Linux-Misc Digest #837, Volume #20 Mon, 28 Jun 99 22:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: kernel panic: No init found. THANKS STAROFFICE! (Michel Catudal)
Re: Filesize larger than 2 GB on Intel machines an Linux 2.0.36 (Christopher Browne)
printer question (root)
Re: Why are things so screwy ? (Michael Pacey)
Re: Newbie: Needs help selecting distribution (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Filesize larger than 2 GB on Intel machines an Linux 2.0.36 (Christopher Browne)
Re: Attractive alternative to xconsole? (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Multiboot question (Michel Catudal)
Re: home network with linux box ("Hugh")
Re: Linux loses in NT tests (Donovan Rebbechi)
Tux Goes Fishing (Children's Linux Freeware) (Robert Heller)
Linux and Wyse terminals ("John G. Sandell")
Re: StarOffice on RedHat 6.0 (Michel Catudal)
Re: RH6.0 w/Netscape (Michel Catudal)
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel panic: No init found. THANKS STAROFFICE!
Date: 28 Jun 1999 20:22:08 -0500
The Damons wrote:
>
>
> I guess my question now is how can I get linux to recreate an init program
> that (1) it can see and (2) will work when I have this glibc mess that the
> Staroffice install created?
>
Star Office has nothing to do with this. You allready had glibc2
installed and trying to install a previous version of glibc2 is
what created the problem. I installed the same package and never
a minute thought that I had to install the older library. If you
looked closely at the messages you would have noticed that it
couldn't find the name it wanted but let you proceed anyway. You
have to remember that they use the older glibc2 library and
of course there would be differences. The difference with libc5
is that it should work unless you use undocumented obsoleted commands
as it was done in version 5.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Filesize larger than 2 GB on Intel machines an Linux 2.0.36
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 01:46:59 GMT
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:19:14 -0700, Patrick Letovsky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Axel H�lzer" wrote:
>> is there any solution to work with files larger than 2 GB on
>> Intel-processor based machines? I am running RedHat Linux 5.2 with
>> kernel 2.0.36. I heard about patch for kernelversions 2.2.x.
>>
>I heard the same thing, but I can't find any information on this patch
>to override the limitation.
Such a change, in order to *actually prove useful,* needs to be
reflected not only within the kernel, but also in LIBC.
After all, you probably don't want to have to create a custom version of
TAR, a custom version of cp, and a custom version of grep in order to
work with those files, right?
--
Rules of the Evil Warlord #77. "I will design fortress hallways with
no alcoves or protruding structural supports which intruders could use
for cover in a firefight."
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (root)
Subject: printer question
Date: 29 Jun 1999 01:45:07 GMT
I have a Panasonic KX-1123 dot-matrix printer I use to print 2 part
invoices with, and I'm trying to do this in Linux using Applix.
This is *not* a postscript capable printer, and Applix only does postscript.
Can anyone suggest either a workaround, or direct me to the
appropriate documentation.
TIA,
Charles Farinella
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Pacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Why are things so screwy ?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 02:39:20 +0100
Vod:
I suggest you get hold of RedHat 6.0, for $5 somewhere, or a more recent
release of another distribution, e.g. SuSE, Debian. Do a full install
with all the libraries.
I also suggest you stick to RPMs rather than source.
The problems you're having would seem to be a result of you trying to
install the latest versions, probably development versions, of software.
If you use these then you will have to accept that it won't necessarily
go smoothly.
One of the disadvantages of open source is that users can get there
hands on stuff that isn't strictly production quality; Microsoft don't
hand out beta versions of their software to Joe Public, because Joe
would not be too impressed. But the open source development model allows
this.
If you really want to install cutting edge stuff from source, then
you'll have to learn a lot about what's going on. I tried this for
months and got not too far, and I have a fair amount of computing
experience including programming. Frankly I don't have the time or the
energy just now to get deeply involved in the details of how
applications work under linux, how the libraries work, etc, though I
would love to. Having a full time job prevents me from doing so. I
suppose you are in the same situation.
