Linux-Misc Digest #447, Volume #20 Tue, 1 Jun 99 10:13:28 EDT
Contents:
FS: 2 SPARCStation SLC's ; $50 each ("Kent Rankin")
O_ASYNC (Holger Burde)
Is Gnome slow? (Cliff Story)
PS/2 Verbatim Internet mouse does not cut/paste in Xterm. What to do? (Miernik)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Ed Avis)
Re: Warning against Announce Communications web hosting (Ben Short)
Re: RedHat 5.2 install. SMB a ("Avnish Gupta")
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? ("Robert C. Paulsen, Jr.")
iptraffic 1.4.3make problem ("services.moore")
Caldera 2.2 + Specialix SI/XIO? (Chris Raper)
Sound with CM Soundpro (Daniel Fairs)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (David Kastrup)
difference between login-shell and -e (gun2019)
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From: "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.sun.wanted
Subject: FS: 2 SPARCStation SLC's ; $50 each
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:34:04 GMT
The units are located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449, and contain 8MB RAM,
each.
To prevent the confusion that often occurs with these, they are not the
SPARCStation "SPC"s, but the "SLC"s. The main difference is that these
include a built-in 17" monitor.
-Kent Rankin
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From: Holger Burde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: O_ASYNC
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 14:25:53 +0100
hi;
I try to convert some code running on Solaris to make it also run on
linux. I need async io - opening a fd nonblocking (pipe(2)) and then get
a signal when something to read is available. In SVR4 i set up a signal
handler (for SIGIO) and do a ioctl.
In Linux it should be something like this: (borrowed from R. Stevens ..)
signal(SIG??,handler) //SIGIO SIGPOLL ?
fcntl(fd,S_SETOWN,getpid()) //this process should recieve SIGIO
fcntl(fd,F_SETFL,FASYNC) //in fcntlbits.h i found the BSD compat
stuff
I tried this an some and some variations but never got the handler
called. Any idea what went wrong or where
to look for an answer ???
thanks in advance
hb
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From: Cliff Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is Gnome slow?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 05:50:30 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've just installed Red Hat 6.0 (on top on 5.2 -- the "upgrade" option
didn't work, it killed the mouse) which comes with a new X window
manager (seems to be more than a window manager, though) called
"Gnome". This looks real good but it runs like MacPaint on a 128K Mac,
maybe a little slower. My brother suggests increasing my RAM from the
present 16 MB to 64 MB, and I'm sure that would help, but even with 16
MB I'd expect a menu response in less than two or three seconds, which
is what Gnome gives me.
Any comments?
Thanks!
Cliff
"If you wanna end war 'n' stuff, you gotta sing loud."
- Arlo Guthrie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miernik)
Subject: PS/2 Verbatim Internet mouse does not cut/paste in Xterm. What to do?
Date: 1 Jun 1999 10:42:12 GMT
In text console it works correctly.
Nearly, cause I can paste with the right button and not the "middle" as
it should work I think. My "middle" button is on the left side....
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From: Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:42:34 +0100
Ottavio G. Rizzo wrote:
[should companies be allowed to keep personal data, secretly?]
>>The same argument applies if I started telephoning people and telling
>>them falsehoods about your finances. Yes, you would be able to sue me
>>for slander if my actions harmed you; but that's not an argument for
>>saying that all telephone calls should be monitored, or that I should
>>let you listen in to any calls I make - even if they are about you.
>
>If you were doing so, that could well be a legitimate reason to
>monitor *your* phone calls.
Clearly you and I have very different views on what is acceptable and
what isn't. But if you take that view then yes, it does also make
sense for companies to be forced to disclose information.
>>Okay, so _you_ should have the right to view other people's
>>information if it concerns you, while _they_ should not have the right
>>to keep secrets. Do you not think you're hoarding all the 'rights' to
>>yourself here?
