Linux-Misc Digest #561, Volume #20 Wed, 9 Jun 99 22:13:20 EDT
Contents:
Re: installing additional soundcards ("Matthew D. Melbert")
LD_LIBRARY_PATH for glib-1.2.1.tar.gz (hihihi)
Re: NetWare Conflict ("Matthew D. Melbert")
The Red Hats are coming, the Red Hats are coming (David Lesher)
Re: pprob with gcc ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: iomega external zip drive (Kaya Imre)
Re: Still insalling RH5.2 after a year. ("Jeff Goodman")
Re: Telnet monitor (Nico Wieland)
Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH ("Tracy S. Fitch")
Swap file limit? ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: DB2 installation fails with glibc >= 2.0.7 is needed (Travis Watford)
Re: gcc vs Microsoft and Borland (Paul F. Kunz)
RedHat 6 Install Problem! Help... (Julio De Gregorio)
Re: Editing a 4.7Mb file (VI limit 2Mb) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Epson stylus color 740: HELP! ("John E. Garrott")
Re: Any Mail Application for commercial use (Stefaan A Eeckels)
cross-compiling under RH 6.0 (Boulay Mark G)
Re: Backup recommendations?
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From: "Matthew D. Melbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing additional soundcards
Date: 9 Jun 1999 11:08:13 -0500
I had the same problem when I installed "Solaris 7" with my computer. had
had a crappy built in sound card then I went and got a much better Sound
Blaster in an ISA slot. To disable your Yamaha you can do it in your
bios...at least that is what I was able to do. Then I had no trouble
installing my ISA sound card. Try looking in your bios....(with all of the
differnet flavors of Bios and how long ago I did that I dont remember
exactly where it is). So good Luck....I hope that helps.
Matt Melbert
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news.jaring.my <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<7jlsh5$jeg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I am current having a pentium 2 300 with a build in yamaha soundcard.
But i
> have installed an additional soundblaster live onto a pci slot.
>
> After installing Redhat version 6, it seems to be able to recognise only
the
> Yamaha soundcard with its plug and play function during installation.
How
> to manually install an additional soundcard ( i have also downloaded the
new
> soundblaster live beta driver) and turn off the yamaha driver.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
>
> chuan
>
>
>
>
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From: hihihi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: LD_LIBRARY_PATH for glib-1.2.1.tar.gz
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 02:44:48 +0200
I use Red Hat 5.1, i case that makes a difference..
I need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for glib-1.2.1.tar.gz in
/etc/profile
Can anyone tell me exactly what that path should be ??
<If you want, you can reply by email >
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From: "Matthew D. Melbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NetWare Conflict
Date: 9 Jun 1999 10:59:58 -0500
After doing more testing of the problem this morning we have narrowed it
down to when we are DELETING the temporary file. We have made the file
have Read,Write,Execute properties for User, Group, and World..so the
permissions should not be a problem. When the file is created it is owned
by whoever you are signed in as, and it belongs to group "root". I dont
think that this should be a problem though. Something happens in the
deletion of the file. The file actually DOES delete...but when you try and
run the program again it runs into a brick wall and says that flie that we
are creating "Does not exist". So any ideas???
Matthew D. Melbert
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System Developement Group
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Crossposted-To: dc.general,md.general,va.general,balt.general
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Lesher)
Subject: The Red Hats are coming, the Red Hats are coming
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Lesher)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:25:08 GMT
Red Hat and a [flock, pride, gaggle??] of its partners are coming
to the Sweatro^H Metro area Friday & Saturday with a big show at
U of MD, and a visit to MicroCenter.
See all the when/where/how's at <http://www.tux.org>.....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pprob with gcc
Date: 9 Jun 1999 23:07:35 GMT
In his obvious haste, lemagicien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: hi i have prob with gcc on redhat 5.3, i compiled some proggies , but when
: trying to launch the compiled file it displayed "command not found "
: !!!!!!!!!! if anyone can help plz
*sigh*
Here we go again...
