Linux-Misc Digest #363, Volume #20 Thu, 27 May 99 00:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: ipportfw or ipautofw with Netmeeting (Kelvin Leung)
Re: SCSI error (aic7xxx.c) ? (Velvet Acid Christ)
Re: Word Perfect (Johan Kullstam)
minor annoyance. (Conway Yee)
Re: Netscape 4.51 (Michel)
Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes (Michel)
Re: RealVideo 5.0 and kernel 2.2.x ?? (Michel)
Re: can't open audio (Michel)
Re: ls colors... not recognizing file extensions (Velvet Acid Christ)
Re: netscape + java (Michel)
ISA future domain SCSI card driver? (Kelvin Leung)
Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity (Mario Klebsch)
Re: ghostscript output ("John E. Garrott")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelvin Leung)
Subject: Re: ipportfw or ipautofw with Netmeeting
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:33:27 -0700
Forget it. ipautofw won't work with Netmeeting. I've been trying this for
several months last year. Exactly punching the port number provided by
Microsoft. It's not working at all. Now I'm usina a third party software,
working pretty nice. I can do point to point or chat with people in the
uls server without any problem, both audio and video works great. You may
go and see it:
http://www.equival.com.au/~equival/phonepatch/download.html
You can download and try it for 30 days. Pay $50 for the rest of your
life. It's worth it.
Kelvin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Charles Leslie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please post your replies. I'm in the same boat.
>
> thanks
> -charles ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I have read a few web pages that say I can use ipautofw to enable
> > Netmeeting conferences successfully through my Linux firewall. I have
> > also read that ipportfw is a replacement for ipautofw. Can I use
> > ipportfw to enable Netmeeting as well? I have PC Anywhere working with
> > ipportfw but have had no luck with Netmeeting. Any help on this would
> > be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
> > ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Velvet Acid Christ)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI error (aic7xxx.c) ?
Date: 27 May 1999 02:41:08 GMT
On 25 May 1999 09:06:43 GMT,
Takashi Ichihara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have installed 8 nodes of Linux cluster and frequently
>encountered with SCSI errors for 4 nodes. So far we have tested
>following 3 sets of kernels and SCSI drivers. In all case, we
>have encountered the similar errors.
>
> Linux 2.0.36 (aic7xxx.c version 5.1.2)
> Linux 2.2.4 (aic7xxx.c version 5.1.10)
> Linux 2.2.7-ac1 (aic7xxx.c version 5.1.13)
>
>A sample error log is attached in this text. Following is our
>configuration information.
>
> Motherboard: ASUS P2B-DS
> CPU/memory Dual Pentium II 450 MHz, 256 MB Memory
> SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter
> SCSI Disk: SEAGATE Model: ST39173LW
> Linux kernel: linux-2.2.4 and Linux 2.2.7-ac1
> SCSI driver : aic7xxx.c version 5.1.10 and 5.1.13(by Alan's patch)
>
> Does anyone know how to fix this problem ? Is there any newer
>drivers for aic7xxx.c ? Thanks for the information.
Hey, I dont think this is in the aic7xxx.c, I think its higher up, maybe
in the scsi disk code. Maybe. This is a guess. I was having similar
odd problems with a cdrom on my one scsi chain. My system spec's are
similar:
Motherboard: ASUS P2B-LS
CPU/Memory: Pentium II 400 Mhz, 256 MB Memory
SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter
SCSI Disk: SEAGATE Model: Cheetah 9LP
Linux Kernel: 2.2.9
Anyways, here's my suggestion. Recompile the kernel and turn off
' Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device ' in the kernel config.
It solved my SCB timeout problem with my Sony CD-R.
Good luck,
--
Mental
When I grow up, I wanna be more like me.
I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an
attitude.
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perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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Subject: Re: Word Perfect
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 May 1999 18:11:14 -0400
Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mj) writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > In addition:
> > > Note that "f" must be the last char of the switches. if you do
> > > tar -xfv <filename> , it may not work (on my box at least, it
> > > doesn't).
> >
> > don't use a minus and it'll work just fine!
> >
> > tar xfv <filename.tar>
> >
> > you can even do perverse stunts like
> >
> > tar cvfb /dev/st0 2000 .
> >
> > where the f goes with file /dev/st0 and b goes with the 2000 blocks.
> > see the tar info pages on old option syntax.
> >
> > hope this helps.
>
> Helps?! Confuses, more like. The deprecation of the - is fine, but the
> whole "spirit" of the thing is that the f should be followed by the
> filename. Getting used to lax new syntax will only give you grief when
> you have to use older, proprietary UNIX commands on otehr machines. Only
> use new syntax if it adds value, not just to be lazy.
you seem to be confused, or at least your commentary seems a bit
confused. on older proprietary unixes, tar doesn't take a minus (and
neither does ps).
the presence of minus isn't depreciated. it's using tar *without* a
minus that is depreciated. however, i prefer the old style and will
continue to use it.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: minor annoyance.
