Linux-Misc Digest #390, Volume #21 Fri, 13 Aug 99 20:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: how to install an application ("Ken Schrock")
Re: Sendmail configuration (Klaus Singvogel)
Re: What kind of equipment should I get? (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Parition vs Logical Parition (Dave Brown)
Re: Internet connecting - DHCP instead of DNS (Michael Fowler)
Suse 5.3 - Navigator libc5 or glibc? (Simon Robson)
Re: no mouse with the new kernel (Chris Mahmood)
Re: More modem problems (Chris Mahmood)
Re: suse 6.0 converting file (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Can't add partition to drive (John Forkosh)
Re: expect scripts and setting passwords ("Holger van Koll")
Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read (MattCero)
Re: Is Linux A Memory Hogging OS? (The Ghost In The Machine)
Installing RedHat 6.0 over Redhat 5.2 (Rajesh RAdhakrishnan)
Re: What I think of linux. ("Robert Churchill")
Re: More modem problems (Joshua Li)
no mouse with the new kernel ("matthias m.")
Re: video card (MattCero)
Re: neaten some simple scripts...{new to these things} ("Nevyn")
audio cd's an SuSE 6.1 ("Nevyn")
Re: GCC problem compiling Objective C (Fred & Val Kuipers)
Gnome in COL2.2 (Joshua Li)
Re: Samba 2.03 and Microsoft Cobol (Abner Graham Jacobsen)
Re: How to change emacs background and foreground colors?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Delaying eth0 initialization!!! (Kevin Wong)
Re: What I think of linux. (Bev)
Re: Need suggestions for tape backup device ("John G. Sandell")
Re: Linux as a file server ("Donald E. Stidwell")
ASUS 3800 Question with 6.0 (MattCero)
Internet access with ASDL ("Robert J. Schweikert")
Re: What kind of equipment should I get? ("jemmons")
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From: "Ken Schrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to install an application
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:06:49 GMT
For a newbie...
A. Only get binary things in RPM (Redhat Package Manager) format...
(exceptions are things like Word Perfect or Star Office that have
their own easy installs)
B. Use Glint or GnoRpm (depending on your Linux version) to install the
software...
C. Then make sure you ignore the (always included) READMEs about the other
methods.
Almost anything worthwhile comes in RPM format or has its own simple
install method...
Trying to install tarballs or make-config-install methods will only make
you hate Linux now.
(OMHO, put your flames to better use : )
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> Can anybody teach me how to install an application in LINUX please...??
> Every time I type ./configure then I get message like :
>
> --error gcc .........(etc)
> --error cc ............(etc)
>
> And if you download a free software, can i just put it under root
> directory ? Or will it settle by itself during installation process....?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> (linux user just one hour ago....!!)
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Klaus Singvogel)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Sendmail configuration
Date: 13 Aug 1999 23:30:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Matthew D. Melbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have looked all around but I have not found anyhting helpful to get
>sendmail configured properly. If anyone can help me with this or can
>point me to a HELPFUL site on how to configure sendmail it would be
>greatly appreciated.
If you are new to Linux/Unix/Caldera, use the graphical administration
interface COAS: COAS->Network->Sendmail
If you are more familiar with Unix, extract the sources and then
read the README files under sendmail/README and sendmail/cf/README.
Regards,
Klaus.
Note: If you wnat to send email, remove the nospam. from my address.
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Klaus Singvogel --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/kssingvo
Waffen, Lieferung, Kosovo, Irak, Marihuana, Anschlag, Bombe, Plutonium, PGP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: What kind of equipment should I get?
Crossposted-To: alt.ham-radio,alt.ham-radio.packet,comp.os.linux.hardware
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 21:10:02 GMT
jemmons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Why doesn'y my response get posted? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stop and think about this for a minute. If your response didn't get posted,
then no one would see this response, and you will have posted for no good
reason.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: Parition vs Logical Parition
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Aug 99 21:35:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Habibi4me wrote:
>Can anyone care to comment on the pro and cons about physical vs logical
>partition on a hard drive knowing that the a hard drive is only limited
>to four partitions.
Well, the boot flag can only be set for "primary" partitions. And
certain OSes can only be booted from a primary partition. Linux
on the other hand is one of those operating systems that does not
have such a constraint.
