Linux-Misc Digest #459, Volume #20 Wed, 2 Jun 99 05:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: ppp-2.3.7 and RH6 (Christopher Brown)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Michael Powe)
video4linux (Mike Gorsuch)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Jimmy Navarro)
What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (Ruiming Chen)
Re: Program that does HTML to plain text conversion? (John Girash)
Access ZIP drive attached to Linux PC from windows? ("Erik Cuynen")
Re: Is TNC Merz 56K external modem compatible with Linux? (Opie)
Re: where o where might i find xagent??? (Matthew Lewis)
Re: Netscape 4.6 .rpm, .deb? was, Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits ?????????????
(Johan Kullstam)
Include Kernel Source (Brent Arkley)
Re: YOURE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS! 5132 ("William B. Cattell")
Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: ip forwarding (Dustin Puryear)
Re: NT the best web platform? (LEBLANC ERIC)
Re: Only ROOT can login?? (Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima)
Re: Linux for $1.00 (Coder69)
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From: Christopher Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp-2.3.7 and RH6
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 05:53:17 GMT
In the "for what it is worth" column, my problems were finally cured (I'm using
a Ricochet wireless modem with Ricochet.net) by fixing the aliases in
conf.modules below *and* turning off Van Jacobsen header compression by putting
-vj in my /etc/ppp/options files. Go figure. None of this was mentioned
anywhere when I upgraded from RH5.2 to RH6.0.
-Chris
Christopher Brown wrote:
> You are not alone. I've seen posts from several other people about this and
> I'm experiencing it on two of my machines (both upgrades from RH5.2->RH6.0)
> Wish I could give you some answers. The compress problem is not related.
> You can fix that by going to /etc/conf.modules and adding:
>
> alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
>
> so that modprobe picks these modules up correctly.
>
> Believe me, my symptoms are exactly the same as yours. I connect, I ping
> ok, route -n shows that I have a defauteroute, traceroute -d <some site>
> shows me a long lists of routes, as does traceroute -I.
>
> I wish someone knowledgeable would jump in and help here.
>
> Christopher Brown
>
> Joost Evertse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7ito13$k4l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've bought redhat 6 and now i have a little problem. With 5.2 i could get
> a
> > ppp connection working in two seconds. With RH6 everything seems to go ok,
> > but when browsing with netscape i get the error: tcp error, no route to
> > host. Lynx says: Alert! unable to connect!. When i do nslookup, i get in,
> > when i do ls -d XXdomainXX, i says: a critical error ha occured while
> > connecting. Ping works ok, but a lot of latency.
> >
> > Then when i examing /var/log/messages, i see that modprobe misses "module
> > compress........", three lines of this.
> >
> > I did a standard install, so what am i doing wrong?
> >
> > Joost Evertse
> >
> >
> >
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01 Jun 1999 22:58:54 -0700
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>>>>> "Ottavio" == Ottavio G Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ottavio> I suppose we are talking about the "Directive 95/46/EC of
Ottavio> the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October
Ottavio> 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the
Ottavio> processing of personal data and on the free movement of
Ottavio> such data." I managed to dig it out at:
Ottavio> http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/1995/en_395L0046.html
Ottavio> Notice that in particular it says:
[ ... ]
Ottavio> Article 12 Right of access Member States shall guarantee
Ottavio> every data subject the right to obtain from the
Ottavio> controller: (a) without constraint at reasonable
Ottavio> intervals and without excessive delay or expense: -
Ottavio> confirmation as to whether or not data relating to him
Ottavio> are being processed and information at least as to the
Ottavio> purposes of the processing, the categories of data
Ottavio> concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients
Ottavio> to whom the data are disclosed, - communication to him in
Ottavio> an intelligible form of the data undergoing processing
Ottavio> and of any available information as to their source, -
Ottavio> knowledge of the logic involved in any automatic
Ottavio> processing of data concerning him at least in the case of
Ottavio> the automated decisions referred to in Article 15 (1);
Ottavio> ===========================================================
Ottavio> In other words, I don't have the right to access those
Ottavio> data, but the company has the duty to make sure they are
I don't understand your reading. Right there in article 12 it states
that you have the right to obtain a "communication ... in an
intelligible form of the data undergoing processing ... "
mp
- --
Michael Powe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portland, Oregon USA http://www.trollope.org
"There are certain rights that a woman loses when she becomes a
wife." -- Farrah Fawcett
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From: Mike Gorsuch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: video4linux
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:57:10 GMT
Hey guys,
Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations or victory/horror
stories to share about seting up video4linux cards. I am planning on
using a Captivator PCI card and I want to be able to view camcorder
recordings through it. I don't want to waste the money and time if it's
not gonna get a decent frame rate though. In Windows it is supposed to
get 30 fps, but can Linux do it?
