Linux-Misc Digest #475, Volume #21 Fri, 20 Aug 99 10:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: CONFERENCE: Linux Kongress (Tony Beaumont)
Re: Comparing HPFS to ext2fs... (John Thompson)
Re: Does hotmole still work with MS HoTMaiL (Richard Thomas)
too many print jobs (Kai-Min Sung)
Re: CONFIGURE KERNEL VARIABLES ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: **commands : make** (Ika)
Re: Linux file-size limit? ("Sascha Bohnenkamp")
Re: Why are my sound devices "busy"? (Nicholas Pappas)
Re: how do i download XFree86 3.3.4 ("Al @Work")
Re: console login takes too long (James Dingwall)
Re: Problems compiling 2.2.11 kernel (kernel upgrade fro 2.0.36)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: No sound with xmms (SkAtAn)
url: Basic compiler (SkAtAn)
newbie passwd problem, ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Comparison needed: *BSD vs. Linux (Christopher B. Browne)
Lisp OSes (was: Re: Troll (was: why not C++?)) (Christopher B. Browne)
Upgrade XF86 3.3.3.1 to XF86 3.3.4 (Sergey Smirnov)
sendmail relaying external mail (Mathias Fuerlinger)
Re: *nix vs. MS security (Jim Chaney)
Re: why not C++? (Paul D. Smith)
Re: Kernel 2.2.11 missing autoconf.h?
Journalling FS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Tony Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CONFERENCE: Linux Kongress
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 07:36:56 GMT
Reply-To: Tony Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 6th International Linux Kongress - Registration started
> =======================================================
>
> The program of the 6th Kongress has been nearly completed, and a lot
> of interesting speakers will find their way to Augsburg, Germany:
>
> http://www.linux-kongress.de/program.html
>
> Visitor registration has been started today - the registration form is
> available online:
What are the dates of the Kongress? You don't give them, at least not in
this post.
Tony Beaumont
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Comparing HPFS to ext2fs...
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:28:50 -0600
derly lytken wrote:
> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 23:35:35 skrev alex@ifurita. (Alex Taylor) noget
> lignende:
>
> > It's also available separately, from the author. I installed it under
> > 2.2.5 and it works fine. (I keep a HPFS partition for shared data,
> > programming, config files, etc. Zero problems so far.)
>
> That's right as long as we talk about IDE drives. When speaking about
> SCSI-drives one have constantly both read and write errors.
I've been using the linux hpfs read/write code on an hpfs
partition residing on an SCSI drive and haven't had any
read/write errors.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: richard@ starjump.org (Richard Thomas)
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Does hotmole still work with MS HoTMaiL
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:52:58 GMT
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:55:16 GMT, Jayan M
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Pete G." wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if hotmole 1.0 still works with Microsoft's Hotmail?
>>
>> I know that Microsoft has made some security enhancements over the past
>> month or two and the version of hotmole I have is from April. At any rate
>> ... I can't seem to get hotmole working. (see below) And the author's
>> supportURL is DOA; which leades me to belive hotmole is no more.
>>
>> Any leads?
>>
>> (FYI: Hotmole was a GREAT program for reading/forwarding mail from Microsoft
>> Hotmail. Like a simple version of fetchmail for HTTP)
>Hey buddy,
>
>This is a linux newsgroup, not the MICROS~! WINDOW~1
>
>shoo shoo...
>
>Jayan
>
Hey buddy,
It was a Linux question.
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From: Kai-Min Sung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: too many print jobs
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 17:16:04 -0700
Hi,
I have an older HP Laserjet 4M Plus Postscript printer with the
JetDirect Interface setup as a network printer for my Redhat machine.
My printcap file looks like the following:
ficus|remote-hplj:\
:lp=/dev/null:sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ficus:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd:\
:rm=turbine.cs.ucla.edu:\
:rp=text:
Everything prints fine, except for the fact that when I queue up
more than say 5 print jobs, the printer will start spewing out garbage
format by the time it reaches the 4th job and drops the rest of the jobs
still sitting in the queue. The last few lines of garbage printed look
like:
%%Trailer
%%Pages: 1
%%DocumentNeededResources: font Time-Roman Courier-Bold Courier
%%+ fond Time-Bold
%%EOF
I can, however, requeue the dropped jobs singly, and they will print
fine. I suspect the jobs are not spooling correctly but am not sure how
to fix it. Has anyone experienced this problem before. Any kind of help
would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
-Kai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CONFIGURE KERNEL VARIABLES
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help
Date: 20 Aug 1999 11:57:15 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system Lijun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can anyone tell me how to configure the Linux
: kernel variables? When I tried to install Oracle
: for Linux, it required me to set up such kernel
: variables as: SHMMAX, SHMMIN, SHMSEG...
