Linux-Misc Digest #296, Volume #21 Thu, 5 Aug 99 05:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: HP CD-RW Supported by RH 6.0? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mail /smtp server with netscape (Jan van den Brink)
Re: DosLinux Questions ("Brett Castleberry")
Maximal Number of Concurent Process ("Peter Neff")
Re: Java makes Netscape crash (Rado Faletic)
Re: How to change emacs background and foreground colors? (Jean-Philippe SCHILLE)
IDE/CDROM Problem (Mark Simonetti)
Re: HP CD-RW Supported by RH 6.0? (Richard Scobie)
Re: Java makes Netscape crash (Rob Brown-Bayliss)
Re: c++ grammer (David Fox)
How to change emacs background and foreground colors? (stephen chan)
Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++??? (Roman Fietze)
Re: Lilo Problems (John Forkosh)
Re: Failed Kernel Compile: System is too big (Gergo Barany)
Re: APS-UPS for Linux? (Dennis Burke)
squeaks on video activity w/ soundcard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Difference between UNIX and Linux? ("Art S. Kagel")
Re: Directory browsing (Jon Skeet)
Failed Kernel Compile: System is too big ("kgb")
Re: Newbie:---Need help resizing desktop ("Cameron Gregg")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: HP CD-RW Supported by RH 6.0?
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 05:29:11 GMT
>
> No, the ide-scsi and IDE stuff work fine together now. Just use LILO
to boot and pass the hdx=ide-scsi and that drive will be a scsi from
then on.
> >
Yes, but HOW, do you pass the "hdx=ide-scsi" to Lilo?
I put the line in the lilo.conf, but whenever I try to run lilo
I get a Syntax error near line 12 in file /etc/lilo.conf
my lilo.conf with LILO version 21
================
boot=/dev/hda1
delay=15
vga=normal
ramdisk=0
verbose=5
image=/boot/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hda1
label=Linux
other=/dev/hda2
table=/dev/hda
label=Win95
hdc=ide-scsi
I thank you...VERY MUCH...in advance if you could provide the answer
to this question.
mark Covington
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Jan van den Brink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mail /smtp server with netscape
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 08:04:19 +0200
Hi everybody,
I have a cable modem with a static e-mail address and I would like to receive
mail for every user configured on my machine (e.g. john@[194.85.238.82] and
mary@[194.85.238.82])
I'd like to send/receive mail through a mail/smtp server. I've installed
imap*.rpm and adjusted /etc/services. imapd and ipop3d are present in
/usr/sbin. When I do:
telnet <my static IP address> 110
it says OK and ready. How should I configure my netscape?
Do I need to configure fetchmail/sendmail? Those two I have currently installed.
What is the exact purpose of those two apps? I a newbie and I've read almost all
the howto's but I can't figure it out.
Please help.
Desperate seeking newbie.
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From: "Brett Castleberry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DosLinux Questions
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 01:57:26 -0400
And it's small. It looks useful for old machines with small hard drives.
I'm using both Zipslack 4.0 and Red Hat 6.0. Can you tell me why DosLinux
looks better to you than ZipSlack? I've been looking at it for some time,
but Robotti was making new releases frequently, so I thought I'd wait for
it to stabilize.
Brett G. Castleberry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tallahassee, Florida
Philip Shore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> It looks very good - better than ZipSlack (a version of Slackware you
> can just unzip and then run the DOS linux loader to get going).
>
> The first time I tried Linux was with the Slackware live filesystem on
> CD. All the read only stuff is kept on CD with just links to it on your
> hard disk. A bit slow obviously but takes hardly any disk space.
>
> Linux is so damn versatile!
>
> This looks almost as easy as Win95 to install. Infact, it wouldn't take
> that much for people to get an image together that worked for their
> configuration of components and stick on the hardisk when the sold the
> PC - just like they do for other software. Somebody should sell this
> service to Dell or Compaq or whoever then just send me some commission
> for the idea! 8-)
>
> Phil.
>
>
>
> Brett Castleberry wrote:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.tux.org/people/kent-robotti/doslinux/
> >
> > --
> > Brett G. Castleberry
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Tallahassee, Florida
> > mike murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > >
> > > I have a question for You.
> > >
> > > What is DosLinux & where can I read about it..??
