Linux-Misc Digest #752, Volume #20 Wed, 23 Jun 99 10:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: WIN95 -> Linux box on Serial port! (James Stafford)
Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux? (David Fox)
Re: Apache: *.htm and *.html (Jon Skeet)
Re: which is better? (Jon Skeet)
Want Linux programming textbook advice (Jerome Mrozak)
Netscape hangs on boot ("R. Alcazar")
Re: Red-Hat - Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Want Linux programming textbook advice (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Cable modem not working... (compe)
Re: WIN95 -> Linux box on Serial port! (Ben Brown)
Secure backups with tar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Version 1.2 of GNU Mach now available (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: WIN95 -> Linux box on Serial port!
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 04:36:31 -0700
Lyndon Hills wrote:
> Ferdinand V. Mendoza wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> > My problem now is
> > how do I configure the Windows
> > side to do a null modem networking.
> > Someone can help, please.
> > TIA.
> >
> > Ferdinand
> This should be an option in Accessories. if it isn't there then it is an
> install option from the windows CD. Search help for Direct Connection.
Believe it or not the com program in MS Works works real good to use with
Linux and a null modem.
jamess
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux?
From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Date: 17 Jun 1999 23:24:01 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deryk Barker) writes:
> David Fox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi) writes:
> :
> : > On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 04:49:03 GMT, Gravot wrote:
> : > >prefaced with a "win"? I am especially curious about sound cards. Is
> : > >there any one card that is more suitable than the rest? If so, what is
> : > >the reasoning? Any favorites?
> : >
> : > Creative labs ISA cards are a snap to set up on linux. And you get to put a
> : > useless ISA slot to use (-;
> :
> : But they don't sound particularly good (music-wise) if that is
> : something you are concerned about.
>
> I'm glad you mention that, because I'm looking to get a sound card
> that will allow me to digitize analogue signals (e.e. tapes) so that I
> can put them onto CD.
>
> Anyone recommend a card with decent sounding *input* facilities too?
I use the Turtle Beach Fiji, which sounds great and works quite well
once you get the jumpers right, the firmware file in the right place
(/etc/sound) and the right entry in /etc/conf.modules. There are
reviews at http://www.pcavtech.com/soundcards/.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Apache: *.htm and *.html
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:19:14 +0100
webmaster-nospam@allspec-d-o-t wrote:
> That's not possible. Upload a file called 'test.txt' now try
> running 'vi test.text'.. They are not the same file. Even though
> we know that they are both text files, and so might Apache if you
> configure it to recognize the extension as such. The problem is,
> Unix/Linux is literal when it comes to paths and files. You could make
> a symbolic link from file.html to file.htm or vice versa.. But what's
> the point?? Just make them all .html files. (or copy them over with
> new extensions)
... and just to give some practical help, here's a nice way of doing it:
for i in `find . -name '*.htm'`; do mv $i "$i"l; done
You'll then need to edit all the links, of course, but you can either do
that with awk/perl/sed/whatever or do it by hand using:
grep htm\" `find . -name '*.html'`
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: which is better?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:52:48 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> http://www.latech.edu/~jta001/images/BSDGirl.jpg
> or
> http://www.latech.edu/~jta001/images/linuxpic2.jpg
Well the linux one doesn't have a spelling mistake in it, which is a good
start...
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Want Linux programming textbook advice
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 06:58:29 -0500
I'm ramping up my Linux programming skills. I want to concentrate on
system calls and the C/C++ standard libraries in the Linux environment
(I already know where to find Perl, awk, etc. books).
This leads to the following questions:
1) Is the set of Linux system calls and supporting C function calls
identical to that in the SVR4 releases? If it were then I could use
those books as my support material.
2) Are things like shared memory, messages and semaphores that common
in the Unix/Linux environment? The answer to this will help me plan how
much effort I'll spend on this sort of thing.
3) What are good texts for a system call / library call reference work?
4) What are good tutorials for a well-rounded programmer, able to do
basic Unix/Linux programming, multi-user and network programming and
programs in the Gnome/KDE graphical environments?
Thanks,
Jerome.
