Linux-Misc Digest #953, Volume #20 Wed, 7 Jul 99 13:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: kdm instead of xdm?? (Stefan Ehlen)
Re: New "feature" in RH 6.0? (Gergo Barany)
Re: view source in netscape (Gergo Barany)
Re: Kernel 2.2.x and arp (Clifford Kite)
Re: Still an NFS mount problem (Denice)
Re: CIA assassinations (Richard Kulisz)
xemacs shell window (laprest� jean-thierry)
Re: first/second/third world (Richard Kulisz)
grep (Martin A. Boegelund)
How to use sendmail with 2 SMTP servers ? (Mihaly Gyulai)
Re: problems mounting /dev/fd0 (Jeroen Verhoeven)
Re: automatic sending mail when web site is down (Marc Mutz)
Re: Problem with PostScript ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Unpleasant SiLence ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
sblive in kernel 2.2.9-27mdk (Mike)
Tekram-Controller (Karl Lewalter)
FWD. Toshiba back-tracks on anti-Linux stance (Alex Lam)
Re: Unpleasant SiLence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
would linux run on a partition NTFS from NT4 with sp5 ("andy")
Re: xml to tex (Allin Cottrell)
Re: windows95 and lilo (CodeWright)
WindowMaker can not find icons (Efi Merdler)
Re: accessing c:\My Documents dir on a linux mount (Andy Bauer)
Re: % of cache hits (Johan Kullstam)
Redhat6.0: can't boot in after recompiling the kernel ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: grep (Chris Aiken)
TV Card ("Ed Russell")
ppp help needed ("Jacek M. Holeczek")
Re: centralized packet management ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lotus Notes for Linux??? (Adrian Hands)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Ehlen)
Subject: Re: kdm instead of xdm??
Date: 5 Jul 1999 22:54:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
>
> Can somebody please tell me how to make kdm available at startup instead
> of xdm?
> Thanks!
>
Try 'switchdm' as root.
CU
Stefan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Subject: Re: New "feature" in RH 6.0?
Date: 7 Jul 1999 12:50:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Hands wrote:
><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
Please don't post HTML in non-binary groups.
Gergo
--
Mustgo, n.:
Any item of food that has been sitting in the refrigerator so
long it has become a science project.
-- Sniglets, "Rich Hall & Friends"
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Subject: Re: view source in netscape
Date: 7 Jul 1999 12:53:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, neil tingley wrote:
>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 ?
In my Netscape 4.5, Alt-U or View/Page Source does the trick. Or do you
actually mean searching for a certain word in the source? Save it to
disk and use your favorite editor.
Gergo
--
Mustgo, n.:
Any item of food that has been sitting in the refrigerator so
long it has become a science project.
-- Sniglets, "Rich Hall & Friends"
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: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.x and arp
Date: 7 Jul 1999 07:27:27 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: > Try:
: >
: > echo -n 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/proxy_arp
: > Or replace "all" with the appropriate interface. There's a one-line
: > reference to this in linux/Documentation/proc.txt from the 2.2.x kernel
: > source tree.
: This does not work. I did find that reference, and I did try it. The
: problem is putting the published ARP entry into the ARP table in the
: first place. Enabling proxy_arp will help, but only in addition with
: putting entries to proxy in the ARP table!
Sorry, I didn't read carefully. There was a post awhile back that said
proxy arp for subnets was dropped for the 2.2.x series. The Changes
file doesn't support that assertion but it apparently it's so.
My programming skills are low-level so I can't help with modifying the
code to get it back.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Still an NFS mount problem
From: Denice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 7 Jul 1999 14:35:54 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>The other day I asked if anyone had any idea about the NFS mounting
>problem I'm having and thanks alot for the responses! Unfortunately,
>none of the suggestions have solved my problem, so I'm going to post
>again with some extra info... Ok, here goes again:
[rest deleted]
What is installed on your RH6 system; ie:
rpm -qa | grep nfs
rpm -qf /etc/exports
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denice.deatrich @ NospaM.epfl.ch, EPFL - LCAV / LCM PH: +41 (21) 693-5643
(If replying by email please remove 'NospaM' from address.)
