Linux-Misc Digest #537, Volume #20 Tue, 8 Jun 99 05:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: procmail and lockfiles ("Jeff Grossman")
Re: Strange cron time... ("dnult")
Re: Lexmark 5700 - help (Phil Humpherys)
Re: RealPlayer G2... (henk van der knaap)
Re: HELP! How to get out when netscape 4.5 freezes? (Bev)
dos format text file ("Charles Wilkins")
Lexmark 5700 - help (Phil Humpherys)
Re: Strange cron time... (Ding-Jung Han)
Re: How do i know if i'm running the new kernel?????? (Glitch)
Re: I Still cant get the new kernel to install in SuSE1.6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cd-rom Install Problem ("J Chan")
Linux and MSN e-mail ("Daved")
sendmail-Q :changing "return address" (K. B. Lee)
Re: Cut and Paste between Windows (Jim Richardson)
Re: Mandrake and unmounting partitions (Denton)
Re: Operating systems (Richard Kulisz)
Re: Cannot setting the Modem on Linux Redhat 6.0? ("Jimmy Lam")
Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far. (Ray)
Re: gcc vs Microsoft and Borland (K Lee)
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From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: procmail and lockfiles
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:01:26 -0700
You don't need to put the lock file. Just put an extra ":" like this ":0:"
and that should do it.
Jeff
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Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> thanks for your advice.
>
> >
> > It's just the : that's required.
> >
>
> I�ve read all the procmail-manpages very often in the last few days ;)
>
> I try to implement a lockfile: (I need to specify the lockfile explicit,
> cause procmail cannot extract a name from the pipes I deliver my mails)
>
> :0 w: mobil.lock
> * ^To.*xyz
>
> ...
> }
>
> and get the following entry in my procmaillog:
>
> procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored
>
>
> any idea ?
>
>
>
> peter
>
> -----------------
> pilsl@
> ANTISPAM
> goldfisch.atat.at
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From: "dnult" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Strange cron time...
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 17:51:02 -0500
Doesn't Linux use GMT for time keeping? Could the GMT offset be set wrong
(i.e. +7 hrs instead of -7)? Should the task times be set in GMT instead of
local time? I know Linux will purposely convert GMT to local time for
directory settings, but believe the actual time is GMT - not sure how CRON
handles it. I may have asked more questions than I've answered. Hopefully
a starting point all the same. I'm guessing the original poster is from
California or there abouts.
-dnult
Daniel Bruce Lynes wrote in message ...
>On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Ding-Jung Han wrote:
>
>> This has puzzled me for a while. On my system (RH 5.2 with kernel 2.2.9)
>> I have the following cron-related rpms installed:
>>
>> crontabs-1.7-3
>> ucrond-1.2.4-1
>>
>> I notice that every evening at 21:02 my daily system cron job will start
>> up. HOWEVER, according to my /etc/crontab it should occur at 04:02 every
>> morning -- here is my /etc/crontab:
>
>This might sound like a stupid question, but have you set your time zone?
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Humpherys)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Lexmark 5700 - help
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 05:33:16 GMT
By the way, the reply-to address on this post was incorrect. It is
fixed now however.
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil
Humpherys wrote:
> I'm running redhat-6.0. I installed the 990516 ALPHA driver available
> at http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/l7kdriver/ and I have the 5700
> model. I installed the rpm as per the README, and I ran printtool to
> add the printer.
>
> I selected Lexmark 5700,5770 CMYK Color in the Printer Type dialog
> window. I added the appropriate text in the Extra GS options window,
> and deselected Fast test printing again as per the instructions. I
> restarted lpd, and then tried to print a test page, and I have a dead
> printer. No action, no lights.
>
> Here's my dmesg output:
>
> ....
>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
> parport0: Printer, Lexmark Lexmark 5700
>
> ....
>
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>
> So, I'm somewhat of the opinion that I do have the kernel configured
> properly.
>
> I'm stuck. Can anyone suggest something?
>
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> /__)/ '/ )__/ _ / _ _ _ Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> / /)/( / /(///)/)/)(-/ (/_) Unix Systems Administrator,
> / / Mobile: +1.801.725.3257
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From: henk van der knaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer G2...
