writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve) wrote:
> >If IBM wanted a tax on all personal computers to make up for piracy
> >and infringed copyrights, chances are quite good they would be able to
> >push it through.
>
> Leaving aside the question of whether they could or could not do it,
> they would not. It's one step too close to using those tax to finance
> free software. :)
taxes have produced some great free software - consider eispack.
--
johan kullstam
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From: garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is /dev/dsp ?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 13:32:04 -0700
Charly wrote:
> If someone knows, please tell me ... thanks
Maybe you just need to change persimmons on the sound file?
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to kill a dead process?
Date: 26 May 1999 15:56:01 -0400
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IMHO, 26725 is an extremely large PID. How come?
because PID counter hasn't rolled over yet?
i think they run from 1 to 32k. iirc the PIDs are 15 bit numbers. (0
may be reserved. i don't recall ever seeing it perhaps it's the
kernel?) the lowest tend to be grabbed by stuff like init (which is
(almost?) always PID 1), getty and other daemons.
i run a lot of scripts which spawn hundreds of processes. rebuilding
a kernel will involve burning through a lot of process identifiers.
as my machine reboots rather seldom (on the order of weeks or months),
i roll-over the PID count fairly regularly.
i don't find 26725 to be large at all. ymmv.
--
johan kullstam
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rebuilding SRPMs
Date: 26 May 1999 15:59:47 -0400
"Thomas Svenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do you have any suggestions about the best default option for K6, Pentium and
> Pentium II/III?
the classic pentium requires some bizzare scheduling stunts.
compiling for a pentium target will hurt performance on the
p-pro/ii/iii and vice versa. if you want the *same* binary to run on
*both* classic pentium and ppro, just compile for i486.
--
johan kullstam
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From: William Lacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Normal user can't mount floppy on RedHat 6.0..why????
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 19:44:09 GMT
In the /etc/fstab listing shown below the "users" option lets users
mount the given partition. For read/write permissions you can add
"umask=0" as an option for fat or vfat partitions. Also, for any
filesystem just change the permissions on the mount directory to 777.
Jeffrey Shilt wrote:
>
> Marlon Deerr wrote:
> >
> > I just recently installed RedHat 6.0 and when I log in as a regular user
> > and attemp to use my floppy drive with the floppy icon on the desktop, I
> > get an error message stating that only root can mount the floppy.
> >
> > How do I get around this problem as I do not wish to log on a root all
> > the time just to use my floppy drive. This never happened to me when I
> > was using RedHat 5.2.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> It's hard to tell exactly without seeing things like /etc/fstab but
> here's what I do.
>
> Make directories for the various file sys. you want to mount. In
> /etc/fstab put lines for each of these and make sure they say user or
> users (apparently users means if I mount a drive someone else could
> unmount it). Here's an example of what I do:
>
> mkdir /mnt/ext2 (for linux floppies)
> mkdir /mnt/win95 (for win & dos floppies)
>
> Then put these lines in /etc/fstab:
>
> # device mount point fs type options (something)
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/ext2 ext2 users,noauto 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/win95 vfat users,noauto 0 0
>
> Check the man pages for mount and fstab for more details. But using
> this you should be able (as anybody) to say mount /mnt/win95 to get
> access to a dos type floppy (mount /mnt/ext2 for a linux type floppy).
>
> I'm in windows now (gotta trade this winmodem in), but if this doesn't
> work get back to me and I''l make sure to go into linux and check it out
> specifically and get back to you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: Installed RPM and printer stopped working
Date: 27 May 1999 00:51:29 GMT
On Tue, 25 May 1999 22:52:19 +0100, Frank C Bogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
What RPM?
--
Ray
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From: Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ethernet Card Plus Elite 16
Date: 26 May 1999 22:22:51 +0000
Hello
I am running Suse Linux and this distribution
does not support the Ethernet Card Plus Elite 16, explictly sated in
their webpage.
Could someone pls tell where to find information about this particular
card, thanks in advance
Uwe Brauer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas Bollinger)
Subject: Re: RH6, Gnome & RealPlayer not quite right
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:57:46 -0400
Tim Ryan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Gnome uses esd for all sound. This is the Enlightenment Sound Daemon
> and it does take over /dev/dsp completely. To use a program that
> uses /dev/dsp use the esddsp wrapper. This redirects /dev/dsp through
> esd. The only time I have trouble with this is when the libc versions
> don't match.
Ahh, thank you. I was determined to figure out the strange
weirdness with the sound device in my RH6.0 boxen. I stumbled
around a little, but your post helped alot. Here's some info:
The esp demon is used with Enlightnment, here is where you can find
some info on it in your dist:
/usr/doc/esound-0.2.12
and here on the web:
http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html
With my system, when I shutdown X to go to command line, I couldn't
figure out why my /dev/dsp was always busy. Apparently, the esd
doesn't let go, even after Gnome/E is shutdown. I think this is a
bug err feature, something. :)
Anyway, it's easy to kill, the user owns the process. If you want
to use a sound program in Gnome/E and they don't recognize the esd,
then you have to user the wrapper, which is "esddsp".
How, it's easy, like :
esddsp ./lxdoom
This would start lxdoom from an xterm. It works, but here's the
catch: The wrapper introduces a ton of lag to games, about 1-2
seconds on my ole P133, which is not good. At least Doom works,
Quake2 just says something like "Your soundcard can't do that" and
disables sound.
The lag shouldn't be a problem if you just want to play a sound file
or something, though.
I just read a post mentioning about a newer version of Gnome/E not
hogging the /dev/dsp so much. I'll check that out and see if things
can be improved.
--
Douglas Bollinger
Mt. Holly Springs, PA 17065
My other computer runs Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Greer)
Subject: Re: Restrict Directory access
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:58:10 GMT
I apologize for not mentioning that. They are loging in through FTP.
Ive been reading up on chroot. Gonna see if I can make that happen.
Darren
On Thu, 27 May 1999 10:51:00 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ben Short) wrote:
-->In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-->says...
-->> Howdy all.
-->>
-->> I want to restrict a users access to one single directory.
-->>
-->> The directory is:
-->> /usr/local/home/pana/sites/acct/pana-colo
-->>
-->> When the user pana-colo logs in, I dont want them to be able to go any
-->> higher than the pana-colo directory they are in by default. I tried
-->> changing the permisions on the acct directory to 771,751, and a couple
-->> of others, but when the user does not have read access to the parent
-->> directory, the getcwd comand fails on login, saying it cant read the
-->> parent directory.
-->>
-->> What am I doing wrong?
-->>
-->> Darren
-->>
-->>
-->Logs in How? Telnet? FTP?
-->
-->Ben
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