<*> This moment's fortune cookie:
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise.
-- Larry Wall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 7 Jul 1999 13:09:20 GMT
In article <7lutit$t5g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>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.
And we all know what *MAGNIFICENT* reporting CNN does!! Did they show
Allende's broken body? Cause even then I'd suspect they lie. The CIA
already admitted it killed him, dozens of books have been written on
the subject, what more do you want?
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From: laprest� jean-thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: xemacs shell window
Date: 7 Jul 1999 13:30:53 GMT
i am using mandrake 6.0 (quasi redhat) and xemacs 20.4.
When I issue a ls command in a xemacs shell window, I receive a lot of
garbage consisting of the controls characters that normally (in a xterm
window) change the color of the output.
I suppose I did something wrong by desinstalling something I have
not to. But What ?
sorry for a so trivial question, but thanks for answers.
JTL
PS In fact the ls is not so important, but the errors output of gcc
in xemacs acts the same...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: 7 Jul 1999 13:12:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Do you still claim that he was President of >Tahiti< ?
Haiti, Tahiti; embarassing but close enough.
>(and that the US ousted him from said Island nation?)
The USA didn't /intend/ to oust him, they intended to kill him.
Clinton was instrumental in denying Aristide his term in office
even after he was allowed back; Haiti's constitution says the
President is to be allowed 5 years *in office*, not five years
in exile.
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From: Martin A. Boegelund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: grep
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:56:51 GMT
Hi.
Does anyone here know a command/tool for Windows that does the same
thing as the UNIX command grep?
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From: Mihaly Gyulai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to use sendmail with 2 SMTP servers ?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:13:56 GMT
What if someone has 2 accounts at 2 different SMTP servers, and
ocassionally wants to use one of them ?
How to configure 'sendmail' to use whichever SMTP server ?
(I guess that we have to set the 'smarthost' to these 2 servers, but
if this is the solution, how to do that ?)
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From: Jeroen Verhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems mounting /dev/fd0
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:14:26 +0200
I'm having the same problem with mandrake 6.0 on my parents computer. I'm not
sure what it is, I have installed mandrake from the same cd on many other
boxes. So if anybody knows what it could be? Let us know.
On Fri, 02 Jul 1999, Stewart wrote:
>feeling like a newbie...
>
>I've just installed a new RH6.0 system.
>
>logged in as root with a floppy disk in my drive...
>
>when I enter the following:
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
>I don't get any response. In other words, I don't get a new command line nor
>any messages/errors. I can type characters and hit return and the screen
>displays what I'm typing, but none of my commands are being interpreted by the
>shell. The only way to escape is to go to another virtual terminal and kill the
>process (CTL-c doesn't work either).
>
>I also get similar results if I try to execute a
> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
>No messages appear in the log files when I try this.
>
>And I've tried all sorts of various explicit commands like
> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> mount -o auto /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
>If I do a
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy &
>then I can let the process run in the background, but the device isn't mounted.
>
>I am running "amd"... does this matter?
>
>I also see some other device names in the /dev/ directory like /dev/fd0H1440.
>Should I be using one of those? None of them appear to work either.
>
>thanks for any help,
>
>Stewart
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:29:29 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: automatic sending mail when web site is down
Mihaly Gyulai wrote:
>
> There is a Perl script, called 'NETTEST' which does similar job...
> It pings a server and can send e-mail to you, when the server is down.
>
Instead of just pinging the server you should ckeck that the services it
offers are up'n running, e.g. try to send mail over it if it's a mail
server, try to download random files from it if it is a web server or a
ftp site, etc. But you can do all that in Perl, too. Take a look at the
LWP package.
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem with PostScript
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:58:24 GMT
In article <7lv8jp$75o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
rdt(a)cs.queensu.ca wrote:
> 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?
