Linux-Misc Digest #77, Volume #21 Mon, 19 Jul 99 00:13:09 EDT
Contents:
LOCAL: Washington DC July 24 WACUG Meeting (Lance Dakin)
Re: tulip.o (Perry Pip)
Linux Journal Subscriptions (Jim McIntyre)
Re: I need help with X (Farin Crowe)
Wierd location of sh - Re: [Oracle 8.0.5 and SuSE6.1] Install success (David Crooke)
Re: Extracting Netscape from RedHat CD? (Perry Pip)
Re: configurar tarjeta de sonido ("Leonardo A. Espinoza Lagos")
Re: mandrake - setting default os in LILO (Perry Pip)
Re: Lilo & ATA-66 (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Linux kernel support CPU ? ("wisman")
Re: URGENT HELP! My linux box has gone wild! ("R.K.Aa")
Re: Bogomips wrong? (Perry Pip)
Re: Iomega ZIP parallel zip drive under red hat linux 6.0 problem solved (Hayden)
Re: Shortcomings of Linux? ("Jeffrey D. Webster")
Re: [vesafb] framebuffer wont work for me... :( (William Burrow)
linux on powerpc (John Doe)
Problem with dial-up networking on Linux (Mike Arias)
Re: Raid (mkraid) problems, and patching problems (Marc Mutz)
Shell script won't reliably kill its spawn (Dr Vincent C Jones PE)
Re: Did you switch from Windows to Linux? (alann)
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From: Lance Dakin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Washington DC July 24 WACUG Meeting
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:16:50 -0400
July 24: Inkjet Refills and Online Auctions
The Washington Area Computer User Group (WAC) meeting on July 24 will
begin with a brief presentation on refilling inkjet printer cartridges.
Although this can be a considerable money saver, what are the risks?
Find out at the meeting.
WAC members with experience buying and selling through online auctions
will talk about the do's and don'ts. Learn how to make the best deals
without getting swindled.
WAC meetings are free and open to the public. The meeting begins at
12:30 PM on July 24 in Conference Rooms 2 and 3 in the Fairfax County
Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway in Fairfax,
Virginia. More information is available on the Internet at URL
http://www.tiac.net/users/wacug/, or by calling the WAC AnswerLine at
(703) 370-7649.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Pip)
Subject: Re: tulip.o
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:44:48 GMT
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 02:28:06 +0200, Snowi3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have a cnet pro110b fast ethernet card, 10/100 mbit .... I found out
>through cnet that it's based on the Asix 88140 chip. And through the net, I
>found out that this chip is supported by the tulip.o driver .... I modprobed
>with it, and it found a card ... I recompiled the kernel, and inserted
>support for the tulip.o driver ..... And it finds a card on bootup,
>modprobes it, and up's it and everything ... when I run ifconfig, I have an
>eth0 with the ip 192.168.1.10 ... And no errors what sp ever when it boots
>up the card, it even identifies the chip as AX88140 ..... But whenever I try
>to ping another ip on my network, and on the same subnet, like 192.168.1.20,
>I get a 100 % packet loss, and no replies. I works fine to ping my ip
>internal though, like if I ping 192.168.1.10, I get full reply ..... And
>then there is another strange thing .... When I ping another on my net, the
>lamp on the hub that is lid for my nic blinks, so obviesly there is
>something going on on the network ...... I know the card is ok, since it
>works fine in windows ... Does anybody have an idea ??
>
Get the latest version of the tulip.c driver at:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.c
and either compile it as a module or replace the drivers/net/tulip.c file
in your kernel source with this tulip.c and rebuild your kernel.
Perry
--
Show the code....or hit the road.
Perry Piplani www.open-systems.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] perrypip.netservers.com
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Journal Subscriptions
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 22:55:05 -0300
I subscribed to LJ about six months ago, any my subscription included a
free copy of Suse.