When partitioning a large HD, I notice a tendency to have one
primary partition containing a Windows partition, and another
primary partition used as a "extended" partition, into which
all other partitioning takes place. Which is what I have
on my system. Since I have copies of Slackware, RedHat, and
SuSE, along with separate /usr partitions for each, and
some spare space for archives and CD images, I had to create
some additional devices in /dev as they topped out at hda15 or hda16.
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: Michael Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internet connecting - DHCP instead of DNS
Date: 13 Aug 1999 13:59:24 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Morgan) writes:
Windows does need DNS numbers, but not to connect. Nothing needs DNS
numbers to make a dialup connection. Windows is getting those DNS
numbers (the IP addresses of your ISP's nameservers, for resolving
hostnames to IP addresses) through DHCP.
It is possible to setup a DHCP client in Linux. You can read a mini
HOWTO on it at "http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/DHCP.html". I
don't know about BeOS.
> Windows doesn't need DNS numbers to connect (it uses DHCP?). Why does
> Linux (and BeOS for that matter) need DNS numbers then?
>
> (My ISP insists it's possible to set up under DHCP)
--
--
There isn't a mome rath alive that can outgrabe me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Robson)
Subject: Suse 5.3 - Navigator libc5 or glibc?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:16:47 GMT
Hi,
I'm currently running SuSE 5.3 on a couple of machines, and am a
little confused by suse's faq which states that 5.3 is libc5 based but
supports glibc2 binaries.
Specifically, I want to download the latest Netscape - should I get
the libc or glibc version? or doesn't it matter?
More generally, is there (sure there is!) any easy way to test a linux
to see whether it is libcx or glibc? Which library version number
needs to be examined, and where's the dividing point?
Many thanks,
Simon
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no mouse with the new kernel
Date: 13 Aug 1999 14:10:30 -0700
"matthias m." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi,
> i am using red hat 5.2 on an intel p2@500. my mouse is a normal serial one
> and works well with the old kernel (2.0...). now i needed to upgrade to
> kernel 2.2.11 and it actually worked out fine, but the mouse is missing when
> running the console.
Sounds like gpm isn't running--Do a 'ps aux [g]pm' and see. If not,
you can start it with /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm start'.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: More modem problems
Date: 13 Aug 1999 14:06:42 -0700
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Why is this crossposted to three groups?
> Now when trying to go to a web page (that's all I can do
> since my ISP blocks all other sorts of information) it just sits there
> looking up the site.
Get a new ISP. See if you can ping the DNS--It sounds like you either
entered the address incorrectly or they gave you incorrect info.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: suse 6.0 converting file
Date: 13 Aug 1999 14:41:15 -0700
"Reinhold Just" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi
> i have a dos text file (notepad from windows). i want to sort it in linux
> suse 6.0. when i open the file it says on the bottom dos format. where is
> the difference and how can i convert it.
DOS puts a Linefeed and a carriage return at the end of each line,
*nix puts a linefeed. The extra CR often shows up as a ^M. To get
rid of them, use tr
$ cat dos_text | tr -d "\r" > unix_text
-ckm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Can't add partition to drive
Date: 13 Aug 1999 18:31:56 -0400
Craig ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I want to add a partition to a drive that already has a single
: DOS/Win95 partition on it. I've defragmented that partition.
: Now I want to convert the free space at the end to a Linux
: partition. However, when I run cfdisk in RH 6.0 Linux, it tells me
: that there is only 1.3 MB of free space, whereas Win95 reports
: 300 MB of free space.
I believe you'll now need to run fips to take the free space
on the DOS/Win partition and use it to make a new partition.
By the way, I believe you'll also want to turn off your
Win95 swapfile, if 95's anything like NT which can keep the
swapfile on high cylinders in the partition (which defeats fips).
John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Holger van Koll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: expect scripts and setting passwords
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:26:13 +0200
Caligari schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Greetings,
>
>The output is a little weird. The script seems to execute, but it
>appears to hang occasionally and it always displays the password
>during the attempt. A sample output when I invoke the script as such
>
>./setpass tempuser srghtys
>
> is also below:
>
>
>Invoking passwd command for tempuser
>spawn passwd tempuser
>Changing password for user tempuser
>New UNIX password: srghtys
>
>Retype new UNIX passord: [root@server /root]#
>
I had the same problem; didn�t solve it.
So I used chpasswd; that worked well for me. I works if no pwd has been
designed, too.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MattCero)
Subject: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read
Date: 13 Aug 1999 22:36:50 GMT
Ok everyone, like me I'm sure most of you reading this want Linux (any version
or release) to do great and some day soon to pass Microsoft and all the little
MicroSurfs in Redmond, WA. Read this and tell me if it makes sense.