Ghostview should be on RedHat, don't know about cooledit, and it should
be an RPM.
Best of luck, please stay calm.
Michael Pacey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
vod wrote:
>
> hi there,
>
> These dayz i spend more time *trying* to get things to
> work on Linux than actually doing anything productive.
> It seems almost 80% of time is spent trying to compile *tar_gz
> files and rpm'ing rpms that i download.
> And more than half the times they dont compile straight-away.
>
<snip>
> ======
> Any tips or solutions or comments to my above mentioned problems would
> be very welcome and much appreciated.
>
> * I am running Redhat 5.2 .
>
> --regards--
> -V0D-
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie: Needs help selecting distribution
Date: 29 Jun 1999 01:57:12 GMT
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 15:48:28 -0700, Alex Lam wrote:
>> Junk? You're kidding me.
>> Most software has bugs. There is also the RedHat errata, right?
>>
>So? So does M$ with its "bug fixes" and "service packs."
... unlike those who don't bother to fix their bugs ? Several of the redhat
errata are problems that affect all distributions.
>> or how do I tell Linux I have 128M of ram, or "Can't open file" questions).
>> Those people just happen to run RedHat. I bet they would have asked those
>> questions regardless of distribution.
>>
>Sure. But how about all those cannot config x? Because of the crappy
>configurator from RH?
this is a matter of video card support, and video card support is a
function of the version of XFree86 that ships with the distribution,
*not* the distribution itself. I bet you'd find that Redhat 6.0 is "better"
at configuring X than SuSE 5.1.
--
Donovan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Filesize larger than 2 GB on Intel machines an Linux 2.0.36
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 01:32:01 GMT
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:19:14 -0700, Patrick Letovsky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Axel H�lzer" wrote:
>> is there any solution to work with files larger than 2 GB on
>> Intel-processor based machines? I am running RedHat Linux 5.2 with
>> kernel 2.0.36. I heard about patch for kernelversions 2.2.x.
>>
>I heard the same thing, but I can't find any information on this patch
>to override the limitation.
Such a change, in order to *actually prove useful,* needs to be
reflected not only within the kernel, but also in LIBC.
After all, you probably don't want to have to create a custom version of
TAR, a custom version of cp, and a custom version of grep in order to
work with those files, right?
--
Rules of the Evil Warlord #77. "I will design fortress hallways with
no alcoves or protruding structural supports which intruders could use
for cover in a firefight."
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Attractive alternative to xconsole?
Date: 29 Jun 1999 02:00:06 GMT
On 28 Jun 1999 16:58:21 -0500, Chris Menzel wrote:
>Does anyone know of a more attractive alternative to xconsole and its
>ugly Athena scroll bars? I have tried recompiling with neXtaw, to no
>avail; the new widgets don't take. Using Xaw3d yields a slight
>improvement, but not much. Any pointers appreciated.
There's a version of neXtaw that replaces Xaw ( eg you get the neXtaw widgets
on your Xaw apps ).
cheers,
--
Donovan
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: git.unix.linux
Subject: Re: Multiboot question
Date: 28 Jun 1999 20:35:09 -0500
Shaun Dishman wrote:
>
> Here is my current scenario:
>
> /dev/hda : Maxtor 4 GB HD, Running Windows NT 4.0
> /dev/hdc: Western Digital 6.4 GB HD, Running Linux RedHat 6.0
>
> I have currently come to the conclusion that, although I am happy at the
> fact that I am running 2 incredibly stable OSes,
?????
I only see one listed!
> I have no outlet
> through which to play most of my games (besides Q2, that is). So I have
> decided to sell my soul and put a small win95 partition on my computer,
> just big enough to hold all of the games I'd like to play. Currently my
> system is being booted through the NT Boot Loader, and my question is
> this: is there any way I can add a 95 partition to this system and not
> have to redo everything, thereby losing the games I have on there (and
> can't replace)? I understand that one of the above would probably have
> to be formatted and split up to make room for a new partition (unless I
> use partition magic), but my problem lies in the fact that I'm scared
> that if I set up a w95 partition, it's going to overwrite the MBR and
> screw over the linux/NT partitions. Has anybody done this, or have a
> viable solution? Thanks...