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 16:00:31 +1200
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Chuck Cusack wrote:
> I keep reading about RealPlayer G2, and there is no Linux version listed on
> the realplayer site.
> Where are people getting it? Also I have read that RealPlayer has problems
> under RedHat 6.0
> Is this true, and if so, does this alleged G2 version work O.K.
> Chuck
>
> henk van der knaap wrote:
>
> > Dear Readers,
> >
> > Another question about RealAudio. I have now installed RealPlayer G2 on my
> > Linux Debian 2.1 box. It works fine, video works, except no sound!
> > Although I managed to get a .rm file to play with sound once. My soundcard
> > is okay, I can play CD's etc., 'cat file > /dev/audio' produces sound. I
> > have a soundblaster card SB16. This is the output from /dev/sndstat.
> >
>
>
>
>
>
Dear Readers,
You can get RealPlayer G2 from the following site:
http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html
I finally got it to work. I changed my genuine Creative Soundblaster sound
card for a cheap clone, ALS110 (Advance Logic). It is fully compatible
with the soundblaster card. I use the same modules.
io=0x220 irq=5 dma8=1 dma16=5 mpu_401 io=0330
Regards
Henk van der Knaap,
92 Halswell Junction Road,
Christchurch, New Zealand.
Phone/fax 64 3 3229185
My Operating system is Linux Debian 2.1
===================================================
My e-mail address is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! How to get out when netscape 4.5 freezes?
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 20:42:33 -0700
Reply-To: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Alex Lam wrote:
> >>
> >> Bev wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Alex Lam wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Hi,
> >> > > I'm using SuSE 6.0, netscape 4.5 came with it. Everything runs
> >> > > fine until
> >> > > I was browsing a web site, and suddenly all data transfer stopped and
> >> > > netscape frozen
> ....<snip>...
> >> does not work either. Power off seemed to be the only way out.
> >
> >I generally have a few Xterm windows open all the time, and I just move into
> >one of those to do the murderous deeds. Do you mean that your mouse/KB won't
> >work at all, including in other windows?
> >
> >Whenever I've tried to use alternate consoles I just end up killing X,
> >which is not what is supposed to happen.
>
> Are you sure you killed X? I was reading this usenet item from an
> xterm window on an X display, did <ctr> <ALT> <F2> and got a blank
> virtual screen with a login prompt, then did <ctrl> <ALT> <F6> (or was it
> F7?) and got back to my X display where I'm making this reply. Note that
> I did the startx from virtual display F1 and it puts it out on a different
> virtual display and switches you over. I'm running slackware 3.6 with
> a 2.2.9 kernel, fvwm95 window manager, S3Virge card, not that any of
> that should make a difference.
Turns out I was doing it wrong. When I do it right (flipping between
control/alt/f2 and control/alt/f7, it works fine. Thank you, love.
--
Cheers,
Bev
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Calling someone an asshole for being rude to a telemarketer
is like accusing someone who's shot a burglar in his home
of being a poor host." -- W.S.Rowell
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From: "Charles Wilkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dos format text file
Date: 8 Jun 1999 03:32:45 GMT
What code characters are placed at the edit of a dos format text file?
I assume the last one is \n or newline.
What is the one before that?
--
Cheers,
Charles Wilkins CNE / MCP / A+
Network Design Consultant
Practical Computer Solutions
http://www.pcscs.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Humpherys)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Lexmark 5700 - help
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 05:29:55 GMT
I'm running redhat-6.0. I installed the 990516 ALPHA driver available
at http://bimbo.fjfi.cvut.cz/~paluch/l7kdriver/ and I have the 5700
model. I installed the rpm as per the README, and I ran printtool to
add the printer.
I selected Lexmark 5700,5770 CMYK Color in the Printer Type dialog
window. I added the appropriate text in the Extra GS options window,
and deselected Fast test printing again as per the instructions. I
restarted lpd, and then tried to print a test page, and I have a dead
printer. No action, no lights.
Here's my dmesg output:
....
