Linux-Misc Digest #349, Volume #21 Tue, 10 Aug 99 08:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: How do I tell RH sees a second CPU? (Villy Kruse)
Re: Best Linux dist for running SCO software? (Peter Caffin)
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 ("Richard Copeman")
mpage (QNo)
Re: Sendmail & popserver (Thorsten Lau)
Cyrus, Procmail, and Postfix (Matthew Vanecek)
Re: Which distro? (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: EZ-BIOS and LILO (Tim Clapp)
Calendar server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I tell RH sees a second CPU? ("Cedric Blancher")
Re: CD_R (Wayne Power)
Re: RH 6.0 and Iomega PP zip driver (root)
Re: Marx vs. Nozick (Hobbyist �)
High Capacity Format and Rootdisk (Was: Re: /etc/fdprm and High Capacity (Kenny Kim
Leung)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: How do I tell RH sees a second CPU?
Date: 10 Aug 1999 10:36:53 +0200
In article <zqGr3.414$bi1.33123@nntp1>,
Jared Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Subject line says it all. I added a second PPro to a RH5.2 machine and
>while I *think* it's faster I am looking for a utility that confirms Linux
>sees it (I know RH6.0 deals with SMP better and am planning to upgrade).
>xosview did not, nor did xsysinfo.
>
It does depend on whether you have installed the smp kernel or not. The
RH6.0 CD has 6 kernel packages, 3 for SMP and 3 without SMP. The 3 versions
are compiled for 386, 586, and 686.
Villy
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From: Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Linux dist for running SCO software?
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 16:45:44 +0000
Kingsley Tart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the best Linux distribution for SCO compatibility?
You're going to have problems if you're hoping for direct compatibility
in the ways I think you might be. SCO is a System V-ish UNIX, while
Linux is more BSD-like in nature.
> We have an application that has many shell scripts and binaries
> written for SCO.
Best results will come if you're able to recompile your binaries
under the Linux platform. Even so, you may have some porting to do. The
directory tree's a bit different for a start.
> When we tried to extract it onto RedHat 6.0, to
> start with we had problems with cpio not being able to read the
> archive file.
More likely: cpio doesn't know what to do with it.
> Is there such thing as a "System 5 compatible" Linux? I'm told
> that we want to be compatible with System 5.3 or 5.4 (if it exists).
You'll need to recompile your kernel to incorporate support for the file
systems you're using. At minimum, you should include: ext2, proc, msdos,
vfat and iso9660. For your SCO requirements, you'll need to choose between
xenix, sysv and coherent (or all three, if you want to go for the safe
side).
> If it simply means downloading a few tools then great, though if
> there's a distribution that has compatible tools straight out of the
> box then that would be easier ...
In terms of binary compatibility, you might have some luck with ICBS.
I recall this being included in the Linux kernel source in the 1.2.x
series, however, it's definitely not in 2.0.x and 2.2.x. You'll need
to do some searching. Even then, I can't guarantee results.
Your best bet, if you really need this to work, will be to spend some
time with the source code to these binaries (if you can) and tinker
away with it for a little while.
You may also want to check out comp.os.sco.misc (quite a few of the
people on that newsgroup are slowly shifting across; they may have
good war stories to tell you). Best of luck.
--: _ _ _ _
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//`'\_ | (/_|(/_| |_(_|| | || | http://it.net.au/~pc |
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From: "Richard Copeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:16:53 +0100
Brand new RedHat 5.2 installation. I have configured the networking. I am
able to ping other host on my LAN and can access the Interent through our
office gateway OK.
When I enter startx I get the grey screen with the cross hair for the mouse
cursor. The cursor moves as I move the mouse s it looks as though that bit
is all OK. Nothing else happens. After 30 seconds or so I hit SCAB to kill
the Xserver an I have lots of the following on screen:
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
Can somebody tell me what this means and how I fix it please?
TIA,
Richard.
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From: QNo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mpage
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:05:14 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Where can i find the latest version of mpage (source or binaries)?
Thanks a lot
Christian
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From: Thorsten Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Sendmail & popserver
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:41:11 +0200
"H�kan Trygg" schrieb:
> Hi all
>
> I am trying to setup a local mail sever. (=changing from NT to Linux :-)
>
> 1. We have a "multi-pop" mail account, not UUCP, from the ISP.
