Linux-Misc Digest #14, Volume #21 Mon, 12 Jul 99 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can not logout from Gnome (Leonard Evens)
Re: Special permissions (Tom Goodale)
Re: Shutdown does not broadcast (Leonard Evens)
Re: Linux -_ NT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mounting floppy (Tobias Anderberg)
Re: How to capture linux install screen? (Tom Goodale)
Re: staroffice (Pieter Wenk)
Re: HELP, someone, please. :) (Florian Waas)
Problem Installing Gimp RPM (James Seymour)
Re: clean /tmp on reboot? (Lew Pitcher)
Seti@home & SuSE Linux 6.1 ? ("Tom")
Re: sin + cos in C (Ronald Dale Haynes)
Re: FIDO Software (tony summerfelt)
Re: Linux -> NT (Anders Buch)
Re: CIA assassinations ("Noah Roberts (jik-)")
Re: sparc linux (James Seymour)
clean /tmp on reboot? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop? (Serban-Mihai Popescu)
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can not logout from Gnome
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:40:10 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've found both the lagged login and the inability to logout stem from
> a magic cookie problem with the Session Manager. You can hold down
> <CTRL><SHIFT> when starting X, and it resets your Gnome session.
>
> When you see X starting to lag, abort out and try again holding down
> the keys.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> cjmnews wrote:
> >
> > This happened to me after I set my hostname, but did not put the
> > hostname into my /etc/hosts file. Once added (as part of the localhost
> > entry) Gnome logout worked after that.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Efi Merdler wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > When I try to logout from Gnome the panel closes,but then nothing
> > > > happens,I close my WM(WindowMaker),but then again the WM
> > > > disappears,but the desktop stays,the only way to close Gnome is by
> > > > using Ctrl-Alt <-
> > > >
> > > > Why ?
> > > > How can I fix it ?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you
> > > >
> > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > > > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
> > >
> > > I have the same problem on my laptop just after I boot, although
> > > it doesn't always happen. Also gnome seems to take forever to
> > > come up in such a session. Others have reported this or
> > > similar problems. The problem appears to be the session
> > > manager. If you go to the toolbox and click on session manager
> > > you will probably discoverer that there is no associated menu,
> > > which suggests the session manager never got started properly
> > > or died. You might also look at .xsession-errors to see if it
> > > is at informative.
> > >
> > > But so far no one seems to know exactly what is happening.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> > > Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
> --
> Jason S Colflesh
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This has been a long standing problem involving the
session manager. If you examine the file .xsession-errors
while gnome is in this bad state, you will most likely find
an error message about MIT MAGIC COOKIE and
authentication. It was decided that the problem had
been resolved in more recent versions of gnome-core,
but I've encountered it using the latest version (1.0.7)
available from the gnome web site. I've reposted it.
Since it apparently only happens in some circumstances,
it may be difficult to track down. So I guess we will
have to wait until it is resolved.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Tom Goodale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Special permissions
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:05:20 +0200
Francois Dupradeau wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I would like to modify the permissions of a directory that contains
> files and directories (they contain themself directories and files too)
> : for instance :
>
> toto directory contains:
> -riri file
> -rara file
> -titi directory
> roro file
> riri file
> -tutu directory
> roro file
> riri file
> etc...
>
> I would like that in same time:
> - all my files in toto are "666", I mean +r+w for everybody and
> - all the directories in toto are "777", I mean +r+w and we can cross
> them.
> (I want ot write these data on a CD-R with cdrecord)
>
> I could do for instance : "chmod -R 666 toto" and after I have to add +x
> (for everybody) ONLY for the directories and I do not know how to do
> it....
find toto -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
Tom
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Shutdown does not broadcast
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:46:44 -0500
Afshin Poraria wrote:
> I am working on system which include Solaris and Linux (RH 5.2 & 6).
> The Linux boxes are mainly used for file servers. I noticed that when
> shutdown is initiated the two OS do not broadcast warning messages to
> each other.
> Is there anyone who can help me to rectify this problem?
Try using rwall. If you want it always to be executed with
shutdown, write a script which first does rwall and then
does shutdown. You have to have the package including
rwall installed.
However, utilities like rwall can create security problems,
so think about whether or not you really want it.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux -_ NT
Date: 12 Jul 1999 15:33:40 GMT
Try
fdisk /MBR
To restore the master boot record
>Well, I removed all the partitions from my hardrive in order to
install NT,
>Inserted the boot diskette for Nt and continued onward.... The
install
>proceed smoothtly, until.....The restart, Upon the resteart the
Letters LI
>appeared, a ghostlike reminder of the Linux (or rather LILO) that
once
>lived on this machine, after the LI appears it freezes.....
>I reformatted the drive for Fat, and tried NTFS, I created one single
>partition for NT, yet the computer continues to give me the LI, and
then a
>freeze...
