Linux-Misc Digest #579, Volume #20 Thu, 10 Jun 99 18:13:25 EDT
Contents:
mailx (ignore list) (K. B. Lee)
Re: pc speaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: /etc/termcap question (Ken Arromdee)
Re: 'ls' command: how to show all files in all directories? (Steve Lamb)
Re: 'ls' command: how to show all files in all directories? (Ashley W Campbell)
Re: Desktop too big ("Sreenivasa Sista")
Re: Commercially speaking....? (Jamie)
du n/t ("Hebert, Greg (EXCHANGE:KWAY:6C26)")
Re: David Rees' OPTi mini-HOWTO ("Sreenivasa Sista")
Re: (Slink) Magic cookies?!? What does this mean? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
root cannot make chown and/or chgrp (Nicolay Dimitrov)
Re: Desktop too big (David Vrabel)
Re: GLX accelerated quake with TNT card (Jim Zubb)
Re: Commercially speaking....? (mlw)
libjpeg compile/link problem suse6.0 (hernan silberman)
Re: strange telnet problem (Henry Meyerding)
LILO hangs at LI - SOLUTION! (patman)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: mailx (ignore list)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (K. B. Lee)
Date: 09 Jun 1999 07:59:21 -0500
In reading mails using mailx, the ignore list does not have any effect.
I have the lines:
................................
set append dot save asksub
ignore Received Message-Id Resent-Message-Id Status Mail-From Return-Path Via
................................
in my /etc/mail.rc, but nothing happens. Does anybody know how to fix this?
Thanks,
-KB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: pc speaker
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:35:22 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~}) wrote:
> >>>>> "Dustin" == Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> Try this shell command
> >>
> >> echo '^[[10;500]^[[11;1000]'
> >>
>
> Dustin> Nice trick. However, this will not solve the beep with
> Dustin> emacs.
>
> Why not? Issue that command before starting emacs. Then, all the
> beeps will be a tone with frequency 500MHz and duration 1000ms.
> (Emacs beeps by send a ^G to the console.)
Hmm, perhaps I'm NOT making myself clear. :) I would like the speaker
to default to a low frequency, regardless of whether I'm on the console
or in X. I assumed that the driver controlling the speaker had a
default frequency and that it would be possible to change it. (Probably
within the source.) Perhaps I'm am mistaken.
---
Dustin Puryear
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: /etc/termcap question
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Arromdee)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:07:50 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Wilkins) wrote:
>The reason I ask is that I connect to the linux box using telnet
>vt100. termcap has this set at 24 lines and i want to use 40.
>My telnet client doesnt maintain the LINES variable properly, so my
>ouput is often limited to the 24 lines. If I set it to 40 in the
>script it will be for everybody and that isn't acceptable either.
If I understand you properly, have you tried the "resize" program?
--
Ken Arromdee |They said it was *daft* to build a space
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |station in a swamp, but I showed them! It
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |sank into the swamp. So I built a second
http://www.inetnow.net/~arromdee|space station. That sank into the swamp too.
================================+My third space station sank into the swamp.
So I built a fourth one. That fell into a time warp and _then_ sank into the
swamp. But the fifth one... stayed up! --Monty Python/Babylon 5
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Subject: Re: 'ls' command: how to show all files in all directories?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 19:56:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:54:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>What do you recommend?
man ls
OK, people get annoyed, but I have to stress it. man, man, man, man,
man!!! Because if you man ls you'll find the following...
-R, --recursive
List the contents of all directories recursively.
...and would know that "ls -R" would be what you want. :)
--
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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From: Ashley W Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 'ls' command: how to show all files in all directories?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:39:34 -0400
On 10 Jun 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> OK, people get annoyed, but I have to stress it. man, man, man, man,
> man!!! Because if you man ls you'll find the following...
> ...and would know that "ls -R" would be what you want. :)
Actually, it looked like `find . > file` would have done what he wanted to
do with more productive results (a file full of real pathnames).
-Ashley Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
> Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
> ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
> -------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>
>
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From: "Sreenivasa Sista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Desktop too big
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:38:45 GMT
Hi Patrik,
Look for XF86Setup in /usr/X11R6/bin. This is a useful x-setup program.
Launch this program before you start your X. It starts xvidtune at the end
of the setup.
Good luck.
Sreenivasa
Patrik Lundin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi
>
> Just installed Suse Linux and despite the fact that I have set the
> screen resolution to 1024x768 in Sax I only get the default 300x200
> and I cannot do anything since all windows are too large to show
> in that small resolution.
>
> I tried to launch kvidtune to change the settings but I cannot access
> the buttons in the window since they do not show in the small screen I
get.
>
> This is all very strange, it's not a virtual desktop either, it's just too
small
> and cuts all windows that's too large.
>
> Please give me some ideas of how to fix this.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Patrik Lundin
> http://www.javathings.com
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> GraphApplet 1.0, a full featured Graph drawing calculator
> with symbolic differentiation capabilities.
> http://www.javathings.com/gapplet_dev/
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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From: Jamie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:02:52 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Garrison wrote:
> to use. Nothing annoys me more than them stupid "~1" 's.
