Linux-Misc Digest #364, Volume #20 Thu, 27 May 99 03:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Restrict Directory access (Darren Greer)
Re: Iomega products and Linux (Dominic Mitchell)
Using floppies formatted bigger than 1.44MB (Stephen Hammond)
Re: Iomega products and Linux (Dominic Mitchell)
Re: Linux books (Jason)
Help with CRON (Jason Bond)
Lilo/ kernel 2.2.9 problems. ("G. Georgiev")
Re: Bart or Lisa could keep the family running Linux (Philip Brown)
Re: Linux PPP ("Nick T.")
Re: Bart or Lisa could keep the family running Linux (Philip Brown)
Error message while configuring KDE (Zeleng)
Re: Netscape 4.60 evaluation (Michel)
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)'
("test")
Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity (Bill Unruh)
Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes (Bill Unruh)
Re: Linux PPP (Ian Briggs)
Re: boot diskette for PS/2 (MCA, ESDI...) ? (Ray)
Re: Error message while configuring KDE (Brian Lane)
Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes (Brian Lane)
Re: ISA future domain SCSI card driver? (Menelik)
Netscape crashes and it takes the whole machine with it! (Do-Hoon Kwon)
USB on Linux
Re: Alpha, PowerPC, Intel, and Sparc (Christopher Browne)
Re: Middleware to connect PostgreSQL to Web forms ? (Christopher Browne)
samba and kernel 2.2.x don't work together (Jeffrey Greer)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Greer)
Subject: Restrict Directory access
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:01:36 GMT
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
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Subject: Re: Iomega products and Linux
Reply-To: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 May 1999 19:01:52 -0400
Hi Sylvia,
I believe the support I had from the Iomega Linux users had some
impact to fix my problem with Iomega. When I called them back after
I sent my message all over the net, the technician knew I was the
Linux guy just as I mentioned my name :-).
Anyway I was at friend place and had the unit installed on his
machine running Dos. The technician had us do very simple test ---
nothing more then what I had done under Linux. He immediately offered to
replace the unit.
Next time I am buying hardware for my computers, I will make sure
that the companies do not have that attitude toward Linux users.
They won't force me into an OS I do not want.
Thanks for your support,
Dominic.
>>>>> "sw" == Sylvia Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sw> On 24 May 1999 22:04:09 -0400, Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> to Iomega ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) that if this is the policy
>> they want to adopt then the Linux community will have to consider
>> products from a friendlier company.
sw> I totally agreed with you. I recently bought a zip drive. I knew at that
sw> time that they're supported under linux (we've them at uni). I read the
sw> manual and was suprised that other minority OSes are supported (incl os/2
sw> and mac) but not linux, not even any unixes. I rang the company to tell
sw> them that this is not good enough and the only respond I get is "we do not
sw> support unix". I now wonder what would happen if the drive failed while
sw> it's still under warranty.
sw> --
sw> Auckland research student, an endangered species.
sw> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sw> http://linux.ele.auckland.ac.nz/~swon074
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Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada, K7L 3N6 Running Linux Redhat 5.2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Hammond)
Subject: Using floppies formatted bigger than 1.44MB
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:05:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using a RedHat 5.2 machine. I obtained superformat, and can
successfully format 3.5" HD disks to 1.743MB, 1.849MB, and even
1.992MB. Immediately after formatting them I can mount them and put
data on them. I then can read the data back. All is good so far.
Then I unmount the floppy, eject the disk, and re-insert the disk. I
then type "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /fd" and there are no complaints.
But, as soon as I look at the contents of the floppy, everything is
corrupted. I am guessing that I need to add something to /etc/fdprm
an/or mount the disk differently. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks for the help!
Regards,
-Stephen Hammond
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Iomega products and Linux
Reply-To: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 May 1999 19:10:27 -0400
>>>>> "tm" == Timothy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
tm> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sylvia Wong) writes:
>> I totally agreed with you. I recently bought a zip drive. I knew at that
>> time that they're supported under linux (we've them at uni). I read the
>> manual and was suprised that other minority OSes are supported (incl os/2
>> and mac) but not linux, not even any unixes. I rang the company to tell
>> them that this is not good enough and the only respond I get is "we do not
>> support unix".
tm> In my opinion anyone thinking of getting a Zip drive
tm> should get the SCSI version.
tm> Then all these issues won't arise.
tm> I agree that Iomega should mention --
tm> at least in the SCSI Zip manuals --
tm> that the drive works perfectly well under Linux.
