Linux-Misc Digest #798, Volume #20 Sat, 26 Jun 99 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: NT the best web platform? (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (Peter Seebach)
Help with Suse Linux 6.1 and Sax, can't get mouse to work ("Ronald Haynes")
Cannot upgrade my Laptop... (Robert Heller)
Help with Diamond Sonic Impact PCI sound card (Chris O'Neill)
Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (William Burrow)
Re: no zImage on Sparc and Alpha plattforms? (Michal Jaegermann)
Compiling kernel 2.2.10: file asm/mman.h missing (Jozef Dodziuk)
Re: Viral matters [completely off-topic] (John Thompson)
Re: Looking for Laptop "power" utility for linux (John Stembridge)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (Ralf Gerlich)
Re: Documentation issues. (Leslie Mikesell)
howto - radio- and sound card? (Zolee)
Re: Automatic FTP a file (Gerald Willmann)
Matrox G200 video driver? ("Bill Wooldridge")
Debian 2.1, dselect/apt problem (Barry Samuels)
test (please don't read) (Scientia)
Third level domains: how can I create them? (Scientia)
mitsumi 2801 CD-R (Jeremiah David Lee)
Re: Docbook? Linuxdoc? Re: Documentation issues. (Richard Kettlewell)
Re: WIN 95 and 2 Linux distributions at the same time (Uwe Brauer)
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 26 Jun 1999 12:00:08 -0400
"John Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There are now 4 benchmarks for your perusal and you still cant see it.
> *sigh*
**marketing** benchmarks. as in, "lies, damned lies, and statistics".
published by ZD, who is well known to be in MS's back pocket. give me a
few sets of numbers, and if i'm allowed to be vague in releasing details of
the test, i can make 'em say just about anything.
> It seems that your the one supplying the FUD. Unless you have some concrete
> evidence otherwise.
i have all the evidence i care about: my own personal experience, which
shows that NT falls over on hardware will silly amounts of horsepower,
while linux simply keeps churning along, giving better performance on less
hardware.
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
It's easy to solve the halting problem with a shotgun. :-)
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Seebach)
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:02:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In gnu.misc.discuss, Peter Seebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> (For instance, I actually directly use the 'man' command less than once
>> a month, even though I check and read man pages probably a dozen times a
>> day.)
>I don't see how you can stand any of those alternate interfaces to man; I
>use man (and its close cousin, perldoc) dozens of times a day.
The only one I use is a wrapper script called 'vman'. It's roughly equivalent
to
nroff -man foo | col -b > /tmp/t
view /tmp/t
rm /tmp/t
and it's a *LOT* more convenient than the "regular" browser.
>You can
>just open more xterms to see more things at the same time, you can search
>easily, and you can fix the output format to match what you like. (I
>patched the tmac.an macros on my Solaris box to have a ragged margin, wrap
>at 76 columns, and not page-break.)
Oooh! Very clever. I may have to do that to mine, because I'd really love
to eliminate the bloody page breaks. Wouldn't have occurred to me.
But yes, "search easily" is a feature for me, and I like vi's search
capabilities a little better.
-s
--
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From: "Ronald Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with Suse Linux 6.1 and Sax, can't get mouse to work
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 20:39:01 -0700
Hi, I just installed Suse Linux 6.1 without any problems,
after booting I ran Sax to try and configure Xwindows.
Everything appears fine except for my mouse... it
is a Reveal mouse, connected trough a ps/2 connector.
I select the ps/2 box and the mouse now moves, but
irradically along the top of the screen. The X display
appears fine. Any help would be greatly appeciated.
(oh.. what file do I save the configuration to? )
If you could reply via email it would be great:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
R Haynes
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot upgrade my Laptop...
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 15:59:40 GMT
I have done lots and lots of Linux installs and upgrades, but for the
first time I have encountered a problem I cannot figure out.
I have an AST Ascentia 900N laptop. This is an older '486/50 machine.
Right now it is happily running RedHat 4.1. I'd like to upgrade it to
RedHat 5.2, but I am having a problem:
I cannot get it to boot up the RedHat 5.2 boot/install floppy.
It boots its own rescue floppy (made when I installed RH4.1), the RH
4.1 boot/install floppy, and the Slackware 3.4 boot/root floppy set. It
just does not seem to like the RH 5.2 floppy.