Date: 26 May 1999 18:43:58 -0400
I am running RedHat 6.0 with GNOME under Metro-X.
It appears that there is a bug in GNOME when dealing with two-headed
systems. The xterm that accepts the keyboard input is NOT
necessarily the currently active xtermi when the previously active
terminal is in one display and the "new" one is in another. The first
xterm is kept active. In order to make the new xterm active, one
must click on another window in the new display.
Who do I report this to?
A second problem predates my switch to GNOME so I am not sure what to
blame this on. Lets say I am on an xterm and run a process foo in the
background (i.e. foo &). If I exit the xterm while foo is running,
foo should not be killed since it is detached from the terminal.
Unfortunately, this does not happen. foo dies along with the xterm.
Does anyone know why?
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.51
Date: 26 May 1999 21:58:00 -0500
Bob Lockie wrote:
>
> Why are the keys different between versions?
>
> Shift-c but Alt-Shift-c for Windows.
>
Well! this is the way under Linux, alt instead of shift. Get used to it, we like
it that way.
--
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes
Date: 26 May 1999 22:02:01 -0500
marco tephlant wrote:
>
> Im pleased to say i've got IP masquerading and diald working this
> weekend, one problem though is that diald spontaneously dials out. I've
> looked through the man pages and checked theres no cron job causing it
> but can't figure out whats making it happen, I have two Win98 PC's
> connected to the network, neither of them were running any network app
> or anything. As a test I left the server and one PC switched on for a
> couple of hours and didnt touch anything, but logs still showed it
> connecting every fifteen minutes.
>
> Any tips as to what this could be?
>
Did you set it to be active with control-panel? or KDE?
If that is the case you are technically connected 24hrs a day. If something
disconnects you the redialer will happily reconnect you. It looks like your
ISP disconnects you after 15 minutes of inactivity. Linux is nice enough to
reconnect you.
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealVideo 5.0 and kernel 2.2.x ??
Date: 26 May 1999 22:06:02 -0500
"William B. Cattell" wrote:
>
> "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.
>
The bug was fixed around 2.1.50 and that has crippled Real Player since then.
Note that the midi plugin of netscape is also crippled.
Just update to G2 and you won't have to mess with any patch.
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't open audio
Date: 26 May 1999 22:07:10 -0500
David Erdman wrote:
>
> I have suse 6.1, with kde 1.1 kernel 2.2.9
> when i try to play a cd or an mp3 with x11amp, it says "can't open audio"
> can someone help me with this. i have tried to chmod 660 the
> /dev/audio...to no avail. all my wavs (system sounds work fine).
That's your problem. Sound is not share under Linux. You disable kde sound
and you will be able to use the sound card for something else. I had the
same problem with gnome.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Velvet Acid Christ)
Subject: Re: ls colors... not recognizing file extensions
Date: 27 May 1999 02:28:58 GMT
On Tue, 25 May 1999 09:10:01 -0500, Daniel Beckham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<comment snipped>
>> John Strange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:7icgfp$ppa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > I added
>> >
>> > alias ls="ls --color=tty"
>> > to /etc/bashrc
>>
>> Oh, you mean such that other users, who don't want that color trash, have to
<more crap snipped>
Ok, here's the deal. You want neat ls colors. This is how I did it, I
think there's also a howto but I'm not into reading directions. :)
Firstly, you need to decide no what colors you want to use for what
files. Its been ages since I've looked at ansi's and I forget most
of the color combos. Do a websearch, you'll find it. Fortunately most
distro's come with a default set of colors.
Try running 'dircolors -p', hopefully you'll get output like this:
_______________________________________________________________________
# Configuration file for dircolors, a utility to help you set the
# LS_COLORS environment variable used by GNU ls with the --color option.
# The keywords COLOR, OPTIONS, and EIGHTBIT (honored by the
# slackware version of dircolors) are recognized but ignored.
# Below, there should be one TERM entry for each termtype that is colorizable
TERM linux
TERM console
TERM con132x25
TERM con132x30
TERM con132x43
TERM con132x60
TERM con80x25
TERM con80x28
TERM con80x30
TERM con80x43
TERM con80x50
TERM con80x60
TERM xterm
TERM vt100
# Below are the color init strings for the basic file types. A color init
# string consists of one or more of the following numeric codes:
# Attribute codes:
# 00=none 01=bold 04=underscore 05=blink 07=reverse 08=concealed
# Text color codes:
# 30=black 31=red 32=green 33=yellow 34=blue 35=magenta 36=cyan 37=white
# Background color codes:
# 40=black 41=red 42=green 43=yellow 44=blue 45=magenta 46=cyan 47=white
NORMAL 00 # global default, although everything should be something.
