Linux-Misc Digest #405, Volume #21 Sun, 15 Aug 99 05:13:09 EDT
Contents:
What is a localhost login? ("Advanced one corporation")
Re: Autoraising windows in Gnome? (David M. Cook)
Re: Linux and the Dung Beatles (David M. Cook)
DNS setup problem with a dial up connection with dynamic IP addressing. (Chhabra)
Re: Any Support for PCI Modems? (David M. Cook)
GNOME installation (ben)
Modem Sharing with Win95 (Mark Mykkanen)
Ghostscript 5.50 doesn't work!? (Jack Zhu)
html_editor (Mitja)
Re: IDE vs scsi? (Schiedermeier Reinhard)
Re: email server and clients for Linux (Carol Gwilt)
Re: test - ignore (Gergo Barany)
Re: Invalid PID file (Tobias Anderberg)
Re: shell script (Vishal Sinha)
Big big problem..Help me!!! (Yeon-bok, Cho)
Re: Which soundcard is best for Linux? (brian moore)
Re: I'm going mad!!!! over a Microcom Deskporte 28.8P External Modem (fred smith)
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From: "Advanced one corporation" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is a localhost login?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 02:18:59 +0100
I have just installed Linux Redhat 5.2. It is asking me for a localhost
login and password. I do not recall typing one in? If I did at what point
did I and how can I recall it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: Autoraising windows in Gnome?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 06:33:37 GMT
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 20:06:48 -0700, Michael Edson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>gets the focus, but also is automatically raised?
This is a bug in Enlightenment. Get the update from
ftp://updates.redhat.com or ftp.gurulabs.com.
Dave Cook
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: Linux and the Dung Beatles
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 06:45:56 GMT
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:16:53 +0100, Ewoud Booyse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You know, people keep talking about Linux all day as if it was something
>worth talking about. I think you people are wasting your time since
>Microsoft surely has some plan of getting rid of Linux.
Auditions for the freakshow are down the hall in comp.os.linux.advocacy.
Dave Cook
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From: Chhabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DNS setup problem with a dial up connection with dynamic IP addressing.
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:13:03 +0400
Hi ,
Before you start wondering, I used kmail to send this email.
I am sending you (a rather long!) statement of my problem .
I am running RedHat 6.0 Linux on a P-133 with 64MB RAM.
I have a dial up TCP IP link with my ISP (ch1.dot.net.in) here that uses
dynamic IP addressing. I have a multi user, single machine environment.
I am new to Linux admin and know next to nothing about networking, DNS
and stuff.
My dream is to set up an intranet at home which uses a single one of
my computers as the gateway to the outside world. That comes later.
I have only one computer right now, which I have named
gateway.chhabra.net.in (chhabra.net.in is NOT an Internic registered domain
name).
I had initially tried to setup sendmail to handle mail and had even
written a perl script to automate the connection to the outside world. The
problem is that I wish to "multiplex" my email account - that is all outgoing
mail has the From: field as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the incoming mail is
filtered using procmail and stuffed into appropriate mailboxes. I tried to
follow the steps of the HOWTO written by Thomas Roessler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to
create the sendmail.mc file but the resultant sendmail.cf file did not do what
I wanted. So I came up with a hack : used the custom-hdrs of the pine setup for
each (yuck !) individual and set the From field manually.
Then I realized that sendmail was an overkill (too big) and installed
qmail along with serialmail. As I am (brand) new to it, I did not have a dog's
chance of making any headway when I discovered that my DNS was not set up
properly.
If you want the details of my DNS setup, I will send them.
The problem is that when I try to log in as a non root
user, I get the following error :
>>Cannot lookup internet address for gateway.chhabra.net.in. This will
> > prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the
> > problem by adding gateway.chhabra.net.in to the file /etc/hosts.
This does not happen when I login as root (a crime acc. to GNOME).
Interesting fact :
[root@gateway] ~# nslookup
Default Server: gateway.chhabra.net.in
Address: 0.0.0.0
>
When I try to look up
gateway.chhabra.net.in, I get a timeout !
Possibly related question :
Do I need to set up IP Masquerade for a single computer as now.
I had earlier planned to setup a news server as well using INN, but now
I have run out of time. I am leaving for US next week and would like to set up
things properly before I leave.
Thanks in advance.
