Linux-Misc Digest #626, Volume #21 Wed, 1 Sep 99 04:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: need dumb serial terminal program (M van Oosterhout)
Re: GUI for ppp? (Mohd H Misnan)
Re: long filenames in ms-windows partition (M van Oosterhout)
Re: Sun acquires StarOffice; gives it away for free (Timothy J. Lee)
Re: Using Disk Druid to partition a 1.2 GB drive (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Is MS *.asf format supported? (Richard Steiner)
Re: Linux hangs (M van Oosterhout)
Re: is there a HOWTO about upgrading a Linux kernel? (rob)
Multiport card ("R. Jackson")
Re: enlightenment a mem hog? (Raul Trujillo)
Telnet and IP Masquerading ("R. Jackson")
Re: why not C++? (Stephan Houben)
Re: This is why RH 6.0 really sucks! (Robin Becker)
Re: Using Disk Druid to partition a 1.2 GB drive (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Heeeeeelp! java thread problem ("S�bastien Verleye")
Re: networking slows down ("William B. Cattell")
Re: Migrate SCSI to IDE ("Beispielbenutzer SuSE Linux 6.0")
Re: Password protected web page (Cliff)
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:33:39 +1000
From: M van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need dumb serial terminal program
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> I need a nice dumb serial terminal program. I need it to
>
> * Transmit what I type
> * Display what it receives
> * Display the states of RTS, CTS, DSR, DTR, CD
> * Allow me to change RTS and DTR. I
>
> I don't need any sort of file transfer, modem handling,
> terminal emulation, flow-control, or anything else.
>
> I could use Kermit, but ckermit 1.9.2 won't build under Linux
> (at least not under a remotely modern Linux). I assume it
> builds under the old libc and not under glibc. I don't really
> have the time/desire to go digging thorugh Kemrit source code
> to figure out why.
>
> Aren't there any nice, stupid, terminal programs around?
minicom can do some of the stuff you talk about there. Not really
sure though. If you want that much control you may just
want to create a little C program that opens the serial
and calls a few ioctls.
Martijn van Oosterhout
Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: GUI for ppp?
Date: 31 Aug 1999 01:05:06 GMT
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 15:15:11 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Is there a way to configure the ppp client to pipe output received by a
>remote ppp server to an xterm? I need to loginto the remote server
>using a secure ID password which changes every 30 seconds. It is
>impossible to use a scripting method with this password. I need to
>physically type a new password at the remote prompt every time I log
>in.?????
You may want to try out kppp and using the Prompt or PWPrompt command to enter
the secure ID number that you need to enter it in (and do it in less than 30
secs :).
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:35:04 +1000
From: M van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: long filenames in ms-windows partition
Roch Plamondon wrote:
>
> Im running RedHat 6.0 and trying to access files on my windows98 FAT32
> partition, i made the modification in my /etc/fstab file but have truncated
> filenames ( like docname~.txt) just the way i seee it under msdos.
>
> Is it possible to access them with the long name,
Instead of mounting the filesystem as msdos, try mounting it
as vfat.
Martijn van Oosterhout
Australia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: Sun acquires StarOffice; gives it away for free
Date: 1 Sep 1999 06:12:15 GMT
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 13:40:15 -0700, Tim <nada> wrote:
|>Runs on Windows, Linux, OS/2, and Solaris SPARC/Intel.
|>
|>www.sun.com
|
|Clue: StarOffice was already given away for free before Sun's acquisition.
|Free in the $$$ sense, that is to say. So nothing has changed.
Isn't it now free (in a price sense) for more types of uses than before?
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No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Using Disk Druid to partition a 1.2 GB drive
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 06:16:48 GMT
steve mcadams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if you are going to use the box as a "user", and don't expect to upgrade
> every time a new version comes out, play with everything, yada yada, you
> can just make a big root partition and leave it at that.
Except, of course, for swap space. You want a little swap space.
Unless you'd rather buy extra RAM instead.
"His eye twitches involuntarily." -- Calvin
"Can't we play something else?" -- Hobbes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Is MS *.asf format supported?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:03:06 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Errin Watusikac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Beat Rupp wrote:
>> >
>> > I have a decent movie in asf format here and unfortulately it only
>> > works with windows netshow player. Any suggestions to get that running
>> > in Linux?
>>
>> ASF is a proprietary Microsoft format. Until somebody reverse
>> engineers it you're not going to get support under Linux.
>
>ASF is NOT proprietary; NO file format is proprietary.
Who here remembers the fight between Phil Katz and SEA over the .ARC
archive file format? :-)
Wasn't the main reason for that conflict the fact that PKARC was capable
of handling the ARC format?
Or am I misremembering?
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux + BeOS + FreeBSD + Solaris + WinNT4 + Win95 + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Imagine a witty phrase here.
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:41:44 +1000
From: M van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux hangs
Ananda Rao Ladi wrote:
>
> While running some of our programs, the linux box seems to hang.
You mean kernel modules, right?
> Based on some user activity, we allocate chunks of memory (~ 12000 bytes)
> in the kernel, to collect some data. This memory is freed by another process
> parallely.
>
> When we start the tests, these two activities go on fine for sometime.