This must be one of the most FAQs ever concerning compiled code.
As a default, the current directory is not in the execution path. (For
security reasons).
So, to execute a program that is not in the $PATH, you need to type
./command
instead of just
command
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From: Kaya Imre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iomega external zip drive
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 01:15:45 +0000
Studchris9 wrote:
>
> hey.
> i bought an iomega external parrallelll port zip drive(for my laptop & my linux
> box)
> and i recompiled the kernel with scsi emulation, and the iomega ppa drivers.
> i installed the kernel, and rebooted into the new kernel, and it detects the
> scsi host, and does the ppa thing, but i don't think it detects the drive. when
> it boots up, i think my freind said its supposed to spin the zip disk up if it
> detects the drive. it didn't. if i am doing everythign right, then how do i
> mount it?
> please e-mail me back, this is about the only time i've ever looked into a
> newsgroup, and i probably won't look too often.
> oh yea, i'm running RH5.2, and a paralell port set on the 378 thing with epp
> mode. (i can change that, but i've tried every mode i have.
> anyaway...i hope someone knows the answer, because i don't.
> my e-mail is:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> thanks,
> -chris
Did you check your cable connections? Zip drive works fine here.
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From: "Jeff Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Still insalling RH5.2 after a year.
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 22:25:58 -0700
My gut feel is that, if you're not comfortable with, and pretty fluent in,
Linux after a year, that maybe this is not the system for you. Linux is
definitely not for everybody, despite what some overenthusiastic zealots
might say. This is not a dig at alll, but have you considered a Mac or even
(God forbid) a Windows variant?
Jeff
Rodney Loisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I bought Redhat 5.2 about a year ago and am still tying to
> get a working environment (Redhat bounced back my requests
> for help even tho' I registered with them and their ridiculous 32
> character registration number.)
> I have spent many, many, hours on the linux.misc news group looking
> for information. I finally got my HP722c working with 'pbm2ppa' after
> several months, I can actually play a CD after buying a commercial
> driver for my sound card. Netscape never worked and apparently
> hasn't for many people. Haven't figured out what to do with the
> default desktop and the really ugly icons and the thing in the
> right hand corner that won't go away.
> I've had 13 years experience, mostly on the Amiga. Some beginning
> 'C' and assem programming, and spent much time using a unix account
> at a local college.
>
> I got off to a bad start with Lilo just getting to LI... so after a
> year I'm still booting from a floppy. I thought it was the dreaded
> 1023 block limit but I've since found out that that is 8 GB and my
> drive is only 4. ( had to reformat, repartition and reinstall windows
> three times.)
>
> I'm not complaining, just letting you know where I've been. I was told
> by a couple of local linux 'gurus' that Linux would be the easiest thing
>
> in the world to let up and use (just before they left town with no
> forwarding addr.)
>
> My question, finally, is this:
> I really need an alternative to the Amiga and the thing I do most on
> that is graphics and presention programming (a basic-like program
> called the Director2 [not to be confused with the $1000 program for
> Windoze]). Also have a HP cd writer but I gather from the ng's that
> one has to get several programs to do anything useful with that.
>
> A fair number of post on the linux.misc group are complaints
> about how this and that no longer works under RH6.0. That is not
> encouraging even if I could figure out how to upgrade/install the
> new kernal. Yes, I read the HOW-TO several times. (Info overload)
> I have had no problems with file system access. I even heard there
> was an Amiga ffs file system but cannot find it on the RH cd.
> (also haven't found any of the *.c files so that I could figure out
> stuff for myself). Well, that's my sad story. I have made a lot of
> progress but a year is a long time to set up a working system. Any
> suggestion? I want Linux to work but I'm running out of ideas and
> there just isn't enough time to read the thousands of posts on the
> newsgroups. I can only manage a hundred or so a day and so many
> posts leave out much of the details that a new user needs.
