Linux-Misc Digest #883, Volume #20 Thu, 1 Jul 99 19:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: HELP PLEASE: can't play CDs under Linux (U.V. Ravindra)
vmware review ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux loses in NT tests (Johan Kullstam)
How do I create the soundcore.o module? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Idea for new *nix site: yes or no? (Chris Harshman)
Re: Slow NFS mount on SUSE 6.0 (Kevin Heath)
Something which I've wondered about ethernet devices... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RH6, bash, command-line editing (Dave Brown)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? ("Anthony D. Tribelli")
Re: Why are things so screwy ? (Scott Lanning)
Re: Performance problem ncr53c810a and SCSI Zip (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Shared libs: DLL hell for Linux (Peter T. Breuer)
mail & databases ("jmr")
LILO hangs on LI (imsk)
After Diskdruid; no working win95 fdisk/Partition Magic ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
After Diskdruid; no working win95 fdisk/Partition Magic ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help me please, system... (Scott Lanning)
Can't reach Internet through PPP connection
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From: U.V. Ravindra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP PLEASE: can't play CDs under Linux
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:05:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Julius Longauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> U.V. Ravindra wrote:
> >
> > I have SuSE 6.1 on a Gateway 2000 PC with a
> > Mitsumi 13x/32x CDROM drive.
> > I'm trying to use xmcd to play audio CDs. The cd is
> > recognized by Linux, but there's no sound emanating from
> > the speakers.
> > What's the problem?
>
> Who knows. Your problem description isn't specific
> enough. What's about your sound card?
Sorry, but I don't know much myself. I'm a total newbie to
Linux setup.
The sound card is an ENSONIQ PCI audio card.
> Do you use sound modules or OSS?
I really have absolutely no clue. Can you tell me how
I can find out which is in use?
> Are you able to play normal audio files?
No, I'm not able to play any sounds. Not system sounds,
not audio files, not CDs.
> In SuSE 6.1 sound modules are turned
> off by default to allow OSS to function without
> problems.
If this is the default, then it is likely that sound modules
are turned off on my system too (simply because I haven't gone
in an explicitly enabled them). Do I need to enable them?
What will happen to OSS if I do so? What is *OSS*?
How do I enable/disable OSS or the sound modules?
Gosh, I feel so *ignorant* now. :-(
> Julius
Thanks for your time. I'll be grateful for any pointers
to what else I can try to get sounds working?
--
Ravindra
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: vmware review
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 20:17:20 GMT
[I have no affiliation with vmware]
Testing system: Dual Pentium III, kernel 2.2.7. MegaRAID SCSI,
2*9GB.
Short Review of VMWARE
* Installation: All sorts of error messages, mostly spurious.
Some of them seemingly related to the fact that I have a later
kernel running. Some other intermittent difficulties related to
non-specification of IDE drives, despite the presence of their
"wizard." Still, in the end and with small technical expertise,
everything worked fine by itself. I installed Win/NT 4.0 (no
SP), and it worked.
* IT WORKS! I have never seen Win/NT 4.0 running inside my
linux machine. I can now retire another computer desktop I had
kept around just for the most basic Word/Excel tasks. vmware is
sort of like the old SoftPC, only much, much better. (A while
back, SoftPC could only run the old Windows 3.1 applications
(rather than the full Win-95/8), which made it progressively
more useless over the years. Similarly, the old WABI could
never run recent versions of Word/Excel/etc.) In contrast,
vmware works just fine with as complex a program as a fully
protected OS like Win/NT! Now, when you need to run a Windows
application, just fire up the vmware window, use it, and then
close it again.
* Networking Installation: I chose "bridged" installation, and I
do not know how vmware managed to set up everything on my TCP/IP
network to work by itself, but it did. This is also possible to
change after vmware is installed, i.e., everytime before the
guest OS starts. So, I can now use both TCP/IP and Novell
networking over the entire Internet, and I truly did not have to
do anything.
* Video: Slow. I use Acc-X, and, although vmware does not
really support acceleration for it, it still works fine. Use
vmware-tools to go from a 640*480 VGA window to a larger size
window within your X environment.
* vmware still does not have full support for scsi disks. I
would have loved to have one partition natively assigned to the
Win/NT system. As it is, vmware just uses a file on the SCSI
partition, which I presume slows down disk access.