I actually found that Oracle ran OK without changing
these. However, to change them, you need to edit
/usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/shmparam.h (assuming
this is on the Intel x86 platform) and recompile the
kernel. If you don't know how to recompile the kernel,
I suggest reading Kernel-HOWTO.
Rich.
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From: Ika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: **commands : make**
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:29:38 +0000
Thanks to you Lew Pitcher and Gergo Barany...I now can install my very first
downloaded program.
Cheers.
-ika-
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From: "Sascha Bohnenkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Linux file-size limit?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:33:43 +0200
>ext2, in particular, can support file sizes up to 1T, since files are
>segmented.
upto 16TB ... with huge inodes
>b) You can't read all of it using standard C file manipulation
>functions on 32 bit architectures because the "FILE *" structure only
>allows addressing the first 2^31 bytes of the file.
well with solaris or unixware your ARE able to do that on 32b mashines
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From: Nicholas Pappas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Why are my sound devices "busy"?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:16:46 -0400
I haven't tried to install my SB Live! yet, but I should be working on
that in the next few days.
If I get it up and working, I'll let you know!
Nick
Tim Sander wrote:
>
> Nick,
>
> Sorry I can't help you, but I'd appreciate it if you could try to help me.
> I have a SB Live and have tried to install the emu1K10 driver from
> Creative's developer's site. I haven't had any luck with it. I also get a
> device busy report, but, of course it's a different device. Can you give me
> a blow by blow of how to install and configure the SB Live? I'm running
> Mandrake 6.0 with kernel 2.2.10.
> TIA
> Tim
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From: "Al @Work" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: how do i download XFree86 3.3.4
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 07:09:35 -0400
ZAP wrote:
>
> i know this might sound dumb, i have a little knowledge of linux, but i
> don't know how to download XFree86 3.3.4 and install it. i was wondering
> if anyone would tell me how to download and how to install it. I went to
> some sites and saw that there was a lot of files and folders. I have no
> clue on what to download.
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
Well, try:
http://www.xfree86.org/XFree86/3.3.4/RELNOTES8.html#12
Good luck...
Al
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Dingwall)
Subject: Re: console login takes too long
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 11:29:03 GMT
Are you running NIS? If authentication is attempted and there is no
server the RPC calls (these would be logged to messages) will time out
before trying local files. Try changing /etc/nsswitch.conf so that only
files are used rather than NIS services.
James
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problems compiling 2.2.11 kernel (kernel upgrade fro 2.0.36)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Date: 20 Aug 1999 13:38:16 +0100
Rajesh Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't have 'as86' on my system (RedHat 5.2) but another assembler
> 'as'. I tried replacing 'as86' with 'as' in the Makefile but 'as' has no
> '-O' option and if I remove '-O' I get more errors.
> What should I do.
Install the bin86 package.
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Alain Borel
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From: SkAtAn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound with xmms
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:51:14 +0200
Fung Wai Keung wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed xmms in RedHat 5.2 and it played mp3 files without sound. I
> can play mp3 perfectly with mpg123 v0.59r and I can play wav file with program
> "play". I think my soundcard setup is fine. Would you show how to make xmms
> playing mp3 with sound?
You need to install all drivers to.. (www.xmms.org)
and select a different driver in the prefferences
(My error was that xmms crashed afther trying to open
a file, afther using a different driver it was fixed)
However.. xmms uses A LOT resource.. so mpg123 is better
SkAtAn
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From: SkAtAn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: url: Basic compiler
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:49:23 +0200
Matt Templeton wrote:
>
> Don't shoot me for asking but, does anyone know of a compiler that will
> compile visual basic code on a Linux box?
Oh no... then the kids will start programming junkfood programs
under linux to :.( .. Nooo don't let THAT happen.. however,
here's an url with A LOT compilers for linux. also a Basic compiler:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/linux-softw-devel.html#DEVEL.PLCIT
I know that they are making something like delphi for X-win devel.
SkAtAn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: newbie passwd problem,
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:11:53 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to change root's passwd on my PC but keep getting "critical
error-immediate abort each time I try. Why??
--Thanks,
P.Murphy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Subject: Re: Comparison needed: *BSD vs. Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:40:18 GMT
On 20 Aug 1999 04:30:59 GMT, William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
posted:
>On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 00:52:13 GMT,
>Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>- There has been much flaming back and forth about who's got the best
>> filesystems. Again, P.O.V. issues come in.
>
>Seems there is some agreement that xfs is better than either.
It's easy to make assertions about code that has not been made
available in any form and which has not been integrated *at all* into
the kernel of one of the free OSes.