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
parport0: Printer, Lexmark Lexmark 5700
....
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
So, I'm somewhat of the opinion that I do have the kernel configured
properly.
I'm stuck. Can anyone suggest something?
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/__)/ '/ )__/ _ / _ _ _ Phil Humpherys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
/ /)/( / /(///)/)/)(-/ (/_) Unix Systems Administrator,
/ / Mobile: +1.801.725.3257
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From: Ding-Jung Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Strange cron time...
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 00:52:04 -0400
Daniel Bruce Lynes wrote:
>
> On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Ding-Jung Han wrote:
>
> > This has puzzled me for a while. On my system (RH 5.2 with kernel 2.2.9)
> > I have the following cron-related rpms installed:
> >
> > crontabs-1.7-3
> > ucrond-1.2.4-1
> >
> > I notice that every evening at 21:02 my daily system cron job will start
> > up. HOWEVER, according to my /etc/crontab it should occur at 04:02 every
> > morning -- here is my /etc/crontab:
>
> This might sound like a stupid question, but have you set your time zone?
Yes timezone is ok. Now I know where the problem is. There're two kinds
of crond RPM packages out there
vixie-cron
ucrond
RH uses the first one, which has the system-wide crontab under /etc,
while the second one has the system crontab in
/var/spool/cron/crontab.man
Ben
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 00:51:56 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How do i know if i'm running the new kernel??????
if u booted with your new kernel woudlnt that mean it was successful?
Marc Mutz wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > hi there
> >
> > i dont know if i succeded in installing my new kernel how can you
> > tell?
> If you upgraded your kernel:
> cat /proc/version
> If you changed only your config, /proc will be useful also, but where to
> find the information depends on how the kernels differ.
>
> Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup.misc
Subject: Re: I Still cant get the new kernel to install in SuSE1.6
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 04:30:45 GMT
In article <UFDRNlCysclE-pn2-d6oOdJjmSY2e@localhost>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 09:57:58, Andrew Herriot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Ensure Lilo.conf in /etc/ is pointing to new kernel and run lilo again
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> > hi there
>> >
>> > i have been trying for 3 days to get my new kernel to install
>> > properly in SuSE 6.1, i have tried make_install, tried copying zImage
>> > tio boot directory and running lilo, and many toher recommendations
>> > but no luck.
>> >
>> > can someone tell me how its done?????
>
>it is,, i did and same error message at boot
>
>lilo...................ok,loading kernel
Hmmm, I didn't post my suggestion before because it seemed too far fetched,
but since your still having difficulty, maybe when you did the 'make config'
(or 'make menuconfig', or 'make xconfig') you didn't include drivers for
your disk drive (IDE, SCSI) or whatever? I would expect that if that
were the case there would be error messages, but don't know for sure as
it never happened to me.
--
Praeterea censeo Micromolle non esse utendum.
("Moreover, I maintain that Microsoft should not be used." A toned down
adaptation of a sig from Cato the Elder regarding the city of Carthage.
---- Remove "UhUh" and "Spam" to get my real email address -----
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From: "J Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cd-rom Install Problem
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 21:51:45 -0700
How about the SOny CDU-535? IS there a similar solution?
J. Chan
John Girash wrote in message <7jgmra$lf4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I am running my cd player as the seconday master. I tried the line
'linux
>> hdc=cdrom', but it didn't work. Before I get to the installation process
I
>> watch the following:
>
>> hdc: no response (status=0xff), resetting drive
>> hdc: drive not ready for command
>> hdc: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0xff
>
>> I see that several times before the install finally begins.
>> When it gets to the point where I can select to install from local cd, it
then
>> goes to 'Initializing Cd-rom', then jumps to a blue screen and hangs
there.
>
>You said this was a Sony CDU-31, right? If I remember correctly this isn't
>an ATAPI/IDE drive at all, it's one of the old pre-ATAPI proprietary ones.
>So the device isn't /dev/hdc it's /dev/sonycd or some such. Here's a clip
>from /usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c that may help:
>
>/*
> * Sony CDU-31A CDROM interface device driver.