FILE 00 # normal file
DIR 01;34 # directory
LINK 01;36 # symbolic link
FIFO 40;33 # pipe
SOCK 01;35 # socket
BLK 40;33;01 # block device driver
CHR 40;33;01 # character device driver
ORPHAN 40;31;01 # symlink to nonexistent file
# This is for files with execute permission:
EXEC 01;32
# List any file extensions like '.gz' or '.tar' that you would like ls
# to colorize below. Put the extension, a space, and the color init string.
# (and any comments you want to add after a '#')
# If you use DOS-style suffixes, you may want to uncomment the following:
#.cmd 01;32 # executables (bright green)
#.exe 01;32
#.com 01;32
#.btm 01;32
#.bat 01;32
.tar 01;31 # archives or compressed (bright red)
.tgz 01;31
.arj 01;31
.taz 01;31
.lzh 01;31
.zip 01;31
.z 01;31
.Z 01;31
.gz 01;31
.deb 01;31
.jpg 01;35 # image formats
.gif 01;35
.bmp 01;35
.ppm 01;35
.tga 01;35
.xbm 01;35
.xpm 01;35
.tif 01;35
.mpg 01;37
.avi 01;37
.gl 01;37
.dl 01;37
________________________________________________________________________
Ok, lets make this less painful. Redirect the output of "dircolors -p"
to a file (I hide mine) in your homedir. This way you can edit it and
make it 'neat' (Anyone know any blinking ansi codes I could use for
mp3's?).
Do this:
dircolors -p > ~/.colourrc
Now edit your .profile or .bashrc or whatever and add these lines:
alias ls="ls --color"
eval `dircolors $HOME/.colourrc`
And you're done. The manpages for dircolors and ls are good starting
points. As to observations about whats good practice and not good
practice to do from an administrative perspective, it will become
evident in time. Most linux users are on 'single user' systems and
tend to not think as an admin would who had to keep many users happy.
Which is right or wrong depends on the situation. There are no hard
and fast rules.
I hope this helps.
--
Mental
When I grow up, I wanna be more like me.
I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an
attitude.
_______________________________________________________________________
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape + java
Date: 26 May 1999 22:20:19 -0500
Ron Olsen wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Since Redhat-6.0 Netscape crashes with a bus error when it tries to
> > start a java applet. This happens with the shipped version 4.51, but
> > also with the version 4.08 which worked without problems on my
> > redhat-5.2 system.
> > Does anyone know the problem?
>
> Change the 'catalogue' section of your /etc/X11/fs/config from this:
>
> catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
>
> to this:
>
> catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
>
> Then (as root) do /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart
>
> This can also be accomplished via
>
> chkfontlist --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
>
I had all that plus one extra line of fonts on mine and it still flushes netscape
even if when I make the file the same as you describe.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelvin Leung)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ISA future domain SCSI card driver?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:22:36 -0700
I got RH 5.2 with kernel 2.2.6 and it seems to me that it doesn't support
my Future domain ISA SCSI card (18x00 chipset). Any idea?
Kelvin
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From: Mario Klebsch <Mario [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:17:48 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short) writes:
>0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * ping -c 3 <someIP> >/dev/null
>2>&1
Have you ever used the -I option of ping?
73, Mario
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Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "John E. Garrott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ghostscript output
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:34:56 -0700
James Lee wrote:
>
> John E. Garrott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I am having problems with ghostscript. Two weeks ago printing was fine.
>SNIP
> : I don't understand what is going on. Could someone please give me
> : a clue?
>
> I got a similar problem when I upgraded ghostscript from 4.0.x to
> 5.50. I used to print with stcolor, and I could print 180x180 (draft)
> or 360x360 when I pass the resolution to gs. After upgrading, I
> can print with 360x360 or extremely with 720x720, which was setup
> using RH 6.0 new printtool (and using stc stc2, etc).
> However, when I use 180x180, the paper
> feeds just continue forever. Turning off the printer and removing the
> job from the print queue does not help. Turning it on again will cause
> it to spew paper. The only way was to power the computer off.
>
> Any ideas would be nice.
Hmmm! I haven't tried changing resolution yet. I have redirected the
ghostscript output to a file and examined it. While I'm not very
familiar with ESCP/2, the file seems ok.
I've been unable to work on the problem for a few days. I'll get back
on it. Getting tired of rebooting to W95 everytime I have to print
something :-P
John
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