I'll believe the statistics that come out of formal testing; all
that's come out so far are vague platitudes.
There are people that have a hard time believing in God, but
nonetheless have plenty of faith to believe things about XFS and the
likes. If we were talking about religion, it would be called "blind,
unthinking faith." But since the word "god" didn't come up, "blind
faith" is apparently quite permissible.
--
"Note that if I can get you to `su and say' something just by asking,
you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should
look into it." -- Paul Vixie, vixie-cron 3.0.1 installation notes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Lisp OSes (was: Re: Troll (was: why not C++?))
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 12:40:20 GMT
On 20 Aug 1999 08:59:59 +0200, Stephan Houben
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>OK, you have me convinced. I want it.
>
>Is anyone working on a new Lisp OS nowadays?
See: <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lisposes.html> for links to several
projects.
It's not clear which, if any, will get sufficiently developed as to be
of real interest...
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you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should
look into it." -- Paul Vixie, vixie-cron 3.0.1 installation notes
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From: Sergey Smirnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Upgrade XF86 3.3.3.1 to XF86 3.3.4
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:38:33 +0400
Hi
I upgrade XF86 from 3.3.3.1 to 3.3.4 Now most of programs show messages
like this:
Symbol `__vt_5QDate' has different size in shared object, consider
re-linking
Does it mean that I need to relink all others X program?
--
Regards,
Sergey Smirnov.
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From: Mathias Fuerlinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: sendmail relaying external mail
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 15:07:45 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi !!! please help - Sendmail Relaying Problem -
I'm running a Linux (suse) WebServer (apache 1.3.4)
with 5 Virtual Domains.
Everything works fine !
>From now on I want to take care about mail.
Forwarding and receiving is no problem.
Sending to the 5 'local' Domains is no problem.
Sending Mail to Domains on WAN reports the following error-msg:
RELAYING to host [EMAIL PROTECTED] not allowed.
How can I solve this problem.
(when I put ".com "in /etc/mail/relay-domains file, mail works fine even
on WAN !
but it can't be the solution to put .de, .net, .org .... etc.in the
relay-domains file
- any solutions ?)
Thanks in advance
from Mathias Fuerlinger
Stuttgart, Germany
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(comp.os.linux.networking, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.mail.sendmail,
de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc)
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From: Jim Chaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: *nix vs. MS security
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:08:32 +0100
> >And virusses that require user intervention (like happy99 and macro
> >virusses) can spread on any OS.
>
> Second half-truth: On Unix, these viruses are limited to damaging a
> single user (unless you can con somebody into using them as root).
> Viruses hitting users are quite unlikely to be able to damage the
> system.
>
> ...snip...
A virus doesn't have to 'damage the system' in order to do damage. a system
is there to provide a service, hence all the time that a virus is consuming
resources that level of service reduces... hence the term Denial Of Service
Attack. These can be done at user level, by spawning enough threads on the
host to slow it down, using the entire available network BW, etc.
If we are going to be pedantic, let us be correct.
Jim
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jchaney AT nortelnetworks DOT com The views of this post are not
necessarily those of Nortel Networks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul D. Smith)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: why not C++?
Date: 20 Aug 1999 09:42:23 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%% David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ds> I remember way back in my microcontroller days, dealing with a chip
ds> that had no hardware capability to do signed arithmetic. So when people
ds> had:
ds> int i;
ds> for(i=0; i<10; i++) { something(i); }
ds> I changed it to:
ds> unsigned int i;
ds> for(i=0; i<10; i++) { something(i); }
ds> And things got much faster. Then I remembered that the chip had a
ds> 'decrement and jump if not zero' instruction. So we next went to:
ds> unsigned int i;
ds> for(i=10; i!=0; i--) { something(i); }
ds> And things got much faster again.
Of course, these two loops aren't equivalent.
ds> You always have to look at what your code is making the machine
ds> actually _do_.
MHO: optimizations for specific hardware should be the responsibility of
the compiler and, given that you're interested in writing general,
portable code and not device drivers, etc. the programmer should not
bother to concern him/herself with them.
I never look at what my code is making the machine actually do when
writing C, since I write code that runs on many platforms and that kind
of optimization in C is useless (or worse) in the large.
If I care that much about what the machine is actually doing, well,
that's what the asm statement is for, right?
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"Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.11 missing autoconf.h?
Date: 20 Aug 1999 09:00:07 -0500
: ... because it is generated when you run your choice of
: "make {menu,x,}config".
Thank you very much. New things every day. Can't believe I have never come
across this is the past ~5 yrs!
Thanks again.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Journalling FS
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:29:19 GMT
Is any journalling file system with quota
to prevent tooo long fscking a big FS (RAID)
when SW & HW crashes are occured?
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