Linux-Misc Digest #497, Volume #20 Fri, 4 Jun 99 21:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Potential Linux person questions... (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Radio clock using realplay -- why doesn't it work? (Ding-Jung Han)
Re: Favorite Linux Distribution (Larry)
help 4 3Dfx and Soundblaster16pnp ("Martin M�ller")
Re: Mice recommendations (Rod Smith)
Re: ps dont work??? ("David Murray")
Re: App question - psnup ("James Surles")
Peeling off HTML code... (Ding-Jung Han)
difficulty compiling kgo (siz)
telnet daemon (Ross Jones)
Re: Is This Illegal? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory! (Marc Mutz)
Re: Copy entire hard drive? (Marc Mutz)
Re: how to print duplex via lpr to network printer (Marc Mutz)
Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Termcap.h, have you ever heard of it? (Ben)
xenix drives (Elijah Menifee)
enable modem for single session (Martin Willingham)
Re: redhat 6.0 fprintf core dumps using objects from 5.2 (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Help with crontab ("David M. Judge")
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (Don Baccus)
crontab help (almost there!) (Les Cole)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Potential Linux person questions...
Date: 4 Jun 1999 13:51:52 GMT
Sparky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>a) Can you actually access MS-DOS (FAT16) EXTENDED partitions with
>Linux?
Yes. Extended partitions are numbered 5 and up, e.g. /dev/hda5 is the first
extended partition on the master disk on the first IDE channel.
So you should be able to mount a DOS partition on it with something like
mount -t fat /dev/hda5 /mnt
>b) How easy is it to write 'Windows' (I suppose this is X11 for Linux)
>type software for Linux?
There is no single GUI API for Linux; http://www.theoffice.net/guitool has
pointers to a number of them, including ones that are multi-platform.
>d) What is the best Windows environment for Linux? I am a bit confused,
>because there is KDE/GNOME/X-Windows/...
The X Window System isn't a GUI. As the manpage X(1x) says: "The X Window
System is a network transparent window system which runs on a wide range
of computing and graphics machines.". It's a piece of infrastructure, on
top of which GUI libraries like Qt (which KDE uses) and Gtk (which GNOME
uses) are written.
KDE (www.kde.org) has been around longer, and is probably more stable. GNOME
(www.gnome.org) was started in response to the licensing issues surrounding
the Qt library KDE uses (most of these licensing issues will be resolved
with Qt2, which has now gone in beta; the remainder can only be resolved
once KDE's license is updated).
>e) In relation to (d), will software written for one 'windows' environment
>work fine on another?
Yes. It's simply a matter of having the right libraries installed.
HTH,
Ray
--
ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking
his name in vain.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: Ding-Jung Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Radio clock using realplay -- why doesn't it work?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:30:16 -0400
Uh oh...
The problem is solved now.
I just forgot to add
export DISPLAY=blah blah blah...
Ben
Ding-Jung Han wrote:
>
> Shaun Beech wrote:
> >
> > Why not try and get it run through cron ?
>
> Simple -- because I don't want to get up at 7:30am every morning! ;-P
>
> Ben
>
> > Ding-Jung Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I've tried to be creative -- using realplay to wake me up every morning.
> > > Here is what I tried (but failed):
> > >
> > > 1. write a small script called radio:
> > >
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > realplay http://www.realaudio.com/products/ra3.0/kingfmMI.ram&
> > >
> > > 2. Issue an at command:
> > >
> > > at -f /home/ben/bin/radio 7:30am
> > >
> > > But realplay didn't show up and play nice music for me. I can tell the
> > > script was actually executed, but no error message, no nothing. If I
> > > dropped the trailing '&' out then an error message was emailed to me
> > > saying that realplay caused a segmentation fault (!) and I did run the
> > > script by hand it's working. Any ideas? TIA!
> > >
> > >
> > > Ben
--
"You can use an operating system like Windows, or you can take a
vacation. I'd take the vacation every time." -- Linus Torvalds
Benjamin Han ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry)
Subject: Re: Favorite Linux Distribution
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Jun 1999 08:55:18 -0600
On 2 Jun 1999 20:34:02 -0500, Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sylvia Wong wrote:
>>
>> (will still install Debian when I have time. Btw, the upgrade from 5.2 to
>> 6.0 is trouble free, except for staroffice)
>>
>
>Not really as long as you install version 5.1 and ignore the
>warning messages during install. Mine works great.
>Anyone knows if this will work on Slackware 4.0?
