Linux-Misc Digest #483, Volume #20 Thu, 3 Jun 99 23:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: RH 6.0 vs. Mandrake 6.0 (Frank Ball)
Best way to access Access (Bruce Atherton)
Another RealPlayer G2 question. (Joe Morton)
Re: HP DeskJet 890C under Linux, something doesn't work (Walter Strong)
Re: Another RealPlayer G2 question. (Carl Fink)
wine_0.0.990523-1.deb and sigaltstack (Jose M de Aguiar)
Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me (Frank Ball)
Re: Java Development Kit for Linux (Robert McConnell)
Re: Help with crontab (Nathan Crapo)
Re: About SuSE Linux 6.1 (William Mount)
Re: How to print w/StarOffice 5.1 and RedHat 5.2 upgraded to kernel ("John G.
Sandell")
Re: Best way to access Access ("Ian")
Re: Heeelp! Uninstalled my rpm package (RedHat 5.2)! (Ed Young)
whee is FETCH? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Test your knowledge of Linux at new site! (Michael Littman)
Re: Kernel Hacking (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Mount CD-ROM over network and report as CD-ROM ("Joel Burton")
Re: problem about mail server (Ben Short)
Re: Help:Core dumps when calling C routine rexec (Alan Curry)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Ball)
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 vs. Mandrake 6.0
Date: 4 Jun 1999 00:59:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2 Jun 1999 20:47:08 -0500, Michel Catudal @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} I need to try S.U.S.E. sometime. Anyone know of someone
} who makes one cheap as Cheapbytes does? Cheapbytes doesn't
} make cheap S.U.S.E. CDs.
http://www.linuxcentral.com/ Linux Central
http://www.linuxmall.com/ Linux Mall
$2
--
Frank Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bruce Atherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best way to access Access
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:17:10 -0700
What is the best method to access an Access database from Linux?
An Access database has a front end written that the users are not
willing to give up. But I want to convert web servers that currently use
the database from NT to Linux. How can I best get the Linux server to
read the database on another machine.
ODBC looks like a dead end. I could use JDBC and the JDBC-ODBC bridge,
but how do I create a Data Source on the Linux box?
There appear to be a couple of three-tier solutions, but these look like
they'd be quite a pain to set up. Are they?
Has anyone had any experience doing this kind of thing? How big a hassle
is it? Should I just give up and go back to NT? Thanks for any help.
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From: Joe Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Another RealPlayer G2 question.
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:48:01 -0400
Hello all,
I have a strange problem with RealPlayer G2 that I haven't been able
to figure out. I have checked the FAQs, HOWTOs, etc., with no luck
finding anything for this specific problem.
I've gotten the Realplayer to work when logged in as root just fine, in
Netscape 4.6, I click on a realaudio or realvideo link and it starts
right up and plays beautifully. However if as a normal user I click on
the same link, the RealPlayer pops up on the screen, and doesn't load or
play anything.
I set everything up the same for the user as I had for the root. Other
sound functions work fine for the normal user - WAVs, audio CDs, and
other sound fx.
My first thought was that it might be a file permission problem, so I
went to any Reaplayer files I could fine and changed the permisions so
they are read, write and executable to all users, but that didn't do
anything.
I am using Redhat 6.0 (upgraded from 5.2) with kernel 2.2.9 on an AMD
K2-400. It is quite possible that I overlooked something obvious, as
I've only been using Linux since late March and claim only enough
knowlege about Linux to be dangerous.
Any help would be appreciated.
-Joe Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 890C under Linux, something doesn't work
Date: 4 Jun 1999 01:27:30 GMT
Tom Alsberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi there, I have a Hewlett Packard DeskJet 890C printer, and somehow
: it doesn't work under Linux correctly, I print a file, it goes like
: that:
: The first line is OK
: The second line begins under the end of the first
: line
:
: Can anyone please tell me what is the problem and how to fix it?
: The second problem's I just can't find drivers for non plain text
: print under X.
: Anyone knows where to find such? please e-mail me if you know about
: any of those. 10x,
: Tom Alsberg
APSfilter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: Another RealPlayer G2 question.
Date: 4 Jun 1999 07:56:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:48:01 -0400 Joe Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>. . . However if as a normal user I click on
>the same link, the RealPlayer pops up on the screen, and doesn't load or
>play anything.
Be sure that you have "%s" in the definition of RealPlayer G2 files
in your Netscape Preferences/Navigator/Programs.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 18:28:02 -0700
From: Jose M de Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
Subject: wine_0.0.990523-1.deb and sigaltstack
Please,
I installed wine_0.0.990523-1.deb and wine-doc_0.0.990523-1.deb and
all the files required. The installation did go through very well.
However wine does not run. It complains about a function not
implemented.
For example:
$ wine -winver win95 -managed /dos/windows/notepad.exe
sigaltstack: Function not implemented
Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks.