After several months and several calls, they keep assuring me that
either a copy of Suse or Caldera will be in the mail any day. My "free"
copy supposedly comes with a paid subscription, but I'm ready to give
up, and I won't be renewing my subscription.
I am curious to know if anyone else has had similar experiences with
this publication. Aside from this problem, I don't find the magazine
informative, definitely not as good as Sys Admin. I hope someone finds
this useful.
Jim McIntyre
Webmaster Program
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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From: Farin Crowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I need help with X
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:40:49 -0600
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Scott MacDonald wrote:
>I had the same problem with my ATI expert and My monitor, try reducing your
>resolution in X, e.g. my default was 1260X???? and my screen was squashed I
>set it to 1024x768 and it work like a charm.
>
>
>J.C. Hill-Tout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I am in the process of installing SuSE 6.1. Everything goes well untill
>> I get to configuring X. I end up with a screen squashed into 1/3 height
>> and 2/3 of the width of my monitor. I am running a TVM MediaScan 5a
>> monitor and ATI 3DRage 11 video card and the Mach64 X-server. My machine
>> is a P-200 base with 64meg. RAM.
>> Any ideas / sugestions? Thanks in advance!
Not the perfect solution I'm sure , but:
I also have a rage 3d video controller and had to trick the system by choosing
unlisted card during setup and telling it to use the SVGA xserver instead of
the MACH64 server. It seems to work okay for me that way.
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From: David Crooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.databases.oracle.tools,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Wierd location of sh - Re: [Oracle 8.0.5 and SuSE6.1] Install success
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 02:36:34 GMT
The Linux version of Oracle is very obviously derived from the Soalris
version, and one of Soalris' more unusual features is that /bin and
/usr/bin are one and the same (soft link). Hence the existence of
/usr/bin/sh on Solaris, and probably the source of your dud link.
--
David Crooke, Austin TX, USA. +1 (512) 656 6102
"Open source software - with no walls and fences, who needs Windows
and Gates?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Pip)
Subject: Re: Extracting Netscape from RedHat CD?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:49:35 GMT
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 16:53:55 GMT, Gordon D. Anderson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I purchased a RedHat package, but after looking it over, installed
>Slackware instead. This is just a personal thing, but RedHat seemed too
>automatic without much explanation, and I wanted to try to understand the
>installation and configuration process. Slackware is fine.
>
>Netscape has not yet been installed and I didn't get a copy with
>Slackware. It's too big to download. There is a copy of Netscape on one
>of the RedHat CDs and I am wondering if there is someway to get at and
>install that without using the RPM. Am I overlooking something obvious
>here? Thanks.
Does your slackware have rpm2cpio and cpio?? If so, you can convert the
rpm to a cpio file and get the files within it with cpio.
Perry
--
Show the code....or hit the road.
Perry Piplani www.open-systems.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] perrypip.netservers.com
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From: "Leonardo A. Espinoza Lagos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configurar tarjeta de sonido
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 15:17:00 -0600
"Jos� Ram�n Alcaraz Mtz." escribi�:
> Tengo una tarjeta madre pc100 con video y sonido incluidos, pero no se como
> se configura el sonido mi cd si los toca pero no se oye nada, tengo red hat
> 6.0.
>
> Me podrian ayudar?
Hola Jose
Creo que seria mejor y ayudaria mas si nos dices estos datos:
- tipo de tarjeta de Sonido (SoundBlaster u otra, canal de cuantos bits,.. si es
Plug & Play -PnP- o no, etc.. ) si esta incluida en la Tarjeta Madre deberia
aparecer en los fasciculos que venian con ella..
ES IMPORTANTE SABER SI ES PnP O NO
- tipo de CD-ROM (o Cederron como dicen por ahi.. Marca, Xs ,etc..)