>I will install Slackware 4.0 on another drive (8.4G) once
>I receive my cheapbyte version of slackware. I would like
>to be able to run it from both slackware and RedHat 6.0
>without having to reinstall.
I have it installed on Slackware 2.0.35, works like a champ.
Installed without a problem.
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From: "Martin M�ller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help 4 3Dfx and Soundblaster16pnp
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 15:59:44 +0200
1. I use the DEBIAN-distrubition with GNU/LINUX 2.0 it uses Libc6.As a
X11-Server I have KDE 1.0 installed.
I have a problem when using pnpdump with the command ' isadump >
/etc/isapnp.conf '.
The programm doesn't seam to find any IRQ or a port for the
Soundcard.
Who can help me??
2. I wan to use my 3Dfx-Card under LINUX. It's a normal Vodoo 1 Card.
I have downloaded the 3Dfx...........tar.gz ,
3Dfx..........glibc.tar.gz and
Device ..............tar.gz .
I used alien to install it. The test3Dfx programm was generated but
when I want to start it under X11(KDE)
or from the Shell nothing happens.
Thanks to anyone who let me know how to handle this 2 problems.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Mice recommendations
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:00:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What mice do most people recommend to use with Linux?
AFAIK, not many mice cause problems for Linux, so it's really a matter of
what you find comfortable to use. Many X programs do assume you've got
three buttons, though, so I'd recommend you limit your search to such
products. Also, Linux support for USB products is still pretty new, so
you might want to steer clear of them. (There is experimental USB
support, and I heard it's made its way into kernels starting with 2.2.8,
so you may be able to use even USB mice. Certainly they work fine with
LinuxPPC and appropriately-compiled kernels for it [I've used a 3-button
USB mouse with LinuxPPC pre-R5 on an iMac with no problems].)
--
Rod Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ps dont work???
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 14:10:18 GMT
I'm not sure if your TV card is specifically supported, but a few are..
The reason your processes may not be showing is that they don't
specifically belong to root. You might try using a command like "ps -ax"
for example, which will show all the processes currently running whether
they are root processes or not.
> 1. I cannot see the processes running when i use ps from any console or
> terminal as root...
> I use Slackware40 with its original kernel...
>
> 2. Will i be able to use my TV card under Linux? Its FlyView. When i was
> "trying" to compile the kernel i saw someting related to TV cards... If
> i will be able to use it how, which options should i put in the kernel?
> Anyone knows a site which i can find some information?
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From: "James Surles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.text.tex,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: App question - psnup
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 09:43:43 -0400
Angus Duggan wrote in message ...
>> psnup -w11in -h8.5in -4 infile.ps outfile.ps
>>
>> should accomplish this, but it cuts the tops and bottoms of the slides
off
>> when they are reproduced. Can anyone tell me the proper set of command
line
>> parameters to do what I'm trying to do?
>
>You need to use the -p and -P options (or -w/-W -h/-H options) in
patchlevel
>1.17 to specify both the input and output sizes separately. You probably
>still want to output on 8.5 x 11, even though input in 11 x 8.5.
Doh! In a flash this morning, I realized what I was doing wrong.
I forgot to specify -t landscape when I was using dvips!
Ugh...
Thanks for the reply anyway. I appreciate you taking the time.
James.
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From: Ding-Jung Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Peeling off HTML code...
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 19:07:32 -0400
I'm trying to launch RealPlayer to listen to CNN headline news -- more
precisely I use at command to start the broadcasting at a specific time
(e.g. morning call). Unfortunately the exact URL for the headline news
ram stream is buried inside javascript code. Now the challenge: is it
possible to 'peel off' the javascript code and get to the correct ram
URL, so that command-line playback is possible? How? What tools are
necessary?
Any comment is welcome!
Ben
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From: siz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: difficulty compiling kgo
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:40:22 -0400
I am having some difficulty compiling kgo-0.72. I have KDE 1.1.1, Qt 1.42=
, RH
5.2. I would greatly appreciate any advice on this.
output:
[localhost kgo-0.72]# ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i486-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for a C-Compiler...
