Linux-Misc Digest #845, Volume #20 Tue, 29 Jun 99 12:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: How to see Linux files from Windows? (Jon Skeet)
Re: Win98 --> linux box --> modem --> internet ("George Georgakis")
Re: Cannot play system sounds!!!!!!! (Gerd Mayer)
An "ls" question ("Walter L. Williams")
Re: UNIX / LINUX Compatibility (Mathew A. Hennessy)
Re: Mounting a SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 Filesystem in Linux? (Bartek Golenko)
Re: Documentation issues. (Volker Hetzer)
Re: Performance problem ncr53c810a and SCSI Zip (Rod Smith)
Re: Suse 6.0 or Redhat 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Suse 6.0 or Redhat 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Documentation issues. (Volker Hetzer)
Re: Performance problem ncr53c810a and SCSI Zip (Philippe Wautelet)
Re: Mounting a SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 Filesystem in Linux?
Re: Routing two Internet Networks (Ben Short)
word processing programs that work on terminals ("John G. Sandell")
Re: 2.2.5 vs. 2.2.7/2.2.10 with RAID 1 (Michele Beltrame)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: How to see Linux files from Windows?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:03:29 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have just set up a Samba server in my linux with 3 windowsNT
> connecting to it. But when i open my linux files in the windows NT, the
> files cannot be displayed properly. I've heard that this may be the
> problem of the different file format between NT and Linux. By what means
> can i solve this?????
What kind of files are they and what are you using to read them? If
you're looking at text files in notepad and they come out with a load of
little blocks, that's because Linux and NT have different ideas about
what signifies the end of a line. You could either use a better editor
(almost anything!) or use unix2dos and/or dos2unix under Linux.
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From: "George Georgakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win98 --> linux box --> modem --> internet
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,aus.computers.linux
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:35:23 GMT
I strongly recommend reading the Masquerading HOWTO. It's located at
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Masquerade.html
George
ricK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I have been using linux rh5.2 for some time now and have got a simple
> network up and running with one win98 machine and a linux server running
> SAMBA with no problems. I have had a request from a new customer that has
> the following setup in his office.
> One server running win98 and 5 clients also with win98, he wants all his
> pc's to connect to the internet by sharing a single modem on the server.
I
> suggested linux for the new server using ip forwarding etc and samba, he
has
> no knowledge of linux but was happy with something that will help to
> overthrow the 'evel empire'.
> My question are, does anyone know of some good infomation on how to do
this.
> If anyone has had some experience with this type of setup, etc etc.
> Something that will cut down on the head scratching a bit would be great.
>
> Thanks, Rick. Please email me, replace aaaa with acay
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:24:03 +0000
From: Gerd Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot play system sounds!!!!!!!
> I have just installed SuSE 6.1 and found that it cannot play the
> system sounds (that is, the sound that will heard when i open, close,
> minimize a window... etc).
>
> I have already checked the "enable system sounds" in the "sound"
> section of the KDE control center. I also found that those .wav files
> can be played without any problem when i click them in the file manager.
Hallo
When your KDE is running, check if there are the following two
processes:
kwmsound
kaudioserver
if not, look in the file /usr/X11R6/bin/startkde, if these two lines are
commented out.
Hope it helps
Gerd
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From: "Walter L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,utah.linux
Subject: An "ls" question
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:29:11 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello all
This may seem like a silly question. One I'm sure someone knows the
answer to.
When I use the ls command ....
ls -laF
I get
-rw-rw-rw- 1 walt group 450992 Feb 19 22.14 sample.file
The number after the permissions. What does it stand for??
See I told you it was a silly question.
Walt in Utah
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mathew A. Hennessy)
Crossposted-To:
alt.unix,alt.unix.geeks,alt.unix.wizards,alt.unix.wizards.free,ca.unix,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX / LINUX Compatibility
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:26:05 GMT
In article <7l8car$prm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Doug Oleinik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>This is like arguing that an interpreted basic is better than C
>or C++. I just don't buy it. Since Perl and similar languages
Typical smearing with too broad a brush here, methinks.
>are interpreted, I don't need to write better string handling code
>than Larry Wall, just reasonably good code to beat the combined
>speed of the program parser and Larry's code. Besides, even
>though your CGI's may do mostly string handling, that might not be
>the case in all instances. As far as re-inventing the wheel again
>and again, once I write a routine, I can use it over and over again
>in whatever CGI's (or other programs) I happen to write. After 12
>years of C programming, I've got alot of routines to work with.