To switch them off (according to M$ Win95 Resource Kit) you need to add
the value
NameNumericTail=0
in the Registry key
HKey_Local_Machine\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
The book implies that it will only leave the first of an 8.3 filename
without a ~1.
--
_____________________________________________________________________
____ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/ All comments expressed should be assumed to be my opinion
\_/ amie only and you should get your own opinion.
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From: "Hebert, Greg (EXCHANGE:KWAY:6C26)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: du n/t
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:39:31 -0400
no text
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From: "Sreenivasa Sista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: David Rees' OPTi mini-HOWTO
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:35:56 GMT
Hi,
I have a OPTi931 card on my system. I've recently installed from scratch
RH6.0 (kernel 2.2.5-15) on my system (I had Opti working on my system with
RH4.2, RH5.1 also). RH6.0 comes with a utility sndconfig. Run this utility
and it will detect OPTi931 as MAD16 card and it also generates the
isapnp.conf and modifies /etc/conf.modules with the required entries.
sndconfig also plays sounds during the configuration process to test the
installation of the sound card. You should be able to find sndconfig in
/usr/sbin.
Note: MAD16 sound card has OPTi930 chipset and OPTi931 is a superset.
Hope this helps.
Sreenivasa
jmsalvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7jojrv$jvh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
> The OPTI mini-HOWTO by David Rees, previously at
> http://oto.dyn.ml.org/......, is now gone. ml.org is down permanently.
>
> Does anyone know the new URL? I lost the html page that I saved after
> doing a clean install of redhat 6.0 and I need to know what were the
> exact kernel configurations that needs enabling for the OPTi931 sound
> card to work on 2.2, plus the isapnp.conf as well.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Salvo
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: (Slink) Magic cookies?!? What does this mean?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 07:14:52 GMT
[F'up set]
Alex Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
The magic cookie mechanism is part of the xauth security mechanism for X;
see http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/xauth.html .
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: Nicolay Dimitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: root cannot make chown and/or chgrp
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:31:24 +0200
I have Redhat 5.2 and, beeing root, it is impossible to make chown
and/or chgrp for some directories. Does anybody had such problems? What
may be wrong?
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From: David Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Desktop too big
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:59:26 +0100
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Patrik Lundin wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Just installed Suse Linux and despite the fact that I have set the
> screen resolution to 1024x768 in Sax I only get the default 300x200
> and I cannot do anything since all windows are too large to show
> in that small resolution.
>
> I tried to launch kvidtune to change the settings but I cannot access
> the buttons in the window since they do not show in the small screen I get.
>
> This is all very strange, it's not a virtual desktop either, it's just too small
> and cuts all windows that's too large.
>
> Please give me some ideas of how to fix this.
What video card do you have? Is it one which is supported? If it isn't
then your problem cannot be solved without getting a new card.
David Vrabel
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From: Jim Zubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: GLX accelerated quake with TNT card
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 23:21:27 -0400
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
> Hi. I am trying to get quake 2 working with my TNT card on linux.
> Unfrotunately, this is not in the quake howto yet ( hint hint )
>
> So far, I have the following:
>
> firstly, it works fine in software rendering modes ( softx and soft )
>
> My current setup is as follows:
>
> I removed the ref_glx.so file from the quake2 directory ( /usr/local/quake2 )
> and copied the nvidia glx.so library into that directory , and made
> ref_glx.so a link to glx.so
>
> I also have the libGL.so* files from the nvidia distribution in my quake
> directory, and symbolic links libMesaGL.so* in that directory.
>
> When I try to put it into GL/X mode, it exits with this error:
>
> LoadLibrary("ref_glx.so") failed: /usr/local/games/quake2/ref_glx.so:
> undefined symbol: GlxExtensionInitPtr
>
> Does anyone have an idea (a) how to set up quake2 with a TNT board or
> (b) what I am doing wrong ?
>
> thanks,
>
> -- Donovan
Ok, here are some clues. I am assuming you installed the
glx driver using the supplied Nvidia script.
Make sure you run your X session in 16 bit mode, doesn't
work in 8 or 24 or 32.
Make sure after X initializes you see the lines:
GlxExtensionInit
RIVA GLX Version = 1.0
in the console from the X server startup. This will
indicate that your Riva glx driver is installed correctly.
Run Quake 2 with the command
./quake2 +set vid_ref glx +set gl_driver libGL.so
Plus any other switches you want. Make sure the libGL.so is
the one from the Riva glx driver, make a link in the quake2
directory to it. It looks like you copied these to your
quake 2 directory, this should be ok.
I am not running my quake2 X session with a window manager
so I don't know if this matters or not.
This is how I got mine running. It is kind of slow, but
playable, I still use Windows when I really want to play
Quake2 (much faster). :(
As an aside it appears that they don't have multitexturing
enabled yet, Quake2 says it can't find that extension.
--
Jim Zubb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.msdos.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:12:34 +0000
Chad Mulligan wrote:
>
> CLARIFICATION: Windows95/98 !=DOS, Reversion to DOS is possible if DOS is
> installed prior to Windows95/98. DOS is _NOT_ Required.
