Linux-Misc Digest #400, Volume #20 Sat, 29 May 99 10:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: xterm & background pr (NEWS)
Re: Starting X at boot-up (NEWS)
edit commands in linux te (NEWS)
Re: What is going on? (Or whois [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Ian Briggs)
Re: antivirus (Ed Young)
Re: IP Addresses of Inter (NEWS)
Re: choosing an OS for a (NEWS)
Re: The Glass Cathedral ("T.E.Dickey")
LD cannot find libX11 on RH6? (Jeremy)
postgresql (Fezzzza)
Re: Netscape Keeps Stalling (Peter T. Breuer)
Re: Error message while c (NEWS)
Re: Netscape Keeps Stalling (Ron Gibson)
Re: "Art Format" images? (NEWS)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? ("Chris")
upgrading GUI toolkits and/or shared libs, GTK+ (donito)
Re: ncurses pieces missing? (Ciaran Costelloe)
Re: Windows/DOS (NEWS)
Help! GPF when booting l (NEWS)
Re: samba and kernel 2.2. (NEWS)
Re: Fun things to do with (NEWS)
How to place a filter bet (NEWS)
Re: USB on Linux (NEWS)
Re: Linux vs. NT performa (NEWS)
Re: How to run a script w (NEWS)
Re: Large CD-ROM file err (NEWS)
aterm and pseudo-tty (NEWS)
Re: Ethernet Card Plus El (NEWS)
Re: RH6.0 & General Linux (NEWS)
Re: fetchmailconf stopped (NEWS)
Re: Tools under Linus (NEWS)
Re: Aureal Vortex Sound C (NEWS)
Re: New knfsd trouble (wa (NEWS)
IP Addresses of Interface (NEWS)
Re: Realplayer G2 (NEWS)
Sound drivers cause syste (NEWS)
Re: Make my own boot/root (NEWS)
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xterm & background pr
Date: 27 May 1999 19:47 GMT
On 27 May 1999 14:39:58 -0400, 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.
I don't really know what is going on here, but I have noticed that if
I kill the xterm by closing it with the mouse, then the emacs will
also die. But if I exit the xterm by typing "exit", then the emacs
will survive. That might be a solution to your problem.
--
http://www.bahnhof.se/~mirty/
I am sorry for my bad English (eller svenska).
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Starting X at boot-up
Date: 27 May 1999 20:32 GMT
Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>On the subject of X, how do you load more than one instance. I've been told to stick
>it when I try.
startx -- :0.0
startx -- :1.0
startx -- :2.0
up to 7 on my system.
Norman
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: edit commands in linux te
Date: 27 May 1999 20:02 GMT
This is farely simple question. In windows my telnet sessions have edit
commands(cut,copy,paste) however my linux telnet sessions do not. How
does one take text from a document or web browser, for example, and
paste them into telnet?
Mike B.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Briggs)
Subject: Re: What is going on? (Or whois [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 13:04:10 GMT
Jonas wrote:
:Is everyone getting these multiple re-postings of old articles by
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?
I am.
Ian
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: antivirus
Date: 29 May 1999 12:13:13 GMT
bgarrett wrote:
>
> 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
The only viruses I have heard of on Linux boxes are compliments of:
MSDOS
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows NT
Windows 2000
By that I mean they are the only way to introduce virus damage in
a Linux box that I am aware of.
The solution is obvious. But since some jobs require the use of
said virus attractors, not always attainable :-(
MacAfee or Norton are good in your (do I gotta run?) Windows
environment...
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IP Addresses of Inter
Date: 28 May 1999 16:47 GMT
On Fri, 28 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a file where Linux stores the IP addresses (in a.b.c.d format)
> of active interfaces?
>
> In other words, is there a file that contains the information supplied
> by running ifconfig?
The closest would be /proc/net/route, that is assuming your kernel
supports the /proc interface and the /proc filesystem is mounted.
You will see the IP addresses in the form (on intel x86 systems)
ddccbbaa where a,b,c,d are hex digits.
The other stats reported by ifconfig come from parsing /proc/net/dev
I don't know how much guarantee you have that the interface is still
active or functioning correctly, however. For example if someone
pulls out the phone line while ppp0 is up, Linux will probably
continue to report the interface until someone either kills pppd
or deletes the route manually....
