Linux-Misc Digest #431, Volume #21 Tue, 17 Aug 99 02:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: ICQ and linux client (David Howe)
Re: What I think of linux. (David Cummings)
games: DOOM can't install (zackary)
Re: Info on Linux? (Nick Ruisi)
Re: Many found Mdk6 couldn't shutdown (Martin Gelfand)
Re: Any suggestion Couldn't mount Windows 98 second edition ("George P. Staplin")
Mandrake 6.0 lpc segfaults (Martin Gelfand)
[Q] Parallel port access program permission (YANAGIHARA)
Re: [Q] Parallel port access program permission (Kaz Kylheku)
Finally Got X to work with my SIS 620 Video Card, Thanks. ("Allix")
Re: ICQ and linux client (Adam Haeder)
Re: CD-R backup (Mircea)
Re: How to Acess Directory with a space in the Name? ("Phil")
Re: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 (davedude)
Re: pppd in 'setuid-root' mode (John Hasler)
Apache User's Directory (Jack Cheng)
Help with Glibc 2.0 Installation! (Kenny Zhu Qili)
Corrupting Drives and Weird Partitions ("Pirana Selvanandan")
Re: How to Acess Directory with a space in the Name? ("L. Friedman")
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From: David Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: ICQ and linux client
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 01:48:20 GMT
Raymond Doetjes wrote:
> gtkicq is very kewl!
>
> It's in SuSE as a package but you probably use RedNeck so you need to
> download it. DOn't for get that when you download the source that you also
> need to install the GTK libs and headers.
>
> Raymond
>
> Larry Clark wrote:
>
> > man I tell you I have spent the WHOLE day triing to get a client for ICQ
> > that will work...not a dam***** thing...nothing,.....what a drag...think I
> > will sleep now....help!!!!!!!
>
> --
> =====================
> Why use Windows
> When
> Real Men
> Have Invented Doors?
> =====================
I have been thru much the same process, and I am very new to Linux. To date I
have downloaded and installed nearly every Linux-ICQ client I could find. Here
are a few: ICQjava, Licq, ICQnix, Micq,Gtkicq.
I am running RedHat 6.0 Intel tri-boot system (NT,98,Linux). Here are the
basic steps that all installations follow:
Run ./configure
Run make
Run make install
All of these steps run without a problem. No errors, no warnings, no clues
(that I am aware of). When the make is complete I have NO executable to run.
I have done a locate, find and nothing.
If anyone has any ideas - I'm open for suggestions. Please reply to group only.
thanx,
~dM
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From: David Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 02:04:23 GMT
Well, for the average I'm 17 by 11 days(just turned). I've dabbled in Linux for 5
years now, since '94. My first computer was one of those TI keypads that hooked up
to a TV, had a cassette drive and used some sort of Naval flag BASIC. Then there
was the Tandy 1000 on which I learned DOS and QBASIC. Windows 3.1 on a custom made
25mhz IBM compatible. Had that for 3-4 yrs and ran more than I should have. Now I
have a Pentium 200 which will be going on 4yrs old on which I've had Linux
dual-booting with Win95. I've used MacOS, QNX, Linux, Win 3.1, 95, 98. My favorite
is obviously Linux. Hopefully soon my eight Sun SPARCstation LXs will arrive which
will be running Solaris 7 which I might change to Extreme Linux and run as a
400mhz cluster! That should be fun. Also trying to learn F, but I don't know. Pax!
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From: zackary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,redhat.general
Subject: games: DOOM can't install
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:30:47 GMT
Hello guys
I'm using redhat 6.0, the problem is i can't istall game DOOM in my pc. i
use 'turbopkg' to automatically unpack the tar.gz file from the cdrom. the
before
the installation end. appear the message something like 'unresolve
dependencies libc6
..something' and the installtion failed at last. i try to use
rpm package. but also
fail. anybody please help. Is that mean i don't have
libc6 in my linux . I also
learnt that glibc2 is actually libc6 or vice versa. Is
that true?.
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http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Nick Ruisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Info on Linux?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:07:34 -0400
Yeah, you can link to a mdb file with linux.... on a win95 PC as a client.
Why would you want to use a 500KB file to store 1K of ASCII text, anyway? If you
export data as comma-delimited ASCII text and then use the "import data infile"
commands of MySQL, you can import data from Access to MySQL....
Here's my advice... convert to SQL server.... if you insist on using
MS-Propietary formats you will be writing a new database driver.
Jerry wrote:
> Diane Perkins wrote:
> >
> > Jerry,
> > You are a very rude person! If you didn't have anything helpful to
> > contribute you should not have replied!
