Linux-Misc Digest #426, Volume #21 Mon, 16 Aug 99 18:13:19 EDT
Contents:
sh-utils-2.0 released (Jim Meyering)
X with SiS530 (on-motherboard) chipset graphics... (Matthew Fowler)
Re: more questions (Paul Anderson)
Re: Yagb v0.1a - Freeware - Lesstif GUI builder (Errin Watusikac)
Re: GNOME ppp applet solution (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Qmail POP3 message handeling. (Johan Kullstam)
wvdial - 'modem not detected' ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: pppd in 'setuid-root' mode (W.G. Unruh)
Re: Need good sites for unix/linux ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: Wheel mouse drivers for Linux? (Michael Wilms)
Re: premature end of script headers???? (W.G. Unruh)
Ethernet on Compaq Linux Compatible? ("Drew")
Re: html_editor ("Leroy Banack")
Re: changind console text-resolution (NF Stevens)
Re: X with SiS530 (on-motherboard) chipset graphics... (Mircea)
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From: Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.announce,gnu.utils.bug,alt.sources.d
Subject: sh-utils-2.0 released
Date: 16 Aug 1999 00:54:33 +0200
A new release of the GNU shell utilities is available at
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/sh-utils/sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz
Here's the md5 checksum for the distribution. It was generated using
the md5sum program that is part of the textutils package. You can check
it by saving this message to a file, say `announce' and then running
md5sum -c announce.
5e78d1d48ca563ca77e96b22406c4aaf sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz
For a list of GNU ftp mirror sites, see
http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
or the list at the end of this message.
The last major release, 1.16, was made way back in January 1997.
In the intervening 2.5 years there have been 13 test releases.
NEWS:
Changes in release 2.0
* hostid: new program
* pinky: new lightweight finger-style program
There are translations of diagnostics in more languages.
Here are the once currently provided:
Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek,
Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish
Here are summaries of some of the important changes.
They are attributed in the ChangeLog files.
* false and true now ignore --help and --version when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set
* false and true are now C programs rather than shell scripts
* fix a bug in id
* seq with no arguments now elicits a useful diagnostic rather than a segfault
* who works on Solaris
* factor can now factor numbers as large as 2^64 - 1 on systems with
type `long long'.
* nohup no longer modifies the shell's search path
* `basename /' now prints `/', per the single unix spec
* `who --lookup' no longer erroneously reports `localhost' for IP addresses
for which it could not do a reverse lookup.
* `id user' wouldn't report a group id in some situations. Now it always does.
* chroot now calls chdir ("/") after chroot.
* `date -s' now exits with nonzero status upon failure
* new autoconf tests detect bugs in vendor mktime from Irix-6.4 and SunOS4.1.4
Your executables will be a little larger on such systems because you'll use
GNU's mktime function, but date will work more reliably.
* `yes --help' and `yes --version' print those strings when the POSIXLY_CORRECT
environment variable is set
* who no longer does DNS lookups by default -- the new option, --lookup (-l),
enables lookups
* the groups script now exits non-zero and doesn't print anything more
when `id' fails
* date -u -d DATE now prints the correct date
* don't remove already-installed su unless it is possible to install the
new one setuid root.
* expr accepts new unary operator, quote.
* expr now returns 0 for failed matches where pattern contained e.g., `\\('
* date -d DATE now works on Unicos systems
* add tests for factor and more for date.
* factor runs a lot faster for large 64-bit inputs
* date works with relative offsets involving the `next' keyword
There were many configuration improvements. See the top level
ChangeLog file as well as m4/ChangeLog for the details.
Thanks to everyone who tested alpha-release versions,
and especially to those who reported problems and successes.
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From: Matthew Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X with SiS530 (on-motherboard) chipset graphics...
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:33:26 +0100
sorry if this is slightly off-group or overly dense of me but this is my
first day with linux;
I've got a PC who's only graphics adaptor is an AGP-bus SiS 530 chipset
(it's got 4mb of my system memory allocated to it), and a Belinea 10 20
10 monitor (multiscan, I've got the sync ranges in the manual)... I was
totally unable to get it working in Xfree in either RedHat6 or Slackware
4. The first time round in RH6 I got it up in 320x200 and couldn't get
it to change mode (ctrl-alt-+ did nothing...), then in slack I got a
mis-match of settings and just got squiggly-monitor-disease. Back to RH6
and I'm still unable to resolve it...
