Linux-Misc Digest #951, Volume #20 Wed, 7 Jul 99 08:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: Visual programming language for linux? (mei)
Re: AGP SiS 6326 need help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Unpleasant SiLence ("Cameron Gregg")
RedHat 6.0/kernel 2.2.10 NFS server problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Remote connection: can't login as root (Jon Skeet)
Temporal anomaly (kev)
Re: (HELP) Need to Conceal Linux Boot Messages (Gergo Barany)
Re: Problem with PostScript (Bob Tennent)
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (John Imrie)
Re: e-mail program ("Oliver D. Bedford")
Re: CIA assassinations ("Brett R. Rosselle")
Re: Temporal anomaly ("Oliver D. Bedford")
Re: Could Microsoft Cheat On The New Mindcraft Benchmark? (John Imrie)
Re: How to query SHMMAX, SHMMNI, etc? (kernel source may or may not be avlbl or
current!) (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: AGP SiS 6326 need help (Lack Mr G M)
Re: amount of space a user can use (Gergo Barany)
view source in netscape (neil tingley)
Re: Still an NFS mount problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: An "ls" question (Jim Henderson)
additional packages to compile linuxconf? (F. Heitkamp)
Web message board perl script (Agner Fog)
Newbie: aliases? (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Re: Need help with modem setup! (Jason Sosinski)
Re: statically linking in libc5 - legal???? (david parsons)
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From: mei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Visual programming language for linux?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 10:05:34 +0200
Reply-To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Christopher B. Browne" ha scritto:
> I wasn't aware that there were *any* visual programming languages
> available for Linux.
>
> There is *no* mention made of Linux in the comp.lang.visual FAQ
> <ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.lang.visual/Faq/faq>, and the languages
> mentioned as examples of the paradigm do not appear to be available
> for Linux.
I assure you that kdevelop has a kind of RAD (naturally only for Qt). I must say
it's hard to use, but however it exists. Try to see kdevelop home page.
Ciao Mei
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AGP SiS 6326 need help
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 07:38:55 GMT
How well does the 6326 work for you?
I get edges left all over the desktop if I move a terminal window and
text highlighting within the terminal window is almost random and rarely
does the whole section get highlighted.
Have you experienced this and if so can you give me any suggestions of
how to fix it?
Rgds
Gary Ashton-Jones
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul) wrote:
> On 6 Jul 1999 13:38:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Supat
> Faarungsang) wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >I just have a pc with unsupport VGA card with AGP SiS 6326
> >Please let me know if anyone can make this card to work under linux.
> >Thanks,
> >supat
> >
> >ps. please mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have a sis 6326 vid card. I have tried the following distributions
> 1) Red Hat 6.0 2) Slackware 4.0 3) SuSE 6.0 4) Mandrake 6.0
> It works with all of them!
>
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From: "Cameron Gregg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unpleasant SiLence
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:47:30 +1000
Hi all,
I intsalled redhat 6 - KDE/gnome etc. I put a music CD in, start up the
Gnome cdplayer (GTCD), and it played like a dream. Volume was too low, so I
opened Gmix 3.0. The instant it opened, the sound stopped but the CD kept
playing. Now I can't get any CD sound, the CD player picks up the CD and
looks like its playing it, drive light is flashing, time counter counting,
but no sound. xplaycd seesm to just have a fit.
Does anyone know what is going on here??
I thought it might be within my user profile, so I created another user and
tried, but there was still no sound, so it is some global setting.
All this from opening the mixer.
Please Help
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RedHat 6.0/kernel 2.2.10 NFS server problem
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 10:00:33 GMT
When start up the machine or restart NFS server,
the "start NFS service" and "start mountd" take
more than 30 seconds and after starting up, clients
(both IBM/AIX and Linux) can't mount the exported
file directories from the server. On AIX, error's
"server xxx not responding"; Linux client reports
"mount: RPC: Timed out".
Who has the solution please send me an email. Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Remote connection: can't login as root
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 11:00:19 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I configured a remote connection via modem using uugetty. Connection and
> > login works ok for any user except for root. In the configuration, I did not
> > see any special configuration to allow or disallow login for a particular
> > user.
>
> AFAIK it is never possible to login as root (via remote login). But you
> can login as user and use su.