> All mail that is designated to our domain is placed in this pop
> account and a small mail reader program reads all this mail and
> resends these mail to the local mail popserver.
> 2. We do not have a direct line to our ISP. We uses an ISDN router
> and for reducing call charges we want the mail program only collect
> mail at designated times.
> Outgoing mail are transferred from the local mail server to the ISP
> mail server at the same time as the multipop account is read
>
>
> So.....
> 1. How to read the popmail and forward it to the local mailserver?
> Is there any small utility program?
I used �fetchmail� for this problem,
its easy to configure via a resource file. This fetches mails from different
accounts, and resends it to the local mailboxes.
Best wishes,
Thorsten Lau.
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From: Matthew Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.mail.imap
Subject: Cyrus, Procmail, and Postfix
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 04:53:11 -0500
I have cyrus-imapd 1.5.19, procmail, and postfix 19990317 build. I have
just changed to cyrus from wu imapd.
How do I get procmail to work with cyrus? I've tried a short progie
called "deliver-wrapper" as the action line in my .procmailrc, but it
doesn't work if the mail is handled by the MTA. And you can't call the
cyrus deliver program directly
The .procmailrc works properly, if I run procmail directly, e.g.,
procmail < testmsg.txt
but when mail comes in through postfix, it doesn't get distributed
through the system.
I also looked at a page on getting this to work with sendmail, but
sendmail and postfix don't exactly configure the same way.
Any help would be appreciated.
--
Matthew Vanecek
Course of Study: http://www.unt.edu/bcis
Visit my Website at http://people.unt.edu/~mev0003
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except me. I'm always getting in the way of something...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: Which distro?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:56:24 GMT
On 9 Aug 1999 18:29:00 -0800, "Bob Calhoun"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Are Linux distributions mutually exclusive, the way other OS's are. I
>mean, will software configured for one distro work on another? Or you
>caught in an Apple vs Microsoft scenario? Is there one distro
>distinctly better than the others? What is the best way for a newby to
>get started?
The core of each distribution is the same (Linux kernel, gcc
and so forth). But the packages included and where they are located
differs. This often means that software configured for one
distribution must be tinkered with to work on another. That is, it is
easier to install a program that is designed for one distribution in
that distribution.
There are 3 "big" distributions: Suse, Red Hat and Caldera.
Caldera is the easiest for a newbie to install, and is probably best
for someone who just wants to load the stuff and do the office work
packages. Suse is an engineer's distribution: it comes with 5-6
gigabytes of packages and walks you through the details of how to
install them with it's own graphical packagas (Yast). Red Hat is in
between the two in ease of installation and amount of applications
delivered.
If you want to try out different distributions, you can get
mulit-distribution packs from many cheap cd sellers (cheapbytes and
linux systems labs, etc.). These cdroms have the GPL part of the
linux distributions of each distro--but do not have all the neat
applications packages and documentation.
Debian is entirely GPL.
Slackware is said to be good for the people who really want to
learn how linux works (it walks you though editing install scripts).
Stampede is said to be fast (but I think it is still in beta).
Turbo Linux has good asian character sets, I am told.
At around $30 street price, Suse and Caldera are both
excellent values--but they are aimed at somewhat different audiences.
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From: Tim Clapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: EZ-BIOS and LILO
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:39:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Cameron L. Spitzer" wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Goforth wrote:
> >My old hard drive crashed. I've bought a new WD 13 Gig to replace it,
> >and
> >have installed Win98. I'd like to reinstall RH 5.2 as on my old hard
> >drive.
> >
> >However, my BIOS doesn't support > 8 Gig HDD so I installed Western
> >Digital's EZ-BIOS. I assume that this "lives" in my MBR, I see a little
> >EZ-BIOS message at bootup, before the OS is loaded. Is there any
> >way that I can use LILO in my MBR as before?
>
> Boot the EZ-BIOS diskette. When it asks for your OS intall disk,
> give it a backup copy of your RH 5.2 install disk.
>
> Instead of hitting Enter at the LILO
> boot prompt, give the cylinder/head/sector numbers generated by EZ-BIOS.