>
I didn't install ghostscript personally, but surely Courier is a
standard font that should always be available.
How do I check what fonts I have installed?
I get the same error when I send it directly to the printer as well.
Dave.
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unpleasant SiLence
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 08:25:11 -0400
Cameron Gregg wrote:
> 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
Have you tried sndconfig to reconfig you sound card?
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sblive in kernel 2.2.9-27mdk
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:28:41 -0400
Hello,
Has anyone gotten the sblive.o to load with kernel 2.2.9-27mdk that
comes with Mandrake 6.0? I edited the driver with a hex editor and
changed the kernel versions to match but that didn't do the trick. It
fails to load and spits out some debug info. I have no problems with
2.2.5. Any help would be much appreciated.
thanks
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From: Karl Lewalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tekram-Controller
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 15:32:08 +0200
Hi,
i want to install SuSE 6.1. My CD-ROM is connected by a Tekram 390F
controller. According to the handbook I added following parameter before
installing : linux ncr53c8xx=650,10. The controller is located at 6500h
and Irq 10. But the CD-ROM is not detected by setup, so I cannot
install.
Can anybody help ?? Thanks a lot ... :-))
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: FWD. Toshiba back-tracks on anti-Linux stance
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 06:52:37 -0700
=================FWD==================
Posted 07/07/99 1:35pm by Tony Smith, The Register, London, UK.
Toshiba back-tracks on anti-Linux stance
Toshiba appears to have reversed its policy on Linux and decided to
support the open source OS on its notebook PCs after all.
To prove it, the company's Japan-based Computer Engineering Group has
opened a Web site devoted to users keen to run Linux on their Toshiba
laptops.
The site, which went live on 1 July, doesn't offer much information
right now, but it's a start. The site promises full details of how to
install Linux on Toshiba's notebooks, though it doesn't say when this
will happen.
Other promised features include the creation of an information desk
for developers, Linux installation information and a list of supported
hardware, both PCs and peripherals.
The company's move follows Australian notebook owner Geoffrey
Bennett's attempt to get Toshiba to refund to him the cost of the
bundled copy of Windows 95. Bennett eventually got his money back, and
sparked a worldwide protest against Microsoft in the process. �
source- http://theregister.co.uk/990707-000021.html
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Subject: Re: Unpleasant SiLence
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 07 Jul 1999 04:20:11 -0700
"Cameron Gregg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
No, its in the soundcard. A hardware reset should fix it (turn PC off).
>
> All this from opening the mixer.
Possibly a BAD bug in the mixer, or poor hardware support...possibly some
IRQ conflict?
>
> Please Help
Try shutting completely down and restart....
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From: "andy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: would linux run on a partition NTFS from NT4 with sp5
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 22:12:28 +0800
Hi !
Sorry to ask that kind of question but I would like to use Linux on my
machine but before to buy red hat I would like to know if it would work with
my configuration, I have a NT4 workstation with 320 ram and dual p2 300 mgz.
and the all is install on ntfs partition.
thanks a lot to help.
regard, Andy
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From: Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: xml to tex
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 08:25:04 -0400
Leila Schneberger wrote:
> I've got the full jadetex installation (finally), but now I've run
> into the "capacity exceeded" error. The Makefile referenced something
> called hugelatex...
Yes, I noticed that too. I think we can infer it's a LaTeX format
built with increased values for the memory allocation parameters,
but what those values might be is not clear. I found no
documentation for "hugelatex" either.
Allin Cottrell.
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From: CodeWright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: windows95 and lilo
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 21:52:56 -0400
duncan corps wrote:
>
> This was written by pico in uk.comp.os.linux...
> |> How can I configure
> |> Linux (LILO) to make it possible to switch between the 2 installations of
> |> windows 95? Just adding both in /etc/lilo.conf doesn't work. I have to
> |> change the active partition first before it is possible for LILO to boot
> |> that partition. I hope I am clear.