Yo personalmente no te podria ayudar mucho,.. tengo unos problemas parecidos
con mi tarj de sonido (SoundBlaster 16 PnP) y mi modem (S3 Virge PnP)
simplemente porque son PnP.. (hay que hacerles un tratamiento especial que
todavia no entiendo bien..) pero si das estos datos es posible que te ayuden
mejor..
Y ademas si es posible postea en INGLES..
Suerte!
Leonardo Espinoza ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Pip)
Subject: Re: mandrake - setting default os in LILO
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:58:35 GMT
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 14:25:08 GMT, Al Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Though I would prefer to just boot Linux, there are a lot of power
>interrupts where I am do it is safer to have winblows as the defult
>booted os however I'm not sure how to change lilo.conf to do this?
Use the default= option in our /etc/lilo.conf. Example:
--
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=dos
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda3
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
--
For more info, type:
man lilo.conf
Perry
--
Show the code....or hit the road.
Perry Piplani www.open-systems.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] perrypip.netservers.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: Lilo & ATA-66
Date: 19 Jul 1999 01:50:41 GMT
In article <3z9k3.17532$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, WME wrote:
>Hi,
> I had a question about my new ATA66 WDC 13GB and installing Lilo. The
>message disappeared too early, so I'll have to explain the problem again
>because it is not yet solved.
>
> I am running a pentium pro 150 on a supermicro board. I have a WDC 2.5G
>(Win98) and Seagate 1.2G (Linux) in addition to my new WDC 13G ATA66 drive.
>
> I updated my bios as the MB manufacturer recommended. The motherboard can
>now see the full capacity of the drive. I installed my win98 about 4 times
>using ez-bios and WITHOUT ez-bios. Lilo would install on the MBR, but when i
>boot, it is as if it is not there. I tried having Fat32 and FAT 16. I even
>tried to make my boot partition 2G (FAT16). My reasoning was maybe the
>kernel has some limitations. When I installed lilo that time, the system
>refused to boot. When I did "fdisk /mbr" then afterwards "sys c:" nothing
>happened, so i had to reformat.
>Any ideas?
Run the Linux install as far as partitioning the hard drive and "initializing"
(building file systems and swap signature) the Linux partitions.
Partition the drive as follows:
/dev/hda1 10 MB ext2, mounted as /boot
/dev/hda2 5 GB fat32, mounted as /microsoft
/dev/hda3 400 MB ext2, mounted as /
/dev/hda4 extended
/dev/hda5 120 MB linux swap
/dev/hda6 120 MB spare
/dev/hda7 7 GB ext2, mounted as /usr
Reboot. Install the Microsoft product.
Reboot. Continue the Linux installation. DO NOT let the installation
program install LILO. Make a boot floppy.
Boot the boot floppy. Make sure Linux is working okay.
Put all the lilo related files, including your bootkernels,
in /boot. Edit /etc/lilo.conf. DO NOT trust the lilo.conf made by
the installation program. Run /sbin/lilo.
This will work. Ez-bios is irrelevant.
Cameron
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From: "wisman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux kernel support CPU ?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:04:33 +0800
Hi,
I have a question,
Is there any Linux version support HP PA-RISC CPU.
Regards
Wisman
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URGENT HELP! My linux box has gone wild!
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 04:02:03 +0200
kinthalas wrote:
>
> Marc Mutz wrote:
> >
> > Frank Conte wrote:
> > >
> > <snip>
> > > Something's typing silly, senseless commands
> > > keep appearing at the prompt. Could it be that I improperly shut down
> > > the machine earlier?
> > >
> > Maybe you have cat'ed binary data to your terminal? If so, using another
> > xterm/VTC will do and you can work with that. If it is like the error I
> > posted some time ago here where all VTC's were corrupted such that some
> > chars were just vertical lines 1 pixel wide, then I'm afraid rebooting
> > will be the only way. But it will work under X just fine...
>
> Couldn't you also just use the 'reset' command to fix the binary
> characters used as real characters problem, and 'setfont' to fix most
> other bizarre console font problems (like those caused by SVGAlib
> programs doing weird things to the display after exiting)?