> This little ditty is described in the BootPrompt-HOWTO:
>
> LILO boot: linux append="hda=12345,255,63"
>
> Do not let Disk Druid mess with your partition table. Run cfdisk or
> fdisk yourself. Be sure they are using the same numbers EZ-BIOS
> gives.
>
> Install Linux as usual. EZ-BIOS will tell LILO what it needs to know.
> Edit your /etc/lilo.conf file and add a line
>
> hda=12345,255,63
>
> after each image statement.
>
> Let me know if this doesn't work, or if it's hard to get the numbers from
> EZ-BIOS.
>
This is interesting: I went for an alternative route, which works very
well although it does require some thought before repartitioning. I used
the MaxBlast software from Maxtor, although it calls itself EZ-BIOS when
it boots up.
1) Install EZ-BIOS onto MBR.
2) Make a small (16 Mb should be plenty unless you do lots of kernel
development) partition first on the disk (it must be the first primary
partition), and make it active. You can mount this as /boot so kernel
images are always below the 1024 cylinder boundary. Install lilo onto
the start of this partition (e.g. /dev/hda1)
Windows can go on the second partition and anything else can go in an
extended partition (more windows partitions, linux partitions, swap,
etc.).
When booting EZ-BIOS is loaded first, then the it boots the first active
primary partition (i.e. lilo)
The only quirks I've noticed are:
1) Windows (95 OEM 1) still doesn't realise the disk is bigger than 8Mb
- well the fdisk on the boot disk sees it the right size, but won't let
me put partitions there.
2) Linux doesn't _need_ EZ-BIOS - it can still see the whole disk anyway
(albeit with possibly different geometry)
I hope this helps,
Tim.
--
Tim Clapp St. John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-sigproc.eng.cam.ac.uk/~tcc1000/
Signal Processing Group, Cambridge University Dept. of Engineering
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Calendar server
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:47:56 GMT
Hello,
does anyone know of a calendar server for Linux?
Something like Netscape Calendar or the one from Sun.
Greetings
Guido
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Cedric Blancher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I tell RH sees a second CPU?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 11:48:53 +0200
Villy Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le
message : 7ooob5$as7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <zqGr3.414$bi1.33123@nntp1>,
> Jared Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Subject line says it all. I added a second PPro to a RH5.2 machine
and
> >while I *think* it's faster I am looking for a utility that confirms
Linux
> >sees it (I know RH6.0 deals with SMP better and am planning to
upgrade).
> >xosview did not, nor did xsysinfo.
>
> It does depend on whether you have installed the smp kernel or not.
The
> RH6.0 CD has 6 kernel packages, 3 for SMP and 3 without SMP. The 3
versions
> are compiled for 386, 586, and 686.
And don't forget to build your kernel for SMP....
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From: Wayne Power <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD_R
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 06:16:48 -0400
Clinton McDonald wrote:
> Dennis wrote:
>
> > The FAQ lists 3 CD-R's that are compatible with Linux, but I have not
> > been able to find them. So, can anyone suggest a CD-R that will work
> > with Linux, WinNT, and Win98/98? Also, is SCSI much faster for a slow
> > device like a CD-R?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> I've got an ACER 6x2x2x CDRW ATAPI and after recompiling my kernel for
> scsi emulation, (like the README.ATAPI with xcdroast says) it worked no
> worries... It's not the best drive (It was cheap!) but it goes..
Dennis,
You seem to be looking at an old FAQ. The most comprehensive list I've seen
is http://www.guug.de:8080/cgi-bin/winni/lsc.pl which lists a lot of drives
from a
few dozen manufacturers. Shopping for another drive, I've found a couple
that
work that aren't even on this list yet.
The CD Writing HOWTO with my distribution's doc set was in plain text, so
http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/html/CD-Writing.html was where I found
what I needed.
The same Acer drive didn't keep going for me... lasted ~50 burns. They say
I'll
get another one in 2 weeks. I'd be delighted to hear from anybody whose CDR
drive *keeps* going.
Since I need another now, I may go SCSI for its other advantages (real
controller,
more devices). SCSI doesn't enjoy quite the speed advantage over IDE since
PIO mode 4, which should support 8x burns if my arithmetic is right.
(150/Kb* burn_speed) / sec
--wmp
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 and Iomega PP zip driver
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:18:32 +0200
G-man wrote:
>
> I had success using 'modprobe ppa' instead of 'insmod'. Give it a try.
