Linux-Misc Digest #750, Volume #20 Wed, 23 Jun 99 06:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: first/second/third world (Jim Richardson)
Re: newbie: about tarring (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Linux MPEG player (Rich)
Re: first/second/third world (jik-)
Re: Linux jingle (Richard RUDEK)
Re: Cable modem not working... (Ted Sikora)
home network? (Dionysus)
Re: Strange warn messages under SuSE Linux 6.1 and Kernel 2.2.7 (Przem Kowalczyk)
man pages for C++ classes (STL) (Ilan Finci)
Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX (David Kastrup)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:45:22 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22 Jun 1999 06:47:58 GMT,
Richard Kulisz, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>In article <7kmk7h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>John S. Dyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>It is fun to see your misuse of English in the terms that you
>>use to describe the USA. Is it that you don't own a dictionary
>>and are making up usage, or perhaps maybe you know nothing about
>>things that you are talking about?
>
>Of course, you don't need any argument to prove that the USA isn't
>fascist or imperialist because Everyone Knows That, right? Shit,
>only US citizens could swallow that bullshit. Ask citizens of El
>Salvador, Columbia, or even Tahiti whether the USA is imperialist.
>Be prepared with your excuses.
(searches around for an emperor, fails to find one.) welp, the US isn't
imperialist. As for fascism, some segments certainly are, some come
very close, and the republicrats are doing their damndest to bring the
rest of the society to the same point.
>
>>Do you know what being free is?
>
>Do you? Freedom to the likes of you is freedom to destroy, enslave
>and murder. To me it's what's enumerated in the Universal Declaration.
>And nobody who's taken a look at it can say with a straight face that
>the USA upholds a single one of them for even a single day.
>
when did John say that he considered freedom, as the freedom to destroy
enslave and murder? you wouldn't be putting words in his mouth would you?
>> Is freedom what the gov't gives
>>to you, or is it what you demand of the gov't?
>
>You know, I just don't give a damn about "freedom". I care about
>Human Rights. What a radical idea!
>
how do you tell the difference?
>> Are you the same
>>person who chooses not to protect yourself from an insane person
>
>I consider running away a far more effective form of protection
>than fumbling for a gun in order to murder the other person (oh
>right, I'm supposed to call him a "perpetrator" because he's not
>a human being, as we all know).
>
you may consider it so, the facts fail to back up your opinion however,
In fact, they show the opposite.
--
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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: newbie: about tarring
Date: 23 Jun 1999 04:18:55 GMT
In article <7kpkdi$jn9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>im kinda new to unix, but i was just wondering how you tar all the files
>in a directory into one *.tar file?
>And if it can be done at once, with different switches in the command line?
It's better to put the directory in the tarfile and let it include
its contents. That way when you unpack it it will create a directory with
the same name instead of dumping a lot of files out where you're sitting.
cd ..
tar cvf dir.tar dir
GNU tar will invoke gzip for you and compress the stuff on the way in.
cd ..
tar czvf dir.tgz dir
The first file after the f is the archive to create.
The rest of the arguments are the files to put in the archive.
The problem with tarring up *just the files in the current directory*
is naming them all (including, say, .bashrc) without naming the parent
directory (..) too. I think this will do it:
tar czvf dirfiles.tgz * .[^.]* ..?*
The star will be expanded by the shell (before tar ever sees it,
that's different than how MS-DOS commands work) into all the filenames in
the current directory whose names do not start with a dot.
The first strange expression will be expanded into all the files whose
names begin with dot but not double dot. The second strange expression
will be expanded into all the files whose names begin with dot dot
but contain at least one more character after that.
You didn't want to leave the file ..strangename behind, did you?
Or the system intruder's favorite, the directory named dot-dot-dot?
See why grabbing the directory was easier? GNU tar takes care of
the details.
But remember, tar is recursive: if one of the things you named is
a directory it will get the contents of it.
If you don't mind having an extra directory entry in the tarfile
you can just go
tar czvf dirfiles.tgz .
instead.
Cameron
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From: Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux MPEG player
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 04:31:09 GMT
I have a weird problem playing mpegs with xanim. I appear to get a frame
rate of only 2-3 frames per second and the video is distorted. However avi's
and qt's play just fine. I have a Matrox Millenium card and am running
RH6.0. The same mpeg's play fine under Win95 with MS Media Player. Are
there any other, better MPEG players for Linux? The KDE player appears to
just be a wrapper around xanim.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:10:44 -0700
Ask citizens of El
> >Salvador, Columbia, or even Tahiti whether the USA is imperialist.
> >Be prepared with your excuses.
>
> (searches around for an emperor, fails to find one.) welp, the US isn't
> imperialist.
Well the US might not be, or it may be with a larger group then just 1
controlling the system...maybe its a committe...or maybe its 2 fighting
over the scraps of the US that are left.