>
> This is a limitation that has been present in MS-DOS (it's not
> lilo) for, um, ever. Unless Microsoft suddenly become competent or release
> a Win9x that isn't window dressing for MS-DOS or something, I can't see it
> being fixed.
> IIRC you can have one active partition per hard drive. How about
> getting a second hard drive, installing Win95 once on each hard drive,
> marking their relevant partitions active, and configuring lilo
> appropriately (in whatever order you feel comfortable)?
> I hope I've explained this clearly; I only just thought it up, and
> have only a strong hunch that it would work. You may have to spend a while
> wrestling with Win95's setup programs... and watch out for your boot
> sector!
I'm running a dual-boot Win95/Linux system that boots using Lilo. My primary
hd has partitions for Win95, Linux swap, Linux root, and Linux /home.
IIRC, the Win95 partition is marked as the 'active' partition.
My lilo.conf looks like...
# LILO configuration file
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda
delay = 50
vga = normal
# End LILO global section
#---------------------------------------
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = win95
table = /dev/hda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
#--------------------------------------------
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda3
label = linux
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#--------------------------------------
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage
root = /dev/hda3
label = newlinux
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#--------------------------------------
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz.old
root = /dev/hda3
label = oldlinux
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#--------------------------------------
As you will note, the Win95 partition is the default boot (for my wife,
whom I don't want to bother with Linux yet). However, I can conveniently
boot either Win95, my current 'production' Linux kernel, my previous (backup)
Linux kernel, or my current 'development' Linux kernel, without worrying about
'active' partitions and the like.
Take this as you will.
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: Efi Merdler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WindowMaker can not find icons
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:50:26 GMT
Hi
Every time I exit Gnome I see on my console a bunch of error messages
saying that WindowMaker can not find its icons.
Why ? How can I fix it ?
Thank you
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 10:58:47 -0500
From: Andy Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: accessing c:\My Documents dir on a linux mount
MGR wrote:
>
> On Tue, 06 Jul 1999 20:14:14 -0400, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >my windows c:\ drive is mounted as vfat in RH 6.0 at boot time.
> >I can see the drive fine, and read & write to it, except for the "My
> >Documents" directory, presumably because of the whitespace.
> >Does anybody know a way around this without having to change the name of
> >the directory in MSWindows.
>
> Or if you're really lazy (like me) and use bash as your shell, press
> <Tab> after you've typed 'cd /dos/my' and it should autocomplete it
> for you, quoting as necessary.
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-= Remove *'s for my real E-Mail =-=-=-=-
> m.g.ross@*herts.*ac.uk
I usually just type 'cd my*'
That works too.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: % of cache hits
Date: 07 Jul 1999 08:50:11 -0400
Igor Schein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a FP-intensive application under linux,
> and I need to profile its performance as far as L2
> hit percentage is concerned. gprof doesn't seem to
> provide that data. Can any recommend me a way to
> achieve that?
i am not sure there is a good way. afaict L2 cache is transparent to
the user. i suppose a good logic analyser could watch for memory
accesses and count them.
if you are using an i386 type processor, you might try looking at
<URL:http://www.x86.org/> for instance, does the CPU have cache debug
registers?
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Redhat6.0: can't boot in after recompiling the kernel
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:14:01 GMT
I recently installed redhat6.0 and
recompile the kernel for some optimization. However, after I replace the
/boot/vmLinuz-2.2.5(what the vmlinuz links to) with my new compiled one
and used lilo to make the change permanent(I also made sure that the
boot image is my new one in the lilo.conf), then I rebooted, well, this
time I got this kind of error before I am able to login:
> ....
> request-module[ide-disk]: root fs not mounted
> hda: driver not present
> VFS: Cannot open the device
What could be the problem? I never touched anything but just recompiled
the kernel.
yang
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From: Chris Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: grep
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 10:40:24 -0400
Shouln't this be posted in a Windbloz NG ????