Just for the record.. the reset command would be:
^v^o
I.e. hold in the ctrl key while keying a "v" - then repeat, now followed
by an o.
(that's the letter o as you probably see.)
-- In order to reply by e-mail, leave out antis.pam. in the address --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Pip)
Subject: Re: Bogomips wrong?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 02:06:21 GMT
On Sun, 18 Jul 1999 11:01:02 +0200, Birk bremer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I have two computer systems, a AMD K6II 350 and a PIII 450
>at /proc/cpuinfo the PIII shows only 110 and the K6II
>has 699.6.
>Can this numer be correct or is there a problem with linux
>(suse 6.1) and a PIII. I also have the feeling that the PIII
>IS slower than the other one
>
Your PIII may be slower, but Bogomips are no benchmark. That's why the
call 'em Bogomips.
Perry
--
Show the code....or hit the road.
Perry Piplani www.open-systems.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] perrypip.netservers.com
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From: Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Iomega ZIP parallel zip drive under red hat linux 6.0 problem solved
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 02:11:11 GMT
In article <7mt5kg$8i8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve
Arnold) wrote:
> Phillip George Geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Thanks to all that sent me suggestions on how to get the $%(#!! thing
> >working. Help, particularly the free kind, is always appreciated.
> >
> >Success came when, contrary to what the FAQ implies, I discovered that
> >a parallel port zip drive is not ALWAYS /dev/sda4.
> >
> >On my computer it happened to be /dev/sdc4 -- maybe that's because I
> >have 3 SCSI adapters in it and a handful of SCSI hard drives and peripherals.
> >I dunno.
> >
> >So if you're ready to take a chainsaw to your spiffy new ZIP drive because
> >you've done
> > $ insmod parport
> > $ insmod ppa
> > $ mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zipdrive
> >and all the damn thing says back to you is
> > mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device
> >try /dev/somethingelse, in particular /dev/sdb4, /dev/sdc4, and so on.
>
> What dist/version are you running? I couldn't get mine to work, and I only
> have one SCSI device (the main boot drive). How many devices do you have
> total? sdc would be the third device; which adapter is it associated with?
> The Iomega parallel port device looks like a separate SCSI adapter; on mine I
> couldn't even get the ppa.o module to load because it wanted to use sda4 and
> my main hard disk is already sda. How/where do I tell the zip module to use
> a
> different SCSI disk device? Do I need to change the driver source code?
>
> Thanks in advance, Steve
The FAQ assumes that you don't have a SCSI adaptor already installed.
It makes the parallel port the first adaptor. ie
/dev/sda
^
In a system with a real scsi adaptor I think the parallel port gets the
last choice and so the heighest letter. In Phillip's case
- 2 SCSI adaptors
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
- and the parallel port zip drive
/dev/sdc
The 4 after that refers to the partition on the drive. For some strange
unknown reason iomega makes the data partition on their disks partition
number 4. Other manufactures use the sensibe choice of partition 1.
So on my system with 1 primary windows partiton, 2 linux partitons (one
swap) and 2 windows extended partitions and a parallel port zip drive.
/dev/sda1 - primary windows partition
/dev/sda2 - primary linux partition
/dev/sda3 - linux swap partition
/dev/sda5
/dev/sda6 - two extended partitions (they start at 5 afaik)
/dev/sdb4 - parallel port zip drive for iomega zip disks
/dev/sdb1 - parallel port zip drive for other zip disks
You might want to read the SCSI howto for more (accurate) information.
:-)
--
Hayden
"You need an IQ upgrade to use that piece of software."
-- Dogbert
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From: "Jeffrey D. Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Shortcomings of Linux?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:11:11 GMT
Anthony Ord wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 17:58:20 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Is this guy right on the money regarding the mentioned shortcomings
> >of Linux?
>
> No he isn't "right on the money" in a number of areas.
