Linux-Misc Digest #766, Volume #20 Thu, 24 Jun 99 06:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: HELP ! verrry slloooww reading DAT tape (Chris Wilson)
Re: A REALLY Dumb Question (Jim Henderson)
Re: Help!! my fdisk problem ("Jeff Thompson")
Re: Best VLB/PCI vid card for RedHat 6.0 (Oliver Olsen)
Re: NT the best web platform? ("Doug McCrary")
Re: Linux and NT integrated user data (David Crooke)
Re: WIN95 -> Linux box on Serial port! ("Ferdinand V. Mendoza")
Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be? ("Jeffrey Flowers")
realtech rtl8029 with SUSE ("Bruce Jackson")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News ("Stuart Fox")
CR LF in Linux and WindowNT (Becky)
Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (was: Depoliticising the argument (was:
The End of Free Software)) (Leslie Mikesell)
HELP: 'Console drivers' option unavail. when "make xconfig" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HELP: "Console drivers" option of 'make xconfig' unavailable (Andreas Hinz)
problem with the new kde 1.1.1 (final) rpms and ssh (Subbarao Varigonda)
Re: GUI for ip-masq (kde?)
Re: Certain Differences: RH vs. Debian (Ray)
Re: Certain Differences: RH vs. Debian (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Run in background (Villy Kruse)
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From: Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP ! verrry slloooww reading DAT tape
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 05:04:04 GMT
Unfortunately I tried that too. No difference :(
I think Leon got it right though. It goes to show, working on NT makes
you stupid ;)
Cheers all
Chris
[Everything was going fine until today when the voices in my head told
me that I should stay at home and clean the guns]
John Phillips wrote:
>
> Try setting blksize to 0 for variable block size. Some OS's do not write
> the same block size through a write session.
>
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In aus.computers.linux Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Just to let everyone know, I have found a work around....but I would
> >> still like to be able to read the tape using the "tar" command.
>
> >> I was able to use the "mt setblk 1024" to set the tape size and then
> >> "dd if=/dev/st0 of=dump bs=1024" followed by a "tar -xvf dump". Great,
> >> it reads at between 10 and 15Mb / minute. Changing "bs=xxx" to anything
> >> else slows everything dowm by orders of magnitude.
>
> > dd if=/dev/st0 bs=1024 | tar xvf -
>
> > would have worked .. without filling up the hard disk .. surely ...
>
> --
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A REALLY Dumb Question
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:37:38 -0600
According to the sound files, Linux is pronounced as 'lee-nucks' by
Linus.
I've worked with GNU software for quite some time (off and on), and have
always pronounced it 'guh-noo' - first syllable clipped, "g'noo" might
be closer. Sorta like saying "knight" but pronouncing the K Monty
Python style ("silly English k-nights").
Jim
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forums at the URL above.
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Reply-To: "Jeff Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Jeff Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95
Subject: Re: Help!! my fdisk problem
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:26:11 -0500
The first thing that I would recommend is formatting the drive and then run
Fdisk from the DOS 6.22 install program,(should run automatically after
format). After going through these two steps you should be able to install
DOS 6.22 if not I recommend that you install DOS 6.2 then upgrade to DOS
6.22. Also which version of Win95 and /or Win98 if you are trying to install
Win95 Vresion A then you will not have any luck because It will not be able
to read the HDD, and if the version of Win98(Which I don't recommend Win98
in the first place) is the first version then you are out of luck. If none
of these suggestions work then what I recommend is that you wipe all none
valueable programs off of the hard drive and load Windows from Linux's GUI
and see what happens(never have tried this last thaught but it is worth the
try
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From: Oliver Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Best VLB/PCI vid card for RedHat 6.0
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 08:36:24 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dweezel Zappa wrote:
> I am going to build an inexpensive PC to run Red Hat 6.0, and was
> wondering what the best Video cards are. I want
> a video card that is very fast in 2-D, and is 101% supported in X.
> Not the most recent vid cards please, (unless is totally rocks and
> dosent cost too much.)
I have an ATI Mach64 (3D charger) 4mb PCI, and this gives a great result
up to 1280x1024/16bit color/75hz. The speed is ok but not too great for
games, though.
Regards,
Oliver
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From: "Doug McCrary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:49:55 -0700
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Anthony Ord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] --
next time Mindcraft, try using 2 identical disks :-)
> >
> >They specifically said they didnt? That would be evil.
>
> Arrrgggghhhh. It's not like the page detailing this is
> hidden very much...
>
> --- START INSERT ---
> Disk
> <snip>
> Drive C/OS: 1 x 9 GB Seagate Cheetah, Model ST39102LC,
> 10,000 RPM; two partitions - one for each OS
> <snip>
So, they were effectively on different disks. I wonder which OS went on the
faster partition?
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From: David Crooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux and NT integrated user data
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 06:33:20 GMT
Tektronix WinDD-NIS integrates NT and Unix (NIS and NIS+) domain
account management. You can create NIS accounts on the Unix side, and
when a user logs into NT with the same passowrd and a special domain
name, the NT account is created automatically. Password sync is also
achieved.
They sell a worksation version, but I think it is best just to run it on
the PDC.