> > >
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From: "Peter Neff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ch.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Maximal Number of Concurent Process
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:50:27 +0200
Hi,
where can I define the maximal number of concurent processes on a linux
system?
============================================================
Peter J. Neff, MEDIAtex AG, CH - Freienbach
http://www.mediatex.ch
============================================================
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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 17:52:09 +1000
From: Rado Faletic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Java makes Netscape crash
> Why are browsers such shit?
Many people who write web pages insist that they are not required to
adhere to the standards.
Also, many people have "buggy" HTML/JS/JAVA/etc, which our browsers
simply cannot "guess" at what the scripts should be.
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From: Jean-Philippe SCHILLE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to change emacs background and foreground colors?
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 09:09:47 +0100
Hi
go to your .Xdefaults file , you will see something like:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
! emacs, xemacs
emacs*Background: Wheat
emacs*Foreground: Black
emacs*pointerColor: Orchid
emacs*cursorColor: Orchid
emacs*bitmapIcon: on
emacs*font: fixed
emacs.geometry: 160x50
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
edit what you need...
Glad I could help :-)
Jean-Philippe
stephen chan wrote:
> Hello:
>
> How do I change emacs background and foreground color?
>
> Thanks
> Stephen
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From: Mark Simonetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE/CDROM Problem
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 09:04:42 +0000
I seem to have developed a problem with my CD-ROM after changing my
kernel to 2.2.x (2.2.10 at the moment). Basically, I can mount a cd
just fine and read the directory listing, but while I'm reading from it,
I get lots of atapi errors in the syslog, such as:
Aug 5 01:51:27 pixie kernel: ATAPI device hdd:
Aug 5 01:51:27 pixie kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense
key=0x05)
Aug 5 01:51:27 pixie kernel: Illegal mode for this track or
incompatible medium -- (asc=0x64, ascq=0x00)
Aug 5 01:51:33 pixie kernel: hdd: command error: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Aug 5 01:51:33 pixie kernel: hdd: command error: error=0x50
Aug 5 01:51:33 pixie kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd),
sector 710092
I get this error consistantly, and the drive reads *very* slowly. Also,
during boot up, linux reports the drive as being a 32x, rather than a
36x, but I don't think that has anything to do with it. I've heard the
alan cox patches will fix it, but I've just tried patch ac12 and it
didn't make any difference. And yes I've made sure its running the
kernel I compiled with the patch..
Please help because its seriously stunting my usage. It works fine in
windows, so I'm sure its not the hardware. And it seemed to work fine
with the older kernels.
Linux Distro: RedHat (5.2)
Kernel: 2.2.10
Patch: Alan Cox 2.2.10-ac12
CD ROM: Creative Labs 36x
Location: Secondary Slave
M/Board: Gigabyte 6BXe (Award BIOS)
Processor: Pentium II
Mark.
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From: Richard Scobie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: HP CD-RW Supported by RH 6.0?
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 08:17:01 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > No, the ide-scsi and IDE stuff work fine together now. Just use LILO
> to boot and pass the hdx=ide-scsi and that drive will be a scsi from
> then on.
> > >
>
> Yes, but HOW, do you pass the "hdx=ide-scsi" to Lilo?
> I put the line in the lilo.conf, but whenever I try to run lilo
> I get a Syntax error near line 12 in file /etc/lilo.conf
> my lilo.conf with LILO version 21
>
> I thank you...VERY MUCH...in advance if you could provide the answer
> to this question.
>
> mark Covington
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Mark,
Possibly the line;
appenrd = "hdc=ide-scsi"
in your lilo.conf, may help.
Regards,
Richard Scobie
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From: Rob Brown-Bayliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Java makes Netscape crash
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 19:34:12 +1200
It's not Javas that makes Netscape Crash
It's crap programming by Netscape that makes Netscape crash!
It's crap programming by <instert browser programmer here> that makes
<insert browser here> crash!
Why is it that browsers are the crashiest progs around? When I ahd an
Amiga thet browsers there crashed all tha time, I brought a PC, IE 3
crashed all tha time, I installed Netscape, it crashed all tha time,
then IE4, IE5.
Finaly I get Linux, install Netscape and even here it crashes.
Why are browsers such shit?
