Linux-Misc Digest #799, Volume #20 Sat, 26 Jun 99 17:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Inbound FTP dies unexpectedly... ("Brian Schell")
Re: --glFtpD-- SOURCE CODE? (Marc Mutz)
Re: Automatic FTP a file (Marc Mutz)
Root password ??? (Thomas Enders)
Re: MS Access .mdb files (Andreas Hinz)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft Retest
News (Anthony Ord)
Re: Docbook? Linuxdoc? Re: Documentation issues. (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Re: Something for Linux? (Marc Mutz)
Re: Matrox G200 video driver? (Benoit Goudreault-Emond)
Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: Docbook? Linuxdoc? Re: Documentation issues. (Kai Henningsen)
Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (Peter Seebach)
Re: CDRwith Xcdroast (brian moore)
LUGOJ INSTALL-FEST (Brandon's acct on Gekko)
vqf for linux (Stef)
Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux? ("Sean Middleditch")
Problems with XFree86 and Monitor (Rajesh Radhakrishnan)
Re: Root password ??? (David Greer)
Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing (was: Depoliticising the argument (was:
The End of Free Software)) (brian moore)
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From: "Brian Schell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Inbound FTP dies unexpectedly...
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:15:13 -0400
Hello!
I'm running Redhat 6.0, with an Apache/PHP/Mysql server. I usually leave
X-Windows & Gnome onscreen most of the time (I have some other things that
require this). Other than the modified Web/Database server, everything is
pretty much standard installation stuff from the Redhat CD.
I can connect via ftp and download from the machine on my LAN all I want, no
problem. However, when I connect on the LAN and upload files, the ftp
transfer locks up. Apparently it also freezes the Apache WEB server as well.
About all I can do is re-boot.
It's not an ftp client problem, as It happens whether I'm running Win 95,
another Linux system, or even a Mac.
I have noticed that if X-Windows is not running (Or maybe it's one of the
applications I'm running in X, I dunno) this does not seem to happen. Don't
know if this helps, but some of the X Applications I'm running are fairly
CPU intensive, but should not cause any kind of IRQ or hardware conflicts.
I cannot do much about the application I need to run in X, so leaving it
"command-line mode" all the time is not really an option.
Do I have a corrupt FTP daemon, or is there a substitute FTP system I can
install?
Any suggestions?
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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:20:14 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: --glFtpD-- SOURCE CODE?
test wrote:
>
> Anyone know where to get source code for this ftp daemon?
try www.leo.org's search function.
Marc
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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:25:46 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Automatic FTP a file
lftp has scripting capabilities.
Marc
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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 20:11:28 +0200
From: Thomas Enders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Root password ???
Hi everybody,
about 6 month ago, i installed on my pc Suse-Linux 6.0.....everything
works fine and there was no reason to log in as root....
But yesterday i just wanted to install a software package and i wanted
to login as root...
but: (please do not laugh...) I FORGOT MY ROOT-PASSWORD !!!!!!
I thought that i read in an article somewhere, that there is a
possibility to boot the Linux system with a recovery disk and that there
is a way to log in as root without password......
Does anybody of you can help me with this problem ???
This would be very nice, because i do not want to reinstall the whole
system...
Thanks in advance
Bye
Thomas.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Subject: Re: MS Access .mdb files
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 18:07:15 GMT
On 24 Jun 1999 22:02:38 -0400, Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>really want to maintain read capability to is a certain MS Access
>(from Office 4.3) database (for sentimental reasons; it was our
>
Go for 'Wine' at http://www.winehq.com.
I use Access 2.0 on Kernel 2.2.9 with Wine-990523. I have not tried
Wine-990613 yet.
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Andreas Hinz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,omp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (was: Mindcraft
Retest News
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 18:15:46 GMT
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:56:07 +0100, Robin Becker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7l280k$1d9i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hughes
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>How about these? Did MS cheat also? ;)
>>
>>http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/reviews/0,6755,2256617,00.html
>>
>>http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/jumps/0,4270,401961,00.html
>>
>>
>...
>a bit off topic, but an article in my paper, the Independent, states
>that M$'s encarta has different versions for different countries. If M$
>can claim in the US that Edison (October 1879) invented the electric
>light bulb before Swan (February 1879) then a few adjustments to
>benchmark results seem minor. Apparently the M$ mouthpiece says these
>sort of 'facts' aren't always black and white etc etc.
It's just to appease the American public. Just like the
Second World War went from 1941 (when the Americans joined)
to 1945. What was it before that? A bun fight?
>It was Orwell's 1984 that had the 'Ministry of Truth', but I wonder if,
>now that we have the technology, it's becoming a reality.
We've had the Ministry of Truth for quite a while. Notice
how it's called "education". In the old days it was called
propaganda.
The old days were a lot more honest in the language than we
are now - in a lot of ways.