Perhaps, I won't go into the whole 'CPU efficiency vs. Programmer
efficiency' rap here, it's much better documented by Messrs Wall,
Christiansen, Schwartz, et al. Perl gives you garbage collection, hashes
as a basic data structure, OO if you want it or closures if you don't.
As of Perl5.005, you _can_ compile Perl code, though that's still under
development.
Basically, the way I look at it, is that Perl is closer to a RAD
without the flaky GUIs in the way. It's fast enough, flexible enough,
robust enough, and 'free' enough to get the job done with little
complaint. Nobody ever suggested 20+kloc Perl scripts were a particularly
good idea, though people _do_ do that successfully. And nobody ever said
you couldn't write custom portable C code for performance-critical
functions which are called from a Perl script. Perhaps you should check
out mod_perl + apache sometime for web app performance.. mod_perl allows
the webserver to compile the perl CGI script once and run it many times,
thus saving the compile and init overhead. You knew that Perl compiles
the scripts into bytecode and executes that bytecode, right?
>Doug Oleinik
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"The day that Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day that they
start making vacuum cleaners."
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"Fool! There is nothing Perl cannot do! NOTHING!" -Bastich
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bartek Golenko)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.sco,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.sco.programmer
Subject: Re: Mounting a SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 Filesystem in Linux?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:04:54 GMT
In article <jZOd3.3380$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Binesh Bannerjee wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Bartek Golenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Thats because Linux 2.0.x could not recognize SCO division table on a
>: partition - you could always mount SCO floppies. There is an option in 2.2.x
>: that will probably allow you to do this.
>
>What option is that? (Upon further investigation I found this in the docs
>From Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt as of linux-2.2.9
>> The superblock is only searched in the blocks 9, 15, 18, which
>> corresponds to the beginning of track 1 on floppy disks. No
>> support for this FS on hard disk yet.
>
>So, it looks as tho the SysV FS doesn't support hard drives still...
Oh, my mistake... Linux can read [E]AFS filesystems (eg. through loopback)
but there is no division table support. I have been talking (Mar 99) to
someone doing [E]AFS support on Linux and he told me that he will work on
div table support as well.
Option i mentioned earlier is "Unixware slices support" (experimental)
--
Bartek Golenko
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From: Volker Hetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:23:05 +0200
Bruce Stephens wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
> > Texinfo is a really annoying documentation system. The text-mode
> > browser has utterly stagnated, and to get printed documents from
> > them requires running TeX, which has to be the most user-hostile
> > program I've ever seen, by an order of magnitude, and I've used
> > everything from IBM mainframes to the Xerox Star office system. Yes,
> > I really do mean TeX is ten times harder to use than Runoff.
>
> Actually, I quite like TeX, but then I'm used to it. What sucks about
> Texinfo's printed documentation is that it's just about impossible to
> get it to use PostScript fonts.
To be honest, formatting printed docs with tex is the only part that makes
texinfo acceptable to me.
Greetings!
Volker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Performance problem ncr53c810a and SCSI Zip
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:28:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christoph Panwinkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have performance problems with my scsi controller Asus PCI-SC200 Fast
> SCSI Card, it is a ncr53c810a controller. If have an external zipdrive
> 100MB.
> Whenever I write from my harddisk to the zipdrive throughput is ok
> (about 32mb/sec), but if I read from the zipdrive I have a throughput of
> only about 5mb/sec.
> I have tried many different options as configuration parameter to insmod
> (all scsi-stuff is compiled as a module). I user kernel 2.0.36 with
> debian2.1
> Is this a problem of my controller, or zip drive or do I miss something
> ???
What type of hard disk do you have? Is it IDE or SCSI? Is it being run
off of the same host adapter as the Zip drive? Also, what filesystems are
you using on both the Zip drive and the hard disk?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Suse 6.0 or Redhat 6.0
Date: 29 Jun 1999 12:19:52 GMT
Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
= whoever wrote that must have been drunk.
Or German with English as a second language, perhaps?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Suse 6.0 or Redhat 6.0
Date: 29 Jun 1999 12:24:27 GMT
Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
= Actually, I ran into these two things:
= I wasn't paying attention durring the questions about LILO and somehow
= ended up with no LILO after I'd completed the install. I had to re-boot
= off the CD-ROM, choose the "boot installed system" option and then setup
= LILO. Unfortunately, /etc/lilo.conf didn't even exist so I had to go
= over to my RedHat6.0 system to see what it should look like.