Madhusudan Singh.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Subject: Re: Any Support for PCI Modems?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 06:54:28 GMT
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999 06:45:03 -0500, Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I Just got a PCI Modem and found out that they are not supported at all
>in Linux.
>From http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html :
=============
5. How about PCI modems? Are all PCI modems winmodems?
No, there are at least two controller-based PCI modems. If you are curious,
these modems are the Multitech MT5634ZPX-PCI and the Actiontec PCI56012 (IBM
33L4618).
=============
Dave Cook
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From: ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GNOME installation
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 14:56:44 +0800
hi,
I installed GNOME but whenever I try to execute any gnome-application, I
get the following error message:
error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgnomeui.so.32: undefined
symbol: gdk_imlib_get_cache_info
I do have all gnome parts and imlib installed properly.
Does anybody knows what is missing?
thanks
Ben
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From: Mark Mykkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Modem Sharing with Win95
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:50:14 -0500
Has anyone ever tried or know if it is even possible to run a linux client
that connects to a win95 machine using the win95's modem over a network?
I know it is possible to have linux share a modem, but can win95 share a
modem that a linux client can use?
- Mark
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From: Jack Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Ghostscript 5.50 doesn't work!?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 03:25:39 -0400
RH 5.0, Kernel 2.2.1, GS 5.50(use RPM to upgrade from 3.3 version)
Printer is Epson Stylus Color 500. After I upgrade the GS, I try to test
my printer, I issue:
gs @stc500p.upp -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 tiger.ps -c quit
The error message is "Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputage--". And
nothing happen to my printer, no print output either.
Anyone can help me out?? Thanks a lot!
BTW, it's extermly painful experience when config a printer for Linux.
The RH 6.0 is better for this part?
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From: Mitja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: html_editor
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 09:47:16 +0200
I am searching for WYSIWYG html editor. Is there any for Linux? (not Amaya).
Mitja
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http://www2.arnes.si/~ljitis1
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From: Schiedermeier Reinhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE vs scsi?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:52:34 -0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rod Smith wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "Duy D." wrote:
> >
> >> I'm considering to buy a scsi disk to install Linux on. When i do
> >> hdparm -t /dev/hda on my ide disk, it reads about 15 mb/s most of the
> >> time. Can somebody give me a number on the fastest scsi disk? Thanks.
> >
> > I use a Seagate Barracuda LVD 9.1GB model # ST39173LW it is capable of
> > 80MB/s and works great.
>
> I doubt that very much. I also doubt the 40MB/s figure somebody else
> quoted. Those are both limits for particular implementations of SCSI
> busses. Real-world hard disk transfer speeds are almost always
> substantially lower than the hard disk bus speed. You achieve bus speed
> saturation only when using several devices or when transferring data
> to/from the hard disk's cache.
>
> --
> Rod Smith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
> NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
> Author of _Special Edition Using WordPerfect for Linux_, from Que
I don't think that SCSI or IDE are faster than the other by design. In the
end, the drives behind the interfaces are more or less the same. The point of
SCSI is flexibility and performance under load. For flexibility: A single
SCSI adapter supports many (different) devices (I have three disks, a Zip
drive, a scanner, a CDROM and a CDRW attached to a simple AHA2940). For
performance under load: SCSI works mostly without the CPU, devices can
disconnect from the bus while running lengthy commands and so on. It is much
harder to slow a SCSI system down than an IDE system.
I think it is pointless to compare raw throughput. Try to burn a CDR from a
CDROM, while scanning to a Zipdrive and then comile something. You will see
the difference between SCSI and IDE (and this is why I stick to SCSI).
Regards,
RS
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From: Carol Gwilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: email server and clients for Linux
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:49:43 GMT
Take a look at these for starters:
http://www.sendmail.org/
http://www.exim.org/
http://www.qmail.org/
ftp://ftp.uu.net/networking/mail/smail/
Outlook and Eudora can use POP3 or IMAP to get mail from the Linux
server.
Stearns25 wrote:
>
> What email servers and clients are available for Linux? In Windows, there is
> Exchange and Outlook/Eudora, for example. What is the equivalent for Linux?
>
> If I set up my Linux (RH 6) box as a mail server, can the users access their
> mail using Eudora and/or Outlook?
>
> Any comments is appreciated.
>
> -al
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gergo Barany)
Subject: Re: test - ignore
Date: 15 Aug 1999 07:40:42 GMT
Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just trying to post using slrn
>Ignore
>
>Anita
Didn't work, your article showed up in comp.os.linux.misc instead of
alt.test, where it belongs.