>
> So - you considered my reply unhelpful ? I don't suppose you have
> decided to learn something about computers have you ? Might be LOTS of
> help to you in the future. Still - you have obviously decided to remain
> in your blissfully ignorant state and just call me rude - its your loss
> not mine....
>
> > The other people who responded were
> > very helpful. I know that Windows applications will not work with a
> > different OS, however, I do know there should be some way to link the
> > database through some kind of data manager.
> >
> > Chad, Arthur and Christopher,
> > Thanks for the response and I will follow up on the information you gave
> > me,
> > Diane
> >
> > -**** Posted from RemarQ, http://www.remarq.com/?a ****-
> > Search and Read Usenet Discussions in your Browser - FREE -
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gelfand)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Many found Mdk6 couldn't shutdown
Date: 16 Aug 1999 21:38:51 -0600
Did you (and others with this problem) try applying any of the
updates to Mandrake 6? The updates page notes that
\begin{quote}
Some users can experience a "busy partition" message at shutdown time.
Solution: upgrade to initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm and to
kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm. An updated initscripts package is also
available:
rpm -Uvh initscripts-4.16-30mdk.i586.rpm
rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.9-27mdk.i586.rpm
\end{quote}
Perhaps your problem is related?
In any case, it's worth a try.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Hi folks,
>
>Not long ago, I posted a message on this newsgroup to seek for help for
>a Linux problem, but no one could help. I searched deja news and found
>that there are other people facing the same mysterious problem. The
>problem is still unsolved, so I post it again.
>
>The problem is the following: we cannot get Linux-Mandrake a clean
>shutdown. When I do a shutdown -h now I get, according to a poster in
>the forum fido7.linux, "a bunch of mostly unintelligible code all over
>the screen immediately after the system says 'system halted' ". In my
>case, neither shutdown -r now nor shutdown -h now work.
>And the "bunch of mostly unintelligible codes" said that
>
> unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ...
> (I haven't jotted down the address).
>
>The line is followed by many bracketed numbers. The last line of the
>error message(?) reads
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/S00 halt: lines 1: 1155 Segmentation fault
> halt -i -d -p
>
>The Linux system was freshly installed. I didn't change any
>configuration after installation. In fact, the first thing I did after
>installation was to try to do shutdown.
>
>The poster I mentioned above also reported that if he does a reboot, he
>never gets this problem. Also, the problem
>
>"Never happened with 5.2, just with 6.0. I removed it [mdk 6.0] and
>tried another distro [distribution] with the same kernel, 2.2.9-19mdk
>and it worked well. Back to Mandrake and the same problem occurs again.
>I quite like Mandrake and would like to see it work on my system."
>
>Another person who faced the same problem gave me a reply in private. He
>used the same distribution (Linux-Mandrake 6.0) and the same chipset
>(VIA MVP3) as I used, and faced the same
>problem. However, he fixed the problem on his machine in the following
>way:
>
>> Change the last line of /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt from:
>> Eval $command -i -d -p
>> to
>> eval $command -i -d
>>
>> This will avoid "halt" from trying to do a "powerdown."
>
>Sadly, this trick doesn't work on my machine.
>
>So, any help?
>
>Cheers, Hankel
>--
>(The news server here is problematic. Please send me a copy of your
>response (if any) by email. Remove the NOSPAM in my e-mail address, of
>course.)
>
>
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From: "George P. Staplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any suggestion Couldn't mount Windows 98 second edition
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:12:54 -0600
Unknown wrote in message <5Tos3.55$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Any suggestion if it is wrong command mount -t vfat /dev/hda1
>/mnt
>I tred to mount to different directories SAME massage
>"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
> or too many mounted file systems"
>Yes it is massage, to be exact
What kernel version are you using? I believe that kernels before 2.0.35
don't have FAT32 support, i.e. Win98.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gelfand)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Mandrake 6.0 lpc segfaults
Date: 16 Aug 1999 22:02:43 -0600
Has anyone else noticed that lpc as shipped with Mandrake 6.0
segfaults? You get the lpc prompt after starting lpc, then
trying to execute any command (including "help"!)
from the prompt gives a segfault.
I have seen this on clean installs on two different machines,
one a Celeron 333 based system and another a K6-300 based system.
Both machines have LaserJet 1100's attached (using "Laserjet 4/5/6"
during printer setup) to /dev/lp0.
How about lpc under RH 6.0?
I'm wondering if the changes associated with parallel port support
in the 2.0->2.2 changeover have broken lpc.
Comments or suggestions...? (An email cc would be appreciated.)
Martin Gelfand
Dept of Physics, Colorado State
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From: YANAGIHARA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: [Q] Parallel port access program permission
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:32:15 +0900
Hello, everybody.
Please tell me about Parallel port access.
I made parallel port access program. When ueser is root, I
can successfully read and write binary to parallel port.
