Linux-Misc Digest #406, Volume #21 Sun, 15 Aug 99 09:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: Best Linux dist for running SCO software? (Eric G. Miller)
Re: Ghostscript 5.50 doesn't work!? (jay)
Re: News Server (Michael Renner)
Re: I'm going mad!!!! over a Microcom Deskporte 28.8P External Modem (Perry Pip)
pppd timeout while logging in to isp ("Korah")
Re: Text Editor (Edwin Johnson)
Re: GNOME installation (Anita Lewis)
Re: kppp freezed my apps!!!! ("Cameron Gregg")
Re: Big big problem..Help me!!! (Jeremy)
RPM with Two Different DataBase (Young4ert)
Re: Ghostscript 5.50 doesn't work!? (Jeremy)
Library paths ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: test - ignore (Anita Lewis)
Re: Formating dos partition for Linux and removing LILO (Warren Bell)
Re: Searchable archive for comp.os.linux.announce? (Navindra Umanee)
Re: Anybody use PostgreSQL with Redhat 6.0 ?? (Eric G. Miller)
backup ("Claudio Lapidus")
Re: pppd in 'setuid-root' mode (W.G. Unruh)
make modules problem (John Simpson)
Re: software raid0 and bm-dma problem (Gerhard Miksic)
Re: copying files over a network (Schiedermeier Reinhard)
Process Table (Vikas Chawla)
Re: What I think of linux.
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From: eric@localhost. (Eric G. Miller)
Subject: Re: Best Linux dist for running SCO software?
Date: 15 Aug 1999 01:46:45 -0700
Kingsley Tart wrote:
>I've now installed RH 5.2 and selected the iBCS module at setup. I've
>transferred the contents of /bin on our SCO box to /bin/sco on the
>Linux machine, I've put that directory in the path and have renamed
Generally userland binaries that aren't packaged for a distribution
belong in /usr/local or /opt. The directory /bin is reserved for
important binaries necessary to the system, while /usr/bin is
reserved for the binaries packaged for a particular distribution.
Of course, if you package them for a distribution, then they should
go in /usr/bin or /usr/X11R6/bin. You might want to look at the
Linux File System Standard on where things should live.
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From: jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Ghostscript 5.50 doesn't work!?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 03:36:32 -0500
I use a Epson Stylus Color 600 (should be very similar to 500). I've been
configuring the printer for a couple of times, for RH4.0, 4.2, 5.0, 5.2,
6.0, FreeBSD, etc. I never had any problem (or pain) to make it work, and
I don't even
remember anything extra I need to do. Why not just go to control panel and
use
the printer configurator? May be u r a Linux guru, for me, after many
years of unix/linux experience, i still find the command you are using
intemidating.
good luck.
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Jack Zhu wrote:
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Renner)
Subject: Re: News Server
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 00:29:31 +0200
In article <7p4ovr$93s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Is there any way of determining what software an ISP's news server is
> using.
>
> Someone recently posted lynx -head -dump http://www.foo.com as a way of
> identifying web server software and I was hoping there was some other
> little trick for identyfying a news server.
>
Hi,
make a telnet to port 119 (nntp). After the connect, you can
have real smaltalk to the deamon on the other site:
renner@ulna:/home/renner > telnet localhost nntp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9 running at ulna.wg2.de
help
500 Read RFC 977 and 1036 for elucidation
quit
205 Always happy to serve!
Connection closed by foreign host.
CU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Pip)
Subject: Re: I'm going mad!!!! over a Microcom Deskporte 28.8P External Modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:37:08 GMT
On 14 Aug 1999 19:51:57 GMT, brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 20:01:35 -0400,
> 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
>> 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
>
>Most modems use the serial port. The Microcom 'P' series, though, uses
>the parallel port.
>
>I have no idea how to make that work under Linux, but it is certainly
>not on ttyS[0-3], since those are the traditional serial ports.
You could try something like
setserial /dev/ttySx uart 16550A port 0x378 irq 7
Where /dev/ttySx is an unused one of /dev/ttyS[0-3] on your system. Port
0x378 and irq 7 are for the parallel port.
Perry
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From: "Korah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pppd timeout while logging in to isp
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:47:45 +0530
Hi,
I am having some trouble connecting to my ISP with kppp. I've only recently
upgraded to RH 6.0, and the same configuration that worked perfectly in 5.2
doesn't seem to start pppd. It waits 30 seconds "starting pppd" and then
does a timeout. I've tried "xhost +" but even that didn't help. Really
appreciate anyone who could help. Thanks.