The best way for Linux to be on everyones PC is to make it installable. The
more people who can install it successfully, the more PCs will have it and then
the more people will have reason to write software for it and perhaps make some
money on the side. The more software that is available will mean that people
will want to install the OS. Remember the argument 'Gosh, get an IBM
compatible, there's just tons more software than with the MAC or Apple'? Well
go back to step one, if people can't install the dog gone thing (Linux) then
how the hell is the operator base ever to grow big enough to snowball into
something what MS is today? Well most of the help FAQs I read all assume
people can log onto the internet with a fully operable Linux machine. HELLO!
Remember the first step, We have to install it and get it to run first. Most
people 'trying' this new OS will only have access to the internet using their
old OS which is probably Windows. So tell me, if there's a file out there to
get my ASUS 3800 TVR working properly in Linux on some web site, in some tar,
tgz, rpm or whatever format, how can I download the thing using my MS Windows
based internet connection, AND THEN put it in my /tmp directory when I reboot
in Linux. YA, THE PARTITION THINGY GETS IN THE WAY A LITTLE DOESN'T IT!? It
will be especially hard if it's too big to fit on one floppy! Not only that,
could the manual explain how to take things off a floppy and on the Linux
partition if it does fit on a floppy? Even if I get over into my /tmp
directory, the setup after that is like the early days of DOS. I'm sure
there's a way but do you honestly think the average user wants to tinker with
their computer for a few days when Windows installs most of the time as
advertised with little tinkering? The Red Hat folks need (well, to hire me for
project mgmt/development) to assume that getting it installed/running properly
and viewable is the most important obstacle they'll face. After that, people
can then, for the most part, use the GUI to figure things out.
Does this make any sense to people or am I just philosiphising
pointlessly? Feedback please here or email me off the group at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Talk to ya soon I hope, Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Is Linux A Memory Hogging OS?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:34:48 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Ulrich Weigand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote on 10 Aug 1999 23:21:47 +0200
<7oq55b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Paul Hovnanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>I'm no expert on this subject, but might the CPU power use at idle
>>depend on exactlt what the OS does in its idle loop? In order to
>>truly idle the CPU, the OS can't just have the scheduler running
>>something in a loop. That would keep the CPU awake.
>
>... which is precisely why Linux (on Intel, at least) executes the
>'hlt' instruction in its idle task, which halts all processor activity
>(until the processor is woken by the next hardware interrupt).
I've always thought that was cool.
Literally.
Does anyone have more up-to-date data on whether a Pentium II
or Pentium III still runs 30 degrees Celsius cooler while
running Linux? :-)
[.sigsnip]
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Our Next Hot Topic. Busywaits. :-)
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From: Rajesh RAdhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Installing RedHat 6.0 over Redhat 5.2
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:28:36 -0400
Hi,
I have Redhat 5.2 on my PC and thinking of switching to Redhat 6.0
(using the CD from Cheapbytes)
Wanted to know how I can update to RedHat 6.0 without tampering any of
the stuff I have already
installed on my PC.
Thanks
Rajesh
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From: "Robert Churchill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 23:39:13 +0100
David Mitchell wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
<snip>
>My first computer was an abacus.
>
>But you try telling the youth of today that.
>
>
you had an abacus? we used to *dream* of owning an abacus.
we 'ad to count on us fingers 'n' toes, an' if we got us sums wrong, t'maths
teacher'd cut 'em off wi' garden shears.
and they was rationed.
R :)
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From: Joshua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: More modem problems
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:06:18 GMT
Sean wrote:
>
> Thanks for those who relied to my last question although now after
>
> asserrting my DNS info and gateway info as well domain info which I got
>
> from my ISP. Now when trying to go to a web page (that's all I can do
>
> since my ISP blocks all other sorts of information) it just sits there
>
> looking up the site. Before it said I wasn't connected. Is there
>
> anything else I must do because my ISP is really strange and blocks all
>
> sorts of things or am I making a really stupid mistake?