But when ueser is not root, ``Segmentation Fault'' occur at
inb/outb function. Tell me how to change this program's
permission ? Or, do I have to do another action ?
-- My program's abstract is following...
1) include header file ``asm.h''
2) get 3 ports permission from base address of available
parallel port by permio().
3) read by inb(), or write by outb().
(root is local Linux machine's root, and other users are
NIS account which are administered by Solaris NIS server.)
--
Thank you for reading.
Yanagihara
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: [Q] Parallel port access program permission
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 04:05:01 GMT
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:32:15 +0900, YANAGIHARA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello, everybody.
>Please tell me about Parallel port access.
>
>I made parallel port access program. When ueser is root, I
>can successfully read and write binary to parallel port.
>But when ueser is not root, ``Segmentation Fault'' occur at
>inb/outb function. Tell me how to change this program's
>permission ? Or, do I have to do another action ?
>
>-- My program's abstract is following...
>1) include header file ``asm.h''
>2) get 3 ports permission from base address of available
>parallel port by permio().
>3) read by inb(), or write by outb().
>(root is local Linux machine's root, and other users are
>NIS account which are administered by Solaris NIS server.)
>
>--
>Thank you for reading.
>Yanagihara
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From: "Allix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Finally Got X to work with my SIS 620 Video Card, Thanks.
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:41:44 -0400
I finally got my SIS 620 Card to work under X. Thanks all for your help.
Surprisingly I found the answer on an Indian Linux page at
www.linux-india.com/sis/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Adam Haeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: ICQ and linux client
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 04:35:32 GMT
David Howe wrote:
> Raymond Doetjes wrote:
>
> > gtkicq is very kewl!
> >
> > It's in SuSE as a package but you probably use RedNeck so you need to
> > download it. DOn't for get that when you download the source that you also
> > need to install the GTK libs and headers.
> >
> > Raymond
> >
> > Larry Clark wrote:
> >
> > > man I tell you I have spent the WHOLE day triing to get a client for ICQ
> > > that will work...not a dam***** thing...nothing,.....what a drag...think I
> > > will sleep now....help!!!!!!!
> >
> > --
> > =====================
> > Why use Windows
> > When
> > Real Men
> > Have Invented Doors?
> > =====================
>
> I have been thru much the same process, and I am very new to Linux. To date I
> have downloaded and installed nearly every Linux-ICQ client I could find. Here
> are a few: ICQjava, Licq, ICQnix, Micq,Gtkicq.
>
> I am running RedHat 6.0 Intel tri-boot system (NT,98,Linux). Here are the
> basic steps that all installations follow:
> Run ./configure
> Run make
> Run make install
>
> All of these steps run without a problem. No errors, no warnings, no clues
> (that I am aware of). When the make is complete I have NO executable to run.
> I have done a locate, find and nothing.
>
> If anyone has any ideas - I'm open for suggestions. Please reply to group only.
>
> thanx,
> ~dM
After you complete the 'make' step, you should get an executable. The 'make
install' just copies the executable (and maybe some man pages) to the default dir
on your hard drive (usually /usr/local/bin or something like that). If you can't
scroll back up in your xterm window to see what got copied where, run this
command:
find / -name kicq -print
to search your hard drive for files named 'kicq' after your make install is
complete.
I use Licq at work all the time and it works great.
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-R backup
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:28:33 -0400
Thank you Douglas, I think Backburner is exactly what I need! I'll test
it and let KillBill know how it worked.
MST
Douglas Bollinger wrote:
>(..)
> Look at this web page:
>
> http://w3.one.net/~bilshell/backburner/backburner.html
>
> It's a perl script that uses dd, tar and cdrecord to back-up a file
> system. I'm not sure, but you MAY be able to span CD-R's with this
> approach. While I've d/l the tar ball, I just haven't gotten around
> to inspecting the scripts.
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From: "Phil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to Acess Directory with a space in the Name?
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:33:37 -0700
You can delete the dir name with a space in it by enclosing the dir name in
single quotes - like: rm -r 'dir name' . Midnight Commander (mc) can also
remove the dir.
Regards,
Phil
Niann Shiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> During a mysterical process of debugging, I took out a "login" file,
> which looks like a piece of garbage, from /bin directory and put it in
> a temperatory dir created under kde. What a mistake ! I could not
> login to the root account anymore. Anything I typed seems to sink into
> deep sea. Worse than that is the directory I created under kde has a
> space in the dir name and emergency booting does not allow me to
> access the dir. Any advice ?
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From: davedude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:49:54 -0700
Vilmos Soti wrote:
> davedude wrote:
> >
> > Im havin a problem when making a new kernal. Im usin RH 6.0 and
> > compiling 2.2.5. right of the cd. On a fresh install.