Not true. *If* you're willing to compromise your security (which is
probably okay on a LAN, miles from the net, but almost certainly a bad
idea when you're connecting with a modem) you can add lines such as
ttyp0, ttyp1 etc to your /etc/securetty file - that will allow root
logins on pseudo-terminals.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: kev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Temporal anomaly
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 05:55:28 -0400
Hi,
I have a dual-boot system (NT & Linux) and cannot get both OSs to have
the right time. Basically, I have to set the right time every time I log
in. This is Annoying. Forget NT for the moment though, I can cope with
the wrong time in NT if I have to.
I usually set the time in linuxconf. The timezone field is *always*
blank, even though I keep setting it to GMT or GB. Is this usual? (I'm
in England, so my timezone is GMT)
At someone's suggestion, I have tried entering a time server in the
relevant field (ns0.demon.co.uk). When I booted up, my time read about
5:40AM. Changing the time in linuxconf now has no effect whatsoever!
Please tell me what's going on, pretty please. This is driving me mad
now.
Thanks,
Kev
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: (HELP) Need to Conceal Linux Boot Messages
Date: 7 Jul 1999 10:48:43 GMT
In article <7lu20d$rsv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>it would be great if we could:
>
>* suppress linux boot messages from printing while showing a company
>logo (a la, cough, win95 bootup).
>
>* be able to hit a certain key combination during bootup which would
>remove the company logo and restore the printing of the boot messages
>(for debugging in the field).
Any competent C programmer should be able to suppress the boot messages;
it's probably not even a lot of work. For the keypress-and-graphics
thing, you'll probably need someone who knows how to rape your
customer's hardware and is willing to do it.
>i would greatly appreciate any assistance on this,
No problem.
>BY EMAIL IF POSSIBLE.
IMPOSSIBLE. AND WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?
Gergo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Problem with PostScript
Date: 7 Jul 1999 10:02:33 GMT
Reply-To: rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca
On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:28:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a problem with generating PostScript
>output under Linux.
>
>If I do run the following command
>
>echo "hello" | mpage | ps2ascii
>
>I get this error, and a stack trace
>
>Unrecoverable error: invalidexit in .stop
>Operand stack:
> true Courier 23087 Courier basefontdict
>--nostringval--
>
Well that sequence works on my box. I would guess you have
a font problem in ghostscript (which is used by ps2ascii).
Have you installed the ghostscript fonts package?
Bob T.
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From: John Imrie <[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: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:20:38 +0100
>
> well, given the roster of nations _not_ involved in WWI, it's curious what
> constitutes a world war...
>
I allways thaught that WW2 was a world war in the same way that the World series
base ball is only plaied in the US :)
The Pilgrim
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From: "Oliver D. Bedford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: nl.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: e-mail program
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:30:18 +0200
Has someone already mentioned postilion (www.postilion.org)?
Oliver
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Reply-To: "Brett R. Rosselle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Brett R. Rosselle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 06:21:23 -0500
Hmmmm, I fail to see the connection to Linux.
--
Brett R. Rosselle
Bertelsmann mediaSystems
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
+1.317.542.6886 Tel
+1.317.542.6550 Fax
Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7lutit$t5g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Richard Kulisz wrote in message <7luphu$p9b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >In article <7lh398$4df$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Allende was killed in his palace by an ariel bombardment ordered by
> >>Pinochet. How did the CIA manage to assasinate him then?
> >
> >Salvador Allende was killed by a CIA assassin; and this is going by
> >the CIA's own records. The CIA didn't stop assassinating foreign heads
> >of state until the 70s, under Bush.
> >
> >It's hysterical when people defend the CIA from actions it's already
> >admitted its guilt to!
>
> No: Allende was killed in his palace by an ariel bombardment ordered by
Pinochet. How
> did the CIA manage to assasinate him then? CNN in a recent series showed
the film of
> the bombardment.
>
>
>
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From: "Oliver D. Bedford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Temporal anomaly
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:45:19 +0200
kev wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a dual-boot system (NT & Linux) and cannot get both OSs to have
> the right time. Basically, I have to set the right time every time I log
> in. This is Annoying. Forget NT for the moment though, I can cope with
> the wrong time in NT if I have to.