>
>The same rights apply to you, being in the UK :) And I have little
>simpathy for corporate rights in any case
That's another question - do companies have the same rights as
individuals? Most people would say no, and I think I agree. But they
should still have some legal rights of course. I read in the
newspaper the other day that some human rights bigwigs (the European
Court Of HR? I don't remember who) had ruled that companies, as well
as individuals, were entitled to rights such as freedom of
expression. That could make for an interesting time trying to ban
tobacco advertising.
>In the US a student has the right to access every document about his
>results: when I applied to grad school, I just had to waive my right
>to read the recommandation letters. But it was my choice, it applied
>only to those letters, I knew were they were, and the system still
>works.
That sounds like a very good system. I was worried that the right to
look at documents was inalienable, so that you could promise to waive
your right to see them, then once the letters are written, you can
change your mind and threaten legal action if you don't get a look.
But if you are allowed to voluntarially give up that right for certain
documents, then there isn't a problem with references and so on.
>>Also, I think it's an infringement of my privacy that I have to
>>inform the government if I'm collecting a list of names.
>
>And I suppose you believe that a national ID infringes your privacy, too.
Not privacy - the govt. has records of who I am anyway - but it would
really piss me off to have to carry an ID card with me.
--
Ed Avis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Crossposted-To: comp.misc,soc.culture.taiwan,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Warning against Announce Communications web hosting
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:07:29 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Since Allen Hoffman of Announce Communications has announced his web
> hosting business here I feel it is appropriate to warn you about my bad
> experiences with this business.
>
> The business is cheap, but service is extremely poor. Severe errors are
> only fixed after many complaints, and less severe errors are never fixed
> at all. Most E-mails are never answered. But worst of all: if you are
> dissatisfied and want to move to another service provider, you may not
> be able to transfer your domain name.
>
> My story is:
> I have bought a domain web site at Announce Communications. In april my
> site went down because mr Hoffman failed to pay the Internic bill. All
> my complaints remained unanswered. After a month I decided that I had to
> move my domain to another ISP. Only after he learned that I was moving
> the domain did I hear from mr Hoffman. Do you think it was an apology?
> Or an offer to refund what I had paid for a faulty service? No - you
> can't guess it. It was a demand that I pay him 70$ for releasing my
> domain! My question is now: is it possible to move the domain without
> his permission? The internic record has my name as registrant, and his
> name as administrative contact.
>
If your name is down as the billing contact, you have absolute authority
on the domain...it may require a bit of running around fedexing Internic,
but the billing contact can override administrative and tech contacts.
Well, in my experience, that has been the case.
Ben
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From: "Avnish Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.2 install. SMB a
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:44:54 +0530
Dear Christropher,
"smbclient -L xyz" gave the result "smbclient: not found" and "smbmount
//xyz/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" gave the result "smbmount: not found" whereas i can
still ping my linux machine from other machines. The cdrom is shared on a
WIN98 machine with share name cdrom and machine name "xyz".
I have a Compex RL2000 PCI ethernet adapter. I chose my card as NE2000 PCI
and then selected autoprobe while installation which didnt find any problem.
The machine on which i m trying to install linux doesnt have a cdrom.
As advised by you i looked for the newsgroup comp.protocol.smb. But couldnt
find it on my ISPs news server. Can you suggest some News servers where i
can look for this newsgroup.
Thank you
Avnish Gupta
Christopher R. Thompson wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>NEWS wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to install Red Hat Linux 5.2 using the following options:
>>
>> SMB option:
>>
>I assume that you are trying to mount cdrom on the windoze machine to
>Linux. Try
>
>smbmount //abc.pqr/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
>smbclient -L abc.pqr will list your shares on abc.pqr.
>
>Also for SAMBA related information try comp.protocol.smb newsgroup.
>
>I have no idea where these other messages came from I have never seen
>them.
>
>If on the other hand your trying to access the cdrom that is physically
>located in the linux machine. You need to edit your /etc/smb.conf file
>and start the smbclient running.