Jose.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Ball)
Subject: Re: Dumped Redhat like a stale girlfriend...SuSE is for me
Date: 4 Jun 1999 01:10:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2 Jun 1999 15:25:13 GMT, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
} >I appreciate the publicity Redhat has given Linux, but I refuse to pay $70
} >for slick marketing and commercialism.
} You can check out places like www.cheapbytes.com and www.lsl.com for cheap
} distribution CDs.
} In any case, SuSE is IMO much more commercial than Red Hat. Red Hat's core
} system is free software; cheap CDs of it are available, and Red Hat
} contributes quite directly to free software development. Last time I
} checked, YaST (SuSE's setup utility) wasn't free software, which prevents
} folks like CheapBytes from offing affordable CDs.
Cheapbytes doesn't have $2 SuSE CDs, but Linux Central and Linux Mall
both do. YAST is free. They started with Slackware's install program
and made YAST out of it, so they don't have any choice of making it
free. The offical 5 CD version of SuSE can be had for $35 and comes
with a better manual than RedHat with 3 CDs. No contest.
--
Frank Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert McConnell)
Subject: Re: Java Development Kit for Linux
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 02:42:51 GMT
Well, actually Sun just changed the license requirements so that the
blackdown group could get legal copies of the full development kit and
test suite. All of the work is being done by volunteers. Last I heard,
there were a couple of Sun programmers that would answer their
questions, but no direct work was being done by Sun. The blackdown web
site and their mailing lists have more up to date info. I unsubscribed
after it became apparent that my employer was backing down and not
going to move to Java.
Bob McConnell
N2SPP
On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:45:33 -0500, Dan Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have read that SUN is working fast and furious to make JDK 2 run on
>Linux; think I read this in InfoWorld.
>
>--Dan
>
>Anupam Sengupta wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 02 Jun 1999, Ted wrote:
>> >Does anyone know if the Sun's JDK will work on Linux?
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From: Nathan Crapo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help with crontab
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 15:05:34 GMT
"Adam L. Mendelson" wrote:
> I have an entry in my crontab it reads "1 * * * *
> /usr/local/bin/netmrtg" and crond is running. Hoever this entry does
> not seem to execute. I am trying to run a script every minute. This is
> the first time I have tried to put cron to use. Is there anything wrong
> with the syntax for having this run every minute? How can I debug why it
> does not appear to run at all. Thank you in advance for any help, and a
> cc in email would be greatly appreciated
> --
I have a script that I run every 5 minutes and I have used the syntax
*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/blablalba
Nathan Crapo
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From: William Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About SuSE Linux 6.1
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 10:05:33 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I went from redhat 4.2 to SUSE 5.3 to SUSE 6.1 I've extreamly happy
with it. I have 2 machines. my personal is a amd k6-3 450 256mg RAM
30gig AIT Expert 128 SB PCI128 It's a great machine. The other a DEC
P-90 48mg RAM 100GIG drive space 3x100mg NIC's web server for a school
district in Illinois. Both with SUSE6.1/APache
Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I did a search for SuSE Linux 6.1 on DejaNews and
> from the results, it seems people have been having
> some major headaches with the new version.
>
> Is the release so bad that I should not install the
> version I bought and return it to the store?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Godfrey Degamo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to print w/StarOffice 5.1 and RedHat 5.2 upgraded to kernel
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 21:57:30 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it printing to a file? If so, and if you have used printtool to set
up your ptinter, you can probably print it with the command
lpr [name of file]
Look in the Office50 subdirectory of your home directory for the print
file.
Also look for a check box "Print to FIle" in the print dialog box of
StarOffice. Uncheck this if you have a PostScript printer.
Hope this helps.
John Sandell
Dale Hennessey wrote:
>
> I just put StarOffice 5.1 on my machine
> and I can't seem to make it print. There
> seems to be a default queue defined and
> from what I can see in the help, the default
> queue looks ok.
>
> However, when I try to print a test page
> I get nothing on the printer and nothing
> in the queue, despite StarOffice telling me
> that the print was successful.
>
> Would someone who got printing to work
> under this combination of software mind
> sharing their configuration with me?
>
> Many thanks! :)
>
> ================================================================================
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From: "Ian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best way to access Access
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:05:58 +1200
Not quite what you're after, but you could put a real database on Linux and
have Access access it remotely.
Oracle would be my pick, but then I'm an Oracle DBA (or was).
Ian
Bruce Atherton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>What is the best method to access an Access database from Linux?
>
>An Access database has a front end written that the users are not
>willing to give up. But I want to convert web servers that currently use
>the database from NT to Linux. How can I best get the Linux server to
>read the database on another machine.
>
>ODBC looks like a dead end. I could use JDBC and the JDBC-ODBC bridge,
>but how do I create a Data Source on the Linux box?
>
>There appear to be a couple of three-tier solutions, but these look like
>they'd be quite a pain to set up. Are they?