Can anyone help a newbie in distress?
thanks,
matthew fowler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Anderson)
Subject: Re: more questions
Date: 13 Aug 1999 09:20:18 -0400
Sergio Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'm sure there are viruses for Linux, but not too much. I guess hackers
>don't like making viruses for their own OS. I've never heard of a virus
>for Linux, but it surely can be done.
>
There is a virus or two for Linux, but they're really theoretical
proof-of-concept stuff, nothing in the wild. The fact that Linux is a
multiuser operating system makes it impossible for a virus to affect more than
the user it's run under. So, no virus can survive in the wild because Linux
lacks enough stupid admins that run everything as root. TTYL!
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Subject: Re: Yagb v0.1a - Freeware - Lesstif GUI builder
From: Errin Watusikac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 16 Aug 1999 10:38:24 -0700
Richard Gooding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> announcing Yagb v0.1a - Yet Another GUI builder - a
> free point & click GUI builder for LESSTIF (Motif
> clone). Generates code for GCC.
That's not a nice posting - you wasted my time in downloading,
untarring, and examining the code only to discover that
IT IS NOT FREEWARE NOR IS IT A FREE anything. According to
the source headers, you are retaining ownership of it and
licensing it using the GPL.
Don't call it free if you are not giving it away. (You hate it
when businesses con you with "free" stuff that turns out to not
be free. Why do you do it?) If only the licensing is free, say
that you are licensing it at no cost. Or better yet, just say
that it is licensed under the GPL. Honesty is the best policy.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNOME ppp applet solution
Date: 16 Aug 1999 13:00:28 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (K. B. Lee) writes:
> Hello all:
> I'd like to know how to make a hardlink two directories. I tried
> "ln -d source_dir target_dir"
> but is says "Operation not permitted". The manual seems to say
> this can be done. Please help...
ln has the code to make the request, linux (as in the kernel) refuses
to do it. you could perhaps hack the kernel to allow these requests
(i have no idea how hard that would be or if it'd be worth the
trouble). hardlinks for directories are set up by the mkdir command.
mkdir only makes them in the standard way.
--
johan kullstam
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Qmail POP3 message handeling.
Date: 16 Aug 1999 13:04:51 -0400
Larry H. Raab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have installed Qmail and am using the POP3 that is recommended on the
> Qmail site. Everything OUTGOING works just great. But I can't get any
> messages comming in. I run /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat and I get
> this:
pop3 is an outgoing mail service. you connect to a pop3 server and
download the mail waiting for you. are you trying to set up a pop3
service in order to read mail from other boxen?
> messages in queue: 10
> messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
>
> I can't figure out how to get the messages out of the Queue and to the
> user.
--
johan kullstam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: wvdial - 'modem not detected'
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:25:57 -0400
Hoping wvdial would help me with my ppp logon problems, I installed it
today only to have it cough up a 'modem not detected' message. It runs
through setting up the script and the values in wvdial.conf look ok but no
go.
I can run minicom easily. I've even tried plugging in its init strings
into wvdial - no go. I've done a cold reboot and then a reinitializing of
wvdial - no go.
The modem is a Zoom K56.
I'm jinxed.
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Union College / Schenectady, NY
- insert standard doxastic disclaimers -
OS/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W.G. Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: pppd in 'setuid-root' mode
Date: 16 Aug 99 18:07:05 GMT
Richard G Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>by itself. Any ideas?
>(Of course, I could always change the group ownsership of ttyS1 to
>pppusers but then I would be giving them direct access to the port)
They need direct access to the port since that is where the date is written
to and read from. And since an suid pppd program gets rid of its root
uid as quickly as possible (it is really only needed to set up routes I think)
and since chat never has root permission, the users HAVE to be able to write
to that port.
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need good sites for unix/linux
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:24:41 -0600
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you want over 1000 Linux programs on one CD, check out gnuware.com.
KJ
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From: Michael Wilms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wheel mouse drivers for Linux?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:29:30 +0200
Let's have a look at
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
This should be all you need
Bye,
Michael
Stew Benedict wrote:
>
> Look for imwheel, don't have the URL handy.
>
> Stew
>
> On Sun, 08 Aug 1999 21:07:26 -0700, Paul Clay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Is a driver available for my Logitec First Mouse + scroller-wheel mouse,
> >which supports the scroll-wheel function? If so, where?
--
Linux is like living in a tipi:
No windows, no gates, Apache inside...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W.G. Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: premature end of script headers????