>Can you help to alleviate this problem, All help is greatly
appreciated,,,
>Thnx,
>Jon
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Anderberg)
Subject: Re: mounting floppy
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 21:42:10 +0200
>> any way to reverse this, or exactly what needs to be mounted for me to
>> use the computer. Also, can someone point me to some documentation
>> giving specific directions on mounting the floppy. Thanks
>
>First create a entry in the fstab for easy mounting the floppy by hand
>as user or ruth. Should look like
>
>/dev/hdc /floppy msdos noauto,user
/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos noauto,user
Or am I missing something?
--
tobias
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From: Tom Goodale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to capture linux install screen?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:37:13 +0200
Peter Caffin wrote:
>
> cliff ahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am making linux install guied (RedHat 6.0).
> > I need some images from install process.
> > How can I capture ?
>
> I don't know that you can. You may need to mock up the install screens
> by hand. Unless you want to go to the effort of creating your own boot
> floppy and adding something that inserts something to capture a PRTSCR
> and outputs to a textfile.
>
> I have no idea if there is such an app, though. Maybe someone else here
> knows of one.
>
You could always install in a virtual machine (www.vmware.com) and then
use
xv or something like that.
Tom
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From: Pieter Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: staroffice
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:13:37 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Message d'origine <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Le 12/07/1999, =E0 09:04:26 h, "FTO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> vous a =E9crit s=
ur=20
le sujet suivant staroffice:
> How do you register for staroffice 5.0 in order to get a key for the=20
setup.
> I went to there site www.stardivision.com but could not find anywhere =
to
> register for this product. There was only a download for 5.1.
> Maybe somebody can point me in the right direction.
> Thank you
When you did instal the 5.0 version you got two things:
1) Customer Number
2) Key
Now when you are on the donbwload site, registering, bottom, you will=20
see an entry called named Customer Number.
Put this number in.
But before, you will have to enter your full name, address etc.,=20
Definitions with a sort of a red arrow on the left are mandatory.
Now, I do not know however, whether this will allow you to download=20
the 5.0 version, wbich has been replaced by 5.1.
BTW: Why do you not donwload the new version ?
Regards
Pieter Wenk
CH-Vevey Riviera Vaudoise Switzerland
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From: Florian Waas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP, someone, please. :)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:34:43 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rizwan Syed) writes:
> 2) I have a domaine foo.com. I also have a server, me.foo.com
> I want people to be able to send me an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> as well as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and have both of them get the emails
> to the server me.foo.com. What do I need to do? I think I need
> to have my ISP do something to the DNS entry, but he says he's
> done everything, but the email does not work. It is currently
> working for @me.foo.com. But the emails sent to @foo.com gets
> a relaying error. Anyone know what's up?
see sendmail docs for a good introduction. check also the sendmail
news group.
fl.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Seymour)
Subject: Problem Installing Gimp RPM
Date: 12 Jul 1999 16:39:55 GMT
I'm running RH5.1 Linux i386. I want to install the Gimp 1.0.2-1
RPM. When I go to install glib-1.2.3-2, I get:
failed dependencies:
libglib.so.1 is needed by control-panel-3.7-4
libglib.so.1 is needed by usermode-1.4.1-4
libglib.so.1 is needed by usernet-1.0.7-4
libglib.so.1 is needed by imlib-1.6-1
Which of course causes most of the other RPM installs to fail.
Is it safe in this case to "--force" the glib-1.2.3-2 install?
TIA,
Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: clean /tmp on reboot?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:58:23 GMT
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:39:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'd like my redhat systems to delete all files in /tmp upon
>each reboot. Every other UNIX I've used before does this
>automatically, but Linux does not. I'm running both
>redhat 5.2 and 6.0. How do I get my systems to do this?
OK
add
cd /tmp
/bin/rm -rf .
to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local script
>
>Thank-you.
>
>
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>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Seti@home & SuSE Linux 6.1 ?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:25:26 +0200
Hello,
first of all, I'm a bloody nweby to Linux and for that I start to work with
it, learning to go on Unix. So most the time, Linux is up. Whenever the
computer has nothing to do, it should do some work on the Seti@home-Project.
But it doesn't work.
I have downloaded the every version of the 386-linux versions - but every
version tells me that there is "no route to server". But all the ISDN- and
internet stuff is set up and works fine.
Has anyone an idea where I should take a look?
Thanks,
Thomas
Germany
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From: Ronald Dale Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sin + cos in C
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:51:58 -0700
Hi, did you link in the math library with -lm when you compiled?
Cheers:)
R Haynes
Tuomo Louhivuori wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I have this problem with sin and cos in C. Am I missing something in the
> code or is it my system (RH6.0)?
>
> Example:
>
> #include <math.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> double x;
>
> x=sin(M_PI);
> return(0);
> }
>
> Returns something like "undefined call to funtion sin". Added
> declaration double sin(double x); but it didn't help.
>
> What am I missing here? M_PI from the math.h works, so how come the sin
> and cos doesn't.