Thommen Korah
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Re: Text Editor
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Aug 1999 15:17:09 GMT
I use the editor jed which was supplied with Slackware. You can configure it
several different ways, mine of which is very like emacs. Another text
editor which might be more pleasing to you is joe. Both are small and fast.
With jed configured with emacs keystrokes it has many of the features and is
quite powerful and blazingly fast.
...Edwin
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 23:19:27 GMT, Suddn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I telnet into my Linux server from a windows box. I need to work with text
>files (C++ Source) but I hate the VI editor. Is there any editors that are,
>well, more user friendly that will work?
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Subject: Re: GNOME installation
Date: 15 Aug 1999 09:37:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you also get the gnome-libs? Looks like that is missing.
Anita
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 14:56:44 +0800, ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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: "Cameron Gregg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kppp freezed my apps!!!!
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:41:36 +1000
Umm, i think there is a hatchbox somewhere in kppp that say something like
"auto configure this as something.."
I cant remember, but its auto configure someting. Just unhatch it.
L'acheteur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> My system can sucessfully dial up to my ISP via kppp. However, after
> the connection is made i am not able to run any applications!!! I know
> that RH is there as the minute minder in the dial up indicator shows
> it. I wanted to run Netscape but couldn't, i wanted to run mail client
> but couldn't...BTW i m using Gnome as the windows manager...any idea
> of what's wrong?? Thank you.
>
>
> Beginner
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From: Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Big big problem..Help me!!!
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:39:04 +0200
Could U explain more ?
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RPM with Two Different DataBase
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 11:48:29 -0400
I am wondering if the following can be possiblydone in RPM (Anyone who
has ever installed an RPM package in a local directory, i.e. /home/local
will certainly like find the answer to this question):
Is it possible to have a separate rpm database in different directory
(i.e. /home/local/var/lib/rpm) for the locally installed rpm binary
packages so that an upgrade to or newly installation of the Linux
distribution will not destroy or damage the local rpm database?
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From: Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Ghostscript 5.50 doesn't work!?
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:43:51 +0200
Be careful, on kernel 2.2 , the first lp found is lp0, not lp1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Library paths
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 09:51:11 GMT
How does linux (or maybe bash?) know which directories to look in for
library files when it loads up a program? On other systems it seems to be
done by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable but in linux this
has no effect. Surely I don't have to place new libraries in either /lib
or /usr/lib because these are the only ones it looks in and this can't be
changed?
NJR
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Subject: Re: test - ignore
Date: 15 Aug 1999 09:54:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I modified .slrnrc. Set the hostname and username. Then I set
editor_command to pine which is easier for me to use. I also set
save_posts and save_replies to News/My_Posts. I uncommented the line
about using sendmail.
I created a file called My_Post in my home News directory. This was after
I got the message that it couldn't save when I tried to post. duh!
Then use P to post or f to followup (reply to) a message. Write the
message. I had trouble using the default VIM because it wasn't wrapping.
I'm just not familiar with it. So write it, save it, and then you are
back to slrn and it asks if you want to post. Say yes and it posts.
I think that was it.
Also, I'm sorry I found out about alt.test too late. Lesson learned.
Anita
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 00:07:58 -0400, Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How did you get it to work?
>
>
>Anita Lewis wrote:
>
>> Just trying to post using slrn
>> Ignore
>>
>> Anita
>
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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 09:27:28 -0700
From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Formating dos partition for Linux and removing LILO
Ok, thanks for your help.
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From: Navindra Umanee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Searchable archive for comp.os.linux.announce?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:14:20 GMT
Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> He said comp.os.linux.announce. Most articles in that group have an
>> X-No-Archive: header if I recall correctly. Changes are
>> www.google.com/linux has indexed it though.
>
> Oops! I meant to type 'announce' anyway. I wasn't aware of
> that header being on most of the messages, sorry.
And I meant to write 'Chances'.
-N.
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From: eric@localhost. (Eric G. Miller)
Subject: Re: Anybody use PostgreSQL with Redhat 6.0 ??
Date: 15 Aug 1999 01:32:11 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glen Brittle wrote:
>
> postgresql-6.5.1-1.i386.rpm
> postgresql-perl-6.5.1-1.i386.rpm
> postgresql-devel-6.5.1-1.i386.rpm
> postgresql-python-6.5.1-1.i386.rpm
> postgresql-jdbc-6.5.1-1.i386.rpm
> postgresql-server-6.5.1-1.i386.rpm
> postgresql-odbc-6.5.1-1.i386.rpm
> postgresql-tcl-6.5.1-1.i386.rpm
>
> I killed the postmaster process.
>
> From /tmp I ran:
>
> rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> postgresql-clients conflicts with postgresql-6.5.1-1
>
> HELP ... I am not sure what to do next.
