Linux-Misc Digest #387, Volume #20 Sat, 29 May 99 02:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: antivirus (Ben Short)
Modem speed
Re: xterm & background processes (Brandon)
Re: Rechte :-( ("muzh")
Installing Software Programs (Richard Edwards)
Old Kernel-modules (Michael)
Re: Error while installing Sybase.. (Brian Lavender)
How to list installed packages to a file ("For Sale")
Installing Staroffice from SuSE 6.1 ("For Sale")
Installing Red Hat from a hard disk (Cliff Story)
Cut and Paste between Windows ("For Sale")
Re: SB PCI 128 under RH 6.0 ("news.iinet.net.au")
Re: Scanner stopped working in Linux. Why? (Michel Catudal)
Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 freely distributable? (Brian Lavender)
Re: Middleware to connect PostgreSQL to Web forms ? (Cameron)
Linux fonts (N R Farley)
Netscape with Javascript (Fung Wai Keung)
Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone have their CD yet? ("test")
Re: antivirus (Matthew Bafford)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Subject: Re: antivirus
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 12:32:42 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> i'm trying to decide whether or not to use an anti-virus program for my
> linux machine. does anyone have some input on this and/or if anyone uses
> one, which is better: dr. soloman, antiVir/X, mcafee ?
> thanks in advance, bg
>
>
Well, to my knowledge, there are no viruses for windows =)
The only way you could do something damaging to data is to install a
trojan program, or run a script/run a command that you dont know what it
does - and it happens to rm -rf / (dont do it ;))
Ben
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem speed
Date: 29 May 1999 02:31:14 GMT
I just purchased a new gateway computer...500mhz...16gig...364megs...and i
have a few problems with it...
first...the computer i was using was only about 9 months old, whenever
i logged onto AOL with it, my bps was always around 56,000...with my new
computer however, my bps has been considerably less(usually around 21 to
25,000bps)what is my problem? and how can i improve my bps speed?
second, the new computer came with a zip drive....on a few occasions,
i've put in a brand new disc and when i went to download my first item
into it, i get a message that my disc is already full???? any ideas on
that?
and third, this next problem is one that i had with my old computer as
well, after being on the compuetr for several hours...visiting web
sites...all of a sudden my mouse pointer will disappear??? i have to log
off, reboot my system for my pointer to reappear??? any ideas on that?
thanks for all your help...btw, i'm a first time user on your sie,
someone recommended it to me....thanks again : )
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 22:22:09 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xterm & background processes
T.E.Dickey wrote:
>
> Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Running a terminal and involking a background process, say "foo &"
> > should invoke foo in the background that is detached from the parent
> > process. Specifically, when I terminate the parent process, the
> > xterm, foo should continue to run. As a specific example, I run emacs
> > in the background and then terminate the xterm from which it runs
> > should not kill emacs. Is there a setting somewhere that I am
> > missing? I am running RedHat 6.0 and have noticed this problem since
> > 5.2 although the problem is getting more annoying. I am also running
> > GNOME and Metro-X. I doubt a GNOME error because it predates my use
> > of GNOME.
>
> User Commands nohup(1)
>
> NAME
> nohup - run a command immune to hangups
>
> SYNOPSIS
> /usr/bin/nohup command [ argument ...]
> /usr/xpg4/bin/nohup command [ argument ...]
>
> DESCRIPTION
> The nohup utility invokes the named command with the argu-
> ments supplied. When the command is invoked, nohup arranges
> for the SIGHUP signal to be ignored by the process.
this doesnt help me one bit. I tried 'nohup ./replay &' and then hit
Ctrl C and then exited out of the xterm and Replay still shutdown on
me.....so now what?
Brandon
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
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For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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From: "muzh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rechte :-(
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 15:05:48 +1200
Mount the vfat partition somewhere in the user's home directory, and make
sure ownership and permissions are set right. As Microshit VFAT has no idea
of file permissions, these are taken from the parent Linux directory
instead.
To automate this, edit /etc/fstab to include the VFAT partition, mountable
by users, with the mount point in the user's home directory.
Hope this helps --
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:7Hh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hallo Freunde der weltweiten Spinnenwebe,
>
> ich als Newcomer unter der Linux-Fangemeinde habe eine fuer mich
> unloesbare Aufgabe. Alle sogenannten Fachbuecher, die ich zur Ver-
> fuegung habe, schweigen sich zum Thema aus :-(
>
> Als root kann ich auf meiner Windows-Partition schalten und walten.
> Loeschen, alte .doc Files lesen, aendern und zurueck speichern, alles
> kein Problem.
>
> Gehe ich aber per User hinein, kann ich die Files lediglich lesen. Ein
> Aendern und abspeichern auf der Windoof-Partition ist nicht moeglich.
> Zugriff verweigert, bzw. unerlaubte Operation....
>
> Ich habe den User unter einer neu angelegten Gruppe erzeugt. Wie kann ich
> jetzt die Rechte aller User dieser Gruppe aendern? Irgendwie komme ich
> damit nicht klar.
>
> Beispiele:
>
> chmod u+w ... hier bin ich der User, ok.