It loads SYSLINUX up fine. When I push return at the 'boot:' prompt,
it starts loading 'initrd.img', printing out 4 dots. And then hangs.
Floppy light stays lit, but the I don't think it is seeking, although I
believe the floppy is still spinning.
Is there some weirdness with SYSLINUX and this older laptop's floppy
interface? I've re-copied the root floppy several times on several
*different* floppies *on the floppy on the laptop*. I've run fdformat
several times. I've mounted the floppy under the running system and did
a 'cp -v' of initrd.img to /tmp (to see if maybe there is a bad sector
or something). The copy went fine.
If the problem is SYSLINUX, is it possible to create a LILO boot/install
floppy for RH 5.2? Does an image exist I can download or can someone
give me pointers on how to do this? I really want to upgrade this machine.
--
\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris O'Neill)
Subject: Help with Diamond Sonic Impact PCI sound card
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:44:26 GMT
Hi, gang!
I'm trying to get a Diamond Sonic Impact PCI sound card to work with
RedHat 6.0 Linux. When I installed RH6.0 there weren't any error
messages, and I don't see any when I boot the system, but I can't hear
any sounds. When I try using sndconfig, no matter which card I select
I get a "resource is busy" error message when sndconfig tries to test
the sound card, and then I get module loading errors upon booting.
Anyone know what driver/settings I should use, and the procedures I
should follow to get this beastie working?
Thanks!
Chris O'Neill
P.S. Please reply via e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I don't often
get time to check back here. I promise to post the solution here once
I've got the beastie working.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing
Date: 26 Jun 1999 16:21:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 26 Jun 1999 01:06:59 -0700,
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>just open more xterms to see more things at the same time, you can search
>easily, and you can fix the output format to match what you like. (I
>patched the tmac.an macros on my Solaris box to have a ragged margin, wrap
>at 76 columns, and not page-break.)
Is it possible to obtain those patches? I've hated full justification
with mono-spaced fonts since I first laid eyes on it...
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal Jaegermann)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: no zImage on Sparc and Alpha plattforms?
Date: 26 Jun 1999 16:50:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: It looks like in Linux 2.2.10 there's no zImage option in the Sparc or
: Alpha versions. Why?
Because it does not make sense there.
: grep -i zimage linux/arch/*/Makefile gives me entries for arm, i386, m68k,
: mips, ppc, but not for Sparc and Alpha.
'make boot' works across the board, if you look at the top level Makefile,
and is actually absolutely equivalent with 'make zImage' if you happen
to compile for i386 architecture. Architecture specific Makefiles have
also many other targets which are valid only for a give machine types.
Why top README is still so stuck on Intel - I do not know. An innertia,
I guess. Documentation patches were submitted a long time ago.
Various Alpha specific documents, with a detailed writeup on a kernel
compilation, can be found on www.alphalinux.org.
Michal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jozef Dodziuk)
Subject: Compiling kernel 2.2.10: file asm/mman.h missing
Date: 26 Jun 1999 17:55:42 GMT
I have been running kernels 2.2.x applying patches and compiling
successfully up to 2.2.9. When I tried upgrading to 2.2.10, compilation
bombed out with a complaint that the file asm/mman.h was missing.
I downloaded the full 2.2.10 source, installed it and tried to recompile
with the same result.
What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Jozef Dodziuk
--
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Viral matters [completely off-topic]
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 07:37:54 -0600
Dan Carson wrote:
>
> On 24 Jun 1999, Dale Henderson wrote:
>
> > I am very aware of why there are few to no virus written for Unix
> > systems. It is because it would be impractical. As I've said
> > before, the only way to do any real damage on a Unix box is with
> > root access. And the practicality of hacking root in a virus is
> > nil.
>
> Unfortunately, "hacking root" is getting more practical all the time. For
> some reason, some people want Linux to "compete" with Microsoft. So in the
> interest of making Linux "easy to use", the Standard Operating Procedure
> is becoming:
>
> 1. Download anything you see on the net with a '.rpm' extension.
>
> 2. su root.
>
> 3. Type rpm -whatever.
>
> 4. Voila! Something happened! I have no idea what, but whatever it was,
> it ran as root!
>
> Now maybe /bin/ls is suid root and does something in addition to the
> standard functionality.