However, in a 3rd world country we very well could be considered that
because we put our puppet in power and run the country like a police
state...always have. Its our government that has put the worst kinds of
people in power, and kept them in power...and then lied about it.
As for fascism, some segments certainly are, some come
> very close, and the republicrats are doing their damndest to bring the
> rest of the society to the same point.
I agree whole heartedly on this point, republicans ARE
fascists....course the democrats are no better or much different.
Really both sides are as shallow as the American people.
>
> >
> >>Do you know what being free is?
> >
> >Do you? Freedom to the likes of you is freedom to destroy, enslave
> >and murder. To me it's what's enumerated in the Universal Declaration.
> >And nobody who's taken a look at it can say with a straight face that
> >the USA upholds a single one of them for even a single day.
> >
>
> when did John say that he considered freedom, as the freedom to destroy
> enslave and murder? you wouldn't be putting words in his mouth would you?
If our freedom is costing others their freedom and lives then wether or
not we realise it, our version of freedom is the doom of others...wve
are not free.
>
> >> Is freedom what the gov't gives
> >>to you, or is it what you demand of the gov't?
> >
> >You know, I just don't give a damn about "freedom". I care about
> >Human Rights. What a radical idea!
> >
>
> how do you tell the difference?
freedom is ONE human right.
>
> >> Are you the same
> >>person who chooses not to protect yourself from an insane person
> >
> >I consider running away a far more effective form of protection
> >than fumbling for a gun in order to murder the other person (oh
> >right, I'm supposed to call him a "perpetrator" because he's not
> >a human being, as we all know).
> >
>
> you may consider it so, the facts fail to back up your opinion however,
> In fact, they show the opposite.
Not sure what YOUR tasking about but I do not fully agree with the other
party. No you should not be killing the other person, but you should
also NOT run away.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard RUDEK)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux jingle
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 06:13:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
[snip]
>
>"Linux: when you absolutely, positively have to be up overnight!"
Hmm, some people may think Linux is some brand of Viagra... :)
__ __ _______________________________
//)) //)) | Richard RUDEK. MicroDek. | Hey, it's Friday night...
//\\ //\\ | Chatswood, Sydney. Australia. | C:\WORK> CD \
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From: Ted Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cable modem not working...
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:55:32 GMT
compe wrote:
>
> I have slackware 4.0 installed on my system and I cannot get my cable modem
> to work. To start off www.bresnanlink.net is my ISP, it does not require
> authentication, etc. like rr. I have 2 , that's right, 2 NIC's in my
> computer, due to it being a gateway machine on my network. The first, eth0
> is for the LAN, and the second, eth1 is for the cable modem. It
You have it backwards. eth0 should be the cable nic eth1 internal
network otherwise the routing will be all messed up especially with ip
forwarding enabled.
> successfully worked under Windows95/98/NT4.0 and even Windows NT5 (2000)
> beta 3, build 2045. It has ALSO worked under Redhat 6.0. However, it
> doesn't want to work under Slackware 4.0. I have been at this 3 days now,
> read all the how-to's, faq's, manpages, have been on IRC the entire time,
> and unfortunatley, NOBODY can tell me what's going on. I have recompiled my
> kernel, included the necessary support for it, both of my NICs are detected
> upon bootup, ifconfig -a shows lo, eth0, and eth1.. my LAN NIC works fine,
> I can ping the other computer on the network without a problem, but when I
> dhcpcd eth1, it timed out and in the /var/log/syslog it says:
> "timed out waiting for a valid dhcp server response."
> All of my resolv.conf, hosts.conf, rc.d/* is all fine (I am pretty sure). I
> have also tried compiling a newer version fo dhcpcd, however, it requires
> net/ethernet.h and I imagine other header files, which are glibc. Slackware
> 4.0 as you know is libc5, and upon installing the glibc package, slackware
> dies on me, and the only way I can reboot my computer is pulling the plug.
> My cards are LinkSys 10/100 PCI cards, no problems with either of them as
> well. I have also tried switching the cables around, aka eth0 is cable
> modem, eth1 is lan. The lan still worked, but nope, cable modem didn't.
> LINUX is LINUX, and I'm certian if it will work under redhat, it WILL work
> under Slackware. I just need to find out HOW. Also another strange feature,
> if I ifconfig eth1 208.154.20.222 (the IP address I'm normally leased) I
> can ping my nameserver, 208.154.20.1, but I cannot ping any foreign IP
> addreses, nor resolve any text hostnames, such as, say www.lycos.com. I
> really can't figure out what's going on here, I've even went and tried
> using 'pump' which someone said to use, unfortunatley it only is available
> in rpm format, so I installed alien, extracted it, then it wouldn't run.
> Another problem on the list. ANY HELP is extremely appriciated, I haven't
> slept in days, and still have found no answers. Thanks.