Admitting this fact would be like supporting the drive if the user
can't get it to work under Linux. If you do not mention this fact
then tough luck for these users. Well in many cases, if not all,
feedback I have from Linux users is often more helpful then their
companies technician ( anyway that I had to deal with ). The ones I
have had to deal with were following a pattern to troubleshoot that
seems rather mechanical and not efficient.
As I have said in a previous post they have replace my drive now.
But I did make some noise!
Thanks all,
Dominic.
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Department of Economics mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada, K7L 3N6 Running Linux Redhat 5.2
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From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux books
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:11:01 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> Does anybody know what the best books on the market are for Linux System
> Administrators.
>
> Cheers
>
> --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
> ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
The O'Reilly & Associates series of books is very informative. The ones
I own:
1) Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Olaf Kirch.
2) Running Linux, Matt Welsh and Lar Kaufman.
3) Linux in a Nutshell, Jessica Perry Hekman and staff.
Lastly, depending on your shell experience,
4) Unix Shell Programming 4th edition, Wiley Publishing, Lowell Jay
Arthur and Ted Burns.
Enjoy!
Jason
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with CRON
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 21:04:45 -0700
I'm trying to display a message to myself using xmessage
and cron (actually I'm using kcrontab). The problem is that
even though the crontab is setup correctly, the xmessage
is not displayed on my screen...does anyone know why this
might be so? Thanks much in advance,
Jason
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From: "G. Georgiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo/ kernel 2.2.9 problems.
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:52:45 -0400
Reply-To: "G. Georgiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
Something simple. but I can'f find the solution:
I want to install kernel 2.2.9, but it fails to boot with
'Loading...... wrong loader: giving up.'
No problem, my Lilo is probably old. The problem comes when
lilo-21 does not want to compile:
/home/dev/lilo/device.c:119: undefined reference to `stat'
/home/dev/lilo/device.c:133: undefined reference to `stat'
/home/dev/lilo/device.c:137: undefined reference to `mknod'
/home/dev/lilo/bsect.c:59: undefined reference to `fstat'
and similar.
Those functions as far as I now are not defined in glibc2.x, so I
force it to link against libc5.x, but nothing good happens - it links, but
it dumps core when I try to run it.
So, how to make lilo and boot 2.2.9 ???
Thanks, George.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Subject: Re: Bart or Lisa could keep the family running Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 May 1999 23:52:25 GMT
On 26 May 1999 00:41:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>....
>I personally know several other people who have as much to do with
>Windows as I. They don't seem very hard to find and it's not like I
>live in a big city.
but there's no substitute for "shogo" with a RIVA TNT card , 16-bit color
and 11xx by 900 resolution, unfortunately :-)
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From: "Nick T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux PPP
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 19:55:34 -0400
This may be mute if you cant get to your ISP, but if you can get
KDE, it makes ppp sooooo simple....
-Nick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7iha81$287$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>I'm having a lot of trouble getting my RedHat 5.1 system to connect to my
ISP
>with pppd. If anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it. The modem
dials
>my ISP ok, starts making all of the handshake noise, goes silent (which is
>when, under Windows it is verifying user name and password), and then
>disconnects.