>
> TIA,
>
> Tuomo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tony summerfelt)
Subject: Re: FIDO Software
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:05:40 GMT
On 11 Jul 1999 08:03:44 GMT, Brad Corsello wrote:
> >> Can you said me what software I must use for connect to FIDO ?
> >> Thank you.
> Don't they have BinkleyTerm for Linux? (That brings back memories!)
there's also a golded for linux...
if there were a squish for linux it would be perfect...
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux -> NT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anders Buch)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:12:46 GMT
In article <7md1ni$a6f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, I removed all the partitions from my hardrive in order to install NT,
>Inserted the boot diskette for Nt and continued onward.... The install
>proceed smoothtly, until.....The restart, Upon the resteart the Letters LI
>appeared, a ghostlike reminder of the Linux (or rather LILO) that once
>lived on this machine, after the LI appears it freezes.....
>I reformatted the drive for Fat, and tried NTFS, I created one single
>partition for NT, yet the computer continues to give me the LI, and then a
>freeze...
>Can you help to alleviate this problem, All help is greatly appreciated,,,
>Thnx,
Your "problem" is that LILO is still sitting on the master boot record (MBR)
of your hard disk. For some reason windoze products have the belief that
only their boot programs can reside there...
If you have an old dos boot floppy, it might work to boot in dos from that
disk and then give the command
fdisk /mbr
This should overwrite the MBR program with Micro$oft's (old?) version, and
possibly you can continue from there.
If it works, enjoy your New Troubles!
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2072 East Hall Phone: (734) 477-9052
525 East University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
From: "Noah Roberts (jik-)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 09 Jul 1999 07:15:32 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Felmey) writes:
> On 9 Jul 1999 08:59:01 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kulisz)
> posted:
>
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>Indeed CNN does great reporting, one of the best in the world.
> >
> >Only americans believe that and only because /all/ of your mass
> >media is fucked.
> >
> >>As for the commies in Chile it was an infortunate event but
> >>then what kind of atrocities would have been had the commies
> >>stayed in power we'll never know.
> >
> >Massive atrocities like the rich getting taxed, their property
> >being expropriated so it can be given to poor peasants, milk
> >being distributed to schoolchildren, illiteracy and infant
> >mortality rates dropping like a stone. Those are the atrocities
> >of the socialist regimes before the mighty USA learned them
> >right quick that you can't have Evil Communism, you can't steal
> >from the rich to give to the poor.
>
The US government is directly responsible for at least 1/2 of the worst
most horrible things to ever occur in the last 200 years. MOST of the
human rights violations in the world are performed by our allies and the
puppet governments we put in control of the countries after elliminating
"communism".
But that has nothing to do with wether or not communism or
capitalism/democracy are better.....neither form of government has really
been thuroly tested before it got busted by powermongers. Its been
that way from the beginning of time....I don't forsee a change any time soon.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Seymour)
Subject: Re: sparc linux
Date: 12 Jul 1999 17:41:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> does anyone know if RedHat / SPARC supports SMP?
Supposed to. There are separate installs for SMP/Non-SMP
and Ultra/Non-Ultra of each. I'm running 6.0 on a Sparc
IPX with Weitek processor upgrade. (Non-Ultra/Non-SMP.)
Seems to be working just fine :-).
Regards,
Jim
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | 24775 Crestview Ct.
Systems & Network Administrator | Farmington Hills, MI. 48335
| FAX: (248)477-8897
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: clean /tmp on reboot?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:39:22 GMT
I'd like my redhat systems to delete all files in /tmp upon
each reboot. Every other UNIX I've used before does this
automatically, but Linux does not. I'm running both
redhat 5.2 and 6.0. How do I get my systems to do this?
Thank-you.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Serban-Mihai Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop?
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:00:29 GMT
Trond Eivind Glomsr�d wrote:
>
> Serban-Mihai Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > However, the new I3500 makes use of a dreaded Neomagic MagicMedia
> > chipset; not only it's not supported by the XBF_ servers for
> > Neomagic
>
> It is. As well as XFree.
>
> >but it has also some unsupported hw for the sound system. AFAIK, for
> >the time being there is no way for making the sound work.
>
> It works most of the time with OSS - there are also multiple mini
> how-tos on getting it to work with the standard linux sound driver.
>
> I run a 3500, and it works well.
There are several generations of I3500. With different hardware inside.
You're lucky yours is fully supported. Some models use the NM2260
MagicMedia 256ZX. The last time I checked the XFCom_NeoMagic server
(from Precision Insight Inc.), it supported Neomagic chipsets up to
x0005 (NM2200); the NM2260 one is x0006 and the server will spit you
out.
That's why I wanted to warn the initial poster about the manufacturer
policy to attach the same brand name to computers with different
hardware. The simple fact that you have a fully supported I3500 doesn't
necessarily mean that the particular I3500 he/she wants to buy will be.
B.r.
Serban
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