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for a C++-Compiler...
checking for g++... (cached) g++
checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) works... yes
checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -s) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C++... (cached) yes
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
checking for ld used by GCC... (cached) /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... (cached) yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... (cached) /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ static flag -static works... -static
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... ye=
s
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Linux ld.so
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
creating libtool
checking whether NLS is requested... yes
checking for msgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... (cached) g++ -E
checking for X... (cached) libraries /usr/X11R6/lib, headers /usr/X11R6/i=
nclude
checking for main in -lcompat... (cached) no
checking for main in -lcrypt... (cached) yes
checking for the third argument of getsockname... (cached) socklen_t
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet... (cached) no
checking for dnet_ntoa in -ldnet_stub... (cached) no
checking for gethostbyname... (cached) yes
checking for connect... (cached) yes
checking for remove... (cached) yes
checking for shmat... (cached) yes
checking for killpg in -lucb... (cached) no
checking for QT... (cached) libraries /usr/lib, headers /usr/lib/qt/inclu=
de
checking if Qt compiles without flags... (cached) yes
checking for moc... (cached) /usr/bin/moc
checking for rpath... yes
checking for bool... (cached) yes
checking for KDE... (cached) libraries /opt/kde/lib, headers /opt/kde/inc=
lude
checking for extra includes... no
checking for extra libs... no
(cached) done
checking for elf.h... (cached) yes
checking for getsecretkey... (cached) yes
checking for X... (cached) /usr/X11R6/bin/X
checking for xdm configuration dir... /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm
checking for main in -lpam_misc... (cached) no
checking for PAM... no
checking for main in -lshadow... (cached) no
checking for main in -lutil... (cached) yes
checking for jpeglib... (cached) -ljpeg
checking for GL... (cached) no
checking for XPM... (cached) yes
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... (cached) yes
checking for opendir in -ldir... (cached) no
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for fcntl.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/time.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for crypt.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/select.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/stropts.h... (cached) no
checking for termio.h... (cached) yes
checking for termios.h... (cached) yes
checking for lastlog.h... (cached) yes
checking for malloc.h... (cached) yes
checking for sys/sockio.h... (cached) no
checking for crypt.h... (cached) yes
checking for krb5/krb5.h... (cached) no
checking for rpc/rpc.h... (cached) yes
checking for rpc/key_prot.h... (cached) no
checking for sys/m_wait.h... (cached) no
checking for sys/param.h... (cached) yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... (cached) y=
es
checking for bool... (cached) yes
checking for long double... (cached) yes
checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking type of array argument to getgroups... (cached) gid_t
checking for socket... (cached) yes
checking for powl... (cached) no
checking for sqrtl... (cached) no
checking for strdup... (cached) yes
checking for getdtablesize... (cached) yes
checking for vsnprintf... (cached) yes
checking for setpgid... (cached) yes
checking for nice... (cached) yes
checking for setenv... (cached) yes
checking for getdomainname... (cached) yes
checking for gethostname... (cached) yes
checking for usleep... (cached) yes
checking if it's safe to enable UTMP... yes
checking for utmp file... (cached) /var/run/utmp
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating kgo/Makefile
creating kgo/doc/Makefile
sed: can't read ./kgo/doc/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
creating kgo/doc/kgo/Makefile
sed: can't read ./kgo/doc/kgo/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
creating kgo/doc/kgo/devel/Makefile
sed: can't read ./kgo/doc/kgo/devel/Makefile.in: No such file or director=
y
creating po/Makefile
sed: can't read ./po/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
creating po/nl/Makefile
sed: can't read ./po/nl/Makefile.in: No such file or directory
creating config.h
config.h is unchanged
[localhost kgo-0.72]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/siz/Desktop/kgo-0.72'
Making all in kgo
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/siz/Desktop/kgo-0.72/kgo'
Making all in doc
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/siz/Desktop/kgo-0.72/kgo/doc'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/siz/Desktop/kgo-0.72/kgo/doc'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/siz/Desktop/kgo-0.72/kgo'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/siz/Desktop/kgo-0.72'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 08:47:20 -0500
From: Ross Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: telnet daemon
Does anyonre know of a telnet daemon that supports the SOCKS 4 protocol.
I need to find one for a datat general machine running the magic
OS(formally mumps).
thanks in advance.
ross
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is This Illegal?
Date: 04 Jun 1999 09:44:37 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
> On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 22:10:45 -0400,
> DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > brian moore wrote:
> > > But it's not a gray market at all. It's quite legal (and the GPL
> > > encourages it) to redistribute GPL'd code. It's more than just your
> > > right: the goals of the GPL are to make it almost a responsibility to
> > > share software with everyone.
> >
> > The GPL neither encourages nor discourages the distribution of
> > software. It only specifies terms under which such distribution
> > is allowed. The goal of the GPL is to ensure you have the right
> > to use and change your software, not to make GPL'd software popular.
>
> Actually it is.