Another option is to use Samba's NT domain participation.
Dave
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From: "Ferdinand V. Mendoza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: WIN95 -> Linux box on Serial port!
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:02:05 +0400
Wowps!
> S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -r -i /etc/myissue -s 115200 ttyS0
>
> (Replace the Sx instance of your own port choice.)
>
Should've put S0 as Sx. I used COM1. Sorry for that.
Ferdinand
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From: "Jeffrey Flowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: open systems?!? Re: Why does Apple not cooperate with Be?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:07:29 -0400
I used to own a NeXTStation and it was a great system. I hope that nobody
buys Be. You can see how Apple is wreaking NeXTSTEP.
> OTOH I suspect Be will be like NeXT (pre-Apple purchase) and
> Amiga and a number of other "fringe" operating systems: they'll
> have a small, but loyal following.
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From: "Bruce Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: realtech rtl8029 with SUSE
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 02:32:04 -0400
This doesn't want to operate for some reason, I installed the system and it
keeps failing eth0. I read that modprobe -t in the net directory would try
and load the correct one but I couldn't that to operate correctly kept
bombing out. Tried configuring it as a 2000 compatible which I read
somewhere but still no go. Any ideas greatly appreciated! In windoze 98 it
says that it is IRQ 9 and memory starts at E300-E01F. I tried adding those
to the modprobe command for the realtech 8129 and also to the nec2000 but to
no avail. Is there any way to autoconfigure or something? Thanks in Advance!
Bruce
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From: "Stuart Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:37:07 +1200
Scott MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Ckic3.217$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Stuart Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7krc2d$jsc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >
> > >
> > > Stuart Fox wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >
> > > > > What if you do not have an NT server/PDC? I guess you are telling
> me
> > I
> > > > > must have an all Micros~1 solution for things to work properly.
> > > >
> > > > Create a local policy file, throw it in C:\windows for all machines.
> > >
> > > Unmanageable.
> >
> > Are you telling me that Samba couldn't do this?
> >
> >
>
> Samba shouldn't have to do this, that is the point.
>
>
Why exactly? My NT server provides a central location to store the policy
file. Can Samba not do this? If not, does Samba not provide a way to
distribute files - e.g. login scripts?
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From: Becky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CR LF in Linux and WindowNT
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:29:29 +0800
Hi all,
I am now running Samba2.0.3 in my Linux SuSE 2.2.5. Several WindowsNT
are connected to the samba server. But when i retrive the files from the
linux, the files cannot be displayed correctly. I know that it is the
problem related to the different format of CR LF in Linux and NT.
How can i solve the poblem? Where can i find more information??
Thanks in advance!!
Becky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (was: Depoliticising the
argument (was: The End of Free Software))
Date: 24 Jun 1999 02:17:52 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In gnu.misc.discuss,
> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>:That the presence of rhbackup, dd, tar, and cpio would offer enough to
>:make a reasonable possibility to create a useful backup solution?
>
>Before I ran newfs'd the partition, I used dump. It was there.
>Then it wasn't. Definitely a misconnect. And yes, this was from
>one RedHat to the next.
I don't think I have ever ended up without dump/restore so this
must have been an installation choice.
>The Linux distributions have historically been shoddy in many ways,
>not least of all in their installations.
That's somewhat unfair unless you can point to something that installs
on more kinds of hardware with fewer problems and I don't think
you can. I don't trust anyone's version upgrades, though.
>:> And no fricking manpages for anything you need to have. The shame!
>:Well, I presume the info pages are offensive?
>
>Of course they are. But even so, they too are missing from many programs.
>This is simply not a tolerable situation. Period. And thankfully,
>it's not a situation we have on BSD. Let's just not get into it and
>say we didn't.
I haven't seen a big difference between the man page sets, but on
Linux you can find the things that the man pages omit in other places.
>I'm tired of biting that bullet. I'm running a half dozen different
>systems these days. SuSE is less annoying than RedHat -- but that's
>not saying much. It's still not as half as nice an experience as BSD.
Have you tried the Mandrake flavor of RedHat?
Les Mikesell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP: 'Console drivers' option unavail. when "make xconfig"
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 07:46:54 GMT
When I run 'make xconfig' in /usr/src/linux (for the 2.2.8 version),
my "Console drivers" button is not highlighted (and "QoS and/or
fair queueing", "IrDA subsystem support", "Infrared-port device
drivers" and "Watchdog Cards" aren't as well, besides): so I
can't choose anything here.
How come ?
What makes an option of the /usr/src/linux/scripts/kconfig.tk file
available or not ? (all this cause I can't seem to be able to boot my
kernel when I've recompiled it, it fails all the time, and I was told
it might come from the fact I haven't configured any frame buffer...)
Thanks for any help !
Regards,
Seb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Subject: Re: HELP: "Console drivers" option of 'make xconfig' unavailable
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 06:52:25 GMT
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 07:18:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>my "Console drivers" button is not highlighted (and "QoS and/or
>
Under 'Code maturity level options' answer 'yes'.