>
> Glen Brittle
>
> I currently have installed on RedHat 6.0 the following:
>
> postgresql-clients-6.4.2-4
> postgresql-data-6.4.2-4
> postgresql-jdbc-6.3.2-6
> postgresql-6.4.2-4
> postgresql-devel-6.4.2-4
>--------------70608F018E2017166F87899A
It looks like your trying to mix versions 6.4 with versions 6.5.
Bad idea. First remove all of that version 6.4 stuff and then
install the 6.5 items. Then read the docs for configuring it.
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From: "Claudio Lapidus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: backup
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 02:13:03 -0300
Hello everybody,
I just would like to know if anybody knows of some good backup package. It
would have to be capable of handle incrementals, named backup sets, etc.
I've run some tests with taper, but I've run into what I think is a bug:
when trying to use a tape already employed (append mode),
there is a moment when it hangs, while selecting files. Anybody else has
experienced this before?
That's all, thank you very much in advance.
Claudio Lapidus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W.G. Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: pppd in 'setuid-root' mode
Date: 15 Aug 99 10:56:08 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have been trying to get a small dock app ("wmppp") to work. I am
>very close but have run into 1 problem that I believe is my final road
>block.
A First run everything as root, and make sure that it works.
Then do
chmod a+rx /usr/sbin/pppd /usr/sbin/chat
chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
chmod +rw /dev/ttyS?
> I get the following message whenever I try to connect using the
>script I have set up:
> /usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is
>not setuid-root
> Is "setuid-root" a compile time option, or can I set this someplace
>else?
> (if possible, please resond via e-mail).
> Thanks for any help!
> Nick
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From: John Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: make modules problem
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:20:03 +0100
Whilst attempting to install a device driver module for an ISDN card
(eicon BRI 2M) the make modules part of the relevant Makefile generates
a rash of errors (...macro '_set_ver' used with just one arguement...).
Not having used loadable modules before I hadn't notice that the make
modules part of the kernel compilation also fails in the same way.
I have recently upgraded the kernel on my RedHat 5.2 to 2.2.9 (a
prerequisite for the ISDN driver apparently). I have also upgraded the
various packages required for 2.2.9 (
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/kernel-2.2/kernel2.2-upgrade-3.html )
and can confirm that these are installed.
I also get a rash of unresolved external when I run 'depmod -a 2.2.9'.
I don't really know what I'm doing here !
Any ideas ?
Thanks in anticipation
John Simpson
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From: Gerhard Miksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: software raid0 and bm-dma problem
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:33:30 GMT
The exact error reads
Aug 15 13:24:21 gate kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Aug 15 13:24:21 gate kernel: ide0: reset: success
Regards
Gerhard
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From: Schiedermeier Reinhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: copying files over a network
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:42:26 -0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Brown wrote:
> Bob Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Really. I hate to say it, but in windows, it's a matter of dragging the
> > directories on the laptop to the directories in network neighborhood
> > for the desktop.
>
> The equivalent with Linux would be cp or whatever on a NFS mounted
> filesystem (or even using Samba) or using rcp/scp as others have
> pointed out. The typical FTP client interface isn't really designed
> for this sort of job.
>
> --
> Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
> http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
> EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
For NFS-mounted directories there is a nice little program called mirrordir.
It copies only changes and works perfectly for me.
--RS
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From: Vikas Chawla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Process Table
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 15:22:08 +0300
Hi,
does anybody know any system calls for accessing the process table on
Solaris?
Thanks in advance
Vikas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:55:16 GMT
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:55:41 -0700, Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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!
I set up Red Hat Linux for my mom. She's learning it quite quickly and is
already a pro at some stuff.
My dad and girlfriend are both more Windows type people, but my dad hates
Microsoft. He tolerates Windows just because he's a programmer and is tied
to the platform.
My first computer was a Commodore 64. What an awesome computer. I still
bring it out and play with it sometimes. After that, I had various IBM
compatible systems, a C128, and an Amiga. Somewhere in there, I also had
an Apple IIe compatible computer called a Laser 128. I think it survived
a lawsuit from Apple, but I could be wrong. I even had a Panasonic XT
that was sooo IBM compatible, it got sued by IBM. Ah, the good old days
of dual 360K floppies and a 20 meg MFM hard drive...
Now, I'm running on a dual Pentium III 450 with SCSI3 drives and 256 megs
of memory. It only cost about $2500 to put together, too. 'Course, it
took me about a year to replace the Celeron 300A motherboard, cheap EIDE
drives, low end 15" monitor, and tiny mid-tower case.
Who needs a car when you've got a high end computer?
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