> *
> * Corey Minyard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> *
> * Colossians 3:17
> *
> * The Sony interface device driver handles Sony interface CDROM
> * drives and provides a complete block-level interface as well as an
> * ioctl() interface compatible with the Sun (as specified in
> * include/linux/cdrom.h). With this interface, CDROMs can be
> * accessed and standard audio CDs can be played back normally.
> *
> * WARNING - All autoprobes have been removed from the driver.
> * You MUST configure the CDU31A via a LILO config
> * at boot time or in lilo.conf. I have the
> * following in my lilo.conf:
> *
> * append="cdu31a=0x1f88,0,PAS"
> *
> * The first number is the I/O base address of the
> * card. The second is the interrupt (0 means none).
> * The third should be "PAS" if on a Pro-Audio
> * spectrum, or nothing if on something else.
>
>
>Hopefully this post counts as "fair use" and doesn't horribly violate the
GPL.
>When booting from floppy you could just type "linux cdu31a=0x1f88,0,PAS" at
the
>LILO prompt and perhaps the kernel will pick up your drive (with the SonyCD
>module installed).
>
>g'luck
>jg
>
>p.s. I've heard that the old Sony drives are a particular pain under Linux.
>p.p.s. followsup culled to something more reasonable. (colx?!)
>
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From: "Daved" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and MSN e-mail
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 23:45:26 -0400
Does anyone know how (if possible) to access MSN e-mail?
I can connect to the internet thru MSN but I cannot access my e-mail ,I
know MS uses there secured login thing, but is there a way to do it in
Linux. I don't won't to reinstall Win98.
Thanks
Daved
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Subject: sendmail-Q :changing "return address"
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (K. B. Lee)
Date: 08 Jun 1999 01:25:44 -0500
Hello all,
In a multi-user system, there is a user A.
When A sends a mail, I want to make it as if it was sent by B.
[The purpose is that the receipient must think it is from B.]
How can I set up? Is this possible in a linux system?
Thanks much.
-KB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: Cut and Paste between Windows
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 10:00:03 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 05 Jun 1999 08:11:42 -0500,
David, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>For Sale wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have installed SuSE 6.1, using XBF driver for the i740. I have a
>> 2 button microsoft PS/2 mouse. I can't seem to do cut and paste
>> between windows when running KDE. Once I highlighted test in one
>> window, I can press both keys to paste the test in another. What is
>> my alternative?
I don't quite understand the problem.
Is it that cat'n'paste worked at one time, and now it doesn't?
Anyway, verify that 3button emulation is turned on. In SuSE you can do this
via the xmsconfig util or you can edit XF86Config by hand.
>>
>> THanks.
>I am having the same problem. The answer would benefit me as well.
>
>Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Thanks!!!
>David
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 21:02:01 -1000
From: Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mandrake and unmounting partitions
Lord Byron wrote:
>
> I recently upgraded from Mandrake 5.3 to Mandrake 6.0. After the initial
> install, every time when I reboot, it is unable to unmount my /, /root, and
> /tmp partitions
Hi~
I've found a problem in the script /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt. In that
script is the command "umount -a -f". The actual line is
runcmd "Unmounting file systems" umount -a -f
The man page does NOT have any reference to the option "-f". I
commented out (#) "-f" and have not had any problems since. Let me know
if this helps.
Jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Operating systems
Date: 8 Jun 1999 06:58:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
The Ghost In The Machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 3 Jun 1999 07:33:28 GMT, Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Yes. It gets more complex because there are sibling-sibling links. The
>>parent/sibling/child categories are necessary for the security scheme.
>
>Ugh, you lost me now. Sigh.
Each link between two directories can be parent-child or sibling-sibling.
If the link on your end is of class child (which makes the other end the
child, which makes /you/ the parent -- I think) then you can change the
permissions on your end of the link, and on the other end. OTOH, if your
end is of class parent (which makes you the child) then you can change
neither your permission nor the other guy's permission. In the case of
a sibling link, each end can only change the permissions on the opposite
end (so you can block what the other guy can do, and vice versa).