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From: "R. Alcazar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape hangs on boot
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:32:39 -0500
Hello all,
I just configured my DNS (correctly hopefully). However, when I open up
Netscape (RHL 6.0 - xwin) it hangs and never opens the local RHL page. When
I change the only nameserver in my resolv.conf to an IP other than a local
one (127.0.0.1 or 172.16.20.1 - my host!) Netscape then opens up fine...
Its quite unusual actually... but I'm having problems with it. Can anyone
propose a solution? Please advise.
R. Alcazar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Red-Hat - Linux?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:31:24 GMT
David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +-----On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:47:00 +0300, Tom Alsberg spoke unto us:----------
> | Hi there... I should tell the only Linux distro I've used was
> | Slackware, now considering changing to another distro, my question is -
> | why do so many people say Red Hat is /not/ really Linux? is it the
> | ease-of-use? does it use different libraries? a shell of his own? a
> | incompatible networking kernel or X server kit? I want Linux, real
> | Linux, really real Linux, is Red Hat for me? if not, what would be for
> | me? what are all the differences between all the distros anyway?
> | Information wouldn't hurt ;-),
> | Tom Alsberg
> I've never heard that Red Hat isn't really Linux. It is Linux.
> bilbey
I think it's just that some people get confused over the difference
between the Linux kernel and the RedHat distribution, and when
someone corrects them, they become even more confused.
--
Adam C. Emerson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.calvin.edu/~aemers19/
Movesource Network Systems Specialist
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Want Linux programming textbook advice
Date: 23 Jun 1999 13:25:32 GMT
[F'up set]
Jerome Mrozak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>1) Is the set of Linux system calls and supporting C function calls
>identical to that in the SVR4 releases?
The GNU C library implements the library functions for ISO C, POSIX,
Berkeley UNIX and, partially, the System V Interface Description.
Documentation for SysV can therefore be useful, but will not be definite for
Linux. See "info libc" for details.
>2) Are things like shared memory, messages and semaphores that common
>in the Unix/Linux environment?
The GNU C library implements the System V IPC facilities; see "info ipc".
>3) What are good texts for a system call / library call reference work?
System calls are mostly documented in manpages. For library calls, check
`The GNU C Library Reference Manual' (900+ pages) as distributed with glibc.
HTH,
Ray
--
Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.
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From: compe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Cable modem not working...
Date: 23 Jun 1999 07:30:54 GMT
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 has
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.
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From: Ben Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: WIN95 -> Linux box on Serial port!
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:59:00 +0100
If you are using Windows 95 you will need a Null modem .inf driver, one
of which is available from:
http://www.vt.edu:10021/K/kewells/net/mdmcisc2.inf
There is already one included with Windows 98.
Depending on what luck you get with how getty wakes up you may need to
edit you Dial-up networking script on the Windows machine to send a
carraige return before scanning for the ogin: and assword: prompts.
"Ferdinand V. Mendoza" wrote:
>
> Folks,
> Today I got a Toshiba notebook to play with my
> Linux box. I tried to connect it to one of the
> unused COM ports and I configured mgetty to
> test a terminal log-in. It works.
> Now, I want to use PPP over the same serial port
> (no modem of course) and plan to do some
> benchmarks. I can run a script to fire up PPP
> once the login is successful. My problem now is
> how do I configure the Windows
> side to do a null modem networking.
> Someone can help, please.
> TIA.
>
> Ferdinand
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,linux.admin,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Secure backups with tar
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:01:07 GMT
Hello All,
I have a Redhat Linux 5.2 server with the kernel upgraded to 2.1.10. I
have taken various physical security measures like making lilo boot
straight in without waiting for a prompt, passwording the bios setup
and disabling the floppy in the BIOS. It strikes me that the weakest
point, from a physical point of view is the tape backup. The tapes are
made using tar, so could be read easily on other machines. I would like
to continue using tar, but what could I use as a filter (some kind of
compressable encryption with password) which would offer some kind of
protection? I don't think we are under any real threat, I just want to
do things using 'good practices' just in case I am asked!!!!
Thanks in advance,
Nick
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Crossposted-To: gnu.announce,gnu.utils.bug,alt.sources.d
Subject: Version 1.2 of GNU Mach now available
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:18:39 -0400 (EDT)
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