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
I had the same problem with an external modem, at least on the part of
Looking up site. If your browser is looking for DNS server forever, try
to disable the Flow control and try again. Worked for me ;-)
--
Joshua Li
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North York Ontario, Canada
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From: "matthias m." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no mouse with the new kernel
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 20:32:01 +0200
hi,
i am using red hat 5.2 on an intel p2@500. my mouse is a normal serial one
and works well with the old kernel (2.0...). now i needed to upgrade to
kernel 2.2.11 and it actually worked out fine, but the mouse is missing when
running the console.
booting the old kernel, the mouse is still working.
any help would be really great!
matthias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MattCero)
Subject: Re: video card
Date: 13 Aug 1999 18:57:21 GMT
I think I saw plenty of SIS chipsets supported when I installed 5.2 and 6.0
Linux, Matt
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From: "Nevyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: neaten some simple scripts...{new to these things}
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:48:29 +0100
Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Nevyn wrote:
>
> Merhaba Nevin,
>
> > i have 2 scripts set up to cheack for new users every so often, the
> > point is i want to make them into just one scipt....the contents of the
> > scripts are below, if anyone has any suggestions plase mail them to
> > me,..
>
> To append script1 to the end of script2: # cat script1 >> script2
>
> > script 1 -passwd
> >
> > echo report login names
> > echo ============================
> > echo date +%m-%y
> ^^^^ remove
> > echo ============================
> > echo Name-UID-Description
> > echo
> > cut -f 1,3,5 -d: /etc/passwd | sed -e 's/:/ - /'
> >
> > script 2 -passwd.renew
> >
> > mv -f passwd.current passwd.prev
> > ./passwd > passwd.current
> cp -f passwd passwd.current
> > mv passwd.added passwd.added'date +%m%y'
> `date +%m%y`
> But you are time-stamping previous run's output with todays date. I
> would swap this line with the next one.
> > diff passwd.current passwd.prev > passwd.added
> >
would i still end up with the same result if the line that starts with
'sed' in the first scrip was at the end of the econd script.....the way i
understand it i would leave the updated list of users, ie the list as of
now, hanging to never get used....
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From: "Nevyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: audio cd's an SuSE 6.1
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:41:36 +0100
i cant mount audio cds in suse, i can play them if they rnt mounted with the
kde cd player, but i cant mount hem to rip mp3 tracks....please help
anyone......
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** "yurtta sula cihanda sula" **
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From: Fred & Val Kuipers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GCC problem compiling Objective C
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:56:25 GMT
Thanks,
This works!
FYI, prior to this error, I discovered that my GCC installation wasn't
complete. I had to install egcs-objc-1.1.2-12.i386.rpm to be able to
compile (with -lpthread).
FK
Jon Skeet wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > The program is just a hello world program to test the compiler.... Any
> > suggestions?
>
> Given that it seems to want some threading stuff, try adding -lpthread.
> You may need more than that, but see whether that at least reduces the
> number of errors.
>
> --
> Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: Joshua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Gnome in COL2.2
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:26:20 GMT
Caldera only ships KDE, has anyone tried to install gnome?
I am interest to try it, any recommendation on how to install? (tar, or
binary?)
and would there be conflict in kde?
--
Joshua Li
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
North York Ontario, Canada
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From: Abner Graham Jacobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba 2.03 and Microsoft Cobol
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:30:47 GMT
Chris Mahmood wrote:
>
> Abner Graham Jacobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I just installed Caldera 2.2 with samba. I have an application made
with
> > Microsoft Cobol 4.0
> That wouldn't be Visual Cobol++, would it?
> -ckm
No. is the traditional cobol compiler for dos.
abner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to change emacs background and foreground colors?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 22:48:45 GMT
HellO!
I tried this, and still no luck.
I changed my .Xdefaults several times. I tried"
emacs*Background: white
and
emacs.Background: white
also, when I change the font, it wont "save". When I close xemacs and
come back, the old font is selected again. I changed the font from the
"Options" menu, and then chose "Save options" but no luck. Other
options I chose were saved, but not the font.
Also, I was able to change the background color by chosing "Browse
Faces" from the "Options" menu and changing the "default" background
from gray80 to white. But that won't save either, and if I want a
white background, I have to change it each time I run xemacs.
I read here to to a "M-x desktop-save" but I get "[no match]" when I do
that.
help!
thanks
-frank
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jean-Philippe SCHILLE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Kevin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,fj.net.media.ethernet,comp.os.linux.ansers,comp.os.linux.hardawe,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Delaying eth0 initialization!!!
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 18:38:52 GMT
When I start up RedHat Linux 6.0!~
and When "Bring up eth0"
It said:
"Delaying eth0 initialization"
and when I type "ifup eth0"
It also said:
"Delaying eth0 initialization"
How to fix this problem?