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: choosing an OS for a
Date: 28 May 1999 15:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikhail Teterin) writes:
>
> A friend of mine received a working, but too old and slow (by todays
> standards) Sun workstation for free. The disk is dead, but we have a
> 1Gb replacement. The machine has 16Mb of RAM, is by itself diskless --
> fits entirely in what a casual observer would call monitor. I do not
> know the model :(, but can get it if needed. The disk we have is
> external. There is also an external CD-ROM available. No floppy
> drives in sight, though... The RAM can be increased. A tape drive is a
> painful option.
First off, max out the RAM. You should definitely be able to take it to
32M. Possibly 64M, depending on what model the thing is.
As for OS, I happen to be a fan of Sun's products, but the current
version will run slowly on old hardware and it may be difficult to get
older versions.
I have personally used SunOS 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.6 on an IPX. It was
annoyingly slow with 32M of RAM. Still slow, but acceptible at 64M.
Netscape was painfully slow with any amount of RAM. Both OSs worked
just fine, although installing and configuring SunOS is a
pain-and-a-half.
Someone else here mentioned that Solaris 7 (which is free if you sign up
for one of their special programs) is pretty slow on old hardware. But
you be more tolerant on your box.
I would recommend a larer hard drive than 1G if you choose to go with a
Sun OS. Most of that 1G will be consumed by the system. Fortunately,
2G and 4G drives are pretty inexpensive these days.
-- David
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Glass Cathedral
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 13:02:42 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc "Snoopy :-))" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMHO:
> You should not advertise your ignorance. Now everyone knows what a Joke and
> an IDIOT you are !!!!
( then you shouldn't either ;-)
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LD cannot find libX11 on RH6?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 07:58:27 -0500
Hi! Got an interesting problem. I am trying to compile xv on my freshly
installed RedHat 6 system. xv Compiles, but when it gets to the linker
stage, it gives an error that ld cannot find -lX11. I tried replacing
-lX11 with the path of the X11 lib, but no go. I have tried serveral
different paths in the ld.so.conf file, still no go. X is working fine,
so is most of the other apps, but one more strange thing is 'textedit'
(openview program) stopped working, it says it is missing another X lib
(libXext.so.6) but it is there when I "ls" the X11R6/lib directory.
Also, if I a do a "ldconfig -v" all of the 'libX????.so.6' libs are
there in the list. Any Ideas??? - Jeremy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fezzzza)
Subject: postgresql
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 13:11:38 GMT
I have managed to get the tcp/ip working by killing postmaster and
restarting a new one
when i try and link or import a table into acess 97 I get a #210
error unsupported frontend protocal
anyone else had this.
and can someone tell exactly what to do to do log into postgres with
access 97
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Subject: Re: Netscape Keeps Stalling
Date: 29 May 1999 12:46:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ron Gibson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: from Linux NG's because we lost FIDO locally and I don't usually don't do
: Linux USENET.
: Any comments on glibc2?
I don't know. Likewise I'm not using it (though I installed the binaries
of 2.0.7 in some nice safe place for soffice 5) and I have no problem with
netscape 4.51 or 4.60 (I went through 4.51 rapidly as I didn't see
anything stopping me using 4.60 instead, and neither seem worse
nor better than 4.50). Libc 5.4.38.
I also use the good ol gnu-malloc preload from libc 5.4.7.
: email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Peter
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Error message while c
Date: 27 May 1999 06:02 GMT
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] (Ron Gibson)
Subject: Re: Netscape Keeps Stalling
Date: 29 May 1999 12:26:38 GMT
On Sat, 29 May 1999 06:06:01, Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yep. Netscape IS the problem. Killing it is the way I get rid of the runnig
> > wild Instance. Somtimes Netscape dosn�t even release all resources when I
> > normally exit it. Did anybody try 4.6 (yet)?
> I gave up on it. It goes into a black hole when hitting
> certain java sites. I was using the libc5 versions of
> 4.51 and 4.6 with the same results. Going back to the
> 4.5 version solved the problems. My 4.5 version is glibc2
> but I'm not sure that the lib version is the cause because
> I've run Real Audio 5.0 libc version without any problem
> as well as a few other libc5 programs.
> These are US Netscape versions of course and there are
> no glibc2 versions of 4.51 or 4.6 available yet.
I've been saying that I don't have any problems and now I'm wondering if
it is because I haven't upgraded to glibc2. I've been away for a while
from Linux NG's because we lost FIDO locally and I don't usually don't do
Linux USENET.
Any comments on glibc2?
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Art Format" images?
Date: 28 May 1999 17:02 GMT
Tim Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>run `strings foo.art | head`
Omitting the backquotes (see below for why) we get:
40w.