>
> I used to be considered the computer expert where I worked but
> this experience has made me wonder if I really want to use
> computers at all any more.
>
> Thanks for reading. I guess there's just too many problems for
> a response but I needed to have my say.
>
> Rodney Loisel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enfield NH USA.
>
>
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From: Nico Wieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Telnet monitor
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 17:09:31 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you could install tcp wrappers.....
nico
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From: "Tracy S. Fitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Need reasons for Mandrake over RH
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 19:25:21 -0600
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> On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 11:03:30 +0400, "Ferdinand V. Mendoza"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Their scripts are much cleaner than RH's. If you would be
> >delving deeper into each distro's init scripts, you will
> >find out. Good for beginners who thirst to learn and
> >the experienced as well.
> >It works right the first time. No hassles. No headaches.
> >
> >Ferdinand
>
> A question, but if the answer is "no", then it could be an argument
> for Mandrake...
>
> Does Mandrake give each user their own group, like Redhat does?
it does by default, but that is easily configurable on either distro
through linuxconf.
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Swap file limit?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 15:26:57 +0000
I just built a new RedHat 6.0 box the other day with the following
specs.
- ABit6 motherboard
- Pentium II 350 MHz CPU
- 128 meg Ram
- 10 GB hard drive
- 2 (two) 3C509 NIC cards # it's to be a firewall
- 40x Mitsumi CD-ROM
Everything worked great until I started partitioning. I broke it up as
such:
/ 500MB
/usr 1500MB
/usr/local/ 2500MB
swap 200MB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/var 1500MB
/opt 1000MB
/home 2500MB
It's the swap that I'm having problems with. Is there a limit to swap
space. Everytime I go on to have it then format, it says no space has
been allocated for swap. It won;t format that partition. I've used
DiskDruid and fdisk to no avail. When it asks if I'd like to
repartition, then it crashes and says it can't find /dev/hda
The only way I've been able to rectify this issue is be doing a low
level format.
I also was unsuccessful in getting lilo installed on /dev/hda and when I
rebooted It said it couldn't do swapon.
Would reducing the swap space fix this? Has anyone else had this
problem? Any solutions?
Thanks.
KJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Travis Watford)
Subject: Re: DB2 installation fails with glibc >= 2.0.7 is needed
Date: 10 Jun 1999 00:54:16 GMT
I had the same problem when I tried to install DB2 using XRPM. However, when I
used Yast to do the install it went perfectly. Your mileage may vary, of
course. Travis
Michael Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<7jc1ej$l5p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Richard,
>
>
>
>i just have the same problem. From the installation trace it seems that
>
>glibc-2.0.7-xx.rpm is an explicit prereq. package. My idea is to "install"
>
>a fake glibc-2.0.7..rpm, as S.u.S.E 6.x libc really seems to be the
>
>correct lib but it is not installed as "glibc".
>
>
>
>Has anyone out there a clue how to create and "install" a stub glibc.rpm?
>
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Michael
>
>
>
>Richard Walter wrote:
>
>>
>
>> Hi all,
>
>>
>
>> i wanted to install DB2 UDB 5.2 on SuSe 6.1( i have installed the Gnu
>
>> C++ compiler, i think glibc is a part of the compiler, but i�m new
>
>> with linux) and i got the error message:
>
>> glibc >= 2.0.7 is needed by db2cliv50-5.20-2
>
>> How can i find out, which version of glibc is installed on my linux,
>
>> because i don�t know, whether the problem is at the linux or the DB2
>
>> side?
>
>>
>
>> Best regards
>
>> Richard
>
>>
>
>>
>
>>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul F. Kunz)
Subject: Re: gcc vs Microsoft and Borland
Date: 09 Jun 1999 07:14:56 -0700
"Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Anybody know how gcc does on optimizing c code for speed versus
> > Microsoft and Borland compilers, especially for pentium and pentium II?