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Zoo Station
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: c++ grammer
Date: 04 Aug 1999 09:52:28 -0700
jievis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, All:
> Where can I find the grammer for C++ writen in lex( or flex) and yacc
> (or bison),
> Thanks in advance
>
> Jievis
Here is a useful pointer: http://www.empathy.com/pccts/roskind.html
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: stephen chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to change emacs background and foreground colors?
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 00:37:46 -0700
Hello:
How do I change emacs background and foreground color?
Thanks
Stephen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roman Fietze)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++???
Date: 5 Aug 1999 08:41:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Linux is utter garbage. I mean, version 1.0 only supports single
> processor i386 systems. Even with the hardware, I tried to set up a
> firewall with it, but none of the stuff about ipchains or ipfwadm
> worked. How useless can you get? I don't know how people can say
> it's good for networks.
Did you ever work with Windoze 1.0? Even Windows 3 was worse than
Linux 1.0.
About firewalls -- there are more trustworthy reports about working
Linux firewalls than there are trustworthy reports on working NT
machines :)
What OS do you use for firewalls?
Roman
--
Roman Fietze (Mail Code 5023) Heidelberg Digital/Germany
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh)
Subject: Re: Lilo Problems
Date: 4 Aug 1999 13:44:49 -0400
sj grevett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Please could you tell me how to get rid of lilo? I have tried formating the
: hd but that has failed along with fdisk. It has sent one of my systems into
: an internal loop as linux is no longer installed on it but lilo is left.
What do you want to replace it with??? Boot from a DOS floppy
and type fdisk/mbr (using DOS's fdisk which must be on that floppy)
if that's what you want. Sorry to hear you apparently wiped your DOS
partition. That wouldn't have been necessary, and you probably could
have recovered everything undamaged.
John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Subject: Re: Failed Kernel Compile: System is too big
Date: 5 Aug 1999 08:32:30 GMT
kgb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 3.) make zImage
> ... purrs along niecly, going good, going good.....
>
> <vomit> goes gcc:
>
> System is 546kb
> System is too big.
> Error [1]
> exiting: /usr/src/linux-2.2.10/arch/i386/boot
> Error [2]
Try make bzImage instead.
Gergo
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Q: ...any suggestions as to what prevented this from being a murder trial
instead of an attempted murder trial?
A: The victim lived.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Burke)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: APS-UPS for Linux?
Date: 4 Aug 1999 17:44:46 GMT
On Wed, 04 Aug 1999 01:19:57 GMT, Penguin Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all
>Is there a program that interactes with APC-UPS to shut off the computer
>during power outages? The software the comes with the UPS is for
>Windoez.
>
>TIA
>PH
APC promises to have some Linux software for shutoff. Have you check their
site? They advertise this in the bulletins they send out. I checked a
couple of months ago and it was not ready yet. Maybe soon?
Dennis
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] % Office PH: 513 529 3508
[EMAIL PROTECTED] % FAX: 513 529 1493
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: squeaks on video activity w/ soundcard
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 05 Aug 1999 04:39:39 -0400
I just got a SoundBlaster 16PCI card for my ThinkPad 600E (w/ docking
station), and I've gotten both the OSS/Free and OSS commercial drivers
working with it using the Ensoniq es1371 driver. However, audio is
interrupted by high pitched squeaks and static whenever there is
significant video activity (moving windows around and such). This
sounds like some sort of IRQ conflict. I poked around and found that
it was on IRQ 11, and so was my TNT video card and my Linksys ethernet
card. This is the same IRQ configuration under Windows 98, where it
works perfectly, so I'm a little confused as to why Linux has problems
with shared PCI interrupts, but I attempted to get the soundcard onto
its own interrupt anyway.
This proves to be kind of difficult on a ThinkPad, since you don't get
any IRQ configuration screens in the BIOS like on regular
machines. You have to use the ThinkPad configuration program under
Windows to allocate more IP addresses to the PCI bus for the docking
station. I allocated three extra IRQs for PCI, and now it appears that
the soundcard and the video card are using different IRQs. Yet the
problem persists. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing
this interference?
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From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Difference between UNIX and Linux?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 13:26:57 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scott wrote:
>
> I'm taking a course next term that uses UNIX. Is there any difference in
> the operation of the two operating systems? Are Pipe and Fork the same in
> the two systems?