> >
> >
> > I've been fightin this problem for a while now and gettin nowhere. I've
> > gone though everythin I can think of. Any help will be greatly
> > Appreciated :)
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> Sig 11 usually refers to flaky hardware. Take a look at
> http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11 and decide. This info can be found in
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help file.
>
> Vilmos
>
> --
> Looking for a job in British Columbia.
> http://members.home.net/vilmossoti/resume.html
Thanks for the info, was very helpfull. That link i've seen in the howto
also. DOH!
I'm still havin the same problem after swappin memory and cpu's. Didnt seem
to effect anything.
I'm startin to wonder about the VIA chipset now :/ Have you heard of any
bugs regarding the FIC VA-503+ board? This board was highly recommened to me
and im startin to wonder why. Any suggestions as where to look next would be
great. Ug yet another roadblock.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: pppd in 'setuid-root' mode
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 03:43:39 GMT
W.G. Unruh writes:
> 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)...
pppd opens the serial port as root.
> ...and since chat never has root permission,...
chat never needs root. It talks only to its standard input and standard
output.
> ...the users HAVE to be able to write to that port.
They do not.
--
John Hasler This posting is in the public domain.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will.
Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind.
Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Cheng)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Apache User's Directory
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:25:00 +0900
Hello,
I have a question about the Apache using symbol link, let's say /home/jack
was moved to /data/home/jack, and I created a symbol link to the root
directory with the command :
ln -s /data/home /home
So, the user's home directory will point to the new location
(/data/home/jack).
But I get a error messages
jack@localhost>lynx localhost/~jack
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /~jack on this server.
How can I fix the problem, or can I use the symbol link in Apache?
BTW, I using the RH6.0 and Apache-1.3.6-7
Best Regard
Jack Cheng
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From: Kenny Zhu Qili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Help with Glibc 2.0 Installation!
Date: 17 Aug 1999 04:59:00 GMT
Hi there. I was installing glibc 2.06 when I had the following error:
spinlock.h: In function `acquire':
In file included from manager.c:32:
spinlock.h:20: warning: implicit declaration of function `__sched_yield'
manager.c: In function `pthread_start_thread':
manager.c:162: warning: implicit declaration of function
`__sched_setscheduler'
manager.c: In function `pthread_handle_create':
manager.c:229: warning: implicit declaration of function
`__sched_getscheduler'
manager.c:230: warning: implicit declaration of function
`__sched_getparam'
manager.c:241: warning: implicit declaration of function `__clone'
manager.c:242: `CLONE_VM' undeclared (first use in this function)
manager.c:242: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
manager.c:242: for each function it appears in.)
manager.c:242: `CLONE_FS' undeclared (first use in this function)
manager.c:242: `CLONE_FILES' undeclared (first use in this function)
manager.c:242: `CLONE_SIGHAND' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [/tmp/glibc-2.0.6/compile/linuxthreads/manager.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/glibc-2.0.6/linuxthreads'
make[1]: *** [linuxthreads/others] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/glibc-2.0.6'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Looks like my pthread lib has some problem. But I have already installed
linuxpthread 0.3.71 and I have used it without problem. Plus I have
included linuxthreads add-on with the compilation. Could someone tell me
what went wrong? Thanks.
Kenny
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From: "Pirana Selvanandan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corrupting Drives and Weird Partitions
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 01:38:25 -0400
Can anyone explain this?
Whenever I load RedHat Linux 6.0 loads and i log out and restart my system
with either Win NT or 98, all my partitions except for the linux partition
become corrupt. NT won't load till VGA SERVER mode is used first as it
doesn't recognize the fat16 drive. Files on the NTFS drive become corrupt
but only in certain directories. That i can handle, but on the FAT32 drive,
random files with random names become into existence for no apparent reason.
Files with names like *@%(�1���13�54vI~*44�6.L�� with a size of 26Gigs.
Sometimes 98 won't even pick up the FAT32 drive at all and when booted into
NT, NT sees an unpartitioned space and I can create the partition again
without losing data integrity, but is a bother.
Has anyone had this problem before? Can anyone solve it? All comments or
suggestions are welcome.
--Pirana.S
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From: "L. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to Acess Directory with a space in the Name?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:12:32 -0400
Try putting quotes around the name of the file. THat normally allows
one to work with files that have spaces in their name.
Niann Shiang wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
During a mysterical process of debugging, I took out a "login" file,
which looks like a piece of garbage, from /bin directory and put it in
a temperatory dir created under kde. What a mistake ! I could not
login to the root account anymore. Anything I typed seems to sink into
deep sea. Worse than that is the directory I created under kde has a
space in the dir name and emergency booting does not allow me to
access the dir. Any advice ?
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