> We have verified that at any time, there are three allocations still to be
> freed. Also, the freed chunks are again getting re-used. We are using
> kmalloc() and kfree().
Have you considered simply allocating 4 or 5 buffers when loading and
simply
using them?
> When the system hangs, it doesn't even respond to the key-board. The only option
> we have is to press the "reset button". Don't know how to debug this.
It hangs completly? If you truly beleive that the memory allocation is
the
case then it must be something else. You're not trying to allocate
during
an interrupt?
Is the total amount of free memory remaining constant? It is quite hard
to completely lock the machine up unless you are corrupting memory. Have
you tried the Magic SysRq key?
Hope this helps,
Martijn van Oosterhout
Australia
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From: rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: is there a HOWTO about upgrading a Linux kernel?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:32:55 +0000
Recompiling the kernel isn't so hard, but it can break many other
things. I wasted a ton of time manually updating a 1.x kernel
to a 2.x kernel. Everything had to be fixed - pppd, the printer
port, ipfwadm->ipchains, samba, and on and on. The general HOWTO
will get you started but success is never guaranteed.
rob.
Colin Watson wrote:
>
> In article <7qd27f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, steve@nospam wrote:
> >any one knows HOWTO upgrade my running system from one Linux kernel to
> >another?
>
> Er, it's called the Kernel-HOWTO :)
>
> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
>
> --
> Colin Watson [cjw44 at cam.ac.uk]
> Trinity College, Cambridge, and Computer Science [riva.ucam.org]
> "Racism is generally the last refuge of the unimportant."
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From: "R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiport card
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:39:36 -0600
I'm looking for a multiport serial card so I can run my modem, UPS,
serial terminal, mouse, and Palm IIIx without continually changing
cables around. I have tried adding a second regular serial board, but I
don't have enough IRQs to do so. What kind of board is best to get? I
only need 4 ports since I have the two already there. Also, how much do
they cost and where could I get one?
BTW, since I've only 1 IRQ left (don't know which one right off the top
of my head) I really could use one that could be set to work with any
IRQ (or at least as many as possible).
--
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.
-- Blake
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From: Raul Trujillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: enlightenment a mem hog?
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:56:43 -0700
Are you using kernel 2.2.11? It has a memory leak.
Gaiko Kyofusho wrote:
> Hi, i just tried out enlightenment and it is beautiful, matter a fact it
> is hand down the best looking wm i have seen but i have a question or
> two. I use graphics programs (gimp xpaint povray etc) quite a bit and
> before i had no problems when i used a kde/fvwm combination but now i am
> using enlightemnet (with out kde or gnome) and when i start up thigns
> like gimp my mem gets sucked into some sort of black hole! is this
> something where i need to get more mem (i guess i need to anyway running
> with 64) or is there some tweaking i can do? the only tweaking i have
> done is getting rid of the unnessesary deamons but thats it.
>
> thanks for any help you might be able to give.
>
> -Gaiko
>
> Gaikokujin Kyofusho
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Telnet and IP Masquerading
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:24:40 -0600
Ok, here's my situation:
I have several PCs running through an IP Masq box for net access. The
Masq box uses a dialup connection (slow, I know) so I'm looking for ways
to make the most of what little bandwidth I have. I've noticed that when
I telnet to some host Out There, telnet is slow. I have heard that
decreasing the MTU on the ppp interface will speed this sort of thing
up. However, it has also been said that doing this would slow down ftp
and http transfers. Would I get any benefit from doing this? Also, would
I have to adjust my eth* interfaces' MTUs to match? I've heard that you
shouldn't change the MTU on ethernet interfaces as that would cause you
to take a performance hit. I think I adjusted my MTU under windows (when
I used it, that is) and saw a performance improvement with telnet, but
I'm not sure about using it that way with masquarading.
--
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.
-- Blake
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From: Stephan Houben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: why not C++?
Date: 01 Sep 1999 09:00:02 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Waugaman) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Timo Tossavainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Don Waugaman wrote:
> >
> >C++ers usually miss the point of that Lispers and Smalltalkers have known for
> >some time. I think there's a "market" for a GPL'd C++ interpreter that checks
> >the code for array bounds, invalid casts, pointer dereferencing, memory
> >deallocation, etc. all the stuff that C++ doesn't check at run-time.
[snip]
> On the other hand, writing a C++ interpreter is an experience I wouldn't
> wish on my worst enemy. Just parsing the language for compilation is bad
> enough, and working through the various issues with different compilation
> units could turn into a nightmare.
I have good news for both of you: there is already such an interpreter,
called Cint. It is "almost free" in the free-speech sense.
You have to register at Hewlett-Packard for commercial use, but
registration is free.
(It was on my Suse 6.0 CD.)
Greeting`s,
Stephan
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From: Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: This is why RH 6.0 really sucks!
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 00:36:58 +0100
In article <7qh835$2bk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jack Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 1. Lots of bug, and much more than ones of RH 5.0 which I used before.
>> [snip]
>
>With all due respect, you wouldn't know a bug if it walked up
>and invited you to join it for afternoon tea. RedHat 5.2 and
>prior had HORRIBLE default security, RedHat 6.0 was far better.