Each directory contains a link which points to the other directory. There
are two ways to classify the directories. One is to say that if you have
a child link then you are a child, the other is if you have a child link
/pointing to you/ then you are a child. I used one scheme then changed
to the other because it made more sense, now I can't remember which I'm
using.
>>>from a graph-theoretic standpoint, where Inodes dot the data
>>>and Names dot the arcs, and a pathname is merely a series
>>>of traversal specifications -- arcs from the starting point.
>>
>>You know, I never thought of naming directories instead of links.
>>The problem is that you might want some file to have multiple
>>different names, like glibc5.0 and glibc.
>
>Not a problem, since the file is an Inode, not a link. There's
>nothing in Unix right now to prevent a file having multiple names,
>anyway. (What's in a name? :-) )
I don't know how I managed to misread what you wrote, but your
description is pretty much what I want to do.
>>If a container receives a delete, it checks whether it contains any
>>parent links (or is it child? I keep forgetting which is which).
>
>Heh...that's one reason why I said "screw it" and just used
>bidirectional named Arcs. :-)
The algorithm is quite beautiful, just a bit of trouble to work out;
the delete has to delete both containers and both links and also any
detached subgraph. You must be able to delete if you have permission
to delete only one end of the link and yet there can't be separate
methods for checking permissions and actually deleting the link so
the whole algorithm involves checking if the other end is deleted
and if it is then deleting oneself immediately, if not then and only
then does one check permissions.
>Mind you, if the root (yeah, yeah, I know) is the ultimate Parent,
>then it would be children; it depends on which way your trees (DAGs?)
>grow, I guess.
The root's parent is a junk directory inside of a process with only
one link that points to the root; the reverse link, that points to
the root's parent, has all its permissions zeroed out. So the root
always has a parent so long as some process, somewhere, knows where
it is. The directory inside of the process is not part of the FS
properly speaking because only the process can access it; it might
not even be a directory at all, but an array or something else.
>>The problem with being able to add classes is that you can't allow
>>anyone to add a method which does "Smalltalk destroyYourself".
>
>Why not? Hopefully Smalltalk.destroyYourself() will be elegant about
>it and delete the root, which will delete everything in its path,
>but in a fairly controlled way -- a system shutdown, as it were.
>
>Mind you, this would have to be access-controlled carefully, since it's
>quite clear that only root should be able to do this.
That's the problem. If you create a method then you should be able to
run it with impunity. So the method has to run inside of some kind of
VM which does not contain any of the globals of Smalltalk (globals like
the SystemDictionary called Smalltalk which contains all globals). :-)
>>Sure. Who gets to create groups?
>
>Anybody who has permissions to Group, methinks. These would be
>specified in the normal way.
It's a vast improvement over Unix, but it means the syadmin can cut
you off on a whim; and what justification can there be for that?
>Ugh. I may have to ask you to lay out your entire design in a
>Webpage; I'm getting totally confused. :-)
I'd be happy to, if I ever get it down on text. :-) So far it's
spread over a dozen files in the archive of our mailing list. I
started to update it into something coherent but I find myself
working on totally unrelated stuff. I need to code the portals
(I stopped working on them when I figured out how to make them
more or less), and build some component like the HD driver, but
I'm playing with how the RAM and exec modules have to interact.
>Sorry. My mind and yours are not meshing. (My fault, methinks;
>I'm not up on Smalltalk and OO. I'm a whiz at C++, but that's
>no more OO any more than a train is an automobile; both can travel,
>but one can travel many more places.)
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From: "Jimmy Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,hk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Cannot setting the Modem on Linux Redhat 6.0?
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:37:06 +0800
Try the following :
Under the X-Windows, fire up the Control Panel and configue the modem
setting (says Com1) in your case. Go to network setting and enable the PPP
port.
Hope this can help.
Jimmy
Raymond Yung wrote in message <7jaa8g$c35$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello all,
>
> I'm a newbie on Linux, I use the "cat" command to view the file of
>"/proc/interrupts" and list as follow:
>
> CPU0
> 0: 800739 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 2306 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
> 12: 458342 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 108901 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 5 XT-PIC ide1
>NMI: 0
>
> As the above, the Int 3 and 4 is not enable for Serial device,
>therefore, I use the "setserial /dev/ttys0 irq3" to enable this device, but
>the console will prompt an error message "/dev/ttys0: Input/Output error".