>
>Has anyone had any experience doing this kind of thing? How big a hassle
>is it? Should I just give up and go back to NT? Thanks for any help.
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From: Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Heeelp! Uninstalled my rpm package (RedHat 5.2)!
Date: 4 Jun 1999 02:33:47 GMT
Cevat Ustun wrote:
>
> Being a relative newcomer to the world of Linux
> (RedHat 5.2) I did something really dumb: I
> uninstalled the rpm package itself. Now not
> only does _that_ not work, but also Netsacape
> seems to have gone too...
>
> Any way out of this mess without having to
> reinstall everything from scratch and losing
> existing configurations?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
You might try mounting the RedHat CD and run the rpm
executable from there in order to reinstall rpm itself.
Good luck...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: whee is FETCH?
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 15:23:03 GMT
hello
i setup leafnode as per instructionsbut and after a reboot i try
typing fetch (after logging on) but nothing happens?
do i need to add an absolute path to fetch???
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From: Michael Littman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 21:53:15 -0400
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Kernel Hacking
Date: 3 Jun 1999 11:30:52 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and e-mailed]
In article <7j1ptt$47l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need to configure my kernel (the one that came with Linux 4.2) to my
> sound card. I know how to do this. Unfortunately, the computer doesn't
> want to recognize the "make config" or "make xconfig" commands.
What do you mean by "recognize"? Did you install "make"?
> Normally, I might download another copy of the kernel from the web,
> unpack the source, and try again. However, being an AOL member, I can't
> get access to the internet through Linux. And, Windows assimilates all
> files that enters its filesystem. As soon as I download a file into
> Windows, Win95 catalogs it. Assimilates it. After copying it to the
> Linux partition, TAR won't recognize assimilated files, and RPMs become
> useless as well.
What do you mean by "assimilate"? Did you download the files in
binary (rather than text) format? What is the response to
"file filename.tar" or "file filename.tar.gz"?
> Thanks for all your help. Please respond via email, as I rarely check
> replies to my posted messages. I'm more likely to read a solution if it
> is in my mailbox.
Hmmph.
(Comment: this is not kernel _hacking_; that would involve changing
the source code.)
--
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Joel Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Mount CD-ROM over network and report as CD-ROM
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:54:20 -0400
I need some clarification: are you mounting this as a samba share, but to
WinNT it looks like a HD?
Onno Ebbinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I want to mount a CD-ROM (or ISO file, or directory) that
> resides on my RH Linux 6.0 server over my network and my
> WIN NT 4 machine must report it as a CD-ROM.
>
> I've posted this question on some NT newsgroups but there
> were mostly brain dead people...
>
> I think I need a NT 4 device driver who can pull this off
> but I can't find one. If it's really necessary I can write
> the driver (I have the NT 4 DDK stuff) but I prefer a download...
>
> Onno.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Subject: Re: problem about mail server
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 12:27:04 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I am using Pine as my Mail server, if i would like to support pop3
> account for users, what config i should set that the people can using
> windows outlook express read there mail?
>
>
uhmm, pine is a mail client. Perhaps you mean sendmail?. Anyway, I would
probably go to the qualcomm website and download qpopper for a pop3
deamon, and then edit the inetd.conf to reflect this.
Note that most mail servers will reject mail being sent throught them
whether it comes from their domain or not, unless configured otherwise.
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Subject: Re: Help:Core dumps when calling C routine rexec
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Curry)
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 02:20:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathon Sako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:46:28 -0500, J. Sako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>I guess I'll attempt this again...
>The source for my program to incoke rexec that core dumps...
Your problem is that you are attempting to modify a string literal. That is
not allowed. If you use gcc -Wwrite-strings, it will warn you about it. A
minimally functional version appears below:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <sys/socket.h> /* Socket details
*/
#include <sys/errno.h> /* To enable network error trapping
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <netdb.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
struct servent *servent;
FILE *fp;
int sd;
char ch;
int x;
char host[] = "no_host ";
char *phost=host;
char user[] = "no_userid";
char passwd[] = "no_password";
char cmd[] = "no command";
if (argc != 7)
{
puts("\nusage: xrexec host -l login -p password command\n");
goto done;
}
strcpy(host,argv[1]);
strcpy(user,argv[3]);
strcpy(passwd,argv[5]);
strcpy(cmd,argv[6]);
memset(argv[5],'\0',strlen(argv[5]));
/*
printf("host=%s,user=%s,passwd=%s,cmd=%s.\n",host,user,passwd,cmd);
*/
servent=getservbyname("exec","tcp");
sd=rexec(&phost,servent->s_port,user,passwd,cmd,0);
if (sd == -1)
{
puts("Error in rexec.");
exit(4);
}
/*
fp=(int)fdopen(sd,"r");
*/
fp=fdopen(sd,"r");
while ( ((x=(ch=getc(fp))) != EOF) && (x != 255) )
putchar(ch);
done:
exit(0);
}
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