Linux-Misc Digest #658, Volume #20 Wed, 16 Jun 99 10:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: quoted-printable & 8bit, again... (Villy Kruse)
Re: Protocol features for Linux? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Help!! my fdisk problem (Mihaly Gyulai)
cp,scp etc. corrupt large files (Michael Hanke)
Re: Sound under KDE 1.1 (works in Gnome) (Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kr=FCger?=)
Re: A Capitalists view of freedom (Matthias Warkus)
gz files? ("Len Maziarski")
Can I create an .htpasswd file without using the htpassword command? (R.Joseph)
Re: Mirror setup problem (Marc Mutz)
Re: Which Window Managers? (was Which GUI?) (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Newbie: How to DE-install a program in Linux?? ("Douglas C. Holland")
ppp and response time (Dustin Puryear)
Re: connect 2 networks over modem (Dustin Puryear)
Re: RH 6: How to change login default screen (Dustin Puryear)
Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 freely distributable? (Dustin Puryear)
Re: kppp, need to log in twice for connection to work ("Ming98")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: quoted-printable & 8bit, again...
Date: 16 Jun 1999 13:43:49 +0200
In article <7k7rnc$g6s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have checked mimencode and emil, but I could not work out a solution
>for my problem. The main problem with emil was, that things
>unnecessarily got converted. Like if someone wrote "20+3=23" in the body
>of a mail, it converted the "=23" part into some character.
>
If that occurs in an otherwise QP text then the sender is at fault.
The equal siqn must be quoted so you should see 20+3=3D23; =3D
docdes back to an equal sign.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Protocol features for Linux?
Date: 16 Jun 1999 11:39:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>* IPX
Supported; see http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/IPX-HOWTO.html .
>/SPX
There's code for it in the current stable kernel (2.2.10); it's labelled
"experimental".
> (Does it support the services SAP, RIP and Local Bindery Database?)
The Configure.help of 2.2.10 mentions a RIP/SAP daemon.
>* Netware/IP
>
>* Pure IP (Netware)
I'm not familiar with these; if IP here stands for Internet Protocol, you
have a good chance they're supported.
>* TCP/IP
Full IPv4 support.
> (Does it support ipv6 fully, I can't find much updated info here?)
IPv6 is supported; I'm not very familiar with it, but basic networking
services like http and telnet over IPv6 work (see http://www.ipv6.nl/eng/),
and a free IPSEC and IKE implementation is available
(http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan/).
>Configuration Protocols
>
>* SNMP (Need atleast version 1.0 supporterted and does it have TRAP
> support?)
There are several SNMP packages available, including a SNMP trap daemon; see
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=snmp&searchon=all&version=stable&release=all
>* SMB (I need support for SMB over TCP/IP, NetBEUI and IPX/SPX)
Yes. Part of the standard kernel; see http://www.samba.org for SMB programs.
>* NFS
Yes. Part of the standard kernel.
> (Does it have Locking Mechanism (NLM)?)
The kernel-based NFS implementation supports locking.
>* NetWare (Need support for up to v5.0).
mars_nwe (http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/02/03/918027956.html)? There is
also commercial NetWare stuff available from Caldera (www.caldera.com).
>File Systems
>
>* ISO9660 (Rock Ridge, Joliet extensions and High Sierra?)
Yes. All of the variants.
>Thanks in advance for all your help, and please cc to the mailaddy
>above (remove the trailing ".fake").
If you want email replies or CC's, use a real email address.
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: Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help!! my fdisk problem
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:45:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jianren Bao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My machine worked very well under LINUX (SuSE 6.0), but when I try to
> install DOS 6.22 or Windows (95 or 98 or NT), there are some problems.
> First, I cannot install Windows boot with CDROM.
> The machine died silently. Second, I cannot use fdisk (DOS version or
> Windows 98 Version) using floppy disk,
Try to make spare partitions with Linux' cfdisk for the new Windows
(type: 'Dos-16' I guess... I'm not sure...).
You need a Dos-bootable floppy with the CD-driver program on it.
Boot from floppy, then switch to the CD, and run 'setup.exe' for
install Windows.
--
Mihaly Gyulai
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From: Michael Hanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cp,scp etc. corrupt large files
Date: 16 Jun 1999 13:36:02 +0200
Hi,
configuration: kernel 2.0.36 (SuSe5.3),PII 450,ASUS P2BS Board,
AIC7xxx support,3x905b
problem: when transferring large files (>100MB) from an arbitrary
machine to the linux-machine in question via ftp,scp,rcp
or cp(nfs), the resulting files always differs in some
characters from the original ones. In ascii-files for example
0.0000E+00 turns into 0,0000E(00 or something. The differences
vary from time to time. This could be a network problem, but
strange things also happen when creating an cd-image with
mkisofs . The resulting image (mount -t iso9660...., ~600MB)
differs from the original directory.
We have _two_ machines with the same configuration which exhibit
similiar problems. These don't exist on other machines with
other Boards or kernels.
Any ideas are very welcome.