>
> Could anyone tell me, how to setting the modem on Redhat 6.0? My
>modem is connected to COM1 == ttys0.
>
>
> Thank You! :)
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Raymond Yung
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: I am not impressed with Debian so far.
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 07:49:23 GMT
On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:36:20 GMT, Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have been using SuSE since v5.2 ( now on 6.0 ) and, having heard
>about apt-get, I thought that I would give Debian a try.
>
>I bought a 4 CD Debian distribution and installed alongside SuSE. I
>managed to miss the bit about putting the second CD in first when
>first running dselect. That instruction should really be more
>prominent.
>
>The installation went well until dselect was first run. It then
>failed because dselect could not find the file:
>
> 'var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd/available'
>
>this was not surprising as it was actually in 'var/lib/dpkg/'. So I
>put in a symbolic link to point to it and was then able to run
>dselect. Not a promising start.
Either something is wrong with the layout of the CDs or you've done
something wrong earlier on in the install. I wouldn't be surprised if this
is related to your later problems with wdm. I'd suggest a dejanews search
just in case there is a bug in the instructions.
>
>After finishing the install, configuring X and trying the system
>briefly to make sure it worked, I decided to recompile the kernel.
>Everything here went without a hitch until I rebooted the machine. It
>seemed from some error messages during boot that some support
>functions which I had included in the kernel were also being loaded as
>modules.
When you installed the system you were given the oportunity to "install"
various drivers/modules. The choices you made there determine which modules
are loaded at bootup. If you change your mind later you can either run
modconf or just edit /etc/modules. In general I prefer to let the kerneld
load things automatically and I only specify modules in /etc/modules when
necessary.
>
>Before anyone starts suggesting what I didn't do, I did:
>
>make dep
>make clean
>make zImage
>make modules
>make modules_install
>copy resultant image to /boot/vmlinuz
>copy System.map to /boot
>run lilo
Consider using "make-kpkg". The FAQ in /usr/doc/debian/FAQ has
instructions. In short, when I want to compile a kernel I do:
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --revision mykernel.1 kernel_image
and then do "dpkg -i" on the resulting deb.
>
>So why should it be necessary to have some support functions as
>modules rather than included in the kernel? I went through the same
>process with SuSE without any of these problems.
It isn't but since you explicitly told it to try to load those modules you
now have to tell it you've changed your mind.
>
>The next process was to run pppconfig and try pon. All went well for
>a time until, on starting pon, I began to get General Protection
>errors. Sometimes, immediately after booting, pon would run and
>connect without any problems but mostly it wouldn't.
This is after you re-compiled your kernel right? Any chance they are
related?
>
>I had the same modules problem on recompiling the kernel and was
>forced to include some functions
>
> vfat
> lp
> busmouse
> network device
>
>as modules to get a clean boot.
I'd suggest not recompiling the kernel until you have a better idea of how
the system works. Virtually every device driver has already been compiled
as a module so there really should be no need to re-compile.
>I would not yet regard this Debian installation as reliable. Only
>time will tell.
Well, it's VERY reliable it's just not as intuitive as it should be and the
on line directions still leave a lot to be desired, maybe you can help.
>
>Incidentally I would have posted this on linux.debian.users but the
>server refuses to let me post to that group ???
linux.debian.users is a mirror of the mailing list. Head on over to
www.debian.org and follow your nose to the mailing lists subscription page.
Otherwise you might just type
"mail -s subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < +/dev/null"
I hope this gets you pointed in the right direction.
--
Ray
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From: K Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc vs Microsoft and Borland
Date: 8 Jun 1999 07:01:31 GMT
Seth Van Oort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Anybody know how gcc does on optimizing c code for speed versus
: Microsoft and Borland compilers, especially for pentium and pentium II?
check out pgcc. i don't have the link handy, but just do a search for
them http://gcc.ml.org.
Steve
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