Regards
Anthony
--
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| And when our worlds |
| They fall apart |
| When the walls come tumbling in |
| Though we may deserve it |
| It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Docbook? Linuxdoc? Re: Documentation issues.
Date: 26 Jun 1999 18:09:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>I discovered /usr/doc/sgml-tools by typing `locate linuxdoc'[1]. From
>there:
On my Debian-2.0 system with all packages with "sgml" in their names
installed, the shell command 'locate linuxdoc' returns nothing.
I also installed 'dwww' which is quite broken, but at least gives a
somewhat working Web interface to 'man'.
Plug 'linuxdoc' into the search box at http://localhost/dwww and
it finds nothing.
I'm glad someone was able to fix their online documentation.
Out of the box on Debian 2.0 it was broken. Dwww is still broken in 2.1,
but locate has been fixed.
Had it been absent instead of broken, I would have kept poking around
with find(1), which is slower than locate(1), but works.
>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).
I know what sgmltools *does*. Dwww found its manpage, but not the stuff
in /usr/doc. The manpage tells you what to do with a .sgml file.
The manpage mentions $LINUXDOCLIB, a variable which was unset on
Debian 1.3, 2.0, and 2.1. Perhaps that's /usr/doc/sgml-data.
The manpage tells you nothing about the syntax of an .sgml file.
That is what was well hidden in .html.gz files under /usr/doc.
Perhaps someday someone will add a note to the Debian installation
page about that unique suffix.
Cameron
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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:24:44 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Something for Linux?
Timothy Rue wrote:
>
> The biggest drawback with Linux is not having a user oriented external
> port to programs like Arexx caused to happen (Not that Arexx is the item
> to do here but the user external port to application control).
>
I guess that the KDE and Gnome guys are working on a (hopefully) common
scripting language like arexx or applescript. If I'm not totally wrong,
I guess such will be available for any decent scripting language there
is (and there are *many*), see the various modules for
gimp-remote-control (perl, pyhon, whatnot).
> Hmmm, If I understand this right, Linux is recompiled for new drivers?
> Hmmm, can a port driver to application be done?
>
Nope, not in kernel, see above.
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benoit Goudreault-Emond)
Subject: Re: Matrox G200 video driver?
Date: 26 Jun 1999 19:01:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7l33kt$6qd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Wooldridge wrote:
> 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.
Get the latest XFree86 (version 3.3.3.1). It should be available on the
RedHat site. If not, you can probably grab a server binary at
www.xfree86.org and replace your existing binary with that.
The server used by the G200 is the SVGA server.
It rocks. :{)
--
Benoit Goudreault-Emond
CoFounder, KMS Group ; Student, B. Comp. Eng, Concordia University
``Being too close to a fireball can worry a man --- to death.''
-- Zeb Carter in "The Number of the Beast" by Robert A. Heinlein
Note: the "From:" address is not correct to protect myself against spam.
My actual e-mail address is: ``bgoudem AT axess DOT com''
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux balkanization a potential blessing
Date: 26 Jun 1999 14:35:29 -0500
In article <rQ6d3.3411$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Seebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
What does this do that you can't do if you just use 'less'
as your PAGER and use man normally?
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 26 Jun 1999 18:47:00 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Docbook? Linuxdoc? Re: Documentation issues.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russ Allbery) wrote on 24.06.99 in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Welcome to the world of SGML. The documentation is unreadable and nearly
> non-existent, and you're stuck using an excessive amount of markup in one
> of the most annoying syntaxes that I've ever seen. Maybe it's great for
The only more annoying syntax I've seen ... oops, lots of those. TeX, .pod
(how can anyone *read* this? It looks like SGML, except the important part
is *outside* the <>!), worst maybe roff.
SGML may be verbose, but it is certainly very readable.
> I'm sure someone will know all of the complicated and ad hoc tricks, but I
> gave up on it in favor of a markup language that was actually sane.
Obviously, your definition of sane sharply differs from mine.
Kai
--
http://www.westfalen.de/private/khms/
"... by God I *KNOW* what this network is for, and you can't have it."
- Russ Allbery ([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 19:48:12 GMT
In article <7l3a21$2occ$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <rQ6d3.3411$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Peter Seebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> nroff -man foo | col -b > /tmp/t
>> view /tmp/t
>> rm /tmp/t
>>
>>and it's a *LOT* more convenient than the "regular" browser.
>What does this do that you can't do if you just use 'less'
>as your PAGER and use man normally?
Works even though I hate less. Honors the keystroke conventions I'm
comfortable with. Lets me add markers to a file while I'm searching around.
Has searches that wrap. Supports some complicated macro language.
It's a very nice DWIM interface for me.
-s
--
Copyright 1999, All rights reserved. Peter Seebach / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
C/Unix wizard, Pro-commerce radical, Spam fighter. Boycott Spamazon!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: CDRwith Xcdroast
Date: 26 Jun 1999 19:54:14 GMT
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:18:02 -0700,
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "John E. Hagensieker" wrote:
> >
> > Under RH 5.2 I was able to emulate SCSI and use both my IDE CD rom (Sony)
> > and my CDR(also IDE) as "SCSI" devices and XCDRoast performed flawlessly.