--
___________________________
Michael
12:55pm up 113 days, 53 mins, 35 users, load average: 2.11, 2.36, 2.90
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From: Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kr=FCger?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sound under KDE 1.1 (works in Gnome)
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 10:57:57 GMT
Am 16.06.99, 02:17:44, schrieb root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema Sound=20
under KDE 1.1 (works in Gnome):
> I have some sound card errors while starting KDE. I know my=20
soundcard
> (Soundblaster PCI128, Kernel 2.2.9 with ES1370 chipset driver enabled)=
> works, because I can hear sounds perfectly under gnome/elightenment. =
I can
> .~. Powered by SuSE Linux 6.0
Hi
In SuSE Linux (I have 6.1) the following two lines are commented out
by default in /usr/X11R6/bin/kde
startifaudio kaudioserver
startifaudio kwmsound
If you activate them perhaps everything might work.
Uwe
=20
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: A Capitalists view of freedom
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:08:33 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 15 Jun 1999 17:44:20 GMT...
..and Aaron M. Renn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:46:26 +0200, Richard Hickling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >This is what it always comes down to: entrenched immovable laws. Some aspects of
> >the US legislative system are now out-of-date and have fallen behind more
> >progressive and versatile systems overseas. Time for a spring cleaning.
>
> It's a good thing the US has entrenched and immovable laws about freedom.
>
> Given Europe's abysmal track record for the last 1500 years (including
> the present century) I don't think that the Europeans are in any position
> to be lecturing the US about the way governments ought to behave.
Heh. Your track record is just barely over 200 years, you started out
as Puritans and idealists, you had no reason whatsoever to wreak havoc
and look what you've managed to screw up in spite of all that.
Entrenched and immovable laws about freedom my ass. It's the same
problem all over the planet, you've got no halo over your collective
heads or something.
mawa
--
Die H�lfte aller Deutschen ist unterdurchschnittlich intelligent.
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From: "Len Maziarski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gz files?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 07:51:20 -0400
I downloaded Hylafax for installation. It is in a hylafax.tar.gz format. I
think this is a compressed file format. How do I unzip the gz and the tar
files?
Any help is appreciated.
Len
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From: R.Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Can I create an .htpasswd file without using the htpassword command?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 06:05:44 GMT
I have a problem. I want to create an .htpasswd file on my web server
to protect certain directories, but I don't have telnet, therefore I
can't use the htpasswd -c command! I was wondering if I could call
this command from a CGI script and it would work...or am I pretty much
screwed? Thanks for any help!!
--
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http://www.24-7design.com
http://bowdown.to
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 20:29:07 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mirror setup problem
eddycheung wrote:
>
> There is some problem when I setup mirror for my linux. I am using
> raidtools-0.90-3 and kernel version is 2.2.5. The source partition is
> /dev/sda1 and want to set mirror at /dev/sdb1.
>
> Then I've written /etc/raidtab as following,
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level 1
> nr-raid-disks 2
> nr-spare-disks 0
> chunk-size 4
>
> device /dev/sdb1
> raid-disk 0
>
> device /dev/sda1
> raid-disk 1
>
> and then I run 'mkraid /dev/md0'
> it says,
> handling MD device device /dev/md0
> analyzing MD device /dev/md0
> disk 0 : /dev/sdb1, 2056288kB, raid superblock at 2056192kB
> /dev/sdb1 appears to contain ext2 filesystem
> mkraid: aborted
>
> What's wrong with me? should I format /dev/sdb1 once again?
>
mkraid stores a kind of superblock itself to each of the used
partitions. So you have to remove all data from sda1 and restore it
after mkraid and mdadd -r. The only way I can think of is to make a new
partition, copy all sda1 stuff onto it, make it the root (with
lilo.conf), reboot, mkraid, mdadd -r /dev/md0, mount md0, copy stuff
back, make md0 new root, run lilo, reboot, pray.
See the most recent volume of the SW-Raid-(mini?)howto to check, if
there is a tool available that makes it possible to enable mirroring w/o
all those steps.
Good luck.
Maybe you should just let the root partition be single device and make
only /usr and so on md's. I did that and I'm not worried about wasting
50M on the second disk.
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Which Window Managers? (was Which GUI?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 11:58:55 GMT
I use fvwm95, wmx, and uwm
fvwm95 - looks like Win95, and is good for reducing the fear factor
when migrating someone from Win95 to Linux
wmx - minimalist window manager; no menus, icons, or fancy desktops
great for those who know what they are doing and don't need
the 'time-saver' space wasting gadgets
uwm - good, but a cross between wmx (for decorations) and fvwm (for menus)
has a unique hexagonal control menu
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 22:41:22 GMT, David Frye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Steffan O'Sullivan wrote:
>
>> Lev Babiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >Actually X is pretty much the only choice for GUI you have
>> >right now. But I guess you're referring to window managers/
>> >graphic environments.
>>
>> I was indeed, sorry to be inaccurate in my wording. My thanks to Lev
>> and Stewart for their input - very valuable.
>>
>> Anyone else have any favorite Window Managers? Or least favorite, and
>> why?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> -Steffan O'Sullivan |
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Today is the yesterday you won't be able to
>> Chapel Hill, NC | remember tomorrow."