This is absolutely not true.
When Windows 95/98 is installed, DOS 7.x is installed first. The boot
sector of your hard disk is updated with a DOS 7 boot sector.
At boot time DOS 7.x is started. Were you to put, in the file msdos.sys,
BOOTGUI=no, you would not run Windows, you would simply remain in DOS.
After Windows is booted, some argue that it is in full control and
whether or not DOS is installed is irrelevant, well that isn't true
either. The MSDOS that you booted is still active in the system VM and
system calls that Windows does not handle get handled in the system VM
in a virtual realmode DOS.
One can load a dos device driver in DOS, and still call it from Windows.
DOS has clearly not gone away.
Windows 95/98 is an add-on product for DOS.
The reason Microsoft wants to obfuscate this fact can easily be deduced
by looking at the likes of DRDOS.
--
Mohawk Software
Windows 95, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Take a look at the Mohawk Software Mascot at www.mohawksoft.com
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From: hernan silberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: libjpeg compile/link problem suse6.0
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:24:06 -0700
hej alla...
i get this when i #include <jpeglib.h> in a program, use a few of its
functions, and try to compile:
>gcc grab_mm.c
/tmp/ccRmNmoJ.o: In function `write_jpeg':
/tmp/ccRmNmoJ.o: undefined reference to `jpeg_std_error'
/tmp/ccRmNmoJ.o: undefined reference to `jpeg_CreateCompress'
/tmp/ccRmNmoJ.o: undefined reference to `jpeg_stdio_dest'
/tmp/ccRmNmoJ.o: undefined reference to `jpeg_set_defaults'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
the system is suse 6.0 and i am using the libjpeg package that came with
the distro... it was installed automatically using the 'default system'
configuration suse 6.0 had.
so what am i missing and where should it go? any help is appreciated!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
From: Henry Meyerding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: strange telnet problem
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:49:32 GMT
The answer I got from various UNIX furus was "Windows telent client
serious flawed."
Charles Wilkins wrote:
>
> Sometimes (half the time) when I use vi over telnet (from win95 to
> linux), I can't use my arrow keys to move around in the editor. Other
> times I can.
>
> My telnet client and redhat configurations remain the same, yet
> sometimes the arrows work and other times they dont.
>
> In addition, when the arrows arent working, (when I use j to scroll
> down), the screen buffer doesnt refresh, so what I get is the bottom
> line of text changes and thats it.
>
> Any ideas anybody?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Charles Wilkins CNE / MCP / A+
> Network Design Consultant
> Practical Computer Solutions
> http://www.pcscs.com
> 609-321-1530
> 609-321-0840 - fax
> --
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From: patman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: LILO hangs at LI - SOLUTION!
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:59:07 GMT
I have been tearing my hair out on a LILO "LI" hang problem for a few
days now, but ***I have just fixed it***
I searched through countless archives and news articles without
finding this solution mentioned, so I am posting this info in the hopes
that it will save someone else from the same fate...
System:
HP Vectra (P90) with a 1.05G SCSI drive. No IDE drives. No other OS
installed, only linux (RedHat 5.2, upgraded to 2.2.9 kernel)
The 'stock' install of LILO (as RedHat install set it up) would just
leave me with LI. I could boot from diskette just fine, but no matter
what I tried with the lilo.conf file, I could not get it to boot.
Everything warned bad things would happen if the /boot area was above
1023 cylinders. The disk wasn't that big, so that wasn't possible.
Things I tried without luck:
Reading 'man lilo.conf' and 'man lilo'
adding 'linear' to lilo.conf
adding 'bios=0x80' to lilo.conf
adding 'boot=/dev/sda' to lilo.conf
adding 'boot=/dev/sda1' to lilo.conf
Setting the SCSI drive ID to 0, and then to 1
Reading hundreds(!) of news articles on DejaNews
Rerunning /sbin/lilo any number of times to refresh the boot image
Nothing worked.
I eventually tried specifying the geometry...problem was that I had the
geometry WRONG!! The key to this is to get the right geometry specs in
the /etc/lilo.conf file!!
Checking the HW docs for the drive (ST31230N) gives the 'physical'
values for c/s/h. Those didn't work. I used /sbin/fdisk and got a
different set of values for c/s/h that I had trusted. As I would find
out later (as far as lilo is concerned) they were WRONG!.
I finally downloaded the lilo 0.20 source and read the README file that
is enclosed. It mentions getting the disk parameters by using a DOS
program called dparam.com (just run 'make' to build it) I booted the
system with an MSDOS disk, and ran 'dparam 0x80' to get the specs for
the first drive. I got back 32 64 1001 (Sect Head Cyl) as the answer.
Plugging that into my /etc/lilo.conf file and rerunning /sbin/lilo did
the trick!! I can now boot linux from the SCSI drive!
The solution was running the dparam.com program to get the RIGHT values
for the geometry specs.
Here's my working lilo.conf file:
================
boot=/dev/sda
disk=/dev/sda
sectors=32
heads=64
cylinders=1001
bios=0x80
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
read-only
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Good luck, have fun...
Pat
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