...
actually a bug came up the other day and hammered me across the head. Of
course I didn't recognize that I was being attacked. The bug was dressed
like a criminal from a 1930's movie, but the colours were wrong. I
thought I was having a nightmare, but couldn't see Billy Goats anywhere.
What's this Cardinal with the red hat I screamed. Just another bloody
software ripoff reality tells me. So far all of my queries about 6.0
have reached the we don't deal with it stage. It seems there are two
sets those who use/produce software and those who sell it. Who gains
more?
>- Leo
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
--
Robin Becker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Using Disk Druid to partition a 1.2 GB drive
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 06:12:46 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown) wrote:
> Darin, I agree with much you say, although I think, in general,
> 128M is excessive for single-user systems. I'd recommend
> 32M or 64M.
I've got 32 Meg of RAM and 32 Meg of swap space, and it's not
enough. Just yesterday I had to hit ctrl-alt-f2 and walk away
for a few minutes while it churned before the vt came up and
I could log on (which timed out twice before it succeeded)
and finally kill a process or two to reclaim some memory.
> It's easy to add a swap-space; it's a PITA to reduce
> the size of one, (and you could end up with a chunk of space in the
> middle of other partitions, not really usable.)
OTOH, if you've got a 4GB drive, what's 100 MB? Better to have
too much swap than too little, because running out causes some
horrendous sluggishness, as I can attest. I run out frequently.
I've taken the trouble to juggle my partitions (had to move
everything off a 1 Gig partition so I could delete and recreate
it and move everything back) and free up some more space for swap.
> I tried once to fill up swap space to see what the Linux kernel would
> do; (on AIX, it will start killing processes). I loaded everything
> I could think of: X, WP, netscape, gimp, xv, image-magic, acroread,
> ghostview, big graphics files and .pdf's, etc. I never did get swap
> space full... (64MB of real memory, 72MB of swap). Multiple instances
> of programs often don't increase memory use very much.
Did you try loading Gnome? KDE? WINE? StarOffice? Three of
those at once? Plus emacs? 64MB total (RAM + swap) is not
enough for this sort of thing.
"His eye twitches involuntarily." -- Calvin
"Can't we play something else?" -- Hobbes
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From: "S�bastien Verleye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Heeeeeelp! java thread problem
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 08:25:41 +0200
Maybe this problem was already solved or maybe it is not a problem.
I try to execute a program in java and the shell returns:
cannot find: java/lang/thread
I've verified and it seems that everthing is there. I meen there is
green threads and native threads packages.
So maybe are these the wrong one, or maybe java is not well installed,
or maybe something else.
I wait for any proposition
Thanke in advance
Seb
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: networking slows down
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 06:52:01 GMT
Janet wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been recently been experiencing a problem with my networking
> slowing down. If I ping my other machine, the ping time is normally less
> than 1 ms. However, occasionally (it has happened 2 or 3 times in the
> last week), it becomes a lot slower, sometimes taking up to 30 ms.
> However, if I just restart networking (using the network startup script in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d), it goes back to the sub-1 time. Any ideas?
>
> Janet
Since you can clear up the situation by stopping and
restarting the card I would tend to think that either the
board is starting to go bad or you need a new driver.
Bill
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From: "Beispielbenutzer SuSE Linux 6.0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Migrate SCSI to IDE
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 08:12:13 +0200
William Burrow wrote:
> You might also want to take advantage of the situation and start over
> again with a new distro. If you have your /usr/local and /home
> partitions separate, the biggest pain is setting up /etc and /usr/lib.
> (How many dumb programs install themselves in /usr/local then stuff a
> library in /usr/lib? Too many.)
Yes of course - but there is the sentence: never change a running
System. It is my server where I have configured me a router and a file
services with many feauteres and it runs under Suse 5.x. On my
workstation runs a newer version of course, but I'm not so fit and I
don't have so much time to reconfigure 2 System. My workstation have to
reconfigured much more :-) its a test system.
So I have search for a easy and fast way to migrate my System and I
think I have found the way with your all help ! :-) Thanks for it! :-)
Bye
Carsten
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From: Cliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Password protected web page
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:44:55 -0700
Martin wrote:
> Claude Viau wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying to figure out how to secure a web page using .htaccess and
> > htpasswd. Any specific permission must go on the /home/.. folders or on
> > the
> > folder that is protected. I always get the same error "Authorization
> > failed", as though it couldn't find the path AuthUserFile or something.
> >
> > I'm still VERY new at this.
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Claude
>
> take a look in the documentation and faq of Apache.
> you've to make a PassWd File of your own for Apache. And this you have to use.
> It has nothing to do with the *ix /etc/passwd File.
>
> You can define all or a specific folder [with it's subfolder's as protected].
> If you're runing cgi's: Don't forget to protect them too [don't forget the same I
>did :-]
Yes, only if the scripts are for your own use. Let say all your scripts reside in
cgi-bin,
anyone without a username+password will not be able to run your script if they are
htpasswd-protected.
i.e. The number of count will not be incrementing for a page containing a counter.
Cliff
>
>
> Have fun
> Martin
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