>
> Am I just being paranoid?
That's why many people use pgp signatures with the rpm's
they build.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Looking for Laptop "power" utility for linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Stembridge)
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:56:54 GMT
Here's a handy script I use for monitoring the battery status.
Use at your own risk.
#!/bin/tcsh
#
# battery Display battery status
#
set RAW = `cat /proc/apm`
set LDV = $RAW[1] # 1=Linux driver version
set APMBIOS = $RAW[2] # 2=APM BIOS version
#
# 3=APM flags from APM Installation Check (0x00):
# bit 0: APM_16_BIT_SUPPORT
# bit 1: APM_32_BIT_SUPPORT
# bit 2: APM_IDLE_SLOWS_CLOCK
# bit 3: APM_BIOS_DISABLED
# bit 4: APM_BIOS_DISENGAGED
switch ($RAW[4]) # 4=AC line status
case 0x00:
set AC="Off-line"
breaksw
case 0x01:
set AC="On-line"
breaksw
case 0x02:
set AC="On backup power"
breaksw
default:
set AC="Unknown"
endsw
switch ($RAW[5]) # 5=Battery status
case 0x00:
set BS="High"
breaksw
case 0x01:
set BS="Low"
breaksw
case 0x02:
set BS="Critical"
breaksw
case 0x03:
set BS="Charging"
breaksw
default:
set BS="Unknown"
endsw
set PRBL = $RAW[7] # Percentage remaining battery life (-1 = unknown)
set TRBL = $RAW[8] # Time of remaining battery life (-1 = unknown)
#set UNITS = $RAW[9] # Units time
echo "APM BIOS" ${APMBIOS} " Linux driver" ${LDV}
echo "AC Status:" $AC " Battery Status:" $BS
echo "Percentage of full charge:" $PRBL
##########################
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Glen Batchelor <webmaster-nospam@allspec-d-o-t c-o-m> wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:41:14 -0700, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you don't have apmd, check it out. If all you want is a battery
>monitor, look in the source of apmd on how to request the battery
>levels from BIOS. Make it an X app and there you have it..
>
> http://www.cut.de/bkr/linux/apmd/
>
> Ryengoth
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a Dell Inspirion 7000 on which I am running RedHat 5.2. I have a
>>Windows partition as well. When I am running Windows, I can use the
>>utility which came with it for monitoring my battery power, etc.
>>However, when I am running Linux, I have no idea of how much power is in
>>the battery.
>>
>>Are there power utilities for Linux?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Tom
>>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
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From: Ralf Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:01:35 +0200
Hi!
> Usually, I am trusted by my customers to be able to suggest the form of a
> solution. After all, It's results that count, not whether or not I or
> they line Mr. Gates's pockets. Yes, I sometimes get requests from
> customers for things that run on hardware or under software that I don't
> support. I don't preach to those customers, for that would be just as big
> a waste of my time, I simply tell them "no". Usually, they ask me for my
> reasons, and I tell them. They offer me more money. I still tell them no.
> Eventually, if they are truly interested in whatever it is they said they
> want, they go elsewhere.
>
> This makes far more business sense than doing whatever the customer says
> they want you to do. Instead of wasting all my time learning VM/CMS JCL
> for the ONE customer who wants ONE application, I learn the skills needed
> to deliver similar solutions to hundreds of customers simultaneously.
> Each one pays as much as that one customer with the wierd requirements and
> it's a whole lot easier. Works like a champ, too.
I agree with you.
Now I hear people shout:"If you can afford it do it. But I need money!"
Sure, that's a point, but think about the following: You have to
guarantee for your customer that your system works. You can only do that
with the system you really trust and you really know. I don't say you
should only trust Linux or NT or Mac or whatever you can think. But
using an in your opinion trustable system will keep you from getting
into trouble if a customer has problems and you don't know what it's all
about.
Ciao,
Ralf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
Date: 26 Jun 1999 12:34:34 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I've looked at DocBook documents. They require markup verbose beyond
>> comprehension. DocBook is the COBOL of documentation format. It's only
>> advantage is a familiar syntax for all the AOL weenies who put up their
>> homepages with the <BLINK> tag and such.
>
>AMEN!! Thank heavens, I'm not alone in the world.