>> www.io.com/~sos | -Daniel M. Pinkwater
>
>I prefer fvwm2. Current version is 2.2.2 (stable) and 2.3.3
>(development). It is very configurable and extremely stable. Does not use
>much ram, and is only slightly larger than 1 meg to download. It can be
>found at www.fvwm.org
>
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: "Douglas C. Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie: How to DE-install a program in Linux??
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 02:25:50 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> Please tell me: what is the best way to DE-install a program. I'm using
> SuSE-Linux and I've used Slackware. Installing a program isn't hard,
> just untar and compile it (make install etc. - if it work). BUT I don't
> know what a program needs to exist and what I should remove if I wish to
> delete it.
>
> When I install a rpm-package it seems to be very easy to deinstall it.
> But what if I like to manually deinstall a programm or just a part of a
> rpm-package? Which libs and header-files should I remove? Is this a
> problem similar to the registry in Windows??
>
There's no easy way to do this, but it can be done. If you use packages
like RPMs, the RPM database automatically keeps track of which files are
where, so it can get rid of the appropriate files, and check for
dependencies so it'll warn you before it does something that would break
other things.
As far as getting rid of programs that you compiled yourself from the
tarball, your best bet would be to look at the program's Makefile (not
to mention it's readmes and other docs). If a Makefile supports a "make
install" to automatically install all of the components, the install
section of the Makefile will tell you what it did when it installed the
software - what files got copied where, then you can use that info to
manually delete those files.
--
Doug Holland
1010D Remington St. Ft. Collins, CO 80521
970-224-2962 home voice
Web: http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: ppp and response time
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:02:00 -0500
I am using ppp 2.3.5 to connect our main office with a branch office at
33.6Kbps. Unfortunately, I have noticed that a telnet session is a bit
jumpy. I confirmed the connect speed as averaging between 29Kbps and
33Kbps. At this speed I would expect a telnet session to be smooth.
I assume that both the mru and mtu are what need to be adjusted. However, I
am unsure of which direction to take them. Should I increase the values or
decrease them? Are there known settings that will give a much smoother response
time, even at the expense of efficiency in transferring large amounts of data?
Since this is a production service I cannot just play with the settings until
I find something that works better. I hope to gather as much information as
possible first. Any help is appreciated!
--
Dustin Puryear
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: Re: connect 2 networks over modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:10:13 -0500
On Thu, 27 May 1999 21:16:26 GMT, Ryan McGuigan wrote:
>Greetings, how can I connect my network at home to my network at work over
>a modem. I want to connect each machine at home with a separate IP, no ip
>masq. or proxy... how can I set this up?
Simple. Setup a ppp login on your work machine. Then, have the home machine
dial-in and launch a ppp client. It's the same setup as calling an internet
provider.
--
Dustin Puryear
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: Re: RH 6: How to change login default screen
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 23:05:10 -0500
On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:39:17 -0400, Evan R. Battle wrote:
>edit your etc/inittab and change a line that looks something like:
>id:5:*&%$## (i can't remember what it says -- I'm using M$ right now :-( )
>to
>id:3:*&%^$#
id:3:initdefault:
--
Dustin Puryear
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 freely distributable?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 21:22:46 -0500
On 29 May 1999 02:36:29 -0400, Paul Anderson wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Lavender) writes:
>
>>I was looking at Caldera's Open Linux 2.2 and I am wondering if it is
>>freely distributable?
>>
>Why wouldn't it be?
>
Actually, that's a good question. Not all of the software on the distribution
CD's are gpl'd. For instance, both WP8 and SO5 are included. Since they are
not convered by the GPL there is no "right" to distribute of which I know.
I realize that these products may themselves have a similar redistribution
agreement, but if not, they aren't fair game.
--
Dustin Puryear
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ming98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kppp, need to log in twice for connection to work
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:58:06 +0100
Reply-To: "Ming98" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Within kppp edit the account, on the IP tab there is an option to 'default
to ISP hostname'. If this is selected the problems described occur,
therefore de-select it, the problem is resolved and with no apparent
dis-benefit. This is from memory so it is possible that I have the
'labelling' wrong. If you use the 'right click' help function within the
account maintenance you will get a 'story' about the problem.
Gordon
Donovan Rebbechi wrote in message ...
>On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:49:22 -0700, Carl Alexander wrote:
>>I have rh6.0 and am using kppp to connect to worldnet when I first run
kppp
>>it connects but most programs won't start, Then if I log out of X and back
>>in kdm pops up with some weird new host name and when I start kppp every
>>thing is working OK. but I'd like to only have to start kppp once. Also
any
>>advise on how to get kppp to work with other users would be nice
>
>My guess is that your hostname is being reset and this is causing some
trouble.
>You can check it by typing "hostname" at the shell prompt and seeing if it
>changes after you dial up. You can reset your hostname ( to the original )
>by using the "hostname" command as root.
>Meanwhile, check your kppp config to make sure it's not overwriting your
>hostname.
>
>One thing that you *could* do is configure it so that it doesn't die after
>you exit your X-session. Then you can fire up the internet connection, log
>out of X and log in again. A PITA, but not as much of one.
>
>
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