Scott,
Linux is a UNIX-like operating system, rather than UNIX, only because
UNIX is a trademark that can only be used for operating systems base on
the System V source code and licensed from the trademark holder.
However, Linux is fully compliant with the POSIX standard that all UNIX
like operating systems must meet. So for all intents and purposes Linux
IS UNIX. Most utilities and all system calls operate the same as other
UNIXes and most of the utility differences come about because Linux more
closely matches the POSIX standard than older UNIXs which have to support
legacy users and systems and may meet syntax requirements of BSD or System
V UNIX which predate the POSIX standard.
Art S. Kagel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Directory browsing
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:13:16 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am setting access limitations to user account. Can I restrict
> user "guest" to work under /home/guest only? That is "guest" cannot cd
> to / or even /home.
I'm not sure, but chroot may be useful to you. Having said that, you may
need to create a /home/guest/bin directory with various appropriate
things...
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: "kgb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Failed Kernel Compile: System is too big
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 03:15:30 -0500
Having never built my own kernel, and relying on the kernels that came
with stock distributions, I decided, with the foce of a new book in hand. To
build my kernel. Slim things down (mainly SCSI, bleh) and make things
faster. As well as upgrade from 2.2.5-15 to 2.2.10.
I downloaded the tarball. Placed in /usr/src.
I created a directory, for now, linux-2.2.10, along with the example of
other directories under /usr/src
(containing no source tree)
I then unpacked it all into /usr/src/linux-2.2.10. The symbolic linux
wasn't pointing at it yet, instead, pointing to a blank
directory titled: linux-2.2.5.
This was routine exercise. Next, I issued the following commands:
1.) make config
... and went through a loooooong y/n/m/? questionaire .....
2.) make dep
... which hummed along nicely and was done in about a minute ...
and then, last, but not least:
3.) make zImage
... purrs along niecly, going good, going good.....
<vomit> goes gcc:
System is 546kb
System is too big.
Error [1]
exiting: /usr/src/linux-2.2.10/arch/i386/boot
Error [2]
Something along that lines. This is from memory.
I be baffled. Perhaps, the kernel really *is* too large? or is it a
whole other can of worms? Just for record, here are my system specs:
Gateway 2000 G6-300 Pentium II 300mhz PC (circa early 1998)
64mb SDRAM
primary (/dev/hda) device Fat32 7.4gb IBM IDE drive
secondary (/dev/hdb) device ext2fs and swap: roughly 2.4gb combined
(127mb swap)
800mb FAT32 partition logical extended as from the Win32 environment,
unknown to linux.
STB Velocity 128 Graphics accelerator with 4mb onboard memory.
Standard floppy
Microsoft Intellimouse
Unknown brand stock Gateway 2000 32x CD-ROM
Ensoniq Audio PCI wavetable card
Telepath 56k x2 Winmodem (soon to die!!!!!!!!!!)
HP Laserjet6L printer
..... there we have the basics.
What did I leave out? Well, I decided, I'd leave out APM, since it
seemed to smack of laptop in all of it's option descriptions. I left out
scsi. I have no scsi devices, and I hear this chews up buko kernel real
estate. As for filesystems, I supported all msdos filesystem types
(including umsdos or something like that) No apple support, no NTFS support,
no SMB, Xia, etc. Just ext2fs and vfat (Windows & DOS) suppot. But I did NFS
just because I thought I'll need it to mount filesystems.
To be in more detail on hardware, I have it, reams of it, loads. And if
required, I can put for sure what options I chose in the kernel config in a
textfile as well. Even though, this seems it's probably a straightforward
problem.
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From: "Cameron Gregg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie:---Need help resizing desktop
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 18:17:35 +1000
If you specified multiple resolutions during setup, you should be able to
press control + alt + +/- (keypad plus or minus), and this will cycle
through your resolutions.
JMNugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Ma6q3.1134$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Well, Just got RedHat 6.0 and gnome installed....Everything went great,
but
> the desktop is all big and clunky. I thought I specified 1024X768, but it
> looks more like
> 480X640. I've got a few icons on the background and a menu bar at the
> bottom. I looked through everything for about an hour trying to find the
> control panel for the video/desktop but cant find it.....now I've rebooted
> back into Win98 to read documentation but havent found anything
yet....mabye
> a kind person could help me out...
>
> --jason
>
>
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