Gergo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Anderberg)
Subject: Re: Invalid PID file
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 09:05:38 +0200
>In the old days, you'd edit the config file by hand, find the process id
>with the ps command and signal it with 'kill -HUP <pid>'.
What? The old days? I still do it that way, always have, always will!
>Linuxconf automates many sysadmin tasks, which often include editing config
>files and restarting daemons. For some reason, it wants to kill or restart
>postmaster and cannot find the pid file in /var/run.
And here's one reason for it!
--
tobias
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From: Vishal Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: shell script
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 07:50:42 GMT
Try using "gid <variable_name > " found in a package called id-utils. U
can download it from linux utilities sites too.
-Vishal Sinha
Arie Gerszt wrote:
> hi
>
> has anybody done a shellscript which enables a user to search
> for a string in the files contents. so for example
>
> ffind * STRING
>
> would search through all files in the parent dir for the STRING and if
> a match is found would display the filename for example. i was trying
> around with, find, grep and more but i did not bring out any thing
> useful
>
> thanks for your help
> arie
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From: Yeon-bok, Cho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Big big problem..Help me!!!
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:30:53 GMT
I have several IDs for my linux box(Redhat 5.2a).
I used to abtain ROOT power through su after login normal ID.
It work well last 6 months.
But in this morning, I found that session is surddenly closed when i type
su in the box.
And also found the fact that with that ID(Login ID) i can't do anything.
Everytime i try any command i got "Connection
closed by foreign host".
Help me.
I'm managing my BOX with remote login.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Which soundcard is best for Linux?
Date: 15 Aug 1999 08:37:38 GMT
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:43:52 -0500,
Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No it's not Midi's Fault. It's the Driver/Card. Have you ever heard XG? If
And the person who encoded the song.
Let's face it: the stuff you get on web pages or alt.binaries.sounds.midi
is, for the vast majority, crap.
It has very little to do with the card, since you can duplicate the
hardware easily enough with timidity and software wave tables.
> not you are missing out. Midi is very very powerful when used with a good
> Soundcard/Driver. Alot of games and movies use Midi. I am not kidding. Also
> many high end keyboards use Midi. Midi can "sound" better than MP3, mp3 is
> compressed format that in 128K sounds very swishy. Encode at 160 or 192 and
> you get "NearCD" quality.
Sure, MIDI is great for what it was designed for: controlling multiple
instruments from a central device (be it the traditional keyboard, a
computer, or even odd things like a guitar). As for a music compression
format? It sucks: by the time you make it play exactly as intended on a
variety of computers (ie, load the exact same 'soundfont' that the
original artist used), you've lost the small package.
In this sense, mod's are better: they allow the artist to specify the
exact sound as part of the mod file, so the size is a bit bigger, but at
least the sound is consistent. (And a good chunk of the artistry is
choosing decent samples that work for the effect you're after.)
As for MIDI sounding better than MP3's: MIDI is -far- more compressed
than MP3. Hint: the typical MIDI doesn't come with the same sounds that
the encoder used. You think all soundfonts sound the same? :)
For the musician, there's a lot of good things about MIDI: but for the
average home user it's pointless. If you want decent sound, use mp3's.
--
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Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fred smith)
Subject: Re: I'm going mad!!!! over a Microcom Deskporte 28.8P External Modem
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 20:31:17 GMT
dude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Here's the pitch:
:
: Can someone please, please, please help me set this up.I've used
: setserial -a -g (even tried autoconfig) to probe the ports and can't find a
: damn thing. I've used kppp(?- I think that's what it's called) to try and
: find the modem but it tells me that either it can't find anything or it's
My Microcom DeskPorte 28.8P works just fine, thank you, and without
difficulty.
Exactly what is the nature of your problem? What is your system
configuration? What COM port is the modem connected to? (Yes, you
use a serial port for modems!. The Deskporte 28.8P supports parallel
port connections for Windoze, but as far as I can find out no one has
done a parallel port driver for it for Linux. I asked Microcom for
programming specs and got nowhere.)
One other thing: When I purchased both of my Microcom modems (I got 'em
second-hand, so this may not be true for the original purchaser) they
were both defaulting to "DUMB" mode in which they don't respond to
any commands on their serial port. There's an AT command you can send
to it during it's first few seconds after power-up to take it out of
dumb mode. Is it possible that yours is in dumb mode and therefore
ignores everything you send it?