If you'd gone into YaST, it could have created a LILO.conf for you with just
a few simple boxes to fill in...
YaST -> alter installation (?) -> LILO
(or something similar)
= Also, at first no X.
= No /etc/XF86Config, no ln -s X.
= I ran XF86Setup a couple of times and got it going.
SaX is much better. (It's an Updated XF86Setup)
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From: Volker Hetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Documentation issues.
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:30:42 +0200
Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> In gnu.misc.discuss, Peter da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Yes, I know XML doesn't allow that. I already mentioned elsewhere that
> > converting from SGML to XML may be a trivial extra step you need to put
> > in your tool chain. HTML? HTML never was a proper SGML DTD... it's been
> > pissed on in later revs until it smells more like SGML, but it's still
> > pretty broken.
>
> Fair enough. If I can write with abbreviated tags and with a parser that
> recognizes paragraphs automatically, I can cope with this language, as
> soon as it gets readable end-user documentation (the texinfo documentation
> is reasonable and would be a good model to emulate) and better translators
> (oh, and some mechanism to preserve two spaces after a period).
What about some new tag called <autoparagraph>?
It would contain paragraphs separated by empty lines.
Then you could use a simple preprocessing tool to reformat it.
Greetings!
Volker
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From: Philippe Wautelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Performance problem ncr53c810a and SCSI Zip
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:30:10 +0200
Christoph Panwinkler wrote:
> I have performance problems with my scsi controller Asus PCI-SC200 Fast
> SCSI Card, it is a ncr53c810a controller. If have an external zipdrive
> 100MB.
> Whenever I write from my harddisk to the zipdrive throughput is ok
> (about 32mb/sec), but if I read from the zipdrive I have a throughput of
> only about 5mb/sec.
> I have tried many different options as configuration parameter to insmod
> (all scsi-stuff is compiled as a module). I user kernel 2.0.36 with
> debian2.1
> Is this a problem of my controller, or zip drive or do I miss something
> ???
These values seem usual to me. 5mb/sec with a zip drive is not
bad at all. The higher speed when you write is probably due to
the cache of the SCSI card (try with big files and this value will
be more or less the same as reading).
Regards
Philippe
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting a SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 Filesystem in Linux?
Date: 29 Jun 1999 14:39:46 GMT
In comp.unix.sco.programmer Bartek Golenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Oh, my mistake... Linux can read [E]AFS filesystems (eg. through loopback)
: but there is no division table support. I have been talking (Mar 99) to
: someone doing [E]AFS support on Linux and he told me that he will work on
: div table support as well.
I would be very interested in the status of any work to add read AND WRITE
support for EAFS filesystem to Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Short)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.net
Subject: Re: Routing two Internet Networks
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:37:04 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Ben Short wrote:
> > Wouldnt you need to set the default gateway on the 10.201 IP block?
> >
> > route add default gw 10.201.30.1
> >
> > and similarly do the same for all other computer which use the IP block?
>
> My fear is that it sets the default gateway for all IPs on the
> computer. Can I have two 'default routes' on the same computer?
>
I see....now if the two subnets are set up on different interfaces (eth0
and eth1 for eg), it should be a simple case of setting a gateway for
each interface.
If they are the same, I really dont know how to help :\
> --t.j.
>
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From: "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: word processing programs that work on terminals
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:57:38 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Something I've missed seeing in these newsgroups - do any of the word
processing programs available for Linux work on dumb terminals?
Apparently Word Perfect 8 for Linux Server Edition will, but it's not
available yet.
Anyone know if StarOffice or Applix have terminal capability?
John Sandell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michele Beltrame)
Subject: Re: 2.2.5 vs. 2.2.7/2.2.10 with RAID 1
Date: 29 Jun 1999 13:41:19 GMT
Ciao Conway Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>!
>The problem appears to be that the kernel is NOT autodetecting my RAID
>arrays in 2.2.7 and 2.2.10 whereas in 2.2.5 (from Redhat), they are
>being autodetected. I note that the RedHat 2.2.15 indicates 2.2.5-15.
The kernel has to be patched in roder to autodetect RAID arrays.
The latest version of the patches is available for Linux 2.2.6 and
can be found, with the latest build of raidtools 0.90, at:
ftp://ftp.fi.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha
I'm having problems myself with this new version of raidtools: sometimes
the system starts to display various "Out of memory" writings on the
console and then hangs (but there's a lot of disk activity when it's
hung). I suspect it's some bug in the background disk processing of
raidtools...
Mickey.
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