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
Slackware 4.0 is one of the best distributions as is. It's your setup
that's messed up. Run netconfig again and make sure you add entries to
/etc/rc.inet1 for eth1. The gateway should be the same as provided by
your ISP. Don't forget to edit /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts. Make
sure your cabling is right too. The cable modem goes in eth0 and eth1 is
part of the internal networks hub or lead terminiator on a coax setup.
Use 192.168.0.1 and up for the internal network. Your static ip from the
ISP is for eth0.
--
Ted Sikora
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://tsikora.tiac.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dionysus)
Subject: home network?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:09:24 GMT
ok, this is the story. I am a19yr old university student studying
computer engineering at the university of nsw. I am living on campus
(at college) and have a computer connected to the college network. I
also have access to a lot of spare parts (moslty 486s and early
pentiums) and i know it sounds like a lot of work, but what i would
like to be able to do is connect them all together in one large
network (probably about 4 or 5 computers). Moreover, i would like to
designate my fastest computer to be my main computer, and have it
linked to both my small network and the college network. I am as yet
undecided if i want to be running NT of just win95 on my fastest
computer, but it will probably be one of the two (i have a large
windows software base already built up), What i would like to do is
just treat the other computers as external cpus so that i can shunt
off work to them while reducing the load on my main computer. I am not
sure if this is possible or not...i do know that windows NT supports
not only extensive networking features but also a multi-thread
processing system whereby it will share work between a number of cpus
if they are on a multi-cpu board on the machine nt is running on, but
i do not know whether it can also use external cpus for this
task....ideally i would like to be able to share all cpu loads (i.e.
treat the external cpus as if they were actually a part of the system)
but i know that not all programs support multi-threading
themselves....also if it is more practical to have the main computer
on a peer-peer network and then route that network into the college
network i am quite happy to look into this possibility....i will
probably have the older computers running linux or something as i have
heard it has better networking features than any microsoft
product.....basically, what it all boils down to is that i have a lot
of parts lying around, wish to do something useful with them and am
wondering if anyone can tell me what is possible in this respect....as
may well have become evident i am short on networking expertise, but
as i intend to get a job in the field of networking when i finally get
out of uni i am very willing to learn..thanks heaps to all who reply,
your help is much appreciated..
-dionysus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Przem Kowalczyk)
Subject: Re: Strange warn messages under SuSE Linux 6.1 and Kernel 2.2.7
Date: 22 Jun 1999 21:24:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kai Schnabel in comp.os.linux.misc wrote:
>Hi
>
>> >Certainly be I am too stupid to understand the
>> >/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt but maybe someone who
>> >understands is kind enough to explain it to me... Does this happend to
>> >other users? What are this block-major devices??
>>
>> I haven't found block-major-72 but, according to devices.txt
>> block major 48 is 'Reserved for Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID controller'
>
>I have no such device.... What does that mean? Did I configured
>something wrong?
>
So you have to turn it off in /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules). Usually
it doesn't mean you did anything wrong.
Przem
--
my eyes are blurred
my sights are limited
R.E.M
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From: Ilan Finci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: man pages for C++ classes (STL)
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:21:38 +0000
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Hi,
Is there a package that contains man pages about the standard classes in
C++ ?
I know there are such man pages (sitting in section 3) on SGI, and I
would like to have them on linux.
Thanks,
Ilan
--
MobilEye Vision Technologies LTD
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Tel: 972-2-5866989 Fax: 972-2-5867720
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Hi,
<br>Is there a package that contains man pages about the standard classes
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<br>I know there are such man pages (sitting in section 3) on SGI, and
I would like to have them on linux.
<p>Thanks,
<br>Ilan
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From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.0 & LaTeX
Date: 23 Jun 1999 10:52:20 +0200
Leila Schneberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After doing an upgrade to Red Hat 6.0 (from 5.2), my LaTeX (which was
> also presumably upgraded using RPM) broke. I checked the
> /tmp/upgrade.log for any error messages, but it said everything was
> installed fine. But I get the following error, which didn't happen with
> the same *.tex file yesterday:
>
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3) (format=latex 1999.4.5) 22 JUN
> 1999 16:38
> **newsletd
> (newsletd.tex
> LaTeX2e <1998/12/01>
> Babel <v3.6k> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> ngerman, n
> ohyphenation, loaded.
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: cls)
>
> The file contains this line:
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>
> I suspect that it is some kind of configuration problem, but I don't
> know where to start looking. Any help or pointers would be greatly
> appreciated!
RedHat 6.0 upgrade is utterly broken, and in spite of dozens of bug
reports from the start, they still have not put out any official
notice or fix. They are really trying to set up a track record of
incredibly shoddy upgrades. 5.1 was very bad, and 6.0 is even worse.
Not just LaTeX is affected. Dozens of packages are upgraded
incompletely. It is a mess.
Try
rpm --verify -a
All packages in which files are flagged as missing (some displayed
messages will just be about changed configuration files which
obviously don't need reinstalling) you should reinstall with
rpm -U --force packagename.rpm
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Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-709-4209
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