> Good luck.
>
> Dan Bizuneh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > During the installation of RH 5.2 a while back, I chose Iomega PP zip
> > drive from the scsi list, redhat recognized my parallel port zip drive
> > and everything went well. But when I try to upgrade to RH 6.0, redhat
> > was unable to auto probe my parallel port zip drive. Does anyone know
> > how I can make my parallel port zip drive work on RH 6.0?
I just have installed RH 6.0, and "modprobe ppa" works with no problems
for a parallel ZIP on ECP/EPP port. You can even print at the same time.
I guess it has a Kernel with tty sharing.
Now, if I could get Java to work (Netscape applets crash with bus error
and the JDK seems not to be included in my installation).
Rene.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hobbyist �)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 05:28:07 -0400
On 09 Aug 1999 23:05:24 -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote these
sagacious words :
: yes, but i cannot choose my employer based on what computer system i
: get. they *all* want me to use microsoft windows.
That's because Windows is the dominant OS.
: > I hardly use a computer where I work but my profession involves
: > the use of a lot of instrumentation which exists in diverse forms
: > of varying qualities etc. I have to use what instruments that are
: > presented to me because this is what the company purchased to be
: > used. I may be lucky in convincing them to change to another
: > instrument but I don't usually hold my breath where that is
: > concerned.
:
: exactly. you're forced to use what they ask you to use.
I agreed to take the Job remember? Tell me about any employer who
allows their employees to use whatever material they want to
whenever they want to? Therefore, almost all employers fit your
description of forcing their employees .... Tough isn't it but
that sort os thing is hardly confined to windows is it?
: > The crux of the matter is:
: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: >
: > Whenever _you_ are in control and are therefore in a position to
: > make the decision of what OS to use such as in your home or on
: > your own network, does M$ force you to use their products?
: >
: > The answer to that of course is an emphatic NO.
:
: yes they do. silly people send me e-mail in ms-word. websites with
: ms internet-explorer only access. because microsoft is so pervasive
: sharing files and information so important and microsoft can never
: seem to adhere to any standards, many are forced into using these
: products. it's not microsoft who *directly* force me, but the world.
Yes, you have hit the point. You are having trouble with the
world, not Redmond. If you don't lighten up, you'll soon be
taking regular lithium in a padded room.
: you answere it yourself. 'Windows is the dominant OS and that in turn
: is because that's what most corporations businesses choose to use.'
: find me an electrical engineering job at a company with more than 10
: workers where i do not need to see microsoft products.
:
: sometimes you have to do as your customer asks. when at home, i run
: linux if i can possibly help it. however, customers ask `will it run
: on windows?' then i need to try it on windows. telling them windows
: sucks doesn't make the sale.
Yes. That's pretty much how it is isn't it?
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From: Kenny Kim Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: High Capacity Format and Rootdisk (Was: Re: /etc/fdprm and High Capacity
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:59:15 +0800
Thanx for your info. It works as long as I specified /dev/fd0u1680 instead
of the "autodetectable" /dev/fd0 (which doesnt work on my machine even the
kernel doc says 1680 is autodetectable w/ fd0).
Now my problem is that I can't make a *high-capacity* compressed RAMdisk
image as rootdisk. I persued both Bootdisk-HOWTO and kernel doc for
ramdisk. I'm quite sure I didnt make any mistakes in creating the rootdisk.
The problem is either it can't detect my floppy format (returns a floppy
probe failure) or that it can read the 1st few bytes of the rootdisk and
then returns me an error msg like "Invalid compressed format" or
"Incomplete literal string".
Any idea?
Jayan M wrote:
>
> ls -l /dev/fd*
>
> you'll find some entries like fd0u1722 etc..
>
> do a 'mke2fs /dev/fd0u1722', that should do it, I guess.
>
> IMHO, all of those fd0s point to your first floppy drive
> (a.k.a. Window~1/Doze a: drive) , only it reads/writes in
> a different format by the device name you called it.
>
> It worked for me, when I was trying to do a tomsroot
> lookalike.
>
> Don't have access to my linux machine now, else could
> have specified the mknod parameters for creating this
> device, if it's not there on your machine.
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