Is there some reason SDF (Simple Document Format) hasn't caught
on? http://www.mincom.com/mtr/sdfsite-2.001/
It claims to be author-friendly and has translators to several
output forms.
Les Mikesell
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From: Zolee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: howto - radio- and sound card?
Date: 26 Jun 1999 17:30:42 GMT
How can I use my Packard Bell Radio card under SuSE linux 6.1 Kernel 2.2.5?
And
Could anyone tell me step-by-step how to set up my Gravis US PnP soundcard?
The ISAPNP finds it but I can't hear any sound.
Please write me an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], because I can't read this
list for a long time
thanks.
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http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Automatic FTP a file
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:21:16 -0700
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Adam Armstrong wrote:
> What I am attempting in the FTP command line program is
> ftp sitename
> (automatically put in username and password)
> cd directory
> put local file
> quit
look into the ftpbackup program - it will do this
Gerald
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From: "Bill Wooldridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matrox G200 video driver?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:48:35 -0700
I have just installed RedHat 5.2 on a partition of my hard drive and am
having the devil's own time getting the video configured to work with
Xwindows. Is there a driver I can install for the Matrox G200 AGP card with
8 Meg of RAM. Where can I find it? My monitor is a NEC MultiSync 4FGe. Any
hints much appreciated.
Thanks for your response
Bill Wooldridge
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Samuels)
Subject: Debian 2.1, dselect/apt problem
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:32:28 GMT
Today I tried to upgrade my system using apt via dselect and
everything went very well except for one package - WebMaker.
During processing the following error was displayed:
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archive/webmaker_0.8.5-1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to
overwrite '/usr/share/icons/mini/html.xpm' which is also in package
kdebase.
I have tried temporarily removing the offending file but as that makes
no difference I assume the file is being found in the kdebase package
details.
As the package fails to upgrade is there anything that I can do about
this?
Barry Samuels
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From: Scientia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test (please don't read)
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 20:00:12 -0700
test
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From: Scientia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Third level domains: how can I create them?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 20:07:04 -0700
Third level domains: how can I create them?
(If there are more suitable newsgroups for this message, please
let me know).
Hello.
I have 3 domains on a virtual servers (I mean second-level domains),
and I would like to create many third level domains.
Let's imagine that one domain of mine is called example.com .
How can I create domains like newdomain.example.com ?
My provider allowed me to create as many domains I want,
but they did not give me technical explanations:
they simply told me that I have to go inside their control panel
(a kind of wizard software) and I can create domains from there.
The technical staff of my provider is always busy (so they say)
and they do not tell me more than this.
I do not even know the os running on my server (probably Linux,
or maybe Unix because in my perl CGIs I have to enclose an initial
command that is tipycal of Unix).
Actually I tried to create a couple of third level
domains such as newname.example.com :
the control panel told me that they were created correctly
and also a DNS reference were created.
But after two days they are not seen by my browser yet!
Is there a "propagation" effect even on third level domains ?!
Or is there something wrong and I'll never see my new domains?
Further on, I know that some companies, such as hypermart.net
or homepage.com , create IMMEDIATELY third level domains
such as yourname.hypermart.net
(they make this for commercial purpose
because they add their ad banners to your new domain).
So, how can they do this?
Probably they have a dedicated server that allows them to create
immediately such domains.
I am considering to get a small dedicated server to do that
(I need a lot of third level domains) but I would like to know
how it is technically possible to make what hypermart.net does!
Maybe I can make it even on my present server, if my provider
allows me to modify some special system files:
which ones? I need some help to understand this.
I can make simple Perl programs and someone told me that it is
possible to create third level domains with simple Perl scripts!
Someone else told me that a "4xx error code" must be corrected
so that the visitor is redirected within a new directory,
and that allows "newname.example.com" to work...
But I don't understand very much.
Thanks to everybody will help me.