Thanks a ton,
Mike
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From: Jimmy Navarro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 22:02:00 -0700
Chad Mulligan wrote:
> Miguel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:IsT43.1183$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> *NT* afaik is *not* free.
> > >
> > > Either is a professional UNIX.
> >
> > I take it your definition of a professional Unix is "one that is not
> > available for free."
> >
> > miguel
> Essentially, hobbyists don't have the discipline to do it properly. For
> examples look at Disk Druid, and RH 6.0.
>
> --
> "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat" Lily Tomlin
I'm gonna try that DiskDruid again with RH6.0. I've used DiskDruid from
Red Hat 5.0 it it works for me. You just have to pul the last partion as
growable just like doing fdisk. I've installed Linux using DiskDruid more
than fdisk...
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From: Ruiming Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Subject: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 21:10:35 -0400
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The Subject askes its all. Are they the same free database software with
two names?
Or they are two different free database software?
Are they both run on Linux?
Thank you!
--Raymond
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From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Program that does HTML to plain text conversion?
Date: 1 Jun 1999 21:28:18 -0500
Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I was wondering if there is a program that comes with most Linux
: distributions (I currently have Slackware 3.6 , Mandrake 5.3 and Debian
: 2.0 installed.) that can convert HTML files to simple text files.
: Ideally it would be able to concatenate multiple HTML files into one
: plain text file
you could write a shell script using "foreach [of your html documents]",
"lynx -dump -nolist" and "cat >".
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From: "Erik Cuynen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Access ZIP drive attached to Linux PC from windows?
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:09:06 +0200
Hi,
at our office, we recently have installed a linux PC, being part of a large
ethernet network.
The other 4 PCs are running win98 and are connected to the network as well.
what must be done in order to allow all 4 PCs to read and write files from a
ZIP
drive attached to the linux PC???
Please provide sufficient information, I am a Linux newbie ; - )
Thank you in advance!
erik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system: SuSE 6.1
Pentium II
ZIP 100 MB
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From: Opie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is TNC Merz 56K external modem compatible with Linux?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 20:29:36 -0500
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any external modem should work with Linux.
Ope Bakare
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Damon Nicholas wrote:
> Hi, would appreciate if anyone can tell me if TNC Merz 56k modem is
> compatible with Redhat Linux 5.2. Thanks in advance.
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any external modem should work with Linux.
<P>Ope Bakare
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From: Matthew Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: where o where might i find xagent???
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:45:55 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi
>
> i cant seem to find this proggie
I found xagent-0.7.5.tgz at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu in directory
/pub/Linux/system/news/readers/
Hope you have better luck with it than I did. I found it wants to
download the entire list of groups every time you fire it up, and my
server has over 58,000 groups on it. Needless to say, I don't have all
day to wait when I only subscribe to about 20 of those 58,000.
Gave up on it and went back to Netscape.
--
Matthew .....
The linuX Files -- The Source is Out There.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.6 .rpm, .deb? was, Re: Netscape 4.51 suddenly exits
?????????????
Date: 20 May 1999 10:57:46 -0400
"Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Has anyone seen Netscape 4.6 rpms or debs yet? Where? I'm too lazy to
> install it otherwise... plus, it's nicer to have it packaged and ready for
> an easy upgrade or uninstall if necessary..
get new communicator. get the old source rpm. hack the spec and
rebuild. it's twice the download but gives you a nice package to
upgrade and uninstall.
i have a redhat spec file for the new communicator 4.6 and fortify
1.4.2. email me and i will be happy to send it to you. this will
save some download time.
hope this helps.
--
johan kullstam
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From: Brent Arkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Include Kernel Source
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 01:57:13 GMT
I had the same problem , when you install Redhat 5.2 select the option
to install kernel source, which is not enabled by default
Brent
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Gibson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Posted At: Wednesday, 2 June 1999 6:07
> Posted To: misc
> Conversation: Can't compile kernal, Need help
> Subject: Re: Can't compile kernal, Need help
>
> On Tue, 01 Jun 1999, Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\" wrote:
> >I've read the books and how to's and come up with the same error
> message
> >when I issue the 'make config' command. It say's that the make
> command
> >can't be found. I tried this on two systems with RedHat 5.2 and the
> same
> >thing happens. 'make zImage, zdisk don't work either. I'm logged in
> as
> >"root". What am i doing wrong? Thanks
>
> If I remember correctly the make utilities are in the binutils RPM.