J}NX
,_jng
qn^8
F(*
dN0&HL24$fjB
rhxf
Qpk.
j`sR%
*95yQ
Does that seem useful, help point to a Linux app that might
understand the .art format? I suspect this is another Microsoft
proprietary format, possibly a fractal compression format like
the one they licensed from Iterated Systems for Encarta. That
would explain the small size of these files, assuming they're
reasonable size images.
Backquotes are a shell directive to "run the command within the
backquotes, and deliver that command's output here." They're
generally only useful in conjunction with other commands. So,
run `strings foo.art | head`
produces:
bash: run: command not found
and
`strings foo.art | head`
produces:
bash: 40w.: command not found
--
Jim
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 14:16:25 +0100
Is this preponderance with which package is best eventually lead Linux down
the Unix path of fragmentation and senseless inter-camp bickering.
I realise in this thread it is merely an installation discussion, but as the
bucks get bigger and commercial software becomes a player, what hope does
Linux have?
Or when popularity reaches a certain level will the technical development
enthusiast lose all interest and move to something more esoteric again?
Does the packaged installation vendor represent the first stage in this
possible cycle?
This is not a flippant question. One thing which causes me to avoid
widespread use of Linux is this possibility, which I "pessimistically"
consider a probability. Linux needs clients as well as servers.
--
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (donito)
Subject: upgrading GUI toolkits and/or shared libs, GTK+
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 13:32:14 GMT
I've been trying to install various programs to my RH 5.2 box. x11amp
and gnome for example and have run into the problem of failed
dependancies. I realize programs require other GUI toolkits or
libraries to be present but what I don't understand is how to
gracefully upgrade or install the dependant packages when they consist
of a newer set of shared libraries. For example, when I try to
install x11amp 0.9 beta, I get the failed dependancy....
gtk+ >= 1.2.0, libgdk-1.2.so.0, libgtk-1.2.so.0
my system currently has gtk+1.0.6. but when I upgrade gtk+, programs
that relied on the 1.0.6 version "break". How do I get around this??
should I install it such that both version of gtk+ are present on the
system or am I forced to start upgrading all the packages that start
"breaking"
by "breaking" of course, I mean no longer working...
thanks in advance...
-Don
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From: Ciaran Costelloe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ncurses pieces missing?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 14:03:47 +0100
Hi David, thank you very much. I did not realise that there was a
developement one to be installed. I found it and I am sure I am back on
track!
Thanks again
Ciaran Costelloe
"D. Vrabel" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, Ciaran Costelloe wrote:
>
> > I am a relative newbie to Linux and I am having problems getting a
> > program I have written that uses ncurses to compile, specifically when I
> > add "#include curses.h", the compiler cannot find curses.h.
> >
> > This is not that surprising since there is no file "curses.h" on my
> > Linux computer. It is Redhat Linux version 5.2. When I checked what
> > packages are installed, I was surprised to see that ncurses was
> > installed. I then found /usr/doc/ncurses-4.2/README, which stated the
> > installation instructions were to be found in INSTALL. However, I don't
> > have an INSTALL file (unless it is really well hidden somewhere, like in
> > some compressed file: it certainly is not with the README).
> You need to install the ncurses development package.
>
> > I have read up as much as I can on this but I am totally lost at this
> > stage. I know that I don't really have a clue as to what I am doing,
> > but I don't even know where to start learning. Can anyone please help?
> >
> > Ciaran Costelloe
> >
> >
>
> David Vrabel
> Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows/DOS
Date: 27 May 1999 18:02 GMT
"Joshua E. Rodd" wrote:
>
> (WFW3.1 is a terrible, terrible beast.)
Why? I use to like it a lot. At least I always knew where
DOS and Windows were.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! GPF when booting l
Date: 27 May 1999 13:02 GMT
I have a HP Omnibook 800ct that _used_ to boot SuSE 6.1 (kernel 2.2.5)
OK. Currently, when I boot the kernel it finds the hard disk drivers
but won't go farther. It delivers this message:
Partition check:
hda:general protection fault: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01255c4>]
EFLAGS: 00010286
<register dump follows>
Funny thing is, when I boot from the install disk and mount the file
system, it works OK.
I've rebuilt the kernel (I have the sound drivers in the kernel and
build it with make bzImage).
It was reliable until I had a hinge problem in my laptop, and now it
won't work.
BTW, the Win95 partition works fine.
Any help out there? Thanks.
Jerome.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: samba and kernel 2.2.