* vmware requires RAM set-aside, the loss of which from the main
system can slow down everything in the host operating system.
My advice: have a lot of memory. The good news is that you can
run vmware with a small RAM footprint for general purposes, but
when you really need to run a memory hog Windows application,
you can set a higher RAM allocation when you restart vmware, and
then return it to its low RAM base thereafter.
* Benchmark: Ziff-Davis Winbench 99: Claims to find a 500-510
MHz processor and complains that it expected to find a 404 MHz
processor. Worse, interrupts seem to be disabled, which
prevents WinBench 99 from coming up with results. Subjectively,
it feels like as if everything in the guest OS is slowed down by
about a factor of 2 (combination of disk and video speed loss).
* When nothing is running (Win/NT cannot suspend), vmware seems
to draw between 1 and 50% of its CPU, values fluctuating
depending on what Win/NT wants to do.
* What it needs:
[minor] vmware seems not to remember where its configuration
guest operating system files are. It should. For now, you
have to invoke it as $ /usr/local/bin/vmware
directory/operatingsystem.cfg
[medium] Get the interrupts to work, so that benchmarking
software can run.
[major] minimal personal email-based support. This is a
complex program, and not everything can be answered by the WWW
site. There is also a lot of info on the WWW site, but much
of it is poorly organized and difficult to interpret. Again,
this is because vmware is a complex program, as are its guest
operating systems.
[major] programs ala mtools that allow one to move files from
and to the virtual disks from the linux system. (I know that
some of this can be done via networking when the virtual
system is running.)
[not-vmware's-fault] IOMega ZIP IDE support. I know it is
supposed to work in the kernel, but I cannot get ZIP drives
written by other Windows computers read under linux. This is
my final problem in dropping my other windows machine
completely.
[not-vmware's-fault] I wish I could suspend the darn
Win/NT...perhaps Win/98 may be a better system to install for
this reason.
* Evaluation: Highly recommended. I would not have believed it
if I had not tried it. At $75 for educational use, this is a
bargain.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux loses in NT tests
Date: 01 Jul 1999 12:50:06 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Aldham) writes:
> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
>
> Stewart Honsberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:22:19 -0400, Silviu Minut wrote:
> : >> Redhat SUX big time anyway....
> : >Not trying to defend RedHat (although I'm running it), just trying to
> : >understand, but why does it suck that bad?
>
> : I've seen a lot of people jumping on the "RedHat SUX" bandwagon lately,
> : and while I think I know where they're coming from - I don't think THEY
> : know where they're coming from.
>
> My biggest problem with RedHat is where they install packaged software.
> I have been using Apache for years, have built it from scratch dozens
> of times, and have always expected to find it in /usr/local/apache.
you can always continue building it from scratch you know.
> But
> Redhat have decided that it belongs in /home/httpd, and the config files
> in /etc.
feel free to hack the source rpm if you want to do it `the redhat way'.
the filesystem standard has decided that configuration goes under
/etc. redhat merely follow it and force software to conform. this
makes sense when backing up. i just save all of /etc and i know i
have gotten most of my global configuration. the fewer strays that
put config elsewhere the better it is imho.
> The same is true of almost every OpenSource package that
> RedHat add on.
using /usr/local is done for many reasons
1) a lan may have one /usr/local exported via nfs to every machine.
software is only stored in one spot. (it's no longer local to your
machine, but is local to your network.)
2) you do not want to confuse it with other software residing on your
machine as installed under /usr. this is to help you when you want
to upgrade &c.
3) you have one version in /usr and you want to have a different
version of the software also available (without clobbering the
other).
rpm takes away reason 2 because its database keeps track of things for
you.
> Try doing an upgrade of postgresql and trying to initialize the
> database, when the Redhat binaries expect the config & version files
> someplace other than /usr/local/pgsql. Bullshit, total bullshit.
> RedHat SUX!
i upgrade by any of
1) getting tarball and installing in /usr/local myself -- just like
you can with *any* linux,
2) getting a binary rpm of newer version,
3) upgrading the source rpm and making my own binary rpm of the newer
version
i don't know why you are having so much trouble.
perhaps if the other software would follow the filesystem standards
and put global configs under /etc in the first place, we wouldn't be
in this mess.
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do I create the soundcore.o module?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:04:27 GMT
I've tried various (2.0.36) kernel compilation options but the module never
gets created. Or do I have to download it from somewhere or should it have
come with the distribution? (Mine is slackware 3.6)
Help!