>
> >In article <7mkmun$knv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Holger Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Ancipital <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > However, a lot of the other comments are
> >> > based on 2.0x, and to say that it's "the worst in the business" is
> >> > just cynical, mendacious FUD.
> >>
> >> That is your opinion.
> >>
> >> There are three major TCP/IP stack families: BSD, Microsoft
> >> and Linux.
>
> AFAIR Microsoft paid Berkeley to write the Winsock stack.
>
> >>And yes, out of these three Linux has come up by
> >> far worst in my two years of interoperability testing. It is
> >> the only stack for which I ever had to put explicit workarounds
> >> in my code.
> >>
> >> Initially bugs I reported to the Linux developers were
> >> dismissed as "no bugs", but after the recent discussion
> >> and flamewars renewed talks with Linux developers could
> >> confirm at least one of the bugs, and I am happy to say
> >> that it is fixed in some of the more recent Linux versions.
> >>
> >> In any case, direct bugs are not really the main issue. The
> >> problem is that Amiga Inc. needs a TCP/IP kernel that is
> >> very solid, well peer-reviewed, well extensible, widely used,
> >> well-understood, professionally maintained etc. From my
> >> point of view Linux simply does not fit into that category.
>
> This is where the FUD really starts.
>
> >> It is maintained by hobby programmers,
>
> No it isn't. It is maintained by Alan Cox who works for Red
> Hat. It is his *job* to maintain the networking code (along
> with other things like the Video for Linux project.
>
> >>which by itself is not
> >> bad, of course, but IMHO makes it unsuitable for use in
> >> multimedia convergence systems and vertical markets.
>
> What does a TCPIP stack specifically have to do with
> multimedia? Is this just one of those "let's put a hype word
> in here because it looks k3wl"?
Uh. Wow. How does that foot taste?
He didn't say "multimedia", he said "multimedia CONVERGENCE" [emphasis
mine]. And that concept, as per Amiga's definition, CLEARLY states that
streaming audio and video are part of their focus. Guess what! STREAMING
video, and STREAMING audio over a network connection will require TCP/IP!
Hrm, what does multimedia have to do with a TCP/IP stack, specifically?
Tell me!
Oh, and there's this:
>> --
>> Holger Kruse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> http://www.nordicglobal.com
>> NO COMMERCIAL SOLICITATION !
>
>And that boys and girls was an example of how to write FUD
>to obscure your motivations. I hope you are suitably
>impressed and have learned from it.
>
>Regards
>
>Anthony
And that, boys and girls, was an example of FIMS. Someone flaming
someone else without first having a grasp on the context.
(F.I.M.S. - Foot In Mouth Syndrome)
Regards,
Jeffrey D. Webster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: [vesafb] framebuffer wont work for me... :(
Date: 19 Jul 1999 02:15:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 21:44:27 +0100,
Stephen Chadfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>William Burrow wrote:
>> Once you got framebuffers going, how did you deal with X? Or do you?
>
>Just as you normally would without a framebuffer console.
The problem seems to be switching from X back to consoles. The 3.3.3.1
3DLabs driver I'm using now doesn't seem to allow me to go back to them
from X.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe)
Subject: linux on powerpc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Jul 1999 23:12:13 -0500
I've just got myself a great deal on a used
powercenter and I can't wait to run linux on it.
Is there any thing equivalent to the dos program FIPS
for mac. All the faqs I've read about linux on powerpc
seems to suggest that I have to reinstall the os to
do the partitioning and I don't want to do that.
I would appreciate anyone pointing me in the right
direction to get me started. A better faq's than
the faq-o-matic would be nice.
Also I read about this yellow dog linux and now I can only
find www.linuxppc.com. How many distributions are there
for linuxppc.com?
Does anyone know a cheap cd vendor for ppc? I know
linux central and cheapbytes don't carry ppc version.