>
> The purpose of the GPL is precisely to make software popular, as in 'of
> the people.'
>
> The goal of the GPL includes not only "the right to use and change your
> software", most importantly it includes the right to distribute those
> changes to others.
but *not* the *resposibility* to distribute those changes. if i alter
a gnu program and use it myself, i am allowed to sit on it. if i
distribute no binaries, i need not distribute any source.
> > Have you read the GPL lately?
> To say that the GPL doesn't encourage distribution of code is
> nonsense.
it doesn't. in a nutshell, the GPL says
1) if you provide binaries, you must make source available.
2) you cannot restrict the downstream people from distributing the
software.
it doesn't say you *must* publish and disseminate anything you do with
it. if you choose not to share, you do not have to share anything.
there are legitimate reasons for not wanting to share. but you do not
need any sort of reason. you can do it just because you want to be a
mean bastard. please note that the right to *not* distribute
*anything* is also part of the GPL.
--
johan kullstam
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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:13:05 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory!
Clarence Riddle wrote:
>
> I had the same problem. I think it is the apps that you are running.
>
open a new xterm or console and run top. Then watch the app's while
doing your things. This will help you figure out if there are any
processes which consume too much memory. Netscape for example often
grows to more than 30M!
Marc Mutz
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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:23:16 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Copy entire hard drive?
Teri wrote:
>
> Is there a way to copy (partitions, links and all) an entire
> hard drive to another hard drive, such that you can then take
> the second drive and place it in a machine with identical
> hardware and have it come up without error? Any suggestions would
> be appreciated... thanks!
>
> Teri
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I guess the following will work: (suppose /dev/sda is source and
/dev/sdb is destination)
goto maintenance mode: init S
unmount all partitions: umount -a (will report device busy for /, but
that's ok)
copy the disk: dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512
shutdown: shutdown -h now
maybe there are errors when first booting due to existing /etc/mtab or
the like but that can be ignored or corrected...
Good luck.
Marc Mutz
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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:29:06 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to print duplex via lpr to network printer
Andrew T. Phillips wrote:
>
> I have an HP LaserJet 4000N printer installed on a network with its
> own IP address. I can print to it from my RedHat 6.0 machine just
> fine, except I can't get duplex mode. The printer supports duplex
> since NT machines print duplex just fine. How do you set up a
> printcap entry to do duplex mode?? Or is it more complicated that
> that?
>
Haven't done it myself, but take a look at www.hp.com and search the
(Web?)JetAdmin tools. I guess they should be available for linux by now.
Marc Mutz
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:08:08 GMT
According to Joe Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I don't get this.. I'm running RedHat 6.0 with a minimum of services.. and
> after a reboot, my free memory is only about 24MB(out of 64). A few hours
> later, I have about 1.7MB free, and my swap starts to become active.. I do
> not have many users, nor memory-eating apps.. it all seems to go into
> "cached" memory.. Now cache is nice, but I don't want all my available
> memory allocated to it! And I want to avoid swap usage... can anyone
> help??
There is no point in having physical memory sitting arround unused, so
Linux caches just about everything until the memory is exhausted.
When an application requests more memory, the least-used data in the
cache is flushed and given to the app the requested it.
If you wish to watch this graphically as it happens, just install the
xosview package and watch your memory usage as you run various tasks.
I have noticed that even on systems with a lot of physical memory
there is usually a small bit of swap space active even when there is
some free physical memory. I do not have an explanation for this, but
it does appear that there is usually very little paging involved to
this swap memory, so it does make sense to keep it in swap space and
keep the physical memory for cache.
-p.
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From: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Termcap.h, have you ever heard of it?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:56:43 +0000
Actually, I have two questions.
1. (Background).....in trying to install glibc-2.1.1 libraries, the
INSTALL file mentioned that I would need texinfo-3.12 among other
things. My problem is trying to compile texinfo-3.12
(Problem)......Basically, the compiling errors boil down to
"undefined references" (ie. tgetr(..))
I believe the references try to refer to functions in the termcap
library. Unfortunately,
#include<termcap.h> leads to an error. Does anyone know how to
include the termcap library?
2. (Problem)....How do you find i/o conflicts in linux or what is
conflicting with what?
It seems that my sound card's i/o port
220 is being used by another device.
Don't ask me how that happened, but if
you know or had this problem, I'd love to hear
about it.
All help is coolly appreciated.
Ben
"Gurus make the world go 'round"
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From: Elijah Menifee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: xenix drives
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:45:32 GMT
I have a xenix drive that has one partition (hdb4), and I am trying to
mount it.