The easiest way to get it going is to:
1. use the modem data cable that Microcom provides with the modem (which is
25-pins on both ends) and connect it to the SERIAL connector on the back
of the modem and to a 25-pin serial port on your computer. If you don't have
a spare 25-pin serial port you can purchase a "modem cable" at most
computer stores (Comp USA, for example) for 5-10 bucks which has 25 pins
on the modem end and 9 on the other.
2. make note of which COM port it is. If it is COM1 it will be /dev/ttyS0
(or /dev/cua0) on Linux. if COM2 it will be /dev/ttyS1 or /dev/cua1), and
if COM3 /dev/ttyS2 or /dev/cua2, and if COM4 /dev/ttyS3 or /dev/cua3.
3. If your port is COM3 or COM4, and the computer also has a COM1 or
COM2 you MUST configure the serial port HARDWARE to use a different IRQ
so that no two ports use the same one. COM1 defaults to IRQ4, COM2 to
IRQ3, and COM 3 and COM4 use the same two IRQ settings. This is NOT
set by using setserial, it MUST be set by doing some appropriate configuration
changes to the hardware itself (or if it's a built-in serial port, some
BIOSes can make the changes for you in the SETUP screens).
For example, my Microcom is connected to an addon serial port board that
is configured as COM3/IRQ5, so it won't conflict with COM1/IRQ4.
4. Once you know which COM port and IRQ the serial port uses, you can use
setserial to tell Linux which IRQ the serial port uses. If you don't it
for sure won't work (or at least won't work right!). NOTE: If you are using
COM1 or COM2 you won't need to use setserial to inform Linux about the IRQ,
though you may wish to use it for other purposes. NOTE that setserial does
not change the hardware's idea of its IRQ, it is ONLY used to tell Linux
what the hardware's settings are.
5. Having gotten this far, you should be able to use a simple terminal
program (such as minicom or C-Kermit) to send commands to the modem and
get an OK back from it. If you cannot do that, then go back and see
what you overlooked. Check the serial cable to make sure it works, make
sure the modem is working, make sure the serial port works for things
other than the modem.
Try moving the modem to anther computer and use that computer's modem
cable to make sure the modem works. If so, then bring over your modem
cable to the test computer and replace the one you just saw working with
yours. If it still works, then the problem is obviously not the modem or
cable, but something else.
If you got this far, then you may have a bad (or badly-configured) serial
port. You'll need to troubleshoot that but I think this tome is getting
long enough without going into details here. if you want more of my
(free) advice, please email.
: Can someone please, please, please help me set this up.I've used
: setserial -a -g (even tried autoconfig) to probe the ports and can't find a
: damn thing. I've used kppp(?- I think that's what it's called) to try and
: find the modem but it tells me that either it can't find anything or it's
: busy. How do I get the info on the parallel ports? Is the parallel port what
: external modems use? Or is it some com port? I've probed ttyS0-3 and my
: modem is not there. I tried the same with cua0-3, same result nothing. Tried
: setserial on lp0 and got an error. All I ask is to be able to surf IN linux
: to learn it. I don't think this is to much to ask, do you? Since I've been
: inside linux( the Xgui-Gnome-works fine, all my drives are there and
: mountable, my sound card is working;-)-see, I HAVE been reading the mans-)
: I've come to realize it's potential and when I boot Win98 I feel
: so........closed in, restricted.....well, I can't really DO anything, it's
: all done for me whether I like it or not, linux is cool, I NEED to learn
: but, I've been reading mans for 5 days and still my modem is not seen:-( I
: read the modem HOWTO at least 480 times and the setserial HOWTO is never to
: be forgotten. I've thrown the useless peice of paper it was printed on out
: 'cause I will rely soley on the burned in imprint upon my poor battered
: brain. I've been going to bed at 5 or 6:00 a.m. and getting up at 9 or 10:
: a.m. for at least forever. Linux is a great woman but boy is she ever
: demanding. She sucks my will and drains my energy at every turn, but, aren't
: all wild rides the best? I'm going insane.......I have nightmares about ppp0
: and kppp and cua0 the worst are the lp0's they haunt even my waking
: moments.....please for the love of sanity(mine) someone help me..........)
: Thank You.
: Jon
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sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow;
it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
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