Try: Start--> Find--> Files or Folders
On "Name & Location" tab enter the disks of paths to search.
On the "Advanced" tab enter string to look for.
...cwa
"Martin A. Boegelund" wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Does anyone here know a command/tool for Windows that does the same
> thing as the UNIX command grep?
>
> --
> ------------------
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>
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The box said 'WIN95/98 or better.' so I installed LINUX!
Definition of Windows 95:
A 32 bit upgrade to 16 bit extensions for an 8 bit operating system
designed to run on a 4 bit processor by a 2 bit company that
doesn't like 1 bit of competition.
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From: "Ed Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: TV Card
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:07:36 GMT
Has anyone successfully setup an Aimslabs Extreme98 Tv Card under redhat
5.2??? I am running 2.0.36 modularized kernel. I have tried to use bttv
and the patch from Aimslab's to no avail. If anyone has accomplished this
please advise me with some clues.
Cheers.
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From: "Jacek M. Holeczek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppp help needed
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:16:18 +0200
Hi,
Is there a command which gives me the "status" of the ppp connection ?
That means, for example, is it on or off, if on then for how long ( or
since when ), what is the modem transmit speed, what is the modem receive
speed, and so on ?
I still cannot solve one of my annoying problems :
4. I usually use "xosview". It can also display "net" usage. For this
purpose my /etc/rc.d/rc.local contains ( kernel 2.0.36 ) :
# Enable IP accounting for all IP packets into and out of machine.
# This is needed only if one is running an older 2.1 or 2.0 kernel.
/sbin/ipfwadm -A -a -P all -S $(uname -n) -D 0/0
/sbin/ipfwadm -A -a -P all -S 0/0 -D $(uname -n)
The problem is that the "uname -n" is "mymachine.mydomain" at boot
time, and there is no "ip" address, so when the new ppp connection is
established it is not taken into account ( I mean the "net" display
shows nothing ). If I execute these two lines again after the ppp
connection is established, I simply get an error 'host/network
"mymachine.mydomain" not found' ( that's normal, the ppp server gives
not only an "ip" address, but also a "hostname", which does NOT replace
my hostname, and "mymachine.mydomain" is unknown to the name server ).
I tried :
/sbin/ipfwadm -A -a -P all -S 0/0 -D 0/0
and :
/sbin/ipfwadm -A -a -P all -W ppp0
but they do not work either ( I should say here that /proc/net/ip_acct
does seem to provide reasonable accounting in these cases, but the
"xosview" cannot see / use it ).
Can I somehow convince the kernel ( or maybe the "xosview" ), at boot
time, that any ppp interface that will later be "up" should be
automatically taken into account by the "xosview".
Should I maybe modify some ppp related scripts to include some lines
with "/sbin/ipfwadm" ? If yes, which ones ( I think, after the ppp
connection is established I would need to "append" a new rule and after
it is gone I would need to "delete" this rule, but at this time the IP
address is already gone, so I would need to keep it somewhere ? The
system is RH5.2/i386. )
Thanks in advance,
Jacek.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: centralized packet management ?
Date: 07 Jul 1999 12:33:25 -0400
"Thomas Scholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to use packet managers like rpm
> for centralized automated software distribution?
Assuming you are just distributing files, i.e. not
running config scripts afterwards, look at rdist.
You could also set up a server with your rpms on it
and have a cron job to look for any new rpms, and
run rpm to install it off a NFS mount point.
--
Tom Evans
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From: Adrian Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lotus Notes for Linux???
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:39:42 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alan Eady wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if a Linux version of Lotus Notes is available? I am
> considering loading Linux on some machines @ work, but my company uses
> Lotus Notes for messaging so I need to obtain a Linux version first.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
I don't think it's available yet.
On June 1 they anounced that they plan to launch it by year's end.
There was an article on www.nytimes.com.
I haven't checked lotus' site.
"Lotus Chooses Linux Over NetWare" - N.Y.Times
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