> chmod a+w ... das gilt wohl fuer alle und jedermann, oder?
> chmod g+w ... das sollte fuer die Gruppe gelten, doch welche Gruppe?
>
> Wie kann ich expliziet einer Gruppe bestimmte Rechte einraeumen?
>
> Vor allem der uneingeschraenkte Zugriff auf den VFAT-Partitionen
> muss mir gelingen. Sonst gewoehne ich mir noch an, jedesmal als
> root einzuloggen.
>
> Ich hoffe, mein Problem ist klar geworden und fuer einen Profi was
> zum laecheln ;-)
>
>
>
>
> MfG.
>
> A. Grobelnik, 26871 Papenburg/Ems
>
>
>
>
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From: Richard Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Software Programs
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 05:03:08 +0000
I have attempted to install a number of software programs that I have
downloaded from the internet and am having a problem in completing the
install. I'm running RedHat 5.2 and whenever I can I download the
RPM form of the program and it installs alright. Tar ball downloads
are giving me a problem. I do the usual "guzip" and then Tar -xvf
....". The problem occurs when I do the ./configure, I am getting the
following message;
Checking for BSD compatable install.../usr/bin/install -c
make sets ${make}...no
checking for working aclocal...missing
checking for working autoconf...missing
checking for workingautomake...missing
checking for working autoheader...missing
checking for working makeinfo...missing
Checking host system type...Configure: error: Can not quess host type;
you must specify one
I'm new to Linux but have not been able to complete an install that
requires ./configure way. I have downloaded communicator 4.6 and
installed it with no problems, WordPerfect 8 no problem. Any coments
pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Old Kernel-modules
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 12:55:29 +0200
Hello,
I have a problem with a module which was compiled for a kernel which is
older than the one I use now (it's the module for the Soundblaster Live,
I got it from Creative=B4s homepage).
Every time I try to load the module using modprobe, I am told that the
module was compiled for kernel 2.2.5 (I'm using 2.2.9 now). When
compiling a kernel there is an option in the loadable module support
called "set version information on all symbols for
modules"(CONFIG_MODVERSIONS) whose description seems to address my
problem but compiling a 2.2.9 kernel with this option doesn=B4t help.
What am I doing wrong?
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Lavender)
Subject: Re: Error while installing Sybase..
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 21:32:32 GMT
Take a look at the June issue of Linux Journal. It has an article on
installing Sybase on Linux.
brian
On Thu, 27 May 1999 13:57:19 -0400, Emanuel Marciniak
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> When trying to install Sybase 11.0.3.3 on Red Hat 5.2 Linux I am
>getting the following error:
>
> error: sybase-ase-11.0.3.3-2.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
>I use command : rpm -hiv <file_name>
>The file was downloaded two days ago from Sybase download site.
>I am new to Linux so any hint will be very appreciated.
>Thank you,
>
>Emanuel Marciniak
====================
Brian Lavender
Sacramento, CA
http://www.brie.com/brian/
"If a train station is where the train stops,
what is a workstation?" -- Phil Adamson
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From: "For Sale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to list installed packages to a file
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 12:34:43 +0800
Hi,
I am using SuSE 6.1. I can't print out the installed packages from
YaST (or save output to a file). Is there a command I can run that
would generate a file containing the following fields:
Category Package Version Description
Thanks.
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From: "For Sale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Staroffice from SuSE 6.1
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 12:38:10 +0800
Hi,
After we installed SuSE 6.1 and StarOffice OEM that is bundled with it,
when we run sosetup, it ask for some sort of #. Where do we get it from?
Thanks
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From: Cliff Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Red Hat from a hard disk
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 22:12:20 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I thought I'd try to install Red Hat 6.0 on the PC card in a Mac
LC630. I know Linux doesn't recognize the CD-ROM drive in that box, so
I copied the installation CD to the hard disk. Then I switched to the
PC side and booted off the install floppy. When it asked how I wanted
to do the installation -- CD, net, HD and so forth -- I selected hard
disk. It then popped up a dialog asking for the "Suppplemental disk".
Any idea what the "Supplemental disk" might be, and where to find its
image on the CD?
Thanks!
Cliff
"If you wanna end war 'n' stuff, you gotta sing loud."
- Arlo Guthrie
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From: "For Sale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cut and Paste between Windows
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 12:44:01 +0800
Hi,
I have installed SuSE 6.1, using XBF driver for the i740. I have a
2 button microsoft PS/2 mouse. I can't seem to do cut and paste
between windows when running KDE. Once I highlighted test in one
window, I can press both keys to paste the test in another. What is
my alternative?
THanks.
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From: "news.iinet.net.au" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: SB PCI 128 under RH 6.0
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 11:13:12 +0800
with the new sound cards such as the Pci 128 and the aurial or sb live, I
have found the site WWW: http://www.opensound.com to be the most usefull
with new drivers for redhat 6.0
FYI
D.S.Harrison
Email of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anonym <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7i6b5b$f67$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> 7hm5gb$4sr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > How do I get SoundBlaster PCI 128 card to work under RedHat 6.0?