NJR
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Idea for new *nix site: yes or no?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 12:53:58 +0000
Sites like that quickly grow unwieldy and cumbersome.
Also, there's really no way of standing behind a script's
quality, especially once it surpasses a couple of dozen
lines and becomes a program in its own right. It might
be worth doing still, however. You'd need a comprehensive
way of indexing and cataloging contributions, and a
very effective search engine.
If you undertake this beast, I might also suggest
putting up a discussion forum of sorts (where newbies
can ask simple BASH questions, etc), links to
tutorials on the various shells, and a links to the
appropriate O'Reilly and Associates titles (maybe
an Amazon.com tie-in?) that will quickly become
essential:
- linux in a nutshell
- Practical C programming
etc.
Kris wrote:
>
> A while ago I had a look for a Linux-specific web site which had
> collections of examples of Linux shell/Perl scripts for administration
> and/or general useful things which I never thought of.
>
> So, I seek some humble advice: would it be worth setting up a site which
> was a simple archive of Linux/UNIX code which would be useful to admins,
> casual or new users? It would contain Perl/shell scripts, C[++] source,
> and general things which people do for specific tasks. All of this would
> be useful for people who need examples/bases for their own projects, and
> for people who will think "oh, that's cool!" and use them and/or adapt
> them for other things (which could in turn be submitted).
>
> As an example of the things which it could include simple things like...
>
> repeat 5 echo `echo "Shutdown time! Log out now." | wall ; sleep 30` ;
> halt
>
> ... or other things like this (untested):
>
> #!/local/bin/perl
> #
> # A fork() demo. This program will sit in the background and
> # make a list of the process which uses the maximum CPU average
> # at 1 minute intervals. On a quiet BSD like system this will
> # normally be the swapper (long term scheduler).
> #
>
> $true = 1;
> $logfile="perl.cpu.logfile";
>
> print "Max CPU logfile, forking daemon...\n";
>
> if (fork())
> {
> exit(0);
> }
>
> while ($true)
> {
> open (logfile,">> $logfile") || die "Can't open $logfile\n";
> open (ps,"/bin/ps aux |") || die "Couldn't open a pipe from ps !!\n";
>
> $skip_first_line = <ps>;
> $max_process = <ps>;
> close(ps);
>
> print logfile $max_process;
> close(logfile);
> sleep 60;
>
> ($a,$b,$c,$d,$e,$f,$g,$size) = stat($logfile);
>
> if ($size > 500)
> {
> print STDERR "Log file getting big, better quit!\n";
> exit(0);
> }
> }
>
> # End
>
> That last one was from "The unix programming environment" by Mark
> Burgess which I found last night.
>
> There was a shell script in a RedHat Linux Unleashed (I think) book
> which watched /etc/passwd and could be easily changed to mail the admin
> if users were added or removed.
>
> I _know_ simple little things like watching /etc/passwd every hour could
> be done easily given a spare hour to work things out, but for new users
> or people who don't have the time, it could be brilliant. Also, it could
> be useful to show the kind of things which can be achieved using a CLI.
>
> I just need to know if people would...
>
> a) contribute to such a site.
> b) actually *use* it.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Cheers,
> Kris
>
> --
> Kris
> For a faster reply, use:
> smaug [{at}] dufas [{dot}] globalnet.co.uk
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Subject: Re: Slow NFS mount on SUSE 6.0
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Heath)
Date: 1 Jul 1999 17:42:12 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Hinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Given a NFS server running SUSE 6.0 and a xterm running
>
> 'tail -f -n20 /var/log/messages'
>
>I can see the mount attempt and the mount happening in the same second I
>am initiating the mount attempt on the workstation.
>
>But on the workstation, also running SUSE 6.0, it takes about 12 sec. before
>it returns to the prompt. There are no additonal messages, just a 'hang'.
>
>After the mount everything runs fine.
>
>
>Running kernel 2.2.9 on both.
Are you running the lockd module on the NFS server? If not, try either
"insmod lockd" (assuming you have set CONFIG_LOCKD=m into your .config)
or give the "nolock" option to mount on the client side. For example, I
have the following in my /etc/fstab:
cretch:/var/cache/apt/archives/ /var/cache/apt/archives nfs rw,nolock
I'd been having all sorts of problems until I started doing this--
there's no documentation about it in Configure.help. Since I only
noticed these problems after upgrading to 2.2.x, I'm assuming that
previous kernels used nolock by default.