>
YMMV, but for our simulation program compiled with VC++ 6.0 on NT
and egcs 1.1.2 (-O2) on Linux, runs at about the same speed.
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From: Julio De Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6 Install Problem! Help...
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 22:03:32 -0300
Hi!
Problem: RedHat 6 Installation hangs when creating virtual disk for
loading the second stage image.
Scenario: Austin Notebook , Pentium 100, 8Mb RAM
HITACHI 810Mb HD, CirrusLogic PCMCIA and SVGA chipsets
ESS AudioDrive 16 bit Sound
MegaHertz 28.8/Ethernet PCMCIA card
No CD-ROM
I tryed installing over a local network via ftp and from the local Hard
disk.
Same problem happened.
Tryed RH 5.2 and 5.1 and they hang too,but the floppy keeps spining.
OS/2 WARP 3 and Win95 worked fine on the same hardware.
HELP ME PLEASE!!!
thanks to you all!
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,linux.help
Subject: Re: Editing a 4.7Mb file (VI limit 2Mb)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 05:52:16 GMT
According to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> How do you edit large files with Linux ? The file we want to edit is
> 4.7Mb
# rpm -i emacs
M 100 M-x praise-emacs
-p.
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From: "John E. Garrott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson stylus color 740: HELP!
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 08:36:13 -0700
Finlay Welsh wrote:
>
> I recently upgraded to SuSE 6.1 from 6.0. Prior to upgrade my printer
> worked just fine. Now however, I can't get it to work at all. I have
> configured it using YAST (the setup prog) as stcolor using lp0 at
> 720x720. I have installed parallel port printing support, Ihave run
> lsmod and lp.o is there. What am I doing wrong? I hit print and get no
> response from the printer. It works fine under windoze.
>
> Fin
Sounds similar to the problem I'm having. I upgraded to gs5.50 and now
have to use uniprint with stcany.upp to drive my Stylus II printer.
Stcolor does not work, nor do any of the others that are supposed to
work
for the Stylus II. I have asked for reasons for this, but none have
been
forthcoming. Guess its not a common problem.
Do a search on "Stylus 740" on http://www.deja.com
There were some newsgroup articles a short time back that may help you.
Good luck,
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefaan A Eeckels)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Any Mail Application for commercial use
Date: 9 Jun 1999 10:55:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Besides Zmail and Sendmail, is there any mail application suitable for
> commercial use ? As Sendmail seems too complicated for commercial and
> the user interface is not so user-friendly.
I'm very pleased with qmail. Easy to set up, fast, and reliable.
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From: Boulay Mark G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cross-compiling under RH 6.0
Date: 9 Jun 1999 16:17:31 GMT
Hi All,
I have some code which is made up of both C++ and fortran
which had no problems compiling under RH 5.2. Things
no longer work under 6.0. Has anyone else
had problems with cross-compiling under 6.0?
Mark.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 99 21:04:20 -0600
Subject: Re: Backup recommendations?
KI>Marc Mutz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
KI>> If you really mean to *backup* your system then don't do it on a second
KI>> hard drive. If your PC gets cooked by a lightning strike or the like,
KI>> both HD will be killed.
KI>In addition to this, most failures are single files accidentally deleted
KI>by users or corrupted for any reason. Often, you will notice the corruption
KI>a file weeks or even months after it actually did happen. So, if you make
KI>weekly backups, you will have to buy one new HD every week... or use a tape
KI>drive.
KI>Kili
How well would a CD-R work for making incremental backups? The data
cannot become corrupted by static or magnetic fields, and the media is
cheap (typically in the neighborhood or a buck a disk, but rebates are
common that end up making them free, in quantities of 5). They store
compactly and the drives are nearly universal on all OS platforms.
Or have I missed some bug, salient stumbling block(s)?
Sandman
Galileo Informatica - St. Louis, Missouri USA
telnet: bbs.galilei.com
WWW: http://www.galilei.com
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