>
>I set up syslogd to generate a log which looks like this (9999999 is my
ISP's
>phone number): May 26 12:43:27 localhost pppd[230]: pppd 2.3.3 started by
>root, uid 0 May 26 12:43:28 localhost chat[231]: timeout set to 5 seconds
May
>26 12:43:28 localhost chat[231]: send (ATZ^M) May 26 12:43:29 localhost
>chat[231]: expect (OK) May 26 12:43:29 localhost chat[231]: ATZ^M^M May 26
>12:43:29 localhost chat[231]: OK May 26 12:43:29 localhost chat[231]: --
got
>it May 26 12:43:29 localhost chat[231]: send (ATDT9999999^M) May 26
12:43:29
>localhost chat[231]: abort on (NO CARRIER) May 26 12:43:29 localhost
>chat[231]: abort on (BUSY) May 26 12:43:29 localhost chat[231]: abort on
(NO
>DIALTONE) May 26 12:43:29 localhost chat[231]: abort on (WAITING) May 26
>12:43:29 localhost chat[231]: timeout set to 45 seconds May 26 12:43:29
>localhost chat[231]: expect (CONNECT) May 26 12:43:29 localhost chat[231]:
^M
>May 26 12:43:42 localhost chat[231]: ATDT9999999^M^M May 26 12:43:42
>localhost chat[231]: CONNECT May 26 12:43:42 localhost chat[231]: -- got
it
>May 26 12:43:42 localhost chat[231]: send (^M) May 26 12:43:42 localhost
>chat[231]: timeout set to 5 seconds May 26 12:43:42 localhost chat[231]:
>expect (name:) May 26 12:43:42 localhost chat[231]:
>33600/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS^M May 26 12:43:43 localhost chat[231]: ^M May 26
>12:43:43 localhost chat[231]: Welcome to 3Com Total Control HiPer ARC
(TM)^M
>May 26 12:43:43 localhost chat[231]: Networks That Go The Distance (TM)^M
May
>26 12:43:43 localhost chat[231]: ^M May 26 12:43:47 localhost chat[231]:
>alarm May 26 12:43:47 localhost pppd[230]: Connect script failed May 26
>12:43:47 localhost chat[231]: Failed May 26 12:43:48 localhost pppd[230]:
>Exit.
>
>
>My /etc/ppp/options looks like:
>connect "chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript"
>lock
>crtscts
>modem
>defaultroute
>asyncmap 0xa0000
>user richs
>/dev/modem 38400
>
>My /etc/ppp/chatscript looks like:
>TIMEOUT 5
>"" ATZ
>OK ATDT9999999
>ABORT "NO CARRIER"
>ABORT BUSY
>ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
>ABORT WAITING
>TIMEOUT 45
>CONNECT ""
>TIMEOUT 5
>"name:" ppp
>
>My pap-secrets file is the standard: username * password
>
>Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Subject: Re: Bart or Lisa could keep the family running Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 May 1999 23:53:53 GMT
On 26 May 1999 10:10:47 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>...
>No one can accuratley say how many copies of Linux are installed, and
>I don't see why it matters any way.
because vendors choose what platform their software is going to be
released on, based on number of users on that platform.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zeleng)
Subject: Error message while configuring KDE
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 23:15:52 GMT
KDE (unpacked and all) is located in /usr/local/kdebase-1.1.1
I try to run ./configure and everything goes well until it sends me
back to the prompt with the following message:
checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed.
This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix!
This is the exact message, complete with the ponctuation errors. ;-)
Anybody knows what I'm doing wrong? BTW, I'm running Slackware 3.6.
Thanks.
-- Zeleng --
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From: Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.60 evaluation
Date: 26 May 1999 22:31:02 -0500
Chris Aiken wrote:
>
> I downloaded 4.6 from Netscape in the form of a gzipped tarball file.
> I installed in my /opt directory w/o any problems at all. I edited the
> /bin/netscape script to point to my new version being careful not to
> destroy the old version. It works great! No problems so far. It
> seems to be a bit faster that 4.51 but who knows. I did pick up
> new bookmarks and address books from my .netscape directory.
>
> I'll probably remove the old one after a few days just to make sure
> everything keeps on working.
>
> Hope this helps out.
> ...cwa
>
You must not have gone on java sites yet!
My netscape goes in a warp hole here, I have RedHat 6.0
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From: "test" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'
(111)'
Crossposted-To:
redhat.hardware.arch.intel,redhat.general,linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.databases,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:02:46 GMT
> > 2) I can't figure out how to start MySQL like I did the last time I
used
> > Redhat 5.2 and installed MySQL via the binary tar.gz'ed distribution to
> > /usr/local/mysql and it included a "configure" script which started up
the
> > server and everything.
>
> I don't want to start the war again, but this is why RPMs and binary
> distributions can be a liability. If you READ the various readme and
install
> files that come with the source distribution you will see that MySQL is
started
> with the safe_mysqld script. You can either use this script directly, or
wrap
> it up in your own init script (which is what the RPM did).
# ./bin/mysqladmin version
./bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
'/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/tmp/mysql.sock' exists!
Got any suggestions?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: How to Stay Online - ISP Kicks my off during inactivity
Date: 27 May 1999 05:22:55 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mario Klebsch <Mario [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Have you ever used the -I option of ping?