Please cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance
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From: Mike Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problem with dial-up networking on Linux
Date: 19 Jul 1999 03:31:08 GMT
I have gone through all the HOW-TO's and I am still not able to establish
a ppp connect with my ISP. Here's what the log file looks like:
Serial connection established.
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0xdabccd7b> <pcomp> <accomp>]
last message repeated 9 times
LCP: timout sending Config-Requests
Connection terminated.
Exit.
I've tried using +pap, +chap, ogin:. Nothing seems to work. I know for a
fact that they (my ISP) have the 3Com Total Control boxes. I am able
toconnect from within Win95, and NT.
If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Mike
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 01:39:36 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: Re: Raid (mkraid) problems, and patching problems
Johan Ljunggren wrote:
>
<snip>
>
> I'm using kernal 2.2.10, and the latest raidtools. Have also downloaded the
> raidpatch, but can't seem to get it to work. If I patch it (using the
> 'patch' command might be wrong?) I can't compile the kernal.
> Is it the raidpatch what's missing or something else. I have done 'make
> config' and enabled linear mode, something else need to be done there also?
>
Please include full error messages in your postings. A question like 'my
kernel does not compile' is not sufficient.
Let's have a look: Have you used the raidpatches for 2.2.10 or for
2.2.6? The former are very new (like a week maximum) and if you do not
have those, then try again with them.
What patch commandline did you use? Did it fail (i.e. does find
/usr/src/linux -name '*.rej' print anything)?
What is the _exact_ error with which the kernel compilation fails?
What is the _exact_ commandline you enter for mkraid (and the
corresponding config files)?
Marc
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH)
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Subject: Shell script won't reliably kill its spawn
Reply-To: Dr Vincent C Jones PE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr Vincent C Jones PE)
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 1999 19:51:15 -0400
Anybody have an idea of either why the following script sometimes does
and sometimes doesn't successfully kill off all the background processes
spawned? Or a more reliable way to clean up?
#!/bin/sh
# ppp-on: script to connect to Avnet/Intac
INIT="'AT&F' OK ATZ1"
# Hackensack
PHONE=3594422
# Oradell
#PHONE=3614422
if netstat -i |grep -q ppp0;
then echo PPP is already up, exiting.;
else
echo Attempting to bring up PPP link to Intac.
sudo /sbin/route del default > /dev/null 2>&1
sudo /usr/sbin/pppd connect "/usr/sbin/chat -r /tmp/pppspeedis ABORT BUSY etc.
sudo /usr/bin/tail -fn2 /var/log/messages | grep 'pppd\[\|chat\[' &
sudo /usr/bin/tail -fn0 /var/log/maillog &
sudo /usr/sbin/pppstats -w 10 &
sudo /usr/bin/tail -fn2 /var/log/messages | \
if grep -q "pppd\[.*\]: Exit\.";
then
sudo kill -SIGTERM -$$
fi
fi
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From: alann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Did you switch from Windows to Linux?
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 23:29:53 -0400
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Norbert Eschle wrote:
>Brad Grimes wrote:
>
>> If so, I'm writing a magazine article about operating systems and I'd like
>> to hear from you. Drop me a line at:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>Yes, fully switched to Linux now. Before that had WIn95 + Linux (SUSE 5.1) on
>my old system. Decided to fully switch to Linux after Win crashed and I lost
>*very* important data (Like, format 90 pages with loads of graphics etc and
>then get the blue screen. After reboot discover that your filesystem is
>f***ed up and you need a couple of drinks).
No, I switched from OS/2 since OS/2 was "murdered" by Microsoft by illegal
preloading of OS's on computers. ( see court cases, but MS got a slap on the
wrist ).
Had to find something else, since I've NEVER liked windows, and I've run just
about every OS between home and work, including AS/400 and SGI IRIX.
Linux has a lot to go for the average user ( including me ) but it doesn't
crash, it's free, it's customizable, and it doesn't have that "warning label"
on it!
Alan
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