> If you
> run glint under xwindows select the available button (make sure the cd
> is
> inserted and mounted first <- If you installed off one) then find the
> package
> named binutils.
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: YOURE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS! 5132
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 06:48:47 GMT
Pankaj Arora wrote:
>
> wrong newsgroup.
>
> that post belongs in:
>
> alt.i.am.weird
>
> sorry couldn't resist :-)
Looks like the dipshit's ISP wacked him after I sent four
complaints in about his spam.
> --
> Take Care,
>
> Pankaj Arora
> CEO & Chairman
> Pankaj Arora Software & paWare
> http://www.sg-online.com/pasoft/
> http://paware.dhs.org/
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7isj7f$5qjv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > unwoxoxlrojbkumgheumknqkkllqzzytbbuoqkmpsreyqehgetyutqyjuqpqplepci
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested
Date: 2 Jun 1999 01:49:28 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Leslie Mikesell wrote:
>> writing is causing a slowdown. The sync vs. async setting would
>> be more directly involved in write timing.
>
>arent modtimes written to disk if noatime is _not_ specified ?
Access times (not modtimes) are updated when files are opened and
read. There could be a difference in buffering the write-back
to the inodes. I'd expect Linux to toss the updates in the normal
disk write queue. Does FreeBSD give priority to this write-back?
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: Re: ip forwarding
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:26:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 May 1999 10:38:25 GMT, Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>>Chain forward (policy ACCEPT):
>>Chain output (policy ACCEPT):
>
>Try:
>
> ipchains -A forward -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j MASQ
In the end it was actually a windows problem. I had set the default gateway
in dhcpd.conf, restarted dhcpd, and assumed that when I renewed the license
via winipcfg that the default gateway would automagically be updated. I was
wrong. Anyway, once I rebooted the system I found that everything worked.
--
Dustin Puryear
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LEBLANC ERIC)
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:35:11 GMT
Chad Mulligan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: LEBLANC ERIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:gUX43.3066$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: > Chad Mulligan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: > :
: > : Miguel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: > : news:IsT43.1183$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: > : > Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > : > >> *NT* afaik is *not* free.
: > : > >
: > : > > Either is a professional UNIX.
: > : >
: > : > I take it your definition of a professional Unix is "one that is not
: > : > available for free."
: > : >
: > : > miguel
: > : Essentially, hobbyists don't have the discipline to do it properly. For
: > : examples look at Disk Druid, and RH 6.0.
: >
: > Disk-Druid and RH 6.0 were put together by paid programmers working for
: > a corporation (Red Hat). Both are commercial products. Your examples are
: > flawed.
: >
: IIRC, many have said " you don't have to wait for the original programmer to
: fix a bug, identifiy it and someone will send the patch" I ask where are the
: patches?
On the support channel for that app? If i find a reproductible flaws in the
linux kernel that i want fixed but don't know how. I won't send the bug
report to comp.os.linux.advocacy. I'll send it to the linux-kernel mailing
list.
Whining about bugs on comp.os.linux.advocacy will not reach most ppls
capable of fixing them.
Eric S. Raymond in his "Cathedral and the Bazaar" essay did identify some
points that permit succesfull development of apps. One of them was to open
a communication channel betwen users and developpers.
(I think you can find that on www.thyrsus.com)
: > A counter-examples of your assertion would be Debian. Debian is a Linux
: > distribution put together by volunters. The Debian distribution doesn't
: > go out until most release critical bugs are closed. It would have never
: > gone out with Gnome 1.0 for example.
: >
: > From what i gathered at meetings and trade shows, Debian has a reputation
: > as a rock solid linux distribution, the only major unhappiness are about
: > the current package manager front-end and not distributing KDE.
: >
: > Regards,
: >
: > E.
: >
: >
Regards,
E.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima)
Subject: Re: Only ROOT can login??
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:57:44 GMT
Edmond Cheng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I am using Redhat 5.1. I have set up a few accounts but seldom use them. I
: always sign on as root. But when I try to login with other account, my
: Linux system always refuses with incorrect login. Even if I change the
: password or I don't specify password for other accounts
: Is there any clue??
After you create the accounts you nedd to give them a passwdord
try:
adduser freddo
passwd freddo
then switch to another VC and try to login to the new freddo account.
Once you get this working you can remove freddo with
userdel -r freddo
Yours Tony.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Coder69)
Subject: Re: Linux for $1.00
Date: 2 Jun 1999 01:53:46 GMT
the total cost will be around 5.00 (i only ship in the U.S.). But I dont have
the CDs yet to sell, you might have to wait 2 weeks.
E-mail me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information.
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