Date: 16 Aug 99 18:09:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund) writes:
>I have a script /home/httpd/html/agiusa/cgi/registrera.cgi which won't
>run on my Linux RH5.1 system for some reason. When I call it from a
>form on my html page it returns an error and the errorlog shows this:
>[Sun Aug 15 23:17:55 1999] access to
>/home/httpd/html/agiusa/cgi/registrera.cgi failed for 192.168.0.30,
>reason: Premature end of script headers
>exec of /home/httpd/html/agiusa/cgi/registrera.cgi failed, reason: No
>such file or directory (errno = 2)
Sounds like permissions. You have to give permission for cgi scripts to be
run and for the httpd to ba able to access thost files.
See ..../apache/conf/httpd.conf
>The first entry (premature end of script headers) I have no clue
>whatsoever to why it appears.
>The second entry (no such file) is even more mysterious because I am
>editing and changing this exact file all the time!! It is absolutely
>there!
>What is happening here??
>PS: So far I have not been able to run ANY script file at all on my
>linux system, all kinds of access errors were happening. This error
>above was shown only after I uncommented this line in the srm.conf
>file:
>AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
>and added:
>AddHandler cgi-script .pl
>in order to test if this might be of help. Apparently it made the
>scripting move one step ahead at least....
>Bo Berglund
>Software developer in Sweden
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>PGP: My public key is available at the following locations:
>Idap://certserver.pgp.com
>http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371
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From: "Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ethernet on Compaq Linux Compatible?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 18:12:39 GMT
I'm thinking of picking up a Compaq Deskpro 5133 with an Integrated 32-Bit
PCI Ethernet Controller. Does anyone know if this integrated Ethernet card
is Linux compatible? I'm on a student's budget and I don't want to spend
more than I have to. Thanks.
Drew
California
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From: "Leroy Banack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: html_editor
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:03:35 -0700
Mitja,
> I am searching for WYSIWYG html editor. Is there any for Linux? (not
Amaya).
Netscape Composer may work for you.
Please remember that in the strictest sense, HTML does not really support
WYSIWYG .. every browser may have different prefernces for rendering
pages... If you need true WYSIWYG, then use something like Acrobat. If you
want a visual editor for HTML, use Composer.
*********************************************************************
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Suite 550, Sun Life Plaza, 1100 Melville Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4A6
Tel:(604) 685-0275 Fax:(604) 684-6241 E-Mail:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: changind console text-resolution
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:22:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kr.) wrote:
>On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:48:24 GMT, NF Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Hello!
>>>I want to change text-resolution to 80x50, i edited
>>>/etc/lilo.conf and set vga=ext (that's from manpage)
>>>it changed the resolution, but after the message "
>>>MOunting local filesystems" at startup (rh52) it swithes
>>>back to 80x25.
>>>Any suggestions what do i do wrong ?
>>
>>Try searching for a call to setfont in your startup
>>scripts and changing the font it sets to one
>>which is for an 80x50 screen.
>>
>>Norman
>
>Sorry for asking, but where is my startup script ? :-p
Actual details of startup depend on your distribution.
Try searching in /etc/rc.d, e.g.
find /etc/rc.d -type f | xargs grep -l setfont
This will give you a list of files which contain the
string "setfont".
Norman
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X with SiS530 (on-motherboard) chipset graphics...
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 17:46:16 -0400
Firstly, you need a special X-server for your chipset, that you can find
at:
http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html
The one you want is XFCom_SiS (at the bottom of the page).
Or, you can choose to install the newly released XFree86 3.3.4, which
supports directly the chipset, but that's not something I would
recommend unless you knew exactly what you were doing.
Secondly, you will probably have to mess around with some options in
your /etc/XF86Config file - for reference, see
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.4/SiS3.html#3 . I seem to remember from a
discussion that you have to use options "noaccel", "no_linear" and
"hw_cursor", but you may want to experiment a bit.
MST
Matthew Fowler wrote:
>
> sorry if this is slightly off-group or overly dense of me but this is my
> first day with linux;
>
> I've got a PC who's only graphics adaptor is an AGP-bus SiS 530 chipset
> (it's got 4mb of my system memory allocated to it), and a Belinea 10 20
> 10 monitor (multiscan, I've got the sync ranges in the manual)... I was
> totally unable to get it working in Xfree in either RedHat6 or Slackware
> 4. The first time round in RH6 I got it up in 320x200 and couldn't get
> it to change mode (ctrl-alt-+ did nothing...), then in slack I got a
> mis-match of settings and just got squiggly-monitor-disease. Back to RH6
> and I'm still unable to resolve it...
>
> Can anyone help a newbie in distress?
>
> thanks,
> matthew fowler
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