>
I just had my NT hozed by Win 98 but my error was to have the loader
on the Winblows 98 partition. Use partition magic and create another
primary partition on the first drive. For the install make that
partition active for the duration of the install. Make sure you
put your old NT partition and Linux on the boot manager menu as
well as Win 98. Make darn sure that you do not let Win 98 have it's
way with the hard disk. It will say something stupid about the
boot manager and NT or OS/2 being installed.
Lilo will have to be on the root of the Linux partition if it's not
allready there.
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From: "Hugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: home network with linux box
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:40:58 -0500
Appreciate your help.
Hugh
Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| Hugh wrote:
| >
| > Is it possible to network a couple win95 boxes to a linux box and use
the
| > linux box to connect to my ISP. Then both pc's could work online
| > simultaneously. I have never done this. Both of the win95 boxes have
linux
| > installed as well, and I'm sure I could network that scenario, but not
sure
| > on the other. Any information would be helpful.
| >
| > Thanks,
| > Hugh
|
| It works the same regardless of whether you have Win95 or Linux on the
| other boxes.
|
| I've setup my system to do this.
| I also installed "diald" so that when any user on any of the LAN clients
| tries to access the internet while the connection is down, my linux box
| will automatically dial out and establish a ppp-connection and setup the
| routing.
| I've included the config I'm using.
| It's not necessarily perfect, but it works good for me!
|
| If you want a book, Barnes & Noble carries "The Linux Network"
| which covers this and Samba and...
|
| (BTW, I'm using RH6.0)
| -----------
|
| This is my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file (below).
| My NE-2000 compatible nic doesn't get detected at boot,
| so I added the depmod and modprobe lines here.
|
| I put "alias eth0 ne io=0x240" to in /etc/conf.modules, but that didn't
| seem to fix the problem.
|
| The "ipchains" lines configure forwarding and masquerading.
| The "ipfwadm" lines are the old commands that worked with RH5.2.
| ipfwadm is *supposed* to work with 6.0 too, but I don't believe it does.
|
| I setup the other PCs with 10.x.x.x addresses.
| The "/8" means netmask = 255.0.0.0.
|
| Using redhat's netcfg tool, I clicked on "Network Packet Forwarding
| (IPv4)"
| set the "default gateway" to be the IP address of the linux box
| (10.1.1.130)
| set the "default gateway device" to be "ppp0".
| and put in a static route: if=eth0 addr=10.0.0.0 mask=255.0.0.0
| gw=10.1.1.130
|
| Since my system doesn't seem to pickup the ethernet card at boot,
| (I think because it's configured to be at I/O=0x0240 and that's not one
| of the addresses that ne.c probes),
| I think I have to go into netcfg (as root) and click on
| interfaces/eth0/activate at boot.
| I'm not sure because I almost NEVER reboot my linux box.
|
| I'm also running a DNS server (bind) on the linux box.
| If you want the config files for that, let me know and I'll e-mail those
| too.
|
| $ rpm -q ipchains
| ipchains-1.3.8-3
| $
|
| /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
|
| #!/bin/sh
|
| # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
| # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
| # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
|
| if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
| R=$(cat /etc/redhat-release)
|
| arch=$(uname -m)
| a="a"
| case "_$arch" in
| _a*) a="an";;
| _i*) a="an";;
| esac
|
| # This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot. So, make any
| changes you
| # want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you
| reboot.
| echo "" > /etc/issue
| echo "$R" >> /etc/issue
| echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue
|
| cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net
| echo >> /etc/issue
| fi
|
| #echo "Building module dependencies..."
| #depmod -a
| #echo "Loading module for NIC card (NE2000 at 0x3a0)..."