>
>/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
>
>You don't need nmb running unless you want your linux machine to look
>like an nt server. So you can edit the /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb startup
>script and comment it out.
>
>> I have shared the cdrom on a WIN98 machine giving read only access to
>> everyone. The IP address of this machine is 192.168.103.50. and the name
is
>> xyz. After using supplemental disk and partitioning i configured my
network
>> adapter. For network configuration i chose the following options:
>>
>> IP Address: 192.168.103.144
>> Netmask: 255.255.255.0 (same as that of WIN98 machine)
>> Default Gateway: 192.168.103.144
>> Primary Nameserver: 192.168.103.144
>>
>> Domain Name: pqr
>> Host Name: abc.pqr
>> Secondary Name Server: None
>> Tertiary Name Server: None
>>
>> SMB Server Name: xyz
>> Share Volume: cdrom
>> Account Name: None
>> Password: None
>>
>> After this configuration i get the message "I could not mount that
directory
>> from the server". The only way to come out of this is Ctrl+Alt+Del.
>>
>> Ping to Linux machine gives the following output:
>>
>> Pinging 192.168.103.144 with 32 bytes of data:
>> Reply from 192.168.103.144: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
>> Reply from 192.168.103.144: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
>> Reply from 192.168.103.144: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
>> Reply from 192.168.103.144: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
>> Ping statistics for 192.168.103.144:
>> Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
>> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>> Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 1ms
>>
>> What could be wrong?
>>
>> FTP option:
>>
>> I have a WINNT 4.0 machine (Name: def, IP address 192.168.103.254, Subnet
>> Mask 255.255.255.0) which is a FTP server. Its cdrom is made a Virtual
>> Directory with name /cdrom. I have allowed read only anonymous access to
>> this.
>>
>> After using supplemental disk and partitioning i configured my network
>> adapter. For network configuration i chose the following options this
time:
>>
>> IP Address: 192.168.103.135
>> Netmask: 255.255.255.0
>> Default Gateway: 192.168.103.135
>> Primary Nameserver: 192.168.103.135
>>
>> Domain Name: pqr
>> Host Name: abc.pqr
>> Secondary Name Server: None
>> Tertiary Name Server: None
>>
>> FTP Site Name: 192.168.103.254
>> Red Hat Directory: cdrom
>> i didnt choose the option "use non-anonymous FTP or a Proxy Server"
>>
>> After this i was prompted for the list of packages to install and i chose
>> everything.
>>
>> I got the message "I cannot get file
>> cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/setup-1.9.2-1.noarch.rpm: File not found on Server".
When
>> i clicked OK i got the message "I m having trouble getting %s. Should i
keep
>> trying?" I selected No. This time i got the message "I cannot get file
>> cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/filesystem-1.3.2-3.noarch.rpm: File not found on
Server".
>> And so on. The only way to come out of this is Ctrl+Alt+Del.
>>
>> When i used the follwing command "dir setup*.*" on my cdrom using my
WINNT
>> 4.0 machine i got the following list of files:
>> setup-1.9
>> setuptool-1.0-1
>>
>> and the command "dir file*.*" gave me the following results:
>> file-3.25-2
>> filesystem-1.3
>> fileutils-3.16-10
>>
>> When i use "ftp 192.168.103.254" from my WIN98 machine which i mentioned
in
>> the SMB option i can login using the following information:
>> User: anonymous
>> Password: none
>> Here i can browse all my directories. I used the following command "cd
>> /cdrom/redhat/rpms" and it worked well. It also displays the list of rpm
>> packages using the command ls. But here also the same names are displayed
>> which i saw using the command "dir *.*" on my WINNT machine.
>>
>> Pinging my Linux machine from my WINNT machine gives the following
result:
>>
>> Pinging 192.168.103.135 with 32 bytes of data:
>> Reply from 192.168.103.135: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
>> Reply from 192.168.103.135: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
>> Reply from 192.168.103.135: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
>> Reply from 192.168.103.135: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
>>
>> What could be wrong?