Nope. What is it? Not in my man pages.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes
Date: 27 May 1999 05:24:37 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>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
Do you have named or gated running? Don;t.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Briggs)
Subject: Re: Linux PPP
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:41:15 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:May 26 12:43:27 localhost pppd[230]: pppd 2.3.3 started by root, uid 0
<snip>
:May 26 12:43:42 localhost chat[231]: expect (name:)
So far so good -- your end now expects to receive "name:".
:May 26 12:43:42 localhost chat[231]: 33600/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS^M
:May 26 12:43:43 localhost chat[231]: ^M
:May 26 12:43:43 localhost chat[231]: Welcome to 3Com Total Control HiPer
:ARC (TM)^M
:May 26 12:43:43 localhost chat[231]: Networks That Go The Distance (TM)^M
:May 26 12:43:43 localhost chat[231]: ^M
:May 26 12:43:47 localhost chat[231]: alarm
It still hasn't received "name:", so it alarms.
:May 26 12:43:47 localhost pppd[230]: Connect script failed
:May 26 12:43:47 localhost chat[231]: Failed
:May 26 12:43:48 localhost pppd[230]: Exit.
Game over.
:My /etc/ppp/chatscript looks like:
<snip>
:CONNECT ""
:TIMEOUT 5
:"name:" ppp
:
:My pap-secrets file is the standard: username * password
Your chat script is expecting to receive "name:", but it never arrives.
You've got a strange mixture of scripted and PAP authentication. If your
ISP does PAP, rewrite the last three lines of your chat script as simply:
CONNECT '\d\c'
If you want to understand this (or it still doesn't work), I suggest Bill
Unruh's "How to hook up PPP" at
<http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html>.
Good luck.
Ian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: boot diskette for PS/2 (MCA, ESDI...) ?
Date: 27 May 1999 00:38:52 GMT
On 26 May 1999 12:15:05 GMT, Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking for a boot diskette and maybe root diskette for booting a PS/2
>with ESDI and MCA, ideally with ethernet support. It should work with
>little RAM (say 2 MB). Do such disk images exist already?
Have you had a look at Slackware? Last time I checked it came with quite a
few different boot/root disk images for various hardware configs. Getting
it to do anything with 2MB is going to be tough though.
--
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Lane)
Subject: Re: Error message while configuring KDE
Date: 27 May 1999 04:49:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 26 May 1999 23:15:52 GMT, Zeleng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>KDE (unpacked and all) is located in /usr/local/kdebase-1.1.1
>I try to run ./configure and everything goes well until it sends me
>back to the prompt with the following message:
>
> checking for KDE... configure: error:
> in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed.
> This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix!
>
>This is the exact message, complete with the ponctuation errors. ;-)
>Anybody knows what I'm doing wrong? BTW, I'm running Slackware 3.6.
>Thanks.
Under redhat my kde headers are in /opt/bin/kde/include, do a find for the
ktoolbar.h file and that should be your kde include directory. You might
have to make some symlinks to get it to where it belongs.
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Lane)
Subject: Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes
Date: 27 May 1999 04:44:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 26 May 1999 22:02:01 -0500, Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
I think you misunderstood him, he said it is connecting every 15 minutes,
not disconnecting.
If you are running your own DNS server locally that can cause dialouts at
odd times (15 minutes sounds too regular). Try using tcpdump to watch for
packets on the sl0 interface to see what is starting it up (or use snort, my
favorite packet sniffer).
Brian
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From: Menelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ISA future domain SCSI card driver?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 05:53:11 GMT
Buy a new card ? try Red Hat 6.0 ?
Kelvin Leung wrote:
>
> 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: Do-Hoon Kwon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Netscape crashes and it takes the whole machine with it!
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 01:53:15 -0400
Hello,
Netscape 4.6 on my RedHat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.9 SMP) sometimes hangs the
whole machine! No, I should say the only times this occurs is
when I'm on the net with netscape.
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't work, Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6] doesn't
repond. I cannot telnet in, either.
This has happened 3 times during 3 weeks' period or so.
The video card is Matrox Millenium G200 8MB version and I'm running
the latest SVGA server from XFree86-3.3.3.1.
The machine has two Linksys 10/100TX ethernet cards and I'm using the
latest tulip driver as well, if that helps.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Thanks in advance.