Hope this helps,
-Kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Something which I've wondered about ethernet devices...
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:06:38 GMT
Ethernet cards are devices right? So why don't they have an entry
/dev/eth0 , eth1 etc in the /dev directory?
NJR
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: RH6, bash, command-line editing
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 Jul 99 22:10:47 GMT
I just installed RH6. When I tried to turn on command-line
editing, "set -o vi", it doesn't work. Hitting the <esc>
key causes a <beep>, and then typing the <k> key does not
retrieve the previous command.
Any quick fixes before I trash the installation? (Other than
that, it installed pretty nicely... even installed "freecell"!)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: "Anthony D. Tribelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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?
Date: 1 Jul 1999 17:57:07 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Bob Taylor" wrote in message ...
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>> Do they cover the US Army deliberately starving German POWs
>>> to death immediately after the war?
>>
>>And how do you know this actually happened? Were you present? You read
>>it in a book written by an American hater? On behalf of the Americans
>>who died saving your sorry ass in WWII, I *demand* a retraction and
>>appology for such a vicious attack!
>
> I would have to agree with Mr taylor on this one. The stories I've heard,
> some first hand from German POW's in the US, friends of my Granddad who was
> a Latvian pressed into German service, all said they were treated well and
> some even remained friends with their jailers.
In the US POWs were treated extremely well. Many who were behaving well
were permitted to work as day laborers in nearby agriculture. There are
many anecdotal stories about the farmer calling up the camp saying that he
and the POW were working pretty late in the fields and could the Army let
the POW stay for dinner and spend the night at the farm to get an early
start on work in the morning. Local history gives some support to such
stories. My area of southern California has some vineyards and Italian
POWs were allowed to work there. Immediately after the end of the war some
of the former POWs immediately returned to the US and married local girls.
I once had a history class in school where an elderly gentlemen was also
enrolled. It turned out he was a waste gunner on a bomber that was shot up
over Polesti (sp?). They eventually were forced down and captured. He says
that they were beaten up a little during initial interrogation but after
that they were treated OK. Towards the end of the war he said there were
constant food shortages and there was an attempt to march POWs from
various camps to a common location. They had no supplies, few were
delivered during the march, and their guards were as hungry as they were.
I believe there may have been very hungry POWs in Allied custody in
Europe, but that was not intentional as claimed by the original poster.
There were incredible food shortages in many areas, supply lines were
thin, it was difficult to predict where hundreds of thousands of POWs
would be taken, ... It takes time to organize and equip for the care and
feeding of such large numbers, especially when they had no supplies of
their own.
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Why are things so screwy ?
Date: 1 Jul 1999 22:00:38 GMT
David Fouts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I was just telling another person that "you don't understand,
: I actually need to be productive" when I read your e-mail.
Use Windows. It is very simple, really.
: Linux is neat but I'm afraid it's not ready for prime time
Maybe you're afraid that *you* are not ready for primetime.
--
Scott Lanning: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning
"Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could
hack in peace. Let's not break that." --Tom Christiansen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Performance problem ncr53c810a and SCSI Zip
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:00:03 GMT
Christoph Panwinkler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: 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
: > ???
: >
:
: I see, this information is not very detailed, so look at this too:
: I have a SOYO 5VA2 82430VX/P54C Motherboard with an onboard NCR306 SCSI Card
: BIOS.
: The only device that is attached to the host-adapter is the zip drive.
: I have 3 EIDE harddiscdrives and an ATAPI CDROM drive on second ide.
: There is an ext2 on the hard disc and a fat partition on the zip disk,
: mounted vfat.
Hmm, interesting.
The ZIP drive is connected to a fast narrow SCSI controller, hence is only
capable of 10MB/sec, yet when writing to the ZIP drive you're getting
32MB/sec?
Are you really writing to the ZIP drive at 32MB/sec, or are you writing to the
kernel's buffer cache at 32MB/sec?
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Shared libs: DLL hell for Linux
Date: 1 Jul 1999 22:04:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric Y. Chang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Anthony W. Youngman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: ...
: : is still libc5 based. And StarOffice came with the libraries required
: : (and instructions) to install it on a libc5 system, as it used glibc2.
: ...