> > Now since I have installed RH 6.0 I cannot get the IDE Sony drive to emulate
> > SCSI. The CDR works fine and will copy data files from the IDE drive but
> > not audio files. I added the line
> > append="hdc=ide-scsi" to my lilo.conf file for the cd and that works fine,
> > and even substituted "b" for the Sony drive but it will still not emulate
> > SCSI.
>
> Why emulate scsi then? AFAIK you don't gain anything by doing so unless
> its a cdr drive.
Actually, cdparanoia wants scsi (or emulated). The alpha9 release
claims to do ATAPI, but warns:
Note that the native ATAPI driver is supported, but that IDE-SCSI
emulation works better with ATAPI drives. This is an issue of control;
the emulation interface gives cdparanoia complete control over the
drive whereas the native ATAPI driver insists on hiding the device
under an abstraction layer with poor error handling capabilities. Note
also that a number of ATAPI drives that do not work at all with the
ATAPI driver (error 006: Could not read audio) *will* work with
IDE-SCSI emulation.
Hence the problem in ripping audio files.
Try alpha9, but it still may not work without emulation.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 14:48:22 -0500
From: Brandon's acct on Gekko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LUGOJ INSTALL-FEST
Anyone and Everyone interested in Linux is welcome to
attend and be a part of the fun at the Linux Users Group
of Jackson, MS's first Install-Fest.
When: Saturday, July 10, 1999 10am to 5pm
Where: CompUSA - Ridgeland, MS - Training rooms in the back.
http://www.linuxman.net/training_sm.jpg
Please visit our site for detailed information
http://www.lugoj.org
Even if you have Linux already setup on you own machine. We would
like to meet you and learn something new from each other.
See everyone there.
--
J. Brandon Massengill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stef)
Subject: vqf for linux
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:43:24 GMT
Hello is there a vqf player for linux ?
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From: "Sean Middleditch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 13:46:28 -0400
All the major Linux system vendors I see ship with Soundblaster 128,
although I understand that driver developement is currently underway fro the
Soundblaster Live, which is the currently the best sound driver on the
makret for personal computing.
Sean Middleditch
Petr Hlavka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7l2r9a$1hn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I use Pine PCI card based on S3 Sonicvibes chip. It works quite good,
> although the driver has some problems. This card can also play midis
through
> ist FM synth. using standard kernel OPL3 driver. It sometimes works in
alsa
> to.
>
> Petr Hlavka
>
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From: Rajesh Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Problems with XFree86 and Monitor
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:26:05 -0400
Hi,
I am trying to install RedHat5.2 on my 486 PC. I have a Philips
Magnavox 7BM749 (VGA -Monochrome) monitor and an ET4000 video card. I
am unable to
get the X-windows working. I ran XF86Setup. I selected ET4000
(generic) card and selected Mono (under detailed setup) . I entered the
correct horiz
and vertical frequencies (got from www.monitorworld.com for my model)
and the modeselection as 640x480. I saved the 'xvditune' settings and
exited.
'startx' just crashes on me and gives me an error message " 640x480
mode not found. ...... No valid modes found "
I selected VGA16 and SVGA server for the ET4000 card but I get the
same error.
Anyone have any ideas what I should do.
Thanks in advance.
Rajesh
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From: David Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Root password ???
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:03:21 -0700
Thomas Enders wrote:
> but: (please do not laugh...) I FORGOT MY ROOT-PASSWORD !!!!!
> I thought that i read in an article somewhere, that there is a
> possibility to boot the Linux system with a recovery disk and that there
> is a way to log in as root without password......
>
> Does anybody of you can help me with this problem ???
assuming you use LILO as your bootloader, just type "linux single"
(assuming "linux" is label linux uses on LILO) at the LILO: prompt.
This will put you in single user mode, where there are no such things as
file permissions or passwords. from there, you can edit /etc/passwd and
remove the encrypted password.
David Greer
Ordained Priest of the Church of Linuxology
Geek Code v3.12
GCS d- s: a17 C++ UL++ P++ L+++ E W+ N+++ o K- w- O- M- V-
PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5- X+ R++ tv- b++ DI+ D+ G+ e- h! r-- y--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
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: 26 Jun 1999 20:37:57 GMT
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:34:52 GMT,
Alan Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So BSD has man pages for all its components, including the compiler (gcc) and
> debugger (gdb)? I'd like to get a copy of those to install on my Linux boxes,
> because I too am annoyed by texinfo.
You may want to figure out why you don't have the FSF-authored versions
of the gcc and gdb man pages, though. They're on every system I've
installed gcc on (SunOS and Solaris) or that came with gcc as part of
the package.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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