Do-Hoon Kwon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 01:59:53 -0400
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB on Linux
I'd like to know peoples experiences using USB devices
with Linux. I'd like to know if I would have any problems
connecting a parallel port printer and 3 SCSI drives to
my computer's USB ports. Would I be able to use a parallel
to USB adapter and a SCSI to USB adapter and just connect
them both to the USB ports, or would they have to be
connected to a hub? Would the SCSI drives each need a
separate adapter connected to a USB port, or can they be
daisy chained with SCSI cables with only the first drive
connected with a USB adapter?
Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Alpha, PowerPC, Intel, and Sparc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 01:25:09 GMT
On 25 May 1999 12:53:18 +0200, Robert Harley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne) writes:
>> Compare to the virtual nonexistence of motherboards for MIPS and StrongARM;
>
>Try:
> http://www.chaltech.com/products.html
>
>It can run NetBSD or Linux:
> http://www.chaltech.com/linux.html
>
>Prices here:
> http://www.simtec.demon.co.uk/chal.html
Whoa! 350 UK Pounds for a motherboard, and L700 for a system?!?
The L350 figure translates to a sum of close to $800 USD for a
motherboard and CPU.
For that price, I can get a SuperMicro P6DBS motherboard with a
dual-channel Adaptec 7895 SCSI controller, and not one, but *two*
Pentium II/350MHz chips.
I'll agree that the StrongARM board exists, but despite the apparently
quite economical prices of CPUs, the rather high pricing of motherboards
makes it economically uncompetitive.
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"What's wrong with 3rd party tools? Especially if they are free? What
the **** do you think UNIX is anyway? It's a big honkin' party of 3rd
party free tools." -- Bob Cassidy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/hardware.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Middleware to connect PostgreSQL to Web forms ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 01:25:23 GMT
On 26 May 1999 14:24:01 GMT, Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Cameron Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>More importantly to my purpose, the commercial middleware packages
>>let you describe the logic of your database application in very
>>high level terms, and generate from that description *working code*
>>that will implement it. The concept is that most Web-enabled database
>>apps do pretty much the same thing,
>
>That sounds more like an unfortunate consequence of using such high
>level tools than an argument for using them.
And this sounds to me more like the use of design tools for things like
UML tools, Entity/Relationship diagram tools, or IDL to produce code
"stubs" than it does "middleware."
>>and we have better things to do than
>>write the same logic in Perl or C over and over.
>
>I would hope that those who choose to code in Perl, C or PHP don't
>write the same thing over and over. My view is that any application
>that will have a few hundred thousand users deserves some creativity
>in its low-level design, as well as the ability to fix anything that
>can go wrong without the cooperation of some third party. I guess
>that's what OSS is all about, and why we don't see much commercial
>middleware here.
I suspect that there is discussion going "crosspurpose" here.
There is value to there being "software engineering tools" to build UML
or ER diagrams that then automagically generate code stubs, SQL tables,
and perhaps IDL.
Rational Rose, Popkin SystemArchitect, and ERWin are some commercial
tools that do this sort of thing, and which can then generate code.
There are efforts to have "libre" alternatives, with things like
FreeCase and DIA (just to name two). But that's not middleware; those
are design tools.
Middleware represents the "glue" that comes in after that, reflected
generally via one of four things:
a) Message oriented middleware,
b) ODBC/JDBC "gateways,"
c) ORBs, and
d) Transaction processing monitors.
There are a bunch of ORBs available for Linux, and several ODBC/JDBC
"gateways;" there are fewer of the other sorts of middleware, and none
that are "libre" at this time.
--
"What's wrong with 3rd party tools? Especially if they are free? What
the **** do you think UNIX is anyway? It's a big honkin' party of 3rd
party free tools." -- Bob Cassidy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/framewrk.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey Greer)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: samba and kernel 2.2.x don't work together
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 05:24:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Linux users,
Does anyone know what the deal is with 2.2.x kernels and samba?
Samba 2.0.3 works fine with kernel 2.0.36 but it chokes on 2.2.8
and 2.2.0 kernels. I can copy one or two small files but with
large files or a lot of small files explorer just freezes up for
a couple of minutes.
Has anyone had the same problem? Any suggestions? For now I'm
sticking with kernel 2.0.36.
thanks.
--
Jeff Greer
senior, computer science, University of MO - Rolla
==================================================
Windows NT has crashed,
I am the Blue Screen of Death,
No one hears your screams...
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