>>
>> I am not a regular visitor to newsgroups so please cc at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Thanx in advance.
>>
>> Avnish Gupta
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From: "Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 08:06:45 -0500
Keith Phillips wrote:
> For some reason I could never figure out, SuSE 6.1 simply would not
> see my printer until I added parallel printer support to the kernel,
> instead of leaving it as a module. Once I did that and recompiled,
> printing went just fine. Go figure. :-)
>
I have parallel port as modules and it works fine.
Perhaps you have something in conf.modules preventing proper operation.
I did make one change for the 2.2.5 kernel. I added the following to
turn on use of irq 7:
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
____________________________________________________________________
Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
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From: "services.moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: iptraffic 1.4.3make problem
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 15:08:04 +0200
Somebody arround, who has successfully installed iptraffic 1.4.3 on SuSE
6.1?
If I type 'make install'
an error occurred:
'Makefile:76: *** missing separator. Stop.'
and then I'm back on the command prompt.
I am really new to Linux and more to the programming possibilities, so I
had no idea where this error message will lead me.
kernelversion, ncurses, make should all be the correct versions.
Hope to get some ideas and TIA
gerhard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Raper)
Subject: Caldera 2.2 + Specialix SI/XIO?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 13:09:46 GMT
Hi
I am a newbie with Linux and I was wondering how I might go about
installing and configuring a Specialix multi-port card to work under
Caldera 2.2 Linux?
I have downloaded the sidrv.taz file and run through the update
procedure but it bombs out pretty early - the patch command doesn't
succeed. Looking at the readme it seems to want the 2.1 kernel rather
than the 2.2 kernel. Is there an update for this yet?
TIA
Chris R.
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From: Daniel Fairs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound with CM Soundpro
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 12:51:55 GMT
I was wondering if anyone has had trouble getting sound going under X
using redhat 6. All the settings in isapnp.conf and conf.modules seem
OK, but all I get when I try to play a wav is a series of clicks.
Playing a CD through the CDROM is OK. Any ideas?
Cheers,
Dan
Daniel Fairs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://bits.bris.ac.uk/danfairs/
Just because you're not paranoid doesn't
mean they're not out to get you.
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From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Date: 01 Jun 1999 13:23:32 +0200
Marco Antoniotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Marco Antoniotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Switzerland is an extremely rich country. When your belly is full
> > > you are less inclined to violence.
> >
> > So you would say that the typical drug barons are either paupers or
> > not inclined to violence?
>
> No. Of course not. I am not writing a scholarly erudite essay. I am
> "sound-biting" on Usenet. The best comment I have about this is an
> old Doonesbury cartoon where the old Congresswoman (can't remember the
> charming character's name) asks the drug and arms dealer on the corner
> of a street: "But why don't you get a respectable job instead of
> living this horrible life making 20000 a month tax-exempt?"
Sounds like Lacy Davenport, IIRC.
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Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-709-4209
Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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From: gun2019 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: difference between login-shell and -e
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:58:59 +0200
hey everybody,
what is the difference in the environment if i invoke
for example
[rxvt-prompt] vim ( i have vim with colors here)
and
[rxvt-prompt] rxvt -e vim ( i have vim with *no* colors in the
new shell, only highlighted
and
underlined)
i have set TERM to "rxvt".
same is with mutt, but only after compiling by myself.
maybe because of compiling with ncurses, not slang?
the original mutt-rpm works with colors in both cases and was
compiled with slang, i think.
but, was has this to do with invoking the program? it's a color-
terminal, anyway.
what to do? want to do mutt and vim with a click from a button, and with
colors.
MC works with "-e " with my own defined colors, but only because
i defined them as "base-color=..." (for every terminal type) in the ini.
if i do this with "rxvt=...", same as described above.
"set" in the MC command prompt shows the proper TERM value "rxvt".
So what happens here?
thanks in advance for your comments
g.
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