Diego
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From: Jeremiah David Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: cmu.comp.os.linux
Subject: mitsumi 2801 CD-R
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:52:20 -0400
I just bought a Mitsumi 2801 CD-R, and after recompiling the
kernel to take out the ATAPI CD-ROM support so that I could load the
ide-scsi module, I still can't get it to work. It's configured as the
Master drive on the secondary IDE channel, having a slave of another
cdrom drive.
cdrecord finds the drive fine when I do a "cdrecord -scanbus",
and even when I start to try to burn something, it looks like it's
going to work. Output is below. One thing that concerns me is the
fact that I can't seem to mount the drive through the sg or sr devs;
I've only tried the first few, but they give me these messages (and
I'm doing all of these commands with enough privileges, too):
~$ mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sr0 as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
~$ mount /dev/sg0 /mnt
mount: /dev/sg0 is not a block device
I'm not a linux newbie, but this has me confounded...I've
followed the HOWTO to a T, as well as trying some different things
when that didn't work. Please reply to this account, any help will
be appreciated. <the output from cdrecord is below, don't forget>
Thanks,
Jeremiah
(I've tried both cdrecord 1.6.1 and 1.8a22, they both give me the same
output)
~$ /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,0,0 -data /cd_image
Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'MITSUMI '
Identifikation : 'CR-2801TE '
Revision : '1.07'
Device seems to be: Philips CDD-522.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 409600 = 400 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data 50 MB
Total size: 57 MB (05:42.97) = 25723 sectors
Lout start: 58 MB (05:44/73) = 25723 sectors
Current Secsize: -1
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
ATIP start of lead in: -11080 (97:34/20)
ATIP start of lead out: 335100 (74:30/00)
Disk type: Cyanine, AZO or similar
Manuf. index: 11
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Blocks total: 335100 Blocks current: 335100 Blocks remaining: 309377
RBlocks total: 342460 RBlocks current: 342460 RBlocks remaining: 316737
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready.
Starting new track at sector: 0
Track 01: 0 of 50 MB written./opt/schily/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error.
write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 10 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 06 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x6 Unit Attention, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x28 Qual 0x00 (not ready to ready change, medium may have changed) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.003s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 32768 bytes
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05
Writing time: 80.651s
Fixating...
/opt/schily/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd:
retryable error
CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 10 04 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x10 Qual 0x04 (id crc or ecc error) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 480s
Fixating time: 0.005s
/opt/schily/bin/cdrecord: fifo had 129 puts and 2 gets.
/opt/schily/bin/cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1 times full, min fill was 99%.
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From: Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Docbook? Linuxdoc? Re: Documentation issues.
Date: 26 Jun 1999 12:37:39 +0100
(I've set followups to point out of the BSD group as this doesn't seem
very relevant there; but I won't be annoyed if someone overrides
this.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer) writes:
> I posted that from a Debian-2.0 system with everything sgml-related
> installed.
>
> There's a thing called /usr/doc/sgml-base. It's about "entity
> management." A classic case of useless "documentation." That is,
> documentation for people who don't need any documentation because
> they already know more about the subject than is revealed in the
> "documentation."
>
> There's a thing called /usr/doc/sgml-data. Nothing in there but a
> changelog and a copyright.
>
> There's a /usr/doc/sgml-tools/html which I didn't find before because
> the files are hidden with the unusual extension html.gz. It's from
> 1996 and documents SGML-Tools version 0.99.0.
I discovered /usr/doc/sgml-tools by typing `locate linuxdoc'[1]. From
there:
: sfere; pwd
/usr/doc/sgml-tools
: sfere; ls
README.gz example.sgml.gz guide.txt.gz
changelog guide.lyx.gz html
changelog.Debian.gz guide.ps.gz linuxdoc-sgml.info.gz
copyright guide.sgml.gz rtf
: sfere; dpkg -l sgml-tools
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii sgml-tools 1.0.5-1 converters for the linuxdoc DTD (and others)
: sfere;
You've got a choice of postscript, plain text, info, lyx, html and the
original source. Later versions of the package have DVI too (I have
1.0.9-1 on another system).
There's an sgmltools(1) man page too, though it's a bit broken on the
Debian systems I have. (I've submitted a bug report.)
> What does that mean? How does a package cite something?
See /usr/doc/${PACKAGE}/copyright
[1] and IMHO all users should know how to use `locate' or whatever
equivalent exists on other systems
--
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/
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From: Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WIN 95 and 2 Linux distributions at the same time
Date: 26 Jun 1999 19:26:24 +0000
Thanks for the answer, could you pls send me your lilo configuration
file, in some days I may start with this experiment
and therefore would appreciate an already written and tested lilo
configuration.
Thanks again
Uwe Brauer
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