Speculation: Linux is saving Coordinated Universal Time in the
hardware clock, NT is saving your local time. See man hwclock for
details.
Oliver
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From: John Imrie <[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: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:25:46 +0100
>
> Exactly my point! Just *what* defines a world war? (I am aware of the
> axis alliance, the Spanish civil war etc. --- let's not forget Finland
> and Russia either!)
>
> --
Just to add fat to the fire. Hitler tried to get an alience with Britain at the
start of WW2 (when ever that was <g>). He thaught this would work as the
British Royal Family is, of cause, German.
The Pilgrim, a Europien with a British pasport
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sitaram Chamarty)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to query SHMMAX, SHMMNI, etc? (kernel source may or may not be avlbl
or current!)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 10:43:12 GMT
On Sat, 03 Jul 1999 08:25:18 GMT, Leonid Fedotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you have Oracle for linux, there is a utility calle tstshm.
Thanks for the info. Would you happen to know *how* they get this
information? As I said, if it's the brute force method of trying
to allocate more and more until you see the limit reached, we have
that already. I'd be interested to know if there was a way to find
this out more elegantly.
Sitaram.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lack Mr G M)
Subject: Re: AGP SiS 6326 need help
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:36:23 BST
In article <7lv06e$6br$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|>
|> How well does the 6326 work for you?
It's not on my main system, but the only problem I recall is that I
have to say it has 4MB rather than 8MB (which is what it has) as
otherwise I get a large white square for a cursor, and the fonts don't
display.
Since I'm running at 16-bit @ 1024x768 only using 4MB is Ok.
--
=========== Gordon Lack ================= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============
The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion. They are
*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Subject: Re: amount of space a user can use
Date: 7 Jul 1999 10:54:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian Hands wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know how to restrict the size of a folder in Linux (Redhat
>> 6.0). I'm hosting web pages and had to leave them at unlimited for the
>> moment.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
>Cool! Where do I sign up for this unlimited space!
This is not exactly on topic, but http://www.crosswinds.net/ offers
unlimited web space for free (they use banner ads or something). The
downside is, it's *very* slow.
Gergo
--
Every creature has within him the wild, uncontrollable urge to punt.
GU d- s:+ a--- 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: neil tingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: view source in netscape
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 11:56:01 +0000
Hi
in netscape 4.6 for linux, you can't search (alt +c) the html source of
a web page, which I hate to say you can do in windoze.
This is a major drawback for me. Anyone found a way round this ?
Neil
--
===========================================
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Web Production Engineer
+44 171 447 1850 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Wine is cool, LINUX is HOT"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.linx,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Still an NFS mount problem
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:44:42 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> and I am able to mount it from both the 'client' and 'server' machines
> no problem! However, RH52 can't NFS mount from 'server' and prints the
> same error message as 'client'. So, at this point I am sure there isn't
> a problem with the clients from a mounting standpoint. Instead, it
> seems that there is some difference either between 5.2 and 6.0 OR there
> is some subtle configuration difference between 'RH52' and 'server' that
> is preventing the mount from happening on 'server', most likely due to
> permission problems.
>
> Does anyone there have any idea what is going on here? I really need to
> get this basic functionality working on our server asap. Any info will
> be greatly appreciated... thanks!
I found a message from Alan Cox that may solve your problem:
>> Forum: fa.linux.net
>> Thread: redhat 6.0 nfs problem
>> Message 3 of 93
Subject:
Re: redhat 6.0 nfs problem
Date:
1999/06/16
Author:
Alan Cox
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Posting History
> i have recently installed redhat 6.0 and am
having trouble
> mouting a linux (redhat 6.0) nfs export from
a solaris 2.5.1
> system. i can mount an exported nfs
filesystem from a red
> hat 5.2 system however.
Its a linux knfsd bug.
> now, if i issue the mount command from the
sun with the
> -o vers=2 option, the mount succeeds
although the
> rh6.0 server complains that:
This is the correct fix. The other workaround
is to update
your knfsd to the latest (there isnt an RH rpm
of this yet
but you can grab the latest and build your
own)
Also if you are using Solaris 2.5.1 and
mounting the other
way be sure to get the sun fixes if you see
corrupt files
Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Ralf Hemmann
LunetIX Linux Systemhaus
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,utah.linux
Subject: Re: An "ls" question
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:11:48 -0600
Bryan wrote:
>
> James Knowles wrote:
> >
> > > > My actual point was that
> > > > Stallman's group should go back to using man pages for their
> > > > documentation, instead of the atrocious and near-useless info files.