: Is this why forcing a StarOffice install renders a system unbootable?
It doesn't. I have soffice 5.0 installed on my mostly libc5 (plus
libc6 .0.7 binaries) system. It boots fine.
: Eric
TRy not to troll so hard. Use of the word "force" somewhat implies that you
are using redhat, and if so, a victim of your choices.
Peter
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From: "jmr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: mail & databases
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 00:13:48 +0200
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From: imsk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO hangs on LI
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 17:47:34 -0400
I have spent a considerable amount of time trying to configure my system
to run linux. I must have gone through the RH 5.2 install 50 times. I
am loading linux on my second hard drive, with Win 98 on my first and
primary drive. When i switch the BIOS to my second drive, LILO stops
and hangs after LI. Every time I run the install, it won't allow me to
make a boot disk when it ask me. I have tried booting from the install
cd with vmlinuz root =/dev/hdb1 at the boot prompt. Hdb1 is the active
partition on the second drive, which also includes a swap and another
linux partition that I set aside for apps. After two pages of test and
set up, my last two messages are:
VFS: cannot open root device 08:22
Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root FS on 08:22
I have looked through the RH manual and relevant HOWTOs. Anyone have a
clue for me?
Maybe should mention that I am running a DVD drive as my Cd, but have no
problems with the install from it. Also have LS-120 for my floppy, but
that also reads fine. Any help from all you gurus would be greatly
appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
Peace and Love,
Scott Kirkpatrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: After Diskdruid; no working win95 fdisk/Partition Magic
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:36:02 GMT
Hi, i'm running RH6 and Win95 and used diskdruid. When i tried to use
win95 fdisk or Partition Magic(win95), my 'puter either spins it HD
(using fdisk) or gives me an error message(PQmagic). How can I get
both to work, i really miss my PM. thx.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: After Diskdruid; no working win95 fdisk/Partition Magic
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:37:35 GMT
Hi, i'm running RH6 and Win95 and used diskdruid. When i tried to use
win95 fdisk or Partition Magic(win95), my 'puter either spins it HD
(using fdisk) or gives me an error message(PQmagic). How can I get
both to work, i really miss my PM. thx.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Subject: Re: help me please, system...
Date: 1 Jul 1999 21:50:25 GMT
Caolan (McNamara) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: : I don't remember how you do this in C.
: : In perl it's something like "$| = 0;".
$| = 1; #I remember Camel book mnemonic of 'set pipes piping hot'
: : If I remember right, in C there's some call (fcntl ?) you make
: : after opening the file to set the buffersize to zero.
In Unix there is setvbuf() which changes the buffering type to one
of 1) fully buffered, 2) line buffered, or 3) no buffer.
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"One should not confuse this craving for change and novelty with the
indifference of play which is in its greatest levity at the same time
the most sublime and indeed the only true seriousness." --Georg Hegel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Can't reach Internet through PPP connection
Date: 1 Jul 1999 22:41:13 GMT
I've been experimenting with Mandrake 6.0 to use as a dial-on-demand
proxy server for a small LAN. (This would be to replace our current
Wingate 3.0 setup which, while easy to configure, has been too unreliable.)
It seems that whenever I work on the various individual aspects of getting
this thing to work, something else breaks. :-) There does not seem to be a
comprehensive guide to doing the entire job, although it's a pretty common
one these days. (Dial on demand PPP, proxy server, local caching DNS,
and Samba on an NT-based network that already uses TCP/IP, DHCP, and WINS.)
Although my PPP dialup (invoked manually) *was* working fine and allowing
access to the Net, suddenly it is not. It dials out and connects to
the ISP with no apparent problem, and successfully negotiates a network
connection. However I can only ping the server on the other end and
can go no further. Any attempt at using ftp or a web browser to an external
site just yields a "can't connect to server" type diagnostic. (Some kind of
routing problem? There is no diagnostic in the system log complaining
of trouble replacing the default route.)
I've done some poking around on Deja News but haven't found a solution yet.
Also just printed out the 122 page "NET-3-HOWTO" and 349 page "Linux
Network Administrators' Guide" to accompany the 1000 or so pages of other
docs I've accumulated so far in trying to get this thing to work.
Presumably the answer lies therein, but I thought I'd see if anyone here
has run into this sort of (frustrating) problem and found a solution.
Thanks in advance for any helpful info...
--
Roger Blake
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