THANK YOU FOR REPLY!
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:55:41 -0700
Adam JBC wrote:
> Hmmm, a quick look at the names of posters in the ng (c.o.l.m) shows most of
> the names to be male.
>
> Any female linux users out there?
Yup!
--
Cheers,
Bev
``````````````````````````````````````````````````
Where am I and what am I doing in this handbasket?
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From: "John G. Sandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need suggestions for tape backup device
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:06:56 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, I should have made it clear I was referring to external parallel
port tape drives.
John Sandell
Justin B Willoughby wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > I avoid external tapes drives - there's a definite loss of speed.
>
> I don't think this would be the case if you are using a SCSI device. For
> example if you have a SCSI-2 or any other type of scsi card & tape drive
> the performance should be the same. However this may be different if you
> are going through your parallel port or IDE. Perhaps the device might make
> a difference but I find it very hard to believe that just because its
> external (scsi) drive that it would be slower.
>
> - Justin
> --
> _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ RULES!! * LINUX RULES *
> _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Justin Willoughby
> _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ http://justinw.net
> _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ ---- Jesus Is Lord ----
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux as a file server
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 23:05:16 GMT
Steve Grant wrote:
> I am fairly new to Linux and I would eventually like to replace our Novell
> file servers with Linux in a small office environment.
> Is there a Windows 9x client available for this purpose? Something like
> the Novell Client would be wonderful, or is it more complicated than a
> simple client to access files on a Linux server from a windows network?
> If you know of any freely available, I would like to get the URL so I
> could give them a try at home.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
There's a little tonkle called MARS-NWE that comes with RedHat/Mandrake that
allows you to use your Linux box as a Netware server as well. Caldera also
sells a NetWare Client/Server that runs on Linux.
Don
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MattCero)
Subject: ASUS 3800 Question with 6.0
Date: 13 Aug 1999 19:01:27 GMT
I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0 and it went pretty darn smooth especially
considering I have two SCSI hard drives and two SCSI CD roms. It did detect a
Diamond V770 even though I have an ASUS 3800. It even had my monitor on the
list, Viewsonic 21PS. I thought cool, this is going to look perfect.
Unfortunately the GUI after starting x (startx) is HUUUGE and it goes well
beyond my monitor. Could someone give me advice on how to set this up properly
so it looks fine. If you could point me in the right direction that would even
be fine. Thanks, Matt
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From: "Robert J. Schweikert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Internet access with ASDL
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 23:12:56 +0000
My ISP may offer ASDL access in the near future, anyone using ASDL out there?
Does it work with Linux?
Thanks,
Robert
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Robert Schweikert
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From: "jemmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.ham-radio,alt.ham-radio.packet,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: What kind of equipment should I get?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:27:55 GMT
David, I would first suggest "Now You're Talking" to study for your license.
You will find packet radio activity on 2-meter vhf bands in
metropolitan areas. Entry level ham licensing would allow you to
transmit there. I have no experience with hf bands more suitable for
long range transmisisons, but I would guess there is less packet
activity. Transmissions over greater distances requires some type
of repeater system just as voice communications would. Besides,
small vhf antenna sizes are work better for apartment dwellers.
I'm sure you could get going for tww hundred dollars. You'll need a
tnc (terminal node controller and a 2-meter tranceiver( $50 and $100).
The book goes into greater detail.
As for interfacing these items to a Linux box, I know it can be done,
but I have not done it. I am sure there is something useful to you at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/AX25-HOWTO.html or some other Linux
Documentaion site. I found this sort of stuff at /usr/doc/HOWTO on my
Linux6.0 installation. Jimmy KC5WPY
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> I'm planing on getting a Ham Radio of which then I can work on obtaining
> my license. Eventually I want to connect the radio to my Linux computer
> system and use it to communicate via packet. I have no real specific
> reason to do any of this other than I want to experiment and learn new
> things. Anyway, what I want is to buy a Ham Radio that will get good
> reception/signal pretty much around the world without too much
> distortion (if any), but without too much power as I live in an
> apartment and don't want to cause interference with neighbors. I also
> need an interface card/device that has good support with Linux to
> connect to the Ham for packet communications. Please give me your
> opinion(s) on what hardware/radio equipment works best for you and why?
> I, just like any other prude shopper, want to get the 'real' idea of
> what I'm getting. Thank You for your input.
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