> > >
> > > HEAR HEAR! I really dislike emacs and grew up on traditional man pages.
>
> You can use emacs *and* man pages... Funny that emacs would be hated,
> considering ksh, bash, and quite a few other programs use the same CTRL
> key sets. :)
I dunno - never took the time to learn it. But from what I have heard
about emacs, it's extremely extensible. The problem is that I dislike
'bloatware', and anything that can walk the dog, do the dishes, and edit
a file strikes me as bloatware. :-) (Oh boy, I can see the war starting
now! <G>)
I'm a 'vi' type person. When it comes to software, I believe strongly
in the KISS Principle (ie, "Keep It Simple, Stupid").
As a consequence, I doubt I will ever write a major piece of software -
but that's OK, because I accomplish what I need with my programming
skills.
Jim
--
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Homepage at http://www.bigfoot.com/~jhenderson (email instructions
located here)
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products on a personal basis - if you need help with a Novell product,
please post a reply in the public newsgroup or visit the Novell support
forums at the URL above.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (F. Heitkamp)
Subject: additional packages to compile linuxconf?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 7 Jul 1999 11:14:28 GMT
I'm trying to compile linuxconf for use on an APUS
PowerPC Linux system. It seems I do not have all
the required tools neccessary to do the build. For
instance the compile stops when it can't find qd.h.
Does anyone know where this header comes from? I
did not see a list of tools need to compile linuxconf
on their web site, though there was mention of wxXt.
Are there any other packages needed?
Thanks!
Fred
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From: Agner Fog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Web message board perl script
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:02:36 +0200
Improved web message board software with separate index for each thread:
www.agner.org/websoftware
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Subject: Newbie: aliases?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:04:44 GMT
Newbie to linux, but I've use unix for years.
I was dismayed after installing linux yesterday (!) that "alias" is an
unrecognized command. I have more unix aliases than I can count, and
was looking forward to importing them all to linux.
Help! What's the linux version of the unix command alias?
--
-Steffan O'Sullivan | "One time all the noises in the world
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | met in one place and I was there
Chapel Hill, NC | because they met in my house."
www.io.com/~sos | -Jacob Nibenegenesabe
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From: Jason Sosinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with modem setup!
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 06:23:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Francisco J. Diaz" wrote:
> Hello everyone! I just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 and I have a SupraExpress 56i sp
>internal modem configured as Com port 2 IRQ 3 (no pnp setting, jumper-configured, I
>disabled COM2 in my bios setup) but it doesn't show under linux at all. I read the
>how-to's but can't configure it! Can anyone help me step by step on how to make this
>modem run under Linux? Thanks very much!
> --
I have no way of actually proving this in black and white, however, I also had the 56i
modem from Diamond and found it was not compatible. My extent of trouble shooting
went as far as to get a friends modem and bring it to my home to ensure that I could
get a modem working on linux at all. Of course his did (USR VEverything). The bad
news is that even though it is not a
"WinModem" and it is not listed on any "Hardware Compatiblity" HOWTOS, i do not belive
that this modem is able to be use with linux.
There is another post within either this newsgroup or on alt.os.linux.advocacy that
give more the white paper discussion about this modem and a web site on Diamond that
describes that the modem does require Windows to work properly although it is not a
winmodem.
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From: o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s (david parsons)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: statically linking in libc5 - legal????
Date: 7 Jul 1999 01:05:49 -0700
In article <7li4ba$rfh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Villy Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7lheqd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>david parsons <o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s> wrote:
>
>> But if someone asks for a linkable copy of your executable, you must
>> provide it.
>
>A linkable copy isn't that the .o and the .a file you have before the
>final link stage?
In my interpretation, either that or a dynamically linked version
of the code; in either case, the user can run it with the train
wreck of their choice.
____
david parsons \bi/ Spent too many days this week trying to get a
\/ c++ app to link against anything except glibc 2.0.7
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