| # modprobe ne io=0x3a0
| #modprobe ne io=0x240
| echo "Enabling IP maquerading and configuring the firewall..."
| modprobe ip_masq_ftp
| #ipfwadm -Fp deny
| ipchains -P forward DENY
| #ipfwadm -Fa m -S10.0.0.0/8
| ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 10.0.0.0/8
|
| echo "Starting diald..."
| if [ -x /usr/sbin/diald ]
| then
| # starting diald
| echo "Starting diald daemon to SpryNet ..."
| # (cd /usr/lib/ppp && /usr/lib/ppp/diald.sprynet)
| /usr/sbin/diald /dev/modem \
| lock \
| debug 20 \
| mode ppp \
| local 127.0.0.2 \
| remote 127.0.0.3 \
| defaultroute \
| modem \
| crtscts \
| connect "chat -v -f /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0" \
| dynamic \
| -- debug noipdefault
| fi
|
| echo "rc.local done."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: Re: Linux loses in NT tests
Date: 29 Jun 1999 02:05:01 GMT
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:29:53 -0700, Alex Lam wrote:
>No so with Redhat. Redhat killed one of my 17" monitor during auto
>probing.
Not quite. X did. Any other distribution that ran X -probeonly would
have done the same.
--
Donovan
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tux Goes Fishing (Children's Linux Freeware)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 00:41:08 GMT
For those looking for something to amuse a young child, either real or 'virtual'
(and you know who you are), I have a new 'toy', available at:
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller/Workshop/TuxGoesFishing.tar.gz
OR
ftp://ftp.deepsoft.com/pub/deepwoods/Other/TuxGoesFishing.tar.gz
Just unpack and then:
TuxGoesFishing/TuxGoesFishing.tcl
It uses the '-cursor' config with an X11 bitmap, so it only works under UNIX
Well, it will *run* under MS-Windows and MacOS, but you don't get Tux, just a
boring arrow or whatever the default cursor is.
--
\/
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: "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and Wyse terminals
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:36:46 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm converting an old client from Interactive UNIX to Linux, and wonder
if anyone out these has experience using Wyse 60 or Wyse 150 terminals
with Linux.
I've got a working terminfo but it has a couple of minor glitches I'd
like to work out.
Also, can Linux support the Wyse 150 in PC Term (scancode) mode?
TIA for any help.
John Sandell
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice on RedHat 6.0
Date: 28 Jun 1999 20:16:03 -0500
The Damons wrote:
>
> Yes but the danger is that if you are relatively new to this and you follow the
> instructions in the Staroffice download you will end up with a system that will
> not boot at all.
The reason this happens is that certain people try to change the
glibc2 lib which is basically killing your system. What you have
to do is ignore the warning and go on with the install. It complains
because it can't find certain librairies. The code has been fixed
in 5.1 not to use removed undocumented functions. The code works
well with the new library.
--
use OS/2 for a crash proof work environment
use Linux for safe and quick internet access
use Winblows to test the latest viruses
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We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.0 w/Netscape
Date: 28 Jun 1999 20:48:03 -0500
Damijan Sencar wrote:
>
> "K.C. Adams" wrote:
>
> > Greetings all!
> >
> > I'm a longtime user of 5.2 and decided to download 6.0 and install. I
> > installed it to a laptop and its running nicely. I do have a few
> > questions/problems though.
> >
> > 1. Netscape crashes whenever it tries to load a page with any type of
> > Java enhancements.
> >
>
> Take look at www.redhat.com. Bug REF#990511-0082. In short you should try
>
> chkfontpath --add /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
>
> It works for me!
>
I use SuSE 6.1 and Netscape 4.61 US would crash on Blue Mountain
at the second page of birthday cards in the "Happy birday to you"
page. As it loader the midi and java script Nescape would freeze.
Removing Netscape 4.61 US and installing Netscape 4.5 US fixed
the problem.
I do have the font you are talking about.
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use Winblows to test the latest viruses
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