Date: 27 May 1999 23:47 GMT
Jeffrey Greer wrote:
>
> 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.
Hi,
Somewhere I read a message that Samba checks the kernel version
in its compile time. Try reinstalling samba from its source
under 2.2.X kernels. It solved my problem. :^)
Hope this helps.
Do-Hoon Kwon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fun things to do with
Date: 27 May 1999 23:02 GMT
You can donate it here!! ;-)
I have a friend that has 4 or 5 old 486's... he wants to cluster them. If
you have a couple, you can do that.
Best of all, have fun and learn lots!!
FK
Gerritt Baer wrote:
> Well, I've found myself with an extra PII/266, and can't find a real
> use for the darn thing. I could install w95 on it to chain my pcs
> together so I can play quake2 with myself, but I was hoping to do
> something more useful/interesting with it. So i've installed SuSE 6.1
> on it yesterday and I'm trying to think of some interesting/fun things
> to do with the box. As, of now, it just sits there doing not much of
> anything :) Anyone have any good ideas?
>
> Gerritt Baer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to place a filter bet
Date: 27 May 1999 22:47 GMT
Using "redirect_program" entry in the squid.conf file, I am able
to place a unix filter (perl program) to watch all the url
requests from the user.
I would like to place an another filter to watch web page contents
from squid before delivering it to the client.
If you know how to do this, please send me an e-amil or post it
over here.
Thanks,
V.S.Senthilkumar
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB on Linux
Date: 27 May 1999 06:47 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I'd like to know peoples experiences using USB devices
: with Linux. I'd like to know if I would have any problems
: connected with a USB adapter?
: Greg
Greg, there is no USB support in Linux, as of yet.
-Brent
__________________________________________
"A 'conclusion' is that point in an
argument where you get tired of thinking."
-Ray Jennings
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux vs. NT performa
Date: 27 May 1999 17:17 GMT
Scott A. spam-me-some-moore wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>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]
ROTFLMAO!
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to run a script w
Date: 28 May 1999 02:32 GMT
On 27 May 1999, John McKown wrote:
> On 24 May 1999 22:02:12 GMT, John Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I often forget to shut down my Sybase database server when I log out. So
> >I wrote a script to execute isql commands to shut down the servers. But then,
> >I sometimes forget to execute the script before I log out :-( .
> >
> >How do I tell Linux to execute my shutdown script automatically whenever I
> >log out ?
Call the script ~/.bash_logout or source the script from within
~/.bash_logout
> do you really want to shutdown the server when you logout? Or do you want
> to shut them down when you shutdown Linux? If the latter, then I'd put
> a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d which will shutdown the server. Then, in the
> various /etc/rc.d/rc?.d subdirectories (the ? is a number - the runlevel)
> I'd put a KnnSyDown as a symbolic link to the script in /etc/rc.d/init.d
> The first letter must be K, the next two must be a "priority" number. The
> smaller the number, the sooner (relative to other Knn... scripts) that it
> will execute.
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large CD-ROM file err
Date: 28 May 1999 06:32 GMT
On Wed, 26 May 1999 08:09:01 +0100,
Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matt Starnes wrote:
> >
> > It might have something to do with filesystems. The software we use in
> > Windoze 95 defaults to create a Joliet filesystem on the CD-ROM which is I
> > believe different from the standard ISO9660 format. You might want to
> > reburn it and check that. Or you can compile Joilet support into your
> > kernel.
>
> Well, thanks for the effort, but to quote myself: "I booted up Linux
> 2.2.9, with full CD support including Joliet compiled in)"
And precisely how does Joliet handle such things as owners, permissions,
symlinks and other features of a typical Unix filesystem? We won't even
get into how device files would work on a Joliet CD.
You don't want to burn it in Joliet: sure, Linux will read it, but it
will be missing important things like symlinks and (probably why it
doesn't work) device files.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: aterm and pseudo-tty
Date: 28 May 1999 07:17 GMT
Whenever I try to use aterm I get:
[dustin@vega blackbox]$ aterm
aterm: can't open pseudo-tty
aterm: aborting
Any idea what is going on?
--
Dustin Puryear
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet Card Plus El
Date: 27 May 1999 13:47 GMT
Is it an ISA card? Mine has jumpers for IRQ3 and IRQ10, or "SOFT". Make
sure it's not set to "SOFT".
Mark.
Uwe Brauer wrote:
>
> Thanks, I tried this, but did not work as well.
> Does not find the card.