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Andreas Hinz
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From: Subbarao Varigonda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.security.ssh
Subject: problem with the new kde 1.1.1 (final) rpms and ssh
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 02:09:16 -0500
Hi!
I am running redhat 6.0 on an intel pentium system. I installed
ssh-1.2.27-5us, ssh-extras-1.2.27-5us, ssh-server-1.2.27-5us,
ssh-clients-1.2.27-5us packages (rpms from rpmfind.net)
and the system was working very well. It runs ssh daemon also.
After redhat announced new kde packages with security fixes, I upgraded
the kde rpms from 1.1.1pre2 to 1.1.1 final. But strangely,
ssh is having some problems. My login shell is tcsh.
When I do ssh to the same or another system (same configuration, rh6, kde 1.1.1final
etc), it lets me log in but after executing the
.cshrc file, it also outputs the following errors (between the #### lines).
############################################
kdepath=/usr/bin:command not found
kdepath: variable not defined
############################################
And then, the shell I get is partially frozen. It doesn't behave like
a normal tcsh (up/down arrows don't work. tab doesn't work etc). I can
type at the prompt.
I don't understand whether it's the problem with kde rpms or ssh.
I grepped all ssh config files but didn't find kdepath anywhere.
I have no clue from where it's getting that "kdepath=/usr/bin" line
AFTER executing my .cshrc
I have reverted back to the old kde packages and ssh/scp work
fine as before.
I appreciate if anyone provides an explanation/solution!
thanks!
-subbarao
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GUI for ip-masq (kde?)
Date: 24 Jun 1999 07:30:54 GMT
Marc Mutz wrote:
> Sebastian Koball wrote:
> >
> > please help !
> > is there any graphical interface for setting up ip-masq on my
linux-system.
> > i can`t get success with the scripts. my win95-box is not on the
internet.
> > what is the easiest way to connect it with a linux system as the
gateway.
> > on the linux-box i use pppsetup to connect to the net. then i use route
add default gw IPdyn. to connect to net. from linux all is fine . i can
ping the internet and my win95-box (192.168.0.4). if i ping from the winbox
i will get a request timed out. i`m working since two weeks on this
problem. please help.
> > thank you very much
> > sebastian.koball(at)stud.uni-rostock.de
> Yes, there is. All I remember is that it starts with 'k'... :-)
> OK, it's kfirewall. I don't know if it handles masquerading, but it
> works with ipchains and ipfwadm.
>
> Marc
I also saw a package called Gecco that had add-on modules listed ... you
might check out www.linuxberg.com and see what they have there..
Ray Schwamberger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: Certain Differences: RH vs. Debian
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 07:31:39 GMT
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:21:12 +0000, Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I notice that Debian binary applications seem to come in "deb"
>format. Of course, 90% of all "binary package versions" for
>applications you can download come in RH's "rpm" format.
There are literally thousands of official debs available. In practice I've
found that probably 99% of the stuff I use is available as a deb. About the
only things I've found that often arn't available as a deb are alpha/beta
level software in which case I prefer to compile anyway.
> I was
>wondering if Debian has any means by which to install "rpm"
Yes, you can use Alien although I almost never do.
>packages, or if I'll just have to get used to compiling source
>for programs I download?
>
> I'm not sure if "linuxconf" is a linux-thing, or a application
>designed by RedHat... but I've really gotten used to it and love
>using it for mundane tasks.
linuxconf was, AFAIK, created by the RH folks. There are some Debian folks
porting it but it's not in the stable distro. yet.
--
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Certain Differences: RH vs. Debian
Date: 24 Jun 1999 08:02:53 GMT
Steve D. Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I notice that Debian binary applications seem to come in "deb" format. Of
>course, 90% of all "binary package versions" for applications you can
>download come in RH's "rpm" format.
One should of course be careful installing binary packages found somewhere
on the net.
>I was wondering if Debian has any means by which to install "rpm" packages,
Debian comes with the "alien" package converter
(http://www.kitenet.net/programs/alien/) which can convert RPM to .deb.
>I'm not sure if "linuxconf" is a linux-thing, or a application
>designed by RedHat... but I've really gotten used to it and love
>using it for mundane tasks. Is it available for Debian,
Linuxconf packages are not part of the current Debian release, but are
available as part of "unstable"
(http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/linuxconf.html), and can thus
be expected to be available in the next Debian release.
>or does Debian come with any similar graphical system-management utility?
Not really. Debian has a powerful mechanism for configuring packages at
installation time which makes such a utility less needed.
HTH,
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Run in background
Date: 24 Jun 1999 10:11:45 +0200
In article <7krrps$rm9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Eric George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Try following you executable with an '&'
>
>That still leaves the process in the shell's process group.
Try take a look at the setsid command /usr/bin/setsid
SETSID(8) Linux Programmer's Manual SETSID(8)
NAME
setsid - run a program in a new session
SYNOPSIS
setsid program [ arg ... ]
DESCRIPTION
setsid runs a program in a new session.
SEE ALSO
setsid(2)
AUTHOR
Rick Sladkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Also, if you you fork off a child in your program in order to become
a daemon you need to call the setsid() system call, close stray opened
files including those opened by various getxxbyy functions.
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