> >
> >
>
> I use my SB PCI 128 under Red Hat 5.2, sndconf has automatical find the
Card
>
> (sorry for my bad english)
>
> cu
>
>
>
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Scanner stopped working in Linux. Why?
Date: 29 May 1999 00:54:04 -0500
"James R. Van Zandt" wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have not used my scanner under Linux for a while, then today I
> >attempted to do a scan and my Agfa Snapscan 310 just blinked its LED at
> >me and did nothing. I use Gimp with SANE. The SCSI card is being
> >recognised on bootup as is the scanner itself.
> >
> >I just wondered if anyone else has noticed anything similar? I am using
> >kernel 2.2.6, Sane 0.74-2 and Gimp 1.0.4-1, with Debian 2.1.
>
> Do you have a device /dev/sg1 (or whatever)?
>
> Try the program find-scanner, which is part of the sane package. Does
> it find the device?
>
> Check whether /dev/scanner points to /dev/sg1 (or whatever device the
> scanner is).
>
> Check the configuration file in /etc/sane.d for your scanner. The
> sample HP configuration file had a bogus line "scsi HP". Make sure it
> points to /dev/sg1 (or whatever), or else to /dev/scanner.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> - Jim Van Zandt
I installed sane and there is no such beast as find-scanner
with it. Where do you get this program?
sane doesn't work with my Mustek 600 CP scanner. It gives
bunch of errors about libraries it can't find. I'll have
to recompile it as it seems to want some specific libraries
which are the old library glibc2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Lavender)
Subject: Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 freely distributable?
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 22:35:10 GMT
I was looking at Caldera's Open Linux 2.2 and I am wondering if it is
freely distributable?
brian
====================
Brian Lavender
Sacramento, CA
http://www.brie.com/brian/
"If a train station is where the train stops,
what is a workstation?" -- Phil Adamson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron)
Subject: Re: Middleware to connect PostgreSQL to Web forms ?
Date: 29 May 1999 03:31:15 GMT
In article <7ih061$k5k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rod Roark 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.
I guess that could be said of assembler, too. (Let's all write in
assembler because gcc generates the same boring subroutine linkages
every single time.) This *will* be a creative application, but the creativity
will be in the database schema, not the mechanics of implementing
that schema.
It's good to automate repetitive detail work. It gives us more time
and mental energy to be creative where creativity does the most good.
>
>>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
I see we have a failure to communcate here.
I said "application"
and I meant the thing I am going to do for my little nonprofit,
where perhaps twenty people will collaborate on developing a table
with perhaps 8000 records in it. I want to show them that this can
be done elegantly, across the Web, using the appropriate tools from
the free software world. There is a Microsoft advocate among us
who would like to prove I am a luddite, and sell them File Maker Pro
and ISP service at a place that supports the File Maker Pro Server.
"We can drag and drop our Excell files!" The creativity will not
be at the low levels of the implementation; all that's called for
down there is reliability and extensibility. The creativity will be in
anticipating the group's needs before they realize them, and in
designing easy to learn and use HTML forms.
Rod heard "application" and thought I meant the tools I'm going to
build this thing out of.
>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.
Or maybe because we don't exactly know the value of middleware to
someone who needs to knock out a reliable little Web-enabled database
application (got a better word?) quickly.
I know the value of open-source software. That's why my home
system and the work I do for my nonprofits is 100% powered by it.
I jumped from SCO Unix to H J Liu's GCC Release (which I still think
was an excellent Linux distribution) in 1992 because Linux was so
much better *then*.
I was just hoping to find an open-source template-driven database
connector generator, or at least find Linux advocates here who know what
that phrase might mean and fill me in on what's available. There's
probably one out there someplace. I just don't know how to find it.
Cameron
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From: N R Farley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux fonts
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 05:56:25 GMT
For a while now I've been putting up with horrible linux fonts in
netscape. I'm wondering if anyone knows how to install more fonts. Is
there a way of installing windows fonts (I've got to give microsoft
credit for their fonts)? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Colin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fung Wai Keung)
Subject: Netscape with Javascript
Date: 29 May 1999 03:20:33 GMT
Hi all,
Does anyone has the experience that Netscape communicator 4.x
(libc5) is unstable when JavaScript is activated? Netscape crashes in Bus
error. Is it a bug in netscape? I can't find any comment about the
"Bus error" crash from the FAQ or technical support sections in Netscape
homepage.
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Wai Keung, Fung
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong.
Tel: (852)26098056 Fax: (852)26036002
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From: "test" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone have their CD yet?
Crossposted-To:
comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases,linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 05:59:36 GMT
Well, it's now late May and Oracle said they'd be sending out their 8i
Linux CDs by now. Anyone have Oracle8i for Linux yet?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: antivirus
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 03:37:08 GMT
On Sat, 29 May 1999 12:32:42 +1000, Ben Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
held some poor sysadmin at gun point while typing in the following:
: Well, to my knowledge, there are no viruses for windows =)
Hmm, Norton, McAffee, Dr. Solomon, and company are going to have to quit
now.
--Matthew
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