>
> Uwe
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0 & General Linux
Date: 28 May 1999 04:47 GMT
On Fri, 28 May 1999 03:04:59 GMT, John Hovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Instead of typing "su root", type "su -"
Then he won't be able to run X programs until he set the DISPLAY.
You you can either add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the PATH, or set the DISPLAY
every time (maybe with an alias).
Dave Cook
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmailconf stopped
Date: 28 May 1999 10:47 GMT
On Thu, 27 May 1999 02:44:12 -0400, Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have been having some weird problems recently, one of which is man
><cmd> spitting out that groff is not a directory and such, explained
>further in (two :( previous posts..
[snip]
Could it be permissions messed up? Since you have RH 5.2, try
this (may take a while...)
rpm -qa|xargs rpm --verify
Any files that come up with "M" in the flags have had permissions
changed.
I'm not saying that *is* your problem - just something to try...
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tools under Linus
Date: 27 May 1999 15:32 GMT
In his obvious haste, Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: I Ching Hsueh wrote:
:>
:> Hallo,
:> A good question for Linus people.
:> I want to know, how many well-known tools now run under Linus, or which webside
:> I should visit to get this.
:>
:> Regards
: its called Linux, not Linus. Linux is the guy who created it.
He's called Linus, not Linux... Linux is the OS he created....
:)
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Aureal Vortex Sound C
Date: 27 May 1999 12:17 GMT
Madhu wrote:
>
> Hi,
> My sound card brand is PCI-338 A3D. It uses the Aureal Vortex chipset.
> OSS detected it as Aureal Vortex, but it says its not supported yet. I'm
> really looking forward to using my Redhat 5.2 with the sound card installed.
> My X and everything else is working perfectly well otherwise. Can somebody
> please help me with this???
Use newest OSS driver (http://www.opensound.com/).
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New knfsd trouble (wa
Date: 27 May 1999 22:47 GMT
>
> My guess is that we are all using the knfsd package and Kernel-2.2.?.
> In /usr/src/linux-2.2.?/Documentation/Changes file, it is
> explicitly stated that "NFS is currently under heavy revision" to
> work as a kernel-based NFS.
>
I am seeing problems with the knfs stuff also, but only with some
clients. An OS/2 box can still mount a file system on the linux
server normally, but an HP-UX box will show the mount point as
established but will not be able to see the files. A bdf displays the
nfs mount and the correct space utilization, even tho the mount dir is
empty. Without even the . and .. entries.
Any help appreciated,
rick
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP Addresses of Interface
Date: 28 May 1999 14:17 GMT
Is there a file where Linux stores the IP addresses (in a.b.c.d format)
of active interfaces?
In other words, is there a file that contains the information supplied
by running ifconfig?
Thanks,
Sherif
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Realplayer G2
Date: 27 May 1999 03:32 GMT
Carl Fink wrote:
>
> Is anyone else having sound problems? I'm using that most standard
> of sound cards, the SB16, but the sound is absurdly distorted and
> useless. It seems to me that the lowest volume setting is so high
> it's overloading my (headphone) speakers.
>
> Anyone else getting overloud sound?
>
Not here, it works great. It sucks on winblows but I have a good control
of sound on Linux. On winblows I have to jack the sound near the end
and with this one it's just normal. I'm quite please so far, the missing part
is that I can't have any preset channel, that sucks. My sound card is ESS
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound drivers cause syste
Date: 27 May 1999 16:47 GMT
Hello all, Has anyone seen this before?
I have a RedHat system (started with RH5.1 and upgraded kernel to 2.2.9)
that I am trying to get sound to work on. I have a generic sound card
with the Yamaha OPL3/Sax chip. I set it up using isapnp and it works
when I install the modules sound, mpu401, ad1848, and opl3sax
(forgive me if I don't have the last two module names exactly right).
Anyway, it seems to work, but the system tends to lock up tight as a
drum
after a while if I install the modules and start playing sounds. I have
never
had a locking up problem before. My system is a AMD K6/266 in a Soyo
motherboard with Symbios 53C875 Ultra Scsi and Ultra-wide hard drives.
S3 graphics, RT8139 10/100 ethernet card. Everything worked great until
I added sound. Has anyone else noticed this?
Randy
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Make my own boot/root
Date: 28 May 1999 13:17 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Williams) writes:
> I need to make some custom boot and root disks? How can I do that?
The Bootdisk-HOWTO was written to answer this.
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO.html
If you don't want to do it manually, check out the Yard package.
-Tom
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