I have compile sysv fs support into kernel 2.2.9 on a Redhat 5.2 system.
When I try to mount with:
mount -t xenix /dev/hdb4 /mnt/tmp
I get a message stating that to many file systems are mounted or wrong
file system.
When I try to let mount figure out the filesystem with just:
mount /dev/hdb4 /mnt/tmp it tries msdos, xenix, sysv, then coherent and
comes up with a message 'Unable to read sysblock at 3:(20 or 15)
The xenix system will boot up, and linux fdisk reports the partition as
a xenix root.
I have read through the documentation for the file system, and it says
that it does not yet support hardrive accses only sysv style floppies.
I need to have access to a datafile that is on the xenix drive, xenix
can mount a dos fs, but only supports the DOS 16bit <33M, and the file I
need off the xenix system is much larger then the size of a dos
partition that it supports:
The version is SCO Xenix 2.3.2 2.3.4.
Any help to migrate the data over to linux would be greatly appreciated.
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From: Martin Willingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: enable modem for single session
Date: 4 Jun 1999 15:31:14 GMT
Does anyone know how to enable a modem for a single session?
We want techs to be able to dial in to our system, but don't want to leave
the modem enabled all of the time, and we don't want to rely on someone
turning off the (external) modem after the session is over.
We'd like to be able to run a script that activates the modem for one
session, then disable it until the script is run again.
Thanks,
Martin Willingham
Manager - Information Systems
GE Capital Card Services
912-471-5139
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0 fprintf core dumps using objects from 5.2
Date: 04 Jun 1999 11:12:32 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Stanonik) writes:
> After upgrading from redhat 5.2 to 6.0, one of our applications
> began core dumping in fprintf. The cause appears to be using
> objects from 5.2. For example, here's a simple program which
> consists of three files, main.c, proc.c, and makefile. make
> on a 5.2 system and a.out hello. Then copy all of the files
> to a 6.0 system, rm a.out main.o, make, and a.out hello. For
> us it core dumps in fprintf. Instead make clean, make, and
> a.out hello. No core dump. Perhaps this is well known?
mixing libc5 and libc6 (glibc2) libraries in a single executable is a
virtually guaranteed way to cause problems.
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
I already have too much problem with people thinking the efficiency of
a perl construct is related to its length. On the other hand, I'm
perfectly capable of changing my mind next week... :-) --lwall
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From: "David M. Judge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help with crontab
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:23:05 +0100
foobar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Couple of things:
> * When cron kicks off, it doesn't know anything about the environment
> variables which were present when you wrote the netmrtg script.
> You'll need to define a PATH for any binary (sed, awk, perl, etc.)
> that you want to execute. This may not be your problem, but you did
> say that your scirpt "does not appear to run at all."
> * You can use cron for an every minute job, although I prefer to use
> it for identifiable days, weeks, specific times, etc. If I were you,
> I would consider a simple script and run it in the background:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ksh
> while : #always true
> do
> sleep 60 #sleep for 1 minute
> /usr/local/bin/netmrtg
> done
>
> Save this in a file (e.g. bgproc)
> then run it:
>
> $ nohup bgproc &
>
> The script will run from now till kingdom come. Every minute.
>
> Just another approach (of many!)
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 12:29:20 +0000, "Adam L. Mendelson"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The above script will run until the system is restarted, whereas a cron
entry will be processed even after a reboot.
You may also want to check you mail (where the output of cron is sent) for
errors.
Also, check that the executable/script ("/usr/local/bin/netmrtg") file has
appropriate execute permissions.
To correct the path issue, you may wish to source /etc/profile and/or your
home directories' .profile.
David
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Baccus)
Date: 4 Jun 1999 17:27:02 PST
In article <7j6f36$bsh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris J/#6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Try looking at the dictionary definition for 'free'. No payment is just
>one of the several definitions.
And "Open Source" appears in none of them...
--
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nature photos, on-line guides, at http://donb.photo.net
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From: Les Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: crontab help (almost there!)
Date: 5 Jun 1999 00:31:23 GMT
I am trying to run anlog every day to update my web page stats and later
each day archive these stats in the web page directory. I have tried the
following script and have success with the first part (noosastat.html is
created and updated) but not the second - what am I doing wrong? By the
way should %D%M%Y be preceded by + DATE ?
* 1 * * * /usr/bin/analog
* 3 * * * cp /home/noosastat.html /home/